Dec. 2, 2008 School, Math, and Shotguns
 Well, I'm pretending that I don't have a calculus test on Thursday, the SAT on Saturday, and a calculus final on Monday. In fact, if you were to mention schoolwork--specifically tests--I'd say, "Who has a calculus test on Monday? Certainly not me! ...And I don't have to write an essay this Saturday; nope, not at all." Then you'd flash me a puzzled expression and point out that you hadn't mentioned calculus or essays. And I'd sigh and say, "Didn't I convince you at all?" Or maybe I'd just quote daffy duck and yell, "Shoot me now!" After all, I certainly wouldn't have to worry about essays any more!
*Sigh* I suppose on Saturday, as I step into the austere testing room, I will simply remember that the SAT, while quite onerous, is also truly ephemeral. I mean, although it may seem, during the test, like it lasts forever, it really is only a few hours long... Did you know that The Princeton Review SAT study guide has a rather didactic vocabulary section? And any SAT study guide that feels the need to mention in the geometry section that there are 360 degrees in a circle and 180 in a triangle is bound to be a tome of a book...this one is certainly no exception!
Also, this Thursday before my calculus test, I have to work in the math lab and explain to all the girls majoring in "applied makeup" or "noserings 101" how to graph the line x=4. That's Chatt State for you, though. It's like I said before, "Yes, he does have to shoot me now; so shoot me now! ...Please?"
~Ariel
BTW, if you'd like to see the aforementioned bugs bunny cartoon, here's the link:
Rabbit Seasoning
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Nov. 21, 2008 To Drive or Not to Drive
Well, since I am now sixteen and have been driving for a little while, I thought I might share some tips on how to prepare for your first time driving. First of all, never drive with your mother. For those of you who have never experienced driving with your mother, or who are too wise to try, let me describe it….
 Picture yourself behind the wheel of a car for the very first time. You are three feet away from your driveway, and all you have to do, to pass your first lesson, is pull the car into the driveway safely. You have never driven a car before and you don’t know which pedal is the gas and which pedal is the brake. So, you ask your mother, “Um, the big one’s the gas, right?”
“Oh, no, you don’t even know that!!!!” she yells. You decide that you must have been incorrect and surmise that the “big one” is the brake.
“OK, the big one’s the brake. So how do I do this?” (What you really mean is, “How do I pull into the driveway; I’ve never done it before, and I find the ditches on either side rather intimidating.”)
Your mother replies, “You just pull the emergency break so it’s off, turn the steering wheel until you’re lined up with the driveway, and drive in.”
“Where’s the emergency brake?”
“You don’t know that either?”
You think, “I’ve never sat in the drivers seat before, let alone actually driven, how would I know that?” But you say, “No, I don’t.”
After you straighten out where the emergency brake is and take it off, you try to turn into the driveway, but you have never been informed that you can actually turn the steering wheel more than 360ĒŠ, so you nearly end up in a ditch, but somehow you remember, despite the noise of your mother’s yelling and “sympathetic brake stomping” on the floor in front of her, that the car will stop if you put on the brakes. Finally on your second attempt, after your mother realizes how little you know about driving, since you’ve never done it before, you make it safely into the driveway. You have then learned your first driving lesson, and it is, “Never, ever, ever, drive with your mother.”
:)
~Ariel |
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Nov. 13, 2008 Crazy For You
I'm in the pit orchestra at CCS for the Gershwin musical Crazy For You. It is a lot of fun, and the music is neat and challenging with lots of fun rhythms!
I'm currently trying to finish scholarship application essays for college. They're ok, but the topics are always pretty lame. I would definitely participate in next year's musical if only for the excuse not to work on essays. LOL :) Yes, that's my feeble excuse for not having completed my scholarship essays yet. Although, if I'm in college next year, I don't suppose my professors would accept that excuse...hmm...not that my mom does either; I just wish she would. 
~Ariel |
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~Jezzie is getting bigger; she's about five or six months now. You probably can't tell from the pictures, but she has some splotches of white paint on her head. It looks very cute. My dad was painting our house, and the dog started chewing up our drip irrigation system. So, he told her "no," and smacked her head, but he had paint on his hand, and now she has gray splotches :)
She's big, and she doesn't really want to be picked up any more, but I can still lift her!
