AAUGH #5- SciOly notesheets

Writing for hours in size 5 font, only to find you've covered less than 1/6th a page. Binders ftw!

Also, at this rate, this notesheet could take a REALLY long time....States is next week....AAUGH

I swear, SciOly events that need magnifying glasses need the magnifying glasses solely to read the miniscle text that the competitors' notesheets are written in.

STATES IS NEXT WEEK

Freak.

I need like 3 more months.

Ugh.

WHAT ON EARTH ITS APRIL ALREADY

now I feel that everything is about due-

Science Olympiad
AP TESTS?!?!?!?!
SATIIs
Mathmathmathmathmath
School in general
4H stuff
Just life in general. 

It's funny...March 31st didn't evoke this sort of panic from me, April 1st/2nd did. Funny how the mind works.

BUT ISH SCARY

Wikipedia on Science Olympiad

Science Olympiad is an American middle school and high school team competition in which students compete in 'events' pertaining to various scientific disciplines, including earth science, biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering.

I have literally said/typed out these words so many times that I basically write it in my essay without even realizing it fully:

Science Olympiad is a competition in which middle and high schoolers participate in competing in events related to various fields of science, such as biology, chemistry, physics, geology, and engineering.

UGHFHGHGUHHFUGH

My teachers are so nice

they give me all my deadlines within one week, the week of SciOly States. How nice of them.

For this I am grateful

SciOly Regionals is over. School work load increases this week.

My friends are the bestest

Talking about LuoBuo songs, Tulip/Turnip/Radishes/Poisoning people/IceCream/being impatient about results

I have the bestest friends ever. :D

SciOly Regionals 2016 Rant

I CAN'T WAIT!

but i'm mad that i won't have to leave the friggin building at all ALL DAY (homeroom+all my events are in the same building) unless i actually actively move out of the building.

i'm also mad that my best SciOly friend is not available to run around with me to run around campus and track people and watch build events with, which is like 80% of the fun of SciOly days

and i'm mad that my events are weirdly spaced so that i can't really go anywhere, kinda not really; i have to stay in the same building waiting...(#homeschooler- not capitalizing "i"s but still using semicolons)

i'm excited for cool water fountains in the building

i think i'm going to fail at least 2 of my 3 events

and that's it

OH GOODNESS

SciOly Regionals is almost upon us and I only have about 2 pages of notes. Scary!

Catch up

So much to do, so little time (what book is this from? no idea)

Catch up on-

• My YouTube subscription box (namely vlogs, they take so long to watch)
• My Mount TBR
• My schoolwork (duh!)
• My Science Olympiad studying
• Review Wednesday on rockandminerals4him.wordpress.com
• Song Saturday (as in, I really gotta start actually LEARNING the songs)
• um...my blog reading list
• Blogging on this blog
• Getting up early
• Going to bed early
• Practicing music
• My memory. The biggie.

Sigh. 

Welcome to my life in the spring.

Annual Science Olympiad moaning and groaning

Well...it's actually pretty late for a SciOly "what are you doing to me" post....but I have yet to make one for this year, so here goes!

This year, I have Chem Lab, Cell Bio, and Fossils Experimental Design. WHAT?! Mr. C what did you do to me?! You kicked me off fossils?!?!
IMSOMADIMSOMADICANTEVEN ITS NOT FUNNY IKNOWITISBUTDONTLAUGH

You had me help with the fossils binder last year with the promise that I could do it THIS year because you had people who could do it last year....WHY?! NUUUUUU It's always nice to know I wasted like 20 hours of my life...UGH.

Also...so Mr. C decided that apparently I'm really really good at lab events/study lab events...my third year of SciOly, because (probably) of my single digit placing last year at nats...seriously? After 2 years of building..you decide that I'm good at study stuff. Thanks. I know I can't blame you..how could you have known, but...hhrmph.

I don't even KNOW my partners for Cell Bio and Chem Lab! I haven't even talked to them, ever, for goodness' sake. And what? They can't study until January? WHAT?!

Every year, I'm always SO mad about my events...but slowly grow to love them as the year wears on.


