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I’m about to leave for school! Bye!
(First Post? *looks around hopefully*)
Tsk, tsk.
Anyway, I’m staying home today because I was up till past midnight because we were doing this lice treatment for my hair that will hopefully get rid of them forever!
Ahh, I feel kind of sorry for you, having lice with your hair.
Lice=Terrible.
*sympathy pies
Had them once. *shudder*
Especially bad, since I have a lot of fine hair. Hours of sitting perfectly still with nothing to do.
They fortunately all finally went away. Which could possibly have been a result of the Jell-o we put in my hair for unrelated reasons. Long story.
Love the picture! Koko looks mostly harmless for once. I just watched the Australia Day fireworks, and one of my friends was on FB after being away for weeks. And school goes back next week! Oh yes, and there was a beautiful orange sunset.
First off, love the picture.
Second, I won’t be on the blog very much in the next few weeks because of a certain not doing homework situation, but I’ll go on at school, and other places, just not at home.
Picture’s awesome…as usual. And, in response to Maths Lover, (you’re English, then?) your “mostly harmless” sentence made me remember. In RuneScape, (which I recently stopped playing, beat Assassin’s Creed and CoD4 and then started playing again) there is a tiny little island shaped and colored rather like Earth named Mos Le’ Harmless.
Actually, I believe she’s Australian.
I like the picture! Mimi looks rather terrified, however…..What exactly is Koko planning that’s got her so worried?
Maybe she’s wishing she could get off caryatid duty and do something about his hair.
Very pretty. I’m not sure whether it supplants my current background picture (Last thread’s picture), or not. I think I shall stay with my current one, and download this one for possible future use.
1.1- I hate lice. They are the most annoying, disgusting, and worthless creatures in the universe, besides mosquitoes.
My school has a new web filtering system–that actually doesn’t let cached pages through!
Fortunately, every page on wikipedia is rewritten on another website
I disagree. It’s easy to get rid of mosquitoes.
Oh, I disagree–they’re not easy to get rid of at all. Kill one, a million more come to suck your blood in its place. Vicious, bloodsucking monsters, they are.
Easier than Lice, though…
Ugh, mosquitoes. *shudder* That’s the bad thing about summer in Alaska–the mosquitoes. They’re everywhere. You can’t go outside without getting swarmed by ’em. At least, not anywhere that’s even slightly rural. or near water. Like our house which is on a lake.
As for lice….I’ve never had people lice. I have had the occasional bird lice crawling on me while I was restraining a bald eagle that was infested with them, but, fortunately, bird lice cannot survive on people for very long at all…..And normally I didn’t even ahve any on me longer than the time I was in contact with the bird, although one time we were halfway home when I found one still crawling on me…..
Might I ask why you were restraining a bald eagle?
I volunteer at a bird treatment center back home. We almost always have a good half dozen or so bald eagles in addition to other birds. Once a week or so a vet comes in to examine them to see how they’re doing–you know, if they’re improving from whatever it is that brought them there in the first place–for which somebody (usually me when I”m there) has to catch the bird and help restrain it. When I was home over break, we had two with a broken leg, as well as several others that I don’t remember what was going on with them. But they get brought in with various problems–broken wings, abscesses, etc–usually probably something wrong that is preventing them from flying, elsewise it would be very hard to catch ’em. Speaking of catching ’em, one time when I was getting one out of the mew it was in, it got its head out from under the blanket and turned around and bit me on the chin….I still have a small scar there.
I’d say by far the most interesting was the freak accident when 30 came in after having gotten covered in fish guts……But you can read about that in the Septer ’08 muserology if you haven’t already.
Thanks. It’s pretty fun–unfortunately, last summer and this previous Christmas break my (paid) work schedule got in the way and I didn’t get to go in very much at all. I think last summer I maybe got to go in one or two days, instead of every week like I’d been doing the previous couple years. (I started when I was 16)
That’s so cool! I’d love to volunteer at a place like that- there’s an organization that rehabilitates all wildlife near me, but you can’t volunteer until you’re sixteen. Cake.
And come to think of it, I do remember that article. I think that’s what started me nagging my mom to remember to remind me to sign up for volunteering when I turn sixteen….
But you can’t forget flies!
I just realized… We must have broken a record on the past thread… 772 comments. It’s the Garlic War that did it.
YESSSSSSS!!!!!! *is happy, joyful, gleeful, et cetera*
Yes, Part 2 filled up with unexpected speed, not only due to the Garlic War, though that certainly contributed. I believe the previous record was 722, set in February 2006. After that, we limited the size. This one sneaked up on us.
If you’re talking about all threads, not just the Random Threads, Atheism would beat it. I think it’s got 822 comments.
I have a class scheduling dilemma. For my freshman year, these are my classes-
World History
Bio H.
Eng. H
Calculus AB/BC
French
PE/Health
And I have one more class. I can take
a. German I
b. Probability
c. Statistics
d. Physics AP
e. Mass Media
All all year-long, except German. I’m not sure about Mass Media, as it doesn’t sound interesting, and I’m don’t really want to take Physics, because I would be taking two AP classes.
Probability really, really superbly cool. I would advise it. You might also want to take German to get a foreign language class.
So… I love the new pic, especially Koko’s hair. I was going to say something witty and cheerful and whatever, but my parents are divorcing. I feel like cake, so I think I’m going to drag my little-ray-of-sunshine self over to watch Buffy.
*hugs and choklit* We’re all here for you.
I’m sorry, bookgirl_me. Everything I can think of to say right at the moment sounds trite and hopelessly inadequate to the situation, so for now please accept this crate of sympathy pies and kindly thoughts. *sends* You’re always welcome here, rays of sunshine not required.
My parents are near the end of a divorce right now. It’s not that bad, if it’s any comfort. Maybe I’m whacko, but I just think that it’s not like anyone’s dying, or anything, so it’s not terrible…
I’m sure it’s going to sink in for me eventually. I’m never able to think about this stuff realistically, so it may be that my brain is just not fully able to comprehend. But really, it’s not that bad. *hugs*
Ohh….I hope it’s not like they hate each other. I hope you still get to talk to them both.
Pie?
I’m so sorry, bookgirl. *hugs and choklit* You know we’re all here if you want to talk.
That sounds tough. *hugs and choklit*
Let us know if there’s anything we can do!
*hugs*
I’m so sorry! *hugs and choklit* Just remember that MB will always be here for you!
Oh, Bookgirl, I know you don’t want to hear this right now, but I’m sorry. I hate it when parents do that.
*hugs and choklit*
*Hugs and lots of chocklit* I’m so sorry, bookgirl. We’re all here for you, and I can’t think of much of anything even remotely adequate to say, but please know that, despite our tendencies to throw pies at one another, we really are here for you, sappy and sentimental as that may sound.
Yep.
Hello.
I just scrolled through this thread and I don’t believe that I recognize anyone. It has been a very, very long time since I’ve come by and said hello to this crazy little portion of the internet that introduced me to some of my best friends (not to mention The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
I included my full name because I’m eighteen now and am therefore terrify and dangerous and will eat your brains if you give me the chance. Ye have been forewarned. I actually don’t really care if you know my full name or not, but I always understood the rules to be that if you were a legal adult you should include your full name so that the GAPAs would be aware of this fact.
I am at college right now. I’m an English and Philosophy double major, and though it’s my first year at this university I’m almost a junior by hours (I will be after this one month long January term is over). I’m on the debate team and in a few organizations, but mainly I’m just doing academic stuff this year.
In case you don’t know who I am, I was here near the beginning of the MB (why do I always say “the MB” even though I would never say “the MuseBlog”?), and then I wasn’t here, and then I dropped in for periodic visits, and then I didn’t, and now I am again.
Is there anyone on here who remembers me? It’s hard to tell with so many people switching names and stuff. I’m beginning to feel extremely old and I realized just the other day that I was FOURTEEN when I first discovered MuseBlog, and I still count several people that I originally met on here among my friends (I’m not encouraging breaking the rules by contacting each other off Blog, by the way), so really MuseBlog and the people I met here were the most consistent thing about my time in high school. I hope MuseBlog makes the people who are on here now as happy as it made me when I was a nerdy, isolated, socially awkward, newly moved, pretentious bibliophile. Anyway, if you remember me do say hello. Please?
Oh, and hello GAPAs! I don’t think I ever fully appreciated how awesome you guys really were to set up this place for us.
Hello, MontgomeryGurl! Good to see you. What are you doing for Jan term? My school had them, too, and Januarys provided some of my best experiences in college.
*reads post* Ooh, you’re taking Philosophy? I adore Philosophy.
I’m rather new here (I was nine months old on the 4th) so, please don’t eat my brains.
Hi MontgomeryGurl, it’s nice to “see” you again….I remember you from back near the beginning of my time on MB, when I was posting under “Michelle W.”
As for full names, if you are an established blogger and get permission from the GAPAs, you can continue posting under a pseudonym. I myself am nearly 20, but have chosen not to use my real name….Of course, any blogger interested in discovering my real name would have absolutely no difficulty, seeing as I wrote a Muserology a while back. I guess I just became attached to my pseudonym and switching over to my real name would be too much like a name change. I do hate name changes–they confuse me.
MontgomeryGurl! I’ve read your posts, but you don’t know me. I eat brains too, they make a delicious milkshake.
Hello! I remember you well. Nice to see you back (:
i still remember you~ nice to hear from you again!
Hi there! Always good to see you around!
You don’t really “know” me, but I’ve read your posts (yes, I have stalker-ish tendencies) so I’ve seen your name around before. Nice to see you pop in!
I remember you quite well. I was Prarilius Canix last time I saw you, or maybe even captain cynomys, but since I read your farewell letter about a week after coming on, you probably don’t remember me.
Hello!
Hello! I’ve seen one or two of your posts, but you won’t know me because I’ve only been here a year or so. *wanders off to catch up on MA RPG posts*
Hello! I’m less than a year old here, so you most likely don’t know me, but I’ve heard about you. *smile*
Please, don’t eat my brains. I have too many activities. I need them!
Everyone knows MontgomeryGurl! You’re famous, or at least you were back in my newbie days. Which, granted, were nearly three years ago, when I suppose the impact of your letter was still fairly recent (though goodness knows they seemed distant enough to me). I never actually knew you on the Blog, but I do recall having a random email conversation, about what I can’t remember.
Hello. I remember you too! Your letter was in the same issue of Muse as the IAT tests that made me first come here. I remember your farewell post when you said that people didn’t respect your beliefs enough so you were leaving, and your subsequent posts…Your farewell post actually inspired me to write one of my own three years after I stopped posting regularly. That was last month. Saying goodbye is *definitely*
more difficult than I anticipatedimpossible , as I have started posting once again.I expect to see you around some time then!
(Is it very common for old MBers to drop by and write long, nostalgic posts?)
Hello.
Hello to you, too, Vendaval.
I came on about 8 months ago, but I read the old threads a lot, so I know who you are. I’m glad you’re back!
Hi, MontgomeryGirl! I’m LittleBasementKitten, RPG girl of the MuseBlog! I think I belong to over 5 RPGs, so I’ve earned that title. Please dont eat my brains either! Anyways, welcome back! *pies* GAPAs, nice remixed picture! I sense a new iTouch background….
book_girl-Oh, man. I feel your pain. I have a couple of friends whose parents got divorced/parent died and remaining parent remarried, and trust me, Cinderella’s stepmother has set a really bad reputation for step-parents. Anyways, you can take comfort in knowing MB will never divorce anyone. *super hugs and super-duper-extra-strength dark chocolate**another super hug*
Five? Pshaw. Try thirteen RPGs/semi RPG/RPWs.
And one RRR.
Wow, even I didn’t know it was that many. Most of them are chiefly dead, though, and at least one we decided wouldn’t ever be revived properly and so we wrapped it up.
I said at least five. Possibly more. I lost count.
Oh, okay.
It’s easy for me to keep track; I have all my RPGs on bookmarks. I just go look at my bookmarks and count up the RPGs.
Dang. I should do that.
Sheesh. Now four RPGs and one RPW seems very small.
Ha, and I thought I was on a roll with three RPGs.
What a beautiful fresh new thread! I like Kokos curls. Quite stylish. And I REALLY hope that he didn’t steal those robes from Urania…
Today started midterms week. Bio was in the morning (8:00), and of course, I was late. Like usual. My cousin dropped me off at school today, and I told him to drop me off at the gym doors, because the midterm was taking place in the gym. I ran to the doors as my cousin drove away, and realized they were locked. I knocked on the door, because there were some teachers inside. They look at me, THEN CONTINUED THEIR CONVERSATION!
How rude.
I ran to the front entrance, and the security guard stopped me. “I need to check your bag”, he said. I grumbled, but opened up my purse. I was going to say, “Oh, I’m sorry. I left my bomb at home”, to him, because I don’t particularly like this security guard, but thought better of it, and off I ran to the gym. I got in the gym, panting, and my science teacher told me to calm down. (She’s such a great person.) Luckily, she didn’t mind my lateness.
The test was easy, but a few questions were tougher, like usual. Me and my friends went out to have lunch at the local pizzeria, and relaxed, knowing that we had two hours.
We were all done eating, when a friend asked us if we wanted to go bowling. BOWLING. What a crazy idea. But we did have an hour and a half… So, off runs our merry troupe to go bowling. (The bowling alley is right near the pizzeria, by the way.)
We got to the bowling alley, and the cashier asked, “Shouldn’t you guys be in school?”. We explained to him that we had midterms, and with that, we started bowling. We managed to finish one VERY quick game, and sprinted back at 11:35, because we thought we were going to be late. It turns out, we didn’t have to sprint, because we got to the school in five minutes. Darn. So then we sat outside for another fifteen minutes, until we could go take our language midterms. Everything on that was easy too, except for the reading.
Tomorrow I have off, but I have a surgery on my tooth. Fun.
Regarding Koko stealing Urania’s robes: One word; Eew.
Yay! I got a MB account!
Your name. It’s green.
Yeah, sorry. I put my haiku-blog address in the website box. I took it out now, though.
Um… GAPAs? There’s a link there…
Fixed now, thanks.
“Eew”? I think he looks rather fashionable… Hehehehehe
Yes, but what is Urania to wear if Koko has her clothes? *waits for moment of realization*
OH.
She probably has more than one set…..I mean, do you only have one pair of clothes?
