If You Give a Norton a Cookie...

This is Bekah! I'm taking over Norton's blog today to tell you a little story... And so the saga begins.

Once upon a time (actually this was only last night) a very ambitious Norton P Butterworth decided to bake oodles of cookies for her lovely co-workers! The bookstore is dead because of "Fall Break", which apparently is cause for celebration. So enlisting my help, Norton P followed the step by step instructions I gave her for the cookie recipe while I cleaned the kitchen. All was going smoothly - the countertops were cleared and the dough was separated into 3 parts. 1 part for Chocolate Chips, 1 part for mini Resees Pieces, and 1 part for Oatmeal Raisin cookies. All ingredients were well blended and the dough was sampled (of course!) to insure quality. Perfect! Or so we thought... -insert doomsday music here-

So Norton greased a pan for the Chocolate Chip cookies, and I cautioned her that greasing the pan usually causes the dough to spread too quickly and the cookies to be crispy and thin, but it didn't matter for one batch, they would be fine! About 6 minutes later I took a peek into the oven. Puzzled with what I saw, I inquired of her, "Exactly how much did you grease that pan?" to which she responded, "Just a coating over it.." Odd.. Because those cookies really flattened!! There were 16 small clumps of Chocolate Chips protruding from a very thin layer of buttery sugar. Amber would've been devastated. The "cookies" were square from invading each others edges.

At this point my first thought was that the baking soda had been left out, but after quizzing the Norton on the amount she put into the flour mixture I was assured that couldn't be the problem. But I couldn't imagine what else it was! So I continued my interrogation with, "Did you put all 6 cups of flour?".. I could see the wheels spinning in her head as she mentally calculated the 1/2 cup measurements she'd dumped into the bowl. She said, "Yes! I put in 8........!" The heat rose on her face and we both started to laugh as realization dawned. 2 whole cups of flour were left out! Which, as you can imagine, makes a drastic difference in how your cookies bake. I proceeded to add the necessary amounts of flour to the remaining doughs.

Poor Norton P. I actually blushed for her! Part of what made this trial so funny to us is that the Nortonts last cookie escapade produced tasty Oatmeal Raisin cereal. Those cookies looked very pretty on the pan but crumbled into yummy bran flakes in your hand. Fortunately these cookies had a much better fate and after having flour added turned out to be quite tasty and pretty! From what she tells me the cookies were devoured by her co-workers. A happy ending!

The moral of this story is; If you give a Norton a cookie... she'll be very grateful that she didn't have to bake it herself! And she just might want some milk to go along with it.

I love you Norton P Butterworth! 

 

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This is a hymn written by a martyr in Ireland:

Christ shield me today
against poison,
against burning,
against drowning,
against wounding,
So that there may come to me abundance of reward,

Christ with me,
Christ before me,
Christ behind me,
Christ in me,
Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ on my right,
Christ on my left,
Christ when I lay down,
Christ when I arise,
Christ in quiet,
Christ in danger,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.

I especially love the last few lines. I never thought about it like that. This man wrote this only 6 years ago, and his story is pretty cool. He has a story kinda like Elijah when he called down fire. I don't know if I should like his story or not, but either way I like his hymn. OK, I HAVE to go study!

Threadless making friends

I know someone who is related to the person who made my shirt.

I went to ask my Biology teacher a question today, and like just as I sat down a girl cam and asked me if I got my shirt from Threadless, and I was like yeah, and she was like, by brother designed that shirt, and I was like oh, that's cool, and she was like, My name is Jessica, and I was like I am Jordan, and then she was like, OK, well enjoy the class, and she walked away.

That could have been a mouthful if I had to say that.

And so I am one step closer to getting a Biology buddie Hols, ( oh, and question one on the quiz was false because it was not in relation to the R groups, but to the backbone-crazy confusing R groups).

And here is a fun definition that I learned today:

Entropy (S) is the quantitative measure of disorder that is proportional to randomness.

An esoteric thought from biology: I am only here in any sort of order because I have created a ton of randomness. " We are massive creators of randomness!"

College

Top 5 things I hate about college:

1.) Computer testing, what is wrong with a good ole' scan tron and #2 pencil?

2.) 5 hours in the Math Lab- once you do your homework, what else is there to do...more homework, I am over halfway done with my homework for the entire semester, and I should be done with the whole semesters homework by the end of the month, maybe...depending on how bored I get in there and how much time I waste staring at the screen while I warm my hands from the freezing cold air.

3.) Atmosphere that is generated by 99.99999999% of the students on campus - and after today I am NEVER picking up a copy of the daily reveille, it was horrible, and I don't need to know about news like that

4.) Rain, chucks aren't very waterproof, and so my feet get soaked, and then I have to sit in freezing cold classrooms for hours which turns my feet into ice cubes.

5.) The amount of hours than are (supposed to be) put into studying ( I don't think I have this part down yet, like I always get it all read, and all my stuff done, but I could be better about it)

Top 2 things I like about college:



1.) My Chemistry teacher sound EXACTLY like Ernie from Sesame Street.

2.) Biology Lab - can't go wrong there ( We have been studying the rate of the reaction of catalysts. I found the effect of varying enzyme sources on the rate of the oxidation of catechol to Benzoquinone by catechol oxidase. We got to use a spectrophotometer, we "trick" it by finding the absorbency of a blank and the switching it to transmittance and inserting the Treatment tubes which then tells us the absorbency of it, which we used to find the concentration and the standard deviation. I learned how to graph my data using Excel. It was REALLY fun!)

This video is SO COOL!!!! Only watch this if you like biology, namely cells...it has won awards and things, a group of people and some students from Harvard put it together, it is really cool.