Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
Date: March 1, 2009
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Random craziness
Wow, that’s a great picture.
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Horray! Terry Pratchett’s Witches Month! (At least, Tiffany Aching and Miss Tick…)
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FIRST FIRST POST!
Anyway, in relation to the name, here’s a movie mishap or two:
-In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, when Fred passes Ron the note in the great hall, there’s four lines of writing. When Ron reads it, however, there’s only 3.
-In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willie Wonka places the golden tickets on the back of the bars. When the kids find them, however, they are on the front.
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Encyclopedia Brown. Just … Encyclopedia Brown.
For a so-called encyclopedia, he’s so wrong!
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In Armageddon… well… let’s make a list of what they got RIGHT:
-There are asteroids in space.
-Uh… let me get back to you on that.
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By the way, you don’t have to talk about this topic. This is still the Random Thread. But you may if you want to, of course.
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Hey, where’s the morphing thread?
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Last month’s Chameleon Thread attracted only 67 posts, and a lot of them were spent trying to figure out something to talk about. I’m wondering whether those threads are still useful. Opinions?
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8- I say they’re worthless, but that’s just me.
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Hopefully I’ll now be able to count, in scrupulous detail, the days of the month. 
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4) Heresy! Encyclopedia Brown was never wrong! Didn’t you notice the lipstick on the wine glass found in the back room of the victim’s third cousin’s time share in Boca? Of course you didn’t because you’re not Encyclopedia Brown! HEYOOOO
I’m being facetious here. But I did love those books when I was ten!
PSA: Any complaints about Glorfindel will result in mass posting of hey dol merry dol ring a dong dillo
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Awesome picture! Is it just me, or did the magnifying glass move? And is it Feather holding it?
8-It’s sad letting a monthly thread die. However, if people like the H+H and random threads better, then I don’t know…I’d have to think about it…
It’s snowing!
Good night!
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The magnifying glass does indeed move, the first time you open the blog. Refreshing the page doesn’t seem to start it again, though.
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Hi!
I’ve been really busy lately with schoolwork. In my spare time I’ve started writing a book.
The book is set in the 2200s, and the main character’s name is Hannah. In the future, there are clones which are kept as slaves and science experiments. Hannah is given a slave clone for her 16th birthday.
I’m going to take this to another thread now because the explanation of the story is pretty long.
Unlike most stories, I actually intend on finishing this book. I’ve given it its own notebook, so it has to get at least that long now because of my obsession about notebook use.
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Sweet picture! And no, RtH, it’s not just you–the magnifying glass is, indeed, moving.
–HP and the GoF (movie): In the DADA lesson, impostor Moody spells the word “unforgivable” incorrectly–“unforgiveable”
I could go on for ages, but I really need to finish up a scholarship app, then I should try and get to bed, although my chances of falling asleep are slim, since I have screwed up my sleep schedule something fierce over the weekend. (Up until 3 on Friday, slept until *cringe* 3:15 Sat–that a record by the way, and it gave me a horrible jolt to roll over and look at my clock and see a “3” glaring at me *shudder*–stayed up until 4:30 Saturday night, then slept until 1:15 today…….yup, I’ve got issues)
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(14) Karen: That remind me that it’s time for a new Books in Progress thread.
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SFTDP. Robert, refreshing the page, at least for me, causes it to start moving again, although it stops after a couple seconds.
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It must depend on the browser.
Lady Bunniful and I are signing off early tonight, as part of our get-more-sleep resolution. I haven’t checked with Rosanne, but maybe she’ll be around later. (Yoohoo, Rosanne! Are you there?)
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I’m back from Disney! I’ve got lots of back-posts to read and some homework to do, but I’ll come back later or tomorrow. I’m glad to be home, but it was so fun! 
I love the month’s theme, by the way.
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Oh dear. 
I love this month.
I haven’t been on (sorry) because Mom blocked my logon again… but now I’m back! Missed me?
Listening to PDQ Bach. 
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3 – Aw dang it. I thought for sure I got a first post.
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19–I’m glad you had fun! Did you just go to Magic Kingdom, or did you go to the adjoining parks, as well? Like MGM, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, or any of the water parks (Blizzard Beach/and i forget the other one).
I like MGM–the Tower of Terror is awesome, ‘though I think Islands of Adventures Dr. Doom’s Fearfall is more terrifying. *shudder* That is one terrifying ride, especially as I kept remembering, all half a dozen times we rode it, that at a six flags somewhere, on a virtually identical ride, some girl’s legs got cut off when a cable snapped……That’s all I could think, plus, oh ****, I’m going to fly up out of the seat and into the sky when it goes up, cuz the seatbelt/harness is going to fail……
Of the 6 or so times my sister, cousin, and I went on Fearfall, I only managed to not hold on once–cuz me and my sister decided that we were going to be “brave” and not hang on to the shoulder “straps” for dear life, so instead we were holding hands–squeezing for dear life…..It’s weird. I mean, it is an utterly predictable ride, and yet it is the only ride I ever remember going on that honestly scares the crap out of me and rips a scream and curses from my mouth even when I resolve that, this time, I won’t scream. We went on it about six times over the ocurse of two days, over Thanksgiving break. ’twas awesome, but bloody terrifying.
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(17, 18) It refreshed for me yesterday when I ran a test, but it wouldn’t today, so I’ve edited to slow the animation a touch and repeat more times. I’ve also linked it to one that runs continuously for those of you whose browsers won’t let you rerun the animation.
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YES!!!! I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My kind of celebration…..ahh, what a lovely month.
*deep breath* Okay everyone, if you liked my obsessive rant on ratlines, you’ll simply love this! 
Go ahead and skip it if you want, or read it and have a chuckle at my lack of a life.
Did anyone else notice (probably not) that the nautical terms in the Hornblower books aren’t spelled consistently? I have a sneaking suspicion that it’s an editor thing, but perhaps not. For example, through all of Beat to Quarters (the first book written, but sixth in order, if that makes sense) I was terribly distracted by the fact that “clew” was spelled as “clue”. Like, “Haul up your clews” became “haul up your clues” which makes no sense at all and looks completely wrong on the page.
The first time I came across it I was eating breakfast and I just stopped, spoon of blueberry granola suspended halfway between the bowl and my mouth, staring at this horrendous mistake. It took a moment for me to realize that the expected bite was not forthcoming, so I went on with both my munching and my reading, but the horror remained through the whole book, I winced (at least inwardly) at every command that involved “clues,” or, worse yet, “clue lines.” GAH!
(For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, don’t feel bad! This is along the lines of my famous [infamous?] expostulation on ratlines. Only less obvious. The “clew” [that’s the proper spelling] is the bottom corner of a square sail [which is actually rectangular, but “square” refers to the fact that the yard from which it is suspended is perpendicular, or square, to the keel [backbone] of the ship. Anyway, so the clew is the bottom corner of a sail. Clewlines are a piece of running rigging [ropes that move regularly when handling sail] that attach to the clews of the sail. These lines pull the clew of the sail up to the yard [a beam set on the mast that holds up the sail] for furling [rolling up and lashing to the yard when the sail is not in use catching wind and pushing the ship forward]. I hope that cleared up any confusion you had about what I was talking about…..if not just ask, as you can probably tell I’d be overjoyed to talk your ear off. )
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20~ PDQ BACH!!!!!!!!!!!! ♥ ♥ ♥
My violin teacher has a poster of his on her studio wall. It’s got three guys in tuxedos and baseball gear (catcher, umpire and batter) and the batter is holding a violin like a baseball bat with this crazy look on his face. I crack up every time I see it.
(SFTDP)
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Yay! Meticulous attention to details! (Sorry for any typos or misspelled words). OK, in the movie Cars did anyone notice that Ramone (the guy who owns the paint shop) has a different paint job in every scene? In the book series Warriors: The New Prophecy the 3 authors vow never to have a cat say something, only meow it. However, they slip up in the first book in the series!
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I lovelovelove the thread title.
22- The one time I went to Disney, Tower of Terror was closed.
I am on Spring Break. With giant mounds of math and physics homework. This is rather awesome.
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(24) Fiddler: I’ll bet that the original British editions of Hornblower were fine and that the mistakes stemmed from an overzealous landlubber editor’s efforts to “Americanize” the spelling.
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20-Hooray for PDQ Bach!
Hooray for about a foot of snow that gives us a snow day! (And it’s still coming down…)
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OMG! It’s actually snowed! 
So no school today! And possibly o school tomorrow! *does happy dance* Such a loverly morning!
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My brother just took the most awesome screenshot in one of his games: Sonic the Hedgehog ON FIRE with a LASER SWORD!
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Awww I ADORE the new colors! Nice and fresh and clean and springy!
That’s not what it’s like outside…
It’s six inches of snow and still going!
Our school gave us a snow day which is like, amazing, an act of God, psychotic, somebody in the admin. office must be out of their mind.
I let my dog out to go po— to the bathroom and she sunk in the snow and didn’t know what to do.
Speaking of dogs I had to bring my pit-bull back to the rescue place because she didn’t get along with the cats and other dog. 
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28~ The thing is, my set has some British spellings (colour, for example) and the one book has the British title. I’m confused. The thing is that the spelling isn’t consistent, one place in the series if clew and another it’s clue. *confuzzled*
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Yayyyy! New random thread!!!!!!!!!!!!! And a snow day, so I can be online all day!!!!!!!!!!
So, have I ever mentioned how much I love movies from the 80s/90s? We’re watching Journey to the Centre of the Earth from 1993, and the little manta ray creatures are my new BFFs.
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This isn’t really detail, but… In the Golden Compass (Movie) they didn’t kill the two characters who are vital in the later stories, but they’re not making more(I think) so it doesn’t really matter…
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34–You should watch the one that just came out in ’08. I know it wasn’t really a “good” film per se (though I do think I liked it better than if they were really trying to make Vernes’s book into a movie), but Fraser is hot. No, scratch that–hot doesn’t even begin to do him justice. *drools*
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Let me rephrase my last post. By the one that came out in ’08, I don’t mean the one where a woman take a couple guys to go look for her husband who disappeared, and they wind up in the “center of the earth”. I saw that on tv over Christmas break, and let’s just say: it sucked. Nothing like the book (which I barely remember), but ’twas rather dull and horrible.
I mean Brendan Fraser’s Journey to the Center of the Earth. And as I said, although it was by no means a omg awesome movie, it wasn’t bad either. Perhaps equivalent to the first two Mummy movies (the third sucked–let’s not go there).
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No school, which = friends!
I love this thread’s title, by the way. I’m have five hundred pet peeves, and about two hundred of them are when something in a movie or book is wrong.
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SFDP, Happy birthday, Dr. Suess!
All caps there. I feel like making something lowercase. There, all done. But now it’s all out of order… CDO mo.
My friend is making me an “Emmet Cullen is a Transvestite Circus Bear” shirt. I’ve designed a whole line, you know. “I ran Bella over with the van”, “Jacob Black needs anger management classes”, “Edward tasted like poo”, etc.
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I’m sick. I send sadness to all of you.
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Love the book, hate the movie. I posted that on another thread.
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Will read posts later….
But for now I have a question for all of you LOTR fans.
The choir that my mom and I sing in is doing a piece form the LOTR movies (I think) called May It Be. It’s a really pretty piece, and it’s got little sections of a language that isn’t English,since it’s LOTR I’m assuming it’s Elvish or something, and I know that several of you die hard fans here probably know what it means……here’s the text: “Mornie utulie” and “Mornie alantie” with umlauts over the e’s and a ‘ over the second u in “utlie.”
Also, if you’re familiar with the piece is it actually from the books or was it just written for the movie?
enough questions……I’ll go do homework now.
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I’m going to bed- g’night MB !
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26- indeed they did. I believe the same mistake was made in Eclipse (New Warriors book, for the un-Warriors-informed MuseBloggers)
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43- What the cake? Bed? It’s 11:45 am! I’m sick, so I’m at home.
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In Space Buddies, the human cosmonaut has the current Russian flag on his suit, but the dog has the old one. Man, that dog must have been up there for a REALLY long time…
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36- Eh, he’s okay. James Mcavoy in Becoming Jane is better. *puddle of drool*
39- ??? ‘Edward tasted like poo’??? Where did you come up with that one? (The others are funny though )
43- What time zone do you live in??? 
I’m almost done with my paper on Hollywood in the 1940s!!! It’s a rather boring subject when you need to write about it, but I’m almost done and that’s making me happy. I’ll post it.
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Harry Potter movies, LOTR movies… any movie based on a book, basically.
Lovely picture!
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In HP1, the spells (or at least the only spell in the book) is english incantations, but in the consecutive ones, they are latin.
“crucio, crucere, to torture”
“turn this stupid fat rat yellow”
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22 – We went to the four main parks. I spent a day in Magic Kingdom and half a day each in MGM, Animal Kingdom and Epcot. My favorite ride was definitely Expedition Everest in Animal Kingdom, but some of the simulators at Epcot were pretty amazing.
I love love loved having Disney, but it’s strange; it was eighty degrees in Florida, and I arrive home to snow! We have a snow day today. Two snow storms in one season is unheard of around here.
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On IMDB I love looking at the goofs for each movie I see. Does anyone else do that?
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Ooops! I did something wrong with the italics in my last post….
I wish I went out with my friends today… I should probably call someone now; I’m bored out of my mind.
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42- I’m an LOTR fan, but I have absolutely no idea what that means. It may just be because my Elvish is a bit rusty, and I haven’t had any time lately to re-watch them all.
In other news, my mom is convinced that tomorrow, we are going to win the lottery. I’m skeptical, but she’s been reading this book called The Secret (in short, if you will something to come true, it will), and she thinks that if we believe it enough, it’ll happen. It’s also a semi-lucky day tomorrow. My mother’s dad died when she was 21, and tomorrow is the 21st anniversary of his death. But, before he died, he was going to play the lotto with his lucky numbers, which we obtained from a family member. We’re going to play tomorrow and see how it goes.
Moderation is a tad slow this afternoon, or it may just be my computer, lagging behind as usual…
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45–I believe she lives in Austria, so it is a fair bit later.
50–Yeah, some of the sims were pretty cool. Expedition Everest was still under construction when we were there 3 1/2 years ago (summer ’05), so I don’t know how it would’ve ranked on my scale. Of the ones that were there at the time, MGM’s Tower of Terror and Rock’n’Roller Coaster were my favs.
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SFTDP.
47–No clue who that is. And Fraser is way more than “okay”. Watch George of the Jungle when you’re in a mood that permits you not to smash your head against a wall at the idiocy of all the characters (for me, that was 1 in the morning, when I was “drunk” on either too much sleep or not enough sleep–I was in a very strange mood, as I actually found it funny in spots), and you’ll see exactly what I mean. I mean, an entire movie with him all sweaty and muscly and wearing nothing but a loin cloth? *melts* Especially that scene where he comes out of the shower with nothing on (not that they show anything), and is dripping wet. *drools s’more* Only reason to watch that movie is for his body. [/shameless drooling and melting]
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55- NO CLUE??? A-pe-teh-me-noo- you have not lived, woman! GOOGLE HIM NOW!!!
51- I prefer Wikipedia for that, but yeah, I do.
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56–I googled him, as you commanded. And I’m afraid I must disagree–he’s just not that hot.
51–occasionally. Depends on the mood I’m in. I think I did for all the Potter movies, though i disagree with some of the supposed “goofs”.
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Surprised no one has mentioned Eragon, the worst book into movie ever made…in my opinion. I won’t even beging ot go into all of the things they got wrong. I heard the director never even read the book….
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In the Keys to the Kingdom series, they mess up in one of the books with names. Occasinally one character is called Dawn of the Morning or something and half the time she is Night of the Morning(that makes no sense… the last word must not have been morning). But the Night/Dawn thing was confusing until I figured out it was the same person.
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58 – Well, it wasn’t that great a book in the first place…
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58- yes, it was messed up. Great books, terrifyingly dumb movie.
42- it was specifically written for the movie. As far as I know, the only Elvish song written by Tolkien is in an unfinished manuscript called “The Lost Road”. It chronicles the original fall of Numenor and discusses time-travel in a distinctly Tolkienish way.
*Bonus info!
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were given an assignment; Lewis was to write about “Space Travel” and Tolkien about “Time Travel”. “The Lost Road” is the result of Tolkien’s effort.
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59- I never noticed that… maybe they’d corrected it in the edition I bought.
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53- That “the secret” book is the biggest WOMBAT I have ever seen.
49- that is because that spell is bogus, given to Ron by Fred
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59- Saturday’s Dusk and Saturday’s Noon get seriously mixed up. When one dies, it’s even more confusing!
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Robert (8): Some months, the IMCThreads can be helpful. They’re nice when a flood of newcomers comes in, or when the discussion is particularly random on the random threads (and other threads veer off-topic), but from what I’ve seen lately, the Chameleon thread hasn’t been much different than the random thread. The discussions never seem to morph much; the thread appears to be just a second random thread. I don’t really mind either way (since I’m not on here much anyhow), but the Chameleon thread doesn’t seem to be of any good use right now.
Beavo (20): PDQ Bach? He’s hilarious. I saw a performance of his music once where one person was holding a violin and doing all of the fingering (not really sure what that part’s called), and another person was kneeling under the violin and doing the bowing. It actually sounded relatively put-together! It must have required a lot of practice.
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57- Teh. I still think he’s the most gorgeous thing to walk this earth (other than Jim Sturgess, whom my love shall never die).
In the Clique, the horse Brownie changes genders at least 5 times. I have no idea what he/she is.
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Does anyone here know what colors to mix to make hot pink?
I want to eat a radish. Right now. For no reason at all.
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49- If you’ll remember, that’s the spell that didn’t work.
51- I always look at goofs and trivia.
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66–I suppose I shouldn’t bother mentioning that I haven’t the foggiest who Jim Sturgess is,then?
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If I can’t take my coffee break
My coffee break, my coffee break,
If I can’t take my coffee break
Something within me dies!
Lies down and something within me…
…Dies.
Hello, I’m back! Forgive me if I should know this, but what movie is that from? Is it one of the Hornblower movies (perhaps it’s Simpson) or is it something else?
Good bye, I have to babysit!
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40~ Me too. *sympathizes*
47~ James McAvoy? Where?! He’s kind of goofy cute, but cute the same. There are prettier specimens of male out there, but he’s not bad. 
He’s in A&E’s Lorna Doone for a few scenes too, he looks really young in that one.
RE: post 42/Elvish text
I’m really stupid. It had the translation on the music. *headdesk* It means “Darkness is falling, darkness has come” apparently. I htink that’s what I remember, I’m too lazy to get up and check.
In any case, it’s a nice song.
Choir practice as good tonight…lots of listening work, trying to get a nicer sound as a group which I usually actually enjoy, but since I’m still sniffling and my throat is really dry it was hard to hear what I was supposed to be singing and actually sing it. *sigh* Good stuff though. I really like some of the pieces we’re doing this time and it’s a fun group.
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In the movie The Seeker, the witch girl mentions something that the main character said earlier, but he didn’t actually say it! I believe the movie is based off a book series, in which case it could be they just cut something off that happened in the book, but if that’s the case, it is very poor editing!
In another movie, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, there is one scene where the main character stops a customer who is at the cash register. When she explains why, it looks like it’s a new scene!
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63- Ya think?
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Oh wow. I’m slow to read the writing on the wall. I’ve just looked up Monty Python on YouTube. I should add that I’m not able to download the videos in less than 2 hours and watch them all through……anyway, it’s hilarious. I’m going to watch more when it’s not 11PM. *sigh*
I’ll now have “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” stuck in my head.
Agh, I remember Scott and Ian singing that while we slid around in a total downpour in DC last April, that was hilarious. Of several hundred people we were the only ones (that I’m aware of) that took advantage of the fact that the bricks outside got really slippery when it rained…….wicked fun that was. Of course, the rest of the day inside with AC and having to sit still in the classes was a little tough since we were by that point drenched to the skin, but it was worth it.
Collected some odd looks too….”you must be together….?”
It was funny, since the other members of our straggling group of friends that banded together most of the time weren’t there for whatever reason when we were splashing around, so when we got back inside it was like “what were you doing?!?!?!” since we were dripping and squelching when we walked and grinning like total loons, if memory serves.
Good times…….
