Friday, 17 May 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
The September Random Thread continues with a nod to the legends of ancient Greece. Sing in me, O Muse!
Continued from Chapter 1.
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Date: September 11, 2009
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Random craziness
Chapter two? Very nice pic, Lady B.
An as to Pwt’s Gender, (way back in a nestie of comment 1, I believe) I have also found conclusive evidence. Care to share, Luna? (Mine was in the issue about chromosones…)
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Oh, that was one of them. The article mentioned the Y chromosome was mutating and becoming smaller, and Pwt goes, “I’m a mutant?!” or something along those lines. The other, even more conclusive clue, was in whichever mag featured a comic where Pwt was freaking out about getting sick, y’know, acting like a hypochondriac and all. At one point, in a poem, Crraw referred to Pwt as “he”. Or something along those lines, I don’t recall exactly…..
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So, definitely a male.
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I still think Pwt is a girl. Maybe he/she/it is trying to trick us?……
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Also, in the book “Kokopelli and Company in the Attack of the Smart Pies Pwt is refered to as a “he”. The sentence when along the lines of “he pulled out a pie” (“he” refering to Pwt)
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However Pwt’s name is Ancient Egyptian. In Ancient Egyptian, the “-t” is feminizing.
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Oh my GOSH, you guys. Anyone who was at the Amherst Kokon, you will probably recognize that… 
Guess it was Feather after all!
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Yeah…except he doesn’t have the watering can/paint bucket/thingy that those guys had.
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True. Very true…
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I TOLD you, didn’t I? It looked exactly like Feather!
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I love that picture! Feather looks very interesting in Greek armor. 
(First post?)
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Awsome pic Lady B!
I’m actually working on a “epic” if you wish type story.
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Feather’s looking exceptionally warlike today.
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Rq- Oh, wow. You be right.
So…
I really really really want to write a musical, but I just don’t know how. And I know this belongs on Partial Scripts, but…
Any suggestions?
Oh, and while I was reading the last random thread, the Reply buttons dissapeared, which is how I got first post here.
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Plot ideas or the actual mechanics of the writing?
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Just generally how to get started.
Mechanics of the writing, I guess.
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Get a book about playwriting
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A book about playwriting. WIll do.
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Ok, I think how you write a musical is that you write it like a normal script, except you put lyrics and note staffs in where the character will sing. That’s how i did it, at least (don’t ask…engilsh teachers *sigh* 
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Tα καυτά Ïόδινα κουνÎλια θα αναλάβουν τον κόσμο!!!
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KaiYves, I have a question for you! Last night, with an Astroscan, I saw a planet and its moon. What planet do you think this was?
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I love the pic, lady B!
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The Great Djinni of the Hanging Gardens looks splendid in black-on-red-figure.
8- Probably Jupiter.
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I’m reading the odessy and this remined me of it. Sorry. Randomness.
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This is the Random Thread. No apology necessary. Anyway, not so random either; in fact, I happened to think about the Odyssey while I was drawing.
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Feather is awesome!
So my dorm room is a triple! 
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Ahoy, Jakob! Not to nag, but you’ve got opponents in two chess games waiting for you to move.
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Dorm room? Are you in college or boarding school?
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High school. I’ll move tonight, my login password is on another computer.
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Yuck. What a ghastly gravatar.
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Great pic! *can’t think of anything random to say* *is worried by this*
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Lady B., this is an amazing picture. I love it. *sends choklit* Incredible, darling, simply incredible.
I am happy today. I got a CD (the Beatles, 1), and managed not to kill myself or anyone else while driving through the rain that continued all day two good things. It rained all day on and off, another good thing. I like rain, and a good rainy day is nice. And I had a lovely conversation on the phone, with another promised for tomorrow (which is a Saturday, more good things!).
I found myself dancing around with a huge stupid grin on my face earlier this evening.
We watched Breakfast at Tiffany’s today, most interesting. Don’t know if I’ll watch it again, but it was fun.
And vegetable chips. Vegetable chips are lovely.
And now Dad is reading over my shoulder and laughing at my post. *sigh*
He says “Hi” to the GAPAs. 
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September 11, 2008
I finished The Book Thief today. The end was very sad. It was sad all the way through, really. I wish I could write like the character Liesel, though. Then again, my life isn’t as interesting (or traumatic) as hers.
W, M, and O came over today. I played SceneIt with W and M and watched YouTube videos with O.
I hope I’ll be able to make more YouTube videos. Maybe I’ll become famous like the “How to be Ninja” guys. They’re going to be in a movie! No fair!
-Kyra
P.S: I was reading my entry from a year ago. I forgot that they did all the 9/11 stuff last year! I don’t think anything was said on the announcements today and none of my teachers mentioned it. Weird! It’s already starting to disintigrate into history, just like I said it would! ((NOTE: In reference to the entry from the previous year))
I’m typing this on my NEW laptop! I got it two days ago. There were no Macs to be found anywhere and besides, my parents wanted to go cheap. It’s a Toshiba Satellite with an Intel Core 2 Processor, 4GB memory, and 320GB hardrive. Price was $680. Not too shabby! It has a long battery life as well; probably because the battery is a removable lump on the back. I hope I’ll have it for a while!
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I just watched the You-Tube video “8-but trip” It’s the most amazing You-Tube video ever.
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What’s it about? 
Feather looks tougher than usual. What happend to the dull-but-lovable Feather we all know and, um, love? By the way, speaking of Youtube, do you guys watch Harry Potter Puppet Pals? There are two new ones, Ron’s illness and Snape’s Diary.
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New ones? Sweet. Must check those out…..
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It’s an amazing music video. Most of it is based on old video games, such as Pac Man, Pong, ect. And all the pixels are…
Legos.
It’s amazing animation.
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(16.1) We interpret Feather according to the values and biases of our time; the ancient Greeks may have seen him in a different light. Also, we shouldn’t rule out the question of how Feather imagines himself.
Or maybe he’s just roused himself for a spot of weeding. That can rally the soul of the most soft-hearted gardener.
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Oh, well we never know how Feather will handle a dandelion, so I guess he’s (Feather is a boy. Hey just sends out boyish vibes, I can tell :cool:) going to make sure that there are no weeds in his donut tree garden. What’s on the end of his spear? A block of weedkiller?
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Nobody knnows. The ancient greeks were hard to interpret. Maybe he’s trying to harvest radishes…WAIT! I know! If you look at it realllllly close, it looks like he’s holding a…hoe. Hmmmmm….
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Yep, definately a hoe. I can’t believe you guys didn’t see that… No offense, or anything, but it was kind of obvious.
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Thanks, Mango. I didn’t think my drawing was that cryptic, but I was beginning to have doubts.
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Fern is still happy today. She gets to go to a Market Fair and see some of her friends, and she’s glad about that.
17.1~ I think it’s a hoe instead of a spear. You’ll also notice the design on top is made of vegetables. Brilliant.
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Yes, that is a hoe. Considering some of the weeds we get around here, Feather is appropriately attired for gardening.
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He’s doing some serious weed killing
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Discovery is home!
So I had a cross country meet today. I didn’t do my best, but considering the facts that it was raining hard, the course was muddy and full of puddles, I was half blind from all the raindrops on my glasses, and a sharp piece of debris ended up in my shoe and made my foot bleed, the coach says I did pretty well.
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I had a meet too. It was raining too. My knee hurt instead of my foot, but still. Frightening parallels.
-A
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Lady B, that is some wickedly awesomely flamablamablous art right up there at the top of the thread. I love that you take time to create something for this thread multiple times a month.
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18 and 19- Oh. Duh! *headdesk* Didn’t notice the vegetable design either. That’s really creative, GAPA’s!
21- Ouch. I have to run in this really ugly and heat absorbant uniform. I hate it! 
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Is it bad if part of my finger (this is the spot that I burned on Thursday) is completely numb?
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Possibly.
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Probably.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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If I may disagree with everyone else, I’d say “bad” is relative. Health-wise, it’s probably bad, yes. But what sorts of possibilities might it give you? You could play a very convincing witch for Halloween–you have a spot on your body where you can’t feel anything, just like “real” witches. You could challenge anyone to poke you with a pin, and then beam proudly as they stare flabbergasted at your lack of discomfort.
Or something.
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Depends on the finger and what part of the finger.
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I hate airports. Was stuck in one again for over 6 hours today, woke up at 4:30, was there at 6, and couldn’t get on the plane out till 1:30 (was supposed to depart at 7:50).
Made it to New Hampshire for hockey but I missed the first game today because of airport fail.
Life is also kind of sucking now in general.
Sorry this weekly report of mine is so depressing : /
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Gah, airports are evil. I can completely sympathize, although I’ve been fortunate not to’ve been stuck in one that long. Yet. I’m sure by the time college is over, I’ll have missed connections at least once, which will mean a very nice long stay in the airport……
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D:
Airports do indeed produce much fail…I’m sorry you missed your game! And for life being crap.. *hugs*
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Try being in Dallas Fort Worth for 50 hours with no food and Texans asking you why you didn’t salute the troops that walked by.
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I hate airports too…I’ve spent far too much time in them then I would ever like to in a lifetime… *sigh*
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I just realized that Muse is about half of an inch taller than Cricket.
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Hooray! We’re better!
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Of course we’re better.
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How could you make a magazine shorter than Muse? It would be almost square.
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Don’t worry, Cricket manages.
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Auditions Monday and Tuesday! I talked to H today and we planned our Dream Cast (which isn’t really our dream cast, because we were trying to compose it of people who would actually try out and there were those inconvenient people who didn’t seem to fit anywhere). And then I confessed my fears of not getting a large part. I don’t show up to my best advantage at auditions, and the guest director doesn’t know me and what I can do, and it’s all high-school-stereotypes (Athenians=preps&jocks, fairies=punk-emo-goths, players=theater kids). And I mean, I’m sure I can do any and all of the above, but I don’t look the part (except for the theater kids, but the players aren’t really very major roles, except Bottom, and that’s a guy). So I fear that if I dress normally and it comes down to me and someone who looks preppy/punkemogoth, they’ll get the part. Which gives me two options: dress utterly neutral, or skew my look towards the part I want. Because I have to school, I don’t want to be utterly neutral; that’s boring, especially two days in a row. And I don’t want to skew my look towards a fairy, and then risk not getting an Athenian, or vice versa. So I’m going to be (sort of) punkemogoth Monday, and preppy(er) on Tuesday.
I know it’s not about how one looks, but I feel that I sort of tend to get typecast (not that I’ve been in that many plays…it’s more like I get typecast in everyday life), and I don’t want it to happen forever and ever. I’d rather be typecast as something I’m not, than as something everyone thinks I am.
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Awwww! *hugs* Don’t worry, just do it, and if you don’t make it, then either it’s not worth your time or the director is stupider than a rock.
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Yesterday, Marching Band did our town parade, and then we were supposed to go to another town for another parade, which is fondly known as “The Hot Dog Parade.” However, Mr. O (the band director) didn’t count on the bus driver getting lost, which created the need for Mr. O to stop at a car repair shop and ask for directions. Long story short, our bus made it to the parade, but we pulled up right behind the fire truck that was in the parade, and it was last. Our trailer with all of the instruments wasn’t with us, which I suppose was good, because otherwise Mr. O would probably have made us get out and start playing. We waved out of the window at the people packing up from the parade, and it was all good fun. We got hot dogs at the end, which absolutely ruined my appetite for the rest of the day, because I had already eaten too much at lunch.
Go Band!
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I have probabaly asked this numerous times, but does anyone here play the guitar? I do, and it’s completely awesome. I also play the clarinet in band.
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I play the clarinet in band too! I’ve never played a guitar, but I want to really badly. It looks like a fun instrument!
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Cool! And if you can, you should learn to play the guitar. It is fun.
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My schedule probably can’t contain any time for guitar playing right now, but I’d definitely like to in the future!! By the way, it seems like a lot of people on here play clarinet! Clarinets all the WAY!
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I sort of do. I can sound half-decent noodling, and I bet if I was required to, I could learn properly, but I don’t actually play it.
… As with any other instrument you can think of. I can sound competent on it, but I can’t actually play it.
-A
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I play guitar! I will be an official member of the school’s rock band tomorrow! Yaaaay!
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*claps excitedly* Yay! I thought I was the only one who played the guitar!
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I, too, am a clarinetist. Bandos unite!
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Clarinets! w00t! *EPICFIVE*
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CLARINETS! I’ve been playing the clarinet for nearly two years now (two years fully next January), and my teacher says I might be able to get into the top Mid-State Band already!
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wOOt! Clarinets are quite awesome.
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Not as awesome as flutes.
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Flutes!! *highfive*
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And Alto Saxophones top the chart of awesome instruments! Am i right, am I right? *isn’t right* *shrugs*
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You ARE right. Saxophones are awesome.
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That’s one… We need more members of the “Saxophones conquer all instruments” club. Yeah, I just made that up, but IT WILL GROW!!!
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ME!
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U used to want to play the saxophone, but with the guitar & basketball, I decided to play the clarinet instead. *shrug* I agree, ’tis very cool.
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Trumpets! (Just to get in on this discussion…) I’m actually more of a pianist, but that’s too boring.
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I’m a pianist too, but more of a saxophonist.
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Pianist and clarinetist here. Equal in both, though in skill ’tis piano.
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You are so beyond right.
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September 13, 2008
Friday was amazing! It was a relief to start the weekend! M. and I captured a big green caterpillar yesterday and today he’s doing fine. Today’s Saturday, by the way.
I played Guitar Hero for at least two hours today. It was very fun.
O., M., W., and I used the videocamera and made some tapes, but dad wouldn’t let us put them on YouTube. Sad! I’ll do it after school sometime this week when they’re not home (heh heh heh).
I’m going to go to OKT ((Censored: Name of local havest festival)) tomorrow with A.N.! It’s so exciting! I’d rather go with A.S. though. Her parents forbid her to go, I think, but she says she suddenly decided not to go.
-Kyra
Today I’m going to see Up, hopefully. The past two times my mom and I went, it was sold out…
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Story time!
