Our first Random Thread of 2009 kicks off our Year of Random Celebrations with a salute to that stalwart factotum, the emoticon. They signal our moods, speak for us when words don’t do, provide work for Smiley Gnomes, and illuminate stupid senseless stories that would otherwise be simply stupid senseless text stories.
(Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!)
…and since I missed my chance on the last thread, happy new year everyone! this is a great picture, rebbeca!
Oh, Lord.
First post? Probably not.
Anyway. Yay for smilies?
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYY NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR EEEEEEEEVVVERRRRRRRYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just rang in the new year (21 minutes ago) by banging on pots and pans downtown. Now I’m all hyper and excited and sort of want to stay up FOREVER and scream and shout and sort of want to sleep, which I can’t do until I’ve cleaned my room. Meh.
Wow, Rebecca! That’s quite an amazing image. The emoticons are very convincingly carved out of marble! My dad and I were trying to identify where the emoticons are on display now.
Yay for emoticons!
Happy New Year, everyone! Here’s to a better 2009.
Aw, I love you, emoticons.
Just after midnight, I ran outside with my brothers so we could see the star Sirius at the beginning of the New Year like the Ancient Egyptians did.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!Nice pic!
This week is smiley week.
(4) I wondered if anyone would spot the location. It’s the Greek sculpture hall at the Louvre. The foreground emoticon replaced the Venus de Milo.
The left side of the hall was created with a flipped image of the right because at first I thought removing the statuary was going to be a more time-consuming job than it actually turned out to be once I figured out an easier way to do it. I should have fixed the join in the floor, tweaked the shadows, and a few other details, but after losing two hours’ worth of work to a Photoshop crash (a rare event), I let a lot of details slide.
By the way, all marble not original to the Louvre was created digitally. It always amazes me to see what light and shadow can do.
Happy New year everyone!
9) Hmmmmmmmm. I thought I recognized the distinctive ceiling and columns.
cool! great picture, but why is the HPB only in the backround? *sighs* happy new year!
Hey GAPAs, I just noticed something….
♥
That should now turn into an actual heart.
Can we have a pie smiley?
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
*pies*
Yay! I love smilies!!!
Happy new year!!! Everyone!!!
8) 
♥ 
, and more!!! 
Hope they all work!!!
13- I think you forgot to double space for the
, 
has to be together not spaced out, 
was missing a colon, ♥ was missing ;.
[Good call. A Smiley Gnome stepped in and made the repairs, as you described.]
Hey, did anyone watch the Rose Parade? I helped decorate a couple of the floats
Hooray for smileys!
An easier way to make ♥:
1. Make sure Num Lock is on.
2. Hold down Alt.
3. Press 3 on the number pad at right.
Voila!
♥
Happy new year, everyone!
I slept till 12! Yay me! *sigh* now i won’t go to bed…
Tomorrow we’re driving up to Michigan and I get to watch the second season of Ugly Betty while we DRIVE DRIVE DRIVE! Yay laptops!
*sigh* it’s 2009. D:
15- I just watched the Rose Parade a couple of minutes ago and the Mission Viejo float was awesome. It had people diving into a pool! One person did a bellyflop!
I also had a field trip with my afterschool program, and we basicly cut dried straw flowers into little tiny pieces. Not that much help! But it went on the float that was the awesomest! The Mission Viejo float!
Happy new year, everyone! I tried to stay up to watch the clock strike the new year, but I fell to sleep at a little after 11:00.
Too bad I missed the new year!Anyway, happy new year everyone!
Tee-hee! I guess we’re actually going to Michigan TODAY. whoopsies! *blushes*
. this is my favourite emoticon:
D:
11- I wouldn’t want it any closer!
WOW. 2009 already? I’ve hardly gotten used to ’08!
Well, let’s appreciate the smileys…..
GAPAs, I thank you for giving us the Welcome thread back. I am very grateful.
This is my last day on MB until April….
Everyone say goodbye!
(24) Bon voyage, Armada!
25-Thanks! I’m going to miss you all so much…. *snif*
We should start an actual topic here. What about we talk about the new year, and plans to celebrate it?
SFTDP. Anyway, I found two small Museblog emoticons in the background. The Mr. Joe smiley, and the cool smiley! I couldn’t have found them if I hadn’t looked closely. Nice work, whoever made that picture!
SFTTP, but I found twisted and shocked smileys too. Now I’ll stop posting!
Goodbye! Have fun, wherever it is you are traveling to! (if you are indeed traveling, and if not, have fun anyway).
30-Thanks, again!
I’m traveling to the Bahamas, to live on a boat. I would never voluntarily give up MB.
I -heart- the picture!
So is it 2009 all over the world now?
24- *Waves* see you, Armada.
Bye Armada, have a great time!
28- Rebecca makes all the pictures.
I think I’ll wait ’till the end of the day to say goodbye to everyone. I’m not gone yet!
There’s a
emoticon in the veryveryvery back too, if you look really closely. And there’s an emoticon ( 
I think) replacing the head of a statue on the right side of the hall. 
Random fact: Bright colors are the fashion trend for ’09. Yay for happiness!
So, I got this really cool t-shirt today from OmniPeace. You should check out their site. THey donate 25% of the profits to try to end extreme poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2025.
Since we have users from several countries, here, shouldn’t it be INTERnational Emoticon Appreciation Month?
31- JEALOUS! Have fun on the boat!
Speaking of boats, I’m going to do some sort of fundraiser/sponsorship in order to raise $600 for the Adventuress sail. (Why is it so darn expensive?) I may send letters to various people asking them to sponsor me, or we may do an art show where the proceeds go to the trip. In any case, I think I’m going to email the Adventuress people and ask if we really get to learn how to sail, like, go up in the rigging and reef the sails in the middle of a typhoon. Or even do that minus the typhoon.
Things I have been wondering:
Would it really be possible for a girl to disguise herself as a boy, like in all the stories? They tried in the Twelfth Night movie and it was really unconvincing. When I get my hair cut, I’m going to try, even though it’ll still be longer than a boy’s.
39-It’s possible. People mistake me for a boy all the time, and I have noticeable breasts. All you need is a short haircut and boys’ clothes. Unless you have an unusually ‘girly’ build, in which case it might be harder.
People still mistake me as a girl, despite the fact that I have a moustache. I guess the long hair throws them off!
Bye, Armada!
42(!)-That’s strange…. Funny, some boys look more masculine with long hair than they do with short hair, but for some it’s the other way around…
How old are you?
Where is Armada going?
‘Bye Armada, I’ll miss you! Have fun though.
39~ I’m not really sure about the Adventuress. One thing that I’m going to say here is that you most likely will not be going aloft if you go on a “sail cruse.” The reason being is that a tall ship is already a dangerous place to be, but going aloft is incredibly dangerous, and organizations that own tall ships and sail them for the public have to have themselves entirely covered and then some as far as legal procedures go. When I went on board the Zodiac my parents had to sign a paper that said basically “if my child gets hurt or killed while on our sips you can’t sue us because this paper says so.” (the Adventuress actually used to be run by the same people, so I feel pretty confident in saying that the programs are probably comparable.)
More on my experience on the Zodiac, we were all assigned daily tasks, like wiping counters in the galley, polishing brass or soaking the deck in the morning, and we all had a “sailing station” that we were assigned to to assist with the sailing. For example, I was assigned to the starboard jib sheet, which meant that every time we came about I had to be standing at my line ready to haul or ease depending on the tack we were sailing on or changing to, and in the evening I had to help furl it (got to go out on the bowsprit to do so, but that’s not really the same as going aloft). In a situation like that you certainly learn some, but it’s hard because every time the action is taking place you have to do the same thing, and that doesn’t prepare you for actually working on a ship as a real sailor, you’ll learn things you certainly need to know, but you really need to be able to work all stations and understand the complete rig, not just one or two lines that directly involve yor station.
I think that if you really want to learn to sail for real the best thing to do would be to contact different organizations and ask what sort of requirements they have for their crew members. Ask if you can volunteer or even help out ship maintenance in port, that could be a god way to familiarize yourself with the rig and learn your way around a ship before you even go sailing. On the Adventuress there’s the ships’ apprentice program, but that’s for people who’ve gone through their sail cruises already. Humph. Maybe see if they can make an exception, and that you have a good bit of book learning and are serious about sailing and want to actively learn as much as you possibly can about the workings of the ship. They may just decide that that’s possible.
The American Sail Training Association also has internships in the summer, I don’t know very much about them but you may check it out, that could be a good way to get on a crew and be able to learn sailing. I’d definitely look that up.
I’m looking too, but for me mostly on the East Coast. However, I’ll let you know as soon as I find something that kooks like it’ll work!
Oh, dressing as a boy….yes, it’s possible. I used to be mistaken for a boy all the time, and my mom was still being called a boy when she was 18.
If I had short hair, a hat and loose boyish clothes I could probably look like a guy. I look slightly boyish when part my hair way to the side, and in certain clothes that hide my shape I think I look rather boyish.
I’m planning on getting a short haircut in the summer, so we’ll see how that goes….
44- To the Bahamas. To live on a boat. For three months.
47~ Wow, that sounds horribly amazing and crazy fun! Have a wonderful time, I’m sure you will. Don’t forget to take along some sunscreen!
47 – That sounds flamablamablous! Though, beware of boredom. (Yes, living in paradise too long can be a bit boring at times.) Remember to take along a Muse!
48-Thanks. It is fun, though you have to realize that it’s not a vacation. We have no refrigerator, no electric lights, no internet, no phone, no washing machine, no shower, we wear all clothes until they’re too stiff to put on anymore, the quality of some of the water we drink is questionable at best, and we have spells of having basically nothing to eat but cabbage and fish jerky for weeks. It’s… interesting. And, yes, fun. I mean, we’re in the Bahamas.
As for the sunscreen, yes, we will bring some. We’ll have to put it on on the plane, since just standing around on the docks for half an hour to wait for someone to take us to the boat is enough to give you a sunburn.
39- If you want to learn to sail, I highly suggest taking a sailing program on small boats, at a local community center, sailing club, or by even asking a neighbor. I know you want to sail big boats, but understanding how a boat works (not just how to work it) is essential to operating one knowingly. MF knows more than me about tall ships, so I would follow her advice, and I agree that you shouldn’t be too hopeful about learning tons on a short cruise. But trust me, dinghys are fun, and you’ll be able to see what the big boat is doing much easier.
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47- Goodbye! Have fun! We’ll all miss you.
ATTENTION MUSEBLOGGERS!
There’s a party happening over at Muse Academy. A part of the party is an anonymous Gift Exchange. If you dropped off a gift, or would like to receive one, please come on over!There are still quite a few gifts that have not been chosen, and a few awaiting your permission to be opened.
50~ Even better! Wait, if no phone is an issue, can’t you get a cell phone or one of those track phones that has prepaid minutes? Are you going to be getting off the boat ever? There’s such a thing as laundrymats to wash your clothes! Electric lights are overrated, fridges are nice but not needed and internet can be found at libraries to make us all die of jealously at your incredibly awesome lifestyle.
Have fun, beware of pirates and do tell all when you come home!
By the way, what sort of boat are you on?
52-No, there’s no cell phone coverage in the Bahamas. I do know there are laundromats, we use them whenever we can, but not all islands have them. A library with internet is something I have not yet seen in the Bahamas. There may be some in Nassau, but not where we are. Most libraries are hundred-year-old, one room shacks with books from thirty years ago or books that have been donated by cruisers. But there is an ‘internet shack’ in the first place I’m going, anyway, so I may be able to check in now and again, in the first few weeks anyway. The boat is a trimaran, which is nice because there’s more room.
So, yeah!
I am inexplicably really upset today. hmm. I think I’ll start on my needlepoint kit! that sounds fun. or something. argh. I hate this.
Adieu Armada! You ought to chronicle your adventures, that sounds like the plot of a very interesting book.
