This month’s random thread commemorates the 1920s (the “Roaring Twenties,” as they came to be called): a decade of flappers, flivvers, flamablamablously flamboyant flirtation, jazz, silent movies, Prohibition, and — shown here — an aerobically challenging dance called the Charleston.
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Wow. I love Mimi’s dress! But what’s a flivver?
Anyway, I’m doing what I always do on weekends: procrastinate. Stupid Commerce homework. I don’t know why I bother, we almost never go over it and it doesn’t make sense anyway.
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Awesome! I love the picture!
Kokopelli looks like he’s having fun.
Flamabulous picture as always, Lady B!
Groovy! I love Koko’s tux! *starts to dance*
Ah, Kokopelli cleans up nicely.
I’m going to the beach today.
Flamablamablous picture, Lady B! ( I hope I spelled that right)
Oh, I really like this one. Kokopelli looks great
Oh Man, am I tired. But not in the sleepy way… These past two days have felt extremely long. Thursday began by going on the school bus at 8:30, and ended by talking in inter-accessible hotel rooms until 2AM. This last day, well, it was just long.
Um… shouldn’t there be some kind of May Day Ball thread?
8- I was going to ask that, too.
*gasp* I HAVE TO FINISH MY DRESS!
Oh, I love the roaring twenties!!! I wouldn’t want to live in them, though, because of what happened after…Hoover’s fault! *is biased*
He had a lot of help.
If they hadn’t ignored Nebraska (and other stereotypically agricultural states), the whole thing mightn’t’ve happened. *switches to Southern accent* So take that, y’all city-folk. Now I’m-a go till the back forty.
I read that (“Hoover’s fault!”) and I started laughing insanely.
(I was one of the street people in the production of Annie that my school put on. *sings in annoying voice* We’d like to thank you Herbert Hoover…)
Nice pic!
Love the picture!
SWAT, what kind of project were you doing for History Day?
We did group performance, but sadly, no nationals for us. You’ll be seeing fishy though!
What was your topic? I did a group performance last year and got honorable mention at states.
Our topic was,
Submarines: Diving Into History
The May Day Ball thread is unblemished, and I don’t know how these things work. Someone should post…
I did. First post, hopefully! *sings with joy*
So it was. And a very nice opening at that.
Thank you!
Wow! Great picture!
10- It can’t really be all Hoover’s fault. No one could singlehandedly undo a country’s economy in a few months. It had to be all set up for him first. Unless, of course, you’re referring to his not helping once everything had started. In that case, I cannot argue.
I wouldn’t have wanted to live in the twenties though, regardless of how much fun they look like they’re having. I think I’m definitely biased, because this is how my Honors Us History teacher taught it to us, but if the twenties were just one big reaction to WWI and all the “Oh my god we could die any moment” fatalistic stuff, then I wouldn’t want to experience that. Plus, there was the Red Scare. Plus, no matter how liberating the costumes were, they really were not very flattering and people STILL had to wear corsets. Plus, the twenties brought about the First Rise of the Suburbs. Ugh, suburbs.
Our school’s prom theme is Roaring Twenties. I’m not going, even though there’s going to be a root beer speakeasy (ahh, sorely tempting–mostly just because it would give me an opportunity to be Miss History Geek and talk in twenties slang). I said that I would go if they played twenties music, but while they thought that a song or two would be a nice touch, they refused to go all the way, and so I agreed to go to an anti-prom with the rest of our lunch table instead.
It sounds like you would enjoy our school’s annual Swing Dance. Most people wear era costumes and there’s a big band playing the whole time–no Best Hits Of April 2010 or whatever people usually play at dances. It’s run by the band, so obviously I’ve gone for the last two years, and it’s the best school event I’ve been to by far.
Don’t you mean women had to wear corsets? Did men wear corsets too?
No, men didn’t have to wear corsets.
Mimi’s dress looks like Donna Noble’s in The Unicorn And The Wasp!
And you know, this picture inspired me to rewatch that episode.
That’s exactly what I thought the first time I saw the pic
*likewise doctor who obsessed minds think alike*
Cake. This Doctor Who obsessed mind clearly needs to rewatch that ep, since it didn’t think that…..*sigh* I’ve only seen Season 4 once,with the exception of Midnight. And only seen season 3 once. I’ve only seen one and a little more than once. Anyway.
It’s one of my favorite episodes…I love how Donna and the Doctor interact…it is AMAZINGLY funny.
Donna Noble didn’t have exclusive Crraw designer fabrics, though.
True. And, you could give Kokopelli pinstripes…
You should have one of these pics feature Agatha Christie.
Who here is going to watch the Kentucky Derby? We always do, along with other horse races. They’re so fun to watch live, although most people don’t get that when I say it
I love seeing all the weird hats ^^ And I also love reading all the horse’s names.
Oooh, I used to have the biggest obsession with the 20s! Not so much the flappers-speakeasies-and-Charleston-dancing part, but the pioneering aviators (and aviatrices) and the explorers going to the poles by air and Howard Carter finding Tutankhamen’s tomb.
In other news, I am DONE WITH THE SAT! YES!
Congratulations, KaiYves! We’re glad to see that you have survived your ordeal.
As I said on the FAIL thread, my 2-year blogeversary was yesterday! Yay!
Congratulations!
On the “Slow Moderation Likely This Afternoon” thread post thing, the title appears to have a typo. It reads “Slow Moderation Likely This Afternoonljkjkl” Is this the fault of a cat? Balrogs?
Inattentive GAPAs?Hm, how curious. *readies the Delete Key of Doom* Take that, interloping consonants!
Stop retro-editing!
No no, keep doing so. It keeps us on our toes!
Isn’t all editing retro by definition?
I thought that was intentional.
Oh! I do believe Mimi as a flapper was something I suggested! Thank you ever so much! The picture’s wonderful. They both look awfully snazzy.
15 (Alice): Have fun at your anti-prom!
16 (Jadestone): Ah, the hats! Always fun. So are the horse names. I’ll be watching!
Oooh, lovely picture as always. The colors are wonderful, and I especially love Kokopelli rocking those dance moves in a tux!
Oh. My. Kokopelli in a suit. O_O *faints*
Super Saver wins the Derby!
Great news for the man who won the contest and got to pick a horse to put 100,000 dollars on. He won a lot!
You know you’re watching too much Doctor Who when you automatically think in the Doctor’s voice. This is what’s happening to me. Why? Why?
jadestone — i watched that today! i actually saw it by accident kind of since my grandparents were watching it and i happened to be at their house lol
the track was so muddy, i was worried! D: i’m glad no one fell over! and yay for that guy, i love how they show the immediate reactions of all people involved with the winning horse
other things: ap tests start monday oh fhdksghjsfhkadfhkjgfhdgh
hard to study when i feel way behind and my shoulder is messed up for god knows why and i feel like i’m getting a cold and UGH.
8| *venting* kay it’s all cool
i’m gonna go cram some vocab into my brain *sigh*
24- Sorry, Enc. I know I’ve asked you twice, but have you read my update to the ST(S) fic yet?
Hey, did any of you realize that today was Free Comic Book Day? I did. I got G.I. Joe #1, War of the Supermen #0, and Iron Man & Thor all for free. And thirty percent off Watchmen. Squee!
Piggy squee-ing O.o *takes screenshot*
@Luna, on the previous post- that’s so you can learn the subjunctive! I want to strangle the person who sings it! ‘Ojalá que llueve café en el campo’ or whatever… Luckily, I haven’t been exposed too much, but what I did hear I DID NOT LIKE.
-A
Aw, subjunctive? That’s adorable. *finds it odd that he is learning more advanced things than college peoples*
lsahgaeios;fhekrjdghdjklsafhsdlk *hates subjunctive* *also hates preterite vs imperfect* *and por vs para* *and basically hates all of it, come to think of it*
And I’m sure that there are college students here who are learning significantly more advanced spanish than you. Admittedly, I’m not one of them, which is perfectly fine with me.
‘Ello all.
Happy May Day.
I survived.
I’m $101 richer. (I found a dollar bill lying on the sidewalk, yay.)
I’m going to take a bath and go to bed. I’ll catch up later.
Goodnight.
Hey everyone! I know I’ve asked this before (i forgot and couldn’t find the conversation), and I hate to be a bother, but I was wondering if anyone could give me instructions on how to watch Buffy starting at the very begginning with only a computer and a $0 budget. Please pretty please?
Google “watch series”, first hit, you can find it there.
I find this works about 5% of the time.
It works more often for me… The megavideo link has a high chance of working at least. Although it cuts you off after 72 minutes (slightly less than 2 eps).
It depends on the link you choose. If all the links don’t work, which isn’t likely, then close your browser and try again. Popups are good. If you don’t get any popups, something has probably messed up and you’ll get a double audio track.
Really? That’s odd. For me, there’s an occasional link that won’t work, but almost any others work. Megavideo links always work for me (sure, there’s the annoying thing where it cuts you off after a set period of time until you wait an hour, but….), and the divx links to things like Stagevu and the like always work. I mean, I had to download a plugin or some such for that, but they work, and tend to have pretty good quality.
That’s odd….And, yes, there are the zillions of annoying popups that Jakob mentions. Those annoy me, but are easily dealt with.
hulu rotates the first three seasons, so if you get to sesaon 2 before they take it down (i think that’s the one they’re on right now) you can watch it there
They’re on s3 right now, actually.
Ahhh Hamlet, wherefore art thou so amazing? Oh god, what a wonderful wonderful play. Even in the film adaptation, which could not but fall short of the standards set by the play (though extraordinarily well-performed and moving indeed) I find myself entranced and oh god what a play.
One minor complaint with the Royal Shakespeare Company edition: they completely and utterly left out the fates of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Other than that, it was really really good. David Tennant still could not best Dan Donohue, but it was oh so close, much closer than I had expected–ahh Hamlet.
Ooh, ooh, and guess what! I got into the OSF summer seminar!!!!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!
See the man. What a funny man. His name is Hamlet. He is a prince. He is sad. Why are you sad, Hamlet?
“I am sad for my father has died” says Hamlet. “My father was the king.”
Where are you going, Hamlet?
“I am going to the castle,” says Hamlet.
On the way he meets a ghost. “Where are you going?” asks the ghost.
“I am going to the castle.” says Hamlet
“Boo, Boo” says the ghost.
“What is you name, you silly ghost?” asks Hamlet clapping his hands.
“I am your father,” says the ghost. “I was a good king. Uncle Claudius is a bad king. He gave me poison. Would you like poison?”
“Oh, no,” says Hamlet. “I would not like poison.”
“Will you avenge me, Hamlet?” says the ghost.
“Oh yes,” says Hamlet. “I will avenge you. What fun it will be to avenge you.”
On the way he meets a girl.
“Where are you going ?” asks the girl.
“I am going to the castle,” says Hamlet.
“Ha, ha,” says the girl.
“What is your name?” asks Hamlet.
“My name is Ophelia,” says the girl.
“Why are you laughing?” asks Hamlet. “You are a silly goose.”
“I laugh because you are so funny,” says Ophelia. “I laugh because you are schizophrenic. Are you schizophrenic?”
“I am not schizophrenic,” says Hamlet, laughing and clapping his hands.
“I pretended I am a schizophrenic. I pretend, for what to fool my uncle. What fun it is to pretend that I am a schizophrenic.”
See Hamlet run. Run, Hamlet, run.
He is going to his mother’s room.
“Oh, I have something to tell you mother.” says Hamlet. “Uncle Claudius is bad. He gave my father poison. Poison is not good. I do not like poison. Do you like poison?”
“Oh, no indeed!” says his mother. “I do not like poison.”
“Oh, there is Uncle Claudius,” says Hamlet. “He is hiding behind the curtain. Why is he hiding behind the curtain? I shall stab him. What fun it will be to stab him through the curtain.”
See Hamlet draw his sword. See Hamlet stab.
Stab, Hamlet, stab.
See Uncle Claudius’s blood gush.
Gush, blood, gush.
See Uncle Claudius fall. How funny he looks, stabbed.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
But it is not Uncle Claudius.
It is Polonius. Polonius is Ophelia’s father.
What fun Hamlet is having.
“You are naughty, Hamlet,” says Hamlet’s mother. “You have stabbed Polonius.”
But Hamlet’s mother is not cross. She loves Hamlet. He is a good boy.
And Hamlet loves his mother. She is a good mother. Hamlet loves his mother very much.
Hamlet loves his mother very, very much.
Does Hamlet love his mother a little too much?
Perhaps.
See Hamlet run, Run, Hamlet, run.
Where are you going Hamlet?
“I am going to find Uncle Claudius.”
On the way he passes a brook. In the brook he sees Ophelia.
Ophelia is drowning.
“Where are you going?” asks the man.
“I am going to find Uncle Claudius.”
“Oh ho! I am Laertes,” says the man. “Let us draw swords. Let us duel.”
“I don’t think I’m going to find Uncle Claudius,” says Hamlet.
See Hamlet and Laertes duel.
See Hamlet stab Laertes.
See Hamlet’s mother drink poison.
See Hamlet stab King Claudius.
See everybody wounded and bleeding and dying and dead.
What fun they are having!
Wouldn’t you like to play like that?
I posted this before. Would you like poison?
that is an amazingly hilarious plot summary of Hamlet with a few other bits thrown in.
No, I would not like poison. I’m still laughing…
Is it a quick poison? (joking, joking, joking.)
“Does Hamlet love his mother a little too much?
Perhaps.”
Freudian much?
It’s great! But no, I would not like some poison.
*giggle* Yay! XD Am I going crazy, does anyone think? And no thanks, no poison for me, please…
I did the part after and including “see Hamlet run” for part of Drama Choros, which was one of the winter one-acts. We did things like that in a choral-reading group, and that was the one I was looking foreword to doing the most. I didn’t know about the first half, but I like it.
27- Sadly, no. I don’t know where the nearest comic store to our building is.
32- Very, very funny.
32- I will never understand where anyone gets the whole Hamlet-in-love-with-his-mother thing! Can someone explain, because I’ve seen the play twice and read it once and it seems to me that while he’s rather passionate and angry, there is nothing truly suggestive in anything he says, and Shakespeare has so few stage directions that it would be impossible to find any evidence there. But maybe I’m just missing something? He’s so against incest, and so against the notion that his mother should marry again, it seems ridiculous that he should be jealous on his part. I just don’t get it.
Is there anything more tiresome — and unilluminating — than Freudian interpretations of art? *curses the day Freud became trendy in literary theory*
I read about it on Wikipedia, and I don’t even get how you psychoanalyze a fictional character. I’m glad to see that there’s no textual basis, however. When I got to the part where it talked about applying the same theory to Ophelia, I decided that it was all a load of nonsense by people who had no idea what they were talking about and were probably just looking for some sensationalism.
Nothing is to my knowledge either, although Claudio and his mom is not incest, as claudio is his farther’s brother, and thus no relation to mom. He’s mad because he a) hates claudio and b) thinks his mom is dissing his dad by marrying so soon after his dad’s death. And did I mention his hate of Claudio? it’s pretty important.
At the time, marrying the sibling of one’s former spouse was considered incest, though dispensations could be made. This was the grounds upon which Henry VIII tried to annul his first marriage.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa. My backyard is flooded. What. It’s a new record! Maybe, hm, currently a few feet more than the previous record, and still going up. The rope swing’s underwater. O.o Last time the worst was maybe a foot beneath where the swing is, and it’s, I don’t know, a couple of feet above the swing. Wow.
Haha, this weather forecast thing I saw said “The Sky Is Falling.”. Very true… It’s been pouring rain nonstop since yesterday morning. Five people have died from flooding.. The roads are all closed… There was a tornado last night..
What fun. This time of year is never boring here- the weather is all rainy and tornado-ey and fun.
Tornado warning/watches are fun. They are.
Someone agrees with me on this, I’m glad.
*joins the tornadoes are fun club*
Oh, we’re currently watching a terrible 90s movie about tornadoes. I hate the movies they show in school…such bad acting. And special-effects.
A couple years ago our town suffered a microburst, which I guess is unusual for MA.
We had an insane amount of rain in March. But your weather seems more extreme. Five people died?? That’s horrible.
Lovely picture! It made me laugh, seeing Kokopelli in a tux, dancing.
It’s been extremely nice weather here lately, although it seems that in some places it hasn’t. 80 degrees today.
But I think it’s supposed to rain later.
Yesterday I went to a bat mitzvah. It was nice, but I had to leave early. I loved all the songs the choirish thing sang.
It also turns out that instead of moving, we are going to renovate the house. It should be interesting. Of course, I’ve got no idea what it’ll look like despite the blueprints and plans my parents have showed me because I’m really bad at picturing things like that…
Wait, there was a choirish thing at a Bat Mitzvah? I’ve been to a ton of BMs, and there was never a choirish thing… I mean, most of the time, there’s a cantor, but that’s one person.
Anyways, Bat Mitzvah ceremonies tend to be boring… But the party part (either lunch or dinner or sometimes both) is fun. (Of course, thinking about Bat Mitzvahs is kind of painful at the moment because of various stuff in my life… Which is not good, since my sister is currently freaking over hers.)
There was a cantor, yes, but there was also a group of singers that sang all the Hebrew songs too.
(28 etc.) I love the subjunctive. I think it’s great that some languages have a system of parallel-universe verbs for things that haven’t happened, that might or might not happen, or that you hope might happen. A special dialect for doubts, wishes, and dreams! As far as states of mind are concerned, I spend a lot more time in the subjunctive than in the indicative, and I suspect most other people do, too.
“Subjunctive opens a world of possibilities!”
–a probable poster
Unfortunately, in the case of some people it’s very difficult to distinguish which is which without linguistic markers, thereby leading to any number of misunderstandings.
Gah. It’s too confusing for me.
Hooray for spending more time in the subjunctive than the indicative. I love that way of phrasing it.
I love the subjunctive in Spanish and English. I sort of forgot it in French but we didn’t learn it very well in the first place.
My house has an entry on Wikipedia. And a recent picture. I’m really wondering who took that picture. Also, I’m a little freaked out. Our house with the National Registry of Historic Places, which is why it’s on Wikipedia, but who really chooses to write stubs about people’s old historic houses? This random Magicpiano dude, I guess..
Maybe the same people we saw inspecting the architecture of the house across the street.
I hope people speaking of the subjunctive know that English has one, yes?
Also, if you want confusing, linguistics-wise- try Russian. Whole new alphabet to learn how to pronounce, too.
-A
Except according to my textbook, nobody actually uses the subjunctive in English. *headdesk* Which contributes to my confusion as to when the cake I use the caking tense.
People use the subjunctive all the time. “I wish I were a bear.” “If I had a million dollars, I’d buy a thousand ponies.” “All pie is good, be it apple or French silk.”
The first time I remember knowing about the subjunctive in English was when my mom complained that Simon & Garfunkel sang, “Homeward bound, I wish I was, homeward bound.”
Oh yes. My friend says that one of her pet peeves is songs that don’t use the subjunctive when they should.
It’s there if you know what to look for but still vestigial and often ambiguous compared to the other languages commonly studied in U.S. schools. We aren’t brought up to think of it as a separate level of thought, at least I certainly don’t recall studying it outside of foreign language classes.
Is it? Do people brought up in Peru, for instance, study the subjunctive of the Spanish language?
… I can check that. Hold on.
-A
Oh- I misread your comment. I thought you were comparing the subjunctive in English to the subjunctive in other languages period, not the subjunctive in those languages as studied in U.S. schools.
I talked to a friend in Peru- the subjunctive in Spanish, at least, is just the same as it is to English-speakers today. It’s natural and hardly thought of. Most people have never even heard the word (or, rather, its Spanish equivalent, el subjuntivo).
Which I think is interesting.
-A
*sigh* College is bad for my snacking tendencies. I spent the last 2 or so hours polishing off an entire jar of Tostitos salsa con queso and half a bag of tortilla chips. There’s (supposedly) 13 servings in that jar of cheese dip.
