So it has been almost a month since my last public post.

Things have been crazy. 

But I’ve made it through the semester and I am almost done! I just have my anatomy and physiology final monday. I haven’t been very good about studying for it, but I think I’ll be fine. I love that class, so I’m excited for the 2nd half next semester. It’ll be amazing. My favorite thing this semester is the nervous system. It’s just so strange and abstract. I don’t know. It’s just cool. I think I kind of forced myself to love it after spending time with all these nervous system study charts over Thanksgiving break. HAHAHA. I’ve learned soooooo much just in this class. I love it. I feel like I’ve learned like 10239820985x what I learned at Eastern. Hm…

So a lot of other exciting things are coming up !

I’m becoming an official member of my church this coming Sunday. So, I will officially be a member of the Church of the Nazarene. Yay!! I’ve been going to a Nazarene church (I was going to the one by Eastern until I came back home) for over a year now so I’m really happy to finally commit and show that I like the denomination. I never really thought I would become an official member of any particular church, but I just felt like this was right. I agree with them on most things so it’s cool .

I’m going to a real Channukak party tomorrow!!!! I know, I’m Christian so that sounds weird, but I feel like it’s part of the Christian roots and I wanna celebrate it!!! But I’m going to get the legit experience ! Latkes, dreidel etc. SO MUCH FUN. I will hopefully be really good and study all/most of the day tomorrow before I go tomorrow night. I hope so.

I’m getting another job (my other one was just for the summer)! My friend’s dad basically owns a store selling stuff and he’s going to hook me up. I start after January 1stish. It’ll be full time during my breaks and part time during the semester. So that is a perfect schedule for me. I might have to adjust after I figure out the nursing program thing, but I haven’t even gotten in yet so I’m not going to worry about that just yet.

So to close, so I can say that I studied by writing this post….In no particular order is some stuff I learned this semester

1. Cranial nerves are awesome (I want to say they are probably one of my favorite things for this semester after the Autonomic Nervous system). There are 12 of them in total and 3 are responsible for moving your eyes (Oculomotor,Trochlear, Abducens)! 
2. The most common joints in your body are synovial joints. Synovial joints have lubricating fluid that decrease the amount of friction between bones. Ex: your elbow or your hip joint
3. There was a really cool mnemonic device talking about the different types of synovial joints (Please Have Patience Sally Can’t Bowl). Pivot, Hinge, Planar, Saddle, Condyloid, Ball and Socket Ex: your elbow or your hip joint
4. My favorite muscles: Sternocleidomastoid (moves your neck), Trapezius (upper back muscle that shrugs your shoulders), Gastrocnemius (back of calf)

Ok, that was harder than I thought it would be. Mostly because I have to strip a single concept down from the main chapter and I have to be like aldjpwoieuraoidjfal how can I make this into a single fact? I don’t know. It’s harder than you would think for some reason…

Anyway, hope everybody is doing well.

What do you consider your first spiritual experience to be?

I would probably say when I really prayed and meant it and put myself out on the line. I was going to dig back and find my testimony on here, but I’m too lazy. It’s from last year-ish somewhere. So basically, I was at a really low place because I slept with this guy and he used me and left me after that. All my friends were like “I told you so” and I just felt horrible about everything. It was a bunch of things, but I saw a couple of blog posts about that, specifically one from Naitofnarnia, about having sex before marriage and stuff and I was just like hmmm. One thing led to another, and I was just like “I’ll see what happens” and prayed and God really answered me and it was this moment of like “this doesn’t matter” and “you’re going to be fine/you’ll get through it” and basically they have no right to judge you. That’s what happened, short of it. It took me a few months after that to actually commit to Christ, but that’s really what started all of it.

What is the most religious thing you’ve ever worn in public?

A cross necklace or my shirt that says “A Breadcrumb and Fish, Jesus Miracle Worker“. 

What is the kindest act you’ve ever done for someone?

I’m not sure, plus I feel weird sharing if I could think of one that was the absolute kindest. 

What is your favorite story from the Gospel or a religious movie?

My favorite Gospel story is the Woman at the well. My favorite religious movie is Letters to God.

Have you ever prayed with someone from a different religion?

No? I don’t think so.

Have you ever prayed in a public place?

Sometimes I pray in the car or in class, if that counts. I’ve prayed in church, but I don’t really think that counts.

Have you ever participated in a religious service other than your own?

I’ve gone to some Catholic services, but I wouldn’t count that as outside my religion since I’m Christian. I’ve wanted to go to a Jewish service, but I haven’t gotten the time to ask and stuff. I’ve heard that sometimes Jewish services don’t let “outsiders” in/have strict rules about it.

Have you ever gone outside your spiritual comfort zone in order to move closer to God?

Yea, sometimes. Sometimes it takes me awhile to be willing to make the jump.

Are you in a good relationship with God right now?

