1. Slept in until 8, then had breakfast and got ready.
2. Left for my grandparent's house at about 10:30. We had to make a few stops on the way, so we didn't get there until around noon.
3. The rest of the day was spent at my grandparent's house with my mom's whole family. Both of her sisters and their families were there.
4. There are five of us grandkids (Isabelle and I plus our three cousins) and of the five of us, two are graduating from highschool right now, and two have birthdays in the next week or two. So it was part graduation party, part birthday party, and part mother's day party. Of the five cousins, only poor Isabelle didn't have a particular reason to celebrate.
5. The five of us are close in age (ranging from 18-13), and have always lived relatively close to one another, so we've always been pretty close. There was a push at Thanksgiving by some of the adults to move us all to the main table instead of giving us a kids table. That was the case today too, though when desert was served, we all headed to the back yard. We all loved having a kids table, and the parents want us to integrate in with them, but it's not happening. :P
6. We ate lunch, had some cake, hung out for several hours, and opened some presents. I ended up with a good deal of cash and some gift cards.
7. We got home around 7pm.
8. After we got home, I realized I hadn't done my Geology homework yet (oops), but luckily it only took me about 30 minutes (the assignment was just to define a bunch of words related to glaciers). I briefly panicked that the post-lab was due Monday also, but I texted C. who reminded me that it's not due until Friday.
9. We watched some Doctor Who, and read Jane Eyre. Then mom and I got into this discussion about Charlotte Bronte, which involved some googling, and we found out that she died at the age of 38! Of the three famous Bronte sisters, she died at 38, Emily died at 30, and Anne died at 29, all within a few months of each other, except for Charlotte who survived her siblings by several years. Their brother died around the same time (was was a similar age). All of the Bronte siblings (including the two oldest sisters who died in childhood) died of tuberculosis.
10. Off to bed, school tomorrow.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Saturday, May 9, 2015 {Babysitting}
1. Got up a little after 8, and did nothing useful for a while. Talked with some friends, added my vote to the new Nomic rule suggestion, read some blogs, and the like.
2. Got ready for the day, ate some food.
3. Spent the vast majority of the day laying around, listening to music, trying to brainstorm some ideas for the research paper that I'll spend the rest of the quarter writing in English, and working on my Geology post-lab.
4. Ate pulled pork sliders for an early dinner, than went babysitting.
5. The kids and I had an awesome time playing outside. The weather was so awesome - it was still warm and light out all the way up until I left at 8:30. First the kids played out in the yard, but when the hose with the mist attachment came out and people started getting wet (well, when I started getting wet, the kids loved it) it was time to find something else to do. We took the dogs for a walk around the neighborhood, played a bunch of hide and seek in the grass, and threw around some styrofoam airplanes. Those planes became my nemises, as one first went into the neighbor's yard, and I had to go talk to the neighbor kid (who did not look happy that some random teenage girl with no shoes and dried grass in her hair was trying to get help from him) who eventually got it back for me. It them went into a tree, and I had to climb up and retrieve it. Then, it went into the chicken inclosure which was full of poop (and empty of chickens because it needed cleaning. After that, I directed the kid's attention elsewhere.
6. Playing outside with the kids gave me a weird feeling. We were playing hide and seek in this big stretch of tall grass above the dog park in Fairhaven, and it reminded me of the places my sister and I used to play growing up. When I was running through the grass and throwing myself down in it, and looking up at the sky, it took me right back to being seven or eight years old and playing these kinds of games with Isabelle, which I realize now was nearly ten years ago. It's a strange feeling.
7. When my mom and Isabelle picked me up from that, they surprised me with a Chocolate Almond donut (my very favorite kind) from Rocket Donuts!
8. I came home very tired from playing with the kids, and read a little on the web before writing this, reading Jane Eyre, and going to bed.
Tomorrow's going to be an interesting day that I will write about once I have the chance. Also ,a very happy belated birthday to Spencer!
2. Got ready for the day, ate some food.
3. Spent the vast majority of the day laying around, listening to music, trying to brainstorm some ideas for the research paper that I'll spend the rest of the quarter writing in English, and working on my Geology post-lab.