How the cake did I just eat half a bag of tortilla chips and an entire caking jar of cheese sauce? *headdesk* I need to get it through my brain that just because I can spend hours doing nothing but snacking on food does not mean I should spend hours doing nothing but snacking on food.
Oh, yes, and to go along with that half a bag of chips and jar of cheese sauce, there was a litre bottle of Mountain Dew. *headdesk again*
LUNA, SALSA CON QUESO IS DISGUSTING. I DON’T WANT YOU TO DIE. SO PLEASE DON’T DIE.
I love unhealthy food but I always feel so guilty when I eat it…
I never feel guilty when I eat unhealthy food. Ever. I would feel guilty at most every meal, if I did. But I don’t, so that’s good. Or maybe it’s not….But, still. I don’t like vegetable. Or healthy food.
I just think all fake cheese things are gross, including:
Nachos
Doritos
Cheetos
Cheez Whiz
Salsa con queso
Jax
And some other things that I can’t remember. The exception is Cheez-its. I like Cheez-its. But the other stuff just makes me want to barf.
I love nachos!
Why do you think nachos are fake?
-A
I like a lot of healthy foods, but I don’t really feel guilty when I eat junk food, I guess because I really only eat it in moderation anyways.
Same with me, if you replace “in moderation” with “always”.
Ugh. I hate when I eat because I’m bored, or I don’t realize that I’m eating. It’s so lame. It doesn’t even make sense.
And yes, artificially flavored cheese thing are gross.
You made me hungry too…. *wanders off to fridge*
No. Do not. Throw it out ‘afore you die from unhealthy food corruption. All the fat you are eating is going to make you an Adipose target.
I so am not throwing out the mini pizza. I just bought it today.
And all the fat I’m eating is only going to make me an Adipose target if a) I take the adipose pills, and b) if the fat I eat actually starts turning into body fat instead of just…not turning into body fat. I have *way* less body fat than one might imagine given my eating habits.
NC-area people: Is anyone attending the Lake Eden Arts Festival next weekend?
My friend showed me part of the first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and so now I’m sort of…strange about it. I’m not obsessed, but I really want to watch it. I will, but my other friend recently got me hooked on a Russian TV show that I also really like and I’ve got about 200 more episodes to go. I also recently started reading Questionable Content and since there’s a new one every day I have no idea how I’m ever going to catch up. I’m so confused!!!
You should watch more. It gets better. Trust me.
Will do…as soon as the Russian TV show is at least partly out of the way
In the 1920s, people did a dance called the charleston. I know how to do it. It’s very fun.
*pictures Beetles Charlestoning* *laughs*
I ran three miles today! Yay! And now I’m going to go do some writing…
I have had a very unproductive day…and now I’m hungry.
Reading Watchmen for first time. Absorbing habits of Rorschach. Seem to have aspects of his and Doctor Manhattan’s personalities. Hurm.
Rorschach=Win. And I lurrrve his getup. (Trenchcoat+Awesome mask? How could anyone say no?)
Rorschach says no.
XD
-A
My tooth just chipped… I just wanna cry right now… Ew ew ew ew ew…
Aww, that sounds painful. How did it happen?
I have this strange habit of clenching my teeth… I think it’s that coupled with the fact that that tooth hits by brace when I bite down that made it chip. It doesn’t hurt, but it’s reeeeaaallllyyy gross… It’s like what happens in a nightmare… ugh.
Oh, I chipped a tooth once. One of my top front ones has this smallish chip out of it. The dentist/hygeienist keeps telling me damn near every time I’m getting my teeth cleaned that they can take care of it, a bit of cosmetic stuff, etc, etc. At which point I keep telling them that it’s fine, leave me alone, it doesn’t bother me, go away. Because, really, it’s quite small, and I doubt anyone would even notice if they weren’t looking for it–or getting intimate with my teeth, as the dentist/hygeinist obviously do….
As long as it’s not uber-major (as in, down to the root, etc) and doesn’t hurt, it’s not that bad. ((And the dentist will most likely go on and on about how he can fix it for you.
))
It’s just a little rough… I’m going to the dentist just to make sure that it’s fine; I think they can file it down or something.
I have a tiny chip in one of my top front teeth, but as no one ever comments on my teeth except to say they’re really straight, it can’t be that noticable. But no, it still annoys me sometimes.
Oh no! I’ve always found any type of teeth-related ailments gross. My friend chipped my other friend’s tooth once, by accident.
So I have a complete inability to make pupusas, an El Salvadorean dish. How hard can it possibly be to mix water with corn flour to make dough, fold in cheese and zucchini, and fry in a frying pan? Extremely hard, apparently, and only salvageable by refried beans. Oh, well. Taste doesn’t count as part of the grade for Spanish.
This superhero movie marathon is certainly not helping my study for the Ap tests!
Neither is Into the Universe with Stephan Hawking, but it’s so darn interesting
Well, I finally got around to talking to my parents about switching schools. They are totally supportive, which is awesome, but I’m almost definitely going to finish this school year. Also, there are a few problems, mostly with the carpool, and slightly with the tuition, but hopefully it will all work out. 8 weeks left of school, I can do it. Plus, I may get to do a visiting week at the new school, so that’s seven weeks, really.
I feel good. (da-na-na-na-na-na-na!)
I’ve got the feeling that cheering on the bad guy in a show is not what you’re supposed to do. And yet, that’s exactly what I find myself doing. When he was in his car getting ready to run a guy down in cold blood, and later when he was threatening death to various people to get someone to cooperate, I found my self not only cheering him on but grinning joyfully the entire time.
I suppose this would be because one must make exceptions to the normal rule of cheering on the “good” guys and hating the bad guy when the bad guy is played by John Barrowman….I’ve got a bad feeling though that he’s gonna get killed off at the end of the season. I mean, I know he’s gone at the end of the season, but I’ve got the feeling they’re going to actually kill the character, as opposed to ship him off to jail. *sniffle* Maybe he’ll get to achieve everything he wants to first…..A girl can always hope.
lol, yes, for those of you who actually followed that, I am, unfortunately, watching Desperate Housewives just because JB is on it for a few eps. I would even pay money to watch twilight if JB were on one of the movies (although I would be very disappointed in him if such a thing ever happened).
Please, don’t even use JB and Twilight in the same sentence.
You mean other people don’t just root for the villain, automatically, without any thought?
…
I feel suddenly alone.
Well… usually, unless the hero is a really likeable character, or there isn’t a clearly defined one.
Of course, that does require thought…
Well, I’m sure he’d be an infinitely better Edward than Robert Pattinson could ever be.
And I can think of plenty of cases where it’s very acceptable to root for the bad guys! VoldyxQuirrel in AVPM, for example. (Oh, aren’t they just the cutest?) And in Order Of The Stick, I’ve been secretly rooting for Xykon, (or had been. Ever since I read Start of Darkness, I changed over to Redcloak.)
Plus, in things like Deathnote, there isn’t really a clear Villain.
Cat’s eye- But baby you’re not alone… cause you’re here with me…
Hm, I read Zachary Quinto plays the villain in Heroes, but I will probably never bother watching it. And I cheer on the Daleks as much as I cheer on Doctor Who.
Wow. It’s been so long, I think?
I couldn’t find the website!!…and to be honest I didn’t give it a thought, I hope I can be accepted back into the community
Luna- I laugh the way through horror movies and cheer for the bad guy, except I think it’s just to hide the fact I’m super scared
Sudo- I am so jealous you have 8 weeks of school left :\ I have, like, 20 (._. )
Welcome back!
Laughing your way through horror movies? I wish I could do that. I sit frozen in terror and then go to bed and have nightmares for the next couple nights, typically.
Yup, 20 years old and I still get nightmares from horror movies. 
Jealous (envious, I believe, actually
) of 8 weeks? I suppose I oughtn’t tell you I only have 4 days of school, plus finals. 10 school days left.
Grah. I you hates.
Although, I do only have around five weeks left, total.
-A
Then off to two weeks in NE…..
4 days? *hates* I have about a month left… (Whoa, telepathy. Someone at Schol Bowl who can’t even see my computer just asked how many days we have left.) It looks like we have 12 actual days and 2 short days left. Plus finals.
Two weeks where?
-A
Welcome back, Elwing!
52~ Yes, I do believe it’s been awhile. I’m not sure if I’ve ever talked directly to you before, but I do recognize the name. In any case, welcome back!
52.1~ Aww, widdle Luna gets nightmares?
Eh, I haven’t really remembered my dreams for a long time, other than snippets. But I used to get awful nightmares all the time, horror movies or no, so I don’t really mind not remembering anymore, though when I do have a good dream, it’s really interesting.
How can you have 20 weeks of school left? It’s MAY! What kind of summer break do you get? That seems a tad unreasonable, unless you start school really late too.
It’s sweltering here. And humid enough to drown in. Blerg, I’m actually wearing shorts today [gasps of shock are heard from the crowds]. They’re green and plaid though, so it’s kind of okay. :p
Yup. Widdle Luna gets nightmares when she watches horror movies. Or, at least, she normally does. So when she watches horror movies, she often finds herself cocooned in her blankets that night, with a flashlight clutched to her chest. Because of course a flashlight and blanket will keep all the monsters at bay.
As for Elwing having 20 weeks left, if I recall correctly she (it is she, right? Please tell me it’s “she”) is from…Shoot. It’s Australia or New Zealand. One of the two. I’m going to go with NZ.
I do that all the time, except I don’t use a flashlight. I just swallow my fears, fail at swallowing my fears, and then cower under the blankets.
… See, this is why I dislike horror flicks.
-A
It really, really hot here too. Especially this morning, it was ONE HUNDRED degrees at seven. I don’t like heat. *is mad*
And it’s going to be that hot on Wednesday, when I have to wear a tweed jacket. >:(
That’s terrible. It’s 52.7 degrees out right now where I am.
Lucky. Lucky. Lucky.
*takes all the heat we have here and gives it to
DuckyMr. Joe.*Ducky’s too awesome to cause pain to.
Lucky Ducky.
Sorry. My brain seriously needs to stop spontaneously coming up with really strange things.
*dies of laughter*
I just saw my own comment in the recent comments bar and thought it said “My brain seriously needs to stop spontaneously combusting.”
*laughs hysterically*
Is that a fail or what?
Nah, win. It’s cool.
It WAS?!
52.1, 53- I can’t even watch horror movies because I still have horrible nightmares sometimes. I haven’t had one in a while, although I had a really gross dream the other night where my dog was throwing up all over everything.
I get nightmares from watching disney movies sometimes.
I’m 18.
HA! I’m sorry, I think that’s funny. Actually, have you seen The Princess and the Frog? The Shadowman dude scared me a bit. I’m fourteen by the way…
53.1~ Blankets and flashlights always keep monsters at bay, DUH. I just don’t watch horror movies, mainly because I’m not interested, and also because I’d probably never sleep again.
I don’t believe in ghosts really, but after taking a “Ghosts of Gettysburg” tour once I couldn’t sleep well for a few days after.
I think I might have even (and it shames me to admit it) made extra careful I was fully covered in my blankets when I fell asleep after reading one of the later Twilight books when there were the interesting (in other words, not “vegetarian”) vampires.
55)
Today was a nice day. A but muggy, though. I was walking to school and it felt like I was attracting all this weird moisture in the air that makes you feel all icky inside. *twitch*
This is surreal. And horrible.
The symphony lost both of their pianos and the organ to the flood. DX
That is just horrible!
*cries*
*hugs* That sucks. *more hugs. and choklit*
Oh, Gosh, that really sucks. *also cries* *hugs* *choklits*
Both pianos are Steinways, I think. One from New York and one from Europe and both hand-picked for the Symphony thingummy by Jean-Yves Thibaudet, who is an awesome pianist by the way.
I almost can’t believe this is actually happening. It’s still a bit surreal….
Oh no! *cries**gives choklit*
Today was really muggy and hot here, too. We did mostly nothing in school because it was just that gross. Badminton practice was torture… Luckily, only one more week ’till the season ends.
58- *hugshugshugshugshugshugs*
56- Same here, that’s why I absolutely cannot read “real ghost stories”, even if the ghosts are benevolent. In the words of a character in some book I read “I don’t believe in ghosts, but they still scare me, anyway.”
I haven’t been on since my birthday last month…Coincidentally, that was also my last day of Spring Break. Life seems to be sucking me down with a huge pile of work. I’m graduating in less than a month, I’m nowhere near prepared, especially for my senior project, and I still don’t know where I’m going to college. If I don’t take a gap year. Ugghh…I’m eternally bugged about this inside my own head, and then my mother come and reminds me about just when I’ve managed to push it out of my mind. I came home form school today with my nerves twanging. I snapped at everyone who talked to me. I didn’t want to hear any of it. I am so sick and tired of being told what to do, and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to end anytime soon. My entire year has been senioritis, and I feel like the rest of my life will be too.
Anyhow. This explains my absence form Museblog a little, though I always tend to come on more frequently during breaks. It also sounds like it belongs on the Rants and Plaints thread.
Well, I hope everyone else looks forward to the end of school. (A month left, pshaw, whatever. Not enough time! Yet I cannot wait for it to come.)
*hugs* That’s one of the upsides of college. You don’t have your mom right there constantly reminding you of all the crap that you need to worry about but have pushed out of your mind. I’ve always been a bit too good at pushing stuff out of my mind, though. I should stress a bit more about stuff than I do, really. But whatever.
I totally understand all the stress and such, having been there. *choklit*
I’m not sure whether that’s an upside or a downside. Because it’s far too easy to just forget to do work.
Aww, thanks.Problem is, I, uh,
haven'tactuallybeenacceptedintoanycollegesyetandtheoneIwaswaitlistedtoisrightnextdoor58~
That’s horrible!
60~ Exactly.
61~ I know what you mean, though I’m not graduating this year (unfortunately). I’m in for a fifth year of HS, joy.
I don’t feel like I’ll ever escape it either, and being told what to do is the pits. *hugs*
Heh, speaking of being told what to do, etc. a friend recently mentioned about how he’s looking forward to seeing what I’ll do when I get out on my own, instead of living by my parent’s rules and guidelines. I am too, though I’m a little more apprehensive, being the one that will suffer if I totally screw up.
My aunt said she’d take me to do it.
Then it led into a conversation on how I was considering getting my ears pierced just to annoy my Dear Parents, who decreed that I wasn’t allowed to change y body in any way (piercings, tattoos, etc) until I was 18 and could do “whatever [I] want.” This was back when I wanted my ears pierced in the worst way. So yeah, opinions? Should I get them pierced just because, or should I admit that their strategy worked since I’ve survived long enough without holes in my ears that I no longer am so desperate about it?
Oh yes, late-blooming rebellious teenager.
We have one more choir rehearsal and then our concert, eep! And the next rehearsal will be the first with the other choir we’re singing with.
And the director that’s going to do one of the songs, eep again.
It’ll be good though, but it’s always a little nerve-wracking when you realize you’ve only got one more practice.
Well, my opinion would be: Don’t get your ears pierced just because you want to annoy the parents, or whatever. Only do it if it’s because you actually want to have pierced ears. There are much better ways to annoy the parents than something permanent, like pierced ears. I mean, there’s nothing at all wrong with pierced ears, but definitely don’t do it just because.
Midnight Fiddler, rebelious teenager?
I think you should do it, bus only if your reasons are because you actually want your ears pierced, not just to defy your parents- or at least you know you can take whatever punishment they’re going to heap on you. I would personally recommend it- once you have pierced ears you can wear so many more shiny things!
get some really dark-staining henna and tell them it’s a permanent tat
Do what you want… honestly pierced ears aren’t a big deal, the holes can close up relatively fast. And sometimes showing you can do things on your own is good for parents, although sometimes not…
But keep in mind that you have to keep the earrings in for the first few weeks/months (I’m not sure how long, never done it), and have to be cleaned, so if it’s the same time as your sailing you might want to wait until after your a landlubber again.
I don’t have my ears pierced either, even though I’ve been saying that I’ll get them done, like, every year since I was 8. I don’t know – I feel like even though earrings are cute, I’m just too busy (And lazy) to have them done anyways and have no real motivation to do so. *shrug* I would just get them done if that’s what you really want to do. If you’re never actually going to wear earrings though and it’s just to prove a point it’ll be a waste of money.
Hmm… I wasn’t allowed to pierce my ears until 8th grade and most of my friends got theirs done three years earlier. I adore earrings, so I’m kinda biased here. You have to keep them in 24/7 the first month*, and be careful about not taking them out for longer then a few hours the next two months or so, i.e. you have plenty of time to reconsider. But it’s all up to if you really want them or not.
*and you’re supposed to swab them with disinfectant or something. I kinda forgot about that bit after a few weeks and am still alive and kicking so it can’t be that horrible if you don’t.
I have my ears pierced but I don’t wear earrings very often. Really I only wear them when I remember that if I don’t the holes will close or if I’m at a really fancy event. Like other people said, just do it if it’s what you want to do, not because you want to prove a point somehow.
So I got into a really good summer arts camp on a creative writing application! I’ll get to be in a dorm with actual roommates, have a meal plan, go into the nearby shopping centers any time I want without even asking permission of a supervisor, figure out how to do my own laundry, do some really intense short-story writing, and bask in the 100-degree SoCal summer weather! Yay!
Note to self: work on being able to make friends.
*gasp* That sounds awesome!
62.1~ Oh yes, I know. And I wouldn’t mind having pierced ears, in fact, I still glance longingly at earrings now and then, it’s just I’m not as horrifically desperate to get them. And I’m not thinking cartilage piercings, apparently those hurt for a long time and need more maintenance. But any holes can close up, so it’s not as permanent as, say, a tattoo, which can kind of be removed, but is apparently very expensive and extremely painful.
62.2~ Perhaps. Well, not really that rebellious compared to some (many) of my peers I suppose. Why is this so amusing?
62.3~ But the thing is, at this point I won’t be breaking any of their rules, I’d be abiding by what they told me and maintained since I was 5. That being said, they still probably wouldn’t be thrilled, but technically I wouldn’t be breaking any of their rules so they shouldn’t dole out any torture.
And shiny things are always good!
63~ Awesome! That sounds like an amazing experience and loads of fun!
Laundry isn’t too bad, just remember to put similar colors and fabric weights together, and not do whites after you’ve done a dark or red load or anything that is likely to bleed, since it might get on the next load.
Laundry can be bad….If the washers/dryers that are available for use are really crappy. Like, for instance, the ones available here in my res hall. When I did laundry this past Saturday, i spent a good (or bad, really) 15 minutes (no exagerration) wringing out gallons upon gallons of water from my load of darks, since the washer neglected to do so. And then the dryer’s aren’t very good, either, it costs a dollar for 45 minutes, and they’re never dy after that amount of time, even when they’re not sopping wet to begin with.
My swearshirt and jeans that I vetoed putting in the dryer, given the massive amount of water in them (the sweatshirt, especially), were still damp, if not down right wet more than 24 hours later. *sigh*
Addition to last post:
(as part of reply to post 63)
I think you’ll find it’s much easier to find friends when you’re surrounded by interesting and like-minded people, so I wouldn’t worry too much about socializing.
63-Sounds great!
I was listening to a Belle and Sebastian song and thought it described us pretty well…
62.4~
That too. Actually, I’ve thought about a real tattoo. Nothing obnoxious, but eh, I dunno. I’m not a huge fan of knowing something is going to hurt before it does. *shudder*
see for me it’s more the permanence…i feel like i’d love a tattoo but i would have no idea what to get. and it couldn’t be something i’d get bored of. so i’ll stick with henna, with that i can at least change it up each time
It’s May 4th-Election Day. I’m ‘volunteering’ for my dad, not quite voluntarily, and helping out however I can with that referendum I was talking about. Right now I’m out of school, and I’m in a library across the street from a polling place, but I probably shouldn’t be here, since I took off school.
Sigh.. I have a bunch of homework, which I should be doing right now. I have to write a resume, and finish my taxes, and do my math homework that’s very hard.
You have taxes?
Eep.
-A
How old are you?
So, you guys remember Phoebe Prince, right? Well, guess who’s on the cover of the latest Current Events, months after it happened?
