March 25 was New Year’s Day in England, Wales, Ireland, and the British colonies, until 1752.
March 21 (or thereabouts) is also the date of the old Persian New Year, called Nowruz.
So, happy new years and thread, everybody!
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I’m spotting a theme here…
Eep, my orchestra’s concert’s coming up on Sunday and I’m already freaking out about it. We are so, so close to perfect on the music but not all the way there. It sounds absolutely awesome when we’re all paying attention, but when people get distracted it all falls apart. Stress…
It would be awesome if the GAPAs managed to find a reason for every month of the year to be New Year’s. This could be a Happy New Year year!
Oh dear god… nice picture, though.
This follows three hours spent with what are quite possibly the dullest relatives ever created. The horror.
Let’s see:
January: Gregorian calendar new year
February: Chinese New Year
March: Persian New Year
April: Hindu New Year
May: Matariki (Maori New Year)
June: Kutchi New Year
July: Australian fiscal New Year (lame, I know)
August: Can’t find anything (I suppose it could be the Month Without A New Year)
September: Coptic Orthodox New Year
October: Jewish New Year
November: Samhain (neo-pagan new year)
December: Apparently some people count Christmas as New Year’s
August is the start of the Muse Academy school year. We have to begin early to catch the last of the warmish weather.
We start school in August!
April is also Jewish New Year, as is February.
Okay, true. But the the holiday whose name actually means “The Beginning of the Year” happens in the fall. The February one is only for trees, and the April one…gahhh, what else is that one for besides royalty?
Trees have their own New Year? How do they celebrate it? By drinking Ent-draughts?
Yup. And the trees celebrate it by starting to grow again, which would definitely be helped by drinking Ent-draughts.
har, har, Groundhog
Perfect!
November 27th, this year, is the beginning of the Catholic new liturgical year.
And the Islamic liturgical year 1433 A.H. begins on either November 27 or November 26, depending on which continent you’re on.
What is a liturgical year?
The cycle of feast days, holidays, and specific daily prayers begins on the first Sunday of Advent.
Holy cake, it’s March already?
Holy cake, it’s the 21st century already?
Holy cake, it’s the 2010s already?
Holy cake, it’s A.D. already?
Holy cake, the Big Bang happened already?
Holy cake, it is the 3rd millennium already?
Holy cake, what’s a meteor?
Nothing. What’s a meteor with you?
Twenty likes for a joke The Lion King did better 17 years ago?
(Unrelated: It freaks me out that The Lion King is almost as old as I am.)
*sigh* I should not be sad right now. It’s my birthday, after all. (Don’t get me wrong, it has been a great birthday…except for the following.)
See, this morning my mom promised me that she would bring me a sandwich from Subway for lunch as a birthday treat and drop it off in the school office. It never arrived. I didn’t know if she’d forgotten or if there had been a time mix-up or something, but I wasn’t had a few snacks (so I didn’t go hungry) and I wasn’t worried…
Then, after picking me up from school, my mom asked me if I’d gotten the sandwich. A little surprised, I said no and that I hadn’t known it was there. She started crying.
Apparently, she spent the whole morning trying to think of something nice to do for me for my birthday and brought me a freshly baked loaf of banana bread along with the hot sandwich. But she was running late for something and didn’t remember to text me until the point when doing so would have made her even later. So, she decided not to, assuming that I’d be smart enough to go to the office when no sandwich showed up.
Well, I wasn’t. I don’t even know why it’s affecting me so much now, but I feel absolutely awful that all of her hard work and care went to waste just because I was dumb enough to not go get my sandwich. In retrospect, it’s so obvious that that’s what I should have done. Now I just feel stupid and guilty that I assumed she’d forgotten.
I keep seeing the 10 different boxes of mixes for baked goods on the kitchen countertop, clearly the result of a morning’s shopping and thinking about me, and then I start crying again. Ugh.
But really, my birthday’s been mostly good.
I’ve been in similar situations before. I have a tendency to cry on my birthday, mostly about little things. I get upset when people spend too much of their time into little things for me, or when they do big things for strange reasons. For example, last week I didn’t get cast in my school’s musical and I was a bit upset, but I need to take driver’s ed anyway so I’ll do that instead. My mother, on the other hand, went out and bought me flowers (I’ll save my rant about flowers for another day) and according to my father, seemed really down about it all evening (I wasn’t home). And although I’m glad she wanted me to feel good about myself, but she really didn’t have to and I mostly was mad cos she wasted her money.
On another note, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Cat’s Merow? Oh, for goodness sake – that’s what I get for typing quickly.
(I’m leaving it as is for this post so that it will be post #5 and the name will be immortalized forever on the “Who’s Posted How Much” list.)
Back from my trip, and this is the first chance I’ve gotten to go on MB. I hope I haven’t missed too much.
Hopefully, I’ll get to do a trip-report like I did for the World Science Festival after I get all my pictures together.
Sort of random question/poll:
Does anybody here count at random? For example, I’ll be climbing the stairs and counting my steps, or I’ll be walking and I won’t realized that I’m counting until I’m saying 39, 40, 41…. I’m not worried at all, I was just wondering if someone other than me had the same habit.
hey, is your avatar from the most recent adaptation of emma? i’ve been thinking kind of in the back of my mind that it looks familiar and only after re-watching it recently do i actually recognize it (i think)
Yes it is! Romola Garai is almost as pretty as me, so I chose her as my avatar.
I loved her in the new Emma, and that adaptation is my favorite.
yay! it is so much better than the movie version and/or clueless, imo
I do, and sometimes I say the alphabet, too.
Yes.
Does anyone else sign to themselves all the time? I took less than 10 weeks of sign language three years ago and it’s like the signs got stuck in my hands or something. I often spell out what I’m thinking or saying. Even when it’s not with my hands, I can literally be signing in sign language in my head.
It’s not enough for most people to notice, but it’s a funny habit.
I type to myself constantly. I blame my thousands of posts on MuseBlog. Really, I’ll just start typing everything I’m saying or thinking–or things I’m not. I seem to have generic one-sided conversations using my fingers.
I type to myself too! I’ll do it unconsciously, to the point where it really annoys my family. My fingers seem to like the words ‘Yeah,’ ‘Okay,’ ‘Sure,’ and ‘Whatever’. XD -_-
I spell to myself and sign to myself a lot.
Signing was how I learned “cuando” in Spanish, and now every time I say or think “cuando” I also think of the sign. (trans: “when”)
I’m weird enough already that I can openly spell things with my hands.
Isn’t counting of that nature a sign of various obsessive tendencies?
Yes. I do have some obsessive compulsive tendancies but they’re nowhere near to being a disorder, so I’m not worried.
I do that, yes. Usually I count seconds or renditions of a particular noise in groups of 4.
When I’m waiting around tediously, I tend to start counting the seconds.
I count In binary on my fingers when I get bored.. It’s difficult to explain how I do it, but it has become a regular habit when waiting or trying to fall asleep.
Yep. I also have several obsessive-compulsive tendencies, but they’re pretty mild/moderate so I’m not that worried.
Well, I can’t remember who it was, but someone was foolish enough to mention Cthulhu on the previous thread… I did some research and it’s fair to say I’ve reached the point of obsession with the Great Old Ones and their mythos. This will only be problematic.
Cthulhu? Oh yeah, that was the conversation that spiraled into Candlejack. Cake, I hope that doesn’t start up ag
Roll a Sanity check, please.
:]
I recently bought a collection of Lovecraft stories.
I had it for a few weeks before I started reading. Not because of lack of time or anything, but because I had to seriously consider what I would be committing to if I read it. I had to decide if the potential for Cthulu to show up in my nightmares and ideas was worth reading the books at this time.
I decided it was worth it. And it has proven such.
Piggy, are you just going to keep rehashing this Candlejack th
Cthulhu is actually one of his less frightening creations, for me. The Lovecraft stories that scared me the most were the ones that left more to the reader’s imagination, like “Pickman’s Model” and “The Music of Erich Zann.” “The Rats in the Walls” gets a special mention because there are actually no Cosmic Horrors in it, just a long line of seriously depraved human beings.
I wonder how many threads Candle Jack is going to sh
I’ll look into those, thanks! For all who don’t know already, Lovecraft’s works passed into public domain in 2007- they’re free on the internet! Joining the fabulous works of Freud and Nietzsche, etc.
“The Music of Erich Zann” creeped me out a lot more than the Cthulu ones I’ve read so far.
I love “The Outsider”. It’s really short, but it’s just so unsettling. It isn’t necessarily scary, more sad and (what’s a word for “dull shock”?). I just realized that…
POSSIBLE SPOILER FOR H.P. LOVECRAFT THE OUTSIDER. POSSIBLE SPOILER FOR THE OUTSIDER
maybe the Outsider is Cthulu! Because when he comes out of his terrible dungeon, everyone is terrified of him. I imagine Cthulu being a morose and dejected god who has given up on his power and relegated himself to weak monsterdom.
I haven’t read IT, but my friend says that POSSIBLE SPOILER!!! the main character flies past God, and God is a giant turtle who is lethargic and doesn’t really know why the universe exists. I imagine Cthulu being like that, but less intelligent.
There are way too many spoilers in this post. I need to cut back.
Okay, abominations (be they Eldritch or Humanoid) have been mentioned too many times on this thread and the previous.
There’s the discussion that spiraled into Mr. Candle man
There’s AM’s post where he mentioned Slender Man
And then there’s this
AAAH THEY’RE COMING FOR US OUR OF THE INTERNET
my day:
morning: practicing for a studio class performance. was kind of meh – I could have played way better and made stupid mistakes I shouldn’t have
afternoon: studio class, then skipping class to study for midterm tomorrow, then lab orchestra, then studying
tomorrow: 9am: midterm. 11am: midterm. 1pm: midterm. 3pm: lesson. 4pm: orchestra. 7:30pm: quartet rehearsal
I am going to die or something.
Please don’t we will miss you D:
Everyone who mentioned Cthulhu should read A Shadow Over Innsmouth and then go listen to the song Heartache Over Innsmouth on the tube of you. Your life will be significantly improved.
Today: class and then took laptop to the tech store. Hopefully they can fix it :/
Then cleaned room a bit and somehow managed to break my blinds fffff. Not sure what to do about that so ignoring it for now.
Then went for a run with Quidditch! Down to the arb and around the pond and back. Well, on the way back people walked but I had a ton of evergy so I ran in circles around them as they walked. After about 20 revolutions Matt suggested I get someone to sponsor me for every time I did one, and Katie said she’d give me one penny per orbit. I am now the proud owner of a dollar.
Also poico! I can now do 360 weave in both directions. And synchronized windmill. I am doing it backwards because normal windmill not working for me what. Also butterfly/wave windmill. Heh.
I am busy like constantly. And when I’m not I’m working. I’m glad studyparties with friends caught on fast because I wouldn’t ever see them otherwise, except for meals.
Except for the occasional panic-freakout-overworked days life is good though.
woaaaah forgot that that gravatar was attached to this email. On a friends computer and forgot to put my normal one oops. This was when ebeth and I were pretending to be Julia I should go change it but lazy
Usually we have some sort of activity on Wednesday afternoons from 1 to 3, but my homeroom teacher vanished and nobody remembered to send a substitute, so I spend much of the afternoon spinning in circles on an office chair and smudging pastel pictures.
Still in love with the Star Trek 2009 theme. By positioning my foot on a brass synthesizer I found at a garage sale, I can play most of the orchestral parts.
I lost the game. *ducks pies that are flying towards head*
GRRRR WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY?!
(If you see this in the RC bar, don’t click it. It’s for your own good, trust me.) Well so did I.
(On second thought, knowing musers, my warning will probably be more of a trap…)
look at your life, look at your choices
I am free from The Game. I AM FREE! MUAHAHAHA!
Me too! Free I tell you!
I can’t believe how many racists there seemed to be at school today. Nasty, nasty, nasty.
Sorry.
Thank you.
Ugh. Someday they will be janitors in bankrupt, corrupt corporations, and you will be famous.
Nah, she’ll just be living on Mars and won’t have to deal with them.
What, living on Mars is mutually exclusive with being famous?
I didn’t say that
I can’t believe how many idiots in general there are at my school.
Yesterday I spent in DC. I hitched a ride with a friend who volunteers at the American History museum (Smithsonian), and poked around the exhibits there for two hours. I revisited the On the Water exhibit, which is all about maritime industry and ships and suchlikes, which is awesome, except that a tour guide came through telling her group about the “Susan B. Constant” which kind of messed up my happy morning, since it’s the Susan Constant with no B. It’s Susan B. Anthony, folks, and while we’re at it, no, we don’t know who the ship (SC) was named after. It’s a Jamestown ships interpretive staff pet peeve.
I considered bludgeoning her, but I didn’t want to cause a scene, so I didn’t.
