Saturday, 20 April 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
For July’s random thread, MuseBlog’s yearlong traipse through time and space repels the summer heat with a visit to the latest of Earth’s many ice ages.
The glaciers outside are frightful, but we’ve got a cozy cave, a crackling fire, a gallimaufry of earth-tone pigments, and — pies? Yikes! Duck!!!
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Date: July 1, 2010
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Random craziness
‘Lo all!
I can’t believe it’s July already. I mean, I probably say this on the first day of every month, (So you can roll your eyes here…) but this is making me feel like this summer is going by really quickly.
I probably said this already, but I love the picture of the Kokon. 
Very flammy.
In general news, (since I feel like I haven’t posted any general boring news about me in awhile, and, of course, boring y’all to tears is certainly a goal of mine…) I’m still at the beach, but not actually going to the beach. (Much.) *insert various complaints here* I’m playing basketball though, which is fun. I’m also doing a bit of babysitting for a family we know and making a little cash in the process. One of their kids is obsessed with Harry Potter, so we’ve been playing Harry Potter on their Wii almost all the time. This is actually a lot of fun for me as well as her, so that’s nice. 
(And yes, this is all an attempt to snatch the first post.)
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What? It’s July? Really? Aghhhh….
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July?! My job commences tomorrow morning!
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It really is going by quickly! It seems as though it was just yesterday that I was reading Wind From Hastings, and now I’m on Fountainhead! Oh wait….right. I wasss reading that yesterday. Haha.
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Wow! It’s July already!
Erin’s coming back from the beach today, so I can call her again!
And I found out that the archive of speeches and memos on the Reagan Presidential Library website is absolute GOLD for my Shuttlepunk story, so I’m putting my new wireless printer though its paces…
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Urgh. July. Vet school apps go up today. Aka, Luna really needs to start on it, so that she’s not stressing over it after school starts back end of August. *sigh*
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I have now read all of The Order of the Stick.
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Hrum de dum, my family is nowhere near ready for our annual Fourth of July party. A few weeks ago we were expecting next to no one, but, thanks to several recent turns of events, we’ll probably have more people than in past years. But, should a double batch of sloppy joes be made, or a triple?
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Definitely triple. You can never have too many batches of sloppy joes.
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Because I’m too excited to leave it on the Books in Progress thread:
My new logic board just got here! And I can start taking apart my computer! And I should have my computer functional again by the end of the day! And I am EXTREMELY EXCITED!
I’ll stop overusing exclamation points and go fix my computer now.
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Yay Errata!
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Yay, July! Happy Canada Day!
For my birthday, my family is hosting a massive Filipino party… about 30+ people are coming, and it’ll be a blast. It’s technically a 4th of July picnic, but my parents are making it a 4th of July/birthday party so that they don’t have to make too much food (birthday parties can’t be potluck! That would be silly).
And I’m marching the local parade with colorguard in one city (‘twould normally be in two, except one is the day of the massive party).
Others’ 4th of July plans?
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Going to my parents’ friends’ INCREDIBLE APARTMENT to watch the fireworks RIGHT ACROSS from where they’re being shot off. I saw the barge today when I was in the river!
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Have fun marching! I wish I could do a forth of July parade!
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So I leave for the Czech republic in two days. I need to pack, I need to email my teacher, and I need to practice.
Woohoo.
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Have fun!
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Fourth of July plans? Uhmm, well that’s two days after my mom’s surgery, and she still won’t be able to walk, so, catering to her needs and sleeping.
6- Don’t procrastinate!
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OH CAKE
I forgot to say, I love the pic! And the hats. My hat it has three corners, three corners has my hat!
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Wait, is that really an english song too? O.o
I thought it only existed in german.
Tomorrow is my last day of schol 
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Yes! My mom sings it all the time. I have no clue why. I think it was German first. Have fun on your last day of school!
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My mom sung that song to me all the time too!
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Sang, please, Clare. “Sung” is the participle.
</Muse_Academy_moment>
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Thanks Robert. Verb conjucations are annoying in every language, even my lovely, nonsencial native tounge (english, that would be you) You sound like my english teacher, which I guess makes sense.
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Oh, yeah. There’s also a Hebrew version… Hakova sheli, shalosh pinot. Shalosh pinot, hakova sheli.
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That’s funny because the other day my cabin mate started singing this randomly. She sang the German version, though.
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So Silver Lining ventures out into the world on a quest for duct tape, among other things, is captured by the evil Mom-creature, is trapped inside the land of Dentistopia, and returns home with one less tooth!
Ugh, but seriously, I forgot how much I hate going to the dentist’s, especially when it results in blood. Apparently I have a sensitive gag-reflex, which is why I always almost throw up repeatedly when the dentist is prodding my teeth with sharp objects. Ah well…
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Ew. Sorry. *Hugs*
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Thanks. *hugs back*
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I am currently in the middle of an amazazing Shakespeare theater camp! I probably am not allowed to say what company is doing it, so let me just say that it is by the best (in my opinion) Shakespeare theater company in New England! And it is so fun! And yesterday we did stage combat and I got slapped in the face and pulled around by the hair for about twenty-five minutes, which was awesome! And today we did costume games and I got to be a model for the first time in my life, which was extremely weird, especially considering that I was wearing a pair of pants on my head! And I am spazzing because even though I have to get up at 6:30 and commute for an hour and a half to get there, I am so hyped! *falls over*
…Yeah.
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And you were water, were you?
That sounds flammy. *envious*
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….Yes. Indeed I was. Along with three other people (at that point). And we did indeed dance the can can. 
And it was indeed flammy. And I am thinking of maybe organizing a kokon for the last day’s show-thing, which is on Friday. What do you think?
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Shakespeare is so spectacular…LUCKY!!!
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*feels lucky, she must admit it* The camp itself is flamablamablous, too. Just the energy….and the people…and the activities…. ^_^
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My friend loves Shakespeare camp too.
She may come to MB, by the way!
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*laughs* Yesh, I have heard so….
Oh, really? Cool!
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It’s July already?
*sighs*
*disappears*
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So, at first I was bummed when I saw the dates announced for the last two space shuttle launches, because the last one is next year when I’ve been reading-hearing-repeating-writing-taking-to-heart-believing in the phrase “2010 shuttle retirement” for six years. (But they actually meant Fiscal Year 2010, and not y’know, NORMAL Year 2010, and Fiscal Years last until summer of the next year, so it’s actually still a true statement, I guess.)
But then, I looked again, and I saw that the last launch date was February 26, 2011… which is my birthday! So I told my mom, and she thought it was really cool, and she said… Maybe!
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Enc, Fireh: Prev. KMT:
Awww, thanks. You really thought so? In height/size I could pass for a small 14/15 at most. (5’5″) Now, in mentality….oh, cool, that sounds like Metallica. Metalicality?
Men of five, still alive through the raging glow….gone insane(er) than ebeth from extreme pain that they know too well by now…
FTWAFFLES.
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*cracks up* “FTWAFFLES”… Did you makes that one up?
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You’re 5’5″?????
Whoa. You’re five inches taller than I am.
And I’m turning 14 this fall, like Enc.
Um, yeah. I’m still five foot zero. No comment.
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5’5″ is a small 14/15 year old? (My mom’s only 5’4″!) I’m only supposed to be 5’5″ or 5’6″ when I’m done growing, and that’s apparently tall. *shrug*
Fireh, I know you probably think that’s small, but I have plenty of friends around 5′ that are my age (13) and turning 14 this fall. Don’t worry.
As for me, I’m turning 14 in November and am 5’4″.
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All of my friends are taller than I am… Ginger’s 5’10”, I think. She’s very tall. *pretends to glare at Ginger*
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Wow, you’re right. Tall. I think the tallest girl in my grade is 5’8″ maybe?
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Sheesh, that’s really tall! I’m the tallest in my grade, I believe, at 5’5″. *shrug* The doctor says I prolly won’t be that much taller. 
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I forgot how tall I was…I think 5’5 and three quarters.
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Re: Height: I’m 5’4″, and hope to grow more. I’ve surpassed my mom (5’2″) and my maternal grandmother (5’0″), but not my dad (6′) or my paternal grandmother (5’5″). But since my mom grew after she turned sixteen there’s still hope for me yet. (I’m turning 14 tomorrow.)
Most of my friends in real life are older than me (gee, I wonder why), but I’ve passed some of them (who are now extremely bitter) but I have a group of friends where all of them are at least 5’10”. So I will probably still be the shortest there.
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i am 5’4”! i am not growing any more. i’m average for women though, which means i get to call out people who call me short
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Wait. if you can make exclamation points, then how come you don’t capitalize?
This post is really just to set my email on this computer.
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She never does. I think it’s either pure laziness or contrary-mindedness.
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No, it’d Ebeth-yness.
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I’m taller than 80% of women, apparently! 5’5ish.
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I’m 14 and 5’4″, too. Weird.
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5’4″ and 16!
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13 and 5’6.75″
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6.75 inches taller than me. *glowers*
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I am 13 and almost 5′ 7″. MWAHAHAHA! *huggles short people*
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*high fives fellow tall person*
I’m 5′ 8″ ish.
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Essentially the same as me.
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*glares at all the tall people*
There’s this one tall girl I know who always pets me on the head (hard enough that it hurts, actually) and calls me one of the following:
“Runty”
“Midget”
“Chibi chibi” (which, says she, means “runty dwarf” in Japanese. WHAT.)
“Chibi chibi runt”
and variations of those. It annoys me so much, even though it’s typical of most of the tall people I know, probably because I’m a year older than she is.
I told Ginger the other day that I loved her because she was the only tall person I had ever met who didn’t pet me on the head and call me a midget.
As a result, after the concert on Tuesday, when we dropped her off at her house, she petted me on the head. I glowered at her for a few seconds, then we started laughing hysterically.
I dislike being a midget. People think that my sister’s older than I am, when in reality I’m two 1/2 years OLDER. *grumbles*
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*high fives* I’m twelve and I’m 5’8.
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SFTDP — 8 with a ” after it.
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I’m 20, presumably done growing (although apparently maybe grown a half inch in the past year or two), and am 5′ 7 3/4″
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I’m nearly 5’6”, but that doesn’t stop people from assuming I’m much older than my thirteen years.
Like one time when a lady I was sitting next to at my mom’s high school anniversary thing asked if I graduated there. And then a door-to-door salesman asked if I was the ‘lady of the house’, with my nine year old brother standing right beside me.
Anyway. I’m rambling. As usual.
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Everyone thinks I’m 10-12. Apparently I look rather young for thirteen (and will look even younger for fourteen). My classmates say my face looks young, but I still think I look too old/am too tall to be mistaken for a sixth-grader. -_- Unfortunately, I can’t ask anyone how old I look, because they all know what grade I’m in (which prevents me from asking some random marching band person).
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Kokonilly – last summer I was sitting in an exit row on a plane and a flight attendant asked me if I was older than twelve. This was about a month before my 18th birthday.
I routinely got offered children’s menus until I was about 17.
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Oh crap the 4th is soon. That’s my grad party uhg and I still need to tell some people they’re invited (school friends whose adresses I don’t know x_x) and see who all is coming and UHG WORK. Also mom invited a TON of people and it’s like… wtf I thought we were having it on the 4th, when we always have a party, so it could be NOT A BIG DEAL. Because I hate parties and crowds and bluhg. And I’m not going to be able to hide in my room most of the time either. Bah! GRUMBLEGRUMBLE CRANKY JADE IS CRANKY
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grad parties are FUN! everyone won’t hang around forever, people will be hopping from party to party. so the amount of people in your house at any given time should be perfectly manageable
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Hmm, there aren’t any more grad parties after June, from my experience. People are apt to stay longer if there’s only one that day. So on, say, June 20 I’ll stay 15-45 minutes per party because there are 10 parties. But if there was on, say, July 4 I’ll stay longer because there will be less.
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Alice and Bookgirl: I don’t write it. I doodle it and screw around with the characters. There’s an established world and less-established rules, but it’s more like a fanpremise than a fanplot.
I don’t know, take a poll and I’ll get back to you when I can.
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That’s cool. You can just sort of write around and then show us some and we can do fanfictions or whatever.
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What bookgirl said.
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Okee~ Will attempt.
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssss it’s the end of Term 2! Yay! This is what i did today:
Homeroom: The populars in my group were whispering to each other. What with the significant glances at me followed by a “I’ll tell you next lesson” and more whispering, it was BLATANTLY OBVIOUS I had something to do with it, but since when did they do anything logically? 
I just wish J was there(she’s not in my homeroom) to liven things up.
Commerce: Mrs P, who spent most of the semester giving us so much work that even the populars hated it more than maths, let us go to a lab and play computer games.
Maths: Oblivious to our complaints, Mrs S made us do work. Okay, so she let us go through the excerise orally, but we still had to be paying attention! Difficult for my class at the best of times, but today… *shakes head*
PE: My usual semi-popular PE buddies were away, so I ended up messing around with my friends and some people from maths/French/science class.
Lunch: Three of my friends won chips, chocolate, and soft drink in Commerce. A and I decided to help them eat it. Need I say more?
Science: Trivia! Somehow my team managed the lowest score, but it was fun.
French: FRENCH PARTY!!! Yes, that totally merits green text. French sixth period on the last day of term? What could go wrong? Someone thought to bring croissants, and there was the usual amount of junk food, so we acted totally insane while Mr R(he was being perfectly serious) commented on how much more mature we are than the Year 8’s. Maybe there’s some truth to everyone’s comments about how annoying the year group below us are.
The bus: The driver handed out lollipops! Yayness!
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Hooray, July, no school. Of course, its also sweltering here…
For some reason, that made me lose the game. *loses game*
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I LOST THE GAME. :p
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You just wait. It’s going to be highs in the nineties on Monday. Assuming you’re still in Massachusetts. Assuming you lived here in the first place..which I think you did….Now I’m confusing myself.
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Wait, seriously?! Noooo….I dislike the heat. 
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HEAT! ♥
How can you not like heat? You’re like Luna… It’s been sorta chilly here, in the low seventies… I like my heat.
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I hate the heat. You can only strip down so much, but you can have as many layers as you want.
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My sentiments exactly. Also, if it’s cold you can move around to get warmer. There’s a natural limit to how still you can be.
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Agreed. I don’t need a coat very often in the winter, but in the summer, I overheat easily. If I’m outside running around for thirty minutes in the sun, I come back in with my face bright red- which always happens when I overheat. My face turns red. *scowls* I like the cold.
And my parents make me wear coats in the winter, which makes me overheat. Which makes me bad-tempered. I get bad-tempered when I overheat.
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Heat only brings sweat, which brings stinkiness and stickiness.
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Low 70s….Chilly? Ummm, what? I would absolutely love some low 70s right now. We’re having a depressingly chilly/rainy summer thus far. There’s been about one sunny day since I got home mid-June, and it’s maybe got above 60 about one time, also. Or else it only budges from the mid-50s whilst I”m at work. Grrr.
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Low seventies? Chilly? How so? (Or do you live in Tanzania, where my dad lived from 3rd grade through high school? He now considers low seventies a bit low for him, I think.)
Meh, I like cold rain.
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Well, low seventies and breezy. Not really chilly, just… mild. I couldn’t think of the word.
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So, it’s my last day before I leave for Yale. I’ll still be able to post there, because I’ll have my MacBook, so it’s not like you won’t hear from me again, don’t worry.
We got everything packed pretty well, so now I’m just relaxing and listening to “Across the Universe”.
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Silver Lining –
Yes, I made that up. And no, 5’5″ is not a small 14/15, my bad. For some, it could be, but I think most male 14/15s are hovering around 5’6″ – 6’whatever”.
FTWAFFLES.
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SFTP – Brain flipping lapse. Sorry, I forgot to post half of my comment.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, GOOGLE SEARCH YOU!
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, FACEBOOK POKE YOU!
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Oh, god, I’m so sorry, admins. You must just be sobbing about now. I’m *cringe* TRIPLE posting, please forgive me. I forgot another half of my post…so my post must, by now, be 1&1/2 posts long. FTW?
