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Hee hee. Over at Sophia's yesterday. I went right after I got my hair cut. Oh yeah. It's kind of short. But this is me. My hair's never been longer than maybe 3 inches below the shoulder. Such a shame that I'm so lazy. So now I really do look like Maryam d'Abo in 1987. It's actually quite funny, because it didn't really turn out the way I expected it to. I look kind of Asian and preppy. It is kind of cute, actually. But I just look so incredibly...stereotypically Asian. It's kind of funny, really. Rather frightening, actually. It'll probably take me a few days before I stop minding that much.
Right. So I was over at Sophia's, and she called me earlier in the afternoon to bring my calculator. So of course I'm intrigued, because people normally don't tell you to bring over a calculator. It turns out that she got a computer connection cord. Grr, lucky. I supposedly have one but I've been searching for a couple of months and I still haven't found it. Sigh. So it took us about 2 hours to figure out how to use the stupid software and all, and we were also trying to bake some challah at the same time. Oy vey.
Never trust me with baking anything. I can cook decently enough, but baking is out of the question. Sophia told me to sprinkle some sesame seeds onto the challah. Simple enough, right? Well, of course I didn't pay attention too closely, and I ended up sprinkling sesame seeds onto both loaves of challah. This wouldn't have been so bad if I was supposed to leave one loaf clean for cinnamon sugar. For the next ten minutes (her mum was watching TV in her room) we were desperately trying to pick out sesame seeds from the loaf that had the fewest. Considering that the dough was still unbaked, this was pretty difficult. We ended up picking out little bits of dough as well, though it didn't look too bad once we started patting it down and reglazing it with egg. It tasted pretty good, too.
Haha. I learned about Ruby the dog. Sahara had this dream about this perfect little dog (I think it might've been a wire terrier? or maybe I just think that because I really love wire terriers) and whenever Pongo and Keri (of the infamous 8th grade science experiment) misbehave she says, "Ruby would never do that!" Yeah....
Oh, and we got to see Mars! We went up to the FC observatory. Unfortunately the line extended from the observatory all the way to the end of the parking lot. And we were at the end of the parking lot, and the line moved at approximately the rate of 25 ft/hr, and the line was over 300 yds long. We ended up in another line for a 4" telescope, and then one for a 12" telescope. We actually got to see the polar ice cap! There was this nice British family right behind us, and they just started talking about geeky math and physics things. We were having this big discussion about how you have to be able to swim to graduate from MIT. Sophia and I were trying to figure out the rate of the other line for the big 16" telescope. I am proud to say that I can still do mental math fairly quickly. Then again, I spent about 3-4 years straight doing all of those timed test things. Sadly enough, I think that's the only reason why I got into honors math.
When we got back we had tea and McVittie's digestives (plain chocolate ones). I thought about England and all. Hee hee. It was pretty funny. I still hope that we didn't totally trash that bonk-the-crab game in Blackpool...but they'll never find us now! Mwahahaha. We spent about an hour and half looking for good TI83+ games on the internet, and found a bunch of good ones. I now have Subhunt (which I"m actually pretty good at), Oregon Trail II (much simpler version, and it's all text, but it's not too bad although my oxen always die on me, and I run out of supplies), and Snood! Hee hee, though it's hard to play Snood. In order to max out on memory (we couldn't find any free memory, so we ended up archiving a lot of junk), we split up so that we have different games and we'll just swap calculators. She has snake, Tetris, and Mario Brothers (seriously! It's so darn cool). We ended up going to bed at 1:30 in the morning, and we didn't really talk or anything. And then in the morning we just sort of hung out and played calculator games, and then played Oregon Trail II (the real one!) for about half an hour before I had to go. A pretty cool sleep over, really.
Afterwards I went to have dim sum with my parents and Eleanor L's parents. It was pretty cool, though sadly Eleanor wasn't able to come. There's a bunch of leftovers in the fridge.
I've hardly done anything at all today. I've been trying to work on the first play I ever wrote, "A Night at the Museum", the 8th grade one acts one. I've gotten up to scene 5 with Mr. Ralston's interview. I've been adding more costume and stage directions, and added a ton more dialogue and attempted to have more character development. It's a lot of work, though I think it's a bit better now. I'm thinking about getting Elena to see it. After all, Elena and Sophie did help write the original version. Sadly I didn't keep the old version, though I'm sure that I could piece it up. I'm keeping most of Sophie's bits and elaborating a bit more on it. It's still a rather wacky comedy. I'll probably keep all of Nathalie's stuff; she was such fun to write. Then again, she seems so funny because I wrote her dialogue at about 3 in the morning and was becoming extremely hysterical to finish everything by the deadline. I want to finish it before school starts on Sept. 2.