After that we went to the American Indian museum for lunch, since they have a fantastic cafeteria. Then to the Library of Congress to look up some stuff about the Beggar’s Opera. I got a handful of books, but only ended up looking at one, since it was really interesting and we didn’t have a ton of time. I really want a copy of the book, but I have a feeling the one I was looking at may very well be the only one in existence–it was a typewritten manuscript. Very awesome though.
After that we tried to go to Chinatown, but my friend got us lost on an epic scale, and in trying to find our way back ran out of time, so just went straight to the Folger where we watched the Comedy of Errors. The play was fantastic and hilarious and wonderful in general and I’m really glad I got to go.
Today I’ve been doing nothing, mostly. I need to make a phone call that I’m totally not stalling on right now.
I made macaroni and [not-]cheese, it’s in the oven and smelling good, even though I’m not hungry. Mmm. I’ve been craving it for a while.
I found my band binder with all my sheet music! *does happy dance*
I was the 42nd person to interview for the summer volunteer position that I hope to get. That must be a lucky sign, right?
Yup!
See, I can’t remember if I posted something earlier and it was rejected by mods, or if I wrote out a big ol’ paragraph and accidentally exited! :/
We haven’t zapped anything.
Well then I am insane!
How many people have taken the SAT World History or Biology M? I’m wondering if I’m taking it early like everything else.
I’m thinking about taking Biology M at the end of this school year, since I’m taking AP Biology anyways. The only other one I’ve taken is Spanish With Listening.
Today I finally stopped procrastinating and drew my hair. (That sounded weird, we are doing self-portraits in art so….)
I have a picture on my cell phone with cereal named “Puffins.” Why would I want to eat that?
My friend L has a shirt with an ad for some kind of Japanese wasabi cereal on it. I pray it doesn’t actually exist.
Like wasabi-flavored Cap’n Crunch? *shudders*
Unfortunately, it does, you can get it in the supermarkets here… alongside such other treats as prawn-flavored cheerios and laksa and cheese biscuits.
Prawn-flavored Cheerios? *shudders*
It’s actually very good. It’s one of the only cereals that I like that’s actually good for you.
But I like that cereal! Sometimes some of the proceeds go towards puffins!
After hearing the cereal say proceeds go to puffins, I must buy it.
That cereal is actually rather good…as long as you don’t eat it as cereal.
I shall eat it as pie, then.
Exactly.
Yay.
Pie = Cereal
I hate this year. I’m so tired all the time, and it’s 11:30 and I still have my Calc homework and a French test to study for (covering grammar that no one in my class actually learned anything about and seventy-seven vocabulary phrases, all of which are idiomatic and contain some word relating to a part of the body.) We’ve had a grand total of one day off since we came back in the beginning of January. I need a break.
*hugs and Kit-Kat bars*
I hear you. I’ve spent the last 6 hours trying to write a 7-page paper that’s due at midnight. I can’t remember if I ate dinner or not.
do you ever feel the urge to write, in caps, ARE YOU READING THIS?!?!?!
i always want to write something in the middle of my paper just to see if whoever is grading it notices. or slowly segue into fanfiction or lorem ipsum or something.
I once turned in an essay, two paragraphs of which were from the Wikipedia entry on orange farming. Nobody noticed.
SFTDP: I should add, the essay was not about orange farming. It was about satirical dialog in To Kill a Mockingbird.
I seem to be posting a rather lot of double posts today… I should stop.
My AP Euro teacher told my class about people who write about unicorns and such for their free-response questions to be “funny” (or because they have no clue), so now whenever we do practice essays we’re all trying to slip in one sentence comments about Queen Penelope I, unicorn queen of Britain or something like that.
My teachers have this system that allows them to look at what you’re doing while on the school computers from their computer. However, when they turn it on, a little popup appears “Vision client is ON”
So whenever that thing pops up I’ll open a word document and write HI! in all caps big font, then smile as they look up.
Me: How was your day?
Friend: It was lame.
Me: In what way?
Friend: Just lame.
Me: Oh. Well, we’re working on shadow puppets, which is quite fun.
Friend: Shadow puppets are lame.
Me: Why? I like to build things with my hands.
Friend: That’s lame, Sophie. *notices knitting* Why are you knitting?
Me: Because I like to- see, I’m making a guinea pig cozy.
Friend: Knitting is lame. It’s, like, for old people. That’s lame.
Me: …
Friend: I think this is why you’re unpopular. You’re kind of lame.
Me: Do you ever find a word you think is used too much?
Friend: *completely misses point* That’s a lame question.
Haha. All the cool people know how to knit.
Or at least plan to learn.
And crochet, of course.
Oops.
This comment is lame.
As someone who once had a severely sprained ankle, I cannot countenance such blatant insensitivity to lame people.
My apologies.
Apologies are lame.
Lameness is lame.
Ouch.
This video just used the phrase “nectar teetotalers”.
What is that even supposed to mean?
Apparently it refers to people who won’t drink nectar? At least, that’s my best guess…
No, it was referring to certain species of, I believe, lemurs that aren’t able to pull apart the leaves of a certain plant to drink the nectar inside.
Ah. That’s much more interesting.
I just read that as “nuclear teetolars.” Wow.
*teetotalers
In math class, someone made a pi pie. My teacher got a picture of it, and I’ll see if I can send it to the GAPAs. It tasted really good, too!
I did that once.
That’s what I am going to do for National Pi Day this year!
There is a classical song I heard that my brain thinks is about tigers and jaguars and things running around in the jungle. I was listening to the radio and I heard it. I couldn’t think about anything but the jungle and creatures in it until the song was over.
Our school librarian retired. :/ He was the nicest guy. He really cared about the kids. Whenever a kid who spends a lot of time in the media center has a problem he will sit en down to talk about it and figure out a solution. He was really good at relating to the kids and getting them to take their lives seriously. The library was full of his posters and mascots from the local university and campaign posters from tons of Democratic candidates. It was really Wilson’s library. Now it’s just empty in there. :[
Aww, that’s sad.
Sorry about the librarian.
I worry it’ll be the same when the astronomy teacher at our school retires next year. I don’t think anybody else even knows how to use the planetarium projector, let alone care for all the posters and everything.
Which song, if you don’t mind me asking?
I’m so sorry about the librarian. ):
Umm…why did MuseBlog open to the “Anchors Aweigh” thread?
I can’t believe it’s Thursday already.
That should have been comment 5.1.1.1.1.1.2: “Holy cake, it’s Thursday already?”
WIN.
This must be a Thursday… I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
I waste so much time on this website. Also, I post way too many times. *goes off to research the Jackson presidency*
No such thing as too much time on MuseBlog, provided you eat and sleep.
Sleep doesn’t seem to be necessary for quite a few MuseBloggers, actually.
All you need is to eat, then, and we have the Hare and the Hedgehog Tearoom. What can beat that?
It has been proven. MuseBlog provides all that is needed for survival.
(Look, we even have social lives!)
MuseBlog: The Matrix since 2005.
Oh, obvs.
Does that stand for obviously? I haven’t heard it before.
Yes, it does, but I think it may be a term specific to my town. I know that “trueski” is. I said it once out of town, and people looked at me like I was green.
But really, trueski is fun to say. “Man, it’s really hot in here.” “Trueski, bro.”
“New York is an awesome city.” “Trueski, bro.”
It’s just true, but jazzed up a bit.
Tots.
To answer your question, yes, and tots is short for totally.
How interesting, the people at my school would usually say ‘totes’ instead of totally.
*sings to self quietly* Sleep is for the weak…
WASTE!?
Does anyone else like Takarazuka Revue?
What’s that?
An all-female Japanese musical theatre troupe. My favorite videos are currently one from Rome At Dawn called If You’re A Man and one called Revue 誕生 from I have no idea what show, I have no idea what that says. If you can read Japanese, please tell me?
People have uploaded them to youtube.
Okay I’ve figured out what the Japanese means. The full title is “Birth of a Revue” and it is from 2003 and the song they’re singing is an Edith Piaf song L’hymne à L’Amour.
That explains a lot. No wonder the boys were all so pretty.
I thought that sounded familiar! Unfortunately I’ve never seen any of their performances but I have heard many good things (mostly about Rose of Versailles)
I’ve read about them and I’d love to see a performance someday.
As part of my anti-complaining personal resolution, today I will only tell the internet the good things that happened today.
(This will involve a slightly confusing backstory.)
About four years ago, my older brother found a puppy wandering around the streets near his work. He got all of her shots and got her weight up and lots of good stuff, when circumstances came up and he had to give Maggie to us. We very quickly found out that she was terrified of water, which makes us believe she may have been abused. She ran from the sound of a tap running. As you can imagine, baths were a major chore. Tonight, after lots and lots of work, I got her to get in the bathtub without having to physically lift her, and she didn’t cower away from the nozzle.
I feel like this is a major accomplishment, and I am so happy that she trusts me so much.
Yay!
My dog jumps into the bathtub even if he isn’t getting a bath (adds to weird list). I have a Golden Retriever that hates the sun, doesn’t retrieve anything, purrs, and like baths.
Has anyone here heard of The Drowsy Chaperone?
Pshaw. Yes.
Do you like it?
I haven’t. What is it?
It’s the musical our school is doing this year. I’m playing in the pit (or “pit,” rather, as we probably get to be onstage!). It’s a really fun show!
pretending to travel across the US by using mapcrunch. currently in montana. i want to go to there
also: it is feeling very spring-y here and i am pleased
I’m going on a Borders spree tomorrow. Does anyone have recommendations for books/movies/music/etc.?
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (one of my favorite books)
The protagonist is quite Muserly.
Second! Also Tam Lin by Pamela Dean. Freedom and Necessity by Steven Brust and Emma Bull. I will think of more as soon as I hit comment, won’t I?
So, my dad and I met this really nice family when we were on vacation, and they really like NASA, and I played space trivia with their son and their daughter gave me a picture she drew of a shuttle. As people, they were very, very nice.
But now they want to see a letter I wrote to NASA Administrator Bolden. And in that letter, I said that I was excited about the President’s new plans for NASA and how happy they made me.
Now, the trouble is, these people:
1) Do not like the President. Really do not like the President. My dad overheard the father say something that indicates he might be a Birther.
2) Do not like the new plan.
So, if I send it to them, I have a feeling that’ll end our friendship pretty quick. But if I refuse to send it, that could end it, too.
Did they ask pointedly for it, or just kind of say “oh i’d like to see that!”? Because it might be the kind of thing where maybe you can just sort of not mention it if it makes you uneasy thinking about sending it. But if they do press you for it, I would go ahead and send it, and if they complain just be like dudes you’re the one who asked me for it…or something to that effect.
that’s definitely a tough situation, but hopefully they will be tactful even if they disagree and thank you for taking the time to send them the letter! Also, that’s really cool!
You know, I’d bet that they understand that not everybody is going to agree with their beliefs, and that they can be friends with even those people, especially if they’re as nice as you said. Also, there’s clearly a difference in your writing a letter to somebody totally unrelated in which you express views which they disagree with, and expressing those same views directly to them. I think it’ll be fine, or at least not as bad as you’re saying.
You could tell them that it’s a bit personal and politely decline to send it to them.
My dad says I shouldn’t send it to them, because they were probably already planning on having their kids copy what I said and write their own letters, hoping to get a reply like I did, never mind the politicky (Political and icky) stuff.
Oh my god, such exciting things happening right now. Beyond exciting. But they need a long post, and I inky have a few minutes, so here’s something to hold you over- a ten second lesson by my euro teacher who realized that we were running out of time before the AP exam.
“The potato famine, here’s what happened: people left Ireland.”
And that is all she’s explaining to us about it.
Aww, that’s too bad. My class is going to do an entire day on everything that’s ever happened to Ireland right before St. Patrick’s Day. *suddenly starts worrying because we appear to be even more behind*
Guess what? In science we learned that H2 (I went through a lot of trouble and I still can’t subscript it) means there are two Hydrogen atoms! Whoa, this is serious stuff, no messing with the intellectual power of eighth grade science.
I wish that was all I needed to know to get a good grade in science.
Lucky, lucky you…
Leaving for Interim tomorrow, early morning. School trip – I’m going to Thailand for a week, around the Phuket area: snorkeling, swimming, hiking, beaches etc. This should be fun.
And then Shanghai in 12 days…
Have fun!
Oooh! Have fun! I’m going to Thailand too, but in April.
Darn, you’re a month too late. Where in Thailand will you be going?
*cannot be specific because they’re all pretty small towns*
Northern-ish. I hear their food is very spicy.
We almost went to Phuket, but that was during the height of the Red Shirt Protests and they wouldn’t let anyone on the plane.
Have fun!
*is jealous*
Have lots of fun, Selenium!
This is my 1,000th post on MB under this name, I believe!
SFTDP.
