well….by the time we’re through with it, it won’t be rare at all!
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ahllo! im back…must catch up w/ things *goes to catch up w/ things*
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Interesting conversation you’ve got going there. But it’s already the ninth, and we’re only on Part 2. That’s a scary thought. On the other hand, I quite like ranbow Kokopelli. He looks quite the dashing gentleman. A little colour to his features quite becomes him.
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This is late for us, I think. What’s today? The 9th? Last month we had one by around the 5th, I think.
I just saw Supersize Me. The sad thing is, after watching all that stuff about McDonald’s, I have a horrible craving for a Big Mac. And haven’t wanted one of those since I was 6. Somehow, I don’t think that was the effect the movie was supposed to have on me.
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(319, Der Wachtelschlag Fliegender)… I always thought you were a grade/grades above me. Then again, when it comes to general knowledge of the world, it seems you are (I have to use Wiki for quite a few of the things you mention.. *hides face in shame* ). No, I wouldn’t say that post was polluting the thread. Quite a masterpiece, in fact, because it was both funny and angering (in that I was angered by the events of the story you told, not by you).
Ugh. 7th grade. 7th grade was awful. Much sympathy, though it doesn’t help much, does it.
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I loved 7th grade!
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I wasn’t fond of 7th grade. It was completely useless. 8th grade rocked though.
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5-Gentleman? Kokopelli? Only in the same way as Algernon Moncrieff…
7-Sorry. I’m not very good at getting other people to have any clue what I’m talking about. I even don’t, sometimes. No worries.
8-Good for you. I hated it. But I graduated from it, so there you have it.
I just drank an entire pint of Ting soda. It’s really good-all Jamaican and grapefruity at the same time. I have read Have Spacesuit, Will Travel, and I can honestly say I want to be Kip when I grow up.
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I just got a haircut. 2 and a half inches shorter!!! it’s okay, but my mom is still fawning over it. Ugh. Expect a whole barrage of newcomers today, because I’m having a party.
Check out my new song on the “music and lyrics” thread.
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I didn’t like 7th grade. But I would like to mention that I got 2 first posts yesterday. *rejoices*
And there’s no more school until the ende of August.
And I’m working on a painting in oils. Which I left outside overnight. I expect that I shall be spending the rest of the morning pulling out random fuzzy outdoor items from the paint with neele-nosed pliers. Aargh.
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Schrodinger’s cat is cool. I just read a book called The Last Universe, by William Sleator, and it’s all about Schrodinger’s cat and quantum stuff.
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I’m going into 8th grade… 7th grade was okay but i think 8th grade will be better….
10- you know what…. now i have a craving for soda…. hmmm… maybe that might not be such a bad idea…. *thinks* oh vell… i would be bouncing off the walls if i had an entire pint of soda in one sitting…. that’s why people like me cannot have coffee… *sighs*
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The Kokopelli is the same as the one on the Fan page, if you click on it. The Fanpage one also turns upside down if you run your mouse over it. Here, try. https://musefanpage.com
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I’m guessing that you won’t zap that.
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No, indeed.
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11-Fun, cried the ‘Prentice.
13-I’ll look it up.
There, Mr. Coontz, I have read Heinlein. I have an entire collection of way too much Heinlein. Sorry I gave you a craving for soda, Kricket.
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*sigh* I’m going into seventh grade come August. You people sure do know how to make a girl feel optimistic. Last year was a lot of fun for me.
At two o’ clock today, I’m auditioning for my school’s musical. They’re calling it a “Seussical”. You can guess what it’s all about. Anyway, I’m predicting this is a pretty big deal if they’re having auditions in the summer . If it’s not, then gosh, why am I auditioning in the middle of my summer? I’m NOT going to wear a tacky costume and use a bunch of props pulled together at the last minute by our drama department AGAIN.
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Well, anyway, wish me to break a femur or a tibia, okay guys? I’m not much of a singer. Also, can any of you describe to me the following two Seuss characters I’ve never heard of?:
Gertrude McFuzz
Lazy Mayzie
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7th grade wan’t very memorable. but 8th grade was severly awesome. i completely agreee with you about DWF, skipper.
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Break a metatarsal bone, Gwen! And don’t worry about 7th grade. It depends on the skool. Some people say it’s their best year, some say it’s the worst. I’m sure you’ll manage to get through.
All these books! Everyone’s always talking about these books to read! I can’t handle it! I’m a slow reader. I like to read every sentance comletely and if I don’t think I understand it completely, I read the whole paragraph again. I can read moderately fast if I want to, but I don’t like to. But it means I can never keep up with the list of books to read!
(excepting easy reads like young adult comedy and fantasy, I can eat those up as fast as my speed reading friends)
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20- Never heard of ’em. Sorry.
7th grade was fun for me, esspeally my awsome Reading/LA teacher(plus I got her for 2 whole periods) Ms. Zoot. Lucey VF is going to have her next year. My advice to her:Enjoy it while it lasts.
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10- Kip Thorne you mean?
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20- Ok, goode luck!
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20- search google for musical theatre international or MTI get to their main site then find Seussical. then click on characters. that should describe all the characters for you. Or this link if the GAPA doesn’t zap it: http://www.mtishows.com/show_casting.asp?ID=000229 My JCC is doing Little Shop of Horrors for the senior high show and, you guessed it, Seussical for the junior high show this coming school year.
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20-You’re a Muser. They will be LUCKY if you decide to grace them with your fr00dy presence. Break a metatarsal, kid! Give ’em hell.
22-You’re not supposed to. Just pick out the ones that look good to you. I read about 5 books a day, so I really can’t empathize there.
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I have a kitten in my bathrobe! His name is Nostradamus, hence mine, NostradamusRocker
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i think people go through a lot of psychological changes in 7th grade – thats probably why so many ppl hate/hated being that age.
#12: schweet. wish i could paint.
#19: hey, that might be my skools musical this year too! good luck!
mrahr. i hurt. from being on my feet lifting fudge boxes for 8 hours today.
…ha…ok, so my boss found out that i was vegetarian today, and he literally spent the entire morning needling me about it (“hey, ive got a craving for a carrot right now – why dont you run out + get me one?”…”hey, i bet emogrl goes through the drive-through @ bk + asks for an onion!”…). well, his sister was working this morning too, and she decided to go to bk + get all of us gardenburgers…+ she made him eat one…ah yes, the revenge was sweet.
3 more 1/2 days and then freedom! w00t! the ap lang exam yesterday was…just relly sad. we had to do an in depth self-defining project, and i swear the whole class sobbed through the entire 3 hours. i mean, people were saying things that they definitely wouldnt normally tell other people. and a few people that seemed to have absolutely perfect lives (+ i kind of despised them for that) – well, it turns out that i was way wrong about that. i feel bad now, for thinking that they did.
i did a poem – it basically focuses on all of the questions ive accumulated over almost 17 yrs – and ok, i still think its the sappiest thing ive ever written – after i had read it, i was expecting a few “well, at least she didnt start cutting herself while she was up there reading,” and maybe several crickets chirping – but ppl actually liked it! but i sincerely hope no one cried over it… here it is. enjoy the cliche-ness.
Seventeen Years of Questions
(6) Why does the World control
(4) The way one acts,
(9) Confining us here, blocking all roads out?
(6) Why are we so afraid
(4) To disobey
(9) Its demands for “order†and “routine?â€
(6) Why have I now begun
(4) To slowly drift
(9) Away from Its rulings and beliefs?
(11) Why am I fading out of the life I’ve known?
(11) Why am I at such a loss on how to act?
(11) Why am I falling apart, under pressure?
(11) Why am I seeing new roads ahead of me?
(12) Will I be allowed to venture down this way, or
(5) Will I be held back?
(12) Will I be the only one straying away from
(5) The well-traveled path?
Why does the World control
The way one acts,
Confining us here, blocking all roads out?
Why are we so afraid
To disobey
Its demands for “order†and “routine?â€
Why have I decided
To not listen
When It tries to tell me how to be?
Why have I started asserting my beliefs?
Why does no one understand what I say now?
Why do I feel miles away from my best friends?
Why don’t I forfeit and go back to Routine?
Will I be ran over on this road as well?
Or will I go far?
Will I ever find what I’m looking for here –
Far from the World’s rules?
Why does the World control
The way one acts,
Confining us here, blocking all roads out?
Why are we so afraid
To disobey
Its demands for “order†and “routine?â€
Why do I remember,
Almost with shame,
That It used to have control over me?
Why did I let the World choose my path for me?
Why did I not have any true dreams or ambitions?
Why couldn’t I distinguish what I wanted?
Why did I let myself get lost in the crowd?
Will I remember the dreams I have now, or
Will they soon be gone?
Will I be able to finish my dreaming soon,
And know what to do?
Why does the World control
The way one acts,
Confining us here, blocking all roads out?
Why are we so afraid
To disobey
Its demands for “order†and “routine?â€
Why have I just realized
We live but once,
And we each choose which path we will take?
I’m treating each day as if it were my last
I’m making a dif’rence wherever I can
I’m thanking the friends who have been there for me
I’m choosing a path that I will not regret
I’ll remember to follow my intuition,
Instead of “the crowdâ€
And soon I’ll find the freedom I’ve been looking for –
For seventeen years…
…Knowing we each decide
How we will act
But we’re influenced by others’ thoughts
We can either: decide
To let these thoughts
Determine where our lives will lead us,
Or we can attempt, since
We only live once,
To follow our dreams down our own paths
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While on the subject of books, having just finished yet another wodehouse (Bachelors Anonymous), i rushed myself over to the library before they closed (And am happy to report i made the entire trip in 20 min, there, back, and finding books, for which i thank my dear bike-a happy accomplishment indeed, seeing as how i left half an hour before they close) and…and…and…*the suspense builds* found, mine GAPA, Have Space Suit-Will Travel by our dear friend heinlein. I got that, and another of his whose name escapes me (I got it cuz it had The Smell. You know how it is when you find a book with The Smell), as well as two more wodehouse. Although i forgot their names too. In my hurry i just grabbed the nearest two i hadn’t read. One was about Blandings, i remember that much. Sunshine on Blandings or something like that.
So now i’m gonna go hole myself up in my lovely hobbit-hole and read.
Tomorrow’s graduation. Band’s playing. Yes, pomp and circumstance *sigh* What else? Anyway, the freshies are joining us and it’s all going to be very happy, if by happy you mean long, boring, soporific, and painful. Except for seeing the few seniors i know, that is. But having just moved last year, that’s pretty much just the band seniors.
And schneids issued a specific warning against trumpet fanfares when friends’ names were called. We were all like “awwww” Somebody did that last year though. I wasn’t there, i didn’t see it. Sad day, for me anyway.
World Cup’s started too. Dad’s been watching nonstop-i usually just come in for the last half, or sometimes the last 15 minutes. Did anybody see the Sweden/T&T game though? That was pretty amazing.
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oops. its supposed to be double spaced between “…World’s rules?” and “Why does the World…”
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I have 4 muse magazines at home. Pie me.
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29- That’s really goode!!!
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Ah, thank you Musers who wished me luck and to break my leg bones. The people who judged the auditions were super surprised. I was the smart, quiet, little kid for most of the year, so they were shocked to hear me sing the way I did. Hopefully, they were impressed. They weren’t as surprised to hear my cold reading, though. My core is drama (I go to an arts school, in case you didn’t already know). Found out who Lazy Mayzie is! She was one of the characters I had to cold read. All I had to do was read an excerpt from the Horton the Elephant book. Relatively easy.
Well, enough of my yammering. Anyone got anything to talk about, preferrably involving muffins?
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*pies DQ*
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Pomp & Circumstance is on the musical program for our graduation as well.
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(13) I read that book! I loved that book, though it made me not a little afraid of scary mind things like that. I like my mind. I don’t want anything to happen to it. So say NO to drugs, children.
(36) We had a silly school band concert last week. I don’t know why our music teacher even tries. He gets absolutely no respect from any kid older than nine. When he tells us to be quiet, it takes a full minute for us to quiet down. The guys all have insulting names for him. Even my mother says that he’s kind of whiny.
it was an okay concert. The best part was at the end, when some guys from eighth grade who are a band (named Mello Jello) played a couple of songs. They were infinitely better than the 6th, 7th and 8th grade bands. I loved it. We eighth graders who are their friends were crowding really close to the makeshift stage and clapping and shrieking like they were [insert name of popular band here]. It was like, Those are our people. They’re .
The computer screwed up my Kokopelli made out of periods!
HEY JOE, WHERE ARE YA?
Well, it was a pretty good picture of Koko.
You can still see it sort of.
It looks like he got a little squashed though.
Oh well.
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It looks pretty good to me!
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Ahhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The maddness is umberable !!!!!!!!!!!!
Me so random. (I’m at kiki’s house)
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So I just got back from camp today. It was really fun. Except they made us walk- it was about 7 minutes from the dorm to the cafeteria and then another seven to the music building where we had rehersals.. we’re musicians, people, not athletes. Except those of us who are both. We did really well and I have lots of pictures and email addresses and stuff and in-jokes…
Yay?
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28-Hello Nostradamus. Do you walk through walls?
29-Thought-provoking, but unsatisfying.
30-How am I supposed to find books? I can’t smell, for zark’s sake!
I have to go find my Jack Kerouac costume. I never really realized how deck Paul Revere was-he didn’t really care about the whole “taxation without representation” hassle, he just thought the British redcoat uniforms were unspeakably tacky. I have an Elvis Costello concert at Ravinia on Sunday, and I need to go find my copy of London Fields so I can lend it to my friend Beet, who is somewhat lilith but not fin.
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42-Where’d u go?
43-What do you mean you can’t smell? As in medically or as in One Who Is Simply Unaware Of The Smell That Enables Enlightened Ones Such As Ebeth To Find Good Books?
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I just got back from The Ocean State. For those of you that don’t know your state nicknames, Rhode Island.
There are very unfriendly people there.And they don’t know their area, either. Maybe its a small state thing.
Saw thr first baptist church in america. Neat stuff.
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omg…i just cleaned for uh.. about a hour and 45 minutes.. bla… i am leaving now.
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Harlo. At my party,we are now doing kareoke.
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#33: thanks for reading it!
#37: thats what ppl act like during the end of the year concert at my skool – cmon, its fun! or maybe ppl at my skool just have no better source of entertainment…oh well.
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(29) The clarity of that piece was refreshing. As in, it actually had a message which made a lot of sense. Good job.
I organized my bbok shelf today. Quite exciting. Even alphabatized it, from Adams to Wyndam. Speaking of which, who here like Wyndam? I’m reading The Kraken Wakes. Well, I was, but then I got distracted by Mostly Harmless, and then Emma, and then a few other things, but I should be back on track at some point.
(30) ARR! Lucky you. I would give every book I own to live within biking distance of a library. I would give up half the books I own to live in a place place where I could get anywhere without having to get my parents to drive. It’s horrible in the summer, because they’re at work and I;m stuck in the house all day.
I found out today that I own my bass clarinet. Nice!
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7th grade was fabulous. 8th was/is not. In fact school in general is a chore. In any case.
As far as books go, I recommend Kamikaze Girls . For the older Musers. Novala Takemoto is hilarious, and a great writer besides. I think you’d like it, Queenie. There’s also a movie that was in very limited release in the US. At least in my area.
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I only live a few miles from the library, but I usually don’t bike there (it’s hard to bike uphill with lots of books, and I usually come home from the library with a LOT of books). My school bus has a stop at the library, so I get off there, and my mom picks me up when she has to pick my brother up from afterschool (they’re right next to eachother)..
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49- My bookshelf is organized by author and colour. I’m not even joking here. Like, I’ll keep all books by the same author together, but my bookshelf is mostly colour-coded. And some books are stacked on their sides….it’s weird, and I’m the only one who can find anything on it…:)
I live 5 miles [walking distance!] from a library. It’s not very big, though. The one that I need to be driven to is much better.
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i live a little over a mile form my library. And my library is gooooood. Ask phoenix. her library only has the second book from each series if even half her complaints are true.
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44- I went to summer camp.
More descriptively, it was a week-long chamber music thingy. My group played Beethoven op. 95.
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I have about 89 collective pounds of reading material in my room, and they aren’t organized in any way.
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GAPA, the color for my b-day is tye dye, I already mentioned it on the birthday thread
it takes about five minutes to WALK to the library nearest to my house it’s not that great of a library but still…
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51-I used to have that problem before i moved. Huge hill. Great to ride down, books or no, but up was a problem. I usually went around cutting through parking lots and suchlike. Out of my way, but comparitively flat.
Now i live in a place of extreme flatness. And i mean extreme. You have to drive a while to find a decent hill.
My library’s mebbe only half a mile away i think. Something like that. Pretty much everything is, seeing as i live right down the street from Main.
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could we have a thread for peple who hate hpbs? they could all sign it, and then if we got enough people we could get rid of the hpbs!
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My library is about a mile away^_^ I don’t go there that often though as my mother is a librarian and brings things home from her library for me.
Would someone please describe P. G. Wodehouse to me? what kind of books are Wodehouse’s books? what is the first one one should read?
My bookshelf is in alphabetical order by author’s last name. Go me.
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Wodehouse is british. Very british. Very funny. Hilarious, in fact.
Wow, you people are organized. My bookshelf is just sort of there. With books in it. But that’s only because i have limited room on my floor and under my pillow and on my desk and on my head and in the kitchen and the guest room and the basement etc, etc.
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58- NEVER!
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My library is definetly within biking distance, but I wouldn’t want to bike there. Let’s have a Libraries/Books thread. FunFunFun.
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my bookshelf is arranged alphabetically. all my library books are sort of in a heap in front of it. i have 65 books checked out and everyone thinks that its an unreasonable number. *cry* so ill have to work on reducing that number.
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i could bike to the library but it would take ages, the way back is up-hill and its not really safe to bike alone anyways so i might as beg a perent to drive me. I don’t go to the library much anyways though, because we have a SWEET bookstore in town and it has more of the books i like and i usually forget to return books….
#49: thanks!
#52: ha…mine actually used to be like that too…until i became disorganized
i love to bike to the bookstore downtown in the summer (6 miles – but all the hills make it fun!). its 3 floors, and the basement is this cafe place w/ live musik where a lot of ppl wearing all black + newsboy caps / berets (…oh, that would inc. me – haha!) like to hang out.
