If the onset of summer makes you feel giddy or even a little crazy, the June Random Thread offers you a chance to join along in this fine old Middle English song:
Svmer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweþ sed and bloweþ med
And springþ þe wde nu,
Sing cuccu!
…
Cuccu, cuccu, wel singes þu, cuccu;
Ne swik þu nauer nu.
Sing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu.
Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu!
In modern English: “Summer has come in / Loudly sing, Cuckoo! / The seed grows and the meadow blooms / And the wood springs anew, / Sing, Cuckoo!
…
“Cuckoo, cuckoo, well you sing, cuckoo; / Don’t you ever stop now, / Sing cuckoo now. / Sing, Cuckoo. / Sing Cuckoo. Sing cuckoo now!”
Svmer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweþ sed and bloweþ med
And springþ þe wde nu,
Sing cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu, wel singes þu, cuccu;
Ne swik þu nauer nu.
Sing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu.
Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu!
Love it!
oh wowow. I love that picture.
Yay! The closing night went wonderfully, and we didn’t mess up at all!
But now I’m muy triste because it’s over. *bawls*
Was was that about a “CricketBlog” on the last random thread? If anyone figures out when it opens, could they tell me? I don’t subscribe to Cricket anymore, but I’d still like to check out their new blog.
not quite a blog…but close enough.
http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox
That comment was from 5 years ago. That comment would have been helpful, but I don’t think ibcf is still looking for the website, or that he’s even here anymore. Once we start a new random thread, the old one is generally abandoned.
I love the picture!
We have a gregorian chant that looks kind of like that picture, and it almost has something like the Kokopellis! (Well, not really, but a little bit.) Apparently, when the scribes were spending hours and hours copying out the chants, they got a little bored. So, they made tiny little paintings in between the notes — they’re hardly noticeable unless you’re looking for them.
Perhaps I’ll scan it. *ponders how the paper will fit in the scanner*
Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
Kokko! Kokko!
I’ve never heard of CricketBlog… was it inspired by MB?
3-Huzzah! Uber cool… This probably won’t help particularly, but one way to think about it is that there’ll be another play…
4-Yeah…I was wondering faintly about that too…I don’t subscribe either, but I might go check it out. I just hope no one leaves MB to go there *shudders*. Still, I deem that highly unlikely.
Gah! I forgot to mention how much I adore the picture…
Cool Picture!
It’s June! I’ve got library volunteering to do today. That should be rather interesting, as it’s the opening day of our summer program, and they’ve got a grossology exhibit.
4- You mean the new sites that the publishers are putting out for all the magazines?
Goodybe, all! I won’t be back until 7:00 today (how I hate long absences), and I probably won’t be on until Thursday when my math final and history project are over. I’ll also probably break my vow of abstinence.
Anyway, cheers!
10- Oh, I was just seeing if anyone else did it on the last thread. They don’t seem to be open yet but it said “New Websites coming in late May 2008” I still subscribe to Cricket. I waited for a long time yesterday for it. TMFA is gonna see it too. But of course NO ONE WILL LEAVE MB!!!!
Svmer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweþ sed and bloweþ med
And springþ þe wde nu,
Sing cuccu!
…
Cuccu, cuccu, wel singes þu, cuccu;
Ne swik þu nauer nu.
Sing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu.
Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu!
YEAH GO SUMMER!!!!! SUMMER ROCKS!
Two more weeks of school, filled entirely with projects and finals. Then Austria, then some new great books camp, and then CTY! Then possibly cousin-visiting (a bad thing, though–they drag me shopping).
For once I will not be bored.
Long-time readers of the Q&A column will not need to be told, of course, that “þ” is an old runic letter known as “thorn” and is pronounced (and often transcribed) as th: “Groweth sed and bloweth med…”
(13) Hello, seamouse! We haven’t seen you on the blog for a couple of months.
The entirety of the Cuccu manuscript (as opposed to the Kokko version), along with the full text and translation, can be seen on Wessex Parallel Web Texts:
soton.ac.uk/%7Ewpwt/harl978/sumerms.htm
Here’s a snippet of the manuscript:
12- There not up. Let’s sue them for false adverting!
Hey…I saw this yesterday! This is crazy!
those are MUSIC notes?
i play piano, so I’m pretty familiar with notes, but when were those written?
(18) Yes, modern music notation was still evolving in the mid-13th century when the “Sumer” manuscript was written.
14- School takes up time. As does reading my wonderful 1200 page book.
hmmm…looks about like the songs that I write. messy and undeveloped.
sorry for the double post,
But, GAPAs, did. I. miss. the. wedding?
Cute pic!
22 – No!
Lhude sing cuccu! Wvnderfvll.
17-Why was this thread up in May?
Love the song and manuscript (original and Koko versions)! The next time I feel like randomly bursting out in song, I’ll definitely use this one.
4 – I still subscribe to Cricket; in a recent issue they did announce that there would be something online, but I’m not sure if it was a forum or a blog. I’ll probably go check it out when it’s up (according to the website now, late May 2008, so who knows), but not to worry, I won’t abandon the MB! I do tend to drift away for long periods of time, but I’ll always come back eventually.
There are various choirs singing the song on youtube. I like this song!
Wow I can’t believe it’s June already!
I used to read Cricket, but I’ve gotten too old for it. Cicada would probably be more my age group, but my friend gave me one and I didn’t like it.
Can the great GAPA’s put my name on the Who’s Here list? I’ve been posting for two months…
Ah, here they are.
Ladybugmagkids.com
Spidermagkids.com
Cricketmagkids.com
They’re still not ready yet, though. Maybe they meant the end of June instead of May.
29-I think they should change the sign.
Confession: I currently do not subscribe to Muse. I do subscribe to Cicada and to Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. I enjoy both of them. I also enjoy Muse but my parents stopped it. I used to get Ladybug, Spider and Cricket
I just renewed my Muse and Cricket. I missed the May/June mag. I have been checking the cricketmagkids.com for this whole month because it said it in the April 2008 (or something like that) that is was up.
31- Ladybug was cool when I was 4 and 5. Spider was awful. I didn’t get it or cricket, tho I’m on and off reading it.
Now they took away the picture and just put in the top right hand corner “New Websites coming in late May 2008” all the rest is red. I guess it means it’s almost up!
33- Really? I kinda liked Spider…
34- Looks the same to me.
34- I don’t get that, oddly. I’m trying my other browser.
Argh. I was playing with my ring, because I always fiddle with my rings when I wear them, and I was suddenly struck by the silver-and-amber against my dark blue shirt, and it reminded me of the cover of Juniper, by Monica Furlong (which everyone should read, by the way), and Juniper’s cloak, which had a yellow clasp I think, but whatever. I decided in that instant that I needed a cloak like that, so I got my red cape I wore for Halloween. It’s not as long or full as I would like, but one can’t have everything, so I started to darn the little hole in it, and of course I then realized the price of letting it drift around in various garages and basements frequented by cats of ill repute. And ’cause it’s wool it has to be hand washed and hung to dry, a rather long process. So now I have to wait.
29- Still nothing. Maybe they’ll be ready tomorrow. Or the day after that. Or the day after that. Or the day…
Here I am, already breaking my vow…PATHETIC!
*tentatively* GAPAs, do you think we could possibly get the Alchemy RRR?
Danke.
37 – Hi Alice! Haven’t seen you lately.
39- AH, someone else says “Danke”!
40- Hi! I’ve been around. I guess I haven’t posted a ton of long posts, but now the show’s over, so I have all my afternoons free.
My mom bought be an amazing fox-shaped pewter cloak clasp and a pattern from Folkwear. I’m dreadfully excited; I just need fabric and patience.
This is random:
Does anyone here Letterbox?
Don’t say you Geocache or else I will get very mad at you and try to convert you to Letterboxing.
I’ve geocached in the past, but should really start letterboxing.
The question is, does anyone geohash?
People asking about Cricketblog- musemagkids dot com is all I know.
43- ?
Hey, people. Grandma doesn’t have a computer, so I couldn’t cover Discovery’s launch, many apologies. They took up a Buzz Lightyear toy, though! How cool is that?
43 – Never heard of either.
37- Juniper! Wise Child! Coleman! I lent those to a friend and I don’t know how but he lost them all. I think his house ate them. But yes, I’ve read them and they’re great.
43- I orententer a bit. haven’t letterbox yet, tho.
44- OMG GEOHASH! xD I want to.
But I can never find the time.
Love the picture.
Yeah, so I went on the cancer walk and stayed there for eighteen hours, from 2:00 in the evening to 6:00 in the morning. We basically just tried to stay awake most of the time, and walked around the track. There was an amazing crossdresser compition (I would have entered/won but you had to be fifteen) and I donated twenty dollars.
44) Geohash? Geocoach? Letter boxing? What in the world is that?
Just dropping by to say Hi! My life’s been pretty crazy what with my school’s dance department putting on Lord of the Flies. And just stuff in general happeneing.You all seem to be doing pretty well. Which is great. My flute recital is this weekend and I really need to practice *erg*. Everything at school is winding down because I only have another week and then two exams. For some reason EQAO is counting as part of our mark and we still have to have a math exam. do you get the logic in that? I sure don’t. well I do. it just anoys me. My dad bought the coolest jasmine tea. if you like cool things and are just skiming the posts read this: okay so the tea looks like a clump of dried up leaves (agggg…. text box is gone!) and then when you pore, sory I mean pour, water on them they start to expand and after a couple of minutes you find you have tis amazingly cool flowery thing in your cup. it’s tasty too. It is totaly the coolest tea I have ever seen. I should be going over my math notes right now (EQAO is on thursday*gasp*) but I”m lazy and felt like reading webcomics and saying hi. Have a great summer! Avenue Q is coming to toronto!!!!!!!!! I’m seeing it! I’m so excited. It sounds reeeeealy cool. bye.
(53) Hi, Kagy, great to see you! We’re always glad to hear from you.
54- Hey Rebecca! I have some HPB art I will eventualy send in.
43- I letterbox!! (but i don’t geocach)
I think i’m going to put out some boxes soon.
Hi, Kagy. Glad to see you’re in good spirits. And that tea sounds awesome. Jasmine scent wafts from the blog as I read about it.
53-RE: Tea
That is absolutely uber! It reminds me of those little creatures that grow in water. YOU LIVE IN TORONTO? *reels* I was in Toronto about a week ago, visiting family. Odd…
We succeeded…Our decade project was not stupenodously horrendous (as I had prophesied). Our English scene was…confused, but other than that, Hypatia is jubilant. Except she has a piano concert and math final (neither of which she is ready for) coming up…
53-Hi Kagz! Long time no blog. That sounds like an amazing tea, though.
Ugh. I haven’t been geocoaching in forEVER.
53- Hi Kagy! Nice to see you! I love LOTF; it would be interesting to see a dance. That tea sounds super cool!
Alice is muy muy triste, porque la clase de ingles …. *draws a blank* *lapses out of Spanish* …. won’t be reading all of Romeo and Juliet. We’re only reading about two acts and then we’re watching movies. Bleh. Plsu one of the movies is completely modernized. Double bleh.
And we’re going to learn salsa dancing in PE. I’m not sure whether to be joyful or miserable. Right now I am simply mildly alarmed and I’m going to go look it up to see if it involves partners. *shudders at thought*
Hi Kagy! Long time no read!
52- Geocaching and Letterboxing are gallavanting across the wilderness looking for boxes. With geocaching, you have GPS coordinates and trade little trinkets in and out of the boxes. With letterboxing, you have clues that lead you to the box and your own stamp which you stamp in the box to show you were there. Here’s the website for Letterboxing North America:
www. letterboxing. org (I tried to delinkify it, I don’t know if it worked.)
