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Yeah, purple comment box! I love purple!
Whoa, new colors again? And I was just getting used to the other ones, too…… Oh, well. Cool pic.
Hmm, I wonder what happens when you do green-HTML…..
Whoa, sweet! I just hit refresh, and my first thought when the bars at the top were the same colour, just fuzzed out, was why’d my colours go off? But then the page jumped the middle and I realized–new colour change! Yippee! I LOVE the purple! It is super awesome!!!!!
Cool pic, too, Lady B!
I think I liked the last colors better.
But I love the pic! At first I thought she was wearing a cape or something.
Oh, wow! THIS is unexpected, but still AWESOME!
I’m changing all the settings on my computer. Immensely fun.
I am seriously addicted to soda……I just bought (and am now starting on), my third 24 pack since starting college…..and I am the ONLY one drinking the soda, my roomie hasn’t had any…..whcih means I drink way, WAY too much soda……….not good.
Okay, I was okay with the orange and red, but this is going too far. I love the colors, they’re very pretty, but they sort of clash and I just don’t want to have to keep adjusting. I’d personally like the original colors back, but please change these ones, they’re driving me crazy.
Gah, even the green text is different!!!!!
Come on now. Seriously? I love you lots Rebecca, I really do. Please don’t get so crazy with this.
Great picture though! I love it! *turns desktop background from awesome green turtle photo to froody Urania picture*
I don’t like homework. I really don’t. I think that lab reports should get sick and die. That would be nice. Sort of, at least in short-term, for me. Hehe.
Wait, the wind thing is impossible on that image. Urania’s hair is sharply back, like the wind is blowing into her face, but she’s falling, and the leaf is going the other way (like the gravity-wind is blowing from the other side). Huh.
No, please, GAPAs, don’t change the colours back! They are super awesome, and I especially love the purple, and it is so much fun when we keep getting new colours! It is totally super awesome!!!!!!! These are my favourite so far (ok, so, admittedly, every time the colours have changed recently, the new ones have been my favourite, but……) Really, I like the colour changes!!!!!!
Nice. the colors go with the New pic.
(7) Sorry, THF, I’d rather do this when no one’s on the blog, but I’m trying to get to bed. I’m making adjustments so the text and links will show up. The way WordPress configures this, you can’t really tell how it looks until you see it “live.” The greens looked pretty on the sample, but on the blog I couldn’t distinguish them from the black text.
(9) I sample all the colors from the image and copy them into WordPress.
10–I don’t think there is a single time when there’s not at least one person on the blog…..
but yeah, the dark green was a bit frustrating, but you’ve fixed it now!!!!!!!!!!!!! ze purple is awesome!!!!!
(11) You can thank Urania for the purple. And for the idea. I was working on an entirely different design, but it was refusing to cooperate. From my laptop I’ve had a great view of the wind whipping leaves around all day and it eventually blew into my graphic. Urania’s leaf was cut out of a photo and “folded.”
Wonderful!
The illustration reminds me of some famous childrens ‘book…I just can’t place it.
12–ok.
Thank you, Urania, for the purple!
(13) Perhaps David Wiesner’s Free Fall? In his dream the boy in the story rides a leaf that turns into a swan.
aww. my sweetie pie kitty cat is sitting on my lap. which he never does. I’m really glad to hear that everyone in southern California is okay. I saw footage on the news and it is scary!
TIRED. It’s really late… I’m not really allowed to be on teh intarnets in my bed… I need sleep…. GOODBYE MUSEBLOG! see ya tomorrows!
I like having the colors change. Maybe we could have new colors every month, or every time a new random thread is made. Then I could say to myself, “I wonder if MuseBlog’s changed colors since I’ve last been on.”
The stitches dissolved! THEY ARE GONE! YESSSS!
Now my tummy hurts REEEEL bad. I’m gonna get some sleeps. Night, Bloggies.
Great pic, by the way.
I like the purple.
Ughh. I keep getting sick.
*hackhack*
Blahhhh.
iCarly was on while I was babysitting and now I can’t stop thinking about pie.
18–I like that idea!!!
19–I’m happy to hear about your stitches…..not so happy to hear about your stomach ache! Hope you feel better tomorrow
20–meh. being sick sucks. Feel better soon! *virtual hugs and chocolate*
OMG! I LOVE THE PIC, I LOVE THE COLORS, AND I LOVE NANOWRIMO!
OMG! I LOVE THE PIC, I LOVE THE COLORS, AND I LOVE NANOWRIMO! YAY MOI!
That was really odd…..So, I just walked down the hall to use the bathroom, and first of all, the second I open my door, the volume from the tv in the lounge is quite overwhelming (I never realized the door blocked that much sound, given how often I am disturbed by my noisy floor mates). So, anyway, I briefly wonder why the heck anybody is up watching tv at this time (dumb thought, given the people on this floor), and then after I enter the bathroom, and all I hear is the muted music, I think, Wonder why they’re watching Sweeney Todd…… Immediately after that, I think, What the heck makes your mind jump to Sweeney Todd? You couldn’t hear any of what was being said, etc…… When I leave the bathroom, it is quite apparent that it is a musical, and I’m standing in the hallway, listening, and it continues, and I”m thinking–yup, pretty sure it is Sweeney Todd, cuz that sounds like Johnny Depp singing, and now that’s definitely Bellatrix. [yes, I know, not bellatrix in this movie, but same actress, and i dont’ remember her name in ST]
So, I continue listening for a couple minutes, confirming that I was really right, and being seriously shocked that I actually recognized the movie when I wasn’t even paying any attention to the music/words/etc when walking down the hall (and couldn’t even make out the words, even if I was trying), cuz I seriously don’t get how I somehow knew, subconsciously, what the movie was, cuz I hadn’t been paying any attention, the thought just popped into my head, “wonder why they’re watching Sweeney Todd.” I’d put no conscious thought into trying to figure out what they were watching, I’ve only seen that movie once (a month or so ago), and yeah. It was kinda weird…..especially given that I ahve a very ahrd time placing songs/music, even if I’ve heard them, and know I recognize them, I have the hardest time remembering why I know them/where they’re from. (for instance, you play silent night, I’ll recognize it, know i know the tune, but it’ll take me forever to put a name to it…..)
Yeah, anyway, done babbling–I am going to bed.
I love the colors ! Could we have a thread where we decide on colors for each month ?
(April would be…hot pink!)
15- Yes, maybe that’s it.
25- The Year of Random Celebrations thread Is intended to provide themes for the random threads.
The only color swatch that I don’t like is the combination around the search box.
Ag! I hate being the negative, pessimistic and annoying person, but I can’t stand the colors. I just can’t. These ones are better than the “summer” colors, because they’re more pastel, but I just don’t see why we can’t keep the original colors. I loved those colors, and I had been accustomed to them for two years, and suddenly I come to the MB and it’s hot pink? That’s only okay on April Fool’s Day, in my opinion.
And I don’t know what I would/will do if we changed colors every stupid random thread, or had hot pink for a whole month. If the colors change often enough to ponder whether the MB has new colors today, they change too much.
I like the colors! Though I think it would be nice to return to the blue sometimes…
About two weeks ago (actually, on our French field trip to Montreal…) my stomach started hurting. At first I thought it was a stomach bug or something, but then I noticed it was exclusively on the right side. So then I thought (in my kind of random, paranoid, not-very-serious way that I have) “ooh, must be appendicitis.”
Well, once I came back home, I woke up in the middle of the night, and it reallyreally hurt. So, I said “Something is not right!” (heh), and we went to the ER.
And it turned out my appendix was ruptured and full of gangrene.
So now I’m back from the hospital, and slowly recovering (reading, knitting socks, and avoiding my NaNo, which is a failure once more.)…and wishing I could dance again. Because I can’t , right now, and I’m going crazy.
I love the picture! The leaf looks very comfortable, and her toes don’t seem cold at all (Kokonino county must be warmer then New York! XD).
(28) Glad to hear you’re all right, purplefinch!
We haven’t abandoned the regular colors; GAPAs are just having some fun this month. And I figured Urania would enjoy a carefree moment. She kicked her sandals off somewhere mid flight. Shoes just aren’t meant for such moments.
You changed the colors again, but I still like it.
I’m getting my hair cut today. It’s gonna be a pixie cut. Good bye, and hopes of doing anything with my hair… *sniffwle*
Hm. I liked the last colors better, but these aren’t bad.
28–i thought the old colours were green? Maybe I’m losing my mind……
Glad to hear you’re doing better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
31- Same here
I really like the colors. Change is good. And you know, I never really cared for the blue and green. It’s a lovey color scheme, but it makes MB seem so…cold.
Last night was closing night. It really was a good show, but then it turned out that a lot of the cast, instead of going to Cantonese food as is the tradition, were going to Dairy Queen, which is a football tradition. With the football players, no less.
Since in my mind that is not a cast dinner, I absolutely refused to go, and since A—— didn’t want to go either, we decided we would go to the art show instead. But by the time we got into town, though, the show was over so we wandered around for a while, stood in the middle of the street, and eventually decided to get fries. Then we went to Eva’s and got Eva, then we went for a long walk and then came back at midnight.
(32) Here’s the standard color scheme as laid out in the configuration table:
WHAT’S GOING THROUGH MY HEAD RIGHT NOW:
• I wonder what is like to have really really short hair…
• Stupid fly. I won’t squoosh it (that’s mean). I hope it flies outside.
• I wish Wafer would stop using chatspeak when we IM.
• Maybe I should go look at those photo albums over there. What if they’re empty? Am I in them?
END OF THOUGHTS.
Yeah, that’s me.
HEY! NEW COLOURS! XD I loooooove the lavender colour, it’s a few shades lighter than my room, but it’s the colour I wanted to paint my room… yay.
36- Having short hair is fun at first, then it gets all weird and impossible to control.
35–Hmmmmm….there is some green in there, although some blue as well…. *shrugs* m’kay, at least I’m not entirely crazy!
29-Thanks.
Urania does deserve some relaxation. Always carrying around that telescope… And it’s true, shoes are so often unnecessary. *runs around barefoot*
Meep! I’m oh-so-tired. But I got three AWESOME new books and I want to read them all at once!!!
-The Science of House, MD
-Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
-a book about Prion Diseases
WHICH ONE SHOULD I READ FIRST? I DON’T KNOW! AHH!
I’m BA-ACK!
Guess where from?
That’s right. NEW YORK.
(Sorry about the non-Kokon.)
*sees purple*
*thinks of Morbid*
Say, just where IS Morbid?!
Yayy! Pretty colors!!!!! I ♥ the purple comment box!
I think I will buy Kokopelli a pie-throwing monster from NME for Christmas.
What do you think?
I gots myself some short hair! It feels…. different. At least I got to keep my long bang. And RAWR was right, short hair IS swishy. *tosses head* *feels like an idiot*
28- *hugs and special recovery chocolate* that sounds aweful. having my appendix rupture is one of my big fears.
34- I find the usual colours really calming. I finf the current ones a bit jarring but that’s okay, it’s only for a little while.
45- how short?
I need a haircut. I also ned to stop procrastinating. I need it all evened out because when I got it cut in january or so it was an angled bob (longer in the front than in the back). when it was cut the back was so short it could not be brought into a pony tail. now it’s almost past my shoulders. the length of all my hair is kinda awkward. I just want it evened out so it will lie straighter, instead of twisting everywhich way. perhaps after exams I will get it cut. Unfortunately my usual hair dresser moved back to poland.
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Do you know what I’m getting in math right now???? 100%! is that not ridiculouse. it means i have gotten every test and worksheet perfect, and handed everything in. I didn’t even know one could get 100% . sorry if it sounds like I’m bragging I’m just really pleased with myself because 100% is a flamablamablous mark. (that’s how you spell that word right?)
46–sweet! Congratulations on you math! That is super flamablamablous (and yes, you spelled it right)! I totally understand how super happy you are, and why you would want to share (who wouldn’t?)
Urgurgurg slow internet is driving me insane. AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
I keep hearing little bits of music come through the headphones ad I want to hear the whole song(s) so that I can decide if I actually want to go to take a class from this guy that Don told me about DARN THIS STUPID PHONE LINE IT IS BEING SO EVIL.
Okay, sanity again.
By the way, GAPAs (mostly Robert), do you remember the concert that Mom’s choir gave last year that you and Rebecca came up to after the Kokonvention at the National Gallery of Art? If you do, I’m singing with them now too, and there’s a concert on the 22nd, if you’re interested I can send you an email (through the GAPA line) with more information (location/time/etc.). Of course, if Rebecca can make it up too, we’d always love to see her!
Wow, I’d forgotten how IE makes noise when you click on things–it’s weird after the silent Firefox. Also, the scroll bar doesn’t change color when you put the mouse over it, FireFox only does that when it’s not responding, heh, confusion.
46- One or two inches below the ear.
42- Morbid was last seen at a birthday party.
41- Aw.
Mr. M is ok.
50 – Hey, you’re in NY? I was on live TV there!
Man, it’s been cloudy so long here that I’ve almost forgotten what the stars look like.
This summer I might be going on a bit of a road trip through the US of A. specificaly: going to washington DC (twas my idea as I’ve never been there). should be fun. I’ve only been to buffalo, new york and north dakota (or was it south dakota?)
for anyone curious I am back home now. i feel like crap and the pool is full of ash but otherwise we’re okay. everything smells like smoke. we were lucky…a lot of homes burned down.
28) that is horrible. i was afraid i had appendicitis this summer but I ended up not having it. get well soon!
41- Peeps. Tell me if it’s good.
I’m kind of mad at myself. I got like a million amazing books at the library and I should be reading them right now but I can’t stop typing! AHHHH!
54–I’m glad that you are safe! And of course, it is also good to know that your home is, as well!
28- Oooh I hope you feel better soon.
I WANT TO GET TO 27k NOWWWWW
54- Good! I was worried.
Gaaah. I was trying to buy the five back issues on ebay, but someone outbid me at the last second. Who outbid me?
28- Feel better!
51- Not Manhattan, but yes, NY.
53- Fun! It gets hot in D.C.
54- That’s great!
GAPA question: Why is title=”Hill” > is removed from post 50?
(60) I don’t understand the question. Nothing was changed.
60 – Well, we were in Manhattan. It was really fun! We saw the Rockettes, and the Lion King on Broadway! (And, yes, I was on TV. It was a local sports broadcast that happened to be near our hotel. Me, having good eyesight, saw the studio and stood behind it and jumped up and down and waved. The broadcast was saying something about Connecticut – or was it Cincinnati? – and Syracuse. It was approximately 3:00 ET on Saturday. I was wearing a white coat.)
61–my guess is that Vendaval tried to label his link with the popup word “hill”, and it did not work, judging from his html code : title=”Hill”. But that is just a thought…..
(61) I could’ve sworn that I posted that link with the hover text “Hill’, but it didn’t show up, and there are no irregularities in the html. Huh. Very strange.
(62) Ah, I don’t watch tv very often, and sport even less :).
Morbid seems fine. She’s been singing and things.
WHAT IS GOING THROUGH MY HEAD RIGHT NOW.
~ My hair is all weird now. It’s triangular… I look horrible. Egh, stupid hormones. *mashes hormones into a pulp*
~ Surfing the fan page gallery is SO MUCH FUN…
~ The person on TV just went to a pet store… NO don’t get the bunny!
…he got the bunny.
THIS CONCLUDES THIS MOMENT OF INSANITY.
Also: I didn’t think anyone else remembered Morbid as she was mostly a poster on the Gaboomba.
Ah. Well, tell her that I, AJAR/AJR said hi, and see if that starts WWIII (World War 3). Please. Thanks.
“A manhunt is on in Germany for a convicted drug dealer who escaped by mailing himself out of jail.” According to the message board in the dorm hall where I ate lunch, anyway. I mean, what the heck? How on earth does one go about mailing themselves out of a prison for crying out loud?
In other news, my bio prof mentioned all our lovely SoCal friends on MB! Well, that is to say, he mentioned SoCal in general, at the beginning of lecture.
“If you have been following the news recently, you will know that all of Southern California is burning. People are standing in front of their houses leaving, packing the occasional big screen tv, dogs, cats, etc, while the paint is literally burning off their cars. On Friday, we will discuss why Southern California is burning, why it always has burned, and why it always will burn…..”
Yeah, in other words, we are discussing the “ecology of forest fires” on Friday……
Anyway, I am really glad all of you MBers from SoCal are currently safe!!!!!! I’m thinking of you guys!
69) southern california is really no place to live. the fact that we have a “fire season” is absurd in and of itself.
also the earthquake bit that i was talking about earlier, I misspoke (mistyped?)
“The Great Southern California ShakeOut is based on a potential magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the southern San Andreas Fault”
of course there are just as serious earthquakes elsewhere…I think it’s just the whole “the big one” culture down here. or something.
Rosanne and I survived a Pretty Big One back in 1989. We were about 10 miles from the epicenter of the Loma Prieta earthquake.
California was very well behaved the times I lived there. According to some highly publicized prophesying, we were supposed to break off the continent in the middle of Mrs. Gerber’s 8th-grade journalism class — a prospect some of us would have cheered *coughmoicough* — yet nary a tremor transpired.
The experience did, however, further incline me toward a jaundiced view of doomsday prophets.
I am reading Lord of the Flies in English class right now. And I can only think the question I asked my teacher: “Can we read a paragraph of this without there being some symbolism??”
START POSTING ON THE COMPUTER AND GAMES THREAD OR I WILL START TRIPLE/QUADRUPLE-POSTING MY HEART OUT
71–I’m sure I sound difficult and contrary and naive, but…….I just can’t make myself think of a 6.9 as big……..I think I’m just jaded, having lived in such an seismically active state my entire life. Not to mention, with our sparse population, it would take a significantly HUGE quake, or else one with an epicenter smack-dab on
Anchorage, to even come close to the number of casualties that a “minor” earthquake causes somewhere as densely populated as California.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I know, intellectually that a 6.9 is not really a small quake, but it’s just hard to think of it as big, when I have probably experienced one every year of my life. Of course, most of the ones I’ve been in were probably more (perhaps significantly more) than 10 miles away. I might have a little more respect for one if I had actually experienced the full force (ie, been at the epicenter, or close to)…….
Anyway, I’m not trying to say I think that 6.9/7.1/7.9 (the big one) would be small quakes, it’s just I have a hard time thinking of them as big, cuz, well, like I said–I’m jaded. Comes with living in a seismically active state where even relatively large quakes (those that would kill mass numbers of people elsewhere), kill almost nobody, and do relatively little damage…..yeah, anyway……
SHWOW.
My friend’s mom sent me an e-mail that had a link to the Daily Mail, which was an article titled: “Why no child is safe from the sinister cult of emo” and a little message telling me I shouldn’t be emo or I’d commit suicide.
Really, lady?
Maybe she should ask me if I classify myself as emo first, and then if I do, she can whop me upside the head, and if I don’t, she can leave me the freak alone. Either way, there’s no call to send me a link to a prejiduced article attacking My Chemical Romance and labeling them as emo along with bands like Good Charlotte and blink-182, which are not only not emo but hardly related.
75 – We have a new captain obvious
75–ok, stupid question. What exactly is emo? Is it just another term for goth? I mean, is all emo is wearing black, dying your hair black, wearing spikes collars/belts/bracelts/whatever, black makeup, etc, like I typically think of goth? Or am I way off and emo is something totally different?
sorry, I am not exactly up on things…..
Has anyone here met anyone particularly famous? I’ve met Billy Joel and many authors.
77- Goths get pissed off when i call them emo and emos get pissed off when i call them goth. I still don’t get the difference.
78–I was in the same room as Arnold Schwarzenager (sp?) once……And it was a small room. The choir I was part of was singing at the Special Olympics Opening Ceremony when they were held in AK, and he was one of the guests, and we were waiting in line for warm ups, and he came through, and shook hands with several of us (not me, though). And Frankie Muniz and Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) were also there……but those are actors, and kinda boring…..
Um, if Obama counts as famous, my sister shook his hand last year when he spoke at her campus, and I was within seeing range of him earlier this month (which isn’t exactly meeting, per se, but…)
So, yeah, kinda, I guess.
53~ Have fun in DC, it’s a neat place, but then I’m a little partial……by the way, Kokonventions have been known to occur there, so keep us posted if there’s any possibility!
54~ I’m glad you’re safe! *hugs*
75~
You’re too cool to be emo–after all, you’re a muser!
