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I am LOVING life at PHC. Every single one of my classes has tons of reading assigned AND (read, O Litnetters, and be jealous) most of my textbooks AREN'T textbooks but actual works of literature. Beowulf, Epic of Gilgamesh, Walden, etc. Which translates to mean I'll be taking most of my books home with me.

I have five classes (have to leave for one in precisely one minute) which are:

U.S. History I
History of Western Civilization ...

I really enjoyed my first day of school even though I did have a zero period which means I have to be at school every day at 7 in the morning. It was great day and I enjoyed my classes. I started the day with AP Art 4 which was fun. Then I had dance, in which we didn't dance because it was the first day. An hour and half of sitting and listening. That could have been better. But it was okay. Then I had AP Literature and that was enough for ten classes. We did maybe ten minutes of syllabus talk and ...

I have become obsessed with Bing.com. I first saw it advertised in a commercial on TV and at the time I did not know exactly what it was as the commercials were a bit unclear. It was obviously a web site of some kind, and seemed to be some sort of search engine, yet based on the ad's it also seemed to be something more than just a search engine, so one day when I was bored I decided to check it out to see just what the deal was.

As it turns out it is a search engine that is designed ...

Hapi is an Egyptian god of the Nile characterized as having the parts of both a man and a woman and ruling over a harem which consists of gods and goddeses. This poem is meant to capture the duel aspect of Hapi, as well as the duel nature of the river known for its extremes between flooding and ebbing.

Double-Sided Hapi

Woman's fertile waters
preserves life in sweet nourishment
as she impregnates rivers flow
before it recedes into desert sands ...

This is a modern interpitation of Medusa, while the backdrop is meant to link her to her traditional roots.