Wednesday, 22 May 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
As the days dwindle down to a precious few, the Random Thread ends the month with a headlong (or at any rate, face-forward) plunge into darkness.
Date: October 27, 2009
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Random craziness
I was wondering if there’d be a third installment.
So… how’s everyone doing? Burdened with piles of homework, I trust? I know I am. Stupid physics….
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Issat… an ink pie?
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1–Yes.
Hmm, I like the picture. It’s very different from the other ones, and is almost like an optical illusion. The splat could be on your “lens” or you could be rushing headlong into darkness. Or it could just be a splat on teh ground. And now I have to finish my homework. Bye!!
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Sweet. An ink pie.
*sigh* Just as I was beginning to think my roommate wouldn’t be coming back tonight (as is usually the case, anymore–i honestly can’t remember the last time she spent the night, it must’ve been at least a week, now), she turns up. Given the time of night…..I”m thinking there’s little chance she’ll leave again. Oh, well.
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If you want to be continuously pied, there’s a full-screen, looped version of the graphic on Photobucket.
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Oh, sweet, I got first post.
Happy days, I finally understand IEEE 754. But none of you (probably) even know what IEEE 754 is. Just know that I finally get it and will consequently pass the test tomorrow.
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0-That picture is so pwnsome! 
1-German homework. I’m up at 6 a.m. to do German homework. This sucks.
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Awesome graphic!
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PWN animation. *gets pied multiple times*
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I am currently writing an essay on the role of pride in 1776.
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Whoa! Awesome pi – *is pied*
I’m home again. (Still sick, yes.) I’m guessing I’ll be back at school tomorrow though, I’m feeling better and this time I’m hoping it’s for real. I had a fever of 104 yesterday though, so I’m not real optimistic about getting better, but one can hope, right? I’ll probably just be studying and stuff today…ugh. I have a lot of stuff to make up now, and tons of homework to catch up on. 
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I had to miss dance class twice in a row, because otherwise i would have to bring a bag of tissues and blow my nose every few seconds. While normally a break might have been nice, I don’t have anyone forcing me to practice so I’ll be out of pratice, and thanksgiving is soon so then I will miss more classes. Well, not really since thee aren’t any. But in any case I won’t be there.
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SFTDP
Note from last thread-the slow script is (so far) only on the hot topics page.
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I’m using safari too but I don’t notice anything…
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*sigh* Today had been showing such promise, too.
I was awoken not by my roommate, but by my own alarm clock. Unfortunately, this was right in the middle of what was turning out to be a very, very good dream (perhaps because it was, sort of, one of my many random day dreams come to life, albeit in a slightly bizarre way, as is typical of dreams). But this could be dealt with.
so, mildly disappointed at having my alarm go off right before the dream was about to get really good (I was about to meet John Barrowman. Or, rather, see him perform on stage, albeit in drag, but…..still.), I get up and gather my things to go take a shower. I turn the water on. cold. I think it’s just being a bit sluggish (this happens, occasionally, although usually not this time of morning, as it’s typically just been used), so I turn it up higher. Still cold. I turn it all the way up, as “hot” as it will go. Still cold, when normally this is either too hot, or just barely not as scalding hot as I would like. But oh no. For the second time this year (second bloody time!!!!!!!!!), the water was freezing cold, which is a most horribly unpleasant way to start off ones morning, let me tell you.
So, yeah, and it was shaping up to be a quite nice day, too. Anyway, I think I shall go ramble about my dream on the dreams thread.
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SPLAT!
Let’s go Ares I-X!
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Launch is now set for 11:30 a.m. — just a few minutes away. That could change, though. There have been delays all morning.
I’m watching it on NASA TV: www. nasa. gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
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Ten miles up. Passing Mach 2. Whee!
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Awesomeness. In other news I’m listening to Thick As A Brick.
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Cool graphic, GAPAs. Kokopelli is my third favorite muse. Second is Aeiou, and first is Bo. Way togo, Bo! Never heard of that song. What is it? Pop? Rock? Classical (rock)? I had band today. I’m the only oboe, and all of the flutes were gone, so I was having a hard time. 
Gee, I hope Zinc is okay…
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Rock.
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I just started oboe this year. It’s hard, and there are so many runs…
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I’ve read that oboes are quite hard to play, or was that bassons?
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I got my costume assembled. 
I’m going as a cat. For halloween, you know. I would’ve waited until Saturday, but I’m supposed to go to youth group tonight in costume.
