The second installment of the monthly abode of undirected conversation continues to commemorate the founding of MuseBlog (and concomitant dawn of a new era) in August 2005. Hail ourselves! Hail! Hail! Hail!
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Yay first post!
I am having fun playing minecraft with a friend right now. Life is good.
I am a little upset that when I finally:
1. Actually post on MuseBlog, and
2. Start to give in to comment nesting,
a new random thread is created and my comments are guaranteed to be forgotten.
Know what? You’re right. We had some good conversations in progress on the first random thread, and it’s a shame to interrupt them. I’ll take this one off line and restore that one to its former place of pride until August 15.
Well, we’ve hit Delaware. Hullo!
Well, this thread is reopened.
Re: Reminiscence- for me, it’s a bit weird. I had been lurking for a while, and I came on 4 days after Fibloid Studge. So I remember the old design fairly well.
HOWEVER, I don’t reminisce about it. Why? The great blog shutdown in April forced us all to Muse Academy, which had and still has that design. I have some bad memories associated with it. Not that I don’t like it, it’s just that my early days as a museblogger were… interesting.
I think I actually accidentally joined. I’m pretty sure my first message to the Gaboomba was written to the fan page itself. It was only later that people started talking to each other through the Gaboomba and I joined in that then. And then one day there was a link to this new thing, MuseBlog and I saw that Grant had followed it and posted and then I did the same and voila our conversation moved here.
I first thought about joining back when emogrl mentioned the MuseBlog in the November/December 2006 issue (which, incidentally, was the first Muse I ever received). I actually joined six months later.
Re: End of sumer: Oh, I wish I’d seen that comment yesterday! I could have told you how to send signals to the fireflies! It’s in my entomology book and also one of my general nature exploration books. I really wish I lived somewhere with fireflies so that I could do it. Unless you haven’t released them yet?
You don’t have any fireflies where you live? That’s rough. I can’t imagine my childhood without them.
I saw my first firefly ever in June of this year.
I’ve seen a couple fireflies around here, but not enough to affect anything really. You see them occasionally and point them out, but you can’t really catch them. Usually because they’re flying too high, I think, but I can’t remember.
I can’t imagine my childhood without the San Francisco Giants. I suppose it’s all relative.
Is that football or baseball?
I’ve neither an answer nor a desire to know one, but I’d like to add that I can’t imagine my childhood without Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide To The World’s Wildlife. It is the only book that changed my life more than Harry Potter. I doubt many people can say as much about a coffe-table book, though.
And I’d like to add that I can’t imagine my childhood without Narnia, especially seeing how much of it I’ve spent longing to be Lucy, and peeking into every wardrobe I see. It’s had a greater impact on how my imagination works than probably any other series, and it’s affected my faith, too, though perhaps not to the same extent as his other work (namely Screwtape and The Great Divorce the latter of which is absolutely ~beautiful~ and I think GD might be my favourite).
Books that changed my life… hmm… well, my fifth-grade science textbook started my interest in archeology.
There are so many fireflies here where I live! Some nights I love to just sit and watch hundreds of them blink in the trees of a forest, for ages just lying there…
How do you signal fireflies? Can’t say I enjoy hot, humid summers, but that is one advantage of them: lots of nice bright firefly flashes in the grass and trees at night.
There are 2 activities, really: “Talking” to fireflies (That’s what both of my books call it) and having them “talk” to you. The former only works for one species, Photinus Pyralis. You’ll have to see if it lives in your area. If not, I’ve heard you can still do it with other fireflies, but you have to watch them to find out their flash pattern first, which could be fun or tedious depending on your interests. Take a small flashlight over to a firefly. Wait until he flashes, then turn your flashlight toward the ground and turn it on for one second. He’ll think it’s a female firefly. You can keep doing this as long as you want. It’s a good way to catch the ones that are too high, if Errata or anyone she knows ever wants to. Or you can just watch them react.
Alternatively, take a large flashlight and do the same except “keeping the lens of the light almost flat on the ground. When you see the male flashing, tilt your light up a little on the side that faces him and give it a flash.”
The next works with all male fireflies and isn’t a more fun method of catching them or just interacting if catching’s not your thing but something to do once they’re in the jar.
When fireflies are in an area with hotter temperature, they flash more quickly. Dipping the jar in warmer and warmer water can be interesting, but
WARNING: “You should never create conditions so extreme that these creatures become overwhelmed by the heat. Instead, raise the temperature gradually by adding more warm water to the pot.” And start with lukewarm water.
I see a lot when I’m on Long Island. Sometimes, when I go out to look at the stars, I have to keep watching to see if that flash was a firefly or a meteor.
Well, I finally did it and joined NaNo.
I have teacher assignments… sort of. Language arts and science teachers just say “Science, Teacher” instead of “Umbridge, Dolores” or whatever. So I may or may not have Professor Umbridge again. *anxiety*
I pied that when you said you did NaNo and then read the rest. Oops. I take it back. I’ll be more careful next time. I don’t want you to have Professor Unmbridge; I did in 6th grade math, if not as bad a version as yours (from what I’ve heard), and it’s… ugh.
GUYS GUESS WHERE I AM?
I AM IN A ROOM.
MY ROOM.
(WELL, MINE AND MY ROOMMATE’S.)
AT A COLLEGE.
Okay….
Got here around 8:30ish, went around to all the sign-in and information tables, suchlike, saw roommie, went to room to start moving in. Mom and Dad helped me drop stuff off then went to wander around while I unpacked (I knew where I wanted stuff, so it was a lot less hectic for me to do it by myself, they weren’t being negligent). Roomie showed up, and her family and boyfriend all helped her set up her side of the room. I think it’ll be good, she seems nice. She has the cutest lil’ southern accent. I’m kind of afraid I’ll start mimicking it and then offend her or something. xD
Did various orientation things, now in my room before dinner soaking up a/c and being tired and internetting.
THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING OH MY GOSH WSDIHUKJASDOIHKUBWJEGFASJCKXN!!!!!!!
That sounds exciting! I am one part jealous and two parts terrified by the idea that this’ll be me in a year, haha. You must tell us all about your College Adventures!
Sounds exactly like my move-in day – I wonder if there’s a standard first-week program US colleges follow? Anyway, WELCOME TO COLLEGE LIFE!
Ah, to be ensconced in the halls of academia!
WHEEHEE Congrats, Fiddler!
I AM ENVIOUS
I STILL HAVE ONE WEEK
IT IS ACTUALLY mildly TERRIFYING
I thought is was too weird for a word like mildly to be in all-caps, so instead it is looking odd in lowercase.
CONGRATS!!!! WWAADKSJHG
WOOOO
SO AWESOME
YOU AND COLLEGE
IT WILL BE FABULOUS
Hi, all!
Yikes, it’s literally been years since I last posted here. I used to be pretty active, but then I went to college and between classes and social stuff, I didn’t spend as much time online and ended up losing touch with the blog. I recently had the opportunity during a semester abroad in England to organize kokons with Mel and Paul, though, which reminded me how fun Musers are and inspired me to come back to the blog now that I’m home and have some time for it. I probably won’t have time for RPGs, but I do intend to do my best to keep up with enough other threads to be an active MBer again.
Looks like the new format is working well. Love the pie buttons!
Welcome back! I never knew you, but I like your name.
Thanks – same to you!
Welcome back, E the A! We’ve got some other elaborations in the works, which we hope you’ll enjoy.
How dare you taunt us with vagueness.
Elaborations?
Hello there!
I hope you can find time to stick around. I always like seeing old faces around here.
Are you Carmen Sandiego?
Welcome back!
Welcome! Back!
(I’m new here, so I never knew you, but welcome!)
HOLY- I remember you! You were on Muse Scouts!
Hello, hello! Welcome back (for now)! Wow, this is strange… I didn’t recognize you until I saw Robert’s commment and then- “oh. Eccentric the Afterthought. … WHOA!”
Wow, I remember you!
Welcome back!
Okay, so I don’t have any good photos because I wasn’t able to take any with anyone, but…
So, last year, as chronicled in the thread “KaiYves at the World Science Festival” and my Muserology article, I went to the World Science Festival with my friend Erin. Among other things, I asked a question about creating fingerless space gloves to spacesuit designer Dava Newman and got autographs from astronauts Sandra Magnus and Leland Melvin.
Dr. Magnus, as I hope you all will remember, was aboard the final Space Shuttle Mission, STS-135 Atlantis, last month, while Mr. Melvin is now in charge of NASA’s education department.
After Erin let me know that the STS-135 crew would be appearing at the American Museum of Natural History yesterday and the Intrepid tomorrow, we both asked our parents to take us. (Erin had golf camp, but her mom got her permission to come to the museum first and arrive late to camp.)
We got to sit under the Hayden Sphere in the Rose Center for Earth and Space, where everything is all shiny and white and sci-fi-looking. The astronauts talked about the mission and showed a video about it that included the song “Countdown”, which I sung along quietly to. Then they took questions from the audience. Erin and I didn’t raise our hands because we wanted to give all of the little kids a turn first.
So, Erin and I got in line for autographs, and even though there were a lot of people, so everything was hurried, all of the astronauts were really nice to us.
Erin told Commander Chris Ferguson “Thank you for being awesome.”, and he said “Thank you, but I don’t know if awesome is the right word.”, and I said “No, you are!” (Also, he looks like Robert. Just throwing that out there.)
I was wearing my fingerless gloves, and when we got to Sandy Magnus, I went “Do you remember us from the World Science Festival? I was the girl with the gloves who asked if Mike Fincke had stage fright?”
“And I was the girl next to her.” Erin added.
“Oh yes, I remember you! I remember the gloves!” She said, and all of her crewmembers laughed. “That was fun, at the World Science Festival. It was really great.”
So after we got our autographs, we went up to the upper level and spied on them signing things for other people until they had to go. Then we looked around the Rose Center a little before Erin had to leave.
It was so great!
Good for you, KaiYves!
There are probably a good many parallel universes in which I did become an astronaut. I came very close to going to the Naval Academy at one point, and it would have been a logical enough progression from there.
What are you saying, that he’s an alternate universe version of you who ended up in ours?
What are you saying, that there’s another logical explanation?
Stranger things have been known to happen. Well, no, they probably haven’t.
We’ve established that there’s more than one of each GAPA. Piggy spotted another Rebecca model exiting a fossil shop once, if I recall correctly.
Yes, in Colorado.
Regardless, this is something that should come up in one of our fan-fics or roleplays.
Hi everyone.
Back from Ashland after a very unpleasant, surreal experience on the Greyhound. The bus we were supposed to catch (at 2:30 am) was full, so we had to wait for the next one, which didn’t come until 4. AM. I was only half-awake most of the time, but it was freezing and I was sitting by strangers and there was a crying baby and I wanted nothing more than to go to sleep for like twelve hours. And then we got to Portland only to find that the delay had caused us to miss our next bus and we were stuck there ALL DAY.
In the future, I will always take the train.
ANYWAY, Ashland was wonderful, though three or four days with only three plays and no activities planned is a little too long for such a small town. But the plays were ~*LOVE*~ and I’m soooooooo excited for next year.
And now I’m back and I’m going to school in a week and my mom is moving in less than two and the house is CHAOS and there is almost nothing in the fridge.
I need to finish packing (again). And the sewing machine broke while I was finishing my sheet. ARGH.
Speaking of which, I am totally going to be in Portland for the Pirate Festival. YESSSSS
OH and today I bought “Rise Up Singing” and Robin Williamson’s (of the Incredible String Band) fiddle tunes book.
Trains > buses.
More expensive, though.
So the inequality could also be used to compare the cost of trains to buses, where Trains=cost of a train ride and Buses=cost of a bus ride.
Well, but the bus is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy more expensive than it’s worth. I spent about thirty bucks going down, pitching in for gas with two other people, and that was more than enough. I spent about seventy (after a massive discount) going up, riding on a bus with fifty other people who all paid at least as much as I did. Is there logic? No.
eeuurgh, that sounds really exhausting. BUT EVERYTHING ELSE SOUNDS GREAT! and good luck with packing~
I just accedentally pinned the sweater I am altering to the carpet.
I… I am not a natural at this sewing thing.
I read ‘pinned’ as ‘pied’. I was about to say you were a natural at something much more important, but I suppose pinning things to carpets isn’t exactly a necessary life skill… But it’s better than nothing! At least now you can tell people tat it’s second nature for you to pin sweaters to the carpet perfectly!
I’m off to college tomorrow. Hopefully I’ll be able to get on the wifi without any trouble so I can get on MuseBlog and let you all know how I’m adjusting to life as a post-secondary school student.
What am I forgetting? It feels like I’m forgetting something. Rarlgh.
Bon voyage! Hope your day will be smooth sailing!
Rule #1 of travelling: You will always feel as if you have forgotten something.
Rule #2 of travelling: It will always be your colored pencils and your toothpaste.
Rule #3: Every useless thing you do not bring, you will end up wanting.
Rule #4: Every useless thing you do bring, you will not end up needing.
Corollary to Rules #3 and #4- If you bring a flashlight, you will not need it. If you do NOT bring a flashlight, at some point, you will need one.
Two words: baking soda.
When I was in high school, I spent a summer at a special Governor’s School science-and-math program. I knew that my roommate-to-be was a chemistry geek and a prankster, so when packing I impulsively took along a huge box of baking soda. I wasn’t sure exactly why, but I knew that baking soda absorbs odors, puts out fires, and neutralizes acids, so I just intuited that it might come in handy.
It did. Has anybody heard of butyric acid? Anyway, I highly recommend huge boxes of baking soda to dorm-dwellers.
Yes! I also vouch for the powers of baking soda. This! If you have a fridge you can keep it in there and it does doubly good as well. It’s also really good for cleaning surfaces, which you will need at some point in the year, and I highly recommend wiping down everything in your room before you unpack even if just because you feel so much better about it afterwards.
Also baking soda was required in every recipe I tried to cook and it was always hard to get ahold of. No one had any on hand, all the dorm kitchens had were baking powder, and I did almost all my baking after midnight so there was never time to run to the store. And unlike many other things, you can’t substitute stuff for it very easily (by the way, you can substitute almost anything with applesauce or bananas. Eggs, oil, butter… it’s great. I had a friend who was allergic to eggs so I had a bunch of those little individual servings of Mott’s on hand. Cheaper and last longer than eggs too! Just add a tiiiny bit more of the baking soda with them).
It’s also useful if you did indeed forget your toothpaste.
If you can stand to put it in your mouth. One of my dentists recommended brushing with a paste made from baking soda and hydrogen peroxide. Urgh. I hope it was good for my teeth, because it had nothing else at all going for it.
It’s nasty stuff, I agree, especially with the peroxide, but it works if you’re out of other options.
I think you can turn baking powder into baking soda. Or maybe it’s the other way round. I can never keep them straight.
Or maybe it goes both ways?
Remembering things is hard
It’s the other way around. Baking powder will react with water and acid, but baking soda will only react to acid. However, if you mix baking soda with cream of tartar (which I think is an acidic salt (if that’s even possible)) in the right ratios you’ll have made baking powder.
I’m very iffy on the science of it, which I shouldn’t be because I think it’s actually fairly simple, but that’s how it goes.
What did it come in handy for?
And I forgot to add. My friend once spilled hydrochloric acid on her skirt in chemistry. The acid would have eaten through the fabric eventually had she not put baking soda on it soon afterwards. She has since given the skirt to me and it has a faint stain where the acid was but at least the fabric is still there.
I’m remembering my colored pencils! They’re in a pile by the door with my electric kettle, my baking dish, and my rug.
I always forget pajamas.
With me, it’s usually deodorant.
Baking soda ought to be usable for that, too, in a pinch. It’s versatile stuff.
Actually, that’s probably a brilliant idea. Cheaper than deodorant, too.
how do you keep it from getting all over your clothes?
I haven’t tried it, but I suspect you don’t.
Maybe you could make it into a sort of…thin paste? EXPERIMENT TIME.
13- It always feels like you’re forgetting something.
All these MBers leaving for college for the first time. I feel like we’re temporarily on MuseBlog 9 3/4 or something. Are there always this many leaving and I just missed it every time?
Time for a poll. When did you first leave for college? Did you post about it on MB?
Me:
I first left for college in Fall 2008 and I believe I posted about it on MB. I’m not sure, though. I likely did as I’ve been active on MB since the first days of MB with no real periods of inactivity.
I had my first MuseBlog dream last night! We were all at a Kokon! At the lake! And… I don’t remember much else, except that I went onto the Futuristic Kokonspiratorial Dystopia and everything had already started and I was so behind on the plot that I got mixed up reading it. (Does anyone else besides me feel slightly dyslexic when trying to read stuff in dreams?)
My second fingerless glove is done! This one fits! Like a glove! It’s orange! And I modified the pattern to make it a K1 P1 rib, so it’s much more snug. Also, I figured out that I could buy a big huge ball of yarn (one of those “one pound” things) and that would give me a ton of gloves. For marching band.
