w00t. i had five, count them, five frees today. 5/8 is perfect. just perfect.

lab practical today. i got a -.429% error, so i either did some really bad calculations, or i did the experiment really well. who knows.

my dad got his advanced brown belt tonight. he’s almost there! he could so beat you up.

there once was a girl named lan.
she really didn’t like green chiffon.
one day she got a sty,
in her right eye,
and now she calls the sty juan.

once upon a time there was a nice pink-haired girl named lan. she spent her tuesday doing nothing in particular and didn’t really mind. in fact, she had a fine and dandy day. she got her work done in school, did her homework, watched some family guy, worked out, and walked the dogs of satan next-door. all in all, it was a very nice day. the end.

i finally feel at ease. why? because over the weekend i left my backpack in my locker because i didn’t want to drag it to nyc. but the school was locked on sunday and i couldn’t do my homework. but luckily, the only homework i had was an essay for american, and i didn’t have class today. i did it after driver’s ed today, which was awesome since it was the last class and we went to coldstone for ice cream. and i did all my homework during my frees, so all in all, i’m at ease. i think i’ll go play pokemon yellow now. yes.

i’m back (as of 1:00am last night)! i’m sure you want to hear all about it, eh? overall, it was a fun trip, but not as fun as last year. we just didn’t do as much as last year. we had a decent amount of free time, but it was all spent in the same place, which was lame. so here’s a teaser image, and keep on readin’.

stabby taking pictures of times square!

THURSDAY:
well, the bus left at 3ish and we didn’t stop until 6 for dinner in albany. i got dragged into going to hooters with my friends (can you say peer pressure?) and later we got milkshakes at haagen dazs. we got to the hotel at about midnight and went to sleep after a small get-together with the boys and a few rounds of ten fingers.

FRIDAY:

at 9am friday morning we went to nbc studios and took a cool tour. we got to visit the sets of conan and snl, which both seem way smaller than they do on tv. after the tour we were able to wander around rockefeller center. most of the stores that my friends wanted to go in (lacoste, billabong, etc.) weren’t really my style, so i didn’t buy anything. we walked all the way to times square and hung around there for awhile.

afterwards we went to the meet-the-artist program and listened to a presentation about musicals and such by some guy i’ve never heard of. stabby fell asleep halfway through.

then we went outside and took the group photo. our next destination was, ironically, times square. we didn’t mind though and spent most of our time trying to find h & m so that bev could buy a dress shirt for…

tarzan! it was amazing. it was “opening night” and we were sort of the test audience to work out the kinks, but it was still really good. i say “opening night” because it technically wasn’t really, but it was the first time anyone has ever seen it. the scenery was the best. the first scene was my favorite, when the ship crashed tarzan’s parents had to swim up from the ocean to safety. the actors were attached to lines so that they could “swim up” to the top of the water, which was a blue-ish silkscreen. it looked amazing.

we got back around 12 and again hung out in our room until the security told the boys to go back to their room and for us to go to sleep.

SATURDAY:

we spent most of the day in chinatown, which everyone seemed to enjoy. the girls liked going into the back rooms to look at mounds of fake louis vuitton and prada purses and the boys liked looking at extremely cheap “bling” and crap electronics. neither of those things intrest me much, but i did purchase (and this was my only purchase the whole trip) a pink ipod case for ten bucks. it’s cool. but let me just say, kids from brighton do not know how to barter. poor bev kept asking too politely if they’d lower the price, as did chels.

we also stopped at soho, but left after noticing that most of the stuff was way out our price range.

our last activity was seeing slava’s snowshow, which was really cool. it was a play-type show, but not really. it didn’t have any words, it was just a bunch of clowns doing stuff. there was a lot of audience interaction, like when one of the clowns threw dee-dee over his shoulder and brought her offstage. another time one of the clowns tried to walk across the seats of the audience and required the hand of me, among the hands of other people around me. the snowshow part was cool, there was little pieces of white paper everywhere (which were fun to throw). at the end a bunch of huge (we’re talking 10 feet diameter) air-filled balls were thrown at the audience and we bounced them around like beach balls. it was a blast.

we got home at 1:30 and i pretty much passed out as soon as i hit the bed. ’twas a good trip.

and now i leave you with a photo representation of the secret handshake bev and i made up:
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the rest of the photos are over here!

i’m at school writing once more here before i leave in 45 minutes (ish) for new york city. so i’m writing on a blog. take that mrs. butterworth! i will not listen to your stupid acceptable computer use rules! you may have blocked myspace, but you can’t block imaclanni.com!

well, i’m off to nyc tomorrow after school at 3pm. expect the next post to be sunday, and expect it to have a bazilliion photos, and many-a-things going on. therefore, it’ll probably be cut. just to let you know. not that it matters.

i finally fit all my songs on my ipod nano! huzzah! it all makes sense now… let me start from the beginning. so circa de october 2005 i bought a new imac. ever since then, i’ve been importing every cd i purchase. turns out that the defult import compression setting is aiff, which is superb quality. so do you know how large one 4 minute song was? about 40mb (!) it was crazy. imagine half your itunes library taking up like, a gazillion gigs of space. so i found out which cds were the culprits, and i deleted all the songs from them, and reimported every cd, in the mp3 format. now i have 1002 songs on my ipod taking up only 3.42 gb of space. before i had 1002 songs taking up 8.56 gb. crazy.

i was supposed to donate blood today (again). but my iron levels were too low (again). but this time i only missed the right level by 2 points. and you gain one point a week on average, so if it’s taking me longer to get my iron levels up from the last time i donated, i have to wait 4 weeks to try again (as opposed to 2). bah.

i bought like 70 bucks worth of books today and it was awesome. i had a $40 gift card, so i only had to pay $30, which was also awesome. i love books. i got:

• crooked by laura and tom mcneal, which i owned in the past but lost
• it’s a kind of funny story by ned vizzini
• junior by macaulay culkin
• the last universe by william sleator
• i am the messanger by markus zusak

mmmm. they are all of different genres (mainly), which is nice : )

school was fine. nothing special. but afterschool i had driver’s ed and it we had our final test. i was totally expecting to fail it (remember last monday?), so i had chelsea explain parallel parking to me twice, with helpful hand gestures. i was a bit worried when i sat in the driver’s seat, since akiva had gotten a 98 and chels a 95. but then something amazing happened. and that something was nothing. nothing went wrong. i parallel parked correctly for the first time in my life. i didn’t roll through any stop signs. i did everything like i was supposed to. and i got 100. i went from failing 9 times to a perfect score. now if this could only happen on my road test…

after driver’s ed my mom took me to rite aid and i bought a box of bubble gum. not a pack, a box. a box has 12 packs in it. 12 packs of 10 pieces. that’s, uh, 120 pieces of wild strawberry bubble yum. that’s awesome.

prison break is on tonight. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee. squee.

i’m faced with a dilemma. you see, my nyc trip is thursday and i would really like to have all my music with me on an ipod or such. i can’t borrow liz’s because she just got hers fixed and she has a refurbished one, which is still in the box they sent it to her in. should i take a few hours and import all my cd’s using a compressed format as opposed the the ginormous format they are at now? or should i take a few hours trying to convince liz to let me use her new ipod?