On a similar vein, sister’s going as Luna Lovegood for halloween… On account of so many people telling her how much she looked like the actress who played Luna. My brother’s going as a barrel of toxic waste. Appropriate points to whoever can guess where that’s from. 
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Calvin & Hobbes. (Points?)
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Congratulations. Have whatever points best fit. I don’t know enough about points to say, but you have them anyway.
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I haven’t really assembled my Halloween costume yet. I think I’m just going to wear black and make my face really pale and my eyes kind of dark, Edward Gorey style. There’s no murder mystery dinner, but we’re going to have a wee small party (how wee and small is yet to be determined) with cider and candy and apples and cake and a tent in the backyard.
Last night when I went to bed (at midnight, I’ll have you know), I was beginning to get a sore throat. This morning, my throat was worse and I felt a little shivery. This got worse and worse as the day went on (Sociology didn’t help, since we were outside most of the time and I hadn’t brought a coat), until in theater design, my head was pounding, my body was sore, and I could warm my hands on my forehead. NOT pleasant. I went through the school day all right, and now I’m at home, all bundled up. I’m almost positive I’m running a temperature, but we don’t possess a thermometer so I have no idea how high it is. Not sure if this is the swine flu (it seems an exact copy of a cold I had like two weeks ago, except for the feverish symptoms). I hope I’m better by tomorrow. If I’m not dying, then I’ll probably go to school anyway.
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And Ares I-X is successful!
I think about the people I met at Space Academy who built the parts for this rocket. And even if another design is chosen for the return to the moon, I feel intensely proud of them. They built something, and it worked successfully, and they should feel very proud of themselves.
Because I feel proud to say I knew them.
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I can type at about 94 WPM with 98% accuracy. How do I know this? Uh……let’s just say I’m once again procrastinating on my psych paper.
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So just think how quickly and accurately you could finish that paper–once you actually get the cake started.
Now, Luna.
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I know. If only it were that easy to just start working on it…..I’ve still only got 2 pages done, and I’ve just about talked myself into leaving the library, even though it’s open for another 4 hours, and I’ve not gotten anything written on it today (or yesterday).
Maybe you could, oh, take a road trip, Piggy, and stand over me yelling at me and cracking the metaphorical whip until I get it done?
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Metaphorical?
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Well, I’d rather not literally get whipped. That’s really not my thing.
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95 wpm, miserable accuracy. Something around 70%, maybe. Higher if I type slower, of course.
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50 WPM, pretty good accuracy though I don’t know exactly what percent. 2 or 3 mistakes in the sample text. Slower most of the time, since I’m not concentrating on it.
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17 WPM, 87% accuracy. Blame it on the finger that I peeled which has a band-aid on it and therefore is not very good for typing.
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Oh, did I mention the furnace died? So I’m sitting here shivering in my warmest clothes with hands that can barely type even in warm rooms, trying to finish my Honors US History homework when all I really want to do is lay down and sleep for twelve hours.
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Then how come you’re posting this?
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20.1- Hmm…good question. Mostly so that I didn’t have to work on my homework.
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ERRATA! Why did you change your avatar? I liked the OOPS one MUCH better, for it suits your name perfectly!
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I just felt like a change. I’ll put it back. I like that one better too.
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Went to school today. Turns out I didn’t miss too much! Tomorrow we can wear our Halloween costumes to school, I’m excited.
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I’m so very afraid of something that I just learned about: Someone on another site told me about this psychopath who said that, as some wacked-out bribe, she would murder her cat if Miley Cyrus continued to not Tweet on Twitter. This person made a whole webste called “Will Miley Save Fuzzy?” or something alone the lines of that. It’s beyond disturbing. The person says, “Miley…made her own video about never wanting to use Twitter again. Then I looked at my cat, Fuzzy, and I realized, maybe Fuzzy can help. Fuzzy can make the ultimate sacrifice for this cause. It was very difficult for me, you see, as I sincerely love Fuzzy. But my mind is made up. I could always get another cat, but nothing can replace Miley’s tweets for me!”
I am terrified as to what this world is coming to. I feel kind of faint.
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SFTDP:
Oops, and en [actually, I don’t know of this loser’s gender] also says, “This is NOT a prank or a hoax. I am not joking, even if some will choose to interpret it that way. Cooking a cat is not illegal in my country, in fact it’s part of our culture…If Miley doesn’t tweet again, this WILL happen, and I’m as serious as a heart attack.”
