This month’s Random thread travels to the ancient land of Kemet, kingdom of the Pharaohs, a country you more likely know as Egypt. Perhaps someone would care to try ens hand at translating the story at the top of the papyrus?
[*The title appears in the cartouche (the oblong enclosure in the picture).]
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Since there is no theme, I can’t really think of a justifiable excuse to claim first post. Ummm….I’m trying out different genres in Pandora to see if I like them. Right now it’s stuff like U2 and Radiohead.
I get Alice in Wonderland from iTunes today!!!
Kai – it was amazing. He talked about what sort of training he did before becoming an astronaut, including his previous jobs (Navy SEAL), and then showed us a video that described the Endeavour STS-127 trip from beginning to end, including a tour of the ISS and its different modules belonging to different countries (US, Canada, Russia, Japan, Europe). He also discussed what life was like living on the ISS (they stayed there approximately two weeks), including sleeping, eating, going to the bathroom, etc. and what sort of things they did up there, such as sending out a satellite for someone (I forget who), replacing the ISS battery, etc. It was so cool! At the end there was time for questions and I asked him what his first impression was when he saw Earth from space for the first time, and he said it seemed pretty silly, but he was the one in charge of taking the video of the rockets falling back to Earth, so as soon as he saw Earth out of the window his first thought was that he needed to start filming! That was pretty funny. Overall it was so inspiring! I still can’t believe it! *is an astronomy freak*
We just got a six week old Lab/German Shepherd puppy! He is really cute and tiny. (even though he will grow up sometime :()
Wow! I love labradors, but I’m allergic to most dogs. My grandmother just got a supercute little spaniel. She had a dog before but she had to send it back to the shelter because it pulled her off the porch while she was sitting in her chair. Also, it tried to chase a bear.
I recently got a black, persian kitten. I named him “Rupert Noir.”
Aw, German Shepherds are adorable! I’ve never seen a Lab/German Shepherd before, though… *googles*
Whoa… It’s June. It’s June 1! I have a physics final in an hour! I haven’t studied much! (And the panicking, but for some reason not the studying, commences.)
3- Wow! That’s incredible! You’re so lucky!
Nine days until the ISS link-up!
I got a haircut today. It’s short. Again. Only this time, it’s shorter.
The girl who does my hair was like “YAY! You’re doing something different!” because every time I ask for just a trim she kind of sighs and asks if I’m sure I don’t want to try something new?
So it’s similar, but shorter in back and not as heavy around my ears. My head feels all light.
Mom got her hair cut too, so she went from mid-back length to chin length. Straight with no layers, of course. Oh, Dad’ll have a shock when he gets home….. xD
How can it be June already?!
My finals are over! Over! Physics was all multiple choice and ridiculously easy. (Seriously, the first ten questions were just pulled from the pretest that I aced.) So now I just need to prepare for my math circle talk… Ah, Russell’s Paradox…
I am currently writing a paper justifying my stance in our APUSH trial of Harry Truman. I was a juror because I was gone for several work days at Science Olympiad nats. Anyway, the defence (made up of debate and speech kids) totally squashed the prosecution (made up of jocks) flat. ‘Twas epic, but if it wasn’t for nats I could totally have been a witness. -_-
*sigh* I should stop procrastinating now.
Trial for dropping the first atomic bomb?
(Unrelated, but I love his middle name!)
S
-A
Lessee, what’s going on in Piggy’s life…
-I’ve taken my only final. It was horrific. I studied all the wrong things. >.< But I think I can get a bad grade and keep a B, so… *crosses fingers*
-SUNBURN HURT. SUNBURN HURT BAD.
-We had the end-of-the-year Latin Club harpestum game / cookout today. (Harpestum is, at least how we play it, basically ultimate football.)
-I'm going camping tomorrow through Friday, so I won't be around until then.
-The renaissance festival was fun. There was homemade root beer and pirate comedians and knife throwing and turkey legs and jousting and a fire eater/contortionist and I got a cool fork and spoon set and and and
Heehee. You silly people that burn.
M and other told me that I got a sunburn, but I think it was just a super-accelerated tan… I couldn’t feel anything other than normal skin feelings, and I’m not peeling or anything.
-A
Gradster, is that you? Did you change your name?
I decided against it. I did momentarily, though.
-A
6 – Are you kidding me? I’m so jealous of you!!!!
SCHOOLS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
84 days of happiness, here i come.
Woo hoo! *high fives* Have fun this summer!
you mean HAGS?
*snarls*
*has to be in school until about the 20th*
*bites head off*
HA! I get out of school on the 18th!!! *sticks out tongue* But…isn’t the 20th a Sunday…? Or do you go to boarding school and that’s normal?
I get out on the 23rd. *eats LBK*
From an adventure on Kingdom of Loathing:
“You step up to the stage and begin the epic saga of the Banana Cream Pie. “A long, long time ago,” you sing, “well, I guess not *too* long / but still I think it’s, been a little while / It might have been a week ago / or maybe two, I don’t quite know…”
The first verse goes okay, and everyone joins in for the chorus, which goes “My, my, my banana cream pie / don’t be hasty, it’s so tasty it brings tears to your eyes / And it tastes so good it makes a grown person cry / It’s just such a real sweet surprise…””
I think we need to finish this
<3 I adore Kingdom of Loathing.
-A
kol is awesome
Hellooooooooo everyone!
I am running for Thespian President tonight! I’m not too awfully nervous but fingers crossed and all that. Plus it’s a DESSERT BANQUET so even if I don’t win any cool thespian awards or get elected or anything like that, I still get to eat SUGARY SWEETS (in the library, shhh!) so yay.
I went canoeing yesterday and so I am all sore–also my head hurts right behind my eyes but I’m not sure why. I think I’m getting sick, oh what fun.
Anyway, yay, school’s almost out. I am struggling to live through the last few days and I think now I have to go do math homework so bye everyone!
Good Luck! I probably should go do my math homework too…… If anyone sees me posting again yell at me unless I say my math homework’s done…. Thank you. *leaves* *clicks the little x-button thing* *is proud of self for having the will power to get off*
So how did you post after you pressed the x-button?
Oh, technicality. Plus, you can reopen things easily enough.
-A
7- I too got my hair cut relatively shorter than it was. Which is happy.
Instead of final tests, all of my teachers are torturing our grade with big-deal projects, probably so we actually do the work even though it won’t show up on or report card (which we get before the project’s due) and we’ll be in high school next year.
That sounds worse.
it is.
I still have to wait till June 9th till school’s over
. But then I get to go to Hershey Park the day after. 
Anway, I am going to have the hardest time falling asleep tonight… I came home at 3:15 ish not feeling well… I went to take a short nap… I woke up 4 HOURS LATER, at 7:15. AND I STILL FEEL TIRED!
So, what do you guys think about Israel?
What about Israel? I went there last summer and have some friends who live there…
I think en means the recent raid conducted against aid ships headed towards Gaza. Isn’t this better discussed at the Hot Topics thread though?
This could quickly turn into a hot topic, and I’d agree that that’s the best place to discuss it.
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=5970
11- If we’re both mutually jealous of each other, let’s call ourselves equal and just decide we’re lucky to be who we are and know the people we know.
Well, first day of dance intensive was better than anticipated. First class of the day: Ballet. The teacher is awesome. One, she was wearing a Viva La Vida t-shirt. Two, she’s amazing at explaining things. Three, she was wearing a Viva La Vida t-shirt. Four, she’s really nice. Five, she was wearing a Viva La Vida t-shirt.
Second class: Pointe. Same teacher. Tiff (the only other girl from my class, also one of the two girls in said class that will actually talk to me) and I were the only girls not on pointe, and felt rather dumb. Tomorrow, second class will be Variations instead of Pointe.
Then lunch break, for thirty minutes.
Third class: Modern Dance.
Teacher is very nice. Dancing style is fun. I like Modern.
Fourth class: Dancing for Musical Theatre.
VERY FUN. My sister laughed at me when I was practicing the steps we learned, though. But I like it. (And feel guilty because Tiff doesn’t.)
Fifth class: Physical Therapy.
We’re learning about dancing injuries, etc. I’m apparently “extremely hyper-mobile”, which is pretty cool. (hyper-mobile=double jointed)
And then there were all the funny things that happened. Abby wrote “Kimbo” on Kim’s name tag, and my name tag fell off and got stuck on my foot during a combination. After my name tag fell off ten times, it disappeared. (Yes, I counted.) Kim traced the ring of someone’s phone to my backpack, when I knew that my phone was off and the only ringtones I had were dorky classical music ringtones, thus it could not have been me.
Then of course everyone laughed at my ancient mobile, which is over ten years old, and I felt stupid. 
Over all, a fun day.
That is A LOT of dance…sounds like fun
Whee! Posting from school again! Two and a half more days, and I’ll be FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! *does happy little dance*
I’m terrified of getting my hair cut, and I don’t know why.
15~
So, what’s happening? It appears that all activity here has ground to a halt. The last post was moderated three hours ago! 0.o *panics*
Is it just me, or is every single school session ending right now except mine?
Four weeks until winter break in this hemisphere.
Mine ends on the first friday in July, but the grades have to be in by the end of next week (my homeroom is going to a sports week after that and the last two weeks are sitting around doing nothing).
mine’s not done either, and i’m going -back- to school in three weeks. summer classes for the FAIL. still, i’ll have more time during the year for fun things i guess
I’m just waiting for grades to be released. School ended on Friday.
Senior graduated early, so I’ve been done since May 25th. Graduation is a couple weeks into June though.
Today was my last day
12- And now this page is forever doomed to have a little scrolly thingy on the bottom.
YAYAYAY no school! I congragulate you!
The final orchestra concert was tonight. This was the last time the orchestra as I knew it played together. More than half of us are seniors, and I actually like them, unlike last year’s seniors. The four seniors in the cello section that are leaving are ones I’ve played with since I joined the orchestra two and a half years ago as a freshman. They were always there, every day, to play and laugh and joke. Now I’ll never play with them again. And in about a week I will never see them again.
This year was one heck of an amazing year, from an orchestra standpoint. I don’t believe I ever informed you all of our state standings? First and symphony, by 36 points (The largest margin in the history of the competition), and second in strings by one point. But the one point was from sightreading; we won onstage. So this year was basically a sweep. It was so amazing.
I think the best part was by the time district competition rolled around, I was certain that we weren’t ready. Our biggest competitor (the one who went on to win) was filled with genius players. We only had two, maybe three who were outstanding. But we sounded better. We were together, we moved, we had heart, and we were all friends with each other. That friendliness was like nothing I had ever seen before in orchestra. Usually there were at least two seniors who were crabby about everything. But this year we all loved each other and our teacher. That’s why we did so well. And that’s why this year was the best year of my life.
I’ll miss my senior friends. I hope they remember me, because I sure will remember them.
I must remember to get all of their signatures in my yearbook.
18 – But you’re in the US. You get more opportunities with this sort of stuff.
17.1-What do you guys think of the flotilla thing with Israel?
i’m inclined to be critical of anything israel does, especially since there are so many (at least among people i know) in the US who labor under the unfortunate delusion that israel can do no wrong. both sides commit atrocities in any war, and the flotilla thing to me looks like a big misunderstanding on both sides. i don’t doubt that the activists opposed the israeli soldiers, but i highly doubt they were as heavily armed as the israelis are saying. but obviously all we can get is secondhand information, so it’s hard to tell whether it was justified. still, i’m kind of leaning towards not acceptable here.
Agreed.
(Also, nevermind. I am not changing.)
-A
Disregard my comment above.
Oh. Umm, disregard my reply to your comment above. XD
-A
ARRRGHHH
okay so i basically like -need- a 4.0 this quarter or else death doom and fail, and i am taking all easy classes, it should be a piece of cake, but i’m pretty sure i am going to be losing points in creative writing. which should be like, oh man, easy A but i missed one of the readings and i think i forgot to turn in some critiques and i still have a paper to write and a revision to do and the portfolio is due monday and i have work like all weekend and bill’s b-day party and i also have to write a paper for sci-fi and i have my brit lit final in like half an hour which -should- be easy but i don’t know i didn’t really study much at all >.< and there's R&R BS going on and i didn't realize we had class today for writing so i'll probably lose participation points as well and i still don't have a job for this summer and i sort of just told someone i'd cover work saturday for them. and i don't think i went to enough scholars events and i haven't done -any- blog posts for that yet and i might be kicked out next year i don't even know and UGH. LIFE. i am SO stressed this is not okay. oh yeah and i have to move everything out. i've had a LOT of random **** pile up over a year, it's a little ridiculous. and i have to take italian this summer and like here's the thing, i sucked at it to begin with and then i went a quarter without it and didn't bother keeping up and now it's going to haunt me and i'll probs FAIL which will mean i'll have to be in it LONGER and my GPA will go to **** again and UGH. just UGH.
Deep breaths, love! You’ll do fine I’m sure, if you just don’t stress (too much). *hugs, choklit, and cookies, because those are good*
Chill, ebeth. Remember – you can do it. Yes, you can. We believe in you. *self-empowerment pies*
aww, thanks guys!
the middle by jimmy eat world popped up for me on last.fm. that is one of those songs that consistently makes me feel better about life, no matter what the problem is (i mean the problem is usually at least generally me being insecure or whatever so i guess it’s not -that- weird but still)
so yes. feeling better. <3 you all.
I’ve seen some spellers downtown. (Note to newcomers: the National Spelling Bee is taking place this week a block from my office.) They’re easy to spot: Two adults come walking along, one staring at a map and tripping over cracks in the sidewalk, while a 13- or 14-year-old brings up the rear. The kids tend to look sun-deprived, and some of them carry dictionaries.
The spellers are taking their computerized tests today. The highest scorers will be taking to the stage for direct competition tomorrow. I don’t think any MBers are in the bee this year, but I wish them all good luck and many pies and will be checking the results every now and then. Maybe speller73 would like to add some commentary?
Bee week! *gets all nostalgic* Wait, kids are actually carrying dictionaries? I never even brought mine to the bee (nor did most of the people I know). Actually, I never really used my paper dictionary (either of them), since Scripps also sends you a nice, searchable, electronic one, which is much more useful.
I won’t have any Internet starting tomorrow evening (I’m going to a math competition), but I’ll be following the bee until then. Can’t say I know enough to make any predictions about who will do well (and most of my predictions for last year, when I knew half the finalists, were wrong), but I’ll gladly add commentary throughout tomorrow.
Also, a slight correction. Everyone will spell for 2 rounds on stage tomorrow. Based on a combination of that and their written scores (I can explain the scoring system in more detail if anyone would like), the top 50 or so (I think 50 is the maximum) will make the semifinals on Friday.
Thanks, speller73! You enjoyed the bee more than any other speller I’ve ever seen. Some of the other kids were nervous wrecks up there, but you were whatever the total opposite of a nervous wreck is.
I plan to follow the action on a media blog called “A List of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago” and on a speller’s blog called Rahul’s Hive.
That’s because I had been so insanely nervous in round 2 that I had misspelled a fairly easy word. Fortunately, I had gotten a high
writtencomputerized round score, but after that, I realized I’d do better and have more fun if I just enjoyed it.Oh, I’ve seen that first blog, and I’ll have to check out the second.
Also, spelling bee thread? Not sure if it’s necessary, since there aren’t any MBers in the bee this year, but we’ve always had one in the past.
Well, I’m off to camp. Farewell, Musers.
Have a great time, Piggy!
Farewell! Have fun!
Good luck. Don’t get bitten by a rattlesnake.
Have fun, Piggy!
I’m kind of already back.
Maths Lover, today is Zachary Quinto’s birthday. Thought you might want to know that, she-who-is-obsessed-with-Spock.
In the opening credits of Going Postal, it says “Mucked about by Terry Pratchett.”
This will occupy most of my time now, since I now know where to find the other 2 adaptations as well…
11 days until History Day
Technically 14 school days until school ends
20 days until school ends
1 day until progress reports
11 days until History Day
And…I have accomplished my daily agenda and then some! Go me! And I am off to cut out some pattern pieces in a few minutes
11 days until History Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( I’m freaking out ! )
I was weeding today at my school. There is a bush there covered in poison ivy, and it’s been like that for the past couple of years. it’s dangerous, someone should take care of it, but no one wants to. Especially not me. When I first noticed it I checked if it was poison ivy by rubbing a leaf all over my arm. It didn’t itch, but then I learned that it often takes a second exposure to become sensitive to it….
Hurgh.
Is fire the solution?
-A
NO.
DO NOT BURN POISON IVY.
It can get into your throat and then you’ll have to be hospitalized.
D:
Wowsers. :O
…. -backs away slowly-
-A
THIS! WAS! A! TRIUMPH!
Are you singing a song or are you actually happy?
I! BEAT! PORTAL!
I should have wondered why you have a cake avatar. Congrats, anyway.
I wondered why he had a cake avatar.
Class is over! Now thee’s only exams!
24- Eh, not compared to some people I know who live in Florida, or Texas, or California, or DC, or Alabama…
I really don’t want to take the Spanish SAT Subject Test on Saturday. I’m not good at languages, but I need two subject tests to apply to college, and I definitely can’t take the Math one…
My Summer Goal:
Read the entire Discworld series. Not necessarily in order. In fact I am reading them with a complete disregard for chronology, since to this point my approach has been “Why spend too much time and money on the first book when I can get the sixteenth from my school library tomorrow?” Course now the school library is closed, but I’d nearly exhausted their supply anyway, so I have to turn elsewhere. I bought Feet of Clay and Hogfather today with my Shiny Bookstore Gift Certificate, and the library has Equal Rites and Going Postal though they aren’t currently “available.” So I think I’m well on my way to Complete Terry Pratchett Fanaticism, yay!
I have found that some of the books are filler stories. Others, like Going Postal, are absolute awesomeness. Meh. They cost too much moneyyyyyy for me to read the whole series.
Hm. Personally, the Moist series hasn’t been one of my favorites (it’s still awesome, just not as amazingly awesome as Pratchett at his best). Which ones would you consider filler?
Hm.
I advise that you start with Hogfather. I know you’ve read Thief of Time, so that ought to start you out with a character you’re familiar with (Susan). It’s also got one of the best villains ever (“We took pity on him because he’d lost both parents at an early age. I think, on reflection, we should have wondered a bit more about that”).
Equal Rites you could pretty much read at any point- it’s not terribly relevant to the rest of the series. It does introduce Granny Weatherwax, but really she’s much better characterized in Wyrd Sisters and the books following.
Feet of Clay should definitely be read before Going Postal. It’s one of the best Watch books, so it serves as an introduction to Ankh-Morpork before Going Postal begins overhauling it, and as a bonus, it introduces golems, which play a major part in Going Postal.
I’ve already read Maskerade, Carpe Jugulum, Mort, Thief of Time, and…erm…maybe that’s it (besides all the Tiffany Aching books but they’re kind of a sub-series in themselves (and Amazing Maurice but that’s much more of a kids’ book)). I mean, I’ve read at least two of the Night Watch books but that was years ago and I don’t remember them at ALL. I have a vague memory of…well, pretty much nothing. Except possibly something resembling crumpets. Well yes.
I am currently reading Feet of Clay, mostly because I ♥ Death and so I’m saving that for last, well, not last but later. Also I just read a Death book (Mort) and I want to break it up a bit. So yayyy but I think I have to stop and read The Shadow of the Wind which is all *intense* because I need to give it back to Mrs. P by the end of the year. But really all I want to read is Discworld which is SO not intense. :/
Not intense? Yeah, you really don’t remember the Watch books. Feet of Clay is not quite so intense as later ones, like Night Watch or Thud, but it’s got its moments.
I told you I don’t remember! Plus, I’ve only read the early Watch books.