Yup, there was an article on poor Phoebe. At least the bullies are being prosecuted.
They pleaded innocent. That makes me mad.
69.1~ Chances are you have taxes too, but your parents do them for you. Every year Dad says he’ll make me do it next time.
I am SO EXCITED. I have a drawing program on my computer again! Yay! Okay, so it’s not the greatest (basically it’s like MS Paint, only for Mac), but still. I loved MS Paint, and really missed it, so I’m glad to have something similar again. *is inordinately happy*
Which reminds me, I need to figure out that software mess that came with mom’s tablet….*sigh*
66- Wow, Belle and Sebastian, haven’t heard them for like…four years. Which song?
Re: Pierced ears: I wish I had pierced ears, sort of. I like earrings a lot, and I had pierced ears for a while but they stayed infected for like a year and half until I just let them close up. Lately I’ve been sort of toying with the idea that someday in my future (like a few years in the future, not like a few months) I could get a tattoo, and whether there’s anything in this world that I would like inked onto my skin forever. But it sounds really ridiculous now that I write it down.
Yeah, I don’t know. I can’t imagine having something on my skin…forever. Plus, tattoos seem so painful. *Doesn’t. Like. Needles.* If I did get a tat, it would probably just be something small, like a heart or a pie.
71.1~ Yes, probably.
72~ It doesn’t sound ridiculous. I think if I were to get a tattoo it would have to be something interesting that had a story behind it or meant something to me. I dunno. I’ve thought maybe a small anchor or music notes/treble clef or something.
A friend of mine has several tattoos, one of which is a baroque dolphin with several stars, that he got after nearly dying from hypothermia while rescuing dolphins, and this one had several dots arrayed like one of the constellations right next to its blowhole. I thought it was a cool story anyway.
no one wants to get a potato on their ankle? (oh god please someone catch that reference…)
i’ve thought about getting tattoos and piercings but eh….i’m too lazy for earrings and too indecisive for a tattoo.
Fiddler! When I was in Massachusetts there was a bookstore that had a books by local authors, and there was a book of poetry written by this guy who sailed around on the Niagara…and I thought of you
yup great story i know
i hate moodswings and being totally rational mentally but emotionally RIDICULOUS
:/ this is such an inconvenience and does not please me at all. i need to study but…ugh
I think it’s Wayside School. I used to love those books! I remember there was one chapter/story in which everything was written backwards.
I remember that one. Ah, Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Perpetually entertaining.
Oh, Wayside School? With the no floor 13. And the three Erics… I loved those when I was little. And no, not West Side Story. I assure you that West Side Story is quite different.
Well, I knew West Side Story was wrong, but that was all I was coming up with….
No, it has a 13th floor. It’s missing its 19th floor.
I love Wayside School! The chapter with Alison and the 19th story (which the school was missing) and Bebe’s little brother Ray and the teacher with the last name that begins with a Z and draws perfect heptagons was pretty creepy though.
And the subsititute who reads minds! She was weird too. And Mrs. Mush and Mr. Gorf. I love Mrs. Mush.
/ramble…
I think it was floor 19..
Oh, gosh. You just brought back some memories…it’s been awhile since I read Wayside School. Very funny, I remember.
It’s Wayside School, right? One of the kids was allowed to get a tattoo and his friends were all suggesting outlandish things and then he comes in with a potato an his ankle…
I hope you feel better! *gives choklit*
Okay, so I managed to open “Safe Mode” and I’m actually working on this computer for the first time in three days, but everything is squished and the boxes look small and gray.
74~ Er, I don’t catch the potato on the ankle reference, sorry. :/
That’s awesome about the poetry book though! And I like being thought of. ^.^
Mental/emotional conflict is such a bum. *hugs* Feel better soon. *more hugs and choklit*
75~ Hi! What happened to your computer?
I have vanquished a giant mosquito!
(after throwing a towel on it, beating it with a throw pillow, hyperventilating, and finally wrapping it in a tissue and throwing it in the garbage.)
I’m so proud of myself! XD
I would get the whole complicated process if we were talking about killing a spider (I won’t go near the things), but a mosquito? Why didn’t you simply smash it with your hand as soon as it landed on something?
The mosquitoes are horrible back home in the spring and summer…*sigh*
Mosquitoes are much worse than spiders… Spiders can’t actually hurt you.
Yes they can. Spider bites hurt.
Fewer than 1% of spider species cause illness in humans. Most reported bites aren’t from spiders in the first place. Anyway, spiders get rid of a lot of garden pests, so I’m happy to have them around.
I like spiders. If I see one in the house I release it outside, unless the weather is particularly bad.
I also liked spiders. I have been known to repeatedly kick in the shins anyone who implies that killing spiders is remotely OK.
Ummm….I’d best never meet you in person, then, or I shall have quite a few bruises on my shins. Of course, maybe that would be just punishment for all the times I kicked my organic chem lab partner in the shins while wearing steel toed boots…..
I find it difficult to be happy about spiders when I open an old issue of Muse and one climbs out *involuntary shudder*
You mustn’t be greedy. Spiders need intellectual stimulation, too.
What was the article on?
Lord of The Rings. Utterly lacking in irony unless you consider Shelob.
That completely depends on the spiders. And on the mosquitoes, for that matter. Brown recluses and black widows and the like can hurt you. And the mosquitoes we have back home are totally harmless except for being a huge annoyance and leaving you with itchy red welts. They don’t carry any of the diseases and such that mosquitoes in more southern climates do.
I didn’t want to touch it! *shudder*
I normally don’t mind spiders, but mosquitoes unnerve me. The whining noise they make drives me mad! :U
Uh…
How big was it?
Bigger than a quarter. Big. Long, spindly, twitchy legs… *shudder*
Are you sure it was a mosquito and not what my family calls “mosquito eaters” (I’ve no idea why we call it that, I don’t even know if the eat mosquitoes), which sort of look like giant mosquitoes, but to the best of my knowledge are wholly and completely harmless?
Ah, well, it would seem the reason we call them that is because they’re actually called that, lol. And apparently do indeed eat mosquitoes. XD
No, I suppose I don’t know for certain whether or not it was a mosquito eater… but I didn’t want to wait and find out.
OH MY GOSH. That’s the sort of thing at which I scream and then Nym has to come and GET IT THE CAKE OUT for me. *shudders violently*
I’m listening to the llama song on repeat. Do you think this could have any detrimental effects to my brain function?
I’d say that if you’re doing that, the damage has already been done.
Agreed. No one in their right minds (originally) would do that anyway, which just goes to show how…er…strange you are. No offence. We’re all strange to some degree anyway. Just that some are more strange than others.
Let’s just say half the girls in my homeroom were singing/humming “Stick a banana in your ear”* from Charlie the unicorn before french class. With matching expressions and hand-waving.
*Okay, technically it was “Steck ‘ne Banane in dein Ohr”
I was singing “I’m A Little Teapot” multiple times with another girl on the bus on the way back from EOSSMA.
How about singing the bunnies song from Once More With Feeling in the physics lab? And the cafeteria for that matter.
No, you’ll be fine, as long as you at least try to sing along with it.
Yes, I did that one time- all afternoon, that thing playing over and over, and me singing along while doing math homework.
It was fun.
76- I wish I knew.
78~ Not the “Happy llama, sad llama, mentally disturbed llama, super llama, drama llama big fat mama llama, MOOSE!” one, is it? I used to be able to do that one really fast, but now every time I attempt I mess it up. Alas, I’m sure you’re all so sad to hear that.
I’m thinking the “Here’s a llama there’s a llama, and another llama, funny llama fuzzy llama, llama llama duck.” one- I love that song. I can sing it pretty fast, too.
I know a different version. We’ve modified it since we got hold of it though, so it’s understandable.
‘Happy llama, sad llama, just a little crazy llama (This line was ‘mentally retarded’. We changed it.), double llama, kissing llama, bigger llama, MOOSE!’
No, it’s the Here’s a Llama, there’s a llama and another little llama version.
Sing the Dalek version for me? OMG I JUST REALIZED I MIGHT HAVE MISSED BEING NUMBER 42 ON THE WPHM LET ME CHECK I’LL FREAK IF I HAVE
Okay, no, I still have to post three more times. *whew*
Don’t make fun of me.
I’m glad to see some people got the sideways stories from wayside school reference!
and thanks fiddler and FF! :3 *hugz bag*
today i am studying nothing but japanese…all day…so i better get back to that!! ap test tomorrow ooooOHHHHOfdks
80.1~ Aha, I looked it up. I still think Monty Python’s Llama song/sketch is the best. xD
(78, 80, 82) Factoid of possible interest: MBers have been singing llama songs on the blog since October 2005. One of them has even written a GAPA version.
Oh, I love llama songs!
The version/s I know is the one Errata was describing.
Our school has a new blocker so I can’t visit MuseBlog on school computers anymore, sadly. They blocked all of my other “fun” websites except for NASA.gov.
Thus begins your quest for proxies.
My Muse and Cicada came today.
Haven’t read Cicada yet, but the Muse is definitely better than it’s been in some time. The cover is awesome, and the articles I’ve read so far were interesting and engaging.
Is there a discussion and/or roll call thread yet? It is the 5th, after all.
Yes: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=6054 and https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=6073.
I am feeling sort of like butter stretched thin over a piece of bread. There are only 3 more weeks left in school, but next week is Hell Week with Tech Rehearsal on Sunday and rehearsal all next week and Performance Night Friday Saturday Sunday. Plus, I’m desperately attempting to boost my grades because the finals might not go too well and am very stressed about it. Because of the stress, I don’t think I’m doing as well on my work as I should. And I am still without a friend I can talk to regularly. And I should probably try to have a meeting with the school counselor.
Join the club. I don’t have a better name for it than the “Overloaded and Overworked Perennially by School Club’, otherwise known as OOPS, but feel free to join.
Yay! *joins* I just went into a trance for ten minutes without realizing it while playing a game. A game that is a challenging puzzle game. Why? I don’t know.
I have this senior project that I need to finish before I graduate…which will be at the end of this month. I’m here instead, at 1:00 am. That is only the beginning of my woes…
Ah, senior projects…We just had Senior Board Presentations (Seniors presenting their senior projects) and now I’m frantically trying to organize mine over the summer.
Do you know what’s really hard to believe? Today was the last day of classes–tomorrow’s “reading day” and finals start on Friday. I will never attend another lecture as a college sophomore. I’ve nearly completed two entire years of college. A week from today, I will take my last final, completing my sophomore year.
Now, if only I could focus on studying….I need to do quite a bit of studying for my classical mythology final on Friday, I need to make up a cheat sheet for my cell bio final on Tuesday (we get one standard sized sheet of paper, double sided–I can fit a ridiculous amount of information on that), I need to study for my organic chemistry final next wednesday–it’s comprehensive, and I don’t even remember the stuff I studied for our last test, which was only about 3 weeks ago, much less the previous stuff thsi semester, and I HAVE to get a minimum of 46% on it to pull a B, which requires a heck of a lot of studying…..And I have to study for my spanish final (also next wednesday), because although it would be virtually impossible to pull an A, I might have a chance at a B+. *sigh*
So, with all the studying I have to do, why the cake am I on MB and not studying? And why the cake am I planning to go see Sherlock Holmes (and potentially Avatar, as well) tomorrow? SH is playing 3 different times on campus for $1 tomorrow, with pizza, and Avatar is playing at 9:30 or 10:30 tomorrow night (for free), also with pizza….
“SH is playing 3 different times on campus for $1 tomorrow, with pizza, and Avatar is playing at 9:30 or 10:30 tomorrow night (for free), also with pizza….”
that>studying. obvs. just answered your own question
never doubt the free pizza and cheap movies!
Sherlock Holmes is not amazing, though. And I haven’t seen Avatar, but it’s like three hours long.
what? i loved sherlock holmes!
and…free pizza. i have done far more boring things for free pizza.
also speaking of robert downey jr
IRON MAN 2 SO EXCITED AAAAAHHH
Me toooo!
I loved Sherlock Holmes too. It has a great theme song.
Well, Sherlock Holmes may not be amazing, but…..1) It is practically free, at only $1, 2) Pizza!, 3) It’s not studying, 4) Did I mention pizza?
As for Avatar…Given the hour that it’s playing (late), and given that I have a final Friday, I will likely end up skipping it.
No, what you should do is to bring your studying to the theater and take advantage of the calm, relaxing atmosphere to really focus for an hour or two.
Right. That would never work, at least not for me.
UGH NEED TO FINISH WRITING THOSE PARAGRAPHS NOW NOT THIS BAD ERRATA BAD ERRATA GET OFF NOW.
No, what I should do, is next week, take advantage of the fact that the library is going to be open until 4am (they’re extending closing by 2 hours for finals week), and go there WITHOUT my computer, and just sit and study my butt off. But that’s not gonna happen.
Right now, I need to go finish getting ready so that I can head off to a cell bio review….*need to brush my teeth*
Just don’t be like me who just spent our day of review for the last orgo test surfing the web and getting in pointless arguments with the people at my table… To be fair, I did the practice test and went over the common names for aromatics first.
I’m afraid I’ll probably be more or less exactly like you….
man i don’t know what i would do without the 24hr libraries. there are libraries open here -all the time- i get so freaked out when friends at other schools tell me they can’t go to the library because it’s closed
Our library closes at the end of the school day. Meh. There’s a reason why I rarely use it…
Our library has pretty long hours, but there are definitley times that it’s closed. And, looking at it’s website, it actually is starting the open ’til 4am thing tonight….I really, really ought to take advantage of all of this and go study…..
If you were to do a surprising thing for your friend at her birthday party that you think is very amusing and original and which she will appreciate, and which you would need all of her other friends for, what would you do?
I’m asking ’cause Hippolyta is starting to scare me with her evilplanjoy.
All right, guys, urgent poll: Final Fantasy X or Final Fantasy XII?
X just cause it is more established in my mind…XII seems forgettable, well actual i did forget about it and had to think real hard to remember the characters
of course i’m not much for the FF style of gaming and don’t have a lot of actual gaming experience with either lol here have my uninformed opinion…i played XII for a bit and gave up and not really anything beyond that. BUT I WANT XIII SOOOOOOOOOOOO BAD too bad i have no money for a PS3 :/
Dunno, never played either of them. They’re probably both fun.
At Rockefeller Center, they have these black-and-white photographs of the construction of the whole complex in the ’30s, and in one photo, this guy is working with the Prometheus statue wearing these funky welding goggles. They actually look a lot like regular glasses, only really thick. Maybe the manufacturer wanted them the goggles to look nice even though they were only for construction work.
But anyway, they look really cool, and I’d like a pair of those goggles. (I could even put a red lens in one eye and a blue one in the other and have the most durable pair of 3-D glasses ever.)
Starr’s at soccer intensive tonight and wanted to let you know that she probably won’t be able to get on today and apologizes. She’ll probably be on tomorrow, though.
As for random news for me…oh right, hell week (Finals) here I come! That’d be next week, unfortunately. Don’t know why it’s happening so early this year, it doesn’t usually, but for some reason our schedule got set up like this. That means a ton of studying this weekend…but it also means the year is almost over. So excited. Senior year…it’s gonna be stressful, but it’s going to be fun too.
And I’ve also lost my calculator. (The one that costs $100) Gahh….not good.
I love my calculator. Once I left it in my locker and had to use a crappy school one, and it was so horrible. *pets calculator* Nice machine.
Yeah. Personally it’s more the games I’m going to miss playing underneath my desk when I’m bored than the actual function of the calculator…making graphs and equations, bleh, but games = fun.
And, of course, $100 going down the drain isn’t too hot either. Unfortunately I can’t find it in any of my classrooms or the lost and found center so mostly likely someone found it and is keeping it. Argh. And next week we *might* be required to use the TI-84 during a math exam. Which means I’ll probably have to borrow someone’s.
And this is quickly becoming pointless, so I’ll shut up.
Luna is an idiot. Luna is an idiot. Luna is an idiot. She needs to study for her one final tomorrow (classical mythology). She’s not done studying for it. Why did she agree to go see two movies (one she’s seen) tonight? The first being Iron Man 1 at 9pm, the second being Iron Man 2 at midnight? I’ve got a caking final at 1pm tomorrow, that I need to study more for, and that I need to be awake for. What the caking hell is wrong with me???????????
Somebody really needs to teach me a simple little 2 letter word. A word known as “No”. “No, Alan, I do not want to go with you and Steph to see the movies, because I need to study.” as;ldkfjslkghslkfjdkls This is why having friends is bad. It means you go do fun stuff instead of doing school. Cake.
Luna. Studying is good.
Watching movies is good.
But. Watching movies. When you should be studying. Is. Not. Good.
Just say NO. Say no to your friends, Luna, and all your problems will drift away…
Say No. Do it. And you will win a good grade on your final tomorrow.
No. Do not watch those movies.
No.
Study.
-JB/JW
((Btw, FOX is not producing Torchwood 4.))
Haha, but watching movies is way more fun than studying. Besides, I’m fairly well studied for it….’twas worth it, too. Lots of hilarious one-liners.
*snogs gravatar*
((Yuppers, I know. I’m not sure whether to be extremely relieved, or disappointed))
Studying yes, but answering review questions while watch Ace Ventura? Fantastic! Got a 95% (because I decided not to do the last few questions… Eheheh) and it was on stuff I already knew… I mean… They were -review- questions after all. Moral of the story: T.V. Is fun. Homework is not.
Although I guess that’s not really much of a moral.
YES. I HAVE FINALLY MADE IT TO NUMBER 42 ON THE WHO’S POSTED HOW MUCH. ONE OF MY LIFE GOALS IS HEREBY ACCOMPLISHED.
Sorry, guys, this probably won’t decrease the number of times I post.
Now you know some one will take it from you….. Possibly me… Probably not me…. How long have you been here anyway?
Adeia – ( oh I just love that name ) Since, like, November. As you can see I post a lot…
That’s ok…It’ll leave room for me to catch up.
I have approximately 367 posts to go before I reach your number. Though I’ll probably have to post way more than that because of post inflation.
42? Not bad. I think I passed that before the GAPAs posted that page… Let me go check. (A text file telling my ranking on that page since the day they put it up? What makes you think I have anything like that?) No, actually I just missed it. It was sometime between the twenty third of January and the fourth of February, this year. That might have been before I’d read H2G2 and particularly cared, though. I don’t know.
I am number 69. While this is slightly amusing, I think I’d rather number 42.
Place 42…I think one of my names was in the 42nd spot for awhile. It changes around.
I just realized I haven’t practiced much. Thankfully, I’m assuming that I won’t have a lesson tomorrow.
My car should be coming home tomorrow, and I’m very happy about that.
Then I have a driving test on the 10th. Which is Monday next. 0.o I hope I pass, because that would be awesome and make me very happy.
I’m tired. Wayy tired.
And still hungry.
all my names combined puts me at 52something (i forgot already :-! ) which puts me at #4. but as ebeth i can still hit 42, if i post a couple thousand more times. and if i go back to being Ebeth The Stalker it would be slightly less than that
My car is coming home today! *squeee!!!*
Aaaaaaan um….that’s all I have to say.
Oxlin is in #42 now or was recently.
Well I was but I think I might be number 41 now. Too lazy to check. But yes, you were 42 for awhile.
Meh. I went to auditions last Sunday and I’m still waiting for a callback call or email or something….there were only eight people at the audition, there are 16 named parts in The Tempest, granted, there were auditions on Saturday also, but did fifty people come to them or something? *taps foot nervously*
Enceladus’ avatar moved… DON’T BLINK.
Oh dear. It looks angry right now.
*grabs computer from Em*
Ok, sorry all for not being on yesterday night…just to fill you in, soccer intensive was heck. Yes, they call it “intensive” for a reason. In case you don’t know, it’s this once a month program I was signed into for being on a travel team last season (remind me never to sign up again) where you go in and basically spend your evening on a soccer field with a bunch of top notch trainers/coaches. It’s not usually on a Thursday (It got rescheduled a bunch of times) which basically meant I was up really late cramming in my trimester English project, studying for a few quizzes, and homework all at midnight-ish after I was already exhausted.
