The next stop in our travels through China is a visit to Song Dynasty court painter Ma Yuan (c. 1160-1225). This is a lesser known version of his painting “Apricot Blossoms.”
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Ooh, nice picture.
I’ve listning to Viva La Vida for the fifth time in a row. Can you tell that I’m addicted?
First post?
I do that a lot. With Rainy Day, VIolet HIll, and Glass of Water, Or Dance in the Dark, then Alejandro, then Dance in the Dark, and so on…
I only just got over my unexpected addiction. Heard it on the radio, got it from iTunes, listened to it way to many times straight.
Wow, beautiful! I see Kokopelli, Crraw, Mimi, Urania, and a few more Kokos! I love the art this month!
Where did you find Mimi? I can’t seem to find her. Unless I’m mistaking her for who I think is Urania…
Mimi is right over Urania…
Ooohhh. I see her now. Thanks.
Oh, so that’s Urania! I couldn’t figure out what that was.
I thought it was Feather. I saw a beak….
Lovely picture!
It’s ridiculously frustrating to try to talk about stuff that happened on MB in real life. A couple of my friends (literally two) know about this place, and so I can preface stories with “Remember MuseBlog? This was on MuseBlog.” Even with them, though, blognames are still incredibly awkward to use in stories. It’s worse when I’m trying to talk to someone who doesn’t know about the blog. Ever tried to tell a story about your friends Speller and Luna? Or Piggy, Ducky, Beavo? SudoRandom and RoseQuartz? Yeah, it’s difficult. (I don’t have a specific example in mind, I was just pulling names out of thin air.)
Well, I would think that “Luna” wouldn’t be too difficult to use in a story. I mean, of ’em all, it’s at least usable as a name without too much weirdness–other than getting confused with Luna Lovegood.
Luna is one of the few I can use without weirdness. Then I know the real names if a couple of you guys, and I can use those too. I use
all of your blognames to refer to you in my head though so I get confused a lot.
Oh, I know what you mean. Sometimes I’ll just avoid confusion altogether (Especially when I’m trying to explain something to someone who doesn’t know about MB) by just saying, “I know this person that…” I mean, it’s easier than trying to say “RoseQuartz did this and then…” “What’s a RoseQuartz?”
You can see where the confusion sets in. (By the way, RQ, I’m just using you as an example, not thinking of a specific situation.)
But yeah, I know what you mean. It’s also funny how many times I do think about MB in my real life, or how many times I can relate to it and yet no one else knows what I’m talking about.
Then there are the quizzical looks when I say something like “one of the other GAPAs….”
You should see the way people in my neighborhood look at me when I say stuff like “Oh, I wonder if the GAPAs moderated my comment yet?” really loudly.
Yesterday, I was heading next door to give the person that lives there her Twice as Tacky Glue back, and I kind of shouted that (above), and there was this older mailman that was walking up the steps too. He literally stared for a few minutes, and then backed down the stairs. He didn’t even put the mail in the mailbox!
By the way, love the picture.
Oh yeah. I do that too. I also read author’s blogs and sometimes tell stories about them, referring to them by the phrase “this person I know” when really I just read their blog.
Who else is watching the Olympics? I am LOVING this opening ceremony. Shirtless guy tap-dancing in a kilt, and fiddles! Where can this go wrong!
Can we have an Olympics thread?
What?!?!?! Shirtless guy tap-dancing in a kilt and I missed it? Uh-uh, this is so not fair. Somebody has better put that up on YouTube, or the Spelluna’s wrath shall be incurred. *drools* Shirtless guy. In kilt. So hot. And I just had the weirdest deja vu moment like I’ve typed a very similar comment before…..I must be channeling my other physical manifestation.
The other half of the Spelluna didn’t miss it. But yes… it was pretty awesome. Definitely the best part. Even better than saying “A bear! You made a bear! Undo it! Undo it!” when the giant polar bear appeared… (It’s a Buffy reference.)
*snork*
Too bad I don’t actually share the memories of you, my other half…..
There was also a guy in a wolf suit, playing the fiddle, on a flying canoe. He also fought with his shadow.
Well, he had a fiddling duel. “Fought” is a little misleading.
True.
Yes, but was shirtless guy good-looking?
Yes. The opening ceremony was flamablamablous.
Good thing we watched it, then, because we certainly didn’t.
“Good thing we watched it, then, because we certainly didn’t.” – Have you ever read The Anthem by Ayn Rand? Hm?
On the channel I was watching ( NBC ) in one of the video introductions they had, they were showing all these skiiers on slaloms and stuff and saying things like “Most decorated Olympic athlete…ten gold medals…” and the background music was the Pirates of the Caribbean theme song.
*transfers memories to us*
When we go to the Kokon, We really need to get our email addresses.
Yes! Oh my goodness, that sounds stalkerish. *runs off*
O_o
I LOVED the opening ceremony. I really want to try one of those harnesses like the boy in the “Plains” segment used that let you “fly”, turning all the way around and doing flips. I know you probably have to go to circus school for years and years to be able to do what he did, but it looked SO awesome.
And it was great to see Julie Payette and Romeo Dallaire as flagbearers.
That looked amazing.
How do you think it compared to Beijing? I mean, both were spectacular, but there were way more people in Beijing.
It was good, but it didn’t come close to Beijing. Beijing was just so over the top.
I didn’t see Beijing.
Yes, the Olympics are awesome!! I have spent the past hour hand copying the entire schedule for curling, because my Spanish class has this odd obsession. We’re going to play Fantasy Curling and follow the stats and everything. I’m picking Russia, for my team.
Today I saw Percy Jackson on opening night with my two friends. My review:
Soccer starr was right, if you based the movie on the story of the book, it wasn’t as good at all. they left out one of my favourite scenes, and the beginning was odd. The setting/scenery was very good, though. In its own self, it was very well-done. The characters were nothing like what I imagined them as, except for Percy (whom I find extremely attractive, by the way.)
Acting: B+
Special Effects: A
Story (see above): based on the book: C+ | in its own self: A
Overall: A. I liked it a lot! I’d definitely reccomend seeing it.
Silver Lining, darling, can you please come over to the Kokonventions thread so Pseudonym, SudoRandom, Keiffer, Enceladus ( !!!! ) and I can
stalk youorganize an afternoon of fun and Muserliness with you?You know what? This year I have decided that I do want to come. I will go over to the Kokonventions thread right now!
Yes!
Thankyouthankyou! Yay!
Yayyayyayyayyayyayyayyay! *hyperventilates*
Rebecca, you never cease to amaze. One of my favorite things about the thread art is how you manage to create a truly stunning and beautiful graphic that contains inside jokes and is absolutely hilarious, but can still be enjoyed as a beautiful picture. Sorry if that didn’t make any sense…
Oh dear…..Enceladus and SudoR have become one. I’ll probably be confusing you now. Forgive me, I recognize you both, but I haven’t really built up as much of a data base on you individually as I have with some of the MBers. Oh that sounded creepy, I’m not a stalker, really, I just remember some people better than others. No offense to anyone.
And Tesseract on the previous thread (I believe), yes, Alice is the twin sister I wasn’t born with. It’s borderline alarming how many things we’ve found we have in common, along with even looking somewhat similar.
Zoons I’m tired, goodnight everyone.
I have no trouble telling them apart. But I can see how similar you and Alice are.
I could tell them apart before, but what confuses me now is their insanely similar gravatars.
Thanks, Fiddler. That makes perfect sense to me, as it’s exactly what I aim for more often than not. Why should Beauty be constrained to the solemn? Why shouldn’t it be allowed to go out and play?
I know what you mean about having built up databases. I get people mixed up too.
I clicked the “Send me somewhere random” button and got sent to the random thread of October 2007… -sniff- Everyone was so awfully supportive…and then that was followed by Historical Angst Month and where did everyone go? I suppose people are still supportive but I’m just not in deed of support. I miss people though. Whatever happened to Grant? Gwen? TNO? Penty? c+q? Traggle? Gim’s still around but not as much. I guess people just keep getting older and busier and dropping off. -deep sigh- What we need is another Angst Month…February’s always good for that because of Valentine’s Day which offers much opportunity for warm fuzzy feelings.
TNÖ can be found on the Chatterbox; I’ll ask her to come back to MB.
No, I know where I can find her, and Grant, and Penty, and c+q, but it’s no good trying to make someone come back.
Extremely flammy pic!
I had something more substantial to post, but I can’t seem to remember it now. That’s troublesome.
Brilliant picture, Lady B! I love the little Muse symbols along the right hand side…..They look so very much like real Chinese (Japanese? Korean?) symbols. Utter flamablamablous pwnage.
So, in other news:
This one girl I know, she’s also prevet, she and I just went to this Friday night thing on campus (free food and crafts–I like the former, she likes the latter). So it came up that she like Broadway music, right as we were leaving. Yup, that’s right. Cue the Luna manifestation of the Spelluna, the JB obsessed fangirl, trying to win another convert (original convert being the speller manifestation of the Spelluna). I commented on the way back to our dorms, that “You say you like Broadway music? Because there’s this one guy, he’s an actor/singer, and he sings a lot of broadway stuff. He’s not big here in the US, but he’s really big in the UK. He’s on a couple of BBC television programs.”
Her: “I think you’ve mentioned him before…..”
Me: “Really?” (i’m quite sure I never have…..) “Well, anyway, I’ve got a whole bunch of his CDs, you should totally YouTube him, he’s go the most incredible voice. And he’s totally hot. Gay, but totally hot. [why the gayness matters, not sure, cuz it doesn’t, but I was starting to babble at this point]. He’s in his early 40s……o.0 I’m calling a guy in his 40s hot…..” [again, not sure about the last bit, I’ve got no problem, at least to you all, admitting that, but somehow I guess that’s different telling a fellow 19 year old that I think a 40 year old is hot]
Her: “Well, I guess you could think one [40 year old guy] is good looking. Just not as in you would want to go after him….”
Me: *awkward pause* Ummm.
Her: *gets look like I’m weirding her out slightly* “Or maybe you would…..”
Me: “Well…..”
Yeah. That was a bit awkward. She seemed to find the very idea of me being open to the possibility of going after any 40 year old guy (we’re talking JB! I mean, really.) totally disturbing….But I mean, really. JB? Oh, yeah. I don’t care he’s twice my age, I mean…..You know how gorgeous he is…….
yeah. And then I just went and hunted up a whole bunch of links on youtube and emailed ’em to her……She’s going to think I’ve gone mental. Although, really, she’s heard me go on about HP enough that my mental state really shouldn’t come as that much of a surprise…..
Very beautiful picture, GAPAs, Crraw was a good choice for that one.
Spelluna-Ouch.
My review on Percy Jackson-I liked it a lot. I mean, even though they left out Clarisse and the exploding toilets, there was some really funny parts, too. Grover wasn’t what I pictured him to be. I always thought of him as white, with curly brown hair, and shorter. And I thought Annabeth had curly blond hair.
Acting-A
Special effects-A++
Story-Based on book C|In itself A+++++++etc.
Beautiful picture Lady B!! I liked looking for all the hidden Muses in it – I found several Kokos!
LBK, Silver Lining – My rant report is on the Movies Thread, but for the grades:
Acting – B+
Special Effects – A
Story Based on a Book – C-
Stand Alone Movie – B+
Also, I know that Speller and Luna are now The Spelluna, (
) but are they using the same avatar/name now? Because if they are…confusing.
I think they are, because that last post was by Luna and that wasn’t Luna’s avatar. Unless they specify the
manifestation, I think we’re stuck guessing.
Yup. We’ve decided to see how confused we can make people… We’ve been the Spelluna for some time now; we’re just now using teh same name/avatar.
And it’s so very much fun.
Oh God. Sheesh. That is confusing. Same avatar and all….*headdesk* I hope you know how insane I’m going to be driven, although I think I probably will be able to tell you apart.
Oh, can you now?
As for the insanity: We thrive on it, it gives us life.
*backs away slowly*
Oh, the avatars were easy. My other half mentioned we should get a Glory avatar (Buffy reference, here) for Spelluna, and not long later a post appeared on MB by her as Spelluna with a Glory avatar. I merely saved the image to my computer, set up a new gravatar account, and stuck it in as my avatar.
Yeah… My other half mentioned us being like Glorificus at some point, so it seemed right for our gravatar. I just Google imaged Glorificus, and presumably my other half stole it.
To give this some context, Glorificus is the villain in the fifth season of Buffy. She has two manifestations, and she has to steal people’s sanity in order to maintain her own. So the same name/avatar thing will be equivalent of stealing people’s sanity.
Well, after we learned that little tid-bit about Glorificus, it seemed so much more fitting than our former decision that we were a vengeance demon. You know, the whole two physical manifestations, and all that.
Can the GAPAs tell you apart via IP address? No, all they’d have to do is look at your emails*, right? They’re the only ones who can tell you guys apart now. *shudder* How come they get a free pass on the guessing?
Inner Voice: Because they’re GAPAs.
Oh, right.
Not really. I can tell you guys apart sometimes, when you use specific information, like mentioning prevet. The rest of the time…*headdesk*
*email is the plural of email. I think. But saying emails is less confusing, even if it sounds wrong.
Yes, they can tell us apart via IP address, since the two of us are incompletely different states, etc. Emails would probably work, as well, although I’m using a completely different email than I’ve ever used on the ‘blog before….But, yes, one way or another the GAPAs know who is who.
I’m using a different e-mail too, but it’s close enough to my old e-mail that I’m sure they can tell it’s me.
We’re using the same email, plus my avatar for my regular email is the same picture cropped differently. Even more confusing. XD
(Can you tell which one I am?
)
7.2~ That’s what confuses me. I’ve come to recognise people both by thir names and their gravatars. *sigh* I get confused when someone changes either.
7.3~ Ah good. But truly, I love how it can be enjoyed in so many ways. Wow. *choklit for sheer amazingness*
You’re not alone. I’ve seen some posts by Enceladus and thought “I didn’t post that, did I?”
Do you ever picture people as their avatars? I would not be one bit surprised if you came to a kokon as a soccer ball.
But I really can’t picture you coming to a kokon as a flower and some vanilla bean.
Oddly enough, I can.
Yes, the bean is the body and the flower is the head. It looks vaguely like the Pixar lamp.
Ok, if I ever get a chance to go to a Kokon, I will surely buy one of those soccer ball hat/mask things and where it over my head so you all will know that it is me.
I don’t really picture people as their avatars, though. I mean, I guess I do have a sort of generalized idea of how I think everybody looks (Which I’m sure is far from the real thing in cases, especially after seeing various Kokon threads and being quite stunned) but I do associate the avatar with the name most of the time.
I usually only picture people as their avatars if their avatars are vaguely human-like.
Yeah. For example, I’ve always pictured Beavo as Harry Potter and Elias as his avatar. But funnily enough, I’ve always thought of LBK as a black cartoon cat.
Unless, of course, I see Kokon pictures, in which I picture them as what they really look like. Some people I picture a little more vividly than others, though.
I picture Piggy as that guy from The Princess Bride. I also picture Elias as his avatar.
Yeah, when I scroll through threads, I almost instantly know your names only by looking at your avatars. Like “Oh, there’s Piggy’s Spirited Away avatar” and stuff like that. It gets confusing when people change their avatars, but most of us kind of have a theme. Like you would know Pseudo’s avatar, because she almost always has a Queen/Beatles avatar.
I picture Elias as his avatar, too. The rest of you I picture as human, but with varying degrees of detail. Some I only have very vague images for, some very clear. For example, P_M, you look a bit like Betty from the Archie comics in my head. Starr looks like my friend S.
I guess Princess does look a little bit like Betty.
I’m so accustomed to that picture as Elias’s avatar that I was startled to find it the other day on another site. And the political views expressed by the person using it were about as opposite of Elias’s as you can imagine, which made it all the more disorienting.
And is your friend S beautiful?
Just kidding.
Hahaha. Yes, she’s very pretty.
Oh, yeah. I was watching The Princess Bride the other day and thought of Piggy. I don’t think of people as their avatars, though.
I still think of Enc and SR as their old avatars, but Spelluna… I think of Elias, Rosanne, starr, Ducky, bookgirl, and most other people as their avatars. I’ve seen photos of Robert, Rebecca, Psuedo, Armada, and RQ(those two look a bit like blog sisters) and usually think of them that way. SR is a cross between the photos I’ve seen of him and Mr Joe.
I’ve apparently started just looking at the gravatars rather than taking the trouble to actually read the name. Which gets confusing when two MBers have the same gravatar.
That is an AMAZING picture!!!!
The picture is gorgeous!!
Ok GAPA’s, is it just me or is the font bigger and the smileys different now?
I just noticed it – the font for our names is definitely bigger, and I think the font for the regular print might be different also but it’s hard to tell. As for the smiley’s, they just look slightly…fuzzier. It’s hard to describe, but there definitely is a difference.
Either that, or I’m going crazy.
SFTDP
But if the font change is on purpose, is it going to be a permanent thing? Or is it temporary? Just curious. (And impatient obviously…)
I don’t notice any difference. Perhaps you accidentally enlarged the page on your computer? That is, “zoomed in” on it? On my laptop, I often do so accidentally, as all it takes is two fingers moving in the opposite direction on the track pad….
Hmm..this is odd. On my laptop, the font seems to have changed (I’m using Mozilla Firefox) but on the desktop, I don’t see any change. This is probably a stupid question, but if I did accidentally zoom in, how do I zoom back out again?
SFTDP
Oops, sorry. I figured it out. But thanks for the information anyway.
Pseudonym and I are going to Re – um, to our grandparents’ house. Bye for three or so days.
Bye!
Ugh. Yesterday we had a brief Valentine’s Day party in my class, and I ate FunDip. This, in turn, made me so hyper that I couldn’t speak correctly. Two other boys got hyper too and we linked arms and started skipping around the classroom shrieking and singing at the top of our lungs. This is proably the most interesting Valetine’s Day-related event that will happen to me in a long time…
I love the picture, Rebecca! I set it as my iPod wallpaper.
RE: Avatars. I think of them more as just another visual clue. Though, I do picture Beavo as looking like Harry Potter. And I’m always surprised at Fridgey (Elias-Silver Something or whatever his name is now)’s avatar, as I don’t imagine him having a beard. Or a round face. Or being older.
Hmmmmm. I wonder if I should change my avatar now…..just because I haven’t for a while. Yes, I say how confusing it is, and then say I might go off and do it.
SFTDP, But GAPA dears, if I did decide to change my avatar, could I use a picture of me that didn’t show my face? I’m not saying I will, just that it’s a possibility and I was wondering what the policy was in that slightly grey area.
Hey, Enceladus, would you get the joke behind a poster saying that a lecture on the Cassini-Huygens mission will be given by Sean G. Christopher?
I have to ask, because I’m too impatient to wait until my computer realizes that people have changed their Gravatars, so can somebody tell me what EnceRandom/SudoLadus’s avatars look like now?
EnceRandom and SudoLadus’ avatars are essentially each other’s orginal avatars split in two to create one new smiley. It’s a bit disturbing, if you ask me.
Bwhahaha.
Perhaps you shouldn’t come to that Kokon after all…Come to the kokon so you can see the formation of our new empire!Your new empire?! Sheesh, maybe I shouldn’t come…. O_o (Hee hee I love making those kinds of smileys.)
Half
, half 
My computer is finally showing new avatars for the first time in almost a month.
Try quitting your browser and then reopening it.
I positioned my half so it looked a bit disconcerted at being half SudoRandom.
Oh yes, Sudo’s is mine reversed.
Now that you mention that, it seems that mine is gleeful at yours’ disconcerted-ness.
Oh, well. That is a bit disturbing. Don’t scare Silver Lining into backing out of the kokon, Lola’s kindred spirit and it’s friend!
Lola…..? I fear I have missed something….
Um, yeah. Lola is unfortunately related to me, and Sudo’s her kindred spirit. So, you can see where things would go from there.
Fantabulous. Nice avatar by the way. Hey, I just realised that at the Kokon I will be united with my fellow members of our George-Harrison-worshiping cult!!
Cult, that’s a good word for it. George-Harrison-worshiping cult!! I’m guessing you have a Beatles t-shirt? You, Pseudo, and I should all wear them. Sudo and Enc could dress in matching chicken suits or something. Or half
and half 
outfits, with bright orange hats.
Only you, my dear Keiffer, would think of matching chicken suits! Yes, I was already planning on wearing a Beatles t-shirt. Gosh, I don’t think I can wait 29 more days…
Yes, I was going to wear a chicken suit to the seventh grade dance, but I couldn’t find one. *is mad*
I don’t think I can wait 29 more days, either.
What albums do you have?
Are you asking me? Assuming that you are, I have Help!, A Hard Day’s Night, the One Album, Abbey Road, Magical Mystery Tour, the White Album, Beatles For Sale, Sgt. Pepper’s, Yellow Submarine, Rubber Soul and Revolver.
Sheesh, that was a lot! And I’m planning on purchasing Let It Be and Past Masters sometime soon.
