Ok, so I just wanted to give this post a cool title when in fact I actually have nothing to post about. Be prepared for intense rambling.

I'll write a few random thoughts about graduation, college, and life in general. First up, graduation. Service of Celebration was (I think) Monday. The speakers were nice, refreshments were so-so, and graduation tradition carried on like always. I only pose one question. Who thought wearing robes, strings, and caps with gay tassels was cool? Forget cool, what about just plain comfortable? As I was "robing up" for the S of C, I felt like some actor out of a bad Harry Potter Movie spin-off. And you know what else---those robes are hot! The air conditioning in that church was nonexistent! And it was wayyy too sunny! Oh well, I will admit that it was cool seeing old high school friends again (woah that sounds weird to say) and it felt like I was finally done with high school. I'm a little nervous and scared heading out west for college...being so far away from home. At the same time, it's kinda exciting to finally be done with high school and moving on.

Ok, that's all the rambling I have for today. I'll try and cook up something especially cool for my next post. Oh yeah, the slide-show should be back up sometime this week. My hosting site is down for awhile but should be back online soon. I'll even throw in a few extra pictures.

One last thought about the heart of my post. You know, life is all about change. Yet, life isn't a mix a "big" changes that alter the course of our lives. I think its more like a slow transformation. Although life still holds key moments---our past day-to-day actions slowly shape who we are so that when we come to big choices---we've already made the choice. Life is a river---always changing yet never ending. Always following the land---but a river does is not shaped by the land. Water shapes the land it runs on. So do we affect the world in which we live.

(I just wanted to write something poetic sounding) See you guys round'!

I'm in a pretty random mood this morning, so this post will be short.

Everyone gets those e-mails telling a brief horror story about "little Susan" who wishes she had only known not to flash her headlights at oncoming cars because it was part of a violent "Blood Gang" initiation ritual. Well, I decided to start finding out whether those e-mails were true, partly true, or straight-up hoaxes. My findings thus far have been very interesting. You can find all the information I've gathered thus far here at my Google Notebook. So far, what I will do to new myths is to post the original text of the hoax e-mail and then post clippings of the relevant information about it, plus Google Notebook automatically includs links to the websites I get my information from.

If you have a Google account you can search my notebook exclusively from the google.com/notebook page. Also, I made a heading for each new myth, so it makes it easy to scroll between the blue headings to find myths relevant to you. Also, if you have some sketchy e-mails, feel free to forward them to me so I can add them to my "myth busting" Notebook collection.

So far I have only busted two myths. One about the Blood Gang initiation ritual and the Dial *677 for emergency dispatch. So far both proved almost entirely false. Anyway, feel free to enjoy my Myth Busters notebook. Btw, prom (Kelsey's is tonight). Wish me luck :)

Ahh, this post will be fun. Ok. Everyone listens to music, right? I know I sure do. Every time I hop in the car, my first move is to lean over to the passenger side and turn on my CD player (I use a tape/CD adapter instead of buying a factory-installed CD player). And I honestly like nearly anything. Notice the nearly. Rap is out, as is almost all country. There might be a country song somewhere that I like, but few and far between. Practically nonexistent. As for music I do like, everything goes. From EFY CDs to classical to hard rock, I'll listen to it all. My favorite genre is some mix of soft rock, emo/indie whatever. However, as my music tastes have matured over the years, I have learned found certain songs that I like more than others. Some songs I really enjoy because they're from an artist I like, others sound good at first but soon loose their "coolness."

And, I have also realized I have a favorite song. One that hasn't gotten old through the many years I have listened to it. Ironically the artist is probably my all-time favorite artist as well. Anyway, the song (which is the only song currently playing on the site) is "Ocean Avenue" by Yellowcard. I realized it was my favorite song because I always seem to be humming it when no music is present. This thing is just classic. For the blog "Romantics" this song can literally be applied to any girl in some way, shape, or form. It doesn't really work so well for girls singing (or thinking) about guys. Sorry.

There you have it, the Theme Song of my life. A good soft-rock beat in combination with all-too-catchy lyrics makes an amazing song. Maybe if you guys (the blog readers) play your cards right, I might do a recording and put it in the blog play list instead :)

Happy Mothers Day everyone!

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Ok guys, here are 22 of my favorite prom pictures. I included a random splattering of me, Kelsey, and the two of us together. If you click on any of the pictures it will take you to an index of all the pictures so you can browser through them. I'm trying to post some enlarged pictures along with the index, but it isn't going so well, but it should be up soon. Anyway, enjoy, and to view all the pictures you can also click here.

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Touchy subject eh? Made even more so by the fact that I cannot discuss any multiple choice questions for the rest of my natural life. Well, at least that's what the AP booklet/packet/instruction thing said. So if you ask me about second derivatives and answer choice "B" on my death bed...you will hear nothing from my lips! Ironically, the free response questions can be discussed...now. The actual time frame for free response questions is 48 hours before ones vow of silence can be broken.

