Hey, I'm on a roll. Wrote an entry three times this week...

     I finished my science books this week. Yeahhhhhhh. No more (assigned) science until next fall. I think I shall probably start some independent research, though. Mom had me do some books (yeah, books as in plural. They were really easy reading though) by John Hudson Tiner, and I thought they were very well done. I just finished a chemistry one, and I think I want to look into that a little more on my own for the rest of the school year. That and physics.

     One chapter on nitrogen really caught my interest-I mean come on, how much fun is it to read about how to make things explode? That's just plain interesting! I like little facts that they include in books; that sort of thing makes it that much more fun.  Like that nitrogen evidently is something plants deplete from the soil very quickly, and people put ammonia (nitrogen rich) in fertilizer to give it a boost. (And yes, in the back of my mind I'm thinking, "oh, I get it- that's how MacGyver made that bomb!").

     And then splitting the atoms- that's neat. I want to invent cold fusion.

    To change the subject, ever heard of the statement made by (pretty sure?) John F. Kennedy, "Ich bin ein Berliner"? It was while the Berlin wall was up and he was giving a speech. He made a mistake. How many of you know what that really meant?

     He did NOT say (correctly, anyway) "I am a Berliner." That would be "Ich bin Berliner." According to my uncle, who knows this sort of thing, when you say "ein" it changes the meaning of the word coming after it. So, a correct translation of what JFK really said that day is(you ready?):

      "I am a jelly doughnut."

     Now that's just funny.