Today Is Random Day

Today I'm in a very random and unfocused mood, so I feel like posting random and unfocused things.

Today was an excellent story-telling day. Two or three times I got to recount the dramatic tale of how I sprained my hand on Sunday (it was more riveting every time). I got to explain for the first time in many months why I very rarely wear shoes and why the shoes I normally wear are flip-flops. I made up stories for all the doodles in my honors physics and honors pre-calc notes and told them to my friend Sara whether she wanted to listen or not. I also told the story of how crowded the bathroom is at 7:30 am at my house (five girls want to use it at once). My fellow art students heard about the tragic incident of the toad in the night-time. I regaled my audiences with tales of travel mugs, sharpies, pencil sharpeners, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and all sorts of other random things.

Today was a day of discovery. I discovered that if you add up the speed that the earth is spinning, the speed at which we rotate around the sun, and the speed at which the universe is expanding, we are all moving tens of thousands of miles per hour at this very instant. I learned that curly hair is the result of hydrogen bonding in the secondary structure of the protein keratin that causes it to take on the alpha helical structure and that when you straighten hair, you're actually breaking the hydrogen bonds holding the secondary protein structure together, causing it to take the form of the beta pleated sheet. When water from the atmosphere or a shower or whatever soaks into the hair, the alpha helix structure is restored and the hair curls once more. I learned all about the differences between the higher education systems in the U.S. and in Europe. I learned that I can b.s. my way through all my English book tests, because they're all short answer/essay questions and I can fake just about anything in that format. Layla learned that my hair is fairly curly, which she didn't know despite the fact that she headed the convince-Maria-to-wear-her-hair-down-more-often campaign of freshman year. I discovered that I don't know how to conjugate all the irregular French verbs. I discovered that spraining your right hand really sucks when all your teachers pick the same day to have you write down loads of stuff for the entire bell. I discovered one of the foreign exchange students at my school this year. His name is Florian and he's from Germany. I also discovered that the cafeteria's new cylindrical tater tots are far inferior to last year's star-shaped tots in every way imaginable.

I had conversations about things like structures of different tree species, jellyfish, nicknames, instrument cases, O Brother Where Art Thou, temperamental color guard girls, pretty names. and gobs of other things.

I doodled/drew Cheerios, Oreos, turtles (one of them talks and his name is Horatio the Splendiferous), houses, shoes, thunderstorms, and who knows what all else, along with writing out the French alphabet song and a nonsense nursery song in French about sea turtles dancing the samba in cursive on my math notes, which my teacher is apparently collecting tomorrow... He'll get to see my pretty pictures (he only gets Horatio and the French songs, plus a flame border around my name, but that should be enough to make him wonder what on earth goes through my head).

This is only a small sample of how random I've been feeling today. If this was it, this would just be a normal day that I wrote down for once. I just can't seem to stay focused long enough to think of what other random things happened today.