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Happy New Year, everyone!
I hope everyone reading this has an interesting and enjoyable year from here on out
FIRST 2011 POST! (at least in Colorado)
Oh! How pretty!! I love all of Lady Bunniful’s creations~
Should I be posting here? As it’s still 11 here, I think it might be cheating…
Well, whatever. Happy new year to everyone and in an hour I’ll join you in it!
Woooo! A new year!
Anyone bother making resolutions? I actually did, although I made it a while ago and it’s not necessarily confined to this year. But oh well close enough.
I’ll be over here pretending I’m not older. Going to make tiramisu pancakes tomorrow for breakfast (lunch) though, so yay.
Happy New Year!!! And Muse Year!!! Awesome graphic!!!!!!
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! And holiday season. And year, considering how seldom I have visited the blog of late. Or early. For a while. I resolve to visit MuseBlog regularly this year. Periodically. Or irregularly but often. Something like that.
This isn’t making much sense. I think I ought to rest. Good night!
So we went to a party for New Year’s, which was one of those murder mysteries. That was fun. Then we jumped around outside and shouted and exploded the almost-fireworks that you sometimes get on special occasions. This was also fun.
Then a friend drove us home. I went in to the house immediately, leaving my sister out in the car with the friend to finish their conversation. Maybe five minutes ago, Dad finally decided to call them in, and so he recruited me to help him with that. He stationed me by my bedroom light and went over to stand by the other lightswitches which lit up the front of the house. And called out ‘On… Off… On… Off…’ several times.
And then wes stopped, and I went to bed.
A minute later, both my sister and our friend came inside with the assumption that Dad had been fiddling with the switch breaker box and when he said he wasn’t, they puzzled over it for some time.
I managed not to break out laughig. It would have been all too easy for them to guess after that.
A murder mystery? Cool! I’ve always wanted to go to a mystery party.
Probably first post. My second one! Hurrah!
Anyhoo, happy New Year MuseBlog!
Nice picture, too.
Happy new year!!!! I have no resolutions, they never worked out. First post?
SFTDP Oh, wow. On my Itouch showed no other posts. FAIL. 8th post….
Same here.
Wow, great animation!
And Happy New Year, everyone!
Still 10 minutes of 2010 left for me…..It’s only 11:50.
Love the graphic, by the way!!!!
Happy New Year, fellow Musebloggians!
I actually did make resolutions this year, and my main one is to get better grades.
I’ll repost from the last thread, since everyone seems to be talking about New Year here…
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.
I’ve made a bunch of resolutions; good grades, running, diving (free- and scuba), capoeira, doing 5 push-ups and stretching each day, writing, kicking off my R&R life again, writing in my Diary, having a kokon, thinking of a new fantasy-universe to set my next novel in, learning to meditate and regaining self-confidence/fighting depression.
After all, this is the Year of Doing Big, Scary Things.
Okay, I’m spending the last parts of 2010 (and early 2011) 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 prophcyâ€) The most terrible Warriors fanfiction known to man.
Feel free to look them up. Or not. I don’t care.
(reposted from last random thread.)
Ooh! “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality”! That’s an amazing fanfic. I found it over the sumner and have read the chapters that are up on the site at least a thousand times.
…Wait. You know that fanfic? 0.o STOP BEING SO MUCH LIKE ME *brain implodes*
I love MoR! It’s so intelligent, and there’s so much food for thought!
Thanks to you people, I looked it up. I’m now on… *checks* Chapter 13. Oh dear.
Ditto. Like I needed more ways to procrastinate!
I’m so lame! I was going to post as soon as the ball dropped, but instead I collapsed and went to bed and didn’t wake up until just now.
Wow, 2011! Tis calls for some pies to celebrate!
Happy New Year!
I love the picture, it reminds me of Spaceship Earth at EPCOT.
I went over to Hannah’s house and got to see what she got for Christmas. Then we sat around making each other laugh and had some sparkling apple cider. I took measurements at her place for my light pollution project.
I was feeling tired because of the dental work I got on Monday, so I called my parents at nine saying I wanted to come home at nine-thirty, and they picked me up.
When I got home, I finished the chapter of my fan-fic that I vowed to get done before the year was over (With twenty minutes to spare), took a shower, and snuggled up in bed with my parents to watch the ball drop on TV. (I want to actually go to Times Square one year, but my friends who’ve done it say everything’s really crowded and it’s hard to find the restrooms, so maybe TV is better)
Then I stuck my head outside, looked at Sirius, and went to bed. (It’s a tradition- if it’s clear on New Year’s Eve, I always go look at Sirius, because the Egyptians started their calendar as soon as they could see it in the sky.)
Happy New Year, everybloggy!
What fandom is your fanfic for?
X-Men/NASA crossover. (Yes, NASA is a fandom.)
I imagine if it wasn’t, it would have been necessary for you to make it one.
Darn straight.
Happy 2011 everyone! I hope everyone’s year will be great. I love the graphic!!!
NOTE: THE FOLLOWING REVIEW OF TRON: LEGACY WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS.
So, I saw the movie yesterday. I thought that it was a fun movie, but it could have been much better. The first half was everything a Tron sequel should be, and the second half was…something else. Actually, you should read “second half” as “once Castor showed up”. My main gripe with the movie was that the sound editing was atrocious, often rendering the characters’ voices inaudible. It’s a pity, too, because Daft Punk’s soundtrack was actually very good. The sound editing, though, made it what my dad and I both agreed was the loudest movie we had ever seen. Jeff Bridges’s “rubbery Botox-android” (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly) face seemed very real in some scenes, and very fake in others. It’s probably the most realistic CGI depiction of a human face ever used in a movie, but it’s not quite close enough. I did like the recurring characters as well as the new ones (except the aforementioned Castor/Zuse), and I enjoyed Cillian Murphy’s little cameo. I wished they could have brought him into the Grid and tried to implant an idea into his mind and-
Wait. What were we talking about again?
Oh, yeah. So, anyway, I would probably give the movie a 6.5 out of 10. The second half could be much better, and the sound editing was distracting, but it had good acting and special effects, and it was a fun movie overall.
We’re going to play the soundtrack in band..
GAPAS! THE GRAPHIC! I LOVE IT! *HUGS* Thank you!
Okay, now I have to explain The Game to everyone, specifically Mikazuki, who doesn’t know what it is.
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The Rules of The Game
1) Everyone is always playing the game.
2) You can’t win The Game, you can only lose it.
3) Whenever you think about The Game, see The Game, hear The Game, or someone says “You lost The Game!” or “I lost The Game!” or something of the sort, you lose The Game.
4) I just lost The Game.
5) …?
6) Tell all of your friends.
…I just lost the game.
People are still doing this? I’ve never understood it. What’s the point? It seems like one of the more annoying and obnoxious memes out there.
Also obligatory xkcd comic.
Hehehe. Annoying and pointless, but unescapable and fun.
I was told that if you think about the game, you lose the game, but you win the game if the prime minister of England publicly says, “I lost the game.”
And I was told not to tell people…
“Um, Mister Cameron, I have a small request to make…”
I heard that The Game would be over forever when the Prime Minister said ‘the game is up’.
And then it would start again if somebody puts shrimp up their nose and does the Macerena.
And under that system, you win the game by saying ‘moo’ ay the same time that somebody says ‘I lost the game’ without thinking of the game.
I lost. And I was doing so well, too!
Forget about it. I just WON the game.
Also, I kind of hate this stupid thing. What’s the point? It’s just annoying. Also, immature.
I think I’ve been sounding very angry on the blog lately…Sorry guys.
Ah, it’s fine. Very immature, yet very fun. Apparently, everyone in my chemistry class and all 200+ people in model congress is very immature.
But there’s nothing wrong with being immature! Sure, we’re teenagers in mostly honors and AP classes, but I think we really deserve to act like little kids once in a while. A quote from the documentary Race to Nowhere (it’s about our messed up education system): “I’m afraid our children are going to sue us for stealing their childhoods.”
Of course, they weren’t talking about The Game, but why shouldn’t we be allowed to be immature? We spend the rest of our time doing work. I feel like we’re being forced into everything way too fast now. Kindergarteners need to know how to read in a lot of schools. That’s just… that’s not right. It’s one thing to teach them how to read in kindergarten, but to have it be a requirement? It’s moving everything too fast.
Darn it. This is what happens when you talk about this for twenty minutes in bio. >.<
AWESOME GRAPHIC
I just lost the game.
I remember the Kokopolihedron! It’s even flammier in variable technicolor.
Two thousand and eleven
bunnykoko points to Monsieur Piggy for recognizing the source material.Happy new year/January! I really want to watch the original Doctor Who, but my grandfather is over and he watches TV all day… And he can’t hear very well, so it’s on max volume. And I can only get internet in the family room, where the TV is.
But I got really far on my model! I’m making it really detailed this time!
19-OH CAKE YOU BEEDLE!!!!! I lost The Game…
Hey i’m back from skiing!! And almost breaking my leg!!! And now almost every part of my body hurts, including the bridge of my nose where my glasses were pressed into my face from the goggles. But at least I had fun!
Hey, could we have another College/University/Higher education thread? The last one was posted in 2009 which was two years ago now.
oxlin:
Would the C/U/H thread be different from “Dispatches from Collegeland” ( https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=8107 ), which started a couple of months ago?
Yeah, I meant a place where people applying to college could ask questions of college attendees and I could ask questions about grad school. Dispatches is just that, dispatches.
Happy 2011 everyone!
Happy 2011 to you too!
New Year’s Eve was great. My family and three others (10 kids total, almost all teenagers) went out to my friend’s grandparents’ lake place. All of the kids went sledding in our swimsuits (yes, you read that right) on the hill behind their house and then hung out in the hot tub for a long time. Then we watched the ball drop and drank sparkling cider and all of that fun stuff. It was a good end to a good year.
Happy 2011!
I went and watched The Chronicles of Narnia, the 3rd movie… It was BORING. I was ready to fall asleep in the middle.
“For Narnia!” and “You are a star.” Such stupid lines…
I agree, that was one of the most boring movies I have ever seen.
In its defense, it was better than LWW and Prince Caspian.
Hey! I liked LWW! It was somewhat better than Prince Caspian, though.
They’re making the movies out of order. I is confused.
*remembers The Horse and His Boy*
Oh yeah. They’ll never make it a movie, because of how the Calormenes are portrayed. Too bad I lost interest in Narnia after that book and never read the rest. So yeah, I guess LWW was my favorite.
if they’ve done LWW, Prince Caspian, and Voyage of the Dawn Treader, they’re not making them out of order – that’s the order the books were written. Chronological order is different. Horse and His Boy is no. 6, I think?
No they’re not. They’re making the movies in the correct order, the order in which the books were written.
Horse and His Boy is somewhere up around 5 or 6, I forget which (and Magician’s Nephew is whichever H&HB isn’t).
No, they’re releasing them in publishing order. That’s why older editions list The Magician’s Nephew as the 6th book, when it’s the first one chronologically.
SFTDP
That comment just got three identical answers in a row.
Well, I didn’t know that. But now I feel stupid.
Don’t feel stupid–lots of the newer releases of the books publish them in chronological order, rather than the order they were written in, so many people don’t realize that the movie order is actually the correct order.
i saw the end of that while we were hanging around waiting to go watch tangled…it was a little different from what i remembered from the books. and the 3D monster was very silly (although i’m sure not being able to see it affected my judgement)
If you had seen the whole movie, you would see that it was more than a little different…
HELP! I’m trying to decide what to spend my $1 of iTunes money on! Should I get The Scientist (for only 69¢) or One-Winged Angel?
The Scientist! Not that I know the other song.
The other song is one of the greatest pieces of video game music of all time. Listen to it on YouTube or something, it’s outstanding.
One-Winged Angel is the best!
OK, I’ll get that. I could always get The Scientist another time (sorry TFATF). Plus, I am one of the people who doesn’t conside FF7 to be the most overrated game of all time.
Just saw Black Swan, as part of the annual Oscars movie-watching marathon my family always does.
…jesucristo.
I need to go hide under the bed now.
I want to see that. Is that a good idea?
I can’t recommend it, though I thought it was an absolutely brilliant, really well-done movie. I’m glad that I saw it, but I’m not going to actually encourage anyone to put themselves through the same experience I went through. It was fantastic and it was pure nightmare fuel. Also, it was very, VERY mature. My mom spent large portions of it trying to cover my eyes for varied reasons. Both of my parents absolutely hated it because they couldn’t get past the maturity and the nightmare fuel, but I feel like it was an excellent movie, especially the ending, which was pure gold. Oh, and let me note that your mileage may vary, big-time. Don’t expect to get any certain reaction to it from ANYBODY.
I still want to see it, because I’m an idiot and I can do with a serious movie.
FEAR THE HANGNAIL
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I’ve been meaning to see that… But it’s rated R, and I don’t enjoy going to the theater with my parents. On a side note, great graphic Lady B! Yesterday it didn’t change color on my computer, but it looks [overused teenage word of awe]!
I’m going to go with my cousin, I think. He says that if I ever want to see an R rated movie, he’ll take me, and sneak into a different movie with his girlfriend. (I’m such a rebel.) Also, he’s a police officer. Don’t you have confidence in the law?
Doctor Who watchers, who is your favorite Doctor?
Hmm…
I’ve seen all of Nine, Ten and Eleven, part of One, and the TV movie. I like all of them, just because they’re all so different. It’s hard to choose.(Probably Eight or Ten. I like Eight, but the movie was kind of bad. I need to find the audios)
Of New Who, I’d have to say 10, although I do like both 9 and 11 alot, as well. Classic Who, I really like 4, although Troughton (2) was brill, and I also liked Pertwee (3) a lot as well….
Hmm….
Well, I think it is actually 11. But that might just be Moffat’s brilliance.
*agreement*
Charlie McDonnell gave Matt Smith a badger puppet and Matt named it Charlie!!
“is it a badger? is it a badger? IT’S A BADGER! duuude, that’s COOL”
I’m still not sure what the deal with badgers is. I need to watch the Christmas special. Argh.
Moffat RULES.
I dunno, when I saw the first few episodes with 11 in them, I thought he was a total idiot, but as I watched more he got a lot better, and I’m not finished with season five.
Um, I think 10. 11 is okay, he gets better as season five progresses and he stops acting so…forced? But 10 is awesome. (“I’m the Doctor, and I just snogged Madame de Pompadour!!!” ) 9 I can’t stand for some reason. He annoys me more than Donna.
Then again, 4 is also awesome, but I’ve only seen five eps with him in it, so I can’t really judge.
I’ve only seen the revival, but 9 is my favorite. Eccleston hits all of the Doctor-nerves for me – he’s the right amount of alien and the right amount of imposing but is also at the same time quite kind. 10 feels too human and too partisan (though he is omg sexy), while 11 I like Matt Smith’s acting a great deal but his doctor is so incompetent.
