Part 2 of the monthly Random Thread continues our celebration of the flamablamablous wondrousness of the universe with this exclusive preview of a recent, somewhat disturbing discovery in the fossil record.
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Awesome picture, Rebecca! *is in awe*
Did I get a *whispers reverently* first post???
Wow, a new random thread without any requests! I think.
Well, I have a completely insane schedule for next year… does anyone think I’m overloading?
By the way, I’m frightened by the picture.
And I just had a sudden impulse to bite into a bar of soap.
…I’ll go to bed now.
SFTDP.
Spelling error in previous thread: ‘it’ instead of ‘is’.
2~ Biting into a bar of soap wouldn’t rank way high on my list of things I feel compelled to do, but if it makes you happy go ahead. Just don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Re:ThinkGeek-
I got a friend a titanium spork for her birthday a few moths ago. A very practical gift, if anyone is ever in need of an idea that’s both useful and unusual. Frozen ice cream will never be a challenge again!
Kokonilly, I think the stress may be getting to you.
There’s no problem dropping a class if it frees up some sanity.
That is a disturbing discovery…..Super cool picture, Lady B! Although I’m rather partial to the one of Urania on the other thread…..The colors and everything, so beautiful and incredible. It was my desktop background for awhile, until I switched over to an adorable picture of my cat. I miss you, Gandalf!!!!!!!!!!!!! *sniffle*
2–I definitely to not recommend soap–it tastes very bad. Although, if you do have a desire for soap taste, I recommend, instead of a bar of soap, that you try a soap flavored Bertie Bott bean instead.
SFTDP–in my post 6, I mean “definitely do not recommend soap” not “to not recommend soap”. I’ve been up too long, after not getting enough sleep last night. And still ahve 17 pages to read for English, and it’s ten to midnight, and I have to get up at 6:45. School sucks.
6 — soap is my favorite flavor of jelly bean
except…it really is..
Now I want to bite a bar of soap! Real soap doesn’t taste as good as jelly bean soap though. maybe because it makes more sense to eat a soap jelly bean? boy am I ever tired right now
kokonilly, I agree, if you find that it is too much for you, don’t feel bad about scaling back a bit. It helps if you know your strengths and weaknesses, and what is a reasonable workload for you.
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9–So, I heard the fires were started by arsonists……Is that true? Because that is just horrible–I don’t understand why anyone would do something like that.
Anyway, I am SO TIRED right now. I didn’t get to sleep until 12:45, what with all the various readings I had to do for classes today. And then up at 6:45, so the most sleep i got was 6 hrs (and given how quickly I fell asleep, that’s probably not that far off). but I am truly so tired that if I spend even just a couple minutes sitting still and not doing anything, I could honestly fall asleep, I hate homework and early morning classes. I didn’t appreciate last semester near as much as I should’ve–most of the late nights last semester were not due to having tons of stuff to do, but rather I felt like staying up and having some “fun” time doing something for myself (like watching tv on my computer). This semester I feel slammed all the time, and am definitely not getting anywhere near enough sleep. I’m literally almost falling asleep typing this. Not good.
Well, anyway, I better stop babbling and go brush my hair, so that I will be ready to leave in 15 minutes…..
I hate to use bars of soap because they are so smooth. I don’t want to ruin them.
This means the HPBs go much farther back than we ever thought…
Next year, my Latin class is going to Italy!
I dislike bars of soap because they always slip away from me. *smugness* But now I’ve got one with a string on it.
I like carving pictures into bars of soap, but only after they’re already wet. Before that they’re too pretty.
I agree, new bars of soap are very pretty.
4 – I tried, actually. It tasted quite revolting, not nearly as pretty as it smelled.
5 – Maybe. I hope not.
6 – Hm. A soap jellybean. I shall check that out… and it doesn’t taste that great, you’re right.
8 – My main strength is science/math (they kinda go hand in hand). So I’m doubling up on science next year, and taking Calculus BC. Spanish is easy.
11 – Me too. But I whittled one into an HPB anyway. (I bit a small chunk of the ear off.)
Maybe you guys are right. But I’m actually not stressed at the moment. Except about my test this Thursday.
42 IS TRUE!!!!
Okay, today was Career Day at school, and we were going out to break, and an adult stopped me near the science buildings.
IT WAS RAINBOWSTAR’S MOM.
HOLYCAKEHOLYCAKEHOLYCAKE.
Well, that’s just beautiful Lady B!
I recomend biting into a soap-shaped bar of milk choklit instead. It ould be about the same consistency I think? Depending on the choklit/soap brand I suppose. But so much tastier.
I am the same with not wanting to ruin soap. Other things as well. *sigh*
5 day weekend at least? I needed a break badly. But now I have to be at home for 5 days, with my family, which I would also rather like a break from. : /
42nd day of the year, no?
YEAH! The internet is fixed! Now I can get online again after Fairpoint screwing things up for lets see, ELEVEN DAYS!
20- Yes! Happy 42nd day of the year, peoples!
Oh, yeah! 42nd day of the year! I brought a towel to school.
23–i shoulda brought a towel–maybe then I’d actually have been dry…..
My back hurts from bending over exactly like one isn’t supposed to bend over while playing violin. But only because I haven’t a music stand so I have to sit cross-legged on the floor.
“Yankee Doodle” dies under my bow.
17 – Woah, how cool! Did she know you’re a Museblogger? Do you and Rainbowstar go to the same school? That is seriously unbelievable. Now you’ve got to tell us the circumstances; I’m really curious.
On an unrelated note, I just wrote a piece of complete bull for World History. It’s so unsatisfying not to put effort into things, but I have a lot of other homework and my mom is making me learn how to
Woah, it sounds like there’s a hurricane outside.
Sorry. Um. Got distracted. I’m really hyper right now. As I was saying, my mom is making me learn how to take less time on things.
The whole project is a waste of time, really. We’re on chapter eight out of probably 35. We’re covering the Middle Ages, and other classes are already at the 1920s. This new project involves everyone in the class presenting once a week (it’s an ongoing current events project), so we’re going to be moving even more slowly starting soon.
All I can say is, thank chocolate that the teacher is writing the final for this class.
25~ I have a music stand but I use it as a storage space instead of how it’s intended. What I do instead is sit on my bed, with one leg pulled up partway under me, the other off the side with my music propped up against the fiddle case. Works like a charm for me (my bed is rather low though, knee height). You might also try setting the case on a table and propping the music on that.
Or you could buy a music stand…..
Soap: It is pretty, especially the rounded ones smooth bars, they always look so….I dunno, elegant and nice. Mmmmmm. And they smell good and feel nice to roll around in your hands when they’re brand new and still dry because they’re so smooth. Okay, that sounded weird. Soap is nice.
What happened today? Well, it was completely gorgeous and I got more homework done today that I have in the past few weeks…..umm, yeah, exciting.
Do any of you wash your backpacks regularly? I do and I wonder if that is an uncommon occurrence.
27- -snort- -giggle- BED? That would require getting to it, wouldn’t it? Well, that rules out that option… My bed is low, though. At first I just had a mattress on the floor but then I got a bed frame. Only then the slats for it were too small so I strung the whole thing really tight with twine and put my mattress on that, and then when it got loose I’d just take off my mattress and tighten it up. This also allowed air to circulate under my bed so it didn’t mildew. Unfortunately, after about two months of sleeping on it, the string became incredibly weak and began to give way at the slightest provocation, so I just let it all break until my mattress slid to the floor. I’m too lazy to fix it, and we’re moving soon anyway…
-is supremely lazy-
Anyway, on the subject of music stands… they’re good for killing zombies with.
26: Nah, I don’t think so. They don’t live in my town… unless she tranfered, which would make sense cause we’re a real great school… hey Rainbowstar, does your school have the initials of PMS? (Unlikely, but let’s hope for the best…!)
28–nope. I don’t think I’ve ever washed any backpack I’ve ever had. And with one, it certainly might have been advisable, as a tupperware container of ham and beans sorta leaked inside of it……
28- ‘Fraid not. I didn’t even wash my school bag after the fire when it smelled all smokey.
G’night, all!
28) I’ve never washed mine. But to be fair, I was home-schooled most of the time, so I didn’t use it much. And I switched to messenger bags in seventh grade…
Huh, I missed my 3-year blogoversery. Blogaversery? Ehehe.
17- Wow, that is quite a coincidence. Had you two met each other/each others parents before or was it completely random?
29~ Oh, okay, I see the problem with that suggestion.
Then just go get a music stand, they do work for a multitude of purposes (I hadn’t ever considered the zombie defence system, but hey, that’s valid!).
28~ I might wash my backpack if it was really really dirty, but otherwise no. That would require taking everything out of it, which would throw me into extreme disorganization, the likes of which I might never escape from. Actually, I’m using a messenger bag style now, but I wouldn’t wash that unless I had to either. Same reasons as above.
OMG!!!!!! Huge surprise. I got a reply! OMGOMGOMG! I’ll stop that now. I got a very nice reply to an email I’d sent to the lead singer of Gaelic Storm asking if they’d sing my friend’s favorite song for her birthday. They didn’t, but it was because they hadn’t gotten the note in time.
I didn’t think he’d write back. Wow.
28- No, but I should more often. I did leave a tea bag in a pocket a few weeks ago, so it now smells of chai.
I used to carve patterns into objects when I was really young, to impress company. Once when my grandparents came, I tried to carve their initials into the bar of soap. Another time my parents had a party, and I poked holes in radial patterns into the bottoms of the cups.
My parents were not pleased.
17 – My mom told me about that. She was talking to a class about her career or something, and she saw you on the playground.
And no, my school doesn’t have those initials. My school is extremely small and if you went to it I would know by now.
35- Wow!! That’s impressive!
I have two for diplomacy. I need seven for there to be any point to a thread. Anyone?
It sounds as if such a thread could lead to a heavier workload for GAPAs. *repugnance*
I just discovered a fantastically cool website. It’s the first result when you google “wordle.” Basically, it takes the most repeated words in a text or webpage and arranges them in a word cloud, with the most repeated of the words largest. Enter in Museblog as the url; it’s so cool!
I’m reading the Oxford English Dictionary! I have reached “Abandon” but it goes on so long I doubt I shall ever get past it.
41- That’s flamablamablous! Evidently, the most used word on the blog is ‘thread’. Who would’ve guessed?
“Rules” is awfully big, too.
And flamablamablous. Don’t forget flamablamablous. I keep using it at school without realizing, like after the Golden Globes, for instance:
A friend: So, did you hear that Heath Ledger won a Golden Globe?
Me: That’s flamablamablous! *oops*
Friend: *weird stares*
44–yeah, I thought that was rather amusing.
So, I put in each of the seven Harry Potter books……and guess what the biggest word is in EVERY single one?
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Yup, you guessed it: Harry
Then, for the opposite reason I did the Potter books (I did them cuz they’re awesome, I did twilight…..the first three, anyway)
1. for some reason “eyes” is the largest, with Edward, voice, back, like, asked, and face close behind…..
2. I’d have to say Jacob for this one, followed by Edward only slightly smaller, then like, with eyes a little behind that. (What’s with all the eyes???????)
3. This time Edward is definately the biggest, followed by Jacob, ubt like, time, one, just Alice, charlie, back and eyes are close behind…….I”m noticing a theme here. She likes the word “eyes”.
Yeah, sorry, was vaguely curious what wouodl be most used in books such as twilight (twilight said with a contemptuous sneer, btw)
4- That’s interesting; it reminds me of Wordcount.
I’m going to be 16 on the 26th. I feel old…
I made some (of the Potter books) and saved ’em to the gallery. Y’all should check ’em out, they’re kinda cool.
“Merlin” is the 19,021st most used word in the English language.
I’m going to go do all our vocab words now! (Can anyone tell I’m putting off my homework?)
I’m absolutely positive that wordcount is NOT a reliable source, but it’s fun to play with anyway.
Hi. I haven’t been on in a while because Mom got so pissed at something it turned out SHE did, she deleted my logon, claiming to have saved my documents.
She didn’t.
I’ve lost everything since February of 2007. NaNoWriMos, pictures, stories, poems, my whole music library, videos… and I hardly went on the computor before February of 2007, so that’s pretty much anything.
To top it off, she excuses herself by claiming it was my fault that this happened and I should be more responsible and she “told me not to save them to the hard drive anyway”, which you have to do.
madmadmadmad
46/49 – And “Hermione” and “Ron” are the second- and third-largest in nearly every book. How did you input the entire text of each book?
50 – Muse is the 20,854th most used word!
Darwin’s and Abraham’s birthday, and they were both born on the same year!!!!! Check out the illustration on Google. The wordle thing is really cool.
51–oh, god, that sucks. Is there by any chance a way it could be taken to a tech person and recovered? I mean, isn’t there supposed to be a way to recover things, even if they’ve been delete? *confesses she doesn’t know a lot about the techincal details*
52–yuppers! although Dumbledore was used quite a bit in the sixth book. Um, well, um…….back near the beginning of college (like, sometime last semester), I sort of, well…..discovered that they were online (I was trying to figure out an answer to a question on the HP trivia thread), and, well, I downloaded them…….
Does that mean you looked at my lovely pictures?
Is it really? Isn’t “the” like the first most used word? Could be wrong, I do know that “e” is the msot used letter.
The absolute morons on my floor seem to ahve gotten it into their heads that it made sense to run down the ahllway screaming and pushing somebody in a grocery cart. I don’t even want to know where they managed to get a grocery cart. Does nobody actually study?????????????????
51-
That’s awful!
Hmm. I need to read 65 pages of 1984 and take notes. Also fill out a vocabulary sheet and practice playing the Can-Can, which I am to have memorized by Tuesday and I’m babysitting for the rest of my life anyway so I dunno when I’ll have time.
I think I’ll call the hair salon. -does so-
Cake! They’re closed until Tuesday! Which means no haircut for me until after Tuesday.
Salmon Bowl next Saturday! I’m excited.
I have leg warmers. They are maroon.
I really don’t want to do my homework. I’d rather think about Interior Decorating and my New Bedroom and where in Solana I’m going to keep all my clothes since I don’t have a closet or a chest of drawers. Suitcases probably…
Also I am Dying to Write.
OK, good-bye this time. Seriously.
51~ That’s horrible! I hate it when parents do some nasty thing (that was occasioned by them in the first place) and then when it goes wrong they lecture you on how it’s all your fault because you’re not responsible enough, etc. I’ve been there too. :L I hope you can fix it though!
55~ Riding grocery carts is fun! But yeah, they shouldn’t be doing it inside. Or when people are studying…..
It’s windy outside! This morning it was blowing everything off my porch and howling through the trees (it kept me awake, but didn’t encourage me to get out of bed). It was nice and warm (50 degrees) but the wind made it feel really cold. Brrrrrr. I could feel it through the cracks around the windows in my room when I was practicing.
58–Oh, yeah, I mean, I wouldn’t mind in the least if they were running around outside pushing each other in grocery carts. I might even think it was fun. But in the semi-narrow halls of the dorm complex, it’s not only annoying to anyone not participating, but…..not very smart. *shurg* I dunno…..
59~ In narrow hallways it would be rather frightening and probably pretty dangerous.
Cart riding is best done in a deserted parking lot with a slight angle for gaining speed. That way you can jump off if it goes too fast without the worry that the cart will hurtle into someone or their car. (No, I don’t know this from experience.) I’ve only done it in the isles, and never for a long time, just a few running strides and then a few seconds of ride, never having anyone riding in the basket part, either.
54 – Yes, I looked at the wordles. They were very wordy.
If I didn’t have a complete set of the Harry Potter books about ten feet away, I’d probably have downloaded the books too.
I couldn’t get the Wordles to work. (say that five times fast!). I think it’s because of dial up begin slow tonight (the bane of my existence).
But that’s gonna change! Mom ordered high speed internet, I never thought she’d do that! The stuff came today, so we need to figure out how to set it all up…aah, I am not the greatest with computers, but I’m the only one in the house that even remotely understand them so……ugh. I’m a bit concerned.
Anyway, when we get it all set up I’ll be able to connect to the internet in my room! WHEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That’ll be awesome. *is very happy*
Oh zark, how id it get to be past 11 already?! I need to wake up early tomorrow……..oof. *sigh*
Goodnight.
37: Darn! That would be extremely awesome. And we don’t have a ‘playground’; we have a ‘plaza.’ *is a stickler for details* By the way, we had to write letters to our favorite speaker, so I wrote to your mom.
If my letter gets through the front office (*wishes furtively, or else you won’t be able to get my email address*) you will… get my email address.
not having school tomorrow I have been fooling around on the Internet and discovered a cool music site called Pandora. It compiles a “radio station” of like songs and artists from a single song or artisit you give it. Check it out at pandora.com…
Huh. Scrolling through the wordle gallery, I come across this:
Title: “twilight.”
Words (all of same size):
cool
funny
vampires
fictional
romance
exciting
meyer
stephenie
awesome
action
book
… huh. O_O
Now, to find Luna’s Harry Potter ones… Oh wait, there’s a search tool! *searches*
Haha, I like the OoTP one: “said Harry”… “said Ron”… “said Hermione”… “Well”… “Yeah”… “Oh”… “said Fred”…
Ooh, happy Friday the 13th in 8chicks watch* 10 minutes, Eastern time!!!!
Now I’m leaving,. I’m tired and have to get up EARLY!
66–oh, please don’t remind me……I’ve got a bad feeling about it. Maybe that’s just because my day today is going so poorly. My printer is continuing in its state of not working, the community printer when I went to use it is out of ink, so I had to correct the mistake on my english paper which is due tomorrow by hand, and when I uninstalled my printer software to try reinstalling it, in the hopes that that would cure verything, it tells me that the cd (which came with the printer, and I used “successfully” to install in the first place) is not a compatible installer with my device.
So, yeah, the fact that it is Friday the 13th is rather worrisome right now, and I’m not even superstitious……And I just forgot what it was that happened on Friday the 13th thatmade it supposed bad luck in the first place….drat
Beavo: There are a few things you can do. A System Restore will restore your system to the last saved point. There’s also a program called Restoration that should do what you need, I’m sure Google will have many results. Do it as quickly as possible though, because the old data will be written over.
Hmm. I’m superstitious about some things. I don’t say the name of the Scottish play onstage or even offstage, because then I usually end up slipping and saying it in the theater. I don’t walk under ladders (again, theater), although that’s more of a playful superstition. I’m nearly positive that rabbit feet are bad luck. I say “break a leg” and cheer when I hear the Falcon (our theater’s sort of mascot, I suppose). But Friday the 13th holds no meaning for me.
We have snow!
This is a very rare thing where I live, so I’m celebrating it. Building a massive snow sculpture in the back yard.
65- I heart Wordle! It rules. [snip]
Wordle is lots of fun…….I just did one of MuseBlog.