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I am about two miles away from the library. I am training my shoulder blades to withstand extreme stress such as that caused by hanging 30 pounds of ink and paper off them.
My bookshelf used to be in no particular order, but my mom decided to do something about that one day. Now all my books have little tapes on them that say the first two letters of the author’s last name on them, and they are alphbetized by that.
I have most of the Redwall series and those are organized by color. Sometimes, I put books together if their stories kind of transition to each other. And I don’t put books that I really like next to books that I don’t especially like. I’d NEVER put “The Golden Compass” next to “Freaky Friday”. It just seems…wrong. Yeah, I’m a psycho order person.
I have piles of books that I’ve recently read on the floor. A few years ago, we bought new bookshelves to hold all the books we have. I have 2.5 big magazine holders full of Muse. I’ve been getting my beloved Muse since ’99.
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Yeah, my favourite books are on the top shelf….and the ones I haven’t read (the new ones) are in stacks in front of it. Well, they aren’t really stacks, but whatever. Magazines are on the second shelf, in order. Next to my CD player.
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68-WHAT? Boy, that’s a long time. I’ve only been getting it since ’03, and I lost half of them. A lot of them I actually didn’t get, like to Oct 2005 issue. I take them out of the library, though, and I’m planning to order some back issues.
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Hmmm, maybe I should put my books in order. But then I would die. I am a messy freak, the opposite of a neat freak.
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So you know, I have a mild case of synthesia, and whenever I am reading or doing something and listening to a song over and over, the song becomes connected to the thing. Like, Catherine Russell’s “Memories” reminds me of Molly Moon Stops The World, and Ashlee Simpson’s “Boyfriend” reminds me of House of the Scorpion. So now, Aqua’s “Happy Boys and Girls” reaminds me of Museblog.
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And that happens even if the song has nothing whatsoever to do with what I’m doing. You envy me, right?
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Oh yeah, and “Seasons of Love” reminds me of dance class and HG2G.
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Hey, did you know that if you search “butterfly boucher” (a really cool singer) you get a link to the muse fan page? Cooliosis. We are everywhere.
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Actually, I don’t envy you, funnily enough. I get songs stuck in my head WAY to easily. But I like thinking of uses for songs. For example, the song “I’ll be missing you” (which I LOVE!!!) is great for when you go on trips and fall in love wityh hot foriegn boys and then have to leave. (Not thatr this has ever happened to me…)
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Kiki- Really? That’s synesthesia? Well, in that case, I have it too. I always thought that was normal, to have songs and events linked in your mind. Although for me, the connections don’t have to be something I was doing at the time; they can be random things that were going through my head. Like…”When I Grow Up” by Garbage reminds me of smoke machines, bubble machines, and tables. Only wood ones, though, not the nasty plasticky plywood kind. And they’re square.
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Hello, hello, hello!
-Count Olaf
Mwahahaa.
-Terry Pratchet
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(77),
That’s not synesthesia. Getting songs stuck in your head and associating them with particular memories or activities isn’t unusual at all. We’d all love to be synesthetes, but very few people actually are.
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71- But if you know where all of your stuff is, it’s all goode and you don’t have to be neat.
I hate getting annoying songs in my head. Like one day, I went around singing Manson’s “Personal Jesus” for hours because it was driving me mad. The other day I was singing “I Feel Love,” by Blue Man Group featuring Venus Hum for hours on ende, too. But at least I wasn’t quoting random books or TV shows at people. I do that a lot. And talk about fictional characters as if I know them. Which I do.
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I’d hate being a synesthete. I really, really, would. And Otzi (76) it does suck. Trust me on this, it happens both directions to me.
I’m flying to Belgium in a week to catch up with my friend Robin. He’s started a Holistic Detective Agency, and he wants me to come and decorate his office. I’m only too glad. I like Belgium, I like Robin, and I like the idea of extra time away from my parents and with my friends. Also, my favorite band Snix will be in town and Robin promised to take me to a concert. You see, Robin and I have nasty habits of finishing each other’s sentences, getting each other identical gifts (Tintin-print underwear, Wodehouse anthologies, etc.) and I help him with his English and he helps me with my abysmal German and my okay French. Both of which will get an extreme workout-his biz partner, a Plush Carpet, is unilingual in German. Also, my parents really like Robin as long as I send them lots of Euro cooking gear home. Plus, I can fit into his Doc Martens and his jeans (rolled up), and they’re reaaaaaallly cool. I bring this up only because I have no one else to tell it to-my friends would tease me unmercifully.
My CDs are alphabetical by artist, but oddly. The Clash are next to Cave-In, but the Rolling Stones are next to Steely Dan.
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59-Wodehouse’s books are light, English comedies on the upper class. They’re completely hilarious, witty, and filled with classical allusions (to Shakespeare, Shelley, 1930s film, the Bible, etc.) and glorious mishaps. In Laughing Gas, for example, the hero leans over to plant a delicate kiss on the neck of his betrothed, forgetting the fact he has a lighted cigar in his mouth. In Thank You, Jeeves, a character has to black his face with boot polish, and then finds he cannot remove it because someone has taken all the butter in the house to make a butter slide. They’re funny, light reads-I would reccomend a book with ‘Jeeves’ in the title for a start, and remember, except for all the weird Brit slang (“stewed to the gills, Basilton-Basilton poked him in the snoot”) they are easy reads that take me about half an hour tops.
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what is synesthesia, then? anyway, the soundtrack to hp1 still reminds me of pokemon ruby, and the soundtrack to lotr2 still reminds me of pokemon leaf green. listening to music while playing gameboy is not good for your music.
Ok. I’m back. I am now officially changing my name to *Skittles*. I wont make any more changes.
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79- Yeah, maybe so, but I can draw music I hear and I can “see” music in colors and shapes. I once drew a really pretty picture of Steve Rashid’s “I Will Seek Him”. That’s also how I memorize music, by thinking of the image and color of the music.
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This is extremely weird, but the song “Spongebob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy” reminds me deeply of MuseBlog.
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Hey peoples banned today pretty much only sec i can sneak just so y’all know i’m going to GR so i’ll be gone about 3 days. Probably be lurking a while after to catch up. Eat your weetabix!
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83- Synthesia is when two senses are randomly connected (according to one Muser) so that the stimulation of one triggers the other. I’m alan, but I’m changing my name, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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I think I’ll ask my mother to bring home some P. G. Wodehouse for me…
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mrahr…the musik files in my mp3 got all screwed up, and ive spent the last hour trying to fix them
NO. MORE. PHYSICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
…eternal happiness must not feel too different from what im feeling now!!!!!!!!
*takes big pile of physics notes, goes into backyard, lights them on fire + dances around the blazing inferno*
wow. good day. but i probably passed that frikin exam by the skin of my teeth. ah, well – its all in the past now. *returns to bonfire*
whenever i listen to a certain cd, it reminds me of Soo, MI – but thats b/c i bought it there. nothing special about that.
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ahhhh part 2!!
only 7.75 more days of school! the high school got out today. grrr.
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Wednesday is our last day of school. I’ll be bored out of my mind, but I’m glad…it’s been a long year.
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congrats to all you people about to finish skool!
I found out something really cool. I showed my dad my copy of Larry Gonick’s “A Cartoon of History of the Universe”, and you it turns out they both were studying mathematics at Harvard at the same time! They never met, but my dad knew about him.
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To all of you, I suggest the Wind on Fire trilogy, by William Nicholson, and anything by Diana Wynne Jones. She wrote the Chrestomanci series, which rocks, by the way.
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91- I hate when that happens. iTunes deleted the songs, but not their names, in my iPod on Sunday and I spent half the day trying to convince my iPod to upload them againe.
My Hybrid Theory CD reminds me of a nursing home. Probably because I was stuck there all day with only that CD. Ok, I had another, but it was locked in my mom’s car.
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Dancing Queen’s going to be on soon. I called her. GAPA, add her to the Who’s Here list if you haven’t already.
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Does anyone know what website the IAT’s on? I want to take it and blog about it, but I can’t find that issue.
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All righty! Penty’s starting a writing contest!
Here’s what you do. Every two weeks or so, I’ll post a prompt for you to write from. You start writing whatever you feel like that relates to that prompt. When you’re done, post it with “Reply to Penty’s Writing Contest #[whichever number this happens to be. For example, the first entry would be #1, then #2, etc.] in the “Name” line. If you post your normal username, I’ll know who you are, and you will be disqualified. I’ll pick a winner and announce the winning number. Then, the person who wrote that entry will step up and claim their prize. (So it’s only virtual brownies and a shiny trophy. Sue me.) Please, this is a contest based on trust. Don’t say you wrote an entry that you didn’t write. I will be sad, the real author will be sad, and you will have a shiny trophy you don’t know what to do with.
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um...i have a strange question:
i know i gave out my xanga here about a month ago...is someone here who lives in CA visiting it a lot? no, im not stalking ppl (for reals, ppls!); a few weeks ago the xanga admins installed trackers in all of the weblogs, but you can only track ppl who have signed in. and ive been averaging 3 hits per day from somewhere in CA.
- and if it is one of you, ur welcome to look @ it anytime, but just tell me so i wont be freaked out anymore
and another thing: ive also been getting a mystery visitor from ohio almost every day, and i just want to know if that is also one of you guys...b/c theres a certain person i know who lives in ohio (+ shes friends w/ some of my friends who have xangas so she could easily track mine down) that i do not wish to associate with ever again in my entire life, and if it turns out shes snooping, i am going to make sure she regrets it...not kidding here.
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That is strange, ebeth. *shudder* That is partly why I have been banned from Xanga.
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100- I’ve looked at yours once or twice, but I don’t have a xanga and I don’t live in CA or Ohio (but Ebeth does, I think), so it isn’t me… And by the way, E~A, congratulations on your user pic!
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I’m tempted to start zapping any post that even mentions Xanga. Maybe I will.
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I don’t live in CA or OH…
xanga can be creepy…
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The Ohio person is Ebeth.
99- Cool! I like it. See, this is the kind of thing that should go on the Good Ideas thread. If there were a Good Ideas thread. Which is why the GAPA might make one right now. Please?
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103-But dearest GAPA! We would topple over dead! You wouldn’t want that to happen, would you? *slips a bit of virtual choklit-make that a LOT of virtual choklit*
Yeah, i’m the ohio person. I should check my tracker whatsit, see how menny peoples stalk me. My oblivious self never knew it existed.
And now i must go pack…my little backpack got a hole in it (a small hole but one that a tightly rolled-up shirt of mine could fit through (Yeah, i roll stuff up like that for packing. i don’t like carrying a lot of bags) so i have to find another something-or-other)
I’m bringing my summer reading for journalism-a life on the road by charles kuralt. Anybody read? I leave you people w/that. Discussion of the day. Bye.
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#106: ok; just wanted to make sure
whats that book about?
…mrahr! i am not a morning person!
i went to skool today for no reason @ all – the govt final was supposed to be today, but the teacher made us take it 2 weeks ago, so everyone knew that there would be nothing to do this morning…but the teacher still said we had to be there.
well, it turned out that no one else wanted to show up – except for this ditzy girl i cant stand. so i helped clean out my teachers file cabinets for 45 minutes…along w/ the ditzy girl…(wow, do i ever regret getting up this morning)…but after that my teacher said she didnt care if i left, so now im home. and now i shall go visit the new threads. *goes to visit new threads*
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I think I will explode.
I can’t reach Robin because of the World Cup and the fact that he’s watching it, and his boyfriend says he can’t move Robin away from the TV. Being obsessed with sports is lame, but R. has better qualities, so I won’t worry. I’m now going to attempt to get hold of him by force.
Call me immature
Call me a poser
I’d love to spread manure
In your bed of roses
Don’t wanna be rich
Don’t wanna be famous
But I’d really hate to have the same face…
As you!
107-Weird. Sorry you had to clean out stuff.
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We had graduation practice today for graduation tonight…and when we finished, our teacher said we could go home!!
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(75) I saw Butterfly and her band perform in a coffeehouse last year and highly recommend her to all Musers.
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Butterfly Boucher is actually one of my favorite people. She played later at what I will call The-Dinner-Party-When-I-Spilled-Trifle-On-Arvid-Carlsson-And-He-Swore-At-Me-In-Norwegian. Is my life fabulously exciting or what?
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Why don’t you go to her website and invite her to MuseBlog? She’d be fun to have around.
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I am totally lost. Who is Butterfly Boucher?
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On the last day of home ec, i had to help my teacher bottle up the 409: aka, pour half-bottles into other half-bottles, and I wound up with 409 all over the counter and myself.
I went to a theme park today with my entire eighth grade. There were about 20 other school buses in the parking lot, and we were waiting to get in the park for at least half an hour. The people there were almost as interesting as the rides, but looked considerably scarier.
I got sunburned. As did the rest of the grade. Owch. At least I was wearing my baseball hat all day, with the brim properly facing forwards to shade my face with lack of any style whatsoever.
On the way back from the theme park, the boys were put on one bus and the girls on another. Boooring. But anyway, the girls were sitting in two groups: popular girls and me, at the front of the bus, and everyone else, at the back of the bus. There were several empty rows of seats in between. Team Everyone Else started shouting things at us, so we shouted things back, like lines from a Black Eyed Peas song, phrases like “Your mom” (I hate that expression), and other random things like, “Blahblahblahblah!” I think we won. After a while, the bus driver told us that we were directly entertaining the boys’ bus, and indicated that his intercom speaker had been on.
It hadn’t been; I asked a boy later. I was disappointed. I think the boys should know what they’re in for.
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95 both of those =:heart:
im in 7th grade(allmost gone) i like it
soemone said they have freaky friday.
AHHHHHHH!
not he worst movie thoug h.
my dad did not believe Synaesthesia existed.
usually a very educated person… course he had heard of it.
there i a library…*does mental calculation*
approximatly .35 of a mile away from me.
3 avenues.
it sucks though. does nae have too many books.
my boookshelf… could be organized… but it would take like a weelk. i have a life… like the internet.
as you can no doubt see.
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118-Was that meant to be a poem? I really do hate to say that, but I’m kind of unsure.
I’m sending off a Team Emu piece to Cicada tomorrow. It should be finished by then, if the Slow Food meeting doesn’t wear me down too much or take up too much of my time.
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I feel distinctly sleepy.
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117 – what park?
Our 8th grade class went to Cedar Point last week. It was really fun!
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does anyone know of any good websites about english folk music sung today?
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ach, ther wee gappas ‘ave left.
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Thou speaketh not, oh Great and Powerful Ones!
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was that supposed to be ‘thee’ or ‘thou’?
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has anyone read Thud!? it was really really really good. especially the Where’s My Cow? stuff.
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ooh, this is fun. i get to fill up the thread with my spiffy comments!
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i loved your poem emogrl. my bookcase is organized sort of by… writing stlye. the only thing you can count on is that a series will be together.
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107- That mus have been irritating. Sorry
108- manure… bed of roses… clever.
I get to spend all day tomarrow at the library. All this talk of them made me want to spend more time int one, so I asked my mom if she could drop me off in the library when she goes to work and take me home when she comes back. So that’ll be fun.
Had a band practice today. It was this optional thing for all incoming freshman, even though it’s summer. It was fun. Some our pieces are hard. Our theme next year is The Who, so our opener is this Babba O’Reilly/ Who Are You medley. It’s really cool, but the sixteenth notes at the intro of Babba O’Reilly are killing me.
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Oh, woe is me, for I am without glue-stick.
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127- Is there a password? Or should I create my own nation and send Land of the Muse a message or something of the like…?
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Oh, cool. I’m figuring out this Nationstates thing. Wow, I’m slow.
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Ok, so I created a Nation. w00t. [and sorry about the chain comments…]
It’s called The Federation of The Commodore SM. And it’s somewhere in the Pacific…
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*tries to change region* What is the password….I think you mentioned it ages ago….*ponders*
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#128: thanks!
i just cleaned out my bookcase – got rid of a ton of Dear America s. i used to love those things…
I can’t believe I only have one more year of skool! …*gets sedimental*
Well, time for my twelfth-ennial folder cleanout! W00t.
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AHHH! TELEGRAMS!!!! *is completely confused*
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the password is kokopelli.
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EXTRA EXTRA!!!READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!!!!! Have you heard the news? Head over to the Pie Wars thread!!!
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126-Yes, it was good. Vimes is one of my heroes.
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138- Thank you!
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139- going over there!!!
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110- Cool! Did you have fun?
112- I would, but I don’t know how to cantact her. She has a site and stuff but there’s no way to reach her that I know of.
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(143)
She put on a great show, even though she had a bad cold. She kept pouring herself hot tea throughout her set and had to leave right afterward to collapse on her bus. But she gave it all the energy she had. I know this isn’t always important for musicians, but she seems genuinely sweet and decent–and funny, in a quirky, Muserly way.
She’s on MySpace, but it looks as if only other members can send messages to her that way. Oh, well, maybe something will turn up. I think she’d enjoy MuseBlog. She strikes me as a pie-throwing kind of person.
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You know those plastic, CD-resembling dividers that come in stacks of CDs? The ones that look like a transparent CD? Well, I took it out of the stack of actual CDs and told my sister that it was a new and improved type of CD and she completely believed me. ‘T was hillarious.
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Why are some of the comments green… and some are blue? Anyone know?
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146- It’s every other comment. Unless you meant the text. If you type [a] and [/a] around the text, it’ll change colour. Like this. Just use the greater-than and less-than signs instead of these [ ].
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im sad i never go on this anymore
but i cant come up with anything to write about…..
happy almost-the-end-of-school
the high school’s ended 2 days ago but mine ends next friday.
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Shriya,
Cheer up! We’re about to talk about Hinduism on the World Religions thread. So stick around, please; I’m sure you’ll have plenty to contribute there.
Hey, shriya! Yeah, go to the World Religions thread and help me figure out Hindiusm. Your Hindu, right?
Also, the Pie War thread can always use more pie-throwers (I’m pretty sure you’ve already joined a side)
if so was the acting as good as the music is? (ive read the book, have the music, but the chance to get tickets thru my mother (grr) eludes me still… for several reasons) tellmetellmetellme!!!
