Why do we so love our lovely lists?
1. They’re fun.
2. They’re a way to pretend one is organized.
3. They look nice.
4. They satisfy one’s sense of order and futility all at the same time.
5. They give one a sense of accomplishment even while procrastinating
6. They look like they mean something.
7. They’re full of Muserly froodiness.
Suggested by Silverstorm42/Rainbow*Star and seconded by Enceladus.
Wheeeee! Lists!
Reasons I like to live:
1. It’s better than the alternative
2. Everybody here
3. I can help people I need to help
4. Writing, and creativity in general
5. GIMP!
6. Reading
6b. Agatha Christie, especially.
7. The Beatles
8. Coldplay
9. My friends
10. French, ou, francais.
11. Logic
12. Kittens!
13. Especially my kittens
14. Being orderly
16. Being disorderly
17. Doctor Who
18. Lists!
List of things I may make a list of:
1. Why I love GIMP
2. People who deserve Musers Unaware Awards
3. Why I love Doctor Who
4. Why I love Douglas Adams
5. Why I am a geek
6. Why I love lists
What are some annoying things about my NaNoWriMo?
1. It’s there.
2. It refuses to be edited correctly.
3. It made me add in three paragraphs to the beginning.
4. The characters aren’t dead yet.
5. The left socks in the plant wall didn’t eat the flying saucer.
6. The Dictator’s hair isn’t neon purple.
7. It’s still there!!!
8. It made this list have eight things listed instead of twelve.
(I don’t know, is there a right way to make lists? Probably not. Anyway, that was a failed list.)
Annoying things about mine:
1. The characters in it are really blah.
2. It turns out to not be perfect.
3. It needs way too much editing.
4. It doesn’t have chapter breaks, and I’m having a tough time figuring chapter breaks out.
5. I can’t find a good ending point, and wrap everything up properly.
(It’s the first in a trilogy, similar to LotR, with a cliffhanger ending that isn’t quite as bad.)
Reasons I like to live *is copycat* (these are in no particular order)
1. MuseBlog
2. My friends
3. Books
4. Music
5. Writing
6. This is going to be pathetically short. Gah. Umm…… Pickles?
Heh. Um. Yes, I like pickles a lot. Fireh is pathetic.
Things I Am Doing Instead Of Homework:
1. MuseBlog!
2. FaceBook. (I have no life)
3. Being Mad
4. Flipping through index cards
5. Making lists.
6. Procrastination.
7. Blinking at a screen
8. Being annoyed at slowness of computer
9. Pretending to be a stalker
10. Looking at my picture of a duck
11. Changing my desktop picture
12. Trying to make the list longer
13. Breathing
14. Holding my breath
15. Failing
16. Wondering if I really should’ve changed my pseudonym
17. Wanting to eat cashews
18. Yawning
19. Looking at pictures of Pokemon
20. Wanting to draw Pokemon
21. Etc.
Hint on 16: no.
Why People Should Probably Not Change Their MB Names:
1. It’s confusing.
2. It irritates some amazing people whom you should always
worshiprespect, i.e. Piggy and Silver Lining.3. The second alias is never as good as the first one.
4. A lot of people say you shouldn’t. (Give in to peer-pressure, child!)
5. It causes people to rely on avatars, and then what if you change your avatar? No one will know who you are!
The End.
No, I’d say “worship” would be the better choice, at least in reference to me.
Reasons Why People Should Change Their MB Names:
1. The Stargirl theory.
2. Their previous names are embarrassing.
3. The Stargirl theory.
4. They might have thought of a GREAT new name that they would never be able to use ever again.
5. The Stargirl theory.
Agreed.
Other Reasons:
1. People don’t think their old pseudonym fits them
2. They don’t like their old pseudonym
3. Sometimes they want to forget their past
4. Etc.
What is the Stargirl theory?
Change your name when it stops fitting.
I wish my name was Jude. Or Charlie.
Unless somebody points it to me otherwise, I assume that new name = new person.
Isn’t that the default assumption though?
Yes, it is; hence, it’s more than a little confusing when people change their names. (not that I haven’t tried it a few times in the past)
Well. And it’s always better to change earlier than later (just because people will have more time to get used to it).
Haven’t a lot of us tried? It always seems like it returns to some point. I’ve couldn’t get rid of the letter ‘C’.
(Pardon me for asking, but would I recognize any of your other names?)
Perhaps CTN? Or Crazy Titan Nerd?
Okay, that definitely rings a bell.
List of Entries in a List:
1. The first entry.
2. The second entry.
3. The entry after the second.
4 The fourth entry, which makes references to the first and third entries.
5. The fifth entry, which is explained more thoroughly than the second entry.
6. The entry immediately preceding the seventh entry.
7. The aforementioned seventh entry.
8. The eighth entry.
9. The entry which is currently being typed.
10. The first entry with two digits instead of one.
11. The first entry with two identical digits in a row.
12. The twelfth entry.
13. The antepenultimate entry.
14. The penultimate entry.
15. The final entry.
I think that “the ultimate entry” would have worked better, in accordance to the theme.
Things I need to do today:
1. Study for the spanish composition we have to write in class tomorrow
2. Get together with my lab partner and work on our post/prelab for organic chemistry
2b. Take a shower so that I am presentable to get together with him sooner rather than later……
3. Study cell bio (two quizzes this week, Tuesday and Friday)
4. Send my grandpa an email updating him on what I’m going to do to get my food animal production shadowing in (needed to do this probably over a month ago……)
5. Email the food animal production vet that I am going to be shadowing and let him know when I will be arriving in NE this May so that somebody can pick me up from the airport.
6. Make a list of things I need to pack for spring break
7. Actually pack for spring break
Things I probably will do, instead of what is on my list:
1. Get together with my lab partner and talk/watch something/overall just procrastinate and not get much of anything done on organic
2. Watch Classic Who
3. Watch Angel
4. Lurk on MB
5. Lurk on other ‘blogs I frequent.
6. Start rereading the Draco Trilogy…..Dangit, why did I have to suddenly remember about it (and that it had lots of Buffy quotes) and send it to my ‘blog sis, because now I have this urge to reread it again. And all together, it’s probably about 3000 pages. *headdesk*
List of things I need to ask Luna:
1. How did you get a copy of the Draco trilogy? I looked but the author had pulled it offline already.
Short list, I know.
But it looks more impressive as a list, doesn’t it?
List of answers to questions I have been asked:
1. I started the Draco Trilogy before it had been pulled. At the time it was pulled, I had the last book (or maybe 2 and 3) left, but the site I’d been using had the authors gmail. I emailed her, and she sent me them (asking me not to share them with anybody, whoops….I may have ignored that detail, hehe) and I saved them to my computer. If you wanted them, since I don’t know your email, perhaps the GAPAs would be willing to act as intermediates? That way no emails would be shared….
lol, oh, hmmm, not only was I not supposed to share them, I wasn’t even supposed to tell anybody she’d sent them because she doesn’t even want people reading them…..probably because she has gone on to write some actual books (I saw one at B&N a couple weeks ago).
Oh, it’s ok. The most monumentous thing that happened from my attempt to find it was me discovering TVtropes. I read the page for it, and several hours later stumbled back out of the labyrinth…Now I have a rough overview of the plot, and am pretty sure that I wouldn’t find it all that good, seeing as I’ve already read so many cheap knockoffs of the original.
You can find them online, actually. There’s a link from TVTropes. (Thanks for sending them anyways, Luna.)
You’re welcome.
Things I want to accomplish before I leave for Italy on Thursday:
1) Make sure my parents remember that Earth Hour is March 27th, and that even if I’m not around, I still want them to observe it.
2) Finish the current chapter of my NASA/X-Men fan-fic.
3) Hopefully write, or at least get a start on writing, the Budget 2011 Announcement chapter of said story.
4) Post the finale of the first chapter of my Star Wars/Space Shuttle fan-fic on another site.
5) Get a start on writing the next chapter of that story.
6) Re-read certain favorite Magic Tree House books.
7) Add the SpaceShipTwo unveiling announcement to my Virgin Galactic scrapbook. (Which I have been forgetting to do since DECEMBER for Pete’s sake!)
I’ve accomplished 1) and 7) so far!
And now 4) is done, so I’m going to work on 2) and then 6) before bed.
Magic Tree House books. I sometimes read like four of those at a time.
I’ll follow Luna’s lead.
What I should do after this band concert:
1. English assignment thingy.
2. Actually do some calculus homework for once.
3. Practice piano.
4. Practice trumpet.
5. I’m sure that there’s some math team stuff to do.
6. Contact a possible adviser for scientific research next year.
7. Clean my room. (I left it kind of messy, because I didn’t have time to really clean as a packed after states.)
What I probably will do:
1. Interwebs – MB, other blogs, FB, TVTropes…
2. Rewatch Buffy.
3. Read fanfiction.
4. Depending on whether my friends are on campus hang out/watch Dr. Who with friends.
Reasons why my life is so hectic right now. ( And why I haven’t been on for a while, and probably will only be on a few times until summer)
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1. Track
2. Speech
3. Homework
4. School
5. Instrument Practice
6. 4-H stuff
7. Dance
(all of this happens every day of the week ( and I still find time to read
Yes, I know I am procrastinating and I SHOULD be working right now.
Things I need to ask about:
1. Kai, you’re writing a NASA/X-Men fanfic?! *freaks out*
2. Why are the nail-clippers on the computer?
3. When’s dinner?
Yes. Are you freaking out because it sounds crazy, cool, both, or neither?
Freaking out because it sounds completely awesome, but that’s my obsession with the X-Men kicking in. Then you stick NASA in the mixture… you get where I’m going right?
NASA + X-Men = *freaks out in a good way*
Yes, and that’s exactly why I’m writing it. The main character, Teresa von Braun, is a Xavier’s grad with super-speed powers who chose to become an engineer… but found just as much adventure in Huntsville and Cape Canaveral as she’d left behind!
*imagines* That seems really cool.
You should write a Star Trek/NASA fanfiction. I wonder how Capt. Kirk would react to not having warp speed.
Star Trek/NASA… Kirk would try to tell everyone at NASA they were wrong, Spock would tell him he was being illogical (he’d find some reason), and then Scotty would step in and explain exactly how everything works. And there would be lots of exploded heads.
Y’know, that would be a fun story.
Tell them they were wrong about what?
Things I like about haikus;
1. They’re fast
2. They’re easy to write
3. Inspiration is all around you
4. They have a nice rhythm
5. It expands your vocabulary
What I dislike about KUNA:
1. My advisor is ridiculously unorganized and left half the girls without rooms.
2. The food is ridiculously expensive, I split a $7 sandwhich with my friend.
3. Most of the time, everything is very boring.
What I like about KUNA:
1. Living with my friends for a weekend.
2. Trying to make a difference in the world.
3. Dance tomorrow!!! And I got to learn the Cotton Eyed Joe dance.
4. Crazy randomness and elevator hobos.
5. Junk food.
So, the good outweighs the bad, but it’s the unorganized friend-related stuff that I like. The stuff that matters makes me cry. (Refering back to my stupid social disorders) But right now, joking around with my friends, this is why I live.
Why I prefer fan-fiction to the source material
1. There’s so much variety! All genres, pairings, whatever…
2. It expands the source material.
2a. Fills plot holes .
2b. Expands on little-known characters that deserve to be given more attention.
2c. Provides prequels, sequels, and AU/ARs.
2d. Can use dropped and/or underutilized plots, and world-build.
3.I find it easier to read than to actually watch a show, and…
4. If the source materials a book, I’m out of luck since I haven’t been to the library for ever, so I read fanfiction instead.
5. In some cases the fanfics are better than the source. (Twilight parodies are a hoot)
Guess what I do on the weekends?
I seriously need to do homework too…Someone encourage me, tell ’em that the ginormous paper I have to write isn’t that bad, and I’ll give ’em choklit. And start working.The ginourmous paper you have to write isn’t that bad. Start working. *takes choklit*
*sighs and opens Word Document* Here I go…
Reasons You Should Make A List:
1. They’re fun!
2. They fit in with the topic of this thread!
3. You can use lots of exclamation points!
4. They look somewhat dignified if you don’t use exclamation points.
5. They’re a fun way to procrastinate.
6. Wasting time is always great.
7. Ignore 6.
8. You can add in useless lines that say nothing when you run out of ideas. (LIke I just did.)
8.
9. Or you can add lines that contain no real substance, but say something.
9. La la la la la.
10. i don’t know what to put here.
11. I’m out of ideas.
12. Um.
Lists of Reasons I Cannot Think of a List To Write
1. I lack the mental capacity to put numbers in a little box, with words following them.
2. I am not exactly creative enough to think of a list topic.
3. I don’t especially wish to think of a list to write because I have been lurking recently.
3.5 I think I’m a banana tree.
4. I’m too lazy to type much of a list.
5. This is NOT a list. What gave you that idea?
In other words:
1. Procrastination is fun.
2. Freddie Mercury took over my brain and is preventing thinking.
3. I’m rather annoying.
4. What was the question again?
What I’ve done today
1. Ate breakfast.
2.Went to church.
3. Ate lunch at fancy restaurant.
4. Plated with foam swords.
5. Watched half of “Blink”
6. Read.
7. Ate dinner.
8. Taught mom how to play chess.
9. Ate desert.
10.1.2- It would be interesting, but wouldn’t they already know how whatever mission they ran into ended and thus not want to change history? Of course, something in the contemporary period featuring Gary Seven or his fellow agents would circumvent that problem…
(Can we please have a long, fun, involved discussion of this?)
Time Travel in the opposite direction. The last Space Shuttle mission disappears into a wormhole just after leaving the ISS. 2 centuries later, they materialize below the Enterprise.
Great idea! And then the crew of the Enterprise has to find a way to send them back, or the mission will be written up as another disaster, and NASA will be dissolved instead of becoming one of Starfleet’s parent agencies…
List of Books I am reading or are in the pile to read:
1) 52 vol. 2*
2) 52 vol. 3
3) 52 vol. 4
4) Pretties
5) Specials
6) Extras
7) Agent to the Stars
8) Dune
9) Operation Storm City*
10) Makers*
11) Leviathan*
12) The Time Quake
13) And Another Thing* (I really need to finish this)
14) 131/2 lives of captian blue bear
15) Pride and Preduance and Zombies
16) + various non-fiction books
17) Kill a Mockingbird for English
Books I will get next Library run
1) Countdown to Final Crisis vol. 1
2) Countdown to Final Crisis vol. 2
3) Countdown to Final Crisis vol. 3
4) Countdown to Final Crisis vol. 4
5) Final Crisis
6) Batman R.I.P. (?)
7) Old Man’s War
8) Ghost Brigade
9) Zoe’s tale
10) The other book in this universe I’m forgetting
11) ???
I will update this as I go.
I think it’s funny how when you want to do 8 ) (Without the spaces) it turns into the smiley on your list.
It can be done, but you have to use HTML code:
8) = 8)
That’s why I just use 8.
For all the numbers, obviously, otherwise it’d look weird.
That wasn’t very clear. I just put a period after the numbers, rather than a parentheses.
What I’m Thinking Right Now
1. I like the number one.
2. In French one and first are very different words.
3. Oh wait, they are in English too.
4. Cake, I probably have a French test this week.
5. I have a lot of tests this week. End of quarter.
6. I only have nine weeks left as a sophomore.
7. Why am I almost an upperclassman? This is not okay.
8. I pick up speech patterns from my friends…
9. Actually I try to avoid doing that, but they rub off on me anyway.
10. I make a lot of typos.
11. I have a Kokonvention NEXT WEEKEND.
12. I am so excited.
13. Wouldn’t a mass Kokon be the coolest thing ever? With EVERYONE there?
14. I wonder how much money it would take to fly everyone somewhere.
15. More than I can afford.
16. It would probably be hard to find a date that everyone could agree on, anyway.
17. What’s a really Muserly location that we’d all like?
18. Obviously I’d angle for the HP exhibit but I’ve already seen that.
19. I would see it again in a heartbeat.
20. Probably only half of us would like that though.
21. And Luna would talk everyone’s ears off.
22. I’m doing this instead of practicing oboe or working on my book report powerpoint.
23. I’m so unproductive.
24. xkcd!
25. What are you doing? Gluing captions to your cats.
26. Seventy-six trombones lead the big parade.
27. This is how my brain works, my friends.
28. Stream of conciousness.
29. I have a journal entry like this in my English notebook. Not in list form, though.
30. We’re supposed to write in those every Monday but my teacher forgets.
21. Mustache stickers.
22. The stream-of-conciousness entry ends with “[teacher] please wash your hair.”
23. I wish he wouldn’t play music while we’re writing.
24. I wanna know, can you show me, I wanna know about the people like me
25. I need to see more DIsney movies.
26. The band trip to Disney was the best thing ever.
37. I seem to have accidentally reverted to 21 after 30.
28. Fail, Abby. You fail.
29. I actually thought of myself as “Tesseract” in the third person the other day. It was really weird.
40. Wow, did I really just do that again? The numbering thing?
41. Maybe it’s just that 2 is easier to type than 3 or 4.
42. “Than” looks like tan. Tan = sin/cos. Cos 2u = 1-2sin^2.
43. Somehow I have an A in math for this quarter.
44. But I have a test Friday. Oh no.
45. Vectors.
46. Professor Vector!
47. Arithmancy!
48. You can pretend to be looking for Flitwick, “Oh I’m so worried, I think I missed 14 b”
49. is seven squared
50. nifty united states from 13 original colonies
Wow. Um. Gee. I. Gosh.
Are you scared of me now? xD
A..a bit…
*backs away*
Mass kokon? You mean you’d want me and Luna in the same place at the same time? And you’d want to be there? Really? (Sounds fun for me. We could have it in Muse, PA.)
Why ever not? We’d only watch DW, talk about the incredible hotness of a certain Captain Jack Harkness, throw in some drooling over Spike, as well, just to round things out, and overall just babble about our various shared obsessions. It would be great, why would anyone feel any differently?
Oh, it would be awesome for us… I just fear for everyone in the vicinity.
Oh, no, they’d have lots of fun. I mean, what could be more fun than having to listen to us go on about the looks of certain hot men from various fandoms of ours?
We could convert them….
21. Yup. She probably would, once she got to know y’all and came out of her shell.
29 (the second one).
I often find myself thinking of myself as “luna” in 3rd person….it’s a bit disconcerting.
But you already know all of us pretty well, so it would really be more a matter of getting used to talking to us face-to-face instead of through text.
Yeah. Which is a huge difference and require getting to know y’all all over again. But I’d probably get to know you all quicker than had we not already all “spoken” on the ‘blog. Dangit, I really want to kokon! More importantly, I really want to kokon with speller (becuase we can go on about DW and the like together) as well as my fellow Pottermaniacs (like you and MissSwann and all the others).
We should have an “older” ‘blogger kokon. *sigh* Why don’t you all just come to Alaska one summer and we can all go camping. XD
I was in Alaska the summer of 2007… only off by three years.
I was a (rather inactive) MBer then…..And didn’t go anywhere that summer….*sigh*
It was over a year before I joined the blog, so it would have been impossible anyway…
Everybody should just walk/bike ride/skip/drive/take the train/fly/teleport/cartwheel/dig/crawl/hitchhike on over to Chicago sometime for a massive Kokonvention.
Chicago! I’m going to be in Chicago in two weeks!
On a band trip, though. So it’s unlikely I’d be able to get away.
Chicago? I could definitely do that.
I live in(ish) Chicago, though I can’t say if I’d be able to make one. But now that hockey is almost over (last game on friday) so it’s more of a possibility than it has been before.
Reasons I am a nerd/just plain weird:
1. I like maths.
2. I like chemistry.
3. French is my favourite subject.
4. I sit up front in all the classes where we have a choice about seating.
5. I wear glasses.
6. I am a MuseBlogger.
7. I find maths tests relaxing.
8. My current celebrity crush is a guy with pointy ears and weird eyebrows.
9. I hear the word “exterminators” and think “Daleks”.
10. I think of myself as Maths Lover instead of my real name.
11. I talk to myself. (first sign of insanity, I know)
12. I like writing these lists.
1. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
2. The Sex Pistols (Am I allowed to say that on here? It’s only a band name, but I’m not sure…)
3. Grunge Fashion
4. Kurt Cobain
5.Dirty Dancing
6. The Breakfast Club/Sixteen Candles
7. Darn eye-make up
8. Shaggy hair.
9. Celtic music.
10. Colorful backgrounds.
11. Rock of the 80s
12. Woodstock
13. Make Love, Not War
14. The Ramones.
15. Grafitti
16. Aliens (and the like.)
17. Adventure Time, it’s Adventure Time, with Finn the human and Jake the dog, it’s Adventure Time.
18. Radda, radda, radda.
19. Stevie Wonder
20. Sock hops…drive-in movies. (Yes, counts as one thing.)
21. Huey Lewis and the News
22. The Clash
23. Black boots, torn fishnets.
24. Androgynous fashion.
25. Tattoos.
26. No rain. (Blind Melon)
27. Sharing David Tennant
28. Puppet Musicals for Mature Audiences
29. A missing retainer.
I wonder how much a plane/train ticket to PA would cost. I wonder how many Musers live in/around/ PA.
My Favorite Muse-ic (heheh) [not in order]
1: Woooo! Dropkick Murphys.