Besides, it’s only the himation, — the outer garment — and its color doesn’t match Urania’s standard garb.
What if I do?
Just kidding. I assure you, I have more than one outfit.
Speaking practically, it would be easier to steal a garment that wasn’t being worn at the time.
True, true.
Rebecca – I’m taking six hours this term. Old Testament (I’m going to a private Baptist college, so it’s required for everyone) and World Literature (every major has to take World Literature I and II, and after I finish this one I will be able to move on to taking upper level English classes). It’s been an extremely enjoyable month. Basically I get to sit around and be lazy all the time because my classes don’t have very much work, but I’m also taking two classes and getting 6 hours out of the way so no one can judge me and tell me I should be busier. None of my roommates are staying in the dorm over J-term so I have the place to myself. One of my best friends from last semester is also taking J-term and has limited amounts of official “work” to do so we’ve spent a lot of time hanging out. The only problem is that I have an 8:00 class that meets every day, so I’m looking forward to the spring semester when my earliest class will be 10:50 on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Enceladus – I’m not going to be able to take any Philosophy classes in the spring, but I took Intro to Philosophy last semester and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. It, along with debate, have forever warped my way of thinking, not to mention vocabulary.
Luna the Lovely – First, I must say that I only just read all of the Harry Potter books over Christmas break and Luna Lovegood was by far my favorite character. I’m not particularly concerned about people knowing my f’real name. Actually, I consider it a right of passage that I can now proclaim my real name. I AM AMANDA BENNETT. HEAR ME ROAR.
Ugh. I think my roommate is trying to freeze me out of the room. I get for whatever reason she likes to open the window and leave it open most of the day, but it’s only 28 degrees outside. And that quickly saps the warmth out of the room. She only opened it about 15 minutes ago and I”m already feeling a cold breeze. *sigh* And after I turned the heat up this morning. Well, as much as can be managed–we really can’t do much at all with the heating in the rooms, but it was only 68 when I got up, and the fan from the heating unit blows right onto my bed…..And the air is usually kinda chilly that’s coming out of it. So I managed to get the temp up to 73. And now she’s leeching all the warmth out of my room–‘though I can smell the heating unit kicking in to try and warm up the room. Heated air has a very distinctive smell.
Brr.
Luna: Try telling your roommate that you wrestle bald eagles for fun and want the temperature above 70 degrees. Maybe that will get results.
You’re not giving me the best impression of having a roommate…
Me either…Thank you, GAPAs, for approving my account, by the way.
Oh, no–roommates aren’t necessarily bad. Not at all. Roommate freshman year was great. I mean, we weren’t best of friends or anything, but she always tried to be quiet when she got up before me–which was every day of the week, seeing as she was an early riser even when she didn’t have class. She very rarely woke me up. She also was more than willing to drive me to Walmart when I need to restock on stuff in my room. We got along well.
Roomie fall semester sophomore year (that is, last semester) was….Well, she wasn’t necessarily bad, she just was a bit noisy in the mornings, starting with multiple alarm clocks. But to be fair, I don’t think she was trying to be loud and quite possibly didn’t realize how loud she actually was. She quickly improved as she started spendiing increasingly more nights a week at her dad’s house. And she spent all weekends there. Of course, she decided to move out at Christmas.
Which brings us to this semester’s roomie…..Who isn’t necessarily bad. I don’t mind her having the window open, in general, it just seems a bit cold to do so right now. If I were to actually comment that I was getting chilly and could we please shut it, she would probably agree….
Of course this semester’s roommate and I have significantly different ideas of what qualifies as fun, but as long as her fun is not brought to my dorm, she can have all of her fun she wants. that is, she can go to parties with alcohol and get drunk as long as she doesn’t come back and be obnoxious and as long as she doesn’t bring any alcohol here. I could, of course, do with out her vid chatting 3 or 4 friends the following day to tell them about the party–as this means I have the dubious pleasure of hearing about her getting thrown up on at some party busted by the police, at least 3 times. And her friend’s ideas of fun (as gleaned from one of her vid chats) doesn’t mesh with mine, either–that is, getting high on ambien. or taking alderall.
Yeah, but as far as any of that goes, I’ve only had to hear her telling friends either about her (or other friends) adventures, haven’t actually had them brought to my room. Until that happens, whatever, doesn’t concern me. We will, of course, have problems should that come to my dorm because I will not put up with that.
But, really, her ideas of fun aside, she’s alright. Roommates really aren’t necessarily bad. I mean, they’re not necessarily good, either, but not necessarily bad. Next year, though, I’m aiming for a nice, single suite–where the only thing i’ll share is a toilet and a shower with one other person, but ahve my own actual room.
Don’t worry. I know some people who are bestest buddies with their roommates, and I don’t know many people who have serious roommate troubles. My roommate and I aren’t friends (we rarely speak to each other), but I rarely have any problems with sharing a room with her. Obviously, when you start college/other residential school or program, if you’ve never shared a room before, it’s something you have to adjust to, but it’s really not that bad.
Heated air smells like home… It smells like a cold fall night…
Better take this to the poetry thread…
Hi, people!! I’m here now!! I can finally say random stuff! Okay, raving done… and Luna the Lovely, I know what heated air smells like. Doesn’t everyone? Well, maybe not everyone, but I come from Ohio and I know a lot about heating units. Believe me. And nice picture… I wonder if you could do one with Aeiou…
Mango, we try to rotate through all the Muses fairly regularly, though to some extent that depends on who best suits the image. Aeiou’s most recent starring role was in the International Month of Tales, Sagas, Myths, and Legends. Earlier, she was featured in The International Month of Futures Past. She returned for a supporting part in the final Random thread of 2009.
Absolutely love the picture!
Hello, MontgomeryGurl. I don’t remember posting around you much, but I do very well remember your name. Welcome back.
Hello, everyone! I like the picture!
Anchors Away No. 1 is still my background, though…. y’know, with the ship.
My mom told me about this really could neurological experiment on how the brain handles decisions. Okay, so a group of people were put in a room and given a card. The card had a number on it and the people (I’m going to say Potato from now on) were told to memorize it. Potato was told to take as long as en needed, and when en was done, to hand it to Sack standing in the doorway. Then, Potato had to go down the hallway to another room and tell another person the number en memorized. But, what they didn’t tell Potato and the group is that everyone had a different amount of digits to memorize. So, some people had numbers like 24 or 16, and some people had numbers like 2845610 and 5092323 to memorize. After memorizing, when Potato walked down the hallway to the other room, another person who was part of the experiment popped out and said, “We have a snack for you, just as a way of saying thanks for participating. We have a large piece of chocolate cake, or we have fruit salad,” This is the twist–the people with easier numbers to memorize (24, 16, 57, etc.) overwhelmingly picked the fruit salad instead of the chocolate cake! Here’s why–your brain has two parts, “rational” and “emotional.” When faced with the decision of the snack, your “emotional” says “Get the cake! Get the cake! It’s delicious!” and the “rational” says “No, get the fruit salad! Think of the calories! Think of your waistline!” In the people with larger numbers, their “rational” part is so busy with memorizing the number that it couldn’t win against the “emotion” part. It wasn’t, like, every single person who had a small number chose fruit salad and vice versa, but it was enough so that the people who did this study wondered if it was the parts of the brain. Cool, huh?
10~ I’m sorry to hear that Bookgirl. That’s really tough, but we’ll always be here for you. *hugs and choklit*
12~ MontgomeryGurl!! I remember reading some of your posts, I might have been Princess Aqua at that point still, or made the change sometime when you were still posting? I don’t remember very well. But yes, I certainly know who you are, and it’s good to see you back!!
Luna~ I like Robert’s suggestion. In fact, the whole wrestling eagles for fun bit could be used for all sorts of things, not just keeping the windows closed.
I’m in a strange mood at the moment. I honestly don’t know how to describe it.
I started to write down some of the things whizzing through my mind, but realized that they’d probably arouse concern and the possibility of snippage. Well, maybe not snippage. I don’t think the GAPAs censor that much, really.
Meh.
I’m just in a weird mood.
It’s kind of things from several different lives crashing down around my ears at once and I have no idea how they all correspond to each other.
Gah.
Nothing serious this time, I mean, not really. It’s not so much in response to a crisis, it’s more like me thinking about stuff and going WHAT THE ****???
That last sentence there, I feel that way all the time! *empathy pies* Writing things down does help though,I’ve found. Well whatever it is,I hope you feel better!
Koko playing panpipes… why am I not surprised…
I-Man, you are needed for the reviving of the Sci Fi RPG immediately. Thank you for your cooperation.
(23) No, not surprising at all.
By the way, I found some sample recordings of the aulos, as the double flute is officially called. This tune was actually played in Delphi in 128 BCE:
www. oeaw.ac.at/kal/sh/demodokos.mp3www. oeaw.ac.at/kal/agm/Very different from what we expect of flutes. According to the web site, high notes could also be played but were apparently for special effects, such as representing combat between Apollo and the Pythian dragon.
I only hear a stringed instrument.
Same here.
New avatar! *glee* Although it may not show up yet.
Great. I’ve managed to offend Mom by making an admittedly stupid comment about it being too bad she doesn’t understand geometry now, since before I started it she had been going on about how good she was at it in high school.
Needless to say, I’m floundering, and getting rather discouraged.
I want so desperately to just get homeschooling over with and move on, but it seems like I just keep getting stuck and I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO. I’ve basically been teaching myself everything, and I can’t do it. I wish I could have been braver when I was younger and asked to go to public school. I probably would have hated it, but at least I could have caught up. I’m 17 now, I’ll be 18 in the spring. I don’t have that time anymore. I need to figure this stuff out and get it done, as soon as I possibly can.
I hate this. I have no idea if or how I might be able to even get ready for HCC by the fall. And I really want to sail, but I’m starting to think of other things, and what else I could do with that time, and I’m starting to panic a bit.
Gah. I feel somewhat messed up right now. Today my friend told me me that she is bisexual. Fortunately, my friends and I have no problem with this (and frankly, I wasn’t all that shocked) but she was very depressed and angry because her mother freaked out and grounded her for a month when my friend told her. This is very upsetting to both my friend and me.
Love the picture, Lady B!
Hi, MontgomeryGurl! I recall wishing you a happy birthday a while back on the birthday thread.
I’m so sorry, bookgirl. Just remember that we will be here for you.
I just realized that, among other words, my iPod auto-corrects “SudoRandom” “Enceladus” “poophead” “Omgeorge” “bookgirl” and “Kokopelli”. Strange…
Omgeorge? I’m going to have to start saying that.
I only say “Oh my George ” when I’m in complete sugar highs.
The picture is great! Kokopelli should keep his hair curled like that; it looks ever so chic.
Argh! I have studied everything I can about political idealisms and everything else for midterms but can’t shake the feeling that I haven’t done enough. S now I’m sitting here worrying and listening to Owl City.
♫ ♪ “’cause I get a thousand hugs… from ten thousand lightning bugs…'”
Just relax. That’s a great song.
“…as they try to teach me how to dance!” I love that song! It’s on my iTouch.
“A foxtrot above my head… A sock hop beneath my bed… A disco ball just hanging by a thread…”
I went to the counselor to get my class assignment. Now my schedule is like I put on Post 9, but I’m signed up for Algebra II Honors. I don’t know whether to skip it to Calculus (AB/BC) or take it. My brother says skip it because I already know it. My dad says take it to get good grades. My counselor said, “What’s the rush through math?” which is his way of telling me to take it. The rush is that I want to take Physics AP in 10th, which I need Calculus for. I also want to take ____ University math above Calculus such as Linear Algebra, etc.
Well, there are two opposing ideas here: the fact that you should not rush to calculus and the fact that you should never be stuck in a math class that you’re bored in. It would help me a little to know your math background. If you really know everything in Algebra II, then skip it. If you don’t, do not under any circumstances take calculus.
If you know most but not all of the Algebra II curriculum, you might want to look for another option. Does your school have a pre-calculus that’s between algebra II and calculus? Although this might require a little negotiating with your school, you could also look into online math classes to fill in the gaps. (That’s what I did for math 7th through 9th grade.) In 9th grade, I was taking honors pre-calculus at my local high school until I realized that I knew everything covered in that class except for trig. After a few discussions with the school, I wound up taking a trig class in the fall that covered more trig than my school’s pre-calc class anyways, and I got to take combinatorics in the spring.
Well, Algebra II Honors has Algebra II, Trig, and Precalc. I know all of the trigonometry in it (I mean real trig, not fake trig). I learned almost all of the algebra from my brothers. I know part of the precalc, but I don’t want to just take precalculus, because that would be one whole year of something that can be learned in a quarter. I want to take calculus soon because then I can take Physics in 10th grade and know all the calculus.
You should actually learn the algebra/precalc first, but it does appear that you would be bored in Algebra II. If you have to choose between the two classes, take Algebra II. Again, you might want to look at online courses or independent studies that would teach you the algebra and precalc. You could even try doing one of these courses over the summer and then taking calculus next year. Also, are you allowed to take physics and calc simultaneously?
Well, there’s Physics, which we can take any time, but I will just skip that and go to Physics AP. I can take that at the same time, but according to my brother, the calculus in Physics is sometimes harder than the calculus at that point in Calculus.
I did find an online study guide, but not only does it have ads, it’s not very thorough.
Well, calculus isn’t terribly hard. You might be able to manage calc and AP physics at the same time.
Well, for online classes, you generally have to register and often have to pay. If you’re really looking into those, you should look for virtual high schools. (There’s one website that I took classes on, but I don’t think the GAPAs would like me posting the name, since it also has a forum and stuff.) If you’re relatively self-disciplined, you could also try working through the math book by yourself (maybe over the summer). (Again, there’s a book I’d like to recommend here, but it’s published by the founders of the website and even has the same name.)
I don’t want to take an online class. I want to learn the material my own way, test out of it, and I will still get the credits.
Thanks, everyone *eats chocolate & pies* I’m getting used to it, I guess. I’ve sort of known for a while now, subconsciously, but I didn’t want to accept it. It’s really great to have you guys *hugs back* I feel so stupid about all those little rants about perfectly everyday things, now that a bigger change is coming. At least my worst fear- mom moving to America (I have to stay here to finish school)- hasn’t come true, at least not for the immediate future.
