So much to write about yesterday, with meant no time to write about it... there is no relation between the parts. Longer parts will be LJ-cut.
Part the Zeroth
It's really scary when my bus arrives. I'm standing there, out in the cold, waiting for the bus, and then, it comes, and as it turns, for just a moment, it points right at me. But yesterday, it kept facing that way for about an entire second... of course it's not like it was going to hit me or anything, but I got so scared, I had almost started to move when the bus went back to turning.
Part the First
2 days ago my mom said that due to looking at colleges, we will probably not have a seder this year. I didn't say anything, but hearing that was just utterly shocking. You can't not have a seder. I don't get it. Firstly this callous disrespect of Judaism - you're not going to have a seder?! - I mean, I don't really get it, what's the point of being Jewish if you're not even going to follow Jewish law? We're not orthodox, we ignore it enough already... I just don't get that. This isn't some minor thing, this is a seder. Yes, I'm an atheist, but this isn't about me, this about the family. (Somehow I get the feeling that even when I've gone off to college I'll still be keeping kosher for Pesach and fasting on Yom Kippur...) And speaking of the family, that's the other way of looking at it - as a family tradtion. Not that it itself is specific to us, obviously, but rather that we have 2 major feasts every year - one at Thanksgiving, one at Pesach. (Generally one of the seders is not nearly so large as the other.) To only have one of them... that's, that's not balanced... Gah. Man. I'm just plain shocked.
Part the Second
This part has been left out because I decided it was uninteresting and didn't really have enough to write about it.
( Part the Third: NHS )
( Part the Fourth: Bothering DeWitt )
Part the Fifth
Yesterday was Freshman One-Act Plays. Not really a lot to say about it... Elana was in one of them... they were OK. Not particularly great.
Part the Sixth
A hilarious essay: http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html
Part the Seventh
As you know, Fergie ate 200 carrots in one day and turned himself orange.
Tom plans to pay Colin $5 to do the same thing.[0]
Right before senior portraits.
(Colin doesn't know that it'll turn him orange. :D )
Of course it should take less than 200, since Colin is lighter, in both weight and skin color.
Well today on the bus back George heard us saying something about this... and said *he* would eat 400 carrots in one day. (400?!) I doubt he will, but this should be interesting...
Part the Eighth
Hooray for ice from Greenland!
Part the Ninth
Hehehe. Yesterday Dr. Ostfeld told us how they used to do numerical integration - they would graph the function, then cut out the graph and weigh it. :D
( Part the Tenth: Bothering Asaf )
Part the Eleventh
Thank you Andrei![5]
Andrei, together with Anand, is currently doing the best of anyone in our class in WPBD. Of course they don't work on it during class time, so no one has any idea what is bridge actually is. Well last time he actually told me (and Mark, I think) one thing about it... (which I won't say :D )... and it has actually led to progress. Thank you Andrei!
Part the Twelfth
We had the AP Chem reactions test today. You only had to do 20 out of the 32, and you didn't have to balance them. Of course I did all 32, and balanced all of them. :D (Though there's one I'm really uncertain of - PbCl2 + CO3-2. I put it goes to PbCO3 + 2Cl-, only because I couldn't think of anything better. There was also one I think I got right but I could be wrong on - Sn+2 + CrO4-2 - I figured it goes to SnCrO4, but maybe, with H+ additionally on the left, it actually goes to Cr+3 + H2O + Sn+4... naturally I didn't mark either of those as one of my 20.)
( Part the Last: Birthday Cake vs Godzilla )
And that ends it. *Whew*.
-Sniffnoy
[0]Colin, for those of you who don't know him, is the sort of person who would eat a roll of paper towels for $2. And I can say that for a fact because he did.
[3]I was told that, though, afterwards.
[4]Actually I said 3 and 2 rather than 4 and 3 - I have a tendency to leave out time.
[5]Not that you're reading this.
--
"I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to
understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language
devised for telling one another when the best fruit is."