67- One Friday the 13th in the Middle Ages, the king of France rounded up all the Templar Knights in his kingdom on drummed-up charges and had them burned at the stake.
73–ah, that’s right. We learned that in biomed terminology (I believe because “hospital” originated formt eh Hospitallers who had something to do with teh Templars, or so he said……..)
He also wrote a word on the board today, and was like, “Can any of you tell me what this means?”
[the word, by the way, was triskaidekaphobia]
The first thing that popped into my ehad was “fear of words”, since it is a terminology class and have learned well over 200 words, and will continue to learn more, and then it hti me. It’s Friday the 13th. Obviously that must be “fear of Friday the 13th.” So I respond, (it took less time to htink this then it does to read it) “Fear of Friday the 13th”. He was quite pleased, I think.
(73) That’s the origin story Dan Brown tells, but Wikipedia (en . wikipedia . org/wiki/Friday_the_13th) says there’s no evidence that the superstition is even remotely that old.
(74) Triskaidekaphobia is just the fear of the number 13 (tris = three, kai = and, deka= ten), not specifically of Friday the 13th.
40-It’s possible to make it entirely Muser-run.
Yay, I’m a green belt now!!!!!
Congratulations, warrior-princess!
77- Congrats!!!
75- Really? I heard it in one of the special features on the National Treasure DVD.
My mom refused to tie up my hands so I could practice getting at a Swiss army knife in my pants pocket and cutting myself free. Apparently, she doubts this will ever come in handy.
80–It would come in handy if you were kidnapped and tied up and you had the knife in your pocket cuz they were too stupid to remove it. Doesn’t she read mystery stories? That would be fun to try…..
Hmm backpack washing must be a compulsion peculiar to myself then. I never used to wash it much, but eventually I got ot thinking about how filthy it must actually be, and where I put it after it’s on “germy” surfaces at school (like our bathrooms! gross!)
36) interesting! I used to try to carve boats and so on out of soap, though they were really more like canoes than anything else. I can only imagine what your parents looked like when the saw the holes in the cups
51) oooh that would make me so mad…I have a lot of things that aren’t backed up anywhere on my computer that I would not be able to recall by memory. How is it your fault that she deleted everything? Wow, crazy.
Hello, I feel rather terrible. My nose has been dripping, my eyes have been running and I’ve been sneezing all day. And most of yesterday. *sigh* Not fun.
Today we went to Washington DC again. Spent some time with our friend at the American History museum, went to see the Dutch Cityscapes exhibit at the NGA (it was very, very good, if you can go by all means do so!) and then met our friend again and went poking around thrift stores. I found some tank tops that will be nice for the summer and another shirt that I really liked. Plus the first three books of the HG2G books….I just need to finish the set, but ah well. They were fun, I’ll probably get around to reading them again eventually and they were what, $1 each, not bad.
I just got home from the library, they were playing Love Story in honor of Valentine’s day tomorrow (my dad totally missed the connection). It was okay, but not the greatest.
It was funny, the librarian’s boyfriend hates that movie, but he was there as the techie, like always.
Oh, I forgot to mention, this morning I had a very, very strange dream about MB. I can’t remember much of it (it was interrupted just at the good part by my rude alarm clock at 6, horror!), but it was interesting. Beavo was saying something about MCR, someone else was replying to that (this was all in blog form) and Robert had made some sort of witty comment about singing. The really scary thing was that all of the comments in the dream sounded just like how everyone here writes……….very spooky. I guess that’s what happens when you are reading four totally unrelated forums just before you go to bed.
I wish I could remember some of the things said (in quotes, not just the main gist) because it was funny. Yes, even when I was awake and still remembered them they were funny and made sense. O.o Odd.
It’s back! w00t!
I just dropped a piece of raspberry kiss on the keyboard.
Let’s play a game!
We’ll call it “What Have I Got in my Pockets?”
Turn out your pockets and list everything you have in them at this moment.
In my grey coat:
Left pocket:
7 Dewey Decimal System bookmarks
2 miniature flyers announcing Thespian meetings on Friday 19.
1 Starburst wrapper
1 very battered, ancient cell phone with a dead battery
1 silver iPod Nano with a broken screen (plus earbuds) with a dead battery
1 Lady Grey tea bag (unused)
1 rubber band
2 pennies
3 nickels
12 dimes
Assorted lint
Right pocket:
1 striped silk scarf
1 pair of scuffed cheap red sunglasses
1 scrap of paper talking about my Mayan sign (white magnetic dog)
2 chocolate wrappers
2 Earl Grey teabags (unused)
1 rubber band
4 pennies
1 nickel
2 quarters
3 one-dollar bills
2 treasure hunt clues (one leading to the replica of an Indian burial canoe, the other to the creepy anti-abortion monument in front of the church)
1 scrap of wax paper
1 shopping list
2 pieces of 1 receipt
Assorted lint
And after the game, of course, we put everything back in our pockets.
Ow, my feet hurt from ballroom dancing. We did the cha-cha. It’s HARD!
83–On the subject of dreams…..I took a long nap earlier (two hours, from 3-5), and I had some odd dreams. Mainly, I dreamed that I was in my dorm room taking a nap (odd, as that was what I was doing), and the rest of the dream i think I was walking through our dorm complex, and I met some people who in my dream were friend’s of my roommates, but they were rather odd. One, I encountered in the girl’s bathroom, but said person looked awfully masuculine, and I couldn’t decide (in my dream) whether the individual was truly female, a guy who was in the girl’s bathroom, or a transgender/sexual. I do remember I had a rather enjoyable conversation with en in my dream, but…..it was very odd. Although I almost think it was more odd when I was dreaming about napping.
85–Let’s se……
My cellphone (silver LG shine)
A receipt from when I returned the student solution manual for chem, as it wasn’t what I needed…..
My wallet, with my student id, suitcase key, McDonald’s gift card, Barnes and Noble gift card (HP deathly hallow design), driver’s license, two walmart cards, and a debit card
3 wintergreen lifesaver mints
two emptry wrappers from aforementioned mints
85: Jacket:
Nothing in my coat.
Pants:
Back right pocket: A lot of Hershey Kiss nigglywigglies (I’ve started a collection!)
Nothing else. Wow, I’m a boring person!
Speaking of pockets, I’m wearing my jacket that has a nifty pocket on my right upper arm. I bought it in Montana!
um Alice….how BIG are your pockets? I am a proud skinny jean wearer so all my pockets contain is cellphone (Samsung SPH-M300), green iPod Nano (the old not square ones), candy wrapper.
There is nothing on TV. Just Louis Vuitton Cup racing on TV1, TV2 is a movie? TV3 has a Steve Martin movie and C4 is ooh, love songs. okay, I can deal with that, Chasing Cars, Snow Patrol is “Number 4” but, what’s with the video?
Today was totally awesome!! After sorting classes for Saturday Morning Music Classes I met Pla in town with 10 other Asian girls from 12 to 18. 7 Thai, 2 Hong Kong and 2 Japanese. We went to Seoul (Korean restuarant) and stuffed ourselves with spicy food…I died, and Mifu said “You are asian because you are cute, you can use chopsticks and you like asia food” haha, so thats what makes you Asian huh? awesome.
Pond bought me Mochi red-bean icecream and then we were walking to Warehouse Stationary and I saw Alex and Hazel and they were all “asian freak…” I guess…but my new years resolution is “CONFIDENCE” so…assertiveness is of the essence! oh, and then I watched Little Miss Sunshine, that is weird! But cute-ish.
G-Night
Has anyone else picked classes for next school year yet? This year it’s a real pain, because my school is switching to block scheduling next year, so we only have 8 periods and 20 minutes for lunch instead of 9 whole periods.
So, my classes for next year are as follows-
English 11 Honors
French 4 H
Law/Psychology (half year of each)
Algebra 2
Chemistry H
Band
Creative foods/Study Hall (1/2 year each)
PC Servicing/Creative Writing (1/2 year each)
I’m actually pretty excited for my classes, but block scheduling…*shudders*
Sorry about the double post, but I forgot to wish everybody Happy Valentines Day! Or, as my friend calls it, Singles Awareness Day.
91 – I know a girl who calls it Singles Awareness Day! Does your friend live in California? Is she an eighth grader?
In my pockets: cell phone (LG CU515 black). I feel boring. Alice, how do you even fit that much in your pockets?
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! I’m happy for today. Originally, I had thought that my boyfriend was going to be busy all day, but it turns out that we’ll be able to go to a movie in the evening. It might have something to do with my friend threatening him… I did beg her not to, but I won’t argue with the results.
Does anyone else have a sudden impulse to put a pizza box on a stove and turn it on?
I sure don’t.
92- Nope, she lives in Ohio and is a high school sophomore.
Woah, what’s up with the format? And what’s “A Very MuseBlog Valentine?” I clicked on it and nothing happened.
Happy Valentine’s Day! Not that it’s anything special for me…….
Just wondering, is the recent comment’s bar (as well as everything else along the right) currently appearing below all the posts for anyone else? Last night after the blog came back it was normal, but this morning after I logged on it was funky…..
Woahhh, it just fixed itself. What’s going on?
Huh, that’s odd. Ignore my previous post. Somehow posting (as opposed to refreshing) seems to have cured it.
(96-99) I accidentally started a page instead of a post, when I published the post, for some reason the software published the abandoned page as well. I always refresh the home page to see how it looks, so I caught the error almost immediately.
I’m wearing the clothes I wore yesterday. *snore*
Let’s start a club! We’ll call it, “♦The Royal Order of Non-Existant Lovelives!♦”
Hello! There’s just a cell phone in my pocket, along with a few links from a broken necklace.
It feels like I haven’t been here forever, which is weird.
85- I’ve got lint. I don’t use pockets much, I’m afraid.
100- Ohhh. That scared me for a moment…
I’m sending in a valentine right now! Can whoever gets it post it here?
101- Oops, I forgot. It’s a Word document, will that post?
48) My mother cleaned out my pockets recently, but this is what I usually have in my anorak:
.
Right pocket:
± New tissues
± Used tissues
± Wrappers
± Napkins
± Pens
± a pencil+ eraser
Left pocket:
± Patch (for the coat pocket)
± Gloves (when I’m not wearing them)
± Hat (same as above)
± Receipts
± Piece of paper
± String
± Deck of waterproof cards
± Sesame cracker
Upper left pocket:
± small, hard candy (Ricola, Wick)
± cards (the type the give out at offices)
± flyers
± brochures
± other important paper
Hidden upper right pocket no 1:
± Change
± Wallet
± Remains of sticky candy
Hidden upper right pocket no 2:
± Keys
± cell phone
± spare change
Pocket in lining:
± softcover book
That’s my usual status. People keep teasing me about carrying so much stuff, especially when I emptied most pockets and brought 3 books with me. You can imagine how much it weighs. My mother empties it routinely, especially before traveling, because she says it would give homeland security a heart attack…
Awww I haven’t posted forever and now I feel bad…
Anyway on the first part of the February random thread (I think…) I wrote “I am jealous” and someone said it should be “I am envious”.
Does anyone know why? I’m guessing bad grammar but why is it bad grammar?
I’m one of those people who stops your conversation every two seconds to correct grammar.
Yup… That’s me.
Nice pic!!! It looks so real!
(107) As part of his campaign for more-precise language, one of the GAPAs occasionally reminds MBers of a traditional but increasingly neglected distinction between envy (feelings of resentment toward someone who has something you want) and jealousy (feelings of possessiveness toward someone on whom you feel you have a claim, often romantic). This GAPA thinks the distinction is useful and helps make sense of phrases such as “a jealous husband” and “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God.” But many MBers, including other GAPAs, think he’s just being quaint.
94 – That sounds like fun. I’m not a pyromaniac exactly, but fire is fun to play with. o-o
108 – That reminds me of The Giver. Precision of language and such?
108–quaint or not, we all think you’re a flamablamablous GAPA!
81- She doesn’t. I had to tie my hands together myself, but it’s really hard to tie yourself up well.
Yes! MuseBlog is working again! Did it fail for everyone, or just some people?
111–I suppose you must be an only child? Because, if you had siblings, I have to imagine they would be all too willing to tie you up and tie you up well.
Has anyone else had trouble today with the blog? I know there were difficulties last night, with some long complex error message, but it was fine this morning (that is, early afternoon), but then it suddenly popped up with a message along the lines of being unable to connect to the database. This is the first time I’ve been able to access it since around two.
(108) If you’re perchance referring to me, I merely pointed out that the dictionaries have caved. Perhaps I didn’t properly convey my disapproval of such sloppiness. I’m fairly tolerant of grammatical and orthographical variations, but when it comes to matters lexical, I’m heartily in favor of maintaining useful distinctions.
Besides, I’m rather partial to quaint.
(113) If you look at the time lapse between comments 111 and 112, you will see that you were far from the only one who couldn’t access the blog.
112–I don’t know about everyone, but you’re certainly not the only one who had difficulties.
Anyway, I ought to go do some laundry, or else I don’t think I’ll have anything to wear tomorrow. And I have been at school nearly a month. (You’ll find, that at college, once a month tends to be more than sufficient for clothes washing needs. At least for myself–my sister, I fear, only does laundry maybe every two months, at best…..I think she has more clothes.)
115–SFTDP…..I know (his post wasn’t up yet when I posted)–it’s terribly depressing. Seven hours without MB–I didn’t know what to do with myself!
I sent you another email with my Valentine–I don’t know if you’ll have any better luck. I don’t have any graphics programs I know of, so couldn’t get it to convert to a JPG, but managed to get it into PDF format. Which I don’t think can be any worse, even if no better.
(117) Ah, the PDF is perfect. That’s usually a safe bet. I can open them in Photoshop, or if all else fails, I have Adobe Acrobat Professional.
It’s not just the Mac/PC difference, though that possibly increases the likelihood I won’t have the same fonts. But almost every graphic anyone has created in Word turns out to have problems.
Did anyone else have difficulty accessing MB today. I couldn’t get through. Not sure why. But I’m here now.
Ooops. Nevermind my previous post. I see you all had troubles too.
118–odd. I shall keep that in mind for any future things I might wish to create on Word. It turns out, that when I hit “save as” to first save, I have the option to save it in any various date of Word, as well as to save it as a PDF. I hadn’t ever realized that before, or I would have saved it that way to begin with. I don’t actually have a program in which I can edit PDFs, and previously, the only way I knew how to get ’em was to scan something in, which even if saved in JPG format, opens in Preview, like PDFs…..Nor do I have any graphics program with which to create a JPG, except to scan something in as one. Or if I do, I have no knowledge of it….
The blog’s back up! Yay!
Speaking of tying up, I went to babysit and got tied up numerous times. Then they begged me to tie them up, but I did so only loosely and after the older children had promised to vouch for me if the parents got mad at me for tying up their children.
123- Ah yes, I have been through episodes like that. I have been buried by pillows too. I love how kids want to do the same thing over and over. Like when I play makebelieve they want to do the same story the same way many times over. I miss that.
123 – My sister and I used to tie up our babysitters and have them tie us up when we were younger. It’s just one of those games that persists forever.
On the other hand, my sister and I also used to pretend that we were puppies competing in dog shows and circuses at Disney World.
Anyone else for diplomacy?
I sent in my Valentine… it’s a Word document though so I’m not sure if that’s why it’s not up? Do I need to convert it or something? Cause I have absolutely no idea how to do that.
126- Sure, I’d be willing to give it a try.
(127) RoseQuartz, check your email. I sent you a note yesterday with instructions. You could also do what Luna did and save the file as a PDF.
128- Haha, the “something below the text” would be a HPB image copied from the blog. I don’t need it there- would taking it out make the file possible to post? I don’t have any kind of graphics program, so that’s out, but I could save it as a PDF if taking out the HPB doesn’t work.
(129) A PDF would be perfect.
130- OK, I sent both the Word and the PDF a few minutes ago… Check your email! *impatience*
Tenracs pwn!
Every time I read a new thread, I have a random urge to giggle insanely.
HPBs are WOMBATs!
In my pockets right now…..
Back right pocket: cell phone (Samsung Rant)
In all pockets: lint and random fuzz.
That’s it.
However, often I’ll have my phone, my iPod (nano, green square style) and earbuds, jackknife, wrappers, notes scribbled on scraps of paper and then put through the wash, small lengths of marlin or cordage to tie knots in when I’m bored and interesting rocks/sticks/mostly indestructible small things that I thought were interesting enough to decide to pick up and stash in my pockets until I could take them out and put them somewhere else.
It depends on what I’m doing though, if I’m going for a walk in the woods or something I’m likely to have a lot of pretty acorns/sticks/leaves/rocks/pieces of bark that I’ve picked up, if I’m with friends it’ll more likely be scraps of paper with emails and phone numbers on, if I’m at a living history event it’s going to be a knife, money, handkerchief and lip balm in a tub, maybe a band-aid or two if there’s kids around that are getting into scuffles (I often take shortcuts through the woods where they play and I know a bunch of them), maybe some paper and a small pencil for writing down book titles or names of people and addresses.
Despite this I’m actually more of a bag carrying person if I have to have a lot of stuff with me…I don’t usually rely on pockets unless I have to.
Yay! MuseBlog is back!
I meant to make a MB Valentine, but didn’t get to it. *sigh* Sorry all. And I even figured out how I can make the test large enough to read in Paint! And change the font, wow, I’m moving up, no? *more computer illiterate than is comfortable admitting*
What happened to my VALENTINE???? Was there something wrong with the format again?? Sorry, I’m just an extremely impatient person…
I might not get to write for the next few days.
I just wanted to let people know that I’m not leaving……
136 – If you’re gone for a few days, people might not notice unless you’re in an RPG. A few weeks, on the other hand… people will notice.
Aggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
That basically sums up how I feel right now. I made the unfortunate mistake of abstaining from light fluffy YA fantasy, and so when I started reading them again I found all the corresponding urges returning, such as wanting to write ALL THE TIME even if I actually don’t have anything to write, and getting all sucked up into the book and leaving little bits and pieces of me lying around in Montmorency and The Stones Are Hatching, which of course reminded me of all the other bits and pieces lying around in Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and Master and Commander and basically every book I’ve ever read and been sucked into regardless of whether or not it is light fluffy YA fantasy. This means that I can focus on absolutely nothing especially not writing or reading and so I wander about in a daze of stories and wish that I lived in a novel and not Real Life (although of course that is a very foolish wish and not something that I actually wish). So yes. I am yearning for Adventure right now on a much larger scale than my usual adventures.
Do you think I’m crazy? I feel sort of crazy right now.
-wanders off-
P.S. Montmorency isn’t actually fantasy but applies just the same.
I’m currently posting from an undisclosed location in Connecticut with less people than board rules allow me to mention. But the hotel has Internet access, so I can post! Yay!
