Whoo Today's chem lab was so much fun. There was a maximum amount of fun and a minimum amount of work. most awesome. We got to make ice cream :D We had these Shake'em ice cream makers, it looked like a hamster ball, there was a small metal tube inside where you put the ice cream mix, and then on the outside you put the ice and salt water and then you shake it for 15 minutes and boom, ice cream. totally cool. There was a bit of math, freezing depression etc...but it was so much fun, and since our ice cream, while good, wasn't as good as store bought, so she bought some Dryers from Safeway (and a bunch of toppings too :D ) and we got to have a bit of an ice cream party, and we got out early. Good times all around :)
Info about Ice Cream Maker dude. totally awesome.
The rest of my classes are...eh. Physics, hopefully I just get through it like last time...and math, I don't know the teacher seems alright, but everyone says her tests are really hard and two of my friends were in that class, but one of them definitely switched to a different instructor and the other one is on the fence about it, but will probably go. I'm the most stressed about that class. Speaking of which I'm off to do calc homework now.
I'm so bummed though, I had to stop volunteering for this semister, it was just taking up too much of my time so I had to make a choice. Arugh. Stupid saturday lab. I'm planning to go back during the summer and stuff or maybe go to Marin...but I have to focus on passing this semister first. LoL.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Monday, January 09, 2006
Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility
Economics lesson for today
Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility
A law of economics stating that as a person increases consumption of a product--while keeping consumption of other products constant--there is a decline in the marginal utility that person derives from consuming each additional unit of that product.
i.e. Too much of a good thing isn't so good after all. For example, if you work 12 hour days and are on you feet 10 of those hours, then standing diminishes in utility. Likewise, if you are on a 23 hour flight, then sitting diminishes in utility. ...there are other examples also.
Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility
A law of economics stating that as a person increases consumption of a product--while keeping consumption of other products constant--there is a decline in the marginal utility that person derives from consuming each additional unit of that product.
i.e. Too much of a good thing isn't so good after all. For example, if you work 12 hour days and are on you feet 10 of those hours, then standing diminishes in utility. Likewise, if you are on a 23 hour flight, then sitting diminishes in utility. ...there are other examples also.
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Vacation, by Me.
sooooooo Okay. this is going to be a mother of a long post. be prepared.
Monday Dec. 26, party harty with my friends. got a ton of cool stuff :D LEGO MAGNETS! dude. most awesome, everytime I go into that store I pick them up say, "aw these are so cool" turn them around to look at the price, see how over priced they are and then proceed to put them back in their rightful container. but not anymore because I HAVE THEM! Muchas gracias to Janice and Chrissy :) *most awesome* I got very cute pj's from maria :) MOST wonderfully wrapped. (you so have the "rapping" skills :D ) A disney mug from elisa :) MOST fun salt and pepper shakers from charlie :D dude. I showed those off to everyone in my family. LoL :) A SUPER authentic bonified tiki statue from Hawaii from Tiff :D and cuticle oil that smells awesome :) A Map from Kyle so I won't get lost :( which despite all efforts I'm sure I still will LoL... MOST random trip alarm wire set thingie. from justin. which is cool I have to set it up one of these days muahahahahaah. :) muchas muchas muchas gracias to all of youuuuu you guys are just the MOST awesome ever.
Tuesday. Pack. break for a long time from packing. pack. get on computer. pack. stop packing half way. and wait for tomorrow.
Wednesday Dec 28. Get up, eat breakfast, pack. run in circles. pack. then leave. Then we proceeded to drive down to Los Angeles. The drive was long and relatively uneventful. Traffic was none until we got closer to LA, lots of cows and fields. fields, and oh wait, MORE FIELDS. We got to the hotel and then we went to eat Japanese food at Tokyo Lobby, my uncle likes it there, and the food's pretty good. The we went back and watched a bit of tv and stuff before going to sleep since monday is disneyland day.
Thursday Dec. 29. Disneyland Day. O.M.G. All of humanity and they momma was there. The manager at the Holiday Inn we stayed at was telling us how crowded it was, and how they stopped selling tickets at 12noon because the park was full to capacity. and even that could not explain how many people there were. So we go to go on some of the big rides mattehorn was running on and off so that long was like forever long, but the buzz lightyear line was pretty short :D The line for space mountain. o.m.g. again forever long, we got fast passes but even using those it took a while, and by the time we got close, it broke down. It was working then not working for almost the whole day. Most the day it was actually not working. :( so we got to the front and they were just giving out these like generic fast pass thingies so you can use it for any ride. We ended up using it for the Indiana Jones ride, which was fun :) I like that one.