39- There is someone at college who has a really feminine body type (her face is rather masculine though) and when she binds herself, ties her hair back in a low ponytail and walks in a different way she makes a convincing man. There is a lot of character in stance and mannerisms. Apparently I can do an okay man-walk myself according to people on my floor. I didn’t really work all that hard on it though, I walk like a less old version of Zorka, a character I played once. (he was a crazy old man who played the violin basically).
51~ Good advice. Smaller boats work on the same principles as tall ships, and they respond quicker so you get immediate feedback on how you’re doing. It’s still pretty different though.
Sorry for the double post, but it’s almost midnight and I need to get up early tomorrow…..
Goodbye, beloved MB. I will see you…. tomorrow, or the next day, or in April. If I can get a signal on the plane I’ll check in using my Kindle, and I’ll try to get to the internet cafe whenever I can, but don’t count on me showing up anytime. Have a going-away roda for me, okay?
*shoves berimbau into Robert’s hands* *gives agogo to MF* *gives pandeiro to Vendaval* Okay, everyone else, stand in a circle….
No, a circle! Not a lima bean!
Robert, you’re holding that upside down….
Vendy, what are you doing? It’s a tambourine,not a drum!
…..What do you mean, none of you know the words to ‘Boa Viagem’?
*throws hands in air* I give up. I’ll just have to give you a lesson in capoeira music when I come back.
57~ Bye, have a great time! *tries to figure out what an agogo is and what to do with it* *gives up, hugs Armada and sends her with well wishes for her trip*
57- Bye, Armada! We’ll miss you! *hugs and gives some choklit and pies for the road*
I’m sorry to be up at… *checks clock* 2:07 am, but I can’t get half an inch of sleep. I’m jacked up on knowledge, and my brain feels like it’s about to explode and leave brain juice all over my skull. Finals are next week, I still haven’t finished that cakin’ speech, and biology is nagging at my mind like a dull pickaxe on a one-tenth scale model of Mount Everest. *rant*
Anyway, happy New Year! 3 days until we go back to school, best enjoy them all…
43- 13!
Bye Armada! Have fun!
I’m back! I would have been on sooner, but I caught a cold.
“Welcome, Neophytes!” is open again!
Thank you, GAPAs.
Happy month of appreciating emoticons! Happy 2009!
Have a good trip, Armada!
wow, i havent been on in forever! its so good to be back!
My blogiversary was about ten days ago. Wow!
63- Welcome back! I was wondering where you had gone.
Have fun, Armada. Try to survive without us.
45- I know, I know, we won’t really get to do much. But you have to understand that there’s nothing here, as far as I know. The Lady Washington and the Hawaiian Chieftain, the Zodiac, and the Adventuress. At least if I do the sail cruise I’ll have an opportunity to do the sail training…
Here’s my plan. I’ll get my parents to write a special letter saying that I climb the rigging and learn to sail and everything and they promise not to sue anybody, and then I’ll pester the people in charge continuously. It might work. And then I can do the sail training, which is what I really want.
51- I know how to sail, at least as much as two years of sailing camp taught me (and I’m going to try to take it again this year, but my spring break might not coincide with the sailing camp). The problem is, we live on a river and it’s really dangerous to try to sail a small boat here. I wouldn’t mind, but I don’t think my parents would let me. That’s what’s kept me from sailing the little racing boat out in the yard.
57- BYE!!!! -waves handkerchief-
64- My blogoversary is easy to remember, its halloween. Trust me to be sitting at my computer on that night of candy
*squeals in joy* I finally managed to make a representation of my BA character! GAPAs, please don’t snip-it’s not revealing any personal info!
It looks fairly like her, BA people. *blinks*
RANDOM:
Can I have an HPB pet? I’d like that…
64- Congratulations! One year, I take it? Excellent.
39- Yes, I get mistaken for a boy all the time.
24) Aw. Bye Armada.
Have fun in the Bahamas! 
Oh dear. I have a lot of homework. But I can’t bring myself to do it. There are so many other things that I could be doing.
Hi. My hands are freezing.
I think I’ll organize a freeze flash mob. Wouldn’t that be so fun?
Hello all. I’m home again, well, actually I’m at the local library, but I’m going to sleep in my own bed tonight, and the kitty that greeted me today was my own, and all the clothes I can wear aren’t packed in a duffel bag. How weird it feels, one get’s used to being away from home and visiting with people that you don’t always see when one is away for a few weeks. Odd.
Let’s review, I was in WI visiting my grandparents over Christmas, got home, spent the night, did laundry and left the next day to visit a friend on the Eastern Shore (MD) for awhile, and I just got back again. Whew. That’s over for awhile, so now I can look forward to not going anywhere or seeing anyone except family members for days on end and doing homework, fun eh?
66~ Good luck with your plan.
72- Hi. My feet are freezing.
73 (re 66)- do I sense a subtle tinge of sarcasm?
72- I wanted to do that at my school for april fool’s, but it never really materialized. i’m with ya, though. great idea.
74~ I suncerely wish you luck, but I’m not entirely sure that your plan will succeed, since most regulations I’ve seen as far as going aloft require training, signing of papers, and the scary sounding “physical test” that is different from ship to ship. The Kalmar Nyckel makes you do three pull-ups. Jamestown Settlement basically juist sends you aloft with a crew member to tell you what to do. Others may be more strick or lax, I have no idea. I’m just a little sceptical that as a member of a sail cruse you’ll be able to cajole them into allowing you aloft. But who knows? Practive your begging face and be persistent.
If you seem to know a good bit about the working of ships and rigging before you start perstering them they may be a little more inclined to let you have your way, so start reading and ask questions when you have any.
Does anybody have any tips on starting a blog revolving around an interest? Say, science of chemistry?
Okay, I just finished reading the entire archives of The Empowered RPW- the creativity that the people here have never ceases to amaze me.
Bleeeaaah I just got my widsom teeth out today. I have been eating jello and ice cream all day. No major pain yet, and on the plus side, I got a chocolate shake from In-N-Out with makes everything worth it. But I’ve lost so much blood I look like a vampire, dark circles and all. Ick.
ANYways, yes, a flash freeze mob would pwn. Has anyone seen the “Improv Everywhere” vid where they did one in Grand Central Station (in NY)? V. cool. I don’t know how those people stand so still.
Sigh…I’m bored out of my skull. End random rant. Apologies for whining about my teeth
Hi again, everyone. I realize that checking in again is rather anticlimatic after all this, but I couldn’t stay away. Fiddler– I meant to say atabaque, though an agogo is another capoeira instrument. An atabaque is a drum, a big upright one. In case you’re wondering, a pandeiro is a tambourine. A berimbau…. well, Google it. It’s hard to explain.
Well, I’ll go meld with the rest of the blog now. I’m on a friend’s computer, so I don’t know how much time I have.
78- Aw… That RPW was super clichè though. I was so devoted to that thing for so long, and no other RPW has ever been half as productive, or fun, or confusing, but the story was really bad.
Now I’m getting all nostalgic. I do love that thing go. Particularly Tutankhbastet when he turned evil. I was so surprised! In anything else I would have seen it coming miles away, but in the RPW I really felt betrayed.
-blinkblink- I’m not sure how that “go” slipped into the second paragraph. Maybe I meant so…
I’m back! Ten hours in the car with my dad, mom, younger sister, and dog. I’ve got quite a lot of back-posts to read before I crash, so I’ll ramble about my trip tomorrow.
I’m back =D it is thundering >< and raining heavily, but I am back sweet home on the blog and on my twilight reading site
she is really quiet…this may have had something to do with the fact she ate 13 puzzle peices..oh dear. I feel sick…this may have had something to o with the fact I have just eaten a vast amount of chocolate..
great pic Rebecca 
The weather was actualy good, which is an odd thing, for Whare Flat, which is a feild(or group of, with native bush around) in the middle of nowhere and here was held the music festival (of Whare Flat). There is a swimming hole that is so FREEZING, I never went above my waist, besides, there was didymo everywhere. On the last day I sat with Steph, Jasmine, Marco, and we were occasionally visited by guys in their mid-twenties-Daniel, Migal, Patrick, Angus, Sam, and we played “Mao” all day! Do any of you guys know it? it is the most crazy/random card game!
the rules are basically last card BUT when you play 9 of diamonds you have to say “thats the badger”, when you play a 7 you have to say “have a nice day” or “have a very nice day” depending how many 7’s are put down, and the next person must pick up a penalty card, Jacks change suit. Oh, and it’s silent so if you want to talk you must say “point of order” and then “end point of order” and you cannot look at your cards during a P of O. Now, here is the crazy bit, this game never finishes, you never win, if you get out you can come back in whenever you like and you can make up a rule, which you dont tell anyone else but penalise them for failure to do that rule (so they work it out after time) . it was a crazy crazy game!
Woah. Heavy rain.
I think shnookle pookle nessie pie (my dog) is sick
I am so obsessed with Twilight and I never realised..I said (or meant to say) to my dad “will the vacuum cleaner reach to there?” but instead I said “will the vampire reach to there?”…oh well, they both suck…
Hope everyone had a good New Year
Museblog wasn’t letting me post for a while… just checking to see if it is now.
84- Did you really say that? That’s awesome! I mean, i say stuff I dont mean to, and i say a lot of Twilight related stuff but they never combine. And that sucking comment was uber funny too!
ONLY 2 DAYS TILL SCHOOL AGAIN???
SERIOUSLY???
Boy, time sure does move fast!
64: Happy (belated) blogiversery, ZVX! *giant barrage of pies with BA written on them with black frosting*
84: I hate Twilight now. It’s irritating.
Ugghhh… my mother is going to mak me clean my room today… I HATE CLEANING!!!
Bleahh, I have English reading and paper over break and I didn’t do them yet. This sucks.
87- Don’t remind me!
87 – Oh, great. Don’t remind me. *runs off to complete her APUSH application and extra credit she put off*
90- I’m sad I reminded myself! I still haven’t finished my speech! Aaaaaah! *panics* That’s what procrastination does to you!
91 – YAY! I finished it! Way ahead of schedule! But it’s a bit short, so I’ll revise it tomorrow. SFT (potential) DP.
Again, may I ask:
Does anybody have any tips on starting a blog revolving around an interest?
SFTDP (again, although 93 wasn’t a double post).
87) I know. *groan*
68) Hee hee. My sister uses that same site that you made that on. She makes one of all her close friends and family. She mae one of me to….
I’m tired, even though I slept until almost 12:30. *sigh* And I have absolutely no idea what to do today, I should probably do homework, but (as usual) I don’t want to. I could finish reading Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, but I’m in a rare mood where I don’t feel like reading. (*GASP*)
What I do feel like doing is watching a movie, because that would take up time and I wouldn’t have to do anything at all, how sad is that? Very.
Anyway, Kokonvention tomorrow! That’ll be fun.
Ugh, I should go practice……I haven’t in ages and I think I have a lesson coming up. I need to get used to living at home again!
94- Set up one on WordPress or Blogger or something, get the word out via e-mail/posters/wom to your chemmy/(whatever) friends, put the word out online, and keep it fresh so people want to read it.
So you know how I’ve got that thing if I don’t like it, I’ll leave it alone but if I don’t like it and it’s popular I HATE it? (Twilight, Metro Station, etc.) I don’t know where I was going with this, and I think I actually had another thing to add to the list, but I forgot it now. Sorry. I’ll add it later.
97-So…if you dont like it and you leave it alone, but it becomes popular ad you know its popular then you didn’t really leave it alone, either by knowing its popular or by hating it….
etc
i’m back from disney world, as you can see…or read…or whatever. alive, and mostly well. the fireworks were amazing. the whole trip actually was amazing. epic win
Sorry for the double post but i just got my issue of Muse and I’m unsure whether my brother has been hoarding it or its just come and you havent had the disscusion yet… if so i dont want to spoil it!
94- I would clearly define my subject, and aim (to discuss facets of the interest, what you’ve done with the interest, etc.) Then I would build up a resource section, with links to other sites. A regular schedule for posting will improve your writing and blogging.
98) I’m confused.
102- I tend to do that to people, even myself. The question is, did i confuse Beavo?