2: The Beatles
3: Lady Gaga (only one song, and only because I’ve TapTap Revenge’d it too many times)
4: The Who (my favorite)
5: The People Who Composed the HALO 3 Theme
6: Funtwo
7: Crosby, Stills, Nash and sometimes Young
8: Van Halen
9: Bon Jovi
10: The Doors
11: The Entire ’60s Generation
12: REO Speedwagon
13: Most of the ’70 Generation
Cool Videogames:
PS3:
1: Grand Theft Auto IV
2: Batman: Arkham Asylum
3: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
4: Battlefield: Bad Company 2
5: Crysis Warhead
6: inFamous
7: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
8: MAG looks like it’s gonna be awesome
9: R.U.S.E. is coming out soon
10: Little Big Planet
XBox 360:
1: Halo 3
2: Halo: Combat Evolved (the first Halo)
3: Halo 3: ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Trooper)
4: Battlefield (series)
5: BM: Arkham Asylum
6: GTA IV
7: CODMW2
8: Crackdown
9: Crackdown 2
10: Age of Conan
Why I Haven’t Written a List Yet Even Though I Want to:
1. I’ve been too lazy
2. I haven’t known what to write about that’s original
3. I’ve been “wasting” my time on other threads
4. I can’t think of something funny
5. I’m bored
6. My fingers hurt from too much typing
Negative Random Thoughts Today:
1. I hope I don’t have to go on the car trip
2. I’m hungry but too lazy to get food
3. Can I have dessert before dinner? Probably not.
4. None of my friends are returning my e-mail
5. Did I mention dessert yet?
6. I should really ask my mom if we can have ice cream sundaes
7. I’m dreading summer
8. I don’t want to work on this scrapbook project, but it’s due soon
9. My mom wants me to do SAT prep, and I’m only in 7th grade and I don’t feel like doing it.
10. I don’t want to see my Science grade on my test
11. My back hurts
Positive Random Thoughts Today:
1. I’m so glad about spring break!
2. My mom said yes to the ice cream sundaes!
3. I might go see a movie tomorrow
4. I found MB!
5. I just found new fuzzy purple socks
6. My sister’s birthday is tomorrow
7. I need to find a new cell phone cover
8. I’m starting to write a new story
9. Percy Jackson!
10. Our Wii is fixed
List of Things That Are Sitting On The Desk, and It’s All True:
1. Brochures.
2. Multiple Candles.
3. Hundreds of Paper Clips.
4. White Out.
5. 2010 DVD.
6. Post Cards.
7. Markers.
8. Coloured Pencils.
9. Paint Brushes.
10. Hard Drive Memory-things.
11. Wires.
12. Reading Glasses.
13. An X-Men comic.
14. Computers.
15. CDs.
16. Flash Drives.
17. Sharpies.
18. Pens.
19. Pencils.
20. Brisk Lemon Iced Tea.
21. Stapler.
22. Phone.
23. Phone Charger.
24. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
25. Notebooks.
26. More Comics.
27. Sunglasses.
28. John Lennon.
29. Ringo Starr.
30. Another John Lennon.
31. George Harrison
32. Paul McCartney
33. Captain Kirk in Fake Mustache.
34. Miscellaneous Papers.
35.Camera.
This list is getting too long, but there is much more, and multiples of most of the things on that list.
36. Headphones.
The Beatles are sitting on your desk? Really?
Random thoughts:
1. Whee! This is my third list!
2. And also my second comment.
3. Ooh look, 1&2 are sequential.
4. Well, of course. It’s a list.
5. I feel like I’m taking to myself.
6. No, I’m listing to myself.
7. I wonder if I can make mine as long as Tesseract’s!
8. On second thought, I’d prefer it if it was longer.
9. On third thought- hey! 3 squared is 9!
10. Yeah, my brain tends to do that.
11. Whoa! “Brain” has five letters in it! And 5X2 = 10! That is so fitting!
12. Have I mentioned I occasionally find patterns where there aren’t any?
13. There’s a kitten on my lap!
14. He’s sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooocongratsifyoureadallthat cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
15. And now he’s purring!
16. Yes kitty. Kitty kitty kitty kitty.
17. Mon chaton adore danser.
18. I tend to break out in French.
19. I wonder what the cube root of 19 squared is.
20. I bet Maths Lover could answer that!
21. Or perhaps Cat’s Eye.
22. Or is that Cat’s Meow?
23. I know one’s obsessed with Buffy the- Hey look! 23! 23 enigma!
24. And now…. no. 24.
25. And now…. for something completely different
26. w00t! I’ve reached half of the length of Tesseract’s!
27. *does fish schlapping dance in celebration*
28. I voted for the Very Silly Party, did you?
29. The candidate was Malcolm Peter Brian Telescope Adrian Umbrella Stand Jasper Wednesday (pops mouth twice) Stoatgobbler John Raw Vegetable (sound effect of horse whinnying) Arthur Norman Michael (blows squeaker) Featherstone Smith (blows whistle) Northgot Edwards Harris (fires pistol, then ‘whoop’) Mason (chuff-chuff-chuff-chuff) Frampton Jones Fruitbat (laughs) (squeaker) Gilbert (sings) ‘We’ll keep a welcome in the’ (three shots, stops singing) Williams If I Could Walk That Way Jenkin (squeaker) Tiger-drawers Pratt Thompson (sings) ‘Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head’ Darcy Carter (horn) Pussycat (sings) ‘Don’t Sleep In The Subway’ Barton Mainwaring (hoot, ‘whoop’) Smith.
30. And no, I didn’t go to Wikipedia for that.
31. Do you think I should have voted for Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F’tang-F’tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel?
32. He’s in the Silly Party.
33. The GAPAs should run for President!
34. But first a word from Pepsi-dent!
35. Whee! Phil Ochs!
36. As they make their way across the universe!
37. Nothing’s change my world…
39. And now…. I shall skip a number.
38. And now…. I shall go back to it.
40. w00t! 4/5 of the way there! 80%!
41. And now the kitten’s on my mom’s lap. Humph. Two-timer.
42. is the answer to life the universe and everything.
43. is the answer to life the universe and everything plus the number of horns on a unicorn.
44. isn’t very special.
45. Now I feel sorry for 44.
46. I’m sorry, number 44.
47. *gives 44 a hug*
48. Two…. more….
49. One more…
50! YAY! I HAVE REACHED TESSERACT! CALLOO! CALLAY! CAPSLOCK!!! OVERUSE OF EXCLAMATION POINTS!
51. Just to be better than Tesseract.
Longer =/= better, young grasshopper.
List of Things That Are Sitting On My Desk, Again, All True:
1) This laptop.
2) A lamp with a burned-out light bulb.
3) An old chewable vitamin bottle currently holding thumbtacks
4) A blue glass paperweight shaped like a scallop shell.
5) A large pink eraser.
6) A box containing medicine balls.
7) A Vaporeon figurine.
8) An orange highlighter.
9) A mini sundial.
10) A plastic spoon
11) A green nautical prism
12) My National Latin Exam medal from last year.
13) A pencil sharpener.
14) A rocket pen.
15) A random piece of gray string.
16) A painted jam jar containing various pens, pencils, and a pair of scissors.
But actually, most of this is in containers, my desk isn’t messy.
List of Things That Are Sitting on My Desk:
1. Laptop
2. Desk light, or whatever you want to call it
3. Tissue box
4. Anywhere from 6-8 containers of markers, pens, highlighters etc.
5. Rectangular box of rulers, protractors, etc.
6. Random pile of papers that are mostly not mine
7. Another random pile of papers that are mostly not mine
8. Box with random post-it notes, flashlights, marbles etc.
9. Kreutzer 42 Etudes, which is taking up a lot of room
10. Box with all my folded-up to-do lists from a long time ago
11. Calendar
12. Pile of books that is reaching a dangerous height
13. Headphones/earphones in a basket that is in the shape of an apple – ?
14. Box of unsharpened pencils
15. Box of scissors, glue and another ruler
16. Scrap paper pile
17. Lined paper pile
18. Graph paper pile
19. School folders, books and stuff – disappears when I go to school but when I come home they’re there
20. Hockey stick
21. A bowl of fruit, usually
22. A glass of juice/soy milk/lemonade, again usually
Er. That’s all I can think of right now. Bear in mind that my desk really isn’t all that big – only around 3 or 4 feet by 5 or 6 feet. I can’t be bothered to actually measure it. The point is, I only work on one small part of my desk, which is where the laptop is.
Random Thoughts:
1. The number one is like a candy cane.
2. I stole Enceladus’ title.
3. I should blow up an airport.
4. No one needed to know that, Keiffer.
5. Why not?
6. Well, because they just don’t.
7. That doesn’t help you win this argument.
8. Or course it does, Keiffer.
9. Your just my liver! Just because you do all the thinking doesn’t mean that-
10. *calmifies the host*
11. That was strange.
12. If you flip the two around and stick the period in the middle it looks like a ducky…
13. “Pure scientific balderdash! I don’t believe a word of it!!”
14. Quotes are fun.
15. I want to read Get Fuzzy.
16. Except I mauled the quote.
17. How’s life?
18. Bad liver.
19. Phooey, go eat a banana.
20. Ba.
21. Na.
22. Na.
23. Na.
24. Na.
25. Ba.
26. The kitten is the answer to life, and now I feel sorry for 44.
27. *likes destroying Enceladus’ statements*
28. Are you even reading this?
29. You probably shouldn’t.
30. Unless you want to start fighting with your liver.
31. IT’S ALL PSEUDONYM’S FAULT!!!!
32. See, that proves it. It was Pseudonym.
33. I thought it was the grapefruit.
34. Wait, I don’t think.
35. Never mind 33.
36. I wonder how the gorillas are doing with the ice-pops…?
37. Thirty-six.
38. Thirty-seven.
39. Thirty-eight.
40. Thirty-nine.
41. Forty.
42. I do believe I want a sno-cone.
43. A nice purple sno-cone with a dragon on top.
44. Pie, pie, pie.
45. Forty-one.
46. You have been tested.
47. This is actually 42, the answer to life the universe, and everything.
48. *dies in pit*
49. I baa-aaack!
50. Did you even bother to read all this?
51. Where have I been?
52. Just to be better than Enceladus.
53. Fifty-three is better than 53.
54. No, wait… they’re the same.
55. No they’re not, Keiffer. They are spelled differently.
56. But they are the same number, Keiffer-la.
57. They are not.
58.Yes they are.
59. This is a stupid argument.
60. No it isn’t.
61. Just because the number 59 is pwnsome.
Random thoughts, because it seems fun:
1. KILL THE PLAGIARIST!
2. On second thought (haha, punintended), don’t kill the plagiarist.
3. Gah. My ears are swollen and it hurts.
4. No, really. They are seriously swollen.
5. I have no idea why my ears of all things have to get swollen.
6. I remember the time my right ear randomly swelled up to ten times it’s normal size….
7. Now that was really painful. I had to sleep on my left side.
8. Yesterday my left earlobe was twenty times it’s usual size.
9. My mom took pictures of it.
10. Thirteen is a special number, but only when it’s a thirteen made up of a six and a seven.
11. Five is always jealous of six because it fits so perfectly with seven to make thirteen.
12. Then five and eight make thirteen, but it’s not special anymore.
13. I have no idea how that concept came into existence in my mind.
14. Vanilla Mood is awesome.
15. Especially Keiko.
16. Because she plays piano.
17. Just like me.
18. Except I play the clarinet, too.
19. I epicly fail. I do.
20. …and your father smelt of elderberries!
21. Twenty-one is also a special number, but only when it’s made of seven times three. My mathematical brain is odd..
22. I will continue this later.
List of random thoughts
1. Ones are shy
2. What it seems! *do do do do doo do*
3. I loooove my hair!
4. Selena Gomez is cool
5. Ho-Oh is on my Pokewalker right now
6. It’s lvl. 100
7. I also have Lugia, Mewtwo, Articuno, and Zapdos on HeartGold.
8. Near magical! Oh my gosh!
9. I’m on a Mac!
10. It’s super fast!
11. And big!
12. Oh, be quiet.
13. Ahh! Unlucky 13!!!
14. Phew…
15. This is when I get a cell phone.
16. AAHHHHHH!!!!! 4 MORE DAYS TILL HTTYD COMES OUT!!!!!!!!!
17. I’M NOT GOING TO SURVIVE!!!!!
18. Magic is good in small quantities, kind of like drugs.
19. Medicinal drugs, I mean.
20. Like asprin
21. Or Ibprofen
22. I like even numbers
23. Don’t like
24. Like
25. Don’t like
26. Like
27. I’ll stop now.
28. HeartGold RULES!!!!
29. I’m stuck
30. Aah.
31. Help me
32. My story is turning out great.
33. Once movie makers find something that works, they just keep milking it.
34. Like Open Season.
35. Or High School Musical.
What I Did This Weekend
1.) Rode with a friend to Jamestown
2.) Nearly poked my left eye out
3.) Slept in a tent on the ground and froze my arse off
4.) Dressed up in 17th century clothing and stood on the ships at Jamestown talking to visitors (probably a few thousand a day)
5.) Visited with friends both old and new
6.) Squealed and hug-tackled said friends
7.) Watched people shoot pieces of big artillery (a howitzer and a shaker from modern times and early 17th century, respectively)
8.) Watched other people try out guns from all different time periods
9.) Reflected on how disturbing it probably is that I’m indifferent to sporadic gunfire, having been raised in living history
10.) Sang sea shanties until 0100
11.) Staggered back to Mea’s tent and collapsed into sleep fully clothed
12.) Woke up early and unwillingly
13.) Barely escaped becoming breakfast (bloody cannibals)
14.) Dressed in 17th century clothes again, talked to more visitors
15.) Set a spritsail
16.) Skipped lunch in favor of wandering around to all the camps
17.) Asked many questions
18.) Drank amazingly good lemonade
19.) Goofed around and traded ship trivia with a new friend
20.) Got hit on at the French Foreign Legion camp
21.) Pretended to go along with the not-so-subtle hints for a bit, then crushed him with razor-sharp wit (he was a douchevagon [said with a German accent], don’t worry. I’m not mean to sensible or decent people)
22.) Took in the spritsail
23.) Tried not to show my skivvies to the world while straddling the bowsprit in a petticoat and leaning over the water to furl
24.) Sadly said goodbye to friends
25.) Rode home, singing and talking the whole way
26.) Was unable to find food at an ihop
27.) Rode in the new car
28.) Got home late
29.) Bathed
30.) Told stories
31.) Talked on the phone
32.) Fell asleep
but mostly, 33.) Was insanely happy, more so than should probably be allowed. We’re talking just about bouncing off the walls euphoric here.
What I Did Today (so far)
1.) Woke up
2.) Got dressed
3.) Fainted a few times
4.) Fell asleep again
5.) Listened to some lectures
6.) Ate, spent time on the computer
7.) Figured out the new car’s sound system
8.) Wrote these lists
9.) Tried to convince self to be productive
10.) Failed
Continuing…
52. AAAAHHHH! SCRENZY STARTS IN 10 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!
53. AAAAHHHH! I CAN’T WAIT 10 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [Many exclamation points snipped — Rosanne]
54. Well, I’ve certainly been using lots of exclamation points.
55. Wonder if I should stop?
56. What do you think?
57. I agree.
58. Good idea, but no.
59. Thirty-eight.
60. 5 bonus points if you get that reference.
61. A hint will appear… soon.
62. Not yet….
63. Not yet….
64. Not yet…
65. Here it comes….
66. Oh, and duck.
67. No, really. Duck, Sally Sparrow
68. Duck, Now!
69. Beware the weeping Angles!
70. The angle is sad. :'(
71. Wonder if I’ll make it to one hundred!
72. With a couple of kids running in the yard!
73. Of Desmond and Molly Jones!
74. I’m mad, you’re mad, we’re all mad here.
75. *spooky voice* Infinite dimensions of kittens *end spooky voice*
76. 76543210!
77. Luckyluckylucky
78. Many of these entries are short and nonsensical.
79. ‘Course, that’s how I think.
80. So pie me.
81. Get back!
82. Get back!
83. Get back to where you once belonged!
84. Sadly, the inspector never gets back.
85. It’s the same rain.
86. The Angles have the phone booth.
87. Sad is happy for deep people.
88. Yeah, the bit about the blinking’s great.
89. Ooh look, she’s kicking down the door.
90. Photographs!
91. Old fireplace!
92. Here comes the wall paper!
93. Spoooooky.
94. Spoooookier.
95. Duck now!!!
96. Creepy pinwheel sound.
97. Crying angel statue. It’s a weeping angel..
98. Love from the Doctor, 1969.
99. Pants?
100. Uh, no.
101. I hate you! I hate you!
102. It’s 1 in the morning!
103. Woooh.
104. I ♥ her Scottish accent
105. Sparrow and Nightingale. That so works!
106. I might spoil the plot, so I’ll stop.
107. Sad is happy for deep people.
108. It’s moved, since yesterday!
109. A burglar who rings the doorbell?
110. Creepy guy with a letter. Very old.
111. w00t!11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
112. That’s a long story, actually.
113. Crack!
114. She’s…. in Holt!
115. 1921, I believe.
116. He made a promise to his grandmother.
117. 1920.
118. Very sad letter.
119. Though not as sad as the detective inspector.
120. Totally sick.
121. And old key. That fits in a Yale lock
122. But nothing fits.
123. Now they’re after her.
124. I’ve spent so long on one topic.
125. But, it’s an awesome episode.
126. The last three are my favorite sequence of numbers.
127. And now it ends.
128. Good time travel?
129. Bad time travel?
130. Were you there before?
131. Are you going to stop following me?
132. No!
133. Her gravestone is there. Wonder why she didn’t notice it.
134. A woman who spoke of impossible things.
135. DVD store!
136. I’m trying to memorize it.
137. I’m a bit silly.
138. Quite possibli.
139. I’m afraid so.
140. 38.
141. She loves you.
142. People don’t understand time.
143. It’s not what you think it is.
144. Complicated.
145. Very complicated.
146. Started well that sentence.
147. Well, I can hear you.
148. Sorry. Bad day.
149. 17 DVDs.
150. Why does nobody ever just go to the police?
151. I’m mad, you’re mad, we’re all mad here.
*GASP*
I love that episode of Doctor Who!!!!!
I watched it on the way to Spain (on my iPod) because it’s my favorite, and then I got to Spain, and saw all of the statues. And then I flipped out.
David Tenant should still be the doctor, don’t you agree?
’tis a brilliant episode. I’ve seen it twice, now…..(wow, only twice? I need to finish up rewatching all the eppies, so that when I–in a few decades–finish watching Classic Who, I can rewatch all the New Who for the third time…..And OMG almost Easter! although I don’t want Easter, because it means the return to school, but! Doctor Who! Eleventh Doctor (NOOOOOOO! Gimme back my David Tennant! I ♥ DT!)
AM has watched 1 half of the episode and 7 seconds, so don’t spoil it.
The inspector just blinked, and Sally just left the lot where the Tardis is.
I’m not spoiling! There’s absolutely no spoilage in that comment!
He hasn’t finished it yet? How can he live, halfway through Blink but not having finished it?
On edge. I’ve given him some hints.
I plan on renting the whole series from Netflix. I’ll just lock myself in my room with the computer…
Things I Think About Enceladus.
1. He has a sick mind.
2. He is very exuberant.
3. He has pretty teeth. Also
4. And swoopy hair.
5. He should feel loved.
6. He should look like Misoka from Crescent Moon.
7. I’m probably pronouncing his name wrong.
8. He probably thinks I’m a freak.
9. He probably thinks we’re ALL freaks, including him.
10. I should go talk to Kate, whom I have forgotten about.
11. This is a stupid list.
My name is pronounced ennn- sssseeh- laaaahhhh DUHS
SFTDP
I think eccentric is a better description than exuberant.
Eccentric is a better description than just about anything.
We’re not strange, we’re just… eccentric!
On the way home, L and S and I were planning a TV show about us and how we’re eccentric.
A Very Funny List:
1. Brevity is the soul of wit.
A Very Un-Funny List:
1.B
2.r
3.e
4.v
5.i
6.t
7.y
8.
9.i
10.s
11.
12.t
13.h
14.e
15.
16.s
17.o
18.u
19.l
20.
21.o
22.f
23.
24.w
25.i
26.t
27..
Music I’ve listened to recently (by my own choosing):
1. Cinderella soundtrack. (Rogers and Hammerstein version with Julie Andrews)
2. Lots of John Barrowman stuff
3. Once More With Feeling!
4. Beatles
5. Glee
#2 for the win! (has done lots of that, obviously)
1. Learn to balance your check book as you deposit/withdraw money, instead of about once a month going “Oh, hey, what did I use my debit card to buy this month? should go put that in my check book, so I know how much money I actually have…..” Yeah. Just got done doing that.
2. Forget about packing for spring break (really, you’re just using that as an excuse to procrastinate and listen to JB) and study for your caking cell bio quiz tomorrow, already!
1. Learn that usually when a company is giving away free samples of their product there’s a reason: Namely, the product tastes disgusting and that’s the only way they can get rid of it…..Not to mention, learn that if you don’t like Coca Cola to begin with (I like pepsi much better), there’s no way you’re going to like calorie free Coke (Coke zero), so don’t take one just cuz it’s free! (Which is exactly what I did: Hey, it’s free, I don’t like Coke, but it’s free! yay freeness!) So now I’m drinking a very *shudder* yucky tasting soda. *shudder* Much worse than regular coke. Much. And regular coke isn’t exactly very good…..
Uhm, that wasn’t really a list…
you don’t have to finish it…
My List of Items with High Priorities for this year
1. Wonder aimlessly about Claire
2. Pre-order Golden Sun DS
3. Learn either Hylian or Elvish
4. Hit the Good Year blimp with a coke/mentos rocket (if I do try this, it will be a very foolish and lazy attempt, with poor aim and timing)
5. Call President Obama when the US National Debt exceeds the GDP and alert him to that fact
6. Other stuff
Things I Might Name The New Chickens
1. Mike
2. Mikaella
3. Michelle
4. Baboon
5. Babs
6. Rosa Sharon
7. Molly
8. Omelet
9. Kernel Sanders
10. Colonel Sanders
11. Chickwee
12. Camilla
13. Quetzalcoatl
14. Abednigo
15. Abby
16. Chickweed
17. Brontosaurus
18. Fenghuang
19. Camazotz
20. Hedwig
3. Awwwww. I might get a chicken named after me.
15. Me too!
OH! You have chickens too? I hadn’t thought of names for two that we adopted this fall, but decided to name them:
1) Priscilla
2) Henrietta
P.S. Chickweed is supposed to be yummy…
We have tons of chickweed at our house. I’ve never tried it, but the duckies/goslings (when we’ve raised orphaned wild ones the past few summers) absolutely love it.
