Monday, 29 April 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
…if you miss December’s random thread, festooned with winter-holiday (or, if you’re in the Nether Hemisphere, summer-holiday) spirit.
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Date: December 1, 2008
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Random craziness
The reason I don’t have the unicode in my name is because I’m on my CELL PHONE right now!
First post, perhaps?
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:O OMG SUmmers Here! Finally!!! 
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Yummmmm! Donuts!! I would probably eat that wreath if I had the chance…
Happpy December!!
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Awesome picture! It looks good enough to eat….. 
Well, we have a little (very little) bit of snow outside. It would be more enjoyable if I hadn’t woken up with a cold (I kinda thought I was coming down with one yesterday afternoon, but yesterday morning I was just fine). Any suggestions on making it go away quickly? I don’t really relish the idea of being horribly sick on Thursday for my calculus test. It will be miserable enough as it is.
Bleh, I hate colds. Actually, I’m a bit surprised I hadn’t gotten one sooner, given that I’ve been around so many people at school who have been sick.
Anyway, I s’pose I ought to go take a shower so I’ll be ready for class….
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That wreath looks to edible to be allowed. *is hungry*
great work, Lady B.!
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(5) Yes, too edible, indeed. I’m still munching my way through the props.
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Happy December, guys!
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Cool picture.
Yayz, I’m finally 13!
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(8) I-Man: Is it your birthday? If so, we should add you to the MuseBlog calendar.
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Mmmmmm. Great job with the picture, Rebecca. *stuffs picture into mouth* Awwww! It tastes like….like…a photograph. As I suspected. 
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(10) New! Improved! Powdered-sugar pixels! Extra cybernated fat!
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My grammie is in the hospital…….she’s in a lot of pain and is going to get an MRI soon. They don’t know what’s causing all the pain. My mom is really sad and looks like she’s going to cry all the time. And my dad was away for 2 weeks, came home for a few hours yesterday, and left again for another week. I feel like crap.
Sorry I’m going on about this. I just needed to say it to someone.
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12_Don’t worry. Talking about it is good. I might have avoided a lot of pain if I had talked with other people more about what was happening while my mom was dying of brain cancer.
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12- *Gives virtual chocklit*. Hope your grandma is OK. *Gives more chocklit*
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12–*hugs* I hope they figure out what’s wrong…..And I hope she gets better. *more hugs*
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13,14,15-Thanks. *eats chocklit*
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Gosh, Museblog is the best.
Dunno, just felt like saying it.
Those donuts look scrumptious. I am particularly wanting that sugar-powdered one to the left of the magnificently red bowtie.
12- *hugs and choklit and cookies and hot choklit and luvs*
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So sorry Syllabub. Virtual choklit to you. And retroactive virtual choklit to you, Cromwell.
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17–I was eyeing the spiral ones, myself. The chocolate ones look good, except they are probably jelly filled…..I don’t like jelly filled donuts.
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12- *gives you a hug and virtual chocolate* I’m sorry.
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12- I’m so sorry!!!! *virtual hugs* *real hugs soon, mon amie*
I’m kind of in a shock. One of my cousins (one of the 2 female cousins my age, btw) almost died of cancer last year. 
My parents never told me! I was like ‘what?????????’
19- I dunno, I’d be going for the chocolate glazed. Mmmmmmmm…
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(19) The ones with chocolate icing are custard filled. An eclair in a doughnut, as it were. Krispy Kreme calls the spiral ones “crullers.” My brother got to that one before I did, so I can’t report on its yumminess ranking. The one with the bites taken out is was cinnamon apple. (These random graphics are too calorie laden for one poor soul, however willing in spirit. I had to call in reinforcements to help with the cleanup.)
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Yummy picture!
THERE AREN’T ANY MORE KRISPY KREMES IN MINNESOTA. (Actually, there haven’t been many for a long while.)
SOB. 
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Feather’s being nice, letting us have these doughnuts.
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Oh, and sorry, Syllabub.
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Woah. Zillions of Muses?!?! Including the first issue? 1997-2004? *hyperventilates* I don’t know about you, but I kind of want them.
*ctrl-d ‘s*
22- Ooh, cinnamon apple? Never mind the bites. *omnomnom*
Hm, I haven’t had a donut in a while, I just noticed.
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Oh, Feather! It’s beautiful! *pies*
I’m so excited, the holidays are my absolute favorite time of year. I’ve already made my family an Advent Wreath, and ‘ve got to say, I think it looks pretty good.
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Also…
I’m so sorry, Syllabub! *hugs and chokit, tissue for tears* I know how you feel. My gramma just got out of the hospital herself. Just keep believing and lots of love will make everything work out in the end!
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Sorry to hear that, Syllabub. *Gives virtual hug + choklit*
That picture is yummifying!
What’s with “Yule be Sorry…”; sorry for what?
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22–I don’t much care for custard filled ones either…..come to think of it, I don’t like donuts with any kind of filling…..I don’t really like eclairs, either (I know, I’m weird. My sister makes sure to remind me of the that fact on a regular basis)
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I’m sorry, Syllabub. D: -hugs and choklit-
I just saw the Muses for sale on ebay… I’ve never seen something I want more ever. If I get those I’ll have EVERY MUSE MAGAZINE EVER! None of you bid. -glare-
Haha, actually go ahead, but I really hope I win. Must get my dad to bid on those as soon as he gets home…
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Wow. THE DRAMA.
So my friends were going through all this drama, and they ended up screaming at lunch, and we got called down to the house A office in fourth block. We thought it’d be all this “tell me what you feel” crap, but it actually was pretty amazing. Ms. Smith (dean) just let us talk about what was bugging us, which wasn’t really the drama. It was just a bunch of other little things (and not so little things) that added up, and it was just too much, and we got pushed over the edge. We got to talk about a bunch of prejiduced teachers, and Ms. Smith is calling the lady from Rachel’s Challenge. Everybody ended up crying and hugging. It’s not the end of this, but it’s really releiving to get over the biggest parts.
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29–read the text below the pic. Yule be Sorry… …if you miss December’s random thread, festooned with winter-holiday (or, if you’re in the Nether Hemisphere, summer-holiday) spirit.
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Haiiii! Hey GAPAs, can we have a thread where peoples NaNos will be posted if they send them in, like last year? Thanks! (I’m sending them in.)
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23- what do you mean? Isn’t the store at the mall still there?
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35 – NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! It’s not!
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32 – It must be awesome to be able to just rant like that and have everything get (if not entirely) better. I’m just very glad that I’m not involved in any drama… I try to stay as far away from that stuff as I can. I can’t stand having people be mad at me.
While not drama per say, my classes are continuing to suck majorly (except band, thank goodness). They’re all uninteresting and the teachers either are awful at explaining things, are horribly boring, or don’t understand that part of the connotation of the phrase “honors student” is “can think for oneself”.
Let me just say that I really, really miss middle school. The last time I had an interesting in-class discussion was in June.
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Was there ever a third November thread? Oh, well.
I’m on Thanksgiving vacation crash right now. BLEHBLEHBLEH.
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I love the doughnut wreath! Well, Thanksgiving break is over and I’m back in school (bleah!).
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37-I stay away from drama as much as I can, but these are my friends. I can’t let our group be torn apart. All of us would lose so much. School is where we have friends, where we can escape from our parents ranging from unsupporting and closed minded (mine) to downright abusive (Brooke’s).
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557 (previous thread) ~ Rebecca, you mentioned ejoyed petting rocks at the Natural History Museum, it reminds me of a memorible field trip several years ago when we got to go “behind the scenes” and meet the lady who keeps track of all the rocks in the collection, she calls herself the “rock librarian”. It was amazing and very interesting, the three pieces that I remember most clearly are the piece of lava with a human footprint (ouch!), the slab of stone that bent (it had layers if mica in between), and the petrified poop (the look on Noland’s face when she stuck it in his hand!).
It was also interesting to learn that if you ask you are allowed to go behind the scenes at the museums and see some incredible things and talk to the people who work with them…..very educational in itself.
568 (previous thread)~ Robert asked if anyone had seen the Pompeii exhibit at the NGA; no, we haven’t yet, but we really want to! Last time we were down we looked at the Jan Lievens exhibit, that was wonderful!
Syllabub I’m sorry to hear that your grandma is having a hard time. *hugs, choklit, kleenex, more hugs* I understand how it is when grandparents seem more and more fragile, just love them as always and hope and pray for the best. you’re in our thoughts. *hugs again*
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40 – No, I see why you can’t just walk away from the drama. Hope it all works out well.
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Shcweeet! Purty colors!
Hee.
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I hate to say it, but…..the grey is a bit dull. Perhaps we could do an icy blue instead (like I believe Piggy suggested)? I s’pose you are still working on it…..And the links are almost indistinguishable from the regular test with their current shade of grey.
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uh, now it is so grey and dull. Winter colors don’t have to be so grey…
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oh, never mind–the red works nicely for the links. (I see I was right that you were still working…..)
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Awww, it’s all wintry! I feel so Decembery.
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The colours are like, woah.
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Wow. Um. I just noticed the colors about ten seconds ago… yet another example of how unobservant I am. I like the icy blue idea too.
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(44, 45) Is this better? In the layout schematic I see the colors next to each other, which means their hues shade over into the greys, making the samples appear to be somewhat more blue and violet.
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50–The colors still look the same shade as they did when i posted my comment, with the exception of the links (red), and maybe the comment box–I think it is a slightly different shade of steely purple than when i commented.
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Icy blue would be a cool color. Or red and green. Nice picture, by the way. Is it an actual doughnut arrangement, or Photoshopped?
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Oh, never mind. It just turned blue.
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oh. ok. They’ve changed now. I think they’re a bit better, but I still find them a bit to steely for my liking. I prefer bright (or at least pretty) colors. And, well, I just don’t quite find these pretty. They’re still too grey/steely for my liking.
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And the comment box just turned purple! By the way, sorry for triple posting.
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I could almost swear it changed again (the purple, at least), since I posted my last comment just a minute ago….
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(51, 52) Yeah, after I posted Comment #50, I thought of a trick I could do in Photoshop to raise the saturation levels a touch (i.e., make them less grey while keeping the same hue).
Also, bear in mind that monitors will display colors differently, and furthermore, PCs differ from Macs.
(56) You weren’t imagining things. Do I need to turn up the blue another notch, do you think?
(52) The picture is a combination of techniques. I photographed various groupings of doughnuts (over 200 photos total; yes, the woman is obsessed). I cut out two or three of them and made multiple copies in a ring, but disguised the repetition by masking out different doughnuts in each set. There are about fifteen layers of doughnuts, plus shadows.
I cut the bow out of a stock photo and used the rest of the same photo for the background, except I had to edit the shadows which fell the wrong way. The tag was drawn from scratch.
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57–Mines a Mac. Is yours a PC then? And yeah, I guess they do probably differ a bit from monitor to monitor……And the angle at which you look at your laptop screen.
so, how many donuts were actually used, then? Cuz if you really had as many donuts as it looks like, well, let’s just say I don’t think you’ll finish them before they go stale…..Unless you invite Feather over.
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(58) I bought a dozen — quite a challenge for someone who usually eats two doughnuts a year.* I enlisted help. I will probably eat one of the remaining two in a few minutes.
*An annual event provides free doughnuts for participating artists. The original Krispy Kreme shop opened in 1937 about 20 minutes from I live, and the company contributes to many local arts organizations, including the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival.
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The colors are better now but I agree with Luna, I guess I just don’t like icy colors. I love autumnal ones but I understand that all seasons are different.
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Hi, everyone. Long time no … um … read. Slash write. How’s Life here? How was everyone’s Thanksgiving? Mine was good; we had turkey and cranberry bread and vegetables and cranberry sauce and listened to Alice’s Restaurant.
1. I am currently Obsessed with the Aubrey/Maturin novels and am dying inside because I don’t have the next one.
2. I am listening to This American Life. I love This American Life.
3. I have lots of essays to do. Ugh.
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2-Some summer, thunderstorms and pouring rain ><))
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YULE be sorry if you buy THIS wreath!
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Only if you eat it all, though it would be fun to try.
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I hope it snows soon…
I’ve got a latin test which will decide 1/2 of my grade this semester, 2 essays on the Nazis (who cares about them anyway!), and some german homework and I need to go to that music and math thingy tomorrow and before that I have to see if I made the chess team and before that I have to run home and eat lunch and 2nd hour I’ve got chemistry-I hope the theacher don’t quiz cuz I didn’t study…
Now I have to go to jazz dancing class…
*wails* I need a hug/a donut/chocolate/a free minute/a plane ticket to Sri -Lanka/a hot bath…
*pie self, then stops the self pity and goes to jazz dancing class*
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sorry for the double post-everything is due/happening tomorrow…
AND NOW I’M LATE !!!
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65–*hugs and virtual chocolate*
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I love the new colors!
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67) thanx
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65 – *hugs and choklit* I know how you feel about Latin. Hardest language ever.
68 – Very COOL. Haha, get it?
I am still having a hard time with my ocarina, but it’s fun.
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Hey GAPAs, did you get my email of my story? Hopefully you did and will put it up with other MBers’ NaNos. Just a friendly reminder from Kiki!
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I looove the colors! Especially the purple comment box, purple is my favorite color.
Well, my grandma is doing better, she is on pain killers and is more comfortable. She had an MRI yesterday but I don’t know about the concensus yet…….
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30- How can you not like custard filled?????????????
72- She’ll be in morning prayer tomorrow, I hope it’ll help.
A huge army of girls from school are banding together to go see Twilight on thursday. Kate (twi-hard with a license MUAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!!) and my mom are driving, and they’ll probably end up sleeping at my house afterwards. T’will be fun!
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72- Glad to hear it. Hope she feels better soon!
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65- hugs! good luck!
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72-Yay
73-Twilight was a great movie. I enjoyed it, and I’m a boy!
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Twilight. Don’t talk to me about Twilight.
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76–My cousin said it was a good movie, too. (He’s male). Not seen it, and don’t plan to until and unless I read the book(s).
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I LIKE THESE COLORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can we kee them for a while? Please???? I LOVE THEM!
61~ Welcome back!
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77- FOR THE LOVE OF EDWARD CULLEN, WHY NOT!!!!!????? *pies*
I really should be doing my homwork. But I am doing some notoriously angering procrastination.
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80 – I was referencing H2G2 and I absolutely detest Twilight.
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Oddly enough, given my initial reaction, the colors are growing on me……I almost think they’re a bit more blue than yesterday when I went to bed….
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(82) I’m curious, on your computer what color are the shadows on the door frame behind the wreath? On my laptop they appear to be a soft slate blue, but on the desktop at work, they look like stainless steel. The blues I used for the blog colors also look considerably more grey on that computer, so I can imagine they must have seemed very grey indeed in the first go ’round.
The wreath, on the other hand, looks pretty much identical on both computers. Same goes for the very light blue around the search box.
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65- Ooooooh you take Latin? Optima lingua in mundo!
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83–The shadows look light grey, with perhaps a slight blue tinge, varying with the angle at which I look at my computer screen (one of the annoying things about laptop screens).
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What ho, everyone! Did everyone enjoy their imperialistic American holiday? Is everyone ready for the upcoming celebration of human kindness? What does everyone hope to get?
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86 – Hey, Grant! Haven’t seen you for a while! And we’re discussing lists on the Chameleon Thread.
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THAT’S ADORABLE! *loves the picture*
4- drink lots and lots of water. staying hydrated is the key. Also, go to bed super early. eat an orange. these really do make a difference.
12- *hugs* I hope she’s okay. *hugs* we don’t mind you going on about it. it’s better to tell someone than to bottle it up.
23- tim hortons is better. Not that you get them in the US of A. but they are good.
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86–*gasp* Long time, no see, Grant! Welcome back!
And yes, I did enjoy my “imperialistic American holiday”. That is, I assume you are referring to Thanksgiving……I spent the week with relatives in FL, which was a close second to going home for the week…..
I am definitely ready for Christmas, as it means the end of my first semester of college, and it means I get to go home and see my family, return to a normal and sane climate (where snow has been present on and off since Oct, and is not just starting. That is, if you consider a pitiful not even thorough sprinkling of white in random patches “snow.”), my cat, and I get to sleep in my own bed! All absolutely wonderful things.
And I hope to get everything and anything Harry Potter, as that pretty much sums up my entire Christmas wish-list (yes, I am a Potter fanatic……a rabid potter fanatic, if you ask POSOC)
Anyway, how goes your life? I know you are in college, but I forget if this is your first or second year……Is college life treating you well?
Personally, I think college food sucks, and that is yet another thing I am looking forward to over my nearly 4 week break–real, edible food. I swear, I’m always hungry here. Even when there is something good in the caf, and I eat a bunch of it, it never seems to fill me up for very long……I am desperately craving delicious, fattening, home-cooked food.
And I’m trying not to stress out about finals, but last night I frantically calculated out the lowest grade I think I can get on the finals in all my courses and still get A’s in them all. Right now it seems that all my grades hinge on what i get on the finals. The difference between an A and a B in all my courses. I would really, really love to end my first semester with a solid 4.0, but I dunno if it’s going to happen…..But it would certainly make next semester a bit less stressful, I think.
Anyway…..
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88–thanks for the advice. So far, though it hasn’t developed into a full-fledged cold. Although Monday morning I felt like I definitely had a cold, from Monday evening til now I just have a very slightly scratchy throat and slightly sniffly nose (which may just be from the temp outside)–the annoying symptoms of coming down with something, which usually only occurs for one day, and then the next day you are horribly sick feeling. Maybe it won’t get any worse, and I’ll just be stuck with the feeling of coming down with something for a few days, and then it will go away. I can always hope.
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88- Dunkin donuts pwns tim hortons.
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86- GRANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *is so happy* I missed you loads. please stay for a while. (you probably don’t remember me but I remember you). by the way, I do not celebrate that holiday. well, I do, but a month early.
all I want for christmas is 4 seasons of doctor who and T&K apprentances vol.1.
I thought I heard something about the NaNo books being up somewhere! could I be directed to that thread s’il vous plait?
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Anybody see the moon last night/tonight. It’s close to Venus and Jupiter in the sky and there’s a little bit of Earthshine.
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4- follow 88 but I suggest Clemintines just because I like them better
65,84- SO does that mean I shouldn’t take it next year when I get the chance to? And why or why not? (sorry for the essay question mode…this is an important topic in my home)
89- Nothing wrong with being a Potter Fanatic…In fact me and my friend just about threw a fit when we learned there was no midnight selling of Tale of the Beatle and the Bard
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92–I don’t think there is a thread yet, but somebody emailed the GAPAs their nano, so perhaps there will be a thread at a future date.
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90- you should deffinitely be drinking twice the amount of water you usualy do if you have a bit of a runny/ stuffed up nose. Those are Dr.Kagy’s instructions.
91- you wish. I mean, you obviously haven’t been able to enjoy the full experience of the Tim Horton donought, what with you living in the USofA and all but really, once you’ve had a timmy’s, you’re never going back.
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Wow. Second day of December and we’re already at almost 100 posts?
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. Yule Be Sorry is possibly the cheesiest random thread name I can recall. Good work, GAPAs.
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90 – Oh, and clementines are yummier than oranges. But they’re hard to get this time of year.
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(98) Zallie: We rejected several tasteful, non-cheesy thread names before settling on that one. Glad to hear you like it.
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86- Wow, you’re back! -throws joyous welcoming pie at Grant-
As for the imperialistic American holiday, it was pretty good.
As for Christmas presents, I know that my mom is getting me a cell phone. (Yes, shocking, I know, but I’m sick of borrowing other people’s phones.) Other than that, I don’t know and haven’t really thought about it. I’m going to get my dad a cast-iron skillet and I’m not sure what I’ll get my mom. Maybe some sock yarn.
I’m writing a persuasive essay for English. And another one for Shakespeare. It’s horrible.
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*jaw drops* Grant is BACK??? Finally, all of my snipped comments paid off! I know, you have no idea who I am…. Let’s just say I joined in August and read a lot of old threads.
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96–twice the amount of water, hmm? Well, Dr. Kagy, that shouldn’t be too hard, given that I drink virtually no water……Most of the water I have goes into other things (like hot chocolate, little chocolate microwave cake things), and at meals I usually drink soda (bad, I know). So, twice of almost zero is……still almost zero. But yeah, will try and drink more, really, I will!!!!!
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ok, against my better judgement, I am reading Twilight……(better judgement, because I am enrage anyone would dare call it the next Harry Potter. And so far, honestly, I’m not all that impressed with the writing quality. Anyway). So, I’m not that far into it, only chapter 1, dunno what page it would be (I’m, erm, reading a pdf of it I downloaded off the internet. *coughbadlunacough*
Anyway what is with people and vampires and ALASKA. I assure you, we most certainly are not vampires, nor are there any vampiers there. But yet, “They just moved down two years ago from somewhere in Alaska.”
And then of course there is that movie, thirty days of night or whatever the heck it’s called, where Barrow (I think twas Barrow, somewhere above the Arctic Circle, anyhow) was infested with bloodthirsty vampires.
I’m sorry, but maybe it’s just because I’m determined to believe Twilight bad, or something, but I am a bit annoyed right now…….
We are not, I repeat, are NOT vampires back in the beautiful state of Alaska. The only vampires there are of the insect variety.
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92- Sure I remember you!
102- You I don’t. Am I a legend or something? *preens*
As for the *ahem* celebration of human kindness, I really want to get a fencing sword. I’m in the club at OU and it would be sweet not to have to wait for a sword all the time. In the meantime, I’m making a practice sword that I can… practice with. So far I’ve got a stick, and if I make coffee about 8 more times, I can use the lid of the coffee container for the guard.
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Three chapters in, and Edward strikes me as a smarmy, patronizing ******, and I really don’t understand what Bella sees in him. I would have slugged his smirking face hundreds of times over by now. (ok, so I wouldn’t’ve actually, but I would’ve been **** tempted.)
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105–yeah, totally. You are a legend in your own mined.
Nah, not a legend, but recently several of the older (as in longer term MBers) were wishing you were back, and missing you and all that. And for awhile someone (I think it was POSOC, or perhaps IBCF) was claiming to be you, I forget how that started, but I remember it confused quite few people. ’twas rather funny, actually.
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105-Yes, you are. For me, at least. *shamelessness*
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93- I saw it, it was beautiful. The nice clear sky tonight had a nice crescent too.
