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Awesome graphic! that seems like it’d be hard to carve in real life lol…though koko is somewhat boxy. man is it really october already. argh I have so much to do asfhksh
in response to jadestone’s comment on the last random thread, I don’t know what’s wrong but I hope things get better. I sympathize though…in the general sense…well anyway I’m unhelpful, but I’m always lurking if anyone wants to talk about anything.
-lurks-
I vaguely remember carving Koko on a pumpkin. Maybe that was someone else though. I know I’ve carved the eye of Mordor and my name in Tengwar before. What have you guys carved?
wow. Is it october all ready????
3- The months go by so quickly…
I carved a Hot Pink Bunny last year.
I think my brother might have attempted Kokopelli last year, but I’m not positive. I’ll have to go through the iPhoto library.
I love the graphc! Totally awesomenessnessness! I”ve figured out what I want to be for Halloween! An evil scientist! The only problem is, I don’t know where I can get a white lab coat.
7th post! maybe! this is the closest I’ve ever come to first!
well, this is my last day of no school because of rosh hashana
better make the most of it!
3,4- I know! It’s weird.
-is exhausted- I think I got too much sleep last night…because I haven’t been this tired recently.
Wow, awesome pic! Of course, it would be impossible to carve in RL…..Given the two (perhaps more) little pieces of pumpkin that are not cut out, but are not attached to anything….
I need to get a pumpking, and get carving designs…..and figure out if I need a costume (in other words, is there a party on campus I might go to on or around Hallowe’en for which I require a costume) and what that costume would be….I’ve considered ahving mom send me my Luna costume, except I hate wearing the same costume more than one year (you never would have guessed that when I was a little kid (like back before I really even remember) when i wanted to be a tiger nearly every year, and m,om had to make me at least two tiger costumes, because I grew out of my old one) and I’d be worried about what the postal service would do to it in transit…..they are very violent to packages–my sister got a package at school one that mom had sent, that contained a can of pineapple, and the postal service had somehow managed to bust the can of pineapple open, so it had leaked all over everything else in the package. Yuck.
Wow, I just realized–now that it’s October, (which I forgot until i logged onto Muse and saw the awesome graphic above) I can start wearing my Halloweens socks…..
Or not….I forgot I only had four pair of Hallowe’en socks here at college, instead of the approximately two dozen I have at home. so, if I were to wear them now, I wouldn’t have them closer to Hallowe’en, as I have no intention of doing laundry again (just did it the day before yesterday) until around the 26 of Oct.
5- I’ll carve one too! ^-^
I don’t know what’s happened to me. Middle school has somehow changed me into the kind of person that, in fifth grade, I hated most. A slacker, a crier, and a horrible soccer player. For three conscectutive practices, our coach has chosen captains to pick teams for scrimmage. And for three consecutive times. I have been chosen LAST. But last night, I broke down and cried. Then I cried about five more times that night. What’s happened?!
(9) In re: carving in RL (now, there’s a joke — that Real Life and I share the same initials). I thought about making the cutout more authentic, then decided the floating bits made the carving more of a “trick,” in keeping with the thread title.
Rebecca, I hadn’t even noticed the fact that real life had the same initials….looking back at my post with that fact in mind, my post could be interpreted with a totally different meaning…..one not very pleasant for you!
Kiki and Jadestone both carved Kokolanterns for Halloween 2006. (They’re posted on that thread at comments 23 and 97.)
No tricks, but I had quite a treat yesterday- seeing a Guttenberg Bible at the Morgan Library!
Excellent, as always!
12- Yeah, that happens. Don’t worry, life will just get better. After you leave Middle School, that is.
A Kokopumpkin! I love it! (And the other two too!)
The pumpkin’s awesome!
Attention, all Alice’s adventures in wonderland fans:
Does TIEGE mean anything to you?
In my book, Seeing Redd, sequel to the looking glass wars, (which is an adaptation of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland)
In that they have something that makes holograms and illusions called
Total ImmEx GamEs or something like that that has a captialized T, I, E, G, and E. does it mean anything in the original story?
Nope!
I broke my wrist today. I seem to be having some difficulty typing and taking my sweatshirt off.
22-Yikes!!! How did you do it?? *hands over sympathy pies* (I didn’t want to throw them at you.
)
Ouch, you have my sympathy Kokonilly! I remember all too well what broken wrists are like, having managed to fracture the growth plates of both wrists at the same time when I was nine (NEVER jump out of a swing…..) So do you have a long arm cast (halfway up your upper arm), or just a short one (a little below the elbow)?
Couple of random factiods (which may or may not be correct, they were just posted on the bulletin board in the lobby):
1. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book published in every Dewey Decimal category
2. The word “nerd” was coined by Dr. Seuss in If I Ran the Zoo–Hmmm, I have that book! (At home, somewhere)
(execuse any typos)
23 – they hoisted me up to get me over a jumprope and i caught my foot on the rope and toppled over
’twas for team building – challenge day. stupid.
24 – thanks. a short one.
23–to echo Syllabub, How did you break it? (I meant to ask in my last post) Also, is it your dominant hand? Cuz if so, how the heck are you going to write?????
Yeah, when I broke my wrists (see 24), I had a long arm cast on my left arm, and a short one on my right (my dominant hand). they wanted to put long arm ones on both, I think (I was anesthetized, as they thought they would have to put pins in, but fortunately didn’t have to), but obviously I wouldn’t have even been able to feed myself if they had done that!
it’s my left hand and i’m right handed so i’ll be fine.
thanks for the sympathy.
poor kokonilly. . .
2- dogbert.
20- I didn’t know there was a sequal! I love that book. those letters mean nothing to me.
22- *heal fast pie*. breaking stuff is
alwaysnever fun.I love the picture rebecca. it’s great. yay thanksgiving is next weekend i think. I love pumpkin pie. *mmmm…* and stuffing, when it hasn’t been meatifyed. I can’t wait. I love fall. the food, the colours and the temperature are all right. I think it’s about time for a thanksgiving thread.
28 –
thanks for the sympathy everyone!!!!!!! ♥♥♥
Hello!
Ew, breaking stuff sucks. *medical pie*
I remember carving my Kokopumpkin! It turned out great. And of course it got eaten by squirrels in the end…
@Wrist breaking- I broke my right wrist in kindergarten after being jumped on by my brother. I had a short arm cast but I had to learn to write with my left hand. It was waterproof, which was cool, ’cause I got to go swimming. I broke my left wrist in fourth grade after a poorly made scooter collapsed while I was riding it. I had a long arm cast for a while, then a short arm. It wasn’t waterproof, which sucked.
I ceratinly hope you guys didn’t throw those pies.
but thansk anyway. much appreciated. *takes sympathy pie, heals fast pie, and medical pie* 
Thanksgiving?
It’s one of the only things I miss about the states. That, and alligators. And Trick-or-treating.
And black bears.
Oh well.
I have never broken everything, at all.
I did however, twist my ancle friday, and since then, every single day, I have done something to twist it again. :X
32–WHAT?!?!?!?! You got a waterproof cast?!?!?! That is so not fair…..I had two definitely not waterproof casts, so for the entire duration of the time I had them, I was stuck having my mother wash my hair in the bathroom sink…..Not pleasant, not pleasant at all….Fortunately i was only nine, I would not be able to cope now with a non-waterproof cast
(34) Vixen — You have my sympathy. Whenever the world seems cold and gray and lonely, nothing snaps me out of it like cuddling up with a nice, warm, friendly alligator.
I finally decided who I’m going to be for Halloween!
Robespierre.
Guillotine + Victorian clothes = great costume.
It’s crazy how it’s October already. I just got used to September!
34- it’s annoying when you injure your feet. because that’s somewhere where you are often placing pressure. I fell on some rocks and wound up with a gouge in my heel right where I put pressure. *sympathy *chocolate*
(37) Pan — Robespierre should be fun, though not Victorian (he died 25 years before Queen Victoria was born and 43 years before she ascended the throne). Do you really plan to lug a guillotine around with you?
Robert (40): Yes, I know he’s not technically Victorian, but his clothes are Victorian-esque. I’m still working out the guillotine — I might just make a really small one. I’m definitely going to draw a red line around my neck and stitches, though, as he himself was guillotined.
22- Feel better soon, Kokonilly.
I think I know what I’m going to be for Halloween….. my character from BA. Yes, as in Bunny Apocalypse. That is, if I go trick-or-treating at all. I’ve gone with my best friend since I was seven, but since she’s in middle school this year and trying to act cool or something, she’s not sure if she’s going this year.
Oh well, times change……
I’m thinking of changing my name. Blogname, that is. See, I like the sound of Armada, but the meaning is kind of…. I don’t know, kind of silly? And warlike? So, anyway. I could be Queixada instead, I suppose….. Or Parafuso…… Or Macaco……. Naw. I’ve got to come up with something better than that. *leaves to go look up capoeira moves*
Pointeira? You know, maybe I’ll stick with Armada, unless you guys say differently……
Attention everyone: Come play Paker at the Muse Academy Student Lounge. It’s fun, and you don’t need to know how to play. It’s Calvinball with cards.
That’s a really sweet pic for this month. *is sad* I’m too old for trick-or-treating.
44- Stick with Armada. You’ll confuse me and, I’m sure, others, if you change it.
1 – Not to mention that the carving would be impossible if you carved all the way through. If you go to the Halloween threads of year’s past, though, you’ll see some Koko pumpkins. I made one 2 years ago, but I didn’t take a picture. It was really pretty good.
I was a Scrabble board last year, that was cool. But I want to have something I can wear to school… hm…
Ooh, and I was a “rummage sale victim” for my friend’s costume coming-of-age party. That was funny.
I always have trouble coming up with a good Halloween costume. I usually come up with it really late, but it still turns out well. I might do an inanimate object, that might be fun. Imagine trick-or-treating: “I’m a lunchbox.” or something. That’d be great.
44–Unless you just desperately, desperately, desperately must change your name, then please don’t! I will get so confused, and not know who you are.
45- I’ll join you in a game.
Nice pic, lady B!
45, 47-Oh, okay. I’m not really that interested in changing my name anyway, I just thought that if people thought it was, I don’t know, not fitting the MBer name mold?…… I mean, I was a neophyte, I was inexperienced, I was feeling like every post I wrote was idiotic, I was trying to take the focus off myself, and Armada was the first name that came to mind. I thought that most of you probably wouldn’t know its other meaning anyway (no offense, I was stupid back then). Queixada is hard enough to pronounce, never mind batuquierodeluanda.
47- I hate it when people change their names.
I’m going as Rosalie Hale, after she murders the guy who raped her. (Royce King). I’m going to acquire a wedding dress, then attack it with food coloring/kettchup, make myself all pretty and vampirelike, then hit the towns. My friend Vikki is going to be Alice, and Elissa= Esme. ^^ Twill be fun! We’re entering the Muse costume contest…
44- you could go with Amada. It means ‘loved’ in Spanish and sounds someone like Armada.
Best wishes to Kokonilly!
51- Maybe. But I need to explain something to the world in general.
Armada, in my name, does not mean a fleet of warships. I’m pretty sure that all of you think that’s what it means, but it doesn’t. It is a Portuguese word, meaning a slightly acrobatic spinning kick. Okay?
From now on, I will announce that on every month’s Random thread until you get it.
Maybe.
I like KMO.
Please ask me what that is.
-52 I like armada, it sounds cool.
I checked on an online dictionary and it does also mean an acrobatic spinning kick so, I get it!
53- fine what is KMO?
Armada!!!
For unknown reasons, I will say that my name means nothing really, it’s just that I watched Ghostbusters the other day so… yeah!!
My name has to do with kingdom hearts, or does anyone already know that?
I just wanted to ask someone:
In the muse academy RPG, what are wungs?
somebody said something like “wung, please bring me a slice of pizza” and can somebody please tell me what he was talking about, also, what are wung buttons?
Kokonilly- Ouch! -sympathy pies- I have never broken anything, but your wrist has got to be inconvenient. Not to mention painful.
