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December Random Thread, Part 2
First Post!
Aww.. You didn’t get my art I sent you? Oh well, there’s always next year.
Second post! Now I don’t know what to say….. Well, Winter break!!! w00t!!!!!
OHMIGOD they repealed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell WHEEEE!
Wow, I sound hyper. But still! They’ve been kind of alternating for a MONTH and now it’s GONE!
*gasp*
I searched the entire island for molasses (for gingerbread cookies) and eventually found it at a convenience store not twenty metres from our house.
Today at UU, we had a carol-singing marathon and my team won! We got through 27 carols (fueled by hot chocolate) before giving out! I don’t think I’ll be able to talk for a month! Yeehaa!
Now we just need DREAM and START to pass and we can start yelling “Lame Duck my foot!”
Two out of three is not bad.
Fourth post?
Just got back from an awesome day in new York City! I got a Mew plushie and my brother and I pooled our money together to get…Kirby Epic Yarn!!
IT’S ALMOST CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ooh, lucky! You went to New York City? And got a Mew plushie? I do have a Charizard plushie, but a Mew plushie sounds better.
Yeah, it’s so cute and anime-like…big head, little body, big blue eyes. *cuddles* I also have an Eevee plushie from an earlier trip. I wanted a bigger Lugia plush, but a random lady took the last one…
I’ve been twice for two weeks each.
My brother had a Mew plushie when he was younger.
… knitting? *is confused*
I just read that there is going to be a total lunar eclipse Monday night. I got all psyched up and was planning to stay up to see it, then looked at the map and realized it wouldn’t be visible form Jordan.
*sigh* Maybe next time.
I was planning to stay up and watch that, but it’s going to be cloudy. I missed the Geminids, too. And it’d be at 2am, and I’m way too *yawn* tired already, even though I sleep.
What… 2 AM? Why didn’t I look it up… yeah, that’s a no for me, too, considering there’s school the next day.
HOORAY FOR EARLY WINTER BREAK! I’m gonn get to watch it-
* sees MBers staring.*
I mean, I would be glad to record it for you guys!
* plays Portal*
That’s what my teacher said, anyway.
In my newspaper, it said it would start at about midnight. I guess it would be complete around 2AM or something then, the paper said it would take three and a half hours…….
Sorry. It’s the first visible from North America in two years, but I hope you won’t have to wait that long for your next chance.
FantasyFan:
According to NASA’s eclipse site (eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov), you’ve got a nice total lunar eclipse coming your way on June 15, 2011.
Ok, that’s good to know. I’ll keep an eye out for it if I’m not back in America by then.
I didn’t know that! That’s cool!
Too bad that you can’t see it though.
Well, we finally got our tree decorated! Halfway through it started falling over, though, so then we had to hold it up for 15 minutes while my dad secured it. It’s not the first time our tree has fallen over. Nothing was broken though so…that’s good, right?! My dad is currently on a cleaning binge so I’m hiding downstairs at the computer.
Changed my avvie~ ‘Tis the season!
I really hate that cliché.
I like it. My dog and cat just had a 30 minute fight. Guess who won?
The cat…. Interesting outcome………
Potentially divisive ideas detected in above post. Initiate bunnifying response.
DOGS STILL
My Time Stayed Up Until At A Sleepover record has just been extended to 6:45 am.
I’ve re-read Harry Potter (full series, and since the original premiere date) before I see HP7 tomorrow. (for only the second time, even though it’s late…but as long as the theaters are still showing it, which they are, why not let them suck a little more money out of me?) We’re seeing it again because a) why not? and b) One of my friends hasn’t seen it yet, so we’re planning on converting her to Harry Potterism and c) um…where was this list leading?
Is anybody else a freak when it comes to organizing things – as in, event-type things? I mean, there’s only five of us going to get lunch and then see the movie and I’ve already called everyone (multiple times) to make sure everyone is on the same page about tomorrow and whatnot. I must be so annoying. Someone please tell me I’m not the only one who does this?
I actually don’t like doing that…sorry
Although I have to, to some extent.
I do that. I’m pretty much the only person within my (small) circle of friends who has to make sure everybody meets at the right spot at the right minute, and that all the costumes are coordinated. I like to think of myself as social glue. My friends like to think of me as panicky.
i am also that way, believe me.
I do this too, don’t worry…
I”M FINALLY PLAYING PORTAL! PORTAL ROCKS!
My mom says she might be able to wake me up at three for the eclipse, but I’ll leave working that out to her.
I went to the mall today. For the second day in a row. Shoot me now. but it was fun, since yesterday was the Hallelujah chorus and hanging out with friends, and today was wrapping presents at the Red Cross booth with one of my friends. So it was alright.
My family is watching a semi-spy movie:
Mom: Are they spies?
Brother: They are pies?
Me: Are they pies in disguise?
Dad: *cough cough cough*
It sort of rhymed when I said it.
Ow ow ow ow ow ARRGH I was knitting and accidentally flipped the knitting needle the wrong way and it freaking TORE OFF MY FINGERNAIL!!!!
It hurts like crazy. I didn’t realize it was possible to injure yourself by knitting.
Oh dear! I hope it heals soon. That sounds rather painful.
Gah, finals tomorrow and Tuesday. And a calc project due any time before break and an English paper due Wednesday. At least history’s done. And at least my French teacher followed the no assignments due after last Friday rule.
I was going to stress out about finals, but I watched It’s a Wonderful Life instead.
Just five days till Christmas!
Ooh, I love that movie. My family watches it every Christmas…sort of a corny tradition, but it’s such an awesome movie I don’t care.
Us too…
Gaah! Now whenever I see someone in a movie or in real life that has a haircut even remotely similar to David Tennant, I think “Doctor Who!!” I didn’t even know Doctor Who existed until Museblog.
Just spent an entire Christmas party burning things. My thumbs are pretty raw now from all the lighter-flicking. Did you know Hershey’s white chocolate doesn’t melt? It just burns! And when you burn a candy cane, it sizzles as it melts, which is pretty cool to watch. And if you burn one of those twisty ribbon things they put on top of presents in the right way, you can get it to look just like the Sydney Opera House!
Oh, my god, I’m a pyro.
Did you know that if you cut out a piece of a cotton shirt and sew it together into a ball, you can dunk it in gasoline (I think, not sure what kind of oil) and throw it around without being burned? It’s really fun once the ‘OH MY GOD IT’S BURNING’ feeling goes away!
That… that doesn’t sound too safe. That’s coming from a pyro.
I also like to pinch candles out with my fingers! And, once I started a fire in my backyard with a magnifying glass! I had it fenced in with bricks and everything, but the neighbors still called, saying there was smoke coming from my backyard. *evil laugh* I also have a toolbox full of explosives under my bed (just the 4th of July ones, nothing TO bad). And three Nerf guns, and a cap bomb, and a cap gun……. It’s like Hiruma! (from Eyeshield 21)
Don’t be afraid. Give into the pyromania. Go towards the light.
You, too? It seems this is a rather common habit on MB…
Yup. I know at least one GAPA who’s conducted similar experiments.
Throwing bits of the paper cover from your straw into the little candle on the table at a restaurant got me called a pyro by my dad.
I have this little plastic container filled with a layer of wax that I’m constantly breaking apart and exposing to the tea-water tap on my sink. It’s pretty.
And to think, my closest dalliance with pyromania is lighting the gas stove every time I want to cook somehting. And occasionally, accidentally burning food on it.
(I have to use a lighter to light it, as there’s no pilot. Scared the cake out of me at first, before I got used to the fwoosh and the flames going up like that. Guess I’m not a very good pyro.)
At my cousin’s house we melted a candle and we stick our hand in. My wimpy 14 year old cousin says it burns.
try touching steel wool to a 9V battery, if you haven’t already.
19- It’s also fun to burn gingerbread cookies. They really flame up. Although I consider it a waste of dessert.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear oh no. My finger (minus a fingernail) has started to swell up and bleed. This is not good. This is really not good. The one thing the Kaiser Permanente Handbook (which is the Bible of our house) doesn’t have instructions on is ripped-off fingernails.
I just finished fifteen batches of gingerbread cookies! Actually, it’s not that impressive a quantity, since we only have a toaster oven and can therefore bake no more than ten cookies at a time. It still took me four hours, though. And now we have
150*munches* 149 gingerbread hippopotamuses!Tell an adult and get medical help. That’s an order.
NOW. I hope your fingernail heals soon; that sounds incredibly painful! *choklit*
Well, one final done. Of course, that was the final that is curved and where I need a C on the final to get a solid A in the class. So I still have miles to go before I sleep.
I can’t get my all-district solo or scales to sound the way I want them to and my embouchure gets tired before I’ve practiced enough. It’s extremely frustrating. I only started oboe about a year and a quarter ago and while I know I’ve gotten exponentially better since then, it would be nice not to place in the bottom five, something that has a tendency to completely crush one’s self-esteem. The thing that really bothers me is that while I’d like to practice the scales over and over for two hours, my embouchure will literally not let me. *grumble*
Do you have the time / freedom to practice for shorter amounts of time more times per day? Would that give your mouth enough time to rest?
Right now I do, and that’s a good idea.
Ahhh…. Trojan Tiger is happy! My best school friend last year went to a boarding school this year, and now she is back for break! But she lives really far away anyway, so we can only email…..
Update! Trojan Tiger is sad! I just bought the first episode of Doctor WHo season four because before it wasn’t on instant play. I went back to watch the rest of the series, and it was an instant play! *is annoyed with Netflix* And I was listening to music, and then started to watch Doctor Who, then realized I couldn’t because one can only wear one set of headphones at a time. (my brother could prove that wrong, and that belongs in the FAIL thread)
My The Dream is Alive and Challenger DVDs came from Amazon today! It’s Christmas four days early!
*Jumps into the 80s and doesn’t come up for air until the first sight of some really stupid outfit*
Apparently, it’s going to be cloudy here for the eclipse… *is sad*
Here as well… The forecast says ‘foggy’.
it’s raining here and will not let up for days at least. sighhhh :/
The forecast where I am says that it’s going to be two in the morning and it’s not like I haven’t seen eclipses before.
Even if the eclipse is at 2AM, I’m going to stay up, even if I can’t see it because of clouds. Staying up really late is enjoyable. *evil laugh* It’s when I refine my plan to take over the world!!!! *cackles*
SNOW! Finally.
I should be horribly stressed, but I’m not for some reason. I have a bio test on Thursday, a concert tomorrow (I still can’t play my music, haha. Actually, that’s not funny at all.), an English essay due Wednesday, packing for Disney (I’m going with my friend, and we’re meeting another friend there), three bio chapters to read over break (this week, since I’m not doing it in Florida), and a Euro project on Maria Theresa to do.
Writing it out just made me flip out. What a rather pointless post…
You can do it! I believe in you!
God rest ye merry hippogriffs, let nothing you dismay
Remember Harry Potter was born midsummer’s day
To save us all from Voldemort who’d sworn the boy he’d slay
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy! -Mugglenet.com
Yesterday I made 15 batches of cookies. Today I shall ice them. Wish me luck.
Good luck! My cookies always fall apart at that stage.
I am not very skilled.
Wonderful.
And now I will follow your obsession-carol with one of my own:
“Rushing through the belts,
Free-return trajector-eee
Heading to pericynthian,
Altitude one-thirteee
Gonna see the farside,
Photograph Tsi-kolv-skeeee
And stare in awe at far-off Earth,
What a ride, whoopeee!
Oh, Saturn bells, F-1 bells…”
On the first day of Christmas the Doctor gave to me
A TARDIS from Gallifrey! (Just go with it.)
On the second day of Christmas the Doctor gave to me
Two angry Daleks and a TARDIS from Gallifrey!
On the third day of Christmas the Doctor gave to me
Three scary Cybermen, two angry Daleks and a TARDIS from Gallifrey!
On the fourth day of Christmas the Doctor gave to me
Four Weeping Angels, three scary Cybermen… and a TARDIS from Gallifrey!
On the fifth day of Christmas the Doctor gave to me
Fiiiive biodamper riiiiiings! Four Weeping Angels… and a TARDIS from Gallifrey!
On the sixth day of Christmas the Doctor gave to me
Six sonic screwdrivers, fiiiive biodamper riiiiiings… and a TARDIS from Gallifrey!
On the seventh day of Christmas the Doctor gave to me
Seven New New New New New New New Yorks, six sonic screwdrivers… and a TARDIS from Gallifrey!
On the eighth day of Christmas the Doctor gave to me
Eight Torchwood agents, seven New New New New New New New Yorks… and a TARDIS from Gallifrey!
On the ninth day of Christmas the Doctor gave to me
Nine robot Santas, eight Torchwood agents… and a TARDIS from Gallifrey!
On the tenth day of Christmas the Doctor gave to me
Ten “Allons-y!”s, nine robot Santas… and a TARDIS from Gallifrey!