102- How do you like the Kindle?
104/6- Twilight does go against better judgment. Alaska is used because it’s part of the US, and the long nights, of course!
105- 
Everyone knows The Chairman!
107- Yes, I think it was IBCF…He said something like “I’ve had the longest alter ego- I’ve been posting as Grant for years.”
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106- What! I shall not stand for this! Who did it and how may I dismember them?
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What were some of the non-cheesy thread name candidates? I think Yule Be Sorry is a bit too negative. Too much of a threat. But it definitely wins big points for cheese!
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Oops, I meant 107. I shan’t stand for people impersonating me! Were they unmasked?
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Could I have my Blogiversary on the Dates to Remember thing instead of my birthday? (It’s December 27th.) Honestly, I’m looking forward to it more than my birthday.
Wait, it’s Grant! HI!! Ack, you probably don’t know me.
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107, 109, 110, 112- Gosh, it was a joke. I think IBCF just mentioned it, in a sarcastic-type manner, and a bunch of people believed him. 
But I would have to say you are somewhat of a legend. You posted on the GABOOMBA, for heaven’s sake! *stares*
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114–yes, I know it was a joke……it was rather funny, too–mainly because so many actually believed it.
And no, I just looked, it was POSOC, on the August ’08 neophyte thread. It started in the 280s/290s.
113–I think we all know Grant, although he doesn’t necessarily know all of us. For instance, he probably doesn’t remember me, though I remember him.
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109–ok, true, the very northernmost part of AK does have 24 hr darkness for about a month or so, but we also have 24 hr sunlight in that same area in the summer, and very nealry 24 hours elsewhere…..so, winter, perhaps, AK would be good, but summer, it’s the last place I’d wanna be if I were a vampire.
I dunno, it’s bugging me for no good reason. Maybe because so far Twilight strikes me as the sappiest romance I’ve ever read. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a love story, but not when it is the SOLE PLOT of the entire book, as it certainly appears to be here. The entire plot is “omg! squee! this really sexy guy who is a total jerk wants to eat me, omg I want to kiss him/date him/sleep with him/whatever I just want to be with him he is HOT!”
I mean, seriously. To be quite honest, I don’t see how anybody could call it the next Harry Potter, unless the only Harry Potter they’ve read are the very sappy romance oriented fanfics that predominate HP fanfic sites. Honestly, I rank this about the vicinity of some of those very mediocre fanfics I’ve read–it’s ok if all you’re looking for is mindless romantic drivel. Which doens’t bother me too much in a relatively short HP fanfic, but in a 200+ pg book? gimme a break, this is along the lines of the HP fanfic I started once. *shudders at memory*
meh. [/rant]
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109, 114, etc.- Nope, it was POSOC. He really needs to change back to Prarilius Canix, people are always confusing our names…
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Ah, Grant are you a legend because you posted first? you beat me by… some amount of time that I don’t feel like looking up right now.
Luna, we were discussing why Twilight is bad in class today. To Twilight fans, we (my class as a whole) seem to think that the plot was alright though not well executed. In gender issues terms however the book brings us back to the fifties. All Bella does is offer to die. Yes I’ve read Twilight. I’ve not read the sequels though and I read Twilight ages ago and don’t really remember much. I did go and look on the Amazon preview and thought what I saw to be poor writing. Anyways.
What are your definitions of bravery?
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104-tell me about it! I read Twilight and it reminds me a lot of Meg Cabot’s Mediator series but I asked my friend what happens and it sounds really cool by the 4th book. Talking of books my English teacher is a writer (Tania Roxborough, shes not famousfamous but she has written A LOT!) anyway she wanted to write a sequel to Macbeth and it was accepted by some international (?) publishers and it’s going ahead and it’s expected to be really big! Its coming out in September ’09 it’s called Banquo’s Son so look out for it! Im pretty excited for her and it even may become a film and so she promised to give me a role *dreams big*
Wish me luck for my english exam tomorrow!!! *screams*
On reflection, those donuts look like the donuts we buy at the chain bakery Couplands-KO’s Donuts, they are sickly sweet!!!
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Good: the latin test was easy
Bad: we don’t get it back till next week
Evil: our german teacher gave us a diagnostic test on german sentence structure 10 min later (her class was right after latin)
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DONUTS!
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Alice: How did your Socrates project turn out?
(118) oxlin: Grant beat you to the blog by 11 hours and 49 minutes, on August 2, 2005.
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86~ YOU’REEEE BAAAAAAAAAACK! *pies, hugs and screams happily all at the same time* *brushes off pie splatters* Hi Mr. Chairman, it’s spiffing to see you again, you should come back more often, I miss you.
How goes your life? Do tell!
My Thanksgiving was fine, and I’m looking forward to the “celebration of human kindness” as you put it, I’ll be in Wisconsin, visiting grandparents. I’ll wave when I go through Ohio.
93~ yes, I saw it the other night, it’s beautiful! One evening my Dad called (he wasn’t home from work yet) and told mom and I to go outside and see the moon and the beautiful sunset, ’twas lovely.
101~ On your phone. Get texting–and a real keypad if you can, numerical pads are a pain. I got a Samsung Rant. and like it pretty well.
105~ A legend, certainly. Renowned the world over for a good sense of humor, a fondness for looking dramatic and handsome with the Union Jack fluttering above your head and documentaries on how to escape winter depression. Not to mention the occasional puffery and a bit of preening.
106~ Edward looks perfectly wonderful compared to Bella! She bothers the cake out of me.
Well. I went to the dentist today. They said that I have to get my wisdom teeth removed, because there isn’t going to be enough room for them to grow in properly. 
Yuck. I don’t like the thought of having my teeth removed, before or after they grow in, it sounds like it’s going to hurt a lot and be bloody. And that doesn’t sound like fun. *pouts*
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Hmmmmm…..I’m having doubts about the advisability of having come to the campus bookstore today to look for a cheap gift for the present thingy at the prevet club meeting tonight……I walk in, and the first thing that hits me is a little display of the HP books on a table, displaying a flyer for a midnght thingy for “Beadle the Bard”. At 11 tonight in the bookstore, they are having a release party of sorts……..Damn. I’m seriously considering coming and getting a standard edition in addition to the collector’s edition I ordered……It’s at eleven tonight, and I was really considering actually getting to bed at a decent time tonight, since I have a calculus test tomorrow, but…..damn. Not to mention, the standard edition is a bout $5 more expensive than if I ordered it off amazon, not to mention with getting the collector’s edition, I really don’t need to get the standard, but…..oh god, I’m a sucker for HP stuff. ok, anyway, better get off the computer…….I”m online at the bookstore……trying to convince myself that going tonight is a bad idea. and fialing miserably, of course.
(oh, and gapa, that is my email, just my school one, since I am on a “public” coomputer, and I don’t and since anyone on campus could find my email if they know my name, but not my personal, wel…..)
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Where is the moderation???????????
*chastises self for impatience* Seriously though, is nobody on?
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The last post was an hour ago……… *sniffle* The blog seems all quiet and lonely now. *shuffles sadly off*
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Sorry, Fiddler. We GAPAs are working folk, you know.
Language, please, Luna.
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128~ Yes, yes, I know. I was concerned for your safety, since moderation so rarely goes unchecked for an hour!
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(127, 129) And I’ve just finished touring some 4th graders through the 19th century. Not too easy to moderate from there.
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130~ That sounds lovely! I’ve found that 4th grade is a good age for teachablility.
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86- HI GRANT!!!!!!!!! I’m not sure if you remember me, but hi anyways! *welcome back pies*
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I was studying for my history test tomorrow *>_<* and I thought, There must be some kind of digital flashcard program. See, I want flashcards, but I don’t want to have to waste paper on them.
And, lo and behold, there was! So, I now have digital flashcards. They rock.
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128– 
Sorry, Robert…..
anyway, I called my sister, and talked myself out of it. I will probably go tonight, in case there is something fun happening (other than hot chocolate), but will not buy the standard edition as A) I should get my collector’s edition tomorrow (hopefully) and B) if I were to buy a standard as well, the bookstore is not the cheapeast place ($13 at the bookstore, 7 or 8 off Amazon), so…..
anyway, off to see the rest of the blog…..
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133- My spanish teacher is a total computer nut, so she makes us do regular flashcards and go on this really weird websites with digital flashcards too.
124- Yea, I had both of my baby canines removed because they never came out. The actual tooth pulling did not hurt, and there was not that much blood, but the anastetic shots (excuse spelling) did hurt a bit
On to more happy subjects, welcome back Rebbeca!!
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134- at least tehre is a mdnight selling at… uh where ever you are… apparently not enough people in my stupid town to actualy bother keeping the stores open! and what sucks even more is that me and my friend went to EVERY singal bookstore in our town to no avail. Plus you wouldn’t normaly think that parents would let their middle school children out till all hours but it turns out they would have!!!! grrr. I’m still getting the book though. And I compleatly agree with you…twilight sucks.
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those donuts are mine only mine 
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134- you should be getting more rest if you are sick and have a test tomorrow. *sends the good luck charm*
*is procrastinating as usual* *doesn’t have anything to say* *correction: nothing interesting to say* I have an exam tomorrow and a project due. oh me. how to avoid this weary world. The exam yesterday was pretty easy though, I knew my stuff. (tommorrow is the secon half of yesterday’s exam) canadian history is not the most dificult class. I only have two days before my exams officialy begin. My Canadian history exam was done durring class time (I don’t know why). there was also a “group” component. which I didn’t really understand why we had it. I though exams were personal evaluation.
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136- I totally agree with you and Luna I think twilight is the most horribly overdone book ever. I like a good dose of fantasy but vampires are not my thing.
Hello, by the way, Grant you seem to be a celebrity around here so I welcome you humbly, and with pies.
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Hello all! I ish mucho tired-o. Too tired to actually speak in spanish lol…
It’s snowing! Yay!
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138–Yeah, I know, but……it’s Harry bloody Potter!!!!!! As far as being sick, well, it still hasn’t progressed past the stage of feeling like I’m catching something, which is weird…..Of course, if I don’t want it to progress past that, I should skip the thing, but…..It’s Harry Potter.
As far as the test, thanks for the good luck charm! But, really, I don’t think extra sleep will help much with that–I either know the stuff and will do good, or I don’t know it and will not do so good…..I think I know it, htough, so that’s good…..
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10 Entities I Feel Sorry For:.
1) Jaina Solo: Her mom is Leia Organa, her grandmother is Padme Amidala- talk about pressure to succeed!
2) Lonesome George the Tortoise: He’s the only member of his species on Earth. ‘Nuff said.
3) Valeria Richards: Her dad can stretch, her mom turns invisible, her brother once created his own reality and she… has no powers.
4) Franklin Richards: For that matter, her brother Franklin because he’s been a kid for forty years and the editors won’t let him grow up.
5) My heart: It’s been beating since a few weeks after I was conceived without a rest and it never can stop or I’ll die. Poor heart.
6) Prince Charles: Because he’s sixty years old and he hasn’t become king yet.
7) William Henry Harrison: He got elected president only to catch a cold on Inauguration Day, which he died from.
8) Laika. Just Laika.
9) Thunderbird: Because he joined the X-Men, then got killed on his first mission and never came back, unlike nearly everybody else who dies in comics.
10) Orpheus: He managed to go to the underworld and come back alive, all to save his wife, only to have her vanish because he turned back to look at her too soon.
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That 8) was supposed to be “Number Eight”.
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.118
the gender issues are definitely what bother me most.
wow I can’t think of anything else to say. hmm. it’s actually getting cold here, exciting times.
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We’re going to KANSAS for Christmas. I can’t get over that. I’m going to have a miserable twenty fifth.
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35-you live in MN too? cool! that makes three of us that i know of. we should have o kokonvention.
i had a ski meet yesterday and i am the fastest girl on our team! yay me!
i have to finish my math now.
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145~ Oh. Have fun.
I’m going to Wisconsin, the frozen wastelands up north. Where grandma walked to church tonight because there as too much snow to drive in. 
She’s a block away, but still……
Nah, it should be nice.
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146- no, sorry. I’m at college.
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I don’t like Twilight anymore. Or not as much as I used to anyway. Maximum Ride is sooo much better and she’s not as… I’m finally saying this…. whiny! I know, it goes against everything I just said two weeks ago but… SORRY I CHANGE MY MIND A LOT!!!!!!!
Anywayzzzz….. I’m so bored… I need to study for the school spelling bee and I REFUSE TO GET BEATEN BY A SIXTH GRADER THIS YEAR!!!! I got beat on the ‘epiglottis’ last year. It was just me and that brainiac and he beat me! Oh well… maybe I’ll get past the school round this year.
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Goodnight everyone, I’m going to turn in from an exciting day, getting told that some of my teeth have to go and heroically rescuing a piece of rice cheese that fell further into the toaster than it was supposed to……I was making grilled cheese sandwiches in the toaster (yes, in, no it’s not a toaster oven, yes, you read that right) and a piece fell. Oops. A quick fix, to be followed by a more noticeable rescue when the Parental Units were away and not liable to catch me extracting gooey cheese from a piece of kitchen equipment not intended for that use in the first place. (Since I’d never really asked permission to use the aforementioned machine to grill sandwiches in…if you don
t ask they can’t say no, right?!)
I did get it out with very little damage to toaster,fingers, cheese or reputation. And so concludes this adventure, I do hope that you found it enlightening, instructional, insightful and a wacky enough to amuse you at least a little bit.
And so my friends, goodnight.
*makes a sweeping bow and exits*
Wow, I must be tired.
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124- *cold, mirthless laugh* Maybe I should watch that documentary.
135- Lucky you. I’m missing my lateral incisors (until about 4 months from now, booyah! Hurrah for implants!) so some of my teeth didn’t come out when they were supposed to. (Luckily, due to a fortunate genetic error for once, I didn’t have any wisdom teeth on the bottom.) When I got to the dentist, they numbed my mouth up, and started trying to pull out one of my upper canines. Unfortunately, as it had been in longer than it should have been, it had fused somewhat to my jaw, and so it snapped in half, making a horrible wet breaking noise. I thought too much and it started setting off my hemophobia, so I had to reschedule with a dental surgeon to sedate me and remove everything.
145- Why? What’s in Kansas?
Seriously, name one thing of note in Kansas.
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146 – We should kokonvene. When’s your birthday party? Your birthday was ages ago.
147 – KOKON????
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SFTD (potential) P.
151 – The Wizard of Oz! Dorothy Gale!
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151–um……nothing? Yup, definitely nothing. The only thing that pops into my mind when I think of Kansas is the Dust Bowl, tornados, and the line form The Wizard of Oz, “We’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto.”
I’ve never had any teeth pulled (yet). However, at my last dentist appointment, they so kindly informed me that I had (I believe it was four, maybe only two) wisdom teeth that should be pulled within the next few years. I’m really not looking forward to that, and would be so much happier if they would just put me completely under, instead of just local anesthetic, but unfortunately I don’t think that is going to happen…..
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Rebecca (59): Help, you say? *sprints over to Rebecca’s house*
Alice (61): Hello!
Grant (86): ‘Allo, Chairman!
Hello to everyone else, too!
*sleeps*
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What is your definition of bravery?
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And to think–I thought it would be difficult to keep myself from splurging and buying the standard edition while at the bookstore for the “release party”. ok, events of “party” as follows.
The “event” started at 11 pm, being me (and the fact that I suck on judging how long it will take me to walk from my dorm to naywhere on campus), I was 15-20 minutes early. I was the first person there except for employees. By the time midnight came, there were at max 10 people besides employees, which given the size of campus is incredibly small–probably less than 1 percent. significantly less, I imagine.
So, at 11, they told us to help ourselves to cookies (by far the worst sugar cookies I’ve ever had, only cool because they had the sign of the Deathly Hallows on top in purple icing) and hot chocolate (within a minute I’d spilt it on my hand and down my wrist, scalding myself, and having a red rash for the next half hour). Then, they said they were going to read stories from Beedle the Bard, and they did.
This woman sat down with a real live standard edition copy (hidden in a binder type thing), and proceeded to read. First, she read “The Wizard and his Hopping Pot”, complete with Albus’s commentary, then it was on to “Fountain of Fair Fortune” (no commentary, whether this is because there was none in the book, or she just iddn’t read it, I can’t say), then “Hairy Heart” with commentary, and finally “Tale of the Three Brothers” with commentray.
So, the only story she did not read was “Babbity Rabbity and her Cackling Stump”, but 4/5 makes it very easy for it to not be at all hard to wait until tomorrow evening at earliest to receive and read my collector’s ediition.
Honestly, from the first moment they said they were reading it, all that was running through my head was “Is taht legal? Are you even allowed to open the boxes before Dec 4?” Of course, I don’t deny I didn’t get very much out of it, as I have a habit of tuning people out when they’re reading…….odd, I don’t ahve that issue taking notes in lecture, not usually (with the exception of my chinese geog professor–i tune him out and just copy the info on his power points).
So, yeah, no problem walking away without a standard edition. And also, they brought out a cart (with a laughably huge number of the books, given the small turnout….probably 200+) with the books on it, not in boxes at about 5 til midnight, and proceeded selling them…..yeah, I dunno. I wasn’t to impressed with their following of the secrecy rules that followed the actual HP series (even if it doesn’t apply to BtB, which I would think it would), and am undecided as to whether I am happy or not with having heard the stories, instead of waiting, not that i can do anything one way or the other…..although, given the amount I got out of it tonight, it will probably almost be like reading them for the first time tomorrow (hopefully tomorrow)……
Anyway, I ought to get to bed, if I want to be able to get up tomorrow. And be functional tomorrow evening come my calculus test.
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oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh. My collector’s edition just arrived in a town only two hours or so from where I’m going to college! I don’t see how it could possibly NOT be here tomorrow! I shall haunt the front desk until I get it, given that they are VERy slow about sending out notification emails about packages. I asked them today for a package that I was “expecting” (my sister gots hers tues, so I knew miine should be here already/soon, as it was mailed at the same time),a nd sure enough, they had it, and I looked at the date in there book when I signed for it, and they ahd gotten it on MONDAY. idiots.
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SFTTP–truly, I am, but…….my book is now in the same town (city/whatever you wanna call it) as my college! I should get it today!!!!!!!
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Hey…Bookgirl had an interesting idea on the Student Lounge thread. I’ll c+p the suggestion here…
4. bookgirl_me | December 3rd, 2008 at 11:31 am
Couldn’t we play “fetch†?
Rules:
One player states a quote from a blogger (who’s been blogging for at least 1 month). The blogger who guesses it first gets 1 MBSBB point (=Muse Blog’s “Big Brotherâ€). The player who answered the question gets the next to ask the next one. The quotes have to give you a clue as to where they’ve been said (only active threads) and are not allowed to come from alter egos or masked balls e.t.c. . If a question isn’t answered in a week, we go to the next one.
Anybody game?
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151~ *clamps mouth shut and refuses to allow anyone to see teeth* Ouch.
159~ Lucky.
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160–Sounds like it could be fun.
161–I know. For once, I am happy not to be back home in Alaska, as the Dec 4 delivery is only valid in the lower 48. AK and HI alway seem to be screwed in all these things. And not just delivery things, but all sorts of drawings and such. For instance, I remember Sharpie was offering some scholarship, but that it was not offered to AK and HI, for some retarded reason……..*sniff* They just don’t love us.
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109-It’s great. I just got it yesterday, because my family goes to the Bahamas every winter (you might have heard about this already), and it got kind of hard to lug three boxes of books with us every time (I REFUSE to go for three months with no new books!)…. When we went to capoeira last night I brought it with me, and the stuff I wrote on it was while I sitting outside Whole Foods in the car waiting for my mom to finish shopping. I love cell phone towers.
151- You should see POSOC’s bunny videos.
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163) Where in the bahamas ? George Town ? Nassau ?
[Sorry, bookgirl_me, but since Armada will in effect be living there for several months, we draw the line at anything more specific about her location. The population of the Bahamas as a whole doesn’t reach a million, much less any of the towns. –Admin.]
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OH. MY. GOD. My English teacher is a member of the Kokonspiracy!!!!!!!! My parents had conferences last night, and he asked them if I like science, so they said yes. Then- get this- he says, “Well, she might think this is too young for her, but my daughter is the editor of a magazine called Muse, and she needs strong writers for the Muserology page,” and my parents started cracking up!!!! OMG, so apparently Mr. Preston’s daughter is ELIZABETH PRESTON!!! A/k/a, Muse editor!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is so freaky!
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165) WOWSERS!
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165- That reminds me of the time I met Ivars Peterson (the writer of the math page) when I was touring a college.
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165- O my gosh!!!!!! that so lucky!
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I gots it!!!!!! I just stopped by the desk two seconds ago on the way back from bio lab, and asked ’em, and the girl and as I was asking, I was looking down kin fron of her where she ahd the package log book open, and saw that I indeed had my packaged. She took my id, saying they’d just got the packages delivered 5 seconds ago, and “yup, you got it, I was just about to send an emial….is it ok if I don’t send you one now?” And I was like, uh, yeah, why would I care if you sent me one now that I have my package?
So, the box is cool, says “Attention Muggles: do not deliver or open before December 4!”
It also says Beedle the Bard on it somewhere….now I just ave to decide if I can wait until after calc tonight to open it, or if I will open now and read later…..probably the latter, open it so I can look at it, and save the rest for later……
Just proves that the woman reading it last night, and the boxes clearly having been opened, as they were on the cart and being sold at 5 til midnight was completely illegal (not that I didn’t already know that).
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165–I agree:
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165) .
And I thought teachers had strange connections BEFORE….
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My book has the oddest smell…..That is, it smellsa bit like Mitoban (the medication stuff that is used to bathe dogs with mange)……Of course, it’s not helping me figure out what Mitoban smells like, something that I’ve not ever been able to figure out yet…..
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SFTDP (or, oops, is it quadruple now?), but…..it’s going to be awfully hard to read my beautiful book, given that it only easily opens barely an inch max. And I’ve always had this thing about forcing potter books open–that is, I don’t do it, and I scream at my sister/dad when they open them farther (their defense is they ahve to to see the words near the binding). But I don’t want to damage it, it cost me $70 for crying out loud!
