Architecture assignment 1

This summer I went to St. Petersburg, Russia and one of my favorite places we went to was St. Isaac's Cathedral. It's the thrid largest cathedral in the world and let me tell you, it was BIG! Here are some pictures:

If a picture's worth a thousand words than St. Isaac's is bigger than a dictionary! It was amazing, but as we learned in class, there are ten parts to building we need to observe. I wont touch on all ten, but there was certainly a humbling that came from being inside such a large structure. Part of it's emense size was inviting becuase you just want to gaze at it's wonder, but because it's so big, you feel insignificant and not at home. All the gold made it light up beautifully, but it also made those inside realize that this place was not for them, it was for God. Over all, I think it does a spectacular job at being a cathedral and I'd love to return just to see its magesty, but it does lack a sense of comfort.

So I'm in webmastering right now...i've finished my project and have turned it in....now i'm waiting 3o min till the bell rings...gah! school is such a waste now....dont know why i even come...oh yeah....BECAUSE I HAVE TO! stupid school.....senioritis has def kicked it....

I'm listening to the new Green Day CD....its awesome...i totally recomend it. There are like 18 songs on it and only about 4 aren't very good, so thats a really good ratio! Anywho...now its 27 min....time seams to go really slow...

I'm making shirts in my art class...its a lot of fun but i'm sooooo frustrated with it right now because its taking a lot longer then originally planned...so theres two ways to do the shirts...i wont try to explain it all, but the last thing i have to do put the black outline on the image. To get the outline for it theres this 15 min proccess that has failed 7 times....SEVEN!!!! get that!!!! thats an hour and 45 min that i have wasted!!!! hopefully tomorrow i'll get it to work...i'm going in early and i think i've found the problem...I also feel bad because i'm making 2 shirts and one of them is for my friend who is really anxious to get his and i dont have it yet so i feel bad...stupid screens....

I deffinatly think Green Day was high when they wrote some of these songs...yeah...very high...

I cant wait for state this weekend...sort of...it can all work out very well or get really screwed up...lets pray for the first.

Gee...only 23 min now...time is dragging...

I wish someone would text me...i'm quite bored....

....very very very very very bored...

21 min now....

ok...i'm done here....

Life is an adjective

ok so...everyone else in the class has a blog in wordpress.com, but i already had this so i didn't want to change....well....we're supposed to add something to our blog that blogger doesn't have so....i'm just going to do the assignment here!

Past- well gee....theres almost 18 years of "past," but i'll start with the obvious categories first. I played soccer and did ballet and tap for two years....then played basketball for four. I started TKD when i was in 6th grade....and thats been it since. --- I broke my left wrist summer before my 5th grade year....i fell when skating and thought the cast thing was awesome even though i couldn't really swim. --- I've always loved to draw. --- I started piano in second grade. --- I have a bump on the end of my left big toe....its not a mole or anything...just a random bump. --- I've always been in choir....since, like, i was five. --- I've moved once...but it was only a mile's distance move. --- I loved to read Animal Ark when i was younger. --- I collected beanie babies. --- I had the most awesome playhouse that my dad built me. --- I had a cat. --- My grandpa's funeral was on my tenth birthday. --- I've been to New Zealand, Australia, Caymen Islands, Jamaca, and China. --- I've been to colorado every summer of my life (twice a few summers).

Present- I'm a second degree black belt. --- I have the awesomest best friend, Kelsey! --- I also have another awesome friend, Zane. --- I have senioritis. --- I love math. --- I am learning guitar and organ. --- I dont like radical screamo and rap, but hard, punk rock is fine for when i'm mad. --- I love all kinds of music. --- My favorite TV shows are Fraiser, Unwrapped, and Whose Line.

Future- I will be attending Texas Tech for a duel degree in Architecture and Civil Engineering. --- My biggest goal is to visit all seven continents. --- I want to stay athleticlly active. --- I will be successful.

