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THE PICTURE, I LOVE IT.
Cake. SO CLOSE! STUPID AMERICAN IDOL!
Now for the picture:
Lovely! I love Pwt’s outfit
Love the picture.
Tomarrow being Earth Day (Hey GAPAs, Earth Day isn’t on the calendar!) my school is doing a community service project cleaning the beach after exploring a large section of an extremely large park across the street from where I live. Exciting, except weather is miserable and I don’t feel good.
Speaking of which, shall I relate to you my tale of ironic woe?
So my hip hurt, and the doctor said “let’s get an x-ray” So I got an x-ray, and the doctor said “your hip looks fine, but the x-ray revealed something a bit worrying about your spine. Go get an MRI” So I got an MRI and the doctor said “yeah, you have a spine abifita occulta[which I know I spelled wrong] but 20% of the population has that, you’ve had it since birth and there isn’t anything to worry about with it. However, the MRI revealed systs in the inferior pole of your kidney, so we’re going to check on those”
I swear, if they find anything non-kidney related while looking at my kidney, I will die laughing.
Ohh, that’s awful! I hope it’s nothing worrisome.
So I don’t have to make the GAPAs moderate any more posts than they have to ( I know I’ve been posting a lot today ) I’ll reply to Jakob Wonkychair here:
I love that show! Thoughts?
Bo is adorable! Extremely flammy.
Bo so often gets left out of doing things; she seemed very excited to find an instrument she could play.
Picture + Caption = Awesome.
I am now watching Glee, Season 1.
Glee is awesome. *is currently listening to Glee music actually* It’s a bit cheesy sometimes (OK, most of the time), but it helps if you think of it as satire. (Which it mostly is. Sometimes they do take themselves seriously, which isn’t as good.)
Ok, I have a question for Glee fans: (keeping in mind I know practically nothing about the show, besides the fact that it’s good and I want to watch it, but I’ll probably have to watch it online somehow) does it really have to be watched in order to make sense?
Probably… I mean, you could probably at least somewhat survive not watching them in order, but there is some form of plot…
Yeah… No, it has to be watched in order. The plotline is pretty much indispensable. I mean, if you’re never going to watch any of it ever again, sure, watch a random episode. But I would definitely watch it straight from the first if you plan on following it in any capacity.
-A
GAPAs, did we set a new record for amount of posts on Gloriana’s Realm Part 1?
As I was saying on the previous thread, I have a two and a half inch gash across my leg.
*sigh* And so ends my day of besieging the GAPAs. I’m so tired *sings* You know the rest. I’m going to bed, I can’t think anymore.
Oh boy… New post already.
About the phrase mentioned on the last thread… I’m trying to determine whether or not I invented it myself. I’m fairly sure I did, because I haven’t known any primary sources that have been known to say it so far… Also, like the time Einstein stole one of my favourite quotes. My version: ‘Creativity is the art of hiding plagiarism.’ Einstein’s: ‘The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.’
BLARGH. And it’s so completely ironic. I was being entirely creative when I thought that up, and now people are just going to think that I’m plagiarising.
-A
Einstein has been time-traveling for centuries.
Only centuries? If I could time-travel, I’d go further than that.
-A
Oh, dear. We landed here instead of when we intended. This means that an alien is about to attack the blog?
So apparently I fail at being a roommate. We did one of those activities where you have to answer questions about your roomie and then see if your answers are right. We got a grand total of 0. And apparently I’m *really* obsessed with Buffy. (I hear you all saying duh.) My roommate put it down as my favorite *book*. Probably because I got the Buffy comics from the library last week and have had them in my room…
BUFFY! *squees with joy*
I’m pretty sure I’m one of two or three people in my grade who’s ever seen an episode. As a result I’ve gone Buffy-crazy. And fallen in love with Angel, ‘cuz he’s Angel. And then fallen in love with Xander just for the lolz. And then fallen in love with Spike. (No explanation necessary.) And I’m only on Season 2!
Yay!
i kind of cooled off on the buffy comics. i can’t really figure out why, the first ones were fantastic. i just wasn’t as big a fan of them after a while…
i loved angel: after the fall and the spike comics though
i have never played that game with my roommates, but i know they are convinced i’m obsessed with england. i think it’s probably because i am always watching british teevees
My library had the first two volumes of the omnibus… I read them. They were fine. I didn’t adore them…
Can someone give me a plot summary of buffy please? I’m trying to determine if I should watch it online this summer…
Well, one plot summary might be a little difficult as it ran for 7 seasons. The premise of the show is pretty much that a blond, slightly ditzy, formerly popular girl named Buffy discovers that she is a Slayer. That is, she is the one girl in the world who has been mystically chosen to kill demons and vampires. So pretty much she fights various demons and vampires with her British librarian Watcher Giles, her computer geek friend (and later gay witch) Willow, her dorky and humorous friend Xander, and various other people who she runs into after season 1. It can get a bit dark and also a bit, um, mature at times. It’s Joss Whedon, so expect hilarity, brilliance, and absolutely heart-wrenching deaths.
just don’t be put off by the first season. you need it for the backstory, but it gets a looot better in season 2
*agrees* I liked the first season a lot when I was watching it… Then some of my friends were watching the first season, and watching with them, I realized that it kind of sucked. But season 2 is amazing.
Hmm. Sounds pretty cool. Where on the internet do people recommend finding buffy? I’m not great at using Youtube, and was wondering if there’s a better place to watch it, just generically.
Google “watch series”. You can find links for eps there…That’s where I watched it.
Hulu has the first three seasons… I don’t think season 4 is on the internet anywhere. If I’m wrong, please tell me.
Oh, it’s on the Internet. Just not legally. Also Hulu only has one season at a time.
You might also be able to find DVDs at the library.
OH MY GOSH I just realized it’s been about a year since the new MuseBlog went up.
If somebody’s already said that, drat, but it’s still really cool.
Brilliant picture, Lady B! And the caption….the caption just makes it even more flammy.
Cromwell (re:gash)–that sounds painful…..you probably said, but is it very deep?
Awesome picture, GAPAs! Wow, we reached 1031 posts on the other thread…is that a record?
Okay, I’m headed to the 18th century today, so my obsessive posting will be cut back. Just so you know. WHEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fiddler — have fun in the far future!
oxlin (on the previous random thread):
I hope we’ve been a benign influence on the whole.
Oh, you have been, don’t worry…I’ve only been here for seven months and already I have experienced your awesome benign-ness. Thank you, GAPAs, for always being there to patiently read and moderate our weird comments and musings. I am eternally grateful. *worships*
Ditto!
Ditto, Ditto!
(Pokemon! :O )
Oh, good. Our worst nightmare is that someday one of you will show up on one of our doorsteps wailing “MUSEBLOG RUINED MY LIFE!”
I notice you chose 8) to play you.
I always do.
Of course. XD
holy wah guys that means it’s been like five years total (almost)
which means i can definitely blame the MB for who i am today. and by blame i mean thank, because i don’t know, i think i’m pretty flamablamablous actually
blah, i’m just sort of realizing
this is SO WEIRD
we are like a legit old website now
and i should probably save the freakouts for our -actual- fiveiversary and go do my homework…so yeah…
oh PS kokonvention with julia todaay (fortune cell). mostly harmless is poised to take over ohio state, never fear!
also i am using twitter again and i am happy about it! i had forgotten the people i follow were so funny
YEAH it’s awesome. And it’s for like three days. And her floor is cold
But it’s all great except for when she takes pictures of me sleeping…
hey, don’t blame me, blame your creepy internet friends
…oh wait
OUR creepy internet friends. Guys I am prolly going to college with her next year :3 which means dozens of kokons!
So, I have a question for MB. (It’s partly for my homework. OK, mostly.)
If someone asked you to list the planets (apart from Earth) from most habitable to least habitable, what would you write?
I’m still a bit confused about the different factors involved and how one would determine how important they are in choosing a habitable planet.
I would say that Mars would be the most hospitable. It doesn’t have the noxious atmosphere and extreme temperatures to the extent that the other planets do.
Venus would probably be the second on my list because without the extremely poisonous atmosphere it would be pretty dandy.
Then Mercury because it gets really hot/cold up there.
Pluto next– WAIT. Pluto isn’t a planet anymore. Poor pluto.
Hm. The gaseous planets are hard to rank because none of them are even remotely hospitable. I’ll try, though.
Uranus is pretty much tied with Nepune. It’s farther up because it has a pretty ring and it rotates horizontally, which is cool.
Neptune because it isn’t as big as Saturn
Saturn because it has awesome rings and isn’t as big as Jupiter
Jupiter because it’s so huge you would be crushed if you tried to descend through the gas.
That’s my two cents. MB astronomers may have a more enlightened perspective.
But Venus’s atmosphere is so heavy it would crush anyone living on it.
Actually, a really cool plan proposed by Geoffrey Landis involves large floating habitats in Venus’s upper atmosphere. Since Venus’s atmosphere is so dense, Earthlike atmosphere there is actually a lifting gas with similar power to helium- so these settlements would be like enormous, semi-stationary airships. And in the upper atmosphere, the temperature tops out at somewhere around 100 Fahrenheit, and the pressure isn’t much higher than Earth at sea level. Humans can’t breathe it, of course, and there’s still acid rain to worry about, but it’s a vast improvement over the lead-boiling, steel-crushing atmosphere at ground level.
Hm. Are you allowed to consider a planet’s moons in addition to the planet itself? That would make the gaseous planets much more inhabitable.
I heard Titan has water in it. Is this true?
