Driver's Non-Education

Sorry it's been so long; I don't have a computer anymore, so this is on my ipod :). A couple weeks ago, I took drver's ed. The driving part was fun, the education not so much. I nearly fell asleep a couple of times learning while being told which side of the road to drive on. Once I think I actually fell asleep, because I remember watching, then kinda falling sideways and almost out of my chair. Haha, poor teacher.
The driving was fun. Before the class I had never driven, unless you count one lap around the rodeo grounds, which I don't. Or go-kart racing. Or- nevermind. The first day my inthecar teacher pulls me out and says we're going to drive. I'm like okay, I can do this. So I go to our poor little Pontiac AM and walk over to the passenger side.
No sweetheart, you're driving.
Oh. So I get the keys and it takes me nearly five minutes to get the car unlocked, as I eventually figure out I'm sticking the ignition key in the door slot. I get in, and it's like climbing into one of those turtle cars the Shriners drive. So I look over at my teacher in semi-shock/wonder/surprise.
You're going to drive it to the bus barn.
WHAT?! I've never driven before. Which one is te brake, again? The skinny one?
He gave me this look (You know which one, the look.)and is like Yeah.
So I ended up driving across town, around the bus barn, to the Cody Legacy Inn, the bus barn, the KOA, the bus barn, then finally back to the school. It was fun.
Have a good summer. We just hit 70 degrees!

Oopsssss...not really

I haven't posted in forever. That's because almost every post comes from my ipod. I think the ipod is about 2"x4", so you can imagine the keyboard. At any rate, it's snowing, and raining, and it's the middle of June. WTFM? (Fudge monkeys....) Here's a few funny things to keep you amused until next time.

1. I passed my trig final.
2. After passing my trig final, I kinda screamed (really loudly, I think...) and got kicked out of Mrs. Gerber's bio classroom.
3. I took driver's ed. It was actually okay. I didn't crash the car or anything even.
4. My parents wanted my to learn to drive stick, so I got a lesson in Mike's fricking ginormous truck. Like the truck that you climb stairs to sit in. And then I drove it down the highway. AHHH!!! So cool. If they got good mileage, I'd almost buy a truck just to feel totally...like I was driving a truck. It was amazing!
5. I split my lip three times in two days. It seems like I get more injuries in the summer for some reason.
6. My Nanowrimo novel arrived in the mail.
7. I have a Death Kight in WoW. Her name's Fishpuppy and she's a Draenai on Elune. I likey.

Have fun for now, and keep off the roads ! :)

Summer again

So it's summer again, and I don't have my school computer anymore. That is actually more than okay with me. Those things weigh a ton. I don't care if they're nice, shiny Apples, they weigh a lot. So I'm using my ipod to post. Meaning, I can't post pictures. Maybe you'll see one once in a while, but for now you can give up. :)
School's over, I passed my classes, and it's snowing and raining and raining and being cold here. It's not summer. It's flipping winter. In May. So I've ended up spending some time on Netflix. I looked up Mary McDonnell shows (she plays Laura Roslin from Battlestar) and she came up in Grey's Anatomy. I started watching and it's pretty good. It's about these four interns at the Seattle Grace Hospital, and it's pretty good. It's definitly dramatic and kinda silly, but it's funny too and it has good characters. I like Izzy, the model turned surgeon, prsonally. She's funny, totally heart-on-her-sleeve, and she manages to get all the crummy jobs. As it turns out Mary McDonnell is only in three episodes, but I'm going to watch anyways. I'll let you know.

Updates

Sometimes, things update too fast for me. Sometimes it's good, like Wallaby for iPad. sometimes it's not so good, like heycanyouworkyourdayoff?. And sometimes it's plain okay.
School is coming to an end again and I realized I've been on Blogger for nearly a year. I've had over two thousand hits and a hundred posts. I've put all sorts of bit and pieces of me here, panic and joy and...things. It seems kinda significant now. I wonder now if someday I'll come back here, after college and years and read it and think "I did this?" "Oh, I so got over that. How was it such a big deal?". It's kinda funny. Just for the sake of nostalgia, I'll put a few more bits of me up now.

The Song In My Head- Originally by Sixpence None the Richer, this version by Alassë Suiauthon.

A Couple of Photos I Like

Gorg lighting.

Doesn't it look delicious? Especially the cowlick. :)

From the Thistle.

Simplicity.

I wish my hair would do that. It's one reason I envy dark-haired people. White flowers look 

beautiful in their hair.

(If you'd like to know who did the photos, let me know. She doesn't put her name straight out.)

My Final AP History Essay (You don't have to read it.)

The United States is continually advancing technology. This nation is the birthplace of the electric vehicle and the PC. NASA put the first man on the moon. America has been at the forefront of creative thinking at science for decades. I believe the country will continue along this track of advancement. However, if we don’t find a way to reduce global warming, I believe humans will have to go off-planet and live elsewhere. I think the United States would be one of the first nations to create spaceships and send people away, despite lingering memories of the Challenger explosion. I believe this will eventually happen as America seems to be thoroughly dependant on electronics and fossil fuels. When a new space race actually occurs, nations will be at odds with their rivals and I see the United States stepping in as a peacemaker as in the Yom Kippur War. I think the United States will be a technologically advanced nation, moving away from Middle Eastern oil, but still dependent on electricity and electronics, such as the Internet.