Vixen- Alligators?
-blink-
If you say so.
Pan- Ooh, that’s brilliant! Only I’ve got to say, there is a huge difference between Victorian clothes and late 1700’s clothes. HUGE. Although I’m gathering all my information from English sources. I’ve no idea whether the French were way ahead of their time in the apparel department or not.
53- What’s KMO?
Ugh I am rather unhappy. I feel that I’m turning into an argumentative person and have no idea how to change that. I think it happened over the summer, when I formed Opinions. More Opinions than I had, that is. So now I’m Opinionated and argue my point of view whenever possible. I was sick of being quiet and “cute” when I was even acknowledged, so I opened up and voiced my Opinions, and now I don’t like who I’m turning into and I’m not quite sure how to go back to be quiet, or at least arguing less. Maybe I should keep a diary. Hmm.
Rehearsal was dreadful today because the director was sick and so our stage manager tried to manage us, but he wasn’t enthusiastic and neither was I. It seemed like the main objective was to get out of rehearsal ASAP, and since it’s all monologues, there isn’t much running of lines and stuff, which would be simpler and more fun. We tried to warm up but no one was leading, so we didn’t get past stretching. It was fairly useless and sort of quenched my enthusiasm regarding Shakespeare (we’re reading aloud a scene from Romeo and Juliet) and Light Design (we’re taking inventory, which would be boring, except it’s not).
ooh, that sounds cool (the arobatic spinning kick thing.)
I want to learn to walk on the kind of stilts that tie to your legs. I can walk on the mail order kind really well.
back to papers.
35 – i have to put a plastic bag over the cast.
). and inconvenient. meh.
53 – last year i was the only one on our team who DID anything. i answered all 200 questions.
42 (!), 51, 58 – thanks. it is painful (
13- Woah, I just realized that I have the same initials as you and real life! RL.
Though I did realize a while ago that I have the same initials as Ralph Lauren as well. Heh.
I don’t think I’m going trick-or-treating this year, as I haven’t since maybe two? three? years ago. My sister is though, and I’m thinking of a costume for her. ‘Tis a bit tricky.
Re: Pumpkin carving. Ooh, fun! Kokopelli pumpkin is very cool. I must think about what I will be carving this year. The past years have mostly been those typical boring jack ‘o lantern faces…
60–yeah, I wasn’t even given the option of putting a plastic bag over mine. stupid doctor. meh. Hey, on the bright side, as far as the pain goes, I don’t remember it being too bad after the first few days (but the again, it’s been 11 yrs, maybe I just don’t remember). Are you getting any pain meds? I know the doctor had me on some, at least for the first couple of days.
61- I won’t be trick-or-treating either. Thirteen was my last trick-or-treating year, which is fitting. I nearly didn’t go that year either. I was in agonies over it, and then I gave in. But last year I was almost completely costumeless. I wore a ball gown and blank mask to the Surreal Ball and a top hat and cape to hand out candy.
Maybe I’ll be a magician of some sort.
62 – he gave me a prescription. and that reminds me. i should take some. it hurts.
64-
. Here is some virtual choklits for your troubles. I haven’t broken anything in my whole life so far, so I don’t have much to add… but here be a wee bit more choklits. *dumps*
63- Magician sounds nice. What kind?
59-Yeah. But it’s an aCrobatic spinning kick. Parafuso is the aerobatic spinning kick.
Hey, everyone has to be an expert on something….
58- Knowlage master Open. Quizbowlish.
I’m thinking that i might be:
Shakespeare
The Gingerbreadman (for a particularly creepy costume)
A stormtrooper after a run in with a jedi (lightsaber embedded in helmet)
something museish
camoflage (glue shrubbery to black clothing)
Spike from SpecOps 17
Professor Abdullah Nightengale
or something completely different.
if any of these costumes just don’t make sense, feel free to ask.
66- mm, I just missed typing the c. This keyboard gives me far too many typos…
37) AUGHHHH that is awesome. robespierre was so silly.
well like I said I was never a big fan of trick or treating…I enjoyed the candy but really I can only do so much walking around. I don’t think I’ve gone since I was…11? maybe twelve. oh it’s been a few years.
57- Wungs are discussed here, mainly.
âœGhostbuster, have you visited the Welcome Thread? I think it might give you some direction.
âœArmada- my name is in Portuguese too! Although it’s the same in a few other languages too. I’d advise you to keep the name if you feel it suits you, but if it doesn’t, I wouldn’t worry about the people who may be at first confused by a change. It’s true that when considered, a war fleet is the first thing that comes to mind when I picture an armada, but I think it has become more of a name than a label. I don’t picture a jade stone every time I see a post by Jadestone. (Who has been feeling very sad lately.
)
Thanks Robert. And Axa. It means a lot…
Life right now is just really stressful and sad and I’m depressed and crying all the time. There’s a lot fo reasons and I was almost dealing with them until AP US History came along, and now Bandit, my ferret, is basically dying and I can’t do anything for her if she won’t/can’t eat or walk.
The last time I remember being happy for more than a few minutes at a time was frshman year, I think. Though the first part of that year was terrible.
Also nice pic. As Robert mentioned, I carved a Kokolantern, but not as good.
(72) Jadestone, I’m sorry to hear Bandit is in such bad shape. I became very fond of her during my days aboard the Black-Footed Ferret.
You were so welcoming to me during my early appearances here, encouraging me to step out into the lively dance that is MuseBlog. I’ve long admired your spirit. You may not be able to see your own strength right now, but it’s there. I hope life will treat you better soon.
72) that’s awful…oh my brain is so disordered, I was going to offer to do a study group for ap us and then I realized the obvious flaw in that plan! argh well…I’m not going to try to give you advice cause when I get really unhappy people telling me stuff doesn’t do anything for me.(also I don’t know how much perspective I have since we’re the same age…same horrible age…) but i will say that i’m thinking of you and bandit.
(72) It was a darned good Kokolantern, Jadestone. I’ll repost it here so others can see for themselves:
As for Bandit, a philosopher once said that all human sadness stems from two hard facts: things fade, and alternatives exclude. Unfortunately, animals usually fade before we do, so the joy they bring us is inevitably mixed with sadness; but the joy is what we remember.
72- Hugs and chocolate. I’m sorry about Bandit. Remember I care about you.
75) Awesome Jacko-lanturn!
Golly. I have a lot of poasts to read. *sigh* But I really don’t feel like reading them. I’lll justk read the top 10. 
Oh, Kokonilly has a broken wrist? Here’s some vertual choklit!
*gives* I know it hurts, but it’ll be well again in no time! 
72) *gives hug* Im sorry about your ferret Jadestone. It’ll be OK in the end though! Just keep your head up, I know you can!
72–*hugs* I’m really sorry Bandit’s sick, Jadestone. I know how horrible that must be making you feel (especially on top of everything else), and just want you to know that I’m thinking of you and that I care. *hugsagain*
22- Ow. Broken bones are painful. Sorry that happened to you, Kokonilly.
75- Wow. Great carving, Jadestone!
I’m home sick today. I actually don’t mind too much, because I’m not feeling horrible (just a persistent headache and some occasional dizziness) and I do have something to do. I’m just doing the same thing I would be doing if I was in class today (researching the Palus/Palous Indians, and it’s crazy hard to find any information on them) but I’m certainly more comfortable.
And I wasn’t really looking forward to school anyways. Socialness is complicated, classes are boring, Team would be weird because my Team leader told four girls from our Team yesterday that if they kept being loud they would have to leave the school. What the heck?
Yeah, so…anyways.
72- So sorry that Bandit’s sick, Jadestone. Ferrets are so incredibly cute…too cute to have to just die like that.
Almost everyone on the Blog is getting depressed, mostly because of school. *sigh*
72 – *hugs and choklit* it’ll be all right.
I have a genius idea for a costume. I am going to collect a bunch of Swedish Fish wrappers and make a shirt out of ’em.
How many Swedish Fish will you have to eat for that?
Well, I lived in louisiana. My friend once had an eight footer in her back yard.
Jeez, Jadestone. That’s a tough one. All my love and sympathy.
I have 6 or 7 wrappers, and it looks like I’ll need about 26-30 more.
Jadestone: I am truly sorry for the illness of your Bandit. I can’t really sympathize with a ferret (I’m a little scared of them,) but I understand what it’s like to have a sick/dying pet. If one of my kitty babies were to die… *shudder* I can’t even comprehend it. All my sympathy.
My mom just walked into my room and handed me my school pictures, which she picked up from school. They’re not bad – actually, they’re probably the best school photos I’ve had in a long time. It made me realize, though, that I should probably get a hair cut. My hair is easily the longest it has ever been, and I think I’d like it just a little shorter.
Sorry, totally random. xP
50- don’t use ketchup. it will atract bugs and get all icky and sticky.
88- Then what do you suggest I use? I certainly see your point…. ewwww….
87- We have school pictures on the 8th… I HATE taking pictures, I have freaky teeth that make me look rodentlike when I smile…
I haven’t been here in awhile, so here’s a short recap of my life:
school: takes up way too much time mostly with busywork
competitions: math team won our first meet and I got a perfect score, Scholastic Bowl hasn’t had any meets yet
piano: I’m playing Autumn Leaves.
trumpet: I’m last chair in Jazz Band II (but I’m in). I missed the first concert due to a vacation, and now the concert band is split, and I’m in the “good band.”
currently reading: The Odyssey for school, A Tale of Two Cities for pleasure
recently seen: Amadeus at the Shakespeare theater, A Tale of Two Cities and In the Heights on Broadway
That basically sums it up.
89- I’m sure it’s a lovely rodentlike smile.
Also, where are you going to get a mess-uppable wedding dress? Just curious.
82- I like Swedish fish. Haven’t had them in a while, though.
Hmm, how will you construct the shirt? Just sew them all up like a patchwork quilt, or glue them onto an existing shirt? Or something entirely more practical?
91- Aww, Raynpho, you’re making me blush!
Seriously, though, it is not a lovely rodentlike smile. It’s freaky; I can’t WAIT until I can get my teeth capped.
The wedding dress? Probably a thrift shop, or there’s a little place nearby that I’m told sells them for cheap.
75~ That’s an amazing KokoLantern!
So, I didn’t get a chance to read al those posts, you’ve been busy in the past few days……..ahhh!
Today I read The Giver by Lois Lowry. VERY GOOD BOOK. Everyone go read it…..now. All my schoolwork got sacrificed so I could read it, but heck, I’ll catch up tomorrow……..heh. *angelic*
If anyone remembers her, my friend fear the muffins says hi. I told her to come on here again too, and she said she was thinking about MB earlier today, so we may see her again. I might be able to get her on on Saturday, too. I get to go to a football game at her school (probably) and hear her band play……..should be fun, she said there are some cool pieces this year.
I’m tired. And cold. And hungry. I should probably get off the compy now, since dinner is almost ready and I’ll be called soon enough. But I just got on!! GAH. I haven’t replyed to my emails for several days….oops, sorry everyone………………..
Maybe tomorrow. :p
BYE!
YAY! Nice graphic, it’s flamablamablous.
With ripped jeans, a tie-dye shirt, peace necklace, round glasses, and of course my guitar (or empty guitar case. I cannot pick.) My friend has no idea what she wants to be. And we’re trying to pick one for her. Any suggestions?
I’m going to be a hippie for halloween
I was stupid enough to post an important post (for me at least) on the random thread at 9 pm on the 30th. Since I need responses, here it is again.
Remember that old “Bunny Invasion†game I was working on? Well, I’ve decided to get back to work, and I have a good idea on what I’ll be doing. But I’d like to let you guys decide on one issue- should I base it off of IBCF’s old stick figure animations or off of BA?
And yes, this means I am working on it again. I’ll set the release date for 1/1/09 so I’ll have plenty of time to beta-test the cake out of it. *off to work*
Thanks for the sympathy, all!
*is semi-squished by choklit*
94 – Good idea. *scribbles down*
93- The Giver is amazing. And disturbing. And awesome. A reread it last week.