(The CTN returns!)
Titan might have water under the surface (it’s a possibilty only. As far as I know, it hasn’t been proven.). On the surface, apart from a bunch of lakebeds and canal-like things, there appears to be lakes of methane (not water). (At least, that’s what I remember from Cassini-Huygens. It was such a long time ago. And I haven’t gotten updated. Hmmm.)
I thought Europa was the one that had water – ice, that is.
Anyway, thanks for all your help! I took the science test today and there was a question on it! So it was really useful. *choklit*
I was pretty sure that Io had ice (not mice). (Some of you probably can figure out where I learned that.)
Harry Potter… and the Order of the Phoenix?
Oh! That’s right….It was HP. I remember now, although I don’t recall the book.
Way late on this, but yeah it’s the fifth. Because later Harry ‘couldn’t remember all of Jupiter’s moons, but was at least confident that none of them was inhabited by mice.’
Io has no ice. It’s so volcanically active that scientists think it has turned itself inside out more than once. (inb4Kai)
LOL PICTURE. Oh, god….you always make such wonderful art.
So I went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston today. We saw the ancient Greek and Roman art, still lifes by someone named…Diego Melendez? Something like that. But the exhibit on musical instruments was AMAZING.
There were all these old instruments from all over the world, most of them from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. Some of them had this amazing mother-of-pearl inlay, some had carvings on the thingie, on top of the violin where usually there’s a scroll…( I’m blanking on the name ). Also, some were painted really intricately ( like the pianos ). I learned that Buddhists in Tibet use human bones to make instruments, which was kind of creepy, but is apparently connected to their belief in second lives, or something. Also, there was this tiny trombone. It was, like, smaller than a trumpet. And a backward-facing one, where the bell was over your shoulder, which apparently was so that people behind you in the marching band could hear you better. AND, best of all, one that had a dragon head for a bell. Whose tongue wagged when you played. It was crazy, I mean, can you imagine playing one of those?? It would be heavy…
fireh and Ducky, I think you would have liked it. Ducky could have seen Alanna’s ancient ancestors
Seriously, though, it was a really cool exhibit.
Food! Real food! I skipped dinner tonight to work on an English paper (which I really should be writing about now…), planning to eat cereal and/or microwavable food… At 6:30, I find out that my wing is having a wing dinner! (To be fair, it was announced yesterday, but I don’t really have any friends in the wing, and I forget these things…) We got noodles with peanut sauce and stuff, homemade sushi (!), wings, donuts, ice cream, and probably some other stuff I’m forgetting… It was great!
That makes me wonder what you usually eat….
Cafeteria food.
We get the same food as prisons.
me too…
15- Well, where else would I learn so much about pie?
HAHAHA.
I was in Target the other day and I saw a shirt that said “I ♥ JB”. I almost died. And then I realized it was a Twilight shirt. :/
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P.S. I fail at keeping a busy schedule because I didn’t practice for NYSSMA at all this week (it’s on Tuesday) and I’m still doing an English project that’s due
tomorrowtoday.Wait, did it just say I <3 JB? Because then I would totally get one and tell everyone "No, not Jacob Black. John Barrowman. Duh." Hmm… Wikipedia has JB standing for Jonas Brothers and Justin Bieber (ugh to both) but neither Jacob Black or John Barrowman.
FAIL, WIKIPEDIA
*pops in* And Jacob Brent!
There are wayyyyyyy too many JBs out there.
No, it didn’t unfortunately. It had all Twilight cake on it…
*tries to think of something that stands for ZQ or LN could stand for other than the obvious*
*cracks up laughing*
Yeah. I would probably react the same way.
17.2.1.1.1- Several icy moons of the gas giants are considered to possibly have water, including Europa, Titan, and Enceladus.
Ugh! The one day I purposefully refrain from computer use is the day the Air Force chooses to launch the X-37! (Their kinda-but-not-really-secret robotic supercute little baby space shuttle.)
On this poster of all the planets and their moons that my science teacher hung in the hallway, I highlighted Enceladus in hot pink.
Like in the July random thread?
Wow… I got Muse today and there isn’t even a roll call thread!
We usually post them on the 25th of the month, but maybe we should do it earlier.
I have a question. How do you change your password to what you want it to be after forgetting it and getting a new one?
bluefire:
By clicking on your name on the “Leave a comment” form, you can edit the “password” field on your profile.
Thank you very much!
(sigh) I just got my February one… Curse this other-side-of-the-world-ness!
Wow, and I thought the first three of my new subcription were late. I got the April one recently.
Wow…really? Even when I still got Muse they didn’t come this late…more like at the end of the month, like Maths Lover. What’s wrong with Singapore’s postal system? Even we’re not that bad…(You know, there’s supposed to be this traditional rivalry between Hong Kong and Singapore. I have no idea where it came from, probably something about how we both want to be the ‘New York of the East’ or whatever. But yeah. No hard feelings :D)
I drew a cartoon of myself hugging an X-37. My friends at school all thought it was hilarious. My mom scolded me because apparently joking that inanimate objects are alive is some kind of sign you can’t tell inanimate objects from animate ones.
“Their kinda-but-not-really-secret robotic supercute little baby space shuttle.” I’d say you can’t, KaiYves.
I want an Ipod or some form of portable media device. I needs musics!
Luna would like to announce that she has travelled with the Tenth Doctor and that he said that “I only take the best. And you were AMAZING. Perhaps I’ll pick you up one day.”
The Doctor thinks I’m amazing. And he’s going to take me travelling with him some day in the future. Brilliant, isn’t it?
Luna who?
Good luck! You should carry some duct tape around from now on just in case he comes calling. You never know when you’ll need duct tape.
I think this is taking your obsession to new levels.
(atimeofangelsiscomingouttomorrowsqueeeeeee)
No, no it’s not. I did travel with the Doctor, and he did say exactly what I said. [Interactive game on BBC website. Jeez, spoil all my fun why don’t you….]
(iknowiknowiknowitisgoingtobeawesomeireallyhopetheweepingangelsareasgoodthistimeaslast)
I feed off joy.
(thetrailersimplyaninterestingtwistnamelythattheangelwillbehidingamongACTUALANGELSTATUES)
Me too.
(andriversongiscomingbackyayyayyayshessosmart)
(ahbutthestatuesSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERarentstatuestheyreweepingangels)
I did too. Perhaps the Doctor’ll get all the MB-Doctor Who fans!
That would be bril, especially if we were all there at once!
The Diminutive Feline One would like to know what the cake you’re talking about, as she has no idea who Dr. Who is.
It’s a TV show that has a cult following. Sci-fi.
He said I wasn’t good enough! (Yet.) *weeps* Maybe I ought to, you know, actually start watching Doctor Who.
Science Olympiad States tomorrow! Wish me luck
Best of luck! I know you’ll do great.
Good luck! We all believe in you!
Good luck!
Good luck!
Birthday tomorrow and last Scholastic Bowl meet of the year for me! *excitement*
Yes! *is very happy* My organic chem teacher, as per usual, messed up his answer key for the test, by one problem. And by “usual”, this is the second time he’s done so, out of three tests. The first time, it didn’t affect me–it was the other test version that he messed up–but this time, it did. And, fortunately, in my favor, because one of the questions that I’d graded as wrong last night based on his key turns out to, in fact be correct–just like I thought. So my grade on the organic test last night has gone from a 56% to a 60%, so I am very happy, because a 60 just looks so much nicer than a 56. Plus, a 60’s a B, whereas a 56 was only a high C.
And, yes, to those of you not familiar with the horrors of organic chemistry, you are probably questioning how on earth I could consider a 60% a good grade. For starters, the prof aims for 60% to be the average on his tests. For seconds, organic chemistry is nigh on impossible, and only insanely evil people like my lab partner understand it (he refused my idea of a brain transplant….I wanted to use his brain so I could get a good grade. I have no idea why he declined….*sigh* I really do wish I had Alan’s brain). But a 60% is wonderful, considering I expected far worse. And with my 70 from the first test and 72 from the second, I now only need a 38 on the final to get a B, so I’m very happy. I was utterly terrified I was going to fail miserably (after my B that I barely managed last semester) and get a C.
But, so, yes. *is so very happy*
My dad majored in some sort of organic chemistry in college, I think. He also majored in linguistics. [/randomconnection]
Your dad is insane. I mean, obviously very smart (you have to be to get organic), but insane. *Luna is impressed*
It’s the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch! Glad to know it’s still up there, orbiting and taking pictures faithfully like it has been doing for 20 years.
Go Hubble! Here’s to the greatest telescope off Earth!
Auuuglmph. I’m supposed to be doing a report on Great Expectations. Except I haven’t read the book, and all I have on my powerpoint is “Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.”
Actually, it doesn’t have to be on Great Expectations. But I’ve reported on all the other books on the list, and while our English teacher certainly isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, he’d probably notice if this was my third report on The Hunger Games. Grumble.
So your English teacher didn’t notice the second report?
You should read the book; I thought it was interesting… but if you don’t have time, Sparknotes has summaries for the chapters (although the summaries are rather long), explanations of important quotations, themes in the book, etc.
s’okay, I have now read the book. Took me four hours. If Dickens was a considerate fellow, he would have reduced his books to less-than-one-hundred-page reads. I usually love reading, but I cant concentrate on anything if a) it’s a Dickens novel or b) it’s 2:00 in the morning. I fell asleep into my tea at UU this morning.