Define good. Good as in close? Not as close as I could be just because of everything going on with school and stuff. I keep the faith and pray and stuff when I can. Good as in right with God? Yes, but only by his grace. I’m no angel and I make plenty of mistakes.

What do think God’s wish is for you?

Honestly? I don’t really know. I have kind of a vague idea of how my future is going to go (I’ll be a nurse and I’ll get married at some point, beyond that the details are up in the air), but I don’t understand why it is the way it is now, that’s for sure. Overall though, I think in general it’s to become like him and mature spiritually.

Whose desires come first in your life: yours or God’s?

It should be God’s 100% of the time, but I’m selfish, so it’s a decision by decision process, so to speak. Oftentimes I make the wrong decision.

Do you struggle with selfishness? What helps you overcome this?

Yes. I’m very selfish. It helps me to overcome it knowing that the other person needs me more than they need to hear the sound of my voice telling them random stupid stuff about my day when they have a real need/problem. I have moments where I do shut up and listen to what people say. Sometimes those moments are rarer than others.

Do you struggle with false or empty relationships that distract you from your relationship with God? What relationships help you stay close to God?

Yes and no. My family can be something that makes it hard to do what I’m supposed to do, but that’s more on me than anything. They’re just difficult people to love and treat well, sometimes. Interestingly enough, I have a lot of friends/people in my life that help me stay close to God. Surprisingly, some of the friends aren’t religious. A few of them are Muslim, and that really helps me to stay close to God because I pray for them and their lives and whatever is going on. Plus like, having friend of different beliefs helps me to strengthen my beliefs and become a more rounded person because I know about their beliefs.The church I’m at now is a huge blessing to me in that regard as well. Our pastor is a really great guy who makes God relevant (not that he isn’t, but he makes it accessible and interesting) and I’ve learned a lot about God just through the sermons and everything. I really love all the people in my church family as they encourage me to seek God as well. I’m really blessed with the church I have. I know that wasn’t the point of the question, but that was basically what I was thinking about. 

When you pray, what is your image of God? What do you think of?

I don’t really think of anything. Sometimes I do think about God having his ear towards the earth or something. I know it’s ridiculous, but just how it makes sense to me. I try to, but usually don’t remember to, follow the advice of really picturing God is there with you when you’re praying and stuff, but I’m really bad at picturing that even though I do believe it. When I’m praying I’m thinking about the stuff I’m praying about and God and stuff. 

What is on your “spiritual bucket list?”

• Finish the Old Testament and finally have read through the Bible fully.
• Finish some good informational books on the Bible (Discovering the Old Testament/New Testament, etc)
• Finish The Ragamuffin Gospel
• Read the bible again
• Become a member of my church
• Become more involved with the outside world
• Do something important with my life

Tagging @ancient-scribe and everybody reading this.

I totally procrastinated doing this…..so gotta go study! 

Nothing really of interest to talk about…just rambling, I guess. Partially because I haven’t posted in such a long time. bah.

Lots of things I’ve been thinking about lately. 

A lot of times I reflect on the surrealness of life, even just my life in general.  One of the most surreal things for me right now is that people all of a sudden are just confiding in me out of nowhere. Like, random people. Well, not only random people, but random enough that I’m like…what, when did this happen? I certainly don’t deserve that information based on anything I’ve done, especially given my large babbling tendencies in the past. Somebody called me after church the other day and I thought it would be a quick phone call, but they told me their life story x2 and talked to me for like an hour. Then someone in one of my classes tells me all this random stuff all the time. Someone who I just kind of know outside of my classes…you know those people you just kind of meet when you’re waiting for class or whatever? She told me stuff too. I mean, maybe she’s just comfortable with me or tells people stuff like that in general, but I think a pattern is happening here and it’s really really strange for me. Mostly because people kind of learned not to confide in me in the past because I used to blab to anyone that would listen. Yea, there is kind of that aspect now, but it’s really not as hard for me as it used to be to keep my mouth shut. Thank God because that really was not a good thing……it feels like a good skill for the future, especially in nursing.

My future feels really surreal sometimes too. I don’t even know what to say about that, but if I seriously end up becoming a nurse….like, what? People treated me like I was stupid my whole life and if I make it through the program (assuming I even get in…I apply Nov 1st and hear back like Mid April/May 1st) then that kind of disproves their theory. Weird way of thinking about it. I guess I’m more so like…what? because I probably wouldn’t have done it if I hadn’t been like “you know, pushing myself isn’t such a bad idea”….

I’m also impressed/happy that I can manage to get most of the prereqs (read: mostly gen eds) done before I enter into the program. Well, sort of. There’s a caveat to that. I have to pass Anatomy 1 this semester to take Anatomy 2 next semester. I also have to get through a humanities class. Unfortunately, I don’t have room for microbiology. Mostly because there’s 90% fail rate if I take it with Anatomy 2 D:, so I have to take it either my first semester or nursing…or pray that I don’t get in until the spring semester and can take it by itself in the fall……It’ll all work out…it’s just one of those things.

