How I Wish I Could Calculate Pi

So...

Blogtime again.

Last time I took us on a journey through my thoughts during my last race. I could do that here except a lot of my thoughts were real jumbled and there wasn't much in my thoughts that was remarkably interesting. So first a couple of quick highlights. Ran 25:15 got 13th either just made or just missed Nationals. So overall a good race. Observations about said race.

1. I definitely had Skillet's "Awake and Alive" in my head through the warmup (possibly because Brandon said we were going to wake up our legs at the beginning) but not at all during the race. I don't actually think I had any songs stuck in my head during the race.

2. During the race I didn't really hear people distinctly unless they were alone or had a really distinctive voice or they were Dan. Thanks for the "Hammertime" Dan. And thanks to everyone else who was cheering.

3. Normally my brain takes the words it hears and rearranges them into other words. Like if someone says "Go Sam.", my brain takes it and turns it into "So Mag" or "Mo Gas" or it swaps an "o" for an "e" and makes it "Games." Anyway, it took until Mile 4 for my brain to do that. It usually happens within the first mile. Weird huh?

4. There was a lot of gluck everywhere. I don't think I need to define that word. If you were there, you know what I mean. Some people would prefer to call it "mud", but I prefer to call it "gluck". I think it gives a much better image and it is much more fun to say. Oh, and just so people know, "gluck" and "mud" are not synonymous. Gluck is a specific species of mud most native to rainy cross country races with lots of dirt in them.

5. It took me about 5 minutes after my race was over to realize I could eat sugar again. (If you don't know, Heike challenged us to go the whole two weeks before Conference without eating sugar junk foods {so stuff like fruit didn't count as sugar}) I'm still deciding whether that was too long or too short.

6. I lost at Ninja way too many times for having just played one in an online Mafia game. Of course, I'm not very good at the game anyway, but still. We were bored and the awards ceremony was taking forever to show up.

7. Chocolate Frosties rock!

So, what else? Oh yeah, I had lots of celebratory candy the remainder of the day and am now back on my regular level of sugar. Jed and I got into a little discussion about "happy candies". These are the kind of candies that make you really happy as opposed to candies that just make you feel satisfied that you are getting sugar. Everyone has their own happy candies and happy candies can vary. For me, happy candies usually involve sour and gummy.

What else? My friend Zach showed up for a little visit. We managed to convince multiple people that he was actually Jed's brother Isaac (Zach for short) and even get some comments on how similar Jed and he looked. (They don't) So, if we told you that was Isaac this weekend, it wasn't.

Okay, let's see what else. I wish I could say God has been showing me amazing revelations, but he just seems to be happy with doing stuff that forces me to rely on him more and more, which I suppose is a good thing. It's frustrating though when you'd rather do things your way (although, there might be a good reason why that's not the way things are going).

Oh, and I'm taking a class in math that would probably terrify the rest of you and is providing some unique challenges for me. I had to memorize this definition and apply it.

The limit of a sequence a_n as n→∞ equals a, if and only if for all ε>0, there exists some N in the natural numbers (1,2,3,4...), such that for all n ≥ N, |a_n-a|<ε

Now that I've terrified all of you, that's one of the easier things in the class. It's nowhere near as fun as it sounds. Yes, you heard that right. Me of all people is not enjoying a math class. Weird, huh?

And...I don't have that many more non-sequiturs to throw at people so I'll leave you with this one. As I sit here listening to the David Crowder CD Church Music I think I've determined "How He Loves" is my favorite song on the CD and the CD is about twelve and a half times better if you listen to it straight.

Okay, join us next time for the rabid wallabies with machine guns story.