geo"graphy"

twenty seven

2006-08-15T11:39:00.000-07:00

MY LAST 230 BLOG

[this is supposed to be about what i plan on doing with "geology"]

i technically have an emphesis in environmental geol.

so i'd like to do something with water or the

"environment"

I'm not sure ~ I just really really really like learning about geology & so i thought this was a good place to start. So far i haven't NOT liked any of my geology classes so im havnig a hard time narrowing it down.

twenty six

2006-08-15T11:24:00.000-07:00

The Most "Fun" Thing I learned in Geology 230:

I'm only using the quotes for "fun" b/c Kirsten made it sound like nothing in this class could possibly be technically qualified as "fun" ~ but i actually did enjoy a lot of the things we did b/c i guess im a picture nerd & i really, REALLY like playing around with my photos. So, needless to say, Photoshop is now my best friend. However, i realy liked learning illustrator too b/c i spent so long with it & finally made some pretty nice lookign things with it & i can tell it will be very helpful in my insane geologic future ---

[my friend Angela & I: winter 2005]

twenty five

2006-08-15T11:18:00.000-07:00

Sara's "summer" plans

This weekend Aaron (my boyfriend- i really hate that word, so be proud of me for using it) & i are going up to yellowstone & camping for a few days. We'll hopefully get to hike around & see pretty rocks & get eaten by as few bears as possible.

This blog entry is for so many days ago i have no idea what we talked about in class that day... sorry.

twenty four

2006-08-08T20:15:00.000-07:00

im not sure which size shoe i wear. I think 8.5, but i have shoes that are from a 7 all the way up to a 9.5 - so the world will never know.

today i wondered if we can make the fill for the polygonal "contacts" transparent or patterned - just what all the options are.

I liked using the pencil in the crazy F8 swishy mode.

twenty three

2006-08-08T19:59:00.000-07:00

i have type A+ blood. i asked my mom what type i had when i was younger & she had no idea & so i donated the first time to find out & then realized that i liked it & so i donate pretty frequently. Just before coming back out to Provo in June i started doing Aphoresis (platelet donation) - you can do that every four days, but it takes much longer & you have two needles in you at once.

yesterday i liked how we learned about the different coordinate systems. it made sense. i liked the funny shaped earths.

i was confused about what exactly we use this program for.. but im sure i'll figure that out.

twenty two

2006-08-04T10:52:00.000-07:00

"Sara" on Questions Kirsten could Ask Geology 230 Students:

*Would you rather have 20% of your skin slowly eaten by ants OR permanently gain 70 lbs?

*What's your favourite kind of tree? to climb?

*Have you ever shot anything out your nose - what?

*What would your ideal Christmas tree look like? (what kind of tree? lights? ornaments? real/fake?)

I was going crazy trying to remember the steps of adding layers to put in a new sky & then also trying to get two pictures onto the page at the same time to blend them in Photoshop - but i figured it out!

twenty one

2006-08-04T10:43:00.000-07:00

"Sara" on bad dates:

I haven't been on many 'bad dates'.

one date was pretty bad though -

my friend planned a group date,

& set people up herself,

she chose to go with my boyfriend,

while my good friends went with my other guy friends,

she said my date was *Samuel,

Samuel was tiny,

& talked about cannibalism the whole time,

our group was playing Sardines,

but it took us well over an hour to find the first group,

so we just got to wander around in the dark,

freezing cold,

talking about cannibalism,

while my friends/boyfriend were with other people,

having fun,

so i decided to go back early,

& another group came with us,

i ran away and hid in my room,

& then they made me come back out,

& Samuel wouldnt leave.

*Name changed to protect the nerdy

twenty

2006-08-04T10:30:00.000-07:00

"Sara" on Crayons:

When i was a lass crayons bugged me a lot.

