It's amazing, isn't it...
My parents both went to college, then graduate school. Both have PhD's. And my dad spends his days doing computer programing to boot! He orders new "toys" all the time, various new high-speed stuff, more memory, and gadgets I can't even begin to fathom the function of.
Now recently our family cell phone plan has been switching around and all, and I have no idea what my parents have been doing to it but we've got a family set of brand spankin' new phones, with all
We went to Certamen today! Er, that's the Latin competition. MISSED A WHOLE DAY OF SCHOOL YESSS! And I don't have to take a math Pop Quiz because of it! I'm SO happy...
Certamen was pretty fun. I had to sit out for two of the rounds though since we wanted one of our guys in for all 3 rounds, since he knew everything. Well, not REALLY, but he was our best teammate. Oh well. I'd say I helped our team score a grand total of at least 20 points!
... of course across alll 3 rounds we accumulate
Snow is wonderful if you want to bundle up in a jacket and mittens and boots and go outside and build snowmen and igloos and throw snowballs and all that fun stuff.
Snow is the last thing you want when riding a bicycle.
Let me just say, for those people who shovel the sidewalk in front of their house, THANK YOU! And for those who don't... well, I must stay within BZP language guidelines but let me say it's not appreciated. And for those who shovel more than just what's in front of their ho
Okay, firstly, before the fun, I absolutely must complain.
We had school yesterday. EVERY OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT IN NEW JERSEY HAD OFF BUT WE HAD SCHOOL. Heck, most school districts in the entire tristate area had at least some kind of delay or early closing.
I mean, when the bus dropped us off in the afternoon I literally could not see more than two feet in front of me coming home from the bus stop. Why? Because I had to pull my hood down over my eyes so ice particles wouldn't blow into th
We got second. AGAIN.
So much stuff I didn't know... ooooooh...
I got twelve questions right. OUT OF 25.
And East Brunswick won AGAIN.
Our entire team absolutely despises East Brunswick.
*sigh*
That's right. The National Latin Exam was today.
Wonder if all the Latin III's around the country were the same? I really couldn't figure out the last sentence of the story, the one with the dragon and the final clause that read "so that he might sow with fruit (?) the orb of the Earth." That kind of caused me to not understand the last 3 questions of the test.
Also, who WAS Octavian's second wife? It WAS Octavian, right? The wife who convinced him to name her son as his heir (instead of,
I have no idea if I spelled that correctly.
I just gotta make note of one of the oddest occurences that I've seen at least more than once here on BZP.
Say, a member called "BZP Person1" starts an art topic.
First post:
BZP Person1
Hey, this is my drawing.
[[image]]
Second post:
BZP Person1
Wow, awesome drawing man!
Is this siblings sharing the same account or does this person honestly think he or she can fool someone into thinking the first person to post in their t
My sister is going to KINDERGARTEN this fall!
FWEE I'm so proud of her... She's actually going to be going to a real SCHOOL!
Yester... uh, was it yesterday or the day before? Anyway, my mom went and got all the kindergarten registration stuff... kinda crazy, they need the original birth certificate and original deed to the house and probably your mother's aunt's maiden name. I mean, is it really THAT important to have all that stuff? My mom was going crazy over it.
But anyway, still. S
First off, news of the day out of the way, then the rant.
Oookey well looks like I ended up in third place by one vote, 35 to Theisen's 36... *sigh* ah well...
Our basketball team did win the regional or central Jersey or whatevertheheck... yeah, it won the game, and it's going to play at Rutgers on Sunday.
One kid I know literally does not believe in school spirit. I don't mean that he just doesn't dress up in school colors during Spirit Week, I don't do that either, but he literally a
Well, my Math teacher has us period 3B, and she describes her previous block as "The 2B from [other place]."
So since this week is HSPAs and her class was acting up more than usual due to the classroom move and schedule warping, and since we were ahead of her other class, she decided to give us a 2-day break and showed us movies.
YAAAAAAAAY!
I voted for A Beautiful Mind but more than half the class voted for Dodgeball. =<
I mean I never watched Dodgeball to the end and it was a go
Honestly, I mean SERIOUSLY, who in heck wears flip-flops when there's 2 inches of snow on the ground? SNOW. And FLIP-FLOPS. I mean, WHEH?
Also, I'm sick again. V_V Darn this weather...
Not as bad as last time. Last time I was up to, like, 102, I'm currently right at 100.
... I had something else I was gonna say here but I forget what it was.
