Tuesday, 23 April 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
As the Random Thread sets off on its year-long voyage of historical discovery (still in the era of Ancient Greece), throngs of well-wishers turn out to wish us fair winds and a following sea. Some of them even seem to be trying to blow a little extra wind our way…
Date: January 15, 2010
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Random craziness
Whooo… colorful. Did the Greeks paint their architecture like that? I knew they painted some of their statues. Fantastic. Although I’m not sure Mimi’s thin neck would be much support for the weight of the roof. Oh well. Details.
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No doubt her neck was reinforced. But who could resist using the headgear for a capital?
Greek friezes probably didn’t include these particular bunny heads, but colors as bright as these often decorated architecture and statuary. These colors are close matches to some recreations I found in my research.
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Wow! COol!
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Pretty… I sense a new background here.
Anyway, I must be off. People to see, things to do. Stores to be incredibly bored in while my brother gets formal pants. Ho hum.
Oh well, I shall probably be getting The Color of Magic to entertain me while at the store. From the library.
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I love the picture! It’s awesome!
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This is a fantastic picture, Lady B!
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George should be around number 5.
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How did my post get way up here? It was supposed to be at the bottom!
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Hmmmm… Has Koko seen this? All those Mimis in one place…NOT MOVING!!!!!! What a target!!!!!!!!!!!
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But what’s the fun in hitting a stone pillar? 
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Koko probably wants more of a challenge.
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That is an AWESOME picture. New background!
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Cool picture, GAPAs!!! So, my last post, number 232.1. Any comments?
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6- He MUST know…
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We’re not going by the library after all. And it closes in less then fifteen minutes.
We could certainly get there if we left now, the library’s really near our house, but we don’t leave until my brother finishes practicing piano for thirty minutes.
And I have to go with them anyway, because we’re going out to eat afterward.
I could bicycle to the library, but I probably couldn’t be there on time, I’m not allowed to go on my own, and it’s raining, so I couldn’t go anyway.
It’s not fun to be expecting something and have it not happen. 
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Wow, beautiful! One of my favorites! The Hot-Pink Bunnies around the edge are a nice touch.
Has anybody else not gotten their Muse yet? I’ve been waiting for a while, and I’m worried because on my last subscription, there was a problem with me not getting most of my Muses.
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Where are the HPBs? I can’t seem to see them.
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They’re on the green band above Mimi’s head. A bit ironic, as they’re dark green.
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I think they actually started out as dark red and turned rather blackish in the light. As far as I know, hot pink paint wasn’t available in Athens in 5th century BCE. Perhaps these were precursors.
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They are really green hot pink bunnies, lets call them HPBs in disguise… they are on the green band right on top of Mimis’ heads.
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Thanks! Oh, now I see them.
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Oh, whoah. Tis flamablamablous.
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Those are the… the… the pillars that look like people with a name that I forget…
*Looks up*
Caryatids, the caryatids. I knew it started with a “C”.
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It’s Mimi.
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Caryatids are columns made to look like women. I based the picture on the famous caryatid porch at the Erechtheion, an ancient temple in Athens. Here’s what remains of it:
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Yes, it’s the weekend! It’s a time to see friends! And it is also a time to get ready for finals at my school, blech.
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Exactly my thoughts.
-A
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OOh, fanatastical picture, Lady Bunniful!
I really should get started reading Twelfth Night, I only know that it involves cross dressers and a gay pirate.
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Ohh, NOW I see the HPBs, I didn’t notice them at first, because the weren’t the HP part of their acronym. *shock and amazement*
Lovely work, Lady B., as is always the case.
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Cool picture. Kind of like old claymation videos.
I’ve got to say this, French is utter epic awesomeness. I really don’t get why everybody takes Spanish (blech).
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Well, first, not everyone does.
Second, Spanish is far easier in the start than French. The sounds required are much more familiar for anglophones – the French r and several of the vowel sounds are very difficult for an English-trained mouth to make.
Third, because Spanish is utter epic awesomeness [as well].
-A
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Non, je n’aime pas l’espagnole. L’espagnole est penible.
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What’s “penible?” I understood the rest of that. *feels smart* *is actually really bad at French*
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Penible means boring.
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No, ennuyeux means boring.
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Right, penible means painful.
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Non, l’espagnole n’est pas penible. J’aime l’espagnole! C’est excitant! C’est passionnant! Il est facile, aussi.
-A
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I would like to take Spanish next year, when I start high school, because I already know some French…then I want to take Italian, then Creole. If I become really good at all of those languages, I would be, um …
1) English
2) French
3) Spanish
4) Italian
5) Creole
Pentilingual?
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I do French, and I want to take Italian and Russian.
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Spanish pwns all!
El español es mejor!
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Lovely picture, Lady B!
17- I’d been taking it since third grade and just decided to continue on my merry way. But another language would be fun to try!
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Me? Dead? No, not yet. 
Wonderful picture, as usual, Lady B.
Just checking in for what’s become a monthly tradition…
And I can’t really think of anything intelligent to postt. As usual.
So I’ll bid ye farewell for now.
Farewell!
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Hi! Bye!
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Lovely, absolutely lovely picture.
Sorry for not being on lately. Much school I am having.
Ick.
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4 day weekend!!! Yay!!!
I’ve been considering changing my alias. Any ideas?
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Idea: DO NOT CHANGE YOUR ALIAS.
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Oh, Piggy… *sigh* 
Nah, I’m just kidding. But truthfully, Piggy’s right. It’s much easier to just stick with one name, (It might get confusing otherwise) although I’m a total hypocrite when it comes to that…but I do like SilverLeopard!
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Yeah, I think I’m going to stick with it. My avatar might end up changing, but that’s not really a problem, considering that people keep doing it.
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Your alias is your “name,” right? I have no other ideas, except for Piggys.
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No! Please dont; I have a rather large problem with this. I still end up typing Cyndi and then deleting it when referring to you. I hate change.
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I love the picture as always Lady B! Tis quite beautiful, and the colors are wonderful…
I don’t think I’ve been on in around two days, which is a long time for me in MB time… 
Unfortunately I’ve been really busy. I’ve got mountains of homework, mountains of homework, and (more) mountains of homework unfortunately and not all that much time to do it. With a huge research project coming up and a couple of major projects all due within the next week, I have a feeling I’ll be pretty busy.
Ick.
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Yeah… You can completely lose track of everything that everyone was saying in that time.
-A
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Especially on the RPGs. It took me awhile to read all the posts that had accumulated in my absence….
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I have homework, and I’m chipping away, but right now, I am free and I am not going to let anyone take that from me.
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Sorry for all the alias changes…I think I’ll probably stay Princess_Magnolia for awhile. For anyone who doesn’t know, me = bubblebabe 46 -> bubblebabe225 -> b -> Princess_Magnolia. I might have been something else in between that wasn’t obvious, but I forgot. So anyone who has a very pink fuzzy-HPB avatar is me.
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Zoons, superfast moderation! *whistles in appreciation*
Eh, what did I do today? Well, it was lovely weather and I mostly stayed inside. Blehh. >.<
This morning had the conversation with le bf that I didn't have last night, was summoned into breakfast, tortured by the parents because I'd been on the phone (mostly teasing and making obnoxious kissing noises. I love my parents, I really do. I just have to remind myself sometimes.), returned to my room, talked to him some more, did Spanish hw, hung up copious amounts of laundry, started a poem and headbanded a book.
Whoop-de-do.
Now what do I want to do? Uh, go outside. Maybe I'll just do that.
Ughhhhhhhh I don't want to think about the writing and geometry homework that's lying in wait in my room to screw up my evening. Begone, school, BEGONE! xP
That was a pointless post. It's sad when I start using MB as my journal. *sigh*
I need to get myself a computer that works, and doesn't have panic attacks and guilt complexes.
Every time I close Rosetta Stone (for Spanish), even if it was working PERFECTLY FINE and I just close it the normal way (instead of forcing it to die) it comes up with a dialog box saying "We're sorry, you had to close the nonresponsive program Rosetta Stone." or something to that effect and asks me to send an error report for the good of civilization.
Well, I know what would be for the good of civilization; a computer that bloody well works! Grr.
This post grows more and more pointless by the minute. Here's me, recounting my day and ranting about a piece of electronics which, despite it's pathetic state usually wins when I fight with it. 
I should enliven my speech with more interesting words.
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Eh, you’re not alone. I use MB as a journal too a lot….
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HA!!!! I GOT 42ed COMMENT, I GOT 42ed COMMENT! VICTORY! *dances around in excitement*
( I mean, 24 was the 42ed. Not this one. This one, presumably, is the 43ed. )
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Comment 24 was the 42nd comment? That’s just awesome. ^_^
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Not fair bubblebabe Princess_Magnolia! That’s just me though.
On another note, the other day, my saxophone tried to kill me. I threatened to sue it. I do hope the scar decides to stay. Blah, Blah, blah.
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Who would represent a saxophone in a court case? Actually, I would.
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I’d be the prosecutor!
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Dibs on presiding justice.
-A
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Our own little MB court. So, what shall I be suing for? I don’t want money or anything. How’s about I sue for an… an… oboe! So J.D. doesn’t get it!
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You can have it as long as I get the elbow…
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Why would you want another elbow? Don’t you have two of your own?
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Yes, but it was a joke…see, in chamber winds, J.D. – who already plays three instruments, by the way – was talking about how he “needed a challenge,” so he said, “I want to play the oboe.” Ms. Band Teacher went, “There’s only one oboe in the entire school district!” So, Keiffer said, “I want to play the oboe!” Then J.D. went, “I call the elbow!” So Keiffer replied, “Well, I call the oboe.” Twas funny.
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I want to be the witness!
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Oooh, I’ll be Court Reporter!
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*dibs on judge* Okay, I’m not neutral or whatever the requirements are, but still…
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Sorry. Taken.
-A
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How could a saxophone try to kill you? Woodwinds are very non-violent. (Well, A got a bruise from her clarinet yesterday, but it probably wasn’t the clarinet’s fault.)
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Well, you know how there are the little needly things on saxophones? I was putting it away, and it stabbed me, and my needly thingies are flat! It’s absurd, really.
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Ewww…I remember that incident…
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And then you started squeezing the blood everywhere, it was disgusting.
Saxophones are instruments of death.
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Hey, it wasn’t my fault. I happen to like blood.
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Are you sparkly?
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As long as you don’t sparkle, it’s cool.
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*slowly backs away* Uh… you can find another prosecutor, if you want…. *runs* *runs back* Actually, I happen to like blood too.
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How can you like blood? It’s a bloody nuisance.
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I’m not sparkly, and I know it’s a bloody nuisance. It’s more interesting then plain old skin! (What? I couldn’t think of a better argument.
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I just like the bloodiness. It’s so pretty. Shiny, and glimmery. Dripping down like water, but it looks nice. The little pools by someone’s decapitated head…
I should probably stop now.
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That made me laugh for some reason. “The little pools by someone’s decapitated head…” *collapses on floor in spasms*
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Water does look so pretty… but I hate the taste of blood ever since I had a loose tooth bleeding into my mouth constantly for the whole day. Blood is beautiful too, but it’s gross when it’s dry, and when someone is smearing it everywhere.
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I know what you mean. Blood is so beYOUtifully crimson red an then when it dries it’s a repulsive brown. Ick.
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Blood is quite beautiful, and it tastes fine. 
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Really, Ducky? Have you had it dripping onto your tongue for 8 hours straight? Because I used to think blood tasted good too, (most people do) but after that day, even the smell is almost too much.
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*imagines Enceladus the vampire, rising from an unfortunate mortal’s corpse, his teeth dripping with blood* I actually like blood, just not decapitated heads.
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*bites Maths Lover Hard* *bites SudoRandom hard* Mwhahaha.
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Okay, I’m in hysterics. Can I quote you next time someone is talking about blood? Please?
*can just see the looks on people’s faces*
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Sure!
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Thank you!
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Out, damned spot! out! What, will these hands ne’er be clean?
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I like blood. Yesterday I cut my finger on Keiffer’s braces, and then spent about a half hour chanting “Go to the w-indow.” at it trying to get it to bleed more.
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I like blood. I like the taste of blood. I don’t like the look of blood, but as long as it’s my blood, I’m fine.
But I freeze up at the sight of somebody else’s blood, though.
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*agrees with everything*
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Blood, blood, blood, I love it. Ahh, but how I wish my blood would suddenly turn green. It could be, actually, I could just be colourblind. Wow. This turned into a really strange conversation, but beware, I might know where you live…
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*also wants blood to turn green* *or wants 2 hearts*
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Two hearts?
More blood, yes?
Or what if your heart was on your right side, like Sir whatsisname from Unexpected Magic? That’d be awesome.
*is stabbed in place where heart should be*
“Haha, my heart’s on the other side! I’m not dead, yay!”
*coughs*
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Time Lords have two hearts.
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*reads last 25 posts* *readies stakes*
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Hey, nobody said we weren’t complete psychopaths. *crouches into fighting stance* *prepares to battle POSOC*
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*fires crossbow*
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*bites POSOC hard*
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*clubs over head with butt of crossbow, stakes*
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*attacks POSOC from behind in defense of Enc*
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*spins and uses Enc as human vampiric shield*
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*turns as well, and bites POSOc*
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Ouch! That hurt! *bites anyway*
You see, I’m a modern vampire. I’m not restricted by old vampire customs such as garlic or stakes. I love garlic. And sunlight. Garlic yum- *urgle*
Just kidding! *bites POSOC while off guard*
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*pulls out sword*
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Yay, vampires! We never did get that blood from those nasty bunnieses off our hands, did we, precious? But vampires, precious, oh precious, they don’t bleed when you stabses them- or when you throwses them in the lava, yes, precious, we’ll roast them. Vampire, garlic and you , precious, my precious, and nasty lava, before the yellow face comes out- oh we hate it, precious, it hurts our eyeses! Will these hands ne’er be clean, my precious? But we must roast the vampires before the hobbitses do, oh the nasty fat hobbit! And we’ll get fish(es?) and roast them with the vampire kebab, good Smeagol just wants a fish with his vampire-kebab, but the nasty hobbitses with their nasty bread will take it from us, precious. So we must eat the vampires without fish. We only wish, to catch a fish, so juicy-sweet…
Okay, that was very, very weird…
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As Robert once said, “I think the word ‘weird’ loses all meaning here on MuseBlog.”
Fire up the barby. Looks like you’ll have enough vampire kebabs (with or without fish) to feed a community picnic.
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*stays far, far away from volcano*
Weird does indeed loose it’s definition on MuseBlog.
I am a vampiric giant space squid.
I voted for Kokopelli.
I would prosecute a saxophone in a court case.
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Umm… I don’t think you can make a vampire kebab. They traditionally burst into ashes.
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Except this lot appears to be a new species.
They have to have a weakness, though. If they’re immune to garlic what else might keep them at bay? ….herring?*
(*25 bunny points to those who catch the allusion.)
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*evil laughs* You could try herring. *gets back to the war*
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It can’t be done!
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Let’s try it out and see. We can always roast the fat hobbit instead, yes precious, the nasty fat hobbit, with ashes! Yes precious, we knew we were evil geniuses!
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*bites bookgirl_me turned gollum*
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Uhm, I was just scrolling through the thread and saw this… Should I be scared?
Probably not. This is the ‘blog we’re talking about.
I just read everything up to here, and I started bursting out laughing. How did the conversation get from saxes to Time Lords to vampires to garlic? This is *exactly* why I LOVE the blog.
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Be scared. Be very scared. *bites Beedle hard*
Here’s how:
Keiffer was punctured by en’s saxophone. He said blood spurted everywhere. I said I like blood. Keiffer said that he wanted green blood (Vulcan) I said I also wanted green blood, or two hearts, and be a Time Lord. On the subject of blood, POSOC thought I was a vampire. Vbean donned a garlic necklace. I ate the garlic necklace. Squabble ensued over who eats the garlic necklace.
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Oh. It was a rhetorical question. I’m pretty sure you *are* a vampire though.
“I just like the bloodiness. It’s so pretty. Shiny, and glimmery. Dripping down like water, but it looks nice. The little pools by someone’s decapitated head…”
Yup. No debate.
P.S. You will NEVER live that down here on the ‘blog.
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I don’t want to live that down. All my RL friends (Well, some of them) think I’m the Grim Reaper.
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No, no, no. En’s saxophone punctured Keiffer.
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Exactly, Keiffer’s Saxophone punctured Keiffer.
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Yes, this *is* why we love the ‘blog.
This shall go down in MB history as the Garlic/Blood Wars. (maybe… I’m just being random here, actually.)
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For some reason, I will go on google translate and tranlate this page into Hindi. I seriously don’t know why.
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Oh, my gods. *cracks up laughing*
You are brilliant.
My mother compares herself to Gollum, btw. Really.
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*dons garlic necklace*
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*eats garlic necklace* Yum. I love garlic.
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That was creepy. *throws garlic powder on EVERYONE*
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I like garlic! *omnomnom*
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I like garlic too! Vannillabean, can I have more garlic powder? *makes garlic sandwich and gives half to Enc*
Very fast moderating, GAPAs! *applauds*
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Oh my sainted socks. *goes to H&H* *requests pans of garlic bread* *hands out garlic bread to everyone*
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Yum! Garlic sandwiches with garlic bread!
*breathes on POSOC and vanillabean and speller*
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*takes all the garlic bread*
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*snatches as much garlic bread as possible from Enceladus*
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*turns Ducky into pile of Garlic Bread*
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*eats self*
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Yummy! Garlic!
I had this garlic-peppers thingy wrapped in ham today for lunch. It was very yummy but I wonder what my breath smells like.
*grabs garlic necklace away from Enc*
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*joins in the fight for the yummy garlic necklace*
“All out war!”
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Oh yeah?
*eats garlic before Keiffer can get it*
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*hands out extra garlic necklaces to everyone*
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*steals all of the garlic necklaces*
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AAAHHHH!!!!!! GARLIC!!!!!!!! *writhes in pain* Grrrrrrrr…*attacks with fangs and claws*
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SFTDP You see, I am a demonic cat, so garlic and holy water are not good!
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*prepares garlic catapult* MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
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*eats garlic from garlic catapult*
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*also eats garlic out of garlic catapult*
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Ew. Garlic catapult. It smells here. 
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*eats garlic flavored f+h*
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Garlic flavoured f+h? What the cake?
*eats garlic flavoured Enc*
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“Don’t you roll your eyes at me, vanillabean!”
*bites very, very hard*
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*joins Keiffer in biting*
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*throws rotten fruit*
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*bites as well*
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*screams* *launches epic garlic pies* *bites back*
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I agree wholeheartedly. *whittles stakes* *grabs holy water* Watch out! I’m a Slayer! (coughnotreallybutyoudon’thavetoknowthatcough)
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*stays away from speller*
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*dons signature orange hat and joins fray* *attacks Speller with garden weasel*
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*grabs pencil* *waves it in front of self* *attacks speller*
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*grabs eraser* *waves it in front of self* *attacks speller* *realizes eraser is too small* *grabs Keiffer* *waves Keiffer in front of self* *pwns speller*
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*uses witchcraft powers to float pencil, which is then used to stake both Keiffer and Enc*
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*frees self from stake* I’m not a classic vampire! *covers speller in garlic*
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*shouts at Enc for using me as a vampire shield* *laughs maniacally when speller realizes that I’m not dead* *pulls out pencil* *lunges at speller*
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*uses SudoRandom as shield* *bites to make sure he doesn’t die*
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*high fives SiR and passes him a garlic sandwich*
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*takes garlic sandwich* *gives Sudo heaping pile of garlic bread* *gives self and infinite pile of garlic bread*
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*steals infinite pile of garlic bread (or tries to, it appears to be futile)*
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*turns f+h into pile of garlic bread*
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*flames garlic bread*
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*eats garlic flavoured Enc* *eats garlic flavoured f+h*
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I’m not garlic flavored.