10.1- 10.9- Thank you. Thank you all so much. At least I know that you guys are here for me
Sudo’s right. There are upsides, and… I just know that it has to be- I’m not stupid, I knew that they were unhappy, I could hear them arguing. It’s just the little emotional voice inside that almost only shows here that’s despairing.
12- Hello MontgomeryGurl! I’m “new”, but I’ve heard of you (of course) and welcome back! My brains? What brains? Oh right, let me check where I put them… I will find them one of these days and/or avenge them.
13- *is very grateful for the chocolate and devours* I don’t think I have to worry about step-parents yet or anything, but still… It keeps getting to me. A year ago, it was like “you have the perfect family” and I believed it myself. Now… kaboom. I had an RPG phase when I was on all of them and a few RPWs & RRRs, but then I left for the summer and never really came back to most.
14- My guess is that he’s trying to go native so that he can get close to her, then… SPLAT
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16.1-
I wish I could see her face…
17- Hi mango!
I’ve been quite scatterbrained lately, but I sure remember your cheerful randomness. (Wow, I sound like I have alzheimers or something. Freaky)
21- Strange how that works… though I probably would have screamed: “Gimme chocolate!” or “Our chocolate, yes precious, we wantses chocolateses.” every time
22- *hugs back*
25- Somehow I only hear a stringed instrument (and someone singing, later on) in that clip but there are some different aulos clip elsewhere on the site. They do sound strange- much deeper than our flute.
26- *clears cache expectantly* I can’t see it yet, but I’m sure it’ll be great.
27- Maybe you could talk to someone who can explain it? I guess that’s the downside to homeschooling- sometimes you really don’t understand it. But I’m sure sailing will work out.
28- Oh, that sucks. But I’m sure that her mom will come to terms with it eventually. She’s probably just a bit scared. Thanks for the support!
29- I love the hair too- it makes me think of all the things Koko could do to it. On the other hand, it means that he’s been wearing it spiked until now O.o
30- Yes you can! Exams are scary; but you’re an MBer- you wouldn’t have survived here if you weren’t a genius
31- Hmm. I’d say go with your gut feeling, but I’m afraid I don’t know anything about the finer details of various math classes.
Re: 25 — Oops! wrong link. The correct one is www. oeaw.ac.at/kal/agm/
Ah, that would explain a lot….I kept waiting to hear something other than string.
Attention, space fans: yesterday NASA announced that the Spirit rover on Mars is permanently stuck in the sand. It will continue to send back data as a “stationary platform” (blogs.sciencemag . org/scienceinsider/2010/01/spirit-rover-to. html).
‘k, so I’m watching last night’s episode of NCIS. And I just lost any respect I might’ve ever had for the character of Tony Dinozzo.
Tony: *to person they suspect, while trying to cover Ziva’s snooping* “I just finished the Twilight Saga. I’ve been suggesting it to her [Ziva], it’s very romantic. I just finished book four if you wanna borrow it.” *points to self with moronic grin* “Team Edward.”
Let’s just say it elicited audible sounds of disgust from me. I mean, twilight? Yeah, okay, obviously supposed to just be adding some humour to the moment, but twilight? *shudders in revulsion*
When people talk about being on “Team Edward” and “Team Jakob” and “Team Cedric”, I always wonder why no-one mentions team Buffy… *is most definitely on team Buffy.
Generally, Team Buffy is split into Team Spike and Team Angel. You can guess which one I’m on.
Obviously it must be “Team Angel”. I mean, you’ve certainly never said anything to give the impression that you liked Spike at all.
Yeah… I don’t exactly leave my affiliations ambiguous. I’m Team Spike.
Team CEDRIC?? What????
I’m on Team Martha. *is shameless Doctor Who addict*
I’m going to watch The End Of Time tomorrow. All I can say is:
I really hope March comes before the beginning of February.
I’m on Team Rose! Or at least I was until she started coming back into EVERY. SINGLE. FINALE. And now I’m Team Unromantic Companions.
I’m Team Jack. Or Team Ianto. Or some combination thereof (like Team Janto, but that just takes us into slasher realms).
And the Unromantic Companions would be….
Luna- you could be Team “Guys in Torchwood 3 except Owen”.
Well, Donna wasn’t romantically involved with the Doctor.
Not to mention, in Classic Who there were Companions not involved with the Doctor. Heck, Captain Jack could even be argued to have been a Companion–he was, really–and he wasn’t romantically involved. I mean, no, he wouldn’t have turned down the chance for an intimate encounter with either the Doctor or Rose, or even both of them at once, but he wasn’t romantically involved.
And in Classic Who, just looking at the first Doctor, we’ve got Barbara and Susan and Ian and Vikki (I think her name is Vikki, I forget). None of whom are romantically involved with the Doctor. Actually, the very idea of the First Doctor being involved with anyone is vaguely disturbing. Sure, Barbara and Ian were involved with each other, but not the Doctor.
And I’m rambling.
I think I’ll go with Team Ianto. It has a nice ring to it. Besides, I just like saying “Ianto” in my mind.
Ah. Right. I forgot that.
Heh, sorry, I think I’ve got you beat as an over-the-top Whovian……
I like Rose better than Martha, though. Probably because she came “first”.
Wait, March? Is that when Series 5 is starting? But I thought it wasn’t starting until spring? Oh….wait…..March is spring for most of the world, isn’t it. sorry, I have difficulty thinking of March as spring, when back home it is usually still below freezing (although warmer than it has been), with a fair bit of accumulated snow still on the ground. And sometimes snow still falling.
Oh, speaking of seasons of TV and the like, that reminds me of a “You know you’re” that I found happening to me over Christmas Break.
You know you’re way too into a TV program, when you find, in conversation with your parents, you completely unintentionally used “season 1” and “season 2” to describe your freshman and sophomore years of college….. “Back in Season 1” “So far in Season 2”. I totally *headdesked*. Or more *headtabled* as it was at the dinner table…. It was seriously like, “Oh, god, I just did that, didn’t I?”
I know you’re more addicted. But, I can still be a shameless Doctor Who addict.
Being a shameless Doctor Who addict has a positive impact on my health and safety. One person I know would rip me to shreds had I not said I liked Doctor Who.
Se! Doctor Who is beneficial to you health and (in)sanity!
Hmm. I just signed up for Gravatar, I wonder if it works yet? (Jack Bauer!)
We were just talking about Jack Bauer today in class! Because the clock was making a weird sound and Ms. S. was saying Jack Bauer was going to come save us from the bomb.
I changed my email! *glee* It is now [snip]! If that’s acceptable, GAPAs? [‘Tisn’t.]
Yup. I see a dude with…something in his hand, I can’t tell what.
I guess it’s supposed to be a Heckler and Koch USP Compact 9mm handgun. Boop…beep…boop…beep…BOOP.
I thought it was a gun, but….I’m have no idea what you just said.
So we had course selection meetings today. Every class looks good. And I get overexcited about English electives. Creative writing, Victorian literature, film studies, modern theater… But I can only take one.
They all sound great!
I’d take Victorian Literature. Just because I’ve never read anything from that period.
33- I know. It’s good that he’s* still awake and doing science, but it feels terrible to see a rover that can’t rove. Poor Spirit. I really thought he was going to get out. He’s been a fighter since the day he landed.
(I seriously LOVE those little robots. I really empathize with their struggles, especially because I run into so many people who assume being smart makes everything easy. It doesn’t. “A”s and great discoveries don’t come effortlessly.)
*Yes, I see Spirit as male, even though everyone says machines and ships are female.
34- Ziva is too good to read Twilight. Dinozzo needs another slap in the back of the head from Gibbs.
Okay, yes. January 27th. The anniversary of Apollo 1 and the begining of Disaster Week. On this day in 1967, three astronauts died in a fire during training for a mission that would have occured later in the year. However, it would take more than a year for all the problems in the capsule that had led to the fire to be fixed and the next flight, Apollo 7, to take off.
After this, the launchpad where the fire had occured was decomissioned and made a memorial. On the plaque, the following words appear:
Ad astra per aspera
(A rough road leads to the stars)
(It would be more accurately translated as “To the stars through difficulties”.)
We just learned that phrase in Latin last year.
I thought it meant “put aspirin on your asters.” You mean I’m not supposed to do that?
Does anyone know of some good sources of information on Lord Byron and/or the Shellys? I’m going to look around at the library but I thought I should ask here too,you guys are just as knowledgeable
Also: are the people who voiced interest in MuNoWriMo still up for it? I’d think I might try for it even if no one else is, but it would be nice to have some moral support :p it will probs be more laid back than real nano if that’s any consolation.
I definitely will. Probably not the whole fifty thousand, but maybe if I’m feeling really industrious. I’d been meaning to ask about it, but never got around to it.
So GAPAs, will we have to flood the Random Thread, or do we get a MuNoWriMo thread?
Is MuNoWriMo whenever we feel like it, or is it a fixed month? I was thinking of working on my NaNo, which has been turned into a movie script, over the summer.
We were planning to do it in February…so in about three days.
yay! i think Jadestone is still up for it and as long as there’s a few of us I think it’ll work out!
As long as the GAPAs are not bothered by our insanity…although i think at this point if they were we would know 
A MuNo thread would be really cool if we do have enough people to populate it! Otherwise I’m fine with spazzing on the random thread.
Uhhh… sorry, Acadec will probably interfere. Can’t do it.
I’ll be happy to create a MuNo thread. Is the consensus that you want it to run from February 1 through March 2?
It looks like it.
I think I’m going for thirty thousand, myself…
I feel strange to ask, but what is MuNo?
Museblog Novel Writing Month
In November me and Jadestone were both unable to do NaNo because of college applications,so I thought that we could have a museblog version later at a later date. It’s basically the same, but it’s just on Museblog 
also if you want to write a bit less i’m okay with that but I think our general goal is still 50k
That sounds great! I’d love another go at it.
I am still up for it!
But oh go I hadn’t remembered, need to plan plan plan!
Also it should probably go to March 2nd–to make up for only 28 days in feb. I completely forgot about that when we were planning, hahaha.
HAHAHA yeah i remembered a couple days ago…Do you think February is still good? If you want we could make it Feb 15-March 15 or something like that,although that’s not exactly a single month
If not we should definitely extend it to March 2. Yeah I need to plan too! I think I’m going to use my original nano story but scrap but I’d written for it since i only got like 300 words
wheeeee I’m so excited! XD
I’ll join, sort of. I’ll work on that novel that I’m always writing that I “worked more on” for nano this year. I might end up worldbuilding or figuring out characters or such instead of writing plot but I’ll work on it! yay!
I’ve been meaning to post about it, asking the GAPAs if we can have a thread for days, but only remembering at inconvenient times.
I think I’m going to wing it. Either that, or write the sequel to my NaNo, which would be nearly the same thing, but I’m taking a break from that story since I’m not really brave enough to go back and face my terrible spur-of-the-moment writing…
Anyway…
AH! Inspiration! I’m going to combine three sets of ideas, all of which are linked to MuseBlog in some way or another. The Woven beyond, something inspired by that, and Cat’s Eye’s idea (First post on current BiP thread) You don’t mind, do you Cat’s Eye? I don’t have to use it if you do…
Ahhh, no can do. I’m trying to be less of a slacker this semester and I’ve got tons of concerts and a play in February. There’s going to be little enough time for homework as it is.
I’m going to do it. And what Errata said, perhaps not the whole 50,000
I’ll try and continue my old NaNo…
33 – Oh, no! Now both Spirit and Opportunity are handicapped or broken. At least they continued functioning well for as long as they did (Weren’t they predicted to stop working in 2001?)
39- No, Opportunity’s still working fine. Oppy’s always been the lucky one and Spirit’s been the tenacious one. They were both supposed to stop working in Spring 2004.
You know, Kai, you may be the only person who has ever gotten me to think about space robots as having personalities.
My dad and I have both thought of them as having personalities. I felt sorry for Spirit when I heard en was stuck the first time.
Beedle feels horrible because she just had surgery on her tooth…
It hurts in my toof…. (thank you for that line, vlogbrothers)
Beedle was happy, because her mother agreed to let her go under anesthesia for said surgery, rather than just having the doctor pump her up with novocaine. But they did that anyway. Just after Beedle got the anesthesia.
Anesthesia’s nice. I really don’t remember anything, but when I woke up, I was really blissed out. Then I just wanted to go back to sleep. Then they made me get up and walk into the recovery room, where they had a cozy blanket, and I almost fell asleep. Then, I was waiting in there forever, and couldn’t talk, so I had to text everything I wanted to say to communicate. And that was when it started to hurt. I don’t know how it hurt, and neither did the doctor, because I was pumped up on novocaine, but I suspect it was a little bit of anxiety, mixed with a little bit of hypochondria.
Nonetheless, they gave me two advil, a steroid, and a prescription for vicodin.
I got home, took the vicodin, and laid down. Let me tell you, that stuff is STRONG. Maybe it was just the placebo effect, but my mouth was fine within minutes. And then I felt like House, our favorite vicodin popping physician. I took a… four hour nap, and now I’m really worried, because I have a math final tomorrow which I didn’t study for yet, and I didn’t look in the mirror yet, but I’m sure I look horrible. And I really don’t want to go into school with a puffy face, and not knowing anything because I didn’t study.
Ouch.
In other depressing space news, Obama’s Budget might stop funding the Constellation program. NASA will work more on earth problems.
*sigh*
Get your priorities straight, Obama&Staff!
28- It sounds like your friend’s mom is worried but doesn’t know what to do. Maybe your friend should try talking to her and finding out what she is actually worried about. Grounding doesn’t seem connected to someone being bi. Maybe your friend could try explaining that to her mother logically, if she’s calmed down enough. Good luck!
27-Hi Fern! It’s great to “see” you! I’m sorry to hear you’re feeling discouraged about homeschooling. While it’s possible for a person to miss out on college as a result of homeschooling, it’s certainly also possible in any other form of pre-college education. You are far too awesome for that to be the case, though. I’ve sent you an e-mail! Perhaps a Kokonvention is in order?
Hi everybody, wow! It’s great to be posting. How have you all been?
