As has become traditional, we’re posting the random thread with a generic name and without art to give our brilliant but perpetually frazzled illustrator a chance to catch up on her sleep. The name and theme will become apparent within a day or two. Meanwhile, the random craziness will proceed as usual.
Patience, Please
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Hello, MuseBlog!
I can’t believe it’s September already…what happened to summer?
I AM IMMORTAL, I HAVE THE BLOOD OF KINGS
Princes of the Universe is like the greatest pump-up song ever.
(And Freddie is very, very hot (as always) in the music video just so you all know. So it can’t hurt to go listen to the song now, right? Besides the fact that it’s one in the morning?)
So I bought Mockingjay today. Haven’t read much yet, but so far it looks like it’ll be interesting, though perhaps that’s wishful thinking. Has anyone else read it? (No spoilers, please!)
Anyway, happy September! I look forward to the thread theme and picture! Off to bed for me now.
Mockingjay is amazing!! I sat down around 11 in the morning on Monday and didn’t get off the couch until 7ish. And then it was only to eat dinner.
Have any of you guys played FLUXX? It’s a fun game. I was at a birthday party last night and we were playing it a LOT. I really want to get the Monty Python version.
First Post? Please? *is ashamed of self for selling out to first postness*
Monty Python version? Do tell!
It’s heavily based on Holy Grail, which is kind of sad, but it’s apparently better than the original version.
I have all the fluxx games! They’re so fun!
3- Yes, indeed, I have played that. Fun game.
Now I’m really hoping NaNo comes soon. Two more months… Gah.
For some reason I miss the hectic despair that bothered me that entire month. For some reason I’m looking forward to experiencing that again.
Oh, me too! Last year was really awesome, well, except for the whole english grade incident.
WARNING- i’m not going to capitalize a lot because i have a chick asleep in my left hand, and it’s really annoying to shift with one hand.
cat’s meow- AWWWWWW! ginger kittens! that’s so funny about the turtle. well, not really. you get what i mean.
mika- yes, brahmas do have feathers on their legs [the proper term is boots], but many other breeds do as well. brahmas are tan or white with a black ring around their neck. [there’s dark brahmas, too, but i dunno how to describe them. you can google it.] still working on names for them. ((Oh my gosh, she woke up. My hand was getting sore.)) I think we’re going to wait until we know their personalities better to name them. We bought them sexed, so they’re all females. And now she’s standing on the track pad and moving the mouse all over.
Cat’s Eye- ((Oh, now she’s enthralled by the keyboard. Apparently computer cases are good to peck at.)) Awwww! I could imagine… Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. ♥
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Quick fact! Did you know that it takes chicks about three seconds to fall asleep when covered by your hands? It’s adorable.
AWWWW! Yeah, my friend has some brahmas.
saw this on recent comments and thought you meant a girl.
Yup, I just have chicks all over me. They can’t keep their eyes (or hands) off of me. Everywhere I go, I get hit on by tons of hot chicks.
I really want a
babychick now.squeeeeeee
Beedle has got some tail!
Happy September.
Summer’s gone. Again.
Eeep! EEEP! Fourth post?
Ah well…if you get the first post, you get the first post.
I have not played FLUXX. I shall google it.
Milk and Cookies? It looks interesting. Perhaps you could develop an easily played MuseBlog version?
Wow. I completely didn’t realize it was september until I saw this thread….wow.
AHHHH SCHOOL STARTS IN A WEEK I HAVE AN ESSAY TO WRITE MINOR PANIC…….okay, I’m better.
Noooooooo….. I don’t wanna go back to school… I don’t mind doing work, and I absolutely love learning, but I just can’t take waking up so early and the stress. I hate stress. Hate. Hate. Hate. Stress.
Same here. Except I’m really excited to finally start high school.
Oh, you’re starting high school? High school is brilliant. You’ll love it.
OPTIMISM
Same here. Just finished writing ten summary sheets for science articles, so I just have to write two proposals and two essays… but not today.
Flux: It’s actually sort of similar to Paker, almost. Rules change as you play cards…
Ooh! Fluxx is my favorite card game ever!
Hello from the world of We Canceled Our Internet! Not forever. We’re going to switch to a different network/whatever they’re called, but we’re waiting for Mercury Retrograde to end.
Uh…yeah. My play is truly eating my life now, and what it isn’t eating I’m feeding to Lord of the Rings. School starts in a week (exactly!). I’m kind of excited right now. I have all sorts of resolves: I’m going to ride my bike every day, I’m going to pick out my outfit every night before I go to bed, I’m going to stop procrastinating, I’m going to impress the new freshmen with my dignity, fashion, and senior-ness, none of them are going to patronize me ever again… That sort of thing. Of course it’ll all disintegrate in the first few weeks of being back with the people I know, who won’t really have changed, if the last two summers are anything to go by. But it’s always exciting going back to school and I feel like I might have changed, if nothing else has.
Ahh, september…. We had a heat wave at my school and got out early.
Hi! Im new!
Izzy, go to neophytes thread. It’s below the random one on the main page. What do you think of my avatar?
Hi! Welcome to MuseBlog! For more welcomes and introductions (and pies), head on over to the Welcome Neophytes thread! ((Gosh, it’s been so long since I last made a link…))
I’m using GIMP to edit some pictures, and I tried using the scale button, and it works fine, but as soon as I start using another tool it resets. How do I prevent this, anybody?
School was awesome. I got candy. Can’t believe it’s Septmber already.
I got candy too! Yay for nice, candy-giving teachers!
Bribery is always nice.
NO SCHOOL TOMORROW! WOOOOOOOOO! *does no school dance* They cancelled school because it’s too hot. Serves you right, school board, for starting school in the summer.:P
Oh my god, are you serious!!!! Darn you!!!! *pies*
Yeah. We got out at 11:00 today too! It’s about 90 degrees out, it feels like 100, and it’s supposed to be getting worse tomorrow. And this is Maine! There is a hurricane coming up the coast or something Friday, and my whole class cheered when our teacher said that… Normally, people don’t cheer at hurricanes.
It might take a turn onto land though. Scary.
Wait, you got out because it’s ninety?
Aya, bizarre people and their lack of real weather.
And not 90. I meant in the 90s, sorry.
Still, schools like mine would probably be open no matter how hot it got.
Does your school have air conditioning?
You get out of school because it’s hot? * envy *
Where do you live, though?
Maine. On the coast. And, excuse me , REAL WEATHER?! We have real weather, thank you. *is offended*
…
Our school board, etc. is a little crazy though.
Maine? Oooh, close enough to Kokon maybe!
Cool, where do you live?
Massachusetts, there are a lot of us here.
YAY HURRICANE!
Hey, my dad grew up in Massachusetts, we go down there in the summer sometimes! *rubs hands together, much evil laughter*
I think we should all just have a humongous East Coast kokon. It’d be freaking amazing. Like, half the blog would be there.
Wait for this summer and I’ll be there. Well, not Maine, not unless I can somehow get a driver’s licence then.
No, I don’t think many MBers live in Maine.
North east or just East.
Oh yeah! My friend still thinks that her sweet sixteen, which is on a boat isn’t going to be cancelled. It’s on Friday, and that’s when LI is getting hit.
Does your school have AC? We’ve had school in worse… They don’t care about us. Oh, two and a half feet of snow and icy roads? You can go to school. Five people fainted in one day because we have no AC? Stay in school everyone. Bomb scare in the high school? The high school evacuates but the ATTACHED middle school doesn’t. Go figure.
We had a power outage a few years ago and the middle school was released but the high school wasn’t. I, being in middle school at the time, thought it was really cool, but the high schoolers were mad. And then we had a hole in the band room ceiling and we all thought we would get asbestos in us. We were allowed to go to the theatre for that, but the day after the hole was still there and we had to go back to the band room.
We don’t have AC or even a nice fan. We’ve never been let out early because of the heat before, either… So who knows, I think things changed a lot over the summer… Apparently, many little kids were having problems though. They didn’t let out of school for a bomb threat/scare either… They just locked all the doors and searched the school. And turned off the lights.
Oh, that’s nice. Here’s another one: Bomb inside the school? Lock the kiddies inside! And shut off the lights so they can’t see when they’re trying to escape.
I think the threat was more like, “I’m going to bomb your school today!” It was actually the parent of one of the kids at my school.
Hurricane Earl.
Around here, people tend to sensationalize weather. Everyone gets all freaked out over a predicted snowstorm and then it snows five inches. Not cool.
In NC:
Friday: 97
Percent Humidity: 68
School: Yes.
Marching band: Yes.
Hey, when I say our school board is crazy, I mean it.:D
Marching band is always a yes though, isn’t it? At least for us…
Even in the rain. “Woodwinds under the drum major’s stand and we are staying out unless there is thunder!”
I don’t have school for about a month still. Hooray!
That’s because you dropped out of high school to go to a community college. I’m sure you’ll have more work packed into your shorter year than we’ll have in our extended time in school.
Has anyone hear ever heard of the card game Mao? If you haven’t, Google it right now…it’s probably one of the most fun card games I’ve ever played… Basically I played it during band towards the end of last year but forgot to mention it on here until then. It’s pretty challenging to play – it’s a lot of fun with a ton of people – but the rules are (relatively simple), and it’s one of those games where the dealer (and the winner of each round) makes up different random rules that are unspoken and discovered through trial and error during the game. We had some really crazy ones, and because the girl who was the “mao” (a high school senior who taught us the game) was really HP-obsessed, we had a lot of HP related ones.
Anyway, just thought it was worth mentioning.
Has anyone *here
Wow I’m stupid…SFTTP, but I just realized…Mao is in the HG2G! Can’t believe I didn’t make the connection earlier… *headdesk* </duh moment
I think I may have played that once, although I never knew the name, and was exceedingly confused….
Yes, it is extremely confusing when you start, but if you can get to a point where you actually know (most) of the rules, it’s also extremely fun. We basically played it five days in a row, and it was only on the last two days that I actually begun to understand it, but I really loved it.
Mao? You mean the Chinese dictator who died in 1976 and *recites a long string of dates*
Sorry, couldn’t resist. We studied him last year, and I’ve still got a bunch of cards relating to that time period going through my flashcard-learning-program-thingy.
I’ve played that game. Once. The general consensus was that it was a terrible game and we were never playing it again. Maybe it gets more fun with experience.
That also depends on who you’re playing with. For example, the girl who taught us the game was really good at it – it’s hard to describe, but she basically just knew everything and was really, really smart and quick about dealing the cards and having clever comebacks. It’s not really a game that you “learn” as a group, it’s more something one person knows ahead of time and brings to the table, and then proceeds to confuse everybody until one or two people get to a point where they know several of the rules, and then wait for the others to catch on. You have to be really patient about it. But most of the game is simply trying to get to that point, which can be hard, but it’s worth it.
it’s terrible if you’re the last to catch on, or if you play with a group who have all played before. but once you get how it works it is SO MUCH FUN. i caught on pretty quickly, and i was playing in a group with a few others who had never played, so my first game wasn’t too terrible
Okay, so yesterday was unseemly hot, but I got to go to the Intrepid with Erin!
They are campaigning not subtly at all to get a space shuttle, which I actually think they have a chance at if they can make a stronger case than Johnson. (The Gulf Coast has enough good stuff, let the space-deficient Northeast get something for once!)
Actually, I’m happy for any excuse to see more space stuff there, because it’s not really emphasized as much as the “Sea” and “Air” parts of their galleries.
My mom let Erin and I go off on our own, which was WICKED. We went to see the special Apollo 1 exhibit ’27 Seconds’ in the hangar deck, freaking people out with our special “repeat JFK word for word perfectly in time with each other and the recording” skill. Then we went to the hands-on section and did all of the activities there.
We climbed into the Gemini capsule replica and tried to figure out what all the labels on the buttons and switches meant, until some little kids who wanted to play spaceship came up and wanted to go in. We left, to be polite.
The flight deck was HOT. Really HOT. But we got to ride on the deck elevator, and that was fun. When we were in line, Erin showed me the plush orca that she carries around in her backpack just in case she has an emergency need to hug an orca. She’s just awesome like that.
I really liked going inside of Concorde Alpha-Delta after doing my report, because I could tell Erin everything about it. Then we went back to her apartment and she showed me her room, which I hadn’t seen, so that was fun.
Looking into getting residency in the state in which I’m attending college. Which is managing to thoroughly depress me, if for no more reason than it would mean that I’d have to stay here this coming summer and not get to go home.
And then there’s the part of me that doesn’t ever want to give up Alaskan residency, since being Alaskan is cool.
Money, though, god, I’ll save loads of money if I can get residency here.
Guess how hot it was in our school yesterday?
95?
I’m not it school yet, but it was 101 where I am.
so it’s game day. i’m not even watching the game. but i’ve still got “go. ohio. beat. the herrrrd” running through my head. OH GOD I’VE BEEN BRAINWASHED NOOOOO
might have something to do with the bajillion facebook statuses.
ROAD TRIP TOMORROW WOOOO! ending in a kokon next weekend (the one after this one i mean). and then only a week until school starts! yaaay
Posting from school right now… I’m doing a PowerPoint on The Lord of the Rings.
OMG! I want to do an LOTR project!!!
That’s so cool. What’s it for?
Just a short little GenTech project.
I am here in Collegeland! It is exciting so far. In two hours I have a registration appointment with my advisor and I’ll figure out what classes to take. I’m already in a Biology class and a FYSP (freshman year seminar program) titled “Odysseus and Identities” which should be fun. But I might also have to take Chem this semester, and that AND bio at the same time would really suck D: It’d be a huge workload… I wanted to take Calculus II but both classes of it conflict with bio/FYSP (I was put in those over the summer. I could maybe see about switching up the times, but it’d be a LOT of work…). But it’d be really hard to take calc next semester/year because I’d forget EVERYTHING I’ve managed to retain over the summer >..<
Ahh crap. May I call upon the HTML gnome? I used improper “> <” signs and it cut out some of my post
Bad Jade for using the squinty-faces TWICE in a post improperly!
Unfortunately, even the gnomes can’t restore lost text. It goes missing before it ever gets to moderation space.
Alas!
Well then here’s basically what got cut out:
I also want to take either a photography class or a creative writing class. The photography one is more work, and I’ll have a large workload already with bio and either chem/calc (I found a way to have calc not conflict I think/hope), but I really am interested in photography. The class is kind of hard to get into, so there might not be a chance to take it later (if I can take it this year and it’s not full already at all).
The writing class is a poetry one, and it’s less work but still looks like a lot of fun. It’d be pretty easy to manage which would be good if the workload ends up being really big.
There’s also an astronomy class that looks interesting but I will probably wait to take that. They recommend 4, maybe 5 classes a semester and I’m already full x_x
Gonna talk to my advisor about everything, she’ll hopefully help me figure it out. That is what she’s there for, after all.
Here’s my two cents on creative writing classes. Save them for later. Two exceptions: if you desperately need to lighten your workload (and don’t care too much how the poems turn out) or if the class is focused on learning the mechanics of the medium. (Even if you write free verse, learning how to use traditional forms is extremely valuable — like learning the technical aspects of photography as a means of deepening the mastery of your craft. Insert Rebecca’s Standard Lecture on how skill is the key to spontaneity.)
I say this as someone who has a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry: creative writing classes are most useful when you have the time to use them to full advantage, not just during class hours, but in having the leisure to play with your ideas and to hang out with other writers. When you’re buried under academic deadlines, writing time is likely to fall by the wayside or otherwise be rendered unproductive. Better to take a summer workshop or the equivalent. My college had January terms devoted to a single subject, which is when I took my first creative writing course. Because we didn’t have to compete with other classes, my professor was able to organize all sorts of interesting field trips and activities to widen our inspiration.
Of course, mileage may vary.
Hmm. I have yet to take a creative writing class at college. I took two years of two week ones in the summer during high school. I write and I submit things (one of these days I’ll submit a story somewhere but for now it is poems) (one of which was sold!) I try to find spare time each day to write. Should I take a college creative writing class? Would one benefit me? I’m a junior in college this year.
Personally, I always found it very frustrating to squeeze in a creative class midst a pile of academics. One ends up turning in work before it’s ready or else falling back on old pieces. What was once passion becomes another obligation to be met. It doesn’t happen that way for everyone, but it seems to happen most often to those who care most about their art (using the term generically).
The situation is a little different if it’s your major subject because then the balance may shift in your favor. My senior year I could spend at least two or three sessions of several hours each in the studio. That was paradise! Grad school was similar. Most of the coursework consisted of writing workshops, with only one or at most two academic courses per semester. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the academic courses, and I learned a lot that was useful to me as a writer and an artist. But they require time that competes with creative time.
Visual arts and music are a little easier to accommodate, I think, because they require a fair amount of rote work that you can fall back on when you’re not feeling inspired. While you can invent writing exercises, they’re not a true equivalent to running scales or making sketches, where you can turn off certain parts of your brain and glide, like resting while you’re still running.
I don’t want to sound too discouraging. Now that you’re a junior (egad!), you no doubt know your work habits pretty well and know what the demands on your time are likely to be. But personally I’d suggest you have a very specific reason for taking a creative writing class at this stage (for instance, you really want to work with a particular professor) and take advantage of the unique opportunities at your college that will be more difficult to come by once you’re out in the world.
Yeah. A lot of this is why I majored in not-creative-writing (anthropology, focusing on archaeology and museums). I didn’t want to feel forced to write things, to have to come up with things in order to turn them in. I wanted to learn about really neat things that I didn’t already know. I do know that a friend of mine (she’s been called Green here in the past) who shares my opinions and is a not-creative-writing major as well (physics) has taken creative writing classes. And a friend here at my college wants me to take one with a particular professor, though I’ve also heard that other people dislike him because he doesn’t let them write speculative fiction. I dunno. I might end up taking one if the perfect class or something comes up but I have other priorities of classes I want to fit in before I graduate (oh dear!).
Heh, yeah. The one poem I’ve sold so far was sparked by a lecture in my intro to archaeology class last year.
Sold a poem??? Jeesh! Way to go!
Thanks. I sold it a while ago (April) but will be published soon! I’m excited.
I would think archaeology would be very inspiring! In fact, the professor I mentioned earlier took us to meet with a bunch of archaeologists. One of them told me that my forehead featured perfect specimens of Northern European eyebrows. Never got a poem out of that, though.
