As the nights get longer in the Northern Hemisphere, it strikes us that darkness gets a bad rap. People associate it with evil, as in “the Dark Lord” and “the Dark Side of the Force.” Ridiculous! (Every MBer knows that evil is pink.) To redress the imbalance, MuseBlog hereby dedicates October and its Random Threads to the wonders and delights of darkness.
(Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!)
First post? Nice graphics. I’m scared of the dark, personally, but the pic is sort of more light than dark.Pie. More pie. *choklit to GAPAs*
First post?
I’m wearing pink nail polish, y’know.
All right, darkness… I just finished reading Warriors: Power of Three: Dark River (so much better than The Sight). Oh yeah, and a friend of mine(who used to be obsessed with Darth Vader) once told me the Dark Side is sexy.
Anyway, it’s meant to be 25 degrees today (and was 20ish yesterday)(I know I’ve been spending too much time on MuseBlog when I see a temperature and think it’s Farenheit). *squee* I’m wearing my Urania T-shirt. Sounds like The Summer of Mostly Harmless
*wonders if that even made sense*
Cool, you read Warriors! Warriors is my favourite series!
Haven’t been on here for a while… Anyway, I like *most* Warriors. In the later ones, the sometimes, how shall I put this, run out of topic. Still, godo series! ☺
Power of Three was like running the series into the ground.
*nods* That’s about right. Everything before that was pretty good. New Prophecy was alright….
I love these themes. The picture is beautiful as always, Rebecca! When first saw it I mistook it for a deep sea scene (didn’t notice the Muse constellations which would give it away.)
Coooooooooool. *drools*
Purdy! I love it! Darkness is awesome.
Pretty picture, Lady B! Although, personally, I’m still afraid of the dark, at least to an extent….. *shudder*
At first I thought that the picture was just of stars, but then I saw Bo.(Seventh post?)
Thanks GAPAs! I love the graphic.
It finally clicked that it’s October, and hey I need to change my calendar over. And guess what October is on my calendar? Hint: I get to stare at a certain very sexy Hogwarts professor all month long. *drools*
Yup, that’s right, it’s Severus Snape, as played by Alan Rickman. *shamelessly drools more*
I like the dark. But sometimes I see strange things in the dark, which I don’t like.
I think that generally, humans don’t like the dark because it’s hard for them to see, which means they might not know about what’s there. Generally, humans hate or fear things they don’t know about. Or they make up something to explain it, so they don’t have to hate or fear it.
Just a few days ago was Yom Kippur-We davened for 11 hours straight. It’s hard getting used to school after that.
Anyway, it’s my blogiversary.
That sounds tough. I’m a secular Jew, but I fasted for the second time, which confused my body enough to make me unable to sleep.
No. not tough, it was very uplifting-One of the best days of my life.
Darkness is my favorite thing in the world. Extra-dark-choklit-pies to all!
I usually like darkness, unless it’s in haunted houses… (Even stupid ones that really aren’t all that scary, those still freak me out!) Anyway, I love the picture! It’s really pretty and has lots of interesting designs.
Don’t worry, me too! The (very) lame haunted house back home at the state fair scares me to death. Admittedly, I think I was only 12 or so the last time I went, but it had me so terrified I have yet to muster the courage to try it again.
I have only been on a haunted house once in my life believe it or not, and that was one time too many!!
I hate haunted houses. The thought that something is going to jump out from the dark in a second… or… two… freaks me out. (It’s that thing where you know it’s going to happen but you don’t know exactly when.) Then again, the last time I went to a haunted house I was nine.
Thirded. I HATE haunted houses. Even when I helped out at our school’s one in Freshman year, I was all freaked out. (It didn’t help that all the Seniors were going “Our area’s so scary it’ll make you stupid Freshmen wet your pants!”)
I decided not to test my luck, as I like my pants dry, thank you very much.
I actually like haunted houses… I was watching a special on TV about the best ones in the country. It was funny watching the little girls go on.
*in
Favorite darkness related quotation- “Come to the dark side. We have cookies.”
SFTDP
Yeah, I’ve decided to change my name. I seriously needed a new one…
Don’t change your name! I’ll have no idea who you are! *bad memory*
No, I liked soccer starr!
FIne, fine. I cracked. I’ll go back.
For the sake of you guys! Ha ha I’m only joking I really will go back though if you really like it…
Yeah! Don’t change it!
Um… please?
15–No! Don’t!
Anyways, my grandparents are here from Texas. I like your picture, Lady B. Very nice. Can’t think of anything else to write.
Remember spdzks (and their related points)? Well, I introduced them to my math class last week, when I wrote a logic problem (one of those truthteller or liar ones) about the planet Spdzk. I can post it, if anyone wants. (It’s pretty hard but doesn’t require any background knowledge. My original problem for this week, a proof of a combinatorial identity I came across when playing with a problem, is not so simple.)
Oooh, post it!
Here we go. It’s kind of long. My apologies if I accidentally left some LaTeX code in.
A paper written by an alien from the planet Spdzk was discovered by scientists on Earth. From this paper, it appears that several things have different colors on Spdzk than they do on Earth. In this paper, two sources are cited and two statements are uncited. According to the teacher’s comments, all of the statements that from one source were lies, while all of the statements from one source were true. Furthermore, one of the uncited statements was true, while the other was false. The teacher added that frogs are either blue or green and that grass is either blue or green. Based on the following statements, assuming that the teacher was correct, what colors are frogs, grass, and the sky on Spdzk?
Statements cited from the Spdzk Book Encyclopedia:
If Spdzkipedia is telling the truth, then the sky is blue.
The sky is not blue and grass is not green.
Statements cited from Spdzkipedia:
Frogs are not blue if and only if the sky is blue.
Grass is green or frogs are green.
Uncited statements:
Frogs are the same color as the sky.
If frogs are a different color from the sky, the sky is purple.
I’m lost before I even get to the statements…..
I shall try (try, mind you) to think on this and see if I can come up with an answer. I am painfully bad with these sorts of problems, however….
For now, I shall munch on my dinner with thoughts of frogs, grass, and sky dancing (like sugarplums) in my mind.
*drools* I love these problems. And frogs. Are the frogs blue, the grass green, and the sky purple?
Good job. You solved it. (By the way, could you give me an estimate on how hard you think the problem was? I’m trying to gauge my problem-writing ability. Recommendations for improving the problem are also welcome.)
Good job. *cheers*
Gah. I have this nagging feeling that I’m coming down with a cold. I don’t precisely feel sick, I just have the sensation that I am going to be. Y’know, maybe slightly more muzzy than normal (muzzy is rather normal, as I’ve not been getting enough sleep), and my throat maybe not feeling *quite* right when I swallow. I dunno, I’m still hoping that i’m just imagining things, and not really coming down with something.
Of course, with my luck, and given that lots of people on campus have been coming down with it, I’ll have the dreaded you-know-what…..
Ah, well, we’ll deal with all of that (cold or you-know-what) when and if it happens. For now, I shall try and convince myself that it’s all in my head. As it very well may be…….
1- me, too! I’m also scared of ghosts, and skeletons and my closet an- HEY!!! Why am I telling you all this?
Well, that’s a very nice picture, GAPA’s. Is it drawn, or isit a photo? Luna, is you-know-what the *coughswinecoughflucough*? My mom’s sis had it. She said it was horrid. *cue scary organ music*
Yup, that would indeed be the “you-know-what”.
I’m still hoping that my sense of coming down with something is just in my mind, and it will pass, or else that it won’t come to anything, whether i”m imagining it or not….We shall see.
Ugh. I think I had it. I had… umm… extreme nauseae, and later had a cold. Anyway, poor you!
So this week is homecoming week at my school, and for once I decided to dress up with the theme days.
Monday: Class color day wor senior shirt like evryone
Tuesday: Tie-dye day, cut/alterered/tied an shirt that we got at a concert we won tickets to for The [Grateful] Dead when I was 10
Wednesday: 80s day, but this is where I got bored with being like everyone else. I really dislike the styles from the 1980s (uhg), so I dressed as though I was fro the 1780s.* I had a long blue dress that was rather loose and kind of too short, but it had really nice-looking sleeves, and then I borrowed a blue-and-black leather bodice one of my friends got at a renaissance-fair type thing and wore that over it. It was laced reeeeaaally tightly, as it was supposed to be, and maybe it improved my posture/waist but it was so hard to breath x_x I almost sneazed during math and nearly exploded. I loved it though–I got a ton of compliments and everyone was envious. I also had one old pearl jewelry, it looked good together.
The today was theme day, and out theme or homecoming is Candyland (like the game), but I wore my senior sweats and my top hat because I knew no one would ask me to take it off today, thinking it was part of a costume. But really I just wanted to wear my hat in school XD
Tomorrow we’re supposed to wear school colors. Boring, but oh well.
*approximately! I had less than 24 hours to come up with a costume so it probably wasn’t historically accurate. I was going to come on and ask MF or someone but I had no time for the comp >.<
I was going to do the exact same thing for 80s day at my school but I didn’t have time to get ready. Next year is a different story….
My friend was going to get some of her friends together and dress as the Beatles, for sixties day at her school, but then sixties day was canceled. She was sad. They were planning on going a few as that for twin day instead, but I haven’t gotten reports on that.
If we have 80s day again this year, I’m going to wear my flightsuit from Space Camp. And when one of the twins who doesn’t like me goes “Hey, that’s not 80s.”, I’ll go “Space Shuttle is TOTALLY 80s. Look it up. “
We really need new space stuff, don’t we?
Well, the shuttle’s retiring next year and the first test of its replacement is on October 27th, so we’re getting it, all right.
That sounds like what we just did! Spirit Week was last week for us, and the theme was Disney. I decided I didn’t care who though I was crazy and went all out.
First day was DC Original Movies, and sophomore class was Zenon-themed. I wore black high-heeled boots up to my thighs, lime green tights, a weird lime shirt I wore for dance when I was 8 that looks spacey, and my hair in a ginormous bun on top of my head with little aliens scotch-taped to the top. Needless to say, lots of people stared.
Second day was Disney Classics, and our class was Alice in Wonderland (WIN). I was the Rabbit, complete with a pocketwatch, vest, bow tie and giant ears, and scrambled around the halls between every class telling random freshmen that I was late and enjoying the stunned looks on the faces.
Third day: Spirit Day. Our class color was purple. I wore a purple alligator costume from when my brother was little. I pretended to eat my history teacher’s face with my alligator head. It was great.
I miss Spirit Week.
To 19- What are your school colors? I’m sure I can come up with something sufficiently obnoxious, as that seems to be my forte.
Those are awesome themes! Our Spirit Week had stuff like hat day, school colors, mismatched… and those are really all I remember. It was boring.
Man, I’m glad i don’t have to go anywhere tonight. It’s been looking (and smelling) like rain all day and rained a bunch last night (or looked like it had, we were apparently having thunderstorms, but I slept thorough ’em), and now it’s pouring. and with the wind, an umbrella wouldn’t eve do any good–even if you managed to avoid getting it blown inside out, it’d just blow the rain straight underneath the umbrella.
Our windows are set about a foot in from the outer wall, butthe rain’s soaked all the way through my screen and all down my window on teh outside…..
Yup, very glad I don’t have to go anywhere.
Rain is depressing a lot of the time.
Also, you’ve got a reply on nmhwu.
-A
I just made the most awesome discovery on YouTube, but I can’t link there. If I were you, though, I’d search “It’s A Wonderful Day For Pie”. It’s a Family Guy spoof on Disney movies, and ordinarily, I wouldn’t recommend Family Guy, but this is just the most awesome pie song ever made.
AMENDMENT: Besides the end. Walt Disney political joke…him being an Anti-Semite and all. But the song is great.
Yeah, I’m back to soccer starr already. Liya didn’t last long, and it didn’t seem like anyone wanted me to change it anyway…
So that this won’t be a PoPo:
Re: Spirit Week. Last year we had a Spirit week but it was really dumb: I think our themes were Mismatch Day, Crazy Hat/Hair Day, School colors, and Inside-Out Day. I really only participated in the Crazy Hat/Hair though because I couldn’t seem to find anything that mismatched (All of my clothes are really matched, it’s kind of hard to mismatch anything.) As for Inside Out, I just didn’t feel like doing it (The whole idea, especially with pants, seems a little weird to me, but that’s just me!) and School Colors…well, I might have worn a red shirt on accident but basically that was it… I did do some funky ponytails/braids/twist thingy with my hair which was pretty awesome though!
Lalala. Randomness.
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I love my trombone! If any other MBers play the trombone PLEASE PLEASE post on here and let me know you exist!! I hardly know any trombonists! ( Only saxophone players, because neighbors don’t ask for it back.
One of my best friends plays the trombone…does that count? I play the clarinet!
A quote for this month’s theme:
“We have loved the stars too fondly to be afraid of the dark.”- Epitaph for an amateur astronomer.
So my wisdom teeth are growing in in the back of my mouth and I’m going to go and have them pulled out at the dentist in a few weeks, when they’re more out of my gums. Being knocked out slightly worries me, but at least I’ll get to sleep during the day.
Hi, I had no time to sign on, sahhry.
I’m posting it here because nobody will read it on the writing thread. This is my evil little project that I’m submitting annonymously to the student newspaper.
Thought you might like it. BTW this is a first draft, the second is going to be much more, em, edited. Yes. Edited is the word.
If it weren’t for that decimal that seems to mean everything these days, there’s no doubt high school halls across the country would be a lot less crowded. I can name you a dozen people who’d rather be painting, playing sports or singing then lugging around piles of textbooks.
So you fill in your bubbles, never with a mechanical pencil, write your name/date/block at the top of each paper and get all OCD over your binder. And every nine weeks, you get a nice piece of paper from your homeroom teacher telling you how wonderfully/awfully you filled in the bubbles, one grade for each textbook, more or less. And at the bottom, there’s a nice little number, telling you everything you need to know about your future. Have fun in community college, Mr. 2.1.
As if our entire future being compressed into two digits weren’t enough insult to not only our intellect but those who worked to create a good educational system. But I’m not complaining about that, because there’s not much someone like me, even with life compressed into two happy high digits can do about that. Why I’m wasting good free cell phone calling time is because I have an issue with the couple of words beside the one letter assessing my bubble-filling.
“A pleasure to have in class.†“You are a conscientious worker.†“Great effort! Keep it up!â€
I’ve accepted and dished out my share of empty compliments, but this really tops “those shoes really look nice on youâ€. Jenny’s hideous choice of footwear isn’t really going to matter when she gets into college. That 3.8, however, determines whether she’s going to even have money to spend on horrid shoes. And to have something as meaningless as “Good understanding of material†next to the letters telling me what college, if any, I’m going to get into, adds insult to injury, so to speak.
I understand the intentions of these little phrases. Notes such as “limit your talking†and “performance is inconsistent†should tell the parent whether their child is just goofing off in class or actually getting somewhere. They try to explain why that letter is so far down in the alphabet.
In case you hadn’t already gathered, I think they – in the words of today’s youth – fail epically, especially the positive notes. Yeah, so not paying attention may lead to a D, say experts. But less than five words aren’t really going to convince me to quit passing notes if I’m really that determined to flunk.
Those who complain without a solution suck, to abridge most lectures my parents give me. Here’s my solution to my complaint. Scratch those five words. They mean nothing. For a school program that promotes diversity, uniqueness and intelligence as much as ours should know that a list of maybe twenty phrases aren’t going to apply to every student. Probably none of them, actually. When you translate these sugar coated comments, they end up pretty general.
“Limit your talking†means shut up.
“Performance is inconsistent†means you should study more.
“A pleasure to have in class†means you aren’t being too noisy.
They’re a offense to both the student and the teacher. So is it really so much of a big deal to have the teacher write their own comments? Would it require hours of extra time? I’m all for people going home early, but this is our lives, people. Teachers signed up to teach, not hand out empty phrases with empty letters and empty numbers. So a little sincerity, a little less sugar coating and a little more meaning would be appreciated. Little tips could be embedded in the comments to show how the student can raise their grade. “You would probably do better if you studied your grammar each night, that’s what’s really getting you down.†“You’re such a good writer! Your poetry is amazing!†vs. “Improve your use of class time†and “Often contributes to classâ€. Sincerity 1, Empty words, 0.
Wow, that’s very good Beavs.
Especially since it’s very true, sadly.
