life has been crazy recently what with school and college apps and everything... but, yesterday was awesome ( Read more... )

Well, I survived the visit to Tenessee, thanks to my mother who saved the vegetables from a buttery demise and me from a heart attack (my grandma tried to put a half a stick of butter onto about a cup of frozen corn, but when she left the room my mom took all but a little bit out of the pan and put it down the garbage disposal. I don't think I ( Read more... )

School started last tuesday. My schedule is pretty good considering. 1st period I have Ap English Language w/Faraj, 2nd Adv. French III with Perrichon!! 3rd AP Twentieth Century World History (Euro) w/ Sauer!!! (this makes me happy), 4th AP Calc BC w/Ruben (I was supposed to have a different teacher, but he isn't teaching this class anymore. I don' ( Read more... )

Bubba died... It makes me want to cry. If someone says a fish can't have a profound impact on your life, then their lying, or they haven't had the chance to meet Bubba. Bubba was a queensland grouper who was abandoned by someone and left at the shedd reception desk in 1987. In 2001, Bubba was diagnosed with cancer and in 2003 he became the first ( Read more... )

The Bahamas was amazing. The weather was amazing. The water was amazing. The animals were amazing. The algae was amazing. The people were amazing (well for the most part). It was just a really great experence ( Read more... )

I'm happy now because Elsa called from interlocken. I haven't seen or talked to her for four weeks ( Read more... )

One week of summer camp down, and it wasn't too bad... I have the little ones, the 5 and 6 year old and some of the five year olds are brand new five year olds and haven't been to kindergarden yet. It was fun and the rooms look amazing, I will post pictures on facebook eventually ( Read more... )

My dad and I got to wrigly field at 7 o'clock yesterday and we were about 30th in line for tickets. We were only going to do standing room only until we learned that they release more tickets the day of the game. We ended up getting two upper deck tickets to the CUBS VS SOX GAME!!!!! It was really exciting even though Dempster blew it. We only ( Read more... )

Science Fair went really well. I won $750, best in catagory, and an all expenses paid trip to Georgia to compete in another fair which I sadly cannot go to because it it during the High School Marine Biology Program ( Read more... )

Science Fair went really well. I won $400 and am going on to the state competiton. Elsa is going to Internationals ( Read more... )