Mmmm. . .donuts!

Once upon a time there was a hungry college student named Jekka Jones. One morning, just as the sun was coming up, she and her roommate decided to get up at 7 o'clock to go check out a local bakery that her roommate had discovered previously.

Well, after calling their other friend, Junior, and getting in his car, the threesome drove to the small bakery called Voirs. They only intended to buy a donut for themselves and two more for their other roommates, Alex and Kayleigh, but once they started selecting donuts, they couldn't stop. There was just so many and they looked so good! On top of it, the nice lady behind the counter got them a pastry to sample. It was called a buttermilk bar, and Jekka Jones absolutely loved it. In fact, they all loved it that they got five buttermilk bars, along with some other tasty pastries.

Now, they thought that the one dozen boxed donuts would be rather a lot, but the total actually came to a lovely $6.66. Jekka was really excited over the number, but Mandi flashed her student I.D. and we recieved a 10% discount. The number dropped to $5.69, which bummed Jekka, but once they had their donuts and were out the door she was much happier.

They returned to Jekka and Mandi's dorm where they ate their donuts and sipped chocolate milk until all three of them had to go to class. And they had a happy Friday for the rest of the day. The End.

Quick post (again) before bedtime

Back in Cedar. :P At least I only have three weeks of school left. Hooray! *pathetic party blower whistle*

I saw this comic in the saturday paper, and I couldn't help but laugh at it, so I wish to share it with the rest of y'all; especially you, Elvish Pirate Gypsy Minion Fiend!!!

Becuase the picture was too small to see when it uploaded, here's the link:

http://www.arcamax.com/newspics/4/431/43113.gif

I love Garfield!

'Night!

Food and Rocks

Thanksgiving was awesome. Family, food, music, food, and a movie. And food! I went and saw Enchanted that night, and it was surprisingly really good! I liked it a lot. It poked fun at the fairy tales but it was done in a way so that any fairy-tale lover wouldn't be offended. And Mastah, there's one part in the movie where the girl starts singing in Central Park and everyone there joins in, and the guy she's with starts yelling "How do you know this song?! You've never heard this song before?! How can you sing it?!" I laughed so hard. And the whole singing to get the woodland creatures to help you. . .oh my gosh, it's so funny!

Well, off from that tangent, while all the aunts, moms, and non-hiking women went day-after-thanksgiving shopping, the rest of us went to Topaz mountain. Yes it was freezing, and yes I had a blast. Not to mention, I found a lot of really good topazes. Unfortunately, I did not bring my own hammer and screwdriver/chisel so I didn't get a lot of the big topazes that I saw in the rocks. I tried using the rocks around but they don't work so well. They just break instead of the rock around the topaz.

Well, that's all for my update. Now I have to go do a spot of cleaning and then maybe do some homework. I am proud of myself, wednesday I pulled out my chemistry pamphlet and did three problems (though I don't know if I did them right or not. I think I did them right, but knowing my luck I didn't).

I'll probably end up writing more of my story. I need to get on top of that. . . .

Anywho, Happy Thanksgiving and have a school-free, fun-packed weekend!!!

Much Accomplished!

I dusted my room.

That's right, I dusted it. It is now clean and smells like Pledge duster spray. . .stuff.

You can see your reflection in the wood now!

I feel so accomplished. Someone should give me a medal. . .or a book. A book would be good. . .food too. . .and dessert. . .I likes dessert.

I don't remember how long ago it was that I dusted my room. I think it was when I first moved into the basement. . .which was three years ago. Yep, my room would have made an attic proud. All it's dustiness and whatnot.

I will miss the little messages I left for myself in them *sniff* but, hey, MY ROOM'S BEEN DUSTED!!

Rescue Dawn

Suprisingly good, actually. I wanted to watch it from listening to the screener at work, and it was really good. It has the same style as Castaway, with the only sounds throughout the movie is the people talking and the insects from the jungle. Christian Bale was really cool, as always, and Steve Zahn (from That thing you do and Sahara) was great too, but he was really serious. This was a very good movie. I'd likes to watch it again. . . .