103) Did you?
97, 101 – Thanks! I’m probably going to make one on the sciences in general. Maybe it’ll focus on chemistry, I’m not sure. Any further tips?
Does anybody else here get scared when the barber does the back of your neck with a razor? Because I sure do.
104- I dunno. oh beaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaavoooooooooooooooo…!
104- Yes indeed we’ll find out when he shows up next.
Moderation seems really staggeringly slow right now.
Ugggg… I have huge math packets to do for HW which I haven’t yet. For my birthday, my grandmother sent me “Franklin is Messy”…( A picture book) as a joke because my room is such a mess. I laughed…
Happy birthday, Lady B!
(109) Kokonilly: Moderation was nonexistent for a couple of hours. Sorry about that — my Treo ran out of battery power before I could warn you all.
111 – Oh. That’s okay. I was just getting a bit impatient.
Ooh, my feet hurt. I danced for three hours (with one break) and I think my shoes must be considerably more worn out than before I went.
It was great, though. We did line dances, circle dances, and square dances. I sat out on the two waltzes, but that was all. I got horribly confused in one of the line dances, but other than that I managed to keep up, albeit with some small confusions mostly dealing with right and left.
I’m really really happy now. And tired.
113~ That sounds fun! What was the occasion?
111- Wow. Our obsession makes you moderate on-the-go? We’re so inconsiderate. Here, have a pollachi (sweet, fruit-filled Polish pastry).
114- On the first Saturday of every month a nearby grange has dances. Unfortunately, I tend to forget, and on the occasions I remember, I have to babysit.
Five years ago today, the Spirit rover landed on Mars! Boo-ya!
117- It amazing to think that they predicted it to last only 90 days and here we are, 365 x 5 days later!
Oh my goodness. Nice picture Lady B. I leave for 3 days and what happens? Anyways, happy new year. I was skiing. Which is something I don’t really enjoy. Maybe I should read the previouse posts…. naaaaah. *is lazy*
So, what do y’all think of the current violence between Hamas and Israel?
120- ISRAEL OUT OF GAZA NOW!
It pisses me off that no members of the IDF have been punished for war crimes by the United Nations. The international community should be outraged.
But seriously, if you want to have this discussion, lets go to a Hot Topics thread and spare this thread the flame wars.
*crickets chirp*
120- I’d like to discuss, but overhere.
123- I’ve already asked there.
School tomorrow! Dang! But I’m trying to be cheerful!
I’m sorta bummed because I already know what’s going to be assigned in at least two of my classes! An essay in History that we didn’t get to do because there was a week of snow-related school closures, Math homework (I’ve already finished the project so the homework should be easy), and possibly an English commentary! *rants* I HATE commentaries, mostly because you have to nitpick at some short thing like a sentence or a stanza. I HATE analyzing, let alone nitpicking. We should leave literature to the people who actually want to do that sort of thing.
I guess I was wrong on the I hate analyzing thing. I like to think about the book a little to see what it was trying to tell me. I feel as if I got a complete read when I do that. But I HATE writing things about books! We should just have to tell the teacher what we thought and then get an A. End of story.
*end rant*
I have PHD (Post-Holiday Depression). All of my relatives are gone and it’s back to same old, same old. Boo hoo.
ATTENTION ALL MUSEBLOGGERS!!!! This is a very important moment. There are finally going to be pie smileys!!!!!!
and 
will be leaving us, to be replaced by a pie viewed from the top and a pie thrown to the right. 
will stay, as it now represents a wung. See the HG2MB thread for details. Oh, and it’s not coming today, but SOON!
I went to the Mall of America and went to the American Girl Store. There’s an excess of pinkness there.
RtH Hey everybody! We’re having a kokonvention here, and we have Robert and Rebecca, too!!!
Fiddler Hi! We’re having fun here, as I type this Robert is playing the banjo and singing behind me in the HAWK family’s living room while the parental -units sit around the table talking, oh, and Rebecca’s just started dancing. It’s been great fun, playing music, talking and eating pie is such great fun! *is happy*
Robert here! HAWK’s mother makes amazing pies. They were so good that we actually had to eat them!
This is Rebecca. My mind is on the music and not really not coming up with words. In fact I’m typing to the music which doesn’t help either my typing or my verbal communication skills.
129- Awesome! That’s totally wicked! It would be soo cool to meet at least one of the GAPAs.
129- Aw, I’m jealous! Have fun!
130- I really need to talk to Cinnamoon about a Portland kokon. I think she’s in Eastern WA now, but we were considering a Portland kokon last year.
129 – That would be flamablamablous to meet a GAPA!
113/116 – That sounds fun. What’s a grange, though?
117 – I remember that! Was it seriously five years ago?
Last night, I had a reunion (party) with my class from last year. I organized the whole thing over email, and had been doing so for over a month. The party was going to be in my basement, and of course right beforehand I got really nervous (what if no one came?). But then of course people did come. It was really fun–music playing, people talking, etc. We never did get around to watching the movie we were going to watch. It was so nice to have everyone together again, and I got to see some people I hadn’t seen in a while.
133- A grange is…um… -looks up- a lodge belonging to a fraternal organization of farmers.
131- You is needing to be talking to me, too!
*in addition to 135*
Oh, wait, that was directed towards me. Sorry. I is being a dummy and not looking at all the posties.
128: You should see the ones my younger cousin drags me into. *shudder* I think HPBs take over those kind of stores.
130: Aren’t Kokons great?
I just figured out what I’m going to do for next year’s lip sync show (and no, Robert, it will not be Summer in the City.)! Movin’ Right Along with Spumoni! I’m Fozzie (I hope) and she’ll be Kermit. I know what I’m going to wear already!
*needs to get a life*
My mouse is out of battery, so I’m typing this with tab and I want to finish up because- oops, Momup. Mugo. Byelater!
Zinc- You chose my present on Holiday party and I want to tell you what it is! Head over there, please!
131- I’m still hoping for a Portland ko kon. I asked my parents, and they said that I could, but I don’t know when we’ll be in Portland. I’m thinking probably sometime over the summer, though.
Whee! We have what, three feet of snow? More? Cats Meow? IBCF? I think maybe a bit over. More where it’s drifted. I built an awesome sledding hill in my front yard, and now my toes are cold. I have the worst sled ever. .
140- *mumbles incoherently about impending school*
139- Yeah, we tried last year, I guess. I never actually asked my parents about anything, so I have to muster up the courage this year.
98-Sure?
99-Hi! Glad you had a good time, most people I know go to Disney World and it sucks because of something stupid. I’ve never been :(.
I looked through a bunch of my old (and I mean OLD) stuff, and threw a lot out. It’s amazing how much people can change in a couple of years, much less a decade, no?
On the HG2MB thread, there was a discussion regarding the possibility of a pie smiley. Piggy has made two, which will be coming soon. However, that means the the pies must replace two existing smileys. We decided on
and 
. So, I present a tribute to our soon-to-be-lost friends, 
and 
.
DIFFERENT SMILEYS’ OPINIONS OF THE RETIREMENT OF
AND 
Me (I know I’m not a smiley, but I wanted to add my own opinion):
♥ :grin: ♥ THANK YOU FOR YOUR YEARS OF EMPLOYMENT HERE! GOOD LUCK AND GOODBYE! *pies* ♥ :grin: ♥141 – Apparently the sheriff has ordered all schools closed tomorrow. That would be good.
Sorry for double post – now the news is that he’s only recommended it. We’ll find out tomorrow.
I have to go to school tomorrow. ugh.
ugh indeed.
I feel depressed….school. ugh.
145- not good for MEEE!!!! No snow here!!!!
I guess I’m being selfish because we got a whole week off before winter break.
I hate, hate, HATE school. Pretty much everything about it. I don’t want to go back!
I just want to read and sail and act and learn. School kills the brain.
FINALLY!!! I’m done with the homework I mentioned on the Homework 911 thread. Hooray! Of course, I’m going to get ANOTHER assignment from the SAME TEACHER tomorrow… *grumbles* See ya soon! I’m going to bed now.
Grrrr… My dumb dad just came and ruined my celebratory euphoria. He makes me so mad.
well…
I feel so joyous because….I STILL HAVE 4 WEEKS OF VACATION!! wait…only 4? uh-oh… also I have a school related question: in the US summer holidays are in September right? does that mean that at the beginning of those holidays you stop being grade 1 and move to grade 2…or do you randomly have a really long holiday in the middle of the year and begin a new grade (like us) in the new year?
I just went to see Bolt with my mum and dad…I feel so young! it was cute though! especiallybecause Bolt looks like Nessie! (well…ideally)
For Duke of Edinborough (do you have that in USA?) I have to do some volunteer work, this time some of my friends were volunteering in an elderly care home…so I decided to try do the same with a rest home near me..I’m kind of nervous because…(if the people say yes) it will be depressing! so many old people waiting to die >< and my mum used to work nights at a rest home when she first got back from Africa (she got back 6 months after me & dad) and she came home smelling funny…aaaaaahhhhh!!!!
Well…good bye and I am exceedingly jealous of you kokoners…
Mymother is talking about leeks. the vegetable. I am losing my sanity.
Yay! My school is taking the advice of the sheriff and closing today! But it looks like my sister’s isn’t!
Why does the sheriff want no school today?
156- 3+ feet of snow. And ice.
Wow! That’s a lot! I don’t have school today because they gave the boarding students an extra day (today) to get readjusted before classes start. I’m a day student, so I’m free today!
I don’t have school today either!! we have an ice day and I’m really bumed because we already had a two week break so I miss all my friends and *my crush* haha but I can’t wait to go back tomorrow!
Went to New York to see my grandfather in the hospital, went up to Boston to see my grandmother, went to Eng. for one night, then my grandfather died. We went back for the funeral. Right now I’m at home in Indiana while my dad is sitting the rest of shi’vah in Ft. Lee. And school starts tomorrow. And I’ve had a cough and have been throwing up the past week and a half. Somehow I don’t have a temperature. Last night I had to drag two heavy back packs a mile from the bus station to my house. At least my winter break was better than Israel’s.
154- The new year has nothing to do with new grades for us. We usually have breaks from around end of May/start of June to end of Augut/begining of September, depending on your school. Each time we come back after summer break, we begin a new school year/grade. So class’s are like, class of 06-07, 07-08, ect.
*wonders if that made any sense*
So, first day back at school, hmm. We had our last day of finals today, as the day they were supposed to be on ended up being a snow day merging into winter break. But I only had a study hall (aka I didn’t have to go in and could get up late), and then 75 minutes of band
Then I went to the coffee shop with my two friends, then we walked to the library to drop one o them of for work, and then me and the other walked home. It was fun. Though now I have to do eons of history… uhg. Should have done more over break. Should have done any of it over break >.< Alas…
Waes Hael, everyone! Happy Twelfth Night!
Hi peoples!
Alas. I have school today. But tis OK, because I have a minimum amount of homewor, due to the exams coming up and teacher’s are encouraging us to study instead of iving us homework. Of course, I suppose I should be studying……
160- I’m very sorry, it sounds like you need some time to recover.
Me and Kokonilly have devised a tremendous plan! LISTEN CLOSELY!!!
Massive Kokon!
Okay, so Kokonilly goes to camp right near where I live in the suburbia of Chicago, so we thought that around mid-August 2009, we could arrange a massive Kokonvention involving me, her, and possibly any MBer that lives in Chicago, including Penty, King Wachtelschlag (sp?), Speller73, Beatlesrokr, etc. etc. And possibly the GAPAs could tag along, seeing as it might be HUGE!
So whaddya think?
161: thank youu!!!!!
I am euphoric. Alison is bringing me her copy of Breaking Dawn! YAHOOO!!!! I might marry her. or not. either way I am overjoyed!
163- what time does school finish for you? If it is 2:36pm that you are writing? or is it a time difference? because NZ finishs school at 3:35
165 – I think that’s a FABULOUS idea!!! But then again, I’m kinda biased.
But I think this might work!
Today.
Our principal: Goooood morning mustangs!
