5th state of matter?!

was looking for the actual reasons that there can only be a certian amount of electrons in an atom "shell," came across a set of online quizes, and found out that a NEW type of matter has been created: ermionic condensate. Sure enough i looked it up, and here it is: http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/8/1/14/1 why did no-one tell me about this?! they just go around creating new states of matter? can i make one? please? i dont really get how they did it, i havent read the whole thing yet, but its soooo weird... confuzzled confuzzled.

a wednesday

well t'day i got up late again, had no homework to do in the morning for once. waited in the rain for another late bus (every day this week, its been late) and had... digital photo, where i have fun but really dislike working with photos of myself. but i like making fire pics different colors. and i made a really shadowy picture of eleanor. then woodworking, which was lovely fun as usual, then math, where i figured out a proof at the very end but probly took way too many steps. English was gonna be cool with the murder stuff, but ended up being just sitting around in reading groups and doign nothing. and french was boring as usual. And, yes, at luch we changed names, everyone has already blogged about it so i wont go into everything (there's no reason to be annoyed at that, so i wont be. i just have an easily-ticked-off personality. ignore the heated mumbling.) but my name was gonna be something i didnt hear at first, then they gave me Katarlina AND Spoon. I kept saying *mew* hoping they would name me Mew, but it didnt work out. o well. At least i'm not prudence or something. I wanted to be Isabella, like i am here, but you weren't eally supposed to make a huge say in your own name. Then a fire drill, that even the teachers didnt know about, then science, which wasn't that much fun. Then the library, i wandered off to do my xanga rounds, then a bit of math homework, then ppl went into town. I read the encyclopedia about atons, then string theory, then quantum mechanics. because we're doign atoms in science and all that einstein stuff sounds so cool and mysterious. it wasnt that complicated, but then they didnt really go int it. so ppl came back, i check my email a bazillion times, and then i went home. not much t'day. i just post cus i feel like it. ALTHO NO_ONE COMMENTS! But, of course, there's nothing whatsoever to comment on. so never mind.

Matcounts

Just had a lot of fun looking over my Matcounts information from last year, brought back good memories... do Mathcounts, whoever ye be! I dont really care about it, but the school's gonna die if only two 8th graders even try to make the team. it'll be weird... i wonder what would happen if me and pretzel quit simultaneously... we'd probly get bribed to stay. it would be a waste of their $, tho, since i remembered more last year about math than this year. I'm gonna be competing against my former self.. i'll probly get a worse score than last year. but yeah. it was lots of fun at lunch looking at the old problems and having deja vu of the answers and basically remebering how funny it has been. Not to be advertising matcounts, it just was fun today.
Had a freakishly anoying s.s. test, it wasnt percisely hard, just very short on time and a lot of writing. rarr. had a bus evacuation that was actually pretty boring, nothing really funny happened. Had mostly boring classes overall today, compared to yesterday, when i had a lot to say. science was slightly rushed-taking-info stuff, but hopefully it will be more complete tomorrow. woodworking was great as always, my bowl might actually live thru its corner dillema (yes, a bowl with corners. ill post a pic later maybe.) and math was a test, which wasnt that bad. but i dont get the last proof. No, im not talking about the test, im really not... oops. o well. but yeah. and english has still been not too much work, but the controversity thing annoys me. but then ive already explained my problem to a lot of ppl, and its not interesting. just that my points are either too biased or not the real point. anyway... i went to the libary of the millionth time this month, but noone was there and i had not hw to do there. so i came home really early and went on the computer a ton. not as much fun as yesterday. o well.

weird stuff

there's what i thought happened this morning: i thought my alarm went off at 6:05- really thought it did. remember the noise and everything. remember turning it off too. laid in bed til 6:15, wrote a reading journal til 6:35. then i heard the click that means my alarm would go off if it were on, but its not. but it already went off... its like i was woken out supernaturally to get my reading journal done. weird...

so i studied for vocab, went to the bus stop, waiting with Hanna and a chicken for a bus that was twenty minutes late. Didn't get anything wrong on my vocab quiz, altho i was quite sure (again) that i was gonna fail it. but i never do. today was weird... then i had painting on canvas. Tried to make black circles, painted the whole page black, made red circles on it, flicked red drops of paint over that. now my jeans have read stains. it doest look like blood tho. which i suppose is good... then snack, which i spent a lot of time drying my canvas in, went to math and had a brain overload trying to do my proofs really fast. i felt fizzy and shook a little. but that happens. yawned thru english and french. im starting to dread my controversity topic; factory farms aren't really controversial enough. They're mass-torture units. What else is there to say? And then we're doing passé compossé in french for the umpteenth time, which will be boring. But i think im finally about to get the whole story of direct and indirect objects. They should have taught it to us ages ago, so i've learned it in bits and pieces my myself. adunno. it'll probly still be boring. then we're taking a break from the book, she says. Which probly means a group project, which will completely stink.