<OOH, I know what I can do! I can revisit last year's post and see what the difference is between then and now!>
*copies and pastes*
I have CJAP, Bottle Rockets, and Air Trajectory.

The one and only one I want to do is not one of them. :I I seriously JOINED Science Olympiad this year for that event!!! Mmm...well it's kinda the same way with this year. I survived last year, so I'll probably also survive this year.

Steaming at my coach. CJAP's alright I guess. It certainly was! I loved every moment of it. I told him I didn't want to do building unless no one else wanted to do it. Apparently no one else did, and he stuck me with 2. :/ My little brother's stuck with 3 building events. How my brother gets to have more events then I do is something I don't get. :/ The building event count for our family is 5. O_O Only the rule is that it's at least one per family. Gaah. Why doesn't he just give us like 2, one per kid? I ended up LOVING bottle rockets (and failing miserably at nationals...seriously, our state time would have gotten us in the top 10..but we got worse than 30th!)....and also loving Air T...but also being really really frustrated at the end.

This was just an extremely long post/rant about Science Olympiad and my coach in particular. :/ I don't blame ya'.

Note to Mr. C., if you ever read this- I am not ranting AT you, I'm just ranting because I want to. :D

Also, on a sidenote, I have a long short story due in <24 hours, and I haven't started it yet. That's submitted. I got a good grade. I remember.
On a sidenote on a sidenote, I have a hole in my mouth. That's healed.


The moral of the story is- Don't mess with me right now. I think you can now. 

Today I learned #3

Never teach boys to shoot balls.

From the Archives of Happy Little Thoughts- Gaah my event preferences for this year are out. (and many sidenotes)

I have CJAP, Bottle Rockets, and Air Trajectory.

The one and only one I want to do is not one of them. :I I seriously JOINED Science Olympiad this year for that event!!!

Steaming at my coach. CJAP's alright I guess. I told him I didn't want to do building unless no one else wanted to do it. Apparently no one else did, and he stuck me with 2. :/ My little brother's stuck with 3 building events. How my brother gets to have more events then I do is something I don't get. :/ The building event count for our family is 5. O_O Only the rule is that it's at least one per family. Gaah. Why doesn't he just give us like 2, one per kid?

This was just an extremely long post/rant about Science Olympiad and my coach in particular. :/

Note to Mr. C., if you ever read this- I am not ranting AT you, I'm just ranting because I want to. :D

Also, on a sidenote, I have a long short story due in <24 hours, and I haven't started it yet.
On a sidenote on a sidenote, I have a hole in my mouth.


The moral of the story is- Don't mess with me right now.

This was last year (2014/15)'s. Stay tuned for this year's.

You know you've done too many fossils when...

you see a picture of an elephant and your subconscious mind tries to place the genus.

1st SciOly meeting

Since it was such a momentous meeting for me (hah!)...I shall attempt to provide to my faithful readers (double hah!) with a recap, which I'm sure they are interested in (triple hah!)

P.S. They are not in any particular order....just as I think of them.

• Favorite event of last year? Um.....daren't say none.....I say (with much arm waving, because that's how I am), "Rocks....and shall always be rocks." (Have you noticed that by now? Haha)
• I can't stand first SciOly meetings....there's always so many new people.....I feel like they're somehow invading my space, my team....ugh....but thank heavens this year I know most of the new people...and so it's way less intimidating. Also THANK YOU Mr./Mrs. C for using the big room, so I don't have to see all those new people.
• Ugh I like to talk about SciOly entirely too much for my own good. I may have scared people away....eesh.
• If you don't want to bring my wrath upon yourself, DON'T MESS WITH MY MACHINE!!!
• More talking about SciOly. I realize I talk too much.....but ugh. ew.
• I know so many people! Wow.
• I guess it wasn't wise to have worn long sleeves to a small building with 40+ people...hot!
• Moving my device out. Yus. Don't ruin it peoples.

If you're totally confused as to what on earth SciOly is, check out my blogpost here. (Watch out...it's long....I TOLD you I talk about SciOly too much. Ugh.

Thanks for bearing with me!

CJAP quote

About an observation- "Think something that nobody has thought yet, while looking at something everybody sees." ~Arnold Schopenhauer