38- Shellys as in Frankenstein? Mary Shelly was messed up, I liked Frankenstein but we had to read some articles about her and as a person I think very little of her… let me know if that’s who your talking about before I start a rant, and I can prolly come up w/ some online articles
lol yes i mean mary and percy shelley.they went on an a trip to Italy with Lord Byron (who was equally if not more messed up than them) They spent most of their time shut inside since the weather was terrible, so they all decided to write horror stories to pass the time. Frankenstein was the result of that. I think there was a lake nearby that inspired one of the pivotal scenes of Frankenstein…?Not sure though
mary shelly’s life with percy shelly was pretty crazy considering she was having an affair with him while he was still married and then his wife killed herself.
woo thanks gurl~ yeah the above is basically all i know.
The story of Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Godwin, Claire Claremont, Fanny Imlay, Edward Trelawney, and the rest of that crowd — and the children they had with one another — is like the worst rock-star soap opera you can imagine. Juicy stuff — you should have fun with this assignment.
As for sources, there are biographies (including Ian Gilmour’s book The Making of the Poets). If you can find it, Trelawney’s Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron is worth reading for the gruesome account of Shelley’s funeral pyre.
Thank you so much Robert! I’ve been thinking about doing Screnzy this year and I suddenly thought of that whole group and wondered what I could do with their story since it’s so over the top on all levels. I will definitely look for those books! I’m really excited to read more about them (haha that sounds gruesome…welI suppose it is,after all)
A while back my parents got an MP3 player, couldn’t even figure out how to turn it on (There’s a switch on the end that clearly says on and off, and it has a battery in it.
), and forgot about it for a couple of months. I remembered about it today, and my mom says that if I can make it work, then I can have it! 
Wow. The iPad hasn’t even been released and I’m tired of it. It’s a big iPod Touch, filled with all the failures of that product. What’s so great about it? Is it the software? Er, no, it’s the same software as on the iPhone, limited to the same restrictive DRM crap and to the same restrictive app approval program. Battery? They claim “up to ten hours”, but that’s only if you’re not actually doing anything on it. The price? Er, well, it’s over 800 bucks for 64 measly gigabytes. Hopefully it won’t be scratch/fingerprint central. It is? Well, at least it’ll be able to run Flash, right? Wait, it can’t? WHAT THE CAKE IS WRONG WITH YOU, APPLE?
Apple fully, completely, and utterly sucks. I’m positive now that Steve Jobs = Mr. Joe.
I like my iPod Touch, although I don’t deny that it has flaws, but I think the iPad is absurd. It is truly an enormous iPod Touch with slightly better apps. What is the point of paying so much for something in between an iPod and a computer? It can’t fit in your pocket like an iTouch, and it doesn’t have a keyboard like a laptop. Nor can it sit upright on a desk without a dock.
What an awful name.
Ha ha, I totally agree with you. It seems to me that it is a rather pointless product for the reasons described. Although, I have to say I DO like Apple much much better overall because I hate PCs. For some reason, I find every breed of PC disgusting in the literal sense. And yes, what an awful name. *laughs at own immaturity*
I like PCs. I don’t know about Vista or Windows 7, but XP works very well.
“Introducing our newest product, the iTampon!”
On FailBlog there’s a picture of something relating to that.
Is there? I don’t remember that….And, sadly, yes, I did once take the time to go back through its entire history. Well, with the exception of the videos. I’m scary when I’m bored…..
Oh, nevermind….it’s a new post from today….That would explain why I hadn’t seen it.
And is it really sad that it only just clicked, the whole iTampon comment? No, don’t answer that. It is. *headdesk* Wow. I think my sister is rubbing off on me. She tends to be the one who is clueless.
*falls over laughing*
*collapses on keyboard and dies* Can you believe I didn’t notice that?
Ohhhh, my. *bursts out laughing*
The literal sense would be that they taste bad. I suppose I would agree with the literal sense–not very tasty at all.
I just have to say that in The Clique, it is mentioned in the first book that Massie’s friends call her room “the iPad.”
*runs away and hides in utter shame*
I think Apple is working towards creating a legit tablet. The iPad in and of itself sucks, but it’s a step in the right direction. I’m sure that an Apple tablet would be a million times better than this piece of cake I have to use. (I grew up using Macs but had to get a tablet for school. I was shocked at just how much Windows sucks.)
Also, the iTouch/iPhone is pretty cool.
iPad? *shudder* What will they come up with next? iHateApple?
(Actually, I really don’t mind Apple all THAT much. I just had to comment on that one…)
I saw an amazing political cartoon awhile ago. (updated)
So, it has three shelves. On the first, it has a little black thing, and it says “iPhone” On the second, it has a big black thing, and it says “iPad” Finally, it’s a person, and the sign says “iPayForEveryOverpricedDevice.
hahahahahahahahahaha “It’s a big iPod Touch” i laughed so hard at this. just like i laughed at the picture i just saw of steve jobs holding a big ipod touch.
who wants an ipad seriously lol
37.1- Yes, it’s not the literal translation, but it’s the one that appears on the plaque.
Wouldn’t it be easier for a guy to buy his own facial lotion rather than stop my room to borrow my roommate’s every time he needs it? I mean, this makes at least 4 times in the last 8 days…..And that’s just the times he’s come to borrow it when I’m here. I mean, it doesn’t bother me, whatever, it just seems a bit strange to me, as it seems like it would be so much simpler to just spend a couple bucks to buy his own bottle. It’s not like he’s having some quality conversation with my roommate when he stops by.
Obvious-man suspects your lotionless neighbor is looking for excuses to visit your room.
Except I’m about 99% positive that my lotionless neighbor is gay, from comments my roommate has made in conversation with him, plus, well, he looks it (uh-oh, now I sound like one of those annoying types of people who are always speculating upon other peoples’ sexual orientation based upon behavior/looks. ugh).
But, anyway, that would kinda rule out the “he’s interested in someone in the room and wants an excuse to stop by” idea. I mean, he is good friends with my roommate, but like I said, it’s not like he’s doing anything more than coming by for two seconds to grab the lotion and run. Plus, like today when he came, my roomie wasn’t here–which he knew, already, from the way he was talking…..
*shrug* Whatever, I guess it really doesn’t matter.
Goodnight, everyone. By the way, Luna, that always happens when I get to sleep an extra half hour in the morning…I mean on the SSSS thread..
Hm. My school has blocked my MAC address, and I can’t find a way to spoof it in Windows 7. Difficulties…
I just got hit on the forehead really hard with a door. I hate big brothers.
Fiddler I’m going to put this down here because I think my reply might get lost otherwise.
I think what you need to do first is go find some space and think things out. Write down your anxieties. Then try to make a list of concrete goals that you will achieve by a given date. A kind of non negotiable contract with yourself. Making amorphous uncertainties into tangible objectives always helps me calm down. It’sstill January,you do still have time to get all of it done and go sailing too (which I think is something you should never have to miss out on…try planning everything around those two deadlines of college and sailing)
I hope it all works out! *hugs and pies*
Re: iPad:
To me it is one step closer to the future I should have been born into*. Also, it might seem a bit ridiculous now, but I’m sure it’ll be worked on and altered and improved for the next decade or so, and by then it might be something worthwhile. I’m sure the first computer just seemed like an expensive adding machine.
*I hear a lot of people say they feel like they were born in the wrong time–they should have lived in Victorian england, or the 60s, or the renaissance–I have always felt like I am much, much to early.
Of course, even if you lived a hundred years from now you’d still feel like you were living before your time. The grass is always greener, and all that.
I sometimes feel like I should have been born in Elizabethan England. But then the feeling passes, and I feel normal. That I should have been born in the early 1900’s. I mean, I just love that period of time. C’est pwnsome.
I’m cold. Really, really cold. So this isn’t a PoPo, I have an iTouch, and they’re pretty good. I think an iPad would be cool.
I’m cold too. It’s snowing here….
Random thought before I leave for school (gym first period
): Why do people spell certain sounds certain ways? Especially tsk-tsk. What is that?
That IS actually how you spell it. A “huff” gets spelled “hmph” sometimes. *ponders*
40.1- I love robots, what can I say?
42- They said he’d talk about it in last night’s State of the Union, so I watched the whole thing and he said nothing. So now we just have to keep waiting in tense suspense longer…
Re: Ipads- Personally, I think it’s rather amazing. Okay, okay, it’s a sucky first model, but look at what the next ones will be able to do. All the functions of a computer in such a tiny thing… Not that I’d buy it- too expensive, and only the first model, but think of what someone in say 1990 would have said if you told them that something like that existed. This is all going so fast… and you have to admit, they’re very user-friendly.
All the functions of a computer? Not remotely. Not even kinda remotely. Maybe in another 20 years Apple will come out with something of that size that performs all the functions of today’s computers, but certainly not soon. As for user-friendly, I think you mean idiot-proof.
I saw a marvelous picture on teh interwebs a few days ago. On the left side is a red tricycle. On the right is a beautiful black Kawasaki motorcycle. The text under the trike: “This is Mac, it will never fall on it’s side. Nobody dies on a Mac, you always have steady speed and it does not let you customize so you won’t ruin it. Anyone can drive a Mac!” And under the motorcycle: “This is a PC, infact, it’s an example of a PC because there are unlimited choices. It’s hard to drive, but if you learn how to do it, you’ll easily reach 150mph in a few seconds, many people die in them because it’s hard to handle, you can customize it anyway you like, only people capable of driving transmission at fastass speeds with nothing to protect you from falling manage to see it’s full potential, the rest die out by natural selection or quit and buy Macs.” Spelling and grammar aside, this is completely true. Apple products are nice little toys, but not substantial computers, by any means.
Who said Apple products are “nice little toys?!” PCs are completely and utterly confusing, copycats, (Apple came first!) and Apples work intuitively, not in a basic and kiddie manner. Why do you need to customize something that’s already perfect, anyway?
Ah, such naiveté. That’s adorable.
Just be glad I’m not a Linux freak. You’d have a twelve page essay about digital freedom instead of a few paragraphs.
Incidentally, Microsoft was founded two years before Apple. Unix was originally developed in 1969. Apple is the youngest concept here.
Apple was the first to adopt a Graphical User Interface, however.
And PC will need another century to even come this close.
Look at it this way: the vast majority of the population are idiots. If you are a techie or such, sure, love PC. But I’m technologically inept and don’t feel like taking some class to figure things out. For me, a computer is a tool to get online and to write. I don’t see the point of devoting time and effort to learn to handle my motorcycle when I can ride my tricycle to school. I prefer to devote my time to something else, and I appreciate a program that doesn’t drive me crazy trying to figure out details.
If Macs aren’t good computers, then why does just about everyone in my father’s computer science department (in a decent sized university) use Macs? If they’re that terrible, why would anyone technically competent (much less who studies computers professionally) use them? Just saying…
By the way, in my (semi-technically experienced) mind, Macs and Linux are great, whereas Windows is utter cake.
Not to mention my Dad, who is a computer programer/systems analyst/whatever the heck exactly he’s getting called these days, thinks Macs are by far the better computers and that PCs are junk. He is hardly technologically incompetent–even works with PCs at his work.
44~ Thanks HAWK, I got your email last night and didn’t have time to respond yet (sorry GAPAs, if this is too much mention of off-blog contact…)
It did, however, remind me that I have some of the best friends in the universe, thanks. *pies, hugs and choklit*
And Kokonventions are always in order! We can run some things by the parental unit and figure out something that works out.
53~ Thanks.
Re: Ipads: Huh? *is clueless*
It’s amazing what cookies can do in terms of social connections. Yesterday at the grocery store my family uses, the cookies were on sale so my mom buys a box and tells me to give it to my ballet class. (?!) Usually it’s like “Oh hi, Fireh” “Guess what happened today-” “So what were you saying, L?” “Nevermind.”. Yesterday it was like: “Oh, hi Fireh. Are those cookies for me? Om nom nom thanks Fireh what were you saying just now L?” *ignores Fireh completely other than eating like five cookies*
I feel so appreciated by my peers. (Not really… sarcasm..) Gh.
Sorry…. just had to rant about it, kind of.
I know that feeling. Being ignored sucks. *hugs*
*smiles*
And today was slightly worse, because H was there, who is my “best friend”. And en annoys me to no end. And then my mom’s like “What’s wrong with you, Fireh? You’re being all cold to H! She needs cheering up, she’s having a tough time lately!” and I’m thinking “Why am I expected to be H’s best friend?” Even though I do feel sorry for her (her mum broke her wrist and can’t do anything so H is doing all the housework and is getting behind on homework) I can’t deal with all of this……
Today’s food episode at ballet:
Me: *has box of dried pineapples*
Everyone: “ooh yum! Fireh brought food!” *eats it all*
Me: “Uhh, that was my snack. Oh well….”
Everyone: *completely ignores Fireh*
I… want… to… do… something…. drastic… But I don’t know what. SOmething to show that I’m tired of this treatment……
40 – Thank you for enlightening me. My brother must have been confused when he told me that Opportunity had stopped working.
“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds – and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew –
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.”
– John Magee, 1941.
Goodspeed Challenger.
So a few days ago it was Bubble Wrap day or something, and I didn’t know till late at night so by the time I found some it was time to shower/go to bed, so I just took the bubble wrap with me into the shower and it was the best thing ever. You can pop a lot of the bubbles twice if you hold them under the water so they fill up, and then they spray everywhere
Ooh, I’ll have to try that.
“MuseBlog: The Next Best Thing to Showering with Bubble Wrap.”
iPad: I’m going to get one. I’m not buying another kindle which dies after reading one book. And it’s going to be awesome for Policy Debate. Finally able to get rid of the dumb tubs….
Beware… I do not believe that the iPad has the ink-like quality of the kindle/nook/Sony reader. In the description it says that it uses LEDs (the same explanation as for the rest of the iPad)), so I think it can tire your eyes. I know that looking at a computer or iPod screen tires my eyes… I don’t think it will be a big competitor in the digital reading category, perhaps tricking a few people. Unless I’m wrong, which wouldn’t be out of the ordinary.
I hate e-ink. Might as well try the led/lcd.
MP3 player / computer/ tech question: How do you put songs from a CD onto a Windows computer as MP3 or WMA files to be put onto an MP3 player so that said MP3 player can become mine?
Use Windows Media Player to “rip”, or import, the CD. Unless it’s a very strange CD it should work perfectly, with no problems. Any sensible MP3 player will be able to be synced through Windows Media Player as well (but not stupid products like iPod). You’ll need the proper cord to connect the player to the computer–one should have come with the player. If in doubt, instruction manuals are occasionally useful, as are we techies on MB.