It's about a pilot (Christian Bale) who gets shot down over Laos during the beginning years of the Vietnam War, and is taken to a prison camp. There, he and his fellow prisoners plan to escape from their captors rather than wait to be released.

I also watched Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. It was actually pretty good. I do wish there was more time on Jack-Frost-as-Santa, than Santa having family problems, but it was still good. Martin Short was awesome as usual (he's been in The Three Amigos, Pure Luck, and Innerspace), in fact, he looked like the devil turned blue. His hair was all spikey, and not the boy's hair kind of spikey, but really spikey. Other than that, the first is still the best, the second one was better than the third, but the third was still good.

Well, that's all I have to say. . .HOORAY FOR THANKSGIVING!!!

TGIF

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

I don't think I'll survive the weekend!!

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HOME!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reading Level

Did the same thing as Beth and Jenni. LOL. That made me laugh so hard!


The funny things in life, eh?

Evolution vs. Creationism

So in evolution we watched a little clip on youtube about a guy who is a devote creationist--a person who is firmly against evolution. He was funny, and I was midly impressed by him until he made a snide comment towards Mormons. At first it was funny, he was saying how "the Mormons" believe that we can become Gods, specifically saying that we "took that bait, hook, line, and sinker." It was kinda funny, but I blew it off because obviously he didn't understand just how cool that would be. Why settle for less than a God? I'd rather become a God and create worlds than do nothing but play a harp and sit on a cloud all day. But, I forgave that evangelical christian speaker for his ignorance.

However, I did not like his next little poke at "mormonism". He said that mormon women are going to be pregnant and produce little spirit babies for all eternity when they become Gods. That made my respect column towards him plummet. That was a very pessimistic view of such a wonderful thing, and I was mad! That is not what women are going to do for all eternity. No wonder why women are so degraded in modern society! Sheesh, when I become a goddess, you will see me right next to my godly husband, making worlds and animals and people! Some people's kids!

And that wasn't the only thing, his little speech was pure opinion and little fact. The one thing I so wished that I could ask him about in person was nebulas. He was talking about the Big Bang Theory and he asked "If planets were made that way, then why do we not see them being created now?" Well, Mr. Creationist, there's two things.
1--Nebulas: they are clouds of dust were stars are born (he did not even mention these, he just talked about how we only see stars and planets being destroyed by supernovas)
2--It takes thousands of years for planets to form. There is some order in that seemingly chaos. Any astronomer can tell you that!

He even asked how we knew the earth was about 4.5 billion years old! Sheesh!!! It's called radiometric dating!! New technology=New discoveries, and one of those discoveries is finding the age of rock, bone, and (guess what) FOSSILS!!! Especially ones that pre-date the flood. . . .

I never thought I would get worked up over something like this, but he bugged me. I have my own little opinions on how the Creation account in the bible and how evolution all fit in, but this guy. . . .He needs to get more support and do more research if he's going to debate this issue. He had just a lot of holes in his little speech, and that's saying a lot considering my limited knowledge obtained from high school and two years of college.

Some people's kids!

Anywho, sorry for all the sciency jargon. A lot of things have been coming up with these two classes, so I apologize if you don't understand some of it. *pats heads* It's okay. This is the horror life of a biologist. It's so unfortunate that I have to deal with idiotic zealous preachers in this line of interest. Sheesh, you can be Christian and a scientist. Science is not completely random (and neither is evolution, by the way, the only random part is the occurence of mutations but even those can be controlled).

Gah! Some. Peoples. Kids!!