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So it turns out that my grammie has a ruptured disc. She sould be in surgery about now-ish. I’m really worried because she’s 89 years old……
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176–Well, I’m glad they figured out what was wrong, and I hope the surgery is successful! *hugs*
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177-Thanks Luna.
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165 – Hi RoseQuartz! My dad told me he had a Muser among his students. It really is a small world! (I went to school there too, by the way.)
Best wishes for your grandmother, Syllabub.
*retreats back into editor cave*
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179- Its one hell of a small world.
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151-My Auntie M (I kid you not, her name is Marianne, and shes’ my Dad’s sister) is there. She should be a Muse editor. She’s whacky and hasn’t grown up yet. Last time I was there she forced me into a purple hoop skirt she bought off E-Bay, a blonde wig and a tiara, while she paraded around in a Balcava. She’s like, mega amazing. And her husband works for Hallmark and always comes home with glitter in his hair, and her son is a child prodegy.
156-I don’t know, you can sometimes tell when someone does something “brave”, but when I try to explain it I fail miserably. Why? That’s so random. Am I seriously the only person who answered that?
Ditto what Elizabeth Preston said about Syllabub’s grandmother…
Oh. My. God. IT’S ELIZABETH PRESTON! *ambush* *hug* *moo*
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oxlin (156): Wow, that’s a really hard question. I’ve been thinking about it for awhile, and I’m not really sure I know. I suppose it’s having the ability to calmly and constructively face difficult situations. I think bravery is much different than fearlessness, though. Brave people can still be scared (about whatever the situation, not just danger), they are just able to work through things without “losing their wits.†I think confidence and self-esteem are a big part of bravery, too.
RoseQuartz (165): That’s so flamablamablous!
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165-WHAT??? Woah
180-soo true. So freakin’ true.
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156- Actions taken with the risk of great personal harm, for no great reward.
160- Sounds good, where will it take place?
I think that closed threads should be allowed, if we’re giving hints.
162- Please don’t use that adjective that way.
176- I wish her the best of luck!
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179–oh, so that’s where editors live. I’d always wondered…..
184–sorry…..I didn’t mean anything by it.
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185 – It’s kind of like the Batcave, but with fewer gadgets. Or like the Fortress of Solitude, but (marginally, in Chicago) warmer and less remote.
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[Sorry, Armada, but our rules are clear: MBers are not allowed to arrange meetings via the blog. If your parents approve of the idea, they can send their e-mail addresses to us, and we’ll put them in touch with each other. That’s all we can do. –The Management]
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165 – How weird! It’s a small world.
171 – OH. MY. GOD. Is it completely awesome? Was it worth the money? Are the stories good? (I didn’t read them online.) Eee! That means my (standard edition) copy will be coming soon.
176 – Hope the surgery goes well. -hugs-
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186–I will pretend to understand your references. (ok, the first isn’t that hard, presumably has to do with Batman, but as I’ve not watched a single Batman movie, I don’t know that for sure…..)
Anyway, I suppose it’s about time for me to start getting horribly nervous about my calculus test at 6:30. Yup, right on cue–I don’t feel so good. I think I will do well on it, and I suppose I really ought not to be too worried, so far I have 392 pts out of 390, but there are still 310 points to go–the 100 pt test tonight, another quiz, and the 200 pt final. And the difference between an A and a B is only 100 points. *is worried*
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Oh my goodness, I’m going to go die in my hole now. The most awful thing happened to me last night. I went to the first soccer practice/footskills clinic thing, and it was BRUTAL. They worked us HARD for 2 hours straight. Like, sprinting and pushups and crunches and jumping and ladders and running around cones and passing and shooting and suicides, with ONE WATER BREAK. By the end, I was starting to feel reallly faint; my ears were ringing, I couldn’t hear the coach, my head hurt, and everything went really white. I didn’t faint, but my stomach hurt like heck. I thought I could make it to the end, but 5 minutes until dismissal, I went down on one knee trying not to keel over. And I threw up. Everywhere. It was bright pink. And there were 100-odd people gathered around me, staring, and I had puke all over myself… I thought I was going to die. I went to the bathroom afterwards and the coach came in and talked to me, she was really nice, but still, it was absolutely the most embarassing thing I have ever expirienced and probably will ever expirience.
Anyway, on a more positive note, I went to Twilight with the Annas and Kate! It was very fun! We all screamed constantly. We were alone with 3 other people in the theatre and we all freaked out.
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147/152- [See comment #187. You can ask people if they’re interested in meeting, but please don’t even ask about particulars such as “what part of the state will you be in?” Questions of the sort also make more work for bleary-eyed GAPAs. –The Management.]
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I got to go to art club with my friend (Alias used for privacy) Shadow Empress today, which I always like. I tell her all about the funny things that happen here and she tells me all about the funny things that happen on her roleplaying sites.
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172- Best wishes to you and your family!
179- Hello! Glad to see you stop by. I’m interested in editing as a career and I think it’d be cool if there could possibly be a thread later where you could describe some of what you do and we could ask questions. GAPAs?
182- Mmm. I’m also interested in bravery and how it relates to telling someone who you truly are and how being your whole self is brave although I don’t think anyone knows everything about anyone even themselves.
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OMG, GAPAs, I’m so sorry… I keep forgetting to have my parents email you. I’ll go ask now, and hopefully you should get an email soon.
Bookgirl, I live on a boat, so I move around a lot, but I do know where I’ll be for the first few weeks in January, anyway. I’d tell you, but observe the results in comment #187. Do you live in/vacation in the Bahamas at any time of the year, or were you just curious? Because if you were in [the place I’ll be in] in January, that would be the coolest kokon ever…. But if you’re just curious, that’s okay too, except I can’t tell you….
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165- another smiley to be added to the bunch. Seriously, that is really weird.
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Geez, gone for two days and… you get this!
86: Guten abend, Grant. You probably don’t remember me. I was an annoying phyte at the time. Very annoying. And my name wasn’t Zinc then. I celebrated my first Blogiversary around a month ago. But I remember you.
165: Lucky bunny. ‘Snot every day you find out your teacher’s the dad of a Muse editor.
So, in my own news…
Tomorrow I will change my name back. I like sorceress better than witch.
PainpainpainOWWWW. Today we did jump ropes in PE. I hate jump roping, with a passion. But I did it anyway, and somehow, I tripped over a lowered volleyball net and fell. So now I have a hurt knee and aching arms. My arms weren’t as weird as they were before, though. Some hair was getting in my eyes, so I lifted up and arm to get it. But I lifted my arm a couple of inches from my knee, and it plopped back down again. It was too much strain. Then I went to the nurse and she was not nice at all. And my arms still hurt whenever I move them in a certain way. I can barely even put my clarinet together! And I just learn that what I thought was dirt on my knee is actually a bruise. So there. My klutziness will be the death of me.
Last night I had another bout of depression. *sigh* I cried in front of my whole team.
NO ONE gets the joke of my shirt. It has all these food items that you usually get in a sack lunch, and they’re saying “Let’s do lunch!” I think its wildly funny. No one else gets it.
Granola (annoying boy in all of my classes) told a really disgusting joke today. I think he “likes” me. Ew. Creep.
End of “exciting” news.
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Well, let’s see….I think my calc test went well, I felt very good about it (too good, actually, I’m now worrying because it seemed too easy). But, anyway, I am now going to go spend some quality time with my collector’s edition of Beedle the Bard, and probably stay up much later than I should with it, given that I am sick, and it would be in my best interest to go to bed right now. Yeah, the cold that has been threatening me for the last four days manifested today with a semi-clogged nose, and foggy feeling head. I’m sure it didn’t help that I was up until one last night, a nd then got up at 7:45–and yes, I know, that was my choice……ah, well.
off to BtB
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.193 – well bravery manifests itself in many ways. you’re thinking about a particular kind of bravery, but there are so many…the smallest thing for one person can take endless mustering of nerve and bravery for another. although I wonder about the distinction between courage and bravery….hummm
to me bravery is doing what is right or what must be done even if it goes against your personal inclination.
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165 – O___O
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196–I’m not sure if I’m getting the same thing out of your shirt that you are. The connotations of the words, “Let’s do lunch” on a shirt covered in lunch items, well, let’s just say it implies something involving….mature…..content. yeah, that probably didn’t make much sense, huh?
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194) You live on a boat ! Cool ! I lived on a trimaran with my family for a while (the boat was called Pi squared). How long have you been cruising ? What’s your boats name ?
I was curios because I lived on a boat from when I was 10 till last summer (almost 3 years), though I told my school friends that I was in CT because they still don’t think its possible to survive on a boat. I also lived on a boat (a different one, called pooka) when I was 7. I went to GT (bahamas) in nov./dec. 2005 and jan. 2008. Have we met ? Where else did you go ?
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162- well, they’re both territories (is that right? are they not states? am i just emabrassing myself with my lack of knowledge about the USofA?) and they are both not on the mainland of the USofA so yeah. that would be my reasoning for why they are left out of deliveries.
165- THAT’S AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! *is sooo jealous*
176- *hopes surgery is successful*
210- living on a boat would be cool.
I’ve got a PA day. No school fro Kagy today. My last day of school before the exams is monday. I’m only really worried about my english exam. and my art and drama exams. otherwise I’ll be fine. I hope.
GAPAs, did you get my art that I sent you?
I bought beedle the bard today. I wasn’t going to waste my money on it. but I had a gift card so I said “what the hell” and bought it. I will read it eventually. I hope it lives up to my expectations.
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202–No, no, they’re both states. As far as “embarassing yourself wiht lack of knowledge”, I have ran into US citizens who did not know that Alaska was a state…… Now that is scary. Alaska is the 49th state, has been one since 1958, and Hawaii is the 50th state, not sure the year it became one, but before both of our lifetimes. I mean, as far as the deliveries, yeah, I kinda attribute that to the fact that we are not part of the contiguous US, but the scholarship/drawing things? Don’t see any reason why they oculdn’t inclue AK and HI.
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196- Ughhh, I’m also a total klutz. I can trip over a flat place.
Woah, twelve s. Plus an O__O and several “That’s so weird!”s. It’s definitely a small world.
179- Isn’t [the school] awesome? Your dad’s a great teacher, by the way.
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165~ Wow, that’s pretty cool!
181~ Your aunt sounds interesting. Sis she get pictures of you in your purple hoopskirt and wig? that’s just too funny of an image.
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I came up with the stupidest business idea ever. More to come later.
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203~ Hawaii was made a state (as opposed to a territory) in 1956. My Mom was born there.
196 (Zinc)~ Sorry about that, it sounds pretty awful. I’ve found myself in similar situations, I can sympathize.
204~ I’ve been known to fall over for no reason. 
And drop things. All the time.
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I might do the JFK Presidential Library Profiles in Courage essay contest. I have a person I could write about, and winning a scholarship would be a good thing, but I HATE ESSAYS!
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207–No, that can’t be quite right, as Alaska became a state before HI (perhaps not long before, but before all the same), and it only became a state in 1958. *googles it* Ok, here we go:
Alaska: Well, ok, maybe I was off by a year–it seems that in 2008 it was aparent we were becoming a state, but acutal admission date was January 3, 1959
Hawaii: August 21, 1959
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209~ Oh, okay.
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what’s the difference between states, provinces and territories? does anyone know?
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211 – I think I know. Territories are areas of land that have not yet been settled. Once the population of a territory reaches a certain number (I think it’s either 5,000 or 30,000), they can apply for statehood to the Union. And I think provinces are the sections of a state.
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211- States are what Mexico, the US and Australia call self-governing regions in which the citizens enjoy full rights. Provinces are the same thing, only in Canada and France. Territories are controlled by a country, but the people who live there do not have full rights and cannot vote for the country’s leaders.
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211–I think KaiYves summed it up nicely. Puerto Rico is, for instance, a US territory, which I think could, techinally apply for statehood.
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211–excerpts from my dictionary follow, although as I said, KaiYves explained it all quite well, I think.
states: an organized political community or area forming part of a federal republic
province: a principal administrative division of certain countries or empires
territory: (esp. in the U.S., Canada, or Australia) an organized division of a country that is not yet admitted to the full rights of a state.
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eeep!!! I got tales of the beedle the bard!!! OMG!!!! hehehehe. It is soo good! I’m done with it now but…it was AWSOME!!!
But yes what the above said about territories and states and provinces is true… my grandpa googles stuff like that for fun and he told me. (he really needs to get a job)
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Awww, no one sympathized my shame.
My mom’s having a dinner partay tonight, and I need to be all happy and smiley. *PMS’d* My mom almost burned down the house making a strawberry pie. They really can be dangerous, especially now; it’s like this hard black crusty thing. It would hurt if you chucked it at someone.
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Im not sure I like our public library anymore there are a LOT of weird people here, generally there are a lot of weird people in [snip], I , of course am not one of them >_< but anyway here I am on the computer in the library waiting for my friends so we can study (riveting life I know!) and here are the people in the library
1: an older man talking business terms to himself (this is in the so called “teenspace”)
2: some rowdy girls sitting unladylikely on some beanbags accompanied by some rowdy boys
3:a homeless person?
4: a menagerie of hippy like teens
5:a middle aged woman reading Creme (thats like the NZ equivalent of Seventeen)
odd. very odd.
my jaw hurts
165: that is so cool!! its like knowing a famous person!!! i had a dream that my science teacher was Tyra Banks, but thats not quite the same, it just hints at me being slightly too obssesive over Americas Next Top Model.
Hey, I think my friend is here! (and my fingers are probably really contaminated with public computerness) so Ill leave you all! bye everyone!
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before I leave
217-a strawberry pie? YUM!
also maybe im going to come to America on exchange!!in like, 2 years!
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Strawberry pie is good. Wierd people are also in abundance at my library. *sigh*
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GAPAs, did you by any chance get any mail from me?
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Good evening MB! Totally is officially Friday.
219) Really? Awesome! It would be even more awesome if you just happened to come to my town. We’ve always had foreign exchange students every year. Several from Japan, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine. All very cool people.
I remember that it was funny because the guy from Ukraine learned English from a teacher that was British. So, oe day in class, he asked if he could borrow someone’s “rubber”. No one knew what he was talking about.
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214) there’s actually a lot of argument over what to term puerto rico as…officially it’s listed as a commonwealth. It’s pretty interesting to read about. I personally doubt it will ever be admitted to the union but who knows. There seems to be a lot of division within puerto rico itself about statehood. puerto ricans may vote in primaries but not the actual election…hmm
other “insular areas”, quoth wiki
* Puerto Rico
* U.S. Virgin Islands
* American Samoa
* Guam
* Northern Mariana Islands
* Minor Outlying Islands
o Baker Island
o Howland Island
o Jarvis Island
o Johnston Atoll
o Midway Islands
o Wake Island
o Palmyra Atoll
o Kingman Reef
o Navassa Island
o Serranilla Bank
o Bajo Nuevo Bank
hmm! I wonder how many americans can name all of these.
on the subject of hawaii, look up “committee of safety”. they certainly don’t teach us about that in school. it’s downright shameful.
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BROKENCYDE IS ON TV!!!
And Jeffree Star has a new single. It’s on iTunes now.
S-T-A-R. *techno beat*
Anyway.
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Is anyone else watching HP and the SS on the Family channel? It’s *drumroll* HARRY POTTER WEEKEND!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!
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I’m watching Harry Potter movie 4. You know what really gets to me? when Cedric dies and Amos Diggory pushes through the crowd and screams and sobs over the body of his son. In movies people can die and it will sadden me but I won’t cry. My eyes might fill with tears but I won’t be crying. But in movies when I see the anguish of a parent over a dead child I bawl.
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222–oh, dear. I can imagine what probably popped into the minds of many of them when they heard that question…..not something a guy would want to “borrow”. Or, that is to say, the guy it was borrowed from would not want it back……I would have been laughing so hard. By the way, he meant eraser, right?
214–Interesting. I certainly couldn’t name them! All 50 states I could probably manage, although I always seem to forget one or two, but not territories, and such.
so, anyway……for whatever reason, I have been subjecting myself to the pitifully predictable twilight series. I mean, really. Is she ever going to have someone just bite the annoying girl and get it over with? Not to mention, I knew Jacob was a werewolf from the second the wolves attacked Laurent, if not sooner, and it took her the rest of the bloody book to figure it out. So predictable, and annoying.
Anyway, I was just going to rant about the stupidity of the comment in book 3.
Bella: “Alaska, I think. The university
there in Juneau.”
Angela: “That’s so far.”
Hell, they’re in bleepin’ Washington. Alaska is not far from Washinton AT ALL. It is a very, very, very, VERY short plane trip away. Especially Juneau, given that it is down in the South East of the state. She could be going somewhere like….like Dartmouth, like Edward wants–Massachusettes is a heck of a lot farther from Washington than Juneau, Alaska is! The author of said books is an idiot.
Not to mention, nobody with half a brain from out-of-state would choose to go to UAS (University of Alaska-Southeast). Heck, I think few people would choose to go to any of the Alaskan Universities, if they weren’t from Alaska, but if they were to choose so, I think UAS would be the lowest on all their lists. I think most people who choose to go to school at one of the state universities choose UAF (University of Alaska-Fairbanks), and I think even UAA (U of A-Anchorage) would be a better choice than UAS. I mean, c’mon, I realize they’re just selling crap, pretending she’s going to college, or whatever, but if you are trying to sell that you are going to college, the last place you would apply is somewhere idiotic like UAS when you’re not even from that bloody state.
meh. Stephanie Meyers is an idiot. Which begs the question, why am I subjecting myself to this torture?
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226–I know what you mean–it’s always the people’s reactions, their grief and sorrow that get to me, more than the actual act of the individual dying. Although, I have yet to actually cry over a Potter movie, but I have done so on other movies….
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So GAPAs, any answer to post 221? please?
Canadian politics are so messed up right now. I can’t even begin to explain because I barely half understand. It is really bizare and messed. I don’t know what’s going on in this country….
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(229) Sorry, Kagy, haven’t had a chance to reply. Yes, we got the email. I’m on a slow connection here and will have to take care of posting the pictures after I get home.
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Oh, it’s okay Rabecca. I just wanted to make sure you guys got it. I know you guys are buisy because you work..
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225- *gasp* *assumes announcer voice* “And now, it’s time for another ABC Family Harry Potter Weekend!” YAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!! *turns on TV*
226- I’m very compassionate, so I cry a lot in movies.
222- Oh my… I agree with Luna, I would be laughing my sorry arse off.
227- Awwww, you don’t like it. Oh well. You have to have a certain type of mind to appreciate those books… and she spells her name StEphenie Meyer, with an e, and no S on the end. (sorry)
228- Really? I cried a lot when Cedric died. One, because I LOVE Robert Pattinson, and two, because of Amos’s reaction.
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(203) When my cousins came out to visit us in California, back in the day, some people they met said, “oh, you’re from Delaware? What state is that in?”
(226, 228) I seldom cry over movies, but I’m most vulnerable to happy reunions and redemptive acts of bravery.
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233- Any death, happy reunions, or tragic love stories reduce me to quivering piles of sobbing goo, surrounded by kleenexes.
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232– But-but-but wasn’t Delaware the first state? Well, even if I’m wrong on that score, it was certainly one of the original thirteen…. oh, my, I am shocked at what people don’t know.
For me, my experience was when my sister was 11, she went to CTY thing for a couple weeks during the summer. So, mom was on the phone to a rep, discussing things or whatever, and I guess they told her that my sis had to get all these different shots, and my mom was like wait, what? And they were like, all over-seas participants are required to get these shots. And mom was like, hello, it’s Alaska, part of the US, and we were all making fun of the person’s idiocy over dinner. I think we decided they must’ve thought AK was still part of Russia.
And then at college, this one guy (I mentioned him a long while back, he had all the very idiotic questions about AK) a couple hours after I’d said I was from Alaska, and being interogated by him and a couple of othe people, he kept thinking I was from Canada, complete with asking me if I speak french….
Then there’s the funny one, that has nothing to do with them not knowing Ak is a state, but is a highly amusing reaction:
Me: I’m from Alaska.
Them: Alaska? As in the state?
Me: Yup.
Them:
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233- Apollo 13 makes me cry. Every. Single. Time.
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193- I’d like to second a GAPA Career Thread, or somesuch. If GAPAs would be so kind as to talk about their own lives, because I’m interested in museums, and I thought I should probably inquire, as we have 2 illustrious GAPAs heavily involved in museums. Actually, Master Baker seems to have been enveloped lately by his work. But I’m just going onandon now.
217- Good luck! That sounds like it could be a dangerous dinner party!
218- They sound mostly harmless.
229- I’m interested. To the Canada Thread!
236- Several science teachers I have quote that movie endlessly. I think it’s a great movie, but I don’t need to hear “Engineering- there’s this scene with a bunch of guys, and a box of objects are dumped onto a table. They need to make a circle fit a square- that’s what engineering is” one more time. I know what engineering is.
H.M. is dead, as is the Russian Orthodox Patriarch.
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235- Alaska is dark…
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236- I KNOW, same here!!! It’s so sad/happy!!!!!!!! And my brother is obsessed with it, so I cry a lot.
237- It was ok. I hid out in my room and watched the Devil Wears Prada. Then I came down just in time to discuss politics with a bunch of Obama people I campaigned with. Oh, and my science teacher AND my 2nd grade teacher were there.
238- And cold…
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201-YES!!!! We might have! I was in Georgetown in Jan. 08! Were you on Volleyball or Sand Dollar Beach when there was a kid (about eleven years old, might have looked older) and her little sister with two women and a dog there too? ‘Cause that’s us. Our boat’s name is [snippers], and it is also a trimaran! My family has ben cruising for, let’s see, five years? We’ve been going to the Bahamas for my whole life, but we’ve been cruising for five years. We chartered a boat in Hope Town (the place with the red and white striped lighthouse that gets put on all the postcards about the Bahamas in general) the first year, and then went to buy a boat in Florida the second year, and have been going every winter since. We’ve gone to Long Island, Cat Island, Rum Cay, various places in Abaco….. Hey, if you’re going to be in the Bahamas again sometime, preferably around Georgetown, let me know– I just might be there!
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238–Only in the winter! And even then, only the very northern most part has solid 24 hour darkness. Farther south, where most of the population resides (easy enough to say, given half the population of Alaska is located in Anchorage) it’s not all that dark. I believe we currently have…..*checks yahoo weather* 5 hrs and 43 minutes of sunlight. That is, it says the sun is rising at 9:56 and setting at 3:39.