Speaking of classes….I’m taking Anatomy and Physiology 1 (A&P), Sociology 101, and a computer class that’s online (microsoft office etc, pretty basic stuff). I like most of them. 

My A&P teacher is really great, very straightforward and awesome. I’m still waiting for her to post the grades for our first lab test, but our lecture exams were good, so that I was excited for. I’m a little nervous for the next exam because it has the first chapter of the nervous system on it (that was unintentionally punny….). But fortunately we drop an exam, so it’ll work out. So, we finish the nervous system next week, then I think we do MORE nervous system stuff (there’s 5 chapters, I think?), then bone stuff, then muscle stuff? I don’t even want to think that far ahead. Lots of cool stuff I’m learning though, which is nice. Like that there’s all these neat little corpuscles in your skin that sense different things, like pressure and stretching. NERDY AWESOMENESS.

Soc is ok. My teacher is the good kind of crazy that tells cool stories. Plus she loves me…always a good thing !

Nothing to say about comp class.

I think that’s basically it, at least for now.

Get to see my lovely niece again tomorrow. I’m excited, but need to get up early…….So I hope everybody has/had a really good Friday.

2 things before i start the list:i’m going to miss these kids & i hope they want me bqck next summer!!! & this is finally my first post from the mobile app! I’m so behind lol

In no particular order:
1. I am so incredibly blessed & fortunate that i never had any reading issues. I have seen kids of all abiliy level this summer from kids who mix up their “i”s and “e”s, to kids that cannot read at all, to kids that are 13 years old and have the intelligence/reading level of someone college age or order…. I feel like i’ve seen it all and i’m just happy that i never had to worry about that stuff.
2. There is always a way to respond positively even when the kid (or person in general) is really really behaving badly.
3. I am SO much more aware of what words don’t follow the phonetic rules… It’s nerdy exciting
4. Kids are so so funny & i want to spend more time with them. Their joy & humor is contagious!
5. With a little push in the right direction , anyone can figure things out for themselves via socratic questioning (ok, maybe i don’t knpw this for sure but i know that it is highly likely based on what i’ve seen)
6. Little things you think mean nothing or think are meaningless/drudging oftentimes mean the world to someone who needs your help.
7. A little kindness goes a long way
8. I will never think of reading or writing in the same way again.
9. Some people value intelligence & money more than anything….
10. I learned how to be upbeat & positive all day…. I’m super excited to translate that to my clinical experience when i enter the nursing program!!!!!
11. I learned how much patience i actually am capable of when i am willing to let Gos help me & also to let go of wanting to control what others are doing
12. I learned cool games to play with flashcards for when i am studying.
13. I learned that i shoukd visualize what i am reading for my schoolwork!!!! How did i never think of that before? Lol
14. I learned how fast money goes…. Especialy if you’re not keeping track….
15. I learned how good it feels to get your paycheck
——–15a. & how much federal tax stinks lol

I’m tired of list making right now…. Happy end of summer!

No, but I never am. I used to think that once I got to a certain age I would suddenly, magically know all the answers and be this completely different person that had everything figured out and could do anything and everything. Ah, the naivety of youth .
   

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I miss xangazon (or whatever that thing is called)….. Listening to:  Circa ’46 -The Rocket Summer (His new album is really good and I definitely have some favorites out of it already )

I’m not very good at updating, I know. Plus, I realize I have very little excuse wise since I’ve been out of school for over a month…going on 2 months :S.

So since this past Monday I’ve been doing really intense job training from 9:45am-6:30pm. There’s a LOT for us to learn, so it seems like a lot…but it really isn’t. We’ve already done 2 days of learning one out of the 3 programs that we have to learn. Tomorrow and Friday we learn another program. Next week we learn the last program, do some observations and refreshers etc. I feel really good about it. It’s like….total immersion almost? I’m exhausted by the end of the day, but it feels good to actually be working and stuff.

I finished up my summer class, Lifespan and Development, last week even though it was supposed to end this week. So hopefully I’ll find out my grade Friday since it officially ends tomorrow ( I took the 2 tests on the same day since I had to leave a week early for the training I mentioned above). This will be my first official grade at my new school since all my credits from Eastern just came in as Transfer credits without giving me the grade. They’ll count towards my nursing stuff, but I won’t have an actual grade for them. Kind of sad, but it’s also cool to be able to start over.

I’m definitely at a weird place right now. So much transitioning between the new school, new job, new church and just general people stuff. Maybe I’m transitioning as a person as well. Sometimes I just feel so off and like no matter what I do I’m just rubbing someone the wrong way. Who knows. Maybe it’s just waiting for everything to settle into a normal-ish routine. I know myself well enough at this point (at least in this aspect) to say I have difficulty dealing with change, especially if it’s not something I wanted to change myself (to be fair, there are few things I try to change on my own since I’m very much a creature of habit).

