Elementology

Mwahaha go boredom! I'm puttin up my customised elementology profile, so you can all see how awesome I am (and how nice my chem teacher is, having done one for all of us)


"Elementology: Why look to the stars when we can look to the building blocks of matter- the elements?

Birth Month: December
Elemental Sign: Magnesium
Personality
~You are a strong character and extremely generous and protective to your friends (Mg is often a sacrificial anode)
~You are most definitely a 'greenie' (chlorophyll is a Mg centred porphyrin)
~You cope well in crises and often save the day (Mg flares)
~You can be a little temperamental (incendiary bombs)
Career
Chef, caterer, market gardener, trouble shooter, service industries, youth work, teacher.
Friends and Partners
You get on well with the elements of life: carbon (June), nitrogen (July), oxygen (August) and hydrogen (January).

">Birth Day: 10
Influence: Neon
Underneath your calm, stable exterior a bright light is hiding and it only takes a spark to fire you up! (Neon lights!) Your mere presence lights up the lives of those around you. You are not easily phased and cope well with whatever life has in store for you."


Haha yup! You heard it here first, folks, elementology! Gotta love my chem teacher =) For more details on our chem graduation, just see the entry below :D You know you want to...

Chemistry Graduation...

Mwahaha chemistry graduation today!!!

Not our last chem lesson ever, but our last with our teacher, cause she's off playin with kindy kids or some such in our last lesson; but our second last lesson. Hence we had our chemistry graduation! See, this is what happens when you have a class so crazy as ours =)

Our chemistry graduation comprised of the following:
~Well firstly, we thought it needed to be a much more formal occassion. Not having our blazers (clearly; beh, blazers) and our leavers jumpers feeling inadequate, we opted for a uniform including lab coats and safety goggles.
~We were then called up one by one to a round of applause, to be anointed with a burette and recieve a brownie recipe/organic chem worksheet (which we were s'posed to do, but clearly didn't) and our own personal elementology profile, which we recieved with a handshake, photographed by those random people who had cameras for no reason.
~Feeling the ocassion not yet well enough documented, we drifted outside (still in our lovely chem graduation uniforms) to be photographed on the steps outside the science department, to many odd looks from some little people doing random biology stuff.
~We then returned to our classroom to eat celebratory brownies (our chem teacher makes the best brownies) and play chemistry hangman, with such fun things as "dissociation" "phenolphthalein" (which no-one could spell, myself clearly included =P) and "Mr Haughton's chemisty class is pHun"
~After that, we mostly just chatted bout random crap such as leavers and all sorts of things that were "fun-with-a-pH"

Haha we are such randoms...

Chemistry is pHun!!! =P

Random bored Googling...

Very bored... my friend told me to google her... damn what she started... 44 for her, crazy celebrity girl =P 1 for me, that was actually me; 12 or so of my dad (crazy celeb guy); and upon my boredom... googled the girl possibly in more of my classes than any other person I can think of... 900+. But she actually is famous, so that kind of makes sense lol. I mean, almost 1000 may not be that much compared to actual celebrities... but it's pretty impressive nonetheless.

Just thought I'd comment on that...

Mwahaha random chem-notey-ness =P

Just thought I'd share something amusing I found going through my chemistry notes:

Electronegativity increases across a period because: increasing nuclear charge, same amount of children.

Wtf? Children??? hahaha have no idea where the hell that came from... but tis rather random and gave me some amusement =P And if you don't care, then thats your problem, I just though it deserved some kind of mention...

Global Warming

Okay, this is probably one of my view that is the most difficult to explain properly, but I'm going to try.

I disagree with mainstream global warming views.

By that, I'm not saying it doesn't exist. Fair enough, I think there's reasonable evidence to suggest we are undergoing some form of climate change. However, I'm not going to suddenly agree with everything they tell us. I've been taught to look beyond the surface and to criticise the views forced on us by society.

I have yet to see any solid proof that global warming is caused by humans. Personally, I think that we are rather full of ourselves to assume that it's all our fault. Yes, I do agree that with our carbon-consuming ways we are doing avoidable damage to the atmosphere, not to mention other aspects of the environment, though I'll save my argument on that for another time. I'm not saying we're not causing it, we've screwed up enough things on this planet, who's to say we can't add a few more things to that list. However, until I see some sort of data proving we do, I'm not going to say that we are causing it. If anyone can show me that, great, I'll believe it.

If anyone dares comment on this using Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth as the primary source of their information, I will likely laugh and then shoot them. Seriously, that just made me laugh how he has put so much of his life fighting for this cause, and yet I, a seventeen-year-old high school student, can find so many scientific and mathematical flaws the his argument without even trying. Seriously: misleading graphs, mathematical assumptions that my maths teacher would quite literally KILL me for (ie assuming that correlation=causation, extrapolating from data, and by 50 years at that(!) and so on) and also if I remember rightly, misleadingly misquoting statistics. But before I sound too much like I'm attacking Gore personally, can I just say bloody good on him, finding an important environmental issue he's passionate about and going and educating all those ignorant little American's about it, that's admirable to say the least.

But seriously, why would you automatically assume that this major world-wide thing is caused entirely by us? I mean, are we that desperate to make ourselves seem so important? What I want to know, is whether there's any proof that this climate change is not just part of a natural change? I mean, the Earth's climate has basically been constantly changing since time begun (whether you're an evolutionist or a creationist) so I think it seems more likely that this is just a part of that natural change. The only climate cycles this recent change has been compared to is that of the past 100 000 years or so. This damn planet's been around a hell of a lot longer than that. Does anyone realise how different the world's climate is now to, say, when the dinosaurs were around? Antarctica (ie that big white thing on the bottom of the map, where it's so cold that on the rare occasion it snows, the second it makes contact with the ground it turns to ice. compact, solid ice), once upon a time that was covered in tropical rain forest. As in warm, humid, lots of rain. Slightly different to today I think...

