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“Stop blogging!”

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

So I’m blogging here, from the floor of the gym during the Spring Awards ceremony. Junyong is sitting next to me and keeps saying, “Stop blogging!”. Well, I can’t. Not during such an important time. The only reason I have my laptop is in a long story that begins last March…

Rugg has 22 AP Calculus practice test books; 11 of answers, 11 of questions. He usually has one period of calculus, comprising 26 people last year. This year there are two periods totaling roughly 40. The solution last year was to partner everybody up into twos based on who lived close to who. This becomes significantly more difficult when splitting the book up among four people. Even sharing between two people was unacceptable to me and Schmitz so after a couple of days of book swapping we scanned the remaining pages that I needed. We quickly realized that with the shortage of books could be alleviated by the distribution of the zip file containing the jpegs of each page. Problem: we omitted the first section of the first test because I had already done that part. So that’s why we had to send Meredith to the library first period to scan the 17 missing pages. Problem II: The well-meaning Ms. Guarin instructed Mer to scan them as TIFFs, giant, high quality not-jpegs. So when she brought them to me in the middle of 2nd period, I had only 14 minutes to turned 17 different images into jpegs on my laptop.

And that’s why I brought my laptop to school today.

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.