Today

Is tuesday. God is good, but this week is kinda lame.

This week seems to be going by painfully slow. Even my bosses have peaced out of here for a couple days, which has left me to my own devices in the office... basically, I'm bored. You'd think, working at a university, I'd have tons of fun at my fingertips, but you'd be wrong. All the fun I can think of would probably get me fired. Did I mention that I work at a private Christian school? Awesome... So this has been possibly the most boring week ever. Yesterday, the most work I did was open letters for a prof. Just open them, I didn't take anything out, I just made sure he could get to them without having to actually open them. I'm not sure if that chalks up to a fail or win. It was just lame. I'm really hoping one of the profs gives another test so I can maybe grade that...! Wow. I live on the edge.

Did I mention I'm taking astronomy this summer? I am. It's been... I'm ready to be done with basics, which is probably good, since I'm a senior. Today, I learned about the planets. I think it's all mildly interesting, but... it's class in June.

So here's a breakdown... for those interested.

1. Mercury is close to the sun. And sort of tiny.

2. Venus has pancake volcanoes.

3. Earth. It has a molten core. The layer of the earth that we actually walk (the crust) is only about 10km thick... or thin. When I was little, the teachers unknowingly had me convinced that I was going to be one day struck with lava when it came out of the extremely thin crust layer... I'm imaginative as an adult, I was WAY more so as a child.

4. Mars. It may have had life at one point or another. maybe. It's red. Because it's rusting. Really, the color comes from Iron Oxide. Thus ends the terrestrial planets... now for the Jovian Planets.

5. Jupiter. It is super bright and WAY huge. It's more than twice as massive as all the other planets COMBINED. OMG. The bands that it looks like it has come from the wind patterns and it's red spot is really just a hurricane that's been RAGING for 300years. NBD.

6. Saturn is large with rings. If you look through a telescope, you can see the rings. Nifty, huh?

7. Uranus was discovered in 1781 by Herschel and is the first one to have been in modern times. Originally, it was called Georgium Sidus, but after King George went a little tyrannical, it got a name change. Uranus is the earliest supreme being in Greek mythology - a personification of the sky. It has lots of moons.

8. Neptune is blue... and by far the coolest looking planet... at least that's what I think. It's the picture at the beginning. Galileo thought Neptune was just a star when he saw it in 1613 near Jupiter. It radiates more than twice as much energy as it receives from the sun. Whoa.

9. The Planetoids. poor Pluto. Pluto was named by a nine year old. Pluto is the god of the underworld (she was clearly a VERY happy child). It was discovered in the 1930s by accident and thought to disrupt the orbit of Neptune... but, um, it's tiny. Tinier than our moon or Io, Europa or Ganymede (three of the moons of Jupiter).

All this too say, how AWESOME is God. He completely did all of this and it's so perfectly constructed and such a mystery. It's pretty neat. So, in the words of Robbie Seay, "Go outside. Praise the God who mapped the stars out in the sky."

Love Peace Life.

mh