Day 350 of San Diego

Right...

New week... New rules.

I'm not expecting to post everyday. Obviously, Life has other plans. Over the weekend, I had to complete TWO essays which are due tomorrow before midnight. Yet I decided to submit them tonight. I finished my last essay merely twenty minutes ago. I have a hunch the current week will be filled with unexpected homework... although the quarter ends in a week. However, my Math teacher tends to have intentions. I'm hoping the only homework my Math teacher gives are guides to the Final Exam.

I'm also not expecting to post everyday because sometimes I have little to write.

Or, I'm too lazy.

Or, I simply don't care.

In any case, I'm warning my readers now: Don't expect. Just respect.

HAHA! I should become an activist.

No... No... I won't. Trust me.

Let's recover what you missed, shall we?

The Underground Seattle Tour:

For my first essay, I chose to write about a historical/cultural place instead of constructing an interview. I snapped several pictures. Here are a few to share -

Friday's Snow:

Yes! It snowed the day after Thanksgiving! Here are a couple photos - 

Day 347 of San Diego

Due to utter exhaustion, my post will be short.

In the meantime...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

My Thanksgiving was absolutely terrific! I spent time with my family - even with members I haven't seen in a while - and we ate dinner together before 5:00 PM. Once the game began, we gathered in the backroom to cheer for the Seahawks!

THE SEAHAWKS WON!

We devoured the 49ers...

... ON THEIR TURF!

I'm so proud of the Seahawks for winning the Turkey Bowl. What spectacular plays!

I'll be sure to refresh what's been happening prior to today's post tomorrow. Yet I'm done...

Give me a pillow... I'm ready to produce some Zs.

Day 345 of San Diego

Life... That's my reason... Life.

I don't have school tomorrow because my ENGL teacher canceled and I decided to skip Math. My Math teacher allowed me. He doesn't even know what he's going to teach for Wednesday. He might not have anyone to lecture! People will be flying elsewhere to meet family or cleaning their house, preparing for Thanksgiving.

My family is arranging a special Thanksgiving event which will involve the Seahawks AND the 49ers.

You're right!

Around 5:00 PM, the Seahawks are battling the 49ers. Although the Seahawks did well defeating the Cardinals, the 49ers are a tough team. That's why they are our rivals... correct? Or, is it because the coaches were once college rivals?

Hell if I know... They're just rivals.

Anyway, the family and I are eating Thanksgiving dinner early. At 5:00 PM, we'll gather around the T.V.s and cheer for our Seahawks' victory! Wouldn't it be spectacular  if the Seahawks won?

 

Day 342 of San Diego

Since Mason is playing Super Smash Bros with several friends of his, I'm hanging out with strangers over IMVU while watching Markiplier's videos. I miss Mason... I'm not texting him, though. I avoid texting him when he's spending time with friends. I don't want to intrude on the fun... I know I can be a downer sometimes... That's the main reason why I allow him to focus on his pals. He can relax with me once he's fulfilled by being with his friends.

I didn't start my essay. I was thinking about it! I'm serious! But the lazy side of me interrupted the determined side. It told me to play LittleBIGPlanet with Mason... I had to comply. We played for an hour until mom told dad and I to meet her under the patio. We had to clean the premise. I cleaned for thirty minutes. The parents finished up.

Tomorrow... Tomorrow will be the day I begin my essay...

Honestly, I probably should. I don't even know when the due date is.

Sky Light

Viewed from a remote ecolodge, the aurora borealis unfurls over a snowy plain in Canada’s Northwest Territories. “Having always had a love of the stars, I moved to the lodge to see the aurora and to learn to live off the land,” writes Your Shot member Emma Blythman. “Each night, after learning how to hunt and collecting wood, I would camp out by candlelight at the igloo, set up my camera, and watch the aurora dance above my head for hours. Magical.”

Day 341 of San Diego

Hey, guys. Quick update.

I accomplished my Math exam... It was a workout... My brain lifted too many weights too heavy for its own wisdom. I'm glad I studied prior to class. I zipped through each page, downloading as much as I could in thirty minutes. Once the teacher entered, I prepared myself for a fight. I prepared myself well. I finished before the clock struck 9:30. I left the room with some confidence. I think I'll know the results in the upcoming week.

