Cassini's almost there!

Sweet mother... gaze at the behemoth Saturn! Cassini is getting closer... and I'm getting excited! Cassini already measured the radiation belts of Jupiter back in 2001, showing the harshness of the magnetic field. The electrons that Jupiter throws out are moving at almost the speed of light, smacking it's moons and keeping them in their tight orbit. Imagine what kind of power that electron current must be! I love the gigantic scale of everything in astronomy. But it scares me at the same time. Those planets are powerful.
Ever since I was a kid, I spent months and months studying the planets. I have been infatuated with them since the 3rd grade (especially when my teacher was giving us a major course in electronics, flow of electricity, magnetic currents. He was teaching college level stuff to us, and we understood what he was saying! He even delved into Algebra! A lot of the class had a hard time understanding the concept, but we got it in the end). I used to read out-of-date books repeatedly, sopping in the knowledge. I loved astronomy, and I wanted to work at NASA when I got older. This changed in the 6th grade, when I tragically discovered that NASA was not funded as much as they used to be, when my out-of-date books were current. Instead, NASA was concerned with the International Space Station, A waste of time in my opinion (which i still stand by). I turned to Nuclear energy learning, but got caught up in computers when I befriended my former best friend, Jeff Peters, and put astronomy on the backburner (though I always kept an eye on astronomy). I spend time looking at astronomy data sometimes, looking at raw data when I'm in the mood. I look forward to the next space revolution but will only keep my ear to the ground in the meantime.

Anyway, I have 6 minutes to get clothes on (blogging in MY underwear. Geez, now me too) and leave for the optometrist, so I will just quickly recap a few things and then sign off.

Last night was old movie night (my ritual) with a hint of midnight movie mayhem (another ritual. Always Friday night!). Erin, You bastard. You never showed up! Oh well. In an effort to remember what movies I've seen, I've decided to post them here for my reviewing pleasure. We watched The blue lagonia (I think I spelled it right. I think that's the right word, too. Can't remember), satin street (wait, not satin street. Some sort of red cloth. I'll have to remember what it was and modify this), and Dracula (I can understand the cult classic. Lots of originality. It's a shame the vast majority of movies as of late copycat movies such as this one rather than being original. (Van Helsing, anyone?))
I watched Reanimator with a coworker/friend, Kira, her friend, and Evan's girlfriend (Angela). Twas quite funny and gross.

Eep! I might be late. The people demand a glass-ic revolution!

Children of the night. What sweet music they make!
D.