The training is very high level, which is good, but it’s also a little bit insane. I mean, some of these trainers are trying to pull out top-of-the-country players, and in doing so they expect absolute perfection. It’s gotta be good for my skill, but it was also not the way I wanted to spend my Thursday night. *grumblegrumble* And because all these players are so serious, normally I’m towards the bottom end of the spectrum in ability, which is good (get to play with/against good players) but also tough (can’t always keep up with them).
End of rant.
But on a different note, I’m off to spend the night at a friend’s, so I’ll try to check in again but I may not be able to. Bye!
DUDE. I just realized that Mimi’s dress has Craww on it.
Did I mention before now that I love the picture? I don’t think I did. I do though. I want Mimi’s shoes. And dress. And…..well, basically I want everything she’s wearing.
Koko looks interesting in a tux.
Mkay, back to geometry. For realz this time. >.<
Oh I just realised that too! How fabulous!
Enc and I recently read the Wikipedia article on Alternate Reality Games, and became obsessed with the idea of starting one of our own. (Wikipedia says “An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform, often involving multiple media and game elements, to tell a story that may be affected by participants’ ideas or actions.” Read the entire article if you want more information.)
We think it should involve an ancient civilization communicating with the present via time travel. Our idea was to somehow utilize Muse to provide clues, but this could be difficult.
A gigantic bolt of lightning just flashed past my window, followed immediately by a monstrous crash of thunder. There’s even a tornado watch. I’m sort of scared to be on the computer right now, honestly–the power in my neighborhood has a nasty habit of cutting out. But I just got home after TWELVE (OK, 11 1/2) hours at school. I hate being at school just for the actual school day. Having to stay and help my mom with Math night was terrible. Particularly since the other teachers we are being like, “Oh, FF, you’re helping, how wonderful, try to make the best of it…” when I did not want to be there AT ALL. I’d been so terribly helpful all day (on one hour of sleep too!), I just couldn’t take it anymore. It was like I needed to be a little bit mean and selfish, felt guilty about that, and started acting even worse. It wasn’t that bad at the beginning, but after an hour after school my mood soured. I went to take a nap, slept for a while, woke up and it still wasn’t time to leave. I tried to help, but I hated it and kept glaring and snapping at people, so I went away again. Then my dress ripped on a sticking out screw. I twas one of my favorites too. I went and found a corner and started crying.It was pathetic. Because it was raining, it felt like the world was crying with me which was such a silly and poetic thing to think. I don’t know why I thought that.
I also have a busy weekend coming up. On a slightly happier note, part of this is because I have a party tomorrow. YAY!!!!! The rest of the business is due to senior project.
For some reason, I seem to being going to Museblog to post all my disaffected-with – the -world rants. Probably because none of you go to school with me so you’re all one step removed form the entire situation. Seems like most of my posts on the random thread could properly belong on the rants and plaints thread instead. (Thread, instead. It rhymes! Yes, I have to find my humor in such small things when I’m in a bad mood…Though typing this up is really cathartic.)
MY CAR. THE SEATS ARE BEAUTIFUL. THE TOP IS BEAUTIFUL. YES, I AM USING CAPS LOCK.
Seriously though, I love the new seats, they go very well with the door panels, even though they’re a different fabric. And they’re all firm, so I feel very tall sitting in them. The padding was completely shot in the old ones, so you kind of sunk down into them.
So from here on, my car is pretty much completely workable. Dad just needs to change the locks on the doors/trunk, but I can deal with having two keys for the car (one for doors/trunk, one for ignition). And I need to figure out how to set the clock. But yeah, minor stuff. All the major overhauling is DONE. And it’s only been what, 11 months since he brought the beast home? Yeah, something like that. But still. MY CAR!
Okay, I’ll stop obsessing now.
Congratulations!
105.1~ Thanks!
I’m seriously freaking out right now.
Now all I need to do is pass my driving test on Monday……….. *crosses fingers*
Whooo, lucky. Good luck on the test.
I hope you do well. I still haven’t taken it, or even practiced driving since I took my (first) class. At this rate I’m wondering if I should just wait until I turn eighteen and pass the test then without having to take anymore classes.
YEAH GIRL GET IT
you’ll pass!! i believe in you! RARARARARA
Remember: Don’t confuse the brake with the gas. That will send you through a window.
GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!! YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!
Good luck!
Sigh, Track meet+Rain= Wet clothes and many wet, tired people on a long bus ride home.
But anyway, the meet wasn’t that bad, I mean my times were pretty good!
Good luck, Midnight Fiddler!
103- Oooh, yes. I’d totally play that game.
107- Good for you! Running in the rain is awful.
Hehe. Yesterday was interesting. We had the cross-country carnival thing, which is a compulsory 2km cross-country run for the whole school. Needless to say, at least half my homeroom wag school that day. I was pretty bored because half my friends were away/late/talking with people I would be late to school on purpose to avoid catching the bus with (Yes, I did just that the other day. Me, get up earlier to get a different bus? Nope.) Then I ranked slightly below average in my race because most people didn’t bother running (Maths Lover + sport = fail) and my athletically gifted friends and my French teacher ran the opional 4km. Gah. When G arrived I wandered around with her and her sister until they let everyone go to recess. Then we got to start watching A Walk to Remember in religion (good movie, but the guy looks too much like Edward Cullen for me to like him). Commerce was awesome. The sose co-ordinator was our relief teacher, and she said she thought we got too much work. We moaned about how we’d completely filled up our books in just one term and learnt nothing except “the banks basically rule everything and trick you about of your money”. Then the teacher let us play Celebrity Heads. Actually, I’ll write about that on the SSSS thread. Let’s just say that if I didn’t know Luna, what happened would make me think I was obsessed with Doctor Who.
Whew, it’s been a while since I posted on this thread…
I’m probably going to get my first capoeira corda in a few weeks from now! (At least I hope so) *excited* And I found out that there’s a sports thread on MB here . Anyone want to revive?
Sure. I actually posted on it awhile ago… *checks* And there’s only one post after mine. Maybe we should revive.
oh man guys
paint party rave was awesome
and i’ve got my hard drive back, and my new shirt (the wargames shirt from thinkgeek)
and then iron man 2 and doctor who later
and then rocky horror live tonight
this weekend is the best
My little sister is turning eleven tomorrow.
Wow, that makes me feel old… 13 1/2 already?!
It can’t have been almost six months since I turned thirteen…. But wow, it’s already May and my sister is turning eleven on Mother’s Day this year. She was born on a Mother’s Day.
And only two more weeks of school left. That is, time-wise. In terms of work to do… Let’s just say to finish it all off, I’m doing between four and five lessons of various subjects per day. *headdesk*
Oh, cake. Mother’s day. I need to find e-cards and get them sent out tomorrow. Cake. And call my mother tomorrow. Cake again, I don’t have time to afford to spend 2 hours on the phone. More cake.
Mothers day… Shoot. I got my mom a marigold that they were selling at the school. *feels unoriginal and lame* I think she understands though, I never go out to the mall with my friend’s and it’s not like I’m going to voluntarily go out to the store with my dad. I’ll make her a card or something.
Shouldn’t there be a thread for Peace*’s birthday?
Sudo: As far as we can tell, Peace* last posted on the blog in October 2009 under the name Scribe. We generally don’t make special birthday announcements for MBers who have been off the blog for more than six months or so, although we may keep them on the calendar longer than that.
Oh, I was wondering about that. That makes sense, thanks.
Ahhhh so much studying. Way too much studying. And you just reminded me that Mother’s Day is tomorrow. Oops, I didn’t get her anything. I’ll probably make a card and we’ll do breakfast in bed or something. Nothing very original, I know.
Besides, most of the time don’t moms just want some time for themself? I remember when I was younger mom just shooing us out of the house so she could actually relax for once.
Good times.
I sent an e-mail to a Disney podcast back in March talking about a lot of things, but mostly floating the idea of a Virgin Galactic-sponsored space ride for Tomorrowland… and they finally read it on-air! And they said it was a great idea and they learned a lot from reading my e-mail… AND they put the link to the VG website I posted in their show notes!
I’m going to go cross-post this in the “WIN” thread…
Oh gosh! That’s amazing!!! You really know how to get stuff done, KaiYves…that’s really awesome. On-air what?
Agh. Shopping. With Dad. For like, a billion hours. I’m ready to die.
I hate shopping. :L
It was okay though, I guess. I got what I needed (underwear, bras, hat, neon ankle socks, y’know, essentials).
Now I’m tiiiiired.
And I only almost stalled out a few times. Because I was in the wrong gear.
I’m really going to need all that good luck you guys are sending me. 0.o
Thanks everyone who responded to that, btw.
Mkay. Shower. Sleep. Yes.
I love how “neon ankle socks” are one of the essentials.
Maybe the world isn’t so bad after all.
Does anyone here play Pokemon: Explorers of Sky? I really like the Team Skull theme, and “Don’t Ever Forget…” It’s really sad. I was listening to it last night on the Sky Jukebox and I was ready to cry.
oh! oh! i own that! did you complete that?
bluestar, my dear, why do you not have another parenthesis at the end of your name?? This is highly disturbing.
Piggy’s thinking about taking some summer classes at the local community college, probably online. He’d like to take some sort of psychology class so he won’t have to do so once he actually reaches college. Maybe Latin American history too–that seems interesting. But will his parents allow it? Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion!
I love the relatively unusual style in which this post is written. It makes me happy!
Welcome to LBK’s house, all violence, all the time! Now broadcasting Failed Missions on Modern Warfare! Stay tuned for more bloody Avatar Games!
(Welcome to my world. :roll:)
GRENADE SPAM!!!!! Up next!
Sadly, this program has been disrupted due to a lack of Annoying Brothers and Obsessed Dads. Please stand by.
Blarg, so i’m taking italian 103 over the summer because i didn’t have room for it this quarter. it’s a shorter quarter, so that’s fun and all, but it doesn’t start until June 21. i had been thinking it starts earlier. so basically it gets out a week AFTER everything fun. this means i can only be in cleveland for the weekend for fern’s tall ships thing, and it means i have to stay home while everyone else goes to michigan to drop my brother off at blue lake. and i was thinking of going up to beaver island and going to the music festival with my friend who’s going to be working there. but nooo, they HAD to start it the 21st. i don’t WANT three weeks break in between this quarter and summer, i just want to get it over with!
sigh. oh and that also means that i’m gonna have to drive myself (which i hate) or take the bus (which is slow)
118.1~ What….neon ankle socks aren’t generally regarded as essentials?!?!
OH NOES! Because they totally are. I’m wearing the hot pink ones right now, which is a little scary. They’re close to THE pink, too. If I start feeling any smilicidal tendencies or my noes starts twitching I’ll rip them off my feet right away though, don’t worry.
Hmm, you know, I feel a little odd right now, actually. Is this silky pink fur? I thought it was my hair…..well, whatever it is, I think I’d better go preen for a bit……………
122~ Aww, that sucketh much.
Hmmmm….yeah, I guess.
Just kidding. I love neon ankle socks. I’m just wearing bleh white socks now though with light blue stripes.
I like the sound of “THE pink.” *fanfiction portal opens*
When I took the SAT last Saturday, the cover was hot pink. This frightened me.
I just got back from a two-day sleepover for Girl Scouts. We organized the whole event this year, with the theme of exploring the world! We got to lead the small children around and pretend to go to different countries and do crafts. It actually worked out really well, which was kind of a shock considering how little effort we all put into it and how much of a mess it was a week before the actual event. It was freezing in the cabins, though, as well as pouring buckets the whole time. *shivers*
Well, tomorrow’s math MCAS, whoo-hoo!
Mom is currently planning our road-trip that we’re taking through New York, then Toronto and then Montreal and back. I’m rather excited to see Niagra Falls…
We still have 8 days, according to the BIG HUGE POSTER IN RED LETTERS ANNOUNCING THE NUMBER OF DAYS LEFT UNTIL MATH MCAS in my math teacher’s room.
Wish it was -8 days.
I don’t know what you’re talking about! Ahh, the glories of private school….we don’t have to take or prep for the WASAL (which is now dead, thank god), we do have to take ERBs but that’s less of a big deal and we don’t prep at all and so we have maybe one standarized test a year and that is all. it is great.
What does MCA stand for where you live? For me, it stands for Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments, but I’m fairly sure you don’t live in Minnesota… wait! *googles and notices there is a capital ‘S,’ too* Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System? Is that it? Man, they have to give standardized tests more creative names. I mean, the Minnesota and Massachusetts tests have practically the same title! Where’s the originality?
Of course, the schools want us all to pass so we can look smarter and get more funding from the government. *rants about the education system*
Then there’s Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri…
Montana…
True.
Yes. We live in MA. It’s called the MCAS. Massachusetts Child Abuse System.
MCAS rearranged is SCAM.
My organic chemistry notes are quite interesting… They’re perfectly good, detailed notes, but the margins… On one page, I have drawn a pie that appears to be flying and has “splat!” written write below it. On the other side of the page, I have drawn a sun and a singing bird. Below them I wrote “Cause you’re gonna die!”. *wonders if anyone gets the reference*
A Doctor Horrible reference?
Yep. Why hydride shift in alkylation makes me think of Doctor Horrible I don’t know, but apparently, it did. There’s also a (really bad) doodle of a sonic screw driver on the next page.
I know, from reading Huckleberry Finn, that dogs barking mean someone’s going to die, perhaps birds singing…wait, that doesn’t make any sense….never mind.
No, i do not get the reference.
these are not the hammer.
Not that reference.
you have to admit that was a great moment though. nathan fillion’s timing there was -hilarious-
*sings* “It’s a brand-new day, and the sun is high…”
Um…”The sky is blue, it’s beautiful, and so are you”?
126- In my social studies notes in 8th grade, we were doing a unit on immigration and we had to define some terms. One of the terms was “alien”, and I drew an arrow from it to the margin and then drew a three-eyed generic Martian with antennae frowning with the speech bubble “No, *I’m* an alien!”
I was looking through Frances Perkins’s notes at Mount Holyoke and she drew bones and houses and a freakish monster bride on them.
My doodles are weird…Looking back at previous school planners, I’m beginning to question what was wrong with me when I drew those things…
SFTDP
117.1- “On-air” as in they read it out loud while recording their podcast and answered my questions, adding funny remarks.
I don’t know about knowing how to get things done, it’s just a fan podcast… what I’d really like to do is go onto some other Disney fansites, get similar support, and then write letters to Sir Richard Branson and Robert Eiger including the links to those sites so they could see that people thought the collaboration was a good idea.
And then, well, who knows…
125~ Montreal is AMAZING! And Niagara falls is…interesting. It was very different from what I expected. It’s absolutely stunning and beautiful and all, once you get close, but it’s like big city tourist trap all around it. At least on the Canadian side.
Beautiful when you get down to it though, and so incredibly green.
I love Canada! ^-^
I’ve only been there for an hour, and it was illegal. We were at Niagara Falls, and we wanted to cross over. So we went to the border, and everyone had a passport but me (why? another story). I had to have one, but they didn’t really care since we weren’t staying for the night. We went to the American station, and they gave us a harder time. The guard asked me a bunch of questions, and I was a little tempted to stick ‘eh’ at the end, but I didn’t, so we got through. And we spent 60 minutes there. I counted. And yeah, Niagara Falls is really cool.
I’m at school right now! I’m skipping swimming…and hiding in the library. Well, not really hiding. But yeah.
Stick MB bookmarks in page 42 of all the books!
I did that in a Sherlock Holmes book. I put bookmark-like pieces of paper in pages 42 and 219.. but I haven’t returned it to the library yet.
I want to read that when you return it, but I won’t move the bookmarks.
My family went shopping for flowers and things to plant in our yard and we came across a tree/shrub called the “Red Majestic Contorted Filbert.”
Gotta love the name.
‘Filbert’? That’s amazing.
Not just Filbert.
Contorted Filbert.
Right. Of course.
Out of curiosity, how can something be ‘majestic’ and ‘contorted’ at the same time?
I don’t even…
Wait! No… No idea… XD
I know…
Okay, so I know we’re not the most conformist of communities, so I wanted to ask: does anyone else find it tiring to be normal?
It’s just that lately, talking to the NiceNormalGirls of our school and putting up with the plastics has been an actual energy drain because of the way I have to talk and act. Sometimes I feel like my friends are the only ones I can actually connect with, as if I’m an entirely separate species from these people who are unhappy with the idea of having a spontaneous lightsaber dueling tournament in the park during lunch.
I realized this when talking to my amazing cousin, who goes to a really good arts school in the Bay Area. She thinks I should try out for the Creative Writing department, since I’m a huge writer. She was describing the different departments, how people write good poetry on the walls of the bathrooms and paint traffic cones they come across, how no one is more or less popular than any other, how LGBTalphabetsoup is accepted as totally normal because half of the school is that, how they prank other departments by stealing their paints and cameras, how they have spontaneous water balloon fights, and I physically started hurting in my chest. Have you ever had that? Where you wanted something so, so badly that it actually hurt?
I wish I could go to that school, but it would be too much trouble for my parents to switch me from going to a school district where I don’t actually live to going to another school district where I don’t actually live, and the commute would be hell and they don’t trust me to go there myself on the subway at seven in the morning. But ever since then, I’ve still been hurting.
I don’t want to be normal. I don’t want to sacrifice what I love, which is writing, for what I should do, which is accept that writing won’t make me money and go and be a lawyer or something like that. I realized just yesterday that I don’t care if I’m not successful, or if my job isn’t practical, I just want to be happy with my life and do what I really love, and if that involves being poor, I want to do it anyway. And that completely and utterly removes me from roughly 715 of the 750 people at my school. Oh, and my parents, who will scream at me if they ever find out I believe that.
So is conformity an energy drain for the rest of you? How much energy does stopping the weird looks actually take? And is it even worth it?
Cookies if you read that whole thing.
*takes cookies* Wow. That must really stink for you. Maybe you can try and get something like that in your school district? Get all your friends who write (even if its terrible writing) in some undisclosed location. Have water balloon fights. Write poetry on the walls. REBEL AGAINST NORMALCY!!!!!!!! *pant pant pant*
Anyways, I don’t really know if normalcy drains me. I’m usually pretty tired during the day anyway, so I don’t notice. But be glad that we have Museblog, where we can be as strange as we want.
Thank you for the pastry, and I go to a pretty strange school already, so it’s okay. I am even less normal than others, though.
*noms cookies* I’ve never bothered trying to fit in. I’ve met only a handful of people in my life with whom I share interests, but that’s fine with me. Conformity exists no matter what sort of a group you’re in–it seems an intrintic part of human society. I never felt the need to be part of any society, so I’m home free.
I don’t know… I’m so used to acting normal that it’s become second nature to me. I dress “wacky” by my school’s standards anyway (they don’t have/wear surfer-betty clothes here) and I am considered odd, but not too strange to be ousted. Of course, since my closest friends spent an entire class drawing Charlie the Unicorn on various hands (with a skirt/shorts-y kind of thing- don’t ask, we’re sophomore girls and it never skipped our minds that Charlie is male), I don’t think it’s too demanding. I was taught that you have to integrate yourself into society (cultural differences?). I guess I get by through just thinking some things and keeping them to myself. I’ve only told my best friend that I do capoeira and none of them know that I’ve basically taught myself in homeschool, or that I lived on a boat half my life, or that I’m secretly plotting to take over the universe with MB
or or… . I just let them know what they can deal with, gradually.
*gives ice cream*
Interestingly enough, I think it takes a bit more work to be normal at my current school. At my old school, I didn’t even care. I expected people to think I was weird. I mean, I knew I was coming here anyways, so what other people thought didn’t even matter. Here, I actually do feel a need to fit in. I mean, when I’m around my best friends, I can talk about how Daleks clearly use Horcruxes, but there are other people who are somewhat normal if slightly geeky, and I’d rather not get the reputation of the weird kid. Anyways, *takes cookies*
*munches on cookies*
Last year was my most conformist year. I was trying to be friends with the semi populars, and I was repressing my spontaneity. However, this year, I’m hanging out with Live Action Role Players, and… spontaneity is the word that best describes them.
