i'm one step closer to photosynthetic perfection; i'm an alien. or a plant. either/or. i whacked that lawn today. more than just mowed; Whacked. i like to think of it as domestic bush-whacking. except it's the lawn, sort of. we have lawn that grows like male facial hair. chores are an adventure when you work with combustible hunks o' junk. my feet are Caked green up to my ankles and my pants are smeared with the same. it smells oddly like fish. weird.
the closer it gets to wednesday, the more trouble i'm having studying. i can't concentrate. i'm quite distractable and my brain is sloshy. bad java. i was supposed to go to the review session after school yesterday, but my brain was fried, so i went to the park for spiringfest. BwaHahaHa! Burn, old man winter, BURN! food, friends, frisbee, giant kickball, and a guitar. plus, we went home and watched "what's up,, doc?". what more could you want? oi. i'm Doomed. i did go to the library today, though. but i didn't get a heck of a lot done. i studied for an hour, hung out in the courtyard for an hour, then went back and half-studied for another hour. yep. definitely DOOMED.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Saturday, April 22, 2006
com-BUSTED
today has been a day And a Half. uhg. i blame mavis. and snowy. and zach. and myself.
but i'll start at the beginning. so, what, two weeks ago? i was offered a free chem test at the byu. my chem teacher, zach, offered everyone in his class extra credit if they went and took the test. it was only an hour long and i can always use the extra credit, not to mention the test experience. well, mavis and i got the two high scores, a single point apart. since she got the highest score, she would advance and take another test. BUT! her polo ponies stole her away, so i was to take her place. the problem was that nobody knew when exactly the test was, or where it was. and then spring break happened. i tried Everything. i asked my teacher, i asked the other teacher, i asked mavis, i looked on the ACS webside, i looked on the byu's website, i emailed averyone i could think of, and i got Nothin'!
what was i supposed to DO?! i gave up. so this morning, the scheduled morning of the test, i woke up easily, and started eating my breakfast. that is, until the phone rang. Hello? a paniced mrs. snow responded. "terri. you're scheduled to take the test today. where are you?!" she quickly told me where the test was, and i threw on some clothes, grabbed my calculator, and rushed down to the bensen building. i started fifteen minutes later than everyone else, and i soon realized that most of the questions were way deeper than my little pond's worth of knowledge could facilitate. DOOMED! so i guessed. i filled in bubbles like there was no yesterday, cursing the fact that we had an uber crappy cheat sheet the entire time.
that was the easy part. the free response section was Much harder to fake. it doesn't help that i'm a super slow test-taker. i only finished five of the seven questions given to us. i was SO frustrated.
it was noon by now and the eggs in my tummy had curdled, leaving me with a rather queasy feeling. but it STILL wasn't over! they guided the eight of us students, including me, into the laboratory, and handed us each a packet. again, DOOMED! i opened the packet and had no idea where to even start. well, i had an idea, but i could remember the math.
i got as far as i could on the first question, and jumped into the second. we were to identify an unknown metal given 3 molar hcl and some phenolphalen (i love that stuff! chemistry is way better in hot pink!). i had no idea what to do, but i started in anyway. as soon as i uncapped the metal, my nose started to bleed. SHOOT!! i bolted to the bathroom. by the time that i got back, i had ten minutes left to finish. AHH! i made it ALL up, mixing whatever i could get my hands on and taking measurements. i wrote down whatever the first words that came to mind were(thank goodness they were in English. i think), and concluded that the silvery metal was, indead, silver.
i finally crawled home at 3:30. my eyes are still twitching.
but i'll start at the beginning. so, what, two weeks ago? i was offered a free chem test at the byu. my chem teacher, zach, offered everyone in his class extra credit if they went and took the test. it was only an hour long and i can always use the extra credit, not to mention the test experience. well, mavis and i got the two high scores, a single point apart. since she got the highest score, she would advance and take another test. BUT! her polo ponies stole her away, so i was to take her place. the problem was that nobody knew when exactly the test was, or where it was. and then spring break happened. i tried Everything. i asked my teacher, i asked the other teacher, i asked mavis, i looked on the ACS webside, i looked on the byu's website, i emailed averyone i could think of, and i got Nothin'!
