maybe several things

This only scratches the surface of all the shit I'm feeling right now. (hi dad, hi gramma, sorry about my mouth, I get it from you guys)

So I'm getting an arts degree. Like, not two hours ago I had my interview to be officially admitted to the theatre department for a b.a. I love art. I draw, and I act, and I sew, and I love to make things and use things to reflect the world around me and sometimes just be pretty. I love it. Music and visual art and performance art, I don't understand how people could ever live without them and say they think they don't matter. I just don't get it. They're important.

But at the same time, I love science. I love it. I just...biology and chemistry and physics, they make sense, they put things in order, and I think they're more beautiful just by virtue of being true than almost any art I've ever seen. I mean, art is pretty. It's nice to look at. Really good art moves me. But science...science always moves me. I mean, I get weepy to speeches from like Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman. I do. It's a little ridiculous.

And I feel a little torn, because art people and science people are totally opposite, both in viewpoint and physically (at least on this campus I mean really they're like fifteen minutes away walking) and never the twain shall meet. And I'm sitting here explaining evolution and shit to my theatre friends, and they are all looking at me like I'm crazy because the only other thing I get so passionate about is Pokemon grammar. I feel like the mixed kid from the fifties, part of both worlds but not really allowed in either.

Because damn, those sciencey kids look at you like you're stupid when you tell them you're studying theatre. They look betrayed, like "Oh, I thought you were one of us". I don't know.

MY POINT IS ALL MY THEATRE FRIENDS HAVE SPENT THE LAST WEEK BITCHING ABOUT THEIR SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS AND I WAS REALLY DISAPPOINTED I COULDN'T TAKE MINE THIS SEMESTER.

How are magnetism and volcanoes related, if at all?

How does an atmosphere gain pressure, or rather, density, because if the air was more dense, then the pressure would be greater.

And I of course have other questions, with partial answers, but it's hard to find articles relating things sometimes, especially unrelated to Earth. Has it ever occured to encyclopedia writers that sometimes, people are doing research that's not about Earth? Jesus.

Oh, and the reason for all the science stuff and research lately isn't just because I feel like it, it's because of writing, and I'm starting to try to figure something out. You know, real science fiction is a lot of work! Now I know why I never really tried to write science fiction before. Too much work. Yet ideas are funny things, and I can't ignore this one.

So, it's not just because I'm a spaz that I keep posting weird questions like this, hoping for some serendipitious knowledge from one or more of my lj friends. It's in the interest of...er, art? Yeah, let's go with art. Or I guess we could go with science, but not as much. Of course, not that this is really very art-related, but still.