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Oct. 26th, 2002 01:26 pmwoo hoo! I mentioned that my tooth has been giving me problems again? it's gotten to be really bad because I can't eat or sleep without taking painkillers, but my dad doesn't like me to take to many so I always feel guilty. ::sigh:: Anyway! My mom called people who specialize in root canals for children, and I'm going on Monday!! I'm very excited. lol. It's a bit ridiculous. At first I was going to go after school in a week and a half (the wednesday after next) but I told my mom that I'd be willing to miss school and that's way too long, and luckily they had a cancellation, so I'm going at 11:15 on monday! I'll miss French, art, and at least one period of physics, probably, but I don't care. I don't know how long these things takes. The second period of Physics starts at 1. . . I might even miss that and english. I'm not sure. Anyway. Thank god. Just 2 days.
In physics a couple days ago, Ms. R was talking about how physics, unlike mathematics, operates in the real world. As an example, she used Zeno's paradox, saying that if you fire an arrow, in math it will never reach it's target. (btw, this just reminded me. David told us about Fermat yesterday--that's so sad!!) (I hope I have the name right. I don't to be like Shaq and confuse his theorem with the Pythagorean theorem.) In case anyone isn't familiar with Zeno's paradox, or just never heard it named before: When you fire the arrow, it will get half way to the target. But there's still another half left to go. It'll cross half of that distance, but there's still another half left. It'll cross half of that distance, and so on and so on. It will get extremely close, but it will never reach it (half of 1 is 1/2, half of that is 1/4, then 1/8, 1/16. . . the denominator gets bigger and bigger and can do so until infinity, never reaching zero) (can you say "until infinity"? you know what I mean).
Anyway, I do have a reason for posting about this, aside from the fact that I find it intriguing. Paradoxes are cool :D The reason I posted about it is because Zeno's paradox is in Books of Magic. Specifically Bindings. When Tim shows up at the Manticore's house, and he tries to get out by climbing the wall. He can never reach the top, and the Manticore explains to him that this is because of Zeno's paradox. So I showed this to Ms. R and she thought it was so cool! She said she was either going to borrow the pages to photocopy, or just steal the explanation :D yeah. cool. lol.
Our Buckler Hill McKay is here!!!!!! (I posted about our ordering it on the 19th--it got here much faster than expected! I'm delighted :D) Actually, our History of Western Society is here. But we always called it Buckler Hill McKay. Even though the textbook says "McKay, Hill, Buckler". (when dad saw that he thought we got the wrong one. lol.) Actually, in class we had the sixth edition, which is the one I linked to, and the one we ordered is the fifth edition, but they're really close. The covers are different, and so are some of the pictures--this one has pretty pictures! The other one did too, but I think this one has more. Katie says the sixth edition had the same big picture things at the beginning of chapters. . . maybe, but I think they were smaller. ehh. We want to bring it in and compare. I also want to go and visit our teacher and tell her :D I loved that class.
Perin came over yesterday. Emily had driver's ed, and after that an birthday party. So she couldn't come, but I had a fantastic time with Perin :D We ate cake, and talked about foreign countries and we read Apoc High and watched Fruits Basket and talked about the games we played when we were little (I should post about that sometime. I had one friend, who has now moved away, who was extremely inventive, and she came up with all these great games!) and ate and chilled. It was good. :D
I've been really tired this week, cos trying to deal with the pain in my mouth has been taking a lot out of me and I think I'm hovering on the verge of illness. But hopefully that'll be all over after monday! (: And today we're planning to go to Target (hopefully with Perin and Emily) and get Monsters Inc. toys! and I already did my phsyics homework, which was easy, and Katie says the math is easy too, so I won't feel bad about it or anything. I gotta shower first though, and contact people.
In physics a couple days ago, Ms. R was talking about how physics, unlike mathematics, operates in the real world. As an example, she used Zeno's paradox, saying that if you fire an arrow, in math it will never reach it's target. (btw, this just reminded me. David told us about Fermat yesterday--that's so sad!!) (I hope I have the name right. I don't to be like Shaq and confuse his theorem with the Pythagorean theorem.) In case anyone isn't familiar with Zeno's paradox, or just never heard it named before: When you fire the arrow, it will get half way to the target. But there's still another half left to go. It'll cross half of that distance, but there's still another half left. It'll cross half of that distance, and so on and so on. It will get extremely close, but it will never reach it (half of 1 is 1/2, half of that is 1/4, then 1/8, 1/16. . . the denominator gets bigger and bigger and can do so until infinity, never reaching zero) (can you say "until infinity"? you know what I mean).
Anyway, I do have a reason for posting about this, aside from the fact that I find it intriguing. Paradoxes are cool :D The reason I posted about it is because Zeno's paradox is in Books of Magic. Specifically Bindings. When Tim shows up at the Manticore's house, and he tries to get out by climbing the wall. He can never reach the top, and the Manticore explains to him that this is because of Zeno's paradox. So I showed this to Ms. R and she thought it was so cool! She said she was either going to borrow the pages to photocopy, or just steal the explanation :D yeah. cool. lol.
Our Buckler Hill McKay is here!!!!!! (I posted about our ordering it on the 19th--it got here much faster than expected! I'm delighted :D) Actually, our History of Western Society is here. But we always called it Buckler Hill McKay. Even though the textbook says "McKay, Hill, Buckler". (when dad saw that he thought we got the wrong one. lol.) Actually, in class we had the sixth edition, which is the one I linked to, and the one we ordered is the fifth edition, but they're really close. The covers are different, and so are some of the pictures--this one has pretty pictures! The other one did too, but I think this one has more. Katie says the sixth edition had the same big picture things at the beginning of chapters. . . maybe, but I think they were smaller. ehh. We want to bring it in and compare. I also want to go and visit our teacher and tell her :D I loved that class.
Perin came over yesterday. Emily had driver's ed, and after that an birthday party. So she couldn't come, but I had a fantastic time with Perin :D We ate cake, and talked about foreign countries and we read Apoc High and watched Fruits Basket and talked about the games we played when we were little (I should post about that sometime. I had one friend, who has now moved away, who was extremely inventive, and she came up with all these great games!) and ate and chilled. It was good. :D
I've been really tired this week, cos trying to deal with the pain in my mouth has been taking a lot out of me and I think I'm hovering on the verge of illness. But hopefully that'll be all over after monday! (: And today we're planning to go to Target (hopefully with Perin and Emily) and get Monsters Inc. toys! and I already did my phsyics homework, which was easy, and Katie says the math is easy too, so I won't feel bad about it or anything. I gotta shower first though, and contact people.
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Date: 2002-10-26 08:04 pm (UTC)Yeah, I'm upset because it becomes absolutely impossible to make up the work and missing one day can mess you up for a long time. But I am glad at the same time--like when we have field trips and stuff I'm always happy :D
oooh, that sounds good :) Zeno is a good name.
Yeah, I finished watching it a while ago. The ending was like. . . wow. . . wild. It was good. Good good good!
The New Year's Episode is so sweet! :)
We actually didn't get any toys :( But! I got an eyepatch to complete my pirate costume (I'll probably explain that at some later date)
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Date: 2002-10-27 05:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-27 06:39 pm (UTC)"A pirate I was meant to be!
Trim the sails and roam the sea!"
(well, that's the chorus. there are a lot of verses but we all chime in for the chorus)
and they also sing:
"There's a monkey in my pocket
And he's stealing all my change,
his stare is blank and glassy--
I believe he is deranged!"