On the eleventh day of Christmas the Doctor gave to me
Eleven regenerations, ten “Allons-y!”s… and a TARDIS from Gallifrey!
On the twelfth day of Christmas, the Doctor gave to me
Twelve Masters drumming, eleven regenerations… and a TARDIS from Gallifrey!
We’re all such wonderful nerds on here.
*deep breath* We’re all Musers h-
I love that.
Yes! I saw that as I was making my avatar! *points at avatar*
God rest ye merrye hippogriffs
Lord Voldemort our enemy was killed by Harry, yea
He saved us from the Dark Lord’s power and those who’d gone astray
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
Oh tidings of comfort and joy.
My weird family at dinner:
Me: My football is flat, where is the air pump thing?
Dad: You can still throw it if its flat.
Brother: Think about it, will a pig on a catapult go faster than a pig on a catapult that has gas?
Me: …
Dad: *goes and gets more food*
ummm…. So that’s it….
So I stay up late without my parent’s permission and sneak out of the house through my window so I can get a proper view of the lunar eclipse. And what do I see? Clouds. Freaking clouds, because it’s been doing very little but raining since last Sunday. Clouds, and no lunar eclipse.
I’ll stay up another hour and try to see it then. But I mean, come on, Bay Area weather. Really?
Nothing but clouds here, too. There’s a web cam at wpbt2.org/stargazer/. Not the same thing as seeing it in your home corner of the sky, but still live.
Maybe I’ll use that, to get a look at it. Maybe it’s not such a loss being in Jordan after all, as Michigan is almost certainly cloudy this time of year, and the June eclipse Robert mentioned takes place during the summer, when it never rains.
I saw it!!! Like, in California, Bay Area, Cat’s Eye. Awesome!!! Thats the first one I remember!!! And I’m here on Museblog!! Well, goodbye!! I’m waiting for the Doctor to come by in his TARDIS.
Saw it! Cloudy, but saw it! My dad came by to wake me up for it. I have the best dad ever.
Gaspgaspgasp. Star Trek Christmas carols. Gaspgaspgasp.
I boiled about two pounds of almonds, painstakingly removed their skins, ground them up, mixed them with sugar, and rolled the resulting marzipan into 141 perfect spheres. The rolling took about three hours. Not exaggerating. Then my mother informed me that I hadn’t added the almond extract or vanilla. So I had to put all the marzipan balls back into a bowl and squash them up again. Thank goodness I hadn’t dipped them in chocolate yet, or they’d be unsalvageable.
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la.
I love marzipan…
/randomness
SFTDP.
Christmas at my house:
Mom: I don’t see why we should celebrate Christmas. We’re not Christians.
Me: It’s a family tradition! Even Nayanama and Tatagaru (very devout Hindus) celebrate Christmas!
Mom: We left all our Christmas stuff in California.
Me: Well, we can at least get a tree. They’re on sale at Ikea!
Dad: I hate how this holiday has become so commercialized.
Mom: That’s right! I think we should de-emphasize presents.
Me: That’s what you said on my birthday! Why shouldn’t we give presents?!
Mom: The tree is blocking the television.
Dad: You’re getting needles on the carpet.
I don’t get it. We always celebrate Christmas. They’ve given up on Thanksgiving, New Years, and the Fourth of July, too- I personally had to bake a turkey and make mashed potatoes and keep my parents up until midnight. And last summer I went to the fireworks by myself!
I’m sorry.
Actually, as long as we can sacrifice a tofu goat instead of a real one, I’m all right.
But strange holiday traditions make them all the more fun!
Aww. that stinks. Iggy will gladly join you.
( Iggy: Okay. Sure. Not too bad.)
Hello, Museblog. It has just occurred to me that it has been nearly one year since I wrote that fateful, overemotional, farewell letter to Museblog after years of not posting. The farewell was less permanent than I had thought it would be, and I have now been posting more or less frequently on Museblog for the past year.
It pleases me to say that whatever inhibitions I felt about initially rejoining the community were completely smashed to pieces. I figured out the gravatar thing, I know all your names now, and I get the in-jokes about as well as I ever did.
Thank you all, and here’s to one year of re-presence on Museblog! (if that makes any sense.)
Happy re-blogoversary! -chinks glass-
Let me be one of many who can honestly say that we’re glad you came back!
I just figured out by reading a little further down that thread that my Muserology article was not only appreciated by many but the reason why Maths Lover came to MuseBlog. Wow, that makes me feel warm and fuzzy.
Some things will never change.
…and, slightly further down, I see that people were already confusing me with Cat’s Eye.
Nor would we want them to. High five!
Oh! SFTDP but that post by Silver Lining mixing me up with you said that I had written a Muserology. Now, at that time my Muserology had not been published, but it was about ten days later that I announced to MuseBlog that I had written one for the January issue!
Silver Lining can see the future! WHAT
Wait, I didn’t know that you had written a Muserology. Excuse me for a moment while I go dig through my archives and find it!
My mom woke me up at 2:44 to see the eclipse. I got my foot caught in my blanket and tripped climbing out of bed, but we went outside and I got to see it! It was rather cloudy, but we could still see the moon and the copper shadow across it.
I woke up several times last night to watch the eclipse. The first time it was nice and clear, and it was just starting to disappear, it looked like a crescent moon that kept shrinking. Then I flitted in and out of sleep and eventually was woken up by mom to see it when it was all red with just a bit of light at the edge. I watched it for awhile and fell asleep again.
‘Twas quite nice, though it kept clouding over, which was frustrating.
I just scrubbed and cut up two bags of potatoes and now I’m procrastinating doing worthwhile things like homework.
My friend and I skipped chorus and spent the time showing our teacher the Vi Hart videos, and proving that the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42.
First, the Puddle Theorem. Figured out by Isabella.
If you take 2 puddles and add them together, you get 1 puddle. This works for an infinite number of puddles. Eventually, the puddle will evaporate, leaving you with 0. The answer to the Universe is 0 because of this.
So if the Universe = 0, Life and Everything must add up to 42.
Everything is equal to 6 because pie has 3 letters and 2 vowels, and 3 x 2 = 6. This can be backed up by the fact that Everything has 10 letters, and if you draw a squiggly line under it you will probably notice that there are four curves in the line, which means that your snake-squiggle has eaten 4 letters; take away 4 from 10 and you have 6.
42-6=36, and this number can be verified as the answer to Life by the fact that 36 squared is 6. Because Life is included in Everything, this makes sense. Another way to get 36 is by using the word BORED. BORED has 5 letters, and an o. Vowels equal 6, and 5 x 6 = 30. e is also a vowel, so if you add 6 to 30 you get 36.
0 + 6 + 36 = 42
Seeee? Now you can prove that the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42!
didn;t go to be until about 8
which is weird
:/
Re: eclipse. I saw it with my sister, we have the benefit of being three hours earlier than blog-time here in AK, so we went out about 9:30 and watched it until it was completely eclipsed at about 10:45ish, not a bad hour of night at all. ’twas fun.
Hello everybody! Your favorite oxymoron is back! Back and more powerful than ever! (insert evil laugh here)
Hello, RD. I don’t think we’ve seen you since the World Cup.
Yes. Sadly, my fervent support did not help South Korea in the knockout round. But I’ve moved on to the Champion’s League. Go Man-U!!
Your fellow oxymoron welcomes you back!
Yesterday: Ran around overexcited for the eclipse for about 2 hours (this included a half-mile barefoot run in a short sleeve t-shirt, and then climbing through a window to get back into my dorm because I left my key inside), eclipse finally started and I could see it all right (there were clouds, but they were relatively thin. I could see the moon slowly vanish, and saw it when it was nearly all red, but sadly they got too thick while it was fully covered.
Just as it was getting to total eclipse (about 2:48) I had to go back inside and grab all my things because my ride to the train was picking me up at 3am. So I said goodbye to everyone, left for the station, hung around for an hour for my train, and then had a 6 hour ride and then an hour ride on a different train and then was picked up and driven home. Then I fell asleep from like 2pm to 5pm.
Now I’m going to eat for the first time since a cinnamon roll at midnight (and before that, dinner).
No eclipses here… It rained too much anyway.
I feel like I have to ration my shampoo. Is that not weird? I brought two bottles of Trader Joe’s Citrus Shampoo and one of their conditioner back to Singapore, but I’m scared of running out, so I use the generic Ginvera shampoo that’s been sitting in my bathroom for ages. Meaning I never really use the Trader Joe’s stuff. So why did I bring it back?!
Nostalgia. Nature’s way of interrupting your merry Christmas.
I’m having difficulty finding Doctor Who season 5. Is it worth watching though? Were can I find it…… Not youtube…… *searches internet* *fails* *is angry*
Yes because otherwise you won’t see Matt Smith!
Dailymotion has it.
Google “i watch doctor who”. The I Watch Network has everything except the Christmas specials.
Definitely worth it.
Very worth it.
It’s worth it. Amy Pond is awesome. The 11th Doctor is a lot different from the 10th, but the storyline is really good for what I’ve seen of the season.
The money system makes absolutely no sense. In the first book, Hagrid instructs Harry to pay an owl that delivers a newspaper one Knut. One Knut is therefore the price of a newspaper, so let us assume that it’s at least fifty cents. There are 29 Knuts to a Sickle, and 17 Sickles to a Galleon. 0.50*29=14.5, so a sickle is worth $14.50. 14.5*17=246.5, so a Galleon is $246.50. Harry states that a new copy of Advanced Potion-making cost him 9 Galleons. 246.4*9=2218.5, or $2, 218.50. So a textbook is over two thousand dollars.
Even if the Knut is merely the delivery price, the money system is askew- let’s say delivery is $0.10. $0.10*2218.5 is $221.85.
Rampant inflation, perhaps?
SFTDP: I probaby should have noted, just in case, that I’m talking about the Harry Potter books here, and the money system in the magical world.
Based on the Harry Potter Lexicon converter, a Knut is $0.02, a Sickle is $0.59, and a Galleon is $10.07. That would put a nine-Galleon textbook at $90.63, which is a perfectly reasonable price for a textbook. I looked up my precal textbook, and online it’s about $80 new. It’s also possible that in the wizarding world, things are valued slightly differently… but that doesn’t make terribly much sense.
Yes, I remember a galleon being about 10 dollars. There’s an exchange rate from Magical money to British Pounds to American Dollars to take into account also, which is always changing.
I think an easier explanation is that Rowling made up numbers that sounded nice and didn’t bother to do math or think about it.
Assuming delivery price: 1 Knut = $0.10.
$0.10 x 29 x 17 = $49.30 to a Galleon.
9 Galleons = $443.70 for the book. Pricey, yes, but not unheard of for a textbook.
Wasn’t Hagrid just tipping the owl?
While looking at one of the old Writing Threads, I noted that the word “s c r a p e s” is turned into “s[cake]es” by the auto-snip program. GAPAs, is there any way to correct this?
Worst. Concert. Ever.
It could’ve been so enjoyable, too. I knew my music, it just needed some finishing touches that I was unable to put on because of my insane amount of homework.
That same homework was the reason why I was late, and unable to warm up. See, this wouldn’t have been a problem if I hadn’t been sick and spent most of the run through in the bathroom because I felt like I was going to throw up. I thought I was fine after all of the other bands went, and it was out turn because I had not heard any of the concert due to the fact that I felt like my intestines were being pulled out. Nope. Three seconds before we go on, I had to run to the bathroom again. I ran on stage in the middle of tuning (guess who didn’t tune their flute?) and realized that I was missing my stand, so somebody pointed out one that was to the side, so I go up and grabbed it, only to find out that it didn’t raise, and was about three feet tall.
So I did the sensible thing to do, and asked the flautist next to me (who I don’t particularly like {long story}, but she has no reason to not like me) if I could put my music on her stand. Her answer? “No.”
“Can I look on with you?”
“…”
“Okay, can you turn it towards me a bit, I can’t really see.”
She moves it hardly an inch, so I tilted it a bit towards me.
She tilts it back.
At this point, I’m just like, screw it. So, I played the whole entire concert on a three foot stand, which made me unable to see the conductor.
Of course, all of my favorite people who had graduated were there and playing, but I was in such a bad mood at the end of the concert I left immediately. I love goofing off with band kids! Why on earth would I just leave? This is my favorite group of people on the face of the earth. Honestly. I love them to death, and I never get to see them anymore. I’m in a war with one of the alumni on a certain social networking site, and he told me last night to look for the guy with the dark sunglasses and black trench coat at the concert, and to ask him for a message. Yes. He showed up in black sunglasses and a black trench coat, and told me that the dove is in the triangle. I freaking love my band, I freaking hate myself.
SFTDP
Major typo thing:
“I thought I was fine after all of the other bands went, and it was out turn because I had not heard any of the concert due to the fact that I felt like my intestines were being pulled out.”
should be
“I thought I was fine after all of the other bands went, and it was our turn because I had not heard any of the concert due to the fact that I felt like my intestines were being pulled out.”