I think I'll go watch "A Touch of Brimstone". Hee hee. I heard it was a good Avengers episode, and it looks like it, from the 5 minutes I got to see. "What the Butler Saw" is really quite underrated. There really are some great SEDDI moments in that one. I've been vegging out on a lot of Avengers, though I still have a bunch of good Mrs. Peel episodes left, and then on to Cathy Gale, Tara King, and Purdy.
Right. So I was over at Sophia's, and she called me earlier in the afternoon to bring my calculator. So of course I'm intrigued, because people normally don't tell you to bring over a calculator. It turns out that she got a computer connection cord. Grr, lucky. I supposedly have one but I've been searching for a couple of months and I still haven't found it. Sigh. So it took us about 2 hours to figure out how to use the stupid software and all, and we were also trying to bake some challah at the same time. Oy vey.
Never trust me with baking anything. I can cook decently enough, but baking is out of the question. Sophia told me to sprinkle some sesame seeds onto the challah. Simple enough, right? Well, of course I didn't pay attention too closely, and I ended up sprinkling sesame seeds onto both loaves of challah. This wouldn't have been so bad if I was supposed to leave one loaf clean for cinnamon sugar. For the next ten minutes (her mum was watching TV in her room) we were desperately trying to pick out sesame seeds from the loaf that had the fewest. Considering that the dough was still unbaked, this was pretty difficult. We ended up picking out little bits of dough as well, though it didn't look too bad once we started patting it down and reglazing it with egg. It tasted pretty good, too.
Haha. I learned about Ruby the dog. Sahara had this dream about this perfect little dog (I think it might've been a wire terrier? or maybe I just think that because I really love wire terriers) and whenever Pongo and Keri (of the infamous 8th grade science experiment) misbehave she says, "Ruby would never do that!" Yeah....
Oh, and we got to see Mars! We went up to the FC observatory. Unfortunately the line extended from the observatory all the way to the end of the parking lot. And we were at the end of the parking lot, and the line moved at approximately the rate of 25 ft/hr, and the line was over 300 yds long. We ended up in another line for a 4" telescope, and then one for a 12" telescope. We actually got to see the polar ice cap! There was this nice British family right behind us, and they just started talking about geeky math and physics things. We were having this big discussion about how you have to be able to swim to graduate from MIT. Sophia and I were trying to figure out the rate of the other line for the big 16" telescope. I am proud to say that I can still do mental math fairly quickly. Then again, I spent about 3-4 years straight doing all of those timed test things. Sadly enough, I think that's the only reason why I got into honors math.
When we got back we had tea and McVittie's digestives (plain chocolate ones). I thought about England and all. Hee hee. It was pretty funny. I still hope that we didn't totally trash that bonk-the-crab game in Blackpool...but they'll never find us now! Mwahahaha. We spent about an hour and half looking for good TI83+ games on the internet, and found a bunch of good ones. I now have Subhunt (which I"m actually pretty good at), Oregon Trail II (much simpler version, and it's all text, but it's not too bad although my oxen always die on me, and I run out of supplies), and Snood! Hee hee, though it's hard to play Snood. In order to max out on memory (we couldn't find any free memory, so we ended up archiving a lot of junk), we split up so that we have different games and we'll just swap calculators. She has snake, Tetris, and Mario Brothers (seriously! It's so darn cool). We ended up going to bed at 1:30 in the morning, and we didn't really talk or anything. And then in the morning we just sort of hung out and played calculator games, and then played Oregon Trail II (the real one!) for about half an hour before I had to go. A pretty cool sleep over, really.
Afterwards I went to have dim sum with my parents and Eleanor L's parents. It was pretty cool, though sadly Eleanor wasn't able to come. There's a bunch of leftovers in the fridge.
I've hardly done anything at all today. I've been trying to work on the first play I ever wrote, "A Night at the Museum", the 8th grade one acts one. I've gotten up to scene 5 with Mr. Ralston's interview. I've been adding more costume and stage directions, and added a ton more dialogue and attempted to have more character development. It's a lot of work, though I think it's a bit better now. I'm thinking about getting Elena to see it. After all, Elena and Sophie did help write the original version. Sadly I didn't keep the old version, though I'm sure that I could piece it up. I'm keeping most of Sophie's bits and elaborating a bit more on it. It's still a rather wacky comedy. I'll probably keep all of Nathalie's stuff; she was such fun to write. Then again, she seems so funny because I wrote her dialogue at about 3 in the morning and was becoming extremely hysterical to finish everything by the deadline. I want to finish it before school starts on Sept. 2.
I think I'll go watch "A Touch of Brimstone". Hee hee. I heard it was a good Avengers episode, and it looks like it, from the 5 minutes I got to see. "What the Butler Saw" is really quite underrated. There really are some great SEDDI moments in that one. I've been vegging out on a lot of Avengers, though I still have a bunch of good Mrs. Peel episodes left, and then on to Cathy Gale, Tara King, and Purdy.