77~ Basically, emo is the new goth, without the old goth disappearing. The only thing I can see is that emo people are glad to be depressed, while goth people mostly just try to scare others and be angry……..and to call someone emo is at times taken as an insult, while being called goth never happens (in my frame of reference, that is). Clear it up for ya? No, I thought not. I don’t get it either. There’s a book on it though, called Everybody Hurts, it’s supposedly the essential guide to being emo. I wasn’t sure if it was a joke or not, rather disturbing, that.
Curse this slow internet. And MySpace music player for being weird. And for not being able to find anything of Donal Maguire’s music on YouTube. WORDS. *slow internet emote*
Grrrrrrrrr. At least it’s faster now than it was yesterday, but it’s still painful for downloading music. MORE WORDS!
Is anyone here familiar with Donal Maguire? He’s an Irish singer…….and I have to find out whether I like his music enought to take a class from him tomorrow evening. ARGH.
Don says he’s good, and the few half seconds that I’ve heard were favorable, but ACK, I want to hear at LEAST on full song before I meet the dude!
Oh. my. gosh. I just used the word dude. *kills self*
78~ Umm, my parents met the Clintons. I wasn’t with them (I was aa=bout two) but there’s a fer pictures and a video of me on the Smithsonian Institution’s website.
I was at a pool one time in Kentucky with my friend and we saw Orlando Bloom. I’ve talked to numerous performers at concerts and such. Tomorrow I might take a class from a sort of well-known singer. That’s all I can remember right now……..
Oh, and my Dad was an extra in the movie Hair! Although we’ve never seen the movie.
79~
78- I met Barack Obama, and David Schwimmer, and Phillip Pullman, and Rahm Emanuel, and er… that’s it. I think. And I have autographs from Garth Nix and Scott Westerfeld but I didn’t meet them.
Sorry for the 2post!
OH and when I met Obama I actually met him and I said Hi and he was like Hi and I got a picture with him and his autograph && stuff but this was like four years ago when he was running for Senate. But still!!
84-You. Met. OBAMA??????
*is insanely jealous*
75- I didn’t realize that Emo was a cult.
77- I think Emo people cut and goths don’t. I’m not sure though.
india landed on the moon.
*in sing song voice* I GOT A PACKAGE, I GOT A PACKAGE!!!!!!!!!! *runsaroundincircleslikeamaniac*
Yay, packages are awesome!!!!!!! So, I got a turkey beanie baby (for Thanksgiving decorating, I presume), cool christmas lights, a wall hanging thing with a snowman, one (only one!) can of chili, and a bunch of (homemade) cookies. and some candy. Yippee! [Note: packages are seriously highlight of my existence here at college. no kidding.]
Most people have their own opinion of emo, and I’m not sure there really is an exact definition except that it’s a genre of music that was an offshoot of punk. Labels aren’t my expertise. But here’s mine: Emo is a bunch of apathetic, pessimistic bands and they’re teenage fans who wear a certain style of clothing. It’s not really their fault that they’re pessimistic, it’s just how they are. Give them a hug. It’s definatly not the new goth, because goths were around since forever and emos just popped up after punk. It was underground in DC at first, but then got all mainstream with “emo” bands in the 1990s. Before you know it, there’s stores that advertise “emo” clothing and “emo” styles, and everybody goes and paints their nails black and a bunch of new people decide that they’re “emo” and make a hairstyle and type of pants to go along with it. I was critisized (and rightly so lol) for using “poser” too much, but you really can’t tell who’s posing and who’s really dressing in something because they like it anymore, because “that’s so poser” has become a poser phrase.
If you think you’re emo, you’re probably not. It’s just a stupid label anyway. Just don’t go around calling people who wear black clothes and have asymetrical bangs emo.
79-They’re probably not emo or goth. But they have a right to be pissed off; you’re labeling them! Don’t label them, and they won’t get pissed off. I’m not all that offended when someone calls me emo or something, but it gets bothersome. Goth really isn’t a label, it’s more like a lifestyle. It’s kind of when you awknowledge pain and anger, but unlike emos, don’t wallow in it. Thank God. In my opnion, they’re some of the most open minded and funny people. Again, if they call themselves goth, they’re NOT.
Okay, just to let you know, “I Must Be Emo” and “Tickle Me Emo” aren’t correct depictions of emo at ALL. Emo has like 1% to do with self harm.
I like freerice. 1000!
64 – Pity, pity.
My thoughts:
And hold me tight, tonight, tonight, it’s yoooou, you, you, you, you…
Wow, that was pathetic. ARGH! I have had that stuck in my head all day.
Gah. I have to take an organic chemistry test a day early because I got invited to a leadership thing on Wednesday and can’t take it then. On the cool/positive side, my bio/organic chem teacher just got two snakes for his classroom- now we have a scorpion, two tanks of carnivorous fish, and two snakes in separate cages in the classroom.
Oh, famous peoples. Sorry for the double post, I was called away to the phone by my way to dramatic friends. Somebody SERIOUSLY needs to chill and stop pretending they’re married to their crush.
I haven’t met any REALLY famous peoples, except for Amelia Boynton Robinson, who should be famous and isn’t, Lyndon LaRouche and his wife Helga Zepp LaRouche at a couple of his birthday parties… I can’t think of anyone else not associated with them. Nancy Spanus who ran for Governer of VA I’ve met on multiple occasions, Mike Billington who was sentanced to 75 (or something) years in jail, Sylvia Olden Lee, who was the singing coach of Kathleen Battle and the first African American coach of the women at the Met and worked with Marian Anderson and Robert McFerren, and I met William Warfield, which I don’t remember.
Oh, and I met the guy who accidently gave half of My Chemical Romance and Muse food poisoning, but he dosn’t really count as famous.
OOHHH! THIRD POST.
88–mkay. So, people who call themselves emo aren’t, and people who call themselves goth, aren’t. So, what does that mean people (like me) who call themselves HP fanatics aren’t really HP fanatics?
I guess that kinda helped, but I will probably just continue to live my life out ignorant of what is truly emo (cuz I confesseth that I got rather lost with your attempted explanation), except that it sounds like a rather depressing group of people (no offense intended to anybody).
And “Tickle me Emo”–had to read that twice, as I could’ve sworn it said “tickle me Elmo” the first time……. *shakeshead*
SFTDP, but…..back to famous peoples. Does Sarah Palin count?
She’s not famous, but……was a prominent person for awhile. I have “met” her–that is to say, she spoke and at a meeting thing for a local company, at which they handed out schoalrships (of which I was one of several recipients), and I’m 90% certain that I saw her at the state fair in ’07……*rememberssheisonblogofprimarilydemocratsandrunsforlife–seeya!*
I like the picture, by the way. The background reminds me of watercolor, in all those nice autumn leaf-ish colors: orange, yellow, hot pink… Wait a second. Hot pink? As in
? Maybe that moment’s not as carefree as it seems…
94-No, it’s just when you label yourself with a steryotype that’s so broad like “emo”, you’re probably just trying to get attention. But when you label yourself with a label that shouldn’t even be a label like “goth”, you’re definatly not. Tim Burton wouldn’t label himself as goth, and if you see pictures of him, he obviously dosn’t wear studs or have asymetrical black hair, but his mind is what you might call gothic, that originated before even the Victorian times.
Not the Goths like Visigoths though.
Wow. Next subject. I explain this like, every day at school and it just gets more complicated.
I think Sarah Palin would count as famous. Heck, she had a couple SNLs done of her, she better be well known, at least!
Haha, somebody asked if Jesus was famous, and I said yes, so he was like “OMG I MET A REALLY FAMOUS PERSON, HE LIVES INSIDE OF ME”.
Would someone who won the Pulitzer count as famous? Because I know one.
71) yikes! I’m glad you were both okay!
72) yeah all that splitting off from the us talk is so funny…hehe
74) we’re so densely populated that, as you say, what for alaska may not cause much damage would be catastrophic for CA
82) aughhhh that’s so cool! you guys are all so lucky!
83) omg you met rahmbo so jealous
when I went to sacramento I saw the governator. you would think I would see more famous type people at LAX or something but nooo
73- First rule of Serious Literature: Everything is symbolic.
78- I’ve met Dr. Robert Ballard, the guy who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, twice, and traded some e-mails with him. And I shook Jane Goodall’s hand at the UN and had a five-second conversation with her once.
I saw Ami James from Miami Ink when I was in Las Vegas.
I was too scared to talk to him.
My laptop is overrun with viruses. All the virus programs I had conflicted with each other and none would allow the others to run. While they were all bickering over which program could scan for viruses a bunch of viruses got in and killed my laptop.
Now I get to format the hard drive and install Ubuntu! So I guess that’s one good thing from this.
My friend who is going to help me install/learn Linux is also probably going to teach me Russian. :] Awesome.
Karinnn (20): *sends happy-immune-system vibes* November is always my sick-month. I always get sick in November, for some reason.
purplefinch (28): Eek! My fried had a ruptured appendix, and it definitely sounds scary. I’m glad you’re okay! *chocolate*
kagcomix (46): Congratulations! I could never get 100% in math, because I always make really stupid mistakes.
oxlin (78): I’ve met many authors, and some famous human-rights activists, musicians, politicians…and others. I’ve met some super-famous people, but most of them are only famous if you’re interested in that particular field. For example, you might not know who Gitanjali Gutierrez is if you’re not familiar with Guantánamo Bay legislation. I’ll try to rememer everyone I’ve met, but I’ll almost definitely leave someone out.
Authors/Speakers: Lois Lowry, John Green, Maureen Johnson, Barbara Park, Megan McDonald, Jack Gantos, David Levithan, Peter Oresick, and Randy Pausch.
Politicians: Barack Obama (he gave me a hug!), Hillary and Bill Clinton, John and Elizabeth Edwards, and Al Gore.
Musicians/Performers: I’ve seen many more musicians and performers than I’ve actually met and talked to, but as for actually meeting…Mister (Fred) Rogers (I saw him ALL the time), Chuck Aber (Mr. McFeely), Cathy Rigby (Peter Pan), Rob Marshall (Chicago), Joshua Bell (violin), Mark O’Connor (violin), Joseph Kalichstein (piano), Jaime Laredo (violin), Sharon Robinson (cello), Benjamin Verdery and William Coulter (classical guitar), lots of Wizard Rock people (but I don’t know if that counts as famous), George Romero (zombies), Brad Yoder (singer/composer), and a lot of my mom’s voice students (many of whom were my babysitters) are in movies and Broadway shows, but I won’t say their names because they could probably be traced back to me. Not that you don’t know my last name anyway, but still.
Activists: Desmond Tutu, Larry Cox (executive director of Amnesty International USA), Mohamed Adam Yahya, James Tolbert, Susan Burke, Gitanjali Gutierrez, and Dan Kovalik.
102-
Luckyluckyluckyluckylucky you……..
100- Wow! One of my teachers just met him.
102- That’s great, meeting all those people. I’m sure I’ve met somebody famous, but I can’t remember any, so I guess they aren’t that famous. I had a book signed by J.K. Rowling though.
And apparently I’m related to a famous conservative columnist.
You guys are all so lucky!
I kind of count myself lucky to meet such history changing people, but still.
You know who I need to meet?
I need to meet Tim Burton, Gerard Way, Matthew Lush, Margaret Cho, Jeffree Star, and Edgar Allen Poe’s ghost.
People I’ve met:
Musicians: Billy Joel
Authors: Jane Yolen, Adam Stemple, Charles de Lint, Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, Patrick Rothfuss, Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Caroline Stevermer, Patricia Wrede, Lois McMaster Bujold, Pamela Dean, Marissa Lingen, Steven Brust, Ellen Klages, I’m probably forgetting someone.
Editors: Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Teresa Nielsen Hayden
and I’ve seen Elton John but not really met him.
Oh and Mary Grand Pré who illustrated the Harry Potter books.
I am listening to the ending theme from Apollo 13 right now and it is just seriously awesome music.
I’m glad you’re feeling better Purplefinch!
And I’ve been to her /house/. (GrandPré’s)
106 – I’ve always wanted to meet Lois McMaster Bujold! She seems so interesting.
Other authors I want to meet: John Irving, Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman.
He’s not an author, but I have met Sean Bean! I was a fake production assistant for a day on his most recent movie (which is coming out sometime this year, I think). Sean Bean = Boromir in LotR, for those who don’t know.
.110) me and my mom <33333 sean bean (we say his name phonetically… not like “shawn” but “scene” lol it rhymes that way)
GOD I AM JEALOUS.we watch the whole thing though at least twice a year. the fellowship of the ring is so great in large part because of his character. of course I love all of the movies. UGH i can’t believe they cut out that scene in gondor from the two towers.
anyway I am very envious of you. and everyone else! man nothing cool happens to me. I did get to see that special re-screening of the fellowship in ~*beverly hills but w/e. they had some of the producers and what not there. SIGHHHH. I think I get to go to comicon this year though I am excited.
People I’ve met…
Authors/Speakers: Cornelia Funke, Jan and Bob Davidson, Nicole Ali… probably others, I just can’t remember.
Politicians: Tara Mack. She lives in my neighborhood.
Musicians/Performers: Um, none?
Activists: *cough**cough* Jan and Bob Davidson?
Wow, that is pathetic.
Oh, polititicans. I’ve met Tammy Baldwin and probably Chris Coleman and I saw Al Franken once.
104–you had a book signed by JKR? Lucky!
gimme, gimme, gimme!
114- I have books signed by Mary GrandPre.
111 – Yeah, I really like him! He is actually a really nice guy. He doesn’t talk a lot, but he is so polite and really professional. (He also has the nicest accent.) The scene I watched had him shooting a gun, so that was really exciting. They were blowing stuff up and driving cars kind of crazy. I hope that scene made it into the final movie (which isn’t, I don’t think, going to be very good).
Not I want to rewatch LotR. It’s been too long. I should do the books, then the movies.
116- That is so awesome! I’m jealous.
You know who’s hot? The guys in Boys like Girls. Oh my gooderness, knee wobblying hotness… they all look like Jim Sturgess and Zac Farro squished together. I just rented the CD from the library.
Anyway…
I’m home sick today! Yay! Of course, I’m going to mysteriously recover Friday… I have a fever and diahrrea. Ug.
Oh, and Tim Bishop, one of New York’s Representatives in Congress.
Does anyone know what you can do with chocolate bread? I was making bread and randomly decided to but in cocoa.
88~ Ah. That actually makes more sense than other definitions I;ve heard before.
102~ WFEIHSFCEUIOWHEF You’ve met Joshua Bell AND Mark O’Connor?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Lucky. *dies*
Oh, I know Bruce Hornsby’s mom! Does that count as famous? If she isn’t she totally should be, she’s such a wonderful person.
I know some awesome editors too…..ROBERT AND ROSANNE!!!!!
I also know some amazing artists, REBECCA amoungst them.
Paul too, he’s a pretty awesome musician, although not really that famous……
And my Mom could be sort of famous, she has a piece of silverwork in the White House collection (it’s in the smithsonian now, I think).
(120) Well, I would eat it, but that’s just me. Maybe with peanut butter on it.
(120, 122) Or toasted with marmalade. Yes, I know you’re not a marmalade person, Robert, so that might not occur to you. But orange is a nice complement to chocolate.
(121) Your mom is certainly famous among the GAPAs of the world!
120- Sounds… interesting. I agree wiht Robert; put peanut butter on it and taste it.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
123- Not a marmalade person? But why would he be made of marmalade?
Well, I put apples on it and I am baking it.
‘Ello. I’m ging to the class tonight. whoop, it should be fun! the only thing I’m a little nervous about is that it seems like it’s might be full of big shots in the Baltimore folk music scene…………and then me tagging along…….eep. That’s a little scary, I’m not as entirely confidant as I sometimes appear………………………………………………………..
Anyway, it should be interesting.
102- Obama gave me a hug too! He was REALLY TALL but that’s just because i was 9 when I met him.
104, 115 – Signed by JKR and Mary GrandPre? Ahhh, so jealous!
Vendaval (104): Awesome! Did you get to talk to her when you got it signed? Sometimes authors are really impersonal during book-signings, and I’ve always wondered if she talked to people, or just tried to whip through the line.
oxlin (109): Where does GrandPré live? I haven’t seen much of her work outside Harry Potter; I’ve only read Vegetables Go to Bed.
Fiddler (121): Yep! Joshua Bell has come to Pittsburgh several times in the last few years, and I met O’Connor a few years ago at a music festival in New York (with my grandma). Have you seen the video/news article where Joshua Bell played in the subway station?
Kiki (127): Obama-hugs are the best!
It turned out terrible.
(130) Too bad. And peanut butter doesn’t help?
118-I don’t actually think they’re all that attractive.
But watch the “Curse of Curves” music video. There’s only like, two un-hot people in the whole thing. The lead singer is the only person I know who can pull off a combover.
132- And how can you say that!!!! The lead guy is the spit of Jim Sturgess. And no one in their right mind can say that Jim Sturgess is not gorgeous. And Zac Farro… he’s so cute.
129- She lives in Florida in not-walking-distance-from-my-house. She used to live in Minnesota and I see her old house if I go to my brother’s soccer games. It was even more surreal when she lived there.
129 (Pan)- Unfortunately, it was just a quick pass. I think it was for the release of the second book, so I’m not sure if she was a household name yet, but the store was still packed. I felt sorry for her, because her hand was cramping up, and she obviously wasn’t enjoying it at that moment. She wasn’t trying to whip through the line, I don’t think she had any choice.
On a related note, I remembered that my mom and brother have met Eoin Colfer and Jack Gantos. And I’ve met Paula Danziger. I’ve also met some artists my father works with.
132- I think that they’re just trying too hard.
Either moderation is going very slowly, or posting is just very slow tonight…..
133–I’m in my right mind (I think), and Jim Sturgess is not gorgeous…….Actually, I have absolutely no idea who he is (nor do I have a clue who Zac Farro is…..). So, therefore I have absolutely no idea s to whether he is gorgeous or not.
Moderation has indeed been slow. Rebecca went to bed early, and I’ve been having connectivity problems that have kept me from moderating. Sorry, all!
137: What makes it even worse is that weirdly enough, the computer I’m on right now does not show my comment after I’ve posted it AND I have to keep on retyping my email and my name. *sigh*
So, my school has a ”lip sync show” every early October, and right now, next year it’s a tossup between these songs-
• Rainbow Connection
• Eleanor Rigbey
• Fisch Slapping Song
• Summer In the City
• Lion Sleeps Tonight
Yeah, fickle opinions. Thoughts? I can only do one.
I vote for “Summer in the City.” It’s a song with drive. I brought down the house with it one Karaoke Night at the National Press Club.
139: Yeah, it’s a good song, even with friends. So, we have one vote for “Summer in the City.” Now, everyone else (if they choose too) votes, the winner emerges, I write down somewhere and remember it through the summer.
You brought down a house?! What else have you done, drop a pumpkin from a multi-story building???
Yes, GAPAs have unlikely talents and strange adventures.
Cromwell (130): Chocolate’s pretty bitter. So I think something really sweet is called for to complement it. Maybe whipped butter and honey. Or strawberry jam. Or even Marshmallow Fluff??!
In the words of one of my best friends, Math should take a flying leap off a cliff, get sucked into a black hole and then be deposited in an alternate universe where it is COMPLETELY WRONG!!!!
*ahem* I don’t like math.
Well, the problem was that homemade bread doesn’t spread well, so I couldn’t put enough apples in, and it was underdone. I did actually put in lots of plum jam before I put it in the breadmaker, but the combination of 1 tbs. of cocoa and 3/2 tbs of jam just didn’t work.
143: I do not like math too, although my mother says I’m really good at it. I’m the sucky one in my pre Algebra class! I should’ve taken Math 6… *mumblegrumble*
I’m really close to memorizing Rainbow Connection, which has been my goal for several days. I keep on getting the second and third verse mixed up, though.
Yay! a tree fell on something so I’m out of school. Something like this happened a while ago when a squirrel went into the transformer.
I love algebra ! It’s logical and there’s ONE right answer. Besides, you can’t misspell (a+s) (a+5) – (c+d) (i+o) (x+w+y)
So, I’m here because I have late start, Cromwell’s here because a tree fell on something, and everyone else, why are you here?
146: My head just flicked back when you said the word “transformer.” We have a transformer closet at my school; I wonder what’s inside?
148–I’m here cuz my first class isn’t until 11! ‘course, next semester, I’m not so lucky…..8 o’clock classes MWF…..
I’m here because I have lots of free time before school on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
146-Ouch.
I’m here because it’s 7:15 p.m. in austria.
I’ll get my german test back tomorrow…
*twisting in nervous anguish”
150 – I actually do half physical school and half online. It’s sweet, since I have more time at home.
THis new lay out reminds me of PB&J.