En also says that en will kill the cat by beheading it and then boiling it. Lovely.
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“Cooking a cat is not illegal in my country, in fact it’s part of our culture…If Miley doesn’t tweet again, this WILL happen, and I’m as serious as a heart attack”
yup that’s fake
also it is relying on racisim to further its claims
which is insulting :/
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That is awful. People like that make me wonder what is wrong with humans.
I blame Television.
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That leaves me cold. I mean, who cares? I could say that I’m a stunning, super-talented jock on the internet and no-one could prove me wrong. But I’m not. Or I am. You just have to take my word for it. There are mass-murderers and people who put hamsters in toaster out there… I feel a bit sorry for the cat and Miley Cyrus.
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Who would murder their cat?? This is awful! Animal abuse!!! Call the police!!! Kidding, of course… but as I am a cat- lover, this is terrible to me! I think en is crazy and should be locked up. Speaking of crazy, we learned about this really smart guy who was a little- okay, a lot- cuckoo in the head. The only reason the Egyptians would let him measure the pyramids was that he wore a tutu while doing it!
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Yes, that is VERY disturbing.
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That is awful! What’s someone like that even doing with a cat?
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That’s terrible. The site even has a recipe for cooking a cat! And anyone who loves celebrity Twitters more than their pet should be put in a straitjacket immediately.
The site also tells you the person’s email address. I’m going to email them with this message:
Dear Miley-Save-Fuzzy Person,
Please don’t kill your cat over Miley Cyrus’ Twitter entries. You say that Fuzzy is prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for this cause. Would an innocent cat really wish to give his life so that a pop star can update you on her daily activities? This is cruel and wrong. If you really love Fuzzy, as you claim, persuade Miley in some other way. Maybe start a petition, in the style of this one, begging her to come back to Twitter. Taking a helpless animal’s life is NOT the way to go about this.
In addition, you will be indirectly harming Miley Cyrus. She has nothing to do with this, but if Fuzzy is killed everyone will blame her. I’m not particularly a fan of her music, but she doesn’t deserve to be branded a cat murderer.
The signers of this petition are using false names, but I assure you they are real people. We all agree that you should spare Fuzzy’s life regardless of what Miley does. As I type this, Fuzzy has less than three weeks to live. A teenage pop star shouldn’t be responsible for that.
Sincerely,
Rainbow*Star
I haven’t actually sent this yet. Add your blogname to the list if you agree with the message, and tell me if I should change anything.
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Yes! I totally agree with that, Rainbow!
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I agree. Should I copy the letter, or will you add my name to it yourself? I think the letter is fine the way it is, you wrote it very well.
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Actually, my mom says I shouldn’t send the letter, because it’s probably a hoax, and then the person will know my real name. (My email address has my real name in it.) She says I shouldn’t be allowed on the Internet because I’m so gullible.
But if you want to send it, that’s fine. Keep Rainbow*Star as one of the names on it, though.
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Your mother has a point. You don’t know this person; why should you believe anything en says? It really could be a phishing scam.
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Maybe we could make a whole new email address, just to send this email. Like save.fuzzy.yourself@ gmail.com or something. But then they’d still know the computer’s IP address.
Names on the list:
Rainbow*Star
Ducky
SudoRandom
rosebud2
KaiYves
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Peoples, seriously. You actually buy this? I imagine the aforementioned person is merely looking for attention–and by buying into the whole thing and sending emails, you’d only be giving en what en wants.
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Yeah. It sounds really fake. Send the e-mail if you want, but it will probably only encourage the person for more. If you ask me, it sounds like a plea for attention. Sure, it’s a really cruel and stupid thing to say, but still.
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Add mine too!
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This person is crazy. Add my blogname.
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Add mine as well.
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Hiya! I’m on my moms IPhone. Cool,huh. Wow, that is psycho. I mean, who would kill a cat? On a lighter note, Hallow’s Eve is upon us!!! Yay!
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Woo, almost Halloween!
My Astronomy teacher gave me a pair of 3-D glasses for being generally pleasant and helpful, and I tried them out last night with a 3-D book I lost the glasses for. They work great!
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I love 3-d glasses! Hours of fun!
Ok, anyway…
And my bff is EMO now. Why? WHY????? I mean, I fail to understand why she is randomly, suddenly Emo. I mean, she was wearing happy colors and all and then boom…
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Is she actually emo? Or is she goth? Or punk? And is this inherently and necessarily bad? There’s nothing wrong with wearing black clothes or whatever. If her personality has changed as well, it may easily be a temporary phase.