And congratulations on selling the poem!
Ooh, neat! I think it’d be great to have a j-term class dedicated to inspiration. Sadly, my school has no j-term.
There’s totally a post by Rebecca that went missing. It is supposed to be here. Uh?
Thanks for the input! I did decide not to do creative writing after all. I will be in Chem lecture/lab, my FYSP, Photography (yay!), and I was trying to get into astronomy but there was an unforseen schedule conflict. I tried signing up for archeology and anthropology (before I even read these posts, what a coincidence!) but they were both full so I just stuck in a geology class as a placeholder before the window of time I had to register ran out. The class itself looks interesting but I’m not sure what the work is like, and I wasn’t looking for another intense course. Gonna talk to advisor again tomorrow and possibly email the arch/anthro profs about waitlists.
Other than that I found the campus circus doing things with glowing balls and sticks on the quad near me. I am all right at glow poi. I cannot juggle.
More later when I’m not exhausted, perhaps XD
117 on preceding thread (Tesseract): *Hugs* I hope your friend heals soon.
3 (Cello-Playing Mathematician): My family owns Fluxx 3.0 and I have thus played it many, many times. ‘Tis indeed quite fun!
21 (Jadestone): I hope you have fun in Collegeland!
Out of context, Collegeland sounds like a very strange theme park: “The Diploma roller coaster is fab, but Final Exam is way scarier and thus more thrilling. I recommend The Mortarboard–that’s one awesome ride!”
“For little kids, there’s the Quitter: it’s a tiny little thing.”
On a completely unrelated note, when we were flying back from Oregon, the announcer person was going over the instructions. At the end, he said, “Speak now or forever hold your peace”. And when we landed, he said, “All rise”! He was an awesome guy.
I think it’d be awesome if a flight attendant pretended everyone was the crew of the ship.
That should go in the “Win” thread.
Or the “unintentional musebloggers” thread. I would totally do that.
Stop, you people with hot climates: you’re killing me! It’s transition/fall weather here, which means wear that jacket quick before the first snowfall. Last year, these were (end of) october temperatures but no, no indian summer for the girl with tons of new t-shirts and clothes she was dying to wear who has also outgrown most of her old winter/late fall clothes. Gimme some of that heat!
Ugh ugh ugh, I have a migraine on top of a sinus headache, and I have to work at the concession stand at a football game tonight. *headdesk* OW! Cake…
I just noticed that the date stamps for this site say, for example “in September 2nd, 2010 @ 14:55”. That doesn’t exactly make sense, does it?
Portuguese-to-English translations don’t always exactly make sense.
I suppose we should add this and “cancelar” to the FAQ. Meanwhile, here is one of Piggy’s many helpful explanations:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?page_id=1790#comment-330181
Ah, I did know about the cancelar thing. Cool.
Had a serious XC practice, now I’m back home relaxing. Got all of my science work done, the last part wasn’t very hard.
21 et al. ~ I am in Collegeland too! It is very exciting, and a bit vexing. Navigating NYC has become much easier (I know the Mid to Lower East Side pretty well now!), but I’m still having trouble making friends, partly because I’m very comfortable by myself (and live in a single), so it’s more of an effort. Not that I’m friendless though! I think as time passes things will get better. It’s not even Labor Day yet. It’s just… I don’t want to go to clubs or house parties. That’s what people have done though, (I think in part for the novelty) to get out with each other. Social presence is hard! Now, a bit ironically, onto my classes: Intro to Cultural Anthropology (H), Intro to History of Art, Significant Themes in American Cultural History (H), and Arts In NYC (H, Freshman Seminar). Apparently Anthropology fulfills the science requirement? There are a bunch more classes I want to take (not just in the arts, either!), but I’m also worried about grades; the program I’m in will require rather high ones, and I know that kids have “failed out” with B averages. They went on to transfer to good schools, but meeeeehhhhh. We’ll see. All’s well that ends well, yes?
4 bots online now, do robots frequent MB?
Wonderful piece, Lizzie!
I am not a robot.
In other news, today I did ballroom dance. I learned some more swing. I think I’m getting pretty good at the basic swing step.
Jadestone, Vendy – glad you’re enjoying Collegeland! It is nice here. My brother has gone off to Collegeland for the first time this year too. I think he’s having a good time; he actually managed to text me back for once today.
I’m quite enjoying the start of my third year in Collegeland. Still uncertain whether I want to study abroad next fall. Thoughts?
I’m slowly becoming more and more adjusted to this whole “homework” thing again. I do try and slip in time for writing in between the cracks.
Those of you in Collegeland, do your schools have science fiction/fantasy clubs? Mine does and it is a rather large and longstanding club. I’m a member and have been since my freshman year.
mine does now! it just started at the end of last year. founding member ftw, i’m the secretary.
it’s just the sci-fi club though. we have a renaissance club which covers a lot of the fantasy stuff. our clubs will probably end up being bffs. we also have some crossover membership already with the anime club and the gaming club (tabletop/card games, that is).
do study abroad! it will be exciting and wonderful! i plan on it sometime for sure. not sure where yet or for what though, i keep changing my mind.
oxlin- Study abroad sounds wonderful! New places and experiences and perspectives! I have a heavy bias as I love to travel, but it is most certainly personal. Why would you not want to go? I will definitely go, as my scholarship provides money for it (if I’m still in the program)- so almost all Juniors in the program travel. Is cost an issue? I’ve heard that US institutions raise the tuition costs way up to match their own, if you go purely local (riskier, of course) it’s a lot cheaper. I’m not sure where I’ll go yet, it depends upon the local school’s programs and my area of study.
I don’t know if my school has a science fiction/fantasy club, I’d guess yes because it’s a big school, but I’ll find out at the 69th St Fair! Every club sets up a booth along the block, and there’s a big party!
Mine has a sci-fi/fantasy HALL where people live! It was my second choice for housing (second because I don’t game, and I wasn’t sure how much gaming was a part of the hall). It is on the floor below mine. I met some of the people from campus circus in it and they were nice and we made lots of xkcd jokes and talked about Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. I’ll probably seek out more people from there XD
I am planning to do study abroad for sure, my junior year (a full year). I’m already working on scheduling around this! I am not quite sure exactly there but I know it’ll be an english-speaking country (I am bad with languages
). Probably europe.
Vendy- I can sympathize with the friends bit! I don’t have a roommate although I was assigned one (she just… never showed up) so I’ve been doing a lot of stuff on my own. I’ve been talking to people and stuff but not many people too frequently. I will probably try work work on that these next few days.
Yeah, my club has its own special interest house (actually part of a dorm (which I live in but not the club part)). Gaming is a gigantic part of the club (table top and LARP roleplaying) but I really like it now (I guess this is a cue for my club to start chanting “one of us”). It took me a while, though. Freshman year I didn’t like it as much and then midway through sophomore year I started enjoying it a lot more.
I’d suggest hanging around with the sci-fi/fantasy hall people. Maybe there are some other freshmen who hang out there? I know that my college’s sff club loves it when freshmen start hanging out with us, for one thing, how else would our club keep going? Also try to find people in your classes/dorm. Do you have some sort of freshmen seminar? Make friends in that and on your floor.
Ah me. You all amuse me with your complaining about starting school now. I started AUGUST 7th. I am getting my first progress report tomorrow. And about the heat? Here in Kentucky, it is over 90 degrees, daily, yet I wore a sweatshirt to school yesterday because the air conditioning is so cakin’ high! And we have the reverse issue in the winter, so saving the shorts for then. My school is insane. There is also a debate going on as to if our school is the ‘special ed’ school for the county. Again, this is a legitimate consideration. It has also been debated if our entire town isn’t an insane asylum. I keep going off on random tangents because of lack of sleep…
Here’s another complaint about school: I go from 1st period AP calculus to chemistry ‘honors’. I go from stretching my mind in a great class, to a class where we have spent three weeks going over flipping scientific notation. Three caking weeks!!!
Other news: I’m running for secratary of the Spanish Club, and I might actually win! When we thought is was going to be popular vote, my friends and I put our names up as jokes, as I kind of, ‘here’s our effort, have a laugh’ but the Spanish teachers will make the decision, so I have a chance!
Hello Pax! I haven’t seen you in a while, but then again, I’ve been gone awhile. Funnily enough, I start school september 7th (and 8th and 9th….7th=orientation to the building+code of conduct, 2 hours. 8th=official start of class ceremony and orientation to individual classes, full day. 9th=first actual day of school)
Probably isn’t the thread for it, but whatever. I need hugs, because I’m rather upset at the moment. Like, sobbing my heart out, snot dripping out of my nose upset. And the worst of it is, I know I’m completely overreacting–I mean, majorly overreacting. I don’t know if it homesickness, not enough sleep last night, just the general stress of being back at school, but I do know I’m overreacting.
I mean, like I mentioned earlier on this thread, I think, my parents and I were looking into what I would have to do to potentially gain residency in the state I’m currently attending college. To be eligible to petition for residency, I have to reside here for a period of 12 consecutive months, and be employed in this state, as well as a few other things like voter’s registration, and whatnot.
So obviously, that’d mean I have to spend this coming summer here. Which is fine. Well, not fine, but it’s far enoguh away that I can think about it in abstract, without my brain fully comprehending what it’s thinking about, without the full meaning of “spending the summer here, in this state, and not at home” sinking in in its entirety. But what it can’t process is, what I thought of earlier to day, and which my dad agrees is almost certainly the case: Christmas break.
We get a month off for Christmas break, but if I were to apply for residency next August, I need to have been here 12 consecutive months. So like Dad said, they probably wouldn’t care if I went home for 2 weeks this Christmas, but almost certainly would reject me if I went home for the entire month, especially since, except for this coming summer, the only time I’d have been resding in this state is during the school year. And my brain can’t handle that, just reading that in Dad’s email, having it stated that if I were to apply for residency, I’d almost certainly not be able to go home this Christmas for mroe than two weeks. Again, I know I”m overreacting, but I dont’ think I can handle that, I mean, the mere idea of doing so has me sobbing uncontrollably.
And, cake it all, I need somebody here, I need somebody physically here to hold me and hug me and tell me that it’s alright that I can do this, because, dammit, my telling myself that just isn’t working.
i can’t give you real-life hugs but virtual hugs are definitely yours *hugs*
but hey, at least you get the two weeks, right? you’ll get to see your family and everything. it will not be too terrible, promise. you might even have fun being on campus over break, there’s usually fun stuff going on for people who stay behind
thanks, luv. although, really, my tears were even more of an overreaction considering the fact that we aren’t even completely sure yet if I’m going to apply for residency. And after a 40 minute phone conversation with my parents shortly after I made that post (since I let on in an email that I was rather upset), it sounds like since I probably wouldn’t even get granted residency (assuming I apply) until at least midway through my first year of vet school, there’s really no need to start these 12 months (assuming I apply for residency) until after Christmas break. So I rather had an emotional breakdown for no reason….
As for fun things on campus, well, almost all of the res halls close over breaks (Thanksgiving, Christmas, and spring break), and the cafeterias all close, and really, not much of anything occurs during that time…..They’re rather discouraging of people sticking around. I mean, they close res halls for Christmas break 8pm Friday of final’s week, hardly even giving people time to finish their test and leave. It’s ridiculous, really.
But thank you for the hugs. *hugs back*
urgh, now i’m going to look terrible in the mroning, though. My eyes always swell up/get puffy something fierce when I cry shortly before going to bed….
*lots and lots of hugs* Oh, man…I had a psychological (oh my gosh, I actually spelled that right!) breakdown at camp over the summer. I was fighting back tears the whole night, and actually threw up. And that was just two weeks. But um, that’s not really helping. What I wanted to say was if you feel like crying, try crying in the shower. You’re getting wet anyways, and the running water will mask the noise. It’s pretty normal for girls (You are a girl, right? I get confused by a lot of Museblogger’s genders.) to come out of the shower with red or puffy faces. *more hugs and choklit*
Are there many boys out there who would take the name ‘Luna’?
There was a male scientist named Luna Leopold (though it’s true that he didn’t choose the name).
*SUPER HUGS* for Luna….
Thanks, luv.
*hugs* I had to spend this summer away from home. Good luck!
*virtual hugs* *gives a warm slice of chocolate cake*
Thanks, all, for the hugs. And for the cake, Enc (chocolate, yum). I think I’m better, now–somehow everything seems so much less impossible by the light of day. Right this moment I feel like if I do have to spend half of Christmas break here, and if I do have to spend the summer here, that I can do that. I can deal with it, and it’s not the end of the world.
Again, thanks for the hugs, y’all are the best.
*huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggg* Don’t worry, whatever you decide to do, (gain residency, or stay an AK resident) it’ll be fine. Have faith in your decision, and stick with it, if you decide to switch residency. We’ll be here for you, don’t worry. *hugs*
*hugs back* You guys are all super great, and, really, I don’t think I’d have survived college this long without y’all.
Only September 2nd and already 100 posts? Wow, I can’t believe it.
And, like many other MBers, I’m in collegeland now, too! I’ve been here for 2 weeks already, and I haven’t been to my house for over a month. College is absolutely fantastic. Tomorrow, I’m going to climb a high ropes course as part of a class!
Sudo (8): Fluxx is great! It can get crazy sometimes, though.
Jade (21): Happy college! When I was picking classes, I was trying to decide between a biology class and an astronomy class (I think you mentioned both of those), and decided to take Ecological Biology this semester, but I definitely want to take Astronomy at some point. The art classes at my college are very popular, so lots of people sign up for them freshman year so they can get put on the waiting list for other semesters–I’m not sure how it works at your school, but you might want to ask about that so you’ll have an opportunity to take one of those classes when you want to.
oxlin (21.1.1.1etc.): Archaeology/Anthropology sounds awesome! I don’t really know anything about it, but it just seems so interesting.
oxlin (28): Definitely study abroad! If you’ve been working on a language, go somewhere that speaks it! If not, there are probably tons of other programs abroad that are equally awesome. I’ve always thought I’d go somewhere Spanish-speaking, but my school also has a really cool Environmental Science program in New Zealand, so I’ll have to really think about where I want to go come time to study abroad. I don’t think my school has a science fiction/fantasy club, but it sounds great! What sorts of things does it/you do?
Pax (29): Ahh, yes, but most of us starting now ended in mid-late July (I ended July 20th). But still, I’m very sorry you had to start so absurdly early. Good luck with Spanish club!
Hm. How does the bot counter work? (Sorry if I missed the explanation…)
Yeah, 3 members, 3 anon, 3 bots?
Spambots? I hope not, otherwise I’ll have to dust off my Muse Academy URL and plug it in.
They’re mostly searchbots indexing the site. (We try to be invisible to Google, but some foreign search engines know we’re here. So does Yahoo, apparently.) We have invisible fake posts to distract any spambots that slip past our repellent, so there may be a few grazing on them, but they’re nothing to worry about. I’ve told the plug-in to stop counting bots.
Ah. i was wondering about that.
I wish I could go to collegeland….
Collegeland has this ride you have to go on right when you enter, called “The Admissions Process.” It always makes you sick.
So does private high school land. Except that in private high school land you have to go on a new ride for each school you apply to, where essentially the same thing happens except that it’s in a different format and it ALWAYS has to be handwritten on forms that are specialized for each school. Talk about vomit comet.
I want to go on the Vomit Comet one day…
The plane or the ride at Collegeland?
The plane. It’s one of my life goals.
My dad went on that once…
Did he say how it was?
I think so, but I don’t really remember.
He did tell an amusing story about how the crew member tricked him, just before gravity was restored, into bracing himself on the ceiling rather than the floor.
Oh, gotcha. Mine, too! (And eventually, true orbital microgravity, so I can compare the two.)
I can’t decide whether I should clean my room or do my homework. See, I really want to clean my room, so we can rip up my carpet, and I’m actually having fun organizing for some reason. But I know my homework has to get done, too. I’m pretty sure I can get it done tonight, before I go to sleep, but I know something’s going to pop up last minute, like I skipped a chapter or something. So, it’s quite a conundrum… I think I’ll just bite the bullet and do my homework.
My Science teacher like The Time Machine by H.G. Wells! I think he would like this blog…
Awwww, my mom just sent me an email: “I’m listening you the music you downloaded on the mac, but I might have to stop because it makes me sad because I think of you!”
^^^Said music would, of course, be all of my John Barrowman music–I uploaded it to our mac at home.
My dad’s (joking) theory for the end of Inception (spoilers will probably be abundant, so YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED):
The entire movie was a dream. None of the major characters were the dreamers, though. Has anyone here seen the Pixar short “Red’s Dream”? It’s all about a unicycle who dreams about being a big star in a circus. Likewise, Inception was a dream that the TOP had. It was sad that it didn’t get used by anyone, so it had a dream about being an important part of a man’s life. The top FALLS at the end, and that’s its “kick” to wake up.
Gah. I always find it so….awkward when someone asks to sit with me in the caf. For one, I always feel self conscious when eating at the same time as trying to make small talk to a stranger, plus just hte making small talk in and of itself. And I find it more awkward when it’s a guy (which it never is).
Fortunately, people rarely ask to sit with me, since even when it’s uber crowded there are enough tables. Today, I’m not even convinced that there weren’t plenty of empty seats for my dinner mate to have sat elsewhere….And given that half of one of his plates of food was eaten, I’m not fully convinced he didn’t move from another table to mine midway through his dinner….Although he may have eaten it whilst standing in line for his other plate of food (although that line wasn’t long, so that doesn’t quite seem probable).
Yes, Luna is complaining that a guy chose to sit with her, possibly having vacated a table he was previously sitting at.
Yeah, awkward (for me) small talk starting with me being rather monosyllabic, and then quickly into me babbling…. *sigh* I did find it rather amusing that the guy apparently automatically assumes anyone wearing a Harry Potter shirt is in some sort of art related field. Because that’s how conversation started, after he introduced himself.
He gave my shirt a look (it’s my black DA t-shirt, with the round Dumbledore’s Army DA symbol on the front), and enquired if I was an art major. I said no, I was biological sciences, pre vet. He goes, “Oh, so you actually have a future, then.” Me: “Uh….yeah.” *pause* “What are you majoring in?” Him: “I’m an english major.”