Very nice, Beavo… and disturbingly accurate. Last year I got my English exam back with 63/63 and “Very nice” written on it. My maths exam had comments such as “More participation in class” and “Contributes to school community”. I mean, what the cake? How on earth did I participate in class by sitting there reading a book while the teacher was talking? And my art exam was the big kicker, because it came back all correct, but with “Needs more work” and “study harder” on it, and it turned out that the marks were correct but that the teacher had mixed up the comments with a few other people and the comments were so generic and unspecific that nobody noticed!
19~ That’s awesome! I agree, 1980s clothing is hideous. I think Alice once was going to attempt to dress in 1780s clothing for 80’s day, but never did. Hmm. But at any rate, your outfit sounds like fun.
I wore a toga for vintage/retro/throwback day at my school. I’m pretty sure I went the farthest back in time that day.
I was Cleopatra for Halloween once…..Not sure if that predates togas.
I fail horribly when it comes to history.
Well, togas were in style before, during, and after the time of Cleopatra. That doesn’t really narrow it down, but unfortunately, Cleopatra does not predate togas.
I assume you’re talking about Cleopatra Philopator VII, who is the famous Cleopatra that married Marc Anthony and whose empire fell to Augustus Caesar. In that case, togas would have been invented before Cleopatra because the Roman Empire was established before she was born. So no, she doesn’t predate togas. There were, however, at least eight women by the name of Cleopatra (and one was her sister, one was her mother, and another her daughter), so maybe the first one was before togas. That I don’t know. Confused?
Actually, no, not confused.
But, yes, I meant the famous Cleopatra who married Marc Antony, etc.
Togas = awesomeness.
The XC team at my school were all wearing togas today, for some reason.
XC = more awesomeness.
Nice.
Now, wait a minute there. The 1980s marked the one brief shining moment when I was actually on the leading edge of fashion. But I’m talking New Wave. As for those parallel 1980s universes out there — I’d agree wholeheartedly on the hideousness involved.
G’night, MB! Have a great Thursday night/Friday morning! ^^
Pretty hard- I thought I had it wrong until I realised “the sky is not blue and the grass is not green” could be half wrong…
Yeah, I guess that part would be easier for my class had just done a week on formal logic, so we knew exactly what and, or, etc. was supposed to mean.
Today I enjoyed quite a long chat with a woman from Australia who was visiting the museum where I work. We get a surprising number of visitors from your part of the world, especially when you consider how off the beaten track our little museum is. Most of the locals don’t know we exist. I wished her a happy spring.
Oops, meant to reply to speller73’s post(17.1.1.2.1). I’m on my mobile and five levels of nesting=comment box impossible to ‘click’ on and I was going to hit reply after that and… Shut up, Maths Lover.
30.2-Interesting.
26(Beavo)- Ugh, I know. Our semester reports have the grade(just as a letter), ticked boxes for academic and personal acheivement, and a paragraph written by the teacher. Our assignments also have semi-helpful comments. But the other two reports? Our marks are either satisfactory or not. Really helpful. Our effort is good, satisfactory, or ‘room for improvement’. That’s it. While we also have parent-teacher interviews, it doesn’t tell us much if the teacher doesn’t want an interview.
Yay, it’s raining!
No, that statement is not half wrong. It’s completely wrong.
It depends how you define “wrong”. From a logical standpoint, it’s false, and there is no such as half wrong, unless you get into something like Russel’s paradox, which could be considered half wrong or could just be considered confusing.
30.4(cromwell)-
Yes, I should have said “just because the statement is wrong doesn’t mean the ‘the sky is not blue’ can’t be true”.
37.1.1(Ducky)-
hi everyone, sorry about not being on, boarding school can kill you.
Anyway, here in switzerland its getting darker earlier, and the fog is scary.
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rebecca, you never know maybe the museum where you work at will become famous like the one from the da vinci code, dont remember the name though.
The Louvre?
I had the opportunity to go there when I was in Paris when I was 14, but…..I chose the Eiffel Tower instead. Unfortunately, there wasn’t time for both….
Posting from the airport on my way to Malaysia!
I find most fashions from any ’80’s hideous, whether corset or shorts.
Wait, question – is the phrase ‘gets a bad rap’ a corruption? I’ve always heard that things ‘get a bad rep’ – an abbr of reputation.
-A
gradster: The classic expression (dating from the 1920s, I think) is “bum rap,” and I probably should have said that. Lately, though, I’ve also heard “bad rap.” I’m sure it was influenced by the similar-sounding “bad rep,” but it’s not a corruption of that phrase.
I wondered that, too, gradster, but it’s the same “rap” as in “rap sheet.”
31- The Louve?
31- Hey, hey, it’s still light for ages! Wait until the winter when the sun already starts setting in the afternoon and it’s pitch-black at 4 p.m.…
26- I hear you there.
Theme- When you can see stars, the darkness is nice. Otherwise it seems so …dismal.
After my (short) replies, I go back to my favorite subject; Me! (*just kidding*).
I’m starting Tanzschule today…I don’t think you have them in America, or at least not the ones for teens to the same extent, but you basically go there to learn ballroom dancing and etiquette. It’s a sort of coming of age thing which means that you’ll be going to dances, and, later, balls. *is very nervous/excited*
The chess club fell apart this year for lackof a teacher/trainer
…
bookgirl: Speaking of chess, it’s your move in your game with mas0n.
Oops, I’m very sorry mas0n.
I wish I were able to coach your school’s chess team. As it is, I’ll be happy to help analyze any games that MBers play here on the blog (once they’re finished). Post-mortem discussions can be useful, I’ve found.
Just one quick note on early fashion, the term “corset” comes into use in the early 19th century, but at that point the corset is a less boned version than the stays (stays, jumps, woman’s weskit [waistcoat] or other name used for the same or similar garments) dominant for the past hundred years or so. It was snugly laced and had (forgive me if I’m being too graphic) er, extra allowance in the bust to allow for the high waisted “Empire” fashions (Federal period, for us Americans). Though this was called a corset, it’s not the whole waist constricting deal we associate with the word now.
The fashion of 16″ waists happens later, where we get the horror stories of ladies fainting because of their restrictive undergarments.
But please remember, when looking at any aspect of past times, don’t generalize. There is incredible diversity now, and there was just as much then. Often that diversity isn’t apparent to us, because we don’t take the time to look deeper into the sources available (or, unfortunately, not always so readily available).
Just try to imagine what our own culture will look like to people hundreds of years from now, and imagine the confusion they may feel when trying to define the “normal” 21st century teenager. Mmhmm. Just looking at our MB community you can see how difficult that would be. Look at the past on the same way, and you’ll find that history becomes a lot more interesting.
Alright, my rant is over. You can wake up now.
You make an excellent point. My mom used to complain about the stereotypes of 1950s fashions, in particular the sort portrayed in Grease. She said neither she nor anyone she knew dressed that way. So if we’re prone to narrowing down to a single stereotype a decade for which tons of documentation exist and that many living people still remember first hand, anything in the deeper past is likely to be given even more cursory treatment.
Unfortunately, that narrow vision applies to more than fashion. Through my day job, I see this all the time in relation to the history of slavery in the United States — and the history of antislavery as well. We miss a lot of opportunities to learn valuable information from the past by confining it to such narrow stereotypes. (Excuse the speechifying; I’ve been doing a lot of talking on the subject this week.)
Grease as in The Outsiders? *is clueless*
“Grease” as in the musical
that won’t die about a clueless young girl who learns that conformity is the key to popularitypresumably about the 1950s...I think that the
s have done something to almost all the 7th grade girls in band. I will give more details when prompted.
-prompts-
Well, they were all wearing something pink (one of them was even wearing a pink wig) and acting strangely. Then they left without even getting their instruments out. It was extremely strange.
37.1.1 – Ha, I’m a 7th grade girl in band…so far we haven’t done anything that crazy though. And yes, that is very weird…
Well, today I had my band chair tests (Clarinet) and it went ok I guess. We had to play some sections out of the songs and then the basic scales, so it wasn’t like it was terribly hard or anything but it’s been a week since I picked up a clarinet so I felt a little rusty but overall alright. I’m guessing I’ll be towards the middle-ish because most of the 8th graders will probably be in the front with the exception of two girls who just joined like me, only they’re actually worse which is kind of surprising…I didn’t think anyone COULD get much worse, but oh well. Then there are a few 7th graders who are a definite first/second row, and then finally me, the two 8th graders, and the rest of the 7th grade who will all fill in the end of the 2nd row and then 3rd and possibly 4th.
We have a ton of clarinet players, probably more than this band has ever seen. It’s not horrible though because all it really means is that air playing isn’t so obvious, (I actually do usually play, but air playing can be helpful sometimes…hee hee hee) and because the section is so loud it covers up all my squeaking. I’m terrible…
Sorry, long post. I’m done ranting, I promise!!
Dosen’t your band determine where you sit by the instrument you play? Or maybe I misunderstood your post……
Yes, but we have chairs within each instrument section. For example, all of the clarinets compete against each other for chairs, and the same thing goes for the other instruments.
Today my friend gave me a lovely gift. It iss a huge, gaudy ((faux)) ruby ring that looks exactly like the one Ringo wears in “Help!” I’ve decided to be him for Halloween.
Anyways, Ducky, that’s terrifying! Maybe they’re all in a gang that is linked to the HPB conspiracy.
SFTDP– My dad just came in with the mail and I got the two back issues of Muse that I ordered!!!!!! (Sept. 06 and Jan. 07, in case you wanted to know) I have been waiting for weeks!!!! *jumps up and down* They’re so glossy and pretty and new. They smell good. I like the smell of new things. Cars, books, magazines, notebooks, you name it.
How ’bout new carcasses?
Gee, that’s pleasant.
Yay! Morbidity!
I officially love my computer.
I did before, but I do three times as much now. At least.
I was doing a picture for MuseBlog, which I plan on sending in, but that’s a different story, and I left to do school. I forget exactly what happened, but I left to do school, and when I came back, my computer was acting weird. It was on, which I knew because I pressed caps lock, and it lit up, but it wasn’t exactly awake and it wasn’t exactly asleep either. The screen was black, (Yes, I tried to turn up the brightness,) but the light that showed it was asleep wasn’t on. It was puzzling. Anyway, after a while of trying to get it out of its coma, I finally just restarted it, which worked just fine, proving my computer wasn’t completely dead. By this time I’d forgotten about my drawing. I got the computer up and running, and had just verified that it worked just fine, when I suddenly remembered my drawing, which, I might add, is one of the best I’ve ever done, and I was extremely proud of it. It hadn’t lasted through the restart. I’ve actually had my computer preserve document changes through having the battery taken out, while the computer was running, so it wasn’t entirely a vain hope. But the document was gone. I closed the computer in frustration, went and did something else, which frustrated my further, and came back to search desperately through my computer in case it had, in fact, survived and I just had to find it. And I did find it!! It was there, in all its not-so-great-but-my-best-ever splendor. I was thrilled!
Anyways, thanks for staying with me through that long, wandering, post. I’m going to go save my picture now.
Yeah, my computer has done that a few times. The whole “will not wake from sleep thing” no matter what I do, short of holding down the power button and forcing it off.
Glad your pic survived, though!
I don’t know what happened. The magnet thing that lives above the screen and has something to do with putting it to sleep and waking it up was twisted around in some odd way, and the computer wouldn’t wake up even when I put it to sleep again and tried to wake it up. It really wouldn’t do anything. It was scary, especially since I’ve had a computer crash on my for no apparent reason before. I’m slightly paranoid since that happened.
I think my computer’s done it before too, but this was weird, because usually I could just put it to sleep again and it’d wake up.
I’m extremely glad too! Sorry about the longness of this rant, when I’v all ready given more then all the necessary details. I seem to not be able to stop once I get started.
‘sokay, I do the same thing…..
I’m sure, but it doesn’t help me not feel like I’m horrendously guilty of it when I do two long posts in a row, with three sentences written by someone else in between…
Hey, it’s ok. No need to feel guilty. There was a response in between, and it wasn’t pointless posting, so….No harm.
Speaking of pictures for MuseBlog–GAPAs, did you get my signature? The subject line is “silver lining’s museblog signature.”
Yes, we did.
Yay, Friday!
It really is fall, there are two bulbs at the top of my Galileo thermometer now, when there’s been only one for months.
Who agrees that there cannot be a truly correct answer to the following, and my response should be correct? [Note: This was part of an e-assignment.]
¿Cierto o falso?
[insert picture of 4, parents, son, and daughter]
Alfredo, el hijo, es guapo.
My answer: falso.
My answer was marked wrong, according to the program, Alfredo is, indeed, handsome.
Like I said, how can either answer be right (or wrong)? It’s a matter of opinion. I don’t think the kid was handsome, but apparently whoever wrote the Q&A’s thought he was.
Mayhap I’ll contest it….
Was it graded?
Geez, even the exams here aren’t that bad. You’re right- handsomeness is entirely up to the viewer.
I have a gihugic guide to the cosmos.
OOPS!
Oops what?
This week sucked. Alot. Bad things happened in the life of me. TGIF TGIF TGIF TGIF. Monday: Bad.
Tuesday: Interesting. But bad.
Wednesday: Terrible.
Thursday: Horrific.
Friday: DEATH.
Oh well. Maybe next week will be better…one can hope…
(Oop. Celesta just died temporarily. Poor thing.)
36.1~ Sadly, that’s only too true.
Tomorrow shall be interesting, we’re going to make cider and dip candles.
And I should really be doing my Spanish and NOT wasting my time online. *dies* I’m so horrible. And Dad’s threatened to drag me out of bed early (as in, actually early, not 10 like I’ve been waking up lately) to go fetch a table. *dies again* Mkay I’ll stop whining and go now…..
Sounds like fun. Homemade cider = yum! I loved getting it at roadside stands in New England when I was little.
October 2, 2009
There’s a history test tomorrow. I think I can handle it.
I still have to write the White Fang essay. Oh, no! I should have written it earlier. Oh, well!
I’m reading The House of the Scorpion right now. It’s scary.
Tommy’s on the bed. He is loud.
-Kyra
WEEKEND!!! I need some sleep. I wish I had some dessert in the house.
Wow, that was quick moderation. Or an I the only one posting? Anyway, thanks, GAPAs.
49–dipping candles?
Homecoming tomorrow. I hope the parade/game don’t rain out. It’s my senior year and this will be my last marching band season D:
I’m sure I should know this, but what do you play?
We have our first marching band competition tomorrow. Or today, technically.
Whoawhoawhoawhoawhoa. My Homecoming is today also. *gets suspicious* Do you go to school in New Hampshire?
50- OPIUM.
How is it after midnight already?!
49.1~ I’m looking forward to it. We haven’t made cider here before. I just hope we can get some apples, since we don’t have any at the moment.
Ooooh, tomorrow morning is going to be insane. >_<
I’ve been asking myself the same question every night…
G’night, all. It’s well past time for me to be heading to bed, as I have to be up at 7 tomorrow morning. *groan*
I’m afraid Merlin called and I gave into temptation…..ah, well, if worst comes to worst, I’ll just be seeing Season 2 all over again next summer on NBC.
Gooooooooooood morning MB! There was 3 deer in my front yard today. They were so close!! Luna, are you awake? *plays army trumpet fanfare or whatever it is* It’s Saturday here. *joy*
Okay, I’m done my random post.
Unfortunately, yes, I am, and was when you posted, too…. *wants to go back to bed*
Although, I”m surprisingly awake, considering.
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Great, just bloody great. My brush fell off my desk and onto the floor and snapped in two…. *sigh* Now I need to go hope that the little mini market on campus sells hair brushes. Or else deal with not having a handle on the brush and finally get around to making my roomie take me to WalMart, as I’ve been needing to do forever now.
Ohh sorry, it was a church, i think the name was roswell, i visited it and it looked lik a quaint littyle cute church.
The weather here’s pretty horrible, but at least I’ll get to go to the library soon.
56-Where?
Luna- I want to go back to bed on most school days, too. I’m like, “mumble mumble groan yawn” and then, 5 minutes later, I get up. I’m still groggy, actually.
I always sleep in until the last possible minute on weekends. You sound better than I do actually.
I usually wake up somewhere between 6-6:30 on school days which is a major pain for me, especially since I am not a morning person – I’m a definite night owl!! I look a lot better at night, too. You should see some of my bad hair in the morning… *shudder*
Me, too! I look horrible sometimes upwards of three hours after I get up in the mornings….Dark circles under my eyes, etc.