I’m sorry. Have some marzipan. *marzipan*
Thank you, guys. I was in a horrible mood last night… I feel bad for subjecting everyone to it.
Hey, that’s what we’re here for.
I just had a power outage. It wasn’t gone for long, but it just suddenly switched out without flickering first. I started lighting candles all around my house and gathered them in the kitchen. Then, I burned almonds and discovered that if burnt half-way they can be used as a kind f charcoal drawing utensils. When the lights came back on, I got to pinch out all the candles. *is happy* My family was complaining about the burning smell though.
SFTDP
I meant of not f. And I just saw the wikileaks video…
When I was little, I used to look forward to power outages so I could hide from my parents until the lights went on. When I was about 7, I learned how to blow a fuse using the toaster, which kind of took the fun out of it. But isn’t it nice to have a bunch of candles burning in the dark?
If I wasn’t so creeped out by sudden and complete darkness, I would ask you how do you blow a fuse with a toaster. Aw, heck, I’ll ask it anyways: how do you blow a fuse with a toaster?
I think I’d like to know too. Might come in handy some day.
No, I’m not planning anything, what makes you say that?
Same here. I don’t want to do anything that destructive anytime in the foreseeable future, but, like tailing people and wiggling out of knots, I want to know how in case it’s ever relevant in an adventurous situation.
You need a knife with a metal blade and a rubbery plastic handle. Turn the toaster on and put in an English muffin (optional, but recommended). The coils should turn red-hot. When the muffin is almost done, stick the knife through the grille that separates heating element from muffin and touch it lightly to the coil. A spark will jump from the coil, and your house should be plunged into total darkness. Now spread cream cheese on your English muffin and go out to reset the fuse.
I’m not sure it works in houses with surge protectors. Try it! (for the record, I did not officially recommend this)
Wow. I haven’t been here since months and months ago.
It’s sort of strange, the way that the give 100 times more homework in seventh grade than in sixth grade. I guess I have the worst schedule for doing homework in the universe. And then my brother found out that Minecraft existed, which eliminated the possibility of me ever getting on the computer.
But anyway, I’m finally able to use my free block at school to get on! Sorry I’ve been not here for so long. *feels sheepish* *very, very, sheepish*
I feel your pain…I had, like, 2 tons of Algebra homework last night.
I’m probably going to die in high school, mostly because my teachers never give us any homework. They gave us more last year [sixth grade] than they do now…
It’s funny though, because I don’t actually feel like I’ve learned anything worthwhile in any class except for science. It’s just review, review, review. Blah.
It’ll be like that until at least your freshman year of high school. Even that year was rather reviewy and easy compared to this year.
Yes, 7th grade is the worst year ever. 5th grade was the best, just one homework packet due every Friday. It all gets better in 8th grade though! Not that much better, but the best grade in middle school. *sigh* According to my bother, high school is even better…. Not sure if I trust him though.
Seventh grade is no fun. No fun at all.
wait until high school (namely, junior and senior year) before declaring something the worst school year ever.
yeah, it is better than middle school in some ways (socially, doing more interesting stuff, more freedom), but in others it’s miserable (workload, college applications).
Junior year is making me want to curl up in a corner and cry until June.
disagree…yes it was really stressful, but my god i had so much fun junior and senior year. especially senior year, that was fantastic.
seventh grade was by FAR my worst year. seventh grade is pretty terrible
college is the best years though
I wonder why seventh grade is so universally terrible. I’m glad to hear that it gets even better after high school, though! What makes college so fantastic?
late response is late
college is away from parents, full of opportunities, focused on what -you- want to do, not as structured, and full of awesome people. honestly, i thought high school was fantastic until i went to college, and now i look back and think “yeah that was fun…but i’m glad to be out of there”
i go back to visit my high school fairly often because i had some great teachers, and everything just seems so…small. and structured. bells ring, herds of students shuffle around, sit around being bored in required classes that they’ll never bother to retain anything from
(not that i ever shuffled or herded. i was always the kid out wandering the halls but somehow never getting in trouble. maybe if i’d actually gone to class more i would have had a decent GPA :P)
the other thing is just partly my experience…my town is very, very small. there are a limited amount (and limited types) of people, and not a ton to do. now i’m on an urban campus, one of the biggest schools in the US, and i have a free bus pass with my school ID. so i go from that to having all of campus, the short north, downtown, really anywhere in columbus i want to go.
and in college, i took a grand total of one math class. one. that’s all i needed for my major. i’m at the point now where i’m taking almost all history and english classes (and architecture next quarter just for fun).
and next year i’m going to be living off-campus in an actual house with four of my best friends. how awesome is that? pretty awesome, i’d say
As far as middle school goes…7th grade = universally terrible. I guess some people might enjoy 7th grade, but for me and for a lot of other people (on here and irl) it seems like it’s always a tough year. For me it was purely social, I did fine academically although if there hadn’t been so much social blegh I probably would have done better academically….
So far 8th grade has been 10x better. The workload is only slightly worse than 7th grade.
Based on what everyone’s saying…bracing myself for high school workload next year. :/ Although some people irl have told me that freshman year is a breeze, just wait until junior and senior year for the bad workload to start coming in. (that also seems like a common thing for most MB high schoolers too)
Middle school is horrible. I’m pretty sure that it scarred me for life. High school is infinity to the infinity power times better. Better people, better classes, better everything.
And several hundred times the workload. All you middle schoolers: a few years from now, you’ll be willing to give any two of your limbs to have the workload you have right now.
But it’s still better than middle school. Most days I came home and sat in my room and cried over the smallest things. I’m assuming that it was hormones. I was completely miserable.
I think we can agree that while high school is infinitely better socially, it is also far worse workwise.
Seventh grade for me managed to be the best year and the worst at the same time, but that was more for social reasons than anything academic. Middle school (and maybe high school too?) is the kind of thing that you look back on and think, “how the heck did I survive that???”
Freshman year was a pain, but now that I have high school figured out, sophomore year is going pretty well. I only panic/get extremely stressed out every once in a while. I’ve heard from a lot of people that junior year is a beast. Still, I’m taking a couple of classes this year that are typical for juniors at my school (AP Bio, Pre-Calc), so I have no idea how much worse it can really get. College applications are already stressful. It’s too bad that I haven’t even started the process yet.
I do like high school, though, for the reasons that others have said.
College applications were rough, and Senior Year has a lot of homework, but in seventh grade, I was bullied and had various other unfortunate things happen to me, which is why I’ll always hate it.
If I hadn’t gotten into polar exploration, I’d probably have gone crazy.
YES. Dear God, we really are twins. You’re lucky that they offer classes that advanced at your school, though! Sophomores aren’t allowed to take AP Bio at mine, only seniors. And while some juniors take Pre-Calc, it’s mostly seniors. Heck, we don’t even have an Honors English option. (We might next year! But my mom would be teaching it. So it wouldn’t really be an option for me, despite the fact that I really, really need that class.)
We really are. It’s a little unnerving sometimes. Your mom would be teaching Honors English? Well, that would be an interesting experience. Do you go to a small school?
Last term we had a sub for English (another English teacher) and she spent about 20 minutes giving us a lecture about how hard the last two years of school are going to be. But things are probably going to be better socially for various reasons, and I can drop certain annoying subjects.
As for high school being better than middle school, most people actually have matured over the past year. Although I was pretty shocked when I was looking at the list of groups for one of our end-of-year activities and realised that at least a quarter of the people in each I really disliked and a lot of the others were really annoying. But apart from the work it is better than eight grade.
Nice to see you around again.
Ooh, I love Minecraft! I’m playing it right now, actually… And welcome back!
I was addicted to it for weeks.
I have a new physical fitness goal: to not get completely winded by carrying 12 liters of water up a hill.
Maybe it’d help if I’d had less groceries…but I’m sick and tired of eating sandwiches or ramen for dinner every night. I want to eat real food! And to do that I have to cook…which means I have to buy groceries, which means I have to carry them back to my dorm room as all the stores are within walking distance and it doesn’t make sense to take a taxi for just a block.
I was making cookies and then my mom and I forgot about them. Only half were burned though. *happiness* Then my mom had me research frittata recipes. It sort of went like this, from: frittata recipes, simple frittata recipes, simple potato frittata recipes, simple potato frittata recipes in oven, make beforehand simple potato frittata recipes in oven, then I give up!
AH. I passed out yesterday night (and then I was in hysterics for a while…not fun), and now I feel dizzy again.
It’ll pass, it’ll pass…
Does anyone ever get a sort of feeling like they are floating away from their bodies? Or is that just me? As in, sort of like you’re seeing things, but it’s way too bright, and when you look in the mirror you don’t recognize yourself at all, and you don’t even feel like you have any connection to your body except for the memories? I remember when I was younger everything went slowly and I was completely myself, but now I feel like everything’s going too fast and I don’t know how to slow down. For the past few months I’ve been sort of…gliding through everything, and I didn’t have to make any effort, and it was nice, but now I’m even further gone and I’m afraid I’m going to drift away. It’s weird, because it’s like I’m seeing one thing and I’m in another place, and maybe I am seeing everything that’s there, but it’s really in a different place though they are identical and I can affect only things in the world I’m not seeing, and it shifts occaisionally. It’s odd, but it doesn’t hurt.
Although maybe I have an ear infection or something that’s affecting my balance, and this is a side effect.
Blah.
I feel like that sometimes… sort of surreal. Like you’re somehow separate from yourself, if that makes any sense… of course it doesn’t.
It does…I’m just hoping it’s an ear infection.
Hehe, iPads are fun. My dad got one from his boss for non-denominational winter holiday, and it’s pretty cool. A few things annoy me about it though. No USB port, no command key, difficult (or perhaps strange is a better word) multitasking. I thought it would be more like OSX, but it’s just an oversized iPod touch. And no flash! How am I supposed to listen to songs on myspace music?
I suppose it’s not bad, just different. Not to be used on its own, but in conjunction with a laptop or desktop.
Moving on… I’m going to tell you about my day. I went caroling with the music honor society at the mall. ‘Twas quite fun. Like I said, the band kids are my favorite bunch of people to be around. We sang the Pokemon theme song and all of Bohemian Rhapsody (complete with vocal guitar solos) on the bus there.
I went to Trader Joe’s for the first time today. We managed to make it out of the store with only the following items:
Chicken potstickers
Risotto with asparagus
Chile verde chicken burritos
Blood orange Italian soda
A wedge of double-cream Gouda
I had one of the burritos for dinner, and I tried the soda and the Gouda this afternoon. I could spend any amount of money in that store.
I like that store too. How did you manage to buy only 5 items?
You walk in to buy a frozen lunch and leave with six chocolate-related items, a pack of an interesting-looking dried fruit, enough preprepared meals to last two weeks, and a bag full of things that you don’t even remember taking off the shelves.
Trader Joe’s is the best. They used to have this awesome sorbet thing where they would have the outside of the fruit, like a coconut shell or an orange peel or something, and then on the inside have the sorbet. And it was DELICIOUS. Just be aware that you’re raising your hipsterity just by walking through the doors, though.
That blood orange Italian soda is good, isn’t it?
trader joe’s? hipster? nawww. not really.
it is pretty awesome though. they have a good gluten-free selection (and for other dietary restrictions, but gluten-free is the one that applies to me :P)
Hipster, yes. I like the soap we bought there. It smells like lemon PEZ. And the vegetarian potstickers OMG.
Mmmmm! I love those sorbets! We got a 24 pack from a wholesale place and they were all gone within a week and a half. I need to go to Trader Joe’s, I’ve never been there.
Their chicken tamales are incredible.
There’s FINALLY a Trader Joe’s coming to my town next year. Along with an Apple store, which we also just got, it seems to be the mark of a good-sized urban area. I’ve been in a Trader Joe’s a couple of times when across the state (in the Seattle area), but I’m so excited that there’ll be one a lot closer to home.
Thumbs up for you.
I mention this every time somebody mentions Trader Joe’s, but that’s basically all I eat/my mom lives in that store. Trader Joe’s love right here.
How does your family not go bankrupt? Trader Joe’s is good, but expensive.
I do not understand the whole hipster and hipster-hate thing.
I guess I meet a fair amount of the criteria for them, kind of. Actually, the other day at the mall (ew malls) I was wearing my one pair of skinny jeans, mary-janes made out of recycled rice bags, a scoop neck shirt and a vest, and I was trying on a pair of those glasses with fake lenses in them, just to be ridiculous when I had a moment of “oh wow I probably look like the ultimate hipster right now.” Meh. And I’m vegan and use a mac and have short hair and listen to weird music (though more historical than “indie” though I guess I have some of the latter and like it). And as ridiculous as I know those fake glasses to be……I was sorely tempted to buy a pair. Someone save me.
If you enjoy something, who cares what labels the poseurs want to stick on you. You’re having a lot more fun than they are.
I think a lot of the hipster hate is that a lot of the time it’s a very superficial sort of practice and there’s a lot of snobbery going on on both sides.