And then the rest of the awkward small talk commenced, he asked me if I’d had a good day, it came up that I’m from Alaska when he asked if I was going home for the weekend, so then I got the usual questions about how i felt about the weather here, and what weather there was like, and why am I going to school here?
And, yeah. The guy was just being friendly (I mean, he wasn’t creepy or anything), but…yeah. It’s just so awkward when random people strike up conversation and invade your dinner table….
Oh, no, I know he wasn’t trying to disrupt private time or anything (not that I was having any such thing….Just mindlessly nomming down on dinner), I’m just not that good at small talk and normal social interactions, so I tend to feel rather awkward in such situations, and thus tend to avoid them…
aww luna! be best friends with him! he soulds cool (english majors are the best)
Here comes Hurricane Earl.
Who is not so hurricaneish anymore.
This is a rubbish hurricane! It’s not even raining! I was hoping the school would get flooded!
Would you like it to be a worse hurricane?
YES. They told us, “Oh, watch out! You’re gonna get hit by a hurricane! It’s gonna be rainy and windy! Better prepare!” We even got a phone call from the county. But do we get a hurricane? No. We get like, clouds and some drizzle. It’s not even enough to water the plants! Grargh. I want a hurricane.
Ah. This must be like being two years overdue for a certain fault giving off a major shake and sending us all into the next 1906 Earthquake, and then hearing the windows rattle and getting really excited, and then hearing the windows stop rattling fifteen seconds later.
Yeah, it’s not much of a proper hurricane. We had about fifteen minutes of rain this afternoon. I was upset, we were all planning hurricane parties and everything.
It cleared out the air very nicely here, although all we got was rain.
I was asleep and didn’t even notice it.
Of course, I probably would have been able to sleep through the 1906 Earthquake.
Mockingjay: oh god WHAT AM I TO DO?!?!?! I can’t put it down, because I need to know what happens next, but how can I keep reading when I’m so terrified of what might happen next?
Hullo dearest GAPAs, just wanted to let you know I sent you an email with a picture of The Crack, as requested by at least one person (y’know, the one that looks like The Crack from DW). The one I spotted Tuesday on the way to class……No rush at all or anything, just thought I’d let you all know, since I have no idea how often you check the GAPA-mail.
Gasp! Don’t go too near them!
The attachment was missing from the email, but is this the one you meant?
Yup, that’s the one. Thanks! Not sure how I managed to forget the attachment, since I remember thinking as I was writing the email that it would be really stupid if I forgot the attachment….
The attachment was sucked into itself…
*gasp* Once more Whoness enters the real world…..:D
I’m still waiting for The Silence to fall. I mean, who knows how many things have already been sucked in and forgotten about….
Walk past it at night…
No, we don’t want Luna to vanish!
There was a very, very similar (though tiny) crack on the wall of one of the columns in our old cafeteria. Unfortunately, right next to it is the place where AM and I ended up sitting.
So MuseBlog may be missing someone. Perhaps a friend vanished into the crack… D:
And we’ll never know….
That photo was taken at night….about 10:30pm. So I have done.
*Waits for someone to say they see Elvis*
This is reminding me so much of how Bad Wolf was written on the ground outside the dorm at camp. (It was there before our camp got there. No idea who wrote it. It looked like chalk, but it lasted (albeit in a faded manner) through some rainstorms.
bad wolf was written on the wall of a building of my campus in chalk for a looong time
I need to steal some chalk from one of the classrooms on campus and scrawl that somewhere…..
OH GOD I KNOW
I just finished it last night.
**NOT A MOCKINGJAY SPOILER NOT A SPOILER BUT YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO READ THIS NEXT SENTENCE I GUESS EVEN THOUGH IT’S NOT A SPOILER**
I wanted the other person since the start. So it was a let down for me.
I was sad with who she picked in the end
crap… I thought I hit “reply” on post 41 (Sudo’s), but I guess I missed it.
I finished it.
Wow.
It’s late and I’m on an iTouch, but I’ll post more tomorrow.
**NOT A MOCKINGJAY SPOILER NOT A SPOILER BUT YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO READ THIS NEXT SENTENCE I GUESS EVEN THOUGH IT’S NOT A SPOILER**
To the contrary, I was EXTREMELY happy with who she picked in the end, especially since the other one was kind of really obnoxious in this book.
Exact same.
Yeah, me too. However, I was still sad at the end.
Also, I would have preferred it without the epilogue.
oh definitely.
I READ IT TOO!
I was overall pretty happy with it, but…
**NOT REALLY A SPOILER, NOT REALLY A SPOILER, BUT I GUESS YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO READ ANYWAYS**
And I don’t really know how I feel about who she picked, because I liked them both in past books. And I don’t really like how the other one ended up when she didn’t choose him. 
…it was kind of depressing.
Beyond that, pretty good. But yeah, depressing. Very depressing. Very dark.
Shoot. I forgot that I have to wake up early tomorrow to volunteer, and now it’s 12. I stayed up this late because I was making up for all the homework I didn’t do today, and probably won’t get done tomorrow… I’m never gonna get all of this done.
Argh, hurting. Due to a spectacular bicycle crash caused by my dog. I was seeing how she did running beside a bicycle when I started going to fast and she swerved off, and I crashed. Not fun. Ended up with bad scrapes on both my knees, my right elbow, several on my right hand, another on my chin, and a more minor one on my upper lip.
And half my movements cause pain now.
Ack.
Urgh, I can empathize, there….I fell off my bike as a little munchkin, when going rather fast down a steep, bumpy gravel road. Scraped the heck out of my arm, and probably more of my body (it’s been at least 10 years, I don’t remember clearly), but I’ll tell you what: Just be glad your mother didn’t get the genius idea to shove you in the shower and pour an entire bottle of hydrogen peroxide on said scrape to clean ’em out, swearing that “It won’t sting at all.”
Yeah, right. It stung so bad, and you could probably hear my screams several miles away……
*feel better pies*
Oh, that’s happened to me… Well, at least my mom told me it would hurt, although not how much it would hurt.
Well, it’s better than having a throbbing, nasty infection, and it’s also better than vinegar. I got a large cut on my foot last week and we had no peroxide, so I resorted to using vinegar. Ow.
I think my mom honestly believed it wouldn’t hurt, to be fair. It seems most people are under the misconception that hydrogen peroxide doesn’t sting.
Yeah, we were doing an experiment with it in bio; my teacher was all confused when we said how much it hurt… I think it depends on how fresh the wound is.
Interesting. I’ve used peroxide on dozens of cuts and scrapes, fresh and not so fresh, without the slightest sting.
Sometimes it stings, sometimes it doesn’t. Usually it doesn’t sting me enough to bother me.
Same.
Sorry.
*Hugs*
I’m at PAX. Fun, fun, fun!
Which internet celebrities have you met so far?
Have you seen the IGN crew? *is excited*
Chocolate rain….some stay dry and others feel the pain…
Kind of like “Hurricane” Earl. More like The Little Rain Cloud That Could.
You know, I really adore Weezer’s Pork & Beans video. So much internet stuff.
45.1 – Ouch. That’s like the doctor accidentally pumping your gums full of water instead of anesthetic just before removing multiple wisdom teeth.
Tay Zonday, the guy who sings chocolate rain, is related (second cousins or something like that?) to a girl I know (my sister’s friend).
He went to and dropped out of my high school… We have an interesting bunch of former atendees.
Taylor Swift went to the highschool that GK goes to and I will be going to next year. I’ll have to write a parody of Fifteen.
Chocolate rain made me cross the street the other day.
I’m the only person on MuseBlog right now? Whoa.
Everyone seems to have much more interesting lives than I do. Then again I never feel compelled to post things about my life here. Perhaps it adds to my mystery.
You’re very mysterious.
OHMYGOSH
I just discovered Doctor Who At The Proms.
For those who don’t know, it’s Doctor Who music played by a real orchestra. And you don’t even have to love Doctor Who to enjoy it. It’s great classical music in general.
Not this Tuesday, but the time I went to the Intrepid before that, there was a marching band there, and they played “The Final Countdown”. It was great.
…That was on a month ago.
I had no computer access a month ago.
It’s being televised on BBC3, or online afterwards, tomorrow! Yay!
Hello, EmBi…
How is everyone this fine month? I’m back from a ten-day vacation in Quebec, which was pretty awesome. I was within 1000 feet of Enc at one point on the 26th! And neither of us knew! *headdesk* XD Anyway, I’ve got slight asthma from the horrid weather of the last few days being inflicted on me in the form of heavy smog while walking around Quebec City, but other than that I’m pretty good. ^_^
Oh, hi… I stopped checking MB for awhile, not sure why. Umm… I’ll try to keep up from now on, I guess. I’m sure someone would miss me if I left. Anyways, I’m a junior now. (Crazy, isn’t it?) I have wonderful classes that happen to give lots of homework… And I like my wing a lot more than I thought I would. We have awesome sophomores who arranged a showing of AVPM the first week, and about half our wing watches Dr. Who. *is happy that we got good sophs*
SPELLER’S BACK!! *hugs*
Hi speller! Hi Armada! Welcome back the two of you!
Everyone got all freaked out about Earl over here, and the big hurricane?
A rainstorm. It wasn’t even windy.
…sigh.
It was a bit windy yesterday…but I don’t think that was Earl. I mean, how can you be scary with a name like Earl!?
“Look out. Here comes Earl.”
“Ah. Everyone run for your lives.”
My uncle says he felt the same way about Hurricane Bob.
Last night/this morning was one of those times when it seemed a brilliant idea to go out at 4am and have a crabapple battle.
That was after watching a movie (that we started at 2 or so).
That was after hanging out in the crew lounge doing nothing.
And to top off the evening I fell asleep on the couch, where I woke up a bit ago.
Life is good. Today’s plan? Uhhhhhh……….I dunno.
We had great crabapple battles when we lived in Newport, Rhode Island. Naturally, I set up a hospital for injured crabapples.
We used to have pinecone wars when we still went to our old church. They were epic.
Eugenia berries were the projectiles of choice in San Diego.
Torn-up dried grass. Which was part of a magic spell which would turn you into a frog. It also got in your hair and refused to leave.
Beach sludge from the bay is best. Trust me.a
Nope, seaweed rules all wars.
And don’t forget snowballs!
Mikazuki – Ew.
Kai – So unoriginal. However, my sisters and I do have snowball fights.
So what if a few crabs and shrimp might sneak in there occasionally? We use clean, fresh seaweed that has many nutritional values. And is very handy for stuffing down peoples shirts from behind. Ah, the slime! *rambles*
I’m wearing this denim vest my mom gave me that has patches of different material sewn into it, and I put the Challenger pin that I got at the Intrepid on the collar, so I feel really cool.
MuseBlog’s back! *hugs*
RE: Battles with various found items: All of the above make good projectiles. Acorns, also. And pinecones. Pinecones are good for such activities.
Alright, so there’s a guy here who works in the museum that reminds me eerily of Robert.
Really. He’s about the same age, looks similar, has a similar voice, similar mannerisms, a similar way of turning a phrase, his name is Bob….it’s really eerie. He’s more into history than science though.
Robert, I’ve found your twin.
Ah, another example of my model. I never said I was the only one.
Oh God.
This corroborates the Fossil Shop Datum.
You’re not Time Lords, you’re Cylons!
And we have a plan.
Invasion of the Roberts?
Or possibly the Roborts.
But of course they broke the mold when they made you. *backpat*
So, I wrote this short story that involves a ghost scaring these two people who have been acting like jerks to teach them a lesson. I showed it to one of my online friends, who said “Do you think the ghost was too hard on them? I think he’d scare them, but not that badly.” Then I showed it to another friend, who went “If I were him, I would have set those two punks on fire!”
So, um, yeah…
You have weird friends. Post the story!
I’m a junior! *awesomeness* I think it just sort of started to sink in today, when I finally got to school and listened to the speech and everything. A junior. The cool kids (Seniors have a bad reputation for being too studious because they have to prepare for the school-leaving exam). And I have chemistry and it sounds cool (though I wish we’d finally blow something up already, or play with zinc powder and sulfur…
). And my schedule sucks, but I hope it’ll get better (it’s only the first draft).
Anyway, I have to scoot- there’s a pop quiz on everything we learned (or didn’t learn) back in 8th grade during our first year of chemistry…
Yep, school is stealing my life again…
“There’s a pop quiz on everything we learned (or didn’t learn) back in 8th grade during our first year of chemistry…“?! On the first day of school?! That is outrageous. Are you being graded?
Second day. Duh we’re being graded. It’s (lastname).
The good is that he holds no exams. The bad is that he has pop quizzes at the start of most instead and the evil is that if you’re good, you’ll only be called on once more, mediocre you’ll be called on once a month and if you mess up it’s your turn every other week and this is practically your grade. So no pressure.
It’s cool, I’ve still kept my notes and am typing them into my computer- I’ll be able to make some very good friends with people who disregarded counsel and threw theirs out or slept through class and scraped by.
Really, it’s not that bad. He has to maintain a bell curve so he won’t be too brutal and besides, 8th grade was just basic introduction stuff.
I made friends yesterday/today
We sat around and drank tea until 2 in the morning, and then went to lunch today (after having more tea for breakfast). It’s nice to have people to go into the dining hall with instead of searching around once inside.
We are going to go to the Quidditch game later. Yes, my school has a Quidditch team. Be envious!
I need to get a lot done today… classes start tomorrow. I’m probably going to go walk around and see if I can find the classrooms in advance. I also need to see about getting on the waitlist for a class I want to take, but the building was locked the last time I tried… maybe it’s open now, though. I also need to buy my own books which is strange and I keep forgetting it’s something I have to do. I think I’m going to go see about buying my stuff for chem now…
*is envious*
yay!
I have nothing else useful to add to this, tea till two (hurhur) sounds lovely!!
Tea and Quidditch? Lucky….
School starts tomorrow! I’m both excited and nervous. I can’t wait for AP bio and band, but I’d rather not go to AP Euro (see rant). It’ll be fun though, but I don’t have lunch on the first day. I still have to finish AP bio and get a bunch of stuff together for tomorrow, so I’ll be going now. *waves to everyone else starting school tomorrow* HAVE A NICE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!
You lucky people who get to start school on spetember. I got to go to school on August 9th. In 115 degrees. Woohoo.
“When is a door not a door…when it’s a jar!”
Gotta love Doctor Who. XD
School starts tomorrow…. I’m going to get lost! Or trampled by upperclassmen! D:
You’ll be fine.
Remember, upperclassmen aren’t scary! I mean, Piggy is an upperclassman! And Piggy isn’t scary at–oh… bad example…
Well, I’m an upperclassman, and I’m not scary at all
Piggy isn’t scary, in my opinion. He’s intimidating, I think.
I’m intimidating? Strange.
Yes, at least to neophytes/ freshmen.
You’re so knowledgeable, so “obviously” hiding a dark interior that will eat chatspeaking phytes alive and whole. You’re “obviously” almost as old as the Gods (GAPAs) and have mysterious powers never revealed to mere mortals like us.
Knowledgeable: Very.
Dark, phyte-eating interior: I wouldn’t say so.
Old as the gods themselves: Of course.
Mysterious powers:
That sure do be an awful lot of spaces after “Mysterious powers:”…
I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Aw, Daze, don’t be nervous! Just know your place at the bottom of the food chain, give any random sophomores you might see candy if you have it, and we won’t play Freshman Tetris with you and a trash can!
I kid. Have fun.
Am I scary? FEAR ME. Or not.
If you are a fan of awesome, type “Firefly Serenity Defying Gravity” into the Youtube search box and watch the video that comes up.
OK, that was awesome… Especially the River bits.
Yay! Glad you liked it!
Oh, my god, that was amazing. I got shivers.
So. Awesome. But…what are the scenes from?
Episodes of the short-lived television series “Firefly” and the spinoff movie “Serenity.”
What was it about?
BACK! Orlando was amazing, and… *looks at time*
It’s 1:30 AM.
I have school at 7:30 AM tomorrow.
*leaves*
By ‘tomorrow’ I meant ”today’. AUGH
That’w what happens when you post at 1:30 A.M. You really have school today? Geez, what great planning.
Our flight had just arrived!
Good luck! It’s amazing how tired you are on five hours of sleep.
School starts tomorrow. Yay.
However, not being short, I am not likely to be run over by any upperclassmen.
Hey, school starts tomorrow for me, too! What fun! I am just SO thrilled for the beautiful mornings and the fun people! Oh yay!
If you wish to know the truth, it makes me want to bash my head against a brick wall.
However, I must tell the freshmen, that upperclassmen are really NOT that bad. There are a few of them that are…scary, but then, so are some of the underclassmen, at least to another underclassman. It’s a matter of moving in the right circles.
…
I don’t know if that was comforting at all.
Today I am going to bike to school, where freshman orientation is going on, and see if the lovely librarians will let me check out The Silmarillion.
A little bit, thanks, although I wasn’t really picturing all of the upperclassmen as evil No-Faces.
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long post will be long!
so i went ROAD TRIPPING a few days ago down to cincinnati to stay with a friend there. there were six of us and we all slept in the basement in a blanket fort (except one night when we camped out). it was super fun.
so the first night we basically just hung out and watched v for vendetta and made up the blanket fort. then on saturday we went canoeing (keller’s town just has like this private lake with free canoes. no worries. xP)
then we went and saw the cincy labor day fireworks which are FANTASTIC. we had a spot right up by the fence, so we could see the barges (on the river which they shoot the fireworks off from) and the stuff they shot off the bridges and everything.
then we camped out and watched rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead (i sort of just mentioned it in passing thinking everyone would be confused and hate it, but kate was like “OMG FAV PLAY†so we watched it) in the tent and did us some backyard camping.
then we went to ihop and graeter’s and went home. i came to cleveland instead, i’m staying with ben for a few days and then i’m gonna go to grant’s and hang out with HIM AND LIZZIE AND JADEY I AM COMING FOR YOU DARLINGS
47 and down –
LUCKY, LUCKY PEOPLE
……You know, the last bit of that post is a little tiny bit creepy and stalker-ish, ebeth. But you know, have fun!
Hey, I now have a playlist.com playlist, 20 songs so far. Check it out (assuming the GAPAs allow it – it just says my age and gender) when you have a minute –
(yes, I’m a geek – but aren’t we all?).
