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Editing this a tad bit. I saw the movie "The Social Network" yesterday. We finished watching it at 12 (almost exactly), so I didn't get a chance to write a little about it.
I thought the movie was well done. The acting was convincing, and I thought the last scene was powerful: The creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, is sitting in a chair constantly refreshing the page to see if his ex-girlfriend will be his friend [on Facebook]. Then it shows a close-up of his face and text pops up reading: "Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionare today" (I think those are the exact words).
This scene shows that money does not = happiness.
-'Thought that almost everyone in the movie were being really nasty to each other...even though some parts were most likely dramatized, I hope college isn't like that.
-Most of the women (except maybe Mark's ex-girlfriend) were portrayed as...groupies. I didn't really like that, but I suppose that's showing that most of the girls that Mark knew were like that (?)
-I found it interesting that his parents were never there, or (almost) never talked about.

I'm going to get a Facebook when I turn 15, but it's interesting to know the backstory behind the site.

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I've been meaning to announce this, but I was very surprised to see this on youtube one day...an ad for cafepress, but the STAC t-shirt was on it! I saw it a couple more times on some different sites, so I took a picture of the ads, and voila!:

Isn't that odd?

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This is from yesterday:
I just saw the green lantern. Just jotting things down:
good:
-costume
-airplane scenes
-scenes where he's using his ring
-?
eh:
-character development (not much)
-female lead (but that's ok because most superhero movies don't have that)
-plot (fast paced)
-originality to the comic (but that's ok I guess? Iron man I heard wasn't that true either)
-not enough "broship"
-tone (the whole movie had dark colors, but they also had some funny moments which didn't.... flow)
-they forgot an important thing: the rings don't work against yellow (which seemed to be pretty important when I wikipedia'd the comic)

random:
-I also saw John there. I said hi.

-49.2-

Well, I'm done with testing for this week, so I have the time to write!
I have mixed feelings about the end of the school year. I'm happy since, well, no more tests and homework (except the summer reading project) for a few months, and I can catch up on sleep, but I don't get to see people as much over the summer, and next year the seniors will be gone...
I'm curious about the new STACies. I didn't talk a lot to the eighth-graders when I was in middle school, so I don't really know what they're like...I mostly heard about 8th graders and our grade getting in, but I wonder if there are any sophomores/juniors coming in also...
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I thought STAC night turned out great! I remember coming last year, and the two years were really different! This year was more organized, and we took people into the STAC room, but last year had more improv.
I think the asian forest turned out well. It was fun working on it, but I wish we could have left it up longer...I hear plans for changing around the room for next year, and that sounds exciting~
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Yesterday, I went into the city with some friends and my mom. We went to the Met. to see this exhibit on the roof, and the fashion exhibit on Alexander McQueen. We saw the roof, but the fashion exhibit had a really long line (over a half an hour wait)! However, the Richard Serra exhibit caught my eye and we popped in. The art was very simple, but I liked how it took up space (one piece was two 20(?)-foot pieces of black paper pinned to opposite sides of the wall). The funny thing was that my friends were wearing outfits that fit right into the exhibit!

 

she even blends in!

-we also walked about 52 blocks (82->42->50-something)!
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I also did a digital painting today, and I thought it came out pretty good.

I was getting a little caught up in getting all of the shapes, so I decided to leave it at this
reference

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Well, there's a lot to talk about, but it's late at night...so I think I'll have to put a "49.2" blog up tomorrow- or sometime later this week...(probably tomorrow)

I just wanted to post the end result of the math project. I think it turned out well, considering I, uh, procrastinated quite a bit on it....*insert coughing sounds here*