You can never get straight edges,

(even if you use the bottom b/c then it's just all curvy)

the color isnt continuous b/c the wax sometimes deposits little blobs,

they are too small to get a lot of control with,

(especially after you've sharpened them a million times trying to get a point that just breaks off in the little built in sharpener EVERY TIME)

when you press down harder to get a nice solid line the crayon will break exactly in half,

it's hard to get them out of the little rows in those funky boxes,

they smell bad,

every kid has five crayons they use the most and all the others are clearly untouched,

(sometimes you feel guilty & want to give the others a shot, but no one likes burnt sienna).

However, i think that crayons can create deep, rich, very beautiful colours if you dont give up.

My favourite crayon colours are:

cerulean, (plain) green, (plain) red, plum, black, & the golden yellow one.

[no first grader is quite sure what a "cerulean" is, or even how to say it, but everyone knows it's the prettiest.]

nineteen

2006-07-25T00:45:00.000-07:00

*this weekend went up to Providence, UT (near Logan) for a family reunion. My grandmother and a few aunts were there from portland and then i got to see my 'utah' family. it was actually pretty fun at times. It was really interesting to talk to my dad's dad. he & i have never had a real conversation before & my grandma took a picture of he and i to give to my dad as a surprise (he wasnt able to make it).
*i also did laundry! yay! after going over 6 weeks last semester without doing laundry - i feel i have a reputation as a clean person to work on. im a geology major... come on!

im wondering how the computers are going since this weekend was pretty hot and the fans were broken in the lab. im hoping that i can get my index map completed wednesday if not tomorrow.

eighteen

2006-07-25T00:41:00.000-07:00

i had LONG hair with bangs my whole life until my freshman year of high school - at which point i grew out most of my bangs. that was a pretty ugly phase b/c i had half of them clipped back with these huge ugly clips and then the rest were all wispy and gross.
when i was really little i also remember going in to get my hair cut and having to have ALL of the people working there come over and help to get the knots out of my hair. my head was so sensitive and the knots so bad that i was always sobbing... my mom was really embarassed.

i learned that jpeg files are the most compressed of the ones we're likely to use. im still fuzzy about a lot of things but thats just b/c one of these days i need to stay after (when i dont have a class) and practice.

seventeen

2006-07-25T00:35:00.000-07:00

i love halloween. it is my favourite holiday b/c i love the wet cool weaterh and the smell of burning candles in pumpkins and half naked trees with leaves all over the ground and the streets shining becuase it just rained (it always 'just rained' in portland in autumn). i always have grand visions for halloween but it never turns out that great - costume wise. once i wanted to be a ghost and so i had my mom 'make' me a costume. she doesnt really sew and i didnt really know how i wanted it to look... it finally got so late i had to just leave or else id miss the trick or treating. i was just covered in a huige white blog of fabric and the first house i went to asked if i was trying to be a nun. that was pretty disappointing. i always wanted to find a n authentic looking medievil dress but that never happened. i also think going as half of a horse would be fun.

i learned that in black and white figured you can have black, white, and at least two shades of grey without it getting too confusing (if it's done well). i think thats pretty cool.

i was confused about how to get an image from the internet into illustrator to play with it - but you helped me already~ thanks!

sixteen

2006-07-18T20:22:00.000-07:00

i love sugar cookies. my dad & i make sugar cookies pretty frequently when i'm in town & for special holidays he'll make some & mail them to me because i just love them THAT much. These sugar cookies are big & soft & cake-like with homemade frosting. Both my dad & i like Halloween a lot & so our cookies are usually pumpkin or bat shapped no matter what the holiday - although a batch of heart shaped cookies did find it's way to me last valentines day. I also like christmas tree, ornament/ball, & star shaped cookies too. the shape really does make a difference.

i think part of what i missed the other day was the explanation for 'transparencies' because i havnet been understanding what thats all about. Im also not quite sure about the index map - im revising/shortening my strat & sed paper & as it stands now there is nothing to do an index map of - should i just look online for a simple case study that exemplifies my topic & do an index map of that?