11, but then again I’ve seen three episodes total of any of the others.
No, I take that last part back. I’ve also seen the Genesis of the Daleks. This doesn’t change my answer.
Ten definitely, with nine as a close second. I’m still not sure about Matt Smith.
Agreed. The tenth Doctor is the best.
From all I’ve seen of all of them, which isn’t nearly enough, Ten. I used to be really badly freaked out about the DW monsters, going “the Ood are going to attack me and robot Santas are going to kill me and the Weeping Angels are going to get me and I’m going to die”, and then I was like, “Wait a minute. If there’s monsters… then that means there’s a Doctor, too.” And it was definitely Ten I was picturing there.
Ten beats up the monsters underneath beds. He’s my Doctor.
Ugh, my [body-part] hurts so badly…I guess this is what having a hangover is like…bleh.
Speaking of hang-overs, did anyone see the Mythbuster’s episodes last night? They were all about drunk myths. The one where Adam both falls off the treadmill AND gets slapped was showed! Heehee…that was a funny one.
Oh, I’ve seen that one. I felt kind of bad about laughing at him.
I didn’t. Getting hurt for science: that’s Mythbusters.
Did you see the one where they test those internet myths including “invisible water”? And Adam made his voice all high and then really low? That was funny.
Mmmmm… no.
By the way, I saw a car a few days ago with the letters “LBK” and you were my first thought. Perhaps that belongs on You Know You’re Addicted to X When You Y.
You’re addicted to me? That’s so awesome…now rub my feet.
Haha, just kidding.
What did the LBK actually stand for?
License plate numbers. Presumably nothing. But still
Happy 2011, everyone! Is it January 2nd already?
I had a dream about the Weeping Angels. They were in the woods behind my house, banging on the deck and the walls. And I could see them moving(which actually looked kind of silly, now I think about it, but god was it terrifying). I then called my mom over(begging her to look at them), and when she came over they stopped moving. I then woke up, feeling like I was still in danger. Brrr.
Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away, and DON’T BLINK!
This means you have a mental image in your mind of them. CLOSE YOUR EYES
Great. before I was scared. Now I’m paranoid.
*closes eyes*
aksjhyo
*opens eyes* I can’t type. Curses.
I can. Hahahah.
But I’m not in danger/
I’m not dying.
I’m perfectly five.
I think I love you. But I hate you too.
*tries to sleep* *fails* *keeps eyes shut*
Some would say that love is hate.
They would be wrong.
rebecca, i saw that post in recent comments and was about to come make that exact reply. like, word for word.
so i liked it instead xP
I didn’t say that I said it.
Beware the weeping angel.
Oh no.
Do you have something in your eye?
Drove to church today in -18 degrees. Yeah.
What.
The official weather station said it was -14, but our car fluctuated between -18 and -19.
I just love the iPad. It’s so much easier to use than a touch. Also, more fun. Yay!
Oooh…avatar confusion…I was at the Apple store and my mom didn’t want me to use my “real” email.
It’s come to that point.
Well, I was away for the New Year, and didn’t get to celebrate it with y’all, but I must say, Holy Lasley what a beautiful thread topping. Truly spectacular, Lady Bunniful.
Ice is SO AWESOME. I went skating on the lake this morning and spent 2 hours staring at the trapped bubbles. So pretty! I took a ton of pictures XD
I was away for Christmas break. Now I’ve come back and there’s this terrific, amazing picture on the Random Thread; Her Lady Bunniful’s birthday is tomorrow; my sister has installed Wizard 101 on my laptop; and instead of remembering my misspelled blogname, the computer remembers my pseudonym from the Halloween Ball!
Oh yeah! This year, Portal 2 comes out!!!
Also, I got Oh My Goth! Version 2.0 ! It’s so rude, but it’s so totally AWESOME!!!!!
(Sorry about the space in front of the exclamation point. The preview button isn’t working, so I’m not sure how the HTML will work out.)
I have to go to school tomorrow… DDDD: I’ve pulled two all-nighters these past two nights, reading and drawing and writing, so all the sleep I’ve stored up has been wasted due to my inability to look at a clock. Zero period’s gonna suck.
I got watercolor pencils and I love them to pieces. My paintbrush is terrible, tho.
Murder-mystery-dinner-theatre scripts tomorrow too, and more music in band, but two stupid projects in science and math. At least I can work with my friend for the math one, but I can’t for science. At least I can do a report on myself (elements… still stuck on that part of the curriculum)!
Epicness at a restaurant after seeing Harry Potter 7:
We had just finished eating and were getting up to leave. I was sort of listening to the conversation the two women next to us were having, and the topic turned to the Reformation(the Protestant one). I had written an essay for history class about said subject, so kept listening. They started talking about what caused it, and one of the women told the other about an interesting theory she’d heard about: that the printing press caused the reformation, because it led to the Bible being printed. I had to leave at that point, so I didn’t hear the rest. But I had an intense urge to tell them(complete strangers) that I had just written an essay with that as my thesis.
I felt very gratified, especially since everyone else in my class had done something much more obvious to write an essay about.
So, I have three more bio questions, a math worksheet, and a chem lab to do, and it’s 12. The sensible thing to do is to play QWOP. *does so*
How sensible of you! The very thing I’d recommend. (Except I’d probably procrastinate with something else, not QWOP. But either way it’s procrastinating.)
It’s not like it’s an essay.
I’m not quite sure what you mean by that…
Hello, MuseBlog! I’m back (I have to say that yet again – I feel like this happens too much)! I’ve just been too busy, with school (ew ew ew) and Christmas vacation (Cebu!) and everything. Exams are coming up next week, so I feel this is the PERFECT time to start posting on MB again
I have good timing, don’t I?
It’s good to be back. *has lots to catch up on*
Welcome back, StQ!
Welcome back, Selenium! I was wondering where you had gone.
Thank you, Robert and Tesseract!
Welcome back!
Thanks! (Sorry, I didn’t see this until I had already posted 42.2.1.)
Ugh…my body was NOT ready to wake up early this morning. It was especially not ready for my…odd cat purring and rubbing against my face at 6 a.m.
My cat does that to! Exept if I don’t wake up he starts to shred all my drawing on my walls.
So then I have to get up.
Today I made my brother watch Doctor Who with me and he liked it. Tomorrow I go to spend almost a week with friends from school including one I haven’t seen in a year as she’s long ago graduated. Huzzah!
Nicely done with getting your brother to watch Doctor Who. I tried to get my cousin into it, but he ended up biting me then exiting the room… He’s an awfully mean 13 year old…
He bites? A 13 year-old bites people? That’s a discrace to the age…
He does! It astounds both my aunt and uncle.
Had a remarkably productive first day back.
Ouch, I hit my head really hard on the fish tank. I have no clue how; it’s not like it hangs over the edge of the cabinet or anything. I’m very surprised that neither my skull nor the fish tank is cracked.
Anyway, the first day back wasn’t that bad. My math teacher must’ve made her new year’s resolution to be nice, because she told us, “You can do these nine multiple choice questions for homework, but they’re a bit tough, so it’s okay if you don’t get through them.” Uhm, this is the teacher that gives us at least fifteen long, hard math problems every night without fail. I’m scared.
Also, the day just got a whole lot better because I downloaded the Mumford & Sons album “Sigh No More” on iTunes, and M&S is a band that I feel good about giving my money to. Of course, iTunes probably gets a lot of it, but… My friend and I spent all day obsessing over two interviews with the band, which led up to me inadvertently yelling “Marcus Mumford is a sexy name!” across the chemistry room. I feel like I yell things across rooms when I think everyone is talking loudly, but they’re really not too often. We’ll have to fix that…
You get back home six hours later and all the water has leaked onto the floor…
Urf. You know what’s not fun? Six straight days (and counting) of gastroenteritis. I think I got it from a bacon burger from a pub in Vermillion, South Dakota, but I don’t know. I do know, however, that I’m quite sick of my daily schedule being: sleep, bathroom, sleep, read, bathroom, sleep. And I think I’m losing weight since I have no appetite. At least I’m not dehydrated.
Blah. I am an idiot. This morning, I slept right through the partial solar eclipse that I was treating as my consolation prize for missing the lunar eclipse in December. Even though I knew it was coming. I woke up, went “Ughh…” and went back to sleep again. I am so angry at myself right now…Great opportunity, right over my head, and I sleep through it? Arghhh. I think I’m going to go now and beat my head a little more…
*hugs*
WHY AM I STILL AWAKE
because I can’t sleep on the all night train is why, and also the bloody nose I have currently. Seriously it was just cruel–finally made it into my dorm room and am in sight of my bed and then BAM it’s bleeding time.
Oh well… should stop soon and then I can pass out for a few hours and completely screw up my sleep schedule again. Woo!
Seriously excited for January/Winter Term though. I am literally just working tech 5 days a week for the musical production based off the Firefly tv show. And then goofing off all the other time. It is going to be the best.
Think the blood’s started to clot, so I’ll elaborate more later, bye all.
I’d forgotten how addicting MB can be. Oops. And exams are just a week away…
welp, i know at least one person in all my classes this year!
it’s only the morning of day 2 but i’ve gotten through all the classes at least once so here goes
architecture: ohgeeze. i knew it was silly of me to take a 600-level class in something i had no background in. but i think i can manage it! it’s my only hard class, it sounds really interesting, and there’s loads of extra credit to be had.
i walked in and felt super uncomfortable because everyone seemed to know each other except me, and everyone seemed to be architects. when class started, the teacher asked if there was anyone there who hadn’t been in 600 with her last quarter. only a few of us raised our hands, so i guess that’s why everyone was such good friends already. then she said something about “if you’re undergrad, blah blah. grad students already know this” and i was like “oh god grad students?” (keep in mind i’m sort of a sophomore heh). later she mentioned the papers we’d be doing (there are two) and she said “they’re not bad, it’s only about three pages of writing, and then LOTS and LOTS of diagrams.” that was another “oh god” moment, because i have next to no diagramming experience. i have a feeling i’ll be getting to know my TA really well.
on the plus side, it was really interesting material and i’m really excited to learn this stuff. plus there are lectures every week that you can go to for bonus points, and they’re on wednesdays which i actually have completely free, so i’ll probably be doing a lot of those. and this is my only remotely difficult class so i’ll be spending a lot more time on it
also i apparently sort of know someone in the class! not really, i met her yesterday at fencing but we’re both good friends with tom and she apparently recognized me, because tom said she was an architect and i mentioned i was taking a class and she turned to tom and was like “i told you it was her! yeah i saw you there.” she said the assignments weren’t too bad, but that the midterms and finals required a good amount of studying which i’d sort of been banking on at that point anyway. she mentioned something about how this quarter we’re getting the buildings to memorize in advance (i have no idea how to “memorize a building.” maybe we have to like recognize it and name it? or label bits on it? i’ll find out) because she said last quarter the exams were really hard because they only had about a week to study those.
we didn’t have recitations for this week, so i had a bit of a longer break before english. it’s 398 so it’s the required writing class for the english major (i already took a 398 but it was in history). it looked a fairly standard english class. the teacher seemed nice, we’re reading some good stuff. one really interesting thing was apparently if you participate really a lot you can earn exemption from the final exam. most days it’s hard to stop me from talking the whole time, so i’ll be sort of going for that exemption.
also a friend of mine who was in my sci-fi class last year turned out to be in that class, so that’s cool. i’m kind of amazed how in a college of 50,000 undergrads, i know someone in every class i’m taking this quarter.
after english i did some work and such and then at 6 i had an officer meeting for graphic novel club. i’m thinking i’ll let someone else be VP next year, it’s super fun but i’m already on the board for sci-fi and idk it seems like a lot of officering. but we have some fun stuff planned for the quarter, some crafty comic-strip-creation things, a movie night, a trip to the art museum, etc.
then i sort of rushed the end of the meeting because i was meeting up with people at the RPAC (rec center) for the famous monday night dinners that i missed all last quarter because i had work. it was a lot of fun, the food at the RPAC is great but i hardly ever motivate myself to go all the way over there. there were a whole bunch of friends there and i dragged jon out of the meeting as well because he said he wanted to try fencing (he did it in middle school but hasn’t since then)
so after dinner tom and jon and i went to fencing. i was happy to have jon as a fellow n00b because although i know half of fencing club already, most of them are a lot more advanced (a few of them are actually teachers) so they were busy looking awesome and waving swords around. so jon and another newer girl sarah (who went to jon’s school and was really cool) and i hung out in the corner with kelsey and did footwork and stuff. then we just sort of sat around and talked, and tom came over to chat as well and then a guy that i didn’t know but think might have been one of jake’s friends* let me and jon and sarah stab him just for fun (i say stab…obvs he was wearing the jacket and the swords have rubber tips)
today was
anthropology: seemed fairly interesting for a 200-level science GEC. i’m taking the class with a friend of mine so that’s cool. i really hate the chairs in the room (they’re attached to the tables, they’re the ones that sort of swing out but they don’t go far enough back for me) but it seems like a decent class
and then at 10:45 i have my first shift of work for the quarter (i’m working lunch, should be interesting? and by interesting i mean busy as hell) and then free foods at 2. then i have to go buy textbooks and get some work and/or homework done (no band today) and then first sci-fi meeting of the year at 8.
tomorrow i have architecture again and english again and then i’m free for the day, although there might be more architecture at night for extra credit. i probably won’t go this week though. then thursday i have more anthro, work, and then i’m skipping out on band (the first a-band meeting of the quarter and u-band auditions, oops) to go road tripping
*i remember jake mentioning that he had a friend who did fencing, and i sort of vaguely recognized him in a “i may have fb stalked you at some point” kind of way, but i didn’t really think anything of it until i was looking for my gloves and talking to tom and i found a pop tart in my coat. i was very confused for a bit and then i was like “wait no, this is jake’s pop tart!**” guy-who-let-me-stab-him was standing behind tom at the time getting his stuff out of the cubbies and he sort of laughed like he knew who i was talking about. so i have suspicions. though i suppose he may have just laughed because it’s an odd thing to say.
**story behind that, i was hanging out at jake’s and wanted a pop tart, and he said if i ate one i had to take the other. so i ate one and i didn’t want the other one so i tried to accidentally-on-purpose forget it and he was like “no take this” and put it in my coat pocket, where i actually did forget about it until i was looking through my pockets for things. (don’t worry, i threw it away, i didn’t eat it. my pockets are probably gross xP)
</monsterpost> bonus points if you read all that
turns out jake’s friend was the guy who let us stab him. i have the most interesting ways of meeting his friends…
Sorry to hear that, Piggy. Never had it, but it doesn’t exactly sound pleasant.
