Friday, 26 April 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
Food, that is. And when better than November to celebrate it, in all its many-splendored savory glory? And what could be more appropriate than to begin than with tea time at the H&H?
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Date: November 1, 2009
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Random craziness
The food in the picture looks really good! It is making me hungry…
Why no pies?
First post?
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Throwing pies isn’t allowed in the H&H.
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But eating pies is!
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Yum, the picture is great. I’ve found Urania, Bo, Crraw and Pwt so far.
I’m in the starting-NaNoWriMo confusion, so…
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I’ve found the Hare and Hedgepig, and the MuseAcademy Seal, and Kokopelli, and what you’ve found.
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By “Hare and Hedgepig” do you mean the entities or the monogram?
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The monogram, with the hare and hedgepig.
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So that’s everything except the tablecloth…
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I see what’s on the tablecloth (hare, hedgepig, and rose, I believe), but I dont’ think I see the Muse Academy Seal or the monogram…..
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Then again, I think I do see the seal.
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The pattern on the tablecloth was first used in the Thousand and One Nights edition of September’s Random Thread. All of the House symbols are in there, though you can only see bits of them.
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What are the house symbols? The GAPAs’ gravatars?
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It’s the other way around, actually, but amounts to the same thing.
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Cool picture, Lady B, but……Argh, it’s not doing much for the fact that I was starving when I got up. 
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SFTDP, but didn’t Daylight Savings Time end last night? Are we not changing the blog time? Just wondering…..
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We keep forgetting that we have to do that manually. The blog software isn’t as smart as it should be.
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Yeah, I remember being up at 2 am last spring and commenting……My computer was smart enough, but my cell phone didn’t seem to be, for some reason, which is weird because I don’t remember having to manually change it last year… 
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Am I going mad? Did I really not reply to this comment? I could’ve sworn I did….
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(Minor stylistic point: it’s Daylight Saving Time, with no “s” at the end of “saving.”)
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It’s always been savings time.
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I’m back! Yay MB! I can’t remember the last time I was on here! School is NOT cool! 
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Hey kiwimuncher! How’re things looking for the possible NC kokon? 
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Oh goodness… I don’t know. I haven’t actually thought about it… Maybe Christmas break? Or Easter? Where would we meet?
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We’re all close-ish to the Triangle, right? So there’s the Museum of Life and Science, Duke Gardens, several art museums… I’m sure Rebecca can recommend some?
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co⋅mes⋅ti⋅ble  [kuh-mes-tuh-buhl]
–adjective
1. edible; eatable.
–noun
2. Usually, comestibles. articles of food; edibles: The table was spread with all kinds of comestibles.
Origin:
1475–85; < LL comēstibilis, equiv. to L comēst(us), ptp. of comedere to eat up (see comedo; -ēstus for -ēs(s)us by analogy with gestus, ūstus, etc.; see gest1 , combust ) + -ibilis -ible; see eat
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I found Urania, Craaw, Pwt, and Bo. By the way, who is this “Lady B” I’ve heard so much about?
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Lady B = Lady Bunniful = Lady Bunniful SQ = Rebecca Lasley.
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Lady B=Lady Bunniful=Rebecca Lasley, one of the four GAPAs, the one who is responsible for all the picture magic on the monthly random threads.
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Lady Bunniful, A.K.A. Rebecca Lasley. I think it’s listed in the HG2MB.
It is a wonderful picture, by the way.
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Are you new? Lady B is short for Lady Bunniful, someone will explain…
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Picture = OMNOMNOM
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*mouth waters*
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Yum…food
kiwimuncher, I agree, school is NOT cool. As Calvin, from Calvin and Hobbes says, “I think we should go to school a day in November and a day in April”
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That picture looks very tasty, Lady B. However, my brother still isn’t awake yet and we won’t have breakfast without him. Grrr. *is hungry*
I hate daylight saving time. It throws my clock out of whack and it gets dark really early here as it is.
rosebud2, if you’re new, welcome to the blog! *pies*
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On Friday night I went to see a community theater production of “Our Town.” (I know a member of the cast.) During the intermission, a high-school-aged girl wearing a They Might Be Giants sweatshirt sat on the auditorium steps reading Isaac Asimov’s Science-Fiction Magazine. I thought, “Have I met you on Museblog?”
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It would be funny if you had.
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*is taken aback* That’s bizarre; my school did the same play this weekend.
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Agh, Robert, that’s why you should always carry around a few origami HPBs with MB’s URL on them! A perfect recruit she would’ve been, I’m sure.
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I just came back from watching Where the Wild Things Are. Worst. Movie. Ever. Too much conflict and scariness. 
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Please, LBK, people have asked you nicely to stop commenting by replying to the bottom comment. We’re asking you again, but I can sense myself running out of patience. Can you stop? Anyway, I loved that movie! (Although I suppose I knew there were going to be many different opinions about it.I thought it was very good to the book, and I was sort of glad it didn’t stick to the book by the letter. If it had, it would not have turned out well. I also thought that they did a very good job of depicting little kids through Max, which I probably thought about a bit more than other people, because my mom is a daycare provider. But I’ve seen a lot of little kids, and I’ve read a lot of stories that they’ve written, and I have to say that Max acted a lot like a young child, and that story he wrote about the vampires sounded exactly like a story a real kid of his age would write. All in all, I thought it was a great movie.
Robert- That’s really cool! You should have talked to her! (Although you would have looked a bit creepy…) Maybe she’s a museblogger and she’ll see that post and let us know. *hopeful*
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Ooh, origami HPBs! I can make those!
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That is funny. And rather odd. It sounds somewhat like one of my Muserly friends, who goes by Tessera Rose on here.
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Oooh, great picture, I love scones!
I took that “official astronaut portrait” in front of a blank wall at my place last night, after I got back from trick-or-treating with Hannah, and it came out pretty well. Some of the molding on the door showed, but I can fix it once I get Photoshop for Christmas.
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Hallo. I never visit this thread because it gets to buisy, but I’m here because it’s the beginning of the month.
For Hallowe’en I dressed up as Edward Cullen (full details of the costume are on the Halloween thread). I need to shower because the sparkles are not coming off. I was working away at them with make-up remouver last night, and managed to get most of it off my arms, but my neck and chest are still very sparkly. It’s kind of gross. It looks like dirt when the light hits them wrong. Also: the glue from the eyelashes is black and not coming off my eyelids. It’s also unapetizing. I have lovely little black streaks above my eyelashes. It’s like eyeliner but stupid looking.
I have a sketchbook assignment to hand in tomorrow. It was due friday, but I have been too lazy to do it. Art is the only thing I procrastinate with. Bum. I should go do that.
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Coulda sworn I posted on here when I logged on earlier, but I guess not. I must be going crazy! Anyway, awesomeful picture, Lady B! Though not quite as good as the ones last month I must admit, you can’t really go wrong with food!!
Today was kinda disappointing. I didn’t play at all in my soccer game because I started to feel really sick again and decided to sit it out. We tied in the end. I also went to part of a high school open house but could only stay for a little while before leaving for the game. I thought it was interesting, very pretty campus, but the school is huge! I’m not sure whether that’s good or bad. There are a lot of AP courses offered, which is good. And the teachers that we met and the ones on our tour were really nice too, but I’m not sure. I guess it’s hard to judge this school until I have something to compare it to. High school’s not for two years, so I still have a while to decide! I guess it’s never too early though.
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Do you get a choice for what high school you go to?
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Aaah! I’m being forced to take bunnification tablets!Really. I am.
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Um…ok?!
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Oh no! 
*gives Fireh de-bunnification tablets*
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Bunnies are nice.
I like pink bunnies.
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It’s the medicine for my pnuemonia, actualy. XD
It’s hot pink.
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Maybe it works like a vaccine: give the body a small dose of the disease-causing organism to make the immune system build up a resistance to it.
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So you’re saying that after Fireh takes this she’ll be immune to bunnification?
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RESISTANCE IS MUSELESS
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That was puntastic!
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Beware the bunnies of the AlpacaLips!
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Whoa. Adults?
-A
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(15.3.1.1) It sounds possible, but Piggy doesn’t think so.
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A bunnification vaccine is well overdue.
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sftdp (If this counts as one.)
My internal clock is completely messed up with Daylight Savings. It’s so annoying! I’m glad we get an extra hour, but still. At least it won’t feel like I’m getting up so early tomorrow for school…ok, I seriously need to go study for a Latin test tomorrow! Ah! And I have a huge Latin project due Tuesday which I’m really not ready for, and an English test tomorrow too actually…and I’ll probably just end up on the couch watching the World Series tonight. Ugh. I hate this!!!
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Bunnification…tablets??
So how are everyone’s NaNoWriMo’s going?
This should probably be posted on the other thread..
I like monsters.
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I had an… interesting weekend. First, I had a sleepover that I ate too many Doritos at and i am still suffering the nausea and headache I got the morning after. Then, my marching band had an hour and one-half bus ride to the Halloween parade. That is now my second favorite parade, because we get to dress up in Halloween costumes. It was 36 degrees. Fahrenheit. Good times.
OK, so I actually have exciting news that I’m happy about! Our guys varsity soccer team is going to be playing at the Minnesota state tournament at the Metrodome. Where the NFC for the Vikings home games are held. Guess who’s pep band gets to go? That’s right, our school!!!! We also get to wear football jerseys, because we are required to wear uniforms, and Mr. O doesn’t want to fit the entire pep band in marching band uniforms. Football jerseys at soccer games are wonderful.
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I’m hungry now…….this picture reminds me of the “Hot Soup” random threads some time ago. Mmm.
I’m covered in polishing compound, as I spent a good deal of time today polishing my car. I can’t wait to be able to drive it!! It looks quite nice now, all shiny and it feels amazing. I know, it sounds odd but it really feels neat, it’s all shiny-smooth feeling if you just run your fingertip over the surface. *sigh* I can’t wait to get it on the road.
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Good evening, MB. How was everyone’s Halloween? Mine was good, but it wasn’t all that fun because the people who usually do the really “scary” houses were too lazy so it was a no-show on that front. I got lots of candy too.
At school, I didn’t win any costume contest, but two of my friends did. Some girl dressed up as an old-man/baby hybrid, which was very funny and creative.
Nice picture, Lady B.
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Oops, didn’t realise that there was a specific Halloween thread. GAPAs, you can move it there.
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Last night I was LITERALLY sitting at the computer for this thread to appear! I eventually gave up and went to bed. GAPAs, in the future, do not close a random thread until its replacement has been made!
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Urgh. I have a cold. At least I get to go on MuseBlog and miss English class. And tomorrow’s a public holiday, so I can procrastinate on my math homework, which I didn’t do this weekend because I was studying for the science test and the French oral. *va et verifie sa mel*
*drools at picture*
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I have learned a new reason that twilight is trash. Out of intense boredom (ok, make that “out of an uncontrollable need to procrastinate”), I watched some of “Vampire Diaries”, a show on the CW that is based upon a series of books published, well, pre-twilight, anyway.
Watching the show, anyone who’s read twilight can only think–holy cake, this is just like twilight (with the exception of better, more realistic characters, no sparkling of the vampires, etc). Except then you learn that the show is based upon books, books written pre-twilight. And out of more boredom, you look up info on the web.
Not only do you have vampires in a small town, one of whom is a non-human eating vampire, you’ve got a girl he’s drawn to/in love with, there are eventually werewolves (or one, anyway), and……If I were to actually read the books or more spoilers, well, suffice to say, I’m not quite sure how Meyers managed to get away with what seems to be a very badly written, mauled, plagiarized rip-off of this earlier series?
I mean, it seems more than just a passing similarity, to me…..Although I get the distinct impression that TVD might have actually been a decent book series, although post-twilight I don’t think I’d be able to enjoy it, as I’d only be able to think–“yurgh, twilight“
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With the exception that, from reading wikipedia’s summary of TVD, they actually had plot. That is, it wasn’t just girl sees vampire, wants to be vampire, wants to sleep with vampire (but marry him? Oh dear god, no.), wants to have vampire baby–it appears that it actually *shocker* has substance to it. Something which, as anybody who has read it knows, twilight lacks.
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Guess what Piggy’s doing: preparing to attempt to run Ubuntu off a flash drive. :D
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There. Is. A. Hot. Pink. Bunny. On. The. Quiche. TIAHPBOTQ. YANA.
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I’m ba-ack!
Greece and Turkey were AMAZING. We went to Athens, Santorini, Kusadasi, Bodrum, Rhodes, Mykonos, and Istanbul. I could go on a really long rant right now, but I will save it for tommarow because i’m tired (13 hours on a plane makes me sleepy)
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UGHHHH please elaborate on this later, I’m dying of envy…greece GREECE sfhgk
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Welcome back!!
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Stories. Here you go.
I am going to take this one city at a time because it would get way to long otherwise and I will be condesing it quite a bit anyways.
Athens: we got there after 12 hours on 2 planes with a layover in Amsterdam. It took almost an hour to get to the hotel because there was a protest in front of the parliament building witch was kitty corner from our hotel. There were massiveflocks of pigeons and guys selling birdseed in front of the parliament building and one if them was really nice and he was from Seattle. There was also lots of stray dogs and some cats. We went to the plaka for dinner. It is his big downtown type area with lots of shops and resteraunts and no cars. There were lots of guys sitting on the sidewalk trying to sell these splatty rubber tomatoes and pigs. I had spinach pie for dinner because I told Goldendoodle I would find some Greek pie. It was good but the crust was too tough so it was difficult to cut. Then we went to the top floor of our hotel and looked at the parthenon In all it’s lit-up nighttime glory. End of day one.
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I finally finished writing this Halloween special for a story on another site, and I’m really glad because it took me hours.
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I changed the background on my computer! it’s all prettyful and greeny-blue now. I don’t know why I’m so excited about it. But I am. I need to be doing NaNo pretty badly now. I’m way behind, and not getting farther ahead. But I lack inspiration. This belongs on the NaNo thread. Anyway, I’m off to there, because I’m hopelessly distracted.
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*sigh* Next semester is going to suck……
Mondays:
Second semester Organic Chem
Spanish 2
Cell Biology
Classical Mythology (a writing intensive course)
Organic Chem lab (lecture portion)
Tuesdays:
Spanish 2
Study session for Cell Bio
Wed:
Same as Monday, minus the Chem lab lecture
Thursday:
Spanish 2
3 hour Organic Chem lab
Friday:
Same as Wednesday
Urgh. I am going to be so busy and slammed with school……*sob*
I mean, this year, basically I have about 3 hours of classes per day. Next semester, I have 5 hrs of classes every Monday, 4 on WTF, although only 2 on Tuesday. That’s……nearly double this year, and I’m only taking 17 credits, which is only 2 more than this year, one more than I took first semester freshman year…..And yet it seems like a heck of a lot more. eep. I miss my freshie classes, they were easy and I didn’t appreciate them properly at the time, not at all. *sigh*
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And for some unknown reason my post appears to have been spammed. I didn’t think I used any chat speak acronyms of dubious nature or anything else that screamed “I am SPAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Weird.
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I’ve rescued the message. Maybe the spam filter doesn’t like cell biology.
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Not sure I can blame it…..I’m not sure I like it, either. It sounds incredibly difficult.
Ohhhhhhh. No, wait. I see what it doesn’t like. The abbreviation of Wed/Thurs/Fri, also happens to mean something else in different context. 
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Isn’t this the second time in the last couple of weeks that the spam filter caught you for that?
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Ummmmm. Yes. Except to be fair, this time the spam filter was being overly sensitive–in this case, in this context, it means something entirely different. And harmless. And it wasn’t the last couple weeks, more the last few days……
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The spam filter dosen’t know that.
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True.
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My english teacher said that en isn’t a real pronoun.
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It isn’t. I think it’s something that a MBer made up. It is useful, though.
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Robert, I think. Or his dad, or something like that……
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Teachers seem to think there’s something special about being real.
I introduced “en” to the blog on December 31, 2007. In fact, it was in response to a question from The Man For Aeiou.
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Maybe I should have gone with ze. but still. english is a living language, we can create new words if we need them.
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“Ze” has the same status as “en,” except that it’s popular on college campuses instead of on MuseBlog. (I don’t like the way it sounds.)
