What differentiates a myth from a legend? Merriam-Webster online gives one definition of a legend as “a popular myth of recent origin”
which is hardly satisfactory! I mean really!
For example this sentence seems redundant: “Scholars believe that it originated as a series of Sumerian legends and poems about the mythological hero-king Gilgamesh…”
Am I crazy? There’s obviously a difference between Greek myths and the “legend of sleepy hollow” or what have you, but…ARGH. This is probably really simple and/or a ridiculous query.
That being said I enjoyed reading the Epic of Gilgamesh. I read the translation by Stephen Mitchell.
Rewording the definition and flipping it around a little, I’d say that (1) a myth is a story so old that nobody knows where it started and that almost everybody knows or knew (that’s what “popular” means here); whereas (2) a legend is like a myth, but less widespread and/or old-but-not-ancient.
By the way, I liked Gilgamesh when I was Muser-age and tried for a few years to write a musical about it.
You know, I’ll bet some of my Gilgamesh fragments are still tucked away in a drawer somewhere. I’ll see if I can turn them into another of my Time Capsules.
I think of the differences between epics and ballads. This is a rough approximation of how I see them:
Mythology seems to be a larger body of work with a grander sweep of vision — the origins of gods, peoples, kings, and the larger workings of nature (how light came to be, for instance, as opposed to how the leopard got spots). It serves as the deep “history” that gives a cultural group its shared identity. Myths may be shorter stories within that framework.
Legends seem to be more freestanding and tell of identifiable personages or humbler folk. Hence in Axa’s example, perhaps the writer meant that local stories about individuals became grafted onto the larger tale of Gilgamesh (something that often happens). Or a group of legends could coalesce and over time become a mythology, rather like a cult might over generations broaden its reach and become a full-fledged religion.
That said, the borders are pretty murky. And it doesn’t help that most people toss the words around casually. “Myth” especially ends up being used as a catch-all.
First day of spring (for me), it definately smelt like spring, kind of green? and plant-y. Then it rained and it smelt like rain on dirt, and then it was sunny again! Crazy, crazy weather.
My parents met with my teachers tonight (because it was P-T night, not because I’m misbehaved ), and apparently I’m meant to be doing three hours of homework per night, as well as studying or I might fail NCEA. My mum then turned on me >< and she said that I could strive for excellence to be like the girls I admire (I admire them?) it was really wierd.
I’m getting my braces off tomorrow!
spring? What general area are you from? It’s getting fallish here in the vast flat regions of Illinois.
You’re getting your braces off? I’m getting mine put on. *fumes*
That would explain the bizarrely different weather experiences.
Are we the only two around right now Luna? It seems like there are few active MBers right now because of school. *sighs*
I got my braces off a week ago. Now I have to wear a retainer. (Did anyone here know I had braces? Just wondering if I mentioned it or not.)
We actually had some summer here in CT! It was rainy for a really long time, but it got muggier in August.
Yay! Septemberness!! Fall!!! *is glad* It is going to mty birthday in 19 days*is afraidand happy* I’m feeling a bit bouncy today,as usual. I’m sitting here in front of the upstairs computer rocking back and typing at the same time. It’s actually pretty relaxing if yo kep going for long enough.
Speaking of myths and legends, what ever happened to the Urban Legends thread?
As for it being September….Well, as I’m already at school, the loss of “summer” doesn’t bother me. It will, in my opinion, be summer into November if it’s at all like last year. Although, give the temperatures of late (pleasantly cool), it promises to be a MUCH colder year than last year, something I am extraordinarily please about….. I missed the lack of any serious snow last year.
Oooh, it’s September! Fall is one of my favorite seasons. I love the whole year, but I always look forward o fall and spring, though especially fall. Yum. It’s been cool the past few days, and this morning is positively chilly! I love it! *shivers in happy fall weather*
Lady B., as always, huge kudos go for this picture. It’s so mysterious looking. I love the look on Urania’s face!
Are you new? (I’ve never seen anyone state their approval of the random thread picture that way, and it makes me wonder…)
I do love the pic, by the way!
Oh. Well, hello anyway, Faye!
Why is it I always make assumptions rather rashly and end up corrected by older MBers? Being around on and off for only a year really has an impact on my dimwit factor…
Bleh. Tomorrow is school. I just came back from a back-to-school slumber party at my best friend’s house. I’m really depressed though, because I jokingly called one of my other friends a word that is not so nice (it wasn’t really terribly bad, though), and now she is maddish at me. Oh well.
Anyways, I had fun at the party for the most part. I’m really freaked out about school. And I have to go and clean out my backpack, which should be interesting…
Okay, first day of September. That means next week is school. I really don’t want to do AP-level homework again or write essays…
But on the bright side, Track is starting up again, so I get to shave time off my mile again. (I love distance running) And I’ll get to take Astronomy at last, so that’ll be good (And Astronomy’s not an AP class, so the homework won’t be as bad). And soon it’ll be Halloween and I’ll get to wear my flightsuit from Space Academy and- knock EMPHATICALLY on wood- see the Ares I-X test flight.
Calling thy faithful GAPA’s! Have we stopped making a new Hare and Hedgepig thread each month? I just noticed that a new one was not made for July and August.
H&H isn’t a monthly thread. We replace it whenever it fill up (like many other things around here, a highly imprecise and inconsistent judgment call). With only 79 comments at present, I’d say Volume II, Number 4 will be around for a while yet.
For most of my young life, we only got NBC and PBS. But then, one day, we suddenly got ABC as well…..Until just a couple years ago (when we switched over to digital through our phone/internet provider) that was all we got. We now get the basic broadcast channels (the most minimal basic package that can be purchased ).
That’s amusing–it’s the male in my family who firmly believes that there is absolutely no reason whatsoever that we would need cable. Personally, I wouldn’t mind having Animal Planet, Discovery, some of those channels, but…..Dad sees no point to shell out the money for more channels.
Well, if I only had Discovery, National Geographic, and Science, I wouldn’t need anything else!
However, we rarely watch TV, so why we needed cable was a mystery to my mother and I. We have learned not to question the workings of a masculine mind. Well, at least I can watch all the science shows I want now!
Ha. I get four channels, only one of which I ever watch: a Malaysian soap opera, a Chinese soap opera, a Tamil soap opera, and ChannelNews Asia. Since I am only partially fluent in one language and fluent in two (spanish and english), I am limited to the news. My parents would probably sell the flat before they hired cable. Every time I mention anything even remotely connected to TV (i.e.- a joke I saw on TV at a friend’s house, or a news item) I get a long lecture on the evils of the pixelled world.
Being, as I mentioned before, partially fluent in Mandarin, I have on occasion attempted to interpret the soap opera of that dialect. Here is what I got out of it:
Lover #1: I love you! Let us elope and marry in Brazil!
Lover #2: Why marry in Brazil and live on the run when we can enjoy a pleasant financial situation here, being provided for by your parents?
Sudden Interrupter: Oh, #1, I love you! Let us elope together!
#1: Okay, as long as we can marry in Brazil.
#2: But- what- *splutters*
* #1 and SI elope* *fade to #2 being drunk on boat*
Oddly enough, all the scenes of this soap opera that I have glimpsed have followed the same lines, with only the ideal destination and the identity of the subjects being altered.
@Kokopelli52-
HUH? Wait, that really makes me think of Happy Slip. Do you know Happy Slip? Happy Slip is really odd. Happy Slip soap operas! *cracks up* *is looked at oddly*
Batman is DC, actually, not marvel. Entirely different fictional universe. And I hope Disney doesn’t try anything, well at all. Look what happens when they try to make a book into a movie. Disney and other peoples fiction just doesn’t mix!
16-Marvel? As in the comic book company? Oh jeez, DISNEY’S GONNA TAKE OVER THE MOVIE/CARTOON BUSINESS!!!!!! Definitely not good.
In accordance with the random thread “theme” Ther are at least two popular book series based on Greek legends. They are Percy Jackson and the Olympians, which is about a seemingly problem-prone half-blood (that is, half god, half mortal) teenager. The other one is The Cronus Chronicles. They’re both good series.
I am, of course, utterly obsessed with Percy Jackson and the Olympians and applaud you for mentioning it. I’ve never heard of the Cronus Chronicles however. Who is the author? What is it about?
It’s similar, except that the people aren’t children of the gods. There are three, I’ve read the first two. Also, the humor is a little more MuseBloggy.
Jane Ursu is the author, and the only reason I know this is because the first book is on the top shelf of my bookcase, and is eye-level for me when I’m in the top bunk, so it’s one of the things I stare at while trying to fall asleep.
Eeek!
Disney totally Americanized Pinocchio, in its original version, (which, might I add, was written in Italy) it truly is a charming adventure story, I loved it when I read it. I fear the worst with Marvel.
It was a spoof on ‘Mickey Mouse Club’ or whatever it’s called. I forget most of it. I remember two of the lines quite clearly, though:
Come on in and grab a tin and help the filling fly
K O K P E L L I I I I. (Yes, there were extra ‘I’s.)
‘Twas a wondrous song.
Thanks for the clarification, GAPAs! I didn’t even consider that local legends might accumulate to form the larger mythology…very interesting…
Also I would love to see a Gilgamesh musical The repetition in the translation I read certainly allows for some good show tunes!
I love the graphic, Rebecca! Poor Feather looks scared out of his wits!
Disney and Marvel: as I said disney loves the big bucks $$$$. It seems like they probably aren’t going to be involved in editing the comics or anything they just want money money money
“Change doesn’t happen overnight. While Disney won’t get to distribute Marvel’s movies until 2013 (when Marvel’s distribution deal with Paramount comes to an end after Paramount releases an “Iron Man” sequel in 2010, “Thor” and “First Avenger: Captain America” in 2011 and “The Avengers” in 2012), it will enjoy most of the proceeds from those films. And Disney will immediately start tapping into the merchandising revenues from those releases as it figures out how to exploit the titles via its other businesses.”
When did the actual Muse Fan Page page disappear? Before my long absence several months ago, their was a whole website. When I came back, there was just museblog. What’s up with that? Not that museblog isn’t enough or anything
Also: is anybody else interested in bees or have a bee hive? I have one hive that I’m just starting with on a friends property.
SFTDP
*cringes at grammar*
There was the hacking incident, but I don’t know the details; I think that somebody else should explain it to you in more detail if you like.
Kaiser–Back in March, or thereabouts, the blog and fan page were infected with a virus. Robert managed to clean up the blog, but the fan page was either to infected to salvage, or he didn’t have the time. Or perhaps some combination of the two.
Bees…..I don’t have any particular interest in them, well, except where my sister is concerned. It’s great fun to watch her freak out…..
It’s been four years. Just thought i’d stop by and marvel at the fact. I know i haven’t actually been on here in ages but i never really gave an official goodbye, so i guess goodbye. It’s been fun. Still love talking to MBers, and i’m sure if anyone wants to chat they can find me if they look hard enough, but the MB is too big and confusing for me to come back to now. i just don’t have time for it. Hearts and pies, all! Pwt Pwns!
Hi, Ebeth! It’s nice to see you again, even if it is just to say good-bye. I know what you mean about the blog being too big and confusing, though, I don’t have time to keep up except when I’m at college (yeah, I’m aware that doesn’t make a lot of sense).
I’ll go with ants rather than aliens. Though everyone looks kind of alien around a campfire. Here are the line drawings of the child Muses without all the shadow effects:
Mm. I like this month’s theme. I would like to study linguistic anthropology with a focus on the intersections between myth, folklore, storytelling and culture.
I can post about ANYTHING? On this thread?
Yayyyy!
Now that I can post about anything, I have nothing to post about.
No I have something!
Does anybody else read Archie comics?? I’m assuming SOMEONE here does. my favorite is Betty! I wish I WERE Betty sometimes. Also, I heard Archie is proposing to Veronica? How ridiculous. If anyone read “Bad Boy Trouble,” “The Matchmakers,” or “The Big Breakup,” do they agree with me that it is SO easy to see how the end will turn out before you finish the third installment? Personally I think Veronica’s father will forbid her from marrying Archie. And doesn’t that seem like Archie really has made his choice if he is proposing to VERONICA? Also, I like Ethel a lot. She’s really the “ugly girl” of the series but I think she is deserving of more features in the Pals n’ Gals double digests or even the “Betty and Veronica” comic books.
ok, I’m done. I am such a nerd, posting on a blog about comics. No, I’m just kidding. MuseBloggers are all Cool People.
All right, own up, are you new around here? A MBer who knows not of the random thread is a MBer who is new. And did you copy my name? (no hard feelings or anything, just wondering…)
Well….I met 343 Guilty Spark in Halo today. I feel random. I mean, I can’t just run rampant around the blog yelling; “Eat bunnies, cake, yummy!”. Believe me, I’d like to do that, but I can’t. That’s too random. I heard something so weird today. It’s about Coke. I heard that “Coca-Cola” was translated into Chinese as: “Bite the Wax Tadpole”. Creepy, huh?
It’s because Mandarin words that sound like “Co Ca Co La” have that meaning. I’ve also heard that the company retranslated it into a phrase that means “may the mouth rejoice.”
(“Bite the wax tadpole” would make a good slang expression, don’t you think? “Oh, man, that really bites the wax tadpole.”)
“I was going to read HP, but then I decided to bite the wax tadpole.”
“Biting the wax tadpole is nearly a MB requirement!”
“C’mon, just go on and bit the wax tadpole.”
Bite the wax tadpole: to fail spectacularly, especially after a promising start. “Our football team was ahead by 10 points, but then we bit the wax tadpole in the fourth quarter.”
I KNEW IT! YESSS! *is feeling extremely random* OH yeah my mom is prob’ly going to make me do some schoolwork. EVEN THO ITS A HOLIDAY! Altho my sis is still asleep….She’s nocturnal, and I have a habit of getting up at five in the morning, lol.
So I survived the first day of school. It actually went much more smoothly than I thought it would. I don’t usually like to be naively optimistic, but I’m thinking this year will be a good one. I have 6 classes with people who actually want to be there and actually want to learn. I am a SEN10R, which continues to amaze me. I walked into school today…and I felt at home. For the first time in 4 years, I felt like I was somewhere I belonged. That’s pretty rocking.
Ugh. Tired. Been getting up at six to babysit but maintaining my summer bedtime and now I am beginning to feel slightly ill and am hoping a good night’s sleep and drinking lots of water will help. I’ve been reading The Custom of the Country and shedding copious tears on Ralph’s behalf, which doesn’t exactly help the general exhaustion and has given me a headache. Ugh ugh ugh.
Anyway…I should make dinner and clean my room so I can get to bed by ten.
For a French assignment, I had to look up the kings of France. It turns out they all had ridiculous nicknames/labels of a sort. A few of my favorites:
Charles II the Bald
Louis II the Stammerer
Charles the Fat
Charles III the Simple
Louis IV from Overseas
Louis V the Lazy
Louis X the Quarreller
John I the Posthumous
Charles VI the Beloved, the Mad ((Both at once? Interesting.))
And my absolute favorite:
Louis XI the Prudent, the Universal Spider.
What on Earth is a Universal Spider? I’m picturing the planets all caught in a vast web with a fat, king-headed spider in the center surveying his catch. In his foremost pair of legs he holds the Earth, bound in spider silk.
There was a queen of Spain called Juana the Mad. (She was, by the way. She didn’t bury her husband for two years after he died because she thought he’d come back to life.)
I remember the spider king! He was a crafty dude, that’s why he was called the spider king… His 22-year reign was marked by political machinations, spinning a spider’s web of plot and conspiracy which earned him his nickname.
I remember drawing spiders in my notes when we learned about him.
Nine months. Nine months. I HAVE NOW BEEN HERE NINE MONTHS. (or at least lurking here nine months) And I remember the post number was 70-something. *screams*
Hey guys. I’m sending this from an iPod touch, so excuse any spellin errors. Doesn’t that just bite the wax tadpole? Thank you for the new expression, Mr. Coontz. For example:
My last name isn’t so bad, but it really
bites the wax tadpole when used with
my first name.
That’s funny, I like it. Say, I wonder if I can do html on this baby. Let’s see…
Sorry, bubbles. No. I came up with it on my own. Bubbles are popular.
Real live baby. Hahaha. good idea. Hahaha. Send pix.
I LIKE BETTY
More comics!! Who reads Calvin and Hobbes? Are there more of us? POST RESPONSE IMMEDIATELY please
You know, there is a Calvin and Hobbes thread (I can’t do any fancy-schmancy HTML stuff, so here’s the raw link: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1466 ). No one’s posted on it for almost a year, so good luck reviving it!
User: Bite the wax tadpole.
Cleverbot: Bite the knife?
User: No, the wax tadpole.
Cleverbot: Are you the eggman?
…and then rational conversation about a new phrase ends.
Some friends of mine from Seattle are coming down tomorrow to go to the Oregon State Fair with me! They also come to check on a house that they have in the city that I live in (the father’s a landlord). It’s funny, they never go to the Washington State Fair, but they always go to the Oregon one. Maybe because they used to live here.
STFP (Sorry The For Post: I’m trying to make it a new expression)
I’m going to do this again: Around October of last year, I started posting some of my old journal entries from exactly a year ago. Now, with the start of school drawing near, I will do it again! Yay! Fun for me and fun for you!
September 2, 2008
Today was the last day I had before school started, and it was HORRIBLE! I stayed up too late last night (2:30), so mom punished me by not letting me use electronics. That was OK, but I felt really bad because I always do stupid things like that on the computer. ((NOTE: I actually remember this: I was watching SNL digital shorts.)) In the morning, mom made me read two chapters of this one book. I guess it would be a good read, but the first two chapters were about this one guy’s opinion of technology. Souds familiar…((NOTE: The book was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Matinance I remember that I wanted to read the rest someday, but I sound cynical here because I was mad at my mom. Maybe I should go read it now!))
I then went outside and played Life at M’s. Then O and I picked blackberries and made blackberry milkshakes. They tasted bad. We put too many blackberries in.
I then went home, made cookies for mom, and straightened up a bit. All in all, I thought it was a very productive day and mom would at least be not mad at me any more, if not happy. Boy, was I wrong!
When mom came home, I discovered I shouldn’t have been outside because I was being punished. That was a surprise. And mom hasn’t even tasted one of my cookies yet. Sheesh!
I suppose it’s my fault, though. If I had just gotten off the computer a little earlier last night, none of this would have happened. I guess in the future, I’ll limit all extremely long computer activities to Saturdays. Oh, well. School starts tomorrow. I called A.N. and she told me what our locker number and combo is. I’m all set!
-Kyra
That was pretty long… Most of the entries are really short. Trust me on this one. Besides, there isn’t even another one until September 7 anyway.
I got to go to lunch with my friend Hannah today. We had guacamole burgers and talked a lot. Mostly we watched the flies that kept landing on the table. It’s really funny to watch them stop, rub their feet together, fly away, land on another spot, and repeat the same thing.
So once upon a time, there was this guy named Beavo who really didn’t want to go back to school, despite everyone being overly excited about it. The end.
Hello! We’re at the same house right now although not exactly sure whether or not this counts as a Kokon since we’ve been best friends since…before either of us can remember, actually. Anyway, just decided to let everyone know. (Even though we did post on the Welcome Neophytes thread about it.)
Soccer starr: Oh yeah, and I did “recruit” Drama Queen to join MB! And I’ve made her promise that she’ll stay here and actually post for a while!
Uggggg. Am feeling horrible right now. BFF swore at me for no reason. I have a cold, too. Hmph. School is annoying and my science teacher wants me to memorize the ENTIRE PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS- IS SHE CRAZY???????????/
I LOVE the Periodic Table of the Elements! (Of course, I don’t have it even close to memorization, not that I’m going to try.) Are you going to try to think of things that remind you of the Elements, or are you just going to go for straight-out memorization?
*gives consoling hug and tells Celesta that everything will be okay until the HPBs take over*
*runs to Celesta and gives her a cure for the common cold, a nice blanket, and a cup of hot chocolate ( unless she doesn’t like hot chocolate. In that case, she gets some nice tea. )*
*and a miraculous memory potion*
Good luck with reviving the Calvin and Hobbes thread, Pseudo!
I have the feeling she likes you MBers more than me and my other sister combined. ugh. she hates me being on here.
Take that, Pseu-whatever.
Did you know the word for “tire” in french is “pneu”? hee hee hee.
Oh my goodness Jade, you seriously need to borrow someone’s baby and go back there, that would be HILARIOUS.
Urg. I had one of those days that can pretty much be summed up by “meh”. Though at a few times it was so ludicrous that it would have been really funny if I was in a good mood, but I wasn’t. Soooo, anyway…….actually, after a particularly annoying string of events I just sat there and laughed because it was so stupid. Then I stopped and went back to being moody. I’m such a dork.
Ugh. Horrible day. The children would not behave and there was much yelling and noncooperation and when I came home from my Horrible Day Mother had taken my computer to work and my cell phone wouldn’t work. So I cried a little and took a shower and went and got The Custom of the Country. Unfortunately I was two chapters away from the most tragic event in the book and cried much harder so my head hurt. Then I darned a sock. And Mother came home. And I am almost done with CotC and then I shall finish Hornblower and read Our Mutual Friend! -much delight- I also got the second Octavian Nothing book because it is about ships. And I recommended Watership Down to the eldest babysittee, who is also listening to Karan Casey now
59.1~ Ah, thank you. It was one of those moments…..I’m mostly over it now, so I can be human. Petting a purring cat in the sunshine had a great deal to do with that.
*picks up postcards* Wow, I can’t believe this! Hmm, I need several of these to send to everyone……
Hello loverly MB! I’m posting very quickly, because, apparently, my friend CLL has been on here and I’m happy. Unfortunately, it’s very late and I’m tired and I have a lot of work. *sigh*
Ok, so this week my ballet classes started up again. I had a class yesterday and today. I’m sore all over and it feels great! My mom thinks that’s odd, that I enjoy the pain. I can’t wait for class tomorrow! I have three days a week, yah.
I used to take ballet – I like basketball and guitar a lot better, though. No offense, It’s just not the kind of thing I like. Have some virtual choklit for all your work!
3.2 I got my retainer today. It is clear, plastic, squelchy and too tight. I also have a lisp! Ah well, for the sake of beauty…I guess
43-Don’t say that! I remember reading that story and it didn’t seem so long ago O.O scary…
I need help. I have to decide on my options for next year by Mon. 14th, even though next year is well, next year, and I have for certain so far: English (compulsory), Music, Chinese, French, History and then I have no clue, -Classical Studies, Chemistry or Photography.
My dad thinks Photography is a waste of time ( In a way it is but yeah)
My mum thinks Photography could be nice, that I would like Classical Studies and I wouldn’t like Chemistry
I have no idea (It’s like one of those logic puzzles.)
Has anyone read/seen Fried Green Tomatoes, we are studying the film at school and It is so cool! And I just started the book one hour ago, I think everyone should read/see it!
Bed, Now, goodnight MuseBlog.
I would take Chemistry. It has essential information you need to know in it. I know that I really enjoyed it. Chemistry is fun! If you like math, then it’s a good class to take. Plus, it’ll be a change from all the other clkasses you say you’ll be taking.
I’ve seen Fried Green Tomatoes! My uncle really liked it and watched it. Apparantly, it was for the third time that week and all of my cousins hated it so they all left. So it was just me and my uncle. I really liked the movie!
63-You dance ballet? Me too! Our regular classes haven’t started up yet, though… I’m so excited for them. But I know what you mean about feeling sore. I’ve been dancing over the summer, though, so maybe I won’t be too sore. (I tend to hurt myself more when I’m not dancing, anyway, which kind of bites the wax tadpole XD)
I did dance over the summer as well. But there was still a 6 week gap in between, so….. but I’m glad it started back again! Bite the wax tadpole, lol. I said that to one of my friends yesterday.. reaction was “Huh? No, I don’t want to know what it means.” *covers ears* it was hilarious. And then her mom wanted to know what it meant so I got to explain it anyway!
When I was three, I tripped when getting out of the car and hit my front teeth on the sidewalk. They were both purpleish gray for at least a few months–maybe up to a year, I don’t remember.
I woke up this morning kind of early-ish (Like around 6:45) to help my mom in our “vegetable” garden. If you can even call it that. My mom’s always trying to do something new, and this year it was the garden.
