I have 5 minutes in which to write this. good thing i dont waste time spellchecking. (or punctating, or capitolizing...)
Jack and i have concluded that latin is the root of, if not all evil, at least the majority of our homework. I got a C on the most recent quiz (he has to take the same quiz tomorrow), i have asked 4 other people what they got and i had the highest grade out of them, go figure. i shall have to ask the people who have done more than two years of latin (one of the people i already asked had 2 years in highschool, the other had 1 year in seminary!) according to a campus visitor we had we have already covered what he covered his first symester and we have had less than 3 full weeks of classes involving latin.
Enough about that though. my bug collection is almost done (which is good because its due wendsay) it is currently 23 sorted and labeled bugs, it needs to be 25. my lab class from friday is moved forward to tomorrow morning. they gave some of the other classes extensions for the project because of the fire but i havent been able to find my tutor to ask. dont need it anyways.
Speaking of the fire, it has receeded, at some point we were apparently surrounded by a fast moving fire, but its stopped blotting out the sun and the smoke only takes up about 30% of the sky now, i have some pictures, i still havent gotten around to uploading anything though.
My karate instructor sent me the dojo newsletter as well as a very nice note.
My grandpa and great aunt are coming to visit me this weekend.
Not much else worthy of note, gotta go teach karate.
--patrick
Monday, September 18, 2006
Friday, September 15, 2006
its friday night
Salvete,
The all school seminar is tonight. 2 hours of talking about voluntary human sacrifice ( ;) it actualy was a good play, it was just odd..)
After that there is a little pizza party, which im looking forward too because dinner was not apealing looking enough to even try. (brocoli cassorol..... its something that needs more love than you can provide to 10, 30x15x6 in pans....)
Latin is an evil evil language. For the quiz today i needed to know all of the endings for the first and second declension of nouns..... I wont know how i did on it till monday afternoon but i will say it was a confusing quiz (and i dont normaly get confused on quizes).
The campus has stuff everywhere for the 35th aniversary party tomorrow afternoon. tables, tents the size of small houses, catering goods.... the library has about 300 chairs set up in it.
Dorm wars were canceled officialy (due to somebody cutting the power off in our dorm, i guess this cuased alot of safety problems with alarms going off...) they are not something im going to miss too much but the first night was fun.
and now for the technologicaly/gaming inclined friends of mine: psx4gp2x is making progress again, i tried out darwinia (finaly) after school today (lucas gave that to me.... well before summer started). you all still need to read megatokyo, i have max payne and battlefield 2 to try tonight (fridays are pretty much the only time i can justifiable not spend doing homework, unfortunatly the seminar will infringe on that, but i guess it does have priority ;)
Good luck to Lucas! (he is heading up to UCI this sunday.) or shall i say Bonam Fortunam.
valete,
Patrick
Latin:
(Salve= hello, te on the end when addressing a crowd, bonam fortunam= good luck, Vale= goodbye, te same as salve. I now know 8 endings for verbs in two diffferent congigations as well as the infinitive, 24 endings for nouns (also 2 declensions) and 24 endings for adjectives, about 100 vocabulary words. not bad for 14 days.) oh, and about 10 prepositions that dont use endings (thank goodness)
The all school seminar is tonight. 2 hours of talking about voluntary human sacrifice ( ;) it actualy was a good play, it was just odd..)
After that there is a little pizza party, which im looking forward too because dinner was not apealing looking enough to even try. (brocoli cassorol..... its something that needs more love than you can provide to 10, 30x15x6 in pans....)
Latin is an evil evil language. For the quiz today i needed to know all of the endings for the first and second declension of nouns..... I wont know how i did on it till monday afternoon but i will say it was a confusing quiz (and i dont normaly get confused on quizes).
The campus has stuff everywhere for the 35th aniversary party tomorrow afternoon. tables, tents the size of small houses, catering goods.... the library has about 300 chairs set up in it.