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SFTDP–in my last it should read “I’m now able to download the videos in less than 2 hours and able to watch them through”. My fingers aren’t following what my brain told them to. Bad fingers, bad, bad! *chastises*
Goodnghit</strike, Goodnigthi
GOODNIGHT! (Whew, got it that time! Stupid fingers………. )
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http://www.museblog.com is no longer valid.
Obviously musefanpage.com still works.
Domain name renewal time?
I agree with Purple Panda- the IMCT is not needed right now.
If there’s another influx of newbies though, it would be used.
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(76) According to my registrar and to whois.net, I still own the domain name museblog.com. I haven’t used it, though, so you won’t see anything if you try to go there.
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76-77–Safari can’t open the page “http://www.museblog.com/†because it can’t find the server “www.museblog.comâ€.
What is (was) supposed to be there/have been there?
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(78) Nothing is there. If you try to buy the domain name, though, you’ll find that it’s taken.
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I thought it was supposed to redirect here,
to make it easier for neophytes to find the blog.
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70- How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying! (With Matthew Broderick, at least the Broadway Version!)
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(80) Vendaval: I’ve thought about doing that but always refrained because I assumed it would cost more, you know, money. But my host company tells me it doesn’t, so I’ve set up the alias as you suggested. Thanks! Web-wandering neophytes will thank you, too.
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It works !
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Happy Square Root Day!
The magnifying glass video is refreshing on its own now, with slight pauses.
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84- I like the number nine. Does anybody else see it as red?
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Hooray! My high school’s band is going to Orlando in less than three weeks!!!!!!!!
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Men in black 2 error: When Frank is singing “I will survive,” at one point he says “I shoulda changed that stupid lock.” But the actual lyrics are, “I should have changed my stupid lock.”
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I’m sick, so I have to miss school today grr. There is this show called Grossology, which is SUPPOSED to be educational, but what they DO get right I already know! I only watch iot to critisize it when it gets stuff wrong or has inconsistencies. Like one episode about slime mold, Ty catches slime mold in a green trash can, but when he opens it again it’s empty!
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81 – I love that musical! My favorite musical is Wicked, but that’s a good one too. Actually, the only musicals I’ve seen that I don’t love are My Fair Lady and The King and I.
86 – Nice! We were just there.
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35- if you mean the very end, they saved that part for the beginning of the sequel, so the ratings wouldn’t go down.
49- it isn’t the only spell- wingardium leviosa, alohamora, etc. (forgive my spelling.)
58- DO NOT GET ME STARTED. (that would be in italics if i knew how. it’s not even like i’m obsessed with the book, but they probably spent all their time and money on the brisinger explosion.) did he really not read it?
65- it’s basically called what you said- fingering.
72- it was based of the series THE DARK IS RISING (sorry, like i said, no italics.) and will stanton is 11 years oldin the book.
84- happy square root day to you two!
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race to witch Mountain- in the original movie, (which is great) called ESCAPE to witch mountain, they both have the power of telekinesis, but channel them differently.
sorry, 90s post about 84 has a typo. i meant too, not two.
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60- I love you for that, Kokonilly. By the way, who noticed that in the beginning of the Return of the King movie, when Eowyn is standing on a balcony, the flags are flying and the fire is going BACKWARDS. They must have done a helicopter shot of it, and thought it would look better if they were doing it the other way.
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In honor of IMADSAD, I’m going to repost all my classic Interviews With Evil Aliens and maybe have some new ones, too, if I can think of some subjects. Suggestions are welcome.
INTERVIEW WITH A SKRULL
Kai: Hello everybody, and welcome to Interviews With Evil Aliens! Today I’m talking to one of those shape-shifting scourges of Marvel Comics- a Skrull warrior. Say hi to the viewers, guest.
Skrull: Hello humans, who I will soon enslave.
Kai: Right then, my first question is- is that green humanoid form you’re in now what you guys really look like?
Skrull: Yes, when we are not impersonating you inferior races, we look like this. Why do you ask?
Kai: Because those forms look awfully similar to human bodies, which, as you probably know, is the result of many chance mutations and evolutionary accidents. Is your homeworld very like Earth?
Skrull: No, it’s in the Andromeda Galaxy and very different.
Kai: Then the odds that you all would look so very much like humans- and yet are reptilians- are almost infinitesimal.
-Silence-
Skrull: Well, don’t your experts say that if your dinosaurs had not gone extinct they would have been roughly humanoid looking, like the Dinosauroid hypothetical model?
Kai: Experts now agree that the Dinosauroid model only appears human because people like it when stuff looks like them and the guys who made it didn’t really do enough thinking. If dinosaurs had evolved, paleontologists say that they would have looked… pretty much like dinosaurs!
-Silence-
Kai: Any response?
Skrull: I will conquer this planet!
-Presses button to teleport Skrull safely elsewhere-
Kai: Typical fictional alien. Withers when exposed to hard facts. Tune in next time when I’ll interview a Decepticon!
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89- Disna insult th’ kin’ an’ I! I was in tha’ muse-i-ckal!
Crivens! I got an attack o’ th’ feegle language!
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Hi! Was NOT Beavo an Alter-Ego or something?
What does mom not understand about “I WILL NOT DISCUSS RELIGION WITH YOU.” Am I saying something wrong? Am I telling her she should persist in trying to tell me I know nothing? Is there an accidental message saying “keep on yacking?”? This woman is insane. Somebody shut her up.
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Through a convoluted and long series of events, I received a 7 out of 10 on my quiz. How I wish my mom put less pressure on me… >.<
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85-I SEE IT!!! I think of 46 as purple. Can’t you totally see it!!!!???
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91 – That was a great movie. I saw it when I was about nine, at which time I was going through a major “I Want Superpowers” phase (well, more like an “I Have Superpowers” phase, actually) and it really captured my imagination. I’ll probably go see the new movie when it comes out. It has the actor and actress from the original movie in it, which will be cool. I’m going to look for a copy of the novel as well.
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Sorry for the recent change in topic. I’m reverting it back to the discussion we already had about a certain fanfic.
Oh my satan. I just read my immortal, which is honestly the funniest thing i’ve seen, ever. Come on! How can you not like a hp fanfic that starts off every chapter by blasting the “preps” who are flaming and ends up with the protagonist having sex with a random hp character.
Oh. And thanks for reccomending it. it was f-ng hilarious
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90- The Seeker = The Dark is Rising? Well, at least they had the decency not to try to pass it off as the same thing. (I’ve never seen The Seeker.)
I just finished 1984 and now I feel vaguely unsettled. Not even about the book, just in general. Sort of like something is not quite right with the world. I hate it when that happens. It severely impairs my ability to function.
-dies-
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100- I feel like that all the time… this nagging sense that there’s something fundamentally wrong with the universe but I lack the intelligence/wisdom/experience to put my finger on it. It’s highly frustrating.
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ok……one question: On the exploratory essay based on the “celebrity”‘s website we’re writing about for our next paper in English, (JKR, who else? duh.) my teacher commented, next to “Joanne Kathleen Rowling,” “Didn’t know that was her name!”
Is it just me, with my over-the-top knowledge and obsession with all things Potter that thinks this is sad and depressing and disturbing (she is and English teacher), or am I osrta overreacting, or whatever? Is it totally normal for somebody, even a bloody eng teacher, not to have a clue what JK in JKR stands for???????????
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102- Well, she chose to put her name as J.K. on the books.
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103–Yeah, I know….That was because she was told that nobody (that is, no male kid) would want to read a book by a female, so she should use initials. So, since she didn’t have a middle name, she used her grandma’s middle name, and her own first name, and……yeah. I guess just since this is an enlgish teacher, I expect her to know more than I would an average person off the street…..
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Luna: If your teacher is a professor of English literature, she probably hasn’t had time to read the Harry Potter books — especially if they lie outside her academic specialty. You’ll probably find she knows a lot about Shakespeare or Henry James or Virginia Woolf or others of those lesser authors.
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105–Nah, it’s just a basic english course, not literature. Of course, she could still be the typical “average” person who, even if they’ve read the books, don’t know anything extra……and teaching a “basic” college level intro (not introductory as in spelling, grammar, etc, but like intro composition) english, doesn’t necessarily mean you know anything more about any specific given author than anyone else, I suppose…..
I think I’ll take my insane ramblings elsewhere, and maybe write the 1 pg paper that is due (a short discussion of the website of my “celebrity” of choice) on Friday…….
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Luna (106) Yeah, I’m not surprised your teacher didn’t know what the J and K stand for. I didn’t know what the K stands for until you just said, and I’ve read all of the Harry Potter books, most of them more than once.
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93- Oh, I remember those! They were great.
So um. It’s a freakout week! Band concert yesterday but I have to play a solo for judges on saturday eeeeeek and a playing test tomorrow and a history test death on friday.
x_x
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100- i could be wrong, but i’m pretty sure. hold on- *googles* yep, it is.
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btw, rosanne spector- i’ve always wondered if that’s your real name, or if you made it sound like rose inspector on purpose.
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most certainly NOT SudoRandom (110),
Rosanne Spector is my real name, given to me by my parents. I do like inspecting roses, though.
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111- well,, its a pretty cool name, either way.
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107–*waves* Hey, Rosanne! I’ve not seen you around the ‘blog for awhile……
I guess that, being a rabid Potter fan, and thus knowing entirely too much about all things Potter, I have reached the point where I forget that other people are sane and normal and do not have random HP factoids shoved in their heads…..And most of what I consider to be common knowledge about HP is probably more obscure than I realize….
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Hello, Rosanne! *waves*
It’s okay, Luna. I also assumed everybody knew the ‘J.K. = Joanne Kathleen’ bit of info. You’re not alone.
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Speaking of author-names, my English teacher called L.M. Montgomery a “he” on a paper she handed back to me.
I didn’t say anything… (Though to tell the truth I didn’t know what the “JK” stood for until now, so I shouldn’t talk.)
My chorus teacher is operating under the belief that Les Miserables is set during the French Revolution, while my global teacher confused Jane Grey with Catherine Parr(<– that I did correct, very politely).
Wow, random thread picture!
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I knew her name was Joanne, I probably wouldn’t have know that the K stands for Kathleen. *shrugs* It’s weird that an English teach wouldn’t know, but seeing all the controversy about the HP books she might not have been a fan or even have read them, sad as that is.
Ugh, homework.
I have very little to say.
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116–I can’t say for sure if she’s read them, but I don’t think she would fall into the anti Potter category. I mean, our first paper was on Stephen King, and we were supposed to write a letter to a hypothetical group of people informing them why, exactly, a specific story of King’s should not be banned……and she seemed quite enthusiastic and thrilled with King, and seemed to feel that the banning of books was rather dumb, although she did not actually use those words…..
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117~ I don’t know then. I guess you could assume it’s because the initials JK are so universally recognized now that people don’t even stop to consider that they stand for her real name.
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117- That sounds like a fun first paper…
Harry Potter: Okay, so Brendan and I and a couple of other friends started a school fiction club a few months ago. It meets at school, typing on school computers. Today, C, (one of the founders) writes (at school, on a school computer) and incredibly inappropriate piece of Harry Potter fanfic smut! (Harry/McGonagall in a bloody miniskirt) On a bloody school computer! And then, in walks the science teacher. Thank goodness we’ve all done a lot of improv, or we would’ve been severely reprimanded…
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118–You know, that’s probably exactly the case. Nobody bothers to think, hey, I wonder what JK stands for?
119–well, there’s nothing wrong per se with HP fanfic smut……But on a school computer? And Harry/McGongagall??????? That’s just a….bizarre pairing, don’t wanna think about that. If a person is going to put Harry with a teacher, they should at least choose a more fitting individual, like, (I can’t believe I”m saying this), Snape. At least he’s hot. His on screen incarnation (Alan Rickman) is, anyway….
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Fanfic is so ridiculous. I’d much rather create my own characters and settings, partly because it’s like cheating and partly because I view most book characters as people with whom I am personally acquainted, or more accurately, the kind of person I know, but who doesn’t seem to know or notice me, and if I wrote a story about them that would just be weird.
We had auditions, or the monologue part of auditions, today. I did a piece from Saint Joan and another one from Twelfth Night. I think I did pretty well, though of course the directors were shamelessly inscrutable and took an obvious joy in making the actors nervous (it didn’t really succeed with me, because I was too focused on remembering all my lines and blocking and the emotions I wanted to put in to pay any attention to the directors at all) so I really have no idea how I did. I really want to get into Impromptu, but there’s only a slim chance really. There are fourteen girls in the class, and Impromptu only has two girls, so that’s 1:7. Which isn’t that bad, I guess, and I did put Impromptu as the play I would most like to get into, so if the directors pay any attention to the actor’s preference, my chances go up. -hopes-
What’s awful is I won’t know for at least a week, because we have readings on Friday, and then on Monday the directors will do casting, and if we’re lucky they’ll make up their minds and tell us on Wednesday, but more likely they won’t figure out until Wednesday and so we won’t know until next Friday, only we don’t have school then so we really won’t know until next Monday. -dashes head against the wall-
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SFTDP……
119–Yeah, for a paper, and for a first paper, it really was pretty decent. I mean, I won’t say I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t like pound-my-head-against-a-wall horrible or anything. It was pleasant, or as pleasant as an English assignment could possibly be (I don’t like writing, even though I”m not bad at it).
So, I learned something today! No, not in school, silly bloggers. I taught myself to take screenshots on my computer! I decided it would be cool to supplement my “speech” Friday on JKR’s website with some screenshots of her site, and……wa-la! I taught myself how! *is pleased*
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120~ Of course Alan Rickman is lovely. This has been said many times before on the blog.
I’m having a hard time imagining Harry & Snape together in……erm…..that way. Actually, I’d rather not imagine it at all.
121~ Good luck!
I wish I could be in plays. *sigh*
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123- That is one advantage public school offers: theater at very little inconvenience. Of course they want you to pay, but no one ever does except the newcomers or the non-regulars or some of those rare theater kids that actually have money.
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124~ There are some local homeschool “drama clubs” but I’m not terribly impressed by the types of plays they put on. Besides the fact that I’m on their black list because some of them decided my family wasn’t Christian enough for them.
There’s the community college, but I’m not even sure how much they do……they don’t have very many interesting classes.
All the other groups (that I know of) are really good, and I have NO acting experience whatsoever. Just dreaming and having a sort of natural flair for the over the top, *ahem* dramatic.
Oh! I did have something to say! I can’t wait until Saturday, because there’s a group that does contra dancing! Mom and I (and we might be able to convince dad) are going to go, so that should be lots of fun. They meet the first Saturday of the month to dance, how glorious!
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(125) I might go to a contradance on Saturday, too. Has your dad been before? I bet he’d enjoy it.
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I can’t go to the contradance this Saturday because of the show. And I didn’t go last month because I wasn’t feeling up to it and my mother didn’t want to drive me and I couldn’t get a ride and all that. Next month…
The 1812 Overture is actually really boring.
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126~ We’ve never been to this group before. It’s a few towns over, in WV and some friends from Choir told us about it at rehearsal on Monday.
Dad might go if we wheedle, bribe and pester enough. I think he’d have a great time, unfortunately he might not share my opinion.
His dancing is sort of like how he takes pictures; one moment he’ll have a big huge beautiful grin and as soon as you point a camera at him he looks like he’s in pain. When he’s off the dance floor he’s relatively normal at moving around, as soon as he gets on it he get’s all awkward and moves in little jerks. *sigh*
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Thanks, SudoRandom (112)
Hi Kokonilly and Luna!
I know, I’m quiet lately. My other job (the one that offers a paycheck) has been keeping me too busy.
Count me in as another James McAvoy fan, though! I loved him in Becoming Jane.
Another thing that’s been taking up my time: TWILIGHT addiction. I’m 50 pages from the end of the last book in the series. Must go back to reading now.
For anyone who’s read it though, I thought this comment from one of my friends was funny/perfect: Wouldn’t Jason Alexander (George from Seinfeld) be a perfect J. Jenks?
OK, back to the booooook.
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129–Twilight…….addiction? Does not compute. Our GAPA has been taken over by the horror that is twilight. *shudder* Poor Rosanne.
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Mmmmmm. We’re having the most lovely weather. And for someone who is still a bit disappointed in not having gotten a proper winter, I am greatly enjoying it. According to my weather widget, it is 69 degrees out. Summer weather. Not according to the locals, but to me it is summer weather.
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Its warm here too, feels like spring. I didn’t check the thermometer, but it’s probably in the 50s, maybe low 60s, I don’t know.
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Well, the weather decided it was spring around February 25th, and we just had a rainstorm that started Monday and just ended this morning! (It’s Thursday)
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Just a heads up: my computer is having issues (it needs a psychaiatryst (sp???)) and I won’t be posting until it’s better.
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what is contra dancing?
so many of the girls (and a coupla boys) are obsessed with twilight, which i think is sort of hypocritical because the recesses when they aren’t reading one of the books for the 62936104528809122000th time or talking about jasper or edward and bella (SEE! see how much i know just from listening to them?), they’re saying that all the boys ever do is play soccer! (not so much anymore, but it just blew over.)
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what is contra dancing?
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129-I was about to pie you, but now I don’t think you deserve it. 
Twilight addictions are not acceptable. Leave. You’re not welcome anymore. Never darken our homepage again!
Just kidding. But you may want to see someone about your addiction to bad literature.
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I’m wondering about contradancing as well.
Also, re: Twilight: It’s good, but not as good as it is popular. Kind of like the Jonas brothers, only less extreme, since it’s a better series than they are singers.
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Twilight is an addiction, one that runs you high on romance and hope, but then leaves you muttering in the gutter, penniless and despairing.
125- Not Christian enough? Yuck. You wouldn’t want to be friends with them anyway.
Luna: Harry Potter isn’t a showcase of great English writing. It’s also a children’s book. I knew Joanne, but didn’t really care what the rest of her name was.
What Is Contra Dance? Google has some good answers.
My, I am being dire today.
W00t! I’m now part of an internet design mentor program with an awesome company! More details would be revealing, but it could be fantastic. The biggest problem is that the webcasts are when I’m in school.
I won’t be around much. Lots happening.
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SFTDP, but my SciOly coach put me on the States team! I’m going to States! I’ll have all new events, but I’m totally psyched.
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139–No, I know that……I didn’t think I said that it was a “showcase of great English writing.” But maybe I implied it, I dunno…… It is, however,a very well known and popular series, not just of children (though, yes, technically it’s a children’s book, although, really, it is so much more), but of adults as well.
Congratulations on the mentor program!
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121- I’ve done some fanfiction, but it’s usually mostly self-contained, featuring a character I’ve created who occasionally bumps into the main characters.
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*googles contra dancing*
*click*
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*copy*
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Contra Dancing is a form of American folk dance in which the dancers form a set of two parallel lines which run the length of the hall. Each dance consists of a sequence of moves that ends with couples having progressed one position up or down the set. As the sequence is repeated, a couple will eventually dance with every other couple in the set. Contra Dancing was all the rage in 1800.
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Hello, I’m back! I was very busy last week and the week before that, so yeah. Luckily, I have a day off tomorrow, so I can sleep in and regain all the rest I’ve lost the past few weeks.
Mostly I’ve been busy with All-City/District orchestra. It was so time consuming. Also, I had a history project that I had to stay up till midnight twice to finish on time.
I have some really funny things to post. My friend and I wrote them last year while we were doing a Great Expectations project. Here are some; I’ll post the rest later.
Me
Friend
Why are they called oatmeal squares? They have no oatmeal?
Never mind, I think they’re called oat squares.
The interviewer asks this question because it is in direct correlation to the assignment as it was written by the illustrious Mrs. M—–. Fish swim. And so do people, but only sometimes. Fish swim all the time. But people do not. Neither do dogs or cats or baseball bats. One fish, two fish, red fish, VALLHALLA! Praise be to God in the highest. Yay! A—–, we are thinking of you when we write this, and I feel tired even though it’s only 8:20 pm!!
It also foreshadows an ending to the story that the brilliant, yet fairly clever and naïve Dickens penned by his own gnarled, blackened stub of a pen. It could have possibly been a whittled down pencil too. This is again, for A—–’s benefit.
Impoopent, it’s a new word. Thank you for your time, folks.
Again, more later! They get a lot more funny.
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oh. thanks, SudoRandom. i think i get it…?
