All aboard! …as the good ship MuseBlog sets sail into a new year of Random Threads. Eras in history will be our ports of call, and where could be more fitting to begin our odyssey than in the home regions of the original Muses?
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HAPPY NEW YEAR PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!
Did you see the red bull guy jump the river in the Subaru??? Just asking.
Hi everybody, it’s January second, I turn eleven today!
2010!!!
Happy new year musers!!!!! WOOT!!!! 2010!!!!
Hope this one goes better than the last
first post?
YESS!!!!! I got the first post on the random thread! *dances* Sorry, I’m incredibly tired. Otherwise I wouldn’t be so obnoxious…..
It was interesting to load the ‘blog and not have a random thread there for a moment, but then it appeared, as though by magic.
I need to go sleep. Goodnight. Happy New Year.
Happy New Year! College apps finally done!
…except for the one that’s due Feb 1, but let’s not talk about that.
Kyehehe. This is weird. It’s still 2009 here. I’m one hour away from 2010 right now.
Ooh, shiny. Sorry, it’s late, and I’m being random. SQUIRREL!
Leaving before I implode the thread…
Prosit Neujahr!
SHINY!!!!!!! *pokes*
Anyways, happy new year! I just woke up, but I didn’t even bother trying to stay up.
Happy New Year, World!!!
Happy 2010 everybody! It’s weird to write 1/1/10 instead of 0 something.
I love the picture Lady B! (Even though it sounds only temporary, still pretty.) The graphics are cool.
On other news…..hmm, what to say? I should probably be doing homework right now. *grumblegrumble* I don’t have all that much time left in the break unfortunately, and my procrastinating is getting worse and worser…
And what are everyone’s resolutions for 2010?
Mine are to…stop procrastinating? So much for that one…
Morning, everyone. *yawn*
I’d like to point out to anyone who thinks otherwise that the new decade doesn’t start for another year.
Oh yeah…no year 0. I forgot.
My dad and I were debating that last night. Everyone was saying on TV how it’s the “end of the decade” or what not, but we were saying how isn’t it technically NEXT year the end of the “official” decade? Or does the decade include 2000?
You have to admit, however, that watching a string of nines turn into zeroes is more exciting than watching a terminal zero turn into a one. For purposes of getting along with other people, I usually find it expedient to pretend that the decade starts with a round number and that the first decade in the “A.D.” system was nine years long.
(Besides, everybody knows that Year Zero of the MuseBlog Era began on August 1, 2005.)
A friend and I reached a truce by deciding that the personal decision depended on whether you were anxious to get the decade behind you or not. (She was, I wasn’t, for those keeping score.) Perhaps years ending in zero should be demilitarized zones.
Then again, if you go strictly by the numbers, the “Noughts” are over even if the decade isn’t.
Ay chihuahua, I just realized I forgot my MB birthday. I’m fwee yeaws old.
Happy Birfday to you! Happy Birfday to you! Happy Birfday dear Pwggy – ok, I’ll stop now.
Happy MB Birthday, Piggy!
Gosh, I haven’t seen you people all year!
I’m 1.5 MB years old.
I’m… almost 1.5 MB years old! I think my half-birthday’s the 31st of February….
I am very nearly 1 MB year old… March fourth, I believe, is my “birthday.”
P.S. I like your avatar, Rainbow*Star! (Ohmigosh, that rhymed!!!!)
March 4th? Wow, I’m “older” than you! I thought you’d been around forever!
“Older” by how much? Oddly, I consider you to hae been around forever!
*pumps air and hisses, “yes!”*
I always think people think of me as one of those annoying people who never gets out of ‘phytedom. (Wow, it would be awkward if everyone did.) I thought you’d been around here for at least a half year to a year before me. It’s because I started posting a bit in February, but apparently my posts were invisible, as they were some of the most obnoxious, uncapitalized posts I’ve ever seen, but nobody ever directed me to the neophytes thread, or yell at me, or even bothered to correct my posts. Then I stopped posting for a while, sometime before the blog went down, and came back a bit after it got back up, at which point I had figured out proper etiquette, and began focusing on improving my blog posts.
That was a longer response than necessary. Enjoy it, or skip to line 4 for your answer.
*coughs awkwardly*
I knew it!
/ feel like\ felt like you’ve been here forever.
Really? God. I’m officially 3.5 years old. (officially). I feel old.
I’m technically older than you? Skills. For once I think I like being aged…
-A
I’m .75 MB years old. (9 months)
Happy New Year!! The picture is great!!
Cool picture! HAppy new year!
HAPPY NEW YEAR PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah, I got a red dragon from the gift tree and I need some suggestions on what to name it.
Drakon? Umm, Rubey? Saphira? Alek? These are just random names, you know.
Rubeus.
Happy New Year!
Happy new year!!!! 2010: two more years until the apocolypse! Rock on. I’m watching the Rose Bowl Parade right now. The floats are gorgeous.
Happy New Year! (Just to go along with the general theme of these posts.) New starts, hopefully I won’t have a breakdown this year
Happy MB birthday, Piggy!
You need to get yourself over to the Kokonventions thread right this instant, missy, because I know you live in Minnesota and probably want to attend a Kokonvention. Go. Now.
Happy New Year, everybody!
I love the picture! Pretty colors…
I find it sick that on the Borders website, under the teens bestsellers list, the only books are twilight and numerous other black and depressing-looking books.
I second that.
SFTDP
15.1- I might name it Saphira…
Happy New Year, everybody! Love the picture!
It does feel weird to look down at the bottom of my screen and see the date as “January 01, 2010”. Really weird.
So it’s a sticky matter as to if the Zeroes are over or now, but I’m with Robert in that the real end is the end of this year.
10- My resolution is to write more, but since my parents are making us spend today out of the house, I don’t know if I’ll be able to start today.
!!! Forty minutes until the Doctor Who special comes out in Britain! Of course then everyone’s got to watch it…and someone has to record it and put it on YouTube…but still! -jumps up and down in excitement-
Oh, and happy 2010 everyone.
End of time?
Merry 2010! Hey, 2010 is easier to type than 2009!
Hrmmph. My maths teacher sent out an email saying we would have a happy new year unless we forgot our maths homework. Nice way to start the decade?
Plock! Plock, I say! Plock!
Happy 2010, everyone!
Let’s hope that is decade is far greater and less tragic than the one preceding it.
*yawns* Bored. I don’t really see the reason for all the fuss.
Happy online birthday to me.
-A
I stayed up til midnight but I went to bed right afterwards. I was just reading and watching TV, so it wasn’t like I was having a huge celebration or anything. The new year is always exciting, but for my family Chinese New Year is a bigger deal. All of our Chinese relatives come over then, not now. And we usually have a bunch of big meals, parties, etc. It’s really fun, but it means that the “American” New Year isn’t that exciting in comparison.
If Fishy happens to come onto the blog, we really need him on the Romantic Musical Comedy thread.
Oh, that reminds me…I think I should be on there too.
Sorry.
2010. Finnallyyy!
I’ve discovered a Trader Joe’s where I live! It’s pretty awesome inside, all these random goodies and hawaiian print shirts.
I love Trader Joe’s! It’s like my mom’s heaven.
All the people are really nice and friendly too and they’re always having these contests…oh yes, and the Hawaiian shirts. I got one of those for writing to the company’s manager. He sent it back with a $10 gift card.
Rejoice! Have you gotten their chocolate croissants (that must be baked) yet? They are delicious.
I highly recommend the Oyster Crackers and the instant mushroom tortellini. *yum*
Also, the Coffee Blast ice cream and the meringues.
Ooh, everything sounds delicious! So far I’ve only tasted their tamales, adn their kettle corn, and their penguin gummies with liquid tummies. *squishes penguin tummy*
*maniacal laughter*
I love how everyone has something to say about their favourite food from Trader Joe’s.
(Hmm… There were some chocolate-covered little pellet things, if you can find them. I forget what the fruit was inside… Some kind of berry. But anyway.)
-A
Oh! And chocolate-covered soy nuts! Get those.
Oh yeah! I love those! They’re chocolate covered raisins are also really good!
*their
Happy New Year!
Oooh, I like the picture!
SFTDP Oops, I forgot I already posted a similar message. Sorry!
GAH! What is the world coming to?
Why does it keep happening that my posts disappear and reappear where I don’t want them? The one I just made was supposed to be in response to Post number 20, but somehow it ended up down here. What’s going on?
That happened to me with one other thread. I forgot what it was – I thought I put the post in the “leave a comment” box but it ended up as a reply to some post…I should go and check what thread it was on and see what happened to it. *tries to remember thread* Was it the dreams thread?…?
Has anyone found the Doctor Who special on youtube yet? I haven’t managed to.
35- No, alas. But not for lack of trying. I’ve done a search like every half an hour and nothing comes up.
Luna might know where to get it NOT on YouTube, but she isn’t here. And I have a party this evening so I won’t be able to watch it until tomorrow.
Sorry…..I’m having as much trouble as all of you. I came on here hoping one of you would’ve found it…..
Oh, and Happy New Year, all!
Parts 1 and 2 of Part 2 are on Youtube.
I just watched it on Megavideo.
Happy Random Pie HPB-free Muse Year, everybody! It was a blue moon! And on the other Muse website, can I have support on my theory that math and Kokopelli are similar in purpose? There is math involved in both music and throwing pies. But, sadly, Kokopelli couldn’t understand when I explained it to him. Could anybody give me some suggestions?
Thank you to the GAPA for editing my earlier post to include the image.
-A
Happy New Year! It’s 2010!
*has a splitting headache from staying up late, sleeping late, and spending too much time around loud people*
36- I love Doctor Who! I don’t have cable so the only way I was able to watch part one of the special was by watching it down at my Grandmother’s house. I don’t know how I’m going to watch part two.
SFTDP
15.1- On the theme of Eragon, I think I will name him Thorn because he is red.
20 – Whenever I go to a Borders, It seems to me that half of the teen section is a shrine to Twilight and other vampire-related media, and the other half is graphic novels.
So… Not really sure where this should go, but I guess the random thread is as good as any.
Has anybody ever heard of claddagh rings?
-A
For those of you who haven’t, they’re characterised by two hands extending from the band holding a heart, which usually has a crown on it.
http://grab.by/1udd That’s me, wearing the one I stole from M… It’s on the wrong finger because I wanted to make it more visible, though because her hands are smaller than mine, I can’t get it all the way down my finger.
Traditionally, the claddagh ring is worn in four different positions. When the ring is worn on the right hand with the heart facing in (the crown pointing outwards), it signifies that the wearer is in a serious relationship (the heart is pointing up the arms and towards the wearer’s own heart). With the heart facing outward and the crown in, the ring signifies that the wearer is looking for love (the heart is pointing outward and toward prospective lovers).
On the left hand, some say that worn either way, the ring signifies being married… But I like the other interpretation better, which is that when the heart is pointing outward the wearer is engaged and when it is inward the wearer is married.
Fun stuff. I want one now. Or really any ring from her would be nice…
Small bit of trivia: She’s taking Metalworking next semester (never would have guessed – Practical Arts requirement much?) and will possibly have made several rings by the end of the class.
Anyway. Carry on.
-A
Yes! I have one, but I haven’t been wearing it lately. I got it several years ago, though, so I don’t know if it fits anymore. Still, I like the idea of them!
Oh, I’ve heard of those, but I didn’t know what they were called.
It’s an interesting idea!
I have one of those rings!
I’m sorry that I haven’t posted often, guys and gals of MuseBlog.
January 3rd is J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday! Are any of you celebrating it? I am going to go to Powell’s Bookstore, the largest bookstore in the United States (to my knowledge) and I will buy a lot of books to celebrate.
Bobby
Nope; I’m not celebrating it.
-A
No. I didn’t even know.
Piggy is impressed with neither the latest trunk build of Minefield nor the Opera pre-alpha.
Ugghh. I just came off a heavy Archive Binging Wiki Walk on TvTropes….I’m thinking in them now, and trying to decide if I possibly qualify as a Cloudcuckoolander Bad— Bookworm.
…The Bad— part might just be my imagination.
On other news, we visited my cousins today…or yesterday, seeing as how it’s currently past midnight. The highlight of the visit was dessert. We had choklit truffles and cake and cheesecake for dessert. We ended up bringing the cake, at least, home with us. Breakfast tomorrow morning, yum.
choklit….. *does zombie impression* Okay, I’ve gotta stop. I’ll share virtual choklit with you all, how about that?
….And now bed. Because school starts Monday, and I have to somewhat normalize my sleep schedule before then. This means going to bed at 3:30 instead of 5. Hopefully I’ll shave off a half hour or hour each day, and be bright and chipper when school starts.