Does it have no effect on the CD? “Rip” sounds rather nasty.
Nah. I think he meant ‘rip off’
No, it’s called ripping. And it does not damage the CD in any way.
Hey, GAPAs, I just realized that I’m 18 and completely forgot about the turning-18-rule-thing. So, “The Rules” says:
“Long-term MuseBloggers who turn 18 but want to continue using their pseudonyms for reasons of privacy may ask special permission from the administrators.”
How would one go about asking special permission? Can this count?
Yes, this counts. Feel free to continue as Purple Panda. We know who you are.
My parental units allowed my to get a gravatar account! Finally, FINALLY I can get rid of the stupid purple hexagon that was the
bane of my existenceannoyance of my existence.Yay! Your avatar is very pretty, by the way. I like the colors.
And the smiley is cute. 
You do see what’s dripping from it’s teeth, don’t you? Perhaps I need to make the fangs bigger.
You new gravatar is amazing, by the way too.
Thanks!
Is it a vampire with bloody fangs or a smiley that got shot with blood dripping from bullet holes?
Because blood is so pretty, shiny, and glimmery. Is that smiley’s head decapitated by any chance?
No, it’s me. I’m am a vampire.
Yes, Maths Lover. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I do, but it’s still colorful.
(The fangs are sort of hard to see on my computer though, and I thought you had just eaten ketchup or something… 
)
Now I have to get used to a new avatar on you… *sigh*
Okay, I’m good.
SFTDP
SudoRandom’s gravatar inspired me.
Awesome. I can see how it comes off SiR’s. BLOOD!
I miss your old gravatar!
I am honored, though.
Well, that gave me a much-needed idea about how to do a shock smiley gravatar. Anyone recognise my background?
Does anybody know/remember where one of the GAPAs said something revolving around sanity not being the privilege of the humdrum… or something like that? I thought it was the Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories thread where “You’re as sane as SudoRandom is right now” was said, but I just looked and… kaplooey. So, yeah.
Lady Bunniful, Alter Ego 2009.4.
Ahh, thanks. All hail GAPAs! *hails GAPAs*
Does anyone have opinions on Marvel comics?
I love the whole comics universe! The new stuff isn’t as good as the classic comics, but if you just read the Wiki entries for their characters and concepts, you’ll see what a fantastic and rich world they’ve created.
mm, I’ve been reading the Marvel wikis that I’ve found on the internet.
R.I.P. J.D. Salinger. May all the goddam phonies of the world mourn your memory for at least a week, for God’s sake.
(This is me trying to speak in the voice of Holden, so please be aware that I am not attempting to disrespect Salinger himself. Though he’d probably disapprove of the imitation. Hm. RIP anyway.)
Piggy messed up. Bad. He was trying to dual-boot Ubuntu with Windows 7, but somehow the hard drive partitioning got botched. Now Windows won’t load–only Ubuntu, off the CD.
Crap.
Hm, ran a bunch of recovery stuff, hacked a few things, it seems to be back to normal now. Stupid hard drive.
Well, that’s always good when stuff works, Piggy.
I’m watching Mythbusters on Netflix right now. It’s like my favorite show in the universe! Probably everyone else here loves them too.
For anyone who is interested (wait, that’s probably only me. I’m the JB obsessed one, afterall). Okay, so for anyone who is interested, John Barrowman is going to be playing a “villain” on the show Desperate Housewives later this season…..Which is only interesting to me due to the fact that we’re talking John Barrowman. I could care less about Desperate Housewives.
He will “be in the US in March/April to film his episodes. America will see those episodes sometime in the spring. The Brits will have to wait until May/June.” (From JB official website, news page)
I’m still trying to figure out how May/June is not spring? *sigh* What is with the climate in the rest of the world.
OOOOOOOHHHHHH…. *makes humongous mental note* *decides that she’s not going to remember with just a mental note, so writes it on a bunch of post-its and sticks it all over her house*
Phew! I thought MB was blocked for a little while, but it’s still behaving veryyy slowly. Whatever…
SFTDP – I was going to post this on the SSSS thread but suprise! it’s blocked. Anyway, I was just going to say that it would be disastrous if one of the people we wrote about ( Kyla, Ms. R ) ever saw that thread. Actually, I’m kind of glad the block stopped me, because Kyla’s big brother is in the ROOM with me at the moment…oh no.
73~ You could care less about Desperate Housewives? Then why don’t you?
*is being a picky grammar nazi*
So. Um….I don’t really have anything worthwhile to say. Meh. V.V
Oh, you sound like my teachers…
“Can I go to the bathroom?”
“I don’t know; can you?”
Very good.
*fines self for using nested comments*
*returns to boycotting them*
You were boycotting them? Really?
Yeah, I’ve always wondered why people say that rather than ‘I couldn’t care less’. Never made any sense to me.
When I was a kid, as far as I can recall, people said “I couldn’t care less” — nothing else. I’ve heard that at some point some people started saying “I could care less, but I would have to try very hard” (which is witty but wordy); then everyone dropped the second half of the sentence and wound up saying the opposite of what they meant.
That’s a theory I’ve heard, but I don’t remember ever hearing the transitional “but I would have to try very hard” form. (Maybe it was regional — restricted to New Yorkers or Californians or some other trendy, influential group.) I just remember that people started saying “I could care less,” and I thought they sounded crazy.
I have off today! Thank you, midterm week!
I have a foreign congress today with model congress, but I’m not going to be able to eat, so I’m gonna have to be a loser and bring a PB&J sammich. I don’t mind. Also, I just got a message that I’m going to be a chair for environmental affairs at my school’s congress, so that means I have to come up with bills. Any ideas?
76.1~ Yup! ^.^
So, I’ve got the songs I want in the Windows Media Player library, the MP3 player has a USB cable thingy to hook it up to the computer, and I have one stupid question: Should the MP3 player be on while I attempt to load music onto it?
Probably.
Things I learned today:
While correcting a student’s pronunciation of the word “dólares”, she pointed out this is important because “dolores” means “pain”. As soon as she wrote what it meant in English (perhaps combined with a student behind me saying “It’s a woman’s name” right before the teacher wrote its translation), my brain goes, “Hey! That’s why she’s named Dolores Umbridge!
”
Of course, I think maybe I actually knew that once before and then forgot that I knew it. I don’t know.
In cell bio, we were talking about, um, well, *looks in notes*–Ah, here we go, the prof was talking about the regulation of protein activity by shape change. His first bullet point under this was allostery. With his Indian accent, combined with the fact that my brain was thousands of miles away daydreaming about John Barrowman (Yes, I do occasionally or perhaps occasionally more than occasionally daydream about JB/TW/DW/anything in that world), it sounded like he said “Alastor”, jerking my brain out of its daydream, and immediately making me think of–that’s right, Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody.
And then he started to explain allostery up with a definition of its parts:
allo=other
stery=shape
No, perhaps it was just my brain having so recently learned the meaning behind the first bit of Dolores Umbridge’s name, but it immediately latched onto this, and determined that, yup, that makes perfect since for Alastor Moody–the name must have similar roots, which JKR was familiar with. Afterall, if you’ve read GoF, we’ve got Alastor in another shape.
Okay, so maybe it’s stretching a smidge, but, well, y’know. When not relating things back to TW/DW, my mind reverts to its old state of relating everything back to HP, no matter how unrelated.
And that is what I have learned today.
Well, JKR was a foreign language teacher, and a lot of her names have Latin roots/mythical importance/some other meaning. And yes, I knew the Dolores thing. Think of the word “dolor”. Alastor is a bit of a stretch. I’m not sure that’s the origin of the name…
Yup, I know….I’ve found some sort of meaning in a very large portion of the names. And then gone and forgotten some–like the Dolores one I’m sure I knew before.
Hehe, yeah, I don’t know what the origin of the name Alastor is, either, and yeah, it’s more than a bit of a stretch–and, really, probably wouldn’t have even tried to connect it if the teacher hadn’t pronounced “allsotery” like “Alastor”. Dratted accent of his.
Voldemort and Malfoy. We talked about that in class.
“Flight from death” and “Bad faith”, innit?
80~ Yup. It’s fascinating to read the HP books and see how tightly JKR put everything together, some of the things you can find are truly mindblowing, and the fact that they’re still such fun books is a testament (in my mind) to what a fabulous author she is.
I like the Alastor thing, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the case. Pretty neat.
I like the things you learn.
Alastor is Greek for “avenger.”
82~ Aha. Never mind then.
Still, quite interesting.
Speller, I saw a shirt that I think you’d like. It said:
Then, Buffy staked Edward. The End.
Oh yeah. I’ve seen those. Buffy would stake Edward…
Especially if he started stalking her and smelling her.
Wow, leave to study for finals and see what happens.
I keep forgetting how fast things move on here now. Does anyone else find the whole reply button thing massively confusing? Not saying that it’s bad, I just never have a clue what’s going on.
Axa! I didn’t know you were still on here. Awesome to see your username after all this time.
I finished J-term without too many difficulties. The spring semester is starting on Wednesday, but I may go back early since my best friend/roommate is going to get there this weekend. Another one of my good friends may also be trapped on campus due to snow, and I wish I was there so that we could huddle in our dorms and eat oatmeal and pretend we were going to be snowed in for months. I’m planning on staying home and getting sleep until I feel well-rested and then going back to school.
I am utterly terrified of the spring semester. Though I am socially a freshman, I have enough hours to be classified as a junior and am basically done with the general education core. Thus, I am going to be taking three junior level English classes, one honors course (honors is set up to be a minor at my school; we have separate classes that are basically discussions of ideas and interdisciplinary meetings of the mind and such), and one art history class that is required of all majors. The English classes make me very nervous – literary criticism and analysis, American literature I, and advanced composition. The professor for advanced composition is alleged to be an insanely difficult grader and I’m worried that she will read one of my essays and tell me that my dreams of being and English major are a sham and I should drop out now to avoid further humiliation.
It’s snowing here. It doesn’t snow very often in Tennessee, so everyone is freaking out and cancelling school. Fun times.
Dang. Everyone gets snow but me. *envies*
I don’t have snow either.
Me neither.
Me neitherActually, now I think about it, it actually did snow near here. I’d forgotten, momentarily. Didn’t stick though, and it wasn’t at my house either. But I was there, and it was snowing. Fairly hard.
Didn’t we have this conversation a month ago, or so? LBK saying something about everybody else having snow, and Ducky and me correcting her about that?
I remember feeling that way, too, Amanda, but upper level literature courses turned out to be SO much more interesting than the regular ones, I forgot to be intimidated once I got there in spite of the fact that most of my English courses were in grad school without an undergrad English degree.
Plus, I take all student assessments of professors with a grain of salt. My opinions were frequently quite different from my peers. My western civ professor was so amazing that I took several courses with him and audited several others, even considered switching my major to political science. When the academic dean called me in to discuss my, shall we say, “irregular” grades, she said “how can you be doing so poorly in some classes yet you’re getting all As in Dr. Pubantz’s class? I just had a group of students come in to complain about how his classes are too hard.”
In fact many of my favorite teachers from grade school through grad school had reputations of being fearsome. If they challenged my mind and imagination, I never had a problem.
Oh yes! I always love the teachers/professors that everyone calls strict. Tons of people think that my academic advisor is super tough and a hard grader but she makes you think and she’s so excited about archaeology!
Ooh, TN? What area of TN? *lives in Middle Tennesse*
All my friends are like “omg snow no school! Yayness!’ While I’m like “Yay I get to do schoolwork tomorrow anyhow because I’m homeschooled!” (and not sarcasm. XD)
And you’re right about the snow.
I found the reply function really confusing when it first started, but now I’m more or less accustomed to it.
As for the speed things move around here….You might be interested in the “paleophyte” thread. Basically, it’s a thread that’s limited to those of us who have been around for 6 or more months (“paleophytes”) and moves at a much slower pace. You can register for this up along the bar at the top of the blog, if you’re interested.
Snow. I miss snow. It’s “snowed” here at my college a couple times this past week, but nothing that really stuck at all. Which really sucks, for me, because I’m used to having snow on the ground more or less from November (sometimes even October) through beginning/mid-April. *sigh*
I actually like the replies, at least on the shorter threads. I was here for several months before we had replies, and it used to really annoy me when I read someone’s replies and had to scroll up to read all the comments they were replying to. Then I forgot what those people said when I read someone else’s reply. But the replies do get extremely confusing when a comment has a lot of replies, then everyone replies to the replies, then those replies have replies and so on until you have to reply to another comment because we used all the levels of nesting.
LBK- There’s not much snow here, it all washed away the other day because of the stupid rain.
69.1.1- They’re great, aren’t they? Especially the delicious little odds and ends that nobody’s written about since the 60s or 70s but that are still in continuity. Lost cities and gadgets and heroes we haven’t seen active for decades…
It’s supposed to snow in North Carolina this weekend! It may accumulate up to half a foot. I’m ridiculously excited about this.
Zoe’s back legs are out. She’s not allowed upstairs unless my dad carries her, and she’s sleeping a lot. She’s 14.5 years old, which is over 100. All of my friends’ dogs are still puppies, and I’m so out of place when they talk about them.
*self-choklit*
*non-self-choklit*
14.5 years old? Pshaw. My friend had a cat who lived to be 17! Note, lived. Unfortunately, she passed away…last year? I don’t remember.
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Yes, but cats live longer than dogs. 14.5 is quite old for a dog–especially depending upon the breed. Whereas 17 is still getting up there for a cat, it’s not as much so as 14.5 for a dog. Cats can live to their early 20s.
Dog age:
Multiply by 7.
Cat age:
A 1-year-old cat is similar to a 20-year-old human. For every year after that, add 4 years.
(So Firestar from Warriors is about 36 … and already a grandfather. XD)
My grandparents’ dog lived to be 15 and their cat died when she was 19.
Sorry. That sounded really insincere of me. *gives chocolate*
What sort of dog is Zoe?
Ehhhm, mutt, with labrador, retriever, the coloring of a ridgeback, and more, unknown breeds. Medium size.
Aw, cute. I like mutts. And labs/retrievers. They tend to have the sweetest personalities.
There might be a picture on the blog somewhere… on one of the old chameleon threads.
ZINCIE! You’re back!!
I am? Oh yes, I am. (Zincie?)
