There should just be time for a third installment, as the monthly random thread celebrates MuseBlog’s fourth anniversary with sundry images from days of yore (and mine).
Now playing: To close the month, selections from the Hare-athon that played out over the Random threads of March 2008 Robert may wish to avert his eyes.
Musestrone Soup, from January 2008. (One of Lady B.’s personal favorites.)
An assortment of Muses, hot and cold.
So my laptop broke and I’m using the desktop, which is really slow.
But on the upside, I got to see the new planetarium show at the Museum of Natural History, and I met a nice lady who works at the Challenger Center.
Oh, gosh, that sucks. I hope you don’t lose any stuff you had on it!
Now, the planetarium show, that sounds fun.
It was! The show’s all about stars and how they die and are born, and the effects are really great! I also got to see the Big Bang Walk exhibit, which I never had the chance to do before, and there was this photo exhibition of understated photos from the moon that some artist had picked out and blown up to be really big, with some retouching, including some of Earth eclipsing the sun while the spacecraft was outbound.
Also, we got to visit the Hall of Planet Earth, where they have these rock chimneys from the deep ocean where tube worms and vent crabs and other really weird creatures live on nutrient that come out of volcanic vents. There was also a big half-globe in the ceiling that shows projections of the Earth turning in space, then shows the different “layers”, the atmosphere, the biosphere (living things), the hydrosphere (water), and the lithosphere (geology).
I wanted to see the meteorites, too, but there wasn’t time.
We got to eat at the Shake Shack, across the street from the dinosaur wing, and we saw the museum’s Time Capsule that’s supposed to be unsealed in 3000. Only 991 years to go!
Oooh, I saw the star one too!! It was soooooo amazing!
I saw the meteorites… they weren’t that great. I also saw the minerals and one of the iMax shows (Wild Ocean). Imagine Finding Nemo without Nemo, Marlin and Dory; now imagine it centered around sardines. That was about it. It was rather stupid.
Yes, it was great, wasn’t it? I haven’t seen Wild Ocean, but IMAX Dolphins was good.
Now it’s only 987 years to go!
Yeah!
First post?
Are there supposed to be repeats in that collage?
Yes, for some reason that’s the way Photobucket sets it up.
Am I first?
Today I walked around downtown and met my old youth pastor who now lives in California! I haven’t seen him in forever! It was nice to visit.
Last night Sasha jumped up on my bed and sat on my neck, so I was up for about an hour until she settled down. As a result, I slept in for an extra three hours. Weird!
You know, I wonder how the image on the bottem, second from the right, came to be? Prehaps it’s Chad’s and Aeiou secret relationship finally caught on camera. And why is Bo cewing on Aeiou’s scarf? Who knows?
Chad seems suprsed.
I love Chad’s expression.
4 – I thought the same thing! I decided it was just my mind being strange, but perhaps it has some legitimacy as a theory if someone else sees it…
You must either be an alter-ego or a neophyte. If it’s the second, welcome!
I like the image collection/collage, by the way. Very nice.
I though everyone already knew they had a relationship…..I mean, remember the robobaby comic? Chad and Aeiou were raising a robobaby together, and allowed Koko to babysit for a day.
Maybe my imagination is working overboard, and there wasn’t supposed to be any implication of a relationship. *shrug*
The image of Chad dancing with Aeiou first appeared on a thread called “May-hem.” The thread started with the picture of Kokopelli and Mimi pinning up Urania’s hem (get it?) for a May Day ball. (At least Mimi was pinning it; Koko may be undoing her work.) As I recall, Chad and Aeiou continued the dressed-up dancing theme, and then toward the end of the month Mimi appeared, shyly delighted with her girly long dress.
Grrrrrrr. Robert, stop it with the retroediting! *shakes head at behavior*
I can’t help it. I’m a compulsive editor, both on and off the job.
I have a folder on my computer called “Retroedits,” and it’s full of screenshots of before-and-after GAPA post edits.
Cool! You should send it in, or something, make the GAPAs post ’em….
It’s a good thing I can edit, or I’d be quadruple posting all over the place. Or else not posting at all.
156 (on previous thread) I rebinded (Rebound) my computer keyboard to Dvorak, but typed as if I was using Qwerty. To translate, you need your computer bound to Qwerty, but type in the encoded message I left like you’re using Dvorak. (This should be easiest for Errata, as she already knows Dvorak.)
Dvorak look horrible. As someone who has become quite a proficient typer (I can type with my eyes shut, if I wished, and have a pretty decent WPM, I believe), I couldn’t ever manage to switch….
Translation, because I clearly have nothing better to do, even though I really do:
you know what else dvorak is good for? making easy to crack codes! (and then I gave instructions on how to do it, but anyone reading this would know everything they said.)
Great, just great. I am officially in a depressed mood. And rather feel like crying, honestly. Apparently I’d been looking forward to my sister coming down to visit for Labor Day weekend more than I’d realized….
Yeah, sorry, background: My sister goes to college in a different state, but one close enough that she could feasibly drive to visit me and spend time with me on a three day weekend. Last year this wouldn’t have worked, as she didn’t have a car. This summer, however, Dad bought her a brand new car because she needed transportation for school stuff.
So, earlier today Mom emailed me, saying my sis called her, she’d been in a car accident. (Don’t worry, she’s not injured) Some [self snipped, I”m thinking very bad things about other person] ran a stop sign and my sis hit their front passenger side door. *insert malicious glee–I can’t help but be happy that their vehicle received damage due to their idiocy* (Oh, the other driver is fine, too, which is good. I don’t care about their car, but that doesn’t mean I wish harm on the person)
So, the front bumper on my sis’s car is partway off, and the grill is popped off, and the hood at least looked (in the pics) like it was shoved up a bit, but maybe it just popped open from the force. I guess the waiting list to get it fixed is like 4 days, or something……
Mom just sent me an email, saying: I would say not expect your sister for labor day. Even if the car is fixed, and it isn’t likely since the repair place has a 4 day waiting list, she shouldn’t be driving the car on a long trip until she is sure they fixed everything.
Yeah, I read that, and quite honestly it had me very close to the verge of tears. I really truly hadn’t realized just how much I was looking forward to having her come and visit me. Oh, geez, I’m getting close to tears again.
Maybe I am homesick……I”m certainly feeling depressed right now.
*hugs & choklit*
Aaw, that sucks. *huggles* *chocklit*
*hugs and choklit*
I’m sorry.
Maybe some pie would cheer you up? 
Ah, thanks all you guys (Piggy, SudoRandom, Axa, I-Man, Kiga). The hugs, choklit, and pie are all very comforting (and the last two make a delicious breakfast).
Actually, this morning, I feel much better about the whole thing…..I think lack of sleep (my roomie seems incapable of being quiet when she gets up to get ready for her 8 o’clock’s), stress, and probably a bit of homesickness are all working together to make me emotional and cause me to over react to everything…..Ah, the joys of life.
Just be glad she’s not dead – that would really feel bad.
GAPAs, I know it’s short notice, but could you put my birthday on the birthday list? It’s tomorrow (August 27th), and I’m turning 12. My colors are rainbow and silver.
It’s my birthday today too! And I’m 12 also; we’re exactly the same age!
Happy birthday, Rainbow, Kiga!
Thanks!
Happy birthdays!