I don’t know the geocaching website because I try to convert people to letterboxing.
And I have no idea what geohashing is.
Yay, I’m on who’s here! Thanks so much, GAPAs!!!
Ohmigosh, that looks like so much fun!
62 – Interesting!
35 – Same here; Spider was a major part of my childhood. I still like to flip through some of the older issues from time to time.
42 – Sounds awesome! Cloaks and other original clothing items intrigue me, but I’m too impatient to make them for myself.
48 – I loved Juniper; I really need to get around to finishing those books. Thanks for the reminder!
51 – Crossdresser competition? Your cancer walks must be more exciting than the ones here.
53 – Ooo! *wants to go find some right now*
60 – Agh, I hate it when that happens. My class didn’t have time to finish Plato’s Republic this year…it was super frustrating since we had just gotten to the middle of a really interesting part and it was the last class of the year, so we couldn’t finish it!
62 – Cool! Maybe I can try that this summer – it sounds fun.
I always wanted to letterbox or geocache, but I never had a GPS.
62-I haven’t started letterboxing yet.
I will hopefully start this summer. There’s a box a block away from my house, but I haven’t been yet!
62 – I have a friend who does geocaching with her dad. It’s really neat. I also heard about equucaching (I wonder if that’s how you spell it) which is geocaching from horseback! So you go cantering about in the wilderness with your GPS looking for the cache. o.o
There are a lot of boxes in my region; unfortunately, the person who places the majority of them has very little sense of adventure, and likes to politely ask people if en can put this letterbox on their front desk.
Which, if the fun is in the chase, takes away the fun.
69-niceness!
It seems I’ve got a few converts… excellent.
Yeah. I want to. But I don’t exactly know if there are any nearby.
The tea is called Numi.
Geohashing was invented by that guy over at xkcd. Your region’s latitude and longitude are put into an algorithm by your computer, along with the date, and the day’s stock quote (DowJones?), to ensure nobody knows the date before hand. Then there are meet ups of people Saturdays at 4 at the given coordinates.
It’s very muserly in style.
Geocaching: My friend who geocaches actually took me to a cache that she and her dad made several years ago. It was pretty cool: what you do is bring along some sort of trinket and exchange it for one that’s in the box. Then you can write a little bit about yourself in a book and what you left and what you took. It’s in this really neat spot where there’s a tree whose roots are raised off the ground.
Tea: OOOH tea tea tea! Tea’s great. I wish I had some now… unfortunately, I’ve got homework… *procrastinates* and it’s 10:30… Gahh. *zips off to take notes on the Enlightenment*
(53) I have some tea that’s something like that. It comes hand-rolled into pellets that expand in hot water into little flowerets. They’re especially pretty when brewed in a clear glass teapot. Mine came from a place called Tea Source and is named “Jasmine Dragon Phoenix Pearl.”
There is a lady on (names major market in CPH) who sells those…… She is asking a ridiculously high price, so I didn’t get any. I’m actually abig fan of aplle cider, too.
Yay, tea! I want that kind…
And I read either Juniper or Wise Child, and I think the same people who drew the covers did the ones for the Abhorsen trilogy… I can’t remember…
Geocaching seems really fun. Maybe one day, when I have time…
Happy June everyone!
Wow. Only one day of exams left……….. *whew* Also my last official day of school. Summer will be so AWESOME!
*whoo* Today, since I am in Algebra I, I had to take an EOC. It wasn’t too bad, I suppose. Missed the first three-and-a-half classes.
Tomorrow is the last day of classes (we probably won’t be doing much – watching Enchanted in English, taking a test in Geography [ugh], and presenting a project in Science [double ugh]) and then on Thursday, it’s a half day and we just run around outside and see what blow-up-bouncy things we were able to borrow and play with. Then there’s the honor roll dance for two hours (PLEASE PLAY GOOD MUSIC, OH PLEASE!) and then we are free. Ugh. Not looking forward to that.
…
I may post on the Rants or Just Friends thread about this.
Gah, I can’t choose whether to continue to go to school or be homeschooled again next year…
Yeah, I’ll go post on the Just Friends thread now.
My roommate at CTY last summer’s mom owned some company that makes that type of tea flower… teaposy, or something. Looks interesting, but I’m more of a “Lady Grey” type (Twinings’ lighter-flavored version of ‘bergamot-y’ tea).
I have seen that song before!!
I sung it in chorus 2 years ago! By the way Muse Rocks! Pwt pwns! and Hot Pink Bunnies RULE!!!!!!!!!!! Koko if you are reading this YOU ROCK OUT LOUD! I have a question too What is Koko’s favorite kind of pie? See ya Koko!
77-Bookworm loves the the Abhorsen Trilogy!
81-Neophyte? *Key Lime Pies* Go to the Neophyte Thread! *Frolics because there is a Neophyte!*
66-Well, it only lasted a few hours, but the whole walk lasted twenty. I was there for eighteen because Mom woudln’t let me walk in the thunder and lightning.
Oh, by the way, happy GAY PRIDE MONTH!
(That’s the closest I get to rainbow, I forgot how to do orange and pink).
Happy June, everyone!!
I am again at the mercy of a library time limit, eew.
Not much is up, so I’m off….
OH! I love the picture, and I love the song!!! My mom’s choir sang it for one of their spring concerts!
Hullo, my friends. Hello, Fiddler and Beavo, especially, long time no read/type. Pies to seamouse and Kokopelli’s girl! *pies*
We learned salsa dancing in PE, and it was great. I was really bad at it, but that didn’t matter because I had tons of fun and I feel that I may be able to become good if I practiced enough. *practices frantically* One, two, three–five, six, seven. One, two, three–five, six, seven.
And then we’re reading Romeo and Juliet in English. GOD, it’s so hard to take Romeo seriously! He’s so fickle. Not to mention melodramatic.
But seriously, Shakespeare seems to have quite a few rather inconstant characters. Take whats-his-name from Two Gentlemen…
EBETH IS A SEEEENIOR
that’s right. pwned.
except somebody stole my backpack and it had a library book (off somebody else’s card) and two english books that i have to get back.
sooo…have to go in tomorrow and see if anybody’s returned that.
81 – *pies*
86- Congrats! I’m almost a sophomore…
-various rants involving that unfortunate blood relation, mi hermana asco-
-more rants involving la clases, cual es asco tambien-
*butchers Spanish language*
I’m going to be a freshman next year.
*in a very small voice* I’m scared of high school!
Yay, Ebeth!
I’ll be a “rising Junior” (as they call it now) next week, and I am not looking forward to it. All AP classes plus my graduation project…*dies*
However, I will be spending my summer studying for the classes, SAT, volunteering, and playing tennis. *sigh*
I am SUNBURNED.
I am so sunburned that my sunburns have sunburns.
I went swimming for an hour yesterday, went rowing today, and swam for another 2 hours today.
And, naturally, I was too brilliant to wear sunscreen.
*kicks self*
I’m also stuck in a room with 3 girls who do nothing but talk about Zack Efron and whatever else is on Disney Channel.
I didn’t think those kind of people actually existed never mind in vast quantities.
A large part of my optimism for the human race is gone.
I’m a rising 7th Grader. I feel small.
91-Disney Channel?
92 – Hey, I’m 11. I feel small.
then we’re pretty much the same age. I always feel small when like there’s these guys who are always like: “hey dude, how did ya get in to this class anyway?”
91-Where are you that you’ve been able to live with the belief that there are few girls obsessed with the Disney Channel? I want to live there. Disney Channel is so dumb!
83-Oh it’s gay pride month? That’s quite a coincidence because I began coming out at my school a couple days ago and everyone should know by the end of the month.
R&R thread time!
Star Wars: Clone Wars is coming!
Good evening!
Lovely picture! Yes, summer is rather pleasant…
Not that I will have nothing to do, I should say. Unfortunately, I can’t say all of the things I have been so busy doing, as much of it would be very easily tracked.
I have missed Muse Blog. I have been checking in, without posting though. I just wanted to see what’s been happening. Tonight I decided I would make sure I posted!
So, how have you been?
It’s getting late now, so I must sign off already. I plan to return tomorrow morning to visit a few other threads. I just wanted to let you know I’m still around!
Red-tailed HAWK
Ack, I’m terribly reluctant to read the last act of Romeo and Juliet. I like to read tragedy as much as the next person (possibly more), but it’s so very painful to read about a perfectly good plan, and then see how it crumbles when a small detail is changed. *shudder*
Summer is wonderful and it starts NEXT THURSDAY! *spaz attack from joy/excitement/high school next year/mostly just regular spazziness*
Oops, I have to go to math homework. Bye!
95- You’re very calm about it, it seems.
I’m ending my Soph-o-more year soon. Yea!
I have officially decided that death isn’t actually sad. This happened while I was reading Romeo and Juliet and listening to “The Death of General Wolfe” at the same time. The sad bit about death isn’t specific to death. Death isn’t sad, the sad bit is never ever seeing or hearing from a person again. Therefore, if I have a great friend who moves away to Mongolia and loses my address, phone number and email, then it’s as sad as death although both of us live to a ripe old age. It’s very similar to finishing a book, o at least how I feel after finishing a book. Therefore, finishing a book is like having friends (or at least acquaintances) die.
I owe so much to you guys – because of you I’m back
– Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon
– Ź√Ҳ
– Nora the Violist
– The Man For Aeiou&Pete
– Hypatia
– MissSwann (it wasn’t your fault i left. trust me.)
– Piggy
– Crazy Titan Nerd (who are you??!!??!)
and of course – Robert
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So a lot has happened since I last posted – heres a brief synopsis of some of the ones that come to the top of my mind
~ Nuns are looking to buy our house and turn it into a convent
~ I have turned into a groupie (na not really, just an over obsessed fan) for this band called Fun Time? – its a friends friends band and they’re so freaking cool!!! ahhhh
~ I have switched to Firefox so the shrinking comment box is gone and there is automatic spell check on this so all my posts should be neatly capitalized and correctly spelled. Well mostly. No certain promises there.
~ I have gotten a lead in Oliver – (idk if i told you this before I left)
~ Our stage challenge team got 4th place in the city of -snip-
~ I have done what I vowed never to do and I have now joined a soccer team – and I’m goalie
~ I got bangs (fringe for all you non-American MB-ers
~ I have perfected the art of “borrowing” the lollies I’m supposedly drawing in art class and eating them in class
~ I got my maths teacher in a HEAP of trouble by telling my mum how she told me to shut up and she almost got fired…….
~ I have successfully scared my friends boyfriend by threatening to bash him and now he refuses to go near me
~ I have become addicted to my iHome
~ I have figured about a million kick ass excuses for in class and at home that work
~ I have fallen down about 10 flights of stairs because I was laughing too hard without getting hurt
~ I got my dad to order me a pair of glasses that I plan on wearing to class so I look smarter
so thats only part of the list but i have to go write an essay on “My Journey Through a Food Web” as it was due yesterday and I need to turn it in.
♥
TCF
sorry for double posting but this is important
101 – wow. You’re amazingly right. I never thought of death like that, but you hit it on the head.
genius, absolutely genius
♥
TCF
96- Yup, that’s right!
My dad pulled me away from watching COSMOS to hear Ms. Clinton’s speech last night. Very boring in comparison.
95- I live under a rock with a computer and a library. Ignorance is bliss.
I would not normally be up, but me and my mom are going to the only real bakery where I live. This oddly pleases me.
*cough sneeze wheres my welcome back THREAD ahem cough*
WELCOME BACK TREBLE!!!! *pies* I’m so glad you decided to come back.
102- Wow, ten flights of stairs? Ow.
