"Forward."

This is waaay overdue, but here... the "rotunda" of the ::EDIT:: OLD (current is a small, grey, DISGUSTING skyscraper-type building that is SO UGLY.... X.X REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY hideous. I'm not posting it here...):: END EDIT FROM DIANA'S COMMENT:: state capitol building in Tallahassee, FL... The two floors in the picture are the only two floors.
LOL

Here's the inside of the dome (hideous, don't you agree?) This isn't very tall above the previous picture.:


If you want a good image of the WISCONSIN capitol building, then I would suggest following these urls below, or looking it up in Google Images. The ROTUNDA isn't the only mind-blowing part. Wisconsin definitely has the best capitol building in the country. It's dome has more volume than the one in Washington, D.C. since they couldn't make it taller because that might be disrespectful. It's awesome:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_State_Capitol
http://www.wisconsin.gov/state/capfacts/tour_select.html
I was going to upload the Google Maps version I got from a link in Wikipedia, but it refused to upload because it would just stop when it was almost done... argh... So I'm trying it on Photobucket right now. It isn't looking too promising... Nooo...
Fine... go here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.074635,-89.384562&spn=0.008592,0.005932&t=k
::EDIT:: Here is a very good example.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=madison+capitol+dome&gbv=2
::END EDIT::

This whole post was written to make me feel a little better, but it has just made me long for my old home.
I've had a bad day.

only six away

Our history teacher awarded her student for completing 27 assignments in February. I looked back, and I did 21 in January..... -sigh-
I'm very amazed at whoever spent her life doing that, though, because it is quite impressive. Those assignments are so tedious and insanely boring.
Right now, I'm doing research on cloud seeding programs that supress hailstone damage.
AAAH!!!! It's 7:20pm!!! I need more time to practice piano.
Oh yeah... Regional this weekend. It sucks.

email

Below is one of the longest emails I have written in a long time. I don't know what made me do it. It was originally written for Diana, but I replaced the names with underscores so people won't kill me for the time being:

LOL!! I saw you comment on my blog because I got the automatic email with your comment thing, and then I knew that you'd be writing an email next, but then, ten minutes later, you still hadn't replied, so I lost hope :( But then, I realized that I had a new email!!! I was so excited!!
OMG!!!! NO WAY!! ARE YOU SERIOUS??? Y'ALL ARE COMING WITH US?????? -freaks out-
LOL!! I had to do that. I am laughing right now.
Who else goes to Deerlake and might see me next Tuesday? Hopefully, _______ will be near to protect me. (HAH- I wish. He's probably too busy flirting with a whole bunch of girls at once. I just referred to both who else AND _____.) Did you notice how alike those two are?
Similar qualities: copious amounts of girls, flirting, Asian-ness, born in the US, plays tennis, plays violin, in MAO, in the same tennis class, I know I had other ideas that were good, but I can't remember, have been in TSYO... Except who else seems to be better at those qualities. He is more Asian, is very good at violin, and according to ______, amazing at tennis, might have more than "g" girls... I hate to admit this, but it's true. _________has met his rival... And plus, who ELSE owns at being creepy?
I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you SURE you're on the same plane? VERY, VERY sure???????
Oh good. Because yesterday, your mom called my mom and she said how so many Chinese families are going to China because my mom mentioned, wow, so many Chinese families are going to China (including _________), and I was just thinking... Wouldn't it be interesting if she and who else were together for over 20 hours.......... Ew.
I have to get home somehow next Tuesday. I do not want to pretend to be an 8th grader and sit with those people in their bus with an orchestra dress. That would be weird. I need to hijack someone's car...... Should I ask ______ if his dad picks him up? 0.0
Oh yeah... You're not going to MAO practice tomorrow, are you? So I should I ask my LITTLE brother's suburban mother? -shiver- But I don't have many options unless I don't want to start my homework until about 6:00pm.
That image is frightening. Please don't talk about it too much. O.O
I just imagined who else going home and telling his wife (I don't know what she looks like) that he smells like a weird perfume because he spilled nice-smelling water on himself at some office party... (Chinese drama shows/movies... lol)
I don't remember. I don't even remember the subject of what I was trying to remember. In fact, until I read your email, I didn't even remember that I was supposed to remember something. Hmph.
I really hope this email was long enough. To make it even longer, I will not proceed with typing about other things.
I hate Napoleon Bonaparte. He is making my history homework so horrid that I'm not finishing it tonight.
I am sad because I still don't know if I'm going to State, and it's kind of Tuesday and the money's kind of due on Thursday, which is STUPID if we need it by Pie Day. Grrrr... What if my piano teacher doesn't get back to me in time??????? AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
NOOO!! I have to memorize this Bach piece and it's so difficult to memorize because it's BACH... Which is...one of the most diffcult... :( Chopin is so easy. I also need to practice my Beethoven piece. My musicality is atrocious. LOL... "atrocious".. I haven't seen nor heard nor used that word for a looong time. In fact, I don't know if I've ever used it until now.
I'm glad I can type reasonably quickly. Oh yeah... I still want to watch my lil bro type. It would be so funny.
Ew. If you can't take me home tomorrow and Jack's mom lets me go home with them, then my half-sisters will see me up close. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blonde people are bad.
I still want to type more because I do.
Ummm........ Oh yeah... I need a violin teacher... I should ask Mr. _______. Hmm.
I should email him. I still need to buy my concert dress. Miraculously, he has an extra for some weird reason. Awesome.
But everyone hates them. I saw it on Sunday at the TSYO concert because ______ had to wear hers because she didn't have an all-black ensemble. It was interesting. It is not worth over 50 dollars or whatever it was. It is simply a black dress. Insane...
I think this is enough. I don't want to steal too much of your valuable homework time. Sorry about that.
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paragraphs are so boring. essays are worse.

