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Operation Garden Fresh

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Cassidy often publicly asks himself, “Why am I so easily amused?” The agenda today, the last official day of school for seniors? TP the AP Environmental Science class.

plan of attack

Of course, this actually involved literally days of planning, supply-gathering and screwing around to pull off.

*As many people have been asking about, I’ll answer it here. The choice of name is a reference to Operation Market Garden, an Allied assault in the European theater of WWII.

I now have been asked to make a chem slideshow. My only obstacles are the lack of pictures, and the choice of song. “We Didn’t Start the Fire” has some issues with it: we did start the fire, too many history references. Any suggestions?

Burritoes and Explosions

Friday, March 14th, 2008

A happy pi day to all.

pi pin
I celebrated by wearing this rockin’ pin that I soldered freshman year in Art 1. It’s only about the size of a quarter. I should have aimed a little bigger. Something like a giant pendant I wear around my neck like Flavor Flav. That’d be awesome if I were in Jewelry and had time to solder it.

Well, you had no way of knowing but I survived. I survived the inevitable day when the Double Execution Style would come to a head. Thursday: a chem test and a physics test on the same day. Electricity and thermodynamics. And this is a giant three-chapter physics test and a still-intimidating 7/10 of a standard Chem test. A third night in a row of 6-hours sleep and I still didn’t have the chem homework set finished. I think I was tragically overconfident for the Chem test. And the physics test? Well, that was just plain tragic.

Cassidy made it up to us Friday.

(Notice the ghostly silhouette captured toward the end?)

Another first for me: eating an entire Chipotle burrito in one sitting. You probably know them better as ~1-lbs, 1000-Calorie, 3-inch thick, more-than-most-actual-Mexicans-eat-in-a-day, tortilla wrapped rice bombs. I’ve only had three of these previously and the last one was eaten in two sittings accompanied by a large glass of milk. The problem is that my mouth is not big enough to bite all to the way to the center region so I have to tackle the middle column of meat, rice and salsa with a fork. I thought to myself that I should order the salad next time. Then I had another thought: #$~! salads. So let today mark the first time I finished an entire Chipotle burrito without any help or milk.

Mole go boom

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

My SAT scores finally came back. Coincidentally, all the scores were multiples of fifty.

Moving on, I’ve come to the conclusion that I like physics more than chem, but I don’t know why. Chem is more fun, and explosive.

I’m riding the edge between A and B in both classes. One thing I am sure of is that I don’t like labs. I generally don’t like chem labs, but I really don’t like physics labs. (Probably because of the early morning hour.)

The main difference between physics and chem is that understanding of physics is boolean. You either get it or you don’t. After cresting the “apex of confusion”, it all comes rushing into your head in a logical deluge. With chem, there’s a sliding scale of confusion.

I think the main reason is that chem is at the end of the day, and by then, I’m grumpy because I haven’t had my afternoon nap. If the day were flipped (chem first, physics last), I think things would be different; I would like chem more.

On another note, I’ll be experiencing my first Black Friday in two days. Till this year, I’ve just slept in and observed Mom come staggering through the door at 9AM to collapse in exhaustion on the sofa after a four hour (metaphoric) excursion to hell and back. I won’t know where I’ll be going until tomorrow, when the sales papers come.

Wherever I do go, there will be chaos. And I’ll be ready. With riot gear.