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144- i like the middle one.
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Was the acronym for the name of this month “IMADSAD” on purpous? as in I MAD/SAD because the moviemakers got the details WRONG?
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the best song ever is the safety dance by men without hats.
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140- What’s SciOly? I take it it’s awesome, but what is it?
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149- I’m guessing it stands for Science Olympics.
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149/150 – Close, it’s Science Olympiad.
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HELLO!
MuseBlog withdrawal is OVER! I’m not crabby anymore! *huggles*
First off, the usual sentence: Flam pic, Lady B!
Next, topic: In my reading packet, we have to find the word cleats on page 34. However, it is not there. (by the way, we’re reading The Cay. The guy who reads it out loud- his Jamaican accent! *dies laughing*)
I’m off to check other threads!
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139) *wishes for details*
but congrats, that sounds awesome!
I think a lot of people will be around less this time of year, which is no fun…myself included actually
argh
you know what is ridiculous? AP tests are going to cost be in total over $250, and next year about $430. It saves money long term though but man that is a lot of money.
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153–Just wait ’til you start college. It costs tens of thousands of dollars………Very annoying.
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139~ Yes, not Christian enough because we refused to gossip.
I say hi when I see them, but that’s about it.
I’m tired…
Today mom was at her cello lesson, so I got to hold down the fort…..meaning I meandered around and was less efficient at getting work done than usual. Oops. *berates self*
It got up to 60 degrees (F) today, and I’m ready for spring! I ended up wearing a tank top under a sweatshirt, and man, I’m looking forward to not having long sleeves dragging in everything.
You know how towards the end of summer you start wishing you could wear more layers of clothes without roasting to death? Well, when spring starts making the first tantalizing appearances of coming back I start wishing I could wear short sleeves again and quit the layers.
Sad, I know.
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midnight fiddler- where i live, spring is mean. it shows signs of itself, and you get all excited, and just when it’s getting nice and all the snow is starting to melt, WE HAVE A SNOWSTORM!!!
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156~ I know, we’ve had warm days and then BAM! back to cold. This is a warm spot………probably in a few weeks we’ll have snow and 10 degree weather again. *sigh* But I can enjoy this while it lasts I guess.
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140 – YAY! What state, if you don’t mind me asking?
I’m going to state as well, but not as a competitor. Just to eat pie and have fun (state is on PI DAY!!!).
NO SCHOOL TODAY!
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158 – North Carolina.
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159 – Well, I’m from Minnesota. AUGUSTA OR BUST(A)!
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129- YEAS! FINALLY! Someone on this website who doesn’t shame my addiction! (And a GAPA, at that!!!)
I’m on the basketball team!
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Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. MuseBlog, and all the ships in space.
(I’m thinking of making a variation on that my new catchphrase.)
I have so much homework over the weekend that I had to start tonight. Five out of seven chapters is a good start, isn’t it?
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I just finished reading Brisingr and the author uses the word neophyte on the page titled “The Origin of Names”!
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Me
Friend
Estella was very important to this novel. Why? Because I say so. Do not make me angry. You will not like me when I am angry.
Kyra says her cheeks hurt from smiling so much. She defends herself, in her own words with “It’s true!â€
As you might be able to tell, I am fairly tired, none of my cheeks hurt though.
“Oh they will!†says Kyra ominously.
I just got back from an amazing cello lesson! I played more Brahms. 
*drools* Brahms…
163- I noticed that when I read it, too. I chuckled.
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153- Details; don’t know how much is allowable.
Mozilla Labs is the R&D branch of Mozilla, the company that makes wonderful things like Firefox. They had a design contest, in which users were invited to submit mockups of the future of the internet/browser. This one was for Spring, but there’ll be more, it appears.
…the official name is the Concept Series Open Innovation Program.
My mockup was just a paragraph or two and a sketch.
161- You’re the victim, I know you’re powerless to stop it.
So how’s the basketball team? I’ve never really liked basketball or hockey which I am playing in gym right now, but all of the girls proclaim they love hockey because it’s not dangerous. On the boy’s side of the gym, the brawl involving aluminum sticks for a small rubber ball is dangerous. So I wonder, is basketball fun if not played aggressively?
Ooff, ramble.
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I got my “obey gravity” shirt from ThinkGeek today. Me likes muchly and shall wear tomorrow. That was random.
The stinkbugs (also called shield bugs) are driving me nuts. I vacuumed probably near a hundred in my room and every time I turned around there were more. It’s now back to it’s usual state-they’re flying around and banging into the lights and windows and getting tangled in my hair. Ew, I hate those things.
Does anyone else have this problem? They’re terrible!
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Has anyone seen Watchmen yet??? I have been trying for the last 3 weeks to get my hands on the comic so I can read it all the way through before I go see it… seriously it’s been out of the library for way longer than it was supposed to, there’s like 3 people in line for it before me, I can’t get a ride to the bookstore, and everyone I know who has a copy has lent it to someone else –_– But apparently the movie is *exactly* like the book except for the ending. Can’t wait till I can see it!
Several people I know went to see it at midnight in IMAX… *envy*
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(lol, I love comic books/movies of them… and power tools… I am so feminine… XD)
But oh my goodness it was actually warm today and maybe this time it won’t be warm for two days while we’re in school then snow on us, I even got mom to ask dad to bring me my tennis stuff after school and went out and played with a bunch of people, man I missed tennis so badly.
Also EEEEEEEEK tomorrow is Solo&Ensamble nervous nervous nervous :grimace: If that is not a smily, it should be. I am torn between re-recording myself playing and not doing so… effort… eargh. Is it just me or is everything just getting so completely unbearable?
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Is it me or is moderation slow? (Of course, now that I say this everything will probably be moderated…I guess that’s just the way it goes.)
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(168) Impeccable timing. Well, it’s Friday night, perhaps other GAPAs are out frolicking, but I just got home from a museum conference in South Carolina. Naturally, I checked the blog before I finished unpacking my car.
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167- I’m going tomorrow night! with a bunch of friends to see it, but I haven’t read the book. I will, once this wave of adoration has passed, but I’m sure I’ll know if even the dialog changes. I’ve got some pretty rabid friends. Isn’t the ending the most important, genre shattering part of the whole book? I know a bit of the plot.
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Museum conference! What happens at those? I’m very interested. I’ve been trying to fid a job I can tell my guidance counselor about when he asks, and museums seem like they are still the places I want to go. Or cultural institutions; interning at Eyebeam labs is a goal for next summer.
History+Art+Technology=?
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169~ I figured something like that would happen. You’ve just got to stop reading my telepathic mind signals, Rebecca! It’s handy, but somewhat disconcerting……….
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SFTDP
But I forgot to add, I hope the conference went well, and it does sound interesting. More details? Or perhaps we should give you sometime to unpack your car…..
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169–How dare the GAPAs have a life. If I don’t have one, neither should they!
*sigh* I really don’t have a life.
and I get to lose an hour of sleep this weekend. or else lose an hour of studying. Unfortunately, I will probably opt for the latter, despite the fact that I need to be studying my butt off for tests next week. I hate daylight savings time.
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(174) Don’t worry, Luna, we aren’t greedy, we only have part-time lives.
(173) Well, considering I finished unpacking from my Virginia/Maryland trip (in January) just in time to drive to South Carolina this week, I’m not too worried about unpacking. But I AM hungry, so I’ll get back to you.
I will say this much, Vendaval. I think the museum world is a very Muserly place to be. Many of the people in this business remind me so much of MuseBloggers as you might be some years hence. As I wrote once before, attending the conference is kind of like living inside the Random Thread.
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175~ By all means, do get something to eat!
The Parental Units tell me to say hi from them. *waves*
I’m tired. I didn’t get to practice today because we went swimming and when we got home I did schoolwork. Then had to come in for dinner which wasn’t made yet and got on the computer, but the soup took longer than I had been thinking. *sigh* so I decided to not bother changing gears again, since by then I wouldn’t have gotten enough time anyway, besides the fact that I’m nearly falling asleep.
I’m looking forward to tomorrow though! Dancing should be fun, I hope muffy and her brother can come along.
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Unpacking and eating has always been a great catharsis (not to be confused with cathassus, of course), coming home to familiar territory. Maybe I worry too much while traveling.
living inside the Random Thread…
I’m eagerly awaiting possible more details too
I just learned how to extend Google use! Search inside only one site:
[ keyword site:musefanpage.com ]
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177~ Hmm, unpacking for me is often a somewhat sad time, like when we come home after an event and I’m sorry it had to end so soon. However, I also cement memories in my head while unpacking (“I wore this when…”, “so and so gave me this….” “while walking with what’s his name I found this….”), so that’s always a nice thing. However, I’m usually pretty tired when the unloading of the car happens, so all I want to do at that point is sleep.
Speaking of which, I suppose I shall go now. I got very little done today, and I’m tired. G’night!
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Twilight does not deserve an addiction.
I have absolutely no life.
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177–oooh, cool. there are 641 hits for “Luna” on musefanpage. Hehe, this is too much fun, and too tempting to use to procrastinate horribly…..
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(177) Oh, very cool search tip! I’ve already put it to good use.
(171, 173, &c.) So, let’s see. The conference was the annual meeting of the North Carolina Museums Council, which this year we combined with our South Carolina counterpart. We have four sections: science, history, art, and children’s. (Does this have a familiar ring?) Fortunately, all the sessions are open to everyone.
Several presentations run concurrently, each lasting about 90 minutes. This year’s theme was Beyond Borders: Collaborations in the Carolinas. Here’s a sampling from this year’s schedule to give you an idea of the range of topics:
~Conservation in the Real World Workshop
~The Challenges of Interpreting Slavery
~Innovative Integration: Taking Your Museum & Digital Collections to the Classroom
~Soot is a Four-Letter Word: Fire and its Impact on Your Collections and Your Life
~The History of NC & SC Pottery and Ceramic Arts
~Lighting Theory and Practice for Museums and Historic Structures
~The African American Artist in the 19th Century
~How to Handle the Mishandling of Your Artifact Collection
~Bridging the Gap Between Nature and History
The program also included outings to various museums in the area. I love getting ideas from what others are doing and finding out about places, people, and history I never knew existed.
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177- I don’t get the Google thing… Can you explain it please? Sorry, maybe I’m just having a moment.
167- My mom won’t let me watch Watchmen because it’s rated R. But my family and I just went to see Slumdog Millionaire and that’s rated R. Oh well.
181- That sounds so cool! I’m so jea– envious. Museums are amazing places.
I woke up this morning because of a stomachache at seven and now I know I’m not going to be able to do anything later in the day because I’ll be falling asleep. I need to do this humongous book full of questions for science by spring break, but, in all fairness, the teacher gave us the assignment in the beginning of the year. So I figure I’ll sit inside all day and do that, and then I’ll get mad because it’s really pretty and warm outside.
Have a nice Saturday everyone!
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161- Do not worry. We will not think more of you, given the reaction to the GAPA. Actually, I’ve never read Twilight, but my sister, who saw the movie, detested it. I’m going to have to read it eventually, and then I can tell you whether I like it.
Up in the fifties- When we get spring, it’s spring, I’m happy to say. I claim that since my mountain laurel is almost finished blooming, it’s definitely spring. Not spring until it blooms, in my opinion. But then, earlier spring comes with the side unhappiness of no snow. 
By the way, OEAD, under the ‘Who’s here’ list, I’m still listed as ‘Starfire’ even though I switched to Errata some time ago. Could you possibly fix that? Beware, I could Pie you if you don’t. 
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183- well, a bunch of huge twilight addicts from my school said the movie wasn’t so great.
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Rest in Peace, Dobby. Poor Dobby.
HERE LIES DOBBY, A FREE ELF
“Thank you so much, Dobby, for rescuing me from that cellar. It’s so unfair that you had to die when you were so good and brave. I’ll always remember what you did for us. I hope you’re happy now.”
~Luna Lovegood
*sniffle* We love you, Dobby!!!!!!!
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WE SHALL MISS YOU DOBBY!!!!
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RIP, Dobby. We think of you every day will all miss you!
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Poor Dobby. . . sniffle . . . he had a good life.
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Er…I’m kind of sorry to spoil the moment, but couldn’t that kind of be considered a spoiler?
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189–I suppose, but……if people haven’t read it yet, can they really expect one to remain silent about everything that happens for all eternity?
I mean, that Darth Vader is Skywalker’s father is definitely a huge spoiler, but I’d heard that so long ago I don’t even remember the occasion, it was just something I knew, long before I ever watched any of the Star Wars movies. I mean, how long is a reasonable time after something comes out for people to be allowed to stop worrying about spoilers?
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Err . . . oops . . . um . . . Sorry!
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167- Noep, but I’m seeing Slumdog on Sunday. (I was going to go tonight, but my mom’s friend wants to go too; thereforfe I have to babysit )
185- You had to bring that up??? I’m having a bad day already…
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192–Sorry. But, yes, I did. It is the anniversary of his death, after all. According to mugglenet’s hp encyclopedia website…..
*hugs* I’m sorry you’re having a bad day!
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190 – That’s true, I suppose, but the 7th book was released less then two years ago. I guess it also depends on the audience – and I’m not sure what percentage of MuseBloggers have read Deathly Hallows. It’s just that I, personally, would err on the side of caution, as I had a friend inadvertently spoil parts of the 6th book before I had read it and it slightly lessened the experience because I knew what was coming.
It’s all a matter of opinion, though.
192 – Aww, I’m sorry. -hands choklit-
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165) ahh that’s so impressive! very cool…good luck with it, it seems like a really great opportunity. (and sorry for pestering out details )
181) That sounds so wonderful….I especially like “How to Handle the Mishandling of Your Artifact Collection”
My brother gave me the Watchmen comic to read over break, but it’s still in his bookshelf. I should read it. I think by the nature of the book it’s probably not made for a movie adaptation. Likely the movie is entertaining though, and I still like to see it.
Last night I finally saw The Reader. Still thinking about it.
I’m feeling strangely displaced! Maybe it’s my sleeping patterns that are off…hmmm
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193- Yeah, I know, but still…
194- *munch*
195- OOOO WAS IT GOOD??? I kind of want to see that but then again I kind of don’t… it looks very depressing… actually, since my parents are going out tonight I can watch either that or the Changeling after my brother goes to bed…
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181- Sounds like a great time!
182- My first post wasn’t very clear. To search for “cathassus” on musefanpage.com (that includes all of MuseBlog and GABOOMBA), use this:
[ cathassus site:musefanpage.com ]
Just that line, straight into Google.
195- No problem!
I hope I can get a copy of Watchmen sometime soon.
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poor dobby…
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What a lovely warm day!
I’ve done laundry, gone to a friend’s house to quilt (I don’t really like quilting that much, but it was fun to go visit), vaccumed a million stinkbugs, cleaned my fan, and next I’ll probably go practice. Whew, exciting day, no?
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gapas, did you zap my post? WHY???
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oh, never mind.
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So today I’ve done half my homework and four science experiments, covered the Kepler mission and run three miles. And it’s not even five PM yet. Yes, it’s a good day.
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Hey, everybody! Armada here, checking in from the Bahamas… I’m only gonna be on for, like, maybe fifteen minutes, so don’t exprct any responses and stuff from me, but… yeah. I’m here. Hey, Zinc&Rainbowstar, nice kokon pics! *mental picture of Zinc is totally demolished*
Yeah. Well, anyway, I’m just going to absorb as much Muserlyness as I can in the short time I’m online…
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Hello there, Armada! Encountered any pirates?
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204-Nope. Just a bunch of fish and lobster and stuff (hey, Armada spearfishes! Bet you didn’t know that), and a rather mad English guy who was mad at us because we were eating on resort grounds without permission was the closest we came. The pic-thing is really funny, by the way.
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203~ Hey Armada! I hope you’re having a great time, that sounds lovely. Great to see you back, it’ll be fun to hear about your whole trip later. Have some muserly pie! 
Okay, now I’ve gotta run. Fetch mom from the shop and maybe sneak in some practicing. Ugh, dropped the ball again.
Can’t wait to go dancing though!!
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SFTDP, but I’ve been looking around a little, and I am now seriouslt disturbed. WE HAVE A PIE SMILEY! GROUNDHOG HAS CAPITALIZED HER NAME AND DROPPED THE 22! HOW CAN THIS MUCH CHANGE IN TWO MONTHS???? Well, let’s go see what’s happened in BA:TNG…. *cautiousy proceeds*
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Sounds like you’re having lots of fun, Armada!
Spearfishing sounds interesting……Did you “catch” anything?
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203- ARMADA!! *pies* How’d you get to the Bahamas? Come back!
I have an orchestra concert tomorrow and I also have a solo! I’m SCARED! *runs around like Fred without his meds*
(If you don’t know who Fred is, look him up on YouTube. He’s hilarious.)
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Hey Armada! Sounds like fun! Have a nice time!
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207- Not a pie smiley. Two pie smilies. 
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208-Yeah. A bunch of fish, and almost a lobster once, but the spear was just a little too short. The fish were yummy, though.
209-What, you haven’t noticed until now that I’m gone? Check out the first January random thread. I’ll be back (for good, or at least until next December or January) in April.
What’s all the other stuff in your name? To do with the Mary Sue RPG thread, or what? Oh, and what’s the plot in BA:TNG right now? I can’t really look through three or so threads right now… Who else’s joined (BA, and the whole blog) since I left? How’s electros? Has anyone else who knows me joined? (These are just general questions for anyone, not for Aggie in particular)
Good luck with the concert, Aggie, anyway! *pies* (I don’t know how to make the pie smiley, remember)
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SFTDP. 210-*waves*
211-Oh. Wow. Awesome. What got sacrificed to make them, and how d’you do them? :pie: ?
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207–wait…..you’ve been gone from the ‘blog two months????? Wow. Where has time gone?
212–We seem to have had a decent sized upsurge in ‘phytes, recently. One of whom wants to remain a ‘phyte forever….. *cringe*
Glad the fish tasted good!
I dunno anything about BA:TNG, so can’t help you there……
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214-Yeah, I have been gone for two months. And only one month more and I’ll be BACK!!!!! *hooray*
Whoa. A ‘phyte forever…. *doesn’t bear thinking about* That’s… freaky….
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OH MY GOD!!!!
I ACTUALLY FOUND SOMETHING!!!!!!
I’m a guy but… Hannah Montana was just on. You know, the halloween episode with the evil cousin. Yeah, well at the end of it the neighbor steals a candy bowl. and when the two robby rays are laughing THE CANDY BOWL IS BACK ON THE TABLE!!!!!
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It’s : arrow: without the space. Like this. And the one that’s stationary is : !: Or, in proper form, I’m confuzzled now though. There was a Muse Blog before Pie Smileys? Wow. I just joined, so I don’t know much. *beams*
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213–The arrow smiley and the exclamation smiley got sacrificed. And they are made as those were:
: ! :
: arrow :
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I was browsing through xkcd and I found this comic: http: //xkcd. com/ 208/ .
It made me laugh, because I usually do the same thing. Does anybody else?
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219–Doesn’t everybody?
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Me
Friend
That makes five sentences. I said it! I said it again! I keep saying it! Why can’t I stop it?
As you can tell, we are quite proud of our valiant efforts…
At least Kyra can keep me on track.
Estella was very important in Great Expectations. She is the reason why Pip wants to become a gentleman. He obsesses over her constantly and is always thinking about what she would think of him in whatever situation he is currently involved heartily in. She is also involved in a fair amount of Pip’s childhood blunt trauma. She teases him constantly and he mentions that she makes him cry. He spends the majority of his life trying to measure up to her expectations of him. In reality, she has not expectations of him. This breaks his hat. It was a very nice top hat that made him look suspiciously like the renowned Willy of the Wonkash
Yeah, I say more things later.
I was doing health online for a while. I hate health online. So confusing and stupid. Last year’s health online was so much better.
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219, Ohhh, yess.
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So it isn’t just me, then?
Me: “I can bounce light off my watch face and move it around!”
In my head…
Bad guy is holding up a store with me inside. I’m by the window.
“There’s a cop out there! I just have to get his attention!”
*Shines light in his eye*
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Hey Armada!
219- Yes. Today’s is great too, for anybody who knows higher level sciences.
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219- i do.