–Silver Keiffer
SFTDP
That came out wrong. I meant, what shirts do you have? I have With the Beatles and Magical Mystery Tour.
One shirt is blue and it has a picture of them from 1969 (the same picture that was on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine a while back). Another one is white and has a picture of them when they were younger in blue tones and has “The Beatles” written in the Help! album font in pink up the side. The third one is turquoise and has the yellow submarine on it.
So. It turns out my dad had (very reasonably) thought that the airport would be packed, what with it being the start of vacation week, but the airport is practically empty. Which means that we have two hours with free internet access.
So I was cleaning out one of my drawers a few days ago and found some very old notes on Museblog: stuff that I, for whatever reason, had written down. I will faithfully reproduce them here, for future generations and the sake of reminiscing.
Teh first appears to be an inventory of all my weapons back during the First Pie War:
stolen invention
pie catapult
frisbee pies
rabid pies
pie shield w/ robotic arm
pie cannon
assorted flavor pies, quiches, tarts, and crumbles
what I’m building (top secret)
I have no idea what I was building, though it might have been a pie-spaceship. Ditto for the invention that I stole.
The other is a Muse pledge of allegiance:
I pledge allegiance to the muse of the hot pink bunny empire of America,
and to the llamas, for which they stink, one awesome magazine,
under pies, fuzzy and pink
with liberty and complete hyperness for…*splat*
I am fairly certain I did not write this, but rather copied someone else’s pledge done because I thought it was that awesome. Agreed? Though I probably would change America to Museica now…
I liked the picture so much that (as you probably noticed) I set it as my gravatar. I’ve had the moon one too long anyway…
*bows* I am honored.
wait a minute…..this isn’t working yet…. *headdesk*
It shows up in the moderation queue.
This picture is awesome, Lady B.!!!!! The Muse characters are amazing. Perhaps a new Muse alphabet?
*Agrees with Fiddler’s comment #7*
Picturing people as their avatars… I guess it’s pretty clear by me, though the cute-ness annoys me sometimes. On my bad days, I look more like the Tiger I used previously XD
SFTDP:
For some reason, the name Spelluna evokes the image of a giant Space squid in my mind.
Now that you mention it, it does the same for me. I sense strange forces at work.
This is MuseBlog. Strange forces are always at work.
A giant space squid? *laughs* Surely we’ve mentioned it before.
24- You mean like a Pying Saucer?
I forgot to say this before, but I really like this new picture.
In my mind, it was a typical spaceship with pie missiles that ran off pie-filling fuel and would go into space and commence orbital bombardment against the enemy forces. With pies.
But a Pying Saucer is a wonderful idea. Why couldn’t I have come up with it before,
when it actually would have done some good?Wow, okay. I just shut down the computer, and rebooted the hard drive thing, and I can see Sudoand Enc’s avatars, and I have to say, I’ve started visualizing an army. An army of SudoLadus and EnceRandoms. It’s the end of the world!
Now, if Pseudo and I were one, and we teamed up with all the other combined MBers, what do you think would happen? Yeah, that’s right. PseudoKeiffer is on the move.
Well, if we all teamed up, I’m sure that we could eventually bring all the humans into our collective intelligences.
But I think you’re a bit more like Silver Lining, as and outsiders’ opinion.
Silver Keiffer?
Keiffer Lining?
Haha, I’d love to be Keiffer Lining. *plots*
True, I am a bit more like Silver Lining. I’d love to be Keiffer Lining too. *plots* Hm… what about Pseudonym? She could be PseudoPrincess_Magnym? Although, I don’t think they’d be to happy about that.
I bet they wouldn’t.
How shall we combine our avatars? Half George-half George would look really um, interesting.
Darn, my stupid iPod reloaded the page before I could finish deleting my name.
Yes, only you would think of a half George-half George avatar. Do we use photo shop to do that? I tried the other day, and I kind of failed.
Well, we could do that but then since we have no way of communicating except through MB, how would we both end up with the same avatar?
Noooo. Pseudo and I are Pseudohemlock!
Ha ha, really? And when did that establish?
Yes, really.
Cool.
HAWK! Go check your email. Kokon tomorrow?
*notes that there is no answer to avatar question*
I like your avatar the way it is! It’s just so… Midnight Fiddler!
I want a blog sibling now. I’m pretty sure out of everyone mine would be MG.
…wait. The record is now 91? That is a lot of people. wow.
Sadly, that figure comes from an onslaught of spammers the other night. Our real numbers are more modest.
I might be missing something obvious, but who’s MG?
MontgomeryGurl, perhaps?
Wow, 91 is a lot. Bad, spammers!
Yep, MontgomeryGurl. RTH is right.
What did the spammers try to do?
They tried to post a boat load of messages, all deftly snagged by our spam catcher.
I want one too! Anyone…? I’ve always felt a strange kinship with Pseudo, Keiffer and Princess_Magnolia….
Hello, I will be you blog sibling. As we figured out at post 30 and the replies.
-Keiffer Lining.
Yay! Hmm, maybe you can be Keiffer Lining and I can be Silver Keiffer? I don’t know.
Yeah, I link that. Except I don’t really want to change my blogname… because I want to have a lot of posts under Keiffer. I’ll just sign Keiffer Lining at the bottom of all my posts or something. Or K L, so it’s shorter.
-Keiffer Lining.
Oh, and one more thing: What the heck is a Keiffer/Why is that your blogname?
Okay, this might be a bit long… to be an explanation of why Keiffer is my blogname. *takes deep breath*
So, there’s this dude in my dad’s band, he’s the bass guitarist and he has long hair and weird bangs. He stands on the amps and jumps up and down while playing, and who else do you know that does that? He’s just awesome like that… and he has these boots, and they’re spiky all up and down the sides, and the have six or seven inch platforms on the bottom, and they’re really, really cool. So back to the point… his first name’s Keith, and his nickname’s Keiffer, and he’s so awesome that a just had to steal it… blah, blah, blah. He’s very weird, and a little bit gone… if you know what I mean, and his favourite food’s pizza and he loves chocolate milk. Just don’t ask me how I know all the more personal stuff… just take a wild guess.
Oh, yeah, and I’m planning to change my name to Keiffer and all that jazz.
Now read that really fast like you aren’t aloud to breath until the end of, and you’ll know what I mean.
*pantpantpant*
Oh, wow. And is it pronounced “Keffer” to rhyme with “Heiffer” (as in the cow) or Kifer with a long i?
First syllable: “Kee” like “tree.”
Second syllable: “fur” like on the animal.
Maybe because you live in MA too and can probably kokon with them?
I can’t wait to see the photos if you do have an MA kokon. *wanders off to find dangerous creatures to start own world domination plan* 
Don’t worry, Maths Lover, I’m sure you’ll be able to find some rabid kangaroos or something like that to help you take over the world…
32.2.1.2.1.1.1–Well, that just messes everything up! I had been pronouncing it back-and-forth between the two ways I described ever since you came on the blog!
I just discovered Wordle! *glee* Yes, ’tis flamablamablous. I just put in The Raven- the top 5 words are:
1. Door
2. Chamber
3. Raven
4. Nevermore
5. Lenore
Oh, I made wordles of all the HP books, once. ‘Twas great fun.
You’re Luna!
Says who? Both of us like HP. So either of us could easily have made Wordles of the books.
But Luna mentioned it once.
Did she, now? But how’s that to say that just because Luna said it, that Speller didn’t do it too? Hmmm?
No one. But I know the initial post was Luna.
I made one of the Garlic War!
I just made one of MuseBlog, which I sent to the GAPAs.
Garlic?
Garlicgarlicgarlicgarlicgarlicgarlic!
*eats garlic*
Yeah… that’s a pretty huge margin. Both “Enceladus” and “Enc” are on there.
It took forever to make, because I copied and pasted only the text of each comment, so that it wouldn’t be all composed of blognames and stuff.
Awesome!!!!!!! *gives celebratory choklit*
I made a wordle of the poem Invictus. The top words are “pole” and “soul”
OH! I found that on the website!
Yay! *goes to make more*
Silver Lining, what did you do to find your avatar? Like what did you Google or whatever you did? Do you mind if we have the same avatar?
My iPod is getting really messed up now; the post below me was supposed to reply to the comment I posted under “SilvLining”. I Googled “George Harrison” and kept searching for that picture. It’s the cover of his Let It Roll album, I think. At least that’s what it says in the corner of the picture.
aw, Keiffer, I liked your old avatar. What was it?
You mean the one of George wearing the hat? Or the green, bespectacled octagon with fangs? Or the one of George Harrison with long hair and a mustache in a suit with a little pin? I change my avatar too much.
George in a hat. But I just found it via googling.
actually, if you google image search “george harrison” the image at the top left of the second results page is one of my favorites.
Hi GAPAs! I sent something to GAPA mail!
I’m really going to post more often. Really.
AARGH I can’t wait until Towel Day!!! I want to bring my towel to school!!! Last year stank because it was on Memorial Day Observed.
I’m reading Freakonomics right now. I haven’t gotten very far yet, but so far it’s pretty funny and weird.
If I had to choose someone on the ‘blog whom I am most like, I would have to go with Kiwimuncher! Hyperactiveness + Juniors = pretty much the same. Would you agree?
I was just informed of my Extended Essay obligations for the IB Program. I’m going to do mine on sub-atomic particles! If I can get my head around them! My advisor is my eccentric chemistry teacher. If he knew I was telling everyone, he would say “MINUS FIVE!!!”
Unfortunately all of my friends think I’m crazy for actually liking chemistry. I just have that kind of a brain. I struggle (well, in a sense: I still get A’s) in English and history. I really think it’s unfair for only math and science classes to have many extra credit opportunities while English and history have virtually none. Very frustrating when trying to maintain an A!
UGH all of my posts tend to be very long. I NEED CUPCAKES!
Freakonomics = great book.
*agrees*
Have you seen the second one? It’s in my school’s library and I’ve been meaning to pick it up.
-A
aha! Fellow IB student! Do you do TOK yet at your school? At my school, my brother’s year did it their junior year as well as this year (He’s a senior) but my year (I’m a sophomore in college) only took it our senior year.
TOK is forced upon us 2nd semester Junior year and 1st semester Senior year, like your brother’s experience.
I don’t like TOK. I can see how other people like it, but I don’t like talking in class. I’m more of a listening type of person, mostly because I don’t have any opinion on many subjects that we talk about in TOK. Unfortunately, I am forced to talk in order to get a good grade. My mom says to talk once each class period. It’s just so hard to talk when I have nothing to say!
*gives cupcakes in fear of being bitten* Goooooood MORNING, MB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope it’s a flamablamablous day!!!
*NOM NOM NOM* Yummy
Is anyone watching the Olympics? DID YOU JUST SEE APOLO ANTON ONO?!!!!! He just won the 1500 meters and oh my goodness the way he won was just beautiful. Go look it up, it’s amazing.
Wow, vanillabean, way to be accurate. He only qualified, it wasn’t an actual race. It still looked really cool.
YES!!! The Koreans in front of him ate it and he got silver and Celski got bronze! (NO offense to Korean MBers).
Jinx!
OLYMPIC SPOILER OLYMPIC SPOILER: (Just in case)
He won the silver medal in the final last night because two guys in front of him fell down. He was extremely lucky!
But when he won the preliminary, he seemed so relaxed…he was in the back of the pack, and then just swooped right down into the front. Twas beautiful.
Wasn’t it gorgeous? I wish I could speed skate like that.
Will anyone be watching the figure skating? It’s truly incredible what people can do.
Oh, I love figure skating! (Not doing it, just watching it. Yeah right, I wish…)
Happy Valentine’s Day, MuseBlog!
*seconds* A Happy Valentines Day to all MBers!
*thirds*
Haha. Today I get to hang out with my friend K, and the boy she likes will be there too~ blackmail oppurtunity!
“Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.” This is the jargon my computer just spewed at me.
Does that mean, by clicking a link, and getting the page that says Not Found, I sent out a request to fix the error, and it simultaneously came back as an ErrorDocument that was telling me to fix an error page telling me I got a page that was an error because I previously got a page that was an error, because of that page I found that was not found at the same time I found it???
Sorry.
*has no clue about computer jargon* My favorite bit was when the hard disk of my computer broke, the screen went black and was covered in code with the words ‘panic. panic no hard disk’ at the bottom.
Haha. I love it when inanimate objects panic.
The only chain-email that I’ve ever liked:
The Seven Wonders of the World – Author Unknown
Junior high school students in Chicago were studying the Seven Wonders of the World. At the end of the lesson, the students were asked to list what they considered to be the Seven Wonders of the World. Though there was some disagreement, the following received the most votes:
1. Egypt’s Great Pyramids
2. The Taj Mahal in India
3. The Grand Canyon in Arizona
4. The Panama Canal
5. The Empire State Building
6. St. Peter’s Basilica
7. China’s Great Wall
While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that one student, a quiet girl, hadn’t turned in her paper yet. So she asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list. The quiet girl replied, “Yes, a little. I couldn’t quite make up my mind because there were so many.” The teacher said, “Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we can help.”
The girl hesitated, then read, “I think the Seven Wonders of the World are:
1. to touch…
2. to taste…
3. to see…
4. to hear… (She hesitated a little, and then added…)
5. to feel…
6. to laugh…
7. and to love.
The room was so quiet, you could have heard a pin drop.Â
May this story serve as a gentle reminder to all of us that the things we overlook as simple and ordinary are often the most wonderful – and we don’t have to travel anywhere special to experience them.
Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone!!!
Aww…. that’s so sweet! I mean, people so often forget what they have.
Awww. That’s brilliant.
Yay, fast moderation!
-Keiffer Lining.
Happy Singles Awareness Day!
I forgot it was Valentine’s Day! I was thinking of going to see the movie of the same name with my friends today, but not since it’s today. I don’t need to see a bunch of starry eyed lovers making out in the movie theatre.
Noooooo thank you.
Moving on…
I received my wild foods field guides in the mail yesterday (!!!!!), but unfortunately, they were not quite as informative as I thought they would be. I didn’t recognize a lot of the plants as ones that live around here. Perhaps they just didn’t register when I have seen them? Anyway, I’m really excited for summer now! I can’t wait to try some recipes with plants that I have seen around here.
I’m (finally) going to make my acorn muffins today. I found another recipe with I think might be better than the other one I had. Wish me luck!
Ahhhh. Reading old threads with a weird combination of “Those were the days” feelings and “My god, Alice, stop double-posting” feelings. Thinking about RRRs and various forms of collaborative writing…and writing by myself…missing Ships’ Logs.
I just realized that my Blogiversary was yesterday! What a great year it has been! I hope that I can stay on here for a long time.
Congratulations fishy!
Kung hei fat choi, everybody! Happy new year!
Happy Chinese New Year/Happy Valentine’s Day!
My absence before was because I was away celebrating Chinese New Year with relatives at a buffet. Yum. I’m stuffed. (And also rich, seeing as I got lots of lucky money.
)
Happy Chinese New Year everyone!!!!
Daisy has just come back from the dentist.
She has had two of her cavities drilled and filled. Whoop. Her lip is still numb… it’s very odd and dizzying.
Ouch.
It’s not that bad, actually. But I have to go back tomorrow…
Ahhh….well have fun!
Happy Chinese New Year and Happy Valentine’s Day!
In February of 2007, I went to Philadephia with my parents to see the King Tut exhibition for my birthday. After we had visited the museum (The artifacts were amazing, by the way), my dad suggested that we visit Chinatown, because he’d read a newspaper in the hotel lobby that had said it was Chinese New Year. So I went with my dad to Chinatown, and we stopped into a restaurant to find out what was happening that day. The clerk lady looked at my father and said “Well, you know, we celebrate for quite a few days… but technically, the Chinese New Year was yesterday. You must have read yesterday’s paper, sir.”
“Snowmen Protest March” from kiwimuncher (she made the snowmen):
Oh my gosh, that’s hilarious!!!!!!!!!!
G’night, MB. It’s a school night.
Nice job! That’s such a great idea!!!
Genius.
hee! That’s awesome, kiwimuncher!
I think I may have missed an issue of Muse at some point, so could someone tell me: What was the date of the issue that had the first red letters in it, and what was the main article/cover story about?
I am so confused right now. Are people posting as other people or something?
-A
No, nobody is posting as other people……Why do you ask?
Because you’re not real.
Or you weren’t, last I checked.
-A
Oh, we are very, very real. We are more real than you. We are a goddess, with two physical manifestations (Speller73 and Luna). We were named Spelluna by a certain individual by the name of “Piggy”. Seeing as we feed on peoples sanity (or lack there of), we decided to change our ‘blog names to Spelluna, and use the same avatar. I could be speller, or I could be Luna. And you will never know.
Unless the GAPAs step in and help us.
… Definitely not real.
-A
Definitely real. And I don’t even remember which of us made that post anymore….Except that I think it might have been me, since I made the initial response, and I do so like the
emoticon.
No, no way… There’s no way that was ever an event firmly cemented in reality. Maybe it might have been floating above or around reality, but it definitely wasn’t real, regardless of what it was.
-A
Luna and Speller fused into one entity, a vengeance goddess I believe. They’re posting under the same name and avatar in order to wreak havoc and confuse us all. They’re enjoying it too. *glower*
No, no, no, no, no, no. We had originally thought to be a vengeance demon, on the suggestion of our speller half. But then as the both of us progressed in season 5 Buffy, our Luna half realized, after the discovery of the goddess Glorificus’s two separate physical manifestations, that we resembled a goddess more than a vengeance demon. Vengeance demons and goddesses are two extremely different creatures.
And, yes, of course we’re enjoying–and we’d prefer the flowers, over the glowers.
It’s almost like a game to tell you apart: that was the Luna half, right?
Wouldn’t you like to know.
I agree. After all, it Speller is on much less of the time, and in much more conventional hours. Of course, it is a day off for some people.
That, and I believe your style sounds more like Luna.
And you capitalized Luna and left speller lowercase.
Well, speller73 is in lowercase. For me it’s easier to pick out Luna than speller because I’ve seen a lot more comments from her.
Uh, speller is the one who normally doesn’t capitalize her name… So I think that Luna is actually more likely to capitalize speller.
Now I’m confused.
Oh, dear. Confusing ourselves…
That we are….Or you’re confusing me, anyway.
That was the givaway
Then Spelluna is sending off mixed signals. And my ideas have been thrown into turmoil. You capitalized Speller earlier, and now you don’t… Okay. Rather confused.
I’m back!!
…Because, you know, you were all wondering where on earth I went, and talking about how much you missed me.
But I am. Yes, I went away.
I went to my grandparent’s house for a couple days, and decided not to bring my computer. Since Friday night, to be exact.
And this is starting to ramble and get confusing, so I’ll post it now.
Figure skating is pretty. I’m watching some Russians on the Olympics skate just now.
I missed you! *hugs*
Did you really notice I was gone? Seriously?
I did… *hugs*
Wow… I’m impressed. I probably wouldn’t have noticed somebody’s absence for two days, and I spend enough time in semi-lurker mode, or at least not really posting that often, that I wouldn’t have thought I would attract any notice by not posting for a couple days.
Good to know I’m slightly more important than I thought. *hugs back*
Errata!!!! Um….yes! That’s exactly what we were doing!!! He..hehe….er….
So! In other news, for Valentine’s Day, my parents gave me an iTunes gift card, which I used to buy an app called “Pocket God.” And I can’t get over it!!! It’s so awesome, I’ve drained my battery twice!!!!!!
That is an awesome app. My cousins have it.
You get presents for Valentine’s day?
I got a paper heart with a Hershey’s kiss attached…
I got a valentine from my grandparents about how wonderful a granddaughter I am that I haven’t even seen yet because I was with said grandparents when it arrived and I haven’t bothered to go looking for it.
And five dollars. I’d forgotten about that. But it only slightly counts for a variety of reasons which I’m not going to go in to.
Happy late Chinese New Year, everyone!
Set off fireworks. Burned left ear. Ouch.
Whee, I have Monday (today) and Tuesday off!
56- Of course you were. I have a regal presence that is missed immediately.
Anyway, I saw Percy Jackson and the Olympians this weekend.
Not compared to the book: A
Compared to the book: C at most. Probably D.
I won’t bore you with a description of its failings.
Good morning, my favorite place that is not real! Yes, Errata, we missed you greatly. Just a question: how many of you guys have this week off from school? I’m assuming not very many. My school district is kind of weird.
59- Nope, no free week. I really need to get to work…
I found a completely random eraser in my bed when I woke up this morning. No idea where it came from.
I could have sworn I pushed ‘cancelar’… Must not have. Well, it’s not very important.
Our speller half has an extended weekend, which is a long (4.5 day) weekend where everybody has to go home. We’ve been off since Thursday afternoon, but we have school tomorrow.
I have today and tomorrow off, plus there was no school on Friday. And Wednesday, but that was a snow day. And I was home sick on Thursday.
I have a week off as well! However, the teachers have taken that opportunity to give us as much homework as possible… Hehehe wouldn’t it be cool if we went to the same school? Anyway. Enjoy your week!