Does the town start with an o?
I wish that the senate was not in recess right now.
does anyone feel like this is a low time in the world?
I’m going to a gifted summer camp about the first 100 days of the Obama admin.
What I have in my jacket pocket (pocketses):
A pair of socks and a tissue. (This isn’t the coat I usually wear…but I’m wearing it now b/c I’m cold)
Went skating today, for fun, and fell down ten times–I have two gigantic bruises on my knees, which is exciting.
I’ve decided to knit things for charitable organizations! I’ve found sites where you can send in afghan squares and they sew them up to give them to orphans and things, so that’s what I’m working on now.
138-Not at all crazy! I wish people felt like that more often. I wish I felt like that more often… it would be good for me. XD
*barges in*
Two days ago at 11 o’clock pm, my computer refused to let me onto MuseBlog!! Something about not being able to establish a connection with the database. All of yesterday I couldn’t go on either! Finally my computer has let me come on here today.
I’ve realized exactly how much I’m addicted to the blog.
Oh well!
I hate maths.
that is about all i can say. In maths today Ambi was like “im finished” all period and I just stared at some stupid question about finding the Surface Area of a cylinder.The first question. Like I care. And then she tells us our internal is on the 2nd of March. I hope maths dies. But I nearly cried which would have been bad because I am reknownedly cheerful person at school (at school) and it would show the triangle monster/McNail/ok, Ms McNeil, that I am bad at maths and therefore should be separated from my friends and tutored at lunch..AAAAAAH.
maths.should.die.
oh well, my dad brought home the HG2G trilogy, without the 2nd one but oh well
Alice….I want an adventure too!! When I went to China last year I was so tempted to go and get lost and have an exciting Chinesey experience… (I did once, not on purpose but it was Xi’An and a straight walk back to the hotel, we were just separated)
die maths die.
~~Sam
Hi! I just wanted to pop in before I got *dun dun dun* bottom braces.
No fun.
Anyway, I got Un Lun Dun, Arabat, and Twisted from the library, all which seem to be very good.
138~ I don’t think you’re crazy……I was feeling exactly the same a few weeks ago, reading the Hornblower books, looking into things to o in the summer and then poking my head out the window and seeing nothing but coldness and nothing new to do. *sigh* I recall rattling around in my room with too much pent up energy that wouldn’t go away even by practicing and writing, but not enough to actually brave going outside and freezing. Or suffering disappointment from not finding much else to to do that was new.
144~ Everyone got that. When MB kicks you off your best bet is to go poke around at our “storm shelter” blog–MuseAcademy. It’s sort of like a little sister to MB, we go there every time there’s problems here. It’s always there, but never moderated unless there’s something weird here you can go check it out if you want at http://museacademy.wordpress.com/
145~ I totally understand, I very often find myself blinking back tears while doing math homework, and more often than I’d like to think about do I completely break down sobbing. Not fun at all. I’m homeschooled, so it’s always when I’m alone in my room, but still, not pleasant.
The horrible thing is, I really, really, really want to understand it and sometimes I do which makes it all the worse when I can’t get it.
Soooo. I might get new ice skates today! That way we can take them with us on Thursday when we go to DC so we can (hopefully) skate at the NGA Sculpture garden. The rental skates there are horrid and expensive to rent, and I need new ones anyway. That should be fun.
And we need to look for my birth certificate so I can get a passport and sail this summer. *sigh* I’m impatient and worried because I don’t know how long it takes them to fill up the spots and the information’s been posted since January. Oh well.
Ooh! and choir rehearsals start again today! I’m so glad I can sing. ^.^ I think this time the theme for the concert is “songs that tell stories.” Our director always picks really interesting pieces, so that’ll be fun.
Mom’s practicing the piano and it sounds lovely. I always like hearing it in the mornings when I come in. I greatly admire the pianists, the have so many keys to keep rack of and they all look the same to me. *sigh* I know, I have 48 concertina buttons that are completely identical, but somehow it’s different. Really!
My earlier attempts at piano failed in varying degrees. I can play about 3 really hokey songs, and not very well, but it’s as far as I got. I like to goof around with the little pump organ at our church though, it’s so cute!
146~ Aww, I hope it goes well. I used to want braces because I thought they looked really cool, but my I never needed them. Trust me, it caused me great anguish!
Anyway, have as much fun as you can…without biting the dentist (or orthodontist or whatever the term is)!!
146- *trembles in fear* I’m getting mine on March 19th! I’m going to DIE!!!!!!
145– *hugs Elwing* At the risk of being either despised or thanked, I will explain how to figure out the surface area of a cylinder. It’s really not too hard.
1. you need the surface area of the two circular ends. The area of a circle is (pi)*r^2. In words, pi times the radius squared. The radius, of course, is 1/2 the diameter. Since we ahve two ends, the surface area of the two circles is 2(pi)*r^2
2. The surface area of the tubular part of the cylinder: Much easier than it seems at first. To visualize, mentally slice down the side of the cylinder, then take the tube and flatten it into a solid rectangular piece. The width of this rectangle is the circumference of the circular ends: 2(pi)r. The length is the height of the cylinder, so we have 2(pi)rh.
3. Add the two seperate areas: 2(pi)r^2 + 2(pi)rh
HOpe this helps! (As opposed to being annoying).
I’m so bored!
I’ve been bumming around all day watching tv. I was watching The Presidents on the History Channel then I started watching Dead Like Me.
Arrrggghhhh. In history class we are having a trial of Richard Nixon. I’m on the prosecuting team and it’s a lot of work. Ugh.
I’m going to the library later! Woo! Even though mostly it will be for the project.
147- Oh, cool! I didn’t know that was there!
So how do I get a WordPress account, and what do I do with it? And how do I get an avatar? I want to be prepared for the next time MB has problems.
147–
I didn’t know about that, either! Or else I would’ve spent the day on there, in refuge from the all-consuming terror of no MB! I shall remember this for next time…..Of course, I hope there is no next time, but all the same…..
Ow, ow, ow. I took two Tylonals and my mouth still hurts.
Yuck…
Anyways, today was really annoying because I can’t find the lyrics to a song, which is in frigging Finnish.
138- You’re not crazy, you’re right-brained. If it any consolation, I often feel like that.
154- Believe me, I know the feeling. I got an adjustment a couple weeks ago and it still hurts.
147 – I had no idea that was there. I’ll have to bookmark it…
My World History teacher was absent today and left us five sides of worksheet and about ten questions from the book, some of which had up to seven parts. I was all set to not get anywhere close to done and then get to complain about it to the teacher, and then I finished ten minutes early. Now I have all this pent-up complaint energy that I don’t know what to do with.
Braces: Yes, they hurt. Not too terribly, though. When I got braces, I didn’t need pain medication. Getting them off and on suck, but adjustments are just uncomfortable.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go do some ‘simple harmonic motion’ and get confused about sin and cos when I think about how they’re also opposite over hypotenuse and adjacent over hypotenuse, respectively.
You know that annoying feeling that happens when you dangle something just above your nose? That’s the feeling I have in my teeth. Not painful, just excruciatingly annoying.
154- I recommend Motrin/Ibuprofen-works WAY, WAY better. I hope they stop hurting soon!
141- No, it doesn’t. Today, I had a great time and I can see why some people here are so interested in tallships…
159- Yup, that just about describes it. Gah, my stupid braces STILL hurt.
okay i know this is random… but who thinks that we should have a national convention of muse readers?
163- that would be amazing. We could all cosplay and stuff too, and it’d be all those conventions in one! it’d be cool.:arrow:
Oh, so, does everyone know about the cat barf I discussed awhile back? How it was on the carpet under the computer desk and no one had cleaned it up? Remember? Well, guess what? IT’S STILL THERE.
(Random, just thought I’d point that out.)
165-
There’s a fairly obvious solution to this…
(165-166) Of course, by now it may have eaten through the carpet. Potent stuff, cat barf.
165–Um, dare I inquire why you did not simply clean it up when you first became aware of it? Letting it sit does nothing but make it more difficult to remove. That is, I assume it is in your house? That does seem to be the obvious solution, as POSOC pointed out. I realize that cat barf is not the most appealing item, but all the more reason to remove it, rather then continue to be bothered by it.
And it can be good for the sake of your cat, as well: The one (and only) time I had to clean up my cat’s vomit (and one of only like two times he’s thrown up in the year we’ve had him–he doesn’t do hairballs), I discovered he had roundworms, as evidence by the worm I found in his vomit. If I had not cleaned it up then, I would likely not have known he had worms, and they would’ve continued to multiply. Not, of course, that roundworms are all that bad of a parasite, as parasite go, but still……And of course, my mother would have been very mad if the cat vomit on her bedroom floor went unremoved.
ok–I realize that chips are packaged by weight, not volume, but still–when you open a bag of potato chips, there is something criminal in the fact that it is only half filled with chips. And it’s just a little bag, too! There’s not much in ’em to begin with. (Lay’s Masterpiece BBQ, btw–scrumptious).
165 – This boy threw my friend’s sandwich at the wall during lunch about a month ago and there are still pieces of tuna dried onto the wall.
170–Maybe they should hire more thorough janitors? Or increase the wages of those they currently employ? It doesn’t really seem right for their to still be month old food plastered to the wall.
158- Have they tought you soh-cah-toa? It’s an easy acronym-thing/way to remember sin/cos/tan. Sin=opp/hyp (soh), cos=adj/hyp (cah), tan=adj/opp (toa). It made it really easy for me to remember them.
So I’ve been grounded again. On friday mom decided to schedule a “college meeting” between her dad & me and it ended rather badly (them saying I don’t think enough about colleges/me telling them I honestly don’t know (this is completely true- I already worry about it a ton but I can’t come up with anything other than I don’t want a really big school or a very religious one, I have no idea on anything else except that now I want to be as far from home as possible)), and then morphed into 1)my lack of self-initiative 2)my sense of entitlement 3)my reluctance to talk with my parents (quoted directly from the list mother taped to my door the next morning), and so I have been grounded from the computer unless each day I have a ten minute conversation (all in one go, not added up over the day or something reasonable) with each of them and research 5 colleges online a week or something (but honestly, the words on the website mean nothing to me when I don’t know what I’m looking for) and I got really pissed off for a lot of reasons. One is that I don’t talk a lot naturally- It’s just not. Who. I. Am. And I don’t like when people try t change me, which is what they are doing. I go for hours at a time without speaking and it doesn’t even occur to me that I don’t. Even at school or with my friends. And trying to make me talk to them has only made me want to get the hell out of this house and never spend time near them. They keep telling me to be independent but don’t like the way I’m doing it.
That’s the thing about long weekends, although it means you don’t have to spend time at school you then have to spend it with your family. I keep losing track of what I’ve typed, there’s a lot I’ve left out so if this lacks coherency… uhg.
Get me out of here.
This is hell and we can’t leave
I wish it wasn’t February. I’m tired of the cold and I want to wear thin fabrics again. The other day after my shower I was sitting in the living room in my robe and my legs were poking out up to my knees and I realized that that was the first time in weeks I’d actually seen my bare legs. Even when I wear skirts I always wear kneesocks or tights. I even wear thigh high stockings to bed so that when I take off my pajamas in the morning my legs don’t freeze before I have a chance to put on my jeans.
IT HAS GONE TOO FAR.
I’m going to go clean my closet or something.
Today it hailed! Hailed! I can’t even remember the last time that happened.
172) What alarms me the most is the fact your mother made a list of your supposed faults. I don’t know how that can be considered an acceptable mode of parenting. Perhaps you’re “reluctant” to talk because they meet you with such accusation. That’s ridiculous. Also researching five colleges a week seems rather too many, and pointless? Mandates do nothing…
You should try the college matchmaker feature on collegeboard, that helps me a bit. Opposite side of the country eh?
there are quite a few lovely colleges in California…it’s always sunny!well actually it’s not always sunny. :/ in fact it rained all today! hailed even!
I`m in class and I dont understand a thing *screams*
the bell-gottago
I’m still in Connecticut, but we’re coming home to NYC today.
172- Ugh, I feel sorry for you… *tchoqlut+hugs* I’m realizing again how lucky I am to have such laissez-faire parents.
173- I know! The cold SUCKS!!! Winter is fun, but then it hits January 10 or so and you just want it to be spring again. My snow drops started to come up the other day when it was 50 degrees (I wore shorts and flip-flops) and now its cold again and I’m afraid they’re going to die.
176- We might go there this week (WINTER BREAK!). Connecticut, I mean. How do you like living in the city? I love the burbs.
I always wanted to ask someone that.
170) On the back of the wall in our class, there are still two stains from and apple and a banana thrown a year ago. Not bits of fruit, just darker spots on the paint. But now I’m skipping a grade and I´ll finally be out of this horrible class !
Revenge is sweet ! 
Today’s chem lecture was fun. The professor was demonstrating ionization energy and such by running an electric current through a dill pickle. ’twas awesome (I had a second row seat–like always). He shoved forks in it, attached gator clips, plugged it in, then flipped the switch. AFter a couple seconds, one end of the pickle began to glow a burning orange (like the color of electric sparks) and it started smoking a whole bunch. Apparentloy the last time he did this (last year, I think), he tried to hold it up so the people in back (it’s a huge 400-500 lecture hall) could see, and I guess he shorted it out and blew a fuse. No such luck this time. He seemed to think it smelled quite awful, and was apologizing to us in front, but I didn’t find it that bad. Actually, it reminded me of the smell of burnt flesh, which although isn’t not really a nice scent, it did remind me of home (that is, the vet clinic where I work), as it smelled nearly identical to when the doctor does laser or electrosurgery. both burn the flesh, of course, generating the same smokey burning smell. So although it doesn’t bother me at work, although I won’t say I like the smell by any means, today I rather found myself liking it. Probably cuz it conjured up the feeling of being back in AK, in my normal routine, instead of at college…….
Well, tomorrow’s the big day. Tomorrow I find out if I’m going to the National Spelling Bee. I have to drive like two and a half hours to get to the regional, and there’s only gonna be about nine kids. *sigh* I guess whatever happens, happens.
181–good luck!
I was in the state spelling be back home once, and my sister twice. I got out on my first word, I think. But, to give myself credit, the morons in charge never selected enough words in each category, so by the time they got to me 9and my sister the years she was in), the first word hadn’t been beginner level for a while, but was instead intermediate. ’twas horribly unfair, and I would’ve thought they would learn and select significantly more beginner and intermediate words, but no. Note: By the time most were to there second word, it was up to advanced.
Oh, yeah, my word that I got out on was orthopterology. Haha, that’s funny. My computer says it’s spelled wrong. Doesn’t ahve any spelling ideas. Anyway, I blame the pronunciation of the pronouncer, the “ter” was most definitley prounounced “tor”, so I s[elled it all “o”s. Study of some sort of insect or another, I believe. On a fun note, the year I went to the state bee, my sister was runner up, and the year prior when my sister won for the second time, i was runner up. We dominated together two years in a row. ’twas awesome.
Actually, thgat we even got to have a bee was lucky, as we were homeschooled, and my mom collaborated with some other homeschool peoples to get a homeschool spelling be, and for us to be able to get our winner in the state bee.
My last year I was eligible, i was competing against all little kids, mostly, but I managed to screw up a ocmpletely easy word (I think I was nervous), and forgot the first “w” in awkward. Awkward has an awkward spelling.
Yeah, anyway, good luck, Andrew!!!!!!!!
170, 1- Tuna would be disgusting, but at my school there’s been a Fruit Roll-Up stuck above a door frame since early last September. It’s tye-die colored. It’s amazing how well preservatives work.
181- Good luck!
183–this isn’t food, but….when I was in grade schoo (1st/2nd before homeschool), the bathrooms always (literally always) had clumps of toilet paper plastered on the ceiling. Never got why the morons did it (it was mainly the bathrooms frequented most by 5th and 6th graders), but I guess they got the toilet paper and wadded it up and got it wet and threw it at the ceiling, where it stuck…..
184- Uggh, that reminds me… the morons at my school just drop their trash into the bathroom sinks. I’ve seen donuts with only one bite out of them just sitting in the sinks.
185–in one of the water fountains in our dorm hall, I’ve sen all sorts of nastiness in it, from noodles to oatmeal, to what looked like the remains of someone’s salad. *shudder* There’s a reason I drink bottled water at college.
And what I thought was really gross, was when I saw someone washing dishes in the bathroom sink. Just washing ’em is fine, I s’pose (it is the only available sink), but they ahd it filled with soapy water, with their dishes submerge. *shudder* Why would you want your dishes to be touching water touching the sink? Who knows what nastiness might be in it. The only way I would wash dishes in the bathrooms sink (it’s the equivalent of a public restroom, shared between around 20 or so girls) is if it only touched the water stream, and nothing else…….it’d just be nasty, otherwise.
172-Ugh. I kinda know what that’s like, but without the college stuff.
I’ve always been very quiet and when I was in 6th grade my parents suddenly decided that it was atrocious that I didn’t tell them personal details of my life every day. My mom asked if something was wrong and I said no, then she asked why I was being so quiet and I said I wasn’t being quiet.
She got on a huge rant about how I’m going to have trust issues forever because I don’t even trust my own parents to know if something is wrong with me. She told me that I “can’t keep living like this”. I, being only 11 or 12, ran to my room crying. Needless to say, I didn’t start talking to my mom any more than before.
I feel like it’s a good time to go mad. Yep. I’m going mad. Does anyone want to come with me?
Brr. I should probably go change into something warmer now that I’m back in my own chilly house. -doesn’t-
Lasagna tonight! Of course this means I have to make it, but still, it ought to be lovely.
We’re learning a really pretty tune in Strings. I can play it nicely though measure 20 or so but then it turns into lots of eighth notes jumping around and I get totally lost. But still it’s nice. Better than the Can-Can or Yankee Doodle and less repetitive than Claire de Lune.
I have a metronome but it scares me.
I also have an extraordinarily expensive shoulder rest. It seems a small thing but it cost $60 and I don’t think it was even an exceptionally special shoulder rest. Weird.
I have a dress from the beginning of the 20th century. It is very old and fragile black silk and it is an excessively complicated garment to put on yet looks very simple once all the fasteners are fastened.
I am boycotting commas apparently. This is news to me.
Public restrooms are gross. I try to avoid them when possible.
187- I’ll go mad with you. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately and how no one can just go mad anymore; now if you’re mad they’ll take you to the doctor and they’ll diagnose you with something and give you drugs and then you won’t be mad or least not as mad. Then I started thinking about science and how it’s taken all the mystery and magic out of life and I came on here and wrote a long rant then deleted it.
Back on the food on the wall topic. I’ve seen a hamburger in the exact same spot for over a year.
187- Buy me a round-trip ticket and get me the HECK outta here.