what was i supposed to DO?! i gave up. so this morning, the scheduled morning of the test, i woke up easily, and started eating my breakfast. that is, until the phone rang. Hello? a paniced mrs. snow responded. "terri. you're scheduled to take the test today. where are you?!" she quickly told me where the test was, and i threw on some clothes, grabbed my calculator, and rushed down to the bensen building. i started fifteen minutes later than everyone else, and i soon realized that most of the questions were way deeper than my little pond's worth of knowledge could facilitate. DOOMED! so i guessed. i filled in bubbles like there was no yesterday, cursing the fact that we had an uber crappy cheat sheet the entire time.
that was the easy part. the free response section was Much harder to fake. it doesn't help that i'm a super slow test-taker. i only finished five of the seven questions given to us. i was SO frustrated.
it was noon by now and the eggs in my tummy had curdled, leaving me with a rather queasy feeling. but it STILL wasn't over! they guided the eight of us students, including me, into the laboratory, and handed us each a packet. again, DOOMED! i opened the packet and had no idea where to even start. well, i had an idea, but i could remember the math.
i got as far as i could on the first question, and jumped into the second. we were to identify an unknown metal given 3 molar hcl and some phenolphalen (i love that stuff! chemistry is way better in hot pink!). i had no idea what to do, but i started in anyway. as soon as i uncapped the metal, my nose started to bleed. SHOOT!! i bolted to the bathroom. by the time that i got back, i had ten minutes left to finish. AHH! i made it ALL up, mixing whatever i could get my hands on and taking measurements. i wrote down whatever the first words that came to mind were(thank goodness they were in English. i think), and concluded that the silvery metal was, indead, silver.
i finally crawled home at 3:30. my eyes are still twitching.
Friday, April 21, 2006
huh.
i've been dubbed "the little girl." neil's kinda weird. i've gotten my homework done thiks week, and studied about half the time that i meant to. the crazy penguin got out of school this week too, so we've been chillin', which ends up being a disorienting, semi-frightening experience.
yesterday we went shooting off the coast of the lake somewhere. i Stink. it didn't help that the guns were proportioned for persons larger than i. i didn't really know what to do and ended up kind of standing around for most of it. la la la la. i stop listening when they start talking about the stupid stunts they've done. or are planning to do. that tends to be a problem since it's neil and ryan (think about it).
today i came home from the library (i got sick of all the kids there for story time picking on me. stupid munchkins.), did chores and stuff and got called to go up the canyon with some relative penguins and the green man. commandos is a fun game, though painful in shorts and bare feet. (k, how was i supposed to run in flick-flocks?). we roasted marshymallus and headed to the green man's house.
i think i must just have the mentality and personality that poses me as everyone's little sister. it makes me laugh. especially when i hang out with guys, i'm the kid who's poked, teased, and on the side lines of the think of things, getting pulled in to play when they feel like playing a little softer. it's a nice break from being responsible and doing all my work though, which is why i think i like hanging out with them. i would expound further on my thesis, but i'm too tired. maybe banana.
*yawn* i felt sheepish when i fell asleep on the ride home. the green man's car vibrates A Lot and i can never stay conscious in a car anyway. mmmm, like one of those baby swings. except it smelled like pizza instead of baby powder. i have a hard time waking up, and they were making fun of me when i couldn't talk or understand.
yesterday we went shooting off the coast of the lake somewhere. i Stink. it didn't help that the guns were proportioned for persons larger than i. i didn't really know what to do and ended up kind of standing around for most of it. la la la la. i stop listening when they start talking about the stupid stunts they've done. or are planning to do. that tends to be a problem since it's neil and ryan (think about it).
today i came home from the library (i got sick of all the kids there for story time picking on me. stupid munchkins.), did chores and stuff and got called to go up the canyon with some relative penguins and the green man. commandos is a fun game, though painful in shorts and bare feet. (k, how was i supposed to run in flick-flocks?). we roasted marshymallus and headed to the green man's house.
i think i must just have the mentality and personality that poses me as everyone's little sister. it makes me laugh. especially when i hang out with guys, i'm the kid who's poked, teased, and on the side lines of the think of things, getting pulled in to play when they feel like playing a little softer. it's a nice break from being responsible and doing all my work though, which is why i think i like hanging out with them. i would expound further on my thesis, but i'm too tired. maybe banana.