Anyway, you guys realize I’m a guy, right? My friend is 5’7″, and six months older than me. My little bro is 7 and pretty short, my older brother is 29 and about 6’4″, and my dad is 6’2″, so I’m pretty much guaranteed a pretty tall height by now. Oh, yeah – shoe size: 11 1/2 to 12 1/2. A size bigger than my dad’s.
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You don’t have to apologize to us. We don’t care. It’s your fellow MBers who come crashing down on multiple posts.
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Yes, we’ve moderated well over 325,000 comments. We don’t really care what order they come in.
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How old are you, Castle? I’m thinking twelve, is that right?
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I have no clue where my stuffed toys went… I was making two, a dragon (OHMYROWLING HE’S SO ADORABLE!) and a cat, and I put them somewhere until I got stuffing. So now I have stuffing and no stuffed toys.
Or, shall I say, unstuffed toys
Oh yeah, and I just heard a cicada outside. I love that buzzing noise…
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Re: Height. I’m almost 5’6″, which is average for a teenage (13-18) girl here. I can always wear heels, so I don’t mind being not that tall.
Meh. Dancing class kinda stank. V annoyed me by calling me a little kid and venturing forth from our little group, I finally found the reason why I feel so insecure about my dancing and looks- namely L, aka my best friend. Thanks a lot. I’m loyal to you, then you first critisize me for not being feminine enough, then insinuate that I *hemhem* had certain relations with V. Ah well…
*threw a plastic bottle at them*
*hit V and L*
*thought V would catch it, twas an accident*
*has no intention of apologizing*
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Wait, you’re not supposed to wear heels when you’re tall?
*had three-and-a-half inch heels on last night*
*was almost six feet tall* I think I scared everyone.
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Scaring people is good. I cannot walk in high heels.
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Yeah, I’m surprised I didn’t fall on my face.
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Me neither.
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Unlike most of you people, I am only in middle school and going into 7th grade. *is sad* I’m still 5’2″ though. It’s kind of weird that Muse can bring together people who would never have met in real life (and even if they did they probably wouldn’t care a whit about each other). Then again, Muse can do just about anything .
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Oh no, that’s perfectly all right. I joined MuseBlog when I was nine, and now I’m turning 14 tomorrow. (No, wait, that doesn’t sound right… Oh, well. You get my point.)
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I’m going into 7th, and I’m only about 4’9-4’10…
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I’m going into 7th too! And I’m only 4’3.5…
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And I wish that I was still in Ohio. North Carolina is boring. Ohio is awesome.
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Ohio is eh
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Mango – Hey, no hating on NC
So, I am in Switzerland, guys! I am not a bog fan of long plane flights, but I got to watch Toy Story 2 (plane movie) and AVPM (on my iPod) so it’s all good, even if I was a sleep zombie today.
I got to see the room I’ll be staying in at the school–my dad spent a few summers here when he was my age and knows the woman who runs it, so when we went over to visit I got a bit of a tour. I’m a little less nervous having seen the place, I guess. Also, the children of two of my dad’s friends from when he was here are coming too (I don’t know them though, they’re Spanish). After they drop us off they’re all going out to lunch together. I think it’s nice that that friendship has endured.
Homesickness and I have a bit of a history together, which is why I’m anxious about this. Still, it’s an awesome opportunity and I’m also excited.
(And European food > American food.)
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That’s so cool! Hope you’re having fun!
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URUGUAY HANDBALL I AM SO ANGRY *RAGERAGERAGE*
that game SO should have been ghana’s. this is not okay. uruguay better lose HARD to the netherlands
ughughugh
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Brazil lost!!! Now I won’t get to see them play..
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AGREED. It was one of the most undeserving victories I’ve ever seen.
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And Uruguay beat South Korea, too! They are horrible!
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SFTDP
I forgot to mention that Uruguay has no chance of beating the Netherlands (barring a Dutch collapse) without Suarez (the handball guy). He is probably their best finisher and best player besides Forlan. But Forlan is nice. His sister is disabled, so when he was a child, he vowed that he would find a way to pay all her medical bills. He dedicates every one of his goals to her. He wouldn’t have done the handball.
Another reason to hate Suarez — he scored both of Uruguay’s goals against South Korea.
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Forlan is pretty. I liked him and his team in the early games. but Suarez ruined everything and now they must die
i am still LOVING germany. they’re brilliant. final game, them vs netherlands. although i sort of half-want the netherlands to win as well, just because they never have and they are so awesome. their fans are adorable
so that would/will be a game that i watch with definite interest. it depends on spain, really, i keep hearing about how good they are but i haven’t actually seen any of their games yet so i don’t know :-/ guess i’ll see this afternoon
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Spain plays “the beautiful game,” with lots of passing and tricks. It really is fun to watch, but they’re having trouble scoring this World Cup. David Villa and Fernando Torres are their star players, but they have a lot of other good ones.
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i watched their game yesterday, they really didn’t do very well. they were clearly the more experienced team and they were just kind of failing at life. i think they can beat uruguay though, so hurrah!
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Fernando Torres really hasn’t been playing that well lately, though. He’s been extremely quiet, probably because he’s been injured and I’m guessing still recovering. I’m kind of disappointed by that, I always liked watching him play for some reason. I followed him back when he played for Atletico de Madrid.
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Man, all you tall people – I’m almost 19 and I’m 5’2″ (158cm). I once had dreams of being 5’3″, but I think if anything I’ve gotten shorter in the past few years, not taller.
29 – Switzerland sounds fun! How long will you be there?
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I’m here till the end of the month exactly. I believe I get home on the 31st, just in time to be completely jetlagged for band camp
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I have arrived at vacation. Which is as much of a destination as I am inclined to give. I am really not supposed to be on here, because I brought my summer AP US History reading and I must read it. I love going on vacation, but I mostly like going to big cities. Where I am right now is NOT a big city. Unfortunately. I did manage to get ahold of some wifi, though, so I can watch the Doctor Who season finale over and over again.
A belated Happy Canada Day! One of the best holidays I have ever celebrated.
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Re: Height: I am nearly 17 and am 5’3″ or something. 5’2″, I don’t know. I haven’t grown for at least three years. The shoes I bought with room to grow in the spring of 2008 are still too big in the summer of 2010, and the pants I adored freshman year still fit perfectly, except for being a few inches too long…still. My 14-year-old sister is a good inch-and-a-half taller than me by now and half a shoe size up–heaven help us if she ever starts wearing heels.
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Re: Height: I’m currently 5’7″ and continuing to have growth spurts in which I eat a ton, sleep even more, and shoot up another inch.
I am exhausted. We finally finished tearing out all the carpet (see Rants/Plaints thread). That was not fun. The padding underneath was glued down horrifically; the furniture was absolute hell with which to wrangle; I’m covered in dust.
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What was under the carpet?
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Directly under the carpet was glued-down padding; underneath that was concrete.
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So you’re just leaving it as concrete?
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Until the cat dies and my dad decides to put carpet in, yep.
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Re: Hieght. I’m between 5′ 2″ and 5’4″ (I haven’t checked recently), 14 years old, nearly done growing, most of my friends are older and taller than me, and people keep thinking I’m in college for some reason. I don’t look that old…but one of my friends is incredibly tall and honestly looks to be between 18 and 20 (and really pretty) dispite her 15 years, so her aunt made her a shirt that says “jail bait” on it. I thought this was funny.
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Re: Height: I’m about 6′ right now, and 14. *feels tall*
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Whoa. You might be one of the tallest here.
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Just rewatched Doctor Who “Fear Her”:
“Ball bearings you can eat. Masterpieces.” ~The Doctor.
I remember when I was little I absolutely *loved* those things. XD
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Should I be worried that, on Wikipedia, if you type in “The meaning of”, the first suggestion is “The Meaning Of Liff”?
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I think there’s a book called “The Meaning of Liff” (Spelling intentional).
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Yes. It’s by Douglas Adams, actually!
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I know, I mean should I be worried that that article is more popular than, say, “The Meaning Of The Qu’ran”?
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Oh, I thought you meant you were worried because you thought people couldn’t spell “Life” correctly.
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Height: Someone said today that I grew 2 inches. :/ I have no idea.
I’ll just… update some stuff online… and go to sleep… *will fall asleep shortly*
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The Guide says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. It says that the effect of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.
24.1.2 – Yeah, 13 in September. Speaking of which, I’ve been here since Nov. 27th, 2007…so that’s been…what, two and a half years?
Admins, birthday color change if you don’t mind – I think now I’m sort of a mood ring. Everything at once, if you will.
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4th of July plans: I might bang pots and annoy the heck out of everybody, but hopefully my friends are planning something. I wish I had fireworks, though!
I want to read H2G2 so bad! But my friend’s borrowing it right now. SAD.
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You must read it. MUST.
By the way, the main character in a comic I did once was named Kyra. I had no idea where the idea where the name came from, but I now have a suspicion that I had seen it on MuseBlog and stored it in the back of my brain. So, you got an unconscious tribute in my comic.
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I have read H2G2 before, and that’s why I kind of have a craving for it. I think the last time I read it was around December. Just clearing up what was possibly not a misunderstanding.
Haha, that’s great about the comic! When did you write it? And do you pronounce Kyra correctly? You can look up my MB name on Who’s Here for a pronounciation guide.
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Wait haha the pronounciation guide isn’t there anymore! I thought it was! Oh, well. That’s ok, I guess.
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So. I’m in Chicago now.
It’s too flat. TOO FLAT. Not even a tiny hill.
Yesterday, there was about an hour’s length of driving in which the only things as far as the eye could see in any direction were cornfields and windmills, and you couldn’t see the horizon, and the sky was cloudless, and it was beautiful, and I hated it. Of course, none of my family gets it and when I tried to explain, I got looked at funny. I need mountains and hills and a horizon, or else I get extremely uncomfortable. I can’t look at a mountain range on the horizon and wonder what’s behind it. I can’t wonder what’s over the top of that next hill. It’s so. Dreadfully. FLAT.
And then AlpacaLips suddenly went Southern in self-defense for some reason and started singing “May the Bird of Paradise fly up your nose” with his full-blown Tennessean accent. In a gourmet Japanese restaurant.
Well, camp starts today! Whoopee! If there’s wifi in the dorms, then I’ll try to pop in now and then. If there’s not…. we’ll see.
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I’m sorry to hear that.
By the way, our dad said that you could stay at our house if you go to Massachusetts!
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NO MY HOUSE
Or I could stay at your house too.
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When does anyone ever come to TN? Or, rather, my area of TN, since Gatlinburg is quite popular. XD I could go between both houses?
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Yeaaaahhh welcome to the FLATLANDS. At least we have the best corn ever, but still, I understand.
Unfortunately I’m worried that by growing up out here, I won’t be able to live in mountains really. I like being able to see around me, and sunsets are a lot different when you can see the sun actually sink into the earth rather than just go out of sight. Not sure I could deal with the sky being… smaller, like it is in mountains (we’ve gone to a lot of different ones for skiing).
Both have their upsides and downsides.
Do you get much free time or days to wander around in the city, or are you mostly doing camp stuff?
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I love mountains. I don’t like having empty space around me, which is probably because I’ve lived in a valley my entire life.
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Camp stuff. Not allowed to leave the campus of the college where the camp is, since I’m in the teen group, unless I’m with the teen group or with my parents if my parents get permission from the counselor. The counselor, by the way, is very nice. Tomorrow we go minigolfing, to the waterpark, and then we’re going to go somewhere to see the fireworks. Whee! And the dorms have free WiFi! w00t! (Whoops, I just gave a celebratory whoop out loud. My roommates are looking at me funny.)
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It’s flat here too, but there’s a ton of trees and houses, so it doesn’t seem like it. I don’t think I’d like living in a place that’s all cornfields though, just because of the monotony. Of course, I don’t mind being on a boat, and surrounded with water, but water isn’t so monotonous. It has waves and fish and… Well, not much else. But it’s unpredictable at least. I’d probably like living in a mountainous area too.
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I’m watching the HG2G movie for the third time today. *loves*
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Third time today?!?!
When did you start watching it the first time, then?
I’ve never seen it. Which makes me dreadfully sad.
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Well, I’m watching it for the third time. On YouTube, so you can find it there!
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Oh, on YouTube! I’ll look it up, then.
(aaand the dorms have free WiFi! W00T!)
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Meh. I watched the movie first and then read the book and thought the book was much better. But the movie was pretty good. I just don’t like the end that much.
The one thing I LOVE about the movie is the dolphins’ song. So EPIC!
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I love that song too! I watched that movie with a friend a while ago and afterwards we were running around singing that song at the top of our lungs. Good times, good times.
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Re: Fourth of July plans…um, Em is leaving on Monday (I’m going to drag her over here to post before she leaves, don’t worry!). We’re going to go to this annual party held by a friend of mine and watch fireworks. Nothing really different from anyone else, but it’s usually a lot of fun.
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41- I know a place where all the books are online, but I’m not sure if the GAPAs would let me post a link.
Re: Fourth of July plans: Like every year, my immediate family is throwing a party to which my extended family, friends, neighbors, and anyone else that wants to come is invited. Main attractions are sloppy joes and fireworks. Unless it rains. In this case the main attractions are sloppy joes and… board games?
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I found it using google! Thanks, Piggy!
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I’m glad I could… mention a vague web site?
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Re: Fourth of July plans: Absolutely none. Nada. Zilch. We’re down here in Cape Cod just like every year, but we’re not seeing family. Heck, I don’t even know if we’re going to see the fireworks. Oh well.
In other news, my friend managed to spoil a big surprise that The Beautacious Kate was doing for my birthday. Blah. Details to come if so desired.
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I’m going to the fireworks in Boston.
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Sounds fabulous, Maggie!
Also, the surprise Kate was doing turns out to be a huge misunderstanding. Nothing was ruined, and everyone is happy!
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Ooh! Awesome picture. I love the pies.
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Lovely picture, Lady B! I love it! It’s very mysterious looking…
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Wow, that’s a great picture, Lady B! *sets as background* Oooh, that has a nice effect. I might change it back to Anchors Aweigh, though.
In other news: I got a phone!! I need to get all my friends’ numbers now… My mom and brother got the same phone at the same time. Unfortunately it comes only in black. I’d better not leave it lying around.
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Um…. What’s happened in the last two months or so on here?
I really need to post more.
At Camp right Now!
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Yes, you do need to post more! How’re you doing, TMFA?
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Good, hungry for dinner at 5ish.
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Yikes. The graphic. I’ll be hiding, now. It reminds me dreadfully of “The Impossible Plant” and “Satan Pit”.
Apologies to Bo for comparing her silhouette to the devil.
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Is anyone watching the world cup? All my teams lost so I stopped watching.
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Didn’t Brazil lose to the Netherlands? That was surprising because they were pretty good. Who do you think is going to win now–Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Uruguay are left.
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Germany is going to win. Netherlands will be second, and then either Spain or Uruguay. Hopefully Spain, but they were really not playing well against Paraguay today (but i want Uruguay crushed so hard)
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Why are you so mad at Uruguay? I actually thought they played pretty well, though Ghana’s loss to them was really heartbreaking.
Paraguay vs. Uruguay would have been cool.
My brother is trying to convince me to hate the Netherlands because they beat Brazil, which he was really behind. Of course, I was the better person and didn’t rub it in like he did when Japan lost.
So I might go for Germany just ’cause they have the coolest uniforms.
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they did play well…at first. and i really did like them, until they CHEATED. ghana should have won that game, and i am not happy about it. remember how i hate italy? i hate the cheater teams.
the netherlands are awesome. i would be totally okay with them winning. they have never won a world cup, and they deserve to! they are a really good team. but i’m rooting for germany, they have been fantastic this year. i love klose. and they consistently make good plays, it’s not like they’ve gotten through on lucky-chance goals. they are a really good team
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As my dad said, “Ghana lost to the Uruguayan volleyball team”.