It supposedly tastes like spinach, but I’ve never tried it. You can find some recipes online. I don’t think I have much in my yard, but then it might’ve been there I just never noticed it. That happened with garlic mustard; I only realized its abundance after reading through my wild food field guides. Both of them. Because I really don’t have anything better to do with my time.
Oh procrastination…
1. One
2. Two
3. Three
4. Four
5. Five
6. Six
7. Seven
8. Eight
9. Nine
10. Ten
11. Eleven
12. Twelve
13. Thirteen
14. Fourteen
15. Fifteen
16. Sixteen
17. Seventeen
18. Eighteen
19. Nineteen
20. Twenty
21. Twenty-One
22. Twenty-Two
23. Twenty-Three
24. Twenty-Four
25. Twenty-Five
26. Twenty-Six
27. Twenty-Seven
28. Twenty-Eight
29. Twenty-Nine
30. Thirty
31. Thirty-One
32. Thirty-Two
33. Thirty-Three
34. Thirty-Four
35. Thirty-Five
36. Thirty-Six
37. Thirty-Seven
38. Thirty-Eight
39. Thirty-Nine
40. Forty
41. Forty-One
42. The Meaning of Life!
Talk about pointless posting…
43. The meaning of life plus 1!
No, it’s the meaning of life plus the number of horns on a unicorn.
Or 43. The meaning of life plus the number of places like MuseBlog!
My Ducks, Past & Present. (Excluding the ones that were sold and the drakes that became dinner.)
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1.Beaky ( 6 yrs. old. Blue & white hen, mother of 12, deceased.
2. Bill (6 yrs. old. Black & white drake)
3.Annie (5yrs. old. Black & white, used to be a hen. En fwoops. Long story.)
4.Mandy (5yrs. old. Blue & white hen, orange spot on face. Hatch mother of 5, egg mother of ?.)
5.Bonnie (5yrs. old. Blue & white hen, mostly white. Hatch mother of 7.)
6.Dottie (5yrs. old. Black & white hen. Small, limps, and is probably the best flyer of all my ducks. Egg mother of ?.)
7.Betty (Black & white hen, hatched by Bonnie, deceased [Dog.
8. Amy (Black & white hen, Betty’s sister, deceased [Weasel.
9.Dan (Tricolour [black, white & chocolate] drake, mask-like marking on face. Thinks he’s the boss. Escapes frequently. Bites and scratches me when I pick him up.)
10. Rita (Chocolate & white hen. Heaviest, but not fat. Egg mother of one or more of Mandy’s hatch ducklings.)
11. Lydia (Lavender & white hen. Has a narrow body and often escapes with Dan.)
12. Rosie (Silver & white hen with pinkish orange spot on face. Deceased [Weasel.
13. Alice. (Chocolate & white hen. Deceased [Weasel.
14.Zoe (Chocolate & white hen. Hatch mother: Mandy.)
15.Millie (Chocolate & white hen with masklike marking on face. Unbearably cute. Hatch mother: Mandy.)
16.Molly ( Tricolour hen. Hatch mother: Mandy.)
17.Linda (Tricolour hen. Was very noisy as a duckling. Hatch mother: Mandy.)
I call myself Ducky for a reason.
Seems to me that you should weasel-proof the areas where your ducks usually go.
Weasel-proofing is hard. They’re tricky little blighters.
They normally go into a small pen which is totally covered in 1-inch chicken wire at night, but when the weasel attacked they weren’t in that pen.
Last friday in biology, our teacher brought in her ducklings (they just got some to raise, they’ve had chickens for a while now but tshe didn’t bring in any chicks)–they were so cute and fluffy and I really want one now. : / Even as an adult I’d love having a duck. BUt I doubt that’s going to happen, sadly.
I’m very lucky, there aren’t many predators around where I live, just raccoons and opossums, which mostly stay away. We’ve only had problems with wild animals once, when an opossum ate our pigeon.
Various ducks/goslings I have raised:
1. Fred (gosling–possibly one of the 5 who was shot by some bastard on our lake)
2. George (gosling–see above)
3. Bill (gosling–see above)
4. Ron (gosling–see above)
5. Charlie (gosling–see above)
6. Percy (gosling, went missing before reaching maturity)
7. Harry (teal)
8. Hermione (teal)
9. Hagrid (teal)
10. Neville (teal–named thus because he had a broken lower beak, and later he got a leech stuck in his nares….very Nevillesque)
11. Buckbeak (scaup)
12. Norbert (scaup)
13. Fluffy (scaup)
14. Trevor (scaup)
15. Crookshanks (scaup–deceased, unknown cause)
16. James (unknown duckling)
17. Sirius (unknown duckling of same variety as James)
18. Remus (unknown duckling of same variety as James and Sirius)
19. Severus (unknown duckling–different variety than James, Sirius, and Remus)
20. Lily (unknown duckling–same as Severus)
21. Dobby (unknown duckling)
22. Kreacher (unknown duckling, same as Dobby, I think)
23. Regulus (unknown duckling)
24. Nymphadora (gosling)
Is it disturbing that I can name the first and last name (and, in some cases, middle) of every human character your ducks/goslings were named after?
Um, no. That’s not disturbing at all. They were all named after HP characters…..I’d be more disturbed if you couldn’t name the first and last (and in some cases, middle) names of the human characters they were named after….
I forgot Ginny. She was another gosling I had at the time of Fred/George/etc, but she died early on…..
No. I can do it too. And in some cases, I can even recall their family trees…(The characters, not the goslings.)
I’m sensing a pattern here.
Things I Do During Science Class.
1. Make lists of all the places I’d rather be.
2. Make lists of all the things I keep in my pouchy thingie in my bag.
3. Make lists of people I’d like to be.
4. Write haikus.
5. Write six-word stories.
6. Talk to Ella.
7. Talk to Chloé.
8. Talk to Celia.
9. Talk to Joas.
10. Talk to Emma.
11. Talk to Zuri, September, Scrima, and David.
12. Doodle.
13. Stare at clock.
14. Think about things other than science.
15. Think about what’s for lunch.
16. Think about how many minutes it is until lunch. Or break. Or my next class. Or the end of the day.
17. Stare at the teacher.
18. Jiggle my foot.
19. Try to not jiggle my foot.
20. Wonder if I have restless leg syndrome.
21. Stare at my notebook.
22. Stare at the thing we’re supposed to be reading.
23. Stare out the window.
24. Wonder why people are so annoying.
25. Write Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories.
26. Fiddle with things.
And last, and least:
27. Pay attention.
Ah, Science. Wonder why Science teachers are almost NEVER interesting enough?
Things That Will Be (Or Better Be!) Accomplished Soon:
-TODAY:
1. RESEARCH PAPER!!!!! That’s due tomorrow!!!!!!!
2. In-text citations of the research paper
3. Bibliography of the research paper
4. Research of the research paper
5. Printing of the research paper
6. Another printing of the research paper
-BEFORE SUNDAY:
7. Figuring out which of my 50 color pencils are going to Yosemite
8. Figuring out what the Cerberus I’m thinking
-8.1 And why
9. Packing stuff for Yosemite
10. Finding the glove
11. Finding the sunglasses
12. Finding the hat
13. Finding the other hat
14. Finding a clean eraser
15. Go to a school dance
16. Eat sugary stuff
17. Yawn
18. Survive three days of school
-18.1 Mainly science
19. Yawn more
20. Eat pie
21. Try to memorize 49 digits of pi for the fun of it
22. Draw Pokemon
23. Cheer for HeartGold and SoulSilver’s release
24. Fall asleep.
-SUNDAY:
25. Run away from home and to Yosemite with friends! (including Loreena!)
I finished the research paper!
*runs around happily*
Things I would have said before I forgot them:
1.
Reasons why I love school:
1.) FRIENDS.
2.) Awesome teachers.
3.) I have stuff to do.
4.) The food in the dining hall is great.
5.) Relative freedom.
*agrees with all except 4*
6. There is an annoying sibling at home.
Signs that you are way too obsessed with John Barrowman:
1. You’re listening to Wicked and insist that they’re singing the wrong words to The Wizard and I.
2. You type YouTube into your browser bar, the channel that you listen to JB’s music on shows up ahead of the home page.
3. When you do go to the home page, all but one or two of YT’s recommendations for you have JB.
4. You then go watch all of those.
5. Even though you’ve already seen them.
6. In English class, instead of gossiping with your friends about people at your school, you’re talking about JB.
7. You constantly make your friends watch YT videos of JB.
8. You insist that JB is where the producers went right.
9. You compare a guy you used to have a crush on to JB.
10. Your day instantly gets better when you find a video of JB singing something that you’ve always wanted to hear him sing.
I can probably come up with more… But I won’t.
11. You fight with your older ‘blog sister over whom his character on DW belongs to, demanding a share of him if she refuses to hand over the Tenth Doctor to you. (Jack is mine, darn you!)
Now the signs I would add:
12. You watch Desperate Housewives just because he is on it.
13. You have a huge list of interviews/etc with him on them that you need to watch…..
14. You subscribe to his twitter channel, even though very few of the posts are actually by him.
15. You have both his autobiographies, and his second one is being released in an updated (with more pictures and stuff!) paperback version and you are incredibly tempted to buy it (even though you ahve the non-updated version in hardback….)…..
16. You have an ipod solely of his music, and you listen to it on your way to classes.
17. You don’t pass up any opportunity to ramble on about his amazing hotness, including going on about how hot he is to your (straight male) organic chemistry lab partner (poor Alan)
18. You would totally snog him, given the opportunity.
19. You have found yourself looking up one or more of his relatives on facebook.
20. You found his brother’s street address on google. (I swear I’m not a stalker, really!)
I could probably come up with more, as well…..
Things I need to do:
1. This caking HIV worksheet for biology (Lots of questions)
2. Another biology worksheet (4 questions)
3. YABW (8 questions) (And yet Bio is my favorite class. Weird.)
4. To Kill a Mockingbird study guide (stupid english teacher)
5. Look up more information about artist for spanish class
6. Start work on redoing beroom
7. Start work on converting unused bedroom into office/study
8. Start work on summer vacation planing (Philadelphia/D.C.!!)
9. Write short story
10. Plan for Screzy
Things I’m doing instead:
1. writing lists
2. reading 52, vol. 3
More random thoughts.
1. Heh. Fireh = epic failyness.
2. No, really. She messed up the rice.
3. For the second time. The SECOND time she made that mistake!
4. And her stomach still hurts.
5. And everyone thinks she’s depressed.
6. No, really. Even her teacher goes “Whats wrong fireh?”
7. Which makes fireh irritated, which really really makes her look depressed. GAH.
8. Fireh wishes she could go live in a hole under a rock and eat worms.
9. Life is good.
10. Not really. Life can get pretty non-good sometimes.
11. Fireh has a bad habit of focusing on the bad things more than the good.
12. AlpacaLips calls it Spiraling into the Pit of Depression.
13. Which is about right.
14. Fireh hates springtime.
15. Goodbye.
Odd Things* I Associate With Museblog
*to the outsider1. World Domination
2. Hot Pink Bunnies
3. Giant Space Squid
4. 2
5. ?|?
6. Light green and blue
7. Adams, Gaiman, de Lint, Pratchett, and more
8) Dude.
9. Jabberwocks
10. Colored birthdays
11. Metal music
12. Writing stories in groups
13. Pie (wars, polar bears, and pi)
14. Secret seaside gardens
15. Woven beyonds
16. All of you (by your blognames)
25- I didn’t read all that…but I thought I should say– Yay! Phil Ochs!
You like Phil Ochs? Why didn’t you tell me this earlier?
A blank list:
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Signs that you’re obsessed with Firefly (note: these are not in any scale of intensity)
1. You watched “Jaynestown”, and next morning you’re still humming Hero of Canton.
2. You get this crazily ambitious idea to round up friends/relatives/friends of your relatives who each look somewhat like a regular character on the show, get them into costumes that fit each character, build a huge set that closely resembles Serenity’s cargo hold, and do a group photo.
3. You decided to get every official piece of merchandise for the show (including the role-playing game) after watching only 3 or 4 episodes.
Fun facts about chocolate
1. Chocolate liquor contains no alcohol.
2. Since it contains no cocoa solids, white chocolate cannot legally be called white “chocolate” (at least in the US).
3. The basis of most chocolate truffles is a mixture of chocolate and other stuff called ganache, which can also be used to make a quality Fudgesicle.
4. Too much chocolate can lead to addiction (no duh), obesity (again, no duh), and risk of lead poisoning damage.
Number 1 on the Firefly list isn’t normal? Sigh…
I said “obsessed”. Obsessed equals being a fanatic, cult follower, etc. – so number 1 is probably normal for anyone who is a huge fan (like me) of some type.
Things I’m Worried About
1) The play
2) The dress rehearsal today
3) The solo I have trouble with
4) Swimming lessons
5) My feature article draft
6) My pathetically short list
Thing’s I’M worried about:
1. I won’t like How To Train Your Dragon.
2. The dumb Social Studies project that’s due tomorrow and that I left for the last minute
3. I won’t like How To Train Your Dragon.
4. My foot hurting because I ran too much
5. I won’t like How To Train Your Dragon.
6. I won’t like How To Train Your Dragon.
7. I won’t like How To Train Your Dragon.
8. I won’t like How To Train Your Dragon.
Things That Annoy Me (Not in Any Particular Order)
1. Standardized Tesing
2. Box-and-Whisker Plots
3. The fight scene at the end of the movie Avatar
4. People caling things/people they don’t like “gay”
5. The fact that, in the last two Discworld books I read, Death spoke in the wrong kind of capital letters
6. The fact that I always want to write a NaNoWriMo/MuNoWriMo, but don’t end up actually writing anything
7. Deadlines
8. Money, and the economy
9. The fact that all good things must come to an end
Oh, yeah. In some he speaks in Caps Lock, and in some he speaks in Small Caps. Small Caps is the correct kind of capital letters.
Good things to do in different types of weather:
) weather, take-the-dog-to-the-dog-park-near-the-beach-and-wade-around-in-the-waves weather.
8)
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-Mid 60s- good jogging weather, taking-a-walk-with-the-dog weather, walking-around-idly weather.
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-Mid 70s- good gardening weather, take-a-hike (literally
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-Mid 80s- good take-a-bike-ride-to-the-beach weather, sit-around-in-the-sun-and-watch-the-chickens-peck-at-nothing-in-particular weather.
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-Mid 90s- make-sure-the-chickens-and-ducks-have-water-and-food-then-get-into-some-AC weather.
Things You Don’t Know About Me Unless You Are Pseudo Or Possibly Keiffer.
1. My eye twitches when I’m stressed.
2. I scratch my head a lot.
3. I used to be cool. Ish.
4. I make up stories in my head.
5. I’ve read nine or so books of the Bible.
6. My locker looks organized on the bottom but it’s actually really messy.
7. MY EYE BLOODY TWITCHES WHEN I’M STRESSED.
Here’s the thing: 1. and 7. actually don’t matter. Probably no one notices (I hope) and if they do, it shouldn’t affect the way they view you (I hope).
More Random Thoughts
152. Blehhhhhhh
153. Blehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
154. Blehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
155. MCAS ZOMBIE
156. Must…. eat… brains….
157. Blehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
158. MCAS ATE MY MIND
159. OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM (That was your brain.)
Reasons Why I Hate MCAS.
1. It takes a looong time.
2. I have to take four subjects this year.
3. It makes my hand hurt.
4. Once I had to look at pictures of scorpions.
5. More reasons that I’ll think of next week when I actually take my ELA MCAS.
Enceladus…
in response to all of your posts…
you are brilliant.
Reasons I’m looking forward to summer
1: All the windows and doors in my house will be open
2: Vacating our bedrooms and sleeping in the kitchen/deck/basement during the obligatory heat wave
3: Sleeping with minimal bedding
4: Never wearing shoes
5: Picnicing and swimming in the lake every evening
6A: Summer camp!!!
6B: Meeting old friends at summer camp
6C: Sneaking around with one’s old friends at summer camp
7: Wearing shorts and ratty T shirts
8: Going on epic adventures around the city with my siblings/friends/friends’ siblings
9: Eating lots of garden vegetables
10: Going on lots of hikes
11: Taking random weekend trips
Reasons I’m not looking forward to Summer:
1: Sunburn
2: Mosquitos
3: 90% of my friends will be unavailable for my epic adventures due to camps/family vacations
4; By the end of it all, I’ll be looking forward to winter.
List of possible new pseudonyms:
– Erk!
– Raspberry Tree
– Chocolate Orange
– Greenish Haze
– Evergreen
– Oddly Content
– Peculiar
– Mispeled
I think I like Raspberry Tree.
I like Erk! and Oddly Content.
I like Evergreen.
I think Chocolate Orange would look better as ‘Choklit Orange’.
And orange reminds me of a certain moon of Saturn’s… XD
Erk! is my favorite, and I like Greenish Haze too.
Hm. I didn’t mean to type “Erk!” I smelled ratatouille burning in the kitchen and the syllable sort of popped into my head…
62- I predict a horde of people advising you not to change it soon.
*copies Tessera Rose’s list*
Reason’s I’m looking forward to summer
1. Sailing
2 Popsicles
3. Going to the Beach
4. Open Windows
5. I won’t have to see Nad or Jenny ToeTaps for three months
6. Picking blueberries
7. Camp.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Nad.
*is a copycat*
Reasons I’m looking forward to summer:
1. Good weather.
2. No school.
3. No homework.
4. Sleep!
5. Math camp!!!
Reasons I’m not looking forward to summer:
1. School withdrawal.
2. I won’t see almost any of my friends.
3. Overly hot weather.
4. Getting to do all those dishes that I don’t do at school.
5. Family overdose.
6. No Dr. Who probably, because I watch that with friends.
So the negatives are more than the positives here. Why couldn’t we just stay at school over the summer and just not have classes or homework? With a break for MathCamp, of course.
Or – brilliant idea, here – we could:
1. Accomodate the schedule to allow for more vacation time,
2. Extend the school year to be continuous or contiguous or whatever the heck it is, and
3. Eliminate homework.
(Among other adjustments.)
Productivity, grades, moods, satisfaction, and learning would skyrocket! Ultimate win!
-A
Reasons to go see HTTYD:
1. IT’S AWESOME!
2. IT’S AWESOME!!
3. IT’S AWESOME!!!!
4. IT’S AWESOME!!!!!!!!
5. IT’S AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
6. IT’S AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7. IT’S AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8. IT’S AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
9. IT’S AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10. IT’S AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11. IT’S AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12. IT’S AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*excessive amounts of exclamation points* etc.
I can see that you’re not worrying about disliking it anymore….
Yup!!!!!!!!!!!
I saw it today, and it wasn’t actually that bad.
I think I’ll take Rainbow/SilverStorm’s suggestion…..
How to Annoy People in an Elevator
1. Blow bubbles.
2 Yell “Ambush!” in people’s ears.
3. Chant “Bloood. Bloood. Bloood.” under your breath.
4. Sing I Am The Walrus and perform an interpretive dance.
5. Try to open the elevator’s emergency exit hatch and climb through.
6. Play Charades alone. Very enthusiastically.
7. Recite 242 digits of pi.
8. Stand very, very close to people and stare into their eyes, ears, and noses.
9. Throw paper airplanes.
10. Press the “close door” button when people try to leave. Participate in all of the above activities.
How to Kill a Fish
1) use fishing pole and some worms
2) throw a rock
3) chuck a spear
4) swing your fist
5) smash it with a baseball bat
6) send your pet alligator after it
7) Do the Gollum move. Just bite it.
8) attract it with a shiny light
9) pet it and make it feel loved and then stick a fork in it
10) Read it “The Last of the Mohigans”
11) Ask it for its autograph, blind it with your camera, and kidnap it
12) drain the lake
13) lasso it
14) use your pull over the moon to force the fish to come in with the tide
15) run over it
16) flush it down the toilet
17) hire a sniper to get it
18) make a replica fish of the opposite sex and lure the fish into a trap
19) zap it
20) give it tender loving care until the day when you have to give it to your baby cousin
66.~
11. Snog. Bonus points if you’re loud.
12. (Alternative) Walk in and give strange looks to the occupants if they’ve been snogging.
Strange and suggestive.
-A
My post that was a reply to Pseudonym’s “How to Annoy People In an Elevator” got zapped, it appears. GAPAs, did I accidentally give too much information or did the spam filter get it? And this thread sure filled up…fast…in six days….
[It’s not in the spam can, Princess_Magnolia. And I didn’t see it in the thread. It’s possible one of other GAPAs zapped it if it was zapworthy. Could you post it again?]
I don’t remember seeing it, either.
Hm. Maybe Rebecca zapped it for some reason? Odd. Maybe I just closed out before hitting “comment” accidentally. Let me check history.
Hmm, well, it doesn’t seem to be there, either….Strange.
Nope. I don’t remember it either.
Things I Am Failing At Doing Right Now:
1. Typing.
2. Spelling. (I just spelled ‘as’ as ‘arrtt’ again.)
3. Turning the staple remover into a dinosaur.
4. This.
5. Doing this and watching Doctor Who at the same time.
6. Stabbing myself with the staple remover.
7. Talking to my cousin Sea Moose, that’s his nickname, on Skype.
8. Kicking Tacky Glue off this computer.
9. Preventing Tacky Glue from reading this.
10. Typing.
11. Spelling. (I just spelled ‘typing’ as ‘tiypung.’)
12. Hitting the preview button.
13. Hitting the comment button.
My friend once spelled march with a tch. OK, that’s not really related. I’ll shut up now. *shuts up now*
How to Be a Caveman
1. Grunt when spoken to. In Morse Code.
2. Shoot annoying classmates or finches with arrows when large game is absent.
3. Light fires on your desk in English class. Roast finches on spit. ((Poor finches))
4. Tear up neighbors’ gardens. Eat contents.
5. Make a drum from leaves and wood. Pound on it loudly.
6. Fashion arrowheads using your pencil. Poke nearby objects.
7. Tear up paper and use them to create a makeshift garment.
8. Throw medium sized rocks at other people’s heads.
What life entails after my spring break:
> SAT Subject Tests (U.S. History; Literature)
> A.P. U.S. History Exam
> Accuplacer Exam for 12th Grade college courses next year
> SATs
> Finals
HELP!!!!