94- *coughinaccuracycough* I lived around real hippies. It was nothing like that.
Then again, this was in the ’90s, some twenty years after the hippie movement died out. Maybe it was different in the beginning.
Jadestone: I’m terribly sorry about Bandit. I know what it’s like to have a dying pet, I have experienced it many times, although the more recent ones revived. And I can sympathize with the miserable social studies as well, except that mine got better. Anyway, -hugs and chocolate-
Meh. Meh meh meh. Rehearsal is taking its toll already. I love it, but when I asked for Wednesdays and Thursdays off, it looks like I’m not going to get that. I wish Mother would get home from the bike ride.
I finally took action regarded the sluggish pace of Spanish class and the excruciating boredom I get from it. I talked to my teacher, and she said maybe she could give me the next, like, six chapters and I could move on to Spanish 3. Which is exciting, since Spanish 3 is a more select group of students and hopefully will move faster.
93- We’re going to read The Giver for school, sometime…
I personally think that Hippie is a bit cliche. There were 5 hippies at the halloween dance last year. No offense.
We read The Giver + accompanying sequels for assigned summer reading. I swear, I could quote whole paragraphs if you would like, as well as elaborate on the main themes of the book, tell you about the symbolisms, and explain the intricate characterizations the author used.
Good wung, I never want to read that book again.
I was a hippie in 2nd grade, but I wore one of those cheap costumes from Party City which don’t actually look like the real thing. Meh.
90- Hi, person I met in real life completely by accident!
@Giver: I like that book. And Gathering Blue. Messenger wasn’t that great. We have to read it for school this year too. And Fever 1793 and Witness. Dystopian novels are always awesome.
98- I like social studies! Who else here has/had to take the Constitution test? Eurgh, it’s next week.
101(re: Social studies)- I like it…now that we’re not on worldviews anymore. But it’s mostly a lot of notes, a quiz every day, and some completely random activity. Pretty fun, generally, since I like quizzes.
I seem to be getting stressed so much easier and faster this year. It’s not like the work is hard, it’s more like the entire school situation is just draining.
I discovered what was wrong with my calc TA (y’know, the Indian woman?). She possesses a bright pink motorola cell phone–a clear indication that she has been taken over by the HPB!!!!! it explains a lot, really.
Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooood morning MB!
I lurve this months issue of Muse! Especially the characatures!
Oh la la……………..
My muse hasn’t come yet!
Or has it?
*goes to check*
nope. grrrrrrrrrrr!
well, ask already came. Yes, I still read ask. But at least I won’t be without reading material.
I recently read “The Name of This Book is Secret” by pseudonymous bosch, and it was AWESOME!
I would like to redirect everybody here
Please. It’s been utterly abandoned…..
89- You could use paint.
I personally hate dystopian fiction.
Tomorrow is Sputnik Day. I’m going to celebrate by looking for the space station and listening to the song Defying Gravity from Wicked.
Its FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
106) OK. I don’;t know what it is, but I’ll try.
107 – Kai, you would know what date is Sputnik Day.
TGIF for sure!!!!!
102- It may make you happy to know that I got JS&MN from TJMaxx for $3.99. It’s fairly good, actually, once you get over the daunting size…
BUSH APPROVED THE BAILOUT!!! HE’S NOT THAT STUPID!!!
http:// news.yahoo.com /s/ap/financial_meltdown
GO. READ IT.
(copied and pasted)
Congress OKs historic bailout bill; Bush signs it
WASHINGTON – With the economy on the brink and elections looming, Congress approved an unprecedented $700 billion government bailout of the battered financial industry on Friday and sent it to President Bush who quickly signed it.
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“We have acted boldly to help prevent the crisis on Wall Street from becoming a crisis in communities across our country,” Bush said shortly after the vote, although he conceded, “our economy continues to face serious challenges.”
Underscoring that somber warning, the Dow Jones industrials, up more than 200 points at the time of the House vote, ended the day down 157.
The final vote, 263-171 in the House, capped two weeks of tumult in Congress and on Wall Street, punctuated by daily warnings that the country confronted the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression if lawmakers failed to act. There were 58 more votes for the measure than an earlier version that failed on Monday.
“We all know that we are in the midst of a financial crisis,” House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio said shortly before casting his vote for a massive government intervention in private capital markets that was unthinkable only a month ago.
“And we know that if we do nothing, this crisis is likely to worsen and to put us into an economic slump like most of us have never seen,” he said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the bill was needed to “begin to shape the financial stability of our country and the economic security of our people.”
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson pledged to begin using his new authority quickly, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank would work closely with the administration.
Wall Street welcomed the action, but investors also were buffeted by a bad report on the job market. The Labor Department said employers slashed 159,000 jobs in September, the largest cut in five years and further evidence of a sinking economy.
At its core, the bill gives the Treasury Department $700 billion to purchase bad mortage-related securities that are weighing down the balance sheets of institutions that hold them. The flow of credit in the U.S. economy has slowed, in some cases drying up, threatening the ability of businesses to conduct routine operations or expand, and adversely affecting consumers seeking financing for mortgages, cars and student loans. Some state governments have also experienced difficulty borrowing money.
The House vote marked a sharp change from Monday, when an earlier measure was sent down to defeat, largely at the hands of angry conservative Republicans.
On Friday, 91 Republicans joined 172 Democrats to support the bill, while 108 Republicans and 68 Democrats opposed it. Twenty-five Republicans and 33 Democrats switched their votes from “no” to “yes.” One Democrat who supported Monday’s version, Rep. Jim McDermott of Washington, opposed the bill Friday. One Republican who didn’t vote Monday, Rep. Jerry Weller of Illinois, voted “yes” on Friday.
Several of the Democrats who switched were members of the Congressional Black Caucus who said presidential candidate Barack Obama had pledged to support legislation easing the burden on consumers if he wins the White House.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain also lobbied for the measure, according to aides who declined to release a list of lawmakers he called.
Following Monday’s vote, Senate leaders quickly took custody of the measure, adding on $110 billion in tax and spending provisions designed to attract additional support, then grafting on legislation mandating broader mental health coverage in the insurance industry. The revised measure won Senate approval Wednesday night, 74-25, setting up a furious round of lobbying in the House as the administration, congressional leaders, the major party presidential candidates and outside groups joined forces behind the measure.
In addition, the measure was changed to broaden the federal government’s deposit insurance program, and the Securities and Exchange Commission loosened a regulation to ease the impact of the distressed assets on the balance sheet of financial institutions.
Despite occasionally strong criticism of the added spending and tax measures, the maneuvers worked — augmented by a sudden switch in public opinion that occurred after the stock market took its largest-ever one-day dive on Monday.
“No matter what we do or what we pass, there are still tough times out there. People are mad — I’m mad,” said Republican Rep. J. Gresham Barrett of South Carolina, who opposed the measure the first time it came to a vote. Now, he said, “We have to act. We have to act now.”
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., another convert, said, “I have decided that the cost of doing nothing is greater than the cost of doing something.”
Critics were unrelenting.
“How can we have capitalism on the way up and socialism on the way down,” said Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas, a leader among conservative Republicans who oppose the central thrust of the legislation — an unprecedented federal intervention into the private capital markets.
It was little more than two weeks ago that Paulson and Bernanke concluded that the economy was in such danger that a massive government intervention in the private markets was essential.
White the main thrust of their initial proposal was unchanged, lawmakers insisting on greater congressional supervision over the $700 billion, measures to protect taxpayers and steps to crack down on so-called “golden parachutes” that go to corporate executives whose companies fail.
Earlier in the week, the legislation was altered to expand the federal insurance program for individual bank deposits, and the Securities and Exchange Commission took steps to ease the impact of the questionable mortgage-backed securities on financial institutions.
In the moments before the vote, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, pledged “serious surgery” next year to address the underlying causes of the crisis.
If anything, the economic news added to the sense of urgency.
The Labor Department said initial claims for jobless benefits had increased last week to the highest level since the gloomy days after the 2001 terror attacks. The news of the payroll cuts came on top of Thursday’s Commerce Department report that factory orders in August plunged by 4 percent.
Typifying arguments the problem no longer is just a Wall Street issue but also one for Main Street, lawmakers from California and Florida said their state governments were beginning to experience trouble borrowing funds for their own operations.
Pelosi said, “We must win it for Mr. and Mrs. Jones on Main Street.”
One month before Election Day, the drama unfolded in an intensely political atmosphere.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus credited Obama with changing their minds.
Reps. Elijah Cummings and Donna Edwards, both Maryland Democrats, were among them. They said Obama had pledged if he wins the White House that he would help homeowners facing foreclosure on their mortgages. He also pledged to support changes in the bankruptcy law to make it less burdensome on consumers.
Obama’s rival, Republican Sen. McCain, announced a brief suspension in his campaign more than a week ago to try and help solve the financial crisis.
Republican Rep. Sue Myrick of North Carolina, who switched her vote to favor the measure, said, “I may lose this race over this vote, but that’s OK with me. This is the right vote for the country.”
Myrick said she hadn’t heard from McCain as she made up her mind about how to vote. “They told me he was going to call me. He didn’t,” she said.
The vote on Monday had staggered the congressional leadership and contributed to the largest one-day stock market drop in history, 778 points as measured by the Dow Jones Industrials.
Random factoid: A baseball has precisely 108 stitches (according to the news board in the lobby). Inaccuracies not my fault.
91 – TAPE!!!!
Isn’t ANYONE going to ask me about the change to my name?
113–No, I already know what its about, from the HP summer 2007 thread.
89- I would personaly suggest food colouring. My friend was making a zombie costume and we used food colouring, which turned out fine.
today in gym we went to the weight room. One of the most enjoyable things i have ever done.. I have never done weight lifting before but it was crazy fun. *wants to do it more often* what do you guys think about weight lifting?
111- Well, I wouldn’t say Bush is a stupid as everyone thinks he is, he’s at least socially smart. I’m not sure what the bailout will bring. It’s so big that only history will tell, but I’m glad action was taken. I don’t like most of the bill though.
(I’ve been doing some research on hydrodynamics and they came up.)
112- And a golfball has 336 dimples. Can anyone tell me why it’s dimpled at all?
113- No. You waiting for someone to?
115-It’s pretty fun. My gym class does it too.
I’m so bored. I actually wanted to be social and hang out with people this weekend, but tomorrow is my school’s homecoming so nobody can do anything.
Next weekend is taekwondo testing, the week after that is “other school”‘s homecoming with my boyfriend, which will be fun.
After that I’ll need to hide in my room for a long time to recover from the human interaction.
And it will be NaNo soon after, so I’ll be cooped up writing all the time.
Hello everyone, I’m back from the chaos of my move to annoy people with my many exclamation points! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
116 – Well, can’t HURT, can it?
118- Why‽ Please, Why‽
119- Yes actually, it could. The market troubles now are huge and need to be confronted immediately, but what happens in 5 years when the president has any option en chooses to repay it? It doesn’t directly help those Americans who are in dire straights, there is too little oversight, and golden parachutes will still be legal. Is all 700 billion needed right now, instantly?
113- O.k., I’ll bit.
Hello. I got some new clothes today. Yay for second hand stuff! I got a lovely blue sweater, a pair of jeans, and several really nice shirts. *is happy* I realized the other day that I only had six or so long sleeved shirts, and it’s been so caking cold here that that was a problem. Now I’m covered (ooh, forgive the pun).
Tomorrow I’m going to a football game. At Katie’s (muffy’s) school…………….and I realized another thing about my wardrobe; I have no gold or purple items. Except the pony camp t-shirt from four years ago, but I am not wearing that for anything other than pjs. It still fits, but that’s beside the point.
So, I found some ribbons and plan on somehow braiding them into my hair (or what’s there of it, anyway), I also made a bracelet out of embroidery floss. Four strands, diagonal pattern, it took me about half and hour. I used to make those and sell them, so I can do them at warp speed.