*facepalm* Who am I trying to kid here? It’ll go right back the minute I have a long paper due the next day…
Cool picture!
Anyways, I’m gonna write a haiku a day for a year on [Snip! Sorry. We don’t allow references to personal websites. –Admin.].
Darn. Oh well.
So… my new year starts out with me going skiing, so I’ll be gone for the next week or so, maybe with an occasional appearance…
47- *never wrote a haiku in her life before*
*probably should add that to her resolutions list, which is very, very long by now*
This year has started out with everyone piling heaps of food on me, so I’ll take that as a good omen.
15- Rubin? You could mix up German words like Drache, Lindwurm, Rot, Feuer, Flamme to make a name of your own, for example.
Wait…am I missing something here? What happened to the other picture? Well, anyway, I actually like this picture better. Much thanks, Lady B!
The other picture was a one-day-only New Year’s card. The sailboat mosaic (or sail-Bo-at Bo-saic?) launches this year’s historically themed random threads.
♥ the new picture!
That may be the most lovely Bo-saic I have ever seen.
I just discovered something wonderful. Has anyone ever been to the store Anthropologie? They have the most adorable clothes, it’s true, and also very lovely-smelling candles, but I think my favorite thing about that store has to be their doorknobs. I just bought a pair for my desk that look like checkerboards, and they’re really cool. I’m going back to buy a set for my door. One knob says ‘Enter’ on it, and the other one says ‘Exit’. They’re really great. Pray I don’t mix them up on installation.
Yes, I did just spend that entire post talking about doorknobs. *headdesk* I’m gonna go do my homework now.
46- It’s okay, I personally hoped I was a Bad*** Bookworm, too. (Oh, and the entry for Story Musgrave on that page was written by me.)
We’re time-warping this year for our Random Threads? Cool!
52- Egad, Anthropologie is so expensive…
Both Megavideo and YouTube have failed me (Megavideo didn’t have anything, YouTube had skipped like ten minutes at least), so I’m downloading some weird torrent thing. Or trying to. It’s been at 0% for like five minutes. CURSE YOU! -goes back to YouTube-
Agreed. That doorknob was 42 dollars. Yipes. Talk about impulse buy.
I like the picture, Lady B!
Wow! Awesome picture! Happy new year, guys.
So I finally watched the whole End of Time. I started on YouTube, but the picture sucked and didn’t keep up with the sound, so I found something else, which cut off like twenty minutes early, so I went back to YouTube and the picture had improved, but there was a huge chunk missing, so I actually found the megavideo version and watched that. Then I went on Doctor Who wiki and tried to read about the Time Lords, but my brain exploded from the inconsistencies so I stopped.
Matt Smith…seems all right. Sure I only saw like one minute with him, but I think I could learn to like him. “I’m a girl! No, I’m not a girl. I’m not a girl…I’m still not ginger!” He does seem rather youthful. That’s the word for him actually. Youth, as in the noun, referring to a boy or young man. But he must be able to pull it off or he wouldn’t have been cast…darn, spring is so very far away… I wonder if iTunes has Classic Who…
-runs off muttering to herself-
I liked End of Time a lot but I’m still not sure about Matt Smith. He’s too young.
Oh, I definitely agree. And everyone seems to look younger than they are under a camera. But I have higher hopes than I did earlier. I do miss David Tennant a bit already. I wish his time as the Doctor had ended better; I found the specials all fell a little flat. I miss season two. But alas, there’s nothing for it. Doctors continue to regenerate and the show changes over time…
I’d like to see the 1996 movie, with Paul McGann as the Doctor. I like him, and I’d like to see how he plays the Doctor.
I liked it, too, more than I expected. Better on the whole than the usual Christmas special, perhaps because it was more interesting than invading hordes of Daleks or Cybermen.
I’m with Alice, I’m going to be optimistic about Matt Smith. After so many questions about his suitability, I imagine the writers will find some ways to have some fun with his age.
I have always felt that the season finales are too depressing, especially season 2
Robert! Or anyone else who would know–who was the narrator of the JS&MN audiobook that was really good? I kind of want to get it off iTunes but only if it’s good. Oh, and I was going to save my iTunes money…and I have read JS&MN lots and lots…oh dear…hm…
Alice: Simon Prebble narrated the audiobook I listened to. I liked him very much, apart from the occasional eccentricity (e.g., mispronouncing “sidhe”).
58.1- Do you think he was good enough to warrant spending my entire iTunes gift certificate on the audiobook despite having already read the print-and-paper book about five or six times?
Alice: My usual motto in cases like this is “Novelty is the best policy.” You must have the book almost memorized by now; isn’t there something new you’re longing for and might not get otherwise?
Not at the moment, no. Well yes, but I can’t get it off iTunes. Besides there isn’t time for me to start something new, not with school starting up again soon and two plays. But I decided against it anyways. I’m always involved in some kind of story, be it books, TV, movies, music, radio– and there isn’t any room in my head for MY stories. Anyway I’ve got to do homework; an audiobook would only distract me.
Alice: What audiobooks are really good for, in my experience, is long stretches of tedious chores that don’t require full attention. They’re better than music when I’m doing weekend-long cleanups with lots of sorting and filing, or preparing my taxes, or driving long distances. But you’re right that they’d be too much of a distraction for anything involving real mental effort.
Yeah, that’s what I use them for. I also listen to the radio/podcasts when I’m doing chores–This American Life, or Radiolab, or The Moth, but I’m a bit tired of sifting through back episodes for ones I haven’t already heard
I saw Avatar. It was easily the best movie I’ve ever seen. EVER. And I never say that about any movies. I mean…. wow. It was so amazing. The special effects were out of this world! (What a pun…) I won’t say anymore, because I’ll end up ranting and spoiling half the movie.
But GO SEE IT NOW!
That’ all I’ll say.
I loved the special effects. They were awesome. As for the rest:
SPOILER SPOILER AVATAR SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER AVATAR SPOILER SPOILER
Special Effects: A++
Acting: B- (The Na’vi weren’r supposed to speak English well.)
Plot: D+
Here’s why: It contradicted itself. It’s supposed to be anti-militarism, pro-environmentalism, but most of the visual effects and stuff were wasted on the military people. How Pandora works is mentioned once, and the rest is violent action. How is the plot started? Violence. How is it built? Violence. How is the conflict resolved?! Violence. I mean, really. Militarism is pro-violence, almost imperialism. This movie is (supposedly) anti-militarism. Yet everything is almost all violence. *shakes head at stupid people who think violence wins audiences* *shakes head at stupider people who violence does win*
Overall: C-
Hm. Are you really complaining that the plot was flawed, or that the movie didn’t deliver the message you expected?
Both, really. The plot was poor too, it was cliched “Big machine loving general tries to kill peaceful native people” except the peaceful native people were violent, and so was the general. So not only is it a poor cliche, but it’s a bad imitation of a poor cliche.
No. The special effects were the best you’ve ever seen. The actual movie was terrible. The writing, the directing, the acting–all lackluster at best. Please learn to separate SFX from the rest of the movie.
Yup, I agree. (See 60.1)
Of course, you don’t know what specific movies BtB has seen for comparison.
Brilliant picture, Lady B!
*is impatiently waiting for Megavideo to buffer a smidge so she can watch Doctor Who*
*considers writing thank you note #3 (also known as last thank you note she has to write)*
*decides she doesn’t want to right now*
*changes her mind as her mother will probably murder her if she doesn’t have something on her list finished when mom gets home and besides that would be something to do while waiting for the vid to buffer…..*
Hmm… what I’m doing right now is similar to what you did first.
*waits for day to end so I can watch “Army of Ghosts” and “Doomsday”*
I can only watch 2 Dr. Who episodes a day!
Parental rule. :^P
My parental rule is currently (unspokenly) watch so much stuff you exceed our download limit and we get charged ungodly amounts and you will die. So all I’ve watched so far this month is Dr. Who End of Time part 2. Well, minus the last 10 minutes–dratted Megavideo decided I couldn’t watch more than 61 minutes today. So I have to wait 16 minutes to watch the last 10.
Speaking of DW, though, the scene with Captain Jack…..If I’d been alone (say, at my dorm at school, w/o a roomie present), I would’ve been sobbing. I mean, in the context of Torchwood (which many of you don’t know)….oh, god, it was heartbreaking. And now I’m on the edge of tears again.
Ooh, ooh, I was going to ask you about that scene. What was up? Does Alonso die, or was that scene AFTER everyone died? Do tell.
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Jack’s lover died in Season 3 Torchwood, and at the end of that Season, we see him leaving surviving Torchwood 3 member Gwen and her husband Rhys as he takes off to explore the Universe, in the hopes of getting over his loss, presumably. So, as a result, I found it sad, the Doctor stopping off to hook Jack up with someone, and seeing Jack, knowing he’s there trying to get over his loss, and seeing him finally starting to get over it (which is good, don’t get me wrong)…..Even thinking about it still makes me tear up. I still haven’t forgiven RTD for killing Ianto off…..*sigh*
And the internet says that the people in that bar were a reference to a previous Doctor Who Christmas special, the one with Donna. This all reminds me that I need to finish seasons two and three and the Christmas Specials. (I, er, got to college and was first shown the end of season three, then season four. I watched season one with my family and began to watch Season two on my own. I’ve seen Blink and some other random season three ones but then I remember I haven’t seen everything. I’ve also seen various random ones with the First Doctor, Four, and Three. (not all at once))
The people in the bar, so far as I picked up on, were just alien species that had been encountered by the doctor throughout the new series…..Maybe I didn’t read enough into that part–I was too busy mentally squeeing “Captain jack!” and then trying not to cry….
This is the first time I’ve been able to get on today…and it looks like the GAPAs haven’t gotten on either because my post form last night is still unmoderated. I hate it when the Internet goes all funky like this. SFTDP, if in fact there are no posts between mine.
I just was looking at the Triangular Sentences thread, scrolling up quickly, and now my head is lolling from side to side and I feel like fainting and everything I’m typing is repeating itself in my head in a sing-song…and Pseudonym says…something but I can’t hear from sensory overload.
*dies*
*raises one weak finger* GAPAs, delete that thread! Harmful…to…senses! *dies again*
STFDP. I meant harmful to health
SFTTP. I meant SFTDP
Hmmm. I appear to have gotten zapped. That’s OK, because I went crazy for a small while because of overload on triangular sentences. I warn people against that thread – it’s dangerous. *shudder*
Happy New Year!!!
PICTURE ADORATION. I love this one!!
Mkay, too many posts to catch up on at the moment.
We went contra dancing tonight, funfunfunfunfun! It’s been awhile, so I’m glad we got to go. *continues dancing*
Hey Robert, a question for you: how do you swing with short people? I was dancing with Phil, who’s a foot and 2 inches taller than me, and there were a few technical difficulties. I know you contra dance so…..what’s the trick to doing a proper swing with someone who’s short? :lol
You do the best you can… For real fun with technical difficulties, try doing spins in the opposite situation, when the woman is more than a foot taller than her partner, something that has happened to me several times.
The best solution I’ve found is for the tall person to scrunch down. (I’m usually the “scruncher” rather than the “scrunchee,” as you can imagine.) Swinging with your knees bent brings your centers of gravity closer together and gives your legs a good workout. It’s just a workaround, unfortunately; in my experience, physics dictates that the best swings occur between people of similar height.
I adore the fact that M and I used to be exactly the same height and are still fairly close. It makes swinging a breeze.
That one contra dance where we didn’t know each other yet…. Priceless.
-A
We do love our ships! I could easily do a whole year of them.
Please do!
66- I am intensely envious. I MUST go dancing again only I haven’t really anyone to dance WITH and I haven’t any transportation and I work on Saturdays, which happens to be day when the dances are.
Hmmm… reading the immensely trustable source known as Wikipedia, I gleaned some information about Series 5.
1- The Weeping Angels will return
2- There will be an episode with Van Gogh (spelling?) stabbing a big yellow monster
3- Stephen Moffat will return. (Most of you know this already)
1. Yay!
2. Maybe it’ll explain how he lost his ear.
3. Who?
1. “Yay” is hardly the word I would use to describe the Weeping Angels.
2. We KNOW how he lost his ear. He cut it off and gave it to a girl.
3. Only the author of some of the best episodes in the new series and the new head writer. That’s all.
Perhaps that’s only the explanation he gave…
I would like to wish a happy birthday to Cicero. 2116 years young.
Aha. And this morning, I woke up at http :// grab.by/1vEn.
Good for you, those who know what this is. Bonus points if you explain it to those who don’t understand.
-A
Fibbonacci sequence!
Except I misspelled that. Oops.
Yay! My avatar showed up!
Ay chihuahua, I completely forgot! An enormously happy birthday to Lady Bunniful! Many happy returns.