Not like I hate it or anything, because I don’t mind gardening. It’s actually pretty fun. But usually I just don’t have the time or patience to garden, so this was one of the first times I’ve helped my mom with it. It was more weeding than anything else, because all of the vegetables look terrible. They all look like they were attacked by HPBs. No joke. Anyway, we did get a few tomatoes earlier this summer which were delicious, but when I say few, I mean a few. Literally we grew four tomatoes, and so each of us (Mom, Dad, me and my sister) all got one. Oh yeah, and my grandmother got a half of one, because my sister hates tomatoes and only ate half of hers, so she gave away the other half.
Re: Ballet. One of those things that I did when I was younger but eventually stopped when my schedule just couldn’t contain it anymore. I was good at it in the sense that I’m naturally graceful, but I have zero flexibility. I would love to pick up another type of dance (Preferably one where a ton of flexibility all the time isn’t required. Any suggestions?) one of these days, but probably not this year because my schedule is already full, especially with soccer now on the agenda. (Our season just started!! Yay!!)
Oh yeah, and fireandhelmlock1996: I can understand what you mean about enjoying the pain. I feel the same way with soccer. I’m always sore at the beginning of the season, and I love it. Weird but true.
Oh, I don’t mind writing out your whole name, but I’ll call you fireh if you prefer it! I really have no idea why I enjoy being sore…maybe because I just love going back to being on a soccer team? Just a guess…
I did tap for one year. It was okay but not great. I’m fairly good at footwork (I play soccer, if you haven’t already guessed! ) but it just didn’t exactly click with me. If that makes any sense at all.
My mom grows tomatoes in a hoop house, which is a sort of greenhouse tunnel thingy, and the tomato plants are tomato TREES with TONS of tomatoes on them.
Try Irish step dance (my friend does it so that’s how I know about it). She is very graceful and there is a lot of power to it too, but flexibility isn’t as important. She also says that there are schools pretty much everywhere in America, especially around New York.
Last spring break, my sister wanted to start a garden. So we did. Then she completely deserted it, but I took care of it. We’ve grown four zucchinis, a lot of wildflowers, and a lot of tomatoes. And we didn’t use those cheating Topsy Turvy thingys.
I used to do ballet… I did it for eight and a half years, and quit because I finally realized I didn’t like it. I was pretty much only in it for the trophy they give out after ten years anyway…
69) I would suggest tap dancing, its really fun(!!) but requires time…
First swim meet was today,
t’was alright, although I need to work on my time offa the block and the turns. (I always manage to turn to far away from the wall and end up groping around for something to push off of).
School is drawing nearer, must complete Things to do before Summer is Over List!!
oK. That’s really weird. I seriously saw a clay platypus in my school’s pottery class when I walked in there yesterday. It was awesome. That’s a huge coincedence!
Band practice was not good today. There are two other flute players, K and whatshisname. K is/was pretty good, but over the summer she got braces, and now she can hardly play. Whatshisname sort of knows most of the notes, but he’s not good at it. That leaves me. I’m fairly good at it, but not that good, and I might get braces too, so the whole thing really sucks. The following basically sums up my various feelings about it:
Aww, thats too bad. Braces aren’t that bad for flutes after you get used to them (according to my stand partner). So K and/maybe you will probably get used to braces in good time.
This year we gots THRITEEN flute players. I love the sound of the flute, but THIRTEEN flute players playing shrill notes is a tad too much for the ears.
I’m glad that I probabaly won’t ever get braces, and if i do, that doesn’t affect the guitar in the least bit. Anyway, I’m sorry, Ducky! That really does stink. Maybe you won’t have to get braces, and K will geet used to them eventually.
I will not get braces just to make my teeth look nice. If I do get braces, it will be to prevent or correct problems that may become painful and/or extremely annoying. But then again, according to K, braces are extremely annoying. In the unlikely event that I do get braces, that would really bite the wax tadpole.
First day of school! It was insane. Our school just merged with the arts middle school in the area, so everything was crazy and confusing, and they switched around all the departments, which made it hard to find anything. I’m excited about all of my classes, except for Calculus AP, which is probably going to make me die. Also, on top of all the insanity is a lot of preparation for the G-20, because there’s going to be this whole big tour thing. But nobody really knows what’s going on, so they’re just going on and on about how we need to “make the classrooms look extra pretty” and do “really hard work” because the first lady is coming, and that’s all they know. -sigh-
I made a screwed-up Pangea, “flipped a coin” on a calculator, and presented a giant fortune-teller about me today,. Man, my school is crazy. It’s great!
We’re doing calculator programming too! I made a battleship-esque program and a number guessing game, among other things.
In chemistry the teacher made giant fire bubbles.
I’m SUPER nervous because today’s my first day for orchestra in a higher division and ohhhhhh…
But, what can you do. I drastically failed my Periodic Table Quiz. HOW can I remeber the atomic number for Praseodymium?????
Anyway…
At our cafiteria today,it was, well, actually, i don’t know what it was. Probably some cheap alien substance from a planet far on the other side of the milky way.
Alas, my friends…I bid ye Adieu..
So I actually managed to get a computer over here (Not telling where, it’s not populated enough, but it’s not NYC)
Actually, it has Quicktime, which is better than my desktop at home, so I’m watching/listening to the spacewalk going on now on the ISS while posting here. Totally the opposite of biting the wax tadpole!
I can’t get over the fact that I’m watching people working LIVE, in SPACE, 200 miles up.
Also, Danny Olivas is doing for real exactly what I pretended to do at Space Academy, spacewalking with a tether in the shuttle’s cargo bay to help a partner standing on the end of the Candarm. (Except that they’re installing an ammonia tank on the space station instead of fixing a communications satellite.)
w00t! Alaska just beat the world record for the largest cabbage. Some guy from Wasilla (by the name of Steve Hubacek, according to an online article) grew a 125.9 pound cabbage. Former world record was apparently 124 in the UK…..According to something dad heard, the guy is apparently bringing another cabbage to the fair tomorrow, which he (the guy) says is even BIGGER…..
I get the impression the veggies at the giant veggie display at the fair were even bigger than usual this year…..Of course, we had an unusually (and pleasantly) warm summer, so….I’m sure that had something to do with it.
[The stupid spell check on my computer is trying to convince me I spelled “Wasilla” wrong. Stupid computer….*mutters*]
I’ll let you know on the second cabbage, I think the giant cabbage weigh off (an annual tradition) is something like Friday…Wait, that’s tomorrow, huh? Anyway, I will let you know.
As for what they do with the cabbage….i dunno. I imagine, in general, giant veggies don’t taste as good as they’re normal size counter parts, but I don’t know….Probably nothing special happens, but I don’t know.
Performance enhancing drugs? Honestly, though, I have no idea what the rules are for the vegetables, as far as fertilizer and all of that stuff. I’m not skilled enough even at growing regular veggies to have ever taken an interest in the giant veggies….So, yeah, dunno.
This repulses me. I hate cabbage. Sometimes I like to pretend it dosen’t exist, especially when my mom goes out and buys it to make cole slaw and it sits there in the fridge, looking… cabeggy. Ew. *shudder*
Does anyone else have something they hate for no particular reason? Like, cabbage is…. my stomach actually hurts now. Eguladh.
“‘We foresee that in twenty years the pink puppet (made of straw-stuffed fabric) will be swallowed by the weather, devoured by cattle, completely erased by the weather and nature” said Gelitin in an interview.'”
The MuseBlog homepage occasionaly does something comepletely berzerk for me where everything but the text dissapears and everything’s all florkeydoodled.
I’m becoming increasingly interested in space
I have to go to “Play With the Orchestra” where members of the “xxx youth orchestra” pair up with a member of the “Southern Symphonia” and play in the orchestra. On Sunday I am going to Alexandra to play with an orchestra there for the day. This is quite intense, AND I have to pretend to be studying for my science test on Wednesday.
Once upon a time, there was this guy named Beavo who got arrested and went back to jail. He saw everyone he remembered from the prison, and they were all tanned for some reason and he rubbed his hands together and petted his white cat, smiling conspiratorially. This year was going to be fun.
Fin.
This is a work of fiction. All characters and stuff that happens don’t actually happen, and anything that looks like something else is a coincidence.
SPEAKING of which, heeheeheehee. I am doing a webshow! It is a sort-of-short little blurb on my life. I’ve done two so far. And they’re mostly me being random.
Yes, but that’s totally different. One is food, one is not. Besides, the very first computer we ever had was a Mac…..Back in the days before internet was a common household amenity (it didn’t even have internet capabilities), back before CDs when computer games came on floppy disks, back when……You get the idea. I was maybe 3 or so when we got it.
I don’t mind PCs too much, I mean, our main computer at home currently is a PC, but, I dunno, I prefer Macs. I think, in general, they’re better products. But maybe I’m just channeling my dad, as he is completely over the top adamant that Macs are the best….
I’m almost certainly channeling my dad. We have, I think, one PC, which we got from my Aunt, and I’m not even sure it’s functional. I think it’s fixed, but I haven’t seen it used in forever, and it exploded at one point. Yes, exploded. Don’t ask. Suffice to say that it did not totally explode.
84 – I pictured you as a burly member of a motorcycle gang while I read that, just though I’d let you know
86 – do you mean ctrl-C and so on? you can always use the edit menu at the top of you internet browser. If you need it for microsoft word there is a similar function.
Today sucks! And it’s Friday! Something is wrong in the world!
I am in a good mood. It finally rained today ofr about 10 minutes. But, hey, since we live in good ol’ AZ, a ten minute monsoon is like a miracle! Trees were felled and all the kinds in school splashed in puddles until the staff yelled at them. JOY!!!!!
That is strange, that people stil don’t flush the toilet in college…
Um, I’ll be 12 this October. I had French and Music Humanities yesterday. Music Humanities stank!!!! It was, like, Music History!!!!
I went to bed at 8;45 yesterday and woke up at 8 today, I was so emotionally exhausted (I usually go from 9 to 6:30). I was literally bored (almost) to tears!!
Heh. Heh. Heh. I wish my cousins, both of whom are in college, would do something like that. I even wish that they read Twilight, for goodness sake! I quote the Kat, the older of the two: “I wouldn’t read a picture book if you paid me a hundred dollars. I’d just take the money and run!” ARGH! Plus they text all the time. Even during Christmas Eve dinners, under the table.
twilight? Why on earth would you want them to read twilight? I made that mistake once, and I have regretted ever since those hours of my life that I will never be able to get back.
Er, I dunno, replace all their music with books on tape? (or CDs, or whatever the heck people use to listen to audiobooks these days…..The few occasions I’ve done audiobooks, they were on audio cassettes, but I imagine that is rather old fashioned…..Most of y’all probably don’t even have Walkmans anymore. *is betraying her age* I still haven’t even “upgraded” my portable CD player to an iPod…….)
Very much agreed.
Some crazy I observed at the orthodontist was raving about Twilight and how it was “the only thing I’d ever wanted to read in my life!” or something like that. That’s a life with a pitiful selection of books.
I turned into a Twilight freak once… A few weeks ago, actually. Don’t worry, I snapped out of it. It didn’t affect my conversations at all, since all the people I know are either anti-Twilight, or think I shouldn’t like Twilight. My best friend seriously thinks that. She’s a Twilight freak, but for some reason thinks that I should hate them. I don’t know why. However, I am- Blessed? Cursed? with a mental condition that doesn’t allow me to dislike books. Seriously.
Actually, more like at our floor meeting, we girls get lectured for half an hour about flushing toilets and leaving hair in sinks, and then the boys get lectured for another half hour about learning to aim when they use the bathroom……Fun times.
GAPAs, you’ve updated to WordPress 2.8.4, right? I don’t want MB to be attacked by Balrogs again. *worries* *scolds self for worrying and instead trusts the GAPAs will have already taken care of it* *worries anyway* Oh, and if you didn’t hear about it, http: //mashable. com/2009/09/05/wordpress-attack/
Ok, as requested by Piggy, an update on the cabbages. Yesterday was the annual Giant Cabbage Weigh-Off at the fair, and the guy (Steve Hubacek) who brought in the world record weighing cabbage on Wednesday surpassed his own record with a 127 pound cabbage.
Oh, and Piggy, in the following article, it says that the cabbage will be used for compost, as the giant cabbages are very woody and not good for eating. ((Sorry, Beavo, I know you were so looking forward to eating it….))
Here’s a delinkified link to the article, which I think should be allowable, as it is to a newspaper website:
Erm, very carefully? I can’t hardly keep anything (plants/vegetables/not animal) alive, I have no green thumb. I always forget about stuff, y’know, forget to water it, etc.
Yuck. I am sick. I hate being sick, for obvious reasons, especially when it’s a holiday weekend, but also because it makes me feel bad that I am wasting so much paper by using tissues.
Anyways, today in history: In 1698 Russia imposed a tax on beards.
RoseQuartz: Hi, everyone! We haven’t been kidnapped by HPBs!
Armada: Heh, yeah. We’ve visited two museums, and we think we’re going to go over to Ben and Jerry’s in a minute….. ^^
SudoRandom Hi. This is real. This is me. This is exactly where I’m supposed to be now. Now I know. Who I am. There’s no way to hold it in. No more hiding who I want to be-e-e-e. This is me.(Quit it, SudoRandom. -Armada)
Jock Ummmmm… Help, I’m drowning in a sea of corrections!
Hi, GAPAs… this is RQ on Sudo’s mom’s computer. We posted a big long thing but Sudo made our “email” an extremely long mix of our emails and a bunch of 42s and 219s… did it go into the spam bin, or get deleted entirely? *coughcanyouretrieveitcough*
RQ: Yes. Sorry! We didn’t know what was happening for a while there….
SR: Rq wants me to type something. Oh. She’s being confusing. Now she doesn’t want me to type anything. Now she’s talking about Death Note. Ben and Jerry’s Time! ((Rq doesn’t want me to delete this, because of Tim.))
Don’t we all-I know my parents wouldn’t mind me just exchanging emails with other Musers, and I’ll never be able to go to a Kokon.
Ever.
What? Living in Orlando, Florida has horrible drawbacks!
[Please do not make hints about your emails, including what service you use. The rule against exchanging emails is not a frivolous one, please respect it. –Admin.] -snifflesniffle-
Oh, you poor thing, having to live in Florida. I’m sure glad I get to live in a place which alternates between F5 tornadoes and society-halting blizzards.
I seem to remember a similar argument a while back, in which you also failed to win me over with the “tornadoes are fun” argument. I will stick to snow and earthquakes, thank you.
When I was in fourth grade we did a study on tornadoes and blizzards, and I think it scared all of us little fourth graders right out of our pants. You see, I live in SAFE New Jersey, where none of us have ever seen a tornado, in fact, a few of us (Me not included, thankfully!) didn’t even know what a tornado was before the study. Oh yeah, and then we watched this freaky movie and some of the kids got really scared by it! (Again, thankfully me not included, I actually thought the movie was cool! :)) I remember that the teachers told us “Well, if this freaks you out why don’t you all movie to Kansas or Nebraska.” And then that REALLY freaked those kids out. There were a lot of spoiled kids at that school. (I have no idea why that’s a positive thing that calls for a smiley face, but whatever…)
Why does living in Orlando make it impossible for you to kokonvene? Musers go to Florida (even Orlando) same as anyone else……For instance, I was in Orlando just last November over Thanksgiving Break, might even be going again this year. *hopes* Not that it would have worked for me to Kokonvene (I don’t think the relatives I was staying with would have been keen on the idea), but if anyone can easily say that they don’t have any chance at a Kokon based upon location, I think it would be Sam (New Zealand), Insane MLDM (Australia), Bookgirl_me (Austria), and me (Alaska, or at college, which is just inconvenient for any sort of get togethering).
It HATES young actors like me (I’m 11), Disney is expensive, the schools and people stink, and you can’t go anywhere without driving.
Luna-I’m too young, there’s not much chance of me getting to go to a Kokon: (ME): Hey, mom, there’s other MuseBloggers who are visiting Orlando! Can I go meet them? (MOM): No, Mira. It could be dangerous. (ME): Awww…
So you see, I must wait another year until I’m 12 and have…
(drumroll)
RESPONSIBILITY.
Ok, so the short version of the story is I have a file that I can’t delete, but need to. Each time I try, I get the error message (parenthetical notes are mine):
“Cannot delete S2PCISE (that’s the file): Access is denied
Make sure the disk is not full (it’s not) or write-protected (not sure, probably not) and that the file is not currently in use(it’s not).”
So if anybody knows how to get rid of that file, which I think might be corrupted, it would be helpful.
I don’t really know for sure, but my first thought: Are you by any chance on a computer with multiple accounts? For instance, you have an account, your parents have an account, etc, where you have to log-in from the initial start up screen?
if so, are you logged in on an administrator account? If not, that could be the issue: You might only be able to delete this particular file from an admin account.
From there, I suggest googling the error message–I get several hits, but without intimately knowing the problems you are encountering, the operating system, etc, I can’t really track down a specific article that might be of use….
Sorry, other than this probably unhelpful help, I’m really not of any use…..
Under “Properties”, does it say “read-only”? If so, change that. If not, you could reboot and try deleting it again. If that doesn’t work, try deleting the folder containing the file–obviously, make sure you have a copy of any other important things in a second location. If none of those work, you have to get complicated, so we won’t get into that.
Log out then back in, and then try again. If that doesn’t work, shut down and let it sit for a few seconds (I could never make the usually-requisite thirty or even *gasps* five minutes… And it seems to work fine with just a few seconds.), then reboot, then try again. If that doesn’t work, reply to this and tell me it isn’t working.
Surprise news: Piggy loves old books. We (i.e., my family and I) went to a used bookstore today. The bookstore had formerly been located in my city, but moved several months ago to a location several hours away due to high taxes. I could live the rest of my life in the rare book room alone. I now wish I had $1500 so I could buy the one-of-one-thousand-printed seventeen volume set of One Thousand and One Nights. I didn’t want to take it down from the shelf and look at one of the volumes, as it looked quite old and fragile, but I can imagine what amazing stories must’ve resided within. Was it the entirety of the collection? I did get a book of 24 Fr. Brown stories, which are deliciously amazing. And I almost got a book of essays by Bacon, and….
Ah, books. So marvelous.
Oh, and I have other news from yesterday, concerning my trials in AP Language and Composition. We got back our first timed writes in the class yesterday (Friday). They were, of course, graded on the AP scale, in which a 1 says, “Either you had a really bad day or you should never have considered taking an AP class,” and a 9 says, “Your essay brought tears of joy and amazement to the grader’s eyes.” The teacher said that, being the first essay, most of her students received 2s, 3s, and 4s, with a few 5s as well. But lo and behold, I somehow managed to receive a 7, which, having been told as I got to class before everyone else, was the best of her two classes. And of course she used anonymous excerpts from my essay in her Powerpoint of “What to Do Next Time.” I’m willing to bet it was a combination of beginner’s luck and generous grading that got me a 7, but I’m definitely not going to complain.
That would be Sir Richard F. Burton’s famous unexpurgated translation of the Arabian Nights stories. (That’s the 19th-century adventurer Richard Burton, not the 20th-century actor.)
Burton was an amazing character — like a real-life Indiana Jones, about 80 years earlier. I’m reading his Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah right now. It’s very absorbing, but you have to love footnotes.
Heavens. Fern has joined *enter mad fit of coughing* [name of well known website] *end mad fit of coughing* And somehow it knew that I knew several MBers. Creeeepy.
Once upon a time, there was a MuseBlogger. She occasionally felt weird around her offline friends, because they a) thought taking French as an elective was WEIRD, b) didn’t believe bunnies were going to take over the world, and c) would probably feed her de-maths-liking tablets if she told them she found maths tests therapeutic. MuseBlog, however, was nuts to begin with, so she felt right at home there. But when Kokons were mentioned, she knew it was highly unlikely she would ever go to one *tries to be miserable*. She also pondered why there were more MBers in New Zealand (I don’t think Dot Keet still posts here, but I’ve counted her) than Australia when it was a smaller country. She cheered herself up with the thought that she probably wouldn’t be allowed to Kokonvene anyway, but still… Then she remembered that she had talked herself into telling a friend about MuseBlog, and she had school tomorrow, with French and maths.That made her feel much better.
My soccer season has started! Our first game is very, very soon! I’m excited for it even though my team does need a little work. We’ve got some issues…..and not all of them are related to soccer.
For my Civics class, I have to be able to label all the states on a map and know their capitals, and goodness I am geography illiterate. I’ve just spent the past half hour taking and retaking a map quiz online, and I still can’t remember where Arkansas/Indiana/Illinois go. It took me four tries–mind you this is times through the quiz, not guesses–to figure out where Idaho is! Why did they put it so near the west coast? That doesn’t even make sense! And Ohio touches Pennsylvania? Seriously!?
I’d have more difficulties with the capitals, myself. I never could remember ’em all…….States, though, I always switch Colorado and Wyoming around, because they’re both identical shapes…..
Those are two of the states I have no trouble at all with. I used to live in Wyoming, so I know where it is. From there it’s not too hard to remember Colorado. It’s the Midwest states that get me.
My brothers and I learned all the states and capitals as one way to pass the time during long hours on the road. Of course, we also drove through many of them at some point. (I think Alaska and Hawaii are the only ones I haven’t actually been to.) I still find it easy to picture the shapes and work my way across the continent.
Maybe you could find one of those puzzles for little kids that have the states as puzzle pieces. There might be a virtual version somewhere on line. Putting the pieces together adds another level of reinforcement. Learning them in groups helps, too. Anything that helps the arrangement make sense. The capitals are a little easier if you learn some of the history along with them. Or else find some way to relate the name with the name of the state.
As for the states and capitals, when me and my sis were younger, we had a geography computer game, in which for every country we could assemble countries/states, through a variety of ways. One was puzzle, one was point and click, one was a completely blank map and you click where the state is (as in, no borders at all). That probably helped a lot in my learning the states. I’ll see if I can find a similar game online.
The capitals….I can’t remember what the book is called, but there is this book, by the same group that did a book on presidents (Yo, Millard Filmore), that if you go through it, your supposed to be able to remember the capitals forever more. The president one is the only one I had any success with, I can now actually recite all the presidents in order…..I’ll see if I can find the name of the capital one, assuming they’re even producing it anymore…..
My dad has been to Alaska and brought me some socks with fish on them that I sometimes wear as slippers, since they’re very thick. I would like to visit someday.
Oh, no, no, no. The fish are worn on top of the feet, silly, not underneath. That would make it awfully hard to walk, if you had squishy, slimy, slippery fish beneath your feet.
Ah, see, I was confused since we Nebraskans wear corn husks on the bottoms of our feet as we ride our cows to the only building with electricity, the school.
Well, you know, Alaska isn’t exactly corn maze central. And fall isn’t a time of year that we travelled much, just mid-summer, usually, so prior to college, I never had the opportunity.
14% of the corn mazes you’ve been in? So…. 1/.14=7.14etc. So, you’ve been in approximately 7.14 corn mazes? Odd number, that. Or did you mean to say I’ve been in 1/14 as many?
Ice fishing’s not all that enjoyable, in my opinion. I don’t particularly care for fishing under the best of circumstances (warm, pleasant weather) as I don’t like sitting around with nothing ever happening, but sitting around hoping a fish is going to bite when it’s sub-zero outside and you’re sitting out on the ice freezing? Definitely not my idea of fun…..I don’t understand how people do it. Fish isn’t that tasty……or maybe they’re just that desperate for foot coverings. *ponders*
*is fascinated by conversation* Hmm. I can’t think of any amusing stereotypes about Massachusetts right now….but, Piggy, I have husked corn. And been to a corn maze probably about seven times. But I haven’t ice fished. Something to look forward to…. XD
Luna, I meant that you have been to roughly fourteen percent of those I have. Thus, I have been to seven. But I would disagree–fish is that tasty. Perhaps that’s because I, living in Nebraska, don’t have fish as often as people living closer to the various coasts do. I do have fish, it’s not akin to an enormous festival of the once-a-decade seafood (if I may quell another stereotype), but we’re more likely to have meat than fish. Like steaks. From delicious, world-quality Nebraska Angus beef, shipped internationally to some of the finest restaurants and highest-class celebrities. </advert> But really, I’ve had steak in other parts of the country. Yeck. You people don’t know what beef is.
