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General Physics I

Mondays & Wednesdays
Lecture- MW, 2:50-4:05, rm 2222
Lab- MW, 4:15-5:30, rm 2236

General Chemistry II

Tuesdays & Thursdays
Lecture- TTh 7:00-8:15, rm 1126
Lab Th 4:15-6:45, rm 1132

Considering a third class like, Texas government or English Comp II. Not sure.

So... last night I was watching My Fair Lady on the HD Movie Channel, and I see an ad for movies in November... lo and behold, there is The Motion Picture and The Wrath of Khan! They will both be playing on Nov. 15. Also, upon looking at the website, I saw that Search for Spock and The Voyage Home will be playing in December.

( All showings under the cut! )

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So.. it's been a little while since I last updated. In that time, I have decided I am going to transfer to Texas Tech.

Last weekend (October 17, 18, 19 & 20), my mom and I went to Lubbock so I could attend University Day, which was on the 19th. In short: I loved Tech, even from what little I saw. The more I discover about Tech and all it has to offer, the more I fall in love with it. I can't wait to go there, and I can't wait to be a Red Raider!

While there, I attended a luncheon for prospective transfer students. I had been freaking out over how high my GPA would have to have been to transfer, and I was relieved to learn that with my number of transferrable hours, I only need a 2.25 or higher. I have over a 3.3. So yeah, I'm good.

Earlier, I submitted my application. I know I have assured admission, but I'm still a bit nervous- probably over the scholarship application than the actual admission application. Money is our biggest issue with going to a normal university again. I'll be relying heavily on scholarship money, free financial aid, and loans. (Loans suck, by the way.)

I found a sealed transcript from Angelo in the backseat of my car, so I need to get that sent off today. Also, I need to get a transcript from ACC. Hopefully they can fax transcripts? And, I hope to God that I don't need a high school transcript. Blarghhh. On the Tech website, it says something about needing an unofficial one for advising, but not for admissions. So... yeah.

One step closer to being a Red Raider! I can't wait! :D

(Oh, and... it just occurred to me that I will be a redshirt at Tech... unless I wear black. Bahahaha!)

I think I have a problem. I love dangly earrings. And I like to buy them. Looking on Etsy, I found these three:

( Pictures under the cut-- take a look! :D )

I bought the first two, but when I was checking out, I noticed that the seller of the last pair didn't take PayPal. Come on! Grrr. I think, these days, if you're going to sell/buy on ebay/etsy/etc, you should have a freaking PayPal account. It's EASY and SECURE.

Well, let's see. In grade school/elementary school, my least favorite subject was... probably math. My favorite subject at that time was probably English/language arts, because I was good at it.

As I've gotten older, especially since finishing high school, I've become a lot more fond of science. I'm a biology major, even though I haven't picked a focus yet (although, I am VERY interested in a microbiology degree. Micro is awesome!). I'm not a fan of chemistry, and I have a feeling I won't be a fan of physics, either. I like algebra, but as I progress in the math subjects through trigonometry to calculus... IDK. I'm not looking forward to it, but it's inescapable if I want a science degree.

As for English... the older I got, the more I started disliking it. If I have control over what I write, it's fine. But various assignments = not cool. I took English comp last summer, and I was so burned out on writing by the end of the class. It might be different in comp II, which deals with fiction, but even so. I'm putting off taking more English class(es) for a while.

I've come to the conclusion that I've become more logic-oriented as I get older. I used to favor more creative type classes/assignments, but now... I like more science/math type classes. SHOCKING, I know. I still take classes that sound interesting, though they don't always work out. Last year, I tried taking a ceramics class, but a) it wasn't what I was expecting, and b) I decided I was nowhere near artsy enough to make it in that class. Or, a couple of years ago now, I took a geology class. I ended up dropping because I kept missing the class for various reasons, but I really enjoyed it- I like earth sciences. But, that's back to me liking a variety of science based classes. Of course, I'm taking astronomy this semester.

Speaking of astronomy, I've been stargazing a little bit lately. Last Friday night, my mom and I went out to my grandparents' house for dinner. They live out in the country, so it's darker/less light pollution. I found this thing on Twitter that alerts you when the ISS (International Space Station) passes over you, and it's a good view. Friday was supposed to be a good night, but it was also kind of cloudy, and the moon was bright. Needless to say, I didn't see it. But, I did manage to find the summer triangle, which is comprised of Altair (in Aquila), Deneb (in Cygnus) and Vega (in Lyra). That excited me.

Then, Sunday night, it was a clear night, and I got an alert saying that the ISS would be visible, and at a magnitude of -3.1. That is EXTREMELY bright, people! The brightest stars in the sky don't get much brighter than around -1. So I went out to one of the city parks that I knew would be darkish, and waited for the ISS. And I saw it! At its brightest point, it was as bright as Jupiter, which is really bright, considering that, at this time of year anyway, if there's one "star" you can see in the early evening, it's Jupiter. You can even see Jupiter on a somewhat cloudy night, next to the moon. But Sunday night, with the help of an app on my phone, I identified several other stars and constellations. I think I might have even seen a star cluster!