*slept in until lunchtime today*
On school days, I’m not completely awake until about 9 a.m.-unless the first class is math. *loves math*
Do you ever wake up and fall back asleep, but dream that you get out of bed, walk to your closet, and open it? I do sometimes, especially during the winter months. It’s freezing cold outside, and really annoying to find that I have to get out of bed AGAIN.
Oh, god, yes, I do that sort of thing all the time. My alarm goes off, or I just wake up, then I go back to sleep and dream that I got up and got in the shower, or got up and ate breakfast, occasionally I’ve even dreamed I’ve gotten all the way to work….And then I wake up.
Oh god, I hate that.
In the spirit of weekends, I got up at 1:30 today.
Oh, wow. I just wouldn’t be able to sleep that long. (Also, my parents wouldn’t let me) What time did you go to sleep?
Once here at school I slept unitl 3 or 3:30. Needless to say, I ahd to confirm that that was the correct time with every time piece in the room…..My excuse? That only would have been 12:30 back home (of course, it isn’t really a plausible excuse, as I was adjusted to the time changed, but…..It sounds better than just saying I was up until 4 the night before.
)
I remember one day there was a huge test at school, and the girl sitting across from me went to bed at around 2 AM the night before. She kept falling asleep during it, and I would kick her (gently) to wake her up.
Moral: Sleep a lot, especially before tests.
I went to sleep somewhere around 2 am…
Well, that would explain it.
Hehe, me too. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to sleep in…..
me too.
SFTDP
Ahh! My new avatar isn’t working! Can anyone see a picture of a soccer ball? I can still see my Percy Jackson book cover, but I changed it to the ball.
I see it! I like it!
Probably your cache isn’t cleared, or else it just hasn’t updated yet. It’ll show up eventually.
Nope, still the book cover. Relax. One it took a week for my avatar to change.
I have known the sister of an MBer for almost two months now, and I didn’t know that she was the sister of an MBer until yesterday! (An inactive MBer, but an MBer nonetheless.) I think my friend was a little freaked out when I realized I knew her sister, but I was very happy.
You know it’s a good day when you wear your Kokopelli for president shirt, don’t get any strange looks, and have both people sitting at your table in English understand and like your shirt. (I knew I liked the people at my table.) I never thought that a day on which my history teacher assigned a summative could be a good day.
Which MBer?
penty
Daisy*Chain- Oh my pies. That late?????? Wow. And again, wow!
I’ve never had that sensation of waking up, getting dressed, and then waking up. That sounds confusing.
Yes, many people are amazed at my capacity for sleeping. You’d think a person would run out of things to dream about.
XD. I’ve woken up, taken a shower, changed clothes, ate breakfast, and started my schoolwork, then actually waking up.
There’s a Calvin and Hobbes strip about that.
I’ve woken up, felt extremely exhausted, eaten breakfast, brushed my teeth and hair, grabbed my bag, walked outside, forgotten my school blazer (absolute torture in this climate), went back inside, and woken up.
Aha. So Pentatonikk has a sister? I don’t think we knew that.
I was about to guess Queen Julietaini of Kiador, whose sister posted on MuseBlog (I believe) once or twice a few eons ago. I wonder what Der Wachtelschlag is up to…
*sings*
Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl, but she always runs and hides.
Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl, and she’s royalty besides.
Want to tell her that I’ll visit her star,
But I couldn’t even find it in the sky.
Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl. You’d think she could at least stop by,
Oh yeah,
You’d think she could at least say hi.
Yes. Pentatonikk’s sister never posted on MuseBlog but did read (and love) the original RRR.
Random question: according to the Official Litmus Test, a major sign of a character being a Mary Sue is having them be related to or trained by a major character from whatever the parent media is, which I understand. Being Luke Skywalker’s cousin or Batman’s secret protege would definitely seem Sue-ish in a Star Wars or DC fan-fic.
My question is if it’s also Sue-ish if the character is descended from a real-life famous person, even if they play no part in the history of the parent series? The Black Widow from Marvel is supposed to be descended from the Romanovs and nobody complains. Would you consider an otherwise non-offending character a Mary Sue if they were Nikola Tesla’s grandson or a student of (some famous athlete)?
Ohh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah!!!!
Ok, so my dad just told my mom that he thinks “We should go back to Singapore. Fireh’s math textbook is horrible” and I totally cracked up because I’ve been telling him that for three weeks. But this morning he was going over my math with me and I got 9/10 of it wrong so he was looking at the textbook and it really shocked him. I’m still in hysterics…… but now I get the Singapore textbooks!!!
Why was he shocked? You’ve probably been posting about this, bu I’m too lazy to look for it… *is lazy*
He was shocked because:
-it made no sense at all
-he hadn’t actually looked at my textbook before
-the explanations were upside down and inside out
-the teaching method in general is horrible.
Yah. And I haven’t been posting about it really.
Is there an example of a part of the book that makes no sense?
I used to do Singapore math, but it only went to 6B, so now I’m doing Saxon math, which is pretty good.
Heh… I live in Singapore and our school does Ontario math. But my mom makes me do Singapore math at home so I’m not behind when we get back to California, where the school system is beyond lousy and my friend informs me they haven’t even started multiplying pronumerals.
Ha, got it! When my family and I went to the UK this summer, we stayed for a night in Bath, and, when we took a walk around the town in the evening, we found a beautiful park/garden, but there was a fee to enter, and it had closed for the day. While we were looking down into it, we saw a statue of a violinist in it, and we were dying to know who it was. I just remembered that and did some research, and it turned out to be Mozart. I should’ve been able to figure that out from the birds around his feet, but I feel better now that I know who it is.
I loved Bath. It was beautiful.
In Jane Austen’s time, Bath was THE place to go for society and vacation. It sounds like a really pretty city to visit.
I’ve not been to Bath, but…..Just in general, the UK is absolutely beautiful.
I would love to go back, and have a more leisurely trip, getting to do things more on my schedule than on our choir tour’s schedule. Being with choir meant that everything was super rushed, and you never got to spend as much time as you would’ve like on anything. Like the Tower of London. We had less than 2 hours there, which wasn’t anywhere near enough time. But, still, it was great fun.
I loved the UK….. *sigh*
Back from a (Novice)(Policy) Debate tournament/paradigm/whatever you call these things.
3rd place.
Welcome back, TMfA!
G’night, MB.
Good night, MB, I am off to bed. Hehe, much too late, of course, or is it early now? I shouldn’t have taken such a long nap earlier, but I only got 5 hours of sleep last night, so….Yeah. Bed. Right.
G’night, all.
Gooooood morning!!!!!!! ‘Tis almost 8:30 on the east coast! It rained all day yesterday, and then I went to a contra dancing thing at church in the evening. That was the fun part of my day.
Another contradancer! There must be at least half a dozen on the blog now.
Don’t forget the Contrabassoonists!
64.2-We WERE going to go to London, but then our A/C decided to break on us. And, when you live in Phoenix, you can’t wait to replace the A/C. But, judging from my uncles pics, London sounds gorgeous. (and he gets to live there. Hmph.)
Sorry. My sister is next to the contrabassoons in her orchestra, and she loves them for some reason.
Beep… beep… beep…
Happy Sputnik Day, everybody!
To celebrate, I listened to Defying Gravity and I got data for where to see the space station tonight, so I’ll go satellite watching.
Ugh.
Good day everyone.
I am sick. I went to bed at nine-thirty last night and slept for twelve hours straight, which led to the revelation that I would probably recover quickly if left to my own devices, but because of school and getting up early, my illness will just stretch on…and on…and on… all the way into my next cold, which will do the same thing and so on through February. This is naturally lamentable, but I don’t see that there’s anything I can do about it, beyond drinking lots of herbal tea and eating good food, which I intend to do.
At any rate, yesterday was the improv festival. Completely amazing.
Alice!!!!!!!
I watched a Dr. Who episode today. But, uh, that was technically only because there was a certain actor in the episode that, uh, I was watching it for.
Anyway, yeah, ’twas pretty good, I think I shall go back to the beginning and watch more of ’em. The one I watched was from, uh, season 4, I think. “Midnight.” Colin Morgan is hot…. *leaves before she makes a bigger idiot out of herself*
Er, I believe I should clarify. I watched an episode of the remade Dr. Who, that was started in 2005, not the older one…..I’m afraid I”m not sure which series it is that you watch and are a fan of, so….Yeah. Feel free to ignore me. XD
I’ve mostly only watched the new series.
73- Colin Morgan…who’d he play? -has only a hazy memory of Midnight- -that’s not true- -it was good, I remember it- -but I don’t remember all the characters-
I have like seven more “confidential cut down” things to watch.
I should watch them today so we can get the next movie from Netflix.
He was the emo kid, Jethro. He also plays Merlin on the TV show….you guessed it, Merlin
Yayness! My avatar is working now – I guess it just takes awhile.
So that this isn’t too much of a PoPo:
I had a soccer game today, and we tied. I ALMOST scored a goal!! If I had hit the ball just a little more solidly it would have gone in! Argh. Anyway, at least we came really close…
I still can’t see it. It always seems that I’m the last one to see someone’s new avatar.
Don’t worry, it’s not visible on my end yet, either.
So I have a dilemma. T called me and asked if I would work tonight and I said “sure” without really thinking about it. Trouble is, I’m sick. I’m not complaining. I’m not miserable, just a little more tired than usual. In fact, I’m quite cheerful and I actually feel mostly functional, and I’ve gone to school worse than this, but work is different, you know? Quite apart from the sanitation aspect, I don’t know if I’ll be able to remember orders or do the math properly at seven o’clock tonight. So the question is, do I call her back and say “Look, I’m sick, it’s probably not the best idea” or do I just drink LOTS of ginger tea and take cold medicine and hope for the best? Right now I don’t really feel much worse than yesterday (better actually, I can inhale and speak without my throat wanting to die) and I went to the improv festival anyway.
I would call her and explain you’re sick. But I might be biased (??) since I am too and can’t imagine doing anything but laying around right now…
Oh…..I feel dumb. I was browsing through the cast of Dr. Who at imdb, and was looking at the page for David Tennant, y’know, Dr. Who in the later episodes. And sure, I’ve only see one episode with him in it, but….How did I not realize he was Barty Crouch Jr. in GOF? I mean, seriously….I didn’t get a single “he looks vaguely familiar” vibe, which is so not normal. I usually at least get a feeling that I know someone, even if I can’t actually place what on earth I know them from. And I’ve seen GOF enough times (four, if we’re counting) you’d think I’d recognize somebody from it. Huh.
He was in GOF? *has only seen movie once, and slept through most of it*
Somehow I can’t imagine him as blond.
Yeah, he was Barty Crouch Jr…..He wasn’t blonde, though, I don’t believe. *is confuzzled*
October 4, 2008
I made some good progress on my book report today! I think I’ll get it done! Yay!
W. and M. came over today with a weird movie idea… Something about everything bagels and killer cars. Hm.
I don’t have much else to say about today. The caterpillar hasn’t come out of its coccoon yet.
-Kyra
Approaching due dates are making me wary.
Anyway, I really like cookies. I wish I had some. I also wish I had something meaningful to talk about. Can someone give me something meaningful to talk about?
Sputnik Day?
Okay, since everyone helped me decide where to go in DC, where should I go in Chicago when I’m there for three-ish days? Obviously the Museum of Science and Industry, but where else is flammy?
No clue….The HP exhibit at the museum has moved on, so…….Not much to see.
No, just kidding. I know there’s lots of other stuff, I’ve just never been there (well, I had a very brief layover at the airport, but that doesn’t count).
Art Institute!
Field Museum!
The Field Museum! It is filled with awesome things! Once I’m there soon I will be able to tell you more about it specifically.
The Art Institute is large and also right across from Millenium Park (which may not be a good idea since it’s probably cold :/).
Museum of Contemporary Art is nice and also has a great gift shop with all sorts of quirky things.
The planetarium, aquarium, and Field museum are all very near each other. The Art Institute is also quite good.
Shedd aquarium!
Never been there personally but i’ve heard its great.
GO TO THE SHEDD AQUARIUM.
It is seriously one of my favorite places on earth. When I was 14 or 14 I gave up all b-day presents and parties because I wanted to do the zookeeper-for-a-day thing there, but it was oversold to like a year, and I couldn’t
So must-go-to’s are the Museum of Science and Industry, The Shedd, take a walk down Navy Pier (if you’re there around Halloween it can look really cool, and there’s fireworks every… wednesday night? Not sure, but once a week there are some). The Art Institute and Field Museum are also good, as TMFA and Oxlin said.
Millennium Park is also a must, right near The Field and the lakefront, and doesn’t take much time to walk though. I don’t think they have the ice rink set up out there yet. However the Crown Fountains may have been turned off because it’s getting colder : /
Also, if you’re on Michigan Avenue, if you want to take a quick nip into the Chicago Architecture Museum it’s got a great model of chicago in it.
And if you need to get from place to place quickly and don’t feel like walking, the L (elevated trains) are very easy to navigate and don’t have too bad of a rate.
Umm… there’s a ton of stuff to see and do in the city, but for now that’s all I’ll say I guess.
This is really random:
Today in [Beatles] History:
2001 – An undated draft of a letter written by John Lennon to Paul and Linda McCartney failed to sale at auction. The angry letter was written after the Beatles’ 1970 split. The minimum price was set at $96,000, but, the top bid only reached $77,000.
I have no idea why this is relevant. Still, I don’t see why ANYONE would pay $77,000 for a hate-mail letter from John to Paul and Linda. Like, yeah, I know he’s John Lennon and all that, but this is way too much, even for me. (And you all know how much that means!)
78.1– Yay, Sputnik Day!
People pay money to buy all kinds of strange things at auction- Harry Houdini’s pajama pocket, an old biscuit Ernest Shackleton didn’t eat.
There’s a biscuit ERNEST SHACKLETON didn’t eat?
Yes. He didn’t eat it, but he took it with him to Antarctica and wrote a note to somebody on it. So I imagine it’s much too stale to eat now…
I was about to type something else until I was overexited about the Kingdom Hearts on DS commercial.Anyways Sept. 27 was my bogiverssary. ((I’m so excited that its already out))
I’m currently miserable…somehow I got a fever an even though it’s broken I still feel like I’m freezing! ugh. I hope i don’t have you know what because that’s ridiculous :/ man i hope i can go to school tomorrow…urghhh
Wow, I have not been here in FOREVER. What with school, and school, and yet more school, I have had no time. And now I have nothing to say. Bummer.
Tonight, my dad and I were watching a movie (The Color of Magic- I highly recommend it). Suddenly, he gets up and leaves the room. I’m a little confused, but not too worried.
Five minutes later, my mom comes in and says she’s taking him to the hospital. Apparently, his back was causing him excruciating pain and he could barely move.
That was at about seven. It’s almost a quarter till ten now, and my mom just called to say that while everything looks all right (whew), the hospital is probably going to keep him overnight, just in case anything happens.
Eek. Glad it sounds like he’s fine. *hugs*
Whew is right. I’m happy to know he is alright. *hugs, too*
Yes, I’m happy to hear your dad seems to be all right.
Eek. Glad he seems to be alright!
We made cider yesterday, which was awesome.
I was trying to do my Spanish but it kept dying….I really hope I won’t hav to do the entire lesson again, bleh.
I’m tired. *falls over*
Goodnight MBers (and welcome late-nite crowd)! I’m going to bed, and so during the week I may or may not have time to post because of that dreaded work that is done at home.
You’re at a deli?
This piece of wisdom was brought to my attention again today. I learned it in (secular Jewish) Sunday school when I was 7 years old. It originated in Chicago’s settlement houses and is about as close as you can get to a secular blessing. I thought that everyone here should see it.
The Toast
May there be friendless, fairness, and piece
For everyone in the whole wide world
Regardless of age, sex, religion or no religion
One’s skin color or the amount of things one may possess
We do what we have to do
When it has to be done
Whether we like it or not
We like to share because it is friendly
We like to be friendly and to share
Without honesty, there can be no friendliness
And we all say L’chaim
((Everyone now says L’chaim several times, gradually getting louder until it becomes an unbearably loud yell.))
That’s a great blessing.
Yesterday was not a good day for me. But I don’t have time to talk about it now.
