Busy.

I recently got back from a camp held at Virginia Tech that is intended to inform girls about engineering. There were a lot of demonstrations, experiments, and activities that demonstrated different fields of engineering, and I now kinda want to go into engineering myself. Probably electrical.

In other news, I now have a job working for an interior designer who runs her own business. She is very nice and her work is excellent. And my job, though mostly clerical, is fun. I get to go to the Washington Design Center, a seven-floor building comprised of showrooms for appliances, furniture, stone, leather, fabric, trim, metals, carpet, window treatments, and anything else a decorated house would want. It's all very high-end stuff, but since some of her clients can afford it, she picks stuff out. I carry the samples that she picks out around.

I'm really tired at the moment, so I'm gonna post this now. See ya.

HAHAHAHHA

I'M NOT LAURA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA I HAVE KIDNAPPED HER BLOG.

I'm not Laura either but I've got the computer now. Here's Laura:

Okay, so some friends came over to explode soda with me. And they kidnapped my blog, apparently. At least they don't have my login info.

More pirateness…but at least it's sorta patriotic

Okay, maybe I should have stopped at the tricorner hat. But I remembered a toy sword that has been in my basement probably since I did an oral report on Jacques Cartier in sixth grade. So now, I look like a pirate, minus the eye patch and earring. Just in time for my friends and me to explode sodas. (see prev. post)

Arrrrr… BOOM!

I look like a pirate!
Sorta. Today, I put on a red shirt, a burgundy dress shirt thing, and jean shorts. Then I remembered that I have a tricorner hat that I got in Colonial Williamsburg a few years ago. I had forgotten about the feather in it. Anyway, I put it on, looked in the mirror, and I look sorta like a pirate. A patriotic pirate, but a pirate nonetheless.

Anyway, in lieu of actual fireworks, my parents and I are going to explode some bottles of soda with Mentos mints. We haven't tested it out yet, but you drill a tiny hole in a soda bottle cap, thread some thread or string through the hole, and tape the string that comes out of the bottom of the cap to a single Mentos mint. Not the entire tube. Then, get a bottle of a cheap soda. Diet soda leaves less of a mess because it won't be as sticky as regular soda. Then, replace the cap of the soda bottle with your Mentos + thread cap. Be sure to keep the Mentos out of the soda! Then, when the cap is on, give the thread a hard jerk—and get out of the way. Apparently, the Mentos acts as a catalyst and makes the soda release all of its carbon dioxide all at once—and it goes BOOM. Of course, I haven't actually tried this yet. If I remember, I'll say if it works later. Maybe.