And that’s not quite what I meant to say. I mean…Discworld can be intense, and can even have its moments of deep soul-searching-ness, but above all it’s funny. Shadow of the Wind is going to be deep and passionate and intense and not funny.
Little trivia: the only book Death does not appear in is A Hat Full of Sky.
SFTDP: Is the singular of trivia a trivium?
I don’t know. Data is “datum”.
the Watch books are the best. Night Watch has to be one of my all-time favorite books
(not that i have an actual list of those it is too difficult to choose)
i -think- i have read them all except the newest one. haven’t totally checked for sure but the library had most of them and i tended to buy the ones that they didn’t have. you have intrigued me, i shall look up the list
yup, i’ve read them all. including the YA books. i did see one, I Shall Wear Midnight, but that is because it is unpublished. and i still need to read Unseen Academicals, but i know it’s at the library at home so that will happen as soon as i move out of collegeland
AM is reading all of them in order. He’s coming up on Going Postal, I think.
36 – Still. You’re in the same country as NASA. Nothing happens in Hong Kong that’s space-related.
In life skills we watched the Last Lecture(which is amazing), and were told to think about our childhood goals. So I thought a bit and came up with (in no particular order):
1. swim w/ dolphins (check)
2. Live abroad
3. Get a Phd
4. Sue the United States Government
5. Be happy (check, but this one is sort of continous)
6. Visit Norway and Ireland
Thoughts, anyone? have a smiley or two…
POSOC: If you have access to the May/June issue of Muse, you might want to check out the Q&A page.
I don’t, actually. My subscription lapsed a while back, and I haven’t renewed it. *ducks pies*
POSOC had a question answered? Cool!
I think it was the one about an electromagnetic pulse in Jupiter’s magnetic field… or maybe that was different.
Yes! I remember that one! *huggle*
Hey guys! The blog is a bit slow lately so if anyone feels bored, it would be really cool if you could come and check out the S&MS RPG (mainly comedy-oriented) or the serene Ship’s Logs RPW.
Ships’ Logs is serene? It’s changed a lot since I retired. In my day, you couldn’t turn around without swashbuckling.
Well, compared to most other RPGs and the like.
Yes, it’s become rather calm, or at least slow, which is sad. It has a lot to do with the fact that we don’t have many people anymore–which is also sad. I try to help keep it going, but it can be hard. Care to return? A person with turquoise hair makes any situation more exciting! *Nods sagely*
Anyone else intrigued by the seafaring life? Click on Bookgirl’s uber-helpful link!
Pax the Hamster: Now that you’re back on the blog, do you plan to resume your exciting chess game with Ducky?
Absolutely! I’ve missed you all so much! I’m really hyper right now!
*hugs* Glad you’re back!
i am curious regarding the average age of the musers who frequent this blog.
i am old. most seem to be in middle school or high school? a few are in college (me, axa, JADEY WOO, luna, julia, etc)
I’m in college.
You could crunch some numbers from the lists on the monthly birthday threads. They might not be representative, but, then again, they might.
We have MBers as young as 10 to as old as 20, but the average is probably somewhere from 13-15.
(I’m 13.)
Hey, I’m older that average now! Weird. I was fourteen when I came a year and a half ago…
Some MBers are 21. Only one or two, I think, and I dunno if they’ve posted lately but there are a few people who are not GAPAs who are older than the 20 year olds.
all my irl friends consider me young and my MB friends consider me old. interesting fact of the day
Yeah. That happens to me too. Some of my friends from college are older than me, most of my friends from speculative poetry writing/speculative fiction conventions are older than me. I usually feel young unless I’m here.
43~ I’m old, but I’m not in college yet. (18)
I’m always surprised at how many young’uns there are though, since everyone is pretty intelligent and even the munchkins don’t act all immature.
Tomorrow I get to see Heather, yay!!!!
And I’m going contra dancing Sat. evening, even though that means I’ll probably be all but dead on Sunday for a second day of playing colonial games…..oh well.
“Old” is relative, of course. We don’t know how old thomas luther is.
38- Good point.
39- Is “and win” a condition of number 4?
Enc, have you seen the “Captain’s Log” bit I posted on the Books in Progress thread?
No, actually. It would be nice, but I think just suing would be a step in the right direction and is bound to attract attention (not to me, i’m not an egomaniac, but to the cause)
45~ This is true. However, I was saying I’m old relative to what seems to be the average age on the ‘blog.
I got a 98 on my math exam, thus pulling a 96 for the year. I’m so happy! I had a low A for most of the year, and if I’d gotten a B on the exam I would have had a B in the class. I’ve worked much harder for precal than I’m used to working in math classes. So yeah–this is a very good thing.
I was sitting directly in front of the teacher, though, about ten feet away. With nothing else to do, I watched her grade my whole exam. She kept making faces and it was incredibly nervewracking.
Congrats!
Eek. Geometry exam in…*counts* 7 hours. The one I’m not prepared for at all. Ah, well, worst I can get in this school is a B.
How was it?
It was okay. Math is not my most favourite subject.
Oh my gosh, congratulations!!
Likin’ the avatar, bookgirl.
Enceladus- Oh, I love portal. Haven’t played much, but you have to love your companion cube. I still miss her <3
So, a bunch o’ stuff going on. Got National History Day (Magnolia WOOT WOOT) in… fourteen days? Well, it all really starts in ten days. Much has to be done until then… God I hate annotations. Oh, there goes my brother who needs the computer for some new elementary school project…
Him. The companion cube is a him.
FISHY WOOT WOOT
No, I’m just kidding. It’s best not to annotate all your sources at once, by the way – I did that once and then the next week I couldn’t remember doing most of them.
Is it? Haven’t played in a while, We have it on PC and I don’t feel like putting on Steam and what not…
I did the entire annotated bibliography by myself. My partner does a lot of work but I write the script and bibliography and keep him from doing stupid things. >.>
GAPAs, why is Cooking and Food on the Currently Popular list? It doesn’t seem to have many (actually any) recent comments on it….
Probably some bots have discovered it and are trying to post spam there.
*gasp*
I am extremely tired of having to use Mom’s computer, which is in the middle of everything and has no privacy. I. Don’t. Like. Being. Watched.
And my brother won’t leave me alone.
And my computer probably isn’t fixable, without spending lots of money on a possibly temporary solution. My dad and I have been slowly eliminating all possible problems with it that are really fixable.
And I’m wondering whether it’s really a good idea to be spending so much time on MuseBlog. I’ve already decided that video games aren’t going to do anything for me in the long run and I’m in the process of attempting to give them up. It’s hard, but I’m making progress.
I’ve rationalized MuseBlog with explaining to myself that it’s teaching me to be more accepting, it’s good for my writing, I’m forming relationships.
But I’m not sure. All the RPGs and writing threads are dead. What do friendships really mean when you’re unlikely to ever see the person’s face? And you can’t deny that MB is teaching me acceptance, but is it enough to keep me on here all the time?
I don’t know. I’m still thinking this through. I’m not sure what I’ll decide.
But whatever I do decide, I want to know that I love all of you, and MuseBlog is the best website I’ve ever found. I’ll stay around for chess games and RPGs, and check in with everyone once in a while.
Well, I thought I felt *sort of* that way, but I discovered I couldn’t really give MB up.
Or at least, not completely. *shudders* I don’t think I can imagine life without it. And now that’s summer’s approaching, I’m sure I’ll only be spending more time on it than less. The only difference is that I’ve been trying to figure out what it’s like to lurk more, post less…and for me, that’s very hard, seeing as I’m the type of person who always seems to need to give an opinion. (Funnily enough, that is how I am in real life as well.)
But if you think that the things you once loved about MB – say, the RPGs in your case – aren’t as great as they once were, or that you simply want to take a break from it, than it should be your choice. I’m not going to pressure you either way, but I will let you know that you’ll always be a Muser to me, whether or not you’re here all the time or not.
I love you too.
I think we should start up another writing thread. Maybe even another type. I need a motivator to write, and writing with other people is more fun. I’m all for it if others are.
translation of story in picture:
a bird was being chased by a giant feather, three dudes saw this while watching with a telescope, then decided to worship the mighty Doughnut, ate three (blasphemous), gained acolytes, giant eyeball, more flying feathers, second coming of the doughnut lord, some freaky pattycake happens, giant eye, bananas and a cow fell in a saucer of milk.
CALL IT LIKE I SEE IT
To that, I can say only ROTFL.
I can only agree with Rebecca.
One day, a bird’s feather fell out. Meanwhile, three people were using a telescope to look at the moon. After that, they thought donuts were holy, so they worshipped a stack of three donuts. Then, someone began spying on their worship rituals. The bird picked up a donut. The three people began clapping to the donuts, while someone still kept spying. Two of the three people then stopped worshipping to eat bowls of banana slices. Then, the person who hadn’t eaten yet had a bowl of steak. Then a feather was involved in something.
After spending the most pointless three hours of my life in a room filled with freshman boys and an obnoxious speaker (like, connected to a microphone…not a public speaker) in order to spend five pleasant minutes playing a song as everyone fled the theater, I am much closer to the end of Feet of Clay. Which is a shame, as I was hoping it would last me through tomorrow. However, I can only hope that I’ll make enough tips over the weekend (seven shifts in three days, egad!) (granted, they’re only about two/two and half hours each…but still!) to buy more, and maybe the other bookstore has them for cheaper, hm.
All I need are enough of them to completely exhaust my craving for Discworld, and then I’ll be able to go at a more reasonable pace of about two or so a week–or, more probably, as fast I can get them without stressing myself about not being able to find them or spending too awfully much money on them.
The books and reading thread is dead. I hope you can all forgive me.
Oh, hieroglyphics! *runs off to get a book* Lemme see-
On the 3rd of June, Aeiou, Mimi and Urania were (finally seen) by the joyful musers, who have been crying sadly/wearing to much eyeliner and start a pie war with pies that Bo baked?
I love the picture!
Did y’all hear about the gay friendly McDonalds commercial? It wins. If the GAPAs let me post a de-linkified link, I shall, but if not, it’s not hard to find via google or Youtube. http: //www .youtube .com/wat ch?v=9 xGRii6 IA1M
One of my friends from school is in the Spelling Bee. I need to look at the results.
54~ Is that what is says? I love it!
Lady B., what can I say that I haven’t before? I LOVE YOU.
52~
51~Yeah, I know what you mean. Whenever I’m with my parents on the computer they randomly walk up and ask what I’m doing. UGH. IT’S MY BUSINESS NOT YOURS. Even if I’m not doing anything wrong. *shudder* I dislike being watched too. Good luck with your computer.
I’m glad you’ll stay, even f it’s a reduced amount.
I’ve not really ever seriously considered leaving MB. Sometimes after I’m gone for awhile I’ll not be as eager to post since i discover that I can actually live without being on here all the time, but other than that I’ll stick around.
I mean, yeah, I’m gone all summer, but after that I’ll be back.
Scholars continue to debate the meaning. (And thanks!)
*returns in a blinding flash of glory*
I know you’ve all been wandering around lost and dejected without me. But now I have returned.
Welcome back, O suilline one!
*pouncehug*
Okay, now you’re peobably very happy that you don’t know me IRL…
I have nothing to say…except that I rediscovered Neopets today and spent a great deal of time playing Yooyuball.
58~ PIGGYYYY!!!!!!!! *glomps* Oh wait. you probably don’t do glomps, and to be honest, I haven’t been completely despairing due to your absence, but………it’s good to have you back, though I’m still seeing purple and green sparkles on everything from that blinding flash of glory thing you’ve got going on. >.<
O_o
EVERYONE does glomps. whether they want to or not. *glomps everyone*
60.1~ What?
Er, well, *coughs politely* I didn’t expect such a, uh, spirited response to my return.
*withers under sternness*
61.1~ Oh come on, you set yourself up for it.
And I’m in an odd, skippy-happy-obnoxious mood at the moment, which contributed.
I expected more
than 8D
62.1~ Er, you’re usually quite easy to understand, but that post makes no sense to me…
This just in: for whatever it’s worth, and whatever it means, today is National Doughnut Day.
Aha! Maybe that’s what the papyrus text is about.
My mom bought doughnuts for the occasion.
Clearly an enlightened parent.
My little sister took doughnuts to school today, and I got one.
The dude that has the locker one to the right of the locker below me had a box of those creepy little doughnuts…. what a traitor to doughnut kind. I like the normal one’s better. *shuts up*
63- Forget it, then. It’s unimportant.
64- I SHALL DO MY BEST TO CELEBRATE THIS MOST IMPORTANT HOLIDAY
64-Does Feather know?
I think Piggy meant that we would resent his return, rather than be happy for it. *I think*.
Not really resent. Just roll your eyes at my boastful return.
Oooh Piggy…
64- Oh, now I’m mad that I do not posses any donuts. Every Saturday is Fat Day, don’t forget~
Me encanta la imagen.
You are enchanted by the image? Yo tambien.
Well, it also can mean “love” in a non-romantic way (towards objects and what not).
67~ Oh, gotcha. That makes sense now.
DONUTS. I don’t have any.
Me neither.
Oooh, I love ancient Egypt!
I got accepted into the Yale Summer Program!
And Falcon 9 made it to orbit!
And we had ravoli with pesto for dinner!
Um, translation…
I think somebody made donuts for somebody else, and possibly pies were thrown.
Congratulations!
This is a question for Robert, since he works at Science. My dad, as I’ve said before, is a scientist and is running for Congress. Science interviewed him. If you know, could you tell me what happened to the article?
Next week, highly condensed. Available online on Thursday afternoon.
Only online?
Hello all! Ooh, shiny new thread. I love the picture as always, Rebecca.
Anyway, I just arrived back home from my spectacular four-day sleepover field trip with my grade (hence my absence). It was suprisingly fun, despite the completely science-oriented curiculum. I dissected a shark while there! Also, one of the three new friends I made broke/dislocated his elbow on Wednesday. I think he’s okay though now.
Oh and on Sunday I am going in one of those wind-tunnel things for my friend’s birthday party… ‘Twill be interesting.
I’m glad to be back! *rushes off to check threads*
Dissecting sharks…in sixth grade we dissected squid. I was too squeamish to actually do it so I took notes. However, Nym knew I was doing it and requested that I bring home squid for her and Keiffer. I actually did do it, brought home the squid in a little plastic bag, and they sat in our freezer for months.
Nym and I were just discussing this, and she said she was surprised I actually brought them home. Thinking about it, I’m surprised my teachers gave it to me.
Also, one more thing:
I went to the doctor today and she was talking to me about “confidential stuff.” Dialogue as follows.
Doctor: Do you use tobacco?
Me: No.
D: Do you use alcohol?
M: No.
D: Are you dating anyone?
M: Yes.
D: A boy or a girl?
I love Massachusetts.
Aw, she didn’t ask me that! Mainly because I said I wasn’t dating anyone. XD
You’re dating someone? Am I exceptionally unobservant or have you just never said?
I just never said.
You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when you see a picture of Star Trek and yell “Maths Lover!”
Ha that is the best. I love your doctor.
73.1~ Awesome. Though, you can be sexually active without dating, and you can date without being sexually active, which I presume is why she was asking. But whatever.
I need to wake up disgustingly early tomorrow morning to dress up in 18th century clothing and then play colonial children’s games all day. Whoot!
Then after exhausting myself with that, I’m going to get home, clean up put on modern clothing, eat, etc, get in my car and go to a nearby-ish awesome little town to contra dance with some friends which will be awesome. Except that this is my last chance to see them before they move to Argentina, which is not cool, because I’ll miss them.
Then, after totally wearing myself out with that, I’ll go home and crash. Then wake up earlyearly Sunday morning and do the same thing, sans contra dancing in the evening.
And now I need to get out clothing for tomorrow and try to sleep.
So yesterday was Year 9 day. Until last year, they had a camp, then a day out, and now this year we sat around in the school hall and got lectured about self esteem, friendships, person safety, body image, etc. by Danielle Miller(aka MrsJoeLover). Mrs Joe spent weeks telling us how wonderful it would be, so all anyone was looking foward to were the no uniform and missing class bit. (Not that I got to miss Commerce or English or anything.)
The whole thing was actually pretty fun. We got to sit on the floor with our friends, so that was good, and ilovehpb and some of her idiot friends sat in front of us and made the day interesting. As part of the friendships thing, we wrote notes to our friends on the booklet thing she handed out about what we like about them, and that gave us all a nice warmfuzzy.
And the non-uniform thing– most of my friends don’t dress that differently from the populars, at least on days it’s so cold said populars don’t want to freeze their legs off in short shorts and the lowest-cut singlet tops they can find. But the free uniform extends to allowing make-up. The idiots in my homeroom pile it on enough when they know they’ll probably be caught, you can imagine how gross they looked yesterday.
And to offset that, some of our displays of nerdiness:
When our speaker was asking who’d felt they had to be like someone we knew because they were pretty, I realised the last time I wanted to be like someone was because they were smarter than me.
–At the end of the day, G, E, and I were the last girls to leave the hall (happens all the time in French class) and the photographer photographed us in front of one of the good house’s butterfly banner things(the presentation was called the Butterfly Effect). G and E are actually in that house, I’m not.
–Every time we were asked if we’d seen (insert popular movie here), it was my group who DIDN’T put their hands up.
–MrsJoeLover told us her Year 9 maths classroom had a good view of the nearby boys’ school. You can guess how she spent her lessons. It took that comment for me to realise I can probably see the (our nearby boys’ school) oval from my classroom, yet I spend every lesson doing maths. (I know, I was allocated a seat away from the window, but that’s not the point.)
And you want to know why I say MrsJoeLover that? She went on about how she could tell Mrs Joe really cared about Year 9 and was a great teacher, blah blah blah. If we liked Mrs Joe, would I have named her after
? 
I just made a steampunk version of a Monet painting. *huggle*
You know the painting with the woman in the field, holding a green and white parasol? Well, now she has goggles, her umbrella is black, the sky is yellowish, and there’s a steamy city skyline behind her.
Steampunk Monet! That is beyond amazing….my friend Nathan used to do all this steampunk stuff and it was really amazing, and then he just sort of stopped.
Steampunk Monet! wow Enc, you are beyond incredible. *hugs*
Thanks! The steam still needs a bit of work, but over all it’s great.
*huggle*
Enc, you are amazing.
I fixed the steam! *hugs the universe*
Enc, I’m sorry, but you really should stop hugging things. You’re really creeping me out.
Maybe that’s the point, but Enc, you’re more of the EXTERMINATING kind of person.
*shudders*
I am GARLIC SALT. Halt or you will be SEASONED. This is not War, this is ITALIAN COOKING! ((Sorry, had too.))
*laughs at my stupid comment*
But…hugs are so happy! *hugs Keiffer and Enc* *and everybody else* I must have hugged tlike ten different people at the camp (although most of the people I hugged scrunched up so I wasn’t able to hug them very efficiently).
Oh, please not that quote!
Everytime someone mentions Italian cooking I yell that at them.
Yeah. Hugs are happy. Unless people you ferociously detest hug you. Then it’s definitely not okay.
Eh, I had to use that quote, blibling. I couldn’t think of any other quotes at the moment. Although, I could have said that YOU WILL BE DELETED.
Enc, keep hugging! *hugs*
You vant me to stop hugging? OKAY!
*gleefully rips Keiffer’s head and appendages off*
*throws in Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator*
Thanks! *gleefully burns*
Hooray, school’s out!
Ugh, end-of-year sleepover was an unmitigated disaster. Friend had an allergic reaction to something in the air-con (at least, that’s what we think it was) and we had to move the sleepover to her house, where her allergies worsened into an apparent cold, which I now have.
