decisions, decisions

K so I've spent a lot of time on the UofA website looking at all the different possibilities for majors and minors. For now I'm listed as a Mechanical Engineering major. That sounds cool cuz it deals a lot with systems and machines and some math. But I think I want a minor. For what, I do not know.

If I get a 5 on the Spanish AP (yeah right!) I could get a minor with only two more additional classes. If I get a 4 it would be 3 classes.
I could get an Econ minor in only 4 additional classes, assuming I got enough credit for my AP's.
Based on the curriculum for a Mech Eng major, only two additional math classes wold be needed for a math minor.
Or if I passed Mech Physics C, I could get an astronomy minor in 5 clases.

And those are the front runners. Econ might have the most application, but Math and Spanish would be arguable easier. Not that jobs really look for minors, but for some reason the schedule they have on the websites seems a little too easy.

I should've taken AP chem.

which reality

I have a splitting headache right now, and I have absoluely no idea why. K so I finished a 2 liter bottle of Fanta within a 12 hour period, but that;s nothing new. It starts with a little pang on the left temple and it creeeps along the rest of my cranium, and it's really annoying. I should go and tke a Tylenol, but I'm too lazy to get up to the kitchen.

So over the course of the past week, for presents I've received:
$120
The Zelda tee you all saw
A second drum for my Taiko: Drum Master game
And supposedly the new Foo Fighters CD when it comes out

so I'm happy with my goodies. Laura Berg was talking about her grandma and great aunt or something (whatever relation your grandma's sister has to you) were trying to outdo each other by giving her more money. She got like 900 bucks from the two of them alone! Just crazy.

Annie, this for you. I had this dream with Mr. C and he was surprised that I didn't know that Ms. Reeves was his gf so he kept asking me about the Oak Dance and the fact that they went together every year. I nicely reminded him that I went to UHS before the inception of the so called Oak Dance. The year 2002 kept coming up. Then I remember supposedly walking around the UofA and it was blazing hot but none of the buldings looked familiar, and then there was something about a bicycle shop. What does it mean??????????????

My head is still pounding and I think I have a pimple in my nose, and now I'm started to regret going to MIT in lieu of senior prom. After all, it kinda became pointless since I didn't go and all I got a was hat instead of a t shirt and a bad cold. The fact that I almost understood the multivariable calc class tells me that its not that big a whoop, though the prof, who spoke excellent english, was using this weird abstract postulate as a way to get arounf the problem. Whatever.

Are we supposed to take our placement exams during orientation, and when are we supposed to regiater? Alice, Annie, I'm looking in your directions, one with each eye which really hurts my head.

like super duper full circle

Well, first of all, we graduated! That was so cool! Baker wasn't kidding when he said we'd be done by 8:55. hooray for punctualness. It seems kinda surreal right now still, like it never happened, like any second now we'll wake up and be back in physics or governmant or stats.

that reminds me

OMFG! Mr. C's girlfriend was my seventh grade Social Studies teacher!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So i saw Ms. Reeves (I am at least 90% confident it was her) and I was so happy to see her and then I saw Mr. C and I was happy to see him too and it took me a while to put 1 and 1 together to make two, so last night I wasn't sure if I was more freaked out cuz of that or cuz we graduated!!!

It's a small world after all.

Well, that's one small step for us, one giant leap for the future. Sorry to rip off Mr. Armstrong, who's a great biclyclist mind you :) , but it still doesn't seem like it really happened

And yet it did, I think.

a song I heard and like

So I was listening to my Music Choice before I have to give up cable, and I heard this sweet song on the Rock Channel. the band is called April Sixth. The song is called "Dear Angel" but I can't find the lyrics anywhere, so here is my best interpretation of it. And of course all music and lyrics are respective of their orignal companies; I just like this song.

Dear Angel

Dear Angel of Mine
Where I do start to express how I feel
Love's gone blind
And all that I feel is what I hear
You Just rip and sift
Right through my heart so weak and pure
Now I find myself
Wanting to die

(Chorus)
I bleed for the second time tonight
Upholding a love that's in my mind
If only my love could be with you
If only this pain, this pain died too

So I'll break you away, away, away from me
So I'll break you away, away, away from me

As I sit here alone
Just thinking about everything that you said
Now since I'm alone
Well maybe I should always be better off dead
Cuz without you
My life's goin' down, what do I do?
Well I find myself
Wanting to die

chorus 2X

I'll break you away

As swift as you came
My enemy
As swift as you came
My enemy
From my angel to my enemy
And I don't know

yeah, yeah

chorus 2x

I'll break you away (from all that's in my mind)
So I'll break you away (from all that's in my life)
So I'll break you away, away, away from me
So I'll break you away, away, away from me
And I don't know

[whispered] Sincerely yours
****

http://www.aprilsixthband.com/
Hear it for yourself.

So there you go. We get to graduate tomorrow!

The end... so close, and yet so far off

Today I spent about 2 hours writing cards for people and putting one of my wallet pics in each card. I didn't mind the actual writing, at the behest of my mom of course, but the time consumption was not favorable. Meanwhile, Mom's watching all her crime dramas- Cold Case, L&O: CI, and Crossing Jordan- distracting me from the more important task at hand. God, there's so much to do and so little time.

