Summer To-Do List

So to entertain you all (thank me for not using its more colloquial contraction), I decided that I would write about what I have/will be[en] working on this summer.

• Getting a job- well, since I don't have one yet, you can guess how well this is going.
• Building new bookshelves in the office- this one isn't mine, it's my dad's but since he yells at me to help him with every mundane step it's practically my project. It's going to be a long summer.
• Installing and running Ubuntu- I got it installed. Now let's try and coerce it into actually running.
• Learning like 4 new piano pieces- yeah, when I get the time, okay?
• New fandangled media center system in my room- this one is a vague fantasy of mine that I'm twiddling with in my spare time. It involves routing all my major electronics into an interface to control everything from my consoles to my iPod and the badass speakers I found. So far I harvested the screen off a digital picture frame and I want that to be the display for all the fun. Yeah, I've got a ways to go.
• Run an ethernet (cat 7 preferrably) line to my room- I'm sick of my shoddy wireless connection. So I want to run about 150' of ethernet cabling from the office, up into the attic, and down into my room where it will be greeted greedily by my computer and new router to give my room some actual WiFi.
• CoHost a Harry Potter and the Half Bood Prince viewing party the night of the midnight premier- yeah, if you haven't already RSVP'ed to the event on FaceBook, go do it now. I'm not kidding, I know where you live. I have a wand.

Okay, that's probably the bulk of it.

Have a good remaining month and a half of summer!

- Jonathan

We rarely dwell on the good things

Towards the end of the year, Mrs. Clarke asked if anyone wanted to participate in a summer leadership program. Apparently our county sends one student there each year on full scholarship. I found out on Friday, that I was that student.

It's pretty intense stuff. You can get college credit for it and everything. They told me that I'll be sent a textbook. Though it sounds like hard work, I'm pretty excited. It seems focused on politics, which I recently have gotten into. By the way, do you think I'd make a good politician? I keep wondering, even though I'm appalled by many the practices of today's politicians.

On another note, this song had been running through my head alot. It's Radios in Heaven by The Plain White T's.


So, yeah. Hope everyone has a good week.

-Brianna

Atoms to Apples

Life has me pulled in several different directions, but not nearly to the degree that Seussical yanked me to. 

For example, I'm worried about colleges and summer jobs again. I got my SAT scores on Tuesday.. I did remarkably better than I hoped for, though still under my "you can stop at this score" goal by only 30 points. It's all good though, I never expected to reach it the first time anyway.

I'm sort of excited for the whole "college hunt" thing. I'm aiming for nothing short of Medical School, which I know might not be what I want to do. I figure it's the best guess I've got now and we'll see where I am when I get there. 

It's not that medicine doesn't enthrall me anymore; it certainly still does. It's just that I'm not naive enough to say that there couldn't be a future for as an atomic physicist (fat chance) or some position in Apple Inc. Only time will tell.

Oh, and big news- I'm French Nation Honor Society's new President (for the 09-10 year) at our school. Caroline is the VP! We're really excited, or at least I know I am. We're gearing up for a big showing for Relay for Life (a marathon walking event for the American Cancer Society).

I'm really excited about Relay this year! We're going to be selling lots of goods and hopefully make a heap of $$ for the fight against cancer. If nothing else it'll be a night of wholesome fun.

- Jonathan