If a groundhog sees Kokopelli instead of his own shadow, what does that mean for the next six weeks? Whatever the weather, the February Random Thread forges ahead.
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Hehehe, love the pict!
Are we not doing alliterative random threads anymore?
Huzzah! ‘Tis February, and the month of gloom and depression is over!
Actually it’s not February here…. yet.
TOMORROW IS IMBOLC!!!! Yay! *does Imbolc dance*
TOMORROW IS WORK DAY!!!! *long pause* Yay?
ANOTHER MONTH CLOSER TO THE AP TEST
I AM DEAD IN THE WATER
alternatively I hope everyone has a wonderful Groundhog Day, have fun foraging for and feasting upon groundhogs.
3- Oh, they’re very tasty.
When is Groundhog Day anyway?
Ah stick time!
Sorry, just had to tell you that. *gives virtual chocolate to all who ask*
3 – Well excuuuuuuuuuuse me! I hope you’re not planning on eating groundhogs, because if you are, then I’ll be forced to call upon my mighty army of groundhogs. And you don’t want that, trust me.
We have a 2-hour delay today!
[and I actually found out about it before I got to school!! :D]
If the groundhog sees koko, we’ll have 6 days of pies from the skies.
“the month of gloom and depression is over”?
No, today I am especially gloomy and depressed.
Hope you all have a good Feb though…
*starts crying* I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE! I’m getting my puppy in March, but I can’t wait! Anyway, Happy Groundhogs day, and I think that maybe seeing Kokopelli’s shadow is well bad for the muses, tricks and pies for the next 6 weeks.
PEACE AND PIE FOR EVERYONE!
tHe wEiRdO iN tHe pOLkAdoT tOp hAt
Snow day for me… I was kind of mad as there’s some stuff I needed at school (mainly a flyer with information on it about a band I want to see) but I found what I needed with the help of google, so it’s okay… kind of would have to drive far and there’s snow though. So. Ahg.
Yeah snow day for me too! YAY!!!!! But I’m a little sad for my big sister because she had a field trip to the museum of science and industry.
PEACE AND PIE FOR EVERYONE!
tHe wEiRdO iN tHe pOLkAdoT tOp hAt
Hmm. I also had a snow day! …Even though there’s supposed to be an ICE storm. Hunh.
Oh, actually ON topic, when a groundhog sees Koko’s shadow it (I think,) means either:
1. Koko is in the groundhog’s suit.
2. Koko’s true personality is like that of a groundhog
3. Extra pies for everyone!
4. Lady Bunniful has struck once more
5. We’re all gullible
6. Uhm, run for cover because it’s now SIX WEEKS of Kokomania!!!
I have the first snow day I’ve had since 1st grade. And the 8th grade lock-in tonight wasn’t canceled either! Now I’m going to have to be super productive… (I actually get more done when I stay home from school, since so much of my work is online.)
Heya.
Been a while, hasn’t it?
No snow days here (but hey, I’m a Californian)….but we did lose a few days to rain/power outage.
I should finish getting ready for class…need too leave in three minutes.
Nothing terribly exciting has been happening except:
-I get my tattoo in 27 days
-Going to Disney World
and
-I can leave campus tonight, finally
later.
12- Wait. The OREGON Museum of Science and Industry? OMSI?!?!?
Why does everyone have school today? I thought it was a grading day!
Of course, I still have to go to school, but that doesn’t count because I will be surrounded by theater people and building sets and props and stuff AND I HAVE CHOCOLATE. And it’s Imbolc and it finally feels like Imbolc, although that’s probably just because I’m up much earlier than on weekends and later than on school days. Yay.
No it’s the one in Chicago, the regular MSI or you could call it the CMSI
Bahahahaha! No school for me!
19- Me either. Something scary: I concentrated all of my mental power on there being no school before I went to bed last night, and now there is none.
If Kokopelli turns sideways, does he have a shadow? Can he turn invisible, like the women in Flatlands?
I am adoring the picture.
19- Same here. w00tness.
20- Hmm… That brings up an interesting point. Would his being in the dark make him invisible [as in, literally, not visible] or simply camouflaged?
I’m doing…calculus. Yes, that’s what I do with my snow days. Chapter 2! Because I only have until early May to learn all this stuff again.
20- Yes, he can turn invisible. Which makes him even more dangerous.
20- Good question o.0 I should think… yes. Is Koko 2D or 3D?
Not a snowday, but a rainday… interesting. And nobody was actually expecting no school today. >.
18 – I love that museum!
20 – You’re not the only one doing math today. 19 problems before the lock-in or bust.
20- I was expecting a snowday today last night.
24- I love it to the museum of science and industry ROCKS!
It’s raining here. Rain and ice. Quite pretty though, as it makes the ground very pale, the trees very dark and the sky is a white/grey color. It is a day or high contrast.
Nice picture, Rebecca, it’s so cute!
Coolo picture. I bet if he sees Kokopelli’s shadow, he’s about to get his first taste of apple pie.
Yup, no skool. Yippie!
And there was much rejoycing.
*rejoyces*
Yay no school for me either but that’s great because I haven’t had one sene !st grade and I was waaaaaaay too youg to appriciate it then. O.K. now to get on topic. I think that a ground hog seeing Koko’s shado would meen nothg because the shadow whoud actually be being cast by Koko who lives in the special desert of muses and it’s never really winter like in the sesert so the whole groundhog deal would be void. I hope that makes sense to everybody here.
Yay, early release! Okay, only 24 minutes early. But it meant that history was cut short.
Lol. French class was fun today. We have a project where we’re supposed to make a news broadcast, and we’re going to be filming it in our school’s TV studio, so we had to make up a script. So at the end of class, Mr. Lachance was walking around, asking each group what news stories they had made up.
“We’re getting a bit morbid over here”
28 – Not necessarily. After all, Antarctica is a desert.
2-Are you doing anything for Imbolc? I don’t know what I’m doing yet. Hopefully I will be able to see some of my friends tonight and we can do a group thing.
4-Groundhog day is always February 2nd.
Go on *famous video website* and look for “natural Hallucinogen” It’s really fun. Your eyes get all messed up for a couple minutes and everything looks really cool.
SNOWDAYSNOWDAYSNOWDAYYYYYY
I am overjoyed.
I think there’s like a whole foot outside! And I went sledding with my friend Lindsay and it was fun.
Plus we beat the Simpsons Game! “We” being my brother and I, of course. w00t.
Good PIC! by they way, why does it look like Larry Gonick drew the pic?
I DO NOT want this thread to get morbid like the last one, but I’m sad because it’s the fifth anniversary of the Columbia disaster.
(34, TMFA) Call it a tribute to LG. And thanks for the compliment.
I saw a Kokopelli sign bout two days ago for painting and signs I think
this is how it went:
Me: WOAH! WAIT
Car/dad:brakeeeee WHAT!
Me: uh…KOKOPELLI!!
dad/mum: dont do that we thought it was something emergent
Me: it…was
I have 7 M&Ms aand school starts for an 11 week term on Tuesdy… (even though ttheres easter, Otago Anniversary day, Waitangi day and IM going to China 4 a school trip the last week of term and through the holidays and then thereis possibly camp…)
also…the groundhog is an optical illusionof Koko…duh…
sorry for double posting and al but—
has anyone seen ‘I AM LEGEND’ the movie I saw it yesterday and I am soooooooo scared, I hate sary movies and Laura loved them and I didnt think it would be scary at all…BUT IT WAAASS!!!!
AAAAAH!!!! shudder!
and he had a dog called Sam who DONT READ THIS IF YOU DONT WANT THE MOVIE TO BE SPOILED
died because he strangled her and she was infectedwith the disease and went mad AND she had the same name as me and I had m eyes shut and Will Smith ws yeling SAMANTHA SAMNATHA and I was really freaked out…shudder…
Hey, GAPA’s, can you post a link to the first ever MB thread, perchance?
39- maybe it’s https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1
Snow day today! w00t! So now I have free time. What do people do in free time? This is a new concept for me. I supose I’ll procrastinate… I just can’t force myself to do homework. Even though I’ll have no time tomorrow because I’ll be working at solo and ensemble. Ah, well. *procrastinates*
I love the picture.
I can do zat: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1
41 – In my free time I read, post on here, maybe play trumpet or piano, and just lie around and do nothing. That is, when I have free time.
41-my friend did a whole speech on procrastination, it was very good! she got full marks
if a groundhog sees koko, it means they need new glasses.
45-I agree…is it Saturday in the US right now? Im slightly confused
46 – No, I’m in blog time and it’s early evening Friday.
46 – Yup. I’m here in Friday.
So you aren’t in the US?
SNOWWWWDAAAYYYYYY
I am very pleased. There’s like a foot of snow! I went sledding.
No snow days for us wimpy southren Californians.
I HAD A SNOOOOOOWWWWWW DAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you honestly have no idea what that means. in toronto you never ever ever get snow days. i was let out at 1:00. all the students were like “oh we’re gonna be let out early for a snow day” and all the teachers were like “i don’t know what you’re talking about”. and i didn’t want it to be a snow day because then the tripple bill would be cancelled.
and it was. but it’s being reschedualed. yay! and liam was gloating and grining and singing “we got a snowday” in my face. which was anoying. 
but watevs… me is feeling beter now! thanks Grant for your advice.:)
I love the picture! is it a Lady B. original? I absolutely adore it!
Not to get off topic, but I’m making a book. It called “The Amazing Adventures of Blanx, the Geometric Dog”
(51) Thanks, KAg. I did the picture, but the idea for it was a collaborative effort between Robert and me.
Most of the drawing I did in Photoshop. Then I colored it with a digital crayon in a nifty little program called ArtRage. You can’t see the crayon effect as such, since I turned it into a wash. By the way, a limited edition of ArtRage (the company calls is a “starter” version) is available free. Anyone who wants something simple to learn yet much more exciting to use than the likes of MS Paint might want to take a look. (Google it. The full version costs only $25.)
— Rhenium Beryllium Carbon Calcium
I’m disappointed that my name doesn’t translate into elemental symbols. The closest I can get is either Rubidium Erbium Technetium (RbErTc = Rbert C.), Ruthenium Boron Erbium Technetium (RuBErTc = Rubert C.), neither wholly satisfactory.
Hey, my Mom’s birthday is tomorrow!!!!!!!!!! GROUNDHOG 22!! Get it?
Rebecca (53): Cool! Can you use ArtRage on macs?
You can’t make my name out of elemental symbols, either. Chlorine Argon (ClAr) is pretty close. Oh, wait! Chlorine Argon Arsenic might work, ClArAs – which would include my last initial. Does that count?
Hmm… Potasium, Gold, Iodine is the closest I can get. (K,Au,I)
32- Tomorrow we’re going to see our friend who also celebrates Imbolc. And today we had whipped cream.
If you had asked me at four how my day was going, the answer would have been “Wonderful!” But sometime between then and now, something went horribly wrong. That’d be several somethings.
First of all, I had to walk a very long way home from school, and I was making plans for when I got home the whole time. I was going to take a nice hot bath to get all the paint off me hands and arms, and work on my homework, and have a bite to eat while the bath was running, and then I was going to sit down in the living room or the dining room, both of which I stayed up late last night to clean, and since Mother was going to move all those boxes of fabric down to the basement, I would be able to think, and I was going to study. And then I would go on MuseBlog.
But of course. Instead my day had to become thoroughly rotten. When I got home, there was no more bread or miso soup left (forget the quick bite to eat while my bath was running), the living room was a pigsty, the bath was full of lukewarm water meaning that there wouldn’t be any hot water so I couldn’t take a bath, the boxes had not been moved, and, on top of this all, my book is missing.
I feel less than perfectly sane.
(56, Purple Panda) Yes, it’s available for both Windows and OS X. It mimics various traditional media with a few twists thrown in. I can’t remember what is available in the free version — I used it only briefly when I decided to buy. You can do very sophisticated work with the full program, using layers, stencils, and such. On the other hand, my seven-year-old niece could figure out the basics quickly enough to entertain herself for hours.
(52) Geometric dog? COOL!!!!!
I was going to post here. But I don’t feel like dragging us back into the Janurary Blahs. So I suppose I won’t…-sigh-
Oh yeah and I forgot (sorry about the double post) I think it’s might be bad for the muses, get an umbrella! Pies are going to rain down hard, and a lot more tricks are up Koko’s sleeve.
Hi all…
So, we had a snow day today, which they didn’t announce until I’d already been awake five minutes or so. I *think* I had a lucid dream after that, though. It was very weird and I’m not sure. ***FOR THOSE OF YOU READING: I GO ON LONG WINDING TANGENT HERE*** So, it was a dream where there was this dictator who was evil, and by that I mean genuinely a bad person and not the funny kind of evil or even the deliberate kind. And I was in this big group of people (kind of, a long line of us, except I kind of knew them) and it felt like we were refugees or something or maybe we were dissenters or had just gotten in the way of something, but s/he was going to kill us. Well, that was the reason we were going to die, but I don’t think I ever saw them. maybe a few people leading us, guards. I was with my family presumably but we didn’t talk. I passed a big field, and a waterwheel or something that had very sharp blades on it as the parts of the waterwheel that the water catches on, and went down a path to a house that, as I knew, people entered but didn’t leave. And the line slowed to almost nothing and my fear that I had pushed into the background grew as I realized that it was really happening and I was going to die. I then asked myself, in my terror, is it really happening? This can’t be. It must be a dream (at this point a little of the back of my mind is thinking oh, cool, I can make this a lucid dream). So, still terrified and not really sure it was going to work, I took a step forward towards a forest across another field, at a right angle from the path I was on leading directly to the house’s front porch, and imagined opening a set of white feathery wings on my back, flapping them, and flying away. And I knew I was flying. It felt like falling from a whole bunch of different directions at once with wind currents, and I wasn’t afraid at all, but I was also aware that I was lying in bed with my eyes closed. Then I came back to the path, relieved and happy that it was a dream. But although my dream eyes were open I could feel my eyes also tightly shut. So I opened the other eyes and then I was awake with my eyes open, to my disappointment. ***TANGENT OVER*** Tomorrow I have to wake up early, though, so I won’t get a chance to dream. I could try going to bed now, I suppose, but why?