I have two questions, so I might as well ask them here. First, if you were to go about abrading a hunk of deer bone into an arrowhead, what kind of stone would you use? The bone is 2 1/2 – 3 inches long, and is more or less a convex surface. Second, what Doctor Who season should I start with? I would like to understand why there are multiple ‘doctors’ over multiple seasons, and I’d love to know where to watch, as we’ve switched to DirecTV and no longer have OnDemand.
Happy 2011!
Series 1 of the reboot. Watch on netflix instant view if you have that (goes up to series 4, the rest is relatively easily available on the internet [not legally]). Have fun!
Ah, well this depends upon your local geology. Sandstone would probably work best, if you’ve got it.
I HATE THE GED OFFICE.
I got my application in in November to take the test in December. Didn’t hear from them. So I called, I believe I posted about this last month. If you didn’t read that, then the gist was that they don’t do standby testing, and there’s no way to make sure you get in the next month. So I was overflowed to January. Okay, January, I can live with that. Again, I didn’t hear from them. So I called again today. Oh, HAHA NOPE YOU CAN’T GET IN THIS MONTH EITHER! So I get to take it in the middle of……FEBRUARY! After when applications are due for colleges! Yay! Bloody cake bakers. So I have another month to wait. Joy.
This resulted in crying. I’m quite displeased with this development.
But for now I shall concentrate my efforts on grilled cheese. Yum.
Grilled cheese and tomato soup=best thing ever
Completely. Agreed.
Now I’m hungry. And lunch is 3 hours away…
More wonderfulness from Vi Hart. (Thanks for the link, Jadestone!)
Ooh! Yummy!
WIN
That was AWESOME!
Oh, that’s great!
If you like Vi Hart’s videos, you might like the book The Number Devil.
God, soap operas suck. *desperately needs something to do*
Draw a pretty picture.
My artistic skills suck.
Hmm…
Look at pictures of John Barrowman?
Where’s Alan?
Well, the former only entertains for a little while. As for the latter, Alan is hanging out with friends, otherwise I’d probably be talking to him on the phone. Or skyping.
Or you can bake cookies. I’m making chocolate crinkle cookies for my euro/chem classes/to bribe the chair of model congress with. (I want to be on board next year.)
I don’t like cooking….Although I don’t mind *eating* cookies.
Take some of mine, I accidentally baked four dozen…
Mmmmm, delicious! Thanks ever so much!
Watch Torchwood and irritate your relatives.
I only have Torchwood: Children of Earth on DVD, and I’d like to finish rewatching season 2 and the second half of season 1 before I rewatch CoE. And, unfortuantely, I can’t stream videos online while at home, because it uses up to much of our download allotment.
And irritating relatives is fun, and all, but my sis sent back to school really early Saturday, and both my parents work Mon-Fri, so I was home all by myself.
And, unfortuantely, I can’t stream videos online while at home, because it uses up to much of our download allotment.
okay.
it uses up to much of our download allotment.
hang on…
to much of our download allotment.
something’s wrong here.
download allotment.
O.O
“it uses up to much of our internet allotment.”
There ya go.
Yeah, it should be “uses up too much of our download allotment”….I can’t type, apparently. Or did you mean there’s something wrong with our internet provider having a download allotment, in general? Cuz yeah, that’s caking annoying.
Glasseh’s not addressing your grammar and/or spelling, if that helps answer your question.
What Piggy said. It’s the concept of a bandwidth allotment; I cannot grasp that.
I had to take a bunch of IQ tests today. part of them was reading some made up words.
One of them was Wung.
What are you talking about? Wung isn’t a made up word! The test writers were misinformed.
I just saw the funniest video: look up “Kesha parody astrobiology”.
History Teacher: So what historical movies did everyone see over break?
Student: The King’s Speech!
Student: All Quiet on the Western Front!
Student: Tron!
I will marry said last student. It will happen.
I hated waking up today. The teachers had a furlough day yesterday, so today was our first day of school, and I was asleep the entire time. Argh. Never ask me to conjugate Spanish verbs when I’m not properly awake. The resulting sentence came out something like “During the week I hello a group of five music peruvian. From Peru. And I at this moment will not like music much because the woman what I clean our house told me that they were for adolescent sisters. I should what listening.”
And I made a comic about World War I! It’s kind of like Axis Hetalia, with the countries personified as people, but really more like Scandinavia and the World. (Anyone here read that?) Germany is this sad man who everyone hates on and who cries a lot, Serbia is an ultra-feminist, independent woman, Austria-Hungary is a complete manipulative sleazebag, Russia is Serbia’s super-protective big brother who offers everyone vodka constantly, Belgium is a cute, innocent little girl, America is a guy with flags attached to his shoulders and about a thousand Beserk Buttons, and England is a guy in a top hat who’s incredibly protective of Belgium. France is pretty much “the other one”. It’s ridiculously fun!
I’ve read it! SaTW is the best comic EVER.
Well, if it was just “Tron”, as in the original, that would be PART of history- it was a milestone in computer animation.
And Canada is America’s hat! (Yeah, I’ve read some SatW).
Blah
And one of my best friends who I haven’t seen in three and a half weeks was back at school today.
So bored… I had to stay home from school today to get more braces and some nasty tasting glue put on my teeth.
Well, at least that last part is good!
Yeah, except I missed seeing her.
Oh well… tomorrow.
Hey, can anyone fill out this survey for me? It’s for school, and I need about nine people to answer. Thanks!
1. What was the last magazine you read?
2. Do you read magazines on a regular basis?
3. What genre of magazines do you like to read?
4. How often do you read magazines?
5. Is there a specific magazine you always read?
6. Do you read magazines aimed at a specific age group?
7.If your answer to the above question is yes; is it an age group that is not the one you belong to?
8. What sort of magazine articles do you enjoy reading?
1. Consumer Reports
2. No.
3. Whatever I can find.
4. Not very – once every few weeks?
5. No.
6. Adults.
7. No.
8. Well-written and informative ones.
1. Muse.
2. Only Muse.
3. Musish.
4. Once every one or two months, I only read Muse.
5. Yes, Muse!
6. I dunno.
7. Doubt it, but it’s a possibility as I have no idea what the age group is.
8. Most anything in Muse.
Umm… Your convienence sampling on MuseBlog will make you survey incredibly biased, are you doing this intentionally?
1. Muse
2. Muse
3. Muse (science)
4. Once a month
5. Muse
6. Yes
7. I do not belong
8. Muse.
1. Newsweek.
2. Yes.
3. Scientific, political, and fashion. (oh shut up, i like looking at fashion.)
4. Every few weeks or so.
5. Muse.
6. Yes.
7. Yes.
8. All of them, really.
1) Newsweek.
2) Yes.
3) Science, world affairs and geography.
4) If I’m at home, every day, because we have them in our bathroom.
5) Muse, National Geographic, and Newsweek.
6) Adults.
7) Yes.
8) Well-written ones clearly explaining the subject and its importance.
1. Nintendo Power
2. Yes
3. Science and video games
4. Maybe every other day
5. Hmmm…both Nintendo Power and Muse, I guess
6. Yes
7. Yes, in one case
8. That’s a pretty broad question. I suppose I like articles about technology.
1. New Scientist
2. Yes
3. World affairs, literary, scientific
4. I flip through them probably every day
5. Muse, New Scientist, Newsweek, Cricket, Odyssey
6. I guess Muse, Cricket, and Odyssey are aimed towards one age group…
7. I think I’ve just aged out.
8. Humorous ones.
1. InStyle
2. Yes
3. Fashion magazines/Hollywood tabloids
4. Once a month or more
5. InStyle
6. I read American Girl because I’m in the habit
7. Yes
8. Fun ones
Wow, I feel like Elle Woods now.
Thanks for all the answers, guys! If anyone answered after PM, sorry, but I didn’t get you in.
This might be a bit late, but just in case-
1) The New Yorker.
2) Yes.
3) Anything to do with news, science, or technology.
4) At least twice a week.
5) The New Yorker and The Week, and Make Magazine.
6) Yes.
7) No, most of my magazines are aimed at adults.
8) Well-written, cogently argued editorials and detailed news summaries.
My teacher’s assignment for homework today was to go outside and record the angles of stars in relation to the earth with our homemade sextants several times and see how they move. It’ll be a little sloppy since we made the sextants out of cardboard and tape and straws and string and protractors and a paperclip, but STILL. It’s awesome.
I wish I could do something that cool for school! School is so boring, I hate it so much… *growls* *bites teachers*
I know!
*happiness* I also have a really awful teacher this year too though, so maybe this makes up for it? Anyway, it’s going to be a fun unit…
Same.
MONTY IS SITTING ON MY FLOOR RIGHT NOW!!!
i offered her bedspace but she declined. BUT OUR LOVE IS STILL STRONG AND PURE
we’re heading to pennsylvania tomorrow to see liv. hurrah kokons!
PA? Where?! I live in PA!
I feel so out of touch. Curse Freshman year.
60- You’re asking these questions on a fan site for a specific magazine? I’m not sure that will get you unbiased results.
Oof. What a bizarre first day of the semester. There was a school shooting at another school, so I was in lockdown in the auditorium when I should have been eating lunch and going to sixth hour. Students are about to find out information about these things much faster than administrators, the media, or probably police. Within two minutes of being shoved without explanation into the auditorium with 600 other students, I learned A. why we were in lockdown, B. the status of the school at which the shooting was taking place, C. who had been inured, and D. the actions of the police department. Half an hour later, the principal briefly told us A.
Uy. But it could have been much worse–only two people were injured, and neither of them were students. They were principals, and they’re in the hospital now. The shooter was found dead in his car a few blocks away from the school. It so easily could have happened at my school, or even started there and moved to my school as the shooter drove away. It happened during lunch, which was really bad timing, both at the school involved and my own. At the school involved, it’s pretty self-explanatory: hundreds of students in an open space. At my school, the lockdown started just as a third of the school was leaving their classes to go to lunch. None of the teachers knew what to do, and they were screaming contradictory instructions. Eventually I wound up in the auditorium.
What a day.
That’s terrible!
62~ STOP BY IN MARYLAND! Or not, be like that.
My mom and I are now currently trying out Google Chrome instead of our usual Internet Explorer. (It’s a long story, involving a virus.) (Not that we got the virus because of IE! The computer people installed Google Chrome when they rid us of the virus, however, so yeah.) So far, it seems a bit faster, but also a bit annoying as it’s hard to get to bookmarks/favorites, etc. Oh, and printing. How the cake do you print on Google Chrome?
Anyway, I was wondering if anybody could tell me their opinions on the different browsers.
I hated safari on a pc, though I love it on a mac. I love firefox on a PC, though I hate it on a mac. IE is just annoying.
I’ve never had a problem with IE on my home computer, strangely enough. Which is more than I can say for Firefox, which takes 20 minutes to load. Or maybe that’s my computer…
Printing on Chrome is just like printing on other browsers. Hit ctrl-P, or click “Print” in the menu.
What menu?
What? The menu. It should be a wrench, in the upper right-hand corner. (It might have a different picture; I’ve been on pre-beta releases for months and months and there are often slight differences from the normal versions.)
Well. I’m an idiot…I don’t even know what I thought that was. Hey, there are other buttons on there! Oh! I get it now! That makes things quite a bit simpler…
And as for bookmarks, you can toggle (again in the menu) whether to always display the bookmark bar.
I’ve never really used anything but Safari, and always on a Mac. I’ve always been happy enough with it that I was never interested in switching.
Ok. I know i haven’t been on for a while. How old are the thumbs?
Maybe about a year old? Don’t know exactly when MuseBlog 2 went up…
Whoo, no, not at all. You must have been gone as well. The “like” buttons are just a couple weeks old.
(Incidentally, MB2 went up, if I remember correctly, in April of 2009.)
Whoops. I thought en meant the avatars, as in thumbnails.
She, for future reference.
Thought so, but didn’t want to risk it. People get mad when you get their gender wrong on the Internet…
The thumbs up buttons have only been here about a month or two. Three at the max. They’re a relatively new thing.
Welcome back, by the way!
I think they were added sometime mid-December. I’m sure you could figure out exactly when it was by looking to see when the massive debate started.
Because I have nothing better to do….I went and looked. November 29th was when the “like” buttons started. So about 5 weeks.
Ouch. I have what appears to be a spider bite on my arm, and it hurts. Not the bite, but the arm. It feels kind of like muscle pain, but it’s probably because the spider (or thing that bit me) was mildly poisonous. Not too serious, since I’m still alive and all, but it’s not pleasant.
EPIC color-changing picture, yo!!
So, just thought I’d let ya’ll know: if all goes according to plan, tomorrow, my new license plate will be:
SHDWKAT
Boom, baby!!
Just used an old English handout to write equations on repeatedly while studying for my Physics class. I wonder what somebody going through our trash would think of finding Yeats’ “The Second Coming” on one side of a piece of paper and variations on Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation on the other?
Don’t worry, I do that all the time.
I’m not worried, just amused.
Also, we had to illustrate the poem, so under the text, there’s a pencil sketch of a person in silhouette looking at the sky, where a bird flies towards a spiral full of the random weird hieroglyphics I like to doodle.
(“Turning and turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon can no longer hear the falconer.”)
Hallo, Museblog! I’m in Bali! At an Internet cafe! Probably very hyper!
I suppose my earlier message from a couple of days ago didn’t show up, but happy new year. I shall have more time to catch up on stuff when I get back. And then school. Meh.
Hello, Choklit Orange! How’s Bali?
Bali was great! How was Cebu?
Cebu was good, very relaxing and a lot of fun. Glad you had a good time!
My school limits students to taking three AP classes per year.
What. the. heck.
I planned on taking physics, APUSH, art history, and English, but I see I can’t do that now. *annoyed sniff*
Remind me to tell you guys tomorrow about how I walked around school in a ball gown today. I’m too tired right now.
talk to your adviser? You might be able to get an exception.
If all else fails, drag your parents in to talk about how mature and responsible you are and how this is limiting your chances for college success blah blah blah etc
There will only be two AP classes offered to my grade at all next year, only one of which I’ll take (I’m choosing Chemistry instead of AP Environmental Science). Actually, I take that back. My math teacher’s working to have one AP Calculus AB class next year. That would be really nice, if it actually happens.
I agree with Lizzie that you should talk to your advisor or counselor. You’re already taking AP classes and proving that you can handle them. if you personally feel like you can deal with the major workload, that’s a decision that you should be able to make for yourself.
Don’t forget to tell us about how you walked around school in a ball gown!
I’m not sure you realize the amount of material covered in AP Physics and the time it takes to build a decent portfolio for AP Art. My advice is to take three this year, if you get all fives and a GPA above 95 then present your case next year (assuming you aren’t a senior). If that’s not going to work, online classes (JHU’s CTY program is good) or a local community college are also around.
At least at my school, Physics B was basically first-year physics with two chapters added – not that bad. Physics C is another story.
(also I think art history =/= ap art? dunno)
APUSH is a lot of work. AP English isn’t bad, though.