4. Ate pulled pork sliders for an early dinner, than went babysitting.
5. The kids and I had an awesome time playing outside. The weather was so awesome - it was still warm and light out all the way up until I left at 8:30. First the kids played out in the yard, but when the hose with the mist attachment came out and people started getting wet (well, when I started getting wet, the kids loved it) it was time to find something else to do. We took the dogs for a walk around the neighborhood, played a bunch of hide and seek in the grass, and threw around some styrofoam airplanes. Those planes became my nemises, as one first went into the neighbor's yard, and I had to go talk to the neighbor kid (who did not look happy that some random teenage girl with no shoes and dried grass in her hair was trying to get help from him) who eventually got it back for me. It them went into a tree, and I had to climb up and retrieve it. Then, it went into the chicken inclosure which was full of poop (and empty of chickens because it needed cleaning. After that, I directed the kid's attention elsewhere.
6. Playing outside with the kids gave me a weird feeling. We were playing hide and seek in this big stretch of tall grass above the dog park in Fairhaven, and it reminded me of the places my sister and I used to play growing up. When I was running through the grass and throwing myself down in it, and looking up at the sky, it took me right back to being seven or eight years old and playing these kinds of games with Isabelle, which I realize now was nearly ten years ago. It's a strange feeling.
7. When my mom and Isabelle picked me up from that, they surprised me with a Chocolate Almond donut (my very favorite kind) from Rocket Donuts!
8. I came home very tired from playing with the kids, and read a little on the web before writing this, reading Jane Eyre, and going to bed.
Tomorrow's going to be an interesting day that I will write about once I have the chance. Also ,a very happy belated birthday to Spencer!
Friday, May 8, 2015 {Last Self Defense Class}
Another backlog, almost back up to the present!
1. Woke up early, went to school. Some of my friends and I have had a group chat on google hangouts and have recently discovered the near impossibility of getting all four of us in the chat at the same time. We were all briefly on in the morning for about 10 minutes, then I had to leave for school.
2. Got off the bus, walked to Kulshan, and waited for class to start. The bus I take gets me there about 20 minutes early, so I usually am the first person there.
3. It was a lab day in Geology, and we spent the day working on what my teacher calls "Geopuzzles." Basically, we get a drawing of a cross section of an outcrop or roadcut of rock, and then we have to say how the layers (and other features like faults) got there and in what order. I actually really like those, and I have a few more to do as the post-lab homework.
4. After Geology, C. and I went back to our normal spot in Syre. L. came and hung out with us for a while.
5. My English class was canceled because of an all-day all English department meeting, so when C. left for his next class, I went downstairs to get food and then finished up my essay. I added the Works Cited and did some proofreading. I recently was introduced to the bibliography tool in Word, and it is awesome. It makes citations so much easier.
6. I walked to the computer lab to print off my essay, and over to Anna Wolff's office to turn it in in a box outside her door.
7. After doing that, I went back to Syre (the social hub of campus), and hung out with Lydia and her friends, most of whom I know to varying degrees. Matt, a guy from my English class, walked by and we talked briefly about our essays (both of which exceeded the 6-8 page guideline) and the fact that I'm on Anna's tenure review committee (woo! more on that later).
8. I got on the bus downtown, and walked (8 blocks uphill) to an appointment I had. After that, I walked back the way I came a few blocks to the Co-op downtown to do Latin with IP (using 1st and last cause "i" is too confusing to use alone as an initial).
9. After Latin, Ted picked up IP, and my mom picked me up and we went home to eat dinner. After dinner, we went to the final self-defense class. The first part of the class was roleplaying de-escalating situations in pairs. When we came back to the big group, the teacher asked S. and I to do part of our roleplay again for the group, because we had a pretty realistic situation. That was a bit embarrassing, but we did do it anyway. The rest of the class was mostly review of things we've done over the past five weeks, plus a few new things about getting out of headlocks and stuff like that.
10. We got home pretty late, and I texted with some people for a little while before reading Jane Eyre and going to bed. For the first time in a week or so, I was so tired that I fell asleep pretty much immediately. It was a really long day, the kind where at the end of the day, the beginning of it felt like it had been a week ago.
Thursday, May 7, 2015 {Pompeii}
Sorry for the absence. It's been kind of a crazy week in every way. I've had some personal stuff going on, plus an crazy amount of homework at school. It seems to be slowing down a little but, but it's certainly not calm yet. Also, this is a few days late, but I still wanted to make sure I had a chance to write about this trip.