*yawn* i felt sheepish when i fell asleep on the ride home. the green man's car vibrates A Lot and i can never stay conscious in a car anyway. mmmm, like one of those baby swings. except it smelled like pizza instead of baby powder. i have a hard time waking up, and they were making fun of me when i couldn't talk or understand.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Open UP!
just when you thought that poetry was safe...
from the depths of the orem media center comes...Open Mic Night. Yes, Open Mic Night. the public has never seen anything like this before, even on the weekends. national poetry month will take on whole new meaning. imagine the Fear! the Passion! the sKipped ditches and ConFuZZled Faces! BWAhaHaha! Ha!
seriously folks, it's gonna be fun. april pretty much rocks at the library. open mic is friday night, starting with chillins at 7, then opening to others at 8. any and all should go. i'm breaking out the zoot suit and sunglasses. berets anyone?
*oh hey, and other jazz is up on the library calender. it's pwetty awesome: http://www.oremlibrary.org/index_files/events.htm
from the depths of the orem media center comes...Open Mic Night. Yes, Open Mic Night. the public has never seen anything like this before, even on the weekends. national poetry month will take on whole new meaning. imagine the Fear! the Passion! the sKipped ditches and ConFuZZled Faces! BWAhaHaha! Ha!
seriously folks, it's gonna be fun. april pretty much rocks at the library. open mic is friday night, starting with chillins at 7, then opening to others at 8. any and all should go. i'm breaking out the zoot suit and sunglasses. berets anyone?
*oh hey, and other jazz is up on the library calender. it's pwetty awesome: http://www.oremlibrary.org/index_files/events.htm
Monday, April 17, 2006
support your local library
ah, i love spring break. i woke up this morning with the biggest smile. i only slept till 8 too. not too shabby. even though it's dreary afuera, i'm still pretty happy. especially with the awesome beginning i got. so, saturday morning, looking all pretty for my mac and cheese, and the doorbell rings. everyone else is too far away or has food in their mouth, so i re-wrapped myself in my blanket and headed down the hall. i opened the door and my eyeballs popped out halfway to new hampshire. STEVE!! holy, i haven't seen you in seven months! steve left for lehi in october without telling anybody. just up and moved. i talk to him sometimes on im, but i haven't seen him in forever. he was one of the last people i'd expect on my doorstep. oh, it was fun, we talked and he ate the orange death with us, and we went for a walk. he makes me laugh. he always takes me off guard since he's super quiet. and then sunday was Easter!m m, and the library is a very good place. i like living there. =D
Thursday, April 13, 2006
slurring reality
i've taken over 150 pictures in the last week. they're all required. let's recap: 50 for park city (i got my slides back today. shooting in color film is frustrating. they develop weird. i don't like them. grrr.) around 80 for "shot and burnt", and 36 today at scera park. now i realize why nobody can guess my age; the sixth graders (6th? maybe 5th. i hope it was the former.) were taller than me. and i was in pigtails, eating animal crackers while running around the park barefoot. i hope they turn out well.
what's bizarre (who's that singing?) is that i've talked about light and energy in almost all my classes today, and in classes that i didn't have. messed up and confused yet? don't worry; there's still more! we were talking about Pictures as we Colored in interiors today, then i showed numan my work (via the blog), in cacl i had to deal with the stupid Lamp question that i can never figure out (i hate the calculator section by the way. it should die.), in seminary we spoke of kolob, and the Twinkling of an Eye. he compared it to Light Speed and i started talking about Photons and Wave Mechanics. Photo of course, we walked over to the elementary school and took Pictures of the munchkins. they're Crazy! all of it was the silver reacting on the emulsion and the vibration of the retina and the affixed evergy which causes a chemical rotation, dipole moment, and nerve impulse to your brain. and the...Light. it was a nice pre-review before the review on wave mechanics from zach (visible spectrum: 1 x 10^-9 meters!) how did all of my classes suddenly mush into one? why do i live at the school? i want june to come. we can skip april and may.
