1994

I found this pic in a box of old letters. It is from Akron, Ohio. I was 5. I loved that princess hat. I even still have it. You can't tell here but the hat was/is bright blue with a lighter blue and sparkly silver streamer. The shirt was mainly lt. blue too, which in a twisted 5 year old kinda way I must have thought matched.

Scholarship

My biology teacher (my favorite teacher at this school) took it upon himself to nominate me for this scholarship. I had to find two other persons to write a letter of recommendation, making a total of 3. I soon found myself the recipient of $1000 to put towards anything school related such a books, tuition, or required equipment.

It is from the EMC electric company. They have a program that rounds up the electric bill to the nearest dollar and the extra change is then put into a fund that is given out as scholarships every year.




Click on the picture and enlarge it so you can actually read the article.

Voices

WGTC has a student magazine that showcases poems, art work, photograph, and short stories by students and teachers at the school. The whole of the 2011 edition can be found here. I submitted several things for consideration this year and one of them, a poem, was accepted. It is paired with another on the first page.

"Typewriters"

Denise Landon

Tap Tap Tap

Flow the sounds from next door

Slow fingers pounding out

Red thoughts embodied in black ink

I can now say that I am a published author.

Crafties

Being out of school for the summer I have plenty of time to work on my crafties. This is my latest finished project. I have been working off and on on it for over a year, maybe two, I don't remember. A few months ago I finally took it into the local yarn shop for help on figuring out how to start a row with a yarn over. I didn't think that was possible before and yet that is what the pattern called for. I have learned several useful techniques through this pattern.

Anyway, it is finally finished and I am very pleased with the results. This is probably the most complex knitting pattern that I have completed yet. The pattern was given to me by a friend as a high school graduation gift. I took a long time to find the right yarn for it. And I manage to guess just the right amount of yarn to get, six balls that I just barely used a bit from the last ball.

(Other posts on the shawl here. I thought there was other one too but I can't find it. Turns out I started the thing three years ago.)

Other long hybernating crafts exposed to the light once more include this cross stitched icon. Unlike the above shawl I don't expect to finish it during this break but I am making some more progress.



In anticipation of my visit to Oregon this summer I found myself in need of a simple project to take with me. The cross stitch being much to cumbersome and attention requisit, and my other knitting projects to large and bulky (rugs) to take on the plane. I, of course, was forced to start a new project. Which you see quickly begining to take form here from a Knitty.com pattern. I do like many of their patterns.

The yarn for this pattern is a lovely blue mohair that my grandma got for me as a birthday present (last year?).

Car Crunch and Florida Vacation

June 13, the last day of class. On my way to the school in the morning I did this to my poor car. I rear ended the guy in front of me as we both stopped short for a red light.

Thank goodness for insurance, we (parents) only had to cover $500 of the $3499 repair costs. And I (me) have a $115 citation. Ouch.

I thank the Lord though that no one was hurt and that I had friends near by who could pick me up and help get everything worked out. I picked up the car today. I'm very glad to have it back. It looks great but I think that my driving habits will need some work.

Despite the loss of my car I was able to still make it to Florida for the convocation. I drove down with my land lord who was also going. Originally I was planing on rooming with two other ladies (one of whom I know) and a little boy (the son of the other lady). However, when I got to the hotel I was directed to room with another lady who had an empty bed. I would have been happy enough with a place on the floor, or sharing a bed in a room with a bunch of other younglings. But I ended up with a bed to myself and a single room mate. It was very nice.


CEC for Life abortion protest. We where out there at 8:30ish in the morning and it was still warm.


Another lovely factor to the trip is I got to see Jon-Paul again. He is stationed very close by. He had to work in the mornings but was able to join me for the evening servises. The girl with him is the only other girl that came from my church. She was very exited to see Jon as well. You can tell he lives in Florida, look at how brown he is.

Spring Flowers

Spring flowers at the school.

Throat cultrue. Thats the germs that live in the mouth. Gross hu?

GERMS

One project we did in lab was to identify 2 unknown bacteria. First we made a streak plate of our culture to try and isolate the bacteria. One of my plates was usable. The other plate was overgrown but made some very cool looking squiggle formations.

Can you see the two different collonies? The rough looking one is the B. sub and the drop like one is the S. epi.

These are the bacteria that I think I have. Bacillis Subtilis and Staphylococcus epidermidis.


S. epi

B. sub