And there are no elements with a q in the abbreviation. The best I can do for my real name, with the help of a chart, is:
(gold-uranium) neon neon iodine (europium-uranium)
Why aren’t any elements named just “A” or “E”?
((also, note to GAPAs: I want to see what happens when I try to login to my wordpress account from the login link on the bottom of the page. I’m telling you because I don’t want you to think that I’m trying to hack into the blog or anything if you get some kind of alert. It’s just to see what happens, out of curiosity.))
63- That’s really cool.
The last paragraph- Nothing happens. I’ve tried.
Work day was very fun indeed. Will spilled a big can of black paint on accident, and J and HU and I had to clean it up… And then J and I were mixing paint to make taupe, so I got more paint all over me… And then I was painting so I have a LOT of paint all over me.
63-That’s cool.
I love my dreams, they are so crazy. Someone got stuck between a road and a sidewalk once and i thought they were going to die. I also had a dream that there was a pack of tigers in my yard and the cops came to get them and one of the cops got dragged away by a tiger.
Happy February. I love my oxygens.
Oh yeah, does anyone here use open source software? I’ve been missing out on the blog for a while :(. Oh, well. I guess that I will go stare at the wall for the night, and then go on here at 7-ish.
Oh, and for us here in the north-western Oregon area, it is coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooold.
And 66- I never dream. Ever.
Strange that it’s only 8:35, eh? THE MUSEBLOG LIES! But with this new information, we can all locate the Muses.
Also, strange that The Rules mention nothing about profanities.
In eighth grade, you hear a lot of them.
Not around here, you don’t.
10. So? I’m
torturedrequiring mental help by the fact that>BRAWL COMES OUT IN MARCH! OMGLOL!!!!!1!!!one!Super Smash Bros. Brawl comes out in March.68. I’m relieved.
67- YOU’RE IN NORTHWEST OREGON????????????? *dies* Hmm. How to ask…
Are you near the coast?
For my last post, (I just remembered it,) I’m a bit sad that there was another article on perpetual motion machines. Oh well. There should also be an option to edit past posts, in case you have an Oh no! New Idea! attack or two.
*skims over posts*
I got a hair straightner today.
Yes. I’m a boy with a hair straightner.
Live with it.
Dreams….hmm. I have strange dreams, if I remember them at all. this morning I had a dream, and I’m trying to think what it was about. *thinks* *can’t remember* Ah well, at least it wasn’t a nightmare, I know that.
Alice- we have no school here either.
I have also been to OMSI last week. Powell’s is the best bookstore ever! Sometimes I go there and buy so many books my arms hurt. Though, nowadays, I have stopped reading as many novels. Any Musers have a good read, besides the Smart Pies, Douglass Adams, Lord of the Rings, Flat Land, the Lewis Carroll books (my faves!!) overly popular Harry Potters, and my collection of my manga that iS OVERFLOWING MY ROOM OMG! I personally like Reborn!, Sgt Frog, One Piece, and a couple others.
And a note to Lord Robert Coontz: Are you psychic so you can write your replys to our questions early in the day, so late at night, they pop up? If not, how much time on here do you spend? And how old are you?
Wow… I haven’t been on here in basically forever.
Hi Duncan_Quagmire. It has been basically forever. Well, since July 20 at any rate. What’s new?
54- hee hee hee *gloats*. that’s too bad but GAPA does. i just can’t remeber which ones make GaPa i think its gallium something.
75- i think it was said a while ago by the GAPAs that they are all old enough to be our parents. (late 40s, early 50s) let me give you some good comics to read. Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O’Malley is one of the bast series ever. if you like video games you’ll probably like this, Zombies Calling by Faith Erin Hicks it’s her first book and not amazing but i like it. it’s funny., Thieves and Kings by Mark Oakley is actualy the most amazing series I have ever read. M’Oak is a master of art and story telling. this is probably really hard to find because the 5th book came out in 2005/2006 and he’s taking a hiatus. but if you can find it (or order it through the website, his prices have dropped seriously from when i bought the books. i think the first book is now around $15 whereas it was over $20 when i got it) you should deffinitely read it. because it is awesome.
I’ve been freaking out about college, a lot. Mostly because I keep getting emails from all of these ivy-league schools about college and stuff. And I’m not sure how they got my email, but most likely because of the PSAT.
So, yeah. I got a 221 on my PSAT, and I really would have liked to do better, but it doesn’t count this year so that’s okay. -dies-
SAT=The Devil.
Everyone should go out and read The Overacheivers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids. It’s not a fantasy novel, but it’s actually a great book about all these kids in high school/college. I think pretty much everyone on MuseBlog is some sort of an Overacheiver themselves, I know I am. ‘Tis Non-Fiction.
Oh yeah, and I got my hair straightened. So now I don’t have an afro anymore. Or at least electrical-socket-hairdoos. It looks acceptable (something I’ve never been able to do before…)
I believe I am the youngest person on MB. Is anyone making a book? I need more ideas.
81- How old are you?
81-Oh! I’m glad you’re back. good to see you.
I’ve been getting all these pamphlets about college in the mail and this is only Freshman year in High School! All of these colleges want me to check them out over the summer or something. But I already have this summer planned out. I’m going to go to Space Academy in Huntsville.
84 – I’m not getting college stuff, but I’m in 8th grade and keep getting stuff from Catholic high schools event though I’m Jewish.
I haven’t decided where I’m going for high school yet, and I don’t think I’ve been getting any brochures for anywhere. Or maybe I just don’t know. Oh well. I really don’t care one way or another.
I’m in seventh grade, but I’m still getting pamphlets from colleges. I’ve got two from George Mason.
I wanna go to UVA, or VTech, or Duke, or Penn.
-munch munch- Looks like six more weeks of DELICIOUS nom om I do so love to eat forest critters
80) Interesting. I may check that out. In the realm of honors students and 4.0 GO GETTERS I am there on the bottom scraping out a lowly existence and subsisting on Bs in AP classes. Woe.
Today I got my eyebrows threaded and it was CRAAAZZZZYYY
Also the ladies at the japanese bookstore spoke to me in Japanese and it was cool. I spaced out and answered so simply though haha
48-no…Im not in the U.S, IM in New Zealand
oh how I love MarioKart!
I found a little toy car the other day and *sounds really wierd* I was really looking forward to plaing with it, etc. and I lost it and there was sometihng about this little toy car that I was so sad becase I was looking forward to it and now it was gone—wierd..but I found it !!! now everyone thinks Im wierd!!! =_=
I got to drive today! And I got lost!
89- Actually that’s sort of . . . *thinks* . . . well, sweet, but that sounds so condescending. I think what I mean to say is that I completely understand.
90- You got to drive? I think I need to learn soon. I keep having dreams about driving…
I had the weirdest dream last night. I think that my family was sort of like a part of the underground railroad, except in modern times, and we had this big van. And the beginning, or at least as far as I remember it, was in this big house with warm orange light and shiny brown wood floors, and it was really comforting, and I was reading about this rabbit in France, that hibernated in the snow, and it was going to die soon, and that was sort of scary, and I went up the steps to where our van was parked to get my book or something, and there were people in the van, and this one boy started to drive it away, and I was begging him to go back, but he wouldn’t. And it had happened before, sort of, but then I had managed to convince the driver to turn back. And so we were driving along the highway for a long time, and I was thinking about what people would say when they saw I was gone, and we went to Disney World and we snuck in and…well, something must have happened besides me talking to the other people in the van, because I was in school, and people were talking about me being abducted, and I said, “Oh, but I wasn’t really, it was just a dream” but three days had passed so I decided that I had been in a coma. (And Brenda had a very weird headdress, but that’s another story.) And my mother worked at my school and she was cooking pizza and I was really happy to see her and really sad that I had missed three days of life, and everything had happened in those three days, including my previous dream, which was about ships and Muse Academy and was very sad for a reason that I cannot recall… And then I woke up, and I was very relieved that it wasn’t real.
Dream 1: a scary man *sounds 5 years old* dressed in black with a massive machine gun came to my house and talked to my dad about scary stuff
Dream 2 (about a week later): Scary man was in the supermarket with me and my dad and a barbie-type girl and he was chasing us around and when I got to the doors they were locked and the cashiers couldnt hear me when I asked to get out i.e Noone coulld hear me scream…it was very wierd
back on topic, I can’t believe teh groudhog saw his shadow *sniff*
I want spring!
40,42-Oh, yeah…duh. Just shows you how on top of things I am…:lol:
89-Everyone thinks you weird? Isn’t that strange, I wonder why? -_-
95 – Aren’t we all weird?
I got to go and see the USS Constellation today in Baltimore!!!!!!! *is hyper* I loved it, and spen the whole day looing around, trying to identify lines, talking to the people that worked there, etc. SUCH FUNFUNFUNFUNFUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then turned on the sea chanties all the way home and sang along with them all. Aren’t my parents glad that I’m obsessed with tall ships, history and the music that goes along with them? *doesn’t wait to hear answer*
So, now I’m all excited still, but really tired, as going to bed at about 2 in the morning and then waking up early doesn’t quite mesh. Unless you’re the energizer bunny, but I’m not.
97 – And if you’re the energizer bunny, you are bound to be kidnapped by MuseBloggers and scrutinized (note the color).
97- AH! “Obsessed with tall ships, history, and the music that goes with them.”
I find a kindred spirit in Midnight Fiddler.
P.S. Thou art ever-so-lucky. *sighs longingly*
99~ Yes, same here. I remember the first time that I found out you kliked tall ships. Then later the you like colonial history. And so on and so forth. I swear, if we weren’t a year apart I’d think we were twins.
I went to my ATA tournament today and was a scorekeeper (I don’t like competeing). In my first ring there were 2 kids sparring and one of them did a kick and the other kid just charged at him and ran into his foot and fell over. It was pretty funny. In the 2nd ring we were about to start the last match of the first round and some kid decided that he wasn’t sparring so it messed up the whole system.
96- To be a Muser, you have to be a bit outside of the mainstream.
I had this one dream where I walked onto a dune at the beach and then I was suddenly in the forest, so I took a few steps, and I was suddenly in an airport where there were no people, but all the lights gave off red light.
My friends birthday is today!!! She had a sleepover last night and we stayed up until 6!!! Anway, we had a snowday on friday!!! We got 7 inches, and I hope I get to go sledding tomorrow!!!
100- We even look alike.
oh wow. one hundred and four posts.
*dies*
I do like the title though. And I got my Muse today. but still.
*dies*
104~ Zactly. It’s a scary though, no?
Happy Groundhog Day! Hope everyone had a chance to sup on the traditional finely diced pork.
get it?
107-Spam? What? Are you talking about spam or am I having a lapse in my pun thinking? What does spam have to do with Groundhog’s Day?
I like my Discover magazine. Even though it is the March one and I got it today. It has a lot of articles about Einstein.
Grant O.-You remind me of my friend Andy in college. I would probably think you were him if you didn’t have to write your real name.
Everyone should go read the Jokes and Riddles thread and try to answer my post 48. There are spdzk points up for grabs if you don’t use google!
I was flipping through my old Muse mags and came across a letter discussing synesthesia.
I am overjoyed.
I myself am a synesthete. I see color patterns when I hear something.
Is anyone else here a synesthete?
… who actually knows what I’m talking about, besides the GAPAs?
109- I know what you’re talking about.
108~ I did, go look.
109~ Yes, I know what you’re talking about. When my aunt heard the note D she sees blue. For myself, when I hear music I think of smells, feelings and memories. Sometimes it’s almost like watching a music video. I don’t see colors though, unless they are part of whatever I’m imagining. On second thought, it might be handy to see colors and patterns when you hear certain notes, because you might be able to pick stuff up by listening better, hmm.
MBers have discussed synesthesia on a few threads in the past, including https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=326 and
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=565#comment-15 . Both Supreme Muser 2000 and Kiki the Great say they are synesthetes, to different degrees.
I used to be able to taste temperature when I was little. It stopped a long time ago though so I don’t really remember what it was like.
113 – The lattest theory is that we’re all born with synesthesia. However, as the brain ages, most people lose it. You could be an excellent example of that.
Forgive me, I shouldn’t have said theory. I should have said, “The latest research suggests that…” and so on.
96-Duh.
Hey, I kinda feel textures when I hear stuff! Is that synth(lots of other letters)?
Robert, I’m going to place a non-subtle hint here and say that we either need a thread on Synesthesia or the next topic on the morph thread should be Synesthesia.
Sorry for my obsessive last few posts, but I’ve been cleaning out my computer and found an old report I did on it once for school. This is bring up some crazy nostalgia in me.
Done! It’s a topic I’ve always liked, too. In fact, in college I wrote a term paper on synesthetic imagery in Dante’s Paradiso.
By the way, Faye, how do you pronounce your last name? In England it would be “Beechum.”
Everyone: be extremely jealous! I return from seeing the Coldstream Guards Band and the Royal Scots Dragoon Pipe and Drum Corps in Cleveland! I have a CD and a pin to show for it, and I shook one of the bagpipers’ hand! I feel so incredibly awesome right now.
I think I am minorly synes-whatsit… A is Yellow, b is green (as is E) f is dark pine green, some letters I know the color but I cant describe it…but is that even synesthesia?
I think I am minorly synes-whatsit… A is Yellow, b is green (as is E) f is dark pine green, some letters I know the color but I cant describe it…but is that even synesthesia?
119-Im a bagpiper, if you shook my hand would you feel incredibly awesome? no actually…as I am a grade D and beyond piper who struggles through Scotland the Brave, although I am in the *snip* City Juvenile Pipe band and were going to
[snip here too — RS]
on the tenth…YEA! road trip!
example of how HPBs are taking over our minds-on MarioKart DS I designed an HPB emblem…I may start drawing them on everyones bebo ^^ BEWARE THE BUNNY
118 – really? How interesting!
The first syllable sounds like the name of a muse: Bo
The ch in the second syllable makes a “sh” sound.
The “a” makes an “ah” sound, like (do re me) FA (so) LA (ti do). And the “ch” makes a “sh” sound.
So I guess it’s “shahmp”, which rhymes with “bomp” (if bomp were a real word…)
… did I make sense?
