today's a bloody day, did you know?

well, let me tell you if you didn't. aside from all the chocolate and flower-hype that's going on for the whole entire day, valentine's day is actually a bloody day, created to commemmorate the death of our dear st. valentine's.

apparently a king in england who needs more men for his troops figured out a good way to get men to join the army: outlawing marriage. st. valentine, however, kept giving marital ceremony and such, and thus he was detained and executed. st. valentine was a compassionate man. not only that, he also adopted orphans and raised them in his house. no, he's not a pedophile, he's just one hell of a compassionate man. and no, michael jackson is not in any way related to him. on his execution day, the king also ordered the massacre of the kids that he had adopted. i guess the order went something along the lines of "let this be a lesson for all of you who dare to oppose my order."

the date of the slaughter and execution? february 14th. the trademarked color red doesn't come from the color of the heart. it's blood red. feeling a little tainted? you should.

as for myself, i'm still alone, but i refuse to get together with my fellow physicists for a THANK-GOODNESS-IM-SINGLE party. they called it TGIS, which lead me to think that it stands for THANK-GOODNESS-IT-SUCKS. either way, not a good theme for a party.

computer is still dead, and this week it seems like i won't have time to look at it either, as i have to prepare for my lecture and demonstration on friday. ugh. crunch time. this vernier equipment better work. i guess this will be another week of sleep deprivation. not to mention the 105b homework.

so i signed up for next quarter (which i have almost forgotten, thanks john).

physics 130a: quantum mechanics
physics 120a: electronics lab
physics 154: elementary particle physics
physics 100c: electromagnetism: electromagnetic waves
mathematics 120b: applied complex analysis
music 95g: gospel choir

just kidding. i didn't sign up for all of them. i don't want to die, yet. i signed up for all but physics 100c. i think i'm just gonna sit in that one. e&m has been interesting so far, but 100c is where the meat is. so i thought it'd be fun to just sit there and listen to lecture... cross that. sit there and nap. and gospel choir i decided to take because i like to sing, and hopefully this class would get me through another stressful quarter.

some people have been asking me, why i haven't gotten a girlfriend yet. well, to tell you the truth, i don't know. it seems like with all the work i have to do it would be a crime to have a girlfriend. not to the work, but to the girl. i don't think i'd be able to spend enough (nor have) time with her. but then again, that might just very well be an excuse for my laziness to go out and hunt one. and i'm not as lucky as david, who happens to live in a bio lab (and we all know bio labs have women in it). I LIVE IN A PHYSICS LAB: UNLESS I'M GAY, I'M NOT GETTING ANY.

also, it might be that i have yet to get over my ex. her visit for two days had proven to be have a tremendous effect i was unprepared for. i thought the love had died, but apparently it was just in there somewhere, hiding. as of now it doesn't seem like things will be going anywhere, but i'll be lying if i were to say that i don't love her anymore.

i once made a post about human beings not being able to carry out an unconditional love, since such a love is divine, and hence should only be left to divine beings to do. i still think so. but i take back the part where i said that no mortals should even attempt. we should all attempt to achieve such a love. unconditional love is by far the highest form of love. even higher than that shitty platonic love.

spread the love, my friends, not the violence.

happy valentine's day to everyone.