Ecce Romani

Sorry, this is totally unrelated to space! But I wanted to post something on this.

For those who have never heard of Ecce Romani, it is a Latin textbook for beginning students which teaches the language chapter by chapter with a story taking place in Ancient Rome. I wish my math textbook was like that! It'd make math a LOT more interesting. Of course, I would probably end up thinking it was cheesy if I did have a textbook like that...

Anyway, a girl at my school is totally obsessed with her Ecce Romani book and all things Roman, and went so far as to write a play about the characters in Ecce Romani. It was performed last weekend, and I was in it! I had two minor roles, a slave and a robber. Being a robber was pretty fun, but hard for me since I tend to be a non-violent person. :) One of my best friends got a main role as Aurelia. She was awesome! "Davus, where is that lazy slave-girl Syra? (Ook, that's me!) She neglected to clean 1 square inch of this hallway! Now I'm going to go scold her." She got the best part. :)

We rocked the house at our first performance, but during the second, one of the actors (Uncle Titus) messed up his lines. Backstage we were freaking out, but the audience thought nothing of it. He's a great actor though.

I'm sad it's over. Now my life is a lot less busy...who knew that could be a bad thing?

Space Art!

Space art is an amazingly awesome and unfortunately underappreciated field of art. (Like my alliteration? :) ) It is drawings of, well, space, that are purely fiction, but are based on science and what is actually possible. They inspire many about the wonders of the universe and get the imagination running on what could be out there...

I found a great site where you can look at tons of awesome space art: spacewallpapers.net

Just look under the space art section.

I made an attempt at drawing my own space art today, and it turned out pretty good. Not awesome, but better than I had expected. The drawing is from just outside the atmosphere of a moon of a large blue gas giant orbiting a red dwarf star. It shows the clouds and mountaintops of the moon, and another moon and a blue-white companion star in the background.

Yay, I have a blog!

It seems all my friends have been getting blogs lately, and, since I have a G-mail account, I figured I should too. First, a little about me:

1. I'm a student.
2. I'm a girl.
3. I scuba dive.
4. I'm a space nut.

Hence the blog name. I became interested in space last October, and ever since I've been reading up on it. A LOT.

You know that feeling you get when you find out something new, something special, something amazing?

Well, that's how I feel when I find out something new about space.

I've been rambling to my mom about new "discoveries" (new to me, not to science) that I've made about space for ages, and she sometimes seems lost. Don't get me wrong, she's a very smart person, but it can get pretty complex and I KNOW I don't explain it well. So this is just another way to get it out of my system.

The rest of the postings will deal with life in general. Just random stuff I pick up. Anecdotes, pet peeves, I don't know what else!

Should be fun. :)

Here goes nothing!