It may be the best thing that has ever happened to me.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
So today...
It may be the best thing that has ever happened to me.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
50th POST
So, this weekend, Katherine and I went to Philadelphia with my father to see Harry and the Potters, The Remus Lupins, and The Whomping Willows.
And it was pretty great.
It involved me and Katherine dancing--which ended poorly--and my father sitting in the back of the room awkwardly bobbing his head.
I can't really explain the trip that well, so I AM GOING TO SHOW YOU SOME PICTURES:
Harry and the Potters and a giant Squid. 
POTTERCAST! We played trivia games. Well, I didn't participate, but U sat there and wished my mother was with us. She is a secret Harry Potter nerd, and she would have known all of the answers. We missed her lots. 
Hi dad! Thanks for spending Father's Day in the car taking me and Katherine to concerts that you don't really understand. 
We made a blanket fort in the car.
IT WAS ALL SORTS OF FUN!
The next day we went and toured UPenn, which I have decided is where I want to go to school.
It was in the middle of a city, but you couldn't tell, because the campus was so big and pretty and green. The archintecture was really pretty, and everyone looked really nice. And even though it was in the middle of a city, it felt pretty safe.
And we ate food from those little cart thingys and IT WAS SO GOOD!
Basically, I am deciding on what college to go to based on the food.
LALALALALALALA
In other news, last night i listened to the Tail end of the Harry Potter Alliance Live show, and it was really great.
They are just great people, and I would like to become involved in the organization. I would really like to start a HPA in my school, but I fear that not many people would join.
I CAN ALWAYS HOPE!
Oh, and I need book recommendation. I am out of things to read. Any one have suggestions?
Sophie
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
CHANGE THAT TIME ZONE
Hello Iranian censors,
I don't live in Tehran, but have changed my timezone to support all of the internet users that are protesting the recent election.
See this post on Scott Westerfeld's blog
Sorry for the confusion,
Sophie
I don't live in Tehran, but have changed my timezone to support all of the internet users that are protesting the recent election.
See this post on Scott Westerfeld's blog
Sorry for the confusion,
Sophie
Once upon a time...
There was a girl named Sophie who actually blogged.
Damn BEDA, setting my standards so high.
BUT
I do have a lot to talk about.
HIT IT!
So it has been fourish or fiveish days since I last blogged. (I know it was last Thursday, but I don't really know what day of the week it is, and I am too lazy to figure it out. Ahhhh. Summer) But they have been quite an eventful fourish/fiveish days.
Let's do this chronologically:
FRIDAY!
So, Colin and Katherine were supposed to come over, and we were going to walk around town and have fun, BUT Colin decided to go to work with his mother. We couldn't be that mad at him though becasue he got TO MEET BJORK!
Creepy picture that he took, and I stole off his facebook.
Katherine decided that she would come over anyway, and we walked downtown and went into two music shops searching for the best ukulele (which I can now spell, thank you very much) for the smallest amount of money. It come down to a bright green one that sounded like crap and a less cool-looking wood one that sounded okay. I got the okay sounding one.
It looks a lot like this, but cheaper.
After the Ukulele buying fest, Katherine and I walked to the local antique store, and spent too much time looking at old clothing, old cameras and other old ugly stuff. We tried to buy a garden gnome for my mother (I promised her one for her birthday), but it was $84370349187230491 (or something like that). After weeping a few, gnome-less tears, we went home, and I think I took a nap.
"SIDE NOTE: Cute child singing one of my favorite songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngtKCBrAJ6U&feature=quicklist&playnext=5&playnext_from=QL
SATURDAY:
I an not sure if I actually did anything during the day on Saturday...
But that night, I babysat the three coolest little kids ever. They were the nicest, smartest, most polite children that I ever have met.
And they were kind of like robots. Kira, the three-year old, and I had the following conversation when it was time for bed:
Me: "Hey Kira, are you ready to go to bed."
Kira: "Yes"
Me: "Well, go brush your teeth and use the bathroom"
Kira: Brushes teeth, goes to the bathroom, climbs into bed, and goes to sleep.
It was unusual. Most of the kids I babysit are quite rebellious.
SUNDAY!