73.1- what I would give to love in massachutes. My doctor has asked me for the past 5 years “any interest in boys” and for 5 years I’ve answered “nope” and she tells me to just wait, that’s perfectly normal. And I’m thinking “if you asked me “any interest in girls?” I would have answered yes two years ago” So I decided to just keep answering “no” until she asks me if I like girls. Cause come on, that’s perfectly normal too.
On another note, I’m leaving in about an hour for a road trip with my entire grade. Fun stuff. No computer access though.
You are awesome.
thank you*hugs*
That’s sorta sad. *gives kitten and two airline tickets to MA*
That’s… amusing but also sort of sad. I wonder when the doctor will catch on.
“What I would give to love in massachusetts” I’m not sure if that’s a typo or not. If it is, it is an exceedingly awesome one.
78- Hehehe, yes, I would probably do that too.
77- *hugs, choklit* Feel better! Colds in the summer suck.
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I feel like the only one still in school. I have next week, then regents/finals for three days in the week after. I just took the SAT II in bio. It was pretty easy, thank god. *hopes for an 800*
Random thoughts:
-Do double spaces in between paragraphs not work for anyone else?
-Where did Luna go?
-Why aren’t I outside on this beautiful day?
Okay.
Off to water the garden…
Luna’s shadowing a vet in Nebraska. I’m not sure when she’ll be back.
I thought she was done with that…. I think I remember something about visiting her grandmother?
You’re not the only one left in school…I still have one more week. The following week we’re actually taking a road trip to South Carolina and back and visiting family friends along the way, but I’m not quite sure about what kind of Internet access I’ll be getting yet. It might be limited then anyhow, but I’ll let y’all know that when it comes.
I just took an SAT II as well, the Math 2 one. It wasn’t too hard, but there were some kind of weird questions that didn’t resemble anything I’d seen before. Is that something common to all SAT II’s (weird questions)?
Uhm, I don’t know… This was my first. Bio was pretty easy, but there were a few weird ones, like on a certain type of ecosystem.
Um … bird feather person person person telescope donuts person person Eye-of-Horus feather donut feather Koko Eye-of-Horus pie pie pie pie pie cow feather.
Something about Feather, donuts, Koko, Urania, and Bo. The title is Stairs Owl Blue Thing Rectangle Bird Water Crook.
I’m really late but, I LOVE THE PICTURE!
Compliments are never late!
Thanks! Besides, you’re not far behind the artwork itself, which was quite late in arriving.
Yay! I am very happy that I am not late.
Well, we had the 8th grade dance yesterday! It was pretty fun, but it was so HOT. It was 88 degrees, there were a couple fans here and there, and people were dancing! The way some people were dancing though…. *shudders* They had these, excuse my language, “grinding” lines, and well, that was pretty creepy. O.O Other than that, it was fun.
I hate grinding. What’s the point?
*wonders what this “grinding” that you’re talking about is*
Trust me, you don’t want to know.
Well, I do.
Well… Hmm… There’s a lot of… rubbing against each other… and touching… and *suggestive* movements… That’s as descriptive I can get with still being blog appropriate…
And they allow that at school-sponsored events? I’d think the teachers in charge would stop it.
Yes, unfortunately. At the eighth grade dance last year it was pretty bad… I think the teachers were too tired, hot, and headachey to do anything about it. I vaguely remember a lecture about “keeping it clean” before the dance, though.
Ducky- There, Tess summed it up nicely for you…
Yikes.
At the dances we had in 8th grade, there was a 1-foot between people rule that was resolutely ignored. Except for two teachers who wandered around pushing people apart, but since it was them versus several hundred students…
But yeah, it’s basically two people rubbing against each other (either face-to-face or both facing the same way) because no one can actually dance.
Unfortunately, the teachers were just standing by and staring…which intensified the creepiness.
Yeah, I’m surprised that was allowed, especially at an 8th grade dance. I just went to our 6th-8th grade formal, and there was a lot of couples just sort of putting their arms around each other, but nothing really close to grinding. Besides, there were lots of teachers surrounding the perimeter of the gym, and I go to a pretty strict school.
At my dances, I think the chaperons are just there so they can say chaperons were there.
I’ve heard it described as “sex with clothes on.” GAPAs, feel free to zap if this is blog-inappropriate.
Terpsichore: My name is Georgia Stephenepenopolus, and I’m here in Verona Square, where the brave Mercutio has just been slain.
*camera zooms in on Mercutio, who is dead*
Terpsichore: Even now, the angry Tybalt Capulet and Romeo Montague are fighting. Let’s go check it out.
*camera, and Terpsichore, head over to a few feet away, where a crowd has gathered around Hippolyta and Egeus, who are fighting with lightsabers*
Crowd: Ty-balt! Ty-balt! Ty-balt!
Terpsichore: Tybalt! What is your opinion on this matter?
Hippolyta: What? *is promptly slain, with a lightsaber* Uhhh. *falls*
Me (in the crowd): Holy Cake!
Terpsichore: Uh-back to you guys!
*camera cuts out*
I love my friends.
76- Steampunk Monet! Wicked, Enc!
78- If it was me, I’d say “No” to both, and the doctor probably wouldn’t believe me, even though it’s true.
I’m going to take a picture of myself reading Muse in front of something very interesting tomorrow and then send it in as soon as I can…
The Spanish SAT is OVER! DONE! FOREVER!
Yesssssssss…
Was the Spanish SAT hard? I assume you mean the SAT II. I think I might take it next year..
Is it just me, or has MB been modifed in some slight way?
I think the date at the top might have been another color…
It looks the same to me.
*huggles your gravatar, if it is what I think it is*
I think it is what you think it is.
*worships Ducky*
Erm… are you huggling The Doctor, Rose, the sun, or the Earth? Or perhaps all of the above?
Well, probably the Doctor, because I dislike Rose. The sun’s a bit too hot to huggle, and the Earth’s just a tid bit too big.
You DISLIKE Rose?!
A lot of people I know dislike Rose… This includes some of my friends (including my roommate). Personally, I love her.
She’s a complete and utter Mary Sue. She was obviously made to be with the Doctor, which is why they shouldn’t be together. The universe isn’t sunshine and butterflies. Or, it is until something eats them.
The world wouldn’t be any good without the occasional near-perfection.
Well, MuseBlog, you should be honored. I just bought an iPod Touch from my friend, (it was a sweet deal, $200 for 32 gigs) and the very first thing I did was try to access MB.
SudoRandom, signing off.
Today is a good day I think for rewatching Firefly!
Yay Dinosaur Comics!
Robert, did you go to Glen Echo tonight? I hope so — Perpetual E-Motion is an INCREDIBLE contra band. If you didn’t, you should go July 25th 2010 and/or January 11 2011.
Glassboro: Thanks for the recommendation. The dance is tonight, and whether I go depends on whether I finish my part of the next Q&A column for Muse. Right now it’s a toss-up. If I don’t make it tonight, I’ll shoot for July 25, which, as it happens, is my birthday.
Alright. Of course, dates may change — this was just on PE-M’s site, and I’m not sure that I trust it. But yeah, awesomely energetic band.
I hope you got it done!
Cool! I don’t think I’ve ever known your birthday before. I shall remember that. Rebecca, Rosanne, Paul, when are yours?
Wheee…
*went TopCat sailing yesterday*
*got to finally sail trapeze*
*is going to go watch firefly now*
This is a 10/10 weekend. There was no wind (good thing too, ’cause it was also my first time on a small cat and being in austria, my harness didn’t have an emergency-release thingies), but I got to steer for a while too and it was pretty epic.
Hey Kai, have you heard of the Neutral Buoyancy Lab? You probably have, but I was just wondering.
I was watching this show on the Travel Chanel last night called Extreme Pools, and it was talking about all these, well, extreme pools all over the world. When it started talking about the NBL I instantly thought “Hmm, I wonder if Kai knows about this.”
Yeah. ‘Twas quite amazing though.
No doubt KaiYves has also been avidly following the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket.
Ooh, the Neutral Buoyance Lab. Christopher Cassidy talked about that.
Hello, MuseBloggers. Remember a while ago when we were all mourning the changes made to Winnie the Pooh? Well, I just learned that Disney is making a new Pooh movie, scheduled for release in July of next year. And it actually looks good! It’s traditionally animated, it’s based on five stories from the original books, they’re not changing any characters or messing things up, Craig Ferguson’s the voice of Owl… it looks intensely flammy. *head asplode*
Three cheers for Bear!
For where?
For Bear-
Hum. I found the old thread, and apparently “a while ago” was two years ago. Where does the time go?
“Christopher Robin, can you make a One Hero Party into a Two Hero Party?”
Craig Ferguson is going to be Owl?! I’m trying really hard to picture that…
That was strange…I typed in ‘Pax’, looking for my chess game, and all that showed up was an arrow pointing to the left and ‘breadcrumb’. Then I hit refresh and got normal search results.
In other news, (I’ve noticed myself using that phrase a lot…) I finally have wireless internet! Huzzah.
Let’s see, what else? Ohyes, my sister has gotten me started watching Buffy! Really, really love it!
And my dad has randomly gotten sticter about the internet. He says I shouldn’t even tell y’all my favorite TV shows/ books/ whatever. Thoughts in this? Is he overreacting like I think he is?
Yes, he is. We’re not creepers. *twitch*
today is not a good day :/
although i will say it was momentarily brightened by the winne the pooh exchange up there!
blehhh
What’s not good about it?
ugh last minute projects ruining my life, one week of high school left and i have at least four. also feeling unnecessarily sorry for myself as will on occasion happen ffshhahtrdfhhtendt
i feel a bit better now actually
thanks for asking
axaaa i am with you on last-minute projects. i have less than twelve hours to finish a paper, revise my short story, write a reading response, write a two-page cover letter, somehow find an envelope, and get everything printed out and in my teacher’s mailbox. and then i get to start the eight-page paper that is due tuesday.
as you can tell, it is proving slightly difficult to focus. revision is HARD
HI. I actually felt like posting on the main blog today.
I’m kind of dizzy and drowsy because I’m taking some antibiotics that have ridiculous side affects. Which has kind of ruined my day. The world only stops spinning when I sit very still, but I’ve dropped my dosage from 3 a day to 1 a day so I should be fine tomorrow, plus it’s new and I just started yesterday so it needs some adjusting to. Don’t worry about me, though. It’s not for anything particularly serious. And I read the pamphlet about it cover to cover.
School is winding down. My last day is the 18th? Somewhere around there? I have one exam durring the exam period, which is physics. I’m a little worried because I have no idea what we’re doing in class right now, but I’ll sort it out eventually.
This past week I had nine improv shows. So much fun. I was only doing lights for one, but that was still cool. It’s sad now, though, because I won’t be doing improv until september. My evenings will be so empty.
As some of you may remember, I like to write and draw comics. Well,exciting news on that front. I’ve made a bunch of comics that I am going to sell at an upcomig small press fair where I live. My friend fially convinced me to join a creative writing club at my school, and I’ve been pretty heavily involved. We’ve got a full table at the fair and we have so many zines to sell. It’s going to be fantastic.
Life in general is going pretty well. It’s summer. And although I hate the heat, I realized this year that winter puts me in a really unhealthy state of mind. I wind up being pretty miserable from november through to march. With the good weather has come a really positive, good attitude from me, for which I am very greatful.
Brownie points to whom ever read all of this.
Hope you’re well, GAPAs.
-Kagcomix
Kagcomix: I’m very well, thank you. I’m glad to hear so much good news from you, minor illness aside, and hope the small-press fair is a hit.
IT’S FINALLY RAINING HERE!! YES!!
It’s been unbearably hot and humid and generally disgusting this whole week (which is why the school dance was an absolute fiasco) BUT NOW IT’S RAINING!
We actually had a tornado watch because a couple of states over someone’s mobile home got blown away…
The wind was so amazing and the rain was just pelting down so I went outside and stood in the downpour and got soaked. It was amazing.
The rain has gone down to a drizzle now- such a shame.
((Can you tell I’m excited? I love rain. So much.))
Yesterday it rained very, very hard, and I went out and lay down in the driveway so it would be dry where I was and wet everywhere else, leaving a silhouette. It was very peaceful.
I love rain…
Can Oregon have some of your sun? It rained the entire week last week and finally we had some sun yesterday (Thank goodness because I was working on a Habitat for Humanity house) and now it’s back to rain. Blah…
I think we got some of it, at least in this part.
I’d miss the rain if there hadn’t been so much of it; I’m glad I don’t live in one of the currently flooded spots nearby, though I’m sure the ducks would love it.
GAH SO MANY POSTS. What happened to the lull that was a few days ago so annoying to me? *drowns in posts*
Anyway, yesterday went well, we didn’t have a lot of kids, but a handful and none of them were monsters, which was good. It sprinkled on and off, but nothing serious.
Then when I got home I washed up, changed, and went contra dancing with our friend Elena from the choir Mom and I sing in. It was great fun, but sad because I’m not going to see her again, at least for a long time, because she’s moving to Argentina.
It was great dancing though, and we ran into Courtney, another soprano in the choir, and her husband. They’re the most adorable couple. :3
The band was pretty good, the caller was clear, and I danced most of the evening. And during the break there were homemade chocolate truffles, that were SO GOOD.
I had some very good partners, and some very good-looking ones (and even good-looking ones who were good dancers *swoons*).
It was interesting, at one point I went to the bathroom (I drank copious amounts of water) and barely recognized myself in the mirror. I was wearing a blue tank top and one of my favorite orange printed skirts, no necklace, and dangly bell (twist on, I still haven’t pierced my ears) earrings. With my new haircut and all that I looked old. Or maybe I looked my age, I don’t know. I’m used to looking like a little kid, so it was a bit of a shock. Huh. Anyway, it was interesting.
We left the dance at the end and then visited at Elena’s house for a little bit and I drove home and had the roads all to myself (it was, of course, the middle of the night by that point) and the lightning bugs out on our road were unbelievable, and I saw two adorable foxes in my driveway! *melts*
Today I played more children’s games, though we only had two kids come by. It was raining and there was a severe weather warning and a tornado watch and no visitors, so we packed up and left early. But it was alright.
Gareth came, and it was fun to visit with him again for a little bit. Then we took a tour of the house, which was interesting. The house itself was very nice, but some of the things the lady giving the tour said were kind of weird. I won’t even get started with the costumes the staff were wearing, which were frightening at best.
Now, I really need to start packing. I have four days, but I need to start getting stuff ready. Blahh, I hate packing.
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What happened to the lull? I came back.
96.1~ Oh right, of course. I forgot.
And then I was gone for a day and everyone partied.
I feel so loved now.
YAY FERN IS BACK LET’S HAVE A PARTY
*glomptations galore*
how’s that for love? xP
MuseBlog, I just found a way to be useful by not doing anything! It’s called the World Community Grid. Basically, it’s a program you install on your computer. When the computer’s not doing anything, the program starts running. Its task: curing cancer and other nasty things. The organization’s website explains it in detail. You can find it on Google, I’m sure. But after installing it I feel like I should stop doing things so the software can cure cancer faster. D:
There are other grids too, notably Folding@Home and SETI@Home. And there’s one finding prime numbers, I think a German dentist ‘s computer found the last known one.
Yeah, I’ve joined orbit@home, SETI@home, and LHC@home as well. The prime number one is GIMPS (at least, that’s one of them).
I am running WCG, and selected 3 projects. Only one is running. I then added SETI@home. Is that queued for after the WCG, and before the second two? Does it manage it all automatically?
Yeah, it’s all automatic. If you go into advanced preferences, you can set the amount of time a project runs before it switches to another. Its default, I believe, is two hours. I set mine to one hour.
Had my recital today and it went OK except for a single mess up. *wince* But everything else went well.
98) That’s cool!
I just performed at a recital too! My last ‘cello recital with the studio… I’m very happy to have graduated, but also sad to be leaving. I played a solo too, a ‘cello & violin solo with accompaniment, The Earl of Dalhousie’s Happy Return to Scotland.
84.1- Yup, Spanish SAT Subject test. It’s not that hard, but you really need to study beforehand.
90- Yes, yes I have. At Space Camp, we trained in a much smaller tank based on the same principles. I have great respect for the safety divers.
90.1- You are correct, Robert. (I actually wrote about that on Friday.) Elon Musk is beast.
Okay, I went to the World Science Festival, and I did a lot of really cool things, which I will talk about in detail tomorrow, with pictures. But now I’m very tired and I need to do my computer stuff and then go to sleep.
He sure is! Did you see his cameo in Iron Man?
Yay… play auditions tomorrow! Crossed fingers to make it into the musical.
I just had a very real dream where I was in Batboy and I had lines I was memorizing and we were preforming the day before graduation. Which was last week. In the past. And I was stressing out about it, cause we had started the whole thing a week before graduation. And two seniors were in it that I know. I can’t wait until the fall musical auditions!
POSOC- I renounce everything I ever said about Discworld not being intense. Two words: Night Watch.
At the moment my body is not sure whether it wants to fall asleep, throw up, or burst into passionate and irrational tears, but I am resolved that it should do none of the above because I have ~so~much~homework~ and need to be up for some time yet.
I can say much about the past two days without revealing my location. Suffice to say there is a ridiculously huge event going on, which involves me working three shifts at the movie theater with lines around the block and cleaning up frantically in between every movie. And I had an amazing amount of fortitude until I got to my last shift today when things were finally quiet and I only just managed to escape mental breakdown by making myself a popcorn-bucket hat and drinking sugary caffeinated beverages against my better judgment. And finals week is coming up and I’m trying to read Discworld and I have a ton of homework ahh.
A semi-related note of extreme joy: THREE MORE DAYS OF SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yeah, Night Watch is really good
NIGHT WATCH
my fav. for srs. i love vimes
in other news, i’m freaking awesome. consider this portfolio pwned, three and a half hours in advance. now i am going to print it all off, turn it in, and SLEEP like there is no tomorrow, which there won’t be for me, because i will be sleeping through it. i am in serious need of it, i have been up pretty much all night, and last night i went to rocky horror so i didn’t get much sleep, and the night before ben and i were up talking until like 6:30 AM, so it’s just been ridiculous.
perhaps i will get breakfast today since i am awake for it :-/
Ooh, nice thread.
We thought you might like it.
LEAVING FOR THE US TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can hardly believe it… It’s so soon… EEEEEE!
I should probably quit procrastinating and continue packing. So long, Singapore (for three months that is).
That’s awesome! *is going to the US as well this summer, but only for two weeks*
Where are you going?
Hawaii and CA, and then possibly michigan!
Awesome! Come on down to NC!
We’ll great with you some good old southern hospitality! ^^ (although, really, Yellowstone is amazing awesome if you out that way. Truely, the national park route is wonderful. NYC is pretty good too, but I suppose it depends if you prefer cities to nature.)
MuseBlog, I am off on a camping trip for a week. See you Friday! *blows kisses and waves*
Bye!
done with school!!!! Now I can post on Museblog again
okay so check out this real live sentence i wrote right before i nodded off. i have no idea what it means
“From the discussion, it was very clear that Perri Knize was really very excited about pianos, and so for her, the description may not have seemed so over-the-top as it did to the rest of us who don’t hunt down pianos, searching for the one with the large bucket.”
yes. quality writing, kiddies. don’t sleep-deprive and drive.
in other news the river is flooded sort of ish. we were walking along the river last night because psshhh, what portfolio? and the path was all covered in water in spots. we had to go up and around a couple times and once we crossed the highway which btw is a Bad Idea cars go super fast and could smash your face. but it was 4 AM and there was nobody around so we risked it.
but yes. it is all turned in now. i can sleep. sleeeep! good night, museblog
ebeth, I envy your mad writing
skillsskillz.97.1~ Very good. But I’d expect nothing less from you, what with being members of lesbian harems and all.