I’m sure your teacher would be happier if you said “he or she,” “him or her,” “his or hers,” “himself or herself.” Meanwhile, “en” is perfectly good MuseBlog English, and perhaps someday the rest of the world will come around. Or face our pies.
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We were talking about gender and pronouns for grammer, and he said there were no gender-neutral pronouns, I said there were, like en, e-n, and then he said it wasn’t a word.
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How closed-minded of him.
You can see several proposed epicene (gender-neutral) pronouns listed on Wikipedia (http :// en.wikipedia . org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun). Your teacher is right that none of them has achieved “official” standing with English teachers, editors, or dictionaries. Piggy added “en” to the list almost a year ago, but it looks as if somebody took it off again.
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Robert, if you (since it was your father who invented “en”) (or another GAPA; whoever has the least lack of time) could write some sort of an article and put it as its own page somewhere on MuseBlog, we could cite it on Wikipedia, which could help give it weight–or at least keep it on the list on Wikipedia.
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“Ze” sounds too much like a bad imitation French accent.
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Zat eez zhoost ze sort of problem I ‘ad een mind.
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Hahahahahahahahahaha!
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I think of “Ze” as pronounced ZÉ›, as in the “e” in egg.
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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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CDs don’t exactly wear out, but they do decay — especially old ones, or ones you “burn” on a computer. You can find a discussion here:
http :// askville.amazon . com/CD-DVD-wear-disk-played-times-suffer-damage-laser/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=1744959
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I was wondering because I have a CD that I play almost every day.
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31.2~ “Teachers seem to think there’s something special about being real.” That has become another favorite quote, just so you know.
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Yay, day off tomorrow! Happy (slightly early) election day, everyone!
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I am so confused…and I doubt you’ll be able to help beyond hugs and choklit, but (And yes, I do understand this is cliche.) I am just so confused with life right now in general. Well, and soccer related.
WARNING: RANT AHEAD
This year I started off in a new soccer league. My dad’s one of the coaches. It’s a competitive travel team, whereas before I just played in a rep league which didn’t really help exercise my strengths very well and I always wanted to play at the higher level but we just didn’t have the time for it then and it didn’t fit into our schedules, so I didn’t.
But our team sucks. We’ve done alright, but we haven’t won once this season. Our coach yells at us a lot (Not my dad, the head one.) and basically does not help our self esteem, at all. She says we know she’s a “sweetheart at heart” but all I see is the devil side of her, and it ain’t pretty. I haven’t been playing that great. I don’t know why, but I feel so out of shape. It’s a huge pain, and I’ve started to really dread soccer. Now, I’ve had soccer problems before and I’ve worked through them. I’ve experienced disastrous seasons and annoying players and bad coaches. But I’m just not feeling it this season, and my parents have been bugging me about it.
They’ve talked to me twice. Once, when I had an especially bad game, an today, when I couldn’t play at all in the game yesterday because I was sick. I have no idea what point they were REALLY trying to get across. But the only thought I have is quitting. I hate this. I’m miserable. But the truth is, I should be loving this! I’m such a competitive person at heart, and I love soccer. I’ve been playing on a team since I was 8!!! (And even before then in my backyard.) Soccer is MY home turf. So why isn’t it right this season? It’s not like I can’t play. I can. I don’t get it, and I’m so confused!
Just right now, my dad just ended up talking about my summer b-ball league, where he said how I was one of the toughest players in the league, despite the fact that I’m pretty new to b-ball and most of the players had way more experience than me. Then, he basically told me that I’m stinkin up this soccer season. The first time, they basically seemed concern with my rep. I don’t know why they’re even concerned about it though, because it’s not like I am. I don’t care. There are some kinda-mean-ish girls on the team, but I’ve been around similar girls my whole life at school and on other teams. It’s nothing new. And sure, looking decent is one thing, but…argh. This is so confusing!!!!! I didn’t know what to say. What was there to say? I told him I’m not feeling the vibe this season, but I don’t know why. Then I started crying. The weird thing is, I just can’t get my feelings straight. I have no idea why I’m so upset, yet I just can’t get my head around this.
Sorry, that was long. I didn’t mean for it to be, but all my feeling just started pouring out, and I can’t stop them. I can’t imagine going back to this team for the spring season, where I’ll also be playing school soccer at the same time. It just is such a drag.
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sftdp
Sorry, gapas. It’s just that you guys deserve some serious choklit! *tons of choklit* That was SPEEDY moderating. I looked up, and I saw that post in the Recent Comments bar literally a minute after I posted it. I can’t even believe that you would have had time to read it then, but that’s ok.
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*hugs and choklit*
No, I can do more.
First off, don’t you dare quit. If you quit, you seem like the kind of person who would regret it. Second, you should just tough it out this year, and if you don’t think that you would ever enjoy soccer again, then don’t join a team! If you make a decision before making a commitment, you’ll feel better about not doing something. And third, we can’t have you changing your name! It would be confusing!
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K, thanks for the advice!
1)No, I didn’t really think I was going to quit, I guess because my parents probably wouldn’t let me anyway, and yeah, in the end I would probably regret it. I still want to, and the idea keeps popping up. But no, I don’t think I will. (In the end, at least.)
2)Toughing it out sucks. I mean, there’s not much else I can do. So that’s what I will probably do. But still, it sucks. It’s good advice and all, but I feel like, I still like soccer. I love soccer! I just don’t like being on this team. Maybe school soccer will be better. I hope it will be. But this is obviously not the right place for me as much as I hate to admit it…
3)No, don’t worry. I shan’t be changing my name anytime soon. I’m not a soccer starr, not by a long shot, but I still like the name and intend to use it.
*devours choklit* *hugs back*
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Ugh. I had a bad day. It started off good, then got better, then got worse.
-We got to look at an old fashioned microscope in Science 
-Goofed off in Social Studies
-Probably not gonna get MuseBlog at school anytime soon 
-We watched The Cat in The Hat in French in French class
-Gregorian chants in Music Humanities.
It was really embarrassing. And I had to go first. Go figure.
Sorry. /ranting and raving
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SFTDP, I just realized that you had a much more bad day than me. Maybe the new coach just isn’t working for you. *hugs and choklit because that’s all we can do for you right now*
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LBK. PLEASE, PLEASE stop replying to the last comment on the page. It is extremely annoying and we can’t tell who the heck you’re talking to.
Why are Gregorian chants bad exactly? I like them….
Oh, and “much more bad?” Wouldn’t that mean “worse?….” 
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Well, I’m not really sure. I mean, the truth is, she’s not awful. (Not as awful as a devil, at least.) But she’s not great either, and the worst part is that I’m just not being…motivated. It’s like I don’t even care, when I do, but then i…don’t. If that makes any sense at all.
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Yeah, that makes sense. I know what you mean….It’s the most annoyingly weird feeling.
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Yes, and it’s the most confuzzling feeling! I have no idea what to do!
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I’ve had some swim coaches like that. *shudders* I know what you mean.
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Yeah. She yells at us every game at halftime. It’s kinda embarrassing, actually. She always points out what we’re doing wrong, instead of saying what we’re doing right. And that’s if we’re actually doing anything right at all.
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Hello, everyone. Tomorrow I’m going to dress up as all the “popular” girls, i.e. wear all the things they wear and see if anyone notices/cares. How fun.
In chorus, we have an extremely weird student-teacher. A kid in my class was talking to him, and he said, “This new haircut really makes me feel like a nerd, no offense, Mr. E___.” It was the funniest thing that happened all day. He didn’t even get in trouble, either.
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That is a funny idea. Let us know how it goes! I should do that sometime. But actually, there really isn’t a large dress difference between the so called “popular” people and the rest of us, so it probably wouldn’t have much of an effect on anybody.
In other news, is ANYBODY following the World Series? We’re Yankee fans, but we live in a Phillies infested area so we’re being tortured by Yankee haters. Ha ha. To tell you the truth, I find baseball to be painfully boring at times, but this World Series hasn’t been so bad. Not watching some of the games may have something to do with us.
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I personally don’t like baseball, but this being New York… yeah, lots of Yankee fans around.
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So I’m wearing my purple turtleneck for the first time this year. I love turtlenecks.
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Anyone ever heard of the International Peace Poster Contest? At my school, a bunch of kids entered (including me). I handed mine in today, but I have pictures. I think I did a good job. (Everyone thinks my poster is going to go on to “compete” in the regional competition, but I’m up against 7th and 8th graders.)
In other news, there was a sub in Algebra! Most of the class goofed off, and I got to sit with A___! I’m finished with all of my Algebra homework, so there’s no math (besides Math Counts) tomorrow!
I Trick-or-Treated with 4 friend and got a ton of candy. Then I traded all my chocolate away (I don’t like chocolate).
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Tomorrow Carrie Underwood’s CD comes out. Just thought I’d let y’all know.
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GAPAs, I have a dilemma. When I first came to MuseBlog, I did not have my own email, and therefore used my parents’ email. I used that email for my chess and soon-to-be-paleophyte account. I have since gotten my own email, and am using it now. Which should I use? Please answer this ASAP.
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Ducky: I’ll edit your profile so you can use your new e-mail address.
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Okay!
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39~ Really? I can’t stand turtlenecks. For some reason it always feels like I’m being strangled when I wear them. I also dislike not being able to wear necklaces with them.
Goodnight world. I’m horribly tired…
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Same here, with the exception of a special one that hasn’t fit me for years…
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oh yes turtlenecks give me the same impression.
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GAPAs? Any chance one of you could do me a “huge” favor? I was looking for where I posted one of my HP theories, it was the one I wrote for the contest in Muse, about Severus Snape’s true loyalties, involving the events on the Astronomy Tower in HBP. I know I posted it on here somewhere, probably not long after the contest results were published (I don’t remember the issue), and I learned that mine wasn’t among them, despite it being (imho *snork*) better than most that were posted.
It’s not the HP 2007 thread, I’ve got my other HP theories there, but not the one pointing out all the thing that pointed to Snape being loyal to Dumbledore. So, if at all possible, could one of you GAPAs use your magic GAPA powers to find it? For the life of me, I can’t figure out where I might have posted it…..
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nothing relevant comes up on a search for “astronomy tower.” There’s a brief paragraph on the 2006 thread: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=220#comment-21905
If that’s not what you’re looking for, can you think of some unique words? “Snape” brings up 320 posts. Our searching abilities are fairly primitive.
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Mmmm, no. I finally found it (see comment below……). It was on the second part of the February 2007 random thread.
Thank you for looking!!!!!! *hugs and choklit*
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And…..nevermind. I found it. Thanks, though! (And hopefully you aren’t looking already……)
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And all of a sudden…..I bloody love my psychology teacher. I swear to god I could totally hug her right now. And I no longer have to contemplate staying up all night long working on my paper (which is still failing to get written–one paragraph more written than a week ago), as she just extended the deadline until next Tuesday.
Now, if only I’d learned this a bit earlier, I’d have spent this afternoon studying Organic Chem (test on Thursday, material no longer makes sense), instead of trying to get stuff done on my paper……
but, oh, wow, if I believed in god……suffice to say I’d would be on my knees thanking him profusely.
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36.1.1- I imagine singing them alone/first isn’t very nice. Besides, they keep putting me to sleep…
35- There’s a rant thread (which I usually monopolize), just search “rants” *too lazy for link*
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Yay! It is finally cooling down here! Yesterday and today were 16/17 degrees (yes, Celsius. Sorry, but I don’t really use Fahrenheit that much. Or….ever) And I swear just last weekend – 2,3 days ago – it was boiling hot in the high twenties! Now everyone is shivering as they walk around school (most of which is outside/open air, except for the classrooms), and the usually frigid classrooms seem very warm. I’ve noticed that people have started to wear non-[name of school her] jackets, an act which is prohibited by the dress code, but not enforced by any of the teachers, only the principals. I am one of those people, incidentally. Ironic that I’m supposed to be helping enforce the rules, seeing as I am on student council. Heh heh.
We still have Rugby on the field in PE, which is going to be very cold….
The forecast is that it will start to warm up on Thursday, and be back to “normal’ on Sunday.
I wish this cold weather would last for a while.
Next week I am going to China for our school trip! To a place near æå·ž- and it’s going to be very cold, by our standards – down to 5 or 6 degrees at night. I prefer cold to hot though, as at least in the winter you can always put on more layers.
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47-It’s been snowing, raining or both all day today. Joy. I wish we’d play rugby in school. It would be …interesting.
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It’s touch rugby, though. Not tackle. So the game proceeds very slowly; there is a lot of stopping and confusion about ‘wait, you were tagged here.’ ‘ ‘you have to move back 5 metres! move back more!’ and such.
Leaving for China on Monday!! Yes! (Though technically I’m in China right now. Anyway, yeah.) !!!!!!!!!
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I did really well in the climate change debate in Public Speaking class today. And the bit that the teacher liked the best, the closing arguement I wrote for my friend? I thought it up yesterday while running and had to write it down on looseleaf right before class.
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and then Today the same english teacher I was taking about in 32 about not like en because it’s made it, was saying how great Shakespeare was at making up words.
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*is amused*
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Zoonoses. We had a lecture on it today in psych. I dunno if any of y’all have ferrets, but you might be interested to know that if you do, they can catch the flu (any flu, I don’t just mean the swine flu) from you, although your dogs and cats canNOT.
And I would also like to add that there is such a lovely high chance that I have rabies, in case you’re interested, as our house has been infested by bats for at the very least 3 years now. And to paraquote what was said in class:
Bats are the number one cause of rabies in the US (which I already knew). She continued to say that bats can often get into peoples houses to live (cue me having a very hard time not snorting, given our infestation) and that people often do not even know it when they get bitten, because bats have little itty bitty teeth, and therefore if a person wakes up with a bat flying around their bedroom, they are immediately started on a prophylactic course of rabies vaccination. (Which I have not been, nor any of my family, despite it ahving been at least 3 years since one of us first had a bat in our house–and often in our rooms–mine, usually) So, yeah, um…..
So, yeah, my cheery thought for the day–I have a very good chance of having rabies, which is fatal (with the exception one and only one human or animal has EVER survived w/o being immediately started on the prophylactic treatment–a human, to be specific, was what survived). Cheery, no?
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People usually show symptoms within a month or two. You’re probably all right.
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True….but I should perhaps convince my parents that we should all get a preventative rabies vaccinations, as the bats (despite my dad’s best efforts), show no sign of wanting to leave our house anytime in the near future. And during the summer, there is typically a minimum of one bat that gets loose in the house, per night. Sometimes more……
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One a night? Wow. No wonder you like wizards.
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Almost every night during the summer (I’d say starting in about mid-June through mid-August). While one per night may be a slight exaggeration–there are, of course, some nights where none appear–summer nights with a bat manifestation are definitely significantly more common than nights without.
There was at least one night last summer where we had 3, one my mom and I got to fly out the door, and then, thinking we were through, Mom went to bed. Unfortunately, I was shortly reawakened by another one, and while chasing it, I discovered yet another, and somehow managed to get them both in the same (very holey) butterfly net and out the backdoor.
They’re so common an occurrence, my cat doesn’t even care anymore. The first summer we had my cat, he thought it was awesome–I mean, what cat wouldn’t? Flying rodents, in his house? He was ecstatic (and quite good at catching them), and so I was sleeping with my senses on hyperalert to make sure I heard the bats before he had a chance to get at them (I don’t want my kitty getting bit, even if he does have his vaccinations). Now? He hardly even watches them and just laughs his little kitty butt off as we chase them around the house like maniacs.
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The post that this is a reply to was the first post I read in this conversation. It was very odd, without any other information. Just letting everyone know that.
-A
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So…
Today was actually kinda lucky in the sense that I didn’t have to do my Latin oral presentation. We have to dress up as a character from the Underworld (Which was assigned to us, unfortunately.) and then stand up in the front of the class (In costume.) and pretend to be the character. Now, usually I love acting and anything of this sort, but this time I just was so busy (and sick, actually.) that I didn’t prepare myself at all for the thing, and just put together a very rushed costume and therefore would probably completely embarrass myself had I gone today. Thank the cake I didn’t get picked, so now I can actually sit down and figure out a decent presentation for tomorrow. And hopefully find some better stuff for my costume. I really need a good Latin grade right now, I got a 90 on the last major test which isn’t horrible but I totally flunked some others which is why I’m really worried….