That’s probably true, but I have noticed before that these sorts of putdowns tend to take on a life of their own once they become the currency of the sneering classes. When you see the term being slung around in the major news outlets, that’s a good clue the time has come. A Salon article mentioned that in some circles “hipster” has becomes a catch all term for young people, including those who are busy deriding other people as hipsters, so that renders the term just about meaningless. No doubt another waits in the wings.
i liked a page on the site-that-shall-not-be-named called “hipsters who hate other hipsters for being hipsters”
whatever the current hate trend is, i always find the people who expend so much effort criticizing to be more embarrassing than the objects of their critique.
I live in the Bay Area, so hipsterdom is pretty much unavoidable for me, but living in the Bay Area also exposes me to the more extreme forms of it, and some of those people REALLY NEED making fun of. (Just because you drive a Prius does not make you exempt from traffic laws! Just because I haven’t heard of the band you’re currently listening to does not make me a corporate sellout!) But on a lighter level, I almost approve of the hipster culture. I like the clothes, I think the food is fun, and the music snobbery really can lead you to very good undiscovered bands.
There’s thriving hipsterism in my city as well (which I can’t explain further since that would necessitate naming my city). In my experience, hipsterism is just intense arrogance, self-congratulation, and immaturity.
I live in New York and my mom runs an art gallery, so I feel the same.
yeah, i will admit to music hipsterism sometimes. especially with metal bands (i know metal isn’t really hipster but i can be kind of snobby about the metal i listen to). i dunno, i like quality stuff. it happens.
what i dislike is like “scene” hipsters (or scene anything, really). if you actually enjoy wearing those types of clothes, awesome (i’m currently wearing fingerless gloves and a shirt with a hood. also piano socks and a D&D necklace (the last two are irrelevant, but awesome)). but i’ve met a lot of hipsters who are just trying to join the sort of group or whatever and allow themselves to feel smug about being better than everyone else somehow. so they wear the clothes and do the hipstery things even if they don’t necessarily enjoy it, because they’re that desperate that they’d sacrifice their sense of self to be part of something.
but yeah. i’m fine with music hipsters.
i don’t know what you all are talking about with the food thing though, i don’t know what constitutes hipster food. trader joe’s, apparently? shruggityshrug
In the Boston Globe, my city was named the best city for hipsters to live.
I totally agree Let’s face it, traditional hipster clothes look pretty damn cool, the music is great, and the awesome hipsters are really fun people. The best hipsters are the ones who might not know they are, but would laugh at themselves if someone told them.
This brings me to a play I was in with Neo Futurists’ style. When we performed, the real neo futurists came and they were the most hipster people ever (odd clothing, quirky, odd sitting positions) and I loved every minute of it. I think I did this before but go to your local video sharing website and type in the NY neo futurists! They’re pretty awesome! Aaaaand I hear the presents being put under the tree…
I decided to treat hipster/hipster hate with my usual aproach to things I determine don’t actually have any real relevance to me: not caring. Alright, so someone likes to be smug about certain things, whatever floats their boat. Most of the hipster-hate I see is actually “hipsters” criticising other hipsters for not being hipster enough. My god is hipster even a word after this paragraph.
Then again, I come from a college where the survay at the end of the semester consisted of the questions “1. How many cigarettes do you smoke daily?” and “2. Would you consider yourself a hipster?”
I like what I like and I try to leave it at that.
your campus is up there. my god jadey, the SCARVES. i was there once in the summer and there were still scarves, scarves everywhere. i think everyone at oberlin is headless and requires a scarf to keep their heads on, like that girl with the ribbon
the scarves in summer is one of the stylistic things that kind of annoy me, because it’s not just pointless, it’s actually uncomfortable. and that goes for any uncomfortable fashions, i get that people are trying to look a certain way, that’s cool, whatever, but i have never seen the point of putting up with discomfort in order to do so
Hahaha. I didn’t notice many scarves when I got there in the fall, but I also wasn’t looking. There’s lots of scarves now, although it IS winter, but the sheer number of Harry Potter scarves makes me happy XD
But you can definitely tell the students from other people. My friend was at the airport coming back from fall break and wasn’t quite sure where to go, so she looked around and was able to pick out all the other students from my school pretty much by look alone, and just followed them to the shuttle back to campus XD
I’m sort of a hipster, I guess. I sort of have the style clothing wise, I have horn rimmed-type glasses, and I love indie music. Definitely don’t have the attitude, though. Most hipsters are terribly obnoxious with their little “I liked it before you, and now that it’s popular I cant like it” mindset. And I guess my friends are hipsterish, too…
Aww man, I’m so disappointed in myself right now. I just got home from my soccer academy’s holiday party. There were something like 170 people there, maybe 40-60 of which were teenage soccer players. Of those, girls were outnumbered at least 6 to 1 by athletic guys. A lot of other girls probably would have been thrilled, and it wasn’t like I wasn’t, but I just got completely overwhelmed.
Now, I hang out with these guys alllll the time (seriously, 3 hours a day, 4 days a week for the past two summers and more than 3 hours a week during the winter), but it’s always on the soccer field and I’ve never exactly had real conversations with a lot of them. This would have been a great time to get to known them better, but it was so awkward with all of them standing in groups and with all of the adults around. So, I pretty much just sat at the table, ate, and talked to my parents. Gah – what a wasted opportunity.
How unexpected–a new Raw Materials today!
My brother discovered I was on Museblog now… He requested to look at all the posts on some threads… And he was like: “remember them, don’t know who that is, sort of remember them, why are they talking about Trader Joe’s?” Yes, it’s interesting… Anyone remember C++Dark Mage? Or something like that, I don’t think he’ll come back anyway, so it doesn’t matter. Watching Star Trek: Enterprise! Go Porthos!
I just got back from my grandpas, and on the way there, I discovered that my headphones are broken. I had to play my inventing game for two hours. Fun, but boring for that long. *sigh*
I remember him. He’s your brother? *waves* (I’m sure you’ve mentioned this before, but I guess I missed it.)
I remember the name– he was on here when I first found the site.
I remember him, and I even remember that he’s your brother. *is very proud of himself for remembering something*
Wow. People actually remember him. Now he’s completely different, he doesn’t play D&D any more, or Final Fantasy. *is sad for brother* He’s obsessed with Minecraft and Gary’s Mod and TF2 and games like that. I got him a book on how to stop addictions for Christmas.
Snowball cookies!
Ratatouille, mashed potatoes, and turkey tomorrow. The idea is that I don’t actually have to do anything on Christmas day.
Today was the last day of school before break! My homeroom organized our typical holiday celebration, except that there was an interruption by our math teacher who actually taught her class despite our protests. I guess she was a little [angry] that we didn’t attend her last 2 classes* and that we forgot to inform her that we were hijacking her lesson. Ah well. ‘T was fun. I wonder how she’ll take
myour plans for the end of this school year…*By we, I mean all but two students out of our class. We would’ve all been able to go home earlier if she hadn’t decided to substitute for our psychology and physics teachers. This was declared unfair and (almost) no-one showed (no, I had nothing to do with this strike. Stop looking at me like that).
What’s with the feature that let’s you give a post thumbs-up? Does it have any real meaning, other than showing that posts are liked?
Well, it highlights posts pink after 10 likes…but yeah, that’s about it.
Replies to 55~ Good points, all. I agree there seems to be a lot of snobbism on both sides. *sigh*
56~ Aw, it’s okay. I know how that is, don’t kick yourself around too much, and next time you have a similar opportunity you’ll be more prepared to go talk to people.
If it makes you feel any better you’re not the only one to get overwhelmed by crowds at parties, even if you know the people.
58~ I remember the name.
Eeeeee how can it be the 23rd already? Tomorrow is Christmas Eve! I have no idea how that’s possible.
I’m slightly amused. Basically my mom is afraid that my 5 year old sister will think that she’s depriving me of Christmas presents, so she’s taken some of the new stuff I picked out (And she bought, so yeah, it’s still a present…but I know exactly what it is) and proceeding to wrap it up so I can act all *surprised* on Christmas. It’s kind of funny, because I don’t even know if any of my presents will be a surprise to me on Christmas – it’s all for my sister’s benefit, heh. (That’s not including presents I might get from other relatives, etc.) Although I’m convinced she’ll be so wrapped up (Unintended pun. Gah.) in her own presents she won’t even notice the lack of mine.
The Chemistry teacher at our school filled a bunch of Erlenmeyer Flasks with water, tinted them green with food coloring, placed them in a big circular rack thing around a for holding test tubes, and decorated it with lights and beads to make a… ChemisTree.
One of the Earth Science teachers took a similar rack, put a globe at the top, and decorated it with rocks to make a… GeoloTree. Unfortunately, the rocks are all gray and brown, so it doesn’t look as Christmassy as the other one. I told her “Needs more olivine.”
I wish my teachers did that. Sounds well with the hurricane of (bad) puns.
Ahem, well “worth” the hurricane of puns. Curse you, iPhone word-replacement thingy!
I like your science teachers.
I’m wandering around Liking posts on ancient threads. /WOBAT
I tried to go and get a Christmas present for my mom, but there was a huge traffic jam. There were helicopters and everything flying around, probably an accident. My brother is helping my neighbor fix something, she said she isn’t strong enough to do it… I’m just as strong as him! I play all kinds of sports and the only thing he does is video games. He never does anything! I cook all the time, and my mom always asks me, not him! I have to go, apparently, I have to clean, and my brother can play video games.
I started Driver’s Ed! So far, I have learned that stop signs mean you should stop, yield signs mean you should yield, and Do Not Enter signs means you aren’t supposed to enter! Perhaps tomorrow I will learn that (gasp) water is wet!
Hahaha!
NO! THE STOP SIGN CAN’T MEAN THAT! THE WORLD IS GONNA END!
Guesswhatguesswhatguesswhat!
I just got an iPad as an early Christmas present!
It’s shiny and beautiful and very close to perfect! And accesses the Internet and shows exactly how full my battery is and does a myriad of other things which my last computer does not!
Why yes, I might be slightly excited.
*bites his tongue against the myriad of negatives of receiving an iPad*
Keep biting, Piggy. Most blog moderation this week is taking place on an iPad, a task for which it is ideally suited.
The main thing I would say is that the iPad 2 is coming out in just a few months, and it is expected to be greatly improved.
How terribly shocking.
Let’s face it Piggy, there is always going to be a newer version of technology that is going to be better than the previous version. Maybe you shouldn’t get the first version of something if you want a really good one, but if you keep telling yourself “I’ll wait until the new, better one comes out to get one”, you’ll never be satisfied.
Apophasis! That’s my favorite rhetorical device. Although I guess zeugma (more specifically, syllepsis) is also up there.
The main positive thing about it, in my opinion, is that you can pretend it’s a PADD.
Only one more day and then it’s Christmas! *hums*
Today was fun! I got up to discover that snow had fallen overnight, and resisted the urge to go outside and play in the snow like a five-year-old.
Then I went outside and played in the snow like a five-year-old.
We made cookies! We made tons of cookies! We made nine tins of cookies! And we didn’t even take all the cookies we made!
I got married to a very, very, very adorable dog.
And we drove around in PJs drinking hot chocolate and looking at the Christmas lights.
It was a good time.
Wow, it’s almost Christmas! This year went by so quickly!
I think it’s really great that in the past few months I stumbled upon something related to George Mallory online and decided to reread a biography of him at the library, and then I went to the Museum of Natural History and got this book about Scott and Shackleton… I get to fall back in love with all of these people. It’s not that I fell out of love with them, it’s just that I was really into their stories when I was 12 and then I was still interested in them, but my focus of obsession switched to other things.
My school is so awesome the day before break. There were carollers with violins, guitars, mandolins, and ukeleles in the halls, and they stood outside our bio room during our test. I told my friend that they were like walking ADD. My friends sang and played guitar for the English class, we made Bunsen burner s’mores in chem, and my friend and I talked about a guy in our school who plays the guitar and sings in a band with his friend and sounds like Marcus Mumford.
Bunsen burner s’mores are delicious, by the way- much better than regular ones.
Also, I’m leaving for Florida on Sunday night, so don’t be surprised if I can’t stop in. Don’t be surprised if I do, though. I might be able to get online.
You’re at school two days before Christmas? But that still sounds fun!
Yes, they’re very stingy with days off… They’ve gotten rid of our day off before Thanksgiving as well.
I am watching a really weird movie. It’s like a murder mystery, but not, there was never any suspense… AND my dad thinks that if a movie is in French, I’ll like it. I take French in school, but I hate it, and most of the French movies my dad picks are horrible. Some of them are really good though, it’s just my dad’s movie taste…. *sighs* So far the plot is: “Oh, my wife is dead! Oh, wait, she’s alive! Wait, her dad pretended she was dead! Oh, wait, her dad is now dead!” … Like that, I probably didn’t get all of it, because I was only half paying attention.