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Observation: I never seem to keep friendships with other kids alive. All my good, long-term friends are adults. This is faintly depressing so I think I’ll stop thinking about it.
Another observation: It is extremely wet outside. Also my feet are cold.
3rd observation: I will do anything to put off working on my essay, including cleaning the house, reading picture books, reading books with Absolutely No Pictures Anywhere (aka Pickwick Papers, which is very good by the way), thinking about books that I intend to read when I am done with Pickwick Papers (aka Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), and rambling on about nothing on MuseBlog.
4th (and last penultimate) observation: The furnace consists of a fire. I went down to the basement and noticed the orange glow and the roaring sound coming from inside the furnace. I was unreasonably surprised (I already knew that furnaces had fires inside them) and reasonably frightened (it’s totally untended…the entire house could burn down!).
Last observation: I forgot. Oh yes. Screnzy’s coming up. I’m not going to participate. I don’t think. Is anyone else doing it, though?
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I like CHEEZE! Hey, if you haven’t already, check out the *recoils in horror* thread.
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224–Hehe. Correlation does not imply causation! Ah, yes. They do tend to drill that into our poor little heads whenever mentioning stats or anything involving correlations, do they not?
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215- 3 months????? I couldn’t stay anywhere that far away…
216- NO. WAY.
219- Meh comp won’t let me access it; what’s it about?
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212- Of COURSE, I’ve noticed, I was just wondering how you could be that far away! Has it really been this long! *pies self*
In BA:TNG, Xeer is planning to release the mad human disease at the center of the earth. The Base was attacked, and we had to leave, so now we’re headed to Groundhog’s house. I haven’t seen electros in ages, and I don’t know really how many people have joined…having a hard time following the plot as it is.
Thanks for the luck wishes! Have a nice time, and hurry back!
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Good weekend MB! You’ll never guess what I had to do today! I had to go to school! On a SATURDAY!
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Hi Armada!
192 (MissSwann)- I’m sorry you’re having a bad day! *hugs*
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229 (MissSwann again)-It’s about how people often learn new skills and then imagine ways they could be applied to save the world and turn them into heroes.
Hmm… We’ll be losing an hour of sleep tonight. It totally feels like spring–it was in the 70º range for much of the day.
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232–I know. It sucks, doesn’t it? (the losing sleep thing) By the way, you should hop on over to the SoCal thread, as we have transformed the thread into planning yours and MissSwann’s wedding, and you need to pick your people. For instance, MissSwann ahs picked her bridesmaids and flowergirls (or perhaps more accurately, we picked ourselves and she accepted), and the flowergirl dresses have been decided upon, and……you should just get over there.
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232- I know! And now it’s raining…
Yup, it definetly feels like spring.
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SFTDP…..
Ok, I was just studying my history notes for my miserable test, and I was reading my lecture notes on the Salem witch trials and I noticed something “interesting” and was wondering if y’all think it is just coincidence or something mroe? Probably just coincidence and my tendencies to link everything to HP in some bizarre way, but……
“many local girls had their fortunes told by Tituba, a local African or Indian slave.
Accusations flew after some of these girls exhibited signs of possession.
These girls began accusing people, 142 in all.”
So……There were 142 staircases at Hogwarts (mentioned in the first book). Any connection, you think? Or has doing school all day combined with the positively nasty yogurt I am eating (strawberry–I thought it was raspberry–and it’s low fat, and nasty tasting) driven me absolutely mental and I am formulating connections where there are absolutely none? The latter, I imagine, but y’never know….
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MB Advertising time!
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235- Eh… I think it’s a bit unlikely. Rather obscure…
In other news, bought Watchmen! Wooo!!
I should really, really be studying for history, not reading this.
But it is yellow (…with blood…) and shiny and a new book
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237–Yeah. I figured it was rather unlikely…..
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I like what Vendaval said: “Twilight is an addiction, one that runs you high on romance and hope, but then leaves you muttering in the gutter, penniless and despairing.” Slightly over-dramatic since I’m not in the gutter, penniless or despairing. But the rest fits.
The last book in the series is my favorite. But now I’ve finished and the addiction has relented.
As for those of you who don’t like Twilight … I can see why. If you don’t get hooked, I can imagine it would seem very silly and boring.
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239–He did put it very poetically. I’ve not read the last book, and to be honest, I kinda doubt I ever will. I read the first three, and ever since I have wished I could go back and unread them, as I feel the hours spent were completely wasted. At the same time, I’m glad I read ’em, because now I can legitimately claim that the people who think they’re as awesome or better than HP are psycho (no offense, Rosanne, if you’re one of those……). I suppose it’s a bit like the Potter movies: Ya gotta watch ’em, so that you can back up your claim that they suck.
The sad thing, though? I’ve got this feeling that if I ever watched the Twilight movie, despite my intense dislike of the books, I would be sitting there yelling at the screen every time something differed….
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44 (ZXY)- You mean there IS such a thing as Un-Warriors informed-MuseBloggers?
I have invented a new type of point: coolpointz! For every time u use 
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How do you italicize words exactly? *discovers she spells words like italicize with a z and is turning into an American* *runs off thread in horror before anyone can tell her (probably something blatantly obvious, but whatever)*
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SFTDP
207 (Armada)- You’re back ALREADY?!? (You were the one who went to the Bahamas, right, and not bookgirl_me?)
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SFTTP
*reads 203* Oops.
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241–It’s ZVX, by the way. And yes, there most certainly is such a thing as “Un-Warriors informed Muse Bloggers.” I’ve never read warriors, and know nothing about it except that it involves clans of cats……I think.
*shudder* Please, no, do not let americanized spelling possess you! ’tis a most horrid affliction!
Anyway, to italicise:
<i>stuff that you want italicized</i>
Hope that helps!!!!!
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213) You’re back !
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197- Thanks!
192- That stinks. Have fun seeing it today though!!!
My family and I are finally concluding our search for a perfect dog. We found an uber cute fluffy lovable puppy at one shelter and a pit bull puppy at another shelter, but we have yet to see if they get along well with our current dog.
Today we’re going to see a greyhound rescue group to see if there’s any nice dogs there.
Hopefully yes, because I’m getting tired of driving all over every weekend to all of the shelters.
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241- What’s warriors?
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247- It’s a series about intelligent (non-anthropomorphic) cats, popular among many of the newer MuseBloggers. I personally enjoyed the first series, but thought it went downhill from there.
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247 – Warriors:
http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warriors_(novel_series)
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If you like anthropomorphic animals (Warriors), try Watership Down. It’s the book that started the Great Pie War.
Beedle the Bard (Bella): the Watchmen movie was good, but very violent. I don’t think you’d enjoy it because while the story was great, the director really likes bodies hitting things. And other stuff.
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rosanne- i am sure that the books are perfectly okay, i just am annoyed with the constant obsession at my school.
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239- It left me feeling elated and happy, if you ask me. I mean, Jacob got Ness, Bella got Edward, no one died, the Volturi are happy, and they have eternity to be all lovey-dovey and happy.
240- Like the secretary in the scene where Edward is trying to change his bio time; she’s supposed to be wearing a PURPLE shirt, but in the movie it’s YELLOW.
248- I know, right?
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253–Randomosity 101
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WWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! I MISS THE ALTER EGO THREAD! I CAN’T COPE WITHOUT IT! GAPAS, THIS IS FOR YOU!
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25–Uh, the alter ego thread is still quite existent. The GAPAs merely closed this year’s first one (due to the large number of posts) and opened a second one: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1662
The GAPAs very rarely close threads without creating a sequel thread.
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I can imagine what’s-her-name thinking up the idea for the Twilight series. It’s 3 in the morning and she’s had a few glasses of wine, if you catch my drift. Sitting around with a few friends, she slurs, “Okay, you guys. I-I’ve got an awesome idea. Okay, so this girl, um, likes this guy, but then he’s a vampire! Isn’t that *hic* awesome?”
Apparently Stephen King said, and I quote, “Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn.” I must say I rather agree with him.
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239- You liked the last book best, really? That was my least favourite.
240- I think it would be more akin to “smashing the television set” than “yelling.” About 76.8 percent of the movie is different from the book, or so I gathered form the half I watched of a pirated version on a bus ride to Culver Military Academy with my hockey team a few months ago. Apparently it got worse from there.
I think all the names are the same at least?
252 (re 239)- Odd, those are some of the exact reasons the last book utterly disgusted me.
To save this post form being entirely Twilight-occupied, here is an update on my life :
Solo & Ensemble was yesterday. Got up around 9:30, practiced flute solo on and off, left for the school it was at around 12:45ish (it was pretty close this year, so I got there about 1 for my 2:11 performance). My two friends L & JB (they had voice solos in the morning, and a duet around 3ish) met me in front of the room, I’d told them they could come in and listen to me. Usually I get really nervous when other people are listening, but I’m veryvery close to them, so it’d be fine.
Then we look in the window on the door to the class where I was going to play, and there were like, 9 people in there besides the judge/soloist/accompanist/a parent, just sitting there. A few had instruments, but none of them looked like they were affiliated with the soloist. It was kind of like “…Wtf?” For a while. My accompanist came, and she was like “Yeah, why are they in there? They’re not supposed to be… do you want to have random people listening to you?”
And I was like “no” because it would make me nervous… then dad came back with my sister who was very tearful because she had messed up the middle of her piano solo, and he said there had been random people in her room as well and they threw her off. SO we talked to the person standing by the door crossing names off and stuff and asked if they were supposed to be in there, and she said “No, not really. They’ve just been sitting in there while they wait to perform, I’m not sure why.” When we asked her if she could ask them to leave before I went, she was like “Of course, it’s your performance.”
So I went into the room and put my music down and stuff, and none of the people made any move to leave. L sat down in a desk and kind of looked at one and was like, “Are you working here?”
“No…”
“Oh. Could you just wait outside, then? My friend doesn’t really want other people in here when she performs.”
“But I’m going next!”
“…And?”
“You have no right to kick me out! I’m in here next!”
“You can come back in after and play, in your time slot. We waited out in the hallway like everyone else while waiting for other people to finish their performances.”
“…You can’t kick me out!”
And at the same time my mom was asking 3 people farther back if they minded just waiting in the hall until I was done. Two were just like “Yeah, sure,” and smiled and left. The third was kind of like the first, I didn’t quite catch what she said, but mom ignored her and smiled at the two who were leaving and was like “You’re so kind,” and sort of glared at the other. The ones L had been talking to finally got up to leave and so did another who JB had asked once she saw everyone was leaving. The one who was left said something like “You can’t just make me personally leave. Other people are in here too!”
And L was like “Actually, we just asked them all to leave, and they are. We’re here because we were invited.”
Oh man I just wanted to give her a hug, except I couldn’t because i had to tune to the piano and play. But they at least left which did make it easier for me to play. I thought I did okay even though I messed up a scale afterwards, but the judge gave me a second division rating… D:
But seriously, I think there’s a rule about just waiting in random people’s room. I do know you’re supposed to wait in the hallway, it’s just common courtesy (sp?). I warned a freshman flute, N, about the people who’d probably try to wait in the room before she played. I saw her later and she said she’d had to kick them out as well, and then people had actually tried to come in as she was trying to start to play. Honestly.
If they just want to listen or something, you can hear the playing perfectly fine from the hallway…
Uhg. I was dissapointed I got a II… : /
I was going to talk a bit about todays hockey game as well but this post is long enough and it was a depressing game. I should be studying history. *string of expletives*
But I finally bought the Watchman comic book and it is thunderstorming and I am listening to Modest Mouse and I just can’t bring myself to when I know I’m going to fail the test anyway.
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257– Yup, I totally agree. And yup, he most definitely did say that…..
258–Urgh. I sympathize most strongly with the studying history. I’ve got to do that myself.
Our midterm (there are only two tests and two papers, which make up almost all the grade–eep) is Thursday, and he gave us this review sheet last Thursday, which has 41 short answer questions and three essays. It is very nice, in that the questions on the test will come directly from here, but it is very unnice iin that that means I have to do all 41 short answer and 3 essays by Thursday. And I’ve only got 2 sentences written. Plus I’ve got so much other stuff I need to get doen…..
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I hate Twilight, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings. At ythe same time I like Warriors (Each Warriors series), the Inkheart series (the fourth book, Inkdawn, is coming out soon), and the Inheritance cycle.
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260–Hate….Harry Potter?!?!?! And LOTR?!?!?! You….are one very strange individual….
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257- No. She had a dream. And she doesn’t drink; she’s a Mormon. *grins innocently like the twilight nerd she is*
260- My my my, that’s unusual. Most Musers like at least one of those.
Lord of the Rings. Meh. They’re okay, but to be honest, I’m not ‘OMG LOTR PWNS N00BS SQUEE’ about it. Faramir does kick arse, though.
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260- Duck.
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262–With the exception of Twilight, yes, that would be a very correct statement.
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260 – Well. Hhmph. Prepare to duck.
Twilight: Horrible
Harry Potter: Pretty darned awesome
LOTR: Good
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Hello everyone.
Dancing last night was incredibly enjoyable, I hope to go back next time, but mourn the fact that I’ll have to wait a whole month. *wants to be able to dance well and often*
Dad did come, and I think he had some fun, although he complained about being tired and sore afterwards, he said he might come back though.
As much as I’d love to give you a blow by blow description of my evening, including the figures and commentaries on the partners I danced with, I shall refrain, since probably precious few people would find it interesting.
The band was good, the caller was funny, the room was rather crowded (they had a lot more people than usual I heard) and everyone was hot and sweaty, but we all were enjoying ourselves, I didn’t see anyone frowning the whole evening.
I think I did alright, I was able to mostly follow what we were supposed to be doing, although there were a few times I got lost. it was also sort of difficult to dance with all sorts of people with very different styles, some were really good and others weren’t so much. It’s unsettling to have to completely change how you move to do the same figures with different partners or neighbors. Ah well, it was great fun anyway.
I shall go now and check other threads….
I should be outside though, it’s another beautiful day!
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260- There’s a fourth book? -rolls eyes-
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Twilight: Great
Harry Potter: Unbeatable
LOTR: Ok
I just painted my nails dark blue and did a sparkly black overcoat.
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260: *very calmly* You, my friend, are messed up.
Your tidbit of trivia for the day is:
The official bird of Orange County is the acorn woodpecker.
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260- There’s….a FOURTH BOOK?!?!?!? ARRRRGH!!! My brain hurts. I hated that series. I have a strange urge to read it in German once I’m fluent to see if it’s any better.
Me
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Hullah! He knows everything!
We made it past the two page mark! With triple spacing, of course.
The reason why is because…..WHAT? HOW REDUNDANT CAN YOU GET?
Kyra told me that I could buy it, but all I wanted to do was highlight it!
Soo, today I get to do more health online. Hooray. I also get to do more Physics. I hate our physics book.
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Harry Potter really isn’t that good… It’s enjoyable, sure, but the amount of attention it gets is way out of proportion to the actual quality of the books. It’s not that original, and it doesn’t feel like a story that’s going to last. I don’t know. Maybe it’s so appealing because it’s simple, it’s accessible, it’s the sort of thing that any fantasy-obsessed child is going to play at: a school for magic. But…
I don’t get it. It makes me curiously angry that everyone loves Harry Potter so much. (He’s so stupid! Jeez!) There are so many brilliant books out there, and what do people pick to worship? Harry Potter.
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Agreed.
I just watched a Jonathan Krohn video on YouTube. Arrgh.
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260- Harry Potter= HORRIBLE, Twilight= SICKENING, LOTR= PWN!
262- He does indeed
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Maybe we all like what we like and that’s all there is to it.
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I love Harry Potter. I know the books appear to be simple on the outside, but I think they can be read a lot deeper than average, and therein lies their power. You can read them casually, enjoying them as a simple story about a boy who becomes a wizard, or you can read them with an understanding of the history and allusions that Rowling makes constantly and with a view of how connected the series is. You can also go further and read them as Christian literature, I’d recommend John Granger’s books about Harry Potter. He talks about how they follow in the tradition of Austen, Dickens, Tolkien and Lewis, what their place is and ways to look at them in a historical and religious way. Keep in mind that his books are written from a very strong Christian viewpoint, so some people might be offended, but I still think they have value.
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275- Amen to that! I feel the same.
I need a job. I want more money. I’m considering going to a local piano store and asking if they would pay me to play in the store and attract customers.
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276~ Yup.
I want/need money. Despite my ridiculously huge allowance (I didn’t believe it when my parents told me the amount and I actually tried to convince them to lower it!) and miserly ways I’m hitting bottom. Partly because I try to buy a lot of stuff for myself, I like being independent and managing my affairs and I really can’t stand the thought of my parents getting me things that I “just want” when they give me such a huge allowance. Clothes that I want but don’t really need I will offer to pay for at least and I’ve said I’d pay for the tesxting part of my cell phone bill, I also bought myself my own concertina. I think I’m going to have to solicit help for the next step up though, as the price jumps a thousand from beginner to nice. *groan*
It would help if I could drive myself to a job before I got one that required going in several days a week though.
Until then I suppose I should look into more flexible things, like playing music for local events. A few years ago I did my only paying gig so far–background music for a dinner at a local town’s celebration of itself. This May I’ve been signed on to do something similar at the same event, so that’ll be nice. If I play more than just for an hour or so they’ll probably give me more, too.
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I’m going to work at an ice cream shop this summer (sweeping and throwing away empty cartons, that sort of thing) for some 5-7$ an hour. It’s not much, but hopefully I’ll have enough for a new laptop, combined with babysitting money and allowance.
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235- Maybe, just maybe, but the odds are against it. Don’t feel bad. I personally find connections where there are none a lot.
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to all Warriors posts: Warriors books seem rather pulp-fictiony to me–she seems to put them out at a fairly quick rate, along with working on a whole ‘nother series (Seekers). I can’t find any deep meaning or lesson in the Warriors series, and sometimes the writing gets on my nerves. I have rather the same problem with Redwall these days — after reading all the books, the plot lines get redundant, and I noticed that Jacques has quite a few comma splices. It might have something to do with the fact that he’s from Britain (would anyone know?) but I’ve read other British authors that don’t have this problem.
(sorry to interrupt the job/money talk!)
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(279) Finding unusual connections is both the glory and the danger of creative minds.
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260– High five! I hate all those books too!
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281~ Indeed. I have more than once witnessed that phenomenon. People usually just look at me like I’m a genius or completely out of my gourd. Most often the latter…hmm, I wonder why?
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256-YAY! THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU! oh, and sorry about the pies, GAPAs. i was feeling a bit melodramatic.
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(283) Well, I’d say the world is pretty cramped inside a gourd.
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285~ Oh good. Do you realize how hard I laughed when I read that? If not, here’s your answer: VERY.
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278–only 5-7? That doesn’t seem like much….In AK, minimum wage is $7.50…..
I worked part time the past two years for $8 (still not much, but helpful)
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Coincidence or not:
Last night, ABC World News talked about the International Memory Championship.
Tonight, NBC Nightly News talked about Jeff Ferrell, the dumpster diver.
Isn’t it strange that two news programs on consecutive nights talked about things Muse did articles on?
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288 – O! Dumpster dive, dumpster dive… I loved that.
I fail at systems of equations. Especially substitution. >.< It’s soo easy, but I somehow manage to fail at it.
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287- Well, it’s more of a ‘my mom’s friend needs help cleaning the ice cream place and my daughter is available if I say she is’ type thing, and the pay is a bonus thing. Like most of what I have to do, really…
I’ve been crying a lot lately. My house is so stressful right now. And my emotions are on like a x10 right now…
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287- It’s that nationally, isn’t it? At the lowest? I know IL just raised it to $7.75. But you can work for less if you’re underage.
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291–I don’t think so….*googles* ‘k, I found this at laborlawcenter dot com:
07/24/2008: $6.55
07/24/2009 $7.25
so, it is supposedly currently 6.55, and will be raised to 7.25 this summer.
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(286) If I made you laugh, my day is made.
Maybe someone should write a memoir, “My Life Outside the Gourd.”
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293- Oh, that would be awesome!
Not only is the Inkworld series going into a fourth book (as is mentioned on the author’s website), so is the Inheritance cycle (the series starting with Eragon).