1. I got up at about 7:30. I've found now that even when I can sleep in, I still wake up pretty early.
2. I got ready, and drove to the high school (which is five minutes away) to get my Running Start paperwork signed for next fall. That took ten minutes, and then we came home and I ate breakfast and got ready to leave for Seattle.
3. We left about 11 (later than planned), and stopped at Haggen to quickly pick up some lunch. We made it to the Pacific Science Center just before 1. We (literally) ran three blocks to the PSC to get into the movie about Ancient Greece that started at 1. Julie and her crowd were already there and ushered us quickly in.
4. After the movie, we went into the Pompeii special exhibit, which is why we were at the Science Center in the first place. It was pretty interesting.
5. After coming out of that, we went into the butterfly exhibit. As Spencer said in his post about the trip, walking through the Science Center, and being in the butterfly area was kind of surreal. It all looks and feels exactly like it did when I remember going there as a kid, ten or so years ago. It's a weird feeling.
6. Everyone walked to the fountain, but I was having knee problems and couldn't walk that much more, and so Mom and I stayed sitting next to the Science Center. At dance on Tuesday, I did something to my left knee (which has a hyper-extension problem), and on Wednesday I did a lot of walking at parkday, which aggravated it, and by Thursday my knee was popping every time I stepped on it.
7. After they all got back from the fountain, we all went to the Chipotle in Northgate, which took us an hour to get to. Traffic was insane, and it took us forty minutes to get from the Seattle Center back to the freeway!
8. We all met at Chipotle and had dinner there. We left around 8ish, and got home before 10. On the car ride home, I worked a bit on the essay that was due in my English class the next day.
9. Got home, read Jane Eyre, texted with my friends a bit, went to bed.
1. I got up at about 7:30. I've found now that even when I can sleep in, I still wake up pretty early.
2. I got ready, and drove to the high school (which is five minutes away) to get my Running Start paperwork signed for next fall. That took ten minutes, and then we came home and I ate breakfast and got ready to leave for Seattle.
3. We left about 11 (later than planned), and stopped at Haggen to quickly pick up some lunch. We made it to the Pacific Science Center just before 1. We (literally) ran three blocks to the PSC to get into the movie about Ancient Greece that started at 1. Julie and her crowd were already there and ushered us quickly in.
4. After the movie, we went into the Pompeii special exhibit, which is why we were at the Science Center in the first place. It was pretty interesting.
5. After coming out of that, we went into the butterfly exhibit. As Spencer said in his post about the trip, walking through the Science Center, and being in the butterfly area was kind of surreal. It all looks and feels exactly like it did when I remember going there as a kid, ten or so years ago. It's a weird feeling.
6. Everyone walked to the fountain, but I was having knee problems and couldn't walk that much more, and so Mom and I stayed sitting next to the Science Center. At dance on Tuesday, I did something to my left knee (which has a hyper-extension problem), and on Wednesday I did a lot of walking at parkday, which aggravated it, and by Thursday my knee was popping every time I stepped on it.
7. After they all got back from the fountain, we all went to the Chipotle in Northgate, which took us an hour to get to. Traffic was insane, and it took us forty minutes to get from the Seattle Center back to the freeway!
8. We all met at Chipotle and had dinner there. We left around 8ish, and got home before 10. On the car ride home, I worked a bit on the essay that was due in my English class the next day.
9. Got home, read Jane Eyre, texted with my friends a bit, went to bed.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Sunday, May 3, 2015 {Plate Tectonics}
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2. I organized all the stuff I have to do this week (a lot), and figured out what I needed to do today.
3. I ate some grapefruit and a muffin while working on a Geology lab that is due tomorrow. Most of the morning was spent working on that lab.
4. For the purpose of completing the lab, I downloaded and worked in Google Earth for a while. I'd never really used it before, and while there was a bit of a learning curve, it was actually pretty easy to use once I figured out how to use the search function properly.
5. I spent a bunch of time working on a big world map, labeling tectonic plates, mountain ranges, volcanoes, geologic land forms, and the like. I'm not thrilled with how the map turned out - I think it could have been a lot clearer and easier to read, but it is what it is, and it's not worth enough points for it to be worth the time it would take me to try to make it better.