Once upon a time there was a biological male named Beavo who went to school, expecting the way he looked not to be a big deal. Not to his surprise, he got a minimal amount of stares and an even smaller amount of rude questions. He made a couple friends the first few days.
Then, on the third day, his best friend called him and told him they needed to talk. She informed him that in no way was his appearance unnoticed; in fact, every person she knew knew both his first and last name and who his friends were. She also informed him that half the school had made up their mind that he was something that didn’t belong on the earth, and, as she quoted, “wanted to beat up the fag”.
Beavo thought this was utterly ridiculous and said so, claiming that he had had death threats before (he had) and that he wasn’t worried. He lied, but just a little bit. He really wasn’t too worried (although he packed an extra heavy small flashlight in his backpack on the way to school the next morning).
His best friend also informed him, to his disappointment, that a few of his friends that had once been close had been telling people about how they “couldn’t be seen with him” anymore. So he called one of the friends and left a voice mail asking that she call him back. She did, they had a discussion, she told him that she wasn’t “into that sort of thing”, evaded his questions, and eventually told him that they “couldn’t be friends”. He told that he thought she was being extremely petty, said a couple of things his mother wouldn’t be proud of, and hung up. He was sort of sad until he realized that if they weren’t his friends now they never were in the first place.
He called a couple of other people just to make sure his best friend’s claim that every single person in his new high school knew who he was, which was confirmed many times over. He posted a short “does anyone else find this amazingly ridiculous” on a certain social networking site, logged off, and went to sleep.
The end.
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*hugs Beavo*
People should worry about their own lives before judging other people on theirs…..
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Aww. Poor Beevs. *hugs and choklit* People can be really mean. I hope you find some more real friends soon.
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Beavo, you need to come to my school.
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I don’t know why people are jerks. It really boggles my mind.
I have other things to say but my mother wouldn’t be proud of them so I will shut up for the time being
Also if threats continue you should probs inform the administration.
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That is completely and utterly suckish.
*hugs and chocolate*
We’re always here for you, Beavo.
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That’s not fair. I think that people are being jerks to Beavo, and if they’re going to act like that, they don’t deserve to be his friend anyway.
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*hugs* I wish there were some way that we could get some sense into those people’s heads.
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This is really really random and has nothing to do with anything: the Creative Writing teacher at my camp had a friend who worked in the maternity ward at a hospital. Since she worked there, she got to hear what everyone named their children. There were some very weird names such as: Nevaeh (“Heaven” backwards), Darling, and Nosmoking (pronounced NAHS-ma-king). The kid was named Nosmoking because his parents were very desperate and looked at the nearest sign on the wall, which, incidentally, said, “No Smoking.” Isn’t that the worst name ever?
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How unfortunate to be named after a sign. *pity* or perhaps *piety* would be more fun. 
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Come on, couldn’t they have just named him John or something? Better to be utterly generic than to name your child after a No Smoking sign. Or you could name him after his father, or grandfather, or uncle, or the main character of the your favorite novel.
-sigh- I’m not sure I believe that particular story.
Darling always makes me think of Peter Pan. Wendy Darling is actually a really great name. Just “Darling” is not.
And Nevaeh just sounds like someone from a generic young adult fantasy novel.
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I, personally, thought that Nevaeh sounded like a rather pretty name. But the story about Nosmoking is true, sadly. St least, I didn’t make it up. What psycho people we have to share the world with!
Meh. I have to go finish my homework. Toodles, MB! Until we meet again… *ominous laughter*
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Little Nosmoking will most likely change his (or is it her? I hope not.) name when he grows up. I know I would. He will probably need a nickname if he is to get through school with a minimum amount of teasing. Poor, poor Nosmoking.
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This reminds me of Usnavi’s name in In the Heights. Nevaeh is a pretty cool-sounding name, though.
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24- I don’t like airports that much, although I do like traveling by airplane.
30- Poor Beavo. We still like you.
Apparently, Ilan Ramon’s son was killed in a plane crash today. Poor family.
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I like the picture!
I wouldn’t be surprised that someone named their kid NoSmoking. My mother knew a pair of twins named Lemonjello and Orangejello. she thinks that the mom found their names on her hospital dinner menu.
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So did my grandma. I think everyone did….
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My fellow bloggers….. a great feat has been achieved… I finished the introductory paragraph to this evil essay. And now I’m celebrating with pie instead of continuing. *procrastination*
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I started my new job today! I’m a cashier at a local garden center.
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Anyone else…
1. Sneezing uncontrollably?
2. See the International Space Station?
3. Eat chocolate chips today?
-A
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1. No, thank goodness
2. No
3. Unfortunately, no
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Ugh.
-A
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No.
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Yes.
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No.
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No. 
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No.
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No.
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Not right now, it’s been known to happen.
No.
I plan to!
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No, although normally I am so this is kind of a surprise.
No.
Yes!
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1) No.
2) Not recently, although I have in the past.
3) No, I don’t eat chocolate.
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Hey, all….For the next week or so, I am going to try something serious alternative to try and get my butt in gear. That is, if I can pull it off (big if, as I’m a world-class procrastinator) I am not going to be on MB at all for around a week, because I find myself spending over 90% of my time on MB or similar outlets. For obvious reasons, this is not at all conducive to my college career, and I have a couple of big tests in slightly over a week–tests I really should have spent time studying for this weekend, but did not.
As such, because I really do not want to fail organic chem and genetics, and in the latter I do not want to rely on the vast majority of the class being numbskulls (the top 25% of the class, no matter what the actual percent grade, receive As of some sort), as with my luck, I would turn out to be in a class of geniuses, I plan to try and buckle down and get some serious studying and the like in.
If all goes well, I will wean MB and the like back in, but to such a degree as it does not dominate my life.
That all said, when I turn my computer on in the morning, my resolve will likely fail and you will see me here. Hopefully not, but…..That would not be the first instance of my telling myself I was going to do something and it falling through in less than 24 hours.
So hopefully none of you will “see” me for a week and a half or so. Hopefully. *crosses fingers*
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And I’m posting this, as maybe if it’s out here for you all to read, I won’t fail, since you all know I’m actually planning this…..If that makes sense in any way…..
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Bye, Luna! We’ll miss you!
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Byebye! Miss you already!
Getting “butts in gear” actually sounds like a good idea. Does anyone know of a website that automatically does all your homework and work work for you, while making jokes and paying you ten dollars an hour? No? Shucks.
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Sounds great to me. We should invent something like that.
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I should definitely stop procrastinating on the Internet, but unfortunately that’s very hard for me to do. I am easily distracted.
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Robert I have a question for you! Or Rosanne. And Rebecca if you know the answer feel free to say something as well so I guess this should just be addressed to the GAPA(s) in general.
How fast do cells communicate?
I mean when someone stomps on your foot you feel it what has to be near-instantaneously. And those signals have a relatively long way to go. And what about chemical versus electrical signals? Things like adrenaline seem to shoot through the body pretty fast…
How fast is this compared to, say, the speed of light?
My friends and I had a discussion about this in bio when we should have been working, and we tried looking it up on google even though the school blocks a ton of stuff, but we couldn’t find anything (well, there was something that said it was half a meter a second, but poking each other in the toes proved this couldn’t be true).
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Jadestone: In a recent Q&A column (Muse, May/June 2009, p. 23), the psychologist and philosopher Daniel Dennett told me that nerve cells can transmit signals as fast as 120 meters per second (500 miles per hour). I suspect that some electrochemical pathways work more slowly than that, but neurophysiology isn’t my field. Rosanne probably knows more about it.
120 meters/second is about 0.00004 percent of the speed of light.
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Thanks Robert!
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UGH MY LIFE IS OVER
no more true blood until june! WHY
at least now I can get stuff done on the weekend. I’m already behind!
39– That’s really interesting! I can see one of the diagrams of a neuron in my mind just thinking about it…man I wish I remembered stuff from last year.
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You watch that show? I’m not allowed… *pouts* But I read the book sneakily, and I plan on reading the rest of them. There are ten.
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not allowed with good reason…it’s kind of awful lol
I like your fish icon by the way I love it when a kanji looks like the subject!
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G’night, MB! *twinklesparkle*
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I am so thrilled that I am FINALLY able to take Astronomy. The teacher turned the sky on in the planetarium for the first time today, and it was AWESOME. So detailed and clear.
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I love planetarium shows — the old-fashioned kind, with stars. Nowadays museums seem to think they need laser shows and Omnimax movies and booming bass speakers to draw in the crowds, but I’d rather just see what the sky looks like. It’s so hard to do in most places nowadays.
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Agreed.
Musers – Live in past, present, and future.
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Back in elementary school, they would set up a tent in our gym every year or so, and make a little planetarium that everyone could crawl into. They told us about the stars, but I mostly liked the creepy tunnel, in which people scared easily. I was an odd child. Well, I still am, ask Daisy*Chain.
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I love my class on Archaeology and Prehistory. What do other people think of archaeology? It seems to fit with this month’s theme.
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Archeology definitely sounds interesting. I don’t really know anything about it, though. There is a really great natural history museum in Pittsburgh, but I haven’t been to it in years. I’d really like to, though, because I’ve heard the new dinosaur exhibit is great. What sorts of archaeology/prehistory are you learning? (It seems like a very broad subject.)
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Right now we’re studying early hominids. I’m looking forward to when we move on to ancient civilizations. We study the extent of human prehistory and ancient civilizations; it is a college intro course.
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I found 10 dollars in my pocket today
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*steals*
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*steals from Beavo and gives back to I-Man*
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*steals back*
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*steals, creating another factor in the stealing frenzy*
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Thanks, guys. I’m really not all sad about it, just a bit… disappointed. Really, I’ve had death threats before, and where I live it’s nothing to worry about. And I’ve had friends dump me for being me before too, so again, not all that depressed. But I’m glad I found out now instead of later, when I may actually be more hurt.
What I /am/ depressed about is the fact that my friend just tried to kill herself again yesterday, had a seizure, is in the hospital and is being carted off to the loony bin tomorrow. For the third time. She says she didn’t mean to, and I believe her. Seriously, the drugs she’s on (ADHD, Paranoia, Depression, Anxiety and OCD) is enough to send anyone to the wacky shack. This is what happens when insurance companies don’t pay for therapy but they pay for pills.
This has been the GREATEST WEEK.
Thank God this didn’t happen last year. This year I’m holding up well, I’m pretty happy with life. Last year would have been awful.
In good news…
Um…
I have nice teachers…?
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*hugs* I’m sorry you’re having a bad week.
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Hugs for Beavo. I hope stuff gets better soon.
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*hugs* You’ve got it worse than me… I didn’t think anyone did at this point. I’ve had one biology class and already it’s killing me; I have a slacker for a lab partner; my Spanish teacher treats me like I’m four instead of fourteen; my math class is excruciatingly boring; both kids who hate me are in my English class, and all my textbooks weigh about twenty pounds…. but…. poor Beevs. *hugs again*
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*hugs* Poor Beavo.
*reads good news* Yay for Beavo!
But still, That’s no fun. *hugs*
Beavo, you’re so huggable. *hugs*
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I have a friend who has a friend who’s committed suicide more than once, and she spent a month in a mental hospital because her mom was abusing her. Now she’s pretty much better and hasn’t committed suicide in a year, so I hope that everything is now good. Her mom isn’t abusing her either anymore…
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So today. Woke up this morning with a headache. Took ibuprofin. Put one of my migraine rescue meds in my pocket in case it got worse at school.
In period one my eyes got all un-foccusy and I couldn’t really talk at all about the story because I couldn’t read it very well. But I didn’t want to miss my AP bio lab 3rd hour.
So I went to calc (2nd) and that was okay for a while, except then my eyes got worse, and so did my comprehension skills, so I was like “[snip] this is turning into a migraine”
So I got adrink of water and took the meds, but then like halfway into the period I still wasn’t feeling good. Went to bathroom to blow nose
ended up throwing up all the meds and the graham cracker I had for breakfast. But when I went back to class I didn’t feel like explaining what happened so I waited till the end of the period to ask for a pass to the nurse, because I couldn’t even read the problems that were for homework, let alone do them.
Got home around 9:45, got in bed, got out once to throw up some more but stayed there till about an hour ago. Have since managed to hold down some juice, now trying some crackers.
God I hate migraines. I thought I caught this one early enough to be able to hold down the meds this time, but uhg. I really need more rescue meds too–we’re nearly out and they’re nice to have on hand even if I can’t always keep them in. God I hate this.
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Ugh. That sounds miserable. *sympathy pies* (At least you don’t have to worry about keeping those down.)
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Whenever my left eye goes fuzzy, I know that’s going to happen.
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I’ve never had a migraine… It sounds like Hell.
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I haven’t either, but I have a friend who has POTS, some subset of dysautonomia. It entails a lot of awful things (for example, she can’t walk, sit, or stand for any lengthy period of time because of her blood pressure), but it began back in sixth grade with frequent migraines. I think they’ve been almost constant for a while.
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It is absolute hell. I get them rather often, quite unfortunately. The only thing that offers any thought of the tiniest bit of help is complete silence, complete blackness, and some sort of magic pillow. Getting them at school is quite possibly one of the worst things I’ve had happen to me. It is the worst pain imaginable in any circumstance ever, or they can be. You have a thousand elephants standing on every square inch of your head, while at the same time your brain is rapidly expanding against the inside of your skull. A pin dropping makes your eardrums throb with pain, and a tiny light in the next room is blinding. It is really, quite truly hell on earth.
I often get them when a cold front comes in. I’m not sure why, although I assume it has something to do with barometric pressure.
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We had a random lcokdown today(somebody got shot) and our history teacher let us run amok. We all love helicopters now. They can ruin a perfect, monotunous lesson about the enonomy (we couldn’t hear the teacher).
We feel bad for the school near the shooting. They weren’t having fun, believe me.
Sigh………………………………………………………………………………………….
But, for now, life is ok. In random conicidence, Beavo, my friend has gone e-mo (when we asked we got “Whatev. I have no life. Boohoo”). ?????????????????????????????