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I’m pretty sure it’s just a temporary phase. Temporary phases are definitely something I know about, for I have gone throgh many of them.
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Or was she just wearing black today?
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They are, aren’t they?
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This is directed at Lady B specifically, but the blog at large as well: What is the cheapest way to make a custom T-shirt/sweatshirt? I want to get my friend a sweatshirt that says “TRUMPET” on it.
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You can buy iron-on sheets pretty cheaply, I think. You can make your design on a computer, print it onto an iron-on sheet, and then iron it on the t-shirt.
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That’s an excellent idea. Thanks!
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28–Frankly, make it yourself. It might also seem a little more personal if you made it yourself; you could decorate it beyond what a shop could do.
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29 – I’m considering that. The thing is, she saw this sweatshirt at a band competition and thinks it’s hilarious/awesome. She plays flute. I’m not really sure that a homemade one would illicit the same confused reaction that she would want.
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Okay, my English teacher is scary.
Scene: I am waiting outside my RE classroom door with ilovehpb. I see 
heading up the stairs.
ML: That’s my English teacher.
*gets closer*
ILH: Can I unlock the door for you?
Yes.
ILH: 
Well, you did offer.
ILH: *has unlocked door, and everyone enters*
blahblahblahMrsChocolateleftthisforyoutodoblahblahblah.
ILH: *talks with other friends*
Rest of class: *talks* (many of my classmates are also in my French class)
ILH: What’s your name?
Mrs _____. I thought everyone knew me.
ILH: How do you spell it?
_____! *doesn’t spell it* (It’s an easy-to-spell name)
ILH: Sit next to me!
ML: *moves* *talks about English class*
ILH: What are you wearing for Halloween, Mrs ______?
I don’t have to dress up.
ILH & ML:
*unheard-of period of silence while everyone pretends to be working*
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SFTDP
What? My comment is saying it was posted on the 30th (at 1:20am, which is not the time in my part of the world) but the top of the page says the 29th. MuseBlog is a weird place.
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Well, hello little darklings and lightlings.
Have to say, I’ve been gone for quite a while…. but I’m back. Muhahaha!
32- Museblog is just neither here nor there. ^^
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Hello, Vixen! Nice to “see” you. How’s life?
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Not sure that I’ve seen you before, but… 
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Whoops. Missed your post…..
It’s nice to see you again–I always like seeing “old” faces come back again.
“Museblog is just neither here nor there”. Indeed–it’s everywhere.
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33- Vixen! My gosh, you’re alive!
I didn’t go to school today, though I actually feel better now than I did yesterday. Naturally it’s wreaking havoc with my grades. I have three Bs, can you believe it? I can’t, and I’m rather desperate.
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*sigh* I am actually planning on spending a dollar (ya, I know, not much at all) to go see a movie that was not any good the first time ’round (and would only marginally be worth going to see if I was paid money to do so)…….All because it’s Harry bloody Potter (and a friend asked me at least a month ago if I would go with her).
Yeah. Free pizza, though, if we go at the right time, and the line’s not too long. That alone makes it worth spending a dollar to see a bad movie–though one could get the free pizza without seeing the movie.
Eh, ignore me. For some perverse reason, I actually want to go see the movie again, even though I hated it the first time ’round. If I do end up going…..be prepared to receive a very long detailed rant about 12:30 to 1 tonight about every single thing wrong with it. Not kidding.
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Then again….Scrounging around my room, it would seem unless I can find 25 more cents between now and 7……I may not be going, after all. 
Well, actually, I’d probably still be going, forced to spend my Washington DC quarter, which I was saving……
Meh. Off to class.
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Vixen! Long, long time, no see!
Hee hee. I’m on a college visit right now, taking advantage of the free computers. :D
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I would ask “what college?” but I wouldn’t want to sound like a mad stalker, or anything. XD
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Reverse trick or treating……One of our floor advisors just came ’round with candy, with the comment “Halloween candy for you and *******, since you weren’t here last night.”
Oh, we were here last night, but at 10:45 I had just crawled into bed and gotten comfortable, and given the time of night (sure, not that late, but still) Chelsea did not feel like getting up and answering, which was fine with me. I thought it rather rude to be going around knocking on doors at that time (10 is the latest that makes sense to me on a school night, unless you KNOW the person is going to be up).