Sunday morning I woke up at 8:00 and hopped (well, dragged my feet) into the car to participate in something called "Tour dem Parks, Hon!" (notice the baltimorese) Basically, I rode 25 miles on my bike though as many parks in Baltimore as the course-creators (I make up words. deal.) could cram into 25 miles. It was surprisingly fun, being exercise.
And I got a cool teeshirt and chipotle veggie burrito, which basically made it the best day ever.
This is the Graphic that is on the teeshirt. It rocks.
After we got home from the ride, I took a three hour nap, and my parents went to my neighbor's graduation party and somehow lined me up a job.
That night, my mother and I went to see Spring Awakening. It was one of the best shows that I have ever seen. It wasn't the BEST SHOW EVER!, but I really, really liked it.
(out comes Sophie the rambling techie)
The only problem I had was the lighting design, it was kind of gross . They tried to make it all rock concert-y, but I thought it took something away from the music.
BUT IT WAS SOOOOO GOOOOOOOOD!
EEEEEEP!
MONDAY!
This was the busiest day I have had in a very long time.
I woke up to a whole bunch of text messages from three million people, and then proceeded to make way too many plans.
But it all worked out.
First, I went to the mall with Katherine, Colin, and Laura. We hung out at starbucks, ate frenchfries for lunch, and danced obnoxiously to the music coming out of the "cool" stores (i.e. abercrombie). We dragged Colin into a few to many stores with pink clothes, we sunned ourself on these ridiculous rocks outside of the mall,and I bought a super-cool necklace:
Ain't it purrrdyyyy?
After the mall adventure, Katherine and I went to our friend Meghan's house for an evriothon meeting. We didn't actually get much done, but we were pretty okay with it. It was only half of our team (me, Meghan, Katherine, Caitlin, and Clay), and instead of actual work, Katherine took a nap and Clay, Caitlin and I played Wii.
It turns out that I am not very talented at mariokart.
At all.
From the meeting, I went to rehearsal. It was the first real rehearsal we have had for our summer show, and the first, and last time (until tech week), the entire cast was together. It was a dance rehearsal, so I didn't have to do much--I don't really have to write down choreography. I tried to keep up, but most of my notes say thing like, "Weird little step tap thingy," "JAZZ HANDS," and "Lean to left, right, left, right." Its not really helpful to anyone.
This is the song we choreographed. Our dance is better. Our cast is better.
We are better.
After rehearsal, my friends Beth and Roxy and I went on an adventure to find snowballs and ice cream. This involved driving around way too much, and buying snowballs from a kinda sketchy shack on the side of the road.
It brought back memories of last summer. I liked it.
I got home and fell asleep
TUESDAY:
I had a dentist appointment and slept in way to late, and I almost missed it, BUT I WAS ABLE TO GET READY IN RECORD TIME!
My teeth are in excellent conditions, but I am going to have to get my wisdom teeth out soon. (EEEP! not excited for that one)
After my dentist appointment, I was supposed to clean my room and be productive, but I wasn't. I lazed about, and then went driving.
I am not a very good driver, and driving was very stressful, and my mother and I got very frustrated with each other.
As I was driving (well, I think my mother was driving by this point), I got a call from my friend Nick, and we made plans to go to Ellicott City. We gathered our friends, and we drove off (well, were driven) into the wild blue yonder.
But, apparently everything in Ellicott closes at five, which sucks because we got there at 5:30. We walked around for a while and then we decided to eat dinner. We went to about 6 restaurants until we found one that we could all agree on, was open, and wasn't super expensive.
After dinner we decided to come back to my house, and we crammed eight people into a car made to barely fit six. It was uncomfortable and entirely illegal, but it was all okay and no one died.
We then hung out at my house, playing fooseball, music, and apples to apples. It was really a lovely evening, and most of the people that came were people that I don't really see often. YEY!
DONE!
Now I am sitting in bed, and I really want this to be done. I think I am going to spell check this, post it, and then go read a book on English people that my mom checked out from the library for me.
Much love.
Sophie
In other news, FACEBOOK IS ANNOYING ME RIGHT NOW! GAH!
Damn BEDA, setting my standards so high.
BUT
I do have a lot to talk about.
HIT IT!
So it has been fourish or fiveish days since I last blogged. (I know it was last Thursday, but I don't really know what day of the week it is, and I am too lazy to figure it out. Ahhhh. Summer) But they have been quite an eventful fourish/fiveish days.