There was a big fight at school and none of the lunch moniters noticed. Most kids (I was over on the other side of the campus, rolling my eyes) were chanting “fight! hahaha! Fight” and they STILL didn’t notice. Wahhhh?????
Oh, and our cafeteria food today was gloopy alien susbstance with leather and hairball on the side.
How typical of them.
Oh no, here comes my sister…
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I NEEDED TO KNOW WHAT OUR HISTORY TEACHER WAS SAYING!! Darn, now I’ll have to go look up the textbook online… 
Oh well…
I realllly don’t need to know how deficets affect the scaricity of natural rescources right now…
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We had a random lockdown at school today (someone got shot) so we were all shut up in our classroom so out teacher let us run amok! *glee*We feel bad for the other school next to the shooting…they weren’t having much fun…
We love helicopters now because they are able to drown out the voice of a history teacher talking about how a stimulus will affect our economy along with deficets and oh i don’t know…
Also, today for lunch we had gloopy alien substance from Venus with a side of leather strips and hairball.
Oh well…
There was this HUGE fight at school today and no adults noticed it, even thought many kids were chanting “FIGHT” like crazy people (I was on the other side of campus, rolling my eyes)
We try…
But fail…
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Ok, my sister reapeted my comment without changing my name…sorry
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Sorry!!! Ididn’t know you commented! 
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My comment is not on here…oh, wordpress, you failed me…
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September 14, 2008
W. and M. came over today and played videogames. I kicked them out after a while, though.
The OKT was awesome! We saw A.A. ((NOTE: My favorite magician)) and A.N. volunteered! The food was good, too. A.N. bought an awesome mask and I bought a crummy bar of soap. I’m gonna try to buy a mask online, though.
-Kyra
School again!!! YAYAYAY!!! I might as well enjoy it while it’s still easy.
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I’m making an HPB relief sculpture. I’ll email pictures in soon when I finish carving and painting it.
-is lazy-
Hey, GAPAs, what’s your email?
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Psst, Zinc! C’mere!
I think you know what I’m talking about….
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So…I have no motivation to do homework today.
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Although, I have motivation to do college apps and scholarship stuff…does anybody know how to rip videos from a DVD?
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I just noticed that I seem to be asking a lot of questions on the blog lately…I’m not trying to use the blog as an answer service, but school kindof saps any interesting comments out of me. Then again, that also goes back to the above-mentioned motivation problem…..and now I’m carrying out a conversation with myself on the blog
/end stream-of-consciousness blogging
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You say it as if people usually have motivation to do homework….
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Well, generally, motivation is known as ‘getting good grades’…
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What, you don’t care about that anymore?
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I seem to have entered my usual (and not very beneficial) mindstate of “I’ll do what assignments I want, I don’t care if I get 0s on the others. I don’t want to bother with that mindless stuff.”
The problem is, when I’m actually see the grades, I do care. So I usually manage to keep a balance of high Bs or low As (cause bad grades will at least motivate me temporarily), but I was trying to change that this year. Welcome to my not-exactly-logical way of thinking.
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YOUTUBE POOP: WHERE THERE’S SMOKE, THEY PINCH BACK.
Patrick: Maybe a story will help. It’s called “The Ugly LOTSA SPAGHETTI”.
Songebob:
Patrick: Once there was LOTSA SPAGHETTI. It was so ugly, DR IVO ROBOTNIK died.
The End.
Spongebob: That didn’t help at all…
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Went to DC today, visited the National Cathedral, amazing place.
I really, really must get the journals I started made, as I only have 18 pages left of my current one. Terror. I often write four-page entries, with minuscule writing, and if I do too many of those I’m screwed without a journal until I get in gear and finish making it. And that might just kill me. I don’t even want to imagine how weird it would be without a designated journal to write in. 0.o I know, I have a notebook and MB, of course, and plenty other places to express myself, but I’ve had a regular (or semi-regular) journal for three years, and can’t imagine what I did before then. Pitiful.
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56- I know how you feel. I always make sure I have at least one ahead of where I am. I’m about to finish my ninth journal – I’ve been writing every day since April 27th, 2003
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Gah. Spacevidcast won’t buffer fast enough on the school connection. *is too lazy to wait*
I have a mission. At lunch I shall obtain my student ID, then I will finally go to the library and take out a book.
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Good luck, Agent Wonkychair!
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Mission Complete. I have obtained a copy of Watership Down.
*to the theme of Mission Impossible*
s,s,nothing,o n s, e z, e n t! e n t! e n t!
Can anyone guess what that is?
*coughfrenchcough*
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The endings for -re verbs.
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Correct. My teachers are the coolest. In Science class I burned a pecan.
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Ugh. I scraped my knee before school.
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Yesterday I stepped on a chair and found myself on the floor.
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Yesterday I fell down the stairs and hurt my knee. And today I had ballet class. Yay!
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Yesterday I fell off a skateboard backwards and hit my head on the asphalt. >_<
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Ouch.
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So, at school we have these notebooks that we write in in the morning, and then at the end of the weeks our teacher reads them and writes comments in them. So, I was bored in class one day, and I doodled a HPB (complete with color) into my notebook. ANd when I get it back for comments, the teacher made an arrow pointing at it with the note, “Evil Pink Bunny?”
I swear she should have had no idea that they were evil.
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*pulses in*
WHY DO YOU PERSIST IN IGNORING MEEEE?!
*pulses out*
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*sedative pies*
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*pulses in*
Battle Card AntiDmg Activate!
*is unaffected*
*giant ninja star hits Ducky and drains her HP*
Mwahahaha!
*pulses out*
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What’s a HP?
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Health Points.
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Health Points in RPG-speak.
Look, AJAR, you’re really starting to freak out/annoy everyone by posting random Megaman stuff on every other thread.
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*pulses in*
Well, APPARENTLY that isn’t a problem, otherwise, my posts would not have been allowed by the Admins. So, nyah-nyah-nyah!
*pulses out*
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*materializes*The way posts come into the queue, we can’t always tell if a given comment is on topic or not. But I was about to mention that your posts were interfering with some threads (particularly on the SciFi RPG) and would be subject to zapping (and possible retrozapping) if they aren’t contributing to the business of the thread.
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AJAR, I don’t know who you are, but you’re really starting to annoy me, and several other people as well, as I-Man said. Please calm down/stop being so obnoxious.
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It’s fine. They calm down, no problem. They don’t, slight problem. We deal. They deal. They still don’t calm down, no problem. Blocked.
Simple. Chill.
-A
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Sadly, I know this. HP is Health Points.
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Since I don’t know where else to go…
I’m looking for Errata. She’s needed on the Sci Fi RPG thread. Please send her there. We’re getting kind of desperate.
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We had ANOTHER fight at school today (geez guys. I mean, really!) And, as per usual, no teacher noticed. Wow. But, hey, what can we do! Actually, I found out this intriguing fact in history: The The three most known words in China are Hamburgers, Richard Nixon, and Dell Computers. (??????)
Ok, that fact was probably not intriguing.
Oh well. I try.
I really do.
And in Tech Ed today we had to find two round trip airline tickets, a hotel room for three nights, a rental car for 4 days, a itialian resaurant, a steak resaurant, a play, and an attraction all under a budget if $2,000.00. We all epically failed.
We’re reading the Odessy and the Iliad.
We’re calling it the “forever book”
Oh well…
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IT IS NOT A FOREVER BOOK! IT’S ONLY 900 PAGES!!!!
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Fine. The infinite book.
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Infinfite book. Really Celesta. REALLY!
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Really Sis’. Really,
(cackles evilly and runs away)
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58.11 (Jakob) Guess this one:
u, tsu, ru: tte
bu, mu, nu: nde
ku: ite
gu: ide
su: shite
are base te- and ta- forms! (bum, bum)
And another:
aus, ausser, bei, mit
nach, seit
von, zu
gegenueber!
(hint, the first one’s from Japanese, the second from German)
Anyway…
September 15, 2008
Today was EXHAUSTING! We played a basketball-like game during P.E. that I really got into, so I was super icky, sweaty, and gross the rest of the day. Bleh.
M. came over today (without W.–phew!) and we mad movies about bugs.
I left White Fang ((NOTE: Book report book)) in either Math or English today. I really like it so far, so I have to get it back before someone turns it back into the library.
I haven’t written anything philisophical in here yet. I guess I’m not living in as trying times as Anne Frank did. Oh, wait, I did write something about Harry Potter a while back.
-Kyra
I was going to say something. Something exciting. Other than the fact that it was brownie Tuesday in orchestra. I guess I forgot.
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Test me on a language I know, please.
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Well, I was trying to get you to guess the song that they’re based off of.
Okay… what other song has the same tune as this one?
I love you, you love me
We’re a happy family
With a great big hug, and a kiss from me to you
Won’t you say you love me too?
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Barney, of course. 
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A friend’s husband passed away yesterday. Last night something told me to check up on the website they’d created (he had cancer) and see how they were doing, and I found the news that he’d gone that afternoon.
It’s so hard, even when you didn’t know the person well. Just the husband of a friend who you love, who you met only a few times really.
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A kid in a neighbouring school died of leukemia just a few days ago.
Nobody saw it coming. It’s affecting all of my closest friends, who go there.
-A
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I went to the dentist yesterday and he cut my gum and it was really wierd because I didn’t understand what was going on because they local-anaestised me. I also succeeded in telling my parents it hurt too badly to go to school
I’m going skiing on friday (: insanley happy!
66- my mum’s friend from church died from a brain tumour and although I didn’t know him it was really sad anyway maybe its just human nature to be sad about that kind of thing…
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G’night, MB! (^o*)y
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we learned about it in pi today
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hello , celestamoonchild, geeze, you have along name!!!!!!! yopu need to give everybody a couple of minutes to finish saying your name!!! whoohooo! i also know that you have aqua colored toes!!
jkjkjkjkjkjkjk
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Please capitalize. Nobody here tolerates bad spelling, grammar, chatspeak, or lack of capitalization. Also, you might want to go to the Welcome, Neophytes! thread. It’s at http://www.musefanpage.com/blog/?p=4019 .
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Ducky, I know you mean well — and yes we all appreciate attention to grammatical and orthographical courtesies — but to greet someone at the door with “nobody tolerates” this or that — not even a “hello” first — is not very courteous either. It makes people feel they’re under attack. Most people in that situation either run away or get defensive, which is not the result I thinkt you want to accomplish.
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Sorry
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We all make that mistake. I’ve done it once. I was reprimanded. The general formula is
1: Welcome, unless they make fifty posts in a row. If they do that, go to 3
2: Tell about grammar, after their third or fourth post.
3: If that behavior doesn’t stop, then remind, or get Piggy on them. Piggy is the god of arguing for capitalization. *bows to Piggy*
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Well, I just had math team try-outs. There were over 30 people trying out for 5 spots, so it was pretty intimidating. It was a 5-question test, and I’m 99% sure I got 4 of them right. The other one I think I got right, but I couldn’t find a way to prove my answer was right. And I think that everyone on the team will have gotten this test perfect. (And even for alternate spots, getting that one wrong and making one other stupid error will ruin any chances.)
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69- my teacher once celebrated pi day on 3/14. The contest she proposed was that in each class period the person who memorized the most digits of pi would get a small apple pie. I memorized 52 and won 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937150 
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My teacher did that too last year. I didn’t know anything beyond 3.14, so obviously I didn’t win.
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Nice. I’ve memorized 31 digits. Then, I figured that learning spelling words would help more. Now I know more digits of pi than most people and more spelling words than almost everyone.
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The blog is so fast right now. I’ve posted a bunch of comments in the last few minutes, and all of them have been posted within seconds. Way to go GAPA’s!
My soccer team is not so good right now. We lost our first game 2-0, but the second goal came about because of a communication problem, so I’m not too worried about that. My coach has been putting me in as center midfield. She says I’m good at it, but I hate it. It requires a lot of running, and I am NOT a good runner. Blah.
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Is anybody doing National History Day this year?
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**LOOK AT POST ABOVE THIS!**
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I’m sad, I have swine flu.
Anyways does random post mean you post random things?
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Was that just a random post, or do you actually have swine flu?….
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It can mean that, but conversations and discussions are always encouraged.
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*pulses in*
Ya bet it does, kid!
AJAR (in background): What was that?
Treble.FM: Oh, I was making a comment on that Muse Fan Page thing.
AJAR (in front of screen): Oh, can you do that one next poster/above poster meme for me, then submit the comment and pulse out? I need to do some fine-tuning to your EM frequency so that we can Wave-Change more efficiently.
Treble.FM: Sure enough, kid.
AJAR: >_>
Treble.FM: Er, I mean, yes sir, Master AJAR.
AJAR: That’s better.
Treble.FM: Er, um… Anyway, the Above Poster has to tap the nearest wall 100 times, and the next poster has to buy my Master a Klondike Bar.
AJAR: Why, thank you, Treble. How thoughtful and kind of you.
Treble.FM: You’re welcome, Master AJAR. Anyway, Bye for now!
*pulses out*
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Ok, random bit of information picked up from a TV show:
August 8th is “Sneak Zuchinni On Your Neighbor’s Porch Night”
I just had to let the world know.
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You have got to be kidding.
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So… you put zucchini on someone else’s porch at night?
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I’m assuming because people tend to have way too much zuchinni by then and are desperate for any way to get rid of it…?
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That’s great. It made me laugh. I’ll do that next year.
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I’ll have to write that one down.
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77) Eh, sounds fun! Maybe I’ll do it next year.
I am TIRED.
My new schedule:
UP at 6:30 -PRACTICE!
9:00- SCHOOL!
4:00-6:00 – PRACTICE!
6:30 – 7:00 – DINNER ON THE GO!
7:00-8:00 – GAME!
10:00 – HOME, FINALLY
Today we had a day of break, thankfully.
I’m not sure I can handle this every day…what have I gotten myself into?
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Replying to armada.Yes, I really have it.(swine flu)
Just to let people know I have posted every single post from my new DSi.