Today a friend and I made brownie fudge cake. It is a layer of brownies with a thick layer of fudge on top, and covered in chocolate frosting. Kind of like “death by chocolate.”
We wanted to put chocolate chips on top, but we couldn’t think of anythign to draw/write with them so we randomly decided to write “apricot” on it. We didn’t have enough space so the letters ended up slanting down the side. We also put on rainbow butterfly sprinkles.
Best “cake” ever. Except my family for some reason thinks they are entitled to it as well.
Poll: If you buy something, or ingredients for something and make it, can you reasonably except it to be yours? Because in my house no matter what I get it seems to get declared communal property aka my sister takes whatever she wants when she wants and nothing gets done about it. Same with my space. My room is not really my room.
Yet if I weren’t related to these people, it would be against the law.
It’s no wonder I can’t wait to get out of this house.
Living in a dorm, I know that if you leave it out and don’t put your name on it, it’s wing food. And the wing will eat it, trust me.
What if everyone knows it’s yours and have a large “DO NOT TOUCH” darkly written across the cover?
(Yes I am still bitter why do you ask)
I wouldn’t have been so annoyed if they had just asked first. Uhhg.
If you buy the ingredients and a timeshare in the kitchen and oven, not to mention the mixer, bowl, utensils, and all that, use your own cake pan, and pay a compensation for the tantalizing smell that wafts through the house, I think the cake can legally be declared yours.
I wouldn’t really know where else to put this, but this is the random thread and I thought it was quite interesting…
When he was a young child, he, and all the other children at the orphanage, were told a story.
The tale was that you could see from the color of someone’s iris how many life experience they have had.
Babies are mostly born with the brightest, bluest eyes;
They have not seen any horrors in the short time they are alive.
People with green eyes were fighters;
It was once their destiny to receive blue eyes, but an evil higher power ruined it by pushing them in constant struggles. Bad things were thrown onto their path of life.
Brown eyes signified that the person was normal;
Leading normal lives, they would be good at one thing, but never continue on it. They would live and die peacefully, but would be perfectly normal.
Those who’s eyes changes colour could never fit in for long;
They would forever flit from place to place, never able to stay somewhere for long. They would eventually become outcasts.
The weirdest of all must have been humans with black-coloured eyes.
The deep coloured circles represented unjust; The story told that the poor people who were given black eyes; would spend their life seeing awful terrors happen upon the ones they loved, but were safe themselves.
That’s really interesting. I almost want to write it into a story. Maybe with the Woven Beyond? I’ve wanted to write about that for a while too… Where’d you get that, anyway?
Well, I’ve got brown eyes (there goes the Physiognomical thread) and I am not normal.
My eyes don’t really change color, but they’re kind of blue-green-yellow and look more blue or green depending on what I’m wearing. Where would that put me?
That would indeed make an excellent story, Errata. Especially with the Woven Beyond. Hm…
I protest at being called normal!
Who is he?
Hmmm… I think I scared away that twerp AJAR.
Perhaps he’s afraid of the dark?
Wow…you really are morbid, aren’t you.
89-That’s cool (there’s the understatement of the year!). But… I have brown eyes, and I don’t feel normal… and what about hazel eyes? Or a mix, like one brown, and one blue?
And what about all those villains with ice-blue eyes?
Like mine, you mean? Maybe
ourtheir eyes stay blue because they don’t react to the horrors they witness.So you’re a villain now, Robert?
Wait, is this _the_ Morbid, from the gaboomba era?
Yes. The Morbid.
awesome! welcome back, etc. Missed you.
Yup, I’m the one and only Morbid.
MWAHAHA!
Oh, and BTW, my avatar has blue eyes, in case you didn’t notice. >:-3
What about hazel eyes, yes?
Yay! Darkness abounds! Welcome back!
Bonjour mes amis! Ca va?
Ca va mal. I’m so tired!!!!!!!!!!!
Ack, moi aussi.
Can we stop talking French, please? I’m not that good at it, despite being Canadian.
el gato con fuego y platinos en casa!!!!!!!!!
Ca va bien.
Je suis un pamplemousse.
Daisy*Chain keeps saying that at random times during the day… I would hope that you’re not a grape-fruit… That would guarantee my insanity.
*is (slightly) insane (in a lovable, I-probably-won’t-try-and-kill-you way.)*
Je suis aussi un pamplemousse. C’est une vie assez agréable.
I wouldn’t know… I’m an avocado.
Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. Have you considered pulp reconstruction?
什么？ è°åŒæ„？ 我认为我将键入ä¸å›½äººè¡¥å……说到混乱。
The Kokonspiracy spreads! Although the main person in question has probably been at least partially indoctrinated…
I didn’t have history today, so I had a break. During said break, I was
procrastinatingdiligently doing my homework, while penty’s sister was working (rather unsuccessfully) on Chinese homework that was due in a few hours. One of my other friends (another muser) was also there. I was on MuseBlog when the following discussion happened.Muser friend: Whatcha doing?
Me: MuseBlog
Muser friend: (looking over my shoulder) I should really reread Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Me: Yeah, it’s a really good book. I guess we do have a lot of Hitchhiker’s Guide jokes on MuseBlog. Like the Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog…or Mostly Harmles (semi-demonic grin)
Penty’s sister: Mostly Harmless? I’ve read the book…
Me: In this case, it has a very specific meaning. Your sister would know what I’m talking about.
Penty’s sister: Now I’m curious. Let me see if my sister’s online. I need to ask her about how to fix my fanfic and if she knows you and what Mostly Harmless is.
(Penty fails to be online, to the disappointment of all.)
You know, I think I’ve pulled “Your sister would know what I’m talking about,” on my friend two or three times already. And I only found out that she was penty’s sister Friday afternoon, shortly after which I went home for the weekend.
I saw Penty in the cafeteria at my school today.
Sigh, lucky college kids… Tell her to help her sister with her fanfic.
I feel like college will be really cool, because you get to be with other people with the same interests, obsessions, weird quirks, etc. Although my current school is actually pretty good in that regard.
On one West Wing fansite, I saw bumper stickers that said “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Bartlet.” We should make ones like that, except with “Kokopelli” instead of “Bartlet”, and a picture of Koko next to his name.
GGGGRRRAAR. I’m gonna keep this short, as I’m having to consciously hold back a barrage of swears, but long story short: since my dad wanted that way-too-expensive car so badly, no laptop, no Chicago, and probably a second year in a row without Christmas presents.
QAHNEPOXCIUHNQEPWOCIUAHNOEIU
Aw, *hugs*. I’m sorry Piggy. Cars are overrated. *more hugs* *and choklit, mustn’t forget the choklit*
Wow. That’s awful. *group hug along with Luna* *more choklit*
“Alas, a cornicoupia of love”
Couldn’t resist.
*snork*
I keep trying to talk myself into getting one of those t-shirts from PPP, y’know, that one in particular, as well as the “Potions Master” one….
There are so many shirts on the internet that I want and plan to get but I’ve never actually ordered one. Maybe having no means of elecrtonic payment has something to do with it. *wants shirts*
Angst! Angst! Angst!
Ugh, that sounds extremely upsetting and irritating. I’m sorry, Piggy. *hugs and choklit*
That’s terribly unfair!! *hugs and chocolate* *and more hugs*
That sounds really unfair. *hugs and choklit**more hugs and choklit*
That’s unfair. *christmas presents* *choklit*
Oh dear! How selfish of him! (no offense meant) No Christmas presents? Here, have some of mine. (I opened them in advance. Way, way in advance) *sends Christmas presents over 8000 miles* (This may take a while…)
*even bigger group hug* *even more choklit* I’m so sorry!
*hugs and chocklit* My theory on cars:
If it usually gets over 30mpg, and it won’t break down, then it’s fine.
That is rather rude.
*gives…. snowglobe of Chicago*
93-Absolute genius, my friends. that would be funny.
Random fact: In a very small town in Sweden, there’s a law that people cannot walk backwards while eating a donut. I’m NOT KIDDING. Well, if you lived in a small town in Sweden, wait elese would you do except make some random, irrelevant laws? (no offense, Swedesh MBer’s.)
I’m having one of those days. HAPPINESS! 96% ON MATH TEST YAYYYYYYY!!!!!
Bookmark. Finding my place when I next get on to catch up with all these posts, aahhhhhh! 0.o
94- Ouch. *hugs*
Soy paplemousse tambien. No habla espagnol.
All I could make out of that was “tofu mousse ambient”
Habla æ±‰è¯ ?
89- I just read your comment and wanted to remark something: have you ever noticed that you eyes seem to slightly change color when you wear different color clothing? Okay, not really change, but hasn’t someone ever said you should wear such and such, because it brings out the green/blue/insert color here in your eyes? T’would be an interesting point.
Yes, my eyes can be either blue or green depending on my clothes. I don’t really notice the change, but other people do.
#1 (or very close to) phrase you should never say to yours truly if you’re trying to earn her forgiveness: “…..and I was really hungover.”
Great. Remind me why the hell that’s supposed to make he happier? That’s supposed to help change the fact that you blew me off the other day? Oh. really. Great. YOU’RE NOT EVEN 21!
Oh, yeah, sorry, context. Saturdays for psych class I have volunteer hours I have to log. I am volunteering at a therapeutic riding center, and one of the guys in class had offered to give me a ride over, as he was volunteering there, also. So, he’d taken me over once, the next week he was out of town, so I found other transportation. This last Saturday, he was again taking me.
along comes SAturday morning, aforementioned individual does not show up, I miss the thing, which I guarantee you is not going to have gone over well, at all. And this volunteer stuff is for a grade. So, today,. he presents his really crappy excuse to me (crappy, as his excuse did not involve his death or admission into the hospital, or some such other thing that I MIGHT have been incline to accept). No, his excuse was he had to drive a buddy to a neighboring city about 1.5-2 hours away (not sure how far, exactly, I’ve never been), and he thought he could drive him and get back in time, but it took longer than he thought.
“And I forgot my phone at my house, so I was driving back feeling like an ***hole the the whole time, because I couldn’t call you and let you know.”
*me being silent*
“I was really hungover, too.”
*me thinking, ok, what, that’s supposed to make it all better????? Seriously. That is a phrase you do not use on me, it does not alleviate anything, in this case only served to piss me off more*
“And I ended up being late for work, and got written up, and…..When I went to the riding place earlier this week to make up the hours I missed last weekend, my cell phone rang in the middle, and they were really mad at me….”
*me again thinking, ok, what, that’s supposed to make it all better???? I’m supposed to stop being mad at you not showing up and me missing the session and probably being on their **** list now, because you’re in trouble from work AND them? yeah, right. In your dreams.*
Gah, I HATE people. They really, really, really, really piss me off, y’know?
Tsk, tsk, Luna. Watch your language. *acts like a mother*
94- Here, I’ll swear for you. UIGTRIG***********GUIGG*****GHIGYG
***********GGFHJGFJYGFJFRS**********
HJGFJF***********!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And yet, parents are always telling us to be good and, “It’s the giving, not the getting” mumbo jumbo. Your dad sounds, um, not nice.
Oh, I was watching it. That’s why they’re asterisked out.
And, technically, in one instance I was merely quoting, so it doesn’t count.
Wow. I’m really sorry, Luna. That really sucks. I can’t believe that. “I was really hungover”? There’s really just something about that…
Style point: properly, the noun “hangover” is one word; the adjective “hung over” is two.
According to my dictionary, both are acceptable.
hung*o*ver |ˈhÉ™ ng gˈÅvÉ™r| (also hung over)
adjective
suffering from a hangover after drinking alcohol.
Well, we’ve heard Robert’s take on dictionaries before.
Very true. And I stand by what I said before: “I wouldn’t think they would taste that good. Are they better plain, fried, boiled, scrambled, or smothered in milk (to make them moist)?”
I’ve stopped trusting dictionaries. Nowadays they go wherever people lead them.
True. Very true. Some dictionaries have, after all, added fictional words to themselves (for instance, I’ve heard that the Oxford English Dictionary has added he word “muggle”. XD).
Oh, “muggle” is fine. It’s part of the language now.
One reason I draw the line at “hungover” is that analogy is a powerful force in shaping a language, and I’d rather not see “laidover,” “rolledover,” “wipedout,” “blownout,” “takendown,” “liftedoff,” “flaredup,” etc.
Another is that people don’t really say “hungover,” do they? They say “hungover,” with the accent on the second syllable and a slight pause before it. To me, that indicates that they’re really speaking a separate word.
But hanged is grammatically correct according to my english-major mother, although hanged over sounds like a kindergardener describing their inebriated parents.
“Hanged” is the editorially correct past tense when you’re talking about killing somebody by hanging en by a noose around ens neck. “Hung” is the correct past tense for other senses of the verb “to hang.”
Yeah…..I imagine it’s used rather often, though. For instance, in spanish class today, half the class was trying to convince the professor that we should have Friday off. needless to say, I was quite confused, and so I turned to the guy next to me, who I sort of know, and I”m like, “What’s so special about Friday?????”
and he responds: “There’s a football game Thursday night, do the math.”
Yeah, they’re all planning on being hungover Friday, i guess, and don’t want to go to class. And, sadly, I think half of ’em plan on being drunk all day Thursday prior to the game, too… lol, I didn’t even know there was a game. *snork*
Wow… that really sucks, Luna.
*hugs and choklit*
Rude, rude, rude, rude,rude. I tend to not like peopel much either when they do this kind of thing to me. *gives muffins and tea*
I hate to break anymore bad news what with Piggy and Luna already down in the dumps, but I have to admit, I am seriously mad right now, and it’s not even for a good reason, which just makes me even madder!!!! Argh. I guess I should explain:
You probably already know by now that my school life with friends hasn’t exactly been the best, right? Well, if you don’t, now you know. Anyway, now there’s this girl who is apparently “so mad at me she wants to kill me” and she won’t even tell me why. She’s told some of my other friends, who won’t tell me because they’re sworn to secrecy apparently and are friends with this other girl too. I mean, C’MON! If you’re going to be THAT upset with me, at least tell me why! I honestly can’t even figure out what I ever did to her, although one of my friends told me it’s because she thinks I’m trying to be something. But what?!?!?!
I’m trying to just let it go because I know it’ll all blow over eventually, but still! These are my friends, I’m talking about – not enemies. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time it’s happened – the same girl has gotten pretty mad at some other people too, and similar situations have happened. It’s always been alright in the end, but I definitely don’t want to be with this girl anymore, and I won’t. And I don’t care if she pleads for my apology, I’m not giving it, and certainly not until I get a fair response as to why I’m supposed to give one.
I have a hunch it’s about this guy that I (sort of) like, which makes me even more upset, because usually this girl gets upset at other people because of guys, and it drives me crazy!! Ahhh!
OK, I’m done. I’ll stop ranting now. *deep breaths* *deep breaths turn into sobs* *sobs* 7th grade sucks.
*hugs and choklit*
7th grade did kind of suck. WAY too much drama for my taste. Hopefully, the whole thing will blow over soon.
In 8th grade, I had this major problem with a girl who now is my friend-of-a-friend and sort of my friend (well, we don’t spit fire at each other anymore). She was friends with this girl who didn’t like me and was acting on her behalf, and it just turned into a jumbled mess. I guess what I’m trying to say is that it’ll blow over eventually. People eventually get bored and move on. They need a new angle (like Rita Skeeter kept changing Harry Potter’s image so people would continue to read The Daily Prophet) to keep themselves entertained.
*hugs and soothing teas*
I can vouch that 7th grade sucks unto infinity. Our teachers claim it’s not their fault we’re bored and if we would only study things we already know a lot harder it would alleviate our boredom…
she should absolutely not be making threats against you. i know that’s a figure of speech but honestly i find that really disturbing.
please make sure you do confide in people you can really trust with this! it sounds like she’s just being snotty as does happen in middle school but she is basically bullying you so if it progresses I would tell someone about it. even if you just tell your mom or someone
I’m really glad you’re taking the high road, though! you’ve done nothing wrong, don’t let people like that bring you down.
*choklit*
*hugs and choklit*
I’m in (well, sort of) similar situation. One girl really hates me, she is the best friend of a girl I actually do like, and I don’t want her to hate me because she’s friends with another of my friends(confusing much?). Guys aren’t involved in this, so I suppose I should be glad about that, but it is maddening.