I don’t get dyslexic in dreams; I just ignore the letters and only absorb the meaning. i don’t think verbally, so the only words that come to my mind at all when I read in dreams is dialogue, which I hear out loud. With everything else, I just see it in my mind, know it’s not real, assume I must be reading, and am too tired to realize that reading involves words. I’ve dreamed about reading entire HP fanfics this way.
Yesterday, things happened. Examples:
1. I found out what school I’m going to! Finally! And I can take debate and Spanish and choir and high school English! Probably! And it starts on Monday! Oh, well…
2. I found a nonvenomous snake in the yard!! It was awesome! I was just sitting there watching a cardinal in my neighbor’s tree, and I saw a big grey snake to my right! I think it’s a Buttermilk Racer!
3. I found new evidence for a hypothesis I have about Green Anoles!
Awesome! We’d all like to hear your hypothesis! Good luck at your new school!
7.1- I was actually discussing this with Odie last night and she said that the teams are two-teacher teams consisting of science and social studies, and that the math and language arts teachers are going to be shared between teams somehow. It’s really confusing… but the thing is, Odie looked on the database of eighth grade teachers at our school on the website and Professor Umbridge isn’t there. I’d think they’d have had her on that website… so either
a)she’s not loaded onto there yet, having been in seventh grade last year, in which case she is probably my teacher,
b) she’s been sacked, or
c) she went down to sixth grade.
What’s the hypothesis?
I’ll explain first. There are lots of green anoles in my yard. Lots of them. I see them almost every time I go outside, and I go outside at least twice a day, and when I see one, I watch it until it goes out of sight and cannot be found. Thus, I see them doing a lot of things, and it’s interesting. Unfortunately, I tend to inadvertently scare them. When they’re scared, they either run, hide, or try to intimidate me. They nod their heads furiously and a bright red neck sac becomes visible. I’d never seen one without the other. Anyway, once I watched a tiny green anole that I suspected was very young, and he (I looked it up just now, and only males do the throat sac thing), and he nodded his head furiously, but the neck sac didn’t appear. I developed 2 hypotheses:
1. They’re born with the instinct to do this, but the neck sac doesn’t develop until they’re older, and
2. They have the instinct to try, but they have to practice, so it doesn’t work at first.
I think 1 is more likely, but I’m still not sure. Anyway, I couldn’t know whether either was correct until I found another young green anole. Eventually, I did, and the same thing happened, so it’s now much less likely to have been a fluke or an only semi-aggressive anole or something because it happened twice, and the second was even smaller than the first.
Cool! I wish we had easily findable reptiles in our yard. I’m not sure about the juvenile versus full grown behavior, but that’s an interesting theory. I think I remember from my herpetology class last year that only males have the dewlap, but I don’t know anything about when it develops.
Got the September National Geographic yesterday. It’s one of the most optimistic issues ever and I really liked that. Save baby elephants, restore the Adirondack wilderness, empower women in developing countries, explore the Antarctic with technology Scott and Admunsen never imagined, and, to answer the question asked on the cover, with jetpacks and wingsuits- we CAN fly!
Well, I’m all moved in. The wireless network system is a bit weird, but I’m on a network. The room’s not horrid. Bit small, of course, but it could be worse. There’s a window with a nice view, and a sink, and a closet that’s bigger than I thought it would be. Nowhere to put the TV yet, though. My roommate isn’t here yet, so maybe he’ll have brought something.
So far I’ve gotten a free sno-cone and seen some people from Jimmy John’s on bikes tossing out free sandwiches. I accidentally missed brunch, so I’m going to have to go pay for food, since I realized I don’t have any bowls big enough to make ramen in. Maybe I’ll just snack on dry Frosted Mini-Wheats until they start serving dinner.
I just purposefully packed a large bowl thinking “I will undoubtedly need to make ramen in this.” And then I saw this and felt extra justified.
There’s always the H&H…
I heard something on NPR the other day about how thinking about food (the smell, the texture, etc.) and imagining yourself eating it helps to stave off hunger for a little while.
Really? That sounds… counterintuitive. Wouldn’t focusing on food tend to make one more hungry rather than less? *makes mental note to test that the next time I am hungry*
Incredible! I actually socialized this evening! I knew bringing Set and playing Eurobeat remixes of MLP songs would be a good idea.
You need my Eggomatic.
Wait, I thought ramen came with a styrofoam cup to make it with?
No…? Are you thinking of Cup Noodles?
Um, I’m not really sure. Around here, we get noodles and spices and whatnot in a styrofoam cup, pour boiling water in and call it ramen. I don’t think the cups actually say ramen on them though, so you probably call them something else and make ramen differently.
Yep. Cup noodles. Ramen noodles come in plastic wrapping.
Okay, I guess we just have different names for them down here. Huh.
Yes, I live closer to you than anyone else by far (as you know, of course, but just in case someone else doesn’t), and I also thought ramen came in a styrofoam cup, but I’ve never heard of Cup Noodles.
STOCK UP ON FROSTED MINIWHEATS I ate them all the time. Also if your dorm has an oven/kitchen that students can use buy yourself some premade cookie dough or brownie mix and bake things, it will make you all the friends. Even though I’m a big supporter of baking from scratch having all the ingredients when you need them can be a pain : P
Baking from scratch? But that’s not possible! To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe! And you can’t make matter out of nothing!…
Points for the Sagan reference.
There’s a communal kitchen around somewhere, but I haven’t been able to find it yet. As for Miniwheats, I buy the supersized bag of the generic version, which is clearly superior to the name brand.
I am planning to bake all the cookies.
I have received my Pottermore welcome email! I’m just about to start.
Everyone is leaving for college before I am! Everyone’s starting to have awesome experiences before I do! That’s the drawback of the quarter system.
ENVY ENVY POTTERMORE ENVY ENVY
MORE ENVY FROM OVER HERE.
I WOULD LIKE TO ADD MY ENVY IN TO THIS ENVY PARTY
Lucky!! I haven’t yet…
Hey! Thanks, word-correcting gnome!
ENVY
SPOILERS PLEASE
BUT POST A SPOILER WARNING BEFORE THEM!!!!!!
Alice! I was in the city that you live in (if you still live there) a day or two ago! I didn’t know we were going through there, but we were, and the whole time I couldn’t think of anything else but “This is where Alice lives! I should have known about this before so I could meet her! What are the chances of randomly running into her? Ooh, maybe that’s her! No, wait, that person is fifty. Ooh, maybe that’s her!”
Alas.
It was very sad. Because if I’d known beforehand that we were going there, we could have arranged a meeting. But I didn’t know, and so we couldn’t.
WHAT
THAT IS THE SADDEST THING EVER
I COULD HAVE SEEN YOU AND NOT EVEN KNOWN
Was this Wednesday or before that? Because yesterday I was totally hanging out downtown. But before that I was stuck in Portland/Medford. Anyway, if you saw a girl wearing a green skirt with purple stripes, THAT WAS ME.
Sunday.
I was in Portland too, though, on Saturday.
MAYBE I SAW YOU THERE.
No, on Saturday I was in Ashland.
Speaking of which, do you still live in the city where you used to?
Cat’s Meow (21.2): If you’re talking to me, yes. Which reminds me, we really need to organize a kokon… I mean, we only live in the same city.
Haha, exactly! A kokon has been a long time coming. How should we make this happen?
Some years ago, I was given a disc that was recorded off of two records, so that the entire disc, while consisting of approximately twenty songs, is only four tracks. I would really like to break it up into one song per track because right now I can never listen to an individual song unless it’s the first on a track. Does anyone know how I would go about doing that on iTunes?
If you download audacity (free music-editing program) it shouldn’t be hard to do at all.
If you have garage band, it’s really easy. Just download the song and split the track to include only one of the songs, deleting the rest. You will have to do this several times, but it works. Then just share with ITunes and ou can easily make another CD.
I have dermatillomania.
I have mysophobia.
I hope you can find your cure.
My cousin and I both have dysania.
I have trichtillomania.
What Errata said– good luck with finding help and/or treatment that works for you.
I have teuthophobia.
I have open door phobia.
Good luck, as others said.
I have mysophobia and some obsessive-compulsive behaviors. Good luck finding your cure.
*currently burning up inside*
Ahem, I’ve studied psychology. Fears are only phobias if-
They are so extreme that you will go out of your way to avoid the possibility of that occuring. A true pyrophobe (just making that up…) would not only not light a fireplace, he would not have a fireplace, nor would he go places with fireplace, nor would he even watch a movie where there was any fire at all.
They are also linked with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder- Why? Obsessive Compuslive Disorder means that you have Obsessions (such as a fear of germs) which lead to Compulsions (such as constant handwashing). A phobia is essentially the Obsessions relating to a specific object without specific Compulsions.
Phobias are exceedingly uncommon- however, simple fears of things are fairly common. So, I’m guessing many of you have fears rather than phobias (unless it’s been diagnosed). For example- Biblio, I seriously doubt that you’d be able to function at all with a true phobia of open doors- you would demand that your parents have no doors in the house, or that they always close them. Now, that may be true, and I may be misevaluating you, but I doubt it is an actual phobia. No offense if it is, and is causing serious stress in your life (if it is, you should look into behavioral therapy.) but I find it highly unlikely
I don’t know very much about manias, so I won’t comment on them, but I’ll say again- it only gets a real name and is a real disorder if it is interfering with your life.
Sorry if I offended anyone with this rant, but as someone who’s studied psychology fairly in depth, it really annoys me.
From what I’ve read, “open door phobia” in any case really isn’t a phobia, but for some reason that’s what it’s called. At least, I’ve never seen a report of it that really seems like a phobia. But that seems to be the name of it.
Another reason why it isn’t a phobia is that it generally involves the compulsion to close the doors as well. Perhaps I should boycott the name. But you are right; it’s not a phobia. My point is that if it isn’t then it doesn’t exist at all, and it’s really the name that’s wrong; it’s not just misuse on my part. But I should avoid using it because it’ not accurate. It’s just that pyrophobes exist, but I’m probably the closest thing to an open door phobe there is, except for some reason that’s the name for it…
I could be entirely wrong. I haven’t read that much about it, and it’s quite possible that there are people with a true phobia of it; I just haven’t heard of it. Of course, if I am wrong, that means that it really is that people like me keep saying they have it and so others aren’t sure if it’s real, which would be a major problem and I would be very sorry, and I hope my entire post sounds egocentric. When I looked online, all I could find were reports like mine, except there did seem to be an accepted name. Maybe I did make a too-broad generalization, and I’m really sorry if so.
Although in my defense it did interfere with my life once, but that was only one time, so it doesn’t count.
Well, my problem wasn’t that you were using it incorrectly, it is that MANY people are using it incorrectly. Spread the word! Phobia is not a simple fear! Start a movement!
…That’s a good idea. Thank you. The next time I define hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, and someone tells me en has it (Yes, after hearing the word. Seriously. Without screaming or anything.), I won’t be stunned into silence; I’ll know to tell en that they can’t possibly because if en did, en’d be so terrified of potentially hearing/reading one that en’d become a hermit who never read anything or communicated with other humans in any way and certainly wouldn’t be listening to someone like me speak.
Not necessarily. People with clinical gephyrophobia don’t move to the middle of a desert–they just avoid bridges as much as they can, most likely only crossing bodies of water by boat even though that may be much more difficult, time-consuming, or expensive. Enc has some good points, but naturally such matters are matters of constant debate amongst psychologists.
I’d also mention that phobias are not “exceedingly uncommon”. They are uncommon, but not exceedingly so. Severely life-altering phobias are, but there are varying levels of phobia. A 2002 study estimated that about 4.4% of the population of the United States has a specific phobia. Enceladus seems to be focusing mainly on criterion 5 that the DSM-IV-TR gives: “The avoidance, anxious anticipation or distress in the feared situation(s) interferes significantly with the person’s normal routine, occupational (or academic) functioning, or social activities or relationships, or there is marked distress about having the phobia.” The interpretation of this criterion varies from doctor to doctor, so results may vary.
Then yes, my mysophobia is at least a mild phobia.
There is a perfume called Vampyroteuthis infernalis. “Christened after the squid of the same name, and Latin for Vampire Squid From Hell. Contains notes of ocean, a little dragon’s blood, and a sweet, velvety, creamy rose.”
It would cost me $4.25 for a small bottle w/shipping this is perfect I am so getting this
I imagine it’s for Goths?
No, it’s probably just made by Goths. You’d be surprised by the ridiculous name’s they give perfumes… My mom has one called “Zombie’s Cucumber.” No joke.
Zombie’s Cucumber isn’t just a random combination of words; it actually refers to a poisonous hallucinogenic plant that grows in Haiti and is used in zombie rituals.
Still very Goth.
Sweet!
Wait… they have that in a perfume? I suppose they do have whale feces in perfume though, so why not?
They have whale vomit in perfume, I know that.
Listened to this song about a girl who fell in love with one of her father’s knights. He wouldn’t marry her (he SAID he was “promised away”) so she fell ill for his love and everyone was like “this girl is DYING FOR YOUR LOVE” and he was like “Oh, well in that case I suppose I’ll marry her.” And it kind of bothers me. I mean, how manipulative can you get? And what happened to the other girl? Did he just abandon her because there was a more dramatic girl somewhere else? (Or maybe he was lying…)
It’s a ballad and probably shouldn’t bother me this much.
Knights are known health hazards. Actuarial tables show that maidens who love them face a highly elevated statistical risk of pining away and dying.
I don’t know, maybe it’s just the way the story is presented that makes me think she doesn’t really NEED to die for him, she’s just doing it because she knows if she does he’ll marry her.
Oddly enough, I don’t feel anywhere near the same level of resentment towards Sweet William (of Barbara Allen) or Lady Margaret (of Lady Margaret & Sweet William), possibly because they actually DIE instead of becoming miraculously cured as soon as the object of their affection walks in the door. Moral of the story: manipulation and excessive drama are OK as long as it’s not successful?
That is disturbing. I found the same thing with the Lady of Shallot. She pretty much died for Lancelot and all he had to show for it was, “Oh that’s a pretty lady. Too bad she died.”
I thought she died from a curse. I mean I guess if it hadn’t been for him she would have kept doing what she was doing and the curse would have remained latent. Or something. I’ve only read it once.
Sometimes love songs can be really disturbing when you think about them a bit. I think the two worst I know are one that basically says ‘Yeah, you should listen to your heart and follow it and all, and I’m only saying this because I’m convinced your heart will tell you to be with me’,
and the other which is summed up as ‘You dumped me and I’m really sad so I’m going to go become a hobo and live on the corner where we first met forever and ever in hopes that you’ll see this as really romantic instead of messed up and obsessive’.
That’s not as bad as the ones that are stalker songs though! “I’l be watching you…”
True.
“I’m your biggest fan, I’ll chase you down until you love me …”
I start high school on Monday and EVERYTHING IS NERVOUS ENERGY aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
ME TOO BUT I’M NOT AS NERVOUS
MOSTLY INDIFFERENT
HOW OLD ARE YOU THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE
I’m a freshman. How about you?
I like the contrast between the question and the answer–from OMG to polite inquiry.
I figured I’ve been doing too many OMG posts.
DO YOU WANT ME TO DO IT MORE
GUYS TODAY I FOUND OUT THAT A PROFESSOR AT MY COLLEGE STUDIES TARDIGRADES.
I thought of you, Bibliophile.
Anyway, I just thought you should know that.
I should sleep, because I have to be awake and eating breakfast in 7 hours. Dang.
I think Jade is infecting me with capslock posts about random things I NEED TO TELL YOU at ungodly hours of the night.
OKAY SLEEP NOW, EVEN THOUGH IT’S FOR THE WEAK. I’M STILL IN ORIENTATION, OKAY? DON’T JUDGE.
SQUEEEEEE!
What’s his name? On second thought, you don’t have to answer that if it’s too personal, but I’d appreciate it if you did because I might have corresponded with en; some professors have papers that aren’t online but they’ll give you for free if you ask for them, so I’ve sent letters to a few professors like that. Or I might of read one of ens papers that’s online for free.What area does en specialize in, if he specializes at all?
His name is Paul J. Bartels. If you google him information should come up.
Hello 4am. I was up this time last night too so I think I’m just going to give up on sleep for now since that didn’t happen till at least 5:30 yesterday. At least I can be productive now that I’ve given up on going to bed.
5am and still not sleepy : / Someday I’d like to just spend a week going to bed when I’m tired and letting myself wake up naturally just to figure out what my natural circadian rhythm really is. Sigh.
I wish 4 AM would say hello, but it never wakes me up – its’ cousin, 2 AM, always puts me to sleep.
Exactly one week from tomorrow, I will be in school. *shudders* I can’t make up my mind whether I’m nervous, excited, or doomed.
Actually, school starts next Thursday. But whatever.