I have a lot of my wallet pics from JOn Wolf Photography, so if you really want another one lemme know.

Bought a keychain for Callesen. On the back it says,

"A + teacher = U"

Now isn't that cute? And I hope I gave all the important people cards. If not, then I'm REALLY REALLY SORRY!

all good things...

So, technically, in all legal senses of the word, we're done. Today I had one final for Spanish, and that was a piece of cake. ONce I get the nerve to speak, I usually do okay: it's just the actual getting up part that I don't like. I guess that plays into my thing of not wanting to take initiative unless I'm really pissed or something. But anyways.

Today was "the last _____" for everything. Keli was sad that this was the last lunch. So was I, but I shook it off. Then today, after school, Elise saw me basically MS Painting our school in case I forget what it looks like or something. I drew a cat on top of Mr. Herring's porrtable to commemmorare that cat Mr. Colville said lived underneath it. And when Evan and I took those pictures of Mr. H, that day I saw the cat. I saw that cat.

But my attention span is short. It's just weird we'll go from the ones in charge to the weirdoes who still hang around school like we wanted back in. Meh.

nonomonononokokomo

I am sick, and yet I have absolutely nothing wrong with me!

The doc sent me to go get a blood test after I told the secretary of my symptoms. On the request form it said I was to be tested for mono and Igo. I asked the attandent what IGo stood for, but she said it was just a generic term and not a specific condition. I mean, MONO?! First of all, I haven't kissed anyone... um, ever.... :( ..... besides family.... and they have no mono, so how would I get it then?

Fortuneately, all my tests came in negative. So that measn that the sole casue of my ailment is allergies. Now, I've reacted to stuff all my life, but apparently this year has just been brutal on me and my allergies are to blame. freshman year, we did a preliminary allergy test to develop an allergy treatment for me, and I was allergic to EVERYTHING ON THE TEST except feathers and pigweed. Then we found out that our insurance wasn't covering the allergy shots, so at like 40 bucks a week it was just out of the question.

But oh well. At least I don't have mono.

fruition

Today's been weird, to say the least.

First thing as I come in, the school nurse comes up to me. It would've helped had I known that she was the school nurse, but I've only been to the actual office only once in my UHS career: one time last year when we were reading Moby Dick and I felt really bad. But anyway, so she comes up to me and she's start asking me all these questions on my knowledge of the stark increase of people with diabetes, etc. Obviously I knew what she was refering to, but I tried my best to appear concerned and listen to what she had to say. I explained to her of my backgrounds and stuff that have led me to be the person I am today, and then she went into informercial mode on me. It was almost time for the bell to ring, so I excused myself as politely as possible and headed to my locker. I know, I got issues, but I don't let them worry me too much. I mean, we have that Gazelle Glider in our living room, and I use it oocassionally, and I at the daily recommended allowance of 5 fruits/ veggies a week, right? lol.

BTW, have you seen that Geico commercial with the fitness trainer dude? It's funny.

I am a very good bailiff. I got them mad procedural skillz.

Got work done on our stats project, which we're so ready to present on Wednesday.

Even Ms. Stuart told me I was such a cute baby.

And at last we got our English project done. Granted, there were a couple of flubs (The B&W was not intentional) but alas it's over.

But I serioulsy don't think I'm gonna not be in school tomorrow. I took 2 Advil and a big cup of water when I got home, and like 2 two hours later I was sweating up a storm, which tells me I broke a fever, which means I had one in the first place. Mom says that when my eyes look Chinese that I am sick, but all I know is when they feel swollen, or at least they did earlier.

I tried some of that accupressure stuff, and it helps a bit but only if I keep at it for more than fifteen minutes. But I have a short attention

OOH! Pretty colors on TV!

I also bought a new CD at target yesterday- Theory of a Deadman's second major US album, Gasoline. It's pretty rockin'. K, not as wild as Zach Rave's band (which was really good btw but the large quantity of smoke in the bar is probably somewhat resposible for my current ailment.) but still pretty good. They kinda sound like Nickelback. They ought to: they're also Canadian. You know, we always put Canada down for a lot of stuff, but it seems to me that theyre the ones keeping rock alive. Now, I know I'm gonna prorlly offend someone, but I don't really like punk. True, I like some alternative, but not near enough to go to a SUm 41 tour or something. Jimmy Eat World, maybe. Green Day, no.

From the Compton to the Bronix

Alas, VICTORY!

So now AP's are over for me as well as most UHS people. A few unfortunate people have Spanish Lit tomorrow, but that's not a lot of people.

Today was Econ, both Macro and Micro. Lots of people said that the Micro was harder than the mAcro, but I thought it was the other way around. But maybe that's what I get for being weird, or as Elise says jokingly in stats sometimes, an outlier. Meh, whatever. I hope I scraped with a 4 in Macro. It's possible I could get a 5, but I wouldn't bet on it. Micro I so totally dominated! The free response were sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo easy.