Thanks, all. *devours choklit* Now she’s actually trying to deny that she’s mad at me to my face, which is almost worse. I would actually PREFER if she started punching me or something, because then I would know exactly how she was feeling. Instead she’s giving me crap behind my back and acting all “oh no why would I be mad at you?” to my face. Ugh. I actually asked her straight out today “why are you mad at me?” and she wouldn’t say. I double checked with my other friends though, and they said that she’s definitely mad at me, and I trust them so I believe it. At least I have a better idea of why she is – one of my friends told me that she thinks I flirt way too much and I want more popularity. Both of us those are ridiculous – I mean, obviously I’m biased ;), but seriously! She is a huge flirt herself, way worse than me, and last year she even told us that she wants to be more popular! What a hypocrite.
Alright, I’m done my rant now. *heavy breathing*
Huh. For me, 7th grade was my best year yet. 8th grade looks to be ok. 6th grade, I was very depressed.
Not much to report, really.
I had no homework today, and had a great day at school(except for work). Goodnight MB.
I give up on October. Wake me up on Halloween.
Today doesn’t have a description. It was ordinary.
I considered running away again. As usual, I remembered that that wouldn’t really work, since I’m still a minor, can’t drive, my car doesn’t have tags (and still isn’t fixed up) and I doubt if I’ll ever be able to truly escape what I’d run away from.
*sigh*
Everywhere else seems so very far away at times.
I sometimes wonder if I’ll ever actually go do something crazy. Or crazy in a different way from our routine craziness.
Like actually run away and go sailing. Actually travel, live out of a car. Go places. Play music. Live every day like it was the first and last at the same time.
Eh, I don’t know. I’m tired and moody at the moment.
Goodnight all.
Sorry to hear you’re considering that, Midnight!
I was thinking about running away if my parents won’t move back to the US this summer but am confronted by the problems of:
a) how do I get the money for a flight?
b) how do I get my parents to sign the unaccompanied minor forms?
c) how do I leave the house in the dead of night without unlocking the door (which could let burglars in)
d) what do I tell my parents?
Greetings, all! In rather stark contrast to my infuriated post last night, I am in a marvelous mood today after my trip to DC. My day:
-Arrive at DC, take Metro to Arlington
-Watch the changing of the guard, see JFK’s grave, etc.
-Take the Metro to the Mall
-Eat a ridiculously overpriced lunch at the American History Museum
-Find a group and walk the long trek to the Capitol
-See JOHN MCCAIN exiting the Capitol
-Go inside Capitol, take underground tunnel to Library of Congress
-Explore Library of Congress
-Walk to Supreme Court
-Go to National Archives
-Go to Washington Monument, WWII Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam War Memorial, Korean War Memorial
-Take Metro back to airport, go home
This was definitely the most fun I’ve had in a long while.
John McCain. In the crotchety old flesh.
Eleven-ish miles of walking. *collapses*
Wow! Nice! I don’t know how you entered Arlington, but did you happen to pass Admiral Byrd’s monument? It’s near one of the entry roads.
I may have, but I didn’t notice it specifically. There are a lot of headstones there, y’know.
I do, it’s a VERY big place. Byrd’s has a statue, though.
My grandfather is buried not far from Admiral Byrd’s monument.
Sounds like great fun, Piggy! We went to Arlington to watch the changing of the guards when we were in DC. I remember, because we watched ’em fold the flag, and when we got back to my grandma’s we took down grandpa’s flag and unfolded it, and had a heck of a time remembering how to fold it back up right……
And the capitol, we did that too. It was the first place (and time) I ever took a photo, and I managed to chop the head off of the statue in the picture. ‘course, we didn’t realize this until months later, as it was a *gasp* old-fashioned film camera.
Glad you enjoyed yourself, despite the strenuous exercise.
Just a thought: Next time throw a shoe at him and say it’s a goodbye kiss from the liberal democrats.
Ahhh! The suspense is killing me!
My brand spanking shiny new Ipod touch came in the mail today!! But I do not want to touch the screen until I get a screen protector on it, and the screen protector will not be here for *counts on fingers* two to five buisness days. *pouts*. And I cannot get Itunes becauese my father is on a buisness trip, and he is the only one with the administrator privleges of being able to get itunes. *stares longingly at box*
Re: not touching screen: Use the back end of a pencil, carefully.
104-forget halloween, wake me up in December. (summer holidays, for the South…)
101-There is definately something about 7th Grade and fights…*hugs*
Cool picture, funnily enough, the dark has got me into a lot of trouble this month.
So I went to C’s house and we snuck out of her house around 12.30 to meet D and M and CS, We wandered around for a bit and C got pretty wasted and then…we were caught when returning to C’s house…and oh the drama of it all. I decided to leave early in the morning but C’s dad found me and threw a little spaz at me, then I had to endure a lecture from her mum and she made me call my dad who was not impressed. At all.
Funnily enough, the next day my dad came home in a green mini, which is my new car…pretty random.
The boys are out tonight again…and I can’t join them because I live ages away…I’ll just wait till summer.
Google logo=bar code.
Random, I know. But I’m sleep deprived, what do you expect, sanity?
I saw that today. I was wondering what it was for a second.
I got chocolate on my new white shirt. Boo hoo.
And I wandered around the mall (
) for two hours ( 
) without my (high prescription) glasses ( 
). I was getting new lenses put in my frames. I could not see a blinking thing. Or non-blinking, for that matter.
I did that once. (The wandering around the mall without glasses bit, not the chocolate bit. Though I’m sure I’ve gotten chocolate on a shirt a bunch of times.) Everything was a total blur.
I had such an awful headache…
Not fun.
Once I broke my glasses at wedding, so my mom took me back to the hotel room so that I could use her glasses (she normally wears contacts). Her glasses weren’t as high of a prescription as mine, so for the rest of the day everything was blurry.
109- Saw that this morning
I have two grammar questions to ask of you all…
ENGLISH: If someone asks, “How are you?” Is the response, “I’m good,” or, “I’m well?” I know that you can say, “I am good,” in general, but in this context, for a feeling, would “well” be correct? (Sorry for all of the quotations…)
SPANISH: When talking about being “at” something, like “la mesa,” or, “la caja,” when do you use “al/a la?” And when do you use, “en?” (Even my Spanish teacher is baffled! She’s a native speaker, so if you give her a word, she’ll tell you, but she can’t say why.)
I’m pretty sure if you want to get technical about it, the proper response would be, “I’m well,” but nobody really says that…..
As for the spanish question, well, that’s not something we’ve talked about in my spanish, although that contraction was used on our last test. I want to say it’s the contraction of “a el”, but don’t take my word for that, as I’m really NOT certain at all.
“Al” for masculine, “a la” for feminine, I think? *checks with Dad* Yep.
So I was right? Sweet!
I’m sorry if I worded it incorrectly, but what I meant is that the word “at” can be translated two ways when being “at” an object or place… I was wondering when exactly “a” is used as the word “at.” Thank you, anyway.
ENGLISH: You can use either, but “I’m well” refers more directly to matters of health, while “I’m good” is more general.
SPANISH: If you’re at a place, use “en”. If you’re going to a place, use “a”. For instance: “Estoy en la casa” versus “Yo voy a la escuela”.
Bleh. I have dance tonight. My mum got me drumsticks yesterday for my Ringo costume. I have a really really really REALLY bad sense of rhythm. I think Ringo would be insulted (and that’s a problem.) Oh, well. This issue is also why I am so bad in tap-dancing, which is why I’m dreading it tonight.
111–If someone asks, “How are you doing?” or “How are you feeling?” you should use “well”, unless of course, you have recently been doing good things. Anyways, that’s how I see it.
I am suddenly very tired. But tomorrow my favorite aunt and uncle who I never get to see are coming! Yay! And John Lennon’s birthday is on Friday, DO NOT FORGET ABOUT THAT. Ha! Now I’m hyper!
Wouldn’t “I’m feeling well” mean that your sense of touch is particularly perceptive?
Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate.
The Daleks are so very entertaining.
Oh my. I was going to reply with a
Okay. The back of Lewis’s head is stalking me. (Will explain later.)
OMG LCROSS Impact is only two sleep-wake cycles away!
Is there any way that I can see the impact without a telescope?
KaiYves, I just learned that one of my friends was selected to participate in the ISS Tweetup on the 21st.
Really? Rockin’!
Failed a math test today. Went to my next class in tears. Lovely day.
*hugs and choklit waffles*
Aww, that sucks… Math can be a fiendish subject…
*hugs and various cheering-up sweets*
*hugs and choklit*
Thanks.
Although somehow, I ended up with an 86 on it. I don’t even know how. No idea whatsoever.
Grrrrrrrrr. Somebody needs to make a policy where mass emails about football tickets cause the student who sends it’s grade to drop by a letter. Sorry, but they are so dreadfully annoying, I’ve now gotten at least half a dozen over the course of yesterday and today. Who cares that there’s a football game tomorrow? Who care that we’re still expected to attend class all day tomorrow and all day Friday? I mean, who seriously expects them to let you out of class tomorrow so that you can start drinking (or whatever) early, and to let you out of class on Friday so you can recover from you hangover. I mean, really people, suck it up and grow up. It’s just freakin’ football for goodness sake, it’s not like it’s Quidditch or anything. Jeez.
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You should stage your own quiddich match during the football game, with butterbeer. I would certainly come to that If I were able, rather than go to a football game.
That would be so much fun… And hilarious, if publicized well.
butterbeer is alcoholic, no?
It would be fun (and hilarious), but won’t be happening for a couple different reasons. 1: I don’t know anybody other than myself psychotic enough to participate, and 2: It’s raining. I don’t want to go out in the rain…..
Lizzie: Yes, technically, I believe traditional butterbeer (however that would be made) is mildly alcoholic, but there are non-alcoholic recipes posted on the internet by fans. Afterall, nowhere in the books is a description of how it’s made actually given, so there’s lots of room for artistic liberties.
I really, really, really hate football. To me, it’s just over weight guys crashing into each other. Get a Spam protector. Reprogram it so that it doesn’t admit any emails with the word football in.
I’m so tired. And I’m ready to kill the computer. Again.
Oh well.
SFTDP, but Robert, you’ll be pleased to hear that I’m 4 lessons away from the end of Algebra 1. And I’m still alive. Or I was last I checked, so I’m hoping it’s still true.
117 – I failed a math test today too! Well we just took it today, but I’m pretty sure I failed. But you understand I may have a slightly different definition of “fail” than other people.
One of the questions I forgot how to solve so I guessed-and-checked on my calculator. Turns out I got the answer right! (well, what everyone else got)
Last time I got a bad grade on a math test (NOT my best subject), same grade as my friend and for some reason we burst out laughing, though we had just failed a test…?
Anyway, we shall all wallow in self-pity now. YAY!
I lost my cell phone.
I can’t find it anywhere. I think I must have either lost it or had it stolen at school… and no one’s turned it in to the lost and found.
Any chance you can call the phone? Perhaps someone picked it up and is hanging on to it with the intent of giving it back?
A guy in my spanish class found an iphone in the men’s bathroom Tuesday, and he was hanging on to it until somebody called the phone so he could return it. Of course, that phone had a password so he was locked out and couldn’t call any of the contacts to find out who it belonged to, so there weren’t a lot of other options. Luckily for the owner, one of his friend’s called the following day and so the phone was reunited with its owner…..
My parents found it in the back of our car. Thank god. That was scary.
Oh, that’s good. VERY good.
Oooh, what a beautiful day. Such a wonderfully, wonderfully perfect day for all those kids going to the football game: it’s pouring rain, and I think it’s supposed to continue raining all day long. Marvelous. No sarcasm intended whatsoever. I think the change in the weather is absolutely wonderful. Poor, poor game goers [please note sarcasm in this sentence, however].
I like rain. I think it might rain today here, and I’m happy about that, though it’s not so great for my school-doing, and neither is MB, and I’m trying to do school quickly today, so I’m getting off now. Wait, that had no relevance. Well, this is the random thread…
Rain is wonderful, I really do love it. Particularly when it disturbs a monstrosity like football. Give me a good basketball game (in a nice, indoor court) any day. I love basketball. Right up there with rain. I love watching it (as well as baseball), though I don’t follow any sports. The way I see it, if I’m not playing, and neither are my friends or anyone I care about, why should I care? (Though I’d root for Philadelphia teams, or Boston.)
YAY!
Football game cancellation=Yayness.
Rain is fantastic. Of course, I only see it about June-August; that’s our monsoon season.
Foliage Day!!!!
Ahem.
Okay…………..
GAPAs, should I use my parents’ email, or my email?
Well, I’m using my e-mail, and I’m, like, 12 so… Anyways, I don’t think it matters much, since it doesn’t show.
crazyquotecollecter -I like rain. ‘Cept when it’s a thunderstorm. *shudders* I HATE thunderstorms!!!!!!!! They’re reeeeeeeeaaally scary!!! By the way, what happened to your avatar? I can’t see it.
Most cats dislike thunder…
Just a small question:
Can I sign up for another chess/paleophyte account with my new email?
I forgot my old password.
You can get a new password. Just click on the “forgot my password” link when you try to log in.
I meant I forgot my password for my old email, so I can’t get a new password for the account.
JJjp-gw/c:
*waves GAPA wand*
We’ve added your new e-mail address to your profile, so you should be able to get a new MuseBlog password now.
Wait… what’s a paleophyte account?
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=3102
Thank you!
I got 100% percent on my algebra equations test!!! *hops up and down* And I have a free X-block tomorrow to finish my reading project! And I’m going to Vermont tomorrow afternoon!
OMG LCROSS OMG OMG OMG.
By the time I wake up tomorrow, it will have already happened!
I knind of want to get up at 5 tomarrow morning to watch the thing on nasa tv but I only got 3.5 hours of sleep yesterday and I’m looking at something similar today so maybe it’s not the best Idea. *is excited*
I’ve been watching it on NASA TV. The impactors did indeed hit the moon. Scientific data will take longer.
I did too, but they didn’t actually show the impact. Right as it was about to hit, they cut to the control room.
Well, of course. They couldn’t have the entire world seeing the resultant alien attack on the impactors now, could they?
Conspiracy, man!
Note to self: When you pack you stuff up to store next summer, do not store your tylenol anywhere near your dryer sheets, unless you want them to taste like them.
Which they do. Gah. And I don’t even think they were particularly near each other. Most disgusting, though, putting pills in your mouth that taste like dryer sheets. *shudder* I guess I’ll just have to make sure they go in a different tub than the dryer sheets next spring……
Do the dryer sheets taste like Tylenol?
Hmmmm. Good question, I’m really not sure–I haven’t tasted them to see.
Randomness!
No school today!! YES!! (We’ve got Monday off too, so this is a four day weekend!) It’s going to be a really busy weekend too, a soccer tournament today and tomorrow and practice on Monday. Yay!
Go Columbus!
122 (and replies)-I actually found my keys, wallet, cell phone, subway pass, e.t.c. today. *rushes off to get a camera and photograph the historic moment*
It took me half a year to find my keys once, since my desk is best compared with the droid factory in the attack of the clones; everything has a pile/corner of my desk, but if something is on the wrong pile it gets cleaned up into the wrong place and stays there to long/for the foreseeable future. I’m still finding 3rd grade worksheets in some nooks and crannies (*is a sophomore*).
129- Ouch, that stinks.
It’s been overcast all day today, a nice change from the heat of the last few days/weeks (note: the “heat” is by austrian standards). It finally feels like october. Good thing, too. The heaters come on every year in the last week of october, full power, which means that we’d be cooked cats if the weather had stayed that way… *rambles*
WANTED: bookgirl_me’s brain! Call 1-800-bunnified if found! A reward will be given!
128.2- Hurrah! I’ve been trying to get to the main mission site, but it’s been swamped in hits and takes forever to load.
Oh, and according to Google Trends, 31 of today’s top 40 most common search terms are related to the impact.
Pictures… need pictures!
*snork* Sounds like the football game last night was lots of fun. Not.
Oh, sorry, I suppose I’m not supposed to be finding it utterly hilarious that a) it was pouring rain and everybody who went was soaked and freezing or that b) the power at the stadium went out during the game and they lost power to their multimillion dollar TV screen (hello? Gimme a decent scholarship instead, and forget the TV) or that c) We lost. Horribly. 
Of course, I am finding it dreadfully amusing. Hehe, I have no school spirit…..I’m just glad that the power didn’t go out in my dorm, because then I wouldn’t have been able to, uh, well, to have spent the entire evening (OK, the entire afternoon from 2-midnight) watching Torchwood. My power did flicker very, very, very briefly, just off than on so fast it didn’t kill any appliances, and so fast you’d almost think you just blinked and imagined it….