Dorm wars were canceled officialy (due to somebody cutting the power off in our dorm, i guess this cuased alot of safety problems with alarms going off...) they are not something im going to miss too much but the first night was fun.
and now for the technologicaly/gaming inclined friends of mine: psx4gp2x is making progress again, i tried out darwinia (finaly) after school today (lucas gave that to me.... well before summer started). you all still need to read megatokyo, i have max payne and battlefield 2 to try tonight (fridays are pretty much the only time i can justifiable not spend doing homework, unfortunatly the seminar will infringe on that, but i guess it does have priority ;)
Good luck to Lucas! (he is heading up to UCI this sunday.) or shall i say Bonam Fortunam.
valete,
Patrick
Latin:
(Salve= hello, te on the end when addressing a crowd, bonam fortunam= good luck, Vale= goodbye, te same as salve. I now know 8 endings for verbs in two diffferent congigations as well as the infinitive, 24 endings for nouns (also 2 declensions) and 24 endings for adjectives, about 100 vocabulary words. not bad for 14 days.) oh, and about 10 prepositions that dont use endings (thank goodness)
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
This means war!
So last night was the first episode of "Dorm wars". Things began right after curfew. it was anounced by our dorm tyrant (who we elected, ironic) that the men of Bernards (another dorm) had kidnapped the leader of Peters (the dorm on the second story of our dorm). we being the valiant neighbors that we are rushed to his aid. About 80 Guys stormed Bernards, Eggs flew in response to waterbaloons filled with water and/or shavingcream, 3 minutes later they begged for truce. We, having compleated our mission, returned to our own dorm. Soon we discovered that while we were gone, treacherous theives from Serra (last guys dorm) had stolen our flags. We immediatly went on the offensive again, with no further munitions things quickly fell to wrestling matches, serra made a tactical error (we outnumber them). suffice to say they might be missing there kitchen for a while (we took there microwaves and cooking impliments). we'll give them back, in exchange for our flags.
Monday, September 11, 2006
9/11
Wow, I can't believe 9/11 was 5 years ago. It seems like yesterday. all the priests wanted to remind us that more people are killed by abortion EVERY DAY than died in 9/11. The response we saw after that event would be merited every single day. go buy a bumper sticker or something.
In less important matters. i have a combined chapter 2/3 test for latin this friday so i will be trying to spend the next 5 days learning that. The school is having its 35th aniversary celebration this saturday (i heard from a little bird that the tickets cost 150$, so imagine it will be a fairly nice event.) Friday is also an all school seminar. that means that we all do an extra reading and we will be put into random groups from all four grade levels to have a discussion. should be interesting, might get a tutor i dont know and i will definitly get to talk with sophmores, juniors, and seniors.
I started reading megatokyo over the weekend, didnt make it very far, but its a pretty amusing comic strip. available free at www.megatokyo.com (lucas, you need to read these.)
Happy belated birthday to my Grandma Z!
It would be nice if people commented still when they read. I dont know who reads this without it. just say hi if thats all your up for but "hi, this is XXXX" would be very nice to see. if i know who reads this i can talk more directly about what you might care about. thanks
patrick
In less important matters. i have a combined chapter 2/3 test for latin this friday so i will be trying to spend the next 5 days learning that. The school is having its 35th aniversary celebration this saturday (i heard from a little bird that the tickets cost 150$, so imagine it will be a fairly nice event.) Friday is also an all school seminar. that means that we all do an extra reading and we will be put into random groups from all four grade levels to have a discussion. should be interesting, might get a tutor i dont know and i will definitly get to talk with sophmores, juniors, and seniors.
I started reading megatokyo over the weekend, didnt make it very far, but its a pretty amusing comic strip. available free at www.megatokyo.com (lucas, you need to read these.)
Happy belated birthday to my Grandma Z!
It would be nice if people commented still when they read. I dont know who reads this without it. just say hi if thats all your up for but "hi, this is XXXX" would be very nice to see. if i know who reads this i can talk more directly about what you might care about. thanks
patrick
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Day 19
I went and counted how many days I have been here.