I try to conform because if I have no outside contact I get depressed, but I hate conforming. My way of thinking is apparently backwards from the way most people think. If I don’t double-think everything I do or say then I usually receive blank stares and/or comments about how I am a total freako. So I double think everything but it gets tiring.
Wow that made absolutely no sense at all.
It makes perfect sense to me. Lived there.
Seventh grade (see above) was like that for me. Fortunately, I found a group of people that don’t make me do that. I was lucky, since one of them was an old friend.
Seventh grade has been the worse grade by far for me. My fingers are crossed that eighth will be better.
It was for me. *gives pie of hope*
Oh, we decided to pass a measure on whether or not seventh grade is the pit of hell in my English class. Only unanimous vote I’ve ever participated in. God, I hated that year. For anyone currently living through it: it gets so much better.
Does it? I hope it does.
And I don’t even go to school! I’m homeschooled and yet seventh grade is the worst year I’ve had! How does that work?
Hormones, hormones, beautiful hormones.
For our “graduation” this year, our music teacher is having us sing a song that has the lyrics:
There have been a lot of happy memories
And I think we’ve had a lot of fun.
Not for me!
HA. I just cracked up laughing at that.
Gah hormones. Can I kill them? *hopeful look*
No. But they can’t kill you!
Correction: “Am I allowed to kill them?”
Are you sure?
*hugs* I have/had the same experience. Like in computer science, when we were supposed to design a grid with logo. I told the turtle to first go up, then sideways and do the vertical rows first. All the 20-odd other people did exactly the opposite. Awkward.
*munches on cookies*
Yes, that does make sense to me. I do not know if I can identify with the tiredness of not being/trying to be normal, but certainly I can understand what you mean about pushing yourself to act differently around other people. Sometimes I automatically will change my voice, or my acts, or even my attitude when I’m around different people. Sometimes that’s for the better, sometimes it’s not so good. Either way, it’s simply something that I’ve always done. I should probably try to not do it as much, because then I feel like I’m not being so true to myself. I am so very confusing. *sigh* I have a hard time understanding myself, much less others.
I spent most of eigth grade trying to be nerdy and popular at the same time. It was not successful. I can barely stand to look at half my grade now, let alone hear them talk, and I’m as much of a freak as you can get and still have friends. So I spend half my classes making a half-hearted attempt at conforming so that if I’m lucky everyone ignores me, some as one of The Smart Girls Who Sit Right In Front Of The Teacher’s Desk, and my awesome electives being myself. Or as much as I can. I hope that it’s true it gets better at ninth grade, and it’s not just an American thing because you start high school then.
Agh! There’s something wrong with Yahoo and I can’t send any emails!
Grumble. Our Humanities teacher is an idiot. An utter, utter idiot. A jerk. A fiend. A… okay, I’ll stop now. Can you believe this- he’s decided that since one- ONE- person doesn’t understand what a stock exchange is, we are going to spend the rest of the year repeating our Economics unit. That’s right, with the same worksheets, tests, and everything.
The teacher from hell… their worst incarnation.
Hey, at least you already know the answers. You know what Brian in Monty Python says.
‘Always look on the bright side of death’.
*choklit* And I thought my English teacher was bad… Well, she’s not evil, just not very intelligent, annoying, and slightly sexist.
If your Economics class is anything like mine… *shudder* What would you have done if he hadn’t made you repeat it?
133- So he’s a jerkidiot, in other words.
Does anyone know when Zinc last posted?
The last post of Zinc’s that I see arrived on March 27.
Oh, good. I was reading through some old threads I stumbled on and realized that I hadn’t seen much of her after the whole depression incident and was a bit worried.
bookgirl: Zinc returned to the blog last year feeling much better, but this March she announced that she had lost Internet access at home and wouldn’t be able to post here much in the future. See https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=6214#comment-360776
She’s been thinking of us, though. I don’t have her permission to talk about it, I guess, but she’s been making doodles/short stories of a fantasy world wherein all the characters are MBers or based directly on MBers.
She’s so cute. I miss her.
I had a lovely dream last night, in which I met David Tennant and had a nice lovely chat (about what, I really don’t remember), and also got his autograph. JB was also there, but by the time I got done with DT, I couldn’t find JB (*sniffle*), so I never ended up getting his autograph. ’twas a lovely dream. I only just remembered I had it.
And the other night, I”m pretty sure I had a dream with the Doctor, because we were running through a
housemansion looking for a safe way out that we wouldnt’ be seen by some threat outside, and I’m pretty sure he was telling me about his sonic screwdriver. Like it’s model, or something, and how it was upgraded from his old one.is jb justin bieber? if so… *pukes *
No. *laughs*
JB is John Barrowman. From Doctor Who. He plays Jack Harkness. Search him on Google, if you fear Luna’s wrath.
*cracks up laughing*
I just had a conversation about beaverhead with one of my friends!
No, JB is John Barrowman who Luna worships.
You’ve got to admit that John Barrowman is very worshipable.
Yes, that he most definitely is.
John Barrowmanism? I think so.
You can join speller and mine’s cult, if you’d like.
We started to come up with a 10 commandments at one point…
How far did you get?
Uh, approximately nowhere. I think we had “Thou shalt not kill except by being so amazingly hot that you make people melt” or something like that.
No, JB is not Justin Beiber. I only very vaguely know who the cake Beiber is. ((That is, that he’s a preteen/teen who looks like a girl and sounds like a girl, and for some unknown reason apparently has a huge cult following of middleschoolers and the like.))
JB=John Barrowman, as Enc and Fireh stated.
And Justin Beaver gets more attention than he deserves. /ClassicalMusicFan
my friend thinks hes retarded
I completely agree. /alsoClassicalMusicFan
Aimes-tu “Bizet”? I’m playing two pieces by him for a recital.
Oui, je l’aime. I like Carmen. Brahms and Beethoven are my current absolute favourites, though.
Je joue du cor. I’m playing “Song of April” and “Je crois entendre encore” (Translation: I hear as in a dream)
Yeah. I mean, why don’t people worship Lang Lang instead?
/ClassicalMusicFan
*squees* I am learning part of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto! So fun to play, and so beautiful, too. But my mom makes me use metronome. Bleh. *dislikes the metronome*
One of my middle school classmates got to play a duet with Lang Lang. I got to go see her.
LUCKY!
I’ve seen Lang Lang playing live. He is amazing.
Yes, he is amazing.
*snork* I find it amusing every time someone thinks that, Luna.
Well, they are polar opposites. Barrowman is amazing, and couldn’t be confused with a girl, he’s an awesome actor, he has a flamablamablous fanbase, and is on a flammy British TV show.
I think you forgot “unbelievably hot” (or any variant thereof).
You know, thanks to Luna, for the most part, I never see JB as anything but John Barrowman (I spelled that right. Wow.), despite the fact that the only time I’ve ever seen him is in JW’s alternate avatar.
Guess who passed didn’t parallel park right on her test? Guess who passed anyway? GUESS WHO HAS A SHINY NEW DRIVER’S LICENSE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! (Complete with ugly photo!)
Yes, you guessed right. I did.
Aaaaaaand I had Yan-yan (it’s an Asian snack that I haven’t had in ages) and the most amazing eclair EVAR.
And I registered to vote. Even though I’m not 18 yet (a week though, so the guy was like “close enough.”)
Oh, and my homeschool review went well too.
*cheers*
Well, let’s see….It couldn’t possibly be you. I mean, it’s not like you were planning on taking a driving test and getting your license or anything…..
As for the photo,well, I think the ugly part is sort of required. Although, come to think of it, I look okay in my driver’s license photo, just not my school ID or my passport (although my current passport looks WAY better than the one I got when I was 10ish. That one was jsut horrible).
Hee hee, yay!!!
*is not legal yet*
Yay!!!!!!!!! *jumps up and down repeatedly out of happiness*
YAYYY! CONGRATULATIONS MIDNIGHT FIDDLER!
Yay!
*congratulatory pies*
I just murdered ‘congratulatory’. Twice.
Does anyone know why the book of Animal Farm is more powerful and effective in supporting the maxim: ‘Absolute Power Corrupts’. I need three reasons, and I can’t think of any…I’m supposed to be preparing for an essay we’re doing in class today. Help would be much appreciated *choklit*.
(1) More powerful and effective than what?
(2) The maxim is actually “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” It’s a paraphrase of something the 19th-century thinker Lord Acton wrote in a letter: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
(3) Disregarding 1 and 2, what you need is to find examples of characters in Animal Farm who were corrupted by power. That should be easy to do.
Oh. Than the 1955 film version.
I know, it was said by John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, but in the list of maxims my teacher gave to us to choose from, it said ‘Absolute power corrupts’ only. I guess I could use that one though.
I think…I’m supposed to have 3 reasons (whatever that means) and then support each reason with evidence from the text. But do you think ‘reasons’ means examples of characters? I’m not sure, this is why I’m so hopelessly lost…
Yeah, I just re-read the instructions and it says ‘follow up on your thesis statement with three ideas/reasons that support this maxim’. The thesis is ‘your view on whether written text or visual text is most effective in expressing your maxim’.
If you’re contrasting the book with the film, then you’re looking for differences between the book and the film that show that the book better reflects Acton’s maxim. Parts of the story might have been left out of the movie, for example, or might have been toned down or made funny rather than disturbing. Or perhaps the author put a little sermon in the book that was left out of the movie (though I don’t remember one). But in the end, it’s the characters who gain power and become corrupted, so it all boils down to characters.
So each of my three reasons would be scenes from the book that express it better than the movie? I didn’t really understand what reasons was supposed to mean…was it general, or more specific? My examples within each paragraph will definitely include the characters, though. I just need to know if that’s the ‘main’ reason for each body paragraph or just evidence to back those reasons up.
Also, we need 3-4 screenshots from the film that support this – however, what if it’s because one scene is taken out from the film that the book is more effective?
Wait…would it be easier to say the book was more effective or the film was more effective?
Book:
-more descriptions and details? (Ihavenoideahelp!)
-for example, when Squealer is giving speeches we can see, as intelligent humans, more clearly than the animals how he changes the facts and distorts the truth to get what he wants
-Napoleon steals the dogs from Jessie and Bluebell
Movie:
-more visual – you can see Napoleon drinking the milk, eating the jam etc. and this presents a stronger message
-in the film, Napoleon takes the dogs under his care after the mother dies (which might not be as effective as what the book says – stealing)
Okay, so clearly I need to choose one and then find three reasons. *sigh*
Which did you think was more effective? I always found it easier to write papers if I believed what I was saying.
I know. But I don’t know which is more effective. And if I did, I don’t know why. The book is the more original idea, since it was written first, and it has more detail, but the movie includes some scenes such as Napoleon stealing the milk which the book only implies. Hold on…would it be possible to say something about since the book does not directly state it and only implies it, it’s more powerful? Wait, would that even make sense? And I need three reasons for whichever one I choose.
Bleh. It’s 6 AM.
I personally think that it’s more powerful if it’s just implied. That way, it’s even more striking to the intelligent readers, and it’s as striking as it would have been to the less intelligent readers. Sometimes a whisper is louder than a scream.
Yeah, that’s my thesis!
*is psychic*
Quick! I knew exactly where this information was on the fan page, but now that it’s gone I’m not sure where to look–Muse once answered the Monty Python question about the air speed velocity of a swallow… I think it was roughly 10 meters an hour on average? But does anyone know where I can get to the original?
Well, for starters:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?page_id=1800
Next, you’ll probably find it with Google if you search for “this question is dangerous”+speed+swallow (and maybe also +python). It’s been widely repeated, often without my name attached. But the Q&A column is also available at some legitimate sites
Thank you! *choklit&non-face-pies*
Jadestone: It turns out I’ve previously posted that answer here on the blog:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=3851#comment-338315
(That’s just as well, because the archiving services I used to find online no longer turn up in Google searches.)
138 et al – Thank you so much Robert!!! I sort of finished my outline now, so I’ll just have to see how well I do today in writing it!
I am eternally grateful. I shall write you a poem sometime in thanks. In the meantime: *choklit*
FIVE BRAIN POINTS AND TRAVEL POINTS IF YOU NAME THE EGYPTIAN GODDESS OF CATS!
Please, please knock it off with the caps. It’s very, very annoying. As are points, for that matter.
As for the egyptian goddess of cats, she is called Bastet (or Bast). Both are acceptable.
*politely declines the points*
Bastet! Sorry if anyone else answered!
Bast, I think?
I was looking in some past threads and saw this natural selection simulator that Piggy posted. I decided to try it out, and the results were startling and disturbing… You can see the pic on my gravatar. It you can’t read the words at the top, it says, “Bunnies have taken over the world!”
Sorry if the pic doesn’t work, it takes a while to change sometimes.
Natural selection simulator? Sounds interesting. Where could I find this?
Here’s all the simulations (GAPAs, hopefully the fact that it’s on the University of Colorado – Boulder website can vouch for it’s MHity):
phet.colorado.edu/simulations/
Thanks! Looks interesting, though I haven’t had a chance to check anything yet.
has five brain and travel points. Thanks ever so, bluestar!
your ever so welcome!
Have I seen you on the blog before?
I read that as ‘Have you ever been on the blog before?’
Fail.
Don’t worry, Errata, I read it as that too.
No, I’m the fail. He is indeed a paleo? I had not seen him ever before on the blog.
A paleo? Really?
I’m pretty sure he’s not a paleo…
bluestarrox — also known as puffpuff — has a few days to go before reaching the paleo mark.
Also: bluestarrox is of the female specification.
Oops. *gives 555 kilos of choklit in apology*
eats choklit. thanks! *runs to treadmill*
Don’t you hate it when you post something and then seconds later decide that you should change something?
YES.
Or, you know, two hours later. There were too many ‘something’s in that post. *headdesk*
145- YES. Always.
I just discovered that I’m in twenty-fifth on Who’s Posted How Much. Twenty-second, if you count all the variations on ‘Errata’.
Didn’t think to count Starfire, but that couldn’t be more than twenty, or so.
I have my AP exam tomorrow morning–Environmental Science. It’s supposed to be pretty easy as compared to the other AP exams, and te practice test I took wasn’t that bad. You only have to get a 91/150 cumulative score to get a 5. The multiple choice, worth ninety of those points (100 questions) is not hard. It’s a lot of common sense, and I know most of the rest. What I am worried about is the
four essays. I tend to misinterpret the quetions, read too much into them or take them too much at face value… Ugh. Well, so long as I can get a couple of points per question, I think I’ll be okay. Unless the exam is far mire difficult than I’m expecting, I think I’ll definitely get a least a 4. A 5 would be lovely though, and as I’ve been working hard in the class all year, have consistently had good grades and am THE ONLY person to have turned everything in on time I sort of feel like I deserve one. Ah, if only it worked that way…
Well, stressing won’t help at this point. Time for some sleep.
Replies to 137~ Thanks guys!
148~ Good luck! I’m sure you’ll do well.
Congratulations MF!
tesseract — you will do wonderfully. in my experience the actual ap test are never as hard as teachers, prep books, one’s own anxieties etc make them out to be. i thought for sure the ap bio test last year was going to be impossible but it ended up not being that bad and i got a three (HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENT, DUDES…JUST SAYIN)
and that was with me getting twos on practice tests lol
so i’m sure you’ll be fine! good luck anyway, though!
APs are over, i’m accepted to college, i have about 42892 awesome things coming up……..and yet i am still expected to do about six projects before school ends 8| they’re not super hard, at least. and don’t get me started on FINALS…
This week has been a good week music wise. I got Chameleon Circuit on my iPod, and Bohemian Rhapsody, and we’re studying early Jazz (like ragtime) in music class. : D
I want Chamelion Circuit on my iPod so badly. Maybe I can convincemy mom…. *plots*
Ahh. I totally forgot to post this yesterday after school.
So in Social Studies class, we were watching the Student News thing, and for the shout out, the question was “Who lives inside 10 Downing Street?” And guess who, in the entire class, knew the answer because of a few certain Doctor Who episodes. Me. It was amazing. I felt so accomplished, even though I really wanted to shout out that it could be some family from Raxacoricofallapatorious trying to blow up the earth and sell it, but it was amazing!! Then the teacher asked how I knew the answer and I spent the rest of the class explaining what Doctor Who was. It was fun!
My house keys are attached to a bronze metal oval that says “10 Downing Street ~ London.” My parents bought it for me as a souvenir back in the 1970s or 1980s.
That’s cool. I want a bronze metal oval that says that now…
I could probably convince the British drummer in my dad’s band’s parents to do it…
Here’s what it looks like:
Shiny…
Out of curiosity, who lives/lived at 10, Downing Street?
Whoever the prime minister of England is. Right now, it’s Gordon Brown. It’s a tradition. They move in after they’re elected.
I would have voted Nick Clegg, myself.
Sorry, you guys probably didn’t follow the British election too well. I watched all three debates, and personally I like Clegg. Too bad that the number of votes is disproportionate to the number of seats for the Lib Dems.
If anyone did follow it, who would you have voted for?
i didn’t follow it at all, really, but everyone i follow on twitter seemed to be -very- anti-Tory. makes sense thought, they’re all actors/writers/comedians sort of types.
HA, I’ve heard of that guy. Is he head of the…Conservative Party?
No, Labour party, which is liberal, though he hasn’t been living up to that.
I would have guessed that next…apparently I absorb nearly nothing I learn about on the Student News. XD
aaand now it’s not gordon brown!
That is so cool. And as Errata said, SHINY.
This is my 568th post, and with all my names combined (not including AEs) I would be at 111! (Including AEs, I would be at 108.)
127.1- So she was a proto-Gothic-nerd?
My computer graphics teacher had this joke on the board today and I thought it was hilarious…
A grenade hit a kitchen floor in Corsica, resulting in…
… Linoleum Blownapart!
Warning. Warning. Warning is as follows:
Do not read the Kite Runner unless you are very prepared for some graphic, nasty, disturbing, stuff to happen in said book.
Warning received. I knew it had a ton of that stuff already, but it somehow seems more final coming from an MBer. (Or is it a MBer?)
What? That message is from a MBer, me. If you are not okay with descriptions of bloody violence, then do not read it yet.
I believe there was concern over whether to use “a” or “an”.
I would say “a MuseBlogger” but “an MBer” (which I would pronounce “Em-Bee-er”). But other internally consistent conventions are possible.
Erm, *too.
Me too. However, I pronounce RPGs as “Rippage”.
I do too! Huh.
Alpaca insists that RPG stands for Rocket Propelled Grenade, I think. Something along those lines.
And RRRs are “Are-arers”.
I alternate between “Rip-wahs” and “Are-peuws”.
I call HPBs “H-pebs” sometimes by accident if I’m talking too fast…
I have strange pronunciations for most (abbreviations? My brain is giving me a blank here… *kicks brain* *brain sputters and starts up again* There, that’s better… *brain dies again* ACK.)
RPG actually does stand for rocket-propelled grenade, actually. Actually.
Oh yes, my global teacher explained a bit about it to us… She says it’s quite wonderful though. It’s required for some senior course.
Speaking of Global, me and my friend are doing our oral presentation about how Shakespeare was a “Renaissance Man”. Half of it is inaccurate, because we’re just restating the stuff that the teacher told us, which is inaccurate. But she can’t yell at us for that.
We made awesome puppets and a whole puppet Globe Theatre and everything. ‘Tis quite epic.
So. Concert tomorrow night, but I’ll freak about that tomorrow. Violin lesson that I totally haven’t practiced for too. Yeahh, eesh.
Aaand getting to see at least one friend, hopefully two more.
Today was cold and rainy. And now I must go take a bath and watch Harry Potter with mama. *nods solemnly*
Okay, I’m tired NOW, what will I be like when the HP movie is over? No, don’t answer that. Please don’t.
BYE.
Good luck on your concert!