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Aw, that’s sad. *sympathy pie*
I hope I don’t get swine flu. I’ve been washing my hands after every class period, just like my mom told me to. *is proud*
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Your hands are going to be so dried out. You’ll regret it.
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My mom, at least, agreed to let me use hand sanitizer every period.
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Ahem. What is a DSi?
*shrinks into the distance with her embarrassing yet blissful ignorance of anything technological that is not made by Apple *
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DSi is the new and improved DS. It has a camera for photos, the mic can record sound, and I think there’s even internet and a video camera.
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And I hear it’s worse than the DS Lite.
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How so? I have the DS lite, which i upgraded from the DS, but I din’t think that the DSi was worth buying, ‘cuz I already have a similar one.
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I haven’t really heard anything about it, but it does NOT look worse than the DS Lite. Only problem is, the DS and DS Lite can play GBA games while the DSi can’t.
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I have an original DS. From way back when when they only came in silver and blue… I’ll never trade it in. Except if it breaks.
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Wow. That does suck. *choklit* Bad swine flu, or mild?
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September 16, 2008
I feel as if I’m forgetting something extremely important… Hm.
More soccer in P.E. Bleh.
M. and I walked to the park. We had a fun time talking.
Mom and Dad went to Back to School night tonight. They didn’t think it was very fun. ((NOTE: I don’t blame them, considering my schedule involved waking back and forth across the entire school four times last year))
A.N. and I got a reply for our letter! The people thought we were aliens… oh, well. We’re writing another crazy message tomorrow. ((NOTE: The day before we thought it would be super cool to see if we could get someone in 3rd period orchestra to write us like a pen pal. We left a message on one of the stands and we got one back! This continued for about half the year.))
I’m trying to remember a song from The Music Man, but I forgot it (duh).
-Kyra
I remembered what I was going to say yesterday! I FINALLY got my Muse! I was a little confused because I never saw the Roll Call and Discussion threads, so I thought something had gone horribly wrong within the publisher and that there would be no September issue. But, yet again, I was proved wrong!
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I did to, but it didn’t work.Oh, by the way I sent my apocalipttic bunnies to thank you.
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So, due to a track meet, I didn’t get on yesterday, and I have to get off very soon right now, but I wanted to just reassure you that I’m fine and everything like that.
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Mary Travers from Peter, Paul and Mary died.
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I just found out today my friend tried to kill herself again. Like, two weeks ago. One of my friends told me today, and another apparently had known since just after it happened but for some reason didn’t tell us.
I’m somewhere between numbness, shock and sorrow still. I need to call her but it’s too late to do so now and I don’t know when I’ll have any free time tomorrow.
I don’t know what to do to help her. She’s on antidepressants, but I have no idea if she’s even taking them; she lives half the country away from me because she had to move a year and a half ago. She has a lot of problems in her life and I don’t know how I can help her right now.
I’m overloaded with stuff I need to do/should be doing now but I can’t concentrate anymore. I have two tests and an oral presentation tomorrow and a tennis meet and hockey practice and I can’t do anything but sit here and ignore it. I haven’t told my parents that she even tried to commit suicide before and I probably won’t now either, and I can’t get out of any of the stuff and I don’t feel like I can–or want to–talk about this to anyone other than the two friends I mentioned above and her (when I can).
I don’t know what I should be doing but I can’t seem to do anything right now.
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I’m sorry. That’s really scary. *choklit*
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That’s rough, Jadestone. Do her parents know?
It’s not much comfort but going by your description there probably isn’t very much you can do right at this moment, so please don’t put too much of a burden on yourself. As important as friends are, there are responsibilities too great for friends to bear. It took me a long time to figure that out. One of the hardest lessons I’ve had to learn, in fact. Since you can’t call her now, even if you can’t concentrate, it won’t hurt to go through the motions of studying. Some of it will sink in, whether you realize it or not. Maybe you can use it to channel the restlessness. It’s not being disloyal to try to focus on the work you need to do. Plus, distracting your mind from the situation might help you think about it more clearly later.
Just my thoughts of the moment, for what they’re worth. I’m sorry you’re having to deal with this.
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*hugs and chocklit*
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All of my thoughts are with you and your friend. Maybe it would help to get together with those two friends and talk about it? I agree with Rebecca though, I think it’s okay for you to just try to recalibrate at this point, because there’s definitely a stage at which you can’t do anything more and then you just shut down.
many hugs for you and all your friends.
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*hugs*
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*hugs* That’s terrible. I wish someone could do something.
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I’m so sorry to hear that. I agree with Speller73, that must be really scary. *hugs and chocklit all around*
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It turns out that I probably got 3 out of 5 on the math team try-outs. (And they were all so easy…) One of the questions was a trick question that a lot of the best mathletes got wrong. Oh well, there’s always Scholastic Bowl…
(Math team is my life, so if I don’t make, it will be really depressing, especially since the topic for the first meet is one of my strong points.)
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My HPB t-shirt arrived yesterday, so I am in full bunnifying mode today. BUNNIFY BUNNIFY BUNNIFY BUNNIFY
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I’ve convinced my mom to get me a shirt for Christmas.
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I’m starting to convince my dad that what I really need for my birthday is a Muse-ry Loves wardrobe!
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What? You want to dress like a GAPA?
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Who doesn’t?
*hides from Piggy’s bunnifyingness*
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I’ve been wanting to get something from MLC for a while, but I don’t know what, exactly. I love the ‘I beg to differ’ items, and several others, which I can’t remember right now.
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I got a lot of compliments on my shirt today, even though no one knows what it actually means. I think it’s working….
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Not to sound like a completer idiot or anything, but Piggy, where on Earth (I’m assuming it was on Earth) did you get an HPB shirt??
84- I nearly cried when I read that, it’s awful that people as young as ourselves are going through things that make them want to take their own lives. I’m sending some virtual chocolate to both you and your friend (I’ve heard it has antidepressant qualities) and it should arrive in approximately 3 seconds. Unfortunately, GAPA Lasley is right- there doesn’t seem to be much you can do. But for what it’s worth it might be comforting for anyone to know they’ve got friends out there.
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Kokopelli52: We thought the whole world knew about Musery Loves Company.
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I agree. Sometimes I get stressed, but to actually want to end it all… it’s horrible.
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Speaking of that I can’t decide on what I want. It’s between the MA wall clock or one of the trucker hats.(forgot what they were). Please tell me your recommendation.
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Both.
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I am going to an Indian resteraunt in a bit. The place I am going is supposedly very good. Oh, and by the way, my new avatar says “IMAGINE” on it, in case you can’t tell. It’s a really pretty image. Search “Imagine” in Google Images. It’s the fourth one from the left.
Anyways, I’ve been kind of sad lately because it seems that none of my friends are even my friends anymore except for two or three of them. My best friend since kindergarden never talks to me because we aren’t in any of the same classes except for chorus and whenever I do see her, she’s paying all of her attention to this one girl who doesnt really have any other friends. I’m not trying to be petty, but I really miss her. *sighs*
84– I’m so sorry, Jadestone. *hugs and choklit to you and all of your friends*
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School has been a total whirlwind for me. I was so happy to get back and see my friends, but, with all of my friends come all of my enemies. Dealing with them, unfortunately, has not been fun.
I don’t understand what makes me such a prime target for sniggers and snide comments. Well, actually, I do know. It’s because I don’t have the money (nor the desire) to buy designer clothes and try and “fit in”. Also, because I’m not as thin as a rail, like all of them. (Not trying to offend anyone who is, it’s just that all of the people who don’t like me are.)
Wow, none of that really made sense….
This year, since I’m in high school now, I have to join marching band. I can do everything EXCEPT the part where we actually march. That might be a problem.
I’m reading the Harry Potter series for the second time, and have become exceedingly obsessed. Ah, Harry Potter. What an awesome series!
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Fitting in is overrated.
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Exactly. I have no internet-wait, what? Of course I have internet! I meant to say “I have no interest in fitting in, unless it’s by accident.” or something like that.
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Jade, I’m so sorry about your friend. *hugs*
Well, tomorrow I’m headed to the 18th century to help out with the Kiddie Kontrol Squad, in other words I’ll be helping teach schoolkids colonial games all day. It should be fun, for lack of a better term.
I’m tired and hungry but don’t want to eat. I’m cold too, despite wearing a sweatshirt and a wool sweater. Ughhh.
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Sorry I haven’t posted much lately…. biology and algebra are ruling my life. At least I actually bonded with Max (guy who hated me last year) over the horribleness of bio…. and Graham’s actually leaving me alone. (He’s the other one.) But yeah, I hate bio and algebra. Both my bio teacher and my alg teacher are psychotic and give about thirty tons of homework a night…
So yeah, PP my charries please.
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I, inspired by Silver Lining, have changed my Gravatar too. It says ‘Coexist’, in symbols of different religions.
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Fabulous, darling. I considered that image when choosing a new Gravatar as well. I have it on a sign in my room.
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We had a meet at a course that I really like today, and I thought I was dead last until the end, when I turned out that I beat four people AND set a personal record.
I got Buzz Aldrin’s autobiography, Magnificent Desolation, from the library and I’m reading it in bits here and there.
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Did anyone see the MTV Music Awards? I did, & I thought Kanye West was an absolute jerk.
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Thank you to everyone who responded… I’m a lot better now that the initial shock/freakout has worn off. I’m going to try to call her tomorrow in the… two hours I have free which is also the time I need to shower in so I may just go unclean for the day.
Speaking of the shower it ****** smells like ******* sulfur again so I either have to a)shower ice-cold which is not going to happen as I do not deal well with cold and would probably give myself hypothermia, or b)don’t breathe the entire time. ***********************************
God I should just go to sleep why am I always so tired
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96- stress comes to mind.
Thank you, GAPA Lasley , for pointing out the Musery page. From what I can tell they even ship to Singapore! (amazon doesn’t, which really bugs me).
Tomorrow is my mom’s birthday.
This has been an incredibly long week- all our music, arts, drama, and tech classes got cancelled due to a conference in Indonesia and so we dragged through extra periods of note taking on themes and whatnot, and then had extra homework… ugggghhhhh. Dying…dying… dead. And it’s your turn to send the card.
I am considering the purchase of an “I Beg To Differ” t-shirt.
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Lovely Lunegood and Kiga, I’m awaiting your moves on our chess games.
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Sorry! I’ve moved now, though.
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MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I now have my jacket of EPICNESS.
http: // www. emily strange .com/ Shop /Clothing/ Hoodies_ Sweatshirts /Super_ Kitties_Rock_ Hoody/
It’s delinkified. I’m wearing it (even though it’s big on me) and it’s EPIC.
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That is a great jacket.
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I know. It has little cat ears, pockets, and it’s awesome.
I haven’t taken it off yet.
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Very epic indeed.
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Why thank you. I have taken it off three times so far since when I got it…once for taking a bath, once for going to bed, and I can’t remember the other one.
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The link isn’t working for me.
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I’ll take out a few spaces…
www . emilystrange . com/Shop/Clothing/Hoodies_Sweatshirts/Super_Kitties_Rock_Hoody/
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Flamablamulous!
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Almost. Flam-a-blam-a-blous.
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As in the book Emily the Strange?
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90- (Beedle) Just be confident with who you are and who you choose to be and the snickers and rude coments will stop mattering.
Jadey *hugs* I’m really sorry. I don’t think I can say anything to help, but I hope the phone call goes well.
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I’m listening to Carole King’s “Up On The Roof” again, because I really liked it in the IMAX movie Space Station 3D. Very good song.
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The newest Raw Materials (“The Low Bid”) is great, if you’ve been paying attention to science news the last few weeks.
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Raw Materials is as good as Kokopelli & Company. If I ever create a muse myth system, Larry Gonick would be the God of Comedy.
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I reread Bo’s page today, and I was really intriged by the 5-d dvd. What would 5-d look like?
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So did anyone watch the premiere of Community last night? I just finished watching it on Hulu, and it looks like it’s going to be a great show, which I had suspected as soon as I learned that both Joel McHale and John Oliver, two of my favorite comedians, were on it. I must say I love John Oliver’s character. “Booyah.”
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104: No, but I heard about it. Anyways, I just noticed this, I used to be really annoyed because of my parents always being on Facebook and not pay attention to us, but now I understand them because of MB. Does anybody else agree with me? This is my Facebook.
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*isn’t doing study hall like supposed too*
There is a chance to win 100 dollars at my school. Remember that code a while back? Well, that’s part of it.
*still isn’t studying*
I just went to an environmental art workshop and I made this awesome thingamajig whatchamacallit doodleybob!
*still isn’t stud-* Ok, fine, I’ll do my homework now.
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I have a query….GAPAs, has Skipper posted recently? Or Kiki the Great? I thought of skipper because I was reading some of the old poetry threads and Kiki because of Fringe last night (!!!)
I don’t see either of them around much and I just wondered…
105 – ….your parents should probably spend less time on facebook though. I mean….:/
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Axa: The Skipper Nancy last posted on January 5; Kiki the Great, on May 31.
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ah jeez…well I can always hope they’ll pop in again. Thanks!
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We miss them, too.
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How about Queenie J?
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Last sighted on January 5, 2009, in a single post. Before that, one post in April 2008. She stopped posting regularly in January 2008.
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AHOY HOY! Lovely Vendaval alerted me to this post and I thought I’d check back in! And Fringe was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING Thursday night. Ah Walter, how I’ve missed you so.
Yay MB!! Maybe I’ll stick around and post some more…
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WAAAAA! I’m so glad yo see you!!! I’m glad he told you, cause I’m kinda freakin out over fringe and there’s no one to talk to! okay so I’m sad that whatever craziness happened to charlie happened cause I loved real charlie and now there’s just EVIL CHARLIE and omg I missed walter too lol
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AHHHH CHARLIE!!! man, I loved that guy… and his hats… Stupid evil shapeshifter… though I really want that typewriter. And my favorite parts (or one of them) was the Broyles/Nina kiss…. hahaha such a WTF moment there… she’s like 20 years older, ew! But funny. We need a Sci-Fi TV thread……. so we can discuss this more in depth!