Hey GAPAs, is there going to be a 2011 MuseBlog Signatures shirt? I just made a vastly improved signature to my last one, and I was hoping that it could be put to use.
Just to clarify before I send it in: is it permissible to use the Muse logo on the shirt or would that violate copyright?
Back from [state park]! We had a great time, everything was very beautiful.
I caught a lot of frogs and observed them. I will tell you my findings at a later point. We did not see any meese.
Pottermore is pretty cool! I just finished book 1. Book 2 will be up early next year.
SPOILER POTTERMORE KIND OF NOT REALLY SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER POTTERMORE SPOILER THE REST OF THIS POST IS SPOILERS.
It’s basically what I guessed it was earlier–there are around two-three different “areas” for each chapter, and you explore these areas to collect items and bits of extra JKR goodies.
The best part is getting a wand and sorted into your house! The questions are different for each person and are so unique! I have a 14.5-inch Alder wand with a phoenix feather core, and I am in Ravenclaw. (Tangent: One of my questions from the sorting hat was “Black or white?” I immediately thought of how Pokemon had already made this decision for me, and chose white).
You earn one house point every time you find something. There are two interactive “games” to earn more house points. You can brew potions and for every successful potion you earn 5 house points. There is also a deuling game, but it has been closed for maintenance ever since before I got in, so I have no idea how it works.
Apparently a couple of people have uploaded their own artwork already, but I have no idea how to do it. It’s probably been closed since, again, before I got in.
All in all, I thought it was great! The artwork for each area was good, and I liked how there are very few faces shown (Quirrell’s was the only one I noticed). A drawback is that there is no sound, but that’s a common complaint and they will probably work on it. Another common complaint is that there’s not much to do after you finish the book, but I think that once dueling gets back up online it’ll be better.
The best two new JKR writings so far are the ones about wands and Professor McGonagall’s backstory.
Oh, and there are a little more than 20,000 “registered students” at Hogwarts right now, so I guess about 7,000 emails are sent in each batch.
THERE YOU GUYS WANTED SPOILERS I GAVE YOU SPOILERS. SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER POTTERMORE SPOILER YOU CAN READ THE NEXT POST NOW.
THE ENVY
OH THE ENVY
I AM DYING
OF THE ENVY
I forgot to say the best part!
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER POTTERMORE KIND OF NOT REALLY SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER POTTERMORE SPOILER THE REST OF THIS POST IS SPOILERS. We don’t have to yell “JELLY-LEGS JINX” anymore! There’s an actual incantation! Though I did like yelling.
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER POTTERMORE POTTERMORE SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER POTTERMORE SPOILER THE REST OF THIS POST IS SPOILERS.
WHAT DAY DID YOU SIGN UP! DID DAY 3 GET THE EMAIL YET?
Some people from Day 7 got the email. Some people from Day 1 did not. It doesn’t have anything to do with that, it seems. “First come, first serve” referred to registering, not access.
I signed up day 1, but as Bibliophile says, they’re doing it randomly.
When I was 6 a relative sent me this kit where you wrote a story and drew pictures and sent it in and they made it into a book that was bound not like published but real looking. I wrote a story about a squirrel. Later my sister was born and by a complete coincidence she got named the same name as the squirrel. Today I found it and read it. The squirrel’s older brother had a name. And it was Paperclip’s first name. O.o
*gapes*
Coincidences, coincidences…
I hope that doesn’t happen to me. I always gave my characters names like Catteroria.
It’s nice to be safe and warm indoors when it’s cold and foggy outside.
Where are you that it’s cold and foggy? I’m jealous.
I was about to say the same thing.
Long Island. And believe me, going for a jog just after sunset become much less fun when it gets darker quicker than you expected and you turn back only to find the fog has rolled in and made it so you can barely see the lights of where you started. (And your exercise clothes have no pockets, so you don’t have a mobile phone.)
Mondo-creepy.
Robert (2.1): I’ve been wondering about this, actually. Years ago, I know we had to make new threads because they got filled up and it took a long time for the pages to load. Is that still why there are multiple versions now? Are they switched based on date or number of comments?
Fiddler (8): Yayayayyyyyy!!! Congratulations! I’m sure you’ve posted more about college later on in the thread, so I’ll continue reading!
Eccentric (9): Ahoy!
Alice (11): Rise Up Singing! That’s a wonderful book.
oxlin (15): I left for college last summer, July 2010. I went on a month-long backpacking trip before I moved in in August. I think I did post about it.
I remember, a few years ago, reading your posts about college and getting really excited. You wrote one about a typical day–you wrote a letter, drank tea, did some reading, went to class, etc., and it seemed absolutely wonderful. Now I’m there, too!
Piggy (19): Good windows/views are great in college dorm rooms. I had two giant windows last year (I was in a corner room), and it made all the difference. Natural light!
Alice (22): If you have a Mac, you can use GarageBand. Or you can borrow someone else’s Mac (they’re sure to be everywhere when you go to college) or stop by the library/apple store and to it there, too. You need to put the entire track into the program, then split it up and export the songs individually. It’s really easy because you can send them directly back to iTunes.
Fiddler (27): I was more exhausted after one day of orientation than I was for the entire month of backpacking from which I had just returned. Don’t worry, it settles down!
Anyway, in personal news [[I’m not up to writing a whole book about this right now, so I’m going to try to gloss over it quickly for you]] [[believe me, what you see below is the short version]]: So, some of you probably know that I have Crohn’s Disease (there was a thread about my intestines a few years ago, if anyone remembers) (here:https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1459). Basically, it’s a chronic autoimmune disease that targets the digestive system. I was diagnosed about 8 years ago, and I’ve been on a variety of medications and such since then, treating this and that. I have a very asymptomatic case of the disease (about 40% of patients are like this), so I don’t feel pain until I’m really in trouble. Last week, I woke up in the middle of the night in severe pain and went to the emergency room after many hours of waiting (seeing if it would go away, and also waiting for dawn so we could call my doctor). I had just traveled 10 hours the day before to visit family in Michigan, so we were far away from everything–and ended up driving another 3.5 hours to a really good hospital, because my doctor suspected that I would need surgery. I spent 6 days in the hospital where they calmed my flare (I had a partial bowel obstruction; parts of my intestine have so much scar tissue and inflammation that they’re completely closed up unless they need to squeeze food through–and eventually they can’t even do that) with hardcore IV drugs and hospital stuff. When I was discharged, we drove back home (so much for family vacation, heh), and I’ve been to many doctors since then. They can’t seem to agree on whether I need surgery now (followed by intense IV chemo-like medications), or whether I should start the medications first and see if they can postpone surgery. Also, college starts on Wednesday, and it looks like I probably won’t be able to make it on time. So that’s where I am now. /lifeupdate.
Oh dear. Feel better soon!
Seconded.
Oh noes! I hope you get to feeling better! O.O That sounds serious!
thinking about you, pan! i hope you feel better soon!
Day Two Update:
I am conforming to my own stereotypes. I’ve eaten a lot of free food, I’ve thrown a ball around the quad, I’ve been to a free midnight showing of Back to the Future, I’ve hung around a street corner at night. I just need to use my laptop outside while smiling and I’ll be a definite college student.
“Wait a minute. Didn’t I see that kid in the last fund-raising pamphlet the college sent me?”
I know exactly how you feel! I run for free food. I carry my laptop with me everywhere. I run for free t shirts. It’s ridiculous. I especially knew I was there when at a free breakfast I returned to the line and started shoving poptarts and nutrigrain bars in my purse.
THIS IS MY PLAN. ^ If I am successful enough in smuggling food out of the dining hall, I will downgrade my meal plan and save money.
I don’t particularly care about t-shirts though because I have a gazillion and don’t really wear them except in work/camping/sundry rugged situations. Or if I’m lazy.
It’s been thunder storming every night for the past three nights. I’m sick of lighting. And during the day, it’s so, so humid.
But on the plus side, my Black game that I was really far on got hacked beyond repair, so I had to start over. </sarcasm
GAPAs- I’ve just realized, I don’t have a paleo account, even though I’ve been on the blog nearly two years. I never requested one because I don’t really understand what they are, but I might as well get one and try to figure it out.
First you need to apply for a log-in account. You don’t have one yet, as far as I can tell.
Er… how do I do that? *is clueless*
See the “log in” tab at upper right? Hit it, and you’ll get the option of creating a new account.
Okay, thanks. I just did that.
Question: Is there a word for the female equivalent of a metrosexual — a straight woman who conforms to lesbian stereotypes?
That’s what I’ve always felt like, since I was maybe six or seven, but I’m noticing it more just now… I used to resent the fact that everyone thought I was a boy, but in another way, it’s kind of fun to be androgynous. It wasn’t really a conscious choice — my hair looks like crap when it’s long, and my voice is deep, and my build is pretty much ‘boy w/ breasts’. But I could have chosen to act girly anyway, and I didn’t.
So now I am fifteen and growing my hair out a bit and starting to notice how this works in different ways. People no longer yell at me in the girl’s bathroom. It’s more in my social choices.
I find myself a bit repulsed, and mystified, by these other girls and women with their long hair and their high squeaky voices and their makeup and their fangirliness and their total buying into the sex-segregated consumer system even when they think they aren’t. I don’t understand the things they talk about amongst themselves.
So I go and hang out with the boys instead. It’s what I’ve always done — when I played boys-vs.-girls games as a little kid, I was always with the boys. They’re more obscene, but there’s less frills, and they’re funnier, and I can relate to them more. And I think they accept me, as something a bit odd. Which is what I am, I suppose.
…I forget what the point of writing all that out was. Just some thoughts, I guess.
I repeat my apparently futile request for a Gender and Sexuality thread, GAPAs?
Second. (the request for the thread).
Actually. I have an idea. Could we add Gender and asexuality to the name of R&R? Like “Romance, relationships, gender, asexuality and other such things”
That’s kinda the way it’s been working up till now, but I think this deserves a separate thread — R&R seems to be mostly an advice thread for people’s personal lives, not a discussion thread about the whys and wherefores of love and related things, and it would be strange to officially conflate the two things.
Oh yeah, I agree it deserves its own thread but we haven’t gotten one yet and people’ve been asking for years.
The R&R threads need no extra traffic. They’re already behemoths.
We could probably merge Rants and Plaints, Romance and Relationships, and Gender and Sexuality into one massive superthread called Being Young is Confusing.
Maybe just “life is confusing”?
Or perhaps “Arglblarghhggl *headdesk*”.
I third this request.
I fourth it.
I seem to be unable to find any Paleophyte threads, even though I’m logged in. A little help, please?
Look under ‘Paleostuff’ under Categories on the right sidebar. However, they aren’t very active right now…
So, at dinner tonight, my brother and I were having one conversation, while my mom, dad, and my other brother were having a completely different one, and, well…
My first brother, talking to me: “But if you go back in time and meet your past self-”
My mom, talking to my other brother: “They’ll serve you breakfast, lunch, and dinner, right?”
If my future self ever shows up on my doorstep, three square meals is the least he can expect.
I made a paleo account … I think? Sorry, but how do I get to the paleo threads? *sounds like a neopaleophyte*
Look at post 40.1
I don’t see you on the list, R*S… Wait, you changed your name. Okay, all taken care of.
Just saw Fright Night, the vampire flick with David Tennant. R-rated, so I doubt a lot of you have seen it, or will be seeing it, but it was so funny. I mean, gory, it was vampires and all, but totally hilarious. But David Tennant, and his topless sexiness, and just David Tennant in general is what made the movie. It would have been funny with out him, but it was just brilliant with him. I think the whole time I wasn’t laughing when he was on screen, I was drooling……
Our exchange student arrived!!
Her name’s Camille, pronounced like Desmoulins, and she has red hair and likes Green Day and drawing and she’s from Belgium (apologies for the intergalactic vulgarity). I would like to convert her to Doctor Who, but I am afraid the British accents may be too much for her English skills.
but she is so cool and i am so excited
We have an exchange student in our grade this year too! It’s funny because I didn’t know our school ever did such things (I can’t remember ever having heard of an exchange student here), but evidently they do! Her name’s Selina, she’s from the German part of Switzerland and is here for three months. I don’t have any classes with her though, unfortunately.
Try anyway! I bet putting on English subtitles will help.
Piggy’s Random Thought of the Day: I’ve spent more time shoeless in college than at any time since infancy. Footwear is just so unnecessary here.
Hello everyone, from Hawai’i!
I’m visiting my grandparents, and using their limited and slow internet connection to briefly drop in to say I’m not dead.
Jet lag, so far, is easily controlable- it’s my second day here, and had a normal night.
We’ve gone to the beach, and on Teusday, we’ll go SCUBA diving, as well as on Saturday.
The temperature is much warmer than I’m used to, though it’s actually quite nice.
I’ve read science fiction and fantasy both here and on the plane, as my entire family are fans of it. We also watched The Voyage Home last night. “We are looking for Nuclear Wessles!”
Au Revoir (Au Re-ecrire?), Enceladus
I’m glad to see you so happy, Enc. Enjoy every minute of it.
“Is it time for a colorful metaphor?”
I can’t find the paleo threadddss…
Look in the Paleostuff section.
I was sitting on my bed rolling yarn from a wild hank into a neat little ball, and let me tell you, that hank was at least twice as wild and unruly as the Peruvian highland wool-bearing mammal it came from.
Then the random thought “Your soccer league won’t tell you that” popped into my head, which was odd seeing as I wasn’t thinking about soccer, soccer leagues, or pieces of information which cannot be obtained from soccer leagues. I wasn’t really thinking about anything at all; I was just concentrating on untangling the yarn (which is going to make an EPIC hat, despite the forty dollars I spent on supplies.)
I am totally joining the firespinning group on campus. TOTALLY.
Yesterday I was trying to do poi with my ID and another guy’s that I borrowed, and then last night at the drum circle PEOPLE WERE DOING FIRE POI. So I did what any [in]sane person would do, and ran up the hill and to the top floor of the dorm to my room, yelled something at my roommate as I grabbed my camera, then ran back and took ALL THE PICTURES.
Then I asked whether they did this sort of thing regularly and they told me they met weekly and were open to all.
So today I went. Late, but I got there.
I re-learned butterfly, then I finally managed both 2 and 3 beat weaves! SO EXCITE.
I think I’m going to have to buy some poi now.
Classes start tomorrow.
I just wrote my schedule in my planner.
I have two classes every day, and three on Tuesdays and Thursdays (two regular classes, then chorale).
I need to get books.
I’m on the paint crew here. Apparently it’s a rather sought-after job, and it’s in the maintenance and farm division, which is good to be on.
Yesterday I ordered a dress from modcloth with a gift certificate I had. I still have some money left on it, but the boots I REALLY REALLY WANT are out of stock. *le sob* I should call them and ask if they’re going to restock it, but I keep forgetting during regular business hours. Poop.
Oh well. Dress should be coming in the near future, and this is EXCITING. I wish I had the boots to wear with it, but alas.
In the future, perhaps.
Speaking of clothes, I need to do laundry at some point in the near-ish future. *sigh*
I’m looking forward to getting onto a regular schedule.
POIIII
YEAAAAAH!
Frogs are extremely fascinating creatures. Has anyone here ever observed one eating a bug? I fed a frog that was on my kayak (Sometimes frogs will hope onto your paddle while you are kayaking, and the they usually hop onto the front of the kayak where it’s nice and sunny. Dorable… At least, they do that sometimes in my experience, although maybe that’s because I put my paddle right in front of them. I think kayaks make excellent places to sun onesself, and because most of the rocks around the pond where the frogs are sunning themselves are in shade, they enjoy the opportunity…they usually hop off after a couple of minutes, so I stick really close to the shoreline, but that time window is plenty long enough for me to observe frogs eating.) a dragonfly (dead, don’t worry; I found it in the water. Although I did see a different frog catch a damselfly (like a dragonfly but smaller) out of the air.) and it was extremely interesting to watch en* devour it. En kind of gulped it up, but it didn’t all fit in en’s mouth, so en pushed it in further in with en’s…hands, I know there’s a different word, but I don’t think the forelimbs are flippers so… I’m probably mistaken about what you call a frog’s front legs/arms, sorry about that, I need to look it up….
En’s eyes went down into en’s head as well; it was rather bizarre. Fish thinks it helps them chew.
Anyway, we fed a lot of frogs moths and bugs and spiders and damselflys and dragonflies, although the frogs didn’t seem to want to eat the spider.
Also, we saw a bunch of toads. I thought of you, Bibliophile.
*Does anyone know whether bullfrogs are only the males, or whether they can be females too? I need to research this subject but this is basically the second time using the computer since we got back so I haven’t really had time yet.
Thank you! I’m honored. I used to have pet frogs, so I did watch them eat–just tiny bloodworms, but then, they were just tiny African dwarf frogs. Bullfrogs can be female, but I don’t know how to tell the difference except that in general, female frogs are bigger than male ones, and males have a stronger grip.
Males have larger tympanic membranes.