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You ate garlic.
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*hurls all garlic off the edge of the dimension*
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I guess.
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*eats f+h flavored Keiffer* Yum.
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*eats Keiffer flavoured Enc*
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Wait, aren’t we on the same side?
Oh right, this is the garlic war.
*drowns Keiffer in garlic marinade* *eats*
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*eats f&h flavored Enceladus flavored Keiffer flavored Keiffer*
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……What, have we become cannibals?
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Of course we have!
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*attempts to eat all who come to close*
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Haven’t we always been cannibals?
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*attacks everyone with garden weasel, steals garlic, teleports to different dimension, eats garlic, doesn’t get eaten, and THAT’S FINAL*
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*eats Keiffer* *gives some of Keiffer to Sudo*
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*gives oboe away to someone who is NOT Keiffer*
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*joins POSOC* *readies stakes*
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*stays in the background*
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*appears in the background behind SilverLeopard* *tackles* *bites* *vampirizes* *asks if en wants to join in the fight*
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MWAHAHA! I’M AN EVIL PRINCESS, AND I OWN YOU ALL! *beats over head with sceptre*
Take this, evil nontraditional vampire garlic stealer MuseBlogger eating natiform FREAKS!!!
*beats more*
AHAHA!
*stands on top of pile of bodies and beats chest of pink silk gown*
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*becomes vampire**glee* Did I start this vampire thing? *boards Enterprise**starts shooting at Princess, Keiffer, and Enceladus**eats garlic bread*
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Wait, I’m on your side! *gives Maths Lover 5,000 pieces of Garlic Bread*
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Hey, I’m on your side! *hands over hidden garlic necklaces*
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*boards Enterprise-D (Yes, I’m a TNG betrayer)* *explodes Speller*
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*bites all who are near**steals garlic with garlic-proof body suit**eats garlic**dies* Haha! I’m a demon cat-ow-I can’t die! But that hurt!*explodes, injuring all who are near further*
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*takes garlic* *eats*
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*helps Princess*
P.S. That last line of your post (27.4.1.1) just gave me an AWESOME mental image…
*eats garlicky Maths Lover*
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*eats garlicky Beedle the Bard**throws garlic bread at Princess**eats garlicky Princess* Omnomnomnomnom.
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Why, thank you! *bows, then mutilates Maths Lover ♥ who is trying to eat me* *takes Maths Lover ♥’s garlic bread, eats*
*beats with sceptre MORE*
*is dictator Princess*
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27.3.4.2.1.3.2.1.3.6 – *gasp* You Have Gone Too Far.
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*defends self with scythe*
Putting the curved blade of a scythe over a corpse’s neck was a traditional way of keeping them from turning into a vampire. When they tried to rise, they chopped off their own head.
*ahem*
Sorry, I spent a while researching classic vampires for a book I’m thinking of writing as a protest against all the ‘good’ vampires nowadays.
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*steal scythe*
Good luck with the book! I encourage you!
*runs away with scythe* *threatens Enc*
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Oy! I have a scythe too! Haven’t you seen my post up there? I’m the Grim Reaper!
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*steals back*
So, Enceladus? I can have one too! *sticks out tongue*
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*battles* *pwns* *is worshipped*
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*worships* *steals both scythes* *battles* *pwns more* *worships*
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What the cake everyone! This is pointless!
*uses logic and common sense to disable everyone*
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It is. I’m not sure how I got involved. *steals back scythe* *doesn’t attack with it* *securely ties to self so it can’t be stolen*
What? Scythes are cool.
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*sniffs* We don’t need a scythe, precious. We uses our handses and we can always start singing. Oh yes, precious, we like our singsong chants… Caught in a web, soon you’ll be eaten.
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What’s wrong with being pointless?
*attacks Jakob with scythe*
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*decides to join the fray*
*is unsure what side to join*
*stabs random MuseBlogger with saxophone, bringing conversation full circle*
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*bites*
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*gasps*
Hey? Why’d you do that?
*stabs AM back* *pats saxophone*
Good boy saxy, good boy.
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*apologizes*
*looks for another weapon*
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Ha, well I have a trombone, and..*blows in ear*
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I have a French Horn!
*blasts PM’s eardrums to bits*
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I have an army of drooling zombies!
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I have a violin!
*Plays screeching, high note, causing everyone to cringe*
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27.5.1.2.1.1.1.2.1.7 – Ackk!! *dies*
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I have Alanna! *plays highest, most unpleasant note as loud as it is possible to do on a flute*
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*eats everyone and their instruments* *gives everybody Elizabethan ruffs* *asks them to play nicely, so we can be a chamber orchestra*
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Oiy! Pointlessness makes us all thrive.
*bites*
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In band I had to move and sit next to SudoRandom, just because the flutes were that shrill. And believe me, it’s NOT a move I like taking, because if I don’t sit next to the flutes I pretty much can’t hear them. And it’s not fun to have saxophones blowing in your ear. *blows trombone in SR’s ear*
*both of them*
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MB is pointless! That’s the whole point! *blows oboe in Maths Lover ♥s ear*
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*zombifies*
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I agree with Keiffer! Good luck! *encouragement*
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Encouragement isn’t allowed in a garlic war. Or whatever this is. *trombone bashing*
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Whoa…I was just surfing the Internet and came across a scarily creepy picture. Now it’s my avatar, although I imagine it won’t show up on most computers (Including mine) for awhile…anyhow, beware when you see it. *mwhahahaha*
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Eep.
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It’s cute!
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27.5.1.2.1.1.1.2.1.5 – Nope, Enceladus. Owned. *blows trombone so loud it MELTS eardrums, while wearing magic earplugs* *because I’m an evil princess and I’m cool like that*
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The garlic war got too many comments and I had to click reply on the nearest one to the comment I wanted to reply to…>.<
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Blah, blah, blah. Blah blah blah blah, blah. Blah blah, blah! Blah. Blah blah.
(Yeah, I just saw Avatar, so now I feel really sad.)
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Really sad? I just watched Tosh and Owen die.
Now I just have Children of Earth… which is supposed to be even sadder.
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You really ought to put spoiler warnings, in case others intend to watch and don’t wish to be spoilt.
But, yes, CoE is significantly sadder.
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I cried in Avatar and then my friends made fun of me. They’re mean.
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Mean friends. I don’t see how you can not cry. *gives choklit*
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I loved that movie so much. I wanna see it again… *makes plans to see it this weekend* *realizes she doesn’t have any money*
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CHELSEA CHELSEA I BELIEVE THAT WHEN YOU’RE DANCING SLOWLY SUCKING YOUR SLEEVE THE BOYS ALL GET LONELY AFTER YOU LEAVE AND IT’S ONE FOR THE DAGGER AND ANOTHER FOR THE ONE YOU BELIEVE
I have had that song stuck in my head since after my game this morning (we play it because it is the Blackhawks goal song but it’s good, and good locker room music too)
DA DA DA, DA DA DA, DA DA DADADA DA DA, DUH DUH DUH, DUH DUH DUH, DUH DUH DUHDUHDUH DUH DUH
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I love that song. And I have since around twenty-one hours tonight.
Thanks!
-A
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I LOVE THE FRATELLIS!!!!
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I always have Beatles or Queen songs stuck in my head, courtesy of Pluto. I think my friends are starting to think I’m weird, because I go around in school singing “I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand! And when I touch you I feel happy inside…”
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Computers at my house may be stupid, but they show gravatars instantly! Yay! SPOCK! I finally watched Star Trek last night. This is what happened:
Kirk: *is shirtless*
(me) Not. Hot. Ugh.
Spock: *is mad*
OMG! He’s so hot!
*massive punch-up #213*
Yay, violence!
Kirk: *is heroic*
He’s still ugly.
*various cliches*
This movie is awesome!
Spock: *is heroic*
Squee! That guy is SO HOT!
Yes, I squeed at Spock’s hotness in every scene he was in. And before you tell me I’m going insane even by MuseBlog standards, I’ll change the subject. Uhm… There was a huge thunderstorm last evening! YAY!!!
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We are playing music from Star Trek (the new movie and the original series) in band for our next concert
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Bleh. We’re just playing Lion King, for some reason. Someone actually requested it.
-A
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Played that last year. It is unspeakably monotonous for cellists. >.<
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I’m watching Star Trek!
Got the first season for Xmas, I think. SPOCK IS AWESOME!
AlpacaLips likes Kirk better. Because he’s equal on all sides, I think was what he said. (what? Kirk is a square?)
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NO! YOU SOUND EXACTLY LIKE MY FRIEND! This is too creepy. But I know you’re not because
a) My friend would call him a sexy beast,
and
b) My friend hates math.
But really, you guys should get together.
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Whee! I’ve been re-watching all of Star Trek and trying to learn Klingon!
It’s very hard to pronounce. Phonetically half the language is spelled:
Glgacchh!
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And the other half is phonetically spelled
K’LatchssDe’Gh!
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I’ll keep that in mind when I feel like complaining about French.
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Okay, so these people my mom knows who have really annoying kids wanted us to come over this afternoon.
The good news is that I don’t have to go.
The bad news is that I have to do my homework while everyone else is away.
(That’s why I’m on MB so early, so I can get all my computer stuff done now.)
In happier news, last night I went to the observatory with my guidance councilor and her little daughter, who really loves me. We looked at Mars, Andromeda, a double cluster and the Orion Nebula with the big telescope, and I also looked at the Pleiades with these big 15-power binoculars. My gosh, so clear, so small and bright!
One of the guys at the observatory took us down to the basement and showed us this workshop where people used to make telescopes inside of the building when the observatory was still new. All of the old tools and machines were still there, and even some glass that would have been turned into lenses. The lens-grinding machines had lots of gears and looked very Steampunk.
The guy told us that he was a physicist in his “day job” and that he had worked with the particle accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Before that, he worked at Grumman when they still had their facility on Long Island on a nuclear rocket propulsion project that got canceled. Yeah, I was squeeing kind of a lot.
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32- Awesome avatar Maths Lover! We match! James Tiberious Kirk, reporting for duty as Captain of the USS Enterprise. Ready for liftoff.
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Rasmussen Reports: only 40% of Americans think the space shuttle program has been worth it. 50% support cutting back on funding for space exploration, with only 31% opposing cuts. 50% oppose sending a man to Mars. 52% oppose sending a man to the Moon.
Why, America? Why? *sob*
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*cries*
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What’s the point? Convince me.
-A
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That’s a question we all wish we knew the answer to.
*Gives diet lemonade*
Here, let us drown our sorrows together.
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Well, while space exploration is fascinating and awesome (I know, I’m sad too ), there’s still recession and deficit(s) to be dealt with. That’s the best excuse I have. The moon won’t run away, but the economy waits for no-one.
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Just for fun, here are some numbers: NASA’s proposed budget for 2010 is $18.7 billion (0.52% of the federal budget). Over its lifetime (since 1958), NASA’s cumulative budgets add up to less than what the bank bailout is expected to cost. (Far less, depending on which estimates prove true.)
Proportionally speaking, if the federal budget were compared to the median household income in the U.S., NASA’s share would be something like taking a date to the movies (sharing popcorn) once a month.
But for most people a night at the movies won’t generate income in return. In contrast, the space industry is an investment that contributes billions of dollars to the economy, both directly and indirectly, fueling thousands of spin-off businesses, employing more than half a million people. (See the Wikipedia article on NASA Budget for a few examples.)
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Actually, I think I watched a TV program that said the Moon is gradually moving away from Earth.
Whatever. Your point still stands.
I do think space programs are important. For one thing, they feed me. (My dad’s a rocket scientist. Okay, so he’s not really. He works designing spacecraft, though.)
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Meep! Starr, your avatar is REALLY disturbing… O.O
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Ha ha, yes I know. *evil cackle* I’ll probably change it after I’ve scared everyone out of their pants… *another evil cackle*
It hasn’t shown up for me on my screen yet though. I still see the star with a soccer ball design inside of it.
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That’s what I see, also.
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I see a soccer ball on grass.
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That was my “original” one, before I changed it to a star with a soccer ball pattern inside and then a HPB on grass, like the one Luna is describing.
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I see an evil pink fluffy bunny on grass.
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To me, those are the same thing.
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REPO: THE GENETIC OPERA
Oh my god I am in love
If you haven’t seen this you need to RIGHT NOW
<3
Seriously who has seen this? GAPA(s)? Any of you?
DIsclaimer: contains strong language and violence (lots of blood) and some nudity but it is so so so so goooooood
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I’ve seen it.
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History Day! I checked 16 books out of the library today, just now actually, and had to carry them home…a few are quite thick…most are hardcover. Only 9 of the books are for History Day, though, and one is for Pseudo – a biography written by Cynthia Lennon. And I worked on my documentary too…I’m working with Ella, and can I say we have many disagreements….
Me: Click Ken Burns! Move the End frame up…no, up…no, down! Freeze!
Ella: I am, jeez!
Me: ( looking at narration ) Get a picture of Frances Perkins with FDR.
Ella: No, we should just have one of her.
Me: But we’re not talking about her yet, just mentioning her!
Ella: Yes we are, doofus!
Me: We’re talking about her being Secretary of Labor!
Ella: No, we say “Frances Perkins knew how this felt”!
Me: And we have pictures of laborers!
Ella: But we should still have a picture of her!
Me: Whatever.
Ella: Yay! ( looks up pictures on Internet ) How about this one?
Me: Get a younger one.
Ella: ( finding picture of her in high school ) This one?
Me: She looks too young.
Ella: You said younger!
Me: Try Frances Perkins 1918.
Ella: There, how about this one?
Me: Fine.
Ella: OK!
Ugh.
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I am fairly stunned at the amazingly fast moderation that is occurring at this moment. Thank you, GAPA or GAPAs!!!
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On Friday a rather noisy group of my girlfriends and I went to the movie theatre to see Sherlock Holmes. It was a very good movie, but I really don’t reccomend it if you don’t like fistfights. The best part of the magazine ((Why did I just type that?!)) evening was at the end when we were all waiting in the lobby for our parents to pick us up, though. The conversation I had with my dad afterwards sums it up pretty well:
Me: I got yelled at in the theatre lobby.
My dad: Why?
Me: I was standing in the place where you weren’t supposed to stand.
My dad: Oh really? Then what happened?
Me: I jumped off the table-ish thing, kicked my leg into the air, landed in a crouch and said to the ticket guy who yelled at me, “I’m a ninja.” Then I leapt into the air and started running in circles.
I like scaring people.
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I just saw that! Too many fight scenes…and by the way, I think what you did is hilarious
Only now I smell like someone’s perfume from the theatre
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43~ Major kudos for that. “I jumped off the table-ish thing, kicked my leg in the air, landed in a crouch and said to the ticket guy who yelled at me ‘I’m a ninja.'”
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Thank you very much. *curtsies*
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Oooooh, wow. I disappear for a few days, and then when I return we’ve got a whole new thread. Yeep.
Amazing picture, though, Lady B. If only that building really existed, it would be a must-see for any MBer.
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Luna! I’ve missed you… *hugs* Sorry, I know you haven’t been gone for thaaat long, and this is probably going to sound incredibly sappy and mushy, but I really did miss your insightful and funny comments.
You’re an interesting ‘blogger, and I mean that in a good way.
You didn’t miss on all that much. We’ve added a few new threads though, including this one like you said.
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Awwwww. *blushes*
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And your talking about DW/TW/Captain Jack Barrowman.. *welcome-back pies* 
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I wasn’t talking about any of those things in that post…..Or were you saying that you missed my insane fangirl ramblings about said things? *is confuzzled*
Oh, and not that’s it’s a big deal, but it’s Captain Jack Harkness, played by John Barrowman. You’re mixing your characters and actors.
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Oops. Yes, I just missed your rambling.
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Barrowman? Surely you mean Harkness. I’m still working on a fanfic scenario in which he meets Nanny Ogg…
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That sounds interesting.
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“Interesting” is not the half of it. I doubt it would be SFB.
Perhaps a Discworld/Doctor Who fanfic… assuming that before they show up at the end of time in Utopia, Martha, Jack and Dr. #10 take a detour to the Disc…
SPOILERS BELOW FOR THIRD (?) SEASON FINALE
SPOILERS
SPOILERS
Which would mean that when the Dr. does that bit of technobabble, “fusing the coordinates” or some such, the Master wouldn’t be able to return to Earth… he’d head straight for the Disc.
Oh, God, the Master vs. Vetinari… HEAD EXPLODES FROM AWESOMENESS.
OK, I’m getting off topic… should I take this to Geeky TV Shows or Fanfiction?
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I think Martha and Susan would interact quite nicely. Doctor and Death might be fun too.
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So… they show up in the middle of Thief of Time? That could work… but assuming Utopia goes as it does in canon, how would the Master’s presence in Ankh-Morpork affect the book? He’d probably work, as “Harold Saxon,” to halt the glass clock (as it ruins all his plans)… but then salvage what he could from it and construct a new TARDIS… dear God, the potential for mayhem is infinite.
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Would the Doctor want the glass clock? Or do he and The Master agree that it’s bad news.
I wonder what the Auditors would think of the TARDIS…
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It stops time. It’s like the ultimate Timelock, applied to the entire universe. Any Time Lord, no matter how insane or evil, would agree that it’s bad news. I imagine that being stuck in a single moment of time, for a being used to traveling through it at will, would be like the worst kind of paralysis imaginable.
I wonder what the History Monks would think of the Doctor.
And Vimes needs to arrest the Master at some point.
Also, a team of Igors build a lightning attractor and use it to shoot down Toclafane.
Oh dear GOD this is going to be epic.
Their (Dr., Martha, Jack) first visit will necessarily have to be short, so that they don’t notice the presence of “Saxon.” But after Utopia, Saxon returns in the Tardis and proceeds to wreak havoc.
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*head spins* Please, take this to the FanFic thread. I posted there.
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Hey, where’s the Quotes thread? I can’t find it, but I know we have one.
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WItchneko, did you used to be somebody else? 
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Yep. I was AvalonGirl, Umbramew, and lots of other people.
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oh, yeah!
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AvalonGirl.
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It is getting pretty long… New one, GAPAs?
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I went driving.
I went driving.
I went down to the CVU parking lot and then went driving.
It was fantastic, and I am good at it, and I have my permit, and even though I have to wait a year, I am definitely on my way.
Also, my mother let me drive home. Actually on the road. It felt natural… I’m going to be a great driver.
-A
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Well, it appears that I survived Paris. I loved it, actually, despite the frustration of only talking to the same 4 people for a week and having to stare at a canvas painted solid blue at the Centre Pompidou. (I don’t care if it’s an interesting shade of blue or if the artist had a “tortured soul”; that is not art.)
