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Well, the weather outside is frightful.

 And we have ice inside our apart around the windows. Insulation, I guess.

This morning the power went out for about four hours. Our room was so dark when I woke up. So I didn't want to get up - double time. Usually there is a light shining in our room from outside. But what? No light in our room? Odd.

And then I realized... Since it doesn't seem to be just our light post that has stopped working, the power must be out! Yay! So I got up to blow my nose and no light. Yes! I lit candles and stood up flashlights so I could put my eyebrows on for a class that probably wasn't going to happen.

We drove up to campus even though campus security was calling Tom's phone probably saying classes were cancelled. This was a city-wide power outage. And classes didn't start up again until 11:30. My last class ends at 11:15.

So I got to stay home and wash the dishes, read about math, finish making my honeycomb, do some laundry, do some math, work out a little, read, eat... you know, the usual stuff.

I got nine emails from the school saying that the power is out (or is back on) and classes will resume at 11:30 (or 10:15) and if you're cold come to the I-Center. I also got an email from my Complex Analysis teacher that started, "As you recover from the sadness of class cancellation, I thought you might want an update." She is a funny one.


Here is the honeycomb I made! Thanks for the candy thermometer. :)

 Flat, but still a little airy. It is goooood.

Light bulb! I should pour it into my round cake pan next time. Then they will be thicker pieces. Even though the flatness of these make them easy to eat..

I need a new calendar.

Happy New Year!

I had a great Christmas and New Year break! Thank you. :) I haven't relaxed like that in a while and it felt good. I love my family so much, it's a little depressing coming back to a quiet little apartment with no Stanley. Not to mention the weather! Oh California Sun. :)

I only took a few pictures while home..

 The few and the proud...

I didn't get a picture of all of our owls together puffed up but here's a good one.. Yours are just flat.

                    Mom                               Hannah                              Me                           Sophia

 Sophia's eyes and Hannah's eyes... I didn't get a picture of Mom's but they said Mom Dahlin...

Hannah's owl was the last one I made... I had to have fun with it...

And we're back to school.

My homework area with my Calculus book and The Wise Man's Fear. Looks like the best book won.

It's OVER!

This semester was a rough one. But now it's over! :D

Merry Christmas!!

One Day...

Last night I took a test where I had to prove the Mean Value Theorem and also the Second Fundamental Theorem of Calculus:

It was beautiful.

I definitely had help. And some dark chocolate chips.

In these upper level math classes, the numbers turn into words. Worms, Roxanne! Here are all of the words and numbers I basically had to memorize for this test.

Yesterday was a hard one. I also had a presentation to give. It all gave me an amazing headache. My brain is getting the work out of it's life.
Here are the things I still have to do:

• Two sections of homework problems for Real Analysis
• Test in Computer Science
• 10-or-so-page paper for Intro. to Applied Mathematics
• Project 4 (writing code for a program that will allow a game of Sudoku) for Computer Science
• Test for Differential Equations with Linear Algebra
• Other part of final for Real Analysis

One day...


One day this semester will be over...





P.S.
Tom and I were talking about how you should always write something down for your answer even if you don't know what it is. We were joking about writing a note to my teacher if I really had no clue or maybe saying "the guy next to me just picked his nose" or something. Well. Last night just before I started on the Second Fundamental Theorem of Calculus proof, I smelt a stink that no human should ever have to endure-especially while taking such a brain and spirit requiring test.

             "Hi Brother Cox. Just before I started this proof, the dude next to me let out a big one. It's really affecting my ability to think..."

Finally

December is here.

 Clearly.

Now just to get through my final tests and projects...

"Her name Is Um. Idiot!"

My mean streak is over. Too soon.

The other day two girls in a row were all smiley at me. And I actually smiled back! And while I was looking down to see if I had something on me, my teacher Brother Stowell was walking by and said "Hi Lilia." Weirdo I am.

Yesterday on my cold walk down from the Ricks to the Hart I saw a guy trying to get up the hill in his wheelchair. Well wouldn't you know, I asked if I could help him. I don't know what's happening. Then this guy started talking to me about snowboarding while were we walking down some stairs and then I talked to this girl that works in the locker room that misses me because I'm being fat now and then I talked to my visiting teaching companion and told her I'd miss her because she's moving out. All before I could stop to wait for Tom to change after his workout. Psh.

I did learn some things while in my mean stage. It's all about pride. I knocked shoulders with people not because I was humble and willing to move for them, but because of my pride. Thinking they should really move for me because I'm Lilia Barrett. "Do you know who I am?" I am short with people because I don't want to give them my time of day. Because I think I'm too good to talk to weirdos like them. When in fact I am a weirdo too. We all have problems. And like I learned from the lesson on a recent Sunday, being nice to people will help them change for better more than telling them they have problems will help them change. I'm so proud. But that can change. It's all so strange to watch the change...

 Frozen cranberry sorbet. Mixed again. Then frozen again.

Mmm that looks good.

And I'm not totally nice now just because I'm not feeling too mean. I'm still mean. ;)

Cool huh?

Last night's homework.

Remember this thing?

I made cranberry sorbet yesterday in preparation for Thanksgiving!
How the cranberries really looked:

How they looked with a flash:

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