WPMs (AKA Robotics)

DUN DUN DUN D<

After that bio test, I ended up going to robotics for an extended stay till 7 PM, which wasn’t helped by the fact that I was pretty tired and my dad came on campus to switch cars with me.

Anyways, we’ve been have a couple of electronics problems, and it was decided that we redo every WPM for the spikes. Not exactly the most fun thing ever, but necessary. Sadly for me, I was probably the only one really working on it for a bit, and while I am a turtle compared to the freshmen, I think the quality of my work is probably better. :\ Anyways, I did that for essentially 3 hours, and then I right before I went home, I had this amazing amazing dinner. I regret not taking pictures.

Seeing that I was running on 2 hours of sleep, I failed at starting my dad’s car and panicked. Apparently, I couldn’t take out the key or start it up properly since I decided to put it in drive before starting the engine. Oops. That’s what happens when you don’t get enough sleep kiddies!

Finally, I’m still working on the robotics website. It’s finished but not polished. I need to set up a user system, as well as a resource section with at least something to say. Anyways, I should finish up the user system, and then go to bed. Over and out.

Cucumber sandwiches

I’m sure some people are groaning right now since they know my love of this sandwich.

Yum…. Great for midnight snacks. It’s typically bread, cream cheese, and cucumbers, but since we had a giant bowl of greek style yogurt spread, that’s what I used. Honestly, I prefer the yogurt to teh cream cheese, mostly since it’s less guilt wracking.

Rather than just talk about this sandwich… I think I should eat it now.

Robotics

Cookie and Mandarin towers are great when you’re trying to waste a little time in Robotics. The fact that they were home made cookies makes it so much better. If I don’t make sense, this is me just thinking back to last week during Marther Luther King Weekend working at Robotics during build season. Fun.

Then again, we’re quite the crazy bunch. From using zip ties to everything to sporting extrusion necklaces, Robotics team is like a little family to me right now, especially during build season during which people wish they could sleep on campus. Or… Put mustaches on cameras:

Or just use our failures (such as someone’s attempt creation of a target by taping pieces of paper together) to create some form of entertainment (like a dart!):

We’re actually doing great progress right now. Electronics should have finished the the E-box by now. This year, we’re actually doing pneumatics! Electronics finished early enough for us to start playing with the stuff. I’m so excited! Oh yes, and here’s an interested way some people decided to park…. Then I realized that they were still in the car. How embarassing.

And finally, what am I doing right now? Okay.. What *was* I doing? Installing locks on my bass. Yay for non-slipping straps now.

Also, I’m currently learning how to overtone sing, which is pretty much singing with that high whistling noise. A fast google search should explain what I mean. It was raining heavily all this week, so I wasn’t able to wear anything frilly. However, I have learned that Californians are lost in the rain. Looks like everybody’s forgotten about all the rain back when I was in elementary school. Well, rain is great, no matter how late it makes me to school. It must be a great breather considering the drought we’re going through…

And thus, the new semester begins.

Finally! I’m a second semester senior! Just cause graduation is coming up doesn’t mean that I’m done with work. I don’t have a free period this semester, which has now been replaced with an electronics class. I’m taking 3 science classes this semester, and by the end of today, realized I have more HW than I expected from those classes.

Nothing much going on this week except for build season and the choir concert. I’m supposed to also accompany one kid, and the score is pretty hard. Need to practice it like crazy before Friday. The rain really doesn’t help though. It’s messing me up pretty badly. I had funny sleep hours last night, with be sleeping for 4 hours and waking up at 12:30 AM, and then being unable to sleep until 6 AM… Okay… I really should stop complaining, since it’s just making me feel worst.

SO! THINGS I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS SEMESTER!

My English class currently rocks. The teacher is great, and I’m gonna love it more than last semester’s class even if there’s going to be more workload.

Electronics is going to be fun. I’ve been in the electronics subteam of robotics, but I guess it’s now time for me actually to jump into the more in depth stuff.

Biotech is going to be great too. Both science electives I’m taking are mostly labs, which makes me so happy.

Graduation is coming up…. I have no idea what to say about it. Time flies way too fast.

Finally, I’m looking forward to Fanime, the anime con that’s going to occur on the weekend after graduation. I might be working there, and I really can’t wait to just have fun with friends. I haven’t been to this con since 8th grade, and it’ll be the second time I attend an anime con.

Anyways, the rain is going to let up at the end of this week, and my mood will too. Back to reading Greek tragedies.

Finally brought my camera to school!

Sorry for not posting for so long. It’s the last week of the semester and teachers have been jam packing it with work and tests. I’m finally through with most of the work, so time for a little post on my Friday, when I finally brought my camera to school and got my earbuds fixed.

It’s fun to take shots of people during lunch. People make the weirdest expressions when they aren’t paying attention, including myself. ;D If you were curious, we had this errm … interesting… orange chicken for lunch that day. Photopost time! Yeah I would have put it up as a gallery, but I’m lazy and it’s a pain to do small little captions for galleries.

Paul staring

Doug is actually blinking!

Proof that myspace pictures are evil.

I was actually just randomly talking, and while Chris wanted Danny to take a shot of the USB key, Danny tilted up the camera. I make such weird expressions.

Danny in his … geekiness?

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful. Paul promised me to help fix my earbuds that were literally ripped in half when I somehow slid them out of the car while going out. It was a soldering job, during which I realized that my soldering techniques are quite different from his. We learned from different people. Photo post number 2!

Paul made me promise to not take anymore pictures of him.

And… After going home, I got my Metamorphose Temps de Fille Lucky pack! In Japan, for New years, a lot of stores sell these pretty cheap lucky packs. You have no idea what you’re getting, but what you get is usually worth more than the pack itself. I’m so happy with mine. Here’s me wearing it. The cardigan is small, so I’m selling it off. >_>

Finally, I ran off at 6:30 and was nearly late for Student Directed Showcase. Had a great night and took lots of pictures, though I have yet to find the time to edit all of them. I’ll make a post about SDS later. Anyways, time to get back to work! Over and out.

Ho Hum… Back at school

I won’t stop forgetting to bring my camera to school with me, so I’m just going to write yet another image-less entry. I really should post more often, but College applications have consumed my life for hte past 6 months + and I really don’t have much to say about my daily life rather than talk about studying. I finally submitted my last application this Monday, though I didn’t really feel much of a sense of relief. I guess the tension will disperse when I get into some college haha. Hopefully.

This week is currently stressful. Most of us seniors barely got back on track when we are faced with a large stack of work: essays, tests, quizzes. That might partially explain why I haven’t had the time to really remember about posting on this blog. >_> Of course, I don’t want this post to be a whiney post about how miserable I am, since it’s not that bad. It’s just tiring I guess. It wasn’t helped by the fact that I couldn’t wear something frilly to school today. My mom made me change when I was supposed to leave the house, which has completely messed up my rhythm…

Anyways, enough of talk about my life. It’s pretty mundane, now that I think about it. Back to work then.