Thismorning I had a latin quiz. I actualy think I did fine. I will know on friday.
My work for today got moved to tomorrow, leaving me with a double shift then, it was a nice day off today. I took the extra time (which was between 12 and 2) to read my homework for tomorrow (leaving me the time tonight to read my homework for friday as well as go to the karate meeting.)
In math I was called on to demonstrait a prop. Bad luck to get a quiz and that in one day but it was ok since i knew the prop (which demonstriated that in two triangles with two equal sides and the angle between them not equal, the base of those two sides will be correspondingly disproportionate [except my teacher admonished me for using the word proportion, but i dont know why and he didnt say so i assume it dosnt apply to my blog.])
Everybody on campus walks around with MP3 players listening to music. I have 3 MP3 players and many mp3's, but I find my headphones abhorent (or at least my wired ones, my wireless headphones are wonderfull but they do require power to work and a base stand so they really arnt suited to a portable device.) I found a pair of 3$ heaphones on newegg.com though that got decent reviews, and 3$ is a price that is hard to refuse. now when people see my gp2x or Tungsten T|3 with headphones coming out of it they will ask "what on earth is that" and "why dont you use an ipod?" and then the evangelization begins, with a line somewhere along "because this cost 1/5 or half as much (depending on which there asking about) and it plays video,games,ebooks,calander events, alarms and about three dozen other things ipods cant do." :) i love good electronics.
David six and i are talking about making our own linux distribution that would update/run off a flash drive. this would be a very cool project and not all that hard (because he is a genious and i am a slave driver [my official possition in said joint endevor])
well, i digress into computer related rants, so im sure its time for me to go. cya all round.
(oh, did I mention yesterday that I got a train ticket for the 6th of october. For my parents this sadly means I need to be picked up at the trainstation that friday at 10:45 PM. In any case I will be home that three day weekend.)
Thismorning I had a latin quiz. I actualy think I did fine. I will know on friday.
My work for today got moved to tomorrow, leaving me with a double shift then, it was a nice day off today. I took the extra time (which was between 12 and 2) to read my homework for tomorrow (leaving me the time tonight to read my homework for friday as well as go to the karate meeting.)
In math I was called on to demonstrait a prop. Bad luck to get a quiz and that in one day but it was ok since i knew the prop (which demonstriated that in two triangles with two equal sides and the angle between them not equal, the base of those two sides will be correspondingly disproportionate [except my teacher admonished me for using the word proportion, but i dont know why and he didnt say so i assume it dosnt apply to my blog.])
Everybody on campus walks around with MP3 players listening to music. I have 3 MP3 players and many mp3's, but I find my headphones abhorent (or at least my wired ones, my wireless headphones are wonderfull but they do require power to work and a base stand so they really arnt suited to a portable device.) I found a pair of 3$ heaphones on newegg.com though that got decent reviews, and 3$ is a price that is hard to refuse. now when people see my gp2x or Tungsten T|3 with headphones coming out of it they will ask "what on earth is that" and "why dont you use an ipod?" and then the evangelization begins, with a line somewhere along "because this cost 1/5 or half as much (depending on which there asking about) and it plays video,games,ebooks,calander events, alarms and about three dozen other things ipods cant do." :) i love good electronics.
David six and i are talking about making our own linux distribution that would update/run off a flash drive. this would be a very cool project and not all that hard (because he is a genious and i am a slave driver [my official possition in said joint endevor])
well, i digress into computer related rants, so im sure its time for me to go. cya all round.
(oh, did I mention yesterday that I got a train ticket for the 6th of october. For my parents this sadly means I need to be picked up at the trainstation that friday at 10:45 PM. In any case I will be home that three day weekend.)
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Tuesday
Nothing worthy of much note happened today. slept till 9:30, did laundry, went to the business office to arrange transportation to and from the train station next month.
the martial arts club meeting last night went well. I am slowly taking over a little more controll than i had origonaly planned, more or less somebody needs to be in charge and i am the most senoir in training. not to mention it was my idea. we have had about 10 students at each of the last 2 classes, not the same 10.