Hi everyone. -waves-
So. The Books and Reading thread is so, SO dead. So I’m just going to say right here and now: The Great Gatsby is really good. I have a whole week to read it (three weeks for the class, but my group reads fast) and I finished it within a few hours of checking it out. -sigh-
Imaginary City! Sorry, just had to say that when you said something about a dead thread.
Ooh, I read that for lit this year. It’s good. *could definitely discuss*
The following is most definetly random:
Will someone please tell me to get of MuuseBlog, turn off my computer, and finish my homework? I can’t tell my self to stop it!
*lacks will power & procrasinates more*
Please help me! I think I have an addiction! (posts she on the object of her addiction)
Must. Finish. Homewrork. Can’t. Stop. Posting. Help!
ADEIA. YOU MUST GET OFF OF MUSEBLOG, TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER, AND FINISH THAT STUPID HOMEWORK.
Then you can go on MuseBlog. Okay?
If you haven’t already gone off.
*whimper* Organic chemistry final tomorrow morning. It’sgoingtosucksobadsoveryveryverybadasinepicfailbad. yeah. No kidding. I need to get a 46% to get a B, and there is a very very very very very good chance that that is NOT happening. So, yeah, it’s going to be absolutely horribly miserable. *sigh*
You’re not going to get a 46%? Youch. *hugs* Orgo is evil…
I might. If I’m very lucky. But bear in mind that he aims for the averages to be 60%, and a 46% is not quite as bad as it looks right off….And also bear in mind that despite going to bed at 12:30 last night, it was at least 3 am before I actually fell asleep. So I’m not exactly awake.
I recommend caffeine. Lots and lots of caffeine. (That’s how I survived yesterday.)
I’ve already eaten half a dozen chocolate covered coffee beans. I’m not sure they’re doing much. I question whether i may be immune to (or at least have developed a tolerance for) caffeine at times…
I DIDN’T FAIL I DIDN’T FAIL I DIDN’T FAIL I DIDN’T FAIL!!!!!!!!!
That said, that I didn’t fail my organic test (I got a 77.5% on it!
), that I’ve got a solid B in the course (71% average), and that I am officially done with organic chemistry forever why don’t I feel happier? Or, rather, why don’t I feel anything? Relieved? Happy? Something?
*sigh* Maybe it’s just not sunk it yet. But I’m done with organic, the bane of my existence. I just have to make it through my spanish final this evening, and I’m done with all my finals, no more school until next August. So those are all good things. All very, very, very good things.
And he aims for a 60% average? Yay!
*choklit* *and John Barrowman*
Yes, although I think he was aiming for a slightly higher average for the final, since the average on the last one was rather low (50% average for the class on the last test).
Choklit and John Barrowman? Wow. It’s my lucky day. Thanks, Enc. *hugs*
*and Jack Harkness*
Oooh, wow. I’m a very lucky girl…..
*and the TARDIS* *and the Doctor of your choice* *and another Jack Harkness, just for the heck of it*
Two Jack Harknesses!?
Well, he does time travel…
Yikes.
He crossed his own timeline 3 times, making 4 at the same time…
Wow. This is really a brilliant day. Because now my spanish final is over, AND the package I ordered from Amazon UK nearly a month ago (JB’s latest CD “John Barrowman” and his DVD “Evening With John Barrowman”) finally arrived. And because it was supposed to arrived on the 29th of April, I wrote ’em, they said wait til May 11, I wrote ’em yesterday, border line freaking (because I”m leaving in two days, and I paid for it), they decided that it must have gotten lost, and refunded me my money, and told me that if it still showed up to keep it with their compliments, that they were sure there was some worthy charity locally I could donate it to.
So I got $30 of free JB. Although, really, I feel a tad guilty. You know, like I stole it, because I feel like I sort of ripped ’em off, it showing up now, only 24 hours after the time they told me to wait til until contacting them….And if I hadn’t been leaving Friday morning, I wouldn’t have been harrassing them for at least another few days. So, yeah, I feel a bit thievish. Oh, well.
YAAAY! well above average! go luna!
Thanks!
Yay Luna! Congrats!
Ebeth has an AWESOME schedule again for fall quarter
Earliest class MoWeFri: 11:30 AM
Earliest class TuTh: 1:30 PM
thaaat’s right, canines of the female gender. Plus, i’m taking honors brit lit (even though i’m not in the honors program which is just so awesome it sound like cheating) and tudor-era english history (my fav :D). Also bio 101 (giving it another chance…high school bio sucked) and italian 104 (i will be so happy to be done with that…italian’s great but i hate foreign language in general, so yeah)
also band.
yup. i’m sweet.
That is so unfair. MWF: 8am classes next semester (spanish), and I forget what my T/Th schedule is….
oof. i take college as an excuse to avoid early morning classes like the plague
i may do a morning shift at work, which is super early, but all you have to do is be like “plop. next? plop. next? plop. next?” until someone asks for cheesy fries and you have to *gasp* TURN AROUND and then be like “plop. next?”
my job sounds a lot worse than it actually is :-/ it is not bad, seriously. but it is something i could do in the morning without being fully awake
Urgh, I wish. I mean, I avoid early classes when at all possible, but in order to fit in all the classes I need to take this semester, I had no choice but to put spanish in at 8am….
Hang on, your caf serves cheesy fries in the early morning???? Seems like an odd breakfast choice.
ahahaha no actually that is lunch. wasn’t thinking, sorry. turn around to, uh…put on syrup? i don’t know
we do have chicken nuggets in the morning, which seems odd to me. but in a delicious sort of way.
Ah, that makes more sense now.
*hates* I’ll probably still have a 7:30 class PLUS I’m going off campus to do research, so I won’t have my lovely Wednesdays off…
ebeth – Canines of the female gender, haha. Why can’t high school start that late?
AP Environmetal exam wasn’t bad! The multiple choice had some stuff I had no clue about, but most of it was manageable. The essays went really well. There was one that involved some basic math which I screwed up repeatedly for fifteen minutes, but I figured it out before the exam was over and managed to finish (albeit just as the proctor told us to stop writing). But I answered everything! I was terrified that there were going to be questions along the lines of “Draw, label, and explain in detail the parts if a nuclear reactor” or like, “Here are ten environmental laws you read about and promptly forgot, name the year of and two provisions of each.” But no–all things I had heard of! The Gods Of Standardized Testing must like me.
And to top it off, the math test that I’d been stressing over–106%!! That is going to help my grade so much. I was currently pulling a low B because of a pop-quiz-thingy I bombed (fifty. two. percent. ouch.). We get one drop grade a quarter, and with the mega-fail dropped I had roughly a 90. So… This might even pull me up to an A? Maybe?
This has been a good week so far. Now if the universe wants to throw maybe a car as an early birthday present, a snow day, and a trip to Paris my way… That would be amazing.
Science MCAS tomorrow. Wish me luck, someone. Anyone. Please.
good luck! *good-luck pies*
Luck!
Thanks. *hugs SudoRandom and ebeth*
Best of luck!
Good luck!
Thanks. Update: After the test I checked answers with my friend and although I definitely got some wrong, I think I got a lot right, too. Cake the open responses, though…*headdesk*
Well, that’s still pretty good. I left one of my open responses blank one time, so at least you scored better than that. Besides, I know you, and there is almost no way you got lower than a 3 on any of them, and 3 is a good score.
The only fun part about the MCAS is messing with it. One time on the front of my test booklet I wrote “I am not a standardized child”, and I think one of my friends chose to write her five paragraph long comp on why she refused to write a five paragraph long comp.
Don’t know where to put this so….
Why are all the names on “Who’s Posted How Much” linkies that lead you to a 404 error?
Technically, they’re supposed to take you to a directory that we’re supposed to create on the musefanpage.com site. But the instructions made it sound as if the directory wouldn’t do anything in particular (except avoid error messages), so we’ve never got around to creating it.
Ah… Danke.
Spanish final in 45 minutes….It’s my last final, so whether it goes well or poorly, I’m done! Yayness! Just 2 hrs 45 minutes left until I can cross another year off.
Bueno suerte!
Thanks! I think it went okay. Not uber-awesome, but decent.
Today I went on a field trip to a mars mission simulation. ‘Twas quite awesome.
SFTDP
Oh, and we also went to the museum’s planetarium, where we, among other things, did a roller coaster simulation in which we rode atop a Mobius strip. Me and E, who was a sitting next to me, were completely cracking up the whole time, which was far too short.
You’d be upside-down half the time.
Maybe it wasn’t a simulation.
A few finals down now – including two out of my three AP courses! Yes! I only have one more AP to go (chem, unfortunately, which will probably be the hardest. That one’s scheduled for Friday.) but now that English and Bio are done and over with, I’m relieved. Both were actually easier than expected. My finals in my regular phased classes have all been harder than my AP ones so far. What’s up with that? Taking Bio and Chem has been HELL (screw up on my schedule, long story short I had to take two science classes. And even though I’m pretty good at science, I don’t really like it.) so honestly I’m so relieved that I’m pretty much done. I may still have to go to the class and all, but testing is pretty much over for them. (And for Chem it will be on Friday.) which is so nice to think about.
In other news, I found my calculator!! I’d been using this one from the Ice Age for the past few days, so it’s a relief to have my TI back.
You have finals in AP courses
We don’t.
You don’t have an AP test? I guess I wasn’t really clear, it wasn’t a final specifically but my AP test for the semester.
One more night of rehearsal, then on Friday we produce Our Town! And then Saturday! And then cast party! And then finally on Sunday, a matinee!
I love my costume. A white shirt, a bow tie (“I like bow ties. Bow ties are cool”), blue shorts, and green checkered stockings. And a jacket. Wally Webb’s character is complete. I have my one line in Act One at breakfast, :Oh Ma by ten oclock I’ve got to know all about Canada”, then the Act Two wedding, then the whole of Act Three, at the end of which I sing. *is excited* *a lot*
Oh, and Friday is Arts Day where I get to take Portrait Photography and Papermaking. And I’m running for Class President.
Oooh, fun! Good luck with the President!
162- Canines of the female gender… Brilliant!
167- Mars mission simulation? Details por favor!
So. The concert went well, I think we all sang pretty well and there weren’t any major mishaps getting on and off the risers, especially since we had no idea where we were supposed to be going. But it was good. No one died or fell and there was minimal confusion while actually onstage.
Sarah, Muffy and Matt came, it was nice to see them again.
My violin lesson earlier today went well also, my teacher and I hadn’t practiced much, so we sounded rather dreadful a few times, but it was okay.
Then DL was after me, which hasn’t been the case since forever, so it was nice to chat with her for a little bit. We’ve definitely gone different paths though, I still like her and all and it’d be fun to visit more/again, but eh, I dunno. It’s weird drifting away from friends.
Oh, and Ebz, that “canines of the female gender” comment was awesome.
Today I watched a movie in every single class.
Except for band. During which I sat in the hallway and played card games with the other seniors, because we don’t play the graduation music (duh).
1st hour (AP Lit):- Rebel Without a Cause
2nd (AP Calc):- Tron
3rd/half of 4th (AP Bio): Avatar
2nd half of 4th I eat
5th (Spanish): Lean on Me
6th (Creative Writing): The Dark Knight
7th is study hall
8th is band
Then after school I ate cake with photo club and went home. I just finished sewing my shirt for x-men day tomorrow (the sewing machine is my nemesis) and I don’t have to take finals, so I have 3 more days of school.
Win.
*hates* This week is the week everything is due… And we had to do a lab practical in organic chemistry. And play Pomp and Circumstance in band. *hates that piece*
OH man I haaaate P&C. Last year we played it 9 times (the long repeat, not the short one. Which I guess only makes sense if you have the same arrangement as us >.<). But this year I don’t have to, cause I’m going to be graduating and so not playing, obviously. Aka me and the other 3 seniors sit in the hall and play card games
you have three days left?! SO ENVIOUS
i have over a month left…and it’s all totally gonna be movie watching and dumb projects 8|
that’s crazy you were watching a movie in every class though!
Us too. D:
Why were you watching a movie in caluclus?
I assume it’s an AP class, so…why not?
“And this, class, is a piece of writing by a man named Christopher Nolan. Stay in your seats for the next two hours, please…”
But seriously, that’s sweet. The only movie I saw recently were Astro Boy, which was okay.
I, too, think the canines of the female gender statement clever.
I have a question for all of you– Do you listed to Great Big Sea? Because you should. They play sea shanties and bouncy energetic songs and rock songs and generally awesome music.
172- TRON! and dark knight!
173- i love GBS
you should talk to roozy, he’s a big fan
Hey! My blogiversary was 2 days ago! I completely forgot about it!
173~ I have a CD of theirs, but haven’t listened to it much. I have a lot of time in the car coming up today though, so I shall listen and think of you.
Just got an email from our choir director, we took in a TON of donations after the concert, and since all the concert costs were covered by a grant, everything we took in (ticket sales, donations, the lot of it) could go to charity. $1500 dollars! *cheers* It’s exciting. All of our choir’s concerts have been fundraisers (except the first, which was more like a fundraiser for us), but we’ve had to pay for concert costs and donate what we can. This time, not the case. *cheers more*
Mkay. I’ll stop raving now.
Hamlet tonight!
*is having an mental breakdown*
I was too… During physics, I was just falling apart. I was even being a canine of the female gender (yep, I stole that phrase) to my future roommate/lab partner. She’s one of my best friends, and she’s extremely nice, and I felt so bad about being mean to her, but I couldn’t help it. I’m still pretty grouchy… More caffeine helped a little.
177~ *hugs*
178~ *returns hugs* Thanks. I’m better now. The tears have stopped. For now.
179- *More hugs* (Just in case)
So in Astronomy class, we had to do this webquest on Project Blue Book (The Air Force’s investigation of UFO sightings in the 50s and 60s). I’ve got to say that I agree with the findings that there wasn’t really anything to the reports of flying saucers. Even the “unknown” cases seem really vague and mostly it’s just people saying they saw funny lights. Not really that impressive.
Hey, everyone! AM’s at my house playing the piece I wrote. We’re taking a break before we tackle the dissonant bit. It’s not my fault! My composition teacher made me do it!
~Enc
The piece used to be slightly easier, but now it has a more difficult rhythm and accidentals! Yay! I’m getting better at playing it, though, and it sounds cool.
~AM
*steals keyboard*
~Enc
We admire your fast moderation, our worships.
I have to wonder, how did you get on MB when you’re supposed to be working on the composition?
We took a break before we played the dissonant bit.
What kind of piece is it?
Modern Classical. For French Horn, Violin, and guitar, but the guitar part is literally unplayable.
Speaking of French Horns, I was wondering the other day what key French Horn is. Is it like clarinets/most band instruments, with the C being a B flat in concert key, or is it in concert key like flute?
Very random, but it’s been bugging me for no reason.
I’m pretty sure french horn is in F.
Yes. But orchestra music for French Horns is in all kids of keys. A flat, B#, E, you name it, it’s there.
Aha.
SFTDP, but- “all kids of keys”?
That typo, of all possible typos, never fails to amuse me. XD
Well, same for trumpet. Most trumpets are Bb, but there’s music for C trumpets, A trumpets, and some other ones…
the most common trumpets are Bb and C. there are other trumpetesque instruments in different keys that are more common than actual trumpets in other keys (like effers (Eb) or…other examples that i can’t think of at the moment, but they exist)
I’m on my mom’s big, shiny, no longer that new, iMac. It’s fast and all, which is positive, but the reason I’m on it is not positive. See, my computer’s hard drive melted. Which, in case you didn’t know, basically means that my computer is no longer functional. Lots of fun.
That was eventful. Trying to get my computer to function again, worrying about all my data, waiting for my more computer-savvy dad to get home, worrying about my computer…
We managed to get all my data off of the computer. But I’m stuck on my mom’s computer until we can get the new hard drive and install it.
Whatever. I have my computer, basically, on this one, I just need to figure out how to find everything.
So, what do people know about the Gunpowder Plot?
…the what?
I must second LBK’s statement.
Remember, remember, the fifth of November? come on.
Come on, MBers!
London, 1605. Thirteen Catholic conspirators planned to blow up King James I and Parliament and install James’s daughter Elizabeth on the throne, but were caught before they could light the fuse and were executed. Exciting stuff. No doubt there’s been a Doctor Who episode about it. Why do you ask, cromwell?
I have a report. I read a book, but if any of you know something special about it, I could interview you.
All sorts of things. Not just from V for V but a lot of other books I’ve read reference it, and I read about it way back when I learned about Guy Fawkes day.
It’s also mentioned in the Sandman comics. I think The Kindly Ones. No, wait, The Wake. IN a conversation between Shakespeare and his friend they come up with the rhyme because ol’ Will’s trying to prove that people will remember the day in years to come.
…shuttup I am only a bit obsessed.
That Guy Fawkes and his conspirators tried to blow up Parliment and that I originally learned about it from a Diana Wynne Jones book.
Chronicles of Crestomanci?
Not to mention that MB has devoted three threads to Guy Fawkes (use the search box). The first one in particular has information about the event, including a link to Wikipedia and various excursions by Paul Baker. Other highlights include the words to “The Fifth of November,” “A songe of rejoicyng by Mr. Thomas Campion, at the confounding of the wicked Powder-plot, hatchd by the traytour Fawkes and his foule brethren.,” and “A Lamentable ballad of the death of King John, poysoned by a fryer.”
Naturally the thread eventually degenerates into extended quotations from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” but that’s to be expected.
Personally, I can never hear of Guy Fawkes now without thinking of Ebeth.
Same
Ah, I found it. Ebeth Introduces Guy Fawkes to Ohio. (Or is it the other way around?)
For some reason I just had a flashforward to all the weird things I’m going to be rambling on about in the nursing home…. “Poor old girl, daft as they come. Always trying to recite something she calls the Moozey Verse.”
you will be a nursing home hit! you’ll have swarms of
stalkersloving musers wandering in to say hello, and everyone will think you just have a really huuuge familyAh yes, I remember that.
WITCH WEEK!
*cough* No, I’m not DWJ obsessed, what would make you think that?
Yay DWJ! I can’t wait to read her new one. I think I’m going to borrow it from my friend Green (from those who weren’t around when I talked about all my friends more often, I’ve been using color names for them). Once I got an advanced proof of one of her books (House of Many Ways). I remember lending that to Green after I was done with it but both of us read it long before it actually came out. I take it that Fire and Hemlock is one of your favorites–mine too! Also, there’s a really good essay by DWJ on the internet about what she thought of when writing it. It focuses around the theme of heros. I dunno if you’d be able to find it too easily through googling. Oh! and if I may, may I recommend other authors to you? (man. I love books perhaps a bit too much. um.) Caroline Stevermer, authors in the Firebirds series of anthologies, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Sherwood Smith.
Boookkks!
The Firebird anthologies!!!
For some reason my library has only the second one. DX
New one? New DWJ book? Whatwhenwherehuh?
Hey, loving books is good. I’ve been reading the Redwall books since first grade, can read upside down, and sometimes spontaneously recite my favourite chapter of Howl’s Moving Castle: “In which Sophie meets further obstacles in leaving the castle.” If I got the chapter title wrong, *shrugs* sorry, haven’t read HMC in the past six months, because my little sister is probably hidinig it in her closet.
Yes, Fire and Hemlock is and always will be one of my favourite books. ^_^
Yay! DWJ!
Terry Prachet’s awesome too.
*spazzes*
I just read Colour of Magic a few weeks ago at the bookstore! I cracked up laughing about every five seconds.
So there’s this amazing setting on our computers which lets you switch your screen from, as it says, ‘Black on White’ to ‘White on Black’. Which basically means it reverses all the colors. It’s really cool. I wish I could show you what MB looks like like this… It’s really cool.
If you’re on a Mac, actually, you could probably just switch by pressing control+option+command+8. There’s probably also a way to do this on Windows, but I don’t know how.
WHOOOAAAA CRAZY!!!!
Oh. Em. Gee. That is awesome.
*has it on right now*
Um…. do you know how to turn it off? o_o
Same way you turned it on.
That’s amazazing! MB looks strange! (Okay, okay, I expected that.) It made my background (The tenth Doctor making a contorted? twisted? face) look really strange too, Luna.