Or at least that’s how it was at my school.
You probably won’t want to take more than three, anyway. The work is pretty crazy.
I think my brother might’ve been lying to me about this.
I need to talk to my guidance counselor…
Lizzie- My mom doesn’t want me to take more than two. I’d need to work this out for myself…
Vendaval- I’m pretty sure I can do AP physics, and AP art history is a textbook course, there’s no actual being artistic involved. I know I’m going to be able to do AP physics, but I’m still sort of on the fence about it. I’m the kind of person that doesn’t really, well, apply herself. Yeah, I’m sort of lazy. I’m going to try to improve for the rest of this year, and see where that gets me; if I’m still having issues, I probably won’t take it.
And back to Lizzie- I’m doing AP euro and AP bio this year, and AP euro is supposed to be much worse than APUSH, though I can’t figure out how it could possibly be easier… AP euro isn’t a very hard in my school, it’s just a lot of work sometimes.
3 in the morning is a lonely time. I am watching time-lapse videos of mold growing. It’s rather fascinating.
Earlier I was talking to 3 of the girls who live in the quad on my floor. Apparently they unplugged their refrigerator before break, like we’re supposed to, but they left all their food inside. “I don’t know how we didn’t think that was going to be a huge problem” was the way one of them phrased it I think. There’s a layer of mold over everything as well as inside all the containers.
I told them to get a bunch of cups/jars and put each type of mold in it’s own until they get a decent amount of each, then throw all the types into one big jar with nothing for them to eat/grow from. They’d be forced to eat each other. And then see which would be strongest in that situation.
“Like cockfights except, it’d take longer , and peta would probably not protest” was how I explained it when I was talking to Mel.
I don’t know why I’m telling you lot this but who knows, I may want record of all my late night ramblings at some point.
I was up till 5am last night for no real reason but I think I’ll go to bed now…
DID THEY DO IT
MOLD WARS
also yes that keeps happening to me, i stayed up until 8 once because it was more effort to go to sleep somehow….
Exams officially start tomorrow.
Good luck!
Much luck to you. And if they offer you Chex Mix, don’t eat it… they always try to wreck our concentration with snack foods at my school.
I have some questions… What does en mean? And what does wung mean? Also, if you haven’t already, Google “find Chuck Norris” and I think click on the first page.
En is a gender-neutral pronoun used by MBers in cases where we don’t know another ‘blogger’s gender. For example, ‘When was the last time en posted?’ or ‘What was ens favourite colour again?’ I doubt you’d find it in popular use anywhere else, though.
You’ll find “en” defined in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog. “Wung” isn’t there, though.
Maybe it’s time to update our glossary. Anyone like to help with that?
You’d be hard-pressed to find a definition for wung that fits into the space of a few lines, though, I think.
Wung isn’t accepted by this comment box’s spell check. That’s a problem :S
Depending. It’s not too out of date is it?
Sure!
As for descriptions of wungs…
From Robert Coontz:
“Most of what is known about wungs can be summed up by the sentence ‘Wungs are very mysterious.'”
“…they seem to be interdimensional beings. Imagine a string of yarn threaded back and forth through a piece of cloth. To shadow-people living on the cloth (inhabitants of a two-dimensional plane), each piercing (passage from three dimensions into two) would look like a separate “object,†but in reality there is only one thread. In a similar way — I can’t say for sure, but hypothetically speaking, the many members of this flock, herd, or school of wungs could all be the same wung.”
From Master Baker:
“British wungs don’t have a colour. Or a shape, for that matter, unless you consider that “rotund†is a shape. But not round, you understand. That’s far too specific for a wung. It’s dificult to pin them down anyway, because of our traditions.Should one spot a wung, one must always rotate three times anticlockwise and shout WUNG!’, by which time the creature in question has disappeared. Well, I say ‘creature’. ‘Phenomenon’ would be a better description. Anyway, it’s very difficult while driving.”
These are all a bit lengthy, but…
Thank you greatly, Monsieur HTML Gnome!
SFTDP but as for wung, you can type it into the search bar. There’s a thread on discussing what they are, I believe.
Or just Ctrl-F on the expanded list of “What’s Here”. Might be a bit easier.
You know what’s fun? Posting from school when I’m supposed to be doing something else.
Knuckle touch for minds thinking alike! *fist bump*
Monty and i are chilling in my room still, be jealous! we are about to leave for pennsylvania
I am jealous!
hullo to you both!
GUESS WHO GOT HER AWESOME VIKING HAT IN THE MAIL TODAY AND IS WEARING IT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
((Can you tell I’m excited?
Here’s a picture if you want to see it:
http:// ii.sundancecatalog. com/sundance/images//products/en_us/detail/52547 .jpg
Whoa!
Yeah, I know! It. IS. EPIC.
Epic.
It is truly awesome! I advise wearing it to the mall, with a battle ax if you can find one.
I wish…maybe I could borrow one of my brother’s swords, or make my own spear…yeah…
* gasp * That is flammy! * high-fives *
My mom let me buy an Archie comic the other day and I just read it! I hadn’t bought any new ones for years, but it’s still as funny as I remember. Go Riverdale!
It startled me in high school to realize that I was as old as Archie and Jughead.
Wait, really?
I totally did not realize that. Cool.
Same. They seem to have so much more free time… but then, their school’s pretty chaotic regardless, so I don’t think I’d switch places.
Yeah, it seems like a pretty idyllic place.
I think the chaos in Riverdale would negate the bonus of free time. Sure, I’d have less work to do, but with all the weirdness going on the hallways, it’d be hard to focus on what I *did* have.
72 (Jadestone)~ That is awesome. Mold wars sound fantastic. You have made my “awesome person of the week” list for that.
LittleBasementKitten~ Cute hat! Reminds me of something you’d see in How to Train Your Dragon.
Oof. I need to wake up early tomorrow to drive to the airport to drop Pip off, which I really don’t want to do. These 9 days have completely flown past.
Thanks Axa & MF
So awake. So very very awake. Watched a movie with people in a different dorm till 1am. Walked back to dorm, stopped to draw dragon in the snow in front of my dorm.
Went in. Decided to go back out (minus jacked/gloves, but I had a sweater on). Wandered a bit then drew swirls and spirals and squiggles all over Tappin square. Lots of them.
Around 2am wandered back to my dorm. It was magical outside, snowing and all. Means that the designs’ll be covered by morning, but oh well!
I’ve run out of things to do now, so bedtime I guess : P
I read a description of your college in one those college books yesterday. It had a quote about how a lot of the random fun things happen late at night. I thought of you.
Just checked out a biography of Carl Sagan today. Kai, have you read it? It’s by William Poundstone.
I have not. There seems to be a serious scarcity of bios on him in my local bookstores and libraries.
Bali: It rained for seven days and seven nights, and then it rained some more.
It was completely awesome, though. Among other things, I learned how to make fermented coconut wine, swam half a kilometer in the ocean in the dark, kissed a monk, and got my foot stuck in a giant clam. And the shopping. Did I mention the shopping? I now have a boat-shaped kite. A boat shaped kite. Maybe you didn’t hear me… I have a boat-shaped kite!
You kissed a monk?
Technically, it wasn’t my fault. A bunch of teenage monks invited me to join them in fishing, and one of them raced me swimming back to shore. I lost, so I came with him to have dinner at a hut belonging to his grandmother, who pronounced us a good couple- apparently being half-Indian makes you “Balinese enough”- and advised us to schedule a summer wedding to avoid monsoon season. I didn’t think monks were allowed to marry. He walked me back to the house we were staying at with our friends, and spontaneously kissed me. Thankfully, my parents had gone to a New Year’s party with the friends we were staying with.
Okay, so maybe it was my fault. On the upside, I had some excellent curry and for the first time kissed someone at midnight on New Year’s.
I’m off to get some sleep before I lose total control of my brain.
Balinese monks don’t sound very monkish. Maybe he’s a closet Unitarian.
Unitarian monks… that’s a frightening thought.
Some monastic traditions are a bit like boarding schools; young men go live together to study not-entirely-practical subjects, and then go off to other schools or to find jobs later.
Bali sounds awesome! Take pictures, write notes!
You should marry him!
Ohmygossshhhhhhh that’s so cool! Lucky.
You got your foot stuck in a GIANT CLAM??
Reminds me of a Classic Who episode…..in which, if I recall correctly, one of the male companions got his foot stuck in a giant clam.
Genesis of the Daleks? I finished watching that, like, ten minutes ago. XD I love Tom Baker now. ♥
Probably, if you just finished watching that and there were giant clams….I couldn’t even recall which Doctor the story occurred with.
That happened in a Black Jack anime episode.
A popular plot.
I was wearing flippers. Giant clams are very easy to get stuck in. I suppose I ought to be glad that they don’t seem to be able to close.
Guess where it snowed? And guess who’s typing this at school because there wasn’t a two-hour delay, even though my bus got here towards the end of first period?
Well, as nobody else seems to be around to do it:
*sympathy pies*
Thank you! *pies back*
And guess who has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO in Language Arts?
Haha, I get it. Procrastination FTW!
Actually, no. I literally had nothing to do, as my current project was already finished.
We didn’t get a delay, either, although once we got into school we had extended homeroom because a good 60-70% of the people in my class hadn’t showed up yet…turns out a delay would have been better all along. *sigh*
I agree with what I thought when I was younger – fax machines are magic, because you get something physical from somebody far away through a wire!
I spent most of classes today drawing more comics with my World War I country anthropomorphic personifications. They’re chibis now! I call them countribis.
My favorite character at this point is probably Austria. He’s so unlucky in love! He met a guy at work named Hungary who seemed nice, but they went on one date, got really drunk, and woke up handcuffed to each other with the key missing and neither of them remembering what happened. Then he met this beautiful girl called Serbia, but she dumped him because “she wanted her independence”, and they had a really messy breakup. Then he met this really nice guy called Germany. Germany loved him unconditionally, took him to romantic places like France and Belgium, and stuck by him when times were tough. They stuck together for years and years! But then Germany changed. He started obsessing over Austria’s looks, insisting that he dye his hair blond and get blue contacts. He got meaner, and he lashed out at all their friends. And he grew this really stupid toothbrush mustache. So eventually Austria broke up with him. Germany stared at him for a few seconds and went, “Fine. See if I spare you.”
“Spare me?” said Austria.
In retrospect, that probably should have been a warning.
Ha ha!
Poor Austria.
According to Wikipedia, after World War II ended and the Allies kicked Germany out, Austria made a new Constitution in which “‘everlasting’ neutrality was incorporated”. So, in other words, Germany broke Austria’s heart so badly that Austria has sworn to never love again. It is my opinion that this is the most adorable thing ever.
If you haven’t read Hetalia, you must.
Finally I can take the computer and escape to my room. Our house always has music playing, sometimes different songs from different speakers because of our different musical tastes. My older sister was blasting Katy Perry, well my younger brother was listening to rap. Not to mention the music my parents were listening to, which was some kind of Korean folk music. That has to be the one part of my heritage I don’t want to be closer to. It was conflicting, to say the least. Of course, now I’m playing my music at top volume to drown them out.
Is anybody else’s family so at odds with each other in music?
What music were you playing?
Emo! What else?
Emo Philips?
Emo the genre.
We used to be when my brother was here. Now my sister and I battle, but it’s a lot less serious, because my music is contained in my room pretty well, and hers in hers. The one time I get truly annoyed at her is when she leaves the radio on and goes out of her room. Meaning I get to listen to Katy Perry on repeat.
… I hate radio.
-A
My mom likes Glee music (good IN MODERATION…) and eighties pop, my brother likes, I don’t know, eighties rock? and I like indie and alt and indie folk. We all hate each other’s music, but I think everyone hates Mumford & Sons, my favorite, the most.
The Sooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnsssssssssssssssss. ♥
Taking down the Christmas tree… I’m covered in pine sap and melted candy canes.
My mom took the tree down last night and put it out on the sidewalk for the DPW to pick up. When I left for school this morning I noticed some pinecones on the tree. I assumed that they had fallen off the overhanging tree in our front yard, so I pulled at them, but they were stuck. So I thought, hmm, I don’t remember our Christmas tree having pinecones on it, and walked off for school. Then after school I went home for ten minutes. I noticed the pinecones again when I was leaving for the conservatory and observed them more closely…and noticed that they were actually affixed to the wreath that my mom had thrown out on top of the tree. Fail. All pine needles look alike.
Note as you read this: our apartment is on the fourth floor overlooking a parking lot containing a number of rather nice cars.
Me: Okay, if you take that end of the tree we can carry it out the door.
Dad: What? No! We’ll get needles all over the living room!
Me: …Do you have a better idea? (a question that should never be asked)
Dad: Hmm… Sophie, go stand outside under the window.
Me: What? Why? Oh… no… please… no…
Dad: Yep. Guarde l’eau!
Yet another reason our neighbors are going to hate us for all eternity.
Maybe Stephenie Meyer is actually a Dalek.
EXPLAIN! EX-PLAIIIN!
So at 2am I was all “OH MY GOD I NEED COOKIES”
And I was talking to my collegefriend(who is at home for winter term) online and she was all “aww I’d make stuff with you”
And then I remembered guy-who-lives-across-the-hall (who is also collegefriend’s boyfriend) had bought cookie dough mix stuff a few days ago when we went foodshopping so I was all “DO YOU STILL HAVE IT CAN WE MAKE COOKIES LIKE NOW?” And he was all “YES.”
So we made cookies and our RA friend showed up so we could borrow her baking sheet (we asked her in an IM when we saw she was online XD) and skyped collegefriend so she could be there too.
I am making little sense. Happy nearly 4 am!
I really like this story.
Today I realized that as of yesterday I’ve been on MuseBlog for six months. Wow, that went by fast…
… Welcome, Mizazuki! XD
Sorry. Haven’t been here to greet you.
-A
ATTENTION EVERYONE WHO LOVES WUNGS!
Help me revive the Wung thread? P*eaze?
I had venison last night.
Now I’m eating pumpkin scones and drinking grapefruit juice. I hate grapefruits, but for some reason, this juice is kind of bearable, if unpleasant.
… Random food update!
-A
90~ Cookie baking at 2AM sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
It snowed last night, so the first thing I saw when I woke up this morning was whiteness. It was quite pretty. White sky, white ground, white on the trees, white everywhere. I don’t think it’s quite enough for sledding, unfortunately, and it’s been melting a bit. Alas. It’s pretty still.
Does anyone know a name acceptable to a male sky pirate? In a world that’s pretty steampunk? Or several names? Thanks. I’m having trouble with naming things. I always do.
I’m building a steampunk world, that I will use several times, hopefully, so I’m making it have a lot of depth. Or trying to, anyway.
Theodore Clamp.
Nick Dighan? Bennet Stoker? Ezra Tuttle? Valentine Sawyer? Geoffrey Vincent? Cole Coogan? Elijah McClane? Nathaniel Toone?