Thanks, guys! I had to look up the term ‘tympanic membrane’ to get it, but now I do. So I shall be checking this out the next time I see a frog.
(35.etc): Thanks, everyone! I still have some questions for doctors that I’ll hopefully get answered tomorrow, but I still have no idea how I’m going to make this decision. I got pain medicine today, though, so I felt a lot better.
Fiddler (49): FIRE POI OH MY GOSH THAT’S AMAZING. I got glow poi like Jade’s, and I’d definitely recommend getting them. They’re awesome, and when you have your own, it’s so much easier to practice and get better! Also, tell us all about your classes! Are they supersuper awesome?
Spend today at the New York Aquarium with Erin, who’s a docent there. We saw William Beebe’s original bathysphere, got kissed by a sea lion, and learned all about the aquarium’s very own mad scientist, Dr. Christopher Coates, who kept 200 electric eels in a basement laboratory under the aquarium facilities at the Bronx Zoo durring World War II as part of experiments in discovering an antidote for nerve gas.
Oh god, first day of vet school tomorrow. I’m trying not to think to hard about it right now, because last night when I was printing off lecture notes and stuff, the overwhelming volume of information I have to learn, in just one week of classes, really freaked me out. It’s kind of terrifying, really, we keep getting told how we’re all going to basically become C students, and the way we studied in undergrad (aka not studying until, at best, the weekend before the test) won’t fly at all, and how if we try to learn every detail of the information given to us, we’ll get so far behind and do so bad, but….Yeep. I’m not ready for this. This is worse than when I started college, I don’t remember being too freaked, then, it was all so surreal, and it all turned out to be so darned easy, for the most part.
It’ll be alright Luna! Most vets I’ve talked to actually say that vet school is a lot better than undergrad programs. You wouldn’t have been accepted if they didn’t think you could handle it!
I’m pretty sure I got that same lecture before entering middle school. And before entering high school. And before college. You’ll be fine.
Jade and Pan: YES POIIII!
Also Pan, I’m so sorry to hear that you’re in a rough place. I’m sending love, hugs, love and more love to you. You’re one of the strongest and most together people I know, I have utmost faith that you’ll emerge victorious on the other side of this ordeal. *more love, more hugs, even more love*
Last night I was kind of unhappy because of the immaturity of some [many] of my classmates. Tonight was SO MUCH BETTER. Our RA and I are totally going to be besties. Along with Alex, the quiet geek. The three of us just spent at least 4 hours talking and watching videos and talking and visiting and just being fantastic. Real friendships: happening. I am SO HAPPY.
These are the people I wanted to meet in college.
I’m so happy.
I had to ask if they were musers…that right there means a lot.
And now it’s almost 2am and I start classes tomorrow.
DON’T BE LIKE ME, KIDS.
Cat’s Meow (21.2.1.1): Let me test something.
Ignore that. Is there still a kokon thread somewhere?
My roommate (one of them) next year is visiting me for a few days! We went to the ren faire today, and it was loads of fun.
Also, I bought another set of poi. They’re on strings versus in socks, and they don’t glow but they’re colorful and have ribbons trailing on the end so it looks cool when they spin. I am pleased.
(and again, if anyone here gets into poi, let me know and I can give you a 5% discount code for homeofpoi)
I got Poi. I used Jade’s discount code.
Now the waiting begins.
Oh, and I should be reading up for my class, not poking around teh interwebs.
So my macroeconomics course is a bit scary. The professor comes from a strict Spanish military family. My Latin class and history seminar sound like they’ll be a lot of fun, though.
I’ve discovered that each of my devices here is given a different IP address, and each wireless router gives a new one as well. This means I can essentially pie things as many times as I want. I swear to use this power only for good.
Also, the coffee machine in the dining hall in my dorm has chai tea* too! I bought the specially sanctioned mug so I can take some with me.
*Yes, it’s redundant, but that’s what it’s labeled as.
School starts on Thursday.
I bought all of my school supplies, and attached mechanical pencils with duct tape and string like those pens at the bank.
My sister’s hat is coming along well.
So, people who are into poi: Is it easy to learn? What do you like about it? Do you have to buy the proper poi, or can the home-made ones work as well? Where’s a good place for a beginner to start learning?
There are some basic tricks that are a bit challenging at first because it’s a new set of movements but relatively quick to learn! Butterfly and 2-beat weave (the bases for most other advanced spinning) you can probably get in under half an hour if you try, and the rest depend a bit on how much you practice/how quickly you start to pick it up. But there are a lot of video tutorials and resources online that make learning easier, although learning in person is usually the most helpful in my opinion.
But! You can make a cheap set of your own by putting tennis balls into a pair of nice long knee socks. A little lighter than normal ones but good to start out with to see if you like it!
For trick video tutorials, I recommend looking some up on homeofpoi . com.
Kept up all night by period cramps again. Ugh.
: ( No good.
OH noes I feel so terrible!
So this afternoon I got an email from the volunteer coordinator at the vet school saying that I was good to come in this afternoon after my classes to fill out the various forms for volunteers. So I’m so excited about this right? Last Friday I had also come into the vet office just to talk to her about volunteering, so going by routine, I get on the bus after my public speaking class to the vet school. I should have known something was wrong when the lady I was meeting was surprised that I was there so early….
Well I’m walking back to my dorm around 4:30 and it crosses my mind that it was really weird that she thought I shouldn’t be there until 3:30 to fill out the forms. And suddenly it hit me. I SHOULDN’T have been there! Because I had my self defense class until 3:25! :O GAH! Here I haven’t even had an entire week of collage classes and I’ve already messed up! Alas.
Else-internet I saw a picture of Wall-E holding a slip of paper that says “when you make a mistake, don’t treat yourself as if you are the mistake”. I think that applies here.
Teachers are pretty used to that happening the first week of class or so – last semester I walked into one of my classes half an hour late because I thought it started at 11:30 instead of 11, and that was my fourth semester of school.
OK. That makes me feel better.
I am alarmed. My algebra teacher (henceforth referred to as Mr. L), arrived today.
He looks exactly like one of my characters. DISTURBINGLY IDENTICAL. THIS GUY WALKED OUT OF MY IMAGINATION. I’m serious. He’s even wearing the right clothes – that is, he’s wearing a different sort of clothes, of course, but they’re the right colours. AND the character is a teacher as well.
I won’t have his class till Wednesday, and I’ve only actually spoken to him once, but when he introduced himself, he introduced himself by his first name, and he was like, “Oops, I mean Mr. L——” and that’s SO TOTALLY just exactly something Rowan would do.
Should I be thrilled or terrified?
Thrilled, if only because that’s so exactly like the things that happened to Diana Wynne Jones.
thrilled, if you ask me! something like that has happened to me before, it’s all very serendipitous.
Update: He was wearing blue again today. I nearly fainted. It also appears that he has blue eyes (bafflingly, he wasn’t wearing glasses today), which is right. His voice is about right, though I’m not sure I can compare accurately because Ro doesn’t speak English. And he’s a better teacher than Rowan – I don’t know if there are any teachers as anxious and awkward and profoundly ineffectual as Ro.
The resemblance is extreme, though.
School started today. Apparently the standardized tests have been replaced with different standardized tests, and the only things the teachers have been told is that they’re harder, so we’ll get to do some actual THINKING in class this year! Yay!
Thinking? In class? Does not compute.
Kai- I’ve been much happier for the last while- I’ve been around likeminded friends who I never encounter at school- types who would be MBers if they read Muse.
ZNZ- Surprise! You’ve been turned into a Reality Warping God who can create anything or change anything with imagination! What do you do know?
Biblio- Harder tests =/= Thinking. Harder tests = More Pointless memorization. Quick! How much wine did the Paris commune produce in its entire existence?
In other news, I’m not looking forward to living in my grandparents’ RoadTrek Tuesday-Thursday. SO LITTLE SPACE. (and no working bathroom… *eugh*)
…Ha. As if any teacher of mine would have us memorize something like that. No, it’s more like the definition of “condition.” Fortunately, I’m not at that school anymore, but still. Even if you’re right, at least we’d move more quickly, and I wouldn’t be quite as bored.
But they specifically said it would be more thinking. I don’t think you have any idea how painfully easy they were to begin with. In 6th grade, I took an old seventh-grade writing test and got a perfect score. Writing’s supposed to be the hardest for that because you have to do perfectly on both the grammar section and the essay, although I’ve always found it the second-easiest after reading, probably because I’m much, much better at English than my other subjects–but anyway, my history teacher said it would be more analysis, and my science teacher said that it meant we’d be doing actual science for once and not being told the results of the experiments before we do them, and my English teacher said we’d be thinking on a higher level, so I really think that even if that is the rule, this is an exception.
You know what’s supremely awesome? My uncle gave me a steampunk bible for my birthday. Specifically, a bible of steampunk things. What’s even awesomer about that is that I am planning to do a steampunk plot for my NaNoWriMo, and it’s going to be very helpful when that time comes. It’s not all about the history of steampunk and what other people do, either, there’s a bunch of interesting tidbits about the Victorian Era, airships, and just basically a lot of stuff that’ll help me out when it comes to my NaNo.
Poi: I have wanted to do poi ever since a crewmember on my friend’s schooner gave an awesome demonstration of fire poi. (He could also make it look like he was breathing fire by spitting some sort of bad evil flammable liquid over a blowtorch thingy. It was awesome. He was very Renaissance.) He was teaching my friend at one point (not fire poi though) but he only stayed one summer so I don’t really think she continued with it. Anyway, I have looked up instructions online and made some sock poi. I am determined to learn something. (Although it probably won’t last too long; it seems thus far an obsession of mine, abeit one that has burned in the back of my mind for a while) Does anybody who is into poi have any tips for getting started?
Wow, it sounds like that book will be perfect reference material for your NaNo. Do you already have a plot in mind?
Um…no. XD
Wow. I want to read that book now.
I’m in the airport comig back from Wyoming, where a museum just opened at the site of one of the Japanese American internment camps. My dad has been very involved with the foundation building the museum and with the museum project itself. It was indescribable to walk into the building (designed to look like three barracks buildings) and see all of these exhibits and videos that my dad has been helping work on for so long. It’s real. Real. Not to mention that it’s an extremely powerful exhibit.
Also, I got to talk to someone at the exhibit design company (what a great job) and hear the President Pro Temp of the Senate give a speech. So that was pretty great.
Is that Heart Mountain? My family was in the Granada War Relocation Center.
ehh so you don’t have to answer this, but does your family ever talk about camp? my grandma was at heart mountain and i think my grandpa was at topaz, and neither of them really mention it at all. of course, it’s hardly surprising that they wouldn’t :/
No, they don’t. I don’t even know which camp the other side of my father’s family was at. We do have a hymnal from it, though – my great-grandfather was a minister.
Yes, Heart Mountain. We hiked up it, actually. And axa, although it isn’t a personal answer, my dad has said that a lot of the Nisei are very reluctant to talk about camp. I’d guess it’s a combination of cuties and trauma but I don’t really know. I probably wouldn’t talk about it much if I were them either…
that’s wonderful. i don’t know if this is weird, but i really want to thank your dad for working so hard on that (as well as everyone else, of course). it’s so important and i’m glad to hear that it’s not being forgotten.
No, not weird at all. I’ll pass it on to my dad, who I’m sure will appreciate it.
If any of my pictures turn out to be decent I might send them in, if you’d like to see it without traveling all the way to Cody.
I just saw a cardinal catch and eat an insect! I was inside, so I couldn’t see the insect closely, but as soon as the cardinal flew off, I went to look for signs of what it might have been, and he’d conveniently left behind 3 of the wings. It appears to be perhaps a beetle of some sort. I hope so, because I’m planning on getting a field guide to beetles, as my general insect field guide is so insufficient, which I suppose is understandable as there are more beetle species than plant species; anyway, I’m keeping the wings.
So. School. High school. Seniors are so big.
We just watched The Dish. It’s completely, utterly brilliant. I’d recommend it to anyone here, but especially to Kai.
*Is a senior*.
*Feels old*.
*Doesn’t feel like a senior*.
lol Just wait until you’re a senior. Then you’ll feel sad when all the freshman avoid your eye contact when you pass them in the hall.
Isn’t it sad? It makes me sad.
Dear Freshman: We actually don’t hate you. I promise. We don’t have laser sight, and we don’t eat people, most of the time. You don’t have to avoid us!
Love,
The Seniors.
Dear Seniors,
Yeah, sure.
Love, Freshmen
Dear High Schoolers:
Ha ha.
-Collegers
Dear other college students,
How the cake am I a senior already?
Love, Oxlin the Senior.
Aww, look at all the little college freshmen.
Awww, look at all the little undergrads.
It’s reassuring to know that the hierarchy of condescension stretches beyond high school.
No, it isn’t. Not really.
More terrifying.
In College seniors are just excited to see a new batch of (hopefully awesome) Freshmen. Some might not want to interact too much as they have pre-established friends but no one is likely to be hostile.
I actually felt sad the other day. A friend and I were walking from class when we heard an upper classman giving advice to another “And don’t talk to freshman. Theyre….” Conversation trails and my friend and I look at each other in shock. But I am happy that not all upperclassmen in college are anti-freshmen.
And yet… somehow everyone can tell that I’m a freshman! :O I have several classes that are mostly upperclassmen, like my public speaking class, and every time I exchange names with someone they automatically assume that I’m a freshman. How do they know? Is there some sort of upperclassman lingo that I have not yet grasped? lol
We look like freshmen.
Ancient poem, probably from my grandparents’ era:
You can tell a freshman by his earnest, eager look;
You can tell a sophomore, because he carries one less book;
You can tell a junior by his dashing air and such;
And you can tell a senior — but you can’t tell him much.
Dear Seniors,
Please stop knocking us over. It hurts.
Love
Freshmen
Dear Freshmen,
Learn how to walk.
Yours,
Ex-freshmen
Walking does not do much good when one is struggling against a tide of enormous, sweaty football players while trying not to jostle a violin.
brotip: coming from a high school with 3000+ students at one point, i found that it’s helpful to find someone to walk behind whilst navigating hallways and the like. (did anyone else do this?
)
Luckily, a lot of my classes are with seniors, so I can just sort of hide behind them, I suppose.
I DID do this!
Find someone very tall and bulky and you can get to class with o problem!
Ouch.
*sympathy hug*
Dear Freshmen,
I apologize on behalf of any of my compatriots who might do it intentionally. For myself, I can only offer the excuse that I am very tall and don’t look down as much as I should.
Love,
A Frequently Tripped Senior
Dear Freshmen,
I’m sorry.
A Senior.
Dear Freshmen,
Please don’t stand in the middle of the hallway.You’re blocking traffic. Find somewhere else to talk to your friends. Also, it is possible to move at a speed faster than a snail. Please consider it.
Love,
The Seniors.
Dear Senior,
We’re actually just wandering around, trying to find where the cake out classes are. You’ve been at the school for at least three years. Don’t be so hard on us.
A Freshman
Ouch! I’m sorry; that must be awful. I go to a very small school and while the seniors are scary and all they’ve never actually knocked me over; the halls aren’t that crowded.
I know. It’s hilarious.
Guys
Guys
School starts September 6th for me, but it just hit me that holy what I’m going to be a senior when did I get so ooooold
Except I’m not old. I’m taking driver’s ed.
Wait I’m taking driver’s ed all of the
littlefreshmen/sophomores/whoever’s my age are going to laugh at me because I’m a senior who is captain of like three clubs but also just getting a permitAlso, I’m making a Rocks and Minerals binder for Science Olympiad. Anyone know any good geology sites?
Names for the sites’ll do, not links. Ah… GAPAs, if that’s not allowed, then just snip it.
It’s okay, I took Driver’s Ed senior year, too.
Fern is not doing well with sleep deprivation. She would have done fine, but one of her friends woke her up early to go to breakfast with him.
Fern is not good company in the morning.
Maybe he’ll learn from today.
On the other hand, maybe he’s just a mean robot and will wake her up anyway.
It’s probably the latter.
>.<
You need to have a serious talk with Jadestone. She never sleeps.
Sleep, weak, etc.
We have a new MB meme.
*gigantic revelation*
MEMES, WEAK, ETC
SILLY ARMADA
DOES THAT MEAN I STARTED A MEME HERE
*CROSSES OFF ON LIFE LIST*
ONE STEP CLOSER
A meme that should be put to bed as quickly as possible.
Don’t tell me you’re getting tired of it.
Tired. Weary to the bone. Fatigued beyond counting. Exhausted. Worn out. Wasted. Spent.
BED? SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK
ahhh I just noticed this &heats;
But yeah. I breakfast’d in my room on school days, except for the odd day when I crashed in a friend’s room on south campus. Because the dining hall with the good breakfast (not just cereal/fruit, which I have in my room anyway) was far away. My tip: stock up.
