Nat Geo

Well today is well underway. I went to my one class that I have on Wednesdays and continued to learn about lobbying and the government. My teacher took a time out from lecture to let us know that we could ask him any questions about grading or professors, or how they feel when grading. (He likes to analyze people and how they interact and what is everyone's incentives in any given situation) So I asked him, when a teacher is grading, what constitutes the difference in grading between a 90% on a paper versus an 87% on a paper. He gave me more than enough of a response. He sent me a 2000 word response on his grading habits. Have to love the detail he put into it.

I was walking to my building with Cheyenne and we heard a huge noise in the trees across the street and it turned out to be a red tailed hawk hunting a squirrel. We watched it hunt for about an hour overall. People would stop to see what we were looking at and soon enough there was a decent crowd watching the hawk try to kill the squirrel. It is pretty cool to see a hawk move the way it did. Initially, the hawk chased it up the tree until it reached the top and was forced to jump. It is amazing that a squirrel can jump off a 60 foot tree and continue to hide from a hawk. It was a long game of hide and seek. The hawk was literally on a branch right next to the squirrel but the squirrel would move to the other side of the tree as fast as the hawk could jump from branch to branch. The hawk eventually gave up after an hour. It was very interesting to see this up close because usually you only see a hawk way in the sky or on a post, and usually see squirrels running around very fast. I of course had to grab my camera to try and get a good shot of what was going on. The sun made it difficult especially because they were in the shade of the tree. I edited these picture to try and expose the animals.

This is what I mean when I said that the squirrel would move out of the hawk's sight. It would bounce away each time the hawk moved.

The hawk would leave for a couple minutes and swoop in once the squirrel decided to move in the trees.

Perfect example of what I am talking about. The hawk's head it visible to us, but it couldnt see the squirrel. Darwin would be proud of this single squirrel.

The hawk was not as agile and could look at the squirrel but there was often too many branches in the way and it wouldnt be fast enough.

Enough Discovery Channel.

I am doing an essay that is due on Friday, same one I was doing Monday, how is it already Wednesday night???? Are we time traveling right now?

I may experiencing a writer's high. I have been writing since about 5pm straight. Non stop writing. I wrote a decently long response to my teacher's huge email. Now this blog post. Since I am typing in a dark room it may be causing this feeling. It is sort of like a runner's high for those long distance people reading this. I feel my eyes blur up and I cannot really see the screen. I also feel like I am on a boat being rocked gently, but my brain is focus on what I am writing and I can still type well. The computer screen will also get randomly smaller than it normally is.

Maybe I should stop eating Cup-o-Noodles for a little while. Maybe my body cannot function.

Enough distractions from homework. 

Adios

James