And in the summer, it isn’t hardly dark at all! I mean, the very far north gets 24 hr daylight, and the more southern portions have pretty dang close to that much–there is maybe one or two hours where it is dusky in the middle of the night.
239–It’s only cold in the winter! It gets quite warm in the summer. Not hot in the way that souther states get (90s/100s) but we get temperatures that are a pleasant hot, such as in the 80s, and sunny summer days are usually very warm (not hot, but a very pleasant temperature), in the mid to high 70s, which is a very nice temperature, and not cold at all. Winter, yes, can be cold, but then plenty of the other states have just as cold of winters, maybe not starting quite as early (snow in October is a good year, one that makes me very happy), and maybe not quite as long (it is rare for all the snow to be melted by my b-day at the end of March–the temps are usually warmer then, and often in the 40s and stuff is in the process of thawing, but there are typically still freeze/thaw cycles into maybe mid-April, before it starts to steadily increase in temperature).
And actually, I’m pretty sure Fairbanks, which is approximately in the middle of the state, gets quite hot weather in the summer, although conversely, it can get some very cold temperatures in the winter, too. At least, that’s what I’ve heard (I don’t live there, so no first hand experience with Fairbanks’ weather).
So, really, I don’t think you can classify it as “dark” or “cold”, as those are things that only occur for small fraction of the year, and almost any state experiences similar shifts in sunlight/temperature as well, with the exception of some of the very southern states (such as FL). it is neither always dark, nor always cold in Alaska–it varies with the seasons, as it does anywhere that has seasons (ie, anywhere but the equator, where it is perpetual summer. *shudders in horror*)
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I second/third the thread on what GAPAs do and what they think of it.
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Something that makes me consistently tear up is to watch the end of the last episode of “Blackadder Goes Forth.”
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243–I’ve never watched that. Well, actually, to be completely honest, I haven’t even heard of it, but given that there are a lot of things (tv shows/movies/songs/etc) that I haven’t heard of, that’s hardly surprising….
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243- I saw a few episodes of Blackadder once. It was very funny, but somehow it’s never occurred to me, since, to look it up… I think I’ll go do that now.
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245–lol, don’t you have anything better to do this time of night? ok, so, not like I’m one to talk……I’m just finishing reading [on my computer, not even a pleasant medium] the third book of a series I don’t even particularly like (Twilight), just because I have this thing with finishing things out, and ok, mainly because I’m getting impatient, as I predicted half-way throught he first book that the most “logical” way to solve the problem was to turn Bella into a vampire, and two books later, they still haven’t done that……it’s very frustrating to read a series so predictable, when from the first page it’s obvious how things will transpire, and in the meantime you must listen to lots of snarking and angst and all the “oh, Edward kiss me, bite me, sleep with me”……
ok, yeah, seriously Luna, get a grip…….
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246-Luna, how can you read it on your computer? is there a site to save me paying a ridiculous amount for an average book?!?! thats like, $40NZD and thats…$25USD i think?
I feel slightly sick from eating
a) the chocolaate glaze remains and
b) the chocolate cake remains of the Sacher Torte I have just baked ><
talking about sad movies-i cry all the time, whenever someone dies!! and when dogs/horses die. If you ever watched a Japanese subtitled movie called Sky of Love/Koizora it is so sad, I wasnt just tearing up!
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247–well, I don’t have any special site for reading books online (and the only ones I’ve done are twilight, because I wanted to see if it was all it was cracked up to be–it’s not–and HP, as I desperately missed having my HP books)…..actually, to be quite honest, it probably isn’t even legal, given that it is copyrighted material. But all I did was a google search for “read [insert name of book you want to read] free online”, and then filter through the results….given the wide expanses of the internet, there is probably very little you can’t find if you are determined.
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armada) I don’t remember you…sigh. I ‘m a landlubber now…
I’ll write later- I’m going skiing for the long weekend, so I’ll be back tuesday.
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SFTDP
does your boat have a blog ? I never got around to it, but some cruising friends of mine have one.
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246- You mentioning Twilight has reminded me of the fact that two of my female friends held me down yesterday and wrote Edward on the back of my neck. And then added bite marks around it. *sighs and puts on a collared shirt*
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241- NH weather is too cold for me, and it’s lower than Alaska. I don’t think I’d like Alaska too much. (Me lurves tank tops).
246- Have you gotten to chapter 20 yet?
251- Oh, I did that once! Isn’t it fun?
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I have decided to live on a boat one day.
I love Blackadder.
Reading books online like Luna has been is illegal, but works that are in the Public Domain can be found at places like Project Gutenberg.
Or try your local library!
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It’s SNOWING! It’s snowing, it’s snowing, it’s snoooooo-wiiiing!
I’m going to go make a snowman.
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Ayyyy it’s snowing! Four INCHESSSS!
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252- Well, I imagine it was fun for them. Looking back on it, when I saw my friend sitting at the table with a red pen in her hand, narrowed eyes and a devilish grin on her face, I probably should’ve foreseen what was going to happen.
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254/255~ Luckylucklucky!!! I want snow. Badly. A lot. WHERE IS MY SNOW???????????????? *is sad*
It’s cold here. In the 20s. Brrr. But no snow.
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253- I am going to live on a tall ship. Or, short of that, a smaller sailboat. (Which is more realistic.)
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255- ME TOO! WOOT!
257- Aw, I’m sure you’ll get plenty soon enough. *hugs* You can have some snowflake shaped choklit, thoug! *gives box of Flakelit*
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258~ When you acquire the said tall ship could I join you?
Oh, look up the brig Niagra (www . brigniagara. org/) (Delinkafied–GAPAs, I think it’s a pretty harmless site)
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259~ Yum, thank you! *munches*
(By the way, there’s only supposed to be one “http://” in the above comment……html gnome?)
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(261) That extra http is some kind of WordPress weirdness. It gets unhappy when we delinkify.
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262~ Oh, I thought I typed it in by mistake, starting to type the URL and then I went and C+P it on……I thought it was my fault.
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I think everyone should have at least one ridiculous life goal that they fully intend to carry out. Mine is to have a fancy swashbuckling duel in public. What are some of everyone else’s?
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264~ Run away to the circus, for a little bit at least…….
Have a working 18th century household (better yet, a small village) where people can come to visit and help out with chores and learn about early American life by living without electricity, phones, and running water for at least a week.
To sail around the world in a tall ship, stopping and learning about local culture for several days before moving on.
Learn how to make knives and swords in Mom’s blacksmithing shop. (I’ll probably actually get to do this one relatively soon.)
That duel sounds fun, you’d dress the part as well, I’m assuming?
Actually, you might be interested in the Brig Niagara too….see post 260 for the link. It’s on Lake Erie.
I actually might be able to go there for sail training……. hope. They focus on history (yay!) and sailing (yay!) so it looks perfect. *is happy*
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260- Of course you could.
Actually I told my parents the other day that I wanted a tall ship. They didn’t believe me. So I said that first I would work on a tall ship and learn how to sail, then I would get my own. They said I might have trouble acquiring a crew. Darn.
My tall ship obsession has got rather out of hand lately…darn Patrick O’Brian…
264- -gasp- Fancy swashbuckling duel? Your post just made my day.
265- I don’t know about the first two, but I fully agree with the second two. My dad has a tiny forge and someone we know has a much bigger one and I find it fascinating. The most I have ever done is help make a poker though…
My goals?
-Sail around the world in a tall ship
I don’t know about the other goals. I have plenty, but whether or not I intend to carry them out is debatable. Become a revolutionary, for example, which fully depends on how the future works out and whether or not, when it comes to that, I have the courage and the planning abilities to do such a thing.
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266~ I’ll join your crew! Actually, the course of action I’d take for getting my own tall ship would be start sail training and get yourself an Able Seaman’s license from the Coast Guard. Then you can work upwards, becoming a mate on a ship and eventually becoming a captain of you pass all the exams/criteria/experience/everything else. After you have a captain’s license you find a ship to work on, and if you cozy up to rich people who like you a lot and are slightly eccentric enough to build you a ship then you’re all set. but remember, ships are expensive. You could also start some sort of organization that taught people how to sail with a focus on history/environmental science/whatever else you want to focus on while sailing. However, I rather doubt that as a sailor (or even captain) you are going to own a ship. At least by yourself, you will be a big part of it, but probably not the sole owner.
I’m very, very excited about the Brig Niagara, it’s expensive though…..*sigh* I might be able to beg and wheedle and save my pennies enough to go……I hope so!
Gotta go now, see you all later!
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241- From what I can tell Minnesotan winters last about as long as yours but don’t start as early. I’m guessing that the winters where I am now are going to be similar to Minnesotan ones but they could be warmer or colder, who knows.
242- yay! My original idea was for the editors of muse to talk about editing and answer questions but I think it’d be really cool if we could get all of the GAPAs to write a blurb about what they do as well as other Muse related people then have a Q&A thread about the various jobs. GAPAs?
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HAPPY HAPPY DAY!!!!!!!!!!!
My copy of Beedle the Bard came!
And dad stopped at the bakery and got some delicious brownies, mousse cake and an unbelievably wonderful almond tart…..*dies in bliss*
And it’s snowing.
I don’t know if it’s sticking, but at least it’s snowing!!!
*is happy enough to be in danger of spontaneously bursting into song*
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251–soap and water–or maybe rubbing alcohol–and scrub and scrub and scrub……
252–um, yeah, I must’ve, if you mean Eclpse…..I finished it shortly after posting, I am now to the first chapter of jacob in B4…..
off to find something to eat for “breakfast”. Yeah, you read that right…..I only just got up 20 minutes ago (but I was up until three! and I’ve got a mild cold!). I think I am going to forgo a shower–I’m too lazy to wander down there…..
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264- ooh, ooh *thinks*. Maybe along the circus-y lines of someone else actually acquire and learn to use a pair of stilts of the sort that straps to your legs. Or go and explore an abandoned building.
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w00t Today looks like it’s going to be boring.
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My opening night was last night! It was SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!! I thought I’d be bored while waiting backstage, but that was the best part. I played cards with the other kids and snarked about people at our school with one of the other kids. Oh, and we stole Hamish’s hood and threw it around. Then we sat on it. He was really grossed out. (He’s one of the puppeteers, but he’s a year younger than me.) But it was SOOOO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!!!! OMG I’m really hyper. Can’t you tell?
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What do you know, my boat’s name is Snippers! That’s an unusual name…. interesting, though…. Seriously, GAPAs, my boat’s name is the most common name a boat can have, but it’s OK, I shouldn’t have said it anyway.
249/250- Oh, well…. Maybe we saw each other and didn’t know it. That would be nice to think of. No, my boat doesn’t have a blog. We can’t get internet from it (yeah, I’m going to be gone from MB from January to April, except for the rare time when I’ll be in a place with an internet cafe [self-snip– I’ve been making way to much work for the GAPAs lately] bookgirl, the place with all the lobster-fishing boats, if you’ve ever been there you’ll know what I mean), so it would be kind of pointless to have one, and I don’t do any blogging other than MB anyway, but that would be kind of interesting….
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269- See, what did I tell you?
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237- I agree, it can be annoying to have people endlessly quoting something, even if it’s something you like. Did you know that the whole Saturn 5 launch in A13 was done by computer? (I thought for sure some of it must have been stock footage, but none was- apparently the actual astronauts at the premiere thought the same thing.)
264- To visit the Hadley Rille on the moon.
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269 – Yes, my copy of Beedle the Bard came yesterday! I read it twice during math and World History. I loved Dumbledore’s commentary! He sounded a little more arrogant than he does in the books, but it was great to hear from him again. My favorite story is either the Three Brothers or Babbitty Rabbity… The Warlock’s Hairy Heart was disgusting.
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272- I’m with you, Beev. *kicks back and relaxes, listening to the radio*
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oh. wow. I definitely didn’t see that coming. And to think I was just going on about how predictable the whole bloody twilight series was. Huh, I really ought to’ve seen it (and not that not seeing it improves the series), but–wow. I was entirely convinced that the individual he was going to imprint on was someone else……someone he already knew, a certain member of his tribe.
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265- I’ve been to see it! It was really cool. Its onshore counterpart, the museum, was also quite worth seeing.
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277- I enjoyed it very much. Although I felt the fountain of good fortune (or whatever it was called need some work on the ending). My favrite was babbitty rabbity. Hearing Proffessor Dumbledore speak was like finding letters from a relative whiile cleaning out the attick, after they’ve died
It’s snowing. and cold. good thing I bought boots yesterday. Kagy is not so fond of winter. it is an alright season. her favrit by far is fall. Kagy is tired. Last night she recieved a phone call from a neighboring province where her grandmother resides. She was the only person home so she had to take the call that informed her family that her grandma had fallen outside (in one of the freaking coldest cities ever) and had been found and taken to the hospital. Kagy’s grandma has broken her hip in three places. Her grandma is a province away, in the hospital and all alone. Kagy’s dad is going to go to her tomorrow. but still kagy does not like thinking of her grandma hurt and alone.
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My parents are out christmas shopping. I hope the hints I’ve been dropping since September have sunk in a bit.
279- I know, right? SHe would’ve been PERFECT for him, but oh no, he has to go for the baby…
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282–of course, it’s like a bad soap opera [wait, that’s a bit redundant–soap operas by definition are bad]–they all go for the person that will cause the most complications to the plot and hurt the most people, etc, etc, etc.
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I’m very sorry for Kagy. Bonne chance!
266- I will join your crew, as a sailing instructor, historian, environmentalist, scientist, and investment partner. How about starting with something more in the 40′ range?
276- Oh, my teacher will also tell you multiple times that the detritus falling off the sides of the rocket is ice. Real ice! Ice! I’m not sure I understand what you mean about the computer though.
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281–oh, I’m sorry! That really sucks. Best of wishes for your grandma’s recovery!
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Keine sorge, Kagz. I’m sure it’ll turn out all right. *hugs*
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280~ Ah, I wondered if you had. I’m hoping that I might be able to take sail training there……seriously hoping.
281~ Fiddler is sorry to hear the Kagy’s grandmother is in the hospital. She hopes that Kagy’s grandmother feels better soon and doesn’t fall down again. Fidler also sends virtual hugs and choklit in an attempt to make Kagy feel better.
384~ Have we got another tall ship enthusiast? Mind you, we’re talking square riggers. Have you sailed on them before enough to be an instructor?
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284- The launch sequence was a combination of CGI and models created by the company Digital Domain, and although the details (including the ice) were based on stock footage of Saturn 5 launches, every shot in there is new.
From Digital Domain’s website:
“While audiences assumed the rocket launch scene was lifted from historical archives, it was actually a series of shots created by Digital Domain through a combination of models & miniatures (the rocket and launch pad) and CG animation (smoke, fire and landscape). These techniques were also used to generate space environments, views of earth and the ocean splash-down of the famous pod, with Digital Domain ultimately earning its second Academy Award nomination for this film.”
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284- I don’t know if they make square-rigged 40′ ships. I don’t even know if one would function properly.
-sigh- I need money. I would dearly love to do sail training, but I would have to give up everything, from the Ashland trip to buying people presents to even eating. I would become a Miser and a Beggar and I still wouldn’t have enough money until I was forty. -sighs again-
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289~ Meh, why bother with tiny little boats? go for the big ones! *is not very practical*
Money….that is a problem. If you found a place that you could volunteer that could give you some experience to learn some, and after that you might be able to talk to other sail training programs and ask for some sort of scholarship of some sort. Or maybe doing extra maintenance to pay your way because you have enough experience to help out. If it’s part of the program or not, you can still ask and there may be a way to get financial help if you ask for it.
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264-I have plenty of those. They include flying a small float plane to Alaska and landing in a lake to watch the Northern lights with my friend and helping that friend become a man-bear.
Today was the most boring day of my life so far.
This post was the most exciting thing about it.
How lame was that?
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291–You might have a bit of difficulty with that life goal……and not for the reason you might expect (helping your friend become a were-bear).
The time of year in which it is possible to land a float plane on a lake in Alaska is also the one time of year I can almost guarantee you will not see any Northern Lights. To land a float plane, there must logically be a non-frozen lake, which therefore means summer time–May at earliest, August/early Sept latest, if you want it to be completely free of any ice whatsoever. (Note–it’s never frozen enough to walk on until Nov, and usually March is the latest it is safe, but there could be skims of ice prior to/after these times that would make it hazardous in a plane)
And of course, this is also the time of year during which it is predominantly daylight, and Northern Lights only occur when it’s dark, and even then, I’m pretty sure they only occur during cold winter darkness, not so much in spring/fall darkness. Of course, they’re not very predictable as to when you would see them anyway. I only remember seeing them maybe half a dozen times in my 18 yrs of living in AK, but of course, I was also probably asleep plenty of the time when they may have been present. You would probably have more luck flying a float plane to AK and experiencing an earthquake–more common, and a year round occurance!
yeah, ok, lot of annoying feedback from me on what was supposed to be, as Grant put it, a “ridiculous” life goal……so, yeah, I think I will go and stop babbling now….
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291~ Well, at least you had that MB post to cheer up your day! I guess…. *bright, encouraging smile falters* Maybe tomorrow will be better.
My day was pretty good. I woke up late with Mom banging on my window. Not much happened in the morning, Dad went off on errands and I got to hang out and go on the computer (I’ve spent a lot of time on the compy today), when Dad came home he brought some really yummy treats from a bakery, and the mail had my copy of Beedle The Bard. that was good.
My only contact with the outside was on and off texting with Muffy. So, quiet, COLD, and pretty nice. And I’m tired now, after a day of pretty much nothing.
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Change in subject, if people want. Anyone who’s squeamish about bodily functions, first of all, don’t be, secondly, don’t read this.
I have a SEVERE split lip. It’s bleeding everywhere, and when it dries over it’s yellow (don’t ask me why, I don’t know scabbing past the fibrin and platelets part). I tried to play in band on Friday, which may have aggravated it, even though I used Chopsaver (best stuff for chapped lips, even if you don’t play an instrument).
So I’m kind of annoyed by that. But it’s fun to suck on. Anyone else like the taste of blood?
/gradster(1)/ – Secretary of Bureaucracy of the ASAP
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288- Amazing! I’ll have to inform my teachers!
290- Well, no, I’ve only have experience with small boats, 20′ and under. Never square rigged, but I’d love to learn. I can however say that I’m comfortable sailing anything reasonably sized with a main, jib, spinnaker, or gennaker. The nice thing about smaller (although 40′ is pretty big!) boats is that we wouldn’t need many crew, and the initial cost would be considerably less. Once we’re in the business, I suppose we could go larger.
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The “zillions or Muses” auctions are over! I was outbid, but did anyone here win them?
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Hugs to Kagy!
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294–well, that all depends on the quantity of blood involved. If it is a marginally small amount, like when you are sucking on a cut finger, or when you bite your tongue/cheek it has a certain appealing metallic flavor, but in larger amounts–not so much.
So, anyway, I finished the fourth twilight, and have probably irreparably destroyed numerous brain cells in the process, and as I was glancing at the acknowledgements, this line caught my eye:
My brilliant, beautiful fans, with your unparalleled good taste in books, music, and movies, for continuing to love me more than I deserve.
“unparalleled good taste in books”? Are you kidding me? I’m sorry, but fan of twilight with “uparalleled good taste in books” is something of an oxymoron. Although they are certainly not the worst books I have read, they certainly do not rank within the top five series, and probably not even the top ten. They are, I suppose, decent if all you want is mind-numbing romance, that drags out every conflict for hundreds of pages, [much like soap operas], and that is also as predictable as soap operas, than sure, it’s great. [come to think of it, it has much the same sorts of issues as every soap opera I’ve ever seen……] But f you want a literary work with substance, a truly good book, this is so not the book [series] you are looking for, and to say that fans of it have unparalleled taste in books is, frankly, nauseating. I can’t believe people call this the next Harry Potter. If it ever achieves the same level of fandom, I will lose what little faith I still retain in the human race. [somebody please tell me it hasn’t reached that–please]
Books that are good, respectable literary works (not in any real order):
1. Harry Potter series
2. LOTR series
3. All of Tamora Pierce’s series (Alanna, Lady Knight, wild magic, circle of magic, circle opens, the one with Alanna’s daughter–I forget the name–oh, Trickster God, was it?, and the one with Becca)
4. Mercedes Lackey’s series (Heralds of Valdemar, which includes several stand alone books and trilogies; Bardic Voices; and other series I can’t think of right off)
5. Eragon (not my favorite series, but it’s not bad, and it certainly has much more substance, and a much better plot to it than Twilight, which can be summed up as: “omg, hot, sexy, delectable vampire who craves my blood–I want to kiss you, have sex with you, I want you to bite me and make me a vampire…….*angst ensues* aforementioned vampire left me and doesn’t love me, I will take shameless advantage of another monster friend, and not recognize him for a monster despite all the blatantly obvious clues, and make him fall desperately in love with me and lead him on forever, with no intention of ever giving him my heart……….oh, let’s be stupid and have unprotected sex with aforementioned vampire after he returns and coerces me into marriage. I’m pregnant? How could that be, and how could everyone thing my child is a monster and want to kill me? [insert badly done parallel of Remus being upset about impregnating Tonks here]”
Yeah, like I said, Eragon far outshines twilight……and the whole Edward thing? It reminds me of nothing more than a very, very horribly done Veela!Draco fanfic, with the exception that Draco makes a much more appealing character than the way to overprotective Edward, who thinks that just because he is some super hot vampire he has the right to rule Bella’s life and tell her who she can or cannot be friends with, etc, etc, etc. He irritates me, and I can’t see why any girl in her right mind would want to put up with him. Of course, it could easily be argues that Bella is not in her right mind at all, and there are many things that annoy me about her, too, but I digress.
So, where was I? Yeah, um, can’t think of any more series to add to the list right this second……I got kind of distracted with the whole twilight-bashing….
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@298 – How exactly do you know? Are you secretly Bella or something? O.O
Yawn yawn yawn I am TIRED.
Okay, your list:
1. They’re pretty good, but you have to admit, Luna, obsession (and a wonderful thing that is) aside, they aren’t exactly literature. Still, a wonderful storyline that moves along at a high pace, and the subject is bound to please just about everyone that reads it.