Actually, I should probably be more concerned with my English grade, which I just realized today is seriously suffering. I keep getting in the high 70’s range for grammar and stuff, (Which is REALLY bad for me!) and I’m afraid I’m going to totally screw up my report card. Ugh. Grammar has never been my thing. Not to mention the fact that my parents will kill me if I mess up English. So yeah, basically I’m trying to figure out a way to break it to them that my grammar grade isn’t so hot without being beheaded in the process. Ha. It’s usually better to break these things to parents before your report card comes out, although if I could just get some decent grammar grades to raise it, that would be helpful.
Alright, enough ranting. I’m done, I promise.
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36.1.1 OKAY, OKAY…; Well, I was first, my partner didn’t help much, and it was just really embarassing; yes, I guess it would be worse, not much more bad.
Well, you seem to have gotten over your mean-ish soccer coach, soccer starr. Huzzah! *choklit for ss and the GAPAs*
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Thanks for the choklit, but my soccer problem isn’t really gone, it’s just well, I’m not really paying attention to it right now. I don’t have soccer practice today, so there’s nothing new to report.
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Hehe, I managed an entire paragraph in spanish on our last test with only one mistake…..And she didn’t take points off for it, either. Of course, I didn’t do so well on the second half of the test (taken on a different day), but I blame that on the cold I had at the time. Ah, well, overall I got a 93, so it’s all good.
Yeah, we had to describe out “favorite pastime” in a minimum of five sentence with the information: What? Where? When? With who? and Why?
Me gusta ir de excursión en las montañas de Alaska. Hay muchas montañas en Alaska y unas montañas están cerca de mi casa. Prefiero ir de excursión en el verano, porque tiene hace much frÃo en el invierno. Mi padre y mi hermana vienen conmigo a las montañas, pero mi madre no viene conmigo. A ella no le gusta ir de excursión. Me gusta ir de excursión en las montaÅ„as porque son my bonitas. ¡También, hay muchas animales en las montañas! Es muy interesante.
Suffice to say, that would be a very stupid sounding paragraph, had I written it in English…..Like, first grade level writing……Not to mention, I dunno why I thought “tener” was the right verb to use, rather than “hacer”, because looking back it obviously isn’t…..
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Oh, that’s just adorable. Luna’s getting so good at Spanish.
Sorry, I’ve been in a Spanish sort of mood lately, and, since I’ve had a lot more experience with it, I’m a tad more advanced, I suppose. Yours does sound a bit like a first grade level, doesn’t it? “I like to go on trips in the mountains. There are many mountains in Alaska and some mountains are close to my house. Mountains mountains mountains, mountains mountains.”
Wow, I first was going to translate the whole paragraph, but I discovered it was harder to translate it into English than just to read it. I think I’m getting closer to minor fluency?
Dang, now I’m in too much of a Spanish mood to do my physics. :P
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Well, I had limited vocabulary/pastimes to choose from. I do play sports, so that ruled out every single one of those, and all I could think of the phrase for “go hiking in the mountains”, and I was trying to bulk up the paragraph from there……
But, yeah, you’re probably more advanced. I mean, I took a couple years of spanish in highschool, but immediately forgot most of it and flunked into first year introductory spanish here at college, so…..
“I like to go hiking in the mountains in Alaska. There are many mountains in Alaska and some are close to my house. I prefer to go hiking in the summer, because it is very cold in the winter. My dad and sister go with me to the mountains, but my mother does not. She does not like to go hiking [with good reason, she’s had both hips replaced, and also has a metal rod screwed into her spine and most of her vertebrae have been fused, as well–scoliosis, they fused her spine and put a rod in.] I like to go hiking in the mountains because they are very pretty. Also, there are many animals in the mountains! It is very interesting.”
Yah, very stupid sounding first grade level material…….*headdesk* Ah, well.
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I feel the same when I write things in French.
“Je m’appelle Michael W. Smith. J’ai quarante ans. Je suis beau. Je suis americain. Je suis beau. Je suis un chanter. J’ai chante “Here I am to Worship.” We needed to write 25 words. At least that wasn’t in a test. Also, I have no idea how old he is or how to do the accents on MuseBlog.
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It gets better. Someday you can stop writing about yourself and start writing things à la “Décris la résistance intérieure et explique dans tes propres mots les “maquisards” en France pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale” – “Caractérise la régime de Vichy.”…
That when you start wishing that you could write about your hamster
No habla muy bien espagñol.
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Wow. I don’t think American French classes ever get that hard in America. I’m in a combined French IV/V class now, and our questions are easier. We’ve done questions like “Selon vous, quelle est la culture?” and “Est-ce que les produits qu’un societe utilise representent la culture?”. It’s still much easier than talking about World War II. (Oh, and French V is essentially AP French, just so you know.)
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Maybe, but here the schools aren’t standardized, which means that the classes are as hard as the teachers and schools decide. Most schools are public; which means that several schools are competing for the best spot; i.e. being the school with the hardest classes but an equal number of graduates to other schools. Which means all schools with the same emphasis are vying for the spot of best school with “fill in the blank”.
Add the fact that there are a lot of bilingual kids here who’s parents want them to also be able to read & write french. Officially, ours is supposed to have us at B2 level by the end of this year, but to get an A or B you need to already be quite close.
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What grade are you in?
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10th. Sophomore year.
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I know. In my French class, outside of school, our current unit is on French politics, about voting and such. The problem is that everyone else in the class has learnt all the past grammar, verbs etc. and knows them, but aren’t very good at speaking, or applying those grammar skills in conversation. And they don’t really know many of the vocabulary words in the unit, either. Like, one person asked what citoyen was and I was thinking, Duh! I’ve had to move classes to be in a more advanced class several times now. C’est très énervant.
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Apart from the… lovely little storyline you’ve got going there, and the hace versus tiene argument, you’re also technically supposed to move your inverted exclamation point to the beginning of the exclamatory phrase – yielding ‘También, ¡hay muchas animales en las montañas!’.
As to why you substituted tener, you probably were channeling a personal take on the weather. You’d say ‘tengo frÃo’ to signify that you were cold – it follows that ‘it is cold’ would be ‘tiene frÃo’; but alas, earwax.
-A
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Ugh, I had to help my dad proofread my brother’s essays and he was yelling at me the whole time…
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Out of random curiosity, how come when in spanish you say someone is dead (estar muerto), you use “estar” instead of “ser”? I mean, being dead is a permanent state, it’s not ever going to change, so why do you use the impermanent form of “to be”? It doesn’t make sense.
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“Muerto” is actually a participle, not an adjective. So it’s just a different verb form.
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Death isn’t always permanent.
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Is it that way in spain? mexico has weird stuff about death (Dia De los Muetos)
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Yeah, it’s that way in Spain, as far as I know.
The word you’re using there… As Piggy says, it’s the past participle of the verb morir, to die. In English, it translates to ‘died’. As such, the translation of estar muerto would be – more literally – ‘has died’, not ‘is dead’.
So basically, you use estar because the concept of somebody being dead happens to be expressed that way in Spanish; as a participle, which uses estar.
A good example of the ‘happens to be expressed that way in this language’ thing is in French, where ‘I am hungry’ translates to ‘j’ai faim’ – I have hunger. There is an adjective for hunger (I think it’s affamé), that would translate back literally as ‘hungry’ in english, but it’s just not used to tell someone you’ve got to fill your stomach.
Excuse the long and rambling post. It’s late and I’m procrastinating.
-A
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From what I could find from several sources (search words: estar ser death), the understanding seems to be that death is not an inherent characteristic of the body — i.e., you’re not dead in the beginning, death is something that happens to you.
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I was looking at the wikipedia article on Kokopelli, and I saw this:
” It is said that Kokopelli can be seen on the full and waning moon, much like the “rabbit on the moon.””
rabbit on the moon = HPB!?
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*shudders*
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There was a rabbit shadow on Enceladus in the July random thread.
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Does anyone recall my logic problem on the planet Spdzk? I wrote another one. This one might be useful to all you bunny researchers…
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The original problem is here. Where’s the new one?
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Here it is:
Scientists have also found the Spdzkipedia article on the hot pink bunny, a creature common on Spdzk. This article concerns the following facts about hot pink bunnies: whether they are imported from the planet Kdspz, whether they are native to Spdzk, whether they zombify their prey, and whether they are highly dangerous. However, the scientist who read the article was confused and swapped two of these properties. Assume that hot pink bunnies cannot both be imported from Kdspz and be native. If the scientist said the following statements, which would be true had the scientist not swapped the two properties, are hot pink bunnies dangerous?
1. Hot pink bunnies are highly dangerous or hot pink bunnies are native
to Spdzk.
2. If hot pink bunnies are not imported from Kdspz, then either they
cannot zombify their prey or no hot pink bunnies are native to Spdzk.
3. If hot pink bunnies are highly dangerous, then they can zombify their
prey and no hot pink bunnies are native to Spdzk.
4. Hot pink bunnies zombify prey if and only if hot pink bunnies are
native to Spdzk.
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Thanks!
Lewis Carroll loved logic problems like these.
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I have a logic problem relating to Spdzk, but I don’t know if I should post it here, as it’s a different type of logic. Should I post it here?
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Yes! *dashes around randomly*
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A paper on Spdzk’s monetary system was recently found on Earth as well. Not much could be gleaned from the paper, as it was muddled in transport. However, they found 10 facts that let them find the value of all the coins. Assume these facts are true. Beforehand, the scientists knew these five facts. Unfortunately, two of them were false. They know three facts that might be false, and two that are definitely true. What are the values of the coins on Spdzk?
Certainly true:
Each coin has a letter on it, spelling out Spdzk
Spdzk has different rare metals than us, and what would normally be considered valuable on Earth is not necessarily on Spdzk.
Possibly False:
No coins have the same value.
There are no coins colored purple
All the coins are shiny.
Statements from the paper:
1Silver has the letter S or Z on it, and Blue has the letter S or Z on it.
2. Neither Gold nor Purple are middle value
3. Copper is not D, however, the coin with the value right above copper is D.
4. Blue and Silver are at either end of the value scale.
5. Purple has a greater value than copper.
6. The 2nd least value is K or P or S.
7. Silver is a letter that comes before Copper, which is P.
8. S is not worth less than the middle value.
9. Purple is after Z
10. K is the second smallest value.
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Could you please explain the first bit. Do the possibly false statements have any relevance? (That is, do we know that as certain number must be true or something like that?)
I created a different monetary system for Spdzk. Would you like to see the problem about it?
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What is Iron browser and why do some pictures not work on it?
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I have no idea.
On a completely unrelated note, in Applied Tech today, all we did was Microtype. Booooo-riiiiiing. Art was okay. We did microscopes in Science. I looked at my hair. It was like a tube with little black things in it. Awesome!
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How powerful were the microscopes?
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Ranging from 40x to 100x to 400x. I looked at it under 100x.
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I did my Latin presentation today! Whoo hoo! Not as bad as I predicted, although the class and teachers were allowed to ask us questions, and I didn’t know the answers to some of them. I just hope I don’t get too many points off for that. Otherwise I actually did pretty well with the acting part, I didn’t forget anything!
No new news on my soccer dilemma. My mom’s been bugging me about exercising more this week because apparently one week of no exercise will make me “a size I don’t want to be” in her words. So once I can get off my lazy butt I’ll be down on the olyptical running. I really hate running, but as long as I set it to the lowest level I might be alright.
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I have seen people prop up a book on the dashboard of an elliptical and read while they run. That could make it more interesting, if boredom is what makes you hate running
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Not usually, I just have no stamina. I actually get a little dizzy when I run and read at the same time, but I usually watch TV.
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Ohhh so many posts….
I’m playing with google maps……it’s funnn.
It’s actually pretty funny, I found that there are pictures of our mailbox and road. And the bridge that I hang out on like a troll. Mwahahaha. It’s weird to look at your road on a google map, street view and be like I just drive up that the other day. It looks like when they took the picture it was nice out…I wonder if I was sitting on the bridge? Creepy. But no one would see anyway, since I’m invisible from the road and most everywhere else when I’m up there. Very odd.
And now I’m meandering around Montreal, re-visiting some of the places (at least virtually) that I went when there. It’s weird though, I feel all lost. Probably because we pretty much wandered around and didn’t pay attention to where we were going. Until the streets started looking kinda sketchy, when we’d turn around and head back into the still-sketchy-but-not-too-bad-because-I’m-with-a-bunch-of-guys-and-we’re-all-carrying-knives sort of places. Nah, not really. I was only on Saint Catherine Street late once, the first night we were there.
And the Chinatown wasn’t too scary. It was pretty awesome, actually. Too bad the lychees were rotten, otherwise I would have gotten some that night when we walked past the market….ahh, memories. xD
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Street view isn’t available for where I live…..
Not to mention, when we put our address into Google maps, it puts our house at the totally wrong end of the lake we live on. Stupid google…..
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I love looking down at the courtyard of the National Geographic Society on Google Earth and thinking “I was there!”
I also like looking at the Arecibo Radio Telescope.
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RANDOMNESS(I NEED HELP!!!):
Are any of you experts on Cryptology by any chance? I’m falling behind on research, and I need help!!! (as stated above) You don’t have to be an expert… just someone who knows a thing or two about it. (don’t take that literally :roll:)
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What do you need help with?
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Cryptology like codebreaking?
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Yes, but in the history of it kind of way… Not the applicable stuff.
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Okay, what do you need to know, I’ve got a lot of spy books, so contact my handler and we’ll arange a dead drop at 1400 hours unless I get burned before then…
(Man, I love spy lingo.)
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62.1~ Ah well….
Ohh, plotting things is such delicious fun!
And I can’t believe it’s November. Well, I can believe it’s November, but it’s hard to believe that December is only a month away. 0.o
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I can’t believe it either.
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*rubs eyes tiredly* I seem to have become obsessed with computers the past few days. I stayed up till almost two in the morning last night tinkering with an assignment for my programming class. (But I finally got Superman to loop while flying down-right!) And I’ve been working on a different project, but I’d better not say anything about that for fear of reprimands or censors from the GAPAs.
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Hahahaha, yeah, you better not.
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Good idea.
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Piggy! Piggypiggypiggy! Is your avatar the Albino from Princess Bride? *hyperventilates* I love that book. And movie.
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Of course it is. It’s his first avatar that I’ve recognized. But the question is, did he get permission?
*is a stickler for the rules*
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Hopefully, nobody will mistake that for a photo of Piggy.
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Gah. You know “winter” is on it’s way when your hair is a staticy mess despite copious amounts of conditioner in the shower. And the annoying thing? It’s not even cold here. Why does my hair have to do it’s “cold weather’ (I know, I know, it’s the dryness, not the cold, or something like that) thing, when the weather is still in the bloody 40s/50s/occasional 60s? It’s like, cold without snow. Staticy hair without cold weather. It’s the lemons without the lemon juice (except I don’t like lemon juice, so that analogy doesn’t work for me).
But, seriously, 3 feet of static charged hair is a royal pain. It tangles easily enough as it is, but when it’s staticy? I can’t even run my brush through it without it crating more tangles as a result of the static charge than it removes….. *sigh*
Long hair can be annoying, sometimes. Eh, ignore me. I’ll get over it.
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Do as I did. Sidecuts. They’re luv.
But trying putting a good conditioner in it, and sleep with it over night with a plastic bag around you’re head. It should sort out the dryess… for a while.
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Wow. That’s a lot of hair.
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Hehe, yup. I’ve never done more than trimmed it an inch or so a couple times in my life…..I like it long. When I was little, I wanted to have it all the way down to my ankles, but…..It stopped growing a long time ago. It’s just barely too short to sit on it, except occasionally the very, very ends…….
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Question for POSOC (I think): If I recall correctly, you came up with the idea of spdzks as a Halloween costume idea (in 2007?). As you can see, they have become important in the logic problems I have been writing. I have been sharing these problems with my math class (since writing and discussion of original problems is part of the class), and they were wondering how the string “spdzk” came into existence. (The letters aren’t close enough to be a result of random banging on the keyboard.) How did the string “spdzk” come into existence?