Our Luna half has a completely normal week of school. She does not get even so much as today off.
I have this week off! Yay! *is happy*
We have it off….
51~ BRILLIANT!
I’m getting confused by the Spelluna. *sigh* Go back to being yourselves, at least some of the time, please?
We will. Soon…
I have discovered the incredible freedom and restraint of an empty Text Edit page.
Full of freedom, since you can write anything on it. Any word can be put down, and turned into a story. Full of possibility.
And then you put down a word. Suddenly, the page that represented unlimited freedom is now restraining you. Thousands upon thousands of words cannot be the first word in the story anymore, since there already is one.
But the limits are comparatively small. You can keep going in a thousand million different ways. The word has opened up perhaps as many directions as it eliminated. And so you continue.
And as you keep going, the list of options shrinks and shrinks. Every word you add is destroying a thousand possibilities.
Perhaps that’s what writing is. Eliminating all the possibilities but one, turning that into a certainty.
…I’m not quite certain where that came from.
It might make a decent Muserology, if I could expand it enough…
59) I have 3 days off this week. *shrug* the district wouldnt give us a week.
Okay, quick I need help! Does anyone know how to keep a seven-year-old girl cousin of mine busy and entertained for eight hours straight? She likes animals (specifically pretending to be an animal), her Nintendo DSi, but mostly she likes me. I love her dearly, but eight hours is starting to look like a really long time….
Origami.
Actually, we decided to watch “Mulan”. I forgot how much I love this movie. Definitely one of my favourites. Very funny! Well, I hope this will keep her busy for the next two hours.
Mulan is a good movie. *happy remembrances*
I had to watch Mulan in science class once…it was… amusing.
I love Mulan! One time during band when we had a sub, my friend D and and I chased our other friend around the room singing “I’ll Make A Man Out Of You.”
Let’s get down to business, to defeat the Huns!
Did they send me daughters when I asked for sons?
I love that movie. “I’ll Make A Man Out Of You” is one of my main running songs.
I have a seven year old little sister… Craft projects, games, food, lots of TV and many books. I have to keep her entertained 24/7….she loves me, but not that much.
I get off today! *happy dance*
And while you guys were wondering where I was (Naturally, as I’m sure y’all were missing me dearly…) I was busy cursing at my computer. You see, no sooner do I get it, an evil virus attacks *insert scary music here*. And although we (“we” being my parents and I) fought bravely, in the end we were forced to wipe the entire computer’s contents, including my stories. *cries* One that I had actually gotten very far along in, and in my stupidity, had forgotten to put onto a flash drive so now it’s gone. Ugh.
But now we have a virus protection system, and a bunch of new flash drives, so hopefully I’ll be ok.
You know what we should do? We should arrange for all the active MBers to come on MB sometime and break the record set by the Spammers. Won’t be easy, but might be possible. Probably on a Saturday, more people will theoretically be free.
Hmm…that would be fun!
I would certainly do it if I was available, and now that we have the little chart at the bottom showing how many MBers are on at a time, it would probably be easier than before to arrange it.
So, last week monday I missed my first 2 classes getting cavities filled, tuesday I was home sick with inflamed/infected ear canals, wensday I left school 90 minutes early for a knowledge bowel competition, thursday I toured a high school I don’t want to go to, and friday was winterim so I Nordic skiied all day, and this week is mid-winter break…
Lucky.
Not really… I hate nitrice oxide (also known as laughing gas) (aka a common dental seditive)
No, I meant that you get, like, a week off from school.
Oh yeah. That is pretty cool. We also have spring break in two months or so.
Hey, GAPAs ~
Awhile back I remember there being an article in Muse (Sorry, can’t remember the date) that talked about a website/game that lets you play with another person and you both see the same image and have to describe it using one word but you can’t use certain “taboo” words. I don’t know why, but for some reason I’ve been thinking about it and I was wondering if you know what it’s called so that I can look it up. I can understand if you don’t want to put a direct link on the ‘blog, but if you give me the name it will probably be enough. I’m interested to see it. If you can’t say, I understand and that’s ok too!
Thanks!
Google “Google Image Labeler.”
Oh, thanks starr + Tesseract! About once every two months I think “Hey, wouldn’t it be a good idea to play that really fun image labeling game that I saw in Muse?”, try to find it using google, fail, think about looking in every single Muse that I have, don’t actually do it, and end up being bored for the rest of the day. Now, I can bookmark it! Yay!
STFP: Aw, it’s not the one mentioned in Muse, but almost as good.
I actually figured it out – the one mentioned in Muse is called the ESP Game. (GAPA’s, feel free to zap this post if necessary. I want to be extra careful.)
That’s really cool. How many other MBers have spent quite some time on it?
I really like it. I’m not very good though.
Thanks! I found it. It’s a lot of fun!
That is so fun!
And, yikes, Firefox updates gravatars slooooowly. Starr, you still have the soccer ball, and Piggy still has Nosferatu.
It’s snowing again. Eeeeew.
I’ve had enough snow. Too much snow.
Wait, there’s a such thing as too much snow? Since when?
*is not from a state where snow is a common occurrence*
68.1~ When you have several feet of it and it DOESN’T GO AWAY FOR WEEKS. That’s when you have too much snow.
Weeks? Ha. There have been several feet of snow here since early December.
That would be awesome.
Although I don’t really know that, I’ve never had an opportunity for testing my theory.
I’m sorry you have what you think is too much snow, though.
Just thought it was sort of interesting. The top 10 people who have posted the most. (Actually 11, since I know that Prarilius Canix is really POSOC, right? And I didn’t include GAPAs.)
1) Alice
2) TMFA
3) Jadestone
4) Purple Panda
5) Kokonilly
6) Cat’s Meow
7) Luna the Lovely
8) Prarilius Canix
9) Piggy
10) E2MB (Never seen en)
11) KaiYves
Alice has over 11,000 posts! Wow! (Not like I’m trying to promote obsessive posting here or anything…heh, heh.)
Oops! The smiley next to Prarilius Canix was a mistake….
It keeps snowing. I’d hate the cold but my mind is numb and I can’t feel. What’s wrong with me? Why don’t I feel the cold? Why can’t I be cheerful like I used to be?
My mind is numb and I can’t feel. I get to see my best friend for the first time in a year about a month from now, but I’m not all hyper and excited about it like I should be. I get to see my old school, get to hang out with my old friends a month from now, but my mind doesn’t register it. I know I should be bouncing off the walls with anticipation- but I’m not.
Sorry, this post is pointless, rambling, repetitive, and useless. *gives choklit fine in advance*
Feel free to ignore this post…. It’s not very important….
You know what I think it is? I think it’s snowed so much, you’re getting tired of it. Maybe that’s why you feel “numb.” *gives choklit*
*hugs*
When I went to Denver in 2008 (not the DNC, this was slightly after I went over for that) I stayed with a family who gave me a book. The book was Little Brother. Not an amazing read, if you know what I mean. I decided about a week ago to start a book chain. You take a book and you pass it around, with everyone reading it. It’s worked before in my school, and it works best with an obscure book. Well, I gave it to my friend, and my friend passed it on, but the person he passed it to gave it back to me and walked away. It’s possible that she didn’t realize what was going on or something, so I guess I’ll ask her. I also need to find out who is going to OCMC-right. Sorry for the anticlimax.
OCMC?
One Community, Many Cultures.
Oh. Sounds cool.
Happy Birthday, Galileo and Ernest Shackleton!
I’m sorry we forgot to post a notice. Ernest Shackleton, b. 15 February 1874. Galileo Galilei, b. 15 February 1564. An adventurer and an entrepreneurial scientist — two Muserly people worth celebrating. I’ll add them to the calendar for next year.
Hurrah!
Keiffer: I met someone yesterday, who I think might be you. She has a little sister, her name is the same as yours. I’m being a CIT at a camp. Are you?
It might sound stalkerish, but I really think this person might be you.
Oh wait. It’s a brother, not a sister. Sorry for the hope.
GAPAs, I thought you might want to know this – the Really Random tab on the right of the screen seems to have an inability to take you to any thread above ?p=1200 (that’s kind of the identifier number at the end of the URL for threads – for example, the latest installment of BA is ?p=4105 and the current Computer and Video Games thread is ?p=1508).
No, seriously, I clicked it about 10 times, and 8 times it showed up with a number less than 1200 at the end of the URL.
I just clicked it 25 times. Fifteen were threads earlier than 1200, ten of them were later, including some very recent ones.
Anyone else want to report?
Out of ten tries, four were after 1200, and six were before. Including the same thread twice.
If it show up with an identifier higher than twelve hundred twice, why do you think it has the inability to do so? Or are you saying it seems to have an ‘aversion’ to those numbers higher than twelve hundred?
-A
HELP ME GOD MY MOTHER IS READING TORCHWOOD FANFICTION AND TRASHY DOCTOR WHO NOVELS I FEAR SHE HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A MALEVOLENT ALIEN….
No, seriously. This is my mother, who doesn’t care about TV and doesn’t obsess over TV shows and didn’t know fanfiction existed until recently.
I mean, she been searching the web for a release date on the new Dr. Who and torchwood series for the past month… Who is rumored to be sometime in march or april and she hasn’t found one for torchwood….I’ll never get on the computer at this rate…And last night she randomly told me that Russel T. Davies now lives in LA and is trying to separate torchwood from Dr. Who. I mean, I love DW, but not this much…
Half of us wholeheartedly endorses DW/TW fanfiction. The other half is accustomed to such insanity.
I like TW fanfiction. Although most of the fanfiction for TW that I have come across is pretty, um, mature material, shall we say. Doctor Who novels, well, I’ve read one. I like my TW novel better (ZOMG, that was freakin’ awesome, I spent the entire plane flight laughing hysterically), but the DW novel was good, too.
Doctor Who release, I’ve been googling occasionally, sometime in the spring is all I’ve gotten.
TW, well, nobody knows yet if there’s even going to be a new season. Closest I know of, is FOX has gotten rights to make an American Torchwood (with RTD as writer), but I’m rather hoping that maybe this doesn’t come to anything.
Your mother sounds perfectly normal and sane, to me.
Well, the DW bit I can understand, as I’m just as insane. The problem is that my mother wasn’t like this at all until recently….
American Torchwood? way to ruin what is, by all acounts, supposed to be an excelent show (I got to watch 1 episode… Random Shoes, I think it’s called…I have to wait 2 whole years to watch the rest)I mean, honestly folks.
And, come to think of it, given that my mother spends half her time trying to cure insane (or just generally messed up) people of their insanity through medicene and some chitchat, I sure hope she’s sane.
Though, in true DW/TW fashion, I suppose she could actually be an alien
Well, nobody is like that (obsessional over a TV show, etc) until they one day are. There’s gotta be a first. It just hit your mother later in life.
American Torchwood: Yes, agreed. When I read that, my first thought was, “Dear god, I hope this is a joke and nobody is actually considering an American TW.” And then I googled it, learned it was not just somebody’s idea of a sick, sick joke, and promptly felt sick myself. And enraged. I’ve calmed down in the weeks since, but….the only way it could possibly be good is if it is not an actual remake, but, say, a spin-off of BBC’s TW. You know, a completely different, separate hub that was set up in the US.
Oh, Random Shoes. I don’t really remember what happened in that one, but I remember the name. *needs to rewatch TW*
That last bit, about your mom possibly being an alien?
Seriously. But, hey, as long as she’s not one of those sleeper agents…..
The American version of Torchwood are the Men in Black.
*cringes* Oh, god. American TW is going to suck if it goes through…..
I don’t mean like the movie, necessarily, I mean that I imagine the MIBs would serve a similar purpose for the US.
Yeah, I suppose. Still, if that’s what has been established as an American equivalent….it kinda doesn’t bode well for what they’d do with TW.
Hello MuseBlog! Silver Keiffer is currently curled into a fetal position on the floor of her best friend’s bedroom. Needless to say, she feels very ill and cold and also rather upset that she got sick right before her trip to NYC. Speaking of which, if any of you in the NYC area see a drop-dead gorgeous blonde in a MB signature shirt roaming the streets of the Big Apple, feel free to shout “Hi, Silver Lining!”
Oh, interesting. Now we’re listening to a song in Swedish.
–Silver Keiffer the Sick
Oh, you poor thing. *hug hug hug*
Thanks. I will virtually hug you as well, because if I hug anyone in real life, I will surely get them sick! *hug hug hug*
*HUG MORE*
*hugfest*
*hugfest times 42*
Who else is coming to this veritable Woodstock of Hugging? Hm?
*continues hugging P_M* *hugs Enc*
Hehehe, I can just imagine a mishap with that.
Me: Hi, Silver Lining!!!!!
X:….Wh are you???
Me: I’m LBK!!! *grins*
X:*stares**runs away*
Well, it depends on how delirious I am from my above-100 degrees temperature. I might recognise you…
No, I meant I see a drop-dead gorgeous blond who’s not you.
Well, if said drop-dead gorgeous blonde is wearing a MB signatures T-shirt, you can rest assured that it is me.
*hugs P_M more* Psst, P_M, come to the Physiognomical thread please!
SFTDP–Never mind. I didn’t check the Recent Comments bar.
a high of 77,my cold dead heart is melting
that’s so nice
What?
the tempterature
rofl tempterature that’s a good one
Homework. Lots of homework, especially math. *headdesk* No, I mean it. This is ****** ****** **** *** **** awful.
Our show is next week, and dress rehearsals start tomorrow, which is exciting. Basketball season is coming to an end (Our last game is Friday).
And soon soccer season is starting up again, which I’m not thrilled about for probably the first time in my life. I don’t feel like explaining now, so I won’t, but I’ll probably get around to it later.
Now back to homework! yay. (NOT.)
You poor thing! *42 pounds of choklit* HW is like the bane of my existence.
Thank you for the support.
(By the way, I have since completed two more problems….slow and steady…..slow and steady……..slow and steady)
You can do it, starr! *waves pompoms*
If all else fails, just put 42 for the answers you don’t know. I did that once on a test and I got it right.
Thanks! (I’m working on math, so that just might work…)
Ahh, I must get this out, before my sugar rush from those ten-ish lollipops wears off. I got my braces off today!!!!!! *is now not too tired to be happy about it*
Isn’t it funny how when you’re freakishly tired you can’t sleep, and when you’re wide awake, you can’t stay awake? I hate that tiny, inconvenient fact, because I’ve been up since exactly 2:58 this morning because of my dad’s obscene snoring, and I CAN’T fall ASLEEP!
Are your teeth still blue?
No, I brushed my teeth.
Congratulations!! *gives Keiffer all kinds of food en couldn’t eat with braces*
YAY KEIFFER!!!!!!! And yes, I know that feeling VERY well.
I hate to do this, but… It’s spelled “The BeAtles.” Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.
I’m sorry, I have the worst time remembering which way it is… I know it’s different from how it’s normally spelled, but I’m dyslexic, and have some problems with spelling. Maybe I can remember that if Spellcheck doesn’t catch it, it’s wrong…
‘Salright. I don’t care too much. And believe me, you have a lot better spelling than one of my friends.
–Silver Keiffer
Spellcheck. I honestly don’t know how I’d get by without it. It’s also taught me how to spell quite a few confusing words.
One of my brother’s magazines had a feature called “How to tell the Beatles from the Monkees”, and part of it went like this:
“Misspelled insect? The Beatles.”
“Misspelled primate? The Monkees.”
Huh. That’s sort of funny. If you look at it right. Actually, it’s probably only funny to me, and I’m just weird.
Ha ha! …I just realised that two of my favourite bands, The Beatles and The Roches, are both misspelled insects. Mind. Blown.
–Silver Keiffer
In the case of the Roches, however, their last name really was (and is) Roche.
(I was a big fan of the Roches in the 1980s and have watched with interest the development of the Roche/McGarrigle/Wainwright clan.)
Maybe I am your friend.
That would be insanely awesome.
But you can’t be, because my friend hasn’t gotten her braces off, since she reminded me she was getting them off by displaying them, and she doesn’t have a sister.
Yeah, I’ve been through this line of thought.
And I did it with Sliver Lining too. I don’t remember what convinced me that Silver Lining or Peace* wasn’t my friend, but I’m fairly sure it was something.
What if there’s two copies of me? One roaming around MB right now, and one who is your friend, in a parallel dimension that only you know exists.
I just found the Pride and Prejudice (new one with Keira Knightley) soundtrack, and it’s beautiful. “Dawn” is especially lovely.
Did anyone see the pairs figure skating yesterday? The two Chinese couples at the end were amazing, and of course they won gold and silver.
Some of it. Didn’t keep watching until the end, though.
I’m not sure where to post this but here it is, a poem, not mine:
Lake by Czeslaw Milosz
Maidenly lake, fathomless lake,
Stay as you were once, overgrown with rushes,
Idling with a reflected cloud, for my sake
Whom your shore no longer touches.
Your girl was always real to me.
Her bones lie in a city by the sea.
Everything occurs too normally.
A unique love simply wears away.
Girl, hey, girl, we repose in an abyss.
The base of a skull, a rib, a pelvis,
Is it you? me? We are more than this.
No clock counts hours and years for us.
How could a creature, ephemeral, eternal,
Measure for me necessity and fate?
You are locked with me in a letter-crystal.
No matter that you’re not a living maid.
Came home form school. Went to bed. Woke up past midnight. Lumbered downstairs doing a pretty good Neanderthal impression. Now on computer avoiding homework. Too tired to form complete sentences, despite feeling more rested than earlier today.
Well, I’m off to the wonderful land of homework! Where they don’t allow MuseBlog! Bye!
Have fun there!
I’m back! Yay! And I don’t have much homework! Double yay!
Okay, so we came to this town yesterday, but my brother threw me off the laptop before I could go on MB, so I didn’t get to post. Right now I’m in the hotel’s buiness center, where they have FREE Internet, which is great.
And oooh, the windows on the space station’s cupola are finally open! What a gorgeous view!
So I’m trying something different. You know how there’s two shift keys on a keyboard? I’ve decided to use the one on the right right now. ‘Cause the one on the other side is getting really loose and worn out. It’s a very different experience, even though I do exactly the same things, (i.e., having to press keys with a different finger from normal, etc.) only reversed, all the time.
Am I making sense? Probably not. I’ll just go work on my story…
In other news, I started the sequel to my NaNo. There’s going to be three when I finish.
That’s kind of funny. (I just used it right now.) I usually use the one on the right, but when I tried to use the one on the left, it felt…weird.
This is probably a stupid question, but do all lefties use the left one and all rightys use the one on the right? Or is it just a matter of habit?
You’re technically supposed to use the right one for keys typed with the left hand, and the right one for keys typed with the right. What people do, though, probably depends on the person. I think my sister once said that she only uses the right one. Based upon the way I’m typing right this second, I’d say that I’m more or less using both: The one on the right for words typed with my left hand, the one on the left for words typed with my right hand. Like I”m supposed to. I think I’ve got a few exceptions to that, but I don’t feel like trying to type every different capital letter in such a way as to try and test what I do…..
I pretty much only use the one on the left. I don’t know why. It feels strange to use the one one the right. Weird.
Same here. Huh. I never use the one on the right.
*high five* We’re fraternal blog siblings!
By the way, might I reccomend some music I think you (and possibly Sudo (and possibly everybody) ) might like. Try searching “Phil Ochs”
“Ochs”? And what, pray tell, is an Och?
I’ll look it up.
And yes, we are blog siblings- but you are not allowed to call me blister. Not.
Bloglings is the name I like. Or perhaps Bliblings.
I always thought fireh and Enceladus were alike…. I like the term Bliblings! Bloglings sounds a bit like the offspring of a blog or something.
–Silver Keiffer
Yes, I prefer bloglings as well. Not gender-specific, like en, and very fun to say.
@SilverLining: How are we alike?
I’ve always just used the one on the left.
86.1- Obviously not. *is not a lefty*
I always use the left one.
There are two shift keys on a keyboard *utter confusion* Yep, brunette with serious blonde moments.
I’m right handed and use the one on the left.
I’m curious as to what kind of typing methods are being used by those who don’t use both shift keys on a regular basis?
I only use the left one, because it feels strange to shift my right hand all the way over to reach for that shift key. What I do is hit the shift key with my pinky, and type as normal, except if I’m making a capital letter that normally is hit by my pinky, in which case I use my ring finger.
That’s an interesting technique. To me, the righthand shift key feels as easy to reach as the lefthand one.
It’s the most natural feel for me. I never actually thought about it until I bought a typewriter and noticed that there were two shift keys. I mean, I knew they were there, I just kind of ignored one of them.
I do that too, or just stretch my hand *used to play piano*
I can easily reach either, but somehow early on in learning to type properly, I noticed there were two shift keys, and decided to use one of them. I remember thinking about it, and experimenting. I don’t remember why I decided just to use the left one, though. I sort of forgot about the shift key on the right until recently. The command key, too. Or control, or whatever. There’s two of them, one on either side of the space bar, but I only recently discovered the second.