I guess I’m becoming very aware of how hard it can be to push myself in new people situations. I used to categorize myself as super friendly, and not that I’m not friendly, but I think it’s more complicated than that. I am friendly, but I’ve kind of ignored the fact that I’m also introverted and it can be hard to pull out of my shell and push myself to be like “Hi, how are you?” or simple stuff like that to people I don’t know that well. Somehow I manage, but I’m becoming more self aware and realizing it is a challenge, I guess. Like, at my new church I find it’s really easy for me to pull back instead of socializing. Or socialize, but let everyone else talk instead of putting myself out there. Maybe I’m just growing as a person and letting other people be more important than myself?? I don’t really know. But it’s interesting. I’ve noticed I’m more apt to talk about random stuff with someone than myself. It’s like, nooo I don’t want to talk to you about myself, let’s talk about something random so I don’t have to talk about me details, cool beans.

I don’t know.

I’m reading Little Bee by Chris Cleave right now. I haven’t gotten through that much of it because I haven’t been the greatest about managing my time when I get back from work, but it’s good so far. It’s one of those novels that really makes me wonder about the style that it is written and where the author is going with it. Plus it’s a British book, so that’s kind of neat.

Work has infiltrated my brain and I want to talk endlessly about it now, haha. I can’t, but I want to go on and on about it. How nice everyone is there (especially the manager/director person, she is such a sweetheart and I’m so incredibly thankful she is not like psychoboss that I’ve had before !), how adorable the kids are going to be and how much I am all around excited for this long training to be over……….

I’m sort of restless too, but I’m hoping once I’m able to make better time for myself I’ll be able to exercise and that will help with that. I think part of it is trying to assert myself from my family and they’re a little crazy about what I can do with the car and they want to know where I am all the time. So it’s that weird…compromise/balance between having independence and feeling like a child because your family wants to hold your hand and make sure you do everything they say and you’re like a robot or something. I’m gonna figure something out to get out of the house often too…..

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So apparently xangazon is now in the toolbar??? That’s cool….

This is random, but I have to end this somehow..

I’ve been trying to be more thankful and stuff, and I saw someone write something funny to be thankful for (well, it gave me a giggle)….

So yeah, I’m thankful for toilet paper.

But seriously.

Stuff I am thankful for

1. Having a car to use (it’s not my car, but who cares)
2. Having a house to live in (just somewhere in general is really nice)
3. Having air conditioning for the summer
4. Having a job (especially that it is not retail. A job is a job, but boy, am I thankful it is not retail!!!)
5. Having enough food to eat (and plenty to stuff my face with, even though I should know better)
6. the fact that I am getting a paycheck this coming Monday (I’m excited to finally be able to pay my own bills, pay my mom back for some stuff I’ve bought etc )
7. working somewhere that does not make me feel like I have to compromise my morals or something ridiculous like that/working somewhere that I actually like the stuff they’re having us do/what they stand for etc
8. unconditional love; from God, my stepmom and other people in my life
9. that I’m not stagnant. I’m continually able to be moving forward and making conscious choices to be or not be a certain way. I choose my own destiny, so to speak. Well, at least I choose my own behavior. Hopefully that makes sense…..
10. Even if I didn’t have all these things on this list to be thankful for, I would have others things to be thankful for

What is going on in your life? What are you thankful for?

So yeah, that is the Kim update for right now. I might update tomorrow. We shall see.

p.s.- xanga is not working on firefox for me…anyone else having that problem?! grrrr firefox!

So I realize I’ve been neglecting my xanga…..that’s life though.

I moved out of Eastern this past Friday, May 11th (and I’m not returning. I transferred to community college to do nursing instead). I couldn’t move out until then because I had a final at 12:30.  Which I am pretty sure I got a 60/70 on if he didn’t curve it. Thank God for bad teachers that recognize they are bad and curve all their exams. So since I took all my exams I am obsessively looking for my grades to be posted….. That is not entirely unlike what happened in the Fall 2011 semester, but I digress.

Saturday was a very very long day. I had an interview at 1 (I got there about 12:40ish). I didn’t realize how long the interview itself was (it was more like a workshop of sorts), so I was there until about 3:30. I don’t want to say the name of the place, but it’s basically this tutoring place, but it’s not traditional.  I was dead for the rest of the day. I admit I was freaking out a little bit because I was one of the last people they interviewed and I wasn’t exactly sure how it went since I said one of the traits I need to work on is that I’m messy…

Sunday I went to church with my mom/aunt. I’m really excited because I finally got to talk to the pastor about what I think God wants me to start up ministry wise —-Getting people involved with something like project linus or any other organization that takes handmade (crocheted, knitted, quilted etc). He was all for it and I just have to call the lady associated with my area to see what is acceptable and what the needs are for our area/logistic stuff like that. I also got my mom and her friend to agree to help with some workshops teaching people how to knit and crochet. I also need to look up how to do no sew fleece blankets, but whatever….this is soooo exciting!!! AND THIS CAN HAPPEN!!! So we’ll see what ends up happening after everything. I’m excited to see what God does.