Well, I can’t see the pictures at the moment because on my mobile (which also refuses to load the magic rpg, hence my terrible neglect of that thread. Some idiot I know attempted to tell one of my parents about MB, so I won’t use the computer to go on MB for a while) but am I right in saying they don’t contain bunnies?
In other news, my religion teacher joined Mostly Harmless!
s **shows to friends*
: Nice!
The circumstances:
Mrs Chocolate: *prays**gives everyone choklit frog* Prayer and chocolate are a good combination.
RE class: *do test**are let loose with coloured paper*
Friend #1+2: *write letter to Mrs C**give letter to Mrs C*
Me: *writes “Mostly Harmless” complete w/ 3
Mrs: What’s Mostly Harmless?
Friend #1+2: *escape*
Me: It’s a world domination plan.
Mrs C
Yesterday was another friend’s birthday, and I gave her choklit, some cute, innocent-looking bunny socks, and a card containg a message from the “Bun-Bun Brothers”(get everyone to join Mostly Harmless or be zombified).
I haz a new gravatar!
Wait, cake. It’s not showing up.
Gravatars can take up to two days to show up.
I am at my sports camp now and am typing away during my one free period today! Thankfully I am in the same cabin as my best friend even though she’s doing mostly field hockey and I’m doing mostly soccer. (Last year I was stuck with a bunch of tennis freaks.) Unfortunately I’m exhausted right now because I didn’t get to bed until really late last night and was up at 6:00 this morning.
The only bad part about sports camp is waking up so early…and I am definitely NOT a morning person. Here’s my overview of the sports:
Soccer – Same instructor as last year, great guy from England who really knows the sport. We’ve done some great drills and I won the 1 v. 1 contest this morning! I’m paired up with two other great girls for 3 v. 3, so I know we’ll make a great team tomorrow during the tournament. My 11 v. 11 team is ok, but I’m a little worried because a lot of the girls on it haven’t ever played soccer before.
Basketball – This is my first time playing b-ball at this camp and so far it’s been good but not amazing. We’ve got a mix of kids with different abilities so I think that the counselor isn’t sure how to group us.
General fitness – Ok as always. I need to desperately get in shape for soccer season so this is a good way to do it.
I’m having tons of fun!
Basketball is AWESOME! I don’t play it myself, but two of my cousins do/did. I know the basic rules.
I like watching basketball, but I am horribe at playing it.
Ya. I’ve got a basketball thingy in my backyard tho, adn like shooting goals and dribbling. But I’m too short to even consider going competitive.
What’s your height? Unless you’re, like, 3 feet or something pretty much anyone can play in a rec league. You don’t need to be super tall, I’ve got lots of short friends who play.
Is it just me, or are all the pics in that collage thingy repeated at least once?
See my previous comment.
Yay! I got half my essay done!
Lucky. I only got a quarter of mine… but I finished my math and wrote a Muserology! Which I shall send as soon as I know if the photo I want can be published!
Ok, I am pushing my luck. I’ve got a book report to turn in by tomorrow, and I started it yesterday. I think I’ll make it tho.
I spent half an hour scrubbing the bread pans, only to be informed by my mother or her arrival that they were perfectly fine when I started and I was only scrubbing off the seasoning.
Ugh. High school isn’t hard, exactly, it’s just tiring. Ugh. Sorry I haven’t been on much.
Random musings……
I just woke up from a delicious nap, during which I dreamed that I was…..napping in my dorm room. Seems to be the only thing I dream and remember when napping in my dorm room. The fact that my first nap back at school has come this early does not really bode well for the rest of the year. I need to train my roomie–she seems completely incapable of even trying to be quiet when she gets up in the morning for her 8 o’clocks. Not like last year’s roomie, she was perfect.
I’ve officially decided the cost of living really is higher in AK. Somethign that I sort of knew (duh, the give residents a PFD because of that fact, or at least that’s part of hte reason for it, anyway……), but never really put much thought into. At McDonalds here at school, a 2 cheeseburger extra value meal (#2 meal most places, assuming it’s still on the menu….it’s not really, back home. I mean, at least recently it came back, but not as an actual number meal). OH, sorry, anyway, a 2 cheeseburger extra value meal, large sized (large fries and large soda) here at school is exactly $1.95 cheaper here than back in Alaska. It’s $7.10 back home!!!!!!!!!! I mean, seriously. They’re stealing my money everytime I ate there over the summer. *sniffle* OH, dear, speaking of McDonald’s, I think my #2 meal I had about 4 hours ago is wearing off…..perhaps I better go find some more food. (By the way, I actually like McDonalds, it is one of the best tasting thing here on campus. It, and Subway.)
McDonalds? *shudders* But Subway is good. I like 6-inch turkey sandwiches with lots and lots of onion and lots and lots of spicy mustard. Clears up the sinuses.
6-inch? I’ve not eaten a six inch anything from Subway in year. A foot long Turkey and Ham with olives. On Monterey cheddar.
And, yes, McDonalds. It’s yummy. nomnomnom
Hey, I’m only twelve. And I don’t eat very much usually. My parents get 6-inches too!
I was eating footlong subs when I was twelve…..But then, I’ve always been one of those people who eats a lot. I don’t look it (I’m thinnish), but I eat constantly and in very large quantities…..
I have vowed never to eat McDonald’s food unless I have no other option than to starve to death.
Is that vow confined to McDonald’s or does it encompass similar fast-food establishments?
Just McDonald’s.
So, why is McDonald’s worse than the others?
Up until this past year, I’d never eaten at Taco Bell or Bojangles. I’ve also eaten at KFC, Burger King and McDonalds. The rest of the fast food places I’ve never set foot in; I try to avoid eating fast food entirely when I can help it. It’s usually fried and/or oily, and its calorie count is way disproportionate to how good the food is.
I love Subway! There tuna salad subs with cheese are soooo good!
At school we named our team “Let it be Random”.
Because it is.
I came up with that genius name, may I add.
And there’s also only 289 verbs beggining with “X”.
8)
I thought that one pic on the collage that makes fun of the smileys was awesomalishous. You people know how to have fun.
“You people?” Are you new to MB? If so, welcome!
Luna, I’m so sorry about your sister, but I’m glad she’s okay.
Eew, MacDonalds. Being vegan hasn’t really made me too keen on fast-food joints, though Taco Bell is pretty good.
Heh, Subway. Now every time I think of Subway I’ll think of Kingston, Ontario at 2330 or whatever time of night it was after taking a shower, being on land in a strange city and finding our way to a Subway (after curfew, I might add, and we’d only been given permission to go to showers and “straight back”) and then sitting there anxiously waiting for Jaimie to finish whatever he got before some shipmates might happen to walk in.
Best and worst thing about having avatars:
Best: You can find old posts of yours on old threads really easily.
Worst: You can also find some things you’d rather not remember.
Fio-When did you start posting again? I only just saw some of your posts.
23- A couple of weeks ago. Hi there!
Haha, I remember the Musecicles. One of my all-time favorites…
Studying beckons, but I don’t feel like answering the call… 30 vocab words, about half of the elements, and a few billion years of history to study… Oy vey.
Swine Flu has struck! Not my school, but another local one (where a lot of my friends go) has ONE-FIFTH of the students out sick. It’s only a matter of time until my school gets hit…
Oh, jeez. That’s a lot of sick kids! Be glad it wasn’t your school.
I like the pic at the top with Koko lifting (or trying to lift) the giant pie. 