Everyone: I hate you. I hate life. Let’s burn the school down.
(nobody does)
118- They’re built to last!
So, yeah, I’m back in school now. But let’s not talk about that.
blossomface? never heard of you before? who are you?
i had school today. i want to go to bed but before that i have to do my english. but i think i’l lkeep procrastinating
165- I’m nowhere near there, but great idea! Are there any other MBers in Western MA besides Brendan and I?
oh. and speaking of the kokon, i might be able to go. i live in the twin cities, but i might be able to convince my parents we need a good family vacation. i like the idea of huge kokonvention. the ones with only a couple people seem a bit…tiny. but IMHO it sounds like a good idea!
Many thanks.
143- Haha, at first I was trying to confuse you but then I accidentally posted under my name from the alter ego thread… which sufficiently confused me too.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHH
ELSIES HERE! no, elsie is not my best friend from another state, she’s the guide dog we are petsitting for the next week. She’s a black lab and sooooo good. Daisy (our yellow lab) has taken to her and has established herself as head of the pack. I’m so excited. The weeks of training are about to pay off!
Today was so fun! My sister and I built more awesome sled ramps, and they were great. We spent three hours outside working on them. We named the bunny hill “hot pink bunny hill” to scare people away. Anyway, life is good. And tomorrow we go back to school, which I’m happy about because we have debate! And I have my first debate tournament on Friday, and I”m really excited about it. It should be really good. X and I are doing student congress, and I think we’ll do really well.
OHMIGOD.
THERE IS NOW A MONOPOLY GAME WITH DEBIT CARDS.
That just sucks the fun out of it.
I was the most alert person in my first period class!
My science teacher gets annoyed with me daily, because I keep on correcting her and telling the class cool tidbits of practically useless information.
Let’s test how fast moderation is right now! Right now, it is, in PTZ: 7:24.
Nice moderation Gee Ay Pee Ays!
I am currnetly bouncing to the beat of Stayin’ Alive.
176 – DEBIT CARDS?!?!?!
Is the economy affecting board games? If there were debit cards, you could just buy anything you want and pay later, which kind of goes against the point of the game. But what do you mean by “the fun”? I don’t have the original Monopoly, but I have Horse-Opoly (you buy and sell horses), and it is the most boring board game ever, counting Littlest Pet Shop.
What??? Debit cards??? That is just dumb. You can’t just take a classic game like Monopoly and change it like that. Not to mention the fact that debit cards will just teach kids who are playing monopoly to be irresponsible spenders.
*fact-checking whoosh* My understanding is, debit cards you can only pay what you have, but credit cards you can promise any amount of money and pay it back later. *unwhoosh*
Completely off-topic: My best friend’s wedding was last week. But I couldn’t go, because I couldn’t afford the airfare. I was just looking at the pictures of the wedding that she’d posted online. A lot of our classmates from high school were there–including people who barely knew her at all. How unfair is that, the best friend doesn’t get to go, but the acquaintances do? *cries*
Monopoly is something which my house has acquired a lot of over the years: Standard Monopoly, Triopoly (not same company), .com Monopoly (yard sale for 1$), Beatles Monopoly (grandparents, Anti-Monopoly (I am not making this up), Earth-opoly (they paved paradise and put up a parking lot), Chocolate Mobnopoly (playable once). Insane, isn’t it?
There’s more snow than yesterday, but apparently it’s safer today than it was, so we’re going to school. Oh well.
.
181- That must be really hard for you. *sends virtual choklit*
165-In mid-August I will be coming down from [snip!] and may spend a few days in Chicago.
Somebody threw a peppermint at me while I was at my locker and hit my back really hard!
I’m still on Christmas break!
Hurrah for never-ending snow days!
How about this for a design for Muse Academy? It’s a house in Dallas, Texas:
Everybody could live in a tower!
Ooooooh! Ahhhhhh! Special… sweet castle! Too bad it’s computer generated…
It’s real, and it can be yours for a mere $3,949,000:
www . realtor.com/search/listingdetail.aspx?loc=southlake%2c+texas&sid=c7fa8b599bf749df8bd423cdaf9546d8&lid=1105354323&lsn=4&srcnt=331
181- I’m sorry! I know of a wedding that happened this past spring and a friend of mine mentioned how other people who weren’t as close to the groom had room in their car but didn’t tell him so he couldn’t go.
184-Sorry. That’s not where I live, that’s where I’m going to camp. Anyway, I might be able to meet at the field or Museum of Sci&Ind.
165- I’d have to check my schedule, but I’m game.
165 – That DOES suck the fun out of the game. The whole point is to lapse into chucking large amounts of money and throwing it at one another.
SFTDP
193 – I meant 176.
187 – Oh! That’s fantastic!
188, 189-Very real, except for the mega photoshop makeover, adding four hundred extra towers and a blue sky.
Got online merch today, and lost the Nightmare Before Christmas poster somebody gave me.
We are expecting “severe winter weather” in our area in a little while! Not so much snow as freezing rain and sleet, though. Meh.
On a completely different note, I just hand-drew an animation of Koko throwing a pie! I think I’ll send it to the GAPA’s…
I do hope I drew the pie-throwing stance correctly.
Hello all! I’ve not been trying to desert dear MuseBlog, but I’ve been a little busy lately. This is now my third day of muserlyness, starting with the Kokonvention at Red-tailed HAWK’s house with Robert and Rebecca and continuing yesterday when Mom and I went to Washington, DC to meet with Rebecca and look at an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art (Pompeii and the Roman Villa). Rebecca and I went to lunch with Robert (nary a dull moment with either of them around, though the Mr. Green faces Robert was making were decidedly alarming). I even was able to get some hot chocolate made with soymilk, how lovely! My tongue is still sore from where I burnt it though.
today, to finish it all up, my Muse came! Now I understand the conversation at the AAAS building about the “Muse cover” that was also on Science magazine. Aha!
187- Cool! If it had air hockey and ping-pong in the basement, I’d move in!
181, 190 – Thanks. *eats choklit*
196 – Me too! I’m extremely glad that it’s wintersession now and that I therefore don’t have to drive to school in this stuff. I’m perfectly good at driving in bad conditions, it’s other drivers colliding with me that I’m worried about.
197 – Ooh, you had a Kokonvention? Lucky!
196- We are too, but then again,we always are.
I thought a debit card is like a credit card but it takes the money directly out of your account, instead of a bill you pay later.
198~ I love air hockey! I’ve spent more hours than is probably sane to admit honing my skills at the air hockey table. I’ve not been able to play for quite some time though. *sigh*
199~ Two, in fact, the first (on the 4th) was at HAWK’s house and on the 5th we went to Washington DC and spent the day with Rebecca, meeting up with Robert for a few hours at lunch.
Oh, I forgot to mention that yesterday we went ice skating at the National Gallery of Art sculpture garden. The ice was dreadful, the skates were ill-fitting (the second pair was better) and the rink guards were obnoxious, but it was great fun anyway!
186 – Meh. Practically every school district in the [snip!] area except the district my school ( a private school, but it generally goes along with the rest of the district regarding closures) is in closed. BTW, Cats Meow and IBCF, we have to have a kokon. To the kokon thread!
Oh, and, Cats Meow, have you heard the rumors that may have some truth that schools might be closed on Thursday due to flooding as the snow melts?
201- If you ever come to an NYC Kokonvention, maybe we can play a game!
This is really random, but I’ve been poking around old threads, and I have a question for Robert: did you get new PWT PWNS plates when your old ones expired?
Привет!
I got my laptop fixed.
And by fixed I mean installed Ubuntu!
It’s amazing!
I can also switch to РуÑÑкий at whim. There’s a little thing on the desktop toolbar that I can click and it goes between English and РуÑÑкий.
Open source FTW!!!!!
(for the win, not the cursing version)
До ÑвиданÑ!
205- WTF is a swear, not FTW.
203~ Okay! Hmm, I have some friends in New York state….not in NYC though.
Debit cards in Monopoly? How would that even work?
181 – I’m sorry! -hugs and choklit-
Gahh. I want a Southeastern Kokon.
206- The first way I learned FTW was meaning F! The World. I don’t know if that’s just the apathy of this area of the USA. Anyway I’m glad it’s more commonly known as For The Win.
I should go now……I’m tired and the room is starting to tip dangerously, maybe I’ll go write a SSSS before heading off, since exhaustion often provides inspiration for the sort of violent lunacy that those threads embrace.
Well, good night everyone!
205- YES! I just installed Ubuntu on my computer by using Wubi (Awesome program- go try it now. Really. Go.), and it is win.
Vendy is up for a Kokon in NYC.
Bye now. More later.
206 – What DOES FTW stand for anyway??? I’ve never found out.
209 – Oh. Never mind.
209- Wow. I was wondering what that meant.
212- For The Win. As in “You can’t loose with that”.
Hello everyone.
How many of you have heard the TAL episode “Fiasco!”? I fear our play may turn out like that. Especially the funeral scene, which is hilarious because everyone is trying not to laugh, failing, and trying to disguise their laughter as tears.
165-A Chicago Kokonvention would be awesome. However, that would be more than a day trip for me. At least we have plenty of notice, so thank you!
187-I love castles. That would be another awesome building for MA!!
197/201-Sounds fun! Sorry I couldn’t come, though we had plenty of fun on Sunday!!! Thanks for Kokonvening, everybody!
204-I wondered that, too. I didn’t go out to check the car when they got here, though.
So here I am, dreading the ice that is so rapidly accumulating on every twig and branch, playing music to try to distract myself. Anyone else in the path of the storm?
What bothers me is how, this winter, it hasn’t been cold enough for snow but has been just cold enough (about 30º F now) for freezing rain.
I hope we have power tomorrow.
211- Woooooo!!!!!!!! Wubi? I haven’t heard of that. I used a cd for mine. I had windows xp before but it kept killing itself with viruses. I eventually got rid of the viruses but it screwed up my computer a lot. Now I won’t even need to bother with virus crap anymore.
If you have firefox you should get adblock plus! It’s amazing. Do it.
I think I’ve managed to convince my dad that I’m crazy. And by crazy I mean really super uber nerdy. We were just watching the History channel and I was going on about how much I love Michio Kaku, then I was trying to read the Russian on the meteor show.
Seriously though, Michio Kaku is adorable. Don’t tell him I said that though. His shows are so entertaining.
P.S. I got “The Else” from TMBG. It is great!
I love The Bee of the Bird of the Moth and The Cap’m.
202 – Oh yes, that’s right, you live around here now! There were actually a lot of schools that were open today. It was only yesterday that pretty much everybody was closed.
And I don’t doubt at all that we’re going to have flooding. It was bad enough last year (the river was amazingly high) and we didn’t have nearly this much snow at one time. Plus, I think it’s supposed to rain a bunch soon.
Right now my parents are at my soccer coach’s father in law’s house trying to stop his roof from collapsing. It’s crazy.
All these kokonvention plans are making my head spin.
I wish I lived by other MBers… Nobody seems to live closer than 4 hours away from me (If I’m correct about whereabouts Alice lives).
219 – I live fairly close to Washington DC, but I always seem to miss the Kokons anyway. *shares in missing of Kokonventions*
218- Yup. I’m kinda worried, because our roof has a bad leak, and our ceiling might collapse. I know that a lot of schools are open, but when we were discussing it at school, it was all “*** high is closed, ******** is closed, the whole of the ******* is closed.”
You know, for a moment there I was actually worried that we might have school tomorrow.
But, never fear – IT SHALL BE ANOTHER SNOW DAY!
I just found something I think some people here would find interesting…
Exclusively for teen writers and creative kids 13-17. Love to write and create? Join a one-week literary sailing adventure with 20 teen writers aboard a famous tall ship in the waters between Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts, and Newport, Rhode Island.
This program brings together former Merlyn’s Pen magazine editors, alumni authors, and creative teens for a week-long celebration of writing, literature, sailing, and the sea. Student writers will get to “rough it” for a week, help sail a tall ship, write together, read and discuss great literature of the sea, explore the coves and beaches between Newport and Martha’s Vineyard[…]
Sounds cool! It’s about $1400 though.
oh, and it’s on the “Shenandoah” if that makes any difference.