In Dickens’s time, drawing out the stories — which were published serially — was considerate: playing to his audience, drawing people into the lives of the characters, milking the suspense just as multi-part television episodes do today. Compared with some writers of his time, he was actually restrained.
4 pages a minute? That’s real speedreading if you absorbed it all. Congrats. I just finished it now.
Hm. If the purpose of a school report on a book is to demonstrate that you have read and thought about the book, then your situation is paradoxical at best.
OH MY GEORGE, I’m meeting SudoRandom, Enceladus, Silver Lining, Keiffer, and the Beautacious Kate at the ICA in an hour and a half. IT IS GOING TO BE PWNSOME. WE ARE GOING TO DO AN INTERPRETIVE DANCE TO “I Am the Walrus” IN THE BIG GLASS ELEVATOR. *squee*
That should look interesting.
Great Glass Elevator!
*coughs*
Sounds like fun.
IT WAS. WE DID DO THE WALRUS DANCE. Also, we yelled “Ambush!”, dashed in and then out, and..that other thing I forget. However, no one snogged, because we didn’t make it to number 12 on the list.
We only spent about twenty minutes looking at art. We ate apple pie ( that had glass pieces on top of it, I broke the pie dish!! 
) Also, we spent a lot of time outside, dancing around. Everyone but Enc brought a towel – so he stole mine, and we had several epic battles. Keiffer, you are totally biased against me! SudoRandom had to leave early but then the rest of us sat on the stairs for awhile and slid down the railings. Oh my gosh, it was really fun.
Haha, sounds like you had fun.
Enc, you shouldn’t steal Princess Magnolia’s towel. Towels are sacred.
*putters off to find the FLAMABULOUS TOWEL, just because, why not?*
That was so much fun! Nym makes good pie. I likeD that big glass elevator much more so than any of the rest of the art there. Maybe I’m just ignorant, but videos of sugarcubes getting motor oil poured on them and glass sticks painted with “I found a Megatherium on my strawberry” doesn’t really seem like art to me.
It was a very fabulous day though. 
I know, I don’t understand why all those smudges of paint on paper were art…
From the previous thread: @Cat’s Eye: ( I hope this isn’t an information breach) did you perchance go down to Mexico and build a house [additional specific information snipped]?
Yup, I did! Additional information snipped is replaced with question marks on my part! And it was really fun!
That sounds like fun!
GAPAs julia and i kokonvened, do we get to send you pictures? our parents totally approve even though we are all grown up now (oh god that’s scary) so yeah.
apologies for my inability to make sentences i had to get up at like 5:30 AM and march/play all day on three hours of sleep plus i haven’t had food yet except half a piece of pizza at 9:30 and an apple at whenever they gave us apples.
oh in other news i’m gonna be the secretary of the sci-fi club here, but we want the leadership positions to have cool names (like the general representative body is called the galactic senate) so any suggestions for names for the secretary and/or treasurer?
that is all. hullo everyone. goodbye.
Send ’em in.
Supreme Exalted Secretary or Master of Records.
Credits Manager or Monetary Security Officer.
Hey, I wanna be in the sci-fi club! …I think.
How do you join?
GAPAs, are any of my comments going through? There’ve been three or four that disappeared.
We haven’t seen any in the spam filter.
Looking at messages actually posted over the past few days, I count none on Saturday (the 24th), one on Friday (May/June Muse Roll Call), two on Thursday (random thread and Happy Birthday thread). That’s all.
Okay. I’ve been using my iPod. It seems rather unreliable, for some reason. I think the only ones that didn’t go through were yesterday evening, but there might’ve been one on Friday as well. Oh well, no matter.
dearest darlingest GAPAs, where are my lovely picshurs? *whinewhine, poutpout*
ugh…i have to call work and explain why i have to call off two and a half hours before my shift…stupid band…it should be okay though (hopefully?) because i sent one of the managers an email yesterday, but he hasn’t responded. but i can be like “hey look look at that i informed you already” even though yesterday is still pretty last-minute >.< basically there's a band event sunday and i thought it was like all other band events and i could miss it, because there is nothing indicating that it is any different on the schedule, until thursday when i was like "btw, work?" and waters was like "no this one is a performance work isn't an excuse" and i was like LOLWUT so i sent out an email to find a replacement but of course there are none to be found on that short a notice so i emailed a manager who hasn't responded. GAAAH. now i shall have to call in and i hate the telephone, especially when i've messed something up. i've pretty much figured out this whole social interaction thing, except when it comes to people with some sort of power over me and/or phone conversations. so this is pretty much the worst. i'm livving out over here
I don’t think we’ve seen any pictures from you, Ebeth.
oh noes! i may have sent them to the wrong address, let me try again
how about now?
hate to be an annoyance, o beleaguered GAPAs, but i am concerned! did the email go through or not? i used gapas@musefanpage.com, is that the right address?
Got them, just hadn’t had time to check the mail.
okeedokes!
*poke* GAPAs? *poke* could you put up our luvverly pictures? please? or do i need to use *drumroll* THE DREADED P-WORD??? *cymbal crash*
So here’s a question for everyone! Answering machines: better or worse? i am honestly not sure what i dislike more, talking awkwardly at an answering machine or talking at a person. given that it is a person who is in charge of you somehow, not just like one of your friends
Talking on the phone in any way is uncomfortable for me, answering machine or no.
answering machines are better for me – you can plan out ahead of time what you’re going to say and you don’t actually have to respond to the other person.
I agree. I used to hate answering machines. Now I’m annoyed when people don’t have them.
Same here. I always feel that my intelligence drops about twenty points when I’m on the phone. It used to be sheer torture to make calls. The signal is very thin compared to live speech, and there are no supplemental tracks of information (e.g., body language) to help decipher what is said. Silence is many times more noticeable and uncomfortable than in person. There’s no way to take time and reflect. Then, of course, my tension and dread intensified all those factors.
In recent years, I’ve learned to relax considerably. Phone calls are still uncomfortable, but in a much more minor way, no longer a big deal. Still, the telephone remains my communication device of last resort. Even if all the above problems were solved, other problems remain. Some people are difficult to disengage. I don’t want to interrupt people, and I don’t like to be interrupted myself.
So nice to know I’m not the only person in this world who absolutely hates talking on the phone. From the time I was really little, until now. I mean, I’m not as bad as I used to be, but I still don’t enjoy it at all. Unless it’s my sis or my parents, i don’t mind talking on the phone to them, and can do so for hours….
Wow, I didn’t know so many people detested talking on the phone. I rather like it.
I’m not the only one? Yes! I hate talking on the phone. It’s really personal, because you’re talking to them, but not personal enough, because you can’t see everything they’re doing… Plus I’m terrified of getting the wrong number.
I agree with Luna. I really don’t like talking on the telephone at all. When I was younger I refused to use phones at all. I wouldn’t answer them and I wouldn’t call anyone. It was kind of an odd phobia… Now I can answer the phone without stress but I still strongly dislike calling people for the reason of what speller said: I’m also terrified of getting the wrong number.
I used to not mind it too much, that I remember, but now I just… I don’t know. I can call and talk to my family, or my friend, depending on which friend. I don’t just call and talk, though. It took maybe an hour, hour and a half, for my dad to convince me to call my grandparents, whom I have no trouble talking to in real life, just to chat. And he finally did it by tricking me.
I don’t like phones that much. I think it’s just a fear of sounding stupid.
Me too. My parents think I’m a freak.
I just don’t acknowledge that they exist, sort of… It’s weird. Multiple times, I could have averted disaster by just leaving messages when I couldn’t reach a parental figure… One of those time ended up with the police being called to my house because my parents didn’t know where I was. It’s like I have no idea that it’s even an option… And really, it’s the obvious choice.
Just… Blurgh. Coherency fail. Nevermind.
-A
I prefer email. Though if it is between an answering machine and a person I suppose it depends on the situation. Sometimes I just want to convey my information without having to converse and therefore I prefer an answering machine. I agree with what Rebecca said about disliking being interrupted/interrupting people. I tend to prefer email and IM for those reasons. You can choose when to respond to those.
I prefer email also. I just can’t talk t people over the phone. If you’ve ever heard me and Pseudonym talk on the phone, it basically only awkward pauses the hole time and a bunch of “Ums.”
I just don’t like people.
That’s why I only call people if I really, really have to… but I usually don’t anyway.
I haven’t been able to post for a while…
Anyways, amazing picture!
I haven’t posted in awhile much either, or so it feels like. Mostly I’ve been swamped by the homework monster of death unfortunately (What else is new? *sigh*) and even now I didn’t have time to completely read all the posts, but anyways…
Answering machines and telephones? Ick. Can’t stand them. Texting/e-mail is easier and a less awkward way to get my point across. Although I’m ok at talking on the phone (My sis is absolutely horrendous to the point where we make so much fun of her, the poor thing) answering machines are just awful. I always end up saying something stupid, so now I usually write down what I have to say first so I don’t forget. Urgh.
On the random thread clicker I just got Shakespeare’s birthday from last year…I don’t know what to think about that thing, sometimes it seems really smart but sometimes it gives me the same things I got yesterday…explanations?
Yesterday. Was. Epic.
I had SAT Prep in the morning, and we had to take a practice test, but it was in a room with lots of light and air, so even that wasn’t so bad.
Then, we picked my brothers up from their track meet and drove for about two hours to get to the museum. My brothers were complaining a lot because they didn’t get to shower, which I totally understood, but my dad said we were late already and we wouldn’t turn around for anything.