I would love for the Netherlands to win (hmm, is that because I’m part Dutch?), and, as the Dutch say, “Hup, Holland, Hup!” I would be fine with Germany winning, though (I have two German friends, and a friend who visits Germany every summer, and the German team has played really well).
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I hope Uruguay burns and dies. Actually, not really, but I’m with ebeth here. I really wanted Ghana to do well after they beat the U.S., because I A) Wanted the U.S. to win (there was no chance of that, and I knew it, but still….) and B) since they’re obviously not going to win, I figured, minus well have the team they lost to do well. And Ghana should definitely have won that game. Uruguay played well, but Ghana dominated the overtime, and, of course, Uruguay blatantly cheated. So I just generally think that they were the more deserving team.
I think Germany will pull it out in the end, but I’d like to see Spain do well. I wouldn’t mind the Netherlands, either. Really anything but Uruguay.
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I so want Germany to win because then I’ll get to see what a partying Germany looks like! I was in Munich during the game yesterday and eveyone, I mean everyone, cheered at each goal. Amazing.
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Ack. That happens to me too: actually, I’m not really for anyone. Just against Germany. It sounds nasty, but when you’ve got the annoying german football fans drinking their beer and shouting at every goal with their silly accents and sweating and wearing those dumb shirts… oh, never mind. I’ve got nothing against them, I just want to see them lose.
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I’m pretty sure you just described the fans of every team in the Cup.
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I know, but they’re in my country and, in some cases, in my way. That’s why I want somewhere like Uruguay to win.
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It’s a scary alternate Gallifrey!
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Fireworks today woo!
Also our family friends from out of state came to visit, for my grad party tomorrow and for mom’s birthday today. Their son is my age and was wearing an xkcd shirt and is a fan of Dr Who so we get along XD
Still kind of meh about my party tomorrow, but I know for certain some good friends of mine will be here, so I’ll ignore the adults and just hang with them And it’s supposed to be really nice out, which is good because we have a lake and so when it rains swimming/boating doesn’t work so much. We also put up a volleyball net on the clothesline.
It is another gorgeous day and I am listening to The Killers and life is good. Gonna go for a walk now I think
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Happy Third of July, everyone. <3 Although I have absolutely nothing that I'm doing for the holiday, being that my parents aren't big on the Fourth of July, and we're not near anywhere where there are fireworks.
In other, vaguely-topic-related (although I'm pretty sure the random thread doesn't have a topic) news, I'm still freaking out over AP scores. Took the World History AP test this year (whee, freshman power!) and while I feel pretty good about it, I'm getting super-worried because other people have gotten their scores back by calling in and are telling me about them. But since I'm a cheapskate and I refuse to pay $8 to get my score, I get to wait until the yet unknown time when the scores actually get mailed out.
So! Fingers crossed I get a five.
…also, I'm feeling a sudden urge to brag about the part where my $2.65 almost-new textbook arrived in the mail yesterday. :D
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I have a question. Why didn’t your “colon capital D” turn into a face?
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Because I’m magical. >:D
It’s actually from information contained in Piggy’s wonderful post in the Welcome, Neophytes (July 2010) thread. :) Which I go out of my way to use because I like my :D’s to look like punctuation and letters.
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Well, I’ve started my vet school app. Or started on the easy bits, that is….I’ve not even touched the essays, other than to read what they’re about. I really don’t enjoy doing application essays at all. *sigh* And this one has four of ’em.
And apparently english lit doesn’t count as english for the sake of this app (it counts for social sci), so now I”m not even sure if I have my english reqs in, since the vast majority of college english I’ve taken has been lit courses. And with the whole early admissions program I’m in, I’m not sure if college courses taken during highschool, ie, not the college I’m presnetly attending, count at all, since they’re not taken as a full time student at my current college, so even if I dig up one of those as having been non-lit, I dunno if it even would count, or if I’ve gotta somehow stick an english course into this coming fall semester. Since I can’t hve more than two courses pending this coming spring, and those are already claimed by biochem and physics II.
yes, I’m beginning to stress. majorly. *headdesk*
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*hugs* *cookies*
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Thanks. *returns hugs* *shares cookies*
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Unlike many people, I really don’t care about soccer or any sport for that matter. You can pie me all you want, but I really care nothing about the weird stuff that goes on on television while I’m trying to read.
Right now, my grandparents and siblings are watching Ultra Man, a slightly odd Japanese show about a guy who can turn into an alien. It looks kinda cool, but the peoples’ mouths don’t match up with what they’re saying.
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Oooh, Ultraman! Which series?
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*doesn’t pie*
*highfives for not caring about any sports*
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you know, i used to be like that…and then i realized i was missing out on a lot of great stuff. reading is fantastic and wonderful and everyone should do it more often, but i wouldn’t limit yourself to one medium. you’ll miss out.
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That’s probably because it’s been dubbed in English. I prefer to watch programs in the language that they were originally made in, especially if they’re live action.
日本ã¯ã™ã”ã„ã„ã„。I was so sad when they lost. One PK…
Anyway, you should be a bit more open. I myself don’t watch that much television, and usually don’t care that much about sports, but the World Cup only happens every four years, so I allow myself to get a little excited. There are some good things on TV, believe it or not.
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Great cave painting picture!
I’m at Yale now, and I have orientation tomorrow, so I need to get to bed rather soon, or else I’d write more.
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Does anyone recognize the hand prints on the cave walls?
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The Koko signs?
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Yes, I recognized those also.
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They’re actually “recycled” from last month’s Egyptian graphic. With some added transformations, of course.
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We’re still in an ice age! Okay, I call being an elitist who sticks to definitions just to annoy people. Sorry I haven’t been on-internet’s been down. Also, this may be the wrong thread but what is the song “Me and the Major” about? Thanks.
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cromwell: We’re speaking colloqiually in the caption. Strictly speaking, the picture and title of the thread celebrate the most recent glacial period before the current interglacial in this ice age.
(I wonder whether the Ice Age movies would have been so successful if they’d been galled “Glacial Period.”)
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Love the picture!
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Camp tomorrow! So excited! (Yes, I am getting excited for a math camp.) It’s going to be totally awesome! Awesome classes, awesome people, awesome activities… (There’s a camp choir that about a fourth of the camp joins.) *is excited*
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Have fun! *resists urge to burst out singing AVPM*
*does it anyway*
NO WAY THIS YEAR ANYONE’S GONNA DIE AND IT’S GONNA BE TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!
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This year [you’ll] take everybody by storm, stay up all night, sneak out of the dorm! (But let’s not forget that you’ve got to perform well in class if you want to pass your OWLs!)
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Jeez, Tesseract, why you gotta be such a buzzkill?
-A
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BECAUSE guys, school’s not all about having fun! We need to study hard if we want to be good witches and wizards!
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I may be frumpy, but I’m super smart. Look at my grades. They’re A’s for a start. What I lack in looks I make up for in heart. And yeah, guys, well, that’s totally awesome.
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I’m here. It is indeed awesome. I have already won an argument about Buffy and sung through I’ve Got a Theory with someone else. Not to mention losing the game 20 bajillion times and playing Dominion. And one of my best friends in the whole world who lives in a different state so I never see her is here. I mean, I knew she would be here; it’s not a surprise or anything, but still, it’s great to see her.
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Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke died three days ago. I propose we salute him in some appropriate fashion.
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Oh, dear. I seem to have become horribly confused… he died more than two years ago. Blame it on the lateness of the hour and the poor organization of the news website. And of my brain.
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Did my last correction not go through? If not… yeah, I messed up. He’s been dead for more than two years. Which is something I didn’t know.
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It’s fine, I’m sure its more the fault of the website than your brain.
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He put himself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
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Happy Fourth of July, everyone!
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Happy fourth of July!
Current news:
My computer is WORKING after two months, but it won’t go on the internet for some reason.
My best friend’s mother is in the hospital
The air conditioner is broken.
I think that’s everything. I probably won’t be on too much in the next few days.
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Oh, and I adore the picture.
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I hope your friend’s mom is okay, Errata. *hugs*
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I do too. I think the last we heard, she was recovering somewhat, so that’s good.
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Oh, good. Let us know how things go.
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Happy Fourth of July! And also happy birthday to Rube Goldberg. (Did anyone see Google’s homepage? )
I love the picture, Rebecca!
Annnnd…that’s about it. *floats away*
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I saw it! But it’s missing something along the lines of 
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Yeah, it’s cool!
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I don’t think I’m doing much of anything today…
My mom is still not allowed to do much of anything because of her surgery. (But, she’s a horrible patient and keeps on getting up and moving around. I mean, is it really that hard to ask me to pick up your glasses rather than doing it yourself?)
Maybe I can persuade my brother to put up the chicken coop with me today, it’s been laying around unassembled for quite a while.
Hope everyone has a great Independence Day!
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I hope your mother recovers soon. *nice, non-flying pie*
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Thanks, she’s doing well. She wasn’t admitted to the hospital, so she’s pretty good, her midsection just hurts.
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I’ve moved into my dorm room! It’s pretty big, and a single, so I’m all by myself, which is cool. There’s a fireplace in the room, but I’m not allowed to use it. (I wouldn’t anyway, it’s really hot in here as is!)
There’s a nice view of the city out my window and I can see the top of the famous cathedral pretty well, above the courtyard walls. I bought some posters at the Barnes and Noble store nearby to make it more homey.
So yeah, one month, here goes…
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It’s a nice walking around sort of town. Nice used books shops, too, assuming they’re still there. The Yale Center for British Art is definitely worth a look. I rediscovered J.M.W. Turner there several years ago. After years of seeing reproductions, I had lost sight of the beauty of his paintings.
Have fun!
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Definitely. Everything is in such easy walking distance, even the Observatory up on a hill above the city. The campus is really only a mile from one end to the other.
There’s a comics store just around the block from my dorm, and I know where the British Art center is, so I’ll be able to go there, too.
Some of you may remember when I talked about my Yale tour back in February and being afraid to walk under the giant squid model in the lobby of the Peabody Museum. Well, it turns out that the Geology building is connected to the museum from the back, and my student card will let me into that building, so I can probably find another way in!
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What are you doing at the summer program, again?
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I’m taking classes in Astronomy and this engineering/applied physics/technology kind of thing.
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That must be fun! I’m not really into that kind of thing, but it’s great that you are. There’s not enough women in jobs like that.
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Well, I actually want to be an archeologist, but there were no summer archeology or anthropology courses, so I’m taking these instead.
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Happy American Independence Day!
Because I did not have the ability to say so sooner:
Kmt Pwns Part 2, Post 0 (GAPAs): Sweet picture of the kokonveners!
Kmt Pwns Part 2, Post 116 (Beavo): Beavo!!! I missed you! *Hugs* I was thinking about you recently. Please stick around!
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Regarding all the Uruguay comments, you have to realize that a handball to keep a goal from scoring removes the handballer from the game and gives the team a penalty kick which players usually can convert. A lot of teams would rather have a 80-90% chance of scoring and a man advantage than just a goal. In the Uruguay-Ghana game, the ejection didn’t matter because there was practically no time left, but Ghana should have made the kick. I agree that Ghana deserved to win, but I don’t think it was cheating. Bad sportsmanship? Yes. However, it wasn’t like Thierry Henry’s handball in the qualifiers, where the referee didn’t see it and France got a goal unfairly. Ghana should have gotten a goal anyway. (And they really need to work on their PKs. 2/5 is horrible [counting the shootout and the end of game shot].)
That’s not to say I support Uruguay. It was an ultracompetetive play, and Suarez is probably being hailed as a hero in his country. But it was still wrong.
I wanted Ghana to win because it was the first World Cup in Africa and they were the only African nation left (No others made it out of the group stage) and because Uruguay beat South Korea.
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using your hands IS cheating. it’s against the rules to touch the ball with your hands. suarez deliberately touched the ball with his hands. cheating.
and yes, they should have made the PK, but in most cases it’s a fair penalty for a goal that -might- have been. In this case there was no question, the ball would have definitely gone in if suarez hadn’t used his hands. It was going -well- over his head, the goalie was nowhere to be seen, and there was no question that it would have gone in. a PK put the goalie back in action, making this one of the very rare situations where it actually was not really a fair penalty for the foul. yes, they should have made the kick, but a -lot- of penalty kicks is psychological, and after just having a goal revoked, you are not going to be in the best state of mind to score. that’s a LOT of pressure.
i’m not arguing the call, it was the only thing the ref could have done. there’s really nothing in the rules for this. but i will continue to hate uruguay and i maintain that they cheated
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Point taken, but it seems unreasonable to hate an entire team just for the icelated actions of one player who won’t even be in the next game.
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*coughcough*isolated*coughcough*
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The point is, there is something in the rules. Suarez acted wrongly, and was punished accordingly. He got a red card, and Ghana got a PK. Maybe there isn’t a specific rule for when someone saves a goal with their hands in the last minute of overtime, but still, in most cases, Ghana would have been fine with the handball.
Also, put yourself in Suarez’s place. If you are representing your nation in the biggest sporting events of the world, and you see a way to keep your country from losing, wouldn’t you do it?
PS. Using your hands is a foul.
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Hah, that’s true. Sadsad.
Victory, victory, victory KOREA!
/insidejoke
Anyway, I sort of understood the handball thing. It was a lot less nasty than some of the other stuff.
Anyway…today was pretty much not like 4th of July at all. The parade and fireworks were canceled because of rain, but they’re going to try to have them tomorrow.
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HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY EVERYONE!
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Happy Fourth of July! I’m really tired, so I’m going to take a nice little nap between dinner and fireworks.
The Google homepage is awesome!
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*reading Muse mail*
Who is Donan S? Can someone please explain?
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(If anybody’s been trying to say anything to me lately, I really doubt I’ve had the chance to hear it. >.< Just warning you, I probably won't have gotten the message.)
The fourth was disappointing. I didn't go to the parade in town, didn't run the footrace, and almost didn't see any fireworks. Tonight I just got sick of missing things and biked down to catch the last few minutes of the show. The finale was okay. I mean, small town- small-town fireworks. I'm glad I saw it, anyway.
-A
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I have now spent several hours using illegal explosives to basically say, I think, “████ you, Britain!”
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That is all.
-A
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I got a newfound appreciation for the importance of context when I read this on the Recent Comments bar and realized that it could just as easily describe some of the activities of V (of For Vendetta fame.)
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Are there many people named V?
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Yes.
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I was unaware! Sorry.
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As well as Guy Fawkes and countless other revolutionaries.
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When you posted that, I thought that somehow you were blowing up the camera security system in Britain. Then I remembered the 4th of July.
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*cracks up laughing* Nice. Very nice.
What did you guys do for 4th of July?
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…Why?
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Brilliant.
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:D.
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Whee! Camp is pretty fun so far. Yesterday the teen group (And Devon and Erin and Katherine and Devon and Chris’s mom and the Dormmommy and Ellie and JL.) went minigolfing after dinner, then after minigolfing we went to the waterpark. At the waterpark, I went down the slides at full speed too many times in succession and got motion sickness, then kind of swam around for a while. (Oh yeah, JL was trying to take pictures of people as they went down the slide… it’s too fast, kind of. She kept getting my feet.) Then I changed out of my swimsuit and the fireworks started. (Oh, I just remembered- THERE WAS A LIFEGUARD WHO LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE JACK HARKNESS! I kept seeing him and thinking “He looks familiar….” and then I’m like “Oh. My. God. It’s Jack Harkness!” and then I couldn’t stop laughing. XD) The fireworks were awesome. Then me and JL were taking pictures of everyone looking like complete and utter idiots, except Erin refused to cooperate. And then Phil not Phil, the other boy whose name I cannot remember, was on the phone with his girlfriend and Chris was like “I love you, I miss you- SAY IT!” and acting really weird and everyone was laughing hysterically. Then we got back to the dorms and we wanted to watch the rest of Sherlock Holmes, so while I was on the phone talking to a friend for a little bit, they went down to the theatre to set it up. But they couldn’t figure out how to turn on the TV, so that didn’t work. Then us girls had a “cello jam session” that lasted until about 12:10. (Well, Zoe, Anna, and Jess played cello and I sat on the couch and watched.) And then Anna was like “Let’s teach Jen how to play cello!” but nothing really happened with that. Then……
Oh yeah, and I took like a gazillion videos and pictures of everyone. In the car on the way to the minigolf place, I was just randomly videoing everyone.