Anyways, there was one bunny sighting. On the ground floor of the Centre Pompidou, sort of by the ticket desk, there was a shop that I don’t think was the actually gift shop that had prominently displayed large plastic brightly colored animals throughout the shop. There was a hot pink bunny right by the cashier. (I saw it from the ticket line, mind you.) I might send in a picture once I’ve uploaded it.
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Daisy has acquired a hat. It is black. It is a very nice hat.
She believes it may be a fedora, but she is not certain…
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Post a picture?
Fedoras are amazing.
-A
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Oh, no one want to see my face…
If you search ‘fedora’, you’ll get an idea of what it looks like… although my hat has a shorter brim that is turned up all around…
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*get an idea of what the hat looks like… (not my face :D)
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Sure I do. But anyway, you don’t have to post a picture of your face. Just the fedora.
-A
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Hey guys. I realize I have not posted much that isn’t a reply to someone else in a while, so here’s your update on Tesseract’s life.
-A junior in my APES class asked me out. It shocked me, I stammered out a no, and it was incredibly awkward. I feel dreadful about it, but I just don’t like him like that.
-This is a four-day weekend in my district! On Saturday I worked on a bridge for Science Olympiad with my friend, and then I babysat an adorable four-year-old. We played Sleeping Beauty, and she played the part of Sleeping Beauty while I played the king and the prince and the good fairy and the bad fairy. The prince/bad fairy fight scene was interesting to enact… Lots of fun, though. I love little kids. Today I worked on an essay for a Holocaust essay contest, and tomorrow I’m working on an APES lab and finishing the bridge. In the evening, some of my band friends are coming over, including a certain boy I may or may not have a crush on. No plans for Tuesday.
-We have these absurd impossible math “review sets” that aren’t really review, and we aren’t allowed to work together but absolutely everyone does because they’re so difficult. To make a long story much shorter, a couple of my friends and I have five days’ lunch detention for getting help from another friend. Gr. More on this later, possibly.
-We just watched most of the Gandhi movie in English. I quite liked it and now have enormous respect and admiration for Gandhi.
-It’s late and I am going to sleep. Good night!
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Gandhi! I watched that movie (in Spanish) in eighth grade history. Everyone remembers well the three days in which we watched Gandhi.
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What exactly is APES? I’m feeling incredibly misinformed right now. Then again, when all of you older MBers talk about schooling beyond elementary, (weird grammar?) it seems like the world is dedicated entirely to strange and unfamiliar acronyms.
You do Science Olympiad?! *drools* Technically, as a fifth grader, I wasn’t supposed to go last year, but some allowances were made. It. Was. AWESOME.
I have to finish my homework. Meh.
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AP Environmental Science. AP=Advanced Placement (you can get college credit if you do well on a huge test at the end of the year).
I agree that Science Olympiad is amazing. I get such an adrenaline rush from competitions. I know, I’m a dork
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Piggy just ordered sixty dollars’ worth of books from Barnes and Noble. *squee* I ordered Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, Brave New World, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. The order had at first been just 76 cents over the $60 in gift cards I had, but I found a coupon online for 10% off the most expensive item. Free shipping too! *gurgles in anticipation*
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Gift certificates are such fun! Enjoy your reading!
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I agree with Rebecca! I have a gift certificate to Powell’s and I really should spend it. Mm, books! Another good thing about ordering things online is that then you get packages!
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Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong sounds like a cool book. Happy reading!
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My history teacher quotes that at us every day, especially the parts about Columbus.
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Brave New World is so amazing. It is one of the best books I’ve ever read.
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What’s it about? I have a gift certificate to Barnes and Noble begging to be spent.
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Ummm, the future, in a nutshell. I started reading it awhile ago, and I never finished it. *is inspired to read it*
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Not only the future, but a depressing future where everybody’s happy.
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Freakonomics are awesome. Unfortunately, my mother gave our copy to some friends
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Hi! Where did you find that coupon? Did you have to buy more than one thing to use it?
Considering splurging $75 to get The Absolute Sandman Volume IV, but I’d like to save as much as I can (already it’s at member online price and free shipping)
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Just Google “barnes and noble coupons”. It’s 10% of the most expensive item, or 15% if you’re a member (although I guess they’re technically different coupon codes). I don’t believe you have to buy multiple items. There are all sorts of coupon sites online. When I was looking for a laptop, I hypothetically could’ve bought a $700 for about half that, thanks mainly to various coupons.
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Dark Knight Returns? What’s that? I didn’t think there was a sequel.
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Ah, I see. Sorry, just ignore me. 
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I’m not going to be on for awhile. My mom thinks me and my brother need screen free time, so I basically won’t be on from 9:30 to 4:00. Just a heads up. Bye!
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51~ I just watched Gandhi the other day, it was a fabulous movie.
52~ BOOKS!!! And interesting ones too, it sounds like. Mmmmmmmmmmm, books.
So. Today mom’s friend is coming over with her two girls, and she’s going to give us viola da gamba lessons, mom’s going to give her a cello lesson and when I’m not getting my viola da gamba lesson I’ll be trying to corral two slightly hyper children. Whoooo.
I’ll post later if I survive.
See ya, gotta go make breakfast.
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I have my neighbor’s guinea pig in my room. The guinea pig hates me, but she is adorable, so I love her anyways.
This week is my first production week. It should be … interesting. Panic is setting in for pretty much everyone involved. But, on the bright side, our school’s little television show is covering the play, so I’ll feel proud that someone is finally acknowledging the theatre. I might post a bit over the next week, but I’ll be semi-sane by Sunday, so if my posts seem like aimless rambling until then, I apologize.
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Luna, here, reporting from Salt Lake City airport……[Wait, can I say that? If not, um, sorry GAPAs, censor as you see fit.]
So, if I wanted, my flight back to school from here has wifi (just like SLC airport), but of course it costs, unlike SLC airport. So, um, sorry, y’all won’t be hearing from me at *insert number* thousand feet.
Anyways, I finished my Torchwood book on the plane, around 4:30 am–about 3-4 hours after I started it. Suffice to say, it was just as much of an emotional roller coaster as any TW episode I’ve ever watched. [The house that Jack built, FYI, if you wanted to know which book]. But emotional roller coaster or not, the only sad snippet was just a tiny thing, for the most part, a comment from Gwen to Ianto along the lines of “You do realize that you’re just–”
ianto: “–a shag? yeah, I know.”
And then it proceed into obvious Ianto totally madly in love with Jack, and, dangit, I was tearing up and the lady next to me probably thought I was mental, as from the moment I started the book at the airport I was grinning like a mad woman (and books are rarely so whatever that I’m actually physically grinning. ’twas great.)–grinning so hard my still slightly tender wisdom teeth were a smidge unhappy–and laughing maniacally the rest of the time. Oh, god, there are so many bloody awesome quote in the book. some more G rated than others. Actually, except for one or two, most of the laugh like a maniac bits were pretty mild as far as that goes.
Remind me later, I might feel like posting some.
I am now in the middle of my DW book, started it at 4:30, by the time we landed about an hour and a half later, I’d already finished 140 pages, read another 20 more or so since.
It’ll be finished long before I get to school, I’m sure, at which point out comes “Lost Symbol.”
The TW book is way better than teh DW so far, whether that’s because I prefer TW (altyhough I still totally heart DW, too), or just because the author had a style I preferred, or what, I dunno. Although, I feel the author of the TW book got the characterizations better than the author of the DW book. His take on the Doctor doesn’t quite seem to fit with the tenth Doctor that I knew and loved……But maybe that’s just because I can’t picture DT in my head as I read, because I don’t get pictures, and so without the quirky adorableness of DT, maybe I just am not reading him as he’s meant. *shurg* dunno.
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Gr. Stupid books aren’t being shipped until the second of next month, even though all the books (except Jimmy Corrigan) were supposed to ship within 24 hours. *sigh* I don’t wanna wait!
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Wait, no, the fifth. ARRRRRRRRRRGH.
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It’s sooo nice outside- 50 degrees! It hasn’t been that warm in a while. A LONG while. Okay, maybe not that long. But, as I am very tired and watching the Mythbusters marathon on Discovery and the Survivorman marathon on the Science channel, and also have a large supply of Nutella, bread, and milk next to the couch, along with the phone, computer, remote, and my homework, there is no chance whatsoever of me getting up. (OH MY CAKE THAT WAS A LONG SENTENCE!) I’m getting over being sick, but not really sick. No fever, but I still felt badly enough to debate going to school. School won. So all day Thursday and Friday I had to put up with headaches and a horrible sore throat, cough, and stuffy/runny nose. But I still managed to do pretty well (I hope) on my math test and write a pretty kick-butt essay about Great Expectations (a little bit of me dies every time I hear that phrase…).
Last night, I went to a comedy show that my mom’s friend organized as a fundraiser for breast cancer. Okay, gotta go. Bye! more to come about the show later.
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Let me add to that last paragraph… I had to get off and didn’t want to forget what I wrote so I just ended it.
Although a lot of it was non-G rated, it was hysterical! I sold 50/50 tickets and handed out programs (more volunteer work- yay!) I met the owner of a smoothie place in town who had already met my mom and brother. She seemed really nice, and I was going to ask her about summer jobs at the end of the show, but I couldn’t find her :(. A summer job would be great because I’m never gonna have enough money to pay my parents back for my trip to Spain by March, so I figure I can pay them back with the pay from a summer job.
Well, my brother’s friend is over now with his dog (DOGGY PLAYDATE!) so I think I’ll go play with them. Bye!
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Ahhhh should be working on History Day but I’m obviously not and therefore feel useless. I shall have to play the trombone soon … when I get home from Ella’s house … I just realized I spend a LOT of time with Ella. *feels like loser*
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Yay! I just changed my background to the Random Thread Part 2 picture!
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38.2- Really? For what organization/company?
So I finally figured out how to upload my sketches online, so I’ll post unlinkified links elsewhere.
I’m listening to the Haunted Mansion ride-though from All About The Mouse, and even as audio-only, it sounds really creepy…
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I got glasses the day before yesterday. They have a thin black frame with an orange stripe and they’re squarish. I like them! They’re for sports, really, so I don’t get hit in the head, but I’ll probably wear them all the time because with glasses, everything looks a bit more in focus.
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Glasses are cool. I have them, and I really like mine. Sometimes they get annoying though, especially in the summer when it’s hot. You sweat under the nose pad things and it gets all sweaty and nasty… I probably like mine because I feel like I can hide behind them. That sounded really self deprecating… Anyways, they’re really freat.
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Really? My glasses have a thick black frame with orange on the side closest to my face.
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I have glasses! Mine are black wire frames with cloisonne beads on the sides. My last pair was black plastic with purple sides. I like both pairs a lot.
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I’ve had glasses for a long time. Mine, which are my fourth pair (my head grew a lot) are blue wire that will more or less bend back to their original shape after being abused, and the lenses are roundish ovals that have a coating on them that makes them not get dirty or scratched as easily as they would otherwise. Can you tell that I’m hard on my glasses?
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Re: Vampire War:
I love you guys. So much.
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We love you too.
Btw- thanks guys! I’ve been kinda down lately and this has really helped me. I love you, MuseBlog! (*o^)V
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MuseBlog loves you more than pies themselves!! *huggle*
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Thanks! One of my best friends is kinda pushing me away and it’s making me angry and sad at the same time. I mean, she told the teacher I was a pyromaniac. What?!
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But fire is so pretty…
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It is!
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Yes, fire is pretty.
But I don’t need my teachers thinking I’m a pyromaniac.
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My cousin (he was 14 at the time, i believe) took one of those big grill lighter things to a cockroach on my gramma’s floor. This was after stomping on it (which obviously failed to kill it) and just prior to my screaming at my gramma and mom to tattle on him (I never claimed to be a nice kid), and so then after it’s legs had been melted off (it was still alive, mind you), it got flushed down the toilet. I bet there’s still a legless cockroach down in the sewers….
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Uhh….
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Heehee. Something about the way you wrote that comment ending in “…” made it seem like you were staring at something (probably some pretty fire) and got mesmerized… pyro.
*gets idea*
*works on avatar*
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*ducks to avoid thrown garlic bread* Piggy’s mood has been swinging wildly lately. Accursed hormones…
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*bites Piggy*
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That does not seem like the best of ideas, considering Piggy is posting about mood swings. *restrains Enceladus for Enceladus’s own good*
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We definitely need a garlic/vampire/killer sax war thread. Hands down.
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That would merely encourage it. For now, GAPAs are exercising tolerance
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I ‘tank yeh’ for the ‘olerance ma’am.
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Awww… Why? Do the GAPA’s not enjoy posting exceedingly large amounts of garlic war posts?
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I less than three the Mythbusters!!!!!! The special is awesome!
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Yes. I ♥ the Mythbusters.
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This is the kind of thing I would post on a Random thoughts thread if we had one.
Random Thoughts:
List of things I have used as a bookmark in the past 8 hours
A bookmark
A salt shaker
A cookie
A glove
A spoon
A cd
A computer mouse
Another book
A candy cane
A ball of yarn
A Bubblebabe
*is annoying*
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Exsqueeze me? First of all, I’m an EVIL PRINCESS, and second of 42, when have you used me as a bookmark?!
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Yes, you’re the evil princess Mongolia
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Hehehehe Princess Mongolia… Sorta makes the name lose its appeal doesn’t it?
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Yeah, that makes it sound like I’m the princess of Mongolia right? This is like the second time that’s happened to me, but I guess it’s easy to mix up. Once I was trying to write “Magnolia” and I wrote “Mongolia” and didn’t notice until three weeks later…*rambles*
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Here, this is the Garlic War in Hindi.
MB योगà¥à¤¯: तà¥à¤® जैसे ही मैं कोहनी मिल लंबी हो सकती है …
तà¥à¤® à¤à¤• और कोहनी कà¥à¤¯à¥‹à¤‚ चाहता है? कà¥à¤¯à¤¾ तà¥à¤® अपनी खà¥à¤¦ की दो है?
हाà¤, लेकिन यह à¤à¤• मजाक था … ककà¥à¤· हवाओं, जद में देखते हैं, – जो पहले से ही तीन उपकरणों खेलता है, वैसे – थी कि कैसे वह “à¤à¤• चà¥à¤¨à¥Œà¤¤à¥€ की जरूरत के बारे में बात कर रही,” उसने कहा, “मैं ओबाउ खेलना चाहता हूà¤.” सà¥à¤¶à¥à¤°à¥€ बैंड शिकà¥à¤·à¤• गठहैं, “पूरे सà¥à¤•à¥‚ल जिले में केवल à¤à¤• ही ओबाउ है!” तो, Keiffer ने कहा, “मैं ओबाउ खेलना चाहते हैं!” जद गया तो, “मैं कोहनी को बà¥à¤²à¤¾à¤“!” Keiffer, “अचà¥à¤›à¤¾ जवाब दिया तो, मैं ओबाउ कहते हैं. “मज़ाकिया Twas.
मैं साकà¥à¤·à¥€ होना चाहता हूà¤!
ऊह, मैं कोरà¥à¤Ÿ रिपोरà¥à¤Ÿà¤° होगा!
* * नà¥à¤¯à¤¾à¤¯à¤¾à¤§à¥€à¤¶ पर dibs ठीक है, मैं तटसà¥à¤¥ नहीं कर रहा हूठया जो à¤à¥€ जरूरतें हैं, लेकिन फिर à¤à¥€ …
खेद. ले.
à¤à¤•
योगà¥à¤¯::
कैसे à¤à¤• सैकà¥à¤¸à¥‹à¤«à¥‹à¤¨ तà¥à¤®à¥à¤¹à¥‡à¤‚ मारने की कोशिश कर सकते हो? Woodwinds बहà¥à¤¤ गैर हिंसक हैं. (वैसे, à¤à¤• कल उसे शहनाई से à¤à¤• खरोंच है, लेकिन यह शायद है शहनाई गलती नहीं थी.)
खैर, तà¥à¤®à¥à¤¹à¥‡à¤‚ पता है कि वहाठथोड़ा saxophones पर needly बातें हैं? मैं इसे दूर रख रहा था, और यह मà¥à¤à¥‡ चाकू मारा और मेरे needly thingies फà¥à¤²à¥ˆà¤Ÿ हैं! यह बेतà¥à¤•à¤¾ है, सच है.
Ewww … मà¥à¤à¥‡ याद है कि घटना के …
और फिर तà¥à¤® सब जगह खून निचोड़ शà¥à¤°à¥‚ कर दिया, यह बहà¥à¤¤ ही घृणित था.
Saxophones मौत के उपकरण हैं.
अरे, यह मेरी गलती नहीं थी. मैं खून की तरह होती हैं.
तà¥à¤® sparkly कà¥à¤¯à¤¾?
जब तक तà¥à¤® चमक नहीं है, यह अचà¥à¤›à¤¾ है.
* धीरे दूर * उह पीठ… तà¥à¤® à¤à¤• वकील मिल जाà¤, अगर तà¥à¤® चाहते हो सकता है …. * * रन वापस रन * वासà¥à¤¤à¤µ में, मैं होने खून à¤à¥€ तरह *.
तà¥à¤® कैसे खून की तरह कर सकते हैं? यह à¤à¤• खूनी बाधा है.
मैं नहीं कर रहा हूठsparkly, और मà¥à¤à¥‡ पता है कि यह à¤à¤• खूनी बाधा है. यह तो और अधिक रोचक है पà¥à¤°à¤¾à¤¨à¥‡ तà¥à¤µà¤šà¤¾ सादे! (? मैं à¤à¤• अचà¥à¤›à¤¾ तरà¥à¤• के बारे में सोच नहीं सकता है कà¥à¤¯à¤¾.
मैं जैसे bloodiness. यह बहà¥à¤¤ सà¥à¤‚दर है. चमकदार, और glimmery. पानी की तरह नीचे टपकाव का है, लेकिन यह अचà¥à¤›à¤¾ लग रहा है. किसी decapitated सिर से थोड़ा पूल …
शायद मैं अब बंद कर देना चाहिà¤.
Wow, longer than I thought. I had to cut like half of it off, and a lot at the beginning. So this is the middle of the Garlic War.
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Did you translate that yourself or use a system on the Internet? Either way, it’s still
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Internet.
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I just put that into Google Translate. Suffice to say, not a very good translation. “Well, one clarinet, one scratched him yesterday, but it is perhaps not mistake clarinet”?!?!?
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Ohhhh my. Today one of my friends and I got “Twilight: the Movie” from iTunes and watched it. Let me tell you, it was horrid. It made no sense, the acting was terrible, and it was just plain stupid… Fun stuff! Also, I am going tubing one of these weekends. Now that will actually be fun.
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*sniffle*
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Search “Buffy meets Edward” on YouTube. You don’t need to know anything about Buffy (other than that she kills vampires) and it’s really funny. It completely makes fun of Twilight.
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Oh my. It’s been a long time it seems since I’ve been here! Hello again MB!
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HI KIWI!!!
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SO. Today I went to the dentist, which, coupled with the fact that I am SICK, was HORRIBLE.
(so please excuse the overzealous use of capital letters)
Anyway, the dentist has informed me that I have 3 cavities, as well as 3 potential cavities. Joy.
