Definitely a Monday

Holy smokes a lot has happened in the last few days. I'll start with the oldest stuff first. On Saturday, I was going to the SUB to get my bus pass so I could visit Andy when all of a sudden a bald eagle swooped down and landed (or attempted to land) in a crow's nest that was just a bit too small for it. I stood there gaping at it for a couple of minutes until I realized that the SUB was about to close in five minutes. So, I ran in as they were locking up and managed to snag a pass. When I went outside, the eagle wasn't there but as I walked back to Moyer, I found it in another tree. Totally awesome. :) I only wish I had had a pair of binoculars. That was the closest I've ever been to a bald eagle, and oddly enough, I was in the middle of a city. :)

Anyway, Saturday was mostly a veg/homework day as Laura wasn't around for me to bug. ;) On Sunday I went to visit Andy and had almost no mishaps. I say almost because although I made it safely and easily there and back on the bus, my buss pass did not. Somewhere on the way between Andy's apartment and the highway, as Andy was walking me to my stop, the card fell out of my pocket. Andy later found it, but I had to pay my way home and pay a five dollar fine at the ASSP office because the card was due today at ten. It apparently doesn't matter that the card is only good for the month of February anyway. Oh well. I suppose Andy can use it today to get a free ride to the grocery store and then get rid of it because it will be useless. ;)

And finally there's today's news. I opened my e-mail this morning to find a letter from my mom. My brother had had a party on Friday. It did not go so well. Not only did Adam manage to sprain his ankle while jumping from the shop roof (I'm not surprised, is anyone else?), but one of his friends accidentally broke a window with a soccer ball (It was an accident and he was really sorry so it was okay.), but as Adam was wrestling with another boy over the soccer ball, he got kneed in the temple. He received a slight concussion and when questioned could not remember how old he was or that he no longer worked at Wray's. Scary to say the least. But, my mom had him sleep on the couch in the living room so she could wake him up every once in a while and talk to him and see if he was nauseous (a major sign of swelling in the brain is nausea) but, he regained his memories of everything except the actual day (he can't remember getting hit on the head or jumping off the roof to sprain his ankle) so he's okay now.

All this adds up to make today a definite Monday. The substitute teacher for my UCOR class was half-an-hour late so half the class was gone and the video we watched went five minutes past the end of class. Then, chemistry was some slightly complicated algebra that I only half understood. :\ Stupid k constants of a reaction rate, grml grml . . . I can understand how to get Q, but k is my limit. I'll have to go in and get some help tomorrow.

Biology was cancelled today. Dr. Bishop is sick. I have to say that I'm kinda glad not to have class today. I feel like I need a break at the moment.

The Slightly Saddened and Scared Sister

Heave a Sigh of Relief

I did work out the other day when I said I was going to, and my legs got a good workout, but I was sadly disappointed at the lack of weight training equipment (I used a stair-stepper). Laura says there has to be weight training equipment and I agree with her, but I'll be danged if I have any idea where to find it. Maybe I'll ask one of the more seasoned gym veterans around these parts. ;) The other problem I encountered in the gym was the number of people around. I hadn't thought there would be anyone IN the gym after 6 o'clock, but I forgot to factor in the college student lazy/business factor. There were about five other people in there and I was just slightly embarrassed to be working out around other people. Maybe this is why I have avoided gyms in the past . . .

I'll be visiting Andy this weekend while he is studying for finals. This will mean that I will be finals support (making sandwiches, getting drinks, possibly getting groceries) while he is attempting to study. It'll be nice to see each other as we won't have many opportunities to do so in the next month or so what with mismatching spring breaks and final exams and the like. :-
It is at last the weekend, I got to watch part of a cool video on deep sea critters in biology, and I've got a short breather before the next week starts. I'm doin' okay. If tomorrow is pretty, it'll definitely be a blowing bubbles type of day. ;)

The Bubble-Blowing Bairn

Eccentricities Are Fun

Is that even a word? If it is, it has "Tri-Cities" in it . . . hee hee . . . :D

Today was a beeeautiful day! :D As I was packing a few last minutes things at home, I spotted a practically unused bottle of bubbles on my desk. So, since it was doing much of anything on my desk, I brought it with me to SPU. We had a bit of fun with them in the cafeteria, and if tomorrow is as beautiful as today was, I might just head outside and blow some bubbles out in Tiffany Loop. :)

