my life...

Hello dears! So my first week back at home hasn’t been too bad. Summer school kind of sucks, mostly just that I have to get up by 7 every morning and I have to do homework, but the classes themselves aren’t that bad.
As you should all know, Saturday was summer solstice, which is the closest thing santa barbaran have to love fest. Obviously it is not very similar, but they try. There’s a parade and afterwards a party in the park. There was minimal pot smoking, if any, and no naked old men, only one mostly naked Hawaiian woman.
Also, this weekend I made my first pair of jorts- pretty exciting I know.
Oh! And I think I’m on my way to becoming the tannest I have ever been. No worries, this is still albino by most people’s standards, but it gets me excited none the less. And since I’ve been back in California almost every day I’ve gotten to go to the beach and wear my swim suit and flip flops. Its good stuff.

Now for some food for thought:

Did you know that because of Newton’s law of gravitation the tides are always pulled towards the moon, but because the earth rotates faster than the moon rovolves around the earth, the tidal bulge is always a little ahead of the moon. This means that the moon is always trying to pull the tidal bulge back, which actually causes the earth to slow down. Yes, every century the earth’s rotation slows by .002 seconds. You can imagine the catastrophic consequences. A mere 60,000 years ago, the earth’s rotation was a whole second shorter. That means that only 900 million years ago the day was only 18 hours long!
Furthermore, because the earth is slowing down, it is losing energy, but of course energy cannot be destroyed and it cannot leave the system, so that means that the energy is being transferred to the moon. However, Kepler’s 3rd law of motion proves that the moon cannot move faster with this extra energy because speed is based on distance. Therefore, the moon, being sneaky as it is, uses the energy it gains from the earth, transferred at a whooping rate of 1,000,000 horsepower/second to move farther away. Every year the moon moves 1.5” farther away from the earth. Yes I know I’m a nerd, but I think this stuff is pretty cool.

However, if that didn’t get you excited, I also read this cool article about this old tradition in northern Albania where girls swore an oath of virginity and then lived the rest of their lives as men and ruled their families and stuff. some of the women the article interviewed are really interesting. Anyways, if you’re bored and want something to read: http://iht.com/articles/2008/06/23/europe/virgins.php?page=1

Air licks to you all
Laina