what's new?

• ✔ may 1: may day!
• ✔ may 2: astronomy final exam
• ✔ may 3: music history final exam
• ✔ may 13: mothers day
• ✔ may 15: shari's birthday
• ✔ may 19: royal wedding
• ✔ may 25: breakfast w shari
• ✔ may 26: work 9:15-6
• ✔ may 28: work 8:30-6
• ✔ may 28: memorial day
• ✔ may 29: lunch w shari
• ✔ may 31: work box office 6-9
• ✔ may 31: make sarah's birthday card

goals

• ✔ relax + recuperate
• ✔ make a card + find a gift for mother's day
• buy a new keyboard w recital hall $$

new lists

• stargazing calendar - may 2018
• recipes i've tried this summer
• favorite actors
• favorite ppl born in october

obsessions

• cosmology
• geometry

scores studied

• pope marcellus mass, kyrie ✧ palestrina
• symphonie fantastique, mvt. v ✧ hector berlioz

discoveries

• axial precession was historically known as the precession of the equinoxes
• an isometry of the plane is a linear transformation that preserves length
  • isometries include rotation, translation, reflection, glides, and the identity map
• the heat death of the universe is a plausible ultimate fate of the universe in which the universe has diminished to a state of no thermodynamic free energy and therefore can no longer sustain processes that increase entropy
• a single neutrino can pass through a lead barrier a light-year thick without interacting with one of its atoms
• a cubic centimeter of the material in the center of a neutron star weighs 10^15 pounds
• the discoverer of x-rays, wilhelm roentgen, refused to take out patents on his discovery, even though they would have made him extremely wealthy. he wanted mankind as a whole to benefit from his discovery

writing

• funeral rites mvt. i
  • satb choir
• setting of be still, my soul, be still
  • string quartet
• symphony of a dream
  • string orchestra
• the rise and the fall
  • string quartet

crushes

• young stephen hawking ꒰˘̩̩̩⌣˘̩̩̩๑꒱♡
• henry cavendish !!!!
• (ง ˃ ³ ˂)ว ⁼³₌₃⁼³ hayden !!

quotes

• ❝ we used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. we are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and.' ❞ — sir arthur eddington