just today after my run at 6:30 (but before breakfast at ovt, just to be clear... and while we're here in between the parentheses i might also mention that we did our mussle rock run down to the beach--about 12k) arthur and i were talking about memories. today's run was the second run that i mapped using the gps on my phone (using map my run's iphone app), except i started the mapping a few minutes into the run and ended it a little after so that it mapped most of my walk to breakfast. i said that when i was 80 or whatever years old i'd look back at the map of the run i did today and be sad that i couldn't remember it, or why it started by the economics building and ended at a soccer field instead of our normal meeting place. if you don't remember it, it's like it didn't even happen, as arthur said, and we may as well have slept in today. except if the memory is in a run i hope the evidence remains in the health of your body. anyway, we also agree that what's worse than when you can't remember anything at all is when you can only kind of remember something, because then you know that you don't know. since i've blogged it, i won't need to worry about forgetting today.
last weekend i released a big upgrade to my dad's company website. fun stuff. nobody will really notice except my dad will find a few new things here and there, but the way it works on the inside is like way revamped and stuff. i was awake until 4 that day, but it's okay because i woke up at 11 and if you wake up at 11 then you should go to bed at 11+16=27 and 27-24=3 so 3, which means i only stayed up an hour late. i try to stay awake for 16 hours a day because if i go to bed earlier i can't sleep, and if i go to bed later then the next day will be a sad one because i always try to wake up by 6. however the last few weeks have been sketchy as i've gotten sick twice recently, but don't worry because i pile on the sleep and recover quickly.
did i tell you?! ok, so for revelle college, you have to learn another language. if english isn't your native language then you test out with your native language. other people take language classes. but i'm going to learn esperanto! it's a constructed language that is designed to be culturally neutral and easy to learn. if everyone that was taking classes in spanish, italian, german, japaneze or whatever decided to learn esperanto instead, and if people in other countries learned esperanto instead of english, then we could get the whole world to know one language that everyone could speak! why can't we have this? because people are stubborn and assume that no one else will go along with it. but don't worry, i'm not going to be one of those people and maybe if enough people like me (people who realize that someone has to be the first of their friends to do something before everyone can do it, people who don't mindlessly follow their parents and friends but decide for themselves how it should be and do it that way) learn esperanto then maybe we can get something started in this side of the u.s. (we have a couple million in europe already.) so they don't have esperanto classes here; but if on my own i become proficient in esperanto, there are esperanto-speaking faculty at ucsd who are qualified to give me a proficiency exam to meet my college language requirement. it's going to be great guys...stay tuned, or join me and create a lernu.net account!