In keeping with this month’s theme, I was re-watching Hoodwinked! and I spotted some errors. When Red is carrying the recipes in the basket out of the store it’s uncovered, but later it is covered. When Boingo talks to Red he is wearing a hat, later he isn’t. Twitchy specifically takes the flash of his camera, but when he falls out of the tree the flsh goes off. When the wolf goes into the taxi the camera is still on his tail, when he comes out it is nowhere in sight.
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294- Fourth Inkworld?
I would make an intelligent comment, but most of my brain is jumping up and down and yelling “KILL ORPHEUS KILL ORPHEUS.”
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293~ Consider your day made then, I did laugh. I did a bug ol’ guffaw that made my stomach hurt. But don’t worry, I don’t blame you.
Ugh, I’m limping today. The back of my right knee hurts like crazy when I walk……too much dancing last night, but it was worth it. See, that’s why they should have them more regularly, then I can get in shape and not hurt myself….right? *looks at calendar* *sighs* *counts days* *sighs again*
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When Harry is talking to Dobby in Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets, you can see a reflection in his glasses of the orange ball the used to mark where dobby would be when they filmed it.
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Twilight=Never read, Harry Potter=Wonderful, LoR=PWN, AWESOME, WONDERFUL, NOT POSSIBLE TO GET BETTER… Okay, I’ll stop now. I am a LotR fan, as one could probably tell. I only just finished reading the Silmarilion, (is it spelled like that? I never can remember) and with the finishing of it, I have claimed Official Insane Lord of the Rings Fanship. DO NOT INSULT LORD OF THE RINGS IN FRONT OF ME!!! I’ll stop now. No really, I mean it this time! …I think that further up the thread, someone was commenting about ‘May it Be”? Well, I’m listening to it now. Celtic Woman… Good stuff, good stuff. Okay, I’ll end a long and pointless post.
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Hey, hooray for today! I forgot to say, but it’s Purim! That’s pronounced Pour-im in English and Poo-reem in Hebrew. It’s my second favorite Jewish holiday! It celebrates Queen Ester saving the Jews from the king’s royal advisor. There are three important things you need to celebrate Purim. Homentashen (a kind of cookie, more on that later), groggers (a stick with a thing on the end that makes noise when you spin it, more on that later), and costumes! Basically, the evil advisor didn’t like Jews for some reason, and he walked through the kingdom goiving degrading speeches to them. Eventually, they got so fed up that they invented groggers to drown out his voice. He got so mad that he convinced the king to set up a day in which to execute them all. Queen Ester found out and revealed to the king that she was Jewish and that the advisor was lying in his claim that the Jews meant him harm. So instead of the Jews being executed, the advisor was executed. Every year on that day, we honor Queen Ester by dressing up in costumes. But we hate the memory of the advisor and every time his name is heard we drown it out by spinning our groggers and booing. We also eat homentashen, a trangular cookie with filling in the middle that symbolizes the three-cornered-hat the advisor always wore. By eating the cookie, we destroy the hat symbolically.
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Questions
KaiYves, what’s ‘siko’? I watched the launch of the Kepler Mission, and was wondering what the meant when the said to have reached ‘siko’. Or maybe it was ‘sitko’. Anybody?
Rocket launches are awesome!
Was John Conway’s game of Life ever in Muse? Or anything about cellular automaton? I seem to remember it, but there’s nothing immediately visible in the back issues listing.
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Good morning, MuseBlog! It sure is darker at this early hour now that the time has changed…
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ngh. ‘morning……dunno ’bout the good part, as I am SO tired. Didn’t get to be ’til bloody near 2 and then up at 6:45…..
need. sleep.
but I got to go to class, and I still’ve got SO much homework to do, and…….
*leaves*
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302–And I would like to note that the blog time was not changed for Daylight Savings. Intentional? Or an oversight? *shrug* whatever, doesn’t really matter…..I’m just used to be on blog time.
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(303) An oversight. It should be fixed now, assuming I changed it in the right direction.
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304–Yes, and yes. It is indeed fixed, and in the correct direction. (I hope, or else I missed an hour of sleep Saturday, and got up much too early today…… )
*post 303–“used to being on blog time.” can’t type…..
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299–Purim’s today? Isn’t today the Fast of Esther? Though I guess Purim would start tonight, technically…anyway, Happy Purim to you too! (hamantaschen, apricot-filled = delicious! )
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Hello, all! I am home sick with a scratchy throat and a stuffy nose. *snork*
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307) *hugs* I know what that feels like… My throat just stopped hurting a few days ago. I always get a cold sometime in the winter, but at least you don’t have any school…
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299- I love the story of Esther!
300- SECO stands for Single Engine Cut Off. The Delta IV rocket has several engines that fall off in staged pairs. SECO is when a pair burns out and falls off.
I think the Game of Life was once covered in Odyssey.
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A lot of people are sick today. l have a band concert tomorrow night and a field trip on Wednesday, so I shall have to attend school tomorrow.
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309- Thank you very much!
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Ummm… I know that I have not been here in a while, but sorry, I have sick like Zinc (comment 310).
So, let me offer this as a rebuttal:
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* I got the above from a YouTube Video called: “King Dedede Inhales a Negative Ion”.
It’s very funny.
Okay, Bye Now!
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WHEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Two weeks and one day until the band goes to Orlando!!!!!
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We’re having 80s day at school next week as part of March Madness. Now I wish I’d ordered a flightsuit from Space Academy. I could have gotten a black wig and gone as Sally Ride.
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WaHEY! Life is good.
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I didn’t sleep at all last night! My parents let me off the hook for school today, so I stayed home and watched Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants again. (Love those movies…) And I snuggled with meh GPs!
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275 – Much agreed.
Happy Purim! I was out-of-state this weekend, at my cousin’s bat mitzvah. It was a lot of fun, but I’ll never get used to how loud they play music at parties.
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298- The whole twilight thing is getting on my nerves… all they do is fall in love with vampires and then fight them. What is the big deal???
299- weplayed pin the ear on the Haman at sunday school… it was very odd. I have to see my scary bat mitzvah tutor at purim services oh no!!!!!
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I’m tired. I need to practice for my lesson tomorrow. Mom made a really delicious curry today. I wish dancing was more than once a month. I don’t like how few classes there are at our community college that are relevant to the areas of study that I’m interested in. This is a very odd post and none of these sentences relate to the others.
I’ll stop now.
Goodnight.
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I had curry tonight too — I made delicious soup tonight for dinner. Enough for tomorrow too.
Good night, Midnight Fiddler
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320~ Mmm, that does sound nice. I’m not sure if this was truly a curry, but it was an Indian dish. Wonderful stuff, in any case. Now I’m getting hungry.
*wanders off again*
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Jadestone (258), yeah, the last in the Twilight series was my favorite. I don’t want to say too much about it because of spoilers but … one reason I liked it so much was it seemed like a final blast of creativity, like the end of a fireworks show.
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omgosh, I am laughing so hard right now…..So, I was watching last night’s House, episode…..
“This guy’s a Harry Potter.” *blank stares* “The Sorting Hat was going to put Harry in Slytherin based on his nature, he refused, so he ended up in Gryffindor–through choice.”
THis seriously had me laughing maniacally. Not so much because it was funny, but because it was so out of place and unexpected. And a very poor analogy, in my opinion. Harry was not particularly Slytherin in nature at all–Voldie’s Horcrux inhabiting his body was, but Harry was a Gryffindor through and through. Harry was in no way a sneaky, sly bastard (note: I don’t have anything against Slytherin’s–I have a huge soft spot for Draco, and Snape especially, but Harry is just not like them at all), but is the spitting image of all that Gryffindor valued.
Given the situation in the plotline of the episode at the time (which I shan’t mention, in case you ahve yet to watch), it was implied that Harry was, in fact, a total jerk (or twisted Slytherin), but just put on a fake exterior pretending to be some really nice, great guy (a Gryffindor). Which is so untrue. He may have had a bit of Slytherin qualitites (more due to Voldie’s horcrux, than anything else), but his Gryffindor attributes were not just choice. He was inherently Gryffindor, and his choice proved.
Gah, stupid writers. They should broaden their understanding of the books. Make better analogies.
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in MA, i think minimum wage is $8.50
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323 – NONONONONO SPOILERS!!!!!! *hasn’t seen the new episode* *runs away screaming*
*comes back*
…Oh. Wait. That’s not a spoiler. That’s a mockery! Yay for mockeries!
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I went to the United Nations headquarters on a school trip today! We actually got to go inside of the General Assembly chamber, even though nobody was there! But it was still the real General Assembly chamber, with the name tags for the countries, and the little translator buttons and everything.
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Me
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Was that the cat?
No, it was the sink.
Actual conversation and type-os here people!!! And we don’t mean ballud type.
Kyra’s cheeks still hurt, and I don’t know why.
This also shows an unimaginable amount of responsibility is stored up in Biddy like so many bottles of wine in my grandmother’s cellar. Actually, I lied. My grandmother does not have a cellar, or any bottles of wine that I know of.
Dang that cat breathes heavily…
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325–Yeah, I don’t think that quote really gives anything away…..Hehe, yeah, mockeries can be fun.
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Hello, everyone!
Sorry I haven’t been here very often…I have been slammed with homework. -sigh-
But today is my 3-year-MuseBlog-versary (or whatever you’re supposed to call it). It doesn’t feel like it’s been that long, but when I think about it, three years is a long time.
-waves-
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329–*waves* Happy blogiversary! I will be celebrating my three year as well in just 10 days…..Dang, that is hard to believe.
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Oh I love curry. I love that there are so many different ways to prepare it all over the world. Personally, I like it over rice best…It’s interesting how food customs spread. Curry is really popular in Japan, which was introduced to it by the British who got it from India!
They even have curry udon and curry bread…I wonder what that tastes like?
As you can see I’m really hungry!
326) That’s so cool, color me envious. Were you allowed to take pictures? Wow…that really boggles me mind. Even the translator buttons? argh!
329) Yay three years!
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329 – Happy blogaversary! *waves back*
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329~ Happy blogiversary!
Eep, my three years is in September. Has it really been that long? Or that short, it seems like I’ve always had MB… Wow.
It’s getting cold again. How mean, to temp us with lovely warm weather and then get all cold again. Brrrrr.
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323- Or, better yet, Luna; we could both start a Board of Harry Potter Usage in Modern Society. We could moniter what analogies and such writers are planning on using in tv shows and such, and then edit them so they make sense.
324- Mmhm, you wanna know what we call people from MA in NH? Just kidding, I don’t. Call you mean names just because you’re from MA, I mean.
329- Happeh bloggiversary!!! I think my second is coming up… or is it my third?… *checks dates*
CURRY YUMMMMMMM… I looooove curry rice with cheese and chicken and broccoli…
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(326) That is cool. I went there once myself when I was in National Model United Nations in college. We held our final session at the U.N. itself, which was quite exciting.
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334–Hm, yes, we could. Perhaps we even should.
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Field trips. We’re going on a field trip to the YMCA. We have to wear ‘modest, one piece, Christianly swimsuits’. 
But, when my teacher said that, my friend Anna leaned over, and with a very serious look on her face, said “Time to do some end-of-winter bushwhackin”. That made me smile…
I HATE swimming in the winter! I haven’t had the chance to work off all the winter warmness fat! And he won’t even let me wear soccer shorts with a tank top, which would be immeasurably better… *self conscious*
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Oh, cake, I forgot about my blogiversary. Which was four days ago. Oh, well. Gotta bookmark it for next time.
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329- happy blogversery!
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37–he he. That makes me think of when one of my friends had a birthday/high school graduation party last summer at his house, and in the invitation (or at least when my sis was on the phone with her), his mom said that there might be swimming (they have/live on a lake), and to bring “modest bathing suits.” You wouldn’t believe how badly I wanted to go out to the nearest store and by the skimpiest, stringiest bikini I could find. It was so tempting. And if it weren’t for the fact that I”m much too self-conscious, and not quite evil enough, I would’ve, too. But seriously. The woman needs to get a life already.
For some background, this is a woman who once, according to my mother, flipped out over a diagram in a biology textbook that depicted a naked individual. Y’know, like those diagrams showing parts of the various systems of the body? I mean, really.
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SFTDP. 338–Happy belated blogiversary!
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Ooh, swimsuits. I hate wearing a swimsuit! The one I have now is from LL Bean and I like the fact that it’s a tankini, but seriously, there’s no space for anything up top, yet it’s all loose on the bottom. Nice at hiding the fact that I don’t do my sit-ups, but it doesn’t work very well other places. *sigh* It’s not even a nice sort of revealing, it’s like an “I can’t find a swimsuit that fits here at LL Bean because they don’t believe that a person my size has any sort of curves” sort of revealing. *groan* I hate it. I really need to get a new one, but now is not the time to go shopping. *groan again* even though now I’d doing more swimming than I usually do, even in the summer. *complains and moans even more*
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This is truly a fast growing thread!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHUCK NORRIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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So I got home around 5, around 6ish mom kicked me off the comp (came in, switched it off as I was trying type something, told me to “get off or be grounded”), so I took my stuff upstairs to my room to study. I’ve been really tired/slightly sleep deprived for the last 3 months or so so I accidentally fell asleep on my bed a little after 6… and no one woke me up for dinner or anything. FInally I woke up myself around 7:20ish, came downstairs and saw that everyone else had eaten, went back upstairs to try to study. Now my head’s all foggy and my eyes tired/unfocussing because I feel asleep (god I hate naps, they throw off everything) and I really need to be functioning so I can study history for tomorrow’s in class essay but I’m just really tired/upset now.
*self-censors*
342- ! Asdigfugidab I hate those bathing suits, that flare out around the stomach for no real reason. Uhhg. They look very unflattering on me, and yet they are the only kind you can find anywhere. I finally ordered one online, and it still doesn’t fit like it’s supposed to based on the diagram.
HIUBCFIS;bfwk;rbsdgnosdhg
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UGH. I have to write a diary for one of the characters of 1984; unfortunately, Winston abandons his diary early on, and by the end of the book,
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER ******************************************* SPOILER SPOILER
everyone’s been brainwashed so none of them will be half so rebellious to actually start a diary later on. -dies-
I guess I’ll write O’Brien’s diary, since he’s the only major character (besides Big Brother) who would actually keep a diary by the end of the book. I wish I could write from the POV of a prole, but there aren’t any prole characters except Mr. Charrington, who…well.
I’m just putting it off by now. Did I mention it’s due 1st period tomorrow?
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Happy belated blogiversary to Pan and POSOC!
Might I suggest to the GAPAs that it’s time for a new thread this month? This one is getting pretty long, and the month is about a third over.
Today in French class we watched Snow White in French. I’d never seen the English version, but oh my god, Snow White’s voice is so annoying. She sings and talks about six octaves above the normal range of a human voice.
Still, it was an adorable movie and one that was easy to follow in another language. I’m thinking I really have to watch the Disney Classics. I’ve only seen a few: Cinderella, Aladdin, Snow White. Is that really all?
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Go look up http:/ /www.igudesmanandjoo. com/ or look them up on YouTube. They’re hilarious! Mom’s cello teacher sent her a link and we were watching them….totally insane Piano/Violin duo that does slapstick comedy. *dies laughing*
I think the Musers at large would get a kick out of it.
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346- You could do it from that one prole that’s always singing. I don’t know how much material she would give you, though. I just finished reading the book, so it’s still rather fresh in my mind.
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349- She wouldn’t really give me any material at all. It’s supposed to be a character analysis and I guess Ms. B— thinks this is better than an essay or something but believe me, I would rather write ten essays than one character diary. Ms. B— really has no idea how many tears this book club unit has caused. Nor, for that matter, does she probably care. I would dearly love to state my case and tell my teacher exactly how awful this assignment is, but she’d just say, “Well, you have to do it anyway. In college…” And the worst thing is, she’s right. I do have to learn to read for more than just pleasure, if I want to go to college anyway.
But dash it all, how am I supposed to retain information like that! I finished the book less than a week ago, and I took notes and everything, and I still can’t remember a single dashed trait that I can use! Not any beyond the obvious, anyway. Maybe if I’d enjoyed the book, I would have done rather better.
I don’t understand how Ms. B— can rail against plagiarism like she does, and then turn around and tell us to commit a far worse form of plagiarism than any of the examples she’s given us. You can copy down someone else’s essay word for word and attach your name to it–cake, you can do that for the entirety of your school career if you like–you can even copy mine, as long as it’s been about a year since I turned mine in, but you MAY NOT forbid this, and then use someone else’s characters. That is called Hypocrisy, and it is not OK.
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(350) Alice: There’s room for creativity here. I think writing a diary for O’Brien is a great idea. He’s intelligent and good at his job and certainly doesn’t see himself as a villain. What’s more, Winston Smith’s case can’t be all he has to do. You could make up some interesting details about his life. It’s worth considering.
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CAUTION: This post contains spoierish references to Sorcery and Cecilia, in the form of analogies.
351- I’m trying to write about O’Brien. I’ve got two thirds of a page which is really awful but hey, it’s only a Rough Draft and even if Ms. B— wants me to be “engaged” to my rough draft, it looks like it’s really going to be the sort of engagement that lasts just long enough to get both persons out of an awkward situation. Like in Sorcery and Cecelia, only that one ended up lasting rather longer than either character intended.
I know I could do it, but something inside me just cringes at the thought of manipulating another author’s character. I’m afraid I’ll do something wrong and stir the wrath of George Orwell’s ghost, or something. Plus I lack inspiration.
I should probably just quit complaining and do it, write whatever comes to mind, that sort of thing. I’ll plan to break of my engagement as soon as humanly possible, and who knows? Maybe I’ll end up falling in love with my Odious Marquis after all.
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345) aw man I totally know where you’re coming from…my naps increase in proportion to the work I ought to be doing. It does throw everything off.
I’m getting siiiiiick and I blame everyone at school. I refuse to miss any class so late in the game! Now is the time for pushing harder! rah rah rah!!
…but I still feel sick. *gloom* At least it feels warmer these days!
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Publicity for the spelling bee has gone completely out of whack. First I have to go to a board meeting, then there may or may not be a press conference, and then a relatively big newspaper wants to do a story on me. I kinda don’t want people knowing more about me than they have to, but I also understand that my sponsor wants publicity, and I probably shouldn’t disagree with them. *sigh*
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Maybe emmatheduck and speller73 have advice for dealing with press conferences.
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342- I usually wear a one-piece bathing suit with a surfer shirt and swim trunks. Not because I don’t think I look good, because I actually work out a lot, but because I don’t like exposing a lot of my skin to the air/water. It just feels wierd.
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Axa- i feel your pain. i feel really sick, but i don’t have a temperature or anything, and i don’t want to miss school.
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i just noticed something! if you have multiple threads open on tabs, and you switch to a different tab but don’t release the mouse, the page title doesn’t change until you let go! woohoo!!
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342- I can never find any nice bathing suits, so I usually avoid going in water in the summer at all costs…
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Weird fact #288: The CIA once made concealment devices for film and documents designed to look like dog doo-doo.
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357) It’s just hovering around waiting to attack. I know that it will descend upon me at the most inopportune moment possible. So much is going on, I have midterms coming up too and ARGH to infinity I hate getting sick.
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This is so random, but I feel like telling people about it anyways. Here goes! Yesterday, I literally nearly murdered my friend! With a swing! And it was his fault, too! It was really funny! And also. . . speaking of people almost getting killed by random objects. . . My friend’s neck almost got sawed off with a parachute yesterday! During Spanish class! and. . . today I fell out of my seat during Math class and started screaming for no apparent reason! And I didn’t even get yelled at!
Whoa. Sorry. I’m really hyper, can you tell?
On a more serious note, my friend Katie and I have come to this startling conclusion. We beleive that only a very small fraction (writing, reading, math and some science) of what we learn in school is truly going to be useful to us in life outside of school.
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Pizza is not true pie.
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We have parent-teacher conferences tomorrow and a teacher inservice day on Friday, so my weekend officially started 2 hours and 52 minutes ago! Huzzah!
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362-I agree. I think that most of what we learn in school is bunk. In Ohio the classes are tailored toward making students pass the OGT. We are taught to memorize, but we are not usually encouraged to create our own ideas or apply what we are taught to new concepts. I think the most important thing I’ve learned so far from my school is that it’s necessary to shut up and do your work, and save your original thoughts for places other than high school.