Why is the blog so slow right now…
*headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk*
Zinc, what do you mean by slow? Do you mean it’s slow as in not a lot of people posting, or slow as in the blog itself is taking a long time to load threads/etc?
If it’s the former, it’s probably because most people are in school, but if it’s the latter, I think it must be something on your end, because it’s not slow on my end….
It’s both. *headdesk*
1) Yeah, I figured that. *sigh*
2) Phishing/parental controls. *sigh*
Hi, Zinc! I’ve been considering writing a short story, and I was wondering, do you mind me putting you in it as a “Sorceress”? (yah, it’s fantasy.) It’s going to be based off one of my dreams. Yes, I had a dream with you in it. It was wierd…. this boy was being attacked by a monster and then all of a sudden this girl shows up and says “Hi, I’m Zinc the sorceress, at your service. Do you need any help?” and he says back “I though that sorceresses made people serve them, not serve people!” and then the girl (you) says “Well, I just thought that sorceress sounded cooler than witch. Anyway, do you need help or not?” and the the boy was like “But sorceresses are evil aren’t they?” and you were arguing about it and then the monster ate him and you were like “Oh well, I asked him if he needed help, didn’t I?” and then I woke up. It was wierd.
That’d be fun. That sounds exactly like me.
We are having some absolute lovely weather today. (No sarcasm intended.) It’s high 60s and, well, I can’t think of anyway to describe it other then “misting”. Yup, that’s right. it’s not raining, but misting. I think I’m probably one of the only people liking it, I think all the locals are finding it a wee bit chilly if not downright cold. I mean, it is a tad chilly, at least when you come out of an airconditioned class room where you were freezing to start with, but if you’re not cold when you enter it, it feels quite delicious. *is happy* It beats the meltingly humidly hot weather of the last few days. (Mid 70s, but the humidity made it feel like 100……)
It’s 87 degrees in my room. My room’s temperature is always in the 80’s. That’s my body heat for you.
And be glad you don’t live in SoCal. We have the weirdest weather.
God, Thriller is playing on my Pandora station.
My room’s set to 72.5-73.5, I think. When I first come in, it’s hot, when I’ve adjusted, it starts to feel ever so slightly chilly, but not so much that I would turn it up.
It has been rainy and cold the past few days, and I was hoping to suck the summer dry of all the fun it has until it’s time for school. Well, cake.
I luurve the pics, especially the musesicles. I’m wondering if it’s possible to take a screen shot of it without jiggling and wobbling the whole assortment of pictures.
If you click on the individual picture, it should take you to the Photobucket page. In many cases the individual file is larger than the one on this page.
Also, at least for me, you have to temporarily disable the pop-up blocker.
Odd. I don’t. It just opens in a new tab. But that’s good to know if anyone else has the same situation.
Ah, that will be much easier, I manged to take some screen shots, but I fear they are not very good. Thanks!
By the way, almost all the pictures we’ve been showing this month are in my public Photobucket albums, though you may have to dig around a little. When you click to the individual picture, you can see the navigation links near the top of the page on the left-hand side.
27 – oh that sounds heavenly. I don’t even know how hot it is outside right now, I make a point of not going outside during the day.
28- How can you stand it? My mom goes crazy if the AC isn’t on during the day even it if’s like 76 in the house…It’s supposed to be cooler next week though. My room is the coldest in the house, which is stupid because I’m usually always cold anyway.
I’m so ready for “fall” and “winter” lol
Okay so I apparently have some kind of head cold that is infuriating me. Probably it is the dry weather or something but ugh it’s so annoying.
30: My family usually doesn’t use the AC, since we have lots of big trees around our house. They provide natural air conditioning, but since the trees are on the opposite side of the house, I’ve learned to cope with it. Because of that, I somehow can stay warm well, but I am not an edurance runner.
Axa, do you think you’ll be evacuvated this time?
That’s right MBers, wildfire season is BACK!
My family has never touched the AC in my house for as long as I’ve been living here. I know, I know, it’s good in the sense that it saves money, but sometimes you reaaaaaaalllllly wish you had it on…
My parents sometimes turn on the AC, but I never notice it in my room because it’s on the other side of my room. If the junk wasn’t there, it would hit my feet. So I don’t need air conditioning.
New avatar! This is NOT our pet bird, but it’s the same species and looks similar.
Bird!
Is it showing up for you? Not yet for me.
tgypwya (25): 1/5th? That’s a lot! One of the colleges in Pittsburgh (CMU) just hit 26 cases, and I thought that was a lot.
Luna (27): Yay, good weather! It’s been pouring rain all day here–but I think that’s a good thing, because I’m hoping it will be a bit cooler when the rain clears up.
My uncle dropped his son off at college in Maryland, and then drove up here to see us, and we spent the day learning Farsi! It was very fun. He has a super-schmancy Rosetta-Stone-Farsi-program-thing from the State Department, because he’s going to Kabul next year, and it was flamablamablous.
Camp Update:
My team came in second place on the 11 v. 11 soccer tournament this morning, (Better than I thought we’d do!) and I’ll be off to the 3 v. 3 soccer tournament after this free period. A few people are going back to school on Monday in my cabin and finishing camp today, which makes me think that they’re cutting it awfully close. Going straight from an intense sports camp to school with only a weekend in between seems like a lot to me, but you know, I guess some people like to stay busy!
My friend and I both agreed we’d prefer a longer break.
Oh yeah, and my legs are killing me right now because yesterday my basketball counselor made my group do some serious fitness/agility work and obviously I’m not really in shape enough to do it without stumbling around for the day after wards. Definitely killed during soccer earlier.
By the way, I’ve been trying to convince my friend who’s at this camp with me to give MB a try. I think I might have almost convinced her so hopefully we’ll see her on the Welcome Neophytes thread soon. I did “recruit” CC but I haven’t seen her on in a while so I’ll try to remember to tell her to log on the next time I see her.
31 — hmm without giving away where I live which is probably a futile effort…no (lol)
I’m so spoiled…I seriously can’t imagine not using air conditioning during summer, but trees do sound nice.
34 — Does Rosetta Stone really work, then? That’s so neat! And wow, Kabul.
(36, 34) I’ve heard good things about the Rosetta Stone courses. They’re expensive, though.
Me and my sis do Rosetta Stone with German. Haven’t touched it for a while, tho. Also started Latin this year. Not Rosetta Stone, tho.
I used Rosetta Stone for a while. It wasn’t quite right for me, but I can see how it might work for other people.
Rosetta Stone… those are the courses with the “he was a farm boy, she was a supermodel” ads, aren’t they?
That’s right: the hard-working farm boy who has just one chance to make an impression on an Italian supermodel, and knows about it long enough in advance to prepare with Rosetta Stone. I’ve tried but failed to make up a story about how that could happen. (“Jeb’s Italian cousin, the supermodel, is doing a photo shoot down at the feed store next month…” You can see the problem.)
(37) Oh, yes. Vey expensive. I was in the bookstore the other day, and there were stacks of them behind the cashier counter. My mom asked how much they cost, and the lady responded with a shrug, “Oh, around $250.00.”
39- Maybe his mother felt sorry for him because he had failed to find a wife among the village girls and instead spent all his time pining after the Italian supermodel, so she spent her lifetime savings on bribes and contrived to get him an invitation to…um…a party which all the supermodels were going to be attending (“The party of the century!” predict the fashionable magazines). The farm boy thanks his mother profusely and spends all his pay on Rosetta Stone. The night of the party, he can speak Italian fluently, but he lacks anything to wear. Once again, his noble mother saves the day, emerging from her chamber with a tuxedo which she has been hand-sewing by candlelight every night since the invitation was procured. The young man attends the party and proposes to the supermodel in Italian, who laughs at his stumbling speech and rejects the proposal. Dejected, the farm boy returns home only to find that his mother has been murdered and the farm burned to the ground…
…And they all live happily ever after?!