Things Pseudonym Fails At
1. Singing
2. Being Clear on the Concept
3. Playing The Show Must Go On
4. Typing fast
5. Continent edges
6. Being a caveman
7. Rubber bands
8. Life
9. The Universe
10. Everything
My version of ways to annoy/seriously freak people our in an elevator:
1) Start doing really loud fake coughs and sneezes. Blow your nose in the direction of the other occupants. Snort loudly.
2) Suddenly start laughing hysterically.
3) Take out your cell phone, pretend like you’re calling someone, and whisper things into your phone like “plant a bug in the front room” or “keep your gun with you just in case” or “remember to wear latex gloves- we don’t want any fingerprints this time.”
4) Start humming Canon in D very loudly.
5) Sniff people. Make disapproving noises and shake your head.
6) Ask strangers questions like, “Do you think I should have my nose hair trimmed?” or “Is my left pink fingernail off-center?”
7) Lie down on the elevator floor and go to sleep.
8) Carry your sleeping friend.
9) Decorate the elevator with wallpaper and furniture.
10) Shriek in horror when the elevator moves.
11) Sing the Llama Song. Start over every time a new person enters the elevator.
12) Curl up in the corner and rock back and forth.
13) Discuss Doctor Who with the other occupants.
14) Collect a bunch of brochures, all different. Solemnly hand them out to the other occupants.
DISCLAIMER: DO NOT ACTUALLY DO ANY OF THESE.
And the Greatest Elevator Freak-People-Out Ever, Number 15:
Have a cap gun in your pocket and have a fake bloodstain on your shirt. Cover said stain with a coat and have a golf ball or such thing taped on the inside of your shirt under both your armpits. When in the elevator, right when the door opens for someone new you pull the trigger of the cap gun and fall to the floor, making sure your coat falls off so everyone sees the fake bloodstain. Then you clench the golf balls or such things under your arms so that your pulse stops (trust me, this works).
After they take your pulse and get nothing, go limp. After about ten seconds suddenly stiffen, sit up, open your eyes real wide, wait for the elevator to stop, and walk out with your arms outstretched in front of you like a zombie.
(No, I have never actually done this. And I probably never will. But I bet it gets some good laughs.
)
List of Paradoxes:
1. Please ignore this list.
2. <– Look Right
3. My fellow Musebloggers, I am now lying to you.
4. There are two lists: the list of all possible lists that contain themselves (i.e., a list of lists would contain itself) and the list of all possible lists that do not contain themselves. Does the list of all lists that do not contain themselves contain itself?
5. Do not feed the elephant!!
6a. All ravens are black, so
b. all that is not black is not a raven.
c. Nevermore, my pet raven, is black.
d. This green thing, an apple, is neither black nor a raven.
e. Therefore, since my apple is green, all ravens are black!
7.If there is an exception to every rule, then every rule must have at least one exception; the exception to this one being that it has no exception.
8. Happy Opposite Day!
9. One can replace one part of a ship with another part, and it is still the same ship. Therefore one can replace every part of a ship with another part, and it is still the same ship. One can take the disassembled pieces and build a ship out of them. Which is the same ship you started with.
10. If all truths are knowable, all truths are known.
Brain hurting yet?
Owowowowow…
I love paradoxes! (Or is it paradocies?)
Continuation of 7:
And then, someone reassembles the replaced parts. Both ships are the same ship?
You mean continuation of #9, right?
Yes, right.
3. Liars paradox FTW!
4. Russel’s paradox FTW!
6. Your logic is correct, but there’s no paradox there…
“This! Sentence! Is! FALSE! don’tthinkaboutitdon’tthinkaboutitdon’tthinkaboutit …”
“Eh … true. Gonna go with true. That was easy.”
Why is “do not feed the elephant” a paradox?
If anyone can tell me what this is a list of, then you get 10 Bonus Points.
Algeria: Algiers
Angola: Luanda
Benin: Porto-Novo
Botswana: Gaborone
Burkina Faso: Ouagadougou
Burundi: Bujumbura
Cameroon: Yaoundé
Central African Republic: Bangui
Chad: N’djamena
Congo, Democratic Republic of the: Kinshasa
Congo, Republic of the: Brazzaville
Côte d’Ivoire: Yamoussoukro
Djibouti: Djibouti
Egypt: Cairo
Equatorial Guinea: Malabo
Eritrea: Asmara
Ethiopia: Addis Ababa
Gabon: Libreville
Gambia, The: Banjul
Ghana: Accra
Guinea: Conakry
Guinea-Bissau: Bissau
Kenya: Nairobi
Lesotho: Maseru
Liberia: Monrovia
Libya: Tripoli
Madagascar: Antananarivo
Malawi: Lilongwe
Mali: Bamako
Mauritania: Nouakchott
Morocco: Rabat
Mozambique: Maputo
Namibia: Windhoek
Niger: Niamey
Nigeria: Abuja
Rwanda: Kigali
Senegal: Dakar
Sierra Leone: Freetown
Somalia: Mogadishu
South Africa: Pretoria
Sudan: Khartoum
Swaziland: Mbabane
Tanzania: Dar es Salaam
Togo: Lome
Tunisia: Tunis
Uganda: Kampala
Western Sahara: Laayoune
Zambia: Lusaka
Zimbabwe: Harare
The capitals of African countries?
I’m almost positive that you’re right about that.
Yep.
Oops I forgot. 10 Bonus Points to Rainbow*Storm!!! *cheers**clapping*
Yeah. I’m studying for the New York State Geography Bee.
And so this isn’t a PoPo:
Stuff I’m Doing This Month:
1. GEOGRAPHY BEE!!
2. Skipping school (because of #1)
3. (hopefully) having my friend Luke for a sleepover (on Friday) so we can work on our book! w00t!
4. Posting new book stuff on Books in Progress
5. Going to Florida to visit my grandparents.
6. Hanging out with Jordyn, Riley, and Anthony… whee.
and finally, number 7: Going on Museblog
How To Make an Annoying List
1. Entitle it “How To Make an Annoying List”.
2. Make number 1 “Entitle it ‘How To Make an Annoying List'”.
3. Make number 2 “Make number 1 ‘Entitle it “How To Make an Annoying List”‘”.
4. Make number 3 “Make number 2 ‘Make number 1 “Entitle it ‘How To Make an Annoying List'”‘”.
5. Get bored quickly. End on a random note, leaving several people fuming slightly at horrific use of internal quotation marks.
6. Everybody’s got something to hide, including me and my monkey.
*ahem* “Except for me and my monkey.” Unless you meant to say that…
I meant to. Aren’t you annoyed?
Yes, very.
Sorry. First thing that came into my head. *apologies*
(66, 76) You elevator listmakers are very creative. But, you know, you can make other passengers in an elevator acutely uncomfortable simply by facing away from the door.
How to Confuse People without talking to them
1. Carry confusing, and most likely unrelated objects around with you
2. Wear a trench coat. Even better, wear a brown trench coat with blue pinstripes, and biiiig pockets
3. Have strange devices that have little dishes that go around, and act sad when the little dish isn’t going round.
4. Be very cheery
5. Give people random presents, such as an easter egg.
7. Count to yourself, out loud, and randomly skip a number here and there.
8. Never do the same thing twice
8. Unless you want to confuse them even more.
3,5-
2- I want a brown trench coat with blue pinstripes.
80 – True. true.
How to Annoy People in an Elevator, Part Whateverthisisbynow
?. Declare that there is a mysterious lack of elevator music. Volunteer to fill the empty void.
?. Perform the death scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
?. Paint murals on the walls, lay carpeting, and otherwise decorate the elevator.
?. Stare at your fingernails. Drool. Shake head vigorously. Pretend to bite fingernails off. Repeat.
?. Force people to shake hands with your stuffed llama.
81 – 9. When people ring the doorbell, open the door holding odd objects, like a pineapple, microwave, or set of silverware. Don’t say anything, just stare.
Ok, I just have to do one of these.
?. If you’re a teacher, take your class into the elevator and use the walls as a black board
?. Bring a water gun, and squirt it at everyone who comes in or out.
?. Bring a tent, and live in the elevator.
?. Use a fire extinguisher to provide yourself with a nice cooling breeze
?. Hang streamers
?. Get on and then off again at every stop.
Take a screwdriver and try to pull the carpeting up.
Spray air freshener on the elevator buttons.
Sing your favorite musical.
Rip pages out of the building’s pamphlets and tape them back in upside down.
Have a fake phone call where you try to persuade the person that you are mentally unstable.
Yell The Daleks Are The Masters Of Earth and Exterminate, of course.
Try to balance an egg in the center of the elevator.
Act out Shakespeare’s plays all by yourself.
Pretend to be the Doctor.
Pretend to be a zombie.
Dance wildly.
Fall asleep in a corner.
Bring a laptop in with you. Go to MuseBlog. Read “How to Annoy People in an Elevator” out loud. Laugh evilly.
Bring in a large pizza, and give everyone a slice. If they don’t want one, force feed it to them.
Put your iPod in, and then dance wildly to it, occasionally with others.
Put stakes in the bottom of the elevator, and his whenever somebody walks near those.
Get off at every stop, and get in on the other elevator.
Yell “AHHHHHH! YOU’VE BEEN BUNNIFIED!!!!!” then slam a pie in someones face and run out the door on the next level.
Press all the buttons for all the floors
Pretend to press the emergency button
Make radar noises that get louder and louder as you approach the top floor.
Yell “Get down! They’re shooting!” and see how many people drop.
Yell “AVALANCHE” really loudly, put your hands on your head, and attempt to hid under the door frame.
Jump up and down with an open bottle of soda, and hope it sprays out.
Use red paint to draw twisted smileys on the walls.
Randomly start having an intent conversation about the genetic structure of pineapples with your invisible friend.
Shoot rubber bands.
Flick index cards at the emergency exit hatch to try and get it open.
Jump up and down and try to touch the ceiling.
Attempt to speak Polish at the person standing next to you.
Blurt out things relating to things you have to check.
“DO YOU HAVE A PHONE BOOK WITH YOU?! I NEED TO CALL THE ZOO TO SEE IF MY RESERVATION WAS CANCELED!”
?. Lie on the floor, sigh, and eat flowers. Tie people’s shoelaces together.
?. Argue loudly with yourself over strange things: Whether Gene Simmons’ tongue is fake, if FDR sounds like Captain Kirk, why it would be hard for robots to bruise, etc.
?. Critique the other passengers’ fashion / activity choices. ( “Those shoes make your feet look similar to moldy vegetation.” “I’m getting a headache from your neon trench coat. Possibly it would be beneficial to hand out dark glasses. Or portable guillotines.”)
? Use a mop to clean the walls of the elevator. If irritating comments are made, wash the glasses of the offender with the mop.
Things I need to do in the near future:
1- Re-read the Magic Tree House book where they go to Venice now that I have actually been to Venice.
2- Re-read that book about the archeology of Pompeii now that I have actually been to Pompeii.
3- Write more of my Star Wars/Space Shuttle fan-fic.
4- Completely finish the chapter of my X-Men/NASA fan-fic that I ALMOST finished before I went to Italy.
5- Write the chapter that comes before that one that I skipped.
6- Renew my library books that were due when I was in Italy.
7- Get The Dream is Alive on DVD.
8- Listen to the SVC episodes I missed while I was away.
9- Re-watch Cosmos.
10. Watch the Doctor Who episode where they go to Pompeii.
Oh, that was amazing. But not historically correct.
If it was…
What Not To Do In A Computer Lab
1. Connect your keyboard to someone else’s monitor and type random things on their screen.
2. Carry a random, conspicuous object. Towels are good.
3. Play Pong. For hours. When there’s a long waiting list for your computer.
4. Type and print a 12-page document consisting of smiley faces. ☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺
5. Sit with your face 1/2 inch from the screen.
6. Try to make the computer work by shining a flashlight on it. Rant about how your sonic screwdriver isn’t working.
7. Watch YouTube videos … with the volume all the way up. “Charlie! We found a map to Candy Mountain!”
8. Tape a blank piece of paper over the screen. Click and type intently.
I actually wrote all of these down in my journal because I was bored.
Random Thoughts While Sitting at JFK Airport Boarding Gate:
1. Is that space probe on the last page of my passport supposed to be Voyager or Pioneer? They look the same from the back. (That’s weird)
2. And is it supposed to be flying over Mercury or the Moon. (Wait, if it’s Mercury, wouldn’t that make it Mariner?)
3. Suprising that there’s not a more explicit Apollo reference, given the “Americana” theme.
4. Of course it’s Americana, it’s an American passport, what else would it be?
5. There’s a restaurant over there called Idlewild Wine Bar, probably because Idlewild Airport was the original name for JFK. (I knew that and Mr. McDonald didn’t, so now I feel smart.)
6. I really wanted to buy that Star Wars Fandex in the toy shop, but I don’t have enough room in my backpack.
7. That wrap I just had was good, but the bread was a little dry.
8. The girl in the seat next to me smells like French Fries. (Should French Fries be capitalized?)
9. I should go back to that clock store and find out what time it is in Shanghai, but there probably isn’t time before boarding.
10. I really like traveling by airplane. I like seeing the jumbo jets on the runways, I like hearing people talk in different languages all around me, and I like the airport’s architecture. (Ms. Ellams says Charles DeGaule airport in France is even nice, so I really want to go there now. Next time.)
11. There’s a Lufthansa jet right outside. That’s the German national airline. (No duh!)
12. Yes, these are all coming stream-of-conciousness, more or less.
13. They’re reving up the jets on the Lufthansa plane and I can see the air behind the engine getting all wavy and the big fans spinning really fast. Jet planes rock.
14. I wonder what it was like watching them prep Concordes for takeoff? That must have been awesome. (SpaceShipTwo would be even better)
15. That truck carrying the supplies onto the Lufthansa plane is really long. (Ooooh, and it has rollers on the truck bed to help the airport guys move things along more easily. How clever!)
Edit, as of July 2010-
Having found the painting that was the model for that picture in a NASA book, I can now say most definitely that the probe shown is Pioneer.
Pax’s List of Things to Do Before Dying
1. Eat successfully with chopsticks (Check!)
2. Go kayaking in Alaska
3. Go ocean kayaking
4. Become a counselor at my old camp
5. Go back to Venice and have an epic game of hide and seek, with walkietalkies
6. Go to New York
How to kill a computer slowly:
1. Use for 1/2 decade
2. Take it to see the world (especially tropics)
3. Accidentally fry the power converter (then replace)
4. Download software: surf notorious sites
5. Use constantly
6. Spill nail polish on the keyboard
7. Upgrade until Kingdom come, then run Open Office program(s) + Safari + I-tunes + misc. other programs until it crashes
8. Take it apart three times (whenever the hard disk breaks) and throw away all the little screws that keep ending up left over
9. Spill water near/on it
10. Idly attempt to remove the keyboard while the computer is running
11. Bang it in frustration once in a while
All post the rest later. It has all been done to this unfortunate laptop.
Wow. What colour is the keyboard?
That is one cool avatar.
Thank you. Black holes = awesomeness.
Why Black Holes are awesome:
1. They just are.
2. They make your brain hurt.
3. No escape! *evil cackle*
4. They can KILL you
5. They really, just are that awesome.
6. They really can kill you
7. They play a REALLY important role in Andromeda *is rewatching*
Pink, white and gray. Or was- it’s gone for good now. I accidentally dropped it
How to kill a computer swiftly:
1. Bash it against a wall. A stone wall. A hard stone wall.
-A
And by the way, it’s spelled ‘iTunes’.
Also, in some models – I recently owned a Powerbook that did this – the keyboard is designed to come off at any time.
-A
(Sorry about the correction. It’s a pet peeve of mine.)
-A
Things I Should Be Doing.
1. Practicing trombone.
2. Doing homework.
3. Getting off of the chatroom.
4. Getting off of the chatroom.
5. Getting off of the chatroom.
Things I Am Doing.
1. Making a list of what I am doing.
2. Talking to people on the chatroom.
3. Refusing to accept the fact that I have homework.
4. Thinking about the fact that I am homework.
5. Feeling guilty about the fact that I am:
5. a. Not doing homework.
b. Not practicing trombone.
6. Getting off of the chatroom, already.
7. Getting off MuseBlog, too.
8. Goodbye.
STFDP.
Reasons Why I Will Win History Day.
1. The judges at regionals said our documentary could be on the History Channel.
2. Everyone liked it at school today. Meryem said the music was good and people liked the clip of FDR.
3. Ms. Social Studies Sears says our research is amazing.
4. We even went to Mt. Holyoke and the Massachusetts Historical Society and interviewed a famous author ( and filmed her and put her in our documentary ).
5. I think our topic is pretty good.
6. We won first place at regionals.
7. We are in eighth grade and we have eighth grade advantange.
8. We are experienced. We did History Day at states last year.
9. We really know a lot about our topic.
Reasons Why I Won’t Win History Day.
1. Some of the pictures in the documentary are messed up in terms of timing.
2. We might flop our interview because we haven’t decided what the question we want the judges to ask us is.
3. Our documentary might fail in the TV.
4. Some of the pictures we used in the documentary weren’t cited in the bibliography.
5. There are nine other groups to compete against. ( Two go on. )
6. The judges might not like us.
7. The other people’s documentaries might be really good.
8. Just bad luck.
9. That other thing that I thought of this afternoon that I can’t think of now.
Pros of Losing.
1. I’ll be able to go outside for recess again, and not be forced to spend about seven hours inside the school every day.
2. I won’t have to spend as much time with Ella and Chloé, who can sometimes be annoying.
3. No more reading books on History Day and convincing Ella to do research.
4. I can leave right after school.
5. I can spend more time with my friends.
6. I can go to math elective again!
7. I won’t have to spend eight hours on a bus to DC for national competitions.
8. I won’t have to spend hours fixing THIRTY-TWO PAGES of spacing, hanging, proper tabbing, grammar, etc. in my bibliography.
9. I won’t have to edit my process paper anymore.
10. I won’t constantly be freaking out over History Day.
11. I’ll be able to go to specialist!
12. And other things of the sort.
Cons of Losing.
1. I won’t be able to go to DC.
2. I don’t like losing.
3. I made it to states last year, but not nationals, and I really want to this year.
4. I’ll have to go to all of my classes.
5. I won’t be able to spend time with my friends who aren’t in any of my classes.
6. I won’t be able to go to DC.
7. I’ll feel terrible when I see other people going to DC.
8. I worked really, really hard on my project this year and so did Ella and it will be extremely disappointing if we don’t make it.
9. I will have had to sit through an extremely stressful awards ceremony…for NOTHING. ( This is, possibly, the most important con. )
10. I will be completely crushed in the awards ceremony and
have to stand up, humiliated, for honorable mentionI might not even get that!11. I’ve never been to DC and I really want to go.
Pros of Winning.
1. I’ll get to go to DC! And
2. It will be fun!
3. I’ll be all excited because I’ll have won!
4. I’ll probably get to go to DC with my friends.
5. If I go to DC and so does Fishy I will Kokon with Fishy.
6. I’ll be very proud. So will Ella.
7. The awards ceremony will have been worth it.
8. I’ll get to skip a few days of school to go to DC.
9. I’ll continue skipping classes.
10. And that’s it, but they’re all important and positive feelings. Really I’d much rather win.
Cons of Winning
1. I’ll have to spend eight hours on a bus to DC.
2. I’ll miss my friends who aren’t in History Day.
3. I’ll have to spend five days with my social studies teacher.
4. We’ll have to get up really early – wait, I do that every day anyway.
5. I’ll have to make up tons of work when I get back.
6. I’ll have to keep working on History Day while simultaneously convincing Ella that Yes, we do have to keep trying, because if we don’t then we will have NO CHANCE of winning at nationals, and YES WE DO care about winning at nationals!
7. I’ll have to keep skipping recess, and electives, and going home at 4 instead of 2:30, etc.
8. I’ll have to continue editing 32 pages and up of bibliography, and FIXING THE STUPID SPACING, and entering, and tabbing, etc.
9. Ella will have to keep working on the movie.
10. I’ll be super busy.
THE END
Can I add on a bit? No? Too bad, I have to.
This could be in Pros of Winning:
11. Pseudo and I will hide in your suitcase and be able to Kokon with Fishy too.
12. Silver Lining, Enceladus, AM, Beetles, RQ, Armada, and any other MBer from here would probably hide in your suitcase to Kokon with Fishy, too.
This could be in Cons of Winning(for you at least):
11. Pseudo and I will hide in your suitcase and be able to Kokon with Fishy too.
12. Silver Lining, Enceladus, AM, Beetles, RQ, Armada, and any other MBer from here would probably hide in your suitcase to Kokon with Fishy, too.
No, I’m being the trenchcoat. Remember? And too bad if Maggie doesn’t own a trenchcoat, I will be the trenchcoat.
GUYS! I WON! I GOT SECOND! *squee* FISHYYYY! YOU BETTER WIN TOO! I’LL BE PRAYING FOR YOU! TO FRANCES PERKINS!
Oh yeah, and you guys can totally hide out in my suitcase if you want
Congratulations!
What we found when we picked up rubbish in the quad below our Year 8 language classrooms:
1. Candy wrappers, and the usual stuff.
2. An old BLACK sock (our school ones are white).
3. Pencils and pens (someone said people in her Year 8 Italian class threw them out the window all the time).
4. An old perfume bottle (which we tried to open, then someone threw it against the wall, then we gave up).
Just so you know, everyone else there is in my French class.