I haven’t been able to practice in ages and ages…..and I feel like something is seriously missing. I don’t know if tomorrow I’ll even be able to play, since I’ll be gone most of it. Argh. I played my concertina today for a few fleeting seconds, but I haven’t touched my fiddle for a few days.
Ugh, I have to get my act together.
Goodnight everyone. I’m tired. Oh, no wonder, it’s late-ish. (I’m an hour after blog time)
we’ll see how tomorrow goes. If nothing else it should be……….interesting.
My school has Spirit Week next week.
Monday: Inside Out/Backwards Clothes Day
Tuesday: Twin Day
Wednesday: Crazy Day
Thursday: Opposite Gender Day
Of course, Opposite Gender Day is on the same day as the Sadie Hawkins Dance. Yeah. This is going to be interesting.
I’m not tired and it is like 9:00 here. Or 10:00. I don’t even know what I’m going to be!!!
I just missed my THIRD blogiversary by five minutes.
Good blog, I feel old.
122- No, go not to the Dark Side!
We had a pep assembly today. Pure misery for half an hour.
Also, our colors are purple and gold too!
I had my first night of filming tonight (one line and an improvised off-screen argument with my “sister” and “mom”). We took ten takes of the one scene. Fun, but tiring. And occasionally somewhat boring.
Also, I got forty pounds of makeup caked onto my face, and I’ve only got about twenty-five pounds of it off. -sigh- I’ll just take a nice long bath tomorrow.
Good night, everyone. I am exhausted.
111- Yay! Great! Now we taxpayers get to give $700,000,000,000 to the government to bail out some greedy wall street fat cats! And an extra $150,000,000,000 just to bribe some of the politicians to change their votes! For some mistakes that we* didn’t make! Of course, we could have gone after the CEO’s of these companies who got to walk away with millions of dollars and pensions, or allowed the greedy institutions to collapse so that the prudent banks could carry on and make this country have higher lending and burrowing standards, but no! We get to bail the companies out with our own hard-earned money!
*Yes, some of us are to blame for taking those stupid home loans in the first place, but the majority of us are not responsible for this crisis.
Happy Blogiversary Penty!
127- Our colours are purple and gold too!
128) “Greedy Wall Street Fat Cats”?! You should know that those “Wall STreet Fat Cats” are the people that are holding up our countries economy. You’d better hope that all of those “Fat Cats” don’t all loose their money or we really WILL have another Great Depression on our hands!
126- Yay! ^-^ My blogiversery is Nov. 6th, and it’s gonna be ignored cause of the start of NaNo. Cake.
121 – Whaaaa?
126 – :).
126- My third is in May. Wow…
My school’s colors are light blue and gray. But we don’t have a mascot or any sports teams, so for sports we just wear the blue and green of the other middle school in the district. And our high school is orange and black, which is cool.
126- Hey Penty! -pies-
Ugh, I’m so tired. And have so much homework. And I still have like about half an inch of makeup to scrape off my face, and I have to learn all my lines for tomorrow’s filming.
120 – Really? *feels very small*
130 – Good point.
My school colours are black and gold…..and we do have a mascot, but that, I think, would be too easy to trace to a specific college, so…….
Blogiversaries, huh? I think I started posting in March 2006 (for the IAT contest), so I s’pose I’ll be having my three year blogiversary next March. But, whatever, i’ve never really been concerned with that, so why start now?????
My school’s colors are… um… blue, black, and white. Our mascot is Lightning – Zapp.
126- hey there penty! My fifth blog/gaboomba aversiary will be this December. /FIFTH/ I’ve been here for ages…
My school colors are navy and gold but I had to look into that to find out as they don’t advertise what they are. My highschool’s colors were red and white.
126- ‘allo, Penty!
My third year blog-whateveryoucallit-versary will be in March. March 10th.
My school’s colors are black and white, and our mascot is a Unicorn.
My school’s colors are blue and white and our mascot is a bobcat. The district is pretty sports oriented. (And I know I spelled that wrong.)
School colors- Blue and Gold. Mascot- The Minuteman. This might get snipped because its obvious to where I live.
Our whole school district’s colors are green and white, and sometimes yellow, if we need an extra color for some reason. We are the [insert town name here] CORNHUSKERS! It’s a bit strange when we’re playing against some other district, like… “the TIGERS against the CORNHUSKERS!!” etc.
At homecoming, a giant ear of corn ran onto the field. Nobody could figure out who the person inside was, but he certainly had a lot of school spirit.
My 1st blogiversary is in one month and 7 days!
Penty! Hello!
MissSwann and I saw a kokopelli necklace today. She took a pic and says she’ll send it in….I almost got the kokopelli earrings.
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwthat was my cat, sorry.
Umm, let me think, do I have anything to say? Yes, there’s a book report that I have to write by Monday. Bleh.
On the bright side, I have two days off next week! Hooray!
Random factoids [accuracy unverified] from the news board in the lobby:
~It took 7 million dollars to make the Titanic, and 200 million to make a movie about the Titanic
~Colgate toothpaste presents a huge advertising problem in Latin American [I think] countries, because it translates as “Hang yourself.”
~Two animal rights activists were protesting the slaughtering of pigs, when a fence broke and 2,000 pigs trampled the activists to death, while trying to escape the farmers.
139: Woah, that’s odd–every thing at my school advertises the colours. And that’s not an exaggeration, they practically shout it from the rooftops, and if you go to a game [football] and don’t wear gold, then you are living dangerously (I have yet to go to one, it just doesn’t interest me).
Colors- Green and White
Mascot- Demon
This will probably get snipped…
Anyways, last night was the first football game where the band needed hothands to keep from getting hypothermia. It was fun- the clarinets figured out that if we blew warm air through our instruments, we could make steam come out of the end.
I just got back from volunteering two hours with the prevet club. We were doing a fundraiser washing cars…..It was actually kinda fun, except I probably got sunburnt, and despite the temp being in the 70s, I was getting quite hot [actually, back home in AK, the 70s is a hot summer day, because it rarely gets that warm]. Down here, I consider the 70s pleasantly warm, the 60s pleasantly cool, and 50s just a wee bit chilly~maybe sweatshirt weather (not bundled up like it’s freezing like all the locals).
School Colors: Maroon and Gold
School Mascot: Marlin
Uniform Skirt Colors:
Freshmen: Blue, red and green plaid
Sophomores: Blue and green plaid
Juniors: Grey
Seniors: Black
Apparently, when I am a senior, I get to wear the grey skirt. That’s fine with me. Black has always seemed too dreary for someone who always feels bright and cheery. Hey! That rhymes! I could rhyme all the time!
..126)o hay bb come here often
I jumped the gun on my third when it was in fact in august…lol at time on the internet. when I was your age I had to blog uphill in the snow.
I met Dava Sobel, the author of Longitude, today!
145 – I have a Kokopelli necklace!
150 – *copies*
School Colors: Blue, black, and white
School Mascot: Zapp (lightning bolt)
Color Day colors:
Freshmen: White
Sophomores: Grey
Juniors: Blue
Seniors: Black
Elementry school mascot- Coyote
Color- Green
Middle school mascot- Wildcat (this was TEN YEARS ago, mind you)
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Colors- Red, blue. (I’m not really sure. I’ve only seen the volleyball team uniforms.
Thanks to everyone who responded to my post, I don’t remember all the numbers but I read all of your comments and they mean a lot to me. Thanks you… *hugs*
For those of you wondering, Bandit is still not well. She’s not eating and is all bones, mom says we may have to put her down, which would be terrible, but better than watching her starve or something
Otherwise… comments…
My school’s colors are purple/gold also…
Oh Alice I was in B&N today and bought a copy of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, I know you love it so I thought it’d be worth it. Plus it was hardcover and pretty and only $7
Weekend at least… which means surplus of hockey but no school at least I guess. Though I should probably do my hw sometime… *sigh*
I probably should not be listening to the music I am right now as it can make me melancholy on normal days but it’s so good
My school colors are gray and purple and sometimes yellow. But mostly purple and gray. Our mascot is the hornet. We get called the Crackheads by our rival school because our school name has the word “crack” in it. I hate them. Just because they have a bigger school they have to be all snobbish.
Homecoming was today. And I didn’t go.
School colors are blue and orange, so for school spirit day, I wore an orange spelling bee tee-shirt and blue jeans. It’s my way of putting a twist on everything.
130- I know, I know…I’m just frustrated that we have to pay, when it’s the people on Wall Street who made the mess. Isn’t anyone else on the blog mad? No…most MBers don’t have to pay taxes…
158–Beg pardon? All US citizens pay taxes, be they newborn baby or ancient. Mayhap some parents pay their children’s taxes for them, but everybody is taxed. And I’m fairly certain that most MBers are from the US, although i do realize there are several who are not. (Vixen, Kagcomix, and I think at least a couple others I’ve forgotten.)
159 – Um, no, you don’t pay taxes unless you earn money. Well, actually you pay sales taxes on stuff that you buy, but I’m talking about income taxes. And if you’re a kid, your parents actually get a tax deduction because of you. So kids actually get anti-taxed, unless I’m very much mistaken.
160- No sales tax in Oregon! But we have to pay higher income taxes, which is worse than a sales tax.
160–Alright, if y’all are talking about income tax, then yeah, only working people pay taxes, but I’m sure (unless I’m just horribly, horribly confused) that even kids pay taxes (not income tax, and I don’t just mean sales tax). I’m sure dad was filling out taxes for me long before I ever had a job. If I remember right, the government started taxing children, too, so that parents didn’t just put money in a bank account under their children’s names in order to avoid paying tax.
161–AK has sales tax, or that is, some cities [towns, hehe, the only place most people might consider a city in AK, Anchorage (the largest city, 300,000, which is half the population of the state) doesn’t have sales tax. ‘least, I don’t think it does.)] do. Then again, as I just said inside the brackets, some cities in AK don’t–it all depends on where in AK you’re at…..
162 – Kids are dependents, but that’s about it.
Just got back from the beach, where we were filming. Basically I was an extra for most of the time and then we filmed as much of the crash scene as we could without the car (not much). So I have to go back tomorrow, once in the day and again at night. And I smell like bonfire smoke mmm.
Y’know, I’ve been thinking…..I’m sure I remember dad doing taxes for me long before I ever had a job (thus my apparent misconception that kids pay taxes) and I think I’ve figured out why. In AK, everybody gets a PFD (permanent fund dividend), and mayhap the government considers this a form of income and thus taxes us on it? If so, that would explain dad doing taxes for me when I was a kid….but I dunno, I could just be confused (it certainly wouldn’t be the first time).
Ok, on to other stuff. Could one of you recommend a really good, scary, horror movie for me? Preferably not one that is solely gore (i.e. “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: In the Beginning”). I don’t mind gore, it is often necessary for a good horror movie, but when the gore is the sole focus, well, it doesn’t make for a good movie. Because I would like to continue the tradition we had the last several years at home of watching a horror movie on Hallowe’en, but I’m afraid I don’t know of any good ones. I was hoping for a really scary one (y’know, one that will give me nightmares–and no, I have no idea why I would want to have nightmares…..) So, any suggestions?
My geog textbook is so bloody stupid: “Have you ever looked at a world map and noticed that a few of the continental landmasses….appear to have matching shapes, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle? The incredible reality is that the continental pieces indeed once were fitted together!”
No, really? I never would have guessed the continents used to be all connected. I mean, seriously. This is college, if you still need your textbook to tell you this fact (especially phrased in a way that implies it’s supposed to be news to you), then there is something seriously wrong with your education…
ok, anyways, should probably get back to reading geography, then supposed I should head to bed (putting off psych and bio reading til tomorrow, as well as calc homework…).
147- my school is awesome. Also, it is a really geeky school. We don’t really notice sports here.
149- ah, yes, I’ve seen people in various stages of bundled here too. I wear a sweater. I love sweaters.
151- if you’re old I’m ancient. I blogged uphill both ways with snow up beyond my head.
My second bloggiversary is in April. ^^ I still feel young.
