It's Been A While......

It's been a while. I think a week or so, to be exact since the last time I blogged. Well, I have a perfectly wonderful excuse for this- I was BUSY!!! Yes, I, Gabbi, was of all things BUSY! I was a busy little bee, quite frankly.

WARNING: About to be a long post and a lot of school babble ahead!

I had my third chem test to study for, and a research paper to work on. My research paper is actually due tonight, however, all the research for it was to be brought in last class so that the professor could make sure we were on the right track. The actual gathering of the information was the hardest part for me. Actually, maybe it was coming up with the parts from the research that I wanted to use and then outlining it all. See, I am usually better at writing on whim. If you ask me to organize my thoughts first, I am lost. Plus the assignment was not very fun. I had to research the definition of a word, any word I wanted. I picked Star. Then I had to reseach all the different definition types that was required by the professor, and write about them. I had to basically do my outline, and do my bibliography cards and a few other minor things and show them to her last week. Like I said before, the organizing of the info was the part that was the hardest for me to get started with. I also had changed my "word" I think like three times before sticking with "Star". But once I finally got going, I just wrote the whole stinking paper, because quite frankly, that was easy once I did everything else, and since I am the QUEEN of procrastination, I needed to do it "the sooner the better." So I was freaking out because I could NOT get to the library until Tuesday, the day before class. I only had the assignment for 5 days, but it took me 5 days after getting the assignment to get there. Anyway, busy with that, and busy with studying for the Chem test kept me, um, well, busy.

So I studied my booty off. I went to the tutors they have at BCC for FREE (my favorite price) twice. I may have told you before, I found out I have the WORST chem professor BCC has to offer. I found this out on a website called www.ratemyprofessor.com and you can go there yourself and check out my professor if you do not believe me. (His name is Nycz at Coconut Creek campus). Anyway, I studied and studied and I was really hoping for a B. I got a C and I am pretty bummed about this, especially since I made a few small errors that could have boosted my grade closer to an A. But I am especially bummed about one question, which I think was intended for you to get wrong. A little background, which most of you might know: All matter has energy. Right. However, the energy is either Kinetic (motion) or Potential (Not moving). A boulder at the top of a mountain has potential energy, but once the boulder starts heading down the mountain, it is now kinetic. Okay, so the question was: TRUE or FALSE All energy has potential energy. Logially, this question, to me, asks if all matter has "POTENTIAL" energy, in which I think "No" because some matter has kinetic. If one thing in the universe is moving, that enregy is kinetic, therefore, all matter cannot possess potential enregy. Its broken down one way or the other, but it cannot be both. Well, I answered False based on this and it was incorrect. I went to the professor after class and explained this and even through his explanation that if a pencil is sitting still on a desk, it has potential energy and if it rolls off the desk it has kinetic energy, he still said I was wrong. I believe in this case that I am correct. So therefore I am mad. This question, if I was given the points, would have given me a B. Anyway, I could really use anyone's input on this being as I am mad. Come on, I need someone to back me up here. If I am wrong, and someone could fully explain why, I'll take it, but the professor and his explanation of pencils only further seemed to prove my theory. So please, help me.

Okay, so enough school. I am mad about that right now. Oh wait, one more blurb, I know I'm not like the smartest person ever. Thats a given. I'd be pretty rich if I were. But I think I am like a 5 on the smartness scale. I'm definately NOT a good test taker, and I definitely don't know everything, but there are certain areas that I feel I am very smart in. Getting a C really hurt my ego, not that I am egotistical by any means, but I suppose a more correct word to use would be my confindence in myself, which is why I am super bummed. Yeah, I honestly can say that I didn't do very well in high school. I didn't challenge myself and I was lazy. I am a "hands on" learner and if you show me, then I can almost guarantee you that I will get it. This brings me to the point I want to make: college means a lot to me. The grades I get now reflect who I have become. I'm trying hard and if I feel I get anything less than an A, well then I'm just not smart. This C could potentially cause me to now not even leave the class with a B. I have two more exams, one of which I can throw out if it is lower than the 76 I just got, and the last (my biochem exam) which cannot be thrown out. If I can get a B on these next two, I am good. If not, well, then I will just end up with a mediocre C. I squeak by. Yay.

Okay, now I'm done babbling about school for real. Amongst my paper writing and studying, I have had a slew of other things going on. On Friday Grace, Nate and I went up to Stuart, which is about an hour and half from here. Like I told Grace its halfway between home and Disney. Ray, his brother Matt and his dad were working up there, and Ray's Mom was going to up to clean, and I wanted to explore. I like driving around new places. So the kids and I went to lunch at Panera Bread, then we went to find a pumpkin patch for Grace, then I actually ran a few errands, and then we ended up at Barnes and Noble for Grace so she could play with the train table they have set up. I left home at 9:45am and didn't get back home until about 10:30pm. It was a fun day. Saturday night, the church at Grace's preschool had their annual Glory Nite, they bbq hot dogs and invite the whole neighborhood and all for a worship concert and bounce houses for the kids. The preschool was going to sing some songs, and so we went to see Grace sing with her school. Last night we took Grace to the mall in Boca for trick-or-treating. I don't like Halloween, but Grace really wanted to go and I feel that if she isn't dressing up as anything scary or evil (and once shes older and understands more about Halloween and why we don't celebrate the holiday) I am fine with it. Right now, she has no idea and just thinks that you dress up like Ciinderella and you get candy for it. I will be posting some pictures of these events soon.

I guess I should end this blog before I start talking about school again. Its already gotten too long. Sorry for the book, the babble, and all the school talk. Tune in soon for some pics.