And as a response to Beedle about a hundred posts back, we have chicks too….four of them. They’re drawn to me like….vultures to carrion. Yeah.
Ahhh Portal! (sorry, just noticed your Gravatar) I really want to play Portal. I haven’t before so don’t spoiler me!
Portal is epic, you can get it on Steam.
No, I know. I’m going to play it soon, probably this weekend on my friend’s computer.
No longer free, unfortunately.
Indeed…free for two weeks, and I now know why it has such a cult following.
And then there will be cake.
*played real life Portal at camp* We got an old cardboard box, decorated it to look like a companion cube, and had someone go inside the box and be the cube. It was fun.
And now this is reminding me of camp… And the camp meme of “The cake is a lie is a lie.”
Wait, chicken chicks or human chicks?
71- Ros&Guil = ♥
I am at a library. My typing sounds very loud. I can never remember why I want the internet once I have access to it.
Through a series of spywork, investigation, and disguises, I have figured out my full schedule and the *general* people in them a day early. (School starts tomorrow, when we’ll “officially” get our schedules) I have to admit that although I get relatively good teachers, I’m not thrilled with the way everything worked out. One of my best friends isn’t in any of the same classes, another one is in almost all of them, so that’s one plus and one minus. But then E (an evil person) and K (another evil person) are both in ALL of my classes. ALL OF THEM>>>I’m trying to put things into perspective by reminding myself this is my last year at this school and it won’t be “that bad”, but I can’t help but think of the horrors that lie ahead. They spent most of last year making my 7th grade a living hell, and they are not going to ruin my 8th grade year……
That’s pretty much it, I guess besides the fact that I may not be posting as often once school starts. Being at the top of the food chain isn’t as fun as I expected.
There’s always lunch, right? *doesn’t really know what to say, since I was a little hermit in 8th grade… And 9th grade for that matter. And then I finally got to 10th grade and I discovered that it is possible to have intelligent friendly people who don’t live too far away to see… It was nice.
Well, this year, yes, I’ll finally get to eat with who I want. My school doesn’t have a cafeteria so all the grades but 8th (8th grade privilege is you can eat in any homeroom with whoever you want, and my homeroom’s usually pretty bad so this will be nice) have to eat where there homeroom is with the exception of grade parties or whatever. But yeah, there’s still lunch…
They’re in ALL your classes? And poor you, having to spend lunch times with your homeroom. *would have gone insane if that had happened to me last year* But you can still have a good year, or a least one where lots of good things happen.
We don’t have homeroom this year, they deleted it to make one class each day 80 minutes instead of an hour D;
And one of my classes that happens to is gym. D:
ALL of our classes are 80 minutes long.
Robert, I know you write for Science Magazine. I’d like to hear more about that, as well as about the museum work from Rebecca. What does Rosanne do? I know that Paul plays shawms and such. See, I realize that I will be graduating college soon and GAPA-careers seem pretty great (that is, I’m interested in museums and I think being a science writer would be cool too. I like writing work and learning). I am rather curious about lots of careers.
I believe Rosanne works as an editor for a medical magazine at Stanford, though that could be an inaccurate or incomplete description of her career. Paul, in addition to playing in his shawm band, creates awesome museum exhibits and designs websites. All four GAPAs, obviously, spend most if not all of their time being unspeakably awesome.
Actually, we spend most of our time buying groceries, preparing meals, washing our clothes, and sleeping. Awesomeness is something we squeeze in between bouts of routine self-maintenance. It’s amazing that we achieve as much of it as we do. That’s adulthood, I’m afraid.
Yet your sheer GAPArianism lends a quality of awesomeness to everything you do.
I wore a dress to school today. It was fun. I usually shun skirts. And sigh loudly when people mention them.
If I can find a kilt/similar garment I shall wear it tomorrow with a cape, knee-high socks, a Queen shirt, red high-tops, and possibly suspenders.
… I love you.
Your mom must be incredibly tolerant. Mine sends me back upstairs to change when the color of my shirt clashes with my pants.
I disguise it. I hid the cape in my bag (I didn’t actually wear it though.
Maybe next week) rolled down my jeans so the socks wouldn’t show and put a sweatshirt on. XD
You have a cape!? WHERE DO YOU GET ONE!?
It was from a vampire costume.
Lucky.
I hope my friends and I can all agree to wear fezzes and carry mops on the day of first eppy of the new series of Doctor Who.
I’m in.
That is an excellent idea.
Ooops, sorry, meant skirt. Abeit an awesome skirt. Leaf patterns, green.
Ooh, pretty! mine is nerdier, though. It’s black, but patterned all over with motherboard patterns (wires, buttons, etc.)!
I did not collapse at school! Huzzah!
But anyway, Orlando was amazing. The Harry Potter theme park was great – butterbeer was super sweet and so only consumable in small quantities; pumpkin juice was vile; I got a wand (how can I send you a picture, GAPAs?); Zonko’s and Honeydukes were connected and amazing; The Forbidden Journey was the best; the Dragon Challenge was also excellent; the Hippogriff ride was good but for little kids; and so on and so forth.
School is also good – I have 2 study halls, which is excellent, and most of my teachers are very good. (I’m reserving judgment on two of them, but three out of five isn’t bad.)
Wow, I really do have only five teachers. o.0
The Harry Potter theme park sounds amazing!
We’ll miss you, and good luck Junior year!
Wow, everybody but me’s getting to go to Orlando…
I don’t get to go….
Shall we make a club? “The People Who Have Not Been To Orlando But Want To Go Club”?
I call being secretary.
Minutes:
10:32. KaiYves says, “Shall we make a club? “The People Who Have Not Been To Orlando But Want To Go Clubâ€?”
11:59. I respond, “I call being secretary.”
I’d join.
Hope your wand won’t kill you!
SFTDP, but I forgot to mention that I will be signing off of all Internet activities besides webcomics for school. Junior year is definitely the most important year of high school, and I don’t want to mess it up
like I did the other years.*hugs* We’re going to miss you, but I understand and think you’re making a very responsible and wise decision.
Have an awesome year – maybe you could check in every once and awhile?
Have a fun Junior year! We’ll miss you!
*farewell pies, presented neatly in gift boxes*
We’ll miss you, but good luck! Be sure to check in at break, and don’t hesitate to come to us for any dire social or intellectual problems.
Good luck with your junior year (and kudos to you for being able to make such a responsible decision towards doing it right)! We shall miss you.
Thanks you guys, and I’ll be sure to check in every once in a while (or if there’s an emergency or something major happened). I still don’t know how to attach pictures, but my wand is made out of vine and is about fifteen-sixteen inches in length. The core (which you get to make up; they don’t tell you it – I just found a quiz online
) is phoenix feather.
I’ll miss you, but good choice. Good luck!
Yech, two things that, listed as “likes” on Facebook, immediately lower my first impression of someone by about a million percent: Taylor Lautner and the Twilight Saga. Just, urgh. *shudder* Urgh, seriously, there are times that just reading those words makes me feel dirty.
It’s off to school, first day, in about five minutes. I hope it doesn’t go to bad.
Sick day, on my thrid week of school. Cake.
huh. So I thought MB was down but it turns out my browser was just not letting me go there. Or something. Safari wouldn’t load MB but Chrome will. Bizarre.
Go check out Bieber’s Baby video – we finally hit more dislikes then likes. Three thing stem out of this event –
1- We’re just making him more popular by talking about him constantly – just shut up and he’ll go away.
2- I really hate the new YouTube, now that it has a like/dislike bar all you see on “I Like It” and “Let it Rock” are stuff like “245 people don’t like it!” and “6,567 people aren’t letting it rock!” I mean, god.
3- Baby is YouTube’s MOST VIEWED OF ALL TIME!! And the “Metal Militia”? Really?
So…..Roommate issues. Not a roommate in the technical sense we share the same bedroom, but w share a common door to the hallway, and from the hallway you enter into a little foyer area with 4 doors branching off: One to the toilet, one to the shower, one to her room, one to my room.
So, that sort of roommate. A roommate who’s not a roommate,b ut managing to be equally as annoying as if she was, and I want to know if it would be terribly rude and inappropriate to post the following to her door (rather than speaking to her directly), because I’ve absolutely had it with her.
I mean, this morning, for starters, I took my shower, grabbed my towel, and started towelling off, only to wind up with little broken off segments of black hair stuck to various damp spots on my body [I’ve got blonde hair, so obviously not mine at all], because the community foyer area is literally crawling with her hair–so it’s not surprising it crawled up to my towel that was on its towel rack. but surprising or no, it’s absolutely disgusting to take a shower, towel off, and find someone else’s hair on your body. *shudder* It quite literally made me gag.
Then, after coming very close to doing so every single time I’ve brushed my teeth for quite awhile now, today I finally managed to actually throw up whilst brushing my teeth–due to the hair she so kindly left all over the bathroom counter and in the sink. I mean, brushing my teeth makes me gag (and come close to throwing up) bad enough as it is, but when there’s hair all over everywhere in the bathroom? *shudder* Just thinking about it could make me throw up, but thinking aobut it/seeing it while actually in the process of brushing my teeth? Yeah. Amazing this was the first time I threw up.
So, really, please tell me it woudl be perfectly acceptable to post the following “to-do” list on her door, documenting the things that she really, really needs to do:
***Please clean up your hair in the foyer area. I know that hair gets everywhere when it’s brushed, but please clean it up afterward.
***If you get hair in the sink/on the counter, please clean it up/remove it
***When you brush your teeth, if spit/toothpaste gets on the faucet, please clean it up.
***Please keep the toilet seat clean. If you get menstrual blood–or anything else [pretty sure she is managing to wipe her butt then continue with that piece of TP up in a streak across the back of the toilet seat. It’s discolored and icky looking there..don’t wnat to think about it]–on it PLEASE clean it THOROUGHLY. I cannot stress this enough.
***Please clean the wall behind the toilet–there have been traces of streaked/splattered blood there since the beginning of the school year, over 2 weeks ago.
***Also, I don’t care if you watch TV/talk to friends late at night, but please try to keep the volume down after 11pm. I have early classes, and the walls are VERY thin–when I can hear your TV/you talking almost as loudly as if it/you were in my room, it makes it very hard to sleep.
^^^^Of course, really,t his last one is more the prinicple of it, since I can easily block her out with earplugs, but last Friday for instance, it was probably close to midnight, it was silent in her room,and I knew she was in there, so I made the mistake of thinking that she’d gone to bed early, or something, and opted not to stick in earplugs (because after awhile, they get a bit uncomfortable,c ramming bits of foam into your ears). About 2:45 I was awoken by her TV playing at top volume, and her either talking to it or a friend, also at top volume. 2 bloody 45 in the morning. Yes, not a school night, but still. There’s nothing wrong with being up then, but for chrissake, be QUIET. I mean, like I said, this last one it’s really more the principle of it, than it actually being bothersome (earplugs), but *still*.
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So can I post that little note to her, or would it be dreadfully rude?
That seems perfectly reasonable to me… We have to do roommate contracts at the start of the year that go over this stuff.
Well, I’d preface it with a little note about how the two of you have to share a fair amount of space all this year, and you’d really appreciate it if she took some simple steps to keeping this shared space as neat as possible. It would probably also be a good idea to ask if there’s anything you’re doing that is annoying her.
But other than that, I think a pleasant note early on is better than hating her guts all year.
Definitely post that note, you shouldn’t have to live with it, and it’s better than eventually snapping and railing her out.
I’d totally post it, but then again, I’m more of a Margaret Thatcher than a care bear.
those all sound like totally reasonable requests, but have you tried talking to her about it yet? if you’ve tried to have this conversation and she hasn’t listened or ignored you, go ahead and post the note. but face-to-face communication is always better to at least try in these situations. if she doesn’t listen when you talk about it, the note is fine.
No, I’ve not actually tried speaking to her about it yet. I suppose I really should, before just posting a note (my mom suggested actually talking to her first, as well), I just really don’t like talking to people, especially if it’s along the lines of me telling them to do something (even if my request is completely legitimate and justified).
*sigh* I suppose I’ll try and talk to her later today, and if that doesn’t go well, post a note, and if that doesn’t work, maybe drag my RA into it….
Yeah. She probably doesn’t realize it bothers you so much.
Yech, that threw some lovely mental images in my direction.
Although I can sympathize – my hair is extremely thick and falls out leaving lots of strands everywhere which really can’t be helped (it’s a genetic thing, happens to Mom too) I think your requests are perfectly reasonable. The least she could do would be to acknowledge she’s not the only one using the bathroom and clean up after herself…
You might have already talked to her by now, but good luck!
I won Spanish Club secratary!! And I already messed up my first job, which was to write the officer’s names on the board, and all of the other (preppy) girls didn’t like my boyish handwriting. :/ Oh my gracious, in less than a week I am going to my first formal dance! I don’t have a date, but I have a dress and a gaggle of girl-friends and I am so excited! I also ordered my class ring, which is really pretty. Some people have said it looks like an engagement ring, but I like it better than the clunky traditional ones.
I’m finding it kind of funny that I am less stressed about my six classes, (AP Calc., Chem. Honors, Spanish 3, English Honors, APUSH, and art) which sound rather intense when listed off, than I was about my one AP class last year. It’s all about the teacher, I guess.
Congratulations!
Keep the grades up, but don’t harm yourself!
I so know what you mean–I had AP US History with this crazy teacher (best one I’ve ever had, but he pushed us SO hard. It was good for us though), and I had so many emotional problems that year and was so stressed out (a lot of because of that class). Senior year I had 3 AP’s an 4 other classes and didn’t even break a sweat. Teachers can make the biggest differences.
Hi, museblog.
I had a craptastic day. Yeah. That alone should be enough to evoke hugs and cookies and the like. But it gets better because I’m going to DESCRIBE my day! Oh, joy! /sarcasm
Okay, so I had a really weird dream last night. In the dream, I apparently had a twin sister who died, and my parents never told me about her. When they did, I remember screaming. I remember the TV was on, and there was the CGI hippo that was going to eat this frog. It was weird. Where was I? Oh yeah. So anyways, after my parents told me about my dead sister, the sister (who I never got the name of) started sending me these weird messages. Like, whenever I sat down, the bed/sofa/whatever started to wriggled like there were worms in it.
Not the best start to a day, eh?
It gets better. 7th period (I know I skipped a lot, but nothing worth mentioning happened between 6:00 A.M. and 12:00 P.M. Moving on.), there’s this really annoying dude. Let’s call him Jelly. So Jelly sits behind me in Latin, and kept whispering “hints” that were false. I tried to ignore him, but it’s really hard when he’s sitting RIGHT *!@ING BEHIND ME!!!!!! Moving on. Our teacher had these Mad Libs that we had to fill out, and Jelly’s group had to pick a name. Guess what they picked? That’s right. My name. So reading time comes, and I bail and go to the bathroom for ten minutes. Lo and behold, when I come back, guess which group was up? Jelly’s group. I wanted to burst into tears, it made me hurt so much.
“But Roxxy,” you may say. ‘Surely nothing can be worse than Jelly’s bullying?” Guess again sucka. Pop quiz in Algebra. Hoo, yeah. I think I got, what, 40%? Yeah…so anyways, we started going over what we were doing that day, what the homework was, blah blah blah…and I swear my head was going to explode. Dd I mention I was in Algebra? AND I’M IN SEVENTH GRADE!?
So, that’s it. Comments are welcome, and chocolate is too. Later… *goes to sit in corner*
Awwwwww… *Chocolate and huggles and stuffies and a baby walrus*
*noms chocolate* Thank you for the walrus. It seems to be looking for a bukit…
By the way, algebra is really fun once you get the basic concept. Also, your walrus may soon need a virtual zoo…
I used to love that game…
Poor LBK! I know it feels terrible to do badly on quizzes. You’ll do better on the next one. *choklit and many hugs*
Urgh… *sympathy pies*
My brother is going on and on about how Snowtroopers (From Star Wars) look like members of the KKK.
Somehow; that makes a surprising amount of sense.
Unfortunately, so do nazarenos. Holy Week in Seville is creepy. Now you know!
I’m going to go out on a limb and point out that nazarenos were around before the KKK, so KKK members look like nazarenos–not the other way around.
Mhmm, if you’re looking at it omnichronistically (new word!). However, if your only reference point is the KKK and you see nazarenos the relatively new thing will look like the relatively old thing.
Omnichronistically. Omnichronistically. I have to find a way to use that in regular conversation.
I tend to looks at things objectively.
We were in this little town in Italy on Good Friday, and when the precession came by, my roommates got all freaked out and started screaming. I was getting ready to take a shower at that moment, so I ignored their screams. When I came out of the shower, they were terrified, and when they explained why, I nearly fell down laughing before I told them what was so funny.
66.everyone – Thanks, guys! You were right… the upperclassmen really just don’t care about freshmen…
So this week we only had two days of school… Oddly enough I only got lost on the second day (while trying to find the gym). And I almost missed the bus home today. Not fun.
School is so exhausting- I’m not used to getting up early… Oh well. At least it looks like art class will be fun; we’re going to have art journals and such, and eventually we’re going to make portfolio websites (with google sites).
I got lost trying to find the gym too. Well, I wasn’t lost, I just couldn’t find the gym.
Meh, first day of high school. No friends in my classes except band. D: Literally, all the people in my class are sheeple.
On the bright side, I will be joining the GSA, and many of my friends are in it, including one REALLY nice junior who actually cares about us frosh (That’s what we’re called. Hooray.)
I’m not that upset about having no friends in my classes, because it just means I’ll be able to focus more, therefore studying time is slightly decreased. (Though sympathy would be appreciated.)
Overall, my day was blank, good things happened that were canceled out by bad things, and the other way around.
-Literally sheeple? They each have a sheep as one of their parents? Bizarre.
*remembers someone yelling, “FRESH MEAT!” at him on his second or third day of high school*
-I was one of four people from my elementary/middle school to go to my enormous high school. Not having friends in classes is not even remotely an issue. It’s a new school, a new year, and you’ll make new friends. That’s high school.
-You’re called a lot more than just “frosh”.
I was about to say that I was never treated like a freshman…but then it occurred to me that being nearly 6 feet tall may have been a factor.
No, I think they’ve more turned themselves into the Borg. They all have the same thoughts.
That’s Homo sapiens, yeah. Sorry.
