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Woah. That was fast.
*hopes for first post even though it doesn’t matter*
I made some pictures of bunnified versions of famous museums. Do you want me to send them in?
Bunnified versions of famous museums? I think you should send them in.
On a bad note, my dad just told me that my uncle committed suicide because he didn’t want his illnesses to be a burden on the rest of his family yesterday during the Kokon. He said that he had some type of cancer, and he was losing teeth, and weight. (Apparently, he was only about 75 pounds when he died. Which is not good for someone in their seventies.)
I just don’t get why he didn’t tell someone, I mean, his neighbor knew, but was just respecting his wishes by not telling someone until after, but if it had been going on for over a year, I just don’t understand why he didn’t ask his family for help. He was living on his own, and didn’t really have anybody living close to him except that one dude… and I really hope no one goes and ransacks his house, because he built it himself.
Then there’s also the fact that he could of done it because of how inconsiderate some teenagers were. The same two guys, about seventeen, burned down his house, and then did it again after he rebuilt it, and again after he rebuilt the house again. I guess the world had it out for him.
I’m going to stop talking about this now.
-Keiffer Lining
Oh Keiffer I’m so sorry! That is so sad! Here’s some choklit for you, your family, and anyone else who will be affected by your uncle’s death. *choklit* *hugs* I can’t even begin to imagine how horrible that must feel.
I don’t think I can say anything that starr didn’t. I’m so sorry.
*choklit*
Oh, Keiffer! *gives Kieffer a large hug* that’s terrible…*choklit*
Oh, Keiffer, I’m so sorry. How awful.
*hugs and love and choklit and support to you and your family*
Thanks guys. My dad was totally freaked by it, and started crying when he began to type up the obituary. I’m not going to the funeral because it’s in another state, but we’re keeping in touch with the rest of the family, and my other uncle is even coming all the way up here from California.
Once again, thanks for the support, choklit, and hugs.
(Thanks to you too Fiddler. (Post 9))
*hugs* I’m so sorry.
On a random note (this is the random thread), the ‘blog time has not been updated for DST.
Grrrrrr. That wasn’t supposed to be a reply.
Oops.
We’re always fashionably late, anyway.
*More hugs.*
*choklit* *gives bear hug* I don’t even know what to say…that’s just horrible…
Oh cake, Keiffer. In a couple of words, “That sucks.” I don’t think I can say much more that hasn’t already been said, so I’ll just say that we’re all here for you. *hugs* I’m running out of choklit. Sorry. *more hugs*
I’m so sorry. I hate it when relatives die. Actually, I hate it when anybody dies.
Thanks guys.
*hugs*
Oh Keiffer, that’s awful. I’m so sorry. It’s awful that he was all alone like that.
It’s also awful that kids would burn down someone’s hard work. They give us all a bad reputation. Yesterday I walked down the street and had to hide in the library because this old lady started chasing after me with a long and sharp-looking umbrella and shouting “Bloody kids!” for no apparent reason.
About the museums: I subtly changed the address of the MIT museum to 219 Massachusetts Ave.
*hugs* I’m so sorry, Keiffer.
I’m so sorry! that must be so horrible! And how can those teenagers do that to someone? And all of it. *hugs* *choklit*
Is there going to be a new picture, GAPAs? Not that I dnt mind this one, but I like new things.
We like new things, too. I’ve been having some arguments with Photoshop which I hope to resolve soon.
You know, I’ve been having arguments with it too.
I think it found out about how I’ve been using colorsync utility to resize things instead now, and is angry with me D:
Does anyone know what the internet equivalent of choklit, flowers, and an “I’M SORRY” balloon is?
Virtual choklit, flowers, and an “I’M SORRY†balloon.
An update? I don’t know.
Right. I’m back, temporarily. I currently can’t use the computer until I finish all my work for the day, which is unfortunate, but anyway. I shall try to be on more.
I’m hopelessly behind on the Random Thread, so since I don’t want to spend the rest of the day reading it, I’m skipping it for now.
Wow, that was….what, 897 posts on the last thread…oooh. Happy Pi Day, all!
Happy Pi Day!
214 on previous thread installment (Cello-Playing Mathematician): Oh, neat! I’m very glad that you get along with her well. Have fun!
217 on previous thread installment (Piggy): I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I consider silver to be prettier.
219 on previous thread installment (Pax the Hamster): I will not advise you one way or the other. However, I suggest that you ask yourself a few questions: Will I feel guilty if I don’t go? Will I feel bad if I do go? What are the reasons to go? What are the reasons not to go? Do I even need to go, or would a nice card or gift suffice? Think about it and decide what feels right to you. Remember, if you feel that you need to go, you can always make an appearance, chat a little, and then leave.
1 on this thread (Enceladus): I would like to see them!
Good morning MB!
*all, in sync: “Good morning Sudo”* Don’t remind me of Middle School meetings…
“Class, today we are going to learn about a very important thing. It is called, ‘Hibernation’. Can you all say Hibernation?”
*all in sync* “Hibernaaation.”
“Does anyone know what Hibernation is?”
*all in sync* “It’s when SudoRandom sleeps in till 1:23 where he lives! Which would be 12:23 if it weren’t for daylight savings time!”
“But that does not make an acceptable excuse.”
Perfectly acceptable excuse. I slept in until about 1, which would have been noon if not for DST. Of course, that fails to explain the numerous times that I have slept into 1 without the “help” of DST….
I also feel the need to point out that I was up rather late last night, which also contributed to the late time of getting up. I went to bed at 3:30, which would have only been 2:30 without DST, but still…..
Thank you GAPAs. Cool, the post zero mentioned my problem.
OH MAN GUYS
So I’ve mentioned a lot that I play ice hockey, but for those of you who never saw those posts, I do. I played on a club team, which ended a few weeks ago, and I also play for a high school team (not for my school specifically–for a school near me, and on the team are people from schools in the area).
But the high school team in the past has just been average, not a great team but never the worst, but this year we have done AWESOME
And today we had our semi-final game against another nearby school, that almost always wins state.
AND WE WON!
We’ve never beat them before but we won just when it counted!
I am so excited right now, you have no idea. If we had lost it would have been my last competitive hockey game, ever.
BUT WE WON
AND THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME IS AT THE UNITED CENTER
WHERE THE BLACKHAWKS PLAY
AND WE’LL BE PLAYING A TEAM WE’VE BEATEN/TIED BEFORE SO WE MIGHT HAVE A CHANCE AT WINNING
AND WE MIGHT (*MIGHT*) GET TO MEET THEM
*faints*
There is little that could make this week better. Friday all we did in biology for a period and a half was hold and play with ducklings, we got a pet rat earlier in the week, and I actually got to hang out with my friends friday afternoon/night. This makes up so much for the bad news I got wednesday but I am not even going to think about that now.
Yay! Congratulations!
Awesome! good luck and congrats!
Congratulations! That’s awesome! *choklit*
I’ve always wanted to try ice hockey…it’s such a cool/fantastic sport!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Keiffer, I’m so sorry to hear about your uncle. *hugs, love, choklit, etc.* to you and all of your family.
Sleeping in: I slept until noon, which would have been 11. But that was mostly because I’m sick and woke up multiple times last night as well. I usually don’t sleep in that late.
-sigh- One precious hour of my day–gone. I suppose technically I used it to sleep, but without the benefits of sleep. Meh.
Jadestone- CONGRATULATIONS! That’s great! Good luck!
I’m going to go see some music later today…which throws away another few precious hours of my day, but I want to see it and I’m justifying my actions with the thought of extra credit in Orchestra. …Which I’ll need, since I’m using the time I otherwise would have used to practice to go see it…
I took the SATs yesterday. No test should be five hours long EVER. I also did very poorly on the essay so I might have to retake them next year. EW.
After the SATs I went to see Alice in Wonderland. In plot, it did not disappoint, as I had zero expectations for plot, but…it was depressingly un-pretty. They used WAY too much CGI. I was all excited to see puppetry and costumes and stuff, but everything was CGI. Even the things that didn’t have to be, like Tweedledee and Tweedledum and the card soldiers and chess pieces and the ENTIRE SET. Also, the Frumious Bandersnatch never struck me as a very doglike creature in the book. AND, (last complaint I promise), when the Mad Hatter (have I told you how sick I am of Johnny Depp?–sorry) was reciting Jabberwocky, he was DOING IT WRONG. I was trying to recite it along with him but he kept skipping lines and stuff. Grr.
SAME HERE. I was reciting Jabberwocky in my head the entire time.
8.1/8.2- Thank you!
10- I know! The Jabberwock(y) bits were hard for me. The whole movie was… I don’t know. I went in with very low standards, so I wasn’t in physical pain, but I *love* AiW/TtLG so it was weird : /
I’ve been reading the book aloud to my friends in study hall though, so at least they understood what was going on in the movie for the most part.
I slept until 1 and then played GTA IV until my eyes turned red. My, how unhealthy.
Attention MuseBlog: Pokemon HeartGold is made of win and win. That is all.
8- Congrats!
I got hardly any sleep last night, because it was so windy and rainy, and one of my friends who lives in an actual house (well, brownstone thingy) and not an appartment, said that the shingles got blown off her roof and all over the sidewalk.
So guess what? Our roof is leaking! And has been all day! Into a ceiling lamp! and out of that into a bucket! The water is yellow! And guess what else? That’s not the best part yet! The best part is our basement is flooded! Like crazy! HOORAY!
) and also our cats are very fascinated by the bucket of water in the back room. 
(I use that smiley a lot.)
</sarcasm>
But seriously, it’s not all bad. Stuff is floating around the basement like boats, (
Hum.
Oh, flooded basements. Been there, done that. I feel your pain. Just a year or so ago it flooded the worst that I, personally, remember. There was water all over in the main part of the basement, and it had extended down the hall, into the crawlspace, into the laundry room, and a decent bit into the storage room where we still have a crap load of stuff packed up from when we though we were going to move back in 2000. Fortunately most of that didn’t get wet….
Yeah. That was fun. I don’t remember if the washing machine drain backed up, or if it was snow melt that flowed in under the basement door (it has a nasty habit of doing that, if ice builds up outside–pretty sure we had a nice flooded basement when my parents brought me home from the hospital when I was born….Good times.)
Mmm. You know what’s also fun? What’s also fun is when a pipe in your house leaks for as little as a day and a half total while you’re away on vacation, and that results in you being out of your house for at least a half a year, and everything only slowly returning to normal around a year and a quarter later! That’s lovely! It’s just touching to see the trim still not on the walls and still be unable to find things. Absolutely thrilling to have completely lost control of your sleep cycle due to all the stress. Monstrously compellingly satisfying to have lost a great deal of your belongings to simple water damage.
GRAAAAH.
Please excuse me.
-A
*excuses*
I put the phrase “Don’t get in the way of a flying pie” into Translation Party, and the result was: “Please please pie. Never mind flying.”
Sounds about right to me!
Translation Party is a hoot.
“Houston, we’ve had a problem here” -> “Houston is a problem here”
“And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for you meddling kids!” -> “Children are involved!”
I manually translated “Back in the USSR”, and it came out “However, the former Soviet Union”
I also did “Looking through a Glass Onion” and it somehow turned into “Purofirugurasuonion”.
I also tried “Savory Truffle” which became “Truffles”.
When I did “The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill” it became “Sutoriobubangarobiru continue”
Related to that, “What did you kill, Bungalow Bill?” turned into “What you kill Bungalow Bill”
Just for laughs, I did “42 is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.” It turned into “42 The meaning of life, the universe, all.”
I also tried “We are the GAPA. Lower your firewalls and surrender your sites. We will add your artistic and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your personality will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.” which turned into “We, GAPA has. If the site brings low firewall. We will add your own art and technology. You will be adapted to the nature of our service. Resistance is futile.” (I just made it green so you could see it better.
And finally, I put in “Oh God. a robot Descartes.” It became “Oh, God. Cartesian robots”.
“The Cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be” -> “He has all the space you need to worry about now.”
“Oh god. Cartesian robots.”
Then there’s the Beatles’ version: “Please pie me, oh yeah, like I pie you.”
GAPAs, I have a problem. When I was a neo, I did not understand paleo accounts, so I tried to make one. But of course when I tried the password wordpress emailed me, It did not work, so then I deleted the email. Now, when I try to make an account, it says “error: user already registered.” So I can’t make a paleo account.
I’ve authorized you now. See if you can log in.
Hey Beetles, would you mind shortening your name a little bit? It’s making the RC bar a little tough to read.
Beware the Ides of March!
And so goodnight everyone.
Beware the Ides of March!
(Am I first? Again? Yay!)
Well, nothing bad happened to me, so far. Good luck with your own!
Hey, Enceladus, would you get the joke if a poster advertised a lecture on the Cassini mission being given by “Sean G. Christopher”? (It’s an ST: TOS reference)
Was that the episode where the Enterprise traveled back to the 1960’s, and they accidentally beamed somebody up? And his son was on the first manned mission to Saturn?
“Leader of the first Earth-Titan Probe”, yes. And the first probe from Earth to reach Titan was Cassini-Huygens. (Actually, just Huygens if you want to be technical…)
20~ No, you’re not.
YAY!!!!!!! I got a ride to Jamestown for Military Through the Ages!! Whee! *dances* I’m glad. It looked like I was going to miss it this year, and it’s one of my favorite events (it’s totally amazing, reenactors from Vikings to modern times and everything in between). But I asked a friend and she’s going and she was fine about giving me a ride. *dances more*
Eesh, he’s cool. *crosses fingers*
Now….hopefully I’ll be able to volunteer so I’ll have stuff to do. And those events are always much better when you’re part of them. Glurg, wish I had the ships’ supervisor’s email, or eve the assistant supervisor’s email, but instead I just have him on FB.
Cat’s Cradle-first two verses in Translation Party.
My only child, the other day, he arrived in time in the world. Before you, I’m considering a bill to arrest him at his feet in the air. If I, as before, he is with me I grew up, my father, “” I know.
Silver spoon in my house, the man last month, cradle, cats, and I was a boy his age was, the joy of our blue and he was the son ,,”,”””
My son recently, he was “in a loud voice, 10-year-old father of 10 balls, in this case, was whether or throw things like me?” I said, “Well, it Most are with me, “he said said. He said, “This is [OK] button father,” he said has been said. Please leave him with a faint smile. Please please. Please add. He said, “as he said, yeah, why, he said,” I knew his love for her.
Yay! I get to stay a week at my grandparents house. I love coming here. I get a feast for every meal.
SFTDP
Anyone want to play a game of chess? I don’t care who I play.
I will, even though I totally suck at chess. I’d like to do Capablanca or Turbo.
It sounds good to me. I don’t care what kind we play. I haven’t played either of them.
mas0n:
I’m happy to set you up with a new game, but I should remind you that you have a game in progress with Errata (https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=4974 ). It’s been your turn to move for almost five months.
Oh, sorry I forgot. I’m going to make a move right now.
I got a new library card! I lost my old one a while ago, and it’s been driving me nuts to have to use my mom’s. And our library just got renovated, so now you can check out automatically! Yay!
Haha, I love little bits of everyone’s lives like this that we all get to hear.
That’s great! I actually used my parents’ accounts for AGES when checking out books… I only recently got my own card because now I have a wallet to put it in.
-A
I got my library card in Kindergarten. I still have the same card…
but my local library has the
[I snipped a snipworthy word here that means “the worst” but with a little more oomph — Rosanne]
young adult section imaginable.
I have had my library card from home since I was five. The librarians tried to get me to get a new one once but I refused. It is a pretty card and very sturdy. I’ve had my card at the library at college since fall 2008, freshman year. The library here has the best science fiction fantasy section I’ve ever seen. It is awesome.
I must say, I’m really liking “Up”. (We’re watching it in Spanish class)
UP is amazing. I have cried every time I’ve seen it.
I love Up!!!
Aww, Up. Such a cute movie, and I cried the first time I saw it. My friend was practically bawling her eyes out next to me.
26~ That’s good! You mean those self-check out things? (Kind of like at the grocery store….but at the library instead.)
Hmm, my library card is decimated, I kind of wish I could get a new one (the new library cards in my county are cool, they have a hologram thing on them), but I have my card number memorized, so I never really use the physical card anymore anyway.
I must ask though, what manner of dork has their library card number memorized? Fourteen digits. I had no idea until one day I started punching it in and realized that I wasn’t looking at it.
26.1~ It is fun to hear what people all over the world are thinking about and doing, just snippets of life. *is not a stalker*
I have my library card memorized. It’s quite handy, because my town’s library is terrible, so I put nearly everything on hold from the computer-catalog. And I must agree, I love hearing little snippets of people’s lives.
*is also not a stalker*
Well, sometimes if your own day is going horribly it’s nice to hear a little news from someone else. (Either good news to cheer you up, or bad news to make you thankful for what you do have) and just to get out of your own life. It’s quite relieving, actually. *is not a stalker…maybe* *kidding*
I’ve got it memorized. Except for the first few digits, which everybody has.
And I suddenly don’t know if I have it memorized. I’m trying to remember it and it’s not working, and AUGH!
Whatever. I’m sure as soon as I go to enter it I will have it memorized.
I have both my card numbers memorized.
Today I realized that if you say ‘beer can’ with a British
accent, it sounds like you are saying ‘bacon’ with a Jamaican accent. Try it…it’s much more entertaining than it sounds.
Two boys in my core classes are obsessed with that. I go to an American school, but there are a few English teachers such as our Language Arts teacher and our Science teacher (who is technically a BBC, but she has a strong English accent, so…), and also my PE teacher, but they’re not in my PE class so I don’t know if it applies.
They are always pestering said teachers (Science and LA, at least), to say ‘beer can’ and, said teachers being nice, and awesome, obligingly agree. At least, for the first few times they did, anyway.
And they keep pestering me to say it in my British accent as well. Long story short: I have two accents. My father is English and I use my British accent at home, but somehow when I was younger I subconsciously (or if it was conscious, I just don’t remember) adapted to the American accents of the rest of the students, so now I can do both. And I can switch between the two quite easily, as well. It’s British for home, and American for school, generally. My British is probably more British than my American is American, though, since British is my ‘native’ accent. Does that make sense?
Sometimes I will speak in British to my LA and Science teachers because, well, why would I speak in an American accent to them if they’re English? And also they might like me more because I’m (half) English; for example, one time in Social Studies (where we are learning about American history…:() we were learning the American Revolutionary War and my LA teacher came in and started defending the British, and called on me to help her argue. ‘Twas much fun. Also I use my British accent when my friends and I are talking about HP. It’s much more authentic to be acting HP when you have a British accent.
Yes. Makes perfect sense. *is thinking of John Barrowman right now, please tell me to shut up*
((He does that. Scottish around people who have Scottish accents–he was born in Glasgow–and American around everbody else because when he moved to the US when he was a kid he was made fun of for the Scottish. he switches back and forth without evenly consciously thinking about it…..I thought I asked for somebody to tell me to shut up?)
never shut up about john barrowman! i’m kind of obsessed. do you think he would love me if i got a sex change?
he has a really cute bf already though 
but yeah, i always forget that he’s from scotland! he uses his american accent most of the time.
my dad does that as well, he has an american accent but whenever he is on the phone with my grandparents (who are english) he starts to use a british accent
I actually saw this one interview with him recently, where the woman on the show he was on was Scottish, so for a good 10 or so minutes it was JB with his Scottish accent. It was lovely.
I’m a smidge more than obsessed, if you hadn’t noticed…..Have you heard him sing? ZOMG, he’s got an amazing voice.
ZOMG, yes. He does have an amazing voice. It was kind of funny because I just saw The Empty Child, and some person was singing in a nightclub, and I thought “Hey, I know that song. JB sings it.” And of course a few minutes late JB shows up as Captain Jack Harkness.
omg yes. youtubings galore. i kind of want his new album. have you heard The Doctor And I? barrowman-voice plus Wicked plus DW. so much win.
Oh, good. i want his new album, as well. I’ve been meaning to buy it ever since it came out, but what with spring break coming soon, I’ll wait until after, I think. I’m going to buy it and his DVD from his concert tour (“An Evening With John Barrowman”), and add it to my collection: “Music, Music, Music”, “Another Side”, “Aspects of Lloyd-Weber”, “Reflections from Broadway”, “Swings Cole Porter”, “At His Very Best”……lol, I bought all those back in late october, early November shortly after watching all of DW/TW in just two short weeks…..Doubled my number of CDs.
Yup, I’ve heard the Doctor and I. Utterly brilliant.
LUNA
JOHN BARROWMAN SINGS “EVERY LITTLE THING SHE DOES IS MAGIC”
the caps were ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY
i am obsessed with this. obsessed. barrowman+the police’s (arguably) best song=epic win
anyway, you probably knew that this existed, since you own this CD
just thought i’d share my OMG <3
lol, yes, I know he sings “Every Little Thing She Does is Magic”. I love everything he sings, but that is one of my highest ranked in iTunes….
*is currently listening to that*
How can one person be so hot and charismatic and have such a good voice? It’s not fair!
That does make sense, I think.
heehee i annoyed julia’s british friend so much. i kept skyping him and making him say that
I just had an awesome dream. I was talking with Matt Smith for a while and then I got to hold the sonic screwdriver and I saw the TARDIS! But then I went into my house and there was this weird fighting thing with palette knives(for painting). I was forced to fight these random people, but then my brother had to kill someone or be killed and he came out with a severe injury. That part wasn’t awesome.
Today we have a late-start day, which is like a half-day in reverse. So this week I’ve only got two and a half days of school! I’m leaving on Thursday to go South Carolina for my cousin’s wedding…I’m so excited!
29–Yes, it’s extremely entertaining.
28.1~ Oh good, I’m not a total whack job.
29~ Yeah, and stick out your tongue and try to say “apple”.
29.1.1~ Luna dear, shut up.
Hmm, accents. There was a thread about the sometime in the not-so-horribly-distant past, but I’m too lazy to look it up and see about resuscitating it. I tend to mirror people’s accents a bit, whether it’s how I normally speak or not. Especially midwestern speech, I pick up on that very quickly, since I already talk like that a bit already. But other accents as well, often I have to remind myself not to start sounding like whoever I’m talking to.
Thank you.
I myself am quite in capable of imitating accents….It sounds absolutely horrible when I try. My sis can do a pretty decent British accent–and annoyed the caked out all of us once when she was a bout 10 or so by doing it for a week or so straight….(despite it being pretty good, it was–is–annoying when she does it)
What a memory! The “Accents” thread started in August 2008:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1467
I know what you mean! Depending on who I’m with, I pick up different accents. At home I have a very strong Southern accent, and that is my normal, but I tune it down for school and such because we’re from “sophisticated” Kentucky. I however, was born in Louisiana and I’m stinkin proud! Anyways, at my old school in Germany, I adopted a New Englander accent, because a lot of people came from there. Out and about in Germany…I reverted beck to country which earned me no love but hey, I can’t do German.
Kentucky? Kentucky is very near TN.
Fireh like Kentucky. Or, at least the area of it that she’s been in… so many open fields, it makes you feel so free….
Okay, fine, pretty near.
Ahem. Fireh is in a very odd mood today, so she’ll stop talking now.
I have an important french test tomorrow, and I didn’t study. I really intended to study, honest, but I went running yesterday and found this really good book this afternoon…
So anyway, if I suddenly disappear, I was murdered for failing the test.