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Today was Club Day at school. Booths in the gym, people sign up for clubs, etc.
Guess how many people signed up for the Harry Potter club my friend and I are starting?
No, go on, guess.
…Seventy-five. 75! I’ve been incredibly happy all afternoon.
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Wow, that’s great!
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104- Hulu… I miss that. Do you know that most sites that stream, say TV shows, won’t let me watch because of copyright? It always pisses me off when I get the “this video isn’t available in your country” message. Does that happen in America too sometimes?
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Yeah. It does.
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You could try using an American proxy.
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I don’t know where to find one. Hot Spot Shield is good enough to fool YouTube but Hulu is too smart.
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Bookgirl_me I am awaiting your move.
I thought MB would be a lot more busy on Sat.
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It’s often quieter on weekends, actually.
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Really? I’m surprised, I would have expected, like mas0n, that weekends would actually be busier than week days when most MBers are busy with school…I guess a lot of people have things going on during the weekends. My weekends are usually pretty busy with soccer games, and even more so if we have a tournament which could take up pretty much the whole weekend.
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I’m guessing people fall into family routines on the weekend, doing more things out of the house or with parents. Or maybe the parents take over the computers. This time of year in particular there are all sorts of events going on, trying to catch the seasonal weather. There are about five different events I’d like to go to tomorrow, if I could spare the time.
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That is odd to me. I am usually at home all weekend. (with the exception of church)
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Sorry about double post
I have worn out the ask the GAPAs thread, so I’m going to ask here.
On the chess game, do you know if we need a plug in on our computers, or is the plug in just needed on the website?
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mas0n: Everything you need to play chess is here on the blog. You don’t have to download anything onto your computer.
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*does wierd happy dance* Yah!!! I can ply chess on my DSi. (dual screen i don’t know)
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That would be spelled weird. *sorry, I can be a speeling freak*
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A speeling freak?:
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Um…sarcasm. It was a joke! Or should I say jokke?
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Irony!
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UGH. I cannot get my terms straight. I really can’t.
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Mas0n: (Post #111) My weekend schedule is usually as follows: (By the way, I’m sure this is to no interest to anyone on here, but I don’t have anything else to write about at the moment…)
Saturday: Unless I have a soccer tournament that starts today, I usually don’t do much on Saturdays. My schedule is basically just to finish up any homework I didn’t do Friday night, MB (Of course, what else?!), email and IM friends, practice clarinet, and I usually try to write in my journal today. Sometimes, but rarely, my family goes out somewhere, but most of the time we just relax at home.
Sunday: Sundays are always pretty busy for me. We go to church and then Sunday school in the morning, and then usually go back home for a quick lunch before heading off to soccer or whatever sport is in season. It’s really busy………..
Oh yeah, and the GAPA’s must be moderating right now, because literally a minute after I posted #110.1.1, I saw it in the Recent Comments.
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I be wishin’ ye all a happy Talk Like A Pirate Day!
I had a very cool dream last night that involved superheroes, dinosaurs, a battle at Disney World, Mike Massimino, and me doing something incredibly awesome in that battle. Unfortunately, I can’t remember what I did that was so awesome.
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Who likes my new picture of a rabid wolf I made myself?
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Very piratical.
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G’morning my mateys it be since a long moon ago since I visited this here site.
Anyway since this random thread is on Mythology I had to comment.
-So this year me and my friend are co-presidents of my highschool’s Mythology club.
– Currently translating the Aeneid for my Latin class
– And the Fall Drama this year is called Once upon a time…. which is a play that connects fables and dramas from all around the world.
Well I’m off to disappear into cyberspace maybe I’ll be stopping by more often. It’s good to see Museblog is still around and as strong as ever (And I like the new format)
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Ahoy, ::DAW::! Nice to see you traveling in these realms again!
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So I have decided I am going to make several copies of the school map and draw on them an escape route, and title each one “Raptor Attack Escape Plan.” I will laminate them and discreetly hang them in class under the tornado/fire escape routs.
Yes I obviously am a hard working AP student.
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Ha ha! That’s a very funny idea… I wonder what the reaction will be…
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That’s a great idea.
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Oh, yes yes do that! I wonder what would everybody (at least those that notice it) would think of it?
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You should also make an escape route for an attack of hot pink bunnies with pies.
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Does anyone else run cross country?
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I do.
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What’s your mile time?
And, if you don’t mind, body type. It’s fine if you don’t want to give that, though.
I’m male, 125 pounds, about 5’2″ tall… Can’t think of anything else. Anyway, I run a 7:33.47 average mile, so far, but I’ve gotten 7:00 when the actual race was only a mile.
What do you think of track, as a cross country runner?
-A
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Just under eight minutes, depending on the terrain.
Female, about the same, 5’0.
I don’t like track as much, it’s more interesting to run in the woods.
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Yes. Fastest is 6:29 (on a track)
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So. The school released, on Friday, coded coordinates to the treasure, and three clues, on for each number in the coordinates. There are 10 coordinates total. My brother and I are working hard to find the buried chest.
The first clue, E = 1, we already solved. (thanks!)
The second clue, D = 6, we solved.
The third clue, J = 1, We solved.
The coded coordinates are(excluding the first two):
(latitude) xx AB.CDEN
(longitude) xxFG.HIJW
So, stick the numbers in and you get
xx AB.C61N
xx FG.HIJW
Using Google Earth, we drew a line across campus where xx.x61x occurred. We went to one spot on the line, in the woods where the movie of the buried chest was taken, and looked around.
We started near a faculty’s house. Coincidentally (not), Mr. M, who made the treasure hunt up, lives in that house. We found a bucket of dirt about the same size as the chest, 25 feet behind their house, on the line. A stick was next to the bucket, pointing left. Going left, we found BUMPY DIRT. Right on the xx.x63x line. As we went back to our dorms (this was an hour ago, there wasn’t enough light left), we saw a SOMEONE (coughmr.mcough) looking out the house’s window. We waved, and Mr. M closed the curtains.
Obviously, we know where the chest is. Tomorrow is a Sunday, no one will be around, we can dig up the chest and keep it until the combination lock clues are released. Yay!
Sorry for the long post!
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Impressive sleuthing!
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Good luck! I hope you get to the treasure first!
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*high five* Nice job!
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That sounds awesomly awesome! I wonder what’s inside?
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Oh wow. I haven’t been here in a while. Quite the impressive overhaul.
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G’night, mateys!
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meow.
My mother was thrilled to find that her birthday is on Talk Like a Pirate Day.
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My Sunday feels full up. I’m glad I’m not going to church. Now there’s just the book group I have to prepare) and ice skating lessons, which I’m excited about. I really want to learn how to skate, and now I’m going to!!! *hops up and down* I’ve skated once or twice before now, and I know you have to fall backwards.
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Ack. It should be (I have to prepare).
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125-You’re supposed to fall backwards when skating???
mas0n- Don’t take this personally, but I’ve noticed that you frequently double- or tripple-post. It’s generally considered rude and personally annoys me although I know that it’s sometimes hard to collect your thoughts. Still, could you try a little harder to aviod double-posting and put SFTDP (sorry for the double post) in front of your second post if you need to make one?
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Yes, because if you fall forwards, your face gets frozen to the ice, and if you fall to the side, your arm will get cut off by people skating over it.
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If you fall backwards, you can’t influnence the way you fall and seriously hurt your back. Best to fall forwards and try to catch yourself with your hands.
*has been skating for a while*
*still can’t do figures*
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That’s what I do. That, or I’m a wimp and I skate really, really slowly so that I never fall!
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Falling isn’t that bad *went to Kindergarten in Austria* We spent more laying flat on the ice after falling then skating. Even though I could already skate I was terrified of my instructor who kept yelling at me… But I wound up skating fairly well.
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I always thought you fell on your knees and hands.
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GAPAs! I must alert you to a horrible mistake! My birthday isn’t on the calendar! Oh noes! (October 1st 1995, black and red, by the way) Thanks!
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Don’t worry, Kiki. You were already on the master list (though I’ve updated the colors). Pay no attention to what’s not on this Calendar. It’s a work in progress.
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Thanks Lady Bunniful
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bookgirl_me: Sorry, but are you talking about our chess game? If you aren’t, I try really hard to not double or triple post. I did apologize on here when I double posted. When I have to double post now, I will put that apology at the beginning. Please forgive me if I was rude.
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Does anyone watch the british Life on Mars? No spoilers please as I’ve not finished.
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It’s very sunny and I had a nice run. It’s a GOOD day.
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Will there be a 2010 MB signatures? I’m going to start making mine anyway.
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They’re translating Google into Klingon! (I’m hoping they’ll attempt Vulcan and Cardassian)
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132: How do you get your signiture on there?
((I am now addicted to this blog))
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If you make it on your computer, then you can send it to the GAPAs, gapa @ musefanpage.com/blog
If you make it not on your computer, then scan it it.
I *think* I’ll do mine on the computer. If it doesn’t work, I’ll resort to off computer.
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Today I discovered two bizzare things.
1. If I pinch my arm really hard, it will make a rash.
2. I still have my burn scar from my biscuit tray burn of over 3-4 years ago!
Yeah…. totally random and waaay bizzare. Just wanted to let you guys know these little tidbits of useless information!
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I discovered a couple of things a little while ago.
1. I don’t really bruise. … Apparently except when I bite myself.
2. You can give yourself a hickey. Perhaps not in conventional places, but it is possible.
-A
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1. Uh, not even going to ask why you were biting yourself….
2. Well, obviously you can give yourself a hickey. Which, by the way, is technically a bruise, as well. So, therefore, you apparently bruise in ways besides biting yourself.
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Mrow.
Beavo is sick. Beavo has had a headache for the last week. Beavo feels like crap. Beavo might miss his audition for three plays tomarrow, not to mention Freshmen elections, drama class, the chance to finish homework, and just about everything that shouldn’t ever be missed.
Beavo is kind of mad at the world right now.
Beavo apologizes for being so whiny.
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Um, why did Beavo meow? (Or mrow, to be more accurate.)
*gives chocolate*
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*Hugs.*
Want some lemonade?
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Beavo is talking in the third person.
Kokopelli52 is sorry to hear that, especially because she feels like crap herself (major cold, recovering from flu, and overloaded with homework.
) *sends sympathy chocolate oranges*
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Beavo is a freshman?
-A
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136: I am sick to. I’m gonna miss homecoming tommorow. ((stupid H1N1 virus))
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132–Grazie, Enc, for reminding me. I think I shall work on mine tomorrow in school during break.
Random thought: My keyboard and mouse are being really tempermental and sticky. The scroll key won’t work. I’m getting really annoyed with it.
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SFTDP–
SudoRandom! I ♥ your avatar! It’s The Hat, isn’t it? I rather like that hat.
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I just finished my Signature, and it is PWNSOME!!!
It’s 28615 bytes. Is that too big or too small?
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Enceladus: 28 kilobytes? We can easily handle that.
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The number of bytes doesn’t really tell me much about a file that small without knowing the content. Do you know what it is by pixels or by resolution? See my notes on file size.
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(I just meant that it wasn’t too big. It could be too small to give a good enough image. Lady B. is the expert in that department.)
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G’night!
And Santa Ana winds are this week. I don’t waaaaant dry, hot, fast and hard winds… guuuhhh.
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Ooh! Ooh! Santa Ana winds? I wrote a paper about an essay about those! “There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension. What it means is that tonight a Santa Ana will begin to blow, a hot wind from the northeast….” “‘Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks. Anything can happen.'”
But they don’t sound fun. Try to stay sane.
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When I was eight or nine years old and living in San Diego, one Santa Ana was so bad that school was canceled. Some places have snow days…
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Lucky, lucky you. I’ve only got two (seperate) days off until september. That cow in charge of education makes me so aggressive.
*leaves to avoid ranting*
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I do remember one time we were rehearsing outside for a play, and I was using an umbrella, and I nearly got swept of my feet. The force was enough to knock me over, and there were little kids running all over the place yelling “santa ana! eek!” with no idea what it meant.
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I love dry, hot, fast, and hard winds. Can you send me some, please?
-A
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136- Aw Beavs. *hugs* I hope you feel better.
I busted the knuckle of my pointer finger on my right hand. It’s anoying more than anything else. Writing is hard, as is typing. Hopefully it will go away. I’m also coming down with a cold. My friend had it and thoughtfully gave it to me. Right now it’s just a scratchy throat, but in a few days it will progress to a hacking cough. Then I will be coughing and my nose will be running a marathon. Then I will left with the occaisional cough. Bleh. This happens every fall.
In better news: I discovered a Fighting Fantasy book in my brother’s room last night and spent most of today playing. They are these ridiculous role playing games, sort of like choose your own adventure, but you get to fight monsters. It highly reminds me of playing Yu- Ghi- Oh, but totaly different. They are so, so, so much fun.
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I LOVE Chose Your Own Adventure, so I might want to try that out.
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Am frustrated. I can’t reply to anyone’s comments. I clicked reply and nothing…
142- Ow. Sorry you got a cold. Seriously, school’s are such germ factories. I got the flu already! (and my mom was going to take me in for a flu shot next weekend…*groan*)
But, hey, what can I do? Scary enough, we have (dum dum dum) CHAIR AUDITIONS. (screams and faints) On Thursday for orchestra. I’m up against 40 kids for first chair… I’d better not get last chair. At least I’m not first violin (shudders). For reasons I can’t understand, my sister I currently trying to get the printer to work by hitting it with…the stapler…oh no, that’s bad, actually…oh dear…oh my…
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It’s STILL 105 degrees! September usually cools down to about 99 right now…
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There is nothing wrong about attacking a printer (that jams up constantly) with a stapler, Celesta. Oh, and don’t you DARE put the stapler in jello…
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(snickers)
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*snickers also*
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So today at lunch was really scary. I came up to our regular table and my friend was sitting there, looking all woozy. Her eyes were crossing in and out, which was a bit weird. I asked what was wrong, and she said, “I have a really bad headache and there are two of you.” I commanded her to drink some water and eat her sandwich, because I was worried sha might be dehydrated. She opened her lunchbox and goes, “All right! My mom packed me TWO sandwiches!” Then she kept complaining that she couldn’t see anything, how she kept blacking out. I was really nervous then, because I thought she was having a seizure. Finally, my other friend dragged her to the nurse’s office, where she started throwing up and it turned out she had a disturbingly high temperaure.