I’m sure Indiana is more hick than Nebraska. We actually need an amusement park to know that “There’s More Than Corn in Indiana!” And I have been to about twice as many corn mazes as you have.
Ahem. Excuse me. We Vermonters most definitely do 1. Husk corn (unless that and shucking are not the same thing – I have shucked corn, though) and 2. Know our way around beef.
Re: fish….I dunno, I’ve never particularly been a fan of it. Although, we don’t have it all that often–it’s rather expensive, for one thing. And no one in the family does anywhere NEAR enough fishing to rely upon that instead of store bought (as in, I could probably count on one hand the number of times we have gone fishing in my lifetime).
My dad and sis are fond of fish, but me’n’mom don’t really care for it. I like smoked salmon, and salmon cooked on the grill is alright, also, but it’s not really high on my list of foods.
As for steak….well, I don’t much care for steak. I like beef well enough, steak’s just never had much appeal. Maybe that’s because the first time I remember eating it, I threw up (not immediately, just later that night, and, honestly, probably ahd no connection, but…..), and then the only other time I remember eating it (in FL, July 15, 2005–And no, I’m not a weirdo who memorizes what meals she had what day, that’s just the day that I stayed up to midnight to get my HBP book……My first HP party. ). Er, yeah, what I was saying, was I threw up that time, too, but that was probably from the heat……
Oh, of course, of course. Vermont is far better at both corn and beef than the state which has been [unofficially] the Beef State (on the license plates in the fifties and sixties) and officially the Cornhusker State since 1945. How silly of me to think otherwise.
I have been to one corn maze. I also had a corn husking contest with my friends last spring. I can’t remember if I’ve husked any more than that. So I remember only husking one corn, but I could be wrong. @Armada, I used to eat beef but it makes me sick. People look at me oddly when I say I’m allergic to cows, but what else could you say when you were allergic to both milk and beef? I have a lot of alergies and sadly developed two more lately. Sorry for rambling!
I laugh at all your corn. Here in Illinois, we have real corn, and soybeans. Far as the eye can see. In every darn direction.
But haha. Fish socks?
*thinks* I suppose Chicago is the land of mob bosses and their underground tunnels from one side of the city to the other (which although no longer are in use, were there and used, which is kind of cool).
I actually learned all my capitols the summer before sixth grade in a week, since my parents said if I could do it, they’d give me {insert special reward}. So I did it by my parents quizzing me in the pool.
The putting states into place wasn’t too hard for me to learn. I’ve grown up with globes/maps always in the house, plus I had a giant foam Disney USA puzzle when I was little.
Ok….Google geography US puzzle without quotes, and click on the first link. This’ll take you to a puzzle type game, where you click and drag the state to its location.
The capital book I was thinking of is “Yo! Sacramento”, and it is by Will Cleveland & Mark Alvarez. It was helpful, at least temporarily, for me learning my capitals. It takes the name of the state plus the capital and comes up with some sort of link between them. For instance, Concord, New Hampshire, you’ve got a nude hamster riding the Concord. (Don’t ask)
Do you have to place them on the map, or just label the pictures? If you have to place them, I would go to Luna’s site. But if not, go to http:// jayzeebear . com/frog_house . html (delete the spaces, obviously) and click on the picture of the globe, then the picture of North America in the new window that opens up, then the picture of the USA. (To find the site without the link, just go to jayzeebear . com, and click on Red the Tree Frog, then under the bridge, and follow my previous instructions from there.)
Insane MLDM, I do not think it is weird that you are taking French as an elective. I think that is a Smart Choice. Mon bocal est trop petit, l’eau est sale et l’herbe y pousse.
Also, I have a question to ask and can you answer truthfully? Does anyone think I’m annoying? ( No, Pseudo, I do NOT want to hear your comment on this! )
Because Pseudo keeps claiming no one on here likes me and thinks I’m annoying.
I have! My brother got me all excited about it… Back in 2007. So I waited… and waited… and FINALLY it comes out, and it just sort of drifts away. Neither of us have ever bought it… We did buy the monster maker thing a while back, though.
Heh, yes it is. And bubblebabe, I do find you a bit annoying, because (to me at least) it seems like you don’t really understand what the MB is about. Although I am not one to talk, as I’m fairly new here I s’pose. But if you used proper grammar and capitalization, I would accept other faults easily. After all, no one’s perfect, but if someone has too many faults (PoPoing, chatspeak, no capitalization) it makes that person hard to like, and in some cases even annoying. I apologize for my little lecture, all, but once I get started I find it hard to stop untill I reach a conclusion. I blame the book report I had to write two weeks ago.
No, you haven’t been annoying since you started capitalizing. You’ve stuck around for enough time to stop being a neophyte that will be gone in two minutes, and are well on your way to being a very valuable member of MB life.
FRENCH CLASS LAST WEEK, OR WHENEVER:
Friend 1: Are you doing French next year?
Me: Yes
Half the Class: *recoil in horror* (which is unlikely to happen here on MB )
Later…
Me: Are you doing French next year?
Two random girls: Yes.
Me: *sigh of relief*
(because we’re all in Year 8, we haven’t had any choice about our subjects up until now. And I don’t know if I will be able to do French without it clashing with something else yet, because we only handed in our choice forms last week. *sigh*)
Also, I don’t think you’re annoying now you’ve started capitalising. And talking of capitalisation, one of my friends emailed me last week, using proper spelling and capitalisation. I was surprised, to say the least, because when most of my offline friends’ emails look like their shift keys are broken. Not that really mind that.
Ooooh, my friend did a whole project for ELA on Spore. Craziness.
Thanks, LittleBasementKitten, for the comment and also for the nickname I appreciates
I would love to see the pictures from the Kokonvention…especially SudoRandom’s apparently neon orange hat! I WANT ONE!
No, I don’t. I want one in orange, though.
Random fact of this weekend: At Target I saw a thing about Chuck Norris and randomly went hysterical. I was looked at oddly. Some things that it said are;
Chuck Norris’s house doesn’t have doors, just walls that he walks through.
Chuck Norris can make time go back by staring at a clock and flexing.
etc, etc. I totally cracked up. My parental units thought something was wrong with me.
Also, today I developed an interesting dance, when walking around the shopping center. Again, I was looked at oddly. Target was yesterday, so TWO DAYS IN A ROW I was looked at oddly! Yay!
There was an entire sheet of things like that taped to the back of the doors in the restroom stalls on my floor last year…….I still am not entirely sure of who Chuck Norris is, myself……
They’de better…or else. Mwhahaha!!!!
(ok, maybe that was a bit morbid…)
But, hey, what can you do????
Ok, I NEED to know your guy’s opinion on the presidents speech to us students on Tuesday, and how we are dealing w/ it. Just wondering!
I have two ideas for the Halloween Ball, one that’s more Halloweeny, but which would require me to dress in a less formal manner, the other one which would be more formal, but slightly less Halloweeny.
119- Tell Pseudo to I don’t think that you’re very annoying. It just takes a while to fit in; my grammar was fairly atrocious at the beginning. Besides, Pseudonym doesn’t exactly date from the gaboomba, does he?
So, I’m back at school now too. It could have been worse. Maybe. *was kidding*
(18.whatever): We lost the ability to play sound files after MuseBlog’s MP3 player became incompatible with our blog software after an upgrade. I’ve just installed a new one, though, so now you can once again hear the DisneyBlog song in all its former glory.
Or, if your computer can play MP3 files, you can hear it by clicking here.
I read Terry Pratchett’s Nation this week, and have become convinced that Terry Pratchett is an Absolute. Genius. I need to get my hands on more of his books, but there’s so many it’s hard to figure out which to get. What do you recommend?
On a side note, I’ve discovered that my library apparently does not have Muse. It’s not in the kid’s or adult’s magazine section, and a search on the website for Muse, asking for only magazines, produces absolutely nothing. Which does not make me happy. And, I think our subscription to Cricket expired, since we haven’t been getting it lately.
Yes,I am on a sailboat. Called Merlin. it’s very nice and calm and peaceful. It’s heavenly: warm sun, cool breeze, gorgeous Atlantic ocean, and access to MB! The waves are few, so my mom isn’t nauseous, which is good. Anyways, what’s all this stuff about biting wax tadpoles? Because a) I used the phrase “bites the wax tadpole” in Chinese several times in a Cleverbot convo and I am wondering why it is suddenly significant and b) That phrase is one of many mess-ups the Coca-Cola company got when they were trying to translate “Coca-Cola” into Chinese.
119.1.1.1.1.3.1-Spore is a game which you basically create your own species. It’s fun, but kinda hard to explain.
Silver Lining- I read abot that! I also read about a Nike comercial, that an Aboriginal says something and there are captions translating it into, “Just do it!” But what he really said was, “I don’t like these. Jet me bigger shoes!”
Good Omens is great, but I’m surprised nobody has mentioned his (rather large) Discworld series! The later ones are better than the first one, but I haven’t really read many. (Is IBCF around?) I can say that Thud, and Going Postal are sure to engage you.
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents is another Non- Discworld, (mainly) but it’s also flamblamblabous! (Spelling! x_x)
This has also just brought me to The Big Read, which appears to be a list of the favorite novels in England! I have read quite a few of them- Resolution Time! Read the top 100 by the time I graduate college.
Set, Go!
The Discworld series is also very good. The first books in it are The COlor of Magic and The Light Fantastic, I believe, or at least they were the first written. I haven’t been reading them in much order but I understand them and love them quite a lot.
Also, the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman is a must.
We are bravely attempting to plant a garden again. It’s hard, though, Here in AZ I think the only things that grow well are weeds and orange trees (you can eat only so many oranges, though…).
I am super psyched becuase we’re having tandoori chicken and Aloo Gobi for dinner. YES! VICTORY IS MINE!
I’m hyper. Great.
I’ve been there…… Fortunetely, it’s not that hard to grow things in PA. have some more……. PIE! Don’t have to much before previusly mentioned dinner. Don’t want to spoil your appetite!
September 7, 2008
We got back from Seattle tonight. I really liked hanging out with the Ms, even though all we did was play the Sims. Dinner on Friday with them was the best part. We went to the fancy Italian restaurant we went to last time. The food was scrumptous! I got all my homework done, too! What a great weekend.
-Kyra
Back to the present: I went school/laptop shopping today. What brand of Windows laptop should I get? Or should I wait until Windows 7 comes out? Sorry Mac people; the store where I can get Windows laptops is very close to my home.
Ohh, ohh, tech question!
Windows 7 isn’t really that big of an upgrade, but it is faster and such than Vista. Getting the upgrade itself will probably be about $40, if you’re upgrading Vista, so waiting might be worth it. Specific physical specs- minimum 2 gbs ram, 100gb hard drive would probably be sufficient. Shopping online, like through Dell, would give you an idea about what’s out there, and/or let you custom build a machine.
If price isn’t a huge problem, a Mac would absolutely be better than anything with Windows (add up yearly antivirus subscriptions to get a truer cost of Windows).
If anyone likes to tinker with tech stuff, I recommend trying Linux- use Wubi with Ubuntu to start.
So I have to write a persuasive essay for my class. It’s due in a week and a half and after the weekend’s worth deliberation, I’ve decided to write about this quote:
“There is no good or evil, there is only power and those too weak to take it.”
[That’s not the exact quote so don’t bother me]
It was said by Professor Quirrel in the first Harry Potter book – I’ve yet to take a stand on it, but I plan to write about whether or not he’s right. It’s either that or I write about how we should creative thinking is better than critical thinking.
Just think… a college kid, writing an awesome paper about Harry Potter… SCORE!
Speaking of which, in genetics class the other day, I saw a guy in a green Slytherin t-shirt (I wanted to steal it…..) and then the next day on the way to class, I saw a guy lying on a bench outside reading POA.
The quote, by the way, is:
There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too
weak to seek it….
Today was rather lovely, I got to actually drive the red beastie of a car that is sort-of-almost mine. *squeeee!!!* It was magical. Even though there’s something really wrong with the gas pedal…eh, even so it’s amazing. It’s so quiet (it’s a gas car-I’m used to diesels), and it’s got power steering. This scares me. I was turning the wheel and it just keeps going and going and I look at Dad and go “it is supposed to be this way?!” He just laughed.
Then I washed it, man that critter was filthy. It’s also really, really, incredibly, eye-wateringly red. It was like that before, of course, but with all the grime off it hurts your eyes. It’s got like a dayglo orange tint to it, but it’s definitely RED RED RED. Incredible.
Run-in number two with the state police today trying to get my backpack out of the school. It went okay. They just asked a couple of questions about which door I went in and let us leave. Check.
Didn’t do a speck of homework over the weekend. I have a free block tomorrow. Sort of check, depending on how many of the ‘homework assignments’ I got in the first two days back had to do with parental units’ signatures.
My knee still hurts from when I hit it. Yesterday. And, actually, this morning, when I hit it again, for the same reason. But my hand is fine, and I’ve got an ice pack on it for the swelling. Check.
I think I’m okay. Not really good, per se, but okay.
This weekend I went to a wedding and broke my glasses, which won’t get fixed until after band tomorrow, so ‘m wearing my mom’s glasses, which aren’t as strong as mine, so things are a bit blurry.
As you may have noticed, I’ve posted! This is unfortunately rare, as I am Rather Busy with all sorts of things that get in the way of reading and blogging. :/
I’m very sorry that I’ve left conversations hanging, I apologize especially to Axa and MF. (I’ll make it up to you!)
Paleophyte thread, I’ll
Silver Lining- That is fantastic, the being on a boat bit. I’m trying to convince my parents to retire onto a boat, which is a longtime away, yes, but I don’t think they’ll be happy staying in this town.
WHAT THE-!
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Me: All right, that’s it. Treble.FM, get in their computers and cause their screens to flip backwards and upside down,
Treble.FM: Why can’t we just go On Air and do that.
Me: Great Idea!
Me and Treble.FM together: TREBLE BASS ON AIR!
Me: Well, maybe I’ll have a little more fun.
I think I’ll make their computers loop the song “Oh My Word, This Tune Is Annoying”.
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Mwahaha. Best of all, there’s no Megaman to stop me- he isn’t in this time.
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And if you try to stop me by banning me, then…
Well, lets just say I’ve been working on a new series of wave-viruses ranging from ones that can control time (including time traveling) to giant 3 square by 3 square earthquake wave viruses with infinite number of auras and shields with the combined ability to instantly recover all health, to shape-shifting/copy-cat wave viruses (they are true trojans!). Oh, and by the way, the way I got here is because I made my own version of the TimeTrvl program, in secret.
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Oh, and another thing, the above is planned to be part of a Megaman Starforce FanFic. >:D
So, thank you for the free material. MWAHAHAHAHA!
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Treble.FM: *sweat drop* Don’t you think you might over-doing it a little, Master Greagorius?
Me: Oh, I, Andreas Jackson Albert Randy Greagorius, otherwise called AJAR, do NOT over-do things.
Treble.FM: ‘_’
Me: Ok, maybe a little.
Treble.FM: ‘_’
Me: Okay, so I over-do do things alot. So what?
Treble.FM: ‘_’
Me: o_o …………………………STOPSTARINGATMELIKETHAT!
Treble.FM: O_O AAAAUGH!
Oh, come on, lets just get started on this new endevour.
Treble.FM: Okay.
Treble Bass: *pulses into internet to begin fulfilling plans*
Okay, so lying in bed last night, I made the following future plans:
* When the first Orion flight takes off for the moon, I will go to Florida on a road trip with whoever my close college friends happen to be.
* We will buy tickets to watch from the prime viewing site (The NASA Causeway) as soon as the offer beigns so that we are assured of getting them. (If this is impossible, we will get as close as we legally can at some other spot, possibly watching from a boat)
* We will all pool our money so that we can stay in a theme hotel at Disney World before the launch and visit the park.
The last I checked, being sick didn’t even seem fun……*gives Pepper-Up Potion–the cure for the common cold, but it does cause steam to come out of your ears……*
What, the pepper-up potion? No, I’m pretty sure it’s not a panacea. If not in the books, then on the chocolate frog cards on one of the computer games (supposedly all written by JKR, I think…..the cards, not the games) it says that the Pepper-Up potion is the cure for the common cold. I think.
But don’t listen to me–my brain’s not working right, recently. Just last night I managed to confused Gringotts and Grunnings. I think i need to get a brain transplant, because I KNOW the difference, and they are so not the same, at all…..
September 8, 2008
I had minimal homework tonight! I’ll finish the English essay tomorrow night.
I went to gym class today. I was scared at first, but all we did was warm up.
-Kyra
School starts tomorrow! I’m catching up with all of my clothes shopping today. I also am going to take Sasha to the vet. Hopefully she doesn’t scream as much as she did last time.
It souds like Sasha the Mystery Pet is a cat. My cat Sammy literally yowls as loud as like, um, I dunno, uh, something very loud. Yeah. *headdesk, headdesk, headdesk*So today I had to write a story about getting an award, using 10 vocab words. Not that hard, actually.
Ah…tomorrow is my first day of school. Cake. I’m excited and yet terrified all at the same time, which is a kind of weird combination. I’m terrified to see my schedule, because I’ve got a gut feeling about this one teacher who has more HPB in her than human, and yet excited because I feel like I just need to get back into a routine. Summer’s been fun, but doing nothing gets tiring after a while, you know? Plus I haven’t seen many of my friends in 3+ months and I miss (Most) of them like crazy. I’m sure that I won’t get as much of a chance to post once crazy school takes over, just to let you guys know. I’ll try to keep up as best as possible but in the words of my mother “School always comes first.” Blah. I don’t even have a personal computer so I can’t get onto MB without my whole family seeing. (Our family computer is in our main room.)
I was listening to 9 to 5 this afternoon, and my mom walked by and gagged. I paused it for a second and asked her if she liked my music choice. “No,” she said, making a face. I grinned and turned it up.
I enjoy her displeasure because I know my music taste doesn’t really include Dolly Parton, and she knows that. So basically, I’m being a brat – but I do like 9 to 5 on occasion.
It’s hot. So excuse me if that was a little incoherent.
Does anyone think it would be a good idea to award some kind of annual “Muser Unaware” awards to people or organizations outside of the blog who have promoted Musery in their own, unintentional way?
That could be an interesting idea for a thread, too. Annual, I’m not sure, since it’d be so hard to decide, what with all of us having an opinion, but if we were just talking about people who were Muser Unawares, then that might be fun.
9/9/09 tomorrow. I need to remember to take pictures (a local news station is doing a “Day In The Life of New Hampshire” feature based on pictures from 9/9/09, so I figured I’d join in).
Alas, picture day is tommorow. I really don’t care, to tell the truth. All the other girls are going “like, OMG, I need to , like, fix my hair, OMG OMG OMG, yeah, OMG!! ” It’s pretty funny actually. My bff’s parents are going to New Zeland (and she’s stuck at home to watch the kids,poor thing…oh well…) so I’m probably going to rant about it on here. Tey are SUPER psyched. I mean, who wouldn’t be excited to go hang-gliding and black-water rafting????? But, oh well. The dinner of Aloo Gobi and tandoori chicken was excellente’, I must admit. *glee*
Ok, I’m done now. Sorry.
Whew! I got through the first day of school (relatively) unscathed. This morning, I thought I was going crazy, because I started talking and arguing with myself, and then I was remembering Harry Potter and the Order of the Phionix, where the blank portrait says, “Talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity.”
*walks away from computer, still rambling small tidbits relating my life to Harry Potter*
I left for school today at 6:30 got home at 10 PM. This will be my typical day the next few weeks, with the odd day letting me eat dinner at home from 5:30-6:30 before rushing off.
Tennis, then hockey, then homework.
Except the homework part keeps not being done, whcih is not good as 3 of my classes are AP
But I have not gotten rid of the apathy I had all last year sill
Also not good.
And I REALLY should just GO TO BED. Especially since all my friends are sick and I probably have their cold x_x
So. Not a lot of time to post, same as Vendy said. Will hopefully drop by on weekends and stuff still. Urg.
Fellow musers…. If my Global teacher continues to smash us with homework like this, and the other teachers give me even more, then I probably will only be able to post on the weekends, unless I get lucky.
Yeah….So my organic chemistry professor informed us all this morning. At 9:09 her cell phone alarm went off, and she had this big happy look on her face, said, “In nine seconds it will be 9:09:09! Let’s all scream and shout and make noise for 9 seconds!”
I spent the nine seconds looking at her like she had completely lost any smidgen of sanity she may have ever possessed. (I am not a morning person, and I was still in a very horrid mood from having been woken up by my roommate for the….*counts* 12th time since school started. In other words, every day that she has spent the night here in the dorm……)
HEllo all! I’m back! Actually, I’m not supposed to be on right now but I don’t have enough time to finish another assignment becaue I only have like 3 minets. So… I come here! Yay!
So today I had chorus and my teacher is incredibly strange. She wears clothes that would generally be of a punk 16-year-old, and she makes us sing, “I am a cowwwwww! MooOOOOooooOOOoo!” for warm-ups. But she likes me, which is good, because everyone says that if you’re on her bad side it’s…*drags finger across neck*
Everybody can just consider me non-existent for the next seven days or so, what with school starting and all. I’ll still be lurking and playing chess, though.
Umm…well…it’s generally not a good idea to change your name. Obviously you can, but I’ve found that it disrupts some of our, err, older MBers should we say. *coughcoughcoughpiggycoughcoughcough* Man, it just got so dusty around here all of a sudden.
Oh, and a clarification note–I was referring to the virus Piggy actually has, not the virus that has been name for him. In case there was confusion, there…
Second day of school was much more exciting… as much as I hate school (I hate school a lot) I expected to be a little bit excited, or nervous on my first day of high school, but, no. It was actually boring. I was more excited when all my books from Borders arrived.
Anyways, today I had Drama I, which I’m going to love. My teacher is pretty much awesome, and all my classmates seem cool. There was this one girl in teetering four inch stilettos and I kind of giggled to myself when we had to play this weird version of duck duck goose.
Also, FUN.
Also, crowded hallways. Seriously, I don’t want to make enemies this early, but if someone doesn’t move I’m going to have to stab people with pencils.
I know just what you mean. At my school, there are these kids who decide it would be jolly fun and convenient to stop and have lengthy conversations while standing in large circles on the stairways and in the middle of the hallways.
Really? Really? We’re trying to get to class, you know! -grumble-
169- Ah yes, crowded hallways. Now that I’m a senior, I’ve become much less patient with slow-moving underclassmen. As I described to one of my friends today, I get through the halls by acting like a “battering ram”.
The blog is slow today. Not in the sense that people aren’t posting, just that it keeps freezing up and stuff. It’s probably just the computer that I’m using though, it’s really old. I’ll report it to the We’re Back thread later I guess but for now….
Anyway, today was my first day of school. As far as first days go, it was decent. I mean, of course there were a few mishaps (Trying to get around the sloooow 6th graders who are all anxiously clutching their little schedules like it holds their life…actually it kind of does! Ha ha! I love being a 7th grader…so much more power!! Mwhahaha!)
Positive: I got all of the best teachers. Not all of them are necessarily good teachers, but they’re better than the other teachers which is why I consider them to be the best. I’m also in all the same classes as one of my good friends, and almost all of the same classes as another good friend.
Negative: The two friends I mentioned before that are in my classes are pretty much the ONLY two friends in my classes. All of my other close friends are in a different cycle as me. Thank goodness a few of them are in my homeroom, or I might just not be able to stand it.
First Impressions: The work seems kind of hard, but manageable. Definitely a step up from 6th grade which was a little tough but really only in math. Now all of the other subjects are going to be tough, especially since I’m in Advanced Latin and have the hardest English teacher who’s already assigned our first essay. *gasp* How I got into Advanced Latin, I just don’t know. I’m with all these kids who are probably going to be the next Einstein or something, and it’s pretty scary. Today my friend and I, (She’s the only person I know in the class, none of the other kids are in my homeroom or were in any of my classes last year – they were all in the Genius Club or something like that…) sat in the back of the classroom and basically just tried to keep up with the teacher as she rambled through three pages of info on the course. We could barely keep up, and she was talking in ENGLISH! How am I going to keep up once she’s babbling away in Latin?? Help. Anyway, that’s pretty much it. I’ll keep ya posted once I hopefully survive tomorrow in one piece.