*enjoys last evening*
If I suddenly disappear, it will be from getting murdered for failing my organic test this Thursday. God, I need to study about another century to be prepared……
32.1~ Yes, now that you’ve shut up about JB it’ll be TW, Dr. Who, HP or any of your other obsessions. (See? I remembered TW this time.)
32.2~ It’s called not having a life.
33~ Aww, we’ll miss you. Please don’t get murdered.
Yes, you did remember. Good girl.
But… according to my friend, I’m supposed to forget that TW exists until I get far enough in DW to be able to start it (so that I don’t get the urge to start early and spoil DW stuff).
Oh, no need to forget its existence. Just don’t go and read the IMDb page for Captain Jack Harkness after watching Empty Child/Doctor Dances (as I did), and don’t YouTube him (I must have….not sure how else I could have managed to watch a YouTube clip of one of his more memorable–because of who it’s with–snogs from TW before ever watching TW….). Although, if I’d not done that, I wouldn’t ahve known TW existed, so…..
Yeah. Just behave yourself, but don’t forget its existence. As soon as you finish season 2 DW…..TW starts.
AGAGAGAGAG!!!!!!! 10 MORE DAYS UNTIL How To Train Your Dragon COMES OUT!!!!!!!! I’M DYING!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brought to you by Dreamworks How To Train Your Dragon.
29.1 (Selenium the Quafflebird) Wow, we’re so alike…it’s kind of scary, actually.
You see, I was born in England, so for the first few years of my life I had a British accent, but then when I moved for awhile I was in different places and I just sort of drifted away from my British accent and now I pretty much have a 100% American accent since I live back in the States. But like you, it’s pretty easy for me to switch back and forth. I don’t do that often, (Since no one around me speaks with the British accent) but when I visit England or if I’m around people who have a British accent, I almost automatically switch back to that. It’s almost like I can’t even help it, I just do. Make any sense?
Hey! I was just playing Doodle Jump on my iPod Touch, and as I was looking at the screen names of the people whose scores I was beating, I saw a familiar name… Emma the Duck. She lives near me?
29.1.1.1~ Oh, she won’t completely shut up about him, don’t worry. Haha, I wrote that, didn’t submit it, and then came back and, sure enough, Luna’s still chattering about JB.
34.1~
GENERAL NOTICE TO THE PHLEGM AND OTHER YUCK RESIDING IN MY THROAT AND SINUSES:
You were uninvited and have stayed far too long already. You can leave now. As of this notice you are henceforth banished. Okay, GO!
It’s all ebeth’s fault!!!!!!! She told me not to shut up about JB.
So does anyone here make/weave/produce baskets? I need some advice.
So you know how occasionally someone will turn up and say something to the effect of “TVTropes ate my life”…? Well, I know what they mean now.
Seriously…too many tabs!
I’m so sorry.
Noooooo. I have the feeling it will do the same to me… Why did I ever read your comment?
It’s like the game. (Which I just lost.)
Save meeeee………. *falls into endless pit of somewhat useless but entertaining information that is TVTropes*
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Drat, I just lost too. I lost three times today.
i haven’t been on that site in months. last time i was there i had over 200 tabs open. it was not ok.
Um, what exactly is TVTropes?
Nothing. Nothing at all. Delete it from your memory.
No, really. What is it?!
Go to tvtropes dot org
Unless you value your life.
Cleverbot just started talking to me in German. That thing is such a time waster!
We’re going to read Romeo and Juliet in English class. My class, which cannot appreciate Shakespeare, was complaining, asking if it was a long “book.” By this point, I’m seething inside. Thank goodness my teacher, Mr. C, was just as annoyed as I was. “First,,” he said, “Romeo and Juliet is a play, not a book, and second, you should be honored at the privilege of reading Shakespeare.” I saw the play with my school’s theatre guild, and it was amazing, except that people from a different school were being incredibly rude.
O_o I just found Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire” music video. How eerie. Gah, tomorrow I have to go shopping for a gift for my cousin. I have no idea what to get her…
38–Amen to that!
starr– You were born in England?! How flammy! I must worship you now. *worships*
I remember that a while ago people were talking about what this thread’s title made them think of. It makes me think of Oh Green World by the Gorillaz. Good song. Listen.
38.1~ Don’t even try blaming it on Ebeth, we all know the truth. You wouldn’t have shut up even if she didn’t say anything.
But, of course, we love you both anyway.
Personas for firefox…..blast it. The alst upgrade made my favorite one not work. :L It was a nice and simple and worked very well, but now when I try to use it it makes the text all fuzzy. Blah.
Of course I would have shut up if not for ebeth’s comment. What do you take me for, a psycho JB fangirl?
Personas….Mmmmm. I went through a couple months ago when I reremembered their existence (thanks, Dad, for making a comment about them, lots of time wasted, there) and favorited every single DW/TW one I saw.
44.1~ Pretty much, yeah.
Just kidding.
Well, then you’re spot-on. I am a psycho JB fangirl, or pretty dang close.
Have any fellow MuseBloggers made it to the regional spelling bees? I should start studying…
emmatheduck made it to nationals. and i think speller73 might have as well?
speller made it to nationals.
but, yes, if we’re talking this year, no clue.
I made it to state once, that was fun. ‘Cept I got out on my first word (they’d gone up to “Intermediate” level at that point, because they never remembered to select a large enough volume of beginner words so that everyone got one. And nobody who’s spelling bee age, for the most pat has a clue, because according to speller73 they haven’t used Paidea, or however you spell it, for ages.)
oh unless you mean this year, in which case i don’t know :-/
36(starr) – Yes, it makes perfect sense. (To me, anyway.) It is scary, isn’t it, how we’re so alike? We’re both half-Chinese as well…wait, is your other half American? Or British? We’re both the same age as well, I believe.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everybody! I got there first (as usual)! Did you know that the Chicago River is dyed green every year for St. Patrick’s Day? No, neither did I. *pinches everyone who is not wearing green* (I am wearing green socks!) Wait, there’s no way I can tell who’s wearing green or not. How about this: *pinches everyone who’s avatar is not (wearing, or includes some) green* HA!!!!
I did!
AND my avatar’s eyes are green! AND I have green flowers on my shirt! *dodges pinches* 
*edits gravatar*
You should too, Sudo!
Eh…ça va…c’est acceptable. I suppose…
*is too lazy to change my avatar* That’s not blue, just a really blue-ish shade of green!
Although I think I might be due for a new avatar soon. I’m thinking of going with Dr. Who this time. Probably Rose.
39- The best material is flax, but you can use dried long grass or some of those whatever-long-thing-that-look-like-bugs-plant leaves. It’s a good idea to soak the flax, then start with a wound, braided base and build up from there.
Argh argh argh. school concert rehearsal was a nightmare- for one thing, the auditorium is air conditioned down to, like, -40 F, and everyone was shivering too much to play our instruments. Then two fourth graders think it’s funny to hide for half an hour, so we wasted a bunch of time searching for them, and our teacher eventually called the police and reported them missing, as well as their parents, who showed up completely freaking out and were met with the giggles of their kids. Then the pizza delivery was cancelled because it was raining, and our building got struck by lightning and the power went off. We had to stay there until 11 PM.
Argh! That sounds like a real nightmare…I’m sorry. *choklit* *hugs* *blankets* *hot water bottles*
1. Wow. No building should be less that 70 F
2. I hate 4th grade boys (they were boys, weren’t they?)
3. Why would the pizza delivery be canceled? It was only raining. Overreactive teachers…
4. Oh, cake…do you usually have this much bad luck???
I know. Actually, that applies only in America, because in Singapore a cold building can be quite a relief. But not that cold.
Yes they were. Immature little twerps. *grumbles*
The teachers didn’t cancel it. It was the pizza company. Apparently the guy riding the motorcycle delivering the pizza skidded and had an accident- he was fine, but our pizza was not.
Sad though it is, I do. After all, this is Singapore. Thanks for your sympathy.
Happy St Patrick’s day! I am wearing green, so there. A green v-neck sweater.
My french test was okay; thankfully she won’t have it for a week. Good luck on your test, Luna!
50- I feel for you. Somehow, people with instruments have bad luck in this world: the school “orchestra” has practice at 7 a.m. on weekdays here and they get stuck playing before the heating kicks in full in the winter.
Chess today, but first things are first: FOOD!
Thank you, I will need all the luck I can possibly get. Glad your french test went okay.
I’m wearing green, too. A green striped tank top with a green V-neck short sleeve shirt over it, and I will probably throw my pale green Alaska not-really-polar-fleece-but-sort-of jacket over the top, along with a windbreaker (not green) when I head off for class.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I’m wearing a shirt with green writing.
My allergies are acting up and I got hardly any sleep last night. Ugh.
So I went to google and hit the I’m Feeling Lucky button…
Guess what happened?
*lets you all find out*
I went to a page that was entirely boring.
What were you searching for?
Me? I don’t remember, actually. My brain died yesterday at ceramics, for the tenth or eleventh time this week.
I wasn’t searching for anything. The I’m Feeling Lucky button sometimes has cool easter eggs, and I thought today being St. Patrick’s Day, the google programmers would have something. Apparently not…
((But yes, I am realizing now that my post was very unclear.)
No chess after all *sigh*
Afternoon wasted trying to watch Buffy. At least I could add to my list of sites and appliances that hate me…
But watching Buffy is a noble cause. *just finished all of it* How far are you?
I just finished episode 19 from season two. I’ll rent and up, indefinitely extend said renting with the help of some software, season 3 and so on.
Ah, okay. Season 2 is my favorite… Lemme see… Episode 19. That would be the poltergeist one? That was cool… You must finish season 2. The end of season two is so epic.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I am sad to admit that this year it snuck up on me and I was completely unaware until I looked at the date and remembered there was some sort of holiday today. >.< That's really pathetic.
I am wearing green though. A Gaelic Storm shirt that says "Kiss me I'm Irish" inside of a fiddle. Even though I'm not Irish. More like a mix of German, English, German and an eentsy speck of Irish somewhere a few generations ago.
SFTDP, but Google’s homepage is loverly! Green! Knots! Ooooooh!!
Did anybody celebrate St. Urho’s Day?
What?
Um, no, I suppose.
What is that? Do tell, now I’m interested!
Google tells me it is the day that St. Urho drove the grasshoppers out of Finland. I think. I researched this a while ago and then got sidetracked.
Grasshoppers out of Finland. How… Interesting.
He is not a real saint, he was invented by a Finnish store owner who got bored and decided the Finnish people should have their own holiday. The “myth” was then modified by various other Finnish people in the US. It’s celebrated mostly in Minnesota and the UP, where there are lots of Finnish people. It’s funny because most Finnish people are actually protestant, so they wouldn’t go for saints anyway. Also, it’s mostly an excuse to get drunk a day early.
Oh and (double-post, sorry) he supposedly drove out the grasshoppers by saying “grasshoppers, grasshoppers, go to hell”
Ha!
Mwahaha. I am safe from virtual pinches. Based both on my avatar and on my clothes.
Whatever. It’s a plaid shirt, with green.
I thought I had more than one shirt with green on it, though.
And my avatar, for those who can’t see it yet, is basically the same as my normal one, but green.
Ahoy, Errata! Have you noticed that mas0n has resumed your chess game with him?
(That’s in addition to your game with Keiffer.)
Yes, I did. Sorry, I haven’t gotten around to posting.
Oh, did Keiffer move as well? I really must check in on those more often… I’ve just been so busy for the past week.
My day continues on its lovely path. We did falling down in Capoeira, and I was stuck with (name) who is about two feet taller than me. Need I say more? I couldn’t knock him over if I fell on him.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! (Yeah, I know. My avatar doesn’t have green in it – too lazy to change it – but I am wearing green.
Don’t pinch me.)
48 (Quafflebird) – We are quite alike.
I mean, it’s creepy but cool at the same time. I’m half Chinese and half Irish. (The only reason why I lived in England was because my dad used to have a job that caused him to move around a lot, so I lived in a lot of different places up until I was about 8-9, when we moved back to the States pretty much for good when he got a different job.) And I’m 13 – are you?
SFTDP
NO – wait. Actually, my avatar does have one stripe of green in it. I didn’t realize that before. Now you really can’t pinch me.
Close enough. I’m half Chinese, half English. And yes, I am also 13.
Awesome!
Happy St. Patricks day everyone!
I think. I’m still not sure if I support the day or not (he drove the snakes out of Ireland, which I heard actually means he drove away the pagans)
But it’s not really about the the man or being irish
it’s about being drunk!
…I don’t mean that for everyone here, but the alcohol/irish stereotype is one I’ve found to be very true, surprisingly XD
Well, it’s Evacuation Day where I live, so we have school off. Evacuation Day is when the British left Boston after an 11-month siege in 1780 or so.
Everyone I know just has St. Patrick’s Day.
So, Happy Evacuation Day, Bostonians and also everybody here who lives in my city of which there are three!
63- I’m glad someone else has heard about that…I always feel so alone in my dislike of the holiday. This year I decided to wear green socks under my boots just so I could trick everyone who accused me of not wearing green…but no one did so I felt a bit foolish.
I just got braces. Oww.
How much do they hurt? And do they affect your speech much? *will have braces starting April 2nd*
When I first got them, I got this hugo gigantic lisp. But that went away after the first week, I think. Also, when I first first got them, like, the first few minutes, I couldn’t pronounce p or b.
I’m just worried that they will enhance my current lisp (sh, tion, sion, etc.) which is moderatley annoying. Meh. I ought to get speech lessons.
Meh. I have a minor lisp anyway.
I feel your pain. I have braces, too. The best thing to do is take some sort of pain relief medicine, and prepare yourself to consume only smoothies and soup for the next few days. DO NOT attempt to chew anything. You will regret it. *speaks from painful experience* Also, when you get your wire changed, (usually, that occurs every two months or so) your mouth feels funny and a bit sore for a few days afterward.
65.1: They hurt quite a bit at first, but the pain/soreness/moaning does subside eventually. After a week or so, you’ll stop noticing that they’re in your mouth. Do they affect your speech? It really depends if you’ve ever had orthodontia before. I’ve had assorted things in my mouth since second grade (I had absolutely horrible teeth back then…) and you do, ahem, salivate, shall we say, quite a bit if you’ve never had anything of the sort in your mouth, because your mouth notices whatever contraption it is, thinks “Oh! Food! I need saliva to swallow this thing!” By now, I haven’t reacted like that to anything since my expander (a mysterious metal contraption on the roof of my mouth) in second grade, but that didn’t impede my speech that much because it was on the roof of my mouth, rather than the teeth, although my tongue was a bit disoriented at first, but if it’s your first time ever with orthodontia, especially if its a big thing like braces, I’d imagine you’d have a bit of a lisp for a couple of days, but nothing that serious. You get used to it pretty quickly and adapt.
My sympathy, Star. I’ve had them for three years and counting.
Oh, ick. *smoothie to make your mouth feel better* Unfortunately, I’m going to have to get them…soon. Not really looking forward to it, although I do want to have straight teeth.
Also, question for those of you with braces since I’ll be getting them in the near future: A lot of my friends had/have them, and it seems to be divided half and half. Some of my friends say that it didn’t hurt at all to be put on, others say it hurt like, um, cake. What do you think? Is this just because they’re either less sensitive to pain or they got a different type of brace or something? Just wondering.
*hateage of braces* *hugs* Poor Rainbow.
*sympathy pies*
I know how you feel…
I’ve found that it helps to drink some hot tea, rather than eating ice cream (which my friends had suggested to me…)
starr:
For me, it didn’t hurt when the braces were put on. (it was uncomfortable, but not painful)
However, the braces do hurt for 2-4 days afterwards.
Say, is the Museblog family portrait all finished by now?
NOPE!
Not any where near being finished, sorry. But I’m bringing it on the plane, where I shall attempt to work on it…
Have you done me yet?
Yep! You are wearing what you told me to make you wearing. That was weird grammar. I finished drawing Castle (formerly Eragon) (sorry, that’s how I always say your name, just like I always say “Maths Lover Heart”) today.
So, I found out I’m going to be on my school’s trip to Italy during the launch window for the next space shuttle mission, which means:
IF the launch doesn’t get scrubbed, and…
IF the hotel we’re staying in has computers, and…
IF my teacher will let me on one at 6 in the morning…
…THEN I can watch a midnight launch live without staying up until, well, midnight!
You’re going to Italy? Cool! I hope you get to see the launch.
Hey all! I just got the new Pokemon game HeartGold! It’s awesome, I’m wearing the Poke-walker right now! G’Night!
It is very awesome. I have 13 badges, have caught Ho-Oh, imported, among other things, a level 86 Charizard from LeafGreen, and am rather unsuccessful at catching Suicine–I keep making it faint. *grumble*
Cool! I just finished leveling up all of my Pokemon on my Pearl game to lvl 100. I now have (All lvl. 100): Noctowl, Furret (Rhea), Rapidash, Feraligator (Fyrah), Pidgeot (Flika), Magnezone, and Golduck. Cool, huh? I got Ponyta (Rapidash), Hoothoot (Noctowl), Magnemite (Magnezone), and Psyduck (Golduck) on the Poke-walker.
*grumbles*
As said on the video games thread, I have to wait until I can drive until I can get HG/SS. Only two more weeks, though! Then I can take the test again. Because I failed the first time.
My brother has SoulSilver, and he loves it. He can boast a lot of accomplishments in his 5 different games, and has 8 Lvl 100s in his Diamond game. (5 were were migrated at high levels.)
I’m enjoying SoulSilver too. I thinks it’s pretty cool, and I’ve done a lot for him, though not much now that he’s made it to the Kanto region.
So…I’ve registered. But I can’t check my e-mail until I get home. (I’ve got Thunderbird.)
Anyway I feel very strange about it. I feel…incompetent and a little…ahhh… I don’t know. Just strange. Because I come in here so rarely.
I really have to make it a habit to come on regularly. That’s it. I’ll do it.
I honestly can’t tell you how I manage to stay away for so long! Maybe I’m intimidated by all you crazy-awesome-smart-people, being an average student myself. But maybe not.
I just don’t know. I’ve been thinking an awful lot lately, and I’ve been very busy with lots of art, schoolwork and after-school-type things. In my abscence, I’ve been the First Watchman in Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” I’ve aplied to art school, become an Existentialist, and have been watching a lot of British and African T.V. As well as nerding up everything I love, like cartoons, fanfiction, Doctor Who.
I also realize how ridiculous my name is. An adjective as a name? For shame! But I guess “ridiculous” is okay.
But anyway, it’s so nice to see so many familliar names and I’m totally going to make it a point to come on here more often. So expect it!
It’s nice to see you, though I wasn’t here back in the times. I think my ingenious name which practically radiates intelligence won’t really stop you…
Hey Capricious, it’s great to see you around again!
((Doctor Who is pwnsome. That is all))
Greetings, Capricious! There are multitudinous ways of being crazy-awesome-smart, only a few of which have any sort of correlation with grade point averages. We’d love to see what sort of art you’re doing these days. You can send stuff to thegapas at gmail dot com.
You know I will! And thanks for the warm welcome, everybody!
69~ Hi Cappy, it’s good to see you again!
Do stick around, it’s lovely having you here. I totally know what you mean by feeling somewhat overwhelmed by all the geniuses that hang out around here, one of whom I most definitely am not.
Hey, MidnightFiddler! Wow, I haven’t talked to you in ages. I always thought you were really smart, from the way you write. Brsides that, it’s nice to have a non-genius ally! Great to see you again.
I am now hooked on Agatha Christie. The ones I have read are Murder in Mesopotamia, Death on the Nile, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and my favorites, And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express. Are there any other ones that other people particularly enjoyed? I don’t know which one to read next…
*is glad of producing another convert*
A murder is announced is a good one, Cards on the table is also a flammy one. As is Appointment with death . These are all ones that aren’t very well known, but are some of my favorites.
Make that two converts – I think I now officially love Agatha Christie stories.
And that’s (mainly) your fault.
*grins*
And my minions will rise! And they will take over the world! Bwhahahhahah!Yay! I’m introducing people to good literature!
I had read Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None before… but you got me back into them. Half-convert, then?
They’re was a Doctor Who episode with Agatha Christie…..
I think I actually read one of her books once, but I don’t recall which one.
The Unicorn and the Wasp. That was a great episode.
Wasn’t I the one who convinced you to watch it, like I did with Blink?
Yes it was.
And you were completely right about it.
I’m always right.
Almost always. TOS is better.
TNG is better.
TOS has better characters. Spock >>>>> Data. And TOS manages to be an awesome show despite it’s low-budget fails.
So sorry, but TOS is better
Nononononononononononon. Data>Spock could ever hope to be.
Picard>Kirk could ever hope to be.
Geordi>Scotty could ever hope to be.
Crusher=McCoy, I’ll give you that.
oh god oh god so many things wrong with this.
Picard > Kirk, i grant you. But did you really just demean scotty? and BONES??? This is not acceptable. (I could concede that geordi=scotty, but bones trumps all)
As for Data vs Spock, i’m not even going to go there because then liv will jump in and it’ll just start that whole thing up again. But i stand by Spock. Data’s a freaking robot, who cares. Plus he’s ugly. Vulcans are cool.
I’m a Questarian, myself. Dr. Lazarus rules both Data and Spock. “By Grabthar’s hammer, you shall be avenged!”
I did say that Crusher was as good as Bones.
But Geordi’s awesome. Scotty’s a Mary Sue*, in my opinion.
*or would that be Gary Stu?
i haven’t seen galaxy quest. it’s on my list though!
“as good as?” Pah!
It would be Gary Stu. and i don’t think he is! granted, there are some elements of “oh it will be ok, scotty will magically fix it” but he does have his limitations. and it would be far less interesting if the ship just never broke.
I agree with Enceladus. Data is better than Spock. It’s really cool to watch his personality evolve throughout the series. ( Although Spock is also awesome.)
*Is watching all of the TNG seasons in order*
kids today *shakes cane at everyone*
i suppose it’s a bit like the first doctor syndrome in doctor who…TOS was the first star trek i ever saw, when i was small, and it sort of has my undying love. But i still think spock is much much much more interesting.
That’s a great episode! I described it to my friend in full detail, and now whenever I bring up Doctor Who she goes: “The beeee’s braaiinnnn.” But it got her interested, and we’re going to try to watch it this weekend.
On a side note, did I ever tell you all that I got a sonic screwdriver? Well, I did! It’s really a fantastic piece of plastic, but I gave to change the batteries. P:
A sonic screw driver is on my birthday/christmas/anytime I get presents wishlist. Actually, I think it was more I wanted Cap’n Jack’s vortex manipulator (I am a huge Captain Jack/John Barrowman fangirl…..) and the sonic screwdriver just happens to come with it at the place I was looking…..Of course, my wishlist has quite a few things on it, with the Vortex manipulator/sonic screwdriver being near the bottom, and all the Torchwood books being near the top…..So it’ll probably be a long while until I get that, if I get it at all. Ah, well.
I also want one of those model remote control Daleks.
Your gravatar should be JB clinging to the TARDIS.
Perhaps I’ll look into that…..
Hi, guys. I’m on an Office Depot computer. Did the MB font change? Epic.
Anyway, I am basically blocked from the internet at my house. So I won’t be around too much anymore.
It’s been nice knowing you guys! You gave me the best two years of my life.
Always a pleasure to see you, Zinc!
Always. Please do check in whenever you find yourself in Office Depot or anyplace else with Web-evoking computers. And between visits, may the Muses be with you.