"Life is an adjective."

paint on steroids

ok, so, i know how to use fireworks. its a program on our school computers aht alow us to do photo shop....its like Paint on steriods. anywho, its an expensive program and i wont always have access to it so now we're learning how to use free online firworks sources like sumopaint. this is what i made today....its crappy but what ever.....gets me a grade....

Guitar hero

So, guitar hero is awesome. I have GH3. I'm trying to get 5 stars on all the hard songs....some of them are a challege and others are pretty easy. some of my favorites are "when you were young," "paint it black," "before i forget," "one," "seeker," and "mississippi queen." They're quite fun. i dont know ho people can do "through the fire and the flames" on expert. i know there are videos on youtube, but how do they comprehend that fast? i think some of the songs on expert are harder than playing the actual song...crazy...

So i really....

...want to be in school right now...i mean really? i'm almost 18 and i still have to ask, "can i go to the bathroom"...i want may to hurry up and get here. May will be awesome. cant wait for may. prom, choir banquet, senior banquet. fun. unlike school...thats such a hassel. my life has moved on. there are other more pressing problems in my life than my hw in economics over monetary policy or how my digestive tract works in anatomy.

Apparently, now i'll be doing weird things to this site for my webmastering class...i dont know what though....

stuff

so heres the stuff:

Choir UIL (b)(u)sucked!!!(/b)(/u) we did horrible...waste of a day...new subject

I really enjoyed writing my Myrtle Beard Scholarship essay. I've never writen my thoughts about God and the Bible down before and it felt good to get it on paper. Plus, unlike normal spiritual journaling where no one will read it...the ideas i put in my essay will be read...what a perk!

April is pretty boring...cant wait for may b/c it will rock, but i'm enjoying the time i have now. only two more weeks mater in school....so its good.

I've been redefining "friendship" over the past..eh...four months...give or take a few days, but its taken on a new definition lately. There has entered a variable that puts a twist on what i was finding. Don't get me wrong, my findings are still correct, but more possiblities have been made known to me. The point is, what wasn't in the forefront of my mind for most my life has now wiggled its way into a position of great interest and my mind is trying to work through it all...

Not a psychologist, just an observer

Have you ever just watched people? Sure is sounds creepy at first, but think about it. Each person has different mannerisms and physically react differently to different situations. Joe has an itch on his nose, he scratches it; Bob has an itch on his nose, he rubs it. Not that I want to study people for a living, but I think the human is amazing. We all have two eyes, two ears, a nose and a mouth, but we all look different. I'm taking a human anatomy class this year and learning about how all the systems in our bodies work puts me in awe, expecially the nervous and cardiovascular systems. There are so many different personalities how is it possible? Yes, yes I know, God created us and there is nothing God cant do (which is why say big bang theory is a bust because i dont think clouds of dirt and ice became me and my world) but there's something so complicated behind our seamingly simple lives that I dont think can be answered by the few words "because God made it so." Now, I'm not saying truth is not in that phrase. Elementry sunday school teaches "Jesus loves me this I know, for the bible tells me so," and "He's got the whole world in his hands," but I'm beyond that ideology. The adult, mature mind should have a million thoughts flowing through it at any moment. The point is, human life is not simple.

I think that by observing others and scanning their minds lead us to better our own. Having that option and avalibility ripped away can be devistating, but thats a different topic all together.

See, even now, my brain is floating from thought to thought.

I suppose my point is that the intricateness of humans is both awe inspiring and horrific because of what can be discovered. Both physically and mentally, we are our own scarry movie...but its finding the classic in us that we should aim for.

Random thoughts

So food network says Americans eat 800 million pounds of bologna a year and there are about 305,000,000 people in America....I dont eat bologna...someone else must eat my 2.6 pounds...

Before I criticize some one, I try to walk a mile in their shoes, that way when I criticize them, i'm a mile away, with their shoes...

Every second, three people are born in the world and 1.333 people die. By the time you finish reading this, there will be 10 more people on the earth....