April 30: Daily Log

8:15-9:00: Combo

9:05-10:55: Work on final visual presentation of project. Mr. Reynolds shows me a possible home for the project. I like it.

10:55-11:40: Biochem with Ms. Bradburn. Fantastic lecture on DNA. Enjoyed by all parties old and new.

11:40-1:00: Finish up research on terrain models and advantages of a physical model. Mr. Reynolds gives me tons of pictures.

1:00-1:15: Wait for China Moon delivery

1:15-2:00: Lunch with Wingate advisory. Chicken lo mein is right on the money but egg drop soup is less than stellar. Way less than stellar.

2:00-2:35: AP Bio party and yearbook swapping with seniors.

2:35: Leave to go to Peachtree Travel Clinic for typhoid vaccination

April 30: Daily Reflection

Today was the unofficial upper school party day. I had the good fortune of doubling up chinese take-out for advisory lunch with the AP bio food party of assorted goods. It was also the day that seniors got their yearbooks, so I spent some time today browsing the yearbook, looking for my dear friends and my favorite pages. I LOVE the senior baby pictures! In my project (that is what I'm supposed to write about), I completely finished all trails and rivers in paint pen, and I created a compass rose and a legend for my presentation board. The project is supposed to be over today but it definitely needs a few last-minute details on Monday! Hopefully everything will click into place; my panic about not finishing yesterday miraculously disappeared today.

April 29: Daily Log

8:20-9:25: Work on gridding the posterboard and outlining trails in pencil.

9:30-10:15: Senior Chapel. Very well done.

10:15-12:15: Buy stuff. Sharpies, paint pens, body paint.

12:15-2:00: Body paint, talent show warmup and rehearsal, general jam in band room 2.

2:05-3:00: Sean McIntosh Show Senior Talent Show

3:15-5:00: Swim lessons. Lower schoolers mistake me for an Avatar.

5:00-5:30: Work on doing trails and rivers in paint pen.

April 29: Daily Reflection

The big thing about today is that I hit a massive mental wall about halfway through the day. A sudden wave of understanding and/or paranoia hit me, and I had a sudden feeling of incompetence along the lines of "Gee Sam, you have to finish this thing very soon - do you know what you're doing?". And how did I respond? Oh right I didn't. On my way to get a black sharpie and red and blue paint pens, I also picked up several ounces of blue body paint. I spent most of 6th period painting myself blue with the help of Mr. Z's ceramics class when, in terms of pure work ethic, my time would have been better spent outlining trails and rivers in paint pen. Alas, the senior in me won out, and I painted my entire body blue for the Senior Talent Show. The blue was a hit, but my project did not move too far. I did, however, come back to 324 after swim lessons and finish up the trails. All in all a very fun day.

April 28: Daily Log

8:00-8:40: Conference

8:40-10:00: Shopping trip

10:00-11:45: Work on mounting the model and getting info together

11:45-12:00: Visit from Elizabeth C. Rucker

12:05-1:15: Protein test

1:30-1:45: Cuarenta Smackdown

1:55-3:05: Combo - learn St. Thomas

3:15-5:00: Talent show rehearsal

5:00-6:20: Baseball and Room to Read!

April 28: Daily Reflection

Today was my big shopping day, and boy was it fun. I didn't have class until 12 noon, so the morning was totally mine. Mr. Reynolds and I had a Skype conference since he was on the north end of 324 East while I was on the south end. I then proceeded to drive to Binders and buy a 40"x60" piece of foamcore board, and map flag pins. I had to put down ALL the seats in my car to accommodate this purchase. I came back to Lovett and spent at least 20 minutes making sure that the board would fit through a doorframe - not a fun task. The doorframe measured just over 34" on my measurement, but a 33" board gave me a piece of its mind with some blatant refusal and disobedience of the laws of mathematics. I know that somewhere out there, Dr. Sanders is crying tears of sheer agony reading 33>34.

I successfully trimmed my board to 31" and then scored the GPS grid onto the board and traced it in fine point Sharpie (whoops forgot to mention that in the purchase list). The tricky part was intercalating the model and the GPS grid. To be truthful with you, it ended up being a more-refined version of Whac-a-Mole because ultimately I had to guess where to drop the model on the glue. On a tacky scale of 1 to a strapless dress with a bra that isn't, this process falls just below going to the bathroom on a first date: yeah it works alright, but you wish that somehow there was a better way. I got my model mounted on the foamcore and then I flagged the 3 major sites on the property: the station, the lookout, and the waterfall. After that I went to biochem for a celebration of knowledge, and then a cuarenta smackdown during lunch, and then more chill time in combo.

After school I went to senior talent show rehearsal, then I moseyed over to the baseball game to help with the Cold Stone/Room to Read fundraiser, which was certainly the most delicious fundraiser I've ever witnessed. I got 2 good bowls of ice cream and contemplated a third, but instead elected to choose the Chick-fil-a sandwich. Cold Stone was so delicious! And the guys working the stand were really nice too! Good food good friends good times.....Just another day in paradise!

April 27: Daily Log

8:20-9:25: Research on terrain models

9:30-10:35: Chops

10:35-10:55: Break

10:55-12:00: Biochem

12:05-1:00: Oooing and ahhhhing on terrain models

1:00-1:10: Sign out, drive car to circle

1:10-1:15: Publicly demonstrate my acquaintance with other human beings.

1:15-3:15: Chick-fil-a, Aquarium, Grill Christian, Accident-Free driving

3:15-5:00 somewhere: Senior talent show tryouts