Congratulations! That’s quite a lot!
om nom nom miso soup
I have a t-shirt that says, “REFUDIATE!”
Iron-on paper is goooooood.
I love Fridays. The waking up knowing that you can sleep in tomorrow, the breakfast porridge-with-pickled-mustard-greens hawker who comes by once a week (it’s an acquired taste). The shortened school bus ride. The double Art. The coming home and then rushing off to the food court for dinner.
Also, I may or may not be a witch. Further bulletins as events warrant.
I need that t-shirt.
You weigh more than a duck?
“She turned me into a newt!”
*stares*
“…I got better.
At this point I’m unable to remember if the actual word is “refudiate” or “repudiate”.
It’s the former.
Repudiate is an actual word.
Oh. Oops.
I’ve memorized the Lord’s Prayer for the express purpose of proving I’m not a witch, should the accusation arise.
Nice one, Cat!
It is now 2:03 in the morning. I am a tired procrastinator indeed..
Welcome to the club.
SLEEP IS FOR THE- *is pied quite thoroughly*
I think I’m beginning to notice a trend here.
Total amount of sleep for that night: twenty minutes.
The strange thing is that I feel fine.
I sleep nect to none each night. And I am not going crazy yet.
…Okay, who am I kidding? XD
I have just knitted a guinea pig cozy.
It’s possible that I have too much time on my hands.
Can I have some of your spare time?
Certainly, do you want the guinea pig cozy as well?
*chronological squid*
Chronological squid = WIN.
Remember when on the last random thread someone suggested a Candle Jack thread? I’m not sure if this should go in the Suggestion Box or not, bu
Arlo Guthrie concert tonight!
Goodbye, MuseBlog, see you in a week’s time! No internet until I get back next Saturday. I’ll miss this place.
Cake, the Glory satellite failed to launch.
Charlie Sheen.
That man is crazy.
Who’s that?
A… well… crazy man. Best known for his role in Two and a Half Men, which is now, I believe, on hiatus, due to Sheen’s uncontrollable drinking habits. He sent out a tweet saying, “Rehab is so boring.”
Some of my friends on (an external blogging site) are having fun superimposing his Tweets over pictures of NASA people.
Picture of Gene Kranz in Mission Control: “It’s perfect. It’s awesome. Everyday is just filled with just wins. All we do is put wins in the record books.”
It’s funny how perfect a description of the Apollo program that is.
Must research him, now!
As I have quickly researched, Charlie Sheen is an actor with a crazy personal life.
As quoted from Wikipedia, “Carlos Irwin Estevez (born September 3, 1965), better known by his stage name Charlie Sheen, is an American film and television actor. He is the youngest son of actor Martin Sheen.
His character roles in films have included Chris Taylor in the 1986 Vietnam War drama Platoon, Jake Kesey in the 1986 film The Wraith, and Bud Fox in the 1987 film Wall Street. His career has also included more comedic films such as Major League, the Hot Shots! films, and Scary Movie 3 and 4. On television, Sheen is known for his roles on two sitcoms: as Charlie Crawford on Spin City and as Charlie Harper on Two and a Half Men. In 2010, Sheen was the highest paid actor on television, earning US$1.8 million per episode of Two and a Half Men.”
You don’t even want to know the kinds of things he’s said…He needs to be locked up somewhere…I think he’ll be dead by next year.
I could swear I heard that exact wording on the radio this morning.
Bibliophile: He’s an actor.
Some people were just talking about him in art today! (My art teacher says he’s an idiot (but funny))
My English teacher (who I don’t like, but that’s beside the point) used him in an example sentence for a vocab word (narcissism, ignominious, etc.) at least four times today.
best friends? what best friends? I don’t have any of those. because they’re liars and backstabbers and just so damn annoying.
and I’m an awkward loser.
Awkward? Of course. Loser? No, no, no.
*hugs*
You aren’t a loser at all! All you need is just to point out things in common!
By the way, being unusual and awkward is fun, I act like that every day.
Wasn’t there a contest a few days ago over who was the most awkward person? I still think I win, hands down. Some day you’ll find someone wonderful who loves you and thinks you’re the best person in the world. You know, in real life. In the mean time, hang out with us.
*agrees, except for the bit about the contest which she recalls winning*
I’m sorry, agrrrfishi. Soon you will find better friends, because you’re not mean. And I think you’re a walking, talking win of a person.
Tomorrow is No Technology Day. Great, now I might have to unplug my brother. *goes and finds instruction manual*
Soon, I hope we have a thread on Pi Day 2011, that would be great.
Have there been ones like that the past years?
~Ψ~
Yep! Last year’s thread was here.
Your name is Roman (Neptune) but your Gravatar is Greek (Ποσειδώνας). You use the Latin alphabet for your post (Soon…years) but the Greek alphabet for your signature (Ψ). Hm. You seem to be indecisive about your classical cultures.
Why not use 2 of them? They’re both fascinating.
Adding in Ancient Egyptian is always the way to go. Do it!
En does use Arabic numerals.
Indecisive?
Finally, someone checked out my Gravatar.
I used Neptune in many ways.
Two things Greek; The Word, and ~Ψ~.
One thing technically Roman; Name+Trident.
One thing about Space; The Planet.
I just like all of those things. They fascinate me.
You know, you could join the Demigod RPG as a son/daughter of Neptune. We always welcome more demigods!
Neptune, himself?
Yes
What is your Gravatrar, Piggy?
I can’t figure it out.
It’s John C. Calhoun, according to his comment in The Polling Place. I’m not really sure who that is, though,
He was an american governmently fellow before the civil war. Hung around with Henry Clay and company.
He was a American politician from the South in the early 19th century. He was notable for working with Henry Clay of the West to encourage the War of 1812. He, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster are known as some of the greatest senators of U.S. history.
We just learned about him in History; that’s so weird. Actually, we were talking about how ugly he was when he got old. Wow, I’m such a fail.
So Piggy, why John C. Calhoun?
Iunno.
I believe Piggy’s Gravatar is John Calhoun, a Southern politician in the early 1800s.
I misread your signature and thought it was Gandalf’s G-rune…
I just found out that I’ve been accepted to be a Teen Interpreter at the local art/history/culture museum this summer.
(Yes, this is the volunteer position that I was the 42nd interviewee for.) The exhibit is going to be all about Leonardo Da Vinci, and it’s going to be huge and spectacular and I’m so excited that I got one of the positions.
whoa! massive congratulations! that sounds really exciting
Congratulations, Cat’s Eye!
DARN IT
Cat’s Meow.
Congratulations!
Concert was very good. Dad was disappointed that there was a bigger band, and the theatre folks made it all loud so it was hard to decipher the words, but I still thought it was great. Fun stories, good music, good times.
Fishi, you’re not a loser, and you’re not awkward. You’re beautiful, vibrant, creative, kind, friendly and wonderful. You’re an amazing person and you should never let anyone else tell you or act as though the situation is otherwise. I hope that I can always call you my friend, because I think you’re a really cool gal. I know I’m just some random internet person, but assure you, behind these words there’s a girl sitting in her room with a computer on her lap who cares about you. And I mean this in the least creepy-internet-person-way possible. ♥
Agreed, right down to the not-a-creepy-internet-person.
Those so-called friends have no idea what they’re missing.
I’m happy and sad and worried all at the same time. Also, I’ve got a huge case of the warm fuzzies.
This is weird.
Go read Buttercup Festival. I know I’ve recommended this webcomic several times before here on MuseBlog, and I’ve done that for a reason. It’s beautiful. It’s poetic. It’s literary. It’s peerless. On the surface, it’s a cute set of non sequiturs, but I’ve been analyzing a lot of them, and it carries a lot of hidden meaning. I want to write a paper on it, but I don’t have anything for which to write a paper. Maybe I’ll write one anyways.
This goes for everyone else as well.
write down what you feel somewhere. you will really appreciate reading that someday, i guarantee.
/my $.02
My math teacher has banned the mere mention of Justin Beiber in her classroom.
♥
Your math teacher is flamabulous.
That really needs to be in the WIN thread.
Good for your math teacher.
~Ψ~
Lucky… my Language Arts teacher has Twilight posters in her classroom and wears Team Edward T-shirts. Oh well, at least she’s totally amazing in every other aspect.
The AP lit teacher at our school has a cardboard cutout..
So has my French teacher, but that’s because we always used our skits as an opportunity to make fun of him and she doesn’t really know who he is. (She thinks time stopped when she last updated her lesson plan in 1985.)
Oh, if only I had your math teacher…
Can you clone her and mail her to me?
Wait a few years….
To clarify- It’s not that she hates Beiber as much as we do, but she just gets annoyed by all the conversation about him rather than geometry.
Well, today I leave for my big trip. My posting will likely be sparse over the next five months, but I just want to say that you guys and gals are all awesome, and I’ll definitely tell you where I am as often as possible. Bye, everyone!!!
Have fun!
Have fun, muselover! We’ll miss you!
Bye, Muselover!
My sister has her Odyssey tournament today. I went to my friend’s birthday party last night and we went to this AMAZING frozen yogurt bar. Then I made earrings. With dangly paperclips. Paperclips are really cool.
What’s an Odyssey tournament/?
57.4: My 6th grade Language Arts Teacher didn’t wear Twilight T-shirts, but she did have the posters in her room (because she hosted a fan club after school, though it wasn’t her idea), and she once said that Twilight was what we should all want our own writing to be like. I was rather offended.
I suspect your writing is better.
Apparently, my English teacher likes crossover fan-fics, even though he probably wouldn’t recognize either of those terms- yesterday in class, he asked us how we thought the characters from The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises would get along with each other.
Tom Buchanan and Mike have a contest to see who can be more obnoxious, racist, and annoying, Jordan Baker and Brett Ashley hang out being alternatively mopey and fabulous, and Nick and Jake bond over Not Being Able To Understand All Of Our Crazy Friends.
And they all get drunk. A lot.
That sounds too cool.
Everyone would love Gatsby and Brett would try and flirt with him but he would brush her off because his heart belongs to Daisy. The gangster from GG would recruit Robert Cohn into the Mafia. Jake, Nick, Gatsby, and Bill would hang out at the bar. Brett and Jordan would become BFFs. Daisy would take them all shopping.
Having read those two books simultaneously, I would agree. It’s logical, though. Fitzgerald and Hemingway were close and both highly involved in the Lost Generation of expats living in Paris after the Great War. That was what both books were based on.
Kai–Can we add characters from For Whom the Bell Tolls?
Robert Jordan would join the Jake/Nick/Bill/Gatsby group. Pablo would join the Mafia with Robert Cohn and they would become BFFs. Maria and Daisy would bond and talk about heartache and be really dramatic. Pilar would take all the women under her wing and Daisy would become her protegee. Anselmo and Gatsby would become friends, and Gatsby would become Anselmo’s protegee. Everyone would speak Spanish and English and drink quite a lot.
I haven’t read it, but go ahead. I wonder if I could get extra credit for actually writing this.
I just found out that the Westboro Baptist Church has declared itself at active war with Anonymous.
Yes, that Anonymous.
Yes, active war.
Can I get people to join me in the pointing/laughing?
First of all, where did you find this, and secondly…
Trolls against trolls. I will totally join you.
Google “westboro baptist church anonymous”. You can find a video clip where the Anonymous representative hacks the WBC website while the WBC representative is distracted by telling him that God hates him and he’s going to Hell. It also features this lovely little exchange:
Anonymous: Am I going to Hell?
WBC: I don’t know you, so I can’t say for sure. But God knows you, and He knows what you have done, and I’m pretty sure He knows that you’re going to Hell.
Anonymous: Well, I have committed over nine thousand sins, so…
WBC: Over nine thousand?
Anonymous: Over nine thousand!
WBC: (not getting it) So you’ve been keeping tallies, huh? Tallies of your sins? You’re proud of it.
Anonymous: Well, the Internet is serious business.
*snerk*
SFTDP.
Just watched the video. I was giggling violently and am glad no one else is in the house.
And Anonymous has been stupid enough to react. Trolls trolling trolls.
We all live under a bridge, sometimes.
TROLL IN THE DUNGEON
Thought you ought to know… *faints*
This is going to be incredibly entertaining. No matter who wins.
Yes. It might even keep them both too busy to annoy anyone else!
I’m seeing an “Alien vs. Predator” poster with Fred Phelps at his most creepy-looking on the Alien side, and a Guy Fawkes mask on the other.
*is currently fiddling around in GIMP and might have to do that*
Annoy? Yes, some members of Anonymous do stupid things, like the HBGary hit. But Anonymous has had an influential part in helping fight for human rights around the world, strange as it may sound. Internet freedom, anti-Scientology movements, fighting against censorship. They’ve been doing a lot to assist the protests around the Middle East. Heck, they even hunt down animal abusers in their spare time. It’s the ultimate irony: no structure, no organization, no leadership, no common beliefs–but they hold a lot of power. In a way, it’s the most democratic organization around: whatever “operation” has the most support is the one that’s worked on the most, by the fact itself. Westboro, on the other hand, is simply a money-making operation under the conscious guise of a pseudo-cult. I haven’t seen them do anything worthwhile.