I got in the video:
JL rolling her eyes
The top of Ellie’s head
Anna being like “Whut?” and then kind of looking at me and seeing the camera, then turning around in her seat (she was sitting in front of me) and smiling hugely for the camera
Dormmommy asking us if we thought we were lost
And so on.
Whee…. so today I’ve got Improvisation. I wonder what kind of class that is.
*hits preview* *laughs* Wow. Long and rambly.
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a lifeguard that looks like JB? you lucky, lucky girl
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NO FAIR!!!!! Can you like, y’know, kidnap me the lifeguard?
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XD I’m serious. I even wondered if he might actually be the real Jack Harkness. (Actually, I’m still wondering about it. IT WAS CREEPY.)
Actually, I took some pictures of him to show to Ginger…. *digs out camera* he looks EXACTLY like Jack Harkness.
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Ooooh, pics. Um, *coughcoughiwanttoseecoughcough*
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Here you go…
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*drrrrroooooolllllllllllll*
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*nom*
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DO WANT LIFEGUARD
You should steal him for *me* as I’m closest!
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Or you could go to all the waterparks near Chicago until you find him. (I think it’s called “Hidden Stream”? Near Trinity?)
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*kidnaps JB lifeguard*
*resists urge to write slightly inappropriate comment*
I saw a kid who looked just like Rupert Grint at a water park once… CREEPIEST THING EVER. I was about to ask him for an autograph.
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Oooh, slightly inappropriate comments are good. Um, I mean, that’s good. Resist the urge.
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Well… it was a little bit more than slightly inappropriate.
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I’m sure it was. If it’s anything at all like I’m thinking….
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Space Shuttle Challenger tribute video + “There You’ll Be” by Faith Hill = 
“In my dreams, I always see your soul above the sky…”
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Wait, is Challenger the one that exploded?
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Ermmm…
1) Yes, back in 1986. (As opposed to Columbia in 2003, which burned up on re-entry), but…
2) The shuttle itself technically didn’t explode, the fuel tank under it did. (I’m not normally this pedantic, but the journalist James Oberg had a thing about this in one of his articles where he said it was annoying to hear, because neither shuttle technically “exploded”.)
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Oh, okay. I was going to roll my eyes at you for crying at a space shuttle, then I was like “Wait…isn’t that the one where a bunch of people died?” In which case it would be reasonable to cry.
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I made a Challenger tribute wallpaper. It has a picture of the smoke from the explosion, and in the smoke you could see (I’m pretty sure it was the last) picture of the crew of the challenger.
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The last picture of the crew (Which would be them walking out of the checkout building, I guess, or maybe in the elevator, although I think that one was actually from a practice) or the official crew portrait?
(If I wasn’t writing a story about the early shuttle era that required extensive research, it would be incredibly morbid of me to know this much about an accident that happened seven years before I was even born…)
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The official portrait. I also included a quote from a poem that was read at the national adress of it.
We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of Earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.’
Not the best quote, but I couldn’t find a better one.
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No, no, that’s the iconic end of Reagan’s address, there’s nothing wrong with it.
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True, but it’s a bit religious for my tastes.
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You could use “Today, the frontier is space and the boundaries of human knowledge. Sometimes, when we reach for the stars, we fall short. But we must pick ourselves up again and press on despite the pain.” from Reagan’s speech at the memorial service in Houston.
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I thought of a great idea for a book.
Does God Exist? A Debate Between Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.
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Hello MB! This week should be my true return to Museblog… My Grandma was away, so I hung out in her house. There was no internet there, but I got a lot of reading done. Anyway, yesterday we went down on the Hudson to see the Macy’s fireworks. They’re so amazing. Anyone watch them in real life or on TV? I must say, I hate watching them on TV, but being there is pretty cool. That was my second time.
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‘Mornin’ guys…
I stayed up ridiculously late for no reason last night. After the fireworks, there wasn’t anything to do, so we wandered around downtown for several hours. Up the main street, down the main street, up, down, up, etc. And went on one fire escape. Oooh ahh. And then we ate ice cream in front of Safeway and went and sat in my living room.
There is not much of a nightlife for under-21s around here.
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Is there really anywhere? Tell me when you find it; I’ll come.
-A
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Fireworks are fun, and I didn’t even lose any fingers. My house is in a prime fireworks location–it’s on a cul-de-sac, so there aren’t a lot of cars driving through and getting in the way. Furthermore, it’s about two blocks away from a place that has a big, professional fireworks show every year.
I almost got hit with a firework: my cousin was lighting those crackling balls in his hand, waiting for the fuse to go down a bit, then throwing them so they went off in midair. Well, when he threw one of them, it broke in half right after it left his hand, so it went flying towards me and a pile of fireworks. It was lucky that neither I nor the fireworks caught on fire.
I love the Fourth of July.
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Question: How many of you know The Message?
-A
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The twelfth episode of Firefly? Or God’s Final Message to His Creation?
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Neither; of Grandmaster Flash fame.
-A
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What’s God’s Final Message to His Creation?
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It’s in So Long and Thanks for all the Fish.
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Hello swee- I mean H2G2.
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XD WIN I LOVE YOU FOR THAT.
River Song= God????
It’s “We appologize for the inconvenience”
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I’m fairly sure that “Hello sweetie” in the finale was a reference to Douglas Adams’s work.
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the words on the cliff? the first words of creation?
and yeah, adams was hugely involved in doctor who and some of his doctor who stories that didn’t work out ended up in h2g2 and dirk gently. there are a lot of h2g2 references in the later doctor who eps as a sort of nod to him.
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Right. Life, The Universe, And Everything was originally a Doctor Who script.
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Really? *is doubtful of that*
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Yup. Look it up on Wikipedia!
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See, again proving I am not a very good MBer, my first thought was the alien signal from Contact.
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You’re just your own breed, Homo Sapiens Museus Intercapedo
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Is that a Star Trek reference?
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What I said or what he said?
(Also, I think “spatium” means “outer space” in Latin and “intercapedo” means “empty space”.)
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Sorry, I was using an internet translator.
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What you said.
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No, it was a reference to the movie Contact. (The one with Jodie Foster as a radio astronomer looking for extraterrestrial life)
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My fourth was… Well, uneventful. I was catching up on some DW, then decided to watch it outside, then got bit to death and went back inside. That’s it. I couldn’t see any fireworks from my house.
Vacation Bible School is all this week, and it’s superhero themed, so I dressed up with a cape and everything, as did my friends. I’m “Flower Power”, and I have a tablecloth cape.
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Cool! I was a VBS councilor a few times, but we never had a superhero theme. I think the first year, it was Olympics, the second year it was “safari”, the third year it was pirates and buried treasure, and the last it was sci-fi spies (Which wasn’t nearly as fun/awesome as it sounds.)
For the pirate year, I brought in some “treasures” from my house, including a ring with Egyptian hieroglyphics on it that was my mom’s. There was a display involving some trees and a banner in the room where we did the presentations, and I was showing the kids the ring when one kid went “Is it CURSED?”
As soon as he said that, the display fell down. The little kids all freaked out.
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We’ve had some pretty cool themes- The first year was Harry Potter and it was amazing. My brother and I made all of these HP props and made a museum for the kiddies. We made a table for my brother to sit under and put his painted hand through, and we called it the “Hand of Glory”. The other helpers would encourage the kids to go and touch it, and he would move his hand. Oh my gosh, the reactions were soo funny. Yeah, it was sorta mean, but we didn’t scare the really young ones. The other years were Narnia, twice, and then I think a game show.
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Fourth of July Report (Short Version): Yes, I did break something. No, I’m not hurt.
Fourth of July Report (Long Version): Well, I went to my friend’s annual Fourth of July party at around 6-ish, ate some hamburgers and soda, (Regular stuff, nothing special, but definitely necessary ) and then wandered around. There was about a group of about five of us walking around together, picking up random objects laying around and tossing them at each other, which quickly turned into a full on “throw whatever you can get your hands on fight” between the girls and the guys. Like I said before, the five of us girls (Two others in the group are my age, two of them are a year younger) were losing horribly. (As in, two apples hit me on the back within a minute, which, despite being small apples, still hurt. Oh yes, it was very safe. And very fun. Be jealous it wasn’t you.) It didn’t take long, though, before the parental units (logically) stopped us.
We continued our wandering, and eventually started to play a weird variety of volleyball, badminton, soccer, and basketball in the yard. Because there were so many kids there (Some as small as three years old to college age) it got crazy pretty quickly, but was insanely fun despite the fact that I can’t hit a volleyball for my life. After that, the five of us (again) and a group of guys we know from our grade went over and started swinging on their big seat that sits on their front porch. We did this for about ten minutes or so until finally someone stood up, sat back down, and the whole left half of the rocking chair-swing mixover went crashing down to the floor. (I was on the right end, which meant I was flying up in the air when this happened.) Besides a small bruise, no one was hurt, but the whole left side of the swing thing had crashed to the floor. After the initial screams of colorful language, the parents got involved, who quickly told us that we’re not the first to break it, which only made me feel a little better. Of course, we probably should have known better, but no one was really using their brains yesterday…
Oh yeah, so then we went and watched the fireworks and screamed our heads off. Afterwords some people cut the glo-sticks in half so that the liquid part that glows in the inside flew out, and then proceeded to smear it on their skin and clothes so that they, too, were “glowing.” Um, yeah. I doubt that’s a good thing for you, so I tried to stay away. :/ It was insane. But fun. And a little more eventful than I would have liked, but still.
The End. (Wow, long post.)
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Starr- That sounds very fun!
Alice- I did the very same thing, minus the fire escape and Safeway.
The World Cup keeps causing me to lose the GAME, and I’m sorry that I’m obligated to tell you this because you’ve all just lost.
Let the pies rain down on me. I’m in a bad mood.
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I hate being sick.
I hate being so infectious that my family has to wipe down my computer if I use it so I won’t infect others.
I hate puking nine hours a day.
I hate being so achey all over that even the weight of the fluffy comforter on top of me made my skin, muscles, bones, and joints hurt.
I hate being dehydrated but puking up whatever water I try to drink, along with half the mucus lining of my stomach.
I hate having a low-grade fever.
I hate being quarantined with nothing but a dead iPod and books that make me feel nauseous when I read them.
I hate getting other people sick so that I feel like Typhoid Mary.
I love getting better.
I love waking up one morning and not feeling any stomach cramps at all.
I love being able to keep down foods besides bananas and plain toast.
I love being able to stand up without wobbling because of dizziness.
I love 4th of July fireworks.
I love old train tunnels built for the Transcontinental Railroad by Chinese workers so old you can feel the ghosts.
I love getting on the Internet again.
I love summer.
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Awwww…
Cool about the tunnels, though.
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Oh, poor Cat’s Eye. *hugs* At least you’re better though!
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So my sister started using my computer…and now I can hardly get on at all and never for extended periods of time because she’s always DOING something and yells at me if I want to do something. Which is hardly fair, since it’s my computer. Oh, and also I can’t play music on it anymore because she’s always on it and insists I turn it down to a level that is reasonable if one is sitting right next to the speakers but easily drowned out by running water.
So basically, I’ve been deprived of my internet privileges although I still have more right to them than she does, because I actually do stuff and she’s on the computer all the time!
Grr.
This belongs on Rants and Plaints but I don’t care enough to move it there.
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What Maths Lover has done these holidays:
Watch Star Trek: The Motion Picture. (Yay iTunes!) Half of it was pretty boring, the other half had Spock in it so I could drool happily and not worry about the slow plot.
Join the rest of the world(yeah, right. ) and watch Mean Girls (Yay iTunes again!). The ending isn’t so great, but the rest is pretty awesome!
Help with unpacking school laptops and end up in a group with the girls no one ever talks to, which would probably be social suicide if I wasn’t already “The Maths And Sci-Fi Nerd Who Has A Weird Taste In Guys And, Well, Everything, But We Put Up With Her Because She’s One Of The Smart Girls. But Really, She Doesn’t Watch Any TV Except Doctor Who?”
Go on Youtube. (Don’t pick Gryffindor, I don’t wanna be a bore, Tonight, sort us right, Slytherin is dynamite, Hupplepuff don’t got the stuff, Ravenclaw is not enough… )
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IS THAT A HARRY POTTER SONG TO THE TUNE OF “TIK TOK” BY KESHA?!?!?!?! TELL ME I WANT IT
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Addendum: Hupplepuff?
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SFTTP. Someone link me please, I cannot find it on Google and the site I was on appeared to be in Czech!
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I found it. Type Lord Voldy – Harry Potter Tik Tok Parody ! into the search box in You Tube.
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Thank you! I love you! *huggle*
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I’m listening to Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, and the most amazing yet terrifying idea just came up. BP is now attempting to use Paper Towels to clean up oil on beaches. Because, you know, they hadn’t really done enough damage to the environment, they has to kill some trees and spread them out over the oil.
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Hello, SudoRandom. We haven’t seen you for a while. Your chess game with Enceladus is getting cobwebby.
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We haven’t? I thought I’d been posting, at least a little. I know I haven’t been posting as much as I used to… Anyway, I’m flattered you noticed. I’ll go move in that chess game now. I didn’t realize Enc had moved.
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Geez louise…
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Haha, I hate it when people say that, because Louise is my middle name. [Oh, I hope that won’t be snipped, but I doubt it will be.]
And that is Your Random Unnecessary Fact That No One Asked For for the day.
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It may not be crazy or irresponsible to use paper in that way. The trees used in paper aren’t “wild” trees from rainforests; they’re softwoods planted for the purpose and grown as crops, mostly in northern Europe and North America. How much extra paper would be needed to sop up the oil, beyond what we’d be using anyway? Were the trees grown sustainably? I think we’d need more facts before ruling on the idea.
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Furthermore, you have to consider the possible alternative. If cloth towels were used to soak up the oil, they would have to be washed. This would take large amounts of electricity, water, and soap–soap that most likely comes in non-biodegradable containers which would be deposited in a landfill, maybe even finding their way, eventually, into the ocean. Paper towels are more likely to be biodegradable, I think.
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Help! We need more players in the Game Room!
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World Cup — whoever wins Germany-Spain will win the entire cup. Uruguay is the worst team of the four and doesn’t have one of their best players. If the Netherlands couldn’t win in 1974 and 1978, where they were better than everyone else, they won’t win now, when Spain is better and Germany is at least as good.
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I’m still going to hope that the Netherlands wins. Hup, Holland, Hup!
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Germany > Spain. i really think germany’s gonna win it all. and then netherlands, THEN spain then uruguay
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81.2.1.1 – Cromwell –
As a matter of fact, God’s Final Message was “We apologize for the inconvenience.” “So long, and thanks for all the fish.” was a message TO the humans, from the dolphins.
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I approve that message.
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86- So, are you better? I hope you are…
The record for highest temperature was broken today. The thermometer for outside reads 103.2 degrees, and when I go outside, it feels like my skin is shriveling. Lovely.
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103 isn’t really that hot.
I just had a thought: where in the United States is the widest fluctuation in temperature throughout he year? My area would probably be a contender.
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So, what is “that hot” for dear old Piggy?
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Hm… maybe 110 or 115?
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And you’ve experienced these temperatures? o.o
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Of course. I wouldn’t be able to fairly judge temperatures I haven’t personally experienced.
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oh lord. 80 is too hot for me. 62 is where i’m happy
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Clammy rain is my happy place.
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Agreed.
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I love the continous Northwest drizzle…not so much in summer, but in general.
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Just a couple of months ago, I was dreading rain, but now I’ve had enough cloudless weather for a little while; I need some real rain!