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It was an electrical sound, or something. I don’t remember exactly. I should be leaving this for POSOC, but I love to shove in my oar where I’m not wanted.
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I just finished my Splash! registration! Yipee!
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68- Splash!? what’s that? Is it a swim meet?
So, yeah, I hate my violin teacher. I’m going to quit violin lessons and teach myself. Week after week, he changes how he wants me to play the pieces, then yells at me for not having practiced them properly.
And he gets paid for this??
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69- I’m sorry. I don’t think you should quit lessons completely, though, maybe just find another teacher. I find that when I go for long periods of time without a teacher to set me pieces and stuff, I don’t improve as much. So, find another teacher I would say. If you really want to improve on the violin, you should try other teachers until you find one you really think will help you the most. Well, that’s my advice. You don’t have to take it though
I play the violin too!!!! *virtual high five*
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69- I am sorry you aren’t getting anything accomplished. I would, if possible, try to find a different teacher though, as bella said.
70- I also play the violin! *more virtual high fives*
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(69) I went through something similar with one of my voice teachers. Fortunately, I didn’t have her for very long before I went to college where I found one of the best teachers of any sort that I’ve had the good fortune to meet. The change made a huge difference in what I was able to learn (and unlearn from my previous experience).
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So we have to do interviews in public speaking class, and we were allowed to be fictional characters, but my friend doesn’t know any of the same fiction I do. (She never watched Scooby-Doo!) So now I have to be Sally Ride, which is cool and all, but pretending to be a real person just feels awkward.
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69~ Ouch, that’s pretty miserable. I play violin too, and I’ve had several teachers. We’re actually thinking to have me start taking lessons from someone else, as my current teacher is great and I love her to pieces, but it doesn’t seem like I’m really learning as much as I need to. I need to learn more advanced techniques and how to improvise, etc. I’ve been playing for a long time, but with so many teacher changes and time playing but not actively studying, I play well, but not with the proficiency I need. I don’t know if that makes sense at all, oh well.
Anyway, I hope you can find a new, better teacher.
Oh my goodness. It appears that I’m going to be a Christmas present… Terror and jubilation are a strange mix.
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A strange mix, and yet one you might as well get used to.
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I beg your pardon? You’re going to be a Christmas present?
Well, be sure to choose a breathable wrapping paper.
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74.1~ True, very true.
Hey, it appears as though I’ll be down your way in the near future (as in, over Christmas)…… *hint, hint* I don’t know what the plans are, other than getting there and back in a general sense, but…..would you be free for a visit some time? It looks like I’ll be there for a bit under a week. And your museum, will it be open? We’ll have to see….but I thought if there was any chance of a Kokonvention I’d just mention it quick in advance.
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Hey, if I’m here, I can open it.
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75.1~ Hmmmmmm. *plots* Well we’ll see. Kokonventions anywhere are good.
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Just dropping in from a school computer. I’m no longer allowed on MB at home, so I probably won’t be around much in the future.
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That’s a pity, Rainbow*Star. Do stop by when you get a chance.
I wonder how many other MBers have suffered similar bans.
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Well, I’m not allowed to go on MB at school, because apparently it has to serve an “educational purpose” and be “of use to the school” and blah blah blah. Even though Neopets and icanhazcheezburger are allowed. Any ideas on how to get the Great And Powerful School Administrators (GAPSAs) to unblock MB?
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You don’t really need the “Great” in the description of school administrators.
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So it would be ‘All Powerful School Aministrators? (APASA? Sounds like opossum.)
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Hahaha! So, any ideas?
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Actually, that would be APSA. So maybe “All Powerful (Annoying) School Administrators?
I would just show them the threads like Hot Topics, and Religion and Religions, or some of the science threads, you know, stuff that is more obviously education-geared.
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We’ll miss you, Rainbow! Drop in when you can
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How could they ban you from MB? My mom thinks that MB is great!
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Why are you banned?!
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We’ll miss you Rainbow!! Why are you banned? I’m actually not allowed to go on MB at school, so the only time I can go on is at home. Usually I spend my time on MB after school and on the weekends.
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I try not to go on MB at school in case it’s not allowed, and my parents don’t know about so I’ve never been banned.
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It’s a waste of time and a bad influence, apparently. Also, the Internet is making me stupid.
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69- Splash is not a swim meet. It is a program at MIT where middle and high school students take classes taught by MIT students and professors. These are some of the classes: Introduction to Interstellar Empires, Things from Australia that can kill you, 49 reasons why California is better than your state, Pastafarianism, Time travel for fun and profit, etc.
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They’ve been peeking at the Muse Academy syllabus.
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My favorite: Introduction to Zombie Defense.
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I thought they took that one off…
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It filled up.
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People on my campus could have benefited from that–they just finished a week long game of Humans vs. Zombies the other day……Personally, I don’t get the interest–I mean, I barely have time to get everything done in my life, and that’s without engaging in a week long time-intensive game of tag-on-steroids.
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Oh, your college has that too? The one my dad teaches at is always full of students playing H vs. Z. So what is it, anyway?
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Yeah, we’ve got it, although I think this was either the first year it was played here, or I was just totally oblivious last year–although, I would think I would’ve notice an increase in the number of people wandering around with bandanas tied around either their arms (humans) or head (zombies).
As for what it is, from what I gather it is a very complex game of tag, more or less. Google “humans vs zombies”, and you can read a description of the game, I’d probably bungle it up, as I don’t quite get it–too complicated for me.
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Apparently we’ve been playing since 2006. XD It sounds quite fun, actually…. I might do that if I go to Dad’s college.
((No, I’d TOTALLY do that. ))
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I don’t think I’d possibly have the time……
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I played a shortened version at a friend’s birthday party. It was great fun. Then we found a cheap strategy, and the zombie got mad, because it wouldn’t have worked if we hadn’t shortened the game…
One person starts as a zombie, and they wear sunglasses (Or bandanas around their heads, apparently… I think Luna’s way makes more sense, because you can tell who is playing or not) so everyone knows. Everyone else has nerf guns. The zombie goes around trying to tag people, and when they tag someone, that person has to die, and when they get a certain number of bites taken out of them, they become a zombie as well. Zombies have to feed, and if they go without food for a certain amount of time, they die, and are out of the game. Humans can shoot zombies to freeze them for a certain amount of time, but then the zombies can move again. The game starts out with humans at a huge advantage, but towards the end, it is vastly unbalanced towards zombies.
Um… those are basically all the rules I can remember at the time.
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California is NOT better than Oregon!
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Oh, one of my friends has gone to that a few times and was going to go this year. I heard Randall Munroe is going to be there.
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Teaching? That would be so cool. What class would it be?
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Time Travel for Fun and Profit? Sounds like my kind of class.
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O.K., I really want find out how you get profit from time travel now.
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Theoretically or actually?
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Theoretically, since we can only go forwards in time if we can get to a black hole and escape and such.
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Because if we’re being imaginative and assuming we can travel to the past, I can think of several ways.
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How to Take Over the World. full.
I must go next year!
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Last year there was a class called “World Domination: In Theory and Practice”. This year, I’m taking “Introduction to Magic Systems”. World building.
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Shouldn’t we all be taking the world domination class?
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It’s not available this year.
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That sounds awesome. mental_floss (or Muse!) should do an article on it.
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La la la…Greetings! I’m procrastinating on making a PowerPoint presentation for Social Studies about Krapina Cave. It is rather interesting, the way those Neanderthals ate each other. Frankly, the only reason why I even chose Krapina Cave because it will freakishly fun to “KRAPina Cave” in front of my teacher, who had a near heart-attack when my friend said “What the heck” (the teacher’s a bit of an over-reactor).
Since I see that we’ve been talking about Spanish, I’ll complain about my class. Everyone but me in my class cares absolutely zero about the language, and since I (stupid, stupid Silver Lining) told them that I have taken five prior years of Spanish, all they do is try to copy off me.
77.1– I suffered a two-week (though it ended up being four because of a vacation we took) ban from MB. Probably the worst four weeks of my life. Well, I’ll miss you, Rainbow*Star. And yes, please stop by when you can.
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(WARNING: Exclamation point overload)
I won the regional Peace Poster contest!!!!!!!!! Now my poster goes on to the State competition!!!!!!!!! And I get $100!!!!!!!!! And I’m happy!!!!!!!! (But that’s obvious.)
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That’s awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you send a picture in so we may see!!!!??
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Okay. I’ll try to remember…
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Congratulations! In the 3rd grade I won a poster contest. I got a movie pass.
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Congrats, SL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I won a contest to draw a snowglobe. They put in on a window!
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Hey! Congrats! *congratulatory pies*Actually, I was gonna enter for my school’s Peace Poster Competition, but I hate drawing on a deadline, and I have not been in a drawing mood lately. I will finish mine, though, just not before tomorrow, which is when it is due (OMG and also the YEARBOOK FORMS are due! Sorry, inside joke with my homeroom). Please send it in, and I’ll send in my finished poster too! (when I actually finish it…)
Whoa, my mom just showed me a picture of my book from club two years ago. We were wicked tiny. It’s a cute photo, though.
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Congratulations! *congrats pies*
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Thanks! What’s the email address? (I’m not completely sure of it…)
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It’s gapa@musefa npage.co m, with out the spaces.
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I thought so.
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Okay, I sent it. (By my dad’s email, I don’t have one of my own)
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So, my Astronomy teacher is very busy, and he lets me take home his old magazines. These two facts together mean that I have discovered magazines from 2004 still in the mailing plastic. I took one home today, and I was reading an article about the Mars rovers from just after they landed, and they had an interview with one scientist saying “They’re made to last 90 days, but the wheels won’t necessarily fall off on the 91st day.”
Yes, he said that five years ago and the rovers are still working.
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Luna is depressed. Luna got a 79 on her organic chem test yesterday–her lowest test grade so far in college. Luna is bothered by the fact that she can’t even work up the energy to cry about it, as it is definitely a cryable offense, and she has been known to cry about lesser things quite easily in the past.
Luna thinks maybe she’ll read her October Muse mag she just received, eat some popcorn, and maybe some hot chocolate and some of the (squooshed) chocolate covered peanut butter eyeballs her mother sent her.
Luna hopes she does really, really, really good on the chem final, or, that is, better than 79, so that it will “double count”, and that she does not get a bad grade on her next chem test. Perhaps she should put in some serious studying over Thanksgiving break, which crashes her plans of trying to win her sister over to the joys of Dr. Who. A plan that is, most likely, doomed to fail, but……
This reminds Luna, that the next episode of Dr. Who is going to be aired on November 15, and she hopes that some very nice person in the UK posts it somewhere online very soon thereafter, as BBCs iPlayer is only accessible from UK servers.
Luna hates November. She really, really hates November.
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*hugs for Luna*
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Thanks, luv. *hugs back*
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And now I have to suffer through the idiocy that is our online Spanish homework site, courtesy of our moronic textbook.
The question:
5. ¿Por qué no va Carolina al Parque de Bombas hoy?
My answer: Carolina no va al Parque de Bombas porque está cerrado hoy. [Prior to this, I also tried on one of my other two attempts, Carolina no va al Parque de Bombas hoy porque esta cerrado.]
These were both marked wrong, the correct answer being given as:
No va al Parque de Bombas hoy porque está cerrado. or <b?No va hoy porque está cerrado. or Está cerrado. or El museo está cerrado.
There is no cakin’ reason that my answer should not have been accepted, and I am sick of the royal [phrase edited due to its extreme unsuitability for any sort of polite conversation] that is the homework site. It is ridiculously picky, and screwed up. It marked me wrong awhile back on a True/False question, which asked if one of the kids in a picture was handsome. I said “false”, I was marked wrong. Looks are opinion, there was no right or wrong answer. I never did get around to disputing it, but I’m sick of the site screwing over me and all the other kids, and I’m sick of our blasted teacher, who whines each and every day about a couple of students who are often tardy–Our teacher has yet to be ontime a single gods cursed class. She has no call to take them to task for their tardiness, when she consistently walks in at 1:05.
And we’re required to participate in class, to get “participation points”. I raise my hand on darned near every question, and darned near every question she looks straight at me, turns away, and calls on somebody else who doesn’t even ahve their hand raised, and often has more marks for the day for participation than I do. Twice, now, she’s not called on me until 1:45, when there’s only 5 minutes of class left, and numerous other kids–who never voluntarily participate–have three “participation marks” by there names already. I’m sick of it. I’m sick of raising my hand and being ignored, so that she can call on somebody who doesn’t want to participate. The participation points are supposed to be awarded to those who voluntarily participate, those who don’t want to are supposed to be screwed over and not get points–the teacher is not supposed to ignore those trying to participate to “help” those who don’t give a crap.
*bangs head against desk over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again*
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I know what you mean about online homework quizzes and such! Last year in Chinese we had to do that. Every day we had to read an essay in Chinese and answer the questions, basically the same as what you have to do. In Chinese there are two types of characters, Traditional and Simplified, and in our school you can use both if you take Chinese (although most beginners start by learning Simplified). Anyway, my computer can only type Simplified Chinese characters since that is what the rest of China uses and it is more common. (Only Hong Kong and a few other places still use Traditional). So, I typed the answers (which WOULD have been correct) in Simplified, even though I usually am Traditional, and the site marked me wrong on all the questions! Even though the answers would have been right! But luckily my Chinese teacher I had last year is very nice, and totally understood. It’s good we don’t have to use that site any more. I don’t think I would have got as lucky this year – out of all 5 Chinese teachers at our school, I have this year possibly the worst one for tolerance and understanding! And everything else too, but….yeah.
I’m sorry that she never calls on you, though! I think that if she wants to help the people that don’t know, she shouldn’t use the participation points to do that. And she should call on the the people that know it, like you, first to see if you do know it! Teachers are supposed to fairly assess everyone, and it really bugs me too when they never look at you or acknowledge what you’ve done right. I’m sorry, again *hugs* *choklit*
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Fiddler is very, very excited.
Those Splash classes sound awesome!
I’m cold.
Doughnuts!
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GOOD NEWS: I finished the first paragraph of my research paper, and I feel good about it!
BAD NEWS: I have a big Social Studies test tomorrow and I haven’t studied… And I didn’t get to write any of my NaNo… So I’m counting on you guys to encourage me to make up the words this weekend.
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Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent
To blow up the King and Parli’ment.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England’s overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
And what should we do with him? Burn him!
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oooooh, the Oct Muse mag is doing much to cheer me up, and I’m only through the false facts.
*wanders off to the extinct Oct discussion thread*
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Kudos to you, Piggy! I was wondering if anyone was going to post that.
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I think I’ve seen it in too many Facebook statuses today. At least in the company I’m keeping, it will never be forgot.
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Well, I’m stopping lessons at the end of this calendar year, since my mom has payed for them up until then. Then I’m learning on my own for six months until we move back to CA, where I can go back to lessons and/or join an orchestra.
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So I don’t know how I did on the Alegbra test on Wednessday, and I’m a little worried. But it will be really, really nice to be able to relax on the weekend and get some writing done. I keep trying to write this thing about Ares I-X, but I get distracted or I don’t have ideas or something like that.
No more. I am going to finish it THIS WEEKEND. I must.
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78- *envy* Wow. That sounds awesome!
77.3- Can we swap moms? Okay, kidding, but my parents …well, they’ve never banned me, but they don’t exactly approve of any longer period of time on the computer (somehow, they don’t believe me when I say that I’m just doing my german homework).
Meh. I think I did okay on my science test, I only messed up on a problem involving a truck (10t) and a car (1t) in a frontal collision. I started worrying about friction and had a general Feather-like approach to the test. (Does anyone remember the Kokopelli&Company where Kokopelli tries to use a mind-reading device from Chad to cheat on some exam and where the first question is about peeling apples and Feather starts worrying about wether the apples are rotten of if a knife breaks or while it says that so-and-so can peel apples so fast, what if en doesn’t want to? )
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Yeah, I do kinda remember that Koko & Co, now that you mention it……He got basically no problems completed.
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I think that was the very first one I read.
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I loved that one. And Urania was just sitting there thinking “If A is blablabla”, and then Pwt was wondering whether or not the people in the problem were sexist, and what weird names they had, and trying to figure out if they were boys or girls… That was a good one.