I am so happy. My English teacher didn't find the prewriting because she lost it until today, so it's okay, and she moved the peer reviewing to Thursday! Apparently, it was with her "11th grade" papers, meaning they were probably mingling in the AP Language and Composition homework assignments :)
Unfortunately, I might not find out when my piano audition is, so it's very possible that I won't go to the STATE CONVENTION... I've never been to Orlando. I suppose that's when I why I want to go... It's more than 200 dollars, though. I really hope I find out when the audition is by tomorrow because the money is due this Thursday, which is STUPID because it's due on Pie Day and our sponsor wants it on Thursday. That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. And, when I told him I might not go, he got really mad... And he's my math teacher, so I don't want to make him too mad. My grade is pretty much in his hands/computer/power.
Aaaah... Stupid Napoleon. He's too French. I can't believe he surrendered. Well, I can because he's too French (poor him... Corsica was in French territory not too long before he was born). He makes history homework even more boring that it was. I really miss answering multiple choice questions. They were so easy!

time

My English teacher never emailed back and it's 9:43pm.
I suppose I'm officially doomed.
Great.
Um.
I need a violin teacher.
Do you guys have any good ideas? (Preferably someone who lives here...)
Oh yeah...
I also need TIME to practice.
Time hates me.
Mei, if you're reading this, TIME has nothing to do with HIM. ^^. Good luck with it, though. Seriously.
*sigh* (Yes, I literally sighed.)
Chiles Regional this Saturday... My second-to-last chance to gain back my position. Which isn't really possible because my position involved beating all the Chiles people in Algebra 2 because no one else knew what was going on at the beginning.

and then it dawns on you

I forgot to go after lunch and check if my English teacher found my narrative. The rough draft (which is a typed copy of something that is pretty much done) is due tomorrow and I obviously don't have the first writing it with me. We were actually SUPPOSED to have it over the weekend or something crazy like that, but... I didn't get mine back... The one other girl who did it and speaks to me every now and then didn't get it on Friday, either. I hope the other two people whos papers she lost forgot to go, too. Then, maybe she'd be more lenient? X.X I don't want them to fail at least one assignment because of me, though. We don't really have many assignments in general, so if there is ONE zero, then that will be very unfortunate. Plus, since it's the ROUGH DRAFT, it might be more than 5 points like all the other assignments. I emailed her to ask whether or not I have to rewrite it... I know I'm going to fail the "rough draft" and "peer review" parts... Aaaahhh... My 99.3% might not be an A any more... I have two weeks left of the 3rd quarter. This is bad. At least I didn't do this at the end of the quarter. That would be terrible.... x.x I really hope it's a solid A before the quarter ends............Noooooooo.... I hope she found it!!! I REALLY do NOT want to rewrite it, even if it means I ended English with a 90%. I HATE rewriting things!!! I hope this post doesn't delete itself.

MAO. Music. Melodramatic.