~Ariel |
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...by onedaymore
"Fall Favorites"
1. Favorite Smell? homemade cranberry sauce, cooking...it makes the whole house smell like ginger, cinamon, honey, orange, and cranberries *yum*
2. Favorite Food? carmel apples
3. Favorite Color? green, black, brown, burgandy
4. Favorite Drink? hot apple cider, tea, and coffee
5. Favorite Treat? carmel apples
6. Favorite Place to go? the McPh-----'s house. (excuse the hyphens--I'm avoiding useing people's names)
7. Favorite Candy? candy canes :)
8. Favorite Movie to watch? The Client, Sabrina, While You Were Sleeping ...The Lake House is fun too.
9. Favorite Clothing to wear? jeans and a nice t-shirt and sweater.
10. Favorite Outdoor Activity? rowing--I got to go rowing in CT, where I used to live, but there isn't a rowing group/program down here except for if you're at college already.
11. Favorite Football Team? I don't like football.
12. Favorite Fall Holiday? Thanksgiving
13. Favorite Haunted place? *shrug*
14. Favorite Food at Thanksgiving Dinner? homemade cranberry sauce with orange, honey, and cinammon.
15. Favorite Pie? apple
16. Favorite Fall Hobby? sewing :)
17. Favorite Fall Memory? walking in the rain without an umbrella or raincoat and getting completely soaked. I love rain!!
18. Favorite Fall Sight? heavy, windy rain...and lightning :)
19. Overall Favorite thing about Fall? the rain, the cold ...and the cranberry sauce :)
20. Overall Favorite Season? Spring, and Fall; I like it when the weather changes, either from warm to cold or cold to warm.
I just realized I forgot to tag people! I tag:
1) LittleSparrow
2) Ebell1993
3) novelboy
4) QueenFlora
5) forestcrazy
6) Wrangler
7) chickenladyariel
8) stillsmallvoice
And anyone elso who'd like to do this tag is welcome to.
~Ariel
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Oct. 6, 2008 Randomness...
Well, I have a bunch of things so say so I'll start with the first one:
Guess what? I'm going to graduate from high school this year, a year early. I just found out in August that it would work out, and I'm pretty excited! I'm going to have a senior recital in may, so I'm practicing lots of violin :-) Oh, I'm taking Calculus at a local community college; it's going really well so far. I like the class and the professor is very good!
I took this fun Jane Austen heroine personality quiz:
And I figured, since this is a "random post" I would list five random things about myself or my family that you might or might not know.
1) My dad is a pastor.
2) I have a cute, orange-colored, fat hamster named Oswald. (Yes, he really is orange; actually, depending on the lighting he even looks strawberry-colored sometimes. And he has reddish-pink eyes.)
3) I have one older brother, two younger brothers, and no sisters.
4) I love to read. I recently read Mansfield Park which I think is one of my favorites of Jane Austen's works! And I am reading a series by Stephenie Meyer; I just finished the first book in the series called Twilight; it was good!
5) I've been playing violin for almost eleven years, and I love it!
~Ariel |
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We got a new puppy!! She's a black lab. She was three months old when we got her (and in the pictures), but she's now about four months old. Her name is Jezebel Joy, but I just call her "Jezzie."
Above: Jezzie after we'd had her for about two hours. (We had to get the camera right away; we just couldn't resist:-)
Below: Me and Jezzie on day 2
Isn't she cute?
~Ariel |
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Aug. 16, 2008 Dear Frankie...
I recently saw the movie "Dear Frankie." It was awesome!! I think I have a new fav. movie!!
Here are some icons:
Awesome movie!!
~Ariel |
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Aug. 5, 2008 Shakespeare Camp!!!
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This past week we had Shakespeare Camp. Our group--the "Homeschool Shakespeare Troup"--performed Much Ado About Nothing this past thursday and friday. It was great fun!!
 I played Ursula. I sewed my own costume, and I had to make an underdress too. The outerdress alone was ten yards of 60" wide fabric (it would've been 15 yards if it was 45" fabric); I found the fabric on the dollar-a-yard rack at Wal-Mart.
 The sleeves were sooo heavy!! I even had to play violin in that dress for the trio before the play. It was actually really fun!
 The bodice was all lace-up; it has eyelets all down the front. The sleeves are edged with trim and decorated with silver ties, and the front of the dress is also lined with trim.