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Who could ever forget you, Sphinx (155)? Somebody else will have to bring you up to date, though. I just read ’em all; I don’t try to make sense of them, assuming such a thing is possible.
LtS (157),
“Wicked” the musical has so many fans on the blog that it got its very own thread back in March. Have a look!
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o really!? thanks
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oooh greaat. NOW i wanna see it even MORE! and mom wont get tickets!!!!! WAH!!!!!! *disolves into tears and chucks the keyboard across the room*
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now can we have a thread for musicals in general?
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153- youre pied
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i shall now tear my self apart. *clears throat and stretches finger in preparation.* here goes:
I live at 7200 feet, on the outskirts of a rinky-dink little town on the west-south-west section of wyoming. I think a town like Jackson Hole Wyoming or Rock Springs is huge. All I’ve seen of the East Coast is an airport terminal transfering to a flight to Europe, four times. I ride six hours aday in summer, nine hours a day of skiing on weekends and holidays in the winter, and spend the rest of my time on the comp or sitting in a desk at skool and I read till two in the morning on skool nights, till I fall asleep on weekend nights, or, if I’m tired, I sleep from six pm to ten am, I lie awake at night devising pranks or I travel to the land of the most recent book or play or some interwoven mesh of everything. I terrorize the little sixies at skool with big words like it’s inanimate instead of littler phrashes like it is imobile or even simpler it is unable to move. I am the shyest kid in skool but can sometimes talk about stupid issues like my favorite book at the moment for hours. I am constantly proving myself better educated about things like grammar, spelling, math, words, and reading than my best friend but still manage to avoid know it all status by adveraging Cs and low Bs.
in short, I lead an interesting life.
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i have a laser mouse. if i shine it on a black sheet of papaer, it looks just exactly like a hot pink bunnie: round, with two brighter lights like eyes and to prongs like ears coming out the top. Its even the right color.
creeeepy.
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(155) I remember you, because you were one of the cool-veteran musebloggers when I was just a cowering newbie.
Lessee, well Montgomerygurl left, because she didn’t feel comfortable on the Museblog anymore, and the Pie Wars progressed (I believe you participated in the very early part of the first one and were on the Neutrals side). We eliminated individual birthday threads, because they were clogging the blog, and… yeah.
My dad just showed me something really cool! Recent research shows that after a certain age (around 30ish I think) people loose the ability to hear super high frequencies. Using this fact, companies have started to market devices that emit really high pitches that only young people can hear. Some upper-class yuppy stores use them to keep teenagers from loitering around there stores (because the high pitched noise is really unpleasant, but older customers won’t hear it)
and other companies sell it as a ringtone that kids can have so their teachers won’t know that their cell phone is goin off in class! Crazy eh?
To hear the ring tone, go to the NY times website, search “ring tones”. The name of the article is “A ringtone meant to fall on deaf ears”
There’s a link in the margin that will take you a player that will play the high pitched noise.
(this is the link to the player, not the news article, but I’m guessing it will be zapped- http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/audio/nyregion/20060610_RINGTONE.mp3)
[Oh, what the heck. It’s the New York Times, and it’s interesting. –Robert.]
When my dad played it, I cried out and covered my ears and my dog went crazy, but my parents couldn’t hear a thing.
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I liked the DNA music…there were links to it in an issue of muse recently
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155- Of course!
165- Duuuuuuuuude, mi padre tolde me about that a few days ago. That sound is reeeeeeeeally annoying. GAPAs, can you hear it?
165- Wouldn’t it be awesome if we found a way to tranfer messages into that frequency, and we could broadcast them and no adult would ever hear them?
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171-I was, but haven’t seen any games for a couple days cuz i’ve been away. What’s happened? duuuuuuuuuuuuude did you see the sweden/T+T game? That was pretty amazing. US/Chekoslovakia (no i can’t spell that) was really sad though.
Ebeth is BACK! w00t! Dad and i went to GR. Got there mediumish late (around 8), went down to racheal’s house and watched pink panther. Next day, was at rach’s again, watched another pink panther (because the pink panther pwns. ) and wandered aimlessly around the neighborhood. Sam+Jen were both gone, but harriet was around (You oldies remember the Gospel of Spamabix? Anyone? This is harriet the author). So we went to the pool which is like dying btw. Mr. Scheer came up and he and dad talked for ages and ages about it (dad used to be on the board, mr. scheer still is) and i think they’re gonna just drop the membership price way down and hope they get some n00bs cuz everybody’s been dropping out. When we went there was hardly anybody. A few of the Scheers left just as we came, and then it was me, harriet, dad, some small child named eric, and his dad. We played some pool basketball (fouling legal of course) then they left and another small child named katie came with her dad. Following the tradition of small children at the pool throughout the ages, she accosted us like so…
Katie: *swims up and STARES*
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Me: …Ello
Katie: Hi. My name’s Katie.
*silence*
Katie: Who are you?
Me: Elizabeth *****
Katie: Hi
Me: …Hi
Katie: *turns to harriet* Who are you?
Harriet: Harriet *********
…..
Katie: *gesturing behind* That’s my dad.
Me: Ah.
Katie’s dad: *swims up* *beams* Hi!
Harriet: Hi
Katie’s dad: Come on katie, let’s go catch some sharks!
*Harriet and i stare at each other, duck underwater, and CRACK UP!*
This was even more funny because this happens to us ALL THE TIME. We seem to be small child-magnets. Why, i ask myself, do they not go to those who actually like them, and are comfortable with them, and babysit them, and talk to them? Why us? But that’s how it goes.
Well, parental units kicking me off now. Bye people.
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174- Yeah! (see that’s a Good Idea) you could have radio station for only adolescants/ younger adults!
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there seems to be a surplus of little girls named katie in this country.
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hi
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Speaking of surplus, has anyone been to a store called American Science and Surplus? It is so awesome!! Or is it just a Chicago-based company?
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Hi!
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I used to haunt the Milwaukee branch when I worked in Wisconsin. There’s an online catalog, too.
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175- I seem to be a little kid magnet too… sometimes it gets soooo annoying!!! yet it is hilarious too…
okay i got to go feed my sis… lol, i’m babysitting her so… yeah… i think she’s hungry… omg i’m making her sound like a dog!!!! lol, see ya
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179-Yes, actually.
That ringtone sounds like someone tortured a cat inside an ironworks. There’s no one over 30 in the house at the moment, but when one comes back, I’ll check it.
If my ‘rents come back. I feel lonely.
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On the ‘Dates to remember’ piece, how do they know thier birthdays? Are they just the dates that they first logged on? Or thier real birthdays?
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184- No, we told them our actual birthdays. And favourite colours [because Musers wear the person’s favourite colour on their birthday].
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How do you give it to them?
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43– Wrong mystic here, pal. I tell the future!!!.. um, sort of…
amyway what are we talking about? ~PIES EVERYONE WITH 42 CHOKLIT PIES EACH~
(165) Thanks. Yeah, I was nuetral. i’m just the one who stands off on the side and eats all the pies.
185- We do? I’ll have to remember that. Kinda hard to wear Octarine, though.
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Just type it in one of your posts. Like this: Hey, GAPA! My birthday is September 18, 1990!!!!
Yay. And I found the Muse offices on GoogleEarth. Or at least the FMP…
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you say:
oh, and by the way, my birthday is coming up on june 31st, please make a note.
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SN: Oh. My. Gawd. Now THAT is high. My head hurts. My mom couldn’t hear it, of course.
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Just post it.
175-I just realized. That’s supposed to be around 7) I must’ve done a typo and put 8. See, it goes 8) if you do that.
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186-You just tell the GAPA your birthday and fave rave, on this thread would be fine, and they plug it in. And hey presto, the month comes, and there the thread is with your birthday on it. Yay!
Eight days until yo voy ala mi camp.
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MUSE IS DOING MY IDEA!!!!
I wrote to Muse saying that they should do “10 greatest people in the universe” and they wrote me an email aying that they’re doing it! Wh00t!
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Wait a minute.. I just found out that itsonly a possibiliy. Oh well, its stilla posibility *runs in circles*
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I heard it. It’s not like an actual sound. I mean, I heard it, but I’m not sure I would if I hadn’t been listening for it. Neither of the ‘rents could hear it. Coolio!
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190- Yeah, well, I’ve BEEN there in real life. INSIDE. And I took a PICTURE in FRONT OF IT. Beat that.
Oh yeah. I had a question for Queen J. WHat do you do at your camp?
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#177: yeah. i think i have about 5 aquaintances/friends who are named katie
#175: lol. i seem to be a kid magnet as well – which is completely ironic, but kinda funny at the same time. i mean, this girl i had to look after last year wanted me to paint her nails sparkly black (like mine were at the time), and then she wanted to try on some of the (weird) bracelets i was wearing that day. it was so cute, but i hope her parents dont think im a “bad influence!”
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Blergh. I hate puberty.
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202- *virtual choklit* Bad day? Or just feeling blergh is general? *hugs*
175- Grr, yeah, my kid cousins always stick to me like glue, but not my older sisters! I don’t like little kids even that much… I can’t handle their liittle kidness.
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I like little kids…I have a brother who is 8 years younger than me (he’s 6 right now), and he is really fun to play with, etc. Next week, my mom and sister are going to be away and my dad has to work all day, so I get to be with hiim all day..I’m trying to think of fun things to do.
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200-More than you can possibly imagine. To be more specific, it’s by a lake, and camp is “rustic”, so we live in our cabins, which have no electricity or running water. We have 1 bathroom for the whole camp (but it has 20 toilets, so that’s OK), but this year should be lots of fun, because it’s the camp’s 100th Anniversary Celebration and not only does everyone get to eat more than is really reccomended, but we have special pins and things and this year, five of my best friends are counselors-in-training, and it means that we get to stay up late at nights, and hopefully some other perks as well. Last year we arranged the Initiation Ceremony, where flaming arrows are supposed to be shot over the tribe. We couldn’t get the arrows they gave us to light, so we ended up using tampons (my idea) and after the ceremony we did nothing but laugh for twenty minutes, because it was such a serious occasion and lighted sanitary napkins were being flung over the heads of the whole tribe. Oh, it was funny. That was probably more than you wanted to know.
202-Want some virtual pad thai? Did you have a bad day or something?
I’m going to paint my room octarine, with blue stripes.
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Der Wachtelschlag Fliegender; Queenie, I once started a comic strip about girls who where going to go work at a camp where they where going to be camp counselors. They where taking a camp bus to a camp alot like the one you just described.
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I was watching the first two Matrix movies last night. Please forgive my randomness…
*morphs into Agent Smith*
Hello, Mister Anderson….
*creates billions of other Agent Smiths*
Me! Me! Me!
Me, too!
*Neo fights Agent Smiths for a while, then flies away*
Grr. I hate that Mister Anderson.
*morphs back even though I’m not dead and that really doesn’t happen*
Once againe, I apologize.
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202- Yeah, dude.
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Hi!
I AM BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yay for me!!!
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Kiki’s Section
DaQue has finally seen the light and come to realize that Museblog rox her sox off.
DaQue’s Secton
Yes, Museblog is actually very fun!!!!!!
I am sick of being a toy. Thats what people like me are. We are G-ds little toys. He plays with our minds and our hearts, and so does the earthly humans. And they have FUN.
Today, I got this close |………….| to kissing an eight grader. However, some sort of force feild came between my lips and his cheek, and I didn’t. Now, keep in mind that this is the last day I’ll ever see him again. Divine Intervention.
Its devine intervetion that people like us exist. Me, him, the rest of my classmates. G-d plays with our minds like a little 3 year old plays with a toy truck. He takes pleasure in watching us suffer, watching us act like adults at 13, watching us just plain not fit in.
Now, I hope I don’t sound blasphumous, I know there are mormons on this board. However, its time to face the truth: People like us just plain shouldn’t exist.
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Excuse me? You sound rather off, Yeti.
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Er, Yeti? I don’t really think it’s God’s fault you didn’t kiss an eighth grader today. Really.
Also, why would Mormons specifically be offended? Just curious.
My birthday is December 9th. My favorite color is red. No, blue. No, grAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHH!
Monty Python refrence!
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203- Thanks Skipper. I just felt sort of uckish in general.
On a more postive note, I just finished making this totally froody/spiffy pen! It’s one of those purple Parpermate ones, and I twisted all of these random beads and buttons around it with tons of this wire. It’s that nice stuff in plastic coating that doesn’t come off easily so you don’t cut your fingers easily.
If you’re happy, laugh
If you hear music, go dance
‘Cause life is random
My friend Jordan wrote that. She’s a genius.
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weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee….!!!!
*runs in circles*
hahahahah- *trips over crack in cement floor of comp room*
aaaaaaauuuuugh! *goes sprawling*
*sits up* hello peoples. all are floors are this cement type stuff… ??? i dunno why. my favorite color is green and i cant wait till next yr cuz than the date of my birthday will be: 7-7-07!! squeeee!
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hot pink(ish) bunnie!! yay!!!!!!
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I’m going to see Tommy by The Who. Like, I’m leaving any minute now. My friend is in it. w00t.
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*sings*
Listening to you… I get the music.
Gazing at you… I get the heat.
Following you… I climb the mountain.
I get excitement at your feet!
Have fun!
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OMG!! GAPA is singing!!! Can you make a sound clip of that pleeze?
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My GAPA search powers tell me that I’ve sung on the blog four times before: on Music & Lyrics, Round-Robin ‘Riting 2006.1, Skool, and Gapa Reunion!. On each occasion, MuseBloggers have been seriously weirded out. It’s probably just as well that you can’t hear it.
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Nooooooooooooo, I doooooo want to hear it!!! then I will be robbed of all sanity for a few seconds, and on Museblog, that’s a good thing!!!
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Here’s some brownies -pokes-
-sings-
(Repeat numerous times)
Oh Muse, Muse, Muse
Muse Muse Muse
pies and science
in one
so I am smart-fun
Lalalala
Walking Cycles Everyone!
(refrain)
Oh Muse Muse Muse
you are cool
everytime I read
You are the magazine
I really, really, need
Oooooh
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my god fathers day in 2 days
ok i have a wood pen i made in tech and a tissue-paper-covered cup for pencils (it looks cuter than it sounds, ok?) what do i put in the cup thing?? my mom’s like “uhm…make a round card???” no!! i cant do that!! what i do??
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It was fun. Very fun. Now my mother wants me to participate in the next play because they hold open auditions.
205(Queen J)- HAHAHAHA! hilarious. mmm.. I need to remember that for my camp… fantastic..
213( Yeti)- What can I say? I’m an atheist, so that sort of thing doesn’t really happen with me… but hey! You are in control of your life, no matter what. If you don’t believe that god is thwarting you, you probably won’t feel that he is, if that makes sense. Be in charge, You can only go up, right? Here’s my advice: find something besides guys. Guys are fine, if they are nice, but seriously? You’ve got better stuff to be worrying about. Take up… tennis, and everytime you wack the ball, you can imagine it’s the planet. Or whatever. Just get out an do something that keeps your frusteration from taking over your life.
216(Gwendolyn)- Schweet. I should try making a pen like that.
218 (Sweet Melpomene)- Hey! My marching band is playing Tommy next year! Our theme is The Who. Our opener is Baba O’Reilly+Who Are You and I think Tommy is part of the halftime show.
I went to la biblioteca again today. Anyone ever read an Bronowski?
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Its G-ds fault for everything bad that happens in my life, brainwise. Like i said, I’m a toy.
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217 (lilbro)- Will you be turning 7?
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You’know what? Its money over everything. Money over the environment, money over human well-being, money over love. Its sickening.
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yeti, i agree with skipper. especially about guys. in the end, there are more important things.
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IM GOING TO THE BEACH!
SCHOLL’S OUT ON TUESDAY!
WHY AM I TALKING LIKE DEATH?
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Thanks, Musers. Accually, we talk a lot about politics at school. Local politics, since we’re not allowed to mention Bushes name, therefore eliminating all national stuff. Its mostly what I worry about. Like, for example, killing the geese in Scotia, New York (I don’t live there, so its allowed to emtnion the name, right?)
But really, I have to thank you for giving me a big knock in the head and for, well, being Musers.
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206-They spent the entire comic strip just going to camp? And never actually getting there? Oh well; dialogue opportunities and all that, you know how it is.
213-I have toys. I’m not one myself. And anyway, if we’re all God’s toys, why aren’t I a pretty toy, a comely plaything? Hello? Why do I have to be the hunchback figurine, so to speak?
218-The two songs in that musical not written by Pete Townshend are the most inappropriate. Have fun!
230-Not really. Money is something you can get more of, and money over everything gives people some measure of control.
I’m bringing my uncut version of Stranger In A Strange Land to camp. It’s a paperback, but big, so it should be my constant companion during all those long camp days. I’m also going to kill some rabbits in my yard before I leave. They destroyed my garden!
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234- Eville rabbits! My garden has been destroyed by groundhogs. Which are really cute once you trap them and set them loose. Because they’re so funny when they run into the middle of the road instead of the forest.
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it’s cool Yeti. Just remember, you can control you life, no matter what it feels like.
I hate rabbits! They’re everywhere! Stupid fuzzy little things. Grr.
I slept outside again last night. It was nice. The birds woke me up around 5.
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Rabbits are cute. Remeber, they are related to the hpb…
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i have rabbits. and a garden. and lots of fences.
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233 – why aren’t you allowed to mention Bush’s name?
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so I asked my dad to buy me those muses on ebay, but they were already gone when he got there…
oh well.
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Wow. That was worse than Neopets. I’ll keep an eye out for more.
I made a trebuchet. Heh heh heh. With some help from mi padre. Okay, a lot of help. It’s slightly off-center, because I can’t use drills properly…..but, hey, it works!
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whats worse than neopets?
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The speed at which items disappear on Ebay. I’d spotted some 1997 and 1998 Muses for sale and announced them on the blog, but they were gone before Lizzie could get them.
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Neopets is fun!! Don’t insult me.
I got a STICKER MACHINE!!!!!! Yayness.
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Hmm. I have two copies of several issues. I wonder how much they would go for if I put them up?