i liked seeing how to do the strat columns - the pencil tool & all them tiny patterns are just plain ole fun.

fifteen

2006-07-18T07:22:00.000-07:00

ok - the dreams that i remember are always really long & detailed & crazy - so this is one that really scared me for a couple days afterwards when i was younger - it was several years ago so i dont remember it completely... My dad & older cousin Cory were being stupid one day. They were basically doing what bored guys do & looking for dangerous things to do. Somehow they ended up finding a little nuclear bomb & putting it into the microwave. (you have to undertand that as i kid i was terrified of radiation & thought that i was going to die any second from a bomb or the microwave or the sun or anything). also, just the thought of putting ANYTHING metal into the microwave freaked me out- so this was the worst possible thing they could've done.
I got really mad b/c i told them that it would kill me if they did that & they did it anyways (I didnt talk to my dad for a long time after this b/c obviously it showed that he didnt love me if he would kill me with a microwave bomb). so then i had to do something but i didnt know what and i freaked out & ran to get help. I ended up in a pet store where Robbin Williams worked & he pretended to just be a normal store clerk until all the other customers left & then he took me into the back & he turned out to be a scientist/doctor/genius guy who gave me medicine to take & togetehr we crafted a brilliant plan to save everything - but it was really detailed & this is where i stop writing...

sorry i was so late to class - i woke up at 9:09 or something like that. i think i understood the diagram tracing and seperating we were doing- i just need to practice it more. I also need to come in and make up what i missed in the first half hour of class.

fourteen

2006-07-14T12:47:00.000-07:00

the only jokes i've ever told in my entire life are 'you mama jokes' & then i read them from a book and said "Your mother is so fat..."- it was just awkward & i sounded like a nerd. I am more of a funny story person- i am the story teller in my group of friends & i love it. I love telling a weird story about something odds that happened to me (weird things just happen to me...) in such a way that makes people laugh. jokes, however, i cannot tell.

i got the pen tool to work today!

still not sure about the blending the shapes together thing... i did it, but it looked like a poopy lava chunk instead of a beautiful island oasis. o well.

thirteen

2006-07-14T07:17:00.000-07:00

my favourite cereal is multigrain cherios. i am eating them right now. they are good b/c they aren't all sugary & gross, but they arent as bland as regular cherios. i also really like wheat/whole grain stuff- so they're just all around good.

the pen tool drove me crazy b/c i just couldnt figure out which direction i was supposed to move it to make it do just a normal curve without spazing out & making psychotic loops everywhere... but i'll practice.

i liked learning to draw along the outline of a shape. im sure i'll have fun with that.

twelve

2006-07-13T01:11:00.000-07:00

after taking a bath (I was about 3-4) i was unable to open the bathroom door b/c it was swollen shut from the steam. I pulled & pulled on it (thinking it was my older siblings holding it shut on me) until the door finally came loose. The really old tiny window (with creepy pressed butterflies) in the door broke & sent a sharb of glass several inches long through my upper arm. There is a pretty cool triangle shaped scar on the front side & a smaller one on the back- where the glass came out the other side. [this story is based on vague memories, my family's recollection, & the nifty scar still on my arm]

As far as Adobe Acrobat goes- i learned how to do bookmarks & limited text editing. I am still a bit unsure of what was meant by saving it as a 'pdf' file by 'printing' it.

eleven

2006-07-12T20:55:00.000-07:00

i dont really have a "favourite" rock sample... I like this one rock that i found at the Oregon coast. It's a little square with a triangle top shaped basalt chunk that stands up like a little black castle. I cleaned it up & put it into my fish's tank so that he could enjoy the fancy house.

i didnt really have any questions about Excel. I learned about how the charts just copy & paste right into Word documents. thats cool.