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I agree that around 110 is hot, but 103 is hot, too. Heck, once the thermometer is in the positive three digit range, I’m outta here.
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But if it’s in the negative three digit range you’re fine?
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I didn’t state that very well, did I….
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For me, once the thermometer is above the mid 70’s, I’m awful.
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I overheat far too easily. (walking back and forth from classes, maybe like two minutes of walking at a time, and my face is a magenta-ish colour afterwards EVERY SINGLE TIME. Which makes about ten or so times today…..)
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Ohbejeesus it was only 100 today and I was dying in the heat.
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Oh, God, yes. I’m in Massachusetts right now, and I’m dying. And our dorms don’t have air conditioning. Yeah.
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Why are you here? Camp? What camp?
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I’m guessing math camp.
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Bingo. Utterly amazing math camp… I went contra dancing tonight, and it was awesome. Swinging is really fun. And yes, the math is good too. *looks back to the info theory mandatory homework question that I still am stuck on*
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All I can say is, you poor, poor thing.
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Neither does my dad’s apartment. XP
Although we do have a few fans going…
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Piggy- 103 may not be hot compared to 115, but it’s still not pleasant. AT ALL. I mean, I live on an island; we’re supposed to get mild weather. 103 is not mild. It’s about two degrees cooler today. It’s not that bad when you sit around and do nothing, but doing any exercise at all is too much.
Speller- Oh my gosh… *gives ice pie*
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Thanks… Classrooms are air conditioned. (And I gotta say, if it weren’t for the fact that “time academic unsupervised” is air conditioned, I wouldn’t have gone and wouldn’t have gotten much of the homework.) But… 103.7 degrees is too much.
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Please send me some of that heat. <3
It's July, I live in Southern California, and it's raining. Well, was. Now it's just foggy.
I haven't even seen the sun this week: has my hill picked up and flown across to somewhere that's not California or sommat?
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ohmygoodness it was 100 again today and i sweated so much i was disgusted.
in related news i love swimming!
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60 degrees here, which is 20 less than it was a year ago today.
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Tomorrow is Ringo’s birthday! So at noon tomorrow he wants everyone to do the peace sign. (The one with the two fingers in a V.)
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*does peace sign*
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I’m back.(again) Sorry I just haven’t been on the computer much.
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Hi! Haven’t seen you around recently. I was wondering where you went about three days ago.
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Someone said those same exact words last time I didn’t post for a while.
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95–*must not forget*
Nothing much happening lately…I’ve been to camp, and made a new friend (he looks like a brown-haired Fred (the YouTube guy with the sped-up voice) and he talks like Enc and he is fifteen)….Yeah, that’s about it.
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Yurgh. Worked 11 hours today, from 7am until 6pm. Had to get up at 5:30. Bleh.
Then came home. Had *salad* of all things for dinner (I hate salad).
Then Dad wanted to go over finances and stuff for college, since I”ve got a $15,000 tuition payment due. I have (had) $9ish thousand. Parents gave me 10 thou, but that would still leave me out lots when next semester I’d have another 15thou-ish due.
So joy of joys, I had the wonderful fun of getting to take out a $7500 loan today. The first loan I’ve had to get. Depressing, really. Like, majorly so. *sigh*
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o.O first loan? really? or do you mean first non-student loan? because i started off with loans
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I’m not doing loans until I have to. Grandmother left me a fund for college, and that + parents + financial aid + scholarships should get me through the first 4 years, but as for grad school… I’ll be in debt for forever >.<
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Assistantships are a possibility in grad school. That’s what I did. Most of my classmates did teaching assistantships (which paid more) but I knew I couldn’t handle teaching and school simultaneously, so I opted for research assistantships (which still covered tuition). In my department that mostly meant being assistant editor for a couple of literary journals.
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that’s what i want to do for grad school!
yeah i had hardly any money going in so woo student loans. they didn’t give me much financial aid since i already get half off tuition (my mom works there). parents covered the rest, but that’s a loan too. i’m really annoyed they didn’t give me work study though. all the library jobs are work study it irritates me so much because i would be so much better at it.
i’ve heard they actually go for people who are less smart for the front desks at the residence halls to give more people chances to find jobs. i don’t know if that’s true (it sounds suspiciously like bitterness) but i’ve heard it a lot and i know some really smart/organized/capable/etc people who didn’t get jobs there (while some really not-smart/disorganized/incompetent people did…)
sigh, money
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No, first loan. Like, first first loan ever. Student loan. I had enough scholarship money, plus enough in savings, that I was able to go two years without depleting my funds.
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Yeah, I just got my first loan too. Whee debt! (not).
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Has anyone seen the Trolololo video on You Tube? It’s hilarious–it’s a Russian man from the seventies singing “Trololololololololololo” for five minutes. It’s a little creepy, a bit like Frankenstein, but it’s so terrible funny.
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Sorry, that should be “terribly funny.”
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It’s a few months old now. I’ve seen it. And downloaded it. Etc., etc.
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Eh. It’s creepy. My brother made me sit through the whole thing.
Brother: “ISN’T THAT HYSTERICAL?!?!?”
Me: “No. Go away.”
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Hasn’t everyone seen that?
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Yeah, someone linked me to that once. I thought it was amusing for a bit, but then I kinda started to get creeped out by it…I dunno.
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cristoph waltz version = uber bingo
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I wish summer would get itself over with.
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Why do you want it over. It’s going by to fast anyways.
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Ditto.
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I have a really great school and I miss everybody…
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I’m sort of anxious to be in eighth grade, but at the same time, I do like summer. I just miss *some* parts of school when I don’t have it. And as soon as school starts, I wish I didn’t have to go. *sigh*
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That’s what I was thinking… until about 15 minutes to a half hour ago.
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Never mind. SUMMER, HURRY UP AND GET YOURSELF OVER WITH!
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Agreed. I want to be back at college.
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And so ends another Harold-and-Maude watching day. Oh, it’s so good… ♥
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…insomnia…
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Oh yes I must agree.
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It was 105 here yesterday.
So, naturally, I spent four hours sawing, caulking and nailing down a plywood floor in a minimally air-conditioned environment.
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It was 55 here yesterday. This past weekend was about 20-25 degrees colder than the 4th of July weekend last year, when we had lovely weather in the mid-high 70s.
We’re definitely not getting in on the heat wave that the rest of the country is suffering from. Which is too bad, because this summer is chillier than recent ones, and I would really like a nice, sunny, warm day (and one where I’m not having to work, that’d be good, too).
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That sounds like heaven at the moment. *is in my non-air conditioned dorm room* Honestly, I think the reason so many people went to contra dancing last night was that the room it was in was air conditioned. Of course, then people realized that it was awesome and signed up for the off campus contra, so I guess that was a good thing.
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what campus?
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[snip] It’s actually somewhat amusing, because it’s a women’s college, and our camp is mostly guys, and sometimes guys bathrooms and whatnot are hard to find.
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I’m pretty sure which campus that is. I went to a camp there once.
Aren’t the cafeterias awful?
Is the camp you’re doing with JHU and CTY?
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No, it’s an independent camp, although there is a CTY camp here at the moment. Apparently they were watching decomposing chickens right outside our dorms a few days before we got here… As for the cafeterias, the food is pretty good, but they’re organized really terribly. We’re the only ones in the cafeteria, and the line still takes forever. Ah well, at least we don’t have to share a cafeteria with football campers, dance campers, Mormon campers, etc. like they did last year.
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ughhhh I guess you being there means you can’t tell me. There are a couple of possibilities, though, that I can think of (I have a friend who’s going to college next year, and part of her criteria for colleges was contra and ritual dance [which is, quite frankly, good criteria]) Maybe I’ll remember to ask when you’re not there anymore. XD
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although it looks like KaiYves was allowed to say en’s at Yale, so I’m confused.
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I think that the one she’s at is smaller.
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Good grief.
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So, I haven’t been able to come on here to write very often, because of my classes, but I’m having lots of fun at Yale.
I hung out in a bookstore after class yesterday and had a fun little rediscovery moment reading about Ernest Shackleton and remembering just how caking awesome he was.
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In response to Kai’s post (#21) on Kmt Pwns, Part Two, because I feel like I have had a wonderful day:
What is good in life?
Being in a foreign country,
Going to a real city,
Eating “the best lunch of [your] life”,
Having a “dead” camera so you can enjoy your surroundings,
Walking placidly in a botanical garden,
Feeling the wind after leaving a greenhouse,
Buying a bracelet and a shirt from a street vendor,
Reading words in English after so long,
Feeling how the world around you is too large to imagine,
And knowing that you are lucky enough to be living your life.
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That’s great! I’m glad that you are having (had?) so much fun in Holland!
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Hi everyone. You haven’t heard from me in some time. I swear, I meant to post something along the lines of, ‘Woohoo! I am going to Jordan for teh next couple of months so beware of sporadic posting on my part, as i don’t know if I will have Internet access’, but things were really busy my last day in the US. And then my sporadic Internet access became a fact of life. At least it wasn’t no net access, even if I had to go over to the neighbors to use their wireless. Then yesterday our house got Internet, at long last, even though my cousin’s laptop is the only fast computer in the house, and, as such, in hot demand. I’m typing this on the other computer, teh twelve year old slow one.
So. What’s up?
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FantasyFan:
Ahlan wa sahlan! I hope you’re enjoying yourself. Do you get to visit Petra? That’s a place I’ve always wanted to see.
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I dunno. I have a floaty (re:empty) schedule. I could always suggest it to my relatives…I went there last time I was in Jordan, see. That was a while ago.Mostly I remember a long, hot ride, and a long, hot walk, with interesting carvings interspersed throughout. And the main attraction of Petra, Al-Khanzah, isn’t even in the old city of Petra itself. It’s like a mile on the outskirts. I really, really wanted to bring a copy of Muse and take a picture of myself reading it there, but alas, a copy of Muse was one of those last-minute things I forgot. The shock, the horror. And unlike some of the other ones, it’s not something I can just buy here. *sigh* I plan on coming back again–I’ll see if I remember that time.
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Today at camp I made a couple of bunnified Beatles pictures 
…I’ll see if I can send them in.
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It’s hot out.
I don’t actually mind, though, is thee funny thing. Like, I’m kind of slow and really really sweaty, but I don’t feel like I’m dying or anything. Maybe it’s not that hot. I don’t have a thermometer.
I really want vegetables. And fruit. And swimming, though it’s kind of late for that.
As usual, my sister is bugging me to get off the computer although she’s been on it ALL DAY and all yesterday and I’ve only like fifteen minutes total today and yesterday.
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YAY! Harry Potter theme park for the win! *excited*
An article on it is here.
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The OC Register loves the place. It does sound really, really epic…
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Just had an earthquake. Largerish feeling, went on for several seconds, actually, there were prolly a couple fore/aftershocks, rather than it being all one, but, yeah. Largerish, or else very nearby. And, yes, I know “largerish” is not a word, but I don’t care. XP
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5.0, epicenter around 30ish miles away.
((And, no, it wasn’t scary. Just meh, whatever, earthquake. Sorta bigger earthquake, but whatevs.))
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Well, I’m happy you’re okay.
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So. Bad news. It’s happening at my house now, too–
No honeybees. This time most years I’d have been seeing them for several weeks, but none this year. I’m really, really hoping they’re just late, even though the bumblebees have been here for a while, but…
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I haven’t even seen any bumblebees, just a few carpenter bees… Many of our flowers didn’t grow well this year, so maybe that’s why? The weather was very strange this spring.
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Guess where I get to go on Friday? I get to go to WRITING CAMP! For FOUR WEEKS! And there I will meet people who care about writing, and make friends, and have a sordid affair! And it will be awesome!
It’s set up like Hogwarts, I swear. (Actually, it’s set up like college. But college is Hogwarts-shaped.) The departments of Film, Dance, Visual Arts, Creative Writing, Music, and Theater are like the Houses (and CW is OBVIOUSLY Ravenclaw. :)) and our main mode of communication will be letters and there is a village nearby where one can buy things just like Hogsmeade!
And I got an excuse to go shopping for a whole new wardrobe and to decorate my laptop with sparkly stickers! And it’s in Southern California, just north of Los Angeles, so I get to be in SoCal again! (I love SoCal. In practicality. In theory I have NorCal rivalry pride.) And I will have ROOMMATES and there will be COLLEGE-ESQUE MEALS and I get to be away from home for four whole weeks and get some really good writing done and one of the field trips is to DISNEYLAND and I will make FRIENDS and SQUEEEEEE.
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AWESOME! Do I see a fellow Ravenclaw before me? Sordid affairs though? And which is Slytherin?
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Hmm, okay, let’s figure this out. There are seven departments: Dance, Theater, Animation, Film, Creative Writing, Visual Arts, and Music. Music should really be split into Band/Orchestra and Singing, since band geeks and singing people are so not the same thing, which gives us eight. Perfect.
Gryffindor: Gryffindors are apparently chivalrous, daring, and brave. They’re usually better at the physical stuff– most Slytherins decry them as “all brawn and no brains” sort of thing. Due to physical awesomeness, I’ll have to stick Dance in there, and… hm… probably Theater.
Hufflepuff: Loyal. Hardworking. HP fans who don’t like them call them the “everybody else” group, as in “good guys Gryffindor, bad guys Slytherin, and stick everybody else in Hufflepuff”. I’ll put Singing in Hufflepuff, since they’re usually the loyal-hardworking type, and… Visual Arts.
Ravenclaw: Creative Writing and Band. Not even hard. We are the geeky and intelligent goof-offs.
Slytherin: That leaves us with Film and Animation. Which sort of works, I guess, because Slytherins are ambitious and clever, which often describes Film people and Animation people. (There is NOTHING wrong with being ambitious! And why is every single Slytherin evil? Gah!)
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That sounds about right. Although I’d probably go for the Gryffindor departments even though I’d normally choose Ravenclaw. Yes, I’m weird.
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Yay have fun!
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Great! Have fun, especially at Disneyland!
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Hi all! I’m at my French program in Switzerland. This is homework time, but I don’t have any left to do, so I’m posting on my iPod. I have almost no free time which is why I haven’t been posting much. Ooh just remembered I have to study so this will be shorter than anticipated… Basically, it’s very European here, which is pretty awesome. There are about 362847182 Spanish kids who all stick together but I’ve got a few very nice friends (two of the three don’t speak French though so I’m speaking a lot of slow English). My classes are great and I am now reading The Count Of Monte Cristo and The Salmon Of Doubt. Hmmm… That about covers it in (very brief) summary. Hopefully I can pop in again soon!
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Glad you’re having a great time!
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That all sounds very cool! Have a fantastic time!
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Sounds fun!
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EVERYONE IN “THE NAMING OF NAMES”! PLEASE COME HERE!
We’ll need to be able to practice. I won’t be here most of the summer, so how about we begin in the fall? Some weekend (before school starts) we should all come to my house. I have all your emails (I’ve Kokoned with all of you!) so I’ll send my adress out. OK?
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SFTDP:
Those of you who are singing, what range are you? Alto, Soprano?
I believe this is SL, and Maggie (Perhaps?), and Me. I know I’m low tenor/ high bass. (If you don’t know, then are you better at singing higher or lower?)
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Hm. I know SL is an excellent singer, and is in chorus, but at the time I can not remember what she sings. I think it is in the lower alto section thing (whatever it’s called), although she probably has more range than that.
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Aw thanks Sudo. Yes, I sing in the lower alto section thing, otherwise known as contralto. And alto. But I can sing in the higher register if it’s neccessary. Just not for, like, a whole song.
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Ok!
Since the song Sudo wrote has two verses and two choruses, do you want to sing a verse solo or both choruses with the group? (I know I’d like to sing a verse solo. The other one’s between you and Maggie)
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I’ll sing a verse solo. Wait, what song?
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Post 165 on Poems and Songs 2009.2 (I think it’s 2009.2)
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I’ll harmonize. Please.
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Ok. I have you singing the chorus along with me the first time, and SL the second.