The United States has continually been one of the world’s most technologically advanced nations. Ever since its origin, America has been refining techniques and ideas. In the 1700s, Virginian tobacco was renowned for its smooth flavor, unlike anything else in the world. Not long afterwards, Eli Whitney created the cotton gin, which revolutionized the cotton market. In the twentieth century, American scientists created the first atomic bomb, followed shortly by the hydrogen bomb. Within a century, America put a man on the moon, invented the PC, the blog, the GPS, Mars rovers, Segway, and bionic contact lenses. However, most of these inventions (and all of the recent ones) require either electricity or oil products to work. American advances are dependent upon oil and gas products and, more recently, electricity. It’s as though the US is addicted to oil and electricity is the first step in a recovery program; it’s still a “drug” so to speak, but it’s not as bad, not as addictive.

Even though electricity is cleaner than oil, it still contributes to global warming/climate change. Oil is still used to produce the electronic items. This combination of dependencies is leading to the downfall of humankind. I believe that we must become less dependent on oil and gas or leave Earth almost altogether. It sounds extreme, but we have become too dependant upon modern appliances. We wouldn’t survive if oil and gas or electricity supplies suddenly cut off. To continue surviving in the changing world, I believe we must cut back on our consumption of man-made products and prepare to leave the planet.

Leaving the planet is not a revolutionary idea. Many hit movies and books, such as Avatar, Battlestar Galactica, and Across the Universe involve people living in oil/electric dependent worlds that are dangerously polluted. The characters leave their worlds and join others in naturalistic, paleolithic lifestyles. Our world is within reach of the type of technology needed to do so. In fact, NASA and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) scientists are already developing a project called the “Hundred Year Starship” that would take people to the Martian moons of Phobos and Deimos, the first attempted non-orbital spaceflight since the explosion of Challenger. The “starship” would not return to Earth, suggesting NASA is looking for ways to colonize other planets, not just research them.

As global warming becomes a more prominent issue, I believe other nations will begin researching non-terrestrial colonization. This would likely lead to an international “space race,” similar to that of the 1950s and 1960s. If people need to get off-planet as soon as possible (following the eruption of Yellowstone, for example), military invasions of advanced nations would likely occur. I believe the United States’ relative geographical isolation in North America would lead to its stepping in as an international peacemaker, as happened in the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel, Syria, and Egypt.

I think the United States will continue to be a technologically advanced nation, however, it will continue to be dependent upon oil and electricity; resultantly, I believe nations will begin a “space race” to find a method for extra-terrestrial travel and colonization. American inventors created many commonplace items, such as the PC, GPS, and blog. Most of these inventions rely upon oil and gas products or electricity in order to be useful. This continual depletion of natural resources will eventually lead to the downfall of humankind on Earth, in the pattern of a predator/prey relationship. To counteract that end, scientists will need to develop spaceships to carry people to other planets and moons. When such a “space race” results, the United States will need to step in as an international peacekeeper to prevent military invasions of technologically advanced nations by less advanced nations. The US’s comparative physical isolation from the rest of the world should help us to remain neutral while advancing our own technology.

Oh. Pie.

I know I keep saying how sorry I am I'm not posting, but I am. It's dead week at school at we've been totally slammed....At any rate.
Today Annamarie and I had to bake pies. We put in two apple pies during lunch and went to class.

When we came back this is what we saw.

Annamarie immediately thinks the pies burned. Beyond recognition.
I think "Oh. Pie."
It was pretty funny. Obviously neither of us were really with it. Maybe someone could make a study of that. "Sleep Deprivation And Homework Overload In Teens" To the far left we have "jumps to conclusions" and on the right "jumps to nothing." As it turns out, our friend came and got them when they finished cooking and put the new ones in. And just to keep you amused, here's a few funny pie pics.

The Wrong Era

Yes, I am wearing a slightly ratty, purple t-shirt with a horse on it. Yes, I know it doesn't match a gray gauze skirt. Yes, I would wear a tutu if I had one available right now. Sometimes I just need to get intouch with my femininity and I can't wear pants.
Sometimes, I think I was born at the wrong time. For one thing, I live in Wyoming and I have this deep longing to play bagpipes. I've wanted to since I was little. Not really a smallpipe, but a full out bagpipe that you can't play in town because it would drive everyone insane.
I also love soundtracks. Worded stuff is nice, but the music... ohhh. I get goosebumps listening to Kara Remembers, Fawkes the Phoenix, A Window to the Past, songs like that. I wish I could play music. I'd be happy just being able to play the Deilide Trace Sonata.

And the Beatles. I love them. You've heard John Lennon, surely. Have you ever heard his son, Julian? Julian sounds so much like John; it's incredible.
Sometimes, I think I'm sentient in the wrong universe, if you go by the string-theory. If not, I was born in the wrong era. I think of people like Alanna of Trebond and go I wish I was her. 
When I was little, my closet became a kingdom, rather like Terabithia. I actually would draw forests and landscapes and tack them up. I had my own crown and queen name and I made up wonderful adventures. And when I played Barbies... the adventures they'd go on. Maybe I grew up feminist because I never had a Ken, but the girls kicked but and ziplined. They broke stuff quite often too. I had one go to the doll hospital several times for beheadings.  I looked at them a while ago, and one of them, I think her name was Meg, had a broken leg, arms, and a nearly busted head. I seem to remember she had a tie-dye glittery cat suit that she wore. Maybe that was part of the problem.
Sweetest dreams,
Pxioe

eye-byoo-PROH-fuhn

Enough said. That was health class today. We played a "guess-what-drug-Longcat-is-describing" thing. It was kinda interesting. In trig, we found out Osama Bin Laden was dead. Lacei says "That made my day. I passed my driver's test (after failing 9 times) and now that guy is dead." A few minutes later, we saw an old clip of him and Lacei goes "Wait! I thought that guy was dead! Is he alive now?"
(More) good news. One of my friends is offering to publish some of my Clari Hawkins stuff in the school lit mag. If it ever comes out. NTL, cool.