Well, I guess everything is bothering me right now. I don't know which topic to choose for the essay part of my English exam tomorrow. None of them seem particularly appealing, and only one is even really doable. The choices are so... personal! The English teacher has been really nice lately, so I don't hate her anymore, but why on earth would she care about who I admire the most or about the most depressing time in my life? How would I even write an essay about that? I think I'm going to pick the least personal one on the list. I hate having to let teachers read my personal shit. I'm stressed as hell over my math and history exams. I don't even know what I'm gonna do about history. I'm absolutely fucked, and I do not mean in the good way. Also, I just realized this school year is halfway over, which means I only have one semester to get my shit together and get that freakazoid before she goes away forever. And to top it all off, my mom bought 2% milk instead of 1%, so my chocolate milk had a funny aftertaste. :(
My chemistry exam was BULLSHIT. "Every single question will come from your study guide," said the teacher. She lied! There were more than just a few types of questions that were definitely not even mentioned on the study guide, AND you had to write a paragraph about some thing we did in class forever ago. How am I supposed to remember every tiny detail about that!? Not even IG, our chemistry genius, knew what to write.
Also, I didn't see FCG today, so I am sad! The winter holidays mean two whole weeks without seeing her. Maybe I'll see her in the hall or something tomorrow. We don't have French class right now because we already took the exam. I won't get to see her until next semester! Ughhh! Two weeks without the freakazoid...
My aunt, uncle, and cousin are coming for Christmas, I think. They're either going to be here on Christmas or on the day after. My cousin is 17, so I'll have someone to hang out with, and them being here will will give me a good excuse to not go to my grandma's dreaded Christmas family reunion. (My grandma is from my dad's side, and this is my mom's sister's family.) I know that sounds really mean, but my redneck distant relatives have no idea how to treat me, and it's the same thing every year. Because I'm the only teenage girl, I get to be babysitter to their uncontrollable demon children, and I freaking hate it. In 8th grade they tried to sit on my laptop, then personally insulted the hell out of me.
Whoa, got off onto a tangent there. Anyway, yeah, my mom's family isn't like that. They're just... dramatic... at times, but not this aunt, uncle, and cousin. They're pretty cool. They're the ones we always go visit. When I was little, they lived really close to us, so my cousin and I pretty much grew up together. But we used to beat each other up. Hahaha. Seriously, we hated each other until like, 5 years ago. I guess he was like, the annoying slightly-older brother I never had. Like, he's older than me by about a year and a half, but when we were little, he always used to love to boast about how he was sooooo much older than me and therefore should be the boss. It would make me so mad! Hahaha! But now we're on the same level, so it's okay.
Oh! Speaking of cousins, I need to tell you guys about my psycho dream. Okay, so in my dream, I was at my house, and I was getting ready to go on a date. (With the freakazoid, of course!) But one of my other cousins was there, and she wouldn't let me put my makeup on in peace. I was so mad, so I went to Golf Course Land. Yes. Golf Course Land. It was, as you probably guessed, a land composed entirely of golf courses. I never got to go on my date because my grandma suddenly materialized in the car with me. What the hell?
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What exactly is the difference between 2% and 1% milk? I just figured they were both terms the milk companies use to label their low-fat milk, and that they were basically interchangeable.
On the other hand, I drink skim, and I can tell the difference between that and 2%. :-)
~~~ the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses ~ e e cummings ~~~
I didn't think there was a
I didn't think there was a difference either, but apparently, 1% milk tastes normal, and 2% has a strong, disgusting aftertaste.
Even skim milk tastes weird
Even skim milk tastes weird to me sometimes. (Now, I also avoid milk from paper cartons because I think it tastes like waxed paper, so I may just be weird, but still.) Maybe your mom just happened to buy an off gallon of milk.
~~~ the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses ~ e e cummings ~~~
It doesn't expire for
It doesn't expire for another week or so, but I also notice a similar taste when I drink the 2% milk at my grandma's house. It's not as strong, though, so maybe this gallon is just gross...
Well,
2% milk is 2% fat. 1% milk is 1% fat. Skim milk is 0% fat, and whole milk has however much fat was in it originally. Ooh, I'm knowledgeable about milk. As for the aftertaste, I'm pretty sure some sort of vitamin is added to 2%, but I'm not completely sure on that one.
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Then the vitamin is NASTY
Then the vitamin is NASTY and needs to go away. >:C
I think
it's some sort of health regulation about the fat. There's not much in 1% because there's so little fat, but they need to put it in some kinds of 2% to balance some other chemical in it. Something like that, anyway.
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I think it is
Vitamin D.
Your body naturally produces it from being in the sun. So, ditch the milk and go sunbath naked on the beach or something!!! And get FCG to do it with you!
No one escapes from life alive
I'LL JUST SAY NO TO 2% MILK
AND YES TO THAT IDEA
Vitamins A and D are added
Vitamins A and D are added to (almost?) all commercial milk. It's not the vitamins causing the weird taste; it's the fact that you're unaccustomed to the fat quantity. My family has gone through at least one phase with each variety of milk, and the transition is always kind of gross. After a while drinking 2% ('reduced fat'), 1% ('low fat') tastes watery, fat free ('skim milk') even more so, and 4% (whole milk) tastes too strong, et cetera. The unpleasantness subsides gradually until the former type of milk is the one that tastes gross.
↑ See that?
MacAvity actually knows what gaj's talking about, as opposed to my random hodgepodge of things I thought might be relevant. I find this amazing, somehow.
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That's actually pretty
That's actually pretty interesting. Luckily, the new milk tastes okay in cereal, so I guess I'll use it up with my cereal since it's almost gone and then make sure we get 1%.