The Rose Bowl game was later in the week but there were a bunch of people there that had to do with it. Band members and USC and A&M players were walking around. I saw a few of the texans and I was like... that is one nasty color jacket, and then I saw a bunch of them and then my dad was like, those are the texas players and that they and USC were going to play in the bowl later on.
Lots more rides and then we met up with my aunt and uncle and little cousins, so we took Erin on some rides thunder mountain and pirates of the caribbean. Then we went on a few more rides and ate bbq dinner and then at like 7pm we went on splash mountain, apparently you get wetter than my sister thought cause she sat in front and she got soaked LoL sucked to be her, my legs got a little wet but not so much. :) And then we saw the fireworks show from It's a Small World, It was such a great show it was long and the fireworks were synched to the audio going on. It was just really cool. by then my legs were no longer working and my feet hurt so we made our way to the shops real quick and then went back to the hotel.
Friday Dec 30. We spent most of this day at California Adventures. The morning before California Adventures opened, we went to Disneyland and space mountain was working whoo, the line was like 90 minutes (not so bad compared to the 2 hours it is the rest of the day) and I finally got to go on it! (I went on it once like 8 years ago and it's been closed everytime I've gone since) It was fun and worth it :D so cool. Then we went to California Adventures, went on California Soaring, it's tough to be a bug thing, and then we saw this Aladdin musical thing. Which was surprisingly really really really good. The music was good, and the stage set-up was really good it was like a real musical, they had these animal things set up walking through the aisles and stuff. The only thing that sucked was that we had these "preferred seating" things, which means we got to sit up close, but they loaded up the whole theater before us, and so we were packed up on this small space on the side for 45 minutes just standing there before we did anything. ugh that ruined the beginning of it. But it was really great. We went on that big ferris wheel thingie, and California Screaming :) fun stuff and a bit more shopping
We did some other rides and shopping and stuff, and then we went back to disneyland to go see the fireworks from main street/the castle and it was so much better from there, they had these flame thrower things going on, and sparklers and stuff, it was so much cooler. It kinda sucked though because I couldn't watch the electrial parade and the fireworks. :( I chose the fireworks though cause the electrical parade would be there next time I went, probably, but the fireworks was a specal thing.
Saturday Dec 31, We tried to go to the LA zoo, but it was raining terribly so we went there for no reason since most of the exhibits are outside, so it wouldn't have been worth it. We then went to Laguna Beach to go check out an art gallery...and looked around... still raining cats and dogs, drove down to San Diego, another 3 or so hours, again, uneventful, I think I totally slept the whole way down. And then I slept some more LoL got settled in, went to Albertsons (ugh. I dislike albertsons. where is teh VONS?!) to get dinner, very good dinner :) tater tots, VELVEETA CHEEEESE!, steak, fish, and sparkling apple cider. :) good New Years Eve dinner :) watched the countdown and various channels and relaxed
Sunday/Monday Relaxed :) relaxed and relaxed some more. Lame rainy days, but aparently nothing like you guys had up here, I drove around and at the zoo entrance, a bunch of trees had blown over and the marina trail was all blocked, crazy. My sister, mom and I went to go see the Family Stone on Wed. it was alright, the ending got bad. :( but it was okay. Most of the stuff was closed seeing as it was a holiday. Thurs. I chilled at the hotel room, the rest of the family went out for groceries or something, and they found a Vons :D YAY! and it was a really nice upscale one, seating area to eat stuff that you got from the deli, wooden floors, all nice, and then you can drop off your drycleaning there! insanity. LoL
Everything down there is really really nice :D
Tuesday January 3 Went to the Birch Aquarium at UCSD, a lot of cool stuff there, it was kinda small, but they had a large kelp forest tank thingie. We went to the touch pool and I got to touch a sea anemonie very cool, it feels bizarrely sticky. :) (aparently if I were a small fix, I would be anesthetized and then digested...but I'm a human with tough skin. LoL Spent most of the day there I had fun, but my sister had less than fun LoL heh.
