another day another dollar
May. 28th, 2003 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
x_shadowcatWell, not exactly, but whatever.
You know, I never was any good at keeping diaries or journals, and now I'm almost obsessive with this thing. Maybe I just needed it to be a tech toy, or maybe I'm really just an exhibitionist. Regardless, you lot get yet another view into the life and times of one Ms. Pryde. Lucky lucky you.
Not that there's all that much to relate. I mean, with Dr. McCoy sending lessons by email that I can breeze through whenever I feel like it (you know, partical physics before bed gives you the weirdest dreams...) and the Lit class being study hall (and therefore 8000x less doomful) I'm down to classes which are just... class. Not mind-numbingly boring like back at home, but also neither fascinating nor terrifying. It's a novel experience.
Well, I guess there's still a little terror in Mr. Logan's defense classes... but it's also fascinating in it's own way, and something I want to do really well at.
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x_jubilee today... that ws interesting. She's not been making it back to the room until even after I go to bed, so I guess what happened made sense...
(woah. Just checked the journals... Jubes, you haven't been sleeping at all? That's not good!)
Anwyay, she was a little overly energetic and... well, let's just say that it's a good thing we learned how to fall properly first. As it is I've got bruises.
Mr. Logan took her for some one-on-one after that, and I ended up working with a target. Very Rocky Balboa, or something.
And then there was that whole thing with the poems and what not. Ms. Braddock, I don't think my poem is bad, I just don't really think it's all that good. Words just aren't really my thing...
And I talked to Ms. Frost. Equal parts reassuring and enlightening, I guess. She had an interesting idea for a research project, but I just don't think I'd be able to do it. The idea is essentially, what if "mob mentality" is some sort of latent psychic reaction? Large groups of people feeding off each other's emotions, and they all end up feeling/thinking the same, which does sound like something you could do with telepathy. And if it was, could you use something like the power damping field we're using in the defense course to prevent lynch mobs? Or maybe just to difuse them... cause you wouldn't want to have something like that set up everywhere, and otherwise you couldn't be sure that it'd interfeer with the mob creation...
I don't know. And Ms. Frost suggested it might be unethical to do something like that, and maybe it was a topic for the Mutant Acceptance course.
I'm kinda rambling, but I don't really feel like going to bed you see.
I've started a list of all the tests I want to run when Dr. McCoy is back. Jamie said something that got me thinking, and now I'm really curious as to why I usually don't fall through the floor. If I'm phased then maybe gravity isn't exerting a force on me anymore, but then why don't I fly off the planet, just get left behind as it rotates away from me? But if it is exerting a force and the floor's no longer exerting a normal force to hold me up, shouldn't I always fall until I read the center of gravity? But if Jamie's right and it's something like I do what I *want* to do, and go where I *want* to go, then maybe I could be really cliche and walk on water, or something.
And what if we invoke Newton? Say I were in a moving car and phased. Would I stop moving relative to the car and the car pass me? Or continue traveling with constant velocity so that the car would leave me behind when it turned? If I stop moving relative to the frame of reference, well, which frame of reference?
I've never believed that whole thing about curiosity and cats...
You know, I never was any good at keeping diaries or journals, and now I'm almost obsessive with this thing. Maybe I just needed it to be a tech toy, or maybe I'm really just an exhibitionist. Regardless, you lot get yet another view into the life and times of one Ms. Pryde. Lucky lucky you.
Not that there's all that much to relate. I mean, with Dr. McCoy sending lessons by email that I can breeze through whenever I feel like it (you know, partical physics before bed gives you the weirdest dreams...) and the Lit class being study hall (and therefore 8000x less doomful) I'm down to classes which are just... class. Not mind-numbingly boring like back at home, but also neither fascinating nor terrifying. It's a novel experience.
Well, I guess there's still a little terror in Mr. Logan's defense classes... but it's also fascinating in it's own way, and something I want to do really well at.
He paired me with
x_jubilee today... that ws interesting. She's not been making it back to the room until even after I go to bed, so I guess what happened made sense...(woah. Just checked the journals... Jubes, you haven't been sleeping at all? That's not good!)
Anwyay, she was a little overly energetic and... well, let's just say that it's a good thing we learned how to fall properly first. As it is I've got bruises.
Mr. Logan took her for some one-on-one after that, and I ended up working with a target. Very Rocky Balboa, or something.
And then there was that whole thing with the poems and what not. Ms. Braddock, I don't think my poem is bad, I just don't really think it's all that good. Words just aren't really my thing...
And I talked to Ms. Frost. Equal parts reassuring and enlightening, I guess. She had an interesting idea for a research project, but I just don't think I'd be able to do it. The idea is essentially, what if "mob mentality" is some sort of latent psychic reaction? Large groups of people feeding off each other's emotions, and they all end up feeling/thinking the same, which does sound like something you could do with telepathy. And if it was, could you use something like the power damping field we're using in the defense course to prevent lynch mobs? Or maybe just to difuse them... cause you wouldn't want to have something like that set up everywhere, and otherwise you couldn't be sure that it'd interfeer with the mob creation...
I don't know. And Ms. Frost suggested it might be unethical to do something like that, and maybe it was a topic for the Mutant Acceptance course.
I'm kinda rambling, but I don't really feel like going to bed you see.
I've started a list of all the tests I want to run when Dr. McCoy is back. Jamie said something that got me thinking, and now I'm really curious as to why I usually don't fall through the floor. If I'm phased then maybe gravity isn't exerting a force on me anymore, but then why don't I fly off the planet, just get left behind as it rotates away from me? But if it is exerting a force and the floor's no longer exerting a normal force to hold me up, shouldn't I always fall until I read the center of gravity? But if Jamie's right and it's something like I do what I *want* to do, and go where I *want* to go, then maybe I could be really cliche and walk on water, or something.
And what if we invoke Newton? Say I were in a moving car and phased. Would I stop moving relative to the car and the car pass me? Or continue traveling with constant velocity so that the car would leave me behind when it turned? If I stop moving relative to the frame of reference, well, which frame of reference?
I've never believed that whole thing about curiosity and cats...