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i think they were saying taht things disappear on ebay faster than they do on neopets.
why do you have two of some issues skipper?
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qu’est-que vous dites “slacker” en francaise?
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I’m quite sure why I have two issues of some of them. For a while out subscribtion was made out two my two older sisters, so I guess that meant we payed for two issues a month. I don’t know why since the younger of my 2 older sisters never read Muse. It was always the eldest reading them, and me sneaking off with them when she was gone.
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oh great zarquon i just listened too the ring tone jeez that feels weird…is there a douglas adams thread anywhere? THank U…. *cradles aching head*
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I got there before they were gone, asked my parents, and was told that they’d think about it. I told them they would be gone. They didn’t believe me. I reloaded the page. They were gone.
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oh i just played that thingy 2 my mom and she cud just barely hear it, she’s 43, jeez so maybe the teacher thing wont work……………………..
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hmm…I have two of some issues, because when I renewed my subscription, they sent the last issue againe. The same thing probably happened with Skipper…
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sticker machine, sticker machine, think of what ‘cha can make with a sticker machine….
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246–SELL THEM TO ME!!! I HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO READ!!!
I am miserable. I missed the last day of school and a beach party that my best guy friend invited me to because I had to go to this stupid wedding that is seven hours away in a stifling hot state.
Every person there was over sixty years old, and every single one of them came up to us and said to my brother and I, “Do you remember me from the obscure occasion involving multitudes of unknown relatives that occurred at least five years ago? You’ve grown so much, you’re so pretty/handsome, nice to see you, etc, etc, etc.”
I mostly sat by the duck pond and sulked. I had one year in this school. I made friends. Now I’m going somewhere else for high school, and neither of my friends are going there. I wanted to be with everyone for just a little longer, and guess what? Of course I can’t.
Whenever I really want something that is actually quite simple, I can’t have it.
Sorry. I feel like complaining. My parents are tired of listening to me whine, so I ‘m just going to rant and rant where they can’t hear me. I’m furious when I’m not miserable.
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I have a similar problem, Queenie. Most of my friends are in 8th grade and will begoin gto another district for Highskool. Unfourtunatly, theres no chance of me seeing them every again.
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We aren’t allowed to mention Bushes name since thats all we ever talked about. Stupid, really. Now we mention “Pataki” all the time, to make up for it.
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Have you tried telling your parents about this? It seems like you don’t have enough free time. If you talk to your parents, they might see how unhappy you are and try to think a llittle more about you!
Aaaaaaaaalways Whimsical, -Capricious-
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245- ROCK ON Kiki! Neopets RULES. Museblog might be a little higher in my status though…
I’d say they’re egual.
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#242: my LB makes trebuchets out of knex. he uses them to launch dog treats at my poor dog.
#255: that sux. family gatherings can be quite tedious…
you might be surprised to know that…high skool is actually a lot more laid back than junior high. not kidding! i think its b/c ppl realize that its their last years of “being a kid,” and they want to make the best of it…so at least theres not as much conformity.
GUESS. WHAT?
MY PLACE OF WORK MIGHT BE ON NATIONAL TV!!!
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
260- Cool! A great chance to stalk you! Mwahahahahahahaha….
jk.
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I have returned from England! It was awesome. I just finished hanging up the map of England I got from the British Museum. The British Museum (I am NOT going to abbreviate that) was one of the coolest things ever! They actually had a moai statue, which I can’t believe they took, but I got my picture taken with it. With a disposable camera, because the digital camera had accidentally been left at the hotel that day. So I can’t post the picture on here. Maybe if I scan it into the computer, but I don’t know how and my printer doesn’t do that. I could probably have someone do it at their house then email it to me! Let me check!
My friend says he can do it. Now I have to get the film developed.
Anyway, there’s been a small addition to my numismatic collection. In case y’all didn’t know, I’m a numismatist. One of the few things from England requested from me by my friends was a complete set of British coins for a certain Makhlook. (This after I told him I was NOT going to get him fifty pounds.) It’s okay though, I still have a reasonable amount of coins to keep.
I will get that film developed post-haste. Then I will use some sort of coding to get it on here. Groovy. See y’all on the flip side.
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Many developers (around here that means drugstores) will also give you digital files on CD for a small additional fee. You can’t post them through code alone, but I’ll post a picture if you send it to gapa@musefanpage.com.
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260- Nice. Mine launches tennis balls and anything of similiar size.
255- Aargh, I hate that. Today is Fathers’ Day, so I’m going to be bored out of my mind.
262- The British Museum? I am exceedingly jealous. You could always just take a picture of the picture with a digital camera and then upload it. I do that when I’m too lazy to get out my scanner. The quality isn’t as goode, though…
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236-You can’t control your life. That’s like reincarnating the Ultimate Spinach and expecting them to work together with Every Mother’s Son and the Monkees.
255-At least you have family. I have two grandparents, one who understands and can speak English but only will talk in German, and my grandmother collects linen tea towels with maps on them. I also have an uncle, who has a bridge parlor, a dog, and a partner named Alan who goes around as a guy during the day and a woman at night. “Alanna,” or so you think. Oh, they also have a dog who is huge, enormous
256-Other way around. Most of my friends I see at camp, and then we talk by pictophone, IM, email, etc. the rest of the year.
262-More than one moai piece, actually. If you go to the very back rooms of that exhibit you’ll find them. They had a collection of pop-protest pins and such that I thought were interesting. The ‘no coat hangers’ one is actually pro-choice. And some of the Babylonian pieces are astounding. Did you go to the Attic? I call it the Attic, but it’s the Edward-Victoria museum that feels more like someone’s attic than a museum. It’s got one of those huge, colorful, hanging glass sculptures made by that artist in Seattle. I went to his studio for a dinner once. He does the ‘Wodehouse Wall’-hanging things up on a wall, moving them up as he works on them and then, when they’re at the top, pulling them off. I’d love to see the picture.
Would Peter, Paul and Mary have had a chance as Melvin, Seymour and Shirley? Why are they so manufactured? What made the Monkees come into fashion, and what stroke of fate made David Jones decide on the Bowie appellation to distinguish himself from the Monkee? I wish I had a time machine and could return to the sixties.
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#262: ooh *is envious* i would luff to go to england; its where basically all of my familys roots are.
maps are cool…i collect maps of fictional places from vid games & such.
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hey
what did i miss
……..a lot, right??
oh well
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Oh. Okay… I don;t think it’ll do any harm,
My b-day is Aug. 4
My favorite colors are blue and green and RAINBOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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262- Cool! I am jealous. Which city is the British Museum? (I’m guessing London but I just wanter to be sure..)
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I just went to the Cubs game in Chicago. I read most of the time.
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My mom and sister are going to a violin camp next week, and my dad is working all day, so I’m going to be with my 6-year-old brother all day every day next week. Does anyone have any suggestions of things to do with him?
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267-What ho! What’s happening with you!
Zarking fardwarks. I just got up to check on the bird, and it’s learned to say something. It’s learned to say ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams.’ from the radio series. I didn’t teach it that. It learned it on its own.
Ha ha ha ha! That’s terrific.
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Was anybody else at the game?
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271–Tranquilizer.
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270- Yay for kids who read at baseball games. The Cubs are a baseball team, right?
271- Arrange for him to be at a friend’s house all day long? For a few days during that week. That should keep the peace for some time…Have him read all of your Muses? Okay, I have really bad ideas concerning people. I have almost ZERO social skills. And I’m going to be at the library tomorrow morning. Bleah.
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272- Ha! Froody. I used to have a bird.
273- Which game
I’m a bit feeling lightheaded and sore. I’ve spent the last…oh, 4 hours pouring over my sister’s digital camera, dismantling it and brushing all the Sahara sand out of it. If I can get the all the sand out and then somehow figure out how to put it together, I can use it. If it still works. Which it probably won’t. Oh well. I bet I could make a really excellent abstract sculpture out of it anyways.
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271- If you are old enough to drive than use your imagination, if not,
do you want suggestions on what to do WITH him? Or what to do becuase you’ll be bored?
Tell me and I’ll help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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w00t! I’m Capricious!!! With diffrent name! I’m still kepping my other ones so NOBODY take them! *Snarl!*
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Ooh! I forgot! Another date to remember, independance day! July fourth! American indipendance!
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(278),
It’s about a butterfly, not a dragonfly, but you might enjoy this poem by Robert Graves:
FLYING CROOKED
The butterfly, the cabbage white,
(His honest idiocy of flight)
Will never now, it is too late,
Master the art of flying straight,
Yet has–who knows so well as I?–
A just sense of how not to fly:
He lurches here and here by guess
And God and hope and hopelessness.
Even the aerobatic swift
Has not his flying-crooked gift.
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Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanx!!!!!
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“We are the knights who say NEAT!! NEAT!! NEAT!!”
(Inspired by my mum and Willie McCool, who say “neat” all the time. I hate the word “neat”, thus I would be one of the villigers in the film who cower at the word. Though I had fun going around my gradnparents’ nursing home saying this at 22:30.)
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well, you could have a water fight or blow bubbles or do a puzzle i’ll try and think of more…
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My artist friend Rebecca Lasley (creator of the hypnotic bunnies) is in town. Today we went to the Kennedy Center to see the Kirov Ballet perform “Giselle.” We had front-row seats. I’d never been so close to dancers and could see most of what the orchestra was up to, too. Fascinating. Fleur Delacour was not in evidence, however.
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i just listened to that ringtone thingie…it didnt bother me that much. heh heh…probably due to listening to very loud musik every day for the last 4 years
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282 (KQ)- My mom sounds like that, too. Only as in, “Neat! Neat! Neat! [name witheld], your room must be neat!” Naturally, I don’t listen.
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question: -k-. so in japan, ppl say “san” and “chan” after names of ppl they are familiar with…is there a difference?
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I liked that poem so much I copied it down and posted it on my door.
“Giselle”? Ballet? Cool. Never heard of Giselle, and I’ve never seen a ballet, but they both seem excellent.
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I heard of “Giselle.” A few of my friends performed it a while ago… No, I didn’t see it.
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(287),
As usual, Wikipedia has the answer (or at least an answer, which in this case looks convincing):
Did you hear that the latest iPod update consists of some bug-fixers and a tool that allows parents to make a volume limit on their children’s iPod? I am so not telling my mom about that.
I just tried to cut a bagel in half with a butter knife.
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I’m listening to “so long and thanks for all the fish” right now.
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hee hee. tranquilizer.
I got a bunch of movies from the library and am planning to do a lot of arts & crafts with my brother this week…it’s really tiring.
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291- I heard that. And it is horrible! The volume is there so you can drown out any nagging!
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Very well then. I’m going to see The Da Vinci Code with my mom, because *sniff* today is my last day before I go to camp tomorrow for a month. I have to wake up at 4:30 tomorrow!! I’ll have time to do one last post though. It’ll be really long-winded.
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(287) Well, san is an all around term, and is not particularly emphatic; basically anyone could be san.If you meet someone on the street whose surname is Kobayashi and given name is Kensuke, you would address him as Kobayashi-san, not Kenuske. To the Japanese, it is a sign of closeness to address someone by their given name, and to do so without permission is seen as forward and disrespectful.
However, chan is generally used for young girls in an endearing way; if it is used for anyone else it is usually derogatory or meant to be funny. Example: if your brother Nobu of fourteen years is getting on your nerves, you would call him Nobu-chan.
Understand there is a plethora of Japanese honorifics used, not just san as most Americans seemt o believe. A few would be sama,kun,sensei, senpai, etc. My favorite is the lesser known “kohai” which describe a sort of “middle classmen” whereas senpai is “upper classmen”
I hope that made sense. Ask me to clarify if it didn’t. :3
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Moshi-moshi MuseBlogger-Sans(?)!
GAPA-sensei, I checked out the Fleur Delacour link and read the thread. How very humorous.
Kuma-san, Kuma-san…
(Mister Bear, Mister Bear)
(Gwen’s alter-ego, the Aquamarine Menace:)
Gwen-chan is going zonkers with the Japanese honorifics.
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Maybe someday I’ll get around to writing the next scene, in which Mimi meets Draco Malfoy.
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298- That would be amusing to the highest degree.
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Hi peoples. Right now I am at the apple store. Yayness for macbooks!!!!!
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Robert Graves? GAPA, I leave you alone for one day so that I can work and already, already you are treating us to Robert Graves? What is this place? Do I need to get you a nanny or something? Better yet, shall I book a brain specialist and cut you off virtual chocolate?
I had to spend today assembling RSID kits and listening to Patti Smith. As if this weren’t bad enough, I have realized that I need to take extra toothbrushes to camp because I go through the things so fast and the camp can’t sell me the ones I need for my headgear. The bristles have to be shaped so that they aren’t cut into dust by my braces, wires, chapers, guards, and chains. That sounds like a torture chamber. I have been on the phone, and hold, all day with the ortho. company, trying to place an order.
If kissing a person who smokes is like licking an ashtray, is kissing a person who has braces like sticking your tongue in a wire fence? This does not sound good.
300-My fleet of computers is bedecked with eight cooling fans. They hum.
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I have braces. I kiss my girlfriend. I have heard nothing of the sort. Refrain from making comments about braces, because I hate them with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.
Speaking of bunnies, when I was at the airport the other day waiting for the flight to arrive, I happened to come across a small and amusing book in the bookstore, and its sequel. I read them both in about seven minutes. I highly recommend them. “The Book of Bunny Suicides” and “Return of the Bunny Suicides.” They’re little cartoons showing bunnies….well…..you get the idea. One of my favorites is the bunny pouring pepper on Sauron’s eye from LOTR.
I expect that entire paragraph to be deleted.
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#290: thanks!
#296: thanks!
today has been very relaxing. i woke up like…4 hours ago? ha. summer is my season for hibernation. then i folded a bunch of laundry, wrote a new song on my wall, decided to fix a shirt i had decorated thats faded a bit, found out that we have no paint pens, got mad, and finally started on another shirt. this ones made out of a skirt i found in a storage closet – its going to be very…summer-y.
303 (emogrl)- Nooo! Thesaurus torture! You must understand that I am allergic to thesaurus torture. I’m sneezing right now! My eyes are swelling up! Okay, so maybe that’s everything else I’m allergic to. Whatever.
I am now going to address everyone on the blog with Japanese honorifics at the ends of their names! (I already call myself Penty-chan, but that was A-C’s fault.)
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Ooh, I like fluky.
301- Yes, it does sound like a torture chamber. all you need is some type of ortho treatment called “comfy chair” and it would be complete.
I feel excurciatingly boring. Boring boring boring. My painting is dead. Dead dead dead. ARGH!!!!!! *bangs desk*
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303- Shirt painting is fun! And sewing but I’m horrible at it…
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Whoa! I am amazed! My paragraph wasn’t deleted after all. Whatever.
I took my film to CVS yesterday to get it developed, so it should be ready by now. I’ll have to pick up my photos soon. Keep in mind when viewing the photos that I don’t photograph well. I was surprised at how nice my passport photo turned out though.
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So, you guyses are going to see one post a week from me in the next month, because I’ll be at camp. My mom is going to do the posts for me. I’m going to give her a tutorial after dinner. I am bringing a supplement of 2 measly muses, but 3 magazines with Zac Efron on them. Pie me.
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How many Generation Zeros are there left?
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lets see…
291-I set that up myself
292-where did you download that?
Various-I hate braces with language that make thugs cry
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#305: *sends flowers to honor the late painting*
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These are pranks at MIT.
They’re all wicked funny.
GAPAs: Please moderated them…they are .edu
[Sorry, DY. We’re not here to make life easy on links–quite the opposite, in fact. But anyone who wants to see them may find them at hacks dot mit dot edu. –Admin.]
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308 pie X one googleplex
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310- just go on the itunes music store and search for it! simple!
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311- Why thank you. However, the medics arrived just in time with electic shockers and managed to revive the painting. It is still in critical condition but seems to be making a comeback.
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308- *Pies Kiki*
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297– The way to say “everyone” or “all of you” is “minna- __” with the desired honorific. Usually san.
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*sniff* Now it is time for me to leave. I will be going far up in northern Minnesota, way up where you aren’t allowed to have iPods, cellphones or hack on to the camp’s computer. My main communication format will be letters. Right now it is 4:30 am. I will miss all of yous guys. My mom will do a weekly post for me on the random thread. Try not to comment. *sniff* Calor anor na ven. (See ya in July!)
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does anyone have a cure for insomnia? I was up untill 3:30AM last night.
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Bye, kiki! Have fun!!!!! *sniff*
DY-Sorry, no. Just sleep as long as possible when you do sleep, I guess…I’m usually up really late because I don’t get to sleep until at least midnight…
Aaaaand, I’m off to the wonderful yet really small medical library.
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Emogrl, none of those are as… fun…. as random. I mean, “random” sounds like “rainbow” and rainbows are random. Gah, my brain hurts
w00t. Part 2!
wheeee!
Part 2.
well….by the time we’re through with it, it won’t be rare at all!
ahllo! im back…must catch up w/ things *goes to catch up w/ things*
Interesting conversation you’ve got going there. But it’s already the ninth, and we’re only on Part 2. That’s a scary thought. On the other hand, I quite like ranbow Kokopelli. He looks quite the dashing gentleman. A little colour to his features quite becomes him.
This is late for us, I think. What’s today? The 9th? Last month we had one by around the 5th, I think.
I just saw Supersize Me. The sad thing is, after watching all that stuff about McDonald’s, I have a horrible craving for a Big Mac. And haven’t wanted one of those since I was 6. Somehow, I don’t think that was the effect the movie was supposed to have on me.
(319, Der Wachtelschlag Fliegender)… I always thought you were a grade/grades above me. Then again, when it comes to general knowledge of the world, it seems you are (I have to use Wiki for quite a few of the things you mention.. *hides face in shame* ). No, I wouldn’t say that post was polluting the thread. Quite a masterpiece, in fact, because it was both funny and angering (in that I was angered by the events of the story you told, not by you).
Ugh. 7th grade. 7th grade was awful.
Much sympathy, though it doesn’t help much, does it.
I loved 7th grade!
I wasn’t fond of 7th grade. It was completely useless. 8th grade rocked though.