167- I hate when school textbooks act like that. *glares at math book*
My first blogiversary is in a month- not even. (11/6)
167- My Ancient Civ. Book was helped by a teacher at my school. (This will get snipped, I know it will get snipped.)
My second blogiversary’s this December. The 27th, to be exact. It’s amazing how fast time goes. It seems like I was just looking at the picture of the sign showing Muse, Pennsylvania. That was on the page when I first showed my face here.
My second blogiversary is in February. This is hardly astonishing; what is weird that this time last year I hadn’t been around for even a year, and I felt like a much more integral part of MB then than I do now.
I just downloaded Firefox 3 so now I can see all the weird symbols that used to show up as question marks. I could probably see hearts too. ♥ ?
My first blogiversary is on March 29th.
169, 172, 173, 174 – I’m older (in blog years) than all of you!
Wow, I’ve been here quite a while. My second blogiversary was in August.
175- it matters not
174–Wow, really? You started blogging on my 18th birthday?!?!?! Cool.
my bloggiversary’s in December.
I am tempted to buy a desktop Onager catapult from Backyard Artillery to celebrate it.
127~ The dark side? Why? Same colors? Scary. (I’ll reply to more posts later)
Fiddler
We’re at Muffy’s house, making an inordinate amount of noise and having a blast at it. Just a few words to describe our insanity: confetti, soft pretzels, microwave popcorn, smarties, root beer, loud music, and a video camera and recording device. FUNFUNFUN!!!!
Muffy
Help me. I was quiet until i met her. Now, I’m screaming out random stuff at football games and playing with insane people in the band who randomly scream “Calm Down!” and various other things, along with throwing plastic footballs at each other and doing really wierd cheers, along with putting up with an insane drum major and a band director who throws water bottles at us.
Fiddler
I deny everything. She wasn’t quiet before I met here, don’t ask me how I know this. I just do.
The football game, as you may be able to guess from Muffy’s comment, was interesting. Very interesting. Fun though……..
Muffy
Whatatanchoo was the most fun cheer of them all! WHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Fiddler Wow. See what I mean?
Just got home from tap dancing lessons, and I think I broke my toe. Owwwwwwwwwww.
BOGIVERSAY ALERT! 5 DAYS! *happy dance that hurts her sore toe*
166- A movie that will give you nightmares? How about The Devil’s Arithmetic?
*Sympathy Pies Agrrrfishi*
176- Chill. Blogiversaries are a celebration, not a bragfest, so there’s no need to worry.
182- Thanks. *double pies with thank-you pie*
181–That’s about the concentration camps, correct? Based on the book, where the girl goes back in time and lives through the camp as her grandma (a relative, anyway)? I think I saw it, or at least read the book. I’m afraid it won’t do the trick…..
Thanks for the suggestion, though!
176 – I know. I still think it’s quite interesting that I have been here longer than Alice; I was under the impression that she was on longer than I.
Aww. It’s okay. *sympathy pies*
180 –
*skips hundred something posts*
Ew, I’m sick. And I have to go to school tomarrow, because it’s an A day and I can’t miss another one, I’ll be so behind.
Uhm… nothing else to say…
Oh, yeah, my blogversary’s on the twenty-sixth, I think.
184 – The girl didn’t live through the camp. She sacrificed herself for someone who she realized was her great-aunt in the present day, and when she walked into the gas chamber, she ended up back in her original time.
If you want scary Holocaust literature, read something by someone who actually experienced concentration camps. My friend’s grandmother wrote a book about her experiences. Now that was scary.
179- The Dark Side = football games, school dances, etc.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go explain why I think Scout is the hero of the jail scene in chapter 15 of To Kill A Mockingbird.
179- I think I could top that; how about shoving a friend underneath a pillow and making it look like you’re wiping them out with a hefty punch and videoing it?
187- Elie Wiesel? Night was… horrible. I never want to think about that book again.
188- I’m so glad I’m finally done with the essay I had to write on that book. I just finished my White Fang essay, too. HAPPY DANCE!!!
Football: My school’s winning 6-0 in the league. Yay! We beat the team who slaughtered the team we’re going to play next, so we’ll slaughter them, too (hopefully).
I haven’t been to any of the games yet, but my dad’s going to all of them. He likes high school football.
187–oh, yeah, that’s right! Sorry, it’s been awhile since I read/watched it. I knew one of the two girls died, but had forgotten that it was the one whose body the present day girl had gone back in time to be. That sentence probably doesn’t make much sense, huh? Oh well…..
stop giving out spoilers! I’d like to read that book. I’d started it at one point. I’ve met Jane Yolen; she’s awesome. I’d been enjoying the book but then had to return it to the library.
The Devil’s Arithmetic was one of my favorite books in elementary school.
192–Sorry.
I didn’t even think about it possibly being a spoiler for the other MBers….
(166) For sheer scariness, I think it’s hard to beat the original Alien movie. Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then suddenly, when you’ve let your guard down–
195–Hmmm, I remember watching part (mayhap all) of one of the Alien movies on TV awhile back. I don’t know if it was the original, though. Well, unless I get some other suggestions, I will give that one a try on Hallowe’en. Even if I do get other suggestions, I will still give it a try (just maybe not on Hallowe’en
).
Is it merely entitled “Alien”? Do you have an approximate idea of when it came out, so I can verify by the date? Thanks!
It’s called “Alien,” it was directed by Ridley Scott, and it came out in 1979.
195–I just searched it on the free movies website I found a couple months ago. Does May 1979 sound about right? Only problem is I’d probably have to let the movie buffer all day–it’s one of the ones that they only have a link to the whole movie, instead of having it posted in parts (i.e., it takes several hours–or more to buffer–and even with the ones in parts, it’s guaranteed that the buffering starts going slower the moment you hit a good part).
I for one will be watching “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!” on halloween
or something like that.
(198) Or you could try the 2003 “director’s cut” version. I haven’t seen it, but some people say it’s even better.
My family rented Alien from the library once. But about 30 seconds into the movie, the characters started using bad language and my parents decided it wasn’t “suitable”, and we watched something else instead. So I never saw the scariest movie in the world.
My own scary-movie recommendation is “The Twilight Zone”. It’s four episodes of an old TV show. The first episode is about a prejudiced guy who gets attacked by different armies and dies at a concentration camp. Sad, but not really scary. The second is about people at a retirement home that get turned into kids, then decide they don’t want to be kids and get turned back. Not scary at all. Third, the story of a kid who uses his cartoon-inspired powers to enslave his family. Scarier than you’d expect. And finally, the tale of a passenger on a plane who sees a monster on the plane’s wing. About as scary as the third one. The best part, though, is this short little video at the beginning, which is similar to Internet “screamer” videos in that it will make you scream and then laugh. “Wanna see something REALLY scary?”
Has anyone seen “The Bad Seed”? It came out in the 1950s and is monster-free — but scary, indeed.
A TV show that creeped me out when I was a kid was an episode of the original “Twilight Zone” called “The Jar,” based on a short story by Ray Bradbury.
202) oh my mom mentions that movie if the topic ever comes up…it sounds terrifying.
I really don’t have the stomach for horror movies. Well I suppose I mean more of those gore fest films that seem to constitute the horror genre now. Really suspenseful movies with a smart plot, that’s something different.
202–Yes! It’s a classic! That little girl is so creepy.
I also love the Twilight Zone! Have you seen the episode “The Invaders“?
Hang on…isn’t “The Jar” from The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (correct me if I’m wrong)? I think I remember that one…it was indeed scary. Another show that scared me silly, alongside X-files.
(204) Nthanda — Come to think of it, it may well have been from Hitchcock’s show.
Oh. My.
So. Tired.
We didn’t finish till eleven last night, which meant that we had to take the detour (they close the bridge at ten on weeknights), which meant that I didn’t get to bed until eleven forty-five. And then I had to get up again at six twenty.
Argh.
ok–one of the kids on the floor–presumably one of the ones on the “social committee” has posted a flyer on everyone’s door. Supposedly the “whole floor” is going to this haunted house attraction in the area (complete with a haunted corn maze). It will be a Wednesday night (which is just plain crappy), and I was trying to decide whether I should go or not–it costs $20. Actually, the main reason I’m hesitant, is I scare really, really easily. I mean, the dinky little haunted house thing they have at the fair back home scares the crap out of me everytime I’ve ever gone through it (twice–once when I was little, once when I was either preteen/early teen). And then when I was in Scotland, we went to Edinborough Dungeon (which, looking back wasn’t precisely scary) and I was absolutely terrified (I was 11). when I was 12 or maybe 13 I was at a Ripley’s believe-it-or-not/wax museum–and *shocker* I was scared to death……and it wasn’t even scary.
So, basically, yeah, the mere thought of a haunted house practically scares me, and I just dunno if I should go. I mean, part of me wants to, and part of me is like, “Michelle, you are a freakin’ CHICKEN! Why would you want to go to a HAUNTED HOUSE!” Yeah.
And it’ll be after dark–we’d be meeting I think it was at either 7 or 8…..and that would make it worse….
I also have a psych test the following day….
207- I’m like that, too. My mom dragged me into a store that displayed their Halloween decorations in a “haunted house” area. I walked in and bumped into a life-sized realistic vampire dummy. So I started walking faster and passed a shunken head that shouted “I’m watching you! Bwahahaha!” So then there’s this robotic thing on the wall that looks like a lady in a white dress with glowing green eyes that’s right over a fog machine… I screamed like heck.
207-The only haunted house I’ve been too isn’t really a haunted house, It’s like this thing where you dunk your hands into tubs full of “eyeballs” and “brains”. And “blood”.
167 – College? They said that? o.0
212–yup! That’s what my college geography textbook said–word for word straight from the book.
213 – Wow. You know, I really hate those Holt textbooks. They feel the need to add meaningless photos and talk down to us. The Holt people have a very low opinion of children’ (is that right?) thoughts/ideas/IQ. I like college (math) textbooks better.
213–Actually, it’s not a Holt textbook….It is Pearson: Prentice Hall…..
215- The brand does not matter; they are all evil.
Dangit. I HATE MONDAYS. The weirdest thing happened today. Some kids who had just come from their football practice in the field near the neighborhood tennis courts came over to the court fence, and started yelling things at my sister and me like “Baby come back! You can blame it all on me!” (you know, that annoying song) and, “Dude, they’re hot!” and “Babe show me something!” I MEAN WHAT THE HECK? THEY’RE IN WHAT, 3RD, 4TH GRADE? Idiots.
kokoMIMI ROX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was just recording the results of an anonymous survey our school did, and one of the questions was “Who are the three people you feel most comfortable talking to?” Somebody wrote “I have no friends.” That just made me feel so sad.
188~ Ah. It was (believe it or not) the first football game I’d ever been to. And I didn’t go to the dance, I just helped Muffy and another friend get ready…..then I hung out with Muffy’s mom and little brother.
I think it was more fun hearing about it.
189~ Sounds like something we’d do. Like when we wrapped up Muffy’s little brother in a mattress pad (it was white), stuck him on the bed, put the Egyptian King Tut mask from M’s room on his face and then filmed it. (Just a disclaimer- he wanted to do it, and was the reason we made the film, he wanted to do a “mummy coming back to life” bit. ‘Twas interesting.)
I’m tired. Very tired. But I’m happy–I finally got to practice. Of course, since it’s been ages and ages, I’m now totally wiped out. :shocked: People never think about it, but playing an instrument is work. My arms get really tired if I haven’t played my fiddle for awhile, and when I abandon my concertina my fingers get sore. My dulcimer strings just get rusty and cut my fingertips when I leave it in the corner for too long…………..vicious instruments when not played regularly!
Oh, speaking of strings, I should change my A string, maybe just switch between my violins, since I never play my old one, but I need to keep strings on it.
Strings are expensive. Grr.
217–Bleah, I hate people like that. I mean, seriously, do they think we’ll like them more if they act like idiots?
Does anyone know why Raw Materials is “suspending operations” until January?
Goooooooooooooooooooood morning MB!