If you press various buttons on my keyboard, you can tell how much they’ve been used. The command on the right is considerably harder to press than the other one.
I do the same thing, but on the right side.
Just the left one, or at least it was the method until recently. It’s weird, I can stretch and hit any of the keys around your left hand without much difficulty, but if I try the other way around, it’s much harder. Except right now my left pinky is going on strike, and refusing to stretch comfortably. Meh.
I always use the left, even if I’m typing a Z or something. Even in fifth grade, when we took a typing program on the computer, I used the left shift key the whole time.
I also only use the left shift key. I know when I took the required keyboarding class in sixth grade I typed using both, but some time since then I guess I’ve fallen into a bad habit…
Good morning! Luckily, my fever came down overnight so I am on a train to NYC with little discomfort except for a colicky baby across the aisle. Right now we are stopped at a station in a town called New London. Today we are going to see a Broadway production called Fela, which is, cleverly enough, about a man named Fela.
Random question: Are you left or right-handed, and are you able to use your opposite hand with difficulty? I’m right-handed, so much so that I can barely do anything with just my left hand. I can’t even brush my teeth without becoming disoriented and flicking foam all over the mirror.
–Silver Keiffer
I’m right handed, but I can use my left fairly well. Not like, write with it, or anything, but I can brush my teeth and such. I imagine my ability to use it was not decreased by having my right arm in a cast for a month recently.
I am right-handed, and I have tried to write with my left hand, but it comes out looking like an ape wrote it.
Right-handed. Can’t do much of anything useful with my left. I mean, I can’t write with it (the results are atrocious–I’ve tried), can’t eat with it, at least not as far as spoon/fork goes, ummmm. Oh, I know–it’s very useful for holding a paperback book while reading. For some reason i can hold it so much better in my left to read than my right. Maybe because I so often eat while I read, and I eat better with my right hand.
Right-handed. I can use my left hand okay for some things.
I’m right handed, and I can’t really do anything with my left.
My grandma is right handed, but we actually figured out that she’s ambidextrous but forced herself to use her right hand when she’s writing. She uses her left for other things though like cutting with scissors and stuff.
And my sister is right handed for writing, but when she plays sports she’s almost always a lefty, which is sort of funny since she does everything else with her right hand.
(Just in case you were wondering.)
My sister is like your sister, except backwards! She’s a lefty but uses her right hand for sports.
I’m like your sister, especially with frisbees.
I’m right hnaded and can’t do anything with my left either. Not that I’ve tried to do much with it, but I certainly can’t write with it.
I’m kinda ambidextrous. I write with my right hand because that’s the hand I was taught to write with, but I can write just as well with my left hand. I cartwheel on my right leg but do pk rolls on my left side. I could compare things like this on and on and on….
Yes, I know it’s a bit odd. I think it is, at least.
I’m right-handed but pretty okay for rougher movements with my left (i.e. anything but writing or sewing), since I a) have a weak right wrist and b) banged up said wrist pretty bad on numerous past occasions and was forced to use the other hand.
I’m right handed. Of course, I play the cello, so my left hand gets used; it’s just for different things. My left hand doesn’t write like my right hand does, and my right hand dosn’t finger on the cello nearly as quickly as my left hand.
Also, I just noticed, but my right hand moves around a lot more when I’m typing… on the left only the fingers move but on the right, the wrist is held higher and the actual hand moves around. It must be the cello playing because the fingers on my left hand have learned to move independently from the palm while fingering, but in order to bow correctly the right hand’s fingers must move with the palm. Strange.
Also, (I just used the left shift key to type that capital A, and that one, too!) I’m wondering if anyone is going to read this post.
Of course we are!
At least, I did…
Aw, thanks!
Exactly the same as Luna for me.
Guess what, guys? This is going to be the last post by the Spelluna (for now at least). Why? Because we decided that we’ve let the Spelluna thing go on for long enough, and we want you to remain a tiny bit of sanity. *waits for cheering*
Oh, um… Yay.
Seriously, though, if you wanted me to be sane, you’re years too late.
Sanity? We didn’t have any of that to start with, I mean, why else would we be on a blog full of people capable of advanced intelectual thought?
But I’m cheering anyway. *cheers*
*cheers half-heartedly* I don’t really care all that much. Actually, I thought Spelluna was pretty amusing.
*cheers*
Yay! (Although, if you’re worried about my sanity…um, too late.)
I agree with Silver Lining. About my sanity, wayyy to late.
A tiny bit of sanity? Nope, not here.
Um, sanity? Sorry, mine is hanging out with the wolly mamoth and the dodo.
I moved up to 34th on the list!
…Right. Sorry. There around a hundred posts gap between what’s now thirty fifth and what is now thirty sixth.
I need to go finish my school.
what list? (*is confuzzled*)
The ‘Who’s Posted How Much’ list.
Sorry, I should have made that clear.
80 and corresponding posts-Okay, I’m not sure if you guys are joking or not, but Beatles comes from the word ‘beat’. And the ‘les’, well…
OCMC was fun, but I missed most of it for a wrestling meet, and I missed my brothers rap. I watched the video later. I can’t remember all the words, but I do remember that it was Le Battaille de Hastings and Guillaume said to Harold something about tu vas perdre, and that rhymed, cleverly enough, with tas de merde.
AGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
I have to have surgery on my mouth for the THIRD TIME.
First time- The oral surgeon put a bracket on a tooth that was coming in in the wrong place. It fell off after the orthodontist tried to pull on the chain.
Second time- Same surgery. SAME PROBLEM! The orthodontist was really mad at the oral surgeon, and the orthodontist was mad at himself, because he was the one who recommended the oral surgeon. He recommended another oral surgeon, who is going to do it for free, but after my trip to Spain. Ugh.
SPAIN! I forgot to write about this! I’m going to Spain with the school band in about two weeks!
I’m soooo excited; it’s my first time out of the country. I can’t wait to test out my skills with the language. I’ve been taking it since third grade, I think.
I AM SO EXCITED!
So, hey, MuseBlog. Have a great day!
Have fun in Spain! I used to live there, and it’s a really great country. The culture is amazing.
Thank you!! I am sooooo excited!
Oh my. That’s a lot of surgeries…
Have fun in Spain! I’ve always wanted to visit there.
91) SPAIN? Do you happen to be going to Valencia? *hyperventilates* It’s goregeoustheyhavetheseorangetreesallaroundandeverythingthepeoplearesocakingawesomeandthefoodisdelissh! *crazed look*
Spain is awesome.
—–
School starts again tomorrow.
I find myself forgetting what I did just a couple days ago, which is rather frightening. Well, probably because I do the same thing everyday…everything just seems so repetitive . Anyone else feel that way? I wish something exciting would happen.
Hehehe, no we’re going to Madrid, and another smaller city I won’t mention because I think it’ll be zapped.
I’m about to leave for an Island in the american San Juans…only 2 hours to the ferry dock then a 45-minute ferry ride (meaning i’ll be travelling for 4 hours, what with ferry lines and all) then a relitively small and sparsely populated island awaits…It will be like camp 5 months early! I can’t wait….
Have a good rest of week/weekend you lot.
I…hate…History…Day! *headdesk*
what’s so awful about it? forgive my nerdyness, but it sounds pretty cool as a concept.
It is, but it’s really stressful sometimes.
Well, today we had a spelling test in LA. We’re going to have some spelling tests to precede the spelling bee, and Mrs. M (LA teacher) will choose up to 8 spellers from her sixth-grade LA classes to compete in the spelling bee. I wasn’t sure about whether I got “sheriff” and “chauffeur” right, so when I got home I went and looked in the dictionary. Well, I got “sheriff” right but not “chauffer.” (That’s how I spelled it.)
In other news, yesterday I watched the Buffy pilot on YouTube. Interesting…
I guarantee you my other half will be ecstatic that you have started watching Buffy. That is, provided you intend to continue.
Wait..that post was about both spelling and Buffy
Perhaps my other half will be doubly ecstatic, then.
Spelling… and Buffy! Yay!
Ah, those pesky French words… I’m sure that emmatheduck could tell you all about how evil they are if she was around. I actually tend to like them. (Incidentally, chauffer is actually a real word, albeit a very obscure one.) If you need any sort of spelling bee advice, I can definitely help.
Buffy! Keep watching. Keep watching until the 3rd episode of season 2 at least. That’s when it starts getting really good.
Don’t do that to me. Don’t say things that are going to make me laugh right as I’m starting to take a sip of soda. I nearly spit Mt. Dew all over my laptop screen when I read that last line.
Not that I don’t agree, or anything. ((mine))
((Mine.)) That’s not the only reason why it starts getting really good. It’s when they starting getting a bit more creative, introducing new characters (not just Spike, also Oz, Dru, Ethan, etc.), coming up with pushier plot devices… And if you like it but aren’t completely obsessed, you must watch through episode 14 of season 2. That’s when they really start getting daring.
((Mine, and you’d do well to get it through your head, little sister)) Dru’s great, so is Oz. Ethan’s all right, too, but not as flammy (I like that. Flammy.) I don’t remember what episode 14, season 2 was….But obviously I made it that far, despite not being obsessed like you. I mean, it’s a good show, I enjoy it, but it’s not possessed me like DW/TW have.
I offered, but speller didn’t seem too keen on the idea.
No, he’s mine…. This is kind of an ongoing debate. Along with what the purpose of life is…
Episode 14 is the one where to not spoil it, Angel, um, starts acting differently…
Oh. That one.
We’ve been debating the purpose of life? I don’t recall that.
Don’t worry, I saw it… understatement of the year. Poor Buffy.
Yeah, but there are other people who may see it, and I don’t want to spoil it… And I actually didn’t like Buffy/Angel enough to think poor Buffy. I mostly though that Angel was so much cooler the way he was in episode 14.
I took this test today and one of the questions was “Scott has nine pens. He gives four to Jean. How many pens does he have left?”
And my first thought was “Pens? Real romantic, Mr. Summers.”
My first thought was, “Scott? Scott? JB’s partner! *drool*” Um, yeah.
That’s a super easy question, though. I wish my tests had those sorts of questions…..Especially my organic test tomorrow.
Lol… My first thought was “Mr. Summers… Buffy’s dad?”
Still, that’s marginally more normal than my train of thought. My follow up thought was, “Wait, one ‘t’ or two. If it’s one, that JB’s middle name…..*more drool*” ((all thoughts concerning JB tend to elicit drool))
Maybe they’re related. Could “being the Slayer” count as a mutant power?
Maybe… They call Buffy a freak sometimes but not a mutant per se. (And this is reminding me that Joss Whedon’s production company is called Mutant Enemy.)
And Mr. Whedon HAS written for X-Men…
GAPAs, I think there’s something wrong with the “Who’s Posted How Much” page. It won’t load. *is worried*
SFTDP Never mind! It came back up!
Sometimes that page takes awhile. It usually does for me.
Ah. Good thing, too; I was going to leave Museblog and only come back until things had gotten less confusing.
-A
Wimp. We should revive the Spelluna just to confuse you more.
No you most certainly should not. It was ridiculous, and, and… And uncouth! And rude! And noxious and detrimental and hooliganistic and frenetic and hair-raising! And extraneous and mind-boggling!
… That was a really fun tirade. Let’s do it again sometime!
-A
Nah, the Spelluna was total awesomeness.
-shakes head- Nah.
-A
Pseudo thinks the person who plays Hermione is cuter than the person who plays Ron Weasley! >.<
FAIL, Pseudo! Rupert Grint is hot!
No, I’m with Pseudo on this one. Emma Watson is definitely cuter than Rupert Grint (and this is coming from a straight girl, too).
Me too (though it’s more of an I-wish-I-could-get-my-hair-to-behave-like-that thing).
EMMA WATSON IS MY IDOL. I WORSHIP HER.
Rupert Grint is so-so.
Just stating the facts.
Uh… I agree with Pseudo. Is there something wrong with me?
Actually, there are lots of things that are wrong with me. One girl I know said “Your existence scares me.” I took that as a complement.
People aren’t scared by my existence, but a lot of people are offended by it. *coughcoughJenToeTapscoughcough*
*coughcoughJennyToeTapscoughcough*
Rupert Grint is not hot. He kind of repels me. Emma Watson is infinitely hotter. Or cuter, or whatever. Just better.
-A
This place is insane. New York City, I mean. It’s brighter at night than it is
during the day. Huge electronic billboards, along with hobos and foreign people, are everywhere. So far today, I saw a musical (it was good, but somewhat emotionally scarring, and not in a good way), was asked for money three times, and watched my mother get ashes on her forehead even though she hasn’t been in a Catholic church for years. I also took a picture for a really cute British guy with “one of his mates” and learned that I don’t hate cities as much as I thought I did.
Tomorrow is going to be very interesting! We’re going to MoMA and then Strawberry Fields.
–Silver Keiffer
I like NYC! I went to the M&Ms store…
Yes, my hometown can be rather overpowering to people who’ve never visited before. Wait until you skip out of MoMA, looking up at the lights through falling snow.
Ooh, you live there?! Maybe I’ll see you tomorrow! I was planning on wearing my MB signature shirt, anyway…
–Silver Keiffer the Stalker
Yes, there’s something magical about NYC… It’s a whole big, wonderful mess of people and cultures and sights and buildings and grafitti and musicals and EVERYTHING.
Although I might be just a little bit biased…
My family visits there often, and there’s always something new to see. ^^
I love all the cultures, and all the different people! That has to be my favorite part… Well, aside from the museums. Oh God. Don’t get me started.
99~ Emma Watson is gorgeous, and Rupert Grint is a real cutie. But they can’t really be compared, can they? I mean, I’d obviously prefer the guy, while a [straight] guy would most likely choose the girl.
But as for which person is overall more attractive, I don’t think that can be said of ANYONE really. Just about everyone has some beautiful traits and some not so lovely. It’s in the eye of the beholder.
So, does anyone else here know about Archy and Mehitabel?
I love red hair! I think it looks so pretty on people…I wish I was a redhead.
I do. And at least two other MBers have known about them, too. Behold.
My mom had a collection of Archy and Mehitabel, so I became a fan at a very young age (though I doubt understood half of it at the time). In fact, I’ve used Mehitabel as an alias. For years I asked people if they’d heard of a&m to be met only with blank stares. Until I asked Robert, of course..
By the way, do you GAPAs know French? Because I was surprised when you let me put a French swear word in my post.
Thank you, Cromwell, now I know two French swears.
I know one.
*Google Translate*
Some of us do know French. We like to be unpredictable sometimes.
I’d be surprised if none of you did. This is MuseBlog.
100.2.1- Sorry, it happens that I’m away on a college visit until tomorrow night!
Regarding handedness–can anyone do mirror writing?
Lindsey Vonn just skied and managed to stay upright after the two in front of her had horrible crashes. She’s in the lead, yay!!!
I can do mirror writing, it comes easy to me.
Mirror writing is fun. Back in 2007 some of us experimented with simultaneous mirror and regular writing (drawing, too).
I can do mirror writing! I haven’t done it in a while, but it’s really fun. ^_^
Oh god, the crashes scared me so bad… but yay, Lindsey Vonn got the gold!
Hah, I love the winter olympics (*roots for the Americans, Austrians, Irish (if they ever compete) and sometimes the Italians (same as the Irish).*)
I can do mirror writing…
I used to write in my diary in mirror writing, and at some point I convinced my fourth-grade teacher to let me take notes in mirror writing…
Uh, mirror writing? Somebody care to elaborate?
I had to look it up on Wikipedia, so I know now.
Basically, it’s where you write the words so if you hold them up to a mirror, they look right. You start at the right side of the page, and write with all the letters facing towards the opposite line then they would be facing if you were writing regularly.
Does that make any sense?
Like they would be if you wrote them the right way, then looked in a mirror.
Yeah, that’s a good way of describing it.
Cool, thanks.
101.2~ Aha, I figured t was a blogish kind of thing. I was reading some of it to procrastinate geometry today. 0:)
102~ Where is this French swear word? Now I’m intrigued…..
I’m intrigued, too. But too lazy to hunt it down…..Nah, take that back. It’s in post 90.
Do you actually know which one is the swear word?
Well, assuming Google translator knows anything at all (potentially big assumption), then yes, I do.
Google Translator knows everything! Thanks, cromwell; my French vocabulary of about three words has just been expanded.
Tu vas perdre is also very useful.
Coldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcold!!!!!!!!!!!! *shivers*
I know a bit of French, but I can’t write it. Also, I’m right-handed, but I can type pretty good with my left hand, like I’m doing right now. Actually, it’s not much more of a helper to the write hand.
?!?!?! WHY did I type “write hand”?!?!?!?! SFTDP, that’s supposed to be “right hand”.
Writing with my left hand comes out very sloppy. When I write with both at the same time, it’s even sloppier, and I write my lowercase “g”s the normal way. Strange. I’m going to continue practicing.
I bet practice plays a big part., no matter how dominant one hand is. After all, anyone who plays an instrument, types in the standard manner, or even ties bows, has to have a fair amount of dexterity in both hands.
The one thing I cannot do right-handed is use chopsticks, but that’s probably because I’ve only tried it that way a couple of times. When I realized that, I decided not to learn, since that’s the one foolproof way of telling which hand is which.
Practice must play a big part. I think that I can probably teach myself to write with my left hand in about a month, if I remember to practice every day… Yay, now I have an experiment to do!
Writing normal with my right hand, while writing mirrored with my left, the left is rather sloppy, the right not quite so nice as normal. Writing mirrored with my left hand, while doing nothing with my right: An improvement.
Writing normal with my left, doing nothing with my right: Slightly worse than the left hand doing mirrored alone. Writing mirrored with my right doing nothing with my left, marginally better than my left handed mirror writing.
Then the weirdness: Writing normal with my left, while mirrored with my right, I got the best handwriting out of my left hand so far: It could almost pass for slightly messy good writing, albeit larger than I would normally write…..
Maybe that was just a fluke….Or maybe “Luna” is just incredibly easy to write with my left hand. “Michelle” had pretty serious failure throughout all variations with the left….
And now I need to actually do some of that stuff that I actually need to get done…..
‘Kay. Upon trying mirror writing with just my right hand, I discovered that I can do it, slowly and thinking a bit, with occasional transitions to the side to make sure I’m doing something right. I only have to do it once, though.
Haven’t tried either my left hand or both hands yet.
Further report: With my left hand, mirrored, it isn’t hard, but it is messy. With both hands, either with a pen in my left and a pencil in my right, or vice versa, my right is neat and my left is messy. My left hand is neater with a pencil, except that I totally fail at left-handed mirrored Ps no matter what I write them with. I fail more with a pen, though. Trying with my right mirrored and my left normal results neither looking at all good, but both of them somewhat acceptable.
In a mirror my left hand mirrored writing looks slightly messy, but surprisingly good. My left and right at the same time, with left mirrored, is still messy, but up to a point is actually fairly neat. The point being the two Ps halfway through the sentence.
I found these cool sunglasses today with white frames. They will go flamablamablously with my orange hat, and I shall wear them to the boston kokon.
*updates gravatar*
Heeheehee. If Chamber Winds is before that ( which I don’t think it is, darn it ) wear it there!
Should I wear my Viking hat? *is only half-kidding*
Do it. What do I wear? Hm. *thinks* I could try to get a hold of Keith’s boots. Or I could just steal dad’s show shoes.
I was planning on wearing my poncho that was a part of my Ringo-from-Help! costume…. Or just the sacrificial ring. (Best Happy October present ever).
–Silver Keiffer who is on a train (Hey! Only 25 more days!)
I beat the computer at chess!
I’ve never done that before. Ever. Admittedly, it was on the easiest setting.
I’ve decided that I want to stick with playing black. When I tried playing white against the computer, it made absolutely no sense, but when they started and I could understand exactly what was happening it was so much fun.
I made a couple of stupid mistakes, (Let my queen be taken by the same trick twice in a row, for example) but I managed to take all of the computer’s pieces except the king, and it wasn’t too hard after that.
I’m really happy now. I mean, I haven’t tried too too many times to beat it, but I’ve tried enough times to get rather frustrated.
99 ~ (P_M) I’m also with Tesseract and bookgirl on this one. I’m a girl, (Who’s pretty straight, mind you) and I’ve got to say that Emma Watson is definitely cuter than Rupert Grint. She’s absolutely gorgeous.
Rupert Grint is alright.
111 (Sudo!) ~ Don’t forget to add them to your avatar!
112 (Errata) ~ Congratulations!
I’m no good at chess. My sister beats me every time.
Finally, Pandora puts up a good song that I know first-Fireflies.
I really need to do school, now.
And yet I keep reading MB.
In a perfect world, you would have time and motivation to do everything.
I’ve been wondering this for a while now: What exactly do you mean by “doing” school?
–Silver Keiffer
Oh, I’m homeschooled. I do school, like you do homework. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
Aha, now that makes sense. I assumed you meant homeschooling in the first place, but I wasn’t positive.
