the silence is broken

today (well, yesterday actually X3. i'm writing this at 1 am) was the national day of silence. today, people around the country took an oath not to speak, to symbolize all of the voices not being heard in the LGBT community. today, many normally talkative people were eerie silent. it was both inspiring and scary.

anyway, today was... interesting. i randomly dressed up, and Rachel i swear it WAS random! don't look for any hidden/special meaning in it! i was participating in the day of silence, so i used a page of my agenda book and about two pages of one of my notebooks communicating with various people (mostly monotone-boy and chibi-chan, two members of a very select group of people that can read my handwriting). so apparently not wearing jeans under a dress, and wearing boots instead of converse dramatically changes my appearance, because i had two people (that are not my dear friends) call me 'pretty' today. oh, and Rachel called me 'sexeh'. not sure what that meant.......

but chemistry was good. we went over a worksheet that monotone-boy and i finished the day before, so he and i wasted paper with random conversation. oh, and chemistry-boy had to dress up for some reason, so he looked like a substitute teacher (black dress shoes, khaki pants, blue pinstripe button-down, red-and-black tie, and a gecko tie pin. i wanted that tie pin.). i informed him of that fact.

english, everyone (including the teacher) was participating in the day of silence, except for about 4 people, so we listened to music on the teacher's computer's speakers and i put in my ipod and zoned out for 45 minutes.

social studies: as usual, the astounding stupidity of my fellow human makes me ashamed to share a species with some of the specimens in that class. no offense to them, but from not knowing to what 'disregard' meant to attempting to make people that were participating in the Day, let it suffice to say that i was annoyed. but anyway, we watched a movie, so i read and zoned out.

math was nothing special, just normal stuff. we're having our final really early though, so we're starting to prepare for that.

biotech was fun though. after washing glassware for about half-an-hour (which i actually like), we had a short powerpoint of notes, then played with dry ice for the rest of the time. after getting a flask of very hot water, we dumped a bunch of solid CO2 chips in it and held a latex glove over it. there's videos of it exploding on facebook. i think. but anyway, after about the third glove, i decided to put a face on one, so we tried to blow that one up, but it didn't work, so we jabbed it with a pen to make it pop. and pop it did.

then, when everyone had left, there was still a bit of dry ice, so my teacher let me fill another beaker with more hot water and add that. after spending a few minutes in blissful contemplation of the 'fog' that erupted from the mouth of the flask, i decided to add food coloring to the water, so it looked like a dark blue solution was producing this white, misty fog. it. was. awesome. i think someone in the lab got a picture, so if i get it, i'll post it (if i can figure out how to do that)

nightnight

kat

you keep saying that you'll be there to catch me, so why are you constantly out of arms' reach...?