Happy Birthday, Lady Bunniful!
72- It’s Rebecca’s birthday?! Three cheers! -throws pie and confetti- Happy, happy birthday, Lady B.!
Happy birthday, Lady Bunniful and SilverLeopard!!
Happy birthday, Lady B! *glomps while discreetly slipping present box into your pocket*
*realizes that box is empty*
Heh…. heh… it’s an invisible present! Yeah! *nodnod*
Happy birthday Lady B!!! *gives choklit shaped like and HPB*
68.1.1- Yes, but this is Dr. Who. The real story MUST be stranger.
So I think I’ll be free today, except that my mom is making me read two chapters from the college book. But I’ll stay on as long as I can.
Happy birthday Lady Bunniful!
Happy Birthday, Rebecca!
*strangles self* I have just lost the game. Ugggggggggggg……
Sorry.
*gives Lady B present*
It’s a HPB.
78- It doesn’t get much stranger than that, though. I mean really. What sort of person would think that their ear was a nice present?
I dunno… I think my ears look rather nice…
*gives Lady B. a present that looks suspiciously like my ear*
Enjoy!
Well, it was only a piece of his ear, not the whole thing. And it’s not like he was exactly in his right mind at the time. Personally, I think sharing a house with Gaugin would send anyone around the bend, let alone someone who had pre-existing problems.
Wasn’t there a Muse article about this?
This Halloween, which happened to be the day my dad killed the lambs, my parents went out to the bar and my dad, who was dressed as a mad scientist, had a peice of lamb ear in his pocket and gave it to some random guy.
Isn’t there some Holmes story about that?
Happy birthday, Lady B!
Happy Birthday, Lady B!
I have to make a tessellation for geometry, so I drew a shape and decided it looks like a bat…but when I tried to fill in bat features it ended up looking like a winged kitten. I should color it pink…
Oh. My. Lord.
That’s EXACTLY what happened to me last year! We had to do a tessellation in math, I made it a bat, AND it looked like winged kittens with fangs! Eep!
Happy Birthday, Lady B!
76-Yay! Invisible presents are fun!
Happy birthday, Lady B! I hope it is completely flamablamablous!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LADY BUNNIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *pies*
Thank you so much for your incredible dedication in moderating and contributing to the conversations on MuseBlog, and for the multitude of astounding artwork gracing our home page every day!!!!!!!! *Big cyber hugz*
Happy Birthday!!!
The new picture is epically shiny and mosaicesque (new word!)
Me gusta.
*pies with Birthday Pies*
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday Lady Bunniful/ Rebecca Lasley/ O Awesome GAPA person/ photoshop mu-use,
Happy Birthday to you! *clapping*
My gift to you is the most amazing birthday cake one can imagine. Too bad it’s invisible.
Woah, woah, guys. I just realized something: the tallest thing ever built by mankind is opening tomorrow.
The Burj Dubai. 818 meters–2684 feet. Over half a mile tall. Forty mph elevators. 160 floors.
It’s the fourth here, so now it has opened.
(twas on the news an hour ago)
Happy Birthday, Lady B! *birthday pies* *gives choklit
s* May they help you take over the w– Um, nevermind.
Happy Birthday Lady Bunniful! May you have many pie-filled years to come! *gives specially iced birthday pies*
On the subject of Van Gogh: Was Gaugin really that bad?
My tessellation failed.
I realised that it wasn’t actually a tessellation so I had to add stuff and now it doesn’t look like a bat anymore. 
Wow. I think my (and my sister’s) addiction to computers has reached an all-time high. We are both on our laptops, playing a Scrabble-like game online together. We’re sitting in adjacent rooms in the house. She’s about twenty feet to my left. *sigh*
Well, my sister and I have sat in the same room together (as in, less than 3 feet away from each other) and carried on an IM conversation before…..
In class I sometimes talk to my friends through Gmail chat, because we’re not allowed to be “talking” while we do our work.
While I’m posting here, I might as well say…I’m back from Thailand! I got back yesterday, and there was school today!
Anyway, ’twas fun 
Hmm.. One person in my class just got back from Thailand as well… and there’s school today here!
My sister have done that too before, but in different rooms. Which is a (bit) better, but not by much…
*My sister and I have done that too before, but in different rooms. Sheesh, I keep messing up on my typing. Sorry.
Have you ever heard of the series, The Darwin Awards? It’s really funny, because it’s all about the world stupidest people “removing themselves from the gene pool for the benefit of the rest of us.
Yes, I have. Last year on the way to camp one of the counselors had that on the bus. Quite entertaining.
I can’t believe I just blew my chance to go to the balldrop…
Happy Belated Birthday Rebecca! (Sorry I’m a day late…)
Bo the sea cow! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Yes! ! ! ! ! ! !
Ugh. So, I’m getting my wisdom teeth pulled today. At noon. So, of course, not only do I wake up absolutely starving (I can’t eat before, they told me couldn’t eat 6 hours before, my mom upped that to couldn’t eat 12 hours before….Which to be fair, I don’t normally eat between midnight and 6, anyway).
So, yeah, I’m not only starving, but I’ve woken up with a headache. I almost never wake up with a headache. I get headaches during the day from not enough to eat or from not enough sleep (or a combination there of, but usually from not enough to eat), but I almost never wake up with them. But, oh, no, of course when I’m going to be getting my teeth gouged out of my head i would wake up with a headache. Gah.
Anyway, yeah, fun times await me today. Off to go take a shower…..
Good luck, Luna! I hope your experience will go as smoothly as mine did.
Thanks, Lady B! I hope so as well…..
Best of luck!
Or maybe 
, depending on how you view it.
Happy (belated) birthday, Rebecca!
Did my post not go through? I said Happy belated birthday, Rebecca in it.
Yes, it’s just above this one. And thank you!
All right! It must’ve done that funny thing where it disappears until it has been moderated.
Okay, so I have sixty dollars to Barnes & Noble. What should I get? Suggestions?
No school today! I love having In Service right after a long break…extra days are great.
Well, mostly for catching up on all the homework I procrastinated for two weeks. *sigh* Thankfully I’m finally finished all written homework, but I still need to study…
Winter break ended!
I didn’t find it as difficult as I thought I would, only getting up… *yawns*
I have a crazy headache, and I have a lot of homework… I took two Ibuprofens, and waited an hour. It’s still throbbing. Anybody have advice on how to get rid of a headache?
Sleep.
At first I thought that said sheep.
Water, and sleep.
Jeez, everybody’s got headaches lately. I’ve had one for three days….
Hmm. My mom says massaging the spot in between your thumb and pointer finger sometimes helps with migraines (which is what I have).
Well, I just got back from getting my wisdom teeth out……My whole chin, lower lip, and cheeks all the way up to my ears are numb–and my tongue, too. My tongue feels like a giant cotton ball–need water. Which I’ll get here shortly, but I’m supposed to be clamping down on the gauze currently in my mouth for a few more minutes before I do anything (that is, for an hour after surgery, total).
So far nothing hurts much, but everything’s still so numb….I was “out” for the surgery, but there were several times I sorta remember what was going on–I remember a couple different times when the drill got switched on to work on my lower teeth, and I think a time when the surgeon told me to open my mouth further……
On the bright side: My headache is gone. Plus, I no longer feel like I’m dying of starvation……I mean, I think I’m a smidge hungry, but not the omg I’m going to die hungry I was before……
She lives! Courage, Luna!
Unfortunately, once most of the numbness started to wear off (my left cheek is still a wee bit numb on the outside) my teeth started to ache, although that could be partly due to eating dinner…..Pasta stuff, but it still required enough chewing that it irritated where my teeth used to be.
Not to mention, when the left half of your tongue and your entire left cheek are numb, eating is rather complicated–and when you can’t open your mouth very far witnout it hurting.
Now, my left cheeks is very slightly numb still, I’ve got a headache, but my teeth right this moment are too bad. Of course, about half an hour ago I threw up everthing I ate–possibly due to the Hydrocodone tablet I took at 8:30, but more likely due to not having gotten enough to eat today combined with the headache. I tend to get nauseous and throw up if I don’t eat enough, especially if I get a headache.
The throwing up wouldn’t’ve been that bad, except oh god did it sting my two bottom sockets, t he ones that are sutured shut. *shudder* That really hurt, but fortunately t hey don’t sting anymore……
“The Girl Who Lives” Yay Luna!
bookgirl_me, Bookworm, Elias Eiholzer-Silver, and gimanator: I’ve been thinking for a few days here about the fantasy noir RRR. What happened to that? Elias wrote a wonderful opening, then no one else posted. I think we should try to start that up again. Not sure if we’ll be able to find the Bookworm or giminator (I don’t think I’ve seen them recently), but perhaps we could find someone else? I think that was a really good set of ideas that deserves to be written.
If you can find the thread again I’d be happy to try and keep it going. Although it’s not really the usual fiction I write
I wanted to join, but the organizing thread died.
You’re more than welcome to join.
The “fantasy noir” thread is at https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=3213 .
Hi, Bo.
(Arrgh, wisdom teeth. Feel wise yet?)
Anyway, I’m getting my PS3 Slim 120 gig off Amazon tomorrow!! Yayz and w00tz. I also got The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and CoD4. Hippity Hoppity Muse-Bloggy new year!
I was just doing homework on the Time 50 best inventions of 2009: I had to choose one and research it. I chose number 20, the Electric Microbe. It was interesting…this professor from UMass Amherst discovered a bacteria which could oxidize natural components using iron the same way humans use oxygen, and can therefore convert petroleum, radioactive metals, and other harmful pollutants into carbon dioxide. Which is a good thing. Also, it can produce electricity – people are researching ways to harness electricity so they can make microbial fuel cells which could power cars and medical devices. The bacterium can produce clean energy from wastewater, which I believe also takes care of waste. I really hope that they find some way to convert energy. This sounds like a good solution for the current Climate Issues.
And by the way, Luna? I’m very sorry to hear that you’re in pain! Getting my wisdom teeth out is like one of my biggest fears for the future
Thanks–it’s not too bad, I mean, they’re throbbing, but right now it’s more my headache than my teeth. And the headache is the smae headache I get anytime I go too long without eating–as I did this morning, due to having surgery…..I’m hoping at the very least my headache will be gone in the morning, which will do a lot to improve how I feel. Right now, I’m thinking of calling it an early night and going to bed within 10/15 minutes–at only 10:30. early, for me.
So we had all this homework today, and I felt awful, but then I finished, and I got on the computer and went to NASA.gov, like I always do.
And I found out the Kepler space telescope has discovered five new planets. Everything just kind of fell away.
And I just felt GOOD.
Happiness!!!!
So, The Darwin Awards. Has anyone heard of the series? Like I said, it’s about the worlds stupidest and cockiest people “removing themselves from the gene pol for the benefit of others.” There was one, really funny one;
Darwin Award: Wrong Time, Wrong Place
A man tried to commit a robbery in Renton, Washington. It was probably his first attempt at armed robbery, as suggested by the fact that he had no previous record of violent crime, and by his terminally stupid choices:
1. The target was H & J Leather and Firearms. A gun shop.
2. The shop was full of customers—firearms customers.
3. To enter the shop, the robber had to step around a marked police car parked at the front door.
4.An officer in uniform was standing next to the counter, having coffee before reporting to duty.
Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a holdup and fired a few wild shots. The officer and a clerk promptly returned fire, covered by several customers who also drew their guns, thereby removing the confused criminal from the gene pool. No one else was hurt.
It’s one of my favorite ones.
107- Oh, right. I was thinking about that one… I’ll try to stop by and do my share.
110- Lucky. Very lucky.
I’ll try to keep about ranting from my situation, which is as follows:
In this loverly school system, usually you have a half-year “notice” and a full-year report card. The first isn’t a real report card; just a sort of feedback about the first semester. Except that with one of the marvelous new reforms, the semesters are now independent from one another and what was formerly a “half-term feedback” is now another report card. Which means that by January 22, all grades must be in. Unfortunately, that means that now every teacher has to squeeze some sort of test into the timeframe and can’t do one big test a year or just do two in the second semester. So I still have two different Biology exams, one portfolio due in three days which I was supposed to work on all semester but I haven’t started yet, a latin exam and an english exam and another english presentation in the next 11 school days ’til the end. Which sounds easy, if it wasn’t for the fact that if you’re between grades and teachers can’t decide, you’re supposed to give a presentation or take an extra exam to better your grade. *sigh* I think I’ll need one in latin and possibly in science and/or geography. I’m doing pretty well on tests, but since I keep falling asleep in the latter two classes…
110.1-
Made my day…
And a very, very belated Happy birthday to Lady B.!
Sounds just like the American school system.