Yeah. I can see how it wouldn’t make sense to somebody who went to school. Again, sorry. I probably should have clarified that.
Yup. Same here.
I need to do school too…
I’m homeschooled too, but I have to at least do math before I can do anything non-educational on the computer.
I just don’t get it. I try to write my story- nothing.
I try to write my essay – 86 words in 20 minutes.
I think it may be my typing speed, which has gotten slower, but is still about 40 wpm. I want to learn Dvorak, and keyboard Dvorak stickers might help that. I also want an erasable notepad for Math. In a cave many miiiiiles to the south, Lives a boy born with faaaangs in his mouth.
^ Whole bunch of Randomness
Okay, so for years I totally hated the giant squid model that hangs in the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Biodiversity because that thing is caking CREEPY, but today I found out that the Yale Peabody Museum manged to do them one worse by having a similar hanging model IN THE MAIN LOBBY.
*walks in*
Then I probably would have laughed at the coincidence, but still been creeped out. I suffer from teuthophobia. (Fear of cephalopods. Surprising that I never used that proper Greek term used until I just chose to search for it online, given Lovecraft et al.)
Still no plympics thread I see, so I shall spam everyone here
I love watching men’s figure skating–the american Evan just won, which is pretty cool. Yevgeny was being really cocky earlier I guess so I don’t feel *as* bad for him as I would for Evan if he’d lost (he was the hardest working athlete there), but still, it sucks.
I love the Olympics. I wish more of my friends were as into them as me
I was so so so dissapointed I wasn’t bale to see snowboarding yesterday. That was what I was looking forward to most… stupid practice >.<
The wing across from my wing, where I hang out a lot, is completely obsessed with figure skating… It’s fun.
You’re in the Chicago area, right? Were people really excited that Evan was from the Chicago area where you were? A lot of people at my school were pretty excited about that.
AHA!!!! they are tape delayed! that’s so stupid,I’m in the same time zone as you vancouver,why you gotta delay my enjoyment!
I love the figure skating too! The skiing is insane…I think I missed all the speed skating though.
Colbert Nation gogo!
I go crazy for the olympics as well, no one understands my plight. In 2008 I got so into the swimming stuff it was kind of insane/embarrassing. I really want to go someday. Too bad the 2016 bid went to Brazil (though they are so deserving!) and not Chicago, I totally would have found a way to get to Chicago for that!
I loved the opening ceremonies…so appreciative of Canada being awesome and including the first nations in it.
You could have stayed with me! XD
I made my dad promise when I was 8 that if the Olympics ever came to Chicago, he would take me to whatever I wanted to see. So I was really disappointed when we didn’t get the bid : /
My parents like watching curling. I do too.
I don’t really care much for the Winter Olympics, but I enjoy the Summer ones. I just don’t like sports in general.
@Enceladus- Curling?! “Bah, soft game.” Quick, Keiffer and Pseudo! Who said that in what movie?
Help! I don’t know…George? Ringo?
It was George. In that scene after Ticket To Ride and before the scientists blow up the curling rink.
I knew what scene it was, I just couldn’t remember who said it….
And then Mal Evans comes up through the ice and asks how to get to the White Cliffs of Dover? I love that part.
yes! It makes me so happy that people besides me have seen those.
I love the Olympics, too. I really never watch or care for sports unless it’s the Olympics. (Unless you consider scuba diving a sport)
Did you see Plushenko’s interview? It was absolutely hilarious because he comes off as kind of paranoid. Go look it up.
LBK, the comic strip Prickly City had a “Name that Decade” contest (2000-2010) and “the zips” won second place. I don’t suppose you sent that in?
She didn’t – didn’t you read the strip? It was sent in by some guy whose son calls them the “zips”.
I’m partial to “the zeroes” myself, but I DESPISE “noughties”.
I like calling them “The Oh-ohs”. Pronounced like the second “oh” in “uh-oh”.
There is no second “oh” in “uh-oh”. Do you mean we don’t pronounce them at all?
I meant second syllable.
I know you did.
Blogiversity today!
Do you mean blogoversary?
Happy that, then!
Yes, I did.
What made me say Blogiversity? 
Hmm, a Blog University? But wouldn’t that be Muse Academy…?
Perhaps the Blogiversity is college. In an ideal world, Luna and other college-bloggers would go there. Of course, in an ideal world, there would be multitudes of me, one living on Enceladus, another going to MA, and one battling bunnies…
Ooh, that makes sense.
Ooh, really? Mine’s tomorrow. I’ll go see exactly when…
Nine twenty-five. *blushes with embarrassment at my first few posts*
So, today was an interesting day.
This morning, Mrs. M informed me that I was, indeed, going to go to the spelling bee :grin:. And she informed the whole class I was the only person on the entire team who got twenty out of twenty (chauffeur was a “bonus” word, I guess). J also got into the spelling bee, though I guess he must’ve not got everything right. Now he won’t shut up about it (surprise, surprise :roll:). My friend C also got in. I don’t know about one of my other friends though, because she hadn’t had L.A. yet when we had a class together. So, anyway, I recieved a gigantonormous study packet with all these words in it, and I have no idea what half of them mean. And I didn’t know there really was such a thing as an aardwolf. Or an oxydactyl (Which is not a dinosaur, it means “having slender tapered digits”).
I’m just hoping she’s not a HPB in diguise and the spot is where her furdye is wearing off. (I think she’s already bunnified “Rabbit Girl”)
In social studies, it appears someone decided it would be amusing to color on Chauncey (the class bunny), because there is now a hot-pink spot on her back
This afternoon in orchestra, I started having to go to the bathroom. SInce I have NO time between orchestra and math, I decided I could just wait until between math and science. Then, near the end of class, they come over on the intercom and say there’s been some problems with the plumbing and we can’t use the water fountains or bathrooms until “further notice.” Great. On the way back from orchestra, we see the damage: one of the eighth-grade science classrooms is flooded with nasty sewer water, and they have a blowie thingy set up in the hall. They had to shut the water off to stop the flood. Later, I went back the same way to get some copies from the office for Mrs. J, and they had taken out all of the desks and stuff, and it was in the hall. In math, everyone was talking about it and how they were so thirsty and had to go to the bathroom. We all had ideas, like hiking to the other middle school to use their bathrooms, which is reasonable, since it’s only like a half-mile away or breaking into one of the houses across the street, which was… less so. Me and S and F also had an interesting conversation which included the topics of genetics, death, water, and drowning. So, as soon as I got home, I ran into the bathroom. Fortunately, it’s Friday, so they have the weekend to fix stuff. Actually, why is that fortunate? I’d like school to be cancelled.
Yeesh, this was a very long post.
Gosh, Little Sister over there just threw up for the… tenth time tonight, and now I feel sorta’ crappy. I really hope I haven’t caught what she’s got.
I hope you don’t either! And I hope that she gets better as well.
Sorry, some of that might be my fault. We’re staying in a hotel for tonight, because our plane leaves at 6 in the morning, and I just ate way to much. As in, I was full when the waiter brought over the second root beer for me, (how nice of him!
) and then I drank it all. As in, when I bent over, I got a stitch. As your sister’s kindred spirit, I bet that my teenage appetite was filled beyond its limits, and the rest of the food was transferred to your sister, thus the illness.
How disconcertingly mean of you my sister’s kindred spirit!
It was an accident. The food was sooooooo soooooooo good.
I did half of my homework for this vacation, then had a very enjoyable few hours in the library. As always, I had the typical library problem of “do research for your writing/go reread books you love/oooh, that looks cool!”
I managed to do some research for my Disney World story, and some for my Star Wars one, but I also spent a lot of time being pleasantly distracted.
It’s good to be home.
No homework so far on vacation for me!
I’ll probably end up doing it all on Sunday 
Back to witches and wizards and magical beasts, to goblins and ghosts and to magical feasts.
It’s all that I love and it’s all that I know, Hogwarts! Hogwarts! I think I’m going back!
Hey Dragon… You don’t gotta do this… If we reevaluate our options, throw away our old presumptions, hey Dragon, You don’t want to go through this…
Cause baby you’re not alone, cause you’re here with me, and nothing’s ever gonna bring us down…
La la la la la! Ra ra ra ra ra!
Ron’s giant chocolate bar.
Good night dragon.
I’m going to go see my school’s production of Little Shop of Horrors. How fun. It’s my least least least favorite musical. I’m only going because my parents are making me. BLEAHHHHHH
POKEMON!
Science Olympiad regionals tomorrow. Anxious. Excited. Have to get up at o’dark-thirty tomorrow; should go to bed. Wish
me luck.
(I have a rant about SciOly tomorrow. Don’t let me forget.)
Are any of you into learning languages? I’ve been learning Quenya (Elvish), Latin, and Old English. I’m unfortunately been having to put these on hold, what with my job and homework. I’ll probably be trying to learn Norwegian some time too, seeing as I’m pretty Norse.
126: I’ve seen the school play at my school, and I thought that it was wonderful — I was expecting worse, being slightly pessimistic as I am. Having an open mind can really help. If you can’t, however, just go in the way back and sleep or whatever. Ever since I was a young lad, I’ve been forced to see Shakespearean plays every summer, cursed as I am with two English professors in my home. Not as bad as a musical, though…
ZORUA ZOROARK (new 5th gen Pokémon)
I learn Mandarin at school, and I’m trying to teach myself Old English, Elvish, and Klingon. Klingon has waaaay too many consonants.
I’m currently taking Latin at school (My second year of doing so, although my teacher teaches faster than the pace required, so we’re learning harder material than most second year Latin students would be) and I know snippets of Spanish and Chinese.
*Chinese as in Mandarin, that is.
I’m really into linguistics, actually. I speak French at a conversational level, and I’ve taken some Latin (and also know a tiny bit of Hebrew).
Shakespeare plays are brilliant. So are almost all musicals.
Quick! You there!
Me there?
Yes, you there! Who is that kid posting on MuseBlog at some ungodly hour of the morning?
Oh, that kid? That kid is SudoRandom!
Oh, that kid is SudoRandom! Now I understand!
¡SÃ! ¿Usted conoce a Miguel?
¡SÃ, somos buenos amigos!
What?
GOOD MORNING, MB! RISE AND SHINE! THIS IS YOUR 5:30 WAKE-UP CALL! I AM IN THE AIRPORT NOW, AND MY FLIGHT LEAVES IN HALF AN HOUR! WE GOT HERE AT FIVE AFTER GETTING UP AT THREE WHICH WAS TOTALLY UNNECESSARY!
Quick, pop quiz!
Question: Why does SudoRandom’s dad get him to the airport so early?
Answer: I really don’t know!
As I said, we are IN the airport, and there is the hugest freaking cockroach you have ever seen, and it is
) and all of a sudden someone whispered my name. I whispered back, “Hello?” And the following conversation (with no-one) ensued:
(me) Who’s there?
(voice) It’s Enceladus.
Enceladus? That’s you?
Um… No. No. This is Silver Lining.
Silver Lining? What are you doing here?
Hop on my back! We’re breaking out of this hotel!
…What?
Yeah! Come on! Let’s go!
crawling up my leg OH MY GODreally disgusting! Hooray!So, since I got up so early this morning, I started having… hallucinations. I think it’s because I’m so EXCITED(!) about the upcoming KOKON!(!)(!)(!)(!)(!) They were pretty weird. I was sitting in a comfy chair (
What does that mean? It means that SudoRandom is VERY glad he has free wifi at the airport, and will be getting home today! Also, SudoRandom LOVES DONUTS (!) and maybe we will get one, but all the stores at the airport are closed. (Probably because their dad gets them up at a reasonable hour. And because they don’t like cockroaches.) But we’ll be landing in Dallas to connect to Boston, and that will be at a good hour when the restaurants will (hopefully) be open, and SUDORANDOM CAN GET A DONUT AND A KIDS HOT CHOCOLATE WITH NO WHIPPED CREAM! (I find that when you get whipped cream, that’s basically all you get, don’t you?)
Goodbye, MuseBlog! *zooms away on cloud of sleep deprived insanity*
OMGEORGE, GUESS WHAT? I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING? I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING!
Hey, you guessed right. I am in TEXAS, and I was using my computers clock to check the time, which is on BOSTON time, so it’s actually 4:45 here in the good old LONE STAR state.
Oh, and don’t bother looking for cryptic
massagesmessages in the all caps letters. There’s nothing there.Hope you enjoyed yourself in Texas!
‘Cause, you know, everybody enjoys themselves at the airport.
Airports can be enjoyable, although some parts certainly are not. *OMGpleasedon’tletmebeepwhenIgounderthemetaldetectorIdon’twanttogotojail*
Any hallucination that portrays me as an HPB that gives people piggyback rides is a pretty good hallucination in my opinion. I can’t wait either; last night I had a dream that I was in Starbucks and suddenly three people dressed in all black (like a ninja) crashed through the window, grabbed my arms and dragged me out the back door. I started screaming hyterically, until they all whipped off their masks, revealing themselves as Sudo, Pseudo, and Enceladus. I said, “Oh. You’re here.” and then started screaming again.
23 MORE DAYS OMGEORGE!!!!!!
P.S. (SFTDP)– Have fun in Texas!
Actually, I didn’t see HPBs. I just heard voices.
Oh, and I’m not in Texas. I’m home. In MA. (Best state abbreviation ever! Sorry, that was unrelated, but I just realized that.)
Well too bad. YAY MASSACHUSETTS! (Which is totally the best state ever, I must agree!)
That post for some reason reminded me of the comicified version of Magical Mystery Tour (film) that’s in the liner notes of Magical Mystery Tour (album). *is insane*
Bobby-I’m in 6th grade, so so far, I’ve learned snippets of French, German, and I am currently on Latin.
Just a notice; I am taking a scuba class today (
:D), so I won’t be around for most of today and tomorrow. I have not died. Okay, that’s it. Bye!
Lucky you! Have fun with your diving!
My school does (the same / a similar) thing in 6th grade. We rotate through languages, one per quarter, and coincidentally, I’m in my Latin rotation right now, and have done French and German earlier this year. Do you live in Connecticut?
We do that at our school too, only in 5th grade, not 6th, so that you can decide which language you’re going to take through middle school. Twas fun.
Oh, I hope you like Latin! It’s a really fun language, although (admittedly) part of the reason why I take it is because of the teacher, not necessarily the language. I figure that I could take something different in high school if I want to.
Hello, all…
I didn’t get on at all yesterday (Oh yes, I’m sure you missed me sooo much), I had to help out some teachers at this dance/reception thing for the 8th graders who got high school scholarships as well as just a setting up for the regular dance, but hardly anybody came anyway. It was sort of fun, until my friends starting concocting the most disgusting drink possible *shudder*…real mature, they are.
Ok, I’m done now…I guess I’ll go catch up on the threads that I missed.
Don’t worry, I missed you! My friends like doing the same thing except sometimes, it’s not with drinks. Once my friend put Tabasco sauce IN peaches and ATE IT! That was repulsive.
Yes! Safari on my iPod has righted itself! I now have access to websites and such! Yays! My computer still has a virus, but I have at least one portal to the interwebs.
Must go. Has to draw for the speech meet. Will return soon
I didn’t fail my speech! Well, the first two times, the last time was terrible.
It’s my Blogoversary today! I’ve been on MuseBlog for exactly one year!
And I’m going to wait to post this until 9:25, so I can claim to have been on for exactly one year.
I debated doing all sorts of odd things with my name for my Blogoversary, but I finally decided against it.
I also debated writing a long rant I’ve been thinking about for a while, but I think not in this post, as it will probably take a pretty long time.
Anyway, I’ll spare you more ramblings.
IT’S MY BLOGOVERSARY!!!!!!!
*sigh* All that waiting, and it turns out my computer’s two minutes fast. Cake.
Congratulations!!!!! Happy Blogoversary!
Congrats!
( That’s 42 pies! )
Congratulations!
128- Me! I speak german at school and take english (boring) and french (B2 level, so not as bad) and Spanish (I’m still a very raw beginner). I start Mandarin next year, and I’ve been trying to teach myself italian in the vacation (I understand a lot, but when I try to speak it sounds like spanish and my grammar sucks). I want to be fluent in all of them in less than a decade. And I’m taking latin at school.
133- Congrats!
April 4th! 43 days to go until Series Fnarg!
To clarify: Season 1 / 5 / Fnarg of Doctor Who starts on Easter.
*sigh* I’m not having fun…I’m extremely bored, in fact…but if I just cite five more sources, I’ll have 42 sources in my annotated bibliography!
*sigh*
*headdesk*
*slogs on back to EasyBib*
What a strange motivation for getting more sources. Especially since the next significant number is 72. *moan*
OK, I really am leaving now. Goodbye!
I read two books before I even ate breakfast today.
I feel very good about myself.
YES! I HAVE 42 SOURCES!!!
Turning the computer over to Pseudo now…
THE WORST FAIL I HAVE EVER COMMITTED.
49.1
Ducky and Ožiljak (•_#)
in September 4th, 2009 @ 13:10
No a bad idea.
49.1.1
Ducky and Ožiljak (•_#)
in September 4th, 2009 @ 16:01
That was eant to be not a bad idea.
49.1.1.1
Ducky and Ožiljak (•_#)
in September 4th, 2009 @ 18:01
And that was meant to be meant to be meant.
49.1.1.1.1
Ducky and Ožiljak (•_#)
in September 4th, 2009 @ 18:22
The last “to be meant†wasn’t intended. *headdesk*
49.1.1.1.1.1
/gradster(1)/
in September 6th, 2009 @ 22:35
That… Was one of the most extensive fails I have ever seen.
-A
49.1.1.1.1.1.1
Ducky and Ožiljak (•_#)
in September 8th, 2009 @ 13:20
I know.
And it was in reply to my post! *proud*
I think that’s kind of officially… a win, really. I mean, that takes skill, man. Granted, not the kind people usually want, but skill nonetheless!
-A
128- The new Pokemon look sooo cool! I wonder what the starters will look like????
And I just remembered a snippet of a dream I had last night where a MuseBlogger chastised me for overuse of ellipses…
On to chemistry homework! Oh, chemistry, my love, my love!
Stop using so many of those “…”s!
I use them too much, too.
From a story I wrote:
Teresa: “Do you think… that we speak… using too many… ellipses?”
Francines: “No… not… really… why?”
A fail of mine:
Friend: Hi! *peace sign*
Me: Two? Two what?
At least you didn’t say ‘V for victory’.
Yay! (SWAT, my avatar is showing up now!) (And for those of you who don’t know, because SWAT and I are bloglings, we have an avatar of a star on a towel.)
It’s just a temporary thing, though. I loved my Mario star so much I think I’ll go back to it eventually.
Tis’ true.
HEY, ALL!!! I just got back from the scuba training thing, and it was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! Breathing underwater is so cool!
Rosebud-
Lucky! I’ve always wanted to scuba… Snorkeling sounds anticlimactic, but scuba seems pretty awesome.
Why do you need training? What are you going to do?
-A
I have to do an SDL (self-directed learning) project for 6th grade, so I did SCUBA diving. You know, learning in a pool, putting the stuff together, going up and down underwater, all that good stuff. Although, my mom says we can go to a quarry in July with the company. They have all sorts of underwater stuff, like a firetruck and a school bus and an airplane, and etc, etc.
Sounds great! Congrats!
Why do you need training to Scuba dive? Well, for one thing, you need to know how to make sure your lungs won’t explode when you come up for air.
Yeah.
*makes mental note not to go scuba diving before kokonvention* I’m avoiding all potentially dangerous activity until after the kokonvention. I was terrified stepping on the plane to get to and from Texas.
Ahh, I meant more in the sense that I was wondering what they were going to do with the training, not why need the training at all.
(… See second question, immediately after the first…)
-A
Scuba diving? That sounds really fun…..
Well, I had a productive day, sewing ten grommets into a knapsack for the 18th century fort we frequent. Yes, I’m feeling quite accomplished.
But it was fun.
I’m baaaaaaack!!!!!!! Vacation was fun. I ate a lot, which is typical of Chinese New Year. Earned lots and lots of money, all from laisee. (1056 RMB, to be precise). Anyway, now I’m back and have to catch up on MB…there’s a new random thread! And it’s already so long! It’s only now I realize how fast they move. Anyway, I shan’t keep you with my rambling any more. But I’m here now, if anyone needs me.
I’m trying to see how much of pi I can memorize before pi day:
3.1415925635. Maybe I should set a number of numbers per day… okay, that’s five, ’cause I already knew 3.14159.
Uh… you don’t have those memorized correctly. *has 32 digits memorized*
*has 44 digits memorized*
Of course, AM and Beetles have over 100 digits memorized.
*had some number of digits memorized once but forgot them*
Gah. *is pathetic*
Does anyone here know the singer Mika? I love his songs I See You and By The Time.
Is he that guy who sings, “I can be brown, I can be blue I can be violet sky! I can be purple I can be hurtful I can be anything you like!”
Yup. That’s his song Grace Kelly, which is also awesome.