THis is a random thought, but, when I was on vacation one time, I was cussed out by a 6 year old in Welsh. Just one more reason of many that I don’t like little kids. Bleh.
(222) Haven’t a clue. Maybe Larry is writing another book.
Yay! We have writing workshop until friday!
Grrr…
*paces around, fuming angrily about politics*
Question for all supporters of socialized health care in America: If you think our expensive health care is so terrible, why don’t you just pack up and move to Canada? Have you ever actually seen the quality of foreign hospitals? Or have you ever stopped and wondered where the government is getting all the money from, maybe noticing that you’d still effectively be paying for it through your taxes?
pumpkins are great, but costumes are greater.
I’m going as a punk fairy, bet everyone will hate er’.
Roses are red, violets are blue.
Happy Halloween Muse, I love you it’s true.
What is up with back issues, they get even greater
Every time I read them, my teeth begin to chatter.
O.K, that last one doesn’t rhyme, but you have to admit, I got mad skillz.
217 – They had football in 3rd or fourth grade? And they were seriously saying that? Now THAT… that… is one of the weirdest somethings in the world.
Uh-oh. I keep forgetting to buy Swedish Fish, and I still only have 6 or 7 wrappers.
228- *virtual swedish fish* What are you going as again?
220- Whee! I just got some new strings for my cello, and they’re great. I’m always afraid that I’ll hurt myself on the strings in school because they’re usually breaking.
226- The job of the US government is to care for the people who live in the US (or citizens, whatever). If I think our healthcare is terrible, I’m not going to just move to Canada one day! One of the reasons that I love this country is because it’s possible to change things. Not easy, but possible. What foreign hospitals are you talking about? Yes, I know that socialized medicine would be supported by taxes! I support it because it helps to ensure that the people who need health care help the most get it. If you can’t stand wait a day to see a doctor, then go ahead and pay for it yourself! How do you propose that we fix the system?
230- Cool! I have the blue-and-yellow set, they work really well. However, I don’t remember what they’re called…
But if you die in Canada, you die in real life, right?
224- I hope so. i want the his take on the French Revolution.
I was wondering if any of the GAPAs would reveal their IQ level thingy (if they know it). That’d be kinda cool to know.
Oh and did you know that there’s a “The Game” website? Google “I lost the game”.
229 – I’m making a shirt out of them.
235–A…t-shirt…out of…Swedish Fish? I don’t quite know what to say to that.
Oh, yeah.
Beavo wore a neon green Hello Kitty bow in his hair for two whole hours at school, not counting time on the bus.
I got some interesting comments.
It is interesting being a freshman. As I’ve been hanging out with the SF club here, I’ve been hanging out with a mix of classes. The upperclassmen talk about how they’ve changed since they’re freshman years and how we’ll probably change too. I can see my self changing academically but there is much to the core of my self that got cemented in the summer of 2006. Those of you who’ve known me a while, do you think I’m likely to change? Do you think I act freshman like at all? Not that you see how I act here but you do see how I act on MB.
238) Well, oxilin, you never know what the future will bring. Change happens all the time. Our experiences shape us. In a way, I’m sure that college will change you, I know it’s changed my sister. But I’m sure the change will be for the better.
Random comment…..I just watched last week’s episode of House online.
*SPOILER sept 30 HOUSE SPOILER*
When we finally got to the spot where they cracked what the illness was, and Chase was getting ready to operate, and they said he needed to remove a bezoar, and they continued with the explanation, [speaking of which, why do we need an explanation? Surely everyone has read Harry Potter] all that was running through my head was, “A stone, taken fromthe stomach of a goat, and thought to be a cure for most poisons.” As well as, “I thought a bezoar was only found in ruminants, such as goats, not people…..” Oh, just looked it up in my dictionary again….Guess it just says “a small stony concretion that may form in the stomachs of certain animals, esp. ruminants, and which was once used as an antidote for various ailments.” So not just ruminants, just usually ruminants. And I don’t think this guys bezoar was doing him much good as an antidote!
Anyways, yeah, I just thought that was rather funny….especially my actually knowing what the mysterious illness was without an explanation…..
*END SPOILER WARNING
236 – I meant out of the wrappers. Which is why virtual swedish fish would be a problem.
231- Helicore? Me too!
232- That sounds so familiar, but I can’t place it. Are you quoting someone?
238- I don’t think I have enough perspective, which is unfortunate, because I’m interested now.
226- um, no offense but the healthcare in america souns totaly crappy. so yeah up here you pay through your taxes but it’s not like you have to hand over money everytime you go to the hosital. i think it’s better up here. you cannot sway me on the subject.
232- haha. xkcd. i personaly think dying in america is freaking scary.
242- xkcd.
I drew some comics today that actually made people laugh. *is proud*. sorry, that is all o’ my news.
Does he change colours? :O
226-
But it’s evened out better, and everyone gets the same coverage.
Here, the rich come first because of their better insurance.
Have you ever seen the movie Sicko?
240- That’s exactly what ran through my head.
Speaking of House, I had a dream about Chase last night. o.O
I could also be a hellcat for halloween. Or Tonks… hmmm… I’m having some wedding dress acquisition issues.
247- Hellcat? Like the superhero?
WIN.
The Vitamin String Quartet. They do classical versions of rock songs. And it’s not destroyed! XD
Go listen to them now.
*shuffles out of hidey-hole*
*looks around*
*picks up the Muses piled on front doorstep*
*ambles back inside, muttering*
Did she see her shadow? Did she see her shadow?
250- OH. MY. GOD.
It’s Gwen!!!!!
-pies- -hugs-
I really hadn’t expected to see you ever again! Yay! -pies again-
In other news…
• Rehearsal was awesome. We worked my monologue and I have new love for it.
• In English I learned that it was required to take notes. I suddenly understood why people who have been crushed by the education system for the past nine or ten years may not like reading. Taking notes KILLS the book. I seriously don’t think I’ll ever think of To Kill A Mockingbird as a good book now. To Kill A Novel, it should be called. Or To Kill An English Class. (Both of these are a sin, by the way.)
• We’re going to go see Get Smart. Even if Robert and Luna don’t care for it.
238–I agree with kiwi. And also, I just want to say, I’ve always found you to be one of the most mature MBer’s on the blog. So like kiwi said…I think that if you do change, you’ll just get even better!
241–Oh, ok.
252–That’s what I always say! I know that reading Great Expectations in class totally ruined it for me. Although I was a freshman at the time…maybe I’d like it better now…
NEW to MuseBlog:
I will (from now on) be posting entries from my jounal from a year ago. It’s not very interesting, but all of you middle-schoolers can see what being a freshman is like.
10/08/07 NO HOMEWORK
I had no homework today! But Mr. A—- assigned the questions for the reading assinment. I have to read the book again!
We’re watching Cry, the Beloved Country in English. There’s a test on the character relationships on Monday! Ack!
I also played DS with O—-. It was fun. I got a lot of money!
Today’s completely unrelated statement: Dad took the science fiction book away. Boo hoo.
-May the Force be with you
Kyra
Also included in my daily journal entries will be an explanation.
Mr. A—- was my history teacher. He assigned a book to read over the summer, but I forgot most of it by the time he assigned the questions. So yeah.
O—- is my next door neighbor. The DS game we were playing was Animal Crossing.
Another entry tomorrow! Please tell me what you think!
Good heavens, it’s 12:20! I should probably get to bed…
*facepalm* this is what happens when you consume three cans of Mountain Dew from 4:30 to 8:00… *sigh*
TKAMockingbird isn’t as horribly tedious as Hatchet. Has anyone here ever read that book?
226) Ã߀ƒ: Well, who’s being offensive? As a matter of fact, I DID pack up and leave the US partly because the US health care is so crappy!!!! And the quality of ”foriegn hosptals”? Oh, don’t worry about our hospital quality, cuz we don’t let black people bleed to death in the wating room of Lafayette General Hospital in Louisiana!!!!
Here, you don’t NEED insurence!
And if you can’t afford to get a surgery that will improve your life 100%, then HERE, you’ll get it anyway! Why? Because we have an effective tax system where practically everything that you need for you health and education is free! So, who’s worrying about how they’ll pay their way through a higher education? Not me, in fact not only is it free, I’ll get a check every month to help me along!
And quite honestly, what’s so great about your tax system? Do you like your livelihood going towards a war? Because your taxes aren’t being pumped into hospitals, that’s for sure! And your schools, oh aren’t they great!! I mean, it is definately not legal to paddle kids in some parts of the country, is it now???? Oh, and you have lots of laws that prevent corporal punishment and the beating of kids, right????
256 – I loved Hatchet. I loved TKAM, too, it was wonderful.
I thought Hatchet was an interesting book–not tedious at all.
And TKAM is one of my favorite books. Most certainly not tedious.
TKAM is a great book. The moment I stopped answering questions on it I decided it was actually good. But then… “Notes are required.” Way to ruin an English class. Not to mention a certain person’s hopes and dreams.
I have to go to get ready for a Girl Scout thing. I’ll be back at 5 Blogtime.
I was re-reading the comic where the “Second Wave” of X-Men (Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, etc) join up and it made me wonder- could our beloved New Muses have been recruited under similar circumstances? What if all the Old Muses except Urania were captured by some evil power and she and Gonick traveled the world to find our New Muses and save them?
That would be an exciting story.
256 – Twice. Once last year in 8th grade as our very last book, and right now as our first book in English 9H.
260 – Just wave your hand and say, “Bah.” Works every time.
262, 263 – That actually sounds like a bit of the Bionicle story cycle.
259- indeed. I didn’t find it to be tedious either; Gary Paulsen is a great writer.
256-Ew. I tried to read that and fell asleep.
Once upon a time there was a boy who went to school. He went to math, which was cool, he went to Civics, which wasn’t, he went to Spanish which was aburrido, and he went to Gym which sucked. Then he had a political discussion on the bus and came home. The end.
*applause*
I love To Kill a Mockingbird. Hatchet…. um, not a favorite of mine…..
266) *cheers*
owowow. I bashed my head into a fire alarm thingy on the wall while cleaning. Directly above teh ear.
Hmmmm.I should go to bed. *checks time* OMG! It’s midnight! And I half to get up at six thirty so I can pack, take a shower, and I AM ON KITCHEN DUTY TOMORROW!!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!!! AND IT’S NATIONAL SCHOOL EXCERSIZE DAY TOMORROW!!!!!!! NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*sobs* Kitchen duty is actually really fun, but not on the last day before the potatoe holiday.
I LOVE POTATO HOLIDAY! It’s a week that we get off from school so that we can go home and help our parents harvest potatoes. Or, at least it used to be like that. Now we go home and drink.
They are raising the drinking age from sixteen to eighteen on new years day. I haven’t decided if I’m for or against it.
266 – ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? IT WAS AWESOME!
Off to my calculus test…..Hope it goes ok, I’m really dreading it. I feel rather sick right now, actually (from nerves). I just don’t know how I’m going to do at all. Good, I hope. But I just dunno. Anyway, off I go…..
Sounds as if Luna could use some good-luck pies.
250- GWEEEEEEEENNNN!!!!!! oh how I have missed you. *hopes that gwen will be staying*.
252- yeah, most things done in school are totaly ruined for me. But I really do like TKAM. and I like shakespear in school.
256- did not enjoy that book at all.
262- I have a serouse love of wolverine.
264- *gets dogbert reference* *hopes that is what you were referencing*
270- *sends good luck*
IMPORTANT
okay, I have this huge freaking lump on my finger. I’m trying to decide if it’s a wart or what. It hurts like freaking cake. have any MBers ever had warts? if so could you help me solve this dilemma?
250- GWEN!!!! Hi!!!!!!!!
Ungh, I HATED Hatchet. With all my deepest loathing. TKAM was ok…
270- Good luck pies!!!!! {] {] {] {] With a bunny!
270- It’s probably too late, but *good-luck pies*
264- Is your response to 260 an allusion to Dilbert? Actually, I’m most likely the only person who reads that comic strip.