6. I went shopping with Mom and Isabelle. By which I mean that they dropped me off at Starbucks, and then went shopping while I read more of the What If?
book. I've talked a tiny bit about this book before, but I must recommend it again. It's by the XKCD guy, and it's really awesome. I'm not really a science person, but his descriptions and explanations still manage to both get my attention, and make sense to me.
book. I've talked a tiny bit about this book before, but I must recommend it again. It's by the XKCD guy, and it's really awesome. I'm not really a science person, but his descriptions and explanations still manage to both get my attention, and make sense to me. 7. I came home, and researched and categorized a bunch of mountains and mountain ranges, and, when I finished that, the lab was finally done. On the whole, I think it could be better, but I'm not going to try to work on it more. I do know that I might not have answered all the questions fully, or in the intended manner, but I think I did well enough that I'm calling it good. Also, I have to budget my time. This is an assignment I need to do well on, but I don't have to get 100%, and I don't have to time to try. I have other things to focus on. Coming to the realization that I can't always try to get 100% on everything has been an important one for me. I get stressed out if I feel like I'm not doing well enough, but the reality is that with the grade I have in the class, I could not even hand in this lab, and still be doing well. I might not get the grade on this that I ultimately would like on this assignment, but I'll do well enough to still get the grade I want in the class, while also giving me time to work on other things I need to do.
8. After finishing that, I listened to the new Nightvale episode (episode 67). It was (no spoilers here, I promise), really great. As I described it to my friend E,, "It's amazing. It's one of those episodes that really rewards the people who have been there the whole time, but it also adds a new level of mystery and plot." It's true. If you're up to date on the episodes, you'll know that recent plot developments required this episode to be a bit different that most, and they handled that very well. It's one of my favorite episodes, I'd have to say.
9. I made a few little note cards. These are for the notecard exchange board in the art department at WCC. You can put up 3x5 (or similar) cards, and take ones that in return. They can have any kind of art on them, you just have to have made them. I'll put some pictures up once I have a chance to take them.
10. I spent some time doing random stuff, working a little on an essay I have due this week, and talking to some friends. We ate dinner
11. We watched Doctor Who, I wrote this, read Jane Eyre, and went to bed.
9. I made a few little note cards. These are for the notecard exchange board in the art department at WCC. You can put up 3x5 (or similar) cards, and take ones that in return. They can have any kind of art on them, you just have to have made them. I'll put some pictures up once I have a chance to take them.
10. I spent some time doing random stuff, working a little on an essay I have due this week, and talking to some friends. We ate dinner
11. We watched Doctor Who, I wrote this, read Jane Eyre, and went to bed.
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Saturday, May 2, 2015 {SAT!}
1. Got up at 6:15 (fifteen whole minutes later than I do on weekdays!!!!) after waking up at 4, 5, 5:30, an 6, freaking out that I had overslept.
2. Ate a quick breakfast, gathered my things, and left for the high school.
3. From 7:45 to 1, I was in a room taking the SAT. I would tell you about it, except that I signed a statement that yes, I was who I said I was, and no, I would not talk about the test in any way. So, yeah.
4. I missed the YARC (YA Review Committee) meeting at Village Books entirely, but a few of my totally awesome friends stuck around (and saved pizza for me!!). I went to VB after leaving the highschool to drop off the ARCs I needed to return, and C, L, and E were all still there, and we hung out for a little over an hour.
5. It was Independent Bookstore Day, so fun stuff was happening all over the bookstore, including a scavenger hunt. After finding the answers to some questions, and filling out a sheet of paper, you could turn it in for a prize. I got a giftcard, with which I bought fudge. Cause that's what you do with free money and fudge available to buy.
6. I finally got home around 3ish, and spent the next hour or two reading a little (What If? by Randall Munroe), and generally trying to relax. I was slightly productive, I did get a bit caught up on my Geology reading, but I was mostly trying to decompress from the SAT and all that.
7. We had tuna steaks and cauliflower for dinner, and Isabelle made some cookies.
8. We watched the Avengers and ate cookies.
9. I got a little bit of my Geology lab on plate tectonics done. I'll have to do the rest of it tomorrow.
10. I wrote this, read Jane Eyre, and went to bed. Tomorrow I get to sleep in! But I also have lots of homework to do, so there is that.
2. Ate a quick breakfast, gathered my things, and left for the high school.
3. From 7:45 to 1, I was in a room taking the SAT. I would tell you about it, except that I signed a statement that yes, I was who I said I was, and no, I would not talk about the test in any way. So, yeah.