SCHOOL IS OUT IN EIGHT DAYS!!!
.
.
.
But that means finals are very soon.
*suddenly has a very strong desire to go back to school for another year*
Not really. Actually that’d be terrible. But why can’t we have written tests like the semester finals? I have lost my love for Science.
Hi Treble!
*heap of pies for Treble*
welcome back, TCF!
Wow. I just realised that I only have twenty eight actual school days left at snip school. Ever.
Welcome back Treble!
Last night was graduation. I’m now a high school graduate.
101- mm, true but with a book you can always go back and re-read it.
(112) Congratulations, oxlin! What is your favorite pie?
*hello-pies neophytes*
83 – It looks like Gay Pride meets Saint Patrick’s Day festival.
86 – Sweet! Me too.
90 – SAT…*shudder* I’m probably going to have to study algebra over the summer because of that, and I am not looking forward to it.
97 – Glad to hear it!
102 – Welcome back!!! *special pies* Huzzah for Firefox. Nuns, eh? That’s a lot more interesting than anyone who looked at my old house. Is your house actually for sale or are they just randomly asking?
112 – Congrats! *diploma pies* Is it scary? I still have a year to go and I’m already nervous about finding a college.
We had a tornado today and it scared everyone out of their wits.
Other than that, we have to do a redo of We Didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel, describing our own lives. I’ve already got a few lines…
116-*reels* Tornado! That must have been mighty intense!
112-Congrats! Thats quite tremendous…
102-Huzzah! Woot! Thou art returned…
Hypatia is, at present, deeply and profoundly happy for several reasons:
She ACTUALLY did well on the decade project!
Her English teacher was merciful when grading the Tempest scene she was in, despite the fact that it was a mess of wrong lines, confused ques and people hissing at each other!
She just took her math final, and she understood the probability bonus and solved it to her and (she thinks) her math teacher’s satisfaction (she also plans on going and posting it on the science thread, because it was an awfully fun problem!)
She only has to take two more finals. Diddle-dee-dum!
112- Congratulations!
113- Just as with someone who has died, you can always look at pictures, or recall memories, or think about the person. I’m always really sad after I finish a book or series for the first time, because although I can reread the book once or twice without feeling any differently, after a while it fades to the equivalent of photos or memories.
116- Eep.
I got to skip Frosh Trans to visit Marine Bio and look at dead fish. This made me very happy.
1 more Day of SCHOOL!
huy
end o school friday!!! except this week is horrible for me cuz my dad is in the hospital cuz of his gallbladder and diabetes and also both of my grandparents are dying ugh and they’ll probably go when I’m at camp so I won’t be able to go to the funeral.
life sucks. except for school which is awesome right now cuz there’s NO MORE LEFT after friday!! Yay! Okay Kiki signing off!
115 – Oh, the SAT isn’t THAT hard. Just use common sense. It’s not a test of you knowledge but rather a test of reasoning.
Trust me. I have experience.
120- Aw, that sucks. Except for the school bit. The school bit’s great.
We don’t get out till next Thursday, ew. The seniors got out today thought, the lucky ducks.
Ohmigosh, I just discovered how COOL Appleworks is! You can make slideshows! Now, what should I make a slideshow about?
Never mind, I changed my mind. Appleworks is a horrid, stubborn application and if it wasn’t my only word processor, I would refuse to use it ever again.
I dislike Appleworks. Word is SO much better.
Word is better. I can actually understand Word, unlike most other computer applications! I hate the Office Assistant/Help, though. I went into the files and deleted the Office Assistant! Now, if you click his button, he doesn’t show up! MuahahahahahahaHA!
THE OFFICE ASSISTANT? You mean that cute little character?
But I agree. It IS annoying.
iWork! AW is so old!
127-
Oh, I like Word tons better than Appleworks. But since all I have is Appleworks, I’m just happy that it makes slideshows.
No, I WAS happy that it makes slideshows. But then it refused to obey, so I have since exiled all but the word processing bit.
Appleworks makes slideshows? Like Powerpoint?
131- what version of Mac OS X are you running? Tiger or Leopard?
133- Uh…I actually haven’t a clue. My dad has all the Office installations, he just hasn’t got around to putting them in.
134- apple menu- about my mac
I’ve got a PC, so I’ve escaped to terrors of Appleworks. Word is better though, better still is InDesign, a program that I rave about.
a/
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i have a term paper due friday!! AARGH!! once i get this over with i will be at peace…but then i’ll have math finals…*distress*
*Crawls in*
Hello everybody. I just wanted to let you know I am alive. I survived it. It being possibly the biggest storm I have ever seen
There was a GIGANTIC THUNDERSTORM here. It probably lasted about thirty minutes, or something like that. But_it_was_SCARY.
The rain was heavy. And the wind
It was terrible! Violent! It swirled around in great gusts, blowing the pouring rain in circles, pushing air under the doors and windows… And snapping trees. We lost a major tree limb, essentially the top of a very tall tree, and it blew thirty feet or more from the back yard to the front. In fact, it landed right next to a window, barely missing it. It nearly clipped our power line, but missed that. It almost crushed a small tree I planted, but instead landed exactly in between it and the window 
Another limb fell in the road, and I dragged it in. Many smaller pieces came down as well. Our power went off, but the break in the line came a ways down the line, as the whole neighborhood was out of power. A tree in another yard had one whole side snapped off, and a different power line sent sparks flying when a limb hit it.
The power’s back on now. It was off for four hours.
Just wanted to let you know. Got to go now! *pies*
Red-tailed HAWK
GAPAs, what happened to that diagram of bunnification I sent in? Or did I get the wrong email adress?
115 – our house is for sale. And get this – they’re SPANISH nuns.
Pray that the nuns buy our house (hahah isn’t this funny the most non-religious person you will ever meet (thats me) is asking people to pray) so my parents can actually move over to New Zealand and I don’t have to board at the school. (the “friends” of my parents have asked me to leave – they thought i was only staying for 1 term grrr)
♥
TCF
(139) You sent it correctly; I just forgot to post it. Sorry, Zinc. It’s been a rather hectic week. I posted it on Bunny Apocalypse.
*cough sneeze wheres my welcome back thread ahem cough hack sneeze*
(142) I would say that this is your welcome-back thread, TCF. I just hope that the other MBers don’t catch that cold of yours. It sounds like a bad one.
140-The spanish nuns have purchased your house? Are they turning it into a nunnery?
89) High school’s OK. Take it from a fellow freshmen! Although, you might get trashed!
91) Those are people oof my nightmares. *shudder* Although, I do love the classic Disney movies, my favorite being Lion King. Its just that Disney isn’t like that anymore. Now they stink.
98) Yeah, it would have been sad had Romeo not been so corny. I was sad when Mercutio died though.
102) Hello Hello TCF!
Nuns?
123-5) I like Appleworks for their drawing and painting programs, but nothing else. But, I think that those 2 programs are AWESOME! I use them for everything under the sun!
126) Awwwwwwww, but I love the little doggie………
Well, yesterday was my last day of school. So, now all my exams are OVER, including school in general. Of course, this is never guaranteed because both of my parents work there and I typically go to school with them during all of the teacher work days after school is over to help them get everything together. Of course, teacher workdays are nothing like normal school days. The teacher are actually happy then.
Those are the days of teachers running up and down the halls shouting “Hallelujah!”, having teacher lunches and parties, watching movies, and, or course, cleaning up for my Mom. Of course, the teacher’s days are also filled up with getting grades together and going to pointless meetings set up by our most loved super intendant, of whom I won’t elaborate on because he is my parents employer and it is against my best interests to talk of lovelyness.
being a freshman is not that bad. really. junior year was the worst for me so far, i think.
but high school in general is not that bad. the anticipation is much scarier than the actual thing. you silly imaginative musers.
I know I’m way overreacting. I’m just a little freaked out by the fact that I don’t turn 13 till the second week of high school.
Oh, there’s the bell! Off I go to 1st period PE.
I graduated from 8th grade last night! I have to admit that 8th grade graduation is rather pointless. But the dance afterwards was fun…
Sigh. The spelling bee is over. Middle school is over. After Saturday, my Jewish education is over. Now what do I do with my life?
So. on Monday we found out that a kid from our school died. He was on the drumline in band and a freshman.
GAPAs, did you by any chance get an email from me with graphics for the “Origin and culture of HPBs” thread. could you please post it?
7th grade is over. Does that mean I’m an eighth grader now?
I’m not sure how I feel. Dead. I will find out later.
(150) Haven’t seen it. When did you send it?
143 – Robert *hack OK sneeze cough vomit* actually I did have a real cold like this. Theres a possibility Sam may have it then…. :oopps:
144 – Not yet but we think they may make an offer in the next week
121 – That’s reassuring for the English sections, but I have no math sense. :p
126 – Death to Clipit (I think that’s his name?)!
140 – New Zealand??? *envious* I’ve only been there once and not for very long, but what I did get to see of it was absolutely gorgeous. Are you going to high school there?
146 – Junior year was definitely my busiest so far. I didn’t go to a traditional school, but my freshman year was amazing. My sophomore year was awful, but that was only because all of the good teachers left and the school got ridiculously strict. But that was just because the headmistress was crazy…I’m sure your high school experience will be much better for all four years.
Re: Tornado yesterday- For us it was just a big (BIG BIG BIG) thunderstorm, but there were tornados close to us.
Oh, and I got a 100 on a Spanish speaking test, and my teacher hasen’t ever given a 100 to someone who isn’t a native speaker.
I’m not a native speaker.\
I got a 100.
I feel spesh.
155- Oh dear!
I took my speaking exam for Spanish and did very well, also.
UhhhuhhgFinals.
Our science final was ridiculously easy.
Oh, I still have to scan that Gregorian Chant.
*forgets about it once again*
Today is extremely hot and humid, so I decided to plop myself away from the sun and in front of a fan, and eat chocolate-covered almonds.
Finals are next week and I haven’t really studied at all yet. English will be easy, so will Gym/Health. The only one I’m really worried about is Spanish, but ever since our teacher told us it was an essay, I haven’t been worrying as much. I like essays
Also, I got into National Honor Society! It’s apparently really hard to get into at my school.
*smiles*
Great summer so far, great picture!!
I am so glad that now I will be able to plop down and watch new Avatar episodes three times in a row without problems. Speaking of which, after seeing “The Boiling Rock,” I have concluded that Mai and Ty Lee have strange thoughts.
Yayness! Hypatia, most devoted Kokonspirator has ordered a “Pure Evil” Tee from Musery Loves Kompany (the new and improved spelling).
She actually wanted to inquire about delivery time. Is there any chance of its arriving by Tuesday (so she can wear it to 8th Grade Beach Day and proudly proclaim her pro-Muser sentiments).
Furthermore, she would like to suggest the addition of an HPB t-shirt with “Truculent Lagamorph” inscribed below it…
Anyhoooo, Hypatia is once more euphoric. Having completed her grammar final, there remains only her science final before she is utterly and completely free of all burdensome homework! Plus, Obama is the presumptive Democratic nominee…
161-Hilary hasn’t thrown in the towel yet, don’t get your hopes up. I think it’s a bit irrisponsible to declare himself the nominee when she hasn’t ceceded yet. I’ve been looking around, and I’ve found a couple of things that turn me off from him, and that just adds to the pile.
162-Yes, but he has the necessary number of delegates. Which means that he wins regardless of whether or not she cedes! What do you object to about him?
It’s history homework time!
164-Have fun!
I sure will! Yay, WWI and WWII!
At least finals week is next week… is bummed.
I got my yearbook today! I’m only in it twice, once with my school picture and once in the orchestra picture! Two of my friends are quoted. Now I’m sad.