Not just you. Yesterday and today it’s been quite slow loading periodically. I was very close to taking a hammer to my computer, yesterday, as a result. Well, not really, but it was a very appealing fantasy.
Two days of school down, and I’m still alive! Soccer starr, I had a mishap with MB shutting down on me, too, so it’s not just you. Being a freshman, I am at the bottom of the dog pile, but I absolutely cannot wait until I’m a senior! I better get to my homework now.
Working on the Dickensian Street Urchin Look, part two. Part one consisted of plaid knee-breeches, stockings (one shorter than the other), a green button-up shirt, a too-big vest, and all my hair tucked under a grey fedora. It was a huge success in its own way, but failed to convey the properly Dickensian air, while completely bypassing the Street Urchin part. Part two so far:
Olive-green skirt, sort of tattered-looking by nature. Lace cream-colored short-sleeved sweater, which is lovely, and seems more like something Lizzie Hexam would wear than something Jo (or Jo’s female counterpart) would manage to get ens hands on, but hey, I can’t be too picky. Men’s jacket, a little too big, missing some buttons and split on some seams, nothing unfixable, but it does the trick. Black boots. I’m not sure about legwear yet, but I’m thinking stockings of some sort, probably a pair of Mother’s, which are less stretchy and somewhat larger than mine. I have a pair of black ones, but they seem too…black. Topped off with a black-and-white herring-bone fedora.
Hmm…I could be the Little Match Girl for Halloween… I was planning to be the Doctor, but I haven’t got a costume ready…
YES! I don’t have to throw my computer out the window!!
Story behind this: While I was eating dinner, my computer decided to automatically update, which meant that it needed to restart…automatically. I had been working on a lab report for AP Chemistry, and I hadn’t saved it yet, so I was really worried that it had been lost. But it hadn’t, so I don’t have to hate Windows any more than I usually do.
OpenOffice, I’m not entirely sure what it does. It has a Document Recovery system which is supposed to help if your computer crashes or automatically restarts, but it hasn’t been very reliable in the past. I was expecting to be facing a blank document. So it actually made me really happy that OpenOffice could recover the file.
September 9, 2008
We played soccer in PE today. Nobody would pass the ball to me because I was one of the bad players. There were some All-Stars playing and I don’t know why they’re in this class.
W. and M. tried to get me to come out again, but I had math homework.
Mom and I stopped at Fred Meyers on the way home. We got boingy pillows for the cousins–I love those things!–and easily digestible food for Tommy to make him stop throwing up. I hope it works!
-Kyra
The first day of school was today!!! It’s so exciting to see all of my new and old teachers! It’s also exciting to be an upper-classman. I feel so cool.
Their website crashed, but some people managed to get to it before that, so it’s still possible to download the music.
One might even say that it’s totally awesome.
173~ Lovely. And this is for what, everyday wear or a special occasion?
Anybody here know about installing the Roseta Stone software? Hopefully it’s as easy as the booklet makes it sound. *frets*
Eh, tomorrow. Tomorrow is such a convenient time to do something. The perpetual tomorrow. And then tomorrow’s tomorrow. And then that day’s tomorrow, and…..yes, it does seem to end up that way, doesn’t it?
I loooove Rosetta stone! I have it in Latin and French, but I’ve never installed it. My mother does that, but it never takes her too long to get it set up. don’t fret!
Getting close to time for a new thread, me thinks, with 587 comments.
Anyway…….My flipflops gave me a blister on my one foot. I guess that’s a sign I should stop wearing them to class, because that is a large amount of walking….
But when it’s so blasted hot, wearing shoes reaches the point where my feet stink. Badly.
Um, for Global I have to write a “thematic essay,” in which I need to write about how one geographical feature affected more than one nation or region. Does anyone have any ideas? I mean, there are the obvious Egypt-Nile-Sumer-Tigris/Euphrates, but I don’t want to do something so obvious. I just want some suggestions. I’m supposed to learn something so it doesn’t matter if I haven’t heard about; that’s what research is for.
Some mountain range? Those have to affect the people around them… Might not count as multiple regions, though. And now I think of it, it might be more than one geographical feature.
Would the ocean count? Probably cheating… But it’s one geographical feature, right?
Random threads are not based on comment count. In a perfect world, a new thread would be made exactly one-third of the way through each month. Seeing as it is the tenth, and September has thirty days, there would hopefully be a new one for tomorrow, which begins the second third of the month. Whether the GAPAs will find enough free time to make a new installment will become apparent later this evening.
So, part 2 of Fio’s AP Chem adventures: Remember how I mentioned last week that I had to redo the first lab? Well, this week, while doing the second lab, I burned my hand. Doing something very stupid while cleaning up (I forgot we had been using Bunsen burners).
I gave myself a smallish burn in science class while dismantling a motor. Maybe it was because I was angry about the nice-but-not-so-nice people in my lab group and I got careless…
ANd in other random news that I just thought of: At dinner tonight my parents were talking about school, and education, and teachers who try to hold students back (when my dad was in first grade, apparently his teacher was annoyed with him because he already knew how to read), and my dad starts talking about some of my elementary school teachers, and how they hadn’t really been that great for someone like me, and then he turns to me and says, “You know, for several years, I was advocating for you to skip a grade.”
meh. That’s why my parents home schooled us, so we could progress at the rate that worked for us–to fast for public school. They wouldn’t let me do higher than 3rd grade math, skipped up to around 5 when mom and dad homeschooled me. My sis jumped similarly…..
On topics and such:
My school cannot legally keep seniors on campus for lunch, because the building is too small for the population (around 1200)! An observer may notice that having 1200 kids in an 1100 kid-sized building would not be remedied by letting some kids out some periods of the day, on some days. This observer would be correct! Being in the upper quarter of the height bell curve, I can say that I am lucky, but that I am still pushed around quite a bit. this is uncomfortable.
Many of you may know of this already, but I hadn’t heard of it when I was actively blogging, so I’m going to tell you! Brotherhood 2.0 was a project run in 2007 by two brothers, in which communication by text between the two was outlawed. There is a short workday video blog for the whole year, with exceptions of course. It’s very Muserly.
Nerdfighters Unite!
The Dickensian Street Urchin look would be easy to achieve, it might be assumed. This assumption would be wrong. Very wrong. Good work Alice! Have you tried pickpocketing a coat hung on a bell?
Mr. 42- You could research how the fjords affected Scandinavian history, specifically seafaring. Or mountains in Greece and relative cultural diversity in that area. Also, while possibly not what you’re looking for, traditional Micronesian cartography is very cool (see: Marshall Islands stick chart). Mountains are important not just as barriers but as rain wringers, civilizations and rainshadows might be interesting.
I’ve been listening to Terry Pratchett audio books on the walk home.
I have a dance exam tomorrow and I have to name two Scottish regiments and give notes on two of them…
I think I will do that now! I want first post tomorrow (today?) ah well…I guess I’ll wait until the Summer holidays
Gooooooooooooooooooooooood morning MB! How are you this fine day? I”m mad at my onlien AP art teacher because I thought I had a test today, so I studied and read ahead an entire chapter, sense she sometimes messes up and posts early stuff we a\haven’t covered yet. And now she emails us to say that the test doesn’t open up until next week! ARG! *is perturbed*
Okay, so since today is September 11th, and I’m from NYC, I’m going to pre-empt everyone- no, I did not know any of the victims. My 4th grade teacher’s brother-in-law was one of the firefighters, and my second-best-friend’s uncle worked on the 77th floor, but I was extremely fortunate not to personally know anyone who was lost.
So it is indeed September the 11th today. Apparently no one notified my physics teacher. We were going over a test on vectors, specifically a question about winds and flight paths, when he made a joke about crashing a plane into a building. As usual, he didn’t get any laughs. A little more unusual were the awkward glances we all made to each other. And then, walking outside, someone must have reminded the administration to lower the flag to half mast (at which it had not been before school). However, they forgot to lower the state and school flags as well. FAIL.
Well, g’night, MB. I have school tomorrow.
I see that as a PoPo.
It isn’t. I wasn’t trying to get first post; I wasn’t expecting to. So there.
It’s a random thread.
Why is Kokopelli not listening to Aeiou’s fireside tale?
Koko, Crraw, and Chad are probably back at the cabins putting frogs in the other Muses’ sleeping bags.
For that matter, when does Kokopelli listen to anyone?
Why would Chad do that?
Um, he’s male? Although, with that logic, Pwt should be helping put frogs in sleeping bags, as I have found conclusive proof of en’s gender.
Science geeks love to play pranks. Haven’t you noticed?
What differentiates a myth from a legend? Merriam-Webster online gives one definition of a legend as “a popular myth of recent origin”
which is hardly satisfactory! I mean really!
For example this sentence seems redundant: “Scholars believe that it originated as a series of Sumerian legends and poems about the mythological hero-king Gilgamesh…”
Am I crazy? There’s obviously a difference between Greek myths and the “legend of sleepy hollow” or what have you, but…ARGH. This is probably really simple and/or a ridiculous query.
That being said I enjoyed reading the Epic of Gilgamesh. I read the translation by Stephen Mitchell.
Rewording the definition and flipping it around a little, I’d say that (1) a myth is a story so old that nobody knows where it started and that almost everybody knows or knew (that’s what “popular” means here); whereas (2) a legend is like a myth, but less widespread and/or old-but-not-ancient.
By the way, I liked Gilgamesh when I was Muser-age and tried for a few years to write a musical about it.
Or maybe a myth is a story that most accept as true, whereas a legend is a myth that people don’t really believe anymore?
Definitions I usually use:
Myth: A short fantasy story to explain unexplained events.
Ledgend: A fantasy story, not to explain anything.
Nice!
You know, I’ll bet some of my Gilgamesh fragments are still tucked away in a drawer somewhere. I’ll see if I can turn them into another of my Time Capsules.
Yesyesyes.
I think of the differences between epics and ballads. This is a rough approximation of how I see them:
Mythology seems to be a larger body of work with a grander sweep of vision — the origins of gods, peoples, kings, and the larger workings of nature (how light came to be, for instance, as opposed to how the leopard got spots). It serves as the deep “history” that gives a cultural group its shared identity. Myths may be shorter stories within that framework.
Legends seem to be more freestanding and tell of identifiable personages or humbler folk. Hence in Axa’s example, perhaps the writer meant that local stories about individuals became grafted onto the larger tale of Gilgamesh (something that often happens). Or a group of legends could coalesce and over time become a mythology, rather like a cult might over generations broaden its reach and become a full-fledged religion.
That said, the borders are pretty murky. And it doesn’t help that most people toss the words around casually. “Myth” especially ends up being used as a catch-all.
I can’t wait for the next thread in this month. I also had an idea for a cool picture.
Tire tracks, but instead of random shapes tessellating, a picture of Kokopelli, or other muses.
AWESOME!!!
AWESOMELY AWESOME!!!
I’m not sure how that would fit into this month’s theme, but it’s certainly a cool idea we might just have to try.
How about a picture of Aeiou?
First day of spring (for me), it definately smelt like spring, kind of green? and plant-y. Then it rained and it smelt like rain on dirt, and then it was sunny again! Crazy, crazy weather.
), and apparently I’m meant to be doing three hours of homework per night, as well as studying or I might fail NCEA. My mum then turned on me >< and she said that I could strive for excellence to be like the girls I admire (I admire them?) it was really wierd.
My parents met with my teachers tonight (because it was P-T night, not because I’m misbehaved
I’m getting my braces off tomorrow!
spring? What general area are you from? It’s getting fallish here in the vast flat regions of Illinois.
You’re getting your braces off? I’m getting mine put on. *fumes*
Sam’s from…..I want to say New Zealand. But it may have been Australia…..No, I’m fairly sure it was NZ. My apologies if I’m mistaken, Sam!
That would explain the bizarrely different weather experiences.
Are we the only two around right now Luna? It seems like there are few active MBers right now because of school. *sighs*
I got my braces off a week ago. Now I have to wear a retainer. (Did anyone here know I had braces? Just wondering if I mentioned it or not.)
We actually had some summer here in CT! It was rainy for a really long time, but it got muggier in August.
sftdp: Has the muse (magazine) web page disappeared all together?
third post! w00t! Hi again MB! I’m still a crazy school maniac, but I decided to take a break this morning!
HOw are y’all?
WHAT DOES W00T MEAN?!?!?!
Happy September, everyone!
I’m great.
I can’t believe it’s September already! The realization that summer is beginning to end becomes even more real now… *sniffle*
Yay! Septemberness!! Fall!!! *is glad* It is going to mty birthday in 19 days*is afraidand happy* I’m feeling a bit bouncy today,as usual. I’m sitting here in front of the upstairs computer rocking back and typing at the same time. It’s actually pretty relaxing if yo kep going for long enough.
Speaking of myths and legends, what ever happened to the Urban Legends thread?
My birthday is in fall, too! Yay!!
I love the picture, Lady B!
As for it being September….Well, as I’m already at school, the loss of “summer” doesn’t bother me. It will, in my opinion, be summer into November if it’s at all like last year. Although, give the temperatures of late (pleasantly cool), it promises to be a MUCH colder year than last year, something I am extraordinarily please about…..
I missed the lack of any serious snow last year.
Oooh, it’s September! Fall is one of my favorite seasons. I love the whole year, but I always look forward o fall and spring, though especially fall. Yum. It’s been cool the past few days, and this morning is positively chilly! I love it! *shivers in happy fall weather*
Lady B., as always, huge kudos go for this picture. It’s so mysterious looking. I love the look on Urania’s face!
Awesome graphic!
Are you new? (I’ve never seen anyone state their approval of the random thread picture that way, and it makes me wonder…)
I do love the pic, by the way!
No, Faye’s not new. She’s been around for a while.
Oh. Well, hello anyway, Faye!
Why is it I always make assumptions rather rashly and end up corrected by older MBers? Being around on and off for only a year really has an impact on my dimwit factor…
Bleh. Tomorrow is school. I just came back from a back-to-school slumber party at my best friend’s house. I’m really depressed though, because I jokingly called one of my other friends a word that is not so nice (it wasn’t really terribly bad, though), and now she is maddish at me. Oh well.
Anyways, I had fun at the party for the most part. I’m really freaked out about school. And I have to go and clean out my backpack, which should be interesting…
And I did apologize several times to her, as well. In case you cared.
Okay, first day of September. That means next week is school. I really don’t want to do AP-level homework again or write essays…
But on the bright side, Track is starting up again, so I get to shave time off my mile again. (I love distance running) And I’ll get to take Astronomy at last, so that’ll be good (And Astronomy’s not an AP class, so the homework won’t be as bad). And soon it’ll be Halloween and I’ll get to wear my flightsuit from Space Academy and- knock EMPHATICALLY on wood- see the Ares I-X test flight.
Calling thy faithful GAPA’s! Have we stopped making a new Hare and Hedgepig thread each month? I just noticed that a new one was not made for July and August.
H&H isn’t a monthly thread. We replace it whenever it fill up (like many other things around here, a highly imprecise and inconsistent judgment call). With only 79 comments at present, I’d say Volume II, Number 4 will be around for a while yet.
Oh. I thought that it was a monthly thread. (Well, obviously!)
Disney has bought Marvel. Not good.
Do you watch CNN Student News? I learned that this morning! Ugh, Batman and Mickey Mouse.
I only get one TV channel, and that is ABC.
You only get ONE? That’s worse than me! Holy cake! Someone who gets less TV channels than me?
(I get five.)
For most of my young life, we only got NBC and PBS. But then, one day, we suddenly got ABC as well…..Until just a couple years ago (when we switched over to digital through our phone/internet provider) that was all we got. We now get the basic broadcast channels (the most minimal basic package that can be purchased
).
I used to have something like that, but the males in my family needed cable.
That’s amusing–it’s the male in my family who firmly believes that there is absolutely no reason whatsoever that we would need cable. Personally, I wouldn’t mind having Animal Planet, Discovery, some of those channels, but…..Dad sees no point to shell out the money for more channels.
Well, if I only had Discovery, National Geographic, and Science, I wouldn’t need anything else!
However, we rarely watch TV, so why we needed cable was a mystery to my mother and I. We have learned not to question the workings of a masculine mind. Well, at least I can watch all the science shows I want now!
Discover Channel, Animal Planet, History Channel, and Food Channel are the only stations I watch, except for PBS occasionally, for Nova.
I don’t get the Science Channel, (Which I want desperately,) Nor do I get Nat Geo. (Which I want.)
History Channel? That’s not good at all.
History Channel is amazing! (Except for their weird religious shows, and UFO Hunters.)
Ha. I get four channels, only one of which I ever watch: a Malaysian soap opera, a Chinese soap opera, a Tamil soap opera, and ChannelNews Asia. Since I am only partially fluent in one language and fluent in two (spanish and english), I am limited to the news. My parents would probably sell the flat before they hired cable. Every time I mention anything even remotely connected to TV (i.e.- a joke I saw on TV at a friend’s house, or a news item) I get a long lecture on the evils of the pixelled world.
Being, as I mentioned before, partially fluent in Mandarin, I have on occasion attempted to interpret the soap opera of that dialect. Here is what I got out of it:
Lover #1: I love you! Let us elope and marry in Brazil!
Lover #2: Why marry in Brazil and live on the run when we can enjoy a pleasant financial situation here, being provided for by your parents?
Sudden Interrupter: Oh, #1, I love you! Let us elope together!
#1: Okay, as long as we can marry in Brazil.
#2: But- what- *splutters*
* #1 and SI elope* *fade to #2 being drunk on boat*
Oddly enough, all the scenes of this soap opera that I have glimpsed have followed the same lines, with only the ideal destination and the identity of the subjects being altered.
Kokopelli52: *is still laughing*
@Kokopelli52-
HUH? Wait, that really makes me think of Happy Slip. Do you know Happy Slip? Happy Slip is really odd. Happy Slip soap operas! *cracks up* *is looked at oddly*
Wow.
You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, that’s what my mum does.
Batman is DC, actually, not marvel. Entirely different fictional universe.
And I hope Disney doesn’t try anything, well at all. Look what happens when they try to make a book into a movie. Disney and other peoples fiction just doesn’t mix!
16-Marvel? As in the comic book company? Oh jeez, DISNEY’S GONNA TAKE OVER THE MOVIE/CARTOON BUSINESS!!!!!! Definitely not good.
In accordance with the random thread “theme” Ther are at least two popular book series based on Greek legends. They are Percy Jackson and the Olympians, which is about a seemingly problem-prone half-blood (that is, half god, half mortal) teenager. The other one is The Cronus Chronicles. They’re both good series.
I am, of course, utterly obsessed with Percy Jackson and the Olympians and applaud you for mentioning it. I’ve never heard of the Cronus Chronicles however. Who is the author? What is it about?
It’s similar, except that the people aren’t children of the gods. There are three, I’ve read the first two. Also, the humor is a little more MuseBloggy.
I might try it out. It sounds very good, especially since I love Greek mythology.
Yes, you should.
Jane Ursu is the author, and the only reason I know this is because the first book is on the top shelf of my bookcase, and is eye-level for me when I’m in the top bunk, so it’s one of the things I stare at while trying to fall asleep.
SFTDP
Actually, it’s Anne Ursu, sorry.
Wanna make a virtual petition?
Eeek!
Disney totally Americanized Pinocchio, in its original version, (which, might I add, was written in Italy) it truly is a charming adventure story, I loved it when I read it. I fear the worst with Marvel.
Yay! September! Somewhat cooler weather (hopefully), band, and PIES!!!
16) Disney’s bought MARVEL??
Ah well, I’m not that surprised. Disney’s probably going to buy up the entertainment business someday.
—
10 days till school starts…no more random experiments and sleeping in. Start of homework and band practice. Joy.
But the GAPAs won’t really let Disney buy MuseBlog, right? Or Muse? Or Carus Publishing?
I’d hate to see what they’d do to Odyssey.
*is terrified at the very thought*
I don’t think Disney is very aware of such intellectual publications, so we’re safe. For now.
It’s happened before.
Love the pic, Lady B!
If you think that part’s scary, check this out.
Oh, believe me, it used to be far worse. It appears as though the music is broken, at least on my computer. Possibly due to the WP upgrade.
Mine too. It’s been that way for a while, possible tracing back to MB2, although I don’t know.
*dies* What drove you to do that?
April Fools Day!!
What was the music?
It was a spoof on ‘Mickey Mouse Club’ or whatever it’s called. I forget most of it. I remember two of the lines quite clearly, though:
Come on in and grab a tin and help the filling fly
K O K P E L L I I I I. (Yes, there were extra ‘I’s.)
‘Twas a wondrous song.
What’s so bad about band practice?
Thanks for the clarification, GAPAs! I didn’t even consider that local legends might accumulate to form the larger mythology…very interesting…
Also I would love to see a Gilgamesh musical
The repetition in the translation I read certainly allows for some good show tunes!
I love the graphic, Rebecca!
Poor Feather looks scared out of his wits!
Disney and Marvel: as I said disney loves the big bucks $$$$. It seems like they probably aren’t going to be involved in editing the comics or anything they just want money money money
“Change doesn’t happen overnight. While Disney won’t get to distribute Marvel’s movies until 2013 (when Marvel’s distribution deal with Paramount comes to an end after Paramount releases an “Iron Man” sequel in 2010, “Thor” and “First Avenger: Captain America” in 2011 and “The Avengers” in 2012), it will enjoy most of the proceeds from those films. And Disney will immediately start tapping into the merchandising revenues from those releases as it figures out how to exploit the titles via its other businesses.”
I Love Paramount Pictures. They made the most amazing TV show in existence. (22 Enceladus points to who ever can guess what it is)
Star Trek?
22 Enceladus points fo KaiYves!
My grandparents are bringing the first season of TNG, and the first 2 seasons of TOS!!
Yeep. Mimi reminds me of those little silver alien monsters on Galaxy Quest….. *shudder*
That is, Mimi in the picture, not Mimi in the mag. In case that wasn’t clear….
I thought she looked kind of like the ants in “A Bug’s Life.”
When did the actual Muse Fan Page page disappear? Before my long absence several months ago, their was a whole website. When I came back, there was just museblog. What’s up with that? Not that museblog isn’t enough or anything
Also: is anybody else interested in bees or have a bee hive? I have one hive that I’m just starting with on a friends property.
There was the hacking incident, but I don’t know the details, so I think that somebody else should explain it to you in more detail if you like.
SFTDP
*cringes at grammar*
There was the hacking incident, but I don’t know the details; I think that somebody else should explain it to you in more detail if you like.
Ahh…. Much better.
Kaiser–Back in March, or thereabouts, the blog and fan page were infected with a virus. Robert managed to clean up the blog, but the fan page was either to infected to salvage, or he didn’t have the time. Or perhaps some combination of the two.
Bees…..I don’t have any particular interest in them, well, except where my sister is concerned. It’s great fun to watch her freak out…..
Hey museblog.
It’s been four years. Just thought i’d stop by and marvel at the fact. I know i haven’t actually been on here in ages but i never really gave an official goodbye, so i guess goodbye. It’s been fun. Still love talking to MBers, and i’m sure if anyone wants to chat they can find me if they look hard enough, but the MB is too big and confusing for me to come back to now. i just don’t have time for it. Hearts and pies, all! Pwt Pwns!
Hi, Ebeth! It’s nice to see you again, even if it is just to say good-bye. I know what you mean about the blog being too big and confusing, though, I don’t have time to keep up except when I’m at college (yeah, I’m aware that doesn’t make a lot of sense).
We’ll miss you around here! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
hi there! Good to see you and say goodbye. Have a good time at college!
-waves-
(22) Ave atque vale, Ebeth! May all your pies fly straight and true!
I’ll go with ants rather than aliens. Though everyone looks kind of alien around a campfire. Here are the line drawings of the child Muses without all the shadow effects:
Aw, cute! ^^ (I actually typed ^^^, but then realized I wasn’t really going for the alien look. So I guess it was unintentional humor.)
I am six thousand days old.