My family is decorating our Christmas tree, and I found one of my old Christmas lists. Notable items that I asked for included “Nintendo DS Lite”, “Pokemon Diamond or Pearl”, “Hot Pink Bunny Kids T-Shirt (Big bunny in center)”, “2007 Museblog Signature Journal”, and “Muse Back Issues (see attached list)”. It’s nice to know that my priorities haven’t changed too much!
Is it still possible to find back issues of Muse? I only started getting it in 2003, and I can only imagine how much awesomeness I missed in the preceding years. I’d love to find the early ones if there are any still around.
Today I got wool pants cut off at the knee. They look like newsie pants and they please me. I am wearing them with dark red socks and a dark red shirt and a vest and I look dapper.
Today I got to spend time with my best friend (previously called Green on here). We talked and walked and bought books and she bought awesome boots and I bought the awesome pants.
Then I went and made cookies with some of my friends from high school!
Tomorrow my relatives show up and we all hang out, which should be cool. I like my cousins. They are 8, 10, 14, 19, and 26.
NORAD tracks Santa! Tre awesome!
http:// www. noradsanta. org/ en/ track3d. html
Right now he’s over Kyoto, Japan. You can zoom in and watch him deliver presents in Street View.
Merry pre-Christmas, everyone! Have a lovely day!
He’s on the Christmas Island!
It’s “not supported on my browser or platform.” Curses. *on iPhone*
I think you can still see it if you go to the Google homepage and follow the link there. At least, that worked for me, earlier.
I have received a Kindle for Christmas. I hereby declare that it shall neither explicably nor inexplicably shatter as did the Nook.
(Let us pray)
Do most people open presents on Christmas eve?
My family does for logistical reasons.
I sure don’t.
We spend Christmas Eve with one side of the family and Christmas day with the other, so we usually open presents both days.
I just open a present on Christmas eve. It’s a game called Pass the Bomb! Basically, you make a word with supplied letters, then pass the bomb ’til it explodes. I’ve lost every time.
OMG we received that too. So far, we haven’t been able to get batteries that make it work inside it.
I don’t.
We open our presents on Christmas day, never on Christmas Eve. We always get up early (as in, 8 or 9ish, lol) then go wake mom up, then open all of our presents. Of course, as I’ve gotten older (read: the last few years), I always make a big deal out of how i”m not going to get up early, just let me sleep in, but it never happens, I always wake up. Although I wouldn’t mind sleeping in….We’ll just see.
Christmas Morning Syndrome: Laying in bed after you wake up because it’s Christmas Break and you’re allowed to sleep in, but eventually realizing that it actually is Christmas Day and jumping out of bed to get at the presents.
We usually open one each on Christmas Eve, but this year it was just me that did it.
Our family used to do a half/half thing*. Of course, now that I’ve ended up with two halves of a family that hate each other, the division works perfectly.
*Austrians get their presents from the Christkinderl on Christmas eve and my mom’s family always did theirs on Christmas day.
My best friend and I swap presents and open them at the Christmas Eve party my family has each year, but otherwise…no.
My family always opens presents on Christmas morning. We usually wake up early, but my parents have a rule that only stockings can be opened before everybody has eaten breakfast. This was originally intended to keep my brother and I from waking up in the wee hours of the morning and opening everything before dawn.
76.1~ I don’t know, in my family we used to have a tradition of opening one small present on Christmas Eve night, and then the rest on Christmas morning. We haven’t really done that lately though, partially because of less presents, I guess. My family doesn’t make a big deal about presents, Christmas is more about spending time together and playing music or doing things for the community than getting and giving stuff.
Which I like and all, but sometimes I forget that my view of what constitutes a gift doesn’t always line up with other peoples’ ideas, and I sometimes end up feeling slightly foolish.
Mappy Christmahnukwanza everyone! And a Happy New Year!
Hey guys! I’m in Costa Rica with my family. I’ll be here until the 30th. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to pop in again (it depends on whether the next place we’re staying has wifi), but hopefully so. Anyway, I just wanted to wish those of you who celebrate Christmas a merry Christmas! See you all in a week or so. <3
Just went cross country skiing with my cousins and brother! (The 10 and 14 year olds. My brother is 18). It was quite fun and fun to hang out with them on their own. My brother and I used to be on our high school’s team and my 14 year old is on his.
I GOT A PHASER FOR CHRISTMAS! I GOT A PHASER FOR CHRISTMAS! I GOT A PHASER FOR CHRISTMAS! Did you not see that? I GOT A PHASER FOR CHRISTMAS!
And it has a detatchable mini-phaser and settings and lights and everything! And chocolate!
The rest of my presents were, well, odd- I got a toolbox full of tools that my parents found in our tool shed, some nice colorful shoelaces, and two pairs of scissors.
AND A PHASER!
Cool!
I almost squeed when I read that. A PHASER. With a MINI-PHASER. I’m going to have to see if I can find one around here…
My uncle sent us a holiday letter of which the first line was “Another year goes by without my being abducted my aliens. Too sad.”
I think I like your uncle.
Ha ha! Me, too!
Ha. Me as well.
Merry Christmas, everybody!
*recovering from 30 hours without Internet*
Oh my gosh… Are you okay?
It’s insane how dependent on the internet we are. Anyway, merry Christmas!
73: Most back issues are available at www . cobblestonepub . com / issue / mus#backissues without the spaces.
76.1: I generally open one gift on Christmas eve evening and the rest on Christmas morning.
Infinite thanks for the link. I know what I want for my birthday.
Oh my gosh, it’s 11:11! *makes a wish* IT’S ALMOST CHRISTMAS!
Merry Christmas, people! Typical, we have a cold summer then it suddenly becomes hot. Which is good because most of my best Christmas memories involves really hot days. We don’t have relatives living nearby so we slept in and opened presents, then I tried to download the iTunes 10 so I could run my lovely new iPod Nano (the latest one with the touch screen), then lunch, then watched TV, and now I’m online. Boring, but I HAVE A NEW IPOD. And it’s a nice warm day.
It’s Christmas nearly everywhere, so Merry Christmas, all! I hope everyone has a wonderful day no matter what their religious beliefs! Actually, that should hold for everyday, really…
Also, I found out i’m doing Something Fun on Twelfth Night!! Which I can’t talk about specifically because I suppose it would give away my location (although I can’t imagine anyone would be able to find me there). Anywho despite Twelfth Night having no particular significance to me personally the fact that Fun will be had then makes me moste geekily happie.
I’m going to finish watching the Prisoner of Azkaban / cardmaking and then go to bed! I hope not a GAPA is stirring at the moment, but in any case thank you all for moderating even on Christmas and Christmas Eve! overtime!
apologies for all the exclamations i am feeling rather festive…
Moderating Museblog is part of the Christmas fun. Though even this GAPA is going to sleep now (with visions of sugar plums and chocolate bars dancing in her head).
CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!
I got a terrarium and a bunch of books and movies and a wooden put-together-thing of Parliament and Big Ben and a screen cleaner-giraffe that I called Mr. Cleany and a tablet and some cool shirts and a make-your-own straw kit from the MOMA!!!!!!!!!!!!
We had the most wonderful Christmas party. So much food… and we had a White Elephant gift exchange- I contributed a pair of horrible socks and a flashlight earpick, and wound up with two hundred index cards and a book entitled Personal Creditability Factor.
…a what exchange?
I opened this with my new Bamboo brand tablet! It’s so awesome! I will send in a few pictures as soon as I’m done.
It’s where you all bring a present, wrapped, and spread them all out on a table. Usually they’re joke presents, but this depends on the group. Then everyone goes around and picks a gift off the table, or else steals one which has already been selected. If the gift you selected is stolen, you get to pick a new one,
It’s rather silly and quite fun, usually.
Sounds fun! I don’t have enough good friends to do it. but I wish I did.
My American Government teacher did one of those- his gift was Bush’s memoir, mostly because he just wanted to see how the person who got it would react.
Oh my gosh, I got the exact same thing! I think the brand is actually Wacom and the name of the tablet itself is Bamboo, though.
Merrye Christmas everyone!
*happiness*
SQUEEE. I got an iPod Shuffle for Christmas. I’m rather amazed, since my parents don’t usually approve of things such of this. I also got a crystal ball (HEHE!) and tarot cards…I love how well my parents know me. And I got Harry Potter/Luna Lovegood stuff.
I really should have breakfast, but I’m so full from cookies last night at our party…
*gives away cookies*
Merry Christmas Musebloggers, and belated happy Hanukah to others!
(Piggy, I know, but I like it anyway 
)
I am happy to be posting on my new Macbook.
I GOT A NOOK!
Happy Christmas everyone that celebrates it!
Since it appears we’re all posting what we got, here’s my list:
-Gill foulies, a bib and jacket (this is the only thing I asked for, they’re really nice and I’ll probably be using them for years and years. I’m super excited, because now I don’t have to wear awful Lands’ End plastic raingear that isn’t meant for sailing and gets in the way and leaks and smells terrible and is just horrid in general. I’ll be dry and comfortable and breathable and happy when it rains now. Wheee for real foulies! And they fit! Which is also fantastic. I never thought of myself as having a long torso, but the bibs are snug in the body, longways, and the legs are a bit long for me. Weird. Oh well.)
-A roll of duck tape and a book on how to make various things out of it
-A calendar of old family pictures (including some that are famous in family lore because I look like a doll baby instead of a human child. It doesn’t hurt that there’s another large doll in the picture, but oh well. Everyone who sees it apparently asks where they found such a beautiful doll and can’t believe it’s me. I’m not sure if I should be flattered or dismayed at this.)
-CHOCOLATE
-Burt’s Bee’s lip gloss
-A hotpad, notepad, two small cloth bags and a dish towel with a picture of a cat and a cute quote about how the only escapes from when the world is being horrible are cats and music (this is from our piano tuner friend who is also a cat lady)
-two cloth grocery bags for my car
I am excited about the foulies. I kind of want to put them on again and wear them all day…….but it’s not raining. Maybe instead I’ll just do some research and figure out how I’m going to actually sail next summer. >.<
While I'm at it I should probably do some studying for the SAT and look at college apps again, because I kind of have a thing with myself that I need to get that done first, then I can work on summer activity planning. And I need to drag out my ancient computer and get the resumè I have on it and copy it to my current computer, along with any other stuff I had on there that didn't get transferred to mom's computer, and then my new one. Because if I'm going to get hired somewhere, I need to get that resume, and I don't want to rewrite it all, because that would suck.
Which means I need to drag out my flash drive and probably clean my desk some, and clean the rest of my room too, since tomorrow I'm hopefully going to see a friend who's in town, and then the day after that Pip gets here, and my room needs to be clean by then. So I need to clean today.
And all this started because I want to play with my Christmas presents.
Welcome to my brain, abandon hope, all ye who enter here……
I GOT A NOOK! I GOT A NOOK I GOT A NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Hmmm…I’m not quite sure, but is it possible you got a nook? By any chance?
As you just said. I understand your excitement, but please don’t post multiples of the same thing. Such posts are Pointless.
^so are posts like this, stop being such a scrooge! The excitement is deserved!
I apologize for trying to improve MuseBlog and its denizens.
Doctor, heal thyself.
I feel the following phrase is applicable in this situation:
HATERS GONNA HATE
Do I detect sarcasm? We’re allowed to be excited. It’s Christmas!
And you got a phaser!
My parents and I went on a walk down to the river, but it was high tide and so my parents and I decided to walk along up a bit farther, in the forest since the bank was nonexistant.
This was not a good idea. We weren’t on our property, and there was the tinest smidgen of a hint of a path, and we spent half an hour fighting our way through the brush. Then we were greeted by a grove of hawthorn trees-closely grown together hawthorn trees, mind you-and decided to abandon the attempt. We went up to the railroad tracks and walked bak to the house in about ten minutes.
I love my iPod.
I feel Christmassy. I got two muse-ry loves company shirts too, and I plan on wearing them to school often and getting many an odd look.
Well here is my list:
A wallet.
Gift cards.
A USB drive.
Reed.
Two shirts.
A puzzle.
Food.
A basket.
And other stuff.
Pretty much everything except the one thing I asked for. Ah well. I will go shopping tomorrow and get a pencil case, a pen, and other miscellaneous stuff I realized I need but it was too late to ask for.
I guess my computer will have to hold together for another year.
I asked for Mockingjay, but I think my dad forgot. Luckily, I got money too.
I love Christmas….
I got a TARDIS USB port (yay!), which makes sound when you plug devices in (or when you press the “demo” button….which I’m sure i will be doing incessantly), a bunch of Harry Potter stuff (legos, pop up calendar, puzzles, and lots of other stuff, primarily from the thrift store my mom use to work at, but that doesn’t make it any less flammy).
I also got some Doctor Who and Torchwood stuff–2 DW posters, a DW book, 2 DW magazines, a couple Torchwood books, series 5 of DW and all of the series 4 specials, and Torchwood Children of Earth.