147-13? In 9th Grade? Isn’t 13 the age for 7th Grade?
167-no, i was born in october so i was 15 at the very beginning of this year. so 13 beginning of freshman year. it just means turquoise started early.
168-Started what early?
So, it’s June sixth. And-thank goodness- I see none of the superstitious panic that prevailed two years ago today.
OMG! I got a 100 on my Biology EOC!
*celebrates*
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Coffeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
169-school…
so don’t worry, we’re burning old papers tonight. prolly either at mr j’s or in bill’s grandpa’s driveway (woo guy fawkes).
tomorrow’s gonna be sweet, it’s bill’s b-day and we’re watching bad old movies and then going to see rocky horror. only problem, the library doesn’t have THE GIANT CLAW!!!! so we can’t obsess.
I move that we ban friendly hermit.
friendly hermit is kiwimuncher.
I’m having a great day! I got a 95 on a science test and a friend who made a model lunar lander for a project gave it to me!
OH! I just realised something!!!! That song is in Sarah Plain and Tall!!! That’s where I recognised it from!!!!!
Is anybody taking the Bio SAT subject test? Because I am, and I’m having a heart attack over it. I’m not ready at all, and I really think it was a mistake to sign up in the first place. I got a 680 on one practice test, but the rest were miserable and awful and horrible and (in general) bad, in case you can’t tell.
But this’ll make the regents look easy.
I detest the office assistant. He’s a wizard, now, though on Word on this computer, which is amusing.
purplefinch (178): The office assistant drives me mad too. I wonder if anyone likes the office assistant.
Gimanator Forced Me to do this. I feel alienated from the blog, though.
179-I think he’s cute, but whenever I write the word “dear” it asks me if I’m writing a business letter, and it can’t cope with my horrific spelling anyway.
163-Nobody knows how many delegates Hilary has. She might have more. I object to his endorsement by John Edwards (which was bribed), his strongarming of superdelagates, and his nonexistant plans. Not to mention recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
180- Gim forced you to do wot?
-152 on wednesday. if you don’t get it, I’ll send it again.
182- Post, I assume.
149- OMG a kid from our school died too.
Today was the last day of school. Yay. After school I went to a funeral. Not yay. *sigh*
DAHHHHH camp is in two weeks! Should I be happy or sad? Meh .
Arg. My secrets out.
Coffee. Coffee. Coffee. *lurks*
147-You’re turning 13 while you’re in high school?!? Did you skip a grade? Usually it’s considered odd if you don’t turn 15 before the end of your first year of high school.
We got a car today. It’s a Toyota Matrix and in 20 days I’ll be able to drive it! Technically it’s my mom’s car because she signed the papers, but when I get my license it will probably become mine. Unless my mom decides to give me her old car and keep the pretty new one.
When I get my permit I’m going to take a picture of myself in the car and put LOLcat words that say “I can has drive”
178/179/181~ I actually rather like the office assistant! Mine is a wizard, but I always have to hide him if I’m actually going to write, I find him amusing but distracting if I actually have to think….I usually end up playing with the “animate” function the whole time he’s up there.
I also turn off spell check and don’t use it untill I’m done. It hates me otherwise, and all those little squiggly red lines are distracting. I’m easily distracted, don’cha know?
Midnight Fiddler (188): You know, I think that’s what drives me crazy about the office assistant. On some level I find it fascinating, which is distracting, which makes me want to zap it away as quickly as possible so I can get back to what I was doing. And it doesn’t zap away fast enough.
I killed the Office Assistant, because en was too tempting. I liked playing with en too much, so I could never work. So I dug into the Computer Files and deleted ens file. Now, even if you try to make en appear, en won’t show up! The End!
No more little doggie!
180) Don’t feel alienated agagabagabag!
Why would you feel that way? We’re all friends here! *big hug*
Speaking of doggies, I’m getting one [possibly] this weekend. She’s a keeshond puppie and her name is Mercy.
Ew. Mercy. *vomit*
I’m going to call her Milford Cubicle.
194- aw.
Woohoo! My sister just graduated!
194-Yay puppies!!
Tomorrow I will be in water. Hopefully it will be the lake and not the lame creek in the park. *hopes to go to lake*
154 – yepp!!!
149 & 185 – OMG sorry to pry (this is my natural disposition after all) but how did they die???
First sunny day in a while!
198- It’s ok. Probably a brain anurism (I think that’s right), or an undetected heart disease.
It is hot. Too hot. 80 degrees in the SHADE and it’s like breathing water. EEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
I want to go swimming in the creek.
There are tallships in [snip] this weekend! *shining eyes* I HAVE to go.
Ugh. We have a feild trip on Monday.
To the Washington Mall.
It’s, like, 99 degrees.
We’re all gonna die.
-201 wow! only eighty degrees? where I live in Oregon, it gets up to about 205 degrees Farenheit. Although it’s not very humid.
204-205 Degrees? Don’t you mean 105?
Air conditioning is nice.
Svmer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweþ sed and bloweþ med
And springþ þe wde nu,
Sing cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu, wel singes þu, cuccu;
Ne swik þu nauer nu.
Sing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu.
Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu!
Our school’s going to Great America on Monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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In IL, it’s like -10 in the winter and 100 in the summer! My dog has really thick fur. So I am very sorry for her.
I’m doing a summer tennis camp and it’s right in the middle of the day for 2 hours. And on Fridays it’s for something like 4 hours (tournament). I AM GONNA DIE!
173- Aw, what a shame. No Giant Claw. Wait– what’s Giant Claw?
174- A bit intolerant today, aren’t we?
204- In the words of E, “Oregon has the randomest weather in the world.” Or at least where we live. It has no objection to dumping buckets of water over our heads in June, or cooking us all in February.
So I am now officially a sophomore. The word sophomore actually means “wise fool” and the word sophomoric means “immature and overconfident.”
*is immature and overconfident*
We get out of school on Thursday. YES!
So much is going on, and it’s all so exciting. My life isn’t static anymore! I want to broaden my horizons, to take risks, to do things! It’s a truly amazing feeling. These last few days I have been feeling very detached towards MuseBlog. So many of my old friends have gone or almost gone, and so many new people have come, and I have yet to really connect with them at all, I feel somehow like I’m no longer really a part of the whole, and I don’t really think I need MuseBlog anymore. I think I can understand where some people are coming from when they decide to leave.
Not that I’m going to leave, of course. The MuseBloggers are still far better friends than many of my school friends, and your company makes me happy. It’s just a wonderfully freeing feeling to know that I live without a computer for a few days.
The other day I participated in E’s movie for her video production class. I was Snake Bloodshed, the murderer, and I got to wear a trenchcoat and sunglasses and stab Opal with a large cardboard knife, resulting a great deal of ketchup getting on my jeans. It was lots of fun, and we walked home in the half-dark covered in ketchup with a huge knife saying “death to the meek”* on one side and “revenge” on the other.
*NOT a sentiment I agree with.
204~ that was a few hours ago. Now it’s 90 something. Still in the shade. And like breathing water. It’s supposed to be over 100 tomorrow, and humid, like breathing water.
211~ Aww, please don’t leave!! MB would be desolate without my unofficial twin!
196) Poo. My sister graduates Friday.
I’m going to miss her.
211) Cool! I’m going to be a sophomore too!
*is immature and overconfident*
211) OMG! I read post 212 and I almost screamed! Thank goodness you’re not leaving! The Searoc would be nothing without you!
(212) Here it’s 97 degrees Fahrenheit (about 36 Celsius) with 41% humidity.
215~ Ugh. I’ll probably end up in the creek later today, and tomorrow, if it’s as hot as they’re threatening. ><
I’m glad you’re not leaving, Alice!
It’s really hot here, too, and it doesn’t make studying for finals any easier…
Here it is 88 degrees with 71% humidity. Tomorrow it’ll be 90 degrees. I’m glad it’s not going to be like that for camp……. Hopefully.
-205 sorry, I MEANT 105.
Fiddler, kiwi, Pan- Why on Earth would I leave? What would the purpose be? I love the MuseBlog, and now that I’m no longer totally addicted it’s a thousand times better!
I hate mowing lawns when its 85 degrees with 95% humidity.
Would you believe:
Wikipedia has a category for “Unidentified Sounds”.
222- Wow. That I’ve got to see.
222- Just go to the main page, type in “Unidentified Sounds”, click the first article, scroll to the bottom, and you’ll see a link.
I found it. I really wanted to hear all the sounds, but there were only files for two of the five.
Where did Grant go? Last I heard from him, we were talking about having a ball, so it must have been about mid-April.
220- I don’t know. ever one else is.
211 – Yeah, I’ve been feeling rather MuseBlog-detached lately too. Probably because there aren’t any RRRs/other threads that I’m really into lately.
Anyways, my school had our Battle of Gettysburg reenactment yesterday, which I don’t think I actually ever mentioned on MuseBlog. Basically, there are two history teachers for the entire school. One of them (K) teaches mostly 5th and 6th graders, with only a few 7th graders mixed in, and the other (J) teaches 7th and 8th graders. We’re studying the Civil War right now, so they decided to declare K’s students the Union, J’s students the Condeferates, and have a Battle of Gettysburg.
So, it ended up being really fun. I was a Confederate, being a 7th grader, and my 5th grade brother was fighting for the Union, so we were needling each other during the days leading up to the battle about who was going to win.
At about 1:00 we got our bags of ammo (also known as “water balloons”), and then the Confederates were supposed to go to the bottom of the big hill in the back of our school and the Union soldiers were supposed to go to the top, up by the school. On the signal, we were all supposed to start marching in lines at each other and stuff. That’s not exactly how it went, though.
See, the Confederates had much better generals then the Union did here, and so the one for my regiment (Each regiment was a class: we were the Tennesee 10th Artillery) decided to have us start off to the side of the school, run up the stairs that are alongside of the hill, and flank the Union from the right while the rest of the army marched up the front.
It worked BEAUTIFULLY.
Companies B and C from my regiment (I was in C) did a hit and run attack on the right side of their army, then retreated, and then our general sent the rest of our regiment up that same side.
The Union didn’t really have a strategy to start with, beyond “See what they do and try to reeact”, and, as it turned out, one of their generals betrayed them and turned all of their plans over to our generals. Which was rather ironic. But, anyways, as soon as we flanked them they started disintigrating into a mass, so we could just pick them off with water balloons from the front and from the side.
We used their own water balloons too, since we captured a huge pile of their water balloons that they had been planning on giving to their artillery.
We fought for a while, and then we finally remembered that we were supposed to get the Union flag, if we wanted to win, and everyone started yelling “Get the flag! Get the flag!”. And then one 8th grade boy from my class hit the flag-holder in the chest with a water balloon and took the flag from him.
He was running back down the hill to give the flag to J, so we would win, and he got hit in the back with a water balloon. So he was “dead”. But then C picked it up, and we all ran down the hill with him, and then we won. It was all over in 10 minutes.
It was pretty awesome. J said that Tennesee 10th Artillery Companies B and C would get medals of honor for our amazing bravery and amazing flanking skillz, so I hope he follows through with that.
226- Well, a lot of people are. It’s very sad, really.
Yay! The winds have finally stopped!
There were 40-50 mph winds constantly for a week, then yesterday we finally had a storm, and now there’s no wind!
The only reason this merits exclamation points is that the wind threw so much dust into the air that the sky turned orange, and now it’s settled back down.
I’m still in my pajamas. I’m pathetic.
227- That sounds like so much fun! I wish I could do something like that.
I wish I had 55 dollars. I really wish I had 55 dollars. You have NO IDEA how much I wish I had 55 dollars.