153- Oh, that’s cool! Why do you do that?
OMG, I just realized something.
The major premise of Majora’s Mask (the Moon is coming closer and closer to Termina) is a rip-off of part of the premise of Star Trek TOS Episode 7: The Naked Time (they slowly begin to be drawn into the collapsing planet when the navigator (who was infected with the disease) shut the engine room, override all the ship, and shut the engines off). WHY, NINTENDO?! WHYYYYY?!?
136- You are either not in your right mind, or you have a bizarre taste in guys. And Zac Farro is not gorgeous; he is cute.
156- Not even gonna ask…
My dad is due home with pizza any second. I ate a few chunks of turkey from the fridge, and that is all that’s keeping me from chewing off my own arm.
OMG HE’S HERE I MUST GO AND EAT mmmm delicious pizza you will soon be mine…
157–um, like I said, I’ve never actually seen the guys (more accurately, haven’t the foggiest who they are), and so don’t honestly have any idea whether they are gorgeous/cute or not. Nothing to do with bizarre taste, or not being in my right mind.
ok, google imaged them. I can now say, that although JS is by no means bad looking, he is certainly not gorgeous (I’ve seen better, Will Moseley, for example). And ZF really isn’t particularly cute. Sorry. And yes, I’m in my right mind, and no, my taste in guys is not bizarre…….
143- So..the right answer would be a wrong answer and you would have to get a problem wrong to get it right? OKAY!
I just went to dinner at the caf (one of them, that is)…….I forgot it was their stupid Thanksgiving dinner night. They had these huge balls of cheese dip stuff (literally balls, looked nasty), turkey (I passed, just got a regular turkey sandwich formt he deli instead), pumpkin pie (by far the worst pumpkin pie I’ve ever tasted–but given the only pumpkin pie I’ve had is homemade by my mom…..probably not hard to be worse), bad punch, and the only cool thing was they had pretty cream tablecloths on all the tables, with little wine coloured square tabletcoth thingies in the center. Pretty.
Speaking of early class times…
Currently, my school startes at 7:45. I wake up at 6:00 and catch a 6:45 bus in order to get to school at around 7:30 (my school isn’t actually that far away, but it’s downtown, so it still takes awhile).
However, the Port Authority Transit system (all of the buses) might strike in December. Thus, we will need to be taken to school in yellow school buses.
Because of this, all after-school activities will be canceled (because people need to get on the bus). That means I won’t be able to do Newspaper, Choir, Model UN, Amnesty International, or NHS.
Also because of this, we have to stagger our bus times with other schools in the district. This means that our school will start at 5:50 AM. Yes, that’s right. I will have to wake up at 3:30-4:00, depending on what time the bus will come. Granted, I’ll get out of school at 2:00 (compared to the 3:45 now), but my body-clock will need serious adjustment. I’ll have to go to bed at 8-9:00 to get a decent night’s sleep. (Now I’m getting about 6 hours, which would mean 10:00).
Needless to say, I hope the bus drivers don’t strike.
161–eep. I hope they don’t strike too!!!!!!
Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the launch of the first part of the International Space Station. Not really the station’s birthday, because that would be December 7th, when the first Russian and American components were joined, but the, um… something.
Photosynthesis takes place in the thylakoid, which is one sac in the granum, which is enclosed by the stroma inside the chloroplast which is inside a mesophyll which is inside the leaf on a plant… light reactions are fueled by the light from the sun, source of energy for all living things, yaddah yaddah YADDAH…
I HATE BIOLOGY.
164- I actually think that’s really cool.
Junior high teachers…well, I just hope I’ll be able to forget them. Every random fact my science teacher knows she is very proud of and repeats it whenever she remembers. My Algebra teacher is racist. My Social Studies teacher brings up subjects like our president-elect, then threatens to give detentions because everyone is talking.
146- here there is “the squirrel who gave its life so [my school] students could party”. It got stuck in a transformer and electricuted but brought all of the campus power down with it and class was cancelled.
Today I got to try welding at work which means I was paid for it too.
164–I rather like biology. Although, plants are probably my least favorite part of biology. They just aren’t the most interesting…..I hate learning about photosynthesis. Probably because it is on the cellular level, and that is one of my least favorite bio portions too. but, in general, I enjoy bio. Which is good, as I will be taking a heck of a lot of it during college…..
I like chemistry waaaay more than Biology. We’re studying biochemistry in biology. It’s uninteresting; I already know ALL of it. ALL.
168, 169- I like biology best, personally. Especially genetics; I’m planning on being a geneticist.
54- thank goodness you’re alright!
73- I’m reading it too! we have to do chapter notes. I got chapter eight… and I’m not quite there yet. my goal is to finnish reading and sttart my notes by sunday. how are you liking the book so far?
75- well I find her actions thoroughly unprovoked and a bit rude.
77- emo is like you hate the world and it hates you and you cut yourself. selfmutilation is a very serios thing and let no one, by anymeans think I am taking it lightly. but yeah, that is the picture.
84- but that’s even cooler because you met him before he got all super famous.
88- i know what you mean.
down in the US of A do people say “custy”? loads of people say it up here to mean disgusting. it’s just a fad of language. I wondered if it was down south o’ me too.
RE: famous people. i can’t say all the cool exciting things I want to say because they have to do with where i live. I got my copie of ‘beige’ signed by the arrogant worms when I went to their concert. I had a very nice chat with reina telgemier(i truly cannot spell her last name) who is the arist who did the babysitter club “graphic novels”. she;s really nice. someday I hope to meet Mark Oakley. Because his work has been a huuuuuuge influence on mine.
171- hey, I’ve been to an Arrogant Worms show too! They’re great.
161-Ahhh! That would be horrible. Three thirty is about the time I go to sleep in the first place.
171-Emo is just a stupid label, and it has nothing to do with self mutilation. There are gazillions of people who cut and don’t hate the world, and certainly aren’t emo. Some of my friends just got over that, and they really didn’t hate the world, it was just a way of getting some feelings out. A bad way, of course. Can we please drop the subject, though? There really is no fixed definition.
Today: Finished my word count quota, and I’m going to regret not going over it tomarrow when I have school.
Listened to Muse. I’m in loovee.
Made a poser that says “It should be legal to love” with a rainbow flag behind it, and wrote “iSupport Gay Marriage, do you?” in sharpie on it. Getting it signed tomarrow for no particular reason.
Hung another identical poser on my bedroom wall.
Ranted about Fred Phelps to Mom.
Got accused of not knowing what I was talking about. Admited that that opinion was probably right, but he’s still a everythingexcepthimophobic.
Checked the forums on the NaNo site.
About to check e-mail.
Made MuseBlog post that nobody’s going to read (this one).
Hit submit.
129~ Yes, I’ve seen the clip of Joshua Bell playing in the Subway station-the fact that no one noticed is amazing.
You’re incredibly lucky, he’s an AMAZING player. I’d kill to see him in person (I have a few CDs).
141~ So it seems. However, I’m having a bit of a hard time imagining you singing karaoke.
143/145~ I agree. Math is awful, and for me often ends in tears and violent temper tantrums. I hate it, especially word problems–grimace as you will Robert, but it’s true, they’re evile.
161~ That’s awful! Oh my gosh, I’d die if I had to get up at 3AM…….everyone knows that that’s when you get into bed, DUH!!!
Anyway, if any of you want to hear about what I did last night, here it is, along with why I was there in the first place, in case I didn’t make it clear before.
A friend of mine who plays trad./folk/maritime music sent me an email about a singing workshop by Donal Maguire (have any of you heard of him? He’s good). So, after looking him up, listening to a few tracks I decided to go, and I’m quite glad that I did!
He was very friendly and interesting (great sense of humor too, all the people I know from Ireland and/or England are great storytellers) and the workshop was fun. We ended up taking a good bit more time than it was supposed to, but nobody minded at all! Although it wasn’t quite as hands-on (voice on??) as I thought it might be, it was fine, I was a little nervous about that anyway. However, he sang some, and it was fun to listen, I’ll have to go in search of more music now…….I can sense a dangerous and possibly expensive (CDs, books) foray into research……….drat, and here I was going to let my allowance recover. (I’ve got $11 spendable, and that was paid to the end of the year, not good.)
Anyway, good workshop, fun visits, a few questions answered, and some pleasant memories.
161 – Yipe! Your current schedule is about as crazy as my former highschool schedule (wake up at 6 AM to take a 6:15 bus to school, which starts at 8:15) but the potential yellow bus schedule is madness!
(this is sparta!)Is there any way to start a lobby against the new schedule if the bus drivers do strike?Question to the GAPAs:
How do you get the little box on the side with the upcoming dates? Is it exclusive to certain themes?
170 – Eh, never really appealed to me.
171 – Custy? Never heard of it.
(174, 141) Fiddler: In fact, I’m the National Association of Science Writers’ karaoke champion. I won a whole basket of tchotchkes in Boston a few years ago. Hm, maybe it’s not wise to talk about such things.
oxlin (167): Welding? That sounds awesome!
Fiddler (174): Bell is definitely one of my favorite violinists. I loved the subway station video. There was, what, one person who knew who he was? I thought it was funny that he played a concert a few days earlier where tickets were >$100, and people didn’t even know they were getting a free concert!
Have you noticed the really clear and smooth quality Bell has when he plays really high notes? My dad found an article about how Bell’s violin (The “Red Violin,” if you’ve seen the movie/know the story) really contributes to the sound quality, and is one of the only Stradivarius instruments with that ability.
groundhog (175): I’m not sure. The school board announced a whole complicated bus-schedule system, and no amendments seem possible because once the buses are done with our school, they have to move on to another school. *sigh* I’m just hoping the transportation union can work up a deal with the city. Honestly, though I am very pro-union, I think they’re being really ridiculous. The city just doesn’t have the money to give, and already the Pittsburgh bus drivers are among the best-payed drivers in the country (above 60,000/year).
173- I read it.
Does anyone else know anything about welding or see that I’d learned?
178~ Oh. my. gosh.
180- I saw, and think it’s really cool. My uncle is a sculptor who works mainly in large metals, so I’ve seen some welding. I used his plasma cutter once! That is all I know.
179~ I often sit down and listen to Bell’s playing and marvel at the amazing clarity of his playing, every note is perfectly clear and perfect, wow. I haven’t listened to him for awhile (my musical tastes come and go according to whim and fancy), but I always enjoy listening to his playing in depth, I always hear something new. I love to listen to classical music, I just don’t always have a lot of fun playing it!
Goodnight everyone, I need to turn off the computer and take a shower………I’m horribly tired.
And drat, just when moderation is fast and everyone’s on! h well, enjoy the party, I’ll read it later…..
Last Friday, I started signing my name on my Spanish notes as “Raynpho.” I caught myself after “R-a-y” and quickly scribbled the “y” into a “c,” but the damage was done. I definitely am too addicted to my online alias. DX
Has anyone else done this? Or am I alone in my insanity?
178- congratulations!
179- yes, it was quite fun. I think I got a bit over heated though, what with the protective coat and gloves and the fact I was wearing two shirts. I was best at vertical welding. Now I know how to tell if welded things have been welded nicely.
182- ooh, you used a plasma cutter? awesome! We rented one here last year apparently. I wasn’t here yet though so I never got to use it.
So Jade is tired and depresswd and should prbably go to be, but is so behind on nano that that would feel like giving up except I’m not writing anything and I’vm averaging maybe 5-5.5 hours of sleep per night at most. And it is showing in her sentences and switches from tense to tense.
But yesterday we had a hstory test (3rd of the year, only 6 grades in the book this semester so far…), and flat out failed. I mean, I expected AP US History to be hard, but I have never done this badly in a class. Or on tests. I study a ton I just can’t hold so much information in my brain in the time we have to learn it, not to mention that it’s out of 7 books, all of which we’re supposed to at least keep up in.
Not to mention the musical begins tomorrow, so I haven’t been getting home till around 8 all week, plus I have hockey 6 times a week (and that’s on weeks without tournaments). So I have no time to study, let alone write, and I feel like crap all the time. I don’t know what to do about APUSH. I might have to drop down to regular, because I’ve completely given up on doing well on the AP test, and if I fail the class trying to it would only hurt me, even if I got a 5 or something. I was taking this class for college and to help me get into one, but it’s just killing my GPA. I had a C- at the last report card. And I am positive it’s gone down. I have never had a grade that low on a report card, nothing lower than a B-, ever. God… *cries* I’m an emotional wreck. I started crying (tearing up, red eyes, sniffing) 17 times today (in school, that I counted), even though I managed to not full-out cry every time except for 3, and then I managed to stop after less than a minute (until I got home).
But yeah I’m a mess right now. Sorry for the absence. Probably won’t have time to stop by a lot, though I still frequent the Poetry thread. It’s slow enough for my infrequent visits at least…
Oxlin- Welding? That sounds so cool…
173–I read it!
*is going to bed soon–very, very tired*
Re- Emo-ness: Hm, emo. My friends in the GS troop consider it just cutting (Seaweed does it, and she’s nice.), but I think it’s just plain sadness. If emo-ness was just self-mutilation, well then, consider me emo. (Don’taskdon’taskdon’task.) But sometimes I just get so sad and feel worthless. That happens about half of the time. I just get this numb feeling in my head with one thought- life sucks. I just kinda go around like a robot, all my sadness coming out. I cry a lot, too. It happened again tonight.
Puberty stinks. Literally.
*sigh*
.186) seven books? that’s ridiculous! we use one, last year we had two-ish…I’m so sorry. I wish I could help you out, I don’t know how. darn you internet!
i’m thinking of you! I was wondering where you were, actually.
maybe you can talk to your counselor about the class? or your teacher if that’s feasible. a lot of ap teachers seem to want ot encourage their students to keep on keeping on for lack of a better phrase…you could also look into getting a review book as a sort of consolidation type thing, though I don’t know if more books would help. I guess how you feel about that class is how i feel about ap bio (I am meeting that class with denial though…harhar). so I know saying “set time aside blah blah” is easy to say but doing things is not so easy, especially when you feel crappy.
I can’t say I know exactly how you feel but i’ve been having some pretty bad spots this year too so I sympathize for sure. ( also: sorry I haven’t been on the poetry thread, I’ve become suspicious of posting things online._
oh i really hope you feel better jadestone! *attempts e-hug* *fails*
this all reminds me that I can’t wait until festivus and the airing of grievances! boy do I ever have some grievances to air.
(186, 161) Jadestone: Is there anything you can cut back on? You sound seriously overstretched. (Not fun stuff; you need that.) And Purple Panda’s school schedule is just crazy.
I’m not sure whether anybody still reads Hermann Hesse nowadays, but his early book Beneath the Wheel may resonate with many MBers.
My life is only mildly insane at the moment.
Today Mom’s at a cello lesson, tomorrow we have a dress rehearsal and on Saturday a concert……(by the way, Robert do you want me to email the info? If you’re interested in making your way on Sat. I’ll tell you more details.)
And I have lots of homework to do that I’m avoiding right now. And practicing, I have to do that more regularly, even thought what I consider a week of light practice is what many would consider a ton of time playing. (at least an hour every day that I can manage it, if I have extra time sometimes two or three, although I do miss days now and then, or I only get ten minutes or so. Yeah, I don’t think it’s a lot, but it seems to be more than most of my teacher’s students do…..oh well.)
Gah. And then I see everyone else’s scheduled and I fell pathetic.
Fiddler: Certainly! Send the information along. I’m not sure what my weekend looks like, but it would be fun to hear you and your mother.
192~ Okay! I’ll send you a not via GAPA-mail, check it in a few minutes…
(193) Wish I could be there this time! It sounds like quite an interesting concert. Have fun!
‘Tis sent. (By the way, it was “….note via gapa-mail)
Gotta go now, gah, homework.
Wow. I just turned in a late assignment, for which the maximum is 50%, and I got full credit. I guess that’s why she’s a science teacher, not a math teacher.
194~ I wish you could too! It is fun, all the pieces are wonderful, I can’t decide in a favorite!
184-Yes, on many occasions I’ve typed in Beavo in my log on at school, and written it in a couple million times on papers. Once, I wrote it on an SOL test answer sheet, which was bad, becasue you have to erase REALLY REALLY REALLY good. I was online the night before, and got no sleep, which might have contributed to the confusion.
188-Don’t worry, you’re totally not alone. Most of my friends were doing some sort of self mutilation last year, and we’ve all gotten though it. One of my friends was actually freaking us out with suicidal thoughts until we got her out of THAT (thank GOD).
Ew, today this kid was like “hey Gothity Gothity Goth” and I was like *roll eyes walk away* *come back* and he was like “hey do you have blood on your wrists, goth?” and I was like “wow if that’s the best you’ve got, that’s pretty sad” *walk away* and he’s like “GOTH!” and I”m like “have a nice day”. He was pretty pissed. You’d think he’d know that I don’t care what crap he gives me, it’s all pathetic (last year he was the biggest gay baiter of non gay people EVER) and he’s too scrawny to beat anyone up anyway.
Last year, he’s like “I’m going to beat you up” and I was like “Have fun trying” and he pounded my back (I was walking away) with his fists and I was laughing the whole time. If he’d just be nice and stop trying to be the tough guy, maybe nobody would laugh at him and call him short.
oxlin (185): It sounds somewhat like glasswork. I’ve only worked on a glass flame once, but the process of melting, connecting, and hardening seems similar. What kinds of things did you weld?
Jadestone (186): *hugs and chocolate* Seven books? Wow. We only have one book in my AP US History class – called “The American Pageant.†It’s REALLY heavy, but it’s probably way lighter than seven books. (We also have a book full of AP practice tests, but we never use it.) Do you know what kinds of difficulty you’re having with the subject? It helps to always look at the big picture/broad spectrum and view all history as a timeline, instead of getting caught up in all of the small details. I also find it useful to outline each chapter in the book (though it would probably get confusing with 7 different books), and make a big timeline. Every chapter, I add new events to the timeline. Reading the timeline and outlines before the test really helps.
Robert (190): Apparently, my school could choose to either go before all of the other bus times, or after. So, the choices were either 5:50, or 9:30. They had to choose the 5:50 time because of the arts teachers at the school. Because the arts classes are only in the afternoon, it is a part-time job, and all of the teachers have to be working professionals in their field as well. So, many teachers have other jobs that start around 5:00, and if school started at 9:30, school wouldn’t be over in time. *sigh* I just hope they can negotiate an agreement.
As far as I’m concerned, 9:30 is the time people your age should be waking up. I’d go on strike for the later opening time and let the art teachers work things out for themselves.
200–Hey, you are cool! My dad thinks 9:30 is late to get up (although, if I actually got up that early when I was at home, I don’t think he’d complain, given that it is a good two hours earlier than I would typically get up if I had a choice), and he personally gets up around 6, and considers 7:30 sleeping in. I consider 7:30 unnaturally early, but that’s just me. 9:30 is a little earlier than I would really like but is certainly doable, without to much difficulty (especially if I go to bed at a normal hour).
Eeee I’m seeing Jason Mraz in Milwaukee tomorrow!
.190) Beneath the Wheel is the story of Hans Giebenrath, a talented boy sent to an elite seminary in Maulbronn. However his education is focused on increasing his knowledge and neglects his development as a person –from wikipedia
oh I could relate to that. thank you for the recommendation. my mind is so muddled, I can’t wait until thanksgiving break.
199) that’s the same book we use! must be pretty standard then. Do you notice when they try to slip in jokes? One chapter was discussing rumors and smear campaigns during the election of 1828 I think and it said something like “in other words they called John Qunicy Adams a pimp”. it was weird.
My dog just chewed a chunk out of the WALL.
That girl has some TEETH.
184- Yes, I have almost written my username when my real name is required several times.
200- I naturally wake up at about seven in the morning, maybe seven twenty. So if school started an hour later, I’d be okay with that.
(184, 205) GAPAs have been known to add italics code to our emails without realizing it.
Today I had to sort out a disagreement at work and almost started my e-mail “The GAPA declares…”
207–Seriously? That’s hilarious.
I’ve never even started to use my blog name on anything. The closest thing, I suppose, is my yahoo signature in my email starts out “Luna the Lovely”, but I think I made that my sig before I started using LtL as my MB name.
I have, however, when typing something, and wanting to italicize a word, slipped into HTML with out realizing it, and then have to consciously stop typing, backspace, and do “command I” instead, which is somehow much more difficult…..I dunno.
I must not be on the blog enough, because I haven’t noticed any symptoms of MB-itis in me. I guess me not having a blogname anything like my real name probably helps me out…
206 – That’s really funny!