It was scary. I’d never seen a delirious person before.
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What should I get engraved on the back of my Ipod? I think name and phone number is too boring, but I might do that. Then I have a better chance of getting it back if it gets lost (which it probably will).
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Do that, and you also might have room for a quote–my friend has “music is the only thing that makes sense anymore” (who knows what from) on hers.
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I think “Music is the only thing that makes sense anymore” is from the movie Across the Universe. “Music is the only thing that makes sense anymore. I play a lot. Keeps the demons at bay” or something.
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That sounds like a good idea to me. Also, it makes it more identifiable in case someone steals it.
Last year my band teacher brought his ipod to school and left it in the band room for ten minutes while he went to get lunch. When he came back, it was gone, and despite asking everyone he couldn’t get it back. A bunch of students pooled money to buy him a new one, and he’d had it for barely three days when it got stolen again.
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You’re getting a iPod? Awesome!
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SFTDP
Somebody on my sister’s soccer team has swine flu.
so my sister may have it.
eep.
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Get lots of rest tonight and talk to us in the morning.
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Almost our entire girls’ volleyball team was out with swine flu today.
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So I gave a speech I hadn’t prepared on renewable energy today in Public Speaking class, and in spite of the fact that I hadn’t prepared and had to go first (Reverse alphabetical order, and nobody in the class has a name that starts with “Z”), I got a 92! The teacher also said I was a natural presenter, which is very strange.
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September 21, 2008
I’m sorta sick. I think I have a cold.
Today was more interesting than yesterday. Tommy threw up on my bed at 7:00 ((am)) so I had to clean it up. I went back to sleep and then did all the Room of Requirement stuff on the JK Rowling website. There’s a time turner there now so I can do all the stuff. I took all of the WOMBAT tests and got an “Exceeds Expectations” on each one. Hooray!
Then I had lunch and went to the F’s farewell party. I don’t know why B.F. would want to go to Iraq. It seems crazy to me. I hope he doesn’t get killed.
Then, M., W., and I played board games. O. came back and then we hung around in the potting shed. It’s too bad the weekend’s over!
-Kyra
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Piggy’s mood: emo, if that can be considered a mood. Minus the emo music and self-harm. And the skinny jeans. And the died hair. And the emo band t-shirts. And the makeup. And the bad poetry.
But other than those, emo. I’m not sure why. Perhaps the Santa Ana winds have farther-reaching effects than originally thought? Or maybe it’s the hordes of gnats. *swat*
I even bought myself a black hoodie to replace a navy blue one. Is comfy.
Oh, another thought: I’m ready for summer vacation now, kthxbai.
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Dyed*.
You have gnats? Where are you?
I need hoodies… Lucky.
And same on the readiness level.
-A
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Oh, yes, dyed, not died.
I’m in Eastern Nebraska, but I’m not sure why there are so many gnats. They’re everywhere. I’ve killed two or three in the last ten minutes, just sitting here at the computer.
Where do you stand on hoodies? Zip or pullover?
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Zip! I collect zip hoodies and will not go anywhere without one of them.
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Totally pullover. I dislike the zip ones a lot.
-A
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I’m a fan of zip, myself. More customizable, so to speak.
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Me too. Pullovers poof too much.
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Piggy’s fact of the day: contrary to very popular belief, “moot” does not mean “closed to debate or consideration”. It means just the opposite, “open to question” or “subject to discussion”.
Thank you.
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So “Your opinion is moot” means “your opinion is subject to discussion” ? Weird.
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Yep. And a moot point is still very available to be discussed.
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My old copy of Webster’s New Collegiate Dictonary defines the adjective as “subject or subjected to debate or discussion,” which would make it a near-synonym of “debatable” or “disputed.” But Dictionary.com gives three definitions:
–adjective
1. open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful: a moot point.
2. of little or no practical value or meaning; purely academic.
3. Chiefly Law. not actual; theoretical; hypothetical.
This sounds to me like one of those words with rapidly evolving meanings.
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It also means ‘of no significance’. Legally, at least. It’s probably changed meaning recently.
-A
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Ooof. I haven’t been good at keeping up with posts, scary thought.
Ah well. I’ve had a rather bus time the past few days, going to DC twice in a row, then spending a few days in the 18th century, plus continuing work on building a stone wall, along with attempting to get schoolwork done. *faints dead away*
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Have we heard about the stone wall before?
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153.1~ I don’t know….have you? We’ve been working on it for several weeks. It’s around what will eventually be the garden, to keep the deer out. It’s 5′ high, approximately 40′ by 80′ on the sides, but with 10′ gates each side. It’s been interesting, spending time throwing rocks around.
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SANTA ANA WINDS START TOMORROW.
G’night, MB!
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*groans* I have an awful cold and I have to swim 800m tomorrow…
I feel disturbingly close to being dead. And I didn’t have any lunch today (my sandwich became soggy from my ice pack and then got squashed under my maths textbook).
146 (Silver Lining)- That must have been nasty. For her, I mean. I’ve been delirious before, but all that happened was I felt all woozy and thought my mom was keeping me from playing computer games, and then I sort of stopped hallucinating and just was seeing triple for a while.
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The Macarthur Foundation has just announced its latest crop of “genius grant” recipients, and once again your hardworking Administrators have been unaccountably overlooked. Oh, well, they’ll get it right one of these years.
Meanwhile, some very inspiring people are now $500,000 richer. You can read about them at www . macfound . org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.5410503/k.11CB/Meet_the_2009_Fellows.htm
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I’m mad. My computer doesn’t have paint. It is windows and brand new. I guess I have to draw it.
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SFTDP
Saying of the day: Before you make fun of someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Then you will be a mile away from them, and they would have no shoes. You would then be unable to make fun of them. They would also be very mad at you for taking your shoes.
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That sounds like one of Jack Handey’s “Deep Thoughts.” Is that where it came from?
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I think I’ve seen it on Demotivators, among other places.
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No. My dad thought of that joke. He got it from a similar serious saying.
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Hey! Sorry I haven’t been able to post, what with the homework and band and goofing off and stuff. Silver Lining, that must’ve been really scary for you. Did your friend literally drag her, or did she just take her to the nurse? mas0n, are you new? Nice avatar. *american theme song* That’s a cool joke. I’m probably boring you all right now, so I’m gonna say two more things. One, I HAVE A FIELD TRIP TOMORROW!!! But it’s all about team building, and I work best alone, so I’m probably going to 
tomorrow. Second, on Thursday, I have, like, a BAJILLION twizzes (tests/quizzes)!!! Okay only three, but still. Wow did I ramble a lot. See ya later!!
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No, she didn’t have to literally drag her. But she’s okay now!
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I was going to post this on the Just Friends thread but it’s so dead that I think I’ll put it here.
WARNING: LONG POST AHEAD! Still, please try to read it…
My friend H and I were really close last year. Like best friends type of close. She’s just about the only friend that really kept in touch with me throughout the entire summer, and so I expected us to be BFFs as soon as we got back to school, right? Wrong. I get back, and immediately discover that, although I am in almost all of her classes, another girl, D, is also in all of our classes. Although I have no problem with D, she is one of the ringleaders of the so called “popular” group in our grade and therefore we don’t really spend that much time together as I am not considered popular. (I don’t mean offense to D, but just picture your stereotypical blond girl, and that’s basically what she looks like. Picture perfect hair, face, etc. She’s actually pretty smart, but that’s beyond the point…)
Anyway, H has always been on the fringe of the popular group but spent most of her time with us last year, and now all of a sudden she’s spending all her time with the popular girls and D and basically ignoring the rest of us like we never were her friend. I mean, she’s still talking to me (occasionally) but she rarely talks to some of our other friends and never spends time with us when D and her girls are around. I’ve even heard her backstabbing this really good friend of ours…
Now, a bunch of the girls who are my friends are making a huge deal of this, and to tell you the truth, I don’t want to do that because I feel like H should have the right to be friends with whoever she wants to, and we can’t control that. However, I do think that she shouldn’t totally ignore the rest of us like we’re not even her friends anymore – especially since we were so close last year! I know, I know what you’re thinking. Friends change, stuff happens, right? Well, yeah, I understand that it’s likely we’ll all break apart in the end when our lives part. But it still hurts to see her like this, like we don’t even matter.
So while a bunch of my friends are spending all their time complaining about how H is so stupid to spend time with the other girls, a few of the other girls are leaving us to go and be with H all the time and basically following her lead. Now I feel like either someone is being overly aggressive about the whole deal or just going with H and deserting the rest of us. I’m stuck right in the middle! And to make matters worse, my mom is right in it too, desperate to know why I decided not to have a sleepover with H a few weekends ago and instead with another good friend. I know she’s just concerned, but still!! Parents can be really annoying sometimes…
I’m sorry because I doubt that anyone can make much sense of this, but I honestly just needed to vent out my feelings and if you can give me some advice – great. If not, I totally understand your confusion, and that’s ok. Thanks for reading whether you can make sense of anything or not…
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I feel like I’m becoming sorta like H. It’s not exactly the popular group, though. It’s more like the smart-but-not-nerds group. I was in the nerds group, which was approx. 3 people.
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your mom is probably just concerned that you might be having problems with friends and it does look like she’s right! of course if she’s pestering you about it it’s not really helpful, but she’s just being a mom
To me it seems like H doesn’t have much interesting in being anyhting more than passing friends with you. I think you said you were 12? That sort of things does start happening when you change from elementary school to junior high and then on to high school and so on. That doesn’t really excuse her talking smack on other people though. I would let her go her way, which I think is what you’re leaning towards anyway. I would say still be friendly towards her, maybe even invite her to go somewhere with you and another friend (one who isn’t made). If she doesn’t express interest then that’s that but if you can still have fun with her then that’s something.
I actually think the main problem is your friend group complaining about this. I have OOOOOOODDLLLESSS of experience with that kind of thing and it is absolutely toxic. Although it may be therapeutic to an extent to complain about stuff like that, unless you’re actually having a discussion and not just saying “Man H is such a jerk! I hate her hair too!” or whatever then there’s no point. It makes people super paranoid and so on (for example, while I was writing that maybe you should invite H to something, I thought “but wouldn’t her friends be suspicious then?” which is really awful! Because that happens!)
tl;dr my suggestion is to remain friendly towards H and try to discourage petty insults amongst friends. also, have some choklit
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A new Just Friends thread would be nice…
Anyways, my advice would be to not try to be close friends with H if she doesn’t want to be close friends with you. I would also recommend not talking about H with your friends, and if they make you say something, say something neutral. I’m kind of bad with this stuff, but I hope this helps.
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*hugs and choklit*
That sounds really tough. I won’t try to give you advice, since it wouldn’t make any sense, and would all be based on theories anyway, but I’m really sorry you have to go through this.
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September 22, 2008
I’m even sicker than yesterday. I don’t think I’ll be able to make it through tomorrow.
I finished writing the rough draft of the latest penpal note. A.N. and I are asking for money. I doubt we’ll get any.
Artemis Fowl and Brisingr came in the mail today! Hooray! I”m gonna start on Artemis Fowl during school tomorrow. Yippee! White Fang is going good, too. White Fang moves to California!
Youth Symphony starts tomorrow. I’m sort of excited, but not really because it cuts into my free time.
-Kyra
Soccer starr- I’m not very good at giving advice, but here goes:
All friends have to split up eventually. I don’t mean that as if you two will never be friends again, but it could just be that H is trying out something different. Wait a bit and see if she and your other friends come back. If that doesn’t work, try talking to her without D and the gaggle. Explain how you feel, even though it might be hard to work up the courage. It will be worth it in the end because you’ll know if she really values your friendship or wants to move on.
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Wow. I haven’t been on in a long time. I was last on “A long long time ago – well five minutes ago.”
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Does anyone here play eRepublik?
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Gurgh. I hate homework. No, I don’t hate homework, I hate busywork, which is basically what it all is for me…
For example: I just spent I don’t know how long doing this stupid math work focused on teaching me a new fancy new word for something I learned in kindergarten. (Communatives).
Sometimes I want to transfer to my brother’s school. It’s pretty cool. I can’t say too much about it, or it’ll get snipped, but it has a looser curriculum than most.
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Would that be the commutative property? Communative isn’t a word. Maybe you do need the work after all
Actually, I know what you mean. I would say that it gets better, but it never does…
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Gagh. I meant to type Commutative. *headdesk*
The other thing is that the Commutative Property isn’t even relevant at this point, because nothing else we’re learning has anything to do with it, and everything we’re learning right now is stuff we learned last year… Growl.
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I don’t think it’s ever really relevant, unless you are doing really, really strict two-column proofs, which you would only really do in a logic class. It’s just so you can have a name for it.
Actually, I think it’s relevant in group theory, but I highly doubt that you are studying that…
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*head spins* What is with all the long-lost MBers returning? Welcome back, all y’all.
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161-Soccer Starr- Maybe you just need some time with other friends. Try not to get mad if she hangs out with other people a lot. She probably doesn’t think she’s ditching you, even if you think she is. As for your mom, she’s just doing her job. Mom’s are obliged to worry about everything and then bug their kids about it.
I had a best friend from 3rd to 7th grade. In 7th and 8th grade she started hanging out with her church friends all the time, and her school friends never got to see her. We got mad and told her that we thought she was ditching us for the church friends. She said that her relationships with her school friends hadn’t changed, but after we confronted her, they did. I didn’t talk to her much until high school, and we are close friends again. I think we just had to separate because we were close for so long. We both needed something different.