Zi-inc! Hiyas! You’re baaack!
I missed you!
D’awwww! I feel so loved, what with all these welcome backs! :3
OMG, OMG, I can make a bunny using characters! ( I spend time thinking about this stuff. )
=:3
No, wait – =(:3) There!
It just seemed like the appropriate thing to say.
Sorry, Zinc!
Nahhh, it was just kinda like, “That’s a new one.”
There’s one on the pets thread. I remember it. She’s really cute.
85~ I personally detest the reply button and nested comments. Eesh, they confuse me to no end.
So apparently I have a wicked sense of humor that comes out when reading simplified children’s books of Bible stories.
Like when I said how “Boaz noticed her [Ruth] right away” and said it as though he was checking her out (I mean c’mon, he’s a guy, she’s a young-ish woman, GO FIGURE) and they bust up laughing.
Alright, I need some technology advice. I’m thinking of getting an e-reader. Of course, this means a choice between a few, competitive machines. Unless the Sony Reader provides some really cool things that the other two don’t, then I don’t think I want it. I wouldn’t ever rule it out, though.
From what I can see right now, here’s what I know:
BARNES&NOBLE NOOK:
– Free AT&T 3G for buying books only
– Over 1 million books
– 500,000 free books
– Better looking than the Kindle
– Touch screen with color display
– $259
AMAZON KINDLE:
– Free AT&T 3G for surfing web and buying books
– 350,000 Books (I don’t know if this means that books that I want won’t be there.)
– (I think) 100,000 free books
– Buttons only/Keyboard (I don’t know if that is a bad thing)
– Same price
I would love to here from people who have one of them. I especially want to hear how the web-surfing is on the Kindle.
Also, I have to take in consideration that I can use Barnes and Noble gift cards on the Nook.
I can’t judge the Nook, but I like my Kindle. It serves my purposes very well.
The web quality isn’t very good. It’s pretty slow, and hard to read.
For the Kindle? That was really the only thing drawing me towards it… I’ve had a dream of being able to go on the internet anywhere… But if it isn’t much of a browser, then I suppose the Nook is where I’m going.
No, it’s just bare-bones HTML. Useful for maybe looking up things on Wikipedia and the like, but it’s not like you’re going to be watching Youtube and playing games.
Yeah, that’s what I expected. It’s not like I have the money to buy it right now, but perhaps soon if I get lucky.
I suggest the Nook. I have neither, but it seems to be better value for the price, plus the screen. But size is also an important thing to consider, since you don’t want some giant novel-size thing weighing down you bag- and screen resolution.
Ick.
we’ve been having awful weather lately, and my dad has been in a really bad mood lately and hes been taking it out on me. So now my whole family is basically mad at each other for one reason or another, and its just not fun. School’s been alright, but I’ve pretty much been a complete loner lately, I don’t feel like I have many friends. And then I’ve got a bunch of tests to study for next week *grumble*
On the upside, I took my clarinet chair test today, and it was pretty good. We had to play four scales (two octaves each) in under one minute, and I played it in 52 seconds.
My friend didn’t even get through the third scale though before time was up, and she’s the chair in front of me so fingers crossed I’ll stay at the same chair or possibly move up. Yay!
Unfortunately, I still have to survive a second chair test before the chairs are finalized for the spring season, plus challenges. I really hope I don’t get challenged, I hate playing in front of the whole band. At least when we’re doing the tests you get to play by yourself in front of the director, not with everybody watching. I don’t like playing in front of a ton of people on my own. *shiver* I have pretty bad nerves.
Montgomery Girl – The replies have been in existence since I started, so I can’t say that they annoy me much. I mean, once you get a lot of replies in a row they do become quite confusing, but for the most part I don’t mind. However I can understand how the nested-ness of the comments could be quite annoying and confusing to someone who’s not accustomed to it.
Also, like Luna suggested I do think that you might want to consider getting a Paleo account. People who are paleophytes (Or in other words, been on the blog for at least 6 months) have access to a small set of other threads, which generally are slower paced than the regular ones. The blog does move pretty fast, and even though I usually check MB every day, I still find myself missing out on when I’m away even for one or two days. In your case, these paleo threads could be pretty helpful.
Like Luna said, if you’re interested click the “Log In” button in the upper right corner of the page. Hope I helped!
Yep! I came on in….*checks* Yes, May 25th, 2009 to be precise.
Huh, weird. Because that means I wouldn’t’ve really “met” you until I returned to the ‘blog full-time in August, because goodness knows I wasn’t on much at all last summer…..Which wasn’t all that long ago. Then again, when I try and think about last summer (heck, even just Christmas break which only ended two weeks ago), it feels like it happened a lifetime ago…. *sigh* Even things I did this morning feel like they were done days ago. *shakes head*
Don’t worry, I feel the same….time moves so fast these days. *headdesk* Either that, or I’m just going crazier than normal…no, we’re all going crazier than normal…
Yeah! Opening night and an awesome performance! *celebrates*
OH MY. Look, maybe I’ll just c+p/edit my post from another certain blog…
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OHAY GUYS~~~ How’s it going… swear I didn’t die, just haven’t been around. Busyness and the like. Profusely apologize. I’m in the process of cleaning up my gigantic mess of a disorganized documents folder, (egads, it’s gory) and I came across my HPB’s folder… egads I used to have some amount of free time!! And some of the older stuff is awful, urgghhh (note: a large amount of this “stuff” is here on MB, merr -__- )
Anyway, HI. OH maybe I should even revisit MuseBlog and Nationstates while I’m at it!! (obviously, I did this) Though I’m sure ~~hundreds of thousands~~ of posts have accumulated in the many months I’ve been gone… asdfgjkl; why is my life so tough, guys?
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FIN c+p’d portion of this post
… Kinda miss the blog. I should visit more often! I miss making pictures of HPB’s in tuxedoes and fantasizing about nonexistent balls! Boo for real life work. BOO
Also, boo on wasting time on the internet. BOO
Hi, Raynpho! Great to see you.
Alrightee then, I’m not using the reply function because I am unsure of the proper etiquette
I am very sorry for all of the people without snow. We knew we were having snow on Friday so all of my J-term finals were moved to Thursday. That wouldn’t have been a problem except that I found out about this change on Wednesday and had to study for both of my finals that afternoon.
Rebecca – I think I’m really going to love these classes, but I can’t help being nervous. I keep telling myself that I’ve been nervous before every semester I’ve ever had and I always found a way to make school work. I think I really just have this nagging suspicion that I’m not nearly as smart as everyone told me I was in high school and pretty soon my entire academic career is going to be revealed to be a house of cards. It’s irrational but persistent, as phobias tend to be. I’ve also had experiences with “hard” professors turning out to be more thought-provoking and entertaining than anything else. Dr. Hamilton (advanced composition) is supposed to be really hard, but I’ve heard that by the end of her classes your writing is much better, so I’m cautiously optimistic.
fireandhemlock – I live about thirty minutes outside of Chattanooga. The smoky mountains are within driving distance and we occasionally take day trips to Cade’s Cove if that tells you anything. I was also homeschooled! The first time I was ever in an official classroom setting with grades and tests and whatnot was when I was sixteen and started taking college classes. I took Political Science and Biology that semester and I did an epic panic routine before every test. I did fine, though, so I guess homeschooling taught me something.
Midnight Fiddler – I always got the impression that Boaz was totally checking Ruth out from the start. The weirdness in that story comes from the cultural disconnect of having Ruth lie down at the feet of Boaz and sleep there during the night as a sign of… something.
Regarding the reply button – I don’t know if I dislike it or not, I’m just slightly confused by it. It’s probably a better system than what we used to do, since we have so many people and all.
Believe me, I’m very familiar with that house of cards. I’ve always kept rooms there. In fact, you’d be amazed by how many people feel exactly the way you do. Even some very accomplished and amazing people.
There isn’t really a proper etiquette for the reply button. It’s more you say what you’d like to, and then move to the next post, and say what you want there.
A-ha. Okay, that’s cool!
Snow=awesome. How much snow do you guys have? There’s maybe three inches so far, here.
DR. WHO MOVIE!!
“Doctor Who and Secret Life of a Call Girl star Billie Piper was on the Scot Mills show and confirmed that a Doctor Who movie is in the works.
When she was asked about the rumored movie – she responded, “They are doing it.—
Gasp!
*celebrates* I just hope it’ll be the 10th doctor. Not because I like him better, but because there’ll be an uproar if it’s not him. Maybe.
Anyway, I haven’t voiced my opinion about the new doctor yet.
I think he’ll be pretty good, if different. I think he looks like a version of me, but 10 years older, and born in Cardiff. As in, his hair looks like mine.
That would be cool, methinks. Although from everything I’ve heard lots of Whovians dislike the DW movie that was made years ago….The only appearance of the Eight Doctor. *shrug* I dunno, I haven’t seen it–I’m working my way in chronological order, here. And there were two “non-canon” movies back in the 60s, too. Non-canon because from what I’ve read online (I’ve not watched them yet) Barbara and Susan both were the Doctor’s granddaughter’s (when only Susan actually is–Barbara is Susan’s teacher) and their version of the Doctor was just an eccentric human with a time/space machine, not an alien Time Lord….
Yeah, anyway, yeah, that would most likely be cool, and obviously I would watch it. And of course as Enc says, I most certainly hope it would be DT as well, not the new doctor…..I dunno. I still haven’t formed an official opinion on him–gut instinct says I’m not too keen on him, but I’m trying really hard to form a strong opinion before I’ve actually seen him for more than two seconds. But my gut screams he’s much too young….
Oh, and of course if they are making one, it had bleepin’ well better have a certain Captain in it. Which considering I’ve not gotten any email/twitter updates saying he is, I would guess he’s not. But I can hope.
Even though I’ve never seen Dr. Who (ducks to avoid pies from Luna), I know Billie Piper is a good actress, so yay!
-takes advantage of vanillabean’s suspicion of Luna and pies thoroughly-
You should watch it. It’s probably one of my favorite sci-fi TV shows ever. (Not that I watch very many sci-fi TV shows)
Where’s that other Muse Fanfiction thread? The one with…um…well, the one that’s not the one people are posting on but still the current one.
I’m learning Welsh! Or attempting to. I found a series of podcasts but I don’t suppose I can really learn Welsh well without going to Wales. Still, I might as well try, eh?
I can now say hello and various forms other greetings, good-bye, and how are you? I can also respond to the latter by saying “Fine, thanks,” “Quite well,” or “I’m tired.”
Hi Alice. Do you think it possible to do anything about the Letters: England, 1874 thread?
I’m learning Klingon! So far I can say “Hello,” “We are about to destroy your ship,” and “Surrender your vessel immediately.” When in doubt (for both languages, possibly) add a few achs and gars.
Meh. *slumps over and passes out*
Good night, friends!
Oh yeah, all right, oh you’re gonna be in my dreams tonight!
^misquoted
NOOOOoooooOOOOOOooooooOOOOOO!!! I missed the moment of being on the “Who’s posted how much” list. Now I’m “41.” I know by the time this post is posted, I won’t even be equal to the forty-second spot. I guess I could be considered to be there, though… I’m still angry now… I’ve been watching that spot since I was still in spots past 100….
OK, what is it about the number forty-two?
In Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, an awfully amusing book series by Douglas Adams that has a huge fan following on MB (see “Hitchhiker’s Guide to Museblog up at the top?), the answer to the “ultimate question” is 42. Problem is, we have no idea what the “ultimate question” is.
READ H2G2 NOW.
Haha, I still haven’t read ’em…..I really should some day when I have more time….Wait, um, guess that’ll be never….
Under the name of Soccer starr, I was 42 for awhile… *brags* But now Kiki the Great (who I have no recollection of) is 42, and under Soccer starr I’m 41.
As starr….I’m 212.
But don’t you worry, give me a couple of months and I’ll be back up in the top again….
*Oops, I meant to say now I’m 43 under the name of soccer starr. Sorry.
95~ I was reading a children’s book, so it was drastically simplified, but yeah. There was definitely something going on there.
I’m not completely familiar with all the details of the original text, so I don’t know about her going to sleep at his feet, but it does sound rather sketchy.
98~ Very cool, good luck! And perhaps this’ll be a reason why you absolutely MUST go to Wales. And when that happens, take me along, please!
By the way, did you ever look into being an apprentice on Niagara?
Tomorrow shall be interesting, and then HOME! It’s been fun, but I’m really looking forward to sleeping in my own room, in my own bed, alone. Because Mom snores something terrible, and the earplugs I’ve been using are starting to really hurt my ears. Not like a little sore in the mornings, but like horribly painful and then sensitive for the rest of the day. Uggh.
How did I manage to sleep on the berth deck with everyone else snoring? I don’t know. Why did it not bother me when Phil was snoring right in my ear? I don’t know.
Why does it drive me absolutely bonkers when my parent[s] snore[s]? I don’t know. It’s a attitude thing, I’m sure, but in the meantime I hate being around either or both of them while they’re sleeping.
Piggy has just returned from a forensics tournament. It is, year after year, the worst-run tournament on the schedule. Even the middle school tournaments ran terribly. But I got second, so it wasn’t a total waste.
Snow. There is snow outside. On the ground. Real snow. White fluffly cold actual genuine snow. In North Carolina.
SNOW.
A few days ago it hailed for about a minute. Not even proper hail, just little globs of wet slushy stuff.
ARG! WHY CAN’T WE HAVE SNOW WHERE I LIVE?
It’s snowing up here, too. I’d better go to the grocery store if I’m going to get any cooking done today.
It’s snowing here, as well! The temperature is 16º F, so it’s sticking to everything immediately.
All the snow is gone off the ground in good old Eastern Massachusetts…although it is presently around ten degrees out. It snowed HEAVILY on Thursday, but it was so warm the snow didn’t even stick!! Grrgh.
And let’s see what spot I am on the “Who’s Posted How Much”…well, because of so many name changes, I’m kind of all over the place, but I know it adds up to around 850 posts…I added it up last week..
Let’s see, with all the different names I’ve used, I have about… *counts* 384 posts, and then adding this one… 385 posts.
It’s snowing here too.
Lots. And here in VA they don’t believe in plowing the roads, so we’re stuck. Urg.
Whoop de do, another night or torture. My ears were actually bleeding this morning.