5-Gentleman? Kokopelli? Only in the same way as Algernon Moncrieff…
7-Sorry. I’m not very good at getting other people to have any clue what I’m talking about. I even don’t, sometimes. No worries.
8-Good for you. I hated it. But I graduated from it, so there you have it.
I just drank an entire pint of Ting soda. It’s really good-all Jamaican and grapefruity at the same time. I have read Have Spacesuit, Will Travel, and I can honestly say I want to be Kip when I grow up.
I just got a haircut. 2 and a half inches shorter!!! it’s okay, but my mom is still fawning over it. Ugh. Expect a whole barrage of newcomers today, because I’m having a party.
Check out my new song on the “music and lyrics” thread.
I didn’t like 7th grade. But I would like to mention that I got 2 first posts yesterday. *rejoices*
And there’s no more school until the ende of August.
And I’m working on a painting in oils. Which I left outside overnight. I expect that I shall be spending the rest of the morning pulling out random fuzzy outdoor items from the paint with neele-nosed pliers. Aargh.
Schrodinger’s cat is cool. I just read a book called The Last Universe, by William Sleator, and it’s all about Schrodinger’s cat and quantum stuff.
I’m going into 8th grade… 7th grade was okay but i think 8th grade will be better….
10- you know what…. now i have a craving for soda…. hmmm… maybe that might not be such a bad idea…. *thinks* oh vell… i would be bouncing off the walls if i had an entire pint of soda in one sitting…. that’s why people like me cannot have coffee… *sighs*
The Kokopelli is the same as the one on the Fan page, if you click on it. The Fanpage one also turns upside down if you run your mouse over it. Here, try. https://musefanpage.com
I’m guessing that you won’t zap that.
No, indeed.
11-Fun, cried the ‘Prentice.
13-I’ll look it up.
There, Mr. Coontz, I have read Heinlein. I have an entire collection of way too much Heinlein. Sorry I gave you a craving for soda, Kricket.
*sigh* I’m going into seventh grade come August. You people sure do know how to make a girl feel optimistic. Last year was a lot of fun for me.
At two o’ clock today, I’m auditioning for my school’s musical. They’re calling it a “Seussical”. You can guess what it’s all about. Anyway, I’m predicting this is a pretty big deal if they’re having auditions in the summer . If it’s not, then gosh, why am I auditioning in the middle of my summer? I’m NOT going to wear a tacky costume and use a bunch of props pulled together at the last minute by our drama department AGAIN.
Well, anyway, wish me to break a femur or a tibia, okay guys? I’m not much of a singer. Also, can any of you describe to me the following two Seuss characters I’ve never heard of?:
Gertrude McFuzz
Lazy Mayzie
7th grade wan’t very memorable. but 8th grade was severly awesome. i completely agreee with you about DWF, skipper.
Break a metatarsal bone, Gwen! And don’t worry about 7th grade. It depends on the skool. Some people say it’s their best year, some say it’s the worst. I’m sure you’ll manage to get through.
All these books! Everyone’s always talking about these books to read! I can’t handle it! I’m a slow reader. I like to read every sentance comletely and if I don’t think I understand it completely, I read the whole paragraph again. I can read moderately fast if I want to, but I don’t like to. But it means I can never keep up with the list of books to read!
(excepting easy reads like young adult comedy and fantasy, I can eat those up as fast as my speed reading friends)
20- Never heard of ’em. Sorry.
7th grade was fun for me, esspeally my awsome Reading/LA teacher(plus I got her for 2 whole periods) Ms. Zoot. Lucey VF is going to have her next year. My advice to her:Enjoy it while it lasts.
10- Kip Thorne you mean?
20- Ok, goode luck!
20- search google for musical theatre international or MTI get to their main site then find Seussical. then click on characters. that should describe all the characters for you. Or this link if the GAPA doesn’t zap it: http://www.mtishows.com/show_casting.asp?ID=000229 My JCC is doing Little Shop of Horrors for the senior high show and, you guessed it, Seussical for the junior high show this coming school year.
20-You’re a Muser. They will be LUCKY if you decide to grace them with your fr00dy presence. Break a metatarsal, kid! Give ’em hell.
22-You’re not supposed to. Just pick out the ones that look good to you. I read about 5 books a day, so I really can’t empathize there.
I have a kitten in my bathrobe! His name is Nostradamus, hence mine, NostradamusRocker
i think people go through a lot of psychological changes in 7th grade – thats probably why so many ppl hate/hated being that age.
#12: schweet. wish i could paint.
#19: hey, that might be my skools musical this year too! good luck!
mrahr. i hurt. from being on my feet lifting fudge boxes for 8 hours today.
…ha…ok, so my boss found out that i was vegetarian today, and he literally spent the entire morning needling me about it (“hey, ive got a craving for a carrot right now – why dont you run out + get me one?”…”hey, i bet emogrl goes through the drive-through @ bk + asks for an onion!”…). well, his sister was working this morning too, and she decided to go to bk + get all of us gardenburgers…+ she made him eat one…ah yes, the revenge was sweet.
3 more 1/2 days and then freedom! w00t! the ap lang exam yesterday was…just relly sad. we had to do an in depth self-defining project, and i swear the whole class sobbed through the entire 3 hours. i mean, people were saying things that they definitely wouldnt normally tell other people. and a few people that seemed to have absolutely perfect lives (+ i kind of despised them for that) – well, it turns out that i was way wrong about that. i feel bad now, for thinking that they did.
i did a poem – it basically focuses on all of the questions ive accumulated over almost 17 yrs – and ok, i still think its the sappiest thing ive ever written – after i had read it, i was expecting a few “well, at least she didnt start cutting herself while she was up there reading,” and maybe several crickets chirping – but ppl actually liked it! but i sincerely hope no one cried over it… here it is. enjoy the cliche-ness.
Seventeen Years of Questions
(6) Why does the World control
(4) The way one acts,
(9) Confining us here, blocking all roads out?
(6) Why are we so afraid
(4) To disobey
(9) Its demands for “order†and “routine?â€
(6) Why have I now begun
(4) To slowly drift
(9) Away from Its rulings and beliefs?
(11) Why am I fading out of the life I’ve known?
(11) Why am I at such a loss on how to act?
(11) Why am I falling apart, under pressure?
(11) Why am I seeing new roads ahead of me?
(12) Will I be allowed to venture down this way, or
(5) Will I be held back?
(12) Will I be the only one straying away from
(5) The well-traveled path?
Why does the World control
The way one acts,
Confining us here, blocking all roads out?
Why are we so afraid
To disobey
Its demands for “order†and “routine?â€
Why have I decided
To not listen
When It tries to tell me how to be?
Why have I started asserting my beliefs?
Why does no one understand what I say now?
Why do I feel miles away from my best friends?
Why don’t I forfeit and go back to Routine?
Will I be ran over on this road as well?
Or will I go far?
Will I ever find what I’m looking for here –
Far from the World’s rules?
Why does the World control
The way one acts,
Confining us here, blocking all roads out?
Why are we so afraid
To disobey
Its demands for “order†and “routine?â€
Why do I remember,
Almost with shame,
That It used to have control over me?
Why did I let the World choose my path for me?
Why did I not have any true dreams or ambitions?
Why couldn’t I distinguish what I wanted?
Why did I let myself get lost in the crowd?
Will I remember the dreams I have now, or
Will they soon be gone?
Will I be able to finish my dreaming soon,
And know what to do?
Why does the World control
The way one acts,
Confining us here, blocking all roads out?
Why are we so afraid
To disobey
Its demands for “order†and “routine?â€
Why have I just realized
We live but once,
And we each choose which path we will take?
I’m treating each day as if it were my last
I’m making a dif’rence wherever I can
I’m thanking the friends who have been there for me
I’m choosing a path that I will not regret
I’ll remember to follow my intuition,
Instead of “the crowdâ€
And soon I’ll find the freedom I’ve been looking for –
For seventeen years…
…Knowing we each decide
How we will act
But we’re influenced by others’ thoughts
We can either: decide
To let these thoughts
Determine where our lives will lead us,
Or we can attempt, since
We only live once,
To follow our dreams down our own paths
While on the subject of books, having just finished yet another wodehouse (Bachelors Anonymous), i rushed myself over to the library before they closed (And am happy to report i made the entire trip in 20 min, there, back, and finding books, for which i thank my dear bike-a happy accomplishment indeed, seeing as how i left half an hour before they close) and…and…and…*the suspense builds* found, mine GAPA, Have Space Suit-Will Travel by our dear friend heinlein. I got that, and another of his whose name escapes me (I got it cuz it had The Smell. You know how it is when you find a book with The Smell), as well as two more wodehouse. Although i forgot their names too. In my hurry i just grabbed the nearest two i hadn’t read. One was about Blandings, i remember that much. Sunshine on Blandings or something like that.
So now i’m gonna go hole myself up in my lovely hobbit-hole and read.
Tomorrow’s graduation. Band’s playing. Yes, pomp and circumstance *sigh* What else? Anyway, the freshies are joining us and it’s all going to be very happy, if by happy you mean long, boring, soporific, and painful. Except for seeing the few seniors i know, that is. But having just moved last year, that’s pretty much just the band seniors.
And schneids issued a specific warning against trumpet fanfares when friends’ names were called. We were all like “awwww” Somebody did that last year though. I wasn’t there, i didn’t see it. Sad day, for me anyway.
World Cup’s started too. Dad’s been watching nonstop-i usually just come in for the last half, or sometimes the last 15 minutes. Did anybody see the Sweden/T&T game though? That was pretty amazing.
oops. its supposed to be double spaced between “…World’s rules?” and “Why does the World…”
I have 4 muse magazines at home. Pie me.
29- That’s really goode!!!
Ah, thank you Musers who wished me luck and to break my leg bones. The people who judged the auditions were super surprised. I was the smart, quiet, little kid for most of the year, so they were shocked to hear me sing the way I did. Hopefully, they were impressed. They weren’t as surprised to hear my cold reading, though. My core is drama (I go to an arts school, in case you didn’t already know). Found out who Lazy Mayzie is! She was one of the characters I had to cold read. All I had to do was read an excerpt from the Horton the Elephant book. Relatively easy.
Well, enough of my yammering. Anyone got anything to talk about, preferrably involving muffins?
*pies DQ*
Pomp & Circumstance is on the musical program for our graduation as well.
(13) I read that book! I loved that book, though it made me not a little afraid of scary mind things like that. I like my mind. I don’t want anything to happen to it. So say NO to drugs, children.
(36) We had a silly school band concert last week. I don’t know why our music teacher even tries. He gets absolutely no respect from any kid older than nine. When he tells us to be quiet, it takes a full minute for us to quiet down. The guys all have insulting names for him. Even my mother says that he’s kind of whiny.
it was an okay concert. The best part was at the end, when some guys from eighth grade who are a band (named Mello Jello) played a couple of songs. They were infinitely better than the 6th, 7th and 8th grade bands. I loved it. We eighth graders who are their friends were crowding really close to the makeshift stage and clapping and shrieking like they were [insert name of popular band here]. It was like, Those are our people. They’re .
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RATS!
The computer screwed up my Kokopelli made out of periods!
HEY JOE, WHERE ARE YA?
Well, it was a pretty good picture of Koko.
You can still see it sort of.
It looks like he got a little squashed though.
Oh well.
It looks pretty good to me!
Ahhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The maddness is umberable !!!!!!!!!!!!
Me so random. (I’m at kiki’s house)
So I just got back from camp today. It was really fun. Except they made us walk- it was about 7 minutes from the dorm to the cafeteria and then another seven to the music building where we had rehersals.. we’re musicians, people, not athletes. Except those of us who are both. We did really well and I have lots of pictures and email addresses and stuff and in-jokes…
Yay?
28-Hello Nostradamus. Do you walk through walls?
29-Thought-provoking, but unsatisfying.
30-How am I supposed to find books? I can’t smell, for zark’s sake!
I have to go find my Jack Kerouac costume. I never really realized how deck Paul Revere was-he didn’t really care about the whole “taxation without representation” hassle, he just thought the British redcoat uniforms were unspeakably tacky. I have an Elvis Costello concert at Ravinia on Sunday, and I need to go find my copy of London Fields so I can lend it to my friend Beet, who is somewhat lilith but not fin.
42-Where’d u go?
43-What do you mean you can’t smell? As in medically or as in One Who Is Simply Unaware Of The Smell That Enables Enlightened Ones Such As Ebeth To Find Good Books?
I just got back from The Ocean State. For those of you that don’t know your state nicknames, Rhode Island.
There are very unfriendly people there.And they don’t know their area, either. Maybe its a small state thing.
Saw thr first baptist church in america. Neat stuff.
omg…i just cleaned for uh.. about a hour and 45 minutes.. bla… i am leaving now.
Harlo. At my party,we are now doing kareoke.
#33: thanks for reading it!
#37: thats what ppl act like during the end of the year concert at my skool – cmon, its fun! or maybe ppl at my skool just have no better source of entertainment…oh well.
(29) The clarity of that piece was refreshing. As in, it actually had a message which made a lot of sense. Good job.
I organized my bbok shelf today. Quite exciting. Even alphabatized it, from Adams to Wyndam. Speaking of which, who here like Wyndam? I’m reading The Kraken Wakes. Well, I was, but then I got distracted by Mostly Harmless, and then Emma, and then a few other things, but I should be back on track at some point.
(30) ARR! Lucky you. I would give every book I own to live within biking distance of a library. I would give up half the books I own to live in a place place where I could get anywhere without having to get my parents to drive. It’s horrible in the summer, because they’re at work and I;m stuck in the house all day.
I found out today that I own my bass clarinet. Nice!
7th grade was fabulous. 8th was/is not. In fact school in general is a chore. In any case.
As far as books go, I recommend Kamikaze Girls . For the older Musers. Novala Takemoto is hilarious, and a great writer besides. I think you’d like it, Queenie. There’s also a movie that was in very limited release in the US. At least in my area.
I only live a few miles from the library, but I usually don’t bike there (it’s hard to bike uphill with lots of books, and I usually come home from the library with a LOT of books). My school bus has a stop at the library, so I get off there, and my mom picks me up when she has to pick my brother up from afterschool (they’re right next to eachother)..
49- My bookshelf is organized by author and colour. I’m not even joking here. Like, I’ll keep all books by the same author together, but my bookshelf is mostly colour-coded. And some books are stacked on their sides….it’s weird, and I’m the only one who can find anything on it…:)
I live 5 miles [walking distance!] from a library. It’s not very big, though. The one that I need to be driven to is much better.
i live a little over a mile form my library. And my library is gooooood. Ask phoenix. her library only has the second book from each series if even half her complaints are true.
44- I went to summer camp.
More descriptively, it was a week-long chamber music thingy. My group played Beethoven op. 95.
I have about 89 collective pounds of reading material in my room, and they aren’t organized in any way.
GAPA, the color for my b-day is tye dye, I already mentioned it on the birthday thread
it takes about five minutes to WALK to the library nearest to my house it’s not that great of a library but still…
51-I used to have that problem before i moved. Huge hill. Great to ride down, books or no, but up was a problem. I usually went around cutting through parking lots and suchlike. Out of my way, but comparitively flat.
Now i live in a place of extreme flatness. And i mean extreme. You have to drive a while to find a decent hill.
My library’s mebbe only half a mile away i think. Something like that. Pretty much everything is, seeing as i live right down the street from Main.
could we have a thread for peple who hate hpbs? they could all sign it, and then if we got enough people we could get rid of the hpbs!
My library is about a mile away^_^ I don’t go there that often though as my mother is a librarian and brings things home from her library for me.
Would someone please describe P. G. Wodehouse to me? what kind of books are Wodehouse’s books? what is the first one one should read?
My bookshelf is in alphabetical order by author’s last name. Go me.
Wodehouse is british. Very british. Very funny. Hilarious, in fact.
Wow, you people are organized. My bookshelf is just sort of there. With books in it. But that’s only because i have limited room on my floor and under my pillow and on my desk and on my head and in the kitchen and the guest room and the basement etc, etc.
58- NEVER!
My library is definetly within biking distance, but I wouldn’t want to bike there. Let’s have a Libraries/Books thread. FunFunFun.
my bookshelf is arranged alphabetically. all my library books are sort of in a heap in front of it. i have 65 books checked out and everyone thinks that its an unreasonable number. *cry* so ill have to work on reducing that number.
i could bike to the library but it would take ages, the way back is up-hill and its not really safe to bike alone anyways so i might as beg a perent to drive me. I don’t go to the library much anyways though, because we have a SWEET bookstore in town and it has more of the books i like and i usually forget to return books….
Howdy Nostradamus! Never associate with muffins.
http://www.muffinfilms.com
This was in the magazine.
Gotta luff Mufinz
#49: thanks!
#52: ha…mine actually used to be like that too…until i became disorganized
i love to bike to the bookstore downtown in the summer (6 miles – but all the hills make it fun!). its 3 floors, and the basement is this cafe place w/ live musik where a lot of ppl wearing all black + newsboy caps / berets (…oh, that would inc. me – haha!) like to hang out.
I am about two miles away from the library. I am training my shoulder blades to withstand extreme stress such as that caused by hanging 30 pounds of ink and paper off them.
My bookshelf used to be in no particular order, but my mom decided to do something about that one day. Now all my books have little tapes on them that say the first two letters of the author’s last name on them, and they are alphbetized by that.
I have most of the Redwall series and those are organized by color. Sometimes, I put books together if their stories kind of transition to each other. And I don’t put books that I really like next to books that I don’t especially like. I’d NEVER put “The Golden Compass” next to “Freaky Friday”. It just seems…wrong. Yeah, I’m a psycho order person.
I have piles of books that I’ve recently read on the floor. A few years ago, we bought new bookshelves to hold all the books we have. I have 2.5 big magazine holders full of Muse. I’ve been getting my beloved Muse since ’99.
Yeah, my favourite books are on the top shelf….and the ones I haven’t read (the new ones) are in stacks in front of it. Well, they aren’t really stacks, but whatever. Magazines are on the second shelf, in order. Next to my CD player.