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And now I get back from class, and my roommate is gone (she goes home for weekends) and her bag of candy is sitting on top of our overflowing heap of trash in the trash can….? If she didn’t want it, why didn’t she, oh, I dunno, toss in on my desk instead of throwing it into the trash completely unopened? I think I’ll rescue it……
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I know I replied to this…..but my comment vanished. Weird. Basically I just said my roomie threw her bag into the trash unopened (didn’t even toss it on my desk–she left before I got out of my last class, so she couldn’t ask me in person). Strange person. I rescued it, though. No sense throwing good candy away (or even not necessarily very good candy).
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Our spam filter grabbed it because it contained a three-letter chatspeak acronym for a phrase that would not have made it through if you had spelled it out.
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Er, whoops. Yeah, sorry ’bout that. I know better, too. 
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I’m Waldo!
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Um…
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For Halloween! I was in the top five costumes for the school!
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That would make much more sense if I knew who Waldo was…
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Waldo. As in Where’s Waldo. The guy with red and white stripes.
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Well, I’m glad they found you. Congratulations!
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I wore my flightsuit from Space Academy to school today and I got compliments almost everywhere. My English teacher is dressed up as Willy Wonka, and he really looks like him, too.
Tomorrow, I’m going “trick-or-treating” at my friend Hannah’s building with her friend.
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I’m dressed up as Max from Where the Wild Things Are today. A lot of people are dressed up here. The cafeteria ladies loved my costume. They gave me candy at lunch. (They had candy for anyone who dressed up.) My gym teacher decided to call me Miss Max today, which was rather annoying.
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Question: Is it possible to wear out a CD? If so, how many times can it be played until it wears out?
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On a random note: I am officially incapable of tying on a surgical mask. I have a hard enough time tying bows behind my back (or head, in this case), but when the ties that you have to work with are relatively short, and your hair keeps getting in the way…….On the bright side, it was the first time I ever tried, so…..
I have also learned that when my hair is braided, and I put on a surgical cap, it looks like a snake crawled up in it and died……Because there’s just this long braid hanging out in it, and it doesn’t look obviously like a bunch of hair…..My first time wearing one of those, too. XD
And on a completely unrelated note, I managed to razor burn part of my one leg this morning, and it hurts……I knew there was a reason I hadn’t shaved in over a month. 
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Oh, I just noticed. I’ve been on museblog for a yeah and a day.
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Congrats!
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Sorry, just to to explode there. I was mad because I missed getting 100% on my test because I stupidly spelled Delaware as Deleware.
Grrrrrr…
And, we had a stupid, random asssembly by student council that had no point and I went deaf from “Just Dance” being cranked up wayyyyyy to loud.
Oh, and today was freezing (65 degrees) and it was windy and my friend stole my jacket and I was wearing shorts so I basically froze.
On a bighter note, tommorrow is Halloween-YEAH! I am going to roam the neighborhood with my sister (I’m being a scene girl and she’s an I-Phone) and be weird.
But, hey, weirdness is osm.
Especially on halloween. 
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65 degrees is freezing? Where do you live?
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That was my thought, too. 65 is slightly chilly summer weather, gorgeous autumn weather (actually, hot for autumn, really), and this time of year? (aka winter in any sane part of the plane, aka not the lower 48 or most of the planet, for that matter, aka Alaska) It’s positively hot.
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Yes, 65 is a nice fall day in New York without adjusting for Urban Heat Island. A moderate fall day is more like 45. (Which is, randomly, the same as a very good day on Mars.)
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What are you talking about? 65 degrees is freezing.
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What are you talking about? 65 degrees is an overcast summer day that’s just a wee bit on the cool side, but by no means freezing.
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Well, it’s not in Northeast Oregon, where I live. It was snowing here a few days ago.
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I woke up sweating an hour ago and now I can’t sleep! So I shall take advantage of this good time to go on MB!
Note the word sweating: I swear it’s still in the high twenties here and at noon when it gets really sunny it’s horrible. I generally try to avoid going outside during the day, it’s too hot!
I wish it was cold here. I wish it was 65 degrees.
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Why were you trying to sleep in the afternoon?
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Well, guessing from the fact that she said that “high twenties” is hot….I’d say she’s not in the US (because she’s gotta be talking Celcius, not even I think high 20s Fahrenheit is hot. XD ), so most likely it’s not afternoon wherever she is.
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I wasn’t. I live in Hong Kong – I’m on a different time zone! So..right now it’s 4:26 in the morning, not the middle of the afternoon!