Oh, and mom got me tickets to the HArry Potter exhibition in Seattle, so I’m going there with her on my way down to school next semester. Which is flammy, but I’d been contemplating going down to school a couple days early to just spend some time with Alan, so now that’s not going to happen, so I’m actually not near as excited and happy as I should be….Oh, well. It’ll be fun (*trying to convince self that it beats two solid days with no school hanging out with Alan*).
Seattle, eh? You’ll be in my state!
Mine too!
And at least two other MuseBloggers’. Have fun in Seattle in winter. Not.
I got:
a zoom h4n recorder, which I’m really excited about because I’ve been borrowing other people’s for two years.
A chocolate orange.
A real orange.
A box of fancy chocolates.
an itunes gift card.
So it was pretty satisfying. My real present, of course, was my new bow which I got in Octoberish. And that’s probably going to be birthday-christmas presents for a few years.
98~ How is the sound with that recorder? I’ve been lusting after a nice portable recorder for taking to sessions and suchlike.
What kind of bow did you get?
Okay, so I’ve been looking at the ASTA billet bank (sailing job opportunities) and the websites of other ships that I may be interested in….and I’m so torn.
Also I need to figure out how I can spend the summer sailing and still have time to visit friends (mainly Pip, I want to have a good amount of time together before we both get eaten by school)……OH LIFE, WHY MUST YOU BE SO DIFFICULT?
I’m having similar problems with summer planning. There’s a lot that I want to do and not nearly enough time to squeeze it all in.
The recorder is great – it’s almost studio level. The only problem is that it’s really expensive.
My bow is turn-of-the-century French and also really expensive. And I love it so much. It just sounds so wonderful and makes everything better.
Merry Christmas, everyone!!
JOY!
Except the lights keep flickering. Eep. Not good.
I got the first season of Merlin (the BBC show), Mothstorm, Frontier Wolf (by Rosemary Sutcliff, yay!!), Toy Story 3, a Peter Paul and Mary best-of album, two felt-tip pens, a Barnes & Noble gift card, peppermint sticks (yum), fingerless gloves, a card game called Loot, new headphones (which are wonderful, and which I desperately needed–my old ones were held together with tape), and $40 donated to a charity.
And yesterday we had a mostly traditional Swedish Christmas dinner, which was my idea. And also very very tasty. Swedish meatballs = ♥. Yum. So now I’m listening to music with my new headphones, which I love.
AND IT’S SNOWING!
. . . I’m happy.
I should go eat some Julbord leftovers now.
I got a Borders gift card and a notebook.
Has anybody ever blown bubbles outside at night before? I did it earlier tonight. They’re nearly invisible except for the reflections of the porch lights in them, and they just float along in the cold air and land on the grass shining like little gems until they pop. The phrase “dancing with ghosts” came to my mind as I did it.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night and pie! >:D ==[l}
I got toy story 3 and inception, and a book that I had already read so we’re taking it back… and more later.
Christmas is sort of depressing when your sick with a cold for the week before.
Hello all! Merry Christmas! I had a great day with family and friends and new acquaintances. I missed the Doctor Who Christmas special, but I’m watching Matt Smith on the Graham Norton Show right now; it’s quite fabulous. He seems awfully tired, though.
Blizzard warnings from tonight to late tomorrow night, which means that my flight is most likely going to be delayed. Aaahhh. What happens if I don’t get to see Wizarding World? I might just have to cry.
Had wild rice for dinner today. Delicious.
Oh, almost forgot: I also got a John Barrowman wall calendar.
Oh, yeah. Lots of random droolage to be happening whilst at school.
I couldn’t go on my computer all day, so now I’m on my itouch. I was going to watch the Doctor Who special, but my dad cut me off half way. Then I tryed to watch Matt Smith on the Graham Norton show, but my mom said it was for “adults”. Anyway, for Christmas, I got Human Japanese, conversational French, a model airplane (P40 B Tigier Shark), glue, and paints. *happiness*
Blurgle. For an hour I had a high-pitched whine of tinnitus. Now it’s a low-pitched, inescapable hum. Sleep seems impossible. *swears and turns up volume on podcast*
Nooo! Don’t turn up the volume if your ears are telling you they’ve been exposed to too much noise! Protect your hearing!
It’s either noise or no sleep. The podcast didn’t help so I tried a dozen or so varieties of white noise. I found one or two that enabled me to not hear the hum.
Ooh, I hope it’s not permanent. Tinnitus is bad.(My dad is currently working on an implant to fix it, not that that’s relevant)
Boxing day! Our UU sermon was entitled “What is Boxing Day?” and ended with the conclusion that nobody knows exactly, but in a spirit of way too many Christmas leftovers, we should celebrate it.
I have a pair of AWESOME New Year’s socks, except now I can’t find one of them.
Your UU group sounds incredible.
I got:
~Wii drawing tablet, some Wii games, and a turquoise Wiimote
~$15 iTunes gift card
~lap desk with a reading light
~bright orange Converse
~my registration confirmation for the trip to Europe that a group from my school is going on after junior year (EUROPE. SO EXCITED.)
It’s been a good Christmas.
And wireless. We got wireless internet for Christmas, too. Mustn’t forget that.
Oh, Christmas lists? All right. I got:
-one toolbox, containing re-appropriated pliers and hammers from our tool shed)
-one pair of shoelaces
-two pairs of scissors
(the above are from my parents)
-one chocolate bar
-one PHASER! (which I took to UU so the entire UUth group (which comprises 6 people) could have a giant phaser fight. Only one child did not own a phaser.
All in all, not a great Christmas, until I opened the PHASER!
What exactly do you mean by phaser? Surely not the massive temporary-blindness-inducing gun, right?
Er, no, a phaser from Star Trek. As in, “Phasers on Kill!” “Damn it, Jim, are you out of your mind?!” “Phasers on Stun!”
Ah. I didn’t know that they made those in real life, though.
If you’re interested, they also make Spock ears, cadet uniforms, Star Fleet insignia pins, and a whole lot of utterly useless but nonetheless awesome stuff.
Oh my. What do the phasers do?
Phase.
I watched the Doctor Who Christmas Special! It’s Boxing Day. Fail. But yay!
Argh! I’m trying to find a song whose name and composer I don’t remember, and whose tune I can only barely recall!
When I got back to my dorm today, the hallways had been painted between morning and mid-afternoon. Now my entire room smells like fresh paint. It smells nice at first, but then it started irritating my nose.
…This feels incredibly out of place among all the Christmas cheer.
I got a meerkat.
Seasonal Felicitiations, everyone!
You got a meerkat?
Oh my!
what are you going to do with a meerkat?
A real one or a toy?
You win.
Awesomeness!
Oh, pleasepleasepleasepleasplease tell us about your meerkat!
Enjoy your meerkat!
They’re delicious!Christmas–
2 band t shirts
15 dollars on iTunes
Gah. My mom is in a really bad mood right now, and she’s been constantly on my case since yesterday. (Merry Christmas, Mom.) *sigh* I know I shouldn’t be bitter with it being Christmastime and all, but I can’t help it when she’s rolling her eyes or lecturing me at every second. Does this seem to happen to everyone once you hit your teens?
I did get some pretty cool presents, though, so no complaining there…
iPod/radio dock (From Santa, heh…I’ve been needing this for a really long time!)
Harry Potter poster (Squee!)
Gift card
New pajamas
Hair ties
Fuzzy socks
And…some nice smelling lotion from my friends, probably because I stink so much.
All in all, it was pretty nice, especially the iPod/radio dock. Finally I won’t have to use my old alarm clock/radio, which doesn’t even pick up much of a radio signal anymore and didn’t have the iPod dock so I had to constantly be using earphones which irritate my ears after awhile so I try to limit my use of them.
It’s also snowing pretty hard here, but I’m kind of hoping it’ll slow down (probably won’t by the looks/predictions of it) so my sister’s basketball tourney isn’t canceled. I really wanted to go for once…
Hope everyone had a very flammy Christmas!
Yeah. Turning thirteen flips a switch in your parents’ minds, from “treat my child kindly and lovingly” to “treat en like the aggravating brats the teenagers on TV are”. I don’t know why.
Personally, there are only a few times when I’ve really felt judged unfairly by my parents as “a typical teenager”. On the occasions when they treat me like one, I’ve usually been acting like one. I think my younger brother gets it a little worse than I do, though.
I’ve not noticed this with my parents, fortunately.
Oh, it’s not just parents. When I started looking teenagerish, I was immediately treated worse by teachers, relatives, friends of my parents, parents of my friends, random adults who I happened to be talking to as part of my daily life, shopkeepers, complete strangers over the age of thirty… you name it. It’s their automatic assumption that because I’m a teenager, I’m going to be acting like a total brat. But I’ve learned that no one cares when teenagers are unfairly stereotyped except other teenagers, so I don’t say much about it to real-world people these days.
I think in my case it started before I was thirteen.
How exactly did I kill two hours on Bulbapedia?
The answer is inherent in the question.
Testing out writing this with my tablet pen. Pretty cool, only this “tablet PC input panel” keeps thinking that my commas are parentheses if draw them the way I normally do. Also, it doesn’t like the way I connect T’s’ crossbars to the next letter. Oh wait, if I use the” writing pad” rather than the “character pad,” then I can connect letters, which means I can write faster. Yay!
That wasn’t supposed to be a reply.
It’s very easy, I should know. I spent days last summer trying to decide what my favorite Pokemon was.
By the way, be careful on Bulbapedia. Don’t leave one page open for too long. A window urging you to update your Flash player could pop up, which is actually a virus. Those days last summer had consequences for a gullible person like me.
I never thought of Team Rocket as being “Mafia-inspired” before, even though I knew they ran gaming places in-story and that their leader has an Italian-sounding name…
What is Bulbapedia?
Imagine Wikipedia. Now imagine if it was taken over by the Pokemon franchise. That’s Bulbapedia, you’re complete guide to anything pokemon.
Christmas was pretty good this year. I got lots of stuff, which is weird because we had to stay home this year.
)
Most notable:
Avatar on DVD
The Ring of Solomon (new Bartimaeus book!
A new speaker for my iPod
Fantasia on VHS (Joke gift, I guess… It still made me smile)
Lots of food
ALL DEMIGOD RPG PARTICIPANTS, PLEASE RETURN TO THE THREAD!
Sorry for the interruption.
What I got for Christmas:
Light-up plastic ornament (that was the Christmas Eve present)
A wooden ornament
Stuff to put in it
Chocolate
Edible Santa lollipop thing
An iPod Nano, which wasn’t really a surprise but was still awesome
iTunes gift card
And it’s possible I’ll get something from one of my relatives.
For a while now I’ve been feeling like I don’t belong in my body… Like when I speak it’s not me… Is that odd? Of course…
Depersonalization.
are we christmas listing? i got some fun stuff
-money
-chocolate
-t-shirts
-a couple sweatshirts
-fingerless gloves
-war and peace
-three bracelets (i don’t normally wear jewelry but they’re super awesome, they’re all made of polished stones. one is hematite, one is different colored agates, and one i’m not sure about…looks like some kind of mix of blue agates and some sort of clear rock, quartz or something maybe)
my cousins both got sonic screwdrivers. it was funny because i brought mine along expecting them to be jealous and first thing i see when i get up the driveway to my grandma’s is them both pointing theirs at me
they both got the 10th doctor ones as well. one of them is working on an alternate-dimension 10 cosplay. i told him he should come to MARCon 
we had yummy food and played large amounts of schmere and watched the latest hamlet (the david tennant/patrick stewart one) because isn’t that what everyone does for christmas, watches shakespeare tragedies?
I
HAVE
A
CAMERA
SQUEE
These are my Winter Holiday gift highlights (I can’t list all the gifts I got because I have about ninety relatives who all insist on giving me something personalized):
Grey fingerless gloves with rainbow peace signs on them.
The new My Chemical Romance album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, which I’ve been listening to for fifteen days straight. I planned to listen until I got sick of it, but the more I listen, the more addicted to it I get…
A perfect guy, from my friend Lois Lane from arts camp. (Believe me, the name is appropriate.) She was complaining about guys, so I offered to write her a perfect guy for Christmas. (I did! His name is Jesse Silver and he drives incredibly fast and he knows the names of all the stars and he can swordfight really well!) Then she said she’d write me a perfect guy in return. I liked him! He has magical powers and he can ballroom dance better than anyone!
My beautiful glorious new iTouch. (Have I mentioned we’re getting married?)
Has anyone heard of Alan Smithee? He’s a fictional character credited in really bad movies, when the directors don’t want to be associated with the film.
Christmas was nice, present-wise: I got everything I asked for except the socks I wanted. Why does nobody take me seriously when I say I want socks? I really can’t complain. Highlights were a bookworm (yellow stuffed animal version) and an awesome funky necklace from my friends, two perfumes that I love because they smell awesome and a pair of headphones (so that I don’t have to wear earmuffs over my headphones to drown out the surroundings) from my parents and grandmother. And a giftcard! *yayness* Yes, I spent way too much on Christmas presents yet again, but I’m going to get the tutoring to work next semester and then I will have income!