Do you know how to change it back? 0_0
I’m having fun looking at the default Mac
avatarsbackgrounds in reverse. There’s a peony one that looks all ghostly and pretty.How do you do it on a PC?
Armada, Keiffer–I turned it off by repeating the commands that turned it on. (control+option+command+8)
Yup, I figured that out eventually.
XD
Oh, didn’t see that, sorry.
*dies*
It works on a Mac, it’s EPIC.
wow…really…we’re really just doing that now?
xP
i used to do that back when i had to use the computer in my brother’s room, during nanowrimo when i was up at like 3 AM and he was sleeping.
Awesome! My bunny avatar looks demented, though.
Also! I watched movies in every single class AGAIN today. Hehehe.
It was also x-men day. I was the only one really dressed up
I went as Jean Grey/Phoenix. I had a red shirt with a gold phoenix logo on it (sewed it on last night the machine hates me), black pants-that-are-not-quite-jeans, borrowed knee-high black boots/borrowed black lather jacket and a shiny gold scarf-belt over the shirt.
I slept with my hair twisted up in a bun last night after I showered, and even though it dried completely like that when I took it out it was still perfectly straight : P
Whoaaa, you have intense hair. But your outfit sounds awesome!
Yeah… it’s really long (down to my waist) so it’s too heavy to hold anything, really : / For crazy hair day at school I curled/crimped/braided parts and it took -ages-
I had the same sort of hair in high school. One day I made tiny little braids all over, slept on them overnight, then unbraided in the morning. It took me forever. My hair went from being dead straight to something like this:
Oh my…
Gah housing. We got put in a building that we didn’t particularly want in a wing that we really didn’t want, because the RC for that wing happens to like my roommate… *is really annoyed* We filled in the form (and actually were the first to turn in the form), and they disregarded it. The only thing that they honored was putting us upstairs, which was our absolute last priority… *fumes*
And now my dad points out that our housing placement could be considered disability discrimination, since the only reason we’re in that wing is that my roommate has a hearing problem and the RC for that wing does too.
So my roomie talked to the RC… They can’t move us. Well, we might be able to move rooms, but we have to stay in that wing… For one thing, there will only be one other room of juniors there.
woowww….. all you on pcs, try high contast. wow.
Are you going to decide on puffpuff or bluestarrox? It’s kind of confusing when you post with two different names regularly.
Also, would you please capitalise? I know some people have asked you before, and I’d like to re-emphasize that this is a place where correct spelling, grammar and punctuation are appreciated.
Sorry, my da’s computer has me as puffpuff. i’ll fix it now. As for spelling, The shift key has to be pressed SUPER hard.
183- Oooh! Oooh! I know! That was Guy Fawkes, right?
185- Phoenix/Jean for the win! She’s my second favorite X-Woman after Kitty Pryde!
Yay Kitty Pyde!
Yak. Yak, yak, yak. (I’m not quite sure why I used “yak” by the way. It just seemed like an appropriate word for the situation.) I have a math test and science test tomorrow (First and second period, which means no real chance of cramming in some studying between periods or study halls) hence the reason why I really should be studying now. Or at least, trying to figure out math so I can hold up my current A average.
But naturally I’m on MB instead. And as much as I love you guys, for the sake of my grades, I really should be getting off. *sigh*
In other news, soccer season is officially over. We went undefeated.
For some reason I’m not quite as excited as I thought I would be, though. Like when basketball went undefeated, I was so thrilled about it. But for this, it’s just sort of like…eh. Not quite sure why I feel that way.
And finally, I have to start staying after school sometimes so I can work on decorations for the end of year dance. I feel so preppy and school spirit-y, (or at least, I feel like I should feel that way, but I don’t, if that makes any sense at all) and in a way stupid, as I’m really not looking forward to this dance at all – nor do I want to decorate for it, but I suppose I shall. It won’t be bad, anyhow, since a lot of my friends will be there too. But still. I guess if one thing at all comes out of it, it’ll be that I’ll have earned a few more hours of community service. Although I already hit the 10 hour minimum, at least it will be good to add on some more.
My gosh am I tired. Then again, crying will do that to you…It was not a good day; let’s put it like that. Long story short, I got sent out of the classroom because I didn’t understand a question and I was “attacking” the teacher by trying to clarify the answer. Then she came out into the hall and demanded why I was so “angry” all the time and I told her the truth– I don’t like school. Then I started to cry, which was terribly embarrassing and I’ve been crying off and on ever since. *sigh* Just five more weeks of school, just five more weeks…
*chokilt*
School is plop.
*hugs*
Me is so happy! Every single one of my AP exams are OVER!
*does happy dance*
) Since then I’ve taken a bucketload of exams (actually 3 AP, but that’s tiring enough) and been to prom! Yay!
It seems forever since I’ve been on here (it seems like I say that every time I come on here.
190) Aw. *hugs* You’ll survive! Hang in there!
I lost my Rosencrantz and Guildenstern script!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh woe is me! It was all highlighted and edited and now I shall have to re-do EVERYTHING.
By the way, my senior project is going to be the formation of a student-and-alumni-run theater organization and being the production manager of its first production.
Which is, incidentally, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. I am also playing Guildenstern and helping with lights and costumes because there are only ten of us max. Eight for sure. For the entire cast and crew.
i LOVE rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead. seriously, LOVE. SO MUCH. ALL CAPS LOVE.
that should be super fun!
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is /awesome/ though. I have some friends who dressed up as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern once. My college sf/f club has a roleplay session where we can all roleplay whomever and one year two friends (before I got to the college, though) played Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
I have grades now! They are A, B, and B- which isn’t as bad as I’d feared. I thought I was doing worse this semester. I know I know the material but it is so hard for me to get good grades. Well okay. I oughtn’t think of “good grades” as all As. And I do get As and Bs. But still. I seem to never get as many As as Bs. I want more As. bleh.
Hey, guys….Just figured I’d mention that I’m probably not going to be on all that much for at least the next month, and likely the rest of the summer, as well. I leave college tomorrow, and then I’ll be in NE shadowing a vet there for a couple weeks, and staying at his house, so I really don’t know how it’ll be for internet. And even if I do have internet, I doubt I”ll be on here much. And then 2 weeks in FL, half vacation/half more shadowing, so….Yeah.
Plus, the rest of the summer, well, those of you who have been on previous summers know that I’m usually not on very much during the summer. Too busy with work and other stuff.
But, yeah, love and pies to you all and I hope you guys all have absolutely flamablamablous summers, and I’ll post when I can.
((I’ll probably be on tomorrow morning, for a very short period of time…I leave at 7:30 am))
Good luck, Luna, and have a good time!
((wait, you got out of college already?))
For the semester (year), yes. We get out in mid-May every year. ’tis nice.
And thanks! Have a flammy summer!
We’ll miss you, Luna! The blog is always a duller place wtihout you. Drip by when you can! Have a great summer.
Drip by?
It’s getting hot, you know. She might melt.
Thus the perils of using an iPod touch and forgetting to proofread. xD
Aww…have fun, Luna! We’ll all miss you!
Good bye Luna! We’ll miss you throughout the summer – best wishes for a completely flammy one.
And, of course, don’t forget to check in when you can.
Have a fabulous summer, Luna! I’ll miss you! *pies* And please do stop by when possible.
Aww… Bye, blog sis!
Bye, then… Have a great summer, and do drop by when you can! What we MBers do without Luna?
Hah! I finally figured out how to do the reverse white/black thing (with the aid of wikipedia-somehow, keyboards aren’t my strong point (there are two shift keys??? seriously? Oh, right.)). The woven beyond (my background right now) looks really amazing- like it’s in front of a supernova or something.
We’ll miss you, Luna!
I still have exams in spanish, german, math, latin and english, plus a book report in french (and possibly a second test in french too). Hooray for me!
Well, crap. there goes our source of hilarious entertainment. You just HAVE to leave. If I didn’t know better, I’d say you’re just making an excuse to watch Doctor Who reruns.
Bookgirl, is your gravatar Charlie the Unicorn?
Since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief: Hamlet = amazingness.
It was AWESOME.
So, what’s the deal with all these performances of Hamlet all of a sudden? Alice was raving about it not too long ago, there was a production on PBS, the Folger is doing a “HamFest” of all Hamlet related performances, poetry readings, etc. Am I missing something?
Byeeeeee Luna!!!!!
This morning-
(It rains)
My mom: “Kai, if it’s raining this afternoon, take the bus home.”
Me: “But I want to go to the library- oh, wait, the Atlantis launch is at 2:20… Okay, I’ll take the bus if it rains.”
(By 2:05 when school gets out, it’s sunny)
Me: “Okay, I’ll take the bus home in time to see the launch.”
(The buses all leave without me)
Me: “Cake it! Okay, the library’s closer, I’ll run…”
*I run as fast as I can with my heavy backpack*
*Run into library*
*Get on computer*
Computer clock: “2:30”
Me: “Cake!”
*Goes to NASA.gov*
Computer: “Atlantis Lifts Off On Final Scheduled Mission To The Space Station”
(Pretty launch pics)
Me: “Cake!”
At least the launch was perfect.
Today is the anniversary of Skylab being launched, in the remote chance you didn’t know.
Aww, byr Luna! I hope you have fun shadowing that vet!
I sure will miss you and you’re Doctor Who/Harry Potter fangirlness! (Not that there aren’t a lot of other Doctor Who and/or Harry Potter fangirl/boys on the ‘blog.)
198.1- You know, I did NOT know that, thank you.
After this mission lands, I’ll probably never be able to use “Go Atlantis!” as a tag on my name ever again, because the orbiter will be retired. It’s necessary, but sad to think about.
It does sound rather sad.
Have a wonderful victory lap, Atlantis.
Our school musical next year is going to be The Drowsy Chaperone, which I’d never heard of a few weeks ago but have since heard the soundtrack to. My friend who we will call Craisin and I found the instrumentation online. The reed books, which are the only relevant ones to us (I play alto sax, oboe, and English horn, while he plays clarinet) are:
Reed 1: Flute, Piccolo, Clarinet E-Flat Clarinet, Alto Sax, Soprano Sax
Reed 2: Clarinet Flute, Piccolo, Alto Sax, Soprano Sax
Reed 3: Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet, Tenor Sax
Reed 4: Bassoon, Bari Sax, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, E-Flat Contrabass Clarinet
I realized that if I played clarinet, I’d be capable of playing the entire Reed 3 book! Which would be a fun challenge, and I sort of got used to playing a whole book for Wizard of Oz this year. But there’s the obvious setback of me not playing clarinet. One thing lead to another, and Craisin ended up lending me his marching band horn.
Now I’m sitting here holding a clarinet trying to figure out how the different-fingerings-in-different-octaves thing works. Believe me, I know that I won’t be playing this thing up to pit orchestra standards by next April. I like learning instruments, though, and it just seemed like fun. Clearly it’s also a better use of time than practicing any of the instruments I do play [/sarcasm]. Who cares, though–it’s fun!
197- I’m STILL raving about it. Inwardly. I can connect almost every topic to Hamlet, and even if I can’t, I’m always trying to. It’s so good. -watches Shakespeare Festival trailer over and over again- I might have to get a poster when I go down there next…
For my senior paper, I’m going to write a literary analysis of Hamlet.
WEIGHTED COMPANION CUBE! *sob*
Awwwww. *feels so loved* Thanks, guys. Turns out I’ll probably be on a bit more than anticipated (although not as much as I normally am), as the vet I’m shadowing has wifi. So late evenings/nights I might drop my before I head off to bed. But I imagine during the day I will be kept quite busy shadowing.
Speaking of bed, I should be there now. I have to get up at 6:45.
have fun shadowing! I shall miss you, and it seems as though the majority of the blog (if not all of the blog) shall as well.
Hello, all… it’s been a long time.
Well, I decided to show my face. Well, read “decided” as “took the chance.” But I’m here for a while, and that’s what matters, right?
I was going through some tough times lately, and I feel like I’ve been taking one step forward and one step back. I’m stuck as a person. I’m not exactly sad, but…. I’m not exactly happy, either.
Anyway, the murder mystery dinner theatre is the 26th. I play the detective.
It’s called “Who Killed the Carnie?” and the clown is the killer. I’m highly competent but plagued by an idiotic assisant who I have a bit of romantic tension with.
My drawing, writing, acting, and social skills have greatly matured. I’ve seen the light and found that the key to humour is timing and moderation for Miss Deadpan Snark, ruler of the cosmos and her room.
I’m still into Hetalia, yes.
Everyone on Facebook and Gmail have seen more of me, because they won’t attract suspicion like MB does.
I turned in the big social studies project today (in my time zone). It was a character analysis on a medieval person, and I did Lady Mursaki Shikibu, who wrote the first full-length written novel, The Tale of Genji. I’m reading it, and it’s good. We had to make a diorama, and mine is very pretty. My one-to-three paragraphs turned into three pages. Oops.
My dad wants me to listen to Fireside Accompaniment (Audience? I don’t remember). It’s apparantly a geeky, nerdy comedy tape. It would’ve happened tonight, but our LP is buried and all of my mother’s records are in the front with my dad’s in the back. So Yeah.
I would lik to come on more, because, assessing my social life at school, really nobody gets me like you guys would. I am socially disabled and culturally illerate.But I went on, and looked around just now, and found that… I’m feeling so out of it here, too. And if I try to get reacquainted, I won’t be able to go on enough to keep up. I belong in the past. How depressing.
I love TVTropes.
So Zac and I decided that our anniversary would be held on his birthday party on Sunday. We’re not telling anybody, considering how Dan and J are… our thing is an open secret. If you ask, we’ll tell you, but we don’t really go around telling people.
As I’ve grown, I think I’ve gotten prettier. In a silly, vain way, that makes me happy.
Rainbow and I are going to be in the same unit this summer, so maybe we’ll have better pics… yey!
I hope to see you all!
Zinc, you’ll always fit in here. This is MuseBlog, after all. We all love you.
Exactly what Piggy said. Once a MuseBlogger, always a Museblogger.
It’s nice to hear from you, I hope you can (and do!) stick around. People miss you–I think someone enquired after your whereabouts earlier on this thread, actually.
Congratulations on your and Zac’s anniversary!
Hi, Zinc! Now I feel like I belong in a past that never existed with people I don’t remember… How old are you, anway?
Zinc, hi!
Great to see you! *hugs*
Your “Who Killed the Carnie” thing sounds fantastic. Wish I could go.
Anyway, welcome back to MuseBlog for now! *hugs*
Good to see you, Zinc!
Zinc! You’re back! *hugs* And yes, TVTropes is awesome. Although I suspect it gave my computer a virus, so I’ve been staying off of it.
As well as re-emphasizing what everyone above me has stated, I’d like to throw in my own two cents and let you know how happy I am to see you post here. As Piggy said, we all love you.
And just to let you know, I have been thinking/wondering about how you’ve been doing recently, so it’s nice to hear the update. 
Hi Zinc! I’ve missed you! *pies and choklit*
Lovely to hear from you again. And by the way, I’ve always thought you were pretty.
Good to see you, Zinc. I’m sorry to hear about the stuck feeling.
Is your dad’s comedy record Firesign Theater? I have laughed a lot listening to them.
Laughing’s good for getting unstuck — or at least forgetting about feeling that way for a while. So I hope he finds the album!
196- It’s Charlie’s purple “friend”. (“Hey, Chaaarlie, wake up!”)
204- 6:45 a.m. O.o That’s scary early.
205- Zinc! *pouncehug* You just made my day. It’s always great to see you again. I have, of course, become stunningly sensible and mature and have figured out my grammar and- Candy mountain, Charlie!
Charlie?
Charlie the unicorn. Look it up on YouTube- WARNING: MENTAL HEALTH HAZARD
It’s a magical leoplurodon! It will show us the way!
(I have no idea if I spelled that right)
Worse than the llama song, even.
Yay for the fall of civilization!
My brain hurts.
WOW.
Whoop de do. Sleepover tonight.
I’m giving up seeing the Los Angeles Symphony with Dudamel as conductor and Jean-Yves Thibadeu as guest pianist for this.
And I’ve got a fever. A caking fever. It better be just allergies, because if I’m actually sick then I won’t be able to go to the sleepover and I wouldn’t be able to go to the concert, either, because my ticket has been given to Grandma.
Yesterday was kind of funny though.
Alpaca: Ok, so L still has some schoolwork to do. Fireh, do you want to go to the bookstore?
Me: Not really….
Alpaca: You don’t want to go to the bookstore?!? Do you have a fever or something? *feels forehead* Oh, you actually do!
*laughs*
*laugh* I persuaded my mother to let me go to my favorite library once even though I had fever (after several days of nagging and with some artful feigning of a recovery). Unfortunately, she sort of caught on to the fact that I wasn’t as well as I pretended to be when I had to sit down because “the floor was tilting and the books were coming out of the shelves at weird angles”. She was a little bit mad at me after that… Did I mention I love books?
I just had a haircut. My hair looks slightly like the 8th doctor’s. *needs to watch that*
Enceladus+Doctor=EPIC.
And slightly scary, too.
Yay! AlpacaLips might let me get GIMP!
If I am the Doctor, then I need a bowler hat.
Then get one!
Eeeee I just found out one of the other girls at the sleepover’s name is Rose. (the only person I will know there is Holly)
I think that I won’t be able to resist saying “Nice to meet you, Rose. Now run for your life!” and pretending to hold up a bomb.
Have I been watching too much DW?
If you ever meet me in real life, I would be honored to have you say “Nice to meet you, Rose. Now run for your life.” (My name is Rose.)
After reading that in the comments sidebar, I immediately went and re-watched Rose. I miss Christopher Eccleston! Wah.
I’m so excited for Amy’s Choice tonight. Wait, tomorrow. Tonight I’m going contradancing.
You got a haircut??! Not knowing what the 8th doctor looks like, how short is it??
209- Whoa. Big eye for an avatar. What’s it supposed to be?
Eye with musical notes in it.
I don’t see any musical notes.
The horizontal “stripes” are measures of music.
Measures of music in 3/8 time, which I consider to be an extremely annoying time signature.
HPBs don’t like it, either.
I thought it was just 3/4 time, or is it any time signature with a three on top? What about 6/8?
That, too.
Could be worse. My mom’s had to sing songs in 7/8.
7/8 I’m fine with. 3/8’s just useless and dumb.
3/8 is not useless and dumb at all.
Yes it is, it is the worst time signature.
how do you figure that one?
I don’t know… 3/8 isn’t bad… But I don’t especially like cut time at all. So I count it as 4/4 instead. XD
How about 5/4? That’s pretty annoying. My flute teacher gave me Mission Impossible, that’s in 5/4, and I just
eyeballedearballed…. Played it by ear because I knew the tune.Lizzie: It’s too short to do anything useful with, and every piece of music written in it is chipper and peppy and shallow.
Beedle: I’m pretty neutral about 5/4.
Piggy: Ever heard the third movement of Dvorak’s violin concerto?
5/4 is cool – where it gets tricky is when you’re doing stuff like alternating 6/8 with 5/8.
Where it gets tricky is when you have to play 5½/8, as my sister has had to do.
That sounds impossible. 5½/8?
In band we’re playing a piece that alternates 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, and 5/4 (except written as 2+3/4 and 3+2/4).
Hey Enceladus, I found your name in the Aeneid. You’re the reason Mt Etna’s always erupting. You sure scared the Trojans.
Zinc! *tackle-hugs*
It’s good to see you again. You still fit in here, as Piggy said, we all love you and have missed you. (I know I certainly have.)
I know what you mean about feeling stuck, but I’m sure you’ll be able to find a way to get out of that feeling. *hugs* And if we can help, we’re always here.
Congrats on your anniversary with Zac, and you’ve always been pretty! (I remember the pics from the kokon awhile back.)
I hope you’ll be able to come on here more often.
I’m bored. I have nothing to do. Oh, homework, practicing, laundry, stuff like that, yes. But I want to go do something for fun. Humph.
Hullo one and all. I had an interesting day shadowing today, although the more interesting bits (in a sort of “OMG, seriously?!?!” way) are also the bits that i cannot relay here….