Elijah McClane sounds more like a gunslinger than a sky pirate, but the others I like.
Thanks guys!
Glurg! I just realized I missed my blogiversary again. *begins chanting “Four more years! Four more years!” at himself*
Gah, thanks for the reminder. Mine’s coming up in less than 2 months. I came here on March 6, 2006… which means I’ll have been a MBer for five years. Wow.
… Any idea how you can figure out a date like that?
-A
You came to MB on 3/8/06. It’s on the Who’s Here page.
Oh! Smartiepants.
-A
I haven’t posted a lot since school started again.
I had so much homework to make up. 
Then I went back to sleep. Then at around seven AM my dad came in with my dog and my dog jumped on my bed, whch scared my cat away, who scratched me. Then my dad opened my shutters (yes, shutters) and sunlight went into my eyes and it HURT. 
Then I had to yell at my dad for about 10 minutes to get him to get my dog and close the sshutters so I could go back to sleep. Then I couldn’t go back to sleep because that made me wide awake. Then I finished my disappointing Agatha Christie book, I figured it out easily. 
Now I’m really tired so sorry if tbs makes no sense. And I’m using my Itouch, which worsens things. Now I have to go with my mom and brother to buy him pants? Horrible day so far. Maybe I can get out of the shopping bit, hopefully… 
This morning my phone woke me up around 4 AM and kept beeping every five minutes until I actually opened my eyes and looked at it to figure out which button I should actually push.
And I burned my cookies.
That does sound like quite a rough day. I hope it gets better! *gives candy cane*
Wait, it’s 2011 already? Butbutbut it’s 2008, right? No, it’s 2001. Or 2005. Duh!
In other words, I’ve been cleaning up my room, even my desk. Not just a superficial polish, an old fashioned sort-through-everything-and-throw-the-junk-out clean. The last time I did this was over 6 years ago. It’s somewhat like archaeology, only that I’m finding caches of things that never really were useful but I didn’t throw out because I might need them, and this before they sat collecting dust somewhere deep in the bowels of my desk. I just found more than 50 colored pencils & normal ones that I crammed into an old oversized pencil case. That isn’t the stunning part. They’ve been standing on my desktop for what, 3 years now? and I never knew I still owned them. Or maybe I just repressed that memory.
I suppose they must’ve been partially obscured by the flowers and those magic marker bowling pin thingies and my earrings and the box the necklace I got for Christmas came in and my pile of books I wanted to read and the homework I really should do stack sort of spilled over and for some reason there’s a sand dollar with glitter on it hanging from the shelf above (it’s a Christmas tree ornament and I don’t have the faintest idea how it got there) and there’s the vase with the fake flower in it that I moved to make room for the mirror that actually looks kinda neat there but forced me to move the books that P gave me to the side, which are sharing their stack with the blank book I wanted to fill out but forgot and those soaps that I got for Christmas next year and now the plastic leis hanging from my lamp are hanging into the pens & pencils & misc. small objects box which also contains those colored ink bottles which I was going to use to a) make awesome drawings like I did with C in art class 4 years ago or b) write my first novel (that was before NaNoWriMo) and editing my first NaNo was on that To Do list that I finally took down because it was almost 3 years old and I didn’t really do any of the things on it (yet!) and anyway I sort of lost track of what I was doing or saying in the first place.
Oh, and I found some old mini dvds that I recorded with my camcorder which I got five (gleeps!) years ago which broke in France and I ended up with a ruined disk which I kept anyway because it looked cool and my technology drawer mainly has instruction manuals in it, the only one of which I ever read being the one for said camcorder which I just threw out even though I really should read the one for the ancient calculator my dad gave me ’cause you can program it to play games except that I was going to do that when I got a little distracted…
Somehow, my desk makes me act like a kid on ADD. I just have a gazillion fascinating projects or keepsakes and everything reminds me of something I either didn’t do but wanted to or did but would like to do again. I think I remember why I’ve been putting this off for 6 years…
Oh, wait, it is 2011! The soaps I got for Christmas I got in 2009, which would have been next year if it was 2008 which I sort of got stuck in for a while because I found the necklace that…
I need to clean out all the stff in my room… My desk doesn’t really have a lot on it, but everything else does.
But I want to get to bed early tonight. Cake.
Why is it I only get motivated to clean my room late at night?
I’ve only popped my head in the door a couple of times since we came back to school, so hello! How is everybody? We got a lot of homework this past week, and I haven’t been able to start homework until 6-6:30 each night (at which point I still have to eat dinner) which means that I’ve been getting little sleep but still waking up early…gah.
We had a dance last night, but there’s nothing really noteworthy to say about it – and if there was, most likely it’d be on R&R, but that’s pretty nonexistent in my life…not trying to get the feeling across that that’s necessarily a bad thing, though. There’s nobody that I know irl I really feel is crushworthy anyway. I might do with some advice on Just Friends, but I know that thread is usually pretty dormant…there’s just been some things that have felt off ever since we came back to school, but here’s not the place to elaborate…and I’m sort of in that position of denial, as in, “this is nothing to worry about” and yet it’s still bothering me. Will write more on that later.
bookgirl_me – Wow, it sounds like there was some serious archeological digging going on in your desk.
My desk has a ton of junk on it too, but I’ve been slowly clearing it away as part of my New Year’s resolution. I just found a poster my sister made five years ago that somehow made it’s way onto my desk. :/
Oh Kokopelli, I can’t focus right now. I’m seriously shocked by what happened in Tucson earlier today.
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the wife of astronaut Mark Kelly, was shot in the head while speaking to a crowd outside of a supermarket. The bullet went through her brain and she’s in critical condition at the moment.
Oh sweet cakin’ Koko…
Eek. *hug*
The doctors say they’re optimistic, and the shooter is in custody, although the police say he may have had an accomplice.
It’s just awful.
That’s terrible.
And the 9-year-old… why?
What do you mean?
Why would somebody do this, en means?
No, I mean, what about a 9-year-old? I haven’t heard about this, at all…was en shot as well?
Oh wait, we talked about it in school today. Never mind. *sniff*
The 9-year-old girl was born on September 11, 2001. She was one of the “Fifty Faces of Hope”, one child from each state who was born on 9/11. She had just been elected to the student council at her school. That, in fact, was the reason she had come to the gathering. She had wanted to see how “real” politics worked.
What a lesson to learn.
Oh my… that’s too much. That’s just too much.
My mom started crying when she saw that.
I really hope Gabrielle Giffords recovers, and I’m so sorry about the other six people that died.
There’s even going to be some sort of candlelight vigil here in Singapore. What can be said, but ‘what is the world coming to?!’
Bad mental images are like Weeping Angels. Blink and you’re dead.
Testify.
Just watched the “highlights” of Matrix
“What do you need?”
“Guns. Lots of guns.”
It was still really scary though. I’m taking my laptop up to my room to post at the early hours of the morning if I need to.
Apparently, the correct answer to the question “What technology was crucial to survival in the West because it gave farmers and others access to water that was typically underground?” is not “irrigation systems” but “windmills.” Thank you, Online US History.
Yes. Windmills. Silly people ignorant of basic agricultural equipment.
Jinx.
I have been informed by a reliable source that windmills are used for drawing water out from underground. I don’t know my basic agricultural equipment, it seems.
Honors Online US History +2 Legitimacy
-5 Effectiveness in Instruction
Irrigation pulls water from rivers and other above-ground water thingies I believe. I didn’t know that about windmills though, I would have put irrigation.
Irrigation systems transport water and distribute it to crops.
Today, I saw Mummenschanz. They were every bit as amazing as I dimly remember them being seven years ago.
Does anyone know how to write a satirical dialogue? I need to prepare one for part of my Humanities exam and I have no idea what that even means. A satirical news article I can do – seeing as they actually exist – but a dialogue?
You have to write a satirical dialogue for your Humanities exam?! And I was worrying about the structure of my essay…
What do you have to satirize? Here’s my best attempt at the IB school system:
[child comes home from school]
Child: I’m home!
Mother: Hello, dear. What did you do at school today?
Child: We watched a movie about self-motivation and reflected on it. Then we divided up into groups and assigned equal roles for determining the process of making a poster about Human Ingenuity. After we wrote down our process and reflected on the activity of assigning roles, we all came up with possible designs for the poster using the Design Cycle and linking each step to the AOI’s. After lunch, we viewed a Powerpoint on how we can do anything we want, and how we can achieve it through the Approaches to Learning.
Mother: Yes, but what did you learn?
Child: Learn?
Yes, I have to do it with a partner, who I picked at random and who unfortunately is not the brightest, no offence. We have to write an essay as well; there are two parts to the exam, which is on Wednesday.
That’s hilarious! It just made my day. I envy you for being able to come up with that so quickly. Our school doesn’t do IB, otherwise I would totally steal your idea, it’s so amazing. We’re probably going to do something comparing school to a prison/bureaucracy/that sort of thing. I know at least something we can talk about is the tight security they have (it’s insane, you need to go through twenty billion people just to go home sick) and probably the horrible meals they feed us. I don’t know what else to write about yet, though…any ideas?
SFTDP but I believe that should be ‘whom I picked at random’, unless I’m mistaken, which is very likely. Hurrah for late night posts.
The difficulty of going home sick sounds promising. Simplicity is best if space is limited. Just write a little skit about a sick student who tries to get home, and the person or people in authority who make it hard to do. Thinking about it as a Stupid Senseless Smiley Story might help.
[student walks into the office]
Student: I need to go home sick.
Secretary: You’ll need to fill out a few forms. Take the Unaccompanied Minor form, the Illness or Injury report form, the School Indemnification form, and Parental Consent A330 from that cabinet over there and fill in your name and class.
Student: [vomits into rubbish bin] Here.
Secretary: Now, what are your symptoms?
Student: I keep throwing up, and I think I have a fever.
Secretary: We’ll need the nurse to confirm that. Fill out the Hallway Pass Request and the Health Care request form, and get them signed by your teacher.
[student gets the forms signed and brings them to the nurse]
Nurse: You have to fill out this standard release form before I can treat you.
Student: You just have to take my temperature.
Nurse: No exceptions. Do you have the form? Good. [jams thermometer in student’s mouth] You have a fever of 101 degrees. I’ll write that down on your form.
[student trudges back to office]
Secretary: We’ll need to contact your parent or guardian and have them consent to let you go home alone.
Student: My parents are both at work, and I don’t know their phone numbers.
Secretary: In that case, you’ll have to talk to the principal. He’s back there.
Principal: Whoa! Not so fast! Before you come in here, you have to sign a School Indemnification form, so I’m not liable if you injure yourself falling off a chair.
Student: Here’s the form. I need to go home from school alone.
Principal: [signs request] That’s fine, then. Off you go.
Student (to secretary): Here.
Secretary: Oh! You didn’t sign an Academic Honesty Policy agreeing not to cheat on the forms beforehand! You’ll have to do them all over.
Next day: Secretary, Principal, and Nurse are all sick and stay home from school.
That would be ironic. And then the students should go to their houses and demand that they go back to school to fill out all the necessary forms and have all the necessary consent before being able to go back home and be sick again.
Wow…that’s uncannily similar to a lot of the stuff I have planned. And it’s very, very good. I’m just going to steal your Academic Honest Policy idea, and perhaps the…nah, just kidding.
I’m not sure if the dialogue has to be like a conversation between two people about a subject, or if it can be like a roleplay/scenario/acting thing like the one in your post. I’ll try to ask around, but if I can’t figure it out (his instructions were so vague!) I’ll just go with…something.
Thank you so much, though, for bothering to write up all these things just for me.
I appreciate it.
I like writing. And as long as I’m doing someone else’s homework assignment, I’m not doing my own.
So do I, except not as much when it’s homework. And you make a good point.
Thanks!
At our school, you could probably mock the fact that all our teachers keep marrying each other (it’s like an epidemic), but that’s probably not the case at yours.
Does it have to be about the school? If not, you could mock consumer culture, or the law system in Hong Kong…
He said it doesn’t *have* to be about school, but my partner and I decided school would be easier to write about (a lot more stuff to have strong feelings about). And I’m 90% sure we’re going with the ‘bureaucracy of going home sick/absolutely unnecessary tight security’ thing.
The law system in Hong Kong? I don’t anything actually understands it, that’s the thing…
SFTDP but I have no idea how the last sentence became ‘I don’t anything actually…’ It should be ‘I don’t think anyone actually’. Ah…lack of sleep, how eloquent you make me.
And SFTDP but I forgot to say this in my other post: about the teachers marrying thing, well, it’s sort of the case at mine. Quite a few teachers already married, not so many about to get married, but a lot all the same. The epidemic we have are babies – yes, babies. My friend said last year that our school has a lot of babies. It doesn’t really make sense out of context, but a lot of teachers have babies at home, either pretty young or newborn. It’s always in the newsletters. Except I don’t think I want to satirize that.
At our school, it’s kind of creepy, because they sometimes move it around so that married teachers have rooms next to each other. And there are whole floors of married couples. Plus, people who marry teacher often get jobs at our school. And the ones who aren’t married to each other are constantly dating and breaking up, which must make staff meetings rather awkward.
That is one weird school you have. See, at our school, even if there were teachers constantly dating and breaking up, the students wouldn’t usually know about it. And what’s the logic behind putting married teachers next to each other? Now that I think about it, a lot of the married teachers at our school teach at different divisions (Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Middle/High School) so we don’t necessarily get that all of the time.
Haha, which IB program are you in? My high school did the diploma program.
MYP. Far too many acronyms.
Hmm…
I know that Galileo wrote a satirical dialouge where a fool argued for an Earth centered universe, you might try looking that up.
Yes, but I don’t think it was an actual dialogue per se, rather just a book. Ours is supposed to be an actual, two-page conversation, unfortunately. Thanks for the idea, though.
You could definitely use that. Take a strawman, prop him up and have him argue for the point you oppose. Then make the person arguing for the point you support actually intelligent. Just don’t make it too blatant, or it won’t work.
I did one back in 9th grade with me talking to a fictional friend who believed some crazy things about the Bermuda Triangle.
Conspiracy Theorists are great fodder for anything funny or satirical, because they already say weird things, so you just have to crank it up a few notches.
Today:
morning was stuff too lazy to recount
9pm-12am character building for D&D–I am a half-elf ranger (chaotic good). Doing our first game tomorrow at 10pm. Should be fun! It’s a game for several of us n00bs so it’s going to be the trope-iest thing ever but whee.
12am started making nutella cookies, while my friend C made peanut butter, and 3 of our friends sat around & helped us and kept us company. People wandered over (because we advertised on The-Site-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named that we needed cookie tasters!) and hung out. Around 1:30 or so A and M wandered in and talked, then got guitar and banjo and played music (&I sat and sang along) and the other people played a cool card game while we finished up the last batches. The sing-a-long lasted till 3:30am, although the card game disbanded about 3. A&M went to bed, but C and I were still very awake, so we watched an episode of Doctor Who
Now we’re both finally sleepy and I’m back in my room and ready for bed.