I’m having the worst day. Not only did I have strep, but our school doesn’t give us winter break (gah) so I actually had to go to school. There, I proceeded to take a test, fail the test, get a paper, write the paper spend an hour wandering aimlessly through the halls trying to find something to do because the library is closed, get a phone call from my friend who’s on break asking to go see ‘Coraline 3D’ DURING ENGLISH, got my phone taken away, got my phone given back along with a call to my parents, came home to angry parents who were livid about the phone, then about the test, then about a quiz I supposedly failed (“a 97 is not failing, Mom!”), not being able to eat because I’m sick, doing three hours of math, and then going to bed early because ‘I’m in a bad mood’. News flash, padres, it’s not because of sleep that I’m in this bad mood.
CURSE YOU, M**** HIGH SCHOOL, WHY CAN’T YOU GIVE US A MIDWINTER BREAK???
/rant
(189) Curious. The more I learn about science, the more magical and mysterious life becomes. And I’ve watched too many people go under to think of madness as a useful escape route.
Midwinter break? Do people get breaks in February???
192-
1. Oh no, I don’t think madness is an escape route. I’m sure it’s very unpleasant. I just think it’s interesting. Magic sort of. You know, children, they’ve got that connection to magic because for them the line between fantasy and reality is blurred. And then you grow up and that line becomes more solid and you lose it. Now if you’re mad, you don’t have that line, or at least that’s what they say (I really wouldn’t know). I’m not a child anymore, but there’s a childlike piece of me that still believes in magic, only the grown-up piece of me says “Oh, magic can’t really exist, it’s not possible,” and I can’t access it and it’s frustrating. Now I don’t really want to go mad because like I said it sounds unpleasant, but I think I would feel better if I just knew madness existed, and couldn’t be explained away and diagnosed and treated.
2. On the one hand, science does seem mysterious and magical sometimes, and it’s definitely fascinating. I love it, really I do. But it tries to explain things, things that I don’t want to be explained, things that shouldn’t have rational explanations, like the brain or the universe. And it says that things can’t exist, things that I want to exist and things that shouldn’t be able to exist but that’s the point. Magic doesn’t deny the existence of science, so why should science deny the existence of magic?
Note: When I speak of magic, I don’t mean magic like Harry Potter or…stuff like that, I mean magic realism, like JS&MN or Little, Big or Wise Child.
193- Evidently, but nobody bothered to notify the nuns. Meh.
171 – Well, I eat lunch in a hallway on the second floor of a random building at school, so it’s not entirely surprising. Still, I agree.
172 – Ugh, I’m sorry for you. I’m fed up with the whole college thing as well, and it sucks that your parents are making you do all that. Especially all the researching five colleges a week, which seems a little excessive to me.
181 – Good luck!
187 – I’ll go mad with you as well. Anywhere is better than here at the moment.
Alice, could you expand your definition of magic? Realism versus surrealism? I think it’s very interesting and understandable, in an odd way, to define magic as such. I’m very interested.
My day was a trainwreck.
Jadestone, I empathize.
Andrew, best of luck.
I now have an overwhelming urge to write a fantasy novel set IN SPACE with a group of people who have become willingly mad as the major antagonists. This was triggered by two words on the Science Fiction thread and the discussion of madness and magic on this thread.
I’m in a very inspiration-receptive mood at the moment. Can you tell?
Mmm… sort of like Larklight with the Gentleman with Thistledown Hair instead of
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Dr. Ptarmigan. Only not. I’d better take this to Books in Progress before I monopolize this thread. *vanishes*
197- I don’t know. It’s like the old way of looking at magic, back when people–normal people–believed in it. When the Brothers Grimm collected their tales, people believed in them. No one does now, or at least no one admits that they do. I’m not going to say that I believe in fairy tales, necessarily, but I do believe in magic in a subtle, sideways way. If that makes any sense. It’s like when you hear music but when you listen closely, there’s nothing there, or if there’s a shape at the edge of your vision but if you turn, it’s gone. Or when you read cards or palms or heal with herbs and…energy, that’s real magic, everyday magic. And it costs you. You can’t perform magic without putting energy into it. Magic realism is energy, really, that’s all it is, energy.
And then there’s Harry Potter magic with wands and obvious, tangible results and it doesn’t cost anything and only some people can do it if they’re Special and it’s basically popping out of the woodwork. It’s big, it’s showy, it’s out-of-the-ordinary. Real magic doesn’t work like that, or someone would have noticed by now.
I think if it had to summed up in a few words:
Magic realism is subtle and intangible, and magic surrealism (as you put it) is flashy and tangible.
OK, looking back on my last post, that’s not quite right. I mean, that’s mostly right, but there are two words I shouldn’t have brought into that: tangible and intangible. If I think about it too hard my brain ties up into knots and I realize how much I’ve contradicted myself in the past and it’s Highly Unpleasant, so ignore them. Also, I’ve always considered JS&MN to be magic realism, but it doesn’t fit with my definition at all. I guess… it’s magic realism, but not real magic. Does that make any sense?
I am a Confused Being.
POSOC– Ooh, that sounds good!
201- Thank you. I’ll probably develop this further on Books in Progress.
On a slightly different note: your mindset about magic is something I’ve been trying to achieve for ages now, but whenever I write about it, it always turns into flashy, cinematic stuff that’s fun to write but empty and soulless behind the special effects. I’d be much indebted if you’d help me.
202- I’ll try to help. It’s hard, though. I’ve got this sort of empty hope that now I’ve laid it out on the digital equivalent of paper, it’ll be easier to apply it to stories, and, more importantly, life.
203- Believe me, you’re helping me just by talking about it. It becomes easier to understand the concept once you’ve written it out.
(194, et al.) I don’t think real magic goes away, but perhaps our relationship to it and our understanding of what it means varies at different times of our lives and makes it more or less accessible at different times. There are so many stories about children growing up and losing their magical abilities. I think there should be more stories to guide us in finding our way back to a deeper, more meaningful magic. (POSOC?)
For myself, I’ve been there and back again more than once over the years, and each time I feel I’m just beginning to experience magic at levels I couldn’t even imagine before because my perception was too dim and timid and misguided.
You’re right that this is hard to talk about. I hope nothing I’ve said comes across as belittling anything you’ve said, because I do honor your search. Mostly I just want to show there is hope. I think if you’re truly looking for something you find it. It just might not look like anything like you expect it to.
172 – Yes, I get SOHCAHTOA, but I don’t see how it applies to sine waves. Our teacher isn’t all that great.
Got home an hour ago.
201- No, that makes sense. Like realism magic just happens, as a part of nature, and is known (but I bet you can be stupid enough to ignore it.) And nonreal magic is showy and flashy and while
better understood, soulless.I wonder which one could be studied with science, in a nonscientific way?
Oh man, I’ve just confused myself too. Almost had it there.
207- Exactly.
Hey, does anyone know where I can find and watch Dr. Who? YouTube doesn’t seem to have any full episodes, or at least no full episodes in any sensible order, and the Official Dr. Who Site doesn’t even have the option to watch the episodes, however old they may be, just all the silly behind-the-scenes stuff. I might be able to find it on iTunes, but at this point I actually want to spend the money on music…
HaHA! iTunes does have it! But at a dollar ninety-nine an episode…Ooh. I could buy seven episodes and then have enough money to one song with a bunch of spare change left over. I’d rather just watch it online though.
Science vs. Magic: I’m not sure. About things we don’t want to be explained, though… I agree about the brain and the universe. (Also love, and the “secret of the human genes” or whatever.) But if they’re going to be figured out anyway, or explained away, then it’s my responsibility to be out of science classes and not paying attention at that time. XD
I think there are things better left unexplained.
I want to watch Dr. Who and Firefly…
193-*raises hand* *ducks*
165-*shudders at memories of cat sitting*
172-That’s ridiculus. It’s four years of your life… not even my parents are that weird about it. *hugs*
Trig makes me want to hide. But I made a beautifully garish poster for my math teacher for extra credit, so it’s all good.
My goal in life is to be an English major… ’nuff said.
210- I wanted to be an English major. But then I took English class. Now I want to be a Techie.
So, yeah, anyway…..
193–My sister has break in February, but that is because that is when her college does spring break instead of in March, as most places do. My only break spring semester is the end of March (spring break).
Anyway, yeah, gotta go. Need to go talk to my chem teacher–I’ve got a question on a problem from lecture, and we’ve got our first test today. Which apparently everyone always fails (that is, the average goes up thirty points between test one and test 2–which means the highest the average could be is 70). *is terrified* I need an A, B at worst.
*head desk*
And my printer unfixed itself. Only four days of working, it is now back to its old routine of NOT working. *is mad*
Well, anyway, off to harass my chem prof.
Note to self: Don’t eat triple chocolate ice-cream, stay up until 3:30 a.m., then wake up at 9:30 a.m. and do your science homework. It makes for a horrible day.
How does the timing work on the blog? Does it go by each persons time zone?
Andrew- Good luck! I was runners up in my school last year and third place in my school this year. Please win! Do it for Musers!!!!!
(194, 205, and other magical posts) When you hear the word “magical,” what’s the next word that pops into your head? “Powers,” no? I think that’s a misconception: magic, in the sense that Rebecca and others experience it, isn’t about gaining power over the universe. It’s more like adjusting one’s perception of the universe, and perhaps gaining power over oneself.
(206) Kokonilly: A sine wave is what you get when you take lots of triangles with hypotenuse = 1 and plot their angles on the x-axis and the sine of the angles on the y-axis. For very small angles, the sine is near zero; for angles approaching 90 degrees, the sine approaches 1. That’s all the unit circle is: a way of making sure the hypotenuse is always 1. (That makes the sine calculations easier, because to get opposite over hypotenuse you don’t have to divide.)
I STILL CAN’T FIND THE SCIENCE FICTION THREAD!!! THE SEARCH BOX ISN’T WORKING!
Can somebody please post a link?
206, 214–Yes, I will say this. The unit circle (once finally understood in college calc) does wonders for your understanding of trigonometry. Of course, being forced to do calc/trig without a calculator was quite beneficial to the understanding, as well, because it forced one to finally learn to understand the unit circle, memorize trig functions, and just overall understand better. Cuz you couldn’t just type in equations/etc into the calculator, you had to know HOW to do the stuff.
That said, i still would have rathered beenallowed the use of a calculator.
178- It’s nice. There’s a lot of cool things within walking or bus distance.
Yesterday, after we came home, we visited the Botanical Gardens in the Bronx as a treat. They have this huge conservatory with these big, Victorian-style greenhouses and rainforest plants inside. It’s absolutely fantastic! Muse Academy probably has something similar, I hope.
What happened to my post? I know I posted something in response to sines/trig/etc…….But it’s neither here, moderated, nor here “awaiting moderation.” What happened? *is lost* I s’pose it wasn’t important, but……I’m sure I posted it since I got back to my room, which would mean it should show up as “awaiting moderation” unless it vanisehd into cyberspace……I am so lost. Electronics hate me.
SFTTP–Now I’m really confused, as my post is back…….just “awaiting moderation” still. Which, by the way, seems rather slow. GAPAs busy with real-world stuff, such as jobs, I s’pose?
215- That’s odd, the search box worked for me, it just pulled up a bunch of other threads first. A sure fire way to find a thread is to use the “What’s here” tab, and Ctrl + F.
Science Fiction
217- The Botanical Gardens and the Bronx Zoo are fantastic.
172-That sucks. I hate when people try to change how you are, simply because it irritates them a bit. Wow, grounded for being silent, that’s something that’d never happen to me. I got detention today (which wasn’t carried out, my teacher is cool) for not shutting up.
I’m getting my haircut.
Tomorrow.
At three.
-shakes in shoes-
222- Er, why is a haircut a source of terror for you? Clumsy barber with bad breath?
223- No, not at all. It’s just… I want this haircut really badly, but it’s drastic. Once I’ve done this, there’s no going back, unlike all my previous haircuts which were never more than five or six inches (of course, I couldn’t go back on those either, but at least it was mostly still there!). I’m going from hair that reaches halfway down my back to hair that barely covers my ears. I’m really excited, but so nervous!
224- Yeah, I got like that before I got bangs. Now I’m just used to them… it didn’t take that long.
Oh, I’m sorry, but I just have to say, this is cute.
Several MBers were pleading to be taken away from home.
For one thing, I can completely sympathize. I know how hard it is to live with parents who keep pushing and pushing and can’t grasp the workings of a juvenile’s inner mind.
Well, let me just say that being away from home, being apart from parents, and being at college, is fudging awesome. The responsibility and independence that was suddenly loaded onto my lap was overwhelming but thrilling. It’s really allowed me to grow and change into a better person.
Nyah.
And then I remember all the money issues. And I wish I could go back home. Tuition’s a betch. Books are betches. Rooming is a betch. Heck, buying ink for my printer is a betch!
Harumph. >:(
So, take advantage of any and all free money while you can.
And just think happy thoughts.
And don’t get depressed, no matter what you’re parents do (<– just had to put that in, as a reminder)
*peace*
Faye’s right: college gives you new appreciation of your parents. That’s not to say that breaks at home are all fun’n’games’n’happiness, but….you find yourself missing being at home, being with family.
I don’t deny, it’s much harder to fight with your parents when there zillions of states away, which makes life more peaceful, but it is still so nice to be home, and I would be perfectly happy to return to my pre-college life of screaming/crying fits with my parents instead of dull, boring, non screaming life at college. Because my family and my home and my life (not that I ever had one) are not here.
That said, there were times over Christmas where I almost (almost, y’here?) wished I were back at school, where I would not be in a screaming fit with my dad, while we both were screaming at each other, I was crying, he was telling me I was a, well, no need to repeat what he said (and for the record, I said just as bad of things, don’t get me wrong), and I was telling him I hated him, etc, etc. Believe me, that wasn’t nice, nor fun,nor enjoyable, but……all in all, I’d rather be home.
224- I think you’ll look amazing in that haircut.
A late entry in the magic discussion, but I’ve been out most of the day:
Back in the long ago, I briefly dated a magician who gave me a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how he worked. In the process, he convinced me of something I’d long suspected — that it’s only the cheap tricks that disappoint once you know their secrets. But the good tricks only get better, because then you can appreciate them on more levels. The performance still amazes, even when you know how it’s done.
The brain, the universe, love, art…all of these are very good “tricks” indeed. I believe everything we learn about their mechanics opens the door to greater mysteries that we don’t yet know enough to appreciate fully.
172~ Ugh. I can sympathize. You don’t really have to go to college right after high school if you don’t know what you want yet. It might be easier if you spend some time out of high school just living, and then choose what you think will be best for you based on that experience.
I understand about not talking much, even though I like to talk (and sometimes do it too much) I can go for hours at a time without saying anything, even when I’m with other people. I hope you can work stuff out with your parents, it’s miserable to fight with one’s parents, because they very often win.
187~ Have fun going mad, I’ll see you at the end. My trip was quite enjoyable, I’d do it again, but I’m afraid I’m beyond all hope by now.
188~ $60 for a shoulder rest?! that’s crazy. I have a Kun (brand) collapsible, which is comfortable for me. I can’t imagine it costing any more than $15 at the most, but I’m not very good at pricing things.
224~ How are you getting it cut? I’ve had mine to chin length, and this summer I’m thinking about getting a pixie/mop top sort of cut. I’m going to wait until the summer though, since it’d be too cold to have short hair in the winter. Brrr.
Well. That was a lot of posts to read….the other day I went to the YMCA with mom. Oww….. “Get in the pool. Do five laps without stopping or touching the bottom or sides. Now.” Heck, I know how to swim, but not in the way she wanted me to! *groan* I guess I made a bit of improvement but….ugh. That wasn’t a fun day. Everything I did was wrong.
Thankfully yesterday was better except for a bit. We had to go to Baltimore to move some furniture and stuff, still working on clearing out the house of our friend who passed away in December.
Today I woke up at 10, after going to bed at 2 or so. *is tired* I don’t really know where the day went, but oh well.
Tomorrow we’re going to Washington DC to the Folger to see The Winter’s Tale. And maybe go ice skating if the weather is good and I can get skates. But since it’s raining now I’m not sure if we’ll go through with that plan.
Long post…sorry.
226~ Faye! I was thinking about you the other day, nice to see you back. Will you be staying this time?
(SFTDP)
188- ooh that dress sounds lovely
*hugs* to everyone with bothersome parents. College is nice and I appreciate my own parents. They nagged me about high school homework but not all that much.
Alice, I love your posts about magic. And to add to your definition, magic is quiet and unexpected. It is small mysteries, the unexplained wonders. Some are good and some are wicked but they slip in quietly through the cat flap.
Oh, and I’m on page 270 or 280 something of Little, Big.
205- I’ve posted this poem here before. it is about finding one’s way back to magic, sort of. and I agree that there should be more stories.
shadows of flickering dreams
in sight – and out again
reaching reaching
but never catching
always watching
the twinkle-flickering
the patches of light moving in and out of existence
dreams, hopes, wishes you once
had, held, touched
but have now lost
the tales and adventures of childhood
romances and fancies of adolescence –
all lost
go through your pockets again
search for a hidden whim, a forgotten fantasy
and keep your wayward wishes safe
now that I look at it again, it isn’t quite right. and I don’t really like posting my own poems here but it is what I wanted to say.
but I do recommend JS+MN and Little, Big. Also In the Forest of Forgetting, a short story collection by Theodora Goss. also The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia. And the movie Pan’s Labyrinth or El Laberinto del Fauno. (has anyone seen it?)
Robert, I don’t think magic, well, the kind Alice, Rebecca, POSOC and I are all looking for, has anything to do with power. Power is when magic is misguided and stops working.
and two things. 1) I am not connected in any way to that blog minus the fact that I read it. Or any of those sites for that matter.
2) It seems fitting that this is the international month of exploration and discovery as magic is a sort of discovery.
229- Looks like someone’s feeling philosophical today.
213- MuseBlog time, no matter where you access the ‘Blog, is Central Time in the United States. Luckily for me, that is my own time zone as well, which eliminates the need for conversions.
On a different note than anything on here, there’s some comet coming close to Earth that’s visible to the naked eye, even to some people in the city. I think it’s closest point will occur on the… 24th? It’s called comet Lulin. I’m sure you can Google it to find out more. I hope to find some time to observe it.
(229) Rebecca: Very true, and well put! In my experience, science and knowledge don’t rob life of mystery at all. Instead, by weeding out pseudo-mysteries, they help show where the true, deep mysteries really are.
Much of human wisdom, I think, consists of gaining a more and more sophisticated sense of what is and is not surprising.
Well, I bring good news. I won my regional spelling bee, and I’m going to the Nationals. *RELIEF*
(236) Andrew: Congratulations!
oxlin: Sorry, none of us have time to check your links right now, so we can’t say when or whether they will be posted.