Uggghhhhhhh packing. I’ve made a totally messy (and huge) pile of clothing that I want to bring with me, but of course there’s NO WAY all of it’s coming, so I need to sort out even further, and then try and stuff it in my bags, and then most likely thin it out even more and…..bleh. I dislike packing. Then I need to freak out over shoes and accessories and junk like that and toiletries and books and journals and writing materials and electronics and other random things that I want to drag along with me, and figure out how to stow it all so it doesn’t get killed but is still accessible and BAH! But I have a few days, so that’s good. But I need to get shampoo and conditioner and something else that I can’t remember right now. Have I ever mentioned that I have a really horrible memory for things like this? I can’t remember if I have. >.<
Mom's leaving today, she she's running around the house getting ready. I've abandoned my packing until she's gone and I can blast music and spread all over without disturbing anyone.
My leg really hurts. I need to dance more often to get used to it. Owowowowowowowowowwwwww.
I have an odd question. According to my dad, there was some sort of notification about Windows XP computers emitting sparks when turned on. Is this true, or is my dad just being himself? I wore my Crocs when I turned on the computer, just in case. Nothing unusual happened.
That’s just your dad being a dad.
Good. I’ll have to do something nasty to him when he gets home.
Torchwood is back!!! Yeah!!! On Starz! Next summer!!! With Jack and Gwen!!!
Really? More Torchwood? Yay! (And if you’re going to point out that I haven’t even started Torchwood yet, shut up.) Now, where’s Luna when you need her?
Yeah, she’ll be obsessing when she gets back. Series 6 and Season 4 next year!
Me, obsess? You must have me confused with someone else.
Luna is melting in Florida, half on vacation, half shadowing an equine vet. Seriously melting, given the amount of sweat pouring off of me whilst putting forth no more effort than it takes to do absolutely nothing. ((I was outside, standing still watching the vet. And not a single inch of my body wasn’t soaking with sweat.))
YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES
OH MY GOD I JUST DIED
I HAD TO COVER MY MOUTH TO STOP FROM SCREAMING
Are you messing with us?
I will kill you are.
Check the news! And it’s a tri-production, BBC Wales and BBC Worldwide will work with Starz.
109~ No idea. I would guess that if indeed a computer was emitting sparks when it started it would be a problem with the hardware, not the operating system and/or software. However, computers running XP would limit which models might be doing that, would it not?
However, I’ve never heard of such a thing occurring. I used to have a Toshiba computer running Windows XP, and never saw sparks.
I would ask your dad, or look it up online, snopes or something (there’s a link here on the ‘blog’s sidebar). But I have a feeling he’s joking around with you.
Mom’s just left, so I have the place to myself. I should go pack. I can’t believe how soon I’m going! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The World Cup is coming up! Go South Korea!
Um…go US.
I think I’ll be rooting for England.
Go US!
Wait, do you live in South Korea?
No, I came to the US when I was 2.
Why do I always choose to start a big project at the worst time.
There are a million typos in this I can’t fix because I’m using my iPod.
I got four hours of sleep last night and decided to clean my room. It looks like something exploded all over my floor and bed now. Except I don’t know what would contain a backpack, textbook, two oboes, a clarinet, four notebooks, two folders, four binders, ten magazines, three books, four bags, two CDs, a duck-shaped basket, a teddy bear, a blanket, a typewriter, some knitting stuff, a bracelet kit, a water bottle from band camp, music, more music, an umbrella, a scrunchie, two belts, an Archie comic book, a Higearts sweatshirt, eight Breaking Dawn pins (oh my god why do I even have these), six gloves that are part of my band uniform, a duct-tape wallet, two Harry Potter books (clearly sufferer than/superior to other books), an iPod case, reeds, a hairbrush, a gift bag, three fans FTP
Japan, a weir plush headband, a broken watch, some clothes, and a candle.
I want to go to sleep.
Maybe I’ll watch Night at the Museum again.
About half of that stuff is on my bedroom floor too, with the addition of some Converse, about three feet of books, and two sorts of octopi.
…Octopi?
I cleaned everything up and took a nap and feel much better
Japan is on your floor?
… Awesome.
-A
Hahaha. See, this is what happens when I type a post on my ipod and then can’t go back to edit it. It’s several paper fans from Japan.
76 (Enceladus): Steampunk! *Cheers* *Does happy dance* Monet! *Claps* *Nods approval* Steampunk Monet! *Passes out from the awesomeness of the idea* *Is revived* Will you be sending this picture in? I would like to see it.
95.2 (SudoRandom): Oh, how I wish I had thought of that. Maybe next time it rains… I love rain, too. I like it best on my roof at night. How about you?
96 (Midnight Fiddler): I have “Wow, I look older than I am” moments also. That’s probably a good thing, though. Since I look older, people are more likely to take me seriously–and they often do.
Oh, and I’m glad you’re back. *Smiles* But–*Gasp*–you’re packing? For the ship?
I’ve sent it in, don’t know when the GAPAs will post my Steampunk Monet. *coughcoughcoughcough*
114~ I know. People, as a general rule, tend to take me seriously enough, and I often get mistaken for being older, but I don’t think it’s generally because of my appearance.
I was really only gone for a day and a half, but yes, now I’m packing for sailing all summer, so I’ll be gone for three months.
Have you been around much lately? It seems like I haven’t seen you much. But then, I generally stick to the random thread and only a handful of others. I really need to get back to the Seahawk, when I get home I’ll try to keep up my duties as boatswain.
In any case, it’s nice seeing you!
it is taking SO LONG to get football tickets. like this is actually ridiculous. i would just say [disregard] it and wait until tomorrow, but i am only rank 2 and the miami game has sold out already and goddamn i want my freaking tickets. so yeah.
also the michigan game is home this year and it’s included in the season tickets so -everyone- is going to want in this year. ugh.
I like the picture, Lady B!
Hi Luna! *glomps before Ebeth can*
NOES
I WANTED FIRST GLOMP
oh well *glompityglomp*
Hey Luna! *joins in glomping*
*glomps the remains*
*joins the glomping and the picture liking as well*
*shoves everyone out of the way and glomps*
*glompify*
*uses glompificaiton powers*
*huggles!!!!*
Florida? What’s the temperature there?
Awwwwww. Thanks, guys. I’m now well and thoroughly glomped.
Beedle~It’s been in the 90s, but I’ve been outside quite a bit while shadowing an equine vet, dressed in jeans and a t-shirt and leather boots, so….Hang on, wait. Mid 90s is hot even if I weren’t wearing all those clothes. Nevermind.
*hugs some more since I didn’t before* Hi!
113 [and .1]~ Heh, I’ve got two duffel bags and clothing strewn all over the floor, along with some books, a swimsuit, a sleeping bag and a knit wool jellyfish.
Ugh, the floor of my room? I have multiple stacks of books all over the place, most of them at least a foot and a half high. More clothing of the 18th and 21st centuries, shoes, CDs and cases, shoes, magazines, shoes, ditty bag with sailing tools, shoes, chargers for various devices, the devices themselves, odd pieces of cloth, scraps of paper, shoes, stink bug corpses, and shoes.
On a brighter note, Ithe other day I got my Monsters of Folk CD, and today my CD from Elliot, Rocketships, came. I like ’em both.
Yay new musics! I need to figure out what music goes on the iPod and comes along with me.
POLL:
Should I take my computer with me this summer? Yes? No? Why? Why not? At the moment it’s a definite maybe.
Yes, because we’ll miss you otherwise. Oh wait, do you not have wifi?
94 (Kagcomix): Hey, Kagy! It’s been a while since I’ve seen you. You have an improv group? I have one, too! We only meet during the summer, though. I am waiting impatiently for our first meet of the year. Last year, we were rather insane. We drove a vehicle through a major retailer to look for snow shovels and got attacked by evil llamas, accused Darth Vader of bumping off Tinkerbell, and used our ninja skills to save the world–all without leaving a single room. It was epic. We collapsed laughing several times. My friends are wonderful.
114.1 (Enceladus): Oh, good! *Anticipates*
115 (Midnight Fiddler): Three months! Wow. Have fun! (Is Pip going, too? I forget.)
As for your question: Yes and no. Yes, I’m almost always around, keeping up with posts, so I know what’s happening and if someone were to yell “Hey, Cerulean!” I’d know. But, no, I don’t post a lot. I never have, actually. I’ve been here since October of 2008 (started lurking in August of the same year), but I’ve only posted 210 times, including Halloween Balls and a time I mistyped my name. It’s not that I don’t want to post more, it’s just that it takes time and energy that I don’t always have. I’m rather honored that someone noticed my absence. I feel so loved!
117 (Luna the Lovely): Luna! *Hugs* You have been missed!
You’ve got to be careful with those evil llamas.
Evil llamas?! Where!
*returns hugs* Thanks. I miss y’all too when I’m not on.
I’m going to Governor’s School this SUnday and I have to pack and get ready for my sister to come home Saturday from studying abroad in Spain! And I’ll only see her for a few hours while she’s in zombie mode after an extremely long flight before I have to leave.
i’ve got season tickets. now i just have to try to see if my parents will help me pay for it. maybe i will call for early b-day cash (very early). it was like $165. But i can sell a couple of them for lots more. I’m still sort of torn whether to go to the michigan game or sell it, because if i upgrade the ticket (which would cost me about $50), last year they were selling as high as $300 so i could make around $220. which like, daaang. at the same time, i feel like going to the game would be an Experience. especially since i’ll be doing the mirror lake jump and everything next year. so hmmm :-/
but i have tickets anyway, which is exciting. and jeremy is making our group so that we can get seats together, our group name is going to be nerdfighters because we told him sarah would appreciate it. andrew wanted raptor jesus but he was outvoted, so we told him that raptor jesus could be our group mascot.
So. Indoor sky-diving yesterday was incredible, amazing, indescribable. First you go through a quick orientation, then you get dressed up in these suits. After waiting for everyone else in your group to go, you step inside the wind-tunnel. It was the weirdest thing I’ve probably ever felt. All the air is gushing at you so fast that it’s hard to breathe at first. But eventually you get the hang of it and you figure out the positioning, and I was able to go pretty high in the air. At the end of the second round, the wind goes up to about 120 mph, the instructor (who was in there the whole time), grabs you and you go up about 20 feet in the air. It was spectacular!
YOU ARE SO LUCKY. I have wanted to do that my entire life. Where was it?
-A
New Hampshire.
100.1- Actually, I haven’t seen Iron Man 2 yet, but could you tell me where the cameo is, so I know where to freeze the DVD when it comes out and I buy it?
Okay, as promised, long World Science Festival post, with pictures!
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KaivesKaiYves — We can’t post the photos right away, and we’ll need parental permission to post any that show you or Erin. –Admin.]The whole area around NYU was a street fair, with booths set up for different organizations. The NASA area was CRAZY. I met up with my friend Erin, and we did moon jigsaw puzzles, looked at a Mars panorama through 3-D glasses, laid down and had a rover climb over us, and signed a shuttle tire!
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Muse has yet to make it to the International Space Station, but Erin and I did take pictures in front of this great photomural of it:
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Me with a member of the MIT spacesuit lab:
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I asked if it would be possible to make space fingerless gloves, with the glove being traditional and the fingers being made of the stretchy Biosuit material that the woman’s suit is made out of. She said that was a great question, but the issue isn’t moving the fingers, but getting the hand to bend at the middle. Oh well. She said it was a good idea, though.
Me reading Muse in front of a model of the James Webb Space Telescope in Battery Park. The real one’s going to go 1.5 million miles from the Earth. If we could sneak a copy onboard, that would set some records, wouldn’t it?
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The Muse issues I took along:
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Astronaut Sandy Magnus signs my Muse:
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Sandy’s signature:
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Leland Melvin’s signature:
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I got to talk to semi-famous science journalist Miles O’Brien, who was moderating the astronaut talk. He said he liked my question a lot, and when I asked for his autograph, he gave me a business card, but I explained why Muse was so important, so he took out his pen again, and:
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“Remember me when you rule the world- Miles O’Brien!”
I have some things to say regarding that conversation which are more suited for the Kokonspiracy thread…
KaiYves:
I’m repeating this note to make sure you’ll see it. We’ll need a little time to post these photos, as we have to move them from their original site. We’ll also need parental permission to post pictures of you or anybody else under 18.
*gasp* GAPA typo. “Kaives.”
Sorr. Annoingly, we seem to be having trouble with the letter “Y” toda.
Maggie, is your avatar Emma from Glee? *approves*
People consistently mistook me as a freshman for a senior at my high school.
Now, soon to be entering my senior year, the few people I haven’t yet met are starting to mistake me for a freshman.
-shakes head vigorously-
-A
Good morning MB!
Just hanging out at school today with my Mom, even though I don’t have class… *sigh* She’s recruiting me for slave labor. she wants e to clean her room, which is impossible. 
I GOT INTO MUSIC CAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHOA CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
Pie coming your way, get ready –
*gravatar high five to PM*
Congrats Selenium!
AGRRRFISHI!!!! You’re number 42 on Who’s Posted How Much! Congrats! *high fives*
YAY!!
This made my day
Thanks! *return high-five*
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HYPER!
(Thank you for moderating my comments so quickly, GAPA who is reading this!)
SO DID I!! Way to go!
Wait, what instrument do you play?
YOU DID?!?!?!?!?!? In the US or Singapore?
In the US- California to be exact. Wheee!
CONGRATS!!!!!!!! Pies all around!
Thank you!
119~ Aha, that would explain why you seem to know me well, even though we haven’t talked a great deal. I won’t be scared now because of your stalker-ish appearance. Though you should post more, you’re a lot of fun. And you should be feeling loved, because you are.
Yes, Pip will be there, for the first month.
Kai~ It sounds like you had an awesome time! Hopefully the pictures will be up soon!
126~ Yay, congrats! I take it from your avatar that you play violin/viola/’cello?
Oh, and I went to visit Prin a few weeks ago and thought of you.
OH EM GEE TOMORROW EVENING DAD AND I WILL PROBABLY BE ON OUR WAY TO ERIE, YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
………………………………..I need to eat, get dressed, and continue to pack. Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh so unprepared. >.<
Yes, I play the violin.
I might have said this before, but one of my friends from the camp in Missouri goes to Prin. Yeah.
I tried on my graduation gown for official school pictures yesterday. I felt like an evil wizard, like every time I spread my arms evil bats would fly out of my sleeves our something. Cue me doing evil wizard laughter up and down the school hallways.
‘Twas fun, but nobody realized I was doing it. *sigh*
Aww. My robe was a weird yellow/gold, but that sounds fun!
129.1~ Awesome. Of course, I’m biased, but I think the violin is pretty amazing.
I thought of you because you’re the only other Christian Scientist on the ‘blog (that I know of, at least).
It is amazing, isn’t it?
Yeah, I know.
123.1- Okay, I’ll talk to my mom about it when I get home today. Can she get Erin’s mom’s permission and tell you in the e-mail, or do you need a seperate e-mail from Erin’s parents?
126- Congrats!
KaiYves — E-mail from your mother will be enough. But Erin’s mother is certainly welcome to send one of her own if she wants to know more about us and MuseBlog.
Only a half day left!!!! Then, SUMMER!!!!!
My last day of school is Friday. I can’t believe how fast this year has gone, and that scares me. You know why? It means I only have three fast years to prove to colleges that I’m worthy to attend their school. Four years is nothing. I have just four years to make sure that I do well on every test, I make enough money to pay for college, and that I have enough community service. Of course, I’m stressing much too much about this, but it seems like it’s something too important to just push aside. In other news, I have my global final tomorrow, which I have not started to study for at all. [/rant]
Yesterday, I noticed that my locker combination is 1 digit away from being my birthdate backwards. o.O
I just got back from a *long* field trip (We had to be at school at 5:45, and just got back around 5:30) and is now quite tired. Unfortunately I still have an English project – that includes lots of memorization – due tomorrow that hasn’t been started yet, which means lots o’ cramming even though I really just want to lie down and go to sleep.
I better start getting to that soon, although I did finish my science project two days ahead of time (which sadly is an accomplishment for me!) so I am quite proud of that non-procrastinating act of mine.
I really want school to be over right now. Three more days! Aghhh!
My mom e-mailed the admins about permission, so I hope that works out.
Eeeeeeee! Two days until the ISS link-up!
Got the email and your pictures are up.
How do you e-mail the VGAPAs?
The GAPAs’ email address is either thegapas @gmail. com (unless I’m terribly mistaken) or gapas @ musefanpage .com.
Also, on a slight sidenote, you may want to choose one name and stick with it. I know it’s confusing me for one thing…just a suggestion. *shrug*
I am so sorry. I can’t resist, so I willl change it one more time.
So puffpuff = hpb destroyer girl = puff puff = bluestarrox = pikachu! = owl = Whale = Kokos little sister = Pie girl has changed her name for the last time? Historic, if true.
Hey!
Yeah, I had no idea who you were…so PLEASE stick with Pie girl.
Oh, Yay m! My gravy showed up!
Pleas stick with you *is being driven absolutely INSANE by name changes*
Good news, everyone!
I’m going to be volunteering at the library this summer! Yay! And my friend is going to be there too so we will have lots of fun shelving dusty books!
*is happy*
Plus they keep track of all the hours you volunteer, so I can probably use that for high school community service hours!
*envies to death*
Lucky Daisy*chain! I’ve always wanted to work at the library, even though my town’s library is pretty suckish. (Very bad selection, half the time the computers are down, etc.) But still. Congrats!
GUYS
GUYS
THE NEW HARRY POTTER PARK HAS BEEN REVIEWED
[We’ve zapped the link to the online review, but you can easily find it with a Google search for wild about harry kevin yee. –Admin.]
Okay, I’m calm now. Calm. Calmer.
There was a review of it in the Chicago Tribune magazine thingy a week or two ago… It sounds amazing. And I hate roller coasters… (This was the same magazine that asked Kristin Chenoweth if she did her own singing in Glee, which amused me considerably.)
Yay! I really, really hope to go to the Harry Potter Park and Disney World (I’ve never been to either!) soon but that’s not in the plans, or at least, for this summer. I was really hoping we could, but it just never worked out. My sister now has an insane summer soccer schedule (and an insane coach) so it’s going to be harder to be away from home for long periods of time. But maybe next summer!
It looks amazing.
OH.
It looks really amazing… I saw a video of the person in Ollivander’s picking a wand for someone; he looked really fed up. :/ Who could be fed up while dressed up as a wizard?! I would LOVE to have a job there…
I wonder if Luna’s going to go… She’s in FL, right?
Yeah, but…. *sob* I left yesterday. Because they’d not announced anything past spring when mom had made reservations, and…We all figured midJune was well past spring, and that it would already be open at that point….
You do not know Florida.
We believe that Summer starts in the last five days of June, goes till mid-September, and then fall is a month and a half long. And then winter goes until January, and Spring is February-June.
(See, this is honestly what the seasons seem like in Florida. I do not joke. -srsface-)
oh my god my wall looks so empty. there are no posters or -anything-
i’m in the middle of moving out of my dorm. it’s saaad. i don’t want to leave campus :'(
anyway one of my roommates is still asleep so i can’t get any of my stuff from the other room. so i’m sort of stuck for a bit. :-/
guys freshman year is OVER. i survived!
i found my major requirements sheet while i was going through stuff. i only have to take one english class a quarter to finish it all in four years. i don’t know how that’ll translate when we switch to semesters, but yeah, i’m thinking defs add history. i don’t know the major requirements for that but i know i’ve already got three classes down
also i have to take american lit urgh. not that there’s anything wrong with america, it’s just not really my thing
I now have a new goal in life: to learn how to do a martelo rotado (and to use it on someone I dislike). Teh epic pwnage.
…Martelo rotado? Whazzat?
