Inferno and Carmen Sandiego

So, my internship is finally solidifying, meaning I finally have a clearer idea of what I'm even doing.

On the mythology side, I'm tracking a couple of stories through history and modern media. Last night I figured out that Cupid and Psyche is my favorite love story.

On the Inferno side, I'm doing a "Where in hell is Carmen Sandiego?" kind of thing. I'm excited and I think it's going to be interesting to see what I come up with as the final project. Now, to figure out how I'm going to to actually do this. Oh well, stranger things have happened. Sanders out.

WHOOO!!!!

I am SO pumped! Whoo! If I could I would totally run laps around the school right now. But, I can't so I'm not. Anyway, today was actually pretty fun. I freaked out for a moment though when I realized that I didn't do something this morning but the day was fine. In AP Euro, we did a little bit of geography work and put the routes of explorers on a map and where Spanish and Portuguese colonies were, as well as where their trade centers were. I still don't know where the Dutch trade centers where though... I figure it out eventually. AP Lit. That class and that man. I can honestly say, for a moment, I thought I was going to die. First of all, Mr. Johnson has a stuffed monkey on his desk that I managed to sit right in its line of sight. I thought it was staring into my soul. Then, I watched him put up a sign that said, "Do not disturb if lights are off. Late students wait in the hall." So naturally, I put the monkey staring into my sole and that sign together and thought, "I'm going to die today. Right here. This is it." Then Mr. Johnson started explaining things, he said we were going to have our eyes closed so that just cemented the fact that I thought I was going to die. Anyway, I didn't die. Instead our activity was actually really interesting. I learned something about myself. I always thought my happy place was Camp Meriwether, but now, my happy place is my favorite teacher's classroom. I fought it a little at first, but then I stopped wondering what it meant if my happy place was my favorite teacher's classroom. So that was AP Lit today. In AP Environmental, we looked at various things about the earth... Like volcano locations, elevation charts, my group looked at a locations of earthquakes and the depth of the earthquakes. It was actually really interesting and cool.

The reds show a shallow depth while the blues are really deep. But you can see that most of the earthquakes happen around the fault lines, the boundaries of the tectonic plates.

See! If you compare where the earthquakes occur and where the fault lines are, they match up and everything makes sense as to why earthquakes happen where they do. Isn't that really cool!!!

So that was AP Environmental. AP Euro we just went over what causes changes in supply or demand. Then lunch. For yearbook, we went to the art room and did photography things. Ms. Prince was talking about shutterspeed today, the final part to the Triangle of Life (at least that's what I call it). It's a photography thing. Basically it just shows that if you change one thing it affects the others. The other parts are ISO and Aperture.

So that was yearbook. I talked to Ms. Milstead about my SCE and what I could do for her. I'm brainstorming ideas of an activity or something to better explain the 9 layers of hell in Dante's Inferno or something about the medieval period, like why people just died in that period. Then in 3D modeling, I continued making the little monster we're currently working on. In AP Calc, we reviewed for our test. And now, I'm blogging during SCE. This post took me an hour to write. Mr. Brey, the principal, is wandering around the SRC and now I think he's leaving. He did a few things last year that irked me. He hasn't really done anything this year that has irked me, but I'm sure he's already irked someone somewhere.  Mr. Brown is talking to Ms. Napoleon and I'm trying not to think about the one rule that applies to every European history class. So that was my day, it was fun, slightly eventful but not too eventful. Tomorrow is Friday, things are happening on Friday, I've got a Calc test and apparently we are doing the newspaper activity in yearbook again, so NEWSPAPER HATS!!! Well, that's it for now. Nikon out.

Life at the Moment

Senior year. It's supposed to be awesome. So far... It's alright. I mean it is awesome but at the same time, I can't help but feel like it could be more. Anyway, I feel like I've hit a wall. I haven't actually written in weeks, I'm pretty sure I've lost some muscle memory from the summer when I was carrying my camera everywhere. That or my body has decided to completely block out the physical activity and act like it never happened. Physically, I'm tired but ok. Mentally, I'm the same as ever, multiple thoughts, roads not taken but really want to be taken, random thought. Emotionally, I just want to cry some nights (and days, in the middle of class... That sign in Ms. Mullen's classroom really gets on my nerves... If I want to cry in math then I'll cry in math... Just not in front of anyone), but I don't because I tell myself not to and it doesn't solve anything so I move on. Eventually I'll probably just feel numb and emotionally fragile because I probably should cry.

On a happy note, I'VE GOT THE AWESOMEST SCE EVER!!!! I'm doing an independent project/ internship with Mr. Brown and it's involving mythology and I think I'm doing something for Ms. Milstead. The point is Mr. Brown is awesome. Lit is awesome. And everything that my SCE is about is awesome! That part of life is great. Though I could do without the strange division of hours, the journal entries, CARP and Ms. Napoleon (hee hee the one rule of every European history class), but you know, somethings can't be helped.

AP Lit is alright and so is yearbook. I love my AP Euro class, though I need to remember to read the book and notes... Yeah... Totally should do that. I have to make up the summer work for Econ so I'm not failing. I also have to pull up my calc grade so I don't fail calc. The one class I wish I could drop but can't... AP Calculus AB. But, I'm meeting with Mr. Hulme tomorrow to see if he'd be a good tutor and hopefully I can work with him because I might just fail calc... Bad thought shake it off. So that's senior year so far... OH YEAH! I'm taking 3D modeling and it's AMAZING!!! I love it! SO that's life at the moment. I read something today that really touched me in such a way that gave me the boost I needed.

“The thing I think we have to remember is that there is no finish line with depression, anxiety, or any other sort of mental illness. We’re on this path, and the path is constantly changing. Sometimes it’s flat and well-marked, and we can see all the way to the horizon.” I realized that I had gone from shaking his hand to holding it. “Other times, it’s so heavily shrouded in fog and mist, we can’t even see past our fingertips and we need someone to show us where the path is. And sometimes, we come to a wall that we don’t think we’ll ever get over. I’ve been staring at the base of that wall for weeks, and just now you helped me remember that there are always handholds to get up and over it.”

-Wil Wheaton, http://wilwheaton.net/2015/08/tears-in-rain/