207 – That’s really funny, too!
208 – *******************************!
207- That’s hilarious. I could think of dozens of ways I would settle an argument using that prefix…
“The GAPA declares that you will not give me more essay papers to write, Mr. English-Teacher!”
“The GAPA declares that all biology tests shall henceforth become MULTIPLE CHOICE!”
“The GAPA declares that whenever a younger sibling returns home from school to find her brother reading her diary, she will be allowed to slap him upside the head!”
oh that’s all nothing. I’ll be looking for something in a book or in my room and I want to ctrl+F until I realize how ridiculous I am.
207- What about?
(211) The fortune is made for the person who creates a real-world version of that!
I can relate, because I frequently try to Ctrl+Z when I’m drawing on paper.
213- Didn’t Chad do that in january?
Axa (203): Wow, really? Awesome! The book is absolutely hilarious. There is even a group on Facebook called “Some Hilarious Quotes from American Pageant,†which has at least 200 quotes. I just don’t think there are words to describe the humor in the book. I think it’s trying to be funny and appeal to high school students, but fails in a funny sort of way.
206/7/8/etc.: I’ve never accidentally used my blogname. I’ve never even thought about using it instead of my real name, nor used html codes, etc. Which is why I don’t quite believe you almost said “The GAPA declares,†Robert. I believe you might have thought it when you were thinking about how to begin the e-mail, but I don’t think you actually came close to actually writing it. I really don’t think you would say “The GAPA declares†even on MuseBlog, because you usually stay out of things. And even when you give input, you would never put it in such a I-Am-All-Powerful-You-Listen-To-Me sort of way. It would be polite, but firm, letting people know that this is how you feel. And even if you were to say something like “The GAPA declares†(and, despite what I said earlier, I think you could genuinely say, on rare occasions), it wouldn’t be on a daily basis. In fact, it would be quite rare, which would make it impossible for you to become so accustomed to saying “The GAPA declares†that you would actually write it in an email. So, to summarize: I think you could have thought it in your head, but wouldn’t actually almost write it in an email. You wouldn’t be just about to type the words out. And, of course, I never know, because you’re Robert and can do all sorts of strange and museish and unpredictable things. But the fact that you just happened to be writing an email today, of all days, when we’re discussing this, and really actuallly wrote to fellow colleagues that you were a Declaring GAPA….a bit of a hyperbole.
[[Sorry if this makes absolutely no sense at all. Actually, it’s completely pointless. The conversation just seemed a bit strange, and it didn’t fit together. I still don’t think I’m over the Movolturd discussion. And this discussion here reminds me of that discussion, which might be why it’s strange. And now I don’t even know what I’m talking about. *sigh* ]]
211 – I do that too! Except I can’t get much farther than thinking, “oh, just cmd+F” because I soon realize I don’t have a keyboard.
(215) A GAPA can dream….
211/213–you must have PCs? As opposed to Macs?
215–I believe it was Molvoterd. With an “e” as opposed to a “u”. Not that it matters…..
Sometiems when I read stuff (more often when I’m having trouble concentrating, then when I’m reading something entertaining), I find myself mentally typing out the words. It’s kinda weird, and once I notice, I can’t make it stop, so it lasts much longer, and every word I look at gets thought-typed. Rather annoying, really.
Luna (218): Ahh, yes. Molvoterd sounds better. I was trying to figure out what it was. I couldn’t remember it it was annagramed along with “I Am Lord,” but ultimately decided it didn’t really matter and remembered I had a Spanish essay to write. (What? Spanish essay?)
Maybe I’m just strange, because I never imagine myself typing when I’m not on a computer, or using MB names, etc. Tetris blocks, on the other hand….
Purple Panda’s skepticism is unwarranted. After touch-typing for 43 years and spending all day at the keyboard for 15, even my most fleeting thoughts sometimes spill out through my fingers. And, like Rebecca, I sometimes type “<i>” before I catch myself.
Hmm. That’s very strange.
But really? You’d actually type out something like that?
I suppose spending all day every day at a keyboard can do strange things to you. It’s kind of scary, if you think about it.
Hey! You changed your post!
But sorry for the skepticism. Your comment just seemed a bit strange in the conversation. And I don’t even know why. I think I need more sleep. *collapses over essay*
158- Meh. Will Mosely is rather cute. But Jim Sturgess is burning up. There just is no comparison.
I am honoured to be in your virtual presence. I plan to tell my friends that I know a famous singer now, JSYK.
178- Really?
184- Yeah, I signed my homework MissSwann once. You’re not alone.
188- *whiffs armpits* Yes, literally. *goes to shower*
200- Amen, Robert, amen.
204- Holy… wow.
I frequently try to highlight, copy and past lines I’m writing for detention. This is the kind of detention that is extremely tedious and stretches far past the time any child should bge in school; my mind is basically a pile of jelly between my ears.
When moderating on my Treo, I’ll sometimes post a “quick” version of my reply just to get it out there and then edit it to make it longer.
The final Voldemort anagram on the Harry Potter Trivia-Off, Part 1, was “Movolterd.”
219 (Pan)–oh, yes. When I play tetris too long/often (not recently), I find myself viewing my surrounding in the format of how best to stack them to delete lines……totally understand.
224–ah, well, figures. That was a very funny conversation…..especially your anagrams (and Movolterd in specific)
When I read the conversation to my brother, he was on the floor laughing. Literally, on the floor. For a long time.
And this fall, he got one of those make-your-own combination-lock-things. And he wanted to make the combination “terd,” after Movolterd, but there wasn’t an E on the second dial, so he had to make it “turd,” which is probably why I remembered it that way.
I know someone who sleep types blog entries. They are quite interesting to read.
Pan- In welding you use a thing where a wire is coming out of the tip and is heated up using electricity and gasses and falls onto the space between the metals and glues them together. basically.
hey nonny nonny have any of you tried out the new themes on gmail they are v. exciting. II’m using the desk one right now…oh gmail how do I love thee, let me count the ways
Hi everyone Im back (again) and the weather is warming up…and freindships are cooling down, boy… I hate fights but now everything is really bad…after 6 months you would think it would resolve. But no….so occasionaly (i decided today) I will tell u guys about it cos atm its SO HORRIBLE :'(
ALSO what is the definition of ’emo’ in USA cos ((really truly no offence meant here)) in NZ its a bad thing but II was on a website and some girls username was Emo Ninja and me and my friend were a little confused…because e are Kiwis and all ><
(218, 221, et al.) When I’ve done sudden, heavy bouts of typing, such as for a 30-page paper, I often “see” all my thoughts and conversations being typed in my head and even my dreams type themselves out.
(227) oxlin, my freshman-year roommate would take phone messages in her sleep. Not especially helpful, as her notes weren’t exactly accurate.
(229) Hi, Sam! I was just recently wondering how you were.
231–My sister talks/sings/yells in her sleep. I even had an entire conversation with her once when she was asleep–actually, I thought she was awake, but…….according to her, no.
So, anyway, this time tonight I will be on a plane to FL!!!!!! Yippee! Sadly, though, that means I probably won’t be on much next week, as I will probably be busy hanging out with my aunt/uncle/cousin/gramma, and I don’t know when I would be able to get on, especially given they don’t know about MB…..
So, yeah, given that I leave my dorm at 3:30 (yup, blogtime, as that’s the time zone I’m in), and I need to pack my laptop before leaving for my last class at 2, I will probably have left by the time most of you are on, so……
Have a Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! And enjoy your break (although i suppose most of you only have a four days off, starting Thanksgiving, instead of the whole week)!
231, section a: Ooh-ho-ho-ho!
That is SO funny! ROFL!
My brother’s home sick today, so he has to be dragged along to guitar with me/my mom. I can’t wait until I can drive myself places. He’ll be sitting in the back whining…
So, we had our fire ecology lecture today, as I mentioned on Monday that we would…..The prof spent a lot of time talking about Southern California, and basically saying that it is totally stupid to live there…….He is amusing in some of his opinions, sometimes….
Anyway, here are some nice little excerpts from my notes (why? cuz I feel like it. I’ve nothing better to do before my next class in an hour and a half, after which I leave for Flordia! yippee!)
Fires require source of ignition:
*lightning:
*humans~especially in S. California, [this is in my prof’s words, not mine] “with lots of strange people who like to see stuff burn.”
Humans don’t like fire~think it’s bad; decided all forest fires are bad, and wanted to preserve the forest as a resource. “Stop all forest fires.”
Tremendous fire suppression efforts; poured lots of money into it. “All fires bad and terrible.”
Types of fires:
1. Surface fire: most common, simply burns litter and debris on ground~usually not a big problem; doesn’t kill trees
2. Crown fire: a fire moves from ground surface into trees
*most common in coniferous forests~very dry, flammable sap
*resin boils, expands, explodes tree, blowing fire to other trees
*will kill trees, but trees evolved to deal~some need fire
3. Ground fires: very rare, but most destructive [note: these sound kinda cool!]
*basically burns underground~parts of Canada, much of Siberia
*pines build peat layer from buildup of needles, covered by more “stuff”
*fire will burn this material underground, killing roots of all trees~can prevent return of climax communities
*can burn for hundres (thousands) of years
Frequency of fires:
forested ecosystems:
*surface fire: every year to every 250/300 yrs, depending on specific forest
~in west US, every 5-20 yrs before people took over
~when people stopped surface fires, organic material accumulated 2-3 ft, so surface fires usually become crown fires immediately
*crown fires: naturally, rare: 250-300 yrs [by natural, it means before people stopped surface fires,w hich lessened the incidence of the significantly more serious crown fires]
Southern California:
chaparral~along coast of Souther California, Chile, Africa
*mediterranean climate: dry summers, wet winters
*waist high vegetation: shrubs, grasses; shrubs, like the pine trees, have highly flammable sap
*lots of lightning strikes
*build homes on stilts on hill; fire starts on a hill, place burns like crazy~fire burns best going uphill; homes WILL burn
*Many of the plants require fire for seeds to grow~plants deal with fire, humans don’t
*If you must build, build with adobe and tile roofs of clay~will not burn [and now I quote “but adobe homes aren’t ‘cool’, they must have their redwood sided, flammable homes, so they don’t do this, because clay houses aren’t cool.”]
Wettability:
*as it burns, stuff sinks about 12 inches into ground, cools, forms impermeable water proof layer
*heavy winter rain, mudslide takes out everything above this layer~if you don’t burn, you will be washed away
~many people spend millions to build reinforced wall uphill, but unless built really deep (20 ft), the mudslide will just take it out, and your house too
Anyway, yeah, just thought I’d share……that was most of today’s lecture…….
Happy Thanksgiving, all, in case I don’t post anymore in the next hour before my last class 9after which I fly out)!
Enjoy yourselves and your turkey, and all that!
A professional Double Dutch team came to our school today for a performance and I was doing spotlight!
I had a fire drill today. It was great, because we missed part of a discussion in Social Studies.
BTW, did you know that you can turn pennies silver- and gold-colored (even though they aren’t actual gold/silver)? We did that in Science a few weeks ago… it was cool.
I am a bit annoyed right now because my thanksgiving plans are scraped. I was originally going to spend this week building up coins in Super Smash Bros. Brawl (pleeeeeeeease post on the video game thread, we need more posts there), eat dinner on thursday, and head upstairs and do the coin launcher until I ran out of coins. And I already have 1000 coins, so that would take a long time.
Well, I found out yesterday that my aunt, uncle, and cousins are having dinner with us on thurs, and my cousins will probably want to play after dinner. NOT. A. SINGLE. STINKING. MOMENT’S. PEACE.
206/7~
That’s great, Robert, you should have done it!
Okay, I;ll read later…..there are a bazillion more posts in the time since I was on, ack!
Concert tomorrow night! Robert, are you coming? i sent you a note, I don’t know if you got it.
Our biology class is SO BORING. I know ALL of it already.
Improbable, just doodle on a sheet of paper or something… act like you’re taking notes. The homework should be easy if you know it all already.
So what do you do on this amazing blog? This is my first time I have ever been on it and I have no clue what to do! :'(
Ok so I guess I’ll say that Isabella is my real name and my last name starts with ‘Sw’ but it’s not Swan. Sorta freaky right? I also trip over nothing and I go ‘Spaz’ in school. DEFINITELY not a viewed as a damsel-in-distress type. Anyway Twilight is the best book ever! It’s way on up there with Harry Potter and Maximum Ride! (I know it’s hard to believe right?) But I’m on Team Mike/Seth/Eric/Tyler! JUST KIDDING! I’m actually on Team Jacob. Who is definitely tall, dark, and handsome.
I didn’t see Twilight (the movie) yet, I wanted to see it today but my friend wanted to read the book first so we didn’t. Gr. She’s probably only up to like, page 100. I gave it to her at 3:00.
Well I hope that was good. (Or something like that.)
Oh and 37- I love my hair short, even though it gets crazy sometimes. I’m growing mine out again.
239 – The problem is that our teacher’s voice is a monotone. It’s really easy to fall asleep. And we’re going to study organic chemistry for 2 weeks, something I already know. So utter boredom for 2 weeks.
Welcoming committee?
OH, that post wasn’t up when I posted.
*pies* Hi, Bella!
241- Just doodle throughout the class! That’s almost as bad as when the English teacher decides she’s going to be ‘nice’ to us and ‘give us a break’ and READS OUT LOUD! So then she asks me a question (and I’m on page 200 when the rest of the class is on 104) and I have NO idea how to answer!
Well good luck anyway…
244 – Ugh, I hate it when teachers read to you.
Second welcoming commitee. *Pies Bella* HI!
173- oh. sorry. I didn’t specify that I was listing the steriotype.
188- I know you are saying it is just puberty but I think you have a mild form of depression, Zinc. I have a friend who was going through a lot of similar emotions. She would be fine and then have trouble coping with life and feel the need to inflict pain upon herself. She was depressed. She tried to kill herself but fortunately she was able to stop herself. I think you are depressed. It’s nothing too feel bad about or embarassed about. Loads of people suffer from depression. My mom does. Mabe you should talk to someone you really trust about your feelings, because sometimes that helps. *hugs*
198- you handled him perfectly.
240- *pies* welcome to the blog. go read the rules. and stuff. I’m the blog’s resident Canadian. enjoy.
242- I got that covered!
RE: blognames in the real world. Kag was a nickname for a while so when I started doing comics the natural title of my work was the KAG comics. which morphed into Kagcomix as my blog name (because shadowkat was taken). serieously, when I was reading a thread before my first post I was going to use shadowcat as my name (because kitty pride is my favorite X-Men) and then I saw there was already a shadowkat so I had to comeup with a new name real fast. So I do use my blog name in the real world. I entered the Scary go round- feats of streangth contest under that (google kagcomix scary go round and it’s the second one (don’t wory there’s not identifying information there GAPAs)).
DID YOU KNOW that american pennied are toxic if you ingest them where as canadian pennies aren’t??? it’s because of the materials you guys uses. that’s what a teacher told me..
Hey, thanks for the welcoming committee! From the bottom of my very shallow heart. (Tee-hee!)
Kagcomix- Well, maybe? our U.S. Mint people wanted our pennies to be toxic, because… toxic things are just…. toxic! Which is a synonym for cool, I think. When are they going to come out with an Urban Thesaurus?!?!?!
hi bella. i am rereading twilight right now because i forgot what happened in that book and i’m probably going to the movie on thursday.
*pies*
245: You know what’s even worse? Making the students read out loud. They say this in a completely monotone voice: “Maroo was close to dying. She wailed ‘Help, help’ but no one came.” Ugh. I’m one of the two good readers in my core; the other makes everything else sound all ominous.
240- Hi there, Bella! I’m glad to see that we have another Twilight fan. I haven’t seen the movie either, but I’m going tomorrow. Yay! Welcome to this flamablamablous blog. I’m sure you’ll have a wonderful time here.
Oh, and by the way, I’m Team Edward.
Grr. *bloodlust*
I saw Much Ado About Nothing last night!!! Ahhhhh ♥
I find it amusing that no one ever seems to do pure Shakespeare anymore. All the ones I’ve seen recently have had some weird twist. Midsummer was 60s/70s psychedelic, Much Ado was set in Hawaii… Titus (the movie) is in some alternate ancient Rome where men wear business suits and there are cars, but they still use swords… The 1996 Romeo and Juliet was…strange. But very good.
Anyway, back to Much Ado. It was wonderful. Being a light designer, a good portion of the show was me watching the lights, but I did pay attention, I swear! I laughed when Benedick was trying to spy on his friends who were being wildly over-dramatic about how in LOVE Beatrice was, and cried at the wedding. It was particularly sad because they had Claudio and Hero do this whole dance and Hero was so happy and Claudio was so depressed and it went on for so long. I was surprised no one noticed the trouble sooner.
Anyway, I was very happy and got only five hours of sleep but now it’s the weekend THANK GOD.
252- i am rather fond of much ado. I dislike when people do 60s/70s settings for shakespear. I like it when it is interesting with costumes and stuff but not set time periods. (my school is doing much ado later in the year. coincidence?)
I personaly love when teachers read aloud. as long as they are good at it. My grade 7/8 teacher read a loud and it was wondeful because she was good at it. sometimes it’s nice to be read to as an older child. people don’t think of reading stories to you. last year when I went to visit my cousins (who are around my age) we spent quite a lot of time just reading to eachother.
247-I just did some research, and found that “American pennies minted after 1982 have also been involved in zinc toxicosis as they contain 96% zinc. Canadian pennies have been approximately 98% copper and 1.75 % zinc. From 1997 to 2001, Canadian pennies were also modified and were minted as copper-coated zinc wafers.” So American coins are still more toxic, but there are plenty of mostly zinc Canadian coins too.
252- I think I heard about the psychedelic Midsummer on the BBC.
What is the GAPA’s email? I’ll most likely have to send it tomorrow morning, because my dad’s not home and I can’t use the scanner…
*uses puppy-dog eyes on GAPAs*
PLEASE, GAPAs, give me a chance! I’m lazy! What time do the GAPAs check their email? I live in Florida, so it might be different.
(255) Okay, AvalonGirl, under the circumstances, you can send it in tomorrow. The email is gapa at musefanpage dot com.
211-I’ve done that. I look down for the keyboard in the middle of Harry Potter or something, and then I’m like… no… wait…
229-See previous posts on that topic.
Clarissa went to Twilight. Without. Inviting. Me.
Not like I actually wanted to go (lie). But I suppose I’ll be going at another date (lie) with people who hate the book as much as I do (lie).
Actually, I do hate the book. It’s a complete rip off of every other vampire book In. The. World. And plus, it makes vampires all happy and skippy and whatever, and all the girls are like “OMGZ im so goth i luvv twilight and i went to hottopic and bought the shirt immm soo coollll now and edward is luv hughug” and I’m like, “wow get help”.
Should I see it? Should I not see it? *undecided*
(251)-Jacob is cooler. He has a personality, something that Edward obviously lacks. His greatest flaw is liking Bella, who doesn’t have much of one either. In the book this is slightly acceptable, it does help the reader experience the story. But in a movie it just comes off as awkward. I’m still going to see it anyway, just to giggle at it.
*is attacked and eaten*
Anyway, I like having friends who like twilight but aren’t all like OMGEDWARDISSOHOTTIBROKEUPW/MYBOYFRIENDBECAUSEHEWASN’T LIKEEDWARD!!!!!!!!!!
252~ That’s my favorite Shakespeare play!
Robert, will we see you tomorrow?
257- i think I’ll read the book sometime soon so I can properly critique it. speaking of books: did you ever totaly finish your NaNo from last year? because I loved what I read but I want more.
ooo. I need ta go ta bed. I need. My head not working. but must read comic. oh how i tax myself. must go bed soon. ‘night.
I hope so, MF. It depends on how alert I’m feeling, because I’ll have to drive back to Northern Virginia the same night.
261~ Great! We hope to see you then!
Does anyone ever read anything other than Twilight? Or some other series?
Sorry. I’m just a bit frustrated as I don’t like Twilight. You guys are all entitled to like it if you want but is there anyone else here who doesn’t/ have any of you read any /other/ books lately?
Right now I’m reading Women of Other Worlds which is a book that collects many things relating to feminist SF.
252 – I saw a non modern prduction of A Midsummer’s Nights Dream last June!
263-I read the first 2 Twilight books, but then stopped because Bella was getting SO ANNOYING. I definitely read other series.
Right now I’m reading Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke. It’s really good!!!!
Welcome, Bella! What do we do? Well, we discuss things-anything from politics to books we’re writing. We have a lot of threads, each with its own topic. (However, in the case of this thread, there is no topic.) We also have imaginary parties, Role-Playing Games, and Round-Robin stories.