4. I missed the YARC (YA Review Committee) meeting at Village Books entirely, but a few of my totally awesome friends stuck around (and saved pizza for me!!). I went to VB after leaving the highschool to drop off the ARCs I needed to return, and C, L, and E were all still there, and we hung out for a little over an hour.
5. It was Independent Bookstore Day, so fun stuff was happening all over the bookstore, including a scavenger hunt. After finding the answers to some questions, and filling out a sheet of paper, you could turn it in for a prize. I got a giftcard, with which I bought fudge. Cause that's what you do with free money and fudge available to buy.
6. I finally got home around 3ish, and spent the next hour or two reading a little (What If? by Randall Munroe), and generally trying to relax. I was slightly productive, I did get a bit caught up on my Geology reading, but I was mostly trying to decompress from the SAT and all that.
7. We had tuna steaks and cauliflower for dinner, and Isabelle made some cookies.
8. We watched the Avengers and ate cookies.
9. I got a little bit of my Geology lab on plate tectonics done. I'll have to do the rest of it tomorrow.
10. I wrote this, read Jane Eyre, and went to bed. Tomorrow I get to sleep in! But I also have lots of homework to do, so there is that.
Friday, May 1, 2015
Friday, May 1, 2015 {May Day}
Today was a long day. I'm sitting here trying to remember this morning, and it feels like a week ago!
1. I got up nice and early (6ish), got ready for the day, and actually ate some breakfast, which is not always something that happens.
2. I took to bus to school and went to Geology class. The topic for today was mountains and mountain building.
3. After class, C. and I hung out in our usual spot. For the life of me, I can't remember what we talked about for most of the time. My lack of good sleep seems to be catching up with me. We did talk about stuff though, most of it random and unimportant, but some of it might have been interesting.
4. C. went off to his next class, and I did the English work we had instead of class today. The instructor is at a conference, so she moved class online. That took me a little over and hour, and then I wandered over to the art department in Cascade to check out the notecard exchange. I don't spend much time over there, but I love checking the cards. The idea is that anyone can put up a 3x5 (or similar) card with their art on it, and if you put one up, you can take one you like. There is some pretty cool stuff on there.
5. C. and his mom very kindly gave me a ride home, and once home I cleaned a little, and talked with my friend E. for a little bit on the phone. We talked mostly about my own social awkwardness and anxiety, but he also gave me my new life tagline, "I am too tired not to be sarcastic." This is me. XD
6. Current Events class happened. The topic was about categorizing people and how/if was can/should do that. It provided some interesting discussion. Ted led wonderfully and was obviously quite invested in this topic.
7. After class, some May Day gifts were dispensed (thanks Julie and Connie!).
8. We ate dinner, and headed to self defence class.
9. At the class, we had interesting discussion, and then worked on more ground grappling techniques.
10. Came home, wrote this, read Jane Erye, went to bed. SAT in the morning!
1. I got up nice and early (6ish), got ready for the day, and actually ate some breakfast, which is not always something that happens.
2. I took to bus to school and went to Geology class. The topic for today was mountains and mountain building.
3. After class, C. and I hung out in our usual spot. For the life of me, I can't remember what we talked about for most of the time. My lack of good sleep seems to be catching up with me. We did talk about stuff though, most of it random and unimportant, but some of it might have been interesting.
4. C. went off to his next class, and I did the English work we had instead of class today. The instructor is at a conference, so she moved class online. That took me a little over and hour, and then I wandered over to the art department in Cascade to check out the notecard exchange. I don't spend much time over there, but I love checking the cards. The idea is that anyone can put up a 3x5 (or similar) card with their art on it, and if you put one up, you can take one you like. There is some pretty cool stuff on there.
5. C. and his mom very kindly gave me a ride home, and once home I cleaned a little, and talked with my friend E. for a little bit on the phone. We talked mostly about my own social awkwardness and anxiety, but he also gave me my new life tagline, "I am too tired not to be sarcastic." This is me. XD
6. Current Events class happened. The topic was about categorizing people and how/if was can/should do that. It provided some interesting discussion. Ted led wonderfully and was obviously quite invested in this topic.
7. After class, some May Day gifts were dispensed (thanks Julie and Connie!).
8. We ate dinner, and headed to self defence class.
9. At the class, we had interesting discussion, and then worked on more ground grappling techniques.
10. Came home, wrote this, read Jane Erye, went to bed. SAT in the morning!
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