The cookies were a success though! The recipe worked really well and people seemed to like them, so I’ll probably make a few batches (like 3 or so, a single one makes about 30 cookies) for the co-op I’m in for winter term. There’s about 40 people in it, and we rotate cooking and cleaning jobs and stuff. I can get out of cleaning by making tasty things for snacks so that’s what I hope to do
So yeah, another good day. I think I’m going to keep up with these short-day summaries here instead of on dispatches form collegeland, if it’s all right, although I may collect them all for my giant week-by-week posts (which I need to go back and write for the weeks I missed! Because I have to write it down to make sure I remember it all). But this way people will actually see what I’m up to and stuff XD
Anyway… 5am. Oops. I went backwards. I went to bed at 4am the last 3 nights and I was doing well with not staying up later than the previous night for a while. Oh well, it IS the weekend. ‘night all.
>.< You totally need to skype me in on one of these awesome cookie/music sessions. ENVY.
-A
A fire wiped out over a hundred homes in China, 27 people are dead from a drug cartel fight in Mexico, and a Congresswoman has been shot in the head.
The Trending Topic on Yahoo is Beyonce.
Does not compute.
Maybe people need a break from bad news.
Or they’re really ignorant. My first day back at school would seem to indicate the latter.
Personally, I would rather read about Beyonce than drug cartel fights. Why would you depress yourself by reading the article? Isn’t knowing that it’s going on enough?
the fact that it’s yahoo has a lot to do with that :/
Hmmm… I spent nearly four hours of yesterday in the theater on a rickety scaffold, putting up lights for the play. I was with two other people on the scaffold, then just one other person. I can do it now! Said other person was very nice about my noobishness and fear of heights. This scaffold is probably 15-20 feet off the ground. It’s a platform with a wobbly railing above it that would be very easy to fall off. It was freaky, especially since we had to pull each light up on a rope and they’re heavy… Anyway. I feel pretty good about myself right now.
Awesome. Having been on that scaffold, I know what you mean. Today I spend 3+ hours building sets!
Hey everyone! time to come clean….
So I’ve been having pretty serious mental issues for the past….three months, probably. I haven’t mentioned them here because this is where I go (online) to cheer up, but I sort of need support right now because I’m rallying enthusiasm to see/talk to someone (doctor) about them, which I hoped never to have to do ever again in my life, but I’ve realized my anxiety/control issues have gotten WAY out of hand.
These are also contributing to me being on the blog less…eating my time/good moods.
Yeah. That’s the deal. Thank you all!
Giving you a hug now and another on Monday. *hug*
We’re here for you. Now go do what you have to and we’ll be right there with you.
*hug of support*
We got your back! You can do it! *hugs, choklit, and a fuzzy stuffed bear*
We’ll always be here for you, Clare.
*hugs and support* We’re here for you.
I hope everything turns out well.
SUPPORT SUPPORT SUPPORT
You know we’re always here for you!
We’re all here for you, luv. *lots of hugs and support*
*hugs* As you can definitely tell by now, we’re all fully supportive of you. You should always feel that this is a place you can come to feel good.
* various presents* *huggles* *ice cream*
We support you!
We’re always here for you. *hugs and choklit*
We’ll definitely be here for you. *lots of hugs and support*
We’re here for you. *hugs*
I’ve been having some trouble too. And soon, I’m going to see someone about it. I hope it helps to know that you are in no way alone!
It sounds like you are in some ways more mature than me.
We all wish you well!
*supportive choklit* Talk to the doctor. Now.
*hug* We’re here for you.
*huggles*
You are a wonderful and beautiful person, and very courageous on top of that. I hope everything goes well. We’re all here for you no matter what.
*hugs* *choklit ice cream*
*supportive hug* *kittens, puppies, and baby seals*
Please, talk to the doctor, or someone else you trust.
We will always be here for you, and hopefully, we’ve made you feel at least a little bit better.
Thanks all of you. I really appreciate it.
108 (Claire)~ *hugs* Like everyone else has said, we’re here for you if you need.
I HAVE FURY! The Thread of Altering Egos is needing reviving!
My dad bought a high-definition TV today, even though we don’t have any HD channels on our cable plan. It’s neat–it has internet apps and built-in wifi, so we signed up for Netflix. Tonight we watched Duck Soup, and now my dad’s watching a documentary on North Korea. Of course, we don’t have anywhere to put it yet, since we still have the old TV and entertainment cabinet, but….
I think I have a concussion. The stairs were really slippery from all the rain we’ve been having, and I hit my head on the railing. Then I threw up.
Why do I keep injuring myself in really, really stupid ways? Nobody else seems to do this.
And what does it say about me that I came home tired, muddy, sweaty, bruised, and nauseated and the first thing I did was to start playing my violin?
Aw, I hope you’re okay!
And about the violin thing – that happens to me a lot, except not always when I’m ‘tired, muddy, sweaty, bruised and nauseated’. It happens when I have twenty billion projects due the next day and twenty billion tests the next day to study for, and I’ll go off and play my violin for hours. Sometimes it’s a form of procrastination, really. Except I justify this to myself with the fact that it’s still violin practice.
Yeah… sometimes I just play really long pieces while reading to put off the time until I have to do homework or cook or something.
Same!
Had first real D&D session today. Was most excelent. Then 3 friends from D&D and I wandered into the lounge and practiced singing a song in 4-part harmony so we can show off at our dorm/friends sing-a-long tomorrow.
I can’t get over how much I love this place.
My envy is as black and bottomless as the benthic Pit.
<3 You'll make it to college soon!!
SFTDP.
Headline: SINGAPORE IMPRISONS MAN FOR HOMOSEXUALITY.
Singapore PM: We urge everyone to act in a spirit of tolerance and acceptance.
It makes me want to douse the whole Parliament House in irony and set it aflame.
*gives Parliament model* I got it for Christmas. You can burn it down if you want.
You have a Parliament model? Which Parliament? And a model – how so?
England Parliament. The one Guy Fawkes tried to burn down. And it’s a little wooden put-together model that keeps breaking.
Now, if you were me, you could write a satirical dialogue about that! My brain has been corrupted with all this satire and is now trying to find something satirical in everything.
But seriously, that’s stupid. Talk about conflicting messages.
I know. Singapore advertises itself as this model of freedom and interracial mixing, when in fact we don’t even have freedom of speech. Actually, there’s a place in Hougang Park called the Speaker’s Corner, where you’re allowed to give speeches about whatever you like… except that you have to reserve it two months in advance, pay a fee, and submit a copy of your speech for censorship by the government.
That’s insane.
So you’re not allowed to give speeches about ‘whatever you like’, then.
That’s horrible. I’m so sorry you have to be there…
Selenium- Guess what?? Our English teacher just emailed us an extra-credit assignment: Write a satirical newspaper article or dialogue! Except, now that it’s my assignment I don’t know what to write. Apparently we can’t mock the school, the government, or any particular culture. What is there left to mock, I ask you?!
The Internet?
Good idea.
Does the Internet count as a culture? I think we count as a culture here on MB, and in… certain other parts of the Internet *shudders* there is definitely a culture. A remarkably mockable culture, yes, but a culture nonetheless.
MB is mockable?!?! *gasp*
Mockable? We’re prosecutable!
Shocking stuff.
I already told you this, but current events? Um, something in history/science? Yourself?
Maybe you could mock mocking?
That’s interesting. Are you allowed to mock the assignment, or does that count as ‘school’? Or you could mock the whole concept of satire.
Mocking mocking? How would that work? Hm…
I love this.
Conspiracy Theorists, like I suggested above?
Too… much… Chai…
Ugh..
My sympathies.
I have a cruel and hard to cure disease. It’s called………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….writer block. Any cures?
Yes. Murder your characters. (Or rather, write a story in which they all die. Not part of the actual plot.) MURDER THEM. Now.
I don’t have characters. That’s the problem.
*fails*
I have the cure! AAAHHH I am stressing from this big discovery! What you do is…
1.) Get another writer friend.
2.) Have them read the story of what you have so far
3.) Have them write a page- it is TIme for something to happen in your story!!
COntinue writing. Trust me, I have tried it, unfortunately it may not work for everyone.
Are you new? Don’t think I’ve seen you.
No CHARACTERS? Well why didn’t you just say so? You must eat some cheese. Now.
…
Don’t you feel better?
Okay, characters. Google baby name sites. (I’ve found steampunk ones. They’re very nice.) Once you find a couple names, you need to go and create your characters. Make them random.
Then murder them.
You need an idea for something to write about? I’ve got hundreds, just say the word. (The word is “swordfish”, by the way.)
CAR
CAR CAR CAR
CAR CAR CAR CAR CAR
CAR CAR
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Could you explain further?
I’m guessing ens parents bought en a car. Or something similar.
Yes! Well, not exactly. They gave me “primary usership” of our Honda sedan and got a new car. But it amounts to the same thing, which is that I have a car
[/happiness]
(For future reference, I’m a girl.)
Once again, epicenes save me from having to ask an awkward question.
Congratulations! Hondas are awesome.
Boat nectar.
-A
Some of God’s tears!
Melted gumdrops?
-A
Strawberry milkshakes?
:/ Nah, the elderly couple from 2B.
(They were hogging all the crescent rolls.)
-A
Some of God’s tears?
“That’s the sound of forgiveness…”
“That’s the sound of people drowning, Carl!”
“That’s what forgiveness sounds like, screaming and then silence.”
Random YouTube memes aside, that is highly cool, Tesseract.
Thank you! I am extremely happy about it!
CAR?
CAR?
That’s a sexy car. You should pimp it out and get little flame decals to go on the sides, and then fuzzy dice and a spoiler. You will look. So. Freaking. Cool.
I just got a laptop!! It’s all shiny and black! I’m now going to stare at it for hours until my brain drops out of my head (again).
And I am typing from it now! *happiness*
So, I haven’t posted for a week. There were legitimate reasons for not doing so. First of all, the Internet in my dorms cut out because I hadn’t paid for January, then I had finals, and then I had a fourteen hour plane flight to the US…
But it’s all right, because I’m home now, or at least for the month, and I get to argue with my siblings and yell at them for not cleaning up. And reclaim my mirror from my sister’s room, and remove all of my mother’s papers from my room. Teh joys of coming back after four months away…
I seriously am pleased though. And grinning like an idiot.
So, tomorrow we’re taking our English mid-term two weeks before any of the others because New York State says so. But after that, I get to stay in the library for the rest of the day, finish my homework, get help from my math teacher, and read all the stylish/funny/cool/retro/weird old science books. (“Computers in the Home: Is It Possible?”, “Top Soviet experts say that if all goes well, humankind may land on the moon as soon as the year 2000.”, “In the future, we will probably melt the ice and build cities in Antarctica!”)
It’s books like those that make me despair of writing science fiction that people won’t laugh at in 50 years.
Say things will happen several decades later than you actually think they will so you can be pleasantly surprised, like the “Top Soviet experts”.
That is so epic. Seriously.
My history teacher has a textbook from 1932 that he always shows everyone. That was back when everyone was still blaming Germany for WWI! And WWII hadn’t even happened yet! It freaks me out.
The major players in World War I won’t leave my imagination alone! *weeps, but in a sort of happy way* The love story of Austria and Germany continues, with Germany shouting at strangers on the street and blaming them for all his problems, making Austria bleach his hair and get blue contact lenses, etc. So Austria breaks up with him. Germany, uh, doesn’t take it well. (See “World War II”.) By the end, Germany is in jail and missing Austria, Austria has sworn to never love again, Japan got her hand cut off, and France and England both badly need therapy. Oh, and America is jumping up and down, going, “That was awesome, guys! Let’s do it again!” Gotta love him. He’s really fun to draw, too, since he wears nothing but clothes patterned with the American flag.
Hetalia has been moved up the cue of stuff I should really watch, just after I finish Doctor Who. Midway through Season 4!
This amuses me.
(Good, you’re going to watch it. If this is what you do in your spare time ’twill be good for you.)
Oh, this isn’t what I do in my spare time. This is what I do when I’m supposed to be paying attention in Algebra and Chemistry.
Still good.
There’s going to be a winter dance at our school…the theme is “Into the Jungle,” which is the dumbest theme ever. Although I kind of want to go, since I missed out on homecoming…even though it costs money…I’m picturing myself on the dance floor in a palm tree costume. Wrapped in a cardboard tube.
I think I failed at parallel structure.
Ouch. Ours is going to be sports. It was announced today. No one in my gang is going.
“Into the Jungle” is your theme for a winter dance? Does not compute.
You could make one out of paiper mache. It would take forever, but you could do it.
It’s a tropical theme to beat the winter blahs, I guess.
I went to a showing of projects people at a private high school had done, and it was AMAZING! These people did all these random, crazy projects, like learning how to snowboard, or building a coffee table, or doing…something to a car fender (I zoned out), or animating a clay figure, or painting, or robotics, or baking, or sewing a sail, or general awesomeness. Also, after we all went into this room to look at the projects (We saw a Petcha Kutcha* (Pretend I spelled that right) slideshow for each one before.) and someone had done a painting of the TARDIS. I’m not even kidding. I love that person. And I wish I went there.
Then a random poodle walked by. (No idea.)
And then we went home.
*Petcha Kutcha is a presentation where you have 16 slides and 20 seconds to talk about each one. I believe it’s Japanese for “chit-chat”.
Sounds like my school’s Graduation Challenge… You have to tackle a project that is ‘new learning’ for you, write a paper, produce a tangible product, and give a huge presentation at the end of the year. Bleh.
-A
Yeah, except they don’t have to write a paper on it, and their presentation is 3 minutes 20 seconds long. Of course, they only have a week to complete it…
Still, one person made a VIKING LOOM! And it was AWESOME!
I just got two issues of muse. Two. Normally, this would make me happy, but they are the same issue. Two of the same issue. Grrr. What should I do?
Give one to a friend? Share the joy!
Give it to the library! Exponentify the joy!
Give the other one to me!
The January issue?
I was just setting up the new laptop! I’m supposed to be sharing it with my mom. She was spazzing out and saying I was doing everything wrong. She had no idea what she was doing…. So now I’m kind of annoyed.
today: My friend A organized a sing-a-long in the lounge of our dorm, starting about 9:30. Lots of people came! Many with guitars to play along with. It’s so, so awesome going to a school so musical. I knew most of the songs and I had lyrics up on my computer so people could still sing when they didn’t. Lots of Great Big Sea songs, and also Jonathan Coulton who I just started listening to and is fantastic. Stayed in the lounge till there were just 3 of us left at 12:30, and then talked for an hour. In my room now (oh wow has it been an hour since that), listening to music and reading 8-bit theater.
