Meaning, with as much Vitriol as possible. I’ll probably publish this by parts. I’ll start with the first one or two events, publish it, and then keep editing it until it makes a comprehensive record of the last few days. It’ll make it easier for me to concentrate on everything else I should be doing while I do this…
So, let’s start from the beginning. My school’s IB Science department decided to set up a mandatory field trip for all Physics, Chemistry, and 2nd year Biology kids. We went to this place called [ censored ] and at [ censored ] we were supposed to design an experiment for which we could make a presentation with three or four other people that would be due in two weeks.
When I first got my group listing, I was fairly disappointed. This guy, whom I will call C, was on my group; I hadn’t really had a very good opinion of him ever since he called my Science shirt misogynistic. I also got a guy whom I was on good standing with ever since freshman year and another whom I had really met through the whole drama thing last year. I thought that it was a fairly solid team, all things considered.
Yesterday was a nice day. We did our best to try every station and decide what kind of resources we would use for the second day, in which we would prove whatever sort of experiment we chose to perform. We went on a boat, on canoes, on a nature walk, and on a pier. We chose our question and headed home, getting to school at 4-something pm.
Today, we went straight to canoeing. The results of today’s journey shall be shown by excerpts of my journal, in which I wrote down detailed descriptions of each of the subjects which I spent the day examining. The first specimen: (Carbon) C.
[ / end volume One, it should have said. It took it away because I wrote it as "an HTML tag." Also, just because I'm in a Chemistry-like mood, I shall make everyone's codename depend on the first few letters of their first name. ]
Carbon: Seems to harbor fairly strong sadistic tendencies. Tends not to examine the farther consequences of actions. Seems to take everything at face value, even when sarcasm is applied in high doses.
Beryllium and Bromine: I don’t really have much to say. They were my other two partners and they were pretty much the ideal people to work with. Intelligent, inquisitive, patient and good at canoeing.
There-is-no-element-that-starts-with-J: That’s really disappointing, really. I’m sorry, J; Chemistry doesn’t think that your letter is important enough to have an element. Anyways, he and I spent a lot of the day together since our groups worked together throughout the whole day. J is a wonderful, wonderful friend and one of the two people with whom I will support talking about literary criticism.
Nitrogen: Neffie! I almost called you Sulfur-34 [ first name, and you're not the only S person from that day. you are the older one, though, which is why you would have been 34 and the other one 32. ] Neffie’s contribution to her group finished by the first two hours [ sea-sickness and nothing else. totally not her fault ] and so she just spent the rest of the day helping out our [ J and I ] groups.
Argentum: Much cooler than Silver’s actual name, by the way. She’s an awesome sophomore whom I hadn’t had a chance to talk to ever since summer camp [ camp.... camp.... camp.... camp.... ]. Yesterday [ Wednesday ] was the first day that I could have a reasonable conversation with her. She was also the person that allowed me to talk to…
Sulfur: The other girl whose name starts with S. She’s a new student who just moved into the area and is getting shafted by the state’s graduation requirements. She has to take Government and Biology while in the IB program. She’s in one [ and sadly only one ] of my classes and Wednesday was the first day in which I was able to have a nice conversation with her. She’s a Twilight fan, but she seems to recognize its faults. In fact, I think that she said that she liked it *because* she had a fetish an attraction to creepy, stalking dangerous guys.
By the way, I met Argentum and Sulfur after the trip, since I waited for my mom to pick me up for about 2 hours past the time when I thought that she would be there. They didn’t actually go on the trip. Argentum’s too young and Sulfur’s in IB Biology; she’ll go next year.