I didn’t know that, I actually didn’t know much about them beyond their being an online group. I was just speaking from the fact that trolls generally seem to be in the business of annoying people.
Anonymous is like a school of fish. They’re all going in one direction, yeah, but they can change that direction at any time. Yesterday they were hacking for the lulz. Today they’re doing it for freedom of speech. Who knows why they’ll be doing it tomorrow?
As an inhabitant of the Internet, I’m thrilled and triumphant that they have as much power as they do, if somewhat eye-rolling that no one off the Internet knows not to feed trolls. As a student of psychology, I think they’re the most fascinating look into basic human nature there is. As an ordinary person, I’m a little afraid of them.
Yeah, pretty much.
*joins in pointing and laughing*
Some Christian group has ascertained that May 21 is going to be the end of the world…
In related news, Jehovah’s Witnesses have officially changed their predicted apocalyptic date from 2018 to “soon.”
They’ve had billboards up around my city for months. My Theory of Knowledge teacher always jokes that he won’t grade any papers this semester since he’ll be leaving before the last day of school.
Eh, that last one is really not funny.
Jehovah’s Witnesses have been known to do really bad things when they think the apocalypse is coming soon. They’ve burned down their houses, burned their food (because they believed that they wouldn’t be needing it.)
Yeesh. Why would you burn food just because you don’t think you need it? Is it to make a statement? Because if it is, that’s just wrong.
It seems horrible. There are people who are starving somewhere even if the apocalypse is coming soon; wouldn’t it be best donate the food won’t eat so that as many people as possiblecan at least die with a full stomach? At any rate, there’s no point in burning food. It doesn’t even smell good. It doesn’t make sense.
No offense to anyone who’s done this, of course.
Shirley Phelps-Roper: “That’s not how we roll!”
I nearly fell off my chair laughing.
“This is how we roll.”
I used to have discussions and arguments the exact same way as she does. When I was eight.
When you were eight?
Does that mean you didn’t argue before?
No, it means that Cat’s Eye was as immature and downright stupid as Shirley Phelps-Roper when en was 8. Although I find that hard to believe.
Oh, me too.
The Westboro Baptist Church makes me cry. They go to funerals of soldiers and picket, holding up signs that say things like, “God hates fags” and that soldiers were sinners and deserved to die. It is deeply disturbing to me that anyone, no matter what their cause, would be that insensitive. Families are mourning and these, these horrible, horrible people are protesting and saying they shouldn’t be sad because they deserved to die.
Let’s just say I’m supporting the hacktivists on this one.
Very disturbing.
I have just returned inside from sculpting a giant snow-viola in my front yard!
Fun, but can you make a snowman playing it?
My first pink comment. Yay.
Did you make a whole orchestra or something, too?
59.1.1: Thanks! To be honest, I’m not sure how much right I have to be offended as I’ve never read Twilight, but most of the people whose judgment I trust hate it, and most of the people whose judgment I don’t trust love it, and the arguments against it generally seem to be better than the ones for it, so I can’t imagine it’s very good. Anyway, even if I’m not as good as her (I can’t know without having read it), there are probably much better things to strive for.
62: *points and laughs* Keep us updated; I’m really wondering just what they plan to do.
63: Cool (no pun intended)! Could you send photos?
Does anyone remember that HPB Soul Candy that a GAPA (Robert?) posted a picture of a while ago? Tessera Rose bought me some as a joke, which was funny (and paranoia-inducing)at the time. Now that I’ve started reading Bleach, I’m even more paranoid about trying it. Either I’ll be bunnified, or my soul will be forced out of my body and replaced with a temporary one. Great options there.
(Wow, that was random. I guess this is the random thread for a reason)
Rosebud2-Awesome! If you can take a picture I’d love to see it. Has anyone come by and said, “Nice violin” yet?
…wait, you still have snow? (jealous)
Being in CO, I expected snow to be here today.
Yet there is none, which let me play my baseball game!
When I saw CO, at first I thought you meant Choklit Orange. Only then did I look again and realize you meant Colorado. *feels unconfused*
Hi.
You are addicted to MB, when you think a states abbreviation means a bloggers name.
I got my letter of acceptance to vet school today.
Congratulations! That’s major flamminess, indeed.
Good job!
CONGRATS! that is wonderful!
*helpful to animal pies*
Yay Luna! *pinks comment as token of congratulations*
How do you pink comments?
If nine people pied a comment and you are the tenth.
If a comment gets pied ten times, it gets highlighted in pink.
Okay, thanks.
Not confused anymore.
Congratulations!!!!!!!!! *pinks comment* *congratulatory pies*
*does happy dance*
Major congratulations. I can tell the next few years are going to be very, very, very happy for you.
Congratulations!!!
CONGRATS, LUNA!!!
Congratulations, Luna!
after months of complaining that it’s too cold, i finally got a chance today to complain that it’s too hot! SPRING IS HERE! *basks*
Great.
Here in Colorado, it is cold.
I mean, icy cold.
So icy, that when I walked up to my school, almost everyone fell.
66 (Luna)~ Congratulations, that’s flamablamablous!
So. Many. Stinkbugs.
I’ve spent a fair amount of the day vaccuming them, and they’re still everywhere. *dies*
Today I plan to work on a collaborative science project that entails baking a gigantic cake.
Admittedly, it’s a sculpted model of a xylem cell in a redwood tree, and I have to share it with the entire class, but still.
Adding to my list of Absolutely Nothing to Do, I have knitted a pair of guinea pig blue jeans and a tiny sombrero.
I like cake, but could it have been pie?
Hear, hear.
Yeah, hear, hear.
Xylem and a sombrero! Yay!
Guitar and a maraca.
What do you have to say?
grumble grumble…
I just wrote a huge post in here but I’m moving it to rants and plaints.
This week has been so busy!
It’s been raining for a while now.
This really loud car keeps driving by my house and it makes something in my wall vibrate. At least we got new windows so they don’t vibrate anymore.
I helped my friend with her math homework today. I feel so bad for her. She absolutely doesn’t understand math. The problem she had was about finding the cost of painting and carpeting and a bunch of other stuff for a room, and it took us 2 hours. If I did it by myself it probably would have taken under 20 minutes.
My friend is really smart but math just doesn’t make sense to her. She can barely understand that because there are 12 inches in one foot there are 36 inches in 3 feet. (part of the problem was switching between inches and feet and it took her a really long time to figure out how to do that, and she did it some really weird way that worked, but it wasn’t the obvious way that would be easiest)
She thinks she is bad at math because she had pneumonia one year in elementary school and she missed the whole part where they learned to multiply and divide. After that she says she was never able to catch up so every year she gets further and further behind no matter how much tutoring she gets.
I feel so bad for her because she tries really hard but her brain just doesn’t work mathematically.
I hope at some point she will be able to catch up, but good for her that she keeps trying again, and again!
Mhm. If she can’t catch up hopefully she won’t need a lot of math in college. She hasn’t picked a major yet. She’s just taking all her general ed classes this year.
I don’t want to be pessimistic, but it’s been about 8 years since she got behind in math. I don’t think anything will get her caught up at this point. (we are 18 now)
At least she does well in her other classes. :]
Yeah, and math doesn’t anchor life.
You can very well succeed without it, as long as you have fun and try hard in other classes.
Tell your friend that no matter what, being behind isn’t always bad, it can lead to new opportunities, like a new field in college you come upon.
And good luck you two, in college.
Slightly panicking as Dinner Theatre is on Monday and on of our leads couldn’t come to Friday rehearsal as he had a 104 fever. Awiraawiraawiracakeeeee, panic panic panic. But panic fuels feverishly bad drawing, so I guess that’s okay?
…on the other hand, some stupid sixthlet pulled the fire alarm on Friday during my band period for $20. He was in PE apparently. We all didn’t hear it for the first five minutes since we were all in our cacophony of warming up, but then we did, and turned and everyone sent death glares at it. I love my band class ♥
I’m at my friend’s house currently!
Cool, good luck in the performance.
We had a fire alarm go off the other day at school and force everybody outside into the snowy bluster of early March. Nobody knew if it was real or not. The culprits? As it turns out, all of the school and district administrators were having a meeting at my school that day. The fire alarm originated from that room. Hmm…
Bad teachers.
Grmph. I’m going as Hermoine for my class’ Fasching celebration this tuesday and I still haven’t decided how I’m doing the stripes on the sweater. I’m going with tights instead of the knee socks from the first movies, but the sweater is only light gray and not the nearly-black color they had later. So do I do them on the neckline or on the cuffs & bottom? Decisions, decisions… I have to make the cloak (and the badge) since I’ve left it for too late to order something online; but I suppose if worst comes to worst I can just leave it out.
At least I have my priorities straight… I think I’m setting the record for being the first person able to repress someth-, no, not that letter. It keeps reminding me… Lovely weather we´re having, aren’t we?
Nice, I hope you have fun.
Nice picture!
I’m back from Puerto Rico everybody! What’d I miss?
Luna-Congrats!
Welcome back.
A NASA scientist has found fossilized extraterrestrial bacteria in a meteorite. This is incredible.
Have the scientists determined how old, and where the meteorite was formed?
Where did you hear this?
I don’t see anything on NASA.gov, Universe Today, or Space.com about this.
Maybe they haven’t gotten to updating it?
Stay calm. There are reasons big science-news sites (like the one I work for) aren’t giving this a lot of attention. The short story: the scientist has claimed “sightings” like this before, the journal that published the paper has a reputation for carelessness, and very few other scientists believe the result at this point.
He could be right, but at this point it’s just another unconfirmed claim. So informed observers are saving their enthusiasm for a more-solid result.
Shorter version: exciting if true, but probably not true.
My thoughts exactly.
Oh, that makes sense.
You work for a science news site?! Cool!
He works for Science magazine, which has a website.
Favoriting.
PZ Myers has a brief analysis of the paper up on his blog pharyngula. His conclusion:
“I’m looking forward to the publication next year of the discovery of an extraterrestrial rabbit in a meteor. While they’re at it, they might as well throw in a bigfoot print on the surface and chupacabra coprolite from space. All will be about as convincing as this story.
While they’re at it, maybe they should try publishing it in a journal with some reputation for rigorous peer review and expectation that the data will meet certain minimal standards of evidence and professionalism.”
Sarcasm, much?
As long as the rabbit print isn’t pink.
I can’t even post all of the exciting things that have happened within the past week because there are just too many.I’ll just do a humongous post later, but I’d like to leave you with a thought before I leave:
I played at Carnegie Hall. And that is all.
You played at Carnegie Hall?! *awe* That’s really, really awesome.
I have a concert today. I’m really freaking out.
Isn’t Carnigie Hall… I don’t know.
That’s amazing!!
shadowfire–Good luck!
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
Practice, practice, practice.
An oldie, but a goodie.
Guys! Thanks! Shadowfire, good luck!
Enc, I’m actually really seriously legitimately wearing a shirt that says that right now this moment as I’m typing this.
But that is cool!
That is amazing, congratulations!
You… played… at… Carnegie… Hall?!?!?!?!?!
If I were prone to chatspeak, I would have typed “OMG.” As it is, I shall provide you with the following statement: AAAAAH!
Chatspeak.
omglolwut
Wow, Beedle! OMG was it for All-Eastern? My band director at Junior Districts was talking about that!
No, it wasn’t. All-Eastern sounds like it’s for bands that are much better than us. While we are very good, and do have a lot of spirit, we’re not the best there is. Some of the other bands that played that night made us look like a middle school band.
I learned my first song on the harmonica! (and no, it’s not Mary Had a Little Lamb) Single notes are still difficult in some parts…
Cool, harmonicas rock.
Haven’t been posting as much lately. Guess this must be one of the low points in the posting cycle for me. I felt like a total idiot in class today. One of the other students told me that it was no big deal and no one else understood what the teacher was getting at either but it still bugs me. …I think I liked my teacher last semester more. He was more interesting. Or maybe I’m just burned out.
Also I managed to somehow insult one of my friends today. Don’t quite know how. I think we cleared up the miscommunication but still.
In other words, today was blah. Which is a pity because yesterday was actually quite enjoyable. I guess there was only one way to go and that was down…
Statisticians call it “regression to the mean”: if you have an exceptionally good day, chances are the next day will be worse. Conversely, if you’re having an exceptionally bad day, tomorrow probably will be better. No magic is involved — just the meaning of the word “exceptionally.”
That happens to me a lot.
Late to gym one day, 15 min. Early to study hall…
Awesome.
Last week was exceptionally busy.