263- Oxlin, right now I am awaiting the second book of a series from the library. It is called the Lady Violet Winters’ Casebook Series. Do you know it? It’s by a British author-and it has British spellings! What more could you want? Okay, they’re exciting, humorous and well-written, all of which are important, too.
I also want to read the second Kiki Strike book, but the library has it not.
Re- Other books: I’ve read Twilight, and I liked it, but I’m already taken by Harry Potter. I like Percy Jackson, the Merlin series, and right now, I’m reading Fruit’s Basket, the Hobbit, and the dictionary. I’m looking for words I can use in RPGs. ^-^ I’m so weird…
Who’s read The Book Thief by Marcus Zuzak? His book I am the Messenger is very good as well, if a little more adult.
267- I’ve read both. They’re great books. The Book Thief is my favorite, though.
267 – I adored The Book Thief. I cried quite a lot towards the end…
Will this post show up? If it does, I’m sorry, just none of my posts have been showing up.
Re:Twilight: I actually really despise it. The characters have no personality and are flat. Bella is annoying and shallow: She falls head over heels for Edward just because he’s drop-dead gorgeous. H-E-L-L-O?!?!?! Personality???
Anyway.
Oxlin– I haven’t read Twilight and don’t intend to. I’m currently reading Wuthering Heights (for English), Titus Andronicus (for Shakespeare), and The Fifth Sacred Thing (for pleasure). And I just remembered to call my dad and ask him to pick up Post Captain at the library.
240- *welcomes with open arms* FINALLY! ANOTHER TWILIGHT FREAK!!!!! Unfortunately I am not on Team Jacob… but hey, close enough. Did you see the movie yet??? I DID! LAST NIGHT!!! The theatre was frickin INSANE… Prepare for a blow-by-blow of my evening!
So, my friend’s brother ordered her a limo to go to the movie (it was her birthday and he had a bunch of cash stored up, apparently… I thought it was a bit over the top, but it was fun. I felt famous.) and we took like a 2 hour detour through all these random towns. We blasted the Twilight soundtrack and sang along to every song, but we all had to pee AWFULLY. By the time we got to McDonalds we were all racing to the bathrooms and we peed for the longest time… then we had 15 minutes to eat before we went to the theatre and we inhaled our various food items. We went to the theatre, and holy crap, there were bunches of people there. We were in the 7:30 line, which was blissfully short, so we would’ve gotten in if J and R hadn’t INSISTED on getting popcorn. It took them about 15 minutes just to get popcorn… by the time we got into the actual theatre it was PACKED, and there were only 3 seats for the 7 of us. Four of our party went into the theatre next door, and me, Elissa and Nicole stayed in the first one. I sat in the very back row next to two 40 year old ladies wearing Team Edward shirts; it was a perfect seat because I could see everything and the women next to me were so nice. We discussed the movie before and after with heated passion. My hands were shaking so hard when it started, and the audience screamed and clapped when Edward first entered the lunch room. And the scene where Carlisle enters the hospital, me/the women next to me shouted ‘HEY THERE DOCTOR!!!!!’ in unison. I laughed, I cried, I squee’d… it rocked. I’ll analyze it on the movie thread. After, we had to wait for our group to get out of theatre 3, then we took Jenne’s sister’s van back home (we all had to squish together; Vikki sat on my lap.
) And so sums up my evening of Twilighty goodness!!!! I CAN’T WAIT TO GO AGAIN TONIGHT!!!!!
So, while we are on the topic of movies I have a rather important question. Did Passchendaele come out in the US of A? I doubt that it would because it is a very Canadian war film but I was just a wondering.
Oxlin– I am reading Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky when I get the chance.
Alice– What do you think of Wuthering Heights? It’s one of those books I’ve always meant to read but never have.
Welcome to MuseBlog, Bella!
I went bowling today! I’m not that good at bowling, but I really like the bowling alley because on Saturdays, they turn on black lights and lasers and use glow-in-the-dark balls and pins. And, best of all, they have air hockey! I really love playing air hockey.
240- *loves Twilight* Welcome!!!! (And I’m Team Edward.
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276- SFTDP, but Kai… just a question… how much sugar did you have today?
278- I don’t eat artificial sugar. I’m just excited to be back on MuseBlog because my computer was having connection problems until just a few minutes ago.
Ahhh, I see. I have much the same kind of problem.
I don’t really know anything about Twilight. This is all I know:
A girl named Bella falls in love with a vampire named Edward, who has eternal youth. She wants him to turn her into a vampire, so they can be together forever. He knows how bad it is to be a vampire, and refuses to turn her into one. Then a werewolf named Jacob also falls in love with Bella, and Jacob and Edward fight over her.
I have no idea about teams. Once, I had a a conversation with my Twilight-obsessed friend that went like this:
:think: (me) : Huh?
:think: (me) : *knows very little about Twilight* I have no idea what those are.
:think: (me) : Uh…werewolves, I guess.
Oh, sorry, I just checked HG2MB and :think: should be
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247 -I had never heard of it until you mentioned it, so no. IMDB gives no US release date.
279- Artificial like splenda (hurgh!), or refined, white?
*pies Bella with pumpkin pie*
What are people doing for Thanksgiving?
Team Jacob!
Hi peoples! I’m here! I’ve just kind of finished a GIGNORMOUS project. And Now it’s……. well…… it’s almost finished…..
Oh, sorry to double post but….
284) We’re going to my grandmothers, like we do every year.
Tis fun! Oh! And my sister is coming home in a few days for thanksgiving break! I can’t wait! 
And my dad’s going to begin making his famous pecan pies to hand out to EVERYONE (that’s his early Christmas present for all of his colleagues that he like, heh heh 
eberty ebert won’t be getting one, in case you’re wondering, his boss) and Mom’s going to make her pumpkin pies.
283- I don’t eat things with more sugar in them than naturally. Candy and cookies for example. (Although I make an exception for pie)
284 – Staying home and doing whatever I do every other day. Thanksgiving never really was my type of holiday.
I found this on the internet. It’s the world’s largest Kokopelli statue, in the town of Camp Verde, Arizona. The Kokonspiracy is going into effect…
289 – WOAH! A LINK!
And neat photo!
284-Driving to Massachusetts to see my great grandma.
289-
Twilight: I like it. I only read the first book. I might see the movie if enough of my friends want me to go, but I’m not really a movie person.
Blognames: My blog name is made from my real name, but I’ve never written it on a real paper.
I might get to finally start flying lessons tomorrow. We’ve already had to cancel 3 times for weather. Blahh.
Awesome!
My friend said he’ll teach me Russian.
Everyone! Hurry and listen to I’m From Barcelona!
OK, everybody knows I like “Hello Goodbye” by the Beatles now, right?
I heard some people on youtube talking about a “jonas brother” version of the song, so I went and checked it out, and it is even worse than the target pun. Seriously. For 2 reasons:
1)If you’re going to make a version of a song, you should probably get the lyrics right. UUUUGH!
2)The music sounds like a remix of the Pirates theme. I mean, there’s nothing wrong with the pirates theme. Whats wrong is putting it with the Beatles.
*END UN-DECLARED RANT*
oxlin (227): Awesome! Is it scary? I sometimes see people welding things on construction sites and there are a lot of sparks flying everywhere.
Axa (228): Yeah, I saw those. I tried some out, but eventually returned to the regular format. There were certain things about each of them that annoyed me, so I just decided to stick with “Classic.â€
Bella (240): Welcome to MuseBlog!
oxlin (263): I’m not a Twilight fan, either. In English class, we’re working through books about witch-hunts, etc. We read The Scarlet Letter and we’re currently reading The Crucible. We studied the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism in middle school, so I know most of the history already, but I like the new literature.
Amelia (267): I keep getting The Book Thief out of the library, but never get around to reading it. I suppose I’ll get to it someday.
oxlin (284): I’m headed off to the Philidelphia area to visit my aunt/uncle/cousins. We usually go there for Thanksgiving, and I think my grandma is coming, too. What about you? Colleges usually get the whole week off, right?
I have a question for the GAPAs/anyone else who may know:
When you look into bright light, your pupils get smaller, allowing less light to come into your eye. And the opposite happens when you’re in the dark. My question: do your pupils move together, or separately? For example, if you are in the dark but someone shines a bright light into one eye, does just that pupil shrink, or do both?
291- which songs? I like the song Collection of Stamps but that is the only one I have.
293- A) The gas tanks are somewhat scary because they can shoot through cinderblock walls and you if the top comes off. Of course this rarely ever happens but it sounded scary. If you see construction sites where they are welding DO NOT look at the light. Dangerous UV rays are being emited. Re: the sparks I felt pretty safe as I had a mask on to protect my eyes from the UV rays that also prevented me from being burned. I had on a jacket and gloves for spark protection. It wasn’t that scary. Most things in the shop may seem scary but the only one that I actively don’t like is the table saw because of kick back.
B) Huzzah! I guess I don’t really care if one is a Twilight fan but that Twilight is all that anyone ever talks about. Twilight and other series like it. It is frustrating that no one reads unique and new books anymore but keeps reading the same series over and over.
C) I’m going to my aunt and uncle’s house as my family does every year. I don’t get the whole week off but my college gets a week of in October. I don’t know if other schools get the whole week off. My college is a lot closer to my aunt and uncle’s than my family and I can leave on Wed. so I’m going to be there a lot earlier than the rest of my family despite the fact I still only get Thurs. and Fri. off. I’m excited.
Could we change the colors ? It’s snowing over here !!!
296-It’s snowed here too!! Well, not exactly where I live, but in northern New Hampshire. Yay for snow!! And skiing!!
293- Time for Science!
After about 5 minutes of testing in the closet with my brother, I would say no. This is just a preliminary result however, I think that pupil movement may have been independent, but not easily seen. The standards of my experiments were not very high, so it looks like further testing will be necessary. Things that could help: a quantitative scale for measuring pupil diameter, an experimental setup that allows for results to be recorded, and more of both trials and iterations. Internet research did not yield conclusive results.
Big news! “En” is finally on Wikipedia! (Thanks to me.) It is now “officially” an epicene pronoun. I figured that since all the other ones were completely made up and never used, I could post one that was completely made up and seldom used.
*braces self for pummeling*
[“En” can be seen it all its glory at http:// en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun –Admin.]
What’s the big deal about this “Twilight” thing? It doesn’t seem all that great to me.
(I sincerely apologize for the probable double post.)
A quick observation: The use of the word “cake” has been increasing dramatically around here. Has anyone else noticed that?
300 – Quite. “Cake” is a delicious treat, while “heck” sounds a lot like the name of the opposite of heaven. It follows logically that using “cake” has a nicer meaning.
Can someone help me with my stupid lab report? I’m trying to graph data, but I can’t figure out how to make it so there’s two bars next to each other. Do you know what I’m talking about? Like, Control has a High concentration and Low concentration bar right next to each other,, etc. I’m doing it in Excel and failing miserably.
240 (Bella)- The movie was friggan awesome!!!!!!! Everyone started sighing and clapping a lot when Edward came out, and they also screamed and w00ted when the Cullens came too. People clapped them most when Carlisle came though
. Carlisle and Alice are my favorite characters.
But the only characters they got right were Carlisle and Alice in the movie. Bella didn’t look normal enough, Edward didn’t look godly enough, Rosalie wasn’t very beautiful, Jasper wasn’t very calm, and ect. ect.
260-No, I didn’t finish it.
It was too horrible to finish.
Today, I woke up all dizzy. It felt like I was a bobble head ballon thing. It still hasn’t worn off, but it was fun to run around in circles and not know which way was up.
Clarissa told me about Twilight. According to her, it sucked.
I WENT SHOPPING!
I got a Jack Skellington shirt, a black and white studded wristband, a metallic studded belt, a peace necklace, and black and white rubber bracelets.
And a free smothie, but that was gone pretty fast.
Hello, everybody!
I just realized this morning that I missed my 2-year blogiversary by 5 days.
Yay to having so much free time.
*points to previous comment*
Since typing things makes the tone rather ambiguous, I would like to point out that the last sentence of my last post was sarcastic.
306- I turn 3 months old on the 30th.
I fixed the graph, my dad got home and helped me with it.
(307) Considering the general state of free time in most of our lives, I think that particular sarcasm was generally assumed.
Nice to see you, La Mort (NOT sarcastic in the least).
304- You sound like the kind of person that would be friends with my friend Andy. Do you have that hairstyle that’s spiky in the back, floppy in front? … I think I should give you his email.
273- I wanted to go Friday but my lmao friends didn’t invite me even though I’ve been asking FOREVER when she was going. She gave me the I don’t know excuse. So then she says IN FRONT OF ME at the lunch table ‘I ordered my tickets 33 days in advance!’. ……..OMG……… Some firends right??? So now I’m going on Tuesday with all of my friends who weren’t invited. We were going to go Friday (to a dif. theatre than my crummy friend) but one of my friends didn’t read it and I had to lend her my *holy* copy.
Oh, and to whoever said “Doesn’t anyone read any other series?” I read Maximum Ride (my role model!!!!!) and….. other books…. which I can’t think of right now…..
I wonder… could we perhaps have a Beatles thread?
I’m not exactly sure when my blogiversary is… *goes and checks* Yay! My one year blogiversary is in 2 months! By the way, if anyone is interested, I’m trying to revive the chronicles of musieca thread. We need some new members.
(312) There’s a brand new Music thread where you can talk about the Beatles as much as you like.
263~ I really don’t like Twilight. I especially hate it when that pulp is compared to truly great literature. Twilight is okay when read as a trashy novel, but please don’t say it’s as good as (or, horror of horrors, better than) notable literature. I don’t care if you like it, just don’t say that it’s the best series ever written.
The concert went well last night, and, happy miracle, Chelsea got her part right! Thank heavens.
The rest of it went smoothly, and the place was packed! Whee!
The New York Times had an article today about how economic troubles are causing an increase in visits to psychics. Psychics!
If you take the advise of a psychic, it’s little wonder you lost your job.
315 – I agree. Twilight’s not terrible, but it certainly doesn’t deserve to be compared to really good books like Harry Potter or any modern-day classics. The hype over Twilight, in my opinion, is not deserved.
302- I have no idea what you are talking about. sorry!
i am currently
procrastinatingtaking a break from homework. I have two tests tomorrow which I have sort of studied for, really, at this point in time I can’t be bothered to care. I am working on very little sleep. My sleep deprivation started on tuesday. I went to an improv competition and didn’t get home until 10:55 at which time I promptly fell asleep. I had rehearsals wednesday-thursday which meant I went to bed later than I would like, so around 9:30. then friday I was up until 11, (mostly on MB) then I woke up the next morning at 7 for no reason. last night I was at a party and didn’t go to be until near 1 and got up around 8. meh. By the way, I usualy go to bed around 8:30. Because I am always so freaking tired. So yeah, I’m working on very little sleep. what else am I procrastinating on? let’s see. I have 5 chapters left in Lord of the Flies, then I have to do chapter notes. I have a sketchbook assignment to hand in this week. A project I don’t understand for stagedesign. Then I have an exam next week. *stress*. so I feel myprocrastinationbreak is well deserved.276~ I Adore air hockey, people are always surprised that I can play it well, since I usually detest arcades.
Sorry for the double post (if this turns out to be one).
We went to “our favorite boutique” (GoodWill) today after church and I got a t-shirt that says “love” on it and has rainbows, peace symbols, etc. on it, but it’s all dark blue and pretty dark colors, so it’s not really garish. Ah well, it’ll help further my “hippie” image……although I’m not.
Whatever.
I need to practice……………………….
well. I must get back to work. I have another ridiculously buisy week. so I will say: have an excelent week. until next time!
317~ Yup. I read the first few, and I intend to read the last book as well. I liked them alright, but I don’t particularly admire her writing style, and I don’t think that the Twilight series is anything more than a time waster, albeit a mildly entertaining one.
311- I wasn’t asking about Maximum Ride either. I asked if anyone read books that weren’t series anymore that or series that weren’t popular. For example, some of my favorite books are the Logic sequence by Laurie J. Marks. They are a marvelous series but no one has ever heard of them or read them.
How many people have read things by E. L. Konigsburg? She’s great.
Also, let me say again, I don’t care if you like Twilight; I’m just frustrated that no one reads anything else but Twilight and popular series.
322- I read The Mixed-Up Files one.
316) that is a little ridiculous.
318) I hope all goes well! I am sleep deprived as usual but you sound in dire need of some rest.
(293) Panda: Awesome! We read the Crucible over the summer for Honors English and then performed it for our fall show. I was Mercy Lewis.
I didn’t like the Scarlet Letter, I found it over-descriptive, but that may just me how books were written at the time.
I mean, apparently most of Moby Dick is everything you didn’t want to know about sperm shales.
322 – Oh, I love E. L. Konigsburg! The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place was my favorite book for years. Have you read that one?
I always read books/series and I really like them, and then I find out that they’re popular, but I almost never read books just because everyone’s reading them. With the exception of Twilight. I have not read it, even though I heard about it before the whole world went Twilight-crazy. I got conflicting opinions on it, and in the end I decided it wasn’t worth 20 bucks (I guess it must have had a following already, or they could never have gotten away with charging that much for a book that old- it should have down to $15!). Now that it’s so popular, though, I’m kinda wondering what everyone liked about it (it sounded stupid to me) and so if I can find it for cheap I’ll read it.
Who’s read Jane Eyre? I thought it started out good, but then the end got all mushy-gooshy (what happened to plain, practical Jane, hmm?).
Hey, GAPAs, I think that there’s enough people here who like it, so… I propose a Twilight thread!!! *clasps hands together and pleads*
322- I read whatever my friends reccomend me to read, or whatever looks interesting at the library/ Barnes & Noble.
*meep*
So, there was an open studio day at the mills today! There are all these artists who have studios in the old textile mills downtown, and me/my friend Persephone went. It was so cool… I got all sorts of artistic tchotckes. Like little wire bracelets, and scented herbal lip balm, and a postcard with a sepia mannequin, and free tea! There’s this AMAZING artist on the 5th floor… he’s a 65 year old guy who was kicked out of his house when he was 17 because he came out to his parents that he was gay… he’s been living in his studio ever since. He makes all this cool dark stuff… there was a statue who looked like Gerard Way. He’s amazing… and then another guy who’s working on a comic book about a girl who goes to UNH as an art student… really cool stuff.
328 – Good lord, we do not need a Twilight thread. If you really must talk about it, try the Books thread.
322 (oxlin) – I’m so with you. At the risk of sounding like an old crone, I really think kids should read “wholesome” books like Little House on the Prairie and others or the Dido Twight books by Joan Aiken and not Clique/Gossip Girl/Twilight. Alas for America’s youth.
/old woman
329- I really must agree with you on all counts. Although, some might argue that it’s better to read the books that will tell you about todays world, not yesterdays
328- That sounds awesome! The last opening I went to was a small community show, but a whole old mill would be really cool to go visit, just for the building itself.
329- ooh, yes to Dido Twite. Old ladies unite!
Also, to whoever mentioned it I do indeed like The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place. It is one of my favorites of her books. E.L. Konigsburg is an author that I adore but forget about due to the fact that she writes realistic J books and I usually think of adult or YA SF books as being the kinds I like.
I think most MBers would enjoy E.L. Konigsburg. In an odd way they sort of remind me of the books Chasing Vermeer and The Wright 3. Sort of. Outcasts is excellent as is The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler but then so is A View from Saturday.
330- I think all books tell us about today’s world because certain situations can be applied to any planet/country/time period.
329- Did you know that Dido Twite is my Fictional Hero? -joins Old Lady Club-
333- true, true.
fantasy almost always is sent in medeival-like times, but the situations can be applied to our world, so why not our time?
328- Why on earth not? You don’t have to go on it… and there’s nothing wrong with indulging in popular books, as long as you have a balance (in my opinion).
331- Yeah, it was so cool… there was this one guy who made little boxes you can keep random treasures in, and there was a Harry Potter themed one. I ALMOST started begging my mom/dad/brother/friend for money until I had 30$ to buy it (it was so freaking cool) but I was humble, and walked away in treasure-boxless misery.
So, who here hates Hatchet?
Oh my god. I just finally finished this enormous project for English class that’s due tomorrow (no, I don’t procrastinate, why do you ask?). I think it’s the biggest project I’ve ever had.
I’m a little delirious with relief right now.
what was the project?
I meant Twite not Twight. Sorry, all. It’s one of those days!