I’m reading Stephen Hawking’s “A Briefer History of Time”, which is just the second publication of “A Brief History of Time”. It’s amazingly interesting, and I understood about 2/3 of it but now I’m getting toward the end of the book and the concepts are getting out of my comprehension. There’s a weird thing about shooting beams of electrons through a plate with two slits in it and it doesn’t make any sense to me how these results happened. Werid stuff about waves and antiparticles or dark matter. I can’t wait for summer so I have more time to think about this.
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Well, it seems like my family might be going to England for a few weeks this summer! My brother and I are trying to find some cool places we could go. Does anybody here have any ideas? We definitely want to go to the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, Stonehenge, Royal Botanical Gardens, that sort of thing, but we need more then just that!
Also, today I got my piece of paper on which I’m supposed to circle classes that I want for next year. (I’m going to be a high school freshman.) I think I’m doing honors English, AP World History, Algebra III/IV, and probably Spanish III/IV instead of V/VI. Woo, homework. D:
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366 – I went there! Tower of London, Stonehenge, and Buckingham Palace, of course, but also –
Goshdangit. I have to go to school now. Bye!
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366–Just England? Or will you visit Scotland/Wales as well?
Let’s see…..Like Kokonilly said (and you) definitley Tower of London, Stonehenge, Buckingham Palace (can you go inside? we didn’t get to, but……if they had tours, well, we were on a huge time crunch on the tour, and…..yeah), Leeds Castle (sweetly awesome), ummmmm. Dang, I can’t think of anywhere else in specific we went……
Erm, castles, uh, just visit every castle in existence……I think Stirling Castle was in England (as opposed to Scotland).
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No, Stirling is in Scotland, between Glasgow and Edinburgh.
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369–whoops. Although, really, it’s no surprise I can’t remember what specific castles we went to (and where they were located), seeing as it was eight years ago and I can’t even remember yesterday…..
Oh, I can’t believe I forgot: You’ve got to go on the London Eye while you’re there. ‘Twas lots of fun when I went when I was 11, although when I was 14 I was terrified to venture toward the windows and kept creeping back toward the seat in the middle. I think my mom’s fear of heights is starting to grow on me.
It’s a really great view, though. My sis took like a million pictures. Which, given that it was a film camera……Let’s just say she had over one roll of film just from the Eye. Which means she was taking well over 30 pictures of allt he same things just from different elevations…..yeah.
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. Haha Obama signed that earmark package and didn’t even go through it “page by page” and cut out wasteful spending.
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366- Try to visit some history museums. England’s got a lot of good archeological sites.
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Meow~ Wow, that sounds amazing! Have fun.
England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales are some of the places I want to go most. Mongolia too, but that’s a rather different place altogether.
Really, I just wish I could go outside of the U.S. at all, anywhere. I want to go places, but it seems like I’m stuck here in the hills that I love, but they sometimes feel like a prison that I can’t even see outside of the walls. Mountains on all sides.
Anyway, I know I’m just being mopey, I do get to do interesting things.
Yesterday was exciting, we went to College Park to go to a masterclass with Steven Isserlis, a British cellist.
Oh my gosh, he was amazing! On Friday there’s a concert, and we’re going back down for that…lots of extra driving, but it’s worth it.
Have to go now, I’m just stopping in for a moment, but I’ll try to come back later…..gah, I hate getting behind on posts.
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Ha! I finally contacted the Sound Experience people, so that I can get started on the Fundraiser and go sailing this August! Of course, I won’t get to do a great deal in the way of actual sailing, probably, but then next year I can be a ship’s apprentice and actually sail. Also, being a ship’s apprentice is much cheaper: $40 dollars a day as opposed to $600 dollars for five days. (!)
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*sniffle* I am about to eat the Chocolate Frog I got for Christmas…..bye bye chocolate froggie……
Froggie’s head and front legs are now gone. It’s not bad, but…..it would taste better w/o the rice krispies. It just tastes like a Crunch bar, except in different shape. And way more expensive. Like, you could probably get 200 bite sized crunch bars for the price of one Chocolate Frog. Of course, the frogs are cooler and have cards and are Harry Potter…..but still. I don’t like crunch bars.
Froggie’s midsection all gone now….*sniffle*
Left hind leg all gone.
And…..no more froggie.
I got Minerva McGonagall. In case you were wondering.
Minerva McGonagallâ„¢
Deputy Headmistress of Hogwartsâ„¢
Strict and clever Transfiguration teacher and head of Gryffindor House. Rather severe-looking woman who sometimes wears square glasses exactly the shape of the markings of a cat. Her black hair is drawn into a tight bun. Warns students that anyone messing around in her class will leave and not come back
ok. Firstly, why do they need to make every sentence a fragment? Why can’t they make them actual sentences? It would make it much more readable. Secondly, her square glasses are not in the shape of the marking of a cat. Her cat form has markings exactly the same as the shape of her glasses. There is a difference. Although it would have still been subtly inaccurate, it would have been much more correct to say “…sometimes wears square glasses exactly the shape of the markings on her cat form.” Because that, although still a reversal of fact, would be significantly more accurate than saying the glasses are the shape of the markings of a cat. Um, hello? Not all cats have markings around their eyes that could be resembled by square framed glasses.
Gah. You would think the card was written by the Mattel game company who had NUMEROUS incorrect/poorly phrased/misspelled (Lilly Potter, anyone?)/just plane factually wrong questions/cards on their Sorcerer’s Stone trivia game. Yup, I read every card. For fun. And wrote them. And basically only got a response saying, “oh, sorry you were disappointed in our product.” Hello????? Why don’t you do somehting about it? Get somebody with a brain to proofread any future games you consider making?
And don’t even get me started on “Idiot’s Guide to Harry POtter.” It was obviously written by an idiot. The author couldn’t even put Dumbledore’s name in the right order. And that was just ONE mistake. Never did finish getting that list written up and mailed to the idiot. And in answer to the unspoken question, yes, I’m a fanatic, no I do not have a life.
And yes, I know this was a very random, pointless post (at least to begin with), and semi-off topic. Although it is the random thread. Is there such a thing as off topic? Hmmmmm…interesting thought.
bleh–I need to go write my Eng rough draft, due tomorrow morning in class…..joy oh joy (NOT)
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SFTDP. But I meant “just plain factually wrong questions.” I really do know my homonyms. Really. Even if I had to look up if they were actually called homonyms or if I had that word wrong. Pitiful, I know.
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374~ Good luck! That sounds really fun, I hope it works out for you.
375~ They should get things right, whether the person using them is a fanatic or not. *grumps* I know the feeling, although I’ve not gone quite to such lengths on HP stuff.
Wait……you don’t like crunch bars?!?!?!?!?!?!?! They’re the BEST! I love the rice crispies. It would be gross in dark chocolate though……..but they work in milk chocolate. This is getting random, I’d better stop now.
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Too random for the random thread? Unlikely!
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378~ True, of course. I meant that what I was talking about wasn’t really pertaining to the conversation that much.
Besides, I was going to go get myself some crackers and rice cheese, but I went to check other threads and was distracted.
*sigh* More schoolwork beckons, I fly!
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340- Genitals have apparently been classified as things of the devil. Why, I can’t imagine, but it’s true.
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365- so you can’t wait to vacation because then you can finally learn something?
376- it’s actually a homophone. homonyms (lit. same name) are words that are spelled the same, sound the same, but mean different things. homophones (lit. same sound) sound the same, but are spelled differently and mean different things. (no, i didn’t have to google any of that.) (yes, I’m a geek)
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I didn’t get the solo in my school musical
Oh well.
380- So we all have devil parts down there?
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*is happy* I’m on the who’s here!!!!!
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381–Well, according to the first definition for “homonym” in my dictionary, a homonym is “each of two words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling (e.g., to , too , and two ); a homophone.”
*shrug* Just going off my dictionary……You had me worried there for a second that I couldn’t even read dictionary definitions correctly……
It does include your definition as the second listed def: “• each of two or more words having the same spelling but different meanings and origins (e.g., pole 1 and pole 2 ); a homograph.”
*shrug* dunno.
Nothing wrong with geekiness.
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384- agreed.
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363- It’s technically a type of sandwich, or so I learned from a one-semester foods class last year.
380- I’m fairly certain that that’s the first time that word has been used on MuseBlog. *checks* Never mind. Fridgey used it once.
382- Aww. I’m sorry. What musical / what part?
Piggy is pseudo-random today.
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The weather’s been absolutely stunning today.
I woke up at ten, felt bright and chipper, got dressed, and cooked bread pudding. My mother came home and we went to parent-teacher conferences, then went to the bakery and had a lovely lunch. We got back home, I planted some onions and cleaned my room, which led to the discovery of my porch roof. If I open my window I can get out quite easily and sit on the porch roof, which commands an amazing view. I can also, from there, reach my mother’s window and climb in, if so inclined. Anyway, here I am, and I should probably go close the door, which has been open all day because of the sunshine and fresh air, but now the sun’s going down and all the heat is dissipating.
I think I might go in the sauna tonight. I looked in today and it’s very nice inside, with smooth benches and walls and a very pleasant cedar smell.
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A pie on you, whoever this lands on!
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I remember once, when I was a little kid, I told my dad that I wanted to play Star Trek with him.
He said “Okay, I’ll be Captain Picard.”
Then I said “No, I want to be the captain!”
My dad rolled his eyes because oh-my-god-I-have-the-only-six-year-old-kid-on-Earth-who-wants-to-play-Star-Trek-without-Captain-Picard.
So then my dad asked “So you’re going to be captain of the Enterprise?”
Somehow-I don’t know how the heck I knew, but I did- I knew that there was an actual space shuttled called Discovery, so I said “No, I want to be captain of the Discovery!”
So my dad rolled his eyes because oh-my-god-I-have-the-only-six-year-old-kid-on-Earth-who-wants-to-play-Star-Trek-but-doesn’t-want-to-be-on-the-Enterprise.
And since then, while I think Star Trek is okay, I’ve never really liked it as much as certain other SF works.
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Grrr my sister is annoying.
My school just passed a crazy dress code. Basically it’s a uniform without colour restrictions. A lot of people think we should just go to uniforms but the school won’t do it because if there are uniforms then the school has to provide financial assistance to people who can’t afford them, and the school can’t afford that with all the people who would need help.
My place in the USA is weird. We have the most accurate speech according to the dictionary, there’s practically no accent here. We’re one of the most dangerous places for crime per capita. We have the second cloudiest weather in the USA. The community where I live is very segregated by race because people just feel like it. We have a drug problem. I knew people who did PCP in 8th grade. This is one of those places where most people have no way of getting out and a few people are dying to get out. Actually, pretty much everyone is probably dying to get out but they’ve all become too jaded to do anything about it. A statement I have heard all too often and have witnessed even more often is that this place is where dreams come to die.
Sometimes people are able to stay out of it enough to hold on to their dreams.
Ohhhhh Ohio…
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I just got a few Star Trek DVDs from a best friend of mine. She and my other best friend are Trekies and have been for a while, and I’ve been meaning to watch a season or two for the movie. They’re plannign to go in costume, depending on how into it I get, I might have to as well ^^
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Goodness gracious. I have not been on the computer for a while.
*scurries off to RPGs*
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Thank you for sharing that story KaiYves, it stands out.
386- An open-faced sandwich? Hmmm, I do not see how that fits. Although panini is grilled. Side note: our toaster recently died, so we got a panini maker instead of replacing the toaster. I think it is fantastic. Toast with stripes.
And Thank You for specifying pseudo-random. That clears things up, perhaps as clear as they will ever be.
КарÑн-No uniforms‽ Crazy administrators.
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urgh. The showers have officially reached the peak of nastiness. Don’t get me wrong, they’re usually pretty decent, all things considered, just the very nasty massive clump of hair on the drain or elsewhere. But could they stay that clean? Oh, no, I go to take my shower this morning and what am I greeted by? Somebody has very kindly left a condom in the shower stall. Erm, what the heck? Common courtesy, please, people. That’s no more appreciated than anything else you might deign to leave. No, scratch that, it’s less appreciated. Fortunatley, the other two shower stalls were empty (and clean, relatively speaking). *shudder*
Yup, they have reached the peak of nastiness.
Off to class!
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I don’t know if I’ve said this before, but I think BlixKreig is a really cool name for a website theme.
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I’m not new
I’m actually older than most people here
people as old as me are like the man to for aeiou
hey whats the difference between a hoaggie a grinder and a submarine sanwich
I always thought it was the samhing 8)
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8) :0
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awesome 8) hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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396-399- Woah! Stop posting. If you want to say something, say it. Obviously you’re a neophyte, but you have to learn. 1. Use capitalization, grammar, spelling, etc. 2. Don’t PoPo (Pointless Post). 3. You’ve just turned 13. I am nearly 15, and several people are nearly or over 20. Besides, age doesn’t matter. Maturity does. If you continue posting as you are doing, you’ll not be very popular here on MuseBlog. I apologize for seeming strict or mean, but trust me; it’s for your own good. Welcome!
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400- I don’t think he was talking about age, I think he meant when he first posted. I do vaguely remember seeing him some time ago, it’s true, but I don’t think you could say he’s been around longer than TMFA.
spazcontrol18- The majority of MuseBloggers get extremely worked up when people post twenty times in a row with nothing but smileys. A few smileys here and there are all very well, like in 396, but the following three posts are liable to attract some disapproving comments.
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I second what Piggy said.
Although, Piggy, I could’ve done without the reminder of my age. I was enjoying, for a blissful moment, not remembering that in 16 days I will be 19. ;P Nah, actually, 19’s not bad. I can still pretend I’m a kid. Turning 20, though…..That’s a scary prospect.
So, anyway…..I’ve got a headache, and taking a nap sounds very appealing, but if I do so, I know I’ll never be able to get to sleep at a decent hour tonight. Not to mention, I’ve got studying I need to do (biomed terminology–test on Mon; chemistry–test on Wednesday) plus a paper I need to revise for my first submission (due Friday) and notes I need to revise for history so that they’re legible come time to study for the final. And I need to do laundry, and start packing for spring break which starts in ONE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! squee!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, I am excited. I will be going home and getting to see my family and kitty and sleep in my own bed for the first time since January.
400–You know, there are days I wonder if we don’t give neophytes a little too much slack. I mean, if we constantly keep excusing behavior with just a slight reprimand, they’ll never lear proper MuseBlog etiquette, and the ‘blog will be devolved into some horrid chat room type thing. *shudder* The horror.
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spazcontrol81 – 1) No, you aren’t. You’re older than me, but I’m a young ‘un. Unless you’re referring to blog age. in which case you may be. 2) Please. Stop. Posting. Pointlessly. There is an HTML thread for that. 3) Welcome, neophyte!
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402- Ah, but you can see 18A movies. I cannot. Ah but to be that age. I’m sorry. I really want to see “Watchmen”. grrrrrrr. curse it all. I thought it was 14A but it’s not.
Does the USofA have marchbreak? I do. I have no school for one week. “When does this start?” you may ask! “Why today!’ I would reply.
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Alice is right. Looking at “Who’s Here,” spazcontrol81 first posted on July 21, 2007…….[oh, dear, that is a very odd…..smashes skull against wall…..must. stop. connecting. everything. to. Harry. Potter. gah!]
Kokonilly, you may be a “young’un” but you are a thoroughly established non-neophytic blogger. You’ve been on long enough, and posted enough intelligent posts that you have long ago surpassed your neophyte status. Erm, I should perhaps point out, though, that since starting college, “long ago” often ends up being the day prior. It’s very scary how skewed my perception of time has become. Oh, um…..I didn’t mean to imply that you only stopped being a neophyte yesterday, either. Yeah, that nap is looking more and more appealing.
spazcontrol81: Your first post may ahve been over a year ago, but that does not mean you are not a neophyte. Being a neophyte is not merely a matter of time since first post. It is a much more complex thing than that. It factors in time on the blog, number of posts, quality of posts, and occurrence of multiple, pointless posts in a row.
You are, looking at these criteria clearly a neophyte. Please, please take the time to throughly reacquaint yourself with the Welcome Neophytes thread, HG2MB, and Rules thread. I know this sounds grumpy (lack of sleep does that to me), but you really truly will think us all in the end.
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402- I think we’re actually rather extreme. Neophytes do need to learn not to post rows of smileys and stuff, but they pick it up eventually and I know that I would be rather intimidated if I was a neophyte.
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404- We have spring break, which starts for me on March 20, I believe.
Are 18A movies forbidden to everyone under 18 regardless of whether or not your parent lets you go? ‘Cause I remember I saw Amelie when I was, oh, six or seven, and that’s rated R, but my mom was with me, so they let me in.
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404–Yuppers. We have a “spring break”. Mine starts one week from today, although the exact time depends upon the school. My sister already had hers.
Will your parents not take you? My parents were never all that worried about me seeing R rated movies (presumably the equivalent of your 18A). I mean, I remember the summer I was 10, my mom and my gramma took my sister and I to see The Patriot when we were on vacation. Didn’t have any adverse effects on me that I know of. And I know several of the horror movies we’ve watched on Halloween have been R rated (usually picked out by my parents, although often with my sister and mine’s help). Hehe, some of those have had worse effects……I still get nightmares after watching horror movies! I know Halloween when I was either 11 or 12 (maybe as old as 13) Mom was in the hospital after hip replacement surgery, and Dad rented “House on Haunted Hill” (1999 remake) and it was the first movie I ever saw that scared me so unbelievably thoroughly. Don’t get me wrong–I’m quite glad, it was “nice” to watch truly horrify movie, although ever since I’ve never quite managed to get a successfully scary movie on halloween. NOt sure why I try, as I wind up with nightmares evenw ith the “tamer” movies, and I don’t really like being scared, but…….
Um, sorry about the tangent.
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401- Hm. July 21, 2007. Even so, en hasn’t been on in ages, so I’d hardly count that.
402- So… was that post too much or too little slack? *is confused*
406- I support stricter methods of teaching. Not to demean or dehumanise neophytes in any way, but they have to learn to behave. The faster they become civilised, the faster they become non-neophytes.
spazcontrol81- I’m not entirely sure that you’re “older than most people here”. Quite a few of us were around far before you, and you haven’t been seen in a good year and a half. Anyways, just try to be civil, unhyper, etc. Hyperness is acceptable once in a great while (even I break out into insanity now and again), but normalness is the norm. And I do hope you don’t take our comments as rude or brusque in any way. We really do mean the best.
Ugh. I can’t see Watchmen either. How old does the person with whom you go have to be? Or can it only be your parent/guardian?
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408-House on Haunted Hill is the only horror movie that actually scares me. It’s awesome!!!
409- “normalness is the norm” haha! I think for the R movies there has to be a parent of someone who is going. So you could go with your friend and your friend’s mom, but you couldn’t go with a 20 year old friend. Or maybe you can. Or maybe it actually has to be your own parent and our movie theater is just really nice to us. I say look it up on google or something.
If I want to see an R movie I just wait until it’s on DVD and have my parents rent it for me. I don’t like watching movies with my parents around so it’s awkward to go to the theater with them. I also can’t stand movie theaters. (But I love planetariums!!)
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382-Yes, it’s true.
386- Darn, and I was so sure I was the first…
400- Another warm welcome by Piggy!
409- 17. I think. I want to see watchmen too…
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409- 17 to go on your own, under 17 you need a parent or adult 21 or older. And they have to be there through the movie with you. : /
In other news, I managed to buy/reed Watchmen!!!
O.O It was very, very good. I ♥ Rorschach. And Dr. Manhattan, though more the way he thinks than him. Hmm.
I’ve heard a lot of good reviews about the movie and a few bad ones from people who really liked certain aspects of the book, but mostly I hear about Dr. Manhattan’s junk.
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Yay! I got a Pwt Pwns tee shirt!
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412) lol forever jadestone. I heard a lot about that as well.
What do you all have as your desktop backgrounds? Right now I have The Lady of Shalott as painted by John William Waterhouse.
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407- You just gots to be with someone 18 or over for 18A movies I believe. R if you’re with an adult…. I think?
408- Not really a movie I want to see with my parents.
409- see my response to 407.
412- I hear the movie is gory in places for no reason. I dislike Rorschach without his mask. But that’s just me.
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402 – I think it’s good to give neophytes some slack. After all, it takes a little while to get a feel for Museblog, and ‘phytes shouldn’t be penalized for experimenting with what works. At first, that is–if it continues for months, that’s another story entirely.