Tuesday night was the star party for my astronomy class. We met out in the hills of West Austin. Ironically enough, it was brighter out there than at the park I went to Sunday night, but whatever. There were also a lot of effing planes. Anyway, we did measurements of stars, and identified some constellations (one of the professors had this kick ass laser that shone all the way up into the sky- he pointed it toward a star and you could see the laser beam ALL THE WAY UP TO THE STAR. It was awesome!). Also, we looked at Jupiter and the moon through a telescope. By the end of that excursion, I was tired, sweaty, and just all around crap feeling. I definitely had a couple of margaritas at Chili's before heading home.

Well now, this post has gone on long enough, don't you think? Excuse my raving over astronomy, please. I'm just a big ol' geek. But seriously, being a Trekkie makes me even more interested in astronomy... it's not even funny.

I've become aware of the fact that for many people, Sleeping Beauty is their least favorite of the Disney Classics. Apparently, a lot of people don't like the lines/art/etc. I don't get it.

Sleeping Beauty is my favorite of the classics- I love the story, the music, and especially the art. Apparently, the style the artists used in Sleeping Beauty hadn't been done before. I don't remember all about it, but it was actually very advanced and very detailed for the time period in which Sleeping Beauty came out, which was in the 50s, I believe. Anyhow, there's a medieval feel to the art, which of course is reflective of the time period of the story. Sometimes the angles in the art are kind of harsh, but on the whole, I absolutely love the lines and flow of the art. I also have a love affair going with Aurora's hair.

Preview of picture(s) behind the cut:



( Bigger, LOVELY picture(s) behind the cut )

Are there others of you out there that love Sleeping Beauty as much as I do? :D

1. Bold the names of guys you'd definitely shag.
2. Italicize the names of guys you might shag after a little persuasion.
3. Leave the guys who don't do anything for you alone.
4. Put a question mark after the guys you've never heard of. ?
5. Strike the guys you wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole.
6. ADD FOUR OF YOUR OWN AT THE END.


NOTE THAT THESE ARE THE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, NOT THE ACTORS THEMSELVES...
 

( SEE MY LIST! XD )

This article was written by Leonard Pitts Jr., who writes for the Miami Herald. Pretty much sums up all the ridiculousness going on regarding Obama's speech to America's youth.

Well, that was close.

                Surely, we are all relieved that at least some children were protected this week from the diabolical Barack Obama. It was touch and go there for a while after the White House announced its plan to address America’s kids. They might have gotten away with it, too, but for conservative pundits and politicians who spent last week raising a ruckus about this scheme to indoctrinate our youth into the president’s socialist cult. They were able to persuade an untold number of schools to prohibit Tuesday’s speech from being shown on campus and an untold number of parents to keep their children home.

                By this defensive action, untold millions (thousands?) of our kids were saved from exposure to subversive sentiments like “pay attention,” “listen to your parents,” and “every single one of you has something to offer.” That mission accomplished, one wonders if conservatives will be equally energetic in rescuing kids from other things that threaten them.

                Our children need all the help they can get, after all. They are coming of age in an America where, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in four girls between ages 14 and 19 is infected with at least one of four dangerous sexually-transmitted diseases (human papillomavirus, chlamydia, genital herpes, trichomoniasis). An era where, according to the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University, more than 13 million kids live below the poverty line. An era where, according to the Education Department, despite noteworthy progress in recent years, one in four public school eighth-graders lacks basic grade level reading skills, and one in five fourth-graders can’t do the math.

                What’s arguably more frightening in the long view is that they’re coming of age in an America so hyper-partisan, shrill, silly and incoherent that a pep talk to school kids – surely the most plain vanilla presidential duty this side of pardoning the turkey at Thanksgiving – gets treated like it was Osama bin Laden giving an al Qaeda recruitment speech in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11^th.

                It is an absurd controversy, but in a nation of birthers and truthers, death panels and tea parties, absurdity has become our default setting – as has political violence, whether rhetorical or real.

                Last week, for goodness’ sake, we heard about a health care reform proponent “biting off the finger” of someone who disagreed with him. Meanwhile in Arizona, an alleged Christian minister made headlines preaching and praying for the president’s death.

                If America were a person, you’d sedate it. You might even have it committed.

                It’s not politics, it’s a temper tantrum, a national hissy fit that calls into question whether a nation so vast and varied still can, or still wants to be, a nation.

                A few days ago, a woman running for office in Pennsylvania e-mailed me about her encounter with a voter who objected to the idea of, as he put it, paying for his neighbor’s health insurance. She reminded him that to live in a society is to be interdependent. We all pay for libraries, we all pay for national defense and we all pay to school our kids. Except, he said he doesn’t want to pay to educate someone else’s kids, either. We are “not” interdependent, than man insisted. We are alone, each man in it by and for himself.

                You might call that view an aberration. My fear is that it is a harbinger. My fear is that we are a people stampeded by and toward political extremes, and that in our shrillness, our ignorance, our paranoia, hatefulness and fear, we dig a trench though common ground and make this nation ungovernable.