2. Never had the patience to get through them. To dry to actually be engaging (at least, the beginning of the one I tried to read was). Nevertheless, the same with the Potter series but this actually is literature, I would say. But really, people, what’s with all the mania?
3. Ho, jes. Jes, jes, jes. Jes JA. It’s Trickster’s Choice and Trickster’s Queen, by the way. Absolutely fantastic stuff, although hard to get into. But once you’re into it…. No going back. Aly is a bit of a hero of mine, to the point that I’m not sure I want to read about Alanna.
4. Umm, never heard of it, but if you like it, I bet I would.
5. Yeah, Eragon just kind of rocks. As literature goes, not the best, but certainly at least ten times as good as Twilight. The storyline and setting and the universe that Paolini’s created stand up to inspection and then some. You could write several sagas contained in Alagaësia and never even have them cross lines once (you can tell I’m a pretty big fan).
My summary of Twilight (and GAPA that is NOT my username – I changed it, I changed it!):
username12345 (10:30:46 PM): You have to realize at some point though that the whole series is just this:
username12345 (10:30:59 PM): Bella: I am so pitiful, make me into a vampire.
username12345 (10:31:04 PM): Edward: No.
username12345 (10:31:07 PM): Bella: Yes.
username12345 (10:31:09 PM): Edward: No.
username12345 (10:31:11 PM): *later, after much of the same and a scandal with another mythical creature*
username12345 (10:31:17 PM): Bella: You don’t love me!
username12345 (10:31:34 PM): Edward: But I thought you didn’t love me, though…?
username12345 (10:31:40 PM): Bella: Aww.
username12345 (10:31:44 PM): Edward: Same here.
username12345 (10:31:50 PM): Then they make with the smooching.
username12345 (10:32:07 PM): Lather, rinse, and repeat.
username12345 (10:32:11 PM): The only difference between any two events in the series is that the smooching gets progressively more involved every time, until you have Bella pregnant.
Spoiler spoiler spoiler alert!
Oh, and during the movie, when they first kissed in her room, I kind of shouted something like “Whoa, she has no pants!” to the theatre. That was fun.
/gradster(1)/ – Secretary of Bureaucracy of the ASAP
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298- I agree with the whole Twilight rant, but seriously, Eragon? Please. The plotline is soooo canned. A poor farm boy learns from an old guy in his village that he has special powers. The old guy then proceeds to teach him how to use these powers. After meeting up with a sort-of outlawish guy, the old man is killed. The farm boy and the outlaw meet up with a rebellion, and the rebellion takes them in. Anything ring a bell? *sigh* I’m sorry, but Paolini needs to get some material not stolen from Star Wars.
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300- I agree. Eragon is a total ripoff.
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@300, 301 – Okay, first off, you could have expressed that more nicely. Secondly the plot does have its quirks and changes that reveal it really to not be Star Wars remarketed, and thirdly even is it was that, who cares? Paolini is sitting rich because he wrote a story that he really enjoyed writing and got payed for it. Payed a LOT, too. Are you rich because you wrote a book? I think not. Have you even written a book? Again, I think not, although that’s a little more likely. Still. I doubt you’ve accomplished nearly as much as Paolini, and I admire anyone that can take a story that far.
Who I don’t admire is the people that criticize other people’s successes because of envy.
/gradster(1)/ – Secretary of Bureaucracy of the ASAP that knows that zir comment was hardly nice either
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I don’t think I agree about those other books being good literature. While Twilight may have some problems in the writing, my main issue in it is that Bella just sits there and doesn’t /act/ on anything except to die. That the book goes backwards instead of forwards or staying status quo when it comes to gender issues. I don’t think Eragon is particularly well written. Mercedes Lackey’s books can be fun but I don’t think they’re great literature. Same with Tamora Pierce’s and Harry Potter. Harry Potter has certainly had a big influence, yes but I don’t think it is great literature.
I don’t think these books are ‘great literature’ either but they are certainly well written and thought out. The Blue Sword – Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown – Robin McKinley, The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien, Fire Arrow – Edith Pattou, Hero’s Song – Edith Pattou, The Chrestomanci books – Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock – Diana Wynne Jones, I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith, To Say Nothing of the Dog – Connie Willis, etc, etc.
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281) that’s awful! I hope she’s alright, and I’m sure she’ll feel much better seeing your dad today. *choklit for all involved*
my only opinion on eragon is that the movie was hilarious. also we have been arguing about it since the dawn of time.
in other news I feel like crap and haven’t eaten since yesterday afternoon. also I can’t find the cable for my DS and am made further miserable by this fact.
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294- It’s scabbing over yellow because all it’s doing right now is leaking plasma; there’s no red blood cells in it, which will make the formation of a lasting scab more difficult. I don’t know much about human bloodflow (hemophobic, yes) but I have gotten injured a lot. Also, if I were you, once the split lip problem is resolved, I’d decrease my reliance on chapstick, for several reasons. First, it’s addicting. Second, you’ll learn to depend on it, and when there is none, you won’t know what to do. Third, if it’s flavored, you might keep licking your lips more, leading to them becoming chapped again.
The taste of blood is okay when it’s not present in my throat for several hours. I friggin’ hate Rasputin.
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298 – There’s a FOURTH one??? Uuuuuuurgh…
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305 – That sounded rather revolting when in the ‘Recent Comments’ box.
WAUUUUGH! Twilight! *launches into a rant that nobody wants to hear*
*pantpantpant* Sigh…
WAUUUGH! Eragon! *launches into another rant*
I’m sorry, that sounded really stupid.
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299–nice. Your summary of Twilight cracks me up.
300–when you put it that way, yes, there are some similarities to Star Wars, but when I read the Eragon books (1&2, haven’t read 3 yet) it was years before I ever watched any of the Star Wars. I still haven’t watched all of them yet, as I confess they really didn’t catch my interest that well. But regardless, Eragon has more of plot than twilight, even if you think it to be a stolen plot.
303–ok, maybe not great literature, but they are all certainly vastly more entertaining than twilight (admittedly, LOTR is a bit hard to get through it spots, which is one of the reasons it’s not my favorite, but it has more substance than twilight), and are composed of a much more involved plot that “see vampire, kiss vampire, have sex with vampire, have vampire’s baby” and break the heart of another monster in the process, after leading him on forever and ever.
306–yeah, no kidding. And i think there is a fifth one it the works. *dies*
307–Nah, it didn’t sound that stupid.
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294- no.
299- the way you worded that makes it sound like kissing gets people pregnant.
well. none of the books mentioned so far would be under the category of “great literature”. Given I don’t actually know what classifies “great literatur” except that every single freaking sentance has a hidden meaning (or so I am told by my english teacher). Please Note: I just want to make a tiny request. LOTR is coming up in the conversation again. I am currently reading the series for the first time, and no, I haven’t seen the movies. I would seriously apreciate it if no one said any spoilers or plot summary on such a mainstream thread as the monthly thread. I know you all hate it when something gets spoiled for you, so I’m simply asking you try not to spoil it for me. I, of course, have no problem with you discussing LOTR on it’s thread. So far I’ve just been skipping those coments when I see them in the recent coments box. Thank you.
Thank you for the hugs and stuff everyone. My grandma’s having surgery either today or tomorrow. I feel like so many mber’s grandparents have been ill or injured this year.
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309–yes ma’am. I totally understand–I hate it when things get spoiled. So far, though, I don’t think any actual spoiler has been mentioned, I merely stated it was better than twilight (it is, without spoiling anything), and it was pointed out by gradster, I believe, that it is rather slow and he doesn’t get the big deal with it, and i agree that it is quite slow in spots (thus why I never got manically obsessed with it, like osme), and I think that was pretty much it…….
But seriously, if we continue discussing LOTR in any way, I for one will do my very best not to post anything that might inadvertently spoil it for you–I know how mad I was when I had someone pretty much straight out tell me who died in OotP (he didn’t actually say the name, but as soon as I started reading, it was pretty obvious). And this was after the half a dozen of us around had pretty much begged him to please shut up and not spoil it. yeah, needless to say, I was pissed, because I could not forget what he said, and although what he said meant nothing then, as soon as I got to the person’s name in the book, it clicked, and I knew.
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I was forced to read the book twilight by someone (un-capitalized out of dislike, not spelling error), and ended up reading the last 300 pages out of politeness. I was not impressed.
here are 45 better uses of your time:
1. The Alchemyst
2. The Magician
3. The Lost Journals Of Ven Polypheme
4. Mister Monday
5. The Lightning Thief
6. The Sea Of Monsters
7. The Titan’s Curse
8. Stormbreaker
9. Point Blank
10. Skeleton Key
11. Eagle Strike
12. Scorpia
13. Ark Angel
14. Snakehead
15. Ravens Gate
16. Evil Star
17. Nightrise
18. Lady Friday
19. The Eyre Affair
20. Lost In A Good Book
21. The Well Of Lost Plots
22. Something Rotten
23. First Among Sequels
24. The 13 And A Half Lives Of Captain Bluebear
25. Swordbird
26. Mostly Harmless
27. Superior Saturday
28. Framed
29. Superior Saturday
30. The Thief Lord
31. How To Live With A Neurotic Dog
32. The ig Overeasy
33. So Long and Thanks For All the Fish
34. Drowned Wednesday
35. The Fourth Bear
36. The Number Devil
37. Animal Farm
38. Life of Pie
39. Grim Tuesday
40. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
41. The City Of Dreaming Books
42. Sir Thursday
43. The Battle of the Labyrinth
44. Rumo
45. Life, The Universe, and Everything
I just don’t get why the worst books get the most attention and fans. these books are infinitely better than twilight .
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311–whoa. I haven’t even heard of most of your 45 better uses of time, although I’m quite sure they are better. However, 27 and 29 are the same……
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312- Well, maybe it’s twice as good! Though I haven’t heard of most of them either.
*scans list again* Heh, 26+33+40+45! But why are they all spread apart 
Do you really want me to share my views on Twilight and/or Eragon? Probably not, though I am sorely tempted.
Well, I’ll just say that it’s terrible, being stuck in a largish-suburban high school where “literature” and “good writing” alike are foreign words. Thank god for the internet.
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(309) In fact, that’s a good reason in general to keep book discussions on the Books and Reading thread (hint, hint). At least there you know there’s a chance for spoilers.
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310- I was just warning anyone who might accidentally post a spoiler that I’m reading the books. I always get nervouse when the conversation switches to LOTR.
311- Superior Saturday is listed twice.
kagy really wants to eat some chocolate. but there is none in the visinity. chocolate would taste so good right now.
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311- do you want to meet everyone over on Books and Reading to tell us where those come from? I don’t recognize any of those except the ones written by Jasper Fforde. Could you tell us about the rest?
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Fern is bored. She is so bored that earlier she was sending text messages in the form of triangular sentences. That my friends is desperation.
She is currently being quiet because her mom is recording Christmas stories for a friend and background noise is to be limited. Joy.
Harry Potter is literature. It has fabulous writing, a good strong plot, and is wonderful in general. Yes, I am a fan.
The Twilight series is trash fiction. The writing is nothing extraordinary, and the characters are entirely annoying. I despise Bella. She’s winy, immature, thoughtless, selfish and horrible in general. Edward was one of the few characters who had any personality: domineering, controlling and angst ridden. that’s more than most of the others though. Jacob is probably the least annoying character, but he’s never fully developed as a character, because Bella only uses him, being the selfish brat that she is.
Alice was okay too, she was someone you might want to meet, much more than can be said for any of the other characters in the series.
The parents don’t act like parents, and it’s odd that of a whole school Bella never made any more friends than Jess (or was it Jen? I can’t remember names well) and Angela (again, I think that was the name) and whatever the boy’s name was who worked in the outdoor gear store and wanted to be Bellas boyfriend. Of course, Bella being Bella and a stupid prat (can you tell that I dislike her?) that wants only to socialize with the vampires and hates everyone else that shouldn’t be so hard to believe. But why do none less than three boys fall for her? seriously, what do they see in her? She doesn’t have any personality, but then, neither do most of the characters.
I dislike the Twilight books. However, several of my best friends are diehard fans of the series…..ugh. one of my friends insists that although she’s not too impressed by the writing, it’s “so hard to find teen books that aren’t trashy”.
Hmm, the Twilight books strike me as pretty trashy. That and the fact that she’s (the friend who said that) told me that she never wants her mom to read the books. Oh, okay, sure. Of course, my twilight loving friends also say that Richard Pattinson is hot. Ew, NO!
[/twilight rant]
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317–Robert Pattinson is all that unattractive. I mean, yeah, I’ve seen better, but then I’ve also seen much, much worse.
William Moseley–now there is someone hot.
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318~ There’s a whole lot better than that. Believe me. I know at least four guys that come instantly to mind that are way better looking than him. People I know. It’s kinda scary.
Hugh Grant. He’s lovely. And so is Alan Rickman, even though he’s (in comparison to, say, me) ancient. And Jamie Bamber. And Ioin Gruffud. And Rupert Grint (yes, I think he’s cute).
Although I will admit that the other day I saw a picture of Richard Pattinson in which he didn’t appear completely hideous. One picture. I will say that he is not entirely ugly. However, there are way more handsome males in the universe today.
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318–just a note. I meant “isn’t all that unattractive.”
319–no, I know there’s better. I’ve seen better, too. But at the same time, I don’t think Pattinson is ugly, nor is he necessarily only average looking. but yes, many far outshine him, William Moseley as I mentioned, and yes Rupert is pretty cute, and obviously Alan Rickman is very, very attractive–to deny that would be to deny that the sky is blue (and I think he is “ancient” to all of MBers–even to one my age, who is fast approaching 20. oh god, scary, scary thought–in less than two years, like as in a year and three months, I will be twenty. eep. very, very, very scary.)
Hugh Grant? *racks mind* name vaguely rings a bell, but……right off I couldn’t tell you where he ranks, as I’m not all that sure of who he is/what he looks like……
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*has no idea what anybody’s talking about if they are talking about Twilight or hot guys*
I’m doing a big math project right now! Whoopee! *not* Seriously, it would be FUN if I didn’t have to write a paper. That’s how obsessed with math I am.
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One of the things I love about Harry Potter is Emma Watson. Grant is a sucker for attractive intelligent brunettes.
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320~ No, he’s not ugly. No one really is. I just don’t see why everyone makes such a deal of him.
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322~ Emma Watson is pretty. And Hermione is cool.
One time I found a sweatshirt that looks (I swear) exactly like the pink hoodie she wears in PoA. Becaus of that I still identify it as my “Hermione hoodie”.
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322–What’s that make us (somewhat) attractive intelligent blondes? chopped liver?
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325~ I generally don’t claim to be attractive or intelligent, I try to leave that for others to decide whether or not I am. I’ll be modest and not say what the general opinion seems to be.
Do you have a problem with chopped liver? I do, but that’s because I’m vegan, what’s your meat eating excuse? (Mind you, this isn’t to be an insult, merely jesting.)
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My meat eating excuse is that liver just doesn’t sound appetizing. I was never into eating bodily organs–it just isn’t appealing to me.
I don’t usually claim to be attractive or intelligent either……although I’ve been told by my parents (they don’t count, all parents tell their kids that), and half the people I’ve run into at school tell me that I (as a homeschooler) am brilliant. It seems to be the common consensus that homeschoolers are super smart…….It’s almost amusing, when it isn’t annoying!
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325- No, I appreciate intelligent attractive females of any hair color, but since both of my celebrity crushes are brunette (Emma Watson and Julianna Rose Mauriello) and my person-that-I-actually-know crush is also brunette, as have been… oh jeez, now that I think of it, I think all of my crushes have been brunettes. I don’t claim to know how my mind works, I just know that it does.
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328~ Because brunettes are cool. Of course.
*was blonde as a baby but is now brunette*
327~ Usually…… Nah, kidding.
Homeschoolers as brilliant. People sometimes say “Oh, you’re homeschooled, you must be so smart!!” To which I usually reply (embarrassedly) something along the lines of “Umm, it’s true that I get more one on one time and attention during study time and since I’m an only child my curriculum can be tailored to my needs, but I don’t think that necessarily makes me smarter than other students. I know plenty of public schooled kids who are incredibly intelligent and much more creative than I am.
Besides, I dislike academics in general and don’t really do as well as I probably could.”
To which they either a) start telling me about their niece’s best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s cousin who is homeschooled and got an incredibly high score on the SAT when they took it at age 12 and how brilliant all the homeschoolers they’ve met are and how great they think it is, even though they didn’t homeschool their childeren because hey didn’t feel like they knew enough, etc. etc. etc.
Or b) they look surprised at my announcing that I dislike academics and quickly change the subject.
It does get old. And people always ask me if I like being homeschooled……well sure. I’ve never been to public school, so how should I know if I’d prefer that??
Another thing that gets me is when they ask me if I ever get to socialize with people and whether I ever get to see other kids. No, ma’m, I never get to see other people, that’s precisely the reason I’m talking to you right now. I’ll leave it to you to see if I seem like a mentally stable individual capable of social intercourse. That gets really annoying.
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328–yeah, Emma Watson is pretty hot. For a girl.
329–blondes are cool, too, of course. Despite their reputation….I myself am blonde (as if you hadn’t guessed), although it’s much more of a dirty blonde color than the blonde blonde it was when I was little. And since I have found several dark brown hairs in it recently…..I am on my way to, eventually, becoming a brunette. *sigh* I like my hair color how it is–I really can’t imagine myself with dark hair. It sems inevitable, however, given that it has been slowly darkening, and my mom was blonde as a kid, and now has dark brown hair. And, yeah, I know. I could dye my hair if it does ever progress to brown, but…..*is too lazy* much too lazy.
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Gah. all the people sending out mass emails in all my classes begging for notes are getting so annoying. Here’s a novel idea: why don’t they just attend class, tkae their own notes, and then they don’t have to grovel on their virtual knees begging for other peoples’ notes. It’s not like it’s hard to attend every class–I, for one, have yet to miss a single class. The latest email was from somebody in my psych class asking for notes from our last class before Thanksgiving break (Thurs the 20), because she left for break early. Hello, how hard would it ahve been to stick around a couple hours longer, assuming she didn’t have class Friday? Come to think of it, how hard would it be to stick around one day longer? I have no sympathy for these irritating people…..They annoy me.
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question for homeschoolers…when applying to college do you guys have to go through a lot more nonsense than public/private schooled students? I’ve been looking at college websites and whatnot and there’s always a special note for homeschoolers, and I was jut wondering if it is more difficult or about the same to apply. I know everyone and their dog can take the SAT, I just mean the process in general. I’m not making sense am I? argh
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328- Weird. I seem to prefer brunettes too. But my blonde-haired friend seems more attracted to other blondes. Maybe hair color plays a factor in relationships?
331- I know what you mean. But then again, what if you were sick and needed the notes?
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332–I’ve been asked that a lot. But really, for the most part, at least with the schools I applied to, there really wasn’t much different I had to do. I think for one or two schools I looked at, they required a sheet that was basically a course description–a list of the classes I took, with a description of what they entailed. (stupid, as most all of my classes 8th grade and on were correspondence through real highschools and colleges).
I think all the schools allowed my mother to write the recommendation that was supposed to be from a highschool counselor, and for my transcript, she had my “official homeschool transcript” but I think also included official transcripts from some of the colleges I had done correspondence courses through. And of course, she ordered and sent official records of my SAT, SAT II, ACT, and AP scores, same as would have to be done for public schoolers, with the exception that their highschool counselor would have done that, I believe……
So, yeah, at least for me, I don’t think it was all that much more complex, although I will admit that my mother dealt with most of the stuff except for the fillin gout of the apps and the essays and such…..
333–I dunno about that. I am blonde, but I think most of my crushes have been brunettes. The exception being my first crush at age nine, a kid in preschool who I could have been considered to have a crush on (I’m undecided here……I know he, for one, had a crush on me, as evidenced by him, well, erm catching me asleep on my stomach in the nursery and coming in and pulling my pants down and well…..kissing me on the butt. omg, I swear I’m blushing) and of course one of my celebrity crushes (William Moseley)………
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328- It’s because brunettes pwn. And we’re usually smart. Not to say that people of any other hair color are unintelligent, but in my travels I’ve tended to notice that many people associate brown hair with smarts. It’s strange the way people work, but rest assured, being attracted to brunettes is pretty self-explanatory.
333- I know! It’s the same with me. All of my crushes/boyfriends have had brown hair. How strange, I must remember to break the mold next time I crush.
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333–oh as far as notes……(SFTDP, btw)I s’pose, but it still seems like unless they’re really, really, really sick they could just come to class anyway. And also, how am I supposed to know if they’re truly sick, or just claiming to be in the hopes that someone will take pity? And then there’s the really annoying one of “I’m a really bad note taker. could someone who ahs their notes on their computer send me theirs so I can improve my notes? “so-and-so” talks really fast and I just can’t take good notes.”
Well, we all are taking notes from the same individual (and I, who before college never had to take notes during a lecture, being homeschooled and all, have no problem taking sufficent notes) and said individual does not talk all that fast, and it is more than possible to take notes. Not to mention, you better learn to take notes, if that is really the case, and not just laziness on the student’s part.
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Gosh, it seems this thread has gotten a lot of comments in just seven days.
My mother just brought me a cup of cold green tea. Which was very nice. If random.
I think I’ve heard somewhere that green tea contains caffiene… which probably isn’t great at 11 PM? Hmm.
328, 333- I’m an intense brunette, and most of my crushes have been brunettes, I think. There’s been one dirty blonde though.
Maybe it’s just because brunettes are more common than blondes, therefore there’s a greater chance they’ll seem attractive? Dunno.
329- Sometimes I wish I was homeschooled, it seems nice to stay at home and not have get up and drag myself to schol every day, or deal with all of those PEOPLE *is mostly an introvert*… but then again, I wonder how much I would get done/actually without all the homework-incentive, etc. Mehh.
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337- How on earth can you be an intense brunette? That makes it sound like a religion or something. Well, I do display a certain reluctance to dye my hair, but I don’t think you can be resolutely brunette. It’s a physical characteristic, not an opinion.