I've selected Winter quarter classes. I'm not entirely pleased, but the schedule will do... I'll have a P.E. class, a Culture and Ethics class, and an online Biology class. I'm mostly excited for P.E. It has been a while since I dedicated an hour each day for exercise. I'm sure I'll be fine. I'm not out of shape. Yet I can always strive for a tighter body. I kind of want to look like Jillian Michaels.

Don't tell Mason...

Over the weekend, I have to write an essay... I don't know how I'm going to write it. I don't know when the actual due date is, but I need it completed by Tuesday. It'll be a simple essay. I'm going to write about the history and importance of Lincoln Park to Mason and I. The essay is considered a collage essay. Thankfully, I'm knowledgeable of the handy program GIMP.

Tomorrow, Mason has to work... We can't sleep with Skype on. That's our favorite part when we're about to fall asleep! We get the privilege to Skype Sleep (as it's called) during the weekends. But this weekend will be slightly different...

I can't wait until we're able to fall asleep together in each other's arms.

Morning Glory

“Many photographers prefer to photograph the world as the sun goes down,” writes Your Shot member Todd Klassy. “Me, I prefer the peacefulness of the morning light.” After a night of heavy snow, Klassy made sure to get up before snow plows had a chance to alter the clean white landscape in rural Green County, Wisconsin. “Fortunately, the sun painted the horizon a beautiful pinkish hue, and it provided a nice background for this minimalist scene,” he writes. “Unfortunately, the snow plow driver was up earlier than me and cleared the road before I had a chance to photograph it without the black strip of asphalt.”

Day 339 of San Diego

I hadn't realized I haven't written in three days. I thought I wrote a post last night. I suppose my interest in writing posts is lessening. I guess it's understandable... My weeks are becoming busier. I'm also very tired each night. I consider my blog just as important as it was when I began. I apologize for not noticing my delays.

I do have some good news! Yesterday, mom and I picked up my pre-ordered LittleBIGPlanet 3 box! I received a Sackboy plush toy, the video game, and downloadable content for my virtual Sackboy. Last night, Mason and I had loads of fun playing several levels together. We were laughing and exploring and trying our best to succeed. We started playing around seven. We didn't stop until 9:30.

School has been a little hectic. ENGL is slower than Math. I sort of wish it were the opposite since I enjoy ENGL more than I enjoy Math... The difficult equations are back for revenge. We're dealing with Venn Diagrams. Sounds easy, right? Drawing circles until coloring them... all that jazz, right?

Wrong.

I feel as if we're learning Greek. We have to color areas that correspond to the equation. For example, X ∩Y  stands for "X intercepts Y." I would draw two circles intersecting each other. I would then shade the interception.

Yippee.

Tomorrow, Mason and I will cure our boredom from work and/or school with another session of LittleBIGPlanet!

Day 336 of San Diego

I wish I were happier.

As happy as Cheetah trying to snuggle next to me with his butt in the air. 

Day 335 of San Diego

Well...

Yea...

I didn't hang out with Mason for the entire day. We're just now Skyping. He arrived back to his barracks a few minutes ago. His friends and him visited Knoxberry Farms. He left early in the morning. 

My day was... less spectacular... I talked to strangers on IMVU while watching YouTube videos. That's it... 

Here's a beautiful Chestnut I plucked out of its shell today... Yes, boredom at its highest levels:

Day 334 of San Diego

My week has been HELL-o operator! My essay took five days to write... FIVE... because I couldn't create a lyrical essay. I wrote it three different ways. But my third draft was a success. Now, I don't know that for sure! I'm saying it's a success because I accept it. We'll wait and see what the teacher thinks...

I'm happy today's Friday. I slept in for ten extra minutes. My sleep is diminishing. I'm wondering if I'm too cold. However, I turned on my heating blanket last night. I thought that would help. I'll try again tonight, but enhance the heat.

Math was slow and steady. We talked about which equations to use for certain problems and how to answer those problems. The class is still struggling with annuities and compounded annually, etc. situations. I'm worried for our upcoming exam... The teacher said most of the exam will include funding/money problems. Maybe it'll be the exam I drop...

ENGL was relaxing. The class circled to discuss Project #2 - what we discovered while writing the piece and what we believed is a lyrical essay. My "unknown" as I wrote my paper was deciphering the deeper meaning among deep meanings. Of course, there is love. But beyond love, there is connection.

Ah, I'm such a poet.