Oh my god…
MORBIDITY! W0000000T!!! *dashes around*
No, no, not at all. Don’t you see, his mother’s dead, his money wasted, his livelihood burned, and the object of his affections has rejected him forever. That’s not the end.
Following this horrible discovery, he falls terribly ill and is taken in by a kindly village woman, who nurses him back to health with the aid of her sweet, beautiful daughter. During his convalescent period, he has many long talks with the daughter, who falls madly in love with him, but he is still bitter about the super model and obsessed with his mother’s murder, and fails to notice her feelings, much less return them. On recovering fully, he thanks his benefactors and declares his intention to find his mother’s killer. The daughter entreats him to stay, but he says that he cannot, he must avenge the murder of the woman who did so much for him, and received so few thanks in return. He bids farewell to the village where he spent his happy childhood days and strides out into the world.
Soon, however, he forgets his quest, and on acquiring a sum of money, he settles in the city and proceeds to become very rich, somehow–probably because he’s so hardworking–and soon finds himself in the highest of society. As he climbs, he finds himself thinking more and more of the kind women who nursed him through his illness, and has almost made up his mind to return to the village and marry the daughter, when he meets the Italian supermodel and forgets all else. She does not recognize him as the awkward farm boy of so long ago, and they get on very well. He proposes to her again, and she accepts. He is deliriously happy (delirious…kind of like when he was sick in the village…which brings us back to the daughter…but she has definitely forgotten all about me, right?), unfortunately, he wakes up on night before the wedding to find that his bride is holding a knife to his throat. All is revealed. The farm boy’s grandfather was suspected of murdering the Italian supermodel’s grandfather when they (the grandfathers) were fairly young, and fled Italy soon after, only proving his guilt to the family of the deceased. The Italian supermodel grew up determined to avenge her grandfather’s death, and had planned to do so by killing all the supposed murderer’s relatives, but she had failed in her task originally because the farm boy was at the party, speaking Italian and wearing a tuxedo, and she had not suspected him of being who he really was. The farm boy manages to elude her/turn her over to the police, and returns to the village, where he begs the forgiveness of the daughter, marries her, and lives happily ever after.
See, Robert, it’s not that hard!
That’s a very interesting story.
I really think the only possible way I could learn Greek is with that software. Everything else I tried failed.
34- I have a friend who’s fluent in Farsi. And Pashto. And some Hindi. And English (of course).
So what’s going on in my life…. Oh, that’s right. School. Homework. Blah.
Wow! Cool.
GAPAs, from now on I will have a different email.
Axa (36): My uncle says it’s a really good program. We only did the first lesson (which took about an hour), and I already had figured out some of the grammar and knew a *lot* of vocabulary. Which it seems like I’m retaining! For now, anyway.
Robert (34): Yes, they are. Which is why we’re stealing his State-Department-paid-for version (while he’s here. When he leaves, our Farsi-learning will cease, unfortunately).
I really liked the way Rosetta Stone presented the information–it was very intuitive, and allowed you to figure a lot of things out about the language (if you were paying enough attention) before they showed it to you. If I ever decide to actually learn Farsi and have the money lying around to get the program, I think it would really help.
Oh my goodness. *deep breathe* I survived the first week of school. Seriously, I’m stressed though. The first week of an online is always stressful because you have twice as much stuff and you don’t have your textbook yet because the school system in inefficient.
Tomorrow I’ll be gone from 9 to something and may be gone around noonish. I might be back then, cause I’m having a very tiny summer funeral at the library with Danielle, but we just figured that there was a high chance of us both going to the library tomorrow.
Alice: I will never be able to think of those ads the same way again. (By the way, I think you should write that story.)
48-
I might write it sometime, but I would make it more period and more complicated and take out the Rosetta Stone bit.
It’s been so long that I forgot my username
My sister is going to have a baby girl
it’s really exciting! if only she were as excited as me…I’m glad I’m going to be away when it (is supposed to) arrives though, too much drama for me 
Wow, congrats for her!
Welcome back, then?
Good luck being an uncle/aunt.
Perhaps a GAPA could cross-reference your email address and find your old name.
You last posted as Sam; before that you were Elwing.
Aha! Mystery solved. ♀ sam theTenrec!!! = ducklover!!! = Sam from NZ = S the T returns with a sombrero = Sam again = Elwing (1/24/06)
Well, then, welcome back, Elwing Sam the Duck Lover with a Sombrero from NZ!
4, 5, 5.1, etc- But in one of the older issues, Chad admits to someone who sends in a letter that he needs to buy an engagement ring for Urania?
i am so confused ..
i’ll just sit here and disrupt museblog completely
so children .. what’s up? i hear u r going 2 meet in massachusetts soon, MA musebloggers.
PSEUDONYM I KNOW YOU’RE READING THIS
well then. i’ll just get back 2 IMing my friends.
cul8r!
TAKE THAT PSEUDOWHATEVER
Ummm…ok then?
Two options:
1. Stop posting and read the informational threads and lurk until such a time as you are unconfused, in which case you can resume posting
-or-
2. If you have no desire to become unconfused, then kindly stop posting, remove yourself from our blog, and stop irritating old members such as myself.
Take your pick.
And for the love of sanity, stop with the lack of capitalization and stop with the chatspeak. It’s not appreciated on this site by anyone.
Thank you! Seriously, I think you have no hope of option two happening because she’s mainly chat-speaking to drive us crazy.
Oh, no doubt.
We surmised as much. We understand that on a place as mellow and generally good-natured as MuseBlog, it’s tempting to want to stir things up. It’s certainly a way of attracting notice. But annoying everyone is not the way to go about it. We welcome her to employ her intelligence and sense of humor in more productive ways, but we won’t be afraid to zap further comments that serve no purpose other than to irritate.
Those are two excellent options.
Did anybody else watch Senator Kennedy’s funeral on TV? Very moving.
In other news, Discovery took off last night at one minute to midnight AND it’s the 25th anniversary of that shuttle’s first flight!
It was moving indeed…such a beautiful service too.
I heard about it taking off! I’m glad everything went well.
sorry….D’:
yes i did watch Senator Kennedy’s funeral. i watched Obama’s speech. it was my favorite one he ever gave.
Yes, he certainly has a way with words.
So did I. It was sad.
I watched the whole thing. I agree, it was a beautiful service and very moving. My mom and I cried. I also liked what Obama said.
Other things… Today is Michael Jackson 51st birthday, (Check out the Google homepage!) and in 1966 on this date the Beatles performed their last public concert.
How flamablamablously wonderful. A tribute to a pedophile. What is this world coming to?
Who knows, Luna, who knows?….
I’ve never seen “flamablamablous” used in an ironic sense before.
That’s not ironic, it’s sarcastic. *beams with pride of unnecessary AP English knowledge*
Sarcastic, then.
The End. That’s what it’s coming to.
Ironic that Michael Jackson’s birthday is the same day as Kennedy’s funeral. I feel like famous people are dying all over the place these days.
Yeah,now THAT was cool!
What was cool?