*cough* IT WAS THE BRACES ~ THE BRACES I TELL YOU *cough*
Well.
Afterwards, I saw Avatar in IMAX.
‘Twas amazing.
I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it! Don’t let the critics influence you- watch it before you judge it!
[no spoilers there, right? right.]
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I hope that you feel better! Cavities…ouch.
Some pies for your troubles
Avatar WAS amazing and I second that recommendation. VERY good movie.
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Well, the cavities don’t even hurt… they’re not deep at all. But thanks for your sympathy! *noms pies*
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I know! It was amazing!
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My life has just become a lot more complicated.
I now have play rehearsal every night, with only 10 days until our performance. On Thursday we perform for the school trustees. On top of that, I asked my friend I to talk to M tomorrow, so I don’t know what is going to happen with that.
Also, I GOT THE THING! The thing = an old film camera which I will have for about one week. Yays. Plus, tomorrow I will have more free time than usual because I don’t have clubs because I have the play.
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Woah, I just realized something: if you comment on a thread without any comments already on it, it shows at the top (instead of “# comments”) the phrase: “Do your comment”. XD Portuguese + English translation -> hilarity
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Yeah, I realized that but figured the GAPAs knew.
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I noticed that just the other day! But I forgot to post about it.
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Okay…..I have a question. Does gold set off metal detectors at airport security and the like? I feel like I read somewhere–like a science textbook–that it doesn’t, but a google search is being distinctly unhelpful (Hmmmmm, this reminds me of a lovely quote from the TW book I read earlier today–one of the ones I lol’d at).
So, anyway, the reason I’m asking, is because I was reading “The Lost Symbol” earlier, and this one guy was going through a security screening with metal detectors–not at the actual airport, but same thing, really. So this ring on his finger set it off, so since the guy’s arm was in a sling, the security guard wanded him–to make sure that the ring was the issue. Later, this same ring is described as being made of gold.
So, well, this didn’t set right with me, as I could swear I read that gold doesn’t set off metal detectors……So am I just going mad and misremembering, or, well, did Dan Brown fail to get his facts right?
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Oh, the quote I was reminded of–how silly of me, how could I have forgotten?
She had never got over how wonderful Torchwood’s search database was. Having worked in law enforcement, she knew that–whatever films said to the contrary–cross-referencing evidence was not the same as Googling. You didn’t just put in two or three search strings then get presented with a handful of potential suspects. It took hours and–worse than that–there was no guarantee that you’d find anything useful at the end of it. Actually, scratch that, it was exactly like Google…
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Whee! Today was awesome. There wasn’t particularly anything big that was awesome but I got a lot done homework-wise, got to see my girlfriend, got to write, got my dorm room cleaner, got to bead with a good friend. Hooray for getting lots done while still doing fun things!
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You know those little chunks of onion that McDonald’s puts on their cheeseburgers? I have one stuck in my upper left wisdom tooth socket. And I need to find something to gently shove up there and try to remove it with….It’s getting on my nerves (and it’s only been there for the time it takes to walk back to my dorm from McD’s). Maybe I’ll fish out the curved tip syringe I got at the dentist’s when I got my teeth cleaned. I’ve not used it since I got back to school–I used it at home, but I don’t quite fancy wandering down to the equivalent of a public bathroom and standing there with a syringe shoved in my mouth looking like a moron.
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Ew… That’s nasty… That has to be worse than getting stuff stuck in braces… Maybe a Q-tip, but the kind with the pointy-ish edge that you use for applying makeup would work. I hope you get it out!
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I’ve never had braces, so I really can’t compare…..
I did finally get it out, after about an hour of jabbing at it and wedging it deeper–finally after jabbing at it with a broken off Q-tip, one of those green plastic “toothpick” things that also have floss, only for it to keep getting wedge tighter and deeper, I hunted down my curved tip syringe and flushed several cc’s of water through it–at which point it finally dislodged much to my happiness. Except of course all the jabbing irritated the gum a bit, so it was sore for a little while….Oh, well. If I’d made it really sore, I could’ve taken some tylenol, but it wasn’t that bad.
Not to mention, after having consume 44 of the recalled tylenol, I’m not exactly jumping at the opportunity to take some more. I do hope there wasn’t anything seriously wrong with it, just that the taste/smell or whatever was making people sick.
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Woot!!! Yay for Luna for getting the onion chunk out of her tooth socket thing!
And about the Tylenol… if you took 44 and you’re not dead/hospitalized, they’re probably okay.
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Yeah, I figure I’m probably okay, too. It’s just when I’m finishing my packing last Sunday, and Dad wants to check the new bottle of Tylenol mom bought me to take to school to see if it’s on the recall list, and he brings it back down to announce it is, and you ask, “Well, what about the bottle mom got when I got my teeth out last week? Now that I’ve taken most of the bottle….”
Dad: We’ve had that one for ages.
Me: No, she got it right when I got my teeth out.
Dad: Uh……*goes and checks* Yeah, it is, it’s the exact same as this new bottle.
Me: Lovely.
I mean, of course, the one time that I’m taking an unusually large quantity of it (I mean, 44 pills in 13 days? Compared to the occasional couple–say, two a week, maybe, when I get a bad headache–and probably not even that many) would be the time that there’s an issue with it.
But, yeah, I’m not too worried, it was just sort of like “Great……”
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Grah. LBK bit her lip today during break and it formed a sore on the inside of her lip. ‘Tis very annoying and painful. *growls**bites nearest thing, which happens to be the “Preview” button**feels better**wonders why is still talking in “**”s*
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This is SudoRandom, checking in from the Orthodontist. I’m fairly sure I’ll need braces, even though I haven’t had my check up yet.
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Full mouth or partial? I had 4 on the top for awhile. It wasn’t so bad.
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Guess what? They said I’ll need full braces with bands, for 16 months! They also said that I’ll get them on in six months!
*pause for suspense*
Then they took an x-ray and said that it’s an emergency situation, and I need to get them stat! So I’m getting them tomorrow!
What colors????? I’m definitely getting orange, if I can only get one color, but what if I can get two?
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Orange and green.
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Like my avatar?
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Yes.
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Oh, how fun. But at least now you don’t have to spend 6 months anticipating it.
You should get hot pink as a second color, to help the HPBs to take over. 
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I’m sure Orange and Hot Pink go really well together.
And I really don’t care that I’m getting braces. The only way I see it really affecting me is that I can’t eat as much candy, which just means I get to finish all of my halloween candy tonight.
Oh, and naturally, none of my friends at school are expecting me to come in with braces, so the first day I have them in school I’m going to come in wearing really geeky glasses.
I think maybe I’ll get orange and light blue…
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What, you’re worried about clashing? In my opinion, orange really doesn’t go all that well with anything……Except black. It goes good with black.
I was about to ask why on earth you still have Halloween candy, when I all of a sudden realized that I usually still had some come the following Halloween…..
Light blue is good, I like light blue…
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Orange and hot pink go very well together, in my opinion.
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*gasp* I’m so, so sorry! *sympathy choklit mashed in a blender because your teeth will hurt too much for real chocolate when you get those torture devices on*
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You have the same deal as me, pal. 16 months goes faster than you think though! Just remember, ALWAYS ALWAYS wear your bands, it usually takes a few months off the process. I was averaged 16 months when i got them last February and am getting mine off in three.
Get orange!
My other advice: Buy a few gallons of ice cream and some juice today, because you’re going to want to tear your teeth out of your mouth tomorrow. But it’s all worth it. Now my teeth are very straight and lovelyful ^.^ And yours will be too!
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Oh. I abhor my braces. They drive me insane. I have the clear kind (not invisalign, just regular braces but clear brackets.) I can’t stand them, but maybe that’s because I’m older, and I know I’ll have to have them until almost my senior year of high school, which kills me.
I’m glad that you’re keeping it positive though, just make sure that you get a lot of apple sauce to eat… Everything hurt so much when I got them on…
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They really don’t feel to bad, although everyone assures me my mouth will be aching like crazy in a few hours. I ended up just getting orange, but maybe next time I’ll get orange and light blue.
Oh, and I updated my gravatar.
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Hee hee. I was wondering if you were going to do that.
I’m psychic!
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Hehe, nice.
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AWESOME GARVATAR!!! It looks beautiful!
Your teeth might not end up hurting, I know its different for different people.
My teeth are weird though. I got these rubberbandy thingies on the front brackets taken off (I had had them on for a while) and now my upper teeth hurt. Nothing else was changed, except for a metal hoop thing that they took off on the bottom.
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I’m getting bands in four months.
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Well, there goes my other theory about you gravatar.
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Other theory? What is this other theory?
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Mr. Joe stole you hat. But now, I know that the world makes sense.
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Urgh. I think sitting on a plane for, um, *counts* probably around 8 hours yesterday has made me a bit stiff…..I just got up from my desk to put a couple things away, and my left leg is definitely a bit sore. *sigh* I’m surprised my neck is sore, considering that I slept most of the second leg of my flight–instead of finishing my DW book like I had said I was going to do.
I was going to finish it, but my eyes kept starting to drift shut, so I closed it and stuck a finger in it, and I have no recollection of actual taxiing and take off, because I think I’d fallen asleep at that point. I mean, I was awake when we backed away from the gate, and then we were sitting for a bit, and then the next thing I remember we’re up in the air, and the person next to me must have shut the blind on the window at some point, because it was close (because the sun was reflecting so very brightly off the clouds outside–blindingly so).
This talk of sleep reminds me of yet another quote from my TW book.
‘Do you remember anything?’ Gwen asked. ‘Between disappearing on the high street and reappearing here?’
Ianto’s face lost some of its humour. It was strange… Like a hypnic jerk.’
‘A what?’
‘That feeling you get when you’re just about to fall asleep and your body jolts as if you’ve fallen or tripped.’
‘Oh…’ Gwen rolled her eyes. ‘That. You’re the first person I’ve met that wouldn’t just call it “that jerky sleep thing”.’
‘I read books,’ Ianto joked. ‘Get over it.’
So, yeah, anyway, I was totally lol’ing there…..If Ianto were a real person, he would so have been a Muser. Not to mention, from now on, I am so totally never calling that anything but a hypnic jerk ever again. Way too awesome not too.
Of course, I probably just think it’s awesome because, well, Ianto said it and Ianto’s awesome.
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*cries heavily* I had a thread inspired by me! I feel so touched! Thank you, ever-wonderful GAPAs, thank you! *cries more*
By the way, Luna, sitting still for many hours can give you serious blood diseases. I hope you walked around on the plane at least?
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It can?!?!?!?!
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Oh, take another few years off my life then…
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Eh, no, I didn’t…..And I don’t think it actually gives you blood diseases, just you can run the risk of forming a blood clot that could get dislodged and cause issues when it gets relodged somewhere important….
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*shudder* Well, I’m squeamish.
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The Office:
Charles: “Take a seat.”
Dwight: “I prefer to stand. Less blood clots.”
Charles: “Nah, that’s just weird. You’re sitting.
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Today Mom and I went to DC and the Library of Congress and spent several hours in the Rare Book room. Looking at books from 1500 onward is a lot different when there isn’t a bunch of glass between you and it. Just saying.
*is still slightly in awe*
Sudo~ Orange and light blue is an awesome combination! And I like your idea of going in with geek glasses to shock all your friends.
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I know exactly what you mean about books of that age. One of my most memorable moments in graduate school was a behind-the-scenes visit the college’s rare book room, which owns some pretty amazing volumes.
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82.1~ It’s just amazing. Mom was looking at them for the bindings, which was awesome enough, but then I picked one up and was just reading it. Now, I’m used to reading facsimiles of books from the mid 18th century, so it wasn’t that different, until I stopped reading for a moment and thought “I’m actually reading a book……from 1746. That isn’t a reprint. That isn’t a copy. That isn’t made to look like this. It is the real thing. Someone else read this very same book when it was brand new. Someone over 250 years ago. Ohh, I think I’ll put it down now.” It’s an interesting sort of feeling.
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I really hope the Phoenix lander will wake up. I know it’s unlikely. I just really hope it.
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I’m trying to convince my mom to let me get one of those little Smart Cars. We actually had a conversation where she did not instantly say “No way in heck,” and humored me in my wishful thinking. I would actually rather get a truck, but space is a big issue, and Smart Cars are just so cute and little. And my dad would put a big sticker on it advertising his business. That would be hilArious.
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mY science teacher has a smart car!
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85~ SmartCars are cute, but I must say, our car (a 1981 VW Rabbit) gets up to nearly 50 MPG (it’s a diesel, but still) and it’s twice the size of those. I think the only place a SmartCar would be really useful would be for someone, preferably single, living in the city who had a second car (or was willing to rent one) for longer trips.
Why can’t people just make cars that get good mileage? It’s perfectly possible, our car proves that, and it’s ancient! With the technology these days just think what we could do! *grumbles* Don’t get me started, it’s a frequent topic of discussion around my house.
I totally applaud SmartCars though, don’t get me wrong. I just think that there’s so much more that could be done, and they really aren’t that practical for many people.
It’s like solar panels and all this “green” technology. Everyone says it’s great, but it’s so exclusive that many people just give up on it because they think it’s some unattainable thing for the common person, but in order to really work it has to get out there and be given a change to actually change things for the better.
Alas. I shall end my ranting here.
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I agree. The technology has to break out of that “bubble” to succeed.
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Hmmmm. I’m hungry. I think I’ll open my nice lovely fish. On the down side, that has the potential to annoy roomie (who is absent), as it has a very strong fishy smell–my roommate freshman year thought it smelled like cat food, and refused my offer to let her try some. *shrug* Her loss.
But I’m hungry, and popcorn would smell up the room, too, just perhaps in a more mouth watering way.
Ah, well, I’m gonna eat it anyway. But I s’pose I’ll open the window so that it’s less likely to be so strong.
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Yeep, it’s freakin’ huge: 1.5 pounds of fishy goodness. Wonder how much I’ll eat tonight?….
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Yum… I love fish.
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By the way, that wasn’t sarcastic. I really do love fish. It’s fantastic.
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What kind of fish?
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smoked sockeye salmon.
Of course, when I open the package, it splatter all over the front of the shirt I was wearing……*sigh* I’m afraid it’ll be spotted now.
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*drools at the thought of smoked salmon*
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Oh, random question……Piggy’s comment reminded me, actually.
What sort of person, within minutes of learning I’m from Alaska makes the comment “….I’m really glad Palin’s not your governor anymore.”
Me: *totally at a loss for words* *give half shrug*
her: A shrug?
Me: *give another sort of half shrug, wondering what on earth I’m supposed to say to a comment like that*
Her: ……you voted for her….?
Me: I wasn’t old enough to vote when she was elected governor.
*topic sort of changed*
Okay, don’t get me wrong, I get that there’s plenty of people in the country who don’t like Palin. That’s fine, I couldn’t care less if people like her or not. Everyone’s entitled to their own personal opinion. But, 1), what difference does it make to this woman–who is not from Alaska, and quite likely will never visit–who is or is not our governor? and 2), really, seriously? You say that to an Alaskan? No, not everyone in Alaska is a Palin fan, but she was extremely popular governor, all in all. and 3), regardless, who freakin’ says that to some one they don’t know at all??????
And what could she have possibly expected me to respond to that? I mean, it was just such a totally unexpected sort of question, that I couldn’t think of anything more intelligent to do than shrug…..
I mean I get lots of Palin questions, like: “Have you ever been to Wasilla?”, “Is [town I live in] near Wasilla?”, “Have you met Palin?”, “Do you know Palin?”, “What do/did you think of Palin?”
But an “I’m really glad she’s not your governor anymore?” What the cake?
Ugh, sorry, this probably should have gone on rants and complaints, but….I’m to lazy to C&P. I blame the jetlag.
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Oh….That’s weird. That wasn’t supposed to be a reply. *is confuzzled*
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Luna: She herself probably couldn’t have told you what she meant by her remarks. In my experience, most people seem to spend at least half of their waking lives at least half asleep. Ignoring them, as you tried to do, seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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Too true…..Some days, though, I’m afraid I’m one of them–going about my life half asleep. At least I usually have the sense to keep my mouth shut at those times (I think, anyway).
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We’ve all been there. That’s why I try not to be too hard on them most of the time.
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Hee hee…I’ve been there more often than most, probably.
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I think she was trying to provide empathy and was assuming that you didn’t like Palin. She apparently has the world view that everyone is liberal or that you were likely to be or that you were likely to dislike Palin. Something like that.
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Hmm, I hadn’t quite thought of that take…
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Oh. My. Goodness.
Life has a way of being quite surprising, really.
A friend of mine, whom I haven’t seen in 5 years and I found of FaceBook just tagged a picture of me in an album from another friend who I also haven’t seen for 5 years, and had lost touch with before that. I think I first met her when I was like, 7 or 8. I have a very clear memory of sitting on a little island like area with her and several other of the older kids (she’s a good bit older) telling jokes and just hanging out and I remember feeling rather grown up (because I was one of the younger ones there but they weren’t treating me like a little kid), but safe because Becki could be like a mom figure.
Wow. I was seriously choking up a bit when I was looking at some of those old pictures.
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Facebook can be annoying sometimes, but at other times it’s wonderful.
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…and Brown takes Massachusetts! But will the Dems try to postpone his swearing-in?
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So…I am home ‘sick’ to avoid my dictation today, which I did not study for since I forgot to bring my book home. I really do feel sick-ish, but still. And I get an extra day to work on my stupid Chinese project. Meh.
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Oh. I do that all too often… Well, not really. But I have done that before. Good luck on your dictation! And your Chinese project!
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Haha, thanks. This is like my first time. I really don’t want to fail Chinese. So now I can take it on Friday! Yay!
And the added bonus is that I am on MuseBlog at a good time!
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83- I feel a similar way when handling really old artifacts. We got to hold 8,000 year old projectile points in class one day and I’ve looked at lots of other things. I love things that have history and stories behind them, whether they be archaeological artifacts or objects in an antique store.
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Tee Hee! A Republican Senator! Out of the blue (pun)! Winning Kennedy’s old seat in Massachusetts! Filibuster time!
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Same here, and also when I visit really old places such as temples, or monuments, or places with a lot of history. It’s amazing to think that people were here hundreds or thousands of years ago, and you’re standing where they were standing, or something like that. It’s quite a thought.
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I love visiting historical sites for that very reason. Just to stop and think about who was standing right there and seeing what I’m seeing and touching what I’m touching.
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27.3.1.2.1.2.1.2.1.1- The nasty vampire has bitten us, precious! We must force-feed it fish and garlic, yes precious, lots of garlic, and then roast it! C’mere, you! *tackles* Nice Smeagol, good Smeagol just made you dinner…
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91, 93, 93.1~ Exactly!
It’s amazing when you stop to think of it.
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Wow. This is weird.
I was watching the Drawn To Life: The Next Chapter trailer for the Wii…and behold! In the trailer, somebody made a Purple Panda hero!
On a mildly related note, in the first game, my hero is three bunnies. Pink for head, black for torso, and nothing else except dragonbunny for a foot.
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Three finals down, one to go. I can do this, I can DO this… *frets*
On another note, I have renewed my obsession with Vampire Weekend.