Ouch! I’m sorry to hear you’re stuck. They aren’t plowing here either. They have surpassed the budget for snow removal, and maybe they can’t afford to pay the overtime for people working on Saturday. Or, maybe they didn’t plan well. Or both.
Anyway, be careful out there, anyone who does go out. We felt unsafe when driving on an errand within a mile of our house, and an inch collected in the half hour we were in the building!! We skipped our other errands when we saw that.
It stopped snowing here, not that it’s a big deal… here, ve haf real snow plows, not just the lawn ornaments from GB and Spain. The only annyoing thing is that you keep getting the anti-ice salt on your boots.
Oh, yeah. We now have real issue with roomie. Called she brought a beer back last night and it is now in our fridge. Ignoring the fact that she is even more underage than I am, it is totally against the rules and will get you in a cake load of trouble if found out.
So now I get to decide if I be a total snitch and go down the hall and turn her in to our PA, or if I bring it up to her when she returns from lunch or wherever she just went, and most likely have her tell me know one is going to find out and that it’s not a big deal.
Oh NOES!!!! I just watched the Percy Jackson movie trailer and Annabeth is a brunette! What is the world coming to? Okay, okay, calm down…Think silver linings…Umm…The guy who play Percy looks almost exactly how I imagined him, I guess.
And now you know why I chose Silver Lining as a screenname. Because whenever I’m upset I always automatically think of a positive thing.
Okay, anyway, moving on. Yesterday, some of the girls in my Girl Scout troop went to a soup kitchen to help out. It was a very humbling and also saddening experience. It was mostly elderly people that came in. I struck up a conversation with an old man about The Beatles… All the people were so lonely.
I have posted approximately 871 (now 872) times with different nicknames. I wish it automatically combined all of your posts with your core name.
There was a long discussion about the PJO film on the Movies thread.
*sigh* I sympathize. (Well, obviously…hee hee) Although I wrote a very long and rambly post on the Movies thread like v-bean pointed out…
Annabeth is NOTHING like she’s described in the books. Brunette and around 20 or so years old in real life, so she looks absolutely nowhere in you-know-what like 12. I was definitely pissed at that, but I guess I’ve just accepted that fact by now.
Percy is basically what I pictured too, more or less. He seems a little too “cool” for the part, but I don’t mind much. Overall I think his appearance is pretty good.
Overall, I think the movie will be pretty good but not good if you’re comparing it to the series – a lot seems to have been changed from what I’ve heard through the rumors on various sites and judging by the trailers and the amount of things that they got “wrong.” *grumblegrumble* Although yes, I am a perfectionist so I guess it’s only natural that I think that….
I’m still so excited to see it though! Only two more weeks!
*does happy dance*
102- When I go to Wales, I promise I’ll take you. I’ll be going to Wales after all, I might as well stop in at the East Coast…
But someday…
I did look at the Niagara, but I really can’t afford it this year, not with everything else going on and needing to get a passport and school field trips practically doubling in price…not to mention that’s a whole month in the summer and this summer I’m doing my senior project and I kind of need that month. Maybe next year… Which sort of spoils our kokon plans, alas.
Take me too? Please? I’ve only been once, and that was only for one day, and, well, we didn’t do much. And after Torchwood, well, I’ve fallen in love with the accents (or maybe I’ve just fallen in love with Ianto
), and I desperately want to go to Cardiff, and, well, y’know, check out all the places we see in Torchwood. Like, for instance, I really wanna go stand on the “invisible lift”. 
I would love to go to Wales as well. Good luck with your Welsh lessons! I took Welsh with a friend once and I still have all of my materials.
109~ I have no idea. I’m in Alexandria VA at the moment, and it’s still snowing profusely. So even if they did plow they’d have to keep doing it regularly. *sigh*
111~ Oh fun. Maybe since this is the first time, talk to her about it, then if she’s belligerent or it happens again be a snitch.
I’m not one for underage drinking (or really even drinking at all), but talking to her first might brew a bit less resentment than if you just went straight to the dorm authorities or whoever you’d take it to.
113~ ^.^ Yay!
Aw, oh well. I’m sure we’ll run into each other at some point, however. If not because it was planned but because eventually we’ll probably end up at the same time in the same place, having so many
disturbingly similar traitscommon interests.Yeah, that’s kind of what I’m leaning towards right now. Of course, it would figure the one time I want her here in the room (so I can get the confrontation over with), is the one time (other than when she’s away at a party) that she seems to be spending a long time away. Every other time she leaves (when I want her gone for awhile, because I like having the room to myself), she always seems to only leave for very short periods of time….Oh, well.
Heheh, “brew” less resentment… like you brew beer… heh… Sorry.
Anyone stranded in Alexandria is welcome to my house for mulled cider.
*reminds self to become stranded in Alexandria soon*
*resolves to join Piggy in becoming stranded in Alexandria soon*
*decided to go along for the ride*
*also decides to go along for the ride*
Well, roomie came back and I talked to her. Well, basically I said, “We need to talk. I don’t care if you go out and drink, but I’m not cool with you bringing alcohol back here because it’s against the rules and all that.” (I never claimed I sound intelligent when I talk.)
Her: “Okay. That’s fine. I”ll go put it in ****’s room.” **** would be her friend, the lotionless neighbor guy, who also happens to live on our floor, in case you were wondering.
114.3~ Sounds lovely. Are you within walking distance of Old Town-ish area? We’re off Russel Road…..if that’s not too much information.
Um, Woodland Drive, or something like that.
I’ll e-mail you all directions, if you’re equipped to receive them.
116~ Got them! Thank you!! Mom’s out wandering about Old Town right now, but as soon as she gets back I’ll let her know and give you a call.
Man, you all are getting snow and I’m not. *grumbles*
I’m not either, so….
I heard that this year was an El Nino year. That’s the only explanation I’ve come up with for my neck of the woods not having any snow. Either that, or global warming.
118.2- NASA said it was one of the warmest on record.
So I’m drawing some art to go with that weird Star Wars story I wrote back in November, and it actually looks pretty good. The working title is Star Wars: Galactic Encounters.
But read this article:
www . rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_022708/content/01125113.guest.html
OK, it’s Rush Limbaugh, but we also read an article by Al Gore and Limbaugh’s actually has more facts.
Princess_M:
You posted the same link two weeks ago, and Tesseract responded.
Could you list the facts in the article that you find convincing? Reading it quickly, I see only one fact (an assertion that scientific measurements indicate a one-year drop in global average temperature) and a lot of name-calling. If I’m missing something, I’m happy to have it pointed out to me.
*grumbles about the Linux kernel update destroying his wifi*
*sigh* I think it’s safe to say that en has serious issues when it totally makes ens day when en downloads (an admittedly uber-sweet) TARDIS wallpaper to ens cell phone. (really, it is uber, uber sweet) And when en keeps sliding open the phone so that en can stare at the wallpaper….
And when setting the (to most people, annoying) sound of the TARDIS as the ringtone for ens sister…..only adds to the awesomeness of downloading the wallpaper….
*headdesk* Yup, it’s official. Luna has finally lost it.
You haven’t lost it. You’ve just attained a higher state of
consciousnessno,intelligenceno, Doctor Who obsession.Some would probably say that that is akin to losing it.
In my opinion you’ll have lost it when you stop liking Doctor Who.
My phone’s wallpaper is a picture of Spock. The screensaver is a picture of Carlisle.
Carlisle? Not…..Carlisle from twilight? Tell me there’s some other Carlisle that I’ve not heard of, yeah? Please?
Jinx, Luna!
Except I said it a minute earlier.
And since you said my name I don’t have to stop “talking”. 
Aw, man. That’s unfair. *sniffles*
*passes tissue*
*uses tissue and gives it back to Luna* *snickers*
Eeeeeeeeeeeew. Gross. *throws up on fireh*
Hey, at least I didn’t drop the tissue on the floor.
*runs away from barfing Luna*
o.O
Carlisle as in Carlisle Cullen?!
Interesting.
I have recently started watching Star Trek. Spock=AWESOME. Kirk=not as awesome as Spock.
Data=Awesomest.
That may be. I don’t know Data yet.
He’s from TNG.
I know that much, yes. I haven’t seen any of TNG.
Yes, Carlisle Cullen. I’ve never seen the old Star Trek, just the 2009 movie. And don’t worry, Luna, I still think Robert Pattinson is even uglier than Chris Pine.
Well, I’m glad you think Robert Pattinson is ugly (I’ll even overlook the Carlisle screensaver), but…..Who is Chris Pine?
James Kirk in the latest Star Trek movie.
I guess that would explain why I don’t know who he is: I’ve not seen the latest Star Trek movie. Or, really, I don’t think I’ve seen any of them. A few Star Trek episodes when I was younger, but that’s about it.
more like chris FINE
i love it
Robert Pattinson is actually pretty good, as lookers go. You know, he’s… Solid. Angular. Something about him…
(And, you know, I get to have one of the final says in this matter. Being someone who’s so far only been attracted to females, I provide a purely objective judgment.)
-A
We’re showing New Moon tonight and I have made a pact with the projectionist and the other snack bar girl to dress up like Twilight vampires, with glitter and stuff (the intent being to mock the series). I just realized how ridiculously I fail at being goth. It’s humorous. I rely on the glitter since the eye makeup just isn’t cutting it.
Alas, no Kokonvention. *sniff*
Thank you many times over again though, Robert, for your invitation.
Anyway, good night, children. And adults. And GAPAs.
Wait…
And I haven’t even posted. I feel like I’m obligated, now.
-A
This is just a reminded for anyone interested in MuNoWriMo (Museblog Novel Writing Month), we are starting on February 1st and going through March 2nd! You don’t need to write 50k if you don’t want to, any kind of goal is fine! But I will be going for the full 50k since this is make up for missing it in November. Tomorrow is the last day before we start so keep planning!
People who have expressed interest: Errata, agrrrfishi, Jadestone, oxlin, Enceladus SudoRandom…and me!
I need to make some more notes on my story outline…I am so excited everyone!
(GAPAs I would be eternally grateful if we could have the MuNo thread! I think we’re set with this now, and it would help me not to clog up this thread with the screaming rants that will inevitably ensue! )
Let me see….
Can I be moral support with a non-novel project that I want to finish in that time?
sure! I think you’ve more than proved yourself, didn’t you write something like 100k during Nano? I tip my hat to your efforts,sir~
Me! I’m in!
I just got a new story idea, and I want to really go through with this one, more than just a few horrible chapters and dropping it. Not sure what word count I’ll get, but my goal will be to get a good story out of this idea.
Sounds fun! And this time, I’ll work on a story that I actually have any plans for the plot in. Now, I’d better go research and make an outline! Bye!
I’ve expressed interest.
… Yeesh, is it February already?
-A
I’m going to use it to finish up my NaNoWriMo that I never finished… I might not even go up to the 50,000, now that I don’t need to (not that I ever really NEEDED to…). Let’s see…. I have about 41,000 words…. I need about 9,000… 28 days… So, I’ll try and aim for 500 a day, just to be safe.
Okay, most likely going to be a stupid question, but is MuNoWriMo just “write-a-story-or-continue-your-unfinished-NaNo?” Or is it “write-a-story-relating-to-MB-in-some-way-or-another?”
I don’t know why you replied to me, but I believe it’s a motivator for any kind of writing project. It was originally for those who missed November’s NaNo, but obviously it’s been expanded (Even TMFA is doing something new!).
I replied to the post about MuNoWriMo in general. Your post was the last, so… well, yeah.
I believe I might have expressed interest also.
In other words, I’m in.
I finally moved on the chess game, RQ. just FYI.
Hey, I forgot about that! Sign me up! And I just about to start a new story idea tonight, but I’ll wait until tomorrow…
I’ll do it, I guess.
So here’s what’s happening:
found a Muse I haven’t read!!!
Went to the Library. Got out:
Caprica
Evolution
Torchwood, season 2, vol. 1
Doctor Who, season 3, Vol 3 (Daleks) and 5 (Utopia/Sound of Drums/Last of the time lords arc)
iPhone development book
Android Dev. book
A heap of small business books
Motley Fool teen investor.
Couldn’t find any good comics/graphic novels.
Still sick
Did some home work, Watch Evolution in bed.
Goooooooooooooood morning MB!
Tis a fine snowy day!
G’morning, MB. *laughs* Kiwimuncher, it is a fine snowy day here, too….. except for knowing that I’m going to be helping my dad shovel the rest of the driveway.
Good morning to you two too! I wish it was a fine snowy day… I’m in need of a snow day.
And who cares about shoveling?! You have snow!
-A
Good *checks watch* early afternoon! I’m back from Philly! We went there for my brother’s birthday, and the hotel internet wasn’t free, so I couldn’t get on. But it won’t happen again, will it my preccccious MuseBlog, will it????? *strokes*
*everyone backs away*
*runs forward*
Cakity cake! I forgot to invite Ella over to work on History Day! *panics* Must go do that now!
What category are you doing? Not meaning to be creepy here, but what state are you in (I believe that’s not too specific)? I would love to meet an MBer, and National History is a nice way to do it. Any other MBers doing National History Day? I think I saw some others talking about it… I’ve probably already talked about this, but I can’t remember anything anymore.
P.S.- I’m in New York. I think there are enough people in New York for me to be safe.
125- I won’t be writing (not enough time), but I have a crazy idea of my own MuRuMo (muse running month), to celebrate the fact that I now have access to a running machine *squee* I think I’ll manage 50 miles (capoeira starts again in march and I quit dance class, so my only exercise would be gym- nuclear explosion waiting to happen), partly because I have vacation until next monday so I can get a good head start… *is obsessed* I’ve been feeling so pent-up lately, since it’s so cold outside that I can’t really go hiking or anything, and I need exercise. *is really excited* I’ll just do NaNo again some other time, probably when I don’t still have to pay off computer time to my sister.
You should mount a computer on your running machine, so you can do both MuRuMo and MuWriMo!
Good afternoon all!
132 – Can I join in, kinda? 100 miles on a stationary bike. 3.33333… miles a day. I can do that. I need to do that. I probably can get more then that, but we’ll see.
I hate heath class.
133- That would be really cool! Funny, I prefer the outdoors kind of bike to the stationary bikes, but I hate running outside…
I hate running in general…But I definitely prefer an outdoor biking to stationary biking, too. And preferably off-road biking, like not on a bike trail but rather on trails in the woods. Provided you have somebody biking in front of you to clear the spiderwebs across the trail with their face. I hate it when I get spiderwebs in my face…. *shudder*
*remembers time when I got spiderwebs in face* *shudders with Luna*
Au contraire, I really like running.
