RIP Sugar

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My favorite time of year...

Summer is finally here! For once in eight months, I'm truly happy! I took these photos the other day, because the lighting of everything was great. I had thought there would be a rainbow but it never showed. I still got to experiment with the macro settings though:

Star Treck, CafePress, and much more.

Today I decided I'm going to start a shop at CafePress to sell T-shirts and stuff. I have always loved graphic artistry and in particular vector graphics, which I'm quite good at making, however I won't be able to use Aviary to make stuff to upload onto CafePress unless I get a paid Aviary account, it's one of Aviary's policies that you can't sell your work unless you get a paid account, the good news is that my mom has decided that it would be ok if I got a paid account. Untill then, I'm going to make a bunch of stuf on the Gimp and make a shop.

I saw Star Treck the other day, and I thought it was great, tust me, you would love it if yo saw it.

This summer is going to be awesome. I believe I'm leaving for CTY (the place I said I was going for 3 weeks about a month ago) some time between the 19 of June and the 21 of June, I'm not quite sure.

We fixed our computer (kind of), but it's an aweful connection now that we have to reconnect about every 5 seconds.

Total Computer Meltdown

Well, actually not total. Here's the story. The Windows (a relatively new machine) was running fine Wednesday morning, but then Wednesday night, it started misbehaving. It stopped connecting to the Internet, to be exact. The computer was running fine (and still is), but it won't do anything besides let you use its files. In other words, I cant do anything with it besides play solitaire and sync my iPod. I am posting on the frankencomputer (my little nickname for my Mac/Linux hybrid), however I am limited in what I can do because, sadly, although I upgraded distros fairly recently, Adobe still doesn't support my weird combination of old architecture and an alternate OS, so I cannot use Fantastic Contraption, Aviary (a really awesome image editing/creating site), or any other Flash application. That being said, we are probably soon going to get another computer, and if we do, it'll be a Mac, something that will run and not crash/die/make you reboot every time you do anything useful/be an *** about everything/be evil/be Microsoft/make you enter your password everywhere.

Another Big Post

I haven't posted in awhile, I have gotten out of the habit. Anyway, here's a post to bring you up to speed on what's going on recently, I'll format it in segments again because that worked last time.

==My trip to Boston==
I went to Boston 2 weeks ago, but forgot to blog about it! We went to MIT to take a tour, because my brother is going to apply to college soon and is going to apply to MIT, and frankly, as hard as it is to get to MIT, I think he has a good chance. Anyway, we went all sorts of places. We went to a cool science museum, where they had a really cool butterfly exhibit with live butterflies flying around the room. There was also Quincy Market, they had all kinds of stuff there... I got a really cool Beatles shirt with a stylized version of the cover of Rubber Soul on it from a small vendor selling various shirts and things. There was a really cool Sgt Pepper one, but it wasn't my size.
==Got stuff at a street fair in New York City==
I went to this fair with people selling all sorts of stuff, food, toys, clothes, etc, and I came across two things (which I bought): A Beatles poster, a print of them circa '67, you can tell by the hair. I also got the Anthology 2 new in the case with shrink wrap on it for only $16! That's really low for a two disk set, Sgt. Pepper (with less than half the songs) is at least that, maybe more. The White Album, of similar size, was about $25 or so.
==The Earth Day Play==
My school had a play for Earth Day (which was written by my grade). We practiced and rehearsed, and we performed it today. It was really fun, the theme was Dora the Explorer. We made Tico (the little purple squirrel with all the cars and airplanes and stuff) have a ridiculously funny costume, all purple with a rainbow vest and a tail.

Flat Lining

Recently, a lack of inspiration plagues me. Am I not cut out for blogging? My life is essentially very boring, it doesn't exactly make the best reading. Even this post, which I intend to make at least a paragraph or two, is turning into an epic fail. Many have succeeded in making humorous and witty blogs because they have funny things happen to them. Here is a brief summary of my life, starting on a Friday: On the typical school day, I get up around 6:35 AM. I then have breakfast, get dressed, brush my teeth, etc, etc. After that, I get on the small school bus that goes to my school at around 7:25. Along the way, a few others are picked up as well, Rose, a good friend, Marielle (not quite sure how she spells her name, but spell check doesn't find my interpretation too unusual), a quiet 3rd grader, Sean, a, ahem, less than pleasant 7th grader, Sean's friend Travis, another 7th grader, and James, a 9th grader who mainly sits and listens to his iPod. We arrive at school at around 8 o'clock, and go to homeroom at 8:15. Homeroom isn't much to speak of, just attendance being taken and so forth. Homeroom ends at 8:27, and the first class of the day, which on Fridays is music, starts at 8:30. Here we either learn about composers and such, or sing choral songs. Next, at 9:15, is English. We learn mainly sentence structure, we are learning about clauses right now. At 10:00, Gym starts. We play sports, many times soccer, kick ball, hockey, and on occasion basketball. Next up, lunch starts at 10:45. The typical food is a slightly burnt tasting, meaty substance. A few of the food items are fairly ok tasting, like the mozzarella sticks. As for snack food, there is no soda, the closest thing to soda is Hawaiian Punch. There used to be a wide variety of potato chips, but they have diminished significantly, now there's only popcorn and a brand of pita chips that costs $1 a bag, rather than the fifty cents the popcorn costs. They also have been replacing the ice cream with frozen yogurts. After lunch, at 11:30, is Spanish class. We learn mostly volcabulary words that are usefull to conversation, like verbs and key phrases. Next, at 12:15, is History. We learn American history, right now we are learnig about the Revolutionary War. At 1:00, I go to Reading. We just finnished reading The Hound Of the Baskervilles, a Shirlock Holmes book, and have yet to be tested on it. Math is at 1:45, and we are currently working with geometry. Science is next, at 2:30. We are learning basic chemistry and physics. At 3:15 dismissal starts, where we wait for our bus. When the bus comes, everyone on my bus gets on and we ride home. I arrive back at around 4:00. I usually have a bite to eat, and then start my homework. Once that's don, I then have not much to do, so I surf the net untill it's time to eat dinner. I eat, surf more, or perhaps watch some TV, then go to bed at maybe, 11:00, somewhere there about. On Saturday mornings, I get up at around 8:00 and head down to Manhattan with my mom and my brother, the latter of which is in a science program at Colombia University. My mom drops him off at the building his class is at, and then grab some food at the campus coffee shop. We then make our way down to the physics building and sit there, sometimes reading, or using the computers in the lobby, which are open for anyone to use. When my brother's class is done, we head back to the car and drive home. I then go to swimming, which I have every Saturday. We usually swim a lot of laps, enough that I don't keep count. Many times after, we go down to Subway to eat. We get home, and once again I have nothing to do. Then comes about what I am doing now, just surfing the net, perhaps blogging some, really nothing to do.

Microbial Madness

The microbes arrived today, and are currently purched atop my moniter. I took some pictures, but due to truency of the reader I have (It's an old camera with a card that can't be read by normal computers without a special device), I can't post them now. They certainly are cool looking, though.