271–Thanks, Robert! I actually think it went fairly well–I will get my grade next Thursday….dang, that’s a long time to wait….Well, not really, but it seems like it!
Thanks, all for the good luck pies! They are much appreciated! Even though I didn’t receive them till after I left….I’m sure their spirit was with me, lol!
268- You’re still luckier than we are. We have to wait till we’re 21!
Yom Kippur was fun. I totally gave up trying to fast after like five minutes.
272, re 262–Particularly when played by ♥Hugh Jackman♥
274–I read Dilbert!!
Has anyone ever read “Bartleby” by Herman Melville? It’s sort of about civil disobedience…but now whenever my English teacher says to do something (like take notes on a perfectly good reading book), and we don’t want to do it, we can say “I would prefer not to” and she gets this funny look on her face like we’re turning her own weapons against her.
It’s rawther satisfying.
Sorry I haven’t been coming on lately, been busy. See you when I see you.
Same… so much suff going on… I even have to miss school tomorrow for tennis.
Can’t stay now though, going to visit Bandit then shower then sleep x_x
Just letting you all know I haven’t fallen off a cliff quite yet
272- I had a wart once, it was on my foot though, so I don’t know if it hurt a lot or not. Plus, it was pretty flat, but that might be because I was walking on it all the time.
Anyways, from the description, I think your malady is probably a blister or something, not a wart.
10/09/07 YAY
I’m going to go to L—-‘s house on Thursday! I’ve never been before, so it should be exciting.
Bad news: English test tomorrow. the study guide was
a bitvery vague, so I guess I’ll just try my best!I made 100 dollars selling flower bulbs! I get 50% of that, so I got $50!
Today’s completely unrelated statement: This pen didn’t work before, but now it does.
-Whoopee
Kyra
L—- was my friend from 8th grade that I only got to see once a week because she went to a different high school.
The flower bulb thing was a fundraiser for orchestra. I actually didn’t get the $50, my orchestra trip fund did.
281- Flower bubs? Sounds nice. My orchestra sells oranges instead.
Well, grapefruits too, but it’s always been called the “Orange Sale.”
I haven’t sold any so far DX
OKay, maybe I wasn’t back at 5 blogtime, I was back around 10 BT. I hate errands… stupid pizza… crappy laundry… *mutters incoherently for a while*
282- My school band sells oranges and grapefruit too! I think it’s called “citrisale” or something like that.
And for choir we’re selling food….yum.
I’m not very good with fundraising, and none of my neighbors speak english very well.
You know, I’ve just noticed something- We’re all acting like we know each other personally, which we don’t. Most of us have never seen or heard each other in person, but we act like we’ve known each other for ages. We’re even planning balls that will probably never happen in real life, we’ve developed a scouting group, we’ve even made up a school. This must look very silly to an outsider.
284- Citrus sale? That works too.
285- Well, that’s the best part of MuseBlog. And technically, we do know each other. Just because we’ve never met doesn’t mean we can’t know each other. We’re all like super-electronic pen pals, only faster, cooler, and more spread-out.
And psh, don’t mind those “outsiders.” They don’t know what to value most.
Approximately 70% of the globe is covered in oceans.
The average salinity of the world’s oceans is 35 ppt.
The average depth of the world’s oceans is 12,200 ft.
Highly productive waters will have a greenish hue.
The maximum density of seawater is found at its freezing point.
Krill can tell where they are in relation to other creatures because frequency decreases over difference.
Tectonic plates move a couple of centimeters every year.
Sea otters were hunted nearly to extinction.
Corals are Anthazoans.
Jellyfish are Cnidarians. True jellyfish are Scyphozoa, box jellies are Cubozoa, and man-o’-wars are Hyrdozoa. I can’t remember comb jellies…They’re Ctenophores. I think.
Seals are Pinnipeds.
272- I have a wart on my right knee. I’ve had it since I was 7; I pick at it constantly in hope that it will disappear someday.
274- Think again; I LOVE Dilbert. With all my heart. Alice and Tina are hilarious.
276- Yes, pie spirits are verrry powerful!
285- Well, we don’t know each other but we do know a LOT about each other. I don’t know about everyone else, but I do most of my b****y ranting and moaning on MB because I don’t know anyone personally on here (other than Syllabub) and I know they will listen to me and sympathize with my problems without them ever actually knowing me. And, I also explode about the good things in my life here too. I don’t know; I just think that all of us here share a bond that’s different than… um… actual friends, because we confess things that we would never say to… solid people.
286- Stupid outsiders….
It’s FRIDAY!
Excellent! Well, I haven’t been on here in a while, so I’m not going to try to read all of these posts that I’m sure that I’ve missed. So…… hope everybody’s doing just spiffy!
*eyes water* *sniffle*
Am I an outsider? Hmm… NEVER LIKED BEING PART OF THE CROWD ANYHOW!
No, really, I’d love to become a frequent poster, (as in person who posts) if you people will accept me!
HAH! FOUR DAY WEEKEND!!!!! Yay!
Hey! I’m here!
MEA WEEK NEXT WEEK! NO SCHOOL AND I GET TO GO ON A CRUISE! w00t!
Kyra has no school today!!! HUZZAH!!!
I’m going to put the journal entry up early today because I think I’ll be too busy tonight to do so.
10/10/07 YAY 2
4-day weekend coming up with minimal homework! And I go to L—-‘s house tomorrow!
W—-, M—-, and I played about two hours of Wii today. It was very fun.
I was just reading my first entry; it sounds like an English essay! I’m not that somber most of the time!
My birthday’s in a month so….
BIRTHDAY WISH LIST (Christmas too!)
-Calculator faceplate and other thingy
-West Side Story DVD (wink wink)
-Wii Games
-Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man’s Chest two disc special edition DVD set
-One of those things at Negstad’s that spins around when you put a candle under it (size doesn’t matter at all, they’re just really cool!)
-Office season one (Two and three, too, possibly)
That’s it, I guess.
Today’s completely unrelated statement: Tommy’s afraid of the laser light.
-Eep.
Kyra
Remember that this journal is two weekdays behind this year, so I wrote that on a Wednesday.
The first entry that I was talking about is for August 26. If you hang around for a while, I’ll probably type it up next year.
W—- and M—- were my annoying neighbors. Well, I didn’t think them annoying then, but I do now. They just spent about fifteen minutes throwing pinecones at my bathroom window in an attempt to get me to come outside (I was cleaning for a party we’re going to have tomorrow).
There’s a wink wink after the West Side Story because my mom bought it and it had already come in the mail.
Negstad’s was a Norweigan store. It’s not in business anymore.
Tommy’s my cat and that’s why I didn’t —- out his name.
From now on, I’m going to put people’s first initial instead of —-ing out their name. It’s too time consuming to do that.
(291) Kokonilly — Will you have time to make a move on the Chess 3 thread before you leave?
290- Post more often and you will eventually be accepted.
Saw my shadow Mr. Coontz, so this means that I will make an attempt to be here more. I was thinking about this site the other day, and I decided to pop in and see if anyone still remembered me. Three pies of gratitude to Alice, Kagy, and Swannie. :] *splatters with the warm effusion of thanks*
For those of you old veterans who had the kindness to remember me, I took another one of my hiatuses (hiatusi?) for no apparent reason. I now attend the brand-spanking new ______ _____ High School, which really is not that great. But I still see plenty of my old friends from middle school, so it’s all good.
My life’s a lot busier now. I help down at the local theater, I’m helping teach the design class at my old school, I’m taking all Honors courses, I’m juggling a semi-bf whom I adore and who I think adores me in addition to the rest of my wonderful friends, and I try to be a decent person in general. I still eagerly await my Muse every month and I can still wax poetic about the bunnies. This place worms its way into my thoughts every so often, and this time it wormed so forcefully that it spurred me back into action. I trust the blessed GAPAs have kept this place maginficent, and I’m happy to have returned from my self-imposed exile.
For those whom I am unacquainted with, I am Gwen, a sporadic blogger who is just your typical Muser (if such a thing exists). I don’t bite. Often. :]
295- I’ve know who you are, ut I don’t think you know me. I’ve been on for almost a year. [ })i({ } (A loverly butterfly pie for our loverly Gwen.)
I made macaroni and cheese from the Moosewood cookbook today. I don’t know it’ll taste yet; it smells like something that my mother cooked a lot when I was young, which I never really liked. There were obvious proportions in the recipe, which I intended to follow but gave up on after realizing that I didn’t have enough onion, not to mention my complete lack of cabbage.
It’s a gorgeous fall day but it’s cold, and earlier my fingers stopped functioning so we had to turn on the heat. Ugh. I’m wearing two pairs of thick wool socks and still can’t feel my feet.
295- Nice to meet you Gwen! I’m a neophyte, so you probably don’t know me.
293 – Oh. Right. Thanks.
Hullo, Gwen! I believe I remember you–the name, anyway! The question is, do you remember me?
I used to be quite a sporadic Museblogger back home (seeing as my parents never knew about it…..), but since starting college, I have been on constantly, more or less…..
297-To be honest, I’d trade temperatures with you in a heartbeat. It’s the middle of October, and I’ve still got mid-70s temperatures, with humidity levels in the 80s. I can’t remember the last time we had more than an inch of snow.
Oh, and I’m having a moment here: I just realized that Bo’s name probably comes from the word “bovine”.
301 – WHAT???????????????????????? *jealousy* It’s FREEZING here. Kind of. Well, not really. But chilly.
303-Seriously. I’ll trade temperatures with anyone who gets snow and has summers that don’t go above 85 degrees. Providing that you’re not in the Arctic Circle or anything. Consider yourself lucky.
hi this is syllabub’s friend Kaitlyn. This blog makes no sense whatsoever to me. But that is because I have no idea in the least what it is. I hope you all enjoy your little powow.
((Sorry, she is slightly spazzy today.))
305- Um, hi…?
304–move to Alaska. We get a decent amount of snow, the temp in the summer is usually 70s on hot sunny days, or often 60s on cooler days and very, very, very rarely as warm as the 80s–but it has happened! And only the very northernmost part is in the Arctic Circle, so still no problem!
I would definitely trade the weather here at college for the weather back home–it’s 76 here, at school–which isn’t too bad, but we’ll be lucky if it’s even cold by December, at this rate…..And back home it’s 48, and although it’s not snowed in my town in AK, a nearby one (about an hour away) got about 1/2 inch of snow just a couple days ago…..No fair! From all of I heard, if anything, here at school, all we get is ice…..no snow. Damn! I am desperately craving chilly/cold weather right now. Even on the cool days, if I go out in long sleeve, I’m sweating by the time I get to class! irritating.
297- OH my goodness, now I’m craving mac’n cheese. My mom makes this DElicious macaroni-and-cheese/hamburger type thing. Sort of like Hamburger Helper, only organic and MUCH better. She calls it the PMS food… *moan* *crave*
302- *epiphany* Oh my God! I just realised this!!! Wow. I can be unobservant…
305- HI! I’ve heard about you!
Regarding Temparature:
It’s still very warm here in southern NH; today it was in the 70s, very unusual for New England. Global warming… stupid… of course everything either feels scorching hot or freezing cold to me, seeing that I have a fever.
it is 64 here . i like macaroni and cheese. i have this realy good recipie for it. i feel like i should say something else but i dont know what to say. turtle burps. hehehehe.
Move to OREGON!!! It’s starting to cool down, with temperatures in the 50s in the day and the 30s at night. We get snow every year, and schools close for 1/2 inch or more.
My family’s annual apple cider party is tomorrow!!! It’s a big deal this year. I’ll provide coverage.
DANG!!! I was chopping onions 2 MINUTES AGO and now tears are streaming down my face!
310–hey, there was a random factoid on the news board in the lobby about onions and crying. Drat, what did it say….i think what it said was that if you chew gum while cutting an onion, then the onion won’t make you cry. Dunno if that’s true (or even if it’s what the board said). I never had a problem with onions making me cry…..
311- Me too.