68-WHAT? Boy, that’s a long time. I’ve only been getting it since ’03, and I lost half of them. A lot of them I actually didn’t get, like to Oct 2005 issue. I take them out of the library, though, and I’m planning to order some back issues.
Hmmm, maybe I should put my books in order. But then I would die. I am a messy freak, the opposite of a neat freak.
So you know, I have a mild case of synthesia, and whenever I am reading or doing something and listening to a song over and over, the song becomes connected to the thing. Like, Catherine Russell’s “Memories” reminds me of Molly Moon Stops The World, and Ashlee Simpson’s “Boyfriend” reminds me of House of the Scorpion. So now, Aqua’s “Happy Boys and Girls” reaminds me of Museblog.
And that happens even if the song has nothing whatsoever to do with what I’m doing. You envy me, right?
Oh yeah, and “Seasons of Love” reminds me of dance class and HG2G.
Hey, did you know that if you search “butterfly boucher” (a really cool singer) you get a link to the muse fan page? Cooliosis. We are everywhere.
Actually, I don’t envy you, funnily enough. I get songs stuck in my head WAY to easily. But I like thinking of uses for songs. For example, the song “I’ll be missing you” (which I LOVE!!!) is great for when you go on trips and fall in love wityh hot foriegn boys and then have to leave. (Not thatr this has ever happened to me…)
Kiki- Really? That’s synesthesia? Well, in that case, I have it too. I always thought that was normal, to have songs and events linked in your mind. Although for me, the connections don’t have to be something I was doing at the time; they can be random things that were going through my head. Like…”When I Grow Up” by Garbage reminds me of smoke machines, bubble machines, and tables. Only wood ones, though, not the nasty plasticky plywood kind. And they’re square.
Hello, hello, hello!
-Count Olaf
Mwahahaa.
-Terry Pratchet
(77),
That’s not synesthesia. Getting songs stuck in your head and associating them with particular memories or activities isn’t unusual at all. We’d all love to be synesthetes, but very few people actually are.
71- But if you know where all of your stuff is, it’s all goode and you don’t have to be neat.
I hate getting annoying songs in my head. Like one day, I went around singing Manson’s “Personal Jesus” for hours because it was driving me mad. The other day I was singing “I Feel Love,” by Blue Man Group featuring Venus Hum for hours on ende, too. But at least I wasn’t quoting random books or TV shows at people. I do that a lot. And talk about fictional characters as if I know them. Which I do.
I’d hate being a synesthete. I really, really, would. And Otzi (76) it does suck. Trust me on this, it happens both directions to me.
I’m flying to Belgium in a week to catch up with my friend Robin. He’s started a Holistic Detective Agency, and he wants me to come and decorate his office. I’m only too glad. I like Belgium, I like Robin, and I like the idea of extra time away from my parents and with my friends. Also, my favorite band Snix will be in town and Robin promised to take me to a concert. You see, Robin and I have nasty habits of finishing each other’s sentences, getting each other identical gifts (Tintin-print underwear, Wodehouse anthologies, etc.) and I help him with his English and he helps me with my abysmal German and my okay French. Both of which will get an extreme workout-his biz partner, a Plush Carpet, is unilingual in German. Also, my parents really like Robin as long as I send them lots of Euro cooking gear home. Plus, I can fit into his Doc Martens and his jeans (rolled up), and they’re reaaaaaallly cool. I bring this up only because I have no one else to tell it to-my friends would tease me unmercifully.
My CDs are alphabetical by artist, but oddly. The Clash are next to Cave-In, but the Rolling Stones are next to Steely Dan.
59-Wodehouse’s books are light, English comedies on the upper class. They’re completely hilarious, witty, and filled with classical allusions (to Shakespeare, Shelley, 1930s film, the Bible, etc.) and glorious mishaps. In Laughing Gas, for example, the hero leans over to plant a delicate kiss on the neck of his betrothed, forgetting the fact he has a lighted cigar in his mouth. In Thank You, Jeeves, a character has to black his face with boot polish, and then finds he cannot remove it because someone has taken all the butter in the house to make a butter slide. They’re funny, light reads-I would reccomend a book with ‘Jeeves’ in the title for a start, and remember, except for all the weird Brit slang (“stewed to the gills, Basilton-Basilton poked him in the snoot”) they are easy reads that take me about half an hour tops.
what is synesthesia, then? anyway, the soundtrack to hp1 still reminds me of pokemon ruby, and the soundtrack to lotr2 still reminds me of pokemon leaf green. listening to music while playing gameboy is not good for your music.
81- That sounds like fun.
83- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaesthesia
Ok. I’m back. I am now officially changing my name to *Skittles*. I wont make any more changes.
79- Yeah, maybe so, but I can draw music I hear and I can “see” music in colors and shapes. I once drew a really pretty picture of Steve Rashid’s “I Will Seek Him”. That’s also how I memorize music, by thinking of the image and color of the music.
This is extremely weird, but the song “Spongebob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy” reminds me deeply of MuseBlog.
Hey peoples banned today pretty much only sec i can sneak just so y’all know i’m going to GR so i’ll be gone about 3 days. Probably be lurking a while after to catch up. Eat your weetabix!
83- Synthesia is when two senses are randomly connected (according to one Muser) so that the stimulation of one triggers the other. I’m alan, but I’m changing my name, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
I think I’ll ask my mother to bring home some P. G. Wodehouse for me…
mrahr…the musik files in my mp3 got all screwed up, and ive spent the last hour trying to fix them
NO. MORE. PHYSICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
…eternal happiness must not feel too different from what im feeling now!!!!!!!!
*takes big pile of physics notes, goes into backyard, lights them on fire + dances around the blazing inferno*
wow. good day. but i probably passed that frikin exam by the skin of my teeth. ah, well – its all in the past now. *returns to bonfire*
whenever i listen to a certain cd, it reminds me of Soo, MI – but thats b/c i bought it there. nothing special about that.
ahhhh part 2!!
only 7.75 more days of school! the high school got out today. grrr.
Wednesday is our last day of school. I’ll be bored out of my mind, but I’m glad…it’s been a long year.
congrats to all you people about to finish skool!
I found out something really cool. I showed my dad my copy of Larry Gonick’s “A Cartoon of History of the Universe”, and you it turns out they both were studying mathematics at Harvard at the same time! They never met, but my dad knew about him.
To all of you, I suggest the Wind on Fire trilogy, by William Nicholson, and anything by Diana Wynne Jones. She wrote the Chrestomanci series, which rocks, by the way.
91- I hate when that happens. iTunes deleted the songs, but not their names, in my iPod on Sunday and I spent half the day trying to convince my iPod to upload them againe.
My Hybrid Theory CD reminds me of a nursing home. Probably because I was stuck there all day with only that CD. Ok, I had another, but it was locked in my mom’s car.
Dancing Queen’s going to be on soon. I called her. GAPA, add her to the Who’s Here list if you haven’t already.
Does anyone know what website the IAT’s on? I want to take it and blog about it, but I can’t find that issue.
All righty! Penty’s starting a writing contest!
Here’s what you do. Every two weeks or so, I’ll post a prompt for you to write from. You start writing whatever you feel like that relates to that prompt. When you’re done, post it with “Reply to Penty’s Writing Contest #[whichever number this happens to be. For example, the first entry would be #1, then #2, etc.] in the “Name” line. If you post your normal username, I’ll know who you are, and you will be disqualified. I’ll pick a winner and announce the winning number. Then, the person who wrote that entry will step up and claim their prize. (So it’s only virtual brownies and a shiny trophy. Sue me.) Please, this is a contest based on trust. Don’t say you wrote an entry that you didn’t write. I will be sad, the real author will be sad, and you will have a shiny trophy you don’t know what to do with.
um...i have a strange question:i know i gave out my xanga here about a month ago...is someone here who lives in CA visiting it a lot? no, im not stalking ppl (for reals, ppls!); a few weeks ago the xanga admins installed trackers in all of the weblogs, but you can only track ppl who have signed in. and ive been averaging 3 hits per day from somewhere in CA.
- and if it is one of you, ur welcome to look @ it anytime, but just tell me so i wont be freaked out anymore
and another thing: ive also been getting a mystery visitor from ohio almost every day, and i just want to know if that is also one of you guys...b/c theres a certain person i know who lives in ohio (+ shes friends w/ some of my friends who have xangas so she could easily track mine down) that i do not wish to associate with ever again in my entire life, and if it turns out shes snooping, i am going to make sure she regrets it...not kidding here.
That is strange, ebeth. *shudder* That is partly why I have been banned from Xanga.
100- I’ve looked at yours once or twice, but I don’t have a xanga and I don’t live in CA or Ohio (but Ebeth does, I think), so it isn’t me… And by the way, E~A, congratulations on your user pic!
I’m tempted to start zapping any post that even mentions Xanga. Maybe I will.
I don’t live in CA or OH…
xanga can be creepy…
The Ohio person is Ebeth.
99- Cool! I like it. See, this is the kind of thing that should go on the Good Ideas thread. If there were a Good Ideas thread. Which is why the GAPA might make one right now. Please?
103-But dearest GAPA! We would topple over dead! You wouldn’t want that to happen, would you? *slips a bit of virtual choklit-make that a LOT of virtual choklit*
Yeah, i’m the ohio person. I should check my tracker whatsit, see how menny peoples stalk me. My oblivious self never knew it existed.
And now i must go pack…my little backpack got a hole in it (a small hole but one that a tightly rolled-up shirt of mine could fit through (Yeah, i roll stuff up like that for packing. i don’t like carrying a lot of bags) so i have to find another something-or-other)
I’m bringing my summer reading for journalism-a life on the road by charles kuralt. Anybody read? I leave you people w/that. Discussion of the day. Bye.
#106: ok; just wanted to make sure
whats that book about?
i went to skool today for no reason @ all – the govt final was supposed to be today, but the teacher made us take it 2 weeks ago, so everyone knew that there would be nothing to do this morning…but the teacher still said we had to be there.
well, it turned out that no one else wanted to show up – except for this ditzy girl i cant stand. so i helped clean out my teachers file cabinets for 45 minutes…along w/ the ditzy girl…(wow, do i ever regret getting up this morning)…but after that my teacher said she didnt care if i left, so now im home. and now i shall go visit the new threads. *goes to visit new threads*
I think I will explode.
I can’t reach Robin because of the World Cup and the fact that he’s watching it, and his boyfriend says he can’t move Robin away from the TV. Being obsessed with sports is lame, but R. has better qualities, so I won’t worry. I’m now going to attempt to get hold of him by force.
Call me immature
Call me a poser
I’d love to spread manure
In your bed of roses
Don’t wanna be rich
Don’t wanna be famous
But I’d really hate to have the same face…
As you!
107-Weird. Sorry you had to clean out stuff.
We had graduation practice today for graduation tonight…and when we finished, our teacher said we could go home!!
(75) I saw Butterfly and her band perform in a coffeehouse last year and highly recommend her to all Musers.
Butterfly Boucher is actually one of my favorite people. She played later at what I will call The-Dinner-Party-When-I-Spilled-Trifle-On-Arvid-Carlsson-And-He-Swore-At-Me-In-Norwegian. Is my life fabulously exciting or what?
Why don’t you go to her website and invite her to MuseBlog? She’d be fun to have around.
I am totally lost. Who is Butterfly Boucher?
On the last day of home ec, i had to help my teacher bottle up the 409: aka, pour half-bottles into other half-bottles, and I wound up with 409 all over the counter and myself.
How many people here believe in magic?
hey – my birthdays finally on the events thingie! i…feel special for once! *gets teary-eyed* *assures you that shes jk*
I went to a theme park today with my entire eighth grade. There were about 20 other school buses in the parking lot, and we were waiting to get in the park for at least half an hour. The people there were almost as interesting as the rides, but looked considerably scarier.
I got sunburned. As did the rest of the grade. Owch. At least I was wearing my baseball hat all day, with the brim properly facing forwards to shade my face with lack of any style whatsoever.
On the way back from the theme park, the boys were put on one bus and the girls on another. Boooring. But anyway, the girls were sitting in two groups: popular girls and me, at the front of the bus, and everyone else, at the back of the bus. There were several empty rows of seats in between. Team Everyone Else started shouting things at us, so we shouted things back, like lines from a Black Eyed Peas song, phrases like “Your mom” (I hate that expression), and other random things like, “Blahblahblahblah!” I think we won. After a while, the bus driver told us that we were directly entertaining the boys’ bus, and indicated that his intercom speaker had been on.
It hadn’t been; I asked a boy later. I was disappointed. I think the boys should know what they’re in for.
95 both of those =:heart:
im in 7th grade(allmost gone) i like it
soemone said they have freaky friday.
AHHHHHHH!
not he worst movie thoug h.
my dad did not believe Synaesthesia existed.
usually a very educated person… course he had heard of it.
there i a library…*does mental calculation*
approximatly .35 of a mile away from me.
3 avenues.
it sucks though. does nae have too many books.
my boookshelf… could be organized… but it would take like a weelk. i have a life… like the internet.
as you can no doubt see.
118-Was that meant to be a poem? I really do hate to say that, but I’m kind of unsure.
I’m sending off a Team Emu piece to Cicada tomorrow. It should be finished by then, if the Slow Food meeting doesn’t wear me down too much or take up too much of my time.
I feel distinctly sleepy.
117 – what park?
Our 8th grade class went to Cedar Point last week. It was really fun!
does anyone know of any good websites about english folk music sung today?
ach, ther wee gappas ‘ave left.
Thou speaketh not, oh Great and Powerful Ones!
was that supposed to be ‘thee’ or ‘thou’?
has anyone read Thud!? it was really really really good. especially the Where’s My Cow? stuff.
ooh, this is fun. i get to fill up the thread with my spiffy comments!
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i loved your poem emogrl. my bookcase is organized sort of by… writing stlye. the only thing you can count on is that a series will be together.
107- That mus have been irritating. Sorry
108- manure… bed of roses… clever.
I get to spend all day tomarrow at the library. All this talk of them made me want to spend more time int one, so I asked my mom if she could drop me off in the library when she goes to work and take me home when she comes back. So that’ll be fun.
Had a band practice today. It was this optional thing for all incoming freshman, even though it’s summer. It was fun. Some our pieces are hard. Our theme next year is The Who, so our opener is this Babba O’Reilly/ Who Are You medley. It’s really cool, but the sixteenth notes at the intro of Babba O’Reilly are killing me.
Oh, woe is me, for I am without glue-stick.
127- Is there a password? Or should I create my own nation and send Land of the Muse a message or something of the like…?
Oh, cool. I’m figuring out this Nationstates thing. Wow, I’m slow.
Ok, so I created a Nation. w00t. [and sorry about the chain comments…]
It’s called The Federation of The Commodore SM. And it’s somewhere in the Pacific…
*tries to change region* What is the password….I think you mentioned it ages ago….*ponders*
#128: thanks!
i just cleaned out my bookcase – got rid of a ton of Dear America s. i used to love those things…
SKOOL’S. OUT. FOR. EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can’t believe I only have one more year of skool! …*gets sedimental*
Well, time for my twelfth-ennial folder cleanout! W00t.
AHHH! TELEGRAMS!!!! *is completely confused*
the password is kokopelli.
EXTRA EXTRA!!!READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!!!!! Have you heard the news? Head over to the Pie Wars thread!!!
126-Yes, it was good. Vimes is one of my heroes.
138- Thank you!
139- going over there!!!
110- Cool! Did you have fun?
112- I would, but I don’t know how to cantact her. She has a site and stuff but there’s no way to reach her that I know of.
(143)
She put on a great show, even though she had a bad cold. She kept pouring herself hot tea throughout her set and had to leave right afterward to collapse on her bus. But she gave it all the energy she had. I know this isn’t always important for musicians, but she seems genuinely sweet and decent–and funny, in a quirky, Muserly way.
She’s on MySpace, but it looks as if only other members can send messages to her that way. Oh, well, maybe something will turn up. I think she’d enjoy MuseBlog. She strikes me as a pie-throwing kind of person.
You know those plastic, CD-resembling dividers that come in stacks of CDs? The ones that look like a transparent CD? Well, I took it out of the stack of actual CDs and told my sister that it was a new and improved type of CD and she completely believed me. ‘T was hillarious.
Why are some of the comments green… and some are blue? Anyone know?
146- It’s every other comment. Unless you meant the text. If you type [a] and [/a] around the text, it’ll change colour. Like this. Just use the greater-than and less-than signs instead of these [ ].
im sad i never go on this anymore
but i cant come up with anything to write about…..
happy almost-the-end-of-school
the high school’s ended 2 days ago but mine ends next friday.
Shriya,
Cheer up! We’re about to talk about Hinduism on the World Religions thread. So stick around, please; I’m sure you’ll have plenty to contribute there.
just testing
does this work
Ya. It works. I can SEEit.
Hey, shriya! Yeah, go to the World Religions thread and help me figure out Hindiusm. Your Hindu, right?
Also, the Pie War thread can always use more pie-throwers (I’m pretty sure you’ve already joined a side)
or post your favorite books on the books/bookstores/libraries thread
Hey peoples! I haven’t been here in a looong time. What’d I miss? ANyone remember lil’ ol’ me?
greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeny green man, dude I lak greenish ness. Verr Nahs.
hey… has anybody seen Wicked the Musical?
if so was the acting as good as the music is? (ive read the book, have the music, but the chance to get tickets thru my mother (grr) eludes me still… for several reasons) tellmetellmetellme!!!
Who could ever forget you, Sphinx (155)? Somebody else will have to bring you up to date, though. I just read ’em all; I don’t try to make sense of them, assuming such a thing is possible.
LtS (157),
“Wicked” the musical has so many fans on the blog that it got its very own thread back in March. Have a look!
o really!? thanks
oooh greaat. NOW i wanna see it even MORE! and mom wont get tickets!!!!! WAH!!!!!! *disolves into tears and chucks the keyboard across the room*
now can we have a thread for musicals in general?