CAUGHT IN THE MELODY YOU WAIT IN THE CAR, BORN WITH TEN FINGERS AND YOU’RE GONNA USE EM ALL
ME AND MY COUSINS AND YOU AND YOUR COUSINS, IT’S A LINE THAT’S ALWAYS RUNNING! ME AND MY COUSINS AND YOU AND YOU YOUR COUSINS, I CAN FEEL IT COMIN’!
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Well, several episodes of hypnic jerks later, I finally finished my cell bio reading for Friday–now I just have to do the problems from the previous chapter/today’s lecture that were assigned. I was going to take a nap in between (I mean, clearly I was getting quite sleepy what with all the hypnic jerks–and, yes, I am taking advantage of every opportunity to say “hypnic jerks”–see post earlier on thread if you are lost as to why), but of course, now that I’ve finished reading, I no longer feel particularly tired.
And that’s how last night and Monday night were, too, an hour or two before I went to bed, I felt totally exhausted, and thought I should sleep wonderfully soundly. But, no, of course not. Very unrestful nights, the both of them–tossing and turning and tossing and turning and…..yeah. Not fun.
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Well, we got an unplanned basketball game today. Coach announced yesterday that we would be traveling an hour (on bus, mind you which I’m not a huge fan of) to a school for a scrimmage. So we go, and turns out they only have one team (not two like our school) so I spend my time wearing out my butt on the bench and only go in for 1 minute total. *grumble* We did win, but it was a boring game and I’m still recovering from a cold so I didn’t feel too good either.
But on a better note, my sci test got moved to Monday (It was supposed to be tomorrow) which is great since I was totally unprepared and was planning on doing a little cramming tonight. yes…
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Ugh. I forgot how truly horrid (in my opinion) the logo for the 2012 London Olympics is….I mean, if I walked past it on the street with no prior knowledge, I’d never know that it said 2012.
Yeah, anyway, it would make one very happy little fangirl if they had JB (John Barrowman, duh) perform at the opening ceremonies……Um, yeah. That’s my random thought for the moment.
((You guessed it–I’m on a problem I don’t like in cell bio, so I’m delaying finishing it. which is stupid, because I promised myself that when I finished I’d let myself watch a DW eppy. And I’ve only seen one today–a 30 minute one, all the really old ones in ’63 were 30 minutes–and I’ve only seen 5 of them since getting back to school–that’s only 2.5 hours of TV watching….ooooh, record low for me after the wackiness of last semester))
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Oh, thank God. When you said “JB” for a second I thought about Justin Beiber (awful how I can associate his name like that now huh? I blame all the crazy gals at school who won’t stop talking about him…) and I started getting really worried.
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I posted the name as an afterthought, as I thought “JB” might get sadly mistaken for Jonas Brothers…….I’ve never heard Justin Beiber sing don’t know anything about him, and pretty sure I’m not interested to from things I’ve heard on here.
But, no, when I say JB, it’s guaranteed to be John Barrowman, just like when I say Capt Jack, I’m not talking about Jack from PotC, but rather Jack Harkness from Torchwood. I forget, at times, that you all can hear my thoughts, and just assume that y’all know what I’m talking about.
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I do not understand the hype.
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Hype for…….?
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His supposed talent. I think he just sounds like everyone else. Everyone else female. They would be nice songs, you know, if he didn’t try to sound all gangster, write completely UNTRUE AND INSINCERE lyrics, and all the while sing shrilly and femininely. Insult to feminism. *grudge against Justin Bieber*
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*shrug* I know almost zilch about him, and have never heard him sing.
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He’s from Canada, sounds like a girl….his songs are basically the typical teen love pop sort of genre, but Princess_Magnolia’s right, he’s getting a lot of hype for it. I dunno, I can’t seem to ever follow celebrities. *shrug*
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It’s okay, I had the same problem back in May with “HSM4”. Hubble Servicing Mission, NOT High School Musical.
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Ouch. *cringes*
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I am absolutely terrified of midterms.
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*shudder*
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Oops…wrong email hehe…O.o
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Go, all those taking midterms, go! You can do it!!
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Today I had a rather infuriating argument with a friend of a friend about the classification of graphic novels. She said that comics and graphic novels are two different mediums, while I said that graphic novels are a large subset of comics. (The argument arose when I refered to Shadowfire’s graphic novel as a comic book) What do other Musebloggers think?
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They’re two different things. Comic books are things like, say, the Superman series. Numerous issues published at a regular rate with a continuous storyline. Graphic novels are just that–novels written in graphic form. Usually stand-alone, or perhaps with two parts. Graphic novels are generally more complex than comic books. They’re both grand things, don’t get me wrong, but they’re definitely different.
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Kokonilly! Are you still obsessed with Pokemon? Me too! Join me, and together, we shall defeat evil!!!!
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Pokemon!!!
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I finally decided what career I might want. See, before I only knew what I didn’t want to do.
The Arts are low-paying, plus I’m not skilled enough.
I don’t want to sell my soul to be a lawyer.
Therefore, not a judge or politician.
By the time I grow up, there might not be professors, etc.
So, in History we got something about our careers in high school, college, and beyond. I realized that I might not even want to graduate high school-I could just go to college after my junior year. When I got home, I saw an advertisement for MI6 in a magazine. Hell, no, I don’t want to be a spy (Why is MI6 advertising in magazines? Quote: Where else can you barter in a bazaar, uncover a terrorist plot, and brief Whitehall?). But on the bottom of the page, it said ‘Language Specialists’. I have to say, that seems like a good job.
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So, at our floor meeting yesterday (which took much longer than I’d hoped–as in, nearly an hour instead of the 15, 20 minutes I was hoping for), we were all supposed to go around and give our name, major, and something fun we did over break.
Responses from people:
*got my wisdom teeth out (at which point me and another girl echoed with, “Me, too!”)
*saw Avatar
*saw Sherlock Holmes
*saw Avatar
*went sledding for the first time (at which point I’m trying to comprehend how you can be in college and never have gone sledding, because supposedly it snows enough in this state that people have gone sledding plenty of times–I have yet to see it, but……)
*watched the Hangover several times (this was a guy……I was also told by the 17 year old boy who works at the same vet clinic as me that this, as well as all the American Pie movies, and a couple other movies I forget what they are, are movies I need to watch–so that I can get an appropriate idea of what I’m supposed to be doing at college. Apparently studying and getting good grades is not what I’m supposed to be doing? )
*went ice skating for the first time (again, um, what?????? How can you reach college and never have gone ice skating, even if only on an indoor rink)
*a second “went sledding for the first time”
*saw Avatar
*saw Avatar
*saw Avatar (repeat this about 10 more times, as that was by far the most popular response……)
I didn’t get the impression from any of you all on here that it was anywhere near that awesome. With the possible exception of the special effects.
and this was really, seriously, incredibly random.
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Avatar was good. A bit heavy-handed with the politics and a bit of a cliched plot, but it was really good. Amazing special effects, great acting, and just a good movie in general.
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Luna has come up with a novel idea that she has decided to implement (and, thus far this semester, with success–we shall ignore the fact that I’m only three days into the semester). What is this novel idea, you ask? Do my “homework” or whatever it is I need to get done before I go have fun and watch Classic Who or whatever it is non-school I feel like doing that day. That is, read the chapters in my textbook that we will be discussing in lecture, do any of the assigned problems, etc, when assigned (even though they don’t get handed in), and don’t go watching half a dozen or more hours of TV in a day, all day, everyday, until, suddenly, night before the test (or assignment due)–eep.
yeah, I know, totally novel idea. I mean, not procrastinate? Why on earth would anyone do such a thing? But so far I’m managing. I mean, yeah, sure, it’s 3 days in, but….If i just don’t let myself slip–because once I do slip, and the pattern is started again, that’s when all heck breaks loose (I do think procrastination is, quite literally, and addiction).
I only watched 4 Classic Who episodes yesterday–for a total of only 2 hours of TV viewing. Sure, I wasn’t doing school non-stop the rest of the day, but I didn’t watched 5 or 6 hour long episodes, either.
Any bets on how long I’ll actually be able to keep this up? (I’m guessing as soon as we get assigned our first paper in Classical Mythology, or when my first chem lab report is due, I’ll slip right back into old habits–you know, an avoidance technique…..And our first paper is due on the 5th.)
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105- It does sound like a good job, as long as you are good at languages.
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I know (obviously) English, I also know Hebrew, and by virtue of that, know some Aramaic and some conjugations, I know a little Arabic (someone once asked in the airport what time it was in arabic-apparently assuming that I knew Hebrew and could therefore understand Arabic) And I’m learning French and possibly Spanish next year.
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Dinner is not coming to Smeagol! We’ll sue it, yes precious, we’ll sue the nasty vampirses and hobbitses!
I started watching Buffy yesterday… I sense a new obsession coming on, even though I’m still Andromeda-crazy. It’s a wonder how I ever get anything done, really.
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speller will be absolutely thrilled.
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Speller is indeed thrilled. Now you might understand half the things Luna and I talk about.
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I think you meant to say “Now you might understand half the things The Spelluna talks about.”
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Ah yes, The Spelluna, the mysterious vengeance demon with two manifestations.
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Exactly.
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Where is Spike? *sadness* Never mind, I’m just at the beginning of season 1, so…
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Oh, it’ll be awhile.
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Season 2, episode 3. Keep watching, see him, love him. (He becomes a regular mid-season 4.)
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The seasons are very short, aren’t they? Oh, wait, gottago.
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Only the first…The others are a more or less typical 25ish.
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I’m pretty sure that Season 4 of Torchwood will include Torchwood Four. Cited from wikipedia:
“Torchwood Four, location unknown: Torchwood Four is described as “missing”.[1] It is not specified how this happened or where it may previously have been located before its disappearance. Captain Jack stated they would find it some day.”
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Has it even been decided for sure if there’s going to be a season 4? Of course, even if there is…….It will never, ever be the same after CoE. *refuses to state spoilers* *goes to a corner to cry her heart out* *realizes she is already in a corner and thus doesn’t have to move to commence crying her heart out in a corner*
I hate RTD.
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This month’s Random Thread may set a new record for randomness.
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That’s for sure….
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Totally.
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Yay!
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Tomato!
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So lately I have been into designing my own T-shirts. So far, I have one that says, “I am a good, safe driver: The brake is always on the right.” and “Massachusetts hippie” with an arrow pointing upwards towards my head.
But now for some things that aren’t so clever in my life (bear with me, this is probably going to be exceptionally long):
Lately I have been having a large amount of friendship problems. This girl, A, has lately kind of fallen out of my very close circle of friends. She has been hanging out more and more with a girl that none of us like, and has also been acting strange and annoying. Last night, after dance practice, one of my best friends, L, and A and L’s mom and me were in the car going home. L was playing with her iPod when suddenly an odd-sounding voice came from A’s direction: “Hello?” L automatically replied “Hi!” and smiled at her. I said hello back. Then there was absolute dead silence for three minutes straight. A said nothing. Then L ventured, “A? Hello? Are you okay?” A still said nothing. Then suddenly she says, “I was talking the whole time at dance and you guys were ignoring me.” L and I immediatley apologise. But I swear A had said absolutely nothing the entire dance class; she just kind of stood there and watched L and I as we practiced. She also had Gothic makeup on and was wearing all dark clothing. Then A said nothing for the rest of the car ride. It, honestly, was the creepiest thing that happened all day.
The second friend problem is about my friend K. I love her to pieces, but our personalities sometimes clash. Lately, she has been utterly obsessed with this one boy. She stares at him all through lunch period and talks about him incessantly. But what hurts me most is that she doesn’t really listen to my friends and I anymore; for she is so focused on this boy with whom she is not even in a relationship. She just ignores us and stares dreamily into space. It used to be entertaining, the way she would suddenly snap out of it and cry, “What about elephants?” or something of the like, but now it just is annoying because it shows how little attention she is paying us. Lately, K has also been really taking advantage of hers and my best friend. She constantly is making plans with her and then blowing her off. This really upsets my friend, and me as well.
If you actually read all this, thanks. I’m just really angry, irritated and bewildered as to how they are acting. But other than that, my life is okay and I am still a relatively happy person.
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Aww. I feel sorry for you. *gives choklit* Hope it all works out okay, eventually.
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Oh, I feel really sorry for you to have to go through all that. *gives choklit*
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I’m so sorry. *choklit and hugs* It’s annoying when friends do that. (I’m going through some friendship problems at the moment too unfortunately, so I definitely feel for you.)
My 2 cents:
However it sounds like A is just insecure right now or going through a tough time. I mean, obviously she’s entitled to change the way she looks/acts but it sounds like she’s becoming quite different from the way she was before, and not in a positive way. But (And I might be reading into this more than it is) that something else is going on in her life that you might not know about. I mean, if she’s “falling out of your circle of friends and acting strange and annoying” that sorta sounds like she might be having family problems or something totally unrelated to you guys. This will be annoying, but for now I would hold onto her. Keep being supporting and loving, and see what happens. Best of luck.
As for K, well….personality clashes suck. It’s happened to me before, and I think the best thing would just be to tell her firmly but kindly if she’s not holding her part in the friendship. Tell her the next time she makes a false promise and doesn’t follow through that you’re disappointed in her. Give her a chance to change, and then let her know that you expect more. She can’t just slack off on you guys when she feels like it. (And for the boy crazy thing…it’ll pass. I mean, maybe not soon but eventually it’ll pass and if you just ignore it eventually she’ll get bored and learn to keep the boy thoughts to herself.)
Hope I helped – and good luck. I really hope that everything works out between you and your friends.
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Massachusetts hippie! *points at face* Sorry about your problems, though.
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Why don’t you like the girl(I’ll call her B) A has been hanging out with? Because A is spending more time with her instead of you and your other friends? Because she’s mean? B might be influencing A and because she(B) doesn’t like you guys. I was Mad on the advice thread, and a girl who hates me started hanging out with my unpopular friends and turning them against me, and before that she did it with my popular friends(I think she might hate me because she was jealous I spent so much time with my popular friend, but that’s another story). Or A may just not like you as much any more and prefers B. Or maybe I’m reading too much into this and she’s just got other problems, like starr said.
But whatever it is, I hope everything works out, and sorry if I’m rambling too much here.
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I thought I needed to change my “tag” after almost three months, and the shuttle flight in February is bringing up the Tranquility module, so…
(Actually, this isn’t a “new” tag, because it’s what I had when they first announced the module name last year.)
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Might I request a new thread?
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Sure. We won’t get one until Lady Bunniful finishes the graphic for it. But you can request one all you like.
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112~First of all, *hugs and choklit*.
It sounds like A may e trying to figure out who she is, or having other issues at home or with other friends. Make sure you’re supportive, but don’t let her make the rest of your group feel bad if you don’t go in the same direction she does. Everyone will find their own path, and sadly sometimes they’ll lead in very different directions.
As for K, she’ll hopefully get over the guy. It’s very, very easy to get carried away by crushes, I think everyone is guilty to some degree. However, do let her know in the gentlest way possible that she might want to consider asking him out and getting it over with, or not being quite so obsessed with him. That’s unhealthy.
Also let her know that if she’s going to make arrangements she should honor them, and if she can’t to let you know in advance. There’s no excuse for blowing off plans made with someone. It may be that there are things going on in her life, too, but she should at least have the respect to let you all know if she can’t meet her promises or to not schedule something that has a good chance of not working out.
Blahh.
So Mom told me that I’m annoyed at her because she isn’t a fan of gay marriages, and that I just think what I do because of what a friend of mine says. Suure.
In other words, she’s ticked off at me because I said I have nothing against gay marriage and because she thinks I’m just going along with everything he says. Which I’m not. 
Yay for being a teenager.
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*vows to never become guilty to some degree*
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Good night, sweet MuseBlog! PrincessM is getting ready for bed. Au plus tard.
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Bed???????
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o.0 The Sensorites remind me greatly of the Ood……Something in the way they speak, and that one in the first bit of eppy 2 of the serial holding what looks like a tiny stethoscope to his forehead–it reminds me of the translator balls the Ood held (y’know, what were secondary brains before they underwent forced surgery to have it removed and replaced with the translator thingies).
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I’m not imagining things.
From “Doctor Who: The Ultimate Monster Guide”
The Ood are a humanoid race from the Ood-Sphere, which is close to the planet Sense-Sphere (home to a similar race – the Sensorties – encountered by the First Doctor).
RTD seems to take an awful lot from Classic Who.
We’ve got the episode “Midnight”, which is rather similar to the 3rd serial of Season 1 Classic Who; we’ve of course got the continued Dalek presence; the Cybermen (I’ve not gotten to them yet, but I know they’re in Classic Who somewhere along the line); the Autons (the living plastic people in the first eppy of New Who), who, again, I’ve not gotten to, but I know come up later; the Ood, who are similar in many, many ways to the Sensorites–they even look a bit similar, if you take off the tentacles and shove on a beard, and shrink the secondary Ood brain/translator thingy into a less high tech mini stethoscope thing…..
And I’m sure I’ll come up with numerous more things. Now, don’t get me wrong–I’m not necessarily saying this is bad–RTD is, after all, continuing Classic Who with New Who, so it stands to reason that there would be some similar things–such as encountering some of the same species upon more than one occasion (Daleks, Cyberman, the Autons)…..I’m really more just observing the similarities. And commenting upon them in stream of consciousness format.
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I haven’t come on at all recently. I guess my sudden flood of posting in December really was because of Winter Break…The fact that I have exams next week doesn’t help either.
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Mine just ended today, at ten fifteen.
-A
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Anyone else hear about the today’s Supreme Court ruling? Boooooo…
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Which was that?
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Those of you who have never heard John Barrowman sing (most of you, probably), YouTube him now. He’s caking amazing. I just listened to him singing “Grown up Christmas List” (it’s on YouTube), and, wow. I mean, I like anything he sings (I’d listen to any music, as long as JB was singing it), but this was especially wonderful. Agh, sorry, fangirl moment.
Anyway, questions:
How many of you have gotten/plan to get the H1N1 vaccine? My campus is offering free vaccinations for it next week, and I kinda figured my parents would basically tell me, “Yeah, definitely, you should get it” (which Dad did), but Mom came back with a “Here, read this article before you decided anything. I personally decided not to get it, but only you can decide for yourself. It does sound like yours is the two dose, with the ethyl mercury….” Or something along those lines. I’m now agonizing over whether I should get it or not.
The fact that mom chose not too (even though she got the regular flu vaccine this year), makes me extremely reluctant. At the same time, I don’t particularly want to get H1N1, either. *sigh* I suck at making decisions–the more important they are, the worse I am.
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I got the H1N1 vaccine. I got the 1-dose nasal spray, which was painless fast, and probably a good idea. I would recommend it. H1N1 sounds unpleasant.
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Me too. Ugh, I’m so tired now.
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Get it. Whatever. It’s free and it possibly could protect you.
I already got mine earlier – the nose sniff vaccine thingie. It wasn’t too bad, and I’m sure the shot isn’t either.
-A
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I didn’t get it (it came to my school earlier though). *shrug* I mean, it could protect me but my parents seemed to have the same thoughts your mom did.
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Don’t. If it really is like the normal flu vaccine, then it’s still bad.
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Why do you say it’s bad?