Only one of the most epic capoeira kicks ever.
ARG. Okay, so I thought packing clothing was the worst. I was wrong. I don’t know what books to bring with me. >.< *dies a painful death* I know I won't get a lot of time to read, but I feel naked if I don't have books with me. And I have an awkward amount of pages left in my notebook.* Not enough to start a new one, and a disturbingly thin amount for all summer. But seeing as it's lasted two years already and I haven't been making use of the notebook as much anymore, I guess it'll be okay. It's still kind of disconcerting though. :/
Except that it's always slightly intimidating and odd to start afresh without being able to look back on old entries. Oh well, whatever. I'll definitely have enough pages, and that's what matters.
Fortunately however, I finished the last page of my journal (that had also lasted two years) last night, so I can start fresh in the new one.
I have one book to read which should keep me plenty occupied, but I'd also like to bring along a novel or two, or something like that. But I'm not currently reading any books (besides Wind in the Willows, but that's not worth bringing for more than the car ride, because I'll have it done by then). *siiiigh* Such a dilemma.
I'd bring along some Muses and Cricada's, but I don't want them to get mauled. And if we were going to be in Erie more it wouldn't be a problem, because Erie Maritime Museum is right next to (actually, in the same building as) the public library, and I have a card from last year. But alas, such is not to be, unless I want to pay overdue fines, which I don't.
So. Books. Writing implements. More books. Gadgets and chargers for them. All packed so I can get to them conveniently (or at least without making a huge production out of it) and so that they won't get smashed into oblivion by the cruel forces of the Inside of a Backpack or Bookbag.
*For those who don't know, I always have at least a notebook and a journal with me. The notebook is kind of the catchall where I jot down lists, doodles, addresses, stick in pictures/flyers/other random places of paper or thin objects, and write stories in. The journal is private, wherein I recount the activities of the day(s) and occasional philosophical ramblings or emotional outbursts about them. Yes, these two closely linked parts must be kept separate. Why? Because.
Wait, so are you going to be in Erie at some point? That would be awesome… especially if it was at the same time I was going there…
Sorry. That was a bit random. But that would still be awesome!
Oh man. I love that you also have a notebook and a journal. Wait, I have three. I have my writing notebook (for poetry and fiction), my daily notebook (what I jot things to remember down in, what I carry /everywhere/, what I feel okay tearing page out of), and my journal which contains my thoughts at the end of the day. Every day.
Cheese.
119- Cerulian Pyros: Yeah, I’m on an improv team. In Canada there is a nation wide improv competition for the highschools, which is the reason my team is arounnd, but we do other shows around school and stuff. Plus my school has an improv class. Awesome provness all school year long. our scenes get pretty wild, but have mature content, which really isn’t MB appropriet.
7 days of school left!
*waves* Hi everyone! I thought I’d pop in for a moment. Gosh, this is nostalgic. Sorry I haven’t been on. I just feel like I’m drifting further and further away…plus I’m having problems at school with this annoying boy who doesn’t seem to get that no one likes him…
You guys are so lucky that you’re out of school now! I have *counts* 7-and-a-half days left.
Who else thinks Toy Story 3 looks cool?
I’m so tired of everything…gosh, I don’t want to live anymore…but I don’t want to die…I’m living in a nightmare that I can’t wake up from…
Are you okay, LBK?
What’s wrong?
*sighs* Just…everything. I hate reading class, everyone seems out to get me, I’m a procrastinator (can’t do much about that! :D)…
Hi LBK! *waves* I really hope that all your problems with the annoying boy work out.
I have two more days!
Toy Story 3 looks awesome!
I’m really excited. So are many of the rest of the kids in my grade, actually. We were having a big discussion about it the other day, and a bunch of people want to organize a middle school party for our school to see it together. 
We act like such little kids sometimes, but it’s hilarious. I remember when Toy Story 1/2 were all the rage, back when I truly was little.
I’m sorry that you don’t want to live anymore but don’t want to die. It’s a complicated feeling, isn’t it? I’ve felt the same way before, and I’m afraid there’s not much I can say about it besides just living it out. Oh, and trying to surround yourself as much as possible by things/people/activities that either will take your mind off of it/make you feel happier. I hope things get better for you no matter what you’re struggling with. *choklit*
Hello, LBK! *waves* Good to see you round again, although I’m sorry about the annoying boy. It sounds like we’re kind of in the same situation with that…I hope it ends up being okay and he stops being annoying. *hugs*
And as for the part about not wanting to live/not wanting to die, I’d take starr’s advice to just live it out as well as surrounding yourself with people and things that you love. Things will work out and get better eventually, I promise. *more hugs* *choklit*
Thank you, everyone…*tries to smile* I knew I could count on you. At least it’s just 6 and 1/2 more day now…
You can do it! Stay strong. As for the annoying guy…
AG: (*trying to end the argument*)”I take jiu-jistsu”
Me: *hits over the head with a chessboard.”
Ah, the chess team. So mature.
And I just had a moment of ‘when the heck did I say that’. I’m actually thinking about taking jiu-jitsu. XD
Remember when I was still AvalonGirl, and everyone called me AG? Ah, the days of only ever visiting BA, they seem so long ago!
Hang in there LBK! SUmmer is close in coming!
At some point, I NEED to visit the Explorers’ Club headquarters. Also the Manhattan Challenger Center. (Especially if that lady I talked to at the Museum of Natural History back in April is still working there. She said their simulators were better than Space Camp’s. I said nothing, but mentally shouted “BLASPHEMY!” Now I want to see who was right.)
AIEEEEEEEE! Tomorrow’s the ISS link-up!
Oooh! I’ve been outside the Explorer Club’s HQ, but never inside. Do you know if they do tours or anything of that nature?
I’ve been to Explorers’ Club headquarters once. I heard a talk there in the 1990s, when I was working at a magazine in Manhattan. Afterwards, I got in line to shake hands with the speaker and realized that I was standing next to Sir Edmund Hillary. He was in his late 70s then but was still tall and sturdy. Oddly, I don’t remember whether we were introduced or exchanged any words, but I do remember that he told the speaker that she clearly had a great future ahead of her.
119.1 (Enceladus): Yes, indeed. Evil llamas have an irritating tendency to show up just when one has found the snow shovels. Take it from one who knows. *Makes nearly-successful attempt to appear noble and mysterious*
119.1.1 (Kiwimuncher): Right in front of the snow shovels in a major retailer. They’re always there, you can’t miss them.
129 (Midnight Fiddler): Sorry to freak you out. I did not consider the stalker-ish-ness of asking about your boyfriend by name. You’ve mentioned his name and I have a tendency to pick up on random details.
I’m fun? Yay! I’m loved? Awww! Thanks.
139 (Daisy*chain): Another summer library volunteer! *High fives* Have you done that before?
143 (Midnight Fiddler): Oh, selecting trip books is never easy. I suggest bringing one book that you know and love and find comforting, and one that you have not read before (or not for a long time) so that you have something you can’t recite passages of, to be refreshing.
144 (Kiwimuncher): Edam. Mozzarella. Parmesan. Gouda. Feta. Cheddar. Provolone.
145 (Kagcomix): Cool! Mine is a rather small group that’s affiliated with our local library.
I understand fully why you get wild. We get off on strange tangents sometimes. Like the evil llamas. We do try to keep it at a “family level,” and we nearly always succeed.
That llamas are by the snow shovels? I tell ya, the organization of stores these days just seems to logically escape me.
Hey guys! I thought you might like to know (that the singer gonna sing a song, and he’d like you all to sing along…) that I found out that we have stuffed koko. He only has four hairs. I can send in a picture.
*applauds you for both the Beatles reference and having acquired a stuffed Koko*
I didn’t get it, I just found it. It’s weird.
It sounds as if Kokopelli found you.
According to my dad, we’ve always had it. I don’t know how we got it.
123- KaiYves
It’s at the very beginning of the Monaco scene, you can’t miss him! Tony Stark says Hi to him and all. And I read that a SpaceX factory was used as a location for Whiplash’s workshop! Very cool.
I went to Webb Institute yesterday night! Webb is an elite nautical architecture school (really I should say maritime engineering) on the North Shore of Long Island- just outside of NYC. It’s intense and focussed and awesome and completely free. (I love schools with no tuition! Macaulay and Webb and Cooper Union! Children: investigate.) They had a lecture and then a demonstration of the towing tank. Firstly though, there was talking. I spoke to Mr. S, who runs lots of local events and impressed him with my (Olympic) sailing knowledge! Hopefully he’ll remember me at regattas and things better than last year. Then I saw Fast, a guy I competed against in a big race last year (and lost too, and he was a jerk, but it was all good last night), so he gave me an even more exclusive tour later at the demonstration. Inside the mansion ( they live and learn in a MANSION on the water) there were two talks, one on the nature of towing tanks and fluid dynamic modeling, and another on interceptors and their use on high performance yachts. VERY COOL! Thanks to research I’ve done in and out of school I knew what was going on the whole time! The rest of the audience was mostly graying yachtclubbers, so I asked some insightful questions too! Then the towing tank, which is basically a long narrow pool that you can pull a model boat hull through and test it for resistance, etc. Unfortunately for myself I didn’t have a camera on hand, zut! I’ll discuss it with my physics teacher later next week, it was all very cool. And I learned how a bulbous bow drastically reduces bow slamming! It’s so simple but ingenious. It was a very good night!
And Friday I’m going to Walkabout, an event in NYC in which I’ll be able to see the insides of startups! Silicon Alley here I come!
tl;dr Attend lectures and demonstrations whenever you can. Talk to (older) smarter people. Attend free schools.
You are elite; learn and impress.
Rebecca, when you do write about museums, will it be somewhere where I’ll notice it immediately?
BLACKHAWKS WIIIIIIIN
I had such an amazing day today. Me and a friend played tennis, walked/got coffee/sat at the pier and talked about life, made brownie fudge cake(read: choklit deliciousness, a layer of brownies with a layer of fudge on top covered in chocolate frosting with chocolate chips and sprinkles on top), saw/hung out with the year ahead of me at her house (haven’t seen a lot of them in a while as they’re all in college), watched the Stanley Cup witch the Blackhawks WON.
For those of you woefully uninformed(heh), the Blackhawks are Chicago’s hockey team and they have won playoffs for the first time in 49 years. It is Exciting News and as a hockey player, very very awesome
Humph. *is Flyers fan* For once I actually support a Philadelphia area team (near where I live) instead of a New York one. Hockey might just be the only sport where that’s the case, actually.
AHHHHH TODAY WAS THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!!!!!
We had our last gathering, and everyone was crying.
It was so sad. *sniff* A lot of people are leaving this year, because this is usually when people go off to boarding school, and the gym was just filled with crying people. :'(
Last night was our graduation ceremony, and after that we had this awesome dinner and dance thing in the ballroom of a-club-which-I’m-not-going-to-name-for-fear-of-zappage but it was pretty crazy.
It’s summer! It still hasn’t sunk in that 8th grade is over…and I am now almost a high schooler! Eeek!
143.1~ I’m in Erie right now. [Snip! Too much additional information. –Admin.] But I’ll be sailing out from here and not back all summer. But it’d be awesome if you were here the first week of Sept.
146~ LBK! HI! It’ good to see you again. I’m afraid I can’t be of much help, as this is my last post for awhile, but I really hope things smooth out for you. I know what it’s like to not want to live anymore, but please believe me, life is always beautiful, even when it seems like it’s all too much. Eventually you will see something beautiful and slowly start to want to keep living again. Please hang in there. We all love you. I’ll be thinking of you, and I know you’ll be able to get support here whenever you need it. *hugs*
148~ Don’t worry, you didn’t freak me out at all. I tend to remember random details about people too. *hugfest*
I ended up just throwing in Reading the World (for school, and because it’s interesting) and Les Misrables, because it’s a huge book that will last me long enough. I was going to bring a poetry book, but I didn’t. Alas. I think Mom wanted me to bring Strunk and White’s Elements of Style, too. But I didn’t bring that either. >.< Oh well. I probably won't have a lot of time to read anyway, so it's okay.
151~ That sounds awesome!
ANNOUNCEMENT
I have my computer with me, I decided to bring it along this summer.
However, I won’t have regular internet access, so this may very likely be my last post for awhile, or at least the last one in which I reply to people and read all the previous posts.
I love you all, be good, be safe, enjoy life, and have awesome and amazing summers everyone!
♥ ♥ ♥
(Note to those who know of my personal blog, I’m posting there again too now. So check it out if you want to know what I’m up to and leave me a comment of you’d like.)
Sorry GAPAs, this post is probably littered with snippable information. :/ I’m not trying to break rules, really!
Have an amazing time, Fiddler! We’ll miss you!
wait, you end in erie? i am doing -nothing- the first week of september! or the rest of september! it will be super boring! i’m gonna come visit you!
at last, some september excitement
(OSU starts way later than other schools so i don’t start school again until late september, and most of my friends leave in late august. so that is why september is a really boring month)
Aww. I’m not going to be in Erie for three wheels.
Although, if I can convince my parents, I’ll try to be there during the first week of September. Doubt that will happen though.
I bet you’d like my cousin’s aunt’s girlfriend though. She’s very… sailor-ish. I’m not sure if that’s the right word, but she is.I don’t think she’s in Erie this time of year, actually.
Sorry. I’ll stop talking now.
But if you happen to be in the library, you could leave something inconspicuously in a few of the more Muser-like books. That Library is a good place to find recruits.
I’ve left a few bookmarks there myself.
You may not even see this if you don’t have regular internet access. Worth a shot though.
Have a good time!
Have an awesome summer! I’ll miss your regular posts on the ‘blog, but I’m sure you’ll have an amazing time.
I’ll miss you!
Hello all. Man, do I miss MB, but I shall be free from school and National History in a week or so! I’m extremely stressed over the massive bibliography, but I just have to calm down… I think I actually might try and get some work done.
fishy, who is your girlfriend? you have not told us the story
Fishy has a girlfriend?! *checks R&R*
Do tell.
IN HAWAII!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!
Ugh, got sat next to a drunk guy on the plane who was yelling about killing his Sergeant-Major, or something.
Lucky. *is still in school for all of next week, and then until Wednesday*
Me too, but I’ll be in DC for four days. I hope I can go to school on Friday because it’s our last school dance! And you can’t go if you didn’t go to school that day. Well, maybe I’ll sneak in anyway.
Man, either there’s really slow moderation…or no one is on.
Gah! This week is insane!
Anywho… I get to attend my school’s graduation tomorrow as a junior marshal. It shall be my job to say “All rise for the class of 2010.” and then seat everyone. Should be pretty nifty…
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Heyy guys! You didn’t get rid of me yet. We have internet here, and I don’t think we actually leave Erie until the 15, when I’ll have the multiple days without internet. SO. I will be here. I am here. MWAHAHAHAHA. But that your for the wonderful goodbyes anyway.
So, today I showed up around 0730, had breakfast, muster, etc. and went to sanding, tacking down and painting. Funfunfun. Then I got sent aloft to the crosstrees to…..TAR THE SHROUDS! Wheee! What that means is climging up to the highest platform (which is just an open square, really) with a dish detergent bottle full of and covered with tar (runny stuff, it’s a misture of tar, black paint and linseed oil) and squirting that tar solution over the shrouds and then spreading it around on them with your hands. You can use a rag, but I was wearing rubber gloves, so I just used my hands. Then my gloves tore (they were the thin throwaway ones), and lunch was called so I was in a hurry and just used my hands and used the rag to wrap the gloves in and put in my pocket so the inside wouldn’t get all gross. My clothes were, obviously, plenty smeared with tar though, which looks like heck but smells quite good.
After that I was painting next to Paul (I know him from last year, good guy, amazing musician).
“Oh, something smells good.” *looks over* “Oh, it’s your boobs.”
Because (being a girl) leaning against the shrouds to keep from falling to my death the, erm, parts of me that protrude the most got the most tar.
I also helped with pulling the flying jibboom out to where it’s supposed to be (the uprig you may remember me complaining about last summer, same deal).
After work there was a party at a local amusement park for a girl’s graduation. I don’t know exactly how she’s connected with the ship, but I heard she’ll be sailing with us at some point this summer. I don’t know if she’s sailed with Niagara before though. I’d never met her.
At any rate, we went, and I rode a roller coaster. And didn’t die, which I was glad about. I hope you are too.
And now, here I be. Sitting in the hallway minding my own business and writing a copiously long post.
A few minutes ago I walked outside and spent fifteen minutes just watching the fireflies. From a distance, you can never really know where they are until they flash, and then they’re gone again. It’s beautiful.
crushingly low self esteem ftw
*hugs* You’re awesome.
*huggs* Dont let the world get you down.
Or, in my case, epic spelling fails.
Thanks guys.
*many hugs*
Happy (is that the correct adjective?) Kokonspiracy Day!!!!
Koko 4 Prezident!
Sorry people, but im soo confused. My friend asked me what museblog is. What is it?? I cant even explain.
What is MuseBlog? That’s a tough one. Let’s see…
It’s that of which those who know do not speak, and those who speak do not know. It’s a stairway afterthought, a realization in retrospect, something you can’t quite put your finger on, something right on the tip of your tongue. It’s a nap in dappled shadows, a warm fire, a perfect cup of tea. It’s Serenity and serendipity, the fabric of space, the color of magic, the unheard melody, the uncarved block, the Unmoved Mover, the Luminiferous Aether, the Void, the Plenum, the Room of Requirement, the Up and Out, the Q Continuum, the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum, the Total Perspective Vortex. It’s the McGuffin, the Horn of Plenty, the Apples of the Hesperides, the Golden Hind, Schrödinger’s cat, the pantheist’s boots, the Philosopher’s Stone. It’s where the elite meet to eat, where the wild things are, where parallel lines cross, where all stars end. It’s Lyonesse and Innisfree and Caras Galadhon, the coast of Bohemia, the wood beyond the world, the second star to the right and straight on till morning.
It’s all very hard to explain.
So we’re the point at infinity in Neverland? Anyways, I adore this description. Also, any reason Serenity is capitalized?
because it’s a firefly-class spaceship
Yes! Someone else had exactly the same reaction as I did.
It’s both kinds of serenity to me, but it’s hard to be ambiguous in writing.
I see references to… Firefly, Taoism, Discworld, Harry Potter, Star Trek, the Hitchhiker’s Guide, Aristotle, Alfred Hitchcock, Greek mythology, Francis Drake, quantum mechanics, alchemy, G. K. Chesterton, Where the Wild Things Are, Foundation, King Arthur, The Sirens of Titan, Yeats, Lord of the Rings, Narnia, The Winter’s Tale and Peter Pan.
And Cordwainer Smith. Formative influences, all — on me, and, through me, on the blog. Of course, that’s just one GAPA’s point of view.
Cordwainer… of course! I knew that phrase sounded familiar! It’s the name he uses for interstellar space in The Game of Rat and Dragon, right?
The Up-and-Out, that’s right. One of my favorite stories, although I like almost everything he wrote.
I need to read more by him… I was only exposed to GoRaD through an anthology of cat stories.
Ah, that’s one I didn’t get either. To the list!
The rest though; like seeing a scrapbook of old friends!
Plus John Keats and William Morris, and minus Narnia, which isn’t on the list (but which may well have cribbed from someone who is).
Mwe? I caught the Keats (or so I thought)… no, wait, that was Yeats.
No Narnia? I guess the Wood beyond the World is not original to the Magician’s Nephew, then.
The wood in the Narnia book is called the Wood Between the Worlds. But now that I think about it, I like it better than William Morris’s wood. All those pools that take you to different times and places are decidedly MuseBloglike. If my stream of consciousness had eddied just a little differently, I could easily have written “the Wood Between the Worlds,” and my description would have been the better for it. Thanks, POSOC!
