My friend Julia said that she's fairly sure that the hill actually goes downhill, it just looks like it goes uphill.
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06:08:31 PM,Tuesday 17 December 2002
Oh, good, Jason wants to throw his dad's wedding ring in the fires of Mount Doom. I am happy again.
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06:00:00 PM,Tuesday 17 December 2002
Why is 350 degrees so much hotter in our woodstove than in our oven?
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05:58:22 PM,Tuesday 17 December 2002
So I went back to the wierd hill today, with a metal ball that is attracted by magnets and a bottle with water in it. I was unable to figure anything out with the bottle, and the metal ball rolled into the other lane.
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01:54:26 PM,Tuesday 17 December 2002
So today I learned that I've been holding my ski poles the wrong way my whole life. Connor just got trained on how to be a ski instructor, and learned the proper way to hold your poles. Apparently the way my whole family at least has always held their poles is the wrong way, and is likely to cause your thumbs to break.
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12:55:38 AM,Tuesday 17 December 2002
And again this week, Jason Fox is not getting all excited about the upcoming nerd movie. I am feeling disappointed in Mr. Amend. Maybe if Jason were all excited about the movie, I could settle down about it and write about Euripides rather than want to read and watch Tolkein.
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12:43:52 AM,Tuesday 17 December 2002
My mom has forbidden me from making either kipling or raspberry scones till my precept paper is finished.
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12:42:32 AM,Tuesday 17 December 2002
I think I would like to study different looks at the fall of Troy. Homer and Virgil and Euripides and Aeschylus. I think I might want to consider this more strongly after I write my senior essay on heroes in Homer, but it occurred to me today as I reread The Trojan Women that Euripides looks at the fall of Troy very differently than Virgil, and I thought it would be interesting to look at them side by side.
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12:41:20 AM,Tuesday 17 December 2002
I tried to build a fire in our woodstove this evening and sat there for half an hour watching newspaper burn and begging it to catch the logs on fire. Eventually I called my mom's cell phone and asked for advice. So then I had to take everything out of the woodstove and start over, and then the logs at least sort of caught. Then my stepdad came home and made it into a nice real fire, which has been toasting me since.
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12:27:41 AM,Tuesday 17 December 2002
Two Towers on Wednesday and I'm all excited.
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12:18:47 AM,Tuesday 17 December 2002
So, there's this hill near our local high school. (Okay, there a lot of hills, but there is one particular hill.) You stop your car at what appears to be the bottom. Put it in neutral. And up you go. It doesn't matter which direction you are facing, you drift up. No one knows why this happens. The theories we are playing with are magnetism and an optical illusion. (Ghosts is the common story, but everyone thinks that's just silly.)
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12:16:58 AM,Tuesday 17 December 2002
Alanis Morrisette was good to listen earlier today when I was all upset at everyone for all sorts of things.
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03:30:19 PM,Monday 16 December 2002
The sour Pez aren't that great. The raspberry is nice, but then I like raspberry candy (except I don't like those raspberry oranges that Terry makes), and the pineapple was okay. The texture wasn't quite the right Pez texture, and they weren't particularly sour.
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02:37:55 PM,Monday 16 December 2002
I read an article in US News and World Report about Einstein. Mostly cause it was there while I was in the doctor's office, and I was curious as to what they would be writing about. I had The Two Towers in my backpack, but that would continue to be there after I left. It wasn't terribly informative. It seemed to talk about his personal life more than any of the physics he did, and someone said that if Einstein hadn'd come up with Special Relavity, someone else would.
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02:36:32 PM,Monday 16 December 2002
Making a sour version of your candy seems to be the In thing to do. I have tried sour skittles and starburst, and greatly prefer the skittles, although if there were only the sour raspberry, I might prefer the starburst. Today I bought sour Pez, cause I like Pez, and was curious. I was in a gas station earlier than I wanted to be up, taking my stepbrother to work on my way to the doctor's office, and was considering buying something to eat. It occured to me that everything they sell at convenience stores that are breakfast like are sugar-y sweet and that was too much for my stomach to consider, and so I was standing there, waiting for my stepbrother to finish pumping gas, and there I saw sour Pez, which I bought some of, cause I was curious. I haven't tried them yet, though.
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02:12:19 PM,Monday 16 December 2002
So, I changed my precept paper topic again. I decided against writing about women in general in Euripides, cause I thought it might be kind of dull. And I managed to lose one of my books, although that was full of the plays I didn't particularly care for. Now I'm going to write about the Trojan Women's outlook on their capture.
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04:47:08 PM,Sunday 15 December 2002
Stupid St. John's email account.
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04:43:38 PM,Sunday 15 December 2002
Last night, Chris and I went to Bertucci's before leaving Annapolis, with Cassie, Brianne and Sonia. Chris and I shared a pizza with pesto and artichoke hearts and tomato slices were on his half. The waiter came out with a pizza with sun dried tomatoes instead of artichoke hearts. He let us keep it, for free, and went off to bring us the right pizza. And came out with eggplants. Which he also let us keep, and then eventually he came out with the right pizza. It was quite amusing.
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02:16:21 PM,Saturday 14 December 2002
I need convincing that it's worth my time to see The Royal Tenebaums. Nate was all upset with me for not going to see it when the Film Club showed it this past weekend, and I said I was feeling to broke to go see a movie I had no idea I would like, and that I hated Rushmore. I eventually promised to rent it over Christmas, and that made him sort of satisfied. So, will I like it?
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10:23:52 AM,Friday 13 December 2002
Wow, none of the seniors handed papers in at our precept. I think all the juniors did, cause juniors still have a work ethic. Mr. Schulman was really sweet about it, and told us we had an extension till Monday just for showing up. His dinner was wonderful, even if the movie was really weird and not very good.
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11:11:38 PM,Thursday 12 December 2002