October Odd-yssey, Part 2
Date: October 10, 2007
Categories: Random craziness
Sunday, 19 May 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
Date: October 10, 2007
Categories: Random craziness
Oh wow, cool picture! Who drew it?
First post!
Please don’t zapify this one. TMFA had an off topic post on the random thread, and you let it through.
guys, the contest is out of hand. Let’s drop it.
A canard is a duck, Robert.
First Post!
I love the image. It is very nice. And spooky.
Goodbye all!
Red-tailed HAWK
I love this picture (And the accompanying article–one of my favorites, although I think I was too scared to do more than ever skim the parasite article before it…)!
Ooooooooooo! Love the picture! That issue is one of my favorites!
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(3) Among other things.
8- Such as a plane. As in airplane.
2 (ag)- And why is it out of hand?
6 (pf)- I adored that issue, and the parasite article. I’m easily grossed out, but the article managed not to be too disgusting.
8 (Robert)- According to Wikipedia/dictionary.com, also a falsity told with malicious intent. Penty confesseth herself perplexed. Is there another usage?
5- Wait, where are you going, HAWK?
(10) I didn’t really mean that the “most influential MuseBlogger” contest was a canard; more a red herring or a WOMBAT, I suppose. I don’t think it’s possible to tell which single person has had the most impact on the blog, and I don’t think you learn very much by trying to do it.
ls the planet where museica and the flavor continent on called museworld or something? l want to make a map of all of it, but l need acurate maps of museica and pie isle to do so.
I agree. The contest has gone a bit too far, and feelings are going to get hurt, or serious arguments will begin.
5-Farewell!
1- It was on a cover of a Muse, but I can’t remember which. The one with the hiding places.
Re: contest: Say what?
I’m now completely confused.
5- Goodbye! *is sad*
12- What’s a WOMBAT?
My leg was hurting, but then my mom made me tea and it went a way.
Conclusion: tea is the cure for everything.
(15) October 2003.
5-Seya!
16-Waste of Money, Brains, and Time. WOMBAT.
The contest is on until the thirtieth. Incase you forgot.
14 (pf)- Whose feelings have gotten hurt? For once I’m not being particularly snarky about it; I just want to know.
16 (Pochi (I’d call you PC but PC is already taken by PraCan and Pochi is an amusing name)- Then I am never even going to get sick.
Aha my comment on your name is longer than my actual reply to what you said.
Where’s RtH going? NO IS HE LEAVING?
3- HAI PENTY.
I likeys the pic. I got that issue, but it disappeared into a black hole.
*smacks penty with trophy of snarkiness*
also, i’m terribly offended that you all didn’t nominate me for Best Person, Best Writer, Best Muser, Best Bunny, Most Like Chopped Liver, Most Like A Cherry Pie, and…what were the other categories again? Anyway, anything you didn’t nominate me for, i’m horribly offended about.
i need help coming up with slogans for a school election!
i’m running for vice pres. and i really need a good campaign saying or something!
please help!
oh another thing our grade is mostly boys and i’m pretty much one of the few girls so how can i get people to vote for me???????
pwease help!
sry for the 2post
What happened to the awards ceremony?
I think Monty won by almost unanimous vote for Most Influence on the Blog. Can I make her an award?
Whee! I liked that article! *And* it was by PB&J
21- Why would you live in a box?
Penty- I used to live in a refrigerator box, but now I have one of the fancy new resizable ones, that are just like houses. They = ♥ It’s also got a window! XD
Yes, I did turn my computer (it’s a laptop) upside down to see the picture the other way, too. It was fun!
17- Ah. 2003. The year that I most wish I had been subscribing in, and th year that my library does not have. Sigh.
Anything by the PB&J is good. i want him to write articles again :'( (and by that i mean more articles :D)
Anyone speak lojban?
Hello. No, don’t pass out, the great, powerful, and influential MontgomeryGurl has decided to grace the mere mortals with her presence. No gibberish in response, or I may strike you dead with my random-post-hating death-rays of doom!
Alright, the whole “most influential on the blog” thing was brought to my attention, and I thought I might should stop in and say a few words. This is the first time I’ve been on the blog since my last visit (I haven’t lurked), so I was unaware that my “influence” still carries. I figured that people who knew me well when I was on here still remembered me in some dark, cobwebby corner of their minds, but I never imagined that I’d entered some sort of mythical hall of awesomeness. Or scariness. From reading posts on the last October Random thread, it seems like my name is invoked more as a “MG will show up by your bed with a bloody knife and rip your innards out if you post anything that’s not of substance” threat than as a “boy, MG was awesome, wasn’t she?” type thing.
So I guess I should take what I can get, but… really. I don’t mind you invoking my name or whatever, but I think you’re hiding behind me rather than using me for support. Once, a friend of mine got really ticked off because every time I wanted to make fun of someone I would say “If Sarah was here, she would say blah blah blah”. Sarah would hear about it, and i t made her mad because I was just hiding behind her. She always insisted that she would say nothing of the sort, and if I wanted to say something I should just say it. If I was still on the blog, random posts would probably bother me, but I would not run around as some sort of vapidity vigilanty. If you have a problem with something, just say it.
I would much rather be remembered for my political ideas, religious viewpoints, sense of humor or posting style than for not liking inane posts. Come on, I left… what, two years ago? I was on here for seven months. That’s innumerable typoes, poorly constructed sentences, conversations and beliefs that I posted on this blog. And what does everyone remember? That I left because there were too many dumb posts. It doesn’t bother me that people might refer to the legend of MG when they want to make a point, but don’t act like I’m the one who’s making the point.
Truthfully, the banal posting problem was only indicative of something bigger thatn I didn’t like. I missed the atmosphere that was here when I first came. The blog just wasn’t what it used to be. When I first came here, it was an event for a new comment to be posted. You were excited, because it probably meant that it was in reply to a conversation you were involved in. Usually there were about three people on at a time, and we all participated in just about every discussion. The conversations moved slowly, we knew everyone’s personalities, and what you said mattered. That was gone by the time I left, perhaps replaced by something better, but definitely missing. To me, the way things were wasn’t worth my time. Part of it was random posting, part of it was too many bloggers, and part of it was political. I did truly love discussing the hot topics, but by the time I left I was burned out.
My coming to the blog was at the beginning of my internet age. I am eternally grateful to this blog for teaching me how to type, argue about politics and exposing me to the possiblities of the internet.
Oh, and on the whole “most influential member” question: The people who influenced me the most were (in no particular order) Queenie J, Penty, Ebeth, Phoenix and e~a. I don’t know how many of these people still make regular posts and what influence they have, but they were important back when I was here. I don’t think people realize how influential Ebeth was in setting the tone. My own writing style drew heavily from her own choklit-induced monologues. Also, Queenie J was one of the most brilliant people I have ever conversed with. Penty was also way on up there. Phoenix was a great writer, and from what I remember a natural leader. And what can I say about e~a? Just one of the most amazing people ever to live, and a much better writer than we ever gave her credit for.
My leaving the blog was right before my acquisition of some sort of semi-life. Here are some points of interest to those of you who care about what the great and powerful MG does in her spare time.
-I have discovered that I’m not a Republican or Conservative, but a Libertarian. I’m really liking it. It makes me feel sort of cool and rebellious, since I disagree with my parents, friends, and friends’ parents about such issues as gay marriage and legalizing drugs and gamblingl. I feel like I’m going against the flow and making up my own mind. Doesn’t every 16 year old want to feel that way?
-My religion is a lot more real now. Less head knowledge, more actions.
-I’m not a cloistered homeschooler anymore. Still homeschooler, just not cloistered. I’ve started taking a few classes at a college that’s in town. Specifically, American Government and Biology. These classes count as college and high school credit, so I’m happy. I’ve been doing pretty well, getting high grades and whatnot.
-I’ve kind of fallen in love with photography. I suck at it, and my camera is what it technically referred to as a “piece of crap”, but I do love it. Soon I’ll be getting a new camera. I am happy.
-I have a regular income. Babysitting, while it doesn’t exactly “rock” is a pretty good source of money. These crazy people pay me $10 an hour to babysit a two and four year-old.
-My writing has improved considerably in the last few years. Mainly, I got over my exclamation mark addiction and learned to love sentences. I dabble in poetry, character sketches and descriptions. I mainly write blogs, though. Sort of rant-y essays where I tell the world how brilliant I am. No one comments on them, but I know they’re awesome, because I’m the great and powerful MontgomeryGurl.
-No more speech and debate. More work than it’s worth, honestly.
-I went to Europe this summer. I discovered how beautiful the world is and how cruel high schoolers can be.
-I have finally decided what I want to do with my life. I want to go to Vanderbilt (nine hours from home, just the right distance), major in English, get my PhD, and become an English professor. Do I think that will actually happen? Not particularly, but at least I have a strong direction.
So that’s the news from my corner on the world. I figured I ought to exercise my influence in person, not just by the force of my legend.
30-*cheers* well said, and hello! *pies* You should come help us start MB book club 2.0. Stick around a bit! also, you never told me you were libertarian now. huzzah! and huzzah for college-y things and europe *is jealous of europe* This is an incredibly short response to an incredibly long post, but you’ll just have to deal with it because i don’t have the mad skillz (or the exciting life, or the year+ long absence :D)
30- Well, hello. Despite the length and impressiveness of that comment, I have nothing to say, except that I still get excited when there’s a chance someone’s replied to something I said.
Hello! Hello! Respond to 13!
(30) Salutations, MontgomeryGurl! You’ve been having adventures.
30-Whoa. That whole post was impressive. And I had a lot to say, but when I was done reading the post they vanished from my mind, so I’m just gonna pie you instead. *pies*
30- Hi!! We’ve really missed you! Nice post, too.
I am going to work on my wings right now. HOT GLUING FEATHERS TO PANTYHOSE IS MORE FUN THAN YOU WOULD THINK.
33-yes! darn it! they might as well be. And to the north is the legandarium, and if you go even farther and a little to the left, you get to the almost constructed Muse Acadamy Island.
No. The Legendarium is completely seperate from the Musiverse. That was the whole point.
I had a dream last night (what? this unholy time? DREAMS?) and when my alarm clock went off I was convinced it was my friend’s pocket watch beeping and I took a machete off a hook on the coat rack and hacked it to peices. :insane face:
Hello random thread! I miss the MuseBlog. I don’t have much time to get on anymore. Hopefully I’ll get on this weekend and do some stuff with RRRs. (sorry Time Travel!)
31-Well, I didn’t exactly have a “coming out” ceremony. I just decided that on a lot of social issues I leaned more towards a libertarian viewpoint than a conservative viewpoint. It’s on my Facebook profile. That’s kind of where I decided to make the official announcement. Unfortunately, no one actually look at my profile, so no one realizes that I’m cool and rebellious.
32-Well, here’s a reply to something you said, Alice. Do you always get really excited when someone says your name? I used to be really happy if someone would actually say my name in a post, not just respond to something I said. I have no idea why.
34-Hullo! Well, not so much, really. It just looks like a lot when you compile everything that’s happened in the last year in to one blog post. The most interesting thing going on in my life currently is that the weather is cool. May not seem like a big deal, but after suffering through 4-5 months of 90 degree weather, I’m ready to throw a party when a breeze comes through. So, yeah, that’s kind of the only thing going on right now. I don’t really have a life, only a semi one.
35-Why thank you. I understand about losing everything you wanted to say as soon as you’re going to say it. It happens all the time to me, especially in situations like a debate round or impromptu speech in front of a bunch of people. If you remember any of it, do tell.
36-I’ve missed y’all too! This was one of the only places I ever felt like I fit intellectually. At church I fit in spiritually, and in the homeschool group I have the same sense of humor, but since I quit speech and debate and quit coming here the whole world seems… really dumb. Brilliant MuseBloggers spoiled me to the realities of people who never want to talk to me about anything worth talking about.