This weekend has been exceptionally upsetting.
The coming week is going to be exceptionally homeworkey and filled with dentist visits.
After this week I’m golden!
I feel I understand that phenomenon very well indeed.
Me too.
So tomorrow should be better than today then. Well, that gives me hope.
Yay.
Happy day.
“No magic is involved – just the meaning of the word ‘exceptionally’.”
DICTIONARY TIME.
A little while back I announced on MB that I was doing a research paper on Harry Potter!!!!!!!! <– required excessive exclamation points. Heh. (or J.K. Rowling and the effect that Harry Potter has had on modern culture, but really, it's all the same thing, eh?) It was definitely the most fun paper I've written (although I spent a LOT more time on it than any other paper I've done, mainly because I kept getting sidetracked…like on J.K. Rowling's official site, which is pretty awesome, or on the Wizarding World's site…but regardless, still ah-mazing.)
I ended up getting a 90 on it, which I consider to be pretty good. Most of the mistakes were in mechanics and layout (I. Hate. MLA. Format. 'Nuff said. Although, really, I haven't used any other format, so I have nothing to compare it to…), but I got most of the points as far as content went.
Anyway, part of the project was that everybody had to talk about their topic for about six to ten minutes in front of the class in a short presentation and what they found most interesting about their topic, etc. And I don't want to sound overly egotistic, but my presentation rocked. I put it together pretty last minute, but I think I was so excited about getting to talk about Parry Hotter in front of my whole class that according to my friend in my English class, I looked like I was about to explode with excitement the whole time.
…although now, like, over half (the amount of people in my English class) think I'm crazy, and I'm basically known as "that Harry Potter nerd". Which is fine by me.
So, how is everybody? Once again, I haven't been around lately, but I miss you guys when I'm not talking to you all the time!!
I’m currently in the middle of a research paper on J.R.R. Tolkien. And yes, MLA format is extremely annoying.
It’s so annoying that my English class had to put the MLA Citation format into Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
Not fun.
Who is Tolkien?
Author of Lord of the Rings.
Cool.
All I know is “Frodo, and Gandalf.”
You should really read Lord of the Rings, then. It’s an amazing series.
Read The Hobbit first, though. It’s shorter, simpler, and sets the story up.
(Incidentally, The Lord of the Rings is one book. It’s usually published in three volumes for ease of reading.)
Cool, okay..
or it’s six books initially intended to be one volume
I almost saw the movie..
Do see them, too, all of them, but not until you’ve read the book.
78.1.2.1.1.1.1: Oops. I didn’t realize. It makes sense, though; I’ve heard it referred to in ways that would imply that; I just never picked up on it. Also, I second reading TH first.
Okay, and books are usually better than movies, right?
Definitely. Though the movies are quite good, there’s really no comparison.
You’re joking, right? Please, please, please, please, please be joking.
Noooooo APA is horrible. MLA is the best. I want to cry every time I do APA. :/
MLA is horribly obnoxious.
Never done APA…
I’m extremely behind on schoolwork (due to illness) and haven’t gotten as far as you on my paper yet, but I’m certainly very excited. Congratulations it going well!
Speaking of HP, has anyone here read Mind’s Eye, Soul’s Reflection? It’s a fanfic on the Sugar Quill, and it’s amazing. (Mind you, it didn’t hurt that I had so much in common with this version of Luna, but still, it’s great). It’s basically just OotP from Luna’s point of view which sounds might not sound interesting as you’d be reading about the same events, but Luna’s observations can really put an interesting perspective on things.
Get better soon!
Thank you! I’m not sure how likely that is; I’ve been sick for almost a year now (since May), but I do appreciate it.
Wow, that is horrible.
I still hope you have a break through.
Harry. Potter. Rocks.
I challenge you to a Harry Potter trivia thing.
I wish.
There’s a Harry Potter trivia thread on here somewhere! Luna and someone else (I don’t remember who.) once had a competition to see who was the bigger HP fan (I don’t know who won, either.), and we can do something like that again with you and starr (if she wants, that is) and me (If you don’t mind, at least?) and maybe a few other people who’d want to do it, though hopefully not too many, or else it’d be rather slow; I’d say 5 would be the maximum number. We can use the same rules as last time. Or we can just revive the thread and do the same thing we’ve been doing (asking questions and having anyone answer), but then it might die more quickly, and I like competitions.
Maybe, cool.
It was MissSwann, I believe.
It was MissSwann and me. I believe I won, but it was pretty close, so it may have actually been a tie. I dunno. all I know is my HP trivia has been sadly lacking, recently. I don’t have room for it in my brain anymore.
Brain Capacity = 99%
I would like to be a part of an HP trivia showdown, please.
It might not even happen..
It will only happen if we make it happen–so do let’s, please! I’ll start by copying and pasting the rules into a comment on the thread (with the necessary revisions, as we have more people), and we can give starr 2 or 3 days (I can’t decide, so Pax or Neptune, could one of you do it instead? Please?) to say whether or not she wants to participate, and if she says nothing, we’ll have to go on without her.
Well, actually, I haveto do schoolwork right now, but I’ll post the rules at my next spare moment.
I probably won’t be able to make it though, I have baseball.
But we will see.
Oh… Because if we were to do it, it would probably be around right now. At least, that’s what I had in mind. It can wait. It can also take a while if someone doesn’t have much time; that’s fine. Still, I don’t think I should post the rules until I know how many people we’ll have; it could actually make quite a difference. I’ll wait. (And last night, I just ended up having to go to bed immediately after the schoolwork, so I couldn’t get on).
Yeah, schoolwork is time-consuming.
As is baseball.
I’d do it!
Alright! That’s a maximum of 5 people, then. You and Pax and I will compete, and possibly Neptune and starr as well… So now we definitely have enough,. I’d prefer it if no-one else volunteers now, at least unless Neptune or starr says en definitely can’t play, because any more would complicate things, though I suppose it would be fine… Come to think of it, having an even number could actually mak it simpler… But no more than 1 other person, please!
Better start soon. The thread has already been created, and people are posting on it.
I’ll do it too, if somebody can’t play, or you decide an even number is good! Otherwise, I will observe from afar and chuckle occasionally.
78.4.1.5.1.1: True. Then again, it’s alright if people do other things on the thread in the meantime. Still, we really should get going. I’ll post the rules now.
78.4.1.5.1.2: Sure!
I can do it now. That is about it!
Oh, good! I’m still working on the post; I’m afraid it’s rather long so far, though it’s mostly quotes… Also, I was busy.
Cool.
I am excited.
Harry Potter is my friend’s default literary example for anything we write in English. Essay on good and evil? Perfect. Heroism? Yep. *insert SAT-like topic here* Probably. It’s quite funny.
Great!
My default essay book is probably Brave New World or 1984.
Writing about Brave New World is fun because I can talk about… some very interesting events. (think the future that 60’s hippies wanted)
I will read those, someday.
For most essays I do for tests, I usually can think of a relavent Calvin and Hobbes comic to talk about.
That is awesome.
Being known as “that Harry Potter nerd” is quite a compliment. It shows that you are intelligent, well-read, and have a sense of humor. Your awesomeness is confirmed!
“that Harry Potter nerd” =/= “the Harry Potter nerd”
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Has anyone seen the news about the possible extraterrestrial bacteria fossils that may have been found in a meteorite? There’s an article on Yahoo news and a few other places online that I could find with google (although I unfortunately can’t find the original paper itself).
As much as I would lovelovelove for us to have finally found extraterrestrial life skeptical Jade is skeptical. The guy who wrote it seems convinced and is very open to peer review (or so say the articles I read), so I’m going to wait until there’s been a bit more about it before getting excited.
Thoughts?
Also my computer is still broken and it is really hard to do work without it D: And I do not have the new pokemon game and it is a tragedy.
Post 74-74.5.1, Jadestone
I’ve read in a few places that it’s probably false. I do hope not, but that’s what I suspect.
Yeah, same here.
Yep; see comment 74.
You might want to take a look at comment 74 and above.
Wher der der, I only read back to post 75 before posting this of course. It was the closet round number. Don’t you people know not to say important things not on round or prime number posts?! XD
Nope, we don’t.
YES! LET US SHARE IN THE TRAGEDY!
So, I’m wondering about opinions on risking Honors Chem next year, with not being so super at math?
Does chem involve math?
Learning experience.
I believe so. That’s what I’m thinking but it’s a wee bit scary.
I haven’t taken honors chem, strictly speaking, but there isn’t much math involved as far as I know, at least not the complicated type. What you will need is a good ability to learn things off by rote (table of elements, etc) and being able to understand rather implausible things.
chemistry isn’t very math-heavy; there’s some, but nothing along the lines of what you deal with in physics. If you think you’d enjoy it, go for it.
Social Psych teacher: I want you all to do something you’ve never done before this weekend. You can go to church if you’ve never done that before, or set up a lemonade stand, or do something else. I know you all have great imaginations, so I’m expecting cool things!
So, I just dressed up in a witch costume complete with pointy hat, black cape, and tall boots, and went to the grocery store to get milk.
Then I made peppermint ice cream.
That is so cool :]
I’m going to do something too!
I was just watching CNN and heard about a comic called Axe Cop. It is an action comic in which a cop with a fireman’s axe fights crime.
The ideas are all created by a 6 year old boy, and his older brother draws everything he says about Axe Cop. It’s pretty funny and random.
I’m going to go search it up now, thanks!
Awesome!
Did you paint your face green and sing Defying Gravity at the grocery store? Please tell me you did.
Hilarious.
…no. I’ll do that next weekend.
Concert was wonderfully awesome. (Alas, I didn’t get to play in Carnegie Hall)
Hungarian Dance no. 6 went well, Sheep May Safely Graze went even better (you know, I think I actually like it now. All that counting, not so much). And then came Beethoven’s Fifth. It started out nicely, the horns all coordinated themselves almost perfectly for their solo, but we began speeding up. Towards the end of the piece, we were going much faster, but we were still, somehow, with the conductor. He must’ve figured that since we were all still playing together it would be better to just conduct faster than to try and slow us down and have it fall apart. By the end it was the fastest we’ve ever played it, but by some miracle we were all still together, because just one we actually listened to the other sections and watched the conductor, allowing us to keep in sync even though we were going really caking fast. I love my conductor, he is awesome.
-Happy.
Cool!
Something is wrong with my computer and I cannot pie your comment. Thus, allow me to offer the following: *infinite :arrow:’s*
Yes! Yeeha! Woohoo! WHEEEEE! Oh YEAH! w00t! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today sucked.
Sadness.
That stinks..
There’s nothing quite like reading “Scientific Progress Goes Boink” on a snow day with a steaming mug of hot cocoa. Now, off to play some
calvinballpaker!Hot Chocolate.
Yum.
I just moused over the pie on Neptune’s comment and the banner said “Thumbs up”.
Revelation #1 of today!
Cool. Never knew that.
It doesn’t say that. It says, “Thumb up”. Big difference.
Kids, this is why we shouldn’t use the word “gay” as interchangeable with “dumb” or “I don’t like said person or object and I can’t think of a creative way of expressing this other than attacking en’s sexuality, which doesn’t even matter anyway”, not only is it demeaning and ignorant (not to mention uncreative), it also makes for misunderstandings.
Person 1: *makes status about some celebrity or other*
Person 2: “[He’s] gay. o.O”
Person 1: “What?! As in you don’t like him or he is literally a homosexual?”
OH HUMANITY, WHY?
Yeah, really… Some of the people who use “gay” as “stupid” or “lame” are just being ignorant, but others… *rolls eyes* for example,
Person A: …and could you please stop using the word “gay” like that? It’s offensive, not to mention the fact that it makes no sense.
Person B: I know it’s offensive. That’s why I use it.
My faith in humanity, of course, had just been restored.
*rolls eyes*
I think there is some “missing the point” involved here.
The person is offending people whom en did not initially intend to offend. (unless en doesn’t like gay people?)
I try to say “that’s gay” every time I talk about something related to the homosexual community. Just to confuse people. Pride parades? Those are sooo gay! I love them! ;]
I’ve gotten that before too. I really don’t get why people are offensive on purpose.
Why is everyone hatin’ on the gays? Really. I know a ridiculously large amount of gays, and they’re all such nice people.
DOES NOT COMPUTE
It’s rather nice when you’re friends with the type of people who view gay(homosexual) and gay(happy) as nearly synonymous. I had a very gay weekend.
I completely agree.
(How large is the amount? I know a ridiculously ridiculously amount of gays.)
(Note to self: preview posts.)
One of my cousins and his partner, the priest at my church and his partner, about a million people at my church, two of my mom’s really good friends who do comedy shows with mostly gay and lesbian comedians which mostly gays and lesbians attend. I usually work at the shows, and the people who attend are nice, polite, and friendly.