Wouldn’t you know, i walk half way acros the ****ing campus to go to the Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre thing I mentioned on the HP Trivia thread, and whadda you know I get there five to ten minutes before the doors even open. Stand in line for ten minutes–oh, sorry we’ve reached the 250 person max capacity for the event. see ya. And now I am royally pissed off–the campus has tens of thousands of students, not to mention the public is invited to all these events. not to mention it was a dinner theatre, so I didn’t have any dinner. So now I have nothing to do all evening, the cafeteria’s are closed (not that there’s anything worthwhile to eat there–the food is total ****) so I’m stuck with snack food (which I am sick of), and I am horribly overheated, which just adds to my irritation. I mean, the humidity is so bad, that walking across campus–after dark!–when the temp is probably in the 60s, that it gets you really hot and sweaty, and then the sweat doesn’t even evaporate because of all the humidity, so you are all sticky! humidity is a total *****!
And I can’t believe they would choose somewhere with such a small max capacity for an event that is not only campuswide, but invites the public, when the population on campus is tens of htousands. It’s stupid, just stupid. And now I’ve got this feeling I will have had my mother send me my halloween costume for no reason, as the costume contest/party is at the same location, and so I’ll probably be totally screwed for that, because oh, sorry, we already have 250 people. Screw you, we’ll let these two reporters for the campus news come in, that’s all fine and good, even though we’re at capacity, but we won’t let you come in for the event. I am really pissed, have a headache from lack of food, and just want to cry. Life really, really sucks. I was looking forward to this one point of entertainment in this otherwise miserable week of dreading my calc test yesterday, and just the routine drudge of college, and missing decent weather, where you can wear a long sleeve shirt, and walk a few blocks w/o working up a sweat. And you know, I think I might finally be homesick, and it’s still two months before I will be going home…..college sucks.
(313) It’s such a bummer when you’re all set for something and then it falls through. Sorry we can’t smuggle some real pies to you! Virtual pastries and genuine sympathy headed your way.
314–Thanks, Lady Bunniful! I appreciate the virtual pastries and the sympathy! *hugs*
287- I ♥ ♆
313- *hugs and choklit* See, another reason for the sadness thread I suggested on the Suggestion Box thread. I have a whole lot of sad stuff welling up inside me.
The weather’s very nice where I am, and I just got back in from looking at the stars. Nothing says fall like seeing the Summer Triangle and the wintry Pleiades in the same sky.
307-Well, I doubt I’ll move to Alaska, because it’s so far from my home now it would be really hard to visit. I’m thinking northeastern US or Colorado/Wyoming area.
And, 313-Wow. I’m sorry.
Oh, Lady B.? That Jack O Lantern is physically impossible.
(320) That’s the trick.
Oh, I don’t know. You can achieve a lot of interesting effects with toothpicks.
(322) And even more with pixels.
304 – YOU HATE WARM WEATHER??? Swap places with me. NOW.
304- Where do you live?
Signing off. I have a soccer game at 12BT, so I might come on in the morning. Bye!
322,323- Toothpixels.
(327) Brilliant!
WOAH! Gnarly.
I’d TRY to do that, but… I have insane -not nessecarily good- pumpkin carving skills. But…
!! Maybe I could carve ALL the Muses into ONE pumpkin! 
But then again, where on earth would I find such a large pumpkin?
*is supposed to be doing homework* ah well, I’m almost done my science porject. (then I have to do my history project, get my brother a birthday present as our Bday is this week, memorize lines for a play, memorize lines for an audition, do that stupid paragraph for the essay I know I’m going to fail and.. oh that’s it, although I should probably work on my sketch book assignment.)* *feels ever so stressed*
281- pretty positive it’s not a blister. I kow blisters and this is not one. It is pretty large (for a lump on a finger) and makes my finger look all deformed. but thanks for your input, I apreciate it.
285- I’ve always felt that being a muser was sort of like being part of our own culture.
290- I believe they meant outsider as in ‘not a muser’ and we are all musers here.
305- exuse me???
313- *hugs* awwww. that is cakey.
324- you like it??? *disbelief* just kidding, I like warm and cool temperatures. But not freaking hot summer days. those are too much. I like the ‘just barely warm enough outside to not need a jacket’ temperature most of all.
If you don’t like the heat: move to winnipeg. that place is freezing in the winter time. *I love you winnipeg, my second favrit city*
anyways. must stop procrasitnating so i can go buy prezzies for my bro. ta ta!
Kagz
330- Hi…Bye.
311- I may have to expiriment with that. Not like I have anything better to do…
313- Let it all out. ♥ *huggles*
329- Here.
Kagy just injested a Very Hot Peper by accident and it burning up her toung to the point that she is unable to close her mouth.
333- Ugh. I’m terribly sorry.
I woke up this morning in a wonderful mood. I was wonderfully cozy under all my blankets, and the air outside was cold, and it was the perfect waking-up hour, and there was this smell in the air that reminded me of winter. I got up and put on my robe and then got dressed and talked to Mother about winter coming and gloves and fixing my kilt-skirt and making cookies. Then we went down to the bakery and I went shopping and we rode back and it was lovely. It’s sunny and cold out, but not too cold–perfect weather for hats and gloves and sweaters, but not to the three-coats-and-a-muffler-and-fur-lined-boots stage.
I am terribly happy. I’m going to make cookies and bread pudding and patch my jeans and re-pleat my kilt skirt and take a bath and do my homework help Mother clean house and go for a bike ride and go to dinner and see Daddy. Maybe if I’m lucky we’ll get around to buying me a new pair of jeans; I’ve had the old ones for almost a year and they’re getting stained and there are holes in the knees. But they’re comfy and they fit well and if I patch them up they’ll still look nice, but in a different way. And I finished TKAM last night, it was very good and even if I have to take notes now at least I’ve read and enjoyed the material I was supposed to take notes on so it won’t spoil the book.
And I drank coffee so now I’m dizzy. When will I learn?
11:22: The preperations for the party are almost over. Now I just have to sit back and wait. BUT I’M SO EXCITED!!!
I finally got around to throwing out the rest of the half gallon plastic jug of milk (that I hsoudl have thrown out a couple or more weeks ago)……It’s probaby a good thing I finally did, cuz I think the pressure built up in it probably would have burst the lid off pretty soon–the jug was bulging out in all dimensions……And when I poured it down the sink in the bathroom, well, it was fully of chunks. Lots of chunks. I think Panda would’ve like it….
Well, I know what I’m not buying at Walmart when my roomie and I go today…..
I will get a pumpkin if they have a good one, even though everybody thinks I’m crazy for considering buying a pumpking at a grocery store….”everybody” here supposedly gets them at pumpking stands. which is all fine and good, but I’m not going to surf the web/drive all over looking for one. And even if I’ve never bought a pumpking at Walmart, I’ve always gotten my pumpkin from a grocery store, as taht’s the only place to buy in AK…..Pretty much the only people who grow pumpkins there, are the people who are growing the giant ones for the giant veggie competition at the fair…..
On a different note–my geography teacher lied to us yesterday in lecture. He told us (and I’m sure I didn’t misunderstand due to his very strong Chinese accent) that “California has the most earthquakes of all the US”. I didn’t argue with him in class, because I wasn’t entirely sure, but I researched it later, and have proven myself right, my geog teacher wrong. Alaska has the most earthquakes of all the US. Actually, I’ve taken his lack of any mention of Alaska rather personally. He talks about CA and quakes, he talks about China and quakes, but he doesn’t talk about AK and quakes, which according to the legitimate seeming website my sister found: earthquake. usgs. gov/ regional/ states/ top_states. php
has more than half (half!) the earthquakes in the entire bloody US of A! So, yeah, totally CA has the most earthquakes. Nuh-uh, I don’t think so. I feel very slighted that he never, ever mentions AK, and babbles instead about CA, or more often, China (which form the map he showed of earthquake hotspots, barely had any red dots, when souther AK was so thick with red dots, it was just red).
So, on Monday, when we start on earthquakes (last week was plate tectonics), I am going to raise my hand at the beginning of class, and say, “On Friday, you said that CA has the most earthquakes in the US, right? Well, that’s actually not true. AK has the most earthquakes in the US, ‘accounting for more than 50 percent of all US earthquakes.’ Not to mention, the largest earthquake in the US also occurred in AK–the 1964 earthquake, which was a 9.2”
Yeah. He irritates me. I’m taking the whole abscence of talk about AK personally.
And he knows my name, which is creepy. I went to his office yesterday to look over my test, to see what I got wrong. So I walk in, and say, “I was wondering if I could look over my test to see what I got wrong.”
I didn’t introduce myself. I have never even handed anythign directly to him that has my name on it. I have never had my name and my face linked in his presence.
him: “you think you did bad? Because I think you do good.”
me: “No, I don’t think I did bad, I just kinda wanted to see waht I got wrong.”
him: “you got 89, right?”
me: “yeah, I got 89” [thinking, woah, he knows my name, he knows my grade, wtf?]
him [as I’m looking over the test]: “I almost give you 90, but then I think, no, I gave you all the makeup [he allowed us to take the multiple choice part open book, which he averaged with the mc part on the test. I did worse open book,
], and 89 is 89 [he didn’t count the makeup, since I did worse], so i not give you A”
me: doesn’t say anything, just is wondering why the hell he has to tell me that he almost gave me an A, when he didn’t
him: “I think you doing good–you one of top five in class.”
me (thinking): I care, why? There are at max 30 people in the class–I don’t see how being in the top five is that big of an accomplishment…..
him (as I’m getting ready to leave): “You biology major, right? ”
me (thinking: how the heck does he know my name, my grade, and now my *&^^%%$ing major?”): “Yeah, biological sceinces.”
him: “Why you choose geography?”
me (honestly): “I ahve to have a certain number of social science credits, an well, geography looked mroe interesting than the others I had to choose from.”
him: *looks put-out [what the heck did he expect me to say?] “But I no speak English well.”
me: [flat out lying] “That’s ok….. [what the heck was I supposed to say?!?!?!]
Anyways, I just was kind of taken aback by the way he knew my name by my face, and then also knew my grade, and my major….what was really odd, was I was wearing my AK grown sweatshirt, and he never once asked me why [insert name of school]?”
I dunno…..
Oooo, also I met somebody from AK yesterday! In my bio lecture!
So, I was wearing my AK Grown sweatshirt yesterday morning at Bio, and as I was leaving, this one guy asks me, “Are you from Alaska?” And you know, I’m expecting the whole spiel, wondering what whacky questions I’ll get asked this time. So I say, “yes.” And he holds his hand up for a high five and he’s like, “me, too!” So he asks where at in Alaska, so I tell him —–[town where I live], and then he tells me he’s from—–[a town 20-30 minutes away, depending on traffic]….It was rather funny.
336- wow, yeah. that’s odd.
Good evening! How do you do?
Lovely Pumpkin, if I do say so, and I do. I love pumpkins.
I love October. I love Fall. I love Halloween-but not the commercial part of it, or the totally creepy/scary/gross parts that all too often get mixed in. I like the season, and October, and Pumpkins, and the way the air smells and feels, and the sense of the Earth going to sleep for the Winter.
There. That sums it up, doesn’t it?
*Dishes out pumpkin pies all around* *Leaves*
Sorry about that, here’s a rake!
Red-tailed HAWK
5:43: Oops. Didn’t keep you posted. Oh, well. The party was really fun. My cello teacher came!
10/11/07 L.’S
I was at L.’s house today. We played lots of games.
MORE BIRTHDAY WISHES
-Tuner
-Rockstop
-Blasterball
Ugh! Dad almost walked into me when I was changing in my room! He stayed and bothered me–as if I wasn’t annoyed enough then!
Today’s completely unrelated statement: L.’s sister S. cried over a broken umbrella at the West football game.
-It’s just an umbrella!
Kyra
This is pretty much self-explanitory. The tuner and rockstop were things that I actually needed, and Blasterball was a computer game. I got over my obsession with it before my birthday, luckily.