This is scary.
-A
Absolutely terrifying.
I’ll be 20 in March. Now that is scary. *shudder*
I’ll be 12 in March. The variety of ages here is a little surprising.
And I will be (promise not to say anything weird) 10 on the 22nd.
Can we just talk about anything on the random thread? Because if that’s the case I might be here all day…
Yup, that’s pretty much the purpose of the random thread.
Mm. I like this month’s theme. I would like to study linguistic anthropology with a focus on the intersections between myth, folklore, storytelling and culture.
4- Disappeared? No, it’s just moved. It is now at http ://www .musemagkids. com/ (without the spaces, of course).
22- I hope all your memories of MuseBlog are sweet, and I bid thee au revoir.
Re: Disney buying MB: Does no one remember the April Fool’s Day thing of…some number of years ago?
I can post about ANYTHING? On this thread?
Yayyyy!
Now that I can post about anything, I have nothing to post about.
No, I’m just kidding. MuseBloggers are all Cool People.
No I have something!
Does anybody else read Archie comics?? I’m assuming SOMEONE here does. my favorite is Betty! I wish I WERE Betty sometimes. Also, I heard Archie is proposing to Veronica? How ridiculous. If anyone read “Bad Boy Trouble,” “The Matchmakers,” or “The Big Breakup,” do they agree with me that it is SO easy to see how the end will turn out before you finish the third installment? Personally I think Veronica’s father will forbid her from marrying Archie. And doesn’t that seem like Archie really has made his choice if he is proposing to VERONICA? Also, I like Ethel a lot. She’s really the “ugly girl” of the series but I think she is deserving of more features in the Pals n’ Gals double digests or even the “Betty and Veronica” comic books.
ok, I’m done. I am such a nerd, posting on a blog about comics.
All right, own up, are you new around here? A MBer who knows not of the random thread is a MBer who is new. And did you copy my name? (no hard feelings or anything, just wondering…)
I like Archie comics, which I usually
stealliberate from my friend’s bedroom.I read them, although all the ones I’ve read are around twenty years old, since they’re from my parents. They’re funny.
Enceladus, will you please please please come back to the Chatterbox?
I have! I’m just not posting, because I have naught to post.
How about the roleplay you started? It’s pretty much dead
It’s dead, so I don’t post. (And, I need TNO.)
Why you need tee-nho? She not in taht roleplay is she?
Yes, she is.
*thinks* ohh yeah…..
Anyway, did you ever stop to think that it’s dead because you aren’t posting on it?
Well, post!
Yeah, that’d be great!
I broke my window today.
WHAT?!
29- I love Dilton and Jughead! (Well, I would, wouldn’t I? They’re the characters who are the most like me.)
Well….I met 343 Guilty Spark in Halo today. I feel random. I mean, I can’t just run rampant around the blog yelling; “Eat bunnies, cake, yummy!”. Believe me, I’d like to do that, but I can’t. That’s too random. I heard something so weird today. It’s about Coke. I heard that “Coca-Cola” was translated into Chinese as: “Bite the Wax Tadpole”. Creepy, huh?
It’s because Mandarin words that sound like “Co Ca Co La” have that meaning. I’ve also heard that the company retranslated it into a phrase that means “may the mouth rejoice.”
(“Bite the wax tadpole” would make a good slang expression, don’t you think? “Oh, man, that really bites the wax tadpole.”)
We should say that.
Bite the wax tadpole = ruin everything.
“We were going to fly kites in the park, but then it started raining, so that kind of bit the wax tadpole.”
“My friend and I were passing notes in class, but then the teacher’s pet behind us had to go and bite the wax tadpole, and now we have detention.”
“Oh, stop biting the wax tadpole. This will be fun!”
That’s a great idea!
That’s really funny with my definition.
Bite the wax tadpole: Read HG2G.
“I was going to read HP, but then I decided to bite the wax tadpole.”
“Biting the wax tadpole is nearly a MB requirement!”
“C’mon, just go on and bit the wax tadpole.”
These sentences are funnier if you use Rainbow’s definition.
Yes.
Bite the wax tadpole: to fail spectacularly, especially after a promising start. “Our football team was ahead by 10 points, but then we bit the wax tadpole in the fourth quarter.”
Are you implying something about RQ & I? /joking/
What?
Uh, yeah. What? Enc, what are you /joking/ about, here? Is there something I should know?
Our coming up with ideas for what “Bite the wax tadpole” should mean. I wondered if that was what he was saying.
Except RQ wasn’t coming up with ideas about what “bite the was tadpole” should mean……
What spectacular failure, or promising start, did you and Rq have?
I meant Rainbow *headdesk*
I KNEW IT! YESSS! *is feeling extremely random* OH yeah my mom is prob’ly going to make me do some schoolwork. EVEN THO ITS A HOLIDAY! Altho my sis is still asleep….She’s nocturnal, and I have a habit of getting up at five in the morning, lol.
Bite the wax tadpole: to do something you’d rather not.
“I wish I could stay here chatting, but I have to bite the wax tadpole and get back to work.”
YUCK!!!
*runs rampant* EAT BUNNIES, CAKE, YUMMY! bunnify bunnify bunnify
I just had to do that… So this isn’t a PoPo, i have finally decided to tell (one of) my friends about MB. I shudder to think what she’ll call herself…
I don’t get it. How is everyone understanding AEIOU? Is Crraw hiding somewhere translating?
In any case, the picture is flammy, as usual.
Who said they understood? Actually, I suspect Aeiou’s sleeves are extremely eloquent. Stories can be told by other means than words.
True. Very true.
So I survived the first day of school. It actually went much more smoothly than I thought it would. I don’t usually like to be naively optimistic, but I’m thinking this year will be a good one. I have 6 classes with people who actually want to be there and actually want to learn. I am a SEN10R, which continues to amaze me. I walked into school today…and I felt at home. For the first time in 4 years, I felt like I was somewhere I belonged. That’s pretty rocking.
Ugh. Tired. Been getting up at six to babysit but maintaining my summer bedtime and now I am beginning to feel slightly ill and am hoping a good night’s sleep and drinking lots of water will help. I’ve been reading The Custom of the Country and shedding copious tears on Ralph’s behalf, which doesn’t exactly help the general exhaustion and has given me a headache. Ugh ugh ugh.
Anyway…I should make dinner and clean my room so I can get to bed by ten.
22~ Farewell, Ebeth. All the best to you. *goodbye hug & pies*
We
Alice–juice, chicken noddle soup, and chocolate cake. Feel better!
Alice–chicken noodle soup, juice, and chocolate cake. Feel better!
Interesting picture at the top, but where is Kokopelli?
Lurking outside the picture, waiting to scare the pants off everyone.
For a French assignment, I had to look up the kings of France. It turns out they all had ridiculous nicknames/labels of a sort. A few of my favorites:
Charles II the Bald
Louis II the Stammerer
Charles the Fat
Charles III the Simple
Louis IV from Overseas
Louis V the Lazy
Louis X the Quarreller
John I the Posthumous
Charles VI the Beloved, the Mad ((Both at once? Interesting.))
And my absolute favorite:
Louis XI the Prudent, the Universal Spider.
What on Earth is a Universal Spider? I’m picturing the planets all caught in a vast web with a fat, king-headed spider in the center surveying his catch. In his foremost pair of legs he holds the Earth, bound in spider silk.
Yeah, me too.
There was a queen of Spain called Juana the Mad. (She was, by the way. She didn’t bury her husband for two years after he died because she thought he’d come back to life.)
Eew…….
It’s true. It was in my Spanish textbook.
I remember the spider king! He was a crafty dude, that’s why he was called the spider king…
His 22-year reign was marked by political machinations, spinning a spider’s web of plot and conspiracy which earned him his nickname.
I remember drawing spiders in my notes when we learned about him.
Those are wonderful! Thank you for posting them.
31– Broke your window! Are you okay? How did it break? o_o
35 (Fio) Hurrah! That sounds exciting. SEN1OR, eh? I hope my school picks up on that
I’m glad school is starting out good for you!
Heh, I ..threw a ball at it. Expecting it to bounce back.
Meh.
It was an old window, but its kinda chilly in my room now.
OH MY GOD GUYS
IT HAS BEEN JUST OVER NINE MONTHS SINCE MY FRIENDS AND I FREAKED OUT GAMESTOP LAD
For everyone who is lost right now go to the last December ‘o8 random thread, it’s like post 70.
But we need to go back and have Lee look obnoxiously pregnant and see if he remembers us. Oh man.
Also I clearly need sleep right now, I should go do that… x_x
MYTHOLOGY I love mythology. I mean SLEEP RIGHT BYE
Nine months. Nine months. I HAVE NOW BEEN HERE NINE MONTHS. (or at least lurking here nine months) And I remember the post number was 70-something.
*screams*
43- Haha! Pregant no, you need to borrow someone’s baby…
Hey guys. I’m sending this from an iPod touch, so excuse any spellin errors. Doesn’t that just bite the wax tadpole? Thank you for the new expression, Mr. Coontz. For example:
My last name isn’t so bad, but it really
bites the wax tadpole when used with
my first name.
That’s funny, I like it. Say, I wonder if I can do html on this baby. Let’s see…
mouse over me!
Hah, hah!
Sorry, bubbles. No. I came up with it on my own. Bubbles are popular.
Real live baby. Hahaha. good idea. Hahaha. Send pix.
I LIKE BETTY
More comics!! Who reads Calvin and Hobbes? Are there more of us? POST RESPONSE IMMEDIATELY please
You know, there is a Calvin and Hobbes thread (I can’t do any fancy-schmancy HTML stuff, so here’s the raw link: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1466 ). No one’s posted on it for almost a year, so good luck reviving it!
There is?! *glee* *hurries off to revive thread*
User: Bite the wax tadpole.
Cleverbot: Bite the knife?
User: No, the wax tadpole.
Cleverbot: Are you the eggman?
…and then rational conversation about a new phrase ends.
Some friends of mine from Seattle are coming down tomorrow to go to the Oregon State Fair with me! They also come to check on a house that they have in the city that I live in (the father’s a landlord). It’s funny, they never go to the Washington State Fair, but they always go to the Oregon one. Maybe because they used to live here.
STFP (Sorry The For Post: I’m trying to make it a new expression)
I’m going to do this again: Around October of last year, I started posting some of my old journal entries from exactly a year ago. Now, with the start of school drawing near, I will do it again! Yay! Fun for me and fun for you!
September 2, 2008
Today was the last day I had before school started, and it was HORRIBLE! I stayed up too late last night (2:30), so mom punished me by not letting me use electronics. That was OK, but I felt really bad because I always do stupid things like that on the computer. ((NOTE: I actually remember this: I was watching SNL digital shorts.)) In the morning, mom made me read two chapters of this one book. I guess it would be a good read, but the first two chapters were about this one guy’s opinion of technology. Souds familiar…((NOTE: The book was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Matinance I remember that I wanted to read the rest someday, but I sound cynical here because I was mad at my mom. Maybe I should go read it now!))
I then went outside and played Life at M’s. Then O and I picked blackberries and made blackberry milkshakes. They tasted bad. We put too many blackberries in.
I then went home, made cookies for mom, and straightened up a bit. All in all, I thought it was a very productive day and mom would at least be not mad at me any more, if not happy. Boy, was I wrong!
When mom came home, I discovered I shouldn’t have been outside because I was being punished. That was a surprise. And mom hasn’t even tasted one of my cookies yet. Sheesh!
I suppose it’s my fault, though. If I had just gotten off the computer a little earlier last night, none of this would have happened. I guess in the future, I’ll limit all extremely long computer activities to Saturdays. Oh, well. School starts tomorrow. I called A.N. and she told me what our locker number and combo is. I’m all set!
-Kyra
That was pretty long… Most of the entries are really short. Trust me on this one. Besides, there isn’t even another one until September 7 anyway.
I got to go to lunch with my friend Hannah today. We had guacamole burgers and talked a lot. Mostly we watched the flies that kept landing on the table. It’s really funny to watch them stop, rub their feet together, fly away, land on another spot, and repeat the same thing.
Kokonilly has requested that I say hi to all of you for her. She says that her “marching band schedule is currently dominating her life.”
Am I getting queasy?
So once upon a time, there was this guy named Beavo who really didn’t want to go back to school, despite everyone being overly excited about it. The end.
-clapclapclap-
There is a remarkably similar story about a girl named Alice…
Hello! We’re at the same house right now although not exactly sure whether or not this counts as a Kokon since we’ve been best friends since…before either of us can remember, actually. Anyway, just decided to let everyone know. (Even though we did post on the Welcome Neophytes thread about it.)
Soccer starr: Oh yeah, and I did “recruit” Drama Queen to join MB! And I’ve made her promise that she’ll stay here and actually post for a while!
Drama queen: No, I said I’d TRY.
Soccer starr: Whatever.
Uggggg. Am feeling horrible right now. BFF swore at me for no reason. I have a cold, too. Hmph. School is annoying and my science teacher wants me to memorize the ENTIRE PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS- IS SHE CRAZY???????????/
I LOVE the Periodic Table of the Elements! (Of course, I don’t have it even close to memorization, not that I’m going to try.) Are you going to try to think of things that remind you of the Elements, or are you just going to go for straight-out memorization?
*gives consoling hug and tells Celesta that everything will be okay until the HPBs take over*
STFP (thanks for the expresion, Kyra, It makes explaining myself SSSOOOOOO much easier!!)
I just had to spout off.
I’ll be away visiting relatives, so I won’t be able to post for a few days.
*runs to Celesta and gives her a cure for the common cold, a nice blanket, and a cup of hot chocolate ( unless she doesn’t like hot chocolate. In that case, she gets some nice tea. )*
*and a miraculous memory potion*
Good luck with reviving the Calvin and Hobbes thread, Pseudo!
I have the feeling she likes you MBers more than me and my other sister combined. ugh. she hates me being on here.
Take that, Pseu-whatever.
Did you know the word for “tire” in french is “pneu”? hee hee hee.
For Pneumatic?
Then I will “pneu” of science quickly.
Actually, I think it’s like a car tire. But that might work too, I’m not sure. (Bubblebabe is MUCH better at French than me.)
Oh my goodness Jade, you seriously need to borrow someone’s baby and go back there, that would be HILARIOUS.
Urg. I had one of those days that can pretty much be summed up by “meh”. Though at a few times it was so ludicrous that it would have been really funny if I was in a good mood, but I wasn’t. Soooo, anyway…….actually, after a particularly annoying string of events I just sat there and laughed because it was so stupid. Then I stopped and went back to being moody.
I’m such a dork.
Ah, well, Dorkdom is a top destination spot; we’ll make your stay as comfortable as possible.
Yuppers, I’ve been living in Dorkdom for a lonng time now! (haha)
Ugh. Horrible day. The children would not behave and there was much yelling and noncooperation and when I came home from my Horrible Day Mother had taken my computer to work and my cell phone wouldn’t work. So I cried a little and took a shower and went and got The Custom of the Country. Unfortunately I was two chapters away from the most tragic event in the book and cried much harder so my head hurt. Then I darned a sock. And Mother came home. And I am almost done with CotC and then I shall finish Hornblower and read Our Mutual Friend! -much delight- I also got the second Octavian Nothing book because it is about ships. And I recommended Watership Down to the eldest babysittee, who is also listening to Karan Casey now
So my day is better now.
59.1~ Ah, thank you. It was one of those moments…..I’m mostly over it now, so I can be human. Petting a purring cat in the sunshine had a great deal to do with that.
*picks up postcards* Wow, I can’t believe this! Hmm, I need several of these to send to everyone……
Hello loverly MB! I’m posting very quickly, because, apparently, my friend CLL has been on here and I’m happy. Unfortunately, it’s very late and I’m tired and I have a lot of work. *sigh*
Ok, so this week my ballet classes started up again. I had a class yesterday and today. I’m sore all over and it feels great! My mom thinks that’s odd, that I enjoy the pain. I can’t wait for class tomorrow! I have three days a week, yah.
I used to take ballet – I like basketball and guitar a lot better, though. No offense, It’s just not the kind of thing I like. Have some virtual choklit for all your work!
*eats choklit* jetes around the room*
Good night, MuseBlog!
I can see your new avatar now!
w00t! Isn’t it awesome?!
3.2 I got my retainer today. It is clear, plastic, squelchy and too tight. I also have a lisp! Ah well, for the sake of beauty…I guess
43-Don’t say that! I remember reading that story and it didn’t seem so long ago O.O scary…
I need help. I have to decide on my options for next year by Mon. 14th, even though next year is well, next year, and I have for certain so far: English (compulsory), Music, Chinese, French, History and then I have no clue, -Classical Studies, Chemistry or Photography.
My dad thinks Photography is a waste of time ( In a way it is but yeah)
My mum thinks Photography could be nice, that I would like Classical Studies and I wouldn’t like Chemistry
I have no idea (It’s like one of those logic puzzles.)
Has anyone read/seen Fried Green Tomatoes, we are studying the film at school and It is so cool! And I just started the book one hour ago, I think everyone should read/see it!
Bed, Now, goodnight MuseBlog.
I would take Chemistry. It has essential information you need to know in it. I know that I really enjoyed it. Chemistry is fun! If you like math, then it’s a good class to take. Plus, it’ll be a change from all the other clkasses you say you’ll be taking.
Retainer gives me a lisp too!
I’ve seen Fried Green Tomatoes! My uncle really liked it and watched it. Apparantly, it was for the third time that week and all of my cousins hated it so they all left. So it was just me and my uncle. I really liked the movie!
The next night we watched The Mummy.
63-You dance ballet? Me too! Our regular classes haven’t started up yet, though… I’m so excited for them. But I know what you mean about feeling sore. I’ve been dancing over the summer, though, so maybe I won’t be too sore. (I tend to hurt myself more when I’m not dancing, anyway, which kind of bites the wax tadpole XD)
I love the campfire muses and the thread name!
I did dance over the summer as well. But there was still a 6 week gap in between, so….. but I’m glad it started back again! Bite the wax tadpole, lol. I said that to one of my friends yesterday.. reaction was “Huh? No, I don’t want to know what it means.” *covers ears* it was hilarious. And then her mom wanted to know what it meant so I got to explain it anyway!
Good Morning MB! Speaking of mouths, I lost a tooth that (for real) turned purple.
How on earth did your tooth turn purple?
Yes, how?
It was very bloody in the tooth. Just ask you dentist.
When I was three, I tripped when getting out of the car and hit my front teeth on the sidewalk. They were both purpleish gray for at least a few months–maybe up to a year, I don’t remember.
I’ve also played with my gravatar
That’s creepy. That was my Gravatar for a while… On the front page of the Gravatar site, isn’t it? Yep, it is.
Hi everyone. Random Update of My Life:
I woke up this morning kind of early-ish (Like around 6:45) to help my mom in our “vegetable” garden. If you can even call it that. My mom’s always trying to do something new, and this year it was the garden.
Not like I hate it or anything, because I don’t mind gardening. It’s actually pretty fun. But usually I just don’t have the time or patience to garden, so this was one of the first times I’ve helped my mom with it. It was more weeding than anything else, because all of the vegetables look terrible. They all look like they were attacked by HPBs. No joke. Anyway, we did get a few tomatoes earlier this summer which were delicious, but when I say few, I mean a few. Literally we grew four tomatoes, and so each of us (Mom, Dad, me and my sister) all got one. Oh yeah, and my grandmother got a half of one, because my sister hates tomatoes and only ate half of hers, so she gave away the other half.
Re: Ballet. One of those things that I did when I was younger but eventually stopped when my schedule just couldn’t contain it anymore. I was good at it in the sense that I’m naturally graceful, but I have zero flexibility. I would love to pick up another type of dance (Preferably one where a ton of flexibility all the time isn’t required. Any suggestions?) one of these days, but probably not this year because my schedule is already full, especially with soccer now on the agenda. (Our season just started!! Yay!!)
Oh yeah, and fireandhelmlock1996: I can understand what you mean about enjoying the pain. I feel the same way with soccer. I’m always sore at the beginning of the season, and I love it. Weird but true.
Yeah. Why do you think the pain is enjoyable? I’m trying to figure it out. Also, please just call me fireh. It’s easier to type.
Oh, I don’t mind writing out your whole name, but I’ll call you fireh if you prefer it! I really have no idea why I enjoy being sore…maybe because I just love going back to being on a soccer team? Just a guess…
My mom has four tomato plants. We got one tomato out of them.
Tap? That requires a lot of fancy footwork, though.
I did tap for one year. It was okay but not great. I’m fairly good at footwork (I play soccer, if you haven’t already guessed!
) but it just didn’t exactly click with me. If that makes any sense at all.
My mom grows tomatoes in a hoop house, which is a sort of greenhouse tunnel thingy, and the tomato plants are tomato TREES with TONS of tomatoes on them.
Try Irish step dance (my friend does it so that’s how I know about it). She is very graceful and there is a lot of power to it too, but flexibility isn’t as important. She also says that there are schools pretty much everywhere in America, especially around New York.
I might consider Irish step dancing, actually. I’ve got some Irish heritage so it’s always interested me. Thanks for the suggestion.
Last spring break, my sister wanted to start a garden. So we did. Then she completely deserted it, but I took care of it. We’ve grown four zucchinis, a lot of wildflowers, and a lot of tomatoes. And we didn’t use those cheating Topsy Turvy thingys.
I used to do ballet… I did it for eight and a half years, and quit because I finally realized I didn’t like it. I was pretty much only in it for the trophy they give out after ten years anyway…
Please post on the Magic RPG!
69) I would suggest tap dancing, its really fun(!!) but requires time…
First swim meet was today,
t’was alright, although I need to work on my time offa the block and the turns. (I always manage to turn to far away from the wall and end up groping around for something to push off of).
School is drawing nearer, must complete Things to do before Summer is Over List!!
Hrm..I guess I’ll make a clay platypus!
goodbye for now, MuseBlog!
Enjoy the clay platypus-making!
oK. That’s really weird. I seriously saw a clay platypus in my school’s pottery class when I walked in there yesterday. It was awesome. That’s a huge coincedence!
That’s weird…
Finished molding the platypus, just gotta ask the art teacher is I can use her kiln.
What clay platpus
Peary said that en was going to make a clay patypus. Also, there really should be a question mark at the end of that.
Band practice was not good today. There are two other flute players, K and whatshisname. K is/was pretty good, but over the summer she got braces, and now she can hardly play. Whatshisname sort of knows most of the notes, but he’s not good at it. That leaves me. I’m fairly good at it, but not that good, and I might get braces too, so the whole thing really sucks. The following basically sums up my various feelings about it:
Aww, thats too bad.
Braces aren’t that bad for flutes after you get used to them (according to my stand partner). So K and/maybe you will probably get used to braces in good time. 
This year we gots THRITEEN flute players. I love the sound of the flute, but THIRTEEN flute players playing shrill notes is a tad too much for the ears.
I talked to my mom,and I won’t get braces unless not getting them would make chewing painful and/or difficult.
Having them makes chewing painful/difficult occasionally.
I’m glad that I probabaly won’t ever get braces, and if i do, that doesn’t affect the guitar in the least bit. Anyway, I’m sorry, Ducky!
That really does stink. Maybe you won’t have to get braces, and K will geet used to them eventually.
I play guitar, too! And I am going to get braces! Exclamation points!
I will not get braces just to make my teeth look nice. If I do get braces, it will be to prevent or correct problems that may become painful and/or extremely annoying. But then again, according to K, braces are extremely annoying. In the unlikely event that I do get braces, that would really bite the wax tadpole.
First day of school! It was insane. Our school just merged with the arts middle school in the area, so everything was crazy and confusing, and they switched around all the departments, which made it hard to find anything. I’m excited about all of my classes, except for Calculus AP, which is probably going to make me die. Also, on top of all the insanity is a lot of preparation for the G-20, because there’s going to be this whole big tour thing. But nobody really knows what’s going on, so they’re just going on and on about how we need to “make the classrooms look extra pretty” and do “really hard work” because the first lady is coming, and that’s all they know. -sigh-
I made a screwed-up Pangea, “flipped a coin” on a calculator, and presented a giant fortune-teller about me today,. Man, my school is crazy. It’s great!