The first week is a bit different though. Everyone is insecure about doing anything alone, so people tend to group up. Once things settle in a bit you’ll be called upon to accompany others to obscenely early events less often XD
Also tip: If you’re in a group or pair (or even on your own) and you see someone walking/eating on their own, say hi or ask if they want to join you. You’ll meet lots of interesting people, and the first weeks can be very hard for people who are shy since everyone ends to group up.
Well, hello again, Museblog. I moved into the dorm two days ago but I’ve been too busy to do anything. I have no free time. Please tell me that this is just because of Orientation Week and things get better later on.
I’m currently waiting to register for my classes. WE couldn’t do it beforehand. Teh anxiety is killing me. The classes I want are open now, but in fifteen minutes who knows?
I’m not going to bore you with all the details of what’s happened to me so far at college. I will tell you, however, that move-in day has earned a place of honor in my top ten worst days ever. At least things have gotten better since then. Part of the problem was in housing. It’s complicated…but suffice to say that I ended up in a single. It’s not where I thought I was going to be, but after the hassle of submitting a room-change request, I’m just glad to have unpacked my stuff. And before you ask, it wasn’t roommate troubles. She didn’t even show up. And then the room I was assigned was on a coed floor by the guys bathroom and I really didn’t want to be there. So I just moved.
OH! I also got a Mac. Typing on it right now. Still need to figure out how to copy and paste, search for keywords, etc. It’s really close to my sign-up time right now.
So to continue with what’s been happening to me these past three days. I have managed to totally avoid eating at a cafeteria. I’m living off free food, which is admittedly helped by the fact that it’s Ramadan and I’m not eating during the day at all. Suhoor is early in the morning and I’ve been eating cake and bagels that I got at events and brought back, and iftar is funded by the Muslim Student association. At the first Iftar, the president of the university came to give a speech. I had to leave early because we had a floor meeting. He left early too, and noticed me grabbing a slice of cheesecake off the untouched dessert table because I didn’t want not get dessert. His reaction was basically, “I see what you’re doing there, sneaking dessert.”
Me: It’s not like that! *really lame explanation*
Anyhow, I had to get back to the dorm, where I had no clue where to go. The president tells me it’s not that hard to find. I give him A Look. He offers to escort me back to the dorm. So we went, making awkward (to me, at least) conversation along the way.
Other random comments…The gym has a rock climbing wall. I have every intention of trying it out. I would have done so already at the “Come and see the gym and all the cool activities it offers!” event, but they ran out of waivers. After I left, they decided that waivers weren’t necessary. :angryface:
I’m kind of worried that I’m not getting along with anyone on my floor especially well. No roommate, and my room is all they way at the end. And the open-door policy hasn’t seemed to kick in yet. I’m by the laundry, though, so I’ve been saying hi to everyone who comes to do laundry.
This entire post is basically a way to kill time until my second class enrollment session. I could only sign up for two classes the first time around. I signed up for Intro to Logic and Intro to Environmental Studies. I think I’ll be taking Calc and macroeconomics if there’s room.
If you want to find friends try joining clubs. That usually helps.
Do not be ashamed to snag free food! Be proud of your need to fill your stomache! :DAnd joins clubs in a good idea! Pre-vet club, CHA club (horse back riding), and an a cappella group hopefully are in my future! Yay! ^^
It’s usually pretty easy to figure out how to do stuff on a Mac if you poke around through the menus at the top for a bit. I think copy and paste are under Edit or File or something, and the search thing is under maybe View? It’s been awhile since I’ve used a Mac.
Edit, yes. Or you can just right-click.
Right-click? Not on a Mac.
on a mac right click is control click.
it works on mine… So does control click, as I just found out, but right clicking works perfectly fine for me, too. Hm.
depends on how you have the settings on your touchpad set up, I found.
You guys don’t use keyboard shortcuts? command-c command-x command-v are your friends. Also command-tab.
Oh yeah, of course I do, but if you find the menu commands they tell you the shortcuts. Teach a man to fish and all that.
Command-C and command-V are copy and paste, respectively. Search is command-F (think Find).
Keystrokes on a Mac are the same as on a PC. Just substitute the command key for control.
I don’t see a cmmand key. Where is it? Does it go by any other name?
It should have a little cloverleaf and/or apple icon on it.
Quite helpfully, mine is labeled “command”.
Thank you! I was looking for one that said “command.”
Parents. Parentsssssss.
Apparently they hate where we live or something. We go somewhere else at every available opportunity.
My mom and sister are already in Florida visiting relatives, and my other mom and I were supposed to join them to go to the Bahamas today, but there’s a hurricane right where we’re keeping the boat right now, so it appears we won’t go to the Bahamas.
So they want to go to California instead.
We just got back from Quebec, guys…. Just because you have no social life, it doesn’t mean that your daughter enjoys being uprooted and transplanted somewhere else every two months. I’m worn out already this summer from theatre and Quebec and everything. And fall is beginning, which I’m really excited about. I want to be here for it, not in California.
Well, we’ll see what happens….
But Bahamas?! *homesickness* I’m sure Irene will blow over, she’s just made Hurricane and isn’t that strong, so everything will be okay. But if there’s anything I’ve learned, from back when I was a cruiser, it’s that the people you care about have a way of coming back to you, eventually. If that’s any consolation.
All “things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end… if not always in the way we expect.”
Did anyone else just have an earthquake, or was it just North Carolina? Because one just happened and North Carolina is not on a fault line.
I’m not sure what you mean by that. North Carolina has fault lines. Though earthquakes here are infrequent, they’ve been recorded at least as far back as the 1700s.
*facepalm* I meant “NC does not get earthquakes very often”.
We didn’t feel it here in New York, but apparently it was felt in Boston and the BU management sent out an alert to all students. (Even those who don’t move in until next week, it seems.)
So the whole house just shook. Psh, just an earthquake, no bigWE DON’T GET EARTHQUAKES WHAT’S HAPPENING IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!
*calms down* Really, the entire house just shook. Not violently, but enough for the desk that the computer is on to wobble back and forth. I thought an earthquake was more…exciting.
Apparently there was a 5.8 near Charlottesville, Virginia. Is everyone okay?
Alright, SFTDP, but I’ve learned more. There was a 5.8 earthquake all up and down the East Coast of the U.S. The epicenter was in Mineral, VA, wherever that is. Lots of U.S. Capitol buildings have been evacuated, as has the Pentagon.
There are 20 tweets per second on Twitter. People are going nuts, and not the good kind.
I hope my dad is okay: his office is across one of the evacuated capitol buildings. We can’t reach him on the phone, and I’m starting to get a little paranoid.
Earthquake, wow. I’ve never felt one before. We got small tremors here on Long Island, which were harmless, although jarring. I hope everyone in and around Virginia is okay, I know there are quite a few Musers and GAPA’s near there.
Yeah, our furniture and cabinets and stuff started shaking. At first we thought the washer and dryer were spazzing, but they weren’t running…
And we never get earthquakes! Then I came on MuseBlog and realized it was an earthquake. But we’re pretty far from the epicenter, (NC) so we’re all okay.
Everyone okay?
Yeah, in my part of NC it was just the floor and chandelier vibrating. My sister and I looked at each other in confusion, went “was that an earthquake?” and then texted people to ask if they’d felt it.
Fishy has a job! At least for the remainder of the summer. I should make somewhere around one thousand bucks if I’m lucky/work hard enough. I just remember that I need to subscribe to Muse again with my newfound wealth. I miss the magazine so much.
Yay job! Congratulations!
It’s very strange. Everyone’s talking about this earthquake, but I didn’t feel a thing in Kingswinford.
I didn’t feel anything either…odd…
I didn’t notice the earthquake at all, even though some of my friends did. I’m in Georgia, so it wouldn’t have been very strong, but I still feel like I missed out on something.
The 19th-century building in which I work shakes so much under normal conditions that I couldn’t tell the difference between earth tremors and a truck driving past or even a person walking by my desk. So I was in an affected area and still missed it.
Tonight’s Jeopardy winner bet $42 on the final round.
I live in the midwest. Earthquake? What earthquake?
I don’t think very many MBers live by me. Does everyone live on a coast (or Ohio) or does it just seem that way?
I’m in Nebraska. No coasts around here.
People love coasts, unfortunately. Everyone wants to live there, so the animals living on coasts don’t have easy lives.
*Organisms, I should say. It would be very egocentric to only recognize and feel sympathy for the members of my own kingdom–and here I thought I was comparatively tolerant. Hm. I’ll need to work on that…
I’m in Michigan, and far from our small coasts at that.
Want to frighten yourself? Fire up Google Earth, open the Gallery tab on the sidebar, and turn on Earthquakes. Volcanoes too, if you want. You need to zoom in quite close to see some of the smaller ones. It makes you realise just how much creaking and groaning the earth does.
The earth’s old. It has aches and pains.
This is the sort of phrase that kicks off inspiration to write. You’re good at those, I find.
So I drew a personified RHIC to be friends with the personified LHC my online friend from Singapore has drawn and cosplayed.
Oh hey do I know them?
She says she worked at a science festival a few weeks ago, demonstrating a camera obscura.
oh man camera obscures are so cool. We made our classroom into one in photography (took a loooot of black paper to blot out the windows), it was super cool, and crazy to think about the physics of it.
/tangent
Gosh, all this earthquake panic… Here if there’s a 5.8 we go into a doorway and check the US geological survey.
I didn’t personally feel it, but people about 30 or so miles away felt it in central NY, and I might have been able to but was in my basement not really paying attention to that sort of thing.
I have never been in an earthquake or felt one… I don’t know whether or not to feel sad.
Is Robert able to post, or has he been evacuated/unable to get to a computer?
He’s been moderating.
I’m fine. I bounced around a little, then stopped bouncing and got back to work. I’ve been in much bigger earthquakes than this one.
Glad to hear you’re alright.
Tip-top. The telescope beside my computer fell over, but I stood it up again, and now all is as it was and should be.
5.8 earthquake? *yawn* I’m pretty sure I’ve slept through worse.
i read this thing that said something along the lines of ‘yeah well californians won’t be laughing when they have six inches of snow in winter’
but it’s like
what about alaska
Hee, I don’t think I’d be satisfied with 6 inches of snow, max, over the winter….Mind you, regardless of the snow fall we get there this winter, I won’t be seeing much of it.
Argh, it takes about two inches of snow here for the city to shut down completely. It’s pathetic. I miss the Midwest sometimes.
It takes a threat of snow here. We had two days of no school because of ice on the roads.
It takes 2 cubic inches here. I love it, actually, since it never happens and I need to take advantage of any opportunity I get.
Driving was soooo Missourible this morning, but in the afternoon it was OK. Now I’m TXting all of my friends about it.
Re: Earthquake: Yup. Heard there was an earthquake and it was felt all over the East Coast.
STOP LYING, THOSE PUNS WERE INTENTIONAL
Pan: I just read about your situation (only been popping into the thread and scanning) the last few days, and am sending virtual choklit and love your way! Keep us updated. ♥
And let me know how poi is going for you, if you’ve had time to practice.
Hello all! I am now officially back from camp and mostly functional, though I still have a cold and some residual sleep deprivation.
Digging through my notes from 8th grade to junior year, trying to find all the ones I need, both in binders and in notebooks and all the textbooks. In this heat-wave. And I’m missing half my sophomore year math notes plus my textbook. Ahrg.
Hi, I’m alive.
No, I didn’t feel the earthquake, though some people around here did and I’m sad I missed it. It would have been a somewhat interesting story.
I am busy.
This school stuff is WORK.
And this work stuff is work too.
I’m on the paint crew.
So far I haven’t painted anything though, I’ve just scraped gunk off of putty knives and scraped and sanded some bike racks.
It’s not very exciting.
Three hours a day of doing mind-numbing stuff like that seems like a lot more than it really is.
None of my packages have arrived yet. I hope they do soon though, because I need my books and I want my dress and poi. Even though I’ll only be able to wear the dress on weekends, since being on the paint crew means I need to dress for getting disgusting and paint-covered and always wander around campus looking like a scruff.
It’ll be interesting to figure out a showering/clothes changing schedule.
Anyway.
I think a quick nap is in order, then class.
It’s been exactly a week since I moved in. In two more days I’ll have completed my first week of classes.
I still don’t feel like I should be allowed to be considered a college student.
WHAT IS THIS I DON’T EVEN
Of course you’re considered a college student!
Good luck with the paint thing; I hope it gets better.
You are, de facto, a college student. Your’e living among a bunch of other students, doing hard brainy stuff with books.
You seem to be simultaneously a painter. Is there some Deep Philosophy behind all the scraping?
oh man so the most exciting thing ever…through a series of events i’m not totally clear on (BUT I’M NOT GONNA QUESTION IT) i now have a single room! it’s part of a suite which is GREAT but more to the point this dorm is air conditioned. i don’t know what i did to please the flying spaghetti monster so much but i’m glad i did it because AIR CONDITIONING. *dies*
also i really have to start packing hahahahdsakjsdg
the thing about this though is that i totally could have bought that stupid jon snow poster but i just didn’t because i thought it might weird out my roommate. MISSED OPPORTUNITIES. I AM THE WATCHER ON THE WALL.
FIDDLER — waiting for packages is the worst! AND YOU ARE SO A COLLEGE STUDENT. i want to hear more about your classes if you don’t mind (lol i DEMAND TO KNOW!
) also, *hugs just cause*
No, I don’t care that I failed my roadtest, because my parents are perfectly fine with letting me get refresher lessons and take it next summer.
At least now, they won’t bug me about it for a year.
So today was the first day of classes and the student activities fair. I had Bio and Econ. Both of the professors are new to my college. I need to get books. And not from the bookstore because books for one class are like $300. The classes seem okay, as far as I can tell when the only thing we’ve done is go over the syllabus. That’s classes. I have to go now so I’ll talk about the activities I’m interested in later.
If you’re interested in both biology and economics, I recommend connecting the 2 in your mind. People did this automatically in the time of, say, Carl Linnaeus; he said that knowledge of economics without knowledge of biology was like knowing physics without mathematics. I imagine there are some very good books and papers from that time on the subject; the theory only stopped because people stopped thinking of nature as so benevolent. Ecological Economics, a modern book whose author I don’t recall, is also good.
Says the New York Times: “No Surprise for Bisexual Men – Report Indicates They Exist”. Major news, that.
water is wet, the pope is catholic, bears and the woods, etc
also this sounds like a headline from the onion…sigh
Spaceflight is risky, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead…
I haven’t actually read the article yet, save the first paragraph or so in order to confirm my assumption that they were actually being serious.
It looks like that article is actually about a study that seems to be working to disprove an older study’s results saying that bisexuality is a myth. I’d say that’s worthy of an article, though it is a funny headline.
95- Oh man. You could have had Jon Snow, watching you from your wall, every day.
But AIR CONDITIONING. I am envious though I won’t need to be for more than a month after I get to school probably because then I will be cold all the time… and uh, envious of your warmth I guess. So scratch that I AM ENVIOUS.
Also so sometimes I find things I said ages ago that I don’t remember where they came from or what the context was but I just found another one: “JOHN HENRY: SPACE CYBORG”
Man I wish I remembered what that was about.
At Yale Summer Session, I had two space posters on my walls and one of the girls in my dorm said “It’s like you have a mini-NASA in your room!”
I wonder what my roommate at BU will say, since I’m taking at least five.
Oohhh I am envious of your posters. I only have one space poster, although I want to get another at the poster sale in september. The one I have is the Milky Way and a nice Sagan quote though and I do love it.
I also just found in our linen closet a poster with pictures of various minerals on it and their names, so that will come with me as well. I have quite a few posters now. There’s a batman one, a scene in london with a phonebooth I colored into a Tardis, one from the Anatomica Anesthetica exhibit, a dragon/unicorn(reversable), one of Monet’s water lilly paintings… and like 3 more I can’t even remember in detail. Oops.
ALSO. Roomate and I are going to camp out in front of the art library september 17th so we can get an original painting to hang in our room. Not quite sure what we’re going to aim for yet. I mean it’d be kind of cool to get a Picasso just to have it there but at the same time I’m not hugely into the ones they have (my favourite, The Old Guitarist, lives in chicago with me
). Also I am sure the Picasso pieces will be like, the first ones gone. Same with the two Monet, who I love dearly. ALAS. Time to look through the art library online catalogue.
I’ll take the moon landing and space station ones I bought in New Haven, the Mars rover, solar system, and vintage (Well, 1991) Hubble Space Telescope ones I have hanging in my room now, and the Solar Dynamics Observatory and space shuttle cockpit ones I bought in DC.
Also, my Scooby-Doo wall calendar and my Athens Olympics poster.
95 (Axa)~ YAY FOR AIR CONDITIONING! I’m in the only air conditioned dorm at my school. Even though the rooms are small and it’s infested with crazy freshmen (including me), I’m grateful. Except that it seems to be either COLD or HOT and I’m constantly having to adjust the thermostat. whatevs.
ALSO MY DRESS CAME TODAY! IT FITS PERFECTLY! I AM SO EXCITE.