Then again, I don’t know how much of a right to penalize neophytes, because I was a ‘phyte myself not too extremely long ago.
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I am currently semi-depressed. And anxious about my upcoming musical performance.
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Yay, it’s finally Friday!
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Mom is Out Of Control.
Hi, I’m back, again, and probably not for the last time. This is third time she’s taken away the computor for no good reason this month. I just got it back.
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409–Um, I’m not really sure….. *is confused as well* I’m not sure it was either? gah, I dunno. I was half asleep at the time.
So, I got scheduled for next fall’s classes on Wednesday. (God awful early, but……that’s when the school does it, so….)
I’m taking Organic Chem (supposed to be hard…..), General Genetics, Spanish (I have to do like three foreign language classes in the same language…..so, I did some spanish in highschool, so…..I hate foreign languages), and the Psychology of human/companion animal interactions.
So, yeah, that’s next years schedule. On the bright side, no 8 am classes next semester! I’ve not been enjoying those at all.
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414- My background is the xkcd Snakes on Every Plane picture.
419-Aww. I hope you get to keep it for a while.
I’m cold! My dad always keeps his house really cold and it’s annoying.
I like the commercial for GE with the scarecrow singing “If I only had a brain” in the power station.
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420 – Organic Chemistry is SO easy. Kind of. Well, at least the kind I learned at CTD this past summer. You’ll be fine.
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Good evening! I don’t know where to begin to reply to all of these posts.
It is Friday!!
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423 – Well, you could start by heading over to the SoCalKokon thread, where we’re planning your wedding.
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422–I appreciate the reassurances. I do tend to worry about things more than I should (case in point, calculus last semester, I was utterly terrified, got an A+). However, no offense intended, as I’m sure the CTD stuff was well above “grade level”, but I’m not entirely sure how comparable it is to college level pre professional organic chem……
Of course, I will be more than pleased if it is easy!
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Oh, shoot. I completely forgot that I’d had something I meant to say other than just replying to posts…… Sorry.
Ok, I was just logging on to my yahoo mail, when an article caught my eye. Or more appropriately, the picture accomopanying the article (Pattinson, y’know, he’s a potter actor, of course it catches my attention).
So I look at it, and what I really, really, really don’t get, is why does all the media refer to him as “The “Twilight” actor”? I mean, hello, he was in Potter long before he was in Twilight. And Potter, despite the suckiness of the movie, is a way better more popular phenomenon. And it’s not like Diggory was exactly a minor role, I mean he was a pretty crucial character. Why does everything completely ignore the fact that he was a Potter actor years before he was a Twilight actor???????????
Not to mention, who, exactly, cares that he is feeling unprepared about filming sex scenes in an upcoming movie? Sorry, but…..I couldn’t care less.
And the last line of the article? Quite lovely, we’ve got another druggie celeb in the making. Shocker. NOT.
Pattinson has found a way to take the edge off before: Pattinson says he took a quarter of a Valium pill before his “Twilight” audition.
So maybe y’all think I’m making a big deal about a little itty bit of a pill, but once you start resorting to drugs to “take the edge off”, before you know it, you’re taking more drugs for more random reasons. Gah. Why do they feel the need to publicize the fact that he is turning himself into a druggie as if it is no big deal? I mean, I would think that would be more a cause for concern than anything else…..
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411- Oh hush, you.
Is anyone celebrating Pi Day tomorrow? I think I might go get some free pie from Village Inn.
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425 – I know. But the basic concepts are fairly simple.
427 – ME! I’m wearing my ‘American Pi’ shirt tomorrow to Science Olympiad state. (I am SUCH a nerd. I keep my geometry set in a tin labeled ‘Mathematical Tools’. >.<)
I suddenly like ‘Viva La Vida’, though I was told it’s about life. Strange, because I thought it was about the French Revolution. (Again with the nerd thing.)
SCIENCE OLYMPIAD TOMORROW WILL BE GREAT. WISH US LUCK!
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426–Well, I guess some articles do mention him as having first been in Potter. And I only know this cuz I’ve got my mail set to give my alerts when a new article with “Harry Potter” is posted…..And there was one on Pattinson that mentioned HP, as having been his first thing.
’twas a much more entertaining article…..I now actually sorta get why he is so freaked about his nude sex scenes, as apparently they are gay sex scenes. With him naked with another guy. And I can see how that could be, um, more awkward than a sex scene with an individual of the opposite sex…..
His, erm, comments had me in stitches, but are perhaps not appropriate to be repeated here.
Yeah, anyway…….It would be nice if I could get teh stupid alert thing to send my HP articles, but nly ones that area ctually about HP, but not things that just randomly mention HP, cuz I really am not the least concerned w/ pattinson’s life and issues. he’s not even hot. and he’s down right horrid in the trailer for the upcoming movie. *shudder*
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427–Sure, if sleeping in to a god-awful late hour and doing homework is celebrating. Otherwise, no.
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May all your mornings be briiiiiiiiiight
May all your wool stockings fit a little too tight.
Virtual chocolate and my eternal friendship if you can identify the source. NO GOOGLING, mind you! Although I doubt Google would give you any information at all.
Anyway, I don’t really have anything to say. I just wanted to share my current earworm with y’all. Hey! At least it’s not “Brotherhood of Man”!
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431–I cheated……Sorry.
But google is just so, y’know, tempting.
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My school had a pie-eating contest! Neither me nor CTN nor AthenianPsycho got to be contestants in either round! BOO!!!!!!
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Oh my gosh the concert was amazing. Cellists of the blog, go look up Steven Isserlis if you haven’t already.
He’s amazing! I could rave all night about how incredible it was to watch him play, but I’m tired, so I won’t. Just….wow. Makes me want to go practice, and more seriously consider taking up the cello.
Hmm……the parents have offered to get me started on lessons. I don’t know though, I adore the cello, but I’m not sure if I want to play it. As in, whether I’ll be able to keep up with violin and concertina, I’m already having a hard time getting everything in and having enough time to practice. *sigh* And if I started playing cello I’d probably use Mom’s firts one, because she’s using the new (well, it’s actually much older, but new to us) one. That’s fine, except that since my hands are always sweaty I don’t want to mess it up. I always feel awkward playing her instruments because I know how much my sweaty hands bug her. *sigh again* it bugs me too, I hate not being able to touch anything without worrying about messing it up.
Anyway, I said I wouldn’t talk all night, and here I go. Oops…..
426~ Gah, if I was an actor (actress) I would make sure I knew what I was getting into before I took the part. Personally, I wouldn’t be that comfortable doing, erm, sex scenes, but I just wouldn’t take a role that required them. Of course, my dreams of acting are just that-dreams. *sigh* Oh well.
What’s annoying is that Robert Pattinson really isn’t that good-looking at all. I’m constantly amazed at how many people freak out over him. Come on people! I’m not really even that impressed by what I’ve seen of his acting (very little, I know, but still…)
Gotta go to bed now…as Martin (a character in Wit’s Last Stake, an 18th century farce) says, “I fly!” and then moseys off the stage. Note to self: find that script, hopefully before market fair in April.
Goodnight!
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434–I know, I don’t get the big fuss over his looks, either. He’s alright, depending on how they’ve got him done up (running the gamut from absolutely horrid, to sorta cute, but not spectacular. the last applying to him as Cedric) but I’ve seen better. As far as his acting, I’ve only seen him in Potter, and I didn’t really have any strong feelings one way or antoher. I mean, I didn’t think, wow, that guy’s an awesome actor, but neither did I think he was horrid, so…..mediocre, I suppose?
anyway, glad you enjoyed your concert!
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HAPPY PI DAY!!!
3.14159265358979323846264338327950…
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(126, 127, etc.) I went contradancing last night at Glen Echo Park. It was great! The caller was a friend of mine, and there was an open band, meaning that anyone with an instrument could play — about 40 people this time. A team of Morris dancers performed during the break. Several Muser-aged kids were there, some of them apparently from Irish step-dance troupes getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day.
D.C.-area MBers ought to try Glen Echo sometime. There’s contradancing every Friday and Sunday — none of the month-long waits that Midnight Fiddler complains about.
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This is only somewhat related to this month’s theme, but… did you know that in Batman Begins, the original Bat-mobile prototype was white?
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426- Diggory wasn’t exactly a major charactor in the movie. But in Twighlight he is the leading man. Twighlight is also more recent that HP4. But yeah, publicizing someone’s drug use is not good or interesting.
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437~ Ooh, that does sound fun! I told mom and she sounded interested, so who knows? I’m looking them up now.
Hmm, I know a fair amount of the tunes they list as ones they play regularly, but I think I’d have to learn some more. That’s a good thing actually, as some of them were ones I wanted to learn anyway!
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Happy pi day!
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There are never very many kids at the contradances here. There are a few little kids who came with their parents, and the one time I went there was me, of course, and a boy who was ten or eleven, and K, the Indian exchange student, only I didn’t know that at the time, and Eva’s friend F, who stubbornly refused to dance, because he IS depressed, after all. For the most part, though, teenagers seem to prefer those awful school dances.
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Does anybody here remember the name of the episode of “The West Wing” where there was the threat of an asteroid hitting Earth or do I have to read all the summaries on the official wiki one by one?
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(442) Alice, it may vary over the course of the year. I go to two local dances. The Saturday group seems to get more high schoolers than the Tuesday bunch, not surprisingly, but in both cases they seem to come in waves. We get a lot more college students, though they too tend to show up irregularly, probably on a seasonal basis.
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442~ It has come to my attention that most teenagers are not worth bothering with. The good part is that the ones that are worth talking to can usually be found skulking around contra dances, workshops and suchlike interesting places, so just keep on going!
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(433) The first item to show up in a Google search for “west wing asteroid” (without quotes) identified it as episode #609, Impact Winter.
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443–Season 6, Episode 9: Impact Winter. Took two seconds: Went to IMDb, went to West Wing episode list, and command+f “asteroid”. Hope this helps!
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I know of at least one other teenager who does contradance occasionally, though she gets on my nerves a little. And it’s true that there may be more people going to contradances since they’ve started putting signs up around the school, only I haven’t gone for a few months, because of my illness and the school play. And, of course, lack of transportation.
It’s amazing how much faster the character diary went today. I wrote a whole page in 45 minutes or less, with very little frustration, whereas the first page took me all night and brought me to tears. Of course, I dunno how plausible it is, or whether it reveals the hidden depths of O’Brien’s soul, but at least it’s done.
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446,447- Right, that’s it. Thanks!
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ok, SFTDP, but I’ve got a sorta urgent question that I’m hoping somebody, either one of the GAPAs or someone else will be willing to help me with. It is regarding our chem lab this week, that our darling (please, please not sarcasm) chemistry decided to assign. Not only the week of our second test, but the week before spring break.
Here’s a summary of what we’re supposed to do:
Determine the temperature of a sample of hot water.
All thermometers will be blacked out about 40°C, and the “water temperature will be well above that temperature.
“In your experiment, you can use any glassware in the drawers, the balances, or the Styrofoam cups provided.”
“Your group should develop TWO different methods for determining the water temperature and describe both in the results report as explained below.”
I’m at a loss. I”m really not sure how to do this. I’ve got this feeling it involves thermochemistry, as taht is the topic in lecture next week, but the section in the text we were supposed to read for the lab didn’t help (and I actually read it! Even though I’ve not been reading the text book), and we’ve not talked about thermochem in lecture yet, we start that Tuesday, same day as lab.
And I don’t remember any of my thermochem from highschool. I’ve got this feeling that one way might involve adding a significantly colder sample of water with a known temperature and known volume to the known volume of the unknown temperature water, yielding a third known temperature, and somehow calculating the original temp from that, but I’m just not sure how I would go about doing that.
And from googling online, it soudns like the other option would be along the lines of weighing the warmer sample, then weighing a sample with known temp, and then somehow using pressure of temperature to figure it all out, but……not quite sure how to work that either.
Any help at all would be so helpful, and I would be so grateful. I’ve got this depressing feeling that whomever I get paired with (we’re not supposed to use our usual lab partner, not that he would be any different) will either not have bothered to try and figure anything out in advance, or won’t have a flippin’ clue. I mean, the average ont he first exam was 55. I got a 95. All but one kid in lab was whining after the first test about how ahrd it was and how they got either barely above average or elss than average. Not very encouraging for me possibly having a partner who knows more, so I really want to go in prepared, having two solid, workable ways that I know how to go about doing them, and if I do luck out and my partners have a clue? So much the better. We’re doubly prepared.
Please help!
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I’m ridiculous. Completely so. I’m sitting here in the house on a beautiful day eating a banana with peanut butter and watching HG2G on YouTube.
Oh well.
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(450) Luna: Adding colder water, as you suggested, is how I would go about it. If you have 100 milliliters of water of unknown temperature x and add another 100 milliliters of water that you’ve measured at known temperature y, then the temperature of the mixture should be the average of the two temperatures. From that you can calculate the unknown temperature. If an equal volume doesn’t bring the temperature down within measurable range, then you’d have to use a larger volume and weight the average. Or you could “titrate” the water with water of known temperature until the sample reaches a target temperature (say, 40 C). The volume needed should give you the information you need calculate the original temperature of the sample.
Another way would involve timing how long it takes to cool down to a measurable temperature. If you assume that the rate of cooling (dT/dt) is proportional to the difference between the temperature of the water at a given moment and the temperature of the environment (either the room or a water bath you’ve measured), then you can come up with an exponential cooling curve. You’d probably have to calibrate it by starting from a known temperature. You should know enough math to figure out how to do that.
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451- oooo. I be doing that too. Well, not exactly. I’m interneting and reading poetry with the blinds drawn.
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Oh, and in the spirit of this monthly topic, according the unofficial West Wing wiki, in Episode 621, “Things Fall Apart”, the character CJ asks if a space shuttle can preform an emergency rescue mission to the ISS. The administrator tells her “ONE’S missing half its wing assembly and the OTHER one’s undergoing a complete tile replacement.” (My capitalization)
Um, I know that The West Wing is set in a slightly different timeline than ours, but most things are the same, and in 2005, when the episode was set, there were (and are) THREE operational space shuttles, not TWO. So the NASA representative would have mentioned the third one, unless it was in orbit, which it wasn’t, because it was mentioned that only three people were on the ISS at the time, not ten, which is usually the number when a shuttle’s there.
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You know what I love?
Reading the HG2MB.
I know it’s weird. I already know all the information, but reading it reminds of that awed feeling I got when I was a ‘phyte, while at the same time it makes me feel curiously old.
Ah, now I’m all nostalgic for the old days. It’s funny how quickly the “old days” passed, too. I had my two-year blogiversary a couple of weeks ago, and I wasn’t shocked at how long I’d been around, as much as how long ago things started to fall apart. I started school the September after I joined, when I’d only been active for like six months, and since then time has just flown! The “good old days” in my mind (everyone has different “good old days,” I’ve noticed) was in between April 2007 and August 2007, a mere fraction of the time I’ve spent on MB. When my house burnt down I felt like I’d been on MB forever, but that was a year and a half ago and I’d only been on for a few months.
And I’m nearing the end of my sophomore year, but it seems like yesterday I was thirteen and thought I would be homeschooled forever!
Ack, where does all the time go?
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323- Might I point out that that could be a spoiler? I can just imagine some innocent MBer that just wandered over to this thread and hadn’t read the 7th HP book yet, starting to read that post, and getting part of the end spoiled for him. I am quite sympathetic towards the people who haven’t read all of the HP books yet, since I just read the last one days ago. By the way, where is the HP trivia thread?
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I… *gasp* …lost… *wheeze* *choke* …my… library… *cough* *gasp* *wheeze* …card. *collapses*
I’m sure it’ll turn up later, but for the time being, I DON’T HAVE MY LIBRARY CARD!!! *dies dramatically* *gets over it* I suppose I could read something that I have at my disposal. I suppose.
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Meh, Maura’s supposed to come over at 6:30 and she’s not here, and it is now 6:37! We haven’t seen each other since August, so I’m a bit nervous…. *bites fingernails*
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452–Thank you so much Robert! Between your help and my dad’s suggestions, I’m feeling much better about his. I’ve got a pretty good idea now of what we’re going to do (provided whomever I’m paired with is willing to listen, and that they don’t have other logical ideas of their own), and don’t feel like I”m going to go into lab and just be like, “Omg, what the heck am I supposed to do ?!?!?!”
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457- Yeah. That sucks. I lost my wallet a few weeks ago (@$%+*!!!! &)#-&^@#%(*-#@**&^!!!) and lost a lot of money, my library card, and my permit. *sends choklit*
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WE DID IT! WE’RE GOING TO NATIONALS! REPRESENTING MINNESOTA! WE’RE GOING TO AUGUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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OH MY GOODNESS I’M INCREDIBLY EXCITED.
Okay, I’ll be rational again. I got a letter today. A letter that said I was accepted into the trainee program on the Niagara this summer. *is very, very, very excited*
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Happy Pi Day, everyone!
Although I didn’t have any pie today, I did get to meet Ebeth, which was fun.
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I would like to go contradancing.
A white batmobile, while outrageous to fans, would be very nice.
There are only so many shades of black.
Pi day was good.
I like Coldplay too. Their older work is great.
Best of luck Kokonilly!
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461–That’s great! Congratulations!
462–That’s wonderful! I know how psyched you were about that. Should be lots of fun.
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I’m listening to “The Wizard and I” from the musical Wicked right now. Just as good as I remember from the live performance. Which is really bloody good!
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461~ Congrats!
463~ That’s fun! Where did you meet? Was it on purpose?
464~ Contra dancing is awesome.
465~ Thanks. I think it will be great fun.
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Good evening Mb!
461) Congrats Kokonilly!
What a rainy day! I couldn’t play badminton. Oh well. Twas still a Saturday and that’s what counts!
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466- I saw it in NY. It ROCKED.
I’m listening to It’s A Privilege to Pee from Urinetown. That sounds gross, but it’s a freakin’ amazing musical.
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(462) Yayness! That’s such great news! Eh, don’t worry about being rational just yet. I think that sort of excitement merits some full scale exulting.
(461) Congratulations, Kokonilly! Flamablamablous! Sorry, I hadn’t see your comment until now. I usually end up reading backwards in time when I’m catching up on blog comments after being out.
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470~ Oh, I can be exultant and rational at the same time, believe it or not. Well, it’s different for me since my version of rational ranks around what most people consider completely insane. So no worries, I’m exulting appropriately.
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Today is also White Day in japan, which is a marketing ploy for boys to buy chocolate for girls in reciprocity for the chocolate they received on Valentine’s Day. In Korea they have Black day for singles.
/psa that I probably make every year
Whatever the case I think I prefer pi day.
461) That’s very exciting! Congratulations!
462) What did you do when you read the letter? That sounds wonderful, congrats to you as well!
I am quite exclamatory today.
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472~ Well, since you ask…I jumped up and down and spun in circles, making myself terribly dizzy which necessitated in my grabbing at the refrigerator in order to prevent myself from toppling over onto the hard floor. I was also squealing at this point and trying not to crunch the paper as I did all this. A most alarming spectacle, I’m sure. 0_o
I then calmed down, told the parents what it said (as if they couldn’t figure it out-ha!), seated myself at the computer and wrote the above posts.
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THANK YOU! When I found out, I hyperventilated, then stopped breathing altogether. They shoved us onstage and I jumped up and down and hugged everybody on the team. It was GREAT.
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462) Wowsers! THat’s awesome!
I feel hyped! You know? An tomorrow I have to get back to school work. *sigh* Maybe I’ll take some time aside to work on my art project and catch up on my writing. Maybe. *hopes fervently*
Oooooo! I’m so happy! My sister’s been here all week! However, she’s going home tomorrow, which is sad.
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Random: Whenever I see the acronym WOMBAT on this site I always think of JK Rowling’s WOMBATs. I’ve passed all three of them, so I guess I’m sort of qualified to be an HP witch.
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476–Me too! I don’t even remember what WOMBAT stands for on here…..
I think on JKR’s I got E, E, and O…..but since I did ’em ex post facto, not when they were first originally up, it doesn’t save the results. But I’m pretty sure that’s what I got. (To my huge shock on the last!) They’re quite tough, really. Requires thinking. *shudder*
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I feel happy.
