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    One heck of a week

    This past week has been pretty damned sucky. It’s not one of those weeks that makes me particularly angry, or depressed, or anything else so… dramatic, but I feel I could have done just fine without most of the stuff that occured. As I predicted, my Physics exam kicked my ass. The lack of surprise lessens the shame a bit, but not by much. I did learn a little about relativity that captured my attention, though. Tuesday, after the final portion of my Physics exam, a couple of old friends came into town. We met them about six years ago, when we lived in a very rural area of Texas…

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    Les choix

    I’ve had a couple of conversations today that touched on the concept of choice, something I’ve realized, in my interactions with people, that I take a rather different perspective on than many people. I played “let’s question the American” in my Physics class today (there were only two students, myself and a Chinese guy); my teacher, Mr. M, is Syrian and often finds himself baffled as to the reasons for why some things are the way they are here. And today he threw a couple (ha!) of questions at me. One of which related to child-raising and morality. Now, I’m hardly an expert on children, nor do I have any…

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    Surface Break

    I decided to post something here today, just to say hey, and maybe, just maybe, to bitch a little bit. Particularly about this (slow load, and it opens in a new window). I’m still not sure how much bitching I’m going to do. The exams are going well. They are all suspiciously easy, however. I don’t attribute that to any heavy studying, because, well, people who haven’t studied much at all (myself included on some of them) think they’re easy as well. I would expect the IB exams to be easier, because of the way the program works. For those that don’t know, IB courses consists of internal and exteral…