What I found whan we did Tidy-Up Tredyffirn:
1. A Rake
2. Trash
3. An old ball
4. A CAKIN’ ANIMAL SKULL!!!!!!
Seriously, while we were walking, someone spotted something white, and it was a skull!
Ooh, cool. What kind of animal?
Odd things I have had arguments about in recent memory
1. Whether Oompa-Loompas have mustaches
2. Whether FDR sounds like Captain Kirk
3. Whether bleeding disproves Cleverbot-ness
4. How toilet paper is manufactured
5. Whether Gene Simmons’s tongue is real/whether Kiss lights a paper-mache mastodon on fire after every performance
Random Things I Have Suprised People By Knowing In Recent Memory:
1) The origins of the science of vulcanology.
2) How to say “bellybutton” in Latin.
3) Yuri Gagarin’s birthday.
4) Who George Mallory was.
5) The complete history of the former EPCOT attraction The Living Seas.
6) The translation of the inscription on Raphael’s tomb.
7) The fact that the Pope has a moon rock.
Things Pseudonym has/has had unhealthy obsessions with:
1. The Beatles, especially George. (Of course)
2. David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust
3. Cephalopods.
4. David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust.
5. This thread.
6. David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust.
7. Avocados.
8.. David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust.
9. Queen/Freddy Mercury.
10. David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust.
(No, I’m not obsessed at all . Why do you ask?
)
Things Keiffer has/has had unhealthy obsessions with:
1. The Beatles, especially George. (Of course)
2. David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust
3. Cephalopods.
4. David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust.
5. Nosferatu.
6. The Beatles, especially George. (Of course)
7. David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust
8. My blobling, Silver Lining.
9. Nosferatu.
10. MuseBlog. (Duh.)
11. deviantART.
12. Gchat.
Things With Which Silver Lining Has/Has Had Unhealthy Obsessions:
1. The Beatles, especially George
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2. The Beatles, especially Ringo
3. Help! (the movie)
4. A Hard Day’s Night (the movie)
5. Yellow Submarine (the movie)
6. nigahiga
7. Cats
8. My blobling, Keiffer (I just found an old email that simply said, “No, I’m going to stalk Keiffer today.”
9. MuseBlog
Uh…I’ll probably think of more later…
Isn’t that the youtube guy?
-A
Artists/bands Fireh has/had unhealthy obsessions with:
1. Love and Theft
2. David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust
3. Liz Eckert
4. David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust
5. Mika
6. Bowie/Stardust
7. Love and Theft.
Band that Ducky has had an unhealthy obsession with:
1. Jethro Tull.
Things Cskia has/had healthy/unhealthy obsessions with:
1. Pokemon.
2. The Cheshire Cat! (so furry!!!)
3. Pokemon.
4. MuseBlog!!!
5. deviantArt (although I mayn’t admit it! But alas!)
6. The Cheshire Cat!!! (and other Wonderland characters)
7. Pokemon. (*sigh* I’m trying, I’m trying…)
8. deviantArt (although I mayn’t admit it! But alas!)
9. Titan…
How to Make a Long Trip to Italy Interesting:
1) Play with your camera’s ISO setting and take cruddy night shots of beautiful scenery.
2) Tell bad jokes and really nerdy puns that nobody will get unless they’ve read obscure 30-year-old comics.
3) Pretend to run in fear from trash cans that look like Daleks.
4) Get your friends to pretend to beat up the trash cans and photograph this.
5) Tell everybody about how you saved Florence from the Dalek invasion.
6) Randomly to be talkink in bad Russian accent is always surefire way of enlivenink thinks wery much.
Things Old People Say:
1) Whippersnapper
2) “When I was your age…”
3) “Get off my lawn!”
4) Indians (Rather than Native Americans)
5) Skin-diving/ aqualung (Where “scuba” would be appropriate)
6) Stewardess (Rather than flight attendant)
7) Cape Kennedy
Unless you’re old enough and crusty enough that you never stopped saying Cape Canaveral in the first place.
I say number one. And number two. A lot of people, Native Americans and myself included, say number four. And I say number six. And occasionally number seven, though I don’t know why.
When I say Aqualung… *is a Jethro Tull obsessed freak*
I was noticing that on my BCD last time I went diving.
95- I say 1, 5, and 6.
I mean 4. Not 5.
(Notice I didn’t call it “Things ONLY Old People Say”.)
You’re Obsessed With Someone When…
1. You sing their name to the tune of your favorite songs. ( i.e. “It’s a quarter after one, I’m all alone, and I need you GEORGE!” )
2. You print out pictures of them and tape them to your pillow.
3. You write their names all over your shoes. *cough*PSEUDO’SCONVERSE*cough*
4. You obsess over their best feature and try to imitate it. ( i.e., plucking your eyebrows so you can have “Sexy eyebrows.” )
5. Randomly, you’ll just stop walking/doing whatever and stare off into space thinking of them.
6. You insist that you’re from the country/place the object of your obsession is from.
That’s all.
Oh wait, I forgot:
7. You attempt to dress like them.
Okay I’m done.
*needs to get pointy ears*
*loves how that in a way she doesn’t have to pretend for 6 in a way for JB* He grew up in Illinois. Not gonna say more here…
In the case of Beatlemaniacs:
8. You yell “SHAZAM!” in random places (The middle of the sidewalk, the lawn outside the library, the middle of a Wiffle ball field), and then throw yourself onto the floor.
List of yesterday’s fails:
-My water bottle smelled like Gatorade. Which entirely ruined the flavour of the vinegar drink.
-I didn’t like about two thirds of the “Good Poetry” book my mom got me.
-The grocery bags fail. ‘Nuff said.
-Trying to sing falsetto
-Managing to sit in the one spot in the church (my sister’s youth orchestra had a rehearsal there) where the sun shone through the stained-glass windows on me like a spotlight.
-My shirt matched the stained-glass windows.
-Thinking :negative: was a smiley.
-Spelling Enc as Emc without even noticing.
-Trying to sing falsetto
-Getting really hyper on ice cream
-Dancing around in the mall/in front of the sushi place like an idiot
-Trying to sing/scream falsetto
-My left ear still sticks out more than my right ear. And it’s pretty noticable. -_-
-Trying to sing falsetto
-S’s parents were talking about how my shirt-thingy was like something that was the fashion when they were young. XD
-My left sandal makes this LOUD clack on stairs/when I jump up and down.
-I said that I couldn’t put my shinai together properly- at the exact same as I figured out what I was doing wrong.
-The first thing I said to M was “Good Morning. Jump off a cliff?”
-My left foot WILL NOT stay in the right position, no matter how hard I try. It will not stay parallel.
-Dancing and singing at the top of my lungs in the mall.
-I talked to J for like six seconds total
-I cracked up laughing during the orchestra rehearsal because of something S’s dad said. You don’t want to know what it was. It was really really not something that should be said in a church. Ok, fine. “He Was Raisin.” we were discussing whether “Is” was the right verb in “He Is Risen”…
-Trying to sing falsetto.
*dances and sings very, very loudly to Bohemian Rhapsody*
Things to Do With Your Friends.
1. Go to the movies.
2. Go to H. Square in neighboring town.
3. Go to D. Square in town you live in.
4. Go to the mall.
5. Go to someone’s house.
6. Go hang out at the playground.
And that’s it. How are we supposed to make plans when there’s only six options and I’m currently not allowed to do numbers 2, 3, and six??
*sings* Sorry, sorry, sorry for the Double Post, Double Post, sorry, sorry, sorry for the Post!
Things You Can Make Wishes On
1. 11:11
2. Eyelashes
3. Birthday candles ( which only comes once a year so it better be a good one! )
4. Puffy, fuzzy, gray dandelions
5. Heart-shaped rocks ( when you throw them into the water: the ocean, rivers, swamps, etc. )
6. Any other special rocks, like moon rocks or rocks with holes in them
7. Wishbones
8. Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight…
9. Also, shooting stars
10. That bush at DARTS
11. The bridge at Ouareau
12. Those OTHER THINGS t hat I can’t think of right now. Addendums, anyone?
13. The jar thing for history Day that hasn’t given my spoon back…
I used to wish on flaming marshmallows….
Wait, you can set a-
Oh, nevermind. I don’t even want the answer to that.
-A
Of course you can! Then when you blow it out, it’s all black and charred.
(And delicious.) Gradster, haven’t you ever roasted marshmallows on a campfire? If you stick them in the flame too long, they catch on fire!
Maggie- You can wish on dreams come true!
And also on rocks with a ring around them, the same way as heart shaped rocks.
Really?? That seems easier than finding heart-shaped rocks. But heart-shaped rocks are prettier.
Oh, in a campfire. Like, in actual flame. For some reason, that didn’t occur to me.
-A
If you peel a clementine in one piece you get a wish.
If you peel it in two pieces, do you get two wishes?
No, you get half a wish. As in, you have to do it twice for it to count.
Things I should be doing:
1. Going to bed.
2. Sleeping.
3. Getting ready to do either of those two or both.
4. Homework, maybe. I don’t really think I have any, actually, which is good. Oh well. I’ll check tomorrow.
Things I’ll do tomorrow:
1. Homework, probably. I mean, if I have any, that is.
2. Go to school.
3. Refuse to go to the fitness centre.
4. Count down the hours until holiday.
5. Other stuff. See appendix A.
Appendix A:
I’m too lazy to write Appendix A. Which is the same reason that number five is not specific.
Mmyep.
Ayup.
(Yes.)
-A
How to be Enceladus:
1. Be insane. Just a general rule.
2. Instead of groaning, say “Yarlge” or something else ending in “lge”
3. Be sadistic, yet nice.
4. Listen to Chameleon Circuit
5. FAIL at writing song lyrics.
6. Sometimes end your lists in periods, sometimes don’t
7. Use long and obscure words.
8. Make Beatles references
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10. Turn yourself into a vampire using GIMP
11. Be a vampire.
12. Be a ninja.
13. Be 13.
Wait, at least ten of those could very well aplly to me.
Does that make me Enc?
Thirteen of those apply to me. Does that make me Enc?
Yes!
Six of those apply to me, but only five would have yesterday.
14. Be a Time lord.
15. Don’t be just a Time Lord, be the Master!
Things I Am Excited About:
1) Tomorrow, I’m going to meet Fred Haise!
2) And see Apollo 13 in IMAX!
3) We just had chicken quesadillas for dinner, with guacamole.
4) This beautiful weather.
5) Obama’s new space plan.
6) The DVD I just got from the library, containing variou space documentaries.
7) The fact that said DVD contains an Apollo 15 documentary.
8) Disney’s planing to produce Steampunk-themed trading pins.
9) It’s Friday!
Unattributed lists of silly laws have appeared on the blog before:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=3513#comment-310928
Tennessee: It is legal to eat roadkill.
I have some friends who once pulled over to the side of the road upon seeing a driver run over a deer and their parents asked the driver “If you’re not going to eat it, can we have it?”
Research Questions For One Chapter Of One Story I Am Writing:
1- Do most people know Greek mythology?
2- What time does it get dark in Huntsville in early February?
3- What model plane would a 5-year-old most want in 1976?
4- Could a NASA engineer realistically never have heard of the X-33?
5- Would a five-year-old know the names of all of the planets?
6- At what point in his cancer was Wernher von Braun hospitalized?
7- Does dialing *69 to find out who last called you work if the call came from a pay phone?
How to attract blank stares
1. Wear a large turnip on a string around your neck.
2. Carry a fake torch and a pitchfork.
3. Glue a rubber bat to your face. Convince others that it’s a mustache.
4. Perform calisthenics on the sidewalk.
5. Lie on your stomach and slither around.
6. Be an urban ninja.
Alternative 6: Yell “Hi Ninja!” at random passerby.
7. While wearing a Pink Floyd cape and a gas mask-thing, bicycle around town.*
8. Yodel.
*There’s a person who does this in the town where I live
That was fun when we all yelled “Hi Ninja” at the ninja dude, and he replied and only looked at us semi weirdly.
*drags towel buddy back to that day to laugh at it*
Reasons To Semi-Revive this Semi-asleep thread.
1. Pseudonym told me to.
2. Lists are fun.
3. Umm…
4. I have nothing better to do.
5.
How to be Maths Lover:
1. Be the last person to catch the bus. Every day. So the driver asks you if you’re going to be late for Saturday.
2. Think sitting in maths class listening to your teacher explain how to calculate Z scores is fun, even though it’s fifth period and you’re dead tired and have PE next so it doesn’t really make sense.
3. Forget your hat for PE twice in a row, then leave your shirt in your locker, so race all the way up there from the gym and back so you don’t get a detention.
4. Doodle a hot-pink 42, a pie, and a Dalek exterminating Doctor Who after you finish your NAPLAN tests and the rest of the class is throwing paper planes at each other/writing “I love (some other popular chick) notes”/talking/waiting for the bell because our homeroom sucks.
5. Hate the Twilight books but get insanely excited when you see the Eclipse trailer (seriously! It looks awesome!).
6. Obsess about Spock, Carlisle, Welsh accents, and Doctor Who instead of Jacob(yes, he’s hot, but have you see Spock’s eyebrows?), Zac Efron, Justin Beiber, etc. with the girls in your PE class.
7. Be one of the few people in your English class who haven’t seen (a TV show your English teacher mentioned) because the only TV you ever watch is Doctor Who.
All of these except 4 happened on Friday, too.
* laughs * Most of those apply to me too. (Well, some of them at least )
You’d probably like the TOS episode “Patterns Of Force”. It has Spock shirtless.
Top ten reasons why american relatives are awesome:
1. They always have some ice-cream left over in their fridge
2. They never try to kill you through any sport-related activity
3. They go shopping with you
…
Top ten reasons why austrian relatives are awesome:
1. They never have disgusting clumps of leftover ice cream in their fridges
2. They will go hiking/bike riding/*insert random sport here* with you
3. They would never go shopping with you
…
Ack, I’ll finish this later…
You don’t have to eat the ice cream.
Books/Series I Need To Read (in No Order):
1. Warriors,
2. Artemis Fowl
3. Rest of Jane Austen
4. Hunger Games
5. Lots of others I can’t remember right now.
Signs Your Computer Breaks Too Much:
1. You’ve taken computer apart five times to fix this single problem.
2. You’ve memorized the steps to taking it apart.
3. You consider taking out the fan to be trivial.
4. You no longer need any help whatsoever to take out most parts.
5. You know exactly which screws are missing in your computer.
I’m assuming you have a pc- every time I took my old mac apart, I was left with several screws. I had something like 15 before the thing actually broke.
Actually, I have a Mac. It’s about seven years old though, and does surprisingly well. I think it’s actually only crashed twice, but both of those were serious enough to need several disassemblies before we figured out what was happening.
Currently, we’re ordering a new logic board, and then it will hopefully work again. It’ll be here sometime this week, apparently!
Things I have in my school diary:
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1. My timetable.
2. A picture of Spock.
3. Random pieces of paper.
4. A science worksheet.
5. A permission note to prepare laptops over the holidays for Term 3 because they’re giving every high school in Australia laptops.
6. An unsigned late pass from last week. (Ooh, I missed some of Commerce!)
7. Question sheet about eating disorders from someone’s English oral.
8. Answer sheet for the above.
9. Note about the ICAS Science competition.
10. Palm cards for my English oral.
11. Printed-out quote to use for said oral’s poster.
12. Two more science worksheets.
13. Printed-out email conversation I had with L in French class.
14. Doodle I did after I finished one of the NAPLAN tests(the one with the pie, Dalek, Doctor, and other nerdy stuff). (One of the populars drew a stick figure with glasses holding hands with a green stick figure with pointy ears, a love heart, herself, etc., and gave it to me, but I don’t know where it is.)
15. List of websites for the English oral.
16. Two more late passes, signed this time. (Ooh, that’s from the time I was really late to Commerce class!)
17. Drink bottle order form I never bothered filling out.
18. Five postcards.
19. Brochures about NAPLAN and the Year 10 Certificate.
20. Drawing of a non-bunnified lightbulb. (Yeah, I know.
21. Sudoku sheet they gave out after a maths class.
22. Assignment receipts.
23. Commerce oral palm cards. (Meh.)
*stares at list* Wow, that’s a lot.
*after a maths test
ICAS = Inventive Child Abuse System.
MCAS = Massachusetts Comprehensive Abuse System.
SAT = Stupid Annoying Testing.
My goals this summer:
1. Read Fahrenheit 451
2. Read The Communist Manifesto
3. Introduce more people to Doctor Who
4. Make people watch real Star Trek, not the new movie
5. Email Stephen Moffat with a plot idea f+h and I came up with
6. Watch at least one full episode/ movie with each Doctor
7. Write an entire Doctor Who fanfiction
8. Write a script
9. Finish the script
10. Introduce people to Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog
11. Memorize all of the songs in Dr. Horrible
12. Master GIMP, completely and utterly (Which means I need to figure out channels, and probably some other stuff)
13. Not cut my hair
14. Finally get my brain around the fact I’m a FRESHMAN
15. Put “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” posters up everywhere
16. Write at least one chapter of cyberpunk
17. Write at least one chapter of steampunk
18. Write at least one chapter of Isaac Asimov style science fiction
19. Write at least one chapter of Orson Scott Card style science fiction
20. Write at least one chapter of epic fantasy (LotR style)
21. Write at least one chapter of soft fantasy (HP)
22. Write at least one depressing poem (Poe style)
23. Not become depressed or anti-social
24. Not become wrapped up in popularity or self image
25. Form a band (Hopefully with Sudo, or other MBers in my area who play instruments)
26. Actually play music with that band
27. Not die
Does that sound like too much?
My goals this summer:
1. Read the six books I’m supposed to read for various AP classes.
Status: I’ll get around to it.
There you go. Perfect list. My exact thoughts towards my own Summer Projects, just condensed to a very small section.
My Current Status: “Look, I could have sworn that cloud went by twenty minutes ago……”
My goals this summer:
1. Be able to play Clare de Lune, even if only just barely.
2. Email Moffat the plot idea that I came up with. (You just said I should send it in, I was the one who came up with it.)
3. Write a novel with a good plot.
4. Memorize all the songs in Dr. Horrible.
5. Try to get as good at GIMP as Enc is.
6. Have hair grown out to at least mid-back.
7. Start a band with Ginger, Holly, and some other friends.
8. Write music for said band.
9. Record music with said band.
10. Put videos of said band on YouTube.
11. Not be depressed.
12. Not die.
13. Write a story that is all my favourite genres (Steampunk, cyberpunk, sci-fi, fantasy) put together.
14. Write lots of poetry
15. Find some new books to read that are actually worth reading.
16. Get better at kendo.
17. Wear my hot pink yoga pants somewhere where there are a lot of people, and randomly fall to the ground screaming “AAAAH! THE HOT PINK! IT IS POISONING ME!”
Or not.
18. Dive off a diving board in a swimming pool.
19. Make new friends.
20. Not scare off new friends or convince them that I’m completely insane.
Was #7 what you were talking about the other day? I call lead guitar! Or Holly could be lead guitar. My preference isn’t very notable, but we should most definitely start a band! I’m learning Ukalala, so maybe….or maybe not on the Ukalala.
I like #12, too. That wouldn’t be too awfully well considering we’re starting a said band. Any ideas on a band name? Plus, don’t be worried about making new friends (19 & 20), then scaring them off. You’re an awesome best friend, and it would most doubtfully be their loss.
Holly’s not very good at guitar, you can be lead. I’ll be keyboard, I’ve got several violinist friends so we don’t have to use my sister, and I’ve got a friend who plays drums but Holly hates him so that won’t work……
28. FINALLY write my contribution to the ST(S) story…
By the way, Enc, upon reading your goal of not cutting your hair, I immediately imagined you with SudoRandom-esque long hair. *laughs* And then my mom wanted to know why I was laughing hysterically.
Our band will be the next ZZ Top but with hair not beards!
I’ll be in that band, but I won’t play drums.
I AM A FRESHMAN AND GUESS WHAT?
My Sister’s Keeper is on the list of suggested books for Grade 12 students. I ask you!
I wonder what my English teacher will think of me reading the Communist Manifesto… *cackles evilly*
They have it free on Project Gutenburg.
SFTDP
We can both sing then (French Horn =/= Rock-ish instrument)
So, Sudo plays guitar (I think?) You and I are singing (Unless you play guitar too). AM might sing, or we could be cool and have him play violin… Do Keiffer or Nym play anything?
I believe he plays bass guitar. I’ll offer to play the drums (lifelong dream), even though my sense of rhythm is incredibly off! I could always sing too….Nym plays piano, and KEIFZ plays saxophone, so does Nym and I think Sudo does too (?).
Sounds great! But do you live close enough to have a practice without a great big planning deal?
Yes, I should think so. What would we call this band, hmm?
Something Muse-related, of course. If it wasn’t Muse-related I would never forgive you guys.
Or MuseBlog related, at least.
How about “Bunny Apocalypse”? You could put an umlaut over the “u” for that metal look.
Perhaps…
The name I suggested (Though not MuseBlog related) was “(Number of Band members) Blind Mice”.
Or, we could do something Muse has had an article on. “The OED” or “The Naming Of Names”
I like “The Naming of Names”.
I also like the idea of a band named “The Naming of Names.” Especially in response to the question, “What’s the name of your band?”
So, it would be pronounced “boony apocalypse”?
Oh dear. o.o
Hm, possibly. Maybe that’s not quite the image you want to project.
Naming bands is fun. How about Simple Simon (after the fellow in the nursery rhyme who met the pie man)? The Bipeds? The Memes? The Spores?
one of my teachers in high school used to keep a list of potential band names on the wall by her desk. i have seen her on occasion stop class, exclaim “that’s a good band name!” jump up, and write it on the list before continuing the lesson.
Tubular Luggage.
(Pies to anyone who gets the reference)
SFTDP
Mannequin?
I’ve been sitting on Troupe as a band name for a long time…
We can get KEIFZ on drums!
Wait Emi is my bad.
Gah. Jonah said my name!But Keiffer can takes drums if she so pleases because I’d much much rather sing. And I can’t think of any, especially not any Muserly, band names.