330 – I’ve heard that as well, but ‘today’s’ books seem to be about either gossip, cliques or obsessive vampires so I’m not sure how much I agree with it. I think there’s a lot to be learned from older books.
333 – Agreed! Looking back on my childhood reading, almost all of it was either a) historical fiction or b) written a long time ago. This probably explains my very strange vocabulary as a child.
336 – What are you going to talk about on that thread? There isn’t really anything of substance in those books (or the movies) to discuss. Aaaaand, I don’t think it’s as popular on Museblog as you think it is.
I love insects and dictionaries and steampunk and clockwork and tea.
336 – I hate Hatchet. I almost threw up the first (and only) time I read that book… but then, I was maybe 9 years old.
(328, 339, whoever else is in on this discussion) In the spirit of compromise, we’ve created a new Books and Reading thread.
335- also, fantasy isn’t necessarily set in Medieval times. War For the Oaks for instance or various Diana Wynne Jones.
I’m in a good wonderlust-y mood right now. I, however, did not come up with the word wonderlust. It is how I feel though. Wonderlust for books and old dictionaries and insects and steampunk and tea. And remembering all of the delightful children’s books there are out there. and all of the worlds words can take you to.
SF books show us who we are by examining the other. They take something that is other, separate, alien and use it as contrast to ourselves so that we can discover who we are.
I don’t hate Hatchet. I read it a long time ago, but I remember liking it.
And insects are the best. One day in the second week of school this year (when I was in a very I-can’t-believe-I-am-up-this-early-I-hate-school-when-will-it-end type of mood), I saw a praying mantis on my window (on the other side of the screen). And it made me so happy! I measured it and it was 9.3 centimeters long. The rest of my day was great.
(343) Years ago, I attended a luncheon for writers of children’s books. One of the featured authors talked about his childhood in a rough inner city neighborhood. Somewhere along the way he discovered Shakespeare. He thought it was such an amazing thing that people once talked like that. Reading the plays taught him there were other worlds, other possibilities that he would never have imagined from looking at the world around him. He found both comfort and courage in knowing that the world in front of him wasn’t the way it had to be. I think that can be true no matter where you live.
I should add he made that point in particular because there was a philosophy prevalent at the time that kids would only become interested in reading if the subject matter was contemporary and familiar.
345- that is a cool story.
We had a very cool presentation of First Nations dances today. Sometimes I wish I was First Nations.
329~ Little house on the Prairie! yes, yes, yes! *joins club* I haven’t read the other book though, I’ll have to look it up…I’m currently wandering lost and aimless in search of another book to read. (hah, as if the groaning bookshelves aren’t enough!)
344~ Sometime this fall Mom came running into my room as I was doing homework and told me to come outside where there was a beautiful, huge praying mantis in the grass. We took and apple and a knife and fed it little bits, it didn’t eat a whole lot, but it was very friendly–it climbed up on my hand and explored my arms for several minutes before I gently put it back into the grass. It was at least as long as my hand, and so pretty!
345~ Wow. That’s really neat. There’s a drama group near where I live that has started a “Shakespeare in the Park” festival every year–they perform some Shakespeare play every year in a park in a rough part of town, so that kids who normally wouldn’t have drama available to them are able to attend a free performance practically in their backyards.
348-I enjoyed your story about the praying mantis, Midnight Fiddler. I saw a praying mantis once several years ago, when my mum and I were doing something in our flower bed. She touched my arm suddenly, and pointed upwards, where there was a lovely one. I think it was about half as long as my hand, and it was such a wonderfully bright green!
347- 1ST NATIONS PRIDE- REPPING THE REZ
OK I know *someone* said that Twilight was based on bad values because Bella fell in love with Edward because he’s hot, but I think Stephenie Meyer was trying to imply that they had a ‘deeper connection’ and that they just ‘clicked’. I see what you’re saying though (whoever you are) now that I’m thinking about it, but haven’t you ever thought to yourself “Wow, too bad I can’t go out with that guy/girl she/he is really hot!”?
But I don’t think how they met up in the beginning and how hot Bella thought Edward was, because they actually cared about each other very deeply.
That’s what I got out of it at least…..
Gah!!! I sound like a psychologist!!!!
Oh I just found it, it’s post 278
211- Happens ALL THE TIME to me!!! Pretty sad huh?
258- You’re soooo right about Jacob! That is EXACTLY what Jacob has that Edward doesn’t. I was trying t pinpoint it before and I was thinking that he was funnier, but that didn’t sound right. Edward is so… dry… Anyway, do people really break up with their boyfriends because the bf’s are not like Edward? That is REALLY sad.
OK I’m done with this post…. I’ve been trying to make them shorter, but to no avail….
351 – I believe I said that, maybe on a different thread. And, no, I’ve never thought that because I very rarely have crushes and generally dismiss dating: I’ll do it when I’m ready for it. BUT, suppose I did like a guy because of his looks, I’d actually get to know him before dating him or (God forbid) thinking he is the One.
351- “but haven’t you ever thought to yourself “Wow, too bad I can’t go out with that guy/girl she/he is really hot!â€?”
um. no.
352- I guess it all depends on your opinion. But I totally see it in your light.
234- Sounds EXACTLY like my science teacher. Actually it’s sort of freaky…. Especially with the thing about the adobe houses. My teacher was all mad at people who build their houses on the water because he says that you house is going to be washed away- it’s inevitable. He also says that Sir Isaac Newton and Gregor Mendel are aliens. But w/e…. Once he took a whole 40 minutes telling us about how he installed this a/c once for these old people and this lady made him muffins and that we should talk to old people more often. WEIRD. It really was 40 minutes, no exaggeration.
here at college I miss my hometown’s sense of community. Generations of people grew up there and you’d often have multiple small world connections with people. Every teenager knew all the other teenagers and we were all somewhat close to each other, if not actual friends. I miss that.
354- In junior high I had a science teacher who believed he’d been kidnapped by aliens.
and to expand on 353, I don’t generally go around /looking/ for dating. If I happen to get a crush on someone it is because I like their personality. Also I tend to like nerds. I also tend not to find people ‘hot’. I don’t really see what people see in celebrities and things. There are some girls I find pretty and a few boys but that doesn’t mean that I have some sudden urge to date them.
Wow. No one’s getting pummeled for disliking Twilight.
NOTICE: “En” must become mainstream, and make it into the dictionary. It would be flamablamablous if everyone used it as much as possible, to get it into our culture. Is it possible? I don’t know. But the English language needs a gender-neutral pronoun, and I believe “en” is the best one. Thank you!
77- emo and Goth are technically the same thing, but don’t tell and emo they’re a Goth or vice versa.
Oh great, we’re talking about Twilight.
*SARCASM*
329) if that’s what qualifies one for the old ladies club, sign me up now.
I start so many books and never finish them! The latest one is A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I think it’s silly I haven’t read more Shakespeare at my age…
my throat hurts something awful. It’s not getting better at all, which is depressing, as I really can’t afford to miss more school. sigh. what do you all do for sore throats? I think I’m going to just go back to bed for the third time. argh.
359- tea with lemon and honey. sounds old lady-ish, I know, but it usually works.
And, if you don’t want to talk about Twilight, just change the subject, don’t make (virtual) faces, it’s not nice.
189- Thanks… the teacher I doubt would be much of a help, he is teaching it strictly like a college class– gives us a ton of material, doesn’t check it but expects us to take notes/learn it, and if we can’t… well then we are obviously not ready for the college level course and should not be exempting out of it –_–
190- Well, this last month was Hell Week (yes, it actually takes up a month x_x), but now that the musical is over I hopefully will have more time… I won’t be at school every day till 7 or 8, at least.
*reminder to self to look up book*
199- A timeline actually sounds like a good idea for me, if I could ever find the time to go back and make one. I get confused at how periods lay over each other, as the book doesn’t go strictly chronologically and I remember when things happened based on what pages they were on –_–
Late responses I know, I just haven’t had a lot of time lately, obviously.
No Twilight thread. Please.
A girl in my class said she “loved vampire novels” because she read the Twilight series, so I reccomended some other vampire books and she came back to school like “ewwww that’s sooo grosss”. Those books were so clean, even I could read them. Moral: Just because you like Twilight, which ISN’T a vampire novel, dosn’t mean you’re a vampire literature fan. Twilight is a ROMANCE. It makes the vampires seem all nice and happy, and ruins the aura of gloom and mystery around them.
I hate Hatchet.
I love the Lion King broadway show. I haven’t seen it yet but my dance place did a dance show to the sound track in 2002.
Again, I am asking: What’s with the moderation? Is there a single GAPA on right now???
On and off. One of us is working late. Holidays make life difficult for people who work on a weekly magazine, because we have to do the same amount of work in fewer days. Hence less time for MB-related activities. I assume my fellow GAPAs are similarly preoccupied.
365) I can see the predicament. When there is a holiday, we Musers have more time to blog, but our lovable GAPAs have less time because it’s their holiday after all and they deserve a holiday. Alas. Anyways, tomorrow is the last day of school for me for Thanksgiving break!
YES! So I can actually come on MB for the next few days! And my sister is coming home tomorrow! 
Okeydokes, leaving for the night. Bye everyone, see you tomorrow!
You must realize that the GAPAs exist outside of MB. They do not exist solely to moderate posts.
And I was at a meeting followed by running errands. Though I did take advantage of the wireless and sneak and in a few bouts of moderation.
365-Okay, I’m sorry for sounding all impatient…. I do understand, I’m just an addicted kid who can’t live for ten minutes without her beloved MB being moderated. I’ll be patient from now on.
@362, paragraph by paragraph: 1: Yes, please. Don’t. Please. Please? PLEASE.
2: Totally agree.
3: WHAT?!
/gradster(1)/ – Secretary of Bureaucracy of the ASAP
(368) It’s possible that we do exist solely to moderate posts. But we also need to earn a living so that we can eat so that we can continue to moderate posts. It’s a delicate balance.
372-What do you do to earn a living, exactly? I know you and Rosanne used to do the Q&A page in Muse, but what do you do now? Edit Muse?
NOBODY say ‘alter ego alert’ please. I know, and hopefully I’m still safe.
356- We have one sub who’s strange like that. VERY strange. He plays fortune-telling games in class.
363- I have it on CD!
Hey, GAPAS, the NaNo thread has died. Usually we have like two or three NaNo threads per November but… can you make us a new one that will be young and gay and joyful and active? Pwiz? I need to brag about reaching 40k somewhere where people will see!
362 – I haven’t read Twilight, I don’t want to, and I don’t wanna see the movie. I’m with you.
(373) Rosanne and I edit magazines, though not Muse. Lady Bunniful works in a sort of museum and teaches art. I’m not altogether sure about Paul, but I suspect he travels back in time and pretends to invent things.
354- My teacher was all mad at people who build their houses on the water because he says that you house is going to be washed away- it’s inevitable.
I get this a lot, mostly because my town is on the water (Elevation about 5 feet). In Earth Sciences we drew contour maps showing the possible high water mark duet to Global Warming, my house was atleast 10 feet under. So my teachers, and residents of North Snipville (South and West Snipville are tons better anyway- they’re just jealous), keep talking about how erosion and ecetera are going to destroy everything, but now I’m just like “meh”. Ok, so 100 feet down the street there are some bulkheads that will be gone in 10 years, but that still doesn’t swallow my house up, and my basement already floods so I’m used to it. Isn’t it human nature to push boundaries? People will live on the shoreline, no matter the eventual cost. Out in the Hamptons it’s a bigger deal because the houses are bigger, but they’ve go the money, why should we be so concerned? My house is here now, and I’m living in it, until it is uninhabitable (or I go to college). New Orleans was a problem because the destruction was immediate, (due to below sealevel building) that’ll only happen here when we get the hurricane, and we are prepared.
This world is fluid, so just flow!
Don’t try to hold the beaches back, and don’t fear the edges. They’re beautiful.
sorry this turned into such a long mostly pointless post. just ranting.
[Hi, Zinc. I retrozapped this message because I don’t want to encourage guessing about any Musers’ locations — Rosanne]
And now it’s around nine for me and nearing 12 for some and it’s almost 11 for others. So, I shall post a few more times and
to sleep</strike go take a shower. *scurries off to other threads*well I am apparently the only person here who enjoyed hatchet. okay maybe I was in third grade when I read it. ….now that I think about it, all those stories about living on one’s own in the wild were read in elementary school! odd.
all this talk of vampirical things…did you guys read bunnicula? I loved those books!
360) yeah I’ve had two cups of tea with honey and lemon…should be having another one. I really hope it’s gone by tomorrow. can’t miss another day! arghhhhh.
361) I think it’s a mistake to teach ap classes like they are actually college courses. They’re not. Even if the coursework is challenging beyond honors, etc it’s still a high school class, albeit for “accelerated” students.
379) as long as people are aware of the boundaries they’re pushing and are prepared to face the consequences. Of course…there’s always a reason for going to the places where you don’t really belong. I’d be a hypocrite if I said people shouldn’t really live in this place or that. If it’s floods for you it’s fires for me. In fact there’s danger everywhere, so where should we live? Something about what you’re saying, I can’t find the word for it. It is so very human to do the same thing over and over again without change. and that is lovely. also, I think my brain is potentially fried by a fever.
and now back to homework!
379- Our town is right on the water too, except that it’s built on a hill so most places wouldn’t flood. It used to be completely waterfront, I think, but most of the piers rotted or burned or whatever and so did the buildings on top of them. The waterfront was pretty much abandoned for a while, but then they made nice little paved paths and built fancy restaurants and hotels. In the typhoon last year an art gallery got the roof torn off and all the art went flying all over the place because some idiot decided that he was going to take out all those protective beams and stuff and open the place up.
But anyway, I’m really excited for rising sea levels and this year’s storm season (typhoons!). It’s so cozy you know, when there’s a disaster and the community bands together to provide hot food and light and water. I only wish I actually noticed in these situations what was going on. Like during the storm, we were sitting around in sweaters and stuff doing a jigsaw puzzle and eating bread and cheese, and my mom was saying we should conserve it and all. I expect she knew the power’d be out for days. I wish I’d known.
I think this had a purpose at some point, but I can’t remember what it was, so I’ll just press submit and put an end to this rambling.
I really want to see the broadway production of The Lion King. In sixth grade my dance place did a show where we danced to the songs in the broadway musical and it was an amazing show. I’ve been looking up pictures of the broadway show online and listening to the soundtrack. It seems spectacular.
Lady Bunniful, I love this month’s picture.
Does the blog track IP adresses?
384- It’s a wonderful musical. It was the first one I ever went to on Broadway.
RANT
To: Anyone who is still going gaga over the whole Twilight thing…
*pouty face* come on, people. What happened to harry potter? The last twilight book came out this summer. The last harry potter thing was a year before that. Now we’re finally getting something harry potter (even if it’s only a minor side book), and nobody even says a word?
END RANT
[snip! Sorry, it contains a link to a personal site. –Admin.]
This is the URL for my t-shirt slogan submission. I thought musers would like to help it hopefully win. Any problems with having this posted, GAPA?
/gradster(1)/ – Secretary of Bureaucracy of the ASAP
Well then, I guess that would be a problem! Sorry! Do you have any problem with me posting it under a different account so that it doesn’t have any links to my life?
Only 8%. :'(
/gradster(1)/ – Secretary of Bureaucracy of the ASAP
386- I don’t think “track” is the right word, but I can’t say for sure. A proxy is safest.
388- Beedle is not yet published.
391 – Who the heck cares, people were going crazy over the Twilight a while before it came out
Guys! Everyone doing NaNo, if you use those long hyphens or even plain old hyphens, put a space in between the word and the hyphen! I just got 98 extra words for doing that! OMG!
What the cake is NaNo??
392- I care, actually. I can’t really fully love something that doesn’t exist yet. I predict Beedle will be kinda big once released, but fads come and go in cycles. Harry is on the way down (but he’ll be a classic), and Twilight is at the top. Nobody knew about the book before it came out, but the movie was well publicized. Has there been any advertisement for Beedle?
394- short for NaNoWriMo, which is short for National Novel Writing Month. Look it up.
388~ I’m excited about Beedle the Bard coming out!
Fern is happy, she got a pretty red cell phone yesterday. Of course, that’s not the only reason she’s happy, but it is one of the more exciting things that took place recently.
She also has text messaging now (no, she promises not to start using txt messiging tlk here, bcus she hates it 2), and is figuring out how to type full, coherent messages with proper punctuation on the small keypad that slides out on it. (She chose it because she wanted to get texting and she detests with a bloody passion typing even the simplest words on a numerical pad.)
395 – Bah.
Does anybody watch survivor? Last week’s episode cracked me up!!
Re- HP: I’ll repost my comment from the B&R thread:
Am I a Twilight freak? Well, I have read them, and they are one of my favorite series, but l’m already taken by HP.
Well, Edward or Jacob? Well, I was yelling at Bella in Eclipse to just frickin get married to Edward since you’ve already made a commitment, but NOOOO, she had to go and “passionately kiss†Jacob. Idiot. But my favorite male Twilight character is Seth. He’s really nice. Favorite female? Alice, hands down.
When the HP6 nears, I’ll be changing my name to “☼Zinc the
witch☼†like Miss Swann with Twilight. Just thought I’d let you know.
Proved my commitment.
SFTDP, but I’m going off now. See you in the morning!
I’ll repeat my question from a few comments ago:
Did anyone catch last week’s survivor? It cracked me up.
397- That was hilarious. I had so much fun looking at everyones faces when Randy played the fake idol. I didn’t like him much, I think it was good he went.
Ooooh Fringe was so good last night! I tried calling 1-212-MONARCH but it didn’t work! I was rather hoping it would… Does anyone else here watch Fringe?
396 – Goody, that makes two of us.
401 – Yeah, that was hilarious. I particularly liked the parts where:
“I can have them all to myself if I want?” “For the TRIBE, Randy.”
“This vote is not strategic. It’s strictly personal.”
“And you need to grow up before you die alone. And a loser!”
I was rolling on the floor when Crystal was half-shouting.
362- fantasmaluna666 has a good video about the twilight books on youtube, it explains why it isn’t a vampire book.
400- no.
I have a half day. I think I will have a nap later. I seriously need to get some extra sleep.
I’m bored. I’m on vacation and I’m bored. AHHHHHH!!!!
Hi!
How is everyone today? Today has been busy….. baking, practicing. cleaning, more cleaning, …… whew……. What’s everyone else a’doin? 
406- You’re lucky to have something to do. I have a cold with a bad cough, my parents went to pick up something at my school at like 9 this morning ant they’re still not back- even though school’s an hour away it really should’t take them this long- and I have NOTHING to do.
397-I LOVE SURVIVOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally! Someone else who watches it!
Yes, last weeks episode was hilarious! I hated Randy. He was such a pain! But I really like Bob, he’s cool.
@402 – My best friend Jamie does; and he says I should too. I don’t really watch TV, though…
/gradster(1)/ – Secretary of Bureaucracy of the ASAP
I didn’t make the musical.
I feel like crying more than I already did, and I want to kick something. I feel so terrible. I guess I’ve never actually been cut from a production before, and I never knew how it felt until now.
I want to disappear.
410-*hugs* *chocklit* I’m so sorry Aggie. I hope you feel better soon.
410- I’ve been cut before, and I know exactly how you feel. The worst time was the Middle School Musical (Aladdin Jr., ugh) at my old school. I take private voice lessons, and have taken them since I was 8, so I was obviously the best singer there, bu no. The chorus teacher was running the musical, and she hated me, so I didn’t even make the friggin’ chorus. I was sooooooooo mad! But, I got over it, because I realized that it wasn’t my fault. She’d already not given me the solo in chorus countless times, so I ended up quitting chorus altogether and getting an extra study hall. So, I know how you feel. *hugs* *lots of choklit* *remedy pies*
393-OMG THANK YOU KIKI.
Re: Twilight teams- I’m on Team Alice and Jasper, witches.
YouTube Live! I finally got to see the full show.
Katy Perry kind of sucked live.
Kept it spunky.
Tay Zonday- Like WOW, that’s his real voice!
Michael Buckley- Amazing host.
William Sledd- So amazing. I can’t believe he was there!
Fred- I was so hacking psyked to hear his real voice!
SouljaBoy- Ew.
will.i.am.- Sucked live, but it was interesting to see a BEP member at YouTube live.
The Beatboxing Guy- Not my thing, but amazing all the same.
Free Hugs and Sick Puppies- Not sucky live, thank God.
Charlie the Unicorn-<Guilty pleasure. New episode.
Reenactment Guy-Did the Dark Knight. Kind of made the Joker western, but whatever.
Charlie bit my finger mix- Weird, but loved it.
