school talk

Yesterday in physics we learned about the tri-plane of vertex theory.

Tomorrow is friday and I just have math and social studies homework. Life is good :D

I'm listening to the Concert Choir/Symphonic Band CD from my freshman and sophomore years (those are the "high quality" groups at our school, and they are really fantastic). How I got it is pretty interesting. . .

There's a couple of people in my lunch period that I don't really enjoy spending time around over-much, so when Emily (d3c3p7i0n) came in and said she was going to be working in the music office (for the heads of those 2 choirs--M and Mrs. B. No, wait. Ms. B. I believe she's a lesbian, but I'm not sure. People might have just started rumors cos she's rather masculine) for the period I jumped at the chance to go with her and help out. Emily has to "log office hours" because she's an officer (secretary) in choir. Even though Emily told M that she'd be coming and helping out (they have choir the period before lunch--she left her bookbag in the office and all) we arrived to find him busy in a lesson. >.< So we just kinda spend the period chilling in the office. Emily answered the phone a couple times when no one else was there, but Ms. B was there for most of the lunch period, so it wasn't necessary.

Ms. B was making some phone calls. She started her conversation with "Hello, Sy," which made me and Emily kinda prick up our ears--my dad's name is Sy. But even though my dad has helped Ms. B with her computer several times (he helps a lot of people with their computers) and they're friends and all, I thought it would be too much of a freaky coincidence that she'd be calling him while I was there (she didn't know who I am). But then she asked "How's Mike?" (Mike played the trombone in symphonic band, as well as singing bass in concert choir) and me and Emily totally freaked out! XD We spent most of their conversation dying quietly to each other. They made dinner plans for next week. lol. XD It was too funny!

Then Ms. Bauer mentioned to dad that she had a CD for Mike and that dad should remind us to go and get it. At this point, Emily pointed to me, and the truth was out! We all cracked up :D It was great!

And I got the CD, which is fantastic. If I can figure out how to upload mp3 files I'll upload one where both Mike and David have solos :)

Today at lunch M was absent so we stayed in the cafeteria, where we were attacked by yellow jackets. One landed on my cookies, and Emily (who has experience with them from camp this summer) said to get a cup, which I did. We put the cup over the whole thing, and then pulled the wax paper that the cookies were wrapped in out so it'd cover the whole bottom of the cup. But we didn't have a rubber band to keep it shut, so we took a plastic bag and put it over the whole thing, then quickly wrapped a twist tie around it, and tied a knot in the bag, and threw the whole thing out. XD Kinda mean for the yellow jacket, but funny nonetheless.

Everyone's at rehearsal now. Academons tomorrow. :D

ooooh, Christian solo! He graduated last year and he was a diva, but he's crazy-mad-good. I can't wait to see where he'll be in 10 years. I'm going to look for his name. He's bound to be famous ;)

isn't Freya more of a "real name" than Frana or Francina?

( bit of math talk )

Math Solution

ok, here's what I ended up doing, after I converted everything to inches. (note: 36^3 is 36 cubed)

36^3in=384in(3in)x
46656=1152x
x=40.5in
40.5/12=3.375ft

however. the answer given at the back of the book is 2.56ft. So I must have done something wrong somewhere. "Let me check my notes."

garden is 6 feet by 10 feet. . . once you had your width, you'd be able to stretch the border into a rectangle that would have a length of 6+6+10+10. Or 32. to convert 32 into inches, you multiply it by 12. 32x12=384. Your length is 384.
27 cubic feet of cement. Your volume is 27 cubic feet. that would be 3ftx3ftx3ft. But to convert it into inches, each of those feet needs to be multipled times 12. 3x12=36. 36inx36inx36in=46656. Your volume is 46656.
(btw, I'm going through this piece by piece of the info they give you)
the border has a depth (aka height) of 3 inches. that's already inches.

The volume formula is lengthXwidthXheight=volume. I have 3 out of four of those variables. Let me plug them in.
384(x)(3)=46656 is my formula
I simplify it by multplying 384 times 3. 384(3)=1152
1152x=46656
To get rid of the 1152, I divide both sides by 1152 (well, that's the extended kinda way of doing it). 1152x/1152--the 1152's cancel leaving me with x on that side.
x=46656/1152
I divide 46656 by 1152. I get 40.5
x=40.5 inches.
But I want feet. So I divide 40.5 by 12.
40.5/12=3.375

what is going wrong here??
I'm going to go try it on a non-graphing calculator.

edit I experimented, plugging in their width and trying to find the length. according to that, your length should be 42.1875. now I'm all confused!