We’re doing calculator programming too! I made a battleship-esque program and a number guessing game, among other things.
In chemistry the teacher made giant fire bubbles.
Ooh, giant fire bubbles! Tell me more!
I’m SUPER nervous because today’s my first day for orchestra in a higher division and ohhhhhh…
But, what can you do. I drastically failed my Periodic Table Quiz. HOW can I remeber the atomic number for Praseodymium?????
Anyway…
At our cafiteria today,it was, well, actually, i don’t know what it was. Probably some cheap alien substance from a planet far on the other side of the milky way.
Alas, my friends…I bid ye Adieu..
I just realized spelled CAFETERIA WRONG.Sorry, Spelling Bee champs. I have disgraced you. Oh no. My English teacher is getting to me.
First lab day in AP Chemistry today. My lab group has to redo the lab after school next Tuesday.
Yeah, that’s a great start to the year…
On the bright side, you get the opportunity to redo it.
So I actually managed to get a computer over here (Not telling where, it’s not populated enough, but it’s not NYC)
Actually, it has Quicktime, which is better than my desktop at home, so I’m watching/listening to the spacewalk going on now on the ISS while posting here. Totally the opposite of biting the wax tadpole!
It sounds like the wung’s buttons, KaiYves. Shiny ones!
I can’t get over the fact that I’m watching people working LIVE, in SPACE, 200 miles up.
Also, Danny Olivas is doing for real exactly what I pretended to do at Space Academy, spacewalking with a tether in the shuttle’s cargo bay to help a partner standing on the end of the Candarm. (Except that they’re installing an ammonia tank on the space station instead of fixing a communications satellite.)
w00t! Alaska just beat the world record for the largest cabbage. Some guy from Wasilla (by the name of Steve Hubacek, according to an online article) grew a 125.9 pound cabbage. Former world record was apparently 124 in the UK…..According to something dad heard, the guy is apparently bringing another cabbage to the fair tomorrow, which he (the guy) says is even BIGGER…..
I get the impression the veggies at the giant veggie display at the fair were even bigger than usual this year…..Of course, we had an unusually (and pleasantly) warm summer, so….I’m sure that had something to do with it.
[The stupid spell check on my computer is trying to convince me I spelled “Wasilla” wrong. Stupid computer….*mutters*]
More random giant veggies numbers to chew on: (Please, GAPAs, please?)
www . alaskastatefair . org /aboutus/media/pressrelease/090309.html
(without the spaces, of course)
You’ll have to let us know about the second cabbage.
Hm. A thought occurs: what do they do with all that wunging cabbage?
Another thought occurs: do they test cabbages for performance-enhancing drugs at these competitions?
I’ll let you know on the second cabbage, I think the giant cabbage weigh off (an annual tradition) is something like Friday…Wait, that’s tomorrow, huh? Anyway, I will let you know.
As for what they do with the cabbage….i dunno. I imagine, in general, giant veggies don’t taste as good as they’re normal size counter parts, but I don’t know….Probably nothing special happens, but I don’t know.
Performance enhancing drugs?
Honestly, though, I have no idea what the rules are for the vegetables, as far as fertilizer and all of that stuff. I’m not skilled enough even at growing regular veggies to have ever taken an interest in the giant veggies….So, yeah, dunno.
((THANK you, Piggy))
This repulses me. I hate cabbage. Sometimes I like to pretend it dosen’t exist, especially when my mom goes out and buys it to make cole slaw and it sits there in the fridge, looking… cabeggy. Ew. *shudder*
Does anyone else have something they hate for no particular reason? Like, cabbage is…. my stomach actually hurts now. Eguladh.
I love cabbage!
I just found something: http: //en .wikipedia. org/wiki/Colletto_Fava.
*shudder*
I agree. It’s a sign! I tell you! A sign!
Sweetness! A tribute to the awesomeness that is the HPB. I wanna go climb it!
“‘We foresee that in twenty years the pink puppet (made of straw-stuffed fabric) will be swallowed by the weather, devoured by cattle, completely erased by the weather and nature” said Gelitin in an interview.'”
Devoured by cattle?
Agh! *dies* THAT IS EXTREMELY SCARY.
Oh. My.
I found a picture of it. Multiple pictures. I read it was supposed to make you feel small or something. *shudder*
That is frightening.
WAIT!
YAY! THE BUNNIES ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD! BUNNIFY BUNNIFY BUNNIFY–
You get the idea.
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Okay, the blog went all weird and completely horizontal on me.
The MuseBlog homepage occasionaly does something comepletely berzerk for me where everything but the text dissapears and everything’s all florkeydoodled.
Florkeydoodled. Awesome.
I’m becoming increasingly interested in space
I have to go to “Play With the Orchestra” where members of the “xxx youth orchestra” pair up with a member of the “Southern Symphonia” and play in the orchestra. On Sunday I am going to Alexandra to play with an orchestra there for the day. This is quite intense, AND I have to pretend to be studying for my science test on Wednesday.
There was also a 311 pound pumpkin……..eep.
Once upon a time, there was this guy named Beavo who got arrested and went back to jail. He saw everyone he remembered from the prison, and they were all tanned for some reason and he rubbed his hands together and petted his white cat, smiling conspiratorially. This year was going to be fun.
Fin.
This is a work of fiction. All characters and stuff that happens don’t actually happen, and anything that looks like something else is a coincidence.
84) Just a coincidence, you say.
6 days till school starts. *shrieks*. *runs*.
Help!!!! The Cut, Copy, and Paste keys aren’t working! It’s a Windows XP; does anyone have any suggestions?
Select what you want with the mouse, then right click, and you’ll see a drop down bar with Undo, Copy, Paste, Cut, ect.
Do you mean the Ctrl shortcuts, or the actual menu options?
The ones on the keyboard.
Go to an Apple store, then buy a mac. Problem’s gone!
-A
Not helpful.
Sure it is.
Everybody knows Macs are better.
…says the person who hates Nutella.
Macs scare me. My dad has one, and I swear, it watches me.
With the built-in camera?
SPEAKING of which, heeheeheehee. I am doing a webshow! It is a sort-of-short little blurb on my life. I’ve done two so far. And they’re mostly me being random.
-A
Watches you? How so?
Yes, but that’s totally different. One is food, one is not. Besides, the very first computer we ever had was a Mac…..Back in the days before internet was a common household amenity (it didn’t even have internet capabilities), back before CDs when computer games came on floppy disks, back when……You get the idea. I was maybe 3 or so when we got it.
I don’t mind PCs too much, I mean, our main computer at home currently is a PC, but, I dunno, I prefer Macs. I think, in general, they’re better products. But maybe I’m just channeling my dad, as he is completely over the top adamant that Macs are the best….
They last a lot longer, and don’t require as much research to learn how to use from scratch(user friendly)-thusly, most people consider them better.
I’m almost certainly channeling my dad. We have, I think, one PC, which we got from my Aunt, and I’m not even sure it’s functional. I think it’s fixed, but I haven’t seen it used in forever, and it exploded at one point. Yes, exploded. Don’t ask. Suffice to say that it did not totally explode.
I disagree about the Nutella thing, but Macs rule!
Sorry, but I like Windows. Plus, I’m 12.
Many things in life are not helpful, yet true.
(The sad part is this logic actually works.)
-A
84 – I pictured you as a burly member of a motorcycle gang while I read that, just though I’d let you know
86 – do you mean ctrl-C and so on? you can always use the edit menu at the top of you internet browser. If you need it for microsoft word there is a similar function.
It’s probably because I’m actually in a motorcycle gang. I tend to emit an aura of motercycle gangery when I tell stories.
GAPAs, what is yor email? I found some wicked awesome pics on the net ! A HPB and a bite the wax tadpole thingy.
gapa [at] musefanpage [dot] com
So I went to a living history museum today, that was fun. Did you know that in the 1830s, you could divorce your spouce on the grounds of
“idiocy”?
A very good reason, in my opinion.
“I divorced your father because he thought Korn was the best metal band”
“I divorced your mother because she always put the dishes in her laundry hamper and the laundry in the dishwasher”
“I divorced your grandfather because he thought Opera was a the first black woman to be a millionaire”
“Idocy”???? See, those people WERE geniuses. Today, most people divorce because their spouse IS an idiot!!!!!
I am very happy! I have been stomping on bubble wrap!!!!
Ahh, one of life’s little pleasures. Pity the poor folks who lived in a world without bubble wrap.
Today sucks! And it’s Friday! Something is wrong in the world!
I am in a good mood. It finally rained today ofr about 10 minutes. But, hey, since we live in good ol’ AZ, a ten minute monsoon is like a miracle! Trees were felled and all the kinds in school splashed in puddles until the staff yelled at them. JOY!!!!!
91- Bubble wrap is lovely stuff.
Today I went on the first field trip of the school year. And met Lady Bunniful during aforesaid field trip.
Ooo, I just love being homeschooled.
It was a pleasure to meet you, Koppar! Sorry I couldn’t do the tour for you and your mom, but my errand was on the clock. Hope you had a good time.
93- *is jealous* I wanna meet a GAPA someday….
One would think that by the time a people were in college, they would have learned the simple concept of flushing the bleeping toilet!
*time people, not “time a people”–that’s what I get for editing while typing….
That is strange, that people stil don’t flush the toilet in college…
Um, I’ll be 12 this October. I had French and Music Humanities yesterday. Music Humanities stank!!!! It was, like, Music History!!!!
I went to bed at 8;45 yesterday and woke up at 8 today, I was so emotionally exhausted (I usually go from 9 to 6:30). I was literally bored (almost) to tears!!
The difference is that college students will lecture you for half an hour about why they don’t flush the toilet.
Heh. Heh. Heh. I wish my cousins, both of whom are in college, would do something like that. I even wish that they read Twilight, for goodness sake! I quote the Kat, the older of the two: “I wouldn’t read a picture book if you paid me a hundred dollars. I’d just take the money and run!” ARGH! Plus they text all the time. Even during Christmas Eve dinners, under the table.
twilight? Why on earth would you want them to read twilight? I made that mistake once, and I have regretted ever since those hours of my life that I will never be able to get back.
twilight is the soap opera of the literary world.
I’m that desperate to have them read books.
That’s pretty desperate……Try ’em on something good like HP, instead.
Heh.I can’t see them reading anything like that in the near future.
Hehe, twilight doesn’t deserve capitalization.
Yuppers! That’s why I took special effort to not capitalize it…..
You’re definitely right about that one!
Fireh: Even if you don’t think they’ll like HP, it’s worth a try! I know lots of people who only started reading after they picked up HP.
But how would I convince them to read in the first place?!
Er, I dunno, replace all their music with books on tape? (or CDs, or whatever the heck people use to listen to audiobooks these days…..The few occasions I’ve done audiobooks, they were on audio cassettes, but I imagine that is rather old fashioned…..Most of y’all probably don’t even have Walkmans anymore. *is betraying her age* I still haven’t even “upgraded” my portable CD player to an iPod…….)
Hmmm….. Mind Control?
SFTDP
LTL: It’s not books on CD, it’s books on iPod.
/sarcasm/
Very much agreed.
Some crazy I observed at the orthodontist was raving about Twilight and how it was “the only thing I’d ever wanted to read in my life!” or something like that. That’s a life with a pitiful selection of books.
Two of my friends last year turned into Twilight freaks. I’m waiting to see if they make it out alive.
I turned into a Twilight freak once… A few weeks ago, actually. Don’t worry, I snapped out of it. It didn’t affect my conversations at all, since all the people I know are either anti-Twilight, or think I shouldn’t like Twilight. My best friend seriously thinks that. She’s a Twilight freak, but for some reason thinks that I should hate them. I don’t know why. However, I am- Blessed? Cursed? with a mental condition that doesn’t allow me to dislike books. Seriously.
Ew…
GAPAs, I think I sent you the pictures. Sorry, am I being impatient?
GAPAs, you’ve updated to WordPress 2.8.4, right? I don’t want MB to be attacked by Balrogs again. *worries* *scolds self for worrying and instead trusts the GAPAs will have already taken care of it* *worries anyway* Oh, and if you didn’t hear about it, http: //mashable. com/2009/09/05/wordpress-attack/
Ok, as requested by Piggy, an update on the cabbages. Yesterday was the annual Giant Cabbage Weigh-Off at the fair, and the guy (Steve Hubacek) who brought in the world record weighing cabbage on Wednesday surpassed his own record with a 127 pound cabbage.
Oh, and Piggy, in the following article, it says that the cabbage will be used for compost, as the giant cabbages are very woody and not good for eating. ((Sorry, Beavo, I know you were so looking forward to eating it….))
Here’s a delinkified link to the article, which I think should be allowable, as it is to a newspaper website:
www . adn. com/news/alaska/state_fair/story/923340.html
How on earth do you grow a 127 pound cabbage?????
Erm, very carefully? I can’t hardly keep anything (plants/vegetables/not animal) alive, I have no green thumb. I always forget about stuff, y’know, forget to water it, etc.
I suppose. It’s a job for someone with a lot of time and patience, and discipline. It’s a perfect competition for monks!
The giant cabbage looks like something you’d see in Disney World, particularly with the people dressed up as cabbages standing behind it.
People dressed as cabbages…..Scary thought, that.
Hey, we’re back! *rejoices*
Yeah! *happydance* yayay!!!
Yeah… I’m at a deli… I’m going boatin’ soon. On the Hudson. On meg speed boat. It goes fast. Really fast. Sorry for the short sentences…
Yuck. I am sick. I hate being sick, for obvious reasons, especially when it’s a holiday weekend, but also because it makes me feel bad that I am wasting so much paper by using tissues.
Anyways, today in history: In 1698 Russia imposed a tax on beards.
I hope you feel better! Lots of fluids always help. (Grammar on that last sentence?)
How do you tax a beard?
Kings would do anything to get money back then *coughcoughrevolutionontaxescoughcough* Maybe the had to pay by the inch?
103-Awww, feel better! Here have a placebo. *Is hoping you read the July/August 2009 issue of Muse*
Aww, thanks, LBK! It made me feel so much better. Oh, also on September 5th, it was Dweezil Zappa’s 41st birthday!
RoseQuartz: Hi, everyone! We haven’t been kidnapped by HPBs!
Armada: Heh, yeah.
We’ve visited two museums, and we think we’re going to go over to Ben and Jerry’s in a minute….. ^^
SudoRandom Hi.
This is real. This is me. This is exactly where I’m supposed to be now. Now I know. Who I am. There’s no way to hold it in. No more hiding who I want to be-e-e-e. This is me.(Quit it, SudoRandom. -Armada)Jock Ummmmm… Help, I’m drowning in a sea of corrections!
Pseudonym Ummmmm….Hi?
Hi, GAPAs… this is RQ on Sudo’s mom’s computer. We posted a big long thing but Sudo made our “email” an extremely long mix of our emails and a bunch of 42s and 219s… did it go into the spam bin, or get deleted entirely? *coughcanyouretrieveitcough*
WE ARE ENCOUNTERING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES
(SR: As in, Rq can’t type. RQ: Oh, thanks so much, SR. It’s an EMAIL problem.
No, I CAN’T type.
)
(Armada: Guys, stop double posting! GAPAs, you can snip our second post…)
(104-106) Greetings, Western Mass Kokon group! Hope you’re having a fun day! Sounds like you are.
I didn’t find anything in the spam bin. Is comment 104 the one you thought went missing?
RQ: Yes. Sorry! We didn’t know what was happening for a while there….
SR: Rq wants me to type something. Oh. She’s being confusing. Now she doesn’t want me to type anything. Now she’s talking about Death Note. Ben and Jerry’s Time! ((Rq doesn’t want me to delete this, because of Tim.))
Huh? Well it sure sounds like y’all are having fun. I’m jealus.
ENVIOUS!!!!
Yay! Sounds like you had fun. And maybe are still having fun?!
And I was stuck, all by myself, with no one to talk to on [Snip!]….
*snwiffle* I wanna meet you guys!
I wish the GAPAs would let us exchange emails…. Especially those of us who probably won’t be able to go to any kokons.
Don’t we all-I know my parents wouldn’t mind me just exchanging emails with other Musers, and I’ll never be able to go to a Kokon.
Ever.
What? Living in Orlando, Florida has horrible drawbacks!
[Please do not make hints about your emails, including what service you use. The rule against exchanging emails is not a frivolous one, please respect it. –Admin.] -snifflesniffle-
[Snip! Encouraging others to find you offblog is against the spirit of the rules. –Admin.]
*coughcoughstopitwiththeexternalcommunicationsothegapasdon’thavetoyellatusagaincoughcough*
*coughIagreecough*
Awfully dusty here on the blog, all of a sudden.
-coughcoughbutwearedoomedtowantthemdon’tyouguysseethatcoughcough-
Oh, hi, Robert-it is awfully dusty here, heehee~
-coughcoughlet’sstoptalkingaboutthisnowbecausetheGAPAsarewatchingandIdon’twannagetcaughtcoughcough-
See what I mean, Mr. Coontz? It’s very–coughs again–dusty here. I wish I had a sponge and some Fabreeze.
Don’t we all-my parents wouldn’t mind me exchanging emails with other Musers, and I’ll likely never be able to go to a Kokon.
What? Living in Florida has horrible drawbacks!-snifflesniffle-
Oh, you poor thing, having to live in Florida. I’m sure glad I get to live in a place which alternates between F5 tornadoes and society-halting blizzards.
Yes, that sounds like so much a better place to live.
tornadoes=bad
blizzards=
No. Tornadoes =
, blizzards also = 
.
I seem to remember a similar argument a while back, in which you also failed to win me over with the “tornadoes are fun” argument. I will stick to snow and earthquakes, thank you.
When I was in fourth grade we did a study on tornadoes and blizzards, and I think it scared all of us little fourth graders right out of our pants. You see, I live in SAFE New Jersey, where none of us have ever seen a tornado, in fact, a few of us (Me not included, thankfully!) didn’t even know what a tornado was before the study. Oh yeah, and then we watched this freaky movie and some of the kids got really scared by it! (Again, thankfully me not included, I actually thought the movie was cool! :)) I remember that the teachers told us “Well, if this freaks you out why don’t you all movie to Kansas or Nebraska.” And then that REALLY freaked those kids out. There were a lot of spoiled kids at that school.
(I have no idea why that’s a positive thing that calls for a smiley face, but whatever…)
Oh, the joy of living in a place where the worst thing that could (but won’t) possibly happen is a tidal wave.
Well, shouldn’t that be reassuring? That it’s highly unlikely that anything horrid will happen?
Yes, it is! That wasn’t supposed to be sarcasm… That’s the problem with typing things…
Why does living in Orlando make it impossible for you to kokonvene? Musers go to Florida (even Orlando) same as anyone else……For instance, I was in Orlando just last November over Thanksgiving Break, might even be going again this year. *hopes* Not that it would have worked for me to Kokonvene (I don’t think the relatives I was staying with would have been keen on the idea), but if anyone can easily say that they don’t have any chance at a Kokon based upon location, I think it would be Sam (New Zealand), Insane MLDM (Australia), Bookgirl_me (Austria), and me (Alaska, or at college, which is just inconvenient for any sort of get togethering).
I. HATE. FLORIDA.
It HATES young actors like me (I’m 11), Disney is expensive, the schools and people stink, and you can’t go anywhere without driving.
Luna-I’m too young, there’s not much chance of me getting to go to a Kokon:
(ME): Hey, mom, there’s other MuseBloggers who are visiting Orlando! Can I go meet them?
(MOM): No, Mira. It could be dangerous.
(ME): Awww…
(drumroll)
RESPONSIBILITY.
Right back atcha, Piggy.
You poor thing.
*does a “I Potentially Saved MB From Hypothetical Hackers Or Maybe Not Since The GAPAs Are Omniscient And Would’ve Known To Upgrade Anyway” dance*
*awards the Vigilant Pig award, highest of all Museiverse honors*
*parades around courtyard of Muse Academy, prestigious music playing in the background*
Piggy, that was a very long and capitalized ** quote.
Tornadoes=
Blizzards= 
and lots of “YAY, NO SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” shouting
SFTDP, but I’m probably getting into “no more computer” time, so g’night MBer’s! See ya tomorrow!
Can anybody answer a fairly advanced computer question for me?
I can do my best.
I probably can’t, but go ahead and post it–somebody might know the answer……
Ok, so the short version of the story is I have a file that I can’t delete, but need to. Each time I try, I get the error message (parenthetical notes are mine):
“Cannot delete S2PCISE (that’s the file): Access is denied
Make sure the disk is not full (it’s not) or write-protected (not sure, probably not) and that the file is not currently in use(it’s not).”
So if anybody knows how to get rid of that file, which I think might be corrupted, it would be helpful.
I don’t really know for sure, but my first thought: Are you by any chance on a computer with multiple accounts? For instance, you have an account, your parents have an account, etc, where you have to log-in from the initial start up screen?
if so, are you logged in on an administrator account? If not, that could be the issue: You might only be able to delete this particular file from an admin account.
From there, I suggest googling the error message–I get several hits, but without intimately knowing the problems you are encountering, the operating system, etc, I can’t really track down a specific article that might be of use….
Sorry, other than this probably unhelpful help, I’m really not of any use…..
Under “Properties”, does it say “read-only”? If so, change that. If not, you could reboot and try deleting it again. If that doesn’t work, try deleting the folder containing the file–obviously, make sure you have a copy of any other important things in a second location. If none of those work, you have to get complicated, so we won’t get into that.
Log out then back in, and then try again. If that doesn’t work, shut down and let it sit for a few seconds (I could never make the usually-requisite thirty or even *gasps* five minutes… And it seems to work fine with just a few seconds.), then reboot, then try again. If that doesn’t work, reply to this and tell me it isn’t working.
-A
Rebooting the computer worked. Thanks for the help guys!
Surprise news: Piggy loves old books. We (i.e., my family and I) went to a used bookstore today. The bookstore had formerly been located in my city, but moved several months ago to a location several hours away due to high taxes. I could live the rest of my life in the rare book room alone. I now wish I had $1500 so I could buy the one-of-one-thousand-printed seventeen volume set of One Thousand and One Nights. I didn’t want to take it down from the shelf and look at one of the volumes, as it looked quite old and fragile, but I can imagine what amazing stories must’ve resided within. Was it the entirety of the collection? I did get a book of 24 Fr. Brown stories, which are deliciously amazing. And I almost got a book of essays by Bacon, and….
Ah, books. So marvelous.
Oh, and I have other news from yesterday, concerning my trials in AP Language and Composition. We got back our first timed writes in the class yesterday (Friday). They were, of course, graded on the AP scale, in which a 1 says, “Either you had a really bad day or you should never have considered taking an AP class,” and a 9 says, “Your essay brought tears of joy and amazement to the grader’s eyes.” The teacher said that, being the first essay, most of her students received 2s, 3s, and 4s, with a few 5s as well. But lo and behold, I somehow managed to receive a 7, which, having been told as I got to class before everyone else, was the best of her two classes. And of course she used anonymous excerpts from my essay in her Powerpoint of “What to Do Next Time.” I’m willing to bet it was a combination of beginner’s luck and generous grading that got me a 7, but I’m definitely not going to complain.
That would be Sir Richard F. Burton’s famous unexpurgated translation of the Arabian Nights stories. (That’s the 19th-century adventurer Richard Burton, not the 20th-century actor.)
Burton was an amazing character — like a real-life Indiana Jones, about 80 years earlier. I’m reading his Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah right now. It’s very absorbing, but you have to love footnotes.
Ah, is that it? I’ve heard of his translation before, whilst reading various a-a-a-a-abridged versions online. Were I but rich….
Heavens. Fern has joined *enter mad fit of coughing* [name of well known website] *end mad fit of coughing* And somehow it knew that I knew several MBers. Creeeepy.
Once upon a time, there was a MuseBlogger. She occasionally felt weird around her offline friends, because they a) thought taking French as an elective was WEIRD, b) didn’t believe bunnies were going to take over the world, and c) would probably feed her de-maths-liking tablets if she told them she found maths tests therapeutic. MuseBlog, however, was nuts to begin with, so she felt right at home there. But when Kokons were mentioned, she knew it was highly unlikely she would ever go to one *tries to be miserable*. She also pondered why there were more MBers in New Zealand (I don’t think Dot Keet still posts here, but I’ve counted her) than Australia when it was a smaller country. She cheered herself up with the thought that she probably wouldn’t be allowed to Kokonvene anyway, but still… Then she remembered that she had talked herself into telling a friend about MuseBlog, and she had school tomorrow, with French and maths.That made her feel much better.