Will It Blend- Blended Chad Vader’s broom handle.
Chad Vader- Drank Will It Blend’s concoction.
Guitar Hero People- Weird and scary, as usual.
MythBusters- AMAZING. Not their best, but still.
Breakdancing- Better than I could do, but not that great.
Cup Stacking Kids- ? Why were they there?
Queen Ronia- I never watched her, but her message was great.
Magic Guy- Not great.
Smosh- Didn’t do anything, but behind the scenes and funny as usual.
Bo Burnham- Favorite performance! His song, Welcome to YouTube, was the true essence of the video sharing website.
Was that Tina Fey doing the Sarah Palin impersonation? I dunno, but it was funny.
Akon- No idea why he was there, but he was, and didn’t suck, surprisingly.
Summary: Not the YouTube Live I would have put together, but awesome all the same. Go watch it.
413- Aren’t you going to offer any consolation to Aggie? You’re so inconsiderate!
Just kidding. But still. No offense…
Tay Zonday is effing awesome- because he sucks.
411, 412- Thanks. *sniffle* *eats chocklit* It just feels really terrible to try my best and then be told that I can’t tap dance. I KNOW that I can’t tap dance. The director din’t need to tell me so, and especially not following with “even though you voice was beautiful and if you had danced better you would have made it”. I hate this. I’m lapsing into that “everyone but me made it” phase. That totally just ruined my thanksgiving break.
416- I can’t tap dance either. And the director was trying to be nice. There will definitely be other opportunities. Try not to think about the “everyone but me” part. It’s not true. I always go into the “everyone but me” phase, but there’s no point in thinking that. Aggie, why don’t you go over to BA or somewhere and write something? That will keep your mind off of it. Don’t let this ruin your break.
402) I love Fringe! The butterfly thing was so insane…I think they could have elaborated more on the guy’s connection to butterflies. I guess it’s all part of the whole massive dynamic thing though..ooh so spooky. It’s the only show I keep up with right now, since Heroes is on at a bad time and I’m behind with it, and Lost isn’t on until January. It’s really interesting, though the set up in the beginning is usually a bit too violent for me
410/416) aw aggie I’m sorry…:( it’s their loss really!
I’m going away for the holidays and won’t be back until Saturday. Just so you don’t think something dreadful has happened to me…
Today I got to play air hockey at the rec center. Their table is sort of cheap, but hey, it’s still air hockey! And I re-watched the fourth episode of COSMOS.
418- Squee, a fellow Fringe fan! I want to learn more about Little Hill and Agent Loeb in coming episodes. Also, MORE OBSERVER PLZKTHX. He’s too cool, man! THE OBSERVER IS MY SECRET LOVER. No, seriously.
Nina Sharp is reaaaaally creepy…
417- Thanks for bein so nice. That’s a good suggestion. I guess I should go write, that’s always a good medicine. *hugs*
418- You would think, but since the director has about as many emotions as a rock, I doubt they’ll miss me.
I’m watching West Side Story. One of my all time favoritos.
403~ *high fives*
410~ *hugs* You’re awesome, never forget it!
419~ Air Hockey PWNS!
421~ I love West Side Story too……I always cry.
Muffy sent me a text message at 6 something in the morning…….I got it when I woke up. At nine.
All day I’ve been finding myself trying to enter Blog HTML into text messages……ack!
Tomorrow I have to go to my grandma’s house for Thanksgiving. Joy. With lots of relations who couldn’t care less that I exist.
If it’s not raining I’m going to hide out in the branches of a tree in the yard and read a book.
Hi everyone! Yes, RtH lives!
Aw, I love the picture for this thread. Urania looks so peaceful and happy with the world! It’s great.
I also like the blog colors!
422-*Hopes it doesn’t rain* Will there be much you can eat there? I know there have been times when literally almost everything had some sort of meat in it. It’s gross when that happens. RtH wonders: if there is a lot of flesh at the table, you could excuse yourself by saying you can’t stand being so close to so much meat without feeling sick. If you’re anything like RtH, then that’s probably the case. But then again, sometimes social situations with lots of relations who don’t know or care a whole lot about you can make RtH sick, too!
In any case, sorry you have to go through that!!
Red-tailed HAWK
423~ Yes, there’s usually enough to eat, and I usually eat too much of it. I have one cousin (who probably won’t be there) who is also vegetarian, so there’s a knowledge of vegetarian cooking. I usually don’t feel too sick around meat, unless there’s a lot of it and it’s really….ah, fragrant.
I’ll probably be told how WELL my cousins are all doing in school/whatever, and expected to pity dear Katie (cousin) who can’t find a job even though she’s so smart and all.
I’ll probably be ignored for the main part, and exclaimed over once or twice, asked awkward questions and expected to be lively and cheerful and make myself useful to everyone around me, if I don’t it’s because I’m a horrible child, even if all the other young people are in a seemingly comatose state. The rules apply to me only.
I have a visit to my friend’s house on Sunday to look forward to, though!
Gute nächt, everyone! Have a nice night! *goes off to bed*
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!
I made the MOST BEAUTIFUL pecan pie yesterday!!! It looked like it shoul’ve been in a bakery or something. I have it under lock and key until dessert today so nobody can throw it!!! I’m watching you Koko….
The only thing is that the middle slightly collapsed after it cooled. Oh well.
Twilight was a pretty horrible movie. Robert Pattinson sounded monotine the whole entire time and he is not too easy on the eyes. And I won;t get into the other stuff I didn;t like… The list is too long.
Gooooooooooood morning and Happy Thanksgiving MB!
410) *hugs* It’s OK. I know how you feel. That happened to me a few years ago.
412) That was the problem with me when I didn’t make it. because it was a musical and I was absolutely positive that I would make it because I was one of the only people in the whole group that could actually sing that tried out. So, it was a blow when I didn’t make it. I probubly didn’t make it because I’m not exactly the most graceful dancer. I’m not BAD though. *sigh*
Good morning. It’s 7:00 here. I have caffiene. *drinks*
Beedle the Bard’s coming out on Dec. 4 (*dies of exccitement*), so I’ve changed my name.
Now I’m on Team Seth! Love, not war!
I’m officially nonviolent now. I will not push, kick, shove, or hit anyone on purpose. If I accidentally trip someone in soccer, I will give a hundred aplogies and help them back up. Nonviolence feels good.
Hey, it’s raining! Maybe I won’t have to play football! Nasty, dirty, tedious little game… *mutters*
I’m emailing my best friend from 5th grade, Hei Young. Yay!
I just finished Breaking Dawn. Now I’m sad that its over. I have to say my favorite character is Renesmee.
410 – I’m sorry, Aggie. You’ll make the next one. -hugs- (Sorry I’m replying a bit late.)
Happy Thanksgiving, Museblog!
For a while, I forgot what day it was… @____@
410 – *hugs* it’s alright.
424- OMG!!! FINALLY!!! Someone else who gets slightly sick to their stomach around meat! When I was little- 2, 3, 4, something- we were at my grandparents’ for Thanksgiving and when they brought the turkey out, I said, “Ewwwww, what’s that smell? That’s so gross! Get it away from me!” Yes, I was that little, and I did actually say something like that, and I do actually remember it.
430- Polymer Erasers, you REALLY need to check your comment form when you send something.
ALTER EGO ALERT!!!!!!What should one do in D.C.? I’m visiting an uncle. Hopefully I’ll be able to visit the Smithsonian!
64,102-Thank you… *eats chocolate and returns hugs*
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! I usually don’t feel sick around meat, but when I saw the little package of turkey insides in the sink about an hour ago, I was veryvery glad that I’m vegetarian.
I took my first official mini ballet barre yesterday, and I felt fine… except for the fact that my arabesque (which was never impressive to begin with) is pretty much a foot or so off the floor.
Dancing for musicals, however, is not my cup of tea. And tap dancing/singing? I. Just. Can’t. Be. That. Coordinated.
)
*sympathy chocolate*
At least you tried, and you auditioned.
(I wasn’t even brave enough to try out for our school one
I haven’t met anybody famous, ever.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Yeah, right.
Everybody’s so stressed around here, and when Dad is late to whatever, and Mom’s been cooking forever, and I wake up late, nobody’s giving thanks for anything.
And I’m like “In three minutes I’ll take out the dog” and Mom gets all pissed off and says “Go to hell” and now everybody’s sulking.
Holidays should be banned from my house. They always end up making everybody mad.
I once got some pictures of Will and Dad playing in a Leaf Pile.
435- Something like that usually happens in our house, too. I thought it was just me… but there actually haven’t been any disasters today. It’s a miracle!
We got up at 9- probably due to me, since whenever I wake up I take it upon myself to wake everybody else, too- and we actually had breakfast together. Amazing. Then my mom started baking and my dad cleaned the house. I went on MuseBlog- obviously- and then did some cross-stitching, which was nice. I don’t often have time to actually embroider anything. Then we ate cinnamon rolls- fresh baked ones, not from a mix or frozen dough or anything. Now they’re making:
Apple pie (mmmmmmmm, pie)
Spaghetti squash casserole
Mashed potatoes
Butternut squash
Yup, that’s our vegetarian dinner. For all you non-vegetarians: VEGETARIANS DO NOT EAT TOFURKEY. TOFURKEY IS DISGUSTING.
424-Ugh, people can be so weird sometimes, it can be embarrassing to be one. I’m glad to hear you have something to look forward to on Sunday, though!
Teeheehee… 
*Snickers*
432-What disturbs me is how some people can’t have a single dish without meat. Anyway, I’ll stop ranting here, since this technically isn’t the vegetarian thread.
433-Traditionally, when Musers are present in D. C. a Kokonvention automatically results. However, during the holiday break, it might be difficult to get attention for such a gathering.
434-If you have ever met yourself, then you have met somebody famous before their time.
435-Aw. That doesn’t sound pleasant.
436-Are you new?
Red-tailed HAWK
I’m pretty sure the only famous person I’ve met is Natalie Babbit. Oh, and some folk music person named Natalie McMaster. Hmmm… I don’t remember anyone else, but… maybe…
Welcome, Catkopelli!
Have you tried out the Neophytes thread?
437-I don’t mind tofurky, in small amounts, but a whole “bird” to eat by yourself over thanksgiving week is a bit much!
438-*blushes* Awww, thank you. I guess if you count MBers then I have met many people who will be famous in the future…
Happy American Thanksgiving. I wish i had a week off school. but noooooo. I have to worry and study and be ridiculously stressed out because I have exams in a little over a week.
I am so so so so so stressed. I have an english project AND a hisstory exam next thursday! oh help me! save me from this awful stressful time!
Catkopelli, you are new, right? Here, try the HG2MB thread, v.2008.1. It stands for Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog.
Ooh, SFTDP, but I just remembered- I didn’t actually meet Al Gore, but I did hear him speak, and my parents had dinner with him.
Question: What does SFTDP stand for? *feels stupid*
I ate Veg stuffing, cranberry sauce and creamed corn. And pumpkin pie. No turkey. No tofurky. I hate both.
445- I believe it stands for “Sorry For The Double Post.”
G’night, everyone! *goes to set up sleeping bag*
Good morning again everyone! I hope your thanksgiving was as enjoyable as mine was!
I’m not fully conscious so…I can’t go back to sleep..didn’t eat enough last night so I’m hungry. I’m at my cousin’s house, but I can’t really eat because my moth really hurts. So does my hip. That’s how I’m feeling…Why doesn’t this have spell-check?
Your mouth hurts? Why? And how you possibly not eat enough on Thanksgiving?
hello. iwnt to the twilight movie last night. the casting wasn’t great but other than that it was fairly true to the book.
i like turkey right after it comes out of the oven. whn it is sitting on th e table bevore we carve it i usually eat a bunch and then i dont eat any at the table.
i got new snowboots 2 days ago!!!!!!!!!!! they are so cosy. i wore them to chipotle on wendsdays and to the movie theatre yestersday amd they are really warm and pufy.
434 – Same. I can do about an hour, maybe 2, of mad vid game skills with hand-eye coordination, then my eyes go on break.
Well, my Thanksgiving was semi-pleasant. I strangely only ate about one plate of food – a small serving of only half what we had. Of course, I did have a heckuva lot of cookies and a piece of pie. Then it went kind of downhill. We went out to the back yard to play football, and 2 minutes after my aunt told us to watch out for “land-mines” (they got a new dog. I’ll let you figure it out.), I got “land-mines” on both shoes.
We also played Cranium, and it took forever. Even though we were on teams, we all sucked at it. Also, my cousins Riley and Miles (6 and 5 years old, respectively, so I should have expected this) were being completely obnoxious. It’s like they don’t know the meaning of the word “obnoxious” yet.
In the end, we decided to quit, and our team won because we were the only ones in the central cranium, even though we hadn’t gotten any questions right.
428- Isn’t Team Seth the best??? But Team Seth/Tyler/Mike/Eric is better, I think.
452) It sounds like you had fun though!
Alas. I was sad because no one was enthusiastic about going outside and playing badminton this THanksgiving in my family. 
I seriously need to get my own badminton set. My grandparents are the only ones who have a set and it’s infuriating how I can only play it at their house. *ponders*
My Thanksgiving was… interesting. My parents forgot to make a pie.
Really? We were pied out. We had both pumpkin and pecan.
Wow. Weirdest party ever.
In any case, I got a hot pink manicure from my ex girlfriend (who remembers Katie?) and my current girlfriend fully approved of me making out with another guy, because everyone else was actually offering to pay me to do it.
Naturally, me being me, I didn’t. But whatever.
@457 – I assume the guy was a friend of yours – dude, if you have your girlfriend’s approval and were getting paid… Why didn’t you take the offer?
/gradster(1)/ – Secretary of Bureaucracy of the ASAP
3 days before exams and where am I? studying studiously? no of course not!!! I am eating an orange feeling sorry for myself (on account of my cold ((in summer, I know))) and MBing…
Happy Thanksgiving, we dont celebrate it but it was my USA friends bday so we had a little celebration at school. well, we sang happy bday.
I am really really sick of this girl in my class (lets call her P) and this other girl ( she can be A). They both tell lies to make other people ive them attention to the extent that my friends R, F, and C stopped being friends with P and me and L broke friends with A. P said at the beginnign that she was bi and noone had any problem about that and then she began saying stuff like “my mum hates me now she abuses me” so everyone was really nice to her and then she told everyone she was moving to Auckland with her aunt- guess waht? it was all a lie (she admitted) and recently she stole stories from a website R and C both belong to and said they were hers -__- and then she and A started to go out and my friends WONT STOP talking about them, things theyd done, and do and its boring…its been like this for, um, 6 MONTHS Im gonna be glad when summer holidays come (thats 3 weeks, for me).
so annoying!!!!
240 (and everyone else)~ When does Twilight come out in the USA? it doesnt come out here until 7 January!!!
459 – Bah. It’s people like them that are destroying our society.
Ummmm… it already came out. Uh-oh… starting to repeat rant…
RANT
To everyone who’s still harping about Twilight: *pouty face* what’s wrong with harry potter, people? We haven’t had a harry potter thing for almost a year more than we’ve had a twilight book. Now JKR’s finally making a new book (even if it’s a side one) and no one but me says a word?
END RANT
Tis beautiful morning!
And we’re going to see Twilight today. Ooooooooooooooo………
460) Of course we haven’t forgotten Harry Potter! You’re not the only one either. SEveral people have been discussing it……
460- Everyones posting about it on the Harry Potter Again thread. Check it out.
462 – Ah.
The most incredible thing happened in our neighborhood – it snowed last night. This isn’t the snow we got a few weeks ago, where it snowed and melted almost instantly. This is a full 3 inches that will probably last the day. I’m happy.
My post got eatened! Oh noes!!!!!!
463- Oh so cool! I personally am dreading snow this year… it’s too cold… I’m moving to Arizona as soon as I can… ug…
Where is the Harry Potter thread?
Mum and Da are fighting again…
Really, I don’t know what else to do but stay in my room and ride it out, but I can’t even close the door and block them out, and it’s so awkward… I don’t know what to do.
Two stubborn people in the same house trying to love each other doesn’t work out very well.
/gradster(1)/ – Secretary of Bureaucracy of the ASAP
Is anyone awake?
Im so bored but my mum is making pancakes
She also cancelled my sailing so she is in my good books, unfortunatly this means I have to study
466-whats the ASAP? Ive been away for quite a while, I feel so behind times ><
SFTDP but does anyone here live in Oregon? did a girl come to your school from NZ but shes Ghanean/American? thats [insert saying here] being very crazy but Zoe came to my school so maybe….maybe….
465-Try
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1541
466- I’m sorry.
What I’m wondering and getting angry about is why everyone just talks about the series that are popular and not other amazing books. There are so many good books out there and I think you’d like reading them but no one listens to me when I suggest things that are good. I’d even give personal suggestions if you told me some things you’d liked and I could give you personalized suggestions if you’d actually /read/ what I suggested. Doesn’t anyone read anything that isn’t popular or isn’t a series anymore? Anyone?
463 – *is jealous* I wish it snowed here. I would love to sled or have a snowball fight, or even just see the snow.
471~yesterday I was reading a Noel Streatfeild book @ school and everyone was like “OMG what is that?” basically I go to a very top-end school so theres about 3 groups of people ~thick kids with rich parents/kiwi boarders, smart kids, and international boarders so most people read popular series or…they dont read
Do you guys have Jiffy Mix? I heard an add for it on the radio and it says “Jiffy Mix! Americas favourite and soon to be yours!” amazing….
Well. My Thanksgiving (yes, I know it’s a old subject by now) was interesting. Probably one of the better years, actually.
Of all my cousins (six, besides myself) only two others were there, the others being at various other activities around the country.
However, we also had two other families with us who’ve been friends (of the family) since forever started, which added 4 other teenagers to our midst. The two Larisa and Tanya were aloof and kept mainly to themselves, but their older brother, Nick was actually acting human this time (a great improvement over former years), and even nice and funny (unheard of success). The other girl, Emma was nice enough, although not too terribly interesting. She was also paying closer attention to Nick than she really had to, but whatever.
So, it went alright, I ended up being completely ignored only half of the time, I was able to avoid Grandma enough to only have to suffer from her attention once (excruciating) and for the most part there was nothing to give me major alarm in the conduct of my extended family, in fact, they were entirely civilized, compared with what I’ve been subjected to in the past.
I actually managed to make it through this one without fighting back tears, although for a little bit I did slink out of the house, climb a tree and sent text messages to my best friend (Muffy) who was at her Dad’s.
There was even some fun, like sitting around the fire in the evening with all the other kids, and not being ignored or feeling particularly more uncomfortable than I usually do around my peers, that was fun.
472: You and me both, sister. It is perfectly SUNNY outside right now. *hmph* Screwy climate. It’s around 65 degrees here!
SFTDP; I didn’t get all my thoughts in.
THE TRAIN OF THOUGHT IS LEAVING THE STATION.
I just got a cell phone! Squee! It’s black with a purple skin. It takes video, unlimited TM (I’m not about to start using chatspeak, don’t worry.), Yahoo email, camera, and lots more. This ought to be fun!
Ugh, I have really bad acne. Wish I could get rid of it, since it stands out even more with pale skin.
There’s a lemon hanging on the tree outside… maybe I should go get it… nah.
Choose Yuki, Tohru! CHOOSE YUKI!
We just picked our Christmas tree today. It’s good for hanging ornaments on.
Hehe, at Costco I picked up one of those reflector things from the road. I’m calling en Blaise. Blaise is a gender neutral name. I cleaned en up and put en on my windowsill. Blaise is very decorative!
THIS CONCLUDES THIS TRAIN OF THOUGHT. PLEASE GET OFF AT THE STATION OF LOGIC.
471) Yes. What do you read? I have a vast reading range.
I usually read various suspense, fantasy, sci fi, adventure, etc. Stuff like that. What about you?
475: hey, at least it’s not cold, cloudy and rainy, like it is her AND its summer!!!
I just got back from Borders where I spent about $175 of accumlated gift card money. Hooray, lots of new books! I haven’t read any of them before except for two Diana Wynne Jones collections and the three Fruits Basket books I don’t own, so I’m set for a couple of months.
As a heads up–Borders is rumored to be closing, so you might want to go use all your gift cards asap.
477 and anyone else who would like book suggestions meet me at Books and Reading. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, read my comment 471.
