Nerds Anonymous

I love my pre calculus class. Our teacher is from the UK, and then their are four students: a kid from Germany, a Somali, a Yemeni, and then myself. The only American. In addition, everyone has some kind of querk. Our teacher is a techee, he uploads world news to his cell phone every day and has seemingly random trig values memorized. The Somali dismantles computers and adds chips, The German programs graphing calculators, our Yemeni can do roots in his head, and I program computers. At the beginning of the year, there were only two students. The German and myself. We have made everyone prove their nerd hood before initiating them into the class. Our teacher decided to call it "Nerds Anonymous" a name that was heartily approved of by all the students.

Our Game

Recently, my friend and I have been noticing strange behavior from the girls. They completely ignore us. We say hello. They don't even look up. Bad story. At any rate, it has almost developed into a game with me and my friend. Often times there are just one or two girls in the hall between our class and the pingpong tables right at the beginning of lunch (which we use to play pingpong), so we wave, and yell hello at them. Not so much as a flicker of recognition: "oh! There is someone else in the room with me!" Nope. Nothing. Nothing whatsoever at all. At any rate, it has developed into a joke between my friend and myself when he started it one day when he said, "alright. If we can get them to notice us, we win." We have yet to win. I find it funny, if majorly disturbing.

Irony and Alchemy

Last night the power went out again at our place (a common occurrence here in the netherworld) while I was studying AP Chemistry. Not a favorite subject, but it needed to get done, so I went and got a candle. After studying thermodynamics and thermochemistry for a while I sat up and felt totally like an alchemist. Amusing in this "modern" age. Which reminded me of when I studied computer programming by candle light. I got a good kick out of that. I am considering starting a list. The heading would go something like "comical studies by candle light" or something like that.