212- FREE THE WHAAAAAALES
Oh well snip, I didn’t get a renewed Muse subscription this Christmas from my elderly relative.
!!!
I should fix this. Would it be to late for me to get the January issue yet?
219- Is it really four hours? Ugh.
But that’s half as far as Meow and IBCF and Cinnamoon live from me! Maybe even less.
222- I have school tomorrow.
Unfortunately.
223- -sob- I want to go!!!!!! -sniff-
222- Grr. All we get is a forty five minute delayed start. Ah well – tomorrow, things look brighter. I’m not sure that I actually want no school, though. But still, you’ll just have extra days added on in the summer.
228- Not me! I’m taking my finals early, so I can go kayaking. If it comes down to finals or SSTIKS, I’ll pick SSTIKS any day!
Snow day! More like ice day, actually. Last night I looked out of my window, and all of the roads were covered in solid ice, maybe a quarter of an inch thick! ‘Twas so pretty. The roads are mostly melted now, or salted maybe, but all the leaves and branches look like they are coated in glass… I want to take some photos before it all melts…
It’s raining now…
Raynpho’s GIF animation:
231- Ooh, it’s up! Thanks, Lady B.
Hmm, it seems kind of jerky in spots. I think it’s just my computer lagging, though. I can barely type this comment smoothly.
funny!
230. The radio kept saying different things: Snow, ice, hail ,rain,sleet, slush………… now i’m just waiting for the lava tornadoes
221 – Actually, what made me madder was the district that wasn’t going to be closed today. From what I heard, two elementary schools got evacuated because of the snow on the roofs, there was water dripping from the ceilings at some of the middle school’s and high schools, one of the high schools had some parts of its roof with so much snow that people inside could see the beams bending, and they were still prepared to have school today!
Luckily, at about 5 this morning they decided they were going to change their minds and close, but it seems a little ridiculous that they would even consider opening with all of that going on.
228 – Haha, I don’t mind. I love my school so much, and one more day before leaving is a nice day indeed.
You know, with all these snow days everybody is going to forget that my school had two of those days off anyways. Drat it.
MuseBlog has been rather laggy lately for me, at least on this computer. The pages scroll and the comments type in choppy chunks instead of smoothly, as they should. Does anyone else have this problem?
233- Thanks!
231 – Nice animation!
236 – I haven’t noticed anything out of the ordinary for me.
When did the blog change colors? am I several months late to the party? That honestly wouldn’t surprise me at all because I am never on here anymore.
234- Lava tornadoes would be almost welcome at the moment :/ They would be warm, for one, and after that nothing else would seem like the weather gods are throwing dice for Chicago.
One morning over winter break I sat next to the window after taking a shower and my hair froze. Inside. what.
234- Eventually God is going to get tired of throwing water in all its forms at us and will pick a more destructive substance. Just be grateful for now
it was so icy in the morning yesterday that i had to call my dad to keep him from running to his car to catch the train and probably killing himself.
238. I don’t know about the rest of the world , but i agree. the lava tornados would keep my chickens warm so they would lay more eggs. I just pray they don’t get fried.
241- You need to put a space between each of them, I believe.
242- Augh! I forgot, two spaces. *noob*
242. Thanks for the advice
FFOTME, people on MuseBlog don’t like it when you send two, three, or four posts in a row. It’s annoying. If you need to double post, please say “Sorry, double post” or the abbreviation: SFTDP, meaning sorry for the double post, or SFTTP, sorry for the triple post. You get the idea.
Thanks!
I will probably not be on until two weeks from now because I’m in a show. Hope you are all doing well.
240- I was warm- I sweated my mustache off. That sounds extremely funny out of context.
Hopefully my smiley worked.
Hello!
246-Bye Kagy! Have fun! See you soon!
Well! We didn’t lose power. We lost a few tree limbs, though. Including a rather large pine limb, which appears to have taken down other limb(s) with it. The temperature barely climbed to 35º F, and it was usually hovering at 32º F, so things haven’t melted as much as they could have. It rained much of the day, but thankfully there wasn’t much more freezing. Actually, a couple of minutes ago a gust of wind apparently came through, as the house was bombarded by bits of ice from all sides, resulting in a most unusual sound, indeed!
How are you all? It looks like Northwestern MBers are buried in snow.
231-Awesome! How did you make it, Raynpho?
Welcome to the blog, Fire faerie of the Middle Earth! *Pies*
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247- taking things out of context is always funny. “I’ll demonstrate on you” “wouldn’t it be better if I practiced on you first” “You can practice on me while I demonstrate on you.” We were talking about sword fights.
223- Gah! does anyone know of awesome things like that for eighteen (and up) year olds? preferably free though or paid because I need a job. Eh. I guess I could just try and get an awesome job but getting /any/ job is hard. *sigh*
Oh, and Alice! I volunteer at my mom’s library and she gave me free reign to put whatever I wanted at the end of a shelf so I put JS+MN on one of them. I hope someone picks it up!
Bye, Kagy!
Auditions weren’t so bad. Callbacks tomarrow…
Sweet animation, Rayphno.
Alice (39): Yes, I think it’s definitely possible for a girl to pass as a boy. Although I have long-ish hair, people say I’m boyish because of my walk/mannerisms/clothes/etc. (I also always wear my hair in a low ponytail, which probably helps. Some of my friends say they would definitely think I was a boy if I had shorter hair, too.)
Hawk/Fiddler/Robert/Rebecca (129): It sounds like you were having a great time!
Alice (151): I definitely agree with you. My dad, when he’s trying to get me to stop doing homework (my parents are pretty much the opposite of other parents—they think I spend too much time on homework, and I should just skip a bunch of it, and do other fun stuff instead), he always quotes Mark Twain, who said something along the lines of “don’t let your schooling get in the way of your education.â€
Kiki (165): That sounds awesome! THF and I might be able to come, depending on what our summer schedule is.
Robert (187): It’s so pretty! Too perfect, though. MA would be so much more eccentric.
HAWK (216): Maybe we could arrange a big carpool? You and MF could drive to Pittsburgh, and we could drive you (we have a mini-van) up to Chicago, and perhaps pick up other MBers along the way? This has potential for epicawesomeness. (It’s far in the future, and will definitely involve much parental correspondence, but it could be great.)
248- Thanks! I drew the frames on index card-halves, then scanned all of them to my computer, and put them together with animation shop. The index cards work as a little flip-book too, which I think is pretty spiffeh.
217- Wubi installs Ubuntu as a program inside of Windows so you don’t have to partition things and possibly lose Windows.
The Add-art addon for Addblock for Firefox is also nice, it fills the former ad spaces with artist’s images that change weekly.
238- Hello Not Penty! The blog began changing colors in September (Or about then.), after a few experiments (Beachy colors, HPB Madness). They change semi-seasonally now.
251- It sounds like you are looking for an awesome internship, oxlin. Meh parental units think that these “internships” are the best thing to happen to 16-21 years olds ever in the history of working and you really need to get one now and OMG!! Cooper Hewitt has internships you need to go apply.
Yes, I saw that, thankyou, but I’ve got a summer job, and I do go to school, and Cooper Hewitt is not accepting interns until 2011.
:'(
I’ll get in after that though. Don’t worry.
Have fun, Kagy!
FFOTME- If you’d like to practice your similes and such, the HTML & Typography Thread is open to octuple posting, if you like.
248- Buried in snow is a bit of an understatement. More like buried in snow, rained upon and then frozon for good measure so we are all individual little blocks of cold. My area is infamous for snow but this is insanity in precipitated form!
I went to cartooning glass today.
.238 *DEVOURS*
8U
hallo pentor
that’s kinda crazy about you hair. especially since the only esperience I have with anything freezing due to weather is the grass outside, and that was once.
ummmmm
.251 the age cut off is a problem…maybe an adviser at school can give you some info on such things? I’m still trying to find something that isn’t thousands of miles away…
219 – DC? I’m not too too far from there. Well, not close, but I could theoretically get there at some point.
231/255 – That is so cool! Loved it.
258 – I’m assuming you meant class? That’s cool. What did you guys do?
On the weather front in good old North Carolina, we had what seemed to be some kind of hurritornadocane a few hours ago. I was sitting in Driver’s Ed, attempting to tune out the kid in front of me and catch some of what the teacher was saying, when the roof of the trailer started rattling. It sounded like people were dropping buckets of small stones onto the roof. Then the door I was sitting near started whistling, and the wind got really, really loud. I was pretty convinced that we were going to get a tornado warning soon, and was trying to figure out whether it would be safer to be in tornado drill position against the wall or under the desk. Then, suddenly, everything stopped–and when I walked outside at 6:00, it wasn’t even raining. Weird.
256-Ah, I see. I just dumped Windows completely.
216~ Even if you’d have checked the at the Jan. 4 Kokon. you wouldn’t have seen the famed PWT PWNS plates; Robert was driving his dad’s car, a blue bug (which I’m incredibly envious of, by the way) which has plates that say “CAPN AIR” or something like that.
231~ Very cute!
246~ See you later then! Have fun, and good luck!
254~ Jan. 4th Kokon: Yes, it was lots of fun, and we recorded something for you, I don’t know if HAWK sent it to you all yet, but he said he was going to.
Potential Chicago Kokon: that would be glorious! I love Chicago, and a Kokonvention there would be quite fun I’m sure. Hmm, maybe on the way through Ohio we could swing by for a visit (or pick up?) some of the musers out there…..and this is all starting to sound very much like the GAPAs on tour scheme that keeps coming up every now and then…..maybe it’ll happen after all!
Our school, and a couple other catholic schools that follow what we do, was pretty much the only school open today. I’m rooting for tomorrow, though.
263 – Haha, no way. Everybody’s going to be open tomorrow.
256- mm. maybe an internship or also maybe a college class. Some of those can be awesome. I did get paid to learn to weld at my work study job. That was awesome.
GAPAs? What did you do in your 18- early twenties years that was awesome? anything you’d recommend?
It was so scary – I was just in the water with H N and B and suddenly all we knew is that the bottom seemed to have gone and we were far away from everyone else and we just kept getting dragged out and I tried swimming and swimming and swimming and I was just screaming and H was screaming and I was trying to get back to where she was even though she was further from the shore and then I just kept getting pulled under and I just gave up and lay on my back screaming and the lifeguard came but didn’t come to me coz I and then I must have gotten out of the rip because all I remember is suddenly ending up on shore and just sitting there shaking watching H N and B get rescued and it was just so scary
245. ok SFTDP
its been two days and the ice hasn’t melted yet. my sister has now had 2 days off!
260- Yes, cartooning class. We practiced telling a story with interesting “camera angles”.
266- Wow, i mean we’ve all been told to just relax if that happens but just wow. nothing is as easy as the books.
SNOW DAY TODAY!!!!!!
Today I couldn’t concentrate in English class because the teacher in the room next to ours was playing heavy metal music through what sounded like sub-wolfers and there was practically a blizzard AND a boy in my class was blabbing on and on about why he licks his cats. What.
Fire faerie OTME (270): The film studies class is right next to my US History class, and we can always hear the movies through the walls. It’s fun to guess what they’re watching, though.
270- Why… he licks his cats? g_g
The ice hasn’t melted here either! I peeled the ice off of one of the leaves in our yard, and all the teeny veins were frozen into it. So pretty. Unfortunately, my mother woudn’t let me put in in the freezer to keep it forever, so I suppose I’ll be taking some photos later. T.T
Oh, and there were these random, swirly flurries all throughout the school day… It looked like a winter fairyland, the snowflakes were so big and fluffy! This is the only part I like about winter, other than the holidays.
Midnight Fiddler is not happy right now, and she’s writing in third person to distance herself from the melancholy teenager huddled in a chair that is herself.