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Yes! I thought it was Hong Kong, ‘though I wasn’t sure…..Dang. That’s early. *shudder*
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Yes, it’s really early. I actually woke up at around 3 am, and I came outside to escape the furnace of my room. Usually when I wake up in the morning like this I can’t go back to sleep.
Now it’s around 5:30. The construction workers outside have got the machines running and everything, and I can even hear them talking from across the road, it’s so quiet here. Then again, this is usually a quiet neighbourhood anyway, but it’s still early morning and very few and infrequent buses are running. The funny thing is I can actually distinguish what they’re saying to each other, instead of just hearing voices as I expected. They seem quite loud…when they’re so far away next to the place next to the place directly across the road from us.
I’m listening carefully for the first double decker bus to start running – they start running at 6 and I’m wondering if I’ll be able to hear it. Up until now they’ve all been minibuses.
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Oh, I see. Because you were talking about it getting really hot at noon in connection with your waking up sweating, I assumed that it was around noon when you woke up.
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That darn Delaware. (I am in Delaware right now!!)
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Do you live in Florida or something? I wish that it was 65 in late October here in Michigan. It’s 45 degrees and rainy right now, according to my computer.
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I have a computer again!
And I haven’t time to catch up on posts……summary anyone? Heh, I’ll check later, don’t worry.
But for now, I shall surrender the shiny new toy to mom so she can catch up on her emails…. (Mother dearest is sitting here, and bids me to add that that means she’ll get about 15 minutes of computer time before I “swipe it back.”)
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Sounds about right. Hi, Fiddler’s Mom! *waves*
So how’s the computer? Is it another laptop?
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45.1~ Yes. It’s Mom’s computer this time….. It’s a MacBook Pro, and it seems completely huge to me (17″). A desktop simply wouldn’t fit in our house, as you can imagine! :p
It’s different, I’m going to have to re-learn a bit, but so far (ha- a few minutes) it seems pretty logical. And it’s so pretty…..
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Yes, I was trying to picture how you would fit a desktop, though some of them are very tiny now. With the ingenuity available in your household, however, I could also imagine a contraption that could be lowered from the ceiling when needed.
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Oh, MacBook Pro’s are good. (That’s what I’ve got. XD )
I suppose if you’re not use to Macs (or, even, if you’ve only had a Mac pre-dock/finder era), it would be a bit confuzzling. I mean, the first computer I ever used was a Mac, but they didn’t use to have the whole dock and Finder window thing. Actually, they’re a bit more organized and logical now, really, it just took a bit of adjusting, at first.
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PS I love the animation, Lady B.! ^.^
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46.1~ True…though it’s helpful for things around here to be mobile..since sometimes the “desk” is the bootbin (where I am now), the kitchen table, or my lap in my room. Or we set it up for movies (like tonight) in front of the couch. A ceiling-contraption would certainly be interesting though!
Mom adds that she got a “drawing tablet thing” and wonders if you could show her how to use it sometime. Coming up this way anytime soon?
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Hi, MuseBlog. I’ve missed you. I have no idea what’s been going on so I’ve got a lot of reading to do.
I’ve been away, traipsing around London and Germany sampling baked goods. I’ll give a complete report at a later date but suffice to say, the baked goods were good.
Aside from eating, I visited friends and relatives and saw some beautiful buildings and art. It was a good trip!
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Welcome home!
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Welcome back, Rosanne! We’ve missed you, too. Looking forward to your report. I’m already getting hungry.
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Ooooooh, London? I love England, although I can’t say I was every all that hugely fond of London, in particular. I’m really not a city person–I much prefer rural areas–and, well, my mom and I getting lost together on the way back to our hotel from the London Eye (at dusk, it was getting dark, fast, and creepy people were starting to melt out of the woodwork……) didn’t really do much to endear me to the place. Ah, well, still. Gotta love England. Such beautiful country side and castles. Lots of castles.
And Germany’s nice, too, ‘though I only got to have a day-trip there. We spent the day in Trier when we were on tour in Europe/England a while back. ‘Twas great fun.
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London and Germany? Cool! Did you see Paul Baker?
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Sounds wonderful. Glad you had fun!
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Rosanne! *tackles in hug* London and Germany? Lucky you, that sounds awesome!
Can’t really tell you what all is going on, but it’s good to have you back.
Well everyone, I’m tired and jut realized it’s almost 1AM….eeeew. Goodnight.
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So……just got back not too long ago (read, about 12:15) from a Halloween thing on campus (including the HPB movie).