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GAPAs, if my calculations are correct, I am a paleophyte, yet I am unable to acsess the paleothreads. I logged in, did the “select a category” thing, chose “Palleostuff” and got one result- the “New MuseBlog Experiment” thread. Help?
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Try again. It should be working now.
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Oooh, it’s the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street this week!
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I know! Ernie and bert were on the Google page today!
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go to homestarrunnerdotcom ( not a link)
it may be annoying to some, but I find their humor hilarious!
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My friend is obssesed with homstarrunner! It is funny. Even though sometimes I find their accent/lisps hard to understand…
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Little too mature for me, but funny.
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If it’s a little to mature for you, then it’s probably perfect for me! (And I’m 12. It’s because of my flamablamablous parents.)
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Good day today, but tiring. Verrrrry tiring. I’m exhausted. We didn’t even do any strenuous activity or something like that. Ugh. And then we watched a movie on sleep deprivation in teens funnily enough, which didn’t exactly help my problems. *sleeps*
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Hi, y’all! It’s my second blogiversery today! I’m at Justine-chan’s house right know. Fine, Justine. Go say something.
Justine-chan says: YAY!!!! Thank you Robin! HI MUSE BLOG PEOPLE!!!!!!!! I’m Justine! I wanted to say hi! And that DeathNote is SUPER AWESOME!!! YAY L!!! XD \(*3*)/
…yeeah. No comment.
Anyways, sorry I’ve been lurking so much. DX I’m so lazy. And it’s even marching band season, so my sister and mom are away a lot.
I just want you guys to know I might be getting better. No promises, though.
Willy Wonka’s going along fine. Our Mr. Gloop also likes DN. ^^ I’m Phineous Trout. I’m the straight man for the families. It’s fun.
Oh! I have a drama festival tomorrow in Palos Verdes! I’m doing two monologues. Zac and Tatiana are coming too. :3
So, Justine wants to go. Sayonara! ;D
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YAY WILLY WONKA!!!!
Here is some randomness: I speak in French to babies. Also, does anyone ever get those little Dove chocolates? They have sayings on the inside. Like, “Walk through frosty grass leaving footprints and “Friends are…you.” I don’t think they were written by people who speak English. 
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I have a question. What do you see as my avatar?
A. A quacking gray-and white(mostly white) duck head. B. A black-and-white(mostly white) duck head & neck on a grassy background. C. The cover of the Jethro Tull album Heavy Horses.
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C.
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A (possibly B)
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There are horses involved, I think… So I’m guessing the latter.
-A
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Oh, and bonus points to anyone who recognizes the album cover. (I see A.)
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I see A. I think. But it keeps changing. When I was on MB on our desktop computer earlier this morning, I saw C. But now I’m on the laptop and I see A. Odd.
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C
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C.
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The one you should be seeing is C.
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I got it right! *jumps up and claps*
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You can’t “get it right” I was just seeing who saw what. It always takes my computer forever to show new avatars.
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*sees many posts and wants to hide*
We just watched the Dead Poet’s Society. That is such a fabulous movie.
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I have located another Muse receiver here on the equator and am attempting to persuade her to join the MB so we can have a two-person Kokon. Trouble is, I hate her guts. But oh well, some things must be sacrificed for having one’s pictures at a Kokon displayed on the ( 
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MB!
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Meh. I have a massive swim meet coming up. I should really be getting to bed. Even more evidence to justify that is I lost track of the number of events I’m swimming. 8? 9? I usually hit around 4 per meet.
100-It never occurred to me that it would be possible to hate another Muser’s guts. We all seem so bizarrely…friendly with each other. Hm.
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It didn’t occur to me either until I met this one. She is an absolute PIG. And she always copies off my tests in Mandarin and smells bad. I mean, really bad. Like, hasn’t showered in a week.
Anyway, I suppose this comment could be a problem if she does join but then I don’t think I want her polluting the museblog’s pixels.
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Piggy is exhausted. Our school ran our annual novice forensics invite–the first ever tournament for almost all of the competitors–and I must say, new extempers are, as a whole, clueless and disproportionately time-consuming. I don’t see what’s so hard about these instructions: “Draw three questions out of the envelope, pick one of those, and give it to me to initial.” Numerous people drew all of the questions out to choose from, just as many tried to walk away without having me initial the slips of paper, and one person even drew the three questions out, set them aside, and tried to choose from the remaining questions. Not to mention the many people that were half an hour late after the first round, infuriating judges and delaying the entire tournament.
But it eventually ended with no one having been murdered by the coach, so overall I’d call it a success. Plus I forced my sister (college-age former extemper, who was judging various rounds) to get me Taco Bell for dinner. OM NOM NOM
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Mmmmmm, Taco Bell. If I hadn’t just broke down over the weekend and hiked over and got myself some (there’s actually one with in rather reasonable walking distance), you would have sparked a craving for delicious fast food Mexican. Which, somehow, Taco Bell is……
Dangit, stop talking about food! Now I’m starving. And I don’t have any good snacks, just chips and candy and popcorn and oreos. But no milk, so I can’t even eat my oreos right now.
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So eat the popcorn. Or the chips. Ohhhh, I’m hungry now. I’m getting crepe. It’s a very thin pancake with something spread on it and rolled up. Yummy!
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But I wasn’t in the mood for greasy junk snack food, I wanted something much more filling and tasty. And ended up going to bed hungry, instead….Huh. That happens all too often, come to think of it. Maybe I”ll get myself some Subway later to day.
mmmm, I like crepes. I had the most utterly delicious crepe from this street vendor in Canterbury–so much better than the fish and chips I’d had for lunch that same day. Although, given I don’t much care for fish, that wasn’t that bad, either, as I recall. Although, it was quite amusing, as the fish and chips came in a cone, and they had these little bitty fork type things that I think we were expected to actually use to eat the food, instead of behaving like the barbaric Americans we all were and using our fingers……Good times, good times.
And now I probably ought to find some breakfast, as I’m (still) hungry. Not surprising given i was starving when i went to bed and sleeping isn’t exactly stomach filling……
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Barbaric Americans… Fortunetly for you, I’m Canadian, so I don’t take offense. But they can be barbaric, can’t they?
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Why do I feel like your avatar is a character in Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Or am I just being hopeful?
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It’s the torturer from The Princess Bride.
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It’s from The Princess Bride, silly. The Albino. Man, I need to read that book again…
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Whoops. It looked familiar, but I couldn’t place it.
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It’s a character from The Princess Bride, actually.
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ugghhhhh. I hate it when drunk people tromp loudly down my hall messing everything up and getting mud in our bathroom. I wish they’d leave my floor alone.
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*shudder* Mud in the bathroom is horrible–especially when they get it all over the shower stalls…….It’s so nasty to take a shower when there’s globs of mud all over, and dirty puddles on the floor.
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They were mostly concentrating on getting out our window and onto the nearby roof. I can understand the desire to stand on a rooftop – night skies are pretty- but I wish they wouldn’t do it so loudly and inconsiderately. On their way to the window they got mud on the floor and broke the screen. Who has to pay for that? my floor. When they left they kept talking and threatening to mess various things up and then I pretended to be trying to sleep and opened my door and told them so. Er. In my glasses and shoes and clothes and obviously not pajamas. They probably didn’t notice.
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Ugh, yeah, I hate it when people on my floor (or visitors to the floor) insist upon being noisy and inconsiderate, regardless of the hour–but especially when it’s late.
And it’s dreadfully annoying at every floor meeting when we’re all given crap about messing up the lounge–leaving it messy with food all over–and being given a lecture about how it’s not the cleaning lady’s job to clean up the lounge after us (uhm, ok, what’s her job then?) and how they’ll start charging us if we don’t keep it clean, as I never use the lounge myself, because it’s always inhabited by the noisy annoying people. *sigh*
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I had a really weird experience yesterday. So, there’s a girl in my Art class, who’s very Muserly. She’s read HG2G, and AM and I have gotten her to start Discworld. She knows The Game (sorry, everybody.) It turned out that she reads Muse, and I asked her about MuseBlog. She froze, and very slowly said “I go on occasionally, not posting, but looking.” Hmm… methinks there is something more to this. Anyway, I met a lurker at my school! Yay!
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Hm…suspicious sounding. You’re right. *wiggles eyebrows* I don’t know how anyone could JUST lurk and never post, so you never know…not that lurking is a bad thing.
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Maybe she’s read this post…
It’s creepy to think about people reading our posts as outsiders, looking on the blog as this weird, un-understandable place…
That’s how I would lurk, anyway.
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That’s a bit unfair. In fact, the term “lurker” unkindly casts a creepiness over what is (in most instances) perfectly normal behavior, though I guess we’re stuck with it. I think most lurkers are just shy or uncertain as to what they want to say to make a first impression. They might be agonizing over a screen name or afraid their grammar will be attacked or that they won’t fit in, or they mean to write and forget. Some people just naturally prefer to hang back and watch. Perhaps for some it’s almost like keeping a crush secret for fear of losing the friendship. Whatever the reason, most any given site has far more lurkers than participants. I myself was on the Internet for years before I felt brave enough to post anywhere.
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I wonder how many lurkers we have?
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I know… I didn’t mean it in a mean way. I just more meant that I’d sort of see them as a different type of Neophyte, like someone who knows a lot about the site but isn’t quite part of it… No, that didn’t come out right either!
I meant that (for me, at least) it’s hard to really understand a place without becoming part of it, and actually interacting with the things and people there. hm. No, that isn’t quite what I meant either.
If you can read this post and get something out of it, congratulations. 2 unconfuzzling points to you.
Ugh, I’m feeling quite not myself today.
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Oh, I’d agree that participating is a very different experience. But everyone has ens own pace.
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On a random note, I was having the most delightfully odd dream when my alarm went off this morning: I was dreaming that I was Ianto Jones from Torchwood (I don’t think I’ve ever dreamt I was a guy, before), and that Gwen and I were in London at the Torchwood One branch (which is weird enough, as it doesn’t exist anymore, as anyone who has seen Dr Who knows), on some mission. There was lingering alien presence there–creatures that had invaded earlier (they would have been the cybermen, except that, well, in my dream they weren’t the cybermen, but that was definitely what the alien was “suppose” to be, as in, my dream-memories of the original invasion, all the events surrounding it were the same events that took place with the cybermen in “real life”, except that they were canine shaped aliens……), that we had to help get rid of. So these vicious aliens were everywhere in the building, and yet somehow they were contained just in there. Unfortunately, as I said, my alarm went off before it was all finished, which is too bad–perhaps Capt Jack would have eventually made an appearance…….And seeing as I was dreaming I was Ianto, that could have had some serious dream perks. (That is, snogging–which, despite having done…..other things….in dreams, I still don’t think I’ve actually dreamt the actual act of kissing. Weird.)
and this was a very pointless and rambling and confusing post……
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Something creepy happened yesterday. I finished Journey’s End, thus completing the Tenth Doctor’s serieses, (except for the 2008 Christmas Special) and looked for Waters of Mars airing date. There was a counter.
It said: 42 days.
Anyway, do you think that the Midnight creature picked up the ring? And is an assistant of The Master?
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42 days? Love, Water of Mars is airing on BBC on Nov 15. That’s 8 days. Who knows how quickly some nice individual will post the episode online, but……
Maybe the countdown is for the Christmas special? 42 days sounds about right for Christmas.
Not sure I recall the ring you’re talking about. The Master, I remember (how could one ever forget?). Ring? I don’t remember……
Regardless, I’m actually, oddly enough, not interested in speculating on what might be (odd, coming from the girl who had all the theories about HP that came true) coming in future episodes. All I know is that the Tenth Doctor’s time is almost up, which is sad, because I’ve really enjoyed David Tennant as the Doctor.
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Unfortunately, I don’t live in Europe. It airs in America in 41 days.
In the Drums 3-part finale, at the end, when the Master was cremated, his ring was picked up by someone with red fingernails.
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Well, I don’t live in Europe either, (nor do I get whatever US channel airs it), I just intend to watch it online as soon as some nice individual posts it somewhere. That’s how I watch most of my TV at college–through the official channels (the official channel websites/Hulu) when possible (they’re better quality), or through unofficial channels when the show isn’t available officially. Like BBCs Merlin, for instance. Some nice individual has usually uploaded the most recent episode before 24 hours has passed. Hmmmm, that remind me. it’s Saturday. Maybe it’ll be up before I go to bed–it often is.
So, yeah……I don’t think even if I got the channel it’s broadcast on in America that I would wait the extra 30 days……Yup, I’m bad. What can I say?
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Hehehe, yippee! The latest episode of Merlin has indeed been posted by a couplel very nice people, and it’s less than 5 hours since it was broadcast…..I do hope the Dr Who watchers are as nice.
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Oh, the person with red fingernails was Lucy Saxon–at least I think that’s her name. His wife.
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Oh, good, that’s what I was thinking, after Jakob jogged my memory–was that the hand that picked up the ring belonged to his wife…..
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*coughcoughspoilerriver’scomingbacknextseasoncoughcough*
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Yah, I know. I’ve spent enough time on the IMDb boards that I’ve picked that up, amongst speculations about what her involvement with the Doctor was (or, I suppose, was going to be, depending on the personal timeline perspective).
SPOILERSPOIERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILER
I’ve gotta agree with the people who are confused as to how any of it could possibly play out, given that the regeneration of the Dr that she recognized was David Tennant–yet she was from his future. With the switch to a new Dr, how is this going to work? It was very clear that she thought the Dr looked younger, and that his particular face in those eps was the one she was familiar with. How are they going to solve those particular problems??????
Eh, whatever…..I dunno. I’m dreading the switch of actors playing the Dr, as it is. I’ve seen pics of the new guy, and, well, not only does he look a lot younger, he’s not near as hot (c’mon, DT is hot, even CE was a bit), and, well, he just doesn’t look like the Doctor…..Looks too dratted young, really.
Meh. Hopefully he grows on me.
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I watched the original U.S. broadcasts and was quite disappointed when Christopher Eccleston left. When David Tennant first appeared, I about freaked. No, no! But by the end of the first episode I had warmed to him and soon became a fan. So maybe it will be the same with the new Doctor. They have a pretty good track record thus far.
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I hope so. For me, the first episode I ever saw was from Season 4, so I didn’t really have any issue when I got done with Season 1 and David Tennant took over. Although, in a way, I think I might almost like Eccleston better, but…..They were both so dang good, and Tennant is, well, very hot, so I had to like him for that, if nothing else.
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I think it’s high time they had a female Doctor.
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I dunno….I rather like having a male Doctor. Maybe it’s just because I like watching shows with an abundance of good looking men (I’m sure that contributes), but also, I think it would just be a bit…..odd for him to up and regenerate as a different gender. Now, if there were to be (yet another) spin off in which there were another Time Lord who did similar things as the Doctor and said Time Lord happened to be female, that wouldn’t bother me at all. Not saying it would be, good, but it wouldn’t bother me.
I vote that the Doctor needs to get a male Companion, not just a male who occasionally tags along (as, say, Captain Jack has done), but a real honest-to-goodness Companion, like Rose, Martha, or Donna, who happens to be male.
And of course, we need much, much more of Captain Jack, especially if Torchwood doesn’t come back. I’m pretty sure he’s in the Christmas special. Poor Jack. After everything that happened in Torchwood…… *sigh* Even if they bring Torchwood back, it’ll never be the same.
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You just want him to have a male companion because you’re jealous.
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Donna’s dad is going to be in the special.
But… yeah, they need to bring in a Time Lady. Like the Rani or Jenny or some other Time Lord/Lady, besides the Master. They’ve kind of done that already, with the Doctor-Donna and Jackson Lake. I have a feeling the Doctor will marry River…
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Um, SR, considering I would want said male companion to be involved with the Doctor, at least as much as Rose/Martha? I don’t think jealousy factors in…….
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Um, eh? I don’t follow… Your point is probably very valid, I’m just confused by your wording.
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Who don’t you follow? Me? My post about jealousy not factoring in to wanting a male companion?
You implied that the reason I wanted a male Companion was because I was jealous of the close relationship that the female Companions hold with him. That is, Rose and Martha, at least, were in love with him (and he returned the love of Rose).