Let's do this chronologically:
FRIDAY!
So, Colin and Katherine were supposed to come over, and we were going to walk around town and have fun, BUT Colin decided to go to work with his mother. We couldn't be that mad at him though becasue he got TO MEET BJORK!
Creepy picture that he took, and I stole off his facebook. Katherine decided that she would come over anyway, and we walked downtown and went into two music shops searching for the best ukulele (which I can now spell, thank you very much) for the smallest amount of money. It come down to a bright green one that sounded like crap and a less cool-looking wood one that sounded okay. I got the okay sounding one.
It looks a lot like this, but cheaper.
After the Ukulele buying fest, Katherine and I walked to the local antique store, and spent too much time looking at old clothing, old cameras and other old ugly stuff. We tried to buy a garden gnome for my mother (I promised her one for her birthday), but it was $84370349187230491 (or something like that). After weeping a few, gnome-less tears, we went home, and I think I took a nap.
"SIDE NOTE: Cute child singing one of my favorite songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngtKCBrAJ6U&feature=quicklist&playnext=5&playnext_from=QL
SATURDAY:
I an not sure if I actually did anything during the day on Saturday...
But that night, I babysat the three coolest little kids ever. They were the nicest, smartest, most polite children that I ever have met.
And they were kind of like robots. Kira, the three-year old, and I had the following conversation when it was time for bed:
Me: "Hey Kira, are you ready to go to bed."
Kira: "Yes"
Me: "Well, go brush your teeth and use the bathroom"
Kira: Brushes teeth, goes to the bathroom, climbs into bed, and goes to sleep.
It was unusual. Most of the kids I babysit are quite rebellious.
SUNDAY!
Sunday morning I woke up at 8:00 and hopped (well, dragged my feet) into the car to participate in something called "Tour dem Parks, Hon!" (notice the baltimorese) Basically, I rode 25 miles on my bike though as many parks in Baltimore as the course-creators (I make up words. deal.) could cram into 25 miles. It was surprisingly fun, being exercise.
And I got a cool teeshirt and chipotle veggie burrito, which basically made it the best day ever.
This is the Graphic that is on the teeshirt. It rocks.
After we got home from the ride, I took a three hour nap, and my parents went to my neighbor's graduation party and somehow lined me up a job.
That night, my mother and I went to see Spring Awakening. It was one of the best shows that I have ever seen. It wasn't the BEST SHOW EVER!, but I really, really liked it.
(out comes Sophie the rambling techie)
The only problem I had was the lighting design, it was kind of gross . They tried to make it all rock concert-y, but I thought it took something away from the music.
BUT IT WAS SOOOOO GOOOOOOOOD!
EEEEEEP!
MONDAY!
This was the busiest day I have had in a very long time.
I woke up to a whole bunch of text messages from three million people, and then proceeded to make way too many plans.
But it all worked out.
First, I went to the mall with Katherine, Colin, and Laura. We hung out at starbucks, ate frenchfries for lunch, and danced obnoxiously to the music coming out of the "cool" stores (i.e. abercrombie). We dragged Colin into a few to many stores with pink clothes, we sunned ourself on these ridiculous rocks outside of the mall,and I bought a super-cool necklace:
Ain't it purrrdyyyy?
After the mall adventure, Katherine and I went to our friend Meghan's house for an evriothon meeting. We didn't actually get much done, but we were pretty okay with it. It was only half of our team (me, Meghan, Katherine, Caitlin, and Clay), and instead of actual work, Katherine took a nap and Clay, Caitlin and I played Wii.
It turns out that I am not very talented at mariokart.
At all.
From the meeting, I went to rehearsal. It was the first real rehearsal we have had for our summer show, and the first, and last time (until tech week), the entire cast was together. It was a dance rehearsal, so I didn't have to do much--I don't really have to write down choreography. I tried to keep up, but most of my notes say thing like, "Weird little step tap thingy," "JAZZ HANDS," and "Lean to left, right, left, right." Its not really helpful to anyone.
This is the song we choreographed. Our dance is better. Our cast is better.
We are better.
After rehearsal, my friends Beth and Roxy and I went on an adventure to find snowballs and ice cream. This involved driving around way too much, and buying snowballs from a kinda sketchy shack on the side of the road.