We have seminar tonight, more illiad, after this we get to read the anied, then the oddesy.
Our philosophy class decided that that there is sound reason to "order the nature of the soul" (according to socrates/plato) without drawing on supernatural reasoning. it was fun.
I have a latin quiz tomorrow that is going to be tough, i studied all weekend though so its not as if im unprepared. its all very interesting
the verb endings go:
Singular plural
First person : O : Mus
Second person : S : Tis
Third person : T : Nt
Those are all active, indicitive, present tense. For imperetive its e or ave.
Well, theres all your latin for the day. Check back soon for more rambling.
the martial arts club meeting last night went well. I am slowly taking over a little more controll than i had origonaly planned, more or less somebody needs to be in charge and i am the most senoir in training. not to mention it was my idea. we have had about 10 students at each of the last 2 classes, not the same 10.
We have seminar tonight, more illiad, after this we get to read the anied, then the oddesy.
Our philosophy class decided that that there is sound reason to "order the nature of the soul" (according to socrates/plato) without drawing on supernatural reasoning. it was fun.
I have a latin quiz tomorrow that is going to be tough, i studied all weekend though so its not as if im unprepared. its all very interesting
the verb endings go:
Singular plural
First person : O : Mus
Second person : S : Tis
Third person : T : Nt
Those are all active, indicitive, present tense. For imperetive its e or ave.
Well, theres all your latin for the day. Check back soon for more rambling.
Monday, September 04, 2006
Latin, bugs, and karate
Sorry to go so long between posts. I have been staying very busy. Saturday I worked a double shift in the kitchen, went to a play (midsummers night dream) and to a dance (I can swing! Sortof.)
Sunday i spent most of the day doing homework. that entailed about 100 pages of reading, memorizing 60 vocabulary words for latin, and Math. Jack went to go see a movie, from his description im glad i didnt go. (I forget what movie it was, but he didnt sound impressed, he did get the ticket for free thanks to technical difficulties though and aparently the car ride/getting off campus was enjoyable, so he wasnt all that sad.) today i got up at 7, went from breakfast to latin to work, to lunch, to theology to math to the lab (we went and caught bugs for a science project, ether gives the most amazing headaches) to dinner, to work, and here I am. Im about to go teach a karate class that I started (10 students, W00t!). Then its off to study math and latin for tomorrow.
Happy birthday to my little brother Ben. He can go get his drivers license now, Scarry thought, im glad im not on the roads anymore :-P
I managed about 5 hours of sleep last night, im very glad that i have nothing till 10:00 tomorrow morning.
Well, thank you all for reading still, i shall try and keep this more up to date. the weekends really are a lost cause though currently, we already have another party for next saturday and perhaps a hike.
ciao,
Patrick
Sunday i spent most of the day doing homework. that entailed about 100 pages of reading, memorizing 60 vocabulary words for latin, and Math. Jack went to go see a movie, from his description im glad i didnt go. (I forget what movie it was, but he didnt sound impressed, he did get the ticket for free thanks to technical difficulties though and aparently the car ride/getting off campus was enjoyable, so he wasnt all that sad.) today i got up at 7, went from breakfast to latin to work, to lunch, to theology to math to the lab (we went and caught bugs for a science project, ether gives the most amazing headaches) to dinner, to work, and here I am. Im about to go teach a karate class that I started (10 students, W00t!). Then its off to study math and latin for tomorrow.
Happy birthday to my little brother Ben. He can go get his drivers license now, Scarry thought, im glad im not on the roads anymore :-P
I managed about 5 hours of sleep last night, im very glad that i have nothing till 10:00 tomorrow morning.
Well, thank you all for reading still, i shall try and keep this more up to date. the weekends really are a lost cause though currently, we already have another party for next saturday and perhaps a hike.
ciao,
Patrick
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