Which syllable do you stress? Is it BO-shomp or bo-SHOMP?
bebo message
chickalideeC ‘ s profile has been BUNNIFIED!!!!!!
114/115-That would make sense. If I concentrate really hard I can get it to come back, and a few things still have other senses with them. I wrote on the synesthesia thread.
WOOOO it’s really early/late at the same time and I had tea with caffiene and now I’m hyper and writing run-on sentences WOO!
Note to self-No caffiene after 11:pm or 12 AM. Or whatever time it was that I had tea.
How do people say aunt? “ant” or “awhnt”. I say both.
109- I’ve always wished I had synesthesia. I ought to be discussing this on the thread for it I suppose.
I say Arnt as is Are not–Aren’t, maybe..ahnt, with a long A
126 – I sort of qualify as a synthesiate. My post in the description thread shows that…. I think.
119- *is extremely jealous*
I just went a party! Afterwards we were supposed to go to a contradance but by the time Mother was ready to leave I didn’t really care anymore.
We had flaming bananas, but they didn’t flame because they were too liquid. I was a bit scared because of the rum, but I think the alcohol all cooked off.
((Double Post -sorry))
And someday, I will learn to phrase my descriptions nicely, and spell synthesete? Sorry. Hehe….
Typically, we wouldn’t post a bunny picture on the Random thread, but this creation by Cat’s Meow defies categorization:
131- may i ask what the inspiration was?
132 – I have no idea. I was drawing a bunny head, and then I drew hair, and then I drew a dress. And then I drew her little brother in a suit, which was just a funny image.
131- *blinks*
131- Hahahaha! I love it!
Cute picture.
Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off on the 7th.
131-
…spendid picture…
Woah. Creepy bunnies.
My dad wants me to watch the superbowl with him. Grr.
There is glitter all over my computer.
138 – I may watch the Super Bowl. I don’t know yet.
Why the glitter?
school starts tomorrow for 11 weeks of boredom and torture
what larks…on the bright side Yumeki and Ruka will be back and they are my Extemely Awesome Japanese Friends
Argh. I need to do my homework. I can’t do my homework! *sob* There’s too much. It won’t all fit on the poster.
What I need to do is calm down, look it over, and sketch it out on scrap paper.
I don’t want to do this.
I dont wanna go with my dad to my grandparents house to see the superbowl. How boring (no offense football fans). I am not going, but I am sad because my grandma is an awesome cook, and I will miss out on visiting with them with a delicious dinner in front of us.
okay. this is a random story about my life. i don’t think anyone really reads my posts but thats okay. i’ve been having these issues with my left knee. sometimes when i stand on it for a really long time and then bend it it hurts soooooo darn much and it’s like the bones are cracking. i finaly figured out why! i generaly sit with my knees drawn into my chest. or sit cross leged. anyways last weekend (and this weekend) i kinda sat around cross leged all day infront of the TV, doing origami. i was watching house of eliotte, thankyou for asking. anyways my legs fall alseep really easily then hurt like the dickens when i stand up. that’s why my knees hurt! *gasps and aplause*
now i just need to figure out why, when i woke up this morning my wrist was stiff and very sore (my left one) and why my back hurts. the back is probably from hunching over doing origami and drawing. but i have no idea why the wrist, i write with my right hand….? mabe it’s because i wear my watch to bed….. *is mystified*
soooo…. superbowl. i believe my lil bro is going over to our friends for a “super bowl partay”. i am not a fan of sports and will not be going. *grin*
143 – Oh my gosh! That’s my problem!
I always sit on my knees and stuff and it makes them hurt like heck. I should probably stop, but I can’t sit any way on the floor without hurting them.
143-hey, I read your posts. Sounds like you have a lot of pain. My back has been pretty bad, but I think it’s because of my backpack.
oh, yeah. And I don’t like football, and neither does C++D, but we’ll be going to a neighborhood party…
146- he hasn’t been around much lately. at all.
145- thanks
144- *high five*
147- He has been, if you go on the right threads.
143- I also read your posts. It’s a bit hard, ’cause the is aren’t always capitalized, but I still read them.
145- *sympathy* My bag probably weighs about thirty pounds on an A day. Then twenty on a B day, and forty-five an a C day. Ow.
143- maybe it was twisted funny as you slept?
my arms hurt still from snowtubing on thursday.
this just happened: my mom comes into the computer room holding a sheet of paper going “deathnote, kathleen? you aren’t planning on killing yourself!” so I had to embarasedly explain that what she was holding was a printout of the cover of a manga that i had used as refferance for my hallowe’en costume last year and that i was not planning to kill myself. i have no idea why she would even begin to think i would comit suicide. i am not that kind of person.
Hey the superbowl is Superbowl 42!
So I’m going to watch parts of it and enjoy it being number 42.
I’m almost done with my homework! Yay! And then I get to study. Yay?
It’s very cold. Why is it so cold?
I want to write. Perhaps I will write after I finish my homework. I just need to draw pictures of
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I’m hungry.
I like superbowl commercials.
I’m bored now and I need my friend to get on the internet so he can tell me how to fix my Open Office.
Does anyone on here have Open Office? I tried to download it today and it doesn’t work when I try to start it. Any help?
143-I read your posts, you know that, right?
LOL SUPER BOWL COMMERCIALS
haha, “bood lite”. Also the ugly lady with the Planters nuts was funny. And Tom Petty has a bad haircut, ew.
153- Mac or PC?
Yay we are making pizza!
Pizza is my favorite thing.
I’ve been hiding out in my room through most of the superbowl.
50- central, too…
I just volunteered for 5 hours!
It’s an organization called “Book ‘Em,” which sends books to prisons. I read books from prisoners about what types of books they would like and what their interests were, and then went down to a really cold, dusty basement where all the books were, and picked out books for them. Then, I packaged them up and wrote all sorts of specific information for the prison facilities (such as prisoner ID number, etc.), and sent them off!
-sigh of exhaustion-
159- That sounds fun.
159- oh that sounds great!
I have a picture I want to send in, what e-mail do we send it in to???????
162~ Send it to gapa @ musefanpage.com (Without the spaces.) Then remind he GAPAs to check their email. It sometimes takes them awile, so you have to be patient.
I’m going to go now, see you all tomorrow!!
163- Thank you Midnight Fiddler!!!
Well, things are cleared up in my life now and I’ve been working on my homework steadily (only now I’m taking a break) oxlin’s life is pretty good.
Also I visited a college over the weekend to interview for a big scholarship and I think I’ve been accepted there (well, if they’re interviewing me for a big scholarship there you think they would have accepted me) and I really liked it a lot better than I had the first time I had visited there. who knows, maybe I’ll go there?
Seriously, I think touch football is the most tedious sport in the world. You get the ball, you hold it for five seconds, pass it to someone. If someone touches you; everyone starts over again. If it touches the ground; everyone starts over.AAAARRRGGHHH!!! TOO-DARN-TEDIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes! Football is boring! I didn’t watch the Superbowl. I don’t even know who won. Hopefully it was the Giants.
The only way football is not boring is when I play it with my dad and brother. We barely have any rules. It’s very fun.
But, yeah…watching sports bores me.
This is becoming unreasonable. We have a two-hour delay here for a tiny tiny bit of ice.
168 – That’s weird.
Our school doesn’t have delays… At least I don’t think so…
I’m sick, so I’m staying home and I’ve been on the computer forever.
I is lonely.
167-Football isn’t boring….I just didn’t care about either team…
170 – Maybe watching football is boring?
Hmm. I dunno. I’m not a big fan of sports. I just avoid the ball/frisbee generally.
Except floor hockey!
Floor hockey is fun!
What’s the super bowl?
172~ others are probably more qualified toexplain it than I am, but I’s a big, important footbal game. (If football can really be that important.)
The question I have, is, “What’s the attraction?”
ebeth feels bad! she hasn’t been on here in a while. :'( hello people.
i didn’t watch the superbowl. i was sick. i did watch the halftime show.
i stayed home from school today. mostly just slept. i still have a psychology paper to write that was supposed to be due today. today was a horrible day to miss, because i now have two tests to make up.
winter homecoming was saturday. i went with andy. it was a little awkward, but fun. we had it at the franklin conservatory, and it was freaking amazing. it was full of plants and little waterfalls and things. there were also the sweet chihuly sculptures and the glass floor. the music was horrible, as usual. we requested dr. worm and the time warp, but they wouldn’t play either song.
actually when we first got there cheese found out that she’d forgotten her ticket, so she called her mom and had her drive it over. we waited outside with her for a while, and saw people running back to their cars going “forgot my ticket!”. it was pretty funny. then cheese’s mom came and we went inside and got breathalyzed, because our school is dumb and doesn’t trust us…prom is understandable, but homecoming?
what else has ebeth done lately…not much.
171-frisbee is pwnage. i love ultimate frisbee
i’m not a big fan of football…we used to play it in the backyard and stuff, but i liked soccer/frisbee/baseball/kickball/whatever else better. i go to all the football games (band) but i generally don’t pay much attention other than to say “yay! we’re winning!” or (more often) “aww, we’re losing”
165-ooh, nice
according to just about everybody i’m supposed to start freaking out about colleges now but i’m still kind of like “eh…whatever”
143-that used to happen to me a lot (with the wrist, not the knee). mostly it was just sleeping on it oddly. i don’t have very good circulation, so things fall asleep easily. i’m pretty sure your knee shouldn’t hurt though…idk, mebbe it’s just stiff or something
i’ll read some of the rest of the thread but responding would take forever and i should really be doing my homework so i don’t die trying to make everything up tomorrow. peace and love
A cache of mummies was discovered at Faiyum in Egypt recently.
Meh. My feet hurt. I took my shoes off when I was walking home because It’s 75 out. (it’s going to snow tomorrow, go figure)
I don’t want to move.
Wow i was really hyper all day and now I’m dead.
It’s nice outside.
My school’s play was awesome. They had a little Alice in Wonderland bit where they played Freak on a Leash (Korn) and there were people dressed as cats dancing and a girl dressed as Alice Liddel running up and down stairs. It was really cool. Then the girl main character called the genies mad and they did the “some people go that way” and “we’re all mad here” bits.
*shocked, embarrased and appalled Patriots fan from Boston who really wants to rant about the Pats terrible quality of play but a) would get banned for profanity from this blog never to return again mwa ha ha ha ha or b) get no consolance from my fellow musebloggers who obviously don’t give a hoot about the ranting Boston maniac who is looking forward to Duke creaming everyone in college basketball….In your face.*
178~ We give a hoot about you, just not so much about football.
Ouchhh!
I just went on my trampoline and I think I messed up either a rib or a lung. The entire left side of my chest hurts when I breathe, and it’s mostly concentrated on a rib on my back, but it feels like there is no air in the bottom half of the lung. I didn’t hit it or anything. Bleh.
168 All in the Clatsop County for us. I don’t like the robotic voice that called me. It’s scary.
176 I never wear shoes. Once I threw mine off of the Astor Column, our local landmark. And some gravel. And even last year, I walked there after school, and since a. I did some research on paper airplanes, and b. I found a horde of posterboard, I threw a gigantic paper air plane off of it. It looked small, but big compared to the people it almost hit.
177 I looove Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll is my idol. I once read The Looking-Glass Wars and it made me sick, though. Darn Scholastic services, fooling me with the book orders!
I miss the gold ol’ days when, in the “Random Topics”, people would post long messages like thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
OMG I LOOVE KOKOPELLI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
those were good times. I also remember when there was an all-out flame war between boys and girls. that was pretty creepy. And if you delete my message, I”ll cry.
182. If there is a Blog post pit of death thingie.
180- Have you seen a doctor?
Robert: it’s bo-SHOMP, stress on second syllable.
Re: Alice in Wonderland. I play Alice in a show my school is putting on about how Alice wanders into a ‘wonderland’ of high school. it presents issues high school issues and turns some of them backwards. it’s fairly interesting.
La Mort is not thinking straight right now. My brain isn’t working.
Ah well, c’est lundi.
181-I have the Looking Glass Wars but haven’t had a chance to read it yet.
Today everyone was going around saying “how bout them Giants”
LOVE THAT BOOK! Wish I could get the sequel…
It means that all subscribers of Muse where their subscriptions are outdated get new magazines!
I mean the Groundhog/Kokopelli thing.
I didn’t watch the Superbowl but that’s just because I was getting my hair cut like Coconut Head from Ned’s Declassfied.
No, I didn’t KNOW it was going to look like that.
188 I guess I’m just biased because I’m crazy about the original, and Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson, and how the book made a fool of him. Or maybe thats just me? I’ve mostly forgotten about it.
So, I’m just dropping by to tell the GAPAs how great they are… Jade and I were talking about the Museblog, and how it’s just not the same… If I was running the MB, I would’ve just given up by now…put up a thread saying that the Museblog just wasn’t worth keeping up now… But the GAPAs are still devoting their time to moderating, and there’s even the picture and caption at the top of the random thread… I probably shouldn’t be writing this when I’m supposed to be doing homework because I don’t want to cry or anything…Coldplay probably doesn’t help either… *rambles*
Anyway, I probably won’t be back unless the blog gets back to a more manageable size…So, bye everyone. I’ll be on RRR 2007.5 if it comes back to life, and I might post a few times, but I’m pretty much gone now. I’ll miss the bloggers who I like, and will probably miss the ones who irritate me as well. Anyway, I should leave…finish my homework…*cries*
I got on here first thing over the summer, as soon as I got up. I’d read anything that had happened on the random thread when I’d been asleep, and then spend all day waiting for people to come on or the GAPAs to moderate. I think that the blog’s more crowded than it was over the summer, not just that I have less time. I’m sure that I’ll regret having left, but I’ve decided. I just can’t handle reading threads, and I don’t want anyone to think that I might come back sometime. So my leaving’s official, or as official as it can be. I’ll probably read this thread for a bit, just to see what happens… Please, I want people to say what they really think about me. How much they hate me, how damn annoying I am, whatever. That I say damn too damn much (this is because of language restrictions, by the way. IRL my language is much more colourful). Didn’t I say that I was going to stop writing? I will now… Bye, everyone. I’m going to miss the Museblog, little as I have been going on it recently. *walks off slowly* \m/
Holy *catches self* crap, I overused the ellipsis massively in that post. O.O *ashamed*
(194) Thanks for stopping by, Glassboro. Good traveling, wherever you go! Glad to have met you.