Zinc! *hugs*
Hi, Zinc! We’ll hope to see you around, and we’ll miss you!
Hi, Zinc!
Nice to see you here!
I’m sorry that you can’t get Internet from home, but hopefully you’ll be able to visit ASAP!
Please do try and visit sometimes, Zinc! We’ll miss you! *hugs*
Aw, thanks.
And we’ll really miss you! Come back when you can!
So…..Armada is back, hooray! I guess….it seems like lots of depressing stuff is going on. Somebody tell me the major events that have happened since I was gone, p*ease….
Armada! *hugs*
Yet another familiar “face.” Greetings, O Armada!
Armada! About your nations on NationStates, I kept them the passwords that you set them as. (Is that too much info, GAPAs?)
Major events? Well, I grew my hair out, and now Silver Lining’s friend (The Beauticious Kate) is obsessed with swoopy hair like mine,
Well, now it’s more… wicked wicked long hair, hair longer than mine that she likes. In addition to swoopy hair.
Hi Armada! *waves* We missed you!
Um, well what sort of depressing stuff? I haven’t really noticed it. I mean, not any more than usual, perhaps.
Major events? Eh, well, there was a Garlic/Vampire War…awhile ago. I actually didn’t participate, but it did take over the Random Thread a little while ago. There was also a Kokon (which I think you know about) in MA and other than that, I’m not really sure. Nothing really automatically comes to mind. We’ve just been hopping along like our usual Muserly selves do.
Welcome back Armada!!!
(This is my alter ego, so I know you don’t recognize my name)
Guess me here… if you
darewant to…Stuff that happened while you were gone…
Hmm, this is the most memorable event that comes to mind: Post 27 and “The Garlic Saxophone Wars”
Erm… Luna had a sad encounter with a tiger.
Armada!
Missed you!
*pies*
You’re back! I remember when you joined, it was a few days after me… *reminisces*
69- Cappy! Hi! Glad to see you back
Hey, Jadestone, glad to be back!
I still have that sweatshirt with all our signature on it, hahaha, I’m reminded of you when I look on the top shelf in my closet! Your signature being so beautiful and all.
Aww, thank you! I loved your too, with the letters all in different styles!
Today I learned that there is a rapper named Q-Tip.
Next thing you know, there’ll be a band of punkers called Kleenex.
Or perhaps a Prussianian lackey.
Somehow, The Cotton Balls doesn’t seem to be as edgy a name.
One of my cats is named Swab precisely because I didn’t want to call him Q-Tip, which is pretty much what he looked like as a newborn kitten.
Awwwwwww!!! *huggles kitten*
He’s long since grownup and will soon be celebrating his 13th birthday. Here’s one of his previous appearances on MuseBlog.
I should have said *huggles image of kitten*
The illest rapper to hit the NYC, TP on the M-I-C!
Heh.
Thanks for humoring me. xD
Zinc, it’s good to see you here, even for just a little bit. I hope you can come back sometime, we’ll miss you. *hugs and pies*
Armada, nice to have you back as well!
All these returning musers, whee!
Alright, so I’m scanning several lessons of my math textbook into my computer, so then I’ll be able to do my homework tomorrow without having to drag it around (it’s a big, floppy, obnoxious spiralbound book). Of course, I’m probably breaking a handful of laws by doing that, but whatever. I’ll delete it when I’m done with it. I mean, unless I decide I want to have a chapter of Geometry on hand anytime I’m on my computer.
Negative.
I was quite pleased with myself. But then, I may just end up having a crash course in appreciation of having the entire book to look back over old lessons for reference. *sigh* Oh well. If it’s too awful, I just might have to forgo homework at all tomorrow, what a tragedy.
Today I had an invisible lightsaber fight before school with Enceladus and another ninja friend. Everyone was staring at us. It was awesome.
Yes! That was awesome! If only AM had been there… that would be totally flammy.
If we had some cameras, then we could GIMP lightsabers into those pictures. That would be awesome!
That would be!
Great – now I’m going to have to bring a camera to school tomorrow! Let’s hope it keeps its batteries long enough…
And then we can put ourselves on an alien planet! And we can make a galaxy rising behind us, just because galaxyrises are so awesome!
Hi Zinc, Ho Armada! Hi everyone! It’s almost opening weekend, and I’m freaking out!
Annie premieres tomorrow night, and it’s already sold out. That’s 1,200 seats, and I’m the first line in the first scene…just plain freaking out. I’m excited, but sad at the same time…after this week it’ll all be over.
AAHH! Good luck!!!
Break a leg! *choklit* It sounds like so much fun!
Break a leg!
Have fun, and break a leg!
Hi Zinc, Hi Armada!!
Wow. Just… wow. “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.” What an… interesting… idea for a movie.
All right, I’ll stop using ellipses.
Today we threw a surprise birthday party for my math teacher, even though his birthday isn’t for several months. We sang Happy Birthday, then the class across the hall heard and came to sing Happy Birthday, and then I went to another teacher’s class to get a knife to cut the cake that someone had brought, and so that class came with me to sing Happy Birthday…it was fun.
ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got a 72 on my organic exam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so very very very very very very very very happy. and hyper. and happy and more hyper and and and and and. Cake. Paper I must revise and spanish test tomorrow. but I got a 72 on orgo, so……. YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
‘course, if i would learn to read all answers (and not skip the first answer) and not overthink things, I’d’ve had an 80. And if I’d learn not to change my answers, I’d’ve had an 84. But whatever. ((It’s a 25 question exam–each question is worth 4 points, if you were wondering))
hurrah! congrats and such! *bakes a cake with john barrowman on it* *sends cake*
now you have to decide whether to eat it or stare at it…bwahaha
No!!! Decisions, decisions. *stares at JB* So yummy gorgeous awesome. I know! I’ll just slice the very top of, in a nice, thin layer….and eat the cake underneath, and preserve the loveliness that is JB.
Now, the question is: Why couldn’t you have sent me a cake with JB in it? As in, the real, live John Barrowman? That would have been pwnsome. *licks lips*
*sends JB cake* *even though I have no idea who he is* *ducks*
But you know I think he’s pwnsome. That’s a start.
Thanks for the delicious JB pastries, all!
Want some more? *bakes brownies with JB on them (and in them too, if you so imagine)*
Mmmm. Delicious.
it is a singing cake! he jumps out and sings for you
Brilliant! That would be totally flamablamablous, actually. Wonder what I would have to do to actually make that happen…… *ponders*
I’m here as well? Are we coming back in waves? I wonder. I’ll grok the proper posting procedure for this here newfangled MuseBlog eventually…
79- Did you see the MST3K version? It’s AMAZING. Then again, it’s still pretty entertaining without the dubs. Related to MST3K: “Spring Fever.” It’s easy to find online, and definitely one of their funniest shorts.
By the way, I just thought:
I’m not sure about this, but it seems like I’ve been having a dream, and then part way through the dream I start thinking about posting the dream on MuseBlog, and how that would work, etc., a lot recently.
Like last night I had this really random dream involving an amusement park, and partway through the dream I was thinking about how when I post about this on MB I should call it ‘an amusement park’ rather than ___(name of amusement park near our house), despite the fact that I believe most of the time the park was Disney World, and I don’t live in Florida.
Perhaps your subconscious self is trying to tell you something…or perhaps the other way round. Perhaps you just go on MB so much that everything you do in conscious life you think how you could turn it into a post, so maybe that’s being transferred to your dreams. Am I making sense? Probably not. *rambles on and on*
Maybe. I don’t really post much about what’s happening in my life, but I do oftentimes idly write posts that are never posted in my head.
78~ You’ll be great, I’m sure!! Have fun and break a leg!
81~ Congrats!
I’m amazed at myself. I got pretty much a whole lesson of math done in record time. Incredible the kind of productivity one can have when they actually stop procrastinating and getting distracted. Hmmmm, so apparently it’s possible…now, to translate that into doing school at home. Ugh. I’m wayy to easily distracted.
I can’t wait for MTA, I can’t wait for MTA!!!!
Something similar happened to me once. My friend Sarah and I are both really lazy and not-carish about Geometry, so we usually talk about something else/not pay attention during the lesson. There was one week she was sick, and all of my other friends are high-achievers (I am too, just not in Math XD) so I had no one to ‘procrastinate’ with, and I actually paid attention. Me paying attention = I understand it = I do well on the test. Which I did. Which just goes to show, that if I were a little more hard-working in Math and actually listened and paid attention, I could get better grades. Ah well. Such are the facts of life.
I have a theory: the Law of Relative Success. It states, roughly, that:
However successful one is or judges oneself to be heavily depends on the success of others around you in comparison.
Example A: You know how sometimes when you’re taking a test and you don’t know the answer so you look up at everyone else to see if they know it or not? You feel better if everyone else is looking stumped and clueless; you feel worse if everyone is scribbling away concentratedly as if they know the answer. (It’s not really a good example but heck, whatever.)
Example B: Even if you get a bad grade according to yourself, you are still considered ‘successful’ if everyone else is worse
Something-that-isn’t-an-example-but-I-didn’t-really-know-what-to-call-it:Variation on the Law of Relative Success:If one hangs around other smart people who get equal or better grades than one, one feels inferior or less successful. If one hangs around people who are less intelligent/hard-working than one and who get worse grades than one, one feels superior and more successful in comparison.
It’s kind of weird, I know, but oh well. It sounds cool when you tell people ‘I’ve invented the Law of Relative Success!’ ‘Cause it sounds kind of like Law of Relativity. I don’t know. I’m just rambling, again.
Selenium: On a related note, a recent study showed that people who win bronze medals in the Olympics are happier than people who win silver medals. The reason seems to be that silver medalists think, “Drat! I should have had the gold!” but bronze medalists think “Whew! Glad I didn’t finish fourth!”
Wow, that’s cool, I didn’t know that. Thanks, Robert!
85~ No, that makes sense. Though, when one hangs around people who are smart/get good grades/etc. it can also make one feel better about themselves, that the elite group isn’t averse to having them around. Unless it’s just for ego stoking, but in that case they should be avoided no matter what their scholastic abilities.
It’s my opinion that one should spend time with a variety of people, and never feel superior (or inferior) to anyone. Someone may be better at math that I (in fact, that’s just about always the case) but it doesn’t mean I’m a worthless human being. I can do other things. And I may have a nice singing voice, but that doesn’t mean I’m better than someone who can’t sing. It’s just diversity.
Yup. I agree
You know what? I dislike that my math textbook uses Comic sans to make their problems look friendlier. Blah. I used to kind of like that font, but now it just annoys me. *sigh* I mean, if they wanted to use a different, somewhat “cuter” fond than Times or whatever it is, the could use Verdana or something. Or even Arial. But Comic sans just looks little-kiddish in a textbook. Actually, their illustrations are pathetic too. They tried a bit too hard on the [in sickly sweet voice] “don’t worry, this isn’t scary, it’s nice friendly stuff!! See? Little-kidesque drawings and fonts! No reason to be scared of the Big Bad Geometry now, see?” It’s kind of like the creepy clown or santa or whatever that tries to be cutesy and just ends up being creepy and/or annoying.
I mean, really. It’s Geometry. This is high school material. Please don’t give me stupid word problems about “Freddy the Inventor” and his TV-Toaster. Really. I’m begging you. And the teacher who explains the problems…really, I’m feeling like a dolt enough already for having to watch the step-by-step tutorial, please don’t talk to me like I’m three. IN fact, don’t talk to a three-year-old like that either. They might just kick you in the shin.
URG. Treat me like a HUMAN, stupid curriculum.
I know exactly what you mean. I’m in the process of trying to make up for my pathetic math background, and I really appreciate finding mathematicians who can talk sensibly and clearly without trying too hard. Maybe the cutesy approach works for some people, but I much prefer it when the authors appeal to my sense of wonder, beauty, and curiosity. (Silly in a Muserly way is welcome, too, of course, but not that icky, sticky kind you’re talking about.)
You might try looking around in your library for alternative textbooks, see if you can find a better fit. My library has DVDs by The Teaching Company which feature lectures on numerous topics given by top college and high-school professors, but geared toward general audiences, so they tend to focus on the principles and framework behind the subject, at least in the ones I’ve seen so far. That approach works for me, as I like getting some idea of the bigger picture before plunging into the details, especially for something like math. After that, I’m better equipped to go back and forth.
My favorite statement about math comes from the English mathematician Marcus du Sautoy. The book it comes from is at home, so I’ll have to paraphrase. He wasn’t especially keen on maths in school, until a teacher suggested he look at some particular books or journals. The boy became mesmerized by some of what he saw, even though he couldn’t understand much of it, he felt that he was able to hear a little of the real music of mathematics for the first time. He began to understand that what he was learning in class was something like the equivalent of scales and arpeggios.
Then he asked, who could imagine what Mozart would be like if you were never allowed to hear or play anything except scales and arpeggios until you mastered them? Why would anyone want to pursue music if that was their only experience?
As you might guess from the length of this comment, this is something I’m
obsessingthinking about a lot these days, having discovered a late-blooming, totally unexpected passion for things mathematical.MF- Math textbooks are awful like that. They’re either all cutesy pictures or giant tomes of incomprehensible jargon. I have a raging love/hate relationship with my major. Awesome professors can make up for it. And then there’s that glorious moment when you realize that everything you’ve been doing for the past three weeks suddenly makes compleat logical sense and the world is a better place and everything in life is wonderful except of course for this atrocious run-on sentence. Writing proofs is an…experience. Nothing like the sense of accomplishment when you finally express your understanding in words/equations. But, before that, of course, there are several hours of staring at the statement and pouring over countless theorems and lemmas and definitions to find away to make your abstract understanding of the concept surrender to the restraints of written symbols ♥
In my opinion, most textbook writers’ train of thought is:
A) What is the most boring textbook we’ve published?
B) Can we make is any more boring?
If yes, go to Ca)
If no, go to Cb)
Ca) Do it.
Cb) Make it more boring anyway.
D) Yay! Now we’ve disillusioned kids about how fun math isn’t!
But, right now I’m angry at my math class. We’re doing a short geometry unit, without proofs. Humph. I happen to like proofs.
SFTDP I guess that belonged on the rants thread…..oh well. Sorry.
87.1~ Awesome! Yes, I know what you mean.
We do use some Teaching Co. courses, and actually have a geometry course, but we fizzled out on watching them. Alas. The thing is, aside from the infuriating sickly sweetness the curriculum I’m using now, it’s not a bad one. In fact, for my situation, it’s probably the best. It’s a book that contains the lessons and problems, and there are DVDs that come along with it and explain every single problem step-by-step if one gets stuck. Which is a brilliant idea, and it’s quite nice for when I’m having issues, since mom is almost as bad at math as I am, and Dad (when he’s available to help me) doesn’t understand that I don’t get it, thus my needing help.
But still, sometimes I’ll watch a problem video and then next time I come to a similar problem I just don’t get it.
Proofs are especially challenging. I get the idea, but actually remembering all the fussy details and getting it all in the right order is crazy.
Meh.
Good for you in being able to see past the sickly sweetness to the greater value. You have more patience than I did at 17. Even now, though I’m enjoying the Teaching Company DVDs, I actually have a hard time sitting and listening to lectures, so I usually need some other activity, such as housecleaning, to occupy the fidgety parts of my brain. Or else I take lots of notes simply as a means of staying focused.
My dad majored in math in college, which wasn’t especially helpful either, at least past the very early grades, both because he couldn’t understand what I wasn’t getting and because his methods often differed from the ones being taught in school (and therefore weren’t allowed) which served only to confuse me more.
Proofs? *drools*
I’m sorry, it’s just that with some proofs, that they’re so elegant, they’re like Mozart to me.
There’s one Pythagorean theorem proof that I really love. You can find it on Wikipedia, on the Pythagorean theorem proof page, under algebraic proof. My Dad showed it to me. It was literally one of the most beautiful things I had ever read.
Math texts books. Oh, man. Usually they’re meh. But this year my AP Calc BC book is just hilarious. It’s got the funniest way of saying things, and it’s not condesending like most are. Like:
“If you had the keen insight (or reckless bravado) to answer “all real numbers” in part c…”
“As the graph moves from wiggles to wiggles”
And lots more. I have a list somewhere I’ve been meanign to type up. It uses a lot of exclamation points, it’s very amusing, but it also explains things so I’m not complaining.
(at school, so using a backup email)
Who is/are the author(s) of your textbook?
Meh. I could always watch the Eleventh Hour on youtube, but it will be bad quality. I could find a torrent, but my school blocks them. I can’t tape it on the 17th because we don’t have a recorder for cable. Grargh. Youtube it will have to be.
Someone tell me to shut up about the Eleventh Hour and be patient please, otherwise I’ll just keep posting about it. It seems to have gone very well at the press release though! See, I just said something else. *goes to proper thread*
89.1~ Oh no, this has come after a bunch of ranting, screaming, crying and general temper tantrums over the curriculum in question.
90~ That’s the kind of textbook that sounds like fun. A rather muserly turn of phrase in those statements, I think.
What is your avatar? It’s quite lovely.
Ah, but that’s much better than ranting, screaming, and crying and not making it to the other side.
92~ True. Now every time I do math I just grit my teeth and ignore it, I’ve kind of just begun to block it.
It’s a useful skill to master.
93.1~ Unfortunately. :/ Superfast moderation, by the way. Kudos. *hands over choklit*
SFTDP but is it kind of sad that instead of writing out “If unequal angles, then unequal sides, and the greater angle is opposite the longer side” I just wrote “unequal angles, unequal sides, all that jazz”? Oh well. I check my own papers anyway, and I know what I meant. Then I come on here and post the whole thing. Logical? Nope.
I amaze even myself with my own stupidity at times.
MESSAGE FROM KITTYMINE
Sorry to jump in here randomly (though this is the random thread) but I’d like to request that anyone involved in the BA:TNG Thread to PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE post!!!! We’re about to attack the DOH (if that’s any incentive) and we really need input. Thank you!
END MESSAGE
I want to post, but my character is in the Control Group. I can’t really do much right now.
Alright, off to Jamestown, SQUEEE!!!
Awesome!! Lucky ducky! What are you going to do there?
Silver Lining! Right at this second, as I’m typing this, because I know it could change at any moment, you are number 42 on the Who’s Posted How Much page!!!
*feels utterly special*
It seems that I’m using that smiley a lot, lately. 
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
(You said callooh and callay, and it made my think of it.)
I memorized this (so did fishy) and I LOVE THIS POEM SOO MUCH!
NATIONAL HISTORY DAY TOMORROW!
Good luck!
90.1- Ross L. Finney, Franklin D. Demana, Bert K. Waits, and Daniel Kennedy. With collaboration help of a Marianne H. Lepp, but those are the authors on the cover. We tried to figure out once which of them was the one with the sense of humor XD
92- It is kind of fun XD My there was of Delirium, from the Sandman graphic novels by Neil Gaiman. That was my avatar for Halloween, when she was who I went to the blog “party” as.
Other notable quotes from the recent chapter (9):
“Moreover, we can note happily in retrospect, the proofs eventual followed.”
“Although this is far from obvious”
“Is it 1? Is it 0? Could it be… neither?”
“Although that does not stop some people from worrying about it today when they feel “too many” planets have swung to the same side of the sun”
“It would appear that our series converges at 1 despite the fact that we obtained from a series that did not!”
“Work in groups of n people…”
“In case you never experienced this sort of reverie when gazing upon something geometric, we intend to give you that opportunity now.”
“Behold what is occurring here!”
“We have managed to construct an entire function by knowing its behavior at a single point!”
“Pause for a moment to consider how remarkable this theorem is.”
“This beautiful equation, which brings together the five most celebrated numbers in mathematics in such a stunningly unexpected way, is also widely known as Euler’s formula.”
“…since any rational function “in the end” will grow like…”
“If you are surprised by the behavior of the series in Exploration 2, remember that we identified it up front as a strange function.”
And so on and so on. The farther we get in, the more exclamation points there seem to be.
I especially love the comment about “reverie.” It’s a shame that so often it’s only the authors of advanced texts who can write in such a relaxed manner instead of apologizing for their subject (either directly or indirectly through cutesiness). Who are the authors?
Ross L. Finney, Franklin D. Demana, Bert K. Waits, and Daniel Kennedy
That’s awesome.
hello. I am rather tired and angry at the moment. I am stuck home alone with my sister, which is probably the worst situation I could be in right now, with the best ones being either at the talent show/friend’s house or home alone with only myself. I originally had no intrest in going to the talent show, but then I learned that A.H. (a band some kids at my school started) was playing there, and lots of people (one of which would have been me) were going to sit through the entire talent show just to see the bit by A.H., because unlike many other high school garage bands, they actually have some amount of talent. My parents are going to a hockey game, although they have never expressed any interest in hockey before and so they would have been unable to pick me up afterward, so I am stuck here at home, listening to the one bit of music by A.H. on their myspace band page thing. This usually wouldn’t upset me much, but I only got one hour of sleep last night and the explicit amounts of caffeine I consumed appear to be wearing off, but it’s too light outside to go to sleep yet, so I will remain sulking in my bedroom untill the sky darkens, when I will slip into my restful slumber, only to be woken early tommarow morning for a speech meet. Why I ever joined speech, I really don’t know.
71- They Came to Bagdad is good, too.
77.1.1.1- Yes, Galaxyrises are awesome!
79- Oh yes, the MST3K of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is hilarious. “World-famous space expert Wernher von… Green.”
So I haven’t been going on MB that much lately. Sorry about that. I’ve been gettting ready for my trip to Italy, and going to SAT Prep sessions, and writing two seperate “serious” stories. (As in, due attention paid to character emotions and descriptions of places instead of just being mostly dialog and action)
All of my space shuttle posters got blow away in last weekend’s epic wind/rain storm so I printed 5 more out. (The 3 color copies rule applies only to library and computer center printers, not to the special printers owned by my good friend the computer graphics teacher, the one who lets us watch launches on her SmartBoard.) I walked to the library with my friend Hannah, and we taped them up together while telling each other lame SF jokes. It was a wonderful afternoon.
Oh, and I have this really cool binder-folder-thingy with tabbed plastic folders for holding papers on one side, and a space to put a notepad with a holder for a pencil right next to it on the other side that my mom bought me for Mock Trial back in Middle School that I hadn’t used for years. So now I’m using it to research my Star Wars/Space Shuttle story, making photocopies from late 70s/early 80s science books to use as references so I can get the “look” of the era right. (Or as realistic as a story combining Star Wars tech with the real world can be. Basically, this is, by analogy with Steampunk and Atompunk, Shuttlepunk.)
Yay people returning!
I’ve had a rather bizarre week. I got to spend time with friends whom I don’t see very often on Wednesday and I had two tests today.
Yay being back! Gracias, everyone, and sorry I haven’t been on here more since I got back….I’ve been sorta crazily busy. O_< XD
Hey Armada! Welcome back! Sorry I didn’t say that yet…..It’s been a very stressful, sleepless, busy week…..But it’s great to see you around again. How were your travels?
Um….stressful, sleepless, and busy.
XP And when it wasn’t crazy, it was deadly boring. We built a dinghy and she subsequently sank in the ocean, though we got her back again (long story), the engine stopped working and then when we fixed it we ran out of gas, after we got gas we ran out of propane and the only supplier turned out to be both insane and lacking any propane whatsoever, we had a couple very stressful night sails….and the weather was the worst it’s been for, like, forty years. But, hey, I’m not complaining! 