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338- Aggh, I just meant it’s really dark. Perhaps intense was the wrong word. >.<
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338–Presumably she means her hair is a very dark brown, as opposed to a light brown……
337–how much you get done as a homeschooler depends party on self-discipline, and mostly on parental involvement. As in, when you procrastinate and fall month(s) behind they do not stop screaming at you and threatening you until you make progress on catching up. And you get no breaks from school until you catch up. Yup, been there, done that. This will be my first true Christmas break since 7th grade, as starting in 8th grade I began (was forced to) doing corresondence classes, and thus began falling behind. Last year, I only had Christmas off. And summer 2007, I had become so far behind that school year that I was doing school right up until August when I had to start the next year of school.
So, while there are certainly benefits to homeschooling, there are also drawbacks, as with any form of education! Of course, i was lucky enough to have parents who took an active role (which was why they orignally started homeschooling us), and therefore I did not manage to screw myself with all of my procrastinating. Other homeschoolers have parents less involved, who seem to homeschool them as a way to save hassle, and basically let them do whatever they want, meaning they get a much worse education than if they’d been in public school.
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340- Well, my parents are pretty strict in terms of schooling, but I’m definitely not self-disciplined at all. Probably much as you are describing yourself, so perhaps it might have worked out. I have heard of other homeschoolers though, who have recieved little actual learning. They are the more artsy-kind though, with other talents, so they are okay with it, I suppose.
I would hate missing out on breaks though, they are my true joy and light of my days. *dramatic*
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I present an open challenge to a duel of words!
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341–if I had just got my butt in gear, I would’ve gotten more in the way of breaks, but……I am a notorious procrastinator. but, yeah, that sucked. but it was my own fault….
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342– 
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whoops, wrong smiley…..I meant:
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343- Bahaha. Join the procrastinator club!
*is currently studying for bio test tomorrow at 12:41 AM and yet, is still on MB. WHY?*
342- I accept! Though you shall prevail, most likely.
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Hm, whichever GAPA was moderating obviously went off to bed or such. I shall too, it’s 1:10 now, huurgghg. G’night MB, and thanks for all the fish.
*random!raypho is random*
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347–well, can you blame them for going to bed? It merely demonstrates that they have more sense than the rest of us. Although, clearly at least one is up, given that they have moderated your post…. G’night. I will probably be heading to be shortly as well. It is 12:30, after all. which is not as late as for you, but close….
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I don’t claim to have any sense, but it is a bit earlier here in California. I’m getting ready for sleep now, too though. Sweet dreams.
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349–Well, whether you claim it or not, you do have sense…..I forgot we had a GAPA in that part of the country. given that it is only 11 there, that is not late at all for an ordinary, sensible person to be up. Not late in the slightest, a decent hour to go to bed (says the girl who was up to three both the past two nights). Neither late nor early. Sweet dream to you, as well!
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329- ooh same here my hair darkened over time. However I don’t know if I even think of it as having a color now.
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342~ Meaning?
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Waaaah ! I was gone for the weekend and now there are 100 more posts on this thread ! Wait up, guys !
twilight, eclipse and whatever they all are called)
The first book was okay, the second one was boring, the third on proves that Bella has awful taste… I admit to not having read the fourth one- what a waste of money ! The series gets kind of boring after a while… What else can I say ? I read the first two with my book-club, and bought the third one because I though Bella would finally come to her senses and dump Edward (what a creep !) in favor of Jacob (who is cute)…
Edward is Mr. Joe’s reincarnation.
LOTR) I’m reading “The Hobbit” in French… An I actually understand most of it: they’re walking through a dark, creepy forest with big spiders and spooky black squirrels eying them up for dinner. ( I know that the hobbit isn’t really LOTR, but it’s close enough.)
I’m going to bed now- i’ll rant about Eragon, homeschool and skiing next post.
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353–merely a waste of time, for me, as I spent no money on them. I suggest a library, in general, for anytime you want to read a book, but aren’t sure it is worth the cost. Uh, yeah, I literally just had to look at B3 to remember what it was specifically about, as the only “plots” I could remember were one and two–the whole victoria chasing bella didn’t seem like it had enough substance to have been a whole book…..and I just read all in the last week. that says something. However, I did know she would never dump Edward, despite the fact that it might have been in her best interest. I dread to think what she is going to come up with to make yet another twilight book….. *shudder*
So, anyway, on a more positive note, we just had our last geography lecture! All that is left is the final a week from this thursday. To get an A-, I only have to get 83 on the final, but to get an solid A, I need a 98 something, but that is nearly impossible. A- is good, but…..they calculate the GPA differentlly for A-, for some stupid reason, so it will ruin any chance I have of a 4.0 GPA at the end of the semester.
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I’m a little late for this discussion, but I seem to prefer brunettes. Actually, that’s a lie. Every crush I’ve ever had has been a brunette (including my current one). For the record, my hair is dark brown (used to be jet black all over, then dark brown all over, and now i’m finding light brown hairs dispersed throughout).
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I saw Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead! It is worthy of tremendous praise, and I think that most of you would enjoy it immensely. With that in mind, would you like to play The Question Game, Grant?
(I suppose we could have a duel of words too, but I don’t know what that is.)
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355- Its weird how the R+R thread has turned into the random thread, and the random thread has turned into the R+R thread. Maybe a switcharoo is in order.
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354- The rumor in my school has been that she is re-writing twilight from Edward’s point of view. I’m sure there’s a point to that, too, but I can’t think of what it might be.
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357–One of the many oddities of MuseBlog.
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(359) By “oddities,” I assume you mean “delights,” of course.
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358–The only point I can think of is……mind numbing misery. it was…bearable….the first time through, but if she is seriously writing the exact same thing, just from Edwards’s POV…..utter misery. that is, if I actually read it, but if that were what it was, I would probably not even think about reading it. Although, I do find it a bit unbelievalbe that that is what she would do, but–you never know.
360–But of course I mean “delights”!
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.357 – …this thread still seems pretty random to me.
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Yes, Twilight is suposed to be rewritten with Edward’s point of view. How that’s going to work I have no idea. I’ll probably be forced to read it though, joy.
So. What happened today? It was cold. yes, Luna, cold. In the low 20s all day and windy. If that’s not at least chilly I don’t know what is……brrr. *shivers*
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363– I really don’t get the point. one twilight, from bella’s POV was more than enough, without writing another book, on the exact same events from Edward’s POV. Hey, just proves that she has no creativity, can’t even come up with a new plot (which is being nice, because it implies that the others had a plots).
And, yup, I don’t disagree–low 20s is cold–even to Alaskans! It’s especially cold with wind chill. I wouldn’t want to be out, without a very good reason (like doing osmething fun like ice skatin/skiiing/sledding/etc).
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(358, 364) Maybe for a change she wants to write a book that boys will read.
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365–That implies that girls would read the original twilight. And I’m sorry (apologies to all who like it), but no sane girl would read enjoy twilight, even if they caved and read it. And given the plot (or lack there of) I certainly wouldn’t think the story from Edward’s POV would be any more appealing to guys than the first twilight. There’s not much you can do to a badly written mindless romance to make it more appealing to anyone.
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.364 (Luna) – Pfft. While I don’t disagree that low 20’s is cold, I don’t think it’s too cold to be out in. It was about 20 here today, but that didn’t stop any of us from going out and about in the cold.
I draw the ‘do not go outside!’ line at 5F or so. Maybe 10 if there’s some windchill.
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(366) Well, her books have sold more than 25 million copies so far, so somebody must be reading them.
If you’re curious about Midnight Sun, Meyer’s Twilight-from-Edward’s-point-of-view project, she has posted part of an early draft of it on her website: www . stepheniemeyer . com/pdf/midnightsun_partialdraft3.pdf
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367~ Oh I was outside. Taking laundry off the clothesline. We don’t have a dryer.
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AYYYY
OMG I have 3 degrees of Hugh Laurie! Guess why! I dare you!
Okay I’ll tell you. I just found out that Jennifer Morrison (who plays Cameron on House)’s dad works at my school! He’s the sixth grade music teacher. :O Wow! I wonder if I could ask him for her autograph… but still! OMG!
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367–I don’t ever like to be outside when it’s cold without a reason. Although, yes, 20s isn’t too bad if you’re doing something. I draw the line of truly not going outside at all (except unless you ahve to) and -20, and even then, I think I’ve done it–usually because the wind is blowing really, really, really hard (and I mean hard) and there’s no snow on the lake. despite the fact that you freeze solid almost instantaneously, there is nothing like going out on the lake in ice skates, bringing a friend (sister, under serious coercion) and a tarp, and holding it between you while you are propelled down the length of the lake at high speed. Stopping isn’t too fun though–it involves falling, and lots of bruises, nor is coming back up the length of the lake against the wind (very challenging, and cold), but it is worth it.
I don’t like being cold, and yet, I can’t imagine not living in Alaska, because it wouldn’t be cold enough……I know, doesn’t make sense, but, hey that’s me.
368– *shakes head in disgust* What is this world coming to? Actually, according to my sister (who has neither read twilight, and probably never will–it’s not her thing) it’s the mormons. which makes sense. twilight is written by a mormon, and (not trying to start anything, or say anything bad, just stating a fact) there are a lot of mormons, probably due in part to the fact that they don’t believe in contraceptives. I know a couple of mormon families, and they have at least 7 kids in each family. So, if you ahve a mormon family, that has seven mormon kids, who in turn have seven mormon kids, well, you get a lot of mormons. And, in the words of my sis in the words of a kid (male, btw) who she knows at college, the response is : *jumps up and down* squee!!!!!!!! it’s written by a mormon. thus is super, super awesome [ignoring the fact that, just because it written by someone of your religion, does not therefore mean it is awesome]
which is probably why so many people have bought it. because they are mormon and it is by a mormon. So, yeah. Much better theory than that the world has actually sunk that low as to consider twilight good reading…..
And, no, I’m really not that curious. I skipped the draft ( the website I got the four books form had the draft as well, but…..yeah, I passed on that). ok, so i will probably read it eventually, just to convince myself that it is really as bad as I fear [know] it is.
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chhh. 25 million The first potter book alone sold 107 million–and the series as a whole has sold at least 400 million–which far exceeds 25 million divided by 4 books. Say each books sold the same (unlikely, any sane person would have stopped buying after the first): that’s a mere 6.25 million per book. HP, on average would have (approximate, as it is OVER 400 million): about 57 million per book–double the number that twilight has for 4 books.
*is unimpressed with twilight’s sales*
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.369 – Haha, did your clothes freeze? My hair used to do that when I was little and forgot my hat.
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369–Does it actually dry at that temperature? Wouldn’t it just freeze? I mean, it doesn’t seem like it would work very well in a cold climate. My gramma (in FL) dries clothes on a clothesline during the summer (she has a dryer, but when it’s hot, who want to heat up a house with a dryer?), but that’s FL. and even though humid, it’s hot enough to evaporate moisture…..
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I refuse to go outside for unnecessary purposes when it’s below 40 degrees.
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Ummm…… just heads up… before you read any more, there are direct quotes from the exerpt of Midnight Sun here, so stop reading if you don’t want any spoilers.
365- “I felt strangly comforted for a moment, hearing Angela’s hopeless yearning. A sense of kinship that Angela would never know about passed through me, and I felt at one with the kind human girl. It was oddly consoling to know I wasn’t the only one living out a tragic love story. Heartbreak was everywhere.” And then he goes on to ramble about how she had no reason to be so sad, because she was human, and the boy she liked was human, so right there their problems are solved. Then he wallows in self-pity for a page or two…. I stopped reading there. This isn’t exactly something I would picture most of the boys in my school reading. Or maybe it’s just me, I don’t know. I know some boys who read Twilight, and, apparantly, enjoyed it.
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370~ Ice skating/sailing….wow, that does sound fun!
I remember one year going skating on the most perfect ice ever. It hadn’t snowed, so it was like glass, and it was so clear (although thick) that you could see quite far into the depths of the lake, I remember at one point lying down on the ice and watching the weeds sway back and forth slowly under the water. It was amazing.
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376- The MB Spoiler alert:
SPOILER SPOILER (name of book here) SPOILER SPOILER ALERT.
Make sure you add a period or all the spoiler will be revealed on the rc.
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376 – I actually really liked Midnight Sun; somehow, it gained back my respect for Edward. Seeing a rationale for his moping makes it a lot more interesting.
Bella irritates me in a lot of ways. Did anyone else notice that she manages to be totally detached from just about everyone except Jacob, Edward, and Charlie? She seriously pays no attention at all to anyone else. For example, she spends next to no time with Angela, who seems to be a likely candidate for Perfectest Friend For Bella Of All Time. That bugs me to no end. Seriously, Isabella Marie Swan Cullen, your boyfriend/husband may be completely amazing, but there are other people in your life that would like you to notice their existence occasionally.
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373~ Yes, the clothes freeze on the line. At times they freeze so hard that you car break them if you’re not careful, and runing into them hurts. It also makes a dull thud when you hit your head on them. It’s not pleasant.
I’ve had my hair freeze on the way to my room after my shower. It feels strange when you shake your head!
374~ Yes, it does dry. It’s a bit slower than in the summer and warmer weather, but it does dry, just don’t ask me how!
376~ *chokes* That’s sad. And by that I don’t mean I feel sorry for Edward.
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380–yeah, I’ve had my fair share of experiences with frozen hair,too. It’s kinda neat, when it’s not annoying. If I were to apply some thought to the clothes drying in freezing weather, I would decide it is probably sublimation. Note if you leave ice cubes int he freezer for a super long time, they start to shrink, as ice changes straight from solid to gas.
And now I am going to eat some popcorn……althogh I’m mad at it–for the first time in my life, I have managed to burn my finger on the popcorn steam, and it hurts!
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My mom worked in Austria back in the 1950s. Because of the expense, I guess, heat was something of a luxury item. She said in the winter no one ever wanted to undress, they just kept adding layers. Must have been pleasant. Like being around a bunch of walking, talking dirty clothes hampers.
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“Must have been pleasant. Like living around a bunch of walking, talking dirty clothes hampers.” I almost dies laughing when I read that, just so you know.
And with that note I shall pry myself away from the computer and do something necessary. Like eat. And practice for my lesson tomorrow…ugh, is it really tomorrow??? Noooo, I’m not ready!
Goodnight dear blog and residents. I’ll see you again, you may be sure. Yes, that’s a threat.
G’night.
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ehhh nobody cares about me and my three degrees of Hugh Laurie… whatever…
I NEED TO EDIT MY NANO URGHHHHH
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Hey, everybody! Today I did spotlight in Stage Crew for the concert my brothers were in- they’re really good viola players.
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354- I can’t resist the lure… must… mock… *twitch*
Me: ((trying to convince friend that Twilight is stupid, over the course of a week, at school and over internet))
*sends links explaining why Twilight is not a good book*
Friend: ((this is c+p’d, necessary grammatical, spelling and other corrections inserted))
Raynpho you have way too much time on your hands, I mean really *bleep* do you just like look up stuff about Twilight?? Oh and about the last one… Edward is very pretty and has a personality and he is sexy… Bella is a *bleep* I agree and I would be much better than her. etc. etc. etc. ((abridged to preserve your sanity)) So stop harassing me because I LOVVVVVVVVVE EDWARD and you can’t change that and I think you’re jealous that everyone loves Edward and no one loves you!!
Except imagine the whole thing in caps lock, and chatspeak. Attached was a picture of RPatz.
To which I point out that her reasoning is completely insane, and she writes two pages back on why it is not. (her reasoning is still completely insane.)
I assign her a challenge: 5 reasons why Twilight is good.
-SKIP THIS IF YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR EYES BURNED OUT BY BLATANT CHATSPEAK AND HORRENDOUS REASONING-
“o this is easy ok
1) falling in love w/ someone is believable
2) u can read it over n over b/c it never gets old b/c its like romeo n juliet…. a better version of romeo n juliet acctually
3) u can talk almost every girl about how amazing it is
4) it proves that all guys r alittle stupid ( ex. when edward leaves)
5) EDWARD!”
Am I the only one who thinks her reasoning is completely insane?
I’m sorry everyone. I couldn’t resist. ;__;
And yay for Harry Potter booksale figures. You always were/still are the best.
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384–sorry, I wasn’t ignoring you ro anything. It’s just, well, *admits I have no clue who Hugh Laurie is* So, yeah. I didn’t really have anything to say……
Have funw ith your nano!
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356- ooh I saw that last year at a local high school and loved it. It really is excellent, no?
382- I layer all the time. I’m usually wearing more than one shirt as well as a sweater. If I wear jeans in the winter I wear long underwear underneath. I also have some wool socks that go up to my knees.
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(388) Oh, yes, I’m a devoted layering practitioner myself. In the house I used to live in, long underwear was a necessity. And I have to adapt to a variety of contrasting environments, especially since I work in a house built in the early 19th century. But I generally prefer to change my layers more often than once a season….
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370 That is very cool, because Hugh Laurie is Stupendous.
372 Synonymous (sadly) : Prop. 8.
377 Icesailing! (Which actually does exist. With special boats)
387 Research him now, then watch Blackadder, then House.
388- A marvel. I need to see the movie now, so I can get all of the other jokes. They went by too quickly.
Ah, layers. Good stuff. I’ve asked for sweaters and t-shirts for Christmas, which should have me set for the whole year. Amazing!
Zallie, why do you not want your comments in the “Recent Comment” side bar?
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386–Your friend is…..nuts. Falling in love may be believable, but not in the way Bella falls for Edward. Reading it over and over would, unlike with Harry Potter, get old. And I would much rather read Romeo and Juliet, although I didn’t like it that much when I read it. You can not talk to almost every girl about it–for instance, myself. Of course all guys are a little stupid–you don’t need to read a horrid book to prove it. How is Edward a reason to read it? He is a horrid, horrid pain. overcontrolling, all that.
So, yeah, I think her reasoning is completely insane as well.
388, 389 (and everyone else)–I don’t usually layer that much. Max is a longsleeve shirt under a t-shirt, plus a sweatshirt and/or coat if it is cold and i”m outside.
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SFTDP…..
390–oh. *feels stupid* I’m not watching House, given that I have already seen every episode ever….I just didn’t know that that was the name of the actor. I may check out blackadder sometime when I have time (whenever that may be).
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391- I am another girl you can’t talk about it with. If somebody tries, I just go “You know, if vampires were real, they’d all have bitten somebody with AIDS a long time ago and gotten it and re-died.”
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391- Thank you. You are the best, Luna. The problem is that I am PRETTY MUCH the only female student in my school who thinks like this, it’s terrible.
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391, 393 – same here.
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394–oh, dear, yes. That is pretty terrible. what is this world coming to? We must band together and stop the corruption of the world’s teenage girls!!!!!!!!!
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I always layer. When it’s really cold, I’ll layer pants (usually wearing leggings under jeans), but I always layer shirts. Currently, I’m wearing a thermal “underarmour” type long-sleeved shirt (not brand-name, though), a thin fleece sweatshirt, a t-shirt, and a zip-up fleece jacket.
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392- Don’t feel bad, I don’t know the names of many actors either. Blackadder is very different though, and Hugh Laurie plays a smaller role.
393- That’s an interesting angle. Can AIDS kill the undead?
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398- Well, AIDS can’t technically kill anybody. Do vampires have immune systems? o_0
396- Yes! The SPVVB- Society for the Prevention of Viral Vampiratical Brainwashing!
If only the acronym SPEW worked as well. Then it would truly be amazing.
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398- With all the other things that can kill the undead (fire, blessed objects, silver weapons, stakes), I wouldn’t be surprised. But if you think about it, any creature that regularly takes human blood into it’s system from random people is probably going to get AIDS sooner or later.
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.Hugh Laurie is also fabulous in Jeeves and Wooster (a series based off of the books by PG Wodehouse (Woodhouse?). It also has Stephen Fry in it, so it’s hilarious. Laurie is a silly rich British heir and Fry is his butler and always has to save the day.
390 – Well, once I saw a first sentence of mine on the side bar and it sounded very accusatory, so I decided I better not let that happen anymore. The side-bar appearance, I mean, not the accusing. I’m fine with that part of it. Now a days, I don’t know. It’s just habit, I guess.
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400–although in the case of meyer’s vampires, blessed objects had no effect. the cullens had a cross hanging in their house.
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.390 (again) – Also, I don’t like it when annoying things show up in the sidebar, so I’m trying to solve that problem one annoying post at a time!
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Why would anyone write Twilight from Edward’s point of view? Wouldn’t that make Bella seem even more of a 2-dimensional character?
The duel of words is off, I don’t really know what I meant by that.
Sometimes, when I’m bored, I look around me and think about which objects I could use to fend off an attacker. There’s probably something wrong with my brain.
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(401) Zallie: It’s spelled “Wodehouse” but pronounced “Woodhouse.”
By the way, we could arrange things so that nothing showed up in the sidebar. We thought people enjoyed looking at intriguing message fragments, but if we’re wrong, it’s easy to fix.
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404–That’s a darn good question. It is mind-boggling that she would want to write it from Edward’s POV, and even more mind-boggling that anyone would possibly want to read it.
405–I like the recent comments sidebar! ’tis fun. Even if people, like zallie, “hide” their comments, it is still a convenient wa to figure out what threads have been posted upon since I last check. That is, if I figureo ut the most recent comment, and hit refresh, I scroll down to that comment, and work my way up thread by thread, comment by comment.
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404-Dr. TGYPWYA says that that is a sign of intense paranoia. Go and check in to your local psych ward.
My friend hooked me up with a Winter Formal date as repayment for me hooking him up with his. However, we got to an all-guys school- this is the local all-girls school’s dance. So I’ve never seen her before, and he can barely remember her. She tried to call him up and ask him to the dance, but he already has a date, so he directed her to me.
I’ve got a bad feeling about this. My friend’s bad luck is legendary. Opinions? Ideas? Anyone?
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404- One time I had an unpleasant dream about being stabbed and that day I was thinking almost constantly about what I could use to fend off an attacker. In my dream I came up with a spruce branch, a fork, and my pocket-knife.
On a related note, the music stands in our high school auditorium have been declared perfect weapons against zombies.
Zombies have been coming up far too much lately…
Re: Layering: I layer a lot. Sometimes I’ll wear tights, socks, pants, a skirt, two shirts, a sweater, and a coat. Depending on where I am I will either freeze or boil. If I’m boiling there’s an easy solution. If I’m freezing I just have to deal.
Tomorrow I’m going to see if it’s possible to earn college and high school credit by taking only college courses, or mostly only college courses. If all went well, I would be a sophomore in college when I graduated, and if I went straight to a four-year university I could end college at nineteen. I hope things do go well. -prays- Otherwise I may drop out and get my GED and go straight to college. High school is driving me insane.