Hey wait! An idea! Our logo could somehow incorporate all our smileys (
Have we agreed on “The Naming Of Names”? I’ll design the logo.
Funny (though not serious) idea: IF we named our band “Big Brother” at a concert we could put up a big poster saying “Big Brother Is Watching You” XD
Hey, that’s what I wanted to call MY band!
Both play saxophone. I’ll sing with you but I’m not very good.
Wait, actually, Nym also plays piano. She could do keyboard.
SFTDP
Oh gosh Silver Lining posted too. I didn’t see that. Sorry.
WE’RE STARTING A BAND? O.O
i am trying to learn bass guitar, but so far unsuccessfully. make it a ska band and i’ll play trumpet for you though
I’d like to play violin. Violin in rock-ish music = epic win. (In my opinion.)
Have you heard of Mark Wood? He does that sort of thing. My music school actually played in a concert/fundraiser with him a few years back. I still have the t-shirt and some of the sheet music.
I’ll play… uh… keyboard… well, I don’t know how to play the keyboard, but I could learn… or maybe I could play the theremin, I have experience with the theremin…
One problem with lots of people joining- you aren’t close enough to have regular practices of performances. (Unless you live in Eastern MA.)
who says we have to do live shows? give me something to play and i’ll record it for you xP
I think you should be revolutionary and muserly and make French Horn be a Rock-ish instrument. It would sound cool.
Agreed, but male vocalists are nice. Maybe he would do both.
True. (I’m probably going to alternate between clarinet, keyboard, and vocals in me and Ginger’s theoretical band)
Completed 2, 12, 14, 15, 25.
Perhaps I should change it to “goals for the rest of the summer and freshmand year”
Freshmand?
The past tense of freshman.
My goals for this summer:
1. Fix my laptop.
2. Finish work on my NaNo’s characters.
3. Rewrite my NaNo.
4. Edit my rewritten NaNo.
5. Practice violin occasionally. Hopefully nearly every day, but…
6. Write that thing my sister asked me to.
7. Finish the current season of Doctor Who and maybe the rest.
My goals for this summer:
1) Download actual music onto my iTouch instead of just listening to YouTube videos.
2) Meet up with Erin to do something fun, possibly at the Intrepid.
3) Finish the 2010 arc of my NASA/X-Men fan-fic
4) If time permits, either start the 2011 arc or finish the 2012 arc (It was originally the 2010 arc, but things changed to make the scenario impossible until 2012, so now I have half a 2010 arc and half a 2012 arc and no 2011 in between.)
5) Write several chapters of my Shuttlepunk/Star Wars story, not necessarily in sequence, as each chapter is somewhat self-contained. (But definitely write STS-1 and the Battle of Endor)
6) Stargaze.
7) Visit Brookhaven National Laboratory for one of their Summer Sundays events. (Hopefully the day they let visitors tour the atom-smasher… er, Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider.)
I think I have to work on #1, too.
I have a weird obsession with listening to music on YouTube even though it would be so easy to just buy off of iTunes. *sigh*
Same here. Also, I think I’ve forgotten my iTunes password.
My goals:
1. Finish at least five seasons of Dr. Who
2. Watch Torchwood/Firefly
3. Watch a few seasons of Star Trek
4. Go outside occasionally
5. Learn more Latin
6. Read the medical dictionary cover to cover
7. Go to camp
My goals:
1. Practice trombone enough to stay good at it.
2. Have no other goals.
Addendum:
3. Get a high score on Frost Bite on the Nitrome website.
So does that mean you failed number 2?
Um…oops. XD
Summer Goals:
1. Learn enough Latin to be in honors Latin next year.
2. Watch the rest of new series Doctor Who.
3. Watch some classic Doctor Who.
4. Watch the rest of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
5. If the Muser band actually gets formed, join it.
6. Write some complete short story/novel/fanfiction/script/etc.
7. Practice chess.
8. Do something impossible according to the laws of physics. (Please?)
9. Stop being afraid of what other people think.
10. Get at least somewhat good at GIMP.
Summer goals:
1. Read lots.
2. Have many of the aforementioned things I read be quiz bowl lit.
3. Write decent quiz bowl questions.
4. Understand enough model theory to actually do my research next year.
5. Not be a complete outcast at math camp. (I don’t really see this happening.)
Goals
1. Read.
2. Watch Dr. Who.
3. Take over the world.
4. Read a lot of xkcd.
5. Teach Ambystoma Maculatum Latin.
6. Make random people lose the game. (Hey! You just lost the game!)
7. Reread HG2TG.
8. Make more lists.
How to Be Silver Lining:
1. Write poetry
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2. Go on the computer a tad more than is healthy
3. Spin in circles a lot
4. Be a hypocrite
5. Tyyyyyyypeeee stufffffffff liiiiiikeeeee thiiiiiisssss
6. Have a fear of popsicle sticks
7. Have really, really, really delayed reactions (especially to things that are funny)
8. Have OCD about 11:11
9. Use listening to Revolution 9 (forwards or backwards) as a form of self-mutilation (jk
10. Be very contradictory
10a. Be sarcastic but sincere
10b. Be cynical but cheerful
10c. Be blunt/harsh (all the time) but considerate (sometimes)
11. Be loud
12. Overuse parentheses…and ellipses…
13. Be almost thirteen
Addendum:
14. Be a raving Beatlemaniac
15. Hold long conversations with yourself
16. Be obsessed with quotes
17. Have a scary memory
A fear of popsicle sticks??
I can’t stand them. They make me all cold and feel yucky and weird. It’s kind of hard to explain…
12 of those apply to me. On the other hand, there were a lot to begin with.
How To Be Princess_Magnolia
1. Have delusions of being royal. XD
2. Scream whenever someone else screams.
3. Obsessively write in a journal.
4. Think a lot.
5. Love the Beatles. Think David Bowie is annoying.
6. Obsess over academics, i.e., constantly worry about your report cards, study a LOT ( but only the day before a test ), be willing to spend eight hours on a train to do research for History Day.
7. Listen to the Top 40 station occasionally.
8. Apply LOTS of sunscreen when you’re going to be in direct sunlight.
9. Read a lot of books, especially romance novels and historical fiction.
10. Read fashion magazines, Entertainment Weekly, and celebrity tabloids on long trips.
11. Wipe out the tub before you take a shower.
12. Post too much on MuseBlog.
13. Randomly start dancing ( badly ) sometimes.
14. Obsessively check the R&R thread.
15. Be a terrible correspondent.
16. Believe in things like wishing on 11:11 and candy hearts speaking The Truth.
17. Play the trombone.
18. Want to push that Bad Kid who stuck PAPER in my trombone mouthpiece in the Charles River.
19. Be bad at speaking French.
20. Make really long lists.
*choklit* if you read that, and if more than five of those things apply to you, you’re either me or my long-lost blobling.
Or Pseudonym.
Well, 2, 4, 9, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, and 20 all apply to me. Does this mean we’re long-lost bloblings?! Or does it mean that I’m really you? *confusion*
Hmm, I don’t know.
2, 4, 6, 9, 14, 19, and 20 apply to me, and I wouldn’t call myself “long-lost”.
Yay, two bloblings so far.
4, 9, 12, 14, 18, 20.
I’m a blogling by one point!
six of those apply, but only because i gave myself half-points on two of them (5 – love the beatles, but i also like david bowie 9 – read a lot, but dislike romance novels). other than that , 4, 12, 13, 15, and 19 (only because i don’t speak french at all)
Current List of Idols:
1. Bobby Flay
2. Billy Bell
3. Kokonilly
4. Nym
5. Snowball the dancing cockatoo
6. Oddness In An Alien Form (whomever she may be on the AE thread)
What about Alex Wong?? Clearly, there are some flaws in your list.
But Alex Wong doesn’t have nearly as cool a name as BILLY BELL.
Kai–
Maybe so, but I just get the urge to end his last name with a -y as well. And that sounds much less cool.
-A
Alex Wongy. *shudder*
No, Billy Belly, I think. *laughs*
Billy Belly. Ah.
Indeed.
At first I read that as “Current List of Idiots”, and I was quite offended…
How To Be Ducky:
1. Love ducks.
2. Have a music addiction.
3.Be very weird.
4. Like all animals that don’t hurt my ducks.
5. Want to kill anything that harms my ducks.
6. Spend an unhealthy amount of time on MB.
7. Spend an unhealthy amount of time on the computer in general.
8. STARE at things.
9. Frequently pretend to be an animal.
9.2. Or a plant.
10. Have really weird dreams, and some boring ones too.
11. Love horses, donkey, mules, and hinnies.
12. Be obsessed with Jethro Tull.
13. Be obsessed with Pink Floyd.
14. Be very secretive.
15. Have a strange fear of being surrounded by empty space.
16. Play the flute.
17. Be very bad at dancing and singing, but do both whenever certain songs play.
18. Sort of play the tin whistle and pan flute.
19. Be obsessed with Doctor Who.
20. Enjoy frightening people.
21. Enjoy confusing people.
Do you mean you enjoy people who are frightening/confusing, or causing people to be frightened/confused?
Causing people to be frightened/confused.
How to be Enceladus, take two:
1. Ask close acquaintances random, complicated questions (What happens when an Anti- Proton and electron collide?)
2. Perform shadow checks to see how many shadows you have.
3. Search out Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, H2G2 and Star Trek slash fanfictions. (Well, not search out, but immediately look at them if you see any.
4. Watch more than four seasons of Red Dwarf in two days.
5. Be obsessed with Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, H2G2, Star Trek,, Invader ZIM, Dr. Horrible, and MuseBlog at the same time (Which leads to very interesting crossovers, let me tell you.)
6. Practically memorize the Doctor Who episode Blink, yet still enjoy it when you rewatch it.
7. When drawing/ Writing Invader ZIM fanfiction, only make OCs because the you think the original series wasn’t long enough to give you an accurate picture of anybody’s personality.
8. Make long and unnecessarily complicated fanfic plots for getting yourself aboard Red Dwarf/ The TARDIS/ The Heart Of Gold/ The Enterprise.
9. Never actually write those plots down.
10. Read Logicomix at least once every month.
11. Memorize all of the Dr. Horrible songs by heart.
12. Make long and unnecessarily complicated fanfictions plots to explain discrepencies between episodes of TV shows.
13. Laugh at crappy special effects, but still appreciate the story.
14. Hate canned laughter.
15. Hat spellling mistaeks.
16. Be convinced you’re hypocritical.
17. Try and be logically perfect in philosophy and in life
18. Except when it comes to fanfictions
19. Oddly speak much, AM especially.
20. Write commentary along with your notes (This commetary is self referatial about being self referential about being…)
21. Have great ambitions
22. Be nearly certain you won’t achieve those.
23. Try anyway.
24. And lastly, but not least, have a good time without being too hypocritical because your philosophy involves altruism.
I approve of 10. *is doing research on mathematical logic (which sort of encompasses set theory) next year* And my academic adviser here is a logician. He actually knows my research adviser, so I figured he’d be a good adviser. (We get to rank preferences for our academic advisers.)
I approve of 4. But how exactly did you do that?
One after the other after the other. And not having school. And without my parents noticing.
How to be Fireh:
1. Wear dark clothes almost all the time.
2. Play at least one or two musical instruments.
3. Write songs with bad lyrics but sing them anyways
4. Have great ambitions.
5. Need new glasses.
6. Hate yourself.
7. Have crushes on people who’d never like you back
8. Be obsessed with Dr Horrible, Doctor Who, MB, Star Trek, HG2G, DWJ books, and music.
9. Memorize the DW ep Blink and still be amused every time you watch it.
10. Try to be logically perfect in philosophy and in life
11. Speak oddly, switching between accents constantly and emphasizing the wrong syllables among other things
12. Try to memorize all the Chamelion Circuit songs
13. Memorize all the Dr Horrible songs
14. Make obscure geek/nerdy references to geek/nerdy things all the time
15. Be double-jointed
16. Try to get your feet parallel backwards (as in, with the toes pointing behind you- I’m still working on it…)
17. Finish this list later
1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
You’re double-jointed? o.o
18. Be extremely random most of the time
19. Pop the lenses out of a pair of 3D glasses and wear the frames (oh my gosh I look hilarious like this… XD)
20. Have a bad habit of sleepwalking every once in a while (the other night I woke up standing in front of the wall….. my roommates told me that I randomly got out of my bed and walked into the wall repeatedly until I woke up… o.o It was weird.)
21. Be able to raise your eyebrow
22. Be able to wiggle your nose
23. Be able to wiggle your ears
24. Alternate between “the metronome is my enemy” and “I LOVE THE METRONOME!” randomly
25. Fail at playing the guitar
18, 24, 25 (mostly because I just can’t.)
I can’t play the guitar either, but I’m trying to teach myself using a “Idiots Guide to Guitar” book. *fails* Maybe next I’ll try to get one of my guitar-playing friends to teach me.
You can raise just one eyebrow, Spock-style? I LOVE YOU! As I only do 7, possibly 10, 11, 14, 16 now you’ve mentioned it, and 18, I’m clearly not you.
Yes, I can raise just one eyebrow, Spock-style. Which eyebrow does he raise, again? (I raise my left eyebrow. It unnerves my friend Phil so much, for some reason..)
I can raise both of mine, because I practice a lot. XD
I think his right.
Oh, and you probably shouldn’t try 16 if 15 doesn’t apply to you. That could be a bit painful.
2, 5, 7, 14, 18, 21, 25, and almost 1. I am not you.
1. 3. 4. 7. 10. 11. 14. 16. 21. 22. 23. 25.
I’m a very flexible person.
2, um… eighteen…twenty-one, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five.
Oh, and there’s NO REASON WHATSOEVER for you to hate yourself! So stop!
1, 4, 6, a few of 8, 10 (half the time), 11, 14, 18, 19, 22, 25 (haven’t tried since)
By the way, your list makes you seem quite awewsome.
*laughs*
List of people in “The Naming Of Names”
1. Sudo
2. Nym
3. KEIFZ
4. Maggie
5. Moi
6. AM
7. Silver Lining
Please correct me if I got any wrong.
That looks right!
Instruments:
1. Sudo- Bass Guitar
2. Nym- Keyboard
3. KEIFZ- Drums
4. Maggie- Graphics/ singing/ trombone
5. Moi- Singing/ music writing (Not lyrics!)
6. AM- Violin
7. Silver Lining- Singing
It would be great if someone else could write lyrics. Because mine turn out stranger than Revolution 9.
Can I write lyrics!
Kidding, kidding…. My songs aren’t very good either. (Now I want to see some of your lyrics…)
Oh no you don’t. One song I tried to write just ended up being “Is this reality, or is this fantasy? Reality, or fantasy? Reality of fantasy? Reality or fantasy?….”
And this was before I knew Bohemian Rhapsody.
That’s better than one of mine. “Your head is dead, your head is dead, your head is dead, dead is your head, dead is your head…” and so on. I threw it away and only sing it when I want to annoy people. (it’s got a really gloomy tune..)
That song actually sounds pretty good.
“Your head is dead, your head is dead, dead is your head- why can you not think at all? Why have you no mind at all? The path you’re on will only make you fall…..”
I want to join (playing piano).
We already have a keyboarder.
Fireh – YES THEY ARE
I’ll try writing lyrics. Most of my poems are actually song lyrics I wrote without a tune, because I can’t write tune for my life, so this works out great.
Cool! Where’s a good one on the poems and songs thread?
(By the way: What key does a Bass Guitar read? Or do you read chords?)
My personal favorite poem is post 165 on https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=3245, if that helps. (By the way, GAPAs, no Poems and Songs threads show up past ones made in 2006 in the search results. I had to go to the What’s Here page.)
Bass guitar does not play chords. I’m not really sure what chords it plays, but I can stumble through enough sheet music to get by. I played Trombone sheet music in my old school’s band. I also read tabulations, which, although not a good way of portraying rhythm, are a fine way of recording things, and and are easy to read.
165? OK. *reads*
I like it! When I read it, my brain automatically started putting a tune in.
So Bass Guitar pretty much plays bass clef? OK.
Oh, and I have written one song with a tune, although it’s not quite finish, and it’s sort of a punk rock song.
The nice thing about this is that we all already have coolio band nicknames.
And they’re lots better than Carl Harrison! XD ((Which was what George called himself on a tour as a backing band))
List of summer goals:
1.Beat Final Fantasy 10!!!
2.Read a good book.
3.Scream randomly at the sky.
4. Watch more of Avatar:The last Airbender.(It’s Awesome!)
5. Learn all I can about Japan!
6. Watch more Glee. Also awesome.
Final Fantasy 10. Somehow “Final” and “10” don’t really sound like they should go together.
Glee! *huggles Artie*
By the way, I achieved a high score! On Frost Bite, if anyone remembers. [Snip! –Admin.] I’m proud of my accomplishment.
Sorry if this gets snipped. [So are we.]
How to be Alice:
1. Die
2. Get reincarnated
To accomplish this vacation:
1. Yippee, contraband printing! As much fanfiction out for my enjoyment as I can.
2. Get better at fanworking.
3. Find something to read.
4. Find my library card.
5. Find my “nature harmony” shirt.
6. Find everything else.
7. Get taller.
8. Get longer hair.
9. Get more mature.
10. Disregard 9. Stay happy.
11. Bring the garden back from the dead.
12. Spend less then 50% of conscious state not bored out of my skull.
13. Watch more of the new Doctor Who. (because he’s adorable, admit it)
14. Convince parents to get me all seasons of Avatar.
15. Write letters.
16. Eat lunch more often.
17. Rant about FIFA and how it’s way better than your stupidlittleAmericanfootballmorons.
18. Go outside at least once a day.
19. Don’t eat too much sugar.
20. Disregard above two. You have a fast metabolism and skin cancer sounds sucky.
21. Sleep a little more.
22. Siestas! (-w-)*
23. Pick up more languages.
24. Stay in contact with leaving friends.
25. Philosophize.
26. Talk to myself just to irk mom.
27. Stay on better terms with Amanda-nee-chan.
28. Disregard list. Just do whatever.
Things to Draw Before the Summer is Over:
1. …Lucario…and Mightyena…and Absol…and so on and so forth…
2. Various other Pokemon (which shall not be listed because that’ll take up way too many lines…)
3. The Cheshire Cat from the movie!!!
4. The Mad Hatter
5. My mom.
6. Myself…
7. My other self…
8. Crraw, maybe?
9. …with Pwt?
10. …or with Aeiou…
11. A wolf
12. For lack of other creativity, DOODLES!
13. Etc.
Things to Draw Before the Summer is Over:
1) That STS-13 parody pic I promised a friend.
2) A comic about Mary Sues.
3) A comic about the old NASA worm logo.
4) Several other comics, based on whatever strikes my fancy.
5) Something related to Galactic Encounters (My Star Wars fan-fic)
6) Maybe several of those.
7) Something that actually looks halfway decent.
Reasons I Am Happy
1. It’s summer
2. Tomorrow is my twelfth birthday
3. I am asking for Pokemon SoulSilver
4. I’m going out to a hibachi restaurant with my best friend for my birthday
5. My cake will be shaped like a giant slice of cake
6. My cake will be yellow with chocolate frosting
7. My feeling of creeped-out-edness (from reliving a creepy dream while posting about it on Dreams) is wearing off
8. I’m going to buy an iPod touch with my birthday money
9. I have $35 of iTunes cards to stock said iPod
*high-fives*
Pokemon SoulSilver! Yay!
Yay!
Emotions I Have Over the Course of a Day
1. Exhaustion.
2. Anger.
3. Nothing.
4. Annoyance.
5. Happiness.
6. Boredom.
7. Hot. Or cold.
8. Hatefulness.
9. Excitement.
10. Stress.
11. BLAH GET AWAY FROM ME
12. Hunger.
All except 6) for me. It can be remedied by a nice sit at a desk with color pencils and paper close at hand.
My Brain.
15% Things that make me angry
30% Things I need to do
10% Things I probably shouldn’t be focusing on, such as itching toes or needing to take a shower
5% Bare and full of air, dead flies and bits of fluff
5%10% Harry Potter20% Fantasies, such as I Become a Painter and Live In Beach House on Cape Cod; I Sell Red Sox Yearbook Fifty Years From Now on eBay and Make Five Hundred Dollars
5% What I’m going to wear on various occasions
5% This wasn’t really a list, was it?
My hopes for Series 6 of Doctor Who:
1. No Daleks in the finale.
2. A Doctor-lite, Amy-lite episode with Rory as the main character.
3. A Cybermen episode.
4. An appearance from Captain Jack or Martha.
5. Lots of episodes with River Song,
6. The Doctor doesn’t regenerate at the end.
7. If possible, the return of Jenny or Sally Sparrow.
MILDLY SPOILERISH FOR SERIES 5 OF DOCTOR WHO MMILDLY SPOILERISH FOR SERIES 5 OF DOCTOR WHO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED….
1. Depends on how Daleks are done….Daleks made an appearance in Sereis 5’s finale, but it was by no means Dalek-centric. And it worked well.
4. Oooh, Captain Jack, definitelly. Him and Amy in the same room would be epic. Martha, though….meh, really couldn’t care less if we ever see her again on the show. She was alright, but she wasn’t uber awesome or anything (like Captain Jack)
5. Pretty sure there’s supposed to be a fair amount of River Song
6. Well, yeah, we’ve only just got the Eleventh Doctor–much too soon to move on to a 12th, especilly since he’s a pretty caking good Doctor, even if I do rather miss Tennant
4. Jack wouldn’t be able to come back until the end of the series, since Torchwood 4 sets up his return.
SPOILER FOR SERIES 6 OF DOCTOR WHO SPOILER FOR SERIES 6 OF DOCTOR WHO SPOILER FOR SERIES 6 OF DOCTOR WHO
1. Moffat has announced there will be no Daleks in the series.
2. I hope so too.
3. Probably, since there will be no Daleks.
4. YES. I WANTS
5. I hope, since she’s supposed to be who we find out about.
6. I heard he’s going to stay until 2013.
7. Jenny, yes, Sally, never.
3. We need another Daleks and Cybermen shooting each other up finale.
MAGGIE’S CONFESSIONS
1. I really hate Pokemon.
2. I think the sound of flutes is mostly annoying. Mostly, I said.
3. I like Taylor Swift.
4. I hate that song “Let it Rock” by what’s-his-face.
5. Everything I learned this summer, I learned from Entertainment Weekly.
6. Or other not-very-reputable publications.
7. I wore my skirt as a top once.
8. That piece of paper with “La Belle Dame sans Merci” copied out on it on my fridge isn’t really from 1902. It’s from three days ago.
