For forty-eight hours I have been addicted to IceKube (the new drug) and there have been some reactions to my mysterious behavior. There were the oblivious people, which were quite interesting to note. As secretive as this addiction is, there are still some major physical differences that were very noticeable (for example, my hands were always a bright neon green, plus I wore huge sweatshirts and carried a cooler with me all day. I also was writing in a journal for each class period). Two people out of all the other people I interact with asked me why my hands were green. I ended up lying and saying I had used markers the previous hour (which was obviously a lie since both hands were almost completely green). My mother was the one who signed the permission form (and she's the kind of person who actually reads it), so she was waiting for me to do this experiment. She kept asking me when the day was that I would do it, so I kept my mouth shut and she didn't suspect a thing during the actual assimilation. I had to tell my brother, but only because I needed to use his freezer to make the IceKube. In one case I was making IceKube and my brother's friend (Adam) came in and stared at me. When he asked me what I was doing, I said "making drugs" and he just looked at me and nodded and said "hm, I didn't think of you as the drug guy" and walked away. Later, when the experiment was over, I told him it was for school and he stared at me and nodded slowly (needless to say, he still thinks I do drugs). The other encounter with a human being I had was at my church's youth group, where I had my IceKube in the cooler and my pastor (Conor) came to "catch me up"; while I was putting IceKube in my water bottle. I was facing the wall (in a booth) and I looked at him as he asked me "uh, Courtney, what are you doing?" and I tremblingly replied “who cares? Why do you ask me this? What do you want me to say? What do you want? I'm busy. What I do is none of your business." I said that real quick about the point where he probably now thinks I'm on drugs or something.