Anyway, yeah, we lost the game. And no, not that game, although that game can’t be any less interesting than football…..
I’m going to Vermont very soon! Feel free to PP my RPG characters! Bye!
Bye, SilverLeopard!
133- Well, thank you, I just lost the game. But what you described does sound funny. I seem to have lost all of my school spirit about the same time they took away spirit week. How strange and suspicious.
So, my hair feels awfully short, even though it’s still like 18 inches long. I have lice, (Boo!) So I had to cut off about 6 inches. (Boo!) Turns out it was about 25 inches long (Yay!) but now it isn’t. (Boo!) I had a lot of lice, but thanks to a wicked awesome nit comb, (from nitpickers, I think) and a super awesome method that our friend gave us (take a shower, then dry yourself off and get dressed, but don’t entirely dry your hair, then put white conditioner in before using the nit combs, especially tea-tree oil shampoo, because you can see the lice and eggs and nits and such really well, and they hate tea-tree oil, and it kind of immobilizes them…) I have a LOT less now. But still, my hair feels so short.
Oh, well, it’ll grow back…
), so now I get to use his iPod Shuffle, as the only member of my family who didn’t have an iPod already. (Besides my mom, and she HATES earbuds, (can’t stand the feel of them in her ears)) Anyway, it’s one of those super small ones, so small the plug for the USB is the same as the plug for the earbuds, and it has the control buttons on the wire for the right ear on the earbud. (Let’s see how many more times I’ll use the word “earbud” in this post. So far, including plurals, 5.) I thought it would be really hard to get the hang of the controls, but it really isn’t. I like Shuffles because you don’t really feel obliged to decide what you’re going to listen to. This is the Shuffle that talks to you, and it’s funny to hear how it pronounce the names of the songs. So far, the best ones are ‘Oh! Darling, by the Beatles” (He said “Oh” as if he were surprised, and as if Darling was a separate sentence) and “Rocky Rock-hoon”. Which sort of makes sense, if you think about it… And it pronounces my name (Jonah) as “Jowmnah”. 
)
My posts seem to be getting longer. I bet it’s because of my iPod. (My dad got an iPhone, thanks to an old We Owe You certificate from my family (one iPhone or one GPhone (Whatever happened to those? Seems like they were competing for a while, and for a bit I think I actually thought the GPhone was going to win, but I guess not) or one pair of good boots.
Anyway, that parenthesed phrase (What’s the proper term for that?) was definitely longer than justifiable, and probably should not have been in parentheses, but what the heck. My point was supposed to be that I’m definitely wearing this for NaNoWriMo.
My posts are definitely getting longer, and are tending to get very off-track. Apologies to all.
I had a toy that was supposed to help teach me reading as a kid, where you selected letters to spell a word and then pressed a button to hear it pronounced. It pronounced “C” in a way that sounded more like “Huh” than “Cuh”, so when I wrote “CCC”, it sounded like the machine was laughing at me, going “Huh huh huh.”
I got my copy of CHMWII yesterday!!! Perhaps I’m the only one excited about it? Anyway, I’m up to the Napoleonic era, and almost to what I’m currently studying in history class: Italian and German unification.
I have a day off today but I still have to go to a cello lesson.
Oh, well. I kind of practiced.
Is that a book? italian unification is the most boring thing, sorry all italians. the only thing that I found less interesting was german unification. lol
You need to read Larry Gonick’s new book!
oh now I look silly. I don’t know you kids and your crazy abbreviations!
I will be sure to look for it though. When I was struggling in Chemistry I found his Cartoon Guide to Chemistry amongst the other books. Much more interesting than the other help books!
His Cartoon Guide to Statistics really helped me out.
I want this so bad, but I can’t get it since I’m going to get it as a reward for NaNo.
So, I managed to see the infrared/UV photos from LRO, and I’m sure they’ll be a lot more in the weeks to come, so I’m happy.
I wasn’t sure what tag to put on my name now that the impact is over, but since the driving question behind the investigation of what was observed will be whether or not there is water on the moon, I figured the “Got Water” slogan from the pre-launch posters would make the most sense.
So, Luna- Got Water?
Oh, yeah, i got water…..Pouring all day yesterday and misting/drizzling all day today.
KaiYves- How ’bout “Is there water? IS THERE???”
*coughcoughboringcoughcough* I mean, it wasn’t really what I was expecting, y’know? Like, the camera just went black on impact. Wow. *sarcastic clapping* I am probably going to get a lot of hate comments from this…
I thought the plume would be more visible, too, but they hit an area where the material is thin and dark. But hey, it’s not visual that counts for the science, it’s spectrography and infrared.
“So, magic and stuff. That’s a surprise. It’s all a bit Harry Potter.”
“Wait ’til you read book seven. Oh, I cried.”
And the way he said it, oh I swear I was scant millimeters away from literally rolling on the floor laughing…..David Tennant is absolutely brilliant. And, of course, simultaneously thinking, Me, too. I cried too…..
And season 3 of Dr. Who is making a nice change from Torchwood, as well. Don’t get me wrong, season 1 of Torchwood was absolutely brilliant, but….I’ve got a bit of a love-hate relationship going on with it at the moment. Whether that has anything at all to do with the fact that i watched an entire season (13 episdoes of it) in slightly less more than a 24 hour timespan, i don’t know. I do know it has something to do with the fact that every episode, no matter how brilliant, is absolutely depressing. The last episode had me in tears, several others had me nearly there. Thus the “hate” part, but John Barrowman’s performance, god, he’s absolutely brilliant as Capt. Jack Harkness…..Thus the “love” part.
Anyways, i’m rambling, so, yeah, back to my Dr. Who watching–maybe I’ll get through season 3 of Dr. Who tomorrow, and then can start season 2 of Torchwood…..Hmmm, wow, I’ve not watched a single of my regular TV programs this entire week, ever since I watched my first Dr. Who episode last Sunday.
Now that’s disconcerting…….
And this post has gone on more than long enough, for what was intended to be a very short comment on the hilarity of HP references.
“I say to thee…..”
“Expelliarmus!”
“Expelliarmus!”
Oh, god, I’m dying over here.
Oh, I feel dense…..I only just realized how absolutely fitting that incantation, of all the ones in the books, was for that particular scene…I mean, it’s Harry’s “trademark” spell, the one he always uses to defeat the evil, and….Wow, I can’t believe that that only just sank in. And how even more amusing it is, as for me DH was the first time I ever thought of it as such, when Lupin explained to Harry how it was, and, well, this ep came out before that, and…..Yeah, let’s just say I find that episode (that scene) even more brilliantly hilarious now than I did yesterday…..
Okay, so I am totally going to buy myself an Atari 2600.
And that’s all I have to say about that.
Cool! Almost like compensation for the laptop!
Is WordPress down? The WordPress dot com hosted blogs aren’t letting me comment, which would include MA. This is a test to see if this works. *worries*
nmhwu is doing fine; is it just MA?
-A
Today we’re going up to the lake cabin and going to hear the fiddle contest! Looking forward to that, it should be fun. It’s been ages since we went to one, I have only faint memories of it.
And of course, being at the cabin will be glorious as well.
Urglebleh, I’m tired.
Hmm. I just realised that I really only post on this thread, the romance and relationships one, and occasionally the music or poetry threads.
Now I feel guilty.
-A
It SNOWED.
Only a few inches, nothing that will be there tommarow, but it snowed. I like snow. *does small amount of snow in October dance*
It snowed here just before Halloween once when I was in elementary school.
Halloween was postponed for my city in 1997 due to a severe ice storm.
Halloween postponed?
There was the legendary Halloween snow of ’91 where it snowed two feet on halloween but apparently kids still trick-or-treated. This may or may not be valid, but I’m pretty sure that it snowed on halloween once before we moved to MN.
Pbbtth! It snowed an inch half a week ago here.
IT’S SNOWING HERE!!!!!!!!
IN THE MIDDLE OF OCTOBER!!!!!!!!!!
This is not a good sign for the winter, is it?
Sounds like a very good sign for the winter, in my opinion. I wish it would snow in this god-forsaken state. Wonder if we’ve gotten any snow back home at all? It’s a smidge early, but snow by Halloween would be relatively normal. I imagine if it’d snowed Mom or Dad would’ve mentioned it, though…..
Good grief! It is? It’s, like, sixty degrees here!
143:It snowed??????? I guess I’m confused because I live in Mississippi.
The weather’s pretty darn cloudy here, but it had better clear up, because I finally talked the parental units into letting us go out to a dark-sky site tonight!
142- Come to the H&H!
It’s snowing here as well. Five-ish inches? And the trees still had all their leaves. There’ll be some limbs coming down today, yesiree. And for all you for whom this is a bizarre occurrence: you’re getting a taste of Nebraska weather.
Snow! *is happy*
More about the Atari 2600 that I will hopefully be buying soon: The Atari 2600 was released in 1977. To put this in perspective, video game-wise, this was three years before the arcade game Pac-Man was released, and almost a decade before the first Nintendo. The Atari 2600 was technically the second console to use removable game cartridges, though the first was an overall flop. Without the Atari 2600, the video game industry would not exist, or exist in a very different form. It has 128 bytes of internal RAM, and each cartridge holds 4 kB.
Piggy-GEEK! We’re all a little geeky on the inside.
Wow, you guys already have snow? I’ll be lucky if I get a white Cristmas! *pouts* All I have is nuts. Nuts. 
KaiYves- Parental units?
My goshness, I’m using a lot of 
‘s
Grrrrrrr. Piggy, send me some of that snow, would you? Just share a little bit of it? C’mon, please?
I’d like some too! Often, it snows here towards the end of october when some leaves are still one the trees. It looks quite funny… *loves snow*
Leaves? On trees? End of October? Ok, ok, I’m not so dense that I don’t realize that’s probably the case most places, it is here at college. It’s just…..Back home, I’m pretty sure all the leaves are typically gone by end of September, than snow starts sometime in October…..
The leaves on trees in MA are still green.
Well, then I guess Nebraska wins over Iowa. It’s basically cleared up here.
Dear everyone who has snow,
It is in the mid-seventies here. I am jealous.
Love, me.
Dear Tesseract,
For starters, you are not jealous, you are envious. Secondly, I am also insanely envious, for although it is not mid-seventies here, but is rather 51 right now, and was 32 this morning when I got up at *shudder* 5:30 (and was still that temperature at 7:30), we have no sign of snow whatsoever.
Love, Luna
Dear Luna,
Yes, I really need to learn the difference. Google is being unusually unhelpful; care to explain it to me?
I’d still trade temperatures with you. I have a marching band competition this evening and by the time we’re allowed to take off our jackets/hats/gloves/gauntlets the entire band is going to look like it was caught in a thunderstorm.
I do have some snowballs in the freezer in the basement. *throws one at you*
Love, Tesseract.
Dear Tesseract,
Robert explained it brilliantly somewhere on the ‘blog, but I’m afraid I forget where. Looking at my dictionary (yes, Robert, I know, you eat them for breakfast), I’m no longer even sure if I’m right about whether it would be jealous or envious…..It merely has served to confuzzle me greatly. As for the weather, I am certainly willing to trade for the evening. I have no plans to leave my dorm room, except perhaps for a quick trip to use up my remaining meal for the week, so it wouldn’t make any difference to me if it was mid-70s.
*catches snowball* Why, thank you muchly, Tesseract, that was very kind of you, indeed.
Love, Luna
Here’s my latest explanation.
I’m not going to complain about October — as far as I’m concerned it’s the best central North Carolina has to offer in terms of weather, though today is unusually humid and feels more sweltering in the 70s than it did in the 80s earlier this week. Later, I’ll be in envy of all the snow reports. Our winters are so wimpy-dreary most years.
My favorite central NC season is the time right between autumn and winter, when there’s a chill in the breeze but you don’t have to wear a jacket. I agree about the winters being wimpy-dreary, though (although we did get snow on Inauguration Day this year. Snowbama!).
Usually that chill is here by October, at least locally, and I like it for the same reasons you cite. The weather further east always seems to be a bit warmer than what we get.
Speaking of snow, October weather, etc, back home it’s apparently been high 40s most of the week, and today is 50s/60s. Screwy weather…..
I like winter better than summer ‘cus Christmas/Haunaka/Kwanza and you can just pile on more blankets+sweaters if you’re cold.
Yay presents!
It’s Hanukkah.
Or Chanukah.
Or Hanukah.
Oh, forget it!
I just use “Christmakwanzakah.”
It was really cold and dreary today, just all of the sudden. We don’t have seasons here in Chicago, either your nose hairs have frozen or you’re swimming in your own sweat. There’s not much of a medium, just a few weeks in May and September. I have quoted my math teacher and my parents. This is weird, and my really warm scarf I wore today is really itchy. I hate itchy knitwear. (Partial PoPo?)
This morning I was waiting to get picked up from taking my sat subject tests for the last time (!!)
and it was probably about…uh 65-70 outside or something
and these soccer players were walking around going BRR IT’S FREEZIN COLD MAN!! and then this other one was like I HAVE A JACKET YOU GUYS SUCK and so on
This has been your daily look into the coastal psyche.
It has never snowed here, I heard it did once but I’m pretty sure that is a myth…or a legend? Or just a lie
65-70=freezing cold? Uh, those soccer players have serious issues if they believe that…..That’s actually a rather pleasant temperature.
yeah I was amused and thought of you (lol) cause around here if it dips below about 73 degrees people are like GAWD WHY IS IT SO COLD??! I’M GONNA DIE! and stuff like that
I felt cold cause I was tired and bored but normally I think that is quite a nice respite from random 90 degrees days in the middle of october.
Actually there’s someone from Alaska in one of my classes! He told us it was once -40 where he lived and everyone freaked out. Someone asked him if it’s true that trees explode when it gets really cold in Alaska and he was like “uh…no” and told us the wood just gets really brittle and can break off. That was such a stupid question though! But yeah I thought you would be amused by this
It was -40 once several (read, over a decade, probably) at my house, once, too. And -30 for 2 weeks straight last Christmas break…..
The farther north you go, though, the more likely -40 weather is. I don’t think it’s all that unusual, for, say, Fairbanks to get below -40, and they’re just central AK, not even all the way up North like ‘ittle bitty Barrow. (Yes, Barrow of vampire fame from 30 Days of Darkness, and no, I don’t know if Barrow really looks like that, and now there aren’t vampires)
Anyway……
Yeah I mean that’s obviously really cold but I don’t think it’s that amazing considering the fact that the more northerly a place is the colder it is (generally). Basic logic is lacking, I suppose
Personally I hope to live somewhere with more uh realistic weather (??) Just cause it would be nice to actually experience seasons and so on.
Okay, guys, I’m posting this on behalf of Zinc, who has asked me to.
Zinc is very depressed, and has been so for a while. She was Ashamed on the Advice thread. She’s been cutting herself since then, too, on and off…more than a little. She needs help of some kind. But she doesn’t want psychobabble, and she doesn’t want to be told to talk to someone in real life. (I’m more or less quoting here.) She doesn’t want choklit, either. She’s past the point where choklit would help. I’m not sure exactly what would help… I feel awfully useless. Can we be group support for her?….Or something?
Alright, I don’t have experience in this but here’s what I want to say. There are people here who do have more experience than me so my advice will probably be less helpful but here it is anyway
First of all, you have all of us. You do not need to be ashamed (in any sense) to talk to us about problems you have. I regularly complain about stupid things here and people are always willing to sympathize and so on.
I’m glad you told us about this though. I think it’s good to talk about it whatever it is. However I know that isn’t going to totally solve a problem and sometimes makes you feel worse…
So I would think to myself, what’s bothering me? Why do I feel this way? When you feel depressed it’s really easy to start firing off all of the flaws you think you have, and everything wrong with yourself comes to mind. But there are usually reasons you feel so low. It an help to pinpoint why it is, so it’s not just this big monstrous thing hanging over your head.
Maybe it would help to talk more with Armada, and she can tell us if you like, or you could post here if you don’t mind. It’s totally up to you though. I can’t help much but I hope you know what a wonderful person you are.
Ehm, this is Armada…Zinc asked me to post about her problems, because she was feeling unable to for whatever reasons. I totally agree with all your advice….I’m hoping Zinc will come and read this soon.