Because that is how much it costs to sail on [a tallship] (I would give the name, but then everyone would know where I lived). OH MY GOD, I want to sail SO BADLY. It would be utterly amazing, and it would be more amazing, if anything, to spend another 5 dollars and go sailing during a mock battle.
OH, GOD. My lack of money is heartbreaking.
229- We had really strong winds too, but they don’t seem to end.
227- that’s sounds very exciting. The middle school I will get to go to will re-make Ellis Island, and everyone will have to go through it. We pretend we are families from different countries and there are all those officers, and the ships, and all that. It’ll be so fun, but not as fun as a war
My mom was going through the Camp bookshelves, and she found an ancient issue of Muse! December ’98, I think. Unfortunately, M., my sister hid it. *sigh*
-229 If you want wind, go no farther than Cape Blanco, Oregon. (GAPAs, that’s not where I live, so no need to zap it.) I went there this past december, and the wind was PHENOMENAL. 120 miles an hour, which a got off my phone, which (surprisingly) connected through the weather.
It’s not too windy here, but it’s absolutely boiling. Last time I checked, it was only 87 F, but it feels like I’m going to melt. I was seriously considering chopping off all of my hair, because it’s so long and makes my neck really hot. *melts*
So I went to a REM concert with guests Modest Mouse and the National, but I was actually just going to see Modest Mouse, since I am basically in love with them. It. was. effing. AMAZING.
So my uncle works for this liquor company that owns part of a box at the United Center in Chicago (is that okay to say, since it’s rather far from my house and in a +million people city and I’m not there anymore? probably), so he asked for tickets and we got 6 free ones, which is good because they were like 65 dollars otherwise. But we got them so I got to bring along Lee, JB, D, and A, plus my mother who drove us and stuffins. And we got to the United Center, which is a hockey rink/basketball court (they melt the ice down) and doubles as a concert hall too. It’s huuuuge. We were in a high executive box pretty far from the stage, unfortunately, but we brought binoculars so we could still see them close-up XD
When we went back into the box I realized that MM had gotten on stage and was playing Invisible, so I screamed and started singing and dancing and so did Lee. The others danced and yelled and sang along with what they knew, but it’s me and her that are the bigbigbig fans. And they played Satin in a Coffin, which made my night.
We actually missed The National even though we go there at like 7:30 and it started at 7, so they must have been really short. We wandered a bit and I bought a t-shirt and later a tote bag with the ballon/anchor logo from We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank and another cd, This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About. JB Got The Moon and Antarctica, so I have to steal that from her as soon as possible.
And then we found this dessert cart with cakes and moose and all sorts of stuff on it, so we all got something different then signed my uncles name for it
These guys are amazing. All of you need to go get a cd of theirs, Isaac’s lyrics are like an epiphany that punches you in the face.
Also I was going to post this on the music thread where maybe it belongs, but it’s not linked to and I was about 5 pages into the search bar when I gave up and came here instead. It’s dying anyway
In other news I should really be studying for finals right now. But I don’t care. Which is really, really bad. Usually I go through this panic stage right before finals where I study a ton and get messed up but end up knowing everything pretty well int he end for being severely emotionally unstable, then go into a kind of apathetic stage right before I take the tests. But right now I seem to just be in the the apathetic bit, which is not good at all, because I’ve barly studied for anything. Even though I know its bad, I’m still on here and stuff instead. It’s kind of like, why bother anymore, I ill myself all the time for good grades and school and plainly it sucks. I don’t know what I want to do with my life or where I want to go to college so I kill myself on all these academics and sports and spend no time on myself and I’m really sick of it right now. I’m killing myself in high school to go to a good college even though I have no idea where/what, then I’ll kill myself through that being a good student and stuff, then I’ll be out of school and have to get a job and I won’t have done anything for me. Even summer’s not going to give me a break for a long time yet, besides the fact that we only have 2 months of it this year I’m taking Consumer Ed in summer school to get ahead in credits because I’m taking 4 years of all academics, band, and spanish so I can’t fit their other required classes in otherwise.
I feel like the only reason I try anymore is because I’m fricking terrified of failure.
This sucks. Music is the only thing keeping me sane right now.
235) Hey, there’s nothing quite like seeing your favorite band, huh? Sounds like you had an awesome time! and lolll believe me in a setting like that you don’t want to be on the floor. Although that crowd is different from the crowd I got thrown around in at the LBCC…the things I do for music…
:c I’m sorry you have all that stress…as long as there’s something to come back to and relax to, even for a little while, I think that’s something to hold on to.
234- Same where I was. Not incredably hot by the thermometer, but enough for me to wrap my hair in braids around my head and walk around with a washcloth on my neck.
235- A fellow Modest Mouse fan? Yay! Personally, I like ‘Third Planet’.
I’m coloring my hair. Or at least part of it. the tips, actually. Black. Just think of a vixen’s tail, with blond and black. Jeps.
Svmer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweþ sed and bloweþ med
And springþ þe wde nu,
Sing cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu, wel singes þu, cuccu;
Ne swik þu nauer nu.
Sing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu.
Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu!
Yesterday I visited my new boarding school. It’s really nice. twentysix animals in all, including sheep and horses. I can’t wait to meet my roommate(s). I already made an aquaintance, named Nanna. She’s very nice. And the school gives you a laptop if you don’t have one yourself, so i’ll be on here a lot more often.
240- Yay! We all love you, Vixen!
Along those same lines, I’m visiting the new private school I’m going to next year. It’s a christain school, and it’s really small, but the teachers seem nice. I’m sitting in on a few classes in the morning. Wish me luck, everyone!
240-Yay!!
There were a lot of really long posts on here.
I should be studying for finals, so I’ll leave you with some youtube suggestions.
Charlie Bit Me and Buhlud both have a cute little kid and they’re really funny. The kid sounds like Chuckie from the Rugrats tv show.
I went to the beach with my family. I picked up a lot of icky trash and then built this really cool city with my brother out of sand, rocks and sticks. We made monuments, pyramids, harbors, walls, temples, canals, all sorts of cool stuff!
-238 I’ also a LOVER of Modest Mouse and REM.
227) I know what you mean. Ever since the Searoc was finished, I just been kind of looking for another RRR to get me back into Museblog.
229) *shudder* I can never stand to stay in my PJs past 10:00. Any later and I start to feel icky.
235) Awesome! I love REM!
*sigh* Well, my big valedictorian sister is graduating tomorrow. In a way, I’m relieved that the stress of the time will be gone, but I’m also sad because my house is going to seem extremely empty without her.
Just thinking about it makes my feel miserable. It must be terrible to be an only child.
245 re 227- Sphaere, yes. I came to Etheterre and Terenika both too late; I am quite frightened I should ruin either one with a careless word, and Terenika was abandoned long ago. RRR SMAS-TT is equally well-developed, and my ignorance at our nation’s past makes it difficult. FFT, the Empowered, Dreamland – all are comatose and past reviving. Terraformed… now, there is one, but again, ’tis of a perilous health. Mayhap this alchemical concoction shall engage my fancy and my will.
245 re 229- You and me both. Well, actually, I did today, but given that I woke up at 9:55, I believe I am excused. Or more condemned, as it happens.
Ugh; I have this terrible Frosh Trans homework, plus a page of notes for act IV of Romeo and Juliet.
227- My middle school does something like that every spring. Ah, the memories. The 7th graders are the Confederates and the 8th graders are the Union. We hide in trees and bomb the approaching Confederates. It’s fun. Except last year I stepped in dog poo and in 7th grade it was raining. We got so muddy, it was hilarious.
236- Actually, everyone there for REM were like limp fish the whole time MM was on. They were so boring… we deafened the ones sitting directly below us though, heh.
And yeah, the thing is all the things I can come back to right now have absolutely nothing to do with school, so… >.<
238- Yessss, love them. Albumwise I have Good News For People Who Love Bad News, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, The Lonesome Crowded West, This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About, and I’m stealing my friends copy of The Moon and Antarctica tomorrow.
I did get a bit of studying done. But I stared into space more. And hiked through the soggy woods (tornado warning wooo) to take another picture of the dead mushroom. Did I tell you all that story? I don’t think so. Odd. I’ve been getting more and more detached from MB. : / …
But anyway, I found a cool-looking mushroom in the woods, and every few days/weeks I’d go outside and hike to where it was and take a picture of it die. I’m putting them together into a big college thing called Death of a Mushroom.
Found out friday that it was actually a morrell, a highly prized and supposedly delicious type that people actually go hunting for. Like competitive fishing, only with more movement (it was what Michael Pollan went looking for in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, for those of you who’ve read it). Oh the irony.
“We are humming birds who’ve lost the plot, and we will not move, we have good news for anyone who loves bad news…”
How can we lose almost everything and still have too much stuff? Honestly, the only good thing about the fire (besides that it made us quite well-to-do for about two months) was that we no longer had to deal with boxes full of stuff. And guess what? Now we have to deal with boxes full of stuff! Argh…
Plus I seem to have lost my feather-and-fan scarf, Sphaere knows how long it’s been missing, but it’s probably in the same place as my dark blue sock…
*has revelation* *runs upstairs to confirm revelation*
Ohmigosh! I found it! My scarf, that is, not my sock. That’s the trouble with having such an elaborate suitcase as your chest-of-drawers (which also vanished, but it was probably too badly damaged to use anyways. It was right above the (mercifully) closed grate, so I guess the bottom got all scorched)–you tuck your stuff into little compartments and then forget. *strokes scarf* I’m ever so glad I have that little revelation. I also found my white scarf that has “Alice” embroidered on it.
I wonder if my sock is around somewhere…
*wanders off*
Today was amazing. Clarissa and I went downtown, and we went to this place that sells magical stuff, and hung around there for a few hours. It’s awesome in there. You can smell all the insense and candles and oils. I bought Friendship (orange), Ocean (dark/light blue) and Laughter (yellow) candles. And lavender and lime grass insese. They had all these cool signs that were like “shoplifting is BAD KARMA” and “shoplifters will be hexed upon leaving the store” and there was a palm reader guy, and pentagrams everywhere. It was really cool. I think we’re going to go to the little fair that they’re having net saturday. There were even robes for the hardcore wiccans.
hardcore wiccans? er…I didn’t know those types existed. I’m wiccan/liberal.
231 – That sounds fun!
247 – Haha, that could get chaotic pretty fast.
So, anyways, I recently started e-mailing the person who is going to be my roommate when I go to Washington D.C. for the eCyberMission National Judging. Not A or T, thank goodness, since they’re driving me even more insane then usual. She seems pretty cool. We’ll probably get along, considering that she’s on a team with 3 other boys, and you have to be pretty crazy/tough to attempt that. She likes surfing and reading, too, and I can’t imagine someone who likes surfing and reading and who did a science project on why people don’t wear life jackets being an awful roommate.
I can’t wait, despite the fact that 5 or 6 days with A and T will probably be pretty painful. It’s helped by the fact that C, who I like, is going too, but it will also just be plain fun. I think it’ll be more fun once we actually hit our deadline (June 11th), though, because then we have over a week to just relax. I’ve spent most of the past few days doing nothing but working on this project, and it’s boring me to death by now. If only A and T were decent writers, so I wouldn’t have to rewrite all of their posterboard elements completely to make them sound decent. The ones they write are pretty awful.
For no apparent reason, I have just gotten a bloody nose. Ugh.
159 – Congrats!
162 – I really don’t like anybody running right now. I saw a poster “Servo (from MST3K) for President” the other day….if only!
173 – Is it one of those Rocky Horror live things? My city used to do them, but then the troop moved. I really miss those midnight showings.
180 – Why the alienated feeling? I sometimes feel out of place too, but there’s always a niche for everybody on at least one thread.