Although the movie is certainly better the second time ’round (mainly because you know it sucks and aren’t having your hopes dashed with ever passing second), it still wasn’t what I would term great, and, well, honestly, when you’re drunk on lack of sleep (I feel very tired…..), well, let’s just say even stupidity is funny. And half the time I was just laughing because it was so horribly screwed up….
Oh, and this one scene….Me and my friend, well, it’s right at the end, harry and Dumbledore have just returned to the Astronomy Tower from the Cave, and Harry’s helping Dumbledore to sit down. however, while doing so, he quite seriously shoves his but into the camera, and the thought that flashed through my mind: “Wow, nice butt!” (language PGified for the ‘blog. XD ). And then my friend leaned over to me, and said: “Nice butt!” And I started giggling as I said, “That’s exactly what I was thinking!” And we both starting laughing, y’know, the only people laughing then, cuz it’s sorta a serious moment, and all, with Dumbledore being seconds away from getting murdered……
And I got a “psychic reading” while I was there, too. y’know, for fun (cuz it was all free, cept the movie). So, basically, the guy I got, I had the choice between a tarot card reading and a “consult the spirits” aka Ouija board. So I went with the cards……He wanted to know if I had any specific thing I wanted to know, which I didn’t.
Him: “Romance?”
Me: “No……..”
Him: “Just a general life reading, then?”
Me: *with a permanent smirk plastered on my face throughout the whole thing that clearly said this is retarded and bogus, why am I doing it?* “Uh, sure…..”
So, to sum it up:
According to the first card, I am afraid of loss. Just afraid of losing something/someone/etc. (Gee. Isn’t every college kid? Y’know, afraid of losing their grades/gpa?)
‘nother card (the present): Travelling. (Again, most college kids). So, he stares at me expectantly, wants me to say something, like agreeing to or refuting this statement. So I go, “I’m from Alaska……” Normally, this gets a response out of people, y’know, some sort of “whoa, seriously?” He’s silent for long enough I’m also thinking, did he hear what I said????? Then he goes: “I used to live in Alaska. In Anchorage.”
*very short convo as I mention the town I’m from, snipped because, well, I’m not telling y’all what town I live in, considering the entire state barely has half a million people–600,000 if we want to get semi precise*
next card: (the future) “There’s a young man in your future……” *looks at me expecting some sort of response*
Me: *noncommital shrug and smirk that says this is so stupid*
Also, I am apparently a very generous person who needs to stop giving so much or I’m going to get myself hurt (um, huh? ok……if you say so). An older figure (he added on family), suggested my father perhaps, or another family member, would be a form of support in the future (tacked on financial aid, perhaps).
Me: *thinking* Gee, really? A college student getting financial help from a parent/other relative? Wow, you really are psychic.
My family card or whatever is apparently not so good, supposedly I am having heartbreak/disagreement/troubles. When he gave me his questioning look and I said, uhm, not really, he goes, “well, perhaps in the future?”
Me: *thinking* sure, yeah…..again applicable to anybody/anything.
So, yeah, apparently I’m going to be successful, but the main thing I need to worry about that is going to hold me back is my “fear of loss.” yeah……*rolls eyes*
Oh, and I got three tattoos (airbrush, geez, I’m not psycho enough to get real ones!!!!!!!!!!), too. I like the eagle one best, it was the last one I got (tramp stamp style, lol). So, y’know, I was wearing my gryffindor T and my HP scarf, cuz my friend was sorta dressed as Cho, and got it into her mind that she would look like a freak if I wasn’t HP attired in some form, so…..An eagle, as you should all know, is the animal that represents Ravenclaw. After the woman finished the eagle tattoo, she says: “It looks really cool! You’re a real Gryffindor now!”
Me: *thinking* what the heck? What the heck planet are you living on?!?!?!?! Eagles are not bloody Gryffindor, they’re Ravenclaw. Even an idiot knows that Gryffindor isn’t represented by an Eagle…..It’s a bloody lion! (Didn’t say it, just sorta shrugged, but….seriously. moron.)
meh, I should head to bed. I have to get up at, um…..7:30 absolute latest tomorrow……Yeah.
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Using generic predictions that can apply to anyone while fishing for personal info in a conversation is known as “cold reading”. (As opposed to “hot reading”, which would be if he’d somehow been able to look you up and find out info that way, then present it as psychic.)