“Gotta be green gotta be mean gotta be everything more, why don’t you like me why don’t you like me why don’t you walk out the door”
Same.
-A
3.14159265358979.
Around 400 digits of pi are printed in the March 2009 issue in Kokopelli and Company, which is what I used to memorize pi last year. I hope I’ll win it this year. Last year I was beaten by twelve digits.
–> 
Wait, there’s a competition? Sign me up!
-A
At my school there is, but if you got a math club of sorts they may be having a party and maybe a competition. I’m planning to win this year, unless some super savant/synesthete person shows up.
Actually, there is a contest at Harvard and Princeton. The winner at Harvard recited 1058 digits.
Before everyone yells at me for
talkin like I ain’t got no educationhaving despicable grammar, I realize that the post above should read “if you have a math club” not “if you got a math club.” My apologies for that and for triple posting.*proofreads*
*proofreads again*
I think it’s safe to press “comment.”
Damn. I thought it was a Museblog thing.
-A
Re: Failing:
My friend: (listening to the radio) Oh, is this Justin Bieber’s new song?
Me: Um, no. This is Rihanna.
I don’t know if that’s an epic fail or an epic win. And she was completely serious, too.
Today I bought Let It Be from B&N. I really like all of the songs, surprisingly. I don’t much like most of their older stuff. I love how it has random snippets of their conversations between tracks. My favourite songs from that album are I Me Mine, I’ve Got A Feeling, and Across The Universe. Yay. That was really random.
Let It Be is a good album.
That’s funny, because at the dance on Friday (I wasn’t dancing, just so you know. Working the snack bar, nerdy stuff like that…) my friends and I were helping clean up and a Rihanna song came on and she said “Hey, is this Justin Bieber?” and my other friend had to inform her that it was Rihanna, not Justin Bieber. Hey, maybe they do sound the same….?
I think they do.
Lions and tiger and….No, wait, just tigers. [Also know as, Luna’s flammy weekend was even more flammy so far than ever anticipated….]
Yup, tigers. Late last night, I got an email from our prevet club president about a sick tiger at a tiger sanctuary in the state, and that the staff there wanted volunteers to help relieve them, as many had been there for over a day straight. Normally, I would’ve written this off as a “I would absolutely love to, but I don’t have a car–and it’s a good 3 hours away.†But this weekend? My sister was here, visiting. So after a bit of discussion, I sent an email requesting more info, like whether any specific time period/commitment was desired, and if my sister was welcome to accompany me. In case we did end up going, we got up early (8 am) the next morning (uh, this morning), after having only gotten to bed at maybe 1:30. Next morning, no email back. After some stressing over decision making (I do so hate decisions), I decided to give them a call to get some info. Short phone call later, it was established that, yes, my sis could come, and before we knew it we were on our way.
In the car, my sister practiced her voice pieces for her upcoming recital audtion type thingy, while I “spotted†her, letting her know when she missed words/notes. Unfortunately, the two pieces we started with were the two that she needed the most work with. The first 45 or so minutes was spent on a wordless piece, that unfortunately was comprised of numerous high notes. I thought I was going to go deaf……The next piece? When we reached the sanctuary, 3 hours after we left my dorm, we were still not done working through it–and most of the 3 hour return trip was spent on it, as well.
However, she was already showing signs of significant improvement, but….Needless to say, I was sick of that song, and would have liked nothing more than to shred the sheet music for it…..
Once at the sanctuary, we were briefed on the tiger’s condition ([suspected] kidney failure). She was being kept in an enclosure indoors, sedated so that IV fluids could be administered. For the first little bit, we were just sitting there watching for signs of movement, which would indicate that she was waking up–twitching tail/paw–and monitoring her breathing. However, she was acting rather restless (significant twitching, although not actually awake) and it was decided that it was probably due to the presence of so many/new people. We were then given a tour of the sanctuary, and got to see the several other tigers that were there, and later helped to prepare food for their dinner.
Now, however, it had reached the point where the fluids they were administering had run out, at which point they were going to draw blood to send out to Antech. So we were all crowded into the enclosure, watching as they removed the vet wrap and white tape holding the IV catheter in place in her back leg. One of the other pre-vet people who had responded to the request for help (only two of us did so) asked if she could draw the blood–they were more than willing to let her.
At this point, squatting a foot away from the tiger, I was desperately craving to reach out and touch her, but didn’t really want to ask if I could–because I figured the answer would probably be “No, of course notâ€. So when we needed to roll her over a bit to get her other leg–the one without the catheter–out from under her so that they could get blood, I immediately jumped in to help, and so got to hold her one leg back out of the way while blood was drawn. So I was kneeling, right at the back side of a fully grown tiger, one hand on her “knee†(stifle), the other lower on her leg, near her paw, keeping her upper leg out of the way, so that the inside of her left leg was easily accessible for a blood draw.
My sis, unfortunately, had been given a video camera to record, so she couldn’t snap any photos of me. However, once we were done drawing blood, the guy in charge said that we could all go and take photos, so we were all taking turns kneeling next to her with a hand on her getting photos taken. And then the other prevet girl came back with a stethoscope and was listening to her heart/lungs, and when she was done I asked her if I could borrow the stethoscope and have a listen myself…..While I was doing so, she snapped some pictures of me (need to FB her so I can get my pics). I couldn’t hear the heart (and neither could the other girl or my sis)–I’ve never listened on something that big, just dogs and cats and some birds, like bald eagles and stuff–but I could hear her breathing. The exhale was like a soft growl/purr sound….It was really awesome.
I mean, me, right next to–and touching–a fully grown tiger. I touched a real, live tiger! Even if it was sedated…..
That sounds incredible.
That’s amazing, Luna!
Oh, man, lucky! And all I did was scuba dive to the bottom of a pool.
Scuba diving to the bottom of a pool is cool, too! I’ve never done more than snorkeling….And then I just end up going too deep and inhaling water through the snorkel.
Wow, Luna. That’s as flammy as it gets!
Man. SCUBA diving and tigers. MBers get to do some really awesome things.
Well, it was just in a pool, but it was still really, really, sweet! *grin*
SciOly Regionals results:
Third place Elevated Bride (efficiency 441)
Fourth place Fossils
Fifth place Experimental Design.
I feel like I could’ve done better if I’d studied… at all… but I’m going to prepare a lot more for states. I think I did quite well, all things considered. And, of course, it was incredibly fun. I love Science Olympiad competitions.
After the competition, a couple of my friends and I slept over at another friend’s house. S fell asleep pretty much as soon as her head hit the pillow, and H was out by 12:30 at the very latest. P and I stayed up talking until about 2:00. The following scenario took place at about 1:30:
P: So I decided I really need to figure out all of the Pauls’ last names.
Me: I think one of them might be in my French class.
[Sleepy pause]
S: [Something in Chinese]
P: What?
S: [Something else in Chinese]
Me: Are you speaking Chinese?
P: Go back to sleep, I’m not your mom.
S: [Something in Chinese] [Starts laughing]
Me: Uh… are you awake?
S: …
P: She fell back asleep.
Good job. My school had SciOly too yesterday. I think they stole some of our math team people. (We had math team regionals, and our 8 best people were all at this contest in Boston, and some people were doing SciOly, and some people were doing Schol Bowl… It was a disaster.)
149~ That’s amazing!! I’m incredibly envious.
So, Dad’s making cookies!
Mom’s off volunteering at the prison, so it’s just us hanging out listening to a Prairie Home Companion and eating and making cookies. Yummmm.
Your mastery of subtle distinctions in English usage is enviable.
Yeah? I’m just jealous.
-A
153.1~ Well, since it’s such a hot topic generator around these parts I figured I might as well make sure my meaning was clear if I wanted to avoid making a scene.
Hello. I just finished dancing to the beat of my computer dying (actually I’m forcing it to illegally rip my new CD onto iTunes, and it’s making all these terrible noises in protest) while eating Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal covered in whipped cream. After the dumb computer is finished, my mom and I are going to the car wash. Today is a happy day. *continues dancing*
Cinnamon toast crunch covered in whipped cream? *shudder* That doesn’t sound very appealing to me…..
How does that not sound DELICIOUS to you?!
-A
Ick.
1. Cinnamon toast crunch just doesn’t sound all that great
2. whipped cream on cereal? *shudder*
I don’t even like cereal with milk. Ew.
1. Cinnamon Toast Crunch is actually pretty good. You should try it sometime. It manages to fool you into thinking it’s not loaded with sugar!
2. What’s not to like about that? I mean, you have your whipped cream, and then you add something crunchy and sweet…?
-A
1. I’ll stick with my honey-nut cheerios, thanks.
2. Ummmm, i’m not all that fond of whipped cream, and definitely not on cereal. I’ll stick with milk.
Cereal with milk is disgusting. Whipped cream, however…
1. Cinnamon Toast Crunch is an actual licensed cereal, in case you didn’t know. And it is great.
2. What, you’ve never done some crazy food thing like that? I personally wouldn’t mind trying it at all, since I’ve tried a combination of milk, peas, and ketchup.
1. I know, but I still don’t think it looks very good.
2. Of course not. I only used to eat corn in ketchup and peas in applesauce when I was little. Never tried anything crazy.
I’m glad you remembered to eat a healthy breakfast.
Oh, no, it was very delicious. And don’t be silly, Sudo. That was my lunch.
And your breakfast was…?
Waffles! And a lemonade Popsicle-thing. The Popsicle was for my throat, though, because I barely have any voice left. It sounds really weird when I talk.
Get it back before the kokonvention. *threatens with vomited-in French Horn*
I’m trying, I’m trying! It’s so irritating not being able to sing. Or yell. *steps way far awayyyy from that French Horn*
You’re a singer?
Yes, I love to sing. Which reminds me, tomorrow I have chorus. *headdesk*
Your breakfast and lunch both sound wonderful. *drools*
Thank you!! Finally, someone who understands! *virtual high-five*
Understanding person right here… -raises hand-
-A
Sometimes our computer makes a noise, but it’s more of a “why are you hurting me” noise, whereas the school computer makes a “I’m not going to work no matter WHAT you do” noise. Also heard on the school computer:
“I am frozen and I am NOT unfreezing.”
“Don’t tell me to work, it’s pointless.”
“I dislike humans. I dislike humans. I dislike humans.”
“I shall not unfreeze. I shall have to be Ctrl+Alt+Deleted into submission. Therefore, all your work shall be lost. Take that, annoyingly humanoid lifeform.”
“I am evilly enjoying watching you go into conniptions because your project needs to BE FINISHED, TODAY, and I am refusing to move quickly enough to finish before 8:30 PM.”
And other stubbornly antagonistic statements that merely increase our mutual animosity. The laptops are even worse.
Oh, in media last week, a bunch of people put their books on the keyboard. It beeped in protest (“I have no particulat reason to do this but will do it anyway just to annoy you.”). I decided to see how many keys I could press at once before it had a fit, and the teacher noticed. That is, she marked the roll and gave me a weird look when she called my name.
Unfortunately your computer is a step behind mine… ours is more along the lines of “I shall not unfreeze. I will force you to do Ctrl+Alt+Deleted with no success and resort to throwing me on the ground (Ouch! Watch it you stupid humanoid) before cursing loudly and then losing you all your work. Take THAT.”
Yum. And no, I’m not being sarcastic. I always make sure that when my mom goes to the car wash I go too. It’s just so much fun!
Luna and LBK–Wow!! Luna, how big was the tiger compared to you?
I’d say the tiger laying down was about as long from head to base of tail as I am tall, or pretty close (5 1/2 feet or so). I don’t remember how much they said this tiger in particular weighed, but the other similarly sized tigers were around 700ish pounds, I believe. So I’d say she ways a bit more than 4 1/2 times as much as I do.
One of her paws/lower legs were probably about as big around as my upper leg (not that you can really see my upper leg to compare, but….).
GAPAs… may I humbly request a new Jokes & Riddles thread?
*UBERSIGH*
I finished my massive amount of English homework… Now it’s time for my massive aamount of Social Studies homework!
Okay, all of my homework is done, and I got to go to the bookstore today!
Where are our smell sensors in our nose?
OMG, somebody built a LEGO ISS!
Not necessary, but awesome. Thank you, GAPAs.
Yay! We made ice cream today, it was delicious!
Did you know that MuseBlog looks smaller upside down?
Oh, the things you discover while procrastinating…
Hey! Don’t you go procrastinate making the Procrastination song! That’s my job! I’ll reprimand you later…
You’re procrastinating reprimanding starr for procrastinating making a song about procrastinating?
At least I’m not procrastinating-mostly because I have nothing I need to do.
Alright, alright. I’ll reply to you…later.
I really need to give up procrastinating… Later.
Oh, don’t worry. At least you don’t procrastinate by compiling the main characters for the top 100 works of literature in NAQT questions. That is the epitome of geekiness.
I procrastinate by trying to think of a coherent timeline for all of my stories- even the ones that take place in seperate Universes.
Oh, I so want to go sing sea chanties. I’ve been lazy and bored all day, and I’m longing for a life of adventure, preferably the type including living history, music and tall ship sailing.
Sorry Pip.
I wonder how realistic my dream life is, really. I mean, at the moment I’m dreaming of living in some cozy little place maybe near Williamsburg VA (probably on the other side of the river–cheaper to live there), working at Jamestown and/or Colonial Williamsburg as a costumed interpreter, musician (at CW), or some other such position, maybe teaching music lessons in order to supplement the income a bit, sailing professionally some of the time at least, performing music round about at fairs, etc. Add some acting in there for fun perhaps, throw in a horse and it’d be amazing. (Okay, I realize that’s stretching it. I probably won’t have a horse. Actually, there’s probably one in a trillion chances that I’ll have a horse, but oh well.)
Mix a guy into that picture and it’s looking pretty darned good. Heehee, I listed the guy last on the list of desirable elements of my future life.
164- Ooh. What sea chanties would you sing? I love singing sea chanties.
“What care we how white the spray is
what care we for the wind the weather
let her go boys every inch is
bearing home, home to Mingulay
Heel your hoe boys, let her go boys
heave her head round into the weather
heel your hoe boys, let her go boys
sailing homeward to Mingulay
set your eyes on the sun arisin’
gulls and doves fill the sky with feather
cut her loose boys for the horizon
we’ll be home soon in Mingulay
Heel your hoe boys, let her go boys
heave her head round into the weather
heel your hoe boys, let her go boys
sailing homeward to Mingulay
Wives are waitin’ on the bank for
looking seaward from the heather
turn around boys and we’ll anchor
ere the sun sets on Mingulay
Heel your hoe boys, let her go boys
heave her head round into the weather
heel your hoe boys, let her go boys
sailing homeward to Mingulay
wives are waitin’ anticipatin’
for the end of our adventures
don’t you cry girls, we’re returnin
to the shores of Mingulay
Heel your hoe boys, let her go boys
heave her head round into the weather
heel your hoe boys, let her go boys
sailing homeward to Mingulay
Heel your hoe boys, let her go boys
heave her head round into the weather
heel your hoe boys, let her go boys
sailing homeward to Mingulay
sailing homeward to Mingulay”
I might have spelled things wrong, that was copied down as I listened to the song. That is my favorite sea chanty. What are your favorite sea chanties?
I know that one! I have an old recording of it by the Corries.
Mm. It is lovely. My favorite recording is the one by the Corsairs.
165~ I sing Mingulay! I know slightly different lyrics, though I like some of the verses you wrote out. Hmm, I may have to modify my version a bit.
Here’s how I sing it:
What care we how wide the Minch is?
What care we now for wind and weather,
For we know that every inch is
Sailing homeward to Mingulay.
Heave ya ho, boys, let her go boys,
Turn her head ’round into the weather,
Heave ya ho boys, let her go boys,
Sailing homeward to Mingulay.
Wives and sweethearts on the banks
Or gazing seaward from the heather
Turn her round boys, and we’ll anchor
Where the sun sets on Mingulay.
Heave ya ho, boys, let her go boys,
Turn her head ’round into the weather,
Heave ya ho boys, let her go boys,
Sailing homeward to Mingulay.
It strikes me there’s one more verse that I’m missing, but I can’t remember it. Oh well. But yes, I love that one.
Hmm….other shanties…
I had Esiquibo River stuck in my head earlier, New York Girls is is always good, Patrick Street, Bully in the Alley, Paddy Doyle’s Boots, All for me Grog, Greenland Whale Fisheries, A-Roving, Homeward Bound, Don’t Forget Your Old Shipmate, Boney was a Warrior, Teh Thousand Miles Away…….there’s so many. I’ll have to post a list of some of the maritime CDs I have sometime. But even then, some I don’t have recordings of, just the music or I know them from hearing friends sing them.
And as a P.S. to the last post (or the dear, dear GAPAs could splice this into that one..), I have a recording of Mingulay by Pyrates Royale.
By the way, a band Robert may be familiar with? It’s somewhat local. Also, House of Cadarn, anyone (mainly Robert, since again, kind of local-ish I think) familiar with them?
Ooh MF, thank you for the other bands! I’ve been looking for other bands to listen to.
168~ Sure thing! What are some of the groups you listen to?
The Corsairs, the Minstrels of Mayhem, The Brobdingnagian Bards, The Bedlam Bards. Mostly the Corsairs, though. I got all of this music from a friend from college.
Hockey is over
club hockey at least.
We had our last game today, we won, for 3rd place.
My high school team still goes for almost another month but it is nowhere near the same.
I don’t know what I’m going to do
I am not playing in college.
I feel weird.
Well.
Wow.
I just found Beatles slash on FFnet.
It was in French.
What?!
Fan Fiction is like that. There are people who write pairings for MAGIC SCHOOL BUS.
*shudder* Now that’s wrong.
This is one of the reasons I’m actually glad I’m the only one who writes NASA fan fiction…
Oh, gods… A friend of mine (named Luna, incidentally) wrote this MAGNIFICENT MAGNIFICENT capital-letters-and-double-emphasis-emphasis-needed Holmes/Watson slash a bit back. It was beyond fantastic. Mayhap I could post it, somehow, but somehow I have a feeling that would violate a few rules… Not necessarily even Museblog ones. Maybe copyrighting rules? -shrugs-
We shall see. But you really should get to read it somehow; it was gorgeous.
-A
Yeah… people obviously are pretty bored…
Wait, what? Where? Stone needs to find this so she can laugh uncontrollably at it.
HOLY CAKE, there are A HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR Magic School Bus fics. This is very, very strange.
*reads summaries* This is quite scary. I don’t think I’m going to laugh.
*reads more summaries* OH MY GODS. Way to turn a children’s TV show into a….. a…. I don’t even know what. X_X
HOLY FRICKIN CAKE, there are three DW/MSB crossovers. And one FAMILY GUY crossover.
Kai, you should never have told me about this… >_> Now I am scarred for life.
Why WOULDN’T there be Doctor Who/Magic School Bus crossovers? Ms. Frizzle is obviously a Time Lady.
I have a medieval feast today! (Don’t ask, my Music Humanities teacher is craaaaaa-zy) And I actually want to go! Yayness!
Will you drink Butterbeer? (I’m serious – apparently Butterbeer was actually a real drink that existed back in Tudor times, made from eggs, sugar, nutmeg, beer, and butter, of all things.)
No, but we had “rum” (Sprite) and “beer” (root beer). ‘Twas fabulous.
I have a snow day today…that was really unexpected.
Does anyone else have today off?
I did… out of the blue… I am very happy
because I did not finish my homework yesterday.
Yep. We’re on vacation.
-A
Feeling pretty good, got an offer from Dundee University for International Relations and Politics for an easy condition to fill. Means I can relax a bit about the other colleges.
Sweet. Congratulations.
Yes, congratulations Elias.
Yayness!
It’s so weird, seeing a link on the calendar…
Indeed, agreed.
-A
Re- Little sister’s Sudo related illness:
Bad. Didn’t end well. She stopped vomiting at her twenty-third time, and she got me sick! I blame society, even though it’s her kindred spirit’s *coughSRcough* fault really.
Re- My society/SR/little sister related illness:
Good News: I only puked fourteen times! I’m not sick any more!
Bad News: I only puked fourteen times! I’m not sick any more! I haven’t been on MB in the last… two and a half days! *is sorry* I have to wear the stupid retainer again!
In other words, thanks a lot Sudo.
Ugh. Retainers are gross. Especially when you have to wear them all bloody day. I only wear them at night now, but looking back, I cannot see how I ever managed to put up with them right after I got my braces without washing them every day. Ughggh.
I agree, retainers are gross. But, it’s kind of cool when you can pop them out and put them back in with just your tongue, which the orthodontist says not to do.
I swear, if my voice doesn’t come back soon, I will cry. Chorus was really strange, listening to them sing without hearing my own voice. I learned that the baritones are kind of suckish (
wait I already knew that) and that the sopranos need to be way louder. But the altos were flawless, of course. Sorry, Sudo, I can still barely talk, but it’s not my fault! Don’t come near me with that French horn!177– I’m so glad that you’re better! I was worried about my sister. (Bad, bad Sudo. Tsk-tsk.)