I had to take down my Getting-to-Know-You board today. It's been Lexi's turn to be up for about . . . two days now. Oops. :\ Sorry Lexi . . . but, it was a fun display and most people liked it. The two favorite pictures were, I believe, the picture of a younger me scaling the walls in the hallway and Adam stuffing our cat Dale into a fishbowl. :)

There is some good news on the chemistry front! I actually did decently on the last quiz and the next test will be an online one! Hooray! This means that it will be open book, open note, and open friend. :) There is also good news on the UCOR front! A paper on U2 that I personally thought was about as good as a drunk man's poems got an A- from my UCOR professor . . . weiwed. O_o I've definitely discovered that English is a very subjective field. Some teachers have liked my writing, and some . . . haven't. Oh well. Good thing I'm not planning to be an English major. The subjectivity bothers me sometimes. ;) "No, there shouldn't be more than one right answer!"

I am definitely going to the gym tonight. I mean, it's free, it's good for me, what's stopping me? It's about time I beefed up again. ;) (Again being the shape that Eric whipped us into for junior high volleyball) I'm not even sure I'd be able to pull off more than one chin-up or more than ten push-ups. I used to be one of the most fit girls in my P.E. classes. Now I am wussy. Okay, okay. 'Nuff said. Time to work out. :)

The Exercising Eccentric

Good Times

I am soooo glad I went home this weekend! It was great just to see everyone and spend time with my family! :) I had a great time with the chicas on Sunday, (see Annie and Sally's blogs for details if you're curious, I don't want to be redundant) and I hope we can do it again sometime.

For anyone I didn't tell, which would amount to . . . Steve, Dan, and Emily, I worked in the nursery at church last Sunday (yayayay!). I was walking around while the kids were coloring, making sure everyone had crayons and such, when I stopped dead in my tracks. There at one of the tables were my little first cousins once removed, Zeb and Lance! It was kind of shocking, actually. They don't live in Yakima. But apparently, their mom has started bringing them to church. :) Yay! Their dad still isn't coming . . . but this is definitely a step in the right direction. I asked little Zeb if he remembered me and he said, "Yeah . . . . " So then I prompted him with, "I'm your cousin Bonnie?" And he replied, "Yeah . . . " It was great to see him again. I normally don't see those kiddos except at Christmas.

Well, that's pretty much it. I had a great time last weekend driving around my dad's car because my brother had removed the turn signals from mine for a practical joke on someone else that he never completed. Wish me luck in these, the final weeks of the quarter as I endeavor to become better at solving for G, H, E, T, M, m, and k . . . Chemistry is . . . cool, but frustratingly full of math.

The Anti-Arithmatical Academic

Hugging Hominid!

Tonight was a lot of fun. Tonight was Tana's surprise 19th birthday party at Red Robin. :) I was the main goofball of the group, I think. We were crazy on the bus and even sang Happy Birthday to Tana as we got off at our stop. I'm pretty sure the whole bus was smiling. ;) We were a rambunctious group the whole time and it was definitely a good thing we were with how cold it was on the walks to and from our stops. Anyway, an all-in-all great time with good friends.

Yeah . . . so I'm finally filling out a direct deposit form for my paychecks . . . it's about time. I finally went in today for the FIRST TIME THIS QUARTER. I had five paychecks to sign for . . . I always had intended to sign up for that from the first. Guess I forgot. Oh well. :)

Not much else is new. I think I'll be riding home with Janelle Noble this weekend. Since she's planning to leave at 1:00 or 1:30 on Friday, I'll have to skip bio if I do, but I think a visit home is worth that. ;) Attention Moog, Annie, Sally, and Daniel! Cancel everything on your calendars! We are doing something together this weekend!!!!

I took the five love languages test from the back of Laura's book this afternoon and the results came as no surprise. ;) My ranking is thus: Physical Touch was picked eleven times, Quality Time was picked nine, Words of Affirmation was chosen fives times, Receiving Gifts four, and Acts of Service two times.

The Hugging Hominid

Marker Fingers

My hands are covered in red, blue, and black marker. I was making valentines. :) Now, some of you might be saying to yourselves, "I can understand the red . . . and even the black . . . but why would you need blue marker for a valentine?" Well, you do if you're putting Homestar on your valentines! :D That's right. Each little valentine I made has a small Homestar drawn on it. I only made valentines for the people who gave them to me because I was feeling both guilty and lazy at the same time. ;) They all say, "Will you be my vawentine?" which is attributed to Andy who came up with it in junior year. :)

Twenty or so of the girls went to Wendy's tonight. :) It was lots of fun. Laura is getting to know me a little too well, though . . . Mel said something like, "If there was a tsunami here, we'd all be dead." And Laura must have recognized the look on my face because she burst out with, "Go for it Bonnie! Say something smart!" And everybody burst out laughing . . . Eventually, I did say what I had originally wanted to say, but the moment was kind of ruined . . . thanks Laura . . . ;)

I only have chemistry class three more times in the next two weeks! Rejoice! But, I have a quiz on Wednesday! Sorrow! So yeah . . . I'll be studying for that . . .