Stupid headache.
Oh, also, I'm in third in the AC finals.
But oh well.
Blargle.
Fourth time to the finals, already looks like Hurdy has it in the bag.
Can't say he wasn't deserving. It's a great entry.
Ah well. As I've said six times before, there's always next time.
Looks like this time's lineup's gonna be [Edit: wouldn't count on it, Toa Shmoa and B_D are tied as of now, could change any minute], Hurdy, and Syn.
Or not with a vengeance!
Anyone at ALL remember my old Traffic LEGO stopmotion movies? With the funny guy with the glasses always getting run over by cars?
Boo-yah!
... I did not just say that oO.
Anyway, joy. I gotta get back into this whole stopmo business.
I've had this really cool idea (keyword: IDEA) where I have this gigantic fight between all the LEGO schtuffs in my room (I know, so original, eh?).
It'd be very involved, I'd probably have wires and pulleys strung up all
WITCOHEIBNFOPTDTPBWHCITAATAATPOTETSAEPTWTLONAONGETADRTTOOMRTTSDTCWITTTS.
Those are not random letters; they mean something.
I memorize random things. That is a variation on one of the things I've memorized.
Mwahaha. >=D
My entry is number eight, Predator Preyed.
And it's looking so close... a tie now, then one moves up a bit, then another tie, then another lead...
Felicitas vobiscum omnibus!
(Why am I NOT surprised that ToM had the correction? )
My sister is weird. She's four, starting the prime of her kidhood.
So how can there be so many things that kids ought rightly like that she doesn't?
She doesn't like the crunchy parts. Like on fried chicken, she'll only have the meat. Same thing for the Costco rotisserie chicken we buy now and then. The skin has the most flavor!
Even worse, get this: Butterscotch. It's, what, caramelized sugar and butter? It's amazing! How can she NOT like butterscotch?
And I understand tolerance for
Guess what?
We're moving way to slow for the Science League in Chemistry class.
Therefore I had to teach myself a heckuva lot of the stuff before taking the NJ Science League qualifying test today.
I made 4 of the 5 tests last year and I hope to make all 5 this year. Attend and take, of course. And at least make alternate, though getting on the team is great.
Unfortunately, I have no danged idea how to work hybridization (actually, now I grasp it more) and pi bonds and sigma bonds an
I have loaded 3 megabyte files in Photoshop within 5 seconds.
So tell me why, just WHY, ANY progam, ANY PROGRAM, could POSSIBLY need 30 minutes to open a 1.7 meg file?
I'm not even exaggerating. I started the load at 10:50 and it ended at 11:20.
What is SO HARD TO LOAD about a Windows Movie Maker project? Why does the program INSIST on closing every single time I open it?
I could load every image I used in that movie into Photoshop within a few seconds. I could load every sound file
Something that's interesting to think about: Given the same beginning circumstances, would the same ending occur? Inevitably?
Think about it. What if an event happened, say, for example, let's have a throwback to Mr. Robert Frost, what if two roads diverged into a wood and you had to choose which one to take? And you think, and you mull it over, and the wind blows, leaves rustle, and you finally decide on the road less travelled.
Now, let's say time rewound, back to the moment as you were
Today I came home and found in my room four bookmarks, a photo, and two identical notes (I think that was a mistake).
Apparently a month or so ago when I visited T.A. Barron's site and did some quiz thing there I got everything correct.
Now I have a huge color print of the map of events in The Merlin Effect (which I own) plus bookmarks of four other books by T.A. Barron. And the photo was autographed, which is pretty cool.
I mean, the form did after all ask for my address, but I never e
I nearly fell flat on my face and/or bottom approximately ten times today.
There was apparently a huge thaw yesterday which resulted in a layer of water coating many surfaces, which resulted, at night, when the temperature is below freezing, in ice.
Ice that is almost invisible.
And on the snow that is still left, there is also a coating on top of, guess what? Ice.
And what looks like a solid puddle of ice on the grass that you can joyously slide across is not, in fact, a solid puddl
Nothing gets me hyper like an AC and I am so excited about my entry this time.
SO EXCITED OMG.
I've spent hours on it and it's looking great. I have half a chance of being done by the end of the week.
The frame was actually quite a focus this time...
But I got it finished in a timely manner, and I love it.
And I'm actually just starting on the main subject of the drawing. Though by now I'm almost done with the gray layers, and will move onto the red and copper soon.
After tha