185 – Somebody died at our school too! He was going to be a freshman next year.
It’s depressing that it’s apparently such a common occurrence. I go to a small school, so I never expected to have that happen!
189 – Awk, that’s my problem too. Whenever that paper clip appears I spend all of my time making him do things instead of writing my papers!
204 – Whoa! And here I always thought that the west had much nicer weather than the midwest-south (seriously, which one is Kentucky? No one here can agree!).
211 – I know what you mean; most of the people who were on here when I joined are long gone. I think that getting older does have something to do with that. The older I get, the more things I have to worry about. When I get that overwhelmed feeling, especially during the school year, I tend to stop checking the blog for awhile, and then when I come back there are so many posts that I just give up for long periods of time. It is worth staying, though; once I sit down and read through those posts, I always find something to remind me why I loved the MB and give me the motivation to post again.
230 – Tallship sailing??? That sounds amazing….sadly I, too, am broke and the closest thing I’ve seen around here to a tallship is a houseboat.
235 – Sweet! I just went to my first real concert here, Nightwish live.
The new singer is actually really good in person. It was extremely hot and crowded, but people were fanning the band from the front row with Finnish flags and everybody was dancing around, so it was worth the heat. Live performances are so powerful; I definitely want to see more. *concert addiction forming*
240 – Awesome school and dye scheme! I don’t know anything about hair dyes. Is there any way to dye Brunette hair dark colors without having to bleach it first?
250 – Sounds like the one in my city. It’s tucked into the corner of a building with the owners’ apartment above it, so it’s always really cozy.
Eeew, it’s currently 90-something Farenheit, which wouldn’t be too bad except that the humidity is absolutely crushing. Even with the AC cranked up you can feel it.
Does anybody know of a good, natural mosquito repellent? They’re breeding like mad and swarming me whenever I go out, but I’d rather not drench myself in DEET 24/7. I think there was a Muse article a few years ago about catnip as a repellant; whatever happened to that?
Ack. Opal has a bike.
I refuse to be jealous.
But Opal couldn’t even ride a bike until today!
I will not be jealous. NOT. NOT. NOT.
I have needed a bike for months. Years.
I WILL NOT BE JEALOUS.
Argh.
NOT. JEALOUS. NOT. JEALOUS.
gvgf
253 – Weird! I’ve never had one!
254) Sorry. I can’t think of any that I know. Sadly, all of these natural uses only work for certain strands of mosquitoes, so they never totally work 24/7.
256) Never? Wow. I hardly ever get any, but when I do they seem to occur at the most inconvenient times. For example, one Sunday morning, during our preacher’s sermon, I got a bloody nose and I ran out of the sanctuary with my hands covering my face. I sure that brought an awkward silence.
I think I’ve had a bloody nose once or twice, back when I little. I haven’t had one since we moved here, maybe it was the heat.
My mother is friends with the owner of the Bosnian restaurant, so yesterday she (mother) went to go give F (owner) a jar of rosehip jam she (mother) got in Santa Barbara, and came home with a bag of lovely food and some delicious candy. So I had a very good breakfast. If only I know how to pack it up for school!
211-a really bad old movie. the trailer is on youtube, look it up. it’s great.
254-yep
255-aww, that sucks. i refuse a new bike, because my brakes are half-dead and i’ve gotten so used to them that i always stop way too suddenly on bikes with decent brakes. but i could not live without a bike, it’s a bit pathetic.
254 re hair dyes-if you dye it a really dark colour, but you generally should bleach it or it’ll turn out weird.
REM v MM-REM has some really good songs, but then they also have some pretty bad ones. i would have to go with MM on this.
don’t worry, we had a last-minute sleepover and stayed up all night watching mel brooks and playing would you rather. ebeth is hyper wheee
I want an iPhone! 3G! GPS! $199!
*Faints*
Sorry, I just really want one…
260-what is so fascinatingly different about the 3g? two people have said that to me already…
no, i wasn’t watching, shame upon my lack of geekiness
256- I’ve never had one either, my sisters get them a lot though.
Well, my school expedition went well today. I had fun!
257 – Never. Ever.
251-There really is no such thing as hardcore wiccan. I just meant that they actually live the lifestyle, with robes and hats and caultrons and everything.
Ugh. We went to DC. It was burning hot. I died. And I got sweaty, and someone dumped water on my head which curled it (“sorry, I forgot you straighten… :evil:) and I lost hearing in my left ear and I can’t get my shoes off and I had to sit next to Erica on th ebus because everyone hates me.
Whoops. I forgot to mention that we just HAD to go to the Lincoln Memorial and missed all the air-conditioned busses and had to just settle for putting the windows down.
Okay. I’m done. I’m sorry. Won’t happen again.
I get many bloody noses. Every winter before this one I get them around 4 in the morning several days a week due to dry air, then they bleed for a half hour or so. This year we put a humidifier in my room and it really helped. I still get random ones though.
I just found the coolest webcomic called Argon Zark. It’s about an inventor who travels through cyberspace and ends up facing crazy monsters and bad guys.
261- faster, and better voice quality.
*sigh* I am very sick. Alas because I had a scrachy throat last night but I convinced my mother that I wasn’t sick. (she would have made me drink Pheraflu :eek:) Well, I wandered around the house in a daze for about half the day and then mom took me to the doctor. I’ve never felt that sick ever before. I ended up sleeping for 6 hours after that on the couch. I haven’t slept during the day since I was 3 years old.
And you know that I’m sick when I forget to eat lunch. That’s just unheard of. 
225~ I’ve been wondering about Grant myself…..He seems to be there all the time and then just disappear with no warning to show up was later.
Anyway, if he reads this, I may be going to Jamestown sometime this month, so if he wanted to have the Kokon. that we were considering before down there, to reply to this post. (Or anyone else who might be able to make it down there sometime, really.)
IT IS SO HOT HERE I AM GOING TO MELT INTO A PUDDLE OF STEAMING LIQUID. It
s been so hot for the past few days, UGH and it’s only JUNE for heaven’s sake!!!! I hope all summer isn’t like this. Hooray for global warming.
Beavo-That wiccan shop sounds nice.
My brain has recently decided that it is done with life. I am nearly incapable of thinking straight, and I can not remember a single thing about taekwondo.
I had to break boards today and I just couldn’t do it. Normally when I can’t break it’s because I don’t have enough power, but today it was because I couldn’t kick. I had to do a side kick then a round kick, but instead I combined them and made one totally useless kick.
I have finals tomorrow. Unfortunately I do not predict being able to think about anything on them.
I also do not predict myself getting enough sleep tonight. Yay. At least imsomnia is good for my inspiration of new stories to write.
Ok too much complaining. Bye.
270-aww that sucks
271-he’s alive, don’t worry
272-heh, finals. i remember those. *gloats* jk, good luck, you’re almost done w00t
i need sleep. i just figured out i’ve gotten 7 hours in the past two days. oh summer.
273~ Oh, that’s nice to know. You keep in touch with him then, I presume? If you wouldn’t mind, tell him to drop by now and then.
Umm, what interesting things are going for me……besides being roasted to death…..I’m totally brain dead right now.
I learned “Nancy Dawson” aka. “I saw three ships” or “here we go round the mulberry bush’ on my concertina tonight! And, umm, I got my bow rehaired a few weeks ago. Yeah, exciting, I know.
253 – Weird, they always seem to happen at inconvenient times. I got one in an airport and the whole travel group had to wait for me to go wash my face and hands because “they won’t let you through security with blood all over you!”. Lol.
Are there ever going to be back issues of Muse available again? I just re-organized my collection today and realized that I am missing six volumes (#4 from 1997; #6, 7, and 8 from 1999; and #6 and 9 from 2000). I guess they got lost when I was moving, argh!
So, we learned today that our principal likes to make us feel as stressed as possible during finals week. I guess to get us used to it before we go off to college, but seriously, I thought Mr L was a decent guy. *sigh* Oh well, but I’m already done with my finals for Science, Spanish, and English. We weren’t supposed to have another final in Acting, but now we have to. *scowls* And I’m not sure the PE final counts, since all we have to do is act like we care, and we’ll get an A.
Well, g’night all.
276) in my sleep deprived and stressed state, I read that as “we learned today that our principal likes to dress like a lady”
CLEARLY SLEEP IS NEEDED.
good luck everyone who is taking finals this week and beyond. I hope the last functioning areas of my brain make it out intact.
*screams* I don’t exactly remember when I’ve been more frustrated- or hurt- than I am right now. And so, I turn to ye, O wonderful friends whom I hope one day to meet, for apparently, I’ve none left that I can have contact with.
All right, so after we moved to Denmark a year ago, I was put into the eighth grade at a somewhat descent school. The teachers liked me, because I was bright and easy to teach, but soon began to detest me when they discovered that I already knew what they wanted to teach us, and I have a rebellious streak.
I did not fall easily into place with the class, getting into a fight with one boy which ended in his expulsion, bickering with the girls when I tired of their trivial talk, and ignoring the complete computer game nerds in our class.
And so it’s been getting worse and worse. I’ve reached the point where I’ve been sleeping directly after school in an attempt to pass the days quickly, reading the same old books again and again, and basically feeling miserable. My feeble attempts to make friends failed.
Until Vicki came. She was bright, wonderful, beautiful, depressed, and still in the dark after her father’s death two years previously. She was perfect. And, I hate to admit, a shining beacon which may indeed have woken me from my slumber. I loved her. Friendless and bored as I was, she offered everything I oh so desperately needed. And seeing that this girl was my life thread, I tried to pull myself out of the waters.
But she did not need, nor indeed want, me. She balked at my attempts to be even commonly friendly, writing a letter to the teacher that she thought I was ‘crossing her bounderies’. Apparently, her bounderies were crossed if someone came within a mile of her desk, which ironically was right next to mine. But I respected her wishes and backed off. Far enough that I could see that the chances of friendship, which had always been small were by now impossible. But how could it be wrong? Why was it that every time she spoke to me it felt as though I were saved, the lonliness beginning to wear off, a chance to escape the darkness. Somedays I was even happy- momentarily. In Egypt, we ate ice cream together for dinner one night. I was happy. And it seemed like she was as well. And then she did it again. I’ve received instructions from the teacher to ‘leave her alone’ and to ‘stay far away from her.’
But that’s not what makes me so hurt. Vicki doesn’t exactly come to school every day, but she is not a sickly childs. In that, she cuts class often. Apparently, when our teacher confronted her, she blamed it on me, saying that she was ‘scared’ to come to school in case she ‘flipped out’ on me.
But why? Why her? Why does she need top be so overly depressed, it’s not only her that has a difficult life. She has indeed lost her father, but she knew him, all I have to know my father by are resentful stories of steroids and suicide, and a distant half brother and half sister, whom I have not seen in nine years, and whose names I barely remember. AND VICKI COMPLAINS! She hasn’t been dragged out of house and home and forced to move to a different country, leaving pets, friends, and family, all of whom you will possibly never see again- TWICE!!!!!!!!!! I went eight years without seeing my great aunt, whom I used to be so close to. Six years without seeing my grandmother, six years watching across an ocean as my two cousins sprouted to eleven cousins, Odin bevares! I may be a resentlful girl, but I can never forgive my mother for doing it to me so she can marry a man (whom I hated and hate to this day) after four months of knowing him. And then who does she come crying to when he turns out to be violent? Apologizing to me, her daughter, and begging for my forgiveness?
So, my fellow musebloggers, convince me to wake up tomorrow, for now I am considering skipping the rest of my classes and giving completely up.
*has cleared head slightly* *is still sad*
it’s lunch now. I really, really, really, want to go home.