Andy and I had a great time yesterday. It was our Valentine's/Anniversary celebration. Two years is a long time . . . We walked around Fremont and spent a lot of time in the bookstores. We opened presents and it turns out that Andy had seen my desktop sticky note of gift items that I wanted, and bought me a brown courderoy jacket. :) The sly stinker. ;) He also got me some cozy brown gloves and brown and white striped scarf. It's a cute outfit! He did a great job! I got him a very un-Valentiney movie, The Village. But he liked it, so it's all good.

Ted isn't doing so well. He got sick while he was at my house. But, I recognize the symptoms. I don't think he's had enough light, so, I'm making sure that I open the blinds when I leave in the morning. We've had a very warm room these past few days . . .

The Plant Physician

Chemistry Class with Enhanced Special Effects!

It is no more than my duty to share my day today with all of my readers. It was a very different, but very hilarious day.

This Friday started out with Mr. Wolfe (my UCOR teacher) letting us out remarkably early. He claimed it was because he had been planning on giving us the surprise of having the guitar player who was at SPU last night come and play for the class this morning (I wanted to go, but I had work. :\) But, flights didn't line up and so Mr. Peirson, or whatever his name was, flew to Walla Walla this morning instead of playing for the class. Oh well. It was nice to have a day off for once.

Then, after my relaxation was over, I headed to chemistry. We had a sub today because our teacher Greg was probably busy doing some with his research at UW or something. The sub was Mr. Goldberg, another of the chem teachers here at SPU. He was pretty darn hilarious. He did teach on the chapter, but I don't think I remember much from the actual lecture part of the class. I only remember the demonstrations. :D

First, he started off with a simple reaction showing the observable rate of reaction of Iodine with hydrochloric acid and . . . some other compound I can't remember. He had to run out of the room because he had forgotten one of the components. ;) Anyway, it was on the overhead and slowly turned from yellow to clear. Pretty cool, but pretty tame. Although I thought it was kind of funny when he spilled a little bit of hydrochloric acid on what is at least a 2,000 video projector. ;) Nobody had better tell Greg . . . he's very protective of his technology. Plus Dr. Goldberg wiped it on his pants and assured us that however nasty chemicals burn from hydrochloric acid were, they were not deadly as he has had several before . . .

Next, Dr. Goldberg decided to illustrate the power of a catalyst. He had some reaction going in a test tube, I don't remember exactly what it was, but I do remember that it produced oxygen. Lots and lots of oxygen. The catalyst was magnesium, and so the professor was tipping in little pellets of it from a bottle, attempting to get the reaction going . . . he was concentrating and then must have dumped just a bit too much because he let out a mildly surprised "Wow" as they all plunked in that was promptly followed by a much more enthusiastic "Wow!" as the reaction began to take off, bubbling furiously and heating up. ;) He promptly dropped it into the test tube rack directly in front of the first row students. :) (I was in the third row.) It proceeded to bubble and smoke and spurt little bits of flying magnesium everywherre. Lots of fun. :D

Then, Dr. Goldberg showed us some reactions involving lycopodium powder. Any of you who took chemistry at West Valley might know some of the cool properties of this spore. It increases surface tension to such a point, that when spread over a beaker of water, even when a pencil is stuck down three inches into the water, the surface of the water won't be broken, and the pencil will come up dry. Pretty darn cool if you ask me. ;) However, this property was not what he illustrated in class. Dr. Goldberg was showing us it's more flammable properties. He lit some lycopodium powder on a spatula to begin with, assuring us that although lycopodium powder was a spore, he was "pretty sure it wasn't a biological hazard or anything." Then, when he apparently got tired of using his lighter to ignite the powder, he ran from the room again only to return to the room with a propane torch. For the next experiment, he tried to light a candle with the torch, which was humorous. The torch blew it out at the same time that it lit it. ;) Eventually, he got the candle lit through the use of the lighter, and set a large cardboard tube on top of it like a chimney. He then proceeded to dump lycopodium powder into the cap and then into the top of the tube. He promptly pulled his hand back, but aside from a slight hissing, there was nothing spectacular. He tried once more using just a capful, then decided to just go ahead with the whole bottle. He delicately poured powder from the bottle down the tube, pulling back several times at false alarms. Finally, there was a hiss and a fwoosh as the powder ignited in a tongue of flame from the top of the tube. Very cool. ;) This whole thing was to illustrate that increased surface area made for a faster rate of reaction (spatula vs. tube).

