No... no I never did, although I have stammered on the phone before. Is there a difference? I don't know. I always thought that stuttering was where you're all l-l-l-like th-th-th-this, while stammering is like, like, kinda, like, y'know, sorta bumbling over words while you try to find what you're looking for, but managing full words... maybe I'm wrong?

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I'm gonna look it up, be right back folks!

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No, I was wrong, both words account for both speech difficulties, interesting.
So.
Yes... yes I have done.

So John Hughes died this week, that really sucks. I mean, ok, he was a guy, he died, I don't really feel much either way, I'm weird with emotions, some films, games, or songs give me teary spikes, but life, not so much, but it's a sad thing. He made some good films... also home alone, but nobody's perfect. Gonna watch Breakfast Club in a bit, not actually because he died, I was going to anyway, finding out that he died was just coincidental.
I'm going to stop trying to be good at talking about sad things now and move on to the thing that I was excited enough to write a journal about!
(Not that a person dying isn't important, I just suck at talking about it.)


Element 112! Ununbium! NO! Copernicium!
Yes, I'm a month behind. No, I don't care. I just found out, it's news to me, that makes it worthy of rambling about. Ok? No? Then bugger off.
I like the name, Copernicium, it's inspiring. This element will take us to the stars!!
Well, ok, no. It probably won't take us to the stars, not as a propellant at least, but it's a good'un.
I agree with the few people that I've heard talking about it that it should be Copernicum, not Copernicium (nikum is a lot nicer than nisseum, but oh well, I probably have to contribute more (read "contribute something, anything at all") to science before they'll ask for my opinion) but to be honest, one i either way isn't a big deal.
Copernicium. It really is a great name. Firstly it sounds nice (although I hold to the belief that it would sound nicer without that last i, and I intent to hold that belief until I die... I believe it is healthy to hold some irrational beliefs, as long as they're irrelevant.) but a nice sound is the least important thing for a name to have. A truly great name needs to be inspirtaional.

Nicolaus Copernicus, he's the guy the element is named after, is the man responsible for our modern view of astronomy. Yes, someone else would have come to the same realisation that he did if he hadn't, but he did, so it's worth appreciating his legacy.
The amazing thing is that astronomy wasn't his vocation, it was something he did in his spare time, when he wasn't busy being an artist, a diplomat, a mathematician... fucking renaissance men, they really know how to make you feel like an underachiever.

Maybe it won't be a big deal to a lot of people, but I like the idea of naming elements after men (and women) like Copernicus, it's inspirational.
Chemistry class comes along, and you hear about Copernicium, Curium, Einsteinium, you want to know who they're named after, you read about these people and you're so much more inspired than reading about what inspired Francium (no offence to the French, but countries really aren't inspirational).
Maybe to some people it's just a name, but to me, and hopefully to others, it's a call to achievement - these guys did it, and so can we.
It is just a name, sure, but it's a name that commands us to reach for the stars in everything we do. Except when we're buying music, seriously, S Club 7 suck.




There was something else.... but I forgot.
Note to self - make NOTES.
Copernicus would not be impressed. Or maybe he would? I can hope.