I started having one of my social anxiety panic attacks a few minutes ago but it’s all okay now because I am sitting in the Panic Closet. Which is a literal closet. WIth pillows and blankets. When you’re in it bad things don’t happen and you aren’t allowed to think about them, or feel guilty for ignoring problems you should probably deal with. And you stay in it till you feel better or like coming out.
It’s technically in my roommate’s side but she is okay with it and likes the idea of having one, so yay (for those who don’t know: I didn’t have a roommate last semester or for this winter term, but a friend is moving in for next semester. So we’ll get along fine and it will be fun!). She’ll have to put clothes in it but it’s tall enough that it should still be fine yay.
I recommend panic closets but sing-a-longs are also very therapeutic. I am a lot better at this social nonsense now. Which is strange but good for me.
And now I am listening to Shop Vac (by the aforementioned Jonathan Coulton) and it’s great. And the video is kinetic typography and just fabulous. The song Code Monkey and Re: Your Brains are also excellent go check them out.
Finished my satirical dialogue, quite quickly actually. Thank you to all who helped, especially Sophia!
Just wanted to say, one of my classmates is painting the TARDIS for her impressionistic art project. I gave her 5 awesomness points.
I give her 10.
She actually subscribes to Muse mag.
So.
My parents told my teachers about this, so everyone I know at school knows, so I guess I can post it here. Starting March 5/6/7/other day during spring break, my family and I are going on a big trip around the world. We don’t have much solid planning of exactly where we’re going to go, but here is a list of definite places (not necessarily in chronological order):
New Zealand, our starting point
France (our first reservation)
Italy, to visit a friend
Ethiopia, to visit a child we sponsor
Fiji, to see people we know from our previous trip over there
Australia, to visit friends
…and that’s all I can think of right now. Until then, however, I will be stuck in school doing work. Bleh.
Awesome! Are you going to blog it!
Are you kidding? Of course I am! You guys are too awesome for me not to!
Around the world? For real?
That’s (swearword) awesome!
You’re going to have so much fun…
New Zealand is great. Really great. So many sheep. And wonderful sailing.
Pack melatonin. Maybe you can make a stopover in Singapore.
Or Hong Kong.
127 (Jade)~ Not good about panic inducing things, but I like the idea of a panic closet. You seem to be quite sociable though, huh. *hug*
Also, sing alongs are awesome.
130 (muselover)~ That sounds fantastic, have a great time!
Kai, your Muserology in this month’s mag is pretty sweet. I didn’t know you had a pair of black-and-red fingerless gloves! *is jealous*
Thanks! I think I wrote about them on MB when I first found them in my backpack…
(But shouldn’t this go in the Discussion Thread?)
I just made a hyperbolic plane out of seed beads. My life is one step closer to being complete. XD
Fingerless gloves are good for astronaut conventions and marching band (you can’t play an instrument in restricting mittens!)
Um… I forget… what does a hyperbolic plane look like?? I feel like I should know, but I forgot…
Look up Vi Hart! Her latest video.
Which one? About binary trees?
“Hyperbolic Planes Take Off ”
Fresh off the presses!
It was fabulous. There’s a tutorial on her blog, which I followed:
http :// vihart. com/beadwork
Okay dearies. I’m keeping my promise, albeit a few days late.
So, last Tuesday, was it? Wednesday? Whatever. Last week I wore a ball gown to school. Yes. A ball gown.
See, my wonderful Euro teacher decided that our grade for the Enlightenment chapter would be doing a report on an Enlightenment person, and having a “salon” in class, where we would all talk about our philosophies and achievements. We all had to at least dress up in class, but wearing our costumes all day bought us ten points extra credit. Our whole class made a pact to wear the outfits all day, no matter how ridiculous they were. I was Maria Theresa, and two of my friends were Olympe de Gouges and Marie Curie; I wore a bridesmaid dress from my mom’s wedding. But it wasn’t a dress! It was this big poofy thing with big poofy sleeves that felt like sand paper. But at least I wasn’t alone with the dress- my friend wore my mom’s wedding dress, so we looked insane together.
I didn’t mind wearing it that much, but the people in the halls looking straight at my face, pointing straight at me, and laughing were really annoying. I was walking down the hallway with another friend, and told her that if one more person pointed and laughed, I’d smack them across the face. Before she had the chance to, the dean did. Couldn’t exactly smack him.
In class, we walked around and talked to the other “Enlightenment people” and took notes on what they said. We had to talk to everyone in class, and that included the guy who is the lead singer of a Mumford and Sons inspired band and has a really hot voice. Man, he’s such a goofball. He spoke in a really good British accent the whole entire time, and kept a straight face. Unfortunately… I couldn’t. See, the accent made me crack up for about five minutes, and then, when I finally composed myself, I started talking about Maria Theresa’s achievements. But here’s the problem! His eyes (oh my gosh, this sounds so cheesy, but I’m not exaggerating.) are really really blue, and it’s very hard to concentrate on Maria Theresa’s achievements when you’re just staring at his eyes, so I had to restart a few times, and every time I did, he said “Go on!” in his accent, making me crack up again. Darn it. Apparently, this happened to my friend, too, at an orchestra concert, though not the accent part. Awkward eye contact FTW.
Aaaand this weekend was my delegations congress! It was a lot of fun, especially with our school’s cheerleaders standing outside the cafeteria and staring at the hordes of nerdy looking kids in formal attire standing on the tables while screaming cheers on the top of their lungs.
Aaaaannnd tomorrow is most likely going to be a snow day, which is totally awesome!
Weird looks are the spice of life, Beeds. *backpat* I bet you looked flamtabulous.
And as for distracting cute guy, well, he may be distracting, but at least he’s cute. Also, what is Mumford and Sons?
My class did the Salon thing too, right before Christmas break! Is this standard for AP Euro classes, or something? I was Diderot for mine, but I didn’t really dress up.
Eye- The weird looks *were* quite fun, I must say. Mumford and Sons is an indie-folk-type band. They’re one of the best bands I’ve heard in a while. The guy’s band is really good too; I’m listening to one of their songs now. *mad creeping*
Meow- I think a lot of Euro classes do it. Our Euro teacher got it from the internet, because that’s what she does.
Okay, so today I…
* Handled my three essays for AP Lit 12.
* Got help with my Math homework.
* Checked out the clownfish in the Aquaculture room.
* Went online in the library and found out I had COMMENTS on my Muserology, including one by the girl who wrote “Discovery Flight”.
* Hung out with my friend the computer teacher who raved to me about how her new cable package includes NASA TV and how much she loves it.
* Went to my Harvard Alumnae interview, which was actually pretty fun. (The interviewer at one point said “Zombies AREN’T nonfiction?”)
* Found out we’re going to have a snow day tomorrow.
I have a vocabulary mid-term tomorrow. I haven’t studied at all. It is on 160 words. *dies* And my mom isn’t getting any better at computers. It took her two tries just to log off and she didn’t even know where the Start button was. *sigh*
vanillabean’s Awkward Nerd Moments:
Yesterday, we were talking about all the vampire novels that have infested the teen literature sections of bookstores.
Me: “But if you go over to the science section, they have really good books that are all half-price! Not many people read them, so they’re cheap!”
*awkward silence*
*a few derisive chuckles*
Me: “Oh…”
Today, in Math class:
Teacher: “I like yesterday’s and today’s dates. They’re in binary.”
Me: “Oh yeah. 11011, 11111. Binary, that’s cool.”
Everyone else: “Binary? What?”
138 (Vanillabean)~ Sounds like you have your priorities right. *highfives*
KaiYvies~ Your Muserology article was great! I remember those pictures from on the blog, but didn’t remember the whole story.
I think it’s safe to say that I’m thinking about clothes at an unhealthy level bordering obsession. I go through frequent “I should dress more creatively” phases, but this one is more severe than ever. Scary. I actually made an account at ModCloth so I could have a wishlist. All the pretty coats….and dresses…….and skirts…….and shoes…….. *drool* This is bad. This is very bad. I think a wardrobe culling is in order, while I’m in the midst of this fervor.
Aaaand I did rather terribly on the practice SAT test I did. My math (raw) score was a negative number. I take the actual test on the 22nd of this month. That’s 11 days. It’ll be my only chance to take it. SAVE ME.
On the critical reading I got maybe 650?
Writing, something around 220?
Math, 200-ish?
This was the practice test, thankfully. I really hope that the actual thing goes much better.
*curls up and dies*
for math, it helps to make up certain numbers for x and y (and so on) when you can and then just plug in things and see what works. just make sure the numbers you use aren’t too close together or too small. i usually used 5 and 10.
Also, incorrect answers don’t count against you on the math section (or so i think…) so it’s fine to guess!
just keep practicing, there are tests online that help (i think sparknotes has one, i used them for subject test practice and they give a helpful evaluation of what you got wrong/right at the end of the test)
the more comfortable you feel with it, the better!
also, for the essay portion, i just read that it’s best to clearly structure your intro with about three examples. so if the topic is “leadership” think of three works that have some connection to leadership and mention them specifically. the intro and conclusion are important. don;t worry about making it too detailed or well written, really, since you have about 30 minutes i think?
so it would be
intro (example 1, 2, 3)
ex 1
ex 2
ex 3
conclusion
that’s the format we were originally encouraged to use in my first AP class. Don’t use personal anecdotes, stick to works of literature. In fact, it might help to think of several books you know well enough to talk about at length and then think of the difference themes in them. They generally don’t want stuff like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings (most unfortunately)
seriously, the sparknotes website’s section on this is quite helpful!
other than that, good luck! i know you’ll do well!
Do you have a TI graphing calculator? Can you get one? It has an equation solver on it. And a lot of other helpful stuff.
Axa: They do take off for incorrect answers on the math section, actually, but not on the fill-in-your-own-answers section.
Anyway, Fiddler, I think if you do a lot more practice for at least writing you can score much higher than a 220, because you’re obviously an extremely solid writer grammatically and that’s more or less all that multiple-choice section is asking for. Here’s how I go about answering the questions on the writing section: before I even look at the answer choices, I rephrase the sentence in my head the way that I would say it. Then I find the answer choice that matches, or that is closest to matching. Actually thinking about specific grammar rules or reading the answer choices first muddles me up a lot of the time. I don’t know if this would work for you, but it works really well for me.
For math, if you don’t have a TI calculator, GET ONE. Then practice with it, a lot. Use online tutorials. Those calculators are the best thing in the world. I’d recommend a TI-84 Plus Silver Edition but it doesn’t really make that much of a difference as long as it’s some variety of TI-83 or TI-84.
Basically, a lot of what doing well on the SATs is is being accustomed to taking standardized tests. Since you homeschool, I’m guessing you aren’t. So, if I were you, here’s what I’d do over the course of the next ten days: Obtain a CollegeBoard SAT book, the giant fat blue one. They have 10 practice tests in them. Read all of the stuff at the beginning. There’s information about the question types and how to think about them (as well as some math review, I believe). Then, do one practice test per day. I know it takes a long time, but I think you’ll probably see your scores go up every time you take one. All it is is a matter of getting used to the way standardized tests want you to think.
Speaking of which, don’t let your scores on standardized tests affect your self-esteem. I don’t know if you are, but just as a word of warning. Don’t. Standardized tests are an extremely crude tool for measuring knowledge, and (as is made obvious by your practice test score) a lot of things besides actual quantity/quality of knowledge goes into the scores. Things like experience with standardized tests, and thinking the way they want you to think, and test anxiety, and whether you test well. I have friends who are definitely smarter than me but who have lower SAT scores than me. Why? Because I test well. That’s all. So, tests are really pretty stupid, anyway.
So, DON’T PANIC. Prepare and you’ll be fine! I believe in you!
ps sorry for monster post about the SAT. hahaha
Thanks!
my copy of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is fine, then abruptly cuts off and turns into the last bit of Death in Venice. Why?!
My 4!awesome!colorful!handmade!tardigrade!brooches finally came in the mail today! They’d been a Christmas gift, but they took ship. They are amazing, and I am wearing them everywhere now (except the white one, which I’m only wearing over white things, because there are no real white tardigrades, but there are transparent ones).
Also, I thought I became a Paleophyte today, but for some reason, the Paleo threads aren’t appearing when I go to the Paleostuff section. Why would that be? It confuses me.
It’s not automatic. You have to remind us to change your status.
Ah. That explains a bit. (For future reference, I became a paleophyte a few days ago too.)
was making flashcards. got mom to help type up flashcards. mom aciddentaly deletes all flashcards. test tomorrow. 160 words to study. one hour. i want to cry. i actually might.
Now I feel really immature and stupid. (I am both)
I’m really sorry, that sounds terrible. Being upset about something stressful like that doesn’t sound immature or stupid at all. *hugs*
YAY BEEDLE AND I ARE GETTING MARRIED! ♥
♥
Dear Museblog,
Tess and I are getting married.
Yes. You read that correctly. We’ve decided that our similarities are much too numerous, and quite frankly, creepy to disregard, and the only way to properly acknowledge them is through holy matrimony.
Tess summed up our feelings very nicely, I think:
“YAAY BEEDLE AND I ARE GETTING MARRIED YAAAAAAAAAY!â€
All of you are invited to the wedding. It’s going to be sometime in the spring, at someplace nice, and it’s going to be ah-freaking-mazing.
We apologize in advance for any explosions of awesome it may cause, and will pay for any damages cause by the aforementioned explosion. (Not really. Or at least I’m not.)
That is all. Please RSVP as soon as possible.
♥!
Oh I’d absolutely love to come! You two are just so adorable, I wish you both a happy life.
Can I help in any way, play any part in the wedding?
Hmm…. I don’t know. I’d ask you to be my best man (how exactly does that work when two straight girls are getting married?), but we already gave that title to Piggy, which I’m sure he’s thrilled about.
Oh no, I completely understand. Best Man is a quite important job, and though I’m honored to have been considered, I don’t know if I could undertake such a thing. Besides, Piggy is much more fitting to the role anyway.
…I see. Have you met off the Internet yet?
Technicalities.
Will this actually happen? Or will it be like RtH and MS with the off-again, on-again, off-again… repeat ad nauseum.
*hopes it happens!!* *crosses fingers*
My god, I remember that saga. I had completely forgotten.
POSOC- Off the Internet? Pffffffft, no. But our love transcends any physical boundaries.
Zinc- It will happen…. Eventually…. In the spring.,,
I think you exploded my brain with a nuke of pure awesome. There will be leftover radiation for years to come.
I’ll come! I wouldn’t want to miss this wedding.
Like what Sudo said: if there’s any part you want me to play, I’d be happy to.
CONGRATULATIONS!
I’m coming! What sort of virtual present would you like?
OHMAIGAWD!! CONGRATS TO BOTH OF YOU!!!! I don’t think I can come, but I’m so happy!!!
♥ Congrats!