After church we finished with my other aunt in the nursing home. The weather was really beautiful and it was awesome. I usually avoid going, but I figured I’d give it a shot again (I admit that it makes me a horrible person for not wanting to visit her :S). BUT! This particular visit was fabulous. I danced with this adorable resident and gave her a couple of hugs. It really made me happy to know I made someone’s day like that. I don’t know why, but I get the feeling her family doesn’t really visit her. Spending time at the nursing home also made me wonder if that’s where I’ll end up working once I have my RN.

When I was little I have a memory with this same aunt who lives in the nursing home. I don’t know how old she was at the time, but she and I were talking. She goes “Someday I’m going to leave my house and start being really active again” and reminisces about what life would be like if that were possible. I remember that’s where I came in. She was convinced I would be her helper, and if I remember correctly this is where the idea came into my head about being a nurse. I guess I’ve always had a thing for talking to people older than me??Someone from my church at Eastern suggested the idea to me as well. That maybe I am called to work in a nursing home. He was just like “I think you have a gift for helping older people” or something like that. I’m not worried about it right now exactly, but I just found it interesting. I feel like I eventually just want to work at a school/health clinic/somewhere relatively low key, but that’s not until later in life. I want to work somewhere for awhile and then go onto that. I definitely want to work for the Red Cross if possible (doing blood drives and stuff), but I’m not sure if I have to be a strict phlobotomist (sp??) or if I can just have the RN for that and/or one of those free/cheap health clinics (both the buildings and the events where they take your blood pressure and stuff like that…)…. So yeah, lots of random and interesting things in regards to that. I’m excited to see what happens in regards to that .

Today-

I kind of laid low today. My niece came over and while she was napping I heard from the place that I interviewed at.

I GOT THE JOB!!! MAN, I was so excited I cried. Someone else I know also got a job they’ve been waiting on, so at least in that respect today was a good day . I’m also excited because I feel like God really just pulled through on me. Not that he hasn’t before, but it always makes things like THANK GOD and just happy to know that he’s got my back. I still cannot believe they got back to me so fast. They told us 2 weeks when we were at our workshop thingy.

Also, this tells you what a proud aunt I am….My niece finally is able to say my name !!! (she’s going to be two this year, so I am stoked). Anyone who tells you nieces are not awesome has never had one. My niece is such a precious adorable adorable little girl . And sometimes just being around her just makes my day t1034o28912x better. I guess children really do have some sort of awesome spark to them and makes life extra special. Alright, I admit I was trying to say something deep and failed miserably.

ANYWAY

So I feel like I’ve been home for days already. Strange how it works out like that.

I think that’s all the exciting news.

I start my summer class May 29th. I already have to miss like 4 classes :S because I have to take some nursing SAT-type exam (well, I guess it’s more like an LSAT since you need to score a certain level…) and because my job has 2 week training and it starts 3 days before the class ends. GAH. I’m sure it’ll be fine, but yeah we’ll figure it out.

So that’s my life right now. How/what is yours?

p.s.- title is from the song Angels on the Moon-Thriving Ivory. I am slightly obsessed with this song because my friend did a Dr. Who Video with it.

STUFF I HAVE NOTICED:

1. Everyone has cleared out….so the most popular flight times must be 11,12ish
2. people lose a LOT of stuff (just since I’ve been here since 11ish—-a black backpack/coat, walking cane and baggy of toiletries)
3. lots of people are going to florida (go figure)
4. the gate i’m chillin in only has 1 outlet unless you want to go awkwardly sit by the place where people file into the flight
5. ALL OF THE STORES HAVE THE SAME STUFF (grrrrr D:) (except for those random stores that are like dunkin donuts, a silver place , an ice cream place etc)
6. the only outlet that i am using is right in the sun and it makes me feel good, but very tired WAH
7. there is no lady that scans our tickets and lets us in? (maybe this is the only fligth in this gate today??!)
8. the airport blocks youtube (but apparently not netflix?) (THIS MAKES 0 sense…netflix totally takes up more space than youtube….)
9. THE “SMOKING IS PROHIBITED” ANNOYING VOICE REPEATS…IDK HOW OFTEN
10. most of the people that are around me right now are not business looking
11. each gate has a spinny thing with ads or something on it?

AND NOW FOR RANDOM FACTS from OMG FACTS

• You can’t hum while holding your nose closed.  (OMG FACTS)

• 2% of Earth’s people have red hair. (AKA NO SOUL)

• When you put a seashell next to your ear, it’s the sound of your blood surging in your veins, not the ocean.

