The future

Here's what the weekend holds for me, schoolwork-wise:

1.  Work on a paper about what the hell line of force are, from our readings from Faraday.

2.  Start reading Euler for math.  Pages and pages of text with equations.  Bye, geometry!

3.  Start reading Maxwell for lab.  Pages and pages of text with equations.  Bye, anything remotely fun!

4.  Translate French.  Oh, sweet, sweet French.

5.  Read Kant.  Bang head against wall.

French has become my favorite class by a huge margin for this reason: If I don't understand something, I pull out my dictionary or grammar book and look it up.  Chances are I will find it, understand it, and be able to continue my translation.  That's awfully nice, isn't it?

Various stupid things

1. One of the exercises in our French book was something like "Europeans often speak three or four languages. How many do you speak?" It gave me flashbacks to Brussels, a freakishly European city in which everyone speaks four or five languages no sweat. And that makes me feel like a Stupid American.
1a. Also, all conjugated French verbs sound the same and I miss Spanish.

2. Speaking of Stupid Americans, I think that 9/11 conspiracy theorists are some of the least intelligent in the broad classification of Stupid Americans. "OMG building 7 shouldn't have collapsed!!" "OMG the wings of the plane that hit the Pentagon broke apart but the landing gear didn't look CONSPIRACY!"

One: Getting pelted by fiery debris makes buildings collapse sometimes, dipwit. Two: The landing gear of a plane (which, you know, [i]supports the planes weight as it lands[/i]) is probably stronger than the wings, which just act as wings. Three: Okay, so if it was a government conspiracy, why are we still so sure that they didn't actually just send government heavies to hijack the planes? Why must it be missiles/planted bombs/lasers/Jews running the banks?

3. I understand Galileo so far which makes me feel not-stupid.