I haven’t been here for a long time. My old name looked like KapeH. I’m really busy with school so I probably won’t be on much.
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Something I just stumbled across: try Googling ascii art.
I heart Google.
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hee! That’s great!
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This reminded me — back in the day when computer printers were glorified electric typewriters, people worked out text combinations that would type recognizable “tunes” such as the William Tell Overture.
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Ooh! Ooh! I found another Google easter egg: try Googling recursion.
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Nice. If you’ve never done this try Googling the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
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Banana Cat disaprovessss.
(google it)
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Hullo, all! I am back from my self-imposed exile. Needless to say, without MB to use as procrastination, I merely found other outlets. So, really, the “experiment” failed. However, I did learn that after the first 24-48 hours staying off the ‘blog is unbelievably easy.
I think my tests went fairly well. Genetics, not too sure on, I’m still holding out hope that I did well enough, and that 75% of the class did poorly enough, that I get an A out of the deal. We shall see.
Spanish: I feel pretty good about Spanish, although we still have listening exams on Friday.
Organic Chem: I actually think organic went really well, wasn’t very difficult at all. Almost too easy. Hopefully that doesn’t mean I made stupid mistakes.
After my classes this morning, I went to an event thingy going on on campus. I got free pizza, and the fire department burned down a replica of a dorm room. ‘Twas awesome fun. Within fifteen seconds, the smoke detector went off, another fifteen or so, we were told had the room had a from to it and been inclosed, the temp would have been 500 degrees and one breath would have been fatal. Couple more seconds and those of us right in front (about 20 feet or so from the replica) could feel the heat so much that we couldn’t take it any more, and started backing up. Not easy to do in a mass crowd of people (amazing what the promise of lighting something on fire will do to draw college students), and for the next ten minutes after I could still feel the burning sensation on my skin. I mean, it was that hot, that 10 minutes after, in normal temp air, my skin still felt like it was being super heated…..
And I also went up in the bucket on a fire truck–70 ft in the air. bit of a letdown, actually, I didn’t freak at all…….
Ah, well, it was fun!
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Luna! Welcome back!
*hug*
hugs are fun when the person you’re hugging is a lot taller than you.
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Thanks, SR! Mmmmmm, pie. nomnomnomnomnom
*returns hug*
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Welcome back! Why would you ever self-impose exile? Well, I’ve done it on occasion… Once, I think.
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In the hopes of getting my butt in gear and prepared for the three tests I had this week.
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True. Not a bad idea, too bad it didn’t work. I did it during summer vacation, and it wasn’t so much self-imposed as, we were busy and it was easy not to get on. I’m ridiculously addicted to MB.
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We just won a soccer game! 6-0!
We need more coordinates for the chest.
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Hello, everyone. I know you will all be proud of me, because I have just spread the Kokonspiracy a little farther. I gave my friend Sam a banana-cream pie for his birthday! He was very happy (though not because I wrote, “Happy B-day, Diablo!” on it. I’ve called him that since first grade, and he keeps telling me to drop it). What fun!
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I was bored today, so a few minutes ago I searched Muse magizine using Google. I found a Wikipedia article on it. It first told about the magizine, and after that it said something about the Q&A. I read it, and it said that the GAPAs do that column. I looked in my magizine, and it was true. This months issue is written by Robert Coontz and Rebecca Lasley. I havn’t looked up any more. I know most people already knew this, but it facinated me.
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Thank you for your kind words about the Wikipedia page. I was one of the contributors.
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I found MB through that page!
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SFTDP
I got checked out of school today, and it turned out my H1N1 virus has turned into bronchitis. I still had had it for 7 days, and the other may last another 4. Sigh… So much for makeup today.*lays head down and gives MB a break for the rest of the day* See you tommorow 9:00AM, or when I wake up.
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(174) mas0n: Congratulations! Bronchitis is no picnic, but it’s loads better than having flu. And unlike almost everybody else in America, you now no longer have to worry about catching H1N1.
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Well, I found my iPod shuffle. It went through the washer and the dryer. I thought it was working, but now it isn’t. I’m really sad. But I’m able to use my mom’s shuffle for now, which I’m sorry to say, is a very bright shade of pink!
Oh, well! Maybe this means I can get the Nano I’ve been hoping for…
Good night, MB! Off to supper, then dance!
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I feel really off today…I’m not sure if it’s allergies or something worse, because I usually don’t have allergies.
In other news, school is mind-numbingly boring. Except for English and Chemistry.
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I got an avatar. Some of you may recognize it from the avatars thread years ago…
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So I got back late from my meet yesterday and didn’t get to go on the computer. I did get to curl up in bed with the new issue of Smithsonian magazine, though, so that was good.
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How was it? The meet, I mean. Did you place well? More importantly, did you run well/feel good?
-A
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We had more people than the other team, so we won just because I finished, but I also managed to finish the course (It’s a very hard course) only twenty seconds slower than my record time for an easier course. I felt like I always feel at the end. Thirsty as heck and glad to be standing still.
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I need a laptop for school/homework. So I’m looking for one that meets my criteria:
1. Cannot be an Apple product.
2. Must be less than five hundred dollars (which also rules out Apple).
3. Must have at least 120 gig hard drive.
4. At least 2 gig memory preferred, but 1 gig would work.
5. Screen preferably larger than 12″, but I’d be willing to have a smaller screen if that was my only option.
6. Must have an x86 or ARM microprocessor.
7. Must have a built-in wireless-G or wireless-N card.
The condition of the processor may seem unnecessary to some, but I’m hoping to try Chrome OS once it comes out, and those are the two families of processors Chrome is being built for. It’d be nice if I could run both Windows and Chrome (in case Chrome is too buggy at first), but I just really want to try Chrome OS. I’m a bit worried that I won’t be able to sync my iPod with Chrome OS, but that’s not a huge deal to me. I’ll still be able to use the main computer here.
Mmmm… cloud computing.
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I am interested in replies to this as well, since I will probably be getting a new laptop for college and don’t want a Mac either. We seem to be in the minority, Piggy. :/
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Why not Apple, other than cost? They’re good computers. [read: better than Windows]
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And will, over the years, pay you back for their high original cost.
-A
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Dells are the best!
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Well, if you haven’t noticed, I have just bought a new laptop. It was a bit more expensive than your price range, but there was one at the store that was a 15″ and $499. Best Buy.
I would have to say that Toshibas are the best. They last the longest. My dad got his six years ago and it still works! (it used to be mine).
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We have a Mac that’s about as old as I am, and it still works. And one that’s like, twenty years old. That one works too.
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Axa- Sadly, yes. Too many MBers have been taken in by the con artists with their flashy shiny things and insulting adverts.
Luna- Well, cost is a big factor, as is interface, as is organization. Macs are just so cluttered, so counterintuitive to me. Sure, Windows kinda sucks from time to time, but it’s still far better than Apple.
Gradster- So basically, if I get a Mac, I’m stuck with it, as my wallet will be deep in the negative and I won’t be able to afford a new one. That’s why Macs are so “long-lasting”, in my opinion.
Oxlin- I would agree with that, but Google hasn’t been working with Dell on Chrome OS. I suppose it would probably work, as Dell uses Intel processors, but I’m a bit wary of getting a Dell at the moment. But I do still agree that it’s the best brand.
CPM- Eh, I’m too picky to buy things straight from a store. I always have to customize my preciouses online.
I’ve built one possible option, an HP Mini 110, but the screen’s tiny (only 10.1″) and it only has 1 gig of memory. But it’s under $400, so it’s feasible. Plus it’s very portable. And has six hours of battery life.
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Most of the ones under $500 are tiny, so you’re going to have to do a lot of searching!
Windows 7 is coming out as well, so you’ll have to try that. October 22!
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Okay, I think I found what I want, an ASUS Eee PC 1005HA. 160 gig hard drive, one gig memory, 10 inch screen, wireless card, Bluetooth, built-in webcam, smallness, 10.5 (yes, that’s 10.5) hours of battery life ( ), and a paltry $350 from Amazon.
10.5 hours. *drools*
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Wow, pretty good! That’s tiny, though. I only want computers with CD drives. I guess you don’t really care. You can buy an external one if you really need it.
Great for airplanes!
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In addition to these qualities, I’ve found through more research that the battery is easily removable/replaceable (very good) and that there’s a removable cover over the RAM so you can install more memory (very good). All that’s left is to catch my male parental unit in a good mood.
*plots*
I still can’t believe that it has ten and a half hours of battery life (under ideal circumstances (under moderately heavy usage, various reviewers have found that it’s closer to eight, which is still very high for any laptop)). *continues drooling*
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I hate homework… I don’t have much time for MuseBlog anymore… I just finished the bare minimum of homework for tonight. By minimum I mean that two essays are due Friday that I haven’t started yet… Just, don’t forget about me… *drifts away forgetfully*
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((Sorry. I had to post one more time.))
Saying of the Day: Life is a beutiful melody, but a 3 year old is playing it without any sheet music. Made this myself. My new picture is very patriotic.
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My saying: We’re in a world made of puzzle pieces. I’m missing one…
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I’m on homework overload too, and marching band does not exactly help on the time front. Last night I was up until 12:15 working on questions about a fourteen-page article about the Tragedy of the Commons for AP Environmental Science. Come to think of it, I’m not entirely sure my answers were completely coherent, written as they were when I was exhausted. Perhaps it’s a good thing I didn’t proofread it this morning… that probably would have been painful.
My math teacher has has absolutely genius idea that involves us getting these “review sets” on things that we haven’t covered this year. The problem types aren’t in the textbook, and we aren’t allowed to work together or get help. Oh yes, and they’re for a grade. The tests are so easy too, and I really need this to help my grade even more! In fact maybe I should just do them in my sleep! Teeheehee! [/sarcasm]
My English teacher seems to be under the impression that everyone works best with music playing. He puts music on at every moment available, especially when we’re writing (and therefore supposed to be concentrating). I know that music helps some people, but it makes it extremely difficult for me to concetrate, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. Wouldn’t it be easier for him to just tell people they can bring their ipods and listen to that while they work?
In fact, today we were doing writing test prep, and people were brainstorming for the topic “effects of music.” Someone mentioned that music helps concentration, and my teacher wholeheartedly agreed and went on to talk about it for a couple minutes.
Me: [raises hand]
Teacher: Yeah, Abby?
Me: Well I know music helps a lot people to concentrate, but it makes it difficult for me to concentrate. So I [Teacher turns on music at top volume in the middle of my sentence, and the speaker is right next to my desk] … uh… ugh. See, I lost my train of thought completely.
Teacher: You really can’t focus with that music playing?
Me: No.
Teacher: Hm. Interesting.
Grraaah.
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I can’t focus on school or anything that requires similar concentration, when listening to music, either. You are not alone.
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I agree with you. I got more work done — and better work — when I started cutting out the external soundtrack. There’s a big conversation going on between me and the work at hand, and it would be drowned out by music in most situations.
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When I listen to music while I’m working (writing essays) I tend to sing along, which doesn’t help with the concentration part.
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Okay… I am getting off the blog for good tonight. I swear. ‘Night, all.
Te divierte.
-A
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September 23, 2008
I took a day off from school today. I feel a ton better now! It’s really stupid because I have to write a 2-page paper to make up for P.E. Meh.
I finished White Fang it was super good.
Youth Symphony started. It was O.K. At least the music’s harder than Philharmonia.
-Kyra
Well, the vestiges of sickness are leaving my system now, so I’m having a swell day. Super duper!
It doesn’t look like I’ll have to write any essays this weekend, and I’m super excited. Of course, that could all change in these coming two days… dundundun…
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183&c- Usually I just tune out the music, or else I start singing and can’t focus on whatever I’m writing. I used to able to write and listen at the same time, but that ability seems to be mostly gone (though I did listen to the Beatles last night… maybe that’s why my essay is so horrible).
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Re- Music while working: I prefer it. I can’t deal with silence, because my mind starts to play the music… *crazy*
I’ve been getting headaches a lot recently. It’s horrible when all these conflicting sounds are playing… it compresses my mind…
I’ve even been getting more than six hours of sleep lately, too.
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I like it better when my mind starts to play the music… then you get to decide what you’re going to listen to next without having to leave the document.
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Or you can just memorise the order of your music so you know what’s coming next.
-A
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Beavo, hugs!
Jakob, good luck!
mas0n, feel better!
Piggy- I like items 3-7, 2 is understandable, and 1 is unfortunate. You’ll save money on antiviral software, as well as having a product you know you can trust. Mac OSX is also built better, structurally, more secure, and of course you’ll get used to any new interface in about 2 weeks. Chrome: yay!, I think. It’ll be good to see more OSs coming onto the market competitively. (And here’s the part where I say something about trying out Wubi-installed Ubuntu.)
School isn’t too bad so far, although my friends are getting kinda crazy.
College application essays are the biggest stress.
Sometimes it feels like surrealism.
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surrealism…I remember feeling like I was/was part of a Magritte painting last year,specifically “the listening room”
piggy– I was looking at asus too! Although now I am thinking about Samsung since Greenpeace rates them very high on their list…hummmm.
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*reads comments*
Aww, Beevs. *choklit*
In additin to the headaches, I’ve been having “bad days.” This has been a “bad week.” I bet tomorrow will be another “bad day.” *sigh*
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*huggles* Me too. You are not alone. My day today was HORRIBLE. I cried for half an hour. *sympathy choklit* *hugs* *stuffed pandas*
People who are not ZInc:
**DON’T ASK I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT**
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We should chat, later.
Yes, no?
-A
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*hugs and choklit* Sorry your day was so bad. I’m not asking, don’t worry.
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I’ve just bought the answer key for my math book, i.e. homework won’t be that much of a problem 
. And there was a parent teacher conference, where the parent’s “talked”* to the teacher. Social life is working out too. *is happy*
190- *hugs*
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I have a Gateway, which works fairly well and is Chrome-compatible.
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Robert! My college’s campus coffee shop subscribes to Science! Today I learned this and then went looking at the staff page. Science seems to be a good magazine.
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oxlin: We try, we try. Which issue was it?