No I don’t. I just need a vacation. To the US, and visit my best friend.
Hmmmm. Maybe post 277 should be on relationships thread. Sorry.
Just so everybody who cares knows: the begining of my COSMOS story is now up on the Books in Progress thread.
I’m so sorry, Vixen. *Gives Choklit*
277- Well, my sister’s principal is going to wear a dress today when they go see a movie. So you weren’t too far off the mark.
278- O.O That’s fairly awful. I wish you went to my school. Not that you’d like it, but at least we could hang out.
I’m not sure what sort of advice to give you, though. When does school get out for you?
280- Yay! I’ll read it later. I really ought to go make my lunch now.
I’M SO TIRED. I dragged myself out of bed at 6:30, after having pushed the snooze button four times, which really ought to have woke me up, but no. I don’t want to go to PE, or math, or … even English, and I’m too tired to want to go decorate t-shirts with EB and Kerri in tutorial. I will keep myself awake with thoughts of Shakespeare. *thinks of Shakespeare*
278 – Oh, wow. That sounds awful. *runs around amassing choklit to give to Vixen* As Alice said, I wish you could come to my school. I hope everything works out.
281- Thank You. *eats choklit ravenlously*
282- I’m sure being with you would make everything better. School gets out the 27th June. Thanks. *shares the tiny piece of choklit she has left*
IT’S SOOOOO NICE TO HAVE YOU GUYS!!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!
And thanks GAPAs, for creating and keeping this wonderful place for us to meet friends on.
And the nice thing about here is, that we are all friends. *takes deep breath* WE ARE ALL MUSERS HERE! *ducks*
Vixen, that little story made me depressed.
285- sorry. *sends choklit* I feel a bit better now. But I might not be going to school tomorrow.
*in little voice* mom just atlked with vicki’s mom. was.not.pretty.
*rolls eyes* my previous coment under the name ‘Happy Days’ shows why I am horrid at alter egos.
283- One day or other I’m sure we’ll run into. *waits greedily for choklit* *snickers* I bought a bakery cake and ate it. ALL BY MY SELF. *tries to look dignified* Heh. It cheered me up.
287- I’m even worse. I’ve done it 7 times
So, I graduated from 8th grade yesterday. 8 AM, Monday morning. How the cake do they expect anyone to show up? Apparently it’s a tradition to do it on the day before the last day of school for the rest of the school, which is total wung buttons. Fortunately all my extended family was able to come. Unfortunately, it was extremely hot. And sunny. For some reason, I didn’t sunburn, which I suppose I should be thankful for.
We were lined up according to height and paired with the person of the opposite sex who was closest in height to us. Then these randomly assigned pairs were supposed to march in order through a flowery arch
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and take up our positions. After a couple of songs which were really well done, and a couple of speeches which were so high on the perky scale they made Disneyworld employees look like undertakers (perkbleh) we walked up onto the stage and got a handshake, a congratulation and an envelope marked DIPLOMA. Which was empty. We were supposed to line up in the gym in alphabetical order and get our real diploma. Along with a chocolate bar. It was wrapped with colored paper with a bunch of “Nutrition facts” on the back, such as “Good friends…. 100%. Terrific memories… 100%.” The perkbleh nature of the wrapper was only heightened by
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the fact that I couldn’t eat the chocolate bar.
Fortunately, the day went uphill from there. We all went to a small teahouse/Armenian restaurant that was so H&Hesque I kept expecting to see a bunch of wungs pouring my Red Bush, or Lady Bunniful playing the piano in the corner. I had a cashew chicken salad with raspberry vinaigrette, which was out of this world, and my extended family (who have wildly differing political and ideological views) managed to enjoy themselves without getting into an argument. Not to mention the yummy cinnamon roll. Then I came home and found, to my eternal joy, a NEW LAPTOP. FOR ME. I’m typing this on it. Stlll working out the kinks
, but it’s a wonderful thing. And today is the first day of summer vacation.
In addition to the shrinking comment box, the scroll bar bounces up and down when I type quickly. I’m switching to Mozilla, and hoping the PoPoPo will give me an exemption due to extenuating circumstances.
get firefox.
289- CONGRATS! how old are you?
293- get milk.
293- Yes, I just switched to it, which solved both problems.
I hate it when people ask “What grade are you in?” during summer vacation. I don’t care what it says officially. Summer vacation is a transitional state. Nobody is in a grade during summer.
The seniors at my school thought it was really funny to egg my locker.
Egg yolk + 90 degree heat = yech.
When the ninth grade graduated about a week ago, they dressed in drag or funny costumes, gave their teachers funny gifts, and then poured water on us eighth graders. And then completely covered us with shaving cream. And then gave us candy. I got a whipped cream pie in my face because I tried explaining the kokonspiracy to them, which was very sweet of them. Then a couple boys gave me a three kilo bag of licorice caramels. I was soooo happy. Why couldn’t my class be like that?
*update to Vicki story*
Well, apparently, Vicki has cracked completely up. No seriously. my mom called her mom, my teacher, and the the vice principal. My teacher said that it didn’t matter if my feelings were hurt because the school year was over. Vicky’s mom ket saying that I have problems too. And the vice principal, who was on my side all the way, said that he would give me an icecream cake if I promised not to skip any more classes, beause he said that if I, whom apparently a lot of the class depends on, skipped the last two weeks of school, all hell would break loose. I am looking forward to my icecream cake.
297- I wish I had your vice principal.
We got out on the 5th. Everyone in my grade packed silly string in their back packs. After the bell rang, the fifth graders screamed and tried to get us with the silly string and we hid and got them too, but we were still covered in string when we got home. On our last game of soccer, we surprised the coach with water balloons
and we were undefeated. Tomorrow I have a doubles tournament for tennis too. I’m so happy summer is here!
(297) I don’t know: an ice-cream cake in the face could be a little uncomfortable.
286 – Thanks. *sniff*
ice cream. . . cake. . . cold. . .
i’m roasting. our power’s been out for three days now, thanks to a lovely tornado/thunderstorm/Michigan weather. We’re running a generator but it only gives enough power for the essentials – fridge, well, and computer. no air conditioning. *melts into a puddle on the floor*
nice, friendly electricity company says that we should have power by Wednesday night. nice, friendly electricity company has us on the bottom of their priority list. very nice and friendly, oh yes.
282-Have you read it yet? *Waits*
302 – You sound like Gollum. “Yes, nice master, oh yes, very nice, very friendly and nice master…”
295- It rising ____
POSOC- Congrats! That restaurant sounds flamablamablous. I do believe that’s the most I’ve ever heard about your life outside MB.
297- Icecream cake! Yum. But it’ll be better if you scrape off all the frosting first, because that stuff DOESN’T FREEZE, and therefore must be made of some strange unearthly material that is bad for your health.
I can’t type today.
303- I’m about too.
-305 “Yes master, nicccce hobbit, nice master.” *hops over a few rocks.* “Come hobbitses! not decent places!”
278-*gives cartloads of choklit*
Vixen: I’m so, so, SO sorry. That was seriously depressing. But look at the bright side, at least it’s SUMMER where you can worry about SUNBURNS and greasy SUNGOOP and gritty SAND SAND SAND and not have to worry about life sucking.
Anyway. *truckloads of Cholkit for the next five months sent straight to your bedroom window by owls*
306- Tell me what you think in Books in Progress.
If we ever hold a Kokonvention near my town (unlikely) we must go to that restaurant. It is amazing.
309- Or, if you live in NW Oregon, then you worry about DRY SOCKS and WASTED SWIMSUITS and RAIN RAIN RAIN. Ugh.
Vixen- that was a depressing story. Almost as depressing as the life of Charles Schultz. But all will be swell because WE ARE HERE TO HELP!!! I wonder what kind of ice cream cake it will be? Your vice principle sounds very, very nice!! ^_^
312- or if you live in northern IL, you can look forward to DROUGHTS, and NONE WORKING AIR CONDITIONER in a CLOTH SEATED car. Or maybe even the occasional HEAT STROKE, and sometimes PLAYING TENNIS IN 90 degree weather for 4 HOURS, and SMELLY SOCKS, even more smelly WET DOG, BORING DAYS spent at home doing nothing but try to sleep, or eat. Yes, a very fun summer indeed!
278~ Ouch. This girl, Vicki, sounds like she’s not to be trusted. I’m not trying to hurt you, because I know you want to be friends with her. However, someone who is on again, off again, and who blames you for skipping class, cannot be trusted. I know it is painful when you want to be friends, and someone is resisting every step of the way. I would recommend trying to give her some more space, or try talking to her and tell her that you’d like to be her friend. If she says no, then respect that, and she will feel better for it. Although it’s hard, there’s really nothing you can do if someone is determined to avoid you.
I know it hurts.
You can always count on us at MB though, even though that’s not the same. But it’s a start, and if I ever get to Denmark, I’ll be sure to let you know!! Or if you’re going to be in my area…..
I DISLIKE FINALS INTENSELY. *melts*
312–I went to Oregon once! It rained the entire week we were there. I didn’t mind it much, though. And in my earth-science nerdiness I was able to explain just why it rains so much there.
*melts more* Maybe if I slept, it would help. Good night.
Today during tutorial, the art room nearly caught fire. I was there. There was this funny smell, and then the teacher turned off all the lights, because, she said, the outlet into which the kiln was plugged had begun to smoke, and then to give off sparks. The entire room smelled awful, and the principal came in and flipped some breakers in order to make it stop.
316- like whoa.
he’s so funny.
One time, my science teacher set a twinky on fire and launched it across the room into the sink. It missed so he took a bucket of water and poured it on the twinky. After that, he gave us a lecture about why you should never light twinkies on fire, it’s very dangerous.
Hey, lookit that. Forty minutes after I vowed to go to sleep, I’m still here.
Vixen–Would hugs help? If so, HUGS HUGS HUGS HUGS HUGS HUGS! I don’t understand your teacher’s logic at all. Yes, the schoolyear is over [or nearly so]. Why would that mean that it’s okay for you to feel worthless? Clearly, this teacher doesn’t care about [his? her?] students at all. O_o
But since it’s summer, you’ll have lots of free time. Don’t hole yourself up in your room; you have to get out and do stuff if you want to meet people. Go for a walk in a park or down your street or join a group of some sort. Many museums offer art classes, and in the ones I’ve taken I’ve been able to meet some very nice people. Perhaps you play a musical instrument that you could teach to small children on your block? Teaching can be rewarding, especially teaching adorable small children ^_^
Well, I hope my suggestions helped, and remember that you always have a small army of MBers waiting to cheer you up with virtual choklit at any time.
Hullo, just dropping in to say “I’m not dead! Yet, anyway. Road trip coming up later this summer. Remind me to buy a big knife… hoo boy.” How is everyone?
There have now been more than 10 minutes between the submission of the post on the “Muse Scouts” thread and the absence of “Pie Wars 2008” thread. Patience is not a virtue that the NPWL endorses. Failure to comply with requests by 9:40 will result in full-scale invasion of random thread. You have been warned.
319- Huzzah! You’re not dead! I’m fine, how are you?
(319) Welcome, Mr. Chairman. Everything is clicking along nicely here on the blog. Where are you going on your road trip?
You have failed to create the requested thread by 9:40, therefore the random thread will now be assimilated.
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((Hello, Chairman! I’d love to have an intellegent conversation with you, but now’s not really the time…leading revolutions, you know. Glad you’re back, though!))
Impatience might sometimes be useful in pie throwing, but it doesn’t seem to have much application to the blog’s other stated themes: life, the universe, world domination, hot-pink bunnies, and everything. We Administrators think it’s too late at night, and too hot, to start a Pie War thread right now. You’ll just have to wait until we’re ready.