And you shall probably cross my mind whenever I hear “Pinball Wizard.”
181- We live in the same place, Bobbyjkl!!!!!
184- I just came from a doctor.
Did you show him your arms?
He just had some trouble finding my veins, that’s all.
That sounds serious.
It’s just a vitamin deficiency, Ruth.
194- Good-bye, Glassboro. I’ll miss you, but I can see where you’re coming from. I never really expected you to return to posting much, so nothing’s really changed.
See you later, maybe.
Everyone’s leaving…
What are we to do about blog overcrowding?
I got abandoned today. Rehearsal ended at 5:30 as usual, and Mother forgot to pick me up until 6:30. *rolls eyes* It was really quiet miserable. So now I need to customize that cell phone.
Our auditorium has a ghost. There’s no ghost light, and now there’s this curious figure that you can see in the light booth, but only if you’re standing on the stage. M and I went up into the lights booth (she made me go first) and there’s nothing there.
198- I’m not sure. I’m not as attached to some of the newer members, though whether this is because they’re new, because the blog is too crowded for me to care anymore*, or because we just haven’t connected, I don’t know.
*It can’t be this, because I care a great deal about some people.
apparently, sam theTenrec!!! is in my school. in some of my classes. weird huh?
198-it’s one person, so yes, kinda. I still see the point about the neophyte infestation…we were all noobs once…
Bye Glasseh! I’ve enjoyed knowing you and talking with you on MB!
Good news, everyone- I’ve discovered that I suffer from acute hemophobia, characterized by vasovagal syncope! This wouldn’t be good news in itself, except I’ve known this for years but haven’t known the proper terms. This means that my condition is valid, and therefore I may not be mocked by anyone for it. So everyone who tries to mock me for it can kiss my bum.
Damn it, I’m going to have trouble with this. Last night I realized that I’d forgotten to say that my time on the Museblog were great, and that I have great memories from before it got worse. So, I’m thanking the GAPAs for giving me those memories, and providing the opportunity for other bloggers to have as much fun as I did (assuming that they have enough time to keep up.) Also, there’s a slight chance that I might have the energy to keep up over the summer; I hope that I will. I wish that I’d realized that it was a bad idea for me to leave the Museblog, and decided to come back, but it was the right decision for me. The new people don’t deserve to have me complaining at them, which would happen if I stayed.
Anyway, happy blogging everyone. *actually leaves this time. Unless he thinks of something else. Really.* \m/
Namárië, Glassboro! It’s been a pleasure having you here and getting to meet you at the Kokonvention.
As philosophers have been pointing out for thousands of years, change is the only constant, so wise people are not surprised (and try not to be too sad) when it happens. We’re glad that you found your time here worthwhile. That’s what we’re here for: to make people’s lives slightly different, in a good way. If we succeed for five minutes, then the blog has justified its existence — and in your case it sounds as if we managed considerably longer than that.
Now, forward, worthy Muser, to fresh pies and adventures new! We’ll be thinking about you.
204- Right. What vaso-wathsit syncope?
205- Good-bye again. We really will miss you, complaints and everything. Adìos, mi amigo.
I think, given that, well, you know, I should try to consolidate my posts more. Only make a couple on the random thread a day. Stop lurking on MuseBlog while I study so that I can reply to each new comment as it’s moderated. It’ll give me more time to study anyway.
–Alice needs to leave now because it’s time for her to catch her bus but she wants to tell you all that her Science Bowl is in FOUR DAYS and she leaves in THREE!!!
194/205~ Bye Glassboro. It was really great to meet you at the Kokonvention, and I had such fun playing music with you the too. Of course, I’d wish you weren’t going, but I can’t stop you.
I hope you do well, and I’m sure you will, and keep playing your flute!!
204~ Right. That made no sense whatsoever. D’you mind speaking English?
How many times have you seen this figure in the light booth? Has anybody else seen it besides you two? What exactly did it look like?
Aw, man… Bye Glassboro.
Bye Glassboro. I’ll miss you.
(On another note…)
W00t! Pancake day! I’m going down in a minute to make, then eat, pancakes. English pancakes though. What you might know as crepes. They don’t do American pancakes here. So I’m going to put lemon and sugar on them, and then roll them up. Mmmm…
(Here begins an account of Cinnamoon’s day. Feel free to skip.)
We had Citizenship first thing, where we had to watch a really boring video about vandalism… the guy on it tried to be funny, but he wasn’t. Then we had maths… Our maths teacher is getting annoyed, because we only have one lesson with him a fortnight, and we (me and S) almost always miss part of it ’cause of our singing lesson. So we got away and went to singing. We (Me, S and E) are doing our grade two soon, so we’re picking out songs for it. E is a great singer, S is pretty good, and me… Well, I’m just…
So I missed the first part of history because of singing. We finally got to watch the films we made. German was soooo boring… we did verbs the whole time.
At lunch we had magestrates court practice… I just sit there doing nothing the whole time because I’m going to be playing the usher… not the most demanding role. Then PE, which was boring, and English. (End of boring account.)
Glassboro (194/205):
Thanks for the fond farewell. I’m glad to have met you on the blog and at the Kokonvention. I’ll miss you!
Think of us when you see a pie
Bye…Glassboro, I didnt reallly know you as such, but you play the flute…which is good!
Guess What!!!
Treble_Cone_Freeeskiier DOES live in my town, more than that I know her, more than that she GOES TO MY SCHOOL!!!!
that is quite quite cool
Amazing! Do you take any classes together?
Henceforth your school shall be known as Muse Academy South.
indeeed, science and Health, so far
*sings* THANK YOU GAPAS! the pie war is over.
Why visit the Jadestone and Glassboro thread to hear the bunnies? Why don’t we just listen to them here?
wearebunniesandwearecute,peopleloveuswithoursnoots,wearecutecute,withoursnoots,wesayw00tw00t,withoursnoots,wearesuperdupercutesolivewithusandwewon’tsingthisanymore!!!
wearebunniesandwearecute,peopleloveuswithoursnoots,wearecutecute,withoursnoots,wesayw00tw00t,withoursnoots,wearesuperdupercutesolivewithusandwewon’tsingthisanymore!!!
wearebunniesandwearecute,peopleloveuswithoursnoots,wearecutecute,withoursnoots,wesayw00tw00t,withoursnoots,wearesuperdupercutesolivewithusandwewon’tsingthisanymore!!!
wearebunniesandwearecute,peopleloveuswithoursnoots,wearecutecute,withoursnoots,wesayw00tw00t,withoursnoots,wearesuperdupercutesolivewithusandwewon’tsingthisanymore!!!
wearebunniesandwearecute,peopleloveuswithoursnoots,wearecutecute,withoursnoots,wesayw00tw00t,withoursnoots,wearesuperdupercutesolivewithusandwewon’tsingthisanymore!!!
wearebunniesandwearecute,peopleloveuswithoursnoots,wearecutecute,withoursnoots,wesayw00tw00t,withoursnoots,wearesuperdupercutesolivewithusandwewon’tsingthisanymore!!!
wearebunniesandwearecute,peopleloveuswithoursnoots,wearecutecute,withoursnoots,wesayw00tw00t,withoursnoots,wearesuperdupercutesolivewithusandwewon’tsingthisanymore!!!
Does this mean there will be no more ‘classic’ pie wars either?
By the way, post 209 was a response to Alice’s post 199.
(218) “Classic” pie wars, conducted with pies, are permitted, though peace prevails at the moment.
Glasseh-
My sentiments exactly. Bye, but not really I guess. As I’m discussing this with you right now…
I’ve barely been here for the past few months… and I really can’t keep up. I’ll probably appear every once and a while, but… life goes on. Keep on keeping on and all that lovely ol’ stuff.
It’s about a month shy of 2 years. Good times, good times.
(221) I’m glad they were good, Melpomene. Stop by anytime!
207, 208- Acute hemophobia. It’s a phobia that, unlike most others, manifests itself physically in fainting when the subject (me) is exposed to the proper stimuli. This means that when I see, hear about, or think about large quantities of human blood, surgical procedures, grievous injuries, and the like, I become quite lightheaded, it becomes hard to breathe, I get very pale, break into a cold sweat, have my vision fogged up, and, if I don’t put my head down fast enough, lost consciousness. I always get my head down fast enough though, so I’ve never actually lost consciousness. It’s very unpleasant. (Vasovagal syncope is the physical sensation of the fainting.)
223- Oh that sounds fun….(EXTREME SARCASM)
Je regrette. J’ai mal a la tete, et je suis très cynique aujourd’hui. Je suis ennuyé, aussi.
I’m sorry. I have a headache and I am very cynical today. I am annoyed, too.
Please please please please PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE may we remain SANE and not talk about the superbowl (I may be a grammar nazi but I refuse to capitalize something that annoying).
/gradster(1)/
@182 There was a flame war? Huh? I miss everything… ≈.≈
/gradster(1)/
@people in general – Why are we referring to ourselves as bloggers? We aren’t bloggers, the GAPA are… We’re just commenters.
/gradster(1)/
227- cause if we call our selfs commenters, it sounds lame, and blue. bloggers sound cool and red. or green.
227, 228 – Although I think we’re mostly called MuseBloggers – MBers.
225- Who’s talking about the Super Bowl?
I came a few days after SM – 4, I believe – and wow, it really is only a month until I’ve been here two years!
I, also, haven’t been here as much. I still come on every day and read through some threads; skimming, usually. I think about a month ago, maybe a bit more, I realized my extreme computer addiction. I was on MuseBlog for several hours at a time, and when I wasn’t on, all I thought about was going on MB again. So one day, I decided I wasn’t going to go on the computer. And it really wasn’t difficult, at all. Instead of coming onto MuseBlog, I just read a book.
Ever since then, I realized that there are so many more things I could do than being on the computer all day, so I have started reading more, volunteering, studying ahead for next year, etc. And I have still been here, for about 30 minutes every day, probably. I really like the balance and it has really been working well.
However, it has become increasingly difficult for me to keep up with the blog. It just seems so crowded now, it takes me so long to catch up on the new posts. By the time I get on the computer and notice a new thread, there are already 100+ posts I have to read to catch up, and then when I finish reading them I don’t even have anything to say.
So I will only be posting on a few threads here and there, not necessarily keeping up on every single thread, as I used to. Fear not, though, fellow bloggers! I shall not be leaving, nor do I ever plan to. Yay MuseBlog!
Also, Muse came yesterday! I was really happy about that because I found out that the cancer had spread to my mom’s liver and she has to have half of it (one lobe) taken out in a few months. And that was really scary, and I was thinking about all the terrible things that could happen and such, and I’m really glad I had Muse to take my mind away from all of that.
(231) We’re always happy to see you, Purple Panda! I’m glad you’ve found a good balance. Sorry to hear that about your mom, though. It is scary, but good things can happen, too, and we all certainly hope she will do well.
231, last paragraph- Jesus Christ, dude! Is she going to be ok?
The pie war… crap. Well, the rest is left up for imagination, l suppose. Funny, l can’t actually be blamed at all, for once, since l was the one pushing for more pie relatedness.
231-oh, wow. I hope your mom is okay.
234-foo. I just noticed that. at least I wasn’t forced to quit. I n the end, I think it was a good decision… oh well, the arguments are done. What a reformed thing this has become.
Bye Glassboro! We’ll miss you. *waves frantically*
Me=Got callbacks on Aladin! WOOO!
209- Ah, the skeptic.
Everyone saw it, in playbuilding and at rehearsal. Sadly, I have discovered that it is not, in fact, a ghost, but a splotch of grey paint and a shadow combined to make a figure that looks astonishingly like a human. However, I am going to continue thinking of it as a ghost, and Jenni gave me the task of naming him.
211- Crepes are 1,00000000000000000000000 times better than American pancakes. In fact, I think I’m going to eat some shortly.
213- THAT’S SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!
231- Oooh.
I need to spend more time studying. A lot more time. At least until the Salmon Bowl is over, and then I’ll probably have something else to do. And I am not leaving, I’m not even going to start to leave, because I think I would suffer extreme withdrawal symptoms and perish. So… *thinks* I need a solution.
And that will be to go and eat and leave this page up and type more later.
Wait. *reads pie war thread thing* Ah. Y’know, I’ve been feeling like that for about… since right after the first one ended. This whole second pie war I was wavering, thinking, this is silly. Too many fights, too much like war.
Then again, I feel the same way about world domination, and have for much longer.
I feel bad. I feel absolutely terrible. I was the last one to post a narration on the Pie War thread, and mine included two killings. With no pie-related names. Though I will go as far as to say that it’s not entirely my fault (really, the bickering was a bit annoying), I do apologize to everyone for any part I may have had in the closing of the Pie War.
I will miss that thread.
Ah well. I guess I have to retreat to Facebook now to fulfill my violent nature… the Warbook app is fun, as is Pets.
Speaking of which, who here has a Facebook and is as addicted to it as I am? Please, this isn’t an invitation to put your name here so I can friend you… preserve the anonymity of young’uns…
I have a splendid idea (hopefully it won’t be ignored)! Could we by any chance have a superlatives thread?
@231 – Some of us who read really fast run out of books. Speaking of which, anyone, suggestions?
/gradster(1)/
239- I have Facebook, but I’m not quite addicted to it. How old are you? The “Not on the Blog” thread says that photograph was taken when you were 14, but to me that’s not old enough to say “young’uns.”
241- She’s nineteen.
223~ Ah. While I don’t faint, and I’m not too horrified at blood and such, my hands usually get all weak and shake more than usual.
321~ Yeah, I don’t read all the threads, and sometimes forget to visit one and then got lost in the backlog. I’m glad to hear that you’ll still be around though.
I hope you mom is going to do better, it sounds like it’s been pretty rough. *hugs*
241~ She’s 19. So she has more athourity to call us that than some others. But still…..
Oh, I’m in a good mood right now.
Mainly because I’m annoying mon ami Ben.