Hey, GAPAs….I was wondering: Would it be permissible for me to use one of the pics of me with the tiger as my gravatar? It’s only a side profile of me, but I totally get it if letting me do so would set a precedent that would make things difficult for you guys in the future.
Thanks, regardless!
Luna, instead of using a photo as an avatar, would you like to emails us some photos to post? (You can use our new address: thegapas at gmail.com.)
Sure, that would be great! Thanks! *off to send email*
Has anybody notice the strange sensation of old guys going on the computers in libraries to find pictures of girls online that are WAAAY out of their league? Yeah, well, I have, and it’s getting pretty disturbing now. Every time I’ve been to the library, a creepy old man(not one in particular) is using the computer, and is writing messages on strange dating websites. It’s not that the pictures are inappropriate… it’s the whole situation that is just weird. GET A COMPUTER AND DON’T HAVE KIDS WATCHING YOU TELL LIES ABOUT YOURSELF TO GET DATES ON STRANGE WEBSITES!!!
On a totally unrelated topic, I’m currently watching the new Discovery special on TV because we’re learning about King Tut in school right now. Mostly for the purpose of being able to think, “Ga ha, Ms. S, you’re wrong! So-and-so wasn’t his father after all!”
But I’d never say that. Maybe.
You’re right, Silver Lining. You wouldn’t say, “Ga ha.”
Yeah… And then I saw this random guy on one of the computers doing FarmVille… I don’t know, it’s nothing really weird I suppose, but it just surprised me.
If you go on snopes, you can see some workers on computers playing solitaire, while they’re supposed to be working!!!!! What’s up with that?
Horrible Science magazine had a cartoon of a scientist listening for alien signals at a radio dish playing Tetris on his computer when nobody was looking.
Isabella:
-has music poisoning
-is allergic to her flute
-is in a sheet music induced coma
Which one do you think I can use to get out of my band test tomorrow?
It’s really important that I pass because if I don’t, I can’t play in Spain. Which would stink. So now my fingers hurt, my wrists ache, and my mouth is sore from practicing too much… The music is so hard, and I didn’t prepare enough, and I sound horrible. This sucks…
Awww…that’s terrible. I am so sorry for you Beedle! *hugs, virtual choklit, and some kind of healing potion that also makes you sound like a Flute Hero*
Sweetness! I watched Shuttle Endeavour’s touchdown last night with my whole family last night, and CNN actually had really good coverage. They need to use that format again- having the NASA TV stream in a little box on the side of the screen until 5 minutes remaining while they cover other stories and then going to the shuttle and having three commentators talking about it and actually saying INFORMED things.
Does Muse Academy have a student-run TV/radio station?
Breakfast/lunch- Yogurt, an orange and some slices of apple, water and I can’t remember the rest. I don’t care for cereal much and eat bread for breakfast either… Actually, I just eat what’s put on my plate for breakfast, being too sleepy to pay attention. At my dad’s, it’s inevitably healthy. Lunch was in a short break before gym (the teacher doesn’t like it if you puke on her feet), so mini baguette + water + an apple I’m eating now (4pm).
Volleyball in gym today was awesome. Usually, I suck at it because I instinctively hit the ball too hard or surpress that and miss it. Except I was quite mad today and whacked it back where it came from regardless. Instead of service, we did the pass-it-to the girl at tge net, who passes back to you and then you put it over combo. So, my ‘ah, a ball, I’ll send it back with something extra’ reaction was quite appropriate, as in the nerd team won. In your face, ‘mean girl’. Quite literally. When I’m mad, run away very quickly. If I dislike you, run away even faster. And the losibg team has to do 20 knee bends, then 20 push-ups while the others sit and smirk. Victory, sweet victory…
I’d make a very good sith.
Mmph. Sorry about the flute thing, Beedle. Look at it this way, you still play better than me. : | I sound like a malfunctioning Boeing 747. SCREECHHONKDIDDLEIDDIDDLECRUNCHSCRATCH.
182- [irony] Oooooh, informed things! CNN doesn’t do that a lot! [irony]
Anyhoo…(hope you know I’m kidding, KaiYves.)…found a new band I like. Anyone heard of the Dropkick Murphys?
In other Zack news:
A BREAKING NEWS STORY!
Zack has achieved 1st Prestige in COD4.
Zack has accidentally deleted all data on iPod touch.
Zack’s pseudonym is changing from “eragon” to “Castle”. Anyone like?
The E.N.D.
I like it. But what does E.N.D. stand for (I know it’s an acronym. Admit it.)?
The Energy Never Dies – Black Eyed Peas album. Kinda random on my part, but….yeah, kay.
The Dropkick Murphys are a local band. Jonathan Papelbon ( pitcher on the Red Sox ) likes them.
Of course I know you’re kidding. You had irony tags.
SFTDP-
184.3-
I tried to do around my irony, but they disappeared.[irony] Am I (heaven forbid) missing something? [irony]
184.2-
Huroo, huroo! I, personally, hate the Red “Sux”, but they ARE from Bawstin.
Yes. Dropkick Murphys=pwn. If you like them, you might also like Flogging Molly and/or Gaelic Storm.
I am currently listening to Devil’s Dance Floor by Flogging Molly. It has been my favorite song for the past few days.
Also, I like Eragon better than Casle, because I know who you are.
I lost my leg, climbin’ up the topsail, I lost my leg!
Gaelic Storm sounds cool.
So does Flogging Molly, but the name almost implies abuse and torture to a laughable point. I’m listening to it right now…cool beat. Swing a little more…! Irish/Scottish bands rock.
What do you mean by “I know who you are”?
I mean, I like eragon too, but so many people were commenting on how it was just a typical “coming of age/unlikely hero/finding yourself” story. It’s a very unique book, and I am a fan, but I dunno…..”Castle” is the name of Lee Castle from season 4 of 24, which I just spent the better part of a month watching.
Midnight Fiddler has a NEW COMPUTER!!! YAY!
Sweet! A mac?
LBK is happy for Midnight Fiddler!!!!
185 ~ Congrats Midnight Fiddler! Schweet!
I’m “working” on my paper right now…and, of course, spending time on MB. However it’s due tomorrow, so I’m going to have to finish it somehow between now and 8:30 tomorrow, so if I spend (too) much time on here just tell me to shut up and get back to the paper.
It’s all Pseudo’s fault if I am not in fact a paleophyte.
Why is it all en’s fault? How does en have anything to do with the fact that you’re not a paleophyte?
So today my Latin teacher came back and spent a whole period chewing out the slacker seniors, AND, because I didn’t need to get yelled at, I got to get a head start on my homework in the Guidance room!
Things are looking up.
185.1~ Yup. No more switching from mom’s computer to my ancient PC and back again.
*dances*
Ugh, I’m tiiireeeedd. And I still have homework I’m behind in. How did I get so behind on my math? *dies*
I met this girl today (well, she’s in the school show with me, so in a sense I’ve always “known” her, but today I really got a chance to talk to her.), and she’s so Muserly it’s sort of freaking me out.
She hates hot pink AND bunnies (Although I dunno if she has ever put them together) and I didn’t get a chance to ask if she reads Muse but I “overheard” (
) her talking to herself and she sounded so…Muserly. She was pondering society and how she’s very much an outcast and is wondering what “normal” really means. Twas quite interesting, and it definitely reminded me of you guys for some reason…
Now I’m sort of wondering if she’s gone on here. Which would be really cool if she did. I don’t know how to ask her, but I guess I will if I get the chance. (She’s in 6th grade by the way.)
Just some thoughts.
Slip her the URL of MB you must.
Sorry about the above post. I went for “cancelar” and clicked “comment” instead. If the HTML gnome could possible fix that, that would be lovely.
190–See if you can recruit her to the Kokonspiracy.
I got home early today! That is a big deal for me. And supposedly I’m good in math, so today was pretty good! Hooray!
It’s 11pm, do you know where your sanity is? I sure don’t. I don’t think teachers understand how much homework they give. I want to give THEM their homework assignments, plus everything else we have, and let them decide what should happen. I seriously believe that giving them the same homework would teach them a lesson (PUN INTENDED). Whatever, I’m off to read Stephen King to rot away the remaining sanity. Good night MB.
190 – Yes, do attempt to recruit her. I’ve considered trying to rope in one of my very Muserly friends from time to time, but I decided that I rather like not having anyone I know in real life on the blog. It makes it easier to say what I want to say. She and another friend of mine do know about MB, though.
I find it easier, too. Then again, all of my friends whom I’ve invited onto MB have posted once or twice and then completely forgotten about it.
That’s the only reason why I’m hesitant. We’re not even really close friends, either. But the Kokonspiracy is calling, and of course I can’t ignore that.
A snippet of a longer conversation earlier:
[friend] “I mean, you can look at it that everything’s relative. It could end up that we’re really just zombies and in the Matrix. Or we could all be pink bunnies hopping around on one leg and just duped into thinking we’re humans.”
[me] “If you had any idea how frightening that last suggestion is……”
I’m concerned for his sanity, I really am. Not that I haven’t been, hanging around with me is bad enough, but this latest development is truly frightening.
190~ Recruit her! I’ve directed a few people towards Muse and MB, a few have come, most as far as I know didn’t stay. But oh well, it’s always worth a shot.
Oh, maybe I’ll just slip her an anonymous letter with the URL, like Piggy suggested.
Then she won’t know who gave it to her… 
It’s totally, possibly true what he said.
Couldn’t figure out where to put this, so in the Random Thread it goes. (Wow, I just typed Random Threat. Freudian slip much? :P) Ahem.
Cat’s Eye’s Corollary (or Conjecture, or Law; whichever): There is absolutely nothing, and that means nothing, in which you cannot involve zombies.
It’s true.
Enceladus’s first law of life: Everything is better with ninjas.
Definitely, Enc.
Enceladus’s second law of life: Enceladus is always right.
Agreed. In Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the story was mildly improved by zombies, but once Lady Catherine’s ninjas got involved, it became amazing. You are so wise, Enceladus.
Most definitely. I am a ninja. You can ask anyone who was in the same movie theatre (oh how I pity them) when I saw Sherlock Holmes can confirm that statement. And as for your second rule, well, almost always. Almost.
I am also a ninja. Therefore, the first law can also be stated like this:
Everything it better with Enceladus.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. *waits for applause*
*applauds*
I’m training to be a freerunner. Freerunners are sometimes called urban ninjas. Thus, I am training to be a ninja.
Dude, I adjectived ninja two weeks ago.
I read that as “I ejected a tuna.” Fail.
Posting from school! Free online time!
Last night I dreamed I was being chased by giant winged tuna fish.
Then I ate a sandwich and they fled.
Ugh. I feel so randomly boring today. My brain is stagnant.
So. Violin exams. Homework. School. Sleep. Nothing new.
Interesting dream. I often have dreams like that.
What sort of music exams do you take in Singapore? Here we take the ABRSM. Yayness, you play the violin! If you do take ABRSM, what grade are you at, if I may ask?
Yep, ABRSM. Grade 10 Diploma. NIIIIIGHTMARE. I have to play Mendelssohn, whose name I can’t even spell… Plus that sonata what’s-it.
[Long rant + slightly random story ahead. Read at your own risk. And a cookie to the GAPAs for having to moderate this comment. I swear, there is no vulgar language below.]
OK. So. Ugh. I hate homework. And tests. We have a huge Social Studies test tomorrow that determines a big part of our grade – all on US government and politics, with history like the Constitution and the Articles of Confederation. It bores me to tears. The only reason we have to learn all this stuff is because we’re “an American-style education, grounded in the Christian faith and respecting the spiritual lives of all”, yada yada yada. So even here in Hong Kong we have to learn all this stuff. Not only that, but we have a Geometry test tomorrow that is going to be the last test we take before the teacher signs our registration forms for 9th grade, deciding whether we go to Advanced Algebra or just Advanced Algebra Honours. They’re both one year ahead of the rest of our grade, but one is still…you know, better. And Advanced Algebra with “Honours” looks better for boarding school and university. He told us before that he was thinking of 8 people (out of our class of around 20) that he might consider sending only to Advanced Algebra (ie the bottom eight) and I sincerely hope I’m not one of those 8, though I have a sneaking suspicion that I am. Even though I did get onto the school Dragonmath team. (Long story – but it means I’m supposedly in the top 4 girls in our grade for math. Yeah, right. More like top 6, or 8. But the problem is there are more guys than girls in our math class, and only a few girls are good). So I really need to do well on this last test to improve my standing in his opinion. And I have to remember to justify EVERYTHING. I hate proofs, and (memorizing) theorems and postulates! They are incredibly annoying and useless for everything in life EXCEPT for Geometry class. Ah well. At least I got into Honours Science (Chemistry)! Yay!
Ahahaha. So, there is a story that I just thought of that is semi-related. We were having a high school information session (we got to skip math!) and they were talking about how in junior and senior years you get to explore different options and electives for areas you’re more interested in. They mentioned science as an example and asked us who might be interested in science. I was, but no one else raised their hand because it just…well…gets awkward sometimes and no one wants to volunteer. Anyway, my science teacher (who is AWESOME) was one of the teachers in the room and since I always ask questions in class she looked right at me when they asked that so I had no choice but to raise my hand. And then this other boy noticed and started to raise his hand too, maybe to get into her good books or something if it seemed like he was interested in science, but I don’t think he really was. OK, that was a huge digression from my rant, but whatever. (I tend to ramble. Sorry. I already warned you.)
Anyway, if you actually read all that, congratulations and here’s a cookie. [insert cookie here]. I know this really belongs on the Rants and Plaints thread, but I’m too lazy to move it now that I’ve typed it all. And I just wasted 10 minutes of my precious homework-and-test-studying time that I could have been using to memorize the Bill of Rights. And then at 10.30 my parents will be like ‘You have to go to bed now, you need your sleep.’ I know THAT, but I need my good grades (or even OK grades, I’m beyond caring) even more. Anyway. Yeah. Over and out.
*accepts cookie*
Wow! A GAPA talked to me! Anyway, you’re welcome for the cookie.
You swear there’s no vulgar language…heh heh. And get used to GAPAs talking to you.
I was joking, I know that it isn’t that rare of an occasion, really.
*takes cookie*
I’ve decided to occupy myself my making digital music. Any ideas for song topics?
Digital music?
Like Owl City, where you use a computer to make all the sounds and just record your singing over it.
198- Comic books?
You mean a song about comic books?
♫ Superman… Superman… Does whatever… a Superman does…
K. So basically, I wanna see if this whole Gravatar thing works the way I think it does. Uno momento, por favor.
*pies self for Po-Poing*
Gravatars that are human faces that aren’t obviously somone other than you aren’t allowed.
WOOO!!!!!! It does!!
*pies self again*
Hey, um…how do I “log in” here?
Hi, Shadowkat! Details about the whys and wherefores of logging in can be found on the New MuseBlog Experiment thread. It only affects a very small corner of the blog.
Ooohhhh…okay, thanks. I’ve applied! ^_^
And been accepted, w00t!!
I made my account! “Waiting to be accepted” it says.
((Sorry in advance for the exclamation point overlaod.))
SilverLeopard is very happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SilverLeopard has been chosen for her school’s exchange program!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She, a bunch of other students, and a couple of teachers will go to Germany in the fall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SilverLeopard is so happy that she is speaking in 3rd person!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations SilverLeopard!!!!!!!!
Congratulations! You will have so much fun.
CONGRATULATIONS, SILVERLEOPARD!!!!!!!!!!!!! No, but that is seriously so cool. Have fun! At my town’s high school, you take a trip to the country whose national language you learn as an academic. I love learning Spanish, but I have to say I’d MUCH rather go to Paris than Mexico City. *grumble*
That sounds great! Now you just need to persude her to go to Austrua instead… *kidding*
Ohmygod, that is so awesome! Beyond great! Cool! Tremendous! The Germans have really, really good food.
Yay! My teacher’s speech worked, because the kids in my Latin class actually BEHAVED today! And tomorrow is Thursday already. And then my birthday’s the day after… I still haven’t gotten my head around that.
For some weird reason, when I read that in the recent comments bar, I could have sworn it said “My kids….”
That was very strange….
Bad day today… *grumblegrumble* *stops infesting the Random Thread with my grumpiness* *slinks off*
Sorry for the PoPo. But what happened today…yeah, just gimme a break.
*hugs* *gives chocolate*
Thanks. Everything that happened…most of it has/will blow over soon. I hope. I was in a really bad mood when I wrote that.
My apologies!
Piggy’s favorite ancient Greek quote ever: “βÏεκεκεκὲξ κοὰξ κοάξ”, which can be transliterated to “brekekekex koax koax,” which is the sound of a frog croaking. Aristophanes, you rock.
In SS, we get to write in Runes. SO MUCH FUN…that was random…..waitaminute, this is the random thread….
Okay, I am SO losing my mind…. but hey, could br worse.
I tried to carve a runic message into a stone tablet, but because it sounded like a dentist office and because the first word took half an hour, I just wrote it with an ink pen. And drew some things. The Runes are : One must tolerate demons for the sake of an angel. (potential 5 points for guesses of the quote.)
Cake. I got the quote wrong. At least it’s the general idea… *headdesk*
The Girl In The Fireplace! I knew I recognized it!
Unless Madame de Pompadour was quoting.
She wasn’t. *awards 5 points*
Now that was an interesting episode….
And I do believe it was written by Stephen Moffatt. Who also wrote my three favorite episodes (Empty Child, Doctor Dances, Blink). Which in turn bodes very well for the coming season of Doctor Who, despite my worry that Matt Smith won’t be as pwnsome as David Tennant.
I took Middle Egyptian Hieroglyphs last year. It was neat. I still have my books and occasionally write things. This summer I walked around writing “How sweet the taste of honey!” on sidewalks.
I write in Hieroglyphs sometimes, and when I get bored, I write numbers in Arabic numerals, then Roman, then Mayan.
HEY EVERYONE!!!!!!!!! Guess who got an early dismissal!!!!!!!!! ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it’s still snowing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lucky.
Fun! Connecticut only got like half an inch last Monday, but 2 FEET the week or two before.
O, the wonders of snow. I woke up this morning at 6:50, expecting to go to school. I take a shower and come out of the bathroom that I woke up for no reason. It’s a snow day.
Oh, wait, this is the “good” part.
So, I’m enjoying my free day, thinking about what I should do (whether or not I was actually going to do it.). My mom wants me to shovel, but my brother goes outside. This is right about when I made a couple of posts here. I wanted my little brother to get a bin from outside, so that I could go outside. I called and called…. He didn’t answer. After a few minutes, my Mom went to go outside to find him. I thought nothing of it. After another few minutes, she calls for me to come outside and look with her. She’s freaking out by now. I’m thinking, “Oh great, the dog ran away and he went after ’em… Now I have to too!”
So, we go up to the park that we live next to (on a mountain, may I add), and by this time my mom is totally flipping. I can skip to the point where I find his footprints and follow them to find him on a hill, holding the dog. Alright, mushy reunion time, lemme’ go inside now… My mom gets hold of the dog, and begins yelling at him.
I think I should set the scene for you. Snow is falling from the sky in clumps, and its thick enough not to let you see farther than a 75 yards or so. I live on a mountain, that you have to drive up to on the highway. There is a dirt road leading off of the highway, and at the end of that is my house. There is an entrance to a park a bit back down the highway, but it’s large enough to stretch to my house. We have a way to go through the woods and down a couple of roads to get there without going in the car. There is a golf course, which is huge. There is a road, then some trees, then the golf course. There are occasional openings and entrances. I went through one of them to find my little brother and the dog. So, my mom is yelling at him, and then he gets out of her grasp and runs. Runs away.
No big deal, he only went a short distance. I’ll catch him easy. I’ve done this before.
Except I hadn’t. This is probably the farthest he’s ever been. My little brother didn’t want to waste time by telling us, so that was why he left. Now, I’m walking towards the dog.
“Don’t chase him!” I’ve heard my mom say it a million times, but I was walking, because I had to keep up with him. I didn’t realize where he was going to take me.
He went down a hill, sniffed some trees, up a hill, into a patch of woods, out of that patch, down a hill, past a frozen pond, up a hill again. During the patches of wood, much of the “path” (the non-existent one that my dog decided to take) was narrow and thorny.
Oh, I forgot to tell you what I was wearing! Sneakers, jeans, a puffy north-face jacket, and no gloves. I didn’t know what I was getting into!
So, we probably went past another pond, and two other patches of woods. This golf course was definitely large, but we were zig-zagging. I kept saying “Treat!” or “Bad dog!” All of the things that would usually help. I probably had trekked through two miles of freezing terrain before I saw the huge hill. It was the end of the golf course, and I was extremely tired (adrenaline kept me going).