Nice typography, by the way.
Hot? Can I trade places with you?
320, etc. May I direct you to the Attention, Pie Warriors! thread. NOW.
*cleans up after IBCF!*
July 7-14.
Day 1- Kings Island.
Day 2- Kennywood.
Day 3- Washington DC.
Day 4- Baltimore.
Day 5- Philly.
Day 6- Allentown, Dorney Park.
Day 7- Home.
There is our schedule.
Major accomplishment today at school, while playing soccer during lunch: the other boys now beat me up just as much as they do for anybody else. It sounds gloomy, but it’s a good thing – really!
It means that they’ve stopped thinking of me as a female soccer player (One of the boys remarked “I don’t want to hurt her!” while facing me a few months ago. 
) and started thinking of me as just a soccer player.
Of course, it means I fall down a lot more, but it’s even more fun then normal, because everyone laughs a bunch and then is just fine. And I play barefoot then, too, so I’m kind of used to pain.
Unfortunately, though, this was the last day that I’m going to get to play soccer at lunch this year.
I’m still in denial about this school year ending. It, especially the past few months, has been easily my favorite school year ever. I’ve made tons of friends, even in the past few weeks, that are all graduating on Friday. I am going to cry so hard then… 
295 – I always use half-grades during the summer. 7 1/2th is a lot nicer then trying to decide between 7th and 8th. Besides, it’s fun to try to pronounce it.
297 – Your vice principal sounds nice. It must be nice to have an ally, huh?
316 – That sounds rather fun, actually!
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(325) Alice —
Midnight Fiddler and Beavo are both in my general area. Ask them whether you want to be anywhere near Washington, D.C., this week.
I realize that there are two possible reasons for the lack of attention I have received.
1. The GAPAs are too busy to make a pie war thread. Which is completely legitamate, all they have to do is tell me if this is the case.
2. People view me as an obnoxious, n00bish loudmouth who is vying for attention and attempting to disturb the peace. First of all, we haven’t had a full scale pie war for MONTHS. Secondly, why does it matter? When the new thread is created, the pies will be contained, and you can go on with all your intellectual discussions.
324- Erm. Ignore that last post.
331- As I said, remember the last pie war we had? The GAPAs were forced to close it down.
328- THEY haven’t spent the past winter (‘winter” meaning everywhere in between late August and early July, excluding a few nice hot days in February or April) in the Rainy Capital of the World, where in June it’s too cold to wear skirts. I would relish a few days in DC. Maybe I could go outside without getting goosebumps.
330 – Eep. Wonderful. Considering that I’m going to Washington DC on June 20th.
But I”m still wonderfully excited.
333- Woah, wait a sec.
1. I didn’t see Robert’s post until afterwards.
2. Okay, listen everyone: They closed down the “No, this is pie war” thread because people were using harmful, non-pastry weapons, such as swords and explosives. Also, people started getting into heated arguments and flame wars. The GAPAs did NOT close down the Classic Pie War thread. What I WANT is another Classic Pie War thread. Not an RPG, just a harmless, good old Classic Pie War. Maybe not now, maybe not for a few weeks, but sometime this summer. Okay?
336- Ah.
was that not closed down also? Well, it could be good fun I suppose. I mean, if it’s allowed…
338- It closed down because Zemtee won, remember?
339-I know. I thought it was closed…
340- No. See for yourself.
STOP TALKING ABOUT STINKING SUMMER!!!!
ITS WINTER FOR ME!!!
AAAAHH i might go “BORROW” my parents credit card, and buy a ticket home to visit good olf NJ. I need the warmth. and T and J.
and I could skip midterms this way.
hmmm possibilities
HOT? WHY ARE YOU COMPLAINING? Iy’s 15 degrees outside now. and it was sooo nice yesterday.
eh. Danish weather stinks.
298- He’s great.
300- tastes better than shaving cream.
301- *huggles*
302- I was visiting my aunt in Michigan, north of detroit (rock city!) when that ‘blackout 2003’ occurred. IT WAS HOT.
will be back later….
306- Eeeeewwww. I’ll be sure to do that. Yuck!
308- Thanks. *eats choklit*
Wait… I’ve been eating a lot of choklit, and dogs can’t tolerate chocolate. Can foxes? Or is it ok because it’s choklit and not chocolate?
*eats choklit anyway*
309- Thanks, Beavo. *laughs* I like sun. It makes my hair lighter. And I haven’t lost my tan that I got in egypt, so I should be okay with sunburns.
313- What happened to Charles? He’s the snoopy guy, right? (hey, I can’t help it, I’m a garfield person!) Thanks! *sends lots of love*
314- I may not have Vicki, but I’ll always have you! *shares choklit*
317- HaHAHA!
318- Thanks! I’ll be sure to check out any museums, that’s a great idea. *luff* And I’ll be sure to call upon this army if needs be. *hehehe*
319- Well, it’s nice to see you aren’t dead!!
I’m very HAPPY right now! It’s summer, and I’m busy working on playwriting! I just had my piano recital, also. As one of my pieces, I played “Four Minutes, Thirty-Three Seconds”. It’s a piece where you sit at a piano for 4 minutes 33 seconds, without playing. You’re supposed to listen to the silence. In my case, I listened to whispering younger siblings!
It was a fun recital, though. Back to the plays… I wrote an Eight Page play about The Scopes Trial for school. I then picked a cast from my class, and we rehearsed. After a while, we preformed! I also had to write something retrospective for reflecting back on all 7 years of Elementary School. I wrote a Twenty Page Play! Finally, one of my friends and I are busy writing a farce featuring the Nine Old Muses! When that’s done, I’ll send it in. Does anyone want to see the Scopes Trial Script?
336-i just went back and read that thread annnnd…come on guys, nobody likes a mary sue. just throwing that out there. for future reference and such.
So i’m possibly going to king’s island tomorrow and chilling with USY (because i’m totally jewish whut) and a couple other friends. only problem is parents still aren’t sure about courtney driving. so i still don’t know if i’m going or not, which is bad because i need to tell people what’s going on, since we would be long gone this time tomorrow. only 23 hours to plan at this point…
Oh, the pain…
Actually the pain hasn’t started yet, really, I’m just forecasting what will grow out of this current slight discomfort. Really, human feet just aren’t made for high heels. But I like this outfit, and I don’t want to try to dig up another professional outfit and waste all this precious MuseBlogging time.
The plus side of heels is that they make me closer to the size of my peers.
Today is a FINALS day. This is good for me because it means I have more time during lunch and break to finish my Trans homework.
Science- I get to watch other people perform their finals (I already did mine) and possibly get extra credit by asking questions.
Acting- I get to evaluate myself and the director. Whee, fun.
Trans- Job interviews! w00t! (Not really.)
Spanish- Nada.
346-I’d be interested.
Vixen- OMG! You need hugs! And choklit! And icecream cake! Don’t fret! everything will come out all right in the end! Keep your head up!
316) This year, the gang at our school got all its girls together and they set all of the girls bathrooms on fire at the exact same time one day! It was terrible! Because of that, our school began a rule stating that students can no longer go to the bathroom during class unless they are bleeding to death or something. Also, they only put one roll of toilet paper per stall in the bathrooms for the rest of the year.
342) Trust me. You don’t want to be over here. I would much rather have winter weather then summer weather. *over 90 degrees*
Ha ha! It was funny though! Because my parents finally decided that they should turn on the air conditioning when they found out the temperature was going to reach about 100 degrees that afternoon. But when they did, dust drifted up and set off our fire alarm. It was hilarious! The firemen came to our house and everything! Of course, a lot of them that came were my parent’s former students and the had a big laugh!
319~ Hey! We were talking about you not too long ago….good to see you back.
Ooh, what are you doing in Washington DC?
325 and 330~ No, you don’t want to be anywhere NEAR here right now. Not that i don’t want to see you, but today was refreshingly cool–only 80 something degrees in the shade and it actually felt cool to me. IT. IS. TOO. HOT HERE. FOR. HUMAN. HABITATION. PERIOD.
334~ As to getting goosebumps, the other day I got in the car and it was so hot that I actually felt cold….scary.
335~ YOU ARE?!?!?! Hmm, what are you doing there? Any chance of a Kokonvention? *schemes*
345~ Yup, of course I’ll be here, we love you! *hugs* Thanks for sharing the chocolate, too, would you like some of the truffles I got the other day? Here, try one, they’re quite tasty.
I’m going to Baltimore! June 26-ish!
325~ Oh? What are you doing there? Wow, it seems like many MBers are coming to this area.
sunburn + taekwondo uniform=pain.
I went swimming for about 3 hours today at my friend’s house, and now I’m like a giant human lobster mutant. Oh well, the pain and increased risk of skin cancer were worth it.
This is going to be the best summer ever!
Uh…Shouldn’t there be a second random thread on here by now?
355- why?
MY TERM PAPER!!! OH MY GOODNESS I GOT MY TERM PAPER BACK TODAY!! I GOT MY TERM PAPER BACK…AND….AND….I GOT….AN….
A+
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(i apologize for the excessive use of punctuation there, but this is worthy of all those exclamation points!! this is a ms. termini term paper!!!)
…an A+ on my ms. termini term paper…life is good.
356-‘Cuz it’s kinda already the 11th.
357- CONGRATS!
Summer has been pretty fun. but I haven’t had a chance to go to the pool yet. I don’t know why though ’cause I’m not really doing anything.
Hi folks!
Yesterday we had ANOTHER bad thunderstorm. Hardly anything fell, since the first one knocked everything out already. Almost. A limb from one of our trees fell, but I think it had already broken in the last storm and just hadn’t fallen yet. This second storm was mainly rain, lots of BIG lightning, and HAIL, big hail. We lost power for close to five hours.
Two major storms and two power outages in one week seems a little odd…
TCF-I missed something. Welcome back, anyway! Why you would expect a whole thread is the part that confuses me.
Vixen-Sorry to hear about your friend troubles. If you’re looking for opportunities to be a part of blog activities, you would be most welcome on the Zemtee thread. There you have the very important position of Great Chief of Fire and other Hazards. Your presence on that thread would be much appreciated, and it likely would be fun!
IBCF? What’s happening here?
Only one more day of school!
Red-tailed HAWK
I got 99% on my science final!
Hey, guess what? I got an award for viola at my school! ^_^ It was awesome! It’s in a shiny frame thingy! :O
360- I have started a new team, called NPWL (New Pie War Lovers). However, it will remain inactive until the GAPAs make a new pie war thread. If ever.
360- WHY DO YOU WEEP? The last day of school is a GOOD thing!
360- Well you clearly don’t live in Florida. It’s hurricane season, which means blazing temperatures in the 90’s, then thunderstorms in the afternoons. Every day.
361 & 362- Great!
And since everyone seems to be talking about swimming or complaining about not swimming, I am opening a wormhole that leads directly to my pool and everyone is invited to jump in!
Oh. My. Goodness. It is pouring here. Worst storm in…AGES. I am so happy my soccer practice is over. The rain is coming down in sheets, and there’s quarter inch hail. It’s suposed to get even bigger, too. The wind is going like crazy. It’s insane.
Neither my brother or mom is home, either. I feel sorry for anybody that’s outside.
Updates when anything major happens.
364 – NO IT ISN”T.
All of my 8th grade friends are graduating, and I don’t want school to end at all. Several of my friends aren’t even going to the same high school I’ll be going to next year, so I won’t even see them then. 
363 – Are you getting hit by the storm, IBCF?
The rain has mostly subsided here. There’s still thunder and lightning, though.
366- Well, at least I’m not totally alone in my northwestern weather woes.
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