Somehow, I can’t help but think that we’re importing all the bad stuff to replace the advantages, and keeping all the bad stuff. At least we don’t have the all-schools-should-teach-the-same cake (yet).
Actually, we just had the reverse happen. We used to have first semester and second semester grades independent of each other. Each semester was 0.5 credits, so you could for example fail the first semester of one class and pass the second, then only have to make up the first semester. Then our oh-so-wonderful superintendent (who also, may I add, heavily disapproves of the gifted education program) decided that classes should become 1 credit for the whole year instead of 0.5 per semester: no more semester grades and no more midterms. The result? Seniors have more troubles getting their grade sheets for college applications, and teachers give huge “cumulative tests” that span over the course of several days instead of one nice, neat midterm test block. *grumble*
I need some advice.
Has anyone here competed in high school forensics and done a piece for Prose? (It’s a category in which the performer takes a selection from a novel and reads it). I need a good piece, because our first tourney is in three weeks. But I’m not sure which book to choose from. Does anyone have any book suggestions?
Hm… I’d say it’s important to find a book that highlights your strengths and hides your weaknesses. How good are you at different accents? At creating different characters and switching from one to another quickly? Can you “speak” convincingly as a man? As an old person?
I’m fairly good at accents and character stances, and I can change characters pretty fast. In one hand, however, I have to be holding a small binder with my script, so that can hinder hand gestures. And I like acting as old people, and especially French people. Men are fairly difficult but I can pull it off with some practice.
1. Why the cake haven’t you picked one sooner? Three weeks away? My forensics coach would be killing you right about now.
2. Why the cake does your school wait so long? I’ve been competing for months already. Or are you just taking it second semester?
3. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a novel. If it’s not poetry or drama, you can use it. That opens up short stories and many other things. But I can’t think of anything good off the top of my head.
1. We weren’t aware of the date until today. And oral interp contestants also have to compete in poetry, so it’s not like I haven’t been working on anything.
2. Not sure. We usually start after the first semester, because all contestants are required to pass a class course with the coach before we are allowed to join.
I had a piece that, to be frank, is not going to win me anything at all, so I want to change it. And I practically have a cheat sheet right there in my hand, so I don’t need to memorize. I just need to establish character, which takes mere minutes, and be able to perform it.
Maybe a famous writer from your area? One of Michael Zadoorian’s short stories, or a funny passage from one of his novels? Or something intense by Jeffrey Eugenides?
You could do (www . tiger-town . com/whatnot/updike/’) A&P by John Updike in a drawl. When I read that, that’s how I was thinking it would sound.
There are plenty of short stories. If you want something that switches around roles a lot, try (www . jimcarreyonline.com/movies/thurber . html) The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty by James Thurber (sorry if that last link is a little weird; but I guess the text is there, so who cares if Jim Carrey is at the top…?).
And yes, everybody, I know I’m just picking through the list of short stories generally assigned to high school english classes.
-A
Hi everyone! I’m typing this at the hospital waiting to get surgery for my adenoids. Only time for a quick post. Wish me luck!!
Good luck!
Aack. I had mine taken out when I was 3. You get knocked out (it took two blasts of gas to get me :)) and you basically fall asleep and wake up with a sore throat. It’s not too bad, but you can’t really eat for a day or so. It just feels weird for a week and then it’s normal…
My med insurance covered it. See, my mom put it down on the file as “Sleep Apnea” because my inflamed tonsils were keeping me awake and we had to get a note from the doctor saying my mom screwed up on the form…..XD. Then they covered it….Hope your insurance isn’t screwy.
Good luck!
Hi! Just got back. I have a monster headache and I’m a bit dizzy, but overall not in much pain. I don’t even remember falling asleep. One minute, I’m in the surgery room, the next, I’m crying my eyes out in he recovery room. It was really weird. On the bright side, I am now the proud owner of an ice cream maker!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just like Roald Dahl! Except he got his done with no anesthesia… That was fun.
Ice cream maker!
urgh, sorry to hear about your headache, but that’s good that your not in much pain besides that. Oooh, ice cream maker–have some yummy ice cream for us!
Did you get to see them after they were out?
-A
Good luck, poor LBK. I didn’t know “adenoids” were tonsils..
They aren’t. “Adenoids” are little pink balls in the back of your nose, and they were making me congested. If I had my tonsils out, I’d be in much, much more pain than I am right now.
Oh god, what did I do to deserve Singapore???? I’m going back there tomorrow! AND I’m not even enjoying my last day of vacation because I’ve been crying my eyes out! AUUUGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh help, what now?
Where do you usually live?
Singapore. Hot, humid, cakey cakehole on south of Malaysia.
Now? You get lots and lots of choklit. *gives lots and lots of sympathy choklit*
Thank you. Ugh.
OK, I’m LEAVING MuseBlog! Good-bye everyone!! And if I come back on here before tomorrow morning, I would like the GAPAs to pointedly zap me. Thanks!
Woah, I haven’t been on for two days? Heh, kind of distracted I guess.
66.2, 66.2 etc.~ Hmm, alright, He was scrunching a bit, and it did mostly work. I guess that’s something we’ll have to practice more next time. Mwahahaha, because I fully intend to torture him again by dragging him along to go dancing.
Rebecca, happy belated birthday! I’m so sorry I missed it this year, many hugs and much virtual choklit to you.
Luna~ Glad to hear you’ve survived, have patience and courage (which I know you already are in possession of) and you’ll manage just fine.
Meh, the moping has commenced. I really wish there was a certain young gent by my side right now. Or at least that I’d see him soon, none of this waiting in uncertainty for months. And my room smells like him (in a good way), glurg. I should stop pouting and write a cover letter, like I’m supposedly doing. *attempts and fails to look angelic*
But maybe I’ll sneak a few more sweedish fish before doing that…..yay, sugar. >.<
Open Band at Glen Echo this Friday!
That’s quite all right. I’d say you had plenty else on your mind…
119.1~ Ooh, I’ll keep that in mind. As always, I don’t know if it’s a possibility, but I can bring it up with the Parental Units at some point in the near future.
Midnight Fiddler-Aww, I’m sorry. *gives sympathy chiklit*
Oops, I meant choklit. My “o” key is acting weird…
119.2~ *sheepish grin* Thanks. Happy belated birthday though, I hope this is a glorious year for you, and I really hope it includes a few Kokonventions, hmm?
121~ *accepts gratefully* Thank’ee.
Never mind – I finished my homework/forgot what I had left to do at home. So it’s all good.
So you’ve changed your mind about wanting us to zap you?
Hi all!
First day back from the break…I was tired. I was tired. I was tired.
But overall…not that bad. We had another play practice, which was really fun, but, (Surprise, surprise!) kinda tiring. The director laughed a bunch of times at my lines, which was good although I’m still bummed that I didn’t have as many when originally I thought I got a lead…oh well, I’ll get over it. It’s still a fun play and I’m still onstage for most of it, and lines ain’t anything anyhoo. I’m planning on going to bed a little earlier tonight.
Still tons of homework though, ugh. And tests for the next three days, fun. (not.) We even got another essay assigned (Not one but two, actually) plus a research project in-the-near-future. I’m researching Edgar Degas. I don’t know much about him, but I’ve seen some of his paintings which I really like (Ballerinas and racehorses are his main pieces.) and I do know he was a bit of a lunatic. But I am too, so I figure we’ve already got something in common.
Alright, I’ll stop ranting about school now…
Anyhoo…just want to mention that although I’ll try to get onto MB these next few days, (even if it’s just for one quick pop-my-head-in sort of thing and go back to regular, stressful life) I can’t promise anything so don’t be surprised if my posts are a lil’ more scattered than the usual.
G’bye!
OHHHHMG! I read this awesome book called Marie, Dancing which was about the life of one of Degas’s models!
I got to go to the library! And get another Disney World travel guide for “research”…
⦠Sweetness! Let’s see if this shows up, shall we? â¦
Wow. Somehow I have a snow day tomorrow, which would’ve been the first day back at school after break. And the weather’s only going to get worse tomorrow night, which means a double snow day.
And now our house’s plumbing is broken. Whoopee.
So is mine, but only in the upstairs bathroom.
Ooh, that isn’t good. Best of luck, Piggy.
Have fun
snowstorming the castle.Hi! I’m posting so early because…I HAVE THE WHOLE WEEK OFF TO HEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lucky! I mean, not lucky in a way since you have to stay in bed (mostly) but still lucky!
Plus, I’m sort of dizzy and I my armpits (?!?!?!?!?!?!) ache badly.
Your armpits ache because that’s where the lymph knots are.
Lymph knots (sp?) fight viruses and stuff like that.
I think it’s lymph nodes.
Thankies. I wasn’t sure about that.
128- Lucky you. I’m preparing to fail geography.
It’s actually not as great as it sounds. I have to stay in bed because whenever I get up, I get really dizzy. I’m still in my pj’s, though.
I love this particular picture. The tiles look like they were a lot of work.
Is anyone else interested in archaeology?
The tiles took a lot of work to set up. But the technique for doing them is pretty cool. Once the mechanics are in place, it’s fun to see the picture take shape. Certainly less tedious than doing the real thing.
Can’t you do that in GIMP by clicking “effects” and then “mosaic”?
No. In GIMP, with Mosaic, the rows of tiles don’t curve like they do in this (and real) mosaics.
Here’s the difference, using the Photoshop mosaic filter, which is very similar to GIMP’s:
Here is a question for the GAPAs… How big is the tile picture?
Depends on what you mean by “how big?” The one at the top of the page is 600 pixels across and 393 pixels top to bottom. That’s reduced from the original graphic which is 1296 pixels across. At screen resolution (72 dots per inch) that would be 18 inches wide. For decent printing, it would be closer to 4 – 6 inches, depending on your resolution choice. Another measure is file size, which is 25 MB for the original ArtRage file.
Did you have to place each colored tile in by hand, or did you use a plug in on the picture.
*hopes that the answer is plugin*
Thank You…(head spins)
Sorry about the head spinning, TreeCafe. Size is a complex topic when it comes to digital art. Just be glad you didn’t ask a question about color…. *evil cackle*
*asks a question about colour*
Thanks to AlpacaLips extensive talking about/using Photoshop and other such things… it might even make sense. XD
Since you dared to ask, take a look at The Magenta Disquisition if you dare. The key point is, “if you’re thoroughly confused by now, you actually understand more than most people.”
It’s a disease. My regards to my AlpacaLips.
*reads* Huh. It’s confusing certainly but I have Gimp, so I color names are meaningless to me too! Hooray for virtual arts addicts!
That actually didn’t leave my head spinning, and did make a bit of sense… That can’t be normal.
I am pretty good at accepting that I don’t fully understand something and watching other people draw conclusions I only partly understand, though. Don’t ask.
Ouch.
Ouch.
Ouch.
That is really the sort of content that should be removed for the safety of readers. Don’t you want to avoid exploding brains among the pies?
132.1.1.1– Ahh pie war. -shakes head at youthful folly-
Ooh, I do have a question though. You said that M95 is not printable…so if I tired to print a picture composed of a color that wasn’t printable, would it print a similar color or not print at all?
Something similar will print; it just won’t be a precise match. For most of us, in most situations, the slight difference won’t matter or be unduly noticeable, unless you’re doing some subtle shading and discover that the all the hues print the same. Most good graphics programs will let you know if a color is “out of gamut,” as it’s known, and you can make your own choice of a substitute. Where you’re most likely to run into disappointment is if you’re working in RGB and see all those nice bright colors turn dull when they’re printed. Printing is CMYK and it has a much smaller gamut than RGB.
@LadyB:
That made sense. O.o
The Magenta thingy. Eep. Should I be concerned about my mental health?
Probably.
Heh. *blames AlpacaLips*
It’s all ens fault. I think.
My goodness, what a lovely picture!
My Spanish teacher came up to me and the following conversation ensued (all in Spanish):
Senor C: So, do you know what those shoes *points at shoes* are for?
Me: …Yeah… they get filled with candy. We did those last year.
Sr. C: Ah, did I know you last year? No, I didn’t.
Me: …
Sr. C: Were you in [high school] last year?
Me: …Yeah…
Sr. C: Cool. [Those shoes] are very special, you know.
Me: I know. *he walks away*
It was even more awkward than it sounds. I think he was wondering if I was a freshman or not. The even odder part is that within the next ten minutes, I went up to the board to write an answer down and trod on one of the ‘very special’ shoes. (Whoops.)
Anyway, that’s my weird story for the day.
130- Oooh! Oooh! I am! I want to be an archeologist when I grow up!
I am seriously mad at the guy who designed the Spanish review website our teacher uses. If you write the correct answer but DON’T CAPITALIZE THE FIRST LETTER, whoops, you got it wrong!