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I just realized: When the current paleos were more neophytes, there was a whole different crowd of neither-neophytes-nor-paleos that came on regularly.
That didn’t make sense. Um…
Okay, so take Piggy. When he came on, he came on to a MuseBlog that was possibly slightly less active, but was a good, solid, community, with a entire hierarchy of MBers who’d been there forever, and neophytes, and ones that weren’t really either.
To put it yet another way, the community of friends that exists now…. Existed then too. In a different form.
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I know what you mean. I think that that realization is sort of part of becoming a paleo. You realize that the blog has changed a lot over the years, in terms of active people and their roles in the “neo to paleo hierarchy”, threads, fads, and just general character. *stops getting all reminisce-y*
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I sorta realized that too. The general tone of the whole blog changes as people come and go, as I’m sure the GAPA’s have observed. It’s almost like MB goes through different eras, sort of like the generations but in a more general sense and not relating to specific people.
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120- No clue. I’m not feeling very american at the moment, in part because it’s been over a year since my last visit and since I failed miserably at a president crossword puzzle in my english textbook.
121- I haven’t gotten the vaccine, but… I dunno. It’s just a flu, so I don’t really see the point, but I’m far from an expert on anything medical.
122- I don’t think it’s changed in more than appearance. I’m officially a paleo now by most standards, but the longer you’re here the more you notice the different “layers” of paleo’s and neo’s. Compared to SWAT, I’ve been here forever, compared to Piggy (using your example), I’m still quite new. Somehow I can’t help but think that paleo-dom, like self-esteem, is mostly in your head, and racking your brains about it wont change a thing. The only paleo/neo thing that concerns me is the problem that they often don’t really talk to each other as much… *stops making sense*
On a random note… *sings* Today’s the day… of the school dance! *squee* and I have a nice blue dress and sparkly earrings and a sparkly hairband and a sparkly pocketbook-aren’t you glad I’m not a vampire with all those sparkles- and now I need to go off to have time to watch Buffy before I get ready…
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SWAT? Who is SWAT?
As for the vaccine….I dunno. Still debating. Kinda leaning towards not, though.
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You’re not Safe Without A Towel, our latest addition.
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Oh…..I’d seen en around, just guess I didn’t put together SWAT as being short for that.
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Ironic how you went to watch Buffy after saying you’re not a vamp. How far are you? (By the way, if you want to obsess with me and Luna, we’ll shut up about season 4 and not spoil anything.)
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Episode 4. I keep tripping over similarities between me & Willow. Hmm… Angel’s okay, but Xander is waaaay cuter. Season 4 *is excited*? No, don’t spoil it for me. My only problem is that the site I’m watching it on is giving me a headache…
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Welcome to the Willow resemblance club. Although my friends just spoiled one aspect of her that definitely doesn’t resemble me. It sort of slipped out in one of their highly coded conversations where they’re trying to discuss it without spoiling anything. And apparently, it’s been foreshadowed, but I didn’t catch the foreshadowing… *will shut up now*
Xander? Cuter than Angel? Are you out of your caking mind? (Oh dear, she’s a demon. Only demons are attracted to Xander.)
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Eh heh heh. Oh you guys, with your middle-of-the-series. Hehe.
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Rub it in, won’t you? I mean, two of my best friends have watched all of it (or will have watched all of it within the next few hours), so I have to sit through their conversations. They’re actually kind of amusing, since there’s just a lot of pronouns and “you know”s and “the thing in season x”s and whatnot. And it has worked pretty well on the avoiding spoilers front, except for today (while we were working on an English project, actually) when they accidentally revealed something about Willow. A slip-up of pronouns. It actually wasn’t for awhile that I realized they weren’t using the pronoun that I was expecting.
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*wonders if the aspect is what I think it is; that is, something about her that I’m beginning to suspect, after some offhand comment on teh interwebs that didn’t actually really refer to much of anything*
Speaking of Willow, over break, while we (that is, my family and I) were watching TV, a commercial for a sitcom came on, and some woman was witting on a couch, and she said something to the guy next to her (her husband, I think), and as she was getting up, something in her voice/appearance, I all of a sudden realized–omg, it’s Willow! (Or, rather, the actress. )
Speaking of Buffy/Angel–I just read the most hilarious quote. So, Gareth David-Lloyd, the (hot) Welsh actor who plays Ianto Jones in Torchwood, was in a parody movie of Sherlock Holmes, set to be released Tuesday, I believe. [as a side note, I’m hoping somebody posts in on the net, I really have no desire to spend 20 bucks on what is probably a crappy movie–it’s a parody of SH with gigantic monsters invading, um, yeah…..But for GDL? Just like with JB, I’d watch anything–have, actually, for JB. Shark Attack 3.]
Anyway, I was on the wiki page for it, because I was trying to figure out when this DVD parody thingy was coming out, because all anything had ever said before was 2010. And down at the bottom of the page, is a quote by Gareth David-Lloyd, the middle bit of which caught my attention and had me nearly falling out of my chair with maniacal laughter: “Sherlock Holmes, monster slayer. Who wants another snooty Sherlock Holmes mystery when you can have him and Dr. Watson make like Buffy and Angel?”
I mean, I’m sure it wasn’t meant like that (or maybe it was–this is a Torchwood actor we’re talking about, and I’ve seen some of the clips from comic cons that he’s been at, and he’s nearly as bad as JB when it comes to some of the “naughty” things he says……Freakin’ hilarious, really), but…..Wow.
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Could be. It’s revealed in season 4. A pronoun slip-up was really enough to reveal it.
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SFTDP. I accidentally hit submit before running over to my friend’s room to give her my disc drive (because hers wasn’t working and she wanted to finish Buffy).
If the other guy was her husband (Alex Denisof), you should recognize him. Remember Wesley?
*laughs* Well, when Buffy and Angel were hunting together, they tended not to get much hunting done… *laughs more*
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Exactly what I was thinking……
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Er, as far as the Buffy/Angel thing.
And I meant the character’s husband/bf/whatever, not the actress…. *is sure whoever it was was definitely not Wesley*
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Oh, okay. Yeah, Alyson Hannigan is on another show. And apparently, she’s actually Jewish, which is pretty cool. And she played Seth Green’s (Oz’s) girlfriend about 10 years before Buffy in a movie. (They were both 14 at the time.) And apparently Seth Green is also Jewish. More reason to like Willow/Oz. (Jews are generally encouraged to date other Jews.) And I’m not reading Aristotle right now…
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1. I think we should all just stop obsessing about whether or not we’re young or old.
2. Winter Ball is tomorrow – if things all work out, I’m going to play laser tag and watch a movie with the EDD crew.
-A
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I’m old. And I don’t mean blogwise. I’m gonna *sniff* be 20 in March.
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“Old”? Pshaw. Your glue isn’t even dry yet.
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Good metaphor. *thumbs up*
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Oh, I know….It just seems so weird to be turning 20 in just a couple of months.
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Still, I can’t imagine it will be like when I turn 20…
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I have multiple views of myself when I turn 20. Some of them are rather frightening.
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I’m old too. Relatively. Then some days I find myself really young.
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I could say the same thing.
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Ah, good times. I’ve started bringing my laptop to school to use for my programming class. It makes life a whole lot simpler to organize. In addition, I’ve received permission to use it in my new study hall as well, so I can type papers and whatnot. Furthermore, I managed to get onto the school’s wireless network, so I can get to the internet as well. And now I’ve discovered that the school’s internet filter, which blocks Facebook, personal email, Youtube, games, and the like, has been blocked by my McAfee firewall. Yay procrastination!
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Hm, maybe not. Now those things are blocked again. Maybe it was just a temporary error on their end? How to bypass, how to bypass…
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My school blocks every login (facebook, gmail, hotmail, e.t.c…). Not that I ever get a chance to post from there anyway…
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I think that you might be able to stop it if you use a proxy. Or you could tap into someone else’s network. (Note: My school blocks nothing , so I actually don’t know if these will work. Just using logic.)
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(Changes capitalised for emphasis.)
Facebook: Make all of the URLS ‘httpS’ instead of ‘http’.
Gmail and probably most other emails: Same as Facebook.
Youtube: I haven’t figured out a workaround, but you can always proxy.
Games: If it’s flash, you can just download the .swf and open that. That’s a useful way to run flash games anyway because you don’t have to load the site, just the game.
Oh- and by the way, proxying is not illegal. The only way it becomes illegal is when you do illegal things while proxying.
-A
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Whoops, another thing I forgot: Sometimes schools also block proxy sites. But if you’re smart, you can google through and find one that isn’t blocked.
… And you can also set up a network from your home computer that you connect to from school… I don’t know the specifics, but it basically works like this:
1. Your school computer sends a request to your home computer.
2. Your home computer accesses the page you’ve requested.
3. Your home computer sends the page to your school computer.
4. Your school computer displays the page for you.
A friend of mine has done this with his laptop. It might be a bit slower, but I have to say I’m rather jealous.
-A
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Using SSL doesn’t work on this filter–I’ve tried. I haven’t found a proxy that isn’t blocked either. Games aren’t a huge deal for me.
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A day in the life of an average college sophomore:
Get up, take a shower, try to be really quiet trying to open a plastic bowl of cereal cuz your roommate is still in bed *fail rather epically–dang, those things seem to be louder the harder you try to keep ’em quiet*
Take so long opening the cereal, that five minutes before you have to leave, you realize that you still have to brush your teeth, apply copious amounts of lotion to your face (so that you don’t look peely/flaky–dratted cold), and brush your three feet of tangled hair–which is especially annoying to brush when either wet (as it was) or staticy (wasn’t, cuz it was wet)
Arrive at your first class of the day, which, if you hadn’t read your textbook, would have left you going, uh, “what the cake? What does an offensive term for gays (homos) and the incantation for light (lumos) have to do with organic chemistry?” Of course, they’re really acronyms for Highest Occupied Molecular Orbitals (HOMOs) and Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbitals (LUMOs).
Continue onto second class–nothing particularly eventful, here (spanish)
Continue to third class of the morning, where you learn that apparently teachers think student’s dislike it when class gets out early–the prof only apologized 3 or 4 times for getting done with the material earlier than attended, and assured us that he would try to do better next class. Uh, what? Letting us out early is one of the nicest things the profs can do–especially when it’s your last class before lunch, and you realized that you were starving on the walk over from your previous class.
Eat lunch.
Decide that you are going to become one of those morons who walk to class listening to music on an ipod.
Get halfway to class, realize that, “Oh, crap, I forgot my schedule…..I’m pretty sure this class is in room *** in [blank] building, but…..I’m not sure. Crap, crap, crap.”
Make a quick stop off at the campus bookstore and log onto the web real quick to view your schedule, and find out that you were correct about the room.
In this class, you learn that you ahve the worst luck imagineable–of 9 different class sections to choose from, all of which would have fit your schedule, you managed to choose the only section taught by a non-native English speaker. Admittedly, you only wanted to choose from 5 of these, because you wanted to do your study session at the same time as lecture. Still, there was only a 20% chance of choosing the one foreign TA? Why me??????
Learn that we will be learning about various “virgins of the meats”. Huh, what? Oh, you mean “versions of the myths”. Gotcha. Also learn that “We keep PDA” is wikipedia, not a discussion of electronic devices not to be used in class. Decide that the class would make an excellent drinking game, what with the use of the word “uh” after every second or third word. Also learn that it takes 40 minutes for her to “uh” her way through a syllabus that you read Wednesday in about 10.
Return to your dorm room, and on the way learn that ipods are annoying when you run into someone you know and have to fish it out of your pocket, unlock the hold button, and pause it before you can carry on a conversation.
After you get back to your dorm room, learn that having listened to your ipod while walking across campus was a bad idea, because sitting in your room, the volume you had it at is deafening–while it was just loud enough to hear comfortably while outside. Realize that this would be an excellent way to kill your hearing and that if you do this again, to set it to a decent volume in quiet, and if it’s too quiet to hear outside? Well, just give up the idea of being one of the ipod listening morons–your continued hearing is more important.
Type the password into your computer to log on. Instead of doing so, you get the nice little rainbow circle spinning thingy that says your computer is thinking. Give it a little bit. Still doing it, frozen on the log in screen. Wait a bit more, screen just goes black. Try to wake from sleep, no go–black screen, solid light on the front of the laptop–you know, the light that normally pulses on a mac when it’s asleep, and is off when the computer is on and open. Try tapping the power button, every key on the blasted keyboard, etc. Finally, after much silent cussing out of said computer, you force restart it.
And then you post a running commentary of all of this on MuseBlog. A running commentary that most of y’all probably won’t even read. But I’ll give you chocolate if you do.
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*takes choklit* *gives choklit*
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*takes choklit* That was really funny and weird and cool at the same time.
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*takes chocolate*
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*takes choklit* *eats choklit* That was funny, and yes I read the whole thing.
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*takes chocolate* This won’t make me act like a 14-year-old, will it? Oh, wait…
Hey, “we keep PDA” could be interpreted in worse ways than an electronic device… Well, at least your syllabuses don’t have pages listing all the state learning goal thingies that this class will help you accomplish. This is the stupid part of statewide schools.
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I didn’t even think of that interpretation until you said it.
As for the chocolate….Of course it’ll make you act like a 14 year old. Why do you think I eat it?
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*takes chocolate* Oh yes, I immediately thought of that interpretation of PDA.
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*nods* Moi aussi.
-A
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iPod notes:
1. Don’t keep it on hold while you’re listening.
2. Find a happy medium for volume and you won’t be too badly off ear- or listening-wise.
-A
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A day in the life of a different college sophomore:
Wake up to your cell phone as your alarm clock mysteriously stopped working. The cell phone works at least. Head to your first class, a biological anthropology one. Spend class trying to pick up beans with various implements off of a carpet. Leave class, head to campus coffee shop. Sit down, start working on the reading for a later class that you haven’t quite finished. Get distracted by talking to two different friends in succession, but manage to finish your reading anyways.
Go to Spanish class. Realize that there was a reading you hadn’t done and sit there reading your friend’s copy. Fortunately, it was short and rather interesting. Once class starts, begin discussing the reading. In the middle of the discussion, have the urge to write a poem. Do so on a fresh page of your notebook. Begin having really mixed up thoughts about what language your poem is in as you are writing in English but have been coming up with Spanish lines for it.
Head to lunch with your friend from Spanish class. Find somewhere to squeeze in around the table with all of your friends. You are part of a large friends group that generally manages to squeeze around a small round table each day. Sit and chat with your friends until you have to leave for your next class.
Spend a portion of the next class pretending to be a Turing Machine and the next portion discussing this activity. This class is awesome.
Go to next class. Write a summary of the reading you did for this class with a group. Through a little foam cow around. Discuss the development of civilizations.
Go to the library to print out the readings that will be due Monday.
Go to your dorm and finally check the internet. Finish writing the poem you wrote in Spanish. Head to dinner.
Go to your friend’s dorm after dinner and spend some time there talking to three friends. Head back to your dorm and work on a reading. Go on MB.
Tonight you will go have a sleepover with some other friends. This should be interesting as there are generally not sleepovers in college. You hope to get some sleep and not be uncomfortable because of the hard floor the whole night.
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Oops, in class # 4, I mean “throw a little foam cow around” not “through”.
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Thanks for the choklit.
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Yay! Chocolate!
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Speller, you are like a little angry battery with no friends.
That line has relevance to something else I did on MB just right now.
God, I love Bower’s Inside Story!
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What? I’m not sure what you mean by that. (As to the whole no friends, I think I’ve made it pretty clear that I have quite a few friends at my new school.) Care to explain?
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All I got out of that (with a quick google search), is that the thing about the battery is a quote from some game…..
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OK, I found the quote. That would be Bowser’s, witchneko. Still not clear why she’s saying it to me.
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Yeah, me neither.
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It’s Fawful’s quote, by the way, speller (I misspelled Bowser).
And never mind, since it’s me who is like a little angry battery with no friends.
Seriously.
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Does anyone know how to prevent bunnification in an extremely large group of people that are all wearing pink clothing, and debunnify them if necessary?
PS I made a typo in “necessary’, and when I did Spellcheck one of the suggestions was “neurosurgery”.
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Tell them that hot pink is “out” and special debunnification bracelets/outfits are “in”?
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Too late for that-20 minutes until I leave.
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128- The first Spellcheck suggestion for “Sagan” is “Satan”. Something is wrong with Spellcheck.
So coming home from school, my brothers and I made up a Romeo and Juliet/Assassin’s Creed 2 joke with Ezio getting hired by the Montagues to kill the Capulets.
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Incidentally, yahoo’s spell check doesn’t recognize google (the verb). It’s amusing. Sagan is cool. He apparently came to my school once. There’s a little poster about him by the entrance of the school and a quote by him written prominently on one of the walls. Apparently, we’re a gift to the people of our state…
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Really? Cool!
(I had no idea he had ever visited Sunnydale… )
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Yes, of course. Sunnydale High School was founded by a Nobel Laureate and frequently has famous scientists and mathematicians….
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it’s hailing! this is crazy.
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Gasp. O.o *hands metal umbrella*
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oh god aggy do you know what your icon is…cause that’s not just a normal bear
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YES. xD memes kick butt.
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This is madness!
-A
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this is SPARRRTAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
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Thank you. I am so happy that someone picked up correctly on that.
-A
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Urgh, smoked salmon inhabiting upper toothholes–must flush out.
Actually, I had the most lovely conversation with one of they guys I know at school. When it came up that I got my wisdom teeth out (and was still managing to get food stuck up there), after inquiring if they gave me a syringe, he mentioned that when he got his out, they healed over with food inside them, got infected, and then had to be drained…..Yuck. I so hope that doesn’t happen to me.
*goes to flush out tooth holes in the hopes of preventing such vileness*
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Luna just got her first wrong number on her cell phone. I think my mom’s gotten wrong number on hers before, but this is the first time I’ve gotten one….
Not sure why I feel like it seems so much weirder to get one on my cell than say our home phone, but, whatever.
’twas somebody in Alaska, too, judging from the area code (which is the same throughout the state)….
Hehe, how fun. Hey, did I ever mentioned how I busted my phone over break? Really not sure what exactly I did to it…..It was, let’s see, must’ve been January 9th, cuz that was the only Saturday that I worked over break.
So, anyway, when I got off work, i went to call my parents to let them know I was leaving (usually so that they can plan dinner accordingly, alhtough this evening we were going out to eat). Anyway, I slid it open, the screen was all black and stripey, with a line (like a crack) going across it. Anyway, somehow I did something to the screen, totally busted it.
Well, the actual phone still worked–I could make and receive calls, but I couldn’t see anything on the screen. My Dad (amazingly) did not murder me, didn’t even yell, and didn’t even seem particularly mad (I was totally expecting him to be royally pissed off….I mean, I’d only had the dratted thing little more than a year).
So, anyway, he decided that Monday he’d take it in to see if anything could be done to fix it, whatever. Meanwhile, I was worrying about all my data on my phone–pictures, ringtones I’d made and didn’t really want the hassle of remaking, and of course the all-important contacts.
but mainly I was worried about my pictures. So, obviously, we had no idea if they’d be able to do anything to fix it, and Sunday I came up with a genius idea–the phone has bluetooth, as does my laptop. And my mother had an identical phone. Using her screen to know which numbers/buttons to push when, I could get into my pictures, and bluetooth them all to my computer.