I’m at my aunt and uncle’s for Thanksgiving. They live in a really cool place and I’ve been to an awesome bookstore, a bead store and a place that sells cool buttons. I’ve also taken many walks in which I looked at pretty houses. There are lots of nice houses around here and plenty of porches.
how long is your thanksgiving holiday? I thought it was just one day?
has anyone seen the saddest asian movie in creation? Koizora/Sky of Love it made me cry SO MUCH :'( I watched it online AGAIN two nights ago…
study is SO BORING. ahem…
do you guys know of the Veronicas, Metro Station, P-Money and MIdnight Youth? Im going to go and see them next year!! They’re coming to [Sams tiny town] Im sooo excited and basically everyone is going, unfortunatly including the two girls I really dont like Aimee, and Penny…
422- It does indeed.
479- What? Borders? NOOOOOO! I spent hours in the on near where my grandmother lives yesterday. They had this one aisle with books on the Titanic on one side and space books on the other. I just looked around and said “I’m in heaven.”
479: *splutters* NO! THEY CAN’T!
there’s a Borders bookstore in Christchurch…next time I’m up there Ill ask my Gran if its closing…It was very popular when I visited in September so it would be weird if it closed…
457- I remember Katie! Wait- they were offering to pay you to make out with a guy?? I hope you said no. I could not respect you if you had let people pay you to make out with someone. I have no problem with you making out with a guy, but if they’re paying you???
459- in Canada it came out last friday. (as in a week yesterday)
466- *hugs* I find that plugging my ears and breathing really loudly (like from the back of my throat) really helps block out the fighting. focus on the breathing and only the breathing. that’s what I do.
471- yes. I am currently reading Cranford.
well. I spent most of my day painting sets. then we had to clean up. someone decided that it would be a good idea to wash the paint trays in the shower (the one sink we could use was tiny). weeeeell. not a good idea. The entire floor of the shower was covered in teal paint. Then two of the drains were over flowing. I basically cleaned up most of it. And we didn’t want the person in charge to find out because they would be crazy mad. It took FOREVER to wash all the paint down the drain. there’s still some teal colouring in the corners and some splaters on the walls, but it’s pretty good. Hopefully the classes using the pool on monday won’t notice. *cringes*
Only three more weeks before the play!!!!!!! *excitedexcitedexcited* Oh, wait, you have no idea what I’m talking about, do you….. Therefore, I will explain. I believe I said something about this on another of the random threads, but I’ll explain it in more detail now.
My homeschool group has, since September, been having a once-a-week improv theater class-thing. Improv theater is, basically, making up a play and then performing it. There’s a bit more to it than that, but that’s the basic idea. So, now we’ve (me, electros, electros’s little sister, and three other kids) gotten the script down, we’re working on our lines, we’re digging up costumes and props from various places around the house, and basically doing everything at the last minute because until the last minute we had no idea what we were doing. It’s not the best play ever, it’s kind of short and doesn’t have all that much of a plot, but hey, considering the oldest writer is twelve and a half, it’s not too bad….
SFDP(?) I don’t know what borders is. I have never seen one.
Has anyone seen A Mighty Wind? It’s a very well done movie, in my opinion. Not amazing content, parts of it are people just kinda rambling, but it’s really enjoyable. I just watched it. I have ‘there’s a kiss at the end of the rainbow’ stuck in my head. It’s a beautiful song.
Part the Third, please? We’re sort of nearing 500 posts. Or, better yet, keep it going. Let’s break a record.
487- It’s a chain of book/music/comic stores that sometimes also contain cafes.
(488) I think we can hang on for one more day. We aren’t anywhere near a record, though. The first random thread of February 2006 hit 722.
489- ooh! so it’s like chapters/indigo!
490- 8 O Well, we’ve got a ways to go.
Urania’s almost reached the ground…
I shall stay up to 10:00 and post on the next random thread!
OHNO!!! our Chinese class has the most terrible teachers!! Its like the defence agenst dark arts in HP : 1st year we had Miss Pu the epitomy of Dolores Umbridge and this year we had Mad-Eye Moody reincarnated as Mr Whalley how horrid I hope we have a better one next year ><
That was very random O.o
458-I didn’t really know him. He told my girlfriend he loved her twice two years ago, at a skate shop, and that’s how she knows him.
I actually kind of regret not doing it now. Not for the money, just fun.
466-Sounds like my house, except Mom and Dad actually do love each other, I think. Mom’s just a control freak of everyone.
485-They really really really wanted me to. They probably wouldn’t actually have paid me, because they didn’t have the money, but they actually intending to.
So, today I went to DC with Clarissa and her friend that moved from Texas. We went to the Natural History Museum, and it was boring because she kept walking off and we never got to see anything.
And then we went home and watched Degrassi, and I finished my novel.
End of day.
495~ as in you were writing a novel which you have now finished, or you were reading one, that you finished :O
466: My sister and my mum fight a lot. I go up to my room and cry, or go to the bathroom for a very long time.
495: “Once upon a time
There was a school called Degrassi,
And all the kids and attendants were all phat and sassy!”
Lemon Demon ROCKS. XD
Why don’t we have a new random thread yet?
Yeah, where is it? I’m all prepared to take the first post!
(498) Because it’s still November for another day?
494 – I bet Mad-Eye would have been great, I doubt he would be like Barty Crouch Jr.
I had the best day ever yesterday. After it finished snowing, we went sledding at around 11. We probably should have gone earlier, because lots of people were there, and almost every time I nearly ran into someone. It was also fun because part way through, I wiped out by leaning too much to the left, and I had a major wipeout, where I fell and turned 180 degrees as I did so, while my sled skidded down.
I thought it was fun, so I did it 10 times. XD
Space Shuttle Endeavour lands at 2:54 PM Eastern today.
I’m back from Maui. Well, got back here at about 5:30 AM.
Well, um, hi. *yawn after an 8-hour flight*
501: Hmph. Just be lucky you have snow. I don;t think I even OWN a sled…
SFTDP, but it is 55 degrees here! The highest today will be 76, and the lowest will be 50! UGH! Where’s the rain??? At least give us some rain!
Alas. Today is quite rainy.
504, 505-I can’t believe you don’t have a sled! But wait…..you live in California……so….yeah. But that really stinks. Your high temp. today is 76?!? It’s 33 degrees right now where I am. It’s been really cold lately.
We’re going to get some snow tonight! Yay for snow!!! (I reeeaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllyyyyy want to go skiing ASAP!!)
497- I just recently discovered Lemon Demon. and yes Lemon Demon Rocks!
We had snow. but it melted. last week. i should go do my homework.
507: It goes down a little on Tuesday. On Monday the high goes up a little.
We should have a thread for these kind of things (weather, clothes, etc.). ‘Normal Things Normal People Talk About.’
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! SNOW!
Hi. I’m new and stuff… Would that make me a n00b???
Alas, I can’t go buy Magic cards since it’s raining. I heard that they finally had a sale at the End… *sad face*
501: Lucky. You only wiped out twice. Last time I went skiing/sledding/snowboarding, I wiped out about twelve times, then ran into a tree.
I wish that it snowed here. Stupid global warming.
511: No, it would make you a phyte. Please direct yourself to the ‘Welcome, Neophytes!’ thread, which is on the main page and down three. Got that? Good.
Where do you live?
I don’t like Minnesota weather. *grumbles* It’s snowing heavily.
476~ Sounds fun, I just got a cell phone (with unlimited text messaging) too, mine’s red.
Acne: ugh. I understand totally. On Thanksgiving the first (and only) thing my grandma said when she saw me was “What’s wrong with your face?!” (very loudly). Hullo grandma, thanks for pointing that out….
479~ Borders closing??? No, how can this be?!?!?! where did you get this information?
501~ Sounds fun! I love sledding, last year towards the end of he winter the snow melted and the refroze, leaving a crust of heavy ice, needless to say with a fast hill already en could go down at warp speed…..glorious fun, but deadly if you happened to fall off the sled, I ended up with not a few cuts and scrapes. It was awesome though!
511~ Hello, and welcome! *pies with welcome pies*
Wiping out while sledding is the best part!
It’s raining here. And in the 30s. Cold, wet, mushy, wet, soggy, wet, cold, wet, dark, wet. Wet. Wet. Wet…….. you got the idea.
Tis snowing! Eeee!
I’M BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was so much awesome fun…….So, I arrived in FL late Friday, and then Saturday, my cousin, sister, and I went to Universal’s Islands of Adventure (future home of the HP theme park stuff), and also to Universal Studios. the lines were almost nonexistent–30 minutes max. Then Sunday, we went back to US and IOA (in the afternoon–we went to church in the morning, then lunch).
It was so much fun–I think the best ride is probably the Dueling Dragons (super sweetly AWESOME), and I think the blue one (ice) is probably the best. But I also really like Dr. Doom’s Fearfall–despite the fact that I know exactly waht’s coming, it never fails to pull a scream of terror out of me when it drops (all five times–I think it was five,a nyway. One time I managed to kep from holding on to the thing that comes down over your shoulders, but just barely. The other times i would start witout holding on, but the minute it shoots up, I was instinctively grab on for dear life–you seriously lift off the seat when you drop, too–so fun!!!!!). And me and my sis made our cousin go on the three water rides at IOA, on which we got abasolutely drenched–and he thought it was so cold, and I was laughing……it was only slightly chilly.
Then on Monday, we drove to my gramma’s house, and that was mostly all we did. tuesday, Gramma took us to the gulf, and my sis and I went wading (and I went “swimming”–or least ways, submerged myself–bit hard to swim when the water doesn’ty hardly even go up to your waist). Then when we got back, I did a bunch of calculus studying (not fun).
Wednesday–more calclulus, finished all I had to do, I think……but will probably study more cuz I’m paranoid. I also went swimming in my gramma’s pool (60 degrees–very cold, really). I stayed in about 20 minutes, and when i got out, I was well on the way to going numb…….but it was worth it.
Then Thursday (Thanksgiving), gramma drove us (me and my sis) back to our Aunt/Uncle/Cousin’s……..We played Guitar Hero for a couple hours on his PS2, and he gave me his HPatCoS PS2 game that he’s had for at least 3 yrs and never played (yes, he is very sweet…..a bit unexpected of a teenage boy–17–who is also an only child…….but very nice, too).
Friday–the three of us went back to IOA, but this time the lines were VERY long–we were there four hours, and barely managed to do four rides and a show. But it was still fun, despite our cousin trying to get us to jump the lines (sneak into the express lanes past where the express passes are scanned…..)
Saturday–we went to the beach. It was lots of fun, everybody (aunt/uncle/cousin/gramma, even sister some) thought the water was cold. I thought it was nice and warm, and went swimming. It was so fun.
Sunday–flew back to college……There was snow at the airpor (yay!), although only a little, and it was 33, but no snow here, but judgning from the wetness outside, and the occasional slushy car, I think it snowed and just melted…..Hopefully more snow soon, and sticking…..
ok, off to catch up on all Ik’ve missed!!!!!
ok….nevermind. I am not reading over two hundred posts–I’m too lazy.
oh, and by the way, didn’t somebody once say that teenage boys don’t like Twilight, cuz it’s romancy, or whatever? My cousin’s friends took him to the Twilight movie, cuz I guess they’re twilight fans, and he thought it was really good. Of course, he’s not read the books, so it could be totally different…….He’s 17, btw. I might try reading them sometime when i don’t ahve school…..(Christmas break/summer break)
513- yes but you got to go to Hawai’i. I’ve only been there once and I’ve lived in Minnesota (or a similarly weathered midwestern state) all my life.
511) Welcome ,welcome!
Well, we just dropped my sister off.
It was fun spending time with her over the holiday……….
RtH We’re having a Kokonvention!!!!
515-Lucky person. It ought to snow here, too! 
Fiddler Hi everyone! We’re at yet another Kokon. together…..it’s nice having another Muser nearby!
Either nobody’s on, or the moderation is very s l o w. *is bored*
Eh. Now tis raining. Blergh!
511 – I said I did it again 10 times. And almost hitting someone every time is close enough. XD
515 – It’s incredible. yesterday, me and my dad thought it would only last a day. Now we have about 5 inches (we only had 3 yesterday) and it’s still snowing hard.
(520) Hi, HAWK and Fiddler! I hope you’re having fun and get some throwable snow.
518 – I suppose. *feels better* I haven’t even lived in Minnesota all my life.
AGH!!! My opening night for “Amahl and the Night Visitors” is Dec. 5!!!! That’s 5 days away!!!!!!! *freaks out* And of course, I’m playing a boy, and my double cast IS a boy, and he sucks (sorry, Spencer, but it’s true) and OMG what if I get bad press because of him????? AHHHHH!!!
520: Just a few more weeks…!
520 – Oh, cool! What’d you guys do for the Kokon?
I can’t believe it’s almost December… where did all of 2008 go?
RtH 524-Hi Robert! It isn’t snowing yet, but we’re having fun!!!
Fiddler Hi Robert, now what would we do with throwable snow???? Not throw it at each other, surely! That’s what pies are for.
kiki, I forgot to reply to your comment about fringe but YES I love the observer…I love saying “IT HAS ARRIVEDDDDDD” lol.
people complain that the science in it is really not spot on in any sense but I still think it’s cool.
The weather here is pretty bad. The weather in Florida is pretty bad. That’s why they diverted Endeavour to Edwards Air Force Base in California. Where, as shown by CNN, the weather is quite nice indeed.
Er, SFTDP, but are the GAPAs all stuck in traffic or something? Robert’s last comment was at 3:06, which would be 4:06 for me, and it’s now 4:52. What’s going on?
(532) Well, some of us are working.
533: but it’s Sunday! Don’t you have the day off???
I just spent 10 minutes taking pictures of all of Lady B.’s pics on my cell phone. Urania’s currently floating on my internal wallparer, and the Kokolantern is gracing the external one.
531–Florida was quite nice all last week……Until today, of course. My aunt emailed me and said it is all stormy today, but you never would’ve guessed that yesterday–it was so nice and sunny and warm!
533–On a Sunday? Eep. That sucks.
(534) Usually. Anyway, I’m about to leave the office, so I probably really will be caught in traffic for a while.
471(oxlin)-Please read post 265 on this thread and post 10 on Books and Reading. In both posts I mentioned some things I had not heard mentioned much or at all. The Lily Quench books, which I talked about in the Books and Reading thread, fits the category of ended series.
509(Zinc)-Normal? What defines normal exactly?
526(LadyG or RoseQuartz)-Calm down. Deep breaths. Everything will be okay. You’re going to do great!
We had snow one day last week, but it melted as soon as it touched anything.
509- We’re not normal! No one is normal!
537- Thanks! Jeez, probably the part I’m most worried about is WHAT IF SOME OF MY FRIENDS ARE THERE???? Yikes. Two of them are definitely going to be, but they’re not as scary ’cause they’re in college. XD
Shouldn’t there be a new thread? The threads are usually cut off after 300; there are over 500 now.
537: Not being nerds, doing other things besides writing, drawing, reading, and going on MB, and there are probably a lot more, but i don’t wish to think about it. Being a normal, average person is a depressing thought. (Side note: I like your name.)
538: There are those people who are the run-of-the-mill, average-type people. And we are most definetely abnormal! I pride myself on it.
RtH Hi! We were playing Have a Pie earlier!!!
439-Lately, random threads have been cut off at specific points in the month, so that we have three threads per month. For some reason, we only had two this month, but tomorrow is December first, so I think it’s a little late to start a new thread!
I think other threads are renewed when the GAPAs think they are long enough. But yes, you’re right, they used to be cut off at 300. 
(Beavo) 495- I was at the National Museum of Natural History Museum in DC yesterday too! What did you try to see?
539- See post 500
It snowed today! I didn’t go outside but it was very pretty from my window. That’s the thing about snow; I have to be inside to appreciate it.
Dane Cook was on a few nights ago.
OMG He is so frickin amazingly funny.
I went to my cousins house in Chicago, and we lost the keys to the car. My dad drove my cousins car to my house in Ind., Is driving it back, picking up our car with other keys, and getting home around 3 or 4 am because of humungous traffic.
Anyway, I heard Black Friday wasn’t too bad, the oldest person died in my state, and the terrorist attack on India ended…
Gosh. I’m having me vs. dad and school issues right now.
*needs hug*
545 – *hugs kiwimuncher*
RtH 542- Two musers in the same building and they didn’t see each other?
543-Lucky girl. We need some snow here, or I need to come get your snow!
544-Ouch.
545-*Hugs* Here, have a pie…
Fiddler: 545: *Hugs*
545–*hugs kiwimuncher too*
544–Hmmm, Black Friday–I heard on the news that some store employee got trampled to death when the store he worked at opened, and all the crazy people out shopping stampeded…….Why would anyone want to shop on that day? (Why would anyone want to shop anytime…..)
547_I’ll willingly throw a virtual snowball, but they melt rather quickly.
RtH 549-That’s how I feel! And why were they so excited about shopping in Walmart that they were willing to KILL somebody? That’s just plain gross.
550-*Throws* *In a friendly sort of way*
Thanks guys.
497-I know. Lemon Demon is teh smex.
542-Um… I was in the fossils exhibit forever, and then the minerals and rocks, and then the butterflies. Natalee was dragging me and Clarissa everywhere, so naturally we only got to see like three rocks and a moth.
547-It’s a large building, with lots and lots and lots of people. Unless Vendeval was holding a sign that said “BEAVO LOOK OVER HERE”, I had like a .2% chance of seeing him.
Fiddler and RtH- Have fun! (Wow, you guys are probably home by now, I’m a bit late).
I’m going to Kansas for X-Mas.
I HATE THE COLD.
But I went shopping today for stuff!
549_Walmart, and 2 other employees got sent to the hospital. You can get better deals online anyway. But at least the sm didn’t crash.
Fiddler The Kokonvention draws to an end, sadly enough. ‘Twas fun though, good company (another family that understands pies, HPBs and the definition of “flamablamabluos”). Te HAWK family is just cool in general!
We also had Fear the Muffins join via Text Messaging for a few minutes, she says hi.
Bye all!
RtH The kokon was great! The Fiddler family is awesome, too. What a great kokonvention!
(555) Thanks for checking in, R-tH and MF! It’s always good to hear from you. I hope I get to see you and your parents again in the real world before too long.
(553) I love the fossils and minerals collections there. I once spent several days videotaping…um, yeah, well, you know those rocks move so quickly, only live action will do.
I like the fact they have some rocks you can pet.
There’s no Wikipedia article for gullible!!!
MASSIVE HG2G SPOILER
How is 9*6 42? Is it
because of the
Golgafrinchians?
END SPOILER
Wow, more than 1000 leaf pile comments.
556-And I hope to see you! Did you get stuck in awful traffic? I’m so sorry you had to work on Sunday! *Gives pies*
553-Thanks! We did have a lot of fun. We were at my house, so I am home, but MF and company just got on the road! I hope they make it home safely, it’s a little foggy and soggy out. And yes, I know how busy it gets there, so you probably didn’t see Vendaval. But it’s weird to think that you weren’t both in the same city at the same time, but the same building. At least at different times during the same day!
Red-tailed HAWK
557–Yeah, my dad would spend hours there looking at fossils/rocks/minerals/etc too. He used to be a geologist, and he really likes rocks. He wouldn’t be videotaping it, though…..
Definitely not his thing (especially not of inanimate objects…. 
)
I think we went to the National History Museum when we were in DC many, many years ago, actually, and he did spend a long time in there (I was rather bored, actually, but I was also rather young–less than 10, probably even less than 8). I’m almost certain we went there….
I’m back from vacation!
Im back too!
Maybe for good aeee
(:
(562, 561) Welcome back, both and all!
265- It sounds quite good! I’ll have to keep an eye out for it.
Gosh, so many new threads and posts! Was I really gone for that long? It’s only been… *counts on fingers* two weeks… or so…
And am I mistaken in saying that this is the first month for a while which has only had two random threads? There are usually three, no?
Blah, I wish we had more holiday break. It’s a whole ‘nother month until the next one, what a drag. *complains*
Does anyone know if knitting needles are allowed on airplanes? I didn’t bring them on flights last week+yesterday, because the assumed answer would be no, but really. Sure, you could kill someone with pointy sticks, I suppose, but then why are pencils+pens allowed on board? *sigh* *complains some more*
Raynpho,
Here is what the Transportation Security Administration says about knitting needles on its website:
Ah, Beavo was in a different part of the museum too- I saw the new Sea Life Hall, Africa, and some other things, but not the fossils, minerals or moths. So close!
(567) Oh, how was the new Sea Life Hall?
Has anyone seen the Pompeii exhibit at the National Gallery of Art?
566- Wow, thanks Robert! That is incredibly helpful. Apparently, I could have brought my needles with me (they are bamboo), but I shall remember this for next time. *hands over 42 pieces of choklit*