50- (Saminos) Congradulations!
I didn’t watch Senator Kennedy’s funeral. There was a big thing on him in the paper, up here, the day after his death. It showed his family tree and stuff, which was neat.
Finally, after almost two years, I finnished the LOTR serires. The only thing I haven’t read is the apendix.
It’s not really worth reading, although there’s some interesting stuff about what happens to all the characters after the books.
What I learned today: dirtbikes equal fun. And tired fingers.
Just got back from the library. We’ve got some rain from the tropical depression, so there wasn’t much else to do.
His death was all over the news station playing while I was trapped at the car repair place a few days ago. I didn’t see the funeral. Personally, I wouldn’t want complete strangers watching my funeral…
*squeals* Oh, the Musestroni!!! I loved that one! You know, it took me ages to realize that the MuseBlog’s Mustroni can was different, and I laughed so hard when I finally read the labels and figured it out. A triumph, my dear, another triumph.
I remember this one! *scans old threads* Waitaminute… I remember discussing this with Lady B, but I am not to be found on any of the three installments of the thread. Someone’s going insane here, and I doubt it’s MuseBlog….
Do you know, I just saw this one on your photobucket yesterday, and you don’t even want to know how long it took me to figure out what on earth was Muse related about it….And then I suddenly realized that one of the cans didn’t say “Tomato Soup”….I am so unobservant.
On the bright side, looking at Fiddler’s post, I’m not the only one.
Moi-hahahaha. That’s why it’s one of my favorites. That, and the joy of taking weird photos in grocery stores while people are pretending not to notice there’s a loony in their midst.
Happened to me too. I think I actually had to go to the original thread and hear people comment about it to get this one.
63~ Yeah, don’t feel bad, it took me almost until the picture was taken down until I realized it.
Silly me….
Well, goodnight everyone. It’s horrendously late, and here I’d vowed I’d go to bed at a sane hour tonight so I wouldn’t be all but dead tomorro morning. *shuts ears in oven door* *winces slightly, telling self that she deserved it*
Sleep tight, and if the bedbugs bite change your sheets.
PS I figured out how to change my password for logging in so I don’t have to use that ridiculous one that WordPress gave me. This makes me happy, since every time I had to log in or out I’d have to copy and paste it from the email, what a nuisance. *rejoices in new found knowledge*
Dobby! Yeah, I told myself that I’d get to bed at a decent hour, as well. Not looking like it’s going to happen. I’ve been telling myself all week that one of these days I was going to go to bed before midnight, but so far, no luck. I wonder if perhaps I’m still on AK time, and that’s why I can’t seem to get to bed earlier. (midnight, would, afterall, only be nine)
As for the password, I’m afraid that I did what I never do, and just told it to remember me, as I’m much too lazy to have to log in every time….I never do that, not with email, not with anything, but….Well, it is solely my computer afterall, with a 31 character password to log on, or to awake it from sleep or screensaver, and I always sleep it when I leave the room, even just for a minute, so….Yeah.
63.1~ (No, I’m not double posting, I’m not even here, I’m sleeping like a sane person…)
I love your description of people trying to politely ignore odd behaviour. An interesting phenomenon, I’ve noticed it happens around me as well with alarming regularity……..
That’s wonderful. For that you get extra choklit.
What a coincidence — I’m asleep, too.
And me. Really, I am.
Are you familiar with the robot phrase-‘does not compute?’
I think that makes four of us. I’m asleep, I assure you.
@Gimanator-That reminds me of lunch today, when I kep telling my dad that “You’re logic isn’t making sense. “
Blogging in our sleep— oh, how far multi-tasking has progressed…
It’s only ten here!
And I’m reading “The Custom of the Country” on Project Gutenberg, which makes it difficult to go to bed, though I would like to continue my reading in the comfort and warmth of the aforesaid piece of furniture. I’ll have to wait until Tuesday to get it at the library in actual real print, but tomorrow I’m going shopping with my relatives and maybe I can find a book store or something which has it.
I’m not usually the sort to beg for hugs, but…..I need one right now.
I was uploading pictures from my phone to my computer, when I came across some photos I”d forgotten I’d taken, of two cats I housesat back in June. When not at college, I work at a vet clinic. (part of the reason I was found to housesit, although it turned otu I knew the owner) The one cat had gotten into a cat fight (he was the victim, fyi, not the antagonist), and had had a very nasty abscess, which was why they were desperately in need of ahousesitter while they were gone. Anyways, just two weeks ago Monday we had to euthanize him, he had continued to get beat up and develop serious abscesses throughout the summer, and then the night before we euthanized him, had gotten a clot that left his back end paralyzed (possibly/probably related). So, I was working at the time, and I was holding him, and he is just one of the sweetest cats imaginable. And I never cry when we euthanize an animal, in fact, to be quite coldly, brutally honest, if the owner isn’t there for me to see in pain, it doesn’t hardly affect me (callous, but true). But the tech doing it (my boss) and me were both in tears. And the rest of that last hour of work, I was on the verge of tears constantly, and cried myself to sleep that night. And now, seeing those pictures, of him snuggling with his brother, giving him a bath, it’s brought it all back. I am, quite honestly, sobbing my heart out, and have been this entire post. How much of it is actually due to pain over his death, how much just homesickness, lack of sleep, etc, I don’t know. But I really, really need a hug.
*hugs* that’s horrible! I wish I could sympathize more but I’m not much of an animal person.
Ohhh… That’s so sad!!
*hugs* I know how you feel… But, it’s better for the cat… He’s in a better place, and there’s no mean cats to hurt him.
Hug!
*gives hug* That’s sad!
I’ll be thinking of you.
Many hugs.
*hug* I love cats. I had to have one euthanized that my family had had my whole life. They found him as a stray before I was born. He developed a malignant tumor at the base of his tail. It happened about a year ago. I still cry about him. His name was Tangent.
Gee… now I want a hug.
*hug*
*hug*
*hug* I had some goldfishes when I was in elementary school. All of them died except for two which I had to give away when I moved. I remember one of them got eaten by the others….yuck.
Thanks, all.
*hugs*
*hugs and chocklit* I’m so sorry to hear that. Although I am allergic to, and not particularly fond of cats in general, I can understand that you’re upset. I think you did the humane thing, the poor kitty was probably in a great deal of pain from all of his injuries, and he’s in a better place now.
oohh, so sad. Poor kitty. We have been looking for a cat at the animal shelter recently and it all seems kind of connected somehow and … *cries and hugs Luna*
*hugs back*
*hugs and choklit* That’s awful.
67- Aww… -hugs-
It’s the Hot Soup influence, it’s going to make people depressed.
Thanks, guys…..*hugs back*
67-That’s so sad
*hugs* This boy I know threw a rock at a sleeping possum to kill it last Saturday…poor cat, poor possum
Stupid boy. Who would want to kill anything, except a mosquito?
A kid at my school killed a squirrel with a rock once. Then, when we went on a school trip to the Catskills, he left food in his cabin and a bunch of squirrels got into his room and attacked him when he tried to shoo them away and he needed a rabies shot. (This all actually happened, to my knowledge. If it’s made up, he’s the one who made it up, not me.)
Call it karma…
Poor squirrel.
68- Yes, I do believe the hot soup influence is making us reminisce about things we should get some hot soup for.