I just got creeped on by a scary ginger! :O GAH! Here I am, walking to convocation with the rest of the Honors Freshmen and he says “Hey I like your hat (I was wearing my beret). It makes your eyes stand out.” I have no idea who this guy is, which is kind of awkward. “Oh. uh.. thanks.” I say. He is wearing a button up shirt over a t shirt. After a long pause, he turns to me and says, “So, can I pull this off unbuttoned do you think?” I stare blankly and say “Ummmmm…. I’d button it up.” He nods and stares at me and I kind of hurry away. GAH!
So during convocation I’m going to sit with my friends and he kind of squeezes in front of me so I’m cut off from them. “Oh haha. I split you guys up.” he says. Creepy! :O Before the speaker gets up there, he turns to me after a long moment of me refusing to look in his direction because I’m weirded out. “So what color ARE your eyes?” he asks me. “Ummmmm… hazel.” I say. “Oh alright. I was having difficulty figuring it out.” And I’m thinking… how long have you been watching my eyes?! “Can you tell what color mine are?” he asks and stares at me. By now I’m very uncomfortable. “Uh…. green?” I guess. He has red hair after all.”Close. They’re actually steal grey!” he says, wiggling his eyebrows. Suddenly another of my friends arrives and saves me from more horrific awkwardness.
So throughout the whole convocation, I see him out of the corner of my eye watching me. I keep my eyes fixed on my book, which I am reading because the speaker is starting to drone. Afterward I escape with my friend as quickly as possible and walk the long way to our dorm. He and a few others follow us though. :O When we get back to the quad, he passes me as I head for a bench to talk to my sister on the phone and winks at me. I think I have a deer int he headlight look. After talking to her for a while, I see him peering out of the door to the building across from mine. I quickly look away and focus very hard on my conversation, but I see him out of the corner of my eye coming back outside and walking towards me. EEP! I jump up hastily and quickly walk inside my dorm. So essentially, I have a scary ginger stalking me on the quad! I think I need a taser.
1. “Ginger”?
2. He liiiikes you!
Oh ginger means that he has red hair.
heh heh.
And… yeah I guess he does. But that was the first time I’ve ever seen him in my life and he was sort of getting in my bubble you know? Doesn’t one usually get to know a person a little before being that, I don’t know, in your face? :/
SOUNDS LIKE A MEET CUTE TO ME
So I said I’d talk about the clubs and stuff I was interested in earlier. Well, I’m back and ready to roll, thanks to the stash of free candy I saved from the student activities fair. It was held in a field, under the hot sun, and I spent nearly two hours there. I signed up for probably thirty different organizations. Five of which, I’ve determined, I am actually interested in. The yoga club. Model UN. The roleplaying club, called NERD appropriately enough. Manga and Anime. And…the improv comedy troupe. This one was rather astonishing. But last night all the performing groups did presentations, and I really liked the improv, and today I was like, “Why not?” and signed up. And now I have an audition on Monday. I’ve never auditioned for anything. As far as I’m concerned, this is the start of my “doing utterly random things just for the heck of it” college career. Also, they had a cootie catcher that was supposed to be able to tell your fortune. MIne was “You will find magic somewhere.”
My dorm’s decorations are Harry Potter themed. Well, that’s…interesting. So I signed up.
Also my mo thinks that D&D people are weirdos and just kind of…well. She warns me not to get too weird. My thoughts on the matter: 1) Does she mean weirder than I already am? 2) I don’t think she gets that I would have been doing that kind of things years ago if I’d ever had the opportunity.
PS: Incase you were wondering, my dorm has six floors counting the ground floor. That means we have all four houses plus the chamber of secrets and the quidditch pitch/forbidden forest. It goes like this from ground up: Chamber of secrets, hufflepuff, slytherin, ravenclaw, gryffindor, quidditch pitch/ forbidden forest. I’m in the forbidden forest, which is also and all girls dorm, ironically enough.
So, your fortune was correct!
Exactly…Improv comedy–they have the power. I couldn’t not join after that.
Oh, that last comment has me in stitches. I think you’ll do well in Improv.
Fiddler (54): Thanks! You’re the greatest. *huggles*
Jade (56): YAYPOI!
Fiddler (57): YAYPOI! What kind did you get?
Jade (91): Thanks! I haven’t worked on poi for a couple weeks, but I really want to! Lately I’ve been too tired/in pain to work on it, but I’ve still been watching video tutorials, so I’ll be all ready to start up again when I’m all better. I almost had 5-beat weave mastered, but I got them tangled up every once and awhile. I also did a little bit of windmill-ish practice, but I haven’t gotten the hang of it yet. How’s poi going for you–what are your new poi like?
Axa (95): Air conditioning! That’s so exciting. I had an air conditioned dorm last year (this year, too), and it was wonderful! We didn’t actually turn it on in my room very often (we also had controllable heat/cooling, which was awesome), but our room was cooled nicely by the hallway.
So, I’m having major abdominal surgery on Friday. Awesome. As a result, I’ll be missing around 3 weeks of school (I missed the first day of classes today), which worries me almost as much as being sliced open. Sigh.
For what it’s worth, I hope you feel better soon.
Oh dear. I hope everything goes well for you! Is there any way you could maybe get someone to tape your lectures so you could at least watch the classes? Maybe if you email them to explain what’s up they can help you figure out where you should be when you get back. Also, I don’t know how much you’ll be out of it after surgery/while you recover, but maybe even getting a tutor to come in and help you figure out which informations the important stuff to know. I’m sure you’ll figure out how to keep yourself caught up though!
And 5 beat weave! It took me a while to figure out the tuck motion but I finally got it. As for me, I don’t pracitce as much as I should, but I’m still struggling to get impossible weave down (not sure there’s a tutorial for it on homeofpoi, though I only looked once), and have been working on my hyperloops a bit. There’s a way to put one into 3-beat weave that’s fun but I can only get the timing right 1/3 of the time so far.
I also should probably work on my isolations (moving your hand in a circle as well so the center of the circle the poi make changes) as well since I’m not to great at those.
My new set are pretty! They’re green-blue-purple material that has a little bit of black/white tiger-stripe pattern and some leopard-spot bits. Then there’s a little bit of excess blue material at the bottom, and then 2 thick purple ribbons about a foot long coming out of the bottom as well. I may end a few more longer thin blue ribbons because I’m really liking the way they trail after the poi. The strings make it a lot harder for me to do hyperloops/tangles and get it out versus my sock poi, though that’s probably a practice thing.
In any case, sending my best wishes your way!! And, as POSOC said, I hope you feel better soon. Keep us updated.
I hope the surgery goes well and you recover quickly.
Good luck with your missed work and surgery. I wish you a speedy recovery.
Good luck! I’m sure it’ll go well!
i hope everything goes well! we love you, pan! *massive hugs*
All the freshmen are boys and all of them keep standing in the breezeway and throwing footballs and urgh. I was never a freshman, was I? No I was not.
In other news, cross-country season has started, and I can now identify every single muscle in my legs- because they all hurt. (Agh hip flexors agh agh quads agghhh hamstrings argh aching glutes aching calves.)
PP: Good luck with your surgery and your missed school! I hope it goes well.
We had the windows open, but the wind was making a mess of everything, so I shut them all and threw my lot in with AC.
I am faced with the weird realization that I have friends. Who are cool/popular. And friends with me. Friends plural. In my homeroom. When/How did this happen?
I have no idea. You’re such a nice, intelligent, and interesting individual. I can’t imagine why anyone would want to befriend you.
I can’t tell whether not the last part is sarcastic (It seems like most people do have poor taste in such matters, but we’re ones, and we befriend nice, intelligent, and interesting individuals… Or am I being too literal? I just can’t tell), but either way, I’m pretty sure I very strongly agree with your intent.
Yes, it’s sarcastic. If you’re reading one of my comments and you can’t tell whether something’s sarcastic, it probably is. Not always, but most of the time.
If it wasn’t sarcastic, that’d be a pretty mean thing to say, and oddly contrasting with the first two sentences.
The contrast was the point.
For any MBers who have trouble spotting irony and sarcasm, the
first two sentences in 107.1 aresecond sentence in 107.1 is literally true. Thethird one isfirst and third ones are the opposite of what Piggy meant.No, the first sentence is also sarcastic, as I imagine you knew but accidentally miswrote due to Sel’s comment. The second sentence is the only genuine one.
Wait, sorry, I knew that. Meh, sorry for the confusion everybody?
I’d say the middle is true, the last/first contrasting with it. Well I guess it depends on how you read it.
Anyway I got the sarcasm, and agree that the contrast is the point.
Because you are just cool like that!
I have made myself poi that are not socks. I may or may not be getting the hang of this. I already have one blister though. *winces* I’ll make new handles…
Also you guys I am so happy that so many people are taking up poi. It’s so much fun!
I feel a bit out of the loop. What is poi, exactly?
Well, it originated in New Zealand as part of Maori culture, although it’s evolved a lot since then. It’s essentially weights attached to lengths of string/rope that are swung around in patterns. From New Zealand it made its way to Hawaii, where they lit them on fire while they swung them around and focused more on the performance aspect rather than cultural.
Modern poi (poi is the name of the objects as well as the performance, although the act of swinging them around is also called ‘spinning’ a lot) appear to be longer than the original type and by swinging them in patterns or changing the patterns you can do a lot of different tricks with them. Very basic poi you can make yourself by putting tennis balls (though they’re a bit lighter than most poi) in a pair of knee socks, or attaching them to strings. There are also glow poi, which are reminiscent of fire poi but less dangerous if you hit yourself.
It’s really really cool to watch good spinners. Here’s a good video of a really caking amazing guy, if the GAPAs will allow it (I am in no way affiliated with him although I wiiiiish I could go to Russia and make him teach me D: ). He’s spinning fire poi in this and I don’t even know how he does half the stuff he’s doing.
http ://www. youtube. com/watch?v=fNj2HUbzJhkk
It’s really impossible to find his videos on youtube without a link, although he’s very good so they really deserve to be on the first page. Anyway in that one there’s a lot of simple tricks and a lot of really cool technical antispin stuff (where the poi spin in different directions).
There’s also a wikipedia page for poi that isn’t bad.
I found a tutorial online that suggested using water balloons with rice in them to go in the bottom of the socks. I used platic sandwich bags. That makes the poi have a nice weight to them. When I made mine, though, the only long socks I had on hand were toe socks, so they look kinda funny, but they work well.
Nice! That would make them a much nicer weight.
The handles? I made those out of cotton rope, but now they’re polar fleece. It seems to be working better! I covered juggling balls in fabric and hot pink duct tape and attached them to neon cord. I might add some tassels. It is very fun! Although most people that I have practiced around don’t seem to think so. Thank goodness I only hit them with sock poi. *heads outside*
You have glow poi, right? How do those work, exactly? Do they run on batteries, or are they like glow sticks?
Nice! And yeah you end up hitting yourself/people standing too close a lot at first. Tassels are fun! And make you think about the speed you’re spinning at a bit more (as do glow poi). Still haven’t added more ribbon to mine, waiting until I find the right color. What sort of things have you been trying? Butterflies/weaves?
The pair I have run on LR44 batteries, which are the small round ones you sometimes see in toys or tiny flashlights or compact booklights. There’s 3 in each poi, and you twist the battery cap to turn them on/off. They last pretty long and I got like 12 extra batteries with the poi (as well as a bag to carry them in). They’re also pretty tough/thick rubbery plastic, so while I don’t try to beat them up I don’t worry about cracking them or breaking them at all.
Those sound awesome! I’ve tried doing some butterflies and fairly simple weaves I found on homeofpoi, but mostly I’m just working on forward/backward/split time swinging.
In terms of natural disasters, where is, statistically, the safest place in the world to live?
When I play pandemic, Madagascar always survives and ruins everything… Otherwise eastern Austria is pretty good. Earthquakes are very rare & small, landlocked, no tornadoes, few storms and you can always head for the mountains if everything goes south.
109.1 – But pandemic is for diseases. Madagascar survives because there’s not a whole lot of traffic in or out, but I presume its island-ness makes it a little more prone to natural disasters than other places.
I am curious about this natural disaster thing, though. I don’t have a great understanding of this stuff, so trying to think of criteria for low-risk places just gets me these ideas, which may or may not be correct:
— Reasonably far from coastline
— Far from tectonic edges
— Something about volcanos and being far from them
— Surrounded by solidly built structures, (for tornadoes–I don’t know if it would make another disaster more likely, but whenever a tornado comes by Pittsburgh, it always fizzles out because it can’t get anywhere)
— Inherently mild weather–no flash floods, no bothersome desertification issues
I bet there’s already been a good study of this stuff. To Google! (I’ll be back)
The more I read and think about it, the more I realize must be considered. For example, surely we must also factor in the preparedness of a location, and how well equipped they are to handle a disaster; this would probably affect the level of safety. And then, of course, how to measure “safety” from natural disasters? Is an ideally safe place one in which all buildings are so well built that no natural disaster could affect them? (Impossible, but if it’s the ideal, then that’s one thing.) Is it purely a measure of the danger of the natural disasters that do hit?
I’m going to go with searching for places with few and feeble disasters, but I’ll take whatever I can get. There seems to be a lot of information on the least safe places in the world, but I’m having a bit more trouble finding the especially safe ones.
I’ll be typing in this window as I find stuff out, so this might be a bit disorganized.
There are also places that experience few natural disasters, but are not terrifically habitable ever–they basically experience what would be a natural disaster to a more moderate climate. Like, deserts and stuff. They have their heavy tundra winds or sandstorms, but mostly it’s just awful.
According to a point-system scan of just the United States, Honolulu, Hawaii is considered the safest place, for being “not prone to tornadoes, wind, hail or extreme weather.” That cancels out my theory, I guess, because I guess the volcano isn’t nearby and any tsunamis they get aren’t much trouble.
Showing how little I seem to know, some theories are saying the mountains are generally a safe place to go, because other than the occasional avalanche, I guess they don’t get much in the way of natural disasters.
I found an interesting article on super-safe buildings, but I think that’s not what you’re asking.
EM-DAT says that the countries with the fewest natural disasters are Estonia, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Andorra.
One random website says that the city Powell River in Canada, sitting on the Powell River in Canada, is the safest place ever. But they are only one place, and they also included factors like food supply and vulnerability to terrorism.
I’m not going to do any more of this. I’m a little too good at wasting time.
Wow, you put in a lot of work! I’m impressed.
That’s because the biggest country in that list is the UAE… *geography geek*
Wow, that’s pretty good. But one thing you have to remember about the mountains is that avalanches and mudslides are predictable. They come down in the same at-risk areas for generations. Which means if you find a really old house in some mountain valley it’s probably a good idea to hole up there because it survived long enough, which means it’s probably in a good place. Also, avalanches seldom come all the way down the mountains.
Sold four pairs of earrings today!
Did you make them yourself?
Why yes!
Where did you sell them? (School, ect)
A family friend’s business.
Blargh my brain is gone. I’m exhausted I have homework I need to buy textbooks and the prices are just painful.
I think I’m going to buy some books off of upperclassmen. I need to get the cash to do that. Then I’m going to look for my other books on Amazon or half dot com but I heard that the price differences weren’t that great. And did I mention the homework I haven’t done. In short, it’s the second day of classes and I’m already overwhelmed. I’m sure it’s an adjustment period and after I figure out how to do things it’ll be easier but until then I’m suffering.
try abebooks. At the very least it is another site. I did comparison shopping between that and amazon and my school’s bookstore and picked the lowest prices. Good luck!
Some of the books requested are custom editions. Do you know how important it is do get one or can you make do with the regular kind?
I’d ask your professors. And when I search amazon or Abe, I always use the ISBN, not the title or anything.
I work at a textbook warehouse, and someone ordered a textbook that had a picture of David Tennant on the front! David Tennant’s on a textbook!
That really brightened my day.
WHAT BOOK IS THIS
CAN I ORDER ONE
HOW MUCH WAS IT
It’s a play anthology more than a textbook, and since Hamlet is in it, David Tennant as Hamlet appears on the front. And I don’t remember the title and can’t find it online.
The spine is green, though! I remember that!
Oh! Waitwaitwait I found it! And it’s not green. It’s called The Essential Theatre. Search on Amazon and it’s the first book that comes up!
WHEE DAVID TENNANT
*restrains loud squeeing as it is 10:15 pm at the moment*
SQUEE
I just slept through most of my Bio class. This had better not be and indication of how the rest of my college career is going to be.
Endeavour is going to be displayed at the LA science center! *squee*
So, you know, we have this hurricane coming. My mom thought nothing of it, because we always get warning and stuff, and they never amount to nothing, and I thought nothing of it either, until we realized that they were highly suggesting that people near the coast evacuating.
Hey.
I live on an island.
I also live about half a mile away from the evac zone.