I’m sure it was better than a winter in MA.
(grumble) This week is getting worse. My great-uncle was institutionalized on Monday because he’s gotten even more senile apparently. This caused my great-aunt (his wife) to have a mental breakdown and she’s been hospitalized. And my aunt’s cat got run over by a truck.
I’m not exactly close to my great-uncle, but I do recall his taxidermy collection. ‘Twas… vast. When he started going mad he used to claim the stuffed ducks were out to get him.
*sigh*.
*hugs* I’m sorry…..I hope things get better for you and your family. *more hugs*
*hugs and choklit* I hope things work out, eventually…
*More hugs*
Apparently my last post didn’t make it… Oh well, I knew that the computer is senile.
106- *hugs*
Welcome back, Armada and Zinc! I missed both of you. That was pretty much the gist of my post.
More ignorance from Facebook apps: I was on one called Barn Buddy, similar to Farmville. I had recently purchased a duck. A mallard, in other words, a male duck, that cannot lay eggs. Despite this I am supposed to get this duck to lay eggs for 6x a day by clicking on it…upon which it lays an egg. Either the duck’s feathers are dyed, it was exposed to large amounts of pesticides in the egg, or the programmers who made it are idiots. Let’s see…which one is more likely?
(Alternatively, the programmers who made this are all geniuses who knew that mallards can’t lay eggs and are now laughing at all the people out there who now think they can. If this is true, I fear for our future)
Mallard = duck breed. Drake = male duck. You purchased a Drake Mallard? With the green coloring and stuff? properly that’s just what most people think mallard ducks look like, and it you had a hen mallard (brown/white) people would get confused.
I fear the future as well, but it does help Mostly Harmless.
OK, I’m the one failing biology now. *headdesk* It’s still a male duck, though, with the coloring and all.
Na, Your Getting a C+/B-/B in Bio. Just got confused on terminology.
Um, mallards would die out if they couldn’t lay eggs. Read TMFA’s post.
This bloody state has the most whacked out weather ever…..The weather has been more or less steadily warming the past 2 weeks or so. Yesterday it was mid 60s and sunny. Today? Mid-30s and snowing. Now, mind you, I’m not complaining about the snow. I’m quite happy to see it snowing, I like snow, but…..mid-60s to mid-30s over night? What the cake?
Same weather here, only we got it a day earlier.
Yeah, probably the same lovely storm. ((that was not sarcastic, again, I am very happy with the snow)) Unfortunately, I doubt the snow will last any length of time….It’s supposed to be mid-40s on Monday, and then high 50s the rest of the week…..Which I guess is nice, too–I don’t like walking to class when it’s cold.
Same here. Except a bit colder, I think. But it was so nice this week! I loved spending most of Wednesday outside.
I got my mythology TA to take our Friday class outside. It was nice.
Yep, we’re supposed to get snow flurries tomorrow too, after it was 70 yesterday. Weird weather is making it’s way accross the country.
The wedding is today! I’m so excited. Yesterday was the rehearsal wedding; I really like the way it’s being done. Very non-traditional. It’s going to be held outdoors, and everyone attending is going to just stand in a circle around the altar. I cannot wait. I’m so happy for them.
My aunts are kind of flipping out about her choice of taking his last name, though. Because her name is Kris, and his name is Chris, they’ll be now ay to differentiate the two, except in writing and, well…you get the picture. (Or do you pet the gicture?)
I think we pet the gicture, but I could be wrong…..In any case, *pets gicture*
*gicture snarls, bites your finger off*
No, the gicture is harmless. *pets gicture*
No, no. It’s a nice gicture. A nice, sweet, friendly gicture.
I have a cousin Chris and Kris (married with same last name). It’s not so bad, we just say “Christopher” or “Kristine” when we really need to differentiate.
Whew, lots of posts…
Sorry all, I was in New York visiting relatives for most of yesterday and until now today with no Internet access. Unfortunately I didn’t let you guys know ahead of time. *forgetfulness*
I had a really nice time though – despite the boring car ride with grumbling siblings, we actually did have a lot of fun staying in the hotel, (Cramped in between my two sisters, yay…but it was still sort of fun in a weird way) and then seeing my cousins who I haven’t visited in ages. We played Wii most of the time and then this Princess card game. (They’re 7 and 8, ok?)
Now I guess I’ll go catch up on the threads I missed. Bye!
Princess card game?
Oh, frabjous day! Calooh! Calay!
My partner and I came in second place in our regional History Day competition! This means we are off to Cooperstown for the New York competition! It also means I will be on MuseBlog more.
Congratulations! I placed about fifth out of seven or so in my division…. What’s your topic?
Our topic is cryptology.
Congratulations fishy!
My partners and I also placed second in the regional part of National History Day! Our category was performance.
Yay, congrats!
Congrats, Fishy!
)
(although this means that you won’t be back at our lunch table anytime soon…
My irritating laptop keyboard has taken it upon itself to remove every other letter I write and insert randome Xs, so that even on sites where spelling is atrocious, I have to check myself because nothing would make sense.
Here’s what it looks like without editing:
ive spet ll dayx doixng homwork and watxhing disey moves
Wow…
It sounds like it could be some sort of a prank program. Has anyone other than you used the laptop recently? Has any new software been installed?
I don’t think anyone but me has touched it since I got it brand new. The only software I’ve purposefully installed is word and an anti-virus thingy (I’m not particularly versed in computers however). It seems to get worse on certain sites, especially face book.
That sort of sounds like a virus though……I’m not really sure, I don’t have much experience (Actually, at all) with computer things like this, so someone else can probably give you better advice…
Polyesters Right now, you are probably using at least five things that are made form polyesters. Your clothes probably have some Dacron polyester fiber in them, and they are almost certainly sewn with Dacron thread. Your computer is using floppy disks made of Mylar, and your VCR is playing a tape made of Mylar.
Ummmm, what? Floppy discs have basically been obsolete for, well, a fairly long time. Very, very few people I imagine, actually use floppies anymore. Our PC at home has a floppy drive, but it’s fairly old. And VCRs? Yeah, I’m sure there are still people with VHS tapes and VCRs (or at least VCR/DVD mixes)–we have one, for instance (although the VCR part stopped working–it developed a wee problem where it pulls the tape out of the cassette…..)–but again, bordering on the obsolete….
Now, to be fair, checking the copyright date this edition of my organic textbook (6th edition) was only printed in 2006, so VCRs, for instance, were much more common still than they are now, but…..Still. Floppies were still pretty caking obsolete in 2006. Why don’t the, you know, update things when they get print new editions? Think of something that people are actually going to be using?
VCR tape is made of mylar? I never knew that!
I think I may have unintentionally converted one of the Barbie Squad. Or at least gotten her to open her eyes a bit. 0.0 *quakes in terror at the Power Within Her Own Grasp*
Don’t be terrified! Use it! Uuuuse it to help open up more people’s eyes, and help with Plan Mostly Harmless!
But 85% of the Barbie Squad is deeeeeaf! Besides, this one is just becoming self-aware. Here’s how it went:
She: *on an off-topic tangent from Romeo and Juliet* Ohmigod! When I have a kid, I want it to be a girl, and I totally want her to be JUST like me. Like, if she doesn’t like the same kind of stores as me, I’m totally going to kill myself.
Me: Um, are you sure?
She: TOTALLY!
Me: But what if your mom wanted you to be just like her? That would kinda suck, right?
She: *face wrinkles up in distaste* Oh, yeah, that would totally suck.
Me: I mean, if you want to do your whole own thing, then you don’t want to stop your kid from, like, being free, right?
She: Oh… yeah…
Later, in Spanish class, she was reported to muse aloud, “Wow. I would hate to have me as a student. Really. I mean, I must be, like, the suckiest student to have ever, ’cause I talk, like, ALL the time. Wow.”
This is the same girl who has been known to squeal, “Ohmigod! Romeo and Juliet is just like Titanic! It’s like James Cameron gave Shakespeare a message from the future!!” (The part that makes this even sadder is that it was not because of the forbidden-love parallels that she made the connection, but because of Leonardo diCaprio. Jeesh.)
*gasp* How?
I got to go to the library again today and do more copying! Yay making black-and-white photocopies of 30-year-old space books with crumbling bindings!
The things you pick up watching Doctor Who after reading H2G2 (and only the first book, at that).
Christmas Invasion: “Not bad for a man in his jimjams. Very Arthur Dent, that. Nice man.”
Was that in any of the episodes of DW that Adams helped write?
No. That was in Christmas Invasion, the Christmas special after Season 1 New Who. I have yet to see any of Adams’ episodes.
there are a few shout-outs to adams from after he left. the episode “42” was actually a h2g2 reference as well
also luna, don’t worry about it, you can break canon on either show if it fits the next story. they do it all the time. RTD found ways to weasel out of impossibilities all the time (the parallel dimension they could “never” return to?). and h2g2 totally and unapologetically contradicts itself in all its different mediums.
lol, yeah, I did actually pick up on the reference to H2G2 in the title of “42”, even having not read H2G2 at the time.
True….which begs the question: Why the cake does RTD refuse to “break canon” (quotes because there are ways to do it without breaking canon in the slightest) to bring back a certain much beloved character to Torchwood (assuming the show even comes back)? *grumbleChulananogenesthatarefloatingdormantonearthsinceWWIIgrumble*
One of my friends wrote a fanfiction where Ianto was a time lord, and used the chameleon arch to escape the time war. Then, when he dies, Jack opens his watch and brings him back to life by accident.
Farfetched.
But wonderful nonetheless
I have no idea what the deal is with torchwood. I mean, are they doing a whole new cast? (with JB, obviously) are the remaining members somehow getting back together? i mean most the cast is dead at this point, and jack’s being all angsty…i just don’t know *sigh*
I don’t know. apparently RTD has written episodes for a fourth, BBC just hasn’t signed on yet, or whatever. And FOX has bought rights to do a US version (eep)….which could be okay if they do it right (as in, make it not an americanization, but have the US TW be to the UK TW say as NCIS: LA is to NCIS, or CSI NY is to CSI Miami).
I still say nanogenes would work perfectly. Afterall, what is life but nature’s way of keeping meat fresh.
from what i’ve heard, a fourth series seems pretty definite. i’m just not sure how it’s going to work out :-!
i’m a little frightened about the americanized TW, to be honest. it seems like US versions are hardly ever as good as the originals. except for the office, or so i’ve been told (i’ve never seen it). still, yeah, hopefully they’ll do it that way with just normal torchwood in a different location.
have to say though, i’ve seen one episode of CSI Miami and god was it terrible. i was at a friend’s dorm watching big bang theory and it was on after that, and we were procrastinating on hw so we watched it. it was quite amusingly awful
nanogenes! i can never figure out why the nanogenes haven’t come back. they’ve been to the 51st century several times in the new series, you think they would’ve showed up somewhere
I dunno. I mean, more than half the team has been killed, all the awesome team members except for Jack, who can’t die.
Yeah, I was really terrified at first, but I’ve warmed up a tiny bit, as long as the do it the “right” way, and don’t just try and americanize the existing episodes, for instance.
I dunno. But they’d be a perfect way to bring somebody (a very certain somebody) back…..
Keep reading the other 3/4/5 books (And another thing may or may not be cannon, same with mostly harmless.) It might make more sense.
And the Doctor has been in Alternative Realities (Turn Left (I guess?), Rise of The Cybermen/ The Age of Steel are 2/3 that spring to my head right now).
Oh, I fully intend to keep reading. Speaking of H2G2–does the first book end quite abruptly at the end of a very short chapter 35? I read it online, so I wasn’t/am not quite sure if that’s the way it’s supposed to end, or if it’s missing something.
And, yup, the Doctor has been in alternate realities, but those were all after after this episode, and the indication the first time he and Rose wound up in another reality was that it was just that–the first time he’d ever been in an alternate reality…..
Yes, that is when the first book ends.
Okay, I figured it probably was, but wanted to make sure. Thanks!
Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey. Just assume that Mostly Harmless never happened, so the Earth was restored (in SLATFATF) but never re-destroyed.
Earth was restored? I haven’t gotten there yet…..But somehow that doesn’t surprise me.
I love that quote, by the way. Blink was a brilliant episode.
Oh… sorry! I spoiled it for you, didn’t I.
That’s okay. It’s not a big deal.
I have discovered something utterly muserly.
It’s called operation beautiful.
There was an index card on the wall in my band class that said “smile- it makes you even more beautiful. (: ”
Today, I found a post-it in a Neil Gaiman book that said “Smile- you are beautiful! don’t ever forget it!”
Each note was signed with the website: operation beautiful . com
{is it alright if I post a link, dear GAPAs?}
Needless to say, I went to their site. It is an organization whose goal is to change the way people think of themselves. I think I’m going to take part and write some notes.
That sounds wonderful. We could use that for MH.
Oh, that’s awesome! Maybe I’ll go and write some notes and start something at my school….
*cough IlluMimiNati cough*
Hmm…well, it would certainly be a way to be more Mostly Harmless. Perhaps we should think of a slogan to write, perhaps with the URL at the bottom instead of the Operation Beautiful one and then post them…around.
I just looked at the website, and it does seem very nice. They shouldn’t just focus on women though…
It’s mostly geared towards women, but people have pictures they’ve put up for men too. I just saw one posted on the men’s restroom that said, “Hey there handsome”.
I thought it was funny.
So here I am, trying to finish all my mythology readings for this coming week and lamenting the fact that i still have 15 or so (which is a lot) pages to go, when all of a sudden: “….Merope.” *double take* Thinking: “Wait, what, Merope? Hang on…..What did it just say about her? How can whatever it just said tie into Merope Gaunt and explain why Rowling chose that name for her?”……”Okay…..It says Merope was the wife of Sisyphus, who in the previous paragraph it says ‘twice cheated Death’. But how does this relate to Merope from HP?…Merope, what did Merope do….Of course! Tom Riddle’s wife! Tom Riddle, who cheated death numerous times with his Horcruxes!
Duh!”
yeah…..That’s how my brain works…..
I spent much of last week trying to tie Cadmus into Harry Potter. Cadmus, grandfather of the god Dionysus, who played a part in Euripides Bacchae which we read last week. And then, of course, in lecture I had a sort of eureka moment, although I still don’t like it as much as my conclusion I just came up with for Merope. In class, our prof was going on about Dionysus, then went on to say that he travelled down to Hades and brought back his mother Semele who had been killed, that he “conquered death”. And of course, those two words “conquered death” obviously trigger flashbacks to the Deathly Hallows (the objects, not the book, although that, too). I immediately thought of the Resurrection Stone, the Deathly Hallow that Cadmus won from Death. Cadmus, who in Greek mythology is Dionysus’ grandfather. Sure, it was Dionysus who “conquered death” by bringing back his mother from the dead, not Cadmus in mythology, but….Still. It seems a bit too much for coincidence….Anyway. yeah. Those are my random musings for the day (until I come across another HP thing).
Yeah…..like right now, because this reminded me that I was musing back near the beginning of class: Our prof mentioned a river by the name of Scamander. Scamander, which also happens to be the last name of the author of “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” in the Potterverse. coincidence? Maybe. maybe not.
Okay, yeah…..I suppose i should actually finish reading this stuff and go to bed, huh?
So, um….Yeah. It would seem that at 2 am my brain does not function well, because as I realized today….Merope was Tom Riddle’s wife, but not the Tom Riddle with the Horcruxes, but rather his father. So the parallel is not quite as strong, in HP Merope was the mother of an individual who cheated death multiple times instaed of the spouse, but….still. concept stands.
Yesterday I went to G’s birthday party. We went on a bushwalk. To a lookout with a beautiful view (no rails or anything- just a sheer drop, and a wide enough ledge for the 12 of us to sit on safely). Great fun, except for the fact that it was about 4.5 kilometres… I have never walked that far before. Perfect weather, too. Then we went to the pool, which we had almost to ourselves because it was late in the day. Of course, I spent most of the today doing homework with not much time to procrastinate on the computer, but what’s new.
Whee. Fireh is sick.
Her head hurts, her nose is stopped up, her throat hurts, she gets dizzy when she moves around, and she is desperately hoping she didn’t catch strep throat from O when she saw him on Friday.
But at least she wasn’t sick yesterday, or Friday, or Thursday, or Wednesday.
And she is sad because she knows she won’t see N, O, M, A, H, or J for another year. Actually, she might not see J again for a few years. Gah.
Ok, Fireh will stop rambling/ranting now.
Trying to come around more often. But there’s a research paper due tomorrow, and I haven’t even started. Think I’d be MBing instead of researching, though. If I get really desperate, I’d just cut off all Internet connections and do my homework.
Research Paper. EVILLLLLLLLL~
~Cskia
The Day of the Triffids. I suggest anyone who likes Sci-fi, British accents, and evil plants go and watch it. It’s incredibly odd. I’m going to go finish the first episode. Bye.
*sigh* Yesterday was my 4 year blogiversary, and I totally forgot. This is the second year in a row that I’ve been on the ‘blog at the time and totally forgotten about my ‘blogiversary. *sniff*
Ah, well.
125- Happy (belated) blogiversary, Luna!
*huggles*
This computer doesn’t show the ‘Reply’ buttons, so this’ll have to do…
That’s probably because you’re on Internet Explorer, which doesn’t usually cooperate very well with MB. You can still click on the Reply button though, even if you can’t see it. Just wave your mouse over where it usually would be (In the upper left hand corner) and when the mouse turns into a hand, click. Then the usual reply box will come up.
SFTDP
Oops, sorry. The Reply button would usually be in the upper right hand corner, not left.
Now that I’m on Firefox again, I won’t have that problem.
But I’ll remember that next time I use the computer. Thank you.
Yeah, IE is a terrible browser. Get Chrome.
How, precisely, do you say your new name? When I try to pronounce Cskia, it sounds like a small explosion in my mouth.
Or Firefox.
Don’t pronounce the C.
Thanks!!!!!!!! Mmmmmm, pie. Yummy.
So today’s New York Times Book Review had a list of comical suggestions for the next “Classic monster mash-up” after the Jane Austen ones and the new Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Which I totally want to read, by the way).
One of the fake covers was for “In Green Blood- the story of a Kansas family horribly murdered- by Martians!”, and it just so happens that my English class is currently reading In Cold Blood.
Is it a bad sign that I immediately tried to think of ways that plot could work?
A bad sign? I don’t think so. I personally, do that all the time. (Think of ways the plot could work.)
I’m at KUNA, and I just realized that I hadn’t mentioned it or explained it here on MB. (I’m explaining lots of random things because my friends are looking over my shoulders) Anyways, KUNA is Kentucky United Nations Assembly, and even though it irritates me to all get out, I keep coming back. Anyways, we pretty much vote on mock UN propsals that high school kids wrote. I should have gotten to present one, but it came down to a popularity vote at school, so I lost. I’m tired and venting and not making sense, aren’t I.
Here’s an interesting fact for everyone to think about. The US National Debt is currently at $12,623,101, 5??, ??? something – and it’s gone up about 400 thousand dollars since I wrote that figure.
That’s just plain scary.
It’s more complex than that though.
I know it’s more complex than that, but the general fact that our country owes 12.5 trillion dollars – and that every honest citizen who sucks it up and does their taxes owes a $115, 124 portion of that – is just bad news for our generation
Like a third of that is owned by the government it self.
Holy flippin’ cake. Cake. The Air Pollution Index for Hong Kong today was – get this – anywhere from 350 to 413. This is in a place where in Upper Primary they kept us in for recess if the API was 100. 200 is already considered severe, but even that is extremely, extremely rare. In all my years living here (12) I can only remember it being 190, at most. 300-400 is just…well…wow. It’s horrible. It’s practically worse than second-hand smoking. The sky is all brown-ish and the air smells all dusty, and the clouds are muddy in colour. Breathing is a hazard. My chest started hurting slightly today, this afternoon, and the same happened with a lot of my friends, none of who have asthma, including me. I had to give a 3-5 minute presentation in Language Arts, and my throat was cakin’ dry. I ended up talking for 10 minutes. Long story short: I thought I didn’t have enough info so I improvised on my notes for several of the slides, and it ended up being way overtime. Anyway, all sports practices and games were cancelled, but I don’t know if they are going to cancel PE tomorrow. I hope so. It’s American Football tomorrow in PE. I have a freakin’ phobia of the ball.
Oh. My. God. I hope no one gets seriously ill there…
Same…I’ll bet people already have, though – last time it was 190 (about 3 years ago, when I was in 5th grade) I heard on the news that a bunch of people had to go to the hospitals because of respiratory problems. It’s probably even more people now…now that it’s so horribly high and all that. *shudders* They say it’s mostly from a sandstorm that they’re having up North…I don’t know, but that’s probably true. Curses!
That’s terrible.
I visited Beijing a couple of years ago, and that was awful too. My chest hurt to go outside sometimes, and the sky was all gray and dusty looking all day, every day.
In fact, I heard this story a little while ago about this little kid and his mom who live somewhere in Asia. (I think it’s Beijing, but I’m not sure.) They were drawing a picture, and the mom started to color the sky in blue, but the little kid interrupted her and said, “But Mommy the sky isn’t blue!” She replied, “Of course it is!” But the child simply replied, “No, it’s not. The sky’s gray!”
That reminds me of a story Neil DeGrasse Tyson likes to tell about when he was growing up in NYC. He went to the Museum of Natural History with his school, and they went to a planetarium show. When the presenter turned on the stars, he said “It’s very pretty, but there aren’t really that many stars. There’s only like 8 or 9.”
I visited China several years ago; for the first few days we all had trouble breathing/coughed more than usual. And it’s very hazy everywhere, the sky looks dim.
I hear the health care bill passed. Figured the MuseBloggers would be celebrating.
129.1.1- The deficit is high because most of America’s politicians look only two years ahead in the future, which is election time. They’ll spend everything they have (and don’t have) on reforms, wars, self-promotions, etc. without thought of the long-term consequences on future taxpayers.
130- Too bad it’s so dirty there…must be all the factories that export everything to the United States.
Not all of us are Democrats. *ahem*
Depends on the MuseBloggers. Like starr said, not all of us are democrats. I don’t particularly associate myself with either party, although given my family am probably more republican leaning. And I’m certainly not celebrating the health care bill.
On that note, this subject would probably be best moved to the Hot Topics thread for anyone who cares to discuss it further, as it would most certainly be a “hot topic”.
That’s more like us, actually. I haven’t really made up my mind, but my parents are definitely leaning towards the republican side more than democrat right now (but my dad’s registered as a democrat, go figure) but I’m not really celebrating either. *goes to Hot Topics thread*
Well, actually, yes. I am celebrating. (Some of the girls in the wing I’m moving to next year were actually dancing.) But seriously, I helped organize a march for better health care in 8th grade. Great to see that someone’s finally doing something.
131.3- You mean more health care. I wouldn’t necessarily call it better health care.
Hey, at least people have health care. My dad has asthma, and no one would give him health care because he had a “pre-existing condition”. He is being denied health care because he needs it. That’s just messed up, so at least he’s happy that the bill passed.
SFTDP
Actually, how about moving this discussion to Hot Topics?
I’m ba-ack!
It would either be badass, or completely hilarious and set me up for ridicule for the rest of my life. But in any case, I do kind of wish I had a picture of it.
