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So besides the fact that I haven't posted in like forever, I realized that I hadn't updated everyone on where I've gotten into so far. I got my acceptance letter for OCU a while back, and I just got my TU acceptance letter in today! 

So much for UTD so far. They still say my application is incomplete, even though I've given them my resume, transcript, essay, application, and ACT scores. It shows on the site that I still have to give them my end of year grades, but thats retarded. So I dunno. I guess I just have to wait more.

What I can't really wait for though is for my rebates on my hard drive and RAM to come in. 70 or 80 dollars of amazing goodness that is going straight towards my processor. If I keep all the money in my account in there and dont spend it, I'll have enough to buy the last parts for my computer!! Now I won't have the graphics card yet, but since I'm planning on buying a procesor with one built in, then it's no big deal. I'll buy IT later. Graduation maybe? Hehehe. I can't wait for graduation gifts. Except if I go to UTD, it'll all be stuff for my apartment. Pain in the ass! But apartments are bad-ass, so no biggie. 

I also can't wait for finding out whether or not I made it to the finalist's weekend for the McDermott Scholars Program. Jonathan, what did you make on your ACT and what was your G.P.A consequently? You did get invited to that right? (I'm trying to gauge my chances on being accepted.) I also cannot wait to see how much money each school gives me. AGGGH.

I really cannot wait for college.

I've decided I'm kinda looking forward to married life and kinda not. Jon's family invited me to Thanksgiving at his Dad's and at his Mom's, and my family invited him to the one at our house and at my Aunt's, so I've been to four damned thanksgiving dinners. I swear, I've probably gained five pounds from all the food, lol. Yet it was all very yummy. I actually think though that the one at my house was the best, but that's just because we had some nice sparkling wine and crescent rolls with it, haha. 

The really fun part though was at my Aunt's house today after dinner because we played Trival Pursuit Pop Culture DVD Edition, which was cool. I could actually answer quite a few of the questions. It was awesome. Especially all the video game questions... like: What arcade game in 199* (I think 3) featured the words "Finish Him"? MORTAL KOMBAT!!! I loved that one. There were soo many gamer questions in the Sports and Games section...made me happy to know something for sure. Oddly enough, my cousin and cousin in law ended up being the best, since they're real in tune with pop culture. But actually my mom and aunt won just barely, by luck. However, Jon and I almost won, because our final question was what four flavors are PEZ candies? We answered Strawberry, Grape, Lemon, and Watermelon, when the right answer was Strawberry, Grape, Lemon, and Orange. We were soooo close. 

I love technology. I'm sitting here on my mom's laptop, and her Cingular GSM card is giving me an actually decent signal here on the turnpike, and Jon's sitting next to me with his Macbook using it as a light to do work on. Being able to surf the net anywhere there is a decent cell phone signal is awesome. Plus the wi-fi card keeps saying I get connections, but they aren't strong. So the stuff from Cingular is superior. 

Lol, Jon just had a stroke of inspiration. (He's composing music) 

Anyways. I wish more people than just Cynthia and Jonathan had livejournals. Like Cat. (Or rather I wish they'd post or something...)

Hmm... I don't know what else to ramble on about. I have soo much work to do still on my Study of the Americas IA. I have most of the research done, but I haven't gone through it all to highlight exactly what I need. My Math IA is faring slightly better. I have most of the data and the introduction written. Just gotta make up the rest of the data (UGH) or convince Hall I don't need more data... Hmm. I think I'll try for the latter and say I had no way to get people to play. Something. My ITGS IA is going ehh but I already have the rough draft started for the first one, and those essays are easy. I have no idea what the IA is for Bio though. English I really should start working on. I have no idea what I'm doing for it yet. Stupid Kafka. Stupid Solschznitzyn or however you spell his name. Stupid Marquez. Well they're not stupid but the essay I have to write over two of them is. German shouldn't be too hard, just a 3 minute oral or something like that. Not too big of a deal, my spoken language is pretty strong. (Hey, I like to talk) So my IAs aren't going too badly, but not great either. I can't wait to be able to say that I'm done with them.

