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Friday, May 30, 2008

Fri, 30 May 2008 17:29:33 GMT

One year ago today, Kobe Bryant publicly asked to be traded.

Two big trades and the tightest regular season in league history later followed.

Yesterday, the Lakers made it to the NBA finals.

Is it a Russian spy?

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:36:53 GMT

50 years ago today...

America was freaked out by the Soviet Union. Sputnik I was launched. It only stayed in orbit for 92 days, but it changed the world.

50 years ago, the space race began...

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:28:39 GMT

Well, this wonderful weather today has made me decide to post.

It seems like everyday I am at Mason, I discover something else that they are building. Child Development center, Engineering and IT school, AVT building, and the list goes on. In terms of my life, I am not really thrilled with school right now. My classes are rather boring to me and I have a fair amount of homework. The bright spot this week (besides getting Peter Haase as my violin teacher) was...I don't remember now. What was it? I honestly have forgotten since beginning that sentence. Oh well. Oh yes! I started Ender's Game on Thursday. It's pretty good.

I was very happy to learn about a week ago that I made the first violin section in orchestra. Now I just have to learn the music that I was starting to learn the 2nd violin part. More work.

On a different note, I am taking the new member's class at church. I figure I might as well, considering I don't know how long I'll be here for. The downside is that it limits the days I get to sleep in to a decent hour to Fridays and sort of Saturdays (I work on Sat. and leave early for school all the other days). I get to sleep in until 8:45. Oh joy!

Well, I can't think of anything interesting else to say, so good-bye.

Ciao, ciao!

Remus

Does anyone have any recommendations for new colors?

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:57:08 GMT

Ciao, mis amigos!

Since my last post, I have performed in my senior recital, graduated from high school, gone to nationals, finished my debate and speech career, hung out with friends and family, auditioned for the Mason music department, gone to orientation, registered for classes, taken dance lessons, and started a job at Williams-Sonoma. Right now, I am on vacation in upstate NY con mi familia.

Last Sunday, we were supposed to leave to come up here at 8am. In typical Inglis vacation style, instead of leaving at 8, we left at 9am (it's better than the 11am). After a 6.5 hour drive and a pause for lunch, we arrived at Seneca Lake in the finger lakes. Lake Seneca is about 25 miles long and about 625 ft deep at its deepest. There are 51 wineries and vineyards around the lake. We have a very nice house on the lake with a dock, kayak, canoe, and rowboat. Since then we have been sitting around reading, playing games, swimming, boating, and taking trips to Wegman's for food. We have also been on a few walks in state parks in the area. I am reading The Count of Monte Cristo. I have about 400 pages left. I have enjoyed the story, but I think Dumas has taken a little too much time to tell certain things. On Wednesday night (a week ago), Daddy, Mommy, Melanie, Emily, and I drove about 2 hours to Darien Lake (an amusement park) for a Newsboys concert. The others besides Emily and I didn't want to see any of the other bands, so we didn't arrive until about 20 minutes before the Newsboys got on stage. The concert was still really good. Over the weekend, Daddy's younger brother, David, and his family came over for about 4 days. They stayed in the house of a friend of theirs and came to visit during the day.

Yesterday, we went to Niagara falls. It was awesome. Both sets of the falls were huge. We left at about 8:30 or 9am. We did several little things there. We did a walk where we actually got to walk on a little wooden walkway at the base of the American side of the falls. Then we went over to Canada and took a boat trip up the river to the base of the horseshoe falls (the Canadian side of Niagara). We also went on a walk behind the Canadian side of the falls. The overlooks are built on both sides of the falls so that you can get right next to the crest of the falls and look down. Many opportunities for suicide...just jump the small railing and you're pretty much finished. Unless you survive, which has happened before. We were going to eat at the Hard Rock Cafe in the Canadian city of Niagara Falls, but Mommy didn't want to. So we at a restaurant called the Secret Garden instead . We arrived back at the house at about 11:30pm.

We have about 4 days left in our vacation. Then one more week until school starts.

Ciao Ciao!

Monday, May 14, 2007

Mon, 14 May 2007 12:44:35 GMT

By the grace of God, Michael and I are have qualified for nationals.

Congratulations to Julie and Josh on getting the other one!!!! I predicted you would do well at the beginning of the year. (I have been taking lessons from Charissa on predicting results )

Sunday, May 06, 2007

Sun, 06 May 2007 05:23:06 GMT

I. Am. SO. Tired.... I have had the play running in my mind for about a week....imagine trying to study for and take a practice chemistry ap test (one of the hardest ap tests) with a shakespeare play running in your head.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:23:47 GMT

Guess what's coming to the Kennedy Center next summer? I was looking through the Kennedy Center Magazine and saw something that I had to look up online for further explanation. What I found made me happy:

The Lion King!!!!!

Next June and July over the times Phantom is this summer.

This is cool

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:29:06 GMT

It seems like I only ever post on here a good picture from APOD. But yet again, they have come through with a good one. This one is of the view from the top of Mt. Everest. It's very cool and really beautiful. I can't post it on here though because it is a really large panoramic. So, here is the link, scroll to the right to see the entire thing:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070408.html

The paragraph about it is pretty interesting.

That's what you call on top of the world.

You're in luck...it's a late night and I feel like posting

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:20:27 GMT

I was looking at my blog tonight, and I decided I should update...it has afterall been over a month and a half. Unfortunately, there isn't much to say. I was looking at a few pictures today and decided that everyone has changed a lot over the last year:

Thankfully, Julie has given up smoking.

We don't look quite so clueless... although I think it might have something to do with the setting.

In terms of what I have been doing, suffice it to say, I have asked for extensions on like four chem assignments every debate tournament (I have been to 5 now) this year. I have had a lot of it. I have also been trying to work on debate (ha, ha) and practice violin for my senior recital and the orchestra I am supposedly in (ha ha again...I haven't been in like three weeks) Emily is coming up this weekend for Easter, so that should be fun.

After searching high and low in our pictures for something to end this post with, I found nothing. I went to APOD and couldn't find anything quite as interesting as the last picture I put on here. I have decided to leave you with something only a few people have seen in real life...the far side of the moon. Enjoy.

APOD strikes again...

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:37:06 GMT

I have been meaning to post this picture for a few days now:

This is a picture of Perth, Australia on Australia Day about a week ago. To the left, you can see the fireworks celebrating Australia day. In the center, you can see Comet McNaught. On the right, you can see a lightning approaching. I thought this picture was really cool. It was slightly edited to remove some of the glare from the fireworks, but all of these things were happening at the same time.

Photo courtesy of: APOD http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070205.html If you want to see the picture larger (you can see the comet better that way) click on the link.

Chemistry is over for the night.

(P.S. A picture is worth a thousand words. So there.)