But I actually don’t know any gays that are my age. I mean, I know them, but not very well.
Because people are bigots.
Yeah.
Thank god, people who get it.
Watercolors work surprisingly well on felt. However, if you used three different types of fabric marker and ink as well, all of which aged 7-3 years, your product might smell funny. And, if you’re drawing a bronze lion, it actually looks good if you make the mane bronze too. Kudos to you if you’ve figured out what I was making.
Offhand, I’d say you’re trying to disguise yourself as a Gryffindor. But everybody knows that all MBers are Ravenclaws.
Some would-be MBer’s if HP were in real life were Gryffindor. Take Hermione, for instance. She:
Likes Harry Potter
Is usually the smartest person in whatever room she happens to be in
Has good grammar and punctuation.
Know a lot about random stuff that no one will ever need
Doesn’t swear (Or even say “Bloody ‘ell)
True.
“Merlin’s pants!”
“Merlin’s shaggy left….”
Actually, she swears in the 7th book, but only mildly.
Harry Potter isn’t Harry Potter without swearing…
RAVENCLAW!
I’ve taken a ton of HP House Quizzes, Ravenclaw #1,and Hufflepuff #2.
I’ve taken those quizzes and I don’t trust them. I am certain I would be in Ravenclaw, but the quizzes put me in Gryffindor or Hufflepuff just because I have a functioning moral compass and minimum standards. Of course, the Hat takes choice into account when Sorting, so even if I was a better fit for some other house because I have standards if I thought I was good for Ravenclaw I’d get there anyway.
Yeah, the quizzes aren’t always right…
Some quizzes are more trustworthy than others, I’ve noticed. I generally prefer the ones that use actual scientific data, though I’m willing to take nearly any as long as they use proper spelling/grammar/punctuation and don’t ask my favorite color-which actually narrows it down quite a bit. I’m usually put in Ravenclaw where I belong, but I’ve been put in Hufflepuff, which makes sense too.
“Favorite color?”
Fail.
Particularly when they’re called “Intelligent Harry Potter House Quiz.” My favorite color is green, and Slytherin is the House I’m least likely to be in. I’m not at all cunning.
What the hell is a Hufflepuff?
But seriously Hufflepuff’s are the findiest. (Yes, I am one. :D)
There are some really good ones out there, though. The second result for “sorting hat quiz” seems reliable to me. It puts me overwhelmingly into Ravenclaw, which I feel is accurate.
Yes, it put me into Ravenclaw as well, but it did ask which color you preferred. I actually don’t like brown at all… /pickiness/ Still, other than that, I think it was very good.
Oh, I’m fairly sure I’d end up in Slytherin.
Or maybe Ravenclaw.
Mischevious, huh?
no, just ambitious and somewhat cutthroat about it. One of my teachers did describe me to the class as a future supervillain type one day I was absent but I’m sure that was just him being really perceptive.
I think I’d be a Ravenclaw. I’m smart, but not terribly brave.
I’m a downright coward.
I have no idea how brave I am. I’ve never really gotten the chance to find out.
Ditto.
Oh, so now I’m not a MBer, just because I’m a Gryffindor? Harrrumph.
How dare you doubt my Hufflepuff nature?!
Not true in the slightest.
-A
86.1 (Robert)~ I don’t know about that….I could imagine myself ending up in Hufflepuff.
I would just like to confirm that today was in fact better than yesterday, though not as nice as the day before yesterday. I have now regressed to the mean.
Pattern, a bit..?
So, now I shall describe my wonderful and horrible week.
Carnegie Hall
I can’t. I really can’t. I can’t believe we played there. It was with my school’s wind ensemble. We’re so good. It was really a lovely day. We got into the city and went straight to Carroll Studios, a wonderful place with amazing acoustics, to practice. They were recording music for a musical in the room next door. The acoustics were so beyond amazing. The music just surrounded us, I heard all of the subtle melodies and harmonies that I had never heard before. After that lunch, after that, the band director let us wander the city without adults with us. She lost her mind, I swear. She’s crazy. Then we went to the hall, and warmed up. But ohmygodohmygodohmygod. It was beautiful. BEAUTIFUL. I walked on to the stage and my mouth dropped for five minutes and I couldn’t get it to close. After the short rehearsal, we got ready, and my dress. It looked so good. And all of the guys in tuxes. We were so dapper… Okay and then the concert. We were just kicking major butt. I mean. Wow. We’re really good. A few minor flaws, but those are understandable. I can’t even describe how amazing it was.
Then, on the ride home, my boyfriend (or, er, current boyfriend) and I sat next to each other which ended up with us realizing that we both really like each other, and with me resting my head on his shoulder and us holding hands. So lovely. It was really nice.
Other Random Days During the Week
Troy asked me out on Thursday, I think, because we were sort of “official” (hate that word), but he had never actually said anything, so he asked me out after band.
Congress and Other Things
Congress was really quite lovely. I had an awesome committee, and I debated very well and very passionately, something I haven’t done for a while. During plenary (large debate session), Troy and I just held hands and cuddled and talked quietly. It was so nice, but beyond nice. I can’t even think of the words. Unfortunately, my brother was there, and he saw us. I didn’t think I should tell him, because I didn’t want to make him feel awkward. Unfortunately, my decisions always suck, and this was no exception. He was really very mad at us when we got home, and still is. I would’ve told him had I thought that they were friends, but apparently… they are. Even though I have heard my brother say before that he isn’t friends with Troy. Go figure. I tried to talk to him just before, but I was told to “shut up” and “go away.” So that’s nice.
Anyway, I really really really like Troy, and he’s so nice and respectful and understanding, I think he’s almost too perfect. He told me I had nice skin, but he didn’t actually realize what he was saying. He doesn’t like Harry Potter. >.< Other than that, he's just amazing.
We're still working on the whole kissing thing, because I really have no clue how to go about doing that. He said he'd tell me how to, but that might be strange.
Also, at congress, the assistant general chair was taking pictures of all of the board member's butts so we could play "guess the board member's butt." My boyfriend (it sounds so nice to say that) has a fondness for brightly colored pants, so on the picture, the delegate chair commented, "You don't need to label Tory's but, it's the only one that comes in neon." So true. He has a bright orange pair of pants, purple ones, and a bright red pair.
We're going to the school's jazz band concert tonight, so that'll be lovely.
This was a very disorganized post, but if you read it and make sense of it, it's actually quite interesting.
Sounds like this might be your favorite week, ever?
Yes…
Oh gosh, did you read that whole thing? You get 89897 brownie points.
Yes, I am so bored.
No homework, no sports.
I am lost.
Plus, what are brownie points?
You get them when you do something awesome.
Sweet.
Thanks.
How could anybody resist reading about Carnegie Hall and adorable relationships?
Happiness rubs off! Oh, Beedle, I wish I were you…Carnegie Hall…
It sure does.
This is wonderful.
Words cannot describe my envy and happiness for you… she said, using words.
Thanks guys! Hugs for all.
SFTDP but….
I just got an acceptance letter from the college I want to go to!
Of course, I need to get a lot of stuff done and see if we can afford it and everything, but I’m rather excited. Rather excited meaning making loud, high pitched squeaks, doing occasional jumpy-things and shaking.
Congratulations, Fiddler!
THAT IS AMAZING.
CONGRATS!
I thought this needed caps, :).
Congratulations! I hope you do get to go where you want to go.
Fantastic news! (Relieves me of some kidnapping chores in the bargain.
)
Kidnapping…
Chores…
Um..
CONGRATULATIONS!
I knew you could do it! Really! Congrats!
CONGRATULATIONS. That is so exciting!
Congratulationscongratulationscongratulations!!! (Wow I’m hyper…) But that’s splendiforous! Great job!
Yay!
That is wonderfully awesome! We knew you could do it!
Congratulations! That is awesome!
CONGRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA∞TS!!!
:DDDDD *PIES OF JUBILATION*
Congratulations!!
Fern, you are amazing. You wholly deserve this opportunity (like you need me to inform you).
I shall make high-pitched squeaking noises as well.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I am so, so happy for you.
I just had a highly unpleasant conversation with a person of the opposite political party. Note to everyone: if you want to prove your political points, don’t go about it by insulting your opponent’s political beliefs, their sexuality, their romantic behavior (i.e. You’ve never made out with a boy?!), their intelligence, their appearance, etc. It makes you look stupid, will certainly not win you or your political party any friends or admirers.
THIS. So much.
I’m sorry you had to talk to them though.
I don’t take any music/band…
At my school, everyone hates it also, partially because of the teacher.
I’m just not musical.. :/
One of the flute players at the conservatory was telling me all about how at her school, the people in band are the people everyone wants to hang out with, and the cheerleaders are sort of weird and mildly repulsive.
Interesting.
I read cheerleaders as cheeseleaders.
Haha that’s my perception of my school.
Most of my friends regret not joining band in middle school (unless they’re in it now).
I think the cheerleaders all look a bit deformed and seem like social outcasts because the majority of the school doesn’t seem to talk to them.
In shows and movies the cheerleaders don’t talk to most people because they’re “too cool” to associate with the masses, but in real life I think the masses just don’t find them interesting.
rants and plaints, again.
Normally I don’t like to be negative. I’m just frustrated now.
When I was a shy, dorky high-school freshman, the two older girls who went out of their way to be nice to me were both cheerleaders. They were sweet and completely unpretentious, not at all like the clichés — although, yes, one of them did go steady with a star of the football team. I met the other one by chance again a decade later when we were employed by the same company. We’d both changed so much we didn’t recognize each other and only found out about our earlier acquaintance after we became friends.
A few of the cheerleaders at my school are nice.
The dancers are awesome(we have cheer and danceline). I know a lot of them and they’re really into dance and performing.
I guess my last post did seem kind of condescending. I guess I was just thinking about the stereotypes. That’s something I should know to avoid.
The football team at our school is really outstanding, personality-wise. All the guys I know from football are really friendly. There’s this one guy, Steve, that everyone loves. He’s in honors classes, he’s nice to everyone, he plays the sax like a champ. (people who are really good at something at my school do it “like a champ”)
We were in a group for a math thing once and he usually got the problems right and he was really patient trying to help the people in the group who didn’t get it. He’s just really good at communicating with people and getting on the level with people who are different from him.
If he wasn’t such a good guy, everyone would be jealous of him, but he doesn’t brag. He just lets his actions speak for themselves.
My high school had really nice football players too. They were nice, a bit nerdy, and rather silly. I mean, they also seemed very into sports and jock-ish, but they were nice guys.
Sadly, in the midst of all he good-high-school-ness, I, reading “like a champ,” was thinking “like a boss.”
I suppose a part of the point of cheerleading is to bring spirit and energy to the rest of the crowd/school. Being nice to the rest of the school would logically follow. Those two sound like wonderful people!
I had a hard day with a lot of homework and stress, but I found the time to look at the stars, so it wasn’t so bad after all.
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I convinced a boy in my dance class today that I am completely and utterly and insane psycho.
It’s so fun!
I have an entire language devoted to that purpouse.
RUTABAGAING!!
SBF’s Quote of the Day: “I think the pretzel just died.”
…This is me functioning on an half-hour of sleep.
hogwarts house discussion: i can pretty reliably say that i would be squib.
I have a question about languages for those who study enjoyably (as in you are not just taking something in school because you have to, but want to acheive fluency, etc): do you go through periods of kind of hating said language? Sometimes I really love Japanese but I also get really frustrated with it/my inability to speak it :/ I’m putting this here since the coy woodnesse thread is long dead. I feel like I’ve kind of plateaued with my knowledge. I dunno, maybe this calls for some intense j-drama viewings? bah.
Yes. I actually think I’m going through one of these periods right now regarding Arabic. I can’t offer solutions because I haven’t fixed my problem myself, but to improve self-esteem I’m looking at how terrible I used to be and how much I’ve improved since then, even if doesn’t feel like it. Also trying to find something I like in that language so I have reason to work harder. So yes, I guess it is time for intense drama viewing.
Mm. I think my Spanish is like that and to improve I’d have to go to somewhere Spanish speaking and live there.
I also want to pick up another language. I only speak Spanish and French aside from English and I started learning French ages ago
I take French in school and it seems like a fun language until my teacher butchers it. So when I study a home it is fun, French= Awesome Teacher= BAD (Teachers are supposed to teach, right?). I also am trying to teach myself Japanese and there is a frustration cycle going on there to.
Choklit’s quote of the day: “Press the button to turn on the- OH MY GOD MY CUP NOODLES ARE OVERBOILING ON MY ART PROJECT!”
It’s been a weird day.
We presented out cake cell models today, and then ate them, causing a day-long sugar rush for the entire class.
Still debating the witch thing.
Quote of the day:
“As much as I hate to say it, I agree with the Little Green Man.”
I watched Addams Family Values. Hilarious!
Scene: An exclusive, preppy camp by a lake.