Wednesday January 4 Went to the San Diego Zoo, it was large and really confusing. LoL They had a ton of animals, but it's very difficult to see everything and their map and stuff is so confusing. Anywhoo I basically got to see a lot of the animals I wanted, we saw one panda, the mom and baby were in the back :( but we didn't have time to go back and see when they would be out. A WHOLE lot of walking and stuff, it was pretty cool, they had a lot of different animals and a lot of enclosures, but their enclosures were small...maybe i'm just partial to oakland. :)
Thursday January 5, we went to the spa. Got a facial...I tried it once, and it's just not my bag of tea. Went to eat at the Fish Market, very good mahi mahi :)
Friday January 6, went to go check out UCSD...just to see....
Saturday January 7 headed on back home. it's a long drive. It was shorter than I thought though, it took about 7 or so hours to get back...(I'm not sure it's it's supposed to be that short LoL but it was.
Sunday January 8 went to go volunteer at the zoo, nothing too special, glad to be back :)
Monday January 9. jury duty. my really super lame luck. I get called in and I have to go. at least it's in hayward and not oakland :)
Monday Dec. 26, party harty with my friends. got a ton of cool stuff :D LEGO MAGNETS! dude. most awesome, everytime I go into that store I pick them up say, "aw these are so cool" turn them around to look at the price, see how over priced they are and then proceed to put them back in their rightful container. but not anymore because I HAVE THEM! Muchas gracias to Janice and Chrissy :) *most awesome* I got very cute pj's from maria :) MOST wonderfully wrapped. (you so have the "rapping" skills :D ) A disney mug from elisa :) MOST fun salt and pepper shakers from charlie :D dude. I showed those off to everyone in my family. LoL :) A SUPER authentic bonified tiki statue from Hawaii from Tiff :D and cuticle oil that smells awesome :) A Map from Kyle so I won't get lost :( which despite all efforts I'm sure I still will LoL... MOST random trip alarm wire set thingie. from justin. which is cool I have to set it up one of these days muahahahahaah. :) muchas muchas muchas gracias to all of youuuuu you guys are just the MOST awesome ever.
Tuesday. Pack. break for a long time from packing. pack. get on computer. pack. stop packing half way. and wait for tomorrow.
Wednesday Dec 28. Get up, eat breakfast, pack. run in circles. pack. then leave. Then we proceeded to drive down to Los Angeles. The drive was long and relatively uneventful. Traffic was none until we got closer to LA, lots of cows and fields. fields, and oh wait, MORE FIELDS. We got to the hotel and then we went to eat Japanese food at Tokyo Lobby, my uncle likes it there, and the food's pretty good. The we went back and watched a bit of tv and stuff before going to sleep since monday is disneyland day.
Thursday Dec. 29. Disneyland Day. O.M.G. All of humanity and they momma was there. The manager at the Holiday Inn we stayed at was telling us how crowded it was, and how they stopped selling tickets at 12noon because the park was full to capacity. and even that could not explain how many people there were. So we go to go on some of the big rides mattehorn was running on and off so that long was like forever long, but the buzz lightyear line was pretty short :D The line for space mountain. o.m.g. again forever long, we got fast passes but even using those it took a while, and by the time we got close, it broke down. It was working then not working for almost the whole day. Most the day it was actually not working. :( so we got to the front and they were just giving out these like generic fast pass thingies so you can use it for any ride. We ended up using it for the Indiana Jones ride, which was fun :) I like that one.
The Rose Bowl game was later in the week but there were a bunch of people there that had to do with it. Band members and USC and A&M players were walking around. I saw a few of the texans and I was like... that is one nasty color jacket, and then I saw a bunch of them and then my dad was like, those are the texas players and that they and USC were going to play in the bowl later on.
Lots more rides and then we met up with my aunt and uncle and little cousins, so we took Erin on some rides thunder mountain and pirates of the caribbean. Then we went on a few more rides and ate bbq dinner and then at like 7pm we went on splash mountain, apparently you get wetter than my sister thought cause she sat in front and she got soaked LoL sucked to be her, my legs got a little wet but not so much. :) And then we saw the fireworks show from It's a Small World, It was such a great show it was long and the fireworks were synched to the audio going on. It was just really cool. by then my legs were no longer working and my feet hurt so we made our way to the shops real quick and then went back to the hotel.