-_____-
So my mom has decided that we’re going to raid the supermarket tonight, because my cousin told her that there was no water or batteries left. And we have no water or batteries in the house. *headdesk* Now I’m worried.
I hope that means you plan to buy things at the supermarket. Pillaging it seems a bit extreme.
Pfffffft money is for wimps.
Stay safe!
So, leaving tomorrow to hopefully be at BU by the time the storm hits the northeast.
And then… I won’t be home until Thanksgiving. That’s weird to think about.
Aah first day of actual band class was just so flamablamulous.
“Hey, we have a trombone section!”
“Your FACE has a trombone section!”
AND WE MIGHT GET TO PLAY THE GREAT LOCOMOTIVE CHASE YAYAYAYAYAYYY!!!
*turns off capslock* Even though all we got to play were warmups it was so so so flammy getting back with everyone again. I don’t know if I’m the only one who feels this way about band, but… it’s a nice feeling.
Getting off now so I can watch Pride and Predjudice. Odie is attempting to read it. I am going to coach her so we can have a movie marathon at the end.
Trombones! Our band has an epic trombone section. They won “Section of the Week” at band camp this year.
Yay trombone sections! In “The Music Man”, there are seventy- six trombones. In my band, there are two and a half, which makes for quite a nice parody.
Also, I just realized I used the word “flammy” when a flam is a type of drum rudiment. #puns
First week of college: done that.
My 15 hours of work for the week are logged in, I don’t have any assignments (which is worrying–I know they’re coming at some point….just when?! 0.o), and the weekend is MINE! Except not really, because I have a field trip tomorrow evening, but it’s to a music festival for my Music Cultures of the World class (♥), so it should be fun.
Tonight I’m going to a concert. Small world story:
So, boyfriend has a friend named Lisa*, who is dating a guy named Peter who is in a band with Connor, who lives two doors down the hall from me and is in a weird relationshippy-but-not thing with my roommate. So I’m going to see their band tonight and meet up with Boyfriend, who will then come back and spend at least part of tomorrow here.
Whoooo!
*names have been changed
Oh also did I tell you guys that I got a dress from Modcloth and it is FANTASTIC and I’m wearing it tonight (and probably tomorrow too)? Well, I did (and will).
As for poi, it’s not here yet, but I ordered the LED jailhouse sock poi…what Jade and Pan have already. I CAN NOT WAIT for them to get here. *fidgets*
I also can’t wait for my textbooks to arrive… :/ Not only because I need them, but because they’re really interesting. My courses are interesting. I love college.
I feel like I should take a nap before going to the concert, because I was up late contra dancing and then woke up early to go to work.
Quick note about contra first, though. So, there’s a weekly contra dance on my campus, and the admission for students is only $1. Obviously my Thursday nights are going to be occupied. Also, Colin came and danced with me when all my other friends bailed. It was loads of fun.
I believe I’ve mentioned Colin before, he’s the RA of our floor and completely wonderfulawesome and muserly. (I had to ask him if he was a Muser. He’s not, but he very much could be.)
Anyway, PIP! And FUN TIMES and YAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!
Some people just get how to do college.
So my Kindle stopped working today–it was on the sleep screen but completely unresponsive. I tried doing a hard reset and everything, but nothing worked. It was fully charged. So I talked to Amazon’s customer support, to an Indian guy whose English wasn’t spectacular. Eventually he took my information and put in an order for a replacement Kindle. Two minutes later, the Kindle reboots itself.
*headdesk*
Well, you could always give me the replacement kindle.
I sometimes think e-readers and I have a bit of rivalry going on. This revolves around me making over-paranoid attempts to keep it from harm and the e-reader making over-fragile attempts to break. I swear I heard it growl when I bought it a case.
MY CONSULTING DETECTIVE SHIRT CAME IN THE MAIL
SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Those of you in the path of the Hurricane, please stay safe!
GUYS. FLUFFY POI LOOK LIKE TRIBBLES.
That is all.
You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when you drop a ten-pound AP Bio textbook on your foot and yelp, “CAKE!”
Now that is truth. I’m impressed.
Are you using Campbell and Reese? A lot of that book is extraneous information.
Extraneous for the test, maybe, but it still is interesting for the sake of knowledge.
Hurricane is coming right through here.
Will probably be without electricity for up to ten days.
Must go prepare now.
I’ll probably lose electricity at some point, too. During Ike, it was 2 weeks. If you don’t hear from me for a while, assume that I’m not dead, just unable to contact you. By the way, that’s a collective you; I don’t contact Armada privately or anything.
Good luck, Armada!
Fingers and toes crossed.
I have gotten into more awkward conversations in four days of college than I had in four years of high school. 0.o
Re: Hurricane
Well, at risk of giving away where I am too much, it seems like I won’t get hit by much of it. Good luck to all of those who will, and please prepare yourselves.
On a more pleasant note, the Boy Scouts have introduced the Chess merit badge, effective sometime within a few weeks, I think. Should be a fun and hopefully relatively easy one.
In the last two days, I have cut myself on a Dorito, slid five feet onto the floor on my right leg, almost dropped a giant chunk of wood on my foot, and almost gotten hit in the face by a drill.
:I
Cut… yourself… on a Dorito O_o
what how did this happen did it draw blood?
Doritos are deadly dangerous with sharp points and edges.
But… so… delicious… and… fake… cheese… flavoured…
You’re awesome, but please…be more careful?
Not sure if this is win or fail…
– expertly pack all of clothes and belongings into minimal amount of bags and boxes
– gloat
– realize you forgot to pack shoes
– and detergent
– and everything else
– cry, and your tears are also blood
I FEEL YOUR PAIN.
*stares at suitcase* *suitcase bares teeth* *runs away*
I don’t think I can be trusted with my own debit card. I think I’m about to buy a 12-hole ocarina. It’s only five dollars more than the 6-hole? Or maybe I should get the 6-hole since it would be easier to learn? I think I’ll go 12-hole for the range.
Either one is much more portable than a pipe organ.
Anyone living in any hurricane-affected areas, please stay safe.
Okay, so apparently we lowly students without medical insurance- which seems to include me, because my mom’s new job doesn’t cover dependents- have to submit to bi-yearly appointments with the school nurse. Mine was today; I gleaned nothing from it except from her observation that my collarbone is oddly shaped and I should sleep more because I look pale and exhausted.
Why she was going about commenting on the shape of people’s collarbones, I can’t imagine. To tell you the truth, though, I kind of like being uninsured, because now I don’t have to go through blood tests anymore. Or turn up twice a year at a doctor’s office to be poked and prodded- the nurse just gives you a once-over and talks at you for a while.
We went to see a Shakespeare in the Park production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream tonight. It was awesome. Almost as good as the La Jolla Playhouse version I saw a couple of years ago, and it had hot chocolate.
Ah, school nurses. Mine always tell me I need to go to the dermatologist because otherwise I’ll die of skin cancer. Yes, I’m spotted. Can I go now?
I was in an earthquake a few days ago! And now a tropical storm seems to be heading my way.
I’m in the Philippines right now, whee! Seems the weather here is a lot like that of the States.
Oh and I now have a BUNCH of movies and stuff and EVERY SEASON OF TOP GEAR, EVER and also WALLACE AND GROMIT on my computer (my uncle is really nice) except my computer is really small and doesn’t have that much memory so now I am panicking and transferring like everything to external drives.
If you ever steal my SD card, you have also stolen all of my Science Olympiad work, ever, including my fledgling Rocks and Minerals binder and my other fledgling Anatomy cheat sheet so… don’t do that.
Is it the same typhoon that’s passing by close-ish to here? It made it rain here yesterday. Maybe not, though.
So. Yesterday. I met someone in science class who’d heard of and loved tardigrades! I was ecstatic, of course.
I’m moving to a bigger house tonight, and yesterday, we went to see the houe. I was quite relieved; the yard was teeming with life. I didn’t know if the former owners used pesticides or anything, you see, and if they had, well, who knows how long it would take to bring creatures back in this drought? But I saw/heard all my most common backyard animal species, or at least signs of them, and I heard a woodpecker and saw an unfamiliar gray bird and–this is the best part–the ants were carrying eggs!!!! I don’t know if they were ant eggs or eggs to be eaten, and I didn’t have a hand lens with me, but it was really awesome. I’ll have to look into that.
Also, I wasn’t even looking for any of this. Usually, I can find all this in the yard I have now–minus the eggs–but I do at least have to actively look. It’s awesome. The only negative thing is that the green anole seemed flightier than the ones at home.
They gave us lots of native plants, too, and a penta, which isn’t native but attracts lots of butterflies that are!
Wow, that sounds awesome! I wish you luck in your observations. By the way, I’ve been meaning to ask, are you still attending Connections Academy?
No, I go to a public school, but not the one I went to in 6th grade; that was horrid. This is much better.
Well, that’s good, then! I hope you enjoy this year.
CO(123) – I am not allowed to say the word “cake” in the house, on account that my mom thinks I am thinking some other word when I say it.
“Cake” is my default “bad word.” It never offended anyone for me.
Same here. The worst thing it’s done is confused a few people.
Here’s a list of things that my dad bought in preparation for the hurricane. He also wants us to board up the windows, and for some reason, he thinks that there are going to be hundred foot waves (?). By the way, gusts are only going to be 50-65 miles per hour, according to the radio.
-axe
-drill
-fire extinguisher (we have three in the house already)
-beef jerky, and lots of it.
-seven cases of gatorade
-more beef jerky
-three rolls of duct tape, which we already have
-a squeegee
-mold killer spray
-lots of cereal
-hammers (we have about two in the house already)
And when I told him that he was probably overreacting to the max, he told me that I was going to be sorry when the storm came.
;__;
What have I done to deserve this? I’m not scared about the storm, I’m scared about having to spend two days in the house with him.
Oh well. We’re also watching my cousin’s dogs, so at least I can play with them.
I don’t think we’re going to evacuate. I’m pretty sure that everything’s going to be fine. I hope everyone else is.
omg gurl that is so much salt at once. sorry, i’m fixated on this, i feel like i need to drink a bunch of water right now
but ugh sorry your dad is being ridiculous :/ hanging out with dogs is usually more fun than being with people if you ask me
First week of high school is finally over. It seems better than middle school, but we’ll see. The first week is always so boring because all we do is go over the syllabus and stuff… I also starting running with the cross country team, so that’s fun…
*reemerges from the shadows dramatically* Oh! Oh! I’m starting high school on Tuesday (Monday was already canceled because of Irene.) and am also running cross country. The running part is ok, but it’s nice to know people from preseason before you start, especially as a freshman.
One of my volunteers found this on the museum grounds yesterday, and I immediately thought of Bibliophile:
Probably I should have started that with, “You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when….”
It’s SO beautiful. *stares*
Wait, why did that make you think of Bibliophile?
Because she’s clairvoyent, duh!Well, I have mentioned that I collect their exoskeletons that the nymphs shed, and I might have also mentioned (I don’t remember) finding a whole one by the road that unfortunately wasn’t alive but that I wanted to keep. And I’ve been talking about entomology/general nature studies/collecting/findings a lot lately. It might have been any of those things or a combination.ooh that’s gorgeous.
I’m looking upon the current location of the storm, and the biggest clump of the red stuff indicating higher severity is right over Washington… STAY SAFE, EVERYBODY!!!
On another note, relatives from Quito, Ecuador are coming just about when the very edge of Irene is scheduled to hit us. Hopefully they/we won’t freak out too much if. My mom will probably freak out a bit if the hurricane is hitting us and they are the tiniest bit late to our house.
Okay, news just said 8-10 foot waves in the NC coast. STAY SAFE, EVERYBODAY!!! I’ve always felt sorry for the news reporters who, for the sake of a cool background for the story, put themselves right in the center of whatever’s going on, whether it be Middle East troubles or hurricanes.
Okay, bye for now, but first, at risk of sound repetetive, STAY SAFE, EVERYBODY!!!
I am so disappointed with public transportation right now.
I was supposed to go on a field trip this evening for my Music Cultures of the World class to a bluegrass/old time music festival downtown. Really looking forward to it, skipped another event so that I could go (because the other option was to go to a drum circle later on, which does not sound remotely interesting to me), you know. I wanted to go.
So I went to the bus stop at the designated time and sat.
And sat.
And sat some more.
For an hour.
No bus.
Ever.
I want my car here.
I want public transportation to get it’s cake together.
And now I’m on the verge of tears. Again.
Ugh.
*HUUUUUUUGGGGGGS*
hugggg
There was a Rosanne-Rebecca hybrid in a financial office here. Despite the fact that she was in a dim room in one of the gloomier corners of the basement of an obscure building, she was nice. In the sunlight she would’ve been blithe.
A Rosanne-Rebecca hybrid? What would that be like? A woman of medium height, with hair between jet-black and blonde?
Oddly, yes. But it was more in the facial features than the height and hair.
I FOUND DOCTOR WHO ON CABLE! NOW GIVE ME A SUMMARY OF WHAT IT IS!
A madman with a box takes girls with boyfriends on dates to places that often get them transported to alternate universes, kidnapped and forced to give up their children, and/or turned into fierce warriors/human computers. There are occasionally homicidal pepper pots. You will be terrified of everything and scream “MOFFAAAT” at random moments for reason you yourself cannot quite explain.
An alien known as the Doctor (NOT Doctor Who!) travels through time and space in the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space), which looks like a blue 1950s police box. He and his (usually) human companion(s) explore, save planets, and defeat monsters. The Doctor is a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, and can regenerate into a new body when he would normally die, so many actors have played his role. He is smart, funny, kind, and generally amazing, though some aspects of his personality change with each new incarnation.
The show started in 1963, and ran for a long time before being cancelled, and then was revived in 2005. (The current season is Season 32, though it’s Series 6 of the revived series.)
(The homicidal pepper pots are called Daleks.)
I got a new beloved Kindle for my birthday, so hopefully I can be on MuseBlog a bit more in the future. ^u^
Congratulations! (kindle lurkers FTW)
Well. Things are borderline scary here. The largest tree in our yard, a huge silver maple went down. It’s scary. Thank god it didn’t hit our house. I find it strange that the small birch that is growing at a somewhat alarming 45 degree angle didn’t fall yet.
Waaahhh, my window just looks so weird now though. No leaves, no branches, no birds in branches, just sky. At least we still have power, though my alarm clock is blinking at 12 AM, so I guss it stuttered for a bit.
And now I need to go back to sleep.
I am so glad you’re okay. *hug*
I’m glad you’re okay!
TO ALL VICTIMS INCLUDING ALMOST MYSELF:
CARE PACKAGE!
Contains:
Hug
Cookie
Choklit
Power Genarator
Books
Doctor Who
PIE!
Tarigrade
Smiley
MuseBlog
Me * saying nice funny happy thinks *
Don’t forget a laptop from which to access MuseBlog.
Better correct the spelling mistake on tardigrade quickly- otherwise Bibli will have you abandon your first-born on a bed of moss.
I have my own laptop now, so hopefully I’ll be able to pop in and out of MuseBlog a bit more often! Yay! We got them for school, so either the school is completely out of their minds or completely genius, but I can’t figure out which one yet. Regardless, I’m still excited.
Just a quick note about Irene – it did hit us here pretty hard last night (lots of rain, scary wind, etc.) and at one point we had a tornado warning so my whole family ended up sleeping in the basement. Nothing ended up being damaged and we’re all ok, but it was still pretty scary, especially since we pretty much never get hurricanes here… My dad was pretty much convinced we were going to lose power at some point, though, and by some miracle we haven’t lost it – yet! Supposedly the worst is through, and the wind is still pretty heavy but at least it means that it’s forcing me to stay inside and FINISH SUMMER READING, which I haven’t actually done yet. I have to read Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie, and I’m only about 40 pages in…eek. Luckily it’s pretty short and I think I’ll be able to get through it relatively quickly, but school does start Tuesday…Monday was supposed to be our first day but they already cancelled it because of the hurricane yesterday!
Stuff has been ok for me lately. My best friend’s mom died recently and her funeral was yesterday, so between that and the hurricane it just feels like there’s a lot of suckiness going around… Especially for my friend, of course. We’re not going to the same high school either which is really tough but she’s being so brave and I’m so proud of her. She’s the same age as me and it’s so ridiculously unfair and horrible she had to lose her mom to cancer.
I can’t decide if I want school to start yet or not. Obviously it’s coming quickly and I’m usually very excited about back to school time, but I know I’m going to be swamped in homework pretty soon and actually have to, like, do stuff. The horror! But at the same time, forced social interaction on my part is probably a good thing. I’ve been lurking whenever I can lately, and I’ve seen that a lot of other people have already just started high school or are starting soon like me. Let us freshies stick together! My locker is underneath the rumored “hottest guy in our grade”. I’m pretty sure this is not a good thing…
Anyway, how have you been, MB?
We’ve been great- but of course it’s not the same without you. I hope you’ll be able to post here more often between tidal waves of homework.