30- Greetings, traveler! Sounds like you’ve been having a fun time *pies* Good luck with the photography, and I think you’d make a lovely english professor. Would you someday want to teach classes, and at what level?
Do we have a map of muse academy isle, or should l make it?
30- FINALLY someone expresses the silliness that is the “OMG ONOEZ MG WILL EAAATTT YOUUU!!!!11!!!eleventy-one!!” Yes, we can be respectful to brilliant bloggers but one person is not someone to be always tip toeing around especially when you do not know them or may be misrepresenting their views.
Yay for being yourself with your libertarian views!
oooh, photography and writing.
influentialness: *blushblushblush* thank you!
You are definately an influence though and a role model on being yourself and speaking out your opinions even if they differ from those of others around you. It is odd to see people idolize you when they may have never met you or barely known you.
*Pies MontgomeryGurl with GIANT welcome back pumpkin pie*
WELCOME!
I ♥ you!
Oh, and I’m me, e~a in case you were confused/wondering.
38-but it makes it so much simpler, and a bit more fun. see ‘muse legendarium’, post 48
Hmmm. lot’s of maps and geography of museica and outer museica. Can you tell me what to use?
39- I slept through my alarm clock for forty minutes this morning. Luckily my alarm clock is still set to 5:40 or thereabouts.
41- YES! I do! It’s totally ridiculous, but I feel this little thrill of excitement. I guess I’m still not over the joy of seeing my name in print/written out.
41 again- The thing I like most about MB is intelligent conversations. Oddly enough, I never go on the HT thread.
l found ou t what museiworld’s north pole is. The kontinent of kold.
and should l include Rewthlatickopution, or other maps from beyond museica? And what of the elements? we need a list of what to include.
30- If anyone’s great, powerful, legendary, and/or godlike… no. I won’t say that. I suppose you’re so much more special because you’ve sort of left.
49- The elements? you don’t mean Muse Legendarium? That’s not in the Musiverse.
But you probably don’t, so it doesn’t matter.
Let me make one thing perfectly clear. Muse Legendarium is not part of the Musiverse. I came up with the idea in the first place. Sorry if I’m sounding a bit petty, but the entire point of the Legendarium was to come up with a world that was in no way connected to Muse.
42-Thank you. I can totally see myself as an English professor, and I’m glad you can imagine it, too. I think I’d like to teach. I’ve been teaching a class on ACT prep to some homeschoolers the last few months, and it’s gone surprisingly well. I’ve been pretty shocked by how well they respond to me and how much I like teaching. I’d like to teach some obscure, major-y kind of classes to undergraduates. Not stuff like Composition 101, but something obscure and fun. More along the lines of Jane Austen in Modern Film or Irony in Classic Literature.
44-*gasp* e~a double posted! *smites e~a while screaming about banality and the demise of good blogging* *washes blood off hands* *walks away cackling evilly* You know my Facebook profile picture, the one that looks all scary? Apparently that’s what most people think I’m like. I haven’t been around, but from the little I’ve seen it sounds pretty ridiculous.
You’ll be happy to know that my opinion on gay marriage looks a lot more like yours that it did a year ago. I have my reasons for this.
It’s odd to think that I’ve become a by-word for anything, especially something that I had so little to do with. There were and are bloggers who were a lot more vocal about needing to keep the blog an inanity free zone than I was. I doubt any of the people who knew me well back then would think of me as the person who hates bad posts. Really, I said so much more than that.
I ♥ you e~a!
As a side note, if you think I’m all about brilliant posts, read some of my early work. I had a terrible addiction to exclamation marks and run on sentences. I guess someday I’ll look back on what I write now and be embarrassed by how pretentious nature of my language and the narcissistic quality of my subject matter. Really, I am not the standard for great posts.
48-That is so funny! I thought I was just insane, but maybe everyone does it. It used to be that if I’d been gone for a while and couldn’t possibly read all the posts, I’d just scan for my name. I’m such a dork. Yes, the intelligent conversation here is just about amazing. Brilliant people are great.
50-I’m so much more special because I just am. No, actually, if I just kind of hung around on occassion and hadn’t made a melodramatic goodbye post no one would’ve noticed that I was missing from most of the discussions. No one would even remember me (the same might be true of anyone, but I’d guess we’d have to experiment). But the melodrama helped me get a place in the hall of fame. I recommend it. Crying helps a lot.
51- lt was in chronicles of musica.
54-ZOMG~!@!@!@$#@^%@$& you’re alive! the gila moster didn’t eat you!?!?##@%#. heh. welcome back. i should post more.
53- haha. then you double post back. *and* *I* was being usefull and informing you of my name because otherwise I might have confused you. seeee? it was all to not confuse you, silly!
and I love your sarcasm in post thirty. whee. you would make a great English professor!
Actually, I quadruple posted, but I asked the GAPAs to delete some of them. My double posting was not as greivous as your double posting, because I was responding to comments that were not there when I posted the first comment, not merely tacking something on that I forgot to mention. I was talking, giving out real information to the blog, you were just correcting a mistake you shouldn’t have made in the first place. You should have let me be confused, and say something like “nice to see you… oxlin. Guess you didn’t talk much back in the old days, huh?” rather than double post.
Hehehe, I am very glad you think so. Your opinion means a lot to me.
29- I meant lojban, by the way.
30- Welcome back. So are you staying here for a while?
54- So you recommend burning out rather than fading away?
(60) Nothing so permanent, I’d say. But clearly there are advantages to making dramatic entrances and exits.
(29) Long ago, for a birthday present, I gave my father a book about Lojban’s predecessor, Loglan. Naturally, I also read it myself. Loglan was very, well, logical, but also seemed to me about as boring as it’s possible for a language to be. I couldn’t imagine wanting to be in a room full of people speaking it.
60, 61- Robert has it right. I’d say if you don’t really want to leave, just make a dramatic speech and pretend to (I’m don’t mean that my dramatic speech was just a sham, I really did mean it. But I think if I hadn’t left none of the drama would’ve been diminished). But fading away is never the way to go. I sort of did that after the first wave of bloggers, and no one noticed. Then I came back. Then I decided to leave, but this time I wanted to make it for good. And everyone noticed when I decided to do that.
60,61,62- If you want to make yoursefl appreciated, you should just throw a temper tantrum about how awful things are and leave for two days. Then when you come back, people will be all relieved and delighted to see you. I always inform everyone when I go somewhere.
Oh, and fading is definitely noticeable. Midnight Fiddler, for example, has hardly been on lately, and I’ve noticed.
63- Noticable? It’s not at all. I completely forget about people who aren’t posting.
64- I’m kinda with Roonicorn on this one, I hardly ever notice.
oohhhhh my lips hurt… FALL = CRUSTYLIPS
63- Hah. But then I’d suffer withdrawal symptoms…
61- CONLANGS! conlangs are ♥
53- I think I do an OK job of good posts… but I start out each one with an extremely random sentence. I don’t know where that came from. Perhaps it’s genetic, and my kids’ll do that too.
I WAS MISSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *is deleriously happy*
Hey MG, it’s great for you to pop by. Obviously you don’t know who I am, but I know who you are as I read past posts. well, nice to see you.
67-Well, duh, everyone’s specciallll!
Okay, I was missed, but now I’ve scared everyone away.
Hey, Fiddler-dude. How’s it going?
Grant is going to pwn at homecoming tomorrow. I got a new shirt and a new tie, and they are suitably snazzy.
Hi Fiddler!
71- Ah, homecoming. Mine’s next week. I’m not going. I am on the team to make the Freshman float, though, which ought to be fun.
I just saw a play about Iraqi women. It was very intense and very good. I cried.
71~ Dude-ette; I’m a girl. I’m fine, though abot to be ripped forcibly from the computer….not good.
Have fun. *tries to picture USECGO in a tie*
Farewell, I must go. I’m not sure if I’ll get on tomorrow, but now I need to go do homework…..eew. *throws tantrum* Pies to all.
i was browsing in the recent coments colum and saw something about “everyones special” so i just thought i’d come over here and tell you that i got my entire family (evne my bro) to call me The Special One. my family is waaaaaay too acepting of my jokes. It started off as me goin(after i spoke) “so says the special on” and stuff like that. unfortunately my family finds that imensly hilariouse, so i am forced to sit through bad versions and horrible jokes of the special one saga. trust me this is torture. my family has the knack of re telling my jokes in such a way that they are worn out before they re tell it the first time :rolls eyes:
Welcome back MG! Even though you left before I came. I’ve been here a while, though…
So, random tangents from my life, as is the random thread.
Playing even mezzo forte echoes weird in my room. I normally practice in the living room, which is huge with high ceilings. It doesn’t help that I just took the trombone apart to clean it, and I can tell it’s out of tune but not how. And in my search for an online tuner I ended up here, somehow. Still haven’t played notes beyond tuning B flat and F.
no ones posted in several hours so i thought i’d take the liberty to popo. i’m typing with one hand because i’m eating a large bowl of popcorn with my other hand.mmmmm….. i love homemade popcorn, and i don’t have to share cuz im home alone. i wonder if any of you remember me from when i first started posting. i was in my malemodel/ angry phase. the way i typed stuff looked so yoounge and inexperienced.now, except for tis one hnded post i use capitas, then i didn’t. i also type waaaaay faster now. i enjoy telling people “the internet taught me to type” ofcourse i actualy mean MB taught me to type. thanks MB. laala, i think i’ll go read some old posts….
Map?
Popcorn. Yaaay…
Happyful news:
Saosin is coming here and I might be able to go!!!!!!!!!!!! (Be grateful I did not type that in all caps, as I thought of doing)
BUT IT’S SO EXCITING! (sorry.)
I don’t know a lot by them, but I might get their CD tomorrow. :D:D:D
There was something else I was going to say… Oh yeah! Is there a such thing a “talking in third person day”? Because there should be.
30–Montgomery Gurl! wow! We haven’t seen you in forever!
This is ex-Elentari in case you were wondering.
Wat’s lojban? I speak English, Spanish, Elvin, Pig Latin, and Op. Never heard of lojban. Please, enlighten us, I love languages!
*cries* I am so MAD AT MYSELF! *cries*
Its friday!!!!!!! *dances*
popcorn. l was about have some, but it got postponed. ls there even some in the house?
No.
yay, MG. Nice to see you around the blog-verse again.
Yeah, I hope I didn’t miss you again this time..
in other news, I dyed my hair purple. Oh, and I mostly hate school. Except for a few classes. Well, I guess saying I hate school is a bit excessive; I dislike the amount of time that school occupies in my day.
82-Hey! I was just wondering today where you were. I thought to myself “Have Lizzie and Axa completely dropped out of the blog-verse? What a shame if they have.” OKay, maybe not those exact words, but something along those lines.
82 (again)-You dyed your hair purple? I’ve been wanting to dye my hair aqua or lime green for several months, but I don’t know if I’ll have the courage.
Axa posts three or four times a week. I saw her today over on the Music thread.
well, i finnished my popcorn! oh i just remembered i was making a large mug of tea *goes yo reboil water*
I want my hair to be bright green and spiky, and short. Like zolo!
81- hey ag, supwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwqqqeswwwwwwwwwesaawaees ooh, sorry, i was trying to get tea off the keyboard… i don’t know how it got there. I got really distracted durring reading time in english wondering what you and alice look like….. and it was home made popcorn not the stuff from stuff.
anyways. i may sound distracted and be unspecific about anything i post. it’s just i’m not doing anything (but watching potter puppet pals) so my thoughts are weird. plus i’m drinking tea with caffene. i was going to warn you all that caffene has a bad affect on me but then i didn’t. well, it makes me less focussed than i usualy am when drunk this late, although i may just be tired [ye, i do know it’s only 9:22 but i’m still tired]
What about me?