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It was one from this July. It had articles on Mars and zhoukoudian figures. I liked it!
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Note: This will only make sense if you’ve read post #161.
Well, H and I are definitely splitting. We’re still in contact, but sometimes it feels like e-mail is really the only time we’re still connected as friends. She seems like her normal self online, and yet continues to hang out with D at school and doesn’t really do anything beyond the occasional chat with me when D isn’t around.
I’m dealing with it, but still not very happy. I had such a great group of friends last year, but now I’m more of a drifter. It’s not terrible, but I guess it’s just something I’m not used to yet. Most of my friends are still my friends this year, but that’s bedside H and the other girl who is following H’s lead. *sigh*
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That’s tough. You could try hanging out with H outside of school, but that might not work. I hope you find some new friends. *hugs*
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Thanks! I hope I can, too. Even if I can’t, to think on the bright side, it’s not like all of my friends are gone – there are still a few that I hang out with from last year, which is nice. I think I’ll try inviting H over for a sleepover sometime and see how it goes. She’s a great person if not for the D dilemma, although the D dilemma isn’t D’s fault. (Or anyone’s really…maybe H’s a little bit, although I hate to put all the blame on her, because that seems unfair when she can have friends without me being the police.)
Anyway, because I didn’t say this before, I’d like to thank everyone who gave me advice – I didn’t reply to all of them but I did read them all and it’s great to hear your opinion. Thanks! I’ll keep you posted on the situation! (Ha, I sound so professional!! )
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September 24, 2008
I felt very happy all day today because I’m not sick anymore. Wird.
Mr. H. assigned an essay today. Not a really hard essay, but still, bleh.
I still hate P.E.
-Kyra
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Still don’t know about genetics (*crosses fingers*) or spanish, but I got a 92 on our first organic chem test. And I didn’t even start studying for it until 5 pm the evening before…… [Note: That was only because prior to that, I was studying for other tests, namely the dreaded genetics test, and then spanish.]
Anyways, I just had to tell somebody, or I was going to explode…….
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Yayayay! Congrats!
*hug just because you’re a lot taller*
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OMG, THERE’S WATER ON THE MOON! (Or kind of IN the moon, it’s ice mixed in with soil)
http ://www. nasa.gov /topics/ moonmars/ features/moon 20090924.html
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There’s not very much water, and what they’ve seen is in the form of hydrated minerals — just a few hydroxide radicals bound to molecules in the top couple of millimeters of the moon’s surface. No one is sure how it forms, possibly by reactions with hydrogen from the solar wind. There may be actual ice in cold shadows near the poles. We might find out after LCROSS crashes into the moon next month.
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*pulses in*
Hey, wait-a-minute! Is Luna the Lovely by any chance related to Luna Platz ?
*pulses out*
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Um, I’m going to be honest with you, AJAR, I don’t thinks so. Sorry.
Kai- WATER ON THE MOON? Waters everywhere!
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>_>
I was JOKING.
Yeesh. Can’t anyone take a simple joke anymore?
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And you don’t THINKS so? XD
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Um, GAPAs, link alert?
And AJAR, the last time I checked, cartoon characters are not living and thus cannot be related to a person who is very much alive.
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^_^’
No, really, it was just a joke.
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Thanks, Luna. It’s hard to spot links when I’m moderating on my Treo.
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No problem. That’s your little bitty blackberry type thing, right? I’ve got to imagine it would be rather hard to do much of anything on one……Little bitty screen, and all that.
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GAH! I SAID PLZ_DONT_REMOVE_LINK!
Now you have done it.
FREEZE RAY!
*freezes Luna*
NULL VOID PROJECTOR!
*Frozen Luna gets sucked into the Null Void forever*
YEEEEEESH.
And I thought Luna Platz was annoying!!!
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#1: You did NOT any where say “please don’t remove link” (or any version there of)
#2: Even if you HAD asked the GAPAs not to remove the link, that does not change the fact that links, with very few exceptions, are explicitly forbidden on the ‘blog
#3: Do you know how absolutely little I care if you find me annoying?
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AJAR, I hate to say this, but you’re turning into a pest. Please cease to freeze/explode/etc. other MBers.
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Yay! I finally finished reading Bunny Apocalypse. Great job to anyone who helped write it; it was really good!! Off to BA:TNG.
SudoRandom, that is a really neat hat.
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Thank you. I want to get a better picture for my avatar…
It gives me super powers. To run and chew gum at the same time. And only half-swallow-your-gum-and-choke-on-it once or twice, depending on how far you’re running, and how wide open your mouth is.
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MB! Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood morning! I miss coming here. School is evil.
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Goooood morning, Kimimuncher! We miss you!
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I officially hate my gods cursed roommate. She has been driving me slowly crazy ever since school began. Every morning, without fail, she has managed to wake me up, either through multiple alarms, sleep button, or through just not even trying to be quiet while she’s up and about getting ready.
So, starting a week ago, I got ear plugs, in the hopes that this would help. It helps, at best, 50% of the time. Doesn’t do much for the alarm, but if I somehow managed to sleep through hers, it does fairly well for her other noises.
Then, starting yesterday morning, six bloody am, her phone rings. And rings. And rings. She crawls down from the top bunk, retrieves it from under my bed where it fell, shuts the alarm off, and CRAWLS BACK INTO HER OWN BED WHERE SHE PROCEEDS TO GO BACK TO SLEEP UNTIL 7 am. While I, meanwhile, am cursing the day her parentsgrandparents met, as I try (and fail) to return to sleep.
So, this morning, same thing. Except at 6:15 I give up hope of going back to sleep, and am now furiously typing on my computer, which types most deliciously loudly when I am mad.
And also going about my morning business not trying to be quiet, although not particularly trying to be extra loud either. I almost hope she complains about me not trying to be quiet, because I”m fairly sure if she does, I will snap and laugh maniacally and point out that she is sure as heck not one to talk, as she’s been waking me up every blasted morning for the entire semester.
Grrrrrr. Might as well go take my shower.
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I’m sorry. *hugs* I used to wake up my roommate with my alarm/getting my stuff together, but earplugs solved that problem. I felt really bad, because I really want to get along with her, and we’re not really friends.
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Thanks for the hugs. *hugs speller*
What really bugs me about her, though, is why set your phone to go off at 6 am, if you have no intention of getting up until 7? What purpose does that serve? I mean, I get she’s probably not deliberately trying to be loud in the morning (doesn’t change the fact that she is), but setting her alarm for significantly earlier than she plans to get up? Ok, fine, do that if you’re in a single room and don’t have a roommate or anyone else to disturb, but show a little bit of respect when you’re sharing a room.
I made it a point last year that, no matter how tired I was, I did NOT use my snooze button if I knew my roomie was sleeping. Admittedly, it was very rare that I got up before her, but…..still.
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you should probably talk to her about this if you haven’t already, if she doesn’t know what’s wrong she can’t fix it
although there are people who say “OH YA TOTALLY” and then do nothing…
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I know I should. It’s just….I’ve been telling myself that either she’ll start being quieter, or I’ll start being able to sleep through it. Of course, neither seems to be the case.
I would have brought it up to her this morning, except that it was all much too fresh in my mind and the conversation probably would not have gone very well. Of course, by the time I got out of my last class at 2, she had already left for the weekend, so the earliest we could possibly talk is Monday….. *sigh*
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ah yeah, I can understand that, it would be pretty awkward if she got mad or something since you’re roommates…honestly I probably wouldn’t be able to take my own advice…
*sympathy choklit*
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I was actually more worried this morning about losing my own temper, if I were to bring the subject up.
I was very annoyed when, at 7 o’clock she finally got up, she never said a single word to me. No “sorry”, no, “I hope it wasn’t my phone that woke you up?”
I mean, I think it had to be pretty darn obvious what it was that woke me up, and I know if the situation had been reversed, I would have apologized……
Eh, my mom’s right: Last year’s roomie was the best I will ever have.
next year, though? I’m upgrading to a suite. One of the nice kinds where two single rooms share a shower and a toilet. *is dreaming about how lovely that will be as I type*
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This is to kiwimuncher, Alice, POSOC, THF, Koppar, oxlin, and anyone else who was ever connected with Etheterre.
Please, come back. I’m the only person who’s posted anything since… September seventh. That’s eighteen days. Come back! I’m getting lonely over there!
Etheterre, Part Five
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197.1- It’s still COOL! Not as useful as actual ice in craters would be, but it does help build the case for them.
My History teacher is a hoot. He gave us a quiz with the question “What was the Boston Massacre?”, and one of the wrong answers was “What the Yankees will do to the Red Sox tonight.”
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Exactly. It’s not the fact that there’s water on the moon, so much as the possibilities… After all, there are nine billion more possibilities than there were before that was discovered. Or whatever.
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I am mad! For our school trip in November to China (I live in Hong Kong) one of the teachers going on the trip I chose is my science teacher from last year, who for some reason seems to not like me. He doesn’t seem to like anyone, for that matter. Last year no one in our class got an A in science, though I’m sure more than a few people deserved it.
Anyway, we are going to a place in the mountains near Hangzhou in China. Today we had our first trip meeting in the morning during homeroom time and he was talking about the place we are going to (called Moganshan) and this is basically what he said, though not word-for-word: -You should be ashamed of yourselves – you live in Hong Kong but you don’t even know the provinces of China (like I know people from the US have to memorize the states), you don’t even know where Hangzhou is.-
And my friend and I exchanged looks that clearly said “What?!?!?!” since most of us actually did know where Hangzhou was (is?) and he was just assuming that because we were students, we wouldn’t know anything.
He has taught at our school for 36 years already – so no person would dare contradict his “experience”
*end of rant*
Sorry for the longish post, but I needed to get that out.
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Is his last name Snape?
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Oh, Robert, all I can think about now is Snape and him telling the DADA class in year three when he was subbing for Lupin that kappas were more commonly found in Mongolia, when, really, according to FBAWTFT it was, um, Japan I think. (Sorry, forgot if that’s right, but it wasn’t Mongolia, that’s all I remember).
Er, anyway, sorry, HP mentions send me off on insane tangents, but y’all know that already.
bella–I can sympathize, I am currently [read: all semester so far, with no end in sight] having a huge hate-fest on my genetics prof. Although he does not act like he knows everything and we know nothing, well, let’s just say I might prefer it. We might actually learn something if he acted like we were stupid and broke everything down into stuff that made sense.
Grrrrrr. I hate irritating teachers.
*hugs*
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Kappas ARE from Japanese mythology, so you would expect them to be more common there.
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Then it was probably in Japan that FBAWTFT said they were most commonly found. I just remember there being a scribble in the book by Harry/Ron saying that Snape had obviously not read it, and then later noticing in PoA that Snape (incorrectly) stated they were more common in Mongolia.
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OH MY GOD KITTEN SHAPE
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Reason No. 1,437 the Internet is Weird: There are six pages on an in-depth West Wing fansite dedicated to Josh’s black backpack. Yes, his BACKPACK.
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Mwahahaha… I wore my HPB shirt again. I can’t figure out why I get so many compliments on it. I don’t get compliments on any other of my shirts. Only the .
Mostly Harmless is proceeding on schedule. Agent Piggy out.
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It’s the bunny, dude. It’s hypnotizing people from your shirt. They have to say they love it.
Good work, Agent Piggy.
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Random thought for the day, for anyones who might possibly be interested. JK Rowling has (officially, not an impostor) got a twitter account.
Now, although I’ve always said I thought twitter was stupid and never got the point….Well, let’s just say that is a twitter I intend to follow, even if she doesn’t intend to post much. Her username is jk_rowling, in case you were wondering.
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haha I totally sympathize, miyavi (a musician) got one too and I’m like UGH TWITTER but still feel compelled to follow it
I’ve found that twitter is mostly “older” people who thinking they’re hip to those Internet trends or whatever. Lots of politicians have twitter account lol
the only time it was ever useful to me was when I was following the election fallout in Iran this summer and cnn was being totally USELESS
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Well, yet another test grade is posted. That genetics test that I was especially freaked about? You know, because it was a 15 question test (mixture of multiple choice/short answer type) worth 238 points?
Turns out it didn’t go quite as horrible as I feared. In fact, most people would probably actually deem the grade that I got on it quite good. I got 204/238, so an 85.7%. Yes, I’m actually disappointed. What can I say? I’m a perfectionist. Anything less than 90 isn’t good enough.
However, it is probably technically an A, as he employs this most ridiculous curve, where the top 25% of overall scores in the class get an A. So, if 75% scored below 50% on the test, a 51% and up would, technically, be an A. Seriously, that’s just moronic.
But, yeah, anyway, it’s not near as bad as I feared, and is actually pretty decent, so I should just shut up and be happy, shouldn’t I?
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Yes, Luna, be happy!! I know for some that’s easier said than done. But it’s probably a good thing to practice. Just don’t be a perfectionist about it
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I was last last lastest of the last on my orchestra chair audition. I’m doomed. Oh well. At least I’m NOT up against kids that can play Mendelssohn with their eyes closed and their violin backwards.
Yes! It’s friday! Huzzah! i a chance to live again! And everyone has the flu! Oh no! I’m hyper!!!!!!
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Ok u know what!!!!! what if there are some of us(ahem….ME) out there that can play like that!!!! Don’t be evil!!!!!
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I’m soooooo gonna be last chair in my orchestra. watev though, i EARNED it!!!!!!!
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Spent an hour playing cello(so far!!!!!) I am a complete cello freak so i can play for ages and not get bored.
But as they say:
“Everybody likes music, who doesn’t like music? They’re stupid if they don’t!”
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uh…. okaaaaaaay then?…….
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hello? i am happy for aparent reason whatsoever!
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Welcome, nothingbutabit01101! Just so’s ya know, this isn’t a chat room. Responses will take some time to appear. And we’re sorta picky in that we enjoy capitalization, spelling, and grammar here. But it’s good to have you!
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Random Question:
When did snopes.com get added to the side bar?
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August 22.
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wow, I’m really becoming unperceptive.
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