Are you sure it’s the Horn of Plenty? Because I keep screaming “HAM SANDWICH” at my computer, and ham sandwiches are yet to appear.
*cricket* *cricket*
It’s … it’s an inside joke.
*applause*
Museblog is Museblog, the same way everything is what it is. You can’t explain a sunset to someone who has yet to see the sun.
I love that quote. “You can’t explain a sunset to someone who has yet to see the sun.”
Q: What is MuseBlog?
A:Pure Awesomeness!
Probably the best way to explain MuseBlog to someone would be to sing Antonio Carlos Jobim’s song “Waters of March,” either in English or in the original Portuguese.
it’s a thing
that’s what i always say
You could try saying, “It’s a non-real-time natural-language-based virtual environment dedicated to identifying, activating, interconnecting, and training future rulers of the universe.” That should produce some interesting reactions.
Or, you know, just explain it as ‘This really awesome site on the internet.’ I don’t think most people would really appreciate the poetic description.
That sounded like I was purely trying to rain on the parade. I’m sorry.
I, personally, really enjoy all these descriptions. They’re all really good ways to sum up MuseBlog. I think they might confuse many other people.
But I don’t mean to stop you writing them. I just tried to point out that those descriptions might get some weird looks. And failed. Rather epically. Not at making my point, but at conveying my meaning.
I’m now finished with this apology that’s ridiculously long, compared the the affront.
*gasp* I just realized that I will be spending June 29th at a two-week Christian Science camp near-ish Vancouver, and will not have a computer/Internet on my birthday! No! I shall miss my first birthday on MB!
Aww… *hugs* I had my first birthday on the blog on MA. But don’t worry, we aren’t letting you go that fast. Your next birthday will be on the blog.
It’s okay. Happy Advance Birthday!
I’m back! I was away for a really long time, but I’m back! And I didn’t have time to read the whole thread, but the thingy at the top says… *consults hieroglyph guide*… Kmt Pwns. No duh. And the rest… hnmghjfggfcflykklcrfkcckriuyourccwaewse5f6t78678968959467946… oh. It’s not supposed to be read like that, is it??? Okay. Craaw takes a leaf from Mimi’s hat, Urania uses her telescope to see Chad and Pwt running from Kokopelli’s pies, Bo just stands there chewing a reed leaf. Is that good enough?
FRESHMAN YEAR OF COLLEGE
IT IS OVER
WHAT WILL I DO FOR FOUR MONTHS
ALL MY FRIENDS ARE IN LIKE CLEVELAND OR SOMETHING
OR…OTHER VARIOUS PLACES, I DON’T KNOW
oh cooome let’s sing ohio’s praaiise, and songs to alma mater raaaiise
any of you old people remember when i first moved? i was all “what is with these crazy buckeyes they are so insane i don’t understand”
somehow i have become one of them :O
on the plus side, the board games club is still meeting over the summer, and most of the galactic council from the sci-fi club will be staying in columbus, and all my friends from high school are here, and september is going to be a montage of road trips. i know i’m at least hitting up the major cities in ohio, and possibly going to see bill at baking school as well (she’s leaving me for pittsburgh
)
also i am going for some very cool jobs this summer. the book loft (little 32-room bookstore in german village that i’ve wanted to work at forever) is finally hiring, there’s a job opening at the cartoon library in the wex, and a twitter-friend of my dad’s who does grammar podcasts and stuff is looking for an intern. and i’m applying at the thompson library as well (THE SPACESHIP LIBRARY IT IS SO SHINY) although i have less chance there since i don’t have work-study.
but for now i am going to shower! we waded through the hordes of drunk seniors yesterday to go see the a-team (which was fantastic, by the way) at midnight. i resolved never to do senior crawl, or at least if i did, to leave by midnight. i don’t know why people go out and get trashed, it never looks like they’re having any fun. plus then you fall over and bleed on the floor (this happened) or pass out and get dragged off to the hospital (this also happened). anyway, i was already checked out of my room so i crashed with jeremy and i didn’t know i was going to the movie so i didn’t have any PJs or anything. woo sleeping in clothes :-/
INTERN!
I visited 9 startups in NYC today want reallyreally want to intern at like four of them! They were so cool!
Harvest, Blip.tv, Aviary, 20×200, and Behance! And then Meetup and Gawker were cool too but just bigger!
Happy Kokonspiracy Day, everybody!
It’s been sinking in more and more lately that:
1. I am now a senior.
2. In a year I will have graduated from high school.
3. Then it will be the Rest of My Life.
*panics about what Rest of Life is going to be*
Oh goodness, you are a senior. And I’m an upperclassman. Time is a strange thing.
I’m a senior too.
So far my main emotions are a lot of stress and a sense of the complete lack of the freedom I usually feel in summer. And stress. And dread. And stress. And an idea that if only communism worked the way it was supposed to things would be great but it’s not working and things are slipping out of control and I need to get a grip but I still don’t have time. And a mixture of guilt and selfishness and stress.
This was why I was not going to make the theater troupe my senior project–too much stress making it not as fun as it could be. But it’s supposed to be fun and exciting and I thought, hey, it’ll be great. But so far I’m just stressed. I can’t even properly drown my sorrows in Terry Pratchett ’cause that’s just me hiding and it’s not actually solving any problems. Plus it costs way too much.
Last day of school…insane. We went to an assembly, did tons of yearbook signing (Tons, but it was awesome), and had field day. My team didn’t win, but really, who cares? After spazzing out with my friends, (and saying a ton of good byes for the summer) I went to dismissal, and watched all the 8th graders cry while standing in huge groups hugging one another. I have to admit, watching other people cry is one way to make me tear up a little. I probably wouldn’t have become so sad if not for seeing them so upset. And I also know that next year, I’ll probably cry as well, because these people have become such a huge part of me. This year had some suckish moments, (actually, a lot of suckish moments) but it had some amazing moments as well, and it’s the latter I’m going to remember.
Besides, looking back on the whole thing…it got better towards the end. It really did. The beginning was tough, and even now, sometimes it’s still tough. But during the last parts of the year, I think I just relaxed more, and did less worrying about where all my friendships are going and instead decided that if I had fun, everything was going to be ok regardless of whatever gossip or drama or complications were behind it. and besides, I really changed a lot this year (from last year) and I hope for the better. i don’t know. :/
Well, that’s all. Enough of my sappy end of year post.
SUMMER!
Don’t worry, if I thought you guys actually wanted to hear me going on about the epic time I had last year I’d be posting about them a lot.
*gulp*
I’m officially a high schooler.
It just sank in.
WOW.
It’s kind of creepy.
I agree.
…
…
…*sigh*
And me too. *sigh as well*
My Junior Year of High School is over!
This means I’m a Senior, which is kind of scary…
147.1- I don’t know, but if they do, I SO want to go on a tour. When I was very young, my father got me a book about libraries all around the world, which I still own, and there was a section on the Explorer’s Club and their library, which sounds incredible. Just the concept of the place sounds awesome.
150- Of course Stark knows Musk in-story. Of course he does. That’s brilliant. Does he just say “Hi” or does he “Hi, Elon” or what?
I’m trying to think if I’ve ever mentioned SpaceX in my Marvel fan-fic. If they haven’t shown up yet, they certainly will in the next story arc, I’m just wondering if they’ve shown up before…
161- Fireflies in the summer are the best. Especially on the night of a meteor shower when you lie on your back and try to figure out if each flash is a meteor or just a firefly. (And now you’ve made me want to get out to Long Island ASAP. Have to wait for tomorrow. Well, actually I was on LI yesterday, but I went home before dark, and Bethpage is so close to the city it doesn’t fully count…)
Okay, yes, the ISS link-up…
It rocked. Erin and I got to be general helpers and wear the museum volunteer shirts. We counted out goodies for the teachers to give their students before they arrived. (They gave away some crazy swag, including ISS calendars, which Erin and I also got, and paper shuttle models with great retro pen-and-ink drawings, which we didn’t get.)
Then, we had to race around giving all of the teachers their surveys and folders, which were in separate boxes, and there were seperate papers for each school group… it was really complicated. We were running around a lot and muttering the clean version of Shepard’s Prayer (“Please, God, don’t let us screw this up!”) under our breath the whole time. (What would the Muse version of that be?)
After all of the groups were settled, we got to be docents, which we both loved, because we were really enthusaistic and the kids were very excited about space. We acted out a whole Apollo mission with the Saturn V and Command & Service Module models they gave us, complete with sound effects and jazz hands simulating fire and parachutes. It was so much fun.
We didn’t get to talk to Ms. Caldwell-Dyson, but seeing her answer questions from kids in the theater in real time was amazing. She said she’d brought up colored pencils to try and capture the view out the window for when she gets home, which I thought was a great idea.
I can’t remember it all (it was like 5 seconds tops), but I’m pretty sure he says something more than just “Hi. Elon”.
Okay. I’ll look out for it when the movie comes out on DVD!
Hello, MuseBlog! I am back from my weeklong camping trip! Did you miss me? Probably not.
Happy Kokonspiracy Day, everyone! I wore my MB signatures shirt in honour of the holiday. Everyone kept asking me about it, which is was they always do, I suppose. The attempted descriptions (I love yours, Robert!) above were quite appropriate to a lot of my conversations today…
In other news, we made ice cream in Team Lit. today, an evil/annoying boy asked me out (I said a very forceful no.), I had my last Girl Scout meeting of the year, and Kate and I watched New Moon. What a lovely day.
Four-and-a-half days left of school!!!
Kai~ Awesome! I’m glad it went well for you!
Um….hi. I’m tired. I’m feeling kind of uninspired right now. That is all.
After much deliberaton, Mr R finally let us watch The Fugitives in French yesterday. They’re not supposed to show us M rated movies before Year 10, but we did it anyway. Compare this to something my English teacher told us about:
My English teacher: AAAAH the Year 9s are coming QUICK turn this M rated movie off.
Year 10 #1: Why the fuss? It’s not like they don’t here about these things.
Year 10 #2: Or do them.
My English teacher:
And it takes a lot to gross my crazy English teacher out, too.
The Fugitives is M rated because of all the profanity, and because it’s in French and subltitled we’d all learn French swear words. Mr R told us not to use them, of course, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t interested.
In homeroom something amazing happened: One of the populars said something halfway sensible. We were talking about boys, and they were being their usual idiotic selves and offering to set me up with one, then they asked me what my type was. I told them. And everyone started trying to do the Vulcan salute (most of them failing miserably) and talking about that. Next they’ll start doing French again or squeeing when they realise they have double maths.
Today, I felt like a failure. MLIA.
Today, I’m watching Mythbusters and feeling much better *comforts* You found MLIA too? Isn’t it awesome? You should check out GivesMeHope dot com, and LoveGivesmeHope dot com. They really help you realize that your problems are small comapred to theirs, and it makes you feel better.
BEST DREAM EVER
It involved fireh being called Jenjen, two girls I don’t like, and the big bad having the hots for me. Oh, and baby gators.
(It was better than it seems.)
…..Holly calls me Jenjen all the time.
Baby gators?
Has ANYONE noticed I changed my avatar to a very lovable smiling cat??????
*laughs* I have!
*gasp* I love it.
YES!!! *huggles*
That movie was marvelous.
Awwwww… So cute!
I am officially a senior now as well! And I, too, have no idea what the Rest of Life will be like after I’m done (nor do I know where I’ll be for my “higher education” experience) which is all very intimidating at the moment. I’m just not thinking about that right now though….it seems as if there are several other seniors on MB too, which is good….
I only really feel like I’ve got one month of real summer since I’ll pretty much be in Spain for the month of July. (not like that doesn’t count as summer, it’s just not the same) Then in August I’m back for fall training and all that, and then going into school and acting all senior-y and important.
It’s funny because everyone always told me how different you feel when you’re a senior (quote: everyone) and yet I still feel like I’m very young (relatively speaking, that is) and no amazing amount of maturity or wisdom has been bestowed upon me, so of course I’m very disappointed by this lack of amazingness.
Same here. I’ll be at Yale for most of July (Although I will have Internet access, so I’ll be able to use MB.)
Sorry for the PoPo, but…
CALLING ALL DEMIGOD RPG PLAYERS!
THE THREAD HAS BEEN REVIVED! CoTD HAS POSTED! PLEASE REPORT BACK NOW!!
Reporting for duty.
Omigosh! Agrrrfishi! Your avatar! It’s so…..CUTE!!!!!
( Sorry, Ducky! )
Erm, why are you sorry?
OH GOD! CAPTAIN JACK IS SO COOL!
Anyway, I am currently watching The Empty Child. And I now see why people like Captain Jack so much.
Wait, so does that mean you haven’t watched it before?
If so, bad Beetles, fro not watching it before. Also, good Beetles, for watching it!
If not, goo Beetles for watching it again!
Unfortunately, I have not seen it before. So I am watching the whole new series in order with AM. But I am still watching series five as it comes out.
179- I noticed.
180- At least you know that you’re going to college.
FISHY IS LEAVING FOR NATIONALS TOMORROW!
P_M SHALL BE THERE TOO!
All the luck, towels, and pies in the
worldUNIVERSE!BEST OF LUCK!
THANK YOU! I LOVE YOU! AND I ALSO MUST BE ON THE BUS AT 6:30 AM!
See you tomorrow, Fishy! ( Wow, that felt weird. )
THANK YOU!!! Heh, I have to get on the bus at 10:30! Much easier.
I just realized I’m not sure which finger I naturally scroll with, because I’ve never thought about it before, and now it’s bugging me, and I am constantly switching between my index and middle finger trying to figure out which one I use… GAH.
I naturally scroll with my middle finger, but I’d never thought about it before, either.
Same.
Index.
Index.
Middle.
ACK. I had gotten all back to normal and then clicked on a reply to this in the recent comments, read the body post, and now I’m not sure again!
I think it’s my index, but I just can’t tell.
Index, almost always.
WORLD CUP
who is watching?
I watched the first 20 minutes… Go England for a goal in the first 5 minutes!
england did well. US was fail for the first half, but they stepped it up in the second half. it was a good game
I was. South Korea won!
I’m about to watch the U.S.A vs. England game (I was away when it was on so I taped it) don’t tell me the result yet!!!!! (Actually, you can say it, I’m getting off the computer now or far away from any signs of civilization so I don’t accidentally see the final score.)
Okay starr, I won’t tell you that both teams played for ninety-some minutes, and that the “winner”
has a red, white, and blue flag.
As for who’s watching, I might watch some.
How ’bout that Robert Green?
how ’bout that tim howard? what a beast
“Tim Timiny, Tim Timiny, Tim Tim Teroo, we’ve got Tim Howard, and he says f*** you!”
I have Google Chrome again! Which means I can leave nested comments again! Yay!
Also, I just re-watched the “A Pup Named Scooby-Doo” episode “Dawn of the Spooky Shuttle Scare”, about, you guessed it, the space shuttle. The “mystery” was pretty easy to figure out, but I still liked it. And, given my sense of humor, I find lines like “It’s the ghost! And he’s got his own TV show!” to be hilarious.
In some servers you can still leave nested comments even if you can’t see the Reply button – just click where the Reply button usually is, (or move your cursor around until it becomes a “hand”) and it’ll come up. I don’t know if that’s what you’re referring to, but I know that’s at least the case in Internet Explorer for me.
Oh, I am glad that this is my last day doing work for National History Day with my partner… We are just not the most amazing match-up. Can’t wait for tomorrow when we leave off to DC though! Not that anyone’s paying attention but I will post updates as to how Princess Magnolia and I are doing in the competition and what not. It’s almost over!
Have fun, and good luck!
Same here, same here.
BYE FOR FOUR DAYS, EVERYONE! *hugs*
Wait, five. Sorry. Bye, anyway
I’ll have my laptop, so I’ll still be here.
CALLING PEOPLE TO:
1. Magic RPG
2. Demigod RPG
3. Muse Scouts
4. Sci-Fi RPG
goodbye
…
???
Don’t leave!
Goodbye? What? Where are you going?
I have no idea what I was thinking when I typed that. I’d sort of retreated into my mind, and actually considered leaving MB, which I just couldn’t do. *hugs*
*huggles and choklit*
Meh. Today was dance dress rehearsal and it was maybe the biggest failure in which I’ve ever participated. I still can’t get the pink sparkles out of my hair. The spacing was all off for our jazz number, not that I cared much because the dance is terrible anyway. And for the finale we just absolutely blew it. *sigh* So pathetic…Well, I hope the actual recital tomorrow is better and we actually remember the steps.
Aaaaah! I need to pack for my homeroom’s week-long trip to a certain place which I obviously can’t mention here and none of my bikini’s fit anymore! *runs around in hectic circles* And I’ve worn all my good shirts, and I need something to wear to the disco and … *runs around in more circles*
Packing is so much more difficult when you try on your old summer stuff and realize that you’ve actually developed curves since the last time you wore them and a certain guy is coming too and ack. This whole “being a girl” thing is much more complicated than I thought*. Must pack. Must bring fingernail polish. Must not forget makeup. Next time I do something like this, drag me shopping somewhere first.
*For the record: I’m staying in a room with three of my friends. One week-long sleepover coming up. I get bored to death during girly movies, I’ve never painted my toenails, I hate blow-drying my hair and I suck at talking to or about guys. The last time I did something like this was in 4th grade and I’ve been to only two sleepovers since. Instead, I cruised around, looked like a lion cub thanks to tanning more on the back, nearly drowned self free-diving, learned to scuba-dive, went on long hikes, taught myself algebra chopped off my hair and even owned a necklace for a while (which broke).
OMG OMG OMG. I am SO EXCITED. So, y’know, ignoring the fact that I’m royally pissed off that Universal’s Islands of Adventure’s definition of “spring” is royally caked up no matter what part of the Northern hemisphere you live in (June 18th is well past spring, especially in Florida), because if their definition of the Potter theme park opening in spring 2010 was caked up, it would have been open during the 2 weeks I was here, rather than opening this Friday, when I’m leaving today.
But excitement. Because I’m sitting in the Tampa airport, getting ready to fly home, and the Tampa Tribune today had an article on the Potter theme park. And while small, and not much in the way of uber awesome rides, necessarily–well, the dragon ride will be good,. but they’re just making over the existing Duelling Dragon ride for that, rather than making a new ride–it will be flammy, by the looks of it.
And while I’m still pissed that they don’t know what spring is, meaning I won’t get to go for awhile….I have already determined that, as I did for freshman year, I am coming down to visit my relatives in Florida this coming spring break. Which means….This November, not only will I be viewing the (horrible) DH movie part 1, I shall also be going to the HP theme park. *squeeage*
Aww… That sucks. No Harry Potter theme park…
But at least you’ll be able to see it when it’s less crowded. It would be really crazy if you went the first week it was opened.
Wait… Spring break? My mom is considering taking me to the HP park spring break next year… Because her high school class in Israel might be having a reunion in Orlando over spring break… And she’s promised me she’ll take me to the HP park eventually. So if our spring breaks are the same and this actually happens…
Erm, Thanksgiving Break. I apparently cannot sync my brain and my fingers very well. *sigh*
Aww… Too bad. But still, that’s awesome!
My mom’s agreed to let me go to the HP theme park for a Kokon . If Musers design a Kokon so that some of us can meet up there, it will be awesome.
going to a concert tonight after getting a total of six hours of sleep thursday and friday (plus 42380923 hours last night but that doesn’t count), then senior activities during the week (including senior breakfast at the same place as said concert) and disneyland (not saying WHEN….don’t worry gapas it would be nigh impossible for someone to find me there)
then graduation. so a lot of cool party times but i feel mostly dead. stress stress stress.
all mbers who are moving on to senior year i’m not gonna bs and tell you to enjoy it while you can cause high school is a bunch of crap and i wanted it over as soon as possible. now it is and i just want to graduate. good luck in the coming year though! same goes for everyone.
