The Topic of Great Randomness

[EricG1793]

This is the first sign that I've seen of you, Garrett, since NOvember 29th. It's been longer for Lee. She hasn't made any posts since November 4th... over a month ago. Kathy, however, has been around quite a bit lately! Keep it up.

*Looks innocent* Nope, nothing going on that needs moderation. We're all being good.

Another 90 minute delay today. I rode in to school with my neighbor again... he said he got stuck in his driveway and it held him up for a few minutes (if that truck got stuck, I can't even imagine what a feeble attempt my dad's car would have been )

Last week, we only had one full day of school: Tuesday. 90 minute delay Monday and Friday. Wednesday was a scheduled 1/2 day. Thursday was an early dismissal because of the snow.

Speaking of the snow, we got our math tests back that we took on Thursday. It started snowing 1/2 way when we were done with the test. The teacher said that she could TELL when it started snowing because she started getting really strange answers on the second half of the test.... So we're taking it over again (with different numbers) on Wednesday.

[Emi]

Garrett: Haha thanks. There's a slight probability that the teacher is going to be really tough. Haha. That's really cool you were on TV!! I'd be so excited. 15 secs of fame right there!

Wolfy: Yeah I get to leave school. Only if I pay my dues.. which I have to do soon... OH and the restaurant is wicked good. I love the food there. I took culinary last year and it was during the lunches so we got to run the restaurant. After it closes we get all the extra food that no one ordered!! So good.. and it was free! haha

ERIC! I got an early release on Thursday too!!! The whole school couldn't concentrate after my principal announced that he was letting us off after C block. And we had a two hour delay on monday wednesday and friday! So cool.

Yeah we got a full day of school today.. I was hoping for a delay but no. Although I do have to say that today was probably the best day so far. One reason: No English teacher! Yeah, and we're reading a play so our sub just read a long with us while we "acted" it out. I don't think any other class could have made this play any funnier... And it's not even a comedy!! So good. I love it! (Wolfy, this is what I mean by high school being fun. It's only fun if you have the right people in your classes!)

Alright I gotta eat cuz I have a late practice and my mom wants me to be able to digest my food well before.

DAI

[wolf_wizard]

Garret: it's cool that you were on TV!

Emi: Free food... can't beat that.

Eric: *growls* that is unjust. As i've said before, my school hardly ever lets us off, and so I've been having full days of school- last week and today.

Originally posted by EricG1793:
*looks innocent* Nope, nothing that needs moderation. we're all being good.

Hehehe.
that's funny.

[Mel]

Okay, so I'm back and moderately alive.


:P


So, I think I'ma be okay now. I'm really sorry for that rant, but it was that or screaming at.....something? or worse, someone...meep! Not a good thing!

So, anyway. Emi: For the summer, we read Before We WereFree, Great Expectations, The Kitchen God's Wife, Night,



ehhh.... I'll have to edit this in a little bit.They're kicking us out of the computer lab.

Gimme like.....an hour. I'll be back!!

[wolf_wizard]

they let you post in the Forums in school? lucky...

You havn't posted for a while Mel... The forums are now moving pretty fast.

lets keep it up!

[vashmata]

Even if I was able to, somehow I'd be embarrased about it.
I still dont understand how Wolfy can have 31 more posts than me!
This is officially the last time I will mention Lasse Gjertsen's cool movie on youtube.

Well, I didn't have myFrench exam today, so I can wait for 3 weeks before I have to study . Unfortunately, I have the hardest exam tomorrow. Better wait till 11:00 to start studying, instead of 12:00.

[wolf_wizard]

Actually, it was 32, and is now 33. I have this HUGE spanish test tomorrow, and I havn't studied. i don't like stem changers in the past, future, etc. tenses. I also have to get up tomorrow to go into school in zero hours to make up a test I missed. I hope I get more than two hours of sleep unlike last night/morning.

[vashmata]

Well, it's been drawn back to 30, for the moment at least. Can you give an example of how the root can change(or stem, is there a difference?)? Why did you only get two hour of sleep? were you reading a good book or something?

[EricG1793]

Use context clues, vashmata. It was schoolwork.

