Animal Group Names

Today I was asked about some of the names that animal groups had. Of course I came up with the usual: litter of kittens, pride of lions, pack of wolves, school of fish, etc. So, I decided to look up some more and these were the ones that I found interesting.

- A Shrewdness of Apes

- A Congress of Baboons

- A Battery of Barracudas
- A Shoal of Bass
- A Cloud of Bats
- A Clash of Bucks
- A Rainbow of Butterflies
- A Quiver of Cobras
- An Intrusion of Cockroaches
- A Cast of Crabs
- A Murder or Parliament of Crows
- A Plague of Doves
- A Crash of Elephants
- A Business of Ferrets
- A Tower of Giraffes
- A Trip of Goats
- A Troubling of Goldfish
- A Confusion of Guinea Fowl
- A Boil of Hawks
- A Barrel of Monkeys
- A Scourge of Mosquitoes
- A Parliament of Owls
- A Prickle of Porcupines
- A Mischief of Rats
- A Rhumba of Rattlesnakes
- A Conspiracy of Ravens
- An Affliction of Starlings
- A Fever of Stingrays
- A Gulp of Swallows
- A Mutation of Thrushes
- A Committee of Vultures
- A Confusion of Weasels
- A Wisdom of Wombats
- A Dazzle of Zebras

Bored in Bhubaneshwar

Yea.... don't mind. I was kind of bored. I was trying to sleep cuz I was super tired and I saw a picture in my head and the camera was nearby so I took a picture of the pillow case and then my glasses on them... don't know why I like it but yea. :)
Yea... this post was just to say that I'm okay. Kind of stressed though... been going to this medical coaching center. I don't actually want to go. Just found out that until Feb. 10th at least, I have 14 days of vacation not including Sundays and Mondays. Oh well...
Anyways... gotta go study.

18th Birthday

I do believe that I am now 18!!!!!!!! :P
This is very very nice. I am happy, I suppose.
Last night people kept calling me before midnight and I kept being like, "nope. It's not twelve here yet." All I was trying to do was get just a little bit more sleep... but yea, that failed. My sisters and my cousin sang happy birthday in korean for me :) Then my mom wished me too. Then I called Wolfy and he was all like "what time is it?" Hehe... it was cute. Of course he wished me happy birthday too.
I just hope that I won't have to be subject to multiple out of tune and incomplete happy birthday songs. Seriously, this school does not know how to sing... well some of us do, the rest... not so much.
Anyways, gotta go to work.

A really vivid dream

A creak awoke me from my dreamless sleep. My eyes slowly opened. The blured image I saw soon started clearing. I was facing the wall. While one hand was slipped under my head, the other lay on top of my blankets. I had forgotten to turn off the lights. My eyes started to close again.

Another creak caused my heart to jump. My eyes were wide open as I felt something large against my back. My eyes darted back and forth while I tried to remain as still as possible. There was a thud as something heavy hit the ground. The thing against my back started moving.

I stifled a scream as something started to wrap itself around my arm. Out of the corner of my eye I could see that it was white and covered in scales. At once I knew what it was, a red eyed white snake.

My heart beats started to go faster as I realized that this was the end. This giant in my room could kill me with a single bite. The snake started wrapping itself around me faster. My will diminished as it squeezed harder. As it turned my body around, I struggled to breathe before sinking into the darkness.

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Okay... last night I had this really weird nightmare and so yea, this is basically based off the nightmare. And it sucked because I really thought it was real and it was really vivid. Plus, I woke up in my dream and I thought I was actually in my bed and that it was really happening. When I woke up actually I freaked out and searched my entire room. Then I realized that it was actually like 5:30 in the morning... aig. I keep waking up so freaking early.

Joy

Today, I woke up at like six in the morning!! Yay! Finally I woke up late. The other days I've been waking up at five in the morning.... anyways, I made my way down to the dining hall at around 7:30. There I found this little puppy roaming around with Brownie Mrs. E's rather annoying dog, it kills baby monkeys.... and then carries them around for hours. Anyways, this morning it was playing with the tinniest cutest dog. I had only found out like two days ago that it's name was Joy.