Yeah, I was told it would be the best year of high school. LIES. Sophomore was best for me, Junior was worst, then Senior and Freshmen were meh.
Same. For me freshman year balances out to “meh” because the first half was terrible and the later okay.
And what Axa said as well, I just wanted out by the end of it. Everyone I’ve talked to has said that COLLEGE are the best years, not high school, and I can only hope I’ve not been lied to again.
my senior year was definitely my best. my junior and freshman were also pretty good though. junior year was probably almost as good as senior. sophomore year was my worst.
but oh man college is SO much better. i mean, i actually enjoyed high school and i still think college kicks it’s posterior.
All South Korea needs to do is beat Nigeria and then we advance! The end table would look like this (assuming Greece loses twice, as they are the worst team, and Argentina beats SK, because they have Messi):
Argentina 3-0
South Korea 2-1
Nigeria 1-2
Greece 0-3
Park Ji-Sung is the best! Did anyone see his goal? He ran past two defenders then shot it behind the diving goalie into the net!
SOUTH KOREA!!!!!!!!
i haven’t watched any games in that group i feel like such a bad fan
i think the US is probably going to advance though right? although it looks like germany might kill us. they’re doing really well this game.
Yay! I went in the ocean today! I didn’t really swim, because it was too cold, but I jumped around in the surf and stuck my head underwater while standing up and got wet all over, so I guess it counts.
And then I found a piece of clear sea glass, which seems to be the most common kind.
So yes, I’m having fun.
My god, is it five o’clock already? How can it be five already?
Y’all probably wouldn’t miss me, but for the sake of the Demigod RPG as well as the hope that someone will miss me, I’ll have limited/no Internet access starting tomorrow and ending this Saturday because I will be in South Carolina visiting friends. (This applies to Em&Em as well.) Hope everyone has an amazing week and I’ll talk to you all as soon as I get back!
Of course we would miss you! *hugs*
Have fun! We love you!
i will miss you! have fun!
I shall totally miss you. *hugs*
PAIN
PAIN ALL OVER MY SHOULDERS
AND ARMS
AND FACE
D:
Sunburn?
*choklit*
It’s a brand new day
And the sun is high
All the angels sing
‘Cause you’re gonna die!
I love Dr. Horrible.
First it appeared as a moral dilemma
Cause at first it was strange that I swore to eliminate
The worst of the plague that devoured humanity
It’s true I was vague on the how, so how can it be that you
Have shown me the li-ight
Dr. Horrible is epic win.
it’s a brand new day, and the sun is high
all the birds are singin’ that you’re gonna die
how i hesitated now i wonder why
it’s a brand new day
there’s a stage version being put on by a friend of a friend (i think it is actually professional though…i’m not sure). i thought about auditioning but i don’t think i’m going to. might go see it though, if i’m around.
All the times that you beat my unconcious–
I forgive
All the crimes incomplete, listen honestly–
I’ll live
Mr. Cool, Mr. Right, Mr Know-it-all is through
Now my future’s so bright and I owe it all to you
Who showed me the lii-ight
It’s a brand new day, I’ve got no remorse
Yeah, the water’s rising but I know the course
I’m gonna shock the world, gonna show bad horse
It’s a brand new day…
just checked, it’s a brand new charity theater group. apparently they are trying to reach columbusians (columbians? columbusites?) who don’t really have a background in theater and get them to go to shows that might appeal to people outside the theater community. or something.
Pffft, I know all but three songs by heart.
By heart. And I can sing them, too.
(I’ll admit the three ones I don’t know are ones that Penny/Captain Hammer/groupies sing, but that’s nothing.)
Fo-o-o-ur sweater-vests!
commentary
commentary
fasten your seatbelts-it’s a commentary
everyone loves these “making-of”s
the story behind the scenes
the way that we got that one cool shot
and what it all means
Okay, I admit, I don’t know “Commentary: The Musical!” but that’s only because it’s not on my iPod.
Anyone with half brain
Could spend their whole life howling in pain
‘Cause the dark is everywhere
And Penny doesn’t seem to care
That soon the dark in me is all that will remain….
Laundry day
See you there
Underthings, tumbling
Wanna say, love your hair
Here I go!
Mumbling.
That looked odd in the RC bar.
“BUT IT’S NOT ABOUT SHOES
EVEN IF THEY’RE SWEET
THEY SHOULD FOCUS ON MY TRAGEDY AND NOT MY FEET
NO IT’S NOT ABOUT SHOES
WHEN IT’S ALL ABOUT THE ART”
When doesn’t something look odd in the RC bar?
Yeah, Zach’s doing everyone a favor
Blessing Commentary with his flavor
Don’t tell him it’s a musical
Or then he might kill us all
I’m better…
BETTER THAN NEIL
In so many ways, it’s almost unreal…
That was just an old sea chanty my mother used to sing to me… My pirate mother.
But do you know Commentary!? (Yes, there’s supposed to be an exclamation point there.) They call me moving guy, because I move the audience to tears…
198- Sunburn?
Piggy has a dilemma. He wants to watch the Japan – Cameroon game tomorrow, but 8 a.m. is far too early to wake up in the summer. Hurm, indecision…
Ah, it can’t be too bad. Our mom is getting us to wake up at 6:30.
i have had commentary on my ipod since the DVD came out. true facts. and i have like the entire freaking show memorized
it’s actually kind of sad
Magnolia, who’s your avatar? I’m sure I’ve seen that picture before, but I can’t place it.
It’s Emma Pilsbury from Glee.
OHHH, I thought it bore a remarkable resemblance to Sarah Palin, but then I thought “why on Earth would Magnolia have a palin-like gravatar? No, that can’t be Palin” and was confused.
Glee has made jokes about Palin. Definitely not Palin.
At my brother’s graduation from U of C on Friday, they sang Fireflies. I looked for the nearest exit.
They did? Really? Cool!
Is it bad if I watched a video with a voice-over by a dead person who’s voice I’d never heard before and my first thought was “Wow, he sounds a little like Kermit the Frog”?
Which is stranger, waking up with a cat on top of you, or not being woken up by the cat on top of you?
Definitely the latter.
Waking up as a cat on top of yourself.
Definitely that one. I’m leaving for sleep-away camp in 8 days, so I’ll be sadly experiencing the second soon. I’m a major cat lover, surprise, surprise.
This is the strangest comment I’ve ever seen.
Wouldn’t it be weird? Lying down for a nap, only to wake up to realize that A. you have turned into a cat, and B. you are lying on top of your human self.
But then… who would be controlling your human self?
You’re right, that would be weird.
I suppose it would be the cat. Or perhaps your cat is now controlling the goldfish, and the goldfish is controlling your potted plant, your potted plant is now controlling a random tourist visiting the Forbidden city, the tourist is now in Ayer’s rock, Ayer’s rock is controlling the Queen of England, who’s inside your scanner, who’s inside you.
Perhaps bilocation?
For me, the first, as I don’t own a cat. For cat owners, probably the second.
I own three cats.
The first is still stranger.
Then there’s waking up and realizing there’s a different cat on top of you…
Or a wung.
Or worse: AN HPB!!!!!!!
And of course there’s always the possibility of not waking up at all.
When I’m reading, the cats typically distribute themselves around the livingroom. If I blink, I’ll see cats in the same spots, same poses — but they’ve all swapped places without my noticing.
Cats= Weeping Angels? 0.o
The thought occurred to me, especially as some times they seem to get closer and closer. Thus far, however, they seem mostly harmless. Possibly they’re merely conducting research.
There’s a difference bewtween conducting research and patience.
Somehow doesn’t have the same ring…
Have you read the book Time Cat? The author offers the explanation that cats can time-travel when people aren’t looking.
Holy !@%#words I should not say%@#! !!!!!!
A few months ago I had this dream where I was reading a thread on MuseBlog, and I was very confused afterward. In it, the bloggers were talking about feathery wing implants, and I (in the dream) thought to myself, does that make me a junior or a semi-expert? Just a few minutes ago, I scrolled through the posts on the Time-Travel thread and I had extreme deja-vu; the exact same thing that happened in my dream happened for real. I EVEN HAD THE EXACT SAME THOUGHT! I didn’t even remember the dream until after it initially happened. It was like seeing a video of what I had dreamed. Very creepy.
Just wanted to get that out.
Hm. Talk to Rosanne. She may be able to teach you to use your powers for good.
On a similar note, I’m a regular at a Sailor Moon forum (if you don’t know SM, this post will make no sense). One day, I dreamed that one of the Super Senshi went eternal-as I knew she was scheduled to go Eternal soon, I just sorta went ‘huh, cool’, and forgot about it.
When she went to Eternal, her costume looked exactly like what I’d dreamed about. Exactly.
Hm, I just noticed something: never was made a June 2010 version of the neophytes thread. We’re still in May.
Odd. We made one:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=7309
Hm. Confusing.
I just had a really sucky day, and finals week has just begun. Does anyone have some warm fuzzy thing to un-depress me, please?
Hmmm… Do you like stupid microgravity tricks?
http:// video. google.com/ videoplay? docid=4028126875112075714 #
*huggle* *plays Penny’s Song from Dr. Horrible*
Here’s a story of a girl
Who grew up lost and lonely
Thinking love was fairytale
And trouble was made only for me
Even in the darkness
Every color can be found
And every day of rain
Brings water flowing
To things growing in the ground
Grief replaced with pity
For a city barely coping
Dreams are easy to achieve
If hope is all I’m hoping to be
Anytime you’re hurt there’s one
Who has it worse around
And every drop of rain
Will keep you growing
Seeds you’re sowing in the ground
Better? Here, have some hot choklit.
Oh… I’z sowwy. Go check out ICanHasCheezburger(dot)com. Or this hilarious video of a ninja cat:
It’s so funny! And remember, we’re all here for you. *hugs and gives choklit*
*rofl*
It’s a weeping angel! *huggle kitty*
You… just.. hugged… a.. weeping… angel. *runs*
It hugged me back! Hey, what’s that pyramid doing there…
Weeping angels should not be hugged. (by the way, what/who in the world is your gravatar? It’s giving me the evil eye.)
It’s Doctor Horrible, from Doctor Horrible’s Sing Along blog. Played by Neil Patrick Harris.
And seriously, Fireh, how do you not know this? Neil Patrick Harris deserves shrines in your bedroom.
My god that’s hilarious! My cats will sometimes do that as if they’re doing something bad … but not that long!
This made my day.
It’s probably a very bad sign that my first thought while watching this was “It’s Munkustrap!” followed by “Don’t blink!!”.
Two obsessions at once! Yay!
Cutest. Cat. EVER!
Thank you, GAPAs!!!! OI assumed you liked the ninja kitty?
I has a new gravatar! Can you see it?
Yes! Pretty!
For some reason this computer is showing new gravatars almost instantly, and it used to take weeks.
Waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait. Lancaster- no. York- no. Oh. Right. TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORS!
YES!!!!
We studied them this year. It was pretty brief, though.
We NEVER get to study British history in school. We’re too ‘American’ :roll:. Ironic, eh? Which sucks for me, because that is my principal interest and area of expertise.
we studied them thoughly in conjuction with Shakespeare’s Richard the III
I have also changed my avatar.
Your duck is very cute!
208.3- Awww… cute!
I’m getting my braces off tomorrow.
Congratulations!
I’m getting mine off day after tomorrow! Hooray for getting off braces!!!
I listend to one of Rita’s eggs and I heard PECKING SOUNDS!
YAY!!!!!
Yay! What’ll it’s name be?
Unhatched ducklings don’t get names.
Ah, so the “don’t count your chickens” principle applies to ducks, too.
148 (Cerulean Pyros) –
*high fives back* No, I’ve never volunteered before. I was going to last summer, but I chickened out…
Piggy has found another source of Useful Timewastery: Distributed Proofreaders. I’m sure many of you have heard of and used Project Gutenberg, yes? (The website that hosts literature that has been released into the public domain.) Well, Distributed Proofreaders is basically the force that allows this to happen. Basically, it’s a big ol’ system of getting images of old books accurately into digital text–proofreading, formatting, yada yada. So that’s what I’ve been doing. At the moment I’m working on The Trembling of the Veil, which is an autobiographical work of Yeats. Wheee!
Oh, (that’s really cool) I saw a NOVA about that….did you know that sometimes (not all the time) when you’re asked to type in the letters you see on the screen, you’re typing in letters a computer couldn’t scan and digitize from an old text? SO while you’re ensuring you’re not a spambot, you also help the project? I thought that was pretty cool.
I did know that about the RECAPTCHAS, yeah. You can actually go to the official site and do just those, for hours.
That would drive me crazy.
Ooh, look! As of now there are 666 posts. And now with the addition of mine…667. Apologies for the impulsive PoPo, but I always liked the number 6.
Anyhow……..
Enc: Avalon!! London! Dublin! Oh, we’re not….playing *sniffle* a game?
Reminds me of Caboose from Red vs Blue:
Wyoming: “Tex!?”
Tex: “Wyoming!?”
Caboose: “CONNECTICUT!!”
Tucker: “We’re not playing a *mucho naughty naughty word* game, Caboose!”
Caboose: “Louisiana?”
come to ohio, where even jesus can’t avoid the storms!
i like thunderstorms though. they’re fun
Hello all, I bring slightly good news. Princess Magnolia has gotten past run-offs, which means she is in the top ten(maybe fourteen) in the country! Sadly, nobody from my school got past run-offs, including my group. We do have one person doing a website, and in that category run-offs aren’t posted.
So, yes, Princess Magnolia and I had a mini kokon. I was so excited that I called Daisy Chain and Swat to let them talk to her. It was nice knowing that there are MBers from across the country. Hopefully I can see PM’s video tonight in run-offs, but I forgot to get her number… Hopefully I will see her again either today or at the award ceremony.
TFATF42:
Thanks for the update! I’m sorry that it won’t be an all-MBer finish, but it’s good to hear that you’ve enjoyed Kokonvening. The History Day events last until Thursday, right?
To Princess Magnolia if she reads this:
it was very nice talking to you and I apologize for being so boring- I’m horrible at phone conversations!! DX
Talking to an MBer is never boring! I liked talking to you! Also, if you think you were boring, you’re in luck, because I can’t remember what we talked about. I have a bad memory for things like that, apparently.
I finished my Algebra final! And now I will hopefully never have to take Algebra again, ever…
Last night, my dad went to the Apple Store and found an affordable laptop for me to take to Yale… AND, as part of their student discount, they threw in an iPod touch, a wireless printer, and a backpack to put everything in! I’ll probably give my brother the iPod, because I don’t like using small screens, but for the first time in my life, I’m going to have a computer that will belong to me and not be shared with or loaned from somebody else!
Congratulations, KaiYves!
GUYS BRAZIL IS TIED WITH NORTH KOREA 0-0 AT THE HALF WHAT IS GOING ON
Paektu Mountain reaches across
Shaping up our beautiful land.
Our General, who’s hailed by us all
And cheered throughout the land.
He leads our people, the Sun’s cause he carries on
Manse, Manse, General Kim Jong-il!
Flower blossoms all around tell
His broad and warm love to us
Blue waters of the East and West Seas sing
Of all he has done.
He’s a great artist full of joy, Juche ‘s garden he glorifies
Manse, Manse, General Kim Jong-il!
He defends our Socialist cause
Full of iron will and courage
He spreads the honor of our nation dear
Throughout all of the world.
He’s the champion of justice, and independence is his stance
Manse, Manse, General Kim Jong-il!
…Either someone hijacked your account, or that’s some weapons grade irony you got there.
Changbai Mountains roll, stained with blood
Long Yalu River meanders, soaked in blood
Today Free ChosÅn’s wreath of glories
Radiates its holy rays around
Vast snowy fields of Manchuria, please tell me
Endless night deep in the Taiga, please tell me
Immortal guerilla warrior, who is he?
Outstanding patriot, who is it?
Liberator of the working people, our savior dear
The great sun of the new ChosÅn, democratic and free.
For we all rally around the 20 Principles,
Throughout North Korea, spring has come at last!
Oh- Our brilliant and beloved General dear
Oh- Our exalted leader General Kim Il-sung
My cat yawned, so I yawned back at him, and he yawned back at me.
Are you back, MuseBlog? Are you really back?
Seems so.
Whoopee! I thought it was just me at first.
Whew, I thought it was just me, too.
Use ‘whomever’ in a sentence. Correctly.
GAPAs, help me here, because I have no clue if it’ll be correct or not.
“I’ll walk into that room and throw a pie at whomever I see there.”
but
“I’ll walk into that room and throw a pie at whoever sees me.”
“I’ll pie whomever I please.”
but
“I’ll pie whoever gets in my way.”
Whomever is followed by the subject (I, you, etc.) and whoever is followed by a verb, because whomever represents the object while whoever represents the subject.
WOOHOO!!!! SCHOOL’S ALMOST OVER!!!!! *calms down* And I’m hosting an end-of-the-year party with my girlfriends on Friday (I’d invite you guys if I could but A. I don’t know where you are and B. you’d probably cover the interior of my house with HPB guts and banana cream pie). We’er going to do laser tag and watch Alice in wonderland and sleep in a tent in my backyard! It’s going to be EPIC WIN!!!!!!
we do not forgive
we can not forget
we are a collection of every soulless man woman and child
we are anonymous
expect us
anonymous (a.k.a. tomas luther, thomas luther, elderly female, young hopeless nurse, cult ladder, Bilbo, PoPo, and others):
As we mentioned previously, you’re welcome to participate in MuseBlog as long as you treat others with respect; however, you will not find it easy to be part of this community — or any other — if you continually change your name and repeatedly try to post comments that are irrelevant to the discussion at hand. If your future comments demonstrate that you are willing to play by the rules, we will be glad to let them through, but as long as they continue on the present course, we will not post them.
I’m wearing eye makeup, a dress, a sweater, and I have painted fingernails. I don’t exactly feel normal. Well, time to get going—8th grade graduation
Have fun!
Enjoy yourself!
By the time I write this, it’s probably a little to say that, but oh well.
You wore a dress? The apocalypse is coming, everyone run!
I thought you said you never wore dresses….but then again, it’s a graduation…
Anyone know of good show brands that have a lot of arch support? I have really high arches, and I usually wear Naot but I’m trying to find rainboots for colege that have some support in them and Naot doesn’t really offer those.
Wow, I think I’m on 6 RPGs, 2 RPWs and 1 RRR.
220- I believe you mean South Korea…
I just found out that “NASA Astronauts” is listed as a team in the Comic Vine encyclopedia. That is just so great.
I hope they win.
Not a World Cup team, a superhero team.
No, it was North Korea.
I almost forgot, it’s the Dragon Boat Festival today! So, public holiday…w00t I don’t have school anyway! I might go to watch the Stanley races later, but it’s probably going to be pretty crowded. Last year we got to sneak on my dad’s company boat (a lot of banks and stuff have one, right in the middle of all the races) but now he doesn’t work for them any more.
229- Oooh, cool! Take pictures if you can!
I’ll try!
My braces are off! But now I have to wear this really uncomfortable thing called a tooth positioner, which keeps making me gag. It also reduces anything I try to say to mumbled gibberish. Oh well. I’m glad I got my braces off, though.