Sudo- I think it’s actually pretty much perfect.
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I can write a bit more if you want, and you can shift around the bits I’d you like. (feeling articulate, aren’t we, Sudo?)
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Hooray for contraltos! (I’m a tenor, actually. Which is a male voice range. And my voice is still getting lower. XD)
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Akcherly, are we going to have a drummer? Because if so, we need a drumset. And if we have a drumset, the drummer should be able to practice on. And if they’re able to practice on it, it will most likely will be at their house. And if it is at their house, it won’t be very easy to move. And if it isn’t very easy to move, we should keep it their. And if we’re going to keep it their, we should practice there.
Translation: It makes most sense to practice at the drummer’s house, if we have one.
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We have a drummer, KEIFZ. Does she have a drumset?
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Doubtful. I dubbed her drummer in a previous band I was thinking about forming but never did, after Maggie refused. She doesn’t have any formal training, I don’t think, (like Meg White!) but I know her dad is in a band, so that might help.
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I know her dad’s in a band. Beetles, AM, Nym, her and I went to one of his concerts.
I’ve made the rhythym pretty simple for the drums, whomever is playing.
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Right, I forgot.
There’s still the problem of getting a drumset…
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Also, am I the only one who considers the lack of a guitarist a problem? Or do we have one I’m forgetting?
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Could Kate be in the band?
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I don’t see why not.
And it turns out that I’ll have sporadic, slow internet use this week! So my transistion will be much less jolting than I thought.
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I wouldn’t mind, although Silver Lining might.
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Of course, Keiffer could always be one of those crazy drummers that use random objects instead of a drumset. Like tables, chairs, ceiling fans, green slips of paper that are not unhappy…
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Alright, it’s official! I have memorized my library card number!
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Yay! Good for you! I memorized mine a year ago, I think…The librarians know me as “The girl who types her library card number faster than she types her search entry.” XD
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It truly is a glorious day when one memorizes his/her library card number. It’s so handy.
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Two number number five five number number two oh five six number oh six.
Is mine.
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I’m getting pretty good at finding my way to my classes without a map, so that’s good.
Today, in my tech class, the teacher gave us polarized spectrum glasses that let you see a rainbow halo around any light source you look at. Incandescents look like rainbow fireworks, fluorescents are more green/blue and smaller, and LEDs are only red, green, and blue.
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Spain – Netherlands! A new cup winner!
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Somebody in my dorm was practicing the violin- by playing the Pirates of the Caribbean theme!
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I played that in a handbell choir once.
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I love handbells! Gosh, it’s been so long since I’ve played them though…I was in a handbell choir in 4th grade, which would have been three years ago. Wow.
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Here at camp, we’ve got a chimes choir. ^_^ It’s fun.
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>.< Ten people have messed with my head, and I caught everyone laughing at me behind my back like thirty times. UGH.
Hiro, especially, though, annoyed me.
Me: You played the violin the other day in the recital, right?
Hiro: Who, me? I never played in any recitals! Besides, I don't play the violin.
Me: …..
Hiro: I play the viola, not the violin!
Me: ……
Hiro: No, actually, that was me. I was just messing with you.
Me: Geesh. Thanks. I was doubting my sanity.
Hiro: *laughs*
Later…
Me: You're Japanese, right?
Hiro: No, I'm Korean.
Me: ….
Sam: No, he's Shinese.
Hiro: It's not Shinese, it's Chinese!
Me: My mom's from Japan.
Hiro: Japan's awesome.
Me: *suspicious look* Are you being sarcastic again?
Hiro: Nope. What else am I supposed to say? 'Oh, Japan's awful'? I'm Japanese!
Me: Um… right. I am too, you know.
Hiro: Yup. That's cool.
And after a while I noticed that I act exactly like that. No wonder everyone dislikes me. Wow. If I were two people, I'd annoy myself so much.
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OMG Hiro.
That dialogue doesn’t sound particularly annoying. Hiro does, actually.
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XD It was kind of funny, because we were just going back and forth and kind of bantering, I guess, and his friends were just kind of looking at both of us like “…..what?…”, which amused me.
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My family’s taking a vacation around southern Colorado in a week and a half or so. Does anyone have any suggestions of what to see? I know that we’re planning on going to Mesa Verde and Great Sand Dunes National Parks. I’d really like to make it over to Natural Bridges National Monument and camp there for a night (it has the darkest night sky ever surveyed), but I doubt we’ll make it that far west.
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We were just at the Sand Dunes two weeks ago! I recommend the hike to High Dune; it’s exhausting but a great feelih of accomplishment. We also went to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, which is by all means worth the trip. Don’t bother with the visitor’s center for that one though, it’s not great. The movie is mediocre. The views are amazing, though. One great hike is out to Exclamation Point and the path beyond that.
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Goodnight MB. The MB Academy Emporium is closed til morning.
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I’m back from my trip to Jamaica!
It’s so good to be home sweet home.
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Good. I can empathize with the general goodness of hominess. Come help revive the Our Reclusive Gardens thread?
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You got it!
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GAPAs,
I think I left a post here last night, though I forgot what it said. Did it get zapped, or spam filtered? Or maybe I didn’t leave a post… *is questioning her sanity*
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I just realized that is was on a different thread. Oops. 
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I learned how to speak binary code today. Rather, I found the encoding translator.
01000001 01101110 01111001 01100010 01101111 01100100 01111001 00100000 01110111 01101000 01101111 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01110000 01100101 01110010 01101100 01111001 00100000 01100100 01100101 01100011 01101111 01100100 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100111 01100101 01110100 01110011 00100000 00110001 00110000 00100000 01101011 01101001 01101100 01101111 01110011 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01100011 01101000 01101111 01100011 01101111 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 00101110
(Yes, that actually does say something.)
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No binary-encoded posts, please. We banned them about four years ago because they are too hard for us to moderate. And 10 kilograms of chocolate is more than I can use all at once.
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Oops. Sorry! I didn’t get the memo.
Well, at least that 10 kilos will last a very long time!
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01001001 00100000 01110111 01100001 01101110 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100011 01101000 01101111 01100011 01101111 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 00101100 00100000 01100010 01110101 01110100 00101110 00101110 00101110 00100000 01010111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01110100 01111001 01110000 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01100011 01101000 01101111 01100011 01101111 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110100 00111111 00100000 01001101 01101001 01101100 01101011 00111111 00100000 01000100 01100001 01110010 01101011 00111111 00100000 01010100 01110010 01110101 01100110 01100110 01101100 01100101 01110011 00111111
*translates back*
I want the chocolate, but… What type of chocolate is it? Milk? Dark? Truffles?
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10011. You know what that is? The weather on Pluto for the last 6 days. *is taking an info theory class where we’ve been encoding the weather on Pluto* That, the way, is 2 days of storms followed by a day with no storm followed by 3 more days of storms. (It storms with probability .9 on Pluto.)
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Hmmm… so I guess I’m done with my first school week here. Just four to go!
I hate that I can’t go to Easter Island to see the solar eclipse on Sunday. (I really shouldn’t be surprised though, because the First Rule of Solar Eclipses is that they almost never occur near major population centers.)
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HEY.
HEY EVERYONE.
STOP USING PHOTOGRAPHS OF HUMAN FACES AS AVATARS. YOU’RE BREAKING THE RULES AND THE GAPAS TECHNICALLY HAVE REASON TO PUNISH YOU. CUT IT OUT. STOP IT.
</public_service_announcement>
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I believe it’s OK if they’re fictional characters… I’ve seen Jeffrey Lebowski, Rose Tyler, Buffy Summers, Dr. Horrible, etc.
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It doesn’t matter who, you need a special dispensation from the GAPAs. It’s still a person in the picture, even if they’re portraying a fictional character.
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I’m not planning on using this anyway, but would a painting of a human face be ok? (Or someone who’s obviously not real, like a drawing of a human.)
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A face that is obviously not real is okay, but we’d much prefer not to see any photographs (or faithful portraits) of faces.Although we did give special dispensation early on, others took that as a go ahead signal to up any picture of a celebrity. The photos simply confuse the issue., in part because a celebrity who seems obvious to you may not be to us. (Your vision is better than ours, too.)
If I may say so, it actually seems a little…odd to me that such colorful individualists as make up the Musiverse would want to blur over their identities with a brand-name face that might show up anywhere on the Internet. Occasionally I’ve seen avatars on other sites that matched ones I’ve seen here and found it quite jarring when the sentiments expressed were far removed from what one would expect from the MBer in question. (One I particularly remember was seeing Elias’s avatar attached to someone who was as adamant as he yet on the opposite side of his favorite issues.)
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i’m always to lazy to sign in anyway, but most of my icons on ichat seem to be screenshots from something. right now it’s moss from the IT crowd in a beret holding up an empty glass of milk.
“I came here to do two things – drink milk, and kick [butts]. And I’ve just finished my milk.”
other somewhat original icons include a screenshot of the cassette piracy symbol (which i’m sure you could find as an icon so it’s probably not -that- original, but i did do that one myself), a bunch of pictures of me/my hand/a rock, a screenshot of the little “…” bubble that appears when you’re typing something (heh heh…that one’s my fav), a couple screenshots of the hatter from syfy’s Alice, and a screenshot (yeah i read the comics on my computer :-/) of chibiDream from Sandman on a throne saying “will you be my friend?”
and then i have four stolen from LJ (two of the tenth doctor, one of wilf, and one saying “I grok spock”), but i only ever really use the spock one. and one t-shirt design, and the nanowrimo winner logos
i know you all DESPERATELY wanted to know. but i was bored. and i think from the above i can count myself sort of vaguely original almost! yay!
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Ah, thank you for enlightening us.
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I almost changed my gravatar to Park Ji-Sung of MU, my favorite soccer player. I shouldn’t do that, right?
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would a faithful portrait of George Washington (or some other historical figure) be OK?
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So should I change mine? Or do you know enough about Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog?
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I have a new favorite song. (it’s not really new though) I just all of the sudden liked it more than I used. It’s the origanal “We are the World”.
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Lovely, magical, all-knowing GAPAs, I have a question. Mostly for Lady Bunniful, but I wouldn’t say no to an answer no matter who from.
When using Photoshop, is it possible to create straight diagonal lines, and how? Say I have a picture of isometric dot paper, it is possible to connect the dots with something other than a wobbly pencil line?
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I’m pretty sure that anti-aliasing can produce what seems to be a straight diagonal line. However, it adds semi-transparent pixels at the side of the line, creating the illusion it’s normal. I believe this is done with the paintbrush rather than the pencil tool.
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What’s anti-aliasing?
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If you want to draw a straight line in any direction, make your first click at the point where the line starts, then hold the shift key while making a click at the point where you want to end the line.
I have to rush off to work where I am without a computer for the time being, so I can’t explain anti-aliasing right now. But the brush tool always has some sort of anti-aliasing built in (makes it look smoother) and the pencil does not (hence the stepstair look which may or may not be visible depending on resolution and/or zoom level).
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Today was a lovely day. I had the day off work, as did my mom, and it was *gasp* sunny! And for probably the first time since I got back here mid-June, it got out of the mid 50s to low 60s, and hit 70 (at least in the sun). Which, while by no means *hot* is a quite lovely temperature, at least in my mind.
And Mom and I went hiking up in Hatcher Pass. ’twas lovely. Mom can’t do cross country hiking (or shouldn’t–she’s had two hip replacements, and has a fused spine w/ a metal rod–arthritis in her hips + scoliosis), but there’s a lovely little side road at one point, which although a bit rough, is all muskeg-y and brushy and hazardous to your footing.
So we probably hike a couple miles, and were only outside for about 2 1/2 hours, but surprise surprise (haha, not really) I got sunburned. lol, I actually didn’t think that short of time, her ein AK would get me burnt, I mean, yeah, if I were in FL or something,d efinitely, but the rays are so much more diffuse when you’re up north…But, hey, oh well. It doesn’t bother me, it’s not painful or anything, I just have depressingly sensitive skin, I suppose. *shrug* Price I pay for being blonde, I suppose.
And then we stopped for ice cream at this lovely little place where we have traditionally *always* gotten ice cream, every time we have ever gone camping up in Hatcher Pass, because we did it when we were little, so my sis and I have mde it tradition that on the way back from camping, we must leave the Pass via the Willow side, so as to drive by the place.
And then we went shopping (which in and of itself is not fun, but we had a couple things to buy, and I got a new swimsuit.)
And pizza for dinner. And if it’s nice, Dad and my sis and I will go hiking tomorrow, but I think it’s going to rain (and is actually raining right now at 11:45 as I’m typing this, so…Yeah, chance of rain is pretty dratted good. *sigh* )
Anyway.
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the first sentance of your post made me happy. Perhaps because it’s something I would say were one of my days lovely, but since I’ve finally *finally* finished summer geometry I expect an increase in lovely days.
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Well, I won’t be here much longer. I’m off to camp for four weeks (two different camps, actually) I won’t have internet access, so bye!
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Bye! Have fun at camp!
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Bye!
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Bye! Have fun!
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Have fun!
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Bye Enc! *waves*
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Bye Enc!
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Have loads of fun! Bye!
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Bye! Have fun, Enc!
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Bye! Hope you have lots of fun! Don’t forget to being a towel!
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The third place match is today. Germany is clearly the better team, but who knows how hard they will play in a consolation match (the players might get money if they win, though). If I were Germany, I would just try to get Klose one or two more goals.
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Klose didn’t play! i was sad, i love him. although it was nice to see some of the younger players who didn’t play get a chance to say they’d been in a world cup game. <3 Jogi
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Klose had an aching back.
Forlan played well though, and unless David Villa or Wesley Sneijder scores in the final, there will be a four way tie for the top scorer! One player from each team to reach the semis.
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See i was so conflicted because i really like Forlan but i really hate Uruguay. So i wanted Forlan to do well, but lose.
which, heyyy.
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I just scrolled through this thread, and the number of people I remember made me happy.
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Nice to see you, too!
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Hi there!
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Hello, Fio!
Piggy spent another day airsoft-ing. It was, as it has always been, a blast. There were about a dozen boys there from my church and one other church, and the assistant pastor at my church even came. Now, in any circumstances this would be funny. But (I can’t describe in detail because it would give away my location and parish) the group that’s in charge of this church doesn’t just wear nice trousers and a button-down shirt. They wear full black cassocks (which you can look up in Wikipedia or wherever). Furthermore, he spent a number of years in the Marines. These two things combined meant that he was running around, crawling around on the ground, shooting people right and left, wrestling guns out of people’s hands, and all in an ankle-length robe–it was hilarious.
And now I’m off to see a production of the Sound of Music, for which my sister is a member of the pit orchestra. Ta!
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So I have a question, probably for the GAPA(s) but if anyone knows it’d be helpful!
Today I played tennis/hung out with some friends, and one of them brought along a friend who is from england/has an english accent. I really really like accents, and so do most people I know, and I started wondering if there was a reason people like accents (other than their own).
At first I was thinking that it might be a biological/evolutionary reason–people who speak with a different/accent dialect are probably not related to you, which widens the gene pool/could possibly cut down chance of genetic diseases in offspring.
But though google I found an article on ethnocentrism (it’s only one page, so I’m not quite sure of the context but I think I get it. It’s also scanned form a book, so I can’t c+p but I’ll do my best) saying that more often people dislike accents because they’re unfamiliar. Like, people would be more willing to help/make sacrifices for people with the same accent because they’re more likely to be related or something. But it’s not as applicable now because of the vast population size, rather than small individual groups. I think. The passage cuts off in the middle.
ANYWAY I was wondering if anyone knew more about this! I know so many more people who like accents than don’t (can’t think of anyone who actively dislikes them, but I know a few people who don’t care either way), so I was just wondering if there was a reason or it’s just something random.
Thanks!