• The Bible is the number one most shoplifted book of all time. (I would not have thought this)

• There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

• If you walk and talk with someone, eventually you will synchronize your steps with each other.

  

  Interpersonal synchronization of stepping happens when people walk side-by-side. Little is known about this, but it has practical uses in therapy. In 2009, this phenomenon was the subject of a study to help impaired people in rehabilitation. Subjects were paired together to walk on treadmills side-by-side. The result? People started walking faster to keep up with their partners.

  Plus, as OK GO has demonstrated, it can be awesome.

• Having blue eyes is actually a mutation. Before the mutation occurred, all humans had brown eyes.

  Biology nerds know that these mutations often occur in the womb. In this case, the OCA2 gene, which is also involved in the production of melanin, is disrupted to make the eyes blue rather than brown.

• Your earlobes line up with your nipples. (LOL!)

• If you take your age and multiply it by 7, then multiply it by 1,443 the product repeats your age 3 times.

• Believe it or not, you actually CAN’T see the Great Wall of China from Space!

  

• Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command ‘go hang yourself.’

• In Topeka, Kansas it is illegal to sing the alphabet on the streets at night. It is also illegal to install a bathtub, and you may not scream in a haunted house.
  

• The human mind can maintain social relationships with up to 150 people!

• You can overdose and die from coffee.

  

  There is such a thing as a lethal dose of caffeine. Medical literature contains reports of people dying from ingesting large amounts of caffeine, often through unconventional means, such as injecting caffeine straight into the bloodstream or having a coffee enema (literally putting coffee in your butt!).

  It takes ten grams of caffeine in one sitting to kill a person, which would literally take between 80 and 100 cups of coffee, which is pretty hard to do. If you want to know how many cups of coffee will kill you, check out this calculator.

• If you look at the sun RIGHT NOW, you are technically looking back in time. It takes eight minutes for light from the sun to reach Earth.

• No matter how hard you squeeze the two ends of an egg, it will NEVER break.

• Einstein’s final words died with him-the nurse at his bedside didn’t speak German!

• Over 2500 left-handed people a year are killed from using equipment made for right-handed people.

• The faster you move, the heavier you get. You’re heavier when you run than when you’re standing still.

  

  The more energy you put into something, the more mass it accumulates. So if you’re moving fast, you gain weight. It’s only a tiny, temporary weight gain, but if you were traveling close to the speed of light your mass would increase rapidly.

  Other weird physics facts:

  All the matter that makes up the human race can fit into a sugar cube. This is because atoms are mostly empty space. If you crammed all the atoms in all human beings together, without any wasted space, they wouldn’t be any bigger than a sugar cube. However, that sugar cube would weigh 5 BILLION TONS.

  Light doesn’t always travel at the speed of light. The speed of light is only constant in a vacuum. When it passes through matter it can slow down. Photons (light particles) pass through water at 3/4ths the regular speed of light. Light was once slowed down to 38 miles per hour.
  (source)

• If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died from battle wounds; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

• On the 10-piece Chicken MgNugget box for McDonalds, there is a picture of 11 McNuggets.

• Odds are, any memory you believe you have before the age of 4 isn’t real. They are false memories and have usually either been told to you by someone else, or you made them up without knowing it.

  It’s called ‘Childhood amnesia’ and it means, generally, that won’t remember anything that happened until you’re about 4 years old. Some people can remember things from age 2, but it is rare. There are many theories why, but generally it is assumed this is because your brain hasn’t developed enough to be able to form, store, and retrieve memories. In general the earliest memories of females are earlier and more vivid than those of males.

• A violin contains 70 DIFFERENT pieces of wood.

• KERMIT THE FROG IS LEFT HANDED

• The math measurement Pi has been accurately calculated to 1.24 trillion decimal places.

  

  When you divide the circumference of a circle by the diameter of a circle, the number you get has an infinite number of decimal places. Numbers that do this are called “irrational”.

  Since this number is particularly important, we use this symbol (?) or just call it “pi” rather than expressing it with regular numerals.

  The Bible once mistakenly referred to Pi as being just 3, with no decimals. Even at the time that passage was written, that was a grossly inaccurate estimate.

  This is the longest estimate we’ve ever had of how long pi is. That number would be 310 million pages long and would take about 2.4 terabytes of hard drive space to store on a computer. That means that one number could takeThe Average Person Has between 1,460 and 2,190 Dreams A Year. up more space than a 1/2 million mp3s

• Put two straws in your mouth: one inside a drink and one outside it. You won’t be able to drink through either straw. Try it!
  

• The first number that will use the letter “A” is thousand.

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  The Average Person Has between 1,460 and 2,190 Dreams A Year.

  

• Each of the main characters in Spongebob Squarepants was inspired by one of the seven deadly sins.

