Journal Entry of DOOM

[trombonish]

Nyack! So I've been being bored and lazy most of break, and now I'm heading back to school and have only one day to get everything done! Going back to school Wednesday morning (current plan, anyways), so I only have tomorrow to do, well, alot of things:

-Kappa pictures. AhhhH! have to do historian-esque things involving fall scrapbook. most of which can be done at school, but not the picture-printing-offishness, so I'll just print the pictures tomorrow, then bring them along to school to actually make the book there. This hopefully won't take too long.

-packing. complicated by the fact that I've got alot of stuff that I don't really want at school but needs to be out of my room for project 3, below:

-CLEANING. an executive decision has been made by my parents to turn my old room into the guest room, so I was given untill my Day of Leaving to get anything I want salvaged collected to bring with me or "put away". gah! sad because it's not going to be MY room anymore, project-y because I don't know that it's ever really been clean. like, ever. and it needs to be, or stuff will be unvoluntarily pitched.

-Snow Cave of Awesomeness! for the past couple days I finaly got out in our MONUMENTAL snowishness and built a cave. I found the biggest drift around (happens to be on the driveway, north of the garage and west of the house, so it's almost always in the shade, so very little melting has happened there). I just started packing the snow and hollowing it out, then yesterday I had the idea of mixing water and snow and plastering the whole inside and outside (that existed at the time). And later, right before night, I got the hose and sprayed the thing with water so it's got a very strong roof of ICE that can pretty much support all of my weight (I'm slightly worried about testing this, as the only way to test how strong it really is is to demolish it. but I was laying on it to plaster the ice on the top.) It's got a 3'+ ceiling so I can sit up inside of it, and it's going to be a dome about 7 feet in diameter, if I ever finish it. Which probably won't happen, but I really want to! It's spiffy. And what's with all the ice (and MORE SNOW coming on Thursday night), it should be here for a while. hopefully a few weeks at least. go enginerdyness

so those projects are what I'll be splitting my time between tomorrow. As for what I have actually acomplished this break:

- I unpacked
- I played at a couple of basketball games
- I can fairly routinely beat an Age of Empires game at moderate difficulty. Only one enemy, restricted to my favorite settings (Byzantines, highlands, no stupid relic victories), so it's hardly domination of the game, and it sometimes takes a couple tries at a map, but most of the time I'm winning! As oposed to the begining of break when I thought it was impossible. This is very exciting.
- I converted my pile of "recycle" denim (old jeans + stuff) into ~140 8"x8" squares. Besides taking an eternity, this also created an amazing amout of lint/fuzz/dust, so EVERYTHING in my room is covered in it. But now I'll have a spiffy quilt.
This makes me look quite acomplished, doesn't it?

Add'l notes:
-My new least favorite type of weather is wind. We had another 6ish" of snow a few days ago, and it was the really dry, powdery stuff, and then the last few nights have been really windy, so we would get everything dug out in the day (like my trench up the front walk, thru all of the OTHER snow layers, or to unburry my sister's car), and then the powdery stuff would just blow back into all the dug out places and need digging out again in the morning. But today we did some serious melting so it's not dry and powdery anymore, it's more melty and squishy.
-My schedule is starting to scare me.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
10:00-11:00	Applied Probability	Circuits & Electronics	Applied Probability	Circuits & Electronics	Applied Probability
11:00-12:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
12:00-1:00	Mechanics of Solids	Circuits & Electronics Lab	Mechanics of Solids		Mechanics of Solids
1:00-2:00	Writing on Science		Writing on Science		Writing on Science
2:00-3:00	Computational Methods		Computational Methods		Computational Methods
3:00-4:00	Material Science		Material Science		Material Science
4:00-5:00	Concert Band		Concert Band		Basketball Band
5:00-6:00

Even with dropping my mailroom job, it's alot of hours in school every week. Either Material Sciences or Circuits may end up being dropped to put me at a more reasonable courseload.
-Went to Ronni + Jonathan's wedding on Saturday. It was an amazing sort of reunion of friends, not just from high school, but from middle school too, and some I hadn't seen since elementary school. Remember Cory and Mark and Paul from math class? and Melissa and Patti? And for whatever reason TJ Thorp was one of Jon's groomsmen??? (all sorts of *akward* there). Even though I knew almost all of the highschool people, I spent most of the time with the Thornton contingent (all of our old VISA people), and it made me realize that even though I loved high school so much more than middle school, middle school was where I had the most lasting friendships. *thoughtfull moment*
Other than that, it was overall wierd that though I've been decent friends with Veronica forever and had alot of the same classes with Jon, we've had an incredible overlap of friends even though we were never actually in the same groups.
I need to start doing more frequent entries so I'm not one freakishly long entry. And not typing when my mind is wandering.