Just to let you know, the free response format is slightly different than most other AP's. First, you get to look at the green insert for 10 minutes but cannot begin to write in the pink book until after those 10 minutes are up. The "planning sesion" is to help you formulate your ideas, but I just think it's stupid. For the micro, I had all my answers already written in the green booklet, so it just tok me a little time to translate that to the pink book. If I don't get a 5 on micro I am gonna b totally heartbroken.

Oh, about the title. Since the free responses were so easy, I had me a little downtime. So I wrote a rap in each one, and man were they funny. The macro one started like:

Yo, all my homies down from Compton to the Bronix
This is MIxMaster Mula here to talk 'bout economics
You got your aggregate demand and your aggregate supply
Watch the value of the Euro shooting up towards the sky.
And Mister Alan Greenspan, he's the chairman of the Fed
Controlling all the money and the ladies in his bed....

The micro rap was a little more Old School...

Now, I know a girl named veronica, she's a classic
But all she likes to eat are those jarred pickles from Vlasic
She'll buy them at any cost- her demand's inelastic
Now if only her belt was, I told her, and me smacked me HARD

When I say M C you say M R:

MC (M R!)
MC (M R!)

I seriously got a kick out of writing those. After gov, I started to write the Animaniacs' president song, but my wrist was tired. Oh well, if I have a grader that notices those, maybe they'll apprecaite them.

We'll just have to see.

optomism?

So today was the all-menacing Gov test, or at least that's what we thought. Sounds like everyone believes they did pretty well. So do I; I think I left maybe at most 2 blank. The rest were either down to two or three choices, and the graph data charts were a big relief, be they lengthy to comprehend. But once you got through the red tape, they were pretty straightforward I thought.

And, like Elise, the essays were relatively vague and interpretable. Was it just me or should the last one have taken less than a page to answer all they were asking for? But, alas, I wrote almost two pages in reponse to that one. I almost mixed up my amendments- that would've been pretty embarrassing. UofA takes a 3. If I played my cards right, I think I could scrape away with a 4, but I'm not raising my expectations of myself just yet; that's what July is for. I remember I thought I did surprising well for CompPol, and I only got a 3 on that, though I think I left a lot of MC blank that time. But the past is past, until July. Do you have to use a credit card to get scores early by phone?

Mom bought Arby's for lunch. It was delicious and loaded with grease, but part of the roast beef had a bluish/green tint, so I just peeled off that part and gave it to the cat, who ate it as soon as it touched her nose.

I fell asleep on the carpet from like 1:30 to a little after 3. That song by those lady lover Russians was on channel 919, which smoehow I had change it to during my nap. Then I went over to the bed, saw that the cat had taken the vertical part of my bed, so I lie down with my feet dangling over the side. An hour an a half later, I woke up.

Think I'm just tired. But now onto econ and doing the stupid skit for English. I think we're doing it in the style of Conan O Brien since Lexa' s a little nervous abou acting in front of people. That's understandable, but I wish our group would take more initiative on these things. Now, I like procrastinating as much as the next person, but when you're barely finishing a project that was theoretically due a week and a half ago, it tends to get on my nerves. Meh, oh well.

This is your brain....

(insert picture of unhtached egg)

This is your brain on physics...

(insert picture of smashed egg)

Any questions?

we-ird

OK, so I've spent more of my day playing word games and tyring to study for the gov. The UofA takes a 3, which in all honesty makes me very happy, but still with my practice AP scores I'm more than a little worried.

So, on the word games, www.wordplays.com has a version of boggle (R) that is fun to play now and then. The funny part?

I got 'get' but I didn't get 'got.'

The fact that I think this is funny means I am seriously underslept or overworked.

spanish = very yes?

So, yay, 2 AP's in one freaking day. Now, the econs will be different, since those are basically the same subject. But to have Spanish in the morning and math in the afternoon are just a very odd combo.

So Spanish was OK. I dazed off on the listening part. I didn't know the definitions to a lot of the words. The passages made no sense. GAH! Originally I went in thinking I'd get a 4 at least for sure, though now I'm hesitant on that.

Stats was a lot more up my sleeve. There's some new song out, and all I know is the little bass line and some guy saying "Feel Good" and that was in my head most of the test. Well, I did feel good; it was stats. If I don't get a 5 then I will have seriously let everybody down.

But this was just practice for next week.

Alice, we have a project.

directly from CRFH

I'm sick today again, so I went to CRFH to catch up on what happened before I knew they existed. I saw this one, and it reminded me of stats and everyone's AP's.

Mike: I still don't know how you can study for hours and hours and hours without getting crazy and going into a killing spree?

Dave: Well, I'm worried. I studied hard in high school and got excellent grades. And I keep studying just as hard, but my grades are now CRAP.

Mike: No, I don't mean you don't have good reasons to keep on studying like some kind of maniac, I'm just sating that I CAN'T. Everytime I try to study for a test that is more than a day away, my mind tricks me into doing other stuff instead.

Dave:Why does the standard deviation take the square root of the average of the sum of the squared differences between X and X mean? Do you remember?

Mike: No, but I *do* remember that the toilet is dirty. Must clean toilet.

Dave: Wow, I didn't think that would work.

Mike: Must scrub thoroughly...

The dats is 10/02/2001, in case you needed to know.