But I’m saying jealousy doesn’t factor in, because if the Doctor had a male Companion, I would be….happy…..if they were romantically involved, as the Doctor tends to be with his female Companions.
So, yeah, therefore jealousy couldn’t possibly be the reason I would want a male Companion.
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There have been male companions in the past. I want to go back to an older Doctor that is less there to be attractive than to be /there/. I would like to see a female Doctor. I would like to see more companions and more of a variety of ages of companions. I would like multiple companions at once and male as well as female companions.
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I think an older female doctor would be interesting — someone like Minerva McGonagall.
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Is trying to picture Minerva McGonagall as the Doctor and failing.
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[105.1.1.1.3.1.1.2.1.8 – McGonagall as the Doctor in “Doctor Who”]
That’s where special GAPA super-imagination powers come in handy.
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Oh, I just love it when one of the comments pops up numberless and ends up permanently at the bottom of the thread. It’s very amusing, for some reason.
Um, anyway……I’m afraid my super-imagination powers are rather lacking, especially at the moment…..
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I think it’s kind of annoying. I mean, now they’re just floating at the bottom… It looks like you’ve already read everything, if you’re just glancing perfunctorily.
-A
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Well, yours is now under the “floating” posts as I’ve decided to call them…not sure what’s up with that exactly. My guess is that it’s time for a new thread.
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Happy Veterans Day everyone! Let’s hope the war(s) end(s) soon!
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Well, possibly sort of like an older Sarah Jane. Or, if anyone has read John Bellairs’ books, it would be like Florence Zimmerman. Those books have the dynamic of Doctor and companions, sort of. There is Uncle Jonathan, Florence Zimmerman and then Lewis and Rose Rita.
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Ooooooh, yes! I remember those books! “The House With the Clock in its Walls”, and, oh, drat, that’s the only one I remember the title of, but….I remember being quite fond of those books when I was younger.
Such fun books.
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I had a nightmare that I was in the locker room at my school when the building suddenly shifted 90 degrees and the floor became a wall… I was stranded on top of a line of lockers near the “top” of the room with my friend, and she decided she was going to jump off to try and get out through the door at the “bottom”.
So she jumped and the room seemed to get deeper and deeper, and she splatted on the “floor”. And the whole time I was standing on the edge, watching. Bad dream.
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Snogging in dreams is fun, let me tell you.
I don’t remember if I told you guys- but the first time I kissed M was technically in a dream. It’s one of the most common examples I’ll use when I tell people my dreams are prophetic a lot…
-A
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105~ Nice save.
I’ve been having odd dreams lately too, and actually remembering them, which is unusual for me.
Glenn Miller! I’m listening to big band. Oh, it’s delightfully addicting, really.
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Waiting for my mother to come back with groceries, which I shall quickly make into something edible and dash off to rehearsal. I should go call some people actually–the drama teacher about the ladder, and Will about not having done the lights and what does he want ME to do about them?
And I am half-dressed because my laundry isn’t dry yet. I might have to wear something else.
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It has now been so long since Luna last ate, she isn’t even all that hungry. That is to say, I just had the terrifying realization that it’s been over 24 hours since I last ate. And for someone who rarely goes more than 4-5 hours without getting very hungry and subsequently headachy from the lack of food, that is very, very, unusual. I’ve not eaten since yesterday at lunch, which I finished at 11ish. I mean, I think I had a peanut butter ball, maybe, but not anything that was real food. And then I didn’t get time for breakfast this morning, and only just got back from volunteering, and it’s now 1. That means 26 hours without food. I think I’ll go grab a nice 12 inch sub from Subway, and a liter (yup, liter–I’m bad) of Mt Dew, and then come back and eat that, as well as most of the half bag of BBQ potato chips I have left……And maybe get an ice cream bar, too, as it is dreadfully hot. It’s up in the 70s today, after almost of month of not getting above the 50s.
Anyway, yes: *goes to find food*
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How can you last that long?!?!?! Then again, I’m not one to judge. I become extremely cranky and grumpy if I don’t have food, like, once every hour or so (Fine, less than that…but you get the point!). I’m always hungry, though. I’m a snacker. I can’t live without eating snacks several times a day… *drools* Cake it. Now you’ve made ME hungry!
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I honestly don’t know. Typically, I need to eat every couple or so hours, or I get really grumpy and miserable and get the worst headaches. I’m normally always hungry, myself, especially when I’m at home. Not so much at school, for whatever reason. Perhaps because the food isn’t that great, so I don’t eat as much and so my stomach shrinks……I lost 10 pounds freshman year of college, and then proceeded to regain it all over the summer. So much for the stereotypical “freshmen 10” where you gain 10 pounds your first year in the dorms.
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Once you make it through the first set of hunger pains – if for whatever reason you don’t notice them, or if you just suffer through them – things get a lot easier. It becomes normal. Also, your stomach stops begging for something, anything, and just shuts down. It’s very helpful for fasting, if you can just get through that first part.
-A
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Ah, Saturday. I love Saturdays.
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Enceladus, why have you been freed from NaNo?
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I wanted to ask that too…¡diga me, Enceladus!
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Maybe he just rebeled and decided he didn’t care if he finished in time or not. *cough* like me *cough*.
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No. it died. I lost the plot. I made it a post post apocalyptic future, as in, there was an apocalypse, and this is 3 thousand years later.
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I’m fairly sure that’s all one word, book-meister-girl.
-A
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I hope he didn’t quit like … I did. oops
NEW AVATAR! Hope it shows up *crosses fingers*
Darn. Let’s try again.
Logged out of gravatar. Try
Nope.
Try AGAIN this time i’ll exit MB. and come back on.
DARN!
It’s supposed to be Betty, Veronica, and Archie, in case anyone sees it…
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I see them. Nice choice! I love Archie comics!
I’m kind of like Dilton meets Jughead meets Betty.
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It takes a while for avatars to show up sometimes. It once took me almost a month before I could see my new avatar.
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Why don’t I see them, then?? How annoying. I’ll have to get Pseudo to help me.
I TRY to be a Betty…I think I’m actually more like an Ethel.
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Mmmm. BBC does wonderful TV. They may have short, erratic seasons, but……Between Merlin, Dr Who, and Torchwood (which had better come back, even if it will likely be horrible–or at least extremely different–now, all things considered), I’m getting rather spoiled, and American TV just isn’t matching up.
All the shows I use to love so much, just don’t quite have the same appeal to me anymore, in the sense that it’s almost a chore for me to sit still and concentrate for the 45 minute duration of the program. Yet, switch to Merlin–no problem. My two weeks watching Dr Who/Torchwood–again, no problem. And yet, similar stints on other shows–such as Bones, House, and NCIS, when I watched back episodes last year–my mind would wander and I had a hard time watching that many eps of the same show. And now, after watching Dr Who and Torchwood, even one episode of Bones, NCIS, House, etc (formerly some of my favorite TV shows), I seriously keep checking the bar along the bottom, thinking, “Is it over yet? What? it’s only been 10 minutes? Seriously?” And it’s all I can do not to go and start watching Dr Who/Torchwood all over again, and it’s barely been 2-3 weeks since I watched all the eps. This so doesn’t happen to me. Sure, I’ve rewatched some TV serioes (or at least parts) that used to be on, but it’s only been ones that it’s been a minimum of 3 years since I saw the last episode–not barely 3 weeks. I can’t imagine going back to the beginning of this season and watching Bones/House/NCIS/Medium/etc episodes that were aired, because I just can’t imagine sitting through them when the plots are still so fresh in my mind. But Dr Who/Torchwood–even Merlin–I can easily see myself doing, and the first two it’s taking all my willpower NOT to go back and see ’em all for a second time….
Dangit, it’s got to be illegal for them to produce such addicting TV programs. It’s bad for my sanity.
And, as a result, I have sworn to my sister that I am going to introduce her to the joys of Dr Who over Thanksgiving Break, although, really, this is just an excuse so that I can start rewatching eps.
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Wheeeee. Roomie just came by with a couple friends to look up who the heck knows what on her computer. They leave after a little while, and just now I got up, and noticed that one of them so very kindly wrote in lotion on our full length mirror: “Hi– ♥ Jj +Eb” (there initials, presumably). Presumably also for roomie’s benefit, but either she didn’t notice, or doesn’t give a cake. Maybe she noticed and figures I’ll deal with it. Which I have absolutely not intention of doing, despite the fact that it’s irritating me, because it’s right at face level, which means you have lotions smears all over your image when your’e trying to use the mirror. Nor do I care that come Monday it will be a heck of a lot harder to clean off, because, you know what? She can bloody well deal with the mess her buddies make.
Gah. I am way too easily irritated, methinks. *grumbles*
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No, you are not too easily irritated. Your reaction is completely normal.
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So I’m over two years here at MB. Wow. It doesn’t feel like that long.
So, my school didn’t place in the A division, which Zac and I competed in. But we made it to the final rounds. Out of like over 60 kids, we got through to about 20 finalists. I think that’s pretty good. I don’t know how Tati and Veronika did, though. I got a huge amount of points in the comedy slot, apparantly, and the judges commented that I “wasn’t confident.” Huh. I was hugely nervous, so sue me.
Listening to “Champagne for my Real Friends, Real Pain for my Sham Friends” by Fall Out Boy.
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That is good. Congratulations!
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Lady bugs. I swear I got bit twice by lady bugs earlier today when I was outside volunteering this morning. Just like last year around this time, ladybugs are swarming. More lady bugs than I’d ever seen before in my life. Sweet, adorable, lady bugs that we all love. And I swear they bit me.
So, I was standing there, waiting for somebody to come along and help the rider I was sidewalking for to dismount, when I felt a small prick on my knuckle. Automatic reaction–flinch and brush at my hand. Something went fluttering off, and my first thought was it was a ginormous yellow winged fly. Yeah, I know, not lady bug looking, but then later I saw a lady bug flying through a patch of sunlight, and it looked a lot like what I saw flutter away, albeit not imagined to be gigantic, as this particular one had not just bitten me.
And then, later, I felt something bite me right above the collar of my t-shirt, and when I frantically brushed the offending insect away, I’m pretty sure it felt quite a bit like a lady bug…..Now, I’ve been bit by bugs before (like mosquitoes)–no problem (psychologically, that is). But for whatever reason, getting bit by a lady bug….. *shudder* I dunno what it is, but–ugh. It’s positively scary, somehow.
And I’m sure it was a lady bug, too, even though I never really got a good look……..
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I got bit by a ladybug before! It was quite unnerving… I didn’t know they could bite! Are they some new mutated version? *googles*
Hm. Apparently Asian Lady Beetles bite, and they look very similar and are in the same family… And apparently they are now found in the united states. Supposedly they are good for controlling “soft bodied pests” in crops.
Maybe it was a radioactive Asian Lady Beetle, and I’ll get super farming powers, and grow soybeans all day?
Oh, and apparently they don’t really bite after all, but have little barbs on their hind legs. Yay learning!
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Ughh, ladybugs. I’m scared of ladybugs. When I was about six/seven/eight we used to get an annual swarm of ladybugs. They’d come land on my front door–no where else. The door would be crawling with what seemed like thousands of ladybugs, and my little sister would drag me outside to play with them. She insisted when they ooze yellow stuff it means they’re happy. Ugh. No. It means you squished them. And they crunch. When they somehow end up in my room they hit the light fixture over and over and over and make a tink-tink-tink noise, and to get them to leave I have to go get a tissue and try to take them outside. But I can’t always catch them alive, which means they crunch. It’s so echhhhhhh.
On the other hand, I have a friend who’s scared of balloons.
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G’night, MB! I am up way too late. :3
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Tesseract! Nooo! You’ve given me a ladybug complex – and those are some of the only bugs I LIKE!!! They’re so cute! And I didn’t know they could bite…either! *pictures SR freaking out over ladybug bite and laughs*
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Me too! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!! *is overly dramatic* At least they keep bugs away from the garden.
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Hi! AM and Enc are having are having a mini-pseudo-Kokonvention. Enc is typing right now.
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Wooo! I finished the Ares I-X chapter in my story! On to 2010!
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W00t! My soccer team won, finally…it was the last game of the season. Honestly I’m glad it’s over (that’s a first) but the last game was really fun, we were all going crazy at the end. Now I’ll probably be on to basketball, although I haven’t quite decided what my winter schedule is going to be like yet…
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Me too, minus the basketball…my team were so happy that we won, because we played a team that beat us 5-0 last time we played them.
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Awesome, great job!
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I’m posting here and on the homework help thread:
How did geographical features affect ancient China’s history (social, economical, political, religious…)? I already have the isolation and fertile land because of the rivers, but I have a feeling that I need more. I forgot to get a packet -_- .
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Okay, the rivers often caused dangerous floods, making strong central government that could conduct large dam-building projects a necessity.
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I already had something of that nature, but that reminded me that I could stretch that out, so thanks!!!
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I just decided to go back and read the Neophyte thread from the month I came. I’m slightly depressed now. Just slightly. Mostly embarrassed at how annoying I was. And it didn’t help that I can easily see myself doing exactly the same thing now, here or off the ‘blog. I was, as Piggy said on that thread, trying to fit in, and thus not fitting in. If I could go back and delete all my posts there, I probably wouldn’t hesitate. But I guess it’s good that I can’t. It’s a valuable bit of history. It’s also interesting seeing who else joined the same month as me. R101, Fishy, (By the way, Fishy, my hidden side that acts very much like my neophyte self keeps wanting to call you Flishy. I don’t know why.) and Adiea, apparently. And Alyss, but I haven’t seen her around much. Although she might have been during the time when I was ignoring the random thread. I used to do that. Don’t worry, I have better sense now.
Anyway, off to NaNo, because it’s more productive than rambling.
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Don’t worry. Everybody is more annoying and obnoxious and extroverted when they first join a forum/blog.
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My infinite wisdom holds true again.
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Yeah, don’t worry about it…..We’ve all got our posts that we wish we could erase from ‘blog history. Even us paleophytes have a time on the ‘blog we wish we could forget, whether it occurred when we were neophytes, or sometime else.
At least you don’t have a serious of posts where you’re borderline flaming another blogger just because *gasp* he doesn’t like the HP books. Big freakin’ deal. Not. Yeah…..Let’s just say I wouldn’t hesitate to erase those posts.
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and that should be “series of posts”, not “serious of posts”.
And I can’t even claim neophytehood for those series of posts, as it was around a year after I’d joined the ‘blog.
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I said some pretty stupid things when I was a neophyte. Never mind. I’m still a neophyte.
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I was a rather reticent neophyte. I didn’t really post much until 3 or 4 months after I joined. (I think one day some 5 months after my first post, I finally realized that I wasn’t a complete ‘phyte anymore. Of course, we still said newbie back then…)
I had met another MBer in person, and she had told me to come on the blog (and then told the blog I was coming), so everyone was kind of expecting me. It was nice.
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*laughs* Okay, this is the advantage of being a paleo: most people who saw your embarrassing posts are mostly gone, have forgiven you, or are going to be nominated for the best actor oscar. At least you tried to fit in… Look at some threads from october 08 if you feel bad- I didn’t want to be a neophyte, so I just ignored that thread and pretended I’d been there all along…
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Hey, I don’t remember you ever being a ‘phyte. So I guess it worked, your pretending you’d been there all along, because I’d gotten back from a long absence not long before, and I suppose I just assumed you were somebody who’d popped up while I was gone, and given the intelligence level, etc, of your posts, immediately accepted you as an established blogger.
Neophytehood is all in how you see yourself. If you see yourself as a ‘phyte, you tend to be one, if you don’t see yourself as one, you tend to fit in a lot better and not be a ‘phyte……Talk about confuzzling. I think somebody name Luna needs to go to bed…….Before she confuses herself. I hope the spanish “composition” I just wrote for class tomorrow isn’t that confuzzling……
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You may call me Flishy Don’t worry about the neophyte-thing. I’ve looked back at mine and noticed the same exact thing. I didn’t know that you joined the same month as me! I always pictured you as someone who was here for a while. I’m sure everyone still looks at me as a neophyte…
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Well, I don’t, but I’m sure everyone still thinks of me as one.
And as far as embarrassing posts go, I had some pretty bad ones. I’m not even going to say which threads they were on. You probably all know anyway.