I hadn’t been to the museum since 7th or 8th grade, so I’d forgotten how cool it was inside. There was a Blue Angels jet hanging right over the entrance in the lobby, and a model of an astronaut using an MMU jetpack. My dad showed our tickets and we went into the IMAX theater. I noticed a girl sitting in the next row down reading “A Man on the Moon”, so I worked up my courage and asked “Is that Andrew Chaikin’s book?”
She looked up at me and said it was, and we started talking. Her name was Erin, and she had no idea there was anybody remotely close to her age interested in space travel. We talked a lot, and then the movie started.
We were sitting way on the left of the theater, so the dome made the images look kind of curved in a weird way, especially when something went from the top of the screen to the bottom. In some of the scenes with lots of camera motion, I got a little dizzy. But still. It was Apollo 13. In IMAX.
The Saturn launch was incredible. Everything shook. They cut out some of the jokes for time, but I still loved it. And sitting in a theater full of former Grumman employees who worked on the lunar lander during the scene where Lovell “thanks” it… there was this utter EXPLOSION of applause.
After the movie, we went out into the museum, and Erin and I ran around the space section geeking out and laughing and eating the bruschetta the waiters were going around offering. It was wonderful.
Then there was the dinner, and I shook hands with Fred Haise! (And actually manged to have a coherent conversation with him, too!)
Oh my gosh, you are so lucky! We do have a Space Museum sort of thing, but it isn’t very good.
I don’t know whether I should save for an Ipod Nano or Ipod Touch. The Ipod Touch seems like it would be more expensive for apps and would be less music-focused, while the Nano seems to not be as good. Opinions anyone?
Definitely the Touch. A lot of the apps are free, and it handles music just as well as the Nano. Just because it’s not “music-focused” doesn’t mean it’s worse at playing music.
I love my Nano. It’s the perfect size, lets me listen to all my music, watch movies (albeit on a small screen) and essentially does everything I want it to in a nice, small, package. I haven’t ever had any trouble with it, and I don’t even have the current generation (I have the one just prior)
However, my Dad has an ipod touch and some of the apps are pretty cool (though not actually musical at all) the storage is excellent and movies are amazing. I guess it depends on what you want, and how much you want to spend. If you’re mostly buying an iwhatever for the music, I’d definately go for the Nano. But that’s just me.
The Nano does seem cooler…it’s smaller…it’s cheaper…it’s colorful…right. I’ll get the Nano when I have enough money, which should be soon. Do you think orange would be good?
So I just finished playing in Spring Reign, which is this massive youth ultimate turnamount, is 2 days long and lots of fun.
We can in 5th (out of 16 teams) in the middle school A divison! THE A DIVISON!!!! last year we came in 14th in the B divison, so this is huge. I played over 4 1/2 hours of ultimate a day both days. SO MUCH FUN!!!
However, the first day the weather ranged from windy/cold to drizzle to pouring rain/hail/epicily freezing. Today was nice though, if a bit warm…I got some serious sunburn (yes, I used lots of sunscreen. I am just. that. pale. ) and now I feel sort of crappy due to overexposure to sun. But I’m deleriously happy so that’s okay.
What do you play, Clare?
19~ That’s an awesome museum, and the instrument room is absolutely WONDERFUL!
Agh, posts. Many of them.
Well, I’m back.
My weekend was grand, filled with fun times and people I absolutely adore. I saw a friend again who’s having serious, serious health issues, and it’s really making me think how precious all these people are to me, and how much they’ve changed my life for the better.
I honestly don’t know where or who I’d be if it weren’t for some of the wonderful people I got to see this weekend. Loving and being loved is a good feeling.
So overall I had a great time. Unfortunately, I got sick and now feel like total snip. Blahhhhh. Cold + damp + smoke + preexisting sniffle = MISERY.
Oh well. So long as I’m better by next weekend.
And oh…..I need to practice fiddle tunes. Seriously. I could fake it when I was playing with everyone, but I’m gonna be paid to play by my lonesome all day. I need to brush up on some tunes. Oh shoot.
Anyway. Shower, then bed. I’m tired. u.u
HOLLER! Um. I’m here. Yeah. What’s up?
eek! i don’t come on here often enough. when was the last time i posted?
Well, hello, Kiki the Great! What’s up with you?
nothing muchhhh, ack-shually. just eatin’ a sandwich. i have no homework! which is surprising! but awesome!
According to my GAPA search, you paid us one short visit in December 2009, but before that you hadn’t been around since late September.
ayyy! that’s not good.
blargh. WELL I’M HERE NOW!
Kiki!
Welcome home.
Hullo, Kiki!
Hey, Kiki! How’s life?
Welcome back, Kiki! I was just an ickle neophyte when you left, so you probably don’t remember me…
oohh i remember you! ahh speller you’re still here! i remember when we MET. random kokon! yayyyy a feeling of camraderie!
Ha, yes! Spelling bee kokon! You should apply to my school next year! (You can probably figure out which one it is.)
Good to see you again, Kiki!
Hi, Kiki! I don’t remember you at all, pretty much, so I’m positive you don’t remember me. Pies anyway!
I miss you, MuseBlog.
Soon enough, once the parental units get another computer, and my teachers stop giving so much homework. Anyway, History Day is on Friday! Hopefully I can move on to Nationals and we can have a mini kokon.
I’ve been wishing for you to go to Nationals on every wish dandelion, heart-shaped rock, etc. that I can find. *hopes*
My dad called the lady from the museum back, and I found out that… *deep breath*
… Erin, my best friend Hannah, and I, have been invited to go back to the Museum in June for the NEW YORK AREA’S FIRST EVER ISS LINKUP! And the lady was so impressed by teen girls showing so much interest in science that she wants us to ask live questions to Tracy Caldwell Dyson, the only woman who’ll be on the station at the time of the link-up!
WOOOOOOO!!!!!
Woah! Felicitaciones!
OH MY GOSH! I don’t know what that means, really, but it sounds epic! Congratulations!
We’re going to go to the museum and speak to the astronauts in a live video-chat.
That. Is. Awesome. You get to have a live talk with the ISS for the first linkup, being in history.
Congratulations! That’s awesome!
In the words (well, word) of Mr. Weasley, “Wicked!”
That is absolutely fabulous, Kai!!!
OH MY GOSH THAT IS SO UNFAIR. You are so lucky! That’s fantabulous! Have fun!
I’m sorry. It’s a shame you can’t come and make it a mini-Kokon, but as we’re on opposite sides of the world (Roughly, technically the antipode of New York is in the Indian Ocean, off Western Australia), that’s not the best logistically.
I know, I know…what a deprived life I lead. XD
*gives virtual universe*
A pie or kitten just didn’t seem enough.
Hehe, I’m tired and hyper at the same time….I got to sleep in today, but I actually woke up earlier than usual, and my brain is ceasing to function. XD But I’m sugar rush-y anyway. Sorta. I keep making typos…and I’m sure that there was going to be a point to this, but I can’t remember it.
I shall try to write something more coherent tomorrow. XD
I also say XD too much. Yay for me. XD And I also wanted to say: I love you guys. I never want to leave MB. It takes a while for me to adjust back, but I will. I swear. I hope. XD ^_^
It’s probably not good that I’m getting used to helping elderly people who have fallen get to the hospital. My neighbor fell a little while ago and my dad and I went over to help him into a chair and call the paramedics. With the rain falling outside and the ambulance lights flashing red, blue, red, blue, it might’ve been pretty if there wasn’t someone’s life at stake.
So you know that virus my computer had 2 weeks ago? IT GOT THE SAME ONE AGAIN! (I apologize for the all caps, but that’s how I’m feeling about now.) That settles it. Next time I get to pick my computer, I’m picking a mac. (Sent from the mac lab.)
Thanks for the congratulations, guys!
Now June 20th is never going to get here fast enough…
I’m nearly done with my PowerPoint on radio astronomy for class, though, and I got a lot of work done today on my children’s book for Latin, so I think today was very productive.
Oh! I haven’t complimented the gorgeous picture yet! I love the art this month…Beautiful as always, Lady B!
Nothing very interesting has happened lately. I went to Six Flags on Friday…That was fun, I suppose. They had really good sno-cones. I didn’t go on many roller coasters because I wasn’t feeling too well.
On Saturday my father accidentally trapped me in the attic while I was searching for my Ringo costume. When I finally made a big enough of a racket, I was released and went to ICA.
50 (Armada)– I know the feeling. I’m really wacko when I’m like that.
That must have been so scary…
51 (Piggy)–
I am so nervous. I am so nervous. I am so nervous. I am so nervous. I am so nervous. I am so nervous.
ARGH!!!!!!!!!
About to leave to do the speaking part of DELF B2…scared out of my wits. I hope the topic isn’t too hard.
I am so nervous. I am so nervous. I am so nervous. I am so nervous. I am so nervous. I am so nervous.
Good luck!
Good luck! You’ll do wonderfully.
Good Luck!
Thanks, guys! I’m back now. It went all right. Hopefully I scraped a 50/100…
After school today my APUSH teacher took a few of us to see The Most Dangerous Man in America, a documentary about Daniel Ellsburg and the Pentagon Papers. It was really amazingly fantastic. It was at a small private-type movie theatre, though, so I’m not sure how easy it would be for you all to go watch it. But if you can, please do. It’s a great movie.
Sounds interesting, especially as we’re doing the Nixon Administration in APUSH. (In terms of the videos he’s showing us, I think he skipped over any Apollo parts for time, and all I can say is BOOOOO!)
Hey!
How’s your month going, everyone?