There was a person at my school who had a girl cat that hadn’t been spayed and it had 2 unwanted litters of kittens. The family who owned this cat thought that the neighbor’s cat had gotten their cat pregnant so this kid goes out and shoots the neighbor’s cat to death with a BB gun. My thoughts on the subject are 1) Get your cat fixed as soon as you get it, 2) go talk to your negibors about fixing their cat, 3)don’t go walking into school next monday and say cheerily “I shot my neighbor’s cat” when asked what you did last weekend and 4) Death is not the awnser. *fumes/sobs* Also, one litter of the cat’s kittens was killed because another cat came in through the kitty door and killed them all. *sobs again*.
Why do people have to kill animals for no reason?
The answer to that would be: Because people are jerks. MBers excluded.
But, yes, I agree, everybody should spay/neuter their pets, there’s just so many unwanted cats/dogs out there in the world that there’s no reason to allow for the birth of more….
The squirrels will always have their revenge.
67- *huggles*
Thanks, everyone. *returns hugs*
One more hug, from me.
*hugs back* Good little squirrels.
*hug* times a million
I finished my essay! So now I have two weeks to just relax before school starts, which is good.
I miss Space Academy, though.
I am going to go see Ponyo!
Aww, lucky! I wanna see Ponyo too!
On a random note……The Beach Boys are performing at the state fair tonight. Why I feel this is worth a mention on MB, I really don’t know, as I’ve never really listened to any of their music, not to mention it’s not like I’m home to go, even if I wanted……Like I said, random.
Are they still in existence? I’m surprised. Not that I know much about them, but I thought they were fairly old, and most bands don’t really last… Whatever. I shouldn’t stereotype, and it’s quite possible they’re new. I have no real clue.
Old….definitely oldeer anyways. Before my time.
i think they are pretty much disbanded, though, I dunno. Seemed a bit odd to me, as well.
I just watched Help! It was really, really good. Probably their best. My mom was saying the whole time, “I love their clothes! Especially Paul’s suit!” at the same I was asking, ‘Where the heck do you get puke-brown ankle boots to match your puke-brown suit?” (George’s outfit)
The “intermission” was the best part.
I love it when there are intermissions in older movies. I forget if I watched Help!, or a different Beatles movie, but I remember that they had the best clothes. Also, on the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, they have these awesome bright suits.
This isn’t really related, but I went to this ropes corse with my church yesterday and they were playing “ironic music” such as things like Help.
In Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang there is a bit in the middle where the screen just says INTERMISSION for a few minutes.
I don’t remember that. (The “intermission” in Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang) Of course, it has been an extremely long time since I was last made to sit through that movie. As in, over a decade ago. I wasn’t ever very fond of it, perhaps because my sister was overly fond of it.
Siblings. *sigh*
CCBB (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) is AWESOME!
And Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
It’s very funny.
SFTDP– Augh!!!! I can’t the Beatles pie Enceladus so kindly made for me! *headdesk*
It was on one of the neophytes threads.
I watched Help and I like the sandwich machine thingie
Today was Dad’s birthday, so we went to Pen-Mar park for the “Everybody’s day” even that was going on there. It was fun, there was dancing (we watched the 50’s group perform), cars (Dad’s Model A club was there) and tons of people picnicing. Christoph and I played on the playground for a bit–they have a merry-go-round, one of those old fashioned push types that one rarely sees on playgrounds these days. *sigh* It’s a real pity too, since they were a staple for me whenever I used to go to playgrounds….hmm, now I feel old…
Anyway, it was fun. I even went down the tube slide and didn’t get stuck, thankfully. There’s nothing more fun than playing on a playground when you’re “too old” or “too big” for them. But it’s no fun by yourself, so it was good to have Christoph to hang out with, he’s pretty cool for an 11 year old. *realizes that probably a good bunch of Musers are 11* Not to offend any 11 year olds or anything……
We were right on the Appalachian trail, so we were joking that we’d go to Georgia, but then turned around because I was so foolish and hadn’t worn the proper shoes (not to mention a skirt too).
And Dad let me drive the Model A home from the fruit stand….I didn’t kill anyone or wreck any vehicles, so it’s all good, but that was a most interesting ride! I stalled out several times before getting out of the parking lot, and then a few more times on the road, got honked at once and bucked all the way up the driveway. It was marvelous. Nothing like driving a truck when you can’t reach the blasted pedals! The seat is all slouchy, and I had to use my toes to reach them, and then the gas pedal is this little round thing that is rather hard to get even pressure on….not to mention that each tiny movement of the wheel made me swerve around the road like a drunkard……it was exciting.
A little randomness for your evening:
the Latin word for “hurray!” is “eugepae” which is pronounced you-ge-pie!
Those Romans had some foresight about the joy we would derive from pastries moving at top speed, wouldn’t you say?
Eugepae!
I take Latin and one time my teacher made everyone of us stand up and shout “Eugepae!” so that it would stick in our memories forever. Anyway, it sounded so much like “You got pied!” that I started cracking up, even though everyone was staring…
“You get pied,” eh? Very appropriate.
I went school shopping today. I got a messenger bag which looks like it might remain intact and is more comfortable than a backpack, pens, pencils, binders, notebooks, sharpeners, erasers, highlighters, sticky notes–the works. I didn’t get a planner, but I’m going to get one tomorrow.
Also we went shoe shopping. I got a lovely pair of taupe suede t-straps with brown accents. -sigh- So much for practical shoes, right? But they were so darling and I think I can even dance in them when dancing season comes along.
LUNA!
LL UU UU NN NN AAA !!!
LL UU UU NNN NN AAAAA !!!
LL UU UU NN N NN AA AA !!!
LL UU UU NN N NN AAAAAAA
LLLLLLL UUUUU NN NN AA AA !!!
Sorry-it’s-a-bit-off-but YOU’RE BACK! *tackles*
I missed you. Sorry everyone else I’m ignoring.
Also, I met someone else named Luna, and you two are very similar people. Only this one is my age and here, and you are a smidge older and there.
-A
Wow. I feel very appreciated. I wish I got that sort of reaction in real life….
But don’t you know? The other Luna is me.
I’m here, there, everywhere! 
You’re finally back! *is unable to get over this fact*
I would actually not be surprised. I will ask her if she
knows youis you.-A
Yup, I really and truly am back, and will be for quite some time.
As for Luna….I would be truly surprised to find out she were me, as in reality I’m a Michelle.
I know, I know… Just… You two are so similar. She’s sort of the kind of person I imagine you as, I guess. Although the hair I imagine differently. Luna’s is beyond butt-length. It’s really quite impressive. I envy it greatly.
I played with it for a while today. It was great fun.
I am making definitive statements. With periods.
-A
*sniffle* My hair is not quite that long…..It stopped growing many years ago, actually, it was my dream as a little kid to grow it all the way to the ground, but my hair obviously had different ideas. When I’m sitting straight in a chair, it goes down to the chair, the longest bits maybe an inch or so beyond. So pretty much exactly butt-length.
I’m not near as cool a person in real life. That is, assuming I’m cool on here, which given the number of ecstatic greetings I received up on my return, you guys certainly seem to think me fairly cool. In real life I am very shy, dont’ really have any friends, and am madly into Harry Potter. Oh, wait, the latter is true on MB, too.
Stopped growing?
You are too cool. I can guarantee I’d love hanging out with you in real life, however awkward that would be.
We should meet. *nods* Uh huh. Because it’s completely possible and not at all out of the way for both of us. We are both also free for the next few years. Nothing at all in both of our schedules. How do I know this? I definitely also possess the power to see into the future. All of these things are true.
