J is for . . . JINX! HA! . . . Gottcha!

I've decided that when you just get mentally exhausted you revert back to the happy times . . . more specifically, lately . . . life as a middle schooler.

As my lab partners and I were finishing up our second 2-hour physics lab for the week, we were working through some final questions, and the two of them said something at the at the exact same time.

One of them shouted, "JINX!" which, at least personally, is still an automatic response for such a situation, right? So we all chuckled and proceeded on to the next task in the lab. It wasn't for a couple minutes later until I noticed that the other of my partners hadn't said a word for the last bit. We were making predictions about the infinitely important obervation of the gravitational behavior of a falling spool of thread, and I asked him for his thoughts.

"Whaddaya think, Isaac?"

*a shrug and a complacent stare*

"Well, don't you have a guess?"

*a nod*

"Umm . . . would you mind sharing?"

*bulging eyes, and an index finger, pointed toward his pursed lips*

A bit confused, I looked at Brynna, who was just as baffled initially, but sooned blurted, "Wait! Oh! I jinxed him!" We then racked our brains to remember the recipe for un-jinxification so we could have Isaac back. After a couple moments of fruitless memory-search, our temporarily-dumb friend rolled his eyes, grabbed a pencil and scribbled, "name, name, name" in the margin of our lab worksheet, and pointed his finger back at himself. With a simultaneous "oooOOOoooh" from the both of us, (kinda ironic, come to think of it . . .) we released our friend from the delightfully elementary curse and continued on with our study of torque and rotational dynamics of rigid objects.

Life isn't so bad :)

Common ground

After finishing my physics last night, and walking around the front of Lane, I almost ran into a raccoon . . . no, literally. It was putzing around under one of the trees, and ran around to the other side when it saw me. I hadn't been so close to a 'coon since the time we saw a rabid one on a walk through the woods back home one afternoon . . . so despite the lack of light, I wanted to get a better look at the little fella. And noticing the dark circles around his eyes, I realized that we had something in common . . . except God intended for his face to look like that . . .

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ANYway, on a different note, I figured that it's been a while since I've posted any pictures . . . and I love pictures, so here's one. For those of you who don't know, I'm living with 3 of the greatest girls on campus this year (and with one more coming in after she returns from France next semester).

Okay, so more than one picture ;)

Unrecognizedly-related facts

My wireless hadn't been picking up wireless internet signals for the past . . . oh, I don't know, half a year now, and so for the last 6 months I've been tethered to a wall whenever I've wanted to use the wonderful world-wide web. I'd actually been meaning to take my computer up to ITS at some point during the beginning of the school year, but had never quite figured out a good time to do so . . . but then I finally had the collision . . .

You know how you might know 2 different facts, and think about them more than just rarely, but may never quite realize that they could be related? Like when you know that you get really cold at night, and you know that there's an extra fleece blanket in your closet, but sometimes you don't put two-and-two together right away? (Let's just say I have a lot of experience with these . . . ) So here was my most recent pair of unrecognizedly-related facts:

1) I was in desperate need of some computer help
2) Mark, who lives right down the hall --don't worry, Mom, on the other side of the nightly-locked lobby -- is *incredible* when it comes to computers . . .

These two facts had been living simultaneously in my head for the past month and a half before they collided last night. We'll just say that it was definitely a "duh" moment . . .

Thanks for fixing my computer, Mark :)

The little things

I made Saga Steve laugh today. And this wasn't just a little chuckle. I've done something to make him chuckle before, and that just doesn't count. Today, I made him throw his head back with a loud, "Ha, HA!"

And it made my day :)