Archaeology is dying out. Unless you are a professor, you probably will not be able to find a good job, or none at all. Now, most of archaeology is done be computers. Sorry. I just had to say that.
That is not true. Each time there is proposed construction, it must be surveyed to see if it is an archaeological site. If it is and must be excavated, contract archaeologists are hired to do so.
I’m not necessarily planning on being an archaeologist who does that. I might, I might be a professor, I might be a librarian, I might write, I might be an editor.
GAPAs, do any of you know of any internships I might be able to apply for? Do your companies offer them?
What are you looking for?
Archaeology internships, theatre internships, editorial internships. Particularly paid ones available to college students.
Just so everyone knows – I won’t really be on Museblog that often in the future. Not that I was before, but even less…
The problem is time management and such. Like it or not, Museblog takes time… I’ll tell you about my Plan that will be taking my time up soon, when I don’t have to go to bed. >.<
-A
Hm. I think I understood the Magenta Disquisition whilst having rather loud rap blasting through my earphones. I’ve reached a new level of insanity–no sane person could either do that or believe they did that.
Piggy has spent his entire snow day battling the iTunes Hydra. He is finally victorious.
Apple makes some really terrible software.
Amazing. But also a bit frightning.
Very pretty picture, by the way, Lady Bunniful. It’s my background now. Replacing the ‘Star Effect’ one I found on your photobucket account. Which replaced another which was part of a string of three or so, switched frequently back and forth, two of which were yours. Hm. I never thought about this before.
Anyway, it gives my background much more personality than the standard apple backgrounds my computer came with. Thank you for putting all this work into the amazing pictures every month, Rebecca. The Random Thread wouldn’t be the same without them.
Of course, MuseBlog wouldn’t be the same without any one of the GAPAs. Thank you to every one of you. MuseBlog has had a very big impact on my life, and I really appreciate all the work you put in to making it work. Thanks!
Thank you, Errata! We’re glad you’re here, too. MuseBlog has had quite an impact on our lives as well. And I’m always honored and delighted to hear my work is adorning a MuseBlogger’s computer screen.
It’s my background, too!!! Thank you for all the pretty pictures!!!
So, yeah. I’m still pretty much stuck in bed, save occasional bathroom visits. Ugh.
I counted, and I have eight of your various pictures, most of which have been my background at least once.
Well, seven, because one of them, while I like it, doesn’t work properly as a background. *sigh*
They new random thread picture always becomes my new background.
I just made it my background! It’s awesome!
I still use the “Futures Past” picture for my background. It’s indescribably beautiful.
Good news: It snowed a foot last night and more during the day, so any reasonable school would give us the day off.
Bad: My school is unreasonable (Or rather the state is, because it’s ‘Indiana policy’).
Bad: I walk to school.
Good: My house is only an eighth of a mile away.
So now that I’m home, it’s over, right? I have to plow the driveway. Yay.
It looks as though Piggy is going to get a third snow day tomorrow. This is both good and bad. It’s good because the semester won’t start until Monday (and I’ll have more time to procrastinate my APUSH DBQ), and it’s bad because we’re hosting an enormous forensics tournament tomorrow and Saturday, and postponing it leads to infinite problems and not nearly as many competitors.
We just got the call–school is cancelled, and the tournament appears to be cancelled as well. Completely cancelled, not even postponed. DX
Awww…*gives choklit*
That’s too bad.
Happy Orthodox Christmas everyone!!
144- To you, too.
Just watched a video about the Concorde while looking at my die-cast model. My gosh, that is* a beautiful airplane.
*They still exist, they just don’t fly.
You do model airplanes?
Ugh, I’m back in the cakehole. Singapore, that is. Miserable dump. I had two wonderful weeks in California and now I’m sweating away in the humidity. I hate it here. I really hate it. And I hate how we had to move here when we had been settled down in CA for some years. Don’t get me wrong, I love my parents, but every single caking time we’ve moved, it’s been for his caking job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whenever I think, “Oh, this is permanent! Yay!” he goes, “I’m tired of working in industry. I want to be a professor again,” or vice versa and gets a job on another side of the globe. Eight times! And my mom, who has a PHd in English and a Master’s in history, could get a job nearly anywhere and just complains about the rigors of working.
What?! I would LOVE to be in Singapore! I love that hot, humid weather… except for the mosquitoes. But I used to live in the Philippines, and besides all of the insects and vermin, it was really quite nice. I’m infinitely
jealousenvious– I mean, I would love to be in your ‘predicament’ right now…Sorry for the lack of sympathy, it’s just that I would love to live in California/Singapore/anywhere where there’s not snow.
My friend went to Singapore over winter break!
Also, Kokonilly, I will take some of that snow off your hands for you.
Piggy has become somehow addicted to The Breakfast Club after taking a copy of it from his sister as payment for fixing her computer.
Let’s play a guessing game: to which character does Piggy most relate?
*hums don’t you forget about me*
Most relate? John Bender, of course
Hmm… the shopaholic what’s-her-name popular girl?
Aww, you’re being so out of character lately. Hmm… it’s obviously not Brian, but which one of the other 3?
Well, let’s see. There’s Andrew, Claire, and Allison left. (Or one of the adults.)
Wait, no. Getting confused here. There are only two young’uns left, aren’t there? Just Andrew and Allison.
Oh, right. Silly me. Andrew?
Nay.
SNOW DAY!!
So, moderation is gonna be slow. Gives me a chance to work on my homework. Oh joy.
/sarcasm
That was last night; things are back to normal now. But you should work on your homework anyway.
I did. Stupid math homework.
Oh, my. First day back at the museum, and what should I find on my desk but a bag of Maltesers, a present from a volunteer who remembered my telling him about a previous MuseBlog discussion on the subject.
Yum!
World Market carries them, for anyone in need.
So, malted milk ball enthusiasts — do you prefer to crunch them, let them dissolve, or do you combine methods?
I’m too impatient to let them dissolve–I’m a cruncher.
Oh! Maltesers! I found some at a grocery store near where we were staying at a beach in Delaware this summer. My family had seen a commercial for them.
The wireless isn’t working again, so I’m using dial-up. Over here, the wireless messes up at least once most months.
Grargh. Amazon is so frustrating! I went to make an order, and first it wouldn’t accept the school’s address, and now it won’t let me order the stuff without a credit card, even though I have a gift card that covers the cost of the whole order! *headdesk*
Since no one seems to know Writers’ Notebook exists anymore, I’ll just ask this here. Does anyone know if HPBs are copyrighted?
I’m not sure. The original image is a character in a Japanese font, but I’m not sure whether it was copyrighted or how international law would apply. Even turning them pink might have been enough of a change to make them an original artistic creation.
I think that would still be considered a derived work. My efforts to track it down a few years ago never got past the original link you sent me.
Oh, okay. Thanks.
Ugh. My fingers stink like fish (I just finished eating the rest of the smoked salmon we had leftover from New Years Eve munchies) and I’m pretty sure that the two holes from where my top two wisdom teeth were are full of chewed up salmon….*sigh* Last night I was fishing cheese from cheese ravioli thingies out of ’em for a long while. Oh well, at least the top ones don’t hurt at all and I can poke at ’em.
the bottom ones are still tender, but they’re stitched up so they don’t get food in them (as far as I can tell, anyway). Of course, they’ve gotten it into there heads that they get slightly sore when eating, not sore the rest of the day, but around 2:30 in the morning……Let’s just say they decided it would be fun to wake me up by hurting.
Wednesday night at 2:15 I woke up from a dream where I was at work and they had chocolate cake for one of my coworker’s birthdays (it’s his birthday today), and I was eating it and it was making my teeth (or, well, not teeth, but where my teeth were) hurt really bad, and then lo and behold, I woke up and my teeth hurt really bad. So I wandered off and popped a hydrocodone.
Last night at 2:30, I wake up to my teeth again hurting really bad. Off I go and pop a hydrocodone, and finally (as in probably only 30 or so minutes later) the pain fades enough for me to go back to sleep……
What I don’t get, is why, even on Monday when I got ’em out, they didn’t hurt as much as they did last night and thenight before when all I was doing was sleeping…..Oh, well. AT least I can eat better now.
But smoked salmon smells good!
Then again, I like my hands to smell like garlic. so…
Salmon? *shudder* What’s really gross is a huge, slimyish, salmon steak, but I don’t like it smoked either.
You don’t like smoked salmon?
Oh, smoked salmon is good, though…..
I need to get some of that.
On a slightly different note, who likes lox?
-A
I like the smell of garlic too!
Erm, SFTDP….
So, on a random note:
On Tuesday, Gandalf proved that he makes an excellent mouser. Tuesday evening when we were watching TV, I was looking around for one of Gandalf’s toys during a commercial–it’s this small stuffed mouse that squeaks when you just barely tap it. Suffice to say, he really likes it.
So I was looking on the floor near his little cat bed contraption (plastic frame, with a hammock and the like). But instead of his toy mouse, I see a very much real (albeit dead) tiny grey shrew lying on the floor. We’re not sure where he found it–obviously somewhere inside, and it was probably in the basement and he dragged it up and killed it (or killed it and dragged it up), but…..He’s a good little mouser.
Of course, I had let him lick salmon juice off my lips three times already that day before I knew he’d been munching on a shrew at some point. whoops.
Guess what! We have a Jedi robe at my house. I’d forgotten about it. Maybe I should take it back with me to college…
DO IT. Wear it to class.
That’s cool. I did not know you were in college…
Ouchie. My legs are all blistered from ice skates.
*gives chocholate*
Thanks! *devours* Mmmm, candy.
So Ducky, what topic are you doing for History Day, and are you competing?
Um, no. You must be very confused. What’s History Day?
But Pseudo told me you were doing History Day!! *cries*
Then Pseudo must be very confused.
I can’t post.
Nevermind. An hour ago it redirected me to a blank page. Rewriting time… except I’m too lazy. And procrastinating way too much, listening to End of Time soundtrack, while I have two essays to write. My science teacher assigned us an essay on the FIRST DAY BACK FROM BREAK. And we hadn’t even researched the subject. The rough draft is due on Monday… super staying-up-late crunch time… luckily, Mr M. is on duty this weekend, so he can help (he was a newspaper reporter).
*twitch* Impossible… statement… *twitch* *twitch* *explodes*
*picks up bits of exploded Enceladus and attempts to reassemble him*
Then how did you say thta?
Holy shckamoly. I haven’t been here in AGES. I haven’t ever even seen this new version… which I gather is in fact not all that new anymore.
I guess there probably aren’t a lot of people I know here anymore…
Ahoy, skipper! Good to see you, matey! How be ye doing?
Welcome back! Of course, you don’t know me. I’m Ducky, the hyper, weird, duck-loving freak!
I came on in May ’09, as did Soccer Starr, and maybe others; I don’t remember.
Yep, that’s me soccaa!
Welcome back Skipper! Even though I don’t “know” you, it’s always nice to see one of the “elderly” ones back on the blog for a visit.
*waves and joins the chorus of greetings*
skipper! I miss you! ):
I still know you~
SKIPPER!
Hiiii! I missed you too!
Welcome back! Stay awhile. (Or don’t, if you want to preserve your sanity or complete your calc homework.) I think I remember you vaguely from when I was new here (mid 2007).
Skipper! Long, long time no see!
hey Skipper! You know me.
I’ve seen your posts on old threads, and I was here in December 08, so I know who you are. Welcome back!
Hi Skipper! I’m Cat’s Eye!! I came in November 08!!! (Gee golly whiz, that was a long time ago.) Welcome back!!!! I swear I’ll stop overusing exclamation points now!!!!!
Hullo, Skipper! it’s nice to “see” you around again…..Depending upon when you were last on, you might remember me better as Michelle W.
HI, Skipper N! Glad to see you. You must’ve been lured by Lady Bunniful’s sailing motif for this month’s random thread.
145- Well, I collect die-casts, but I haven’t built any from kits yet, although that might be fun.
How now, there GAPA Robert! I be fantastic. I was away plundering ships on the high seas, but I’m back now.
Actually, I am suffering a prolonged existential crisis brought on by the looming prospect of *ominous drumbeats* growing up. I turn 18 on the 30th of this month. Hence my sudden need to go back and re-live all my favorite adolescent pastimes. I was staring at my calc book, trying to think of an escape, and all the sudden I thought “museblog!” Of course!
I am surprised and pleased to find despite my extended leave of absence I still am #36 on the Comments list in the “who’s here” section. I wonder how I ever got any homework done in middle school.
Anyway. Hello everyone. It’s lovely to see you all, even the ones I don’t know.
Welcome back Skipper!
Haha! Yeah, that was definitely it.