Just came back from NYSSMA, which I bombed in so many ways. Of course, J had to come out of the room before I went in smiling and saying that he did excellent. Darn you, clarinetist…
This weekend I hope to go bike riding with my friends and B’s crush/obsession. My brother is friends with him, so he’s going to come too, along with his other friends. (Hopefully.)
National. History. Day. States. Friday.
Best of luck!
Good luck! Are you working with Fishy?
OHMYGEORGEAREYOUWORKINGWITHFISHY. Because if you make it one it would be AMAZING.
So, I’m not going to be around much for the next few days. Hell Week (part 2) for Wizard of Oz is gearing up. We open at 7:30 on Thursday, with two more rehearsals in between now and then. We’ve been at school until about 10:00 both nights this week so far. I am zonked.
I have been to Ashland. -ridiculously large, happy grin-
Hamlet is the best play I have ever seen. -grin widens- Soooo intense. Soooooooooo amazing. I could hardly breathe half the time. Just thinking about it makes me feel like crying. Ahhhh, so good. -falls into reverie-
I have an autographed program.
Also a foolproof way to get to see it again this summer. If my hopes fall through, I have a backup plan.
♥ ♥ ♥
P.S. The sets in Ashland are incredible without fail.
’twas fun.
60.1- You mean the Elizabethan? Lovely and outdoor both fit, but little it is not. What play did you see?
Yes, it was probably that. *googles* Yes, it would have been the Elizabethan theatre. It’s been 8 years, so….not really sure which play we saw. All I remember was despite it being summertime, when the sun started to go down during the performance, it got rather cold. But the seats were really hard, so most of us were opting to sit on our jackets to provide a bit of cushioning whilst shivering violently. And being teased by some locals because since we were from Alaska, how could we possibly be cold?
But, no, I’m afraid I really don’t remember which play it was. I do remember it was good, despite the chill and the like, but…*shakes head* I’m drawing a total blank.
So…I had a dream last night. And you know how supposedly nobody actually dreams that they die? Well, I did.
The earliest I remember of the dream my sister and I were involved in an epic chase by a Dalek. We were on four wheelers on a mountain trail speeding away as fast as we possibly could. The trail got submerged by water at some point, so we had to ditch the four wheelers and took refuge in a house. The Dalek found us so we jumped out the back window off a cliff into a huge snow bank (yes, we went from summer to winter merely by walking through this house), and were in some area that has huge steps a bit like Mayan pyramids, and we ended up in this huge auditorium, in what I’m sure was supposed to be a different time–everybody was required to take only massive numbers of music classes in college, and they were all practicing singing.
At this point, I don’t think it was my sis who was with me anymore, but I think maybe for a brief time she had become speller73, but I’m hazy on that. We had a brief conversation whilst watching terrified for the Dalek about music, where whomever my sis had transformed into was talking about various music classes she was taking.
Oh–we were taking refuge in the auditorium, because we felt that hiding amongst people was the best way to hide…And, yes, we felt a smidge guilty that we were going to likely get a bunch of them killed.
Anyway, at that point my companion had now definitely become Stephanie, a girl I know here at school. We fled out the front (or maybe it was the back) when the Dalek was investigating outside at the other end of the building (it was scanning for life forms). WE tried to catch a ride on a bus, but they told us it was full, but there was a bar on the side at the back, so we grabbed on with the full intent of hanging on to the outside of the bus for dear life to escape the Dalek.
The bus driver got off and said that we were blocking his view, that we had to be on the very back of the bus if we were going to hang on, so I moved so that I was basically clinging to the back side of the bus like Jack to the TARDIS (i do love my analogies), and Steph was hanging more toward the side still. Unfortunately, the Dalek had made its way around the building and caught sight of us, and the bus was only just warming up and getting ready to start moving.
I recognized that there was no point in running and was hoping like hell the bus would hurry up and move, and it turned, starting to, giving the Dalek and even better view, which lifted up its shooting arm and shot out a cloud of steam like stuff (been watching too much Classic Who. THe War Machines last night fired steam clouds that killed), killing me instantly and I awoke with a jolt. ’twas 7:28 by my microwave.
I can’t even remember if the Dalek said “exterminate” before offing me, but I do remember that it was one of the new Daleks. The yellow one, if anyone cares.
Oh, I should add. In the 12 minutes I had remaining before my alarm was set to go off (set to my exterminate ringtone, oddly enough), I feel back asleep and found myself back in that auditorium. Steph was there a few rows back, she’d apparently gotten exterminated to, and as dreams do, we’d both come back in game-like fashion (as in, we killed one life, but still had more to go). And then our organic chem TA came around handing back our last lab with our grades on it, and i was horrifed to see I’d gotten a 26/30, as I’d been hoping for a 30/30. I do hope that wasn’t prophetic….
I once dreamed that I was killed by a supernova.
It would be interesting to be exterminated by the Emperor of the Daleks, but since he’s God, I suppose he’d have some other Dalek do it… /random
Well, I found (my) dead body once? Does that count?
The nearest I’ve come to dreaming I die are those once where you’re falling and wake up before you hit the ground. But once there was more of a ‘backstory’ and I was at the mall with my mum. We were on a higher level near one of those openings where you can see down to the lower floors, and I somehow slipped (the barrier disappeared) but just managed to put my arms around a pillar place right on the edge. I only held on for the time it took my mum to scream and for me to realise no one was trying to pull me back up, then I fell. I don’t usually wake up that scared.
Ahh, you mean a hypnic twitch? (Thanks Luna!)
Ianto called it a hypnic *jerk*, I believe, rather than twitch. But same idea. Although i think that was not so much referring to when you jerk out of a sound sleep, but when you’re drifting off to sleep and your body does that funny little twitch/jerk jolting you back to mostly full-consciousness.
Oh noes. I failed. :/
I think it’s supposed to be that you’ll never dream the full sensations of actually dying, not that you won’t have a dream in which you die and then immediately wake up.
Ah. That makes more sense.
The Who’s Posted How Much thread is so interesting. Looking at all the people who came before you behind in the rankings, and all the people that came after in front of you.
Actually there’s only a very few who came after and are in front of me. Enceladus is the only one, I believe. SudoRandom came before, though I could’ve sworn it was the other way round for a while.
Hm. I find myself not really caring who came when anymore.
Anyway, I have to go. I probably won’t be on for a bit, I believe Mom’s confiscating my computer.
49~ That sounds completely amazing, Kai! Congratulations!
50~ I’m glad you’re staying, I l love you too. And xD is perfectly acceptable.
60~ That sounds good. I think Hamlet is coming up at the Folger sometime soon, I’m looking forward to it.
Luna~ I must admit that I thought you were going to say you’d died in your dream right as your Dalek alarm clock went off (yes, I remembered that you woke up to the dalek exterminate noise, even though I have no idea what it sounds like or even what a dalek is. No, I’m not a stalker, I just remember odd things).
62.2~ Just so you know, “I once dreamed that I was killed by a supernova.” Has become one of my favorite quotes.
Ugh, I slept in til 1100. I also spent a good (or in this case, not so good) amount of the night awake coughing and trying not to throw up all over my bed. >.< I hate being sick. I was just sick last month, come on, what's wrong with me?! Ugh.
I just need to be well by May 1, that's all I ask. And I also need to practice a lot and relearn or at least brush up on some tunes, since I'm supposed to be providing music, and I realized last weekend how little I've been playing other than my lesson music. Bach is great, but it's not what makes me play the violin, and it's not the music I'm being hired for.
Ugh again.
More tea. I think I'm going to go have some more tea.
I hope you feel better soon! Being sick is miserable.
Squee! I finally figured out how to convert sheet music of the treble clef variety to sheet music of the bass clef variety! Just move each note down two steps and you have the same note! Voila!
YAY! *plays a bass instrument*
I’m back from school. Whee.
*eats brains of anyone who can still think that happens to wander by*
*becomes zombified*
*fortunately cannot still think, so escapes Enc* *notices Weeping Angel avatar* *dies of fright*
It’s just a picture… I’m sure it’ll be fine…
But if it’s not, I realised something. There will be around 3,400 weeping angels or so. *dies of fright*
That’s counting all the other names I’ve had.
Your picture confused me on the May Day Planning thread because it looked like fireh’s. Black and white, you know…
What.
Enc, you should know better!!!!!!!!!!!
But we’re looking at them…
So we will be converted also.
But then you turn your back. But then you blink.
And oh, no, you aren’t.
Weeping Angel! *points* doesn’t blink* *doesn’t scroll down* *doesn’t turn back* *has to scroll down to hit comment button* *dies*
Haven’t you seen the Time Of Angels?
Whenever I see the word “star” now or even when I have to write “star” I feel like it looks so empty and dull without the extra “r” on the end since I’m so used to it now.
Nym always says it’s a typo when “star” is spelled with only one r.
….I’m auditioning to be in a young actor’s production of The Tempest this weekend. I am nervous. I am doing part of To Be Or Not To Be as my audition speech….it’s so hard to keep it fresh. Glargle. *is in need of choklit*
Good luck, Armada! Don’t have any real choklit – when I was young and in choir (a long time ago, when choir and strings were both after school), the teacher told us not to have chocolate or any dairy products before a performance because it somehow ruined our voices. I don’t really know. Anyway, you can have some as long as you keep it virtual. *VIRTUAL choklit for Armada*
Hehe. Thanks for the virtual choklit–I don’t believe I have any real chocolate in the house anyway.