I know that if he goes up this mountain (I realized what it was as I got closer, because of the snow blocking the view), we could get impossibly far away from my house. I wouldn’t know how to get back; not because of direction, but because of the dog that I would have to take with me. After I caught my last glimpse of the golf course, I was in for it. I probably went about 50 yards into the woods, and then… and then I leaped onto him and grasped his collar. I had taken a rest before, so I wasn’t too tired, but I thought the moment could freeze for just a moment. So I sat there, knowing that when I got up he wouldn’t want to come with me. He went a few steps. Then, he lay down, and rolled over. He wouldn’t budge. I would pull him back home before he would stand up and come back with me.
Somehow he gets away from me, after he hears something and actually begins to walk with me. I think maybe he’ll just go back the way he came, but he strays. Then, I hear the voices of my little brother! We have him cornered now! The rest of the story isn’t too interesting. My little brother put a leash on him, and I found out my mom had been following me and my dog’s footsteps. My little brother found a short cut.
If you will reference the books and reading thread, I wasn’t quite ready for a night in the woods after reading that.
((SORRY GAPAs for the HUGE post!!! *apology choklit*))
((*adds more*))
Ha, this is going to be awesome. Some of the extempers on my forensics team are throwing together an OID before the end of this year. (Naturally, extempers are terrible at interping, which is why we’re doing OID.) I had the idea today to do The Breakfast Club, which was instantly a hit. So I’m tentatively going to be Bender. Win…
MuseBlog looks a lot cooler inverted.
Except for my avatar.
Today is a fast day, which means I can’t eat or drink. I didn’t realize this when I signed up to give my French speech on Vikings, so I gave it while I was tired and while my throat was dry. It still went pretty well. I talked about Viking runes and how they meant something, just like our letters.
Then I had Geometry. I like the class itself, but I don’t really like the people. They are all either a grade above me or incredibly annoying.
Rewind a bit to lunch. I got out Victory, and left it in a classroom about ten minutes later when the teacher kicked us out. This happens surprisingly often. We had just gotten kicked out from the library.
I never noticed that you can resize the text box before.
I think I’ll stop now to increase the chances of the post being read. That would be interesting to make a graph of. length versus people who read it.
Haha, it’s almost the same. That’s so cool.
How do you resize the text box?? I accidentally made MB HUGE and it’s really annoying me! How?
Well, if you zoomed in (I did that not too long ago) it’s Control + or – to zoom in/zoom back out. But I’m not sure if that’s what you mean.
OMG! It works! Thanks ever so, starr!
You’re welcome…that just happened to me, so that’s how I knew.
In good news, I got home early today, am going to a restaurant later tonight with my family, have barely any homework due tomorrow, and an eating a waffle with Nutella on it. My science test was also lots of fun.
218.2~ If you have a mac, use Safari to resize the comment box. It doesn’t work on FireFox, nor on IE, as far as I can recall. ( Prefer FreFox though, and it sizes itself to accommodate how much you write, so it’s not that useful of a feature)
But if you’ve zoomed the page so MB is too big you can change that by going to Window-> Zoom (I think). More qualified geeks can probably give you more satisfactory answers.
(SFTDP) But 23 musers online, whoo!
Aaaand, I’m about to leave. Oh well.
221 – 17 are on now!
By the way, my school show is tomorrow night. Tell me to break a leg!
I’m so excited!
Good luck! What is the performance? I auditioned tonight for Our Town.
Break a leg, starr! What show is it, and what part are you? That reminds me, I have to buy tickets for my school’s production of Willy Wonka… Two of my friend’s friends are in it. Well, George (yes, I have a sort-of friend named George. Be jealous.) is on stage-crew, but whatever.
222- Break a leg!
221- Eight on now. Out of curiosity, who are the other seven?
me! Though there are nine of us now. sometimes though, I am not actually on when it says I am. I have the window open and all, but am doing things like homework in another window.
I’m on.
Hoo-rah.
My blogeversary, as well as my 6k day, are coming up soon.
I’m on, but then, MB is always open in a tab, from when I first get up in the morning, to when I go to bed….Doesn’t necessarily mean I’m actually paying any attention to it at the time, though.
If you don’t do anything, “Who’s Online” decides you’re inactive after five minutes, then drops you from the list after fifteen.
Oh, interesting. I’m probably off-line a lot more often than I would expect, then.
Hmm. That’s interesting.
Oh, okay. Then I’m not online a lot of the time.
What does it consider active?
A’argh! A’argh! A’argh!
Okay, so, our most recent unit in PE was “So you think you can dance?” The final assignment was to get into groups of five and make a creative dance along with our chosen song. First of all, I was outnumbered, so we had to do “Sign” by the Brown-Eyed Girls (’tis a loathsome Korean band). The dance has a really complicated fan dance that goes along with it, and my group ignored me when I said we were supposed to make the dance up. Then one of our group members goes on a three-week vacation in Japan “to catch the last of the ski season” and comes back yesterday. So she didn’t know the dance. When we performed today in front of the entire 7th grade-plus parents and teachers- she was randomly twirling all over the stage and she knocked me somehow into a very strange cartwheel. My fan went flying, and it hit another group member B in the face, causing here to jerk backwards and crash into group member C, who got knocked into the mat at the back of the gym. A’argh!
For those of you who asked – thanks, but because school got canceled today it has to be postponed until next Friday.
I’m really disappointed, but the extra time will give us a chance to perfect a few scenes we could have used some extra practice on.
It’s a funny version of a bunch of fairy tales that are basically all jumbled into one, and I play Little Red Riding Hood who in our version is basically a mean spoiled brat. (Hmm…I wonder if the director was trying to get a message across when she cast me.
Ha ha.) She’s a really fun character to play!
Is it called Into the Woods?
No. It’s an original show that my director wrote – it’s called Big Bad actually.
A snow day AGAIN? Craziness. This is unheard of!
Is anyone here into letterboxing? It seems like a very muserly thing to do.
But this snow day really stinks, we’re wasting all of our vacations.
Oh, and I got a 29/30 on my band test. That’s what happens when you lock yourself in your room for two hours and just practice.
Roxy is outside right now, she has been for about an hour. She loves the snow. She’d stay out there all day if it were up to her, but I’m going to bring her in now- I’m afraid she’s going to get sick.
I’m in a poetry mini-course for English, and we had to write a poem about a room, so I wrote about a reclusive-gardens-type one room shack. It came out very well, after four drafts.
That was a very scattered post. Sorry.
That’s strange….I thought the entirety of Random Tread posts were scattered…
I’m becoming sort of sick of snow.
We did a letterboxing problem in math last year. It was quite hard. Involved logic gates and lots of other weird stuff…
Ooh. I don’t think we’re talking about the same thing…
I’m talking about the fun activity that’s sort of like a treasure hunt, but international. (And more fun.)
No, it’s the same thing… It was a puzzle that contained one of the clues. You had to follow all these logic gates and then certain lights lit up that matched a location.
Ooh, logic gates. *drools*
EEEE You letterbox, too??? I haven’t done it in FOREVER because it’s kind of hard to find ones in my area because people are lazy!
Letterboxing is WAY better than geocaching, and pretty much tied with geohashing.
Me too… There’s only like three in my general area… I’ve been begging my mom to take me to get some in the summer, because most of them include hikes to get to. Luckily my girl scout leader is obsessed, so she lugs me along. I’ve only been geocaching with her (I don’t have a GPS) and I haven’t heard of geohashing. *googles* Oohh sounds cool…
I like letterboxing better because of the stamps. I found a TON of cool ones in North Carolina when I went to visit my aunt.
First thought this morning: Oh, it’s snowing a bit, isn’t that lovely?
Second thought: WHAT THE CAKE?!?! IT’S SNOWING AGAIN? NOOOOO!!!!!!! *burrowing beneath covers again*
So, I’m getting in touch with my inner bohemian today, viz. I look like a scruff.
Yay for bright colors and tattered jeans. 
I need to go do some math. Ew. Bye. *slopes off*
I’ve had a ton of snow here – but that was two weeks ago. We had an entire week off (Feb. 8th through 12th). They’ve been predicting snow for today (1 to 3 inches) but it hasn’t amounted to anything. Thank goodness – I am SICK of shoveling snow.
Good luck with your hopefully-soon performance, starr!
Thanks! I just found out that it’s been rescheduled for next Friday…let’s hope it’s not still snowing then too!
I love it. Sitting in my room, IMing mom in the house, swapping video links. xD
Yes, it’s crazy. And I should still probably be doing homework. *siiigh*
Being interested in everything is so very rough.
Oh look, Armada is checking in from the Bahamas… ^^ And glad because she’ll be back in Massachusetts in 19 days, but depressed because she’s missed out on so much MB epicness.
I shall be back soon though, and will catch up on everything. 
Hi, Armada! Thanks for checking in. We’ve missed you, too.
AAARRRMMMAAADDDAAA!
Yes, I’m hyper. How did you ever guess?
ARMADA! We miss you! Glad you’ll be back soon.
Welcome back, Armada! We’ve missed you too. *huggles*
Hi! Hope you’re having a good time there!
I feel so…off, today. Lonely, but not lonely really, just out of place I suppose? It’s very much a pit-of-my-stomach feeling…Anyone else ever get this?
i think it’s that I want something that everyone else seems to have, maybe. Something I can’t get or obtain…or something…inmaterial, like an emotion or…I don’t know.
It’s not a good feeling.
Have some chocholate. *gives chocolate*
Huh. I think I know what you mean. Like when you feel so sad it almost hurts, but for absolutely no reason?
199.1- Pretty much. That is, if you like comic books.
231- I feel like that, sometimes, too. Just do something you really like and it will go away after a while.
So it’s my birthday AND it’s a snow day! Hurray!
Happy birthday!
Thank you!
231~ I feel ya. I get the same thing, more frequently than I’d care to admit. It’s a horrible, alienating experience that one knows is irrational, but has seemingly no power to control. A deep discontent and frustrating feeling that doesn’t go away easily. Yes, I know that feeling well.
Generally I try to write, play music and listen to it, I try to be quiet and enjoy time alone and try to create something using the thoughtfulness that can come out of it. Or talking to a good friend can help sometimes as well.
Anyone else addicted to the TED website on here? I’d assume probably a few of you are, being a thoughtful bunch.
HEY ARMADA!!!!!! How’re you doing? Good to see you around, and have a safe trip and all that stuff. Looking forward to seeing you again soon.
TED has some fascinating stuff. I’ve been watching some of the videos from the recent conference when I get the chance.
I was astonished at their choice of moot to be a speaker this year. What he had to say was really nothing fascinating, though.
(231, 232, 233) You are not alone in this.
I both watch TED lectures and feel rather lonely and separate sometimes.
Look! All the MuseBloggers are logged in!
Oh, never mind.
I searched on Google for MuseBlog and this site did not come up, which Enceladus explained was so that our site is not targeted by hackers. [A bit snipped here because it mentioned a personal Web site.]
It was at lunch.
I’m Wally Webb.
Just went to a Judo class… Great fun, it felt a bit like dancing. I was left out of most of it to watch, because I’m new. I didn’t feel very skilled, but apparently the sensei thought I was very athletic
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For some reason when I saw that in the Recent Comments bar, I misread it as saying that Silver Lining had posted it. I was so confused, wondering when I had ever gone to a Judo class…
Ooh, cool.
Scariest/funniest thing that has happened all year:
Two of my friends and I were on thr couch talking for a very long time about a boy whom one of my friends likes. Apparently, we were talking about him too loudly and for too long, because suddenly her eighteen-year-old brother runs screaming into the room, donning a Spiderman mask while waving a spatula around. Then he runs back out, shrieking “[boy’s name! Boy’s name!]” in a high-pitched voice. I don’t think I’ve ever been so terrified or laughed so hard in my lifetime.
Well, that was really random. Hi, Armada!!!!! I missed you!!!!!!!
Oh, wow, this is just too funny. I’m watching “Dr. Who and the Daleks” the 1965 non-canon Who movie, which is basically a movie remake of the first Dalek serial, from Season 1 Classic Who. (It’s close enough to the TV serial that you know what’s happening, yet different enough that it’s not the same and definitely not canon….In a way it’s like watching a movie version of a book…..Except without getting pissed at it for differences.)
Anyway, the Thals in the movie, I can’t stop laughing–the males have got so much bright green eye shadow, and long black mascara’d eye lashes, that, well, it makes me think of drag queens. Throw ’em in a dress, shove a wig on their heads….yeah. I’m laughing so hard, because it’s just too funny…..I’m easily amused, at times.
Oh, and welcome back, Armada!!!!!!
Oh God, you’re reminding me of a dream I had last night. There was this guy I was scheming with, and he had to dress up as the queen of England… It was really weird…
Strange dream…..
…should be doing my homework. Writing in Jack London style (?!). Want to blog!
The Call of the Wild was a wonderful book.
I had a minor cold Friday, but not bad enough to miss school, so I went. By fifth period (English, which I am starting to feel indifferent to instead of dreading) I was almost fine. But as soon as I walked into religion class I felt bad again (probably not a coincedence). I ended up spending the evening on the bathroom floor until I managed to throw up and went on MuseBlog (fortunately my parents were out and I could be miserable by myself), then I felt sick again and ended up going to bed at a sane time for once. I spent most of this morning in bed, then decided I should do my maths homework and eat something. Now it’s almost 6:30 and I’ve spent a couple of hours on the computer. We’re getting Tuesday off school, so I’ll probably stay home Monday and finish the stupid pile of Economics homework and start on my assignments. Ugh.
Awww, feel better! *get well choklit*
*hugs* *gives choklit*
It’s okay. Get well soon!
I’m watching Blink for the second time on my iPod Touch. *obsessed*
*blink*
Something is seriously wrong with me sometimes…
The other day I had an emotional breakdown because I couldn’t get the hang of a new math concept. (?!?!?)
And I didn’t have a breakdown when (friend) all but told me he wasn’t interested in what I wanted to tell him- which definetely would have happened a year ago. I just got really, really mad.
Gah.
I know EXACTLY how you feel. I actually did that exact same thing the other day, both with the math concept and the friend.
Huh.
My sister has a basketball tournament today and I’m supposed to be the scorekeeper……. uh oh. I keep feeling like I’m going to mess up when that happens, even though I’ve done it before.
243 (fireh) – I feel for ya. *hugs* Emotional breakdowns are my middle name.
I wish I could give you some advice, but it sounds like it’s mostly crazy mood swings, and in that case you sort of just have to live with them while trying your best not to take them out on other people – easier said than done, of course. *choklit*
Today I have to clean my room and do homework. Fun, fun, fun!
But I’m also going to go see the high school’s drama competition again. I don’t honestly think that we’re going to win, though, because it was kind of a weird play. Oh well. *goes off to eat breakfast*
P.S. My voice is almost completely back. But I still can’t sing.
Well, at least it’ll be back so we can yell at random people at the kokon.
Of course. (Omgeorge only 15 more days!!!!!) But I kind of lost it again at Girl Scouts because my mom told me that I needed the “screen” for the projector, but I misheard her as “you need to scream”, so I screamed at the top of my lungs.
By the way, this thread has over 900 comments. But the numbers next to our names are only in the 200s. This is probably due mostly to Keiffer and I discussing our blog-sibling-ness.
Yes, most likely
Hi, sorry. I hit the enter button when I was in the middle of ejecting Pseudo’s email. I was going to say “Yes, most likely our fault.”
Pseudo wants to know if you can see her avatar. She is officially part of the cult now. She also wants to know if you think it looks weird. If you can see it yet.
Pseudo- Yeah, but those were the two pictures closest in size I could find, but yeah, it looks strange.
Fun fact: In the recent comments bar, I read your comment as “I kind of lost it at Carl”.
What?
The RC tends to have a mind of it’s own at the strangest times.
I wonder if it will go to 1000 posts! *gasp*
Beedle is going to take a walk with Roxy. Bye bye.
Okay, I lied. I have a question. Why don’t we have morphing chameleon threads anymore?
I think they were underused or something, and after reading through some of the old Morphing Chameleon Threads, it seems like we have conversations that last just as long on the random threads, maybe because of the reply buttons?
I don’t know, though, I’m just guessing.
Actually, it’s been almost a year since they stopped going up. I was going to post a comment about them in March mourning their absence, but you beat me to it!
I think they’re gone because most of the comments were spent trying to figure out what to talk about. And most of the conversations had on there could have been had on the random thread.
I am now obsessed with Ze Frank’s website (specifically the scribbler).
Man, what’s the deal with earthquakes?
I know right! Now Hawaii has a tsunami warning because of the quake in Chile.
And the quake in Japan.
Which is unfortunate, since my grandparents live in Hawai’i.
The tsunami warning isn’t just for Hawaii. Coastal regions of CA, OR, WA, and Alaska are also under the warning, although HI is expected to get/have been hit the worst.
The earth hates humans, so it’s trying to get rid of them.
Yes, most likely. I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised.
Love from your favourite cynic,
Silver Lining
Judging by what humans have been doing to the earth, it makes perfect sense.
Dear MB,
Luna has lost her mind. After working on her chemistry post-lab with her lab partner for 4 hours–er, well, maybe an hour fighting with excel to get a graph made of the data, then several hours of talking about anything under the sun (he talked about anime, I talked about Dr. Who–rambling about how it is my goal to watch all 700 or so episodes from Classic Who), a side branch of me twilight bashing (not sure how that came up), which ultimately deteriorated into the two of us playing Block Dude on our respective TI calculators, Luna accepted an invite to go see New Moon. Uh, what the cake? Somebody remind me why, after ranting about the horribleness of twilight, expressing that it’s not even worth the $1 it will cost to see on campus, I have now agreed to go watch it?????? Dangit, whichever one of you stole my mind, please return it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With love,
Luna
P.S. Since we got almost nothing done, we now have to get together again tomorrow to finish up…..Luna is way too skilled at the art of procrastination.
Ah, well, think of all the fun you can have making snarky comments about it later!
You can scream it in your head.
Wait- I’ve actually read the book, and just so you know, Jacob is 16. Bella is 18, so if anyone’s a pedophile, it’s her.
Also, I’d be more inclined to cry when “Cedric” leaves Bella.
Who’s Cedric? Oh wait, I’m on Keiffer’s account – better change it. Mwhaha, now I can steal her vampire-loving email!!
I was doing some research today for History Day. I went to Mount Holyoke College and looked through her old papers and notes. The notes were especially cool because they were from her political economy classes before she became SuperSecretary. There were all these cool doodles..but some of them were quite creepy. For instance, the leg bone and the bride whose face was a giant Cyclops eye or something like that. Also, she had terrible handwriting. I could barely read it. But it was very, very cool to touch something that she wrote back in 1901.
Cedric Diggory, the character Pattinson played on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire before he went and sold his soul to the devil and played Edward in twilight.
Mount Holyoke- That’s where my cousin goes to school! She’s possibly the coolest person I know.
I’ve read all the books (unfortunately), as well. I’m not referring to the Jacob/Bella relationship, I was referring to something that happens later in the series. But in case you haven’t read that book and are planning to read it, I’ll skip the spoilers.
Alright then. I stand corrected.
Stand corrected? You stand at your computer to type?
Sorry…..Couldn’t help myself, there. Anyway, off to go kill my brain cells watching twilight.
I love playing Block Dude on my TI calculator! I’m addicted! (Even though I can’t seem to get past three or four levels…the other game, I forget what it’s called, is pretty fun too…where you get to move the little shapes around.)
Ok, sorry. Not to the point: WHAT THE HECK HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO US WHY IN YOUR RIGHT MIND WOULD YOU SEE THAT THING!?!?!?!!
Kidding. Actually, like others said, now you’ll be able to insult it even more than usual.
Pegs? Oh, and you think the 4th or 5th level of Block Dude is hard? Try the 9th…..It’s practically impossible.
Ummmmm……I’m guessing it’s because I’m trying out this new thing called be sociable, and not just hibernating in my room all the time.
250.1.1~ Well, if you don’t really care about being kicked out, go for it.
But who invited you, your lab partner? Did he miss the Twilight bashing? Seems kind of strange, but have fun.
I’ve got this feeling I’d totally chicken out….I don’t like drawing attention to myself.
Yes, my lab partner invited me. I don’t think he’s read the books, and I’m pretty sure he’s not seen the movies, although he seems to know a decent amount about the series, despite this, or maybe he’s just very talented at the “nod and smile and agree with anything Luna says while ranting”. I think my twilight bashing has sparked his curiosity about the series….
XD
Well, maybe you wouldn’t be kicked out. Maybe everyone who watches New Moon is there for Twilight bashing.
Possible, but I rather imagine there are a fair number of twilight fangirls likely to be in attendance. One can hope the fact that they are college age will be no significant squeeage when Jacob appears on screen half-naked, but…..Knowing the maturity level (very low) of my fellow college-goers, I doubt that this hope will come to pass.
I don’t get why my dad wants me to go to sleep right now. It’s not even 10:30.
Wow. I just finished watching HG2TG (the movie). It was pretty good actually, but that’s coming from someone who had to stop reading the book after a page about ballpoint pens that disappear into wormholes. I LOVED the “Thanks For All The Fish” song at the beginning. It was hysterical.
Luna: if I were you, I would definitely go, and I would scream obnoxious things freely. But that’s just me.