233~ That’s interesting (the comet).
The 24th is the day our High Speed internet starts! And boy, after tonight will I be glad for it! It’s being excruciatingly slow right now. *sigh* But joy, we have a comet, a herald of doom and destruction the first day of high speed internet….
I hope setting it up isn’t too hard! 
Nah, I’m just being facetious.
That’s what happens when I try to post while I’m half asleep……*sigh* I guess I should go, since I’m going to need to wake up tomorrow for another full day.
Oh! I forgot to say, the other day I filled out my application for sail training on the Brig Niagara this summer and sent it in!! So, hopefully I’ll get in. I should, I think. They said they hadn’t gotten a whole lot of applications in yet, that most came in March, so we’re somewhat ahead. That’s good, I hope I can go in July when they’re doing lots of sailing!
So, if I get in I’ll pretty much be gone for a whole month. The dates we offered were July 2 through August 6, I think give or take a few days, I don’t have a calendar nearby. Eep! I’m horribly excited and can’t wait!! *explodes*
I might write a Muserology article if I go…..that would be fun. *SQUEEEEE*
Okay, now I really have to go get to bed. I’m tired……
(234) Actually, not feeling so much philosophical as magical. I had a wonderful day watching a demonstration of 19th-century optical toys. They were marvelous. So was the speaker. And so was being part of a roomful of adults ooh!-ing and ahh!-ing with the unguarded delight of young children.
235~ Agreed.
236~ Congratulations!
226 – No idea how long mine prescence will last. But here’s hoping for a while!
236–Congratulations! That’s really awesome! Best of luck with Nationals
238- no worries, there are just things that I think go well with the discussion of magic.
240- ooh, that sounds lovely.
I’ve been having a rather delightful evening. I don’t have much homework and I’ve been sitting in my room drawing a woman in turn of the century clothes, writing a story and reading Little, Big.
Congrats to Andrew!
Going to bed in less than fifteen minutes. ‘Night!
244- Oh, lovely.
Congratulations, Andrew! That’s super cool! Maybe you’ll see speller73, unless she’s too old.
We leave for the Salmon Bowl on Friday! I’m pretty excited, but at the same time a little depressed because I have no idea how it’ll ever be as fun as last year without Elijah making things interesting. Also, there’s only one team so that’s five people instead of nine which allows for much less friendly chaos.
Yesterday, we went to MoMA and then to see the musical Wicked, both of which I immensely enjoyed. I really want one of those chairs that were on display in the Design gallery, and maybe the lamp made out of broken dishes, too.
And the play, the play was stupendous! I’d never seen it before. Defying Gravity is officially the best space song that isn’t technically a space song.
Something about magic, in my oppinion, is that we take it for granted. I don’t think magic is discriminating, so if an entire population practiced magic, it would be as normal to them as, say, coffee to us. (I just asked my mom for something normal. You get the point.) By that logic, of course, magic is present in anything anything else is lacking.
oxlin proffers these de-linked links to magical websites, which we’ve checked out thoroughly and deem mostly harmless. (NOTE: Other MBers, please don’t take this as a cue to flood us with links. We don’t have time to do this more than once every few months.)
http :// intothehermitage . blogspot . com/
http :// www . goblinfruit . net
http :// www . edbinkley . com/
236: Congratulations, Andrew! Good luck!
I had the most delicious pie last night. After spending that time in my room alone, reading Little, Big, watching Pan’s Labyrinth, drawing and writing I headed over to the SFF special interest house and watched a bit of Pushing Daisies (a show about a pie maker who can bring people back to life for a minute. He uses that power to solve mysteries). We then had a pie inspired by Pushing Daisies. It had strawberries, pears, gruyere cheese. It was delicious. After spending time at the SFF house I went back to my own dorm and found that my RA had put up large pieces of paper for us to draw on on the walls.
249- I didn’t mean to be inconvenient. I’m sorry if I was. If I ever do post too many links you don’t have to post them. I will try to avoid posting them in the future.
251: “Pushing Daisies”!!! That was an awesome show. It’s such a shame it was canceled. I think the pie you had was the same kind Chuck sent to her aunts.
Oh! I just had a thought on magic.
Magic is like how the sort of day I had yesterday is compared to fun days that are big and flashy. Yesterday was a delightful day because of its quiet, because of my Pan’s Labyrinth-viewing, Little, Big-reading, writing and drawing. Because of the pie, because of my friends. There are other days proffered to be great, and they are, but they are more flashy and loud such as meeting someone famous or going skydiving. Magic is a quiet sort of great, an everyday wonder. Something fabulous and unusual but not too big.
So, random comment. On my Fanfiction account, 414 people so far have read a story I posted a week ago. 914 have read a story last month posted. That, my friends, is rather impressive.
Just had to say that. I’m very proud of myself.
Thanks, everybody! Yeah, I’m not sure how much I’m going to or willing to study. They did give me this huge copy of Webster’s Third, though, so I have a study resource.
My parents’ Earthlink mail account says the Earthlink Spam Summary is spam.
Just thought I’d say that random thought.
Faye keeps appearing and dissapearing. And I never even get a chance to say hi! Hi, Faye!
Today was a mood swingy day. It went from suckage to hilarity, and back to suckage.
I’m finally back on the schedule I created after being away for a while. I did a chapter in my History book and three pages of Math today, with the same thing to follow tomorrow and the day after. Man, I love being organized.
Andrew – Congrats! I am, alas, too old for the National Spelling Bee. By the way, based on the information I know, I suspect that you might have won my old regional. (My dad was pronouncing.) Would you mind sharing your winning word? Anyways, I’m happy to share advice about spelling should you need it.
Soap carving? THF and I used to carve soap all the time. We made zillions of soap-HPBs (painted pink) for the 2007 DC Kokonvention.
Axa (28): No, I don’t—how would one go about washing a backpack?
During the school day, I don’t carry much in my pockets. Most everything is in my backpack. To and from school, I have my cell phone in my front right pocket, and my wallet in my back left pocket (of my pants), and an iPod in my coat pocket. When I don’t have a backpack, however, my pockets are packed; I don’t carry a purse or any other type of bag (other than a backpack), so everything needs to go in my pockets. (I always wear pants with pockets, and also a fleece jacket of some sort with big pockets.) I also don’t like carrying change (coins), so whenever I get it, I put it in my left pant pocket and upon arriving home, it goes in my coin-jar-thing.
Sunrunner (90): Yes, I signed up for classes a few weeks ago. In terms of academics (I go to an arts school, so I have academics classes in the mornings and arts in the afternoon), I’m taking English 4 AP (literature), Spanish 6 AP (literature), Psychology AP, Calculus AP, Environmental Science AP, Honors History of American Film, and Gym/Health.
We did a lot of work with the Unit Circle last semester in Physics, and now we’re working on it in Elementary Functions (pre-calculus and trigonometry and other such stuff). Our teacher keeps explaining things (most recently radians), and we ask “well, what’s it for?†and she keeps telling us “oh, you’ll use it next year in calculus…†After all of this “you’ll use it in calculus,†I hope it’s actually fun.
Alice (224): Good luck! I haven’t had really short hair since I was four or five, but I’ve been considering getting it cut because then I wouldn’t have to do anything with it. Mine is a little longer than shoulder-length now, and I just put it in a ponytail every day. I haven’t worn it down since August.
259- Your dad’s a comp. science prof at, I think, a college nearby? (vagueness intended) He was talking to me afterwards, and I think he said you made it to Nationals twice. It was ‘inadvertent’. I couldn’t believe it, after the second-placer got ‘graphospasm’.
Excuse me? I just wanted to tell the GAPAs that I am a boy. THis is a random thread, so I thought I could put it here.
261-Cool! Congrats! I got out on Feldspar, and the librarian told me later that the pronouncer pronounced it wrong. :madface:
263- How did he pronounce it? Also, what round did you make it to?
263- Can’t believe I forgot to say thank you. Thanks, Beavo.
263- Feldspar? That is a geology term…
*is in geology class this semester*
GAPAs, MBers, have any of you visited those websites? I’m sorry that they are so much trouble for the GAPAs and I’d like the sites to have been worth their while.
261 – Yeah, that’s definitely my old regional. I would have been there, but I had a Scholastic Bowl meet. (I would have given you your prize too!)
I’ve got my haircut! It’s darling, and I feel more anachronistic than ever. It does make my neck cold, though, because I no longer have masses of hair insulating it. I’m currently wearing a wool scarf wrapped around several times and I’m still cold!
I also have two pigtails in a box. The length of the split ends is amazing and baffling.
I should go do Salmon Bowl homework…meh…
260) well you empty the contents and then stick in in the washing machine, by itself or with other…washable things. It’s very satisfying.
Notice to Beavo if he sees this: Fred Phelps and daughter are banned from entering the UK where they had planned to “protest”. (What were they protesting? “The Laramie Project, a play about a man killed for being gay.” Stay classy, guys)
I am pleased.
269- Our school did The Laramie Project. It was an enormous hit.
269- I’ve seen The Laramie Project twice.
It sounds interesting. Our school’s plays are somewhat bland. Of course I don’t go to see enough of them, and some are quite good. I’m not at all involved in the Theatre department though…hmm
*also when I say stay classy, I’m mean fred phelps and co. Ugh. I don’t understand how anyone can do that.
Today felt like spring a little bit! I’m tired of all this wind and rain and wishy washy weather. At least when it’s 100 degrees it’s reliably 100 degrees.
267- Yeah, your dad did say that you couldn’t make it (didn’t know it was you at the time, but oh well). The photographer had me hold the huge dictionary I won with my dad and the sponsor on either side of me. I thought I was going to drop it on the sponsor’s feet, actually. I wonder……If I broke the sponsor guy’s foot, would his company still send me to D.C.?
TGIF !!!!
Our school did Bye, Bye Birdie as its play this year. It was okay.
266- I’m really interested in geology (hence the name RoseQuartz).
Did anyone here take the AMC 10?
275- When I saw that for the first time, I actually couldn’t make heads or tails of it. It just seemed like there was no melody to any of the songs. And I’m being very critical right now.
‘Ey guys, how’s it going?
I’ve not been up to much, just class and such, but if anyone was at Ohayocon at the end of January, I was there in admittedly poor cosplay. I scored some cool swag, too. I’d never been to any sort of con before, but I rather liked it, so I think I’ll attend more cons when I have the chance.
I don’t know if I told you guys, but over break I got my braces off and they began work on my dental implants. (As stated a couple years ago or something, due to genetic error I have no adult lateral incisors.) I won’t horrify you with the details, but I now have 2 bits of metal implanted in my jaw. In another several months, I’ll have permanent lateral incisors rather than just these damned plastic ones on my retainer. I’ve already got my joke planned out for when I get them: “I’m a real boy!”
Has anyone read anything good lately?
273 – Yeah, it’s pretty big. I don’t think I’ve ever had to hold one for a picture though. I’m pretty sure that I would have dropped it if I had.
277 – I did. I’m taking the AMC 12 next Thursday too.
279–Hullo, Grant! And to think I thought it was bad being stuck with an expander for several months to a year when I was (much) younger. *tries not to think about the fact that I have two, or maybe all four, wisdom teeth that eventually need pulled* Are the dental implants/retainer painful, or merely something of an annoyance?
re: good books. I’m currently in the middle of When Darkness Falls the final book in Mercedes Lackey’s Obsidian Trilogy. It’s quite good, and I am greatly enjoying it. Though, sad to say, I’ve been in the middle of it since January 19, when I started it on the plane trip back to college, and it’s only 602 pages, not all that long. Still 100 to go…… *wince* I just don’t have time for pleasure reading. *sigh* Oh, the joys of being a college student. Not.
I went to the doctor for my yearly check-up today and… I FINALLY BROKE FIVE FEET! Booya! I’m finally five feet tall after being 4’11 for about four years!
Hey, I ‘ve tried to post this on other threads but it wouldn’t go though so please let it go through on the RANDOM thread!
[It won’t go through because the GAPAs will not allow anyone to post links to personal websites. –Admin.]
I know that this is a bit off-topic, but does anyone realize that there is a band named Muse. They make strange songs… But I’ve been thinking about that ever since I discovered this site.
284- Indeed. This fact has led to some surprisingly long conversations with awkward endings for me.
264-It was my school one, I forget which round. She pronounced it “fell spar”, leaving out the d.
And your welcome!
Tap dancing today for the Pirates = hurty feet.
279) Aren’t conventions fun? I’ve gone to Anime Expo every year for the past three years (don’t worry GAPAs, upwards of 40,000 people attend). I always spend far too much money on too little merchandise. What did you cosplay as? Last year I was Yuffie from Final Fantasy VII (well actually it was the Advent Children/KH2 outfit but whateva)
Currently I am read The Grapes of Wrath.
274-Seconded!
I want to go to a convention! Or a Kokon… ;]
I love crabcakes!!!!!!!!!! I just felt like sharing.
My mythology teacher is hilarious! Today was Pillsbury Doughboy day in his class. He has a huge collection of myth related stuff anf a bunch of doughboy things for no reason. He has a microphone and speaker set up in his room so he can call on people in a loud booming voice from all directions.
268~ Great! I’m glad you like it.
279~ GRANT’S BACK!!!!!!!!!! *hugs* Hey! I’ve been thinking about you lately, just tonight as a matter of fact, wondering when you’d come back.
I remember you were familiar with the Niagara in Erie, PA, I might be sailing on her this summer!
Good books…..I’m reading the Hornblower series by C.S. Forester. I can’t believe I never read them before, but such goes life, I suppose.
Ooh, dental joys. Apparently my mouth is too small for my wisdom teeth to grow in, so they have to pull them out before they grow. Thrills. I’m not looking forward to it.
Anyway, I’m glad you’re back, stay for awhile?
Thanks for everyone who responded to 172. *hugs*
I didn’t mention that one of the other big reasons I was so upset was because I had been preparing for a poetry contest all month–writing, editing, revising, bugging people to read/comment on the two poems I finally decided on–and because I was grounded I was unable to enter.
I just found out that Terry Pratchett is now Sir Terry. He was knighted.
290~ That really stinks, not being able to enter the poetry contest.
*hugs & choklit*
Science Olympiad regionals tomorrow. Wish me luck.
291- …
Wow. I imagine he’ll take it with more grace than Vimes did.
293~ Good luck!
Fern has decided something. She has decided that she needs to expand her repertoire. She wants to learn more tunes on the fiddle (memorize them and actually remember both notes and names!), she wants to be able to play them on the concertina and she wants to learn more sea chanties. She realized she wanted to learn more sea chanties because when looking over a list she knows maybe 3/5 of them, this being rough estimate. She wants to know all of them, being the obsessive little freak that she is.
She also wants to learn more songs (not chanties) to sing, as in, lots more verses and getting them all in the right order without stopping in the middle for bursts of profanity when she can’t remember the rest of the lyrics and is forced to stop then and there.
This resolution makes her happy, but she now has to figure out how she is going to learn the said material. The tunes should not be too hard for her, since she has lots of music books, but the songs are going to be more of a challenge since she already can sing along with most everything on her iPod that has lyrics.
The obvious remedy would be to buy more music, which she would love to do, except that she has no money left.
This will require more thought, but she also needs to figure out a way to get extra time in which to learn these songs and tunes. Perhaps it would be good if she stopped posting on MuseBlog and went to bed like a sensible person, since it’s very late.
She thinks this is a good idea and decides to do it.
Fern will continue to speak in third person until further notice.
Thank you for reading this, goodnight.
(296) Rebecca has every confidence that Fern will find a way.
293–good luck!
296–Luna shares Rebecca’s confidence in Fern
POSOC predicts that this conversation will initiate a third-person epidemic.
296- that is a great mission. I, too, share confidence. I also should learn more sea chanties as I wouldn’t even know 3/5ths.
Vendaval is looking forward to an outbreak of third person narration.
My mission is to learn more constellations. I can already navigate pretty well, but I want to be able to identify more.
So, when I woke up a half an hour ago, my parents weren’t here and they haven’t been all morning. My brother has been watching Spongebob for five consecutive hours, and now I’m eating whipped cream for breakfast while doing computer things.
And they say I’m not old enough to live in my own apartment…
303- I’m pretty good at constellations, but I could be better.
Woo, Zahi Hawass has a cool new website!
Beavo told himself he wouldn’t catch third-person, but he has. His bad.
Beavo also wonders how he’s going to make his Sunday worthwile.
RoseQuartz has caught the third-person bug.
She thinks we should have a third-person thread.
Errata, the new name of Starfire, adds her agreement. She am also looking forward to the outbreak of third person, and is contributing.
Axa now has the illustrated edition of 1776 in addition to the regular edition! HUZZAH!
It even comes with reproductions of letters! *undignified squeal*
1st JV in Sounds of Music, 2nd JV in Cell Bio and Food Science! Our JV and Varsity both got third overall and the varsity is going to states! I’m elated.
I finished all my homework today so I don’t have to worry about it tomorrow! Yay!
297/299/301~ Thanks.
I was looking over that list again, and I know (to varying degrees) about 63 of them, out of 130 or so. Some of them I know really well, some I know in passing, and that’s a t a glance, I didn’t look at all of them.
303~ I used to know a bunch of constellations when I was really little, but I can’t remember them. I must be getting stupid.
Well, I can find Orion, Ursa Major and Minor, and Cassiopeia (sometimes).
Today I went to Fort McHenry! It was fun, but windy and rather chilly. I suppose I could have worn my coat, but that would smack of good sense, which I don’t seem to have.
Anyway, they’re rather flag-centric there, it almost seemed like more was about the flag and it’s history than the fort or the War of 1812 itself. Despite that, I had a grand time exploring the buildings, reading all the signs (those of you who’ve been to a museum with me can imagine….) and squealing in joy when one of the displays started playing several of my favorite songs. (The Minstrel Boy, La Belle Catherine and St. Patrick’s Day in the Morn)
Then I poked around the barracks, examined everything I could get my hands on (or eyes, whatever) and happily froze to death running across the parade grounds form one building to another.
In short, it was a most lovely day.
Oh dear, Fern started a third person epidemic. She apologizes for any inconvenience and begs forgiveness of her fellow Bloggers.
Hi everybody! Welcome back, Grant!
260 (Pan) I still have that lovely HPB soap carving!
303 (Kai)-I’m just curious, where do you like to go to see the stars? Are you able to see much in the city? It’s scary how much light pollution there is, even where I live. Just when I think I start to make out the Milky Way I wonder if I’m just seeing evidence of a shopping center in the distance.
But, it is still possible to see a number of stars at least…
312-RtH says he’s glad you had a good day, and doesn’t mind your starting a so-called “third person epidemic,” as they’re fun and are bound to happen anyway.
