Thursday, September 23, 2010

Three Good Things

1. This morning I saw a really creepy and funny video that Moira posted on facebook.  It was extremely amusing and I watched it several times and laughed.
My role is that I watched the video to help distract me from the stress of my impending math test.  I still studied but I made it a more pleasant experience by breaking it up with some humor.

This is the video

2. When I was taking my math test this afternoon there was one question that I answered but felt unsure about. It was a question with several parts, all depending on my ability to figure out this graph's function. Anyhow, I circled the number and when I finished the test I decided to go back and look at it again.  I double checked myself with the graphing calculator this time, and realized I had gotten it completely wrong! I was so happy that I decided to go back and check.
My role was that I didn't rush through the test and then just hand it in, but since I had more time left I went back to recheck myself.  I hate getting tests back and realizing I made some stupid mistake!

3. When I left class it was almost dark and the moon was in the sky and it was full and bright orange.  When I got home, instead of going right up to my room to watch TV I decided to go on a walk to the tot-lot.  The weather was warm but oh-so perfect.  It was dark but I could still see a little bit.  On the path just ahead of me I realized there were dark forms, and I thought they were moving.  I realized there were three deer there right in front of me (maybe one for each good thing)!  I stayed still for a minute, but then decided to continue towards them.  Of course they ran away.  I swung on the swing and thought about how perfect it was there, just me, the deer, all of nature, the people around me in their lit up houses, and the weekend just around the corner, and I felt really serene.  When I decided to walk back home, I came up from behind the house and the deer were there in the backyard.  I started up towards them but one of them made an aggressive sounding snort and I turned around and decided to go the long way!  Then I thought to myself...am I really scared of some deer? And I turned back around again and walked past them anyways.
I'm really glad that I decided to take that little walk and that I got to have those experiences today.

There were actually a lot more good things about today, but I'm only supposed to write three so I'll leave it at that!