Three hours later, I had successfully transferred all my pictures, my personalized ring tones, and all my contacts to my computer.
Of course, come Monday, Dad was told that our phones were no longer being made (LG shines), and that we couldn’t upgrade it to the new Shine without renegotiating the contract, but they would give us a crappy temp phone for a small amount of money until our contract expires at which point we could upgrade without any sort of renegotiation. Of course, the morons at AT&T told Dad that it was impossible to transfer the information off of my phone–which, as he was retelling this at dinner, I pointed out numerous times that it was quite possible, as I had done so. A lot of work, perhaps, and perhaps they don’t want to do so, for various (more or less valid, probably) reasons, but to say they can’t is blatantly untrue.
Anyway, long story short, my wonderful mother traded phones with me, and we switched the SIM cards so that mine sim card is in her old phone, and hers in the crappy one and all that nonsense, and so, yeah, I retransfered ringtones and contacts to her (my) phone, and, so….Yup.
So poor mom is stuck with a crappy flipphone for awhile…..whoops.
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Do you know what really annoys me? I’ve forgotten exactly when people like Enc, Princess, starr, sbf, vannilabean, bella, jjetplanegirl, etc., came on and think of them as “those people who came on after me but are paleos by now”, even though if I looked them all up on Who’s Here it would probably say they joined months apart. But I still think of people who joined, say, 2 months before me as “old”, although other MBers won’t see it that way. It’s really annoying.
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I came on in the summer, was really annoying, then decided to behave. This was in October. I started posting regularly in around…November? When did you come on?
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We’re glad you stuck around!
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Thanks! *feels loved* *pie*
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December 2008
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I came on about a month after Enc, and about the same time as starr, I think.
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No, you came almost a month before Starr.
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125~ Wow. And yes, I read all that.
Hmm….age. I don’t really even remember how long I’ve been on now. A few years? Something like that.
Maybe just because when I first started posting I only had internet access on day a week for an hour or so, but it seemed a lot smaller then.
I don’t know everyone now at all. I mean, there are some I know, but some of the bloggers who I felt like I’d gotten to know better have left, or don’t come on as much anymore it seems.
I don’t recognize individuals as much anymore. The people who don’t post as much, or not on the threads I visit (not too many anymore) I don’t really have the same sort of idea of who they are as I used to have.
I mean, some of you I know from reading posts all over the blog, but others I honestly have no idea, sorry.
Meh. It doesn’t matter. I don’t visit the neophyte threads anymore, because I can’t keep up with them. I don’t even recognize who’s a neo versus who’s a paleo.
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*sigh* Luna really wants to read the entirety of her Doctor Who Monsters Guide, but she can’t. So very much of it discusses Classic Who…..I mean, yeah, i could skip through and just read the bits about New Who, but I’ve got this thing about reading things in order, y’know?
Anyway, I have finished season 1 of Classic Who (which happens to contain 42 episodes, 9 of which are reconstructions as the actual video was lost destroyed).
I’m debating whether or not I’m going to watch some more tonight.
Classic Who, by the way, has very nearly 700 episodes, spanning 26 seasons……Let’s just say that I calculated how long it would take me to finish watching three episodes a day (which I’ve exceed the last couple days, getting 9 in yesterday–after I did my homework, mind you, I’ve not abandoned that mission yet–and 6 so far today. But it’s a Friday, I’ve got two days, and I fully intend to do lots of accomplishing of things tomorrow, so…..I’m thinking I”ll do some more watching tonight). Anyway, at 3 a day, it would take me around 8 months–an incredibly long time from now…..
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POLL: Should I post more often?
I’m going to say yes… I’ve had a ton of work to do; so much that I’ve even forgotten to email my foreign exchange student for a month and a half now… ugh. I think I’ll email her right now.
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Because of my rather long hiatus, I missed out on a lot of the paleo/neo generations. I’m technically a paleo, but sometimes I feel like I just came on because the site has changed so much. Are any of the really, really old paleos, the ones who posted on that pre-MB message board, still around? I don’t know what the deal is about wungs nor do I know why some people have ( random number wung/harry potter/musezy points) after their names. It’s entirely possible that there is no reason. But it bothers me that I don’t know.
On the other hand, I can remember the first Pie War and the first Dissing Mr Joe thread and the March 2006 flood of newbies (we didn’t call them neos back then) that occurred after MontegomeryGurl’s letter was published. Back then it we got a few neos every day, or so it seemed. Some actually stuck around. Some (read FantasyFan) stayed on for a while, left, came back, and are now worried that they won’t be able to stay because of the insane amount of stuff to do…
The biggest difference, however is personal. I have now learned to type. This makes it so much easier to post stuff.
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There’s a points thread, somewhere, discussing the origins of certain points. But don’t be bothered that you don’t know–I’m not even sure if people who are around when they were being created even know for sure what is going on with them. The potterpoints are the only thing I can clear up–unless someone has ripped them off, they were being used by MissSwann and me while we were competing against each other in a HP trivia contest.
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Points… Gah, just ignore them. I’ve created a monster.
Wungs are cute little creatures whose biology runs on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
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I still don’t know what wungs are either so don’t worry about it. And as for points…same with the wungs thing. I know they exist, but I just don’t know much about them to tell you the truth. Honestly I’ve just learned to ignore them.
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I first came during the Gaboomba. So, yes, some of us are still around.
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Conan and the Tonight Show are officially dead. I’m very sad. 7 months did not seem like a very long time. Oh, right, it wasn’t. But how am I going to live seven more months without the insane red hairflip man?
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Shiny pic. Very cool. Is it based off Poesideon’s temple at the acropolis? That’s what it seems to resemble. Me gusta.
I have not been here in a while. Yay extracurricular activities.
I had skiing today, and we went to BC to check out the course for conference.
Then I had theatre, which was fun, other than when R was getting mad at me for letting ushers backstage ( yes, I am the house manager, also known as queen of the ushers), which has never been a problem in the past, and G being the annoying little explicitice he always is, except for moreso than usual. Then I stayed for notes (Dave talking about how the show went) and storytime (Dave telling a story from his theatre history) and a song( the full version of ” I have got a lovely bunch of coconuts”). Dave is retiring next year, and I really hope Rocky doesn’t take over for him, because Rocky is a bit on the tyrannical side. Yay.
After theatre when everybody walked out into the parking lot, lots of people started screaming becase the sidewalk was so slippery. I had to walk to the car in a snowbank to keep me from falling over. I was also kinda scared on he way home because Dave had been talking about how two guild members have died while messing around with cars.
Life is pretty good. H*** week for theatre is over ( for me) and the ski season is nearly over too, so expect to see me around more in a few weeks.
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I love Google Chrome. To get to the MB I just have to type in “mu.”
*sigh*
Wow, a tree just fell over outside our apartment building! Quite a large one. That happens a lot here during storms.
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Sounds like Gmail. It knows how many emails I’ve sent to who – which means that even when I type in ‘gr’, trying to send something to myself, it autodirects to M’s address.
There’s got to be something symbolic there.
-A
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My school email, when I type anything in to the send to line, it begins to autofill with the name of anyone I’ve ever emailed who starts with that. For instance, if I type in the last couple letters of my last name (to forward an important email to my parents–I norm ally email them from my yahoo), it pops up with both their email and my own school email (even though our school emails don’t actually include our name)
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I don’t use my school email. The school can read it and censors it, and at the beginning of the year I inadvertently used it to chat with a school-friend and got called down to the headmaster’s office for using “crap.” I mean, seriously!
(if the GAPAs snipped that, it was a mild version of a rude word describing a function best kept to the restroom.
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I’m fairly sure that’s actually against the law… You should look into that.
-A
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Actually, I think the schools do have the “right” to monitor school email accounts–just like they can monitor what you do on the internet when you’re using their server to connect.
Could be wrong, but….*shrugs*
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Cute!
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All I have to do is open a window.
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129.1- Really? Cool!
(I had no idea he had ever visited Sunnydale… )
Things I want to do today:
1) Some Math studying, at least, because the Mid-term is on Wed.
2) Listen to the end of the SpaceVidcast episode I saw the begining of live on Thursday.
3) Listen to all of yesterday’s All About the Mouse podcast.
4) Finish up a Star Wars short story I’ve had lying around in my notebook for a month.
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Okay, I managed to do 1, 2, and 3.
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Okay. I need some brainstorming idea from all of you, please. For spanish, I’m supposed to come up with three ways that I can practice spanish here in ******, the town where my college is. I’ve got two: “Speak with a spanish speaking person, such as the cleaning lady in my res hall” and “Speak with other students taking spanish”
I need a third…….Any ideas?
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Watch telenovelas on TV or the Web? Maybe you can find “Dr. Who” dubbed into Spanish.
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Oooh, that’s a brilliant idea. Dr. Who in Spanish….If we actually have to implement any of our ideas, I’m definitely going with that one.
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Attempt to read Harry Potter in Spanish, perhaps?
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It’s a fantastic book, by the way, if you were wondering. I need to get more than just the first.
-A
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I actually have the second one in Spanish, although it’s back home in my room. And I’ve got the first in Italian–my sis picked it up for me when she was in Italy a year or two ago. Not that Italian helps with Spanish, but…..
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I would think it would be useless since you’d be able to quote the book in English almost exactly…
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But the teacher doesn’t know that. And, really, I only have about a quarter of the first chapter memorized (used to be closer to half). And, actually, being able to quote in almost exactly in English could actually make it more helpful in using it to learn Spanish…..
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Oh, wait….I got confused. The spanish one, which is CoS, I don’t have part of the first chapter memorized–that’s Philsopher’s Stone. CoS I really don’t have memorized, at all.
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Get some Spanish books out of the library? Read Spanish posters about Social Security?
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Haha, I was just watching the Season 2 serial “The Dalek Invasion of Earth,” when all of a sudden it cuts from a scene of Barbara and a couple of earthlings I forget the names of running across London, to that of Daleks milling about in front of a large monument. So it cuts to that, and all of a sudden my brain does a double take, “Hang on, that’s the statue outside of Royal Albert Hall, I’m sure of it!” I rewind a smidge, to confirm in my mind, do a quick Google search (it’s been 8 years since I was at Royal Albert Hall, I thought to see if I was remembering correctly). Sure enough, it was.
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Isn’t that hall in a Beatles song? “A Day in the Life”? *checks* Yep! It is!
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What is wrong with me? I almost typed “Tin Prading” into Google. (At least I didn’t write “Pisney Tin Drading.”)
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If you did, Google would have asked, “did you mean ‘Disney Pin Trading’?”
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I say stuff like that all the time.
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Yay for oonerspisms!
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Tut are you walking about?
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I kink you thnow.
-A
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Piggy has been at forensics since six o’clock this morning. Piggy is exhausted.
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I’m in VA, and I didn’t get beaten over the head with a stick today. Pretty much, my life is looking up.
But I’m horribly tired, despite a several hour nap today. Blehhhh. I hate waking up early.
We went to see The Young Victoria tonight, it was quite good. Now I want to learn more about her……
I’m going to stop rambling, since I really have nothing o say.
Goodnight.
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Fiddler,
What a coincidence! I’m in Virginia, too, and nobody has beaten me over the head with a stick all week. Life is good.
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GAPAs, I signed up for a paleo account, because I’m pretty sure I have six months under my belt, but when I try to log in, it says an Administrator still needs to approve my account. Just wondering if you got the message. Thanks!
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I’m back from my three-day honor band thingummy, and it was fantastic. At first I was a bit overwhelmed from being put in a group of over a hundred extremely good musicians between the 7th and 9th grades, because the largest group I’ve played in before was a group of four people, but I got into it pretty easily. We were amazing. Lis’s mum was saying we sounded like professionals instead of Junior High students, and a whole bunch of people said the same thing. The feeling of being part of such a large group, when everything just clicks and Mrs L would tell us that it was “in the pocket” was magical.
I was slightly famous among the Bb clarinetists for being the 7th grader wedged in between the 9th graders and the 8th graders. Above me was all ninth graders, and then below me were the eight graders, one or two more ninth graders, and one more seventh grader. And it seems that I have a chance of being first chair Clarinet (kind of like a concert master in a orchestra! :D) next year, too, if I keep practicing hard. *is going to practice very hard this next year and will try to be able to get the kind of tone that Jeff, this year’s first chair Bb clarinet gets*
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Ooooh, congratulations! That sounds awesome!
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Congratulations! I play Bb clarinet as well, but there’s not way I’m gonna be first chair anytime soon…and I’m sure the band you were playing in was eons better than my school one.
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I’m the best 7th grade clarinetist in Middle [insert state name here]!
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149~ Yes, yes indeed. Hey, I’m actually in YOUR part of VA, too, amazingly enough. Though I have been threatened, I think my un-beaten-with-a-stick status may change today……..
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I suppose it’s rather sad that my roommate stayed out until 2 or 3 partying last night (and presumably getting drunk, if the stories she’s been telling friends on vid chat about her other friends are anything to go by) and still got up before me?
*sigh* I think I’m addicted to sleeping in.
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Grrrgh. LBK, I AM NOT A STALKER! However much Pseudo might think that I am…rarrgh. Google = frustration.
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Why are you telling me?!
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Nononononononono… Google = God.
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Nonononononono… Google=Skynet.
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Well… You’ve got me there. I guess Google=God in a terrifying way?
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Nononononononono… Wikipedia = God.
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Nononononononono… Wikipedia = the Guide.
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She had never got over how wonderful Torchwood’s search database was. Having worked in law enforcement, she knew that–whatever films said to the contrary–cross-referencing evidence was not the same as Googling. You didn’t just put in two or three search strings then get presented with a handful of potential suspects. It took hours and–worse than that–there was no guarantee that you’d find anything useful at the end of it. Actually, scratch that, it was exactly like Google…
((Yes, I will take advantage of any opportunity to quote my TW book, or TW in general))
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You’ve already said that.
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hehe, I know. I will take advantage of any opportunity to quote anything DW/TW related, regardless of how many times I may have quote the exact same passage in the past.
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Last few minutes of “Conspiracy”, third episode in Classic Who Season 2 serial “The Romans”: It’s a total “Emperor’s New Clothes” moment (or total “Babbity Rabbity and Her Cackling Stump” moment, if you would prefer a Harry Potter reference….Except Babbity Rabbity came long after the Who episode).
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And if I’d waited 30 seconds further into that scene, I would’ve heard the Doctor himself admit to having based his scheme off of “Emperor’s New Clothes”…..
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You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when, upon seeing the word “conspiracy”, your mind says it’s missing a few Ks.
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I saw that one! I forget how they managed to escape and everything though.
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So my mom is making me listen to these lectures about how to get into college while I do my computer stuff. Not very fun.
I realized something interesting- when I read a book, as long as there are no specific references to the year, politics, or technology, if cars, television and flashlights exist, I assume that it’s set in the present. I don’t notice if people aren’t using computers or cell phones, I only notice if they ARE.
I mean, personally, I have gone to the library as a primary means of research, if only out of convenience, so I don’t see that as being weird or dating it.
Examples I can think of off the top of my head include the Babysitter’s Club series (Set in the ’80s/’90s), the original Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books (’40s-’70s) and The Egypt Game (’60s).
Is this just me or do any of you do this as well?
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I do that too. I read the Egypt Game and Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys growing up and just sort of assumed they were set in the present. (which, when I was reading them, was the nineties. I suppose I’d assume they were set now if I read them now.)
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For me, it varies. I’ll catch myself starting to say, well, gee, why didn’t they just use the cell phone?
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Hmm. That’s a good point. Cell phones weren’t all that present in the nineties when I was reading them. That, and the people who had them were not people I encountered all that much. I suppose that just didn’t occur to me.
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I second oxlin, here….When I read the Hardy Boys (never did read ’em all) as a kid, the thought of cell phones never crossed my mind–likely because they were pretty rare when I was reading them.
Now….I do start to think that–for instance, when I was watching Buffy, there were numerous times I kept thinking–why the heck don’t you just get a cell phone? Or use your cell phone! before I’d remember, oh, yeah…..Cell phones not really around much at all yet….whoops.
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Mm. I hear that Buffy had a problem with that in later seasons. They had started the show when cell phones were rare and once they’d gotten more common they decided to just not have them still.
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I personally carry a cell phone in my school backpack for emergencies, but I hardly ever use it and only have it when I go to school, so I don’t really think about mine much. I guess that, like the library thing, since I have done what they do in the book as a primary strategy, I can understand what the characters are doing.
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I suppose that’s probably similar to me, although I’ve never really thought about it. I often pay attention to the way the people are speaking more than anything – for example if they seem like they have an accent or if they talk with an old fashioned drawl or something. (Man, I love the word drawl!)
As for The Egypt Game, I definitely didn’t know that it was set in the ’60s until you told me right now, and I’ve read that several times. I actually didn’t realize that The Babysitter’s Club wasn’t set in the present until I was well into the books.
On Babysitter’s Club: There are like 100 short books or so in the series, so I could read several in a day! I use to really love that series…and another funny thing about the series is that I read it when I was in 2nd/3rd grade I think, possibly into 4th and yet the characters are all middle school aged. And I remember thinking about how big and old they were back then, and now I don’t read them anymore but I am in middle school! Just a weird thought… And before I read The Babysitter’s Club, I actually read Babysitter’s Little Sister (basically a spin off of The Babysitter’s Club, only it’s about – you guessed it! – one of the babysitter’s little sister) series and then moved onto The Babysitter’s Club.
Whoa…that was longer than I expected.
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I’m the opposite– if the characters don’t have things like cell phones I assume the book is old.
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Quite suddenly I feel super old, both in MB time and regular time. Do you people feel like you know me? Somehow I feel separated. I don’t even think that it is that I’m old, really, but that I’ve been here for ages and that I wasn’t really here for a bit as much. I dunno.
I should probably go and work on homework.
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I feel like I know you quite well… I suppose I was a very new newbie when the last of the Old Guard were still hanging on.
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Yeah, I think that might be it. A lot of the people that I really new well have left and there are only a few of them left. A good amount; I do feel I know plenty of people here (you, KaiYves, Alice, Luna, etc, etc) and I do feel I know new people (Keiffer, fireandhemlock1996, etc, etc) but all of those people know each other better than they do me.
Do people remember that I was Elasse-Adael (e~a)? I went back to some old threads and it was rather strange to see my old name there.
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I was recently looking at some old threads, too, and was a bit startled to see your former name, though I once thought I’d never get used to “oxlin.”
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I tried to make the transition somewhat gentle. I was widdershins (e~a), then oxlin widdershins, then oxlin.
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I know you! Quite well actually, much better than I know most MuseBloggers at this point. I feel a wee bit disconnected myself but you’re of my era, I feel.
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Yes, yes. I do feel I know you. I’m very glad to know you! You were one of the reasons I read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and the reason I read Little Big and I always love seeing what you have to say. Speaking of reading, I think you’d enjoy Theodora Goss’s short stories. She has some on her website and she has a collection, In the Forest of Forgetting. Actually, Strange Horizons has a short story of hers up on their website. (Strange Horizons is a weekly online magazine.)
