Mr. Taylor teaches Computer Science AB

I dropped forensics 2nd period and am Bev's aide this second semester of my senior year, and suddenly my life is not without purpose and my daily happiness levels have skyrocketed. (Forensics was rather a superficial class that I was initially excited to take but in which I quickly grew bored.)

Mr. Beverley is teaching both research and tech AND computer science AP AB during 2nd period this year. Though Beverley is commonly thought of as a superhero, even he cannot teach two classes at the same time. Thus I am delegated the task of teaching computer science. Though I know my stuff, my teaching skills are horrible as I have learned last week. But my perception on my teaching ability is due in part to that I tried to explain everything verbally. Just yesterday I managed to implement the use of a projector in lab 401 which greatly facilitated the teaching process as I can now show others my screen while I type sample code. But teaching is also made difficult by a lack of previous instruction from first semester as well as talent in this year's comp sci class. FAIL.

---- Random Notes:

1. Straight A's and O's first semester. Not an A- or an A+, just 'A's, ha. I'm a loser :]

2. No more high school cross country is depressing. It is hard to stay motivated in track and field with this in mind, and between recovering from eyelid surgery, sickness and a pulled muscle in my foot, I feel that my season is already over and that my cross country and track career is done. I never have been able to achieve peak condition as my unrestrained motivation inevitably backfires and in the end I succumb to injuries. I cannot see cross country being fun in college. I don't want to think of what my new team will be like. It is also a possibility that the college I go to will not even have a cross country team.

3. I had eyelid surgery. Eventually I will have actual EYE surgery again as eyes seem to cross more and more often. But the eyelid surgery helped some, but the problem is not entirely due to the physical condition of my eyelid muscles; part of the reason my right eyelid droops is because there is no incentive for it to open since I do not use my right eye. The surgery was about 3.5 hours and I was awake the entire time. It wasn't quite as bad as it sounds but it was uncomfortable when the numbing began to wear off.

4. Recently made $700 for spending a few days making my dad a website for his company, Launch Group. Now I'm working on a second project for Targeted Mailings which supposedly will be equally lucrative. You think you want to know what the website does but you actually don't. The explanation is quite the bore.

First post

Woo. So this post is special because it's my first. For Christmas I got an electric duster and earplugs, both of which I bought for myself. But I also got a new watch - Timex Iron man again but the new version which I'm still in the process of debating whether it is better than my old one. I've been using the same watch model ever since I had a watch in 7th grade. But the electric duster is cool because it'll prevent comps from dying, which my sister's did like not long ago. Since her comp died I upgraded Mom's comp with RAM and replaced the video card on the server with Jac's video card so at least the components are going to use. Don't know what to do with her HD or CPU yet. And the earplugs (along with blackout curtains) are effective in keeping me asleep during the daytime, which I do after entire nights of programming. Oh yeah and I got a webcam, better than the one I had before that writes like 3 MB / sec to your HD when you record videos (eww gross) so that's cool.

Yesterday at Laura's house I recited 300 digits of Pi in under 60 seconds as part of my 2 minute entertainment thingybob, and then did a skit with parents/sis "I am your mother" we copied from YouTube.

Today I went on a boat ride with cousins and all. Lights. Yea. Fun :).

Haven't been running much lately. If I had time I would but after 6 or whatever years I've finally begun to question its purpose, other than health, which isn't worth 3 hours a day if you can get it for 3 hours once every three or four days.

College. Stressful. Applying to Berkeley, UCLA, Caltech, Harvey Mudd, Stanford and some loser schools. I dislike essays and SATs. Come to think of it I loathe pretty much every aspect of applying to college.

So there is my first post. It wasn't funny or creative or anything. Just a post. Just another old post in my blog. In fact I'm already getting sick of this posting business. Maybe it'll get better. Or maybe it'll turn out that people actually read it or something. Tha'd be cool. Hah. Psh. Nah. Hahahahaha ok.

Ok cool.