I had some chai with milk…. wung buttons. XD I can’t really sing anyway, but…. *shrug*
*choklit*
Thanks…. ^_^
Re: Dreams and alarm clocks: The other night I had a dream that I set my alarm clock so that it would wake me up with the “to be or not to be” speech. The alarm clock then went off in real life, but I continued dreaming and was inordinately frustrated that it was producing a shrill beep rather than Hamlet’s voice. I tried to fix it by fiddling with dials that do not in reality exist on my alarm clock, and I must have succeeded in hitting the snooze button, because I distinctly recall coming half-awake later, frantically trying to recall the speech, but I couldn’t seem to get past “nobler in the mind” until I remembered “to suffer” and fell asleep without going any farther. Incidentally, when I came fully awake about half an hour later, I could get all the way to “Must give us pause.”
And then last night I dreamed that I went to see a performance of Hamlet, but they were short several actors and didn’t have understudies, so I and a couple of nondescript dream-friends stepped into to fill the roles and I had to learn all of Ophelia’s lines and blocking, as well as be fitted for a costume, in five hours.
I had this dream a couple nights ago that this company near us was putting on an adaptation of Midsummer Night’s Dream, and, like, the day of the performance one of their actors couldn’t make it, so they called me in and asked me to play Puck, and the only rehearsal of any kind that I got was reading the script, which was in a really hard-to-decipher font, and then I went onstage and had to improvise the whole thing, because it was an adaptation and I had no idea what was going on…. -_-
Speaking of Hamlet, you David Tennant fans might like to know that he’s playing Hamlet on PBS tonight. It starts in 20 minutes.
Picard and the Doctor! It’s also supposed to be available on PBS online immediately after the broadcast.
It’s still not up… Grr.
It may not go up until after it’s finished showing in the other time zones.
Gah. Stupid prevet club party I had to go to…..Only got back about 10 minutes ago.
Lady B–that’s good news, then. I’ll go stalk PBS.
Grrrr. It doesn’t end until 10:30pm. That means either a) I stay up god-awful late tonight (the preview looks pwnsome, David Tennant is freakin’ awesome!) or b) I catch it tomorrow sometime. I know what the wise decision would be. I also know what the actual decision will probably end up being. Let’s just say the two are not the same….
I’ve seen him playing Hamlet before…as I think I mentioned somewhere on MB before. With the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was good.
I had a dream last night that I was looking at a really big map of Narnia in a basement with a tiled floor.
Really weird. I haven’t read those books in ages…
I had a dream that fish were swimming in my closet. There was no water. It was strange. We should probably be discussing this on the dreams thread…* goes and checks thread* *uses Gmail HTML*
71- WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT????? Must watch! When it’s online, that is. David Tennant as Hamlet…I very much doubt that he can beat Dan Donohue. I don’t think anyone could. And it won’t be a play so there will be something lacking. BUT STILL.
Yayyyyy. -dances about-
SIOBHAN GOT KICKED OFF AMERICAN IDOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *slumps down and cries* I VOTED FOR HER!!! NOOO!
My mom told us that thismorning in the car. Shea ctually said “I didn’t want to say this in the house, but Siobhan got voted off American Idol.”
We spent the rest of the ride arguing abouit why she couldn’t tell us in the house.
I was going to post something. Forgot it. Cake.
Which reminds me. I’ve been wondering, does anybody else actually say ‘Cake’ in real life, as a swear word?
I do, as you might have figured out. Pretty much starting from the day our boat capsized into freezing water, though I’d been trying for some time before that.
But now I say it naturally, whenever something goes wrong.
Anyway.
I never actually say it, myself. I still (over)use other expletives, instead. (I really am quite foul-mouthed, to be honest.) But I’ve got myself typing “cake” a few times when ranting about things in email. I usually change it, so as to avoid the “what the cake?” responses from my parents….
Yes. Well, I try to. Like, instead of saying “Crap!”, I’ll say “Cake!”.
I definitely do.
Hmm, sometimes. Not often though.
75- I say “Cake”.
I think “cake!” is very expressive. Various kinds of cake can be substituted for variety and emphasis, e.g., “Sachertorte!” We GAPAs are great believers in euphemism, as you know, and specialized vocabulary can help members of a minority group (MBers) to recognize one another.
Or maybe not.
Maybe. I, personally, wouldn’t have any problem with admitting I said ‘cake’, and if asked, I’d probably tell them I got it off the internet.
But yes, I find it very useful. Nobody can call it a bad word. It’s not, it’s just… Cake. Pastry.
I honestly don’t quite understand cake. I’ve used it on here as a substitute for swearing, but with swear words it’s the intent of the word, not the word itself. Stronger words have become more taboo since being adopted as swear words, but a great example is hell – it’s a perfectly normal, innocent word most of the time, but it’s suddenly a bad word when you use it as one. So by substituting cake for other swear words, you haven’t eliminated swearing, you’ve just put it in a different context.
Everything comes down to context one way or another.
Of course, context includes social context, i.e., what other people expect to hear or recognize as strong language and how likely they are to be shocked or offended. Off the blog, I’d say “cake” is almost 100 percent unexpected and unrecognized and zero percent offensive.
people are so illogical *sigh*
still though, the -meaning- has been clear all along. so far it hasn’t been directed at a person (and hopefully on the blog it never will be) but if someone calls me a caking cake i’m going to be just as offended as if they cussed me out. i don’t know, i think i’ll just stick with straight-up swearing and not do it on the blog :-/
I think the literal meaning of words is important, too. Maybe I’m more susceptible to mental images than most people, but I’d rather hear expletives that evoke pastry rather than, say, manure. That’s certainly true on the blog.
Also, isn’t swearing supposed to be a form of expression? If people off-blog don’t understand it, it isn’t really serving its purpose. I think we can only really talk about cake as it relates to people on the blog, because otherwise it’s just a meaningless jumble of words
I’d say the intent is pretty clear from context, perhaps even more so offblog. We react to all sorts of cues besides language. You could swear at someone using random gibberish in a particular tone of voice and the message would come through loud and clear.
Actually now that i think about it, i am a little saddened! We are putting pastries in a negative context! That doesn’t seem right
at least it’s not pie, i suppose.
I personally think that the most popular swear words stay popular not because of their meaning or even their shock value (both of which dissipate rapidly with use) but because they have such satisfying consonants.
This is Swat and Fishy reporting from a mini kokon (we each other, and we’re on a trip together)! We are on our way to Cooperstown for National History Day! We’re having an epic party on the bus. Calling out to all History Day Musers! We want to know just what you think about NHD. Swat says it’s hell, but she didn’t want me to say it (Although I agree).
Greetings, YANSWAT and Fishy! Good to hear that you’re having fun.
It can be hell, but I like it a lot! Even though my partner can be annoying. BEST OF LUCK TO YOU TWO. I mean it, I really want you to go on. Are you in the same group? Good luck with the interview, too, I hope your judges are nice. Also, how many people are you competing against? I was competing against seven other projects. Three of them were PowerPoints.
Anyway, I hope you do awesomely, and if you win..see you in DC!
I think that swear words are a substitute for vocabulary. In some cases.
I mean, using them to express frustration is fine. Or at least, not bad. Sometimes, it’s just a way to let out your feelings. I’m okay with that, though I’d still prefer it if you stuck to lesser swear words, or perfectly ordinary words.
But I’ve noticed people saying, for example, ‘I can’t see crap’. What they mean is, ‘I can’t see anything.’ But for some reason, they don’t want to spell out exactly what they can’t see. I don’t like that. It’s the same thing with ‘she was like yeah, and I was like I can’t believe that, and she was like aagh’ Can’t you just say ‘she said ‘yes’, and I replied ‘I can’t believe that’ she expressed displeasure.’
I admit, I’m guilty of doing that last myself, but I wish I didn’t.
Anyway, this is becoming a rant.
I say “cake” as a swear word all the time. As a matter of fact, I don’t actually even use any “real swear words.”, just “cake” and variations of, for example “What the bunnified cake?” comes up quite frequently in my vocabulary of swears, especially when my sister jumps out of the coat closet yelling “BOO!”
Cake/swearing: Eh, I think I might have used cake verbally, offblog once or twice, but as a last-second save around people who wouldn’t appreciate other facets of my vocabulary. *shrug*
Somewhere around the age of 12 or so my parents started swearing freely in front of me, so I figured the taboo was off. I don’t swear around them too much, but every now and then, and I’ve not really gotten any grief for it, so whatever.
I do modify my language to the company I’m in though, and generally err on the side of caution.
For whatever reason, some of my friends are shocked the first time they hear me mutter an obscenity, or, like Neil start giggling and go “wow, you ARE human after all! You SWORE!”
Meh, express yourself creatively, and resort to obscenities when you have need of them, them’s my tuppence.
84~It is true that they have a certain ring to them that flies most satisfactorily off the tongue.
85~ Hi, have fun! What is National History Day? Being a history geek, I’m inclined to approve automatically though.
http://www.nhd. org. It’s this months-long project where you do a LOT of research on a topic, which you pick based on a theme. Then you can write a paper on it, create a documentary ( what Fishy and I are doing ), do a website, or an exhibit, or do a performance. It’s really an amazing experience.
82.1- I actually usually DO swear by screaming gibberish. (Or occasionally technical terms or obscure names/words, like “Phobos!” or “Zork!”)
my general point was just that it’s still swearing, no matter what you say, as long as it is intended as a swear.
but yes!
i have been known to say “zarking.” my favorite though, is adding “nuggets” to existing swear words
in other news i am almost definitely going to MARCon. am i allowed to say that? it is fairly big i think. if not, i zap away i guess. it is going to be tons of fun
90~ I say “zarking”.