Also, how many of you have heard about the global warming they're currently experiencing on Mars? Anyone? Please, raise your hands. No-one? Well over the past 30 or so years, the average temperature on Mars has gone up by exactly the same amount as here. Coincidence? Well, it's debatable. But its probably either all those damn Martians and their excessive carbon-combustion, or maybe an increased effect of our pollution, so bad we've managed to ruin another planet's climate as well as our own. One guy, Dr Abdussamatov (very smart guy, head of lots of space-related projects, physicist, mathematician) thinks it suggests solar irradiation as the cause for both planets' change in climate. Now, if he's right, the warming temperature has resulted in the increased carbon dioxide levels (which is logical, higher temperatures cause the ocean to release dissolved CO2). Also, if he's right, it means that in under 10 years temperatures are likely to start dropping, and we might even be lucky enough to get a mini ice age. Yay! If you're interested in reading a little more about this, go read this lovely little article I found:
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=edae9952-3c3e-47ba-913f-7359a5c7f723&k=0

Hm, well I've lost my train of thought now, but that's me trying to summarise my possibly slightly controversial view on global warming. Any comments or arguments (though not so much abuse) on my thoughts are most welcome. I just get sick of trying to explain it to individuals all the time so I figured I'd just shove it here =)

Anyway, hopefully that's made you think a little and maybe question mainstream view a bit. If I've managed that much, I'll be happy with this little ramble.

Photos

Just something that really annoys me. What I really don't get is people who put up pictures of themselves on their house, and then in the little image description thing, tell people all about why they should ignore it. "This is me, but it was 3 years ago, and I was going through a really bad time, and I'd just been beaten up by my next-door neighbour's kitten, and since then I've lost 40kgs and had plastic surgery, so I really don't look like this any more."

Seriously people, what is the point? If you're so unhappy with that photo as a representation of you, DON'T PUT IT UP!!!!!!

And that's about all I have to say on that right now...

Aliens

Ok, just so everyone knows, whenever i refer to the aliens (ie often) here is the aliens I'm talking about, and the story behind how I came to know them.

(Said by my Dad, during convo about Schizophrenia)
Schizophrenia is the most common mental ill- no! Depression is the most common mental illness, schizophrenia is the most common psychotic illness. Then again, I s'pose depression is really just where you think the world is a terrible place. So if you think that the world is a terrible place because the aliens made it that way, then you're schizophrenic depressive. So if you think that the world is a terrible place because the aliens made it that way specifically to get you... then you're paranoid schizophrenic depressive.

Yes, my father is rather odd. And he was doing his mental health unit at uni at the time...

Also, just as a little additional about my lovely aliens, according to Saul (the guy from Dad's assig scenario), the aliens can control people's minds through their ipods... so watch out!

Heres a sonnet that i had 2 write for english. =)

Just a Girl

She’s just a girl in this world full of lies
A girl who’s lost deep inside her own mind
With heart so full of fantasy, she tries
Afraid to look, afraid of what she’ll find

She tries to bee the best person she can
In a reality of stolen dreams
She works her way through life without a plan
This realm, this place where nothing’s as it seems

A girl with no adventure in her life
Tries to fit in but still ends up alone
What else can she look forward to but strife?
When this road is all she’s ever known

Look at this girl and tell me what you see
She’s just a normal girl like you or me

Guilty

Stacey was just a normal girl living in a small town in the middle of nowhere. Not much ever happened in this town. At least not until a few weeks ago…

It was midnight in the town of Carnarvon. Everything was silent. Until a piercing scream cut through the night like a dagger, waking everyone on Carrol Way from their deep and peaceful slumber. Stacey awoke, covered in a cold sweat as though she had just had the most terrible nightmare. She looked around with an expression of terror on her face. What was that horrible sound? Where did it come from? It sounded so close… she got up and walked to her mother’s room, only to find her body in an enormous puddle of blood.
This time the scream came from her own mouth. Her brother slowly stumbled out of his room to see what the disturbance was. When he spotted his mother he let out a short, sharp gasp. “Shit!” Without even thinking about it he ran to the phone and dialled 000. in a daze Stacey walked over to the bed and tried to rouse her mum. “Mum?” she whispered. She realised that her voice was shaking. “Mum!?” Silence. “MUUUUUUM!!!!!!!!” Her scream echoed inside her head.
The lights and sirens reached the house and someone pulled her away. “Do you know what happened to your Mum?” someone asked her. She couldn’t answer… she couldn’t speak… she finally managed to utter four words. “It’s all my fault”
“It’s not your fault” someone consoled her. But it was. It was her fault. She killed her. She killed her own mother…

Now you may be wondering how I know all of this. What happened, what she was thinking? Well that’s easy to explain. I am Stacey. And I murdered my own mother. I don’t remember but I know I did. And now I have to live with knowing that I did it. Even if no-one else will believe me. I have to live with myself.



And it's a short short-story, so it's finished. Tell me what you think. =)

PHILOSOPHY #4

--Why do we go to school??

My theory (and it's probably right lol) is that we go to school because some people have the idea that we should be educated so we can get a good job and make good money and look after out parents when they get old. And because it's torture for us and they all like to see us in pain. Which would indicate that the people who invented school were sadistic, horrible people, who should be discovered and then immortalised by a statue of them somewhere so that it can be vandalised appropriately =) Good enough??