And you, vashmata and Wolf Wizard, really need to start putting more "meat" on to your posts. A few longer posts a day is much preferred over half a dozen "meat-less" posts a day.

[seabiscuit1009]

Guys: it's not a contest to see who can post the most! Try to post when you've actually got something to say, and try to make the posts actually have some content in them, not just a line, a space, and another line! That's not content! Yes, this is TOGR, but it's not usually used for personal correspondence. Maybe you guys should exchange AIM addresses or emails or something? Just a suggestion.

So, because my mother is crazy, she decided my siblings and I were going to go see Santa tonight. I'm 17, by the way, and my youngest sibling is 12. It was extremely embarassing...until we got there and there was an extremely long line of little kids running around, so we didn't have to. I'm not going to deny it; I'm kind of glad that line was there!

Ahhhh....bad math jokes...XD

Today, I drove to school on possibly the snowiest road I've ever driven on. The street happens to be the busiest street in my city, and I know that there was time to plow it last night, before the morning commute, so I was wondering why they didn't, since it was really unsafe! People at school who have parents who work in the city government said that they didn't want to pay overtime to the snowplow drivers, since they have to do that if they plow on the weekend. Sheesh! Public safety versus a bit of overtime pay...I'd rather pay the overtime pay than have people in my city get into accidents (and there were accidents; I saw 3 on my way to school, in a 1.5 mile stretch of the road.)

Tomorrow is my last day of school before break. I'm so happy it's ridiculous. I just want school to be done with so I can enjoy the Christmas season...and eat a lot of food.

Hmmm...I can get on the forums at school, since I access them by going through DD's website. Other things, like email, Facebook, and eBay aren't accessible through school. I guess they figure that since it's an author's website, it's ok. Well, maybe not; I know that JKR's website is blocked at school. Ehnnn...oh well. I remember last year in Journalism, I even got on chat (when we had chat) during class a few times and didn't get caught by the teachers. That was fun. XD

Ok, well...AP Government homework calls. Dai all!

[wolf_wizard]

Hungry: But, do they just let you post on the forums? I mean, don't they ever catch you? In my school, you can get onto e-mail if you want to e-mail a rough draft of something to yourself so that you can access it at home.

Vashmata: which kind of stem changer do you mean? I'll PM you if you tell me which type. you don't change the root of the word- only the stem.

Eric: OK, I am officially reprimanded.

Anyway, I think I will only get two hours.

[Tuttle]

Am I not going to loose this post again? Hopefully.

Anyways, I had started the last time I wrote up this post talking about TOGR, and being sad and stuff, but I think everything's been said. TOGR seems an appropriate place to rant though, its just somewhere that that isn't the only thing going on, but we'll listen.

Garrett, that's cool you were on tv .

umm, high school, I'm not one to talk about that, yay for weird schools. I think I said enough when I was a high schooler anyways. I'll just say its not normal for high schools to recommend you bring knives to school...(yay leathermen...totally was recommended for the FIRST team).

this year's kickoff for FIRST is January 5. I wasn't very active last build season. That kinda happened with the drama. It makes me sad though, they did amazing. Jono's going to be being active this year too. It'll be fun . He was active on the team 2003/2004, I was active 2005/2006. So we both know how the team works and everything, and both want to try to be active as mentors. It'll be fun. And the team'll so know we're together, though they already do...We went to the party at the beginning of the year and it was pretty clear there... it'd surprise me if the two advisor mentors don't know. Though they did know we were close before we were dating...*shrug*

Mel I think it was who asked how I got through last year. Pure will power? Jono was helping a lot even before we started dating too-we were really close. He was trying to keep me sane. Then we got together...which was kinda awkward with the others, but anyways... Mostly pure will power though. Sisu . And it did affect my grades, one term I should have gotten A,B,C in my three classes and I got B, C, C. The class I disearved a C in there was no way I was going to fail though...the professor would have found ways around it (he knew I knew the material but I wasn't testing well so was at some point looking like if I tested any worse on the final I'd not pass, he was like, you'll pass I see you know the material, it'll basically be impossible to get anything but a C, but you'll pass as long as its reasonable)...he was also an amazing professor. In the middle of the final I had a panic attack and he let me leave the class, go see my friends, have them calm me down, then go back to his office a few hours later and finish the final. It was awesome. He also was just plain amazing for teaching even. Also I didn't tell myself the one of the guys which was worse, a friend told him for me (offered to even) knowing it'd be better than way. It helped noticably. Most if it was a "I'm going to get through this, I'm not going to let them affect me too much, I'm not going to just start dating someone to avoid the problem, dating someone who you're not interested in is just wrong."