Hello there, Skipper. Sorry if things are confusing – some people reply to comments using the reply feature, which nests the replies under the appropriate heading comment.
But anyway. I just wanted to do things the way you seem to be using so you’ll see my big Welcome Back.
… Okay, so, it wasn’t very big. Still, welcome, and I hope you stay awhile.
I don’t know if you’d remember me… I have been here since March of ’06, I believe, but only intermittently – I might have popped in while you weren’t around. But I definitely do remember seeing your name.
Ending the long ramble now. Adioses.
-A
Update: Well, by one post, you’re now thirty-fifth, not thirty-sixth.
Self-update: Wow. I’m closing in on the mid-eighties. Why does this make me feel proud again?
-A
Hello! I do vaguely remember you, indeed. I figured out the whole replying thing. Very fancy indeed. I dunno. I think I might kind of miss endlessly scrolling through comments, trying to figure out who’s talking to who… that was always fun…
Oh you do! Wow. I’m impressed. Long-lived memory, then.
Ahhh, the late nights. I think those will always be my fondest memories of Museblog.
-A
Skipper! Hey! Wow, it’s been a long time. How goes?
162-Welcome back!
Hi, Skipper!!! I’m LBK, resident, uh, dimunitive evil feline. Yeah.
I’m pretty new here, just got on June ’09 I think. On a sort-of related note, their trying to figure out what to call the 00’s (2000-2009). You, like we call from 1990-1999 the “’90s”? I think some one actually suggested “the ‘Os”. My family was talking about this around the dinner table one night, and I suggested the “Zips”. My dad loved it!
I’ve heard voices on the television call it the naughts.
Let ’em. I like Zips, and that’s what I’m going to call the decade from now on.
Me too.
Me three. “Zips” definitely has more character than any of the other suggestions I’ve heard.
Anyone read the Krugman editorial that said they should be called the Big Zero. I kind of liked that.
I love the Zips. Great idea!
I call it the 00’s. Pronounced Oh-Ohs. Or the thousands, when I don’t want to sound weird.
I’ve never seen you before, Skipper, but anyway, welcome back!
I’ve got a question: has anyone seen Zinc lately? I was just reading her fanfiction and… I miss her.
Not that I can remember, but I don’t think I’ve been paying attention…nope, haven’t seen her.
Has she been seen since somebody ( I can’t remember who) made a post for her about problems in her life?
Yes, plenty. Not especially recently, but I’m still fairly certain she’s been seen.
Yes, she posted yesterday. See post 187.
170- I like “The Zeroes”. Aughts doesn’t sound good, and noughties sounds too much like nougat.
Yes, it does. *drools*
What are we going to do about the Sci Fi RPG? Smush it? Toss it? Leave it? Revive it?
It’s
kind ofreally dead.I’m at a Nisan dealership, and my dad just set off a car alarm, draining the battery of it. Incidently, that’s the car my father wants to test drive. It’s bright yellow. And obnoxious. But I love it even though we’re getting a nice, normal colored car instead.
Guys, guys, I just had an idea: y’know the Discovery Channel “boom-de-yada” song? We need one for MB!
Cool! Okay, here we go;
I love the magazine
I love the HPBs
I love the randomness
I love the RPGs
Boom-de-yadah
Boom-de-yadah
Boom-de-yadah
Boom-de-yadah
I love the new threads
I love the old ones too
I love the neophytes
They all are super-cool
Boom-de-yadah
Boom-de-yadah
Boom-de-yadah
Boom-de-yadah
I love the ree-plies
I love the paleos
I love the helpers
I guess that’s i-it, so
I love the MuseBlog
It’s such a briliant place!
Boom-de-yadah
Boom-de-yadah
Boom-de-yadah
Boom-de-yadah
Boom-de-yadah
Boom-de-yadah
Boom-de-yadah
Boom-de-yadah…
You love th HPBs?
Well, it’s a love-hate relationship, isn’t it?
Post 96 on Song Parodies:
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Rainbow
in October 10th, 2009 @ 13:41
I love emoticons
I love the RPGs
I love quotations
I don’t love HPBs
We love the whole blog
From ‘phytes to veterans
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
I love to throw pies
I love to study wungs
This is the weirdest song
That I have ever sung
We love the whole blog
and all its froodiness
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
I love to read books
I am a giant squid
I love the Beatles
Um … what rhymes with squid?
I love the whole blog
Because, well, 42
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Boom De Yada
Haha, I like the last verse.
I AM THE GIANT SQUID
Yes! Glory to the original giant space squid!
♫ I love the magazine,
I love the comment box,
I love the dead threads,
Twenty-four hour clocks,
I love the MuseBlog
and all its inside jokes!
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
I love the bloggers,
I love the flying pies,
I love the GAPAs,
and I love fast replies,
I love the MuseBlog,
Bunnies will rule the world
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
I love the choklit,
I love a good debate,
I love the roleplays,
and to procrastinate,
I love the MuseBlog,
Plus the woven beyond!
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada ♫
Change “I love fast replies” to “And I love fast replies.”
[Changed it on the post in order to facilitate singing. –Admin.]
Thanks!
Aha, you changed it, then. It definitely does work better.
-A
I am currently taking a break from reading a book about World War I for my history project. I’m in a group of five working on the extremely broad topic of Germany. I have to reasearch Germany’s involvement in alliances and diplomacy and also how Germany’s nationalism influenced their involvement in the war. I have many ideas in my head, but unfortunately they were influenced by only two resources instead of three or four. Now I have to read more books to up my resources count, a requirement for the project.
Sorry about that. I was explaining my perdicament.
I also feel extremely hypocritical and guilty for forgetting about the giving tree thread. I don’t think that I would be able to pick someone’s present this late, but if you want me to, let you know.
Ducky, you picked my present and it was a Casio Classpad calculator loaded with games for the purpose of relieving boredom in the math classroom. It was surrounded by jolly ranchers in the box. Candy is always a good present.
AND NOW FOR SOME SILLINESS TO COUNTERACT THE LACK OF EXCLAMATION POINTS IN THIS POST!
FIN.
My Poinsettia is in the shower.
How does one know if they have ADHD? I took a few quizzes, and the results came out as moderate to strong, but the quizzes were online (although at ADHD websites, to be fair. Not an ad I saw on youtube, or anything) and they said not to treat them as a diagnosis.
Online quizzes are cake. You have to see an actual doctor if you want any sort of realistic and accurate anything.
That’s what I figured.
Meh, every single (online) test I’ve taken said I have ADD/ADHD.
Yay! I have the 400th post!
178- What?
His Poinsettia is in the shower.
Well, now it’s on the table.
Quintessential Museblog, example number four thousand nine hundred seventy-seven.
-A
Oh dear, really? MuseBlog isn’t very helpful when it comes to this stuff, is it?
What? I tried http://www.musefanpage.com/blog/?p=4977 but it took me to Somebody’s chess game.
I think gradster was making up a random large number.
Hm, that chess game hasn’t been making particularly rapid progress, has it?
I thought the same about gradster’s number. But just for fun, here’s comment #4977.
Actually, as I was typing that, I was thinking about how my number on YWP is something like 2744, and how I could have used that or another big number like that to make an easter egg…
But I didn’t, anyway.
-A
Yes. Everyone abandoned you.
-A
Oh god I remember reading that when I first came. Man!
I now can check MB on my phone! Unfortunately my phone is not built for Internet very well, and it takes a really long time to scroll (I haven’t figured out a way to just automatically go down to the end) and the writing is minuscule and I can’t see any avatars or emoticons or anything so it’s kind of pointless. Even more pointless is that it’s not letting me reply/comment (?!?!?!) on anything which makes it basically like not having MB on your phone because what’s the point of going on MB if you can’t comment? (Wait, don’t answer that. Sometimes staying silent is a good thing..) But it’s still awesomely fabulous to have and kind of weird to see the way the site looks on a phone, even though I’m sure I’ll rarely use it unless I figure out how to manipulate it better. For right now the Internet is more for my parent’s to be able to check e-mail on their phone when they’re away but because all of our phones are on the same “account” I get the Internet too!
End rant!
also…I need to do homework. Cake. And I need to practice clarinet which I’m too lazy to do right now. Cake.
Hurray for people who practice their clarinets! I am not one! (Rather, I play the clarinet but don’t practice it)
Welll….
It’s more like some wonderful person in my life *coughhimomcough* makes me (Um, I mean, “encourages” me, hee hee) to practice at least 4 times a week. In truth? If this verrrry wonderful person wasn’t in my life, I probably would never practice at all. But I do have another chair test *grumblegrumble* coming up, which I guess is a good reason to.
I hate nightspin being around 5:00. It’s so depressing when it gets this dark at four.
h ttp :/ / www .youtube.co m/watch?v=1Zrz-0gek2c
Well then. That’s fun.
-A
Just for fun, I tried googling MBers names. I didn’t want to stalk anybody, just to see how many results. I tried “speller37” and “SudoRandom” Speller37 picked up one result on the web, and none anywhere else. SudoRandom picked up nothing, anywhere.
*laughs at the absence of SudoRandom*
Try googling mine!
Or mine!
5. Exactly.
Up in the millions. But that’s because you’re named after a historical figure.
You really got nothing? Really? Cuz I get 612, and I know a few of them have to do with me. For example, my NaNo account, and a few others I can’t really mention because of the fact that they could theoretically lead to offblog contact.
Let’s change the subject, please.
I just Googled yours… a million hits cause it’s one of Saturn’s moons, though.
I wonder how many millions mine would get…
Artemis, please see my comment 183.3. We realize we can’t stop people from googling, but MuseBlog is not here to encourage the practice.
/gradster(1)/–Why do you sign “-A” at the bottom of all your posts? The reason I ask is because in the Pretty Little Liars series, this stalker/creep/murderer person always signs their texts as “-A,” so it just struck me as kind of odd.
It’s a shortening of Ana, which is a shortening of Anemesia, who is an ego of mine.
-A
Phew!!
I love that series
OK, it’s not that great, but it’s WWWAAAAYYYY better than Private.
Procrastination…. Gragh!!! I need to write!
YESH. I finished my homework at 8:20 and I’ve never felt freer this year… Except during vacation.
Hey, everyone! I won’t be on for a while. My parents (read as “Dad”) are redoing the computer, and to do this, they have to shut down the antivirus protection. So no internet for me.
This is from my friend’s computer, okay. I’ll come on when I can.
Sayonara!
182- “Nightspin” is a term I made up a while ago as a replacement for “sunset”, as it’s the Earth that’s really moving, not the sun.
Ha. Like that. It is clever and poetic.
Not in the frame of reference of the Earth.
Really, isn’t the whole idea completely irrelevant because everything is constantly moving?
Okay, you can get into whatever field of science you can come up with that proves that some things don’t, but I’m speaking on larger terms. The sun is too moving, and so is the Earth, and so are all of the other planets and galaxies et cetera…
-A
No, see- The Sun, the Galaxy, the rest of the universe, and my brother’s life all revolve around me in my frame of reference, which is what I use.
Oh, okay. Sorry. We’ll all use cromwellsetspin from now on.
-A
GASP. David Tennant is in the Goblet of Fire?! Now I needs to watch it, even though the movies are horrible.
ReGASP. Moaning Myrtle was in Love and Monsters and Barty Sr. was in Age of Steel?! How could I have not known this?
Oh! That’s why the Ursula person sounds so familiar, and I instantly stereotyped her as an over-protective girlfriend!
I’ve decided I like everyone here better than my friends in real life. You know? Like, I didn’t come on Museblog for a long time because real life was pretty cool, people were interesting, everything was chill… and then I noticed how boring everyone I know is… and how interesting you guys all are! So I think I’ll stick around for a while! Hurray!
Aghf. So I failed the first calculus test of the semester…. not because I didn’t study the calculus but because when I take tests I somehow magically forget how to do basic arithmetic… so my teacher told me if I do well on the test tomorrow he’ll replace my last grade with the new one…. which is nice. But kind of stressful. I have lost any confidence in my ability to score well on math tests at all. Pooh.
Anyway. Sleep now. Goodbye.
That’s what happened to me. (The friend thing, not the calculus thing. I don’t take calculus.) I started to realize all of my friends were really obnoxious or annoying or boring, (except for a few exceptions, some of whom come on here) and I started withdrawing into MuseBlog, and now I’m like a turtle, and MuseBlog is my shell.
(Oh dear, I just realized that doesn’t sound very good, and I’ve also been saying oh dear a lot. Maybe I’ll switch to Oh gosh.)
Anyway, you’ll probably do fine on the test, although I sort of know what you mean about forgetting everything. Once I had a test where I had to fill in all the countries of Africa on a blank map, and I forgot most of them the first time. (The second time I aced it, I think, so that bodes well for you. Kind of.)
