Music Tour ‘08 February 13, 2008

Well this is it! Tomorrow, I finally step foot off North America as I depart for Europe!! My school music department is holding a performance tour in Budapest, Vienna, and Prague over 10 days. I’m going to be so freaking excited about it I won’t even be able to focus on school. (not that it’s [...]

Monopoly!: Microsoft Office Edition February 12, 2008

My brother, lucky him, received a new laptop for his “spicy sixteen,” which just happened to come with Microsoft Office 2007 Student Edition. Due to the fact that I was still plugging away with Word 2000, I decided to install the new version. Oh! Silly me, you need an activation code [...]

Characterization of Cigen Rucca February 11, 2008

His name, derived from the old words for “Sword of the Earth”, reflected his countenance: with chocolate-brown hair, eyes of a similar shade, and a deeply tanned complexion, his visage could be faithfully duplicated in clay without the use of paint. On occasion, whispers that he was Ruccashen, Earthborn, floated through [...]

Science Olympiads!! February 11, 2008

Well, at the Long Island Nassau County Science Olympiads competition on Saturday…I got 4th place out of 66 in the Herpetology category! Yay North Shore! Next year, we’re entering to win: spirit decorations, team shirts, awesome planes, sumo robots, the works. We’ll recruit lots of uber science geeks and sweep the competition. Overall it was [...]

Politics Make My Head Hurt February 5, 2008

Today in AP US History, otherwise known as APUSH, we took today off from learning about Reconstruction to explore the significance of Super Tuesday. Apparently, contrary to popular belief, the states that a candidate wins matters not. (at least for the Democrats) What matters is how many delegates each candidate wins. If one candidate wins [...]

Tales of a Famer: 5 Drabbles February 4, 2008

It was a sad time to train as a warrior, for there were no handy monsters to gain experience off of. Actual people had to attack other actual people in order to increase their battle knowledge. Of course, Farmer Clarence had no battle [...]

Let’s get some shoes: if a fantasy character got my boots February 4, 2008

The boots were simply wrought in dyed green suede. Fashionable straps crisscrossed the back, closing around the sides through the use of hidden catches adorned in lighter suede the color of a fresh-cut dandelion stem. Inside was a lining of fiergin fur dyed an off-white, eggshell cream with a sprinkling of [...]

For someone who hates shopping… February 2, 2008

I certainly had a lot of money spent on me today. Got a new violin, a pair of sneakers, a pair of boots, and went to a movie. My old violin was a rental and sounded much like a tin can. Appropriately, it was known as Sir Humphrey the Chicken. For [...]

This is what I spend my time writing in Physics February 2, 2008

Idly, Cigen twirled his writshaft between his fingers, while the pretty Nasdrian teacher continued her long-winded explanation of energy. He hadn’t wanted to come here in the first place: the army had descended upon the Taircan village and taken away all the children below the age of ten. Cigen knew enough [...]