But I also got to have a nice Mardi Gras meal (gumbo+cheesy bread+king cake=good)
Ben, who is in French 3 with me, asked me during math this morning whether Mardi Gras is tomorrow. In French, Mardi Gras mean Fat Tuesday. I will never let Ben forget this. Absolutely stupid and hilarious at the same time.
Ugh. Apparently, it wasn’t just the “January Gloom” that was afflicting the emotional life of MuseBloggers (me, anyway).
I went and wrote “All I have are saftey scissors” on my wrist and “Life Sux” ten times. Two hours from now I’ll be like “Dude. Life rocks. You’re just stewing in your teenage apathy.” And then two hours later I’ll be all confused again. Am I depressed because I’m confused? Am I confused because I’m depressed? Do I like life but subconsiously hate it? Does my life ACTUALLY suck (no)? Am I finally losing it?
Dunno, dunno, probably, no, and duh.
Anyway. I won’t start raining on you guys.
231- I hope your mom’s okay! Best wishes…
242 – quite right, Alice. I’m amazed you remembered…
231- *hugs* best wishes to you, your mother and your family!
238- Ghost name suggestion: Chester.
246- Hurrah! I’m not one of the oldest anymore! You have me beat by at least a year and three months. Are you in college, and if so, which? I ask out of curiosity, feel free to tell me to bugger off.
248~ Oh Beavo, life can’t possibly be that bad. [She mumbles after a horible day.] Really though, it’s a good thing that you only have saftey scissors if you’re going to use them to hurt yourself.
Think about it this way, you wouldn’t just let someone come up and hurt you, so why should you do it to yourself? *hugs* I hope you’ll be doing better soon.
248~ There were other bloggers that were older, right, 18 and all? I thought you were 17, or am I mistaken?
245- You’re not losing it. Believe me. That’s pretty much what life is like during puberty. My life has been like that for the past year-and-a-half or whatever, except that I don’t actually put physical words to my own misery.
You are depressed because you are a teenager (except you’re not TECHNICALLY a teenager).
You are confused because you are alternately depressed and happy, because you are a teenager.
Yep. That’s life.
Yo tengo mucho tarea.
I’m very confused myself. I sort of want to go to bed or something so I don’t have to think about everything. This is not good.
*sigh* When I look back a few posts at all the oldbies who are leaving/unhappy with the blog/etc., I remember last winter/spring, when everyone was complaining about pointless posts and everyone who wasn’t complaining was posting pointlessly, and the discussions that went on then. And I think, how can I change this? How can I make MuseBlog a friendly and enjoyable environment for all?
The answer, of course, is that I can’t, but the thing is, I want to try anyway. I’m trying to write longer posts, though that’s silly because if people can’t keep up because too many people are posting too much, then me putting all the many things I have to say into a few posts is going to be just the same only consolidated instead of spread out.
I want to read more. I want it to be summer. I want school to be OVER!!!!
On the 10th I can read something other than a textbook.
The entire second semester (two days) has been the weirdest school experience I’ve ever had. In the beginning of the year I just sort of fell into the routine, but now everything is different, and hardly anything is different. Different people, different classes, and a very bizarre sort of air to it all, like it’s just a weird dream that isn’t a dream at all. My entire life just changed with a little tweaking of my schedule. And yet nothing has changed. Life goes on, I even feel the same most of the time. It’s very rum.
All right, I’m going to post this now. It’ll be my last post of the night, so I’m prolonging it in case someone says something that I want to respond to.
231) My thoughts are with you and your family! I hope she does well!
Me, I have a cold right now..so not good.
250-well let’s see. Aside for lust of violence and abuse of ‘points’ ( I replace my gim point I gave to C++D with my fifty piepoints, the gimP no longer exists), the main problem is neophyte infestation. I was one once too, and I am pretty sure that was before the sudden noob uprising… it feels strange to say it but… should we try and not get as many noobs, or is this instant growth in MBer population a good sign of publicity? I shall see what the empire of zemetee thinks…
231- *sends pies to PP and family*
I have more to say, but I have to go. Later I will probably join in the nostalgia posting as I do have something I’ve been wanting to say, but now I don’t have time.
252- But see, then MuseBlog would not be a nice place of the neophytes, which isn’t what we want at all. I, at least, want a place that is nice for everyone, ‘phyties, VAMBs (Venerable Ancient MuseBloggers, that is, oldbies), and GAPAs (of course
). This is most likely totally impossible. 
Thanks, guys.
(Although I don’t really feel like that…)
250-Half my friends (exaggeration, but not by much) have been/are emo. I was hanging with them at Aladin auditions. This guy came up to us and he was like “WHOA! ARE THOSE SCARS FROM, LIKE, CUTTING?” Sierra’s are pretty noticable, I don’t blame him for freaking out. They poof out. He had never met a “real” emo before, and we all signed his forearm (to go with the whole “emo” mind-set). And then we were off, discussing why our life was so Dark Voidish.
Oh, the apathetic rants and depressing comments of teenage puberty. I swear, if I was one of my “other” friends (the “other” friends are the non-emos, or the insaniacs, which make up the other half of my Friends list) I would have been crying or something. Their stories are so sad and mine are downright jubulant compared to theirs.
Pero yo tengo mucho tarea tambien. Creo que tarea es tonto.
240-Sorry if this is a double post, but everyone else ignored you, so I suggest The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, and A View from Saturday by I. Dontnoehoo.
I don’t really have a problem with neophytes. If they are obnoxious I’ll be annoyed, but as long as they behave themselves and have respect for the way we do things here, they are welcome as far as I’m concerned.
I think we should be glad that there are enough people out htere that are interested in something other than pop culture and are looking for a place to express ideas and interact with others who fel the same way. If we can keep it that way then everyone can benefit, the ‘phyties will see how it’s done, the oldies will continue in their merry way and gain fresh insights byt the ‘phytie’s comments.
Leaving simply because a few newcomers have arrived is insanity. It’s true that it makes for more posts, and who has the time to go through them all? But it’s always been that way.
And so, I’ll go and take a shower and shut up.
Alright,alright, so I admit it. I am proboaly still a neophyte. (Wheee! What a fun word!) I started going on in November, and somhow got on the incredible morphing chameleon thread, instead of the newbie thread. Yeah. I’m weird that way.
Whenever somebody starts leeching on me, I say,” I AM NOT YOUR PUPPET MONKEY!!!!!!”
God, that is so much fun to say!!!
nyaa1 Im so depressed, I had my hair cut and the lady said “so are you in form one this year” and I was like.”..well…um…actually form 4″…do I really look that young???
On the bright side my hair is short and layered and my friend said It made me look “cool” and “older” which is good…BUT STILL :'(
What is scarier is that my friend Elizabeth from Korea is 15 going 16 this year…and shes in my year at school, and Im 13 going 14… this is because I am a victim of My Daughter Is Smart So Put Her Up A Year parents. which is hrrible
Speaking of oldest, I’m not in my teens yet. I’m the youngest person on the blog, I bet.
I am a fairly old MBer at seventeen.
random question: what short hairstyles do you like? I’m growing my hair out super long then I’m chopping a ponytail of it off to donate to locks of love. How should I cut by hair post-ponytail chopping?
252- l agree. And there are some unnamed musebloggers who aren’t actually Musers, despite the slogan.
261-mines just past my shoulders
262- what do you mean by Musers?
hey >
I’m going to boarding school after summer break!!!
261- Pixie cut. google it.
warning, though- be prepared to spend ten minutes spiking it in the morning.
262- gim and C++, right? well. I think of them as musers.
254-yeaahhhh. I don’t know what to do…
267-I have read muse, and I get to read the next issue when C++ is done with it… but okay.
238- Just trying to bring the scientific perspective. I had a feeling it wasn’t really a ghost.
Maybe you can name it Grover.
240- The Xanth series, by Piers Anthony, is pretty good. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley isn’t that bad either, if a tad depressing.
265- Boarding school, eh? That sounds interesting. What type of school is it, like a school for the gifted or a school rich parents use for ditching their kids, or both?
Yay. It’s 35 degrees outside. It’s windy. It’s raining. It’s Ohio in the winter. *sigh* On the plus side, our band director only had to yell at the drums three times today. (One more reason why I love playing clarinet-we never get yelled at.)
271- It’s the exact same temperature here, although calm and not raining. I’m also in Ohio, in the snow belt. Ohio weather is so temperamental I haven’t yet been skiing this year.
Beavo-I don’t really know how to help but don’t tell people anything you don’t want to tell them. It’s ok to be confused or depressed or insecure. You’ll figure it out someday, and you don’t need to find out everything right now.
271-Are you new? *pies just in case*
I don’t know how the slang goes in the rest of the world, but I really can’t stand people calling depressed people emo. I think it makes it seem like people with depression are faking their problem to go along with a trend, and it makes people afraid to get help because they don’t want to be labeled.
261~ Umm, I usually get my hair cut to chin length when I donate it. Of course, my hair is about to my waist, so I can keep more and still make the limit. I’ve been debating about getting it shorter though lately.
271/1~ It’s 62 degrees out and threatening to rainsome more. Ah, Maryland weather!!
I’m sorry to say this, MBers, but I really don’t think that I’m going to be able to post on the Blog for a very long time…I don’t know how long, but you probably won’t hear from me again until maybe summer. Yeah, summer. Anyway, until then, have a wonderful time, Olduns and Neophytes both! Adios!!!
~The Shadowkat
P.S. And no stealing my name…that goes for all ya’ll!
That’s it. I’m doing myself in.
“Thank you for your application to the College of Wooster. This year we received over 4000 applications for 580 places in the Class of 2012……..The Admissions Committee was impressed with your application, but unfortunately cannot offer you a spot in the class at this point. We have placed you on our wait list because we think you would be a good fit at Wooster if a spot becomes available later in the spring.”
I can’t not go to Wooster. It’s an impossibility! I’ve got to go there! It’s my ******* destiny!
I’m going to cut my throat.
I’m not going to cut my throat. It seemed like a good idea half an hour ago, but now it’s seeming less, especially since someone would notice. I’ll just stew in my own misery and hope that lots of people who applied to Wooster go somewhere else, letting me get in, or that I can go to OU and then transfer really soon. But I have to go to Wooster.
277/8~ NO! You are not to cut your throat on any account! I really mean it. If you kill yourself I’ll never talk to you again, and that would be a bummer. At least for me, anyway. I’m sorry about the disapointment though. *is in dread of eventually having to think about college*
(278) Well, that’s a relief. Cutting one’s throat is harder than it sounds (especially for hemophobes) and generally does not help one to fulfill one’s glorious destiny.
I was wondering about the whole hemophebia thing….
It was horrible enough when I almost sliced my finger off, and I don’t even consider myself that squeamish. I’d think a lot more blood would be involved when hacking off one’s neck, no?
Anyway, bad idea.
261 – I donated my hair a few summers ago. I cut it to just above the shoulder. Of course, my hair is curly, which would make a difference.
Sorry I haven’t been on much. I’ve been very busy now that I have rehearsals for Annie everyday. (If I hear Tomorrow one more time, I am going to scream.) I also had a jazz band concert last night, have high school transition stuff…
I’m surprised that people haven’t been talking about the primaries. My school did a mock election yesterday. I had a feeling that my social studies teacher wouldn’t be too happy if I voted for Kokopelli, so I voted for Obama (who swept the Democratic election (98% of the Democrats and 90% of the school is Democrats)). However, I wore my Koko for president all day and was on the campaign trail (I actually got quite a few questions). Here is a true occurrence:
Humanities teacher: I heard you’re doing a mock election today.
Almost everyone: Go Obama!
Creepy kid who plays trumpet better than me: Vote for Darth Vader!
Me: Kokopelli for president!
Random girl: Who’s Kokopelli?
Humanities teacher: He’s a trickster, sort of like Puck.
You’ve got to love my humanities teacher.
In other news, you know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when you spend your lunch periods explaining to your friends that pies are projectiles and hot pink bunnies are evil.
194-
The Coldplay probably isn’t helping you make a non-tearful farewell… The blog won’t be the same without my fellow grammar/spelling/punctuation nazi. The current newcomers haven’t had anyone ranting at them like we used to. remember? The kokonvention was fun too. *nostalgia* I’ll miss you being here. I’ll notice you’re gone. This is kind of jumbled, sorry… I see the problems you mentioned, but if I leave that only means there will be one less blogger who remembers what it was like, and those without alternate means of communication will be increasingly deserted.
214- So, is penguini’s and my high school Muse Academy Northeast? We should start putting up subversive posters. And then have them taken down a day later because they weren’t certified by the right people… it would still be cool.
231- Best wishes to your family.
239- I have facebook. I’m on it a little more than I am on MuseBlog, simply because I have few enough friends that things move at a slower pace there than here. (((hint:search groups for muse)))
252- I don’t mean this offensively, but you’re still a noob to me…
I don’t dislike newcomers. I just am annoyed by ones that don’t fit in with the blog. The problem is, there have been enough of them that they’ve changed the blog. A year ago, I came in, used the same punctuation, spelling, and grammar that I still do, and became a part of the blog. Now, it feels like this is getting rarer and rarer. I can understand why, but… my blog, you can’t change it! I don’t think I’ll leave the blog, although I could. I just don’t go here unless I have time to kill and I’m willing to ignore neophytes. I go other places when I’m in other moods.
off-topic: Things I Am Excited For:
-The Science Olympiad meet is this Saturday! I’m doing Fermi Questions and Cell Biology unless someone better at bio than me shows up.
-The school’s giving the AMC exam next Tuesday! The AMC 10 looks fun and pretty easy. (AMC= American Mathematics Competition) I’m really hoping I do well, although I haven’t prepared at all, so I really should do something about that…
281- I caucused last night and so did my entire TOK class apparently. Well, a couple didn’t. A good number of the class are going to be delegates, too.
my hair is straight. I’ve had it to about chin length, slightly layered when I’ve cut it for donation before but I want something possibly shorter and just dramatically different. Any ideas?
Grant- My uncle’s a professor at Wooster Polytechnic. Is that where you want to go? Good luck with the waiting list!