153- youre pied
i shall now tear my self apart. *clears throat and stretches finger in preparation.* here goes:
I live at 7200 feet, on the outskirts of a rinky-dink little town on the west-south-west section of wyoming. I think a town like Jackson Hole Wyoming or Rock Springs is huge. All I’ve seen of the East Coast is an airport terminal transfering to a flight to Europe, four times. I ride six hours aday in summer, nine hours a day of skiing on weekends and holidays in the winter, and spend the rest of my time on the comp or sitting in a desk at skool and I read till two in the morning on skool nights, till I fall asleep on weekend nights, or, if I’m tired, I sleep from six pm to ten am, I lie awake at night devising pranks or I travel to the land of the most recent book or play or some interwoven mesh of everything. I terrorize the little sixies at skool with big words like it’s inanimate instead of littler phrashes like it is imobile or even simpler it is unable to move. I am the shyest kid in skool but can sometimes talk about stupid issues like my favorite book at the moment for hours. I am constantly proving myself better educated about things like grammar, spelling, math, words, and reading than my best friend but still manage to avoid know it all status by adveraging Cs and low Bs.
in short, I lead an interesting life.
i have a laser mouse. if i shine it on a black sheet of papaer, it looks just exactly like a hot pink bunnie: round, with two brighter lights like eyes and to prongs like ears coming out the top. Its even the right color.
creeeepy.
(155) I remember you, because you were one of the cool-veteran musebloggers when I was just a cowering newbie.
Lessee, well Montgomerygurl left, because she didn’t feel comfortable on the Museblog anymore, and the Pie Wars progressed (I believe you participated in the very early part of the first one and were on the Neutrals side). We eliminated individual birthday threads, because they were clogging the blog, and… yeah.
My dad just showed me something really cool! Recent research shows that after a certain age (around 30ish I think) people loose the ability to hear super high frequencies. Using this fact, companies have started to market devices that emit really high pitches that only young people can hear. Some upper-class yuppy stores use them to keep teenagers from loitering around there stores (because the high pitched noise is really unpleasant, but older customers won’t hear it)
and other companies sell it as a ringtone that kids can have so their teachers won’t know that their cell phone is goin off in class! Crazy eh?
To hear the ring tone, go to the NY times website, search “ring tones”. The name of the article is “A ringtone meant to fall on deaf ears”
There’s a link in the margin that will take you a player that will play the high pitched noise.
(this is the link to the player, not the news article, but I’m guessing it will be zapped- http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/audio/nyregion/20060610_RINGTONE.mp3)
[Oh, what the heck. It’s the New York Times, and it’s interesting. –Robert.]
When my dad played it, I cried out and covered my ears and my dog went crazy, but my parents couldn’t hear a thing.
I liked the DNA music…there were links to it in an issue of muse recently
155- Of course!
165- Duuuuuuuuude, mi padre tolde me about that a few days ago. That sound is reeeeeeeeally annoying. GAPAs, can you hear it?
man, that wouldn’t work in my school. Half the teachers are under thirty… still, very cool.
I made my dad listen to it. He can’t hear it…
veeeeeery creepy.
kool though.
is anyone else following the world cup?
hi! what’s new? i know a kid with a ringtone like that skipper… it drives the teachers CRAZY! also, MAP, i noticed i’m not on the who’s here list!!!!
testing again. sorry.
165- Wouldn’t it be awesome if we found a way to tranfer messages into that frequency, and we could broadcast them and no adult would ever hear them?
171-I was, but haven’t seen any games for a couple days cuz i’ve been away. What’s happened? duuuuuuuuuuuuude did you see the sweden/T+T game? That was pretty amazing. US/Chekoslovakia (no i can’t spell that) was really sad though.
Ebeth is BACK! w00t! Dad and i went to GR. Got there mediumish late (around 8), went down to racheal’s house and watched pink panther. Next day, was at rach’s again, watched another pink panther (because the pink panther pwns.
) and wandered aimlessly around the neighborhood. Sam+Jen were both gone, but harriet was around (You oldies remember the Gospel of Spamabix? Anyone? This is harriet the author). So we went to the pool which is like dying btw. Mr. Scheer came up and he and dad talked for ages and ages about it (dad used to be on the board, mr. scheer still is) and i think they’re gonna just drop the membership price way down and hope they get some n00bs cuz everybody’s been dropping out. When we went there was hardly anybody. A few of the Scheers left just as we came, and then it was me, harriet, dad, some small child named eric, and his dad. We played some pool basketball (fouling legal of course) then they left and another small child named katie came with her dad. Following the tradition of small children at the pool throughout the ages, she accosted us like so…
Katie: *swims up and STARES*
…
Me: …Ello
Katie: Hi. My name’s Katie.
*silence*
Katie: Who are you?
Me: Elizabeth *****
Katie: Hi
Me: …Hi
Katie: *turns to harriet* Who are you?
Harriet: Harriet *********
…..
Katie: *gesturing behind* That’s my dad.
Me: Ah.
Katie’s dad: *swims up* *beams* Hi!
Harriet: Hi
Katie’s dad: Come on katie, let’s go catch some sharks!
*Harriet and i stare at each other, duck underwater, and CRACK UP!*
This was even more funny because this happens to us ALL THE TIME. We seem to be small child-magnets. Why, i ask myself, do they not go to those who actually like them, and are comfortable with them, and babysit them, and talk to them? Why us? But that’s how it goes.
Well, parental units kicking me off now. Bye people.
174- Yeah! (see that’s a Good Idea) you could have radio station for only adolescants/ younger adults!
there seems to be a surplus of little girls named katie in this country.
hi
Speaking of surplus, has anyone been to a store called American Science and Surplus? It is so awesome!! Or is it just a Chicago-based company?
Hi!
I used to haunt the Milwaukee branch when I worked in Wisconsin. There’s an online catalog, too.
175- I seem to be a little kid magnet too… sometimes it gets soooo annoying!!! yet it is hilarious too…
okay i got to go feed my sis… lol, i’m babysitting her so… yeah… i think she’s hungry… omg i’m making her sound like a dog!!!! lol, see ya
179-Yes, actually.
That ringtone sounds like someone tortured a cat inside an ironworks. There’s no one over 30 in the house at the moment, but when one comes back, I’ll check it.
If my ‘rents come back. I feel lonely.
On the ‘Dates to remember’ piece, how do they know thier birthdays? Are they just the dates that they first logged on? Or thier real birthdays?
184- No, we told them our actual birthdays. And favourite colours [because Musers wear the person’s favourite colour on their birthday].
How do you give it to them?
43– Wrong mystic here, pal. I tell the future!!!.. um, sort of…
amyway what are we talking about? ~PIES EVERYONE WITH 42 CHOKLIT PIES EACH~
i like green. and white. but green is better.
that ringtone was…. *tries to think of good word* odd? annoying? disturbing? uuuuuuuuum…. weird?
all of the above, probably.
(165) Thanks. Yeah, I was nuetral. i’m just the one who stands off on the side and eats all the pies.
185- We do? I’ll have to remember that. Kinda hard to wear Octarine, though.
Just type it in one of your posts. Like this: Hey, GAPA! My birthday is September 18, 1990!!!!
Yay. And I found the Muse offices on GoogleEarth. Or at least the FMP…
you say:
oh, and by the way, my birthday is coming up on june 31st, please make a note.
SN: Oh. My. Gawd. Now THAT is high. My head hurts. My mom couldn’t hear it, of course.
Just post it.
175-I just realized. That’s supposed to be around 7) I must’ve done a typo and put 8. See, it goes 8) if you do that.
186-You just tell the GAPA your birthday and fave rave, on this thread would be fine, and they plug it in. And hey presto, the month comes, and there the thread is with your birthday on it. Yay!
Eight days until yo voy ala mi camp.
MUSE IS DOING MY IDEA!!!!
I wrote to Muse saying that they should do “10 greatest people in the universe” and they wrote me an email aying that they’re doing it! Wh00t!
Wait a minute.. I just found out that itsonly a possibiliy. Oh well, its stilla posibility *runs in circles*
I heard it. It’s not like an actual sound. I mean, I heard it, but I’m not sure I would if I hadn’t been listening for it. Neither of the ‘rents could hear it. Coolio!
190- Yeah, well, I’ve BEEN there in real life. INSIDE. And I took a PICTURE in FRONT OF IT. Beat that.
I-i hha-ve ee-xpperr-ienn-ced th-e wononn-der tthh-at ii-s ho-ot pii-nk…… I hh-a-ve ssee-ennnn tthh-ee pi–nk lligh-ight…. Go-o he-ere to se-e-ee ii-t t-o0….
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=283
Yeah Ebeth’s back! Hello!
mmm…what was I gonna post again?….
Oh yeah. I had a question for Queen J. WHat do you do at your camp?
#177: yeah. i think i have about 5 aquaintances/friends who are named katie
#175: lol. i seem to be a kid magnet as well – which is completely ironic, but kinda funny at the same time. i mean, this girl i had to look after last year wanted me to paint her nails sparkly black (like mine were at the time), and then she wanted to try on some of the (weird) bracelets i was wearing that day. it was so cute, but i hope her parents dont think im a “bad influence!”
Blergh. I hate puberty.
202- *virtual choklit* Bad day? Or just feeling blergh is general? *hugs*
175- Grr, yeah, my kid cousins always stick to me like glue, but not my older sisters! I don’t like little kids even that much… I can’t handle their liittle kidness.
I like little kids…I have a brother who is 8 years younger than me (he’s 6 right now), and he is really fun to play with, etc. Next week, my mom and sister are going to be away and my dad has to work all day, so I get to be with hiim all day..I’m trying to think of fun things to do.
200-More than you can possibly imagine. To be more specific, it’s by a lake, and camp is “rustic”, so we live in our cabins, which have no electricity or running water. We have 1 bathroom for the whole camp (but it has 20 toilets, so that’s OK), but this year should be lots of fun, because it’s the camp’s 100th Anniversary Celebration and not only does everyone get to eat more than is really reccomended, but we have special pins and things and this year, five of my best friends are counselors-in-training, and it means that we get to stay up late at nights, and hopefully some other perks as well. Last year we arranged the Initiation Ceremony, where flaming arrows are supposed to be shot over the tribe. We couldn’t get the arrows they gave us to light, so we ended up using tampons (my idea) and after the ceremony we did nothing but laugh for twenty minutes, because it was such a serious occasion and lighted sanitary napkins were being flung over the heads of the whole tribe. Oh, it was funny. That was probably more than you wanted to know.
202-Want some virtual pad thai? Did you have a bad day or something?
I’m going to paint my room octarine, with blue stripes.
Der Wachtelschlag Fliegender; Queenie, I once started a comic strip about girls who where going to go work at a camp where they where going to be camp counselors. They where taking a camp bus to a camp alot like the one you just described.
I was watching the first two Matrix movies last night. Please forgive my randomness…
*morphs into Agent Smith*
Hello, Mister Anderson….
*creates billions of other Agent Smiths*
Me! Me! Me!
Me, too!
*Neo fights Agent Smiths for a while, then flies away*
Grr. I hate that Mister Anderson.
*morphs back even though I’m not dead and that really doesn’t happen*
Once againe, I apologize.
202- Yeah, dude.
Hi!
I AM BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yay for me!!!
Kiki’s Section
DaQue has finally seen the light and come to realize that Museblog rox her sox off.
DaQue’s Secton
Yes, Museblog is actually very fun!!!!!!
210- YAY!
210-w00t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO! Museblog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today, my teacher told me that If I keep on flirting with and touching the guys in my class, i’ll probably get backslapped.
In other noos
WARNING- MAJOR RANTAGE AHEAD
I am sick of being a toy. Thats what people like me are. We are G-ds little toys. He plays with our minds and our hearts, and so does the earthly humans. And they have FUN.
Today, I got this close |………….| to kissing an eight grader. However, some sort of force feild came between my lips and his cheek, and I didn’t. Now, keep in mind that this is the last day I’ll ever see him again. Divine Intervention.
Its devine intervetion that people like us exist. Me, him, the rest of my classmates. G-d plays with our minds like a little 3 year old plays with a toy truck. He takes pleasure in watching us suffer, watching us act like adults at 13, watching us just plain not fit in.
Now, I hope I don’t sound blasphumous, I know there are mormons on this board. However, its time to face the truth: People like us just plain shouldn’t exist.
Excuse me? You sound rather off, Yeti.
Er, Yeti? I don’t really think it’s God’s fault you didn’t kiss an eighth grader today. Really.
Also, why would Mormons specifically be offended? Just curious.
My birthday is December 9th. My favorite color is red. No, blue. No, grAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHH!
Monty Python refrence!
203- Thanks Skipper. I just felt sort of uckish in general.
On a more postive note, I just finished making this totally froody/spiffy pen! It’s one of those purple Parpermate ones, and I twisted all of these random beads and buttons around it with tons of this wire. It’s that nice stuff in plastic coating that doesn’t come off easily so you don’t cut your fingers easily.
If you’re happy, laugh
If you hear music, go dance
‘Cause life is random
My friend Jordan wrote that. She’s a genius.
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee….!!!!
*runs in circles*
hahahahah- *trips over crack in cement floor of comp room*
aaaaaaauuuuugh! *goes sprawling*
*sits up* hello peoples. all are floors are this cement type stuff… ??? i dunno why. my favorite color is green and i cant wait till next yr cuz than the date of my birthday will be: 7-7-07!! squeeee!
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hot pink(ish) bunnie!! yay!!!!!!
I’m going to see Tommy by The Who. Like, I’m leaving any minute now. My friend is in it. w00t.
*sings*
Listening to you… I get the music.
Gazing at you… I get the heat.
Following you… I climb the mountain.
I get excitement at your feet!
Have fun!
OMG!! GAPA is singing!!! Can you make a sound clip of that pleeze?
My GAPA search powers tell me that I’ve sung on the blog four times before: on Music & Lyrics, Round-Robin ‘Riting 2006.1, Skool, and Gapa Reunion!. On each occasion, MuseBloggers have been seriously weirded out. It’s probably just as well that you can’t hear it.
Nooooooooooooo, I doooooo want to hear it!!! then I will be robbed of all sanity for a few seconds, and on Museblog, that’s a good thing!!!
Here’s some brownies -pokes-
-sings-
(Repeat numerous times)
Oh Muse, Muse, Muse
Muse Muse Muse
pies and science
in one
so I am smart-fun
Lalalala
Walking Cycles Everyone!
(refrain)
Oh Muse Muse Muse
you are cool
everytime I read
You are the magazine
I really, really, need
Oooooh
my god fathers day in 2 days
ok i have a wood pen i made in tech and a tissue-paper-covered cup for pencils (it looks cuter than it sounds, ok?) what do i put in the cup thing?? my mom’s like “uhm…make a round card???” no!! i cant do that!! what i do??
It was fun. Very fun. Now my mother wants me to participate in the next play because they hold open auditions.
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me…
this guy told me to sing and dance alot over the summer in my yearbook. that might in someway be related to comment 216.
205(Queen J)- HAHAHAHA! hilarious. mmm.. I need to remember that for my camp… fantastic..
213( Yeti)-
What can I say? I’m an atheist, so that sort of thing doesn’t really happen with me… but hey! You are in control of your life, no matter what. If you don’t believe that god is thwarting you, you probably won’t feel that he is, if that makes sense. Be in charge, You can only go up, right? Here’s my advice: find something besides guys. Guys are fine, if they are nice, but seriously? You’ve got better stuff to be worrying about. Take up… tennis, and everytime you wack the ball, you can imagine it’s the planet. Or whatever. Just get out an do something that keeps your frusteration from taking over your life.
216(Gwendolyn)- Schweet. I should try making a pen like that.
218 (Sweet Melpomene)- Hey! My marching band is playing Tommy next year! Our theme is The Who. Our opener is Baba O’Reilly+Who Are You and I think Tommy is part of the halftime show.
I went to la biblioteca again today. Anyone ever read an Bronowski?
Its G-ds fault for everything bad that happens in my life, brainwise. Like i said, I’m a toy.
217 (lilbro)- Will you be turning 7?
You’know what? Its money over everything. Money over the environment, money over human well-being, money over love. Its sickening.
yeti, i agree with skipper. especially about guys. in the end, there are more important things.
IM GOING TO THE BEACH!
SCHOLL’S OUT ON TUESDAY!
WHY AM I TALKING LIKE DEATH?
Thanks, Musers. Accually, we talk a lot about politics at school. Local politics, since we’re not allowed to mention Bushes name, therefore eliminating all national stuff. Its mostly what I worry about. Like, for example, killing the geese in Scotia, New York (I don’t live there, so its allowed to emtnion the name, right?)
But really, I have to thank you for giving me a big knock in the head and for, well, being Musers.
206-They spent the entire comic strip just going to camp? And never actually getting there? Oh well; dialogue opportunities and all that, you know how it is.
213-I have toys. I’m not one myself. And anyway, if we’re all God’s toys, why aren’t I a pretty toy, a comely plaything? Hello? Why do I have to be the hunchback figurine, so to speak?
218-The two songs in that musical not written by Pete Townshend are the most inappropriate. Have fun!
230-Not really. Money is something you can get more of, and money over everything gives people some measure of control.
I’m bringing my uncut version of Stranger In A Strange Land to camp. It’s a paperback, but big, so it should be my constant companion during all those long camp days. I’m also going to kill some rabbits in my yard before I leave. They destroyed my garden!
234- Eville rabbits! My garden has been destroyed by groundhogs. Which are really cute once you trap them and set them loose. Because they’re so funny when they run into the middle of the road instead of the forest.
it’s cool Yeti. Just remember, you can control you life, no matter what it feels like.
I hate rabbits! They’re everywhere! Stupid fuzzy little things. Grr.
I slept outside again last night. It was nice. The birds woke me up around 5.
Rabbits are cute. Remeber, they are related to the hpb…
i have rabbits. and a garden. and lots of fences.
233 – why aren’t you allowed to mention Bush’s name?
so I asked my dad to buy me those muses on ebay, but they were already gone when he got there…
oh well.
Wow. That was worse than Neopets. I’ll keep an eye out for more.
I see that the Black Death issue and the February 1999 issue are still for sale.
I made a trebuchet. Heh heh heh. With some help from mi padre. Okay, a lot of help. It’s slightly off-center, because I can’t use drills properly…..but, hey, it works!
whats worse than neopets?
The speed at which items disappear on Ebay. I’d spotted some 1997 and 1998 Muses for sale and announced them on the blog, but they were gone before Lizzie could get them.
