T1B22, 23, 24, 25, 26

I COMPLETELY ran out of time to blog for the past few days. X(

So here is my resultant SCRP

Situation: I ran out of time to blog each day
Cause: I had extracurriculars and was not able to do my homework early
Effect: I completely neglected blogging
Principle: Prioritizing things is important and also remembering to be consistent is important and also balancing homework with other things is important

And now for a deceptively simple riddle that's actually best presented orally.

You are the driver of a bus. At your starting stop, you start out with 20 people. On your first stop, 13 get off and 6 get on. At your second stop, 2 get off and 17 get on. On your third stop, 9 get off and 24 get on. At your fourth stop, EVERYONE gets off and 26 get back on. At your last stop, 15 get off and 3 get on. What colour are the bus driver's eyes?

I don't even need to write the answer for this one, because its so simple. And it probably is easier on paper. But I'll post the answer anyway... tomorrow.

:D

T1B20

Situation: I had an avalanche of homework today
Cause: I didn't complete all my homework yesterday
Effect: It snowballed and made me get a lot of homework today
Principle: As Hermione's annoying homework planner says, "Do it today or later you'll pay!" (=don't procrastinate, and also that time management is very important)

Simple.

T1B19

A random riddle from a good riddle site, http://solution-dailybrainteaser.blogspot.ca:

In the kingdom of Skull, King Norse did not allow any citizen to visit the world outside. Also only a person with a proper paperwork was allowed to enter or he was sent back. A wooden bridge was what connected the kingdom to the world. The king had appointed a sharpshooter who would check every five minutes on the bridge to check. After checking, he would go back to his hut and return exactly after five minutes again. The bridge took 9 minutes to cross. 

A merchant was able to escape the kingdom without harming the shooter. 

How?

The answer is somewhat irregular, but still valid:

The merchant walked across the bridge for almost five minutes when the shooter was inside the bridge. Then he turned and started walking back to the kingdom of skull. On approaching the kingdom, he was asked of papers which he never had. Thus he was sent back.

I had completely interpreted the question wrong--I thought he had said how could he enter the kingdom for the first time, instead of how could he exit the kingdom.

This is a really good one, I've never heard of it before. 

T1B17 & B18

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

-William Shakespeare

I love this quote. I just love it. It is so true, because the reason one is a fool is because one does not know it, and does not try to improve it, but when you are wise, then you know you are foolish sometimes and you try to change. Also, in the Ascendance Trilogy by Jennifer A. Nielsen, the main character is witty, and is extremely smart (Nielsen uses foreshadowing and hints very well, and often Jaron surprises us with a sudden insight that he does not tell us, but that we should have assumed by the descriptions he gives us, e.g. This boy has very well fit shoes, which are the only thing that fit him, then later on, he puts himself in a trap and reveals to us then that he KNEW that the boy had powerful friends, because he had assumed--and was right--that they boy was a runner based on this fact about his shoes) but he says that as opposed to the foolish who don't admit they are foolish, he knows and readily admits that was he is doing is foolish yet he does it anyway because he has no choice (and somehow, he always pulls it off).

The Ascendance Trilogy consists of The False Prince, The Runaway King, and the third book which has yet to be published. They are actually really easy, but the plots are SOOOOO SOOOOO GOOD! They are set in a fictional country, Carthya, with surrounding countries Avenia and... a country that begins with B, whose name I forgot. It is set in a monarchy-style 14th century kind of atmosphere.

T1B15 and B16

I missed yesterday...

Well, this will be my short profound thought of the day (2 days).

It is really hard to wake up early in the morning when you sleep late, because you are missing several hours of sleep. Therefore, wake up late if you sleep late, and if you sleep early, congratulations, you can wake up early. NEVER try sleeping late and waking up early! It. Never. Works.

T1B14

It's quote day! (Yay!)

Featured quote from Dictionary.com:

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press On", has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race. "

-Calvin Coolidge

"Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder." 

-Mason Cooley

Last year, the most recent time I went to Bard on the Beach, we watched As You Like It, and so I include a famous monologue from that play:

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Because, on top of everything else...

I like Shakespeare.

I have many favourite quotes, and these are just a few. The one about procrastination was one I remembered several times during my previous school year...

T1B13

High school is so LARGE. There are so many sports teams, clubs, extracurricular activities that you can be involved in, I don't know what to choose. Like the complete overachiever I am, I scouted out last year's list of clubs, and the ones that I was REALLY interested in, were clashing on the dates. Of course, one can hope that they will change the dates, but that is a rather futile thought.

It is only about two weeks in, and I'm already worrying that I might be stretching myself too thin. In my old school, in my last year, and in my old-old school, during ALL my years there, I would try to volunteer too much, do too much, and try to achieve too much, that my teachers would often say, "Cindy, slow down. You can't do all that at once."

For some reason, since I was a little child, I've always wanted to do the most, experience the most, achieve the most. I wanted to do so much, and accomplish things early so I could "get an advantage in life", as the saying goes. I feel that maybe my whole life I've been striving too hard, so I want to check that in high school, and make sure I don't do so much I fall behind on my work.