Speaking of college I’ve applied to Beloit, Carleton, Grinnell, Macalester, Oberlin, Reed and a university in my state. Thoughts?
259-Bad hair cuts are the pits, man. Sorry for ya.
275-Aww, everyone’s leaving!
I’ll miss you! And everyone else, of course.
276-Uh, cutting your throat would most definatly NOT be a good idea. Please don’t. Not getting into a great college sucks, for sure, but I can’t say anything else because I’m in frickin’ seventh grade, and my “dream school” IS a college.
On a different note, you might want to cover your ears. Three…two…one…
I GOT A PART IN THE PLAY!!!! WHOOPEEE! I GET TO PLAY IAGO!
*breathe, breathe*
You know who Iago is, those of you who’ve watched the Disney Aladin. He’s that parrot that belongs to Jaffar. I think he’s the worst character (if he was a real
personparrot) because not only is he an evil sidekick, he’s a nervous coward too, and switches sides to whoever has the most power.Ooh, good luck Grant! I have been researching Wooster–they sent me an email because of my PSAT score, and it looks like great college. My dad went there and he said he really liked it.
194) Fare thee well Glassboro~
255) Hey, I don’t want to like lecture you or anything but cutting doesn’t make you “emo”, and I dislike that term because it seems to make cutting okay, or implies we don’t all have emotions, and really neither of those things are true. If any of your friends have harmed themselves that is a cry for attention, and i don’t mean the “omg I cut myself I’m so emo lololllll” kind of attention I mean they may just need a friend to be there for them. Teenage years are hard (take it from me oh god) and dismissing something like cutting as emo so it’s just part of life is no acceptable. Labels in general don’t do any good for anyone but I think the emo label is just destructive, people try to live up to it or are already in the sort of behavior the world wants to call “emo” such as god forbid showing emotion, so just…I don’t agree with it. All I’m saying is don’t dismiss it as a label, realize it could be something dangerous, and it can be worked out.
wow sorry for the speech. getting off my soapbox now.
275) Awww D: Bye for now, then!
276) That…oh that’s so harsh. At least you got on the waiting list though? That’s still hard though oh man not looking forward to that part of my life
blathering aside I am so sick right now ugggh I don’t wanna do homework I’m behind on everything. I’m gonna go have some green tea D:
275- i’ll miss you. when i came to MB i was gonna call myself Shadowcat but then scrolling down i saw that you’d claimed it for your own……
245- it’s perfectly normal to be confused. at least you aren’t carving swearwords into your ankle with a compass. i’m confused to, about whether i’m straight or bisexual. but i believe that if you give your problems time you can probably figure them uot. at least thats what i do. *hugs*
260- beavos 12. i think kiki is too.
284- w00t! *parties like mad*
so now, the actual reason why i came on this thread: HOLY [bad word] IT WON’T STOP [bad word] SNOWING AND IT IS DRIVING ME [bad word] CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! okay on friday it snowed almost two feet. which i had to shovel out of our driveway….. by myself. and it started snowing last night and it hasn’t really stopped since. the slush on the roads is above my ankles. *frowns*[bad word bad word bady bad bad word] I AM SO TIRED OF THIS [badword] SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![ lots and lots of bad words] i just want spring to come. *sobs* i want the snow to stop. theres waaaayyyyy to much and it makes me grumpy.
282 – I’m doing the AMC 10 next week. If I’m lucky, I’ll qualify for AIME.
284 – Good job! I love playing evil guys, though my only evil moment on stage has been when I did a part as the sheriff of Nottingham’s assistant in You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown.(Yes, you read that right, the sheriff of Nottingham’s assistant in You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown. Of course, right now I’m the kindly housekeeper in Annie.
277-foooo. *breathes in deep* I just scrolled down and saw your “cut my throat” post. My stomach jumped. Don’t say things like that! Scared me half to death…
282-*sigh* 3 more months and it’s been one year…will I still be a noob…?
288- So you were in the book report song, then? *sings* “A book report on Peter Ra-but I haven’t even started yet!-bit!”
Many, many posts today….
I have nothing to say, besides the fact that I am an incredibly cowardly person.
275: Ciao for now, Shadowkat.
Gah. This is not good. I have become incredibly desensitized. I read Grant’s posts (276-277) and I. had. no. reaction. This is the sort of thing that should at least be upsetting, and I. felt. nothing. There. is. something. wrong. with me.
267- l wasn’t talking about them.
268- Sez who???
291 – Yes. Since Charlie Brown has so few leads, they added two extra ensemble-ish parts: playground kids and peanut gang. They were basically the kids who are good but not quite good enough, and the playground kids were the stronger actors. I was a playground kid, and we did a lot of little cameo type things like acting out Robin Hood in the book report song and giving Queen Lucy queenly ornaments (I gave her a crown.)
294-at one point you thought of committing suicide, yourself. Perhaps you just understood his position, or knew he joking. I’m sure there’s nothing wrong with you La mort.
295-Sez C++D. He told me I could read it when he was done. You’re not depriving me of my muse, are you? You won’t like me while I’m angry…
Shoot, I thought I erased those thousand or so points!
286-I know, that’s why I put real in “”‘s. It’s rediculous, school labels, but they’re there, and you can’t just ignore them. Labels should be on jars, not people. And most of my friends who did cut themselves have good reasons for being depressed (although that dosn’t excatly make cutting good). Abusive parents, bad grades, unpopular status, overpopular status, etc.
287-Almost thirteen! *pouts* Heh, I’m not crazy about snow either.
294-I think not. There’s nothing wrong with you (well, mentally, anyway, that would be me :twisted:)… do you have other things on yer mind? I couldn’t concentrate on MuseBlog yesterday, and suddenly I can’t answer or even give sympathy to anyone on the R&R thread (which has suddenly died).
*worries* *stops worrying*
283- Noooooooo, the College of Wooster, about two hours to the south of here.
I don’t know why I was so worked up anyway. It’s not like I deserve to go there. Just another squandered opportunity by Grant, the moving, breathing waste of life.
283- No. The College of Wooster. Two hours south of here.
294- I don’t think you’re desensitized. I think that I, as a person who lives doubtless very far away from you and you see as letters on a page, am immaterial in your everyday life. I’m like a random phenomena you happen to see sometimes, and the disappearance of that phenomena wouldn’t seem so bad to you.
Shadowkat I will miss you, if you come back to see this.
I understand about not being able to come by, but I enjoyed seeing you here and you have been here for a long time now… fare thee well.
Sorry about the double post, but for some reason it didn’t show up the first time, and I thought it had been zapped for self-deprecating comments.
No, we’re not that merciful.
For the record, however, I’d bet that very few people on the blog would agree with your low self-assessment. You’re not a waste of anything, as far as I can tell, and there’s every reason to think that you’re going to turn out just fine. That’s how I’d bet, for sure.
297- l want it back briefly. Geez.
I have a question.
On Monday we took ACT tests in english, so they could “get an idea of our future scores so we will know what we need to work on” (as if our 150-person high school actually teaches us anything…).
Anyway. It was really easy, despite my having a really bad migraine that day (this was the day I vomited on the counselor, by the way). Like, I finished every section in about half the time they gave us to finish. It was like… I dunno… Seventh grade level, or maybe eighth. Maybe.
So my question is this: Is that normal?
:idea:TNÖ:idea:
Seven hours and 10 mintutes until Atlantis blasts off!
304- I haven’t even gotten a chance to read it yet!
Just under three hours until Atlantis liftoff, weather permitting.
there was a not-quite-total eclipose of the sun last night…it wasnt great, but I thought yous might like to know, it sort of looked like someone had taken a bite from it
Thirteen minutes to launch. I’m watching a live feed. There’s smoke on the rocket ends already.
It’s up! I’m watching.
Hey guys…just posting to let you all know I haven’t forgotten you or anything. Life’s sort of getting in the way right now…it’s chaotic. I’ll tell you all about it as soon as I have more time.
Ugh. I feel horrible. I’ve got a sore throat, dripping nose, awful headace and my back is killing me. *is miserable*
302/302~ Grant, you are not a waste of anything. Robert is right, and I’d bet the same way. However, I doubt that I’d make any money at it, since everyone else would say the same thing.
313 – Ah! Another sick person!
I had the flu. It seems to have gone now. Now I just have a very stuffy nose and sometimes cough.
Yeah. I’m pretty out of it, but I’m at the library because Mom is giving a talk on the history of books.
I’m thinking about going off in a few minutes because I just can’t concentrate on anything. I’ll probably stay a little bit though.
I’ll see you guys later, I can’t sit here, it’s killing me. Sorry, but I’ll be on again, maybe tomorrow.
I appreciate everyone’s kind comments. I’m hoping that through sheer force of will I can accomplish my goal.
313- Awww, I’m sorry you’re ill. That’s never pleasant. One year I managed to entirely avoid it by drinking a vitamin C supplement every morning. Emergen-C. It doesn’t taste the best, but it stopped the sickness right in its tracks.
WHOOHOO! WHOOHOO! WHOOHOO!
WHOOHOO! WHOOHOO! WHOOHOO!
I just found out, right now, that if I work my bum off and get awesome grades this semester, Wooster will let me in! So I’m going to do exactly that: kick arse. I never thought I’d be this happy again!
Oh, and I got into Ohio University with over $4000 in scholarships. But who cares!??!? I can go to WOOSTER! I can do it!
(318, 319) Yay for you, Grant! Glad to hear it.
319- GOOD For YOU!
Shadowkat- Come back soon!
Grant- *joy* Now, wouldn’t you have been upset if you had killed yourself and then found out you could have gotten in? No… wait… that doesn’t work, does it? Good luck! But just in case, not to doubt your skills at all, I am going to say that I would notice if you were gone, and I would miss you too.
318/319!!! Yay!
Ok so I’m staying at my dad’s today which is weird because it’s a school night, but my mom had to go to Puerto Rico for work. She left around 4:15 and she has to get to her flight in Cleveland that leaves at 6:30, we live about 1 1/2 hours away from the airport. It was really short notice too because when she called me at around 4 she still sounded really shocked that it was such short notice.
283 – my older brother goes to Grinnell (and I think that Chin-tsu’s dad teaches there, also) and both my parents went to Reed.
313-Everyone’s getting sick around here, eh? Get better!
Grant-Yaaaayyyy you! Work that Wooster-loving butt off!
Me=very very very very madlike. Thomas (you don’t know him) went to the school counsoler and named all these people who cut themselves, and they got called into the office, and their parents might be notified. This is terrible, considering that three people got called today, and probably more tomarrow.
AIM was on FIRE, every single away message on my buddy list said something along the lines of “KILL THOMAS” or “don’t wear wristbands, wear jackets, they’re less obvious”. If he dosn’t come to school tomarrow because he’s dead/poisoned/beaten up, I won’t be surprised, and I won’t especially feel sorry for him either.
If he went to the counsoler to help us out, then maybe it would be okay, but he didn’t. He went and told because he knew that he would get us all in big trouble with the school and our parents. And you know what? He thinks it’s funny.
I’m clean, and so’s Elena, but everyone else has scars that show and are obvioulsy recent. Me and her can deny cutting, but the fifteen people I know who got named can’t.
If I wasn’t so worried about them, I wouldn’t be on MuseBlog, I’d be with the growing croud plotting and planning his fate.
So now everybody’s staying quiet and not telling anyone else that they or anyone they know have cut. The word “emo” and “cutting” haven’t been used in my school since second period. Or on IM either.
Ooh, gosh. *heads of to the Advice thread*
go grant! go to wooster! w00t!
god, i would never need to go somewhere specific that badly. i can’t even imagine it…
also e~a, if you go to oberlin or carleton mebbe you’ll see me there! i’ll probably apply to both next year (and possibly wooster *waves to grant* although i doubt i’ll go there)
325-? you cut your wrists?
It would seem like cutting is a bad thing… do those people enjoy it? I’m a little confused on the subject…
325- that really sucks.
325- What a sneak. I’ll bet he hasn’t any friends. People who rat on others for their own personal benefit are scum of the earth.
327- I can’t speak for other people, but my cutting always has a purpose. Either a stubborn splinter won’t come out, or, like today, I want a carbon mark in my hand that’s been there for seven years to not be there anymore. Didn’t work.
I appreciate everyone’s support in my dark time. I have seen the light, though, so I’m better now.
327-I did once, and I’ve thought about it a lot. It’s lucky that I didn’t when I felt like it, otherwise I’d still have scars, and couldn’t deny it to the counsoler. I’ve talked about cutting and why I did on the previous random thread, and I don’t think it’s a good idea to talk about it again on this one. Last thread was a bit depressing. No, it was VERY depressing. But cutting isn’t exactly enjoyable like “Yay! Blood!” if that’s what you mean.
328-Yes. Yes it does.
yay Grant re: wooster!
Grant (319): w00st!
319- Yay. Good for you.
Re: post 294: There is something wrong with me mentally. What I wrote there is not it, probably. I was very upset (mainly at myself) yesterday. But I know there is still something wrong with me. Something that I don’t quite know how to explain.
I’m trying out for my humanities class production of Twelfth Night tomorrow. I’m trying out for Maria, and I think I’ll get the part if I do well because a. nobody else is trying out for Maria b. my teacher said she wants me to have a lead c. I’m a pretty good actress. Queen Francois had interesting ways of getting me to laugh at Malvolio when I was practicing at lunch today. The first was to have me think of a certain super stuck-up guy in our grade who I think should play Malvolio being hit over the head with a log. The second was to make fish faces.
329-yeah, but I mean as in cutting because you’re sad or whatever else like that.
333-right…well for starters what do you feel not right about… how it affects you?
330-I see. absent minded. Do you have any idea what your friends are trying to accomplish by hurting themselves, though?
325-That’s awful of him. If people are telling to help it’s good, but he knew that it would be worse after.
327-It’s different for everyone. When I cut myself I found it relaxing, but I wouldn’t call it enjoyable. It can become a real addiction, as it was for me. The cutting releases adrenaline and endorphins into your body (the response to injury). I started because I didn’t know what else to do. Lots of people say it’s impossible to stop alone, and I think it is very hard. That doesn’t mean that you need counseling though, just someone who cares.
I went to counseling and I hated it. Quitting therapy was better than therapy for me.