It belongs to Mr. Jung, a Ridgewood dormparent. So I kind of got late for school, well I felt late because I left later than usual, because I was playing with it. It is so tiny and whenever I left it alone, it started whimpering and then it climbed up one step and got stuck. It couldn't get down which was so adorable!!! So I had to climb back down and help it down this one step. Then it licked my hand and ran back to Mr. Jung.

A Bird and A Ring

Today I walked into the 12th grade lounge in midlands for check-in and found to my surprise a little bird perched on the back of one of the chairs. At first I thought I was hallucinating, I only had about three hours of sleep due to my rather annoying cough which kept waking me up in the middle of the night at odd hours. Then I thought it was just a toy or something. Once it moved and cocked its head to the side did I realize that there was in fact a little bird in our lounge.

Once I had the sorted, I wanted to know where it came from. I found out after a minute when Swati came in that it had come in through a bathroom window and wouldn't leave, no matter how hard the girls had tried to persuade it out a window. It had eventually come to rest in our lounge where all but one door remained closed in hopes of it exiting the room.

Check-in started and girls started pouring into the lounge and exclaimed at the rather alive and animated bird in our lounge. It was rather annoying though that some of them started screaming when it came near. All it was trying to do was find a way out of a chaotic situation. At times during check-in it would aim for the lightbulbs only to plumet to the ground, catching itself just a few inches from the ground and pulling upwards towards the nearest spot to rest. It rested on a string attached to the tubelights on the ceiling that was there to hold decoractions up for Midlands open house. Its chest moved quickly up and down as it tried to find its way out. Finally, when check-in was over. Ms. Ronita and a few of us managed to get it into the room that connects our lounge to the Rec Hall where it found a spot to rest near the window. We opened the doors to the outside and left it to find its way out when it was ready to move again.

Another rather strange thing in life right now is a ring. Yesterday in the morning, Hazel was in a rush to go somewhere, as usual. Spotting me, she handed me a ring. She ran away while calling out not to lose it and to return it to her today. Perplexed, I carried it with me to my first class where I put it into my pocket. During the duration of the class, I pulled it out and tried it on my fingers. The only fingers it would fit on were my ring fingers. Not wanting it to fall out of my pocket or risk losing it I wore it on my right hand. After an hour of wearing the ring, I got irritated with it and switched it to my left hand. It remained there for the rest of the day, night and this whole day.

It's kind of an ornate ring. The ring has a square which is outlined with two bigger stones (real or not it's pretty) and four small stones. On top of the silver square is a black rose rises about a centimeter from the square. I've grown rather comfortable with its presence. Of course when Hazel asked for it back, I reluctantly started pulling it off my fingers. Seeing that, Hazel offered to let me keep it for a few more days. Gladly I accepted. True, I will grow attached to the ring, but I will give it back. It's just funny that I could get accustomed to a ring on that finger.

Just a few surprises life throws at you. :)

The Ups and Downs of Stats

I have to admit, even though I usually dislike Math, I have come to really like Stats. For the most part I get it. In class Shelby and I are the ones who usually get whatever is being taught. It is a nice feeling, knowing what is going on in class, especially math classes. So, I understand it, I like the class, you may be wondering what the downside of this class is.

My Stats teacher Ms. Philip, is one of the most annoying, immature and frustrating teacher that I have. He discourages everyone. There is this one thing he does. He likes to make quizes that we have to use excel for. The questions he gives are so freaking confusing! He makes it so hard. EVERYONE gets horrible grades and we keep getting worse. He doesn't see that. We asked him if we could try having a normal quiz today and once again he doesn't take our opinion into account. Everyone was so confused. I finished part a which was probably like two points. BUT part b and c looked like something worth like 20. AND he never helps either. He gives us these hints that suck.

I really dislike... **sigh**

Speaking of weird teachers... Mrs. Datt my AP Biology teacher has taken a strange interest in me. She keeps asking me how I'm doing. She does that to no one else. People in class have started giving me these weird looks. She does it all the time.... it's frustrating. I kind of wish that she would go bug someone else.....

Anyways, I have English. We're reading Hamlet.... yay! Not really.... Oh and we have RE RETREAT!!!!!! We're leaving at 4:30 from New Road I think. Anyways, I am off and will probably be back like tomorrow late night or something.

CYA!