Rich, snobby lady: Our Amanda loves this place! It’s been all she could talk about for weeks! She even got a new wardrobe! Our Amanda’s very smart, you know. She’s already skipped two grades! …And what about your daughter?
Mortica(the mother): Wednesday’s (Yes, that’s her name.) at that very special time of a girl’s life when she’s got one thing on her mind…
RSL(leaning knowledgibly towards Wednesday and raising her eyebrows): Boys?
Wednesday: Homicide.
“These Addams men! Where do you find them?”
-The Black Widow, a murderer.
“it has to be damp.”
-Morticia
I need to watch Addams Family again sometime. Either the show or the movies.
Music is taking over my life, and I am so okay with that. My friends and I are doing the string quartet version of the theme from UP for a Tri-M concert, except I’m taking the second violin part.
Also, on a totally unrelated note, my chickens have just started laying eggs. And they’re green.
My life wins right now.
I LOVE the UP theme!!
Happy Mardi-Gras/Fat Tuesday!
Fat Tuesday! Pancakes and apples!
For Lent I have to give up something, and each year I try to make it something I can benefit from going without- like if I’m sort of addicted, e.g. caffeine.
This year it is…. MuseBlog.
It was a hard decision to make… but I am afraid I will get to the point where I skip home/school work to be on here. I think going forty days without it will do me some good.
On the bright side, I can still go on on Sundays, so if you hear from me on weekdays and Saturdays, please give me a gentle nudge…
Thanks!
In other news, I am not allowed to say “Leonardo da Vinci” while at the prom, or else I have to sit on the windowsill.
Happy Lent, AL!
It’s fine, we understand.
Same here. I’ve been spending too much time on MB and I’m getting behind on homework and other things. I might dro in quickly on Sundays, but until Easter namarie.
Yeah, I only recently found out that Sundays count as Lent… so I will be dropping in then… that is, now… today is Sunday.
Oh, sorry, I meant do Not count…. sftdp.
What does Leonardo Da Vinci have to do with windowsills have to do with prom?
I don’t think en’ll be answering you for a while.
It’s a long, long, long story.
SFTDP: I just have to add my Quote of the Day:
“My friend has linguini noodles in her head telling her what to do.”
Person who this comment was directed at’s Quote of the Day:
“Why couldn’t it just be Jello?”
A quick shout-out on my part to the awesomeness of Shadowfire!
It takes a good friend to tell you that you need to shower after your ultimate practice, it takes a best friend to say ‘you need to shower, it’s over there, here’s a towel.’ and then feed you food.
Well, you smelled a bit and I wasn’t using the shower…
Oww. So. Much. Exercise.
Haha I’m really sore from working out yesterday and today.
I’ve been so busy for the last couple weeks. I’m really tired. I should sleep more but sleeping doesn’t relax me.
Everyone should go to foreignpolicy .com and read about “Teodorin”. He is a weird son of a dictator of Equatorial Guinea (a tiny country in Africa). The stories on that website about him are so strange.
If working out two days in a row hurts, imagine have a total of 6 hours baseball practice a week, possibly 2-3hr scrimmage at night, and then doing gym in the morning, to going to play basketball/football at lunch.
And, it would be worse for me with basketball PRACTICE/GAMES, if the season had not ended.
Going to my scrimmage, bye bloggers!
Scrimmage, um, successfully, Neptune!
Thanks.
Can’t wait until the first tournament.
In scrimmages, it is just a practice game, sometimes boring.
An American Elegy by Frank Ticheli. Listen.
I’m really tired of being waitlisted places (namely, summer festivals). They need to realize that I’m awesome and admit me.
They do. Geez.
Oh, utterly and completely, Lizzie. What’s wrong with them?
So tonight I had a band concert, and our vice prinicpal Mr. Kilian comes onstage to announce the Concert Band. When it seems like he’s finishing up, he turns slightly and announces that he got an email today and…
“…Robin is moving onto state!”
That’s right, people, your geography bee queen is one of the best 100 in the great state of California!
Also, Monday night was dinner theatre which went without a hitch, and just was gorgeous. The class is working as a team now, less about ourselves but more about us as a “family”!
So this all culminates with Mr. Fischer announcing in between numbers that band kids have all sorts of talents, including “acting talents, and Robin also performed in the dinner theatre last night in this auditorium!”
I also found out I turn as red as a cherry tomato when embarassed.
Now I have a big stack of geography books coming in the mail tomorrow. The Sacramento competition is on April 1st so I get to miss my sister’s robotics competition in Las Vegas!
It’s the best week ever, and it’s only Tuesday!
That is incredibly flamablamablous, dear.
I’m glad you’re having a good week. My finals start tomorrow…
Wheee! *does happy little dance by proxy* This is spectacular!
Shadowfire- I thought it was flamambulous… or maybe not, you’re usually right.
Flam-a-blam-a-blous. You can look it up.
Hm. I think I like flamambulous better. I just looked up “flamablamablous” on Merriam-Webster- the entry was submitted by someone called Gradster1…
Well done, Agent Gradster!
*vows to make an account on Merriam-Webster or similar website and add ‘en’ at earliest available opportunity*
I used to think it was flamablamabulous, by the way.
That’s how linguistic variation arises. Central authorities (e.g., schools, dictionaries, MuseBlog) can slow it down but can’t prevent it.
There’s just one thing I still need to figure out: En is a pronoun, but that’s not listed in the roster of parts of speech, so should I say ‘other,’ or just ‘abbreviation’ (as it does stand for entity)? I can’t decide.
While we’re on the subject, what’s the grammatical term for words like enself, myself, himself, herself, and theirselves?
109.2.1.1.2.1: Thanks!
Bibliophile:
A pronoun is a special kind of noun. To define “en,” you might say something like this:
En (noun): Third-person singular pronoun used on parts of the Internet instead of “he,” “she,” “him,” or “her” to refer to a person whose sex is either unknown or unspecified. Subjective and objective, “en”; possessive, “ens”; reflexive, “enself.”
“Myself,” “himself,” etc., are called reflexive pronouns. “Theirselves” isn’t a standard English word, but “themselves” is reflexive (plural), too.
Oh, I didn’t realize that pronouns were nouns. Alright, then. Thank you.
I… did not mean to say ‘theirselves.’ I’m really not sure how that happened.
SFTDP, but I’m also not sure whether to put in the category of ‘people’ or ‘technology and the Internet.’
I’d vote for People.
Especially considering the terms came into being rather before the Internet was around.
I finished it; it’s under People. Why am I unable to reply to certain comments?
Probably because certain comments are at the limit of the thread’s ten-deep nesting hierarchy.
Whoo! I was wondering when someone would notice.
-A
I noticed it years ago.
Whoo! I was wondering when someone would notice and mention it.*
-A
I just looked it up, and it wasn’t there. Maybe they have multiple websites, and it was the wrong one?
Here it is:
http: // www3. merriam-webster.com/ opendictionary/ newword_ display_ alpha. php? letter= Fl& last= 10
Well, I’d like to think I’m usually right…
Yay, Zinc!
I am terrible at geography. You’re my geography idol.
*stands proudly* S’not that hard… my mom’s been pounding this stuff into my head since I was able to read with geography placemats. And I’ve just been getting better as the years go by and I learn more history.
(especiallywhenhalfofthemarehotguysisalI’mgonnasay)
language stuff– thanks guys, i think i’m going to try to do more reading, since that seems to help. i was reading some manga i have in japanese, and it’s gratifying to understand at least bits of it (plus it includes the reading for the kanji MAJOR HELP). this is also a good excuse to watch more animu harhar…
I sort of wish I was learning French because almost all of the dvds we have also have a french language track! There’s always a “dubbed in Quebec” note though. While the Olympics were going on in Vancouver, I asked one of my teachers last year (who is French, but does not teach French) what Canadian French (??) sounds like to him, and he said it’s sort of like the difference between American English and British English…
HMM not really relevant to anything, ANYWAY.
FantasyFan, that is exactly it! Looking back at my previous experience is definitely heartening, haha
Zinc — that is all really wonderful! yay sacramento!
CONGRATS!!!
I have nothing to say.
Which I am saying.
Funny how these things work out, isn’t it?
I think olives are the solution to all mankind’s problems.
So… the totally awesome computer teacher that I’m friends with pulled me out of Latin class to watch Discovery’s final landing ever- and my Latin teacher was totally cool with it, so here I am!
Thirty-two hundred miles from KSC, over the Pacific southwest of the Galapagos with about 20 minutes to go…
I’m watching it on NASA TV (www. nasa. gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html&medium=6540154).
On camera — here it comes!
And it’s down!
Oh man, it was great. It was great. She’s home safe… for the final time and… I don’t know if I’m… happy or sad…
But it was great.
Oooh, I just watched it on Youtube. *squee*
I am currently very tired, and eating bread. Went to bed at two in the morning because we missed the plane and had to take one three hours later. Thank the gds for Daylight Savings. Arrived in Florida at around midnight. So tired of moving around so freaking much.
My school play is tonight. I do sound and light tech, with a few other people. My first high school musical, which are thought of much higher in our school’s than the dramas. *is nervous*
Good luck! What’s the show?
The show is Fiddler on the Roof.
I just saw a production of that at another high school in my district! Love that show.
Good luck!! Just don’t stress and it’ll be okay. Just get your cues.
I just finished the first night. I think it went pretty well. Only three more nights to go!
Good luck!! I was a spotlight in my schools last play. (Chess?)
Much luck! Do you operate the stage lights, then?
Time for some random venting! So, my friend and I landed an internship for a comic book artist awhile ago. For the first few sessions it was really nice and relaxing, basically helping him edit his art scans on photoshop (the man is hopeless at computers). Today however was the first day in which we were going to actually start being really productive instead of mapping out the best blueline elimination shortcuts (comma-less sentenct has no commas). The man’s file organization is absolutely disastrous. And he has no ability to delete files he doesn’t need. He left the room for a moment and my frien and I looked at each other like O.O holy shit he needs a totally new folder method. And he WON’T LET US CHANGE ANYTHING. It’s super frustrating.
RANT OVER
Oh dear, was my rant deleted!? >.<
Certain language choices cause comments to go directly to spam. Your rant has been retrieved.
Whoah it can do that now? Fascinating.
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I’m listening to Einstein On The Beach, Philip Glass
Oh, these are the days my friends and these are the days my friends
“It could be Franky, it could be Franky, it could be very fresh and clean, it could be a balloon…”
Mesmerizing, isn’t it?
Muchly.
I think I should just propose now.
WOW. Thank you for introducing me to this!
I came up with the best diss in an RPG on another site, but I don’t think anybody got it.
*Guy playing as Ursula from The Little Mermaid talks about how his character got hit by a boat at the end of the movie*
Me: “Hmm… sounds like what happened to Cthulhu. Perhaps it runs in the family?”
Do you bloggers play any sports, and is there a sports thread?
No, I’m kind of the indoorsy and easily intimidated type.
I’m kind of the indoorsy, easily intimidated, and lazy type.
I’m merely the lazy type.
There is a sports thread; just search for it. It’s mostly dormant though.
I play real football.
Fun fact: “soccer” is the original name for the game. “Football” is a later variant.
Nevertheless, football is what it’s called across the world. Except for the United States (and Britain? I’m not sure), of course. Would you rather I say 축구?
Back in Sophomore year, our gym teacher said at one point “We’ll be playing flag football and then soccer.”
“But I thought soccer WAS football?”
“Not in this country, Kai.”
It’s called football in Britain.
I don’t believe that’s true. It was originally called “football” and later “association football”, which came from the name of the United Kingdom’s official Football Association. The word “soccer” first appeared 20 years after that governing body was formed as a shortened, derived form of “association”. It’s been attributed to students at Oxford.
The terms evolved as the games themselves evolved, but it’s my understanding that the game we know today as soccer/football would have originally been referred to as soccer. In any case, “soccer” was a British term before it was an American term.
You’re right that the British came up with the word “soccer”, yes. However, what we now know as soccer/football was originally called “football”, as were American football, rugby, and other related kicking sports.
My Drama classmate and I have been engaged in an ongoing Pun Duel for the last week or so. And we’re both going to [CITY] this weekend for the Academic Decathlon State Competition. I imagine it’s going to kick into high gear there, so I would like to appeal to the MB HiveMind for puns related to:
A) Plants
B) Condiments
C) The Great Depression
D) John Steinbeck
E) Geology
[While eating grapes] “It’s a pity we’re not in England. ‘Cause then these could be the Grapes of Bath.”
“Hey, wanna ketchup to the mayo’ of this town and talk to him? I must-ardently speak to him, so we can debate with relish.”
“Hey, that rock can’t talk, can it? That’s sad. I guess it has a speech im-sediment.”
