I'm heading off to Italy tomorrow to visit family, just 3 days after my 18th birthday and 2 weeks after graduation! Maybe I'll get to use that not so provisional and recently turned international driver's license of mine...probably not. They don't kid when they say that Italians are CRAZY drivers.

New shirts are up! I do love seeing more boxes on the T-shirts page. Hope you like them :)

Well, I'm making this one short, since I have to continue doing the packing thing. I'll have my computer with me, so I'll still be able to respond to any e-mails sent to me, so send away!

Ciao, mi amici.

P.S. I'll be at MIT in the Fall. :)

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Summary: Caltech was fun. MIT was awesome! Harvard...I have no clue!

Two schools with totally different feels (and one that as I said up above, I have no clue about), and I can try to explain what exactly those two "feels", well, feel like, but it probably won't be the same thing that you would feel about the two schools and again it's a feeling thing and those things don't particularly translate well to words, especially since you can't see me waving my arms around or anything, which for a Italian is like having half of your tongue (or perhaps in my case, being only half Italian, 1/4 of my tongue) cut out in most situations, which if you're wondering is compensated on the phone by speaking VERY LOUDLY! [I'm in dire need of a new iBook with one of those shnazy new built in video cameras and a grammar book (and the time to read it.)]

So. The feeling of MIT... it's electric (boogie-woogie-woogie - had to be said), it's like wow + i, it's dome-o-rific, and overall... I think it's where I'm suppose to be this Fall. (Oh, and Eliza Eddison and Ben Jones are amazing...just saying what must be said.)

But. I haven't sent in the intent to register form quite yet, still some/many/a few/infinite (at this point I'm not sure which things I'm subconsciously/consciously counting or not) things to consider (especially since Caltech comes very close to this feeling just in a different way and I haven't had a chance to get a good look at or "feel" of Harvard).

No pictures this time. I was being an anti-camera bum, since my camera conveniently does not fit in my purse and I was too busy hopping around campus and shopping in Boston (with the lovely Kelsey "Goat Girl" Kennedy).

And...how about those t-shirts I mentioned in my previous post? See above paragraph. No camera usage = No pictures = No pictures of t-shirts = No pictures for t-shirt pages.

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:'(

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Okay, okay, I'm working on it. Just let me catch up on two chapters of Calculus BC, 2 AP Gov tests, a Vocab test, and other AP Eng work first...actually let me get to all that after I practice my bass, since I've got a gig with the Palomar Jazz Ensemble tonight and I could really use a run through with the music!

ii V I

:)

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Hey ya'll. I rolled in to Caltech around 1:30 pm, so far so good. Took a campus tour, met some fellow pre-frosh, chilled with some students, all that jazz (actually the Jazz Band doesn't play until 4:30...hmm probably should get going...). Anyway, this is just a small update (more to come) so here's a sample of the first batch of photos.


The oh so famous canon.


Of course.


Ze library.


...& a very shnazy bridge with an equally shnazy guide.

Ciao, folks.

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Okay, I finished 23-45 (the last semi-required physics problem I will do tonight), so it's time I payed attention to my website.

So how have the past two months been?

Great. Thanks for asking.

So.

I've got a few tees lined up in production and some that have been produced but not posted (I can feel your anticipation building up already...). They should all be ready before I head to Caltech and MIT for their Campus Preview Weeks, so attendees beware, I will be there and I will have t-shirts and stickers and business cards. Actually, I'm really excited about taking them to both places since they'll be places filled to the brim with people whose humor actually revolves (about 5π/6 radians I would say) around similar puns, or at least their funny bones are susceptible to them.

But of course, the main reason for attending these CPWs: TO DECIDE - An infinitive that has been poking at me since December... perhaps more of a tender prod and not an annoying one at that, but one that definitely has sparked the creation of lengthy mental pro/con charts and Venn diagrams.

So, technically I don't have to decide until May 1st, which is great because it's a big decision and there are so may variables to consider (far too complicated to write a program to make my decision for me I'm afraid, at least, considering my programing 5|<|115 - skills for the il1337erate... ooo, that was a good one). But, people have been asking...often, and I would like to give them and myself an answer. So it goes. No more thinking about it though until I see both campuses back to back! Okay? Oh, while I'm out on college rant, I would like to give a shout out to some very special ladies who have gotten into some absolutely lovely colleges themselves:

Tahnime - CalArts! w00t! You go baby! I'm sooooooo proud of you, but I knew you would get in! How could they not accept you after seeing your jaw dropping portfolio!