Okay, very random post. But I finally went running again
127-I think I might’ve heard something about him once…
Greetings from cold, windy, and snowy Montreal!! But mostly SNOWY!!!!!! YAY!!! It’s too cold to do anything outside right now, what with a wind chill of about -22 degrees C (that about -12 degrees F I think).
Yay, Christmas lists!
I got…
-New Camera!! (Canon Powershot SX130)
-New webcam
-A capo for my guitar
-Lots and lots of money (Forever21, American Eagle, Sephora)
-Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
-Peeps
I just fainted! For the first time in my life!
This did not stop my mother from telling me that we’re going on a long, difficult hike through the snow!
I hate the mountains!
Ugh…fainting sucks. *sympathy pies and hugs*
SNOWSNOWSNOW. It’s almost a blizzard, actually- it doesn’t look too bad, but when you step outside you almost get knocked over by 40 mph wind gusts. And snow is blowing everywhere, so we’re not sure if it’s still snowing or not. I attempted to build a small fort, and the wind blew it down to half size in aproximetly ten minutes. I’m going to go have hot cocoa now.
It finally stopped snowing here, but we ended up with about eight inches of snow. I’m not sure if it will start snowing again. Probably not, if you’re getting snow where you are.
Meh, I think we have about that much but it’s kind of hard to tell exactly…thanks to really high winds last night we have four foot drifts (RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR DOOR, OF COURSE) some places but on one side of the house you can see the grass.
Apparently “if [I] go sailing this summer [I] won’t go to college anyway, so [I] might as well not even bother studying for the SAT.” Not like I could go sailing starting in the early spring and then come home midsummer to get ready for college, like I had thought I’d like to do. >.<
Also it's not like that's exactly the kind of attitude I want to get away from, which is part of why spending my summers away from home is so appealing. Not like I enjoy making decisions for myself, not like I want to take on some adult responsibilities while still in a structured and supportive environment. Oh no, that couldn't have ANYTHING to do with it, of course following what I want to do is going to cripple my plans of doing anything else I want to do. Especially when one DEFINITELY won't prepare me for the other AT ALL. Or, excuse me, things I CLAIM I want to do, but don't, because I'm an unmotivated and terrible person.
Also, there is an entirely adorable brigantine for sail over in England and I want it very, very badly. I know it's way out of my reach, but at the same time I'm totally fantasizing about how it would be to have my own little ship and sail it around and what sort of sail training I'd do and……..ohhhhhhhhhhhh I want it so much.
How much time do you really need to get ready for college? All I can remember doing is buying sheets and containers.. It certainly wasn’t a summer-long project.
i second what lizzie said….at the most it takes maybe a week to get everything together and even then you could probably buy stuff now, even. Also….*hugs*
Why isn’t my comment appearing?
Spam ate it. No idea why. Maybe your posts are tasty. It hath been restored.
Mmm…tasty posts. *nom nom nom*
Ah, home…
Driving from Massachusetts to New York with my dad the day after a blizzard is not fun. If we still had a swear jar, I wouldn’t need that Borders gift card…
We had to shovel it this morning. The snow, that is.
So I’ve been looking into internships and other Interesting Things to do over the summer…I found an amazing internship at the Yellowstone archives that sounded PERFECT in every way….except that you have to have your own car! woe and suffering! why does everything in california always require a car! oh for efficient public transit…
*continues searching*
Isn’t Yellowstone in Montana?
Mostly Wyoming, but also a little in Montana and Idaho.
Maybe Axa means Yosemite?
*facepalm*
yes, yosemite! okay maybe that’s a sign i wouldn’t have been good for it anyway
i always got the two mixed up…somehow…
Wyoming.
A gecko just jumped into my bowl of cereal.
This will probably put me off Cheerios for a while.
Unrelated to your post, but I just realised what your gravatar is. I like.
Why thank you. It took me forever to crop the picture… What’s yours?
UFP… for the WIN.
How does a gecko jump into your cereal? Isn’t that an odd place for a gecko to jump?
‘Twas on the ceiling. I moved my bowl over a bit on the counter to reach for the milk, and with a little *pop* it released its grip on the ceiling and tumbled into the cereal, before leaping out again. I’ve seen geckos in worse places, believe me- more than once I’ve found them in the toaster. You don’t know how alarming it is to put a piece of bread in there, press down the button, and have a gecko come shooting out.
My back hurts, I’m covered in wood splinters and fiberglass, and there are countless invisible slivers in my hands, but I’ve mastered a Spiderman-esque way of moving across rafters while stooped over. (Our garage door openers quit working, so we’re installing new ones, and since we’re at it we’re also rewiring most of the garage.)
Ouch. You could try gardening gloves…
It’s impossible to handle wiring while wearing gloves.
Maybe fingerless gloves, then your hands wouldn’t be cut all over and you can still handle the wires.
I bet biking gloves would work for that. They’re fairly close to one’s fingers and cut off close enough to your palms that you’d still have dexterity but your palms would be protected.
To Ponder
How is it that most of my life is summed up by various musicians?
How is it that if you say ” I hate Twilight” to my coiusin, you get whatever you want?
Why am I here?
Why is it 42, and not 3.14?
Because 42 was a seemingly random number?
I have a theory that this is the ultimate goal of a lot of artists: to sum up your life. Music and songs tend to especially lend themselves to this, for some reason, as does poetry.
Because your cousin is awesome and has ens priorities straight.
Everyone’s gotta be somewhere.
Actually, it’s impossible to know the answer to that question and that it’s 42 at all at the same time.
Oh my gosh! How often are there BLIZZARDS on Long Island? Never. And of course, there had to be one on the day that I was supposed to be flying to Florida. I should’ve been at Wizarding World today… Do you know what I did instead? I shoveled.
I’m Really being rather overdramatic. We’re going another time. I have no clue when this “other time” is, but we’ll go.
The snow is fun. Powdery, so no snowmen, but fun. We got about a foot and a half, with some drifts that are up to my chest, but most go up to my thighs. During the actual blizzard it was really scary. We were driving home from the airport and could barely see past the hood of the car, then we got stuck in snow, and the whole thing was just a big fiasco.
Hooray for snow! It’s pretty powdery here as well, and windy too. But still fun to play in, right?
Yup! It melted a bit today, so I was able to make a snowman. He’s about five and a half feet tall. The only reason that he’s not bigger is because my brother wouldn’t come out and help me.
Do you think that there are things in this world that should only be mocked? Do you think that certain things or people are so inherently ridiculous that you shouldn’t try to take them seriously and come up with an actual reason for disliking them? Is it morally right to judge anything?
Doe sit depend on what it is? Is it OK to mock Twilight but should things like politics be kept serious? And is that unfair to Twilight or to people’s political views? Is there ever any benefit to making fun of someone or something? Are the negative effects greater than any potential benefit?
…Why have I decided to start asking myself a whole bunch of philosophical questions?
Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Yes and no– what about Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, they’re not serious but it’s my opinion that politics would be a worse place without them. No. Yes, to point out their flaws. Sometimes but not always. Because you’re smart.
Sometimes I wonder that about history. To what extent is it okay to make fun of or re-imagine for a fictional story things that actually happened and people who actually lived?
Powdery snow! Lots of powdery snow! I must go skiing in the field behind my house! And go down deadman’s hill! Which is the name we gave to a hill with a lovely ski jump that we really fail at going over since we only own cross-country skis and I’m really bad at skiing! But whatever!
So… This deadman’s hill… Did someone die there?
Okay, got my wisdom teeth taken out, and it wasn’t too bad, except for my tongue going numb and causing me to think I was choking even though I could breath perfectly fine through my nose.
What’s hard is the way the antibiotic pills taste. A whole week of those crushed into applesauce might turn me off to the taste of applesauce forever. At least I don’t have to swallow them.
How do you feel now? Pills always taste horribly… Maybe you can try adding a lot of cinnamon to the apple sauce? I hope your mouth doesn’t hurt too much.
It only hurts when I smile or try to open my mouth more than about an inche wide.
Urgh, yeah….it was probably a good week after I got mine out before I could open my mouth all the way again.
I wasn’t given antibiotic pills when I got my wisdom teeth out. Just pain meds.
Huh. Interesting. I know two of my friends at school who had theirs out got antibiotics, too. I feel left out.
Did you have all four of your wisdom teeth, or just two? I had all four, and the top ones didn’t hurt much, but the bottoms hurt fairly bad at night (and during the day occasionally, too). although overall I had a pretty “good” experience when I got mine out…
All four.
I got mine taken out last Monday! All four. D: It still hurts.
Ooh. Antibiotics. I just finished taking mine. (one week of taking medicine every six hours. Bleh. We were brilliant enough to time it so I had to wake up at four every morning and couldn’t go to bed unti ten. *sarcasm*)
I might have to get braces again now. GAH.
(Also, is it really that weird to get all four wisdom teeth taken out at the age of fourteen and one month?)
I can’t say, as I’m 17 and ten months.
The Internet informs me that the average age is between 17 and 25.
This makes me laugh.
Also, does anyone know why wisdom teeth are called wisdom teeth??
Because you have to be wise to get them. Everyone over 17 or so in my family has (had) them, but mine only started growing, then realized who I was and gave up *muhahaha*
Okay, I wanted to make that funny but I’m kind of in a hurry. I feel for all you wisdom-teeth veterans and sustain faint hope not to join your ranks.
I still have all four of my wisdom teeth. They grew in normally, thanks to my extra-big mouth. (No comments, please.)
Sounds like the “like” button has a point after all.
I had all four out at once. Not a bit of trouble. I don’t think I even took any of the pain medication, unless I took one the first day. No bruises, nothing. Hardly a blip on the radar. (Just pointing this out for those who haven’t been there yet; not everyone has a hard time, even if we aren’t as
big-mouthedlucky as Robert.)I got mine removed a couple of years ago, when I was fifteen. Tehy hadn’t fully come in yet, but I have an extra-small mouth, unlike Robert, and they wanted to get them out before roots developed.
I know I got vicodin, because I barely used it and still have most of the bottle. I think I got antibiotics, but I can’t quite remember.
Luna–you could open your mouth fully after a week? I feel like it took me a month for me to get back to normal, and I had these big bruises and chipmunk cheeks on my face.
GAPAs, when you find a moment, could you post the Chrome OS documentation images I emailed you a few weeks ago?
Hey Fireh, your dad’s review of the “Freakonomics Radio” podcast on iTunes is rated as the most helpful.
*blinks* Really?
….how do you know that?!?!?
SFTDP
Just found it. How you find it is now my question.
How did I find it, you mean? That podcast was listed in some sort of “New and Noteworthy” section thing. It looked interesting, so I clicked on it and scrolled down to see what some of the reviews were. I saw the name “AlpacaLips” on the first review.
Huh. XD okay.
….I didn’t know he posted as AlpacaLips in other places. :roll;
Tell your dad he is generally awesome, from Lil’BK! Because he is!
So I told my dad “Hey Dad! Your review of the Freakonomics Radio Podcast got voted most helpful!”
And he said:
“What? I never posted a review to that podcast!”
….so there are two AlpacaLips’ out there.
NOOOOO
AL says to assure you that the only place he posts as AlpacaLips is MuseBlog.
Two rows from the end of my Gryffindor scarf and I run out of yarn.
On the upside, this means a trip to the yarn store. Woohoo!
You’re making a Gryffindor scarf!? Send in a picture when it’s done please!
Oh, I shall… I tried to make a Ravenclaw scarf a few years ago, but ended up adding in lace techniques and cabling, so it ended up as just a really fancy blue-and-white scarf. I’m sticking to a simpler method for this one.
*scampers off for last-minute packing*
Blue and…..white? *whimperwhimper*
Look what you’ve done, Choklit Orange…
The priest at my church is openly gay. We recently had a very large snow storm, and one of his neighbors was kind enough to use his snowblower to clear out everyone’s sidewalk’s but my priest’s, just because of his sexuality. How could you be so close minded-not just close minded, but nasty?
My god… the judgmental, ridiculous idiocy of some people. Even if you’re prejudiced against, well, anyone, clearing driveways is such a stupid thing to refuse.
Now that is just RUDE.
Grr. I have to wonder what made him feel that that sort of thing is an appropriate thing to do. It’s pointless, spiteful, and it causes the rest of the community trouble as well.
Out of curiosity, did anyone else object to that? Or are they too happy to have snow-free sidewalks?
Uncool. Way uncool.
shadowfire- I don’t know if anyone objected. It’s just stupid and immature, and it makes me disappointed in the human race.
Just feel lucky that your church is of the sort that’s not totally anti-gay.
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*had to listen to a long and unpleasant sermon that went against my beliefs last Sunday* *is rather grumpy*
If I had been there I would have grabbed a shovel and shoveled out the priest’s sidewalk and dumped it all on the other guys sidewalk. (probably not, but I would at least offer to clear the priest’s. I would do the other one in my head).