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.405 – Thanks! I knew it was one of the two options, haha.
I’m not so fond of them, but if everyone else doesn’t mind ’em, it’s cool. Sometimes they’re intriguing!
407 – Good luck! She could be really fun.
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407- I find it odd that you have never met your date. Shouldn’t you have some feeling towards her, however slight, if you are going to go to the dance with her?
Personally, I think all dances should be like the old days, where instead of having a date you go to the dance and various people ask you if you’d care to dance once you’re there, and you go to insane amounts of trouble worrying and hoping that the one person you really want to dance with will be there. Only unlike the old days, I think girls should be allowed to ask as well.
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404- Sounds normal to me. Doesn’t anyone else do that when they’re really bored?
407- What’s the worst that could happen?
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407–sounds…..interesting. I’ve never been on a date, much less set up with an unknown person on a “date”. Or as a dance partner, which seems much the same n this case…..I wouldn’t care for it, as I am not comfortable hanging around with people I do not know at all…..
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I tried reading Midnight Sun a bit after it came out online. Couldn’t get past the first chapter or so, and that’s only because I practically force-fed it to myself. Holy wung buttons, it was stupid.
407- Hmm. What does he remember about her?
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Eep! Donuts!
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393–*snort* I think I need to tell that to my vampire-obsessed friend. No, I don’t mean Twilight obsessed (although that is included), she’s into any and all kinds and is under the impression that she would like to become a vampire herself.
404–I know why she’d write it–I’m a writer, and I tend to love any and all of my characters, so I write from different points of of view all the time. However, why she’d sell it (or expect to) I’m not sure. It’s really rather horrible, even when compared to the books.
And on the subject of finding weapons in everyday objects, I tend to look for wild escape routes when I’m bored. Among other odd imaginings.
407–Hey, make the best of it–keep in mind you don’t have to date her after the dance. And if she’s a real weirdo, spike the punch. (KIDDING. Kidding. I’m sure she’s a lovely girl. Have fun.)
Erm…speaking of vampires…has anyone read “Vampire Knight?” (I promise, this does not belong on the Books and Reading thread.)
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Prime example of why all the idiots begging for notes get so annoying……I just received this email to day (our psych final, of which this email is about, is this afternoon).
Dear students,
I have not been attending class for nearly 2 months now and would greatly appreciate if someone would be willing to hook me up with all of the notes for the test tommorrow.
Thank you for your time and to everyone else who flooded my inbox daily with emails just like this one…
I’m desperately hoping this guy isn’t serious, but is merely sarcastically demonstrating his dislike of all the idiots who “flooded his inbox daily with emails just like this one…”
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**************************CONCLUSION***********************************
After reading the posts on this thread, I’ve reached some conclusions as to the nature of twilight and whatever they all are called:
1# though lots of people buy TAWTAAC*, they are either disappointed or (the female readers) madly in love with Edward.
2# Most people are thrilled by the possibility that a bloodsucking monster might be living next door. If they want to become vampires to get even with their enemies, or if they simply have suicidal tendencies is unclear.
3# The readers with feministic tendencies hate the book/ think Bella is a wimp.
4# 75% of the people subjected to this survey would prefer a vampire to an angry french teacher. 20% would prefer the vampire if he was cute, 1% wouldn’t admit to having read the book and 4% weren’t paying attention.
5# None of the boys in my class would admit to reading the books.
6# Most MBers prefer having frozen clothes to freezing and would not fetch wash hanging outside in the cold, though they
would soon risk running out of clothes because of layering.
7# MBers don’t agree about dating.
The *people subjected to this survey* were my classmates.
I haven’t found a connection between vampires, dating and layering but… who cares ?
*goes away to eat chocolate*
*twilight and whatever they all are called
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(416) Luna,
I think he’s being sarcastic and shares your opinion of note-beggars.
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417–thank you for the entertainment! It has brightened my otherwise gloomy morning…..(I have a psych final this afternoon, although why that’s gloomy, given I merely have to get 70% minimum for an A in the course, I don’t know.)
418–That’s good. Because otherwise……I would be very, very scared…..
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Vampires suck. That is all.
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420–yeah, they do. quite literally!
So, anyway, I got my grade back on my calculus test today. If I hadn’t made three stupid (truly stupid) mistakes, I could have gotten full points, including all 15 extra credit points. Of course, even with the stupid mistakes, I still got a score worthy of Hermione (112, so very Hermione worthy, given that that was her score in Charms in PS). So, assuming I got 10/10 on today’s quiz, I only need to get 116 points on the final (which is 200 points, plus 20 extra credit), which means I barely even need to pass the final in order to get an A. Which is super awesome, given that before school started that I was utterly terrified that I was going to completley fail calculus (as in, get a C or worse), and here I am on track to get an A. To get an A- (which the idiots calculate differently for GPA–it’s 3.7 instead of 4.0, and they don’t even off balance by making an A+ worth more, which is pissing me off, because there is almost no way I will get an A in geography, although I can “easily” get an A-) I only need to get 81 on the final, so yeah. I am very happy, as this means one of my most important classes for my GPA (calc is a 5 credit course, so therefore a bad class to get a low grade in. bio is also 5 credits, and I’m desperately afraid I’m only going to get a B in bio). So, yeah, happy.
Anyway, I should head to biolab, as it starts in…..crap. 16 minutes. so, yeah, I’m off!!!!!1
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317- harry potter is not literature. It is not amazingly written. I can’t remember the exact passage (I do not know the llocation of my HP2book) but there is a passage in the second book that is along the lines of “it’s heavy body slithered heavily across the floor”. That, my friend, is not literature. Don’t get me wrong, I do rather enjoy HP, it simply is not literature.
319- alan rickman fan club! *high fives*.
320- he was wolverine in the X-men movies.
330- Kagy is not fond of girls who dye their hair blonde. I much prefer that they keep it to their natural colour. Or some extreme.
366- I know sane girls who enjoyed it. But they kept it in perspective. They were perfectly aware that it is a crap book. They just had fun reading it.
404- I think of stuff like that before I fall asleep.
405- I love the recent coments sidebar. It is helpful when you want to see what threads people have posted on recently.
407- welll… I dunno. Don’t expect much. that way you won’t be let down if she’s aweful.
408- I enjoy highschool but to be entirely honest I have no idea how I’m going to graduate. The credits I need are really bizare and confusing plus I do not have enough comunity service hours *pannicks*.
I just spent forever reading through these comments. I was taking a break from studying. Oh dear. i do not want to take any of the exams. *stress* *stress* I generaly do fine on exams but I am still worried. URGH!!!!!!!! at least I have no school *ever the optimist* By the by: My grandma is doing really well.
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(420, 421) Vampire bats don’t suck blood, however. They let it ooze and lap it up.
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417- Yup, that’s pretty much it. I personally do not love Edward, I like Jacob because he’s more down to earth and more my type. If I had to choose one.
422- You’re right. It’s not mere literature, it’s art.
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406- probably would be a bit less shallow than Bella’s.
412- apparently I have alot of comments towered you and I agree.
420- No they are just dangerous and why anyone would fall in love with them is beyond me. Harry though…
422- Scuse Me? Oh well… I guess we’re all intitled to my opinon, but I think that Harry Potter has better plots and characters than Twilight and that Tamora Pierce’s books are the best of the bunch.
423- Oh uh… ew?
And I really should NOT leave MB under any sucumstance. I stopped reading/blogging for like two days and now I’m so confused.
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i think I will go spend several more hours making study notes. It tooka me from 11 to 2 to make 13 pages of PhysEd study notes! *urgh* I hate exams.
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“I’m Mr. White Christmas, I’m Mr. Snow!
I’m Mr. Icicle, I’m Mr. Ten-Below
Friends call me Snow Miser, whatever-I-touch
Turns to snow in my clutch…
I’m too much!”
“I’m Mr. Green Christmas, I’m Mr.Sun!
I’m Mr. Heat Blister, I’m Mr. Hundred and one
Friends call me Heat Miser, whatever I touch
Starts to melt in my clutch…
I’m too much!
TOO MUCH!”
If anyone can tell me where that came from, they may have ten Muzey points.
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GRRR I’m so frustrated! Why can’t Fringe be on? Stupid rerun! I can’t believe there’s no new episodes until JANUARY 20!!! At least there’s House…
Speaking of House, since my music teacher’s daughter is Jennifer Morrison, she might come to my school! My mom is writing a request. OMGOMGOMG!
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407-Here is my advice:
Step one: Obtain your date’s phone number if you don’t already have it.
Step two: Think of a few conversation starters and things you want to ask her.
Step three: Call her! Talking to her for a while will tell you more about her.
Step four: Think about the conversation. What did she seem to be like?
Step five: Decide. If she seemed pleasant and nice, go ahead and try to have a good time. However, if she was rude and/or unpleasant, it’s probably best to break the date.
Remember, she’s probably just as worried about what you’re going to be like as you are worried about what she will be like!
Don’t forget that she might turn out to be quite nice.
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Events of yesterday: I found out my friend’s family might be (like, 99% sure) in the Bosnian mafia. Which is sort of cool, except that she’s probably expected to join. Not so cool.
Drama, drama, drama. Friend one wont talk to friend two because friend two is being antisocial so friend three who’s more of a friend to friend one wont talk to friend two because one is mad at her, so friend two feels alone and left out and has to come to friend four (me) for support and rantage, which puts friend four in the middle of friend one and three vs. friend two, plus friend five is cutting and telling everybody, which is lame and uncalled for and pisses all of friends off.
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422–huh. “heavy body slithered heavily” must remember to check my Bloomsbury editions of HP and see if it read that way in them as well. Although, I imagine the Canadian editions of HP are much closer to the original than the horribly americanized editions, given that much ( if not all) of the spelling that was changed in the US editions, is normal spelling in Canada, just like in the UK…..
I know sane girls who enjoyed it. But they kept it in perspective. They were perfectly aware that it is a crap book. They just had fun reading it. See, that’s different. That doesn’t bother me–it’s the people who thinks it’s something totally special, when the only thing it is good for is mind numbing mushy entertainment
423–Sweet! That sounds absolutely cool. *wants to watch* *is psycho, I know*
424–yeah, if I had to pick one of th emales in twilight, I would go with Jacob as well–he seems like the most normal guy, and the most kind, nice, whatever. The best personality. He is not dominating and controlling, and all the other traits that are Edward, and the otehr guys…..we didn’t get enough of an idea about them.
428–Fringe? Really? I saw one episode when I was at my gramma’s over Thanksgiving, and…..I wasn’t that impressed. Hallucinations that actually physically harm/kill you? I mean, it was proposing (yeah, know it is probabloy supposed to be a sci-fi show) that if you hallucinated somebody slitting your throat, your throat actually got slit. I don’t think so. It seemed rather weird and confusing to me (partly, I’m sure, do to the fact that I’d not seen any others in the series, and I kept having to explain what I did get to my sis every five seconds, which meant I missed parts), and of course by the end I was getting really tired and close to falling asleep…..so, yeah, I didn’t find it that appealing…….i might enjoy it more awake, and with knowledge of previous shows.
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.422 – that is the most arbitrary definition for assessing whether or not something is ‘literature.’ I don’t think you’re exactly qualified to judge that, either.
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ROMEO AND JULIET IS THE FUNNIEST THING I HAVE EVER BEEN FORCED TO READ FOR ENGLISH.
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422- I know I already made a comment on this but… Well I was sorta angery now and couldn’t make plausible sentances without just wanting to say “HARRY POTTER ROCKS!” But so: I think lituture is defined by the reader. The people who love it and the people who don’t. I think that Green Eggs and Ham is liturture although it probably has a whole bunch of fragments and such but that is because I love that book and will stick with me forever. Lituture to me is somthing that you read that you will remeber late in the night. But… who knows.
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427- That song was from the 1974 children’s Christmas movie “The Year Without a Santa Clause”. I used to watch that every year.
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My psychology prof just posted the answer key to our third and final test, which we took this afternoon! And I got 41/40!!!!! squeeee! which means……In the course, I have 132/132 points. Of course, that is thanks to the seven freebie questions, or else I would hafve 125/132. But still, I am totally right now…..
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.436 – You talk about grades a lot.
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436- Wow congrats. That’s really good. That’s actualy really really really good. Seven freebie questions???? My math teacher won’t give us freebie questions because she says that we have to learn to just deal with grades and not extra credit stuff because we have to prepare for college. And then you get seven freebie questions…*sigh* But anyways GOOD JOB!!!! *throws a AMAZING JOB! pie to (not at) Luna the Lovely*
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436- That’s so awesome!! Congratulations!!! I can’t imagine doing that well on a test.
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my phone died on friday(meaning once i turned it on the screen was all white (except for the part that already was brpken)and none of the buttons did anything and i could not turn it off.)but it still can recieve calls and use the flashlight. whuch is odd. but i think i am going to get a samsung juke now. which is cool but also sad because i think — had one and — was really funny but now he has to go to an arts school to learn how to be a clown. whish is pretty weird. even for –. sorry about al this ranting. oh,and i think twilight is a pureley entertainment and has no other value. except pop culture. this is a really long comment
433- i tried reading it last summer but i didnt get very far. i got it for free because our school had a bunch of copies at the middle schoool but then the high school decided that because everybody would read it in high school theysholuldnt use it in the MS so they gave out free copies and i got one. speaking of free books, once on the days the 7th harry potter book came out i was a t a little bookstore in central WI and as i was leaving,i saw a box of books labeled free and i dug through a bit and i found prophet od yonwood and kept it and that was like 2 weeks before it actually came out. it was one of those sample ones they send to the bookstore to see if they want to buy it. it’s a pretty good buck but 2 of the pages fell out but i stuck them back in.
434- harry potter is good. but i cant find my copy of the prisoner of azcaban and it is making me mad because that is my favorite one. yesterday in band, my friend wanted me to tell her something and i didnt want to and then i was like”shant say nothing if you dont say please” and she was like “please”and it was hillarios mainly because peeves used that same thing in the 1st HP book and i have used it several times seince then and i find it quite useful and once one of my friends who is a HP nerd thought it was from monty python. which is also hilarious
wheee. sorry for rambling on (and on and on and on)
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422, re 320–That’s Hugh Jackman, not Hugh Grant. Both are devistatingly handsome, though, so who cares?
433–especially the part where they die, that’s hilarious. Jk, although if you think the play’s funny, you should watch Leonardo diCaprio trying to act it out, it’s even better.
436–Wow! Great job! I failed dismally at Calculus, yself (although I passed the AP test, thank goodness). I’m definitely a right-brain person.
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410- Agreed. But in the old days, big horse-and-buggy manufacturers didn’t ask for government bailouts when they ran out of money.
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429- Way ahead of you. I’ve done all that, and I’m gonna meet her at the movies this weekend. So that’sthe real blind date.
Anyway, I’m more worried about midterms than dates. Teachers at my school have a habit of giving tests on the last day before exam week (This Friday). We can’t study everything yet because in most classes, we haven’t covered all of the material yet. The only exception is biology (we have all review material), but that’s pretty useless, since it’s our last exam.
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435- THANKyou! I had almost forgotten, and when I heard it again today I was desperate to find out. Here are your Muzey points. *hands over*
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436 – Pies to you for all the Hermione-worthy grades. Congratulations!
Speaking of grades, today we got back Friday’s world history test. Let me explain that the tests in that class are always incredibly easy. This one was a bit harder than most, but not too hard, I thought.
The class average: 68.3. High grade of 100, low grade of 40.
Now, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with getting a B on a test, or a C now and then, or even a D very very occasionally. But a 68.3? That’s an F in North Carolina. As the class average? According to the grades online (grade next to student ID number), just less than half the people in my class got Fs on that test. Maybe I was wrong in thinking it wasn’t that difficult…
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To everyone else: I’m sure it’ll all work out one way or another in the end. Keine sorge!
Now I have a band concert. Have a guten abend…
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444- Wow… serriously? I love history so I people stopped compareing grades with me because if I didn’t know it from class I knew it from somehwere else. It’s annoying because people look at my history grades and the fact that I like to read and write and say Im a straight A student. I AM NOT!!!! I doubt it could be that difficult if most of the tests are easy. Its probably people thought that they could get by with out bothering to pay attention because the other tests were easy and now they are paying for it.
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Someday my homework is going to drive me insane. Or maybe I’m already insane and I can’t tell BECAUSE I’m insane.
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427- The Miser Brother’s Christmas on ABC Family. XD That drove me nuts…
Holy cake. One misses a lot on this thread when one’s computer is broken for 3 days.
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What-I-did-at-class-today: Rolled a set of dice that were once Gary Gygax’s.
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Agrrrfishi (424), Yeah, another Jacob fan! (I know, Twiilight’s not great literature. But I”m having fun reading it anyhow.) But back to Jacob. I’d so much prefer to hang out with him than Edward. Edward’s so cold. I guess he can’t help it what with being dead and all. But still. I like Jacob. He’s hot! Also, I’m more of a dog person than a cat person. And Jacob is obviously a dog, whereas Edward is a (too) cool cat.
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448- Wait… did I write holy ‘cake’, or was that a GAPA intervention? *confused*
449- WHOAH. Dude.
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So……..what I did the last ten minutes: I went to the room of one of my friend’s on the floor (one of my only friends…..), scott (is it a problem posting his name, GAPA? it is a rather commmon name) and I met his snake. Yup, snake (we are allowed pet snakes in the dorms, don’t ask….and apparently rodents, too. and said snake is fed live mice, I believe. seem to remember scott mentioning that his snake wouldn’t eat dead mice). It is a really, really cute/pretty snake. (my sister says I’m weird for saying a snake is cute……what’s weird about that?). It’s this really nice golden yellow/orange color. I think he said the snake was some kind of domestically bred hybrid corn snake. I’m not sure……
so, I got to hold the snake some, I never realized what a soft texture the scales have, I guess I always thought of the scales as more rough, but they are very smooth and soft (it’s been so long since I last touched a snake, like a decade).
on a semi related note, his roomie seems to have very bad taste in books. As I was leaving, I noticed on his roommates desk, three of the twilight books, with a huge space between the first two and the last one (meaning he must be reading/rereading it). If anyone had been paying attention, I think my face would ahve greatly resembled as I was thinking, “a guy likes twilight? i mean, most college guys don’t even like reading much, and for twilight to be the guys choice in books?” *shudder*
scott’s taste seemed much more normal. on his desk, I noticed several stephen king novels. much better taste, although i never got much into stephen king, but I have read a few of his novels, and they wre much better than twilight
[pet semetary, cujo, the one with the girl lost in the forest, and I’ve watched carrie and it]
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404~ Why would anyone want to read twilight from Bella’s point of view, come to think of it?
By the way, I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with your brain. Although it does show some sort of paranoia….perhaps you think people will try to mug you because of your fame as MB’s first poster? Perhaps all the glamor associated with that position has gotten to your head, dear.
There are times though when I, too, look for potential weapons to fend anything off that might take a fancy of coming after me. There was a time when I met a certain person that I felt very, very uncomfortable around. For a good bit after first meeting them I tried to avoid en, and when I had to be even near (though not particularly with in sight of) I started looking for escape routes, potential weapons and to see who else was nearby to gauge whether I trusted them or thought they could ( or would) save me if it came to that. (I was, like I said, very uncomfortable around this person.)
En eventually got less scary after being around the others for awhile and getting their head on straight, and we became friends. I now have no problem at all around en, and en is one of the people that I consider a relatively good friend.
I’m incredibly grateful that en isn’t threatening anymore, but I’ll never forget those times when I was entirely afraid of them, and how strange it was to watch myself thinking “if this happens, how can I get away? Where can I escape? What can I use if I’m grabbed or my path is blocked?” I don’t ever want to have that fear again, but it was odd to see how I reacted in my thinking.
That experience made me feel so much more compassion and respect for battered and abused women, I don’t know how I could face the world with any confidence if I had been in a like situation.
440~ I have a Samsung Rant…it’s turned itself off about three times now when I was just randomly taking pictures with the camera in it and trying to send a text message. Otherwise I love it. I’m not entirely sure it completely turned itself off, but it stopped responding, and I had to go through the motions of turning it off and then turning it back on. After which it worked perfectly again.
So, I don’t know if other Samsung phones do similar things. That’s just my experience (this is my first cell phone too, btw).
Random news: Last night I got ahold of a friend of mine in NY who I haven’t talked to in ages, yay!
One of Mom’s friends came over today with her cello and we all played Christmas carols. It was an assault on one’s ears, and I don’t even have perfect pitch. It was fun to play music, but it could have been better.
I had a violin lesson today and I did horribly. My teacher was understanding enough. My coming in and slumping onto the chair and groaning probably alerted her to the fact that I’m not feeling the greatest.
I drove to and from the lesson. It went alright, no screaming this time. That was good.
Before my lesson I fell asleep curled up on my bed clutching my head. Not fun. I hate this time of month. Nothing to dowith the season. Ugh.
Muffy has a winter band concert at her high school tomorrow evening. Her mom’s going to pick me up. Yay!
I wrapped Christmas presents tonight. they turned out quite pretty, if I do say so myself. DL and Muffy got the same paper, but DL’s is square, and I put the ribbons on a diagonal, it contrasts nicely with the diagonal stripe on the paper, so all is good. And of course, lots of curly ribbons. I think she’ll like it. (red and orange dangly chandelier earrings, they look like her all over and that color is beautiful on her, she has very pale skin and dark, dark hair.)
Muffy’s is long and skinny and has double ribbons (curled, of course) and a polka dot nametag. I think she’ll wear it, it’s a bracelet (she knows this) and it’s pretty without being girly, so I think she’ll use it. I’m happy.
Mom’s is a tiny little round stone box. I wrapped it in green with red ribbons, and it looks lovely.
Well. That was long.
And now I have nothing else to say, so I shall lurk.
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430- I know someone who’s supposedly related to the PM of Turkey, and whose family is the Turkish Mafia. So I’m like “PM of Turkey (who is also a devout Muslim) = Mafia? What!”
But she hates me now for some unknown reason, so I’ll never know how closely related.
433- YES. But once you get to 11th grade AP classes, things improve. Like, you learn how to write well, and you read interesting things. Funny smart things.