Then i had lunch, which wasn't any more of an adventure than usual. My salad exploded, yes, and my tea brewed slightly longer than usual. I finished a book about English witch trials, around the same time as Salem. it was ok-ish. slightly weird. but i havent read historical fiction for a while. Pretty much just teenage junk. Which is all ive been up for. but whatever. i needed something i can make an ok connection to for a reading journal. Then Social Studes, where the test suddenly billowed up into a major thing that needs a lot of studying for. I didnt expect a major test, we've only had like one quiz so far anyway. I was very lucky to get all my notes done except for Ari's, which i got in gym class. So then i had science, where i didnt ask as many questions as usual. It was notetaking, which i dont mind. It was pretty simple, altho i did have questions. And Mr. Stott said "Don't ask why" about a lot of stuff, which was annoying. I think Rachel used up his question tolerance. Which is ok, but it means he gets annoyed with out class. Especially cus Ari and Nick ask completely random, distracting questions. Compared to mine, which has a point. Not complaining too much tho, its not that big a deal. Or at least today it wasnt. Then i had cardio. not much happened.

Then i went to the library with Julia and Nicki. just sat and thought along the way, and... yeah. And... yeah. And...yeah! So there was that. then i got there, called home. my brother answered, said he'd tell my dad i was at the library. (He didn't. but i didnt get in trouble.) So i emailed, went over my notes with Julia, read (i think, maybe i actually didnt!) and went home a bit early. Ate, did french and math hw. Had dinner, my mom had tofu soup, which was nice. Went on the computer, talked to Eleanor on that and the phone, got of the computer but stayed on the phone, had fun talking and slamming doors and having long awkward silences. Then the phone diedish, so it was pretty much over. studied a bit (i WILL fail, i know i will. most likely. but maybe not. if its as easy as she should have made it. but i doubt it.) then went back on the computer.

this has been a really long post, but some interesting stuff actually happened today. not much mindboggling, but pretty interesting.

computer obsession

i've probly been on the computer for, like, 5 hours t'day. i woke up at 9- pretty late for me. went on for about an hour before church at 11, after which i ate a huge candy bar, then realized it was a s'mores. which was marchmellows. it didnt SAY it has geliten in it, on the ingredients thingy, but it most likely did. so all my siblings were laughing at me because we've been fighting about gelatin for the past few days. and then i went home, went on the computer for probly another hour, went to the libary at 1:30, read and went on the computer til 5. i was constantly fighting with myself about whether to read the good books i found or find a book i could make a non-freaking-out-the-teacher connection to. i have to go to a reading journal in 15 minutes. ill probly put it off again. mrph.... o well.

Party

marina's party was fun. They took a lot of pictures, and at the beginning i really didnt want my picture taken. "It's not that big a deal to look at the camera and smile." It was for me right then.. but that's ok. eventually i let them. I spun my grape accessory in a paper cup, listened to improntu proformances and piono playing, looked bored but really wasn't, hide "under the table" but wasnt under it really, and pretty much had fun. It was good to see Marina. Much more happened, but i forget.

Vacation

i have waay too much to blog. but no-one with care about it...
we left early in the morning, drove for ages. I didnt get really carsick, but i just sat, slept... i thought my CD player was broken. and it is asking for nausea for me to read in the car. We got to my grandma's apartment at 1:30, went right back out to get food. We got cold latkes (grooooss) and food from the salad bar at the spermarket. They sell it by weight. I got food that mixes ok, like mushrooms and melon and strawberries. my siblings got unmixable food, like shrimp salad, jello, and eggs. It got slightly tipped... so James threw a tantrum about not getting lunch. Everyone offered him his... then we were laughing about food. The fact on the inside of James's Snapple was that the eye expands 45% when looking at something pleasent. They must have meant the pupil... but it set off a set of jokes about my sister going, "look! boys!" and then having her eyes explode. And the boys saying, "man, she WAS hot..." 'twas weird. at the very end, my sister found a door to the roof. we're gonna go up there next time...
then we drove for many more hours to my grandad's house. I found a teddy i had left there two years ago... it was my favorite til i forgot about it. not much of interest that night. we watched a documentary about public schools in NYC that started teaching ballroom dancing. wasn't hugely intersting, but i saw the point. too complicated to explain here. And i read. then i went to bed, dreamed odd stuff, woke up, found some art books that i borrowed. had more fights with my brother over food.. drove, realized my cd player needed new batteries, used it, went to a buffet for lunch (why do we always do that on trips? i cant eat what i want, or i get looked at weirdly, or i throw up in the car...) then we drove home. the house was freezing. then i went to Marina's surprise party slightly late, because of the trip.

I'll be Away...