I never actually stopped by the neophytes thread… I didn’t really know about it until it was too late. I remember I think reading the rules and the HG2MB, and seeing something about RRSSSSs, and going off to look for them, reading the active one, being sort of in awe of everyone on there, and then posting. Maybe I posted on Off With Their Heads! first, I don’t know. I remember for a while there were only a few threads I read, so I kept them all open on separate tabs, and refreshed each one every now and then. Eventually I read about Luna’s (and probably some other people’s, too) usage of the RC bar, and decided that I would need to do that to become a non-neophyte. I can remember back then what completely different people you all were to my eyes, because I only read the posts that were right there, and I was just learning who you all were. You all seemed so vastly… bland to me. Like I kind of understood that there was all of this stuff I could learn about you, but you all seemed so big and awesome (in the more literal meaning of the word) that I couldn’t, so I just ignored it, and you all were sort of just words on a screen, and I couldn’t imagine the person behind them. Now you all seem so 3 dimensional, but I can still remember how I thought of you… It was so strange.
Okay, that was a lot of reminiscing. We should call the next November Thread “November Nostalgia”, or something like that. I mean, look at all of this.
((Ooh, I just hit preview and it doesn’t look so awfully long after all. But still.))
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SR–I never visited a ‘phyte thread myself, until long after I’d joined. Or, well, that is to say, I never visited a ‘phyte thread as a ‘phyte to utilize for its intended purpose. It would seem I posted on the “Welcome Newcomers” thread within a month or so after I joined, but it was only to enquire who the heck Chuck Norris was, as there was currently a conversation/debate in progress concerning him. Even way back then, 3 1/2 years ago, the ‘phyte threads had a habit of drifting seriously off-topic…….Poor GAPAs.
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I’m not sure if I’ve ever had anyone in awe of me before. Thank you, I’m very flattered!
Speaking of RRSSSS, I need to go back there and see what’s going on.
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I remember one of my first thoughts on joining MuseBlog was, “Oh my god, I’m never going to be able to keep all of these people straight.”
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Actually, I don’t consider you or Ducky or Errata neophytes anymore.
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123.1-124 – Thanks, everybody. I know it doesn’t really matter what I posted then, but I was still so obnoxiously… Obnoxious. How did you tolerate me?
Ducky – Are you still a neophyte? Really? You stop being one when you choose to, I think, but I stopped thinking of you as ‘new’ awhile back.
Flishy – You’re actually older than me, I think. Slightly, anyway. I think I might have pictured you as new when I came… I don’t remember. I have people somewhat regimented into ‘older than me’ and ‘younger than me’, but you’re so much on the line that I don’t remember which you were. Most of the people who used to be ‘younger than me’ have mostly lost that status and become MBers in general. And most of the ‘older than me’ have either become just MBers, or, if they’re older physically, respected citizens whom I look up to. Unless they’re just a few years older. But I could probably still tell you whether a given MBer came before or after me.
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Put it this way; I’d love to ask most MBers the same question. After a month, I’d already annoyed the GAPAs into abolishing the ‘phytes thread (temporarily), “sung” quite a few songs on the WOPC thread (I accidentally killed my allies eventually; oops!), PoPoed just about everywhere, annoyed the heck out of Armada, Piggy and Kokonilly and you might have also noticed that no-one else (except for Tesseract) who came to the blog at the same time as I did survived until now. Besides, you weren’t that bad. Now stop feeling sorry for yourself and get on with life.
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Yay, October 2008! I was certain you’d been around for a while before me for a really long time.
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SFTDP:
I just confirmed that I’m older than you. I might actually be a “respected citizen” in some younger MBers eyes. Now that’s scary.
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Yes, you are a respected citizen in my eyes.
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Whoops, he’s not here anymore.
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I probably shouldn’t reveal this bit of behind-the-scenes information, but as far as we Administrators are concerned, the most boring posts we have to moderate are those that try to sort out who is and who is not a “neophyte.” As far as we’re concerned, you’re new to the blog when you’re new to the blog — i.e., the very first time you post. As soon as that happens, you’re here. And once you’re here, you’re just as much here as anybody else is.
All this insistence on class distinctions bewilders us. When we look at MuseBlog from our GAPAs’-eye view, we see only MuseBloggers.
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More boring than multi-page posts chronicling every single difference between HPSS and HPPS? Especially as such a large number were nothing more than punctuation/spelling changes?
Despite your insistence otherwise, I have always felt a bit bad about putting your through that.
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That’s the kind of obsession we understand. In graduate school I once wrote a 35-page paper that included color-coded charts of all the least-frequently-used words in William Butler Yeats’s poetry. My professors didn’t quite know what to make of it.
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I can just imagine the looks on their faces…..
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What did you use to sort the words? (before or after computers?)
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It was a few years before I had a computer of my own (though I had a memory typewriter). The university library owned a concordance that listed every word from all of Yeats’s work, how many times each occurred, and where they could be found in his writing (excepting “the,” “a,” and such, although those were counted). I did the color coding with highlighter pens. (Pages and pages worth…)
Yeats, like many writers, has a distinctive vocabulary, words that come to have special meaning for him and that he uses frequently. But as I played with the concordance I noticed that his most important poems contained high concentrations of words he never used elsewhere. It was as if he burst into another level of speech, almost a different language. So I started investigating whether that was unique to those poems, which indeed turned out to be the case.
As I followed the trail, my paper was becoming so unwieldy, I asked for and received permission to make a double-length paper that counted for two classes. One professor gave me an A, the other a B. The “A” because my professor enjoyed the sheer craziness of it, the “B” because that professor couldn’t determine whether I’d actually concluded anything.
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ooh. Now I want to read this paper; that sounds really interesting.
I am currently in the process of writing a paper on Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed.
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Ooh, where was that? I’d like to read that.
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Uh, lemme go look. *looks*
Ok, her we go: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=220
Starting in post 288, back when I was Michelle W.
I don’t remember if I ever finished typing up all the ones I compiled, but I do know that I never even finished compiling all the differences even in SS/PS–I read the UK versions of 6 1/2 (don’t think I’ve finished reading the UK version of DH yet), but never got more’n about halfway through book one comparing them side by side.
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I think part of the reason we tend to discuss these things is the same reason that younger children discuss ages. The older you are, the more admired you are, for some bizarre reason. If I may borrow a term from popular culture, it’s like being the “OG”, which apparently stands for “original gangsta”–if someone was around first or was the creator of a trend, they deserve more respect. I can well imagine why the GAPArian viewpoint would tell a different tale than that of the common prole. It again relates to children’s ages. To a fifteen-year-old, for instance, there is basically no distinction between a five-year-old and a six-year-old. But to a five-year-old, the difference is enormous. I suppose even to my eyes as an MBer, distinctions are already beginning to fade. I can’t tell, most of the time, who’s been around six months and who’s been around for two years (excepting the people I distinctly remember from my early days here).
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Yay! Today’s clear, and now I get two days off!
Decompression. Need decompression.
Need sleep. Sleep good.
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About all comments regarding my neophyte situation: Even though I’m a paleophyte, I just sort of feel that I don’t really belong, which is a feeling that I get a lot.
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Hmm, I feel like a neophyte, but that may be because I was gone for something like 7 months. Probably more, and I came back sometime around my blogiversary, or musiversary, or- well, never mind.
On a random note, today while riding the bus to a field trip, (a hideously kiddie-fied opera) I saw a sign that appeared to read:
PIES MUST BE WORN BEYOND THIS POINT. (I have no idea what it actually said)
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Apparently, one of the players for the Yankees has the last name Pie, which means you see people with signs that say “We Want Pie!” on TV at games and things. It’s very funny.
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The main motorway in Singapore is the Pan Island Expressway, and people in my class refer to the exit one takes to get to our school as “banana cream”
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I got a very random idea for a story in Math class: it turns out that Star Wars was real, and Imperial scouts landed on Earth by accident right when the movie was coming out. (They were chasing a Rebel who landed and told George Lucas what was happening in the Galaxy) Anyway, Earth joins the Rebellion, and then the New Republic.
Yes, this is the kind of thing I think about all day.
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But by the time the scout would have landed (useing the questionable canonicity of ET) the Rebellion would have been over.
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*Looks up* Well, ET came out in 1982, so following the “‘Present-day’ movies are set the year before they come out” rule, ET came to Earth in 1981.
According to Wikipedia, three years pass between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi takes place one year after Empire.
If the Rebel landed on Earth in 1974, when Lucas wrote the first script, and we take that to be a matter of days or weeks after the destruction of the first Death Star (The Battle of Yavin), then the events of Empire would be occurring in 1977, right when A New Hope comes out on Earth.
So if everything happens in late 77/early 78, it’s happening between Empire and Jedi, at the same time as the “Shadows of the Empire” event from the comics.
So Earth could help covertly with the actions against the Imperials at Endor, and take a larger role battling the Imperial Remnant after Palpatine’s death. So yes, the Rebellion would be over, but not the war.
By the time the peace treaty between the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant is signed 19 years after A New Hope, in 1993, Earth would be a full member of the New Republic, with galactic technology becoming increasingly integrated into Terrestrial society.
So, since we know from The Phantom Menace that ET’s species (The Children of the Green Planet), were an established society in galactic affairs, and we know from ET that they were interested in the plant life of other worlds, it’s only natural that they would send an expedition to this newly discovered world. If we assume that the only Rebellion/New Republic representatives Earth’s governments have met so far are humans such as Leia Organa, it makes sense that ET’s strange appearance would create the stir it did.
The war with the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong begins in 2001 and ends four years later, in 2005. (25-29 years after A New Hope) In the present day, the galaxy is enjoying a period of peace and rebuilding after the victory against the YV.
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But ET lived 3 mil. light years away! GGFA = farther away then Andromeda.
From Wookieepedia:
“This may have been our galaxy, and we can assume that that is how E.T. ended up on Earth. The movie says that E.T. is being 3 million light years from home (our galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years wide and its closest neighbor (Andromeda) is approximately 2.5 million light years away), so his home planet has to be in another galaxy other than the Milky Way or Andromeda, perhaps the Star Wars galaxy. E.T.’s home galaxy would therefore be part of the Local Group and the Virgo Supercluster at approximately a megaparsec away from us. However this would mean, E.T.’s home galaxy (and, possibly, the Star Wars galaxy) would not be, on a universal scale, a galaxy far, far away but one of approximately 40 galaxies that are our “neighbors”. In any case, the fictional Star Wars Galaxy is (at least theoretically) on the same plane of existence as ours, as it is a supposedly finite distance of “far, far away” from the Milky Way.”
Of course the entire argument is mute if we think ET is not cannonical, which is a large leap really, due to a ton of stuff that’s relates the two.
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Look, the story idea itself assumes the Milky Way IS the Star Wars Galaxy and Earth is in the Unknown Regions. And since the Star Wars Galaxy looks to be ET’s home galaxy, that means ET is from the Milky Way, too. They’re called the Unknown Regions for a reason.
The early trailer spots said “Somewhere in space, this may all be happening right now.” , so it it’s not necessarily a long time ago, it might not necessarily be far away, either.
But it doesn’t matter, it’s just a stupid story idea.
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‘Sokay, we’re random too. Like today, I, uh, can’t remember.
126.1-What is HPSS and HPPS?
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Scholastic’s Americanized publication) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK publishing company Bloomsbury’s non-Americanized “original” version)
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Two years ago in eighth grade, my friend D and I wrote a really bizarre story in which we gave everyone in my class magical powers.
Well, I found it last night, and I don’t think I’d laughed that hard in a month. Here’s an excerpt (names changed, except for mine.)
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Abby took a deep breath, trying to stop giggling. “Um… well, if Mary weren’t, like… dead, we might have been able to get some information about what the heck is going on from her…” She glared at Joe.
“Yeah, I mean, we’re still actually in the Hogwarts Express, right?” Zulu asked. (And then she magically poofed to Switzerland and back again.)
Haley poked the pile of Mary-remains with her toe, grimacing. “Well, we kind of ought to dispose of this first. Or something.”
“Yeah, okay. So how about half of us do that and the rest go back into the Hogwarts Express and try to find Mojo Jojo?” Susan looked back towards where the portal was.
It was gone.
“OHMYGOD WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE HERE AND IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT!” Haley screamed as loud as she could, pointing at Joe. Dory’s stomach did a gigantic flip and she suddenly had to be excused, as she her breakfast of Eggos and cappuccino decided they wanted to see the light of day again.
“Thanks, you guys! Sorry we ever thought you were villians!” Bubbles [Yes, the Powerpuff girls are involved] said, giggling slightly as she floated over. Buttercup grumbled something that sounded like a “thanks” and Blossom just stood there, still a little dazed from when she had been captive.
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Seven thousand words of this. It’s hilarious.
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PLEASE post it once you’ve changed all the names.
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The whole thing? It’s eighteen pages. Is that allowed?
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For anything that long, it’s best to email us the document. We’ll take it from there.
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I should do something for my friends. Please post it!
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Okay, I suppose I’ll send it to the GAPAs once I have time to change all the names and such. Mind you, some of it won’t make as much sense/be as funny since you all don’t know any of the people.
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Okay, sent!
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Two huge tests tomorrow…ugh. Grammar and science. The science I’m cramming for, and the grammar…well, grammar is grammar for me. Awful.
Re: Embarrassing posts. Well…I’ve had my fair share of them. There are definitely some I would like to delete if I could. In a way, though, those posts are actually a part of MB and myself that I wouldn’t really want to see gone. If every post actually “fit” in, well, I don’t think MB would be what it is. Craziness and insanity is to be expected, and with it, some embarrassment as well I suppose. So in a way, those posts that make you smack your forehead and go, “What was I thinking?!” might possibly be a good thing…
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I ahve a Shakespeare shirt on! *squee* My school will be competeing in the Shakespeare festival. I could be able to do a monologue from The Taming of the Shrew. I read that in 6th grade.
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Awesome. ^^ Which monologue? I’m memorizing the ‘to be or not to be’ speech for my Theater Club…
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I personally love Twelfth Night. Of course, the best monologues in there are all of Malvolio’s parts. Viola’s “As I the man/woman” speech isn’t bad either.
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Ooh, yes. Twelfth Night is my favorite Shakespeare play (though I love all of ’em). I went to see a pwnsome production of it a while ago by [self-snip]…. and I’m going to see As You Like It by the same people this weekend.
My family is really obsessed with Shakespeare. I think I’m reading/watching/performing six or seven of his plays this week… XD
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Shakespeare…..Hehe, ever since a few weeks ago, all that thoughts of Shakespeare conjure up are a certain Dr. Who ep where the Dr meets Shakespeare……
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Which episode was that? I wanna watch it! (And was there one where the Doctor meets Richard III? I wanna watch that one too. ^^)
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Richard III? Not that I know of…..
The ep where the Doctor meets Shakespeare was in Season 3, um, lemme see if I can find which particular one it was. Season 3, Episode 2.
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Oh, right, that was an audio episode. XD Thanks, anyway. *plans to watch Dr. Who at some point*
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Oh, yeah, not “seen” any of the audio eps.
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Heh. Me neither. XD
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Another day spent bunnifying the general public, I’m happy to say. This shirt comes in handy. EVERYONE SHOULD BUY ONE OR SEVERAL.
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Sounds like a good idea to me.
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EVERYONE SHOULD BUY ONE OR SEVERAL T-SHIRTS OR A SWEATSHIRT OR A COFFEE MUG OR STICKERS OR A HAT OR BUTTONS OR MAGNETS OR A TOTE BAG OR A MOUSEPAD. THEY SHOULD BUY THEM HERE.
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Hear, hear!
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No; here hear.
-A
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I just got my learner’s permit that has my actual picture on it, and I am incredibly surprised at how semi-normal I look.
soccer starr- good luck on your tests!
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Taking discussions of the Doctor and the like out of the nesties…….I was watching a bit of a movie that Chris Eccleston was in when he was younger, and I had this sudden and completely unexpected moment of “ZOMG, he looks exactly like E_______!” [E being a boy I used to know, my age, my second crush, etc] It was a most freaky realization, because it wasn’t anything I’d ever thought before, and I really couldn’t even begin to tell you what I thought was similar, but it was totally weird.