She sits in an office off to the side, curled in a large black leather chair; her laptop is in front of her and one earbud in her right ear to hold onto one part of life that seems as though it will never change-her love for music. Her mouth is set, as she tries not to allow the tears in her heart to reach her eyes and spill over. The office is in a state of disarray, people have been going through it to clear out the belongings of the woman who used to live here. She passed away last month before Christmas, and these people have been working to clear out the apartment and take care of everything.
Fiddler sits there, amongst cherished memories of her friend, this woman who cannot be gone but is no longer here.
273- are you ok? What happened??
274~ I’m okay. A very dear friend of mine (well, my family’s too) passed away before Christmas, and I’m at her house. WE were asked to come down and take some of her books and/or little things that we might be able to use. I’m just sad because she was one of the most amazing people I ever knew and last time I was here we had a visit.
264 – Except my sister! Grrr. Ah well, today was fun. I would have rather gone than stayed home.
And we have a ton of debate homework, and I’m so happy, :D, and the debate tournament is tomorrow, and I’m still really happy. 
275- Aww:( Im sorry
277~ Thanks.
Grr. Because of all the snow days our annual winter rec day when we all get to go skiing and snowboarding and sledding as a school for the entire day got postponed, and now it’s getting canceled because there’s a statue dedication or something that people from some schools are going to on that same day so there won’t be enough busses.
What’s awful is that they didn’t even bother asking us whether we would rather have had an extra day of school and the end of the year or missed our winter rec day. I know what people would have chosen. Some kids are even talking about getting everybody to go to the mountain anyways that day, instead of school.
But, on the plus side, I got a box of gobstoppers in history for knowing the 27th amendment…
266 – Yikes, how scary. I’ve been caught in a rip tide before, but I was with my mom and I didn’t realize we were getting pulled further out or that we weren’t getting any further in when we swam. We were rescued by a lifeguard. Incidentally, the way to escape a rip tide is to swim parallel to the shore until you’re out.
273/275 – I’m so sorry. -hugs and choklit-
280~ Thanks. *returns hug and munches choklit*
Callbacks! I think I did pretty good, I hope I get Hook. I really don’t want any other part. Except for Wendy, of course.
I am exploiting the school.
It’s lovely. I’m getting them to pay for ballroom dancing lessons (‘course, it’s only thirty bucks…) and fiddle lessons (which are considerably more expensive). Yay! School proves to be useful at last!
273- If it helps your 3rd person statement, while sad, was beautifully written.
Beavo (282): You’re doing Peter Pan?! I did that musical in 8th grade, and it was absolutely amazing. I hope you have fun!
Tell me, is it some kind of rule that driver’s ed teachers must be mentally unstable?
*static* This is Tessera Rose here reporting from the great North-Wet, where the weather has retrned to the usual warm and rainy. With the return of school and something else you may remember (It’s called ‘organization’) I have been struck with a feirce desire to stay increasingly productive. Ergo, less MB, more ZR, weaving, and unasigned homework*! But people here seem less inclined to throw rotten tomatoes at reporters who rant of flying tacos, so I decided to do this radio thingy-dingy and tell you about exiting things like the weather and the fig tree down the street. Which now has no leaves on it, by the way. I don’t have much else to say, so I now hold out the microphone and invite anyone who has too much time on their hands to report the present state of a local plant! This is the Zepelin Report. Over and out!
*things that in fact give only the illusion of productivity
283~ you’re getting fiddle lessons?? How wonderful! Are you enjoying them? Have you gotten a violin after all? I know for awhile you were anting one. *is very happy that she may be joined on the blog by another fiddler who plays similar music*
284~ Thank you.
Sometimes my writing comes to my head the in much the same way as music does, when that happens it’s either very confusing or it works nicely.
286~ It’s from the constant adrenaline rush from thinking they’re going to die at the hands of learning drivers. Perhaps. I haven’t a clue though, I haven’t gotten there yet as I was only allowed to get a learner’s permit in October.
Dear Everyone: Go listen to I’m From Barcelona! Songs: We’re From Barcelona, Treehouse, Collection of Stamps. Youtube them and be amazed. (for our younger viewers: they are all happy and don’t swear.)
“I’m gonna sing this song with all of my friends, and we’re all from Barcelona! Love is a feeling that we don’t understand, but we’re gonna give it to ya!”
They bring out my inner hippie.
277~ I saw you in town the other day. with Hazel…were you wearing your custom Nikes?
I want to dump my bf. But I don’t want to hurt his feelings. The fact I see him every Wednesday might make things slightly awkward. but I really don’t like him anymore.
287- Whereabouts do you live? I’m in the Great North-Wet too, and I’m VERY GLAD that it’s back to flooding. I’m used to flooding. Not like snow.
288- I haven’t got them yet. I still don’t know if I can get them, ’cause I didn’t take them first semester. I’m not sure that they’ll teach me the kind of music I want to play, but once I know how to play and read music I can teach myself. And maybe my uncle will help.
289- I have Collection of Stamps
Yea, it’s Friday! And it’s going to be clear tonight!
(294) KaiYeves: Is this a new spelling, or a typo? You used to spell your name “KaiYves.” Just curious.
288- Yeah that happens with little couplets of writing or poetry sometimes to me. Except they’re always about pointless things like geometry.
I feel like I haven’t been around in ages! Sorry I’ve been off the scene, but finals are really getting to me and I have to stick to my studies. Just checking in. have a fun, now-filled weekend, everybody!
293-Woo! I don’t have any of their cds yet. I’ve just been listening on Youtube, but I plan to get the cds soon.
It’s snowing outside and there’s ice all over. I just drove to my dad’s house and I was sliding all over! I think I’ve inherited Andy’s dangerous love of sliding on the ice even though I’m really careful. I was going 20 in a 40 zone. I had fun sliding in the parking lot after taekwondo though.
Ughh. One of the little kids at taekwondo was being really bad today. All week the kids have been bad.
May your adventures meet your dreams, and the world your footsteps.–Andy.
[Sorry, C-PM, too much pointed speculation over where MBers might live. –Rebecca]
SFTDP… but…
Alice (again) HOW COULD YOU??? You’re betraying the trust of the celli!!! Seriously though, nice job getting the school to pay for your lessons.
Greeting Mb!
Tis a overly Friday!
297) Oh gosh, I know. Exams are starting for me next week.
I dread Environmental Science……
295 – Yes, I noticed that too!
Hm.
I have nothing more to say, unfortunately. *skips off to check BA*
I made it!
They didn’t tell us what parts at first though, which was nervewracking.
I didn’t get hook, but you know Smeed in the movie? It’s like him. My name is Starky. He’s the same position as Smeed, but a different character. Smeed dosn’t exist.
Also, since the director turned it all modern instead of the time when it’s “supposed” to take place, Starky is going to be a Cyberpunk. I’m going to have so much fun with this role. Read: Green and black hair dye, Tripp jeans, and combat boots. Neon makeup. Fun.
And the pirates are supposed to be “nonconformist”, which is going to be awesome.
301- My weak point is biology. I’ve only taken notes again on two chapters, and already there are about 75 key terms and objectives. I’m going to go insane! And the entire midterm is going to be essay. I’m having a nervous breakdown.
I’m eating my gobstoppers right now (speaking of which, my friends are annoyed at me for being the only person in the school that knows what the 27th amendment is
) because even though I’m sure they’re awful for my teeth they’re sooo addicting.
I mean, just look at the ingredients! Dextrose, corn syrup, maltodextrin, less then 2% of malic acid, calcium stearate, carnauba wax, artificial flavors, artificial colors.
Yumm?
295/302~ I think it’s an alternative spelling.
297~ Finals? I’ve got midterms soon, but I though finals were just for the end of a course. Someone else said that too, so I’m confused.
295- I made a typo. It’s really meant to be Yves.
Just thought I’d letcha know…I love the title/picture for this thread.
Hm…I wonder where my post has gone…?
*coughFindingNemocough*
304) Oh! I love biology! What level are you at? (Wait…… midterm…….I guess you’re not on block scheduling. Lucky you. I’m having EOCs.)
306) Well, my school has block scheduling. The most aweful scheduling mess ever invented. (all thought up to save the school system moolah, but I wont get into the corruptness of the state school head honcho) In block scheduling, instead of taking all of our classes for the year at the same time, we taking half of them first semester and the other half second semester. This saves the school system money textbook wise/calculator wise/etc. Each class is squeezed into a longer time slot then before to compensate. It isn’t exactly the best set up, but I don’t exactly have a say in the matter, so…… yeah. So, what all this means, in a nutshell, is that I’m taking EOC exams both now and at the end of the year, instead of just at the end of the year.
301- My mom TEACHES environmental science but she seems to like it
Have you read “deep economy?” she assigned it to her class and me but i havent read it yet. supposedly its good.
306- Unless you’re taking a semester long course, in Janurary would be a midterm. Although you could just say finals are short for “Really big and scary test”
310- I think school corruption is a good topic for the chameleon thread *wanders off*
Okay. Playing saxophone for an hour the day before all-district auditions is officially a really bad idea. Not that I expect to make all-district anyway… I’m just auditioning for the experience, I suppose.
310 – How confusing. That means if you have an awful class, you have it for almost two hours? I’d die.
289: Wow. It kinda reminded me of this guy in town who plays the drums and does sculpture and wears kooky hats.
292: I live in the puget sound area, but I shouldn’t get more specific than that. Before the snow, I had no idea I was so attached to the rain and green.
300- I can play the violin and still be friends with cellists! And violists, too. I mean, they’re all string instruments.
303- When I saw “neon makeup” I read it as “Napoleon makeup,” and then I realized that wasn’t right.
I just got home from the play a bit ago. It was fun, and went pretty well despite the fact that I accidentally cursed the theater during fourth period.
It was incredibly cheesy though, and I didn’t get my usual opening-night burst of energy, because inwardly I really don’t like it much. :/ Anyway, that’s that. We get to do it again tomorrow. It’s only half an hour long, which feels odd.
It is Pokémon emerald epic win time!
…no I did not steal my sisters gameboy for this (it *is* my game at least).
But seriously, pokémon=win. They were the best things ever in my childhood. I should buy a new gameboy…
Because, y’know, this would really help me in my schooling and with history. So scratch that –_–
Dear everyone: I have a new obsession and it is called steampunk! It’s a style of combining Victorian dress with gadgets and gears and crazy things. Think Edward Scissorhands but less sad. Also, this style makes for great dirigibles. Go find pictures and such.
303-!!! My sister’s school did Peter Pan last year. Her friend was Wendy and she’s a great singer. Smeed and Hook were awesome. My favorite thing is the “if you believe in fairies” part.
If you believe in fairies clap! Clap! Clap your hands!
311- My mom read Deep Economy…
291-so..where do you live usually if not in America?
Im going on a boat for 4 days from 25-29 Jan. It’s for 14-17 year olds around Stewart Island. On the sheet it has a list of everything that could go wrong for example: Capsize, Collision, running aground, hypothermia, sunburn, seasickness, dehydration, falling overboard (!!!), fire, burns, cuts, rope burns, limbs caught in ropes/winches, cut feet or stub toes, struck by sail control device
slip on/off wharf, poor hygeine resulting in sickness, living environment affecting privacy, injury from equipment eg. hooks/knives, injury from fish spines/teeth (fish have TEETH???) exhaustion, drowning, hit by paddle (my personal favourite!), conditions too severe for skills, entrapment in ropes/skis, injury due to incorect use of equipment…
and thats just in the “on boat” list! there is also swimming/snorkeling list which includes colliding with other diver and being hit by the boat and the ashore boat with death or injury from falls (yay!), ripped clothing (OMG! disaster!!) and lack of fitness oh and this nice reassuring instuctor separated from group. WHY IS THE INSTRUCTOR SEPARATED FROM THE GROUP! oh no…ohhh no. this is going to be….yay.
I hope I survive >< oh well,
Breaking Dawn is SO SO COOL!
318- Good luck!
You know, most of those are very unlikely, and the others are too minor to matter…much. In the long run. I don’t think you’ll die.
I’m tired. See ya later, everyone.
Good morning MB!