By the way. I am reading the second book currently. Like, literally right now. It is in my lap. <3
-A
Yup, stopped growing.
Oh, yes, not out of the way at all.
And no previous commitments to stand in our way, I mean, c’mon, only a minimum of 6 more years of college for me. That doesn’t clog my schedule in the slightest. 
I need to reread the books, I’m beginning to forget so much of the trivia I once knew…..*sniffle*
Exhibit A: What is Aragog’s wife’s name?
-A
Arwen Undomiel. *kidding*
*groans*
-A
Mosag. I didn’t say I forgot all my trivia, just much of it…..
@Robert:
And there should be a smiley emoticon in my previous post……Otherwise it just sounds very grumpy, which was not the intent.
I remember that picture!
Argh. I’m sorry, guys, my life’s too busy for MuseBlog right now.
Yeep. No moderation for nearly an hour, and now suddenly instant moderation. Scary….
The gap would have been shorter if my computer hadn’t locked up when I got home from a day trip. Took nearly an hour to get everything set to rights.
And now to catch up on what I’ve missed…
Well, I’m glad you got your computer all sorted out, and meanwhile, the lack of moderation allowed me to actually get some reading done, so…..That is good.
Sometimes we GAPAs try to pretend that we have a life apart from MuseBlog, but it never lasts long.
Shame on you. How dare you pretend to have a life outside of the ‘blog! Scandalous!
Don’t worry, this GAPA didn’t stray very far. I met up with some friends I hadn’t seen in twenty years, and of course spent half the time talking about MuseBlog
Okay, I exaggerate. Slightly. But we did have pie.
What kind of pie?
Key lime. And a most excellent version of it.
Did you have a pie fight? Did you pie anyone?
Slicing pie ruins its aerodynamics. Once it’s in pieces, you might as well eat it. What a waste.
True, I suppose. Although-nevermind. But you could order a whole pie, but that would be a waste of money as well.
Maybe if I hadn’t already spent my budget for the day on comics and art supplies…I did get the very first slice.
COol!
I saw Ponyo. Eh.
Noes, noes, that came out wrong! I did like it, but it was my least favorite Miyazaki movie!
I did not eat dinner. Suddenly my stomach is consuming me from the inside. I may have to leave and get a snack.
Where are people so I can chat through the later hours?
-A
Urgh. That is the most unpleasant feeling, one that occurred all too often during the summer, for some odd reason. Odd, because I was much better fed over the summer than I was last school year, and yet, no matter how often I ate, every couple hours I was consumed by unbearable hunger….
I’m on central time, as I’m back at school. Although, I was considering going to be before too long, as I’ve given up hope up my roommate turning up anytime soon (she went home for the weekend)…
What’s your exercise schedule like? That may sound like a weird question, but… Actually, it sort of is anyway. But you can pretend there was a righteous justification.
And I didn’t mean literally where… As in, why are they not here. But now you are. So good.
-A
My exercise schedule? Erm, that would be, uh, totally nonexistent, actually. I’m extraordinarily lazy, although I fortunately have a good metabolism, and thus my eating habits have not turned me into a gigantic blimp.
I was thinking, though… Do you walk to class and around campus and such? Because… Well, let me put it this way:
I run now. I took up cross country. Only, I haven’t run since the 5k on Thursday. And I hadn’t had the urges until I stopped running.
See where I’m getting with this?
-A
Yeah, I see where you’re going (and actually saw where you were gloing when you asked the question, initially.
)…..If I exercised at home even as much as I do at school (walking to and from classes, yes, although all my other time is spent vegging in front of my computer) I wouldn’t be starving constantly and having my stomach digest me from the inside out. And I wouldn’t have gained back the 10 pounds I lost during my first year of college, either…..
I know I really ought to do more exercise, for various reasons, but….at least this past summer, I felt especially little like doing anything, as 5 out of 7 days I was exhausted from work, and the remaining two days I just felt like sleeping until noon, and then doing absolutely nothing the rest of the day…..
I always knew Musers were smart. Somehow, I detected this. It was difficult. But I did it.
Godsdamn but do I need to stop using this type of humour.
-A
*is proud* I always knew you were a smart one, too.
Vegging. Heh. That’s ‘becoming a vegetable’, right? Wow, it’s actually in my dictionary. Who knew?
Pacific time.
I’m here for maybe an hour more… at that time it’ll be one where you are, so I can last…
Not literally- Ahh, nevermind.
-A
I killed a fly. It had been buzzing around my room forever, and I finally got pissed at it (Possibly because I was eating and don’t like the idea of flies in my food that much.) enough to wait until it settled and then whip it with a towel.
It was kind of humourous, really – I though I’d missed and it was flying again, but it was just the recoil from being hit. The fly’s dead. The food is safe. I feel like a hero.
-A
*massive cheers and applause*
Gee, I can’t imagine why on earth you wouldn’t want to eat food that had had a fly on it. There was a fly crawling on the lettuce in the cafeteria once last year. Needless to say, it only convinced me even more strongly that I had no desire to eat salad. Something I really ought to do more of, though, but I hate salad with a passion.
Re: Salad- agreed. I never eat it untill forced.
My parents gave up forcing me ages ago. Whenever they have salad with dinner, I don’t, they don’t even bother with looks or comments anymore, or anything…..Haven’t for so long I don’t even remember the last time they did.
Ha ha, you were in my dream. Well, at least your salad-hating tendencies were, but they belonged to me. I think it must have been from reading this thread before I went to bed.
I like salad! But only if the dressing is good. And one time a few years back I find a HUGE bug in one of my salads which I *shudder and gasp* almost ate. Luckily I stopped myself before I did. Anyway, now I always thoroughly check my salads for living objects of any kind before I eat them. My friends call me crazy, but hey, you would be too if you almost ate a bug in a salad…
At the age of five, I discovered a cockroach in my bowl of cereal. I have mistrusted Cinnamon Toast Crunch ever since.
I LOVE salad, but once I found a slug in my slad.
One time I found a bug in my bottle of vitamins. I had been eating these vitamins for nearly a week before I noticed it *shudders*
When I was much younger, I discovered a fly in my soft drink at a restaurant–and I’d drank probably half of it by then. I mentioned it to my mom and gramma who were both there, and they couldn’t see it, but they called the waitress over anyway, and she, at least, saw it, and apologized profusely and got me a new soda…..
I like salad.
(Fail?)
Just kidding. I like a good salad too. Though I’ll admit, it’s mostly for my love of the croutons and chicken and dressing and carrots and tomatoes… Mmm.
I used to call lettuce salad. A leaf of salad.
-A
I just had salad for lunch….A very plain, not very appealing salad, but…I am trying to eat healthier, and besides, of the stuff in the cafeteria, it’s the only thing they can’t screw up too dreadfully.
By plain, I mean, lettuce, grated carrots, and cucumber (or possibly zucchini, it was slightly odd looking for the cucumber I’m used to…)
I’ve never like salad dressing, though, nor tomatoes…
That’s how you kill flies? Gosh, I use bug spray. But only when it’s a huge one and I’ve let it be for hours.
I also use it for ant infestations. But after about a week and I squash around twenty of them and it doesn’t get through to them.
*sleep deprived*
This one needed special attention.