Neopets is fun!! Don’t insult me.
I got a STICKER MACHINE!!!!!! Yayness.
Hmm. I have two copies of several issues. I wonder how much they would go for if I put them up?
i think they were saying taht things disappear on ebay faster than they do on neopets.
why do you have two of some issues skipper?
qu’est-que vous dites “slacker” en francaise?
I’m quite sure why I have two issues of some of them. For a while out subscribtion was made out two my two older sisters, so I guess that meant we payed for two issues a month. I don’t know why since the younger of my 2 older sisters never read Muse. It was always the eldest reading them, and me sneaking off with them when she was gone.
oh great zarquon i just listened too the ring tone jeez that feels weird…is there a douglas adams thread anywhere? THank U…. *cradles aching head*
I got there before they were gone, asked my parents, and was told that they’d think about it. I told them they would be gone. They didn’t believe me. I reloaded the page. They were gone.
oh i just played that thingy 2 my mom and she cud just barely hear it, she’s 43, jeez so maybe the teacher thing wont work……………………..
hmm…I have two of some issues, because when I renewed my subscription, they sent the last issue againe. The same thing probably happened with Skipper…
sticker machine, sticker machine, think of what ‘cha can make with a sticker machine….
246–SELL THEM TO ME!!! I HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO READ!!!
I am miserable. I missed the last day of school and a beach party that my best guy friend invited me to because I had to go to this stupid wedding that is seven hours away in a stifling hot state.
Every person there was over sixty years old, and every single one of them came up to us and said to my brother and I, “Do you remember me from the obscure occasion involving multitudes of unknown relatives that occurred at least five years ago? You’ve grown so much, you’re so pretty/handsome, nice to see you, etc, etc, etc.”
I mostly sat by the duck pond and sulked. I had one year in this school. I made friends. Now I’m going somewhere else for high school, and neither of my friends are going there. I wanted to be with everyone for just a little longer, and guess what? Of course I can’t.
Whenever I really want something that is actually quite simple, I can’t have it.
Sorry. I feel like complaining. My parents are tired of listening to me whine, so I ‘m just going to rant and rant where they can’t hear me. I’m furious when I’m not miserable.
I have a similar problem, Queenie. Most of my friends are in 8th grade and will begoin gto another district for Highskool. Unfourtunatly, theres no chance of me seeing them every again.
We aren’t allowed to mention Bushes name since thats all we ever talked about. Stupid, really. Now we mention “Pataki” all the time, to make up for it.
Have you tried telling your parents about this? It seems like you don’t have enough free time. If you talk to your parents, they might see how unhappy you are and try to think a llittle more about you!
Aaaaaaaaalways Whimsical,
-Capricious-
245- ROCK ON Kiki! Neopets RULES. Museblog might be a little higher in my status though…
I’d say they’re egual.
#242: my LB makes trebuchets out of knex. he uses them to launch dog treats at my poor dog.
#255: that sux. family gatherings can be quite tedious…
you might be surprised to know that…high skool is actually a lot more laid back than junior high. not kidding! i think its b/c ppl realize that its their last years of “being a kid,” and they want to make the best of it…so at least theres not as much conformity.
GUESS. WHAT?
MY PLACE OF WORK MIGHT BE ON NATIONAL TV!!!
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow, i relly did have a mood swing today! i woke up today inc pissed at the fact that i had to work from 1 to 9, and that i would in fact be doing this all summer instead of having fun like ppl w/ lots of friends do…
…almost right after i arrived at work, 3 people come in and say that theyre from dateline, and that theyre putting together a show about michigan / northwest usa! they filmed the outside of the store, and lake michigan, which is actually just across the street. i dont think they got my friend or me on tape, but maybe we were visible through the windows when they were filming outside!
so yeah, im psyched. but…theres probably a good chance that theyll have to take out the part where they filmed the store, or they might decide to just not do the show for some reason – i just assume that this happens a lot w/ shows like dateline – but ill definitely tell you guys if they decide to do the show!
255- Ah man. That sucks. *virtual choklit*
260- Cool! A great chance to stalk you! Mwahahahahahahaha….
jk.
I have returned from England! It was awesome. I just finished hanging up the map of England I got from the British Museum. The British Museum (I am NOT going to abbreviate that) was one of the coolest things ever! They actually had a moai statue, which I can’t believe they took, but I got my picture taken with it. With a disposable camera, because the digital camera had accidentally been left at the hotel that day. So I can’t post the picture on here. Maybe if I scan it into the computer, but I don’t know how and my printer doesn’t do that. I could probably have someone do it at their house then email it to me! Let me check!
My friend says he can do it. Now I have to get the film developed.
Anyway, there’s been a small addition to my numismatic collection. In case y’all didn’t know, I’m a numismatist. One of the few things from England requested from me by my friends was a complete set of British coins for a certain Makhlook. (This after I told him I was NOT going to get him fifty pounds.) It’s okay though, I still have a reasonable amount of coins to keep.
I will get that film developed post-haste. Then I will use some sort of coding to get it on here. Groovy. See y’all on the flip side.
Many developers (around here that means drugstores) will also give you digital files on CD for a small additional fee. You can’t post them through code alone, but I’ll post a picture if you send it to gapa@musefanpage.com.
260- Nice. Mine launches tennis balls and anything of similiar size.
255- Aargh, I hate that. Today is Fathers’ Day, so I’m going to be bored out of my mind.
262- The British Museum? I am exceedingly jealous. You could always just take a picture of the picture with a digital camera and then upload it. I do that when I’m too lazy to get out my scanner. The quality isn’t as goode, though…
236-You can’t control your life. That’s like reincarnating the Ultimate Spinach and expecting them to work together with Every Mother’s Son and the Monkees.
255-At least you have family. I have two grandparents, one who understands and can speak English but only will talk in German, and my grandmother collects linen tea towels with maps on them. I also have an uncle, who has a bridge parlor, a dog, and a partner named Alan who goes around as a guy during the day and a woman at night. “Alanna,” or so you think. Oh, they also have a dog who is huge, enormous
256-Other way around. Most of my friends I see at camp, and then we talk by pictophone, IM, email, etc. the rest of the year.
262-More than one moai piece, actually. If you go to the very back rooms of that exhibit you’ll find them. They had a collection of pop-protest pins and such that I thought were interesting. The ‘no coat hangers’ one is actually pro-choice. And some of the Babylonian pieces are astounding. Did you go to the Attic? I call it the Attic, but it’s the Edward-Victoria museum that feels more like someone’s attic than a museum. It’s got one of those huge, colorful, hanging glass sculptures made by that artist in Seattle. I went to his studio for a dinner once. He does the ‘Wodehouse Wall’-hanging things up on a wall, moving them up as he works on them and then, when they’re at the top, pulling them off. I’d love to see the picture.
Would Peter, Paul and Mary have had a chance as Melvin, Seymour and Shirley? Why are they so manufactured? What made the Monkees come into fashion, and what stroke of fate made David Jones decide on the Bowie appellation to distinguish himself from the Monkee? I wish I had a time machine and could return to the sixties.
#262: ooh *is envious* i would luff to go to england; its where basically all of my familys roots are.
maps are cool…i collect maps of fictional places from vid games & such.
hey
what did i miss
……..a lot, right??
oh well
Oh. Okay… I don;t think it’ll do any harm,
My b-day is Aug. 4
My favorite colors are blue and green and RAINBOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
262- Cool! I am jealous. Which city is the British Museum? (I’m guessing London but I just wanter to be sure..)
I just went to the Cubs game in Chicago. I read most of the time.
My mom and sister are going to a violin camp next week, and my dad is working all day, so I’m going to be with my 6-year-old brother all day every day next week. Does anyone have any suggestions of things to do with him?
267-What ho! What’s happening with you!
Zarking fardwarks. I just got up to check on the bird, and it’s learned to say something. It’s learned to say ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams.’ from the radio series. I didn’t teach it that. It learned it on its own.
Ha ha ha ha! That’s terrific.
Was anybody else at the game?
271–Tranquilizer.
270- Yay for kids who read at baseball games. The Cubs are a baseball team, right?
271- Arrange for him to be at a friend’s house all day long? For a few days during that week. That should keep the peace for some time…Have him read all of your Muses? Okay, I have really bad ideas concerning people. I have almost ZERO social skills. And I’m going to be at the library tomorrow morning. Bleah.
272- Ha! Froody. I used to have a bird.
273- Which game
I’m a bit feeling lightheaded and sore. I’ve spent the last…oh, 4 hours pouring over my sister’s digital camera, dismantling it and brushing all the Sahara sand out of it. If I can get the all the sand out and then somehow figure out how to put it together, I can use it. If it still works. Which it probably won’t. Oh well. I bet I could make a really excellent abstract sculpture out of it anyways.
271- If you are old enough to drive than use your imagination, if not,
do you want suggestions on what to do WITH him? Or what to do becuase you’ll be bored?
Tell me and I’ll help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
w00t! I’m Capricious!!! With diffrent name! I’m still kepping my other ones so NOBODY take them! *Snarl!*
Ooh! I forgot! Another date to remember, independance day! July fourth! American indipendance!
(278),
It’s about a butterfly, not a dragonfly, but you might enjoy this poem by Robert Graves:
FLYING CROOKED
The butterfly, the cabbage white,
(His honest idiocy of flight)
Will never now, it is too late,
Master the art of flying straight,
Yet has–who knows so well as I?–
A just sense of how not to fly:
He lurches here and here by guess
And God and hope and hopelessness.
Even the aerobatic swift
Has not his flying-crooked gift.
Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanx!!!!!
“We are the knights who say NEAT!! NEAT!! NEAT!!”
(Inspired by my mum and Willie McCool, who say “neat” all the time. I hate the word “neat”, thus I would be one of the villigers in the film who cower at the word. Though I had fun going around my gradnparents’ nursing home saying this at 22:30.)
well, you could have a water fight or blow bubbles or do a puzzle i’ll try and think of more…
My artist friend Rebecca Lasley (creator of the hypnotic bunnies) is in town. Today we went to the Kennedy Center to see the Kirov Ballet perform “Giselle.” We had front-row seats. I’d never been so close to dancers and could see most of what the orchestra was up to, too. Fascinating. Fleur Delacour was not in evidence, however.
i just listened to that ringtone thingie…it didnt bother me that much. heh heh…probably due to listening to very loud musik every day for the last 4 years
282 (KQ)- My mom sounds like that, too. Only as in, “Neat! Neat! Neat! [name witheld], your room must be neat!” Naturally, I don’t listen.
question: -k-. so in japan, ppl say “san” and “chan” after names of ppl they are familiar with…is there a difference?
I liked that poem so much I copied it down and posted it on my door.
“Giselle”? Ballet? Cool. Never heard of Giselle, and I’ve never seen a ballet, but they both seem excellent.
I heard of “Giselle.” A few of my friends performed it a while ago… No, I didn’t see it.
(287),
As usual, Wikipedia has the answer (or at least an answer, which in this case looks convincing):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_titles
Did you hear that the latest iPod update consists of some bug-fixers and a tool that allows parents to make a volume limit on their children’s iPod? I am so not telling my mom about that.
I just tried to cut a bagel in half with a butter knife.
I’m listening to “so long and thanks for all the fish” right now.
hee hee. tranquilizer.
I got a bunch of movies from the library and am planning to do a lot of arts & crafts with my brother this week…it’s really tiring.
291- I heard that. And it is horrible! The volume is there so you can drown out any nagging!
Very well then. I’m going to see The Da Vinci Code with my mom, because *sniff* today is my last day before I go to camp tomorrow for a month. I have to wake up at 4:30 tomorrow!! I’ll have time to do one last post though. It’ll be really long-winded.
(287) Well, san is an all around term, and is not particularly emphatic; basically anyone could be san.If you meet someone on the street whose surname is Kobayashi and given name is Kensuke, you would address him as Kobayashi-san, not Kenuske. To the Japanese, it is a sign of closeness to address someone by their given name, and to do so without permission is seen as forward and disrespectful.
However, chan is generally used for young girls in an endearing way; if it is used for anyone else it is usually derogatory or meant to be funny. Example: if your brother Nobu of fourteen years is getting on your nerves, you would call him Nobu-chan.
Understand there is a plethora of Japanese honorifics used, not just san as most Americans seemt o believe. A few would be sama,kun,sensei, senpai, etc. My favorite is the lesser known “kohai” which describe a sort of “middle classmen” whereas senpai is “upper classmen”
I hope that made sense. Ask me to clarify if it didn’t. :3
Moshi-moshi MuseBlogger-Sans(?)!
GAPA-sensei, I checked out the Fleur Delacour link and read the thread. How very humorous.
Kuma-san, Kuma-san…
(Mister Bear, Mister Bear)
(Gwen’s alter-ego, the Aquamarine Menace:)
Gwen-chan is going zonkers with the Japanese honorifics.
Maybe someday I’ll get around to writing the next scene, in which Mimi meets Draco Malfoy.
298- That would be amusing to the highest degree.
Hi peoples. Right now I am at the apple store. Yayness for macbooks!!!!!
Robert Graves? GAPA, I leave you alone for one day so that I can work and already, already you are treating us to Robert Graves? What is this place? Do I need to get you a nanny or something? Better yet, shall I book a brain specialist and cut you off virtual chocolate?
I had to spend today assembling RSID kits and listening to Patti Smith. As if this weren’t bad enough, I have realized that I need to take extra toothbrushes to camp because I go through the things so fast and the camp can’t sell me the ones I need for my headgear. The bristles have to be shaped so that they aren’t cut into dust by my braces, wires, chapers, guards, and chains. That sounds like a torture chamber. I have been on the phone, and hold, all day with the ortho. company, trying to place an order.
If kissing a person who smokes is like licking an ashtray, is kissing a person who has braces like sticking your tongue in a wire fence? This does not sound good.
300-My fleet of computers is bedecked with eight cooling fans. They hum.
I have braces. I kiss my girlfriend. I have heard nothing of the sort. Refrain from making comments about braces, because I hate them with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.
Speaking of bunnies, when I was at the airport the other day waiting for the flight to arrive, I happened to come across a small and amusing book in the bookstore, and its sequel. I read them both in about seven minutes. I highly recommend them. “The Book of Bunny Suicides” and “Return of the Bunny Suicides.” They’re little cartoons showing bunnies….well…..you get the idea. One of my favorites is the bunny pouring pepper on Sauron’s eye from LOTR.
I expect that entire paragraph to be deleted.
#290: thanks!
#296: thanks!
today has been very relaxing. i woke up like…4 hours ago? ha. summer is my season for hibernation. then i folded a bunch of laundry, wrote a new song on my wall, decided to fix a shirt i had decorated thats faded a bit, found out that we have no paint pens, got mad, and finally started on another shirt. this ones made out of a skirt i found in a storage closet – its going to be very…summer-y.
ok, so has anyone noticed how much we use the term random here? we do. a lot. in fact, it seems to me that its the most overused term in this blog. so…ive taken the liberty to look up a few synonyms for it.
accidental, adventitious, aimless, arbitrary, casual, chance, contingent, designless, desultory, driftless, fluky, fortuitous, hit-or-miss*, incidental, indiscriminate, irregular, objectless, odd, promiscuous, purposeless, slapdash*, spot, stray, unaimed, unconsidered, unplanned, unpremeditated
unpremeditated?? ha. i like it.
303 (emogrl)- Nooo! Thesaurus torture! You must understand that I am allergic to thesaurus torture. I’m sneezing right now! My eyes are swelling up! Okay, so maybe that’s everything else I’m allergic to. Whatever.
I am now going to address everyone on the blog with Japanese honorifics at the ends of their names! (I already call myself Penty-chan, but that was A-C’s fault.)
Ooh, I like fluky.
301- Yes, it does sound like a torture chamber. all you need is some type of ortho treatment called “comfy chair” and it would be complete.
I feel excurciatingly boring. Boring boring boring. My painting is dead. Dead dead dead. ARGH!!!!!! *bangs desk*
303- Shirt painting is fun! And sewing but I’m horrible at it…
Whoa! I am amazed! My paragraph wasn’t deleted after all. Whatever.
I took my film to CVS yesterday to get it developed, so it should be ready by now. I’ll have to pick up my photos soon. Keep in mind when viewing the photos that I don’t photograph well. I was surprised at how nice my passport photo turned out though.
So, you guyses are going to see one post a week from me in the next month, because I’ll be at camp. My mom is going to do the posts for me. I’m going to give her a tutorial after dinner. I am bringing a supplement of 2 measly muses, but 3 magazines with Zac Efron on them. Pie me.
How many Generation Zeros are there left?
lets see…
291-I set that up myself
292-where did you download that?
Various-I hate braces with language that make thugs cry
#305: *sends flowers to honor the late painting*
These are pranks at MIT.
They’re all wicked funny.
GAPAs: Please moderated them…they are .edu
[Sorry, DY. We’re not here to make life easy on links–quite the opposite, in fact. But anyone who wants to see them may find them at hacks dot mit dot edu. –Admin.]
308 pie X one googleplex
310- just go on the itunes music store and search for it! simple!
311- Why thank you. However, the medics arrived just in time with electic shockers and managed to revive the painting. It is still in critical condition but seems to be making a comeback.
308- *Pies Kiki*
297– The way to say “everyone” or “all of you” is “minna- __” with the desired honorific. Usually san.
*sniff* Now it is time for me to leave. I will be going far up in northern Minnesota, way up where you aren’t allowed to have iPods, cellphones or hack on to the camp’s computer. My main communication format will be letters. Right now it is 4:30 am. I will miss all of yous guys. My mom will do a weekly post for me on the random thread. Try not to comment. *sniff* Calor anor na ven. (See ya in July!)
does anyone have a cure for insomnia? I was up untill 3:30AM last night.
Bye, kiki! Have fun!!!!! *sniff*
DY-Sorry, no. Just sleep as long as possible when you do sleep, I guess…I’m usually up really late because I don’t get to sleep until at least midnight…
Aaaaand, I’m off to the wonderful yet really small medical library.
Emogrl, none of those are as… fun…. as random. I mean, “random” sounds like “rainbow” and rainbows are random. Gah, my brain hurts