I think just about everyone can say something like that… If I hear one more word about L.’s boyfriend, I’ll impale her!
There’s a private category of threads now for MBers with over six months of experience, Skipper. If you want to try it out, see this thread for details.
That’s kind of how I feel too about MB. I think that part of the reason of why everyone on MB is so nice is because unlike in “real” life, there’s no backstabbing on MB. No one can gossip about each other – or at least, it would be hard to.
(Not like we would be gossiping about each other even if we did have the means to do so, of course. I’ve just always thought about this fact and how it makes MB so much different from normal school, life, etc.)
Just a thought. And personally, I think it’s a great thing. Besides, you’re right – everyone on here seems to be a whole lot more like me than the “real” people that I know. This is probably because we can’t judge each other by our looks and many other factors of a virtual friendship compared to a real one, but it’s just the way it seems…
*completely agrees*
Most of my friends are muserly, and they’d fit on MB. But I agree, MB is a haven for people who are not popular.
Several of my friends would fit, if they spoke english well enough (and would enjoy it).
Soccer star- Don’t you know that we’ve been all serectly, telepathically talking about you behind you back? *kidding*
I don’t like how it’s so hard to communicate with specific people…
As someone who like to talk more then wright, I find that the only reason that I am not on here as much is that I don’t like to type long responses
Strange fact for today:
Wikipedia has a separate category for “Accidental human deaths in Florida” .
HAHAHAHA
Death is no laughing matter.
‘It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Then it’s hilarious.’
-A
Oh yes, Luigi says that all the time.
Luigi…..the Mario character…?
Not the Mario character, a dude at our school, who I don’t actually know.
Oh, good. I was fairly sure that wasn’t a maxim of the Mario Brothers.
-A
That’s the first Luigi I think of, too.
I didn’t know my birth state was so popular to accidentally die in!
Hello, my friends!!! I have returned from a rather short absence. So many things to catch up on….Oh, well. Just wanted to say hello!
Hey everybody!
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Sorry, I haven’t been on lately. Homework.
So…. What’s up?
Ehhh, not much for me.
Twelfth Night Auditions though!
*is psyched*
I heard there’s a cross dresser….
I’m in the play that Bottom & Quince et Co. out on in Midsummer’s Night Dream. Je suis Lysander!
Hey, I played Lysander in college. (A woman’s college. I played lots of male parts.)
Which college?
-A
What did you do at the end of the play?
Great job! I played Puck in that show once…
I have been cast in Voices of Hope, a show comprised of monologues from different plays about the Holocaust, interspersed with songs (which I get to sing solo).
Hello, TMFA! Thanks for stopping by. We understand about homework, but it’s always good to see you whenever you feel like coming up for air.
SPOILLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSS Doctor Who Spoilers.
I just had a thought. If four beats is the heartbeat of a Time Lord, then that means that one heart beats, then the other heart beats, and then they pause. How does the blood keep circulating?
I think that the hearts take turns? Just guessing
Yes, but they beat 1 1 2 2 pause 1 1 2 2 pause…
What is happening when they aren’t beating?
Mabey the blood cels have a higher capacity so they can compensate?
(Apologies ahead of hand for all caps)
QUICK! ENCELADUS! YOU ARE PLACE 42 ON THE “WHO’S POSTED HOW MUCH” PAGE! BEFORE IT AS EMOGRL, AND SHE DOESN’T POST ANYMORE, BUT I JUST RANDOMLY CHECKED AND IT’S YOU! YOU CAN THANK ME LATER!
*Was, not as, sorry.
Yay!!!
Now it’s Rosanne Spector… I’ve been watching that spot for awhile. I’m number 44.
You post quite a lot, don’t you?
Personally, I never seem to have anything of value to add to the conversation, so I just lurk.
I’m number 33! But I haven’t changed my name at all, not even for points or wungs, so that contributes.
I’ve never changed my name either…
I’ve xhanged my name a lot.I don’t really care what number I am.
Welllll…I think it’s kind of cool to be high on the list, but really only for bragging rights.
I’ve changed my name once, I guess. From soccer starr to starr. I mean, I did change it a couple of times as a neophyte, (And I’ve decided to change them every, oh, month or so but somebody always convinces me not to.
) but those didn’t really count. I mean, I was just testing out different names for the first time, and they didn’t last long.
I’m 42 again!
191.2.1- It’s not funny that people have died, it’s funny that the category is so specific.
I was kidding.
Attention, MuseBloggers: we’ve been receiving quite a run of attempted off-blog links lately. We do thank you for the courtesy of delinkifying them.
However, we still have to go check out the sites before approving the posts. This takes time, a commodity that has become exceedingly precious in lives of GAPAs lately. We’d much rather spend our MuseBlog time with you, rather than chasing down links or watching videos to see whether they qualify as mostly harmless.
In sum, please think long and hard before posting anything that is remotely like a link. And if you do include one in your comment, be prepared for it to sit in the queue for awhile.
Thanks!
Maths Lover has Violet Hill and Rainy Day going around in her head.
Maths Lover, like CPM, forgot about the giving tree thread.
*headdesk* Bookgirl, my present was a silver compass-like object with four pictures where the directions should be: an oncoming pie (guess what that one leads you to), a 
(stupidity just around the corner!), 
or your scary English teacher who doesn’t need to dress up for Halloween and always catches you when you fall asleep in class, and a hpb. 
Maths Lover has just been looking at our maths calendar with her dad. And she wonders why everyone in her homeroom thinks she’s such a nerd.
It probably has to do with the fact that your pseudonym is “Maths Lover ♥.”
*Sigh* Is it just me, or is life REALLY boring lately.
Hello, mole! Is the winter grayness getting to you? It does that sometimes.
Isn’t that a legitimate mental illness or something? Seasonal Affective (?) Disorder?
Yes, but it has to be diagnosed by a doctor. Many people just get the winter blues (sometimes due to holiday-induced stress or, as may be the case for us young’uns, boredom from being away from school) without having SAD.
It’s kind of depressing that they made a backronym like that.
Wait. … IRONY.
-A
Boredom from being away from school? *can think of thousands of things to do that she really wanted to do at some point and would do if it wasn’t for school*
But you can’t deny; you get bored without school.
-A
But what about rearranging my bookshelf and building the eiffel tower out of legos and reading the books I got for christmas and re-arranging my desk and going shopping and experimenting with new nail polish and writing short stories and editing my NaNo and hanging out with my friends and going skiing (in the winter, replace with running in the summer) and figuring out how to win every time at solitaire and making german-english lyric videos and starting to watch Buffy and Stargate (and possibly season 3 of Star Trek) and reading through all my Muses again and knitting that tote bag and buy some new highlighters and fiddle with them and fool around with pastels adn re-read some of my favorite books and go “extravagate” (i.e. clean out some old boxes) to find interesting old books/jewlery/sundry treasures and redo my I-pod program and figure out why Itunes store won’t let me buy anything and making new playlists and going swimming to practice free diving and practicing capoeira and beading and borrowing books from some of the further-away libraries and finding that GGL bag that I’ve been wanting to buy for ages and taking nice long hot baths instead of quick showers and spending an entire day doing nothing for once (just for the heck of it) and going hiking and trying to find Logo for mac and finally buying (and playing) sims and trackign down some of my old friends that are probably on a different continent by now and testing my small foam-and-wood boat in some real water (after fixing it up a bit) and sorting through all my school supplies and throwing out the junk & buying new shiny pens and listing to my favorite music for hours on end and watching movies that I’ve hear a lot about and trying to make (edible) brownies or … (*insert any spontaneous project here*)
I just never have any time when school starts…
I don’t have quite that much to do, but I still almost never get bored without school. I do have stuff to do. Like read. And MuseBlog. And write. And bicycle to the library. And talk to friends. Maybe straiten my room while I’m at it. Oh, and finish watching all three Lord of the Rings extended edition DVDs with commentary. And sitting around doing absolutely nothing important, lasting, or relevant.
I do more than I thought.
Anyway, I’m rarely bored.
I’ve left out MB, filming, editing my filming, getting people to let me film them, doing filming projects, fiddling around with statistics and algebra, getting a new calendar… It’s all stuff that I’s like to do, not that I have to do. That list is way longer
Wow. I have a vague, misty list of what I’d ‘kinda like to do someday’, but I’ll never get around to it, and I’m satisfied with my life now.
At one point crochet would have been on the list, but I haven’t done any recently.
Hm. I need to remedy that. *goes to find crochet hook*
It’s not just you.
YAYYY! MuseBlog is back on!!! It went plooie for awhile – and guess what? [Snipped for publicizing information about a personal site.]
I’d noticed it getting extremely extremely slow. Wouldn’t post my comment for ages; kept redirecting, et cetera.
-A
Same for me.
Mine was having some problems yesterday too. Just taking awhile to load, which is why I didn’t post. Plus, I’ve been pretty busy lately.
Oops, sorry, I thought if it was only the name of the site. Apologies.
Remember the Phoenix lander way back in Summer of 2008? We posted breathless updates of the touchdown and clogged up the comment bar… good times, good times…
Well, it shut down for the Martian winter, but if it survived, it should have turned itself back on, and they’re going to be listening for the signal it’s supposed to be sending back to indicate it’s okay.
Woah, this is unbelievable. Google was recently hacked from somewhere in China, along with a few dozen other companies. A Google blog post said that the main things accessed were the accounts of a few Chinese civil rights activists. Google has now sprung into action. It said that it is no longer willing to censor its Chinese site, as the Chinese government requires, and will work with the government to see if an agreement could be reached. But it looks like Google isn’t waiting–Google.cn, the Chinese site, is completely uncensored now–you can access images of the man standing in front of the tank at Tianamen Square and everything. I’m wondering how long it’ll be before the Chinese government shuts it down.
Did my comment get eaten by the spam filter, or is MB run by the Chinese government?
Spam filter. Now whether the spam filter works for the Chinese government, I couldn’t say, but it sure has been busy today. In any case, your comment is restored to its rightful place.
Many thanks.
Piggy is tired, but Piggy is not tired. Piggy thinks he’ll stay up too late and be very tired tomorrow, and that’s what Piggy wants.
Hopefully Piggy will be dropping physics this semester. *abandons third person* I hate the class, it’s very stressful, I barely got an A last semester, and I don’t need any more science credits. So hopefully I’ll be taking a study hall (gasp!) or music theory/AP music theory instead, but it’s anything but definite.
I’m also starting an unofficial class on ancient Greek at my school. It’ll be before school once a week, probably Thursdays. I’m not sure how many other people are coming, but I’m pretty excited for it. I’ve heard my Latin teacher (who is teaching the class) is pretty awesome at ancient Greek.
And out Latin class has sorta shifted formats this semester. We’re adopting the ancient Roman method of the trivium. Each day we start with grammar, as the Romans did; then philosophy, as the Romans did; and finally rhetoric, as the Romans did. I’m not sure what we’ll be doing with rhetoric, as we’ve only done grammar and philosophy so far, but it should be interesting. Oh! I just remembered that I still have to read Plato’s Euthyphro for tomorrow. I’ll go do that.
I’m planning on dropping physics too, and for much the same reasons. I’m planning to use the class for community service–I need 200 hours to graduate, and have completed only a little more than 50.
Wow. Haiti was hit by a 7.0 earthquake and then 4.5+ aftershocks, and now a tsunami might hit it also!? Poor Haitians…
I heard about both the earthquake and China’s hacking. I feel like I actually know what’s going on.
Of course, I’m sure that somebody else is about to post something that I’ve never heard about, but until then…
Mom was telling us about news stories this morning. Using BBC news, for some reason. So I actually am somewhat connected with world events. Although I hadn’t heard about the tsunami.
Wait…what’s the China hacking??? I haven’t heard about it!
See Piggy’s comment 202 above.
Oh. Thank you!
Well…we won our basketball game today, although I didn’t think I played very well. Ahh, well. The other coach was a nightmare though – screaming and yelling at the refs and stuff. It was awful, I felt really bad for the other team.
also not as much homework as usual lately, but because good news and school just don’t go together of course there’s bad stuff going on too. I’ve got a b- in math *pout* (That is not a good grade for me, by the way) and our progress reports for being halfway through the trimester are coming out soon, and I desperately need to get my grade up before then. Unfortunately there will probably only be test before then for a chance to bring my grade up, so I definitely need to ace it. Why oh why do can I not seem to do math?
So yesterday, I finished my Astronomy test early (No suprise there) and I was feeling bored, so I went digging in my backpack and found that the fingerless gloves my mom bought me for XC were still in the front pocket. They’re red with black stripes and look very punk rock-ish. I put them on and they were very comfy, so I kept them on the rest of the day.