The last experiment was a classic. The clock reaction. It is called such for it's perfectly predictable reaction times. He didn't have time to explain it much, so he simply showed it to us before dismissing us. He had two samples of two chemicals. One of each chemical was at room temperature, and one of each chemical was at 0 degrees. He mixed the two chemicals at that were at 0 degrees (once again this reaction took place on the overhead) and the clear solution turned suddenly dark blue at promptly thirty seconds. Then, he mixed the two chemicals at room temperature and this time the solution turned dark blue at 12 seconds. This one was to illustrate the effects of temperature on a reaction rate. ;) So, all in all, a fun chemistry class. :)

That is a very long series of mini-stories, so I will only tell you one more thing. (What can I say, I am my father's daughter. ;)) There are those of you who may remember me blogging about Sandra (our SMC, or Student Ministry Coordinator) coming into my room a while ago to ask if I had thought about being an SMC next year. Well, turns out she went ahead and recommended me to the the student ministry program. I got a letter today inviting me to apply for SMC next year. I'm not sure if God is leading me in that direction, but I'm definitely going to pray about and attend the informational meeting. Let me know what you guys think.

The Pondering Progeny

Revolting Senitmentality

Okay, okay, so we got our chemistry test back today, and it turns out I didn't do as horribly as I thought I did. Plus, a lot of people apparently ran out of time to do the last question (he told us during the test to get one through five finished first) so he let us have some time today to finish up! Hooray! So that has left me in a better mood. :)

The other day in the library, I was picking up books from our shelves that had been requested by people at other libraries. Among the titles were Alexander Who Used to be Rich, The Science of Chocolate, and Squids Will Be Squids. :D Sometimes I love working in the library.

I'm really missing the Yakima gang right now. I think it's because I've been away from home for so long, and got a small taste of home when my parents came over last weekend. This small taste was just enough to whet my appetite. My first wave of homesickness . . . :\ But most of all, I just miss everyone I know. Moog, who has a blog now, which is good, but it's still not the same as laughing with her over stupid things and fencing with yard sticks and poking her just for the hilarious reaction. I mean, come on, how fun is it to e-poke someone? Then I miss Annie, who tells great jokes over the internet, but it somehow just isn't the same as in person. I miss Dan, with his sarcasm and sense of devilish fun. I miss Sally with her sweetness and eagerness to laugh and be silly. I miss Josh and his use of intellectual words to describe even the most basic thing. ;) I miss Chloe and Charis and Chaeli. For obvious reasons . . . the cuties . . . :\ I just miss everyone. :\ That's what I'm going to be doing the entirety of spring break. Bugging everyone I know who's in town. ;)

Heh. I had to laugh at my UCOR professor today . . . I just had to laugh. Some poor, stupid kid in our class innocently inquired after what a Hassidic Jew is (pertains to a book we are reading) and the professor then proceeded to launch into a fifteen minute speech that progressed from Hassidism, to Communism, to the cloistered world of Christian culture, to to extremism in art, to the Sopranos and then he finally remembered that he was supposed to be answering a short question only, and started class. This happened several times throughout the day, and was very entertaining. :)

Laura's grandmother sent me a Valentine today. :) Apparently she reads my blog. ;) She seems like she's just about the nicest grandma ever. So thanks, Laura's grandma! :D

The Homesick Human

Not So Good, But Okay

Well, I'm a little disappointed. Tonight I was supposed to work at my church doing some childcare for a meeting they were having with some other local churches. They ended up having one kid. I was the fourth worker. Laura ended up driving me all the way out there and back for no reason. Fortunately, she stuck around until I actually found out what was going on, and we had fun driving around. (And in some of the exact same places that my parents ended up when we were driving around Seattle during the weekend. I'm beginning to think that Greenlake is becoming my Selah in Seattle, and that I'll always end up there whenever I'm lost.) But we had fun and we got home in one piece, so I guess it's all good.