312) Actually, that’s exactly right. Though it’s not quite 2 hours, a little shorter then that. Before we got it, they kept on claiming that it was going to be so awesome because teachers would have more time to do extensive activities with students. But, really, my Mom did the math and said that, time wise, teachers are loosing 2 days compared to the normal system. So, really, they have less time. And with classes like literature and language classes, those teachers really had to cut back. I mean, you can’t make students read or learn a language twice as fast as normally. It just doesn’t work. Alas.
Hmmmm…. well I haven’t been on the MB forever sooooo…. *GASP* I have nothing to write about!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay I’ll be back with something later…
Oooh. I would hate it if my school did block scheduling… We already have one two-hour science lab block per cycle and my teacher normally just lectures through it instead of doing labs. *brain-dead* Really, how many times can you go over chem stuff?
306- Oh! You’re right. Oops. *headdesk* I guess I’m getting confused. Howeer, I did actually take a final for speech, because it’s a semester long course, so I guess I could be getting things mashed up.
Apparantly people really do like organic foods, after all.
By the way, good news! I got a 100% on my speech final!
310- I’m only a freshman, so I’m taking first year biology. Though, in fact, it’s probably harder than normal biology because of the immense workload our teacher is puttingon us as opposed to the other classes’.
323) So, you’re in the honors program? I took that class. Yes, it was a lot of work, but I loved it just the same. My teacher was awesome. Yes, she did lecture the whole time, but I enjoyed it mostly. I also had entertaining classmates.
303 – Awesome, congrats!
305 – Have you ever looked at the ingredients for a fruit roll-up? It’s basically wax, food coloring, corn syrup, and chemicals. Disgusting.
Well, I’m pretty sure I did badly on my audition…
Two days ago, Ling Jung broke her arm in PE. Yesterday, this bratty boy was pushing her around and throwing rocks at her. I went right up to him, and yelled, “WORMTAIL! YOU BETRAYED LILY AND JAMES!” Then I slapped him.
It felt great. I prolly broke my only maybe New Year’s Resolution (stay nonviolent), but that kid! What a jerk!
Nice.
That sounds like a kid in my class who laughs at other peoples pain. wierd. In PE he was calling everyone dummies and idiots so i called him a blockhead in latin and we all threw balls at him
327- OMG, another Latin person! Yayness! Which Latin are you in? I’m in Latin IB.
I just started taking latin this year but i think its AWESOME. I called a spoiled bratty concieted boy a poor stupid peacock in latin. Hahahahahaha!
latin ROX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pig latin is Awesome,too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ah ha ha I love latin!
329- Are you using Ecce Romani?
329, 331- I love Latin sooo much. It’s really helping me with Spanish and Italian songs I sing for voice lessons. I can usually translate a lot of the words on my own because they have Latin roots.
LOL, SFTDP, but it’s so funny how a million people immediately jumped in and started saying how much they love Latin. This is a haven for Latin geeks. Geeks are extremely cool
i love making faces!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:yes:
YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
334, 335, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344 – PLEASE. That is the worst case of PoPo I have ever seen. Don’t do that. There’s an HTML thread for that.
Flubie McFluberstien: I’m assuming you’re new. Our term for that is “neophyte,” and the thread where you can learn more about the blog is here. If you wish to test out HTML, go to the HTML thread, where you can
double triple quadruple quintuple sextuple septuple octuple nontuplePOST TEN TIMES IN A ROW, intended to be twelve. The other threads DO NOT welcome this. It’s ANNOYING. If you must double or triple post, please say “Sorry For The Double Post,” or SFTDP. SFTTP is for a triple post.Jeez, I just went through this with FFOTME. Why doesn’t anyone go to the Neophytes thread?
334/etc – Welcome to the blog, we’re glad you’re here! -pies- Please do keep in mind what Kokonilly just said–people on Museblog do not appreciate posts that have nothing at all to say, and especially many of them in a row. I’d recommend heading over to the Neophytes thread (https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1591#comment-270922) to get oriented, and to the H2MB thread (https://musefanpage.com/blog/?page_id=89) for a basic description of the blog.
(Hope I did those links right! >.<)
290 – oh hahah yup I was
theyre mean ae 
Hahah im always in town with Hazel … Sad ae
316- I do think Steampunk is cool. Atomicpunk is cool, too. (If you imagine “-punks” as being World’s Fairs, and Steampunk is Paris 1889, Atomicpunk is basically New York 1964.)
got it
Quick question: I have totally forgotten how to make words into italics. Help?
351 – You do a [i] and [/i] but with the ‘greater than’ or ‘less than’ sign.
352- Thank you!
hope this works…
88- Zinc, I just hate cleaning my room.
Oh my goodness. I am away for a few days and look how many posts are up! *shakes head in amazement* Well, I finaly have a moment to spare so I thought I’d visit. The show is gonna be so awesome. There is super awesome sword fighting and everything. I was going to read through all the posts but then I decided that there were too many. See ya soon I hope.
You can’t beat simultaniously eating a mochi popsicle, listening to I’m From Barcelona, and Museblogging. Unless you count eating mochi popsicles and listening to I’m From Barcelona at a kokon.
316- who are you again? you changed your name, right? I like steampunk too.
So I went to a job fair thing two days ago (my father didn’t understand the sleep thing is an issue), and learned some interesting things. Oxlin was asking, I believe, about internships and such. The very excitable people at the job event told me that you should do at least two internships before your junior year of college. They also said persistence is key. So if you’re in college or upper high school, you should go out to an interesting palce and ask if you can volunteer. They also taught me how to make my resume pretty. I need to sleep now, bu I’ll elaborate more if anyone is interested.
This thread is large.
349-Woo!
I’m reading Peter Jenkins’ Walk Across America . It’s amazing!
I got my driver’s permit today. Yippee! I hate driving though, probably because I’ve only driven a truck that’s in danger of falling apart because of rust.
Hello all. I’m arguing with my printer. I just won.
So, how’s life for you all at this disgraceful hour of the night, er, morning? If there’s moderation this late by any of the Eastern GAPAs I’ll be surprised, but ah well.
Icy here, the sidewalk might need ice skates to navigate….let’s just hope I don’t kill myself on the way to my room.
Today I got an awesome new computer…a superfast windows vista a quad core processor. Heh.
361- Why didn’t you just wait till Windows 7 comes out? I know someone that got the beta when it was still on various torrents, and he says it’s extraordinarily better than Vista.
Good morning loverly MB! Can’t stay long! In fact, I most likely going to have to leave is abut 5 minutes. Alas. Good bye! Must fly!
359 – Awesome! Congrats. Technically, I’m not supposed to drive yet, because I’m only in Drivers’ Ed, but my dad took my out to practice (drive in circles in a parking lot yesterday). It was really fun!
Good morning, MuseBlog and -bloggers!
254 (Pan)-Wow, that’s a very nice offer! Thank you! I’ll have to see if this trip is a possibility before I can make any promises, though.
255 (Raynpho)-It is!!!
262 (MF)-Ah, okay. And I did send the recording, at last. And yes, bugs pwn.
273 (MF, again)-Aw, I’m sorry! *Consolation pies*
305 (Meow)-Corn syrup=bad. But I’d have a hard time giving up all candy that contains it!
360 (MF, yet again)-We could have skated up the front steps (and slipped off) last night in the dark. The ice always accumulates there first. We realized it was there and were careful, though… Oh, and glad you finally won the argument with the printer. Or was this a new one? Either way, it’s good…
361 (IBCF)-Cool, congrats!
How is everyone this morning?
362 – Hey, I actually LIKE Vista!
I’m reposting The Plan.
Okay, so I go to camp right near where Kiki lives in the suburbia of Chicago, so we thought that around mid-August 2009, we could arrange a massive Kokonvention involving me, her, and possibly any MBer that lives in Chicago, including Penty, King Wachtelschlag (sp?), Speller73, Beatlesrokr, etc. etc. And possibly the GAPAs could tag along, seeing as it might be HUGE!
There is also talk of a massive cross-country carpool. That would be completely insane and very exciting. I must convince my parents to let me go to camp this summer.
I’m pretty good. I did all my homework yesterday in exchange for getting out of Greek School, so I have plenty of time for MB.
do you like pig latin?
i think its pretty cool!
(don’t ask)
There is a reason I don’t like RPGs. It has practically annihilated my favorite shortcut–the recent comments bar. Oh well. Perhaps it is a Sign. I shouldn’t be on MB right now.
Only… -counts- …sixty-eight more pages until The Mill on the Floss is over! Although it’s not boring anymore, which is nice. I’m actually invested enough to hope (in vain, I’m sure) for a happy ending. Then I have to write a lab report and do my math homework. Whee. Fun.
Re: Computers: I don’t like Windows, period(.). Actually I just dislike PCs in general. They confuse me.
366- So do I. That’s why I’m excited about Windows 7.
365~ Thanks for the consolation pies. And no, the printer argument was not a new one, it’s the one I have every week when I have to print things out.
I wanted it to print and it didn’t feel like it. Besides, somehow it had something stuck in it, I think it was the prop for the back of a picture frame. Please don’t ask how it got lodged in my printer, I have no idea! 
It was probably pretty funny to watch though, actually.
In case you were wondering, I survived the sidewalk last night. Not so today–I went sliding sideways and just missed hitting my head on the rocks around the pond.
370~ I have a PC. And I’m confused to some extent by all computers I’ve come across, so I’m probably not a good judge. Mine is actually a hand-me-down from a friend, but I’m wondering what I should do when it dies. *is very confused*
Well, I painted my boots today. Maybe a little more explanation would be good? I’ll take pity on you.
I’m not entirely pleased with how they came out, but they’re okay.
While in WI I found a pair of dark blue rubber boots (wellies, some call them) and though they were pretty, I was longing for a pair that had fun patterns and such on them, so I figured that I could, ah, improve the one’s I’d gotten. Last night I went to the craft store and got some paint, so today I painted my boots! They now have long, somewhat squiggly lines and polka dots around the top edge and the buckle.
SFTDP
*sigh* Mom was talking again today about my possibly going to Interlochen in the summer. I told her I’d look it up again, and I just did. I’m sure that I could learn a lot there, and I know she loved it and wants me to do the same thing as she did, but I would really rather go on the Brig Niagara and get a nice new concertina for the same amount of money. Or I could skip the new concertina and take a few lessons from a really good teacher who teaches the kind of music I want to play on the fiddle.
If she’s stuck on my going to a camp, I’d adore going to one of the Country Dance and Song Society’s camps. I’d love to do that.
I know she just wants me to learn classical music because even though she loves traditional music she somehow can’t see that I could ever be a fully capable musician without being able to play an advanced classical repertoire.
I wish she’d listen to Johnny Cunningham, now he was a Scottish fiddler who I would argue is just as virtuosic as any classical violinist, even though he held his instrument in a way that would make any of them faint with horror. Did that get in the way of his being an amazing musician? No, I don’t think so.
Anyway, she really seems to want me to go. I’m not entirely sure if it’s more because she wants me to play the sort of music she thinks is right or because she loved it there when she was my age. Probably some combination of both I guess.
How can I tell her that I really would rather do something else? I’d love to go somewhere over the summer by myself, I think it’d be awesome, but if I’m going to do that, I’d rather go sailing on a tall ship.
It’s not that I don’t want to learn how to play violin better and I do love classical music, I just think I could learn more that I could use in other situations. *sigh again*
373- (If your printer agrees) Print out some brochures from the camps you’d like to go to, leave them in convenient places around the house, with little sticky notes giving some pros about each one. It’s what i’d do, but hey i avoid any and all contact with my parents.
372- What kind of paint did you use? The boots sound really cool!
Oh dear. This comment is taking forever to type… I’ll type a few words, and the screen will freeze… and then all the words will show up at one time, etc…. and if I have to fix a typo from ten words back… DX
Maybe it is time to exploit my sister’s computer.