87- Yeah, same here. Cake is pretty much as far as I go for swear words.
88- Last time I said ‘freaking’, when sort of quoting my friend, she commented on the fact. I’m also almost certain I remember the last time I said ‘crap’. Yeah, I don’t really swear. At all.
I just substitute the word I deem appropriate in the context for any caking that I see. In my opinion… Swear words only have power if you give it to them. I swear all the time, but the only reason I do is because it impacts other people and really gets my meaning across to them. If other people felt the way I do, I don’t think I’d swear at all, aside from the remnant habits I might have.
(As a side note, spellcheck says that caking is a word. I am so pleased with the world right now.)
-A
Ahh, excuse me, clarification: This explanation would be for on-blog caking, which is the only time I have ever heard of anyone doing this.
As for off-blog… Well, I sort of covered that. Basically, I say what I like, present company taken into consideration.
-A
Caking…
My spellchecker agrees with you. Hooray!
Oh, I don’t believe I mentioned it earlier, but I got my Diabolis CD from Paul the other day and it’s absolutely wonderful. Ever more reasons to be a proud Baker House-ian. ^.^
The other day I was in the house rereading The School for Scandal and thinking about 18th century drama and arts in general and came to the conclusion that I do very much want to play the harpsichord, and play it well. I just am not so thrilled about the learning process. Alas. The guitar as well, and by that I mean the 18th century style guitar, which is more like a cittern type instrument. But again, I’d like to be able to play it, just not so keen on the whole taking time to learn it bit. Or where I’d be able to find one, that’s a problem too.
And guitar (modern). I’ve always just assumed I’ll always have guitar players around, and for the most part that’s true, but still. Meh. I dunno if I’d get desperate enough to seriously pursue it, but it’s a thought.
But I suppose for now I’ll concentrate on the harpsichord. I do so love it, and it’s a shame to have one and be in ignorance as to how to play it. *sigh*
I’ll get out my music book and practice. Tomorrow.
Oh, and I really should make a recording or something of the airs of The Beggar’s Opera, it’s ridiculous that no one knows them and we end up talking through all the songs when we read through it. Then again, we also need to find a core of people who consistently does it, instead of having to press gang nearby loafers into our merry company.
*sigh again* It’d be great if that all happened and then some people were interested enough (and willing enough to make fools of themselves) to actually act it all out, as opposed to reading it fast as they can in a monotone.
I’m tired of looking like a showoff when I emote and sing the songs I know. It’s enough that I always end up as Polly. I might be an attention hog, but I dislike appearing so.
You have a harpsichord?! Why do you not know how to play it already!?
-A
I have two music related questions, one of which I am almost certain someone can answer, and one of which I can probably get some help with, at the very least:
1) I finally got around to downloading the AVPM soundtrack, and was wondering what the song order is? It downloaded in alphabetical order, and I’m too
busylazy to find out the correct one from online. (Yes, I should probably have it memorized, but I want to be certain.2) We’re having a school dance tomorrow, and apparently my reputation for listening to “abnormal” music that even the DJ, the mother of a third grader, knows about it. Anyway, she asked me for some good dance songs that aren’t in the top forty. I can help with the “Not in the top forty” part, but I’m not so sure about the “good dance songs” part. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks and cookies in advance to anyone who even takes the time to think about what I’ve said here.
Erm, well, I thought I could help with the first, but looking at iTunes, my soundtrack for AVPM appears to neither be in the order they appear in the musical nor in alphabetical order. So….Yeah.
Well, thanks anyway.
1. Get Back to Hogwarts
2. “Well, Aren’t We An Odd Couple?”
3. Different As Can Be
4. “Check it Out…”
5. Ginny
6. Harry
7. Different As Can Be (Reprise)
8. Hey Dragon
9. “So Cho Chang, I Was Wondering…”
10. Cho Chang
11. Granger Danger
12. To Dance Again
13. “Are You Talking About My Horcruxes?”
14. Missing You
15. Not Alone
16. Voldemort Is Going Down
17. “Is Okay Good?”
18. Not Alone (Reprise) & Finale: Goin’ Back To Hogwarts
19. Pigfarts, Pigfarts
Around the Bend by The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
Chelsea Dagger by the Fratellis
Camisado by Panic at the Disco
Good Life by OneRepublic– Seriously, this song is amazing. It makes me want to laugh and cry and sing and dance and run away all at the same time.
Everybody Loves Me by OneRepublic
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I just got all of my old music back, since my incompetent father took a year to get the drive on the computer fixed, then took another year to install it in the computer. His excuse? “I had no free time…” Ha. He spends half his time walking around doing nothing.
As for the order of AVPM, it’s
1) Get back to Hogwarts
2) Well aren’t we… (I’m abbreviating)
3) Different as can be
4) check it out
5) ginny
6) harry
7) Different… (reprise)
8) Hey Dragon
9) So Cho Chang…
10) Cho chang
11) Granger Danger
12) To dance
13) Are you talking…
14) Missing you
15) Not Alone
16) Voldemort is…
17) Is okay good?
18) Not alone (reprise and finale)
19) Pigfarts
Thanks, everyone. But now for some reason iTunes won’t let me rearrange the music order.
Beedle- How could I forget the Fratellis? I’ll check those other ones out too, thanks!
You have to change it in its playlist.
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i’m not sure they’d play the fratellis…i remember me and my friend going through their stuff trying to find “appropriate” songs to play at a band spread and sort of failing. but that could have been some other band? i don’t remember…
Actually, it just magically rearranged itself.
ebeth- They ended up not playing the Fratellis, because apparently they couldn’t find them in the iTunes store and didn’t want to download it off of the internet because of viruses and such.
Vhhhattt?!? No Fratellis!? I just searched it! It’s right there!
Hang on, wait. Those are the order mine are in….Why did I not think that that was the order?
For 2, I’m on a bit of a Chess kick, so I’d definitely say One Night in Bangkok. Apparently, it was actually popular when my mom was in high school…
What’s this? MUSIC questions? Hmm, maybe people should repopulate the long-dead MUSIC thread! eh? eh?
ebeth misses the music thread :'(
I have to take the SAT on Saturday. I’m worried.
Don’t be. I did well in 7th grade when I was sick.
Like Jakob said–don’t be. They’re really not that difficult at all. In addition to taking them in highschool, I took them in 7th and 8th grade. It’s fairly basic stuff–my main difficulty, actually, was that I’d gone so far past that level of, say, math by the time I took them in high school that I didn’t remember some of the tricks and the like.
You are not the only one who will be taking tests tomorrow, KaiYves. I’ll be taking some as well. However, I’m taking some SAT subject tests, not the SAT reasoning test.
To relieve some tension, here are some funny thoughts that are mostly true:
Just remember, we’ve studied, we know what we’re talking about, and we’re not likely to gain a vast amount of knowledge for the test in the next 15 hours, so assemble your things that you need for the test tomorrow and relax.
Checklist of items you will need:
Your admission ticket. (Without it you won’t get in, where all the fun is.
)
)
Your valid photo ID card with your picture on it. (ID cards that say “Junior Investigator for the FBI” on it won’t get you far.
They also don’t need to know that you work for the FBI*.
Some #2 pencils. (some people in the room I was in when I took it last year forgot their pencils*. I was not one of them)
And if you need/want one, a trusty calculator.
Know where these are tonight, so you don’t forget them tomorrow.
Hope this helps and good luck. May the Force be with you!
*Federal Bureau of Intergalacticness.
*Some places won’t have spare pencils.
So my dog’s sleeping beside my bed, and a moment ago I looked down, and she was twitching, her legs and her face and stuff. So I got off my bed to get a closer look. Her tongue was slightly out, and her eyes were twitching as well, sometimes rolling completely down, so I could just see white. It was freaky. She continued twitching all over and rolling her eyes around for a little while more, and then stopped. Then she scratched herself and went back to sleep.
I’d never seen her do that before. It was interesting. Freaky, but interesting.
98- My dog always twitches when she sleeps… She even whines sometimes. Doggy nightmares, I suppose.
Or something. Have to wonder what they’re dreaming about.
Oh my…
I wonder if they have dreams like ours, or if it’s just shapes and colors…
If they do have dreams like ours, what do they dream about? Eating people food? Chasing squirrels? Taking a trip to the vet?
I always imagined that when my dog was asleep (limbs twitching, lips twitching, occasionally a muffled woof–it was hilarious when that would wake her up, leaving her looking startled) that she was dreaming of chasing squirrels or rabbits or some other little furry critter.
htt p:/ /w ww.youtube.c om/wat ch?v=z2 BgjH_CtIA
That is some of the best footage on the web. It’s even better if you know dogs, and know that ‘Bizkit’ is completely fine moments afterward.
-A
[Despite the GAPAs’ general bias against links to outside sites, I’m moderating this one — Rosanne]
If their dreams are anything like ours, they aren’t nearly as straightforward as any of those suggestions. Maybe chasing mysteriously disappearing squirrels down a street that suddenly turns into the inside of a tree with a companion who keeps turning into different
peopledogs.I doubt they are nightmares… We call them puppy dreams. Twitching and running and whining… It’s comforting to hear late at night. Even more comforting when you go wake them up gently and stay with them until they fall back asleep.
I love my dogs.
-A
Fishy and SWAT are at National History Day!! (it’s the statewide contest this time)
Wish them luck!!!
Luck!
I want them so badly to go on. Will someone please tell me if they are working together?