ten

2006-07-10T12:02:00.000-07:00

I dont really remember watching Saturday morning cartoons- i was more of a 'turn on the tv the second you get home from school' tv watcher. some of the earlier shows i remember are ducktails, tailspil, xmen(also fantastic 4, spiderman, etc...), & of course, the main show i watched (as is true for many people my age) was ninja turtles. i liked rafael (the red one) b/c he was the grumpy one that still had good ideas but people didnt always listen to him- he also seemed to go off alone to think or be mad a lot- I guess i had a temper too & felt like he was the ninja turtle which best represented me.

today i felt pretty good about excel. learning how to create equations was pretty cool & i can just imgine it will be very handy in the future.

the only thing that confused me really today was some stuff on the test review sheet... but we'll go over that tomorrow- so no worries!

nine

2006-07-07T09:01:00.000-07:00

I like my eggs once over easy on top of a pile of hashbrowns so that when you poke them the yolk oozes out all over the hashbrowns & makes everything gooey & wonderful.

Today I learned about doing hanging indentions more effectively than by just hitting tab over & over again as i've been doing.

I'm not quite sure about the 'track changes'. It sounds really handy but im not positive about where to find it or how to use it- basically it's just b/c i wasnt paying that much attention haha.

my website

eight

2006-07-06T14:57:00.000-07:00

i played the clarinet in band from 5th-8th grade. i rocked. i havent really played since but i took it out randomly about 3weeks ago & could actually still remember how to play a pretty hard song my friend & I preformed for a state competition- SIX YEARS AGO. i was very impressed.

today i learned about dot leaders & HOW TO CLEAR FORMATTING!!! i really really really hate when i cant make formatting GO AWAY! i think my life will be much happier from now on with this new information.

i figured out how to rewrite my resume in the body of the table directly onto my 'resume' webpage & everything looked beautiful & then i got home & checked it again & now the spacing is all funny... im not sure what thats all about...

seven

2006-07-06T13:59:00.000-07:00

Peter, Peter: devourer of large orange gourds
had a spouse and was unable to provide for her
he placed her in a hollowed out gourd
and in that location he was able to retain her well
(lyrics: inspired by Sara JLD)

*I learned that we are supposed to use both metric and standard measurements in our papers. It makes sense - i just didnt realize that that was a rule.

*im a bit confused about how to work citations into an abstract without making it read exactly the same as the rest of the text body.

six

2006-07-03T11:34:00.000-07:00

*My favorite restaurant... this is really hard for me b/c a couple years ago i became addicted to eating out. In portland there are so so so many wonderful tiny ethnic places that are just simply amazing & reasonably priced- there's no way NOT to love them. So here are some of my favorites-
~Ya Hala's (Lebanese)
~India Oven (obviously Indian)
~Queen of Sheba (Ethiopian)
~Sylvia's (Italian)
~Ah Fong (Chinese)
~The Paragon (just yuppy/artsy rich young alcoholic's food)
~La Bocca (I have no idea- but it's good)
~Il Fornaio (Italian with wonderful bread/bakery in the front)
~Red Robin (this is the only thing i have in common with my family in the word- we all love the Banzai burger)
~Farm (all organic/local farmer produces ingredients... wonderful hippy food)
~Hoda's (Lebanese)
~The Bangcock (Thai/Vietnamese)
~Woodstock Deli (wonderful fresh salads & sandwhiches)
~Bower's Bakery (" ")
~Acopocco (Mexican)
~Oba (Latin American)
~Pazzo Ristorante (Italian)

ok i'm going to stop now b/c this is getting out of hand. These places are all in Portland... Sorry Provo... (although i was very impressed with the Bombay House's Indian food- the coconut kurma [lamb or vegetable] & vegetable samosa is very very good).

*today i got a few ideas about what i can write in bullets under my priors jobs are far as duties i used to have went.