Surprisingly, it is easier to hide than you might expect. People are naturally very trusting of whatever you say. This does not mean I think that lying about it is ok!
I’ll respond to other people later, but this is getting long. People should go to the advice thread, it’s shorter.
Rebecca – I just downloaded “ArtRage,” and after using it for a few minutes I discovered that I have used it before! It was on another computer, but I didn’t know you could get it on macs. I sent something in that I made on it, I believe: the Koko for President children’s sidewalk chalk competition or something along those lines.
Grant – congratulations!
335-No, it’s not FUN, but like UP said, it is kind of relaxing. And like Rebecca said, it also reminds me that I exist, and that I’m not just a figmint of my own imagination.
When I cut, I’m not really thinking all that clearly, obviously.
336-What do you mean absent minded? I certainly wasn’t absent minded, I wasn’t like “Hmm. I wonder how all those random scars got there?” My friends (and I, a month or so ago) weren’t really trying to acomplish anything, it’s just really hard to explain. Unintended Pun does a better job than I do.
But what makes me so mad is that 1) He told, 2) he think’s it’s funny, and 3) he denies it! Urgh. Everybody KNOWS it was him.
And cutting is like an addiction, in some sense. I only cut twice, and every time after that when I felt like cutting, it took most of my will power to not go grab some scissors and have at it.
339-couldn’t slicing at your wrist be dangerous? anyway, I meant when you said that you absentmindedly picked up the scissors on the last thread.
337-okay, I guess that makes more sense.
261- Mine’s very long, generally down and sometimes parted to one side. For a while it was just past shoulder-length and layered, which I liked a lot. I think it might be time to have another cut, because it is not behaving like it used to and I wish it would.
262- Anyone is a Muser if they muse. They don’t have to read the magazine to have Muserly traits, and Muserly traits means they are a Muser.
265- *is slightly envious* *is not very envious*
294- Welcome to my world.
I can only take suicide discussions seriously about 2 percent of the time. The rest of the time I think people are just being dramatic.
312- *sigh of relief*
319- YAY!!!! *cheers* I’m so happy for you, Grant!
334- Twelfth Night = ♥
I could never leave the blog, because as soon as I said, “I’m going to leave,” I would break down in tears and spoil everything. But I don’t think I’ll be around as much as in the past. Yesterday I was practically crying because I never get to read for pleasure. So I came home and read a book and ate a cream-filled pastry and my entire life became better.
MuseBlog hasn’t cause me an awful lot of joy in the past few days, because of all the drama and stuff. So yeah.
TOMORROW I LEAVE FOR THE SALMON BOWL OH MY GOD WISH ME LUCK PLEASE I DON’T WANT TO FAIL!!!!
*faints*
Today we had a meeting and I did fail. Miserably. Of course, that was because some of the questions were ones that I had written and I was scared because they were so utterly pathetic and I couldn’t concentrate.
I need to learn to play badminton. We’re playing in PE (the best thing I’ve ever done in PE) and I cannot serve. Poor EB (my partner) is really good at it, and so she has to coach me through every serve. *sighs*
339-I don’t know why anyone would think that is funny. People who cut themselves need help, not antagonizing.
It’s so great that you were able to resist so quickly. It took me years to stop.
One of the things that worked for me was that every time I wanted to cut I would stare at my arms or legs and imagine it being my best friend’s until I felt like it would really be cutting my friend.
Never do the ice cube thing. You get frostbite so it’s really still self harming.
I’m off to the advice thread. I might post my story about cutting if people want to hear it.
Woo, Grant! *high -fives*
…and oh god that was a pun, wasn’t it? Shoot me now. I promise I didn’t mean it.
Beavo-
That was a *humhumhum* thing for him to do.
Here you can borrow my crossbowEr, throw baked potatoes at him?And I am glad you refrain from cutting yourself. Come here and yell for a bit instead.
340- …Yes, I believe it could be a *bit* dangerous.
Apolls for any snarkiness/hallucinations in the above post, I is too tired to care and in a bad mood. It’s not really aimed at you all.
340-That wasn’t so much emo though, I was absentmindedly scratching the top of my arm with saftey scissors, and only realized it when it started to hurt. And yes, it is dangerous, but only when you do it in a certain way. Losing blood isn’t exactly great either.
342-But it’s not so easy to resist. I have to hide all my sharp scissors and try to forget where they are. Eventually I end up going downstairs and reading with Ron, and if I go upstairs, she comes with me until I’m “over the urge”.
If your story has a happy ending, sure! From what I hear, it sound a bit like mine.
311- Yeah, wasn’t it great? Higher than Everest in a minute and a half and to the Karman Line in four minutes! Man, the shuttle is fast!
I wish them luck as they dock with the International Space Station on Saturday and add the Columbus module.
I was looking at the random thread picture, and got an idea:
What if the groundhog’s shadow was a HPB, instead of Kokopelli? He would have a look of horror on his face
Over on the Stress thread, Kokonilly mentioned that she’s playing in a chess meet. Does anyone else here play chess? Want to talk about it?
I leave in 13 minutes. Wish me luck!
I love chess!
There was a chess club at my elementary school and I was in it, but then it stopped for some reason. I used to be really really good at it, but I haven’t played for awhile, so I’m sure I am quite rusty. I’m teaching my brother how to play it, and he really likes it too.
(348) Best of luck, Alice! May an ocean of knowledge be at your command.
(348) I hope Alice remembers to tap into the Intelligent Air network.
(349) Interesting. When I was in school, girls didn’t play chess, period. On the blog, so far, it looks as if only girls play chess. (Of course, “so far” isn’t very far yet. We’ll see how the trend shapes up as more people report in.)
351- I play chess!
*is a boy*
good luck, Alice!
I know how to play chess, but I don’t play that often.
I know how to play chess but I don’t play much.
Two of the kids who got called in yesterday didn’t come to school.
I’m very, very woried about them. If their parents know, they’re probably dead by now.
The third was in school, her parents don’t know, but now she’s deathly afraid.
I play chess, but I’m not very good at it. My dad always beats me, and my friends do a fair amont of the time too.
319~ That’s great!! I’m so glad that you’ll be able to go to the school of your choice. *is happy*
355-I don’t know much about their situation, but if they are very afraid of their parents they might be able to get help by telling the counselor and getting children’s services involved. I know a lot of them don’t want to tell the counselor, but their parents will find out. Counselors have to tell the parents that they met with a student. I found that out a few years ago.
Really though, if you are afraid for your friends lives you have to get children’s services to help. Some of my friends have been helped by them, like my friend L. Her mom was abusive to her until she died of an OD, but now L and her brothers live with our friend M.
The whole idea of cutting your wrists on purpose is really scary to me…I don’t actually understand why people would do it. If it makes you feel better…that’s a really unhealthy way to feel better, listen to happy music or hang out with your friends or read a book or something instead. But it’s just…really scary. >.NOBODY. And her registration is due at 9:00 tonight in some remote part of MD that I’ve never even heard of. And I was calling her house for the past hour since I found out and the line was BUSY. And I finally got hold of her mom and she said that my friend will be back in an hour and a half. That being 6:30, my time. And I’m so freaked out because I can’t talk to her and we can’t make a plan and — okay. It’s actually not that bad. I’m just working myself up. But those county fair people are [expletive expletive expletive] IDIOTS! Rawr. *Rant ends.*
To anyone who read that: *gives medal of commendation*
Everybody else: I don’t blame you.
357-I don’t think their LIVES are in danger, but one of them (and probably the other two) have alchoholic parents, which is half why they cut in the first place.
Anyway, I’d be deathly afraid if my parents were about to know, and I have very loving parents.
Even though my mom think’s I’m gay…
359 — I’m scared for them. And sorry for them. And cursing the world for being so awful. Always good to keep on the bright side though, no?
And I’m sorry about your mom? (Question mark because I’m not sure if you want me to be sorry. If not, ignore that.)
And CRAP it deleted like half of my rant. Sigh. No se importa.
*reads through comments 301-355* wow..MB is becoming a very melancholy place, it depresses me just reading it…i dont cut because it hurts…naturally, my friend AK cuts, its disturbing a lot…she belongs to this strange group called Wicca and they do wierd rituals…also she blows up at times like yesterday when she hadnt done any of her English(I DONT WANT TO WRITE ABOUT MYSELF!!!), Fench (I DONT UNDERSTAND) or Economics (HOw DOES SHE EXPECT US TO FIND NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS!) she got so mad and Renee who is sweet and kind, albeit a bit clueless offered help and she got mad at her..i dont know what to do with her really..
on the lighter, funnier side Gigi from school was sitting under a tree…and a bird was in the tree..ontop of Gigi, and must have eaten something odd because Gigi’s uniform is now quite, quitee messy I laughed a lot and she got mad at me so I kept a straight face…for about 2 minutes
I play chess…but mostly I get bored..or someone is winnng…
359- *offers sympathy to Beavo and his friends*
I’d say something, but there’s nothing that I can say that could possibly help you.
360-You can feel sorry for my mom, I know I do. She’s a trooper, she is, but she has a lot of strange thoughts about the world. According to her there is no such thing as teenage sexuality or depression.
361-Wicca is a religion, and I don’t think it’s strange.
hahaha nothing is funnier than a puppy attacking a hoover
(364) Except maybe a cat riding around on one.
361-If her group encourages cutting it shouldn’t call itself Wiccan. The Wiccan Rede (rule) is harm none, and that includes themselves. Your friend probably fell for the stereotypes put out by the media, which are nothing like the real religion. If your friend cuts herself as part of the rituals, can you please tell her to call it something else to avoid spreading the myths about Wicca?
I am so excited now because…
My dad got a Wii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I played it at my friend’s houses before and it is really fun so it’s so cool that I have one now!
(349, 352) Has anybody read books about chess? Studied openings, etc.? Or have you learned it all “on the job”?
i am not crazy about chess… ppl have tried teaching me several times, and failed. then my grandpa tought me, but i didn’t play, so i forgot… guess chess is not my thing.
I’m bored. I’m leaving.
298) I didn’t mean they don’t have good reasons. I’m just saying realize it’s not just an emo thing, it’s real…wow I don’t want ot sound like I’m lecturing you though…basically just the fact that you’re a friend there for them is good.
if you can talk with people and make connections then that’s wonderful. Being there for someone is the most, THE MOST important thing during teenage years, to me.
319) Awesome! You can do it, best of luck!
I almost got to see Hillary Clinton today. Both she and Michelle Obama were in town today. I got pulled out of school early by my mom to see if we could get in, but the line stretched all the way around the building (and further) so they closed off entry about 100-200 people before we got to the front.
Wow, I keep missing this thread. Skimming it, I hear:
Glassboro and Shadowkat have left.
WHY? 
You mustn’t leave!!! If there is some uncontrollable reason, I’m still sad, but if you just LEAVE, I will have to pie you 
I do think the blog is more crowded, but I avoid feeling too stretched by avoiding this thread, and staying on the threads I have a duty to be on. I don’t mean to leave you people on this thread behind 
More people are talking about being depressed and cutting their throats and wrists: first off, EWWW!!!!, and second off, that’s kind of a dark and sickening topic for this thread. People, don’t kill or hurt yourselves, it’s really not the way to go. As Grant shows, something great probably happens right after you die (if he had died.) And besides, you cannot go around wounding yourselves, and then having Chronically Happy people like me (
) be responsible for helping you afterwards! I am a Certified Universal First Aid Provider, if you didn’t know.
But seriously, what is up with all of these teens “Cutting” themselves? Please don’t…
I play Chess! I’m a boy, as well. The thing here is there are more girls on the blog than boys! I don’t know why that is, but anyway…
Red-tailed HAWK
370-I understand, yes. I agree about the friend part.
371-Aw, poop. That sucks.
373 – Yeah. We didn’t even bother to go try and see Michelle Obama, since we figured that everyone that didn’t get in at Hillary’s would go there instead.
Robert (367): I mostly learned “on the job.” My grandma taught me when I was 6 or 7, but I never really started playing a lot until 3rd grade. My teacher was a big chess person, and I got better just by playing with him. Then, he left the elementary school to teach with the middle school, and he was my homeroom teacher! So during middle school I would stay after school with him to play, and I got really really good. When I go back and visit, I always play chess with him.
I learned some openings and strategies in chess club, but I didn’t really grasp any of them and don’t remember any of them. My best strategies I have learned from playing.
Ew. Chess.
Dad taught me, and pretty much wrecked my liking for it. He’s really really really really good.
He even invented his own opening, which ROCKS.
Except for the fact that I hate chess.
Smash Mouth=Padrino…
Life imitates the game of chess
You can be the rook or the pawn
If you have the strategy that’s best
You can be the king or in this case the don…
Off to the music thread now!
Yeah, so today was very fun fun fun. We got a long bus ride and went to an aquarium and it was FUN. Our school has the weirdest team EVER, too, which makes it
doublytriply fun. During the tour of the wave research center, Elijah (the acting major, go figure), kept asking ridiculous questions while the other team stood there silently. It was amusing. And then there was the ice-cream social. Because I am so incredibly shy, I spoke to no one but my schoolmates until the very end. Elijah and Alex showed me what an atoll was using ice-cream and ice-cream toppings. There were various little science experiments one could do, and every time someone got one right, the entire ******* team(s) cheered. No one else did, which made it all the more fun.Science experiment people: We have another winner!!!
******* teams: YEAH!!! w00t!
Other teams: *brief clapping*
Elijah got cut off at seven bowls of ice cream.
Eva, Laura, and I went running through the halls, and then the receptionist had to tell us to stop. Then we wanted to rent a movie, and the receptionist had to deal with our indecision. I feel sorry for her.
Now Laura and Eva are watching Beowulf and I listening to the mayhem and thinking, Huh. Not what I want to watch. So I here instead.
Oh GOD I so scared about tormorrow. *faints*
this blog is depressing. i might leave till things cheer up.
(378) Good luck, Alice! Just fortify yourself with plenty of ice cream, and I’m sure you’ll be fine. Things are always better with ice cream than without. We’re rooting for you.