87- Well, I’m going to send in a picture of my Hallowe’en costume when it’s done…but since it involves both a mask and a very small object (not sure what yet) stuck to the end of my nose, it won’t really show you what I look like. See, I want to send a picture of myself in to MB, but I want to wait for something really interesting and signifigant.
88- re-read my post. anyways i was mainly asking what’s up? because me is bored out of my mind. not really. sort of. no. yes. nu uh. i probly shouldn’t have drunk anything with cafeen.
89- w00t! i imagine you with black hair, long skirts(blue), sweaters(pink) and uh… yeah.
This is yet another farewell post. I had fun on the MB for the past 30 hours or so. I may come back in November to discuss NaNoWriMo. Is anyone planning on doing that, by the way? I’m already signed up on the site. My username isn’t that difficult to figure out, if you want to find my profile. Ebeth and e~a, y’all better be doing it this year. I’ll kill you if you don’t. And you should name some characters after me. Characters that are girls. Because last year Ebeth had a character named Monty, but it was a man. So… yeah.
Bye all! Much love from her Awesomeness MontgomeryGurl to the dear old MuseBloggers.
Okay. l beat up my brother with a pack of tissues! l put it between my ring and middle fingers and punched rapidly. Mind you, he attacked with his pencil crossbow, so l grabbed to nearest object.
Heh. When asked if he conceded to my beating him up, he thru a bowl at me.
well, now.. *chuckles*
90- Wow. Maybe I shouldn’t send a picture of myself. It might be a little odd after that image.
My skirts haven’t been particularly long lately, I don’t know why. I tend towards knee-length or thereabouts usually. Even my long skirts, like the one I’m wearing today, only comes down mid-calf now. I used to step on it when I walked. But it is blue! *goes to put on the only pink sweater in her possession* *not really, I’m really too lazy, but we can pretend*
I’d like to see a picture of you, too… I imagine you with black hair, like a longish version of a boy’s cut (ear-lobe length), brown eyes, a heart-shaped face, jeans, and a red t-shirt.
91- Bye! Come back occasionally! Go join the MB thread on the NaNo forums!
And I might name a character after you. I’m not sure how well it fits with Fairyland, though.
73-dude is unisex. yes, it is.
79- wait, you’re elentari? missed that. Does Nthanda mean anything having to do with stars and queens? Do I just not speak the language?
whee hairdye! awesome Lizzie and go ahead MG!
Urg. Another tissue package fight. This time my brother had a pencil, but l drove him out.
Hallo Peoples!!!!!!
The Insane Blue Sage is officially ungrounded!!!!!
*is happyful*
Now I get to go herd little people around the zoo all day!!
I didn’t think I was going to say, but when I posted my last post, it looked like it would be first…
I live! Fantastic to see you all, but still amazing: 100 posts in two days!
Pies!
Red-tailed HAWK
Hahah, I was thinking of going out and working in my garden later today, and I just had donunts for breakfast! I must be Feather’s twin!
73- You don’t need to try and picture me in a tie. On that thread labeled “When they’re not on the blog…” there is a photograph of me leaning across a table with a cynical look on my face. I also happen to be wearing a suit. So, yeah. I apologize if you construed my greeting as calling you a guy. I call most everyone “dude” at one point or another.
82-oooh, spiffy
91-aww, do come back for nano. and heck yes, i am totally doing it this year!
also i felt really special because somebody in the chat room remembered me from last year *feels important*
And monty dear, you are a man. An old, creepy, pedophelic one.
This is a well-established fact.
99-tissue package fight? did i miss something?
all posts relating to dude-dude means everybody. hecht even calls my mom dude. it’s really funny.
91- Bye, I enjoyed your visit back! Good luck with school/nano/everything!
I got to wear a tie for senior night last night. It was blue, with guitars on it (but not very obvious ones, it was like blue squares with some abstractish darker blue guitar heads) and from The Beatles ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps.’ Pretty sweet, I wore it before and after we went out too. And my lime green fuzzy hat XD
95- heh. send in a picture anyways. you’ll probably never get to see a picture of me (unless I enter the muse contest which i am doing) because my parents would never let me post a picture online. *grins sheepishly* they don’t really know I do MB anyways. you got me kinda right. I actualy was wearing a red T-shirt and jeans when I posted last. My hair is sort of… *thinks of a way to describe it* uh well….. a mix between Ramona Flowers(from scott pilgrim, google ramona flowers and you can probably see pictures of her) and the girl from bleach whos name i forget (help manga fans please?) I have no idea what shape my face is but it’s not heart shaped…
Okay world.
This is my FINAL NAME CHANGE.
I PROMISE. It works for me now.
This is Shadow Gallery, formerly known as Lady Visala of Reverie, formerly known as Lady Cameron of Reverie, formerly known as Lady Toblerone, formerly known as The Foolish Peradventurer, formerly known as The Peradventurer, formerly known as KillerQueen.
Or something like that.
And yes, it is from V for Vendetta, but…it works quite well.
Anyway…Insane Blue Sage: Do you not like little people?
I made a spiffy T-shirt on Wednesday. I stole lots of ideas from MuseBlog. It said:
Front
I recommend
1) Always carrying a towel
2) Always avoiding Hot Pink Bunnies
3) Ducking!
picture of a flying pie
Back
picture of a large pie splatting, with “splat” written in the middle
Sorry, you’ll have to duck faster next time!
Maybe I will send pictures!
91-Bye! We had fun being enlightened with your presence! (Oh yeah, and I’m doing NaNoWriMo this year…)
92-All rightttt… I don’t have a brother so I’ve never been able to beat him up.
Whoo, kiddos. Sorry I’ve been gone. Very industrious week, I’ve had.
I need glue sticks for my glue gun. I have one more section of wing to put feathers on and then I’ll be able to start on the straps, which I’m not really sure how I’m going to be doing. Any suggestions for my strap dillemma?
AAAAAH! I have to go to tonguethrust therapy now. I hate my mouth. There are waaaayyy too many problems in my mouth.
I have crooked teeth, a small pallet, slow dental development, a crossbite, mouthbreathing, and a tonguethrust. I HATE GENETICS.
111-Ewww… gross. Although mouth genetics suck, yes.
105- You’re a senior? Seriously? But you’re only fifteen…*feels like she’s missing something*
That’s really weird…
Okay, so I posted on Muse FanFiction and none of my comments showed up. And then I wenrt to NaNo and the first thing I saw was “Mystery of the Disappearing Comments”. Weird, no?
This comment is as much an experiment to see if it will show up as it is me sharing a funny story.
IT DIDN”T! HELP!
Alice, your posts are showing up, but you don’t get the awaiting moderation note because your name is too long.
Maps? Anyone? Hello?
116- Oh. Well, I’ll make it my signature than.
Alice decrees that everyone must read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell or suffer her disapproval for eternity
We MuseBloggers really do have a slang all our own.
GAPAs, I’m making an experimental blog on wordpress. Is catagories the same thing as thread?
(120) No, categories are for organizing threads (but be aware that what we refer to as “threads,” WordPress calls “posts”). If you look at the top of this page beneath the title comment, you’ll see “Entry filed under: Random craziness.” “Random craziness” is the category. On the home page under “Recent Comments” you’ll find a list of all the MuseBlog categories.
111- Mouth genetics are the foulest thing in the universe (apart from algebra, MLA format, and homework.) I am missing my adult lateral incisors. (The ones right next to my top front teeth.) Because of their absence, my teeth didn’t fall out in the correct order, some not at all. I had to get oral surgery to remove the five teeth remaining. (Three canines, two wisdom teeth. I’m also missing my wisdom teeth on the bottom, but that is a good thing.) Though my mouth area was numbed, when they tried to pull the first one it snapped in half. (The remaining teeth had fused to my jawbone because they didn’t come out in their normal time.) This made me think about it too much and consequently ill. So I rescheduled and had them sedate me. There was no way I was doing that conscious.
121- The categories are great. I could never find my way to all the threads I visit without them.
107- visalia is a place in the USA. i randomly found it on a map and went OMG IT”S VISALIA!!!!!!!!!
120- a blog about???? *waits until beavo tells us he’s done so she can use the magic of the internet to hunt him down* I’m kidding ofcourse.
I just created the Random Thread, Morphing Chameleon, and Welcome Newcomers, but how do I get them to go in that order, and not the last thread goes on the top?
Change the time stamps.
121-Thanx.
124-I made it un-googlelefiable. *sticks out tounge* Like I said, it’s experimental. I might just make a theme after I figure out how to work it.
126-And you do that how–?
126-Oh, never mind, I got it. I added a search bar to the homepage, how can I delete it? I know there’s already one (I’m using the same format as MB) but there was a page with stuff you could add, and I added the search bar. And now I can’t find it so I can’t delete it.
127- i was kidding. i don’t have the time to pointlessly stalk MBers. out of curiosity how do you create a blog on wordpress?
129-Go two WordPress and click create blog and fill in your profile. Mine is fake, of course.
Okay, I got that down too. How do I post different widgets on different pages? Like the homepage has Links and a Calender and Recent Comments, but what if I wanted to just have a recent posts in the threads?
Map? Map? Map? Map?
And how do I get the recent comments sidebar to show the recent comments, and not just a profile picture and name?
I’m pretty sure my last two posts were moderated by a GAPA, so could the said GAPA please respond? *cute face* *fails and looks like Yoda*
Sorry, mate. I’ve forgotten how I worked those particular feats of magic. I’m afraid you’ll just have to read the dreaded documentation.
135-Dreaded documentation?? *dreads*
It’s not exactly perfect yet, but can I post the URL? I took a whole bunch from MB like the HG2BB
122-I know how you feel. My nerve endings don’t respond to the shot in the usual place. That’s because they’re somewhere else. Like the nerve endings of my dad. It sort of works. I guess.
I am proud of myself right now. Ya know why? I found my dad’s slide rule. And it’s around 2048218527000 times better than mine. No wonder he hides it. Plus, I get a beanie for SchoBowl. What could be better?
Also, my high school lost the homecoming game. Whoops. So I guess that ‘KILL THE HAWKS’ writing on the windows is kind of obsolete now. Oop-see daisy.
(137) Do you really need to ask that question?
139-Maybeeeee….
(140) Sorry, no personal URLs. But you knew that.
113- No, senior night just means the seniors get to write the drill and pick a song for marching band, and decide what we wear. No worries, I’m still just a sophmore.
Beavo, if you have a lot of questions, look in their FAQ. Also, if they’re not in there, just put them in an email and write to the email provide for questions. I’ve done that, and they’re extremely helpful about it.
HEY! I tried : idea : and it came up with a lightbulb. I know the GAPAs know how to fix this, as I’ve seen the hot pink bunnie maker thingy.
Wait, Beavo is making a blog? HEY!!!!!!
138-HEY!!!!!! Kill the HAWKs? First of all, it seems like that could reveal where you live (sort of). Second, my name is HAWK!!!
If the GAPAs feel I’m right about the revealing of information, they may take out that section of this post (not that you need my permission! )
People probably think I’m weird at events. Ugh, HSP symptoms.
Red-tailed HAWK
It’s funny the GAPAs bothered to put up a notice about their going to bed tonight. They don’t usually.
Perhaps it’s ’cause of the Pie Wars and Ships’ Logs and stuff. But I posted on SL anyway.
Monday is “Pajama Day” at my school. I’m unsure of whether to wear pajamas and contribute to the class points for frehsmen or to preserve my dignity and love of nice outfits and wear something a bit more sensible.
Let’s test that.
*shudder* Never thought I’d be doing a HPB smiley in one of my posts… but maybe it’s a lightbulb again.
No, it’s still a HPB, apparently.
147- YES KEEP THE HPB!!!!!!!
OMG.
OMG.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A group of college students wants to ban the word “pwn”! To what extent, it is unknown, but they want it abolished! This would be nearly impossible, but they are campaigning for it.
HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT’S AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*dies*
Okay, my apologies for excessive exclamation marks but I think other MBers will forgive me, as this terrible news had to be communicated with all the feeling possible.
OMG.
OMG.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gwen, I feel your pain!!! They can’t! We should start a protest! I mean, how can I wear a shirt that says ‘i pwn noobs’ if pwn doesn’t exist! Why would the horrid college people do this! Which college students are these!? I need to write a letter of indignation!
149- why do they care *rolls eyes at the stupidity of all this*
145- preserve your dignity. if anyone’s mean to you beat them up/ tll them you forgot. always works for me, but then again no one expects me to dress up
106-rukia? orhime?
142-I find their FAQ highly unhelpful. The GAPAs answered more of my questions then the FAQ did. Although I am planning on an at least forty line email…
144-Yes, I am. *looks menacing* *fails miserably*
145-Ummm…. I wouldn’t wear pajamas if I was you. They’re so weird.
149-*dies of shock and crumbles to innumerable ashes*
149, 150-OHNOEZ COLLEGE STUDENTS OMGZ come on guys…i thought college students were old and important at one point too, but now i KNOW college students…and i know quite a few that are complete idiots. don’t worry about it, they’ll get pwned by the english language eventually.
149/150- Like that’s really going to work. If we keep using the word pwn there’s no way they can ban it. And I don’t think anyone cares enough to make it a crime, and even if they did they can’t control thoughts(this is not 1984), and I don’t see how they’d enforce it.
While they’re at it, can they force everyone to stop using multiple negatives? ‘Cause that’s just as hard (or just as easy) to effect.
Yesterday was another marching band competition (they’re weekly. The season’s over halfway done, we have six performances in the next two weeks.) Remember that band that beat us at Cicero? They were back. We got an 88.4, they got a 90.25. It’s closer than before. And I know there are things I could have done better (because we just added them a week or two ago). Notable things that happened: our drum major almost fell off the podium at the beginning of the show! They had to stop the time and fix it. And we got to see part of the end of the other band’s show. It was slow (then again, two thirds of our show is around 160 beats per minute). And there was a point where the band put down their instruments and walked around with wings on… it’s band. Not colorguard, band. We dance at times too, but we at least involve our instruments. And I talked to people with penguini the bus ride back(only two hours), which was interesting because they put aside their dislike for me out of- I don’t know what- boredom, or maybe a rare outbreak of conscience. But it was fun.
152- rukia, thankyou, i always forget her name.
meh. my hand is hot and i can’t get my ring off… grr…. i always need rings to be too big so i can play with them…. curses…
First of all, they can’t ban the word “pwn.” Banning words is akin to fascism. Second of all, I don’t believe “pwn” is even a word, so it can’t be banned in any case. Third of all, they’re just being silly, and deserve a right royal boot up the backside.
why ban “pwn”
Okay. This is bad. Museblog is wrecking the friendship of C++D and me as well as Gim and me.
159-I was wondering what the odds of there being three MBers who knew each other in the first place. Did you show them the blog? Otherwise, that is strange… Oh, and why is it ruining your friendship:?:
Red-tailed HAWK
102~ I’m going to start calling you Feather.
103~ Oh yeah, I do remember that. I don’t really mind being called a dude, but Paul Baker mistook me for a boy on the ask the GAPAs thread one time. It was funny.
My fingers are COLD!!!
160~ Oh, hi Feather, I didn’t see your last post.
159~ Yeah, why?
128- So you’re creating a MB clone? Cool!
AGH. So… many… comments… so… little… time…
149- WTF. No way!
I’m reading a v. good book called First Light by Rebecca Stead. Anyone else read it?
maaayoooors….soooo boooring….whyyyy
i think mayoral candidates are people you just need to talk to once to decide who to vote for and then just ignore. writing stories about them will DRIVE YOU CRAZY
it doesn’t help that i know i have a load of other hw to do…
160- l showed C++DM, who showed Gim. We argue a lot now, and it’s always because of MB.
163-Well, except for the fact it has nothing to do with Muse, yeah.
165) don’t lose friendships over the internet, it doesn’t matter enough.
I just talked to Purple Panda over the phone! Yay! We had a lovely conversation…or several.
And I need to do my homework. Dash it all.
168-I just remembered I had homework! Shitaki Mushrooms.
I had no homework over the weekend. *sings*
168-a conversation? that’s special…FC just says “eeeebeeeth” in a creepy voice and hangs up
Finished the stories! 422 and 430 on the word count. not great, but more than the minimum so i should be ok.
now editing english paper, oooh, aaah.
My homework isn’t due till Tuesday. I could just ignore it, as I’ve been doing, but I daresay I’ll have homework to do tomorrow when I’ll have to be doing this homework so I’d best do this homework today to save myself from homework overload tomorrow when I havbe to do my homework due on Tuesday and my homework due and Wednesday (if I have any) both in a very short amount of time.
170- Well, aren’t you lucky.
I also have to clean my room (and I mean I really HAVE TO clean my room) so maybe I will go do that right now instead of procrastinating on MuseBlog, even though that’s a lot more fun than cleaning my room which is boring and not pleasant but it needs to be done and MuseBlog is an excellent procrastination tool, you’d almost think that’s what it was made for (hmmm) and I guess I should go do that now so I don’t have to do it tomorrow (along with the homework) and so I don’t have to go rummaging about in my closet tomorrow morning at 5:40 looking for something to wear but I’d much rather be doing this or reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell which is tempting beyong belief and I can’t read it tonight because I have to go to bed earlier so I can get up at 5:40 without falling asleep after I turn off the alarm and – OH DRAT!
Well, that ended that sentence. Sort of sad, really, it was a lovely sentence and I was proud of it. But I just realized we haven’t any milk or bread for the morning, so I shall have to go to Safeway and buy some. And I’ve already been.
Congratulations me!
Last night I took my 60th-and final-lyme disease pill! Yeah!!!!!
Red-tailed HAWK
You can tell it’s monday morning-the GAPAs are busier than ever!
hey, how do you add sound to an animation in macromedia flash?
Kagomix, you obviously don’t recognize a crisis when it is shoved into your face. [consider yourself pwned mwee he he he…]
Missy Swann, that use of “pwn” didn’t work, as it was immediately followed by “mwee he he he.” Also, I hope everyone is pronouncing “pwn” properly: as “own.” It’s spelled with a p because misspelling things is somehow clever. Except when rappers do it. I would find it hard to describe anything a rapper does as “clever.”
177-ebeth is exceedingly annoyed when people pronounce it “pawn” It makes no sense and is uber-n00bish.
So we definitely watched the dramatic chipmunk about five times in english today. hemmel was like “wasn’t that great? let’s do it again” “ok, one more time” “last time now, really”
love that class
177- Yeah. How is yelling someone else’s lyrics while having a roll of money in your mouth clever?
[snip! snippity! snip! snip! — Admins in four-part harmony, fortissimo.] I’ll say no more for fear the GAPAs will eat me alive zap my post.
172-I just got done cleaning my floor, dresser, and side table, and now my floor is all messed up again. Drat. (I ♥ saying Drat.)
177-Beavo’s Pet Peev: Saying Pwn as Pon or Pwin or Pawn. Thats for n00bies who don’t know the long and rich history of the word Pwn. Or Pwt, for that matter.
Ultimate Sassy Especially Crappy Grant O., no one calls me missy and gets away with it. My grammar is perfectly fine, and i do pronounce it pown, thank you very much. And mwee he he he is an INTERJECTION, genious.
and what hyperactive chipmunk????
181-Yeah, but Pown is INCORRECT! Bad. Bad! Bad bad BAD I say! (And so does everyone else…)
182-um no…pown is the correct pronounciation.
nub.
We had to play in the rain today in P.E. Joy. And then everyone got really ticked at me becuase of the way I hit it, but it was all because of the wind. There is this guy on my team who has the biggest ego I have ever met, OMG, he is soooooooooooooooooooooo obnoxious, I just want to scream.
remeber……….pigs rock!!!
181- MISS Swann, chill with the attitude. There’s no need to talk to Grant like that. And he wasn’t criticizing your grammar anyways.
(178, 181) Dramatic, not hyperactive. And it’s actually a prairie dog, as Prarilius Canix will no doubt attest.
Sorry, MissSwann is cranky, and she didn’t like his tone [cuz, yaknow, she could TOTALLY hear him]
Grant O., I am sorry if I offended you. Usually when someone calls me Missy [my science teacher grrr] it means that they are implying that they are angry at me. Now let me go before i turn into a care bear.
181- um, you call yourself miss and don’t want to be called missy? change your name. and Grant wasn’t even being mean. sheesh.
My backpack is way too heavy for a girl of my age and weight,
w00t, I don’t have much homework. WAIT- that’s an oxymoron! How can I have a huge, heavy backpack and not that much homework? AAH! Paradox! *dies*
I found my graphics pen! Again! Because I keep losing it!
urgh! why am I on MB when I should be working *bangs head against wall* grr… this addiction is really anoying. *screams in rage at my own adictability* anyways… if any MB member meets a sudden death can someone else post about it so we can all go to their funeral? sorry for being morbid. it’s just my fear that one of you will get run over by a truck and i won’t know.
190-What’s a graphics pen? Sorry about your backpack…
191-I and several other people have asked our parents to post somewhere on the blog if the sad day should come. My parents really thought I was weird then!
HappY HAWK
god, I hate my parents sometimes. Sometimes, my mom gets all ticked off really easily and then she spreads her rage indiscriminately, while my dad often is fairly clueless and has no idea when something isn’t funny any more.
And then I feel bad for posting about them like this. Oh well. I’m kind of bitchy myself.
asdgasdgaelkewjtxbgvcgvcghmrrrrrrrrrrr.
MY LIFE IS A PIT OF ENDLESS ANGST BLACK AS MY SOUL THANK YOU VERY MUCH
Hey, is anybody on?
193-listen to some black metal. yea. really. its helps.
Oh, nevermind.
Tsk! That was quite rude of you, Miss Swann. Great job in not taking a name from a movie about pirates, by the way. Pirating pirates? I wasn’t calling you Missy because I was angry, I was calling you Missy to soften the blow of my saying “hey, that doesn’t work.” I’m sorry if my pro self is acting condescending. Maybe I’ll go back to thinking about extremely important things that you needn’t worry your pretty little head over.
Agggh!!!!! Why must people be rude to me in packs on one day? My friend needs to get some common sense.
I’m sorry for my facetious comments, Miss Swann, but I’m in a bit of a foul mood because people have been rude, in a way that I oughtn’t to have to put up with. I apologize for any offense given to anyone in the past year.
Oh, pwnage! Yay!
193- I’m thinking of starting a club for that. Wanna join? That can be our motto.
194- HALLO *pies* How goes liff?
173) congratulations~~~ that’s great! ^^
193) oh I know how it is Lizzie, I know how it is. :C
193-Noooo! The Smile Nazis will get you! (actually there’s only one, and it’s me. If people don’t smile, i draw smiles on pieces of paper and duct tape them to their mouths so it HURTS to take off. BWAHAHAHAHA!)
201- Godwin’s Law.
Gack. I think there is something wrong with me. I took, like, a two-hour nap this afternoon. I never want to sleep before I have to.
If this is a symptom of a disease, I will be extraordinarily ticked off.
I came up with an idea to cause total confusion.
Identify the person at your school who is the most “trendsetting.” Bribe them (with money, chocolate or otherwise) to use “wobbles” in place of “good” or “cool.” For instance: “That’s really wobbles, dude.” We will also post it on Urban Dictionary.
If a sizable number of us do this, teens across the nation will be using “wobbles.”
Ah, yes, reading earlier on this thread I just realized I should be trying to look at the picture upside down! Hard to do when the computer screen doesn’t turn. But Yeah! Neato….
AAAAHAPPPY HAWK
Grant, s’okay. Thank you for calling my head pretty [i guess?] I think that we can ferget ’bout this now [ahh, my hands are getting furry w. carebear fur]
Does anyone here play Oblivion? Great game.
