Another spanish TV add :)

Ok. So i´m officially bored :). I´m not quite sure what i´m going to do for the next month?? Classes are basically done with (there are makeup exams for people who have failed this week, then I have a final exam for technical drawing) and I get my final grades next tuesday. Going to the beach and partying with my friends will be fun but what am I going to do durring the daytime??
I can only go running, play violin and cook so much; and TV and internet are not a good passtime (although they always end up being my time filler :) ).


Anyone have any good spare time ideas, new hobbies to take up (that I can take up here xD), etc???

Leave me a comment with your idea!! Thanks in advance, and lots of love and GOOD LUCK GRADUATED SENIORS!! :)

Molly

Oat Orange Apricot Scones (yes i´m procrastinating)

Here´s the recipe (then i´ll go copy by hand more silly acondiocamineto fisico notes for the PE test tomorrow!):

1 2/3 Cup flour (White all purpose, or half and half white and whole wheat)
1/4 Cups Sugar (plus 2 TBSP for sprinkling)
1 TBSP Baking Powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/3 cups oats
1 Stick cold unsalted butter, cut into 1 TBSP pieces
Finey grated zest from 1 large orange
2/3 cup buttermilk (make your own; just take 2/3 cup milk con 2tsps white vinegar and wait 5min!)
1/2 cup finely chopped dried apricots

Preheat the oven to 405 Degrees F

Put the Flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a food processor and mix well. Add the oats and pulse 8x. Add the cut up butter and pulse 10x until the lumps are (at most) size of a pea. Pour the mixture into a bowl. Mix together the buttermilk and orange zest. Add the dried apricots to the dry mixture (or whatever dried fruit you want) and mix well.
Pour in the buttermilk mix to the dry ingredients and mix lightly with a fork until it just comes together. Toss onto a lightly floured surface and knead gently 6 times.

Break the dough in two, and pat each part into a 1inch think round. Cut the rounds into 8 parts and place the scones on a lighlty buttered baking sheet. Brush the tops with left over buttermilk and sprinkle with a bit of sugar.

Bake 15-18 minutes until golden brown. Enjoy hot, or let them cool!


Go try it, they are SERIOUSLY good (and perfect for when you dont´want to sit down because yoru so sunburned on your legs jaja xD).

Loves everyone!
Molly

Enable Llamas

Call me nerdy, but I´m rediculously excited about getting to try out the sims 3. I have every intention of ordering it on e-bay (like a week before I get home, so other people can have time ot buy it for their kids, then realize their kid doesn´t want it, etc and post it on e-bay for cheap :) ) so it can be waiting for me to install like my first day back in oly...xD. The new game comes with an interesting new set of cheats (most of which are pretty practical in the new framework of the game, for those of you who don´t know its a simulation game where you create ´sims´like virtual people who live in a virtual world, and now in The sims 3 you can also add personalities, and really really really costumize your sims!!) including the one titled enable llamas which, as the name suggests, apperently adds llamas to the sims jaja!
(For those of you not farmiliar, try out this teaser for the game it´s called SimSocial...and it´s suprisingly addictive xD)

Another cool tech thing to be on the look out for is Project Natal for Xbox. It is going to completely transform the way we play video games, and shoudl be availible sometime this year! Forget about having a remote control, you now ARE the remote control. Plus their is some super voice recognition, and virtual characters you can interact with (like have a conversation with, they can even since emotions and respond to them, etc), the interactions are (for the first time in video game history) actually interactive. In one of the examples shots the little boy wants help drawing a fish, so the real girl playing draws a fish, then acts like she´s handing to him, durring which the camera scans it and the boy takes it from her hand and comments on the fish she drew (all in real time of course!).
It´s going to put the Wii to shame!! I´m definitely going to get an xbox so I can go get it as soon as it comes out (and finally mom, dad and grandma will want to play with me!! Imagine you guys, no controls to learn, just talk and move and your right their in virtual reality!!; the closet thing i´ve seen is the virtual soccer at Pacsci but for that you had to put on a glove). I assume that the price of used xboxs will increase with their new demand (once people realize this will be released, it was just announced at W3, and there still is no release date) so if you´ve been as inspired as I have by this amazing sounding technology, go get yourself an Xbox 360 set up on craigslist or e-bay for cheap now :).

Yes, It is exams week, therefore reading Wired is a necessary passtime, as is researching about amazing games such as Sims 3.

Random note, my spanish is getting pretty freaking sweet, like we´re commenting poems from the spanish reninsaince, and I can totally keep up. Plus I got a 7.5 on a language exam!! YAHOOO With all the morfosintactic layers, correct verbal analysis, etc!! xD (although I STILL have trouble with the whole agreemente between my article and adjective with the subject (example: el tema largo not La tema larga, and if you want to make it plural you´d have to say los temas largos).....sooo hard to remember to do something that doesn´t exist in your native language!!)