I did the same thing today, just because it felt good. There’s no rule against wearing them, and most of the teachers actually complimented me on my gloves. A lot of mundane tasks just feel better when you’re wearing fingerless gloves.
I’ve, er, customized an old pair of my gloves for when I’m using my laptop. It’s a pretty constant sixty degrees in my room, so I’m always cold; using normal gloves hinders typing. I would agree, life is better with fingerless gloves.
You’re not comfortable in sixty?
Is everyone colder than me?
-A
Well, I’m fine, but my hands complain. What can I say?
Fingerless gloves are fun. I have the kind with a flap that turns them into mittens. I’ve needed them at work lately because the building is so drafty. (The 21st century offers certain advantages over the 19th.)
Fingerless gloves are basically the bomb. I had a pair that I lost immediately after I got them that were all commercialised and machine-made and such, and also a pair of elbow-length wool ones that were very scratchy, but I gave those to M just in case she needed them.
So now I need a pair.
That was the Christmas of the Flood… Wow. I can’t believe that’s a year ago now.
Hace un año…
-A
‘Just so everyone knows – I won’t really be on Museblog that often in the future. Not that I was before, but even less…
The problem is time management and such. Like it or not, Museblog takes time… I’ll tell you about my Plan that will be taking my time up soon, when I don’t have to go to bed. >.<'
Comment one hundred thirty-eight (shown above), continued:
Oddly enough, I’ve been on more lately. So maybe things won’t change that much, but there will be changes.
Like I said, the problem is time management. I’ve started in on a Plan… Essentially of self-betterment, but there’s more behind it.
The Plan is this. Learn how to drive and do as perfectly as I possibly can in school.
So far, I’ve upped my grades (I don’t know how much, but I know I have) and gotten my learner’s permit.
When those two goals have been entirely completed, I’ll do my very very best to get into Middlebury.
Meanwhile, M will be being perfect and learning how to drive as well, as she always has been.
When that happens, she’ll do her very best to get into Smith.
If we succeed, life will be tough living three hours away, but it will be life, and it will be wonderful, we’re pretty sure.
That said. If we don’t succeed… Things could be even better.
My second choice, UVM, is also my fallback choice in case anything goes wrong, because for some reason I probably can’t disclose without it getting snipped, I can go there tuition free. Plus, because UVM is located right next to an interstate, it’s ten minutes ‘closer’ to Smith – even though Middlebury has nearly thirty-five miles of a headstart as the crow flies.
Her second choices – I can’t name them all from memory – are all within a few miles of her first choice.
So even if everything goes wrong… I think things are still going to go right. (I took initiative… Be proud. Be very proud.)
I’m hopeful. I’m terrified in ways and I can’t wait in ways but I’m happy I’m living my life… And maybe I can live some more of it with her.
-A
I have an MUN conference tomorrow! The first day is mostly just an introduction, but I’m still stressing out. I don’t feel like I did enough research…It should still be fun, though. Usually I enjoy these type of things.
If you know enough background, you can wing it if their is something you don’t know. Don’t stress
AHHHHH where have I been?
Welcome back to all the returning Musers, it’s lovely to have you here again.
I like “the zips”, fingerless gloves are incredible, and I was going to say something else but I forgot it, so oh well.
So, why is it that when one gets a decent amount of sleep it’s torture to haul themselves out of bed, but when they get half that amount they wake up without the aid of an alarm clock even? Very strange. A few days ago I was logging maybe 10 hours of sleep a night, lovely, except that since I was going to bed between 12 and 1 AM I was waking up anywhere from 9 to 1030, not so great. Then when I go to sleep at 3AM I wake up at 7:40, without my alarm. (Of course, I took one look at the clock and convinced myself to hide under the covers until I fell asleep again, but still…). That’s just strange.
209~ Sounds kind of like my plan. Get a license (I already know how to drive, I just need to take the test), finish HS as soon as possible, go to the local community college for a little bit to take some basic courses, transfer to a school not too far away from where Phil is going. Fortunately, it’s a college I liked even before meeting him, but the proximity would be very much appreciated. An hour and a half drive is way better than 8 or more. >.<
Ai, there’s so much to remember for Exams and so much pressure… I wish I didn’t have so many obligations.
I have a phone designed for texting. And whenever I text, my signature is “PINK LAGOMORPHS!”
Random Question That’s Probably Already Been Asked:
Why is “away” misspelled in the title of this thread?
Um… I’m not sure. I thought I had I really good answer to your question, and then I discovered I didn’t.
I think it has something to do with… Okay, I have no clue.
That’s really funny. I thought I knew, and then… I didn’t. Wow.
It’s not. “Aweigh” is a nautical term, meaning “just free of the bottom; atrip.”
I just finished watching the Lord of the Rings Cast Commentary for the third movie. *sigh*
I’d forgotten how much I loved LotR. The movies, with all their flaws, are really very good.
I have the strange urge to change my name to something LotR related. Don’t know what it’d be. Maybe my actual name translated to elvish. Or whatever the elvish for ‘mistake’ is.
I’m going to look up the elvish for ‘mistake’ now… (I have a really cool application on my computer which is basically an elvish-english dictionary)
There isn’t elvish for ‘mistake’, apparently. But ‘error’ in elvish is mist, or mistad. They mean error, wandering and straying, error, respectively.
Don’t worry, I probably won’t actually change my name.
Play practice for Annie is going swimmingly. I get to act drunk and be thrown into a laundry cart, that’s a plus. And we do a dance to ‘Hard Knock Life’ where another girl and I, being broom carriers, have decided to have a lightsaber fight with our brooms onstage, during the part of the song where chaos is taking over. I always get stabbed first.
Is anyone else frantically preparing for midterm exams right now?
No!!! *grins*
Great!
So I’ve been keeping a record of how many times I’ve posted as ‘Errata’ since the page first went up, and looking back over it, I discover I’ve posted eight less than seven hundred times over the past five months minus two days. Compared to four hundred in the six (ish) months before that. I’ve also jumped from 122, to 52 on the list. I enjoy those.
I probably have another hundred from various times posting under variants of ‘Errata’ too, but that’s a different matter.
Yes, I’ve changed my name…*counts* bubblebabe46, bubblebabe225, b, Princess_Magnolia, so that’s 4, and I will probably change it again in the future. Sorry if that’s annoying to anybody, but I’m just trying to find out what fits…
Did anybody else ever read The Nature Company’s TerraTopia comic books as a kid? I still have one that I saved.
TerraTopia was this really cool magical island/planet/dimension which could only be reached by using a special dragonfly key to unlock a keyhole on a map of the island. (Yes, the map had a keyhole.) It had all these ancient ruins and hideaways on it, and pretty much every biome existed somewhere on the island. There were even mammoths and sabertoothed cats in the north and dinosaurs in the south. Oh, and there were three moons in the sky over it.
The comics only had the characters going to about five places on the island, which made looking at the map in the back and trying to imagine what every place was like even more exciting.
Apparently, there’s some kind of revival coming later this year.
I’ve been Tesseract since my first day on Museblog. My only change was capitalizing the first letter of my blogname. I was briefly “tesseract,” with a lowercase t. I’ve got 1,205 posts to my name since October 25, 2008, which averages out to about 2.6 posts a day. I dislike name changes not because it throws off the post count but because I get incredibly confused when someone changes their name. For example, I’m pretty sure that RQ used to be Lady Galadriel (or maybe it wasn’t her?), and that name change confused me for a really long time. AvalonGirl has changed her name a few times since I’ve been here as well, and I’m still not entirely sure what she’s going by now.
Piggy is eternally aggravated by name-switching. Piggy has done just fine with his name for over three years now and doesn’t see why anyone else can’t do the same.
Life is much pleasanter without physics. Study hall is so relaxing, due partly to the fact that I’m in the back corner of the cafeteria since I joined a few days late. Just fifty minutes to read or do homework at my leisure.
Greek class was fun today, even though we were only introduced to the alphabet. But why can’t it be more than once a week? *sigh*
So. How ’bout that Haiti? And some people thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse than it was.
We have a donation jar at our school now. I put in five dollars today, I do hope that it will help. Poor Haiti. I’m praying for all those still trapped under the rubble, and the homeless children.
I’m a little confused about Haiti…I don’t have TV or read the paper or listen to the radio, so all I have is a foggy notion that Port au Prince was destroyed by an earthquake. Maybe other places. I don’t really know. I’m always like this when disasters happen… “What? Something happened? What’s going on? I’m so confused!”
There was a huge earthquake that destroyed lots of the towns and cities. Haiti is one of the poorest nations in the world, so most of the buildings weren’t very strong, let alone built to withstand earthquakes. Many, many buildings collapsed, trapping people underneath. The lack of equipment makes getting people out very difficult and slow. Once people are out, there is barely any water, medical attention, or food for people. Meanwhile, other nations have been sending help, but since the roads are destroyed and there’s one tiny little airport, it’s hard to get the help in and distribute it. It’s an all-around disaster.
I had so much fun at my Model UN conference today…and it’s just the first day! When I came back I was raving about it to my mother. I’m all raved out now, but, seriously, I think all MBers should check it out. It’s fun, thought-provoking, and hones your debating skills. You also get to skip school and go to these large conferences for four days and debate and write resolutions for important world issues.
So. Yeah. That was pretty much what I did today, and will be doing for the next few days.
So…yesterday in Language Arts we had a sort-of do anything you want to class (well, we were supposed to be working on our packets but everyone was on facebook, and…yeah.) Anyway, my friend and I made a list of all the Harry Potter characters we could think of without looking at the books in the space of one class time. We managed to come up with 190 between the two of us. Our other friend, who has only read the first book *gasp* guessed, when asked, that we had come up with 30. 30! I mean, seriously. Anyway, it was pretty awesome that we were able to come up with that many.
‘Twas a very good waste of time.
Approaching 400 posts, and a year on MB. Changed name once.
557 posts, one year + a bit, one name change.
Over a year on MB with no name change… Somehow, I just could never decide. Bookgirl_me doesn’t really seem to fit that much anymore, probably because I’ve changed a lot. But whatever.
The last exams are over! *cheers*
I once thought about changing my name, but I’m fine with what i have now.
I’m going to a wedding this weekend! It’s for my cousin, and I’m absolutely confused over what to wear. What does one wear to the wedding? Something fancy? Something casually nice? I’ve only ever been to a wedding as a five-year-old, and nobody looks down on how you dress when you are five.
And I STILL have finals next weak. *headdesk*
Fun!
I usually dress up a fair amount for weddings, but since I don’t know whether ‘fancy’ means a nice dress, or a formal, I can’t really help.
I don’t know how fancy it gets- the only wedding I went to was fairly casual, but I’d say when in doubt, a fairly light color and an at least knee lenght dress.
Don’t dress up like it’s prom, but wear a pretty skirt and top or a dress that’s about knee-length. Jewelry, nice shoes (low heels or flats), and purse help to make you look more dressed up. Do not wear white!
I like my name *hugs self*.
It’s random and so am I!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve only changed the spelling of my name and had different signature “tags” at the end after slightly over two years on MB.
I’ve never changed my name. I actually made it up in a hurry, but I do like it.
peary moppins…it’s weird. But its me.
What happened in Haiti was terrible. One of my teachers is Haitian, and all of his family lives near Port-au-Prince, and he has no idea if they’re alive or dead, and calls don’t get through.
Oh my gosh. That must be really scary for him.
I couldn’t imagine that happening to me…
I only changed my name twice, and one of those times was just to fix a spelling mistake. I like my name.
We are doing a fundraiser at our school – the money was going to go to our grade, but is now going to Haiti. Which makes me feel as if I’m accomplishing something…
*claps* Good for your school!
On a different note, my school is trying to save money, so it’s switching the 6th grade schedule next year.
When my teacher told the class, everyone was like, “What?!” and “How’s that going to save money?!” and most of all “Why?!?!?!” Luckily, it doesn’t take effect until next year, but still. 
Ah, the weekend! And a long one at that! (Hm, I must have been practicing Greek too much. My mind first jumped to theta for a “th” sound instead of a “th”.)
Hello from the future! I just stopped by to see people’s reactions to “The End of Time,” and I was surprised to find this thread is still open! Of course, now I must add my own reaction to “The End of Time” which is as follows:
WHYY DAVID TENNANT WHY DO YOU HAVE TO GO?! I’LL MISS YOU!!! Matt Smith you’re not David Tennant so I won’t like you.
Happy new year from two years in the future!
(Sorry, GAPAs; I saw an open comment box and pounced! Look at it this way: I’m drawing your attention to an inconsistency in the ‘Blog! Order! Yay! *hides in corner sheepishly*)
Is there something wrong with inconsistency?