It brought back memories of last summer. I liked it.
I got home and fell asleep
TUESDAY:
I had a dentist appointment and slept in way to late, and I almost missed it, BUT I WAS ABLE TO GET READY IN RECORD TIME!
My teeth are in excellent conditions, but I am going to have to get my wisdom teeth out soon. (EEEP! not excited for that one)
After my dentist appointment, I was supposed to clean my room and be productive, but I wasn't. I lazed about, and then went driving.
I am not a very good driver, and driving was very stressful, and my mother and I got very frustrated with each other.
As I was driving (well, I think my mother was driving by this point), I got a call from my friend Nick, and we made plans to go to Ellicott City. We gathered our friends, and we drove off (well, were driven) into the wild blue yonder.
But, apparently everything in Ellicott closes at five, which sucks because we got there at 5:30. We walked around for a while and then we decided to eat dinner. We went to about 6 restaurants until we found one that we could all agree on, was open, and wasn't super expensive.
After dinner we decided to come back to my house, and we crammed eight people into a car made to barely fit six. It was uncomfortable and entirely illegal, but it was all okay and no one died.
We then hung out at my house, playing fooseball, music, and apples to apples. It was really a lovely evening, and most of the people that came were people that I don't really see often. YEY!
DONE!
Now I am sitting in bed, and I really want this to be done. I think I am going to spell check this, post it, and then go read a book on English people that my mom checked out from the library for me.
Much love.
Sophie
In other news, FACEBOOK IS ANNOYING ME RIGHT NOW! GAH!
Friday, June 12, 2009
Sleepless Scandal
When I am tried, I become this sort of puch-drunk/silly/stupid person that is increadibly amusing to some and annoying to others.
I lean to the latter.
See the following excerpt from a IM conversation I am currently having.
Laura (1:00 AM): So you know that what I'm saying is legit
Laura(1:01 AM): imate
Sophie(1:03 AM): Is that like an ipod for sex?
I should get more sleep.
Sophie
I lean to the latter.
See the following excerpt from a IM conversation I am currently having.
Laura (1:00 AM): So you know that what I'm saying is legit
Laura(1:01 AM): imate
Sophie(1:03 AM): Is that like an ipod for sex?
I should get more sleep.
Sophie
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
SHEEP
Well, I am quite busy cramming my head full of way to much information about triangles, cosines, tangents, and heron's fromula; I don't really have time for a whole entry.
SO TO TIDE YOU OVER
SHEEP!
SO TO TIDE YOU OVER
SHEEP!
Thursday, June 4, 2009
nerds
Well, hello there.
What is this place, the internet?
I have Lost Contact With the World.
I call it finalitus.
School ends next Tuesday, but it hasn't really hit me yet. My teachers seem to think that best idea is to teach right up until the DAY BEFORE FINALS. My math teacher is actually giving us a quiz on one of the final days, on what we are learned today, and what we are learning tomorrow and Friday. I would be mad, but he is the MOST AMAZING PERSON EVER TO LIVE! I don't know if I have talked about this here, but my pre-calculus teacher is the best teacher I have ever had, and I love him. His class has changed my life. I have learned so much about math and the way my mind works, and have grown so much as a student.
He also has the funniest accent ever, and says some very odd things because of it. Instead of saying "figure," he says "frigger."
Really. I love it.
And isn't he just the cutest little thing ever?
Since I am talking about teachers, I might as well go on a rant about my chemistry teacher. (NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT LIKE ANGST-FILLED RANTS, CLICK AWAY NOW!)
GAH! My chemistry class this year, has been an utter dissapointment. I like chemistry, I like labs, I like learning theories and using formulas, but I DO NOT LIKE TEACHERS WHO CAN NOT TEACH!
My teacher is only 25, and she has been teaching for only two years; maybe she will get better, BUT REALLY! Her idea of teaching chemistry has been giving us formulas and telling us to use them on pointless worksheets. We ask her what the formulas mean and what they are used for in real lab situations, AND SHE DOESN'T KNOW!
The following conversation took place on the second day of class:
Teacher: So these are significant figures, please complete these worksheets.
Student: Why do we follow these rules,when it goes against the math we have learned already?
