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So I graduated Friday night. The ceremony was pretty gay. The speaker was pretty horrible, we only had one run through so the students didn’t know what they were doing. But I got my diploma so it’s all good.

I am actually writing this because Kenny reminded me about it on his site with his position paper on tattoos.

I’ve been telling people for a while now about a new type of tattoo ink that is coming out that makes tattoos totally permanent but also totally and safely removable. I finally took the time to look up the information to back up what I was talking about so people don’t have to take my word for it. The ink is called infinitink and it is made by a company called Freedom 2 LLC.  ABC News wrote an article about it here.

Ok, so I said I was going to try to update more… and didn’t. I’m sorry. Alot has happened since my last post. On the AP calculus thing, it turns out I ended up making a high A in the class so all is well. I have A’s in all of the classes I know of, the only questionable one is Latin… but the teacher said she would help me so I should be good.

I am almost done with school for this year, I have to go back and take an exam on Tuesday but other than that I’m done.

I will be going to summer school to take an economics course so that I can graduate.

I will be done with school in the beginning of July, but will actually Graduate at the end.

I won’t be able to go to MTSU this coming semester, so I will have to wait a year until next fall. I plan on getting a full time job and working my butt off during that year.

Thats about it…. I will post more when it is convenient for me…. which means it could be soon or it could be a while… You never know.

Ok, so I don’t really have an excuse for not posting in the last week and a half because a lot has happened. I am going to Oakland now. I started last Wednesday. I am enjoying it so far. It is a lot different than anything I have ever done before, but I like it. The kids there have been really cool and have really helped me get adjusted. I am taking all honors classes except for Latin, so I have the same people in a lot of my classes which has also helped a great deal.

I was a little worried about Calculus because it is an AP class and I have not been preparing for the AP test at all this year. Cedar Hall was not going for that, but it was all that Oakland had, and Precalculus was stuff I did a long time ago. The second day I was in the class we started a practice AP test and have been working  on it the whole week. I was really worried about it, but the teacher told me today that I did really well on the multiple choice and that he hadn’t finished grading the free response. I know I did worse on it, because I just didn’t know how to do alot if it, but I think I can get it.

Life is very interesting, and I will try to update more in the coming days/weeks.

So a week ago monday I was told by Cedar Hall that I was getting kicked out for sure. Well Dad wasn’t very happy with that so he asked the board to reconsider. They make the final decision on Sunday night. In the mean time I have been trying to figure out what to do about school. I went to Oakland and they said I could go there to finish out the year and take a one month economics course to graduate in June. I also went to Cannon County High and they put together a schedule to get me graduated on time. The only thing was, I went through the wrong door when I came in and ended up in the gym. So I asked a group of students where the office was. One of them offered to show me. On the way when I told her why I was there she told me that I really didn’t want to go there. By the time I had reached the office I had two students tell me not to come there because it sucked, one student ask if I smoked weed and one ask if I had ever had trouble with the cops. Also the principal told me that the students were “Good kids” but that they were “normal” and that I would have to get used to a lot of things because I came from a select group. The way she said it made it very obvious what she was talking about. The fact that just from walking in I had met a girl who smoked marijuana showed the type of “normal” she was talking about. I think my best option is to go to Oakland. That is what I am hoping to do.

So I posted here that I got kicked out of school and then went on to explain that I had gotten sent home for a day. Well now it looks like I may be kicked out for real. Like, I wont be going back after spring break. I honestly don’t know what to do. The school had very high standards and my attitude has always been to do as little work as possible and still get by, and nothing more. Well this does not meet the schools standards. I ended up failing two classes this last nine weeks. The headmaster of the school is going to make the final decision over spring break. So if you could pray for me, it would be very much appreciated.

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Three years…

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I just finished a really awesome function that takes a time zone string i.e. EST and a list of datetime values in the format [D, M, Y, h, m, s]   and returns the current time offset by the values you enter in the list. I made it work with the fact that there are a different number of days in each month, and also factor in leap years. It took me a good while and a lot of thinking, but I finally accomplished it. The only problem is I just found out that browser cookies actually do work with GMT and not any other time zone. The entire function is now rendered useless. It is really sad.

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I turned 18 on Tuesday. It didn’t really hit me until last night when I went in and got my Drivers License. It is really weird to think that I am no longer a minor. I can now sign legally binding contracts, buy cigarettes, and serve alcohol. Now two of those I don’t really care about, but the fact that I can legally do them is significant. It is pretty neat when I think about it.