Random Hand Writings

So, I am really really happy right now. xP

Nothing cures depression better than a Chemistry lab. xP So good. We were doing acid-base titrations of Hydrochloric acid and acetic acid. And there were pH meters! So cool! xP My partner is pretty cool. He doesn't really like chemistry, so he lets me do most of the work and when I start doing something I start doing it mechanically. I was going faster than he could write data down. xP I think our group finished first. We had to wait for another group to finish so we could swap data though because there were actually 3 parts to the lab, but everyone was only doing 2 parts to save time and materials. In any case we left half an hour early. xP

I then wanted to blog, but ended up talking with JW until FILM class.

I have quite a few things I want to talk about (I wrote them all on my hand. xP).

So, this week is quite busy. To add to that I recieved my Bio lab back on Monday. I became mentally unstable at the sight of the mark. I had lost 40% for not attaching a couple pieces of paper. This brought my mark for the lab (worth 10% of my final grade) well below a 'pass'. I could not believe the mark I had got. I mean, sure I was up until 3am, then up again at 7 working until minutes before it was due, but still... I mean, 40 marks?!? it's our first lab this semester... In high school teachers try to give you every oppourtunity to make up marks, 1 day late, whatever, 1 week late, whatever, 1 month late, whatever, just get it in and you'll get a mark. You still expect this, but know its not supposed to work that way. So, I wrote an email to our lab coordinator. I was kinda restraining myself from yelling at her because I know I don't actually deserve to get back all of the marks and it is never good to send angry mail to people, it just ruins your reputation. I just wanted some of the marks back... I know we get 1% bonus for not handing in anything late and 1% for registering our clicker, so the 4% I lost would only really be 2% of what I've already earned... 2% isn't all that much... As I talked more about it with JC and AL I felt a bit better, but still it was devestating...

One thing that still stuck with me though is this idea that grace is assumed to exist and that sometimes we just expect things and only complain when they are not there instead of appreciating it when they are there. Such as buses or grace. Grace is amazing. How can you want justice and at the same time expect that when you make a mistake, that you can always look over it..?

Anyways, I then went to DG in the middle of scrambling to do a CHEM prelab. I mean it really hit me that I should do some work to avoid another 'fail fail'. So I went to DG. This week there were four of us. Me, RM, DL, and JS. We were going through a lesson called 'for joy' in the C4C DG booklet thingee. It was about Luke 15: 1-10. In this passage Jesus is asked 'Why do you hang out with the sinners and tax collectors?' to this Jesus responds as usual with a parable, or analogy-type story relating things people knew about to things of heaven. The parables he spoke about in this passage were about sheep and about coins. 'What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not go after the one who that is lost, until he finds it?' 'Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house until she finds it?'

Reading these I was thinking like in University practically no one believes they will get 100. They always trade for the higher marks when forced with decisions. Like, should I work on a paper worth 20% or a quiz worth 1%..? The paper duh. Even this stupid bio lab. I would trade my bonus marks to get that 40 marks back, as long as I end up with more marks in the end. Especially because 90=100 at Carleton. xP Who cares about 9 or 10% as long as it still appears perfect. Also, for the 'silver coins', no one cares if you lose a dime, right? Well, guess what God cares. We will search day and night for the lost one and then do everything He can to bring them back, even giving up His place in heaven to come and live among us and in the end, die on a cross for us. But you know what, He really cares about that one lost sheep. 'there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.'

On Monday, because I happened to be at school earlier than I expected, I went to CHEM and learned an amzing way to balance redox reactions! It blew my mind! Just add water to balance O, add H+ to balance H and add e- to balance charge. and if it is a basic solution just add OH- to neutralize H+ in the equation. xP This actually makes it easier than it had been, and I already thought it was easy. xP

Last week in YA JK said something so much deeper than we had all thought he could imagine. On the topid of marriage and the debate as to whether it is more important that you and your spouse are one or two, Pastor DB said that it is a trick question. They are equally important. JK then said '1+1=2, but two is just one digit.' It blew our minds. xP

And last story of the day: Today in Physics I was sitting behind the same people as usual and they were doing the normal stumbling and such. The girl I had recently creeped into being friends with had these cupcakes. They were the most amazing cupcakes I had ever seen. They had pink icing and when you cut in in half, there's the image of a red heart in the cupcake. That is ridiculous. How did she put a heart in the cupcake batter!?! She said she made them today as practice for next week. At the end of class the four of them were having a group picture taken and their fifth friend's hands were too shaky, so just as I was leaving they asked me to take the picture. I immediately rotated the camera phone about 60 degrees and the original photographer says 'creative.' I was laughing in my head. I took the picture and now I know her name is S(?) and the other girl's name is also S. xP

That is all for now. And possibly for a while.

Ttyl.

D.Fa