I had a completely flammy weekend. Actually, flammy doesn’t really begin to describe it. I was riding a happy high the entire time, seriously. I haven’t been that borderline euphoric for a loong time. I had really thought I wasn’t going to be able to go, so when it worked out that I could, I was thrilled. And it was wonderful seeing a bunch of friends again. There’s something really lovely about getting to see people you really like again, and the whole squealing and running into hugs bit is fun too.
And I got to actually play with sails yesterday, which I usually don’t get to do onsite. Now, it was a mess, because the ship’s interpretive staff has undergone huge changes in the past year (since I’ve been there working instead of just stopping to visit), and a lot of them aren’t sailors and don’t really get it. Now, I’m not an expert, but I still see what needs to be done and I know the terms and a handful of commands and the general order of operations. Not to mention that I’ve actually sailed as part of a crew, and that I’m familiar with the ships at Jamestown, seeing as I’ve only been doing things there for 4 years.
Anyway. Setting (and especially taking in) the Elizabeth‘s spritsail was an experience. I kind of wish someone wpuld have been taking pictures that I could then get my hands on, because I was dressed in women’s 17th century clothing (pretty much what I was wearing in the picture in the album “when they’re not on the blog, part 2). On that same ship too, actually.
But anyway, there I was out on the beak (front of the ship) straddling the bowsprit in my petticoats and bending over the water to furl the sail.
But that was just one part of yesterday. Cake, I could write forever about the weekend, I had so much fun.
On Saturday night (and Sunday morning) I sang chanties with some Civil War Navy reenactors I met last year. It was awesome, we sang, talked, did Monty Python skits, told really stupid jokes, laughed our heads off, and just had too much fun to be allowed in general. It was awesome, and I got back to camp (I was crashing in my friend’s tent) at 0130 or so (and then woke up somewhere around 0700. Sleep deprivation, whee).
There was so much, there are so many stories I could tell….oh, among them the explanations for the gash on my forehead and cuts around my eye. There are two. The frist one involves pirates, a swordfight, ninjas, cannibals, and all manner of epicness, that I survived with barely a scratch. The second (and obviously false) story is that I walked around the back of Mea’s truck and ran into the tent poles protruding from it, somehow managing to not see them, though they were perfectly my eye-level.
Choose for yourself.
Then today, urg. Not the greatest beginning. I woke up feeling meh-ish, but not bad. Came into the house, got dressed, was talking to Mom and feeling progressively worse and worse, and ended up sitting on the floor with no recollection of how I got there. Apparently I collapsed a few times. And when I was conscious (which was most of the time) the pain was unbearable. I just felt completely awful. Thank God it wasn’t TSS, like I wondered (it was too sudden), but still. Blah. Not something I wish to repeat.
So I’m much better, though still a little weirded out about it and not feeling stellar. Ew. *curls into fetal ball and tries to fall asleep*
Oh well. Choir tonight (if we go, I’m not sure, seeing as Mom’s still sniffling ((so am I)) and given this morning’s adventures), violin tomorrow, then going to NC on Wednesday! I
m excited.
I just want to sleep right now, but I have gobs of homework that are screaming at me.
If anyone read that whole thing and made any sense of it, congrats.
Don’t get too sleep deprived! We want to see all the Fiddler family in good fettle come the weekend!
Well, obviously the pirates and ninjas and cannibals and swordfights and all manner of other epicness is to blame for the gash/cuts. I mean, duh.
I hope you feel better soon (and just ignore that homework, it can wait….).
133.1~ I did fall asleep for awhile. Now I just feel kind of PMS eew instead of “I wonder if I’m going to die” eew. I’ll probably take another nap (whether by choice of by simply falling asleep wherever I am) before the day is over.
I’m really looking forward to seeing you so soon! Only a few days!! *revives enough to cheer* I promise I’ll not kill myself before then, and that I’ll be in good health and spirits.
133.2~ I know, right? The folks down there know me pretty well too, because they all voted with the first one as well. I mean, it’s quite plain when you think about it which is more likely.
Hi Everyone! I haven’t been on in FOREVER. I guess I just got really busy at the start of this school year.
Hi! *is a random person you probably don’t know about* *sneaks away in plain sight*
Welcome back!
Hi! It’s great to see you around again.
Hi! Welcome back!
We don’t really “know” each other, but nice to see you here!
OMG, Sequoia! *hugs* How is life?
OH MY GOSH SEQUOIA I AM SO EXCITED TO SEE YOU BECAUSE CHESS!
But really, welcome back. We missed you.
Welcome back!
132- At any rate, it’s finally done, and I hope they can move on to other important matters now.
I got a 91 on my Spanish test! Hurrah!
Oh, and by some marvel, I have all of my homework done already! Yippie!
It’s a good day.
Tomorrow I become a paleo! w00t!
Congratulations!
Oh, wow…and I remember when you first came onto the ‘blog. That’s…I don’t know, but it’s so weird to think that I’ve met ‘phytes who are not becoming paleos. Ha ha, now I feel old.
Like me!
Yes. Like you, young grasshopper.
Same here, and I came on a feweeks before you.
Just the mention of getting old brings back my rheumatism. *shakes cane at starr*
Anyway, yay for you, StQ!
Old? *feels extremely old* I’ve been around for two and a half years longer than you.
*worships ancient one*
*worships along*
And I was here about six month before you, piggy.
And Luna has a good four months on me.
This raises the question: Who is the oldest active MBer (I know Grant O. is technically the oldest MBer, but he’s not really “active”)
Lizzie? oxlin?
Will GABOOMBA ever come back?
Also, fear not TMFA! Grant O. is still being very muserly, albeit not hereabouts.
National debt, 413 pollution, and feeling old – is it just me or is everyone in a morbid mood? Have some sunshine everyone!!!
*sprinkles sunshine everywhere with my yellow submarine*
I’m improving my murdering-people-with-a-volleyball skills, so I don’t feel too bad…
It went up to 500 today…the pollution, I mean…which is the maximum…which is bad…and the government’s saying that it’s 500, which means in reality it’s even worse. Gah. Everyone in my French class was coughing today. And today was the day of our exams at the Alliance Francaise! I had never taken one of their exams before, seeing as every time I skipped a level (which was often, thanks to my current teacher) I managed to skip to a level which didn’t have an exam that trimester. Except now I’ve just finished the exam. It was okay. The oral comprehension was the hardest for me because the CD player was kind of broken and the sound was static-y, but I think I did okay. Reading Comprehension and Writing sections were much, much easier. I probably will pass – heck, my teacher told me I should skip to level 12 next term! (I’m currently on level 10). I don’t know if I want to. I hope I have the same teacher next term. We’ve had him for two trimesters straight, so I don’t know if we’ll get lucky again. He is awesome. And he has one of the most typically French names, which is really cool.
Can you guys get masks to wear? You know, like those cloth hardware masks that resemble surgical masks? I don’t know how much good it would do, but I know back home that’s what we were supposed to do if we had to go outside when there was ash in the air from the volcano….(Not really a problem where I was, but more in the areas that were hard hit with ash). It would probably keep some of the junk out of your lungs…
I didn’t wear them when I visited Beijing and Shanghai (we weren’t in China for that long, and we just never got around to buying them) but I remember seeing a lot of the locals wearing the masks.
Hm…maybe. My Social Studies teacher brought in a thick black mask the other day, and it was really funny. Anyway, it doesn’t matter anymore because the API is now back to 80! Which is still pretty bad because 100 is already supposed to be bad, but compared to 500 it’s good. The sky is blue and the clouds are white, instead of brown, and almost everyone’s stopped coughing.
Hey guys! I’ve really missed posting, but everything’s been sooo incredibly busy.
I guess that’s good though, I’m so out of shape…
LIST TIME!
Things that have happened recently:
-It’s been sooo warm. (Like, in the seventies, I can wear shorts warm.)
-It got cold and rainy in the past 48 hours.
-I joined the badminton team. The coach makes us run half a mile every day.
-I missed a ton of practices due to: surgery, congress, feeling cakey.
-I had surgery on my mouth for the third time. (DARN YOU DOCTOR, FOR MESSING UP TWO TIMES!)
-I just realized that I am in pain, and should probably take a pain killer.
-My ducky laid a clutch of eggs a couple of days ago, and is now protecting her nest under the shed vehemently.
-I made my first (meager) dish out of a wild food. (The acorn muffins don’t count…) It was a few leaves of garlic mustard, which loses its garlicky flavor when boiled. I might try seasoning it with wild garlic or wild onions next time.
-I stayed home from school today and yesterday due to the aforementioned surgery, which means HOLY CAKE, I am going to be behind on school work…
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Okay, off to search the blog.
Hmmmm, your life sounds interesting, except for the surgery thing – what was it for, anyway? I hope nothing too bad? Cooking out of wild food is an awesome skill – My Side of the Mountain, anyone? And congratulations on the duck eggs!
PM- Hmm… Well, I’d explain the surgery, but I sorta can’t, because then everyone would be all grossed out. Ew. It even grosses me out… Blech. Cooking with wild food is pretty cool, I’ve just gotten into it. My family thinks I’m crazy.
And I am apparently REALLY annoying my friend, because we were practicing badminton in her yard and I pointed out like, ten different types of plants, and then I was telling her which bird each bird song was from. But she should be used to that by now. I’m the girl who told her that you can drink the nectar from honey suckles in second grade. 
LBK & SWAT- Yes, I still am, unfortunately…
I don’t gross out very easily…..Unless the grossness is occurring to my person (or unless we’re talking about nasty parasites, like those several feet long worms that you pull out of ones body by wrapping them around a pencil so they don’t break off and retreat back inside….that’s nasty).
Uhm? I won’t even ask about the part in parentheses…
If you really must know, the surgeon cut into my gum (and palate, I think) and attached a bracket with a chain on it to a tooth inside my gum. See, the tooth is coming in in the wrong place. So, every two weeks or so, I have the pleasure of going to the orthodontist and having him pull the chain tighter and tighter. (It’s going to be attached to a wire on my braces.) If I’m lucky, the bracket will not fall off this time when the orthodontist pulls on it.
Oh, and to add to the nastiness, the surgeon said that there were cysts and stuff that was supposed to be there around my tooth, which he removed. I really have no clue what this “stuff” was, because he told my mom, who didn’t inquire any further when she was told this. She said he was very vague about it when he told her, so I’m going to ask him at the follow-up visit.
Ditto what Luna said. *coughTAPEWORMSAREYUCKYcough*
Sounds like you were really busy! *pies*
Yay for fast moderation!!!!!! *is fined by the PoPoPo*
Woah.
You are one busy busy person!
What are you going to do with the ducklings?
Well, now there might not even be ducklings, because mother hen has been off her nest for quite a bit… If they do hatch, they’ll go to a rescue farm or to a good friend of ours.
How many eggs does she have? How long was she off the nest?
I’m guessing she has around thirteen, but that’s just a rough guess. She’s back on her eggs now; I really have no clue how long she was off for. I know that the hens have to get up to eat and drink; how long do they usually come off for?
Even if she was off the nest for quite a while at least a few will probably still hatch. It’s normal for hens to not stay on the nest constantly until they decide that they have a big enough clutch off eggs, and then she’ll stay on the nest and only leave to eat and drink (and swim if given the option- is there food and water that she can at least submerge her face in near the nest?) or if something scares her off.
The worst that can happen is that she’ll step on a rotten egg and break it. Mandy did that, and she must have decided that they’d all hatched by then and led her ducklings out of there, because that was the worst thing I’ve ever smelled. Five of Mandy’s hatched, and she’d been off the nest for a while, but that was because she was trying to tell me to come because Beaky, who I had put in the duckhouse with Mandy that morning because she her feathers were all wet and she hadn’t even tried to run away from me when I caught her, had died.
Of course, she could hatch out most of them, like Beaky did (12 out of 14! ), or maybe about half of them, like Bonnie,
What are you going to feed the ducklings?
OMG, you guys! I’m going to get to go to see a panel discussion that includes FRED HAISE! (The guy Bill Paxton played in Apollo 13)
And I might get his autograph!
And the guy who was head of Grumman at the time of the accident will be there, too!
And before the panel, they’re going to show the movie in IMAX!
And… I probably should take a breath right now before I pass out.
Although I’m not getting to go alone with my mom like I was hoping, my brothers are coming to, and my dad is taking me, but they’ll think it’s cool, too, and my dad knows when to tone down the embarrassing teasing.
I’m a paleo today, by the Who’s Here list (I first posted on September 24th, 2009)!
Yay! *claps*
Congratulations!
Merh. This day has been stressful and a shock to my senses. Can someone suggest a good musical I can watch? (is somewhat addicted to musicals)
What sort of musicals do you like? Anything Rogers and Hammerstein is always good for me if you want something light. If you want something dark but not “I’m going to kill myself” dark, West Side Story is awesome. If you want something really dark, go for Les Mis. If you like light movie musicals with a focus on dancing, anything with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. (My personal favorite is Swingtime, but all of their stuff is awesome.)
If you like musicals and have a 30 to 40 minutes, YouTube Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. It is amazing and absolutely hilarious.
I just finished watching West Side Story yesterday, in Music Humanities. It was kind of depressing to me, but then again, I’m only 12. *shrugs*
I did say that it was dark… But Les Mis is darker. As is Sweeney Todd (another good choice if you want something really dark).
It is fairly depressing at the end.
Hmm. I like AVPM, Batboy, and Dr. Horrible. I like musicals with discordant harmony, I guess.
I LOVE AVPM! Me and my friends just randomly burst out singing it for no apparent reason. It’s crazy.
AVPM is totally awesome.
So… let’s see. Discordant harmony, recent, humorous… You’d probably like the musical episode of Buffy. (I would recommend that, wouldn’t I?) It’s by the same guy who did Dr. Horrible (and the news reporters from Dr. Horrible are in it playing the funniest minor parts), and it’s really good. Some of it might not make perfect sense if you haven’t seen the show, but if you need clarification on anything, just ask. So look it up. Once More With Feeling.
Leaving for North Carolina tomorrow…..EEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the new car is….different. Did I mention? Mom got a new car. Like, a new new car. Going from a 1981 VW Rabbit to a 2010 VW Jetta SportWagon is quite a shock. Everything’s automatic or power assisted, there are heated seats, etc. It’s crazy. Nice, but very, very different. Mom’s kind of in shock and mourning for the rattletrap. Dad’s still trying to convince himself about it, and I’m having fun playing with the new features, but can’t get over the feeling that it’s someone else’s car.
I need to resume the practice of writing in my journal, I haven’t since the 9th I think. Urg. I don’t have many pages left, and my new one isn’t done yet, but still. Blah, a lot’s happened since my last entry, and I’m going to need to do a lot of catching up. Oh well.
North Carolina is great… It’s soooo warm there…
I hope you enjoy the new car, especially the heated seats. I love them in my mom’s car… Even in summer I use them… AC and butt warmers… Gotta love it!
I hope you have fun in North Carolina!
But, but….”soooo warm” =/= great. I don’t like hot weather….hot weather=not pleasant. Especially if humid.
it’s mid-60s here at my college, and it’s already starting to get a bit too warm, given the level of humidity…..
Do you know what the humidity is, percentwise?
I’m just wondering because your idea of hot seems to be similar to my idea of cool.
*looks it up* Supposedly the humidity is only 30%, but I don’t think that’s accurate. You can practically feel the water in the air.
Normally, I’d find mid-60s quite pleasant, and certainly not too warm. Mid-70s is quite nice, too, if there’s no significant humidity. Although, no matter what the humidity, when you hit 80 it’s starting to get a bit too hot, at least if you’re doing any sort of exercise.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but I like cool, humid weather. 65 and humid is wonderful, as far as cool weather goes, but right now, I want it to be hot. 8)
No…. “soooo warm” = great (right now, at least)
Sooo humid = great
Sooo cold =/= great
Balance between seasons= great.
See, that’s why I like the climate where I live. As soon as I get sick of the cold and snow, it gets warm. As soon as I get sick of the killer humidity and heat, it gets cold.
But how is mid 60s too warm?!?!?!?
No. Humid =/= great. Humid is disgusting. Especially when it’s in the nineties and exceptionally humid and you have to march.
Ew. All right. That’s bad. Marching band uniforms+summer= torture.
Yuck. I agree. Especially so if you have to march, even though I’ve never had to do that.
Still, bleh.
I do like warm weather though, just not humid weather. Unfortunately, most of the time those two come together.
Mid-seventies today! It’s so nice. I’m wearing sleeveless dress and it’s beautiful out!
I love wearing dresses in spring… It just feels so much more… springier!
I know! I was saving this dress to wear until it got really spring-y out.
So, in preparation for the much-obssesed-by-me movie (As Ducky and Magnolia know), How To Train Your Dragon, I have changed my avatar. Don’t worry, It’s temporary. It is Hiccup and Toothless under the moon.
146~ I just saw the trailers for that movie. Did you read the book though? I remember enjoying it quite a lot when it came out (oh no, that was 6 years ago already? I was 12? I remember it being kind of a younger-kid’s book, but AAAAHHHHHHHHHH I feel old now).
Packing. Really, I’m packing diligently. Then getting a haircut. Then ging to North Carolina. Wheeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m terribly excited.
Yeah, I did read the book. But the movie is nothing like the book. I don’t mind, though
I haven’t been on here in a really long time. Too much play rehearsal. (We’re doing Annie.) (I don’t know why in the world that feels like a lame excuse, even though it’s absolutely true.) We have two dress rehearsals, one today, one tomorrow, ’till 6:45, and then Friday’s opening night.
On another note, someone dropped out of the German Exchange so one of my friends is going! Yayziz!!!!
We just did Annie, and finished our production last week! What’s your role?
I just hit the random button thing and got this thread. Yay. That makes me happy for no reason at all!
Beedle is just checking to see if her new gravatar works. She hopes it does. It’s of the Alcazar de Segovia, a castle she took a picture of when she went to Spain.
149- That. Is. AWESOME.
I like your avatar, Beedle. When I read “It’s of the Alcazar de Segovia” I thought it said “It’s of the Alcatraz…” Show’s how obsessive I am over big prisons on islands that are supposedly inescapable.
It would be cool to have a mass Kokon on Alcatraz Island, in the prison, because then we could attempt to escape. Just thinking about that forms plans in my mind…
I’m going to stop now.
Comment dit-on ‘kid’s menu’ en francais? J’ai besoin de ca pour mes devoirs. Je veux savoir quelle sont en un ‘kid’s menu’ en francais.
Repondex, s’il te plait.
La menu des enfants? Pour les enfants? I’m not good at French so I don’t know.
Il est le menu d’enfant, je pense. Wordreference est tres utile pour les vocabulaire. Quoi classe de francais es-tu prendre?
Ce n’est pas le menu, c’est la carte, et c’est ‘quelle classe’. Je prend Francais I
La carte est “map”, je pense.
Oui, “la carte” veut dire “map.” Je suis en la classe Francais IV.
Ah, oui, la carte!
C’est un mot très utile, et signifie: map, menu, card, chart…
Ah, vraiment? On apprend beacoup de choses chaque jour!
Je sais que la carte est “map” et que le menu est correcte. (Le menu d’enfant est correcte aussi, je crois.) Peut-etre la carte d’enfant est un autre possibilite. (Je suis le francais IV.)
Oui, tu es correcte. I am in French 2, which is frustratingly more like French 1.5 because 3/10 of our class (including me) is pretty much at French 1. I think I may be forgetting stuff.
Okay, this will be my last post for perhaps ten days, as I’m leaving for Italy tomorrow.
Bye for now, my love is with all of you!
HAVE FUN
Have fun!!!!!
Have fun!
Coincidentally, a science teacher of mine (also one of the best teachers I’ve ever had) is going to Italy (Piza) in a few days to teach something involving Molecular Biology!
Have tons of fun!
We’ll miss you while you’re gone!
HAVE FUN LIKE MAGNOLIA SAID TO
Have fun! (as so many people already said
)
Kokon in… three days? Three days.
So excited.
Hey, are there any MuseBloggers that live in Florida? It just occurred to me that I’m headed down that way for Spring Break (next week), and there might be a change to arrange a Kokon while I’m there.
Okay, I see French, which reminds me that I am officially taking French next year! Plus, I’m taking it instead of Spanish, despite taking 3rd-year Spanish as a freshman this year and still getting an A. Seriously, switching languages about as rebellious as I get. I’m so excited for it. The French teacher is supposedly really nice, and I’ve heard the class is fun.
There was also a possibility that I would get to do a Chinese camp this summer, but it’s at exactly the same times and dates as soccer camp, which is more important. That would have been amazing, though.
GAPAs, how do I log in?
First you have to sign up for an account, which we have to approve. Do you see the words “Log In” on the green bar under the blog’s title? Start by clicking there.
OK, I have done that.
And I’ve approved you. You’ll get your password by e-mail.
Yeah, I tried my password but it said that a GAPA had to approve it. I guess you have, now. (Gosh, the password’s long…)Thank you Robert!
You can change the password once you’re logged in. You’re welcome. Have fun!
OK, awesome. Thanks again! (I love it when my posts are moderated quickly..it’s so rare/
I’m on vacation and have had a little extra time to moderate this morning. That’s about to change, though. Household chores call…
I got the highest score on my exam in my Alliance Francaise class! 94 out of 105…right behind me were the scores 93.5 and 92, and both of those people are married to French. He actually gave me 93 at first, but it turns out there was one question that he marked me as wrong but that was actually right. Most of the class got 70- and 80-somethings. My teacher says I could skip to Level 12 next trimester (we just finished Level 10 today) but I don’t know if I want to yet.
My scores –
Comprehension orale: 20.5 out of 25
Comprehension ecrite: 23 out of 25
Expression ecrite: 22 out of 25
Expression orale: 28.5 out of 30
….which gives a total of 94 out of 105! Yay!
On another, totally unrelated note, I was voted as Future Einstein by the rest of my grade for the 8th grade yearbook Superlatives. I don’t know whether to feel complimented or insulted. I don’t even know why – yes, I am in Geometry (which only 20 out of 200 take, the rest take Algebra or Pre) but it’s not like I’m the best in my class. I’m average, actually, because I’m too lazy to prove everything with annoying theorems. My strong points are LA (read my poem on the Poems and Songs thread – it’s not bad) and SS, and perhaps Science this year. And Strings. Don’t forget Strings. *smacks self for forgetting to mention favourite class*
Second totally unrelated note: (sorry, I occasionally tend to go off on tangents. And I don’t want to triple-post.) Our school’s field hockey team played German Swiss today. (The GAPAS totally know which school I go to, if they’re smart. It’s OK, I trust you, mostly.) We played their A-team, their best team, where everyone has been playing for years and years, while most of our school’s team have only been playing for months, or at most one or two years. Anyway, we lost 5-0, which isn’t too bad, considering. I actually got to play this time. Last time the coach didn’t put me on for the entire game, so I sat out with all the sucky players, even though everyone agrees that I’m pretty good. Today she put me on, thank God, and I ended up surprising her so much that she awarded me MVP of the match (reward = candy!) and said at half-time that I was ‘having a stormer’.
Anyway, now that you all have a very thorough update on my life recently, I shall end with something random.
Hm. Actually, I won’t. I can’t think of anything random enough to end with. Anyway, good evening, all.
Congrats! That’s awesome!