  

  This surprising revelation was made in the audio commentary included with the episode “Plankton!” on the DVD boxset of the show’s first season. The disc does not establish which characters match up with each sin, but as an avid Spongebob fan, I believe the comparisons are fairly straightforward:

  1. Greed (Mr. Krabs) – this is by far the most obvious comparison that can be made. The avarice of Eugene Krabs is made painfully clear throughout the series. He is constantly thinking of ways to turn a profit, even if it involves taking advantage of his friends or putting them in harmful situations! In one episode, he sings a song called “If I Could Talk to Money”…and there’s even a wiki page devoted to compiling all of his greedy plans!

  2. Envy (Plankton) – another no brainer. With all of Krabs’ wealth and good fortune, there has been an equal amount of hard luck and failure for his archrival, Sheldon Plankton. Plankton owns a struggling restaurant called “The Chum Bucket” and is consumed with the desire to achieve the success of his adversary. His life’s goal is to steal the Krabby Patty formula from his Krabs and drive his primary competitor out of business.

  3. Sloth (Patrick) – the guy lives under a rock for crying out loud! If that isn’t enough to convince you, in the episode “Big Pink Loser” Patrick is given an award for ‘doing absolutely nothing longer than anyone else’. He then proceeds go back under his rock to protect his title.

  4. Pride (Sandy) – the fact that Sandy Cheeks is from Texas alone should almost suffice for this one. She is a squirrel that is very proud of her heritage, so much so that in one episode she nearly moved back home! Sandy also takes a great deal of satisfaction in being the only land critter living down in Bikini Bottom among all the fishy folk. Though generally a good-natured individual, Sandy is quick to spout off about the greatness of the Lone Star state or to show off her athleticism in a karate match or a weightlifting contest.

  5. Wrath (Squidward) – Squidward Tentacles has no qualms about expressing his negative outlook on life, whether it be by describing how much he hates his job at the Krusty Krab or through outward disdain for his two obnoxious neighbors. He is portrayed as a general failure who refuses to acknowledge his own personal flaws. This constant self-denial manifests itself in a sarcastic sense of humor and resentment toward the society that doesn’t ‘appreciate’ his creativity and clarinet…erm…”skills”.

  6. Gluttony (Gary) – now this one’s a bit trickier. Those who have watched a great deal of the series will have noticed a number of jokes about Spongebob having to remember to feed his pet snail. To be honest, Gary doesn’t do a whole lot besides eating and meowing, and the meowing is often due to the fact that he is hungry. Once when Spongebob hadn’t fed his pet, Gary is shown eating parts of their couch! In another episode, Gary runs away from home because Spongebob forgot to feed him for a while. Another time when Spongebob had amnesia, Gary ate a year’s supply of snail food and became morbidly obese! This proves beyond a doubt that when left to his own devices, Gary would rather do nothing but eat.

  7. Lust (Spongebob) – our final analogy is probably the least apparent because we typically think of ‘lust’ in a sexual sense. However, the alternative definition for lust is simply “a passionate desire for something”. In this sense of the word, it cannot be denied that our absorbent yellow friend is an extremely lustful creature. Spongebob has a lust for life that is incomparable to most other cartoon characters – he yearns for the affections of both friend and foe alike, is eager to please, and will often stop at nothing to complete a task.

• The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69.

• Jason Earles plays a teenager in Hannah Montana but he’s really 33.

  

  Jason Earles plays Jackson Stewart on Hannah Montana. In the show he is a teenager, but in real life the actor is 33 years old.

• The Letter ‘R’ is on the left side of the keyboard, and ‘L’ is on the right side.

• The Pokemon Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are based off of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.

  Approximately 95% of software in China is pirated.

  

• The original pack of Skittles doesn’t contain the color blue. Therefore, you CAN’T actually taste the rainbow.
• An olive tree can live over 2000 years!  
• OMG FACTS IS AMUSING ME SO MUCH RIGHT NOW….HUZZZZAH!!!!
   

So I’m going on spring break, but my flight isn’t till liek 5:58…..that leaves me with a lot of time since I could not get a good (LATER TIME) ride to teh airport. So I’m chilling here…trying to figure out what to do.

HENCE I’M GOING TO COME UP WITH A LIST (MY OWN IDEAS AND OTHER PEOPLE’S) OF WAYS TO ENTERTAIN YOURSELF. especially since I have a 2 hour layover once I finally get to this flight :S

NOTE: I recognize not all of these would be plausible, but I’m having fun amusing myself…

1. So I just saw an employee driving one of those airport golf cart things….that would be an awesome way to entertain myself.