Ok, this year I only took one AP class, although that one teensy-weensy AP happened to be AP Calculus. Ouch. Two semester class, 270 in-class hours, 180 days. That translates to approximately 16,200 minutes of sheer pain! Seriously, my AP experience was pretty good. The class was very mature and enjoyable. My teacher was absolutely awesome. She was the nice and kind Filipino lady and just a lot of fun. More interesting was the math that accompanied the class. It's amazing how fun math can actually be. Ok, maybe not fun, but interesting. Calculus seems to be a math of approximation. It works through estimation of a sort. In calculus we find the area under any curves. The trick is to get infinitely close to the right answer. Kinda hard to explain, but it's an interesting math.

Anyway, on to the exam. I took it Wednesday about 830, although it lasted until around noon. I won't divulge any details about the multiple choice, mostly because I can't remember any of the problems :) I will say that I felt fairly confident about the whole thing. Until I got to free response. On multiple choice, I answered almost every problem except for about two or three out of 50-something. However, on free response things work a little differently. Each question is worth nine points, and each part of each problem is worth a varying percentage of those nine points. Anyway, I started to work out the first problem and answer the whole thing under section 1a. Terrified, I marked out my work, and placed it under 1b and 1c---only to realize I had done the whole thing wrong. More marking out, and I've already used half of my available time for this one problem. To make a long story short, I think I still did well on the exam. Also, on one problem, I was give an acceleration function and I had to take it's integral to find velocity and the integral of velocity of to find position. I finished the problem and found velocity to be -7/3 all over 523 feet/second. That was wrong. I took the derivative of acceleration to find velocity. Once i got that wrong answer, I heard the ominous sound echoing around the room---"you have ten minutes left." Uh-oh. I have never worked a problem faster than in those ten minutes. Like a little child hitting a pinata at a birthday party, I attacked that problem like no body's business. I finished the problem and think---think---I got the right answer. Overall it was one crazy day! So that's my exciting AP story of the day. By the way, prom pictures will be posted soon, I'm at my sister's house and have a complete lack of prom pictures. Don't worry though, first thing monday the pictures will be on the blog. I'm trying to do a slideshow type thing on the blog, so hopefully I'll have that up and running by monday. Aurvoir and Audieu everyone!

By the way, I actually didn't describe any problems from the AP exam---they were all from a dream I had. Yeah, that's what it was. Because I would never discuss anything about the AP exam. Never. Oh yeah, it actually wasn't a dream. It was a nightmare :)

Whoa! Talk about your teasers! I know once everyone reads that headline, the first thing they will look for in the post(unless you alread know where I'm going for college) is what college I'm going to.

Don't fret.

I'll tell you right off before I get to the heart of the post---prom. Anyway, my college choice is BYU-Idaho. Since previous topics touching on this matter have been hotly contested, allow me to briefly explain my choice and the choices leading up to that decision. Many people may question my motives for going, which is an understandable reaction. After much prayer and fasting regarding the matter, I felt that BYU-I was the place I'm supposed to go. The peace I've felt in making that decision is overwhelming. Anyway, on to PROM!

I won't go much into pre-prom details, but here is a quick preface to prom itself. The stress didn't start getting to me until Saturday about 1:30pm. I still didn't know when Kelsey could come up or when she had to leave. Needless to say my heart rate maintained a steady 100-120 beats per minute! My plans to picnic on the parkway kinda fell through, so I was left with picnicing on my deck. The closer prom got, the more quickly my carefully laid plans crumbled around my feeble teenage mind :)

Allow me to say though, that as soon as Kelsey stepped out of the car, the stress of the day was gone. Seeing her made everything feel---right. Her parents drove her up (which was very nice of them, all though I felt bad they had to travel so far). We made pictures---which I will post soon---and then her parents headed out on a date while Kelsey and I enjoyed a scrumtrulescent dinner of salad, steak, and strawberries dipped in whip cream!

After dinner, we stopped by my Grandma's house on the way to the prom because she wanted to meet Kelsey. We visited for a precious few seconds before we headed for the Cross Creek Country Club for a night of fun and dancing. Like most proms, the dancing was a bit...different...from traditional church dances. It was nice having Kelsey there, since we could revel in our cool dancingness together :) After a few songs we took our prom pictures, after which we had to leave since Kelsey had to be at my house by 11pm. At 11:06, we walked in the door (whoops). It was just a plain good time. The only downside was how quickly the night was over *sigh,* and back to reality I went. But I get to see her again in TWO WEEKS! Which I know I'm probably the only one on this blog who cares about this, but it's my blog so there! Ha!

That's all for now, I will see you around. Stay tuned for some good picture posts, and a nice little post-AP Calculus Exam post thingy.