Like several weeks ago when I was watching an episode of NCIS and Gibbs was interrogating somebody and I had a sudden flash of “OMG, Captain Jack [Harkness, not Sparrow. Duh]” It was really weird….
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How very odd. I’ve had “Shipoopi” (from The Music Man) stuck in my head since the very moment I woke up this morning. And it won’t go away.
This should go on the suggestions thread, but is there any way a GAPA could add a Pwt Pwns travel mug to Musery Loves Company? My female parental unit was very pleased with the quality of a travel mug she got from Cafepress, and I’d like something in which I could bring hot cocoa or a cappuccino to school on cold mornings.
Or do I want a Muse Academy mug? Hm… *thinks*
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Shipoopi, shipoopi, shipoopi, the girl who’s hard to get.
I’ve had “Just Around The Riverbend” from Pocahontas stuck in my head for several days solid.
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They didn’t have travel mugs last time we added stuff, but I’m sure something can be worked out. I’ll have to see what dimensions the art needs to be.
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Okay, Piggy, I added a Pwt Pwns and a Muse Academy travel mug to the respective lineups. They were quite easy to do, no special handling required, so should you change your mind about the design, feel free to request.
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How about a Classic Bunny and/or a Pure Evil bunny tote bag?
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I added both, Ducky.
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Hm. Does it usually take a while for the new items to appear? I’ll check back tomorrow morning.
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I thought they appeared immediately. *goes off to check* Hm. Don’t know why there was a delay, but they seem to be there now.
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Indeed they are. Muchas gracias.
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So we can just request anything we like, within reason, and it might or might not appear?
Reminds me, I really need to order something… That could be a ‘done with NaNo’ prize. I have a bunch of those sorted out.
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Not to be demanding or anything, but while we are on the topic, it would be very flam if there was a package with all of the different mini-buttons in it. *wink, wink*
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We’d love to, but you’ll have to lobby CafePress for that.
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Um, what happened to the numbers?
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Too many replies, I think. We already reached the limit of the nesties, and I guess the program rebelled and decided it was going to shove the next reply down to the bottom of the page……I dunno, precisely.
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One of our weirder GAPA powers is the ability to reply to any comment from inside moderation space — except we can’t tell when the maximum nesting level has been reached on the blog itself. The now confuddled software drops the comment to the bottom of the page without a number. Subsequent replies to that comment follow suit.
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And as for the discussion regarding Minerva McGonagall as the Doctor — I will say only that one should never, ever underestimate the powers of Maggie Smith.
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She was amazing in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
although I only saw the last half…
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I went to East Coast Park yesterday, which seems to be where the youths of Singapore go to bicycle and rollerblade and where families (especially large Indian ones) go for picnics. Sea breeze, fresh air, and freight tankers not 300 metres from shore.
They have signs that read: “Not to be careless on the coconut trees. Falling coconut can cause seriously injured.” And a little picture of a stick-figure cowering under a hail of fruit.
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Question- when are we doing signatures again? I was surprised to learn this year’s had already come out.
-A
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I’m not sure, but I think last year’s is mislabeled as this year’s, because when you click on it, all the items under it are labeled ‘2008’. I’ve been wondering when we’re doing signatures again this year too. Maybe the GAPAs decided it was too much work.
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So……Y’know Mars Inc, which does yummy candy? Like Snickers and M&M’s, etc, etc, etc. I learned (very recently) that they also do pet food products, as well. Which probably just about everybody but me the clueless person that I am already knew, but……
So, in my human-companion animal psych course, we had a guest speaker form Mars Inc today, talking about all there different stuff. Like, for instance, they make Pedigree (which was what we fed our dog), and also make Greenies cat treats (which my cat loves), and anyway, we got lots of freebies in class today from the speaker.
I scored two packs of gum (Orbit mint & Zing, which is apparently “a sour to sweet bubble”–never had either kind), 4 packets of Temptations cat treats, a “Dogs Rule” bumper sticker, and a pretty blue insulated travel thermos/mug with the Waltham research center label on it (cuz they’re also associated with Mars, apparently).
Me likes freebies……
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Actually, I had no idea about that.
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My tests went alright, I suppose. Science was a killer, like I expected, so I’m crossing my fingers it’ll be alright. I’m guessing it’ll be in the B range or high C range… It’s hard to tell with grammar, but I felt pretty confident about the test. I have very little homework today, I got almost all of it done in study hall! Yay!
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Good things in my life right now:
-Tomorrow I am going to the Museum of Science with my dear friend and my mom.
-I am trucking along quite well with my NaNo.
-I have discovered the wonderfulness of telephones.
Bad Things in my life right now:
-I have an awful cough, and it might be bronchitis.
-There’s a girl at school who is mean to me and the rest of the people who used to go to my elementary school.
-I didn’t get full credit on an assignment that was due because I brought the binder that didn’t have the assignment in it to class.
Wicked Weird and Totally Strange Thing that is happening in my life right now:
-One of my friends is in love with (the younger version of) Paul McCartney.
Wow! How fun! *coughs hysterically*
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Ah, it’s great to have a day off…
I read in bed for a while, then I showed, ate breakfast, did some of my homework, read some more, added a much-needed second coat of gold paint to my LEM model (Painting aluminum foil takes two coats if you want to do it right), went out for lunch, came back, celebrated my mom’s birthday, then came here.
It’s a good day.
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Ha, it looks as though I won’t have to pay for my own Muse Academy travel mug. *coughcoughcough* Because I got a 34 on the ACT I took last month and my mom happily agreed to get me the mug as a reward.
:D
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34. Composite? *is impressed* Congratulations are in order! 
I got a 32.
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My mom just got a telephone call from this lady and it turns out that I won FIRST-PLACE in a local writing contest!!!! Yay! I win a $50 (I know, Silverleopard, you got more money than me) gift card for B&N, a certificate and my story published in all the local newspapers. The reception for the top-three finalists is at the nearest Barnes & Noble bookstore next week sometime. I’ll tell you guys about it after I’ve gone to it. Ohmigosh I am so happy! *coughs*
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congratulations! That’s so exciting! Especially getting published in local papers
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I just thought this up, to the tune of Yankee Doodle:
Oh, the Tenth Doctor went to town
A-riding in a TARDIS,
He stuck a screwdriver in his hat
And called it timey-wimey.
Just slur screwdriver and it’ll work.
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Do you have to pronounce “TARDIS” like it’s French so it rhymes with “wimey”?
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*blinks* Was my comment stolen away by the spam filter?
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Yup.
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Danke.
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Bitte.
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Re: Doctor Who:
I’m kind of sick of the whole romantic relationships with companions thing. I mean, he was just friends with Donna and everything…but I weary of all the kissing. I agree with oxlin that the Doctor should have a wider range of companions–both sexes and more varied in age and more at a time–and he shouldn’t be in love with any of them, at least for a while. What happened to Susan? Does anyone know?
I don’t think that there should be a female Doctor. A Time Lady, sure, that would be amazing, but not the Doctor. Again, Susan?
I’m not too thrilled about Matt Smith, but I wasn’t too thrilled about David Tennant either, so hey! It’ll be fine. But I do think that the incarnation after Matt Smith should be older, because they seem to be getting younger and younger, but then again, there were young Doctors in the old series too, I think.
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Yes, I think mentor-student relationships can be much more interesting than romantic ones.
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I sent my Peace Poster photo in, using my dad’s email (same one I use for my avatar). Did you get it, GAPAs?
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How did my post end up here?
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Oh, I see.
Sorry For The Triple Post)
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Gah! I am so frustrated! There are 6 hidden figurines around campus but they are so well hidden! I am SICK of searching! Gah!
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Awhoops, I just combined my two emails.
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Okay, this is weird; the last two comments seem to be out of order…
Meh. *headesk* NaNo. Must write. *headdesk*
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Yeah, they’re numberless too. They’ve been down there for a while.
To quote Flishy, they’re bottom feeders.
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They must have popped off the end of the replies anyway. Oh, well… More than 500 comments anyway, maybe time for a new thread. We’re about a third through the month, too.
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I believe that it’s time for a new thread. ‘Course, you might be making one just as I post this…
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So I finished my homework, and I got a whole lot of writing done yesterday, which felt good. (A whiny Russian kid on a long car trip is comedy gold.)
Oh, and I have to go with my brothers to get vaccinations later today.
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Swine flu?
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Seasonal flu. The doctor’s out of H1N1 vaccinations.
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So, y’all remember I mentioned one of roomie’s buddies wrote on our mirror in lotion Saturday night? Well, my roomie has been back to our room several times since then, is currently here in the room right now, and guess what? The lotion writing is still on the mirror. It’s been nearly 4 full days. Um, really? Take responsibility for what your friends did and clean it off already! I’m sick of having writing across my face when I try and use the mirror.
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Urgh, that sounds annoying unbelievably frustrating. If I was in that situation, there’d probably be something other than a smiley at the end of that post, believe me.
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Yeah, well, I don’t have the energy to get seriously pissed off with her, anymore. I have basically opted for the pretend she doesn’t exist unless she speaks to me in which case I will respond in as few words as possible. And the not speaking thing really isn’t hard, as she’s hardly ever here, anyway. *shrugs*
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Wow, your roommate sounds incredibly annoying. If I were you I would probably do what I do with most people who I don’t like and that’s to just ignore them and pretend they don’t exist. (which it sounds like you’re doing anyway.) Honestly, it always works eventually even if it’s not exactly the most…kindest way to go, I’ll say.
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I LIKE CHEESE!!!!!!
Ah, feel better already.
Happy Veteran’s Day
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Did you get the story I emailed you, GAPAs?
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Basketball season is almost here!
We didn’t have off today…ugh. We had Columbus Day off this year, but I would have preferred today. Getting off in the middle of the week is always fun for some unexplained reason. My tests are finally over for this week! Now I’m faced with getting them back…eek.
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Tesseract’s story (described in comment #131, above) may be found here: docs.google.com/View?id=d2nvgdc_276fb4srdvw
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Thanks!
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My second post since I’ve returned. Awsome picture. I love how the random thread picture usually or always has the muses and museblog things in it. I’m hungry now.
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Have a good Armistice Day, everyone.
-A
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I found Kokopelli, if nobody has already.
And the hedgepig, I know, is in the tablecloth… I can’t see what the other shapes are, though.
-A
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PLEASE do not reply to the unnumbered posts at the bottom of the thread. It just adds to the pile up. They’re explained in comment 139.2 for those of you who haven’t yet figured them out. We’ll get a new thread going here eventually but can’t do it just now.
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Pic problems?
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Oh my goodness there are so many posts. Where have I BEEN?
I am trying to remain calm for now. I have a whole 41 days to panic, so why am I flipping out now?
Eep. Because I got the flight details on my trip to NC next month. And large, busy public buildings scare me. I’m always afraid I’m going to get completely, utterly lost and end up where I shouldn’t be. Which is bizzare, since I generally have a pretty good sense of direction and rarely get seriously lost. Yet thinking of being alone in a big building makes me feel dizzy even when I’m sitting here in front of the computer in my house. Eeew.
Oh well.
Thank heavens my hand has stopped peeling, it was weird, on my right hand (but not my left) the skin started peeling for no apparent reason. Very weird. It didn’t hurt, but felt strange and fuzzy. Annoying, so I’m glad it’s decided to stop. Glurg.
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Sorry about the randomness of this, but your post had an unnerving amount of double-z’s in it. Bizzare, dizzy, fuzzy. hmmm.
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I’m the same way. Any big city is pretty frightening to me, even if I’m with my parents in which case even if I did get lost it wouldn’t be much of a problem since I’m underage and can just let them solve my problems. Still, best of luck to you!
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Yeah, but when your lost in a big city with a parent is when it gets really scary…..Or at least a bit. Especially when it’s gotten dark out, and weirdish people are starting to come out of the woodwork.
hehe, yeah, speaking from experience from when my mom and I got lost on the way back to our hotel in London after visiting the London Eye. Dratted street map didn’t have half the streets. Fun times……I’m pretty sure I was shamelessly clinging to her hand despite being 14 at the time.
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Getting lost in Paris or Tours at ten o’clock at night is no picnic either. Every building and street looks the same! Quebec is much nicer in that sense; there are more landmarks.
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Hm… how does one begin to learn Navajo?
And why do all the Native American languages around my area have just a few dozen speakers left?
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I just set up my FFnet account.
*drums fingers on desktop*
I finished chapter 1 of my newest fanfic, and it’s fifteen pages of small writing in a composition notebook. Which goes to show I’ve given up with NaNo. Again. *sigh*
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166.1~ No need to ask for forgiveness, this is, after all, the random thread.
You’re right though, there were a lot of double-z’s. Very strange indeed.
Eurgh, looking at college websites. Scaring myself senseless, too.
Random thought of the moment: I love this computer. It’s so lovely to have it just work, and be so fast, and pretty, and the monster screen is actually pretty nice too. Though I still want to get a small one for myself. Mmmm I like the Mac. I do, I do, I do.
I’m really tired, sorry.
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*sigh* Good night, all. Luna is now going to bed, after pulling a second all-nighter. Two in a row. Not fun. That’ll teach me to procrastinate (yeah, right–i wish).
3 hours of sleep instore, if I’m lucky.
Last night’s 2 didn’t turn out to be very sound, was awake more of the time than I was asleep, but the 2 naps (for a total of 3 more hours) I had during the day today–well, yesterday, now–were quite nice.
So, yeah, off to bed with me, have to be up at 9:30. *shudder*
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Query: I think I’m a paleo… Right? (can’t see the paleo threads….)
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FIREH! *tackle*
You haven’t moved in our chess game in like, eleven weeks. ELEVEN.
(Convenient Link)
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Hello…haven’t seen you in awhile, or am I just so obsessed with MB that time isn’t really logical anymore to me online….
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ATTENTION ALL PALEOS! The paleophyte threads are DEAD. I’m a neo-paleophyte.
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1. Calm down.
2. They’re not dead. I posted on one yesterday.
3. There’s only one (maybe two) that you are currently allowed to post on.
4. Not many paleos hang around the blog anymore.
5. Some of us paleos enjoy the slower pace.
So don’t worry about the paleo thread. Just don’t.
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Yes, the main point of creating the threads in the first place was to provide a slower pace and a more intimate setting than the blog could otherwise provide. I’d say the majority of the paleos still stop by MuseBlog every now and then, it’s just that many of them don’t post very often.
The RRRs did rather stall out, although that usually happens when the school year gets underway. Then NaNo.
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How does one become a paleophyte?
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A paleophyte is anyone who’s been blogging for six months.
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It’s not a disaster if a few threads are dead. I, personally, go on the paleo threads occasionally, read any comments in the student lounge, mosey off, and do whatever I like. I think most people react more or less the same way.
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They’re not dead. I just posted on the main one earlier today. the others are mainly RPGs, methinks……Or doesn’t think, thinking is not something my brain wants to do right now.
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I’m correcting that to RRRs, just so any non-paleophyte RPG fans don’t blow their fuses. Or something. They are RRRs…
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I wonder when I’m going to be a paleophyte. Could you tell me GAPAs?
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Roughly six months after you started posting regularly.
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Which happens to be now. Your account has been activated, mas0n.
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173.1.1:Thank you!!!!!!! Time to PARTY!!!!!!!
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Ur, please don’t stir them up too much. People like it calm there.
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SFTDP I forgot to tell everyone that I was Winged Demon on the Halloween Ball. Does it really matter who I was? I only posted two or three times.(darn tv and school)
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Hmmm, I probably should change my name to something STS-129-related at this point…
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I really need to work on my NaNo…but I also need to type up this story my friends and I wrote last year called “Splickentown.” Funny stuff, that one was, but probably only to my friends and me. Tomorrow’s Friday, yay! Ew, but it’s also Day 6, which means I have Connections class, which is a stupid class that is taught by my grade’s psychologist, who describes the class as “a class in which you talk to people.” (That was a run-on sentence.) It’s pretty psycho, if you ask me.
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Who here is somewhat knowledgeable about comic books / graphic novels? This quarter we have to choose one to read in my AP Lang class. We’re reading Maus as a class, so that’s out. I’m thinking either Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, or The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1, but I’m open for any suggestions.
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Today is Neil Young’s birthday!
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