-Terry Pratchett, AFP
Part the Zeroth
It's really scary when my bus arrives. I'm standing there, out in the cold, waiting for the bus, and then, it comes, and as it turns, for just a moment, it points right at me. But yesterday, it kept facing that way for about an entire second... of course it's not like it was going to hit me or anything, but I got so scared, I had almost started to move when the bus went back to turning.
Part the First
2 days ago my mom said that due to looking at colleges, we will probably not have a seder this year. I didn't say anything, but hearing that was just utterly shocking. You can't not have a seder. I don't get it. Firstly this callous disrespect of Judaism - you're not going to have a seder?! - I mean, I don't really get it, what's the point of being Jewish if you're not even going to follow Jewish law? We're not orthodox, we ignore it enough already... I just don't get that. This isn't some minor thing, this is a seder. Yes, I'm an atheist, but this isn't about me, this about the family. (Somehow I get the feeling that even when I've gone off to college I'll still be keeping kosher for Pesach and fasting on Yom Kippur...) And speaking of the family, that's the other way of looking at it - as a family tradtion. Not that it itself is specific to us, obviously, but rather that we have 2 major feasts every year - one at Thanksgiving, one at Pesach. (Generally one of the seders is not nearly so large as the other.) To only have one of them... that's, that's not balanced... Gah. Man. I'm just plain shocked.
Part the Second
This part has been left out because I decided it was uninteresting and didn't really have enough to write about it.
( Part the Third: NHS )( Part the Fourth: Bothering DeWitt )Part the Fifth
Yesterday was Freshman One-Act Plays. Not really a lot to say about it... Elana was in one of them... they were OK. Not particularly great.
Part the Sixth
A hilarious essay: http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html
Part the Seventh
As you know, Fergie ate 200 carrots in one day and turned himself orange.
Tom plans to pay Colin $5 to do the same thing.[0]
Right before senior portraits.
(Colin doesn't know that it'll turn him orange. :D )
Of course it should take less than 200, since Colin is lighter, in both weight and skin color.
Well today on the bus back George heard us saying something about this... and said *he* would eat 400 carrots in one day. (400?!) I doubt he will, but this should be interesting...
Part the Eighth
Hooray for ice from Greenland!
Part the Ninth
Hehehe. Yesterday Dr. Ostfeld told us how they used to do numerical integration - they would graph the function, then cut out the graph and weigh it. :D
( Part the Tenth: Bothering Asaf )Part the Eleventh
Thank you Andrei![5]
Andrei, together with Anand, is currently doing the best of anyone in our class in WPBD. Of course they don't work on it during class time, so no one has any idea what is bridge actually is. Well last time he actually told me (and Mark, I think) one thing about it... (which I won't say :D )... and it has actually led to progress. Thank you Andrei!
Part the Twelfth
We had the AP Chem reactions test today. You only had to do 20 out of the 32, and you didn't have to balance them. Of course I did all 32, and balanced all of them. :D (Though there's one I'm really uncertain of - PbCl2 + CO3-2. I put it goes to PbCO3 + 2Cl-, only because I couldn't think of anything better. There was also one I think I got right but I could be wrong on - Sn+2 + CrO4-2 - I figured it goes to SnCrO4, but maybe, with H+ additionally on the left, it actually goes to Cr+3 + H2O + Sn+4... naturally I didn't mark either of those as one of my 20.)
( Part the Last: Birthday Cake vs Godzilla )And that ends it. *Whew*.
-Sniffnoy
[0]Colin, for those of you who don't know him, is the sort of person who would eat a roll of paper towels for $2. And I can say that for a fact because he did.
[3]I was told that, though, afterwards.
[4]Actually I said 3 and 2 rather than 4 and 3 - I have a tendency to leave out time.
[5]Not that you're reading this.
--
"I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to
understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language
devised for telling one another when the best fruit is."
-Terry Pratchett, AFP