Weekend update

So, that test I was freaking out about for no apparent reason, it wasn't so bad. Sure, there was one problem I didn't do, but that was because I couldn't remember how to do it so I didn't even bother with it. Another problem though did stump me and I spent the remainder on my time on that one problem trying to figure it out (yep, not counting those two problems, I finished with five minutes to spare!!!). It's now going to bug me how that problem works out, becuase it's supposed to be a reaction that only occurs under certain conditions, but the reactant and solvent are such that they won't occur under those conditions. It was driving me crazy, becuase I could see no way how it would work out.

If you're wondering, it's a reactant and solvent that undergoes SN1 (substitution nucleophile monomial--or to the first order) but I was so confused because it couldn't undergo SN1. SN1 requires a carbocation to be formed and carbocations are not formed on primary carbons. The reactant was an ether and so I had a suspicion that the oxygen stabilized that cation through resonance, but then I didn't have enough time to push the electrons and figure out how it would all work out. I was so confused. The entire problem shouted SN2 (substitution nucleophile binomial--or to the second order), not SN1.

Biology exam was same as usual. Easy, not too worried about that, plus he drops our lowest test score so I'm not afeared of that.

On a plus side, my roommate says the funniest things that make me want to write a short story on. Two things she said was:
"AAAh! This is a murderous hairdryer!"
"I think my computer is trying to seduce me. It's freaking me out."

That last one, I think, I will have so much fun with! A seducing computer. . .ha ha!

Signing off much happier, Jekka G. Senoj

Looming Test

Some textbooks should be rewritten.

I have a looming chemistry final on Friday, and I feel like I know the material. I understand it perfectly in class, but then I go and do the problems in the book and I get confused. Okay, so not confused, but I see the questions their asking as meaningless and pointless. It's like: In the long run, if I ever made O-Chem my life and career, this kind of stuff will not help me whatsoever. When I go to do a synthesis, I won't need to know the definition of Zaitsev's rule or Hammond's postulate (don't even ask what they are because I don't even know). I feel like I can't do the problems in the book, but I can do the problems my teacher gives us to practice. And they're not easy! He gives us difficult ones.

As such, I feel stressed about this upcoming test, but, I'm trying not to stress. Stress=test anxiety=making stupid mistakes=unhappy score. What even makes me stress out more is that the tests have so much on them that one hour is not enough time to finish it! I like finishing my tests, not because of the greater chance of actually getting more points, but because I can't walk away from something that isn't finished.

However, I'm going to try to keep calm, try not to let this anxiety take over, and not worry about the time limit. Jenni, I hope what happened to you with the "eternal present moment" will happen to me. That would really help me maintain the calm I need to focus and do my best. I understand the stuff, it's just that I start second-guessing myself and doing stupid mistakes.

Why am I even so nervous? I have not been this nervous for all the other tests! What's wrong with me?! What's so different about this one than all the others? If anything, IT SIMPLIFIES ALL THAT I'VE PREVIOUSLY LEARNED!!!

Man, I've never realized how bad I get test anxiety!!! Help!!

*grabs paper bag and starts breathing into it*

Is it Thanksgiving yet?

New Changes and Additions

So, I got sick of staring at a list where the only exciting critter on it was the Elvish Pirate Gypsy Minion Fiend turned snow goon, so I decided to do a different list.

Dates of Fun Things!

Because I just love knowing when things are happening, so I decided to do this. If you have any realease dates of books, or other good movies, or fun events that'll happen, please email them to me or leave a Jeka Bird. I have them in order of the current month (Like November, december, and January of 2008). So, feel free to tell me of fun things that are coming out or are going to happen (like concerts, or birthdays, and whatnot).

Enjoy!

The Dark is Rising

Man, after reading that book I'm now seeing crows and ravens all around. But not in flocks, no no, just alone. I'll be walking to class and I'll hear this "caw!" I'll look around and there's a crow, sitting at the top of the tree, building, or car, and it'll be watching me. And it never flies away! It just sits there and watches me walk by!

The Dark is Rising, my friends, time to get out that scripture power!