202- Damn. GAPAs, I guess you’d better make a new Random Thread.
xD
192- Hard to explain. Go on Wikipedia and search for Graphics Tablet.
Hah! Another triumphant blow to my disbelievers! Today I was having a conversation with someone, and in passing I mentioned black pudding. I’ve never had it myself, and never, ever intend to. Anyway, this person had never heard of it, so I described what I knew: it’s made with blood. They didn’t believe me. Foolish person! I looked up black pudding on Wikipedia, and what did I find? Black pudding is, in fact, made with blood.
*high fives Grant*
That story made me really happy for some reason….
209~ Of course, Paul Mentioned it in his British celebrations article for Muse’s 10th b-day. I don’t intend to ever let a bite of it pass my lips. That’s a perk of being vegitarian!
190-That just reminded me of when my friend told me he had to attend his grandmother’s funaral again. :weird:
193-Yay! Apathetic moods! *feels emo despite the exclamation marks* *which is dumb*
209-Just thinking about that part of that article gives me the wobbles creeps. Congealed Blood! I would not eat that. No.
212~Exactly. Why I’m vegan.
Hmm. Could I suggest a title for next month’s random thread? Perhaps November Niceties?
My fingers are cold. Brr. I’m quite random right now. I’m figuring that it’s because of getting up early after going to bed very late and then doing several hours of math. *dies*
213- What about November Nonsense?
209-is that the pig blood one or am i thinking of something else?
So today in hemmel we started off in the classroom (we were going to the comp lab later) and josh price came in right before the bell rang soaking wet, so hemmel was like “i guess it’s raining, huh?” so he was complaining about how he didn’t have windows, and then he mentioned his plant, and people were asking like “how is it even alive?” and stuff. somebody asks if it’s real, and he says yes, then devin (girl, not high tower) asked if she could touch it, and sam brock was like “are you SURE it’s real?” hemmel looks at it for a sec and says “s***, it’d better be real, i’ve been watering it every day!” and the entire class cracks up laughing. (it did turn out to be real, he broke a leaf off to check)
Then in torch, we spent the whole period eating popcorn and watching demetri martin vids on youtube. oh, and horger armwrestled little max, which was hilarious.
aah, school
November Nonsense is nice, but what about Knovember Knowledge?
Name for Next Month:
November No-Name
November Narcissists
November Never-Never Land
November K nick K nacks
November Noodles
November Napping
November Nice Old Ladies
November Nip
November Nasal Problems
November Nitrogen
November Newton
Next months name:
NoRaThea
get it?
Pardon the heresy of pointing out that alliteration is not required. We have had Random threads with other sorts of names.
219- it is fun though!
197-HEY! “flaming” and then apologizing isn’t enough. That was very mean to her! *gives pie and chocolate to MissSwan* 206-You are very kind!
Ack! Horseradish! It gets all the way to the eyes! *cries*
Well, it looks (or feels) like I will need a second batch of medicine. My left elbow is now hurting very much.
Red-tailed HAWK
November Dreariness.
219- how do like mine?
November Novelty? To go with a new thread and nanowrimo?
223- I like it a lot, though it would have to be NoRaTh, for November Random Thread. Norath. I like it.
224- That’s also a good idea. I guess it’s up to the GAPAs which.
224- how about NovNoRaThea
214-Hey! I was gonna say that!
Numb November? Or does it have to be in the other order?
Red-tailed HAWK
What does the No stand for?
So far the contest gows as follows:
Best Writer-Alice, Oxlin Widdershins, Jadestone, Ebeth, Grant O, Kiki, Phoenix, Glassboro, Prarilius Canix, TNO, Vixen, Penty
Best Artist-Traggle, Ebeth, agagabagbaga, Grant O, Glassboro, Kagomix, Em, Capricious
Best Musician-Jadestone, Ebeth, Potato Chip, Grant O, Giminator, Lizzy, FridgedSymphony, Glassboro, Midnight Fiddler
Best Sense of Humor-Alice, Ebeth, Grant O, Giminator, Queenie, Glassboro
Best Speller-Alice, Traggle, Oxlin Widdershins, Ebeth, Grant O, Kiki, emmatheduck, Glassboro
Best Alter-Ego-Ebeth, Grant O, Traggle, Kiki, Glassboro
Most Threads About Them-Lady Cinnamon Moon of Orange, Oxlin Widdershins, Ebeth, Grant O, Glassboro
Most Impact on the Blog-Prarilius Canix, Montgomery Girl, Alice, FridgedSymphony, Red-Tailed HAWK, E2MB, Grant O,
Other-Kiara, purplefinch, curious and questioning
228- novelty
I didn’t mean to start something……..
229-Whoa, who entered me as most impact on the blog? I’m highly honored! I haven’t been paying attention becuase I didn’t know if anyone thought of me as qualifying for an award, but how is it decided? *is honored*
Red-tailed HAWK
229-best artist? that was a joke, right?
I thought you all had abandoned the contest. Isn’t the rest of the world competitive enough?
229- what about me?
November Nattery gets my vote, as that’s what people do. They natter on and on about random things.
Black pudding may be made with any sort of blood, I s’pose, but yes, pig blood is more common.
I am not a vegetarian. Nor will I ever be one, for several reasons. One, it’s hard for vegans to get the protein their body needs. Two, I’d get sick of having fruits, nuts, and whatnot all the time. A dude needs something to sink his teeth into. And three, meat is just too dang delicious. I eat meat but don’t think about where it comes from. I seem to remember a list in the first issue of Muse I ever got, about the benefits of being a vegetarian (with a picture of a skinny librarian-looking lady with glasses on at the top.) Next to it was another, more entertaining list, about the benefits of being a MEATATARIAN! (Voracious pirate-looking bearded man at the top.) I don’t remember what any of them were, except something to do with dessert.
Hah, that reminds me of a silly internet show I watch. This guy is making breakfast for his friend, his friend’s girlfriend, and his friend’s brother. The breakfast he is making is comprised entirely of bacon. Kyle (the friend’s brother) says, “Doug, that’s a lot of bacon. Did you make anything else?” Doug says, “Dude-tons!” and pulls a giant plate of bacon out of the oven where it is being kept warm. Kyle says, “Uh, Anastasia’s a vegetarian now.” Doug puts his hand up to his mouth, saying, “Oh, my God, dude. How long has she had that?”
229- I hope I win at least one thing.
228 – Nonsense?
213 – *dies* I’m so glad we have SSATs tomorrow. I get to miss my first four hours (including Geometry! ) I know how you feel. I’ve been getting an average of five hours of sleep per night for the past two months.
204 – That’s such a great idea! But I don’t think they’d buy it, unfortunately.
193 – Tell me about it. Parents, *sigh*. You gotta let it out somehwere, even though most people don’t read ranting posts. Hope things are looking up now.
191 – Good idea. I’m not sure how many people notice if someone unexpectedly goes missing, but it’s a good idea to tell your parents to post on blogs/chatrooms/websites that you’re dead or seriously injured. It might be a bit emotionally difficult for them, though.
172 – I love procarstinating. That is, until I realize that it’s ten o’clock and I haven’t started my homework or done anything else I’m supposed to. *smiles innocently*
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SSAT testing tomorrow! Aaahhhhh!!!! *freaks out* And we aren’t allowed to use calcualtors either. At least I’m a freshman and this doesn’t count for anything (I hope)
At least we don’t have too much homework.
Anyone else need to do testing soon?
*sings Annie Lennox* Hope fades into the world of night, through shadows falling out of memory and time, Lalalala . . .
229 – Wow, “Other”. I’m honored,
I am, however, honered for being a “best musician”. What does Grant O. play? He seems to appear on all of the divisions….
232~ Of course you hve an impact on the blog!
232-I didn’t but someone else did.
235-Nobody entered you. You can enter yourself if you wanna.
238-Well, you didn’t specify what you wanted to be entered in.
236~ Ahem, I have plenty of protein, thank you very much. I will stop now before this turns into a hot topic and/or more suited for the veggies thread.
I like spaggetti. YUM!!!!
240~ So, how did I end up in there?
Geez, I haven’t been on here for a few days, see what happens?! Where did this come from anyway? I didn’t see anything about a contest, was I just oblivious to the world at large again?
I’d vote you for “other”, kiara
uuuggghhh, essays….they are hate in a word document
also…PSAT’s should die. standardized tests in general should die. So should math. And homework in general. Required homework, anyway.
best sence of humor.
229- How did I get entered under best artist? On the other thread, I said myself for best alter-ego, and best speller. Did somebody else enter me?
I am on an iTunes spree. Woot!
Is anybody here in Science Olympiad? Because I’m trying out tomorrow… eek!
229 (Beavo)- Is Grant so much more awesome than the rest of us that he needs to be nominated for everything?
Also, why are Axa and I not on Best Speller? I distinctly remember nominating both of us.
To those voting for Best Writer: We have a large number of writing threads specifically made for the purpose of narcissistic writer-types to dump their work on the internet and render it unpublishable. I encourage you to read them and find something from each nominee before making a final decision.
Some hints: (I would be quite grateful if others would do this for categories they are more familiar with~)
-Alice is all over every RRR ever
-oxlin can be found on most Poems and Songs threads (possibly posting under the name elasse~adael)
-Jadestone posts on P&S quite often and has a whole thread dedicated to two of her stories
-Ebeth has a thread for her NaNo of last year
-Grant O I cannot offer help on
-Kiki will most likely have posted on a general-purpose writing thread with something long and science-fictiony
-Phoenix can be found on most really old writing threads
-Glassboro I can’t offer advice on
-Prarilius Canix is on many many RRRs (though probably not as many as Alice)
-TNO I also do not know about
-Vixen I think has posted on Theme With Variations and probably elsewhere
-Penty appears sporadically on most every writing thread and quickly loses interest because she’s a spaz
ARGLE BLARGLE BLARGLE PSATS
Ahem, where did this start? And who nominated me, I’d like to give them some choklit.
247- I nominated myself for everything because at the time I was more depressed than usual and seeking self-validation.
249- I feel kinda like that right now…(seeking self-validation)…
249~ I wondered. Not to be mean, or anything.
G’night all, Dad’s threatening to take over the computer….
I might get on tomorrow, but I’m thinking the chances are rather slim, since I didn’t get much schoolwork done today. Or yesterday. Or the day before that…..eugh.
See you next time. *pies*
234- competitive? us? Naaah, we just like to be nominated for things. And we like voting. That too.
247- I occasionally appear (OCCASIONALLY) at the very beginings of RRRs. And I’m on the writing challenge thread.
About that unpublishable bit. GAPAs, If I asked would it be possible to remove specific posts of specific poems if I told you the URL and post number if I wanted to?
250- Get your upbeat, cheery, best friend’s upbeat, cheery, girlfriend to give you a motivational speech. It really worked. No foolin’.
So, my life right now *random*:
I went to the mall Sunday and got the tips of my hair dyed. Only I couldn’t find a green enough turquoise so they’re a shade of light green that sometimes looks rather yellowish and blends with my brownish hair color so well you can barely tell it’s dyed in low light and looks like my hair is covered in algae slime when it’s wet.
But it still makes me happy. It’s appropriately spooky for October, and I’ll find turquoise for after this dye wears out sometime in November. (as in, it wears out in a few weeks to a month, and I’m letting it completely go away because I have to see my grandmother in late November… I can hopefully hide the bleached ends in a bun.)
Comments from those at school have been interesting.
Most people ask why, or say it’s cool. One girl in Italian (non-honors class, meaning it’s full of boring ordinary not-as-smart people) interrogated me on it, and finished the conversation by remarking that she didn’t know anyone would dye their hair green on purpose. I know not all cheerleaders are dumb and blonde, but they got the stereotype for a reason. I’m not trying to insult anyone who happens to cheer, it’s just like colorguard… anyway.