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*shrug* I dunno, but I know I’ve got a thing for accents–or certain accents, at least. Basically anytihng that’s an english speaking accent (as in, not english as a second language). Y’know, British, scottish, irish, welsh, australian. American accents are just boring. :/
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That’s about what I like, as well–and I notice most are from countries that speak primarily English. Maybe it’s a goo dmix between recognizable but different? I looked around online a bit more, but haven’t really found anything on the subject.
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You only think American accents are boring because you’ve grown up with them. Accents are only interesting if you don’t hear them frequently. If I hear Arabic-accented English, I barely any any attention to it, because especially here in Jordan I hear it all the time. If you lived in Britain long enough, you’d probably stop consciously noticing the different pronunciation. In other words, you can acclimatize yourself to an accent.
Personally, if the accent is too different and difficult to understand I’m to busy trying to understand what’s being said. That can make me angry, as I’d prefer easy communication. And that’s about as far as the hatred of accents goes.
Beyond that, Piggy and Jadestone’s theory makes sense to me.
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I think that to an extent, accents different from one’s own are attractive–but not too different. It seems that it should be familiar yet distinct. For instance, a British accent is heard often enough in America that it can seem attractive. But, say, a Norwegian accent is rarely heard, so it’s too different. I think it’s basically a combination of “different = bigger gene pool” and “same = familiarity and safety”.
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Yeah, and if the accent is too different and too thick, you get a lot of occurences of the “IF I YELL LOUD ENOUGH YOU WILL UNDERSTAND ME PROPORTIONALLY BETTER” phenomenon.
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I’ll ask linguists I know, but I bet it’s more of a psychological question.
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Other People: “Accents are sexy” “Yeah, they are.” “Mmm, accents.”
Museblog: “Accents are sexy. Why?” “Hmm, theories.” “Hmm, accents”
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Gotta love MuseBlog.
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Yes, indeed!
Let’s see what else might enter into the appealing-accent equation. I suspect that you’re more likely to find a foreign or regional accent attractive if you don’t associate it with people who pose a threat to you. Over time, it’s been interesting to watch accents switch from sinister to sexy as old enemies become new allies, or at least neutrals.
In general, it also seems to help if the accent is associated with people you consider at least your social equals. Poor immigrants, or people your country has conquered or otherwise subordinated, rarely qualify, I think. Nineteenth-century Americans didn’t much care for Irish immigrants and seem to have had little use for Irish accents (except in comedy); 21st-century Americans feel differently about Irish people and accents and have found different ones to dislike (and other previously unfashionable ones to like).
By the way, when I was training young adults in Scotland in the 1990s, the women in my classes all agreed that they loved, loved, loved Irish accents. Accents from County Kerry were particular favorites. (Interestingly, that’s the part of Ireland that is farthest from Scotland. Possibly material for more theorizing?)
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quite.
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I like Japanese/ Chinese accents, French accents, English, Welsh, Russian. I don’t know why, but probably because my mind associates them with well educated people.
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Agreed. I like those accents too. *does Japanese accent*
Oh, and I’m very good at doing Japanese accents from listening to my mom’s friends a lot.
“Thisu.. ano… hambaga?” *random*
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Guess where I’m posting from? Arts camp!!!
I have three AWESOME roommates, four AMAZING neighbors, and a totally fantastic campus! Of course, I accidentally left my toothbrush six hours away at home, but no matter. I get to write, write, write for FOUR WHOLE WEEKS in one of the best arts programs in California!
It’s so hot here, you wouldn’t believe. We’re boiling, or possibly frying, or maybe even baking-there’s some disagreement on that part. (One of my roommates is another Creative Writing Major, and we argue about the exact right word for everything. I love her.) I’m the only one who brought a fan, heh heh. I feng shuied the dorm room, to the great amusement of my roommates, and it’s been so cool.
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Four amazing neighbors, three awesome roommates, two turtledoves, and a partridge in a pear tree!
…or something.
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No, Four epic neighbors, three awesome roommates, two Creative Writers, and a totally awesome campus!
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Wow, I’m jealous. Writing camp sounds amazing!
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That sounds amazing splendiferous!
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So… I just went to my first contra dance. And let me say, it was amazing. When you swing really fast…. *happiness* So, yeah. amazing. Especially when you have a really good partner… Which I didn’t really have. I had some great partners, but some of the guys who I had as neighbors and swung with… O. M. G. Anyways, this was a small dance (mostly people from our camp), but we’re going to a really big one, which is supposed to be *really* good. So.., yeah. I’m happy.
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CONTRACONTRACONTRA we should totally go to a contra dance together. Just ’cause. I’m going to dance camp in August SO EXCITED alsdkghjldsafs [incoherent ramblings about how amazing contra is]
anyway congrats on discovering the wonderfulness.
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That does sound extremely fun. *experiences vicarious happiness*
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Rosanne! I haven’t seen you around in a while. How goes GAPAreallifeland?
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Tesseract, hello! I’m around, just verrrrry quiet
Life is good here in GAPAreallifeland. I went to the farmer’s market this morning and went crazy over the fruit — nectarines and plums of many kinds and even Blenheim apricots (hard to find!) My husband says I’ll have to eat fruit salad instead of dinner this week to consume the bounty. Not a bad idea…
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Isn’t there 4 GAPA’s? I know Robert, Rebecca, and Rosanne, but isn’t there one more?
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*aren’t. Aren’t there 4 GAPAs. Not isn’t.
To answer your question, however, the fourth GAPA is Paul Baker, fondly known as PB&J
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Paul Baker, who is exceptionally busy being amazing.
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When did he last post, anyhow? I can’t recall.
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Around Halloween maybe?
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Good memory!
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=4442#comment-331725
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Obviously, everybody missed Keiffer terribly when Keiffer was away. And it must have been rather boring here when Keiffer was not around to be Keiffery.
So, Keiffer is back, and Keiffer is glad to be back.
And Keiffer has a new obsession, which is with the series called The Dark Tower, by Stephen King.
Keiffer’s obsessions: Cats, HiNaBN, dA, MB, The Dark Tower, Pokemon, Doctor Who, Shakespeare, Avatar The Last Airbender (animated TV series, not movie), Queen, The Beatles, David Bowie, The Who, Led Zeppelin, and a whole caking lot of other stuff.
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THE DARK TOWER SERIES! Fishy and I are reading that! I read the second one, and he read the first…
I have this thing with reading the second book first, completely by accident
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KEIFZ! *first glomp*
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KEIFZ!
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MY BLOBLING!!!! I missed you! *huggles*
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*glomps all of you*
139.1- Cool! For the first one we, against my will, listened to on CD. I have a weird aversion to not having the book in my hands.
139.2/3- HIYA! Maggie, good for you for remembering that glomping is customary.
139.4- BLIBLING!!! I missed you too! *wiggles pretty flower in front of face* (This time I do believe I mean a real flower. XD)
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Yay a pretty flower! Thanks ever so! *hops about in a circle*
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Sorry I haven’t been on; our air conditioner’s still down, and we’re avoiding most anything that produces heat, including computers. I can’t promise I’ll be on more in the near future, but I’ll come back when I can.
In other news, the neighbor I spoke of turned out to have a brain tumor.
She went through surgery for that, and now she’s recovering. Last I heard she was doing fairly well, and will probably come home from the hospital Tuesday or Wednesday.
It’s hot and humid enough here to be annoying without AC. It could be a lot worse, though. I don’t think the temperature in our house has ever got above 87, and usually it’s hovering around a hundred around now.
I think that’s everything, at least for now.
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I hope your neighbor recovers.
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I, also.
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I’m wathcing the final World Cup match tonight. Anyone else?
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I am as well!
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Probably! Who do think is going to win?
I think by now my greatest skill is effectively tuning out vuvuzelas…
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I wouldn’t miss it for anything! I cleared my afternoon schedule weeks ago and am watching the pregame now; kickoff is at 2:30.
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I’m watching it right now. In fact, I can see the T.V. from where I’m sitting. Go Spain!
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GO NETHERLANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Boo Spain. Their win against Germany was totally unfair. I agree with P_M.
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Okay, I watched the Spain-Germany match (in a pub in europe) and their win was completely legit. Spain played much better than Germany the entire time – their defense was amazingly tight and they attempted many more goals than Germany.
I actually don’t care who wins the finals, I just root against Germany.
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I was actually surprised Spain did so well against Germany, because they did -terribly- against Paraguay and they hadn’t been playing brilliantly from what i’d seen, but they really picked it up for the last couple games. Casillas is brilliant.
i was sort of rooting netherlands, but we had a family from spain over watching with us so the general atmosphere was very “go spain.”
SO many yellow cards though, what was with that? and i thought the ref was a little biased against the netherlands. but overall, brilliant game, spain deserved the win
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I was very much for the Netherlands, and watched it in Spanish in a room full of soccer kids, 4 Spanish girls, 1 Spanish guy, 2 Chinese girls, 1 Chinese boy, and other people. That was an amazing amount of cards, with the red at the end. Aggressiveness or biased? I think all the goal attempts by the Netherlands were great.
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Aaaand Spain scores!!!!!!!!! If you can’t tell whom I support after this….
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WORLD CUP SPOILER SPOILER WORLD CUP SPOILER WORLD CUP SPOILER!!!!!
I AM SO SAD THE NETHERLANDS LOST
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I was really hoping for Netherlands… I watched it at a friend’s house and the goal happened while we weren’t watching it and the Dad yelled and my friend got really mad at him for yelling when it wasn’t Netherland’s point.
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Paul the German octopus was right! (Paul the German octopus is an octopus from Germany named Paul. He’s predicted the winner of every World Cup match so far. Well, I think. I’m not sure if he got the Uruguay match.)
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So that’s what the guy at the Observatory meant when I overheard him saying “Spaniards are making death threats against the octopus.”
I just assumed I’d misheard something innocuous.
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*laughs*
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I mean, when I heard something THAT strange, I’ve come to assuming I’m mishearing.
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Me too.
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134.1.2(FantasyFan)- My goal is to live in england until that happens, then move to Ireland/Scotland and be happy for forever XD
134.2(Piggy)- Yeah, a good mix between the two.
134.3(Vendeval)- Thanks Vendy!
135 (Ebeth)- Hehehe, yes, that’s why I love it hear. I brought this up with someone yesterday and they were just like “…huh?” so I gave up. But it’s just so interesting!
135.1.1(Robert)- Ohh, interesting points! Now I’m going to be thinking about history all day, and how that might have affected this!
139- Ahh, I really liekd The Dark Tower series. My mom’s a huge SK fan, so I’ve read a few of his horror books but I liked TDT more.
Going to go think about accents more and read/play pokémon game on the new hammock outside! It’s not too bad out right now because there’s clouds, so might as well take advantage of it.
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I’m going to read my Muse be back tommorow.
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I spent almost all of today doing my Astronomy homework, but then I went to the Peabody Museum and looked at the meteorites. That was fun. Apparently there’s no way to get inside the museum without going through the lobby, but I discovered the secret is to just look down and focus on the task at hand.
They have quite an impressive collection of tektites in the meteorite display. I’ve always had a thing about tektites. They’re like the superheroes of geology. They were just ordinary Earth rocks, going about their business, until a meteor hit, turned them molten, and sent them flying into the upper atmosphere. When they came down, they were exotic-looking streamlined stones, sometimes jewelry-quality beautiful.
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I don’t think I mentioned it on here, but my grandpa died two weeks ago. (For those of you who remember, it was the same grandpa who shattered his hip socket a year or so ago.) It was fairly sudden and unexpected (we suspect a heart attack), but he didn’t spend any period of time suffering. He was even lucky enough to maintain his mental capacity to the end, though he was 87. Anyway, the reason I’m bringing this up is that we’ve now found out what his will left to whom. It seems that each of his five children (and their families) will receive a lot of money. A lot. (Well, in my lower-middle-class eyes, anyway. About four times as much as I had expected.) So now my mom’s excited because she finally gets to get an iPod Touch. My dad’s already gotten himself a new GPS. And college will probably be more affordable now? Good things. Of course, we’re in the process of dividing my grandpa’s stuff, getting his house ready to be sold, etc., etc. That’ll all take some time.
But yay money! (And yes, I realize that’s very shallow and disrespectful and everything, but it helps us out a lot right now.)
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Well, you can choose whether to accept my congratulations or my sympathy (or both).
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My sympathies for the death of your grandpa. But, yes, that is indeed good that something beneficial has come out of it…
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Don’t worry about being shallow or disrespectful, I’m sure you’re grandpa would be really happy that his death at least helps your family so much, but I’m sorry to hear he died. Death is no fun. *gives hugs and copious amounts of chocolate*
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I’m sorry your grandpa died. However, I am glad that he maintained his mental capacity. It seems to me that it would be quite painful for your grandfather not to recognize you.
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So GAPAs. Since the Recent Posts bar is a feed, is there any way to make the Recent Comments a feed too? That would be good.
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I was talking with my friend the other day, and I looked back and realized just how ODD some of the things in stories I’ve written have been. I mean, back in that Disney thing back in the winter I had Psychic!Ghost!Christa McAuliffe fighting robots inside of Sea Base Alpha…
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That isn’t as weird as it sounds. Ghosts are typically people with unfinished business. I can imagine Christa McAuliffe haunting the stratosphere until the Pathfinder 7 mission goes up and finally puts teachers in space.
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True, Barbara Morgan didn’t get to do anything a normal Mission Specialist wouldn’t have, although there have been three Educator Mission Specialists since then, who HAVE returned to the classroom. So, by the letter of the law, there have been teachers in space, but not in the (no pun intended) spirit. I guess the two important “unfinished” parts would be being a relatively ordinary person without years of training and actually teaching from orbit.
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Oh, Barbara Morgan… I met her once. She was doing a women in astronomy event at the planetarium that my (all girls) robotics team was invited to. It was pretty sweet.
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Sweet! Was it for FIRST robotics?
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You’re giving me too much credit. I did very little research on Educator Mission Specialists.
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http:// en. wikipedia. org/wiki/ Educator_Astronaut_Project
Although, in turn, I had not heard of the Pathfinder 7, so we’re even.
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Hurrah for friend with iPhone! I couldn’t last any longer without mb! 1 more week before I come home from this camp and get to play with our new iMac that we got while I’ve been here! Anyway… I must go now….
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No pun intended?
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What p- ohhh…. Ha-ha! I get it! Mac Book!
P*EASE P*EASE COME TO THE DEMIGOD RPG! AND THE TIME TRAVEL RPG! THE DON’T NEED TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! P*EASE! CHOKLIT TO ALL WHO POST ON THESE THREADS!
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Hello all!
I’m sailing on a German ship for a little bit, then going back to Niagara. It’s different and interesting, and sometimes baffling, since I don’t speak a word of German. Well, I know a few words, but nothing enough to understand what’s going on half the time. It’s interesting though.
Ummm….leaving tomorrow for Bay City, then when we get there we’re headed back to Erie to catch up with Niagara again. I’m looking forward to it, really, much as I like it here. Eh, in any case, that’s what’s going on now with your resident tall ships’ sailor. BTW, Tall ship festivals are awesome. AWESOME I tell you.
I do miss me some internets though. And though I’m totally excited about the cabins (I’m in “Kammer 02”) and the bunks instead of hammocks, it gets so hot belowdecks, and we can’t sleep on deck on this ship. That, and the two other guys that are sharing the cabin with Pip and I sketch me out a little. But meh. I got a few hours of napping time in today, so I’m feeling good about catching up on some sleep.
Anyway, I really should go to bed. It’s later than I realized. *siigh*
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Oh man, my mom is from bay city. the sugarcane factory kind of smells but it’s cool. if you for some really odd reason decide to go grocery shopping there, get some spatz bread, it’s the best
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That is so sad that a sugarcane factory would “kind of smell”.
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114 + replies- Okay, um, I can sing if needed, but I’d rather play something. I have no formal training really, unless you count copying drummers in my dad’s band by ear training at all in some way. I have no drum set, and I am one of those definitely NOT crazy drummers who use anything nearby to rap on. And by rap I mean tap/drum, not Rap because I can’t. Believe me, I have tried.
