*finishes My Meal And Starts Towards My Room Before Stopping* Patton Did Seem A Bit Off Earlier...perhaps

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Henry David Thoreau (via lazyyogi)

Yes he is not exactly happy at the thought of me being gone for a month, maybe more

I’ve decided that I am going to go home and try to convince my parents that I need to stay where I am.

I have yet to decide if I want to tell them about Roman, however.

What This Is All About

Admin: Hello! This is a blog that has already existed for a while and i used to use for rp, but i don’t much anymore so i decided to use it for a different rp. This blog will be a part of an already going rp i’m doing over at @anxiouslyvirgil. It’s basically just Virgil posting about his housemates (Roman, Logan, Patton, Dee, and Remy) and all the stuff that goes on in his day-to-day life. I dub it a college AU since they’re all housemates because they all go to the same college. 

This blog will be pretty much the same thing but from Logan’s point of view. I’ll do my best not to make them repetitive

SO some things you should know if you’re new: 

Logan and Roman are a couple 

Virgil and Patton are a couple 

They’re all either sophomores or juniors in college (i honestly can’t remember) 

Please read the Rules and Disclaimers over on the virgil’s blog. It just sets some boundaries for my own comfort and to make sure we’re all on the same page. i’d appreciate it if you followed them. 

Everything on the rules post applies to both blogs, even if the wording favors the virgil one. just replace his name with Logan’s. 

And I’m Specs! Yes i know that’s a nickname for Logan, but it’s also what i go by on Tumblr so...yeah. Let’s try to avoid the confusion when we can, lol. 

You can find me over at @sanders-specs so if you reply to a post and i reply back you know it’s me since this is just a side blog and tumblr doesn’t let you reply to posts on your side blog. 

About Logan

His parents are controlling and emotionally abusive (feel free to ask him more about it, and i will be tagging it as #tw emotional abuse for those of you who want to block it) 

The boy loves space 

He’s stubborn and short tempered sometimes

He’s got a little sibling he absolutely loves and will do just about anything for 

He’s a giant sucker for Roman 

He cares very very deeply about all of his housemates even if he won’t show it 

He can’t flirt to save his life, but boy does he try because it makes Roman happy

He’s asexual 

About Virgil

He fucking adores Patton, man, like...so much 

He’s a little whiny but most of the time it’s all in good fun

He is also stubborn and short tempered at times, though not quite like Logan

He and Dee don’t get along that well and argue a lot 

He cares about all of his housemates, though, even Dee 

His parents love him but sometimes a little too much. Like when he’s sick or hurt they get a little controlling over his care 

this bothers Patton to no end and annoys Virgil 

Sometimes he doesn’t know when to keep his mouth shut 

He’s gay 

hey i just found this so sorry if i'm late but how are you and roman?

No need to apologize. 

Roman and I are doing well. We are looking forward to spending Christmas together 

If it is any consolation for Roman, Julian is very excited to meet him. He wants to meet all of my housemates, but he is particularly interested in Roman. And Remus, though I believe that is only because of Remus's...eccentricities

How Airglow Can Help Us Understand the Sun’s Influence on Earth

You may have seen the famous blue marble or pale blue dot images showing Earth from 18,000 and 3.7 billion miles away, respectively. But closer to home — some 300 miles above Earth’s surface — you might encounter an unfamiliar sight: vibrant swaths of red and green or purple and yellow light emanating from the upper atmosphere.

This light is airglow.

Airglow is created when atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, excited by sunlight, emit light to shed excess energy. Or, it can happen when atoms and molecules that have been ionized by sunlight collide with and capture a free electron. In both cases, these atmospheric particles emit light in order to relax again. The process is similar to how auroras are created, but while auroras are driven by high-energy solar wind, airglow is energized by day-to-day solar radiation.

Since sunlight is constant, airglow constantly shines throughout Earth’s atmosphere, and the result is a tenuous bubble of light that closely encases our planet. Its light is too dim to see easily except in orbit or on the ground with clear, dark skies and a sensitive camera — it’s one-tenth as bright as the light given off by all the stars in the night sky.  

Airglow highlights a key part of our atmosphere: the ionosphere. Stretching from roughly 50 to 400 miles above Earth’s surface, the ionosphere is an electrified layer of the upper atmosphere generated by extreme ultraviolet radiation from the Sun. It reacts to both terrestrial weather below and solar energy streaming in from above, forming a complex space weather system. Turbulence in this ever-changing sea of charged particles can manifest as disruptions that interfere with Earth-orbiting satellites or communication and navigation signals.

Understanding the ionosphere’s extreme variability is tricky because it requires untangling interactions between the different factors at play — interactions of which we don’t have a clear picture. That’s where airglow comes in. Each atmospheric gas has its own favored airglow color, hangs out at a different height and creates airglow by a different process, so we can use airglow to study different layers of the atmosphere.

Airglow carries information on the upper atmosphere’s temperature, density, and composition, but it also helps us trace how particles move through the region itself. Vast, high-altitude winds sweep through the ionosphere, pushing its contents around the globe — and airglow’s subtle dance follows their lead, highlighting global patterns.

Two NASA missions take advantage of precisely this effect to study the upper atmosphere: ICON — short for Ionospheric Connection Explorer — and GOLD — Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk.

ICON focuses on how charged and neutral gases in the upper atmosphere behave and interact, while GOLD observes what drives change — the Sun, Earth’s magnetic field or the lower atmosphere — in the region.

By imaging airglow, the two missions will enable scientists to tease out how space and Earth’s weather intersect, dictating the region’s complex behavior.

Keep up with the latest in NASA’s airglow and upper atmosphere research on Twitter and Facebook or at nasa.gov/sunearth.

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So I saw Logan today...

-roman

Admin: I've got some angst plans for Logan, but I just gotta have a free day to do it. Might be this weekend might be next week but I'm excited 😁

Roman keeps trying to convince me not to leave, and I keep telling him that I have to, but he just keeps insisting 

*skeptical* Are you getting sick? Perhaps you’ve caught the stomach virus ~Logan

-walks into Logan's room- ~Patton

*looks up from where I’m working at my desk* Hello Patton. What can I do for you? ~Logan