Sometimes people don’t notice it immediately. My lab partner in biology sat next to me for a whole period before someone else brought it up. It was first period, though, before 9AM, excusable. But the guy who sits behind me in history, eighth, who just saw it today… sigh.
And I’m on the third page of the first grade music book with our newfound electric piano. But I still can’t touch type or program, and I haven’t done nearly enough theremin research or work on my history project.
I have just realized it’s late and I’m exhausted…
woah. 229-did I nominate myself for humor? or someone else? ‘cuz that’d really be somethin’.
BLEAH. I’ve been goen for too long…there’s no possible way I could catch up/read all the posts…
hold it. did Alice change her name to ‘blue bells’ while I was gone? it said so on the who’s here thing. *gos off to check*
sorry. blue beads.
242-Someone either voted for you or you entered yourself. Only explanations.
247-He nominated himself, as did a few others.
229) I nominate Penty as best winnar. lol but I don’t get this at all. you guys are all crazy.
247) WRY DID YOU REMIND ME I HAVE THE PSAT THIS THURSDAY FIE UPON IT gsrhsathdf
The Blog has gone slightly haywire..
I really hate school.
Oh yeah, I am going to be gone until monday. I’m going to a convention.
Glerg, I have to go give another gallon of blood for them to test and probably get the wrong result anyway. The way this arm feels, I think I will be taking more medicine.
I’ll be glad when this mess is over…
On a happier note…well, I had a happy note. Anyway…
Bye MF!
Uh-oh…we need to test the emergency pie-the-blog system. Take cover! *jumps on 5-foot wide button* *PIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
There, that’s better…*eats glob of pie*
Red-tailed HAWK
243 – I completely agree. I think I compleely failed the second math section. But at least I only have two classes today! Okay, I’ve been nominated fro “Other”. I do do RRRs, mainly Terenika, but I’ve posted a few times on the Etheterre one too.
261 – I just took the SSAT, seemed pretty easy this year. Except for the last math section, which was a bit harder, but don’t freak out. I guess I’m too late to tell you that, though, judging by your *ahhhhhtotallyfreakout* post,
263 – *wipes pie off of clothing, face* Now really, couldn’t you give us a bit of warning?
*pies Hawk, sends best wishes with pie*
Cinnamoon is procrasinating. Cinnamoon thinks that she had better get off now, as her “breaks” are getting a bit long.
I actually got one of the three highest scores in my school on the PSAT. This one kid and I tied, and another got one point below us. I got an award for it just the other day, as a matter of fact.
i’m just hoping to qualify for national merit because ebeth=needing $
also penty, luvverly list, thanksies, but you neglected to mention phoenix’s dragonsomething story, which i would find the link to except that i’m feeling uber-lazy
on the subject of PSAT, i got to come to school at 9. cause the tenth graders were taking it.
I had to go home early from school today because I fell asleep in Language Arts and felt horrible. :sick:
Anyway, I’m reading a book called Cut. Not to mention, it’s mega depressing.
I was going to take it for practice for next year, but then it was 12 dollors yesteerday when we had to sign up and I didn’t have money. So oh well.
263- Did I miss something? What happened? Amputation?
269- Gettz wellz!
247- V. cool, penty. I also second Axa’s nomination.
SPAZZZZZ…. my math homework is eating my brain… aggghhh…
I also have a stupidly easy essay to revise… but I had my friend Erin read through it during L.A. and she didn’t find anything wrong w/ it. So I guess no revisions. YAE.
I’m taking PSAT as practice, and I’m excited. Everyone else was gruumble grumble grumble, but I’m usually pretty good at testing.
271-Not that bad yet…Lyme disease. Advanced symptoms include swelling and pain in the joints and limbs.
They only took one tube. But I have 60 more pills to take now…
Summary of my sickness:
First: One month of 104-degree temperatures and terrible headaches.
Then there was about a one-week intermission during which time I was brave enough to get back on my bike. Then I fell off and scraped my elbow off.
While I was recovering from that, an elbow, both knees, both hips, and a wrist went bad. I was limping around for two months, and so when the wrist went bad we said that was enough and went to the doctor again. Then they finally said I had lyme disease. The doctor gave me 60 pills and said come back in a month. The medicine made me feel better, but now that I have stopped for a few days the left elbow started to hurt. So I will start taking this new batch tonight.
Sorry that was so long! Whew! *pies self for boringness*
Red-tailed HAWK
265 – I procrastinated on a science project for 3 weeks and did most of it the night before. I got an A- on it.
274-Hahah! That’s funny… OH! Hi E2MB!
Red-tailed HAWK
“To my mind, Donovan is a swearword!”
Turns out I can do more push-ups than the two football players in my English class. I learnt this fascinating bit of 411 while portraying a cow in the tableau vivant of Genesis Ch. 1. My knees died on the linoleum (even though they are F-I-N-E in a canoe, so there you have it) and I straight-armed it, and subsequently got into a push-up contest, which I WON. Majorly.
Plus, Eric W. totally fakely bumped into me today. How stupid does he think I am? Ditto for the staring during the “Mao Now, Brown Cow” (Yes, that legitimately was the title) video. I admit the video was boring. Also, he looks cute when he blushes.
I have my first piano lesson of the year tonight. Additionally, my first Schobowl match went well (350-190 my school), which was nice. Go FroshSoph! Loyola Ultima is Saturday.
“You cannot improve on that which is already perfect. The Mona Lisa would not look better in a hat. Michaelangelo’s David does not need a buddy called Kevin.”
“Armed?!? They’re in the kitchen, Janice. It’s an arsenal of enough big knives to scare the Mujahadeen.”
*Rejoices randomly*
I’m on the calendar now!
Funny: A day or so ago, I was doing algebra, and was trying to write a problem involving something over three times 42 over something. I wrote 14 instead of 42, but when you reduce the 3 and 42, you get 14! And I was on problem number 14! Funny…
Two days and two months since the kokonvention…
Red-tailed HAWK
l sent in two pwnsome pictures!
Racoons are cute. But not when they are eatig the cat’s food. Grr.
As a part of my writing homework I have to finish this totally lame story about a racoon that has to kill a snake or something along those lines…..*sigh* I’m less than thrilled.
Raccoons, not racoons.
280~ Oops. I did spell it correctly in the story, though!
Grant is going to pwn tomorrow in the mock trial in his business law class. My case is airtight. The kid shouldn’t have been playing near the power lines in the first place, especially not on school property, so there’s no way my client (the school board) is responsible. If you’re climbing a tree, avoid uninsulated power lines. End of story. If you’re looking for someone to blame, blame the power company. Only the power company, I mean. They are blaming the power company, but they’re also suing my client and a dude named Mr Carpenter, who built a treehouse in a tree on school property.
273) Aww man…well it sounds like you’re getting better though, so that’s good!
264) thanks but mostly I just don’t want to get up early on a saturday to take it. DDDX I should look at my booklet…sigh
273-one of my friends has lyme disease. like, really bad lyme disease. he’s had it for ages, took iv antibiodics, had his knee drained like three times… etc. it really sucks. and if it doesnt go away soon he’ll get artheritis. hope that made you feel better about yerself.
Has anyone else checked out the Spinning Woman thing that’s been going around (no pun intended) the net?
269- I remember seeing that one, is it good?
Hey, the pictures l sent in could be for october oddysey!
ahoy! E2MB’s back!
where is alice? she normally posts a ton…I must have missed something…
273- omygosh! Is it from a tick?
YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE. YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE. PLEASE STAND BY FOR THIS IMPORTANT KOKONVENTION ANNOUNCEMENT.
Ok, guys! There is going to be a v. large Kokon on November 23 or sometime in that vicinity (Thanksgiving Break). We are hoping to attract a large crowd to the Muse Offices. We want to get the Ohio and Michigan crowd as well as the Chicago one. IT SHALL BE BIG. With refreshments! So post your RSVP and start begging the parental units!
E2MB-Welcome back! *jumps up and down*
289-Sounds like fun! *can’t go*
GAPAs, did you get my Bunny O picture?
(290) Have you sent another since the one we posted earlier this month?
Addendum to 289 (Kiki): Unless, of course, the OEADs nix the idea. While Kiki and I have in fact met each other and verified that we are not evil stalkers out to prevent the realization of Mostly Harmless, the same cannot be said for us and all of you. The OEADs cannot prevent the two of us from meeting up, but they certainly can prevent the advertisement of such a meeting.
On a lighter note, any OEADs present in Chicago over Thanksgiving would be much appreciated at the PARTAY.
Ahh, I don’t know if I’m going to be here around then… I might probably will have a tournament going on…
291-Oh, whoops, no. My bad. . I’m gonna send another one… I’ve caught the bug.
(294) It’s an easy bug to catch. *speaks from experience*
In the meantime, agagabagabag seems to have it, too. See Another Bevy of Bunnies for his depiction of Bunnius evilus draconius.
*sings* I senttttttttt themmmmmmmm!
289-NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I will be busy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *cries* Where will it be?
297-At the Muse offices I think (meaning Chicago land-too far for me. Phooey.)
A few hours ago I sent in a post to this thread with a good bit of information, but then it said the blog had died and to try later. Obviously my post didn’t make it! I wonder where they go…
So, what I tried to say:
289-I guess so, but I never had the bull’s eye rash thing. With my hair it could have been on my head though…
284-Whoa, that is worse, yeah. I have known it could be fatal, but I have tried to stay on the bright side!
280-Was that intentional, or did you misspell your name? *checks post for errors-as he always makes one, especially when correcting someone else* x 10 zillion
Red-tailed HAWK
Does anyone know when the next MuseCast is coming out?
Tee hee!
Blog decay alert! Or more specifically, rrr decay. Since RRR 5, RRRs have started really succesfully, then peak and plummet.
288 (Gimanator) – I don’t really want to say anything, because I’m not really the person to say it. I’m not sure when she’ll be back again…hopefully soon.
289 (Kiki) – I might be able to come if it were the 24th or 25th, that weekend.
WELCOME BACK, E2MB!!!!! *pies*
299 (Beavo) – We finished one a few weeks ago (MuseCast 7), and we’re working on one right now…after a 60+ minute phone call with Alice, we have a lot of audio to edit. But it should come out somtime in early November.
I will keep posting reminders about the Kokon so no one forgets.
KOKON ON NOV 23!
my head hurts. almost. *stands ground in preparation for headache*
WHERE ARE THE MUSE OFFICES? I DON’T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE OR HOW TO GET THERE. ALSO, I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THANKSGIVING. I’LL UPDATE LATER ON THIS.
I’ll also stop typing with Caps Lock on.
300- 2006.6 is still going strong. We finished the first book, and are now editing.
Or did you mean RRR 2007.5? If so, I’m inclined to believe you.
300 (ag)- And this is different from normal RRRs how?
Moar on the Chicago Kokonvention: It will most likely be held on Friday, November 23rd, unless there is an overwhelming cry of NOEZ from those who plan to attend. This is over Thanksgiving weekend if you couldn’t tell. We will tour the Muse offices (or, since I think they may actually be closed that day, we won’t), visit some Muserly landmarks, and plot the continuation of Mostly Harmless. There will be food, though I am not sure what kind at this point. If you think you might possibly have a chance to come, check with your parents and post about it.
The rundown, again: (all of this is subject to change)
Who: YOU, YOUR MOM, YOUR PET PARAKEET. Actually, just the first two.
What: Chicago Kokonvention!
When: Friday, November 23rd.
Where: Chicago, duh.
Why: DUDE, KOKONVENTION.
How: I couldn’t care less, so long as you show up.
300-the pestilence of writer’s block is upon you! fuhuhahaha!
301-actually, I shouldn’t be bugging anybody about why they’re not here in the first place.
304- l meant the new ones.
305- What?
306- You mean us, n00b.
301-Thanx, I’m hoping to send some audio in.