*remembers being called NOOB for the entire year in orchestra, but that was the kid who is always like that and I didn’t get discriminated against in any other way.*
I was never treated too badly as a Freshman, but we were mocked on Halloween for being responsable for the “not-so-scary” part of our school’s haunted house. When the Seniors were walking by with their supplies, they shouted things like “If any of you sissy Freshmen come in OUR area, you’ll wet your pants and run home crying!”
The older kids in my school don’t seem to care about freshmen. It was mostly in model congress that I got treated differently. After I spoke, they’d do the “(name of school) FRESHMAN!” song, but that’s it, except for a few older friends calling me “freshman” instead of using my name. Oh, and this one time, the exec board made us serve food for an hour, and by the time we were done, all the food was gone.
I have to remember the “fresh meat” one for congress…
First day of school rant. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
First day of school and then soccer practice right after. Ex-haus-ting. School was actually pretty good, despite my earlier doubts, I do have two of my best friends in 4/5 of the core classes. My homeroom, is, still, well…my homeroom. But at least I’ve got good people in my other 4 classes, (The fifth being History II, which I guess is an ok class although we have a new teacher who seems to be a bit clueless. I guess he’s alright, I mean, I can understand the confusion but it might be a little frustrating for awhile. I’m trying to be patient and help him out and all, but still…) and that’s something to celebrate! Yay.
Latin in particular is going to be amazing this year. I’m taking the “honors” class (not really called that, it’s just the “advanced” one, but close enough) which is So. Much. Fun. I love the teacher, as always, and we have a fairly small class – only 15, whereas I have 20+ in the rest of my classes – and they’re all people who are serious and actually want to learn, not throw paper airplanes at each other. I can’t wait to do the dining section, because it ends in a banquet. Food.
Our book is also a LOT bigger this year, and has a lot more translations and is a little more grammar focused. The main goal (well, not the main one, but something that’s pretty high up there) is getting all the kids – if we continue Latin in high school – into the second or even third year of the class, since most past kids from my school have been able to test ahead in their high schools. Not sure if I’m going to stick with Latin in high school, but it’s always good to have the option open.
Every other class was fine, just the usual “welcome to 8th grade” speech and all. Kinda boring since we didn’t do anything, but hopefully tomorrow will be muchos more exciting. I also get to have English tomorrow, and apparently my teacher is killer but nice, which shouldn’t really go into the same sentence but oh well. :/ She was my 6th grade homeroom teacher and seemed strict but nice, so I guess it fits.
Hope everyone who started school today or sometime recently or even if you didn’t had a nice day.
L’shana tovah, MuseBlog! (For the non-Jewish people, that’s “happy new year”.) Rosh Hashana begins tonight! Have a great new year no matter your religion! (For serious, take that advice. I’m an atheist Jew and I still celebrate Rosh Hashana. You get apples and honey. It’s the bomb.)
I miiiight celebrate it. I’m pretty much the same you are.
Shana Tovah, Cat’s Eye! Jewish atheists unite! Are you part of a congregation, or do you just celebrate holidays and whatnot? *is part of a secular congregation* *is blowing the shofar tomorrow at services* As usual, I’m missing school for the High Holidays. This year, I really can’t afford to… Yeah…
I belong to a Reform temple, but I rarely go to Shabbat services, so most of the fellow Jews I see are the other teenagers at Midrasha (like Hebrew School, except with less praying and more philosophical discussions and occasionally free food). They pretty much span the board from Conservative to barely-practicing, so it’s pretty diverse.
So many callbacks next week…*grits teeth*
Most. Irritating. Gecko. Ever.
Yesterday I saw this gecko on the wall of my room, so I tried to catch him and take him outside, so he could eat properly. He crawled behind this removable shelf on my wall, so I couldn’t see him. I emptied that shelf, and looked behind it. He wasn’t there.
Okay, so I gave up, felt a bit sorry for the gecko which was probably going to starve to death, and went on.
Today I saw a gecko of about the same proportions on a different wall of my room. I concluded it was the same one and went to recruit help for catching it. My dad came.
First of all, it scurried behind a picture. Okay, my dad took it off the wall and I attempted to catch it with my cup. It ran behind my dresser. Sigh.
So we scooted this dresser about half a foot forward and found the gecko again. It continued to evade me, and finally went under the dresser. Urgh.
My dad leaned the dresser forward, and I went after the gecko again. Scooting around painfully on my scraped-up knees on the carpet. Ouch.
A few seconds later, the gecko managed to find the only hole, and went inside the caking dresser.
So we had to take the drawers out and chase him around again. We finally caught him and took him outside, and I discovered that scooting around on my knees had reopened one of my scratches, and it was bleeding.
I mean, we were just trying to help the gecko. And it decided that the proper way to respond to this was to inconvenience us as much as possible. Really?
Cookies if you read all that.
*noms cookies* Aw…I’z sorry. *gives a Batman bandaid*
Possibly he was unsure of your intentions.
SFTDP.
There is a small boy in my concert band class who also plays the flute. His tone made me reflect on my distant past…
Flashback, two weeks into last year:
SBF blows on her flute, to no avail; the sound simply will not come.
Finally, she creates a sound: a high-pitched squeal that blares in the ear of the french horn. (We had an unconventional band setup last year.)
Band teacher: I think it would benefit everyone if you practiced in the broom closet for the rest of the period.
SBF: Okay.
She departs.
Of course, then I started practicing.
I felt sorry for Small Flutist Boy; he is also having trouble with the chromatic scale and his breath support. He’s got his work cut out for him.
SFTTP!
I connected with a sax player through 1984. Go Newspeak!
WARNING: Extremely long post ahead; probably the longest thing I’ve ever posted on MB. Or anywhere. I really like talking about school for some reason. And now I feel like this should be on the Back to School thread. But this is the random thread! Anything goes!
The first day of school was pretty swell. I’ll break it down for you!
Chemistry =
And he’s really cool and I’m totally really good at chemistry so it’s a fun class. Anyway, today he asked us what we did all summer and told a camping story of his that wasn’t very interesting and he expected us to laugh at it. He was also extremely interested in anybody else’s camping stories. The first “MINUS FIVE” was not dealt. I will most certainly tell you all when it is.
This class was by far my favorite class last year, and it looks like it will be again this year. The teacher is amazing–He makes fun of everyone and yells “MINUS FIVE” every time you do something that he things is wrong. Everyone gets at least one during the year and if you don’t, it means that you are not very noticable at all.
Physics =
The teacher tried to entertain us and have a lesson at the same time by forcing us to attempt to levitate peanut M&Ms using our breath. And then he went totally too far and got a large vaccum cleaner… I did learn something, but he went a bit overboard in his presentation. Plus, he managed to make the whole thing come off as boring.
English =
I’ve always disliked English, but the teachers I’ve had the past two years made classtime a somewhat enjoyable experience. Not so this year, I think. She explained the syllabus for far too long, and tried to make the books sound interesting. Here’s the thing–If a teacher tries to make something sound interesting, it sounds all the more boring. She also made it seem OK if people didn’t get the summer homework done over the summer (summer homework is always due two weeks after school starts, leaving many students to do it during school). This being the first summer I didn’t get my homework done, I expected to feel shame. Instead, I was confused and then relieved, which left me angry. She then proceeded to explain in detail where each and every one of the used book stores in (city) are. I think we all know where to find books. End English rant.
German =
German started out the same as last year, with two truths and a lie about our summers in German. Yeah. At least this year it’s all German 4 students instead of a combined 3/4 class. I really hope I get to actually speak more this year because I felt really unable to talk to anyone when I was in Germany. I have high hopes, but I know a lot of the responsibility is on me.
History =
Basically, I know what to expect from History because I had the same teacher last year and he always teaches the same way. This year, though, I don’t have a huge final project, so I think it might even be easier! I’ve never liked history, but I’ve always found it interesting. Unlike English.
B Lunch =
Good lunch!
I have B lunch all the time this year, which means I don’t have it with any of my best friends. I do have it with the same people I had it with last year, which is basically a really nerdy antisocial guy, my crush, and a junior we went to Germany with. So today I was looking all over for my crush (Let’s call him S) and it turns out he was waiting for me at the regular lunch spot which made me feel like *yay*. And the nerdy guy was mad at me because S was “bothering” him (I don’t even know). And then the person from Germany joined us and I was happy.
Math =
I’m not really mad at my math teacher anymore. I’ve accepted that he’s a horrible math teacher and that I will learn from the book for another year. There are good people in that class and hopefully we can get away with playing cards more often this year than we did last year. We just have to be quiet about it and the teacher doesn’t notice. Seriously.
Orchestra =
Great!
Of course, the awesome class that always ends off my day. Today was more of a get-to-know-you day becuase there are a ton of knew people. There are six freshmen this year, the most since I was a freshman. I had to introduce myself as a senior and section leader and unfortunately I had nothing to say except “These muffins are mine, not yours.” (I had brought muffins.) Probably not the best thing to say when you want all the new people to like you. In my defense, the teacher had set me up by saying “Ask her if she will share her muffins with you!” and I also only had two muffins left, one of which I was in the process of eating. After all that S and I gave the teacher the conductor’s baton we had bought him in Austria and he said he would use it because it was the best one he had!
So that’s the first day of a high school senior. In Oregon. Take notes, people!
I had a math class like that once, so I believe you. In fact, we were worse than that, but I won’t reveal professional secrets.
Nice to be able to begin and end your day with favorite classes!
Today was my first day of school as well, so I feel obliged to post a similar summary to the one above about all of my classes.
French I –
I’m really impressed with this class so far. I learned Spanish in elementary school and wasn’t completely happy with my high school Spanish experience last year, mostly because we never got a chance to SPEAK the Spanish. This year seems like it will be completely different. The teacher came in and immediately started babbling in French, which was neat. Plus, in addition to having a French name assigned to me already, I already know how to say good day, good evening, and goodnight, answer a question about how I’m feeling, count to 10, and say most of the alphabet. Sweet.
Honors English –
I’ve heard awful things about this teacher. He seemed okay, if a little dull, today in class, so I’m reserving judgement for now. Luckily, the people in the class are awesome, and there’s only 15 of us. This could still end up being a fun class even if the subject isn’t taught well.
Strength Training –
It was completely pointless today (I benched the bar 8 times, did 16 staggered press thingamajiggers with some bands, did 8 pushups, and was done with the daily workout) but will hopefully get better. I have a couple friends in here too, which is always good.
AP Biology –
This class scares the heck out of me. It’s the second of the two-year AP Biology program that my school offers, so the people in it are officially the survivors of last year’s insanity. I’m expecting lots of competition. The teacher didn’t exactly help when he announced that last year we only covered about 30% of the content we’re supposed to know for the AP test – and last year was the hardest class with the most studying that I’ve ever had.
AP Euro –
We didn’t take our notecard quiz today, which we’d all been expecting. Phew. I think this class is going to be hard but surviveable, and I like most of the people in it. And the teacher seems amiable. So, yeah, I’m optimistic.
Pre-Calculus –
The teacher managed to make the requisite explanation of class procedures semi-interesting and gets points for that. We get “Banana Bucks” if we doing extra problems on our homework, demonstrate problems on the board, do really well on Team Challenges, etc., and then we have a silent auction after every few chapters where we can buy extra credit points, pop, candy, etc. Oh yeah, and we did a bit of math too.
1 day down.
179 to go.
Piggy won his first chess game in Chess Club today. *switches to first person* I played my friend Noah for the second time–two weeks ago we played and reached a stalemate. But today I beat him with only my king, a pawn, and a rook. Now I’m listening to Respighi and playing against the computer.
L’shana tovah, MB!
So…apparently there’s a new Owl City song in the movie Legend of the Guardians. If you want, it’s called “To The Sky”. It’s pretty awesome.
It would be by OWL City, wouldn’t it…
I figured.
Of course it does.
We were talking about this just a few days ago with my family. Need to listen to that song eventually.
It’s so awesome-sounding. The lyrics are really relevant to the movie, too.
I think that sounds like a pretty good movie – but the fact that the main characters are owls…
They used up all the good animals. XD
What’s wrong with owls?
,___.
(Ovo)
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…”..”
78- We’ll miss you! Kudos to you for making the responsible choice. *has only increased blog activities and procrastination.
93- You have geckos where you live?! That is beyond awesome. I have undead pigeons and crows. *envies*
98- Congrats! Don’t worry, you’re still close to the top of the pyramid here.
100- Oh, cool! *will check out* I loved fireflies, just because the sounds effects were so awesome.
So… Most of the first week is over. Chemistry is cool anyway, tough but the teacher is great. Our new math teacher sounds awesome too, she’s very strict but is getting things done. Besides, we desperately need someone to teach us this math or we’re screwed. ‘Course, I’m still a socially insecure teenager, but right now my main problem is that I want to sit next too M & L & Mn and possibly J or one of the new girls and I cannot warp myself through enough dimensions to sit next to more than two people. I couldn’t get out of chinese (yet), but the war is far from lost. And I’ve finally got a picture for my student ID that actually makes me look kinda good. I don’t plan on faking it anyway, but I do look sixteen. And I’m a junior!!!
Yeah. It’s usually fine and dandy, but that one was so annoying…
And we never get crows. Just grackles, and they’re one of the most annoying birds in existence. Crows would be so cool.
I suppose the ‘grass is always greener’ saying will continue to be true forever.
By the way, how are your pigeons undead?
They look like zombies because well, pigeons = pest who destroy facades and monuments and cost several thousand euros of damage to world heritage architecture per year. So they’re usually dying from poison, starvation of diseases and look it.
Ah.
That’s kind of gruesome.
It rained constantly yesterday and the day before. Which was utterly amazing. Rain makes me happy.
Unfortunately, the rain appears to have passed, and we probably won’t get much more rest of the year. *sulks*
Well, it seems like school this year is going to be great! I have at least one friend in every class, which is awesome, and my honors classes are with essentially the same people as last year, so we settled in quite quickly, a lot of kids were joking around with the teacher and each other on the first day.
AP bio was just a continuation of last year, it was like we never even skipped a day. No introductions were necessary, as we all had had the teacher before. She’s a wonderful teacher, and the class is very relaxed. It’s just like a bunch of friends chatting with each other. And she has apple scented soap in her room. In between periods, I said my hands felt dirty because I had to use it. It just smells too good.
Math should be interesting, I’m not too fond of the teacher. Same goes for Spanish.
The English teacher is hysterical. We started reading Julius Caesar. She spun off into this whole explanation relating the play to cheerleaders and nasty facebook pages. It’s a fun play to read, especially this one part:
“Brutus, I do observe you now of late:
I have not from your eyes that gentleness
And show of love as I was wont to have:
You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
Over your friend that loves you.”
I was Cassius, saying that to Brutus, who was my male friend. Of course, we got snide comments about that all day long; it was hysterical.
My chem teacher is crazy. On the second day, we took a break between periods, and I was chatting with my friends, when I noticed she was going through my school bag, which was next to her on the counter she was sitting on. Not really going through everything, but she had pulled out a paper and was looking at it. At the end of the period she said to me, “Do you like to be called Bella or Isabella? I was looking through your bag, and noticed you had written Bella on top of a sheet.” What kind of teacher admits that she was looking in your bag? Well, other than that, she’s really cool, though we have a quiz on Monday.
AP Euro- I want to kill the teacher (see rant on R&C). I’m pretty sure nothing on the test yesterday was in the textbook, and she refused to go over anything that we had read over the summer. After the test, I was crying. Literally. I’ve never been so sure that I failed a test.
Wind Ensemble. It’s going to be amazing. I feel so honored to be in a class with such talented musicians. There’s even two freshmen in the class. We’re going to play at Carnegie Hall later in the year, after staying overnight at a nice hotel outside the city and sight seeing for a day. The teacher is great, the people in the class are great, and the music is going to be great.
Speaking of freshmen, a great deal of them are emo. It’s weird. According to my brother, “all of them are freaks.”, but I don’t think they’re that bad.
Brutus and Cassius are my second-favorite Shakespearean Couple That Should Totally Happen. (First is Tybalt and Mercutio, in case you wanted to know.) Please tell your class for me that Brutus is not a villain! He’s not even a villain protagonist! Caesar really was getting dangerous as a political presence, and the way things were going, it was likely that he would have toppled the republic that had kept Rome a relatively peaceful, well-run citystate for a long time! Most dictators of Rome, after the danger to the state had passed, willingly gave up their power and stepped down as dictator. Caesar was keeping his title. Brutus felt like it was his duty as the descendant of the Brutus family, which had overthrown the last tyrant king, to prevent any tyrant from ever taking over Rome again. Sure he failed, and Octavius Caesar ended up being emperor, but that was mainly the fault of the people’s sympathies being with Caesar because of Marc Antony’s caking speech! “Oh, I’m not going to say anything good about the generous, wise, perfect, strong, courageous, friendly, sparkly, rainbows and butterflies Caesar who was the best person ever! Here, look, he left you some money. Bye.” If the people of Rome had been on the conspirators’ side, the civil war might have gone an entirely different way! GAH! Will people stop equating Brutus with Judas or something?
SFTDP, but /rant>. Brutus’s Historical Villain Upgrade just really, REALLY gets on my nerves.
I think you just spoiled the whole play…
It’s fine though, and I’ll definitely keep your argument in mind while reading it. I’ll let you know what I think when I finish. I think the teacher was sorta saying that he wasn’t a villain.
Dude. Hamlet / Laertes for life.
For SURE. They’re my #3.
I’m kind of jealous of your AP Bio experience. This is my second year of it as well, and instead of offering us apple-scented soap he welcomed us back by announcing that last year, which was literally the hardest class with the most studying that I’ve ever taken, we only got through 30% of the information that we’re going to need for the test. Yeah. I’m a little frightened.
And good luck with AP Euro. I’m taking it too, but yours sounds way worse.
*hugs*
Oh, I didn’t take AP bio in two years. Last year was just honors bio- enough for us to pass the regents and the SAT II. But don’t worry! We’ll make it through TOGETHER!
89 –
Not literally! You mean figuratively!
See xkcd comic #725.