You’ll need bridesmaids, right? *hinthint*
Hey, you guys live in NC, right? I might be able to get my parents to drive me there for the wedding, it’s not that far away really.
I’ll definitely be coming! What kind of present would you like? And by the way, I have been a priest at some weddings at school before. *coughI’dlovetobethepriestcoughcough*
No, I live in NC, but Beedle lives in NY, I believe.
Will you be married at an MA special event?
You know, you guys would still technically be a “straight couple”. /observation
Just, y’know, a straight couple involving two people of the same gender.
Because we’re both straight, you mean? Yes.
And of course, you’ll need someone to play music.
Lord Of The Rings soundtrack, anyone?
(Chess?)
Eowyn’s theme would make a nice processional.
I can play violin…And would be honored to play at your wedding
(Totally coming regardless)
Sudo – Is it possible to have groomsmen if neither of us is a groom? If so, then there you go.
Zinc – Yes, this spring! …Sometime this spring.
Selenium, Bookgirl – Bridesmaids?
Choklit Orange – I’d like to go to Hogwarts, please. ;D
Beetles – Well, I’m Jewish, but I guess some kind of nondenominational… thingy?
Mikazuki – If we think of anything we shall be sure to inform you.
Enc – Okay!
I would be delighted to be a bridesmaid, thanks! What should we wear?
127- Eh. This year is the first time I’ve ever been social, really. Part of it was because of lack of time/inclination in high school, part of it because I’m introverted and can be cripplingly shy. I’ve gotten better since I’ve gotten here, but I still have a lot of social anxiety. It comes on before/after I hang out with people, although once I’m with friends it’s fine. It’s just something I have to work on I think, although I’ll always have a bit of it.
Today was fun. Made a hyperbolic plane out of seed beads, which was very cool. I want to make more, but I need more beads, I used all my biggish ones up and my small ones are too small for the wire I have/too small for my needle to pass through to use them with thread.
I took pictures of it which I can send into the GAPA(s). I also sent them to Vi Hart, as she asked for people to do so on her site. She responded & answered some questions I’d had, and also told me about another math-artist at my college–who, fittingly enough, was one of the people involved with the TSP (traveling salesman problem) Art that was shown in Muse a long time ago! With the art made from a single line. So that’s really cool, and it makes me sad that I couldn’t take math last/this semester because it’d be awesome to have him for a teacher/talk to him. But that’s something to think about another day.
Also helped a friend bake bread (aka stood around and kept en company while en baked) and ate some afterwards. Read some of V for Vendetta in the lounge, watched part of a movie, and probably going to go to bed early tonight. Because 3:30am is early for me. Oh, life.
Me: *types report on Jehovah’s witnesses*
Humanities teacher: *yanks laptop from me without warning* Is this in your own words, Sophia? I don’t think it is. I can’t believe you’d do something like this, after all the emails that were sent out to the eighth grade. You are to re-write this report in your own words by tomorrow, and stay in for recess and lunch.
Me: That’s in my own words.
Teacher: No, it’s not. Don’t lie.
Me: I’m not lying. *badly conceals anger* I just wrote all that!
Teacher: Eighth graders can’t write like this.
Luckily for me, and by extension the teacher I was about to punch, our English teacher walked in and told my Humanities teacher that yes, in fact, 13-year-olds can write well.
Of all the demeaning, insulting, ARRRGH!
Oh, and the rest of our day was equally glorious, because an excursion to Bukit Chandu was cancelled on account of the rain, and since most of our teachers were out elsewhere, we got landed with four periods of math, during which the power went out. The sky was so overclouded we couldn’t see a thing. In the dark, nobody could find the fuse box, so we had to wait in the dark for three hours- and for some reason water got into the air-conditioning duct (the air-conditioners were the only things that stayed on, for some reason) and water got spewed all over the room.
Again? Didn’t this happen before?
That was my Jehovah’s Witness script… with my English Teacher. For some arcane reason, we have to make a movie about Jehovah’s Witnesses and then turn in the report. You’d think they’d learn.
I guess teachers sometimes don’t understand that some people do more than the minimum…
I have yarn stuck in my hair. It is purple and makes for nice decoration, but is painfully tangled around my earring. I am trapped. Also, there is a crotchet hook dangling from my ponytail.
This is what happens when you fall asleep on top of your knitting.
At least it’s not a cat that’s stuck in your hair.
Or a zeppelin.
So, I posed my Little Green Man, Gnomon on my bed with it looking like he was reading my copy of “Pale Blue Dot”, took a picture, and submitted it to a Carl Sagan fan blog.
Not only did the guy say “Great submission. Really great. Thank you.”, but he gave it the tag “A (Effing) Alien Reading Sagan”.
I love it.
OH MA GAHWD TEDxMidTownNY; are you going? You totally should. You probably know all about it, but I just found out. Too bad I can’t make it! Jade would totally love it: “Opening the Space Portal.†And I know you’re interested in space gloves, there’ll be a designer there! I think I saw his work when I was last at Eyebeam actually.
Today? I’m snowed in.
Random Ramblings from Sudo… (Hello there! Please forgive my probably atrocious grammar and general sentence/paragraph/post body structure, if that even made any sense. I’m terrible.)
So I feel like I’ve been lurking for a while, and I don’t really see that changing in the near future, although maybe in some incredible stroke of luck (for me at least, for y’all it might just be an incredible stroke) I’ll start posting more? Doubt it. Anyway. I’ve been keeping up for the most part on what’s been going on, offering support here and there (though there are times I wish I had but for some stupid reason never got around to it), liking posts, but not really saying much. It certainly isn’t the fault of the Like buttons, though, because I was lurking far before then. Wish I’d posted more, but that’s that. Oh well.
My life has been going on well otherwise, I’m much happier with my new school and friends, and I’m playing lots of music, which is one thing I was scared would stop when I moved out of the music program at my old school. Mostly I’ve been playing bass, which is fun, but I’m also playing my sax and apparently singing(???) for Surfin’ Bird in the upcoming show, and that’s fabulous because I’ve been needing something to do with my sax to get back into playing it. (On my bass I’m playing Kiss Off by the Violent Femmes, and Living On A Prayer by Bon Jovi. The latter is in a band called Bon Gibby, which is a Bon Jovi cover band who’s lead singer is named Gibby. They only do Bon Jovi songs, and feature lots of tambourine. It sounds like a sitcom, but it’s real life. :shock:) My school has four music shows a year, one of which has already happened and I performed in, the next of which is coming up soon. (Oh, unrelated to my school, I got a ukulele for my birthday! It’s amazing and super cool and purple and I am learning to play things on it!) So all’s well on the music front as well, is what I’m trying to say.
Acting is another one of my ambitions I never really posted much about on MuseBlog, mostly because I was never really able to pursue it. But again, at my new school, opportunities have presented themselves, and I was recently in the movie Voodoo Maniacs, playing an unnamed Tourist who is captured by a vampire, and then is subsequently eaten alive by Voodoo Children. Needless to say, I survive somehow survive the loss of my limbs to go on a date with a British plumber to Yankee Stadium, and we all live happily ever after. (Trust me, it’s much better than it sounds.) I also scored the starring role in the upcoming movie Murder At Pleasance Manor! I play the detective, not the murderer, but it is still going to be great fun.
I also have a bunch of weird ideas and other stuff to post sometime soon, but this post is starting to fall under “Let’s all catch up on what Sudo has been doing while not telling us exactly what he has been doing!” instead of “Let’s all catch up on what Sudo would have posted on the blog if he hadn’t been lurking!”, so I think I’ll end it. I’ll also probably edit it before I post, but you never know.
Actually, yes I will. (Meh. This post seems for the most part largely coherent, which I think is the best I’m going to get at this point. I’ll probably post more at some point soon if it seems like y’all aren’t too put off by this one.)
Love you all!
I’ve been lurking too. I don’t know why I’m not posting more, I want to but I don’t feel like it sometimes.
Same here.
I, also.
Me, too, definitely.
Same here? Well, sort of. (Gosh, there are a lot of us?) Partly it’s because I’ve been busy, partly because I’ve been procrastinating on other parts of the Interwebs, and partly because I just haven’t had anything of any real importance to say… I’m also not really involved in any one thread right now.
We can create threads tailor-made for you, if you think of any you might find involving.
I have been feeling the exact same way. Sometimes I’ll keep a post in my head for weeks, but can never remember it when I’m actually at a computer, or can not be able to find the time and/or courage to type it and click the “comment” button.
Lately, there’s been a lot of times where I type a lengthy post in response to a conversation only to decide at the last minute that I really don’t have anything relevant or important to say.
*attaches self to everyone’s arm* Hi. I’m old and crotchety and trying to be hip.
Love you too, Sudo snooky bear.
Well, I’ve been focusing on my original universe (the one about MB) a bit more than Hetalia recently, so I guess that’s good? Meaning I already knew everything in the comments below about Liechtenstein… (I am somehow distantly related to someone in there, I just know it.) I need to finish my math project but I’m slacking off over here, so… I’ll see you guys.
New icon! DDDD
Same for me. As well as what Cat’s Meow said in post 149.1.5.1 about writing long posts in response to something, and than not posting them after all. I dunno. I think a lot of it for me is I’ve never really had friends or people I hung out with or whatever, and my first two years of college y’all kept me sane, and you were my social life. This year, I’ve spent more time with people, so I was a bit distanced from the ‘blog at the beginning of the year more than other years.
And then Alan and I started dating, and I actually have a non e-person that I can tell everything to and vent all my frustrations to, and once I’ve done that, well, I no longer feel the need to type out my frustrations to all of you. Plus, all my free time that previously I would ahve spent refreshing the ‘blog every 5 seconds in hopes that someone would post something new for me to read, I now spend hanging out with Alan.
So I guess I”m saying I finally got something of a life in the on internet world, so I have less time/need for the ‘blog. I dunno. I mean, I still love y’all and consider this my home on the ‘net, but…..I’m just not as big a part of it now as I used to be.
*sigh* I dunno. I don’t even know if all of that even made any sense. Meh.
There wasn’t any school today!
And there won’t be tomorrow!
And I watched LotR with three friends!
I spent my snow day today writing a soap opera about a catholic pirate named Ishmael, an auto-theistic Cthulu disguised as a one-eyed seagull, Egyptian pagans, a zombie-pope-messiah who ALSO becomes a catholic pirate, and of course, a Jewish Valedictorian Necromancer.
A day well spent.
Yes.
Yes.
YES.
*torn between being afraid and being intrigued*
Um…did the GAPAs zap my entire last post?
Not intentionally. What was/is it about?
It was about my friend’s hope to create a massive chorus on YouTube of people singing Dragostea Din Tei, and how I hoped that the MuseBlog could help. I could understand why you would zap it, I was just wondering if it somehow got lost in the abyss of lost posts.
I see. It’s in the spam filter. We don’t post instructions for finding people’s personal websites.
Does that include YouTube channels? Because he actually personally asked me to spread the word about it. However, I can understand if you don’t want it on here.
I wish the wind would stop. It’s been blowing yesterday and today–I think it’s about 40 mph today, with gusts up to 50 something. Great fun. Really noisy, and especially difficult to try and walk in (I couldn’t hardly walk across the parking lot at the post office earlier this afternoon).
And the fact that the wind has been blowing several times over my Christmas break means there’s really no decent snow coverage, because most of the ground is windswept bare, just some extremely dirty snow drifts spotted aroundd. And I think it’s only actually snowed once over my break, and that was only maybe 2 inches max, and then within a couple days it got blown away.
My school’s spirit game* for basketball is called The Golden Throne. The trophy for it is a toilet that has been spray painted (what else?) gold. My school’s theme for this year?
Harry Potty and the Sorcerer’s Throne!
I can’t overemphasize how awesome this is. I can’t wait until Friday night!
*In case you don’t know what spirit games are, it’s a massive spirit competition between two rival schools that involves skits during halftime, cheers, T-shirts, noisemakers, etc. Each school picks its own theme to base everything around. The best/loudest/most awesome, as judged by the judges, wins the traveling trophy!
Would a new random thread be in order yet? This one has 600 comments (601 now, I suppose).
It’s a good idea, but a new thread will have to wait until tomorrow unless one of the other GAPAs makes it. I’m about to sign off for the night.
So, I found the following hilarious and just all-round fantastic, but the family was not so impressed. Maybe they thought I was making it up?
I was researching the Principality of Lichtenstein, because I dreamt of writing a novel set in a similar country, and the facts are just so ridiculous I love it. There are only about 35,000 Liechtensteiners, because the country is just so small- about 16 times smaller than Rhode Island. The Prince (not a king, because the country is too small) is named Johannes Adam Ferdinand Alois Josef Maria Marko d’Aviano Pius von und zu Liechtenstein, Reigning Prince of Liechtenstein, Duke of Troppau and Jägerndorf, Count of Rietberg, Sovereign of the House of Liechtenstein, or Hans-Adam II for short. But wait, The Second? Yes, there was also a Hans-Adam the First. I thought “Oh, it must just be his father, but no. He was (Franz Joseph Maria Aloys Alfred Karl Johannes Heinrich Michael Georg Ignaz Benediktus Gerhardus Majella, Fürst von und zu Liechtenstein, Herzog von Troppau und Jägerndorf, Graf zu Rietberg. Or Franz Joseph II for short. Yep, he was also a “Second.”
Other fun facts include Liechtenstein having been left alone ever since Napoleon left- no other country has ever tried to invade (well, except for the Swiss, but it was an accident), so there’s no army. It is also one of only two countries to be doubly landlocked. Castle Lichtenstein is actually in Austria, where the royal family came from.
So really, any history or geography I make up for my fictional nation will seem reasonable!
It was invaded by accident? This is too great.
170 Swiss Army troops were out for a hike in the middle of the night. They made it two kilometers into Lichtenstein before they realized they were going the wrong way. “It was all so dark out there,’ said one of the misdirected recruits.”
Oh, my, now I want to write a novel set in Lichtenstein. This is almost as good as finding out that America tried to paint Mt. Fuji red during WWII.
They WHAT?!?!
Hmm… when the guy on Anderson Cooper’s show commenting about Obama’s speech in Tuscon says Reagan’s Challenger speech was very short, does he mean the one he gave that night, or the one at the memorial service in Houston a few days later?
The latter, if he’s talking about it in context with the Tuscon speech? I have no idea.
Hey KaiYves! I just read your Muserology and liked it a lot! Have you ever heard of the song Lost in the Blue by Minstrels of Mayhem? It is written about the Columbia explosion and is one of my favorite songs.
Humanities teacher: You don’t seem to be challenged by this class. I’m very disappointed in you, Sophia.
Which pretty much sums up my day.
That… doesn’t make sense.
The teacher should be disappointed in enself if it’s not challenging her students. How are you supposed make an easy class challenging?
This is a PoPo, hoping to be (one of) the last post(s).