RtH says he’s tired but wanted to say “hi” to everybody.
313~ Hey! *hugs first, then pies* I was thinking about you today, we need to get together sometime to get that bird’s nest to you all, it’s currently in the library in the barn. We had thought to call today, but forgot. *headdesk*
Hope you’re been doing well, but busy I’m sure.
I have my HPB soap carving too, it’s on my window sill where I see it every morning.
Light pollutions is creeping in where I live too, I remember the night sky being really dark with only a slight pinkish haze in the direction of the big town on overcast nights, but now the sky is decidedly light in that direction at all times and the rest of the sky is noticeably lighter too. Even in the past 3 or 4 years I can see the difference.
314-Hi! *Hugs and pies* I meant to write/call/something also. We do need to get together, just because, and also of course to get the nest out of your library!
Busy indeed, but hopefully not too busy to see a good friend!
The pictures of Earth at night are really scary. And interesting. The light pollution is, in places, confined to certain areas/countries and not others. You can locate the cities and highly developed areas/nations and those that are more rural/undeveloped.
315~ *licks pie of finger* Yum…cherry? Yes, we need to get together. I’m not sure what we have planned, I’ll have to talk to the Parental-Units and see hat’s up. What, I’m supposed to know something? *flabbergasted* Wow, I never would have thought…….
I remember being terrified the first time I actually looked up into the sky at night in the city, surely it wasn’t supposed to be a sickly bright orange?! It was disturbing enough that I actually yelled in surprise.
Did I mention how much the picture pwns?! It’s so cool that the bunnies have been found so far back in the fossil record! The little sitting rabbit is so cute! Yes, there can be cute fossils…
I think I’m going to get to bed. I hope I haven’t bothered the GAPAs by staying up so late, but I’ve been enjoying blogging! I hope to return tomorrow at a more reasonable hour (at least in my time zone).
Good night!
279- -hugs- You’re back!
296- Alice has much the same goals but is further from accomplishing them.
Well, we lost.
Horribly.
Drastically.
In fact, we lost almost as badly as it is possible to lose. We didn’t win a single round.
Anyway, I should go do homework. Or watch Lost if that’s what the Family wants to do. (I’d rather watch Doctor Who but it’s Expensive.)
318~ Sorry you lost.
I’m tired and should have turned off the computer awhile ago. Oops……
Goodnight everyone, see you tomorrow.
Oh, and GAPAs (if it’s the east Coast variety) get some sleep, it’s midnight! *is a fine one to talk*
315- *shudder* I know, right? Global warming sucks big-time.
Wait, is Grant here? People are saying hi to him… I remember I called him crappy when I was a neophyte.
Sorry bout that, man…
217- Ooooh I always wanted to go there. I live on Long Island so it’s pretty close.
321 – You live on Long Island? We should have a Kokon sometime when I’m visiting my grandparents. They live there too.
318 – I’m sorry you lost.
Okay, more details on SciOly regionals!! Everyone had to be at the high school at 6:15 am, but the bus didn’t get there until 6:30 or so. We rode the bus out to a semi-local college; it was about an hour drive. I practice my songs for sounds of music and such. When we got there, my friend and I impounded our cookies for Food Science (Mitosis cookies! They fused together and looked like cells dividing, so we decided we were going to call them mitosis cookies). We also impounded the notebook that she had stayed up till 3 AM finishing. I’m really thankful for that… next year, we’re definitely going to start preparing earlier.
Anyway, I went to my first event, Sounds of Music, and we played a song on our banjo and digeridoo-panpipe-thingies and answered a few questions that, shockingly, we actually knew the answers to. Then we hung around to help our varsity practice a little bit and headed back to our home base.
Next was Food Science, and after spilling Sudan IV all over the table and our answer papers we managed to come up with some answers and results that seemed decently plausible.
After that a bunch of my friends and I walked down to the main street near the college and had lunch. It was really fun, but then we had to rush back so we could get to our next events.
I had Cell Bio next, and the test was hard. We didn’t know the answers to a lot of the questions, but we guessed and came up with some reasonably plausible answers.
Almost none of my friends had events during the fourth block, so we walked back down to the main street and went into some stores and such. Then we came back and hung out in the home base room. Eventually, we headed over to the awards ceremony. The lady in charge didn’t really seem to be very sure of what she was supposed to do, but all the medals did eventually get handed out.
And I won two seconds and a first! Third place for JV overall and third for Varsity as well, so our varsity is going to States!!
We all played Truth or Dare on the bus ride back, and it was so much fun. I love Science Olympiad.
Sorry for such a long post. I don’t expect anyone to actually read that. xD
313- You can’t see much here in the city, but sometimes we go out to Custer Observatory on Long Island. I love it there.
Speaking of light pollution, Earth Hour’s coming up again!
This year is the International Year of Astronomy! I didn’t know that.
Long Island? That’s where I live!
The observatory looks like it’s on the North Fork though, that’s a ways away.
Long Island is great. I love the beaches.
I just realized I only went to the beach twice last year. :'(
Hello. It’s cold outside.
I want to be able to set up the high speed internet and have it over with. I’m annoyed at the computer.
I’m going to go lurk elsewhere now.
324-Yup, it’s the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s landmark discoveries.
325- We don’t go there very often. We only went twice last year. The last time I visited Custer was Saturday of last week, actually, but the visibility wasn’t very good.
I’m looking for a story, if anyone knows where I could find it, please tell me. It’s that story about that guy (or gal, I don’t remember) who went camping and found his car sliced open in the middle of the night, and went all “oh no all my stuff must have been stolen how stupid could I be” and then found that it was just a raccoon that broke in to get the cookies that were inside. I might have read it in a cooking magazine or something, or maybe it was something else but if someone knows where it was please tell me.
320- Hey, we all did stupid stuff when we were neos, right?
Ok, I’ve got a question for you guys. A question that would perhaps be better suited for the books and reading thread, but it doesn’t get as much traffic.
I was wondering if any of you had read any of the books in Cassandra Clare’s “Mortal Instruments” series (City of Bones, City of Ashes). It seems to have greatly mixed reviews. I read Claire’s HP Draco Trilogy fanfic a couple years back on the rec of an MBer (I forget who), and I greatly enjoyed it, despite all the plagiarism allegations. (seriously, it’s a fanfic, fanfics are, by definition, closely akin to plagiarism. And she did have all her quotes/etc that came from other works documented as coming from other works, no matter how poorly.)
So, anyway, my question is whether or not any of you have read anything in her Mortal Instruments series, and if so, is it worth my time? The reviews on Amazon, when not debating her previous works in the HP fandom, imply that it is very poorly written, unoriginal, and prose-y. Actually, most of the reviews make me think a bit of my feelings on Twilight……but let’s not go there.
I don’t suppose any of you read it, and could offer an opinion?
I had just been reminiscing over potter, delving into some (admittedly poor) fanfics, which made my mind jump to DT, and then to “hey, she wrote a book, wonder if it’s any good?”
So, yeah……I’m rambling, aren’t I?
331~ If you don’t know if you’d like her reading, find one of her fanfics, read a bit of it and if it’s promising (plagiarist or not) then check the book out. If not, don’t waste your time. Or check the book out and see if you want to read it. If not there’s no obligation to actually read all the books you check out from the library…..although it’s nice if you can.
331–Fiddler, I have tried her fanfics, and I liked them. (If I hadn’t tried ’em, I wouldn’t have any luck finding ’em now, as she removed them all well over a year ago…..)
Which, I guess, begs the question: Since I liked the fanfics, why am I so undecided about trying her actual book? Erm, really not sure…..I guess because I’m afraid I won’t enjoy them, and although I do realize that their is no obligation to continue reading a book you don’t enjoy, I tend to be the kind to go through to the bitter end. (Yeah, I read all of the first three twilights, and I was disgusted end chapter one fo the first.) I guess I just don’t want to be drug into another book/series like that, where I want my brain cells and time back, even while I forge onword through the books.
And, of course, I doubt my campus library has the books. Although it is ginormous, the vast majority is scholarly/reference books, and I doubt they’d have something as recent as these. And there is only one part of the library that I have seen pleasure books in, a small, gloomy room somewhere on the second or third floor, that is lined with cages. yup, cages. ’tis very creepy. Shelves of books up to the ceiling, unfinished atmosphere, very little light, and of course the cages (they’re like little study cubicles, I guess, but they are honest to goodness cages. chainlink fencing enclosing tiny spaces w/ desks, and the cages lock.) Hmmmm, come to think of it, I dreamt I was there, to check out the Hp books there (they have 2 or 3 of the series in the creepy cage room), and well, I was alone, and terrified in the dream. And I think something was stalking me…….
So, I dunno. I probably should just try checking ’em out from the library back home (assuming they have ’em) over the summer. It’s not really like I ahve time to read here, and if I do, I’ve got several books, from an author I know I like, to choose from……
*shrugs*
331- If you want writing so bad it’s amusing in a horribly twisted way, try My Immortal. But I haven’t read anything you mentioned.
Heehee, or DOOM: Repercussions of Evil. It’s only a paragrab long.
(329) THF: The story about the raccoon comes from Steve Hagen’s book Buddhism Plain and Simple (page 41).
330 – Goodness, don’t remind me. I had an idiotic accent when I first came.
Don’t bother looking it up, you’d hardly know it was me.
331:334:
Warning: Sum of dis chapta is xtremly scray. Viower excretion advisd
“I took my gun and shot Snape and Loopin a gazillion times…”
“You dunderheads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111†screamed Dumbledore wisely as we went.”
~ My Immortal
My Immortal is trolling gold, a work that drips tongue in cheek humor. Themes include heavy drug use, uniquely descriptive profanity, and complex gender issues. Coupling terrible plot, a complete disregard for all English language standards and a goffik perspective with a badly concealed exterior narrative, My Immortal is just a little easier to read than Finnegan’s Wake, but will undoubtedly weaken your mastery of language, not strengthen it. Recommended reading for those interested in theoretical writing styles. You’ll need a strong sense of humor, and possibly some pain medication.
338–erm……
and I thought some of the fanfics I’ve come across were, well, examples of sub par english…….I do not believe I wo uld care to put myself through that.
334, 338–oh dear god. I obviously have no life, nor any sense. I read four “chapters”, and, well……..alternate between (figuratively) pounding my head against the wall and (literally) staring at the screen in disbelief, and that sums up my reaction. Except for the last two lines of chapter four:
“WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING YOU ************!â€
It was…………………………………………………….Dumbledore!”
Not sure why, but…..that put me into (silent) hysterics. I was cracking up, albeit silently, as not to disturb my roommate, who has more intelligence than me and is studying.
But, well, either the human race has degraded beyond all imaginability, or these people are deliberately writing that poorly (more likely). Is it just me, or does there seem to be a very unsubtle undercurrent making fun of “gofficks”?
Let’s just say I’ve grown a new, if very fleeting, appreciation for twilight. This makes it look excellent.
Hmm. Speaking of awful writing, did I ever tell you guys about the story on the back of Mr. H—‘s quiz papers? I probably did say something about it at some point, but then again, I managed to embarrass myself and very nearly insult someone’s life work in front of them, so possibly I was too mortified to mention it.
150- Thanks, hehe I still hate maths though, and it is so stupid to understand…sadly it is compulsory for 2 more years, can’t I do German instead? Or move to another country?
179-Today I was eating lunch at school in the Rec Room with my friends and I threw an apple at the bin and missed. What we didn’t know was that the boarding house has cameras in there and they watch us at lunch. I was called by the loud speaker to go and see the matron and I had to clean tables. It was pretty humiliating!!! Esp. as everyone else in the Rec Room saw me floundering about trying to find out where the voice was coming from!!!
ANDREW: LeWoah, you are so pro,,,My spelling bee in NZ got as far as “eclectic” that I spelt with two ‘C’s. Embarassing.
326-twice? what on Earth? I drive past it each week!!!Is your state landlocked? Or are you a vampire?
Okay, I guess no diplomacy thread.
YES! WE now have wireless internet. Highs speed. *gloats* Now maybe I’ll be able to actually get to see all the lovely things on the Visual arts thread–I’ve never been able to fully download the page before!
) and I woke up today all sore from sleeping weird. *complains and drags self away from computer*
Anyway, I need to go. Fuming mother. Need to let her know that I got it all done…customer service actually did something helpful! Wow, shocker, no? Let me say one thing though, it’s very eerie having someone else control your computer screen. VERY eerie. Oh well. It’s over, the deed is done and I should go do laundry instead of gloat here. *sigh* Or do homework…..oops.
At least I managed to escape the horror of going to the pool. (I like swimming, just in my own special way, not doing laps..
Bye!
344–That’s great! I’m sure you will find it a vast improvement over dial up. Although, we have dsl, supposed “high speed” internet at home, but it seems so pitifully slow compared to the truly high speed here at school. As in, here at school, I click a link, and unless it is an unusually large page (like, lots of graphics), it loads almost instantaneously……
Not, of course, that it’s truly slow at home, just slower. And I am an impatient person. (If you are reading this, and keeping tabs on me, that’s all your fault, Dad!
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Have fun with your high speed internet!!!!!!!!!!
Wait, is My Immortal a fanfiction or a novel? I’m a bit confused. Either way, where can I find it?
Bookgirl, can you come back to the other muse academies thread. We can’t continue without you!
346–definitely a fanfic. I believe if you do a google search, it is apparently infamous as the worst fanfic ever written. And I think i would concur. and also, I would add that it consists of the “f” word numerous, if misspelled times, as well as sex and other things. And wrist-slitting. I don’t particularly recommend, unless you are already a corrupted soul, and the I still don’t particularly recommend.
348 – Okay, I’ve done a bit of research and I’m thinking I’ll probably hold off on reading that one for a few years. Try to remain relatively uncorrupted for a while longer, you know.
Sandwiched in between two elements of a Very Good Week (Science Olympiad competition last Saturday and band trip to Disney this Wednesday-Sunday) is a depressing one, for me… tomorrow is the one year anniversary of my grandmother’s death. It’s going to be a hard day.
Gee, next to that all the fan-fic writers on the Marvel Boards look so sophisticated you’d think they’re writing in between sips of tea with a raised pinkie.
@ my immortal: oh my god WIN. Enobby forever!
349) I’m so sorry Tesseract. But at least you can think your grandmother would be happy that you’re otherwise doing so well. (congrats on science olympiad!)
Argh! In the entire Pacific Northwest there is only ONE college that meets my criteria! One! Out of all the dozens of colleges! I suppose it’s my own fault for refusing to go anywhere with fraternities or sororities…Actually there are a very few exceptions to that but that’s irrelevant. One college! *boggled*
345~ Ours is DSL….but it seems like greased lightning to me, compared to our old 50.6 kpbs connection. 52 if I was lucky…….but it had the distinct advantage of being free, and it wasn’t really that bad.
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Had to rant on the keyboard there for a moment. I just tried, for 20 minutes and finally got connected. *dies* Death and destruction are foremost in my thoughts right now. It has not been the greatest of days. I won’t elaborate, you probably don’t want the gory details.
anyway, this is my only post tonight, since I have a violin lesson and, have I practiced this week? I can’t remember. Probably not then. *dies again* not good. IN fact, very, very, VERY bad. *keeps dying*
Goodnight. Maybe next time I post I won’t have tears drying on my face. Later!
One of my personal favourite bits of My Immortal is this:
“Suddenly I was in fornt of teh School. In front of me wuz one of da sexiest goth guyz I had ever seen. He was wering long blak hair, kinda like Mikey Way only black. He had gren eyes like Billie Joe Amstrung and pale whit skin. He wuz wearing a blak ripped up suit wif Vans. It was…………………….Tom Bombodil!1111”
Yes, you read right. Bombodil. The girl never even read any of the books, just watched the movies. It cracks me up.
WAit…..why is Tom Bombadil, a LotR character, making an appearance in an HP fanfic? ok……
352- I’ve been having pretty good luck finding schools here on the East Coast w/o greek life. Wonder why the West is different.
355- “My Immortal is trolling gold, a work that drips tongue in cheek humor.”
I like the part when she says Darth Vader instead of Voldemort, but it’s almost too obvious. It’s the little gems that make it amazing on the lowest level, from “he’s a ropeist!!!!†to “Oh my satan!11”
356–for me the amusing bits are where they use the most obviously wrong words. Like Ebony losing her virility to Draco; erm, no, don’t think that’s it at all.
or “loopin” masticating to the video? I was nearly in silent hysterics, there. Because it is so obviously not the right word, and a unique enough word that it is so obviously deliberately chosen, again belying the stupidity of the authors…..
354- Tom Bombadil wasn’t even in the movies….
UGH UGH UGH. Tech week. I. Am. Exhausted. Just think of everything else I have to do on top of it… Like my sophomore research paper, whee. I’m doing it on artificial languages though so it’s OK.
Anyway I sort of doubt anyone else in my family even eats since there’s never any food prepared and rarely any dirty dishes when I come home from school (that weren’t already there, that is). So I haven’t eaten for over eight hours and I’m sort of dying inside, and trying to hold out until polenta is done (maybe not the best choice as far as quick meals go, but hey. Who says I need to be in bed at a respectable time?)
This is an interesting discussion…
Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!
Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow!
Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!
Sorry, obligatory.
356) That’s actually why I can think of more east coast schools I would like to go to. But I since everyone seems to expect me to stick around the west coast I figured I’d look it up. Reed was already on my list but the fact that’s it’s the only one is very…ugh
358) Oh I remember that research paper! We did it on this or that book. I did mine on Heart of Darkness. The horror!
Actually I found writing it wasn’t so bad, but the actual research was so arduous. Good luck to you on that!
I don’t really get FanFic…Or at least I don’t get the people who read it soley because it’s FanFic, and not because of it’s literary quality (does it have any?) My friends are obsessed with MCR and Green Day FanFic…Just don’t get it…
Well, as everyone knows (hehesorry) I’ve been complaining about maths lately and now it has been confirmed. We (me and Caitlin) have been chosen as McNail’s 2009 victims. Today she was talking about some problem and Caitlin and I were staring out the window. I had arrived late and then sat down and there was something on the desk. I asked her what it was and she said she thought it was chocolate, then the class started. SO anyway, we were looking out the window as She was speaking and all of a sudden she started yelling at us and accusing us of “not listening” and “not doing anything yesterday” (we didn’t understand, and were stuck on 1 problem all day) and finally “talking ever since we got into the class” so…
We said (if loudly) that we hadn’t said a word, then she just yelled back at us so we shut up and fumed. Walking back from Maths we told our friend Jo what had happened but it so happend that McNail was in the Science Block, where we were and she called Caitlin back to tell her off for “spreading untruths about what happend in Maths class” and so Caitlin said she had been hurt by what McNail said so McNail saidshe “shouldn’t be talking about that anyway”
Arrrgh I hate this year already. By the way can somebody help me with this problem:
Well. I am able to connect to the internet in my room. This is a good thing.