Seriously? Enceladus is complaining about having a bunch of sheeple in his class, and all you and Piggy do is point out that they weren’t literally half sheep? That’s a bit silly, don’t you think? Not just because it’s unhelpful, but because it’s not really correct. It seems fairly clear that the ‘literally’ in Enceladus’ sentence was directed at the “all”, not the “sheeple”. Otherwise, he would have said “all the people in my class are literally sheeple”. And even if he said that, sheeple doesn’t mean half-sheep. It is a portmanteau of the two words, (the other being people) yes, but (according to Wikipedia) “Sheeple… is a term of disparagement, in which people are likened to sheep. It is often used to denote persons who voluntarily acquiesce to a perceived authority or suggestion without sufficient research to understand fully the ramifications involved in that decision, and thus undermine their own human individuality.” In fact, xkcd uses that definition. (See xkcd comic #610.)
…Oh sheesh. Sorry for kind of flipping at you. I didn’t mean to sound so offensive… It’s just a pet peeve of mine. Sorry.
Thanks, I guess. *hug*
It was directed at the “all”, yes.
Don’t worry about it
All is forgiven…I was actually riding on Piggy’s comment, making a joke about his opinion.
Just watch what you say, because according to my parents, what comes out of my mouth is gonna get me decked some day. Same holds for all – observe the situation before commenting. Snipers recon before lying still for hours, we run experiments on chemicals before the FDA releases them, we send in a bomb squad before we send in the police.
/really bad metaphors
Anyway, we’re all friends here.
All friends? Yay!
just kidding. 
I sure am glad that eragon kid left, though, aren’t you?Anyway, I decided that when eragon left, so would the rather overbearing, annoying neophyte part of me. Eragon must’ve had ADD or something. Castle is a bit more serious and thoughtful.
And please note that I said “All friends here” instead of the dread phrase. Friends seems more accurate anyway.
This is not an original idea, but for some reason I do enjoy talking about school, so I suppose I will describe my classes like other people have been…read if you wish, but I won’t be offended in the slightest if you skip over my ramblings. Oh, and SFTLP. (Sorry for the long post.)
English – Don’t quite know what to expect of this class yet, since we cycled out on the first day of school and only got in 15 minutes today because of our assembly in the morning. What I did get, however, was that our teacher was definitely all business and got us right down to work for the entire 15 minutes, even skipping over the general introduction the rest of the teachers went through. Not sure if this is good or not, but it’s obvious she wants to make good use of our time. Already have a lot of homework piled up, but English has turned out to be pretty awesome the last two years and is (usually) my best subject, so I have pretty high hopes…
Math – I have the same teacher I had in 6th grade, and all I remember is that she was boring and had a habit of calling out the scores people got on the quizzes. (She didn’t say who got what, but would say “5 A’s, 3 B’s, 2 C’s, etc.) In a way it’s interesting to see where you fall, but in another way, it made me feel kind of uncomfortable if I knew I had gotten the lowest grade, math not being my strong point. This year it seems like it’ll definitely be another boring year. Most people are already spending most of the time passing notes across the classroom which she is basically entirely oblivious to. Although she’s better than the alternative teachers I could have gotten who are all pretty close to horrible, because I’m not good at math I need someone who’s going to keep me awake to stay motivated. I figure I’ll have to spend most of my own time learning out of the book, which I don’t really want to do, but may have no choice. :/
Science – I really like my science teacher, I also had her in 6th grade and she was interesting and nice. She also is really into technology, so we get to do a lot of stuff with her interactive smart board and online things, which are all very cool. We’re doing Physics this year, so looks like we’ll get lots of labs, yippee! I have a fear of fire, however, (probably not strong enough to be considered a phobia, but it’s definitely up there) so I’m nervous. I know it’s a ridiculous thing to be scared of, especially since the amount we have in labs hardly enough to be dangerous, everyone is pretty much required to light matches/bunson burners at some point, and I’ll probably have to deal with fire (hopefully in safe small amounts, I’m not planning on burning down my house anytime soon) for the rest of my life, I’m still horribly scared of it. I’m really going to have to overcome it this year.
History – I like history, and it’s usually a relaxing class I can sort of just take a deep breath in and not worry about too much. I like my teacher, too. He’s a bit not-exciting (not really boring, but not exciting, either) but at least he’s nice, and he’s trying.
I already talked about Latin before, so won’t include that here. Band is the only other thing I haven’t mentioned because we started it today but only got assigned our lockers and joked around a bit. I’m really nervous because I want to stay in 3rd chair, (where I ended up last year as far as 8th graders go) but there are some really good 7th grade clarinet players who might bump me down, especially since I haven’t practiced recently. (ok, fine, since last year. I did a little bit over the summer, but not really…enough.) And to top it off, one of my best friends (also a clarinet) is considering switching to choir, which I’m not going to lie, I’m sort of pissed about. We had a lot of fun last year, but I guess she just wants a change. ;/ Or at least, that’s what she told me. We talked about The Wizarding World of Harry Potter the whole time today, which was really funny.
/long post
*takes cookie* Don’t worry, I don’t like lighting matches either.
AWW. We just went and saw a person my mom works with’s baby, who was born yesterday night. SO ADORABLE. Squeee! *melts into puddle*
Why the cakity cake do I have 10 mystery bug bites? I’ve not spent any quality time in any sort of a nature setting recently, just in my dorm or in classes, no laying int he grass or playing in the woods. So…why?
Bedbugs – ohnoes. I know they’re having a problem with bedbugs in New York if that’s where you’re going to college. Or they could be spider bites.
No, I’m not going to college in NY, although that certainly doesn’t rule out the possibility. As much as I hate spiders, I think I’d rather that be the case than bed bugs, though.
Oh jeez… I really hope they’re not bed bugs. Maybe a mosquito wandered into your room? They have a nasty tendency to do so. And then hover around your head all night and keep you up with their high pitched whiny buzz. *got not sleep last night*
Me, too….I did find a spider hanging out on the ceiling of my bathroom this morning, so as much as I hate those nasty 8 legged buggers, I’m rather hoping that it was the culprit. It has, of course, long since been smashed into a pulp (very nerve racking whacking a spider on the ceiling, because of the very real threat of it falling on you in the process), probably waking up my roommate, as my shoe colliding with the ceiling made a very loud noise, but…..Oh well.
We seem to be finding spiders here too… Two of my wing’s sophomores (roommates) got commended at check last night for killing their first spider.
Tomorrow I am going to school! Yeah! Finally! But classes don’t start until Monday, so I’ll be around.
As of today, I am taking AP French! As a freshman!
That’s really cool. Have you taken French before?
I’ve been learning it since I was seven or eight, but I’ve never taken it at school, because I take Mandarin at school. But now I take both.
Ha, that sounds kind of like me. I went to a Spanish immersion school for most of elementary school, and then took third-year Spanish last year as a freshman for college credit. It wasn’t the AP Spanish, unfortunately – that would have been really nice. (I’m also envious of your school teaching Mandarin. :()
But yeah, I probably understand your circumstances pretty well.
Are most of the other kids in the class juniors and seniors?
ALL the other students are juniors/seniors.
And I would think that if your school was in Hong Kong they would teach Mandarin as well.
‘Twas the same for me. Actually, there was a junior, but she was from Spain, so that doesn’t count.
Wait, you live in Hong Kong?
I guess I completely missed that fact.
Yes. Yes, I do.
*ugh* I can’t believe I have school today…at least it’s Friday.
Please excuse the interruption, but…
CALLING ALL DEMIGOD RPG CHARACTERS! THE BATTLE IS OVER! GATHER YOUR CHARACTERS!
PLEASE REPORT TO THE MAIN THREAD IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for your time.
*sigh* I don’t know what to do…
im homeschooled, but i still hate school. i mean really, is it even possible to like school? i don’t think so.
Oh god, I LOVE my school. I can’t wait for it to start.
But then again, it’s not like most schools. I’m really not sure how much I can say without giving away potentially identifying information, and the GAPAs can snip or zap this post as they see fit, but it’s a school where I get to choose how to spend my day. Not like, choose what classes or whatever, but actually choose what I do minute to minute. Play foursquare, eat lunch, Apples to Apples, whatever. As long as it’s not destructive to myself, other people, or property (of others or the school, I think if I wanted to break something that was mine in a safe and contained way I could.
) Anyway, it’s a great school.
That’s… amazing. Like unschooling in a school.
DUCKY! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN! COME BACK! GRACE US WITH YOUR PRESENCE!
I have been at camp with some of the most amazing people in the world! Sadly, none of them were MBers. However, they are all quite Muserly!
Camp? Muserly people? Sounds fun! But I’m glad you’re back.
I went to a camp like that this summer. It was completely epic.
Actually, I don’t know for a fact that none of them were Musers/MBers. I should have worn my HPB shirt. *muses*
How do you ever learn?
“[My school] is based on the belief that no kind of curriculum is necessary to prepare a young person for adult life. Instead, these schools emphasize learning as a natural by-product of all human activity.” Basically, people learn all the time just by being in social settings. And if you think about it, people prefer to do for a living something they like to do, and who’s going to be better at doing what they like to do than someone who has all the time they could need to do it?
It sounds dandy, but it doesn’t sound like it remotely prepares students for standard employment.
But you can’t possibly learn as much as a student in a regular high school setting, unless you really apply yourself. And the thing is, kids don’t apply themselves unless forced to. I would never make myself learn all the math that I’m learning through my course. I just wouldn’t. It’s not something that interests me remotely, but it’ll come in handy someday. If I was in your type of school, I wouldn’t study it at all. In fact, it sounds like your school just prepares you for social settings, and not intellectually. But I could be wrong, and by no means am I bashing your school. I just don’t fully understand how it works, and from your description, it works very well. Okay, enough with my rant, can we move this on to Hot Topics?
Sure. (And don’t feel bad about not understanding it or anything, some people I’ve tried explaining it to have taken it much worse.
)
Yesterday was really nice. I sat around and did nothing but watch Auto-Tune the News all day, and now I have the Bed Intruder Song stuck in my head, but I don’t mind. It’s an awesome song. Oh, yeah, I have off from school because of Rosh Hashanah. Don’t worry, I didn’t skip school.
I also glued the leather edge back on to the case and made a nice label for it. I’m going to *try* to get my mom to pay for half the cost of getting the flute cleaned and all the pads replaced at the shop. It probably won’t work though. 
In other musical instrument news, I’m going to try to teach myself how to play the piano. It probably won’t work, due to the fact that I don’t actually own a piano. I’m going to have to practice in my free periods at school or at my church. Alas, I am determined!
Today, we’re going to a museum or arboretum; after that I’ll finish up my homework. (I have evil amounts of AP euro.) Hmm, what else? Oh, I found the polishing cloth for my flute! It’s all shiny.
*is insanely jealous of everyone who gets school off for Rosh Hashanah* I mean, I miss school for it, but then I have all this make-up work and am terribly behind, and it’s just awful.
Aww! I’m sorry! That sucks. Did you have a good Rosh Hashanah? Or is it still going on? Sorry, I really don’t know much about it… :/
It ended last night at sundown… The holiday itself was good at least. And now it’s a weekend. Yay!
I’m printing out my essay now, so I’ll be officially done with all of my English homework in a few minutes!
I got a new bookshelf in my room, which has made me finally able to sort my magazines into piles. (At some point I’ll make those piles chronological… but not now.) I have six piles- Technology, Archeology, Smithsonian, Air and Space Smithsonian, Muse/Scuba (I combined these two in the interest of space, because I had so few scuba magazines), and Astronomy.
Hey, GAPAs?
On thw Who’s Posted How Much thread, Zinc the sorceress/vampire and uÇÇɹƃʎɟÉÇן is listed as:
Zinc the sorceress/vampire and uÇÇɹƃʎɟÉÇן (44)
Hi there! You seem to be new. Why don’t you drop by the Welcome thread and introduce yourself properly?
So yesterday my computer crashed, so I restarted it. It crashed again, so we deduced that it was a hard drive, and I decided to replace it today, since I’ve been meaning to swap out the drive for a larger one anyway, and we have that larger one sitting around.
Today I started up my computer, and it’s showing remarkably few signs of being broken. So I’m having a hard time motivating myself to fix it.
On a brighter note, I’m now in the top twenty on the ‘Who’s Posted How Much’ list.
If I take all of my alternate names (previous names plus Halloween Ball/AE names) and assume that exactly 1/2 of the Spelluna’s 92 posts were mine, I have a total of 5,958 points, which puts me in second (not counting the GAPAs), all assuming the others up in the top ten region don’t have lots of posts under alternate names (huge assumption, but I’m too lazy to check).
5,753
that would put me 3rd, but i now know luna is above me and i’m pretty sure jade is too if she adds all hers up. so like fifth or something. somewhere in the top ten anyway
Let’s see.
Cat’s Meow: 3,485
Cat’s Meow (who has 2 1/2 spdzk points): 197
Cat’s Meow and Aume: 111
Cat’s Meow (who has 4 spdzk points): 104
Mouse’s Squeak: 33 (from the Disney Day! :D)
Cat’s Meow (No Longer Mouse’s Squeak): 20
Cat’s Meow: 15 (I’m not sure why these 15 don’t fall in with the rest of my posts under my main name. Any insights, GAPAs? It’s #1528 right now.)
Cat’s Meow, Alice, and IBCF: 6
Not Cat’s Meow: 5
I don’t remember any other names than that.
Total: 3,976
Truly, I’m probably not even in the Top 10. I take too many hiatuses.
OH! I forgot Vocalization of Feline (50). And WizGirl, but I guess I posted fewer than 5 times with my original name.
I hope your computer gets better.
I think I’m at about 95 with just BtB, and I’m at eighty-ish with all of my other names, though there weren’t many.
Not including names from the Alter Ego thread and Halloween Ball names, etc, soccer starr’s and starr’s posts add up to 2,437 putting me in 19th as of right now.
I’m number twenty-four with 1,980 posts. Too lazy to add up my other names.
I have 4550 posts under all the variations of the name “Piggy”, and probably a few dozen more under AEs/Halloween Ball characters. That would put me just ahead of Luna’s main name. But realistically, a healthy seventh place.
My current name (LittleBasementKitten) is at 42. Yes it is. ^^
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What do you think of the quote: “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”
-Ben Franklin
I actually used that as the opening quote for my first history paper last year… I was comparing some of colonial Britain’s policies (I remember discussing the Quartering Act in particular) to the Patriot Act. Love that quote.
Yay! I used that quote in paper comparing the movie version and book version of Farenheit 451. I love that quote too.
I heard it differently: “Those who would give up a little liberty to gain a little security would deserve neither, and lose both.”
But I completely agree, in part. If you want a society where people are happy, yes. But not if you want one where they’re safe, or where they’re useful.
Franklin’s statement has shown up on the blog before, as have assorted variations. On a previous occasion, Robert looked it up:
‘According to Wikiquote, Franklin originally recorded the motto in his notes as “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Later it appeared in a book as “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” All other variants of the saying are paraphrases that other people came up with later.’
I’d say “essential” and “temporary” are key to Franklin’s meaning. “Little” changes the meaning considerably.
Here is the worst short story ever written. I wrote it in homeroom today. It is a horror story.
“Hello, Frank,” they said.
“Hello, Frank,” they said again.
I flailed violently.
“Hello, Frank,” they repeated.
I screamed.
“Hello, Frank.”
“Hello, Frank.”
It was quite monotonous.
“Hello, Frank.”
They presented me with a name badge.
“Hello, Frank,” they said.
I died.
THE END
It brings to mind several questions: Who are they? What was their motive? Is en’s name really Frank? And most importantly, what was yesterday’s market price of liver?
((Sorry. I’m in quite a random mood. Ignore this post.))
Ignore this post?
I SHALL DO NO SUCH THING!
Who are they? Well, they’re probably some evil government/organization. I’m thinking fascist, evil, dictators. Or perhaps aliens? Ooh, aliens.
Their motive? If aliens, then they were trying to convert “Frank” into the alien body or something, or trying to take over his mind. They gave him the name Frank because it’s inconspicuous. Perhaps “Frank” was being used to be sent down back to earth and convert other humans. Maybe he wasn’t really dead. His old self was living within Frank.
So, no, his name isn’t really Frank.
I cannot help you with yesterday’s market price of liver.
Anyway, those are just my opinions. When I saw the post, it reminded me of Frank the gardener that was in HP. Dunno why.
But the story was REALLY good. I really like it. A lot. It has so much potential. Can you expand on it? Please? For me?
Cow liver? Pig liver? Chicken liver? Human liver(pleaseno)?
Come to think of it, I bought liver yesterday. I was grocery shopping and misread my mother’s handwriting (it was actually some vegetable or other). I only thought afterward to call her and ask why she wanted two pounds of liver, since she’s usually a vegetarian.
I also found out that the grocery store people really, really don’t like it if you try to return liver.
Who are they? They are the voices in your head.
What is their motive? To kill you.
Is en’s name Frank? No, voices in your head always call you something you aren’t called, but wish to be called.
Yesterday’s market price of liver? 1 cow sacrificed to the gods, or 3 people converted to Christianity.
wow…I survived the first 3 days of high school….I think I’m still in information overload shock……*stares blankly*
I survived the first three days of middle school!!
Hello everybody! A short update from fishy.
I’m so sorry I haven’t been very active. And I also apologize for the entire year, because I’m surely going to be suffocated with work (I’m taking an AP class!). Also, our group has decided to make the struggle for gay rights our National History Day topic! I’m not sure how good of a topic it will be (because of the fact that many developments are very recent), but we’re going to try. Are any other MBers doing history day this year?
that’s a good topic idea. It might be hard to research though.
I think our school are all doing Boston busing this year (different formats though, there aren’t that many of us.)
I’ve never done it before, and actually first heard of it from MuseBlog, and, besides extremely obvious, self-evident things (that it’s a history project, for example), know absolutely nothing about it… But my school gives the opportunity to do it, and, given a bit more information (it wasn’t overly specific…), I might. What is it, exactly?
It’s like a science fair, but with history.
Basically, yes. You do research about a topic that fit’s the year’s theme (Diplomacy and Dialogue in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences this year I think). then you make a bibliography, a process paper, and a project, which can be a performance, website, paper, documentary, or exhibit. When you compete you go to regionals, than states, then nationals.
I think I’ll do it this year, then.
Yes, do it. It’s super fun.
