i've discovered an alternate sub-reality. time is different there and it's very quiet. the predominant shape is a bubble. Everything in the world revolves around paper. of the worlds that i've been to, i must say that it's not my favorite. it's strange. i now appreciate the world in which i dwell more, though. now that the trip is over, and that door is closed, my mind is clearer. it's like ii've been holding my breath, and now there's a little less pressure on my lungs.
it's odd to think that a year's worth of work is over in a day. it's over. And, i don't i don't have to look at my scores until july. saints be pwaised! whatever happened, it's in the past.
*SIGH*
oh! and as a postscript for you oldies, Official's going on a mission! she's headed to new zealand for the summer to minister for her church. er, i think. it's "global expeditions." it sounds pretty cool. i'm excited for her.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Saturday, April 29, 2006
chlorophylic metamorphosis
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.
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 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
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