Went to yarn store. Yarn store was closed. Went to other yarn store, all the way across the island. Yarn store had gone out of business. Took unusual bus route home… and discovered brand-new, close-by, cheap, and extensive yarn store!
Due to the low prices, I ended up buying not only the red yarn I needed, but several skeins of novelty yarn, a giant ball of blue merino, and- oh my god- supplies to make a set of beaded charms for my knitting needles.
And right next door, I found a movie memorabilia store having a going-out-of-business sale and offering talking Spock bobble-heads for S$1.50. What would you have done?
We’re leaving for Bali tomorrow. I may or may not have Internet access for the next week or so.
Word of the week: Pecksniffian. I have vowed to use it at least once a day.
*wanders off for last-minute packing*
Getting to sit in my pajamas and read all day is kind of fun, but holding ice packs to my cheeks for 10 minutes straight isn’t. Tried to eat some bread, but the chewing hurt too much, so I’m eating rice pudding.
Try getting six sponges and a pantyhose.
What? That didn’t make sense?
You take the sponges, wet them, wring them out, and stick them in the freezer. When they’re frozen you take a pair and tie them to your cheeks with the pantyhose. When the water in those sponges dissolve and they’re not cold anymore, re-wet them and stick them in the freezer to re-freeze and stick the next pair on your face. It really works. *did that half of last week* (I mean, it looks completely ridiculous. But it works, I’m telling you.
)
doesn’t that stretch out the pantyhose?
Doesn’t everything?
(It’s hard to type with a cat sitting on my chest) I’m getting a new laptop! But I have to share it with my mom. If I have a laptop then I won’t have to keep stealing my brothers laptop! It should come in two weeks! It has a web cam and tons of awesome stuff!
MuseBlog has like buttons now. O.o
149- I’m reading that book right now!
120- Waaaait. New Bartimaeus book? Now? But it’s been years! I find I am excited despite myself. Perhaps my mature, grown-up books phase will suddenly transform into a books-from-my-preteen-years phase.
Speaking of books, they’ve just turned The Last Unicorn into a series of comics. I’ve only read the fifth one, so I can’t really say how they are.
I’ve been practicing my fiddle a lot; I’d forgotten how much fun it is. We have a penny whistle book with all sorts of tunes that I’ve been playing on the fiddle. Also, I got to play a hurdy-gurdy the other day. It was fun. I want one.
I am SO excited for college. I don’t know where I’m going yet, but I’m really just excited to go out into the world on my own. I’m going to buy a Vespa to commute between home and school (having determined I will be attending a school in the Northwest), and maybe I’ll even go on road trips. Life is just SO EXCITING right now. On Monday it won’t be, but right now it’s amazing.
Alice:
College in the Northwest? What are the possibilities? Reed? Evergreen? Or someplace more mainstream?
(Don’t worry about the “like” buttons. They aren’t obligatory. Besides, I’m going to replace the thumbs with pies as soon as I have a little spare time.)
Not Reed. It’s beautiful, but the theater just didn’t look very active. Not Evergreen either, again about the theater. My current top colleges are University of Puget Sound, Lewis and Clark, and Whitman. I’m applying to a few public schools too, just in case I don’t get $50,000 in scholarships.
My parents went to both of those! …as well as about three others. They spent a lot of time in college.
Didn’t we all?
What is a hurdy-gurdy?
Don’t let Paul here you say that.
Did… Did Piggy just make a typo? I’m going to remember this moment forever.
Considering my lack of sleep and loud music, I’d say I’m doing quite well.
What’s a ………………….
*facepalm*
Well, at the risk of being accused of shameless advertising,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K86eVJqh-Zk
I should point out that you don’t actually SEE a hurdy-gurdy until about 3 and a half minutes in. But it’s worth the wait. Maybe.
I quite like the boy walking around using a double-headed axe as a walking stick.
The music parts are good too.
Hi Alice! Welcome back!
Finished packing. Turns out our flight leaves two hours later than I thought, so there was no need for me to get up at 6:30. Curses.
My whole family hates Doctor Who!
Also, were can I watch the original series?
I feel sorry for your family. As for your question, I would suggest Daily Motion.
Thank you!
another site that i just found, courtesy of reddit is crossing the whoniverse .com (obvs all one word). they don’t host anything, they’ve just compiled a bunch of links to all the episodes. i’m guessing most of it is from megavideo and places like that. i don’t use it, but yeah. there’s an alternative to dailymotion if for some reason it’s not working
Posting from the airport! Because I have nothing better to do! Farewell for a week, MuseBlog,
Bye! We’ll see you in a week!
Currently watching “Silence in the Library” for the second time (the first part of the Vashta Nerada 2 parter in the Library).
Two observations:
1. Watching it in the dark, with no lights on at all, just the light from ones computer screen is a good way to get freaked the heck out and renew one’s fear of the dark (yes, I still get afraid of the dark from time to time)
2. Crash of the Byzantium. River Song just asked if they’d done Crash of the Byzantium yet. You know, as in, Series 5? *squee* Sorry, I like these random bits of continuity when you’re like, “Holy cake, that was planned all the bleeding way back then??????? Yowza.”
Anyway. Yeah.
Yep. Watched it three times, and it still makes it hard to sleep(my bedroom is very dark and full of weirdly-shaped shadows). Regardless, it’s still one of my favorite episodes. The terrifying ones are the best.
Here’s an insult for all you computer nerds:
I’d like to control-x your face and control-v it on the back end of a rhinocerus (sorry if it’s misspelled, computer doesn’t have spell-check).
I like that one, and it gave me an interesting idea.
I’d like to ctl+c John Barrowman’s face and ctrl+v it all over everywhere.
Just his face?
Well. I wouldn’t object to ctr+v-ing his body everywhere either…
For the past four months, I’d say that going to college in Jordan has been pretty uneventful. Oh, sure there were things I needed to figure out, and things I stopped to stare at, like the student election rallies, which tended to involve drums and dancing and one day a set of bagpipes.
Today I came back to the university after a half-hour of shopping to find the gates barred and the police (with riot shields) outside. Inside the gates, visible through the bars, was a massive brawl. Massive. Tons of guys, running after each other and throwing things and I heard something that sounded like firecrackers that I hope to God was not gunshots.
Luckily for me, because I live on campus, the back gate was still open, though I had to show my ID to get in, which I’ve never had to do before. I also found out why they were brawling, it was over those selfsame election results held last week.( This is the dark side of the passion that inspires dancing rallies.)
So I got back and typed this up and right now I’m trying to squash my curiosity about what’s really going on down there because I didn’t get a good look through the gates. My common sense is busy telling me that it’s probably a bad idea to go down to a place where people a re fighting indiscriminately and that the police had a reason for keeping the gates closed but I want to know what’s happening so bad but I’m telling myself, “What are you planning on doing anyhow, eating pretzels while watching people beat each other up? Interfere? No, huh?
The thing is I’m not scared at all, just excited. Perhaps adrenaline filled and on edge might be a better word. Is this weird?
Stay up where you are. We don’t want you getting hurt.
Oh, don’t go down there. Please don’t. It’s a very bad idea.
FF,
Can’t you follow the action on news, blogs, and Twitter feeds? It’s natural enough to want to experience exciting events firsthand, but in this case it doesn’t sound worth the danger.
I know. I never really was planning to go back outside in the first place. Common sense triumphs! Really I was letting off my frustration at having to stay inside and all. It’s not a nice feeling, knowing that something bad is happening out there and not knowing why or what.
Oh, and I looked for news on this and mostly what I found is that this is not the first time it’s happened, and for pretty much the same reason. There was an incident back in March that was bigger. I have no idea if that preceded the feelings in this fight but…just but.
If it’s a frequent thing, that could explain why no one was bothering to blog or tweet about it, because i didn’t find anything in English or Arabic. Or maybe I’m just not that good at Twitter.
Oh well. Tomorrow’s a weekend, so I have no reason to go down to campus and probably won’t. Rest assured I am still safe, sound and heeding common sense.
You’re doing the right thing. When election fever gets out of hand, it’s generally best to crawl into any convenient bunker, put the kettle on and grab an Agatha Christie. It sounds as if your fellow students are inclined to do something a little more muscular than call each other cads and bounders.
As luck would have it, I actually have an Agatha Christie on hand. I shall have to reread it.
KaiYves, if you’re out there, I have a Carl Sagan question for you.
Did he ever say something along the lines of “If we discovered extraterrestrial life, that would be an incredible, world-changing event; but it would be equally incredible if we discovered that Earth was the only planet with life in the entire Universe”?
I think so, but others have expressed the sentiment as well.
My brothers bought me a Toy Story alien today at the mall! He’s one of the cute little green ones with three eyes and an antenna. I’m trying to think of a name for him, any ideas?
Willis? (It’s a Robert A. Heinlein reference.)
Actually, it’s something interesting to think about. I’ve generally decided that I’d rather be among the worst on a team than be the best by far. I like rising to the challenge and improving my own play rather than being content with “good enough” and getting a boost in my self-esteem. But, obviously, other people (like your friend?) make other choices. If varsity soccer is the kind of goal that you’re willing to work for, you should go for it, no matter what your friends are doing. Is there anybody else that you could train with? Maybe somebody on the team that she asked you to join?
I don’t know, I’ll wait and see who’s on the team…
Oh. My. Froggy. Wungs.
*happiness*
I found steampunk cloth. STEAMPUNK CLOTH. Steampunk cloth!
It has watches and keys and gears and wonderful, whimsical, Victorian designs all over it.
I love it…
Of course, I don’t quite know what I’m going to do with it since it’s really not something I could make a steampunk costume out of, because although it has the most amazing pattern, it’s not exactly Victorian style fabric. But it’s still cool. And tha didn’t stop me from buying a ton of it.
I didn’t even know they made steampunk cloth (like this)!!!!!! *gleeful celebrating*
Happy New Year’s Eve!
My brother just woke up. At 1:30. In the afternoon. Then he said, “good morning.” What the heck?!
Is your brother by any chance in high school? Because that’s what a lot of us tend to do. You’re not in high school, right?
Happy New Year’s everyone. It’s 12:09 in Amman right now, and someone in the neighborhood just set off lots of fireworks. It’ll be a few hours till it hits Central time though (8 to be exact). Most of you still have a little bit more time to enjoy the old year.
As for me, I can’t believe it’s 2011 already. Technically a new decade too. Where did 2010 go? And the rest of the 2000s? I feel so old… I can actually remember when this decade began, and when it ended.
Does anyone have a cure for lightheadedness? Because I’ve been dizzy and lightheaded all day. It’s probably related to the fact that I was only awake for about seven hours yesterday due to a migraine, or maybe due to a slight bout of dehydration. But both the migraine and the dehydration are gone now, and I’m still lightheaded.
Greetings from the future!
Happy new years! Bookgirl_me was sadly party-less, but ended up going running (10km in 72 min, picking up where I left off six months ago), drank a glass of sparkling wine and has finished a spiffy list of resolutions for the Year of doing big, scary things. In other words, yayness!
I hope everyone else has a good time too; 2011 is looking good so far, but it might just be runners high. Or the sparkling wine. Or both *hiccup*
I wish you all an exciting new year, full of awe-inspiring accomplishments, lots of success, new friends, R&R, hopefully devoid of vivid rosé Leporidae, may all your wishes and dreams for this year come true and I hope that’s I’ll see all of you here again this time next year.
Okay, I’m spending the last parts of 2010 reading and listening to fanfiction. One is absolutely brilliant and should be published.
The other less so.
The brilliant one is “Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality” It’s a Harry Potter fanfic where Harry was raised by two kind, loving SCIENTISTS. Hilarity ensues as he tries to understand magic through the scientific method. (It could be considered better than it sounds.)
The other one? A drammatic reading of “Starkit’s Prophecy” (or more properly “StarKits prophcy”) The most terrible Warriors fanfiction known to man.
Feel free to look them up. Or not. I don’t care.
(I’ll repost this on the New Jan. Random thread.)
Oh my gosh! I think I read part of the first one. I didn’t get around to finishing it, though.
Yup, I did start it.
If you like bad fanfiction, look up My Immortals. It’s supposed to be Harry Potter fanfiction.
Probably inappropriate for those of you easily offended / freaked out.
Resolutions anyone?
Personally I’m just going to try to be more organized, especially in my room – I would really like to actually have a neat desk for once, but I’ll probably have to buy some dividers to do that because I literally have everything stuffed in one or two drawers. :/ Keeping my whole room neat would be nice, too, but I’m going to try to focus on one thing at a time. Maybe my desk first, and then try to tackle my closet? Eek.
I also want to exercise more on my own time, not just through sport’s practices, because sometimes I feel like all I do is go on the computer when I’m off of school or on break (like now), etc. Although I love MB…I also should really try to exercise a little more, especially when there’s no sports practices.
I’m not even bothering this year…