Why I wanted to originally post. I got a new computer. It is amazing. It is shiny. I love it and it won't die on me and its amazing and shiny and how did I get this for a reasonable price? It's a toughbook, which says its awesome because of the not dying thing. Its modern, which means wait-how did you get this? So it has the modern specs and is a toughbook. Its a fully rugged one too, which is cool. And then of the modern fully rugged ones, its the tablet one. It has the flip down touchscreen. Not the tablet version (touchscreen not necessary to use a specific stylus) but this way's actually better for me. It's also slightly smaller than the other one, meaning it fits me better. It only has a 10.4" screen, but that doesn't bother me. It can actually fit on my back too unlike the other ones. What's being done over here with toughbooks is wearing them on your back since they don't need to worry about the weather or falling really, so this way they're easier to carry and you always can have them. And its only 5 lbs. This is like half the weight of Lazarus (Jono's older full sized fully rugged is twice the weight, and by full sized I mean like 12.1" screen). It's kinda amazing. Modern toughbook tablet is just plain shiny, so I've rather been on a high about that.

Today wasn't very fun, issues with parents started it. Mostly that I'm very non-consumerist and my dad's a shopper and he was shopping all morning when we were supposed to go out snowshoeing. And Jono was coming along and he should have had other plans for the day but because my dad wasn't being good about planning his family couldn't go get the wood they're using to heat their house with (there's enough for a while, but they need to pick it up soon). Then my dad didn't take into account Jono's not been really active for 6 or 7 years (he broke his knee, so couldn't be for a year, then other stuff got in the way) and he's just getting back into it now. His mom's actually really glad my existance is getting him back into that stuff, he's always liked it but hasn't been doing much and pretty much as soon as he started dating me he was getting the urges to be active again. So anyways, my dad decided oh its a good idea to go up a mountain snowshoeing. Jono couldn't handle going straight up for an hour in deep snow and almost blacked out. And my dad's being all we need to get you in shape to me, I'm like you don't understand this idea of caring for someone do you? Then I went over to his family's place, which was good, until dinner when I think the eggnog had gone bad and I drank a lot of it (in that whole was starving and food wasn't ready so drank a mug of eggnog so I wasn't starving). And I ended up puking after eating. Then not long after puking I got to have a total breakdown. It was fun...Jono got me back to being normal though.

Am going to around campus for a few days tomorrow- need to talk to librarians about project, it means that I can get away from my parents, which is good. I didn't have the big teenager rebellion before, I'm not getting along with them at all now though. It's not that I am rebelling though. It's that I am very different. Like my code of ethics is stricter than theirs and thus they try to have me help sister with homework in ways which I find unethical and they don't. Also, the non-consumerist in me has gotten stronger since starting to date Jono 'cause of his family being poor. I always didn't understand shopping and getting stuff you didn't need. Always was like don't get more clothes than you'll wear, wear them until they're rags. Stuff like that was always true. Now I'm really close to someone who's family can't throw around money. It makes that part of me get more annoyed at people who try to solve problems by throwing money at it. And my dad's a shopper... Sometimes this comes in handy (see above-computer) but usually it means I'm really getting annoyed at how much he's shopping. I mean, my watch died- got water in it went blank and everything. I was like oh its dead, took it off and left it to sit for a few weeks because I was busy and then noticed, hey look the screen's coming back. So we took the watch apart, cleaned it completely, fixed it such that it wouldn't happen again, and I have my watch again. My dad kept asking if I wanted a new watch, I was like, I want to try to fix it first, and he didn't understand this idea. I mean yes its a pain to put back together a digital watch, but its interesting and worth trying.