*sigh* Luna has this sinking feeling (that keeps getting bigger) that she is not going to get any As this semester. Luna does not like that. Luna really liked freshman year where she had straight As. Luna was just beginning to accept the fact that she got a B in organic 1 and that she would never have a 4.0 again, and was resigned to the fate that she was going to get a B in organic 2 (I’d have to get 85% on both the remaining tests to bring my grade up to an A, which is a lot harder than it sounds). Now, she has her grade back on her second spanish test, and once again pulled the crappy score of 83%. This means she’d have to ace all remaining assignments, and pull a grade in the low 90s on the final to get an A. Very unlikely.
Classical mythology: She aced the midterm, perhaps will do as well on the final, but if her TA keeps giving her crappy grades on her papers (very low Bs–Luna has never gotten Bs on papers before), even this will not bring her grade up to an A.
Cell Bio: Dunno. It depends a lot on how she did on the midterm, which she will not be getting back until after spring break, despite the fact that the TAs have now had 2 whole weeks to grade it. And how she does on the quiz tomorrow (study, need to study, god she’s gonna fail tomorrow’s quiz…..) will also be important (as it determines if she can drop the first lecture quiz, on which she got a 16/25).
Organic chem lab….Oh, wait, *sigh of relief*. This will almost certainly be an A. At least I’ll have something…..
Ugh, poor Alan. He’s going to get to spend our organic chemistry lab today listening to me stressing out about grades and my cell bio quiz tomorrow and and and and. I abuse him so….
Well, at least grades are something he can relate to… Unlike “that gay British guy”.
Honestly, it doesn’t sound all that bad. Organic is a tough break. As for mythology, maybe get someone to edit your papers? As with all writing, it’s all in the editing. It sounds like you don’t really know enough about cell bio yet to know whether you can get an A. In the meantime, just study, I guess. But what do I know? I’m just a high schooler.
Well, the thing with Mythology is–my papers may not be my best work ever, but they’re not as bad as my TA seems to think….And I would consider having somebody proof them in addition to myself, if they weren’t getting written the night before they were due……
You know a lot. ((And studying is a very good idea, it’s just hard to find the motivation, recently…..))
If you need motivation and are diligent enough not to break down, you can use incentives. Pretty much just decide that you will watch an episode of whatever show you’ve been watching if you study for so long. And as for the papers being written the night before they’re due, wouldn’t it help to maybe not write them the night before they’re due? And also didn’t you mention that you turn in a rough draft that you get to edit?
“Whatever show you’ve been watching.”
Hmm, wonder what that could be?
I just gotta love ya, Luna.
Well, she’s finished New Who (until new episodes come out), and I know that she’s been watching a mixture of Classic Who and Angel. And Desperate Housewives. And that she’s promised to watch Glee and Firefly. So it’s a bit more complicated than just Dr. Who.
Aw, I’m loved! I love ya, too.
And like speller says….It’s a bit more complicated than just one show.
I’ve been watching the occasional Classic Who, the occasional Angel, have been watching New Who simultaneously-ish with speller (ever since she caught up to where I’d ended with rewatching last semester), and I’ve promised to watch Glee and Firefly…..And I would like to point out, the Desperate Housewives is only because John Barrowman is currently on it for 5 or 6 episodes, but they’re not showing anymore for about a month, so….It doesn’t really factor in at the moment……
I’m not. Not diligent enough not to break down, that is. I’ve tried that sort of thing…..And failed. Epically.
And, yes, it would probably help if I wrote the papers sooner, but…..Yeah. That little thing called lack of motivation strikes again. And, yes, we do get a rough draft, but….My TA grades them rather harsh, in my opinion. My rough draft for my first paper, I got 15/20, for my final, I not only changed everything she marked, but did a massive amount of other revision making it a significantly better paper, only to get a mere 68/80, for an overall score of 83. Which is a B-. *headdesk*
Oh. My. Gosh.
I just watched the video “The Dot and the Line: a Romance in Lower Dimensions”. It is amazing. Has anybody here watched it? If so, watch it again. If not, then go watch it.
Is it online? I’ve seen a movie version of Flatland, but I don’t think that’s the same thing.
No, it’s not the same thing. And yes, it is online. YouTube: “The Dot and the Line”
Did you find it on the internet somewhere? just watched something called “The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics”. I couldn’t find anything called “The Dot and the Line: a Romance in Lower Dimensionsâ€.
Where did you find it?
Right, lower mathematics not lower dimensions. “A Romance in Many Dimensions” is Flatland.
That’s what I watched, and now I feel so bad for the squiggle.
I just watched it. It’s pretty cool!
Is that not a marvelous cartoon?
I think I and one of the GAPAs (was it Rebecca?) discussed this very cartoon several months ago. Yes, I remember it. I had watched The Phantom Tollbooth on TV and decided to watch more “old” cartoon/animations.
I have a 3.75 GPA. I’ve only taken four semesters of high school classes.
Weighted or unweighted? What grade are you in?
147.1~ Ah, glad to hear it. Yeah, if you can make peace with the fact that the book and movie will always be different, then one can [usually] just enjoy the movie as a separate entity. The movie trailers did look like it’d be a fun one though.
158.1.1~ Is this Alan the same one who you went to New Moon with? If so, it’s my highly unofficial opinion that you’ll be showing up on the R&R threads about this gent in the near-ish future.
Just a wild guess.
Of course, we all know you are not, in fact, sane, but it’s gallant of him to argue otherwise, even though he should understand by now that insanity isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and is oftentimes preferable to the alternative.
Tesseract (I don’t know what number it was)~ Yes, Kokonvention SOON! Two days, whee!! Oh, that reminds me, should I bring my computer along so we can try to find WiFi to check in while the Kokon is in process? My laptop is fairly small and fits in a bookbag, but I thought I might as well ask to make sure.
So, I had a fun day, I posted a bit on various more appropriate threads, but in case you don’t want to stalk me, I’ll sum it up here.
We went to visit Warren-Wilson College today, and it was a quite interesting place, and I’m trying not to get my hopes up, because I liked pretty much EVERYTHING I saw.
Then poked around Asheville, got a magnificently bizarre hoodie that looks like a Hogwarts robe at a crazy hippie store (gotta love the crazy hippie stores), and also found choklit. Yumz.
Then we came here to [unspecified location], and since Phil makes big dinners every other week in his dorm, we ate there, which was lovely. Mmmmmm I’ve missed him, it was good to see him again, and we have all of tomorrow. BLISS.
Anyway, now at the hotel, about to surrender the computer to Mom, since she just got out of the shower. Alas.
And I’m still getting used to my hair. Gah. I got it cut yesterday, and it’s a shock from it being superlong to extrashort. Meh, oh well.
That was random, sorry.
Um, yes, yes, he is the same one I saw New Moon with…..But, really, we’re just friends.
Really now? *reserves the right to bug you because I’m your blog sis*
Really, now. Just because I let slip to you that I was once in his room for four hours (following 5 hours in my room), not leaving until 12:30 at night, does not mean anything is going on…..But I would be disappointed in you as a little sister if you didn’t bug me. Goodness knows I’ve harassed my real-life sister for less.
^^We were working on our organic chemistry postlab initially, then had dinner, then I allowed him to convince me to watch an anime with him, provided afterwards he would at least one Doctor Who episodes (ended up being two–Empty Child/Doctor Dances).
Yes, do bring the laptop!
By the way, are we meeting out front of (location) or just inside?
Why isn’t Towel Day on the calendar? (It is today? Or is it May 25?)
May 25th. It’s also geek pride day.
Game tomorrooooowwww!!!
(see post 8)
* 8 )
Hey guys……I’m not going to be on much, today–in fact, there’s a fairly good chance this is the last time I post today…..
I’m leaving for spring break this afternoon–I leave campus about 2:30-3 central time, and get home 1 am AK time (so 4 am central time….). And, as per usual, I probably won’t be on that much during my break.
So for those of you who are having their spring break next week, as well, have a flammy time! And those that aren’t…..Sorry!
Anyway, yeah, not sure when/how much I’ll be on in the next week.
Have a flamablamablous (sp?) spring break! We’ll miss you!
161~ Okay. Just a suspicion.
164~ Bye! Have a safe/fun trip!
I will. It’ll be so nice to be home, have some snow, see my parents, see my cat (even if he does love my dad more), and of course, my birthday.
Still a scary thought, that…
Luna, have a flammy spring break, and a flammy birthday!
Oh! Pretty picture! Did you really take that? Wow… It looks almost like an illustration from a fantasy book. That’s a compliment.
In case you were wondering, your new gravatar just appears.
Yes, I did, and thank you! I *did* tinker with the color settings just a little bit… I did it with all of my Spain photos (yes, I have that much spare time) because it was so foggy. But this one I only raised the saturation a teensy little bit. Un poquito.
164 – (Luna) Well, I’m on Spring Break right now, but unfortunately this is our “official” last day. (Not including the weekend, which we’ll have off anyway.)
But have a fun and relaxing trip and an awesome birthday!
Thanks, guys, for all the well-wishes for my spring break and birthday! I plan to have a flammy time, enjoying some relaxation and stress-relief.
I am in a much better mood than yesterday (where y’all got to hear me freaking about grades). I’m sure part of that has to do with our organic chemistry professor gave everyone who was in class today the answer to a question he’s going to put on the next exam, so we’re guaranteed at least 4% on the test, and my cell bio quiz didn’t go too badly, I don’t think. I mean, it wasn’t awesome, there were some things I wasn’t sure on, but I don’t think I completely bombed it, either, so with a bit of luck, it won’t end up being the one I drop (I really want to drop that 16/25 I got on the first quiz earlier in the semester, if at all possible).
And, after writing my prof in classical mythology who is subbing for my TA this afternoon, to remind her that I would be attending RSD an hour earlier in a different section, wrote back with “Thanks, Michelle! I shall make sure that your name winds up on the list for extra credit.” The words “extra credit” always make me happy…..Whether it’s extra credit that I will actually have to do something for, or just extra credit for not skipping out early, I don’t know, but, hey, it’s extra credit.
Leaving for the united center now eeeeee!
I’ll let you all know how the game goes when I get back!
Slay them, Jadestone! We’re rooting for you.
GO JADESTONE’S TEAM!!!
Okay, so I’ve got a couple minutes, since the RSD I attended for my classical mythology class got out 30 minutes early.
So, normally I have RSD at 2 with a TA I do not like for various reasons. Since I have to catch the bus to go to the airport to catch the last flight out with connections to Alaska at 2:30, I got permission to attend RSD at 1pm with a different TA.
Basically, shortness of the RSD aside (as that always makes an RSD way better, when it gets out early, as with any class), his RSD was way more fun. I mean, if nothing else? Of the 30 minutes we were in class talking about Homer and virgil and the generics of Heroes of Ancient times, we spent 10-15 of those minutes discussing Harry Potter. Admittedly, at least a few minutes of those were legitimate–we were supposed to think of any modern day hero (real or fictional) that fit into the Ancient Greek classification of a Hero.
Well, miraculous/unusual circumstances surrounding conception/birth? Check. Prophecy and his parents were killed by an evil wizard shortly thereafter
Threat to his life soon after birth? Check. Voldy tried to murder him when he killed Harry’s parents.
Quests/labors? Oh, cake, yes, check.
Enemy who is often central to these quests/labors (as in, helps to set them)? Cake, yes. Voldy had quite a bit to do with most all of Harry’s quests/labors…..
Twas totally pwnsome. I mean, it beat the cake out of my normal RSD. Sure, we had an in-class thingy, where we filled out a sheet of short answer questions, but it wasn’t particularly challenging/difficult, and we had the questions written down clearly in english–not whacked out questions that we don’t ahve time to answer dictated orally in broken english, like the TA I ahve normally does……
And, of course, HP. Anything in which conversation manages to turn to Harry Potter is pwnsome. And I fully blame the TA, he’s the one who was saying something about how Virgil/Homer’s representation of the underworld didn’t necessarily reflect the Roman/Greek beliefs: Afterall, Harry Potter could be seen as a totally believable story, where people go this magical school called Hogwarts.
Cue my group getting side-tracked onto discussing HP and which book was our favorite, and then when we got to the last questin about heroes….Cue us putting HP as the hero to use to compare to Greek/Roman ideal heroes of ancient times…..
Absolutely caking brilliant.
LunaLunaLunaLuna! You’ve successfully converted another hapless mortal to Doctor Who obsessiveness. I just finished the first episode.
*leaves to watch more*
Yay! *gives duplicate of TARDIS*
*takes duplicate of TARDIS* *does unsuspecting things with it*
Just… don’t lick it. Don’t. Lick. The. TARDIS.
Only the Doctor’s allowed to do that.
*licks the TARDIS*
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
Unfortunately, I can’t convince any of my friends to watch it… *sigh*
Ooooooh, good. That’s wonderful. Yay!
Ooooh, yes, we did that too! My friend did Harry Potter on a worksheet and Pseudo denied he is an epic hero.
Rather long winded.
Anyway, in response to your response to my response on the “Luna and the Tiger” thread;
Eragon/Castle/Zack’s Rules of Fire Safety:
Right then. First of all- What IS fire? If you’re asking this, it is because you’re an idiot. You’re probably also asking questions like “What am the sky” and “How does eat food”. If you’re caught in a fire, always go toward the smoke- it’s where fire USED to be. Perfectly safe! Get out of the fire and into the smoke. Crawl on the ceiling if you have to! Now, statistics show that 90% of all fires happen in a house, while 2% happen in a vehicle, 1% in a public swimming pool, and 7% on your face. So, if you’re caught in a house fire, go to your garage and get in your car.
Now, any modern scientist will tell you that fire requires an oxygen environment to burn! That same scientist will tell you that the human body breathes IN oxygen, and expels carbon dioxide. Therefore, by panicking, you breathe faster, robbing the fire of its vital nutrients. Simple! The bigger the fire, the more amount of panic needed. Try panicking out loud, as if talking to the fire. For example:
Small Fire: “I really hope they don’t make another ‘Indiana Jones’ movie.” That works GREAT.
Medium Fire: “Have you heard? The swine flu’s in Australia now, that can’t be good.’ Perfect!
Large Fire: “Ahhh! I watch the cable news channel! Oh, hothothothot! The cable news channel suuuucks owowowow!” Clearly, not enough panic.
Now, three things to remember when running from fire. You MUST disperse the fire to as many people and objects as possible. Spread it around to get rid of it! Fire safety is about sharing! The second thing is always, ALWAYS panic. The third is STOP, DROP and ROLL.
1. STOP next to your friends.
2. DROP them with a swift punch to the temple.
3. ROLL around on them to transfer the flames from you to them!
I hope you all learned something from that! —courtesy of Red vs. Blue.
What LBK said.
I bought some HPN buttons fro Musery Loves Company, and one of them is attached to my backpack.
Today in Chem:
M: You’re going to think I’m weird, but I think that bunny button is giving me the evil eye…
Me: Oh, it is. But don’t worry, it’s mostly harmless.
I’d say hot-pink bunnies aren’t even slightly harmless. Enjoy your buttons!
Whoops, meant HPB. Accursed iPod touch.
Kokonvention tomorrow!
I know! I’m excited!
So excited!!
RARRRGH! *jumps down from doorway on unsuspecting head*
*runs around in circles*
*screaming I’M A NINJA!*
*tears up paper*
*pops popcorn with no lid*
*flings Superballs*
*runs around screaming*
*bounces up and down on mattress*
*jumps very hard up and down on mattress*
*flops down, exhausted*
*screams more*
*screams more*
*screams more*
*sings Beatles songs at top of voice*
*jumps up and down again on mattress*
*floomps down on butt on mattress*
*lies down*
*stares at ceiling*
*pants*
*jumps up and down screaming*
*decides to stop bothering GAPAs with energy releasers*
*runs away screaming*
*tranqualizer dart*
Uhm?
Midnight Fiddler had a pretty awesome day.
Kokonvention tomorrow, whee!
Tess~ I’ll bring it.
And there’s not really a decision on outside or inside. I guess it depends on whether it’s raining? But just look for crazy people. I’ll be wearing a Musery Loves Co. shirt as well. It’s always somewhat surprising how easy it is for Musers to identify each other, I have no idea what it is, but it’s a strange Kokon phenomenon, even though often everyone looks quite different than the others expected.
Fun times, we started the Aeneid in Latin yesterday. This should be awesome to translate.
175 – I’ll have a bunny button attached to some article of clothing and/or bag!
Oh, but, um, I can be kind of shy initially. Just a warning.
Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!! My dad cancelled my Muse subscription!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was going to expire after the March issue, but he cancelled it before then so my March issue never came.
He could have at least let the March issue come first, and then not renew it, but he just had to cancel it beforehand! ARGH!! I don’t even know why he cancelled it! adsklfjasdlaksdhflakwejnalksejflkdasjcliauwcknlkjdflakjcnelwiuknflakjsdcnlkauwelckjadsnlkaewnlkajsdnakuwenlkajsdnclakdsjnalcikejansdkljcnlaiwuhcscd
*pies your dad* Why would he do such a horrible thing!?
*gasps*
*gives choklit and sympathy*
Why would he do that?! How could anyone do something like that?
Wel, I’m headed to Gettysburg today. I won’t be able to post much, probably, for today and tomorrow. Bye!
Oh, thank God, it’s finally spring break!
Well, not really, because the teachers decided to load on the homework, and I think I did badly on a Spanish quiz that I had yesterday. *Hopefully* I’ll be responsible, and finish most of my work today and tomorrow. (I doubt that’s happening.)
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In other news, badminton is SO much fun. Even jogging for badminton is fun! (Which is creepy… Me and my friends went on the track and jogged a lap out of our own free will yesterday…)
We had a match yesterday, and since I’m not as good as the seniors, me and my friend played doubles exhibition. I CANNOT PLAY WITH HER! Me and my other friend, S, are much better together. I hope we can switch for the next match.
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I hope everyone has a good break! Have fun on your vacations!
Greetings, MuseBloggers, from the butterfly house, where of course we have discovered WiFi, are completing ignoring the butterflies and parents in favor of checking out the blog.
Koppar: We’re getting weird looks from people. At least, the people who aren’t very small children. There’s hundreds of little waist-height kids running around here. I feel tall.
Fiddler: Kokonvention in process, and it’s going quite well so far. We’ve managed to lose a few parents already, but nothing serious. Now we’re in the butterfly house, squished on a bench, posting. Whee!
Oh and yes, we are getting strange looks. We got strange looks with the pies too…
Tess: Hey look, people who are actually slightly over waist height. Sweet. Now we’re only the oldest people here by, say, five or six years. (Discounting parents, of course.) This is so incredibly cool! I can totally not even think of anything to say because I am going insane from the coolness of actually meeting MBers! *dies*
kiwimuncher: This is awesomely flamablamablous!
and there were some really fat goats outside. I wonder if they milk them and make cheese. They certainly looked well fed! They’d better have something to show for it! This place is full of little children. Hope they aren’t bunnified before this adventure is through!
Tess: The bunny at the farm was actually out sick. (Or zoo, or whatever it was.) We thought it might have been bunnified… or rather pinkified (thanks for the word, Fiddler).
Hail and Well Met, North Carolina KoKonners! MuseBlog salutes you!
Hi! Sounds like fun!
Could you tell us who’s who on the picture?
That’s Midnight Fiddler on Rebecca’s right (her right, not ours). I’d guess that the redheaded MBer on Rebecca’s left is Koppar. That would make the other two Tesseract and kiwimuncher, but I’m not sure which is which (assuming I’m right about Koppar).
You’re right so far. Keep guessing!
Well, Tess, you mentioned that you’d have a bunny button pinned somewhere, so I suspect that’s you on the other side of Midnight Fiddler.
Nice picture. It has taken OVER THE BLOG! Let me look again.
That looks like a fun Kokon! *is envious even though has just had Kokon two weeks ago*
All right, now that the Kokon is over, I can identify everyone in the photo for you all. It’s a pretty bad photo of all of us, but more photos will hopefully be up soon! I know I’m sending mine in in a few minutes, and Rebecca got parental permission at the Kokon (hence the photo).
Left to right: Kiwi, me, Fiddler, Rebecca, Koppar.
That was SO. MUCH. FUN.
Initial awkwardness of course, but we got over that pretty quickly. There was a butterfly house at our Kokon location, so we headed there. It was a children’s museum, so there were a lot of little munchkins running around all over the place. We attracted some strange looks by settling down on a bench in the butterfly house to post on MB, which is where the photo at the top of the thread was taken. Thread hijacking is a bonus of having a GAPA there! Mystical GAPA powers of awesomeness.
After a while we actually decided to look at the butterflies and such. Still got some strange looks, but that’s okay! There was a hanging plant that we decided looked like a Space Squid egg sack. Upon further examination we discovered that it’s called a Jade Vine, which is entirely appropriate.
In the gift shop of the butterfly house, we had some fun with a set of giant butterfly wings. (Rebecca, you had better let that photo through! Hehehehe.) The gift shop lady certainly had her entertainment for the week. Kiwi and I had a light saber fight!
Oh! Before we went to the butterfly house, we actually visited the little farm area first. There were some fat goats that looked to be pregnant, and some pigs (we thought of you, Piggy!) and a pen that used to hold a bunny. The bunny, however, was out under veterinary care… (It’s a coverup. It was actually pinkified.)
After the butterfly house we went and got lunch. Koppar and Rebecca figured out that they’re really, really distantly related, which was pretty cool!
Then we wandered around the outdoor exhibits for a while. During this time, we:
1) Talked a lot
2) Terrorized more small children
3) Took photos with dinosaurs
4) Discovered fossil evidence of HPBs
5) Learned about lemurs and “wharr-do dey leeve”
6) Took lots of photos
7) Had an air cannon war
8) Attempted to control mini sailboats
9) Generally had an awesome time
Then in the remaining hour or so we had, we headed back to the actual museum and found… a music room! Muse Academy MUST have one. It basically has sensors so when you run around the room it makes all these various percussive and chime-y noises. We danced in there for a long while. At this point, there were only a few minutes left for the rest of the museum… but ah well.
So much fun! It was awesome meeting everyone! You all looked a lot like I pictured you.
Whoops, this was not supposed to be a reply, it was supposed to be its own comment. If a GAPA could move it I would be highly appreciative.
At our Kokon there were no pigs, but there was an Elias hair salon, a Luna Cafe, and a waitress named Alice.
Musebloggers…
How big are they?
Where do they live?
What do they do all day?
Five foot four.
Massachusetts.
Nothing.
I am often feeling two foot small in a place that can be reached by turning left at Greenland while being a Beatlemaniac.
What should you do if you encounter them in the wild?
Placate them with wifi and choklit, of course.
1. Five two and a half, I think. What does 161 cm equal to?
1′. Or, if you meant age, then 13
2. Hong Kong
3. Stare hopelessly at the Recent Comments bar, waiting for something to appear, but then it doesn’t because everyone else is asleep.
5’5″ and 111 lb.
Orange County, California! ORGINAL DISNEYLAND FTW
Wish she could use the computer. TT3TT
Hi, all! I’m back again
because you’ll never get rid of me! Muwa ha hawith some epic… yay!Play’s on Tuesday. Agggggh. Nobody is prepared but me.
I’ve been drawing more and writing more and thought up an interesting premise.
Ah, now I have to go. Bye.
Five foot almost six
Massachusetts
Live, that’s what I do all day.
Not. Fair.
Everyone is at least two inches taller than me, unless they’re about two years younger than I am. *is constantly called shorty and hates it*
I’m 4′ 11″, and I’m 14. And this is my full height. Feel better now?