  

Day 332 of San Diego

I know what you guys are thinking... And I shall answer, "No. Nothing dramatically terrible has happened in which is the reason why I paused uploading posts." Because it was a four-day weekend, I decided to relax and enjoy it for as long as possible. Although I had homework to complete, I added in times of recreation, too. But my weekend wasn't as delightful. Mason and I discussed our relationship; how we've been constantly arguing. It seemed like the cave didn't have a light at the end. My depression has become more active ever since Mason didn't invite me to the Marine Ball. I wasn't forgiving him and trying my best to have him feel guilty about it. I'm still ridding the pain. It's difficult, especially when you believe if a man asks a woman to join him at a professional/elegant event, she'll feel the love. I didn't feel the love... Nonetheless, we're healing.

Today was a nice kick-start to the weekdays again. Math homework is ceasing its frustrating equations (for now...) and my ENGL teacher moved the due date for our Project #2 essays to Friday. Thank you... Thank you for not stressing me out more than I already am. My essay is the biggest factor of the matter. I'm trying to write it like poetry, yet I'm too wordy. I understand it's an essay! But it's a LYRICAL essay! I think focusing on whether or not I have concrete details is slowing the imagination. Yea... Just like how college is slowing my habit of writing stories.

I pre-ordered LittleBIGPlanet 3! I will receive it on November 18th at a local Best Buy. I wasn't sure if I was going to pre-order it. However, Media Molecule said, "If you pre-order today, you'll earn bonus material!" That's what won me over. Dragon Age costumes, here I come!

Day 328 of San Diego

I progressed a bit today. I worked on a sheet of Math homework.

"Worked."

... Okay, I cheated...

I HAD TO! I don't understand word problems that talk about finances! I'm sure I'm not going to be using the equation: S = R(((1+i)^n-1)/i) while paying my bills. And I know for a fact I'm not going to have a job dealing with complicated Math!

I'm a writer. Typically, someone who is great in ENGL isn't great in Math. That's me... I write stories. I don't write equations.

My day was relaxing. I had a lot of fun hanging out with my IMVU outfit-changing buddy and Mason. Sadly, Mason and I couldn't Skype Sleep last night... My parents need to buy a new router. The one we have is crappy. If you walk upstairs, you lose four bars. But if you walk into the front room, you receive five bars. If you sit in the backroom, it fluctuates from three to one.

I should probably upload this post before I lose connection...

Continuing my Half-Life gameplay video!

Day 327 of San Diego

I relinquished my negative thoughts after eating Daimonji's delicious entrees. Alex, the sushi maker, was pleased to see my folks and I join the other customers for a bite. He was so happy, when we were finished with our dinner, he presented us slices of fresh oranges.

We talked about Thanksgiving. He didn't know the Seahawks are playing the 49ers later that day. He was ecstatic! We even invited him, his wife, and newborn baby to our family gathering. He appreciated the gesture and said he'll see what he can do.

Before arriving home, my mom wanted to buy a child gate to block the staircase. We're going to be letting Angel inside more often since dad claims the weather next week will drop to around thirty degrees. It's already forty-five at seven o'clock. I'm hoping our winter brings snow! It feels like it will!

As the parents bought a child gate, I roamed Barnes and Noble. I bought a gift for Mason and something for myself: A Deadpool comic. However, I accidentally purchased Volume four of the series. I didn't know it was a part of a series! I just bought it because I'm in love with Deadpool! I'll most likely ask my family if they can buy Volume one through three for Christmas and for my birthday. :)

I'm happy to say, I have a four-day weekend. I asked my ENGL teacher if I could miss Monday's session. She was okay with it. Of course, she would like to see me present. But because I'm a wonderful student, she gave me permission. My Math teacher arranged for no class on Monday.

Time to stay up and sleep in!

Day 326 of San Diego

I'm still recovering from last night... I don't have much to write. Not in the mood to write a whole bunch. I'll write enough for my readers to understand what happened today.

The day was a blustery one. The wind continues to blow. Supposedly, we had gusts up to fifty MPH. While in ENGL class, I watched the weather transform rapidly like my emotions... In a split second, from whiplash-fast rain pour, it decided to become sunny. It was lovely to greet the sun. However, it was difficult to see once outside because of the glare caused by the countless puddles splotched along campus.

When I arrived home, I completed Math homework. We're working on funding, loans, payments, etc. It isn't the funnest type of Math I've learned. Welcome to College Algebra. Too many equations? Too bad. Memorize them.

Tomorrow is Friday... Glorious Friday...

Please, Friday... Help redeem my woeful thoughts.

