Now this is what I call a Hummer!

I sent in the University of California application earlier today. The essay I included was weird to write, and I'll probably post it up here if I get enough confidence (I don't know why I'm so hesitant - I usually don't mind putting up anything here)....we'll see....

Happy Thanksgiving:

My mom won a vacation to Hawaii from the Sierra Sun (the local paper) a couple of weeks ago. She has schelduled the flights and we're going over the Thanksgiving holiday.

Whoohoo! The first college application is in: Cal Poly. It was an easy one too because it didn't require an essay or teacher recommendation. It turns out the schools I'm applying to are: UCLA, USC, Stanford, Mit, Cal, Davis, and Cal Poly.

Well, I took a couple blood tests over the last month and they show I have "elevated LFTs (Liver Function Tests)" which aparently measure the number of liver enzymes in the blood. The liver enzymes get into the blood by liver cells that burst open (not good), spewing their contents into the surounding environment. The most common causes of this are Hepatitis and Cirrhosis of the liver and I'm scheduled to have a liver ultrasound in the comming days. However, I did some searching on the internet and found that Ampicillin (which I'm now taking for acne - we're using in biology for killing ecoli - doug's aparently allergic to it) can cause elevated LFTs, which may be a nice and easy solution.

Uh oh,
This was in the website logs:
"16 November 00:39 United States (cia.net)"

The CIA is visiting my site right after midnight! Bum bum bum..... sounds suspicious

Hey!
The SAT 1 scores from the last test date came in and here they are:

	Score	Percentile
Math	740	97
Verbal	660	91

I'm pretty excited because it's a pretty big jump from my previous scores (700,610) and it now makes the total a 1400

I put up a picture page with .Mac here: http://homepage.mac.com/bavetta/PhotoAlbum11.html of more drawing from Graphic Arts last quarter.

Here is a picture I drew in graphic arts last quarter.

The SAT I took yesterday was just ok. I think I did real well on the math, but stinko on the verbal.

OK, here's a joke from the fine people over at cartalk.com:

Tired of constantly being broke and stuck in an unhappy marriage, a young husband decided to solve both problems by taking out a large insurance policy on his wife, with himself as the beneficiary, and arranging to have her killed.

A "friend of a friend" put him in touch with a nefarious underworld figure who went by the name of "Artie." Artie explained to the husband that his going price for snuffing out a spouse was $5,000. The husband said he was willing to pay that amount but that he wouldn't have any cash on hand until he could collect his wife's insurance money.

Artie insisted on being paid something up front. The man opened up his wallet, displaying the single dollar bill that rested inside. Artie sighed, rolled his eyes, and reluctantly agreed to accept the dollar as down payment for the dirty deed.

A few days later, Artie followed the man's wife to the local Safeway grocery store. There, he surprised her in the produce department and proceeded to strangle her with his gloved hands.

As the poor unsuspecting woman drew her last breath and slumped to the floor the manager of the produce department stumbled unexpectedly onto the scene. Unwilling to leave any witnesses behind, Artie had no choice but to strangle the produce manager as well.

Unknown to Artie, the entire proceedings were captured by hidden camera and observed by the store's security guard, who immediately called the police. Artie was caught and arrested before he could leave the store. Under intense questioning at the police station, Artie revealed the sordid plan, including his financial arrangements with the hapless husband. And that is why, the next day in the newspaper, the headline declared: Arti Chokes Two For A Dollar At Safeway