I know that, I’m responding to her
Okay.
Tell her that me and chances are the rest of museblog say that she is an amazing person and does not deserve to be hurt in any way. If it wold be of any help at all to please come here and readold threads
or something to take life off her mind if that is possible. *hugs*
I suppose that threatening to strangle her if she doesn’t keep away from evil kitchen utensils would be counterproductive. Tell her to like herself. I don’t really know what to do either, but you can at least say I care about her. And I agree with Axa.
I really don’t know what to say to her, but tell her I miss her.
I agree with Piggy. And think that his new gravatar is interesting.
Zinc, I know you don’t want this, but it might be kind of a good idea to talk to someone in real life. We’ll always be here for you, but it’s kind of hard for us to help you when we can only talk to you through text on MB or… other places.
And it might be nice to talk to someone whose voice you can actually hear and who can actually hug you and physically hide the kitchen utensils from you….
I really don’t know what to say, but… I agree with Bookgirl. You should at least try to like yourself. That was about the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but after being depressed for four years, I managed it this summer because I finally realized that there are people who love me for who I am. Zinc-chan, all of us love you for who you are, too. I wish I could actually be there for you in real life, but since that’s probably not possible, at least try talking to one of your IRL friends, or something. I’m not telling you to Talk To An Adult, or Go To Therapy, or any of that crap, okay? Just… someone whose voice you can actually hear. Maybe you could convince your parents to let you get vidchat so you can talk to Rainbow?
Anyway, I know how you feel–actually, I may have had it worse than you. (It’s kind of nice to know that someone has it worse, huh?) I had absolutely no friends for three years. I swear. But you’ve got great friends, here and in real life. I know this probably sounds like psychobabble, but… my mom said stuff like this for four years, and it finally worked, even though I thought it was absolute crap at the time.
Zinc, please don’t cut yourself.
I would say more, but I’m really bad at consoling people and it would just sound like psychobabble.I tried cutting myself a few times, and it really didn’t make me feel better. Actually, it made things worse, because I had to hide it from my parents and lie about the cuts on my arms. Making pain worse doesn’t get rid of it.
Like RoseQuartz said, maybe you can talk to someone in real life. I’m not sure what you’re depressed about, but it sounds pretty bad.
I hope we can help you. *hugs* (That’s not just a random expression of sympathy. If I was actually talking to you, I would hug you right now.)
Aaah! Zinc, you can’t do that! There is no point in self-inflicted pain!
I completely agree with, um, Anonymous. You seriously need a hug…
If you have a cat/dog/guinea pig/thing, pet it, because that’s supposed to make one feel better, and let one know that a cat/dog/guinea pig/thing really needs you.
Oh, Zinc…
I don’t know what to say, besides that we are always here for you. I wish I could do something to help… Just remember that you’re an awesome person and all your friends here on MB love you.
Oh, Zinc!
Please, don’t hurt yourself… You know all this stuff…
Please, Zinc, we need you, we love you, we don’t want you to get hurt. You are an amazing person and don’t you dare think otherwise!
I hate to say it, but you do need to talk to someone in real life. You’ve already done a brave thing by telling us, but it isn’t the same. The computer screen can’t give you a hug and speak to you.
Zinc, you are awesome and wonderful and flamablamablous in the best way, and we are all here for you, always.
I’m going to a 19th-century ball today!
Hey, nice avatar! I like Wallace and Gromit a lot!
152- -DIES OF ENVY- Really and truly, I want to cry right now.
-DIES OF ENVY- Really and truly, I want to go to that ball AND steal your Gromit avatar.
The ball was fun. Except now my feet kinda hurt because of my shoes. They’re very cute, but not very comfy.
There was this pretty nasty guy there who smelled like a combination of tobacco and cologne. He seemed pretty drunk, and he kept correcting people. When they screwed up, he cracked up. It was scary.
Did anyone else notice the silhouettes of Muses in the thread picture? When it was first posted I couldn’t see them, but now I can. Lady B., did you change it?
No, I haven’t changed anything.
*dies* Oh, god, make it stop. Make it stop. The girl across the hall is playing bloody country music and it’s slowly driving me nuts. And it’s really not quite loud enough that I can complain about it without feeling like a jerk, but…..I am so sick of country music.
*I never complain, I never ask why…….Underneath this Amarillo sky*
Grrrrr. And songs such as that one which you’ve heard 50 billion times are worse than ones you haven’t heard, because they get inside your head and won’t go away…….
Why not retaliate?
-A
Dunno…..I wasn’t that annoyed yet?
Ahh… Hate that stage.
-A
I’ve never been a huge fan of country either. Do you have something else you can blast in your room (while under the protection of earplugs)? I have always thought that talk radio,classical or some nerdy song would be funny for that purpose. *gives earplugs*
Earplugs, I have. Need ’em to have any hope whatsoever of sleeping through my roommate in the morning….. As for music, well, AVPM soundtrack, and HP soundtracks, that’s all the music I’ve got.
HP soundtracks…why am I not surprised?
Blast that, then.
Hey GAPAs, is it time for a new random thread yet?
Apparently not.
-A
Today= 4 tennis matches (one lasted 3 hours x_x) and a hockey game. *dead* I have to go back to the rink for off-ice training and then practice in… approximately ten and a half hours, then I have another practice later tomorrow. I haven’t had time to read anything here, I’ll catch up later I guess
Zinc, I hope you feel better. I know you didn’t want this, but if you still feel depressed after a week, you should talk to someone. That really means it’s serious. What Axa said about pinpointing the problem is actually really good advice. Oh, and choklit will make you feel, at the very least, a little bit better. Just not white choklit. (remember, this is coming from a 12-year-old, so I’m not sure if it will help)
Jadestone- Zinc is feeling depressed, Luna has a country music loving person down the hall and is annoyed, and it’s not time for a new random thread.
Does anyone else watch a show on NBC called Heroes or ((did watch)) Terminater the Sarah Connor Chronicles on Fox? *runs away crying because of the shows cancelation*
??????????????? No…
*raises hand* I watch Heroes! I never got into Terminator, though…
Oh, Zinc! I sincerely hope that you come back on here and read all of this, ‘cuz we truly love you and miss you. You’re an amazing person and trust me, cutting yourself won’t help anything. Pain is not going to solve your problems, alright? I know this is very hard, but please try to focus on the good aspects of yourself and forget about the bad, because we all have them. Things will get better!
I know you don’t want to hear this, but like RQ said, you really need to talk to somebody. We’ll always be here to give you support and love, but we can’t give you what somebody in a non-virtual relationship can. One time, a few years back, one of my friends was very depressed and seriously considered committing suicide. We finally convinced her to write a note to her mom, who had no idea what was going on and helped talk her through it. Write a note to somebody you can trust and tell them what is going on! It can even be as simple as “I’m having some problems can you help?” People are willing to be there for you, and we’ll always be here for you. I’m sorry if this doesn’t help at all, but Armada, please send ZInc my best wishes and let her know that en is being missed.
Yes, cutting up yourself is only going to make it worse
. You’re probably sick of hearing this, but if it’s getting really bad, you need to talk to someone. We’ll always be here to listen, but we can’t really help you from miles away. And it doesn’t have to be your mom, either. It could be your next door neighbor, your friends mom, even your teacher. Please know that we all love you and don’t want you to go. 
Maybe we should lay off the advice and let Zinc think. 
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Yes, I know what you’re thinking “Kagy, aren’t you a month early?” to which I must reply “Well, no. It’s just that the American thanksgiving is a month late!”
I love thanksgving. It involves my favorite dishes: stuffing, pumkin pie, stuffing, mashed potatoes, stuffing…. I think you get the idea. I made the pie this morning. It is really beautiful, if I do say so myself.
Happy Thanksgiving, Kagcomix! What kind of pie did you make?
Happy Thanksgiving!
Dear Zinc,
I can’t really add much to what everyone else has said. Sometimes, like soccer star said, it’s easier to talk to someone if you write them a letter. That’s what I do if I need to talk to my mom about something serious but the words jsut won’t come out of my mouth. We’re all here for you. I’m very fond of you. I don’t like to see my friends in pain. Yes, you’re one of my friends, even if it is only an internet friendship. I really really hope things get better for you.
Lots of Love,
Kagcomix
Dear Zinc,
I honestly don’t know what to say. I just wrote a long post but it was really lame and not very comforting. I’m truly very sad and sorry that you’re sad and that you’re cutting yourself, but I’m bad with advice. All I can say is, that I’m always here to listen and sympathize, if that’s what you need.
Even more sincerely than usual,
Alice
Dear Alice,
I love your avatar! Is that your cat?
LittleBasementKitten
Well, she’s more my dad’s cat, but yes. Her name is Beetle.
Why is her name Beetle?
This was a while ago but:
Jordan – You play soccer?!?! Another MB plays soccer?!?!?! *high fives* NO ONE on here plays soccer…no game this weekend because of Columbus Day, so it’s going to be very relaxing…
SudoRandom does. Zinc does. I’m sure there are more people, too…
I do! Er…did, actually. The school season’s over, and I don’t think I’ll be doing soccer next year. My passion is in the theatre and writing.
Despite the fact that you’ve never BEEN to theatre…..
I do too. This is one of my few days off this week, but most of the time soccer is my all-powerful occupier of free time – not that that’s a bad thing or anything.
105- OK, so I’m late replying to this but….yes. Yes. YES.
I decided yesterday, that when I get out of high school, I’m going to travel the countryside in a caravan with a rainbow banner (well, just a van actually–the modern and more practical equivalent of a caravan), start a traveling theater troupe, and have adventures. I wanted to do it next summer, but a) I’m going sailing/to Ashland and b) I don’t have a van or a license yet. I don’t even have my permit. But Someday, and someday soon. Anyway, I’m starting a Shakespeare theater troupe already, even if we won’t travel very far, and I’ll get a trailer or panniers for my bike to keep costumes and props in, and it’ll be sort of like my caravan. And I’m going to take my driver’s test.
Soccer star- I used to play soccer.
Robert- The best kind: Pumpkin!
You’re an ex soccer player then? Hmmm…
Zinc, we love you, and we think you’re great. All of us. So we’re here with you, don’t do anything dramatic.
Today was nice. I went running at the gym while my dad lifted weights, and then he took me to the library. We had to leave before I could look at everything I wanted to. Is it just me, or does that happen a lot when you visit the library?
No, it’s not just you. I am notorious for being dragged out of the library screeching “NO! Don’t make me go!” Ha ha.
Same here.
Libraries are like museums. You can never see everything you want to in one visit, unless you stay until closing time.
Well, I’ve ordered my Atari. Supposedly it’ll come with two joysticks, a set of paddles, and twelve games, but I bookmarked the Amazon guarantee just in case it doesn’t work.
*can’t wait for however long it’ll take to get here*
And, pray tell, what is an Atari? *much cunfuzzlement*
See comment 147.
A video game system.
Zinc, as long as there are people out there who love you (and there always will be–us), don’t cut yourself or anything like that.
Note: We’re moving this discussion to Hot Topics. Please continue it there: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=3046.
I’m sorry, Zinc. It really stinks to be depressed, and you need friends to lean on. I was bullied through all of third grade, but somehow I made it out alive because I had 2 really good friends. We’re always here on the MB, well, I’m always here for brief periods of time and then I vanish into the Homework Abyss, but you’re surrounded by good people who will guard kitchen utensils with their lives and force chocklit into your face. I’m sorry this is a rather late comment, but I can’t pretend my internet companions are always going to be okay. We all need people to lean on and sometimes psychobabble helps just because we read it and wonder how we didn’t throw up with the sincere sugary sweetness of our actions. I surprise myself sometimes, normally I’m as blunt as those infuriating kiddie scissors. It’s okay to laugh and cry at the same time, I always need something ridiculously silly to cheer me up, I don’t like being sentimental, it just comes out sometimes. Please feel better and stay away from annoying kiddie scissors and dangerous kitchen utensils, especially those bizarre things I find hiding in drawers that look like medieval torture devices. I mean seriously, how many times am I going to use the lemon juicer thingy that looks like you could slowly and painfully gouge somebody’s eyes out with?!?! (please don’t try, I don’t want to tell you what utensils I’d have to use to fix up your mangled eye sockets, they’re scary looking)
Please excuse my lateness and grotesque thoughts.
Sorry I haven’t been on today or yesterday. Or the day before, I think. Which you probably didn’t notice, but I was gone. Anyway, I was going to describe why. See, I went to a lock-in at my church. They’ve had several, but I only went to this one because it was Harry Potter. Yes, I’m pathetic. Yes, they have themes. Anyway, when I arrived there they were partway through Sorting us. They actually had a Sorting Hat there, which spoke, although I’m fairly sure it was random. I was Hufflepuff, which is rather funny since I’ve always thought that if I went to Hogwarts, I’d be in Hufflepuff. Anyway, so then we ate supper, (They actually had Butterbeer and pumpkin juice!) played a bunch of games, (My legs are sore from one of them. Long story.) had a Silly String fight, (Insane fun!) played Sardines, (Also insane fun!) and watched movies for the rest of the night. Harry Potter, naturally. The movies were okay, but they didn’t really live up to my already low expectations. We only got through the first two, and started on the third.
That sounds amazing.
Hufflepuffs are particularly good finders, did you know?
Actually, oddly enough, I did.
Yep, I did.
And to think, the first two are the best of the bunch, luv.
Remind me,though, what’s pathetic about only going because it was Harry Potter themed? I’m not religious, I don’t go to church, but if, say, my sister’s church had a lock-in that was HP themed I’d do everything in my power to weasel myself out an invitation. So, again, what exactly is pathetic??????
paâ‹…thetâ‹…ic [puh-thet-ik]:
–adjective
1. causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
2. affecting or moving the feelings.
3. pertaining to or caused by the feelings.
4. miserably or contemptibly inadequate: In return for our investment we get a pathetic three percent interest.
Origin:
1590–1600; < LL pathēticus < Gk pathētikós sensitive equiv. to pathēt(ós) made or liable to suffer (verbid of páschein to suffer + -ikos -ic
Related forms:
paâ‹…thetâ‹…iâ‹…calâ‹…ly, adverb
paâ‹…thetâ‹…iâ‹…calâ‹…ness, noun
Synonyms:
1. plaintive. 2. touching, tender. 3. emotional.
––– Dictionary.com
Well, I guess it’s not. But I’m much more active in a youth group that isn’t attached to my church, oddly enough, and it’s really the first event I’ve gone to for that youth group. I don’t know, I guess it just seems like I should go because I like the people, or something, rather then because they’re showing movies I’ve always wanted to see.
What is the purpose of a lock in? Is it just like a funtimes party with people who happen to go to your church or do you talk about religious things or what?
Funtimes party with the rest of the middle school youth group. There was hardly a hint of religion anywhere. I don’t know what their purpose is, really. Might be recruiting more people, the above-mentioned other youth group’s events are mostly aimed at that purpose, though they’re almost always fun for us too…
Aha, I see…I always wondered that, I had to ask, sorry
Was there something wrong with the blog last night?
Not as far as I know.
I didn’t notice anything either. What was the problem on your end? The GAPAs would probably be interested to hear about it.
Well, I know on my end there were several times when I hit refresh that I got the message “error establishing a database connection.” But if I waited “patiently” [*snork* yeah, right, me patient??????] within a minute or two if I refreshed it would work fine……
That happened to me once, but when I went on the computer the next day everything was fine. It may be the Internet connection or something.
That was what happened. I tried loading it again but it didn’t work on my computer. I tried again the next day and it was fine.
Has anyone got the new HG2G yet?
Judging from the talk in the H&H, I don’t think anyone was too excited about it, but as I recall, someone promised to get it from the library or bookstore or someplace and give it a review on MB.
I’ll have to go with your guy’s reviews. Someday, the world might end and the library might actually buy a book that was published in the last 50 years besides Harry Potter and Twilight. </rant>
What’s wrong with Harry Potter? Ok, ok, seriously, yeah, I get wanting more variety in “recent” books, not just the brilliancy of HP and scum that is twilight.
YEAH. What’s wrong with Harry Potter? *feels like a little kid trying to imitate a big kid* Ha ha.
Nothing. I was just naming standard books in effort to complain that the library only bought bestseller literature and missed everything else. Most libraries only have Harry Potter in english and it’s not the only english book worth reading.
You have a point.