(379) Stay the course! Part Two is coming soon. I sense a thaw in the air.
treble_cone_freeeskier! (379): Yes, I definitely agree, though I don’t think I’m going to leave quite yet. I have hope
I won’t be on very often for the next week, maybe more. Explanation for the next week can be found on the Dealing with Stress thread.
And I just don’t want to post for a while.
But, before I go, two things:
One, an apology: I know that both January and February have become rather depressing here. I also know that this is partially my fault. So I would like to apologize for depressing everybody. Just because 2007 sucked for me and 2008 isn’t improving, doesn’t mean that you need to here about everything in my life.
Two: I would like to thank you all, in general, for basically saving my life. You guys convinced me not to kill myself, and, through reading other post, have convinced me not to start cutting. But I need to sort things out on my own now. You’ve helped me all you really can.
This doesn’t mean I’ll be completely leaving. But I might only post one time a day. And don’t worry, I won’t be hurting myself at all.
(382) We’ll be thinking of you, La Mort. Good luck with ploughing through what looks to be a very complicated week. And no need to apologize for going through tough times. Thanks for being here.
378)
I
AM
BEEEEOOOOWULLLFFFFFFF
-cue naked fights-
lol I loved that movie…
Hey everyone there’s nothing wrong with something being depressing once in a while, life isn’t happy happy joy joy all the time.
382) I hope your week goes alright! Man I hate weeks like that, everything at once…
Today I am going up into the mountains, sunny with a chance of PAIIIIIIINNNNNNNN
378 – Good luck! Have fun!
382 – No worries. That’s what friends do.
We’ll miss you.
382- Our pleasure. It’s good to know that one has been of some use, and I think that saving someone’s life is one of the most useful things ever.
On that note, I’d like to apologize for being melodramatic. Deep down, I think I know I can never do myself in, because my survival instinct is too strong. This is why I’m not very good at contact sports. I shouldn’t have scattered my personal misery about, going “Oh no, something that has to happen didn’t, I’m going to die.” I should have just calmed down and thought about the situation until a solution presented itself, which it did, solving the problem. So I’m sorry too.
382-Goodbye. Like Rebecca said, there’s no reason that you should apologize, some of us were a little down (or a lot down) on our own account. But we’ll miss you.
386-No worries, I get melodramatic at almost everything. Depression isn’t one of them, but still. I get mushy when I’m depressed. Mush. Mush.
“*reads through comments 301-355* wow..MB is becoming a very melancholy place, it depresses me just reading it…”
Even my posts about the space shuttle depressed you? They fell within that range?
it’s fine to be melodramatic/depressed/emotional and talk to us about it. that’s what we’re here for, to be friends through the good and the bad.
on the other hand, apparently library themed weddings exist. now I want one when/if I get married.
389 — Library themed weddings? Cool! So, what, are the centerpieces books or something?
I will not be on for the rest of the month. On Friday, I won my school spelling bee and found myself with 12000 words to spell before the regional bee in 2-3 weeks. I don’t expect to get through all of them, but I’m trying to get through as many as I possibly can, which will take up all my spare time. I will hopefully be back in March.
391 – Wow, congratulations! See you soon, I hope.
depression- I don’t blame people for talking about it, or for making the thread sober and serious.
I can understand the desire to inflict self-harm. I think of all the negative consequences as best I can and write long dark rants on why life sucks that I usually don’t show anyone except Potato Chip. And curl up listening to Coldplay and cry until everything’s almost all right.
On a lighter note-
Science Olympiad today was amazing and fun. I woke up at 4:45 and got to school at 5:45. We sang camp songs on the bus (almost all of the team are/were girl scouts) and talked and were excited. When we got there, there was a lot of waiting around. My first event was cell biology. It was mostly biochemistry, actually. We had to tell what to use iodine/Benedict’s solution/Biuret’s solution/silver nitrate to find, and then test four liquids, then the liquids with solution x added, then with heated solution x added, then analyze. There wasn’t nearly enough time for the tests, especially with cleaning out the test tubes after each test. We had to leave the last two rounds of testing undone. In the questions, we determined that x was an enzyme and answered questions on its properties. Right after cell bio I went to Fermi Questions. I had tried to study, but it didn’t help much. The questions were too varied and random to be able to study for. How many grams of cheese does New York produce in a year? I wish I were making it up, but I swear that was a question. Also, how many platelets are in a liter of blood and how many doctors and lawyers are in the US? Just the exponent. Those were my only two events, so I played games on my iPod and talked to people until two-ish, when we brought our things to the bus. We had a couple snowball fights too, because it had started snowing sometime during cell bio, 9:30-10:30. Then, we waited in the auditorium until the awards ceremony at four. Much to our surprise and joy, we placed third in cell bio. We also placed fourth in Write It/Do It and fifth in a couple events (SumoBots and…something else…) Then we went home on the bus, talking more.
391 – Wow! Good luck.
393 – I have a friend who went to Science Olympiad today..
Her name here is ChemicalExperimentation.
382-It’s ok that you came here to talk. I’m glad you trust us that much.
Smash Mouth is an awesome band for when you need cheering up!
I took my level 1 tournament judging test today. (for taekwondo) I had to leave early so I didn’ get my score but I’m pretty sure I passed.
A lot of oldbies have been leaving lately. Don’t leave!!!
LaMort, I am glad you feel you can talk to us about stuff like this. MB’s helped me a lot too, I know what you mean… don’t feel you have to keep uo here though when the outside is stressing you. I’ll be glad when you return and your life’s a it easier too
391-Wow! I didn’t even glance at my speller’s book. “You are the best spellers in the school!”-My principal. Me: “That’s slightly depressing.” I’m a horrible speller.
Sorry for double posting.
Which GAPA is on? I don’t ever remember posting at this hour (It’s about 12:10 where I live) and having it be moderated.
GAPA person, you don’t HAVE to answer that but I’d rather you did. *for some reason suspects Rosanne*
I’m on again, off again, Beavo. Hello and goodbye!
Bye! *waves frantically* It was nice having you moderate my parental-dissaproved late night comments!
February 10th: Protests will be taking place outside many Church of Scientology buildings in major cities all over the world. Scientology has been granted rights of a religion in many places, but it has many dangerous practices, which have killed some and led many to suicide.
Search for scientology, most specifically the Lisa McPhearson case, to learn about many of the horrible things the CoS has done.
Oh geez.
I’m soooo sorry I haven’t been on in FOREVAHHH but I’m just really busy with school and stuff. But I miss you guys!
Update: I went to see the Henry Darger exhibit at the Intuit museum downtown. If you don’t know who he is, you should, so google him! It’s amazing.
Um… I gave up on editing my Nano because I realized that half the plot was stolen from Twilight. Poopy. So next year I’ll write something COMPLETELY original. I hope.
384- We made a sign that said, “We are Beowulf” and put it on the boys’ door. They kept taking it down, so eventually we gave up.
389- Ooh! Oooh! I want one!
391- Congratulations!
So… Long story made slightly shorter….
We stayed up really really late talking about everything under the sun, including genetic manipulation, 2012, and sleepwalking. I bowed out of the conversation at 1:30, fully aware that we need to be on the bus by 7:15, but Eva and Laura kept talking till two. That conversation was probably the high point of Friday. Then at six we totally disregarded our alarm clocks and only woke up at 6:41 when Mr. Cain knocked on our door and told us that we were the last teams up and he wasn’t sure how much longer there was going to be food in the breakfast room.
So wee actually arrived at the desired time, and sat around being nervous and eating oranges and bagels until the first round. Our team played ****-***-***’s team A, and we were crushed. They won by 94 points. Of course, this was understandable, since they are the very serious, competitive, tense team who probably didn’t have any fun whatsoever even though they won. Not like us.
Our second game was more fortuitous, because we won and also we had more fun. Our third game was okay, and our fourth game was unpleasant. We lost both.
Then we had our fifth round, which was scary because we had placed tenth out of sixteen teams, and we were playing number seven, who had beat us squarely the last time we’d played. Plus it was single elimination, so if we lost this, we were out. But once we actually got there we relaxed. It was a win-win situation; if we won, then we WON, and if we lost, then we got to go see our A team play, which had to be amusing.
And we won. It was amazing. It was totally exhilarating. Even though we lost round six, we didn’t really care. Team A lost too, so we went out and got smoothies and walked around trying to get lost and failing. Then we returned to watch the semifinals and finals and the awards ceremony. But by then the lack of sleep was taking its toll and Eva, Alex, and I were all falling asleep. The awards ceremony meant nothing to team B, but team A won the sportsmanship award.
Afterwards we got on the bus and went to Borders and I got The Eyre Affair. And we drove for a while and I fell asleep, and we got ice cream and I ate it and then fell asleep, and we stopped at a rest area where there was snow and there was in ice fight, and we got back in the bus and I fell asleep for the longest time yet, and then we got back to the school and everyone left immediately, except for Eva, Tyler, and Elijah, who were going to ride to the bus garage and walk the rest of the way home or something, and me, who was waiting for her ride. I could have ridden to the bus garage and walked home from there, but by then the point was moot, because my ride was coming. So we played a game of soccer with a water bottle and then my ride came and I went home and went to sleep. And woke up this morning at ten.
Kiki!!!!
*pies*
Welcome back and such!
Can we have a new thread? loading problems….
Why is the fortysecond day of the year important?
Hey Kiki! Nice to see you again!
270- It’s a school where all the freaky intelegent kids get dumped because society doesn’t know what to do with them . It’s a humanist school, and I’m on the politics and literature course. Of course, they also have thirteen horses for freetime.
I know it’s not a rich people school because you aren’t allowed to bring your own horse. *would like people to know she is extremely jealous of people who own horses. EXTREMELY*
I did not see beowulf, although I AM THE ULTIMATE BEOWULF FIEND FAN!!
“Til døden os knækker, til sulten os mætter!”
407- I didn’t see it either. Seemed rather… um… mature for my liking.
Welcome back Kiki! Long time no see!
Ugh, ugh, ugh. Now all three of us are sick. There is tons of laundry to be done, and it’s freezing outside. So, there I am, out there hanging up sheets and coughing away while attempting to stay at least a little warm. DAMN IT, I WISH WE HAD A DRYER!!!!!!!
Now I’m coughing even more than I was, and it really hurts.
I just noticed that I posted on other threads with my ble name, which was “unpun 8spoint”. So if you find that around, it was me.
I can’t wait for my fried to get back from the protest. He went to Pittsburgh to protest scientology. Oh man I want to hear how it went! He better get online as soon as he’s back.
KIKI! *deep dish pies* WELCOME BACK!
408-Long time no blog.
409-Sick sucks.
*faints* My acting assignment is scary!
412~ What do you have to do?
413- Many, many things. This is the document.
Advanced Drama: Audition Assignments!
Audition Assignment #1
The Monologues at Auditions (50 points)
Choose 2 monologues.
Cut them to equal 2-3 minutes total.
Choose monologues that showcases your abilities.
It must be something new—not what you used last year.
You must become as familiar as possible with the play from which you choose your monologue
-The easiest thing to do is to read the play from which it comes.
-You can look up reviews of the play.
-You can research the playwright.
Memorized.
Create an introduction. (We’ll go over this in class.)
Audition Assignment #2
The Resume (40 points)
Create a clean, final acting resume.
We will do the first round of this in the computer lab.
Turn it in for teacher feedback.
It is your responsibility to revise it appropriately.
Audition Assignment #3
Headshots (25 points)
Wear appropriate clothes and hair. (We’ll go over this in class.)
Practice your smile and expression at home.
Wear appropriate make-up.
You will be graded on the one you use in the audition. If your class one is bad, you may do your own.
Audition Assignment #4
The Audition—in Addition to the Monologue (30 points)
Be professional.
Dress appropriately.
Do what you are asked.
Be punctual and present.
Effort and confidence are key factors.
414- Fun…
Meh. I’ve been sick. Managed to catch a flu and a stomach bug back to back.
My cat is the size and coloring of a small tiger. 10 pounds and only 2/3rds grown.
414-Eek, that’s gigantic. Sounds kind of fun, though.
So… purplefinch has a problem. She has injured herself while reading. She didn’t think this was possible to do, but it happened last Monday. She was being stupid, and sitting on the back of the couch, dangling her feet over the warm heater (Her house always seems to be cold). On wall above said heater, there was a large print/painting thing with a wood/glass frame thing. Somehow, when moving to get off the back of the couch (where she is not supposed to sit, and where she often tells her siblings not to stand, the hypocrite), she manages to knock the aforementioned print/painting art framed thingy off its hook thing, onto her right foot, and then down, on top of the heater. Her foot hurts. Her mother goes off to fix the heater, which has fallen off the wall, and tells purplefinch to go ice her foot (purplefinch found this amusing, afterwards). For most of the next week, purplefinch is really smart, and dances on her foot, besides the fact that it was kinda black and blue, and a tad swollen, along with three small scrape-things. She ices her foot, usually with those lunch box cooler packs, and it seems to slowly get better. The swelling goes down, and it doesn’t hurt that much (though pointe isn’t much fun). Still, it’s not completely better yet, and its been a week, and she was just reading the fine print on one of the ice packs: “avoid prolonged direct contact with skin”. Therefore, she is now convinced that she will die shortly from mysterious chemicals that have seeped into her skin from the “freez pack”.
No, seriously, will anything bad happen because of the ice pack?
Will it be worth it, if they have to cut my foot off, that I can say that I lost my foot because I was reading? (Yes. Though I doubt my foot will be amputated any time soon)
414~ Wow, that is a lot. I’d crash and burn with the make-up, pathetic, aren’t I?
416~ Wrap it in a dishcloth or a piece of clothing and I can’t see how it coud hurt you. Of course, I know next to nothing about “freez packs” so if they do have to amputate, I certainly didn’t give you that advise….
417- Theater makeup is different, I think.
But I know even less about theater makeup than about normal makeup.
Hopefully we’ll learn about that in class. If not, I’ll make all my theater friends show me how to apply it.
New thread?
418~ I know nothing about any kind of makeup.
I’m off now, even though it’s not that late. I feel like a total wuss for being so tired. Blerg.
420- I can apply lipstick! And I could probably put on passable eyeshadow if I ever tried, which I don’t. But other than that, I’m ignorant.