449- That is possibly the geekiest thing I have heard in a long time.
450- 
Australian films you should see:
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History
The Castle (Preferably the Aussie version, which might not be possible.)
Both are examples of bone-dry humor, so it might take a while for the American in you to adjust. Cane Toads is something you can show to your science classes too, because it’s technically a science documentary.
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450~ Of all the characters in Twilight, Jacob is probably the most interesting. I can see having him as a friend. He drives my Mom’s car in red. How strange. He’s cool though, and I think he’d be much better looking (if we’re basking guys on that) than Edward.
I must say though, he loses brain points for being attracted to Bella. Ah well. *sigh*
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(451) GAPA intervention.
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.428 I know right ugh this is like when Lost took a 9000 month break or whatever.
.433
~*oh romeo why so foxy*~
~idk juliet let’s make out~
TEEN HORMONES: MAYBE IT IS LOVE
are you watching the movie though benvolio is pretty fine not gonna lie
.447 hey me too!
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I’m very tired…….off to bed. Goodnight. *falls asleep*
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: / Guess my post got eaten by the wordpress gnomes. I’ll redo it tomorrow I guess…
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427- “The Year Without a Santa Claus.”
Ok, here’s the thing: I’ve got a really wicked idea for a really disturbing short story, but I’m wondering if it’s wrong to use the recent death of a famous person as inspiration. Should I write the story about “Eric Tome” and “Wildcard” or should I leave off?
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460–uh, you lost me. I have absolutely no idea who/what you are talking about, except that you want to write a really disturbing short story about a famous person/inspire by said famous person’s death. Only problem is…..I ahve no clue who Eric Tome/Wildcard is/are……yeah, I know. I am a hopeless case.
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449- Gygax’s? Awesome!
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460~ Like Luna, I have no idea who/what the inspiration was, but if if you want to write something I don’t see why not.
I guess it depends on who or what you’re writing it for, too. Are you going to actually say that it is about this famous person’s death, or are you going to create another, similar scenario that alludes to it only? If it’s an “inspired by” piece that doesn’t really say that it’s about a real-life event of this certain person I don’t see why it would be a problem.
On the other hand, if it pretty much says “this is about this event” or “this is about the recently deceased famous person ____” I would hesitate a bit more.
If you’re writing it for just yourself and friends, I guess it would be different than trying to sell it to someone.
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Oh, new thread GAPAs? This one is getting pretty full……and I don’t think it’s too soon, if each random thread gets 400 some posts in 10 days it should come out pretty even so that we’ll have the regular 3 random threads a month. *arranges features into a sad puppy-dog begging face and tears up big blue eyes* P-p-please?
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461, 463- The names there are rather poor aliases (Look up “Ericaceae” on Wikipedia). It’s not about the event, it’s merely inspired by it. I don’t plan to sell it, I just would like to write it so that its creepy potential can be realized.
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425- I have no opinion on twilight because I have not read it. ditto with Tamora Pierce. I really like HP, it just is not literature and the writing could be improved. That was all I was saying. you gotta keep things in perspective. great storyline and characters does not mean amazing writing. That was the point I was trying to get across, more or less. In conclution HP is not great literature.
434- why are you so angry at me? what did I do? all I did was say harry potter is not literature and you’re getting all mad and defensive. what is up with that? please calm down. I have responded to your previouse post (425). I did not say that HP is a bad series of books, what I said was quite the opposite. I really enjoy Harry Potter. How you came to the conclution that I think they are bad is quite unimaginable as I clearly state that I do rather enjoy them. I think the seires is great because it got so many kids reading in the age of technology, and also because it’s fun to read. You seem to think I am trashing Harry Potter. Not true. Like I said, I am a fan of it. That said, you have to admit that it is not amazing writing. I am not going to repeat the example mentioned above because I am sure that you thoroughly read the post before wrongly acusing me and getting all angry. I really don’t understand why you are getting so angry at me for just stating the truth. Would you like me to list some well writen books: Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Flies…. the list goes on. But note: HP is not included because as much fun as they are to read the writing could be improved. I can tell you right now that there is no english teacher (or anyone at all who has studied literature and what not) who will tell you that HP is great litterature. And if you choose to respond to this post please make sure to have read it through thoroughly before getting all angry and defensive.
436- yay! *pies to you*. I used to have 100% in a class (math) then after about 3 months I got something wrong.
441- *oops* sorry! sometimes I get confused!
I just had my PhysEd exam. I think I did fine. I studied and there was only one question I didn’t know because it wasn’t covered in class. I should probably be studying for my Science exam (tomorrow) but I studied last night. so I guess I’ll study later.
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464- Let’s wait a while, shall we? I’m waiting on someone to read my response to their post. and I don’t want to have to repost my post.
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I drew this picture of a robot girl looking sad in front of a mirror with red LED pimples on her face. My friends all thought it was hillarious.
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My online music teacher got kicked out of centra (the software we use) twice today. It was annoying and hilarious at the same time.
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466–I’m not sure I agree. Don’t get me wrong, I respect your position that HP is not very well written, I just don’t think I agree. I mean, sure there are some things that i think could be written better, but then, that’s the case with every book I have ever read (including LOTR, which i think you cited as a well-written book–and no, I’m not trying to say it’s not well written). However, a lot of my issues with the wording/phrasing/etc are only present in the US editions (again, I have to imagine that the Canadian editions, given that I’m 99% certain they’re not through scholastic, are probably closer to the original british), and I have found the UK editions sound a lot better–largely due in part, to the fact that the phrasing/spellings/worse usage in the UK editions have a very british feel to them, unlike the US editions.
Of course, there is one major thing with the UK editions that I could see people construing as badly written grammatically. When referring to a group, such as a team (Gryffindor/slytherin/ravenclaw/Hufflepuff quidditch teams, for example), instead of saying “Griffindor was winning” or “Gryffindors were winning” it is phrase “Gryffindor were winning.” but, as a certain beloved GAPA (Robert) pointed out years and years ago when I was posting these and other differences, this is not incorrect, per se. Although it is incorrect to those of us in the US (and perhaps to those of you in Canada–I’m afraid I don’t know much about grammar/spelling/etc, except that you use so-called “british” spelling), it is quite common to refer to a singular team/company/school as plural because it is, in a sense, plural, as it is composed of multiple people…..
So, yeah, anyway, basically I think what I’m trying to say is I think that they HP books are, quite well written, and as far as literature, according to my dictionary, literature is defined as:
written works, esp. those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit
Well, I personally think that HP has superior, or certainly lasting, artistic merit, so to me, it fits quite well into the category of literature. Great literature? Well, if it’s still insanely popular when we all are parents, and even grandparents, I would certainly say so. Its well on its way to becoming ranked among such literary classics as LOTR and….drat, I can’t think of the other guy (or his works) that I”m thinking of……
anyway, yeah.
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465- Shrubs? *Is very confused*
466- You have tests in gym?
468- That is funny.
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450- Don’t forget the Jakob has faults!!! Edward is good at everything- including looking after Bella’s feelings. But Jake has faults aka really likeing Bella and through that somtimes forgeting what’s best for her. My friends don’t belive me though.
452- My bgest friends who are guys love twilight. Nothing wrong with that.
466- Yeah sorry. I was in a defensive mood. Especaily pertaining to HP. My best friends don’t seem to like it so I always am on the lookout for mean things they’ll say to it. It’s cool…sorry.
468- I actualy think it sounds really deep. Like: “We all have the same problems” or “It’s rough all over” (The Outsiders refeance there) My friends all say I take things too deeply and try to hard to look for the story behind the story but my English and History teachers disagree. Ah HA! Got it : “There’s a place and time for everything.” See when I type things out and look at it in words it makes me understand! YAY! Anyways that sounds like a really cool picture. Wish I could see it.
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465–I agree with Vendaval. *very confuzzled*
466–ugh, studying (sorry, got lost in a long response, so forgot everything else your post said). I need to study. I’ve got my biolab final tomorrow, and…… *is terrified* The test is 100 questions, and it is what they are calling a “practical” exam. That is, there are 25 stations, 4 questions each, where there is a microscope or something with a slide set on it. You have to look at the slide, (or cross sectioned cow heart, or some other such thing) and answer four questions. You only have 2 minutes at each station, meaning 30 seconds per question. That is just…..terrifying. I’ve never done someting like that before.
*is very, very scared*
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Ericaceae is also called the “heath family.”
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474– ok….. *is still lost*
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473- 100 questions? Good luck! It sounds fun… what you were learning not the test. Actualy the test sounds sorta fun but not in a situation invovleing only 30 seconds per question. Back on track here: Good luck, break a leg, and Harry Potter! Ugg I swear I can’t keep on topic at all today. *Leaves for some calming tea(hopfully)*
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476–Thanks for the good luck wishes! They are much appreciated. biolab has, overall been fairly enjoyable, although the wide range of subjects we covered is currently a pain trying to study……I mean, we seriously covered everything from bacteria, protists, plants (bryphytes [moss], ferns, gymnosperms [pines, I think], angiosperms [flowering plants]), fungi, animals, circ ulatory system, metabolism, insulin and glucagon and effects on mice, population biology, and lot, lots more that I don’t even want to think about…..of course, lab would ahve been much more enjoyable if we’d had even one dissection……
anyway, yeah, it might be fun if a) we had more time and b) if I wasn’t being graded on it……of course, I”m not quite sure why I”m so worried, I get as low as an 58, I think, and still get an A in biolab, which is worth 40% of the final bio grade……but, yeah. I stress out over this kind of stuff.
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*headdesk* You know what, never mind. Never mind that a tome is a large book, and large books are often used to keep accounts, then known as a ledger. Never mind that the joker is often used as a wild card. Never mind. On the bright side, I am now convinced that I can write the story, as the references I thought were painfully transparent will serve to keep outraged fans off my back.
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440 – No offense or anything, but I was wondering when that thing would die. It had it coming.
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478~ Oh. I sort of wondered if you meant Heath Ledger. When I first read your post I thought that and then disposed of the idea. Go ahead and write it, have fun, be creepy and disturbing. It’s fun.
Ha, one of my friends dressed as The Joker for Halloween. I only saw a photo of the costume…it was pretty funny. Of course, then Mark (other friend) was like “You’ve never seen those movies??”
I haven’t.
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478- I thought you might be referring to Heath Ledger, but I couldn’t put all of them together to be certain. I say go for it. I’d do plenty of research though, if you’re worried about outraged fans.
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478–yeah, I’m slow. And pitifully unknowledgeable about actors’ names. To be quite honest, even if you came out and said “Heath Ledger” my only thought would’ve been: “that name vaguely rings a bell.” I would not have been able to tell you anything about him, much less that he played the joker in the latest batman movie (which I have not seen any of, by the way, but it is playing nonstop on campus Friday, and if I’m not too bogged down stuyding for calculus, I might consider going–it’s only $1), nor if you had said the guy you were talking about played the joker, would I have been able to supply the name. I probably would ahve responded: “he’s dead?” Yeah, like I said, I’m slow…..
However, just because I and a couple outhers didn’t get your references, doesn’t mean that “outraged fans” won’t. I mean, I couldn’t’ve told you anything at all about him, so I’m not one to judge by…..
*needs to continue studying biolab*
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Grant I wold advise you to make sure you are tactful. i can understand where the inspiration comes and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.
I don’t think it has so much to do with avoiding “outraged fans” as respecting the loss of life.
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472- It could be seen as being deep, or as being funny. Or both. I think I’ll draw more pictures with the robot girl.
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470- contrary to what you believe we do actualy have scholastic up here. I have my copy of the third book right in front of me and it is scholastic. in fact, up to grade6 we are given scholastic catalogues. Fun canadian fact. And really, in conclution all I have to say is that they are not that well writen. “he could hear its heavy body slithering heavily across the dusty floor” I rest my case. How is that literature? please try to explain how something with a passage such as that can be literature.
471- yeah. It’s rules of sports and nutrition and what not.
472- it’s cool. we cool. by the way, you spelled literature wrong everytime you spelled it. there is only one U.
473- good luck.
You know what is kinda funny. Hypotheticaly if Canada were to stop being part of the british comonwealth we would have to reprint all our money. I mean, her face is on EVERYTHING. (i totaly love her face too). but that would be ridiculouse amount of money.
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.478 = Same old Grant. You have not changed a bit, my friend: still as amusing as ever!
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GAPAs, I hate to bother you about this but I was wondering when my HPB art will be up on the blog? No hurry, I was just wondering when.
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Sorry for the possible double post.
I got a hair cut today. It is not what I wanted. all I wanted was for all the ends to be evened out. And the hairdresser did just fine, untill the end when she lobs off a hunk of my hair at the front claiming that it “won’t get in my face so much”. Excuse me? now it gets in my face twice as often!!!! because it is too short to tuck behind my ears. AND SHE DIDN’T EVEN ASKED IF I WANTED HER TO DO THAT!!!!!!!!!!! please, if any MBers become hairdressers: ask before you ruin someone’s hair. *is going to be angsty in the corner now*
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477- That… is a lot to cover. And serriously no disections!!! What are they thinking??? I love disections and everyone thinks I’m weird because I’m proud of the fact that in Brownie (1-3) girl scouts I was the ONLY one who could pull out the squids esophagous. Wow…you get good grades. I don’t think I can get an A in math even IF I got a hundred on out chapter test. Homework and me don’t mix.
484- Sounds cool. Yeah it definetly could be both. I mean you’ve got on one hand a robot girl freaking out over acne but on the other hand a robot girl freaking out over acne. (sorry… it made sense to me)
485- There was a reason that my parents got me a present after I brought home a hundred on my spelling test.
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485–oh, ok. I guess I just figured different country, different publisher, but *shrugs* my mistake. Personally, I think all the grammar/phrasing is much better in the original british, than the “americanized” US (and apparently Canadian) editions. so, wait…..does that mean your HP books in Canada have been blatantly americanized, and lack the original spelling? THat seems stupid, given that (correct me if I”m wrong, wouldn’t be the first time) doesn’t Canadain spelling more closely resemble British spelling than US spelling? I mean, you guys spell words with lots of “u”s, such as armour, neighbour, colour, etc, right? LIke the british?
As far as “its heavy body slithered heavily”, well…..I don’t htink you can judge whether an entire 7 book series is literature based upon one sentence that could have been phrased less redundantly. I really have to believe, that in every book labelled as literature, there is at least one sentence that is poorly phrased, such as that one, if not phrased even worse (not hard to do, actually), so….I don’t really think that is a good basis.
*wrinkle nose* reprint all the money? if you all were to ever have to do that, it would be awfully expensive, wouldn’t it? *shudder*
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SFTDP……
489–yeah, I know. I was very, very disappointed when I learned that we weren’t going to have any dissections. I mean, I thought that was the whole point of a bio lab? So, yeah…..Personally, I think dissections are one of the most enjoyable parts of bio, because they’re hands on, and well, just plain fun! So, I don’t think your weird that you’re proud of the fact that you were the only one in your brownie group to pull out the squid’s esophagus!
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okay. I just waisted two hours on here when I could have been studying for the exam I have tomorrow. What is up with that? *goes to study* wish me luck. *worries*
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492–best of luck, Kagy! *sends good luck wishes and hugs* I’m sure you’ll do fine.
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491- Finally! Someone who agree’s with me! I’m signing up for labs next year… I think I get that choice… we still have guiance counselor meetings to do. *sigh*
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493- Thanks Luna.
I dislike the idea of disection. Sure, it’s probably fascinating. But I feel that it is against my beliefs. Are the animals killed to be disected? or are they animals that just keeled over?
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*eyelid twitches*
Today we started Human Growth and Development. Boys learn about girls; girls learn about guys. Not pleasant.
*eyelid twitches*
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.496 – I would think that would be a good thing.
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495- Probably just dead ones. I doubt someone finds a frog and kills it just to pull it apart.
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(SFTDP, Accidental submit)
The temperatures are in the 70’s here. I just participated in a shirts-&-skins soccer game. This is December, right? I’m not so sure anymore. Last week the temperatures were between 40 and 60, which is still warm. But shouldn’t temperatures be dropping?
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Animals are bread and humanely killed for the sole purpose of dissection. Usually, or just in all of the cases that I have been involved with.
Why would it be against your beliefs, Kagcomix? (you specifically, I mean.)
I can see reasons for and against, but I think it is an important part of education.
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499 – The temperature is the same here. Isn’t it completely insane?
495/500- Yes, the problem with dissection is that animals have to die due to the nature of the activity. It’s fascinating and we learn from it… but we have to kill animals. I wish there were some kind of holographic substitute or something.
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.500 (Vendaval) – bread with butter?
(Sorry, buddy. Couldn’t resist.)
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501- There’s a website, froguts.com, that schools can subscribe to for virtual frog dissection. It set off my hemophobia in a bad way in 7th grade.
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My friend created a petition to stop frog dissection in our school in seventh grade. I think it came to 50 or so total signatures, and she submitted it to the “authorities,” but nothing came of it. Obviously.
Now that I think of it, I suppose the fact that we drew pictures of sad Kermits and wee froggies all over the page didn’t help them much to take us seriously.
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do you know what was my last post? I cant find it? post overload! I dont know where to start reading!!
it must be this Christmas spirit!!
My Chinese exchange student from last year is sending me a mickey mouse MP3 and a MickeyMouse ring watch, I feel very loved!!!
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Here’s something I found doing a follow up on a random fact on our news board about a chinese girl (woman, really) left partially deaf after kissing her boyfriend…..yup, you heard me right.
might make you think twice about passionate snogging. Not that I have any experience in that field.
Here’s a delinkified linky, if the GAPA allows:
[I almost allowed, but then thought “It’s easy enough to find by just searching with ‘deaf’ and ‘kiss’ and ‘bbc’ Seek and you shall find — Rosanne]
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502- Oops!
503- Do you think it’s as good as a real dissection? (It must be pretty realistic to get a reaction)
505- Using Ctrl+F, I think it was at 247.
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Gooooooooooooooooood morning MB! I don’t have much time, so I’ve gotta go search other threads…….. *leaves hurriedly*
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Wahhh ! I’m home for lunch break and I have to go back to school in 30 min, where I can spend my time first listening to Austria’s pollitics since the WW1. Then I can spend two hours drawing genetically mutated pinapples, without my best friend who will be “at the doctors”. That used to be my excuse…I think I’m a bad influence to her. Either way, I’ll be all alone without anyone to joke about my punk-pear and her King-Kong pear (we’re painting still-lifes with fruit)… *headd
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496- Ah yes. I remember it well…..
500- humanly killed….. What is humane killing??? really. It’s against my beliefs because I am against the unnecessairy slaughter of animals. Disection is seriously unnecessairy. Sure, if you should chance upon a frog lying dead by almeans take it apart. But to raise an animal just so as that it can be opened up and taken apart. At least the humans who donate their body to scientific reasearch donated their bodies and lived their lives! That is my view on the subject. Disection is against my beliefs.
501- Is there a reason they could not just use a sheep (for example) that just keeled over??? Seriously. To raise an animal only to kill it seems a bit like a waist of time. At least this way you could have the sheep for it’s whole life and it could be used as a wool sheep or something. Just a suggestion.
506- I went and read an article about that. It’s aweful but soooo funny!
Well. I’m off to my exam nowish.
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510–well, I don’t really agree that dissection is unnecessary. I mean, they are used to supplement students’ understanding of biology and animal physiology, and all sorts of other stuff. I don’t think you can truly get the same out of a virtual dissection and you definitley can’t get as much out of reading a textbook.
They are also an indispensable learning tool in the field of veterinary medicine–would you want a recently graduated vet student operating on your pet, if they had never performed dissections/operations hands on, had only watched a virtual one, or read about how to perform them in a book? I wouldn’t.
Reasons why they couldn’t just use an animal that died of natural causes:
1. How often do you just happen upon a frog that’s died? or an earthworm?
2. even if you do find one, chances are its not in any condition to be suitable for a dissection (to decomposed, to damaged, etc)
3. I don’t think that enough animals “just keel over” (and are found, esecially) for this to work. I mean, the number of specimens required for just highschool students alone is so vastly huge, that I don’t think this method could possibly supply them fast enough.
Probably too late (as you are probably gone, already) but good luck on your exam!
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Why on earth are we past 500 posts??? Goodness me. I must say the new colors are quite a shocker to these old eyes. But they are indeed purtyful.
Hello again, chappos and such. I just remembered to drop in and shout a “YO!” to all my favorite mubers. Ha, new word… MUseBloggERS… And so yet another flash of inspiration and eccentricity strikes again.
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This time next week, I will be done with this semester! And suffering through an entire of day of no school, without being able to go home, as my flight isn’t until Friday……*sniffle*
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511- earthworms are fairly easy to find immediately after rainstorms.
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511- you do make some good points. i wouldn’t want a veteranarian who had never seen the inside of an animal first hand. But in Highschool disections are a bit unnecessairy. and thanks for the good luck. I apreciate it. I think I did fine on the exam. *has to go study for her next exam now*
512- hey Faye! I missed you.
513- awwww. *hugs* have fun in alaska when you go!
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512- Good to see you again!
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525–I’m glad your exam went well…..and don’t worry, I will have tons’n’tons of fun at home, if for no other reason than I don’t have to think about school even once! And I’ll get to enjoy some real winter weather, maybe go ice skating (on real, outdoor ice!), get to sleep in my own bed, see my family (I miss them), and see my sweet little angel-demon (aka, my sweet snuggly–but crazy–cat, who is about two, and whom we’ve had for…..almost a year now). We got him around christmas, cuz he was a stray at the clinic I was working at, and I convince my dad that it would be so mean to make a tech come in on Christmas and new years’ weekends, so I got to take him home both those weekends, and dad (the notorious cathater) caved and let us keep him. and now dad is often seen with my kitty in his lap, and since I left for college, apparently even allows him to sleep in his bed (at the same time he is in it, no less!).
Anyway, I think I did well on my biolab final, despite my panic of the last couple days. I think I probably got a B or high C at worst, and given that I only needed a 54 to get an A in lab portion, I think I probably more than exceeded that, so I don’t have to worry too much about the lecture final, as I think I only need a B of some kind to pull an A in the entire course. *is very, very happy*
I am so very happy that my first semester of college is going so well……I must confess I was rather nervous and terrified, especially given that being homeschooled, it was a very new experience, actually going to classes, and having lectures and all that stuff…..
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