Teacher: We just do. Please finish your work
Student: But they don't make any sense, where did they come from?
Teacher: I don't know. But those chemists, they were all on drugs. Nothing makes sense. Most of them spent their time drinking chemicals and making up nonsense formulas. *
I then proceeded to look significant figures up on the internet, and they have a perfectly logical, simple explanation.
...
I have been going all semester, dealing with her poor teaching skills, laughing at her want to befriend the "popular kids," but giving her the benefit of the doubt.
BUT THE OTHER DAY, SHE REACHED HER LIMIT!
So she recommended me and five or six other girls from my class for a physics camp at one of the local colleges this summer. We were all pretty excited about it. (Sadly, I can't actually do it, but that is NOT important to this story.)
The next day, one of the girls in my class asked why she hadn't been recommended, her grades are as high as ours, she takes the same classes, she is just as intelligent.
My teacher responds, "Well, I just don't see you as the nerdy type. I didn't think you would really enjoy sitting in a class room for two weeks, learning."
WELL THEN!
MAKE ASSUMPTIONS!
GENERALIZE OUR PERSONALITIES!
It just kind of threw me over the edge.
ONLY 4 MORE DAYS OF SOPHOMORE YEAR
SOPHIE
*Neither the teacher nor the student actually talks like this, but it's a summation of the basic ideas covered in the conversation.
What is this place, the internet?
I have Lost Contact With the World.
I call it finalitus.
School ends next Tuesday, but it hasn't really hit me yet. My teachers seem to think that best idea is to teach right up until the DAY BEFORE FINALS. My math teacher is actually giving us a quiz on one of the final days, on what we are learned today, and what we are learning tomorrow and Friday. I would be mad, but he is the MOST AMAZING PERSON EVER TO LIVE! I don't know if I have talked about this here, but my pre-calculus teacher is the best teacher I have ever had, and I love him. His class has changed my life. I have learned so much about math and the way my mind works, and have grown so much as a student.
He also has the funniest accent ever, and says some very odd things because of it. Instead of saying "figure," he says "frigger."
Really. I love it.
And isn't he just the cutest little thing ever?
Since I am talking about teachers, I might as well go on a rant about my chemistry teacher. (NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT LIKE ANGST-FILLED RANTS, CLICK AWAY NOW!)
GAH! My chemistry class this year, has been an utter dissapointment. I like chemistry, I like labs, I like learning theories and using formulas, but I DO NOT LIKE TEACHERS WHO CAN NOT TEACH!
My teacher is only 25, and she has been teaching for only two years; maybe she will get better, BUT REALLY! Her idea of teaching chemistry has been giving us formulas and telling us to use them on pointless worksheets. We ask her what the formulas mean and what they are used for in real lab situations, AND SHE DOESN'T KNOW!
The following conversation took place on the second day of class:
Teacher: So these are significant figures, please complete these worksheets.
Student: Why do we follow these rules,when it goes against the math we have learned already?
Teacher: We just do. Please finish your work
Student: But they don't make any sense, where did they come from?
Teacher: I don't know. But those chemists, they were all on drugs. Nothing makes sense. Most of them spent their time drinking chemicals and making up nonsense formulas. *
I then proceeded to look significant figures up on the internet, and they have a perfectly logical, simple explanation.
...
I have been going all semester, dealing with her poor teaching skills, laughing at her want to befriend the "popular kids," but giving her the benefit of the doubt.
BUT THE OTHER DAY, SHE REACHED HER LIMIT!
So she recommended me and five or six other girls from my class for a physics camp at one of the local colleges this summer. We were all pretty excited about it. (Sadly, I can't actually do it, but that is NOT important to this story.)
The next day, one of the girls in my class asked why she hadn't been recommended, her grades are as high as ours, she takes the same classes, she is just as intelligent.
My teacher responds, "Well, I just don't see you as the nerdy type. I didn't think you would really enjoy sitting in a class room for two weeks, learning."
WELL THEN!
MAKE ASSUMPTIONS!
GENERALIZE OUR PERSONALITIES!
It just kind of threw me over the edge.
ONLY 4 MORE DAYS OF SOPHOMORE YEAR
SOPHIE
*Neither the teacher nor the student actually talks like this, but it's a summation of the basic ideas covered in the conversation.
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