That was me.
bookgirl_me- Yeah, not well funded libraries tend to do that. I have all the HP books at my house, so I like them a lot. I don’t know what to talk about.
What do people here think about learning to speak klingon? I started to study it recently. It’s a complete language that can be spoken fluently!
I think learning it would be cool.
My sister is learning elvish. It’s really interesting. I’m picking a bit of it up from the program she found which translates words into or from elvish. It’s really cool.
173.2-The only problem with elvish is that it’s not a complete language. Even Tolkien didn’t design it to be spoken colloquially. As for Klingon, it’s almost complete and can be spoken fluently.
Here’s how you say ‘I’m hungry’:jIghung (Gee’-gung)
I could probably help people to learn it as I study…
Hola! Yeah, I’m here. For once.
Woo! And, once again, I apologize to all of my RPG’s and RRR’s, but school > marching band > MuseBlog (in terms of importance). Sorry. It’s true, though.
Woo! Hi, Kokonilly! We missed you! *running tackle hug*
Hey, Kokonilly! Welcome back (temporarily?)!
Yay! Hello. How have you been?
*pies*
Hi!
What do you play in marching band?
Hi Nilly! *waves and hugs and choklit*
Okay, I can’t keep up with all these posts right now, but I must say, Zinc, please don’t hurt yourself. You are a wonderful person, and we all love you. I know we’ll all be there to support you on here whenever we can, but the people you’re close to in real life should know as well, even though it’s very, very hard to admit to the people you see every day that you’re having problems like that.
Please talk to someone, and please don’t hurt yourself.
What else can I say, other than we love you, and know that you’ll be able to pull out of this. My thoughts are with you.
I’ve been seeing a fair number of marching-band related posts recently, and I’m curious as to the number of MBers who are in marching bands. Consequently, a poll:
Are you in a marching band, and what instrument do you play?
I am not in a marching band, and I play violin.
Hey, I play violin too! Cool.
I’m not in a marching band.
I’m in marching band, and I play the flute.
Hm. Isn’t a new installment of this thread a bit overdue? It’s the 13th already.
Maybe Rebecca is having trouble with the image?
I play clarinet, but I’m not in a marching band.
NOTE: Any further comments about Zinc’s situation should be posted on the Hot Topics thread, https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=3046#comment-329370
I’m not in any sort of marching band, but I play a smidge of piano. Not particularly spectacular or anything, but I play.
I just had a really crappy day. First of all, I only got four hours of sleep last night so I was terribly crabby and tired all day. Then I get to school, realise I’ve lost my English paper, and totally freak out. Just to make everything better, a friend comes up and says, “Oh, you’re in my elective!” (which is Creative Writing, BTW), so I get all happy, but then I go read the electives list and it turns out I am not in the writing elective with all my friends, but in an boring art elective with no one I know. Then I go to lunch and my friend and I get in trouble because we didn’t throw our trash away (
), and the luch moderator tells us to wait behind, and then she forgets about us so we’re late to class. Bleh…That’s all crossed out because I just read about Zinc and I feel really bad about complaining now. *slips off to the Hot Topics thread*
Has anyone else ever read The Glass Castle? I’m reading it in English right now, and I think it’s pretty good, albeit strange and slightly depressing…
We have to write a parody of a fairy tale (Three Bears, Hansel/Gretel, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, fisherman and wife) for english
And all I can think about is that one Muse, and the fractured fairy tale RRR.
This is going to be easy. I think.
And now I’m watching Inherit the Wind for History, and summarizing some stuff for biology.
I was in Washington DC today. We went to see the maritime hall at the American History museum, and I met a random Canadian dude who was part of team Alberta for the solar houses competition on the mall, Very cool, so after we finished looking through the ship exhibit, we went to look through some of the houses. They’re awesome, though unfortunately we only got to go through two of them. Hopefully we can go back……I can totally see living in one of those houses. Loverly, loverly.
My fingers are cold. Mom put a time limit on my computer usage. Bleh.
‘Tis my dear MuseBlog! How I have missed thee these past… six hours.
Well, I’m going to Missouri tomorrow.
kthxbai
LOLcat speak! icanhascheezburger.com, right? I <3 that site!!
So I had an XC meet yesterday, and I forgot the bike shorts I usually wear under my uniform shorts, because they’re way too short, so now I’m all chaffed and it hurts when I walk. But I did set a personal record!
*headdesk* Oh, god, Donna (on Dr. Who) is officially driving me nuts….. *pounds head against wall*
187- -laughs because Luna is into Doctor Who now- Donna will do that. She’s pretty annoying. I like Rose best because she was the First and it was still a novel concept that she should fall in love with the Doctor like pretty much every companion since (except Donna) has.
Yeah, I’m still partial to Rose myself. And have definitely gotten very into Dr. Who, although I think I’m actually more into Torchwood. I dunno, I just took a liking to Capt. Jack Harkness in the very first episode he was in on Dr. Who, back in season 1, and I followed him over to Torchwood…..
Of course, Torchwood is so much darker, and very depressing and horrible at the same time it’s utterly hilarious and brilliant, so it has me laughing one second, on the verge of tears the next. But, in a twisted way, I absolutely love it…..Of course, the season finale of season 2 had me very, very, very close to tears. I would’ve been in tears if I hadn’t been afraid my roomie would walk in any moment. *sigh* I think I said it earlier, I’ve definitely got a love/hate relationship going with it……You’d have to watch it to understand.
Hi all! I haven’t been on here for a while (again), but I thought I’d stick my head in for a minute! How are you all?
Greetings, Cinnamoon! Surely you can stay for more than a minute? Come to the ball!
Hi everybody! I’m drowning in schoolwork and thought I might take a break to venture into Museblog… I was silently protesting the nesties by not posting in awhile, but I cannot abstain any longer. I will say one thing: I despise biology (specifically, biomes D:)
My time on my first timed sprint in soccer practice is 20.1 seconds. I’m the absolute slowest on the team, compared to Ian, who got 12.1. At least I’m improving.
CHAD. CHAD. CHAD. Chad tri-fold due tomorro-CHAD. CHAD. CHAD.
Mid-terms come out on Monday. Gleep.
On Dr. Who- I just watched my first Dr. Who episode, Planet of the Dead. Are there any others I can watch online? *is addicted*
On the gravatar- I saw this funky little car on Thursday with a HOBBIT+ license plate. It was like a VW Bug/Mini, except all wood paneling. It was very cool. It is teh car I wantz.
Jakob–you can watch all the episodes online. The episode “0’s”, the special eps aired at Christmas before seasons 2, 3, &4, I could only find on youtube, but all the others can be found by, let’s see…..googling “surf the channel” with or without quotes, it’s the first hit. Pretty much every TV show imaginable is on there, including Dr. Who.
XD I’m watching Season 4 of the Tenth Doctor! During study hall!
Oh, you should really go back to the beginning, not start with season 4. Seasons 1 and 2 were definitely the best. And Donna is just horribly annoying, I mean, really horribly annoying. I was hoping she’d grow on me, but I’m on ep 9 of season 4, and I’ve already seen ep 10 (my first ever ep….), and she still bugs me as much as ever.
And so much stuff that is referred back to, all these references that are meaningless without watching seasons 1-3…..
Today, in school, we had to pick a random adjective and write a “Dear John/Dear Jane” letter in that tone. One kid got “gullible”, and his letter went like this:
“Dear Jane,
I have to break up with you. It’s not something you did. It’s not something I did. It’s just that my cousin told me that if I ever have a girlfriend for more than a year, my feet will fall off. And he’s never lied to me, except the time he told me I could fly and I jumped off the roof and broke my leg…”
Aw, that sounds like an easy one. Is anyone else on here gifted with amazing haiku-creating skills?
Fall turns to winter
Spring gives way to summertime
Forever changing
That’s one of my fav ones.
XD Oh dear, that’s hilarious. I’d love to do something like that… but I’m not complaining, my Lit class is awesome right now. We just started a unit on tolerance and discrimination. Pretty cool.
We had to write break-up letters in civics. I wrote mine to sleep.
YOU went to sleep? The letter did? The letter was about falling asleep? Break-up + sleep… Huh?
We talk about boring books in English. I’m in AP Language and Comp.
Red Badge of Courage = beautifully written, I suppose, I actually see it, but I hate the character.
I make no sense… Maybe I’ll go to the ball.
That’s hilarious. But what is a “dear jane/john” letter?
It’s a break-up letter, basically.
Sounds a lot more fun than what we’re doing.
I have heat in my room. This is A Very Good Thing.
I also learned a new song today, Ten Thousand Miles Away. Feeling very accomplished now.
I also have a job this weekend. Yay! But it’s not a steady job. It’s a weekend as an assistant to a friend playing children’s games form the 18th century. Ah well, it’ll be fun. And it’s up at a museum that a friend of mine volunteers, so I get to see him, which will be good, since it’s been awhile since we got to hang out. (Since April.)
Games like hoop rolling and stilt-walking? I saw kids playing those at the Old Sturbridge Village (c 1830s) museum when I went there in the summer.
(193) A good thing, indeed. Will you teach us some of the games?
And I’m back from Missouri. Truman was a cool, cool guy. Also, brisket = delicious. Also, sleeping in the car = sore neck.
kthxbai
Yeah, I know what you mean about the whole sleeping-in-the-car-sore-neck thing. Yowch.
Wow! Hey, people actually noticed I was gone. What a surprise! *returns hugs, but eats choklit*
I’m in the colorguard in the marching band.
Debate’s also not helping. I’m in public forum.
I’m also being more committed to Science Olympiad this year.
“More committed”? You guys got to nationals, didn’t you? Seems like a pretty high level of commitment to me. *grumbles about not getting to nationals*
I said myself. I went to Nats as an alternate, meaning I tagged along for fun. This year I want to go on my own, meaning I’m going to – gasp – study.
196- I shall have to check that out. I got to the state level in Maths Olympiad once.
195- For future trips I recommend stacking a lot of books on your lap and resting your nose or forehead on them. It can help to avert neck pain.
It’s my kitties’ birthday today! *pets kitties*
Fabbity fab! Happy birthday, kitties!
Happy Birthday, kitties!
Happy birthday, Kitties! Catnip pie!
*pets kitties*
Happy birthday, kitties! *virtually pets kitties* What are their names?
SFTDP–
My friend’s little brother Erik is here. He says, “Happy Bithday, Kitties!”
All right, why did the GAPAs zap my post?
If you mean your long one, we didn’t zap it, we moved it. See comment 179 above.
I am going to have a halloween party this year. It will be amazing. But I need some advice on decorations; I don’t want them to be too cheesy…
Streamers are always nice. Oh, and have some eyeballs floating in the punch bowl. Or would that be too cheesy…? Anyway, you gotta have snacks. How ’bout pumpkin shaped cookies?
Oh. My. Goodness. The new Raw Materials = XDDD
It’s been raining/snowing/snaining all day. But it’s still too warm for it to stay. Jeez, a week ago I was wearing shorts… But the snow is beautiful-I had a free period and watched it fall for ages. Of course, that proves that my gym teacher is trying to kill me. We had to go outside and most people didn’t even have a jacket (you can’t play basketball in a coat)…
181- You can strike emoticons! I never realized that before.
Mine sucked too-of course, nine hours with snow outside and minimal heating in the corridors will do that to youSo, on another site I was talking with a friend about how it isn’t really accurate to say “sunrise” or “sunset” because it’s the Earth that’s moving and not the sun.
Obviously, “Be home by the time the Earth has rotated so that the sun can no longer be seen.” is too unwieldy, so we were trying to think of alternative terms. I suggested Dayspin and Nightspin.
“Be home by Nightspin.”
“I get up before Dayspin.”
Do those seem easy to say?
Great idea, KaiYves. I was thinking about that very subject recently while looking through some
sunsetnightspin photos.I think they have a nice ring to ’em.
That sounds rather exciting. I may use those.
(203) I like those words!
In the same spirit, Buckminster Fuller used to encourage people to say “out” and “in” instead of “up” and “down” — the cosmic perspective, again.
204 – interestingly enough, I’ve had violin teachers who encouraged me to think of up-bows as in and downbows as out, as that’s somewhat a more accurate description of the motion than strictly up and down.
Hello, it’s me! Yay! Brr! It was cold outside. And it wasn’t snowing, or even snaining! Yup, it was RAINING!! You can’t really do anything if it’s raining. “The only sport is annoying Mom” –Calvin, from Calvin and Hobbes.
AND, we may not get to see Cirque du Soleil!!!!!!!!
Plus my brother is sick, and I have to do the rain date for my b-day party!
Does your brother have swine flu or is he just sick? (By the way, I’m commenting from what you said on the H&H…I’m not a paranoid freak, don’t worry! Or maybe I am…*raises eyebrows mischievously*)
Did anyone else hear about the “6-year-old boy” trapped in the experimental mylar helium balloon 5-10,000 feet above Colorado? Well, the police etc. found no one in the ballon, so now authorities are trying to figure out if he fell out of the balloon and is dead/seriously injured or if it was an elaborate hoax.
I HEARD about that! The kid was hiding in the attic all along.
Yes, I read that this morning. Apparently he fled to the attic after being yelled at by his dad for messing with a balloon the family was tinkering with.
Hi.
Not much to say. I was tired all day long after being up way too late last night (Homework, what else…) and then waking up at 5:45 this morning to get ready for school. I seriously need to start thinking about a Halloween costume. Oh yeah, and I lost my science binder. I hope I find it soon.
k this is random but since it says random thread that’s what its for right?!?!
I have a learning disability it sucks…wow you guys all seem so smart i mean I read on here a lot before now and its like whoa you are all geniuses! I cant remember the last time i got an a, pathetic I know. And my friends all are super smart girls. whoa I sound depressed. darn. I’m not, by the way just sad I guess. I started in a new school this year. i have a mean teacher, her names Mrs. S and she used to be in jail no lie…ha ha none of us know why but we all guess and stuff! the new school doesn’t have a cafeteria and its like in the middle of nowhere! its next to a pizza place, I’m like thats no place for a school geez. Its also “special”. (aka, for “special” kids which basically means were all lunatics. ha!)
Well anyway I get muse not really because I want to (I mean, I want to! its a great magazine don’t get me wrong!! but I first got it by my teacher actually.) because I was having trouble reading two years ago and so she got me a sub and I loved it even though it takes my friend like two seconds to read and me weeks…anyway my friend went on here along time ago. she told me to go on too but I kept forgetting and stuff until she mentioned it again and so I did and just tried to look around. I guess I’ve been looking around since last week maybe? Anyway I didn’t have anything to post until now. but this is really random and long so I guess that’s it…am i doing this right? your probably all bored reading this so I’ll stop now… pie!
It’s fine, your post isn’t too long, and you’re perfectly welcome here. Some of us have learning or emotional disabilities as well.
We’re not all geniuses here, and we’re for sure not trying to be elitist. We accept anyone and everyone, as long as they’re a Muser, which you seem to be. So welcome!
And by Muser we don’t mean you have to subscribe to Muse. Welcome.
Well, what a coincidence: we’re all lunatics here!
Hey! I was going to say “And some of us are certifiably insane.”
How dare you steal the words from my mouth!!!!!
So, today it was raining much too hard for us to go anywhere near the park for XC practice, so our coach showed us a video of the time he was on ESPN. It was back in 91 or 92, and he was on a New York team that had gone to the Nationals in Track and Field. He ended up on ESPN because he raced with Carl Lewis and came in fourth!
I went to the Truman Presidential Library/Museum in Independence, as well as to his house. And I had a delicious beef brisket sandwich, Kansas City-style.
Whee. So, guess what? I have strep throat!
Am skipping school tomorrow as I will be contagious ’till Saturday when the antibiotics kick in. Also because I am in no state to write an essay that is due tomorrow…
210 (Cerulean Pyros)- I felt the earthquake in Indonesia over here in Singapore. It was extremely alarming, especially because I was at home alone. One of my neatly organised eraser collection jars fell off my desk and smashed, as did my piggy bank. I’m glad I only live on the second floor. I have a friend who lives on the eleventh. It must be the worst thing to be in an elevator in a high building during a quake.
Ah, those natural disasters.
My grandparents and other assorted family members were unaffected by the floods, thank God. My aunt, however, did have river water (from a river bank at the bottom of a hill she overlooked) up to her doorstep. They’re all fine, though, despite the alarming death toll and more alarming horror stories.