                If we want to save our children from anything, maybe we ought to save them from that.

I was browsing through Deviant Art and found this pair of earrings I really liked, but when I went to the woman's store, I couldn't find them. So I went looking on Etsy and found some that are pretty much identical.



So cute! Little peppermint earrings. I'll be wearing these during the holidays. Looking forward to receiving them!

Also, Etsy is where I got these GQMF little earrings- I love them! Delta shield studs to express my Trekkie-ness in a not-totally-nerdy way.



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Stripper by Sohodolls

LOL... music I've heard on Gossip Girl ftw!

My favorite remedy... is to sleep. If I'm feeling like crap, I'll take some medicine to help me feel better and then crawl into bed.

I ask my mom and/or my grandfather. I also trust my own past experiences and my hunches.

They usually serve me well.

LOLWUT?

My feelings don't really get hurt by animals. I mean, after I've been away from home for more than a couple of days, our cats are kind of skittish and decide to run and hide from us, but they warm up again to us pretty fast.

Although (and this is why my icon is appropriate), our cats are destructo-kitties. We haven't had the Christmas tree up in several years because of the cats. One year, they knocked off this ornament I had made in kindergarten, and it broke. Had to be thrown away. But even then, the cats aren't really hurting my feelings, they just make me pissed off at them.

... to see how many connections I can make to Star Trek while I'm in Astronomy.

Today, one of the slides in the power point was some of the constellations in the northern hemisphere in summer. One of them was Aquila. And one of the stars in that constellation was...

ALTAIR.

My mind immediately went to Altair VI. As in, the planet the Enterprise is supposed to be going to in Amok Time when Spock suddenly gets a bad case of Pon Farr. What an inconvenience!

Also, there was a bit about temperature scales, and of course, there's Fahrenheit, Celsius, and... Kelvin. I got this stupid grin on my face whenever the Kelvin scale was mentioned. I was like nurrrrr, I'm such a nerd!

I recently discovered the act of snooping through other people's photobucket accounts. And I find pretty pictures.















One last thing, from my own pictures:



And that concludes this mini-picspam. Well, almost. Here's this GQMF picture I took for your enjoyment:



Star Trek references IRL ftw!

Um, probably not. Not unless I was dying and was an organ donor.

I might donate a kidney to a family member, as long as the tissue type (whatever matching factor they use is) were alike.

Bone marrow? I am scared shitless by the needle torture device they use to extract bone marrow. And there's no sedation. I don't know I would have the willpower to do it.

Today was the first day of Astronomy. Lecture was fine, although the better half of it was spent going over the syllabus. We also were assigned a project to do. Originally, I was given "Star Formation - Protostars to Main Sequence Stars". But I felt like having a topic that I could find more information on, so I switched, and got "Red Giants, White Dwarfs, and Planetary Nebulae". I think that one will work better.

The lab was... yeah. We had to do a lab about parallax - which is how distances are measured, using a baseline and the way the object in question appears to change position in the sky depending on the location of the person doing the measuring. I can plug numbers into formulas just fine, no problem... but there were other questions that I wasn't sure what to make of. Oh well.



WERD. It really is.

This is also very accurate, especially after watching this video about the powers of ten, and the effect of adding another zero. It's mind boggling.



This lovely picture is of the Milky Way visible over Devil's Tower (in Wyoming).



Last but not least, for your enjoyment- the Aurora Borealis.

So. This fall I'm taking Stellar Astronomy, College Algebra, and Structure & Function of Organisms (biology).

Anyway, I was checking Blackboard to see if there was any information up for my classes, and I saw stuff about extra credit for the astronomy class. One of the options was to read and summarize an astronomy related book. The first book in the list?



I totally laughed out loud. I mean, seriously? Stephen Hawking is wayyyy over my head. But... I don't know. I might go to the library at school and find it. See it's totally incomprehensible to me.

Astronomy will be fun, I think, but a lot of studying and reading. There are some of the topics that I have kind of skimmed over, and... yeah. My eyes are going all wonky like they do when I'm totally confused. Hopefully the professor is a good teacher, a good lecturer.

Biology. I took Cellular & Molecular Biology this past Spring, and enjoyed it. The lecture wasn't tough at all, and while the lab was a lot of work, and not always fun, I had a good time. But the class I'm taking this semester... it's larger scale stuff. And somewhat plant heavy. I'm not looking forward to it as much as I thought I would. Add to that, the fact that I have to go to Riverside (which is downtown, east side Austin)... not tons of fun. I'm hoping I'll have a better time than I'm anticipating.

And finally, algebra. I spent all summer in remedial math, and I got A's in both classes. I'm hoping algebra will go by without much trouble. Because I've got lots of math left after algebra- trigonometry, pre-cal, and calculus.

Least favorite day- probably Sunday. I mean, Monday is bad enough, but Sunday makes me wish that the weekend was longer. And that I wasn't going back to class the next day. D:

Favorite day: Friday. I don't have classes on Fridays, so when Friday comes I sleep as long as I want to, and don't worry about schoolwork.