My car is coming home!!
And the OSU Kokon thread is closed for some mysterious reason.
How can I be tired? It’s only 10:20!
I want to stop coughing. Ew.
Oh, yes. Very mysterious, indeed.
Meh. Coughs. I’ve still got one from the cold i came down with almost 2 weeks ago. Nasty creatures, coughs are.
Right. EXTREMELY mysterious.
Perhaps it was the kokonvening that we were planning
yes, that must be it. they don’t want us discussing meeting each other guys!
…or i suppose it could have been the orgies.
What? Are you crazy? Neither of those reasons make any sense at all. It’s such a mystery what the true rationale for closing the post is!
-A
Coughs are horrific.
I’ve caught one that, according to my friend, makes me sound like I’m dying.
I have a cough too! and my throat was /really/ sore earlier today. bleh.
Yeah. I’ve been coughing for like a month, on and off. Ever since I had this killer sore throat, and since then I’ve been coughing. Most of my family had the same cold, yet I’m the only one still coughing.
One performance down!
Yay!
UGH. Nearly midnight and I have an assignment due tomorrow, and am I doing it? Of course not, I’m too busy poking around on MuseBlog, even though nobody’s on. I’m thoroughly helpless.
Oh, you’re not alone. I did that last night.
((Luna, I swear, if you start quoting AVPM…))
Baby, you’re not alone. Cuz you’re here with me, and nothin’ will ever be the same….
((Wouldn’t have even thought to do that if you hadn’t told me not to….))
*facepalm*
How I love the blog…. ♥
Aww…poor you. *choklit* I don’t have school today! So I’m happy…It’s a ‘Professional Development Day’, whatever that means. And tomorrow’s a public holiday (Labour Day).
*sticks out tongue* NYAA! I wish I didn’t have to go to school today.
Yay!
I have semi-school Fridays. We’re homeschooled, so on Fridays we get together with a bunch of other homeschooled friends, and discuss the history and literature we read this week. We don’t have any other school today, and co-op is rather fun, so I don’t really count it as schoolwork. A five-day week would feel weird somehow, after so long without it. Well, maybe three years.
Well, everyone, I’m going to school as Bertrand Russell. Wish me luck!
Why do you think I was reading so many books about Russell?
Good Luck! Is that for that report/essay thingy you were talking about?
Good luck!
*wishes you luck*
I once went to school dressed as a crab.
Geep. I must have blinked. Oh dear god, I must have blinked–the statue has moved! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
I promise* I didn’t touch my gravatar.
*See what River Song said to Amy around halfway through ToA.
That’s awesome. *is in the middle of Logicomix* It’s so awesome that there’s a comic book about a subject of math that I’m seriously considering studying… Of course the logicians going insane part isn’t so good…
You’ll be all right. After all, I took “Advanced Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics” in college, and I’m perfectly — hm —
I’m probably doing my big research project (ie going to a university, doing actual scientific/mathematical research) on logic next year… And now I’m starting to see why my dad always begged me to go into comp sci instead…
Oh, yes, that kind of immersion could well be risky. You’d better be extra-illogical in your free time to counteract its effects.
Ooh, I also want to study logic. It sounds interesting. However, I agree that going mad wouldn’t be good…
Although what I got from Logicomix is that it’s unclear whether madness is a cause or an effect of studying logic…
The logicians mentioned in the book were a fairly special breed — pioneers of logic, you could say, a somewhat different category from people who study an established discipline. It’s also possible that in the context of the times, the individuals portrayed in the the book seemed attracted to logic for certain reasons that left them dismayed by the twists and turns it took. Someone entering the field today would have a different set of expectations, precisely because of the contributions from those earlier mathematicians.
Extremes of isolation, lack of acceptance, and other factors might push vulnerable minds over the edge, too. Most creative fields have something of a reputation for madness that usually turns out to be at least somewhat exaggerated.
That’s true.
Well, I’m back. It was great!
Apparently, with my tweed jacket, from the back I looked like the 11th Doctor. *happy*
But, over all, the questions people asked me didn’t make me squirm.
Yeep. That reminded me of this one very scary dream I had recently….
Basically, you were the Doctor, which was creepy in itself, bit what made it worse was Luna and Keiffer were traveling with you. *screams and runs away*
What’s creepy about me being the Doctor?
*throws banana*
Oh, just…
Imagine the Doctor being as sadistic as you are. Isn’t that slightly scary?
*catches banana*
Congrats!
I believe it is. fireh- you’re homeschooled!! Or do you mean…your music school??
She might not always have been homeschooled.
No, my old school. Started homeschooling in fourth grade.
Does anyone know what October 15th plus six months is? I feel like it should be easy to do that, but whenever I try it ends up weirdly.
May 15? Depends on what you mean by six months, I suppose.
Try feeding it to Wolfie. http :/ /w ww.wolframalpha.c om/
What do you mean by six months? Exactly half a year? A certain six months that have a different number of days? Or merely the same date, in the month that is spaced six away from October? Or something else, perhaps, that I can’t think of?
-A
If you’re just going by six months (to the date, as in the 15th), that would be April 15.
Nov: 1
dec: 2
Jan: 3
Feb: 4
March: 5
April: 6
Or if you’re looking for something else entirely, sorry, my brains not working.
Wait, how did I get May then? You’re right, depending on what Keiffer’s looking for, but…
Miscounted, perhaps?
I’m looking for that, Luna, thanks.
I have figured out how to make pixel art in GIMP. *goes to make more*
There’s a Star Wars day? Cool!
In other news, I just discovered that my sister has They Might Be Giants on her iPod. This is not coincidence. I told her about a song I was planning on getting, which just happened to be Mesopotamians, by TMBG. She apparently went and got it as well. I find this quite funny.
Sorry, I couldn’t get on last night because I was swamped with homework, but I’ll catch up on the posts now…
88 (Fiddler) – Oh, my parents (Mostly my dad) have cussed around me since I was much younger than 12. Sad but true. I haven’t come across a curse word I don’t know in a while. I do cuss – on occasion – but not that often. Mostly when I’m alone and frustrated about something will I scream a few not-so-nice words.
93 and others – I have to admit, the purpose of swearing has always seemed a bit stupid to me. I mean, like ebeth said somewhere, I have never understood the use of hell as being bad. It’s just a normal word – a place of all things – and besides the definition of the place being far from positive, the word itself has no negative meaning whatsoever unless you give any to it. For the sake of society I try to avoid swearing simply because society doesn’t like it and I don’t want to get into trouble, but society is A) Stupid and B) a lot of curse words have other meanings. How did they even get started? It’s a load of cake to me.
97 (Kai) – I took the SAT not too long ago, and did fairly well – and I’m in 7th grade. I mean, I know that what I got was not extremely *amazing*, but I was pretty happy with it. And I feel like when/if I have to take them in my junior year, I’ll have learned more of the concepts, especially in math, and I’ll be better prepared.
Alright, here’s the lay down. PM- Sadly we are not in the same group. ;(
Oops, we weren’t finished! Well, even more sadly, Swat’s group didn’t make it to the next level…. But I bring good news! I, Fishy, got second place, which means I am off to Nationals! Princess Magnolia, I’m thinking mini kokon.
And doesn’t Robert live near D.C?
So, my six month mark was April 15 according to many a helpful source, and Pseudonym said that I was supposed to ask the GAPAs to upgrade my chess account to a Paleo account or whatever it is that has to be done. So, that being said, I’m going to go eat some food.
Keiffer: I did that hours ago. Underwhelming, isn’t it?
Eat some for me, please. I want ice cream. XD
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! OhmyGSD! OhmyGSD! Yippee! Words cannot contain my excitement! EEEEE! I’m going to California right after school gets out! AAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Directly after which I shall meet with my best friend C!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think my brain is turning somersaults! (in a good way)
Okay, I have my pencils, I have my calculator, I have my water, I have my energy bars, I have my passport with my photo…
Now I need to go to sleep.
109~ Yeah, they (also mostly my dad) swore around me when i was younger too, but not as often.
Congrats, Fishy!
110.1.1~ Yes, he’s a Washington D.C.-ian.
I have to play music tomorrow. All day. I’m being paid to do it. This is good, except that I’ve only really been practicing the stuff I’m playing in my lessons. And that’s not what I’m playing tomorrow. I’m freaking out a little bit. I also need to make 6 Turk’s heads for a friend.
I’m tired. I wonder if these cough drops have enough sugar in them to keep me awake?
I need to wake up early tomorrow. I’ve been sleeping in as of late because I’ve had a lot of sleepless nights, what with coughing so hard I’m almost throwing up and all.
Okay, I’m going to stop procrastinating and get off the computer, g’night.
(Oh, and I really am sorry Robert et all, about the OSU thread. I know you try really hard to keep it G [or at least PG] rated around here, I wasn’t trying to push it over bounds.)
Oh, hey, on a random note, my spanish teacher had us listen to a song in class today. From what little I understood of it (I was very sleep deprived, and not really interested in anything going on….), it was all about raining coffee in the countryside.
I thought of Ianto. And his love of coffee. And Countrycide. And Ianto and raining coffee in the countrycide. And….Yeah. Coffee makes me think of Ianto. And the word “countryside” makes me think of Countrycide, which makes me think of Ianto. And of how “You’re the only race in the universe that goes camping. Celebrate your own uniqueness.” And I think the next time i go camping, I shall think of Torchwood. And, of course, make sure never to go camping in the Brecon Beacons, as anyone who has watched that particular episode of Torchwood will understand.