This place introduces so many odd things... And emotions, I suppose...
Today, I realized how much I missed playing the piano every day for at least an hour, or playing in an orchestra with my friends in middle school.
We had another concert today... After we were done, we came back to sit down, but we were about 10 seconds too late to go through the door before Symphony sat down, so me and two other people from my orchestra had to stand in this tiny area between one door to go into the hall and the other door to come out of it. Between the tiny slit between the doors, we saw the Symphony play so very interestingly... Katelyn and I decided that seeing those people play made us want to join the orchestra so much more. (Katelyn is also the person who Michael and I dubbed racist because she is mean to "northeastern" Koreans and the Chinese. She thought we were North Korean because we... are Asian? Or something? I don't even know... She thinks that Michael is from North Korea and wonders about other people's Korean-ness. She even used the "word" "Koreanese"... It was hilarious. She finally knows that I am Chinese and not Korean. That was the only fun part of the entire concert. She's really nice, though. Her brain is just... challenged when it comes to deciphering the types of Asians in the world.) Auditions are at the beginning of May. I need a teacher and a LOT of practice to ensure a spot. I am hoping that there is a significant fraction of seniors in that orchestra. Then, the other person who was with us, this 6th grader who goes to Swift Creek and is going to Fairview next year informed us that we are playing with Symphony in our next concert.
And then, straight after that, off to piano... Aaah... piano... My favorite =) I have no idea how I'm going to get ready for the scholarship thing. I might not go to the State Convention after all because one of the audition days is around then... Or maybe both days are close. So, it's back to music? I have to decide. Math is so fun, but I probably have two competitions left this year. The next one is coming up in six days... Six terrifying days.
Well, after the first piece that Symphony performed, we quickly entered the hall to sit down where were supposed to be after we were done playing. And guess who was in front of my sight on the stage the whole time because he is the outside player in the last row in his section... Who else?
I miss my piano even though it is in our house. I blame it on history homework. I really can't wait until I finally FINISH the class!!!

But he's so....

To Meinuo:
Please don't worry about those other people!!!! I hope you overcome the whole thing! And that's asking a lot, and it's probably really hard for you, but the safest option would be to stop it. But people aren't made like that :) They can't control their feelings.. -sigh- But I know you're a WONDERFUL person because you wouldn't be like this unless it was your heart (or the amygdala in your brain.. LOL) that put you there in the place. So remember that you are a good person because this is only happening because of that. Okay? I can't tell you to stop worrying about HIM because it's inevitable, but I hope this paragraph made you feel a little better!

So... My mom wants me to audition for Symphony in May... Think I can make it? Probably not. It requires practicing and learning and all that... stuff. Fun.
I just found out that I have to do vocabulary cards for the entire chapter that I outlined for science. It makes me mad. MORE work to do???? I already have hours-worth of history tomorrow. Not that I didn't have PLENTY of history today. I can't wait for when I'm done in April (I think)!!!! I will be SOO happy!!!!!!!
Diana and I were discussing how many Chinese people are within walking distance of our homes. Pretty much all the Chinese people are around us. There are barely over 40 Asians at CHS. Isn't that sad? There are over 400 at WHS... :( And then we talked about how easy it would be for them to walk over to OUR houses... In the summer or something.. cough cough...

Muggy and hot; unbearable.

The ironically cloudy Tallahassee weather has started to seep into the weather forecast.
Why do weather websites always take so long to load? I'm trying to load one as I type.
Someone told me that good old Madison is being weird again. Apparently, there's a lot of snow, but it rained, so now, there are potential flooding problems. I miss that fun weather...
I was being serious.
Today, I found out that my "stalking" abilities are proving to be effective. I have successfully found where Diana lived in NJ, and might have found the city in NY where she lived.
But talking about weather is boring. It's what random people do when they have nothing better to mention. Well, apparenltly, the computer thinks it's too difficult to leave a weather website, too.
I'm trying NOAA now. I used to have it bookmarked, but one lucky day, it stopped loading. YES! It finally worked again. I'm glad. I haven't checked the weather for weeks because I got so frustrated. I like this site more than others such as Weather.com, Yahoo.com, and CNN.com (even though I've never been there) because the page generally doesn't take too long to load since there isn't much stuff there.
Oh good. The highs over the next few days are in the 60s. I think that just made my evening. I don't know what the high was today (which makes me feel unfortunate because I always want to know what the high was but they never show it because they have OCD and update their information more often than my brother annoys me, which is a lot, I tell you), but if felt like about 80 degrees Fahrenheit. This would make sense because it currently "feels like" 70 degrees and it's been a few hours since the afternoon.
I can't believe I just wrote an entire entry on weather. I must have no life.
But I suppose I usually talk about random things.
Like how I haven't sold a single Chilis Breakfast ticket for our math club and we have until next Monday... LoL.. Our TSYO concert is this weekend. People who have nothing to better to do on Sunday afternoon- go.
This still applies if you are a thousand miles away from me because it would be fun to see you again.
Southern dialect: 'nd ahh hwish y'all'l haff fon en thuh state tha' duzin' haff peeple speekin' laak dis. (Proper Wisconsinite translation: If you understood that Southern sentence and didn't find it frustratingly annoying, then I pity you. Wisconsin is the best state in the country. And I hope all of you have fun in the state that doesn't have people speaking like this.)

NRT (North European Oil)

Nicotine Replacement Therapy
Nokia Ring Tone
WHAT IS THE NRT????????????????
Oh.
Norm-Referenced Tests
Graded by percentiles
Okaaay...
Well. That's what we're doing tomorrow. We FINALLY finished the FCAT!! YES!!!
I'm off to play the piano so I don't have to work on my history homework.
Sorry about the short post.