i may stay after and develop tomorrow. then i can show y'all my school photos. i need to go read befor review at time and later.
what's bizarre (who's that singing?) is that i've talked about light and energy in almost all my classes today, and in classes that i didn't have. messed up and confused yet? don't worry; there's still more! we were talking about Pictures as we Colored in interiors today, then i showed numan my work (via the blog), in cacl i had to deal with the stupid Lamp question that i can never figure out (i hate the calculator section by the way. it should die.), in seminary we spoke of kolob, and the Twinkling of an Eye. he compared it to Light Speed and i started talking about Photons and Wave Mechanics. Photo of course, we walked over to the elementary school and took Pictures of the munchkins. they're Crazy! all of it was the silver reacting on the emulsion and the vibration of the retina and the affixed evergy which causes a chemical rotation, dipole moment, and nerve impulse to your brain. and the...Light. it was a nice pre-review before the review on wave mechanics from zach (visible spectrum: 1 x 10^-9 meters!) how did all of my classes suddenly mush into one? why do i live at the school? i want june to come. we can skip april and may.
i may stay after and develop tomorrow. then i can show y'all my school photos. i need to go read befor review at time and later.
Sunday, April 09, 2006
butter me up and eat me for breakfast
i'm ToastED.
i was listening to conference on the picnic table and i started drooling. i don't remember falling asleep. it's nice. i think i'll wear cap sleeves tomorrow. my arms are still really warm. i love it, but when i came in my dad took a look at me and sat me down for a lecture on carcenogens. *sigh* i love it, but i'm not a fan of cancer, or pre-wrinkly, both of which i'm very prone to. pasty contest 2006! i'm totally winning this year. *grumble grumble mutt grumble*
on the other foot, i actually did my homework yesterday! color 2006 gets three thumbs up! it was inspired, dramatic, and full of flare. let's take a gander shall we?
the first i like to call jacob's firetruck. there was a safety fair at the church yesterday. it was pretty fun.
later, taking the advice of my paternal figure, i headed to the IFA store. it's apparently a really hip hangout for chicks. and bunnies.
looking around, i also happened to run into a lone m-vite. and looking rather dashing in his pink hat.
unfortunately, i believe he later got caught in a fiber-optic bailing machine. or perhaps that was before the chicks. either way, he doesn't seem too torn up about it. yay for blue flip-flops!
i was listening to conference on the picnic table and i started drooling. i don't remember falling asleep. it's nice. i think i'll wear cap sleeves tomorrow. my arms are still really warm. i love it, but when i came in my dad took a look at me and sat me down for a lecture on carcenogens. *sigh* i love it, but i'm not a fan of cancer, or pre-wrinkly, both of which i'm very prone to. pasty contest 2006! i'm totally winning this year. *grumble grumble mutt grumble*
on the other foot, i actually did my homework yesterday! color 2006 gets three thumbs up! it was inspired, dramatic, and full of flare. let's take a gander shall we?
the first i like to call jacob's firetruck. there was a safety fair at the church yesterday. it was pretty fun.
later, taking the advice of my paternal figure, i headed to the IFA store. it's apparently a really hip hangout for chicks. and bunnies.
looking around, i also happened to run into a lone m-vite. and looking rather dashing in his pink hat.
unfortunately, i believe he later got caught in a fiber-optic bailing machine. or perhaps that was before the chicks. either way, he doesn't seem too torn up about it. yay for blue flip-flops!
Thursday, April 06, 2006
april fool
it's not my fault. i promise. i think it's a genetic mutation. like psycological cancer. i blame it on genetics, low sleep, and uncoordinated administration.
see, stress is normal, pressure is normal, but my reaction to them is not normal. and it's not fair. i used to be able to leave my work where it belonged: in the books. now it's always with me, sitting in the back of my head, talking me through life, the universe, and everything. photo is now and electrochemistry review, scripture mastery brings entropy to mind, and from there i think of relationships and visa-versa. i see chocolate and i think of calrimetry and the pH of your physiological system. even lord of the rings is tainted. vases have me thinking of integrals, and lines always twist themselfs into graphs. it may be a form of dislexia. i can't even go unconscious to it; i fell asleep in seminary the other day and had to do calculus instead. when i finally get to sleep at night, i do homework or labs or sit by the river trying to take logs. phillip and michael (stuffed animals, jsyk) say that i babble non-sensically and they somehow end up on the floor by morning, while i'm being eaten by a twisted mass of blankets. i've ceased making sense to my friends, my family, and really anyone but mavis. help me! i'm going under! my tenuous connection to reality is fading.
and i need to shoot 30 color on saturday. please inquire.