If you encounter me in the wild:
Run, if not for your life, for your sanity. Or, bribe me with kittens, non-virtual chocolate, and/or Doctor Who. But, if you use kittens of Doctor Who, your sanity will dissolve from mindless babble.
*has no life and has no sanity and therefore has nothing to fear*
Five foot one.
TN.
Walk around introducing myself to random people in this manner- “Hi. I’m Jen. Not John, not Jim, not Charlie. Jen. I’m thirteen. Yes, I know I’m short, but I’m thirteen.”
For some reason they find it hard to forget my name and age.
How big are they? Quite small. (4′ 11″ to be precise)
Where do they live? The universe
What do they do all day? Solve obscure math problems, burst into song, and that perrenial favorite, procrastinate.
What should you do if you encounter one in the wild? Mesmerize with a cool math problem and run far, far away while you still have time. (And please don’t nerd snipe. It’s not very nice.)
5’3″. *crouches down to avoid towering over speller and fireh*
The Twilight Zone. (Not as in twilight. As in the TV show.)
Read, write, draw, blog.
5’4″ (I’m 13) and still growing
New Jersey, but soon to be Delaware.
Go to school, hang out on MB, stuff.
5′ 8″ (“You’d think you’d be more stable, since you’re so tall…”)
New York!
…
I’ll get back to you on the last one.
5″4′
Indiana, Israel, and maybe D.C. (Oh god. I sure hope that won’t happen. It probably won’t, but if it does…)
Nothing.
You’ve lived in Israel? How are things there? *was part of an exchange-ish program last summer*
Yeah, six years ago. I don’t really know how things are…
Almost 5’6, last time we measured.
Here.
Well… School, read, MB, write, listen to music, (Beatles right now, from a CD my friend lent us us. Come Together just at the moment.) stuff.
dear fiddler, i love your hair. it looks a bit like mine used to
Hurrah! I am going to London today!
We’re leaving this evening! *excited*
….although I’m not too eager to get to the airport. *hates airports*
So long, MB! I shall return on the 4th!
(not that anyone will miss me, but still.)
I’ll miss you!
*huggles*
Have a wonderful trip!
I’ll miss you too! Have a nice time!
Have a fun time in London!
Me too! Have fun, lucky Daisy*chain!
Awesome! Have fun!
Have lots of fun, and tell us all about it when you get back!
Of course we’ll miss you!
See you when you get back!
… I don’t hate airports. I hate airplanes. Not exactly hate. Just dislike. They smell funny. That’s really most of it. That and there’s so much hassle associated with airplanes.
Have fun! You will be greatly missed, dear Daisy*Chain!
Hello, all. Posting from the library, since my sis has a soccer tournament and naturally I got dropped off here.
I don’t mind, though. Honestly, I could probably spend my whole life at the library if I wanted to.
I can’t believe spring break is almost over…ugh. *pout* I still have a lot of homework to do (which I’m surrre I’ll get done here, right? Um….not.) but it’s mostly stuff to write out which I’m pretty good at cramming.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I’m going to YOSEMITE! Without my parents! Without my brother! For six days! With classmates! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~
And we’re going to have no computer-ish stuff anywhere. That means no MuseBlog (which is a sad thing :C ). But we’ll be back on the 2nd!
(Not that it matters to anyone, really!)
*is rather hyper*
Teehee. I’m in your hiking group. We’re going to have FUN!
Of course!
*jumps up and down*
OMGeorge, have fun!! Yosemite…..gosh.
Awesome!
Have tons of fun! (I’ve always wanted to go to Yosemite, but I live on the other side of the country so no real luck there…)
Yosemite! I went there last summer. ‘Twas fun.
You’re right, no computer-ish stuff. Not even a cell phone signal most of the time.
We’ll miss you!
*I am mildly concerned that they will make another Indiana Jones movie!
Edit! It sounds much funnier this way.
Did anyone else compete in High School Forensics National Qualifier?
I did this morning. I took first place in Oral Interpretation!
Which means I’m going to the National Forensics Competition in Nebraska! I’m so excited!
But Nationals are in Kansas this year, aren’t they? CatNats are in Nebraska. If you are indeed coming here, a Kokonvention must be arranged. Who else here does forensics? Did TMFA, or am I thinking of someone else?
Nope, they’re in Omaha for us…but yeah I guess I would be in CatNats, as I go to a Catholic school. DANG IT. I want to meet/compete with you guys!
I don’t understand. CatNats are for anyone, not just people that go to a Catholic school. Our team sends people to Nationals and CatNats every year. We compete against Catholic schools regularly–they come to our tournament, we go to theirs. It’s not like we’re segregated or anything.
What event(s) will you be competing in?
So does this mean you’re going to CatNats?
I’m going to be heading the Oral Interp category (prose and poetry).
No, I’m not going to CatNats, unfortunately.
Yikes.
Why is it that MBers never look like I imagine?
I was thinking the same thing. I’d already seen pictures of Midnight Fiddler on the ‘blog, but I’ll admit that the rest of you don’t look anything like what I imagined, especially Tesseract.
Because we like to play with your mind. >:)
What Kiwi said. Mwahahaha.
(It is a pretty horrible photo of me, though.)
By the way Tess you look almost exactly like one of my close friends in the future.
It’s sort of scary actually.
But I’m not sure, it might just be your facial expression…
You can predict your future friends? Now, that’s scary.
XD
Future friends?
Eek. I wish I could predict my future friends, too.
Do I? Cool!
Speaking of which, Fiddler seriously looks like someone I know, but I can’t place who it would be… Mmph, this is going to bother me.
SFTDP. Someone I know besides Fiddler of course.
Indeedy yes, Robert, Tess is the one scrunched next to me, and Kiwi is, by elimination, in the green.
And it was a magnificent Kokon.
Just got back to Rebecca’s, and going for a contra dance after we catch a quick bite to eat it appears. Whee! Flamablamablous day.
Certainly!
It was indeed flamablamablous! Have fun contra dancing.
181.2.1.1.1.2~ Don’t forget that Koppar and I are apparently related in some far-flung way as well!
Great picture, it really is. 
But yes, it was competely epic. I second Tess’s demand that Lady B.’s incredible facial expressions be shown to the rest of the known universe.
-deep sigh-
Just got back from my Hectic Vacation Week.
It was tons of fun but I am nonetheless quite glad to be home. I believe this has something to do, not only with my tiredness as the result of constant walking and late hours, but with the fact that I spent the last of my money on a gyro today and if I continued much longer I would have found myself either severely hindered in my activities, very hungry, or pining for some impossible object–or all three. Now I need to clean out my closet to make room for all my New Clothes! 
And clean the kitchen…jeez, things get messy in four days…
Awesome! Welcome back!
Hey! Just wanted to let everyone know that Earth Hour is today from 8:30 to 9:30 for whatever time zone you’re in!
You turn off all electronics for the hour. It’s fairly simple.
alrighty mbers, in your humble opinions, what are the best/most interesting places to go in oregon and washington? (and i guess northern california to an extent lol i know nothing about half of my own state…)
there is a potential trip floating around and I’m curious
also, the nc kokon looks like it was a lot of fun!
My family stayed in a house in Bandon for a week. It was extraordinarily flammy.
(Bandon, Oregeon, that is.)
oooh wow it looks beautiful!
hmm perhaps a coastal tour is in order…thanks piggy!
I would tell you where you ought to go but I can’t because I live there. Dash it all.
Oooh I have a proper solution to that dilemma…
A kokon?
. The high desert is really neat. If you like caves, bats, and lizards, go to the Lava Beds National Monument.
Go to the coast! But be prepared: it’s windy, so take a kite
I just wrote an article about the H&H on MB wiki…yay! Except the title is, for some reason, missing the ‘& Hedgepig’ part. And I have no idea how to change it.
189 – Oh yes. It seems that MuseBlog is a family after all…
Musebloggers (or this one, at least)
How big are they? Not very.
What do they do all day? Um, stuff? MuseBlog? Practicing instruments? Homework? Sleep? Eat?
Where do they live? Everywhere. So far I’ve lived every single place I’ve been, seeing as I’ve never been dead anywhere yet.
What should you do if you encounter one in the wild? PLACATE WITH CHOKLIT OR RUN FAR, FAR AWAY. Actually, I don’t usually need to be placated with choklit. I try to avoid eating too much sugar, I’ve been discovering a lower and lower tolerance for supersweet foods.
Daisy*Chain, have fun in London, I’m extremely envious of you. And I will miss you! Have a safe and wonderful trip, all that good stuff.
Contra dancing was fun, save for Mom throwing a hissy fit. *sigh* And the past few days have been so awesome. Eh, oh well. I guess I have to return to earth at some point, might as well be now.
So, home tomorrow. And I think I’m just going to sleep. I brought my violin with me in the vain hopes that I might actually practice, but obviously, that didn’t happen. Urglebleh. I brought homework, too. So much for being productive. *sigh again*
I’ll probably not remain vertical much longer, so I’ll off to a shower. Goodnight.
So apparently my grandparents watch Dr. Who. And I had to explain to my family that the term companion has a completely different meaning on Dr. Who than it does on Firefly. Lol…
Anyways, my family is going crazy over Passover. We host Seder each year, so insanity tends to ensue. And starting Monday night, I get to look forward to a week with no bread, corn, peanuts, etc. (It’s really ridiculous how much stuff isn’t Kosher for Passover.)
Your grandparents are awesome.
Of course, they barely remembered Jack… (They watched DW via actual TV, and I don’t think they saw the first season. They didn’t remember Eccleston as the Doctor.) And they had heard of Torchwood, but they didn’t know what it was.
Barely…..Remembered Jack?
But, but, but how could one ever forget Jack?
Hehehehehehehehehehe
Axa: The Resident Oregon Expert (me) is listing some places for you to go!
1. Crater Lake. This time of year, the south entrance is open. I think the north entrance opens in June sometime? Maybe? It’s snowy and a bit windy right now, but that adds to the experience! I’ve always thought it it much more lovely in the winter.
2. Portland. Oregon’s biggest city. It has a great downtown with lots of shops to explore. Check out Voodoo doughnuts.
2a. Powell’s bookstore in Portland. It’s the biggest independent bookstore in the world. The rare book section is famablamablous!
2b. OMSI, short for Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. It’s a nice museum.
3. Bend. Located on the edge of the Eastern Oregon desert. Also very close to the cascades and skiing and stuff. Check out the High Desert Museum. I’m not sure if they’re open.
4. Ashland. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has just begun its 2010 play season. Check out their website for details.
5. Newport. The Oregon Coast Aquarium is located there. There’s also a nice row of shops by the bay.
6. Waterfalls: Multnoma and Silver Creek falls (not located anywhere near each other) are great waterfalls. But it might be too cold this time of year. If you’re coming up in the summer, super!
There are many other sights to see, like Eugene and Corvallis, other natural wonders, and the desert. These are just the highlights.
Aaaand I don’t know anything about Washington.
Oh, and KIWI! Hiiiii!!!!
crater lake!! well if i do go it will probably be in july or later so that may not be feasible…?
i definitely want to go to portland, oh god the shakespeare festival #1 goal in life afdjadfhkagd
I have heard many excellent things about Powell’s!
I knew that eastern Oregon was more arid but i didn’t know there was a desert! and i would love to see the mountains too..see ideally i would like to see as much ~natural beauty as possible with some portland and seattle thrown in there but i have no idea how that would work logistically…
silver creek falls! what a lovely name! state parks and stuff like that seem like a good option…
is multnoma easily accessible from portland? the state website says it’s about 30 minutes out…oh god it looks so wonderful
I sense an e.e. cummings thing going on with axa because she used to capitalize her name, I think, and now she doesn’t? Is this right?
Wow. Hardly anyone posted since I did last night.
E.E. Cummings wrote that poem… uhm… “Little How Town” right? We listened to him reciting it in our poetry class. It was sorta creepy…
We tried soooooo hard to pull some meaning out of that poem, but what the teacher was saying didn’t really make sense. I guess it’s just too deep for me.
lol i love me some ee but the secret is that i’m just lazy
Definitely go to Crater Lake in July. I don’t know why; my mom just told me to tell you that.
ha, i think my mom will probably want to,actually! thanks ducky’s mom! XD
I just went to Voodoo Doughnuts!
Powell’s is beautiful.
OMSI is overrated.
Go to Sock Dreams.
Aaaaaaqqqqqqquuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmm…………………… *drools* ♥
I’ve been to quite a few of those…..
1. Check, on a tour with choir
2. Check, my aunt lives very near there
2a. afriad not
2b. Check, more times than i could possibly count, as we’ve been there every single time we go to visit my aunt (along with the zoo)
3. nope
4. check, went there with choir. ’twas fun. It’s where I learned that it takes 20 minutes to strangle someone….
5. I think so, pretty sure. I think it’s where Weber the octopus tried to eat my sister (seriously). Also great fun.
6. Don’t think so….
I hope you didn’t learn that bit about strangling from experience…
Wouldn’t you like to know….
No, it was just a random factoid we were told.
i got bored and worked out that if you consolidate all my MB posts from various names, i’ve got over 5k. milestoned!
in other news, i’m waiting for the shower so i can get up and pack things and go back to school. i am excited, it looks like a couple people from my philosophy class fall quarter are holding a reunion with chalk (when i say a couple people i mean like, literally three people including me. but that still counts as a reunion, right?)
i am also super crazy excited for my sci-fi/fantasy class. got the syllabus, and it looks like it’s going to be flamablamablous
i am also excited for brit lit, but that’s less “i am excited to learn things” and more “i am excited to [emphatic expletive] OWN this class” because let’s be real brit lit and i are BFFs.
trying not to think of doctor who and how it is in ONE WEEK. i better not have tons of homework, because it will not get done.
oh, and i started knitting again. i learned how to purl! again. but this time i think i’ll remember. hopefully. i am practicing on pretty blue wool yarn that i probably should be saving to Make Things with but i’ve always been bad at practice yarn vs real yarn. i like using the pretty ones!
ok time to f’reals get up…
198-
One week!
198, 199–I’m trying not to think of it, as well. Because as pwnsome as that fact is, it also marks my return to school…..And I don’t want my spring break to be over!!!!!!!!!
Did I mention: IT’S SNOWING!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YAY SNOW!!!
Wait. It’s March.
What?
Oh. You’re in Alaska.
.
Yes, Alaska. There’s about 2 feet of accumulated snow on the ground, and it snowed a bit today. But it’s spring, so anything that didn’t land on top of accumulated snow sorta melted (like the snow on the porch didn’t really stick at all). It was right around 32 earlier when it was snowing, but has been up about 40 the rest of the day….Which is definitely spring.
I find it mildly disturbing that I know most of the words most of the AVPM songs, that I have the soundtrack, and that I listen to it a lot.
How is that at all disturbing?
I find it rather comforting.
I’M NOT ALONE!
(How ironic…)
Cause baby you’re not alone! Cause you’re here with me…!
And me!
They’re going to be doing it again! The show! This summer!
And I need to SEE it!
This is the one time that I’m grateful to live in Michigan.
*sigh* I wish. But I’m going to be in boring ol’ Nebraska (yes, Piggy, I just called your home state boring) shadowing food production vets at the time….*sigh*
You think I would disagree?
Eeep. I’m going into cardiac arrest! I finally finished Grand Theft Auto IV. It’s a bit like Monopoly – it NEVER ENDS. Ever. But I guess I beat it, cause I saw the credits. It took 20 minutes to finish watching them
Anyway, don’t read on if you haven’t beat the game (assuming you have it).
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I can’t BELIVE they killed Roman! Arrrgh! I made the deal with Dimitri, and look where it got poor Roman! “A message from Dimitri Rascalov…” And on his wedding day, too! Bleg.
It’s OK. As is currently popular in games, GTA IV lets you make choices that affect the storyline.
Hi, I’m home and alive and tired and have too much to think about. My head might implode soon. Uggg.
*choklit* *tea of your choice*
and all the support you may or may not need! i can empathize on some level…
sleep is probably good but i know how that doesn’t always work out ughh
You left tornadoes in your wake! I mean literal ones — a couple of them touched down less than five miles from here. The storm threatened the area for several hours, and I heard a tornado warning siren for the first time in my life. Made for rather a dramatic evening.
Just as well you were on your way home before all that started. I’m glad to know you made it safely.
That sounds absolutely terrifying…..
Don’t get Piggy started.
Earthquakes are weird. I thought I was hallucinating the last time I was in one. Tornadoes are just normal for me. *obviously has lived in the Midwest all her life*
Tornadoes have always freaked me out. *lives on east coast* One time we had a tornado warning when I was probably like 8 or so and I could not stop crying I was so terrified.
You heard the sirens for the first time in your life? That’s adorable.
And yes, Sudo and Luna, I like tornadoes. They are fun.
You think they’re fun?! *shakes head* I’ve never heard sirens before. Ever. And the one time I almost did, I was terrified.
How are they “fun”?
I like thunderstorms. “BOOM! WHEE! LIGHTNING! LOOK A HUGE TREE BRANCH FELL ON THE ROOF!”
But tornadoes… they make me think of the Wizard of Oz. Wait, no, that’s not right.
Tornadoes are dangerous!
Your fondness for tornadoes has inspired a new character and possibly an entire story.
Details may be forthcoming post-Yosemite.
…er, if you say so. Erm… glad I could be an inspiration? *doesn’t know what to think*
*agrees with Piggy about the sirens* It really is adorable that you’ve never heard them before. Not so sure about the fun part, but they’re perfectly normal. Go down to the basement/first floor of the dorms, bring a book or your computer, hang out for a bit, go back to what you were doing.
I’ve heard the sirens, but not ever for real. They’ve just had a couple of city-wide tornado “drills” where they play the sirens and everybody goes about their business totally ignoring them……
Oh no… I hope everything is okay…
204.1~ Thank you. *sips tea, munches choklit, hugs gratefully*
If nothing else, MuseBlog remains, thank heavens for that.
Wait……Fiddler, you’re a Christian Scientist?!?!?!?! At least, that’s what I saw on one of the Religion threads while clicking aimlessly on the random button. Are you? ARE YOU?
Samoa won the Rugby Sevens! I was rooting for Wales, myself, even though I’m half-English…mainly because we had a guest staying with us who went to the Sevens and brought back several wristbands with different flags on them which he had obtained (read: stole. Actually he persuaded three little girls to beg them from the people. But that’s another story). I chose the Wales one because the flag is pretty. I didn’t even go to the Sevens. But I hear that it was fun
Apparently the first streaker (tradition, don’t ask) across the field was a boy from our school, in our grade, who I sort of know. He was wearing Canadian boxers though, so that’s OK….?
Wheee…!
*is dropping in from Sri Lanka*
I’ll miss the beginning of Screnzy but to swim in the warm, tropical ocean again is so worth it!
*has already managed to get sunburned (almost) from head to toe*
Have to go… I love the Kokon picture!
204.2~ Woah, really? That does sound rather dramatic. I hope everything’s okay?
205.1~ Yes, I’m a Christian Scientist, why?
204.2.1~ *attacks with birthday pies*
Mmmmmmmmmm, birthday pies. Delicious. Thanks!
209.1~ I’m sorry, you must be under the impression that they were pies intended solely for eating. Allow me to clarify the situation for you. *takes pie and smooshes all over your face* Happy Birthday!
Oh, no, I knew exactly what they were for….I just licked all the pie off of my face.
Ooo…nice picture. Is that from the recent Kokon? Cool!
Anyway, hi all!!!!! I’m back from Gettysburg!!!!! And, wow, where do I start? On the first day, we did this on-foot tour of civilian homes that were there during the Civil War. The first one was the Shriver house, built by George Shriver a few months before war broke out. He had plans to make a saloon in his basement, but that didn’t happen. A few months after war started, George left to volunteer, and Hettie Shriver (George Shriver’s wife) and her two kids, Mollie and Sadie, moved out to her father’s farm in-between two hills. The names of those hill were Little Round Top and Big Round Top. Trust me, you would not have wanted to be there during the Civil War. They had to shout to be overheard. After the fighting was done, they returned to their home to find a red flag waving in the front. What did this mean, you ask? It meant their house was being used as a hospital, a Confederate hospital, to be exact. So the Confederates hung out in the attic, and the Shrivers hid in the basement. Luckily, it was a nice basement, for the time. It was really cool!!! Oh, and the side of the house had a lot of bullet holes!!!!!
The next stop was the home of Jenny Wade. During the war, she was making bread one day, when a stray bullet came through two doors, struck her behind the left shoulder blade, hit her heart, and killed her. The bullet holes were still there, and there was a cool holographic display and everything!!!!!!
The next day was the best. We got to go on a horseback tour of the battlefield. My horse was named Heart, and she was really nice. But my dad’s horse, Chip, was a whole other story. He kept going off into the grass and stopping when he wasn’t supposed to and all that. We still managed to see a whole bunch of cool stuff, though, like a house with a cannonball hole in it. The only bad part was the cold. I couldn’t feel my cakin’ toes afterwards, or my fingers!!!!!! And I couldn’t walk right, from being on a saddle for two hours!!!!
Finally, today, before we got back, we toured a chocolate factory. It wasn’t that fun, almost all the people there were either way, way old, or way, way, young. There was this one tall, ugly lady who just had to be in front of us the whole time, and a really whiney 5- ot 6-year-old. We got free samples, though, so it was totally worth it! *drools*
Okay, I’ll stop ranting now.
*gasp* You’re really lucky. That sounds like the most fun thing ever.
Yeah, it was!
Is that picture of the Kokon?
muselover: Yes, that’s the recent North Carolina Kokonvention. From left to right: kiwimuncher, Tesseract, Midnight Fiddler, Lady Bunniful, and Koppar.
We did Annie as our school play this year, and I was in it. Our performances were over the weekend, and I think I did a good job, though they didn’t show the video of the play at the cast party. The people who played the main roles were absolutely amazing. I was wowed (cool word).
You guys look adorable! And kinda like you could all be sisters.
Happy Pesach, everyone! *just finished up the Seder dishes* *starts up a chorus of Dayenu and Do You Hear the People Sing?* (Do You Hear the People Sing? is kind of a Pesach tradition in my family.)
208 – Because I am a Christian Scientist too! Yayness!
216~ AWESOME!! I think you might actually be the first Christian Scientist I’ve met outside of family/church-related activities (as you probably know, you don’t generally just bump into them on the street usually). Have you posted on the religions threads? I kind of abandoned them, but should probably go back, they were quite interesting. Oh, and TMCyouth is a cool site, if you haven’t already checked it out. (Sorry if that makes for snippage.)
214~ Sisters? Really? Well, Koppar is related (somehow) to both Lady B. and I, so I suppose that makes sense.
And of course we’re adorable! Just like HPBs, cute, but to be feared. Well, sometimes anyway.
I’m heading down to Washington D.C. on Thursday! Well, first, Maryland for the National Cryptologic Museum, then to Washington D.C. for the Spy Museum. Yay aunts who take me places!
Oh, I went to the Spy Museum!!! It’s really fun to go in the vent and crawl around!!!
Have fun!
218~ Have fun! DC is great, and the Spy Museum is fabulous.
So, I had an absolutely flammy birthday.
I got up before noon for once (well, in this time zone, anyway, which is all that matters).
I spent a bunch of time reading birthday wishes here and on FB.