*im still not REALLY sure what all to put b/c i have really no geology experience at all...

five

2006-06-30T13:15:00.000-07:00

weirdest family member: me. the rest of my family is weird- as every family is in its own way. some are too happy or too angry, too open or too secretive, too righteous or too dark, too comical or too stiff, too attractive or just plain ugly- everyone either thinks they're family is the weirdest or just so so boring. I am the weirdest in my family simply b/c i stand out from the rest of them- i can see how they're all related, but i dont really fit in. i dont look the same, belive the same, speak the same, work the same, dress the same, love/hate the same, handle stress the same... everyone in every family is an individual, & everyone is weird. i think im the weirdest b/c i am so full of contradiction & b/c everyone i know loves to constantly remind me that im not normal. thanks.
+: today i stayed 4 hours after class playing around with my website & it's finally looking like someday it could become a real website.
-: i threw in a few links to other websites & im wondering if there is a way to make those open up in a new window rather than taking the user away from my website & making them use the backarrow to find their way home.

four

2006-06-29T17:53:00.000-07:00

***guess what?!? i just made a spectacularly beautiful pinapple upside-down cake, with pinapple rings and cherries and everything...

(mine is prettier than the one in this picture, yet very similar)

*[my superpower]... i read peoples' minds. it's pretty great. i dont have to worry about wonrdering if someone likes me, whether someone is up to no good, & when people are confusd, i know exactly how to help them b/c i can see what their hang up is. coincidentally, i also mess with time. you know, i can go back to re-live fun times or see what really happened to solve arguments/remember stuff/study for tests (i never use it to cheat of course), pause time to take a nap/think up something clever to say/finish up an assignment, & even go forward to just check things out. my secret superpower name is Gertrude.

*i felt good about class today b/c i finally actually started it. thanks for helping me with new pages and pictures and colors and all that.

*im still not sure how to go about making my picture the same size as the cell so that it can be in the background but not be all tiley. but im sure i'll figure something out.

three

2006-06-28T16:09:00.000-07:00

i found out recently that all my favouite places end in '-land'~ iceland, ireland, & new zealand (im even from portLAND, whoa). i think that standing on the edge of one of those big green cliffs (the cliffs of "Moher") in ireland where it's all windy and you get to wear those swishy dresses would be fun.
today i learned about doing different kinds of links. i had no idea there were that many kinds. i thought it was pretty cool and i got a few ideas for my website...
maybe i was just in the wrong window or something. i'm sure i'll figure it out.when i tried to put in a link to a website i like (not one of my own) i wasnt able to do it...

two

2006-06-27T09:00:00.000-07:00

**the worst movie in the world is 'Simply Irresistible'. Most likely you haven't seen it & so you won't belive just how bad it is. You probably even think that you've seen an even worse movie- but you haven't. I don't remember most of it because I've tried to block it from my memory (it was that bad), but as i recall it goes a little something like this...
the incredibly awesome tagline: "Magic opened up their hearts... Love did the rest."
there's this pathetic girl who makes really gross pastries or something & then there is this creepy orchid plant that lets out this ultra thick fog stuff that suddenly makes her the best chef ever which in turn (obviuosly) makes all these guys get really awkward googley eyes & fall in love with her as they throw each other into the 'fog' (the prop machine is so overactive you'd think the whole building was burning down) and then start kissing- causing the amazing food to go flying everywhere.

it's true that i was laughing hysterically throughout most of the movie- however, it was more of an "i feel so sorry for these actresses/actors" than a "this is a genuinely funny film" laugh.

**today i learned some things about html- i'd been wonrdering how on Earth to read that stuff for quite some time.

**I'm still a bit confused about the different kinds of pages or files (that we talked about at the very beginning) and what this 'H' drive business is really all about...

one

2006-06-26T21:21:00.000-07:00

**my favourite colour is green- this is a picture of me being thrilled about the greeness of my garden at home (portland, OR).

**today i learned:
~'blog' stands for 'web log'
~the reason for the ordering of the words in a URL
~that there is a little blue handicapped button in case you can't read the funny jumbled letters.

**im wondering about using my 210 paper for our project later... mine was pretty bad & im not sure where it is.