As long as someone emails me with times/days of practices when they start to happen, and where they’ll be, I’m fine with everything.
((And as nobody seems to notice, I can also play the sax, if needed.))
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You play the saxophone?!?!?!
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*Walks into random muse forest* * Finds wung* * wung attaches itself on leg* *shakes leg*
Oh well. It’s kind of cute anyway.
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Pardon my grammar.
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There’s a wungs thread where it would be more suitable to post about a wung having you.
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Just out of curiosity, has anyone made the wung-tribble connection yet? I haven’t been paying attention to the wungs.
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I don’t know what wungs look like…
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Huh? Oh. I’ll repost that. but i think its dead.
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I’m so exceptionally happy that I’ve finished geometry, also, my report card is beautiful (even though my spanish teacher lied…she said I regularly exceed expectations in spelling—I can hardly spell in english much less spainish) I got my blood drawn this morning, so that’s taken care of, I’m getting a new guitar (with my own money) and it shipped today, I leave for camp in 2 weeks, I’m nearly done reading Into The Wild and have plenty of time for my essay…life is good
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“I can hardly spell in English much less SPAINISH?” With an extra I? XD
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yeah, I noticed that just after I hit “post”. I’d say that, rather than being a FAIL as it usually would, that that counts as a WIN for demonstrating my point concisely.
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World Cup — Spain deserved to win. They were the best team, although it would have been interesting if they had played Brazil. They deserved all their victories, especially this one. They had more possession, more chances, and less fouls. The Dutch just started fouling and fouling because they needed a way to stop the Spanish. It was despicable. Van Bommel is my least favorite player (yes, more so than Suarez) because he is the dirtiest player. He is lucky every game the referees don’t give him a red card. One of the annoucers said he could have gotten four in the first half.
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okay, i agree that spain deserved to win, but first off spain vs paraguay? they played -terribly- in that game. they really didn’t have much more possession, and they had maybe bit fewer fouling. what they did have were a lot of fouls that didn’t get called. both teams were fouling a ton, the ref was definitely handing out way more cards to the dutch for fouls that he passed over from spain. i’m not saying i enjoyed all the fouling, but there really wasn’t that big a difference between how dirty the teams were playing.
the dutch actually played really well, and the teams were very evenly matched. spain was just barely the better team, and i think a lot of that credit has to go to casillas. the dutch had plenty of chances on the goal.
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Do I gather there’s been a football match somewhere? I do tend to lose track of things.
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A few, yeah
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A couple. With a whole ton of really worked up people waving limbs, wearing colours they might otherwise not, and blowing on those strangle plastic horns.
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Yay for bright orange uniforms and vuvuzelas!
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I found out today that there’s a scientist working in the Astronomy department called Peter Parker.
Yes, Peter Parker. You read that right. (I had to read the sign a few times just to be sure *I’d* read it right.)
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Calling all RPers on the Superheroes and Mary Sues thread!
Please report back now and revive the thread. Thank you very much.
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What the bloody *huuurk* is a vuvuzela? My spell check thinks it’s “Venezuela”, and I’m a bit afraid to look it up.
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A long plastic horn that makes an annoying, monotone sound. They’ve been played all during the soccer games by fans at the World Cup and got very annoying very fast.
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And I want one very badly.
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“Without a ‘p’, as in Venezuela…”
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Wow, I feel like I haven’t been on here in awhile, even though I was just posting yesterday. *rubs head* (From my sister’s iPod Touch, which is a little different, but still.) Odd. Anyway…I just realized I hadn’t offered my two cents about the World Cup Final, so here it goes:
First of all, I was rooting for Spain, so I am happy that they pulled away with the win. I do think they deserved the victory – they pretty much controlled the game, and in the end, were simply the better team. Obviously both teams had some very good chances, but the Netherland’s players just couldn’t keep up with Spain’s ability to pass and control the ball. As for the ref, besides the one time when the Netherlands guy kicked the Spanish player in the chest which could have been a red card (In fact, if it hadn’t been a World Cup Final and it wasn’t so early in the game, it most definitely would have been.) I thought he did a pretty good job. Yes, there were a lot of yellow cards. Yes, it was a slow stop-and-start sort of game, which didn’t exactly make for a good game spectator-wise. But overall, most if not all of those plays were certainly deserving of fouls or yellow cards. The Netherland’s players were just playing that way, either from frustration or because that was their way of trying to stop the Spanish players who were better at controlling the ball and trying to prevent a breakaway which could lead into a goal. Obviously that couldn’t continue forever, which is why Spain got the win. I’m happy for them, and think they were deserving. I agree that Casillas was probably the best player for Spain, if he hadn’t saved that one breakaway which probably could have turned into a penalty kick if the Dutch player had fallen down – the Spanish player was practically dragging him down from behind, and it was a bad call by the ref – the Dutch might just have gotten away with the win.
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So Pseudonym, Keiffer, Maggie, and I all go to this band camp, and it happens in the same time and place as a String camp, and I was getting a ride home from Keiffer (Nym and Maggie had already left) and we ran into BEETLES and AMBYSTOMA MACULATUM coming out of string camp. Wow.
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That was amazing. There’s almost nothing that could make me happier than an unplanned encounter with a fellow Muser.
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Once I saw Enc at a Subway Stop.
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That was you?! Aren’t you in my Theory III class? I saw you but I wasn’t sure it was you! Tomorrow I’ll talk to you!
Come to think of it, remember how I said at the Kokon that I thought I knew you from somewhere? It must have been from camp last year. I think you were in my theory class last year too.
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Wow. That is very, very cool.
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How did you recognize them? Even if I saw an MBer I would not recognize them at all.
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I think SudoRandom would be a rather easy person to spot. (His picture’s been on the ‘Blog before due to Kokonventioning.)
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But that’s one person. If I saw, say, YOU at the mall, it wouldn’t even register. And they said Beetles and Ambystoma Maculatum…
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Hot-pink skin is usually a giveaway, unless you’re at the beach.
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We had a short conversation as well.
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We’ve kokoned. And we were acting rather muserly at the time.
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Wow! That is really cool!
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What amazes me is how many of you there are in that one area. Okay, I think Keiffer, Nym, and either Beetles or AM (I can’t remember which) came here because one of their friends or siblings did, but it’s still surprising.
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I went on MuseBlog, and then introduced Nym to it, who introduced Maggie and Keiffer to it, and Enc went on MuseBlog, then introduced AM to it who introduced Beetles who I think introduced Optimatum and one other person, maybe? So really, it’s mostly not a coincidence.
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Ebeth – in Spain vs. Paraguay, possession was about 60 – 40. As for fouls in the final, the referee was being fair/lenient with the Dutch. I already gave the Van Bommel example, and starr’s post mentions De Jong’s definite red card karate kick. The Dutch were fouling because they couldn’t keep up with the Spanish attack. Spain might have gotten one red card (two at the outside) if the referee had been harsher, but the Netherlands also could of had their total increase.
Bottom line: Spain played better and deserved to win. The Dutch just embarrassed themselves by fouling as much as they did.
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Okay yeah there were some definite fouls, and yeah the Dutch cards were mostly deserved. But Spain deserved cards as well. I’m not talking red, i’m talking yellow. I’m not supporting the fouling, i’m just saying it wasn’t all on the Dutch. And i think the teams were much more evenly matched than you’re admitting.
I also don’t really understand how you find the Dutch so despicable but defend Uruguay.
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hey everyone! I haven’t been on in awhile, mostly because of radio stuff and getting community sevice hours, which is actually pretty fun and makes me feel all accomplished and fuzzy inside. *happy grin*
Going to MONTREAL if my new passport is made/verified.
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Welcome back, peary! Your chess game needs you.
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Good news… I don’t have any homework today and I don’t have to go to classes.
Bad news… it’s because I have a stomach virus.
Good news… My dorm is having a study party with pizza and ice cream tonight.
Bad news… But I can’t have anything but flat Sprite and crackers today.
Good news… I don’t feel hungry, though.
Bad news… Because I’m too busy feeling queasy.
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That sounds terrible. I hope you feel better soon.
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Poor KaiYves. *magical choklit stomach virus cure*
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Today I visted the lowest point in the world and broke my vow to never ever eat at McDonald’s.
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That’s not that bad. <inb4Luna>
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I do like McDonalds….. XD
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BAD FANTASYFAN! BAD!
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If there’s a McDonald’s on the shore of the Dead Sea, I suppose there must be one on top of Mount Everest, too.
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No, no, Robert, the lowest point in the world is the Marianas Trench.
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Don’t be silly, KaiYves. The pressure down there is more than 8 tons per square inch. McDonald’s food would be crushed to inedibility.
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Lowest point on land. And we didn’t actually eat there, we ate on the drive back because the Dead Sea is a pricy tourist trap. And I broke my vow because I was starving, dizzy , and tired from swimming at a resort. For the record, I don’t think the food tasted very good.
I also got my first sunburn. Waaah.
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…Where do you live, to get your first sunburn at your age?
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And wherever it is, can I move there?
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No, it’s the lowest point. Water should be in the same category as land but in a different category from air. Since there’s no air there…wait, kosher McDonalds?!
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I like McDonald’s, actually… *ahem* Does this make me a slave of corporate America and a candidate for obesity?
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Yes. You monster.
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I got a 4 (!!!) on the Calc BC test, and a 5 on APUSH.
*dreams of Harvey Mudd are crushed brutally*
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Congratulations!
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Hahaha, on my dreams bring crushed?
But thanks. After my initial shock and self-esteem crisis I’ve determined that it doesn’t matter if you got a 4 or a 5 as long as you got one or the other. And that I got myself worked up about nothing. (I also determined that I have an overactive imagination.)
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nah nah nah you can definitely still get in. GPA is much more important, as are extracurriculars etc
harvey mudd is pretty awesome, by the way.
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AHHHHHHHHH!!!! You know that HPB soul candy? I SAW A SHELF OF IT A BORDERS!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
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I got my AP scores today: 4 on APUSH and 5 on AP Lang. I want to see what I got on my essays/MC test, but I don’t know if I can.
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That’s great! Congrats.
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Okay, question: Do AP results affect admission or are they just for determining credit/placement?
(This would probably be better off in the College thread, but nobody goes there anymore.)
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I’m sure in some schools they could potentially affect admission a bit, but really schools just like to see that you took them. I think good scores (such as yours – congrats!) would probably have a positive effect on admission (wow you are so smart etc) but i don’t know that bad scores would have that huge a negative effect, since there could have been extenuating circumstances. I think it’s usually more about the fact that you took the harder classes, along with GPA and essays.
having AP credit is nice, but it’s not a huge thing imho. It gets you out of a few classes, but it really doesn’t have that huge an impact on the work you have to do or whether you can finish in four years or whatever.
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Okay, thanks! I was just curious.
I don’t really care about credit, to be honest… It’s a matter of pride for me. :3 (My parents do, however… )
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I got my AP scores, too. 5 on APUSH and 5 on Lang/Comp.
For some reason, playing Pac-Man Junior really helps take my mind off feeling sick. It’s a really cool game, because it starts off like regular Pac-Man, but then you get to more advanced levels with special features, like a “speed” button that will shoot you to the other side of the level if you run over it, or a “Jump” button that bounces you to another spot in the level.
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I guess I’ve recieved my AP English score by now too, but I don’t know what it is because for some reason the AP part of the College Board is still stuck in the pre-Internet era and i can’t access my scores online.
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You guys take APUSH and Lang at the same time? Odd.. at my school it’s APUSH and Honors Lit sophomore year; then junior year it’s AP Euro and AP Lang.
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i did APUSH sophomore year, gov and lang junior, and euro and lit senior year. honors english was first two years but they didn’t call it lit. fresh year for history i took world history, we don’t offer the AP. they have an honors section now, but they didn’t add it until the year after i took it
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Oh, senior year it’s AP Gov/Psych and AP Lit at our school… World History isn’t offered, I think.
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Wait, you have designated years to take classes? O.o We can basically take whatever whenever. I’ll be taking AP Bio, Lit, Music Theory, Spanish, and Latin next year, as well as IB Theory of Knowledge, civics, and gym.
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Yeah, we can only take AP classes junior and senior year. I’m taking two of them.
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You silly people and your schools that offer more than four AP courses *shakes fist*
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Four AP classes? Only Junior and Senior? Well, as for me, I’ll just take the Bio AP after ninth grade without taking the class, just Bio Honors, same for Chem in tenth-grade, and I’ll take Calc AB/BC, then ummm…college classes for junior and senior years in math, then Physics AP in 11th, along with French. And there are some more AP and college classes somewhere in there. It’s wonderful to know these things before I’m even in high school.
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…o.0
I’m taking AP Bio (online, independent study), AP Chem (offered by the school, but may be independent study), AP Euro and AP Lang (as are the norm).
Social studies and English are regulated; science and math are not.
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it was the same at my school, you could take bio and chem and physics in any order as long as you had the prereqs (bio–>AP bio, chem–>AP chem, etc)
i tooook, what did i take…APUSH sophomore year, gov and lang junior year, and then euro, stats, lit, and music theory. got four 4’s, one 5 (lit) and two 3’s (stats and theory). at OSU i got GEC credit for two history classes, one english, stats, and like civics or something idk. theory doesn’t do much, it was just for the lulz. i think it might count as like a random extra GEC or something. it’ll count if i decide to get a music minor though
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Well, I’m just skipping physics and going straight to AP because you just need calculus, and I’ll know that by then. Also, AP Bio is two years, so definitely not taking that.
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They don’t offer AP Bio; very few people take AP Chem/Physics.
NORMAL SCIENCE CURRICULUM AT MY SCHOOL
9 – (Honors) Earth/Physical Science
10 – (Honors) Biology
11 – (Honors) Chemistry
12 – (AP) Physics B/C (nobody takes C, though)
WHAT I AM TAKING
9 – Honors Biology
10 – Honors Chemistry, CIS* Anatomy Physiology
11 – AP Chemistry, AP Biology
12 – AP Physics B/C (I’m thinking C at this point)
So basically by the end of high school I’ll be taking science with my grademates, but I’ll have crammed more learning in the previous grades.
* – In CIS classes you get college credit without an AP test.
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*seethes with envy*
Also, how many hours a week is each class? Because somehow we have the same amount of hours per week (roughly) but I have 14 subjects.
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Well, at my school we have the same seven classes Monday through Friday, each for roughly fifty minutes. On top of that, you can choose to have an extra class before school officially starts or after it officially ends–or both, with parental and administrative permission. That would mean nine classes a day, for a total of about nine and a half hours at school every day (counting passing periods and lunch).
However, one school in my district has a “block schedule”, which essentially means their classes are roughly twice as long and they take half as many–but they get a year-long class finished in one semester. I don’t think I’d like that schedule.
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*shrieks with laughter*
Curse you, techology, curse you!
…at least Ms. T has a very good sense of humour. But still.
Curse you, technology!!!
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WOOOO! I just got back from a Billy Joel tribute concert, the band’s called Big Shot. I’ll send the GAPAs some photos and videos I took, can you guys publish .AVI files?
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Our school doesn’t even HAVE AP classes.
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And I thought we were lucky to have college classes five minutes away. Can’t you just take the APs anyway somewhere else?
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There isn’t anywhere else. I live in a small town; there’s only one high school. We can take college classes, but they have to be something not offered in the high school–I can’t take basic math and English there. Besides, that only works if you have tons of free time to take night classes, or a car to take you to the college during school.
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The people who did the study that said that most people do not notice a gorilla walking through the room when asked to count the white team’s basketball passes did another study involving people who knew about the gorilla beforehand. It’s called the ‘Monkey Business Illusion’, it’s on Youtube, and I’d be really grateful if the GAPAS would allow a link because it’s an awesome, muserly video. I found out about the first test in Muse, after all.
I’d also like to see what everyone gets, because I failed it miserably and I’d like to see if Musers as a whole are more observant than I am.
www . youtube . com/watch?v=IGQmdoK_ZfY
[No link, but enough information to find the video. –Admin.]
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