I'm still really hyped about this computer. It's amazingly shiny. I have brought it into stores to keep it from being left in the car. It makes sense though, its expensive even if we didn't pay that much for it.

We were wanting to have it go tablet, have gimp up and have cat paw print brush, and let the kittens of Jono's family walk over it, didn't end up doing it, it'd be funny though, Puck'd get confused.

I've been talking about Jono alot... probably makes sense though. We figured out that we spend less than 15% of our time separate when school is going on...it's kinda insane. But I love him.


I think that's all for now. Other than repeating shiny computer.

Oh wait, one more time, Om is the system I had on my old computer. I decided it was the system when that one basically died. So I moved Om over to here. So Jono was saying I should get a sticker for it that says "The tortoise moves too!" I am planning on it.

Now I think that's all.

Bye peoples. I think I ramble only a little this time.

[Garrett Fitzgerald]

The not-allowing-for-physical-limitations thing, I can relate to. I like hiking, especially at Acadia National Park, where I've climbed up, or at least partway up, several of the mountains. Donna is a foot shorter than me, which usually means she walks slower than I do, and since she also walks less than I do, I can leave her in the dust if I'm not paying attention. One time we went down there with my brother and his girlfriend/wife (I forget which side of the wedding it was on), and Donna had to turn around halfway up, while the rest of us continued to the top.

More recently, I tried to climb that same mountain with Ael and Erin. Ael didn't last very long, so I sent her back to the parking lot, where Donna had decided to wait. Erin, on the other hand, was a little mountain goat. :-) We got two-thirds of the way to the top, but came down early since I hadn't packed water bottles, and since I didn't want to hold the folks at the bottom up _too_ much. (See here for peektures.) (Note to self: replace the dratted camera, as the pictures have been washed out since Erin (?) took an accidental picture of the sun one day.)

[Emi]

Wow. Nice pictures Garrett!!

My school allows me to go on to this website.. I haven't exactly tried posting from there but I know I can get on. Also, I know how to get around the child block. Haha. I'm no hacker, I just got connections.

Hungry at least you get to drive to school when it snows. My parents are still aprehensive about letting me on the road. Granted, I just got my lisence last month but still! I can drive in the snow. I've got four wheel drive.... Oh and I'd be happy too that there was a long line to meet Santa. Your last day is tomorrow?!?? Lucky duck! Mine's Friday! Haha.

Tuttle: Yay!! A new compy is always great!! And it has a touch screen?? Sweet!

I feel like this week is going by wicked slow. Seriously, I keep thinking today should be like Thursday or something. Why can't Christmas break be here now?!? AHHH!! I think I'm going to die before the end of this week. Another game is today. NO PRACTICE TOMORROW!! Yeah! We ran a lot last night. Not cool. But I'm getting better to say the least. My asthma is still there but I can last through all the runnings! Go me! haha. Oh and we had to have club photos today. That was cool. My marketing teacher's voice is so annoying that I really didn't want to hear that first thing in the morning. But I did, and I was erked the rest of the day. Haha. Why couldn't we have pictures after I woke up? I'm still going to bed really late, last night was an exception because we had a really late practice (7-9). Anyway, why can't I sleep earlier than midnight? It troubles me deeply because I don't like sleeping at school... Alright I'm going to go because I need to get my stuff ready for the game. My mom is helping out at the concession tonight, so we got to get there early!

Dai All.

(I felt like using lot of smilies today )

[wolf_wizard]

Seabiscuit: I don't envy you for being forced to see "santa", but at least you excaped the trauma of it.

I get off on Friday, so at least I'm going through school for as long as you Emi.

Those pictures were really good Garett. I was in my math class (which is filled with lots of people older than me, because i'm in advanced math- I'm not bragging, just trying to explain) and I was really tired, as I got barely over two hours of sleep, and i was starting to fall asleep over my midterm test. I have math first thing in the morning, but I still think I might have made several mistakes- not good.

Tuttle: Wow, you're really lucky. That new computer sounds really nice. I'm not a big consumer either, so I know how annoying people can be when they use so much money on things you don't really need. I know several people (my sister included) and it really annoys me.

Ahhh- I have to go to fencing practice now. I would have remembered earlier, but it was rescheduled...