Grant nearly has 100 pages in his book. When I finish the hundredth page, I’ll probably celebrate in some way. Go out for ice cream. Who knows? Anyway, when the book is completely finished, I’ll attempt to get it published, and when I find a publisher, I’ll have some sort of par-tay.
307 (Gimanator) – It’s okay. I wasn’t trying to sound mean or anything. Something serious did happen, though, I just don’t want to say it. I think it’s up to Alice to tell, etc. I’m sure she’d like to be here right now…
309 (Beavo) – Awesome!
311-Bahahaha. I still can’t think of something to talk about though.
l’m working on a map of museland. l have the Kontinent of Kold, The flavor continent, Museica, and pie isle. l still need outer museica (plasma, water, fire… this ringin’ any bells?), museland (?), and the triple alliance of evil.
lt’s done! And sent!
Given the size, you should give it a page or something.
Thanks to those of you whose maps are in this one. lt’s more your map than me.
(314) I posted the map on the Chronicles thread at the maximum width allowed on MB proper. To see a larger version, look here.
For future reference — do you have options for saving graphics files other than Word? Some odd formatting codes must have sneaked in (common in word-processing graphics, I have found) and the file wouldn’t paste properly into Photoshop. (It cut a strip off the right margin.)
I ended up exporting the file to a web page and performing a bit of surgery. No big deal, but since you’re an aspiring graphics geek, I thought you might want to know.
213-I’m going to send something in soon too!
I’ve gotta go, maybe I can check in tonight…
Red-tailed HAWK
315- l’m telling my mom how much better my pictures would be if l had Paint shop pro. l had to make the map using both MS paint and Word. lt took forever.
Believe me, l’d stop making my pictures on word if l could.
305-i don’t think i can :'( but i will keep begging parentals!
Hi everyone!!!!
Ok, well I think I might be able to come to the convention, but it depens whether it is on the 23 or 24th or what.
319-I think they have decided on the 23rd, but I couldn’t be sure.
Yeah, teh weekend PWNS!!! Rainy fridays make you glad it IS friday!
Red-tailed HAWK
This is very random thought, but my sister pet snail is REALLY cute! He/she (snails don’t really have a gender) is called Mary. Mary loves eating lettuce and looking cute as he/she travels around all day, leaving his/her trail of slime behind her/him. Actually, Mary isn’t technically a pet. My sister took Mary in for a project for her science class where she had watch Mary’s habits, which are a lot like the ones that I described above. This occured in the middle of our drought and, after the project was done, my siser didn’t have the heart to put Mary back outside because Sylvia knew that Mary would die if she/he was back out side because there was no water anywhere. In fact, there is still no water anywhere, so we can’t safely release Mary yet. Actually, it is amazing the Mary is even still alive because when my sister found her/him, Mary was hiding under a log. The log was dry underneath and Mary wasn’t coming out of his/her shell, but we took her/him in just in case he/she wasn’t really dead. We were very happy when Mary actually was alive! So, yeah, Mary is CUTE!!!
Yes, finally Friday, very windy and rainy, and I don’t have school on Monday!!! But there’s a tornado warning in this city my dad has to drive through to pick me up, and an overturned semi in the middle hang out downtown with my friends. *sigh*
Kokonvention! yYy! Wish I could come, . I have exams right after Thanksgiving break, *pretends to study* Maybe I could get a friend of mine who lives in Chicago to give me a ride there.
Next Wednesday there’s a choir from England that’s doing a concert at my school! They got here yesterday, so they’ve been wandering around campus a lot, but it’s so cool having guests from a different country visit.
They had invited our choirs to go to England, but nooooo. We’re probably going next year, though!
317-Gawd, I hate word. I so want Photoshop.
Rain! Mom can’t kill me now! And I owe her twenty four dollars. But sill, it’s raining!
COOL! Make sure you visit the hotel roomwhere JK rowling finished Book 7!
TGIF and TGIG, y’all. My last few posts seem to have been ignored. Maybe I’ll phase out, then come back, and people will pay attention to what I say more often.
I might be able to come to the Kokonvention. I live in the Chicago area.
You can’t leave without telling us about your book. Is this the same book you were working on when MuseBlog came on line? And since when do people in Ohio say “y’all”?
If this post doesn’t post, I will personally do something drastic. I’ve posted twice trying to explain why I haven’t been on lately, and now I’m in no mood to tell the story all over again. (I’ve been telling it to everyone I know for five days and I’m SICK OF IT!)
But I should start from the beginning. I woke up at 3 AM Monday morning with my mom telling me there was a fire. My mom, my sister, and I all climbed out my bedroom window (my bedroom was the only one that wasn’t full of smoke/impossible to reach), but almost everything else burned up, including the pets (R.I.P Shadow, Zebra, Blueberry and Popsicle. Too bad you had to die that way). If the circumstances had been even slightly different I’d be dead myself.
I no longer have a computer and the ones at school refuse to cooperate. I’m on my dad’s laptop right now. I’m going to get a computer soon but until then I won’t be getting on much/at all. (Though the library computer might work better–I’ll get my mom to sign a permission slip soon.) Tonight, however, I can check up on all my threads.
310- Sweet. Is it the ‘How to be Cool’ one? I remember there was some stuff posted from it a while ago. It was funny.
325-
(328) I’m so sorry, Alice. That’s an especially tough blow when you’ve had so much else to adjust to all at once. It will probably take a while to absorb the impact. Glad you and your family are still here. Good luck with everything. That sounds lame, but words aren’t coming to me at the moment.
328- Ohmygosh! I feel sooo sorry for you! How did it start? Where are you living now? I cannot believe it !
I AM IN MICHIGAN, MISSING THE FALL OUT BOY CONCERT. poop!
328- too bad.
328- Oh no! *hugs* That’s terrible.
328-Ooh. That’s bad. That’s really bad. Kind of hard, too.
*sends virtual house*
I just met a guy called Johnny Angel. It was actually quite amusing. We did relaxation exercises in gym. I fell asleep.
I’m going to Loyola Ultima tomorrow. Should be kinda fun.
330,331,&c.- Actually I’m pretty much over it. Monday was awful, but after we salvaged some stuff my shock sort of wore off. But thank you.
Kiki- It was electrical. The house was very old and made entirely of wood, so it burned really fast. We stayed in a hotel for a while, and now we’re house-sitting for someone with a really messy house, and then we’re going to stay with a friend.
328- *hugs* I feel really bad for you, and we’re all glad that you’re still alive.
328- Oh my goodness… Alice, I’m so sorry. I know we’re just a community of Webernet pie-tossers with very little real effect, but I think I speak for everyone when I say if there’s anything we can do to help in any way, shape, or form, we’ll have at it gladly.
I’m thanking your lucky stars and mine that you survived. Had you died, that would have been the loss of a brilliant mind for the blog and the world. I hope you can return to normalcy and MuseBlog soon.
328-AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! *sends another virtual house* How did it start? Did the whole house burn (I guess?) Like EVERYTHING gone!? That is just…bad…*sends virtual laptop*
That probably didn’t make you feel better, but this may be even beyond MY powers of cheering people up. Phooey…
331-Whatever you’re unhappy about doesn’t exactly fit in with the moment I’m afraid…
321-Snail? Oooh!!!!!! *new Muser addiction starts*
RtH of the Trying to be Cheerful
328, others- Oh, Lord. That’s- Words fail me, for once in my life. I mean, the house would have been bad enough, but losing your pets too…
If there’s anything I can do (which, admittedly, isn’t much, since I’m never likely to meet you in real life), please tell me.
Alice, I’m so sorry!
I’m so glad you’re okay.
::sends happy thoughts::
335-There you are! *overloads of chocolate*
Red-tailed HAWK
334- Thank you. *fills virtual house with virtual furniture*
328-I’m so sorry! That’s horrible. *sends sympathy and a warm apple pie* I’m glad all your {human} family got out all right. *sends summore warm apple pie* I find warm apple pie cheers/comforts me a little after a catastrophe.
Note: Normally, I’m good at cheering people up, but today just isn’t my day. Or Alice’s, for that matter. Double
331-Oooh. Bites. FOB=awesome
339-Make that anything WE can do. I’m pretty sure all the MuseBloggers want to help if they can.
Oh Alice!! That’s horrible. Just horrible. I wish there was something I could do to help…if we lived closer I’d say come live with me. That’s stupid though…I’m so sorry, and I really don’t know what to say.
Thanks, guys. *feels at a loss for words*
Now I have to go sort laundry. Good-bye for now. I’ll try to get on before I leave for town again…
337-Normalcy? That’s something I woulnd’t wish on anyone. It sounds so boring.
Alice, I’m really sorry. I don’t know what else to say that everyone else hasn’t already said…*hugs and pies*
345-Any time. We’re your MuseBlog friends, after all. We’re always there for you.
346-Yeah, normalcy would be torture. *shudder*
Hearing the word “normalcy” is torture to me. “Normality” is better.
328 (Alice)- Oh Alice, that’s horrible! I hope you and your family are doing as well as you can, under the circumstances. Remember that the blog’s got your back if you need to vent or rant or angst or whatever; we’re a supportive bunch when something bad happens to one of our own.
348 (Robert)- Ew, Warren Harding.
349-Yay! Angst! angst. Angst. ANGST. ANGST! ANGST! ANGST! ANGST!! ANGST!!!
328) that’s awful…thank goodness you and your family are safe though! my thoughts are with you, definitely.
348- *shrinks away* *re-expands* Don’t be so picky about word selection! Her house just burned down, her pets died, and she very well could have. Normalcy or normality, it’s all the same thing!
Holy crap, did I just yell at a GAPA?
Alice- I offer whatever support you can take from one who is only a citizen of some random blog you visit. Please be okay… it wouldn’t be the same without you. I never know what to say when something horrible happens.
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my name: we don’t get back until 2am tomorrow. Mineola’s in… Long Island area, I think. Far far away. Hopefully we’ll have a good time on the bus like we did last time. I don’t remember if I posted that on the blog, I emailed Potato Chip, I think… I still might be able to get 8 hours of sleep if I leave MuseBlog now, and I need sleep (I slept a few hours before dinner, and I’m still tired), so bye. We’ll see if a significant portion of the good parts of Mineola is printable.
And good luck to whoever’s taking the PSAT. I’m just remembering because it’s going to be tomorrow morning at my school, people are missing the beginnings of band practice.
328-0h wow. disregard all the other stuff I posted regarding where you were. I’d like to apolagize, since it’s my nature, and I hope it’ll help…sorry.
327- No, it isn’t the how-to book. That is in production limbo right now. I’m referring to the one I began last August. Remember how once I couldn’t remember the word “awning,” like I knew exactly what it was but couldn’t think of what the word was? That was for this book. TGIG stands for Thank God I’m Grant, and I got that and the accompanying “y’all” from sbemail.
328- Jaysus! I’m so terribly sorry!
328- Oh, I’m so sorry… I can pray for you, if you want.
328- I send all my pies, hugs, and virtual chocolate. Unless you really don’t want me to, I’ll be praying for you as well.
The thread for my game is finally off the front page! *sigh*
348-That too. But I wouldn’t want normality either.
yeah, if it’s any consolidation, My mom and I prayed for you, Alice, even if that’s not your religion…
328: Oh, Alice, I’m so sorry! *hugs* I hope you’re alright. *sends virtual help/whatever you need* :O
328) ohno!!!!!!! I am so so so so sorry that had to happen. *electronic hugs*
Does anyone know if muse is still selling back issues? i can’t find any and there are a couple I really want.
328: I’ve been praying for you and your family as well. I hope you don’t mind.
363- Why would she mind? Even if she didn’t believe it would help, she would still probably appreciate the gesture. I would.
328- I don’t believe in prayer, but believe you me, if I did, you’d be getting a heaping helping.
355- Ooh, I remember seeing that post! It sounded quite good.