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Unsurprisingly, 12:45-2:15 on a Saturday night seems to be a very good, quiet time to do laundry if you don’t want to be competing with several others for the “good” washers. That is, the ones in the same room as the dryer, as opposed to around the corner in the other room. There was only one other person doing laundry, and she got there after me, and didn’t stay, so I had it all to myself. ‘Twas nice. And now I”m done with laundry until sometime well into April. Even nicer.
And I have eaten very nearly an entire bag of BBQ potato chips today, not even spread out over the entire day…..Not so nice, given that it’s one of the family size, not a little bitty bag.
I seem to have recently developed (like this past semester) a habit of snacking and eating even when I’m really not hungry. Stress, perhaps. But it’s really not advisable, given my choice of snacks aren’t exactly healthy. It would be one thing if I was snacking on veggies or something, but……
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(479) Not getting enough sleep tends to add to snacking as well.
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480–lack of sleep? Moi? Nah, you’ve got to be kidding.
That would make sense, though. I mean, I don’t feel all that much more stressed, per se, this semester, but I’ve definitely not gotten as much sleep. Especially the past couple weeks what with studying for my bioethics and history midterms (both of which the main bulk of the grade comes from two tests, midterm and final, so there was a lot riding on those…..still don’t have my grades back…..). And of course the 8 o’clock classes really don’t help. Nor does my nature as a night-owl, as it means that come the weekend I screw up my sleep schedule something awful by staying up until *checks clock* 3 or so on Fri/Sat, sleeping in until noon or later, and then still needing to go to bed at 10 Sunday to get a decent amount of sleep before getting up for my 8 o’clock on Monday…..
As far as snacking, I’ve never been particularly good at not giving into cravings. Fortunately, I’ve got a wonderful metabolism…..
I really ought to consider going to bed. But I’d really like to try to get my history notes revised, so that I can spend my time tomorrow studying my butt off for my chem test on Wednesday. As well as some other things I need to get done….
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426-It’s all just for attention. I mean, until New Moon comes out in November, he needs to keep the interest of all the squealing Twilight fangirls, and telling the media he did something like take Valium before and audition, or is nervous about upcoming sex scenes is just a ploy to get the girls interested.
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461 – Congratulations!! That’s flamablamablous! Which events did you do well in? Maybe, if we get incredibly lucky, I’ll see you at nationals.
462 – That’s great! That sounds like it’ll be a great way to spend the summer.
It’s raining here, as it’s been raining for the past four days. Usually I like rain, but it’s getting kind of depressing, not to mention how soggy the ground is going to be. Whenever it rains, there’s a huge puddle between two buildings at school… tomorrow, it’s going to be more like a lake. That will be interesting.
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477- Waste of Money, Brains, and Time.
478- I’m not sure if you know this, but that’s a quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Did anyone else take the National French Exam last week? Level 3 or otherwise. I’m curious what other people thought of it.
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482–Oh, yes. That he is on his way to becoming drug addict is very fascinating. Just what I dream of in a guy.
Sorry……the sarcasm is not directed at you….
484–Ah, gotcha.
I’m tired. I was up until probably 5:30 (I wasn’t tired.), and then, of all things, I was awoken around 7 because I felt like I hadn’t eaten in ages and was starving. So bad I couldn’t go back to sleep. And the reason that is so ridiculous, is when I went to bed less than 2 hours prior, I wasn’t hungry in the slightest, and although I might sometimes get hungry again that quickly during the day, never when I’m sleeping. Or else I’d never sleep through the night…..
Gah. Very annoying.
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My fellow musers, I regret to announce that I am dying. Or, at least it feels that way. Triple header soccer tournament last night, plus all the workouts coach made us do in between the games. My legs quite literally feel like they are going to fall off. And I can’t chew, half because the ball whacked me hard on the left side of my face and made my cheek all puffy, and the other reason being because of the insane pressure inside the dome. Apparently they need such monumental air presure to keep the dome standing, but it made my inner ear all screwed up. We won one game, the last one, and it rocked. A girl slapped me in the back on purpose and I almost bit her head off. But, the best part about last night was the ref. He was 14, named CJ, and the cutest ref our team had ever seen. Sydney asked his name and age, and then we all screamed at him to call us in between games. It was much fun.
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I might just be ignorant, but does MuseBlog celebrate Towel Day?
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487–Sorry you don’t feel so well, but it sounds like it was fun!
488–Probably. It is an H2G2 thing, I believe? Given that many/most of the MBers have read and enjoyed the series, it definitely sounds like something that would be celebrated here……*confesses she has not read the books, and has no clue what precisely or when precisely towel day is*
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(488) Fear not. We know where our towels are.
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Congrats, Kokonilly!
OMG!!! -is envious of Fiddler- Have fun!
I now find that I have nothing else to say.
It is fresh and rainy out.
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480 – I believe that. Yesterday, the average amount of sleep was four hours (I got five), and we ate SO MUCH junk food throughout the day it’s not even funny.
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TOWEL DAY. Towel day is my favorite holiday.
Hey GAPAs, my mom emailed about the boston kokon this morning.
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493- My favorite holiday is Friday the 13th. I love 2009 so far!
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Thanks, Alice!
Today’s Towel Day?
WILL ANYONE BE IN AUGUSTA, GEORGIA MAY 15-16? I doubt I could have a Kokon, unless maybe you stopped by…
SCIENCE OLYMPIAD NATIONALS
and said hi.
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It’s TOWEL day! Yay! Yet another rainy day in my hometown! How are yall this fine aafternoon?
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(495, 496) Towel Day is May 25, but where I am right now looks like a good day to have a towel at hand.
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(497) Same here: it’s rainy and cold.
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It’s sunny here in southern NH, with temparatures at a warming 50 degrees. Very nice to lounge in with a book.
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NOTE TO:
CAT’S MEOW, PURPLE PANDA, POSOC, THE MAN FOR AEIOU, AND CELLO-PLAYING MATHEMATICIAN (AKA KYRA), MOST OF WHOM HAVE HEARD THIS MESSAGE ABOUT TWENTY TIMES AND WILL NOW HEAR IT AGAIN, AREN’T YOU PLEASED? REPORT TO THE SEA ROC.
WE ARE EDITING THE SEA ROC. WE HAVE BEEN DOING SO FOR SOME TIME. I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT IF ANY/ALL OF YOU WOULD COME AND HELP BECAUSE THERE ARE CURRENTLY ONLY TWO OF US AND THEREFORE I FEEL A LITTLE GUILTY ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF REWRITING I’VE BEEN DOING. BUT IF EVERYONE WAS REWRITING, IT’D BE SPIFFING!
Thank you for reading this message. I hope it got your attention.
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492–My complete and utter sympathy. I know exactly how you feel. Although, oddly enough, despite getting probably less than 3 hours of sleep last night (not by choice, really, although it was choice to stay up to 5) I’m incredibly awake and energized, and although I’m procrastinating on studying chem and revising english, I am at least procrastinating productively by sweeping our dorm (it gets accumulated nastiness really, really fast–it’s gross) and packing for break. So, at least I’m doing something if not necessarily what I really should be doing……And I’m holding off the snack cravings, too! *is pleased with self* Although I’ve got this feeling I”m going to break down and eat something before long. Maybe nachos.
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500- 500th POST AWARD GOES TO YOU!!!!!! YAYAYAYAYYYY!!!!!!!!
501st to me!
I need to go and help my dad with the laundry. He can’t tell the bras and socks apart, so I need to sort them. (Because, you know, my mom’s bras and mine are totally the same… )
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502– Yeah, my dad’s got the exact same problem. With the bras, anyway. He always thinks mom’s are mine (they are totally different style). The sad thing is he asks on shirts, too. Socks he usually gets (mine are easy, though, I mainly only wear picture socks…..), and underwear he can’t tell mom and my sister’s apart (but no one but my sister can, they’re the same brand, same style, just different sizes), and he only knows which are mine because they are several sizes smaller……Oh, yeah, it’s great fun.
Dad’s are dorks.
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497) Aw. It sounded like it was today.
500) Wowsers! Thanks Alice!
I just realized this. Isn’t it high time for a new section of this?
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It’s drizzly here and somewhat chilly, I noticed 42 degrees (F) in town a while ago.
It sounds like we might get a VW bug! And old-ish one. But still, those are my favorite cars. *hopes* It’s the new style, but old, if that makes sense. Of course, my absolute favorite is the old style bugs, I think those are completely adorable! *melts*
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502- When I first read that I was like “What? Bras and socks look nothing alike!” and then I realized…
Siiiighhhh. I should probably work on my Civil Disobedience project for Global Studies…boycotting school hours you know…so they’ll start at nine instead of eight, and go until four. I can do the writing bit easily, but the creative portion might be a bit harder. Why, no, this isn’t due on Tuesday, why do you ask?
I suppose I’ll have to have the protest after I present the project.
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My mom thinks I have insomnia. I don’t think so, I just have a really hard time falling asleep- is that insomnia?
I think I’m going insane!
Our team- section of grade- had to do these stupid college projects. And we have taken FOUR DAYS to present them to the team. We still have like, half the team to go. I got called to do mine on Friday and I had to tell her my flashdrive broke. She told me I should have fixed it. FIXED IT! How the heck do you fix a flash drive? So I had to go upstairs and do it in one of the classrooms. The crazy thing is, this teacher thinks that we LIKE it. I can’t stand being in those chairs for more than an hour and we do it the ENITRE day. Next time I might scream.
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SFTDP
502/3~ My dad has messed up some of my clothes too. Most notably my jods several years ago. Now, my fellow horse enthusiasts will know that jodhpurs are beige colored, so what does dad do with them? He hangs them over a walnut drying rack. My rescue operation was too late, for the rest of the time I wore them they had these big stripes across the rear. *sigh*
Then he stretched out one of my favorite nice shirts and it never recovered, it’s still bell shaped, very unflattering, makes me look like I’m wearing maternity clothes.
*sigh again* Oh dad……
At least he’s not too bad about confusing mom’s an my underwear and bras, but it’s pretty obvious whose they are.
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503- With my situation, I wear a D, which are big, but not as big as my mom. She has to wear a nursing bra, her chest is so big (something to do with Polish genes and 2 kids), and they’re like 5 times the size of mine. And yst, he STILL messes up.
506- No, my dad is not that stupid.
507- I have minor insomnia, along with seasonal depression. Heck, we all have some type of label doctors slap on us. I just have trouble sleeping when I’m stressed or excited and I get cranky in the winter; I don’t need an analysis…
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Does anyone know what a math problem where you have to make a bunch of combinations of stuff is called? You know, ABC, ABD, etc. I have a math paper due Tuesday… Meh. I think I’ll eat another piece of Dove choklit.
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(504) Well, you can still celebrate the ides of March, if you’d like.
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510- Sorry, my brain is melting trying ot capacitate all the formulas I have to remember. Let alone that one… make a tree diagram, I think…
511- Ooo yes, that’s right! SUCK ON THAT, CEASAR!!!!!
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509~ A D?! You poor child.
I don’t even know what size I wear, as I generally grab a pack of sports bras and leave the store as quickly as possible, unfortunately it looks as if I may not be able to do that much longer. *sighs heavily*
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Yay! Happy Ides of March! Down with Julius Caesar! Up with the number 15! Pies for all!
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509- I wear a 36A. I’m sometimes a bit embarassed by that fact… Maura and I were talking about it and she only wears 32A, which is probably what all my other friends wear… but a D?!? Yikes.
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The next time someone insults me (which could be tomorrow… I have at least two classes with T*****, the most annoying kid I know), I will say:
“I protest, sir! I demand satisfaction! My card.” and then of course hand them my card and walk haughtily off. Or something of that sort. Maybe I’ll ask the nearest friend to act as my second. I don’t know.
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This conversation has taken an…..interesting…….turn.
I think my lack of sleep is beginning to catch up with me…..I’m feeling a little bit tired.
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517~ Indeed.
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*pointedly ignores the conversation on bras*
I am So Amazingly Excited.
There is a dinner for all first-place winners this Thursday. It WOULD clash with math, but the place I take math has spring break a week early, so I can go!
THERE IS ALSO A BULLETIN ON THE MINNESOTA STATE SCIENCE OLYMPIAD SITE CONGRATULATING US!
I cannot wait for May 15. Augusta!
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517- I pity the poor guys.
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469-Yes, it is indeed a great musical!
You know what’s really tasty? Put five ice cubes in a cup, and add half seltzer and half cranberry juice. It’s really cold, and really good.
Space Shuttle Discovery takes off at 7:43 Eastern!
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Hey, where’s Kyra? Anyone know? I want to talk to her about Kokonventions, because summer’s coming up (sorta) and we should start planning.
I’d say we should try to have the Kokonvention Extravaganza that we were going to have last summer, but Meow’s going to England, and if D.C. and a new cell phone kept her from going last year, then I think England would keep her from going for like three years. Plus IBCF stopped blogging or something.
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521- That sounds good. Maybe I’ll try it. Half selzer half oj is good too.
My dad tells us to sort our own laundry so… I don’t have a problem with mixed up clothing. And my sister is wayyy too small to fit into my clothes so she’s not going to steal any of it. Not that I wear her style anyways.
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I think we should have a new random thread……………………….
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Wish me luck, everyone! I start my OGTs tomorrow.
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My dad’s making me watch some boring economics thing.
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And Discovery is in orbit!
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I need to get myself unglued from YouTube and go do something worthwhile. Like practice, since I have some pieces that I really need to work on…..gah, violin teacher is threatening to have me do the Bach Double violin concerto for recital. It’s nice enough so far though, just woefully slow and rather unmusical when I play it.
Or I could do homework. Indeed, that might be good seeing as I have several days worth of math to correct (horror, I get to see how much I mangled). Then tomorrow I could perhaps get on with it and finish more than half a page, astonishing thought, that. I’ve been just barely keeping above the surface lately, and that’s being quite lax in one’s description of acceptable scholastic levels of daily achievement.
I could just sit down and read, I have a stack of books that I want to read, and that I need to read….and, better yet that I both want and need to read, Jamestown Narratives anyone? Who doesn’t like to kick back with a 3′ thick book of primary documents on 17th century Virginia? On second thought, please don’t answer that.
Yet, my friends, I regret to tell you that at present I am not even attempting any of these worthy pursuits. I am instead wasting my time on YouTube watching fuzzy, poor quality videos and incubating my new obsession with Monty Python (especially Eric Idle, but I shall say no more).
Woeful indeed, but if at all possible, it gets worse; I haven’t even an excuse, let alone a good one or one that even makes the merest gossamer shred of sense. I really am ashamed to admit this, but it is most unfortunately true.
I am also in one of those odd moods in which I feel a great desire to be funny, use interesting words such as “posh” and be more interesting than I actually am.
Alas, moods like these often result in things that I find at least mildly witty and others find as a reason to send me packing to the loony house.
In other words, please ignore this post unless you want a window into my pathetic and short circuited brain. Though I warn you, this is a terrifying and potentially scarring experience, I am aware of this fact perhaps better than anyone else, for I cannot escape. My advice to you, my good man/woman/hermaphrodite/whatever you are is to run while you still can.
And so I leave you. Goooodniiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, a ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding……
(PS–thanks GAPAs, I owe you. *distributes large amounts of choklit*)
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Okay, prepare to see very little of me in the future, because in April I’ll be doing Screnzy, and until May 15 I will be studying my butt off.
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529- Ah, so someone is doing Screnzy, after all. Good luck!
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I think I’m going to casually Screnzy again this year. COntinue the old plot since it’s been whispering to me for a few months now…
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I would love to sit down with some primary sources from 17th century Virginia. That sounds lovely.
Since it is still March 15:
CAESAR
Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,
Cry ‘Caesar!’ Speak; Caesar is turn’d to hear.
Soothsayer
Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR
What man is that?
BRUTUS
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
CAESAR
Set him before me; let me see his face.
CASSIUS
Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.
CAESAR
What say’st thou to me now? speak once again.
Soothsayer
Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR
He is a dreamer; let us leave him.
Too bad no one ever listens to soothsayers. I was sitting in my chair of auger, at the place where the birds…something or other.
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532~ Actually, it is quite fascinating, once you get a little used to the writing style. Even that is fun, just a little taxing at times.
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533–*shudder* I’ll pass, thank you. Although I am glad that you are enjoying them, even if they’re not for me…..
So, yeah, I just read this “article”, a short little blurb about HP6 trailer:
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
Another slick, proficient Potter trailer. Lavish visuals. Well-sculpted effects. Utter fidelity to the source material. At this point, all pistons have been firing for so long, and the cogs are so well greased, that there’s zero chance of creative blow-out or worse. Which, preview included, is both a strength and a weakness. GRADE: B
Obviously the person who read this hasn’t a clue. That is, en clearly hasn’t read the reports about those from the test audience who stated that 6 is the worst of the bunch, and cuts out all but two of the memories and turns it into a love story. “zero chance of a creative blow-out or worse”, huh? The guy should do some research before he publishes such a ridiciulous comment.
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Luna: Wow. Did you just review a review of a trailer you haven’t seen for a movie no one has seen? Only on MuseBlog!
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535–Not exactly. I’ve seen the trailer (or at least a HBP trailer, the guy didn’t specify what one he was reviewing), and a test audience in Chicago has seen the movie. And given it absolutely dreadful reviews.
But, yes, I did review a review of a trailer that I may or may not have seen, for a movie that the mass public hasn’t seen.
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530 – Thanks!
535 – TYPOGAPAALERT!
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Well I thought that the first trailer was great. Dark, well composed, balanced, and teasing. What a trailer should be. The second trailer: love! the visual effects.
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538–Ok, well, I concede that the trailer itself could be good. However, the conclusion drawn that the movie will therefore be good (“zero chance of creative blow-out or worse”) is an erroneous conclusion.
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529- what’s screnzy??
I feel bouncy and procrastinatey right now. The weather probably has something to do with it its almost 70 degrees outside and almost all the snow is gone and I feel happy…..THUNK. Terribly sorry about that. So what’s new with you? (I need a better default question don’t I)
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540 – Yeah, the weather is pretty awesome. Script Frenzy = Screnzy, where you write a 100-page script in the month of April.
YOU. NEED. A. NEW. DEFAULT. QUESTION.
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541- Oh, it’s awesome, all right. I just love the thunder and cranberry-sized hail, don’t you?
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Just letting everyone know that I won’t be posting for a while (until an undetermined time).
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542–Actually, I like hail storms…..
It’s about 70, here. Really nice, ‘cept I am still sad that we never had a proper winter……..stupid state.
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Fiddler (467): Yes, it was on purpose—we met in a sandwich-type-store-place (Così) where Ebeth lives. And congratulations about your sailing excitement!
Alice (500): Yes, as I said in my email, I’m on my way.
Luna (503): Haha, I’m sorry. My dad doesn’t even do laundry—that is a chore left to the mother and children.
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500 (Alice)- Meep.
522 (Still Alice)- I’ve been floating around, posting mildly funny things my friend and I said while working on a project last year. I’ve been really busy and will continue to be until… about June.
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542 – It is currently (well, it was) 65 degrees and sunny.
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It’s been cloudy here for four days, but it hasn’t rained or anything. I wanna see the stars!
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542- Haha!!! I’ve never had hail that big!!! There was a hail storm today, albeit a small one. I love hail; it’s almost like snow. I catch it in my umbrella and eat it. Yum!
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546- Hmm. Well, I’m really busy until July, and after that I’m free except for like five days in early August, so we should get together sometime.
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Okay…there is a chance I might be able to see President Obama on Wednesday!! I AM ECSTATIC
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I am currently listening to Donovan, and patching my Hopeless Case pants. At first there was plenty of hope for them, but the denim is just getting thinner and thinner and I’m having to patch more and more at a time. The thighs are really thin, too, with these tiny tiny holes that aren’t obvious until you look close and you just know they’re going to widen as soon as you try to wear them to school. -grimace- I’m still going, though. I’ve already patched two spots tonight and if I put like five more patches on the back then I may be able to wear them tomorrow. I really love these jeans and I don’t want to give them up. :'(
In doing this, however, I’m putting off the Essential: my poster for the Civil Disobedience project. I was doing fine, but then Perspective started messing things up, so I haven’t gone any further. Eh. School.
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