Penny for your thoughts but a dollar for your insight.

Hello everyone! So I'm just not going to apologize for not blogging recently. I've just been super busy and you're going to have to accept it. It's not like I blog for a living! Speaking of making a living, I decided on what I want to do for a living. Drumroll please?! I am going to be....a doctor. Here's my reasoning: culinary arts is a passion of mine, but not something I want to do for the rest of my life. Now, I'm really into sciences, but I don't want to be a scientist because there's not really any HUGE like theory-shattering discoveries to be made (that I know of.) Then, I thought "Hey, I like people, AND science" and thus, MEDICINE was born. So yep, I'm gonna do kickass in med school and be the best doctor ever. I haven't given much thought to a field, partially because I just stepped onto the medical path 2 days ago. But one thing I do know is that I don't want to be a surgeon...I don't know why. I'm just thinking that I don't want to be all up in people's insides any more than I would have to be being a doctor. So after my long rambling life story there, we can get into some recent events. So...wow! I left off in January. Oops! Well I guess nothing much happened because I didn't bother to blog about it...OH! I took the qualifying test to be on Teen Jeopardy! but I'm not sure if I'm on yet because they said they'd get back to me within the year...so yeah; quite a time to wait. And besides that I've basically been doing a lot of school work and regular work. I've been freaking out recently because the AP Exams are coming up. I'm not at all worried about the AP Lang one but the AP Calc one I'm...well TERRIFIED doesn't even begin to cut it. We've been reviewing since the middle of March, and everyday all we do is graded activities. I've got a B in the class (just barely) and most of the review stuff...well I'm not doing too well. I'm arranging for a tutor to get me up to the exam so I don't completely fail it. Oh yeah! I took the SATs in March. They weren't too bad. I loved the essay because it was on reality TV and so I got to go on a giant rant. I remembered a lot of the stuff that I learned in my SAT Prep class so I thought I did pretty well. Anyways, flashforward from there, and scores came out today. I did pretty much average, though it's not anything like where I would want it to be so I'll probably take them again. I got a 1710 which isn't necessarily bad, but ya know; I'm such an overachiever that I want it to be a lot higher, plus I need to get into a great college to get into a great med school, to become a great doctor. For AP Lang we're reading nonfiction books again, like when I read In Cold Blood; remember that? Well, I'm reading The Grand Design by Steven Hawking, and it's BLOWING MY MIND. I love it! It's so entertaining and I'm beginning to understand the world of quantum physics without having to go through a single equation. However, a bunch of people who are reading it in my class either read it because they're my friend and figured that I would explain it to them, or they just saw that it was really thin. Needless to say, most people aren't doing too well with it. Just the other day, a kid turned to me and was like "Do you understand this at all? Like, is this making sense to you??" and I was like "...yeah?" Honestly, I didn't want to seem condescending or anything, but it just makes sense to me. I don't know; perhaps it's because I'm taking the time to make sure I understand the topic before moving on. I would tell you something else interesting, but on the slight chance that the person I'd be talking about reads this, I'm not going to. Tomorrow I will be dining in style! My dad won a $100 gift card to Charthouse (this really nice restaurant in Annapolis) and we shall be going! It's going to be so much fun to act like the snooty people who eat there every night. I think I shall a cranberry juice-club soda mix with a lime just to get the night started off right. It just seems like the right thing to do. Only thing is...I'm not sure what to wear. I don't really have snooty dining clothes and the ones I do have aren't too flattering anymore so I think I'll have to wear leggings under the dress. HOWEVER, no fear! I shall wear black pumps and curl my hair as to have the appearance of snooty-ness. Perhaps I shall call things "quaint" and "..."well other snooty things. Hehe. Well...I think that might be it for now. Give me a second to reflect on my last couple posts to make sure I covered everything important. **INTERMISSION** I thought of a couple things. First of all, I got a pet mouse and he is the best thing ever. He was a feeder mouse and I saved him from PETCO. I got him with my friend Kelly and we named him Nathanial George Ringenbach. Be careful though, his name is pronounced NAY-THAN-YELL instead of NAH-THAN-YELL. But he's got this little orange ball and he loves to run and play and crawl all over the house. Greta doesn't mind him much, but Oreo goes insane whenever he's rolling around downstairs; I think it's just a bit much for him. Well, here's a funny story. I had Nathanial for a couple days and one day I came home to find him like...inflated. Well knowing me, I went right to the internet and researched his "symptoms." It came up that he/she was preggers. Well I guess he just had gas or something because we didn't get any babies out of it, and he's fine now. We've decided that he's a guy, although he might not be. Who knows?! The last thing is my charitable acts coming up! I've got three things to tell you about! First, I did the Polar Bear Plunge again in January 2011. It was SO cold! But after I plunged (alone I might add) I went with a friend of mine that came with me and we saw PAULIE D! Yeah yeah I know, the Jersey Shore sucks. But he was spinning some mad tracks man! I know I know....I'm so white I can't even fake it. Anyways the second thing is the Maryland SPCA March for the Animals that I do every year. I'm doing that again and I've got a decent sized group coming. It's on April 17th and that should be pretty fun. THEN, on April 30th, it's something that I've been looking forward to since Elora showed me the website. It's called Run-Amuck. Ready for this?! It's a 3 mile run, through an obstacle course....of MUD. How fun does that sound?! I'm so pumped. We have to duct-tape our shoes, socks, and pants on so we don't loose them in the MUD PITS! It's gonna be INSANE. There is going to be mud in places there should never be mud, but I'm okay with that. So yeah, it's going be a pretty great April. That's it for now! I'll come back with details about the snooty dinner! Hugs and Cake, Emily