It’s 10:19 and I’m already done with good portion of my homework. This is also a good thing.
My mother refuses to talk to me. This is not a good thing. This is, in fact, a very bad thing. It appears that she has not gotten over whatever bad attitude she had yesterday. (No, I’m not saying this because I was in a bad mood yesterday–even dad was amazed at how rude she was being at times.)
I have a violin lesson today. This is a good thing, except that I haven’t been able to practice much at all this week and I have some very challenging pieces. *groan*
Andy my “a” key is acting up again and refusing to type all the time.
Sam, I can’t see the problem that you posted….I don’t know if I’d be much help solving it, but if I can’t see it I’m assuming no one else can.
*is finishing math homework right now*
I’m having an okay day. And there are some fan fiction writers who have work of very high quality. Just indenting between paragraphs and spelling things correctly does wonders.
361, 362–No, I can’t see it either. Perchance it accidentally got deleted or something when you hit submit. or something.
If you repost, I would at least be willing to try and help, but no guarantees that I know the answer!
363–That’s for sure. At the very least, if they do not indent, leaving a return between paragraphs does the trick. And punctuation, don’t forget punctuation.
But, yes, there are some enjoyable fanfics out there, although many now are “dated”, as they were written before the end of the series, filling in their ideas or wishes of what they wanted to happen……Still, they can be enjoyable.
*COUGH COUGH COUGH* ugh. I’m sick.
I actually stayed home from school today. I almost always go to school when I’m sick because I don’t like doing makeup work.
This morning I got up and I was coughing so hard I couldn’t breathe. Then I almost threw up because of the tightning of my muscles from the coughing.
GRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I also had to take cough medicine, which I almost never do. It helped a lot because I don’t use any meds enough to build up a resistance.
MB! Dear MB! I fell as if I haven’t been here in an age! Has it been over a month?! I can’t believe it! I’ve had so much to do lately! And I shouldnt’ even be on here right now! But, I jsut couldn’t resist! *runs to check other threads*
357 – Lupin was chewing to the video?
358 – I know! He wasn’t there! It made me sad.
There is (was?) an epidemic raging through our school. Thankfully, I’m not sick yet.
365–aw, I’m sorry! Get better soon!
*shudder* Cough medicine? The last time I had a really, really bad cough and I tried to take cough medicine, the flavor (and smell alone), made me gag so hard I nearly threw it up before I’d even swallowed it. *shudder* I avoid the stuff at all costs. And it didn’t even help (and I don’t/shouldn’t have resistance, although come to think of it, the bug could have been resistant strain belonging to somebody else…….after all, I had to catch it from somebody).
367–uh, no. It was a completely different “m” word they were looking for. That is why it was so funny.
369 – Haha, yeah, I know.
370–gotcha. Wasn’t sure.
I stumbled onto Bulbapedia, the Pokemon wiki, and now I’m going on this huge nostalgia trip and reading all the articles about the first American series.
“I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was…”
Those were the days!
336-
I’m not even going to ask how you knew that, Robert.
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340- Same reaction. Except I didn’t have to restrain my laughter, and my mom asked me what was wrong with me. I mean, seriously? DUMBLEDORE!??!?!!?!!?
356- It is truly a work of beauty.
357- I masticate to videos all the time. I masticated an apple a few minutes ago while watching the Misery Business video. Don’t make fun of loopin for it. (
360-AHHHH! that song will plague me until I die!!!!!!!!!!!!
363- Or a good beta reader…
364- They’re still good, though.
366- KIWI! Hello!
367- Erm, no. Play around with how the word sounds out loud. He wasn’t chewing, and the video was erotica.
370- Ok.
(WOW I just responded to like every post on this thread…)
352 – Thanks, Axa.
Today seemed to be themed “Rape Day” at school… 1st period we learned lockdown drill procedure, during gym we learned tae kwon do rape defense and during bio we watched a movie about DNA analysis in rape cases. IIt was peculiar.
374- Happy rape day, Tesseract! Better lock your bedroom windows!
375-You sound creepy and stalker-like. Like those guys in Mama Mia. (Mama Mia, Here we go again. My my!)
375 – And a happy rape day to you too, MissSwann. Here’s today’s tip on how to fend off a rapist: Yell NO loudly and claw at the eyes and “other soft parts.”
Remember that one when the creepers attack, children. >:D
… I am going to be SO paranoid now. I think I’ll go check to see if my window is locked.
376- SHUT UP! SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!! I JUST got that out of my head by watching 8 Britney Spears videos in a row!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Better not, because I’ll be waaaiiiting…. 
Just kidding.
377-
Seriously, though. Rape is not a laughing matter. Rapists… are… evil. I can’t even describe my intense hatred for them. They all deserve a lifetime in prison.
374, 5, 7-. It’s not called rape! It’s “surprise sex!”
God i cant believe i just said that
378–life in prison? How about castration w/o anesthetic/pain meds. And, of course, the death sentence. People can get out of prison on parole/whatever, but once you kill ’em, they’re not coming back. And rapists fall on the list of deserving individuals.
379–I can’t believe you said it either. But we will forgive you–this time.
379- Um, you shouldn’t. I’m literally rather offended.
I just searched my town on FamilyWatchDog.com. THERE IS A CHILD MOLESTER LIVING RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *hides* And another right down the street!!!!! And a rapist living on the same street as my friend Elissa!!!!!! (I also searched NYC; never living there, ever.)
378- Nah, compulsory castration. Slowly. Without painkillers. Or, as in The Princess Bride, to the pain!
And then, new legislation! As put forth by Twisty Faster:
“My wacky consent scheme flips it around. According to my scheme, women would abide in a persistent legal condition of not having given consent to sex. Conversely, men, who after all are constantly declaiming that their lack of impulse control is a product of evolution and there’s not a thing they can do about it, would abide in a persistent legal state of pre-rape.
Women can still have all the sex they want; if they adjudge that their dude hasn’t raped them, all they have to do is not call the cops.”
This probably belongs on Hot Topics or something, eh? Sorry…it’s sort of a hot-button issue -_-
Rein it in, please.
(373) MissSwann: I did a Web search. The story is in part of the book excerpted on Amazon.com.
Oh my. Whatever, have this discussion. I, meanwhile, will slowly back away. (Sorry about sounding like an idiot, talk about it all you want, but keep it under control.)
It feels more like spring everyday! Even when it rained the other day, it was a sort of warm rain, which is unusual but very nice.
Sort of unrelated, but I always thought it’d be cool if we all took a picture of what the sky looked like outside our respective windows/houses (no scenery for the most part) but I think it’s be too much work for the GAPAs. And maybe boring? I dunno, I like stuff like that.
Also unrelated: Congress clapped a total of 66 times during the President’s speech
I think it’s all formality but I am still amused for some reason.
Bookmark for further reference.
Wow. This is a very interesting conversation.
I shall now go take a shower lest my I be messily disembered because I’m staying up too late and ruining everyone’s lives in this household.
The past two days have been bad enough, let’s go for a third, no?
Goodnight.
(385) Axa, I love window views! I take lots of pictures of the sky from my work area at home, and on the road I traditionally take pictures from the window of wherever I’m staying. (I also get bizarre photos through the car windows, but that’s another story.)
On a related note, a few years ago I saw an entire exhibit based on on the theme “the view from my window.” Those were paintings and not necessarily documentary. It was fascinating to see what people saw or imagined.
Hello.
Pretty much everyone in the show is sick so we’re seriously considering dragging the SM on stage (if it comes to that) and giving me the Stage Manager book and telling me to call cues and run light board op. -prays that no one remains ill-
I was bad today and argued for some time with the director before realizing that it was no good and I was only earning a reputation for being unreasonable and gave in. But I couldn’t get the light board to work properly so I got it my way anyway.
I have finished my Book Project for English and must now go to bed. Good night everyone.
P.S. I feel like my grades are plummeting on top of everything. I’m scared.
383- Ah, but of course.
385- Window views! I have one of my backyard. It’s really pretty in the summertime, because the garden is blooming and the horse is usually munching on the grass… quite picturesque.
388- Same here. My parents pretty much said that if I got any bad grades at all they were going to lock me in the basement for the entire summer. And my bible/band grades aren’t faring along too well…. even though I’ve been doing MOUNTAINS of extra credit…
Of school projects; I have this REALLY cool Latin project I’m actually excited to be working on. We have to take the 12 Olympian god/desses and make them modern. IE, my Apollo is the god of Obnoxious Whiny Rock Songs, and Athena is Goddess of High School. Then we have to do a creative writing piece on them.
389–well, just don’t turn Ares into something too whacky. Afterall, as a March-child, he is “my” Greek God. I wouldn’t want to have, say, someone like your Apollo, the “god of Obnoxious Whiny Rock Songs”…..
387- I have a bunch of pictures of ordinary things outside of my school, mostly decorative plants, that I made look really cool with Photoshop. There was this one bike somebody had left on the grass. I bent down and took this really cool shot through the spokes of the wheel. It was okay in color, but even better in black and white.
390- I’m kind of stuck on Ares… I mean, we’re supposed to translate it into modern times, and I decided to focus on ‘What If the Gods Went to School?” Any help?
391- I LOVE doing photography. We had this great assignment a few months back where we had to take pictures of emotions and choose a photographer who we thought best represented emotion in their pictures. I chose Dorthea Lange.
392–Honestly, I really don’t have any brilliant ideas. I mean, Ares is the god of war, so perhaps the god of bullies or some such thing? *shrug* I dunno….
393- That’s what I was thinking, but I’m not really sure… *nibbles nails*
394– *whacksMissSwann* Don’t chew your nails, it’s a bad habit.
I used to do that……now I just nibble on the inside of my cheek…..Come to think of it, nibbling my nails would probably be less destructive….
Sorry for starting the rape discussion, GAPAs. >.<
I’m going to Disney World on a band trip! I’ll be back Sunday night. Talk to you guys in a few days!
396–Disney World, as in truly Disney World, as in Florida? Or Disney Land, in California? I’ve never been to the one in CA, but I hold that the FL one is much better and more awesome, and I’m probalby biased, due to it being the only one I’ve been to……
396–oh, sorry, can’t believe I forgot to say: HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(397) Funny, I’ve never been to Disney World. I always considered it an upstart. Yes, I know, it was built by the same company, but such things never should stand in the way of a good irrational bias.
399–What can I say? To each one’s own irrational bias.
I like DisneyWorld… DisneyLand is pretty much the same, I’ve been to both multiple times.
However, a Disney Cruise is soooo much better.
Ebeth has an exciting story
So i’m in torch, 7th period, we have about fifteen minutes left before school gets out, and DK (the principal) comes on saying that there’s a lockdown, that it’s not a drill, and that there’s no immediate danger at the school, but there’s an issue in the community and they can’t let us go home just yet. So i’m freaking out because i didn’t have service at that time (it’s really touchy because there’s a sprint tower right by the school that blocks things out) Anyway, andy had early dismissal which is a thing for seniors if they get a 7th period study hall where they can just leave school early. So i borrowed amanda’s phone to text him, but he was in the band room. he had just come back for jazz band, so he was ok. Turns out a guy living right across the street from his school had gotten drunk and barricaded himself inside his house with weapons threatening suicide. They thought he might have had hostages at first but i think they decided there weren’t any. The torch room is on the second floor facing the street where the guy was so we peeked out the window from time to time and we could see police cars and a SWAT van. Eventually, after an hour and a half of lockdown, they talked to the police and decided to let us leave but we all had to go out the front door. A lot of students park their cars on the street where the guy was, since it’s close to the school and the school has virtually no parking anywhere, and so now a lot of seniors are stuck without their cars until tomorrow (andy included, we had to call my parents for a ride). Andy had come back for jazz band and the middle school had been in the middle of band when the lockdown happened but they moved them to the auditorium because the band room is literally across the playground from the guy’s house. danny got a RC plane stuck in a tree a couple years ago from flying it on the playground, and the guy flipped out on him. Anyway, i called andy once i got out and he said he needed to run to the band room to get his stuff. My trumpet was in there, but i had assumed that we weren’t allowed to go back so i asked him if we were allowed back there and he said johnson was taking some of the students back to get their stuff. So i ran back inside and went with them to get my trumpet and while i was in the band room my brother called. Before i could answer, my phone ran out of battery, and i don’t know my brother’s phone number (sad, i know) so i used andy’s phone to call my dad, who said that james had just called. Anyway, he gave us rides home and we went and got ice cream. It was all just insane. the guy is still in his house i think, but i haven’t checked the news in a while. But it’s all crazy.
Oh and then while we were in lockdown horger didn’t see marika when she was taking attendance so they made an announcement saying there were two students they couldn’t account for and they said their names (the other guy was just skipping). I was sitting next to marika at the time and the announcement had barely finished before she had three phone calls and seven texts from people freaking out about her from other classrooms. it was kind of funny (since i knew she was fine…)
I absolutely love Disney, and if you haven’t been, I recommend the Boardwalk Inn. It’s right by Epcot, and the lake is beautiful at night. Then, go to the Magic Kingdom and ride the log flume until you’re soaked.
369- I went to Disney world in the winter of 2002 with my family. We stayed at the Grand Floridian hotel near the Magic Kingdom and it was great!
402- Wow, that IS exciting! Stuff like that never happens around here. The most exciting thing that ever happened at/near my school was when the computer teacher got a mohawk in front of some newspaper people for charity.
We need March 2009 Muse Discussion / Role Call threads, for it hath arrived!
I’m tired and my arms feel like they’re going to fall off. I know one thing though, I WILL NEVER, NEVER, NEVER JOIN ANY SWIM TEAM. Of course, I knew this before, but I now am absolutely positive that this is the case. *dies*
I LOVE BEING ABLE TO WATCH VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE NOW!!!!!!!!!!! I wasn’t able to before. I’ll stop gloating now.
(407) Welcome to the dangerous world of broadband, Midnight Fiddler! Nothing will ever be the same.
(406) They’re up and open for business, Piggy.
408~ I can see that. It’s dangerous having it in my room too. I’m supposed to be practicing, but instead I’m checking threads a mile a mminute…….BECAUSE I CAN. bad reason. I’m going to go practice. Goodnight!
Wow. I knew it was almost my birthday (like as, only around a month away), but I didn’t realize that it was almost exactly only a month away. 32 days and it will be my birthday, although, for the first time in my life, I am not looking forward to my b-day itself. I am looking forward to the entire week prior to my birthday, but not Sunday, March 29. Because my birthday, sadly, marks the end of my spring break, my lone week of reprieve from spring studies, spent enjoying being AT HOME for the first time since Christmas break, and also…….More than 10 hours travelling, what with plane time, layovers, and bus trips? So not a fun way to spend my 19th b-day. Especially since I am returning to school, not headed home…..I would like to skip straight to summer vacation, please.
SFTDP…..
Fiddler–I’ve got the exact same problem. Here at school, I spend most of my time in my dorm, where my computer happens to (obviously) be, and I swear I hit the refresh button at least once every five minutes. Not so at home, since we don’t have wireless, and there is no port in my bedroom….I share your “pain” (and addiction!)
410~ I’ve had to spend birthdays traveling before, those times I usually just decide that I’m going to celebrate on another day. Like in 2007 (oh my gosh was that 2 years ago already?!) I “celebrated”my birthday 5 days before the fact while I was working at Jamestown Settlement over the Anniversary Weekend, I figured that I might as well celebrate my almost 15th birthday with America’s 400th, even though I didn’t have any cake. (!!)
I dunno, we used to make a deal about birthdays but the last few I’ve not really done much that I wouldn’t have done anyway.
Maybe look for cool things on your trip? I know traveling is tiresome, but you must admit even when it’s annoying it’s exciting!
411~ I’m going from a dial up connection in the house only (my room is a separate building) to high speed wireless that I can get in my room. I keep pinching myself to make sure I’m not dead.
387) It sounds like windows are the window to the soul then, huh? haha. It’s definitely interesting to see things that are commonplace for someone else, how they perceive things.
399) Fact: Disneyland > Disney World
Actually I’ve never been to Disney World, but I have been to Disneyland a lot. Hoorah for irrational bias!
Upstart indeed
402/3 ) Oh that’s so scary ebeth. I’m glad everything is okay!
410) All the changing over with planes and so on sounds excruiating. My brother has to do a lot of that too. Airports are exciting but I imagine after going through the stress of boarding and so on they lose any charm they once had. Do you like any one over the other? It’s strange how airports have so much in common and yet can have vastly different “vibes”.
My birthday is between the AP US test and the AP Bio and AP Comp and Language test. lol. Actually it’s the best birthday present even to be done with AP stuff (mostly) around the time of my birthday. May is a crazy month. how can I almost be 17? *worried about senior year* ughhhhh
413–any airport that does not require a tram ride between my arrival gate and my departure gate ranks higher than others, as it is almost guaranteed that if you have a layover of any less than 2 hours, your incoming flight will have been delayed enough that you are down to 15 minutes or less before your next plane boards (45 minutes or so before departure, or more often, for my sister at least, her flights tend to arrive late, about 15 minutes prior to actual departure, after boarding is already well underway…..).
So, if I do not have to jump on a tram, and can just run (or speed walk) down the airport, it is much simpler, as the trams only leave about every five minutes (which if you are very short on time, is not near quick enough). So, basically, let’s see……except for my initial airport I leave from at school, and my final arrival in beautiful Alaska, it seems like all the airports have required tram trips.
Seattle: requires a tram trip from main terminal to satellite (or it did when I went through there). Not to mention, it’s nicer when I don’t have to go through here, as it usually means I’m having a less than direct flight, hopping to some other random sitting before hopping to my final destination.For instance, when I went through Seattle coming back down after Christmas, I went to Cincinnati next (rather out of the way, hopped over central time zone all the way to eastern, then hopped back again to my final destination…..) However, as far as the Cincinnati airport went, I had nothing against it. It was a very nice airport, big, open, I didn’t have to take a tram (although, there was the potential I owuld), and I had a long enough layover that I was able to go enjoy a leisurely “lunch” of cheese fries at Outback. Yum.
Minneapolis: This one’s the real annoyance. Decent enough airport, but almost guaranteed you’ll arrive at the opposite end of the terminal than you depart from, meaning you not only have a miniscule amount of time to get to your departing gate, you also have to hop a tram. Of course, it is nice, in that it is the most direct way to get from home to here, and here to home. AK to MN to final airport, but…..still hate the tram hopping.I believe on the way home I am going through Salt Lake City, dunno what that will be like….