Dusty round here…
I found this really funny ad for a quarter that’s shrunken, using massive electrical power, in a purportedly “Scientific” Catalouge:
“All though it’s mass, volume, and density are the same, it’s size is drastically reduced.”
And earlier in the advertisement, it claimed it would have the same mass!
Size is volume, and there really wasn’t any use for that last sentence.
Not to mention, the density would have changed, too. If you shrink the size, density increases, because density is mass divided by volume.
And you spelled its wrong.
And “although” is one word. *Is pied for being annoying*
Only have time for a quick post, ‘cus parents are dragging me to a boulder field (literally, a field of boulders)
My soccer season has started! Our first game is very, very soon! I’m excited for it even though my team does need a little work. We’ve got some issues…..and not all of them are related to soccer.
For my Civics class, I have to be able to label all the states on a map and know their capitals, and goodness I am geography illiterate. I’ve just spent the past half hour taking and retaking a map quiz online, and I still can’t remember where Arkansas/Indiana/Illinois go. It took me four tries–mind you this is times through the quiz, not guesses–to figure out where Idaho is! Why did they put it so near the west coast? That doesn’t even make sense! And Ohio touches Pennsylvania? Seriously!?
I’d have more difficulties with the capitals, myself. I never could remember ’em all…….States, though, I always switch Colorado and Wyoming around, because they’re both identical shapes…..
Those are two of the states I have no trouble at all with. I used to live in Wyoming, so I know where it is. From there it’s not too hard to remember Colorado. It’s the Midwest states that get me.
My brothers and I learned all the states and capitals as one way to pass the time during long hours on the road. Of course, we also drove through many of them at some point. (I think Alaska and Hawaii are the only ones I haven’t actually been to.) I still find it easy to picture the shapes and work my way across the continent.
Maybe you could find one of those puzzles for little kids that have the states as puzzle pieces. There might be a virtual version somewhere on line. Putting the pieces together adds another level of reinforcement. Learning them in groups helps, too. Anything that helps the arrangement make sense. The capitals are a little easier if you learn some of the history along with them. Or else find some way to relate the name with the name of the state.
Oh, you’ve got to come to Alaska sometime!
As for the states and capitals, when me and my sis were younger, we had a geography computer game, in which for every country we could assemble countries/states, through a variety of ways. One was puzzle, one was point and click, one was a completely blank map and you click where the state is (as in, no borders at all). That probably helped a lot in my learning the states. I’ll see if I can find a similar game online.
The capitals….I can’t remember what the book is called, but there is this book, by the same group that did a book on presidents (Yo, Millard Filmore), that if you go through it, your supposed to be able to remember the capitals forever more. The president one is the only one I had any success with, I can now actually recite all the presidents in order…..I’ll see if I can find the name of the capital one, assuming they’re even producing it anymore…..
My dad has been to Alaska and brought me some socks with fish on them that I sometimes wear as slippers, since they’re very thick. I would like to visit someday.
(Pictures of fish, that is, not actual fish. That was probably obvious, but I’m in a weirdly literal mood.)
Oh, gosh, and here I was thinking you meant real fish…..
*She stumbles upon the hitherto little-known Alaskan custom of wearing fish on one’s feet.*
Sorry. At least it’s not the standard stereotype!
Come to think of it, if anyone grew up with fish on her feet, that would have been me.
“Little known”?!?!?! I thought everyone knew we wore fish on our feet. I’m crushed.
Like the fish?
Oh, no, no, no. The fish are worn on top of the feet, silly, not underneath.
That would make it awfully hard to walk, if you had squishy, slimy, slippery fish beneath your feet. 
Ah, see, I was confused since we Nebraskans wear corn husks on the bottoms of our feet as we ride our cows to the only building with electricity, the school.
*is struck by a thought*
How many of you have never husked corn?
Er, me. But I went to a corn maze last October! ’twas fun.
How many of you…..Have never gone ice-fishing? ’tis not so fun.
Ooh, a corn maze? I’m so proud of you. That’s… fourteen percent of the corn mazes I’ve been in.
But I have been ice fishing before.
Well, you know, Alaska isn’t exactly corn maze central. And fall isn’t a time of year that we travelled much, just mid-summer, usually, so prior to college, I never had the opportunity.
14% of the corn mazes you’ve been in? So…. 1/.14=7.14etc. So, you’ve been in approximately 7.14 corn mazes? Odd number, that. Or did you mean to say I’ve been in 1/14 as many?
Ice fishing’s not all that enjoyable, in my opinion. I don’t particularly care for fishing under the best of circumstances (warm, pleasant weather) as I don’t like sitting around with nothing ever happening, but sitting around hoping a fish is going to bite when it’s sub-zero outside and you’re sitting out on the ice freezing? Definitely not my idea of fun…..I don’t understand how people do it. Fish isn’t that tasty……or maybe they’re just that desperate for foot coverings. *ponders*
*is fascinated by conversation* Hmm. I can’t think of any amusing stereotypes about Massachusetts right now….but, Piggy, I have husked corn. And been to a corn maze probably about seven times. But I haven’t ice fished. Something to look forward to…. XD
If we come up with enough state-related footwear, maybe it will help Tesseract with her geography.
Luna, you have stated my views on fishing most precisely (except that I do like to eat fish).
I have yet to do any of the corn mazes around here, but I grew a lot of corn in my old garden.
P.S. Piggy, in case you haven’t seen it, there’s a message for you on the Suggestion Box.
Luna, I meant that you have been to roughly fourteen percent of those I have. Thus, I have been to seven. But I would disagree–fish is that tasty. Perhaps that’s because I, living in Nebraska, don’t have fish as often as people living closer to the various coasts do. I do have fish, it’s not akin to an enormous festival of the once-a-decade seafood (if I may quell another stereotype), but we’re more likely to have meat than fish. Like steaks. From delicious, world-quality Nebraska Angus beef, shipped internationally to some of the finest restaurants and highest-class celebrities. </advert> But really, I’ve had steak in other parts of the country. Yeck. You people don’t know what beef is.
I’m sure Indiana is more hick than Nebraska. We actually need an amusement park to know that “There’s More Than Corn in Indiana!” And I have been to about twice as many corn mazes as you have.
What’s beef? Isn’t it, like, goat meat or something?
I’ve never actually tasted beef. I’ve been a vegetarian all my life.
Ahem. Excuse me. We Vermonters most definitely do 1. Husk corn (unless that and shucking are not the same thing – I have shucked corn, though) and 2. Know our way around beef.
-A
Re: fish….I dunno, I’ve never particularly been a fan of it. Although, we don’t have it all that often–it’s rather expensive, for one thing. And no one in the family does anywhere NEAR enough fishing to rely upon that instead of store bought (as in, I could probably count on one hand the number of times we have gone fishing in my lifetime).
My dad and sis are fond of fish, but me’n’mom don’t really care for it. I like smoked salmon, and salmon cooked on the grill is alright, also, but it’s not really high on my list of foods.
As for steak….well, I don’t much care for steak. I like beef well enough, steak’s just never had much appeal. Maybe that’s because the first time I remember eating it, I threw up (not immediately, just later that night, and, honestly, probably ahd no connection, but…..), and then the only other time I remember eating it (in FL, July 15, 2005–And no, I’m not a weirdo who memorizes what meals she had what day, that’s just the day that I stayed up to midnight to get my HBP book……My first HP party.
). Er, yeah, what I was saying, was I threw up that time, too, but that was probably from the heat……
Oh, of course, of course. Vermont is far better at both corn and beef than the state which has been [unofficially] the Beef State (on the license plates in the fifties and sixties) and officially the Cornhusker State since 1945. How silly of me to think otherwise.
Oooooh, 1945? That’s the year the Dark Wizard Gellert Grindelwald was defeated by Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore……
Yes, I do relate everything to HP somehow…
So Dumbledore husked Grindelwald’s metaphorical corn, so to speak?
Um, sure……..
I have been to one corn maze. I also had a corn husking contest with my friends last spring. I can’t remember if I’ve husked any more than that. So I remember only husking one corn, but I could be wrong. @Armada, I used to eat beef but it makes me sick. People look at me oddly when I say I’m allergic to cows, but what else could you say when you were allergic to both milk and beef? I have a lot of alergies and sadly developed two more lately. Sorry for rambling!
I laugh at all your corn. Here in Illinois, we have real corn, and soybeans. Far as the eye can see.
In every darn direction.But haha. Fish socks?
*thinks* I suppose Chicago is the land of mob bosses and their underground tunnels from one side of the city to the other (which although no longer are in use, were there and used, which is kind of cool).
I’ve husked corn.
I actually learned all my capitols the summer before sixth grade in a week, since my parents said if I could do it, they’d give me {insert special reward}. So I did it by my parents quizzing me in the pool.
The putting states into place wasn’t too hard for me to learn. I’ve grown up with globes/maps always in the house, plus I had a giant foam Disney USA puzzle when I was little.
Ok….Google geography US puzzle without quotes, and click on the first link. This’ll take you to a puzzle type game, where you click and drag the state to its location.
The capital book I was thinking of is “Yo! Sacramento”, and it is by Will Cleveland & Mark Alvarez. It was helpful, at least temporarily, for me learning my capitals. It takes the name of the state plus the capital and comes up with some sort of link between them. For instance, Concord, New Hampshire, you’ve got a nude hamster riding the Concord. (Don’t ask)
For some of them, I used facts to help me, like Lincoln (Nebraska) was born in Springfield (Illinois).
Do you have to place them on the map, or just label the pictures? If you have to place them, I would go to Luna’s site. But if not, go to http:// jayzeebear . com/frog_house . html (delete the spaces, obviously) and click on the picture of the globe, then the picture of North America in the new window that opens up, then the picture of the USA. (To find the site without the link, just go to jayzeebear . com, and click on Red the Tree Frog, then under the bridge, and follow my previous instructions from there.)
Insane MLDM, I do not think it is weird that you are taking French as an elective. I think that is a Smart Choice. Mon bocal est trop petit, l’eau est sale et l’herbe y pousse.
Also, I have a question to ask and can you answer truthfully? Does anyone think I’m annoying? ( No, Pseudo, I do NOT want to hear your comment on this! )
Because Pseudo keeps claiming no one on here likes me and thinks I’m annoying.
As my mom liked to say, “consider the source.” Would you expect Pseudo to say anything different?
bb46, I’m not a senior muser, but from what I can tell, you’re not annoying. Maybe Pseudo likes to get on your nerves.
On another note, has anyone heard of a computer game called Spore? It’s really awesome.
Oh, I only hear about it 50 TIMES A DAY from some friends of mine.
Oh, jeez.. Anyone else heard/not heard of Spore?
I think I might’ve, it sounds vaguely familiar, but I dunno.
I have! My brother got me all excited about it… Back in 2007. So I waited… and waited… and FINALLY it comes out, and it just sort of drifts away. Neither of us have ever bought it… We did buy the monster maker thing a while back, though.
I Love Spore. It Deserves To Have A Post Beginning In All Capitals.
What Is Spore?
I never specifically said that you were annoying. I just said that it annoyed everyone when you chat-spoke and refused to capitalize.
Heh, yes it is. And bubblebabe, I do find you a bit annoying, because (to me at least) it seems like you don’t really understand what the MB is about. Although I am not one to talk, as I’m fairly new here I s’pose. But if you used proper grammar and capitalization, I would accept other faults easily. After all, no one’s perfect, but if someone has too many faults (PoPoing, chatspeak, no capitalization) it makes that person hard to like, and in some cases even annoying. I apologize for my little lecture, all, but once I get started I find it hard to stop untill I reach a conclusion. I blame the book report I had to write two weeks ago.
Bubblebabe stopped doing that quite a few posts ago.
Nevermind then.
Is your sudden dislike of chatspeak and no capitalization due to me?
Keep dreaming….. No it isn’t though. It’s the fault of my friend who overuses it.
No, you haven’t been annoying since you started capitalizing. You’ve stuck around for enough time to stop being a neophyte that will be gone in two minutes, and are well on your way to being a very valuable member of MB life.
FRENCH CLASS LAST WEEK, OR WHENEVER:
)
Friend 1: Are you doing French next year?
Me: Yes
Half the Class: *recoil in horror* (which is unlikely to happen here on MB
Later…
Me: Are you doing French next year?
Two random girls: Yes.
Me: *sigh of relief*
(because we’re all in Year 8, we haven’t had any choice about our subjects up until now. And I don’t know if I will be able to do French without it clashing with something else yet, because we only handed in our choice forms last week. *sigh*)
Also, I don’t think you’re annoying now you’ve started capitalising. And talking of capitalisation, one of my friends emailed me last week, using proper spelling and capitalisation. I was surprised, to say the least, because when most of my offline friends’ emails look like their shift keys are broken. Not that really mind that.
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Thread for the Amherst Kokon? Please, GAPAs? We saw some very important fossils, they could be blog changing…
Ooh, yes…..
Did you guys post the pictures?
Ooooh, my friend did a whole project for ELA on Spore. Craziness.
I appreciates 
Thanks, LittleBasementKitten, for the comment and also for the nickname
I would love to see the pictures from the Kokonvention…especially SudoRandom’s apparently neon orange hat! I WANT ONE!
No, I don’t. I want one in orange, though.
SudoRandom’s neon orange hat was VERY neon and VERY orange. It was also very SR-ish.
Hopefully the GAPAs will post the pictures I sent in tonight.
Random fact of this weekend: At Target I saw a thing about Chuck Norris and randomly went hysterical. I was looked at oddly. Some things that it said are;
Chuck Norris’s house doesn’t have doors, just walls that he walks through.
Chuck Norris can make time go back by staring at a clock and flexing.
etc, etc. I totally cracked up. My parental units thought something was wrong with me.
Also, today I developed an interesting dance, when walking around the shopping center. Again, I was looked at oddly. Target was yesterday, so TWO DAYS IN A ROW I was looked at oddly! Yay!
There was an entire sheet of things like that taped to the back of the doors in the restroom stalls on my floor last year…….I still am not entirely sure of who Chuck Norris is, myself……
Neither me, actually.
Something to do with a TV show, I think. Not exactly sure.
They’de better…or else. Mwhahaha!!!!
(ok, maybe that was a bit morbid…)
But, hey, what can you do????
Ok, I NEED to know your guy’s opinion on the presidents speech to us students on Tuesday, and how we are dealing w/ it. Just wondering!
Ah, it’s good to be home.
I have two ideas for the Halloween Ball, one that’s more Halloweeny, but which would require me to dress in a less formal manner, the other one which would be more formal, but slightly less Halloweeny.
Why can’t I comment?
I meant reply.
Reply to what?
Comments.
You replied here.
Why can’t I see the “reply” button?
Because IE is evil.
Heh. Self-replicating fail?
-A
Are you using Internet Explorer? The button is still there, just invisible.
I’ve got a Mac, and I’m using Firefox. Also,google qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm.
Somebody’s been hanging out around a certain ‘blog too long…..
Going to be on the MDA telethooooooon today. On WGN, from 10-12. It’s for Muscular Dystrophy and related diseases.
119-
Tell Pseudo toI don’t think that you’re very annoying. It just takes a while to fit in; my grammar was fairly atrocious at the beginning. Besides, Pseudonym doesn’t exactly date from the gaboomba, does he?So, I’m back at school now too. It could have been worse. Maybe. *was kidding*
(18.whatever): We lost the ability to play sound files after MuseBlog’s MP3 player became incompatible with our blog software after an upgrade. I’ve just installed a new one, though, so now you can once again hear the DisneyBlog song in all its former glory.
Or, if your computer can play MP3 files, you can hear it by clicking here.
I love it! Is it on ITunes? /joking/
Today in history: Boston, MA was founded and named on this day in 1630!
Hey, everybody! Still not sure about those two costume choices, what do you guys think?
I read Terry Pratchett’s Nation this week, and have become convinced that Terry Pratchett is an Absolute. Genius. I need to get my hands on more of his books, but there’s so many it’s hard to figure out which to get. What do you recommend?
On a side note, I’ve discovered that my library apparently does not have Muse. It’s not in the kid’s or adult’s magazine section, and a search on the website for Muse, asking for only magazines, produces absolutely nothing. Which does not make me happy.
And, I think our subscription to Cricket expired, since we haven’t been getting it lately.
It’s labor day!
Well, I’m off to do some laundry–although why I think that needs mentioning here, or why any of you would really care, I dunno.
I shall return to the land of the living in a couple hours. meh. I hate laundry…
Yes,I am on a sailboat. Called Merlin. it’s very nice and calm and peaceful. It’s heavenly: warm sun, cool breeze, gorgeous Atlantic ocean, and access to MB! The waves are few, so my mom isn’t nauseous, which is good. Anyways, what’s all this stuff about biting wax tadpoles? Because a) I used the phrase “bites the wax tadpole” in Chinese several times in a Cleverbot convo and I am wondering why it is suddenly significant and b) That phrase is one of many mess-ups the Coca-Cola company got when they were trying to translate “Coca-Cola” into Chinese.
Oog. Big waves now.
It all started here.
119.1.1.1.1.3.1-Spore is a game which you basically create your own species. It’s fun, but kinda hard to explain.
Silver Lining- I read abot that! I also read about a Nike comercial, that an Aboriginal says something and there are captions translating it into, “Just do it!” But what he really said was, “I don’t like these. Jet me bigger shoes!”
131- That book and the one he wrote with Neil Gaiman, Good Omens, made me want to be a writer. Nation was a brilliant work.
Good Omens is AMAZING. So is Nation. I made my dad read Good Omens a while ago…
So, I should read Good Omens? Okay.
Good Omens is great, but I’m surprised nobody has mentioned his (rather large) Discworld series! The later ones are better than the first one, but I haven’t really read many. (Is IBCF around?) I can say that Thud, and Going Postal are sure to engage you.
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents is another Non- Discworld, (mainly) but it’s also flamblamblabous! (Spelling! x_x)
This has also just brought me to The Big Read, which appears to be a list of the favorite novels in England! I have read quite a few of them- Resolution Time! Read the top 100 by the time I graduate college.
Set, Go!
I’ve heard of Discworld, but, as you mention, it is rather large, and I wasn’t sure which ones to get. I read The Amazing Maurice, and it was good.
The Discworld series is also very good. The first books in it are The COlor of Magic and The Light Fantastic, I believe, or at least they were the first written. I haven’t been reading them in much order but I understand them and love them quite a lot.
Also, the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman is a must.
Thanks.
We are bravely attempting to plant a garden again. It’s hard, though, Here in AZ I think the only things that grow well are weeds and orange trees (you can eat only so many oranges, though…).
I am super psyched becuase we’re having tandoori chicken and Aloo Gobi for dinner. YES! VICTORY IS MINE!
I’m hyper. Great.
I’ve been there…… Fortunetely, it’s not that hard to grow things in PA. have some more……. PIE!
Don’t have to much before previusly mentioned dinner. Don’t want to spoil your appetite!
September 7, 2008
We got back from Seattle tonight. I really liked hanging out with the Ms, even though all we did was play the Sims. Dinner on Friday with them was the best part. We went to the fancy Italian restaurant we went to last time. The food was scrumptous! I got all my homework done, too! What a great weekend.
-Kyra
Back to the present: I went school/laptop shopping today. What brand of Windows laptop should I get? Or should I wait until Windows 7 comes out? Sorry Mac people; the store where I can get Windows laptops is very close to my home.
Ohh, ohh, tech question!
Windows 7 isn’t really that big of an upgrade, but it is faster and such than Vista. Getting the upgrade itself will probably be about $40, if you’re upgrading Vista, so waiting might be worth it. Specific physical specs- minimum 2 gbs ram, 100gb hard drive would probably be sufficient. Shopping online, like through Dell, would give you an idea about what’s out there, and/or let you custom build a machine.
If price isn’t a huge problem, a Mac would absolutely be better than anything with Windows (add up yearly antivirus subscriptions to get a truer cost of Windows).
If anyone likes to tinker with tech stuff, I recommend trying Linux- use Wubi with Ubuntu to start.
The upgrade would be free, I think. There’s an offer from Windows for all computers bought after June 26.
I would rather go to a store and actually look at Macs instead of going online. Which major retailers carry Macs?
A few independent retailers might, Best Buy I think?
But it would be best to go to the source: apple. com/retail/locator
All right, I’ll look. Thanks!
Yay! I’m finally back from camping!
And I finally got the smell of smoke out of my hair/clothes!
But I like the smell of smoke in my clothes! Campfire smoke smells delicious.
Not to me! It makes me sick and gives me a headache.
It does smell delicious, but I’m not so sure I want to spend my first day back to school smelling like the campfire…
So I have to write a persuasive essay for my class. It’s due in a week and a half and after the weekend’s worth deliberation, I’ve decided to write about this quote:
“There is no good or evil, there is only power and those too weak to take it.”
[That’s not the exact quote so don’t bother me]
It was said by Professor Quirrel in the first Harry Potter book – I’ve yet to take a stand on it, but I plan to write about whether or not he’s right. It’s either that or I write about how we should creative thinking is better than critical thinking.
Just think… a college kid, writing an awesome paper about Harry Potter… SCORE!
Hi, Faye! Nice to see you around!
You are a win. Just saying.
Brilliant! Anything involving HP is awesome.
Speaking of which, in genetics class the other day, I saw a guy in a green Slytherin t-shirt (I wanted to steal it…..) and then the next day on the way to class, I saw a guy lying on a bench outside reading POA.
The quote, by the way, is:
There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too
weak to seek it….
(I looked it up. XD )
Ahhh, many posts. My “e” key is sticking, grr.
Today was rather lovely, I got to actually drive the red beastie of a car that is sort-of-almost mine. *squeeee!!!* It was magical. Even though there’s something really wrong with the gas pedal…eh, even so it’s amazing. It’s so quiet (it’s a gas car-I’m used to diesels), and it’s got power steering. This scares me. I was turning the wheel and it just keeps going and going and I look at Dad and go “it is supposed to be this way?!” He just laughed.
Then I washed it, man that critter was filthy. It’s also really, really, incredibly, eye-wateringly red. It was like that before, of course, but with all the grime off it hurts your eyes. It’s got like a dayglo orange tint to it, but it’s definitely RED RED RED. Incredible.
So, that was my day……
What kind of car is it? I’ve got a 1989 gray Volvo station wagon that will technically become mine once I get my driver’s liscence.
Damage control:
Run-in number two with the state police today trying to get my backpack out of the school. It went okay. They just asked a couple of questions about which door I went in and let us leave. Check.
Didn’t do a speck of homework over the weekend. I have a free block tomorrow. Sort of check, depending on how many of the ‘homework assignments’ I got in the first two days back had to do with parental units’ signatures.
My knee still hurts from when I hit it. Yesterday. And, actually, this morning, when I hit it again, for the same reason. But my hand is fine, and I’ve got an ice pack on it for the swelling. Check.
I think I’m okay. Not really good, per se, but okay.
-A
This weekend I went to a wedding and broke my glasses, which won’t get fixed until after band tomorrow, so ‘m wearing my mom’s glasses, which aren’t as strong as mine, so things are a bit blurry.
As you may have noticed, I’ve posted! This is unfortunately rare, as I am Rather Busy with all sorts of things that get in the way of reading and blogging. :/
I’m very sorry that I’ve left conversations hanging, I apologize especially to Axa and MF. (I’ll make it up to you!)
Paleophyte thread, I’ll
Silver Lining- That is fantastic, the being on a boat bit. I’m trying to convince my parents to retire onto a boat, which is a longtime away, yes, but I don’t think they’ll be happy staying in this town.
KaiYves, my only advice is to Do It Up!
I wonder if there’s a lolcat widget..
CPM- If you’re getting a Windows Vista, get a Dell, NOT an HP. I think there are apple/mac stores that exist, also.
I’m AJAR, and I’m BAAAA-AACK!
Ya-di-da-da-daaa!