I had a weird day today. I woke up feeling crappy. I didn't even go to bed any later than usual. (I think I had a fever.) So I took some Tylenol and went back to sleep. I slept through my first class, and even most of my second. When I got up, I felt much better. Then, when I got back to my room, I lay down for a little bit longer. Later, it was time to go to lunch, but I couldn't find my ID card anywhere. I searched my entire room without success and then remembered that I had had it in my pocket during my nap. So, the last alternative was that it could have fallen behind my massive, mostly-immovable bed/desk/closet. My dad moved it about an inch when I was first moving in. Apprehensive, I borrowed a flashlight from Melissa and took a peep from beneath the desk. There it was. My ID card. I tried taping a fork to a ruler, but it wasn't long enough. I was stuck for lunch because I coudln't figure out how to get it out. Then Laura came back from work, and we brainstormed for awhile (after she finished lauhging at me, that is. Just kidding. ;) ) We decided that the desk wasn't actually connected to the rest of the ensemble as it appeared. So, after I removed the drawers (and found a bunch of treasures that had fallen out of the drawers through the years, including photos), we tugged with all our might and one side budged just enough that I could push my arm up to the shoulder behind the desk, and reach my card. Hooray! So I went to dinner, and ate a turkey melt. :) The end.

Other than that, it was an okay day. Mark finally got a big project done that has been bugging him and that I wasn't able to help with, so I should be a little bit more busy than I have been recently.

I'm sad that Dan has not blogged in so long. Boys seem to be so bad about sharing anything at all, even if it's just news or an opinion. Unless, of course, they are jerk-offs who just say things to put a bee in somebody's bonnet like Maddox or or the author of Sluggy Freelance. Or Andy. ;) He's always an exception to the non-sharing rule. Then again, I am his girlfriend. But, I think the girls who are his friends would agree that Andy is pretty good about sharing news from his life and his opinions of things. :) Although he too is subject to forgetting about his blog for days on end. Must be a fallability of every guy to some degree or another. ;)

The Disappointed Desk-Dragger

P.S. Oh, did I mention that my brother has a new job now and is planning on getting a motorcycle? With my parents' consent?!?! O_o Too weird . . . he is eighteen now, I suppose . . . but still . . .

A Day with the Parents

I woke up this morning to um . . . nothing. My alarm is off station. Again. So it was just playing some quietly useless static when I woke up this morning fifteen minutes after it went off. I may just be desperate enough to use KSPU, the college radio station as my station for waking up to. ;) You know it's bad if I'm willing to listen to college radio. See the following link for information. Strong Bad E-mail on College Radio

My parents and I had a nice day together. I was really glad they came up for a visit. We had quite the adventure trying to find our way around Seattle since I am still quite clueless on how to get ANYWHERE around campus. My parents took me to Fred Meyer to buy a few things and I got a pair of computer speakers since my head phones are going out and my laptop speakers make any sound I play sound like it's from a Chipmunks album. It was only after I got them set up and ready to go that I realized that they have a blue light on them just like my mouse does. My desktop is beginning to get a theme . . . O_o

We also went to breakfast/brunch at a little cafe we finally ran into during one of the aforesaid driving adventures. It was called Val's Cafe and looked fairly unassuming from the outside. But, when we got to the inside, we were bombarded with Greek culture like a rookie on a paintball field! There were posters from Mikonos, advertisements for gyros, blue and white decorations, signs in both Greek and English, a Greek-accented waitress, and Greek music playing in the background. It was so random and great! I see now the truth there is in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The Greeks really are very proud of their culture. :)

For dinner, we went to Ivar's. Mmm . . . Ivar's. I ordered a seafood and vegetable stirfry that was really, really good. The only thing I didn't expect was the shellfish lining the edges of my plate that was still IN the shell. I thought it was very pretty, but I only managed to eat one mussel. It was just a bit too gross to know that I was eating every part of the organism. If they had pulled them out of their shells, cleaned out the yucky parts, and then put them back in, I'm sure I would have been all over the scallops and clams. ;) But, the rest of the dish was like a little treasure hunt with yummy things like salmon and halibut and shrimp hidden in my pasta. ;) Lots of fun.