• race throughout the airport on them
• drive around in them and be obnoxious
• crash into stores in them

1.  (ok, xanga hates numbering and bullets but that’s ok!!)
2. go to one of the stores with really expensive stuff, go in and ask about their products like you’re going to buy something and then just walk away
3. OMCHEESE this airport has this thingy where ythere’s a picture of these umbrellas made up of smaller umbrellas and when you walk past it/disturb it in anyway you get really awesomeness of the parts scattering everywhere!!! SO THAT CAN KEEP YOU AMUSED FOR A BIT IF YOU’RE NOT AFRAID TO LOOK KINDA STUPID
4. record the annoying voices that constantly are reminding you not to smoke, leave your bags etc and make a movie or audio tracks (extra points if you can somehow make it a rap)
5. run through the hall and race people (this sounds like it would get someone in a tonnn of trouble…!)
6. if the airport in question has those treadmill type moving platforms stand on them until they take you across, keep going around in circles….also try to recreate OK GO’s music video…
7. look up funny youtube videos (what can I say…I’m VERY creative!!)
8. ask the people around you where you’re going
9. if it’s a holiday (like today…it’s pi day!) ask how people in the gates around you are celebrating
10. PLAY THE NUN GAME—-If you see a nun, Asian, Muslim woman, or anything else that gets you excited and full of fun and awesome….YOU WIN! (It was originally just nuns and my friend came up with this one, I swear!! There’s a nun that goes to school with us and apparently no one ever sees her around campus though I had a couple classes with her last semester and history with her this semester, so she made it a game….)
11. Calculate the amount of money you paid per mile on your ticket (I don’t feel like don’t this right now, but it would certainly take up time)
12. count the number of people around you
13. count the little children….THEY ARE SO LITTLE
14. FIGURE OUT WHO HAS THE BEST GATE/PLANE DESIGN….i’m flying with united today, but I think southwest has the prettiest planes (or at least the most unique looking), American airlines ties for second on that imo, so far the gate that I can’t remember from before that had special comfy chairs has been my favorite
15. wonder where the lady that’s supposed to help board people is…..there really are no other flights in this gate until 5ish????
16. reminisce about Florida, because that’s apparently where everyone around me is going D:
17. watch the planes take off (this airport and apparently many others has a special area for this!)
18. see how long you can resist before you touch your computer (AKA see if you can entertain yourself without technology…)
19. see if you can sunbathe through the window in the gates (which I am totally doing right now though it is completely at the expense of not having super great visibility on my screen)
20. write a blog post (haha)
21. create backstories for the people you see (this is a fun game though depressing if you’re very perceptive about what other people deal with)
22. read about airplane stuff and flying
23. chek your email, facebook, twitter etc 10+ times
24. look up crafting stuff an wish you could craft.. :S

Ideas that I found amusing from other people/sources

1. http://www.springleap.com/posts/view/21-ways-to-amuse-yourself-at-the-airport (THIS IS A HILARIOUS LIST!!!)
2. http://www.independenttraveler.com/travel-tips/air-travel/airport-layovers-9-ways-to-make-the-most-of-your-layover  (not as funny, but still cool)

Other random interesting stuff

1. http://www.wikihow.com/Entertain-Yourself-Without-Objects
2. http://offtrackplanet.com/inspiration/the-best-airports-to-get-stuck-in-around-the-world/

Well, that was fun!!

Happy Pi Day!

Ok, so a lot has happened.

I had a good break, relaxed etc. I’m really glad to be back here at school because the less time I spend with my family, the better.

I’m not really going to go through the entire story, but I changed my mind about what I want to do. Eastern doesn’t have that program(nursing)…so this semester I’m taking classes that will hopefully transfer (well, at least in theory they will, right?) to where ever I end up going for the community college ordeal.

I’m taking:

Intro Chemistry

Early American History

Philosophy 

Intro Psych

My chem teacher is interesting….he lectures on and on and if I don’t prepare myself for that then I find myself spacing out. He’s cool though. My history teacher is my favorite though besides my philosophy prof. She’s great because I feel like I learn a lot in 50 minutes, but the class is really engaging too. Just the way she approaches it is really good for some reason. My psych teacher is the same way. My philosophy teacher is great because he’s this super old guy that used to be a pastor so a lot of times he’ll reference biblical stuff and I feel like it’s useful to me as a Christian to know and learn that. Plus he’s just old and that makes him awesome because he tells all these really great stories that old people always manage to be able to tell.

So yeah, I do still exist on this planet….I’ve just severely neglected this xanga….I guess I’ll update right now though until I head to philosophy at 2.

My friends from last semester are evolving, so I find myself distancing myself from a lot of my group in favor for people I didn’t necessarily see as much. I need people as friends, but I don’t really see a lot of my friendships from last semester lasting all that much longer. Mostly because I just find myself really sick of a lot of the people. I don’t know, maybe I’m being ridiculous.

My roommate and I are still on good terms, thank God. It surprises me that I haven’t done anything major to piss her off yet. Then again maybe I’ve just been blessed with someone who’s really patient? I dunno.

I honestly don’t really have much to say beyond that. I guess I’ve just learned a lot of hard lessons about the appropriate time to say things and what is too much to say, among other things.

Hope all is going well with everyone here.