Today and tomorrow morning, visiting relatives on Long Island and in CT. Like, 11 hours of driving total. Somebody knock me unconcious for the whole thing? Please? Besides me getting soooo carsick, my family fights like the snakes on Medusa's head. (THAT was random!) see evvyone later....

sorry folks

now evvyone can comment! didnt realized the setting thing was on. just changed it.

new template

i've caught the bug, new template... i dont really care that much tho. but i like blue. and my old one was random.

unabashed tardiness

i dont post here at all recently, but i dont really care. I doubt ppl read it alot, there's not much to say that i'd say here, and i have too much to do anyway. this is fading into oblivion, or whatever. if someone wants me to post, i might once in a while. but i have other things to do. Does that sound negative? i post when there's something important that happened that i want to record but is too middle schoolish to put on xanga. w/e. adunno.

dance

there was a dance (wow, could you have guessed that?) and the light was uncovered, so that sucked, and not much happened for most ppl until some lemonade weirdness and eventually ppl danced. I think im going to stop going to dances tho. It would really be a lot better for me. For my sanity, i would say, but that would be making a large assumption...

civic duty (this post, that is)

nothing interesting happened yesterday, that i remember. i lived thru my english presentation and came straight home, and did a teeny bit of homework. mostly lay on my bad and thought. Today i had picture retakes, and didnt really care. they were better than my zombie-like old one. but i still dont like smiling in braces. Too vain. nothing to say that i remember. there's a dance tonight, and i always end up going, even tho im never sure until right before. it'll get me out of the house. wow, that sounded weird. huh. bye peoples.

Half Day

this mornig was a crazy mess of short periods where nothing was really accomplished, but it was ok and then we all trooped to the library (most of us) and had fun, talked about vegetarianism and self-relying or whatever, and i just hung out and read most of the time, and i have these odd songs stuck in my head, but i sorta like them. but i donthave a lot of homework, except our group is going to fail our presentation in Community service. i wash my hands of the whole matter.

comme ci comme ca

well i found out this mornig i had a page long social studies essay to do... talk about my stomach literally dropping... but i was about to get stuff in relatively well, so i'm not failing yet, but i seriously dont get the science lab... random annoying boys raving about its impossbility doesn't help me concentrate either. So.... i went to the libary very briefly, got some homework done and got over my mini-meltdown, and... things will live. For now. "Life is a walking shadow..."

random happy stuff

today i went to church ad it was really warm, like 50, and my sister said "what if its already easter and we can skip winter?" and then i laughed at my neighbors who were laughig at the O"leary's all through church, it was insane and my mom got really mad. then i came home, actually did a little hw, read/listened to music, got a surprise call and went to a birthday dinner, where there was a lot more laughing and asian food, which i am so uncultured i had no clue how to eat most of it. there was a lot of hysterical laughing, and comparing ppl to dead chickens and related matters. And then i had to do a reading journal, i just finished a book about a girl who was institutionalized for shizophrenia, so i didt think it wise to do my connection on it... so i picked a book i finished two weeks ago and tried to make it work. and had ice cream.

explanations

I took some stuff out of some posts, if anyone noticed. sorry. i felt like editing, and if i give this address out to someone that doesnt really need/want to know the sort of hints i gave... its easier this way.

hmmmm

i'm at the the libary, i really still have nothing to day, nothings been happening cept too much homework, ill do something on the long weekend to post... eh. I've been to the libary a ton, and ari is teaching my brother to make nooses, and my eyes are horribly blind, and.... eh. forgot again. somebody leave a comment about something!

Absolutely NOTHING

I'm posting out of a sense of duty despite noone really caring. I have done nothing this weekend. I listened to music, fooled around on the computer, read all of Of Mice And Men despite really disliking it, went to church and sunday school this morning, blown off hw, realized i dont have the book i have 50 vocab words from... need to find it at Dartmouth bookstore. I am absolutely feeling lazy! arg. This blog is going nowhere. I'm ending talking about my life unless someone asks. i dont want them to think about it. too depressing. so go away and do something else.

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Halloween, Library

Well i didn't end up making plans to go trick-or-treating, tho i had a costume, but i wasnt reaaally caring, tho certainly meloncholy with nothing but hw to do. Then i got on IM and Katie was like, Have you been trick-or-treating already? And i'm like *sigh* no..... And she says, let's go together! And we actually do, at 8:00, and have lots of fun, naming things Frederick and looking for leaf piles and running away from scary houses and basically doing the whole Halloween thing. I went to the library yesterday, but only did a ton of hw (i feel i've been having way too much recently) but today we went to an upstairs room. We listened to Eleanor laughing hysterically at a book, talked about dumb hw, and... i went to e-mail at the same time as Eleanor. It was fun. But now i have homework that i cant really do all of, and i suppose it's my fault. but ah well. And the science test was easier than i thought.