All posts relating to house fire/prayer/virtual chocolate- Once again, thank you.
I have a library computer card now. If it’ll post . . .
I hope it posted; I can’t tell since the library computer automatically erases my name and email.
Alice, that’s horrible. uber-sorry. my mom’s friend’s house burned down a while ago, so i have had a vague glimpse of the situation. *virtual choklit*
ohioans say y’all when we want to make fun of people who live farther south than us. we rarely get the chance to make fun of people (being ohioans), so we rather enjoy it. at least, that’s why i/my friends/my acquaintances/ say y’all.
i was going to go see across the universe today, but i am sick. :'( we won the game yesterday though. It was the senior show, so the seniors spray-painted their shoes gold. johnson was SO po’d. his face when he saw them was the funniest thing ever. he didn’t have the best of days, because later on carolynn picked up one of those little squishy mini-footballs right before halftime, so johnson told her to throw it off to the side, and she decided to kick it, and it almost hit him in a rather sensitive area. he caught it and chucked it off to the side with this hilariously angry face. we were cracking up all through warming up…
i messed up like three times. it was really embarrassing, i felt like a freshman…i was really out of it, and i hadn’t been at school thursday, so i was kind of like “huuuuh?”
I’m just using this name and email because the library no longer does erase my name and email and I don’t want to just leave it there for all to see. I’m really really really sorry, GAPAs, and you can even snip this if you like.
–Alice
Oh my gosh Alice…………..I am sOOOOOOO sorry!!!! I hope everything is alright soon, and as everyone else said if there is anything we can do to help say so!!!! I really hope everything will be ok soon!!!!
369-That’s all right, we know it’s you. Once again *virtual choklit*
369- I’m really sorry, Alice. *gives boxes and boxes of choklit*
328…One percent of me tells me that this is a bad joke, and the other 99% of me thinks its really, really sad…So have some virtual chocklit!
373-MuseBloggers don’t joke that way. If they did they would be really crappy friends.
Alice- I told my mom about your horrific plight, and she agreed it would be a good idea to send you an Amazon gift card. I have your email address so I will mail you the details ASAP.
I ♥ my cousin Ben. He’s three years old, is fluent in Spanish, and is the cutest little guy ever. Seeing as he’s not as good in English as he is in Spanish, sometimes he’s hard to understand, but I’m taking Spanish in school so I can sometimes know what he’s saying. And he has really curly red hair, OMG he’s so cute.
I am obsessed with lolcats. icanhascheezburger . com!
374-sorry, I just have a contrarian streak.
375-I’ve made an lolcat or two before. They’re so funny.
:HELLO! yOU MEAN YOU DON’T BELIEVE IN RELIGION?
i BELIEVE IN THE RELIGION OF hpb!
What’s an lolcat?
Is it an evil electronic kitty that takes over the internet?
Is it cute?
AAAAALLLLIIIIIIICEEEEEEE!!!!
oh no!!! I’m so sorry about all of your pets!
*hugs and chocolate to the millionth power*
I’m here if you need anything that can be transmitted e-ly.
375-Weird. But I’m surprised the GAPAs let the website through…
I have to take a shower…
Red-tailed HAWK
379- An lolcat is basically a cat picture with the cat in a funny pose or something, with a caption at the bottom. For example, there’s a cat in a tube sock, with a potato chip and some dip beside him. The caption reads: UR OFFERING PLEASES TUBE KITTEN.
328- I’m soooo sorry. *hugs and choklit for you and your family* :’ (
382- Sorry, I meant to take off the “the Hopeless” at the end of my name. I only meant to post with that name once on the R&R thread.
328) Oh No! I hope that you can find another house! I shall join with several other people and pray for you, if you don’t mind. For now, I shall give a lot of virtual things that are nessescary for one in daily life but that they no longer have it because they have lost their home.
1. A brand new personal library
2. A wacky little snowgloby/bubbly contraption that is filled with little plastic fish. (I’m obbsessed with one of those, I have to constantly turn it upside down)
3. An annoying alarm clock that you dispise but would be lost without
4. The secret corner which no one knows about, but you, and you hide all of your stuff in it
5. A teddy bear or other stuffed animal to keep close on hand in case you need it
6. An annoying washing machine that doesn’t work except on Thursdays
7. The friendly family potted plant that everyone dotes upon but won’t admit it, so they call it the “ugly thing”.
lolcats are AWESOME
385) oops. I meant “give you”
So you think you can dance (its a show) rocks. Amazing dancers. Wow.
um…i think i posted under my lb’s name on the polling place. oh well…
lolcats=life! Best lolcat ever is schrodinger’s lolcat. It’s a cat in a box, and it says “im in ur box…pruvin schrodinger rong”
this keyboard is really crappy so i’m going to leave now. kbyez
The vegetarianism thread is kinda dead. Just though I would point that out. So is the Hot Topics thread.
*dances* I want to learn how to ballroom dance now, man look at them go!!!!
Sorry for the double post, but Purplefinch, I responded to your post on the dance thread. Just thought I would say that since no one has been on in awhile.
Ohmygosh. I just came back from the best day of my LIFE!!! The only thing that would have made it better would have been if K was there and we had made out. That would have been just perfect. I could have done it, too, but she didn’t show up.
{rant about party}
Okay, so I show up and make jokes about my dog eating the cupcakes. I meet up with Hannah and Rachel and Mikela. Then we all go on this corny moon bounce and it has water in it and we’re all freaking and running around trying to avoid being sqwished. Then we go and make s’mores, and we’re arguing about whether it’s better burned or golden. (Burned, of course :)) Then there’s this huge slide and we’re all pushing eachother down and scaring eachother at the bottom. We do that for a [long] while, and then get some drinks. We hop on this really dumb hayride, but it’s so funny because we’re all pretending to be scared and screaming and such. We see Cinderella and glo-pumkins. More screams. We’re all complaining about the space and then we all fall over and complain about broken legs. We get off, have more drinks, and go back to make summore s’mores. Then we hang around talking for a while, find someone’s cell phone and throw mulch. Another hayride. Then another. This time, Andrew is on, and the driver gets off when it’s really dark so no one notices (we do, because he does this every time) and goes out a few yards away and turns on the flashlight. Andrew’s like “w-wh-who’s th-there??” and people laugh, and then he’s like “WHO’S TH-THERE?” and more people laugh. Then the driver starts walking tward the tractor and he screams louder than ANYONE and grabs Lia’s hand and plays tug of war with it (?) and hides his head in his hoodie. Someone puts on a zombie mask and says “Hey Andrew, a zombie” and he looks up and falls down and covers his head with straw. Then we’re like “it’s just a mask” and he tries to throw it overboard. Then when it ends (much later) I make up with McKenzie, even though she’s been mad at me for all summer, and say hi to Brook, and talk with a girl named Emma. She’s awesome *wink*. We ride down the slide summore, screaming “cowabunga” and I brake my cup. I follow James into this maze and scare him, and we hang out for a while talking, and then everyone starts leaving. I go around and annoy Jessica (because that’s what I DO) and then leave.
That was the biggest run on sentance I have ever run on with. It was SOO AWESOME.
379-An lolcat is a pic of a cat that says something like “i can haz chzbrgr it goez here kk thx” and they’re so funny!
Hmm. The library had a monster ovie night tonight. We went and saw The Horror of Dracula, Frankenstein and The Wolfman.
I’ve now got a proper case of the heebie jeebies. Kidding, I’m okay.
Oh, Alice, I just read your post. and all the others replying to it.
I can’t say how sorry I am, but please know that I would do anything to help yo out if I could. (can I?) I send hugs, choklit and prayers to one of my MB friends who’s posts I can’t imaging living without.
Alice – I’m so sorry that that happened to you and your family.. I wish there were something I could do.. if there is, please tell me.
*virtual hug, chocolate, and everything else you need*
Heehee. Last night, me and my friends went to Snips Farm Corn Mazes. So much fun. We got lost for two hours, and we kept yelling random things at the people in the maze. Mr. C and the ChaCha Silde showed us the way out. Seriously. And then Micah kept talking about the Blair Witch Project on the hayride (it went through some VERY strange woods), which sufficiently creeped out all of us… Ana actually sank to the floor. It was kinda funny, because she was next to me one minute, and the next there was this quaking mass by my knee.
Amusing Events From Last Night:
Random Redneck: *sits and stares at a pig for a full minute, in perfect concentration* It’s a pig!
Another Random Redneck: *shakes a pig, which is making strange noises but no motion to stop her* You hear that piggy squeal?
Joseph: Uh, don’t you think you might be hurting it?
Another Random Redneck: Don’t be silly! *continues jostling the pig for five minutes*
This Chick Named Serena: Why do you think they call it a corn maze? Do you think they mean maize as in a lot of corn? Or is that baby corn?
Serena’s Frirend: Serena, I think it’s baby corn. Y’know, kinda like how they call a baby deer doe?
(I fell down laughing after that one; it was just too much)
Boy 1: *in front of the sheep’s pen* Llaaaaaaaaamaaaaaaaa.
Boy 2: That’s not what it is.
Boy 1: I know, but that how you make it come. *sheep promptly trots his way*
OH. MY. GOD.
DUMBLEDORE IS GAY.
Just google it!
I am in shock.
‘Ey, everyone, don’t you think we could band together as Musers and do something nice for Alice?
Any ideas, oh great Man of the Chair?
397-Yeah, I heard about that….i have no problem with it, but it is a bit weird….
Not really, I was hoping someone else would suggest something. I just wanted to throw the idea out there that hey, I can help if I’m allowed.
397) I know! I couldn’t beleive it! I guess now we know why Dumbledore was reluctant to duel with Grindelwald.
(328) I’m so sorry Alice. I hope things turn out all right for you.
(396) I love corn mazes. Last year I got lost in one for like three hours.
I got my permit. Which means I can get my license in March.
And….I feel kind of sad right now. I was just reading about the monks in Myanmar.
(this was a realllly disjointed post, I know)
403- I get to debate about the Myanmar monks for Model UN…such a cheery topic.
397-that actually makes sense. i never really thought about it, but somehow it doesn’t surprise me.
can’t wait to hear what the uber-christian book banners will say now
403- Congrats, Skippidy Doo Da. And have you read the excerpts from The New Light of Myanmar? It’s infuriating what garbage the junta is trying to make people believe.
BEST PARTS OF MY DAY YESTERDAY:
-Ben C. being asked to give an example of a zeugma and stating “Bridget and I are going to make and hang out.”
-Ben C. breaking kosher because of bacon bits in the [mediocre] salad.
-Ben C. dashing in after PSAT, humming overture from William Tell, stealing my seat and my pen
-Bradley K. not being there, everyone HAPPY about this excepting J.G.
-Same joke at the same time as Jonah G.: “Lies, damn lies, and statistics”
-Moment of silence before the match (GMABA, such a WOMBAT)
-Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Abelard, Turks/Ottomans, Stickly Prickly is a hedgehog, Eichmann-NOT-MENGELE, Reinstein is the only math teacher coach present, Magna Carta, bonus on boy bands…etc.
-Marillac room painting with weird arm that bends in 4 places
-neon folders that reflected off people’s faces
-chalk on jackets
-getting JG to move his arm, then just writing over it through RAMPANT APATHY
-“That was awkward.”
-Colored rectangles
-“Oh, they’re always the last to arrive.”
-Scorekeeping
-A melodic scale vs. a melodic scale
-IMSA kicking everyone’s butt
-Loyola Academy is a really nice high school
-Missing the breakfast (thank GOD)
-WWHS and Charlemagne
That’s just a start.
392-Ah. I comprehend. Maybe next time.
397- I know! Dumbledore is gay! *dances*
so about a bazillion years ago we were talking about writings, which reminded me of phoenix’s story, which i have finally found the link to because i feel like reading it again. Clicky da linky!
Better linky (the last one leads to the comments)