Congratulations, Koppar! I know what you mean. I actually still remember the date I got mine off.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO HIDE UNDER A ROCK
no really i want to know. piggy? bueller? bueller?
life, don’t talk to me about life
I am so confused by this comment. But I’d say it is possible to hide under a rock, provided that either the rock has a cavity on the bottom large enough to hold a human or the hider is particularly flat.
don’t worry, it made me feel better in any case
“particularly flat”
Where’s some Vulcan logic when you need it? We went to a computer lab in homeroom, so someone started an idiotic class email. “lets all be BFFLs. that means best friends for life just for those of you slightly uncooler kids who do not understand”
Then all the populars started obsessing over *shudder* Justin Beiber. I considered sending them the “SAREK: More logical than you since 2164” poster, but if that crowd knew anything at all about Star Trek, they’d be making idiotic comments about pon farr. We had some work to do, but we all played games instead. The girl next to me forgot to turn her sound off so there was a burst of music and everyone heard. Then they blamed me. Illogical much? Follow this with some other popular girl fails, and I was really wishing I could raise a single eyebrow like Spock. Of course, that meant I started fangirling and got into a huge argument about whether pointy ears are hot and whether Chris Pine is ugly.
In other news, we got to watch YouTube videos for the whole of French. One of them was a cooking show where they made Dijon mustard ice cream with salmon and crackers.
Logic is a very rare quantity sometimes.
Don’t you mean “quality?”
Maybe.
Or perhaps “commodity.”
That’s probably a better word.
I am about to go watch Joshua Bell!! SQUEE!!!!
Sweet! My sister did a workshop with him in November… Apparently, he’s actually a really bad teacher. (I’m pretty sure she said that he taught them nothing about violin.) But anyways, that’s awesome!
H’lo, people…. I’m feeling envious of those who have a summer. My life is about to get more hectic… rehearsals almost every day from the beginning of July till the middle of August, fun, eh? -_- I’ve found a new webcomic which I’m enjoying, though…. anyone here heard of Hanna Is Not A Boy’s Name? (Is there a webcomic thread? There should be. :D)
OH~! Hanna Is Not a Boy’s Name!! I love that comic! [Snip! Please refrain from discussing off-blog locations where people might be able to find you or other MBers. –Admin.]
Sorry! *sigh*
234- Congrats!
235- Good to see you.
T’anks. I’m glad to know I’m still alive here…. XD (That was a strange sentence. Which made no sense. But whatever.)
Wow.
School’s over.
I’m going to High School next year.
After the class party this evening I’ll probably never see my grade in the same place at the same time ever again.
I’ll never have class with these people ever again.
I’ll never be taught by my amazing [school name] teachers ever again.
It’s a bit to take in, but unlike some of my classmates who have been going to the same school since kindergarten, I’ve done this before.
still, Wow.
It is a lot to take in. Graduating from one school and going to another is always strange.
I feel the exact same way.
I agree.
There is so much to miss when we move. Next year seems as if it will be a complete mess…
Guys, Portal 2’s trailer is out! Go to Youtube and search for ‘portal 2 trailer’!
But the game’s being delayed! RAAAAAAAGE
i love their announcement about that though. i’m just gonna copy and paste in case anyone hasn’t read it
VALVE ANNOUNCES MAKING GAMES IS HARD
June 9, 2010 — Aperture Science, doing business as Aperture Laboratories LLC, in partnership with Valve today announced the successful completion of an ethics-review-panel-supervised release date restructuring process. Portal 2, the sequel to the ground-breaking title that earned over 30 Game of the Year awards despite missing its original ship date, is now targeted for a 2011 release.
Representatives from both companies acknowledged that public safety concerns factored into the decision. They went on to say that even though Portal 2 will arrive slightly later than planned, all life on earth won’t instantaneously stop as every molecule in your body explodes at the speed of light, which is what would happen should a rip ever appear in the fabric of Valve Time.
“Also, the game will be even better,” they added, missing an historic opportunity to create the first product delay press release to mention that a product is being delayed to make it worse.
To ask questions about how close we all came to dying, or to ask futile questions about the previously announced E3 ***PORTAL-2-THEMED-FOR-GOD’S SAKE*** surprise or, less futilely, to schedule an appointment to attend a Portal 2 screening at the Valve booth during E3, please contact Valve’s delegate to the EU’s Valve Time Studies Group.
Win.
SFTDP—that was supposed to be a reply to 238.1.1
I am trying to learn “Fanny Power” on the violin with moderate amounts of success. For some reason my bow completely refuses to obey me. It’s probably mad that I haven’t practiced in ages. Plus I’ve always had a hard time with rhythm. However, the bits I can play sound nice. I want to learn it by heart so I don’t have to look at music. (This is my goal: Not have to look at music. Ever.)
My brother sprayed cologne in my face. For no reason whatsoever. And my mouth was partly open at the time, because I was talking to him, so some of it went in my mouth and it tasted nasty…
Bleh. That is not cool. or fun. or anything…I mean, cologne smells bad enough already…*sympathetic hugs* *just plain old hugs*
Poor KaiYves! That’s disgusting.
I decided to kidnap my friends so we could pick mulberries yesterday. Everyone thought they were poisonous (silly friends…), and our excursion involved climbing trees and trekking through rose bushes, but we had fun.
And now, I’m making a mulberry pie. It smells too good to throw, though…
Abreviations I think need to exist-
TBNTP- True But Not The Point.
SFCH- Strange Freaky Computer Hiccough
Is it just my computer, or are the smilies messed up looking lately? They look kind of blurry, and some are cut off.
just your computer. or your browser. what are you using?
IE8. But now, checking, Firefox is fine, and the gravvies are updated, so I’ll switch over to there momentarily.
switch over there permanently! or get google chrome. much better.
Piggy, the Infinitely Wise Oracle, concurs: Chrome is the path to true internet enlightenment.
My cat had a huge stash of green plastic trash under my bed an dragged it down and we wondered where it was. I looked under my bed and cracked up. Then rolled on the floor laughing.
Myeh. Braces off. My mouth feels all smooth and gummy now.
Mine are coming off in September. Scheduling the appointments for them was a pain, since I’m leaving tomorrow for vacation and then camp, and then 10 days after I get back from camp, I have school, and they make you stay on campus the first two weekends. And the people who schedule my appointments seemed unclear on the concept of boarding school.
My friend just got hers off today! She kept commenting on how squishy her gums were and how slimy her teeth were. Good times.
246-Oh, I know how you feel. Do you keep running your tongue over your teeth? That’s what I did.
OH MY GOD IT’S THURSDAY!!!!! *calms down* And I get off school on Friday! And that’s a half-day!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, my dad brought my laptop home, but we can’t use it until he installs everything on Saturday. Oh, well.
Well that was terrifying. HELLO MB!
♩Narwhals, narwhals, swimming in the ocean, causing a commotion, ’cause they are so awesome.
♩Narwhals, narwhals, swimming in the ocean, pretty and pretty white, they beat a polar bear in a fight!
Has anyone else seen this?
YES. That is the unofficial themesong of my school. Today in foursquare I called Narball, which is where each time someone hits the ball they have to say the next word in that song.
I am now back home
The evaluation sheet from the judges was pretty straightforward. They didn’t like that we showed it on our laptop (There was a glitch on the tv/dvd player for us) and we did not have enough historical context. Oh well. Princess Magnolia did not place in the top three, but I have no idea about how she did overall (I think those who got into run-offs get a placement). ‘Twas a great first time at nationals. Hopefully I’ll be there next year! I plan on doing a group performance with Swat and co.
Congratulations on giving it a good try! Sounds like fun.
I got eleventh.
Thank God, I’m back out of a nine-hour bus ride. Ugh. Tired. More tomorrow.
MAGGGGIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *glomp*
I missed you!
Awww, thanks. *hugs SudoRandom*
GAPAs, what web host does MuseBlog use?
DreamHost.
Quite a lot of missing files in the database there.
Dreamhost.
Countdown list of important things to do in 2 weeks!
1. Read Bleak House
2. Read The Power of One
3. Practice cello
4. Get a new phone
5. Finalize the CONTRACT
6. Complete the oval basket
7. Attend staff meeting. Hopefully
Hey, MuseBlog:
If you had an infinite amount of money, what would you buy? (Not allowed are things to help other people, including world peace, ending hunger, curing cancer, etc. You have to buy things for your own personal use and enjoyment.)
I would get a new computer. One better than my 8-year old one. Maybe some of the new Wii games. A pen. Musics.
Hmm… Someone to clean my room. And probably a new chicken coop, and some more chickens, a dog trainer, a Gemeinhardt piccolo *drool*… And I would have enough money to go to a good college, and not just community college, where mother says I’m going.
Well, probably anything, if the money is truly infinite.
What would you buy, Piggy?
Wow, Beedle, that is very similar to what I’d get, except substitutte chicken thing with duck things, and a flute, not a piccolo. And no dog trainer. And I would get every Jethro Tull album.
bigger ipod, better texting plan (which i will probably get anyway UGH hate verizon), lots of music and books, and i would take spontaneous trips around everywhere. like to california to see julia and liv which i probably am not gonna be able to do because i don’t have money
and amtrak is actually almost as expensive as flying which is like o.O
also concerts. sooo many concerts.
and possibly a chauffeur. i hate driving.
I would buy T-shirts. Really awesome, witty T-shirts. Multitudes of them. And then I would pay Paul and Ringo to get back together and do some sort of collaborative project, if that doesn’t count in the charity/world peace/curing cancer category.
Hmmm… an IMAX theater, first-rate scuba equipment and advanced training, LOTS of traveling, comic books, generally being awesome and glamourous, a few generous gifts to NASA and various NewSpace companies, (If this is so I can then have crazy space tourism adventures, does it still fall under the “no charity” clause?), get Marvel to look at my comics ideas, get Disney to look at my ride ideas…
I would buy my way through college. Expensive tuition is expensive D: For where I’m going it’s 55,000 a year, but with grants it’s down to 35,000. But still x_x And after 4 years there’s grad school.
And then I would buy a house because I’ll ned to live in one one day and it will be a freaking awesome house made of win.
And then I would buy one of everything from Thinkgeek
AND COUNTLESS TRIPS TO OTHER COUNTRIES
I’d buy… tickets to Wicked, Cats, and a stage production of Dr. Horrible. I’d also buy a house in France, England, and one in Hawai’i for great SCUBA diving.
200- 8 a.m. is too early *has got up at 6:45 the past few days to go running 5 km before breakfast* ?!
254- A private yacht and jet, an ENORMOUS library, the entire esprit summer collection (okay, the parts of it that would actually fit me) and a bunch of other brand name clothes (Fitch, Hollister, Roxy, Billabong, Forever 21, ginatrikot, BikBok…), a villa in the countryside, a new computer and I-pod touch and I’d travel all around the world.
If I had an infinite amount of money, I would have to be careful not to spend too much, because a few trillion extra dollars in the market would cause massive inflation and destroy the nation’s economy.
But I would definitely buy a castle somewhere in Scotland, equip it with all the modern conveniences, and add a few secret passages.
Heyyyy guys! Guess who’s on isle of mayflies? That’s right! I AM!! It’s completely revolting. Mayflies everywhere that pop and crunch under your feet when you walk and get tangled up in your hair. Eeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww it’s gross.
Last night Pip, Jaimy, Barbra and I went wandering around town and got pizza, which was quite good. Sliding over mayflies on the porch to get out of there was not good.
Other than that, stuff is good. We got off from homeport a few days ago with no hassle, had a nice sail to Cleveland, dropped off the kids that had come aboard to join us for that sail, stayed a few hours, got underway again, sailed another day and arrived in Put-in Bay, where we’ll be for a few more days.
It’s an okay place, and I have all day to explore, so we’ll see what I kind of stuff I get into, whee!
I had a shower yesterday, which was amazing. And I’m wearing clean clothes today, which is also amazing. I also have strange tan lines. But oh well.
I need to write postcards.
Ah, I ran into mayflies like that once on a lake in Canada. Don’t leave any lights on inside when you go to sleep! Otherwise that all sounds like so much fun though! I for one am jealous. Maybe some other year! I don;t know when I’ll ever have a summer to do it though, I’ve either got work (which I love, but it doesn’t leave room for much else), or there will be internships (which will be great too, no doubt, but still…).
Five minutes before I leave for school but I’ll try to post a SHORT description of my DC trip here for those of you who dislike long posts.
The first day was irrelevant. On the second day, I showed my movie to the judges, was interviewed, and then went to the university hall ( we were at the University of Maryland ). On my way out I saw these people and one of them had a red bandana and one had a bag of pins ( we all get state pins, which we trade ). I still needed a pin from Vermont and the bag of pins looked like they were from Vermont so I asked the people if they were from Vermont. “No, New York,” said the guy with the bandana. “New York – do you know Jake?” I asked, and he said, “I”m Jake.” That’s Fishy! It was totally meant to be because I don’t know how we would have found each other otherwise if we hadn’t been in the university store at the same time. Later that night was the dance and it was horrible but I got to talk to Fishy and NSWAT and Daisy*Chain, the latter two of whom were on the phone. Third day we went into DC. Same with the fourth day. The fifth day was the awards ceremony. I didn’t place or get any special prizes but I got eleventh and that’s still pretty good. Also New Mexico were all running around with a sign that said “FEAR THE CHILE”. Then I took a ten hour bus ride home.
Sorry, that was actually pretty long.
That’s amazing. Typical MBers- of course you asked him if he knew Jake and he was Fishy.
That is EPIC. That is why I love MB.
“FEAR THE CHILE”? Wish I could have seen that.
Wish I could meet a MBer in real life.
[P] [I] [Three sitting figures- AEIOU, Mimi, Urania?] [telescope= seeing] [three circumpuncts WAIT NO, THEY’RE DOUGHNUTS!] [figure with arms raised, Chad?] [figure with arms raised, hair] [eye of horus= one who dies, makes] [
circumpunctDoughnut over two reeds (Y) ] [kokonspirateurs] [banana pie] [bo] [I]Cartouche:
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stairs?K] [M] [T] [P] [W] [N] [S]Things to consider: Reading direction. The cartouche would suggest left to right.
34 on MAWP’s random thread (hehe, MAWP, reminds me of marfwarrior):
I know…both Bad Horse choruses, Brand New Day, Slipping, Dr. Horrible Is Here, On The Rise…part of So They Say…and the first half of What A Man’s Gotta Do.
No progress on Commentary! The Musical, though.
On a totally unrelated note, I’m wearing a swimsuit-shirt coverup-thingy instead of a shirt right now, and it is a shirt. It’s exactly like a shirt, except for the material!
Piggy – Not just weapons grade, that’s Sarcasm–235. You’ve dropped the S-bomb. Good god, man, I hope you’re not serious.
There’s this dude on YouTube that makes fun of common American racist stereotypes by making Weird Al-esque song parodies. Said parodies are very…..colorful, to put it mildly, and YouTube actually devoted time into taking his #1 video off, but all his viewers reloaded it and he made ANOTHER parody stating “I don’t care if you delete my video! I have so many people that will reload it in various places where you cannot control!” and “It’s not hate speech! Come on it’s listed under comedy!”
I’m not going to state any more, as they’re very controversial. Those who have seen it will know what I mean. RRA rules!
Point is, he devoted two of his songs to making fun of Kim Jong Il. I lol’d so hard. Just like totally OMGFTWROFLWAFFLESMOOSEN.
A request from GAPAs: Please save the “use proper grammar and spelling” comments for blatant, chronic cases. There’s been a bit of a rash of such comments lately in situations where we didn’t see anything that warranted chastising.
We certainly appreciate the virtues of good composition practices, but please keep in mind that not everyone operates at the same skill level — especially on a blog that serves such a wide range of ages — and everyone makes mistakes. Among other points to consider, you never know when you might be scaring away someone who has a learning disability or simply doesn’t type well. Over the years I’ve worked with some wonderful, intelligent people who, because of dyslexia or other problems, couldn’t spell their way properly through a short paragraph if their lives hung in the balance.
I FEEL LIKE A LOBSTER BOILED IN A POT.
OWW.
WEARING T-SHIRTS CAUSES PAIN TO MY SHOULDERS. AND ALOE VERA IS GOD.
Anyway, I have a sunburn (can you tell?) and I am a sophomore!! Holy cake! It depresses me that the seniors will be gone next year, since I loooooved everyone in the class of 2010, but I swear I’ll see a few of them in Hollywood or the White House or someplace. Happy summer Museblog!
I have a sunburn, too. Owie.
Oh wow it’s been a while.
Hi guys! Have I become totally obsolete to the world of MuseBlog yet? I HOPE NOT.
I don’t know why I’ve been gone so long, I think about Museblog a lot more than I actually visit! Mostly during times when I am conveniently away from the computer!
Ahoy, Raynpho! Great to see you!
*tackles with choklit and pies*
I’ve survived five days with my classmates on sports week away from home.
A list of horrible things I have endured:
1. The food we got was a hidden attempt to poison me and it tasted like nothing. Plus the paper cups were recycled and you could only drink this disgusting juice that grew increasingly watered down by the day. I’m usually not picky, but I felt nauseous after many meals.
2. The food we bought. Chips, Chocolate, weird candy cherries and the pickles (I skipped those)… Nothing healthy at all.
3. The sailing lessons were actually not bad, except we got put into beginner bathtubs without hiking straps and I was the only one who could sail. At least those things were amazingly hard to capsize… The last day was the worst: the wind was kinda strong and we let (name) steer. Me: “(name), let’s keep going a few meters so we can gain ground to the windward, then tack.” Of course, (name) spontaneously does a jive and as usual, I have to warn (name) and L. and guide the boom so that (name) doesn’t get brained because of course she didn’t duck long enough. Add waves and stress. Where is this supposed to be fun? Let’s just say I sat out that last lesson. Amazingly, there were only two casualties and no fatalities.
4. Tennis. Mesa very, very embarrassed. And our teacher was this old annoying guy and it rained so I couldn’t wear all my pretty dresses and J tried to flirt and just ended up being as annoying as hell. And we missed half of our classes because the timetables got changed every time the weather changed.
5. The weather. Rain- we were soaked to the bone and nothing dried despite blowdrying.
6. The room. There was an ant road across our “living area” (couch + tv). They did a better job of cleaning up scraps than the cleaning lady.
7. The other people. Being a girl, I only got to be alone on the toilet and when I went running. Literally. Otherwise there was always someone else around. I’m very introverted, so this was excruciating.
8. The bugs. Surprisingly, this was a slam dunk. I got a rash from the bugs spray so I stopped using it, but only got three bites that aren’t swollen at all compared to everyone else. Perhaps I taste bad- or maybe those 1 1/2 liters of tonic water weren’t such a dumb idea after all.
In short: I’m alive, well and
bookgirl:
Welcome back!
1. A tasteless poison? Insidious! But potentially useful to know about…
2. I’d say you picked the right one to skip.
3-7. I’m sure many other MBers can tell similar stories.
8. Or maybe you’re a bug whisperer.
Sailing!
Sounds like a lousy situation though, too many kids in an opti with too little expertise… unexpected gybes are the scariest. Sounds like you know what’s up though!
I hate having to be around other people like that.
Welcome home!
4-1! Ugh! Still, I knew South Korea would lose to Argentina. Just beating Nigeria lets them advance.
Did anyone hear about the US and Slovenia and that idiotic referee?
Also, my dad told me that a couple of years ago at the World Cup, this one goalie from Colombia let in an easy goal and lost the game for them, and when he got back to Colombia he was ASSASSINATED.
england is tied 0-0 to algeria o.O
there have been a lot of little teams doing quite well this year
on a different note, finally saw the scottish announcer. he was -much- more attractive in my mind
Wait, SFTDP.
GAPAs, shouldn’t there be a “Happy Birthday, Sir Paul McCartney!” thread?
There should be, should have been, and now is.
I just got back from seeing Toy Story 3. It got me.
It appears my post was moderated. Let it be known that I do not actually live in or near Boston, and I am only in Boston for a few days, and therefore my saying that I went to A Winter’s Tale in Central Park and saw Arlo Guthrie should not be objectionable.