9. I’m afraid of the ocean.
That’s it.
1. Shh… me too.
2. A bit
3. Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone so I can stab you.
4. I think I do too.
5. My faith in humanity is destroyed, partly.
6. My faith in humanity is destroyed, totally
7. YOU WIN
8.
9. I KILL YOU NOW.
Can I restore your faith in humanity?
SOMEONE KNITTED A BLAST-ENDED SKREWT
The end.
My faith in humanity is doubly restored.
1. You’re entitled to your opinion, although if you’d shared it ten years ago, you might have been ostracized by kindergarteners.
2. Sometimes it can be, I’ll admit.
3. Some of her music is okay and her modest attitude is refreshing, but I personally think there are MUCH better musicians.
4. Would that be “Jack and Dianne” by John Mellencamp?
5. I doubt that.
6. Oh dear.
7. Really?
8. In reference to Selene, the X-Men villainess?
9. That shouldn’t be a problem unless you live near it.
9. Well, we do live in the Bay State…
1) Meh, I don’t really care either way. I’m fine with people liking it or hating it. Your choice. I never really got into Pokemon in the first place.
2) Meh, again.
3) She’s ok. I actually have a few of her songs on my iPod. She’s really the only country I ever listen to, with the occasional Rascal Flatts here or there. (One of my friends is obsessed.)
4) Never heard of it…?
5) …
6) …
7) WIN.
8) ….
9) I love the ocean, but I understand. It can be scary sometimes.
I believe said song is by Kevin Rudolf. It’s moderately annoying, but there’s worse music out there.
Things I need to be doing:
1. School.
2. History.
3. Math
4. Concentrating
5. Not MB
Off to do these now.
Five Funniest Things Overheard at the American Museum of Natural History Today:
5) (Little boy looking at the side of the blue velvet pedestal holding the Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond) “Is it under that blue curtain?”
4) (Woman in the Race to the End of the Earth special exhibition, looking at a touch-screen that simulates a photo album) “I can’t turn the pages in this book!”
3) (Another little boy in the R2TEOTE special exhibition) “Why didn’t they [The British and the Norwegians] just have a war?”
2) (Woman in a bathroom stall) “Woah, somebody really missed in here!” [TMI much?]
1) (Man talking on cell phone while waiting in line to buy tickets) “Circumcise the Lexus!” [This was, however, probably something completely ordinary that I misheard.]
Honorary Mention, said by me in the Hall of Minerals “Magnetic magnetite. NO DUH!”
THREAD REVIVAL TO POST NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS!
Kai’s New Year’s Resolutions for 2011:
1) Write more.
2) Do more space advocacy work and help people more in general.
3) Be closer to my family, especially because I’m going away to college.
4) By the 25 anniversary of the Challenger Disaster on the 28th of this month, have drawn, scanned, and put online pictures of all the crew members.
5) Have a Yuri’s Night party on MB.
Shout outs that they’ll never see to the awesome non-familial people in my life:
(in a good way!)
1) Alan (yes, the one who awkwardly rubbed my feet) for helping me with my chem homework at 12 a.m.
2) Maggie, for conspiring to creep out that hot cashier at Panera with me and being an all around awesome person.
3) Sara, for being my oldest and most critical friend.
4) Jake, for being a person that I can totally band geek out to.
5) Belinda.
7) Troy, for being my favorite unintentional hipster.
8. My chem teacher, for telling us where she lives. We’re bringing over presents for her birthday on Sunday.
10) Richie, for being a hysterical, adorable, nerdy freshie.
11) Danielle, for having a Harry Potter themed sweet 16.
That’s all, for now.
Foot rubs are lovely…..Although oddly enough, I think the last time I got one from my Alan it was before we were dating. I’ll have to rectify that. There’s nothing like a nice foot rub….
They’re nice… when they’re not given by your friend’s boyfriend who did it only to make me feel awkward. This was fifteen minutes after I met him.
Interesting, shiny things(in no particular order):
1. Math (well, Vi Hart style anyway)
2. Books!
3. Art!
4. Muse and MuseBlog
5. Doctor Who
6. Stars
7. Steampunk things
8. Chocolate
9. Running
10. Funny things
11. Tea
12. Beautiful things, such as the river and the field
Things that are small bits of happy:
1. Doing the dishes
2. When you are cleaning something (usually the dishes), you squeeze the soap bottle when it is upright and small bubbles come out and float around you.
3. Winning a bet.
4. Losing the bet, but not having to give the money since you made the bet with a friend so neither of you really cared.
5. Doing the same in reverse.
6. Getting tons of hits on your fanfiction.
7. Applying your love of history somewhere.
8. Algebra.
9. Drawing knots.
10. The number ten and all its factors.
11. Staring at maps.
12. Making up interesting new expletives.
13. Switching accents rapid fire.
14. Winning an argument.
15. New boots.
16. Fun clothes.
17. Blue hair.
18. A new song on the radio that makes you sit breathing quietly with the volume louder than normal so you don’t miss a thing.
19. Theatre.
20. Shakespeare.
21. Puppets.
22. Breaking the fourth wall.
23. Shakespeare with puppets that are breaking the fourth wall in a theatre.
24. The number 24 and all its factors.
25. Multiplying 25.
26. Cleaning the costume closet.
27. Doing readings and rehearsals.
28. Getting a song perfect.
29. NPR.
30. Getting a 100% on a test.
31. Watercolor pencils.
32. Righting people’s views of California/America and being thanked for it.
33. Random acts of kindness from strangers.
34. The subway system in NYC when I understand it.
35. When my fandoms mess with the general public.
36. 6×6 and other reasonable squares.
37. Not having to simplify 13^42 in your answer and still getting it right.
38. The Once and Future King.
39. When my favorite webcomic puts up a new one.
40. Playing fast marches in band.
41. Fridays.
42. â†
43. Late-start Wednesdays.
44. Minimum days.
45. Not having zero period PE.
46. Small children that are generally cute.
47. Sleeping in til 2.
48. Being home alone with the computer unlocked.
49. Good music.
50. Good dreams.
People I Remind Myself Of
1. Susie Derkins
2. Belle from Beauty and the Beast ( only she’s more princessy )
3. Hermione Granger ( except I’m not as smart )
4. Brenna
5. Betty Cooper ( only she’s perfect )
Things I Would Do If I Were An ISS Crewmember:
1) (While being filmed for a documentary) Arrange to be making a peanut butter sandwich while a friend is brushing his teeth and then “accidentally” collide with said friend so we could shout “You got your peanut butter in my toothpaste!”, “You got your toothpaste in my peanut butter!” at each other like in SpongeBob.
2) End a link-up with the ground by saying “Look at us still floating around talking when there’s science to do.”
3) Film myself having a “Matrix” fight with a friend.
4) (If coming home in the shuttle) Recite a whole airplane pilot “Seats and tray tables in upright position” speech when preparing for landing. (Yes, it would make more sense if the shuttle commander said it, but it’s still funny this way)
5) After landing, say to the commander in an announcer voice “You’re just successfully landed the Space Shuttle (name) after (mission details). *What* are you going to do now?” (And hope that en will not need prodding to answer “I’m going to Disney World!”)
KaiYves –
6) Find a hallway and do the Inception running-on-the-walls thing.
7) Mix Coke and Mentos in zero gravity.
8) Make TARDIS noises during launch and reentry.
9) Convince all the astronauts to talk in your choice of ridiculous accent. Convince the cosmonauts that all Americans talk this way.
What Not To Do At The Grocery/Department/Clothing/Whatever Store (Zinc and I wrote 200 of these at camp.)
1. Run up to a random person and yell, “WORMTAIL! YOU BETRAYED LILY AND JAMES – oh, sorry, I thought you were someone else.”
2. Using a shopping cart, reenact the Club Penguin mine cart game.
3. Using toy rockets, reenact every NASA mission.
4. Hide under the tomatoes. Insist you’re the tomato box fairy.
5. Dump all the cereal boxes on the floor to look for the prize inside.
6. Find a sticker that says “May irritate eyes” and put it on the Twilight DVDs.
For the ISS List:
10) When doing a live link-up with a group of schoolchildren, announce “The Game” and listen to them all shout and groan because they just lost it.
Birthday wish list (in descending order of likelihood)
1. Hunger Games boxed set
2. Doctor Who Season 3
3. Portal
Things Within An Arm’s Reach From Me:
-Floyd, who is a guinea pig.
-A Washington map.
-Headphones.
-The keyboard upon which I am typing.
-The computer mouse.
-The computer.
-The computer moniter.
-A geometry book.
-A catalog.
-Various printed-out stuff,
-Two chairs, one of which I am sitting on.
-A pen.
-A couple of dollar bills.
-A clock.
-The computer speakers.
-Orange Post-it notes.
-Another pen, this one having a smiling head with purple hair and a suction cup base.
-A bookshelf.
-Another bookshelf.
-Assorted computer game discs.
-A drawer full of assorted stuff.
-Paper.
My list:
-Rubik’s Cube
-LED flashlight
-Empty Mountain Dew Throwback can
-Lamp w/ jar of marbles as a base
-Legal pad, blank except for “SCIENCE!” written across the front page
-Alternate calendar
-Tin whistle
-Laptop (obviously)
-Pens
-Sharpie
-Top hat
-Yarn
-Scissors
-Chromebook
–Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book
-Speakers
-Nintendo DS
-Various documents
-Piggy bank
-Kindle charger
-Freeze-dried banana slices
-Marionette
-Penguin piñata
-Cash
-Clothing
-Water bottle
-Organ pipe
-Moccasins
-Walking stick
-Box of assorted things
-iPod
My list:
-Various papers: Doctor Who fanfiction, old English assignments
-Pencil
-iPod touch
-Really crappy clock
-Assorted CDs that I never use.
-Various books
-Computer mouse
-2 Scientific Americans
– Old sketchbook.
-Folding table
-Stuff from NEC (New England Conservatory)
-Various wires and equipment
-Box a
cellphoneCellular Telephone came in.-A scanner
-Logicomix
-Laptop
-Monitor screen
-Two sets of earbuds, one of which works and I am using
-Dictionary
-Two paper towels
-Empty drink bottle
-Pencil case
-Assorted stationery
-Headband
-Whatever you call that clear book cover stuff
-Bus pass
-Cards
-Small fan (of the electric variety)
-Heater
-Plastic boxes
-Box my phone came in
-Laptop instruction stuff
-Laptop case
-Laptop and phone chargers, attached to an extension lead
-Assorted textbooks and workbooks
-Bible (for school)
-Printout of my school timetable
-Lists of possible subjects for next year
-My backpack
-Two pencil holders
-Wastepaper basket
-Boxes with old school stuff in them
–
DeskTable-Actual desk
-Book about Shakespeare
-Adaptor thingy
-Gloves
-Computer mouse
I’m in my room right now, so…
-Wind-up fire-breathing nun toy
-Violin and bow
-Rosin
-Dried apricot
-Pile of yarn
-Vase of knitting needles
-Music Stand
-Pillow
-Quilt
-Quill and ink
-Collection of knitted mice
-Assorted jigsaw puzzle pieces
-Jar of cat ointment
-Window
-Cat
-Can of orange spray paint
Fire… breathing… nun toy?!
Oh, my. Here we go. I’m still in bed, so everything on and around my nighttable is on this list:
-one film canister half-fill of water for soaking oboe reeds
-silly bands that spell out Brandeis (free at Brandeis)
-Burt’s Bees chapstick
-lotion
-a pair of earrings I made
-my old learner’s permit and preliminary license
-booklight
-alarm clock that plays my iPod
-my old iPod nano (in the alarm clock)
-three watches
-worry dolls
-a quarter
-a little gauzy bag
-my glasses case
-the yellow paper with my AP number label
-You Are Beautiful stickers
-earbuds
-silly putty
-a bracelet I bought in a Spanish Club fundraiser
-a headband with a rose on it
-a little box with a Monet painting on the top
-a little keychain pouch thing
-buttons
-a fundraiser red livestrong-type band
-deodorant
-three more quarters, eight nickels and a dime
-two friendship bracelets
-a mustache ring
-dinosaur mini-erasers
-a journal
-(changing format) a book by Bill Bryson, an issue of Muse, two issues of Seventeen, three issues of a marching band magazine, my yearbook, a book in the origin of language, my wallet, Watership Down, two Moleskines, an exercise band from when I sprained my ankle, a plastic flower my ex gave me, some pretty chopsticks, little bookmark magnets, Waiting for Godot, more magazines, another book on language, a newspaper, four stuffed animals.
I’m not done, but I’m stopping here.
-Computer
-Computer moniter
–Inside of a Dog
-My manuscript
-Several pens
-Sticky noites
-a container
-Sticky flags
-Speakers
-Index card organizer
-Index cards
-Camera
-Blanks CDs
-Blank DVDs
-Calculator
-Paper
-Receipt
-Wires
-Half-finished drawing of the TARDIS that I plan to photocopy and use to construct a TARDIS model…once it’s done, that is
-Headphones-the ancient ones that only work with dinosaur computers
-A cat mug with the remains of coffee in it
-Batteries
-Paper clips
-Pencil sharpeners
-Pens
-Pencils
-Markers
-Colored pencils
-Sharpies
-Scrap paper
-And, uh, let’s see: cutting mats
-Chair
-mouse
-Mouse pad
-Rulers
-Watercolor paintings
-Chop-thing; that is, one of those things you use to cut paper straight and on a large scale…whatever they’re called
-empty Tic-Tac box
-notebook
-Papers and stuff that isn’t mine and I don’t feel like disturbing because then I’ll get in trouble; this isn’t my desk
-Empty Altoid tins
My plans for the summer:
1. Write more music. Won’t be too difficult, since that’s when I’m happiest.
2. Listen to more John Williams
3. Watch Jurassic Park at least once.
4. Teach myself French: specifically-
5. Mastery of the conditional (already almost there)
6. Mastery of subjunctif (I can recognize it and read past it, but I’m not great at forming it)
7. Mastery of imparfait (Pretty much the same as subjunctif)
8. Read Voltaire’s (The original) Candide
9. Write more. (Most likely Doctor Who fanfiction…)
10. Never forget to be awesome.
Less than this time last year, but last year was wayyyy optimistic.
Part of your list is very similar to mine:
7. Mastery of parfait
I originally interpreted that as you using the other meaning of “parfait”- perfect.
And then I said to myself “No, Piggy’s already a master of perfection”
11. Find a copy of Godel Escher Bach and read it.
Things On My Desk
1. One fishbowl, containing fish, seashells, and water.
2. One container of fish food
3. One protractor
4. Five sheets of stickers
5. One roll of duct tape
6. One Bible
7. One Harry Potter calendar
8. One pipe cleaner
9. One dolphin necklace
10. One jar.
11. One candle, shaped like a cherry pie.
12. Two notepads
13. Princess Ben, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
14. The Ring of Solomon, by Jonathan Stroud
15. A Wizard of Mars, by Diane Duane
16. Dragonhaven, by Robin McKinley
17. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Humphrey Carpenter
18. His Majesty’s Dragon, by Naomi Novik
19. Zombies Versus Unicorns, ed. Justine Larbalestier and Holly Black
20. Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
21. Rampant, by Diana Peterfreund
22. Ascendant, by Diana Peterfreund
23. Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
24. I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett
25. Behemoth, by Scott Westerfeld
26. The Wizard Heir, by Cinda Williams Chima
27. The Dragon Heir, by Cinda Williams Chima
28. Dark Lord of Derkholm, by Diana Wynne Jones
29. The Will of the Empress, by Tamora Pierce
30. Two bookends (containing #s 13 – 30)
31. The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett
32. Celebration of Discipline, by Richard J. Foster
33. The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide, by Douglas Adams
34. Three socks
35. Daisy, by Brian Wildsmith (it’s a picture book about a cow)
36. The April 2011 National Geographic
37. A digital watch (I hear humans think these are a pretty neat idea)
38. Two pencils sharpeners, blue
39. One pair scissors
40. One hairbrush
41. One Kindle
42. One manila folder
43. Deodorant
44. Sunscreen
45. One Coke bottle, containing water and slightly wilted pink flowers
46. Four coloured pencils, one tuscan red, one green, one dark grey, one purple
47. One Christmas card
48. Hanna’s Suitcase, by Karen Levine
49. One chapstick
50. One postcard from the Blue Ridge Mountains
51. One marker, green
52. Towelettes with which to clean my glasses
53. One blue, green, and black bag for pencils to be kept in, containing one package of mechanical pencils and one highlighter, yellow
54. One pair sunglasses
55. One piece of paper in the shape of a pencil
56. Three pieces of paper, lined, upon which I have tried to copy out the family trees from The Silmarillion
57. One slinky
58. One notebook, blue and yellow
59. One drawing of a boat
60. One large binder
61. Two issues of Cicada
62. One piece of paper, lined, with a poem about math class written on it in pencil
63. Quite a lot of dust
How many fish? Most don’t like to be alone, and a fishbowl is usually too small for more than one. That’s an awesome list overall, though.
Four, I believe. But they are super small, so no worries. And thank you!
Also, the pipe cleaner is orange. The binder is black, grey, and blue, and the Kindle is in a green cover.
How to Be Bibliophile:
I: Make lists in base six Roman numerals just to be confusing and always use colons for them, not periods, parenthese, or anything else.
II: Obsess over tardigrades.
III: Obsess over zoology in general.
IIII: Obsess over science in general.
IV: Obsess over Harry Potter (the books, not the movies or characters)
V: Start a lima bean collection…
VI: …And don’t give up until your dog eats it.
VII: Be abstracted, bipedal, curious, determined, eccentric, fanatical, genuine, hippopotomonstrosesquippedalian, inept, jackamar-loving, keen, logical, milleacious, narcissistic, outspoken, passionate, quaeritating, remarkable, stubborn, tangential, uneaten, vivid, whimsical, xenophilic, yachtless, and zoic – every morning. every afternoon, every night, and all day long! Whoosh!
VIII: Be a bibliophile, obviously.
VIIII: Memorize all the words listed in The Whatchamacallit.
IX: Hate it when people say, “Never say never,†because obviously, they just did. Twice.
X: Never say Earth.
XI: Rarely type Earth.
XII: Buy a pet five-legged African dwarf frog (unfortunately, he passed away; he had some fungal disease)
XIII: Make all the lists in this post.
My Summer Goals:
I: Finish all the ungraded schoolwork I never got around to doing during the schoolyear.
II: Decide how to learn next schoolyear.
III: Finish making alternate calendars.
IIII: Dramatically revise The Looking Glass Wars Wikia.
IV: Dramatically improvise all tardigrade-related entries in the Encyclopedia of Life.
V: Read all those non-fiction books scattered randomly about the house for no apparent reason.
VI: Spend a plethora of time volunteering at my local wildlife rescue place.
VII: Get over mysterious illness (as if that’ll ever happen) or at the very least learn what it is after over a year!
VIII: Find a nearby choir. Sign up for it.
VIIII: Finish making a list of books to acquire.
IX: Make a tardigrade documentary.
X: Comb the library books for even the tiniest reference to tardigrades–there must be something! Besides that one book I already own, I mean.
XI: Get The Biology of Tardigrades and The Phylum Tardigrada, no matter how expensive they are.
XII: Do other tardigrade research.
XIII: Learn about medicinal herbs and possibly grow some.
XIIII: Learn more about ancient European history.
XIV: Learn some Latin
XV: Write.
Things to Write Eventually (in Preferred Chronological Order):
I: Script for tardigrade documentary.
II: Little House In Space (self-explanatory, ZNZ’s idea)
III:HP Next-Gen Fanfic idea that ‘simply fell into my head’ because of all the errors in Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them (Billywigs clearly aren’t insects!!)
IIII: The bear one I started researching years ago
IV: HP fanfic about Petunia
Things On My Desk:
Pencil Sharpener
$5.23
Nightlight (not plugged in or on, I use it during the schoolyear because I’m uncoordinated enough when I CAN see what I’m doing, let alone in early morning when I can’t
4 tardigrade brooches, which I would be wearing if I weren’t at home
Yoyo
Girl Scout bridging certificate
Unicorn magnet
Plastic jar of pills
Orca statue
Pencil-containing pencil case
Pencil case containing flash cards of tardigrade terms to memorize
Pretty, green box
Small, stretchy, fake stegosauru
Shoebox containing bookmarks and a calendar
Bag of rubber bands for braces that I no longer need
Tardigrade-themed picture of my name that I plan to put on my door
Bag of small, fallen pieces of the orca statue
Unicorn statue
Tardigrade photos to put on my wall later
CDs (classical, The Looking Glass Wars Soundtrack, something from when I was little that has sentimental value to me, recordings of sounds made by Kenyan wildlife, etc)
Book project I made last year and intend to put on my wall (the front is an alternate cover for Walk 2 Moons)
Failed barnacle drawing I haven’t gotten around to recycling
Pencils
Emptry plastic bag
Clear, glass container of rocks, jewelry, etc
Box of sea glass
Dog statues
Thumbtacks
Paper scraps I should recycle
Wicker purse
The Supernaturalist
Characters I Remind Myself of:
I: Emma-Jean Lazarus is just about exactly like me except more serious, reading more nonfiction, and speaking even more formally. Honestly, if the author lived anywhere remotely near mme, I’d worry that she was stalking me. As it is, I’m just really happy to have someone to relate to, even a fictional character
II: Mind’s Eye, Soul’s Reflection!Luna Lovegood (but she reads less and sees things that others don’t)
III: Methods of Rationality!Hermione (but my memory isn’t anywhere near that good, and I don’t read as much nonfiction or as quickly)
IIII: Canon!Luna (but I’m more logical)
IV: Canon!Hermione (but I’m more eccentric and less studious)
V: That boy in the Seneca myth who takes everything literally. I sometimes identify with Yorshkrunsquarkljolnerstrink for the same reason, but he has plenty of other qualities that are completely unlike me.