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46.2~ It’s our second computer, and our first Mac. I’d used them slightly (for blogging) at HAWK’s house and somewhere else (I don’t remember where) and stalked the Apple website for awhile, and messed with them at the store. But anyway. It seems to be so logical. Shock and amazement.
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Any good horror movie recommendations with which to scare myself senseless tonight?
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While going through old threads like the Muse Fanfiction Thread, I spotted a post by Robert, a long time ago:
• 72. Robert Coontz (Administrator) �|� June 22nd, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Meanwhile, back in America it will be an election year (assuming America still exists and still holds elections). I wonder who’s running. Chelsea Clinton will only be 40 years old, and the Bush twins will be 38 — so, probably too young. Too bad. There might have been some satirical potential there. Oh, well, you can work out the details as necessary.
Who is the President, though? I’m betting it’s either Michael Jackson or Madonna.
With the all-seeing, critical eye of the Future, the last sentence is vaguely funny and sad at the same time. We should keep track of things like this.
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Similarly, the bit in the Empowered RPW where the secret service agent talks about how many days he has until Bush leaves office and how much he’s looking forward to it.
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My friend just found out that her mom is pregnant! She’s excited, despite the fact that she’s been an only child for 13 years and therefore doesn’t know what to expect. I’m really happy for her, she’ll get to babysit tons! There will be a huge age gap between her and the younger sib though. They don’t know the sex yet but are going to find out.
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Okay, I just got the random/awesome idea to dress up in my astronaut costume, find a suitable background, and pose for a photo looking like the official ones you see on the bio pages for the real astronauts. I could probably use my shuttle model to do something like this, except holding the whole thing, not just the orbiter:
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Woah, thanks, GAPAS!
I would like to take this chance to point out that I do not have 80s hair.
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I would sincerely hope not. No one should have hair that is older than enself.
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It is only the pose I am copying.
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help sorry i just need an answer to a quick question:
when is a good time to start dating in your opinion? i need some advice! no other site will help me out here. fyi i am 13 and i am really confused about how old you should be to have a boyfriend. im pretty mature for my age, and i have crushes and guys who like me. help!!
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I’ll be the annoying older person (who really doesn’t have any authority on the subject, as she is nearly 20 and still hasn’t been on a date), and say 13 is too young. Fifteen or sixteen, maybe, but, really? At least ot an extent, it depends on you, and on the guy, and I don’t know you enough to offer an opinion, so I’ll say: You’re not old enough unless your parents think your old enough and don’t do the whole sneak out under false pretenses to go on a date, cuz that could just go way wrong.
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Well, maybe you’re old enough to have a boyfriend, but date? Probably not. Unless maybe it’s a big group date or party or something because that might be a little more acceptable if you have other friends with you. I would say to wait until you’re 15/16 before you go one on one. That way, you’ll be able to drive and your parents will be more likely to let you. You really don’t want to date if they don’t approve. Good luck!
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Hm, I just thought of something: what happened to changing the colors on the ‘Blog? Weren’t we originally going to have MB be a different set of colors each month? We did for a while, if I remember correctly.
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Ooh, that was cool! Even though everyone complained.
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57~ Might I direct you to the Romance & Relationships thread? https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=4202
Are you a Muser? If so, welcome! I hope you’ll find an answer and also stick around for awhile. *welcome pies*
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I just found something very neat. I was lurking about some old threads when I came across Robert’s “PWT PWNS” license plate. On July 2, 2006, Robert said that the number of results for the exact phrase “pwt pwns” on Google was 288. But I tried it again, and on October 31, 2009, that count has skyrocketed to “about 2,040”.
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Wow. That’s a lot. Were there some strange ones? What was the strangest one? Happy Halloween, by the way!
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Sweet. I like the variation on the graphic, Lady B! It is super awesome.
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Ooh, nice picture…thing! Perfect for today.
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I AM OFF ON A SURPRISE TRIP TO FIJI!!!!!! Bye for now!
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Hello, MuseBlog! I am exhausted. I had to help at my church’s All Saints’ party. I would be very pleased if I didn’t see another sugar-fueled four-year-old for quite some time now. m(_ _)m
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Happy Halloween indeed! Lady B., you never fail to amaze, astound and delight.
I went outside for a few minutes, intending to take a walk, but ended up just twirling a bit in the fallen leaves instead. Too bad they were mushy from the rain.
It’s lovely out anyway, though a tad chilly for short sleeves (55 F) when one isn’t being very active.
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Aww, thanks. Sweet music to hear. Though clearly you have, shall we say, eccentric tastes.
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