-A
Okay….I think I am really off to bed now, after yet another night promising myself I would get to bed at a decent hour (as in, eleven or earlier) instead of staying up to midnight or nearly midnight. A very hard thing for me to manage, both with my body still be somewhat on AK time, and with me being the sort of person who likes to stay up late, but……It would be nice if I were actually awake enough for classes tomorrow that I can concentrate on what is being said, instead of zoning out and concocting ridiculous daydreams. *sigh*
Abed with me as well. I’m taking Chamber of Secrets, though.
-A
G’night, y’all. Have to turn in computer. *yawn*
90:My maths teacher killed two flies with some year 9’s maths book, and another exercise so me and Caitlin have sworn not to touch the exercise books in that room
Does America have Skins, the British series? I love it so much!! (wow, I sound so…materialistic? is that the right word? not quite, but yeah…) It is the finale next week
Going to six flags today!
Have fun! I went to Canobie Lake Park recently, it was pretty fun.
My cat gives people the following message: =–99999999999999999999999999999999999999999998—yt
*sniffle* I wanna go, take me with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why is everyone going to amusement parks? I know three people, now, and they are completely unrelated in any way, and they are all going to a park today. Two to Six Flags, one to Great Escape.
You people that go places. I have half a mind to-
*goes somewhere else for a while, then comes back to finish this*
Uhh, half a mind to… Do something… Yeah…
-A
Ack. People that go to amusement parks drive me crazy, because I’ve never been to one.
Yes. I swear. I have never been to an amusement park. Ever. And I’m really jealous of anyone who’s going to one today.
Jealous? Or envious?
I like amusement/theme parks, they’re very fun. I wish I was going to one.
Which is correct?
Envious, unless I’m much mistaken….Ask Robert.
Oh my gods… Michelle (For the sake of clarity, I’m using that name for now… You’ll see why.), Luna taught me the difference between those a couple days ago. XD
Good lords. You really are the same person. I’d be entirely convinced if it weren’t for the difference in location.
-A
Bad, Robert, bad! You are a bad influence on us poor, unsuspecting MBers. *kidding*
Never been to one? They’re so much fun, you need to go right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I went to the Long Beach Aquarium and got a double scoop ice cream from Rite Aid. Does that count? We brought our own lunch.
I couldn’t include animations in the slideshow at the top of the page, so here are the concluding episodes of the Hare-athon:
Oooooooh, pink eggs, pretty, pretty pink eggs. Me wants pink eggs, I can put them on my desk and make my room all pretty. My precioussssss pink eggses.
Very nice.
Bad news first, so you can recover-
Bad: I had to leave Cross Country practice early to go to the dermatologist. I used too much toilet paper in the waiting room bathroom and clogged the toilet by accident. Then, when I got into the office and my mom told the doctor that we were there to fix my facial acne, she looked at her chart and found out it was time for my yearly full-body mole check, which meant I had to strip to my underpants and a paper gown and have her poke around all over me wearing rubber gloves looking for moles. Not fun.
Good: I ran a mile to the beach at Cross Country practice and my dad made rice with cheese for lunch using a new recipe that was really tasty. Then we went to the library for four hours and I got to take out a new book on Houdini.
Hey everyone! I thought of you the other day… I was in a bookstore and I saw one of those HPB candy thingies. That was funny.
99: They’re called Soul Candy. From a manga called Bleach, which I am reading.
Soul Candy allows Soul Reapers (ie Ichigo) to leave the human bodies (Gigai) they are in to fight the Hollows (bad souls) the encounter. When you pop one in, another soul comes into your body and forces the Soul Reaper form to come out, so your body isn’t just lying there.
I think. Just going from memory here.
Oh, disturbingly, that dispenser is the most popular. It’s called Chappy. The second most popular is a duck.
Luna, you are like one of my favorite ppl – I mean PEOPLE – ever.
97- I love the mad hatter. I kind of want to be one for some distant halloween.
Bluuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh
that is today.
Goodness, a lot of posts have sprung up since I last checked the blog.
Anyway, my news byte of the day:
Exhibit A. I was on the staff of the school literary magazine last year. The other staff members were a sophomore, a bunch of seniors, and a few of my friends (freshmen). Communication trailed off towards the end of the year, and until this summer I didn’t even know if the magazine had been published or not.
Exhibit B. This summer, my fellow freshman staff member and friend told me that in fact the upperclassmen had been meeting for the last week of school to format and publish the magazine, and had failed to tell the underclassmen about it. She found out about this somehow and turned up to work, but they basically told her there was nothing she could do and sent her away.
Exhibit C. Today, I went to ask the staff sponsor what had happened with the magazine last year and where it’s going this year. I found that it was in fact published, and despite being on the staff and having two pieces in the magazine I was not informed of this. The magazines were in “that box over in the corner” and I “[could] take some to sell if [I] want.” I was happy the magazine got published at all, and I bought one. Also, I found out that the sophomore (now junior) H is going to be the editor this year.
Exhibit D. When I got home after marching band, I found that one of my pieces had been listed as written by H, both on the page and in the table of contents. H has no other pieces anywhere in the magazine. This irritates me considerably.
Right now I’m thinking I’ll go ask the staff sponsor about this tomorrow, but I’m not sure where to go from there…
*sigh* The blog is dreadfully slow today. Has school really got everyone that preoccupied?
I’m still here! I agree, where has everyone gone?
ATTENTION MUSEBLOG AT LARGE
RoseQuartz has been taken by a Yeerk. I have no idea how long she has been a Controller, but she has made it quite obvious to me. Luckily, it is not an incredibly strong Yeerk, seeing as she has been able to break through at least once to tell me she loves me. (See the “Freudian Slip” on Quotations) We must find a way to keep her in total captivity for three days, and also find out who else is a Controller. Any suggestions?
SR….
Guys, don’t listen to him. I don’t know where he got this from.
That’s what you’d say if you were a controller!
Just please tell me you aren’t voluntary…
Oh, no.
(FAST GAPAS!)
Well, the good news is, she says she hasn’t read Animorphs, so the information should be safe. Although we’ll need to keep her away from the library…
I haven’t read Animorphs in ages…
Hey, if beloved RQ is a Controller, I’m a Pokemon Animor-*claps hands over mouth*
GAPAs, does it still stand that we can’t use a person as our avatar, even if it is not us? I would rather like to go back to using Luna for awhile, as I feel like changing my avatar, but I thought I double check….Although, there do seem to be numerous instances, recently, of MBers having recognizable human faces as avatars……Yeah, just thought I’d ask….
I like your Avatar!
I like it too, I just feel like a change. I’m sure I’ll cycle back to this one, eventually.
Are you talking about Evanna Lynch? We’ll allow her.
Yes, I am. Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood.
Thank you, Robert.
Whoops.
OMG Beavo is on the random thread omg
So anyways, I had something to say, but I forgot it, so I’ll just ramble a bit.
Um, school is starting, ick, don’t wanna. Orientation on the third, which should be satisfiyingly awful. I’m drinking “Sleepytime” tea right now, and it’s amazing. I feel sleepy already.
I ordered a buncha stuff online yesterday, including products from Lush. Does anyone use Lush? I loves. And it’s all vegan, too!
One of my friends keeps using the word “existential” instead of “essential”. It’s kind of funny.
Byenow!
I DUN WANNA GO TO SCHOOL TOMORRA!!! *waaaaaaaaa*
School is fine…at least for me.
if school was just socializing, electives, and using unblocked computers all day in a boarding school, I would love it. *mumblegrumble*