I have changed my name to CarbonWolf and have changed my gravatar to match this change in name.
If you want to know more about me (or even if you don’t), here’s your chance!
[Link snipped. –Admin.]
WHAT THE-!
_
Me: All right, that’s it. Treble.FM, get in their computers and cause their screens to flip backwards and upside down,
Treble.FM: Why can’t we just go On Air and do that.
Me: Great Idea!
Me and Treble.FM together: TREBLE BASS ON AIR!
Me: Well, maybe I’ll have a little more fun.
I think I’ll make their computers loop the song “Oh My Word, This Tune Is Annoying”.
_
Mwahaha. Best of all, there’s no Megaman to stop me- he isn’t in this time.
_
And if you try to stop me by banning me, then…
Well, lets just say I’ve been working on a new series of wave-viruses ranging from ones that can control time (including time traveling) to giant 3 square by 3 square earthquake wave viruses with infinite number of auras and shields with the combined ability to instantly recover all health, to shape-shifting/copy-cat wave viruses (they are true trojans!). Oh, and by the way, the way I got here is because I made my own version of the TimeTrvl program, in secret.
_
Oh, and another thing, the above is planned to be part of a Megaman Starforce FanFic. >:D
So, thank you for the free material. MWAHAHAHAHA!
_
Treble.FM: *sweat drop* Don’t you think you might over-doing it a little, Master Greagorius?
Me: Oh, I, Andreas Jackson Albert Randy Greagorius, otherwise called AJAR, do NOT over-do things.
Treble.FM: ‘_’
Me: Ok, maybe a little.
Treble.FM: ‘_’
Me: Okay, so I over-do do things alot. So what?
Treble.FM: ‘_’
Me: o_o …………………………STOPSTARINGATMELIKETHAT!
Treble.FM: O_O AAAAUGH!
Oh, come on, lets just get started on this new endevour.
Treble.FM: Okay.
Treble Bass: *pulses into internet to begin fulfilling plans*
———-END TRANSMISSION———–
Okay, so lying in bed last night, I made the following future plans:
* When the first Orion flight takes off for the moon, I will go to Florida on a road trip with whoever my close college friends happen to be.
* We will buy tickets to watch from the prime viewing site (The NASA Causeway) as soon as the offer beigns so that we are assured of getting them. (If this is impossible, we will get as close as we legally can at some other spot, possibly watching from a boat)
* We will all pool our money so that we can stay in a theme hotel at Disney World before the launch and visit the park.
141.1~ It’s a 1992 (same year as me!) VW Cabriolet, basically the Rabbit, only a convertible.
*sniffle* *cough* Being sick is not as fun as it may seem.
The last I checked, being sick didn’t even seem fun……*gives Pepper-Up Potion–the cure for the common cold, but it does cause steam to come out of your ears……*
Isn’t it sort of a cure-all? Nonspecific defense, to put it in biological terms?
-A
What, the pepper-up potion? No, I’m pretty sure it’s not a panacea. If not in the books, then on the chocolate frog cards on one of the computer games (supposedly all written by JKR, I think…..the cards, not the games) it says that the Pepper-Up potion is the cure for the common cold. I think.
But don’t listen to me–my brain’s not working right, recently. Just last night I managed to confused Gringotts and Grunnings. I think i need to get a brain transplant, because I KNOW the difference, and they are so not the same, at all…..
Sometimes I like being sick. (One of the mysteries of the world, by the way…) But usually not. Poor Piggy.
*shudder* I never like being sick. ’tis a most miserable state of existence.
*gives Piggy cough medicine* *gives Piggy hot soup* *gives Piggy a cure*
…{for cancer}
September 8, 2008
I had minimal homework tonight! I’ll finish the English essay tomorrow night.
I went to gym class today. I was scared at first, but all we did was warm up.
-Kyra
School starts tomorrow! I’m catching up with all of my clothes shopping today. I also am going to take Sasha to the vet. Hopefully she doesn’t scream as much as she did last time.
Sasha? What sort of pet is Sasha? Is she getting shots?
It souds like Sasha the Mystery Pet is a cat. My cat Sammy literally yowls as loud as like, um, I dunno, uh, something very loud.
Yeah. *headdesk, headdesk, headdesk*So today I had to write a story about getting an award, using 10 vocab words. Not that hard, actually.
Oh, but lots of critters scream at the vets. Puppies tend to, and birds, and the occasional cat.
I feel very bad when we give animals microchips, if they’re not under anesthesia at the time (like for a spay/neuter). Those needles are ginormous!
Sasha is a cat.
At least your cat doesn’t throw up in the car when you take it to the vet…
Ah…tomorrow is my first day of school. Cake. I’m excited and yet terrified all at the same time, which is a kind of weird combination. I’m terrified to see my schedule, because I’ve got a gut feeling about this one teacher who has more HPB in her than human, and yet excited because I feel like I just need to get back into a routine. Summer’s been fun, but doing nothing gets tiring after a while, you know? Plus I haven’t seen many of my friends in 3+ months and I miss (Most) of them like crazy. I’m sure that I won’t get as much of a chance to post once crazy school takes over, just to let you guys know. I’ll try to keep up as best as possible but in the words of my mother “School always comes first.” Blah. I don’t even have a personal computer so I can’t get onto MB without my whole family seeing. (Our family computer is in our main room.)
I was listening to 9 to 5 this afternoon, and my mom walked by and gagged. I paused it for a second and asked her if she liked my music choice. “No,” she said, making a face. I grinned and turned it up.
I enjoy her displeasure because I know my music taste doesn’t really include Dolly Parton, and she knows that. So basically, I’m being a brat – but I do like 9 to 5 on occasion.
It’s hot. So excuse me if that was a little incoherent.
-A
Vendaval– aha, nice to see you posting again
I too am rather busy….
I feel very unhappy about school right now but that’s generally “par for the course” or whatever the phrase is. I may not be posting much for a while.
Does anyone think it would be a good idea to award some kind of annual “Muser Unaware” awards to people or organizations outside of the blog who have promoted Musery in their own, unintentional way?
That could be an interesting idea for a thread, too. Annual, I’m not sure, since it’d be so hard to decide, what with all of us having an opinion, but if we were just talking about people who were Muser Unawares, then that might be fun.
I think that’s a fine idea. They’d be like the Illumiminati, with some overlap.
The thread is up.
Judging by your manner of speaking, you are not a neophyte. And now I shall take a wild guess and say that you are an alter ego. Am I correct?
9/9/09 tomorrow. I need to remember to take pictures (a local news station is doing a “Day In The Life of New Hampshire” feature based on pictures from 9/9/09, so I figured I’d join in).
Alas, picture day is tommorow. I really don’t care, to tell the truth. All the other girls are going “like, OMG, I need to , like, fix my hair, OMG OMG OMG, yeah, OMG!!
” It’s pretty funny actually. My bff’s parents are going to New Zeland (and she’s stuck at home to watch the kids,poor thing…oh well…) so I’m probably going to rant about it on here. Tey are SUPER psyched. I mean, who wouldn’t be excited to go hang-gliding and black-water rafting????? But, oh well. The dinner of Aloo Gobi and tandoori chicken was excellente’, I must admit. *glee*
Ok, I’m done now. Sorry.
“black water rafting”?
Are you sure you don’t mean “white water rafting”?
Whew! I got through the first day of school (relatively) unscathed. This morning, I thought I was going crazy, because I started talking and arguing with myself, and then I was remembering Harry Potter and the Order of the Phionix, where the blank portrait says, “Talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity.”
*walks away from computer, still rambling small tidbits relating my life to Harry Potter*
Doesn’t it turn out to be not blank?
-A
Well, yeah, but that’s not the point.
Just doing my job as spoilsport.
-A
A job you are incredibly proficient at.
In actual fact, talking to yourself is an important tool for learning.
Then I’ve learned a ton by now!
Me three!
Anyone heard of Carbon Leaf?
Perhaps this is a question for another thread. But a blanketed query, at first?
-A
So it is STRESS MONTHS for Jade again!
I left for school today at 6:30 got home at 10 PM. This will be my typical day the next few weeks, with the odd day letting me eat dinner at home from 5:30-6:30 before rushing off.
Tennis, then hockey, then homework.
Except the homework part keeps not being done, whcih is not good as 3 of my classes are AP
But I have not gotten rid of the apathy I had all last year sill
Also not good.
And I REALLY should just GO TO BED. Especially since all my friends are sick and I probably have their cold x_x
So. Not a lot of time to post, same as Vendy said. Will hopefully drop by on weekends and stuff still. Urg.
Fellow musers…. If my Global teacher continues to smash us with homework like this, and the other teachers give me even more, then I probably will only be able to post on the weekends, unless I get lucky.
It’s 9/9/09!
Yeah….So my organic chemistry professor informed us all this morning. At 9:09 her cell phone alarm went off, and she had this big happy look on her face, said, “In nine seconds it will be 9:09:09! Let’s all scream and shout and make noise for 9 seconds!”
I spent the nine seconds looking at her like she had completely lost any smidgen of sanity she may have ever possessed. (I am not a morning person, and I was still in a very horrid mood from having been woken up by my roommate for the….*counts* 12th time since school started. In other words, every day that she has spent the night here in the dorm……)
They got Hubble working again! It has 8 new photos! (I’m suprised I got this before KaiYves.
HEllo all! I’m back!
Actually, I’m not supposed to be on right now but I don’t have enough time to finish another assignment becaue I only have like 3 minets. So… I come here! Yay! 
Till the bell rings.
Hello, everyone/ Kiwimuncher. Happy 9/09/09!!!!!
So today I had chorus and my teacher is incredibly strange. She wears clothes that would generally be of a punk 16-year-old, and she makes us sing, “I am a cowwwwww! MooOOOOooooOOOoo!” for warm-ups. But she likes me, which is good, because everyone says that if you’re on her bad side it’s…*drags finger across neck*
Everybody can just consider me non-existent for the next seven days or so, what with school starting and all. I’ll still be lurking and playing chess, though.
SL- My old teacher made us say “mommy made me mash my m’n’m’s”
JW-Uh, ‘k.
Ugh… The Cleverbot site is not working because they are handling 32,776 requests per hour.
Oh, well. See you in seven days, Jakob Wonkychair!
What’s the Cleverbot site about?
I’m thinking about changing my MuseBlogging name. Any suggestions?
Umm…well…it’s generally not a good idea to change your name. Obviously you can, but I’ve found that it disrupts some of our, err, older MBers should we say. *coughcoughcoughpiggycoughcoughcough* Man, it just got so dusty around here all of a sudden.
Nasty cough that’s going around.
Yes–it’s all your fault. You’ve sent your nasty virus over the internet to infect all of us poor, unsuspecting MBers.
Oh, and a clarification note–I was referring to the virus Piggy actually has, not the virus that has been name for him. In case there was confusion, there…
DerangedCat.
Second day of school was much more exciting… as much as I hate school (I hate school a lot) I expected to be a little bit excited, or nervous on my first day of high school, but, no. It was actually boring. I was more excited when all my books from Borders arrived.
Anyways, today I had Drama I, which I’m going to love. My teacher is pretty much awesome, and all my classmates seem cool. There was this one girl in teetering four inch stilettos and I kind of giggled to myself when we had to play this weird version of duck duck goose.
Also, FUN.
Also, crowded hallways. Seriously, I don’t want to make enemies this early, but if someone doesn’t move I’m going to have to stab people with pencils.
*Is scared of high schoolers now* I’m only just barely a 6th grader. *whimper*
I’m scared of high schoolers too. I’m in 7th grade. Gosh, that seems so old right now. (And please, high school MBers, don’t laugh at me!!!)
What about college MBers? Is it okay if we laugh?
Dull pencils, I hope.
168- Well, my absence will start on Friday.
Re: Crowded hallways.
I know just what you mean. At my school, there are these kids who decide it would be jolly fun and convenient to stop and have lengthy conversations while standing in large circles on the stairways and in the middle of the hallways.
Really? Really? We’re trying to get to class, you know! -grumble-
You guys have no idea.
There’s a central area in our school – four corners, they call it. It’s basically where everything comes together – the main office, the frosh wing, the other three main wings of the school, the main entrance (and by that both of the front parking lots), the secondary entrance (and by that the back parking lot and the junior lots), the café, the school store, both of the gyms, the main staircase, two sets of bathrooms, the library… Everything, essentially. It’s all in one area, and for some reason, people like to use it as a commons area too… So when advisory and callback come – the two main movement periods of the day – you literally cannot get through it until people start to move into advisory or towards the busses and out into the lots, respectively.
-A
That sounds dreadful. How do you get to your classes/bus?
169- Ah yes, crowded hallways. Now that I’m a senior, I’ve become much less patient with slow-moving underclassmen. As I described to one of my friends today, I get through the halls by acting like a “battering ram”.
The blog is slow today. Not in the sense that people aren’t posting, just that it keeps freezing up and stuff. It’s probably just the computer that I’m using though, it’s really old. I’ll report it to the We’re Back thread later I guess but for now….
Anyway, today was my first day of school. As far as first days go, it was decent. I mean, of course there were a few mishaps (Trying to get around the sloooow 6th graders who are all anxiously clutching their little schedules like it holds their life…actually it kind of does! Ha ha! I love being a 7th grader…so much more power!!
Mwhahaha!)
Positive: I got all of the best teachers. Not all of them are necessarily good teachers, but they’re better than the other teachers which is why I consider them to be the best. I’m also in all the same classes as one of my good friends, and almost all of the same classes as another good friend.
Negative: The two friends I mentioned before that are in my classes are pretty much the ONLY two friends in my classes. All of my other close friends are in a different cycle as me. Thank goodness a few of them are in my homeroom, or I might just not be able to stand it.
First Impressions: The work seems kind of hard, but manageable. Definitely a step up from 6th grade which was a little tough but really only in math. Now all of the other subjects are going to be tough, especially since I’m in Advanced Latin and have the hardest English teacher who’s already assigned our first essay. *gasp* How I got into Advanced Latin, I just don’t know. I’m with all these kids who are probably going to be the next Einstein or something, and it’s pretty scary. Today my friend and I, (She’s the only person I know in the class, none of the other kids are in my homeroom or were in any of my classes last year – they were all in the Genius Club or something like that…) sat in the back of the classroom and basically just tried to keep up with the teacher as she rambled through three pages of info on the course. We could barely keep up, and she was talking in ENGLISH! How am I going to keep up once she’s babbling away in Latin?? Help. Anyway, that’s pretty much it. I’ll keep ya posted once I hopefully survive tomorrow in one piece.
It’s fine for me.
I get the least homework, and the best teachers with the group I’m in! W00t!
Not just you. Yesterday and today it’s been quite slow loading periodically. I was very close to taking a hammer to my computer, yesterday, as a result. Well, not really, but it was a very appealing fantasy.
Yeah… I tried to squeeze in a post as it got slower and slower, and then it shut down completely, which was a bummer.
-A
Two days of school down, and I’m still alive! Soccer starr, I had a mishap with MB shutting down on me, too, so it’s not just you. Being a freshman, I am at the bottom of the dog pile, but I absolutely cannot wait until I’m a senior! I better get to my homework now.
Working on the Dickensian Street Urchin Look, part two. Part one consisted of plaid knee-breeches, stockings (one shorter than the other), a green button-up shirt, a too-big vest, and all my hair tucked under a grey fedora. It was a huge success in its own way, but failed to convey the properly Dickensian air, while completely bypassing the Street Urchin part. Part two so far:
Olive-green skirt, sort of tattered-looking by nature. Lace cream-colored short-sleeved sweater, which is lovely, and seems more like something Lizzie Hexam would wear than something Jo (or Jo’s female counterpart) would manage to get ens hands on, but hey, I can’t be too picky. Men’s jacket, a little too big, missing some buttons and split on some seams, nothing unfixable, but it does the trick. Black boots. I’m not sure about legwear yet, but I’m thinking stockings of some sort, probably a pair of Mother’s, which are less stretchy and somewhat larger than mine. I have a pair of black ones, but they seem too…black. Topped off with a black-and-white herring-bone fedora.
Hmm…I could be the Little Match Girl for Halloween… I was planning to be the Doctor, but I haven’t got a costume ready…
YES! I don’t have to throw my computer out the window!!
Story behind this: While I was eating dinner, my computer decided to automatically update, which meant that it needed to restart…automatically. I had been working on a lab report for AP Chemistry, and I hadn’t saved it yet, so I was really worried that it had been lost. But it hadn’t, so I don’t have to hate Windows any more than I usually do.
Anyways, rant over.
Microsoft Word is a lifesaver in that respect. It automatically saves every five minutes, I believe.
OpenOffice, I’m not entirely sure what it does. It has a Document Recovery system which is supposed to help if your computer crashes or automatically restarts, but it hasn’t been very reliable in the past. I was expecting to be facing a blank document. So it actually made me really happy that OpenOffice could recover the file.
September 9, 2008
We played soccer in PE today. Nobody would pass the ball to me because I was one of the bad players. There were some All-Stars playing and I don’t know why they’re in this class.
W. and M. tried to get me to come out again, but I had math homework.
Mom and I stopped at Fred Meyers on the way home. We got boingy pillows for the cousins–I love those things!–and easily digestible food for Tommy to make him stop throwing up. I hope it works!
-Kyra
The first day of school was today!!! It’s so exciting to see all of my new and old teachers! It’s also exciting to be an upper-classman. I feel so cool.
Good news! The AVPM soundtrack is out!
It is? w00t! That is very, very awesome, indeed.
Their website crashed, but some people managed to get to it before that, so it’s still possible to download the music.
One might even say that it’s totally awesome.
Yeah, so I learned–about the website crash. Must find elsewhere to get music……
One might even say it’s totally flamablamablously awesome.
Oh, wait, nevermind…..I’m an idiot. That was a reference to the freakin’ musical…..*headdesk*
173~ Lovely. And this is for what, everyday wear or a special occasion?
Anybody here know about installing the Roseta Stone software? Hopefully it’s as easy as the booklet makes it sound. *frets*
Eh, tomorrow. Tomorrow is such a convenient time to do something. The perpetual tomorrow. And then tomorrow’s tomorrow. And then that day’s tomorrow, and…..yes, it does seem to end up that way, doesn’t it?
I loooove Rosetta stone! I have it in Latin and French, but I’ve never installed it. My mother does that, but it never takes her too long to get it set up. don’t fret!
Good morning!
How are you?
Did you enjoy yesterday (09/09/09)?
Peace, pies, and chocolate! See you later! *Waves and zooms out*
So, what is the deal with 9/9/09? Stupid question, I’m sure, but…?
It’s the last single digit day of the century where all the numbers are the same.
It’s 666 upside down. and backwards….
I dunno. Well, I guess I do know, since I read Ducky’s post, but…..I guess maybe it just doesn’t make any difference to me?
179.1~ Ohhhh. That’s pretty cool, wish I had know that.
I started the Rosetta Stone Spanish today…..it’s pretty easy but I still managed to miss some. Meh. It’s fun though.
Getting close to time for a new thread, me thinks, with 587 comments.
Anyway…….My flipflops gave me a blister on my one foot. I guess that’s a sign I should stop wearing them to class, because that is a large amount of walking….
But when it’s so blasted hot, wearing shoes reaches the point where my feet stink. Badly.
*sigh*
Um, for Global I have to write a “thematic essay,” in which I need to write about how one geographical feature affected more than one nation or region. Does anyone have any ideas? I mean, there are the obvious Egypt-Nile-Sumer-Tigris/Euphrates, but I don’t want to do something so obvious. I just want some suggestions. I’m supposed to learn something so it doesn’t matter if I haven’t heard about; that’s what research is for.
Thanks!
Some mountain range? Those have to affect the people around them… Might not count as multiple regions, though. And now I think of it, it might be more than one geographical feature.
Would the ocean count? Probably cheating… But it’s one geographical feature, right?
181- I agree. A new thread would be excellent.
Random threads are not based on comment count. In a perfect world, a new thread would be made exactly one-third of the way through each month. Seeing as it is the tenth, and September has thirty days, there would hopefully be a new one for tomorrow, which begins the second third of the month. Whether the GAPAs will find enough free time to make a new installment will become apparent later this evening.
Actually tomorrow. When all goes well, we start them on the 1st, 11th, and 21st.
Well, by “this evening” I had meant to include the passing of midnight, so yeah.
D’you know, I’d never noticed there was actually a specific time of the month that they got started? *is unobservant*
So, part 2 of Fio’s AP Chem adventures: Remember how I mentioned last week that I had to redo the first lab? Well, this week, while doing the second lab, I burned my hand. Doing something very stupid while cleaning up (I forgot we had been using Bunsen burners).
Oh, ouch. *cringes*
I gave myself a smallish burn in science class while dismantling a motor. Maybe it was because I was angry about the nice-but-not-so-nice people in my lab group and I got careless…
ANd in other random news that I just thought of: At dinner tonight my parents were talking about school, and education, and teachers who try to hold students back (when my dad was in first grade, apparently his teacher was annoyed with him because he already knew how to read), and my dad starts talking about some of my elementary school teachers, and how they hadn’t really been that great for someone like me, and then he turns to me and says, “You know, for several years, I was advocating for you to skip a grade.”
meh. That’s why my parents home schooled us, so we could progress at the rate that worked for us–to fast for public school. They wouldn’t let me do higher than 3rd grade math, skipped up to around 5 when mom and dad homeschooled me. My sis jumped similarly…..
On topics and such:
My school cannot legally keep seniors on campus for lunch, because the building is too small for the population (around 1200)! An observer may notice that having 1200 kids in an 1100 kid-sized building would not be remedied by letting some kids out some periods of the day, on some days. This observer would be correct! Being in the upper quarter of the height bell curve, I can say that I am lucky, but that I am still pushed around quite a bit. this is uncomfortable.
Many of you may know of this already, but I hadn’t heard of it when I was actively blogging, so I’m going to tell you! Brotherhood 2.0 was a project run in 2007 by two brothers, in which communication by text between the two was outlawed. There is a short workday video blog for the whole year, with exceptions of course. It’s very Muserly.
Nerdfighters Unite!
The Dickensian Street Urchin look would be easy to achieve, it might be assumed. This assumption would be wrong. Very wrong. Good work Alice! Have you tried pickpocketing a coat hung on a bell?
Mr. 42- You could research how the fjords affected Scandinavian history, specifically seafaring. Or mountains in Greece and relative cultural diversity in that area. Also, while possibly not what you’re looking for, traditional Micronesian cartography is very cool (see: Marshall Islands stick chart). Mountains are important not just as barriers but as rain wringers, civilizations and rainshadows might be interesting.
I’ve been listening to Terry Pratchett audio books on the walk home.
And so ends my day. G’night, MB! (^w^)
I have a dance exam tomorrow and I have to name two Scottish regiments and give notes on two of them…
I think I will do that now! I want first post tomorrow (today?) ah well…I guess I’ll wait until the Summer holidays
Gooooooooooooooooooooooood morning MB!
How are you this fine day? I”m mad at my onlien AP art teacher because I thought I had a test today, so I studied and read ahead an entire chapter, sense she sometimes messes up and posts early stuff we a\haven’t covered yet. And now she emails us to say that the test doesn’t open up until next week! ARG! *is perturbed*
Tesseract–the AVPM soundtrack on the website is now available to download! It’s all up and working again, for now.
kiwimuncher- Ouch. But at least you studied! Some people would just be like, “Oh, a test. I know everything. I don’t need to study.”
What does AVMP stand for?
“A Very Potter Musical”. Probably one of the most brilliant things, ever.
Okay, so since today is September 11th, and I’m from NYC, I’m going to pre-empt everyone- no, I did not know any of the victims. My 4th grade teacher’s brother-in-law was one of the firefighters, and my second-best-friend’s uncle worked on the 77th floor, but I was extremely fortunate not to personally know anyone who was lost.
So it is indeed September the 11th today. Apparently no one notified my physics teacher. We were going over a test on vectors, specifically a question about winds and flight paths, when he made a joke about crashing a plane into a building. As usual, he didn’t get any laughs. A little more unusual were the awkward glances we all made to each other. And then, walking outside, someone must have reminded the administration to lower the flag to half mast (at which it had not been before school). However, they forgot to lower the state and school flags as well. FAIL.