I just can't wait to be done with IB. To graduate. (I'll resist now from breaking into song... ya know, lion king I just can't wait to be kiiiiiing. OK I'm sad. Haha) 

*yawns*

Ok, I'm updating again! No, the sky has not fallen. I'm sitting in my room on my mom's new duo core laptop computer she got from her office. Needless to say, I'm jeallous. She has a friggen gig of ram. I'll probably only be able to affor 512 MB for my compy... :(

Speaking of my compy, I have good news! I'm going to be buying a graphics card (512 MB Radeon x1600 Pro) for $99.99, and a 200 GB Hard drive for 19.99 (after rebates). Plus I'll be getting a digital camera for Christmas along with these computer parts, and I'll be buying some RAM hopefully. I may just go ahead and buy my motherboard... I'm not sure. I know for sure though I'm going to buy my DVD drive with my rebate money. I'm so excited. :)

I seriously cannot wait to have my computer built. I just wish I could be able to have a laptop to take to school. Since my mom is getting to keep her old laptop,  I wonder if she'd let me borrow it for school? That'd be nice... I wouldn't even neccessarily want it for the net, just to take notes on. I would actually pay attention in SOTA for once I think. Haha. I'm great. Seriously though, her new laptop is rockin, even if it only has a 60GB hard drive. I'm finally going to have a copy of my iPod files on a computer again (Due to the fact that we were out of space on our old computer, I had deleted all my music files. Good thing too since I killed the CPU...)

I now vow to, while working on any computer I am unfamiliar with, have someone with me to keep me from doing stupid things. I'll just slap them though if they try to do it for me. Back off bitches!

I love laptops. Seriously. If they weren't so expensive, I would have just bought a super laptop to have played my games on, but its actually cheaper to get a dinky laptop and build a decent desktop computer. SAD, but true. I'm only going to spend about 700 or so on my computer. I'm guestimating I'll spend 650 on everything but the monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Noot bad for a gig of ram, 200GB HD space, 512MB GPU, 2.5Ghz duo core processor... woot.

I love black friday. Rediculous deals, but goood the lines I'm scared of. I'm planning to get up as early as four possibly if I still have to go to best buy for my GPU, later if I don't since I'm going to Staples for my HD.

P: You are an IB student Q: You have no life from excessive amounts of work R: You are unhappy/stressed

So you might be wondering what face of the earth I dropped off of. For those of you that lived through it, one acronym. IB. 'Nuff said.

Although Jonathan, as much as I liked all the material on the Wiki for SOTA, I didn't like the layout, and plus it's easier to update with Googlepages, so I made a new site. I haven't moved any of the material on the wiki over yet, except for the causes of WWI. You can see the site at http://csas.ib.sota.googlepages.com.

And I must admit. For a pre-fab layout, its be-a-utiful. But then again, its a google creation, so its a given I guess.

I'm pretty excited though. I should have all A's on my quarter report card for the exception of Biology. Which is an 81. Oh god. I'm scared it's going to drop. I really need to get 7 A's, because then I'll be able to bump my UNWEIGHTED GPA from a 3.56 to a 3.6. Although I really want a 3.75 or greater, it's too late for that I suppose. Why oh why must so many schools not take weighted GPAs? Or SL credit for that matter. Ugh. 

You know you're a classen student if you obsess about raising your GPA one tenth of a point, or think that a 30  on the ACT wasn't all that great. 

On the other hand though, senior year has been fun. Its already been going so quickly. I can't believe its already time for Charity Ball again. Yet summer seems like it was sooo long ago. 

I think that the sentences I've written for this post are some of the shortest that I've written in about two months. Seriously. I'm so used to writing compound complex sentences trying to make word counts its not even funny. We've gotten two rediculous essays that have absolutely no point to them. Mrs. Harris wants us to do them. One was sent to IB for god knows what, and the other, well we have no idea what its for. The first question was, "What would you do if you knew you could not fail?" Everyone ended up answering that with a laundry list of rediculous things, and then using the rediculousness of those things to basically say that the essay was a waste of our time and that the question was stupid. The second was a 600 word essay that sounded IDENTICAL to something you'd write for a college/scholarship admissions essay. 

Do you get assignments in college that are a waste of your time? I mean honestly. It's getting old. 

Although I've found that I really love Math Studies. When my math assignments have become weekly things, at most, and they're never much more than about 20 problems, well needless to say I'm happy. 

I'm still going to die though. SOOO many things to do!!!

So instead of doing them, I'm writing short choppy sentences instead of paragraphs here on my LJ. I sound like I'm a newspaper writer or something. Gah.