Fishy – I’m so jealous. I plan to audition for this music fair thing that ALWAYS takes place at the same time as regionals, and my band teacher thinks I can get in – so I won’t start a project. Anyway the auditions are in January and even if I fail that’s too late to start a project. Also, I don’t like the theme all that much, but I was thinking of doing Cesar Chavez and the negotiations for migrant worker rights. I guess that’s a suggestion for Bibliophile, then.
Gay rights might be a little too recent – but you could focus on what happened during the seventies and eighties and connect it to today. What kind of project are you doing? Are you working with NSWAT?
Good luck, Nym and Fishy, I really hope you make it to nationals!!
Yay! Will you be a junior or a senior?
I haven’t, but it sounds like a lot of fun. Do you think that topic might be too broad, though?
Me! I did it last year and actually went to D.C. for Nationals. (We spent most of the time goofing off and watching Monty Python until one in the morning) This year I’m doing something to the effect of informed consent & medical testing, a lot of it having to do Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman who had some cells harvested from her cervical cancer in the 50s, and since they were cancerous, they could reproduce indefinitely and therefore really useful for medical testing (they still exist today, and you can even buy them online from a biological supplier). A lot of really, REALLY major medical developments used her cells (polio vaccine, for one) but her family never got compensation for the oodles of money the medical industry was making by doing things with her cells. It’s really interesting…
I’ve heard of her story, and it sounds very interesting. You could also include stuff about that guy in the 90s who sued because a medical company tried to patent his genes.
WHAT?! Fishy and I could have met you! We were there too.
I was just looking at the new book on Henreitte Lacks. It looked very interesting. So, about anyone questioning our topic, despite all the more recent developments/movements, there was more than just marriage to fight for. There was a fight to be removed off the list of mental diseases. The Stonewall riots brought gay rights to the media, so then the debate began to take place, so we’re planning on connecting it today at the very end. (And we’re only focusing on American gay rights)
There’s a coral snake right outside my front door! Yay!
Heh. I probably shouldn’t be happy about that, should I?… I think I love snakes way too much. Let’s just hope no-one comes to visit us unexpectedly… That would be bad.
My computer did not get better after the hard drive was replaced. It’s still broken.
Which means that it’s a more serious problem than the hard drive, and unless we can identify that and replace it without purchasing a new part, (we have another identical computer sitting around for parts) I will no longer posses a computer.
And I probably won’t have a computer at all.
Anyway, I probably won’t be on MB nearly as much for the near future, and possibly not for quite a while. We’ll see.
I’ll try to come on on Mom’s computer.
Bye.
*Hugs*
I’m sorry. I’m really sorry. I remember what happened to my laptop earlier this year.
Oh, poor Errata! I remember when the same-ish thing happened to me just this year and my NaNo was damaged. That is incredibly, incredibly sucky. Good luck!
SudoRandom – Like a Sudbury school kind of thing? I checked one of those out once.
Luna – I had a mosquito in my room recently, whacked at it, missed and woke up with three bites on my right bicep where it had previously been lurking. They don’t really itch.
Check this out, it’s a USMC unity deployed in Iraq lip syncing to Haddaway’s “What Is Love”. The guys have way too much time on their hands. [It should be easy enough to find on YouTube without the link. –Admin.]
Feel free to check the link, GAPAs – nothing inappropriate.
It is in fact a Sudbury school model.
*smiles at everyone who is overwhelmed by the first day of middle or high school* *had four major unit exams today, three of which were in AP classes* *has slept about seven hours in the last two days*
Just wait until college. : )
Sleep.
.1- Many of my friends who are in college have had more free time than they did in high school.
.2- NEVER
More free time is not necessarily the same thing as less stress. I have scads of free time (depending on the day or the week or any other number of factors), but simultaneously, college is a hell of a lot more stressful.
yes to this.
The free time is somewhat illusory, too. “Unscheduled time” would be more accurate. Though class hours may be significantly fewer than in high school, the expectations for coursework are generally much higher — at least in theory.
In my original post I meant “true” free time–time for TV watching, goofing off, etc.
I did say “in theory.” I had lots of free time, too, my first couple of years — and paid for it dearly.
I was referring to “true” free time, or certainly “unscheduled time” that I treated as free-time. But I pay for all that free time when tests come ’round and I realize I haven’t studied properly for them, and cue loads and loads of stress.
Wooow, I haven’t posted in ages. I have been lurking, though.
Wow. Today I was in a mall and some lady with a British accent came up to me, shook a fist in my face, and cried (rather overdramatically), “**** you, you hippie!” I’ve never had anyone shake their fist at me. I kind of assumed that sort of rudeness died out along with, you know, Victorian ballrooms. But apparently not. Maybe it was some sort of Candid Camera thing.
Come to think of it, I do kind of look like a hippie. But still.
Maybe someone dared her to? Odd.
I’m betting it was either a camera thingy or a dare.
O.o but but but hippies are awesome!
This is very, very odd. Like, very odd. I may write a story based on this.
If you add up all of my posts, you get 3,675. I’d be in 10th, then.
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Errata- I hope it gets better!
I’ve survived the first week of high school! (No, you don’t have to read this
)
Actually it’s kind of complicated: L. is flirting with V., who went to the prom with her last year but nearly ended up dating M. now he’s pulling away but still is in dancing class with us and J., who usually flirts with L but danced a slow waltz with me even though he has a crush on T., who often dances with V2 who I want as my dance partner, who I actually only met because M is backing out of dancing but not quitting because she’s not interested, like M2 who never really went but probably because she’s hanging out with N. and her clique lately but has been rebuked there because N is a female canine and so M2 is sitting with me and/or L (because C dropped out), since M is sitting with T who bought this hideous raincoat in the summer and is generally wearing clothes that are so last year, but the worst are the exchange students who are just dresses so français, lk srly?, but thankfully C will austrianize them, if the geography teacher doesn’t assassinate her first, which is a major problem because she keeps mixing us up and I get yelled at for nothing, and I’m not taking anything lower than a B this year and…
Who am I kidding: I love high school!
‘Course, all the teachers are bombarding us with pop quizzes and “this year will be harder”s, but what’s in this place that we can’t weather? Nada.
I started off with “V2 who I want as my dance partner” and somehow skipped straight from there to “thankfully C will austrianize them”. Austrianize! I like. The problem with exchange students in America is if they’re being all pretentious because they come from a country with good social services and no stupid-tourist over-militarized super-fat stereotypes (think the Scandinavian ones), you can’t point out that their country isn’t perfect, either, because that would be Bad Diplomatic Relations. I have no problem with those people coming from nice countries, I just have a problem with them being all smug and superior. Sigh.
I love exchange students in general, though. My family will probably get one once my brother goes off to college next year. I hope he/she can speak English, ‘cuz I can only speak English, Spanish, and ten words of Hebrew…
I’m listening to “The Christmas Son” by Owl City. In September.
I just had my first hour long fencing class. IT IS THE SPORT I WANT TO DO. It’s not a team sport; requires respect; involves sharp, pointy things; more thinking than brute force; and uses most of your body (Like scuba diving, which I LOVE.)
Fencing is fun!
Oh my gosh, I love fencing. I got the chance to take lessons during rec time at the Muserly camp that I mentioned above, and it really is awesome. I’m tiny, but I’m fairly strong and quick, so it’s a good sport for me. The teacher said that I had the right instincts for it too (and then proceeded to tell me that my form right then was awful, but whatever! :P).
If I wasn’t so busy with soccer these days, I would seriously consider fencing lessons myself.
So, today was our first Cross Country meet of the season, and it was at a course that I don’t like, but I still did better than the coach expected, so that was good. (He said to finish in 34 minutes or less, I finished in 32:20)
I can’t believe I’m going to be a Senior on Monday.
I think this is the first September 11th that I can remember not having an assignment to bring in a news article about the anniversary.
What did I write last year? *goes to check*
This:
“Okay, so since today is September 11th, and I’m from NYC, I’m going to pre-empt everyone- no, I did not know any of the victims. My 4th grade teacher’s brother-in-law was one of the firefighters, and my second-best-friend’s uncle worked on the 77th floor, but I personally was extremely fortunate not to personally know anyone who was lost.”
Oh, hey, we had our first XC meet too. The conditions were terrible-the sunlight was extremely bright, there was no cloud cover, and it just got hotter and hotter as the day went on. It was an invitational, so it was 2-ish miles for everyone, and I got 23-ish minutes, which is pretty awesome considering I have a possibly-infected blister on my foot. I really like the course we ran at, normally. It’s easy to pace yourself perfectly on. (Not that I don’t ALWAYS pace myself perfectly, of course. *hairflip*)
No one really seems to be mentioning the 9/11 anniversary in passing. I’m trying to get it as the speech I do for Acting class, though.
How long was your race? How many miles or Ks?
Mine? 3.1 miles.
New TV shows have finally started.
I just finished watching Merlin 30-45 minutes ago. I do so hate two part episodes–you have to wait a whole week just to see hte second half. 
And to start the season off with a two parter? That’s just cruel. Ah, well.
I just made my first really good Flash animation! It’s all about Pokémon. I can’t upload it, unfortunately, but I can give you a quick storyboard.
Text: Go, Swampert!
Swampert comes on screen
Text: Go, Magikarp!
Magikarp comes on screen
Text: Swampert used Water Gun!
Swampert has squirt gun, squirts Magikarp
Text: Magikarp used Epic WIn!
WIN appears over Magikarp
FAIL appears over Swampert
Text: Swampert fainted!
Swampert spirals off screen
Text: Magikarp wins!
Text over Magikarp: Ha Ha
GAPAs, is there any way I could send you this? I’d like to put it on the Computer and Video Games thread.
Can you attach it to an email, or is the file too large?
Nah, it’s only forty-something KB. Isn’t the email address gapas@musefanpage.com?
Our other address is better for graphics stuff: the gapas at gmail dot com.
I despise Apple.
I was cleaning out some clutter on my laptop when I accidentally deleted a few seasons of Futurama I had purchased from iTunes. So I went to download them again, since I had bought them already. But I discovered that Apple doesn’t let you download anything twice, even if a catastrophe causes the original files to be lost.
What.
The.
Cake.
So now, if I want my items back, I’ll have to give Apple a hundred bucks or so to re-purchase the videos I have already paid for. That’s right–if something happens to your computer, the digital content you legitimately paid for is, thanks to Apple, entirely gone as well. With other companies, you can just download it again–that’s the logical method. But no. Apple refuses.
God damn.
No. You email them about it explaining the problem and they make it re-downloadable for you. They’re really nice about it. They let me and my family redownload all my purchases when my computer crashed. They even sent me an email to make sure I got it all all alright.
How long ago was this?
Jade’s computer crashed really recently, I think. Remember, the whole trouble with missing all the pictures?
Ah, yes, I remember now.
But the official Apple policy is: “When you buy a song, video, iPod Game, or album from the iTunes Store you are entitled to download it a single time. If you want to download it again, you must purchase it again.”
Yep, a few months ago. They have a form on their site you can get to to ask them about it, with music loss as a specific categoy. They emailed me back within 24 hours.
Well, even if they were to make you buy it again, it does technically make sense. If you go to a bookstore and buy a specific book, if a “catastrophe” causes this book to be lost, they are in no way obligated to allow you to come back to their store and get this same book again, free of charge. You would have to purchase a new copy.
Logically, there is no reason for this to be different with digital files. (I’m not saying I agree, just pointing out that, annoying or not, it actually makes sense.)
I would disagree with that. The point of digital files is that they’re digital. It costs money for a book to be printed, but copying a music file costs nothing.
I think DRM becomes an issue at some point here…
DRM isn’t the issue, actually. DRM would prevent Piggy’s friend from sharing her files with Piggy. Apple is just being dumb in this case.
Hear, hear.
Ouch. Kinda like the mom whose son spent over a thousand dollars on FarmVille, and Facebook refused to refund the charges. On digital products that never existed in the first place.
Gragh, I’m so mad at my braces. They keep on breaking, even though I’m pretty good with not eating restricted foods, and I’m going to have to get springs soon. They’re serve the same purpose of rubber bands, but, well, they’re springs. This should do wonders to my mouth when I’m playing my flute.
Okay, well, I’m going to start my homework now. I was supposed to be doing it for the past three hours, but I was goofing off and watching Firefly. And maybe obsessing over Nathan Fillion. 
Anyway, that was sorta the point of this post. I had to play at the football game today. It was really fun, and I got to know the student teacher better. My friends and I were goofing off the whole time since we were only doing pep songs. They played a song when the football team came out, which was horrible. We really need to feed their egos, right? Whenever the cheerleaders did a cheer that was like “Cheer for our town’s team!” me and my friend whispered to each other, “How about no?”. Okay, yeah, it was stupid. But our school’s cheerleader’s are really annoying and witchy. They never stop smiling. It was so hot with the sun beating down on us, and they’re sitting in the bleachers with their long sleeved costumes on smiling. What the heck?
Nonetheless, it was fun to play with the band, as always. As I said before, the student teacher came over to talk to me, since she was trying to get to know everyone. Surprisingly enough, I didn’t fail at small talk! I know, I know. It’s scary. But I was able to keep up a conversation! W00t for lack of social ineptitude! The only thing is that I don’t know her name, but nobody else did, so I think I’m good.
Well, he’s hot, so obsessing over him is a perfectly acceptable thing to do.
Luna… Just wondering, do you obsess over hot guys, like, all the time?
Also, totally unrelated, but doesn’t the fourth doctor look like Bob Dylan?
Well, actually….No. Only a very small portion of the time (honest), although I can see how some of my comments would suggest otherwise.
As for the Fourth Doctor, I really don’t know–I haven’t seen him yet, and I don’t think I know who Bob Dylan is…? Sorry, incredibly clueless on these sorts of things.
He’s a singer.
I think you’re lying…
Yeah, Bob Dylan’s a singer from the sixties and seventies. Google “Bob Dylan looks like the fourth doctor”, they look exactly alike. They even have the same scarf…
I’m not lying, I swear. I usually obsess over much more important things, like grades.
As for the Fourth Doctor and Bob Dylan, yes, I can see a resemblance in the photos so kindly provided by Lady B. Actually, when I saw the bottom photo, the Fourth Docotr, the first thing that popped into my mind was “Hobbits! He looks like a Hobbit!”
My brain is strange, at times.
Hee, you’re right!
Still, even obsessing over grades, I bet you’ve heard a few Bob Dylan songs without realizing it. They’re hard to miss.
Yes, they’re quite… interesting…
Oh, I probably have. I’ve probably even heard the name. *shrug* But I certainly couldn’t name any songs or anything….
Thank you for the comparison, Lady B!
I was kidding about you lying, I know you have more important things to worry about. But the Fourth Doctor does look like a hobbit! I knew he looked familiar…
Waaaait- You don’t know who Bob Dylan is??
[Sorry for the snip but I’m in a rush, and I already posted comparison pics. ~Rebecca.]
Yeah, I noticed.
I can sort of vouch for Luna here… Although I’m not sure very small is correct.
And how do you not know Bob Dylan? He’s awesome.
So, just finished the next to last serial of the Second Doctor. And after watching 109 reconstructed episodes, I am finally done with them all. All of the remaining 453 episodes are “proper” eps–no recons.
It’s hard to believe I’ve watched 243 episodes–nearly six seasons–of Classic Who….That’s about 93 hours of Classic Who, nearly 4 solid days of Classic Who….
It’s no wonder I never get anything done at college.
And you say you don’t obsess…
(Just kidding.)
Nah, I never said I don’t obsess. I merely said only a small portion of my time is spent obsessing over hot guys. You will note there was absolutely no mention of hot guys in that post.
EVERYONE! THIS IS VERY BIG DOCTOR WHO NEWS!!!
Steven Moffat has just announced that Series six will be split into two parts. The first six episodes will be broadcast in the spring, and the last seven in autumn. There will be two finales, and the sixth episode will be the beginning of a two-part episode.
…I found that out as soon as I got back from Quebec.
The sixth episode just before a break of months and months? Seriously?
Steven Moffat thinks it’s a good idea because that way, nobody will have to wait more than a few months for the next episode. I guess I agree. Unfortunately, we still have to wait a long time now. Sigh…
To be fair, though, how’s that really much different than what US shows do? They have a cliffhanger season finale in late May, then you wait 4 months to see the season premiere in September, which is essentially the second part of the season finale.
My house caught fire last Monday! And I swear I did NOT start it! Honest!
How much damage was done? How DID it start?
…Don’t say PG&E explosion.
Our next door neighbors dropped a cigarette butt over by our electrical box. The wall and siding where charred in a small area, but the electrical box was completely melted. The neighbors who had accidentally started it got up on a balcony above the fire and poured water on it untill the firemen came, which really helped. It was my stepmothers birthday too, so everyone is teasing her about birthaday candles.
Wow, that’s really scary!
I’m glad everything turned out okay, though!
I’m glad the damage wasn’t more extensive. Are the neighbors going to pay for part of the damage?
Oh no! I am glad no bodys hurt though. Scary…. This proves that you shouldn’t smoke.
Or at least that you shouldn’t toss cigarette butts towards the flammable wall of your neighbor’s house.
Yeah, it doesn’t as much prove that smoking is bad as it proves that being stupid/ not thinking is bad. Although at least the neighbors came through with the water.
Yikes! I’m glad the house wasn’t damaged worse. That was not very smart of your neighbor to do.
-139.1.2.2 They are in a bit of trouble from what I saw, but actually insurance is paying most of the money. The neighbors’ house got burned too, and it wasn’t as if they intentionally started the fire.
-139.1.2.3.1.1 It seems more like not thinking and habit than abject stupidity. At least this might make them start using an ashtray.
Please note that they appear to be kind and decent people, they just have a neglect of thought when it comes to smoking (as evidenced by the fact that they smoke).
Oh no!
I hope everything’s okay?
That was my biggest fear when I was younger. That our house would burn down. I had bags and bags of stuff sitting around ready for my to haul it out of the house, should it ever catch on fire. I still tend to plan what I’d grab, were the house to actually catch fire.
After watching Hope and Glory, a spectacularly wonderful film about a boy growing up in England during WWII- there’s a scene at the end in which their house burns down- I spent a day filling up our bathtub with water, spraying the entire house with a garden hose, and continually wetting my cat lest she catch fire. This was when I was seven, though.
I’m listening to “I’ll meet you there” by Owl City. Now I feel sad.
