Everything Changes

So this is my first blog post of my life. whoot. I dunno how I feel about this whole thing - "blogging" and all. I'm an aspiring writer and I therefore obviously love to write... and I like to write most about myself. I was working on this book for awhile that was basically a dramatization of my life, but I've since given up on it. Maybe I'll let you read it sometime. Nevertheless, blogging seems perfect for me then... I get to write about myself and you get to just sit back and read all about my trivial life. My Poli Sci professor from last semester said that blogging was the next "new frontier" and that pretty soon everyone would have one - kind of like Facebook, I guess - so I decided to hop on this.

Blogging is such a new thing. Well, maybe not NEW. People have been doing it for awhile. But it's really new to me. All of a sudden, all my friends have been asking me "hey, did you read my blog?" to which I of course answered "no, what in the world is this?" I didn't think many people had a blog... and to be honest, I kind of thought they were only for selfish people so they could broadcast their lives to other people without having to actually interact with them... and yet here I sit, joining in the selfish blogfest phenomenon. A lot of things change.

Speaking of change, I was sitting in my astronomy class today and someone asked about why Pulto isn't a planet anymore, and I quite frankly wanted to know too. I thought that was so mean of the astronomy community - how DARE you make little, lonely Pluto believe it is a planet for I don't even know how many year and then BAM, they strip Pluto of his title (Pluto definitely seems like a boy and not a girl to you, am I right? Neptune could maybe be a girl, Uranus is definitely a guy, c'mon now... Jupiter is a boy, Saturn seems like a girl, and Mars is a boy. Venus is a girl, Mercury, hmmm.... Mercury is a boy I suppose. That's kind of a toughie because it's little so it could be feminine... whatever. And I don't know about the Earth - everyone says Earth is like "Mother Nature" and all that crap so I guess it should be womanly, but I think Earth is neutral. Totally neutral. Wow, how was THAT for a random aside? Anyways, back to poor poor Pluto...) But the way my TA described it was that if we classified Pluto as a planet, we just created a new telescope that would also make like 30 other things planets and that would be super difficult to remember. So I suppose stripping Pluto of his title was necessary, but I think we ought to give him like an "Honorary Planet" distinction of some type.

Other things are changing, so rapidly. As a friend of mine reminded me today, Brett Favre is retiring for realsies this time. For REAL. (You have to understand I am a tried-and-true Packer's fan, and so I have a lot of emotions connected to this issue.) Hanging up the cleats, shrugging off the beloved #4 jersey and throwing his feet up on a plush couch somewhere, Brett Favre is really done with football. What is happening to the world? 10 years ago Pluto was a planet, Brett Favre was a football god instead of a washed up hero who doesn't know when to quit, America wasn't in a war on terror, Titanic was a smash hit (I watched that this weekend - that is a top-notch movie!), my mom didn't have cancer, and I was a mere 4th grader. Oh how things change!

Yikes that was kind of a downer first post... but you can't blame me because its Monday. I'm allowed to be kind-of a downer. I'll try and think of something far more upbeat for next time...