Friday Dec 30. We spent most of this day at California Adventures. The morning before California Adventures opened, we went to Disneyland and space mountain was working whoo, the line was like 90 minutes (not so bad compared to the 2 hours it is the rest of the day) and I finally got to go on it! (I went on it once like 8 years ago and it's been closed everytime I've gone since) It was fun and worth it :D so cool. Then we went to California Adventures, went on California Soaring, it's tough to be a bug thing, and then we saw this Aladdin musical thing. Which was surprisingly really really really good. The music was good, and the stage set-up was really good it was like a real musical, they had these animal things set up walking through the aisles and stuff. The only thing that sucked was that we had these "preferred seating" things, which means we got to sit up close, but they loaded up the whole theater before us, and so we were packed up on this small space on the side for 45 minutes just standing there before we did anything. ugh that ruined the beginning of it. But it was really great. We went on that big ferris wheel thingie, and California Screaming :) fun stuff and a bit more shopping
We did some other rides and shopping and stuff, and then we went back to disneyland to go see the fireworks from main street/the castle and it was so much better from there, they had these flame thrower things going on, and sparklers and stuff, it was so much cooler. It kinda sucked though because I couldn't watch the electrial parade and the fireworks. :( I chose the fireworks though cause the electrical parade would be there next time I went, probably, but the fireworks was a specal thing.
Saturday Dec 31, We tried to go to the LA zoo, but it was raining terribly so we went there for no reason since most of the exhibits are outside, so it wouldn't have been worth it. We then went to Laguna Beach to go check out an art gallery...and looked around... still raining cats and dogs, drove down to San Diego, another 3 or so hours, again, uneventful, I think I totally slept the whole way down. And then I slept some more LoL got settled in, went to Albertsons (ugh. I dislike albertsons. where is teh VONS?!) to get dinner, very good dinner :) tater tots, VELVEETA CHEEEESE!, steak, fish, and sparkling apple cider. :) good New Years Eve dinner :) watched the countdown and various channels and relaxed
Sunday/Monday Relaxed :) relaxed and relaxed some more. Lame rainy days, but aparently nothing like you guys had up here, I drove around and at the zoo entrance, a bunch of trees had blown over and the marina trail was all blocked, crazy. My sister, mom and I went to go see the Family Stone on Wed. it was alright, the ending got bad. :( but it was okay. Most of the stuff was closed seeing as it was a holiday. Thurs. I chilled at the hotel room, the rest of the family went out for groceries or something, and they found a Vons :D YAY! and it was a really nice upscale one, seating area to eat stuff that you got from the deli, wooden floors, all nice, and then you can drop off your drycleaning there! insanity. LoL
Everything down there is really really nice :D
Tuesday January 3 Went to the Birch Aquarium at UCSD, a lot of cool stuff there, it was kinda small, but they had a large kelp forest tank thingie. We went to the touch pool and I got to touch a sea anemonie very cool, it feels bizarrely sticky. :) (aparently if I were a small fix, I would be anesthetized and then digested...but I'm a human with tough skin. LoL Spent most of the day there I had fun, but my sister had less than fun LoL heh.
Wednesday January 4 Went to the San Diego Zoo, it was large and really confusing. LoL They had a ton of animals, but it's very difficult to see everything and their map and stuff is so confusing. Anywhoo I basically got to see a lot of the animals I wanted, we saw one panda, the mom and baby were in the back :( but we didn't have time to go back and see when they would be out. A WHOLE lot of walking and stuff, it was pretty cool, they had a lot of different animals and a lot of enclosures, but their enclosures were small...maybe i'm just partial to oakland. :)
Thursday January 5, we went to the spa. Got a facial...I tried it once, and it's just not my bag of tea. Went to eat at the Fish Market, very good mahi mahi :)
Friday January 6, went to go check out UCSD...just to see....
Saturday January 7 headed on back home. it's a long drive. It was shorter than I thought though, it took about 7 or so hours to get back...(I'm not sure it's it's supposed to be that short LoL but it was.
Sunday January 8 went to go volunteer at the zoo, nothing too special, glad to be back :)
Monday January 9. jury duty. my really super lame luck. I get called in and I have to go. at least it's in hayward and not oakland :)
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