That’s about it, really.
Funny coincidence: I also drew barnacles recently, and I also failed at it.
Your HP fanfic should go along these lines:
A mudblood is raised by two kind and loving BIOLOGISTS
They go to Hogwarts, “major” in fantastic beasts, and use their biology skills to pwn everything.
Thank you.
My list of summer: Self, do these things!
1. Go to the beach at least two times a week if it’s rainy, more if it’s sunny.
2. Spend time with two friends that are moving away. (*cries*)
3. Go back to doing stuff with dozenal; just because you hate a teacher who said you have to do a project on it and is now ignoring you despite the fact that you were about halfway done is no reason to avoid dozenal; once the school’s out you can’t really be doing what she said, can you? (I hate said teacher also because she’s like, “This project will be your choice of learning; you can choose how you want to learn and what you want to learn about,” but then she is extremely, “You must put your project this way, not that, because I am going to ignore your wishes about how you wish to learn and pile yet more stuff onto your workload because the solution to “I already get this and this is extremely boring so could I do some sort of, I dunno, advancedish class which is the whole entire point of me taking that idiotic test last year,” is obviously, “give the girl more work: not harder work, but more.” And she also, once I finally got into said advancedish class, ignored me and continues to ignore me, much less give me help figuring out what the heck I’m supposed to do here. *deep breath* Oh well, Algebra I next year! What was I talking about again?)
4. Draw and research squid and cuttlefish.
5. Continue to boycott chain stores, with the possible exception of when you really have to pee and the bus you were on broke down and the only store nearby is a Dunkin Donuts. And even then you must glare viciously at the employees, who are probably wondering why a busload of kids just tromped through their store without buying anything and why one of them looks so…mad.
6. Get to work on Walmart death skull made out of their “save money, live better *smile smile blah blah blah blah*” plastic bags.
7. Draw. Every frabbing day.
8. You know what? I am going to make some new friends, whether they like it or not.
9. Avoid killing people.
10. Read
11. Take art classes.
12. Avoid the numbers 10, 5, 15, 25, 13, and 6. Well, only avoid 6 if you aren’t feeling very even that day, because in a dozenal money system, 6 is going to be an important number.
13. Play with dogs.
14. Stop counting everything that you do and forcing yourself to do things in threes or numbers you like.
15. Spend time in garden and/or outside.
16. Publish book.
17. Hold book signing.
18. Have ritualistic burning of said book.Get as far away as you can from your book and avoid any mention of it.19. DON’T WRITE.
20. Become slightly less over-apologetic and self-doubting, questioning everything that you do, etc. Boost self-confidence.
21. Drink a lot of tea.
Odd Things My Teachers Do
1. Geometry: Says things like, “In the time it took you to ask if you had to write the question, you could have answered three other questions.”; “It’s about the journey”; and “Just remember ‘Cube the Change’ – it would be a great campaign slogan.” Insists his first name is “Mr.”, and that he doesn’t wear jeans.
2. History: Writes skits about various historical subjects and has us perform them. Has us do an activity wherein we choose several historical figures and create “Antebellum Period Heroes and Villains”. Dresses up as a judge during the Andrew Jackson mock trial, complete with purple graduation gown and leftover 3-D glasses. Throws snake at class in certain scene of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, which we watched in class. Has bookmarked “SadTrombone . com” for use in class.
3. English: Plays the “Love Story” music video in class. Has Roberto play the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Scene 3. Wears pink rubber shoes.
4. Biology: Dances. Leaps on tables and chairs and climbs bookshelves.
5. French: See SSSS thread.
6. Ceramics: Gives people nicknames like “Freshie” and “Marvelous Marvin”. Is called Chau-Dawg by half of the student body who has taken ceramics.
7. Band: Gets frustrated and sings people’s parts. Very loudly.
Hmmm, I never knew my history teacher was so interesting.
Revised List of Summer Goals (In base 5 this time but no particular order) (Some of the ones deleted, like the ones about the tardigrade books, were deleted not because I no longer plan to do them but because I know I’ll do them anyway regardless, but others I changed my mind about. It varies.):
I: Finish all the ungraded schoolwork I never got around to doing during the schoolyear.
II: Decide how to learn next schoolyear.
III: Finish making alternate calendars.
IV: Dramatically revise The Looking Glass Wars Wikia (It was in a horrid state last time I checked).
V: Dramatically revise all tardigrade-related entries in the Encyclopedia of Life (not that they’re inaccurate, but I’ve things to contribute).
VI: Read all those interesting-looking non-fiction books scattered randomly about the house for no apparent reason.
VII: Spend a plethora of time volunteering at my local wildlife rescue place.
VII: Find a nearby choir. Sign up for it.
VIII: Finish making a list of books to acquire, or at add to it.
IX: Make a tardigrade documentary.
X: Comb the library books for even the tiniest reference to tardigrades–there must be something! Besides that one book I already own, I mean.
XI: Learn about medicinal herbs and possibly get some.
XII: Learn some Latin
XIII: Write.
XIV: Learn more about prairie dogs and black-footed ferrets.
XV: Actually look into music and find more that I like.
XVI: Start playing the piano again.
148.2: That’s on my to-read list, too, incidentally.
150.2: Why not just use Rose and Lorcan and Lysander? They were raised by presumably kind and loving biologists, although Rose had only one, and I’m sure Hermione knows plenty of Muggle science and would have taught it to her children, and Luna’s sons will definitely be interesting to use. But I really don’t want to rip off MoR quite that badly or blatantly… I will try to make it semi-original at least; the plot won’t be the same. It’ll be about… um… making major changes to Fantastic Beasts? They’d have a right to do that, as the heirs of Newt Scamander. But I’m not sure if that will work. It might still be too similar If that happens, I’ll change it into an MoR parody, I suppose, because I do want to write it… Or maybe I’ll do both and see which I prefer.
Things I have lost to the Tokyo Airport Security Administration:
-Two nail clippers
-One pair of large kitchen scissors
-One yarn cutter
-One spork
-Three colored pencils
-One geometry compass
-Two sewing needles
-One spark element for my sparking Godzilla. The sparking nun was spared.
This time, my box of windup hedgehogs narrowly escaped the airport police. It was terrifying.
The visual image of windup hedgehogs narrowly escaping airport police has me ROTFL big time. That needs to be in a movie….
A Toy Story short?
You know you’re a nerd when:
1. You go get a pedicure and spend the time reading not Us Weekly, but a biography of Andrew Jackson.
2. On Friday nights, you stay at home and watch Ken Burns’s The Civil War.
3. You’d happily spend hours after school talking to your teachers, if you didn’t have to go home and do your actual project.
4. You pick anywhere to visit on the T and you choose the Boston Public Library.
An even nerdier version of 1: You have never wanted or receiced a pedicure (in your life so far) but read the biography anyway. Guilty (okay, not of Andrew Jackson specifically, but close enough). I approve of it as you wrote it, though; did the pedicure-giver notice?
5. You spend six hours in the Air and Space Museum and plan to come back the next day because you didn’t see everything you wanted to.
…knowing all the while that two days still won’t be nearly enough.
Who says I’ll never visit again?
DEATH NOTE SPOILERS
How To Annoy Light Yagami
1. Tell him Kira is a girl’s name.
2. Inform him that Kira means “sparkly” in Japanese.
3. Call him Sha-kira. Elaborate on this by singing “Hips Don’t Lie” when he’s trying to have an evil moment.
4. Mimic him eating a potato chip.
5. Mimic his death scene with exaggerated flailing.
6. Say things like, “I was going to throw you a party, with cake. I was even going to invite your best friend, L. But he couldn’t come, because you murdered him. You monster.”
7. Make a habit of calling him “Lord Kira”, loudly, in public places.
8. Muse that he does actually look like Zack Efron.
9. Buy him a Zefron poster.
10. Sing High School Musical songs when he’s trying to have an evil moment.
11. Remind him of the time he was handcuffed to L.
12. Interject Dr. Horrible quotes into his “GOD OF THE NEW WORLD” rants.
New Year’s Resolutions:
1. Be less hyper.
2. Make more friends.
3. Exercise more.
4. Join the track team.
5. Be less nervous, obsessive, and stressed. Whatever happens, happens. Go with the flow. Stop worrying.
6. Get better at drawing.
7. Edit novel.
8. Get better at crochet.
9. Get to know Yukio better.
10. Be friendlier.
11. Improve poi skills.
12. Practice calligraphy more.
13. Read Les Miserables and To Kill a Mockingbird and other good books.
14. Stop concentrating so much on my life; interact with other people and think of them.
How To Be Rainbow*Storm
1. Be obsessed with Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Firefly, Hetalia, and Portal.
2. Say “Space” at random intervals.
3. Be very very awkward.
4. Have unintentional ninja skills.
5. Hate Twilight.
6. Apologize for everything.
7. Like space.
Meh. I guess I didn’t have as many odd personality traits as I thought.
How To Be Agent Lightning:
1.) Invent a secret language.
2.) Answer annoying questions with “Forty-Two.”
3.) Be annoyed when people who ask annoying questions begin to taunt you by shouting “Forty-Two” back to you every time they see you.
4.) Hate Twilight…
5.) … but love its parodies.
6.) Be obsessed with Doctor Who and Harry Potter.
7.) Reference and quote Doctor Who and Harry Potter every chance you get.
8.) Play the saxophone nonstop.
9.) Play the trombone nonstop.
10.) Let band rule your life.
11.) But be so dorky that the band nerds avoid hanging out with you.
12.) Memorize 142 digits of pi.
13.) Read a lot.
14.) Write badly cliched novels that no matter how hard you try always end up being swarmed by Sues.
15.) Warn people about the Bunny Apocalypse.
16.) Be hopelessly romantic.
17.) Be interested in engineering.
18.) Fool around on Minecraft while not actually building anything.
19.) Procrastinate.
20.) Be socially awkward.
21.) Lisp.
22.) Trip over sentences.
23.) Wear a trenchcoat and sneakers with mismatched shoelaces.
24.) Be constantly searching for a new trenchcoat seeing as the one you’re wearing right now is technically your mother’s.
25.) Be OCD…
26.) …But have an insanely messy room.
27.) Wash your hands a lot.
28.) Knit.
29.) Make lists.
30.) Be addicted to the Internet.
People who are my heroes:
1. Lauren Faust
2. J. K. Rowling
3. David Tennant
4. The guy who made the Principality of Sealand
5. Hidekaz Himaruya
6. The Australian person who threw eggs at Justin Bieber
7. Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd
8. Neil Cicirega
9. Ryan Higa
10. Douglas Adams
11. Everyone at NASA
12. Joss Whedon
Things Rainbow Will Do While Waiting For The New Seasons Of Doctor Who And MLP:FIM
1. Read TVTropes
2. Play player-made chambers on the new Portal 2 DLC
3. Collect GIFs from the internet
4. Sing “Wake Me Up When September Ends”, in regards to the time until the new MLP season
5. Theorize what Tara Strong could have meant by “the episode that bronies will go absolutely crazy over”
6. Watch pony fan videos
7. Flip-flop my opinion on my favorite Doctor
8. Stalk Tom Hiddleston
9. Politely hint to my parents that I would like to sew a giant stuffed squid
10. Do summer math homework
11. Do summer history and English homework
12. Buy and watch David Tennant’s last few holiday specials from between seasons 4 and 5
13. Wait for news on the Dr. Horrible sequel
14. Wait for news on the Good Omens miniseries
15. Make Space Core costume for Halloween
16. Try to find a website/YouTube channel so I can actually watch DW Season 7 when it comes out
Watch The Newsroom?
51 Things Wrong With The Stories I Wrote When I Was 11 That I Recently Rediscovered:
1. It is perfectly wise for an intelligence agency to outsource the sorting of files that include dossiers of active undercover agents to foreign preteens visiting the country on vacation.
2. Telling someone you’re going to kill their son before you try to kill their son is a perfectly sound strategy that should never be expected to backfire.
3. Spies may be trained to resist torture, but if you pluck out one hair from their head, they’ll tell you everything.
4. “Blue blood”, on its own, is an insult.
5. “Dead head” is a horribly offensive insult.
6. If you run into the police station and shout “the governor is a—”, the policeman on duty will interrupt with “Are you going to lie to me?”, not “Yeah, yeah, nobody cares about your politics, lady.”
7. “He was nice, but then he died and turned evil.” is all the backstory a ghost villain needs.
8. Museums in Martinique have terrible security.
9. Princess Diana would totally start a sentence with “Duh”.
10. If you and your roommate have the exact same nightmare, “We must have watched that horror movie on the plane too late at night.” is all the explanation necessary, even if the nightmare had nothing in common with the movie.
11. Any radio can be used to listen in on any other radio, without any tinkering or even trying to match the wavelength.
12. Robots need to speak into a radio receiver to communicate with their controllers, they cannot be constructed with any built-in form of communication and especially not a silent one.
13. In the 25th century, everyone (or at least everyone employed by the Time Patrol) will have a surname that is a time-related pun beginning with the same letter as their first name. [A later story in the same universe did have a rogue Time Patrol agent named Adrian K’yep as the villain, a later incarnation of whom bedeviled the Inter-Timeline Agency in the Alternate History RPW.]
14. If someone doesn’t know that people from New Zealand are sometimes called “Kiwis”, this is clearly a sign that their brain has been damaged by air pollution (or “polotoin”).
15. Pulling a magazine out of your collection to debunk your friend’s conspiracy theory is way too much work.
16. When asked to investigate honey stolen from a beekeeper, it would never occur to any detective to suggest, either seriously or in jest, that a bear might be responsible.
17. The theft of an experimental plane from Area 51 would be reported in newspapers the following day, including details of the theft and of the airplane’s special capabilities.
18. The same established newspaper would write “the army” to mean “the Air Force”.
19.”Fight fire with firecrackers” is totally something people say, just as often as they say “Better safe than sorry.”
20. 10-year-olds can easily steal an army helicopter, fly it, and shoot down a spy plane with it.
21. When giving the location of something you want someone to find, “In the area around the volcano north of here” is as specific as you need to get. No, just writing “On the X slope of Mount Blahblah” isn’t shorter and easier.
22. 50 miles north of somewhere is “just north of here”. 50 miles of forest and mountains.
23. Automatically assuming old men will try to cheat you is logical. Especially if they’ve been nothing but helpful.
24. 10-year-olds can say “Let’s just go!” and suddenly be 50 miles away in a restricted area without any explication of the transportation used.
25. All you have to do is say “We’re doing a report on local myths.” and the person you’re talking to will instantly mention the obscure one made up for the purposes of the story that is exactly what you’re looking for, when there are many more interesting and famous real-life myths about the area.
26. It’s totally normal for 10-year-olds to outrun both a landslide and a pyroclastic flow and not stop until they are “in their town” 50 miles away. [Granted, if they have the superhuman speed to do the first two, the later should be easy, but they’re supposed to be normal humans.]
27. Shouting “Hey, you dropped your finger!” will cause people to stop and look.
28. If your father is an anthropologist and someone asks what he does, it’s normal to answer “he studies culture” and leave it at that. No one would ever find that answer incomplete or confusing or say “So he’s an anthropologist, then?”
29. If you are being followed at a major tourist attraction, run somewhere nobody else is until you reach a dead end. If they find and threaten you but you get away, do this again, but do it with a dead end that’s underground.
30. Howard Carter found the tomb of “Tutencomon” (sic).
31. “The Secret Agent That Played Chess” is a strange and notable enough concept to be the title of a story.
32. Upon summoning an agent to his office, a professional spymaster would immediately scream “You have done relly (sic) bad on you (sic) last few missions!”, and not say “Hello”, or “Sit down”, or “Agent Whateveryournameis” or anything else first.
33. Someone who would miss targets while shooting because he was angsting about being bad at chess would totally pass the necessary psychological examinations to become a secret agent.
34. “A Funnel of Evil” is doesn’t sound silly at all as the title of a story, everyone will automatically know it refers to a tornado and not a malevolent plastic kitchen tool.
35. It’s normal to praise someone as being “the most informed”. Not “the most well-informed”, not “the most informed about”, “the most informed”.
36. Blatantly ripping off Totally Spies in an original story is okay.
37. “Upton” was a common name for boys born in 1993.
38. [What I personally think is the dumbest of these.] It is worthy of investigation that just before a tornado hit a town, a famous storm chaser “was seen nearby”. (In related news, just before the Oscar ceremony started, a famous actress was seen nearby.)
39. If the point you were getting to with 38) is that the man in question is missing, it makes total sense that you didn’t just say “was LAST seen nearby”. And this is still totally a matter that special agents should be sent to investigate. (If we assume the story is taking place on the day it was written, he’s been missing for ten months, so hasn’t the trail kind of gone cold and wouldn’t he just be presumed dead?)
40. In the above scenario, especially if he has been missing for ten months, of course it would never occur to anyone to joke that he might be in Oz. That joke would never occur to anyone in that situation.
41. It makes sense to follow a trail of fingerprints to a set of stairs, clearly the guy was crawling or walking on his hands. And of course the trail is still there in a TOWN THAT WAS HIT BY A TORNADO. (Possibly ten months after.)
42. Writing that a dumb made-up villain was responsible for a real-life natural disaster is not disrespectful at all.
43. A fellow named “Simon Sinclaire” turns out to be evil. Truly a shocking twist.
44. “Martinans” travel by “fly’n saucer”.
45. Writing a letter to the Weather Bureau asking for a list of the ten windiest places in the U.S. is suspicious behavior.
46. “Gorgia” and “Hally”, with those spellings, were common names for girls in the Edwardian Era.
47. It is realistic that a nine-year-old girl has never hear the word “investigate” before.
48. There’s nothing wrong with point-blank asking someone “Do you like it having brothers that are strange?”
49. When asked to list four objects starting with “G”, non-pilots will include “glider”.
50. Jewel thefts from national museums were an important element of Cold War espionage.
51. The following are legitimate titles for stories that read as logical phrases: “How Axe-iting”, “It Came from 51″, “Mountains Run Deep”.
I would call this list “51 Things I Learned from Stories I Wrote When I Was 11.” The stories themselves sound great. Hold on to them, please. You’ll be glad you did.
Number 33 really speaks to me. That’s the kind of agent I would be.
Oh, I recognize they were good at the core, just poorly executed, but it’s fun to point out the blunders, MST3K- or Cinema Sins-style.
A story I wrote when I was five involved me falling into a hole in the backyard and ending up in an enchanted world, where I immediately met a princess who showed me a spell to summon a magic staircase to get back to my own world. I was basically ripping off Secrets of Droon which were some of the first chapter books I read, except it was just in and out of the enchanted world with no adventures or plot in between. To this day my dad uses “magic staircase” as a term for deus ex machina resolutions in stories.
“In and out with no adventures or plot in between” describes many of my early stories as well (not these particular ones though, these at least had poorly-written plot and adventures…), including one that ripped off the first Magic Tree House book minus most of the danger. Whoops, we’re in dinosaur times! Whoops, now we’re home! There we also a few that were just “I found an old map/letter/whatever that said there was treasure somewhere so I went there and found it and now I’m rich, the end.”
Also, Secrets of Droon was awesome. I think I stopped reading at book 10, just because there were so many of them!
things:
– the feeling in the air right before a thunderstorm
– impulsively-bought houseplants
– making a new friend (entirely by accident) who texts you first and has the same taste in music as you do
– the sounds make by the doors of a car with an odometer that reads the distance to the moon and more
– knowing that those sounds are caused by the way your younger self slammed those doors
– chocolate chip cookies with cinnamon and nutmeg
– the feeling of reading the final book in a series with characters to whom you have become emotionally attached
– the strange sadness that comes from a friendship that has ended and you have come to accept that but you still care about the other person
– realizing that you haven’t gotten a proper hug in weeks
– realizing that this is probably the longest you’ve ever gone without a proper hug
– meeting friendly dogs
– bookstores that have a resident cat or dog or both
– the fear of impending adulthood
– the feeling of going to bed with freshly washed feet
– rubber ducks
– items kept on windowsills
– items that bring back sometimes bittersweet memories of former friendships
– bare spaces on bedroom walls
– the connection between the last two items
– large libraries
– memories of nights in tents
– memories of the sound of another person’s breathing and heartbeat
– half-remembered childhood occurrences
– wearing a dress for no particular reason
– noticing something new about a song that you thought you were completely familiar with
– finding misplaced trinkets
– half-finished projects
-comfortable pants
– sleep
How To Be Catwings:
1) Wear nothing but black all of the time.
2) Have not one imaginary friend, but a whole family (along with a few existent people who you just have to meet, although the only way to do so is in your mind).
3) Continuously go on various life-threatening and heart tearing quests with said family (including actually dying and being brought back from the dead more than once).
4) Feel sorry for the character whom you imagine less off, and begin including them more often.
5) Consider it a natural disaster if you do not have access to Metallica/Megadeth/Disturbed for over 24 hours.
6) Think the bass has to be the coolest instrument out there.
7) Are an over obsessive music listener.
8) Are the quietest person you know, yet you love it when the sound is full blast.
9) Can’t help but think dirty thoughts once in a while.
10) Think you’re a bad person when you read a story of a serial killer and think of the victim as, Wow, his hands were nailed to the wall?! Cool!
11) Have a fear of bright colors or flashing lights.
12)Try as hard as possible to avoid random people (whom I like to refer to as “Ooh, sparkles!” people. You know what I’m talking about).
13) Absolutely suck at playing the guitar.
We need a new lists thread.
Good idea!