Have fun everyone and I hope you´ve enjoyed this techy interlude to my normal blogging life xD

<3 Molly

P.S. Random though; Did Galileo and his buddies get this excited about looking the telescope?? Is it really that the technology is so cool or is it the ability to experience something completely new? Interesting relection eh? :)

Scientology, A religion?

After about 5 hours of research both of official scientology pages, and critiques pages I´ve come to the following conclusion. There definitely is something that we all don´t see going on, and I defintely would not call the organization a religion. A system of self imbetterment perhaps. If your curious about how I came to the conclusion that its more like a cult, and based in making money,
check out this link http://askthescientologist.blogspot.com/2009/03/seven-questions-every-scientologist-has.html . (and then perhaps do a google search, you´ll be suprised at the number of extreme critics...and for a laugh watch Tom Cruises testimony...my goodness :) ).
The other thing that really shocked me was the 400,000 cost to go from joining the religion to their OT 8 highest level!

Comment away!
Molly

Man is Basically Good

Can you get any more veg?? (ok, I don´t think thats how you spell veg...but if it were with spanish procunciation it would be). If I wrote man is Basically anything on a philosophy test, or a literature test i´m sure the response would be a lot of question marks. Basically I´ve heard used in a preppy since frequently (soooo basically the other day I was talking with so and so and they were like TOTALLY...you get hte picture).
Basing a religion on a phrase that contains the word ´basically´? Isn´t that a bit extreme? Perhaps some of you have noticed that i´m studying Scientology for a project in philosophy on religions. I had heard some people talk about it (more like in magazines or whatever becuase its one of the celebrity fads) and now after reading I think i´m just more confused! The information on the first part of the website I would describe as a ´how to be human´course for space aliens. Like really, they say to take emotions, and they all have numbers 1-9 and once you can identify their number you know which number emotion you need to react with. Are we human or are we dancer?

But then the question occured to me, even if it is a cult, and the system does seem strange, if the people who believe in it really are happy then what else matters? I have yet to discover any other reason to life besides happiness, so something that helps you to achieve it can´t be all wrong, right?

Does anyone have any personal experience/ opinions about Scientology? I would be SUPER interested to hear them! At the very least their conectps and broad followship have peaked my interest.

Write me a comment, and I´ll keep you guys updated as I keep studying and putting together my report,

Molly

A world without Netflix? :O

Yes you read that right, there DOES exist a world without netflix. And I´m not even talking about the people in africa who don´t have DVD players. Right here in spain, the concept as is foriegn as rootbeer! Not only do they not have the service here, but no one has even heard of the concept, man someone is going to make it big when they launch it here (takers? :) ).
Another intersting tid bit, it never occured to me but the same person generally does the translation for the voices of the actors. Actually, that isn´t quite definitive, I was talking about it with my friends earlier and it turns out that for some actors it works like that, and others they weren´t so sure. At the very least we came up with the definitive answer that in trilogies, etc they use the same person to be the characters voice.
Imagine how strange it would be if Tom Cruise came out with a different voice in every video he was in in english? It must be strange, I guess that would also take away your ability to regonize the vioce of an actor?

Ok, those are my strange tidbits for today (can you tell I just got back from goin to see X-man with my friends lol, don´t go see it btw, even my friends who like action didn´t like it...)

Molly

Life in Paradise

I don´t know what the weather at home has been like lately but here it has been positively PERFECT (think beach weather!!). I´ve taken to sitting in Parque García Sanabria in the shade of a palm tree to read and study.
Speaking of studying, I´ve been doing a LOT of that. Next year I plan on applying to MIT, Stanford, and UW (at least, probably one or two more...) so I need a super good SAT II score in chemistry and math. Therefore, in addition to the normal (rediculous) amount of studying, I also am studying for the exams at home :O.
It´s pretty crazy, living here now just feels like regular life. None of the things that happen suprise or shock me like they used to (ok, guys with shaved legs still makes me furrow my brow but...:) ). Even though I´m in Spain I realized that I should probably start planning my next year at hom ei fI want ot graduate and then go on to an Ivy league school! Silly SPSCC doesn´t have the current course catalog online, making it a bit difficult to decide which courses I want to take there in the fall (and registration is sooonnnn!).

Also, I decided that as my culminating project next year I want to start a robitics club at Jefferson Middle School. If anyone has any tips, ides, sugestions, etc that would be fabulous (especially if you know about finding funding? It´s possible that the OSD has the necesarry supplies, but I don´t know, and with a bit of a budget we could build a lot cooler robots, and there fore that the kids more excited and interested xD!).

Ok, thats my update for now, A bit run of the mill I know but I still have 100 pages of Mararía to read TODAY for my lengua exam on the book tomorrow,

Peace everyone,
Molly