Sydnee - Berkley! We are soooo going out for Indian food! Yummmmm..... (Congrats)^2 Sooooo Bio or Pre-Med? And you still have to hear from the Ivy's... I'm sure there's much excitement to come!

Anna - GO TROJANS! YAY USC! You are going to be marching like a fiend next year! Being all sexy in your uniform and all with that irresistible plume! You little Sumthin-Sumthin!

... these are the major ones in my clan, but plenty of others have also been accepted to some pretty shnazy establishments. Must say, I kinda don't remember getting here (I mean...getting to be this OLD!), doesn't it seem like yesterday, Aimee, when I was saying in (when we were in kindergarten) that your mom had wrinkles?

More illustrious paragraphs and space...

Space...

Space Space Space...

Time!

Hey! You, Time, who let you in! Shuuu, Shuuu...

*Time whimpers and leaves*

Enough with the fun and games, back to facebook... /:|
I kid, back to physics. I can't live without my Gaussian surfaces. Check back with you folks after Caltech CPW!

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I just got out of school a little while ago and am siting at the brand new marble window counter at the local coffee shop (which fortunately has wifi!). Within the past fourty-five minutes off my school-ular freedom, I've managed to give a ride to a guy around my age who had taken the bus from Vista to get to his girlfriend's house a couple miles away from the bus stop, witness a man feeding his three greyhounds ice cream (which I believe he does indeed do every Friday), eat a Caesar Salad, check my e-mail and start on a glorious mini cherry pie...oh and write a blog post. But besides all that the day has been slow. It's awfully kind of Friday to slow down for me, especially since from Monday to Thursday I feel like I've been sprinting, jumping, bassing, and driving about nonstop. This week's busyness had been fun, but I've got to slow it down at some point.

And cherry pie, definitely does the trick.

Continuing with my semester-ly tradition, here's what my week schedule looks like:

Mon - Jazz Ensemble (4-7 pm)
Tues - HS Jazz Band (3-5 pm); Bass Lessons (every other week 5:30-6:30 pm); Symphony (7-10 pm)
Wed - Land Surveying (1-4:30ish pm); Ballroom Dance (5:45-7:30ish); Miscellaneous Awesomeness or Jazz Combo Practice (7:30ish-9:30ish pm)
Thurs - Land Surveying (1:30-4:30ish pm); Academic Team Meet (sometime after that)
Fri - Relaxing (noon - on)

Chaos in a hand-basket? Probably not. I finally started carrying my copy of Lisa Randall's "Warped Passages" to school, actually getting a chance to get some reading done. Is it wrong for school to be your awkward sense of free-time? No. Do I like answering my own questions? Yes.

About 5 more bites of cherry pie to go, then I'm back to reading.

Have a kick-gluteus weekend everyone!

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Call in the next 15 billion minutes and with every blondegeek tee you will receive a BLONDEGEEEK STICKER!!!

Stack 1 of 6


You can stick them anywhere!

Even on sacred Mac objects!

: )

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If you're a fan of blondegeek on facebook, you've already been made well aware of this but because I am just so darn happy about this I'm going to say it again: my first facebook app is up and running! Unfortunately, I can not list it in the app directory until at least 5 people are using it but that shouldn't be a problem for too long...right guys?

But besides scripting up a storm this afternoon, I was also giving some needed love and attention to my bunnies (well my bunny, Phi, and my mom's bunny, Boots), brushing them and petting them and all that good cuddling you can do with bunnies because they are just soooo darn cute! To share that cuteness with you, here are some pics of my wascally wabbits.


You might have guessed that Phi (named of course because she is golden like the Golden Ratio that the Greeks loved so much) likes being around, under, and surrounded by towels, clearly being a bunny that has taken Douglas Adams's advice of "knowing where your towel is" to heart. Boots (that would be the strapping boy Dutch rabbit with patches) is a bit more rambunctious and acts like a dog most of the time usually wanting to lick your hand if you pet him.

I'm going to go back to reading Lisa Randall's book Warped Passages so good night and don't forget to add that shnazy blondegeek facebook app that I mentioned!

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