*condolence squid for you and your friend* I’m glad you guys made it through the storms okay- I’ve been really worried for everyone.
I’m going to Rainbow’s birthday party today!
BEST PARTY EVER YESTERDAY
A was leaving for a boarding school in Michigan, so we decided to have a going-away party for her. E, L, and J came over to A’s parents’ restaurant, and we all got free food. L’s mom didn’t show up for another two hours, so we took a walk through downtown, bought candy, visited a museum, took a tour of a hotel, pretended we were British exchange students everywhere we went, and had an awesome time overall. Then L’s mom picked us up, so we went to L’s house and had an immense cake that she made. We played Portal 2 co-op on her Xbox and L kept discouraging me with a Thermal Discouragement Beam while E and J laughed at us. E brought his cell phone and L made some amazing prank calls, flawlessly imitating French and Japanese. Then we did some other stuff and it was the BEST PARTY EVER!
*takes a breath*
i’m in my room at school! it’s so BIG. I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF. i need more posters. the light is so nice in here, fsdkhj. i can kinda see the mountains frmo my window! also, my katamari Prince is hanging from my lamp. royal rainbow~!
I’M JELLY
I’M PEANUT BUTTER
OH YEAH WELL I’M VEGEMITE
I’m syrup! *eats waffles*
I’M MUSTARD
Nutella!
Aw… I wanted Nutella.
I am making a balsa wood tesseract for physics class! It is going well! I will send in a picture of myself with it when it is done!
It is really weird to see the word “tesseract” lowercase now!
QUICK MY FRIENDS
what are some good ideas for posts to advertise a school Quidditch team? We have one general one, one with AVPM references so far.
Have some Twilight-themed ones just to screw with people.
lolol I just might.
“TWILIGHT
Yeah, we like Harry Potter better too.”
WIZARD PEOPLE DEAR READER
Now imagine a music, dear readers, heavy with cellos at a rapid staccato, cellos held between thighs in a dark room, the little room of Harry’s chest as he walks with his teammates to the opening gate of his first Test of Cribbage. They are a rag-tag group of champions, this bunch, and, with Harry, the near-perfect new god, they know they will dominate the day.
i almost posted that quote omg afkjshgd SISTERSSSS
HARRY COULD KILL EVERYONE FOR THIS
Potter Puppet Pals?
So tonight i was talking with one of the other girls on my floor and she has the entire harry potter set on her bookshelf. Also lord of the rings. And we were talking, and she mentioned that she listened to wizard rock, and I said that I read lots of fanfiction. And then I asked if she liked Avatar the last airbender and she did, and I made her watch the Korra trailer since she hadn’t yet and we agreed that it was totally awesome and I think I’ve found someone I could be geeky with. I just need to get out of my room and talk with people.
At college! With people! Just watched Doctor Who! Must unpackkkkk…
GUYS GUYS GUYS
CELLO
You got one?! Yay!
WHOA MY ROOMMATE IS SECRETLY A MUSER. Apparently she used to get Muse when she was a kid. Man, I lived with her all last year, she’s my good friend HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?!?!?!?!
That’s awesome! I’m looking forward to that happening to me sometime in my life.
I mean the same thing happened when I met my best friend…
I just found a MuseBlog spinoff site, apparently made by older paleos who felt like MB was going downhill. But it’s full of NSFW stuff and people I don’t remember, so I think I’ll stick to MB. *feels like a mainstream neophyte*
Haha, yeah, I remember that. Don’t worry, I’ve mostly stuck here too. NO OFFENSE TO JADESTONE AND AXA AND PEOPLE
Umm… this is getting very off-blog-y. I didn’t know that sort of thing was mutually exclusive, but hey, it’s no skin off my nose so whatever works for them.
*is somewhat surprised the GAPAs keep allowing references to that site*
Our reputation as iron-fisted censors is somewhat exaggerated, but we’ll start reasserting it soon. Forbear, please.
There have been several MuseBlog spinoffs. They count as “the rest of the Internet” as far as we’re concerned.
I just got into Pottermore
Which house? What wand?
Ebony with unicorn core for the wand, which apparently means I am a nonconformist and stick strongly to my principles, which is very true. And for house I got… Slytherin? *shrug* Not what I was expecting at all!
However, my two sophomore buddies are a Ravenclaw and a Gryffindor, so all we need is a Hufflepuff to join us and we can SAVE THE WORLD WITH THE POWER OF HOUSE UNITY.
Slytherin? Hmm… both you and Snape are in that house… time to rethink my opinion of it.
Anyone who feels bad about the quality of their writing should go read My Immortal. It’s hilariously terrible. (but I have now read it all and my brain is MUSH)
Don’t read it if you want to preserve either your innocence or your brain cells. Don’t read it if you love either Harry Potter or the English language. Don’t read it if you are bothered by bad writing, bad spelling, bad grammar, or bad language. Don’t read it if you want to believe that there is anything good whatsoever about the human race.
– This Message Paid For By the Society Against My Immortal –
Yeah, I spent the entirety of it a) with a group of friends, which was helpful and we all got a kick out of it, and b) sincerely hoping the author is a troll. If they aren’t, well, there goes my faith in humanity. If they are, they’re the most successful troll in fanfic history.
That is exactly what I did in June. It was most probably the best four hours I had spent in a while. HILARITY. The second half was worse than the first half, so that kind of stunk.
CROOKSHANKS!
ABRACADABRA!
WHY DID YOU DO SUCH A THING, YOU MEDIOCORE DUNCES?
XD It’s true that excellent lulz can be derived from it, but still…! I read it almost entirely in MSTs, which helped extraordinarily and made it even more lulzy.
When I got my wand and saw it was ebony, I read it as Enoby.
My eyes…they burn!
155- Lucky, I still haven’t gotten my email!
I will be on irregularly, if at all until september 8th. Some of you may remember that my house has limited internet use. We have a ton of guests coming over who don’t quite understand the concept, so we’re trying to conserve from now until our usage is refreshed.
Ta ta for now, then…
Two days. No power. No heat. No light. No MuseBlog. Nothing but a whiny brother and unsupportive, uncaring parents.
Sometimes I really hate my life.
First day of senior year and I gotta say, I like being at the top of the class heap. xD
I know – senior year was awesome in that way. Of course, it was not-so-awesome in other ways for me, but being at the top was a great perk.
Pottermore names, Stat.
* grabby hands*
Sorry, that would fall under the category of off-blog contact information.
I don’t think there’s a messaging system. Does that make a difference?
Happy Haiku
Missages from my
departed friends always serve
to happify me.
Question: If I was to submit something to the Muse contest by email, how would I get a parent/legal guardian to sign it? I mean, you guys know I’m over 13 yadda yadda yadda, but it still says it’s required in the contest description. HELP
Dear whoever or whatever thought it was funny to get me sick on my second day of classes,
If you can take one, here’s a hint: it’s not. Since you obviously don’t have one, here’s a clue: I don’t like it.
I do not appreciate being unable to read my assignments for school and work because all my mind can process is sleep, and my eyes start vibrating in their sockets when I stare at things to try to keep them open.
I do not appreciate having to discuss things in class with a throat that feels like it’s coated in sensitive sandpaper.
I do not like being even more out of breath than necessary because I can’t breathe to walk up the many hills to my dorm.
I do not appreciate having to dress both for the mountain’s temperamental weather and my own body’s.
I am not amused or impressed by getting sick on my second week of classes.
On a brighter note, this evening I shared a poem I wrote with a group of people for the first time in my life.
And didn’t die.
Then I came back, took a long hot shower and accidentally stumbled into the wrong room. Now I’m hiding in my own drinking miso and hoping that no one will remember it.
Ugh classes and work tomorrow ugh.
ugh being sick at school is THE WORST.
miso soup is always the answer though! I LOVE YOU I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER SOON!!! *sends good vibes*
GAPA vibes from England too. Hope you feel better soon.
Today there were improv comedy auditions. I came late, because I was at an iftar (though it’s the last one–tomorrow’s Eid, woohoo.) I am really not sure how I did. Here’s hoping. I think I did pretty well on the last skit, though, but since I was busy crying out, “My life’s blood! My bloood!” While pretending to be a rum-producing cactus that an unfortunately sober pirate had just attacked my view might have been a little off.
Even if that’s the only meeting I end up going to, I still had lots of fun.
It’s 3am and I am in another odd mood. I think I want to write something but I don’t know what about so I am reading webcomics and not-well-known poetry by people who are not primarily poets and having those quiet epiphanies you can only have late at night when you’re alone.
Maybe I want to write something but maybe I want to go stand outside for a few minutes and see if there’s any wind. Or maybe I just want some more juice.
i had cranberry juice yesterday and thought of you! <33
also i totally know what you mean. the 1am-3am timeframe is the best for writing and thinking (though it then ruins my nonexistent sleep schedule)
aww! &hearts
Cranberry juice I am addicted. AND SLEEP SCHEDULE, PSH, WHAT EVEN IS THAT.
You love cranberry juice too?
ONE OF MY KIND?
It’s like I’m the Doctor and I found another time lord… ♥
Cranberry juice is good, but cranberry-pomegranate juice is the best.
lolol you have no idea
in the summer when I have constant access to it it’s like an IV drip of cranberry all the time
I go through a gallon every 3 days or so probably if I’m just at home.
Recently we got to do a taste-test on two bottles of cranberry juice from Ocean Spray, probably in part because we buy so much of it.
Yeah gonna go get another glass now even though we just ate dinner but man now I’m thinking about it.
CRANBERRY JUICE FOREVER. Also cranberry-pomegranite and cranberry with a but of lime. Also tasty. But yes. Cranberry-juice lovers foreverrrrrr
hi it’s my birthday it is six in the morning and i should not be allowed to post this yet
Happy birthday!
Why shouldn’t you be allowed to post it yet?
If you’re still having doubts, it’s been your birthday here for nearly nineteen hours, so I’d say it’s safe to count right now as your birthday. (:
Time zone elitist
Naturally, naturally…
Boop.
Hello. The tree in my yard is still down, (well, of course it is, it’s not like it would get up and waltz away…), but half of it is cut up in pieces in the street. It’s really strange though, because from my window, I can now see at least ten houses. I dislike suburbia.
Anyway, a lot of my friends still don’t have power, including my boyfriend who is on vacation in Maine, after being away. all. summer. long. I lost power for about 12 hours, but then my cousin brought over a generator and a DVD and we watched a movie, and then the power came back and it was all yayayay power, party it up.
The day that we didn’t have power though, I taught myself how to play banjo Scruggs style (I had previously been play clawhammer-ish), and I like it much better. I plan on continuing playing both styles now. I should be playing with fingerpicks, but they don’t seem necessary.
I hate all the economics. All of them. And numbers. I hate numbers too. Also I bet my hard drive’ll crash, just ’cause it hates me.
We love you. <3
And we share in your hatred of economics and numbers.
Or at least, I do.
THIS POST IS NOT MAXIMIZING ITS UTILITY
My friend’s parents are both in math/economics and her dad is in optimization specifically so I get to hear her rant about how everything “IS SO INEFFICIENT” all the time
woo
Why do you hate economics?
Axa- AUGH NO don’t even talk about utility. Don’t. Even.
vanillabean- Because I’m writing a five-paged (single-spaced) paper due tomorrow. We’ve had two actual classes, how am I supposed to know how to
cure cancerfix the economy? And the economic outlook for clergy == I’ll probably take a vow of poverty, I don’t need to know the outlook. Blarghlbgm.Hate ALL the economics!
</forced meme
In all seriousness, hugs and choklit for working so hard.
Advanced jazz combo starts tomorrow. Oh, joy.
It’s a small group; me, Paperclip, Linguine/Altosax (they’re still auditioning), Trumpet player, Leonardo da Vinci, Brick, Mo, Flute, possibly Red, and maybe Washington.
Reading this I realize what weird codenames I come up with for people.
Helllllloooooo
I am one of those lucky people whose school doesn’t start for a while, so I am currently in Seattle! We went to the space needle and the experience music project (sorry about the lack of capital letters, my iPod is glitchy about shift). We have a fairly tight schedule so I won’t be able to kokon with anyone
and I can’t access my email securely.
So how’s everyone?
Don’t touch the coat! (free shave if you got that reference (cookie if you got that one))
I’ve been reading godel Escher Bach, can you tell?
Little harmonic labyrinth!
I went to the EMP when I was in Seattle in June! I learned drums and guitar. (And by “learned” I mean “did the interactive lessons for.”)
School starts tomorrow herp derp
welp now that i have covered R&R with little pictures of the third doctor
hi museblog, what up. i spent a week camping in the UP with my family which was super fun, hiked tahquamenon falls again and did general swimming, fudge-eating, etc. then on their way back down they dropped me off at finch’s cottage where a bunch of friends had congregated and we had battle tubing showdowns and finch took me out on the jetski and did some highly effective showing off (something about going really really fast and making super sharp turns xP)
also i tried wakeboarding for the first time and i managed to get the board up on top of the water on my first try which apparently is something that nobody does. ben went first and got it up his fourth try and finch’s dad was all impressed and then a few others went and didn’t get up (though in grinch’s case it was because the board was too small for him) and then i went and got up right away and everyone was all “whaaaat.” that was where the impressiveness ended though, standing up fully was really difficult so i spent most of the time sort of squatting with my knees super bent and then trying to stand upright and falling over
also today we were all back in columbus and grinch found a guy at one of the local geek stores who plays mtg (and does other generally awesome nerd things) and so he brought him back to play some edh with us. he’s a creative writing major who’s starting grad school at OSU and moved to columbus about a week ago so we told him what nerd clubs to join and got him some of the necessary food (food is something the area around here does really well, and when you go to ohio state there are certain places you pretty much have to eat at because they’re delicious and awesome).
his only deck was kaalia which he played a couple times and then grinch had him borrow his infamous mono blue and had him try to figure it out without reading through it first. he punted on the infinite combo because he didn’t know all the parts so he discarded a key component but he did some other fun things. he lost but mostly because ian was having fun with a ton of draw effects and i was having fun with megrim and we both had reliquary towers so basically by the time that all got blown up we were both at 40 life and everyone else was at like 10
…if any of that made sense to anyone
also i desperately need to pack tomorrow because on thursday i am moving in to the off-campus house! i set up the gas and electric already but we still have to pay a security deposit and set up internet (we can mooch off resnet until we get it figured out, decided it wasn’t a huge priority with all the free wifi around. we’re getting some super cheap plan, basically just enough to browse and no tv, just the internet). i shouuuuld be okay for the first month’s rent (might talk to my parents about borrowing some money) and work starts up again in mid-september so after that i’ll be reasonably solid and budgeted and such.
ohgawdadultthings
and then i have a week of house fun before i head to cleveland for yet another concert kokon with jade and grant
GOOD TIMES
So after almost a week of not working on it at all, my dragon hoodie is nearly done! Made the wings for it today (about a foot long), and they had quilted details so it took a while but since I made the first pair for my friend’s hoodie last week I just did the same thing so it took less time. They’re attached now and so all I have to do is cut up iron-on letters into mock scale shapes to use as decoration in some parts and it will be DONE. WOOO. I so rarely finish big projects (unless they take less than a day I abandon them or just keep starting more) that this is exciting
My 12-hole ocarina arrived today. My hands are so sore.
I saw a picture of an ocarina in a dictionary today, and I thought of you.
That sounds like the opening line of a love poem.
Caaaakkkke.
Yaaaaayyy!
Caaaaaakke!
Yaaaaayyy!
CAAAAKKE!!
YAAAAAYY!!!
Conflicting emotions right now: My day at school was really crummy (read: full of grades that are not A’s) but then in band (during which my sheet music was doing nobody any good in my locker) we got the Great Locomotive Chase! Yaay, glissandos!
… which I have no time to practice doing homework. Cake.
So. I have been absent from MuseBlog due to lack of Internet access. This actually has nothing at all to do with the hurricane, which I said would be the only reason I’d leave–sorry about that. I moved, and we don’t have Internet at the new house yet. I’m visiting the old one right now and saying what I must as quickly as possible.
It is amazing. The day before we moved, I went outside. I found a cicada with a broken wing in the middle of the road. En could jump quite well, as I discovered upon trying to pick en up to save en, but en couldn’t fly. I sent positive thoughts at en, held my finger in front of him (picking him up was too hard), and decided to just hope en’d crawl onto it even though I’d just scared en. It worked. En stayed on my hand for a very, very long time before I put en down, never jumping off even though I’d just seen that en was great at jumping.
I kept en in my hand at home for a while, and we bonded. I became extremely concerned about ens future survival. I wondered if I could keep en, so I looked up what cicadas ate. Unfortunately, they drink tree sap and xylem, which I cannot provide, so I released en onto a tree.
Not much later, I went onto MuseBlog and read Rebecca’s cicada comment, which was then in the recent comments bar. I was a bit… nonplussed. I would have been flattered regardless, but the fact that it happened that particular day? It’s really quite amazing.