Who do you trust...

...if you can't trust yourself?

It's Ac Fact and Song of the Day--May 17, 2009

Today's It's Academic fact of the day:
The world is round.
Just kidding! Here's the real fact. The structure of DNA was discovered in 1953 by Watson and Crick. They received the Nobel prize in physiology for it 9 years later, in 1962. What few people know is that they in fact shared their Nobel prize with a fellow scientist named Maurice Wilkins.

Today's song is "The Dove's Return" by Aine Minogue. It has no words. It features a beautiful harp melody with Aine's lovely, soft voice humming along. This may be one of the most calming songs I've heard, and yet it doesn't get boring thanks to the variation in the melody. There's a very cliched saying that "music calms the beast within." This song is one that very well could tame any creature, whether an inner beast or otherwise.
Listen to it:

Why I Write

Because, in addition to all those usual, trite reasons people give like "it reduces stress" or "it provides an escape," I can create characters based off of people I hate in real life and then kill them off, or else make them thoroughly unsavory and unlikeable. All while doing no actual damage! It's like voodooism except without the doll or the intent of physical harm.

The Way I See It

AP hell week(s) might be over but the worst is far from over. In the coming weeks, we have Huck Finn essays due, SRP proposals and related work due and finals in non-AP classes. Summer this year, unlike many previous years, is about to become less fun: in addition to the work from last summer, we have to write college applications, start thinking about teacher recommendations, cram for some last minute SAT or ACT test taking all the while recharging from a horrible year of school.

Blogger no. 1 (I refuse to use the nouns "Nutters" and "Pheynix") wisely, for a change, pointed out, what's done is done. But, we aren't done with high school yet, not by a long stretch. And even then, after high school we get (at least) another four years of university (unless your immediate post-secondary education plans include McDonalds and the song "Ding, Fries are Done") and then adult life. As a wise man on the internet once pointed out, "Fuck."