Yeah, Outdoor bikes are better, but winter = no outdoor bike.
I detest running. However, I like biking, and we have a stationary bike too. I think I’ll try 100 miles this month.
Lucky people with a stationary bike.
Hmm. You know, SudoRandom’s got a point. Maybe I’ll try the dual method… Oh gods. Tomorrow should be interesting. Good thing it’s the start of a new semester.
Well, however this turns out, my goal is not going to be fifty thousand words.
-A
We’ve got a stationary bike at home in our basement…..I can’t remember the last time anyone used it.
and the rec center on campus only has about a million stationary bikes, treadmills, stair climbing machines, etc, etc, etc. And I’ve been to the rec maybe twice?
We’re home, yay!
After waving at Robert’s house on the way by (so now I know where it is, there’s no excuse next time), we got lost trying to get onto the GW Memorial Highway. *sigh* Ended up on PA avenue, on the wrong side of the river, screaming our heads off at each other…..not a great situation. However, after that the rest of the trip went without mishap.
And there are COOKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mmmmmmm. *noms*
Biking…..I haven’t ever used the stationary ones, but they look incredibly boring. The best thing about riding a bike is going places, or at least enjoying moving. Especially on summer evenings, when it’s just cool enough that you can pedal without dying, and so the air feels delightful as it whooshes past you. Mmmm. I love my bike.
Another fun thing is going down steep hills on a bike. That’s exciting. Especially when it’s right next to a fast road with no visibility and over bumpy ground that’s kind of hard to steer on. Adrenalin? Yesssss.
It’s kind of hard on the bike though, I guess. Especially since the bike I ride now is more of a town bike. Meh, I still take it cross-country, it takes extra pedaling and the fenders make a racket, but it was made in the 30’s.
We should go biking sometime. You’d like the area we’ve got up here.
-A
PS to my last comment…
I’ve been known to put on extra layers of clothing and ride my bike through snow. Just saying. It’s fun to skid on the ice.
Um no, I never claimed to be sane.
*exits*
Back from hockey torunament in upper MI
large book report and other work to finish tonight
MuNoWriMo story to plan, which will probably just be a revival of NaNo but oh god need more time x_x
Tired, can’t really from sentences so I’m not going to read all that’s here. If anyone said anything directly to me you will probably have to repeat yourselves, sorry.
How does one convince one’s parents to let one get a job?
tell them it is the american way
Show them the prices of colleges these days
And tell them otherwise it’s all on them
Point out to them that they would not have to give you money for various needs/wants, since you would be able to pay for them yourself.
But my parents still give me money for various needs/wants, despite the fact that I’ve had a job since a couple months after my sixteenth birthday. But maybe that’s just because they both know how danged expensive college is, and I’ve never been much of one for the frivolous spending (well, actually, I’m becoming more of one for that, now). $250,000 for vet school alone. Anybody wanna give me some money?
Sorry, I’ve got college myself in two and a half years.
Sorry, I’ve got college myself in… In a year… In just over a year…
*falls over and stares blankly at a wall*
-A
Occasionally I’ll be talking to my friends and we’ll realize that next year we’ll be juniors, and then we all sit there in shock for several minutes.
Oh, god, that’s right–you are turning 17 at the end of March. I mean, I knew you were three years younger than me, it just didn’t click that three years younger than me=1 year until college. Because when I read your post, I was like, “No way. He’s three years younger than me. He can’t possibly be that close to college age.
”
You’re making me feel old.
137 – I have the opposite problem. I’m only 13 and my parents already are rushing me out to get a summer job. (not technically a “real” job, but still…)
I already sell newspapers in the summer and babysit, but there’s this one grocery store that hires 14 year olds down at the beach where I’m at during the summer so I guess that’s where they want me to work. I mean, I do want to earn some money, but not by working in a grocery store. I would prefer somewhere where I could actually be outdoors. And enjoy the sunshine on my shoulders.
But I dunno, I guess I don’t really do much during the summer…except for one sleep away camp. I just sit around on MB. Not like that’s not doing something, it just doesn’t truly ‘count’ in my dear parent’s minds.
Exactly what I’ve done all summer (school tomorrow, YAY!). Not that I would mind if my parents wanted me to get a job next summer.
I’ve been pretty much gone for the weekend, sorry about that. I’ll be back later, but I need to read Sense and Sensibility before Tuesday. I promise I’ll be back when I can.
Just saw Avatar. I’m sorry, but honestly, it was one of my least favourite movies that I can recall seeing. The plot was unbelievably slow and predictable. Anyway…Um, nothing really spectacular is going on in my life. It’s rather boring, actually. So I’ll stop clogging up this thread and go do something productive. Peace out.
{Wow, that sounded cynical.}
But I love how you ended it with “Peace out.”.
Ha, thanks I guess? *waits to find something ironic/funny in this conversation* *finds nothing, therefore falls asleep*
S’okay. I’m writing, or at least, trying to write, a less cheesy version of it on the BiP.
Hehe, I’m trying to talk my dad into getting me a Dalek skin for my computer. Don’t think it’s going so hot (“Why don’t you buy it yourself if you want it?”), but it can always be added to my growing list of things I want for my b-day. All of which are currently DW or TW.
To be fair, it’s dreadfully expensive: Like $40 or so expensive.
Ah, well. Still. It would make me so very happy. Like putting TARDIS wall paper on my laptop, and getting a TARDIS persona for Firefox. (And switching to a TARDIS gravatar). Anybody notice a theme, here? Like Luna is becoming increasingly more obsessional with DW/TW?
(And I also favorited every DW/TW persona I found for Firefox, and not a single HP one…..)
I’ll become really worried when you switch your name to Rose the Lovely or “other compainion” the lovely…
That wouldn’t sound right. Although, I have always like the name Rose. and I ahve considered changing my name (or just shortening it to Luna) numerous times throughout the past semester, but….I can’t bring myself to part with my spot in the “Who’s posted how much”.
When obsessions collide….
*big insane goofy grin*
Yup.
You better not change your name to Rose. That would confuse me a lot…
Oh, I’m not going to. If I were to change it, it wouldn’t be Rose–although, like I said, I have always liked that name. Not to mention, at this point I’ve been Luna on here for so long that, well, it would just be too confusing for people if I were to do anything other than shorten it to “Luna”…..
So, today was a good day. I got a haircut, then went running, then went to the library, and now I’m at home watching the opening to Cybersix again. I think I saw it on TV once or twice when I was little, but I don’t remember much. Still, that’s an AWESOME opening.
We have a snow day tomorrow. I’m enjoying this weekend. Yesterday, my sister and I went sledding for a little while, and then I went to my friend’s house to work on our bridge for Science Olympiad. When I got home, my dad and I went cross-country skiing around our neighborhood. I borrowed my mom’s skiis; they don’t get a whole lot of use around here. Today, I went out to breakfast with my family, shoveled the driveway with my mom, and finished up homework. Tomorrow, my friend D is coming over (I know I’ve mentioned her on here before, she’s the one I wrote that weird story with–the one about Mojo Jojo and my friends with magic powers) and we might walk down to [local university]’s main street to meet our friend N.
Also, I went for a walk down the street in the snow, just a few minutes ago.
If I finish this poem, I’ll take it to that thread.
Last night was very amusing.
We preformed our play at the other school, and when we were driving back, we found out that the other bus had gotten stuck in the snow at the other school. So we had to turn around and push the bus out (DRAMA POWER!) then drive back. A hypnotist was preforming and made twenty people do extremely hilarious and crazy stuff, such as making them believe they were secret agents and were waiting for a phone call from a shoe, at which they grabbed peoples’ shoes, even removed them, and spoke to them.
A script on the page “Random Thread: Anchors Aweigh, Part 3 » MuseBlog” (https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=5760#comment-350311) is making Safari unresponsive. Do you want to continue running the script, or stop it?
I need trouble shooting.
I don’t know what the problem is. There was a blank “http” statement in Tesseract’s profile, which I’ve deleted. Maybe that will solve the problem.
Most times when that happens to me, I just tell it to keep running and it usually clears up. Or else I reload the page. Haven’t had that happen on MuseBlog in a while but occasionally on other sites.
Hm? There was? That’s weird.
Hm. I’m attempting to use photoshop, but whenever I try to use the bucket thingy, nothing happens.
1. Check which layer you’re editing.
2. Chess.
The paint bucket thingy? It’s kind of weird in Photoshop compared to other programs. If the area is small, brushes are sometimes easier to control. You can also select the area you want and use “fill” from the Edit menu.
“A school for scandal! Tell me, I beseech you,
Needs there a school this modish art to teach you?
No need of lessons now, the knowing think–
We might as well be taught to eat and drink.
Caused by a dearth of scandal, should the vapors
Distress our fair ones–let ’em read the papers
Their pow’rful mixtures such disorders hit:
Crave what they will, there’s quantum sufficit.
“Lord!” Cries my Lady Wormwood (who loves a tattle,
And puts as much salt and pepper in her prattle),
Just ris’n at noon, all night at cards when threshing,
Strong tea and scandal– “Bless me, how refreshing!”
Give me the papers, Lisp, how bold and free!
Last night Lord L— was caught with Lady D—
For aching heads what a charming sal volatile!
If Mrs. B— will still continue flirting,
We hope she’ll draw, or we’ll undraw the curtain.
Fine satire, poz–in public all abuse it,
But, by ourselves, our praise we can’t refuse it.
No, Lisp, read you–there, at that dash and star.”
“Yes ma’am.–A certain Lord had best beware,
Who lives not twenty miles from Grosv’nor Square;
For should he Lady W— find willing,
Wormwood is bitter”– Oh! That’s me! the villain!
Throw it behind the fire, and never more
Let that vile paper come within my door.”–
Thus at our friends we laugh, who feel the dart;
To reach our feelings, we ourselves must smart.
Is our young bard so young, to think that he
Can stop the full spring-tide of calumny?
Knows he the world so little, and it’s trade?
Alas! The devil is sooner raised than laid.
So strong, so swift, the monster there’s no gagging:
Cut Scandal’s head off–still the tongue is wagging.
Proud of your smiles once lavishly bestow’d,
Again your young Don Quixote takes the road:
To show his gratitude, he draws his pen,
And seeks the hydra, Scandal, in his den.
For your applause all perils he would through–
He’ll fight–that’s write–a cavalliero true,
Till every drop of blood–that’s ink–is spilt for you.”
The prologue written by David Garrick for the play The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
I just finished watching the documentary entitled The War on Kids. Woah. I completely agree with it and highly recommend it.
MuNoWriMo:
I don’t see a thread for it (or should those posts be on Books in Progess?) so I’m goign to say this here I guess–
Going to go with something completely different from the story I do in Nano, because this has even more freedom. I’m going to try not one story but a series of interconnected scenes, each a fragment but when read together at once adding up to something greater. It’s something I’ve wanted to try for a long time now, and I think I could really make it work (more than linear writing, which is hard for me), but I’ve never had time to try it before. It’s slightly inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s Tralfamedorian (oh god no idea ont he spelling there) literature in Slaughterhouse Five and the poem “Spaces” by Arkaye Kierulf and partly just who I write normally. I can’t start tonight (oh god book report still not done x_x). I’ll see, I guess. Just thought I’d share in case I’m too busy frantically writing to come by tomorrow (unlikely).
There will be a thread tomorrow.
Okay, I’ll wait to say anything else till then, then
Thank you.
(…I’ve noticed I tend to see emoticons as punctuation. As in, I don’t use a period/etc before them when I place them at the end of a sentence. Hmm.)
Oh, hey, wait. Tomorrow’s February. Already.
wow. Where’s the time gone?
147- Brilliant! Now I want to read the play but I haven’t TIIIIME.
Is the fact that I want to make myself a life-size cardboard TARDIS (half Halloween costume, half decoration) mildly (or significantly) disturbing? Because I have this really strong urge to do so. Like, 4 feet square, 6-7 feet tall (it can’t be quite as tall as I think it should be, or it wouldn’t fit through doors), and figure out some way to be able to see out. And some way to “wear” it, without having armholes….Yeah, I’ve gone mad(er). Good to know that’s cleared up.
152- Well, I want to build myself a life-size wooden TARDIS in the back yard…so no, not really.
Oh, that would be brilliant. Apparently lots of people in the UK have TARDIS sheds…..
I wonder if I could talk my dad into helping me build a real life-size wooden TARDIS in the yard. *thinks about it for a second* Um, no, definitely no. I can see it now: “Dad, can I build a life-size wooden TARDIS in the yard?”
Dad: “A what?”
Me: “A TARDIS. It’s a large blue wooden box, like a telephone box. Here, I’ll show you a picture.”
Dad: *gives me look like I’m mental* “No. It would lower the property value.”
Me: “No it wouldn’t. It would be awesome. Besides, this could be instead of the monkey bars or playhouse that you promised us [sister and I] when we were little.”
Dad: *gets irritated as he always does at mentions of promises he never kept* *denies any recollection of promising to build us a cool little house in the lower part of the yard down by the lake [seeing as he has denied this just last summer, even though my sis, mom, and I all remember……] “No. I am not having some wooden box in my yard that is going to lower the property value. Drop it before I get mad.”
Yeah….He has this little hang up about things lowering the property value…..Let me rephrase that: Huge hang up. Which, really, is stupid, because I would totally take it with me and not leave it there at this unknown distant point in the future whenthe house might get sold.
Not to mention, speaking of the house, surely the fact that it is infested with bats is going to lower the property value a lot more than an awesome time machine in the yard…..*sigh* Dads.
Of course, the problem with my mostly life-size cardboard replica is, well, with all my HP displays I’ve got going on in my room, there’s not even room for something 6 inches square, much less four feet square. My last Potter display (at about 2, 2 1/2 feet square) had to get put in the hallway right outside my room, as there was absolutely nowhere else for it…..Hmmmm. I don’t think anybody in the house would appreciate a ginormous cardboard TARDIS in the living room. Well, with the exception of me and Gandalf. Me because it would be awesome, Gandalf because he would love to have another cardboard item in which to get his vicious little claws.
Not a phone box; a police box.