I went to work for 6 hours, where it wasn’t until about 2-3 hours after I got there that anyone remembered it was my birthday–it was actually the new tech who had only just met me that day who noticed that on the sheet with people’s birthdays that mine was that day. She then proceeded to wish me a happy birthday, and I think go tell everyone else, as I very soon was wished happy birthday by everyone except the vet who was working, as he only figured it out five or so minutes before closing–he’s getting rather deaf….Seriously. They will likely have cake and such for me today…Yum. Cake.
We went out to dinner after I got home from work.
Came back, and opened my presents, mainly super flammy ones, one that is good because it was HP, one that just existed, and one that sucked majorly (which my mom knew I would feel that way about):
The awesome ones:
9 Torchwood books (the first 9), so I now has 10, since I got the 12th for Christmas (there are 15)
A Torchwood audio book (Hidden), narrated by Naoko Mori (who plays Tosh)–it’s exclusively in audiobook format.
A TW soundtrack (for the first two seasons, I think)
A TW CoE sweatshirt (with Jack, Gwen, and Ianto)
The mostly awesome:
Harry Potter trading cards. They’re HP, so they can’t exactly not be awesome.
the merely existing:
A pair of socks that mom thought would be nice and thick and thus good for this spring when I’m going to be shadowing food production vets and wearing boots
The suckage:
A twilight poster of edward the pedophile that she picked up at the thriftstore where she works….. I want to burn it……*sigh* She says “surely there’s someone you can give it to?” *rolls eyes* Yeah, the fire demons. It has now been suggested to me that I:
1. use it as a dartboard
2. “re-decorate” it
3. Burn it as I initially suggested I’d like to do.
BURN, BABY, BURN!!!!!!!!!!!! DIEEEEEEEEE, EDWAAAAAARRRRRDDD!!!!!!!! DIEEEEEEEEE, DEPRESSED BELLAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! DIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“There’s a possibility! There’s a possibility!” ( New Moon movie joke. )
*dies from laughter*
HAHAHAHA
How about:
4. keep it in your room and dream about how AMAZING Twilight is every night?
NOOOO I am kidding! Please, do as you first said and BURN IT! Make a nice bonfire, and maybe throw in his love, Bella, as well.
Use it as a dart board, and have it burning at the same time. So then it will get “re-decorated” in a thoroughly burnt and full of holes kind of way. Then die from laughter.
Throw flaming darts at it? Then, after it’s mostly demolished, put the fire out with spray cheese. (Which is absolutely disgusting, by the way.)
Wow, you’re 20 now….
That sounds so…old. (Now, don’t worry, that’s no offense to you as in fact 20 is relatively young, but compared to me….ok, sorry. I’m probably not making you feel any better! Just ignore this!)
But anyway, it sounds like you had a mostly fun birthday, minus The Poster That Shall Not Be Named. I vote for either options one or three.
Yeah, I’m not sure what’ll end up happening, or even if I’ll get whatever I do done before I go back to school. Although, really, if I go the burning route, now would be such a good time, as I could stick one end in a snowbank and light the other on fire, and have no worries about anything else catching fire….
Please Luna, whatever you do, take pictures. PLEASE.
ATTENTION!
I have noticed that most of the RPGs round here are dead. This is, to me, a sad thing. Therefore, I am taking steps against it. I am taking one RPG and keeping it alive at all costs. I will post on it at least once a day when possible, or whenever I can get on the computer. I will PP shamelessly when necessary, and I will keep the plot moving at a reasonable speed, whether or not others appear. The only way to stop me from double posting will be to post yourself.
I will have an uphill battle battling the instincts against all these things which I have cultivated, but I do it only to bring more BA:TNG to the public.
Please, if you have ever posted on a BA thread, ever had a character, come back and take control of it once more.
Handy Link
…I feel guilty, proclaiming my disobedience of all the rules of RPGs and MuseBlog.
And I have to go. So the revival will begin when I return.
Cake! Why is the bottom text green? That’s not supposed to happen! HTML gnome?
[Fixed. ~HTMLGn]
Thank you.
220~ How about you use it as a dartboard and then burn it? And why is Edward a pedophile? Technically, he’s 17, and Bella’s 18 when they get married. Creepy, yes, but she’s older than him, technically. Though if you count the fact that he’d been 17 for a hundred years or whatnot, then yeah, he’d be a pedophile. Hmm. But in any case, a poster of him would be horrid indeed. Not only because it’s Twilight, but because Robert Pattinson is really quite hideous, especially the way they made him appear in the movies (which I thankfully have only seen trailers and posters for, not the actual movie itself). *shudders* My apologies to the guy, I’m sure were it not for his being tainted by association I wouldn’t be so repulsed, but still, yuck.
211~ You were in Gettysburg? It’s a fun town. Lots of fudge shops. I want to go up there and just hang out at some point, the last few times we’ve just been passing through, but there are so many fun shops and things to see. I love the Lincoln Diner, it’s so hilarious to see this chrome-plated diner with a silhouette of Lincoln on it, right across from an old movie theatre and the railroad tracks. I’ve never been in it, and I doubt they’d have much vegan food, but I always crack up when we pass it.
Yes, the fact that although he’s physically 17, he’s been alive for hundreds of years…..Technically makes him a pedophile, although creepy ugly stalker dude might be a more apt description (and we’ll leave pedophile to the werewolf).
Yeah, Pattinson didn’t look too bad as Cedric Diggory, but as Edward….*shudder* My grandma thinks he’s ugly, too. It’s great.
222.1~ Well, Bella is the pedophile in that case, as Jacob is a fair amount younger than her, which she uses to manipulate him. Too bad, he’s the single character in the whole series who’s worth anything, (yeah, because he drives a VW Rabbit, but whatever).
How anyone can think Edward is romantic is beyond me. Okay, so yeah, a little healthy stalking here and there is fine, but not THAT much. 0.o
Creepy ugly stalker dude is certainly apt. I think I found a shirt or button or something along the lines of “Team Jacob; because guys who climb in my window to watch me sleep are creepy”.
lol, luv, you clearly haven’t read the last or next to last book (I forget which), or you would not be arguing Jacob’s pedophilia. I’m not referring to his relationship with Bella.
SFTDP (or this could be added to my last comment)
One time my “grandma” (she’s not related, but she’s more like a grandmother to me than my “real” ones at times) and “aunt” (again, acquired family) all were drooling over the same celebrity, it was great. We’d all just start giggling like tweenage girls.
It’s great when grandmothers agree on hot (or ugly) guys.
my mom agrees that nathan fillion is cute, but then who doesn’t?
it’s a little different though, since i am mostly thinking of him from firefly, and she has only seen him in castle. so she thinks of him as more her age, and i think of him as…still closer to her age, but younger?
…yeah
I started Firefly, and then I saw the seventh season of Buffy… It was so weird. Because Captain Mal and Caleb have the same mannerisms, but are such different characters.
223.1~ OH! Right, his relationship with her daughter. Yes, I did read it. I supposed I blocked it as a disturbing and slightly traumatic experience.
Took me a bit.
224.~
Yup, that would be the relationship I was thinking of…..Most definitely pedophilia.
Well, I need somebody in real life who doesn’t think I’m insane.
He has a relationship with her daughter? *is very, very disturbed* And I thought that you thought you were insane…
Yes, Jacob forms a life/love bond with Bella’s new born daughter. It’s just…. *shudder*
Um, yes, I do. I’m not sure how to phrase that statement, in that case. Somebody who does think I’m weird for thinking JB is hot? I dunno.
Wait, does think you’re weird or doesn’t think your weird? Because I thought that lots of people thought you were weird…
Doesn’t think I’m weird. Sorry, I do need to learn not to type so fast I leave off vital bits of my words….
Why would someone think that you’re weird for thinking that he’s hot, when he quite obviously is?
*sigh* Some people just do. My sis, and my mom a bit, I think. And probably my dad, too…..But I think he was tuning out the whole conversation.
Awwww….. Poor Luna… *huggles*
….So. Armada is here.
But, she has no idea what to do. She really doesn’t want to let MB go, but she doesn’t have the time to catch up on everything that’s happened since she’s gone. She hates that going to the boat means that a fourth of her social life is disappearing. She’s feeling an odd mixture of depressed and happyish, and not sure which one she should be. She’d like to be….re-initiated, she guesses, into MB, but she doesn’t want to ask any more favors of people.
And…..whatever. I hope that you guys think about me once in a while. That would be nice.
She realizes that she has posted, what, three comments on MB since she got back? She knows that this is rather sad. She feels that GChat and deviantART are taking over her internet life, and she doesn’t like that. But she finds it really hard to jump back into things on MB after she’s been gone for three months and it seems like half the people are new. She feels like MB is getting bigger and bigger, and the cozy space she used to share with her friends is gone. She also realizes that she sounds like a paleo, and is somewhat scared by this.
She also is interested by the fact that she’s using third person randomly.
Anyhoo, she’ll try to keep an eye (or two) on MB. And she’ll definitely be there on the 1st.
LBK says she doesn’t mind if Armada pops in only every now and then. She thinks it’s better than not coming on at all! She also says to please try and keep two eyes on MB, because the one eye will get lonely. LBK doesn’t mind talking in the third person. She says it’s fun!!!!!!!!!!
Armada says thanks, LBK, and true. Also, if she only kept one eye on MB, she might get eye problems. XD
You really need 3D IMAX to get the full MuseBlog experience.
LBK already has eye problems (she is very, very nearsighted, which causes problems in Science class), so she has nothing to worry about!!!
Armada, just come around whenever you have the chance. We always welcome “old” faces when they come by, no matter how long it’s been since they were last around. And I think we all understand how hard it can be to keep up with the ‘blog…
it’s nice to see you around!
I think about you all the time! I’ve been wondering where you were…
You should come back. I don’t know how you want to be re-initiated, but I’ll be happy to do this if you explain how.
I’ll reinitiate her!
*dons underwater plant leaves* *chants*
HA HOO WA HEE HA HO HO HO! HA HOO WA HEE HA HO HO HO!
Welcome, young Shark Bait, into the Tank!…( blah blah blah I don’t remember ) And now…the RING of FIRRRRE!
Now you swim through the Ring of Fire and then you’re reinitiated! ^-^
Heeheehee.
Hello, Armada. Well, hello, Armada. It’s so nice to have you back where you belong. *hopes someone gets the reference* Still like Cats? *if so, spies a possible JB convert*
Don’t worry, Armada. Even if you can’t post on here regularly or keep up with the constant, fast moving changes happening on the ‘blog, by all means do we still welcome you to come back and pop your head into the door for a pie or two when you feel that stir of MuseBloginess within.
Of course we’ll be thinking (and probably missing) you at points, but I completely understand.
And, if I may say so, if you haven’t already, it sounds like you’d do quite nicely in the Paleo threads if you feel like you’d be able to keep up with a slower atmosphere better. (After all, your post is sort of the reason why we have specific paleo threads in the first place, right?)
But anyway, here’s a pie just because:
And remember that no matter what you decide, we’ll always be here! 
bookgirl_me says that she’d like to see Armada around more. She has long given up even trying to keep one eye on it, but instead sort of strolls around looking for the occasional flying whale or giant space squid. She would say some awe-inspiring words of wisdom, but she’s caught in a mental knot beween the differences of buddism and hinduism, how to do better at capoeira, various equasions involving infinity, deleting visiting the blog from the browser’s history, flying whales in mythology, the beautiful beach and, the most important question, will there be chololate cookie cake or chocolate mousse at the buffet for dinner?
Don’t worry, I’ve thought about you quite often. And you should definitely come on- just sort of let everything float by and pounce on somethign interesting once in a while.
Okay, either I have gained some zen wisdom from this visit, or I have a late appearance of sunstroke. But that’s life.
225.1~ Exactly. And why do you need someone in real life who doesn’t think you’re insane?
225.1.1~ Yes. Though to be fair, apparently he “bonded” with her or whatever, and then has to wait while she grows up. But still, yes, it is disturbing. Like the whole series, really. Eeeeeew.
I guess when you take into account that Stephenie Meyer is a Mormon, it all makes a little more sense.
Hmmm…. Okay, how do I put this without getting kicked out to Hot Topics? I don’t know much about Mormonism, but not all Mormons are crazy polygamists with pedophilia issues. I think that it’s a religion that is already sorta taboo (for whatever reason), and the few that are crazy add to that.
The way I understand it, there’s differing levels of Mormonism. Some Mormons are crazy polygamists with pedophilia issues. Others are more moderate, and don’t do polygamy, etc. This is most of them.
Now, I don’t know too much about them either. This all may be wrong.
227.1~ I realize that, and my last comment was mainly meant to be lightearted. But still, I don’t have too much patience with them, especially the polygamists and pedophiles. It seems like they have a lot of unresolved issues in their religion, and I can’t accept a theology that bars women from entering the church if they don’t have a certain number of children and who don’t stoop to help anyone who isn’t of their particular brand of religion. (Correct me if I’m wrong, but what I know of the Mormons doesn’t exactly make me want to convert.)
It’s all right, I understand. I don’t like her either…
SFTDP (again)
Armada, it’s great to see you again, I do think of you often and always enjoy seeing you around. I understand how much bigger and faster the blog seems, and I’ve actually halfheartedly considered leaving a few times, but never could bring myself to (MB makes up a big part of my social life and friends).
Whenever you can stop by is great, but if you’re moving on, I wish you the best of luck in anything you choose to do and I look forward to your periodic visits. Knowing you has been wonderful, you’re one of the musers I actually feel that I know a bit better than most.
217 (Fiddler) – Same here, I don’t think I’ve met any other Christian Scientists apart from home, church, and various summer camps in the US and Canada. Have you been to any before?
230~ No, I haven’t been to any AU camps or anything, but I did go to the Spiritual Activist’s Summit in Washington DC a few years ago (hard to believe it was that long ago, actually). If you haven’t been to a TMCyouth summit before, I’d strongly recommend them, it was a lot of fun. And I don’t know how old you are, but have you ever been to/considered Principia? I want to visit it, though I’m not convinced that I’ll go there. But still, they’ve got a great deal for visiting the school, and I would be interested in seeing it at least.
I’m 13. One of my friends from an AU camp in Vancouver I went to goes to Prin, so I guess it’s possible. And as for the TMCyouth summits, they’re only in the US, right? So…unless I go to the US sometime, I can’t go to one. Sounds fun, though.
231.~ Actually, there have been some in other countries. Africa at least I think had one, but there have been others as well. Where are you?
If the GAPAs would allow it, I’d like to share a link to a very muserly webpage from the University of Colorado at Boulder: http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/. It’s a collection of various science simulations, from glaciers to the photoelectric effect to circuit construction to the pH scale to optical quantum control. They’re educational and interesting, and quite amusing as well. And, I suppose, teachers couldn’t complain too much if you went there during class, since they are educational and whatnot.
Thus is my gift to MuseBlog for today.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She’s done it again!
She’s making another book!
(What book, Beedle?)
…..That book!
Why, why would Stephenie Meyer do this?
Why would she write another book?!?
I just don’t get it…
Why would she… *sigh*
I just finished rereading the NaNo thread. All sorts of happy memories… I plan on a more comprehensive report next year. At least a journal.
Now I’m sorry I gave up MuNo. And I want to do Screnzy- ish. I don’t know. I’ve been alternating between wanting to do Screnzy and not wanting to. Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe.
Not helped by the fact that I want to step away from fantasy to learn to develop characters properly, and my plot’s plan, the one I’m rather excited about, is almost pure fantasy/sci-fi.
I might end up doing this. Or I might not. Or I might.
Argh.
I was thinking of writing a muserology on NaNo, but then I got distracted. I can’t do Screnzy this year after all, but I might write some since I have this bubbly new-good-ideas-funfunfun feeling…
Muserology on NaNo?
That’s a good idea. Might just do that.
I’m not sure. I got up early today to write a different story, and I don’t have that much enthusiasm for any other story now… I could probably muster some enthusiasm, but I hate to lose this inspiration period…
Now… Need to decide whether Elena goes in this story as well…
I have two stories I just started. One about Elena, and one about Marisol. They could be combined, and I’m trying to figure out whether to or not.
I started one on NaNo back when Muserology wasn’t in the mag yet but they’d asked us here to write a few to try out, but then life and The College Application Process happened, alas.
232 (Fiddler) – Hong Kong.
Woah. Why was a GAPA awake at 3 in the morning?
Because we’re vampires?
Really, these things happen.
Do you sparkle?
I’m kidding! Don’t pie me!
Hey! I was going to ask if they were the lame, vegetarian kind!
Beedle is going to NYC today!
We’re going to see the Tim Burton exhibit at MOMA. It’s going to be SICK. I really hope we get into the Cash Cab this time…
I love the city… Well, I love most of it. I don’t love the pollution. I always get a sore throat.
Anyways, y’all have a great day!
Anyone remember the time when glitter and vampires didn’t go together? And you’d have thought combining the two would only result in embarrassment for the perpetrator?
But we are going to the zoo today! And I get to bring my camera! Woo!
Sadly, no. But I do remember when twilight was just another book. *spits in twilight’s direction*
Quite well. I was around for years before I knew about Twilight, back when I did vaguely know about vampires. And even after I knew about Twilight, I didn’t think about it as anything other than a book that girl was reading, and only remembered the quote on the back, rather than the title. Wait, I think I remembered the cover as well…
It’s funny. That quote belongs to a completely different Twilight now. One without much detail. The one I vaguely imagined after reading that quote on the back. It wasn’t destroyed by my reading the book, since that other Twilight was already too established for me to forget it completely.
*sigh* Ahh, good times those were.
I actually recall learning about twilight two summers ago from a friend. She told me it was a good series, so I decided to pick it up (what-the-heck, you know?) and, well, she was wrong. The rest, of course, is history.
But I’m not totally against it, you know? I agree that it’s overrated but it’s more that it’s just not my type of series. It is annoying sometimes, but then again, I’ve been annoying about other series too. *coughpercyjacksoncough* And if someone does enjoy it, good for them, if they like that sort of thing.
Of course, that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop insulting it every chance I get.
A friend also pushed me to read the series, and when I finally did I really liked it. I then read Midnight Sun, and ♥ –>
236~ Oh, hmm that is rather far away.
236.1~ Because they’re obsessed. Plain and simple. Whenever my parents accuse me of spending too much time on MB I simply point out that the GAPAs are always there too, and that if there wasn’t moderation going on I wouldn’t be here. It doesn’t usually work though.
236.1.1~ Oh, good to know. Please don’t eat me.
237~ Have fun! Hmm, one of my other friends is going to NYC today too, according to FB.
It’s a lovely day out.
Mercy, girl, are you trying to frighten your parents to death? Remember they’ve met GAPAs.
More proof that twilight is horrid:
That doesn’t make much sense to me. But anyway…
Why did the Random Thread turn into a Twilight-bashing thread? Twilight isn’t the best book out there. In my opinion, it doesn’t deserve the hype it’s getting.
But neither is it the worst book out there. It’s got some good points. You can’t deny that it has interesting plot twists, an original setting, and great imagination. The writing style itself is good, and it draws you in. Um…
I’m sure there’s lots of other good points that I can’t think of at the moment. Not counting fangirl ‘Edward/Jacob is sooo hot!’ type things. It’s been a while since I read it.
I liked it when I read it, by the way. It’s got its low points, but again, it’s not the worst book out there.
Now, you won’t find me arguing it holds a candle to Harry Potter, or LotR, or many other books. It doesn’t.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t respect it, and refrain from insulting it just a bit.
Hehe…sorry. I just thought some of you guys would enjoy it.
And I’m sure some people did. As I stated earlier, I didn’t understand it. And this wasn’t directed at you in particular. I just think that Twilight bashing can get out of hand quickly, particularly in a community that preaches acceptance.
See my post above, (238.3) which I posted before I saw this, but yes, I basically stated the same thing you said.
239.1~ Of course not! I use that argument because they’re quite fond of you GAPAs, so the fact that nice, creative, interesting, etc. people are just as, if not more obsessed with MB than I and manage to to be amazing and lead decent lives should lead to the conclusion that my vociferous posting should not, in any way, have adverse effects. Quite the opposite, in fact, since by spending time here I’m interacting with those said lovely people.
Mom just walked by and said that she understood, theoretically that you all would have to be up all night to moderate due to different time zones, but that I should act according to the one I live in, seeing as I’m not a GAPA.
Personally, I think that just sounds like discrimination.
Oh my goodness I’d nearly forgotten how much I love the zoo. I got some awesome pictures (I hope at least–they’re still importing), although we didn’t get to see any giraffes or elephants and the tigers were hardly out at all.
But I got some great shots of lions (the big male yawning and stretching like a housecat, it’s so cute) and a wolf, and others as well. Woo!
Wooooo!
I love zoos too. The best time to visit is when there’s nobody else around.
Oh, yes! A friend and I once had the NC zoo all to ourselves. It was great fun.
I wish I could do this!
My dad has business in St. Louis Missouri, and when he’s there in the winter/fall he visits the free St. Louis zoo and is pretty much the only person. ENVY.
Phew. My power just went out, and I was kind of glum. Then, as my brother was singing “Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life”, the power came back on.
Weird.
*snicker* I shall kidnap your brother and bring him here to sing that song whenever something bad happens.
Tomorrow’s April 1! You know what that means… And no, I wasn’t referring to SAT scores.
Reading The Folk of the Air has made want to join the SCA. And yes, Fiddler, I know it’s historically inaccurate and no doubt very silly. I don’t care. I don’t intend to look on it as the answer to all my living history wishes, just a sort of fairy-tale pseudo-medieval Egypt Game. I always wanted to play the Egypt Game, before the conflict came in. And I know I’m not the only one either. But no one’s pretending that it was an accurate depiction of Ancient Egypt.
College admission results?
On a completely unrelated subject, Google just released this interesting Android app that interprets animal calls.
Hey GAPAs, did you receive the Kokon photos I sent in?
Yes, we did. I’ve just been too busy since the kokon to deal with photos. I’ll get them up sometime this week.
242~ ♫ Something tells me it’s all happening at the zoo, I do believe it, I do believe it’s true… ♫
244~ *supresses a shudder* It’s alright, silliness has it’s place too. It’s not the goofy and fantasy groups that bother me, it’s the people who pass that off as real history, and you’d be surprised at how many people do. If someone wants to be a fantasy creature, go for it, more power to them! But DON’T go passing off un-researched “kinda-sorta” stuff as history.
245.1~ Ahh, you have all my Kokon pictures, correct? I believe we used a flash drive, unless I was so tired or scatterbrained that I’m thinking of something else or hallucinating it all together.
“Monkeys stand for honesty,
Giraffes are insincere,
And the elephants are kindly but they’re dumb…”
“Orangutans are skeptical
Of changes in their cages…”
“And the zookeeper is very fond of rum!”
Yes, we did that. You weren’t hallucinating. I haven’t seen any pictures from Koppar or kiwimuncher though.
Dear Starr,
Just to let you know, I am going and change my gravatar now.
~SWAT
246- I’m sure there are some SCA people who actually do heavy research though…just as I’m sure there are some who come in trying to be elves and half-orcs and various D&D characters. It’s a mixed bag.
246.1 et all~ Zebras are reactionaries, antelopes are missionaries, pidgeons plot in secrecy and hampsters turn on frequently, what a gas! You gotta come and see, at the zoo….
Okay, now I have it stuck in my head, great. Awesome, awesome song though, I love it.
248~ Perhaps.