Wow, it's almost been a week since I've put in an entry. Oops. Time does fly, doesn't it? School is almost over. After this week, there are two weeks of class, and then a week of finals. That is it. Then, I am done with my sophomore year in highschool, and am offically halfway done with highschool. Let me tell you, I don't feel like I'm even close to being finished. I feel like highschool has still just started. There are so many things to experience within the four highschool years, and yet it is impossible to experience it all in the simple four years we spend here. What comes to my mind is the Circle of Life song. You know the part where it says "There is more to see then can ever be seen, more to do than can ever be done. There is far to much to take in here, more to find than can ever be found." That describes life perfectly. And I'm seeing it in just one tiny segment of my life. This is scaring me!

Yesterday, my mom had me call the guy who sold me this little adoreable palmtop computer. Oh yes, this story here is very interesting. I bough a Palm Pilot for $400 about a year ago, and it was such a pain for the money that went into it that I brought it back. Heck, it didn't even have a word processor on it, not one that would really do anyone good. So now, just a little while later, my awesome Aunt Jo helped my mom figure out the ebay site, where she found this tiny notebook computer made by Hewlett Packard. She bid sixty-five bucks on it, never dreaming that she'd get it for that. After all, the seller had bought it originally for eight-hundred dollars. However, she won it! And she gave it to me, for school and other reasons. Actually, I had a notebook computer, and right before I backed all my files up, it crashed, which was annoying beyond words. So now I have this adoreable little computer. However, the only way to be able to print my files is to upload them onto my other computer. There is no way to save the files onto a disk with this little thing (Imagine: The keyboard is seven inches) so there is no other option. I was having problems with getting the software installed onto my computer, so the seller, who's name is Steven, had me call him. And he helped me through it. Let me tell you, he is one of the nicest, most generous people I've ever met. He stayed on the phone with me for two whole hours to get this thing figured out. I've officially decided that computers are a regular pain in the behind, but they do make the world go 'round, so what can I say? At least there are people to help smooth life over somewhat like Steven.

So, I was on the phone last night working this stuff out with Steven until eight thirty. Then, I had to prepare my speech for L.A. It was according to the research paper we did, which I got an A on. Mr. Siekmeir had each of us write down a few questions we would love to answer through research. Then, we chose one of them, and researched, and wrote a paper on it. I chose to research music, and answer what the difference is between sounds and music, and what is so appealing about music. The paper was very fun to write. But when I found out I had to get in front of 35-40 teenage students and give a speech on what my paper was about, I naturally freaked. Of all the people in the world to talk about musical physics and psychology to! I had to explain what overtones were, for crying out loud! Anyone who knows what overtones are would know that trying to teach someone what they are is not easy. When I made my speech today, I had a range from blank looks to rolling eyes in the audience. What can I say? I'd have written a speech on a different topic if I could. However, Mr. Siekmeir, I think, understood the whole idea of overtones. If I reached one person in that speech, it makes it worth all the sweat, blood and tears that went into it, right? Right. Not too bad. :-)