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Ah, changed it to They Might Be Giants. Much better.
Isn’t it about time for a new version of this thread?
Jeez, it seems like September just started… All throughout the day I was complaining about how cold it was, and that it shouldn’t be this cold this early in the season, but now I just realized that temperatures like this are normal. I’m just still in summer mode.
Bye, bye, shorts…
Various friend-related things have started happening this morning. Firstly, I just found at least two people on Facebook that I knew from elementary school before my family moved in 4th grade. Seeing as we’re planning to go back there in November for the first time, it seems like I might want to get in touch with them.
More importantly, one of my very good friends (certainly in the top 5 for RL friends) posted the following on FB last night:
I’m hoping, of course, that my worries are unfounded, but I don’t know what’s going to happen next.
“Almost 10 years of being best friends and now its all over??
…..not sure how i feel about this :/”
That friend (we’ll call her S for now) has been best friends with the girl who I’m pretty sure she’s talking about in the post (we’ll call her K) for yeah, about 10 years. The problem is that K and I have been getting closer in the past year or so, and S and K have admittedly been growing apart a little. This school year, I have 5/6 classes and lunch with K and neither of us has any with S. We haven’t been ignoring S at all, but I guess we don’t see her that often anymore. I still don’t know what happened to spark that Facebook post (it’s still before 10am on a Sunday morning, and I don’t want to disturb her sleep by texting), but I’m worried that I might be a partial cause of whatever went down.
im so sorry for u.my bff(let’s call her m) & i have both been homeschooled since forever but this year she’s going to this school so we’re not able to see each other much… so i know how it feels. weirdness, i mean.
Well, it’s not as bad as I’d thought. First of all, the friend that S was talking about in her post wasn’t K. Shows what I know.
Second, she says she’s all right, so hopefully there won’t be any major friend drama anytime soon. I could live without any of that stuff.
Oh, and I got in touch with the elementary school friends. One remembers me, but the other isn’t sure.
After all, I’d like to think that I am an extremely memorable person. 
I’m sorry about that, skunk.
You guys might be able to hang out after her school ends for the day, though. 
Someone motivate me to do my homework.
SFTDP Nevermind, I did it on my own. ^^
Has anybody else here read the novel The City of the Beasts? I’ve read it in English before, and this summer, we had to read it in the original Spanish. Either way, it’s ridiculously quotable.
I just was up on the roof! And it was awesome! Go roofs that are just begging to be read upon!
I once fell off a roof-someone was supposed to catch me, but they didn’t, so I now have a scar on my arm. Amazingly, all my scars are because of my stupidity.
Oooh, I love reading on roofs, or just sitting on them and watching the stars…
crom- Oh, that sucks. All of my scars are due to my lack of balance and too many violent pets. Yeah, and my stupidity. For example, standing near the edge of a crumbling brick wall that’s holding dirt from falling into a small pond while wearing flip flops. See, I didn’t fall in, but I got a nasty cut from a sharp rock under some leaves. It’s still not fully healed from two weeks ago…
I tried to tabletop someone with cleets, and now I have a 2 inch raised scar.
I wish my house had an easy-to-sit-upon roof. But alas, it’s difficult to access and rather steep. Oh well.
All the more fun.
Okay, everyone, do this right now.
Find Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave) on YouTube. Play it. While it’s playing, do a Google image search of Fingal’s Cave.
Imagine you’re on a ship in the 1700’s, exploring. All of a sudden, you see a rocky island. It looks interesting, so you go to explore. You take a rowboat, and as you go ’round the island, you see it- Fingal’s Cave, in all of its glory. Amazing. Awe-inspiring. Indescribable.
Okay, I’m done. But I love that piece of music, and I love how the music really fits with the beauty of the cave. I get shivers up my spine every time I hear the song, and now I really want to see that cave…
I’m in MD. In my room. On my bed. On my family’s WiFi. With my alarm clock reprimanding me with it’s red LEDs.
Last night we went out and fired our carronades for the 1812 Overture being played ashore and I got to help set up the barges that held the lights that showed the ship so people ashore could see us looking pretty on the water, all anchored with our sails up.
Anyway, I was in the cutter (small boat) in my soaked through foulies (I didn’t even get the bottoms on, so my carhartts were sopping; I couldn’t have gotten much wetter if I’d jumped into the water), shivering and holding a flashlight in one hand and a radio in the other and feeling as though I was about to start crying at the thought of having to leave and go back to my warm dry room and bed and pajamas.
I realized then just how much Niagara is home to me, and how much all my shipmates are family.
Here I am in my room and I’m on the verge of tears again.
It’s good to be home, and I’m certainly looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow, but it’s bittersweet. I had to leave my other home to come to this one, and that’s always hard.
I want to keep sailing for the rest of my life. Maybe not as a full-time job forevermore, but I want to stay around ships and boats.
I can understand. The Niagara must have been a great experience.
Today I was talking with one of my friend when the webcomic Hipster Hitler came up in conversation. She was like, “Oh my god, you’ve read that? I thought I was the only one!” I was like, “Yeah, no one’s heard of it.” My next thought was, “Wow, that’s really ironic.” My next next thought was, “Oh god somebody kill me now before I go infecting people with hipster germs.”
Hey.
Guess what?
Godwin’s Law.
(Might’ve stolen that from xkcd…)
Do you know who else had thumbs? HITLER!
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If we keep this up I’m going to award all of us the “Worse Than Hitler Award For Real Terribleness”.
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Nazi science sneers at the boundary between life and MuseBlog!
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Okay, what? I’m so confused.
Everybody’s referencing web comics that have to do in some way with Nazis.
Urg, I really wanna go up there now, but I don’t think I’m strong enough to get the ladder.
The roof that is. Sorry, something messed up on my computer.
One of the things I love about Doctor Who is how it all ties into New Who in random little ways…. (MILD SPOILERS FOR SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE, DW AND THE SILURIANS, ROSE, ELEVENTH HOUR AND COLD BLOOD/HUNGRY EARTH)
In the Third Doctor’s First serial, we’ve got him raiding a hospital locker room for clothes. Eleventh Doctor, first episode, he’s raiding a hospital locker room for clothes. I can only imagine the saucy comments we would have got from Amy had Eleventh Doctor also hopped into the shower in order to not be noticed by passing (real) doctors…
Also in the Third Doctor’s first serial, we’ve got the shop front dummies (in reality Autons, extensions of the Nestene Consciousness) coming to life and gunning passers-by down. Exact same thing in Rose.
And then, in the Doctor Who and the Silurians, not only does the entire plot mirror Hungry Earth/Cold Blood quite a bit, at the end, we have the new Silurian leader stating that he’s setting the timer on the habitation units of his people to reawaken in 50 years. The serial is set in 1970. Hungry Earth/Cold Blood is set in 2020–50 years in the future.
Grrr. I have had to stop watching at Colony in Space, because I have school, and because my source of watching is blocked by the school internet. I fear your viewing marathon will surpass mine.\
Possible, but not necessarily likely. I do need to do a massive amount of studying this weekend, as I have a test Monday, 2 tests Tuesday, and then another test Wednesday. And a test this Thursday, too, which means I really need to spend my evenings this week studying for it…Gah, it’s as bad as final’s week, except at least then you don’t have classes in addition to tests.
So, first day of Senior year…
Physics- Looks cool, the teacher seems nice, I just hope the math isn’t too hard.
Science Research and Methodology- I am SO excited about this class. I’m not sure what my project will be, but I want to either do an archeological project looking at the artifacts in strata under a city street here in the city, an astronomy project measuring light pollution levels in different towns on Long Island, or another astronomy project using a radio telescope to measure the number of meteors hitting the atmosphere every hour.
Spanish- It’s the same teacher as last year, and we get along pretty well. I need a refresher on some of my verb tenses, but I was able to talk about what I did over the summer much more coherently than some of the other kids.
Gym- We just reviewed the rules for all of the new kids, but I’m sure it’ll be fun.
Literature- The teacher seems like a very nice man, but he flat out admitted we won’t be doing anything but literary analysis, so I’m going to try and see if I can switch to Creative Writing.
Latin- My old teacher is back and we’re using Ecce Romani again! All is well!
Math- I know the teacher because he was the Middle School cross country coach, and it’s a math applications class, so there won’t be a lot of abstract concepts, which is good.
American Government- I had the same teacher for History last year, and we get along well, he’s very funny, and he seems enthusiastic about the topic. I always love Social Studies, so I’m sure I’ll have fun. Maybe I’ll get to do something about space advocacy.
Which Ecce Romani are you in? We only used them for two years, and then once or twice last year. Now it’s pure literature.
In pictura est puella…
Three. I did rather get to like the Cornelii, but they’re only in the first two.
ECCE ROMANI!
in pictura est puella
looove. remember when sextus was TREED BY WOLVES hahaha
oh that book
Davidus ((Was it Davidus? Maybe it was someone else.)) habet baculum.
LOL, HABET BACULUM
Davus.
Oh cool, we use that book too. (I’m pretty sure it’s common though.) I’m in the third book in the series, whichever book that would be… and in my third year of taking Latin.
uhh…that was me. jade and grant and lizzie are unfortunately not here *sniffsob*
Cat’s Eye, do our names confuse you as much as they do me?
Immensely. Ridiculously. Fantastically.
I think it’s fantabulous. There’s nothing like feeling as though I’m reading my own posts on the Recent Comments sidebar and wondering what I’ve said.
Not to mention the now-growing row of “Cat’s” on the side of the sidebar. Things Belonging To Cats unite! *high five*
That would also mean me! *high fives*
/high fives again/ And that also means meee~!
I just realized I’ve been pronoucing your name wrong this whole time. I was calling you “Witchenko” not “Witchneko”
/sadface
Enc, you make me said; I’m pretty sure it’s Witch-neck-oh.
Well, I did that for a while, too. I blame the cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko and Roman Romanenko and all the times I’ve heard their names on NASA TV.
The “-enko” ending on Slavic surnames is Ukrainian.
I’ve always pronounced it right.
I pronounce it right, probably because of my somewhat lame Japanese skills.
*high fives all around*
I keep getting you mixed up… I can never remember which of you said something, when I think about anything one of you said.
Me too.
Here’s a quick guide to telling us apart:
1) I’m the awesome one.
2) She’s the other awesome one.
That about covers it, right?
Sorry if this sounds weird, but I thought you were the same person until a few months ago.
Back at those Fourth Doctor/Bob Dylan pics, I looked at the bottom one and thought (seriously – kid you I do not) “Frodo?”.
I saw it while scrolling down, before knowing the context, and honestly assumed it was something LotR-related… It really does look hobbit-like.
Gets the hobbitses, we will….yes, my precious, yesssss…
I like the names Aislyn, Rayne, Luna, and Belladonna.
Then you may be interested in the Words & Names thread!
I’m taking a writer’s workshop in school this year, so I think I’m allowed to write my NaNo IN CLASS. WIN. I’m still writing last years NaNo so this should help immensely. Heh, I’ve been thinking about doing NaNoWriMo again ever since the summer began.
*sniff sniff* This is the first time I’ve failed a test… I’ve never even gotten below and eighty on a test before. It’s euro. Of two classes, no one got higher than a 62. I scored 59, so I suppose it’s not that bad, compared to most everyone else. One friend got a 28. And guess what the teacher said? “It’s not a big deal”. Yes, two classes failed a test, and it’s no big deal because she’s letting us redo the questions. A paragraph for each question we got wrong (that’s a lot of paragraphs, considering that everyone failed the test) explaining why we were wrong, and why the right answer was right. I hate admitting that I was wrong, and now I have to explain that I was wrong in detail. Oh dear.
*hugs* I know the feeling, luv. Getting a low grade is painful, even if it’s not actually bad given the teacher’s grading or curves, or whatnot (organic chem, where 60% really wasn’t that bad). And as painful as you may find admitting that you were wrong, at least by doing so you’re goign to earn back points. *more hugs*
*hug and kittens*
I know how it feels to get a much worse grade than you expected. It’s like a weight dropping through your body and turning your internal organs into bloody goo…
Thanks guys! Really.
Now all of my friends are dropping the course, and I have no clue what to do. I don’t know what to expect from it at all, so I feel like I can’t make a proper decision… Today was technically the last day to drop any classes, but I can get it changed if I really want to. If I drop it, I have to go into a regular global class, not honors, and I know I’d be bored out of my mind. I have no clue about how colleges work, really, but if I get a halfway decent grade in this class, I think it can increase my chances of getting a scholarship. I have no money to go to college, so it’s a full scholarship or community college for me. I’m banking on the fact that if I work my butt off, I can get a scholarship. And just… shoot. I have no clue what I should do. I have to talk to my guidance counselor.
DON’T DROP THE COURSE.
Okay, so that advice is based on the assumption that you’re a fairly bright student, which it sounds like you are, and that you’re willing to work hard, which it sounds like you are. I had a similar experience last year in my first year of AP Biology. I don’t even know what I got on the first test, but I’m sure it wasn’t pretty. Lots of people switched to regular Biology, and even more just gave up, sat in the classroom, did nothing, and earned an F. Not being one of those people, I learned how to study (a novel concept), came in during lunch several times before tests, and not only survived the class but got an A both semesters. Yes, it was incredibly stressful at times, but I feel very proud of what I was able to do.
So yeah, bringing this back to your situation, I’d stick with it. It sounds like you have really good reasons to do so (college, not being bored, etc.), so why not just go for it? I honestly think that if you work hard, do your work, and come in for extra help when you need it, you can survive/thrive.
Good luck!
Thanks for your advice! The thing is that euro is one of the hardest AP courses. I’m doing bio this year too. The euro teacher is really not a good teacher at all; all assignments so far have been copied from online, and they don’t match up with our textbook. I swear, wikipedia has helped me more than the textbook. She even told us that she made something that she took from the textbook’s website! Bad teaching, other difficult courses, and hard tests all piled up on each other… It’s gonna be tough. I think I just need to talk it through with my guidance counselor. I definitely am going to actually have to study (*gasp*) and work hard this year. I’m just so used to everything coming easily and naturally…
Believe me, I understand. I’m taking both AP Euro and 2nd-year AP Bio this year, and they’re probably the only two classes that I’ve ever had to really study hard for. On the bright side, I’m probably learning a lot…
And I seem to remember none of my Bio summer homework questions last year being in the chapter. There was a lot of Googling and texting “did you find #7, 10, 14, or 16???” that went on, even before school started.
What time period are you studying in Euro right now?
62 is a fail? At my school the pass mark is the standard 50%. Also, what grade are you in? I thought only juniors and seniors did AP classes. Anyway, I think you did well on the test and will probably go on to ace the class (or at least compared to that test) and you should stay in the class, especially if the alternative is being stuck in a boring class and having less chance of getting a scholarship.
At our school, sophomores are allowed to take AP classes as well, and in rare cases freshmen (take myself, for example). But maybe it’s different in other schools – I know some schools don’t allow freshmen to take APs, but…
it’s not euro if it’s not kickin your butt on a regular basis. don’t worry. our teacher always told us that if we were getting at least 51% (given there are 100 questions, so basically half plus one) correct then we were on our way to passing. i did absolutely terrible in euro for the first semester, but things eventually got better and i got used to the class and whatnot, i ended up getting a five (the only five i ever felt i really earned) and to this day it was my favorite class in high school. MY LIFE STORY ASIDE, don’t worry too much, it’s still really early in the school year!
hear hear. thing about AP classes is you’re going to do terribly at first. when your teacher says it’s no big deal, it really is no big deal. usually AP teachers do a pretty good job (at least in my experience) of adjusting the grades so that your GPA isn’t smashed, and you work up to the point of being able to conquer the tests. it’s a college-level class and it’s pretty well standardized, which means they have to get you to a certain level, so they really can’t go easy on you unless you want to fail the AP test and not get college credit (which seems kind of a waste). it’s discouraging at first, but you’ll get to the point where you’ll get a similar test and ace it and think “man i am really smart and awesome and i’m glad i didn’t drop this class”
the other thing about AP (history especially) is that it teaches you to think at a whole different level from normal HS classes (and to be honest, at a level far above a lot of college classes too – at least the ones i’ve had as a freshman). eventually you will be able to recognize patterns and trends and biases like a pro (oh man bias…DBQs and FRQs say what)
euro was one of my absolute favorite classes in high school. it was really discouraging at first, and i did have one friend who dropped the class. but i’m really glad i didn’t. and i didn’t have to do any history GECs, which meant i could skip on ahead and take a history major class my freshman year even though i still haven’t really declared a double-major yet :-/ so that’s fun
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Ebeth- does your avatar have any correlation with the season of Classic Who you’re watching at the moment?
it miiiight
(it does)
i’m quite proud of myself, i’m actually blowing through the reconstructions. i thought it’d be harder to motivate myself to watch them, but they’ve gotten a lot easier since i found a website with all the scripts. so now i usually follow along with the audio, and it makes it a lot easier to understand the action.
Okay: I am going to post something long relating to this later. It will be about my experience with AP US History. I can’t right now as I really need to go to bed.
But–stick with it. I did TERRIBLE on my tests in APUSH. I failed–literally–nearly every single one. But I did well on essays, and the teacher pushed us VERY hard but was understanding. That’s all I have tiem to say right now, but–stick with it. It’s worth it. Trust me.
I am so happy! I just got back from the first meeting of Rising Voices, a non-school affiliated high school journalism club. It’s run by the local paper, and we get two pages in one edition each month. I don’t have an assignment or anything yet, but this seems like a really cool group of people. It was a pretty small group today, I’d say 10-12, which means we’ll all get a better shot at publication! One other girl goes to my school, but I don’t really like her that much. I know a few other, homeschooled, girls from a service project a while back, and then some people I don’t know, whom I get a good vibe from. Very excited, I’m having a great year!
Cool! I hope you get published, it’s a wonderful feeling.
Exciting!
Could I have permission to use a picture of John C. Calhoun as my Gravatar?
I’m guessing he’s not likely to be mistaken for a MuseBlogger.
Thankee.
So that’s who it is! I knew I’d seen the face before, but I couldn’t quite place it.
GAPAs, would it be all right if I sent in a picture of myself and my brother?
Hey everyone. Just so you know, I’m on a computer ban right now.
I’m posting from school right now, but I probably won’t post much more later this week. BYE!