My fern Ted is a little sick but it's just because he's a little sun-starved. He'll be better in a week or so. :) I put the plants I was taking care of for Michelle outside her door. They don't look too bad but I'm afraid she'll throw them out because she can't tell that's there's new growth. I'll just have to check up on them later. I didn't name Michelle's plants while I was taking care of them, but I was kind of tempted. ;)

That's all I have to write for now. I hope everyone's weekend is going great. :)

-The Relaxed Resident

A Little Bit of Sunshine

Work today went by quickly at first, but slow as mud after 4:30. Mark had to leave early so he left me to update the registration on SPSS 12.0 on all the lab computers. 3:00-5:00 is just about the busiest time in the lab. So, I spent a very long half-an-hour waiting for people to vacate computers that I hadn't yet updated. Suffice it to say, I got about half of them done, and the whole process on the actual computer takes a total of about 45 seconds. Stupid students fartin' around on the computer for half-hours straight . . . grml grml . . . ;) And on top of that, the update wasn't working correctly on all of the computers I got done. And I was even on Mark's account to make sure there were no permissions problems. Hee! He made his password back when he was dating his wife, so it's her maiden name plus "ishot" He blushed so hard when he had to give it to me. :D

I got a little bored in biology today (it was all basic review on the immune system) so I ended up attacking my hand with a marker in a manner that many of you have already seen. (henna'd!) It's not one of my best, but it's still pretty cool.

Tonight there is no new Alias so I'm goin' to Group! Hurray! Worship time! :)

I was afraid I was going to fall flat on my face every time I went outside today. The sky was a very pure, very bright blue this afternoon. My eyes were glued to it whenever I was outside, which, unfortunately, isn't very often during the daylight hours on Wednesdays. But it was so nice just to have some sun. You don't really realize how deprived of sunlight you are until you get a little. Then you remember the warmth and brightness. Ah sun . . . how I miss you.

The Frustrated Fixer-Upper

A Long Story

I did remember to tell Andy about this, but forgot to put it in my blog somehow. :) The other day in Gwinn, Alisha, Lydia, Stephanie, and I were trying to find a table to eat lunch. We were wandering around but Gwinn seemed pretty darn busy. Finally, Alisha spotted a guy she knew sitting at a mostly empty table, so we sat down. We ate and chatted amongst ourselves for a little while, when Alisha suddenly remembered that she hadn't introduced any of us yet. She said our names and the name of her friend. Mine was last to be stated and when Alisha said it, the guy's eyes got really wide. "Your name is Bonnie?" he said. "Yeah . . . " I responded, not quite sure what to think. "Do you work in the library?" he asked. "Yeah . . ." I said once again. The guy smiled and said that someone had told them that he had to go and find Bonnie who works in the library and ask to see her special talent. This absolutely shocked and mystified me. While most of you who are reading this may know what my special talent is, I was almost positive that no one at SPU did. I hadn't shown anyone, and the upper classmen who went to West Side are too old to have seem me perform it. I asked him who had told him to find me, but he said he wouldn't tell me until I showed off my "talent". And so, after a bit of badgering and a little reluctance, and stood up, and demonstrated my freakish arms. The usual cries of disgust and delight followed, and I demanded to know who had told him to seek me out. Turns out it was Trevor Hopkins, older brother of my friend Jessie Hopkins from Riverside who moved away from Yakima the same year that I went to West Valley. Jesse had seen me perform my stupid human trick and told her brother about it. He had just seen and recognized me in the library the other day, and decided to tell his freshman year room mate about it. Small world, aye? :)

Anyway, now that that freakishly long and fairly boring story is over, I'll just give out some last tidbits. I have a test in UCOR tomorrow that I'm not really sure how to predict. We have all the questions beforehand and it's all essay and short answer, but this guy hasn't seen my writing style before and I'm not sure if he'll like it. He's actually asking us to be wordy and I'm afraid I've always prided myself on being able to avoid verbosity in my essays and reports. Oh well. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

I can't believe Dan's officially a Navy man. Dan has always felt like a little brother to me, and as such, I've always felt like I should do everything I can to protect him (like he needs it). But now, he's going off on his own into a big world. I guess it feels sort of surreal. If my brother actually had any concrete plans of heading off into the world, I'm sure that would feel unreal as well. People younger than you aren't supposed to grow up.

Chemistry lab tonight was short, easy, and pleasant. I have a much better lab partner this quarter. I have work at eight, and I'm off at ten. Tuesdays always seem long . . . maybe it's because they start and end so late.

Heh. I almost forgot to tell about this and had to edit it in later on. I was in a skit today for the library. That skit I mentioned in an eariler post. It went very well and everyone laughed and had a good time. :) Yay for skits! Or sketches, as Belinda demands they be called. ;)

The (Sometimes) Succint Scribe