But I’ll bore you with the rest of it: I watched a couple of abscess get drained on a couple of different cows (lots of thick, off-white pus, which mixed with the blood from the incision, made me think of strawberry yoghurt, which made me think of Torchwood, because I think in one of my TW novels Gwen made the comment that “She was never eating strawberry yoghurt again” because something nasty–like, bloody or something–looked like it). Also, lots and lots of vaccinations and ear tagging, and some non surgical castrations.
And there were the “OMG, seriously?!?!?!” bits, too, but, as I said, even if I could relay the vivid detail of that without fear of GAPA snippage, i don’t think I would….
213~ You do realize that by saying there were interesting “OMG seriously?!?!” moments that you can’t post here you’ve piqued the interested of at least one MBer? That’s cruelty, Luna. Cruelty I tell you! I must know everything that’s happening in your life!!
Cruelty it may be, but it also would quite likely be equally cruel (at least to many MBers) to provide all the details of the “OMG seriously?!?!” moments. Really. I’m being kind. In a malicious way.
Oh, Luna. Now I’m trying to imagine what you mean. Not getting very far, fortunately.
214.1~ Oh, right, of course. Because kindness and maliciousness are so closely related, hmm? Well, it is you we’re talking about, so……yeah I guess.
Well, if I were being truly kind, i wouldn’t have mentioned the unspeakable moments, at all. But by not elaborating on them, I am being kind–albeit maliciously by having mentioned them in the first place.
I’m not really sure how to say this. In fact, I’m not even really sure if I should say this at all. It’s a difficult thing to put into words, this feeling I’ve been getting for the last couple of weeks. But I’ve had this nagging feeling in the back of my head that I should at least say something, and it’s been so nagging that I guess I’ll try to make at least (some) sense of it, and hope for the best.
First of all, a lot of you know that I’ve been struggling with some issues lately. And even if you don’t know, you do now. A lot of them are just things I can’t explain but I know are completely normal things for my age…difficulty with friendships, difficulty at school, just difficulty in general. And it’s been really hard on me, and I’ve just been feeling really down. A lot of the time I’m very normal and very myself, but a lot of the time…I’m not. I’m upset and cranky and sad and just want to sit in a corner and cry.
And to add onto this, I’ve been putting telling you guys this off for a long time, but one of my friends has cancer. She’s been out of school and in chemo and everything but things are just not looking good right now. She’s got Osteosarcoma – which is basically a bone cancer that a lot of teens get when they’re in their growth spurts. Besides having chemo, she’s also had to have a bunch of surgeries to remove the tumor, and some of those have created other complications. I could explain more, but basically it’s been really hard on everybody, and just generally not good.
And I don’t know whether it’s a combination of those things or one or both, but I’ve found myself posting on MB less and less. Maybe it’s just a grumpy old paleo thing where I’m not as motivated to get on, but MB is something that makes me happy. I love you guys all to pieces and I love the blog and I love Muse in general. I’m so confused. And unhappy. And I know that my grades have been going down, and as much as i try not to admit it, the excessive amount of time I spend on the Internet is part of it. School is really important to me, (and my parents) and it’s also part of my happiness. And in order to do well in it, I’m afraid that I need less time on the Internet. I also have been facing some other problems. For the sake of time and space I won’t explain them here, but they’re still…nagging me, I guess.
So the bottom line is: I need a little break. I’m definitely not saying goodbye forever – by no means am I – I just mean that if my posting is less consistent, there’s a reason behind it. I’ll still be posting on here and visiting though, but just doing more listening and less talking. Or at least, for now. Maybe (actually more like probably) I’ll go back to posting every day. But where I am now, I won’t be.
This is getting really sad and long and mushy so I’ll stop. I just wanted you to know what’s going on in my life, and why I’m not posting the way I used to be. And that’s all, I guess. Choklit if you read all of this. *choklit* I love you all.
*hugshugshugs* *gives choklit back* I think you need it more than me…
There’s no rule that says you need to post/check every day. Take your time, get your grades up, and just to what makes you feel right and good. If that means posting more or less often, adjust as needed. Know that if you ever need to rant for whatever reason, we’re here, and we all love you.
We love you too, Starr. *hugs*
This may sound shallow, but I feel so sorry for you. My grandmother had cancer too. Kidney cancer. And my cat. So good luck. I hope everything turns out well.
Starr – we all hope your friend gets better. That’s terrible, though.
*10000 kilos of choklit to your friend*
Also, we’re here for you too. We love you also. *hugs and choklit and pies*
*hugs* *and return choklit*
That’s awful! But remember, that cancer is highly treatable. Two of my cousins had it and they both recovered and are now completely healthy. We’re all behind you (and your friend). I”m sorry you feel that way about the MB, but I think I know what you mean.
I’m so sorry to hear about that, starr. *hugs for you and your friend*
Cancer sucks.
*hugs to you and all of your friends, especially the one with cancer*
*hugs* *attempts to comfort*
*hugs* We love you, starr, and that doesn’t depend at all on how much you post. *morehugs*
Oh Starr…*hugs*
We love you too Starr
Remember, you are never alone alright?
We are here whenever you need us.
*hugs and choklit and hugs and choklit and hugs and choklit and hugs and choklit and and I am only not saying that a hundred thousand times so that this doesn’t destroy the recent comments bar*
Oh forget that, *hugs and choklit hugs and choklit hugs and choklit*
It is the worst, the scariest to have a friend who’s sick. But cancer, even the worst types, is beatable. My friend’s dad had some kind of brain cancer, a really deadly one, but it’s been in remission for years and he’s totally healthy now. So don’t worry too much–I’m sure your friend will be okay.
We love you, Starr–post when you can, but no pressure. We’re always here when you want us to listen.
*hugs and choklit* Starr, we love you. I hope your friend recovers. *more hugs and choklit*
*yet another hug* I hope you’re not feeling too smothered by now…Yes, we’re here, and we care, and you can always come back at any time. We’ll never really leave anyway. Trust me on that one.
I’m so sorry, Starr. We love you too. *hugs and choklit and peanut butter Oreos* I really hope your friend get better and everything turns out okay. *more hugs*
216~ I’m so sorry to hear about your friend, I know it’s a really hard and scary time for everyone involved, and I really hope she gets better.
I also hope that you can work out this rough patch in your life and be you all the time, because you’re such a wonderful person and I love you too. *hugs* I know that you’ll be able to win against your troubles and come out stronger on the other side of the battle.
Good luck on your schoolwork, also.
We’ll all be waiting here fr you when you feel ready to come back.
205- That sounds like a great play. I’ve always wanted to play a detective in a play.
My dad was in angry mode today. He yelled at me for not having written for our school’s newspaper or literary magazine, then for not wanting to go to the movies, then for protesting because my brother took the computer out of my hands forcibly. (Literally. He could have pulled the thing apart.)
But remember how I wrote letters to the President, the NASA Administrator, and my state’s two senators back in February? Well, I got a letter back from Kirsten Gillibrand, one of those senators, today. I think everything but the first sentence is a form letter, but it still feels cool to get mail from a senator!
I am back, I guess, from doing Homework, being sick, more Homework, more sickness, HW, sickness…
I’m bored….
Hey! How ya doin’?
219~ Welcome back! *ahem* You might want to take the link, mostly harmless though it may be, out of your name.
Hi, TMFA. Very good to see you.
And thanks for noticing the name link, MF. I’ve removed it.
What was it linking to? the front page?
Yes, the front page. So it wasn’t really a problem.
220.1~ *bows with a flourish* Not a’tall, m’lady.
starr– first of all, you are such a sweet person, and i hope you feel better with respect to that general unhappy feeling which in my experience is not at all alleviated by people telling you it’s normal. it’s like “okay, but i still feel this way…” I don’t have any specific advice for that but…*hugs*
About your friend…I don’t know much about that kind of cancer but if it’s somewhat common hopefully doctors know how to deal with it well? But there’s nothing to really say that makes it any better, I know…cause even if they know what they’re doing, that doesn’t make it easier. Is there anyone you can talk about it with in person? I am not in any way saying you shouldn’t share with us if you want to, but sometimes it does help to have someone closer to the situation to talk to, or really anyone…of course everyone must be pretty on edge about it, huh? god i’m sorry starr *more hugs*
don’t ever feel obligated to post or bad about not doing so! everyone does have their lives and things to do outside of MB. in any case and despite the utter incoherency of this post, we love you and i hope you feel better/things get better soon! *hugshugshugshugs* :3
216-Oh starr…That’s always hard. I hope she’s going to be okay. I hope you’re going to be okay. I hope….(self-snip) i just hope that someone somewhere comes up with cures to every type of cancer known to humans and even some that aren’t. Because as I’m sure you’re aware, the english language does not even have a word for how much cancer sucks. Not even close. I….god, I hate cancer.
*hugs* starr, and *hugs* for your friend. I sympathieze on so many levels and i could tell you why but that would just be depressing. I ♥ you too starr.
I’m off to be a camp counselor soon. I don’t know how often I’ll be able to get on MB. I’m also not sure how stressful and tiring it will be but I hope it will also be fun. We’ll see. I’m a bit nervous.
Good luck!
Awww…. *melts* *group hug*
Seriously though, you guys are all TOO nice. What did I do to deserve such a wonderful group of people? (And wow, this thread has become a sympathy thread for me.) once again, it’s always hopeful to hear success stories involving cancer, and we’re all hoping together that she can get better. I’ve got to thank everybody who responded and just generally sent me some flammy thoughts and delicious choklit.
Thank you.
I’m sorry starr, and there isn’t much I can really say that hasn’t already been said so *says everything that’s already been said* .
*hugs starr* *gives choklit and returns choklit that you gave*
You exist, that’s what you’ve done. *hugs*
Does anyone have an excellent excuse for not doing my french book report? Without time travel and aliens and 100% realistic and credible. Taking into consideration that I actually had 3 months to do this *facepalm* Now I have 3 days…
No time travel, no aliens — that limits the possibilities considerably. How about amnesia?
Perhaps my history teacher finally ran out of excuses not to give my an A and decided to murder me because she’s an evil demon but then I got M. to help me repulse her attack and save
SunnydaleVienna and I only got hit over the head but made it back in time forthe homecoming queen electionsdance class. Oh, and we also battled the evil gym teacher who is actually turning some of the students into mutant fish-creature things and saved V. so that this relationship with L. wouldn’t suffer…Okay, no more watching Buffy while procrastinating.
Yep. I tried to quit until my important exams are over, but…
I think one of my friends finished s3 in a week despite the fact that he’s on the verge of failing more than one class… It’s addictive.
this is why i’m SO glad i watched it over the summer…i got through the whole show in a month and a bit, it was ridiculous
I watched all summer, had to give up for the school year, and am just now able to get back into it : P
I actually wen through it at a semi-reasonable pace. Because at first, I was watching it with a friend, so we had to find times when we could both watch. So for s1 and the first half of s2, I was just watching on Wednesdays. And then for the rest of s2, I was just watching on Wednesdays and at lunch and very occasionally after school. Starting with s3, I watched on my own… Finished s3 over winterbreak and then the last 4 seasons in a little under 2 months… s7 went a little slower, since I was watching it concurrently with DW.
This sounds remarkably like the spanish project I did almost entirely on sunday night that I should have done the 2 months prrvious.
I recommend coffee and choklit and being prepared to not sleep until you get home after school the day after it’s due >.<
Meh. I’ve turned in an English book report a month late. In a devious way I even prevented having it designated as “late”, which would have resulted in 50% off.
One month? My geography teacher gave me a B on one project because it was four days late (two school days).
How did you do that? HOW?!?
starr – *hugs and choklit* i really hope your friend gets better
so i had a nice 21 hour day yesterday…got up at 4:30, went to cedar point, played for the opening, did a parade, and then ROLLERCOASTERS WOO! we didn’t ride a lot, actually, most of the time was spent wandering around singing doctor horrible (oh yes and i made new friends…or well made acquaintances into friends…who will wander around amusement parks singing doctor horrible with me. always a win). i sat out on two of the rides, one was some sort of spinning thing (i’m not big into spinning). stephen sat that one out too, so while we were waiting we were like *gasp* “let’s go on the kiddie boat ride!” because it looked super fun. but the guy said we were too tall
which was a lie, because parents were allowed in with their kids. so as we were walking back to our table we ran into waters (our director) and his kids and we were like “can we borrow one? pleeease?” and he was like “sure, if they want to go!” but they didn’t. still, it’s nice to know that our band director will let us borrow his small children. the other one i sat out was the corkscrew, i don’t like corkscrews. but i stood in line for it anyway, and just jumped out at the end. stephen and andrew and i spent most of our time in lines having intense philosophical discussions, and lee and kate were just like “are we STILL talking about this?” the first ride was the best though, partly because it was the millennium force and it was the first roller coaster i’d been on in ages, but also because we were still in uniform at that point because we hadn’t done the parade yet, and our entire train was a solid wall of red polo shirts (our uniform shirts). going through the line we had an epic high-five chain set up and so when we all got into the train we passed high-fives from the front to the back, it was great. the only thing was, i wish the drum majors had been in the front row, that would have been the most awesome parade ever.
anyway, then on the way back kate and i were going to watch doctor horrible on my ipod but i’d forgotten to put it on
but we watched once more, with feeling instead. then i was half-texting, half-sleeping until we got home. the bus was -freezing,- i think they had the air on or something because it was warmer when we got out than it was inside the bus. then i went and met up with ben for a burrito and he gave me a piggyback ride all the way back to my dorm, which i found quite impressive. and then i was so insanely tired, so i went to bed (it was only around 12:30) which means i am well-rested today 
so good way to catch up on sleep, i guess.
aanyway that was my day
I want to walk around amusement parks singing Dr. Horrible! Even though I hate roller coasters… (They make me nauseous.) Of course, my roommate (well, future roommate who’s way more like a roommate than my real roommate) and I have sung OMWF in the cafeteria line… We sing I’ve Got a Theory a lot… We usually get strange looks when we get to the bunnies part.
My birthday was pretty good yesterday. The highlight of my day was getting the nook! It’s probably the coolest gadget I own. No, it is the coolest gadget I own.
I don’t know if I’ve said before, but I go on random trips of finding trivial knowledge on the internet. One day was imaginary numbers…. today is now unused and under-used punctuation marks (inspired by the “interrobang” definition in Muse.). I’m ready to go to English class tomorrow and start righting sentences with the strange symbols that I now know. If it would just get my English teacher angry, then it would be worth it (I’ve expressed my dislike for him before).
Happy belated birthday, Fishy! I’m sorry I missed it completely.
I am going to work on my senior project today.
I am going to work on my senior project today.
I am going to work on my senior project today.
I am going to work on my senior project today. Not tonight, TODAY.
I am going to work on my senior project today. If I say it enough times, it will happen.
But. I. Can’t. Reach the x on my browser…
No!
I
will
be
FREEEEEEEEEE!
Starr, basically, like Luna said, you exist, you’re awesome, and we love you. Okay? Okay. *more hugs* I hope everything turns out for you.
227~ Female canine. I had an intensely boring day yesterday. But your day sounds awesome. Wandering around amusement parks singing, borrowing kids, having intense philosophical discussions…..all very Good Things. *lives vicariously*
228~ Happy belated birthday!
So, today I’m doing laundry. and in about half an hour going to see some of my friends in a play. Then come home and most likely be bored. If I wasn’t such a miser or a wimp I’d go into town on the way home and buy myself something from Rita’s. But I don’t want to get lost and I don’t want to spend money, so I probably won’t. I probably won’t even stop at the grocery store to get ice cream, even though it’s totally on my way. *sigh* I’m so boring.
Aaaaaaand I don’t know if I want to put the top down. I can’t find my hoodie (it’s only warm-ish, so if I can’t find something to wear over a tank top, I’m not going to freeze myself in a convertible). Where are all my clothes disappearing to?! I didn’t seem to have enough pants in the laundry for how many day’s it’s been, and now I can’t fund the sweatshirt that I pretty much wear ALL THE TIME. WHO IS STEALING MY CLOTHES?! Clothes-stealing goblins, I will find you, and when I do, I will get my revenge. REVENGE, I tell you!
Of course, after all that I’ll probably find it somewhere obvious. *siigh*
Well I finally got around to redeeming my christmas iTunes gift cards, and now it turns out that A Night At The Opera is not available in the U.S. iTunes store. However, it is available in the Canadian iTunes store, which would be convenient because I have an iTunes account for that, but all my gift cards are only redeemable in the U.S. store.
There are (*counts*) six different people running for class president this spring, all of whom have groups on Facebook, all of which I have joined. Am I being a bad student citizen who doesn’t exercise her right to vote? Well… yes. But I do take into account the fact that the student council has absolutely no power and is simply a figurehead to make us students think we have a voice in our education, and the fact that most of my class is just going to vote for the person they like the most, and the fact that the more encouragement each of these people get, the more amusing their campaigns in a few weeks will be.
Kokopelli for President.
So, there was an article in the New York Times’ Travel section today about viewing a space shuttle launch from Cape Canaveral, and my father somehow managed to read it before me. He told me it was in the paper, so I ran, found the article, read it, and removed it to save.
“What do you think of it?” He asked me, while cooking dinner.
“It sounds wonderful.” I said.
“I think we might be able to go to one of those last two launches if we can work out the tickets and the school issues.”
“ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS?”
He kept cooking for a few minutes and didn’t say anything to me.
“Well?”
“Why wouldn’t I be serious?”
So apparently, he is actually serious about this, although it’s way to tenative at this point for me to be excited yet.
*head asplodes from tentative envy*
Matt Smith and Billie Piper were in two mystery telefilms? Cool. *needs to watch now, but is procrastinating about Kite Runner*
Oh yeah, the Ruby in the Smoke films. I will NOT watch those, thanks very much…Matt Smith was way too old to play the boy anyway.
Cake. unanticipated side effect from gaining an account–my posts will start from zero, because the username can’t handle the ?!?! at the end.
You can change your nickname on your profile. Or does that not accept non-alphanumeric characters?
Oh, you can? Thanks! *leaves to do that*
FF: I’ve done it for you.
192, etc. – I went to see a local production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead on Saturday night! They had local actors and everything and it was quite amateur, but even so, it was AMAZING! It was my first time seeing it and I loved it! And the boy who was playing Guildenstern (or was it Rosencrantz?
) was, like, 10 years old! He was so cute!
Yeah. That was a bit late. Sorry.
(Since the Dreams thread is dead)
I had an odd dream where I had this multicolored sparkly cancer, and if I went anywhere near a pelican, it would eat me.
Uhum, the play yesterday was fun. It was saved by the fact that three of my friends were in it and it was cute. It makes one appreciate really good theatre though. But they did well, and I enjoyed it. I had Grace and Leah sign my program after and they were like “REALLY? I feel all FAMOUS!” it was awesome. And they fed the audience. Pie. No, I didn’t cause a scene, why do you ask?
So then watched HP with mom last night, talked on the phone until 1:30 (which was actually a good thing, despite robbing us both of desperately needed sleep), then even though I was tired I couldn’t fall asleep for another hour or so, urg.
I don't want them to leave. *sniffle*
Then I woke up this morning because dad was banging on my door and yelling at me to “WAKE UP NOW OR YOU WILL BE LATE FOR YOUR DENTIST APPOINTMENT! GET UP! UP! GET UP NOW!!! WAKE UP!!!!” So I roll over and see that the first digit on my clock is a 6 and moan something about it “just fell asleep, lemme ‘lone.” But of course he just keeps yelling about how we’re going to be late if I don’t start moving RIGHT NOW. Mmmmf. Obviously, once I managed a few coherent sentences and he left I collapsed again. >.<
Made it to the dentist's about 10 mins late, but had the sympathy of the ladies that work there, so it was all fine.
I hate dentist appointments. Those sharp nasty things they scrape your teeth with scare the bejeebies out of me.
Oh well. I survived. Now I'm going to go back to sleep until we go play music with my aunt.
Then tonight is choir/my friend's going-away-and-moving-to-Argentina party.