I suppose I would have to say I am partial to Anchorage International [I refuse to call it by its “official” name] (to the best of my knowledge, all incoming outgoing flights go through there, GAPA, so I wouldn’t think that would be all tha revealing), as, well, I go through there every single time I fly anywhere. So it is familiar, and thus nice. I am partial to the “new” portion (a couple years ago they made some additons/renovations to the main terminal), and it is nice (complete with a moving walkway for us lazy people!).
And the decorations are, in a slightly morbid way, nice (lots of decorations of stuffed–as in real stuffed–native animals. polar bear, grizzly bear, fox, lots of things. I even think there might be a musk-ox. I forget)
‘though, the security video that plays while you are standing in line for security gets old real fast. Especially as they have played the same thing for probably the past 2 years (past half dozen plane trips, at least–either by me or my sister), and a person can only watch a person dressed as a moose (or bald eagle–they have both), go through security on the tape so many time before said individual desire forcible contact between their head and the nearest hard surface.
Dang, this comment took awhile to write…..probalby ahd something to do with th fact that it doesn’t work well to keep switching betwen typing this post, and typing emails to my parents……gotta go email my dad back…..
414- The only airport I was ever at that had a tram was somewhere in the midwest that I forget where I had to catch a connection from Memphis back to NYC.
402- That’s scary.
403- We have such great power in cell phones and such. I think it is taken for granted.
414- I remember Salt Lake as being nice.
Kyra- This was from months ago, but I remember you saying that you were shocked at how loud violins are, being so small. This is because there is thing called the triangle of pitch (a name my orchestra teacher seems to have invented). The instruments with the higher range will sound louder than the instruments with lower range. I wonder if this connects to the mosquito noise.
MissSwan-I would make Ares an unsuspecting trouble maker, who triggers conflict without being aware of it. Having zero social cognition skills is infuriating to all around you, and war-like in an untraditional way. That probably wouldn’t help you write a story though. Sorry.
Disney- I reject all modern Disney establishments as products of capitalistic consumer culture. They do produce some great films, and the classics are, well, classic, but I cannot bring myself to forgive Mr. Disney for what has happened with his knowledge, in Florida and elsewhere.
I will be doing Moody’s Mega Math (English)Challenge [May be of interest to those of you who will be upperclassmen in highschool next year], if the social system allows such craziness to be accepted. Do what’s right for yourself or the able?
Kopimi released a manifesto!
Ugh, being able to breathe makes life a whole lot easier. I went to bed with a sore throat and woke up at 4AM unable to breathe, with my throat even more sore than it was before. Got back to sleep, woke up later but I’ve been sniffing all day. It’s very not fun. :L
And I’m missing my friend’s band concert. I don’t know if I’d have been able to go, but it would have been fun, they’re playing a Welsh piece she said. *sigh*
414) A tram! I remember my parents telling me about that. I don’t know where they went that required a tram but there was somewhere. Personally I really like LAX, not that I’ve traveled much yet. I’m worried about all that changing over and jumping on trams (ack!) if I go to college out of state but I figure I’ll get the hang of it. I agree anything playing on tvs or speakers gets old really fast!
416) Disneyland at least is like an octopus which spreads its magical tentacles throughout the surrounding city. This is a plus in that they spruced up the surrounding area (mostly for tourists I suspect) and a negative in that they have unfair labor practices, I believe? I don’t know much about their dirty big business other than that they have a hand (tentacle) in everything and that I wouldn’t put much past them. Disney being an anti-Semite doesn’t help either.
Oh my goodness, the past 24 hours have been very odd.
Last night… I found out my friend from CTD… well, she died. It was a brain tumor, and before they could operate, she had a seizure. I didn’t know her very well, but she was down the hall, and very nice. ;(
Then, it started snowing heavily and math (I take it outside of school) was canceled.
It’s been very up-and-down.
418–as long as you plan ahead and make sure that you have adequate time to make your connections, catching the tram isn’t a big deal. Of course, especially when travelling in the winter months, planes seem to be delayed quite a long while, meaning that your more than adequate 2 hour layover, has been turned into 30 minutes or less, and you have to make a mad dash for your next flight. I was worried about the whole process (flying by myself, making my connections), but after doing it once, I was significantly reassured–although still found it more stressful, as I had know one to worry about making the connections for me, and had to do all the worrying myself….
395- I do both. And I peel the sides of my thumbs.
I’d rather go to Disneyworld than Land. It’s apparently better, according to various people who’ve been to both.
So, mini heart attack just now. I downloaded Quicktime 7 just now, and a thing popped up that said Thank you for downloading! $58.97! WHATTTTT???????????????? But it was referring for a different version. I downloaded the free version. *phew*
419–*hugs* That’s very sad….
421–Yeah, I pick at the sides of my thumbs, making massive “hang nails”. I suppose instead of fingernail chewing, in addition to cheek chewing, I do have a nasty habit of chewing on the sides of my fingers, right next to the nails, then picking at them, developing often painful “hang nails.” Why are they called hang nails, by the way, when it is skin, not nails? or do I have the wrong word……
I think I saw Comet Lulin last night!
419~ I’m really sorry to hear that. *hugs*
.419 I’m so sorry Kokonilly… *more hugs*
.420 Mostly it’s just the horror stories of my brother’s flights getting cancels and him staying overnight in some adjacent hotel…I suppose that wouldn’t be so bad but considering I get mistaken for/ look like a twelve year old I’m not sure about that! But it must be really..uh not fun…liberating to travel by yourself!
419- Oh gosh, I’m so sorry.
*hugs*
So, most confusing expirience of my life; I just talked to my two friends Anna and Annah on two different phone lines on the same time. I was “Okay, Anna *******, what color did you dye your hair? Annah ******** wants to know… *******, she dyed it brown. Okay, um, Anna ******, ******** wants to knwo what color brown? Like, Amber brown or Naomie brown? She says to wait until tomorrow, *******…”
My mind is not functioning properly this evening. While trying to access iTunes, I logged onto Youtube, then Wikipedia, then Youtube again, until finally reaching my destination. (And I really needed to think; Okay, type itunes.com…). Then I looked in the pantry cupboard for my iPod before remembering that iPods are not stored in pantry cupboards, they are stored in coat pockets.
Whoa. Haven’t been here in a while. Quite the change in decor.
427–yup! I don’t think we’ve had the originals colors since the GAPAs first changed the color scheme in honor of Hallowe’en.
428 – Is the current one for Valentines Day?
Yeah. Although I do like different colours, wouldn’t they be more special if they only came around every once in a while? Between holidays, couldn’t MB be normal-coloured again? I do realise that it is a bit of work for the GAPAs.
429–No, I dont’ think so. It seems like we’ve been on these colors longer than just February–but perhaps I am mistaken. Afterall, this morning seems at least a week ago……
Wasn’t Valentine’s Day, like, two weeks ago?
432–yup, it was 12 days ago, to be precise. Two weeks this Saturday.
Thanks, everyone… she lives in Chicago, I think, so I didn’t attend her funeral… I’m just shocked, you know? She was just entering high school, I think. She was around fourteen.
419- I’m so sorry.
362/4 yeah…thats because I didnt post it
I pressed submit too early and couldn’t be bothered reposting ><)
I got a new dog! She’s a pit bull mix and oh-so-sweet!
I had the worst day today though.
My lab partner was absent in Modern Food Production, so I had to do the water tests by myself. (We’re raising fish) Which was impossible. I did the temperature and chlorine but I messed up nitrate TWICE. Then I gave up tests and went across the hall to do a top-off of the fish tank and dropped the top into the fish tank and spilled the water that was in my hand onto my pants as I was getting the top.
Ew.
Koko- I feel so bad for you. Try to keep happy.
Last night, I was watching a live web show and I asked a question in the chat bar- and the host actually answered it and said my username!
434~ Being in shock is perfectly reasonable. As hard as it is when older people pass away, it seems more expected, but we don’t think that kids just going into high school will.
438~ Cool!
Thanks again. It’s been difficult to distract myself, but I’ve been successful in keeping happy.
438: really? woah, that is really creepy!!! Theres one site where you type your answer but as you type the words “Peter please answer” appear on the screen and then type the question and press submit, and it comes up with the answer you typed…it’s great for tricking friends!
oh, dear, it is late…….I can’t even entirely blame school work, because although I’ve been dong much of that the past 3-4 hours, the 5-6 hours before that, I was most definitely not….
Three hours and 45 minutes more, and I will have been up 24 hours (NOT that I intend to do this–I am heading to bed here as soon as I finish up here). Oh, dear, I’ve been up for 20 hrs 15 minutes, and I only got a bout 6.5 hours of sleep last night. Hmmm, that probably explains why my brain feels very foggy and sluggish, and has for the last hour or so.
Well, I am off to bed! And hope to not be back on ze blog until well into the afternoon tomorrow. Because I plan to sleep. Noon at earliest sounds nice. Dunno if I’ll make it that late, but it would be nice.
Goodnight, all–though I do hope the GAPAs have enough sense to be in bed. The only one who might have cause to be up would be PB&J, as if I have my time zones right, it is 9 o’clock there, not an unreasonable time to be up and about. But he’s not on much at all, is he? Too bad…..
54-if you take the drive to drive savers they will recover as mitch as they can.
Sorry I’m so late posting, my new browser doesn’t slow me to blog for some reison so I can only do it on my iPod touch.î™î™î™î™. This makes me sad
Wow. 443 posts. I am back briefly. Our last show was last night. It was our best run. It was a play by Lorca, very beautiful. I love being in plays but I’m glad it’s over. I am tired, a bit, of being in rehearsal every minute of my life. Now I must devote my time to the improv team. Which is too much fun to ever be a chore!
My throat hurts so badly that I’m only talking ble until I get better.
For some strange reason, a song from one of the Land Before Time movies just popped into my head. The one that goes “I need you like a poke in the eye! Yeah, well, I need you like a cold in July! Who needs you? Not me!”
Anybody else remember that?
I do! With Val and Icky…my brothers LOVE that.
446–
Yup, I remember that! My sister and I just rewatched all our Land Before Time VHS’s over the summer/Christmas Break. ’twas awesome.
437-Doggiedoggiedoggie!
And bad stuff happens. Ever had a bottle of ketchup explode in your face at school?
I keep on getting random songs from the halftime of Dragon Tales. Like the one that sings about waking up? I loved those…
446-
w00t w00t w00t, our team won 8-2 today! And I scored a “smokin'” (dad language) goal from 30 yards!
OMG this is totally awesome!!!!!!!!!!
This is my second time posting ever and I JUST started getting Muse in December!!!! I love it! And what the heck is that picture????? Barf?
451~ Welcome to MuseBlog! *pies*
The picture is one that our resident Graphics GAPA (the esteemed Rebecca Lasley) made. It depicts HPB fossils.
I think I can safely say that there’s never been any pictures of barf gracing our random threads. Not as far as I can remember at least.
(452) Certainly not by intent.
453~ I don’t know….I just can’t really picture it…………or I’d rather not, I dunno…….
Hi Meow. I’m glad to see you’re still around. Now that summer is coming up again, we should start planning the next kokon.
Ugh, I missed my blogiversary again. Heh.
For some reason the lights are pink, but it’s too early to be sunset. Huh.
I don’t have any internet at home because we moved, so I’ll talk to you later (like Tuesday).
I found this really cool cartoon on Deviant Art that somebody made showing Carl Sagan hanging out with Optimus Prime. I guess we all know what decade they grew up in…
This blog should be moved to the new site… now I don’t know where to go!
446- Yup yup yup!
456 posts! New thread, mayhaps?
(458) Um, this is the last day of the month.
457 – Wait, what?
458 – Aggie *ahem* Check the date…
Shall we see if we can break 500 before the month is out?
It’s hard to believe that starting tomorrow it will be March already……
461~ Most likely we can get up to 500, since there’s still 5 hours to go, and only 20 some posts would bring the count up.
I can’t believe it’s the last day of February.
457~ No, MuseBlog and Musemagkids are two completely separate pages. Musemagkids is the “official” website run by Carus publishing. Musefanpage (where our own dear MuseBlog is) is a private fan site. MuseBlog is owned and run by Robert Coontz, who writes the Q&A section with Rebecca Lasley, but they are not Carus (muse’s publisher) employees.
Personally, I think this is a way better site. *cheers on GAPAs*
462–Of course this is a better site. It has our beloved GAPAs. And it’s way more organized and fun.
458–I love Ducky! And Petri! Not Cera, though, she bug the heck out of me. I just want to pound her annoying stubborn triceratops head into the ground…….ok, well, maybe that is a slight violent overexaggeration, but–she does annoy me a lot
462- Absolutely! MuseBlog is amazing! *pies Musemagkids website*
I was on the MuseMagKids site yesterday and it’s just not very interesting at all. I was rather terrified by the “Town Hall” feature. their appears 2 b prtty much like no regulation or trying to get caps or punctuation i was like why r they not writing like people or at least musers you kno its 1 thing when ur txting or something but when ur posting on a site for a mag thats suposed 2 b intelligent its sort of disturbing 2 c its like grammar doesnt exist
I should be fair. The crowd there seems to be younger, but we’ve had 9 and 10 year old’s here on MuseBlog that are perfectly understandable and very mature.
I know that at that age my writing (spelling and grammar) would have been really hard to understand too, since I never really did a formal study of grammar and spelling has always been a challenge for me (spell check saves many of my posts).
I suppose I’m just spoiled by the extraordinary and flamablamablous MuseBloggers.
Hello!!!!
So far MuseBlog rocks!!!! Just one question. How do you post stuff. Cause a lot of random stuff pops into into my head and having Photoshop and all…
461- Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November.
All the rest have thirty-one
But February spoils the fun.
466- You can’t really post ‘stuff’ like pictures on here unless the GAPAs do it for you. We have a visual arts thread for such things. You have to email the GAPAs and they might put your pictures on that thread.
I’m going to practice now…I’ve spent WAY to much time here, as usual.
G’night all, happy March!
*clap clap clap*. Wow KaiYves that was great!
453- But that’s just your cover story, eh GAPAs? (I can picture Robert and Paul, huddled around a computer at 1am, posting barf pictures and giggling like schoolgirls…
)
467- I can NEVER remember that. Like, I memorize it, but then when I acutally need to use it, I forget the saying.
Luckstomper; welcome! I’m MissSwann. I have been a blogger for 2 odd years, and my real name is Sianna. I love Twilight, Harry Potter, MCR, and Paramore. That’s pretty much all you need to know about me! (And people here say I’m dramatic… WHAT ON EARTH DO THEY MEAN??????????? :LOL: )
465–Don’t you know? It’s not “flamablamablous.” It’s flamablamadingdongatabulous.
I just got (earlier today) and read my February Muse, and that had me in stitches.
Speaking of the February edition, I was quite pleased to see that Muse seems to be well on its way to the days of old. It was an excellent mag, a bit out of place in the year, given that it is the classic October Muse, that we completely lacked last year. (The election? Politics? *shudder*)
Hmmmm. I just noticed that the heart shaped sewer cover on the front has a Kokopelli on it….
The last page? I sweat that looked like a yummy breadbowl, and I”m thinking, “How is this the grossest food ever?” And then I read the description, and I literally had goosebumps, and felt like things were crawling all over my skin. I don’t gross out all that easily, but maggots and maggot-like bugs are one thing that really gross out and bother me. *shudder*
Hiya MB! I am here once more! What a loverly Saturday! Except the fact that’s it’s rained all day and is most likely still doing so. And it might snow tomorrow! WHich would be weird, since our daffodils are in full bloom. That might be an interesting photo……
So, how is everyone here? Are yall having an absolutely spiffy day?
Huh? Did I get this right? THere’s another thingy on the MuseMag Kids wedsite? Hmmmmmmm. That’s interesting. *is immensely curious*
(471) *spit take* Ha! The scary thing is, MissSwann, so can I! I’m going to try to remember that when I need a good laugh.
Hey-lo, everyone! *attempts to break 500 before midnight* *realizes she’s only one person*
Only 25 more posts!!! COME HERE SIDEBAR-READING PEOPLE!!!
Góðan daginn Musebloggen!
I wish I knew the Icelandic for “blog”. It’s probably the same, no?
With English being imperialistic and all. :/
Important news:
1. The Sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma. TMBG!
2. I need a good retort for blahblahblah is so gay. Ideas?
>500!
(477) By coincidence, that’s how Flickr greeted me yesterday. (Well, not with the Museblog part.)
473- Immensely spiffy!
474- Hah! The things people have in common… Plus, I can never remember how many days February has…
Heyyy, RtH! It’s our anniversary technically!
477- about 2: what are you trying to say when you retort the … is so gay?
467) miserable as it sounds, sometimes I have to refer to that rhyme to remember the days of the month. Except I learned it a bit different.
477) whenever someone says “this book is gay!” and so on I reply “yes it indeed does prefer books of the same gender”
I don’t think that’s what you’re looking for though
Hurrah for February 28th! Today was lovely and warm, hurrah again!
479-Hey, indeed it is! Do you want to go out?
281- I do like “Yes, it’s very happy.” (Gay used to means happy).
What happened to the
in used to?HTML gnome?ATTENTION ALL MUSEBLOGGERS! We need to reach 500 posts before midnight! Well, we don’t need to, but … you know what I mean. So post here!
Maybe we should stop at 500 too, so there will be exactly 500 posts when the thread closes.
For some odd reason, that reminds me of an xkcd comic:
http: //xkcd.com/545/
479- I don’t suppose he’ll even bring you a bouquet or a box of chocolates, will he? Tsk, tsk. What a shame. You could come over to the H&H for a good, strong drink, if you so desire.
As for days of the month, there’s a good one to remember the ancient Roman calendar as well:
In March, July, October, May
The Ides fall on the 15th day,
The Nones the 7th. All besides
Have 2 less days for Nones and Ides.
*ponders other ways to break the 500 post mark without PoPoing*
467- I can never remember that.
To be added to the do-too list.
481/483: Yeah, like that. I don’t think those are snarky enough, but thanks.
485 – Haha, yeah.
*tries to avoid PoPoing*
Now Piggy, I do say, I have brought BOTH: A large bouquet and a nice box of chocolates!
Hey everybody, There’s some new art over at Visual Arts!
I’m off to bed. It’s getting quite late here! I hope East Coast GAPAs can go to bed, as well!
Good night!
This has just turned into a thinly veiled attempt to pass 500 without PoPoing. I am to balme.
Random: Which is better: Canada or the U.K.?
*Blame.
Oh my goodness, 6 more posts!!!
493- that’s more for the Polling thread… I feel indifferent to both of them.
479) Anniversary of what? Is that a very stupid question? I’m a very oblivious person……
And you got flowers and chocolates? How nice! 
Gosh. It’s amazing how people remember these things. I can’t remember my own mother birthday, much less the day I start going out with someone.
489) Oh. Are yall going out? How did I not know that? *head desk* That’s awesome!