River Lady

South Carolina’s ACE Basin harbors a wealth of wildlife and history. Here, a moss-hung cypress keeps watch over the placid waters of the Lowcountry basin, named for three rivers that run through it: the Ashepoo, Combahee, and Edisto. (By: Vincent J. Musi)

Day 325 of San Diego

Mason didn't invite me to the Marine Ball.

Day 324 of San Diego

I had no idea what we were learning in Math today...

Compound Interest equations...

Yesterday, we learned about Simple Interest. That lecture was - shall I say - quite SIMPLE! 

But today's lecture turned to the satanic. I think I would've understood it more IF the teacher didn't act as if we already knew the formulas... I don't blame him. He's too much of a sweet teacher to blame him on excess. 

ENGL was... okay... Our teacher had us tested on our abilities to write an emotion without saying the emotion. If I felt sad, I wouldn't write in my essay "I was sad." I would describe BEING sad for my reader to INTERPRET that I am sad. 

Lyrical essays don't play around.

You better know a bit of poetry before thinking you can describe the color red without saying, "That car is red."

The struggle is real. 

I'll end this post by posting a hilariously cute picture of Indigo. Tonight, as I tried to feed Indigo two more crickets, I couldn't open the cage door because another cricket decided to rest on the door. I poked at the mesh to force the critter to move, and do you know what he did? He jumped on Indigo's face. Do you know what Indigo did? Nothing whatsoever. 

Day 323 of San Diego

I am absolutely tired...

I befriended someone on IMVU today. I have been chatting with him for hours. HOURS. And I've enjoyed every last minute of it. Currently, we're changing outfits - showing each other similar categories of one another's choices. Speaking of similarity, he also likes Steam Powered Giraffe AND manipulating photos! I'm happy we met.

School was satisfying. I earned a B+ on my Math exam. I would have earned an A if I had recognized the silly mistakes... They were REALLY SILLY! I assure you... I'm almost embarrassed my teacher had to see such catastrophes. Then again, I wasn't one of the eleven students who failed.

In ENGL, my teacher talked about our Project #2 paper. I told her I may swap essay models. She didn't mind the idea. She knows I tend to be indecisive.

I am...

It's true...

Tomorrow, I'm going to fiddle with a photo manipulating website. I might start new techniques on how to transform an ordinary picture into an extraordinary one. Here's an example of one of the techniques:

Day 322 of San Diego

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHRIS!!!

I wish Mason and I were able to celebrate with you and Grandma Deb-Deb. But... don't fret! Christmas is around the corner! We'll be taking a train to see you guys.

The Seahawks won today! I didn't watch the game. I predicted their win from our neighbors letting off fireworks. It's a tradition. Whenever the Seahawks are victorious, echoes of booms and bangs rattle throughout the neighborhood. I'm glad the Seahawks won. I believe we're 5-3. The Raiders haven't won a game. From what it sounds like, the Raiders were desperate for a win this afternoon. Thankfully, Russel and his crew saved us.

Jaylee left. Mom drove her to her mom's house.

Tomorrow, I may receive my results on my Math exam. If I succeeded, I will congratulate myself by eating a large Kit-Kat bar. If I didn't succeed... I'll probably eat the candy bar anyway out of distress.

Wish me luck on my grade!

Turning Tail

Turkey tail mushrooms, a type of bracket fungi, are spied on a fall day in Belcarra, British Columbia, Canada. Known particularly in Chinese medicine for its healing properties, the mushroom is believed to strengthen the immune system against disease and infection. (By: Lance Isackson)

Day 321 of San Diego

I would have joined Scott at his family's Halloween party tonight, but I had to babysit Jaylee. She won't be leaving until tomorrow early evening. Today, we relaxed. Jaylee watched YouTube videos when I watched YouTube videos. Jaylee ate candy when I ate candy. We played Minecraft together. We ate more candy. An hour ago, we finished a few episodes of Ghost Adventures. Now, we're watching a movie called As Good As It Gets. I've seen it before. I love it! I need to watch it from the beginning, though.

Tomorrow is a Seahawks game. I'm not sure if I want watch it. I would be utterly disappointed if they lost... Their defense needs an upgrade. Maybe not in players, but how we play. They tend to trip a lot; an overabundance of tripping on their own feet. They also need to relearn how to tackle. For some reason, they have butter-arms. One slip after the other... In any case, if the Seahawks win, I'll be ecstatic.

I'm about ready for bed. The movie is almost done. I'll write again soon!