Sorry to drop off the face of the earth again -- December's always chaotic beyond belief. I'm back home as of this evening and am more exhausted than I've been for a very long time ( Read more... )

Still slogging through finals over here. A paper, a presentation, and two hours of lab work are all that is standing between me and freedom (which is significantly less than yesterday, when it was three papers, an eight-page portfolio, a massive job application, a presentation, two hours of lab work, and a video-based final report that I filmed at ( Read more... )

Things I want to be writing about right now:

+ Last Friday's Magical Science Adventure with my STS class to a coal-fired power plant, a vineyard atop a reclaimed mine, and an active mountaintop removal site. Ohhhh, do I have stories for you.

+ How a couple of friends and I got invited out to lunch by two of our professors to discuss blogging, fandom ( Read more... )

Have I ever mentioned that I used to be friends with The World's Youngest Professional Sideshow Performer?

No, really.

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I sat next to this kid in German class my freshman year. He was a senior, and we had this love-hate relationship thing going on that revolved around religious debates, storytelling and quite a few magic tricks. I think he enjoyed ( Read more... )

Well, I seem to now officially be an adult with a job and a diploma and everything.

Graduated on Sunday, which was...an adventure. There were bagpipes. My hat nearly fell off when I walked across the stage. Our valedictorian quoted Lil Wayne in his speech. Our house was overrun with German relatives who brought mass quantities of delicious food and ( Read more... )

Well, today was my last day of high school.

Also, I apparently won a decent bit of scholarship money for an essay I wrote forty minutes before its deadline a little earlier in the year. The sponsors called my school about it, and if I correctly understand the email I just got, it'll be in the local paper too.

I think this calls for a celebration. ( Read more... )

Well, last night was certainly interesting. I went to this thing at school with a bunch of people, and among the various interesting events they had going was a comedy/hypnosis show. I've always been curious about whether hypnosis really works -- it's one of those things I'd been skeptical of until I'd experienced it for myself. I wasn't sure if I' ( Read more... )

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Oh, you guys. I have the distinct feeling that this is gonna be one hell of a week.

*fastens seat belt*

EDIT: Damn. Now possibly dying of swine flu. As if I needed more to stress over. *makes gallons of tea, pulls seatbelt tighter*

I just spent the past 20 minutes trying to glue fourteen pairs of legs back onto a dead centipede for my Zoo project.

What is this --

I don't even --

GODDAMN FUCKING CENTIPEDES --

I give up.