astrophysics is...

did anyone see (even accidentally) that episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch? mitosis is...
she was trying to study biology with her boyfriend Harvey (bad idea as Harvey had early 90s white-boy hair). every try would begin with "mitosis is..." before it would be cut off by a timely interruption that rendered them both ill equiped for the test the next day after a series of supernatural antics.

so far it is an accurate description of astrophysics for me - alas/thankfully sans boyfriend Harvey with 90s white-boy hair (or even MJH for that matter). there is a new professor teaching this year. though he does not go into super complicated mathematics as the last one did (while we were ill equipped to even deal with multivariable derivatives) this one simply glosses over them and refers you to the compact green textbook. and compact physics books always means one thing: only smart people can read this.

and what physics does best is tell you that contrary to whatever you thought before, you are NOT smart. not smart like Newton, not smart like Lenz, or Weinz, or Hertz, or Chandrasekhar, or Runge, or Eddington, or Brahe, or Keppler, or Hook. it's a small recompense that Hook's Law has been redubbed as "Hooker's Law" by Sucre in the latest episode of Prison Break as he tried to reiterate to Aruzzi what Michael explained earlier about tensile strength and wall elasticity. memories of Home Improvement are recalled.

it has become clearly apparent that my left-hemisphere has reached its limit. right-side is now getting the workout of its life making up new ways to slide physics principles and suppositions into essays about the metaphorical use of red riding hoods. my recently developed skill for reading 3 different novels at the 'same time' is also being put to good use as multiple english classes require multiple novel readings. speaking of which, "stone angel" is more boring than watching a boulder acquire a coat of moss.

now if that boulder were in space, created by the accretion of a protostellar disk, then it would not collect moss ever. even then, i would rather watch that boulder than re-read stone angel. i liken it to reading the first page of Pride and Prejudice. no offense, but female narrative is rather long-winded.