Ughh. My feet hurt. I went walking in the woods today and got my feet all frozen and blistered. It was worth it though! I almost got stuck in a frozen creek. I was walking with my friend and there was snow everywhere. I took a step and couldn’t lift my foot. I thought it was stuck under a big branch or something, so I pushed away the snow and there was just slushy creek water around my foot. I couldn’t lift it by myself so my friend and I both yanked my boot at the same time. It was full of water and ice and became really heavy, then a little while later I stepped in another creek.
Eww. My ex is a creeper. Ewwwwwwww. Blah.
IM conversation (fake IM names)
Friend [10:15 P.M.]: never gonna give u up never gonna let you down
Friend [10:15 P.M.]: …im rick rolling you
Me [10:15 P.M.]: ur doin it rong
I usually don’t spell like that online, but for the sake of using internet memes it works.
373 – Just tell her what you said here–she’ll probably understand. Make it clear you’ve thought it out, present other options, and make clear it’s not that you don’t want to go to Interlochen, it’s that there are other things you think would be better for your goals. Parents and other adults appreciate when you plan things and think them through.
I completely bombed All-District. I did even worse than I thought I would–fifth from the bottom out of sixty-five. I can come up with a lot of decent reasons why I placed that: I’ve only been working on the piece for a month, a week of which I was away for; I’ve only had four saxophone lessons so far; I got really nervous and played a lot worse than I usually do; etc. Still, I’ve never done that badly in anything before. It feels horrible, like I’m a failure. I had a breakdown over the whole thing earlier, but I’ve calmed down and now I’m thinking more rationally about it. At least now I know I’ll do better next year; it’s hard to do worse.
I appreciate
-gasp- Our pie smiley has arrived?
378 – Me too. I also appreciate
(see this comment).
Wow, that was a lot of work for one little link. But having the power to direct people to threads or comments is worth it. It makes me feel like a GAPA.
SFTDP.
That’s odd, the link worked but the little yellow box thingy didn’t. Oh well.
380: Mwahahah, exciting, isn’t it?
379: Yes, they’re here. [Insert trumpet flourish]
Robert just sent a note to the other GAPAs announcing:
1. An exclamation point with colons before and aft gives you a face-on pie.
2, The word “arrow” with colons fore and aft is a pie thrown right.
Happy pieing
Gah! Now comment 144 makes no sense – my arrows and exclamation marks turned into pies!
Yes! They’re finally here! Oh, they look good. Everyone, have a pie!
Or did you want it in the face?
Oh, they’re splendid!
374~ That’s a good idea, but since our house is so tiny everything moves multiple times per day, the result is that papers (especially ones that haven’t been made a deal about) tend to get sucked down the many black holes that dwell in our domicile.
375~ I used a kind of acrylic paint that I found in the t-shirt section of Micheal’s. It dries flat, is waterproof and the jar says it works on “all paintable surfaces” and is permanent.
377~ *hugs* It’s okay. Every time I have a recital or something I totally bomb it. It’s hard, and if you’d only been working on your piece for a month that didn’t give you much time. It’s hard to come in like that, but next time you;ll be prepared better and hopefully place higher. *choklit*
Computer exploitation time! My sister’s computer works perfectly. Wung.
387- That’s interesting. I’ve don’t think I’ve ever encountered an acrylic paint that would stick to rubber without flaking. *must investigate*
378- PIES.
Are NetNavis allowed here?
I heard you had pies!
My pies attack power is over NINE THOUSAND!
No, NetNavis are not recognized on MuseBlog. They’re yet another casualty of contextual incommensurability due to the juxtaposition of mutually orthogonal imaginative axes.
390-
Big Words.
Don’t blame me; blame Chad. He spoke them in the first installment of my Harry Potter Muse fanfiction.
372- If your computer ever dies due to software malfunction (if your hardware quits just get a new computer), try deleting all the files you don’t need, defragmenting your main drive, and then, if you still need to, try to install Ubuntu. More likely than not, a ‘dead’ computer is still useful.
377- It sounds like you know everything you need to, namely that it’s not terrible you didn’t get in. Good luck for next year!
390- Mutually orthogonal. Sounds like imaginary numbers are just what we need, to calculate vectors so we’ll have x, y, and z axes here.
I’m making a website for a history contest! I may have already said this. I’m pretty excited. I have also revived by possibly unrelated interest in bookbinding.
I don’t like Windows for numerous reasons, but I’m not going to start ranting.
Good day!
I was just thinking about this……..when was the last time Luna posted? It seems like it’s been a long time.
390- Pfft. Fine. I’ll leave, and then I’ll DELETE that idiot Tomahawkman_EXE for recommending a site with axes.
Ohhh noooooo…
a bird hit the deck window and was kocked out… he’s alive, sitting on the deck right now, but I feel so bad for the little sparrow… he’s in the wind, though not any snow thankfully. I wish I could put some of the birdseed near him/something to block the wind, but he’d just try to fly off if I open the door D:
Just my opinion.
397 – Oh. Whoops. Well,
can remain a pie, but I wonder… can 
be changed to : arrow : (the arrow)? And 
can be : ! :… just a thought…
What the… I was using the school computers this morning, and I got to use the pie smilies. Now the old ones are back. No more pies? Is there some sort of fix or maintenance being done, or is it something on my end?
Piggy: Hit the “refresh” button (looping arrow) on your browser, and you’ll see them.
401- Ah, that’s better. Thanks.
400 – Clean your cache!
Sorry for the double post. Have to try this –
Whoa! The pies are here!!!!!!! Yippppeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*splat!*
Awesomeness!!!
Someone please come to the RRSSSS thread.
I’m doing an online audition for Kids Jeopardy tomorrow. Is anyone else doing it? If I get on the show, I will try to mention Muse at some point.
408- Good luck!
My school has a technical curriculum as well as an academic one, but the technical diploma doesn’t count for as much and the whole program is sort of like vocational training. Which means that I can’t do it. Which stinks, because if I did the pilot class, I could get a pilot’s license by the time I graduated High School.
Oh, well.
409- My friend in 14 and already has her liscence. She can fly, if there is a legal pilot in the cockpit with her. Its so cool.
The pies are amazing. I love them, especially :arrow:.
377 – Thanks. Next time, I will definitely start praticing long in advance…
390 – Ehhh?
394 – Yes, I was kind of wondering that too. Maybe she’s on break still? Colleges are on break for a long time.
396 – Poor bird. Keep an eye on him, if he looks like he’s doing badly maybe you should try something.
408 – Good luck!
That was certainly a lot of replies in one post…
I’m going to Stagedoor this summer…*sighs in ecstasy*
There are pies!
I believe I shall start a journal, and put dialogue and description in it and everything, like Cassandra in I Capture the Castle. It’s likely I should never get anywhere and it would turn out to be terribly dull, but you never know. Something exciting could happen.
I had to do that
SFTDP
In Supre (this Australian clothes chain store) there are
t shirts…not EXACTLY but nearly…quite creepy. AND I watched the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy again and finally understood where “Mostly Harmless” comes from. I found it a little sad when I told my freind after cracking up at the hpb shirts that I had “inside jokes” with people on a blog. But what would I do without it 
398) WHAT PIES ? This
is an arrow on my computer, and it’s been around for quite a while.
(alright, PLEASE explain)
Somebody pwease explain
Hello dear MB!
That’s nearly impossible! I can’t believe it! I just can’t…….. *scream*
OMG! Today is AWESOME!
I GOT A 100 ON MY ENVIRONMENTAL EXAM!
Plust, AI starts today! Yay!
417- Congrats! Great subject to do well on too!
Ok so I’m just wondering what people think I look like in real life… Anyone????
OMGOMGOMG!!!! I love the pies emoticaon!!!!
416- Refresh your page. It happened to me as well.
420- Well, I’m glad you like them. I, impatient as I am, couldn’t wait for Rebecca or whoever to make them, so I tortured the specifics out of her, then blackmailed Robert into making them work. No, wait… I’m not that mean.
419- Go to this thread .
Oh, no, wait, I meant this thread.
The librarian at my school (Who I’m good friends with) has a friend who sent her these cool vintage posters about the Hubble Space Telescope! They’re from the year after it went up, and there’s some cool hand-drawn concept art. It’s sort of funny seeing the old NASA logo that looks like a red worm on them, though.
THose arrows don’t look like pies to me…… What about this?
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I made Peter Pan as a random pirate plus name. Not best part, but glad I made it!
I made a rap for Tinkerbell, which tells you how little of a life I have.
Don’t feel like reading every post, so bye!
American Idol! American Idol! I love AMerican Idol! And today it starts! YEs! The joy! Such tinntinnabulation!
*runs around with a siren strapped to her chest*
MIDTERMS TOMORROW! MIDTERMS TOMORROW! RED ALERT!
I’m going to fail, I’m going to fail, I’m going to fail MISERABLY, I’m going to fail…
*crams in last-minute studying* I’ve GOT to stop PROCRASTINATING!
428-
1) Take a few deep Yoga breaths.
2) For concepts, formulas and laws, try to think of some sort of catchy rhyme or association.
3) For vocabulary, write all the words you don’t know about fifty times on a piece of paper while saying them to yourself.
4) Go to bed early!
Beavo (426): Congratulations! *happypies* Is a girl or a boy playing Peter?
The Jeopardy test starts in a few minutes.
I had a dream about MB last night…I think that is slightly obsessive. A GAPA (is there one called Rosemary?) left a message on the end of my comment…something to do with many hours of music? I cannot remember…but I might have esp, because my Muse came today :O
oooh. ahhh.pies.
wheeeee. sorry about that. i have a cold. i dont have anything to say. i don’t usually have dreams involving real people or places. if i do have dreams like that, the place or person will look nothing like it usually does but somehow i know it’s what it is supposed to be.
Love the smilies!
431 – Wait, which one!? Hopefully not the teen one, or I’m going to be sad that I missed it.
I was going to take the children’s one last year, but I missed registration by 5 minutes.
What am I doing on Museblog at 11pm, you might ask? I do not myself know. I think I’m procrastinating my driver’s ed.
435- I’m procrastinating on my essay. But it’s only 8:19 currently here.
433- I always dream about real people! Once I dreamt about my dog going missing. My dog was also my friend Renee…trippy…
434- When is the teen one, anyway? I might want to do it.
435 – I’m on at 12AM. I’m just insane and bored.
*grin*
Yay!
Is MB alive again….when do GAPAs start work? Its 12:44am here and insanly quiet…
I’m dying to go to Japan……and my parents are being all “no, your Chinese mark was shocking, I don’t think you can learn Japanese” and so Im all “Im only going to live once (as far as I know) and you are going to ruin this for me, for my LIFE?” I think it’s getting through to them….I think.
Oh, and there is a bunny smiley on MSN and anyway our conversation went like this:
Caitlin: Be there or be there
Sam: *bunnysmiley* if you squash this bunny and smoush it around it will be square also.
Caitlin: goodbye, evil bunny killer
Sam: Its the bunnies that are evil!!!
Caitlin: um, bye Sam.
SFTDP
Caitlin actually said “be there, or be square”, I was just being silly.
428) You will not! You will do FINE! Good luck!
Good morning MB! Today is loverly day, seeing as I have NO SCHOOL! I love exams, at least, when they’re over with.
443- I have exams on the week of my birthday
but my b-days on a saturday and I only have two exams so its ok 
408-I was GOING ot do that, but I kinda forgot……..
You just reminded me of it! Hope you did well!
Yes! The first day of midterms is over!
For the most part, I think I did very well. World history was easy, as was algebra honors. I nearly ran out of time for world history, but managed to get all ten of the essay questions and the multiple choice, too. I’m so glad. Now on to biology!
Did anyone else have exams today?
I got three paper cuts today. One was pretty big. I got all of them while…
…reaching into my backpack. Pathetic, I know.
I’m bumbed because the president-elect didn’t make Sally Ride the new NASA Administrator.
446 – I had mine before break. On the bio one, there was a question in the middle of the last page that was “6+2=?”. We asked if it was a trick question, and Mr. H said something like “Not unless you do it in binary hahaha!” He’s so weird.
448 – I have her autograph :O