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Oxlin–yes, I feel like I know you. I mean, you’re one of those people who was “old” (MB-wise, mind you–regular time we’re within a year of each other) when I arrived, so I’ve had time to get to know you–unlike some of the newer members. And by newer, I mean, for the most part, those who just popped up within the last couple months or so.
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I think you’re older than me, off-blog time wise. My birthday is April 30th, 1990.
Mm, yeah. Perhaps it is just that I haven’t gotten the chance to get to know a lot of the younger people yet, while they’ve gotten to know each other.
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Only one month older….March 29th, 1990.
I feel like a lot of the newer people on here already know each other in real life–which gets confusing for me….
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It does feel that way. I don’t know any MBers from here – or at least, I don’t know any in the fact that I’ve met them at a Kokon or discovered that I knew someone on here after I had already posted. (Wouldn’t that be weird/cool if it happened?)
But yeah, I feel the same way…I don’t know if this is right, but I believe that SudoRandom, Armada, electros, RoseQuartz, Pseudo, Keiffer, and bubblebabe (oops, I mean Princess_Magnolia! Sorry, I keep forgetting!) all know each other. Partly I know that from looking at Kokon pictures, partly because I’ve seen them post like they do. I dunno, it does get confusing sometimes.
Also, are Pseudo and Princess_Magnolia related? I feel rather stupid for asking that, but for some reason I think that they are and don’t know for sure.
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I’m pretty sure Pseudo is P_M’s older sis.
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Um, correction… younger sis.
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Wait, younger sis?! I was nearly totally certain that Pseudo was older…
My mom just walked by chanting something about Comcast Digital over and over under her breath. I’m a bit worried.
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No, I’m younger. Although if you knew us in person, you would notice that I was younger immediately. I seem to be less immature on the internet.
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I could’ve sworn you were older.
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Pseudo, I also seem to be less immature in the internet. (I’m 11.) A lot of people in various places tend to express surprise when I reveal-this usually has a reason-my actual age.
I think it’s just that we talk with longer words on the Internet or something?
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I’m more immature on the internet. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
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*brain is fried* I was positive that you, Pseudo, were 15ish, and bubblebabe was around 13. I’ll stop now, though, because I remember how I felt when I learned everyone thought I was four years older than i actually was.
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That’s exactly what I thought, too.
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I’m 12. Bubblebabe P_M is 13.
Silver Lining-I’m not annoyed…Actually, sorta flattered.
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I just thought of something. Some day, there may be MBers born /after/ I first posted on the Gaboomba. (Dec. 2003) Wow.
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Won’t that be awesome? “I was on the Muse Fan Page before you were even born, ya whippersnapper!”
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It’d be surreal, mostly. You do have an amusing interpretation, though. I have a friend who keeps telling people to get off her lawn.
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That’s funny–probably because I very nearly made a comment like that once to a kid who was irritating the heck out of me. In hind sight, I was probably being unreasonably grumpy, but the kid annoyed me.
Anyway, I was probably mid teens or so at the time, and this was back when I was in choir and I was helping out with the younger kids’ practice times. So the director had just handed out some new music and I think i was telling the girl to write her name on it, so it wouldn’t get lost and the like, and because the choir director had a thing about this–she got unreasonably annoyed if we didn’t put our names on our copies.
The girl, for whatever reason, saw fit to argue: “But she didn’t tell us to put our names on it. How do you know we’re supposed to? What if she doesn’t want us to?” (as I recall, this particular kid liked to be disagreeable and refused to just freakin’ listen)
Getting annoyed with her pointless argument, I very nearly snapped back by way of response: “Look, I’ve been in choir since before you were even born, I know what I’m talking about a lot better than you do.”
Yeah…..like I said, I was probably being unreasonably irritable, but…..
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Hang in till that moment, Piggy. I want to be there.
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Me too
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When I added up all (or almost all) of my comments on MB (as in the totals by my various names) I have 3558 comments.
I accidentally went to bed with Sherlock Holmes the other night. I’d been reading it during the day and must’ve forgotten to take it off my bed before going to sleep. I’m in the middle of reading A Study in Scarlet.
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I’ve got 4,618 with previous names/variants on current name (plus AE’s for the balls).
Accidentally went to bed with…..? Oh, my brain totally read that the wrong way.
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oxlin, I feel that I know you well. Probably, like POSOC said, because I was around years ago when it was smaller–I feel like I know most of those people more than everyone else on the blog. I get excited every time I see an old-blogger post.
I feel strange, sometimes, looking at current blog threads. Some of the names are familiar, but I don’t feel like I know any of those people. Even some on the Paleo threads seem like strangers to me; I’d like to get to know them better. I just don’t have a lot of time, anymore, to spend here. To spend on anything other than homework, actually. Sigh.
Elasse~Adael! I remember that name. Though I definitely know you better as oxlin now.
Alice and oxlin: If it weren’t for you two, I wouldn’t have read any of those wonderful books you suggested. Alice for JS&MN, of course, among others, and oxlin for Charles de Lint and Endicott and all of your poems. And for all of those RRRs or letter games we did together (with POSOC, too).
And Luna, I remember when you first came to the blog as Michelle W. and posted that wonderful HP fanfiction. I have no idea what it was about, but I remember I really liked it.
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I never did finish that fanfic–nor did I ever finish posting all of what I had written to MuseBlog….
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Yay! I’m glad you enjoyed my suggestions! I wouldn’t have suggested what I do if not for my friend Green. She suggested everything to me. (well, really she introduced me to a few authors that led to many, many more.) I have even more suggestions now, such as Laurie J. Marks’ Fire Logic, Earth Logic, and Water Logic series (those are three different books) and Swordspoint and The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner and Megan Whalen Turner’s Attolia books and Nnedi Okorafor’s Zahrah the Windseeker and The Shadow Speaker and many, many more. Theodora Goss’s short stories, the poems on Goblin Fruit (an online poetry magazine, mostly harmless website)
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On another note, my favorite Sherlock Holmes story is The Red-Headed League. My dad read it to me when I was little, using great accents and dramatic gestures. Now, I can’t read Sherlock Holmes without imagining it being performed by my dad.
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The Red-Headed League has such an appalling, glaring inconsistency that I can never read it without wincing. I don’t even remember the plot, just that the dates didn’t add up and it deeply bothered me.
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I have again returned!
Star Trek (2009) is surpassingly good.
Return to the hundred acre woods in surpassingly bad
And another things is relatively good
On The Origin of the species is long
MIT opencourseware is awesome.
Darths and Droids is geeky fun
iPhone Development is also geeky fun
I really should try the chinese/japanese software
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Good to see you TMFA. I too enjoyed the 2009 Star Trek. I liked how it portrayed the characters from the original series as their younger selves. Scotty especially cracked me up.
Are you reading On the Origin of the Species? That’s something I’ve never done but have been planning to. I’ve got it on the shelf here. But I’m still in the depths of The Story of the Stone so I won’t be ready to start it for a while.
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Extra credit for Biology. Only two people, in the teacher’s 19 year history of teaching bio and giving this extra credit, completed On the Origin of the Species.
I’m going to be the third.
Hopefully.
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Not that you need more books on your reading list … but the historical novel about Darwin’s life by Irving Stone really taught me a lot about Darwin himself and why what he wrote was such a big deal. You might like to read it before, during or after On the Origin of the Species, which I’m sure you will finish! It’s called The Origin. On the other hand, it’s a very long book too, so you might rather think about something else.
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I feel obliged to point out that the book’s title is “The Origin of Species.” No “the” in the middle.
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Thank you, Rebecca! Very true.
I just looked up the full title on the first edition and see that the title on the cover is On the Origin of Species and a longer one is printed on the title page: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
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According to Wikipedia the “on” of the short title was dropped as of the 1872 edition.
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Evolution of a book title.
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I started it at the end of freshman year. What I got through was really interesting, but unfortunately I had to return ti to the library when we left for vacation, and I’ve just never picked it up again, although I’d really like to. Especially with that new movie about Darwin (Creation?) out or coming out soon. Good luck!
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Last night I saw Castle in the Air for the first time. I really loved the settings that it showed. After watching it, I went back to my dorm room and spent time world-building.
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I am going to New York City in February for two days and one night, and my mom says I am allowed to pick one museum that we’ll go to. We’re already planning on visiting the John Lennon memorial in Central Park. (rather bad timing, if you ask me, because lately I haven’t been too fond of John) and a Broadway musical called Fela(Don’t ask me what that is, because I have no idea either). Does anyone have any suggestions? I prefer art museums.
I am fairly excited to go to New York, considering that i have never been there, but I don’t usually like going to cities. Cities as big and as congested as NYC, I mean. I love to travel, but I hate visiting cities like that. Cities scare me; I think I will always live in suburbia or a tiny little town. My whole life I’ve wanted to live in an itty-bitty town where everybody knows everything about everybody. My mom finds that lifestyle suffocating, but I take extreme comfort in small groups of people.
Another very cool thing I have found is a website called futureme .org, where you can choose a date in the future, write an email and then have it email yourself on that day. I sent myself a “Happy 21st Brithday” e-card.
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I feel the same way. I’m not exactly a country gal or whatever, but I do live in the suburbs-ish area, and I’m not a huge fan of big, crowded cities.
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NYC, although crazy and congested, is great. I love seeing all of the people… It’s so amazing to see so many different people from so many different walks of life in one place. It’s just mind boggling… I could just sit there all day and just watch people… People watching… Hehehe that sounded CREEPY.
Okay, as for museums, I would definitely go to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art- there’s just so much there. It’s really wonderful.
If you like modern art, there’s MOMA and the Guggenheim. I wasn’t too fond of MOMA when I went, and the same goes for the Guggenheim, but I don’t really like modern art. The Guggenheim’s exhibits change though, so they might have a good exhibit in February.
The Frick Collection is good too, but it’s much smaller than the others I’ve listed, and I feel that you can see more of the same style art in The Met.
As for non-art museums, you can go see the Bodies exhibit. I’m not sure if it’s still there, but it was really truly amazing. The bodies are preserved (human bodies) and they show diseases and explain the body systems. It was really an amazing thing to see.
Also, there’s The Museum of Natural History, which is amazing. (That’s the one that was in Night at the Museum)
So now that I’ve typed my fingers off, I hope that this helps!
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Oxlin–I remember you very well, and it seems I’ve barely settled into “oxlin” rather than “e~a”, and i remember when you were Widdershins as well.
158.2 (Panda)–that is almost exactly like what I feel like. I feel like most of the people I really knew well left (with some significant exceptions). There’s a group of people I talk to who were on MB but not really are anymore, but there’s also so many people that I’ve lost touch with altogether who I still remember and think about sometimes. Oh, nostalgia.
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Chess, anyone? I’ve almost beaten Keiffer, who only has a king, so that won’t last much longer. I’m pretty much a beginner, but I’m not that bad either.
PS Darkness is awesome, so therefore I want to be Black.
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Calling all fans of BBC Torchwood to Geeky TV Shows thread, please.
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Ugh. And I now have 666 messages in my yahoo spam folder. Combined with what I just read about TW…..this seems a very, very bad omen.
‘scuse me, I have a date with a toilet in which I need to be violently ill. (See geeky tv thread if lost, please)
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I just read Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time, and George isn’t on it until number 21. This makes me kind of disappointed. Okay, really disappointed. (Yes, I’m a Beatlemaniac, why do you ask? )
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With the best being 1 or the best being 100?
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The best was 1.
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Is Martin Barre on the list?
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No, I don’t think so.
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*is shocked* But he’s really good!
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Cake Rolling Stone. Who were the top five? Frankly, this is disappointing and also disturbing.
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Like all other forms of entertainment, I will be giving up MuseBlog in the hopes that I can lead a more efficient, productive, studious life without any distraction. Goodbye.
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Goodbye… Come back soon!
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I just read the Star Trek abridged “script” on The Editing Room. It’s so funny! (“YOU CAN DO ANYTHING WITH BLACK HOLES!”) And the guy who wrote it actually sees how stupid Kirk is! Google The Editing Room, it’s the first hit. Warning: It does contain profanity, so read at your own risk. *swoons over Spock and becomes totally incoherent*
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oxlin, i feel as though i know you! i do still think of you as e~a,i must admit.
on the topic of oldtimes, i’m really terrible with names on the internet so i have a hard time distinguishing some people from each other at times (??? does this make sense) and i honestly still get a lot of you confused with each other if i don’t spend a lot of time talking with you.
so a lot of the people i really enjoyed talking to who don’t post any more have kind of faded into a warmly colored memory. i’m not really bothered by any of this though.hummmm…
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I know how you feel, I feel like it’s hard to distinguish people when you can’t see what they look like every day, like you can with school friends…maybe I’m just too tired or dumb, but that’s me >.<
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Today I put my hair in a ponytail for the first time since it got cut. Then I spied a purple bandanna, which is now on my head. I look sort of like a stereotypical pirate, but cool at the same time.
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What’s with your avatar? But the hairstyle sounds cool.
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154.2.1- Nonononono. Google = Search Engine.
So, because my first mid-term is at 11:45 (About 20 minutes from now), I didn’t have to wake up until 7:25, and I cannot tell you how GREAT that felt. Just waking up an hour and a half later for school makes you feel so much more rested. Even an hour would probably be okay.
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7:25? That’s when I get up for school every day. I cannot imagine having to wake up at six every day.
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I have a class at 7:30 everyday. I wake up at 6 or 6:45, depending on the day. (Of course, some people with 7:30 classes do wake up at 7:25.)
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‘k, I think that when I put in my headphones to watch some Who over lunch and bloody hurts my ears (the headphones themselves, not over loud volume) that perhaps that is a sign that I have been watching too much stuff…..Yowie, yowie, ouch. *sob*
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In-ear or over-ear? I only use over-ear ones.
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Funny….I love over-ear ones, but they tend to break when I put them in my backpack. So I normally use in-ear ones, but for Christmas I got some over-ear headphones that fold up.
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If by over-ear you mean the big floofy kind that totally covers your ears–no. They’re not your classic ear buds, though, either, because they have little hooks that go over your ear, but there is a hard plastic pieces that rests more or less right in your ear.
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Question for the GAPA: How do you extend the number of replies the blog will allow? I’m having some trouble, and I remember this was an issue a bit back.
-A
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Settings -> Discussion -> Other comment settings -> Enable threaded (nested) comments N levels deep
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I just got the Febuary muse!
And I need to renew… soon….
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I just got the January Muse!
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Communications with the instructor: sending me an email is usually not a problem. However, when I receive email, I am not your “dogâ€, your “proffieâ€, or your “broâ€. Emails WILL be polite and will use proper grammar, punctuation, and be professional in tone. Emails that do not comply with these simple requirements will be ignored.
From the syllabus for organic chem lab. A class that I am slightly less freaked about after the instructor told us that last year the vast majority of students received As. *heaves sigh of relief*
The scary thing is that this would imply that somebody actually has called him “dog”, “proffie”, or “bro” in emails…..People are very, very strange.
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A deer family is walking past my window.
In other news, it’s finals week for me. Broccobleh.
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I like deer. When they’re not eating our flowers, that is. I live across the street from a forest preserve, so we usually have deer around.
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177- Just got done with finals week, now it’s second semester and all of my classes are tartar sauce.
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This week is the last week I have that I’m waking up at a relatively normal time: 6:30. Next week I have to start waking up at 5:30 three days a week. Oh the humanity!
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Oh my gosh… John says “shoot me” in Come together instead of what I always sang as “shoop do-doodle-do..” I hate irony. I’m miserable as of now.
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SFTDP– I’m okay now. I forgot to say that I might be moving to another house that is still in my town. I actually really hope that we do move because I, for some reason, have no sentimental attachment to the house in which I’ve lived since I was four. And, I want a bigger room.
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158.1~ Mine too……. Dirty, dirty mind, you.
I fall asleep with books too though, my bed is always full of books, notebooks, pencils (yes, I’ve been stabbed in the middle of the night by them), CDs, iPod, magazines, whatever. If I ever get married or live with someone, I’m going to have to drastically change my sleeping habits.
I’M GOING TO BE SAILING ON NIAGARA FOR THREE MONTHS THIS SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mkay, caps lock off…..but I’m excited. Wheee!!!!!!!!! xD
Now……to figure out the rest of my life this summer. *sigh* And fall……..if I want to go to HCC (or any college) this coming fall, I need to get into gear. Ugh. Now I pretty much just want to die. Yuck.
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Three months? Wow! That will be something. Congratulations!
Lately I’ve been falling asleep with a stack of books and a blanket of cats.
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Falling asleep with books, pens, iPods, magazines etc.? Guilty as charged.
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182.1~ I’m quite excited. Mom’s rather less than thrilled, I think. She keeps saying I’m going to be gone for “Four and a half months!!!” and then when I say no, only three, she wails something sounding similar to “close enough”.
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Your absence must take some getting used to, you know. I guess this is training for a future that must feel like it’s approaching rapidly.
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183.1~ True.
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I lost my 4.0.
I lost my 4.0.
I lost my 4.0.
I am crying right now.
It was one practice chart. I was at a 91 point whatever and I didn’t turn in one practice chart and I got a B. I got a B. I’ve never gotten a B in my life.
I am crying, and at the same time realizing how pathetic it is to cry over a single B.
But I was so close! All the classes I was worried about were fine. Only one of the ones I thought I was going to scrape through in wasn’t!
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Ugh, I know exactly how you feel. Because that’s exactly how I was feeling when I got a B last semester in organic–my first B of college. If I didn’t cry, I was certainly very, very close to it.
*hugs and choklit*
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The last things I did/am doing before I turned off the light:
-searched for an old issue of Muse for the moon landing conspiracy article, to show my friend
-picked up and read bits of this month’s issue
-read some HG2G
-and checked MuseBlog.
I am such a muser.
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Anagrams of “MuseBlog”:
Be moguls!
Blue smog
Bogus elm
Bug moles
So be glum.
Lo, be smug!
Lo bugs me.
Um, sob leg?
Bus elm, go!
Anagrams of “Kokonspiracy”:
Panicky rooks
A crook’s pinky
Cranky, I spook.
Croak, oink, spy.
Poky iron sack
Prank is kooky.
Any poor kicks
Cook, pray, sink.
(Not done by hand, but hand-picked.)
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“Get your hand-picked anagrams here!” Special today from Blue Smog’s Poky Iron Sack.
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Luna has gotten herself a DW opening theme ringtone (well, she made it, technically) which she has for her general ringtone, and then a Torchwood opening theme ringtone (again, technically made) which she has as the ringtone ID for her mother.
This is fun. And to think just last semester I was so excited when I made myself HP ones, and I’m already replacing them…..General is no longer Hedwig’s them but DW, and mom is no longer Hogwarts March (my sis now is) but TW, and sis was changed from one HP to another, because the old one I had for her (Underwate Secret’s) was too dratted soft–I never heard it ring. Sometimes felt it vibrate, but never ring.
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I really worry myself sometimes. I had my fringe cut recently. This morning Ilooked in the mirror and thought “Wow,my face reminds me of someone.” I wasn’t sure which of my friends it was, and then I figured it out. I reminded myself of Spock.
I thought I looked like Spock.
I am a girl. Spock is an unbelievably hot guy. If I was a guy I’d be pretty ugly. And once I realised my fringe looked like Spock’s, I saw 1,230,758 similarities. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME???? *brain implodes*
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