Praise the thunder god!
i think i'm gonna go make a polyatomic ion poster, pack tomorrow's lunch, and cuddle with my review books.
see, stress is normal, pressure is normal, but my reaction to them is not normal. and it's not fair. i used to be able to leave my work where it belonged: in the books. now it's always with me, sitting in the back of my head, talking me through life, the universe, and everything. photo is now and electrochemistry review, scripture mastery brings entropy to mind, and from there i think of relationships and visa-versa. i see chocolate and i think of calrimetry and the pH of your physiological system. even lord of the rings is tainted. vases have me thinking of integrals, and lines always twist themselfs into graphs. it may be a form of dislexia. i can't even go unconscious to it; i fell asleep in seminary the other day and had to do calculus instead. when i finally get to sleep at night, i do homework or labs or sit by the river trying to take logs. phillip and michael (stuffed animals, jsyk) say that i babble non-sensically and they somehow end up on the floor by morning, while i'm being eaten by a twisted mass of blankets. i've ceased making sense to my friends, my family, and really anyone but mavis. help me! i'm going under! my tenuous connection to reality is fading.
and i need to shoot 30 color on saturday. please inquire.
Praise the thunder god!
i think i'm gonna go make a polyatomic ion poster, pack tomorrow's lunch, and cuddle with my review books.
Monday, April 03, 2006
charmingly chubby
every year at thanksgiving i'ma little reluctant to leave the frozen block of ice, and swim home with moby again. I love all the food and the free time and the pool and the FOOD! Everything always tastes so good and i still want to eat, even when i'm filled up to my eyebrows. i don't want to leave, to go back to where the food is still good, but not as abundant and well-tended.
i feel the same way about Conference. i love it oh, so much! i eat and drink in the spiritual sense and can't seem to get enough. i feel kinda bloated, but the end of the sunday afternoon session comes all too quickly. i stole my dad's cd's from october and am listening to them. the weekend was so good. i hated to go to sleep.
but then, although eating is pleasurable, it is not an end unto itself. food is meant to sustain a man as he lives. it gives him the energy to act. the same applies to spiritual sustainance. all the learning and spiritual growth is worthless without action. we have to go back into Babylon, and live what we've learned.
"...do not suppose that this is all; for after ye have done all these things, if ye turn away the needy, and the naked, and visit not the sick and afflicted, and impart of your substance, if ye have, to those who stand in need—I say unto you, if ye do not any of these things, behold, your prayer is vain, and availeth you nothing, and ye are as hypocrites who do deny the faith." -Alma 34:28
" Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." -Matthew 5: 16
It's time to go to Work.
i feel the same way about Conference. i love it oh, so much! i eat and drink in the spiritual sense and can't seem to get enough. i feel kinda bloated, but the end of the sunday afternoon session comes all too quickly. i stole my dad's cd's from october and am listening to them. the weekend was so good. i hated to go to sleep.
but then, although eating is pleasurable, it is not an end unto itself. food is meant to sustain a man as he lives. it gives him the energy to act. the same applies to spiritual sustainance. all the learning and spiritual growth is worthless without action. we have to go back into Babylon, and live what we've learned.
"...do not suppose that this is all; for after ye have done all these things, if ye turn away the needy, and the naked, and visit not the sick and afflicted, and impart of your substance, if ye have, to those who stand in need—I say unto you, if ye do not any of these things, behold, your prayer is vain, and availeth you nothing, and ye are as hypocrites who do deny the faith." -Alma 34:28
" Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." -Matthew 5: 16
It's time to go to Work.
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