~Ariel |
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Jun. 20, 2008 A Blog Award and A Tag...
Many thanks to QueenFlora and ForestCrazy for granting me the Beautiful Thoughts Award!!
 I would like to award:
1)Elizabeth (Ebell1993)
2)Natalie (stillsmallvoice)
3)Jenny (purplearrow)
4)Ariel (chickenladyariel)
Also, I was tagged by novelboy...
Here are the rules, the words, my made up definintions for the words, and the real definitions:
Copy the instructions and the words, replace my definitions with yours, and tag at least one other person. The real definitions for the words are at the bottom of the page; do not read the real definitions until you have filled in your guesses. Enjoy! Mwahahaha...
The Challenging Word Tag
Part One
The Words and Guesses
1)ashram (AHSH rum) a metal implement for stirring up the hot coals and ash of a fire
2)bicameral (bye KAM ur ul) a double-lensed camera
3)chiaroscuro (kyah ruh SKYOOR oh) a kind of pasta
4)dap (dap) when you are tapping something with an object, and the accidentally drop the object you have "dapped" whatever surface you dropped the object onto.
5)ex post facto (eks post FAK toh) "after the facts," in other words, "in light of the evidence" perhaps it is a phrase commonly used in court :-)
6)floccinaucinihilipilification --yes this is a real word!-- (floks ee nos ee nih hil ee pil ih fih KAY shun)I have no guess for this one; all I can say is it must have been made up by someone with way too much time on their hands. I mean, honestly, think how much time it takes just to say the word.
7)gyre (jire) an instrument similar to a lyre but shaped a bit differently
8)horripilation (ho rip uh LAY shun) it refers to when a shiver runs down your spine
9)izzat (IZ ut) the sound produced by an alien ray gun
10)jehu (JEE hyooh) it is a contraction of the two words "gee" and "you" when spoken very quickly. For example "Jehu (or gee, you) didn't know the word "jehu" stands for gee, you?"
11)kinesics (kih NEE siks) the scince of dogs (or the science of "K9s")
12)Lustrum (LUS trum) the noun form of the word lustrus--it describes a kind of shiny light.
The Real Definitions:
1)Ashram: A Hindi word meaning: "a hermitage, religious retreat, place for religous instruction or excercise."
2)Bicameral: Derived from Latin. It is "a term used to describe a legislative system consisting of two houses, an upper and lower, like the Senate amd the House of Representatives, which together constitute the U.S. Congress."
3)Chiaroscuro: Derived from Latin. It is "the use and effect of gradations of light and shade in a picture, esp. when there is a pronounced contrast."
4)Dap: From Middle English. Meaning "to fish by letting bait bob up and down on the surface of the water."
5)Ex post facto: A Latin phrase meaning "retroactive;" lit. translated as "from something done later."
6)Floccinaucinihilipilification: This word exists solemnly in British English dictionaries; it is a jocular concoction of Latin nouns, and it means "trifle" or "nothing."
7)Gyre: From Greek and Latin, meaning "a ring, a cirle, or a circular or spiral turn or movement."
8)Horripilation: From Latin, meaning "gooseflesh, the bristleing of one's skin produced by fright or horror or just extreme cold." (In other words "goose bumps.")
9)Izzat: From Hindi, Persian, and Arabic, meaning "personal dignity, honor, self-respect, prestige, credit,or reputation."
10)Jehu: Derived from a Biblical discription of king Jehu, and means a fast driver; (according to 2 Kings 9:20 "...[Jehu] driveth furiously,").
11)Kinesics: From Greek, meaning "the study of body language, body movements and gestures as a method of communication without speech."
12)Lustrum: From Latin, meaning "a period of five years."
I tag the first four people who comment. (Anyone elso who would like to do this tag is welcome to as well.)
Voila; c'est finis.
~Ariel
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Jun. 2, 2008 Prince Caspian...
We saw Prince Caspian today!
It wasn't at all like the book, but Prince Caspian was my least favorite of the Narnia series anyway--I was ready for a new interpretation of the book. I liked the way they did it in the movie. They added a whole other dimension with Peter; he struggles with adapting to being a "kid" again in England after he's been a grown-up high king in Narnia. I thought that was very realistic as opposed to the book, which didn't really get into that.
Also, Happy Birthday to Joyful24!! 
~Ariel |
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