A) First of all, “leave”/”leaf” must be used as often as possible. The multiple meanings of “bark” are in your favor here. Also, you can talk about “stumping”, “roots”, “through the grapevine”, “kudzu please” and “growing on you”. If you can work in anything playing on photography and photosynthesis, go for it, although it might be tricky.
B) “Mustard up the courage”, anything playing on “Ketchup”/”Catch-up”, “He has salsa on his playlist, I have it on my nachos”, “doing things with relish”, etc.
C) The big thing to play up here is the “depression” angle. Contrast therapy and medicines (name them specifically, like Prozac) with FDR’s programs. Basically, anything you can throw in about clinical depression that won’t go over their heads.
D) I’ve got nothing.
E) Of course, with geology, abusing references to “rock music”, “that rocks”, and the like must be done ipso facto. If you can work in things about metal, throw in “heavy metal” jokes, too. Depending on how much geology the others know, you can throw in a few jokes about “fracture”, but stay classy and don’t make any about “cleavage”. Also “taken for granite”, “basalt of the Earth”, “altitude adjustment” and anything about volcanoes you can think of.
This corner of the HiveMind is devoid of John Steinbeck puns and thankful for it.
When I was in high school, a friend of mine put together a literary-pun-ridden cookbook that included a bread recipe called “Yeast of Eden.”
A) My biology teacher told us the other day to “just go with the phlo-em”.
I have figured out how to keep my hair out of my face with a small minimum of cursing!
Also, my throat aches from putting on an evil cackle for two hours during Drama. Evil cackles are very tiring.
Ooh! And, I have finally found a sport I like! Fencing! And the classes are held on a bit of grass right next to the pool, so afterward we all jump in wearing our full armor.
Yay! Fencing!
Which weapong? I fence Epee. Saber is second best, with foil being a bit flimsy.
I really want to do fencing, but I don’t think there’s any way I could do that here, due to the lack of fencing teachers nearby.
Actually, I am not wont to spend large amounts of money on swords, so I fenced with a stick.
I’m posting from the school computer har de har. *smug*
I have been doing taekwondo since age 10. I’ve been teaching for a few years now.
I like geocaching and other outside hiking thingies.
The spell check on this computer recognizes “thingies” but not “thingys”.
This keyboard is terrible!
The spellcheck on my computer recognizes homeschooling but not homeschooled or homeschooler.
I’ve always wanted to try fencing at some point, but I never have. I don’t play any other sports; I don’t like most of them.
Same here.
Same here. One of my teachers in high school suggested that I try fencing after I discovered that my chondromalacia patella effectively prevents me from playing any sport that requires me to run. I haven’t gotten to try it yet though, mostly because my college does not offer fencing as a gym class, nor do they have a fencing team.
Is an effect of chondromalacia patella having an abnormally shaped ribcage? For some reason I remember my Spanish teacher talking about not being able to run for some reason, and she has a ribcage that looks like the top front of it sticks out more than the rest.
Nope, it’s when the cartilage in your knees starts to degrade, usually due to athletic activities, but sometimes (like in my case) due to heredity.
Also, Thief of Light, didn’t you say you were going to post pictures of your HPB Halloween costume? Unless I just didn’t notice it, you never did. It’s March.
Speakig of months-overdue comments, I accidentally used ‘mop’ as an expletive a while ago (as in February) and meant to mention it. Yes, I really mean accidentally. I wasn’t even thinking about mops. I’m not sure what happend, but it was interesting.
Also, Paul, when you said you got a meerkat for Christmas, wht did you mean? Many people asked you this, and I don’t think you ever answered. Like I said, it’s March.
This bit should go in the Suggestion Box, but I don’t feel like making yet another comment, so could we have a Dreams thread for 2011? It’s March.
Er, never mind. I just realized there already is a Dreams 2011 thread. Oops. SFTDP.
The first performance of my school’s play Fiddler on the Roof is over with only minimal errors!! Only 3 more to go!!
The only problem is that half the cast is losing their voices and the mikes are getting messed up. But with only a huge amount of luck, we will get through it.
On a completetly unrelated note, I am really starting to dislike spanish more and more, which is really a pity because it is a fun language. It’s just it’s so easy that I start to daydream, nad then I get drowsy, and then I don’t hear when the teacher asks me a question. If the curriculum was harder, I would have a reason to pay attention, but as it is I have an excellent grade so I don’t see any point in paying attention. I am in honors Spansih, but it is so pathetic that the teacher sometimes just crosses out the r (for regular) and replaces it with h.
My math teacher gave us tea during our final. I love her.
hey. so, I dunno where to put this… but I’m really, really depressed. like, not bathing, dreading leaving my bed, grades are slipping, sleeping all the time depressed. And I’m getting help from my history teacher and school counselor. But I’m really depressed. aand mb people are cool.
*hugs, choklit, squid* I’m sorry you’re depressed, but I’m glad you’re getting help. You can do it
squid. it’s name is dannielle.
I’m glad you took the initiative to talk to someone about it. I really hope you start feeling better soon. aand mb people think you’re pretty cool too
*hugs and choklit*
I hope you get better soon.
I’ve been there, albeit not recently, but it happens. Can you relate the depression to outside factors- family problems, relationship troubles, homesickness (in my case)? If you can, take a shower and tell the counselor that- if not, then you’re more clinically depressed (in my expert -hah!- opinion, of course) but in either case you need to bathe and tell your counselor. The rest will follow. Just bathe.
Well I bathe during the school week but I’m generally not leaving my bed on the weekend. aka, now. My heart feels like it’s ripping out and some of it I can explain and some of it I have no idea why.
thank you for the various virtual comfort objects frandz <3
*hugs* Don’t worry, showering is good for the environment.
As a mb person you’re definitely cool too. I was really depressed for… well, I still am on and off, but right now I consider myself mainly stressed and overworked. If it’s any help, I once snapped out of a rather depressive phase after spending all afternoon in bed and realizing that everything got rather worse than better so I might as well get up and do my homework.
What I Learned Today That I Should’ve Already Known:
The Simon and Garfunkel song “Richard Cory” was based off a poem of the same name by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
I remember very clearly when I realized that.
I just remembered a moment that happened a few years ago.
I was sitting in the library lobby talking to a friend. A guy walked up on the outside and it looked like his face was deformed. We didn’t look at him much when he came inside because we didn’t want to seem rude, but I snuck a glance and realized he was wearing a mask. For a few seconds my friend and I were afraid that he was some kind of psycho shooter.
I thought that maybe he actually was deformed and wore a mask to hide his face because it didn’t really seem like a costume mask.
I don’t really remember what he looked like.
Looking for apartments is a bloody pain. You find something that looks pretty good (not to terribly expensive, furnished, and some nice spacious ones, too), and then you look at some reviews, and basically everyone and their cousin thinks the place is terrible and horrible, with anything from bed bugs (yeek) to flooding to everything falling apart to evil management to mold to horrible parking to internet not working. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Why did I have to grow up? Being a kid was easy.
And on that note, I had a sudden realization today. It’s March. It’s only 2 weeks until spring break. It’s only 19 days until I turn twenty-one. Talk about terrifying thoughts. I’m too young to be an adult.
Come to Neverland with me; we can chill with Peter Pan. Maybe have tea with a fairy. It’ll be nice.
Can I come, too?
Can we all go? I’d be perfectly fine with just staying a teen forever. (Minus the hormones, of course.)
Maybe Alice will let you join her hippie commune.
Yes, if I could keep this level of energy and coordination but do without periods and pimples, I’d be fine.
Hey, hormones can be really fun. Just sayin’.
-A
OKAY, WHAT KIND OF HORMONES DO YOU HAVE, BECAUSE I’D LIKE SOME. My hormones make me want to slap every single person I see across the face. Absolutely nothing good comes of them.
Well, first of all, epinephrine is just kickass. Why do you think roller coasters exist? Truth be told I like it in other contexts, but still.
Fun hormones, though… The kind I thought of first are the ones involved in relationships. So get yourself one of those and start experimenting… Your results may reveal surprising conclusions about okay I give up trying to speak science: You might like it.
-A
Oh. *Those* hormones. Okay, you win. Those are rather nice.
Indeed, verily, and forsooth… They really, really impress me sometimes.
-A
Five years ago today, I posted on MuseBlog for the first time.
That is all.
We’re glad you did, Pan. You’ve contributed a lot to the Kokonspiracy and given us GAPAs a great deal of pleasure. Thanks for stopping by.
Pan!
Welcome back!
Thank you, PP.
Watching coverage of the Japan earthquake/tsunami disaster- behind the reporter you can see a guy in the Mediacorp office checking his Facebook page and then quickly switching back to a page of graphs.
Hey so I’m like still alive or whatever. Life is good if confusing and sort of surreal but I also spend most of it doing work, so not as many exciting stories for you all. Also comp still broken x_x
Pan! Hello! I miss talking to you.
Hoping that all musers and friends along the Pacific rim are okay.
Same.
GUESS WHAT I GOT FROM THE SCHOOL LIBRARY THREE DAYS AGO AND FINISHED READING THE DAY AFTER!!! THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY! *is very very excited/happy* Having read it, I have come up with the following conclusions/questions:
1) It really is as good as everybody says.
2) The rules of Paker seem to have been based on, or incredibly heavily influenced by, concepts in the book, especially as relates to the Improbability Drive.
3) When Paul Baker locked away a Paker game that had turned dangerous he said he was doing it “before this thing starts generating whales and petunias.” a recurring motif in the book. Coincidence?
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In other news, I’m having inexplicable emotional issues right now. I have always been kind of “all or nothing” when it comes to emotions; either I’m overly emotional or barely feel anything at all. This past summer break, I got over a long bout of complete apathy. But now I fear that I might be slipping back. I’ve been feeling lately that my emotions have been… damped somehow. I’m not feeling as strongly as I normally do. The edge has been taken off of everything, fear, excitement, anger, etc. I think it’s probably temporary, but I can’t figure out why it’s happening.
Oh yes. I forgot to say: now commencing… Operation Bookworm! I’ll start making bookmarks right away!
Woo! Another Muser has read HG2G!
I’m sorry about the emotional issues, but you’ll get better. You can always blame hormones
I think I used up the “hormones” excuse during the two-year long period of depression and the subsequent half-year long bout of totall apathy.
I have hereditery insomnia (as well as immunity to sleeping pills) and haven’t slept properly in two weeks. I’m blaming my lack of emotional energy on that, for now.
Awww… *hugs* This is one benefit of being female, if you’re in a nasty mood you can always blame PMS
(Unsure of your gender, but I feel like I’ve heard before?)
Yes, I’m a girl.
And I don’t think I can blame PMS on not being particularly in a good or bad mood. It turns out I was right, though. I finally got to sleep the night after I posted that, and now I feel fine again
The first time I read HG2G…I was in Washington, DC, and I was staying with some of my mom’s (coughglobalnetworkofcough) friends. anyway, THEY HAD THE COMPLETE SET!!!!!!!!!!! right there on the bookshelf!!!!!!!!!!!!! And of course I read it, what, did you think I, as a Muser and MBer, would pass up an opportunity like that?! I read the whole thing in 2 days, then read it again to see if I had skipped any parts, which I had. Ah, the memories…*drifts off into LifeChangingMemoryLand of Happyfulness*
*cough* Ahem. To Randomosity 101: All I can say is that I don’t know what’s going on any more than you do…I usually am not much help with other people’s lives…but I might sort of kind of have experienced the same thing? maybe? Usually I’m also either overexcited, overreactive, or overly angry, that sort of thing…and other times just plain not really caring. I think when that might have happened to me I was just sort of like ‘Huh, my brother isn’t getting on my nerves as much as he was’ and didn’t really pay much attention…It’ll probably pass, though. Mine did.
Cake… You really ARE my blogclone… Same problems and everything!
So I e-mailed That Family My Dad And I Met, saying that the letter was personal and I didn’t feel comfortable sharing it…
And they sent back “No worries, best of luck with your studies!”
I’m glad that got resolved. I might feel down about the tsunami, but it’s good to know things can work out in the end somewhere.
Neatly done.
Last spring, my friend D made a playlist of her music for our friend N, called “Listen Or Die.” Listen Or Die has since expanded into volumes I, II, and III, while N has made Listen Or Die: Band Music (he listens to a lot of band music) volumes I and II. I am currently attempting to create Listen Or Die: Musical Soundtrack Edition. It’s really hard! A CD can only hold ~20 songs, and the preliminary list I made was 39. I have it down to 31 by now, but Wicked and Rent are definitely overrepresented. Problem is, I can’t bear to delete any of these songs!
What began as an innocent question of whether I’d be out of line to wear my hat (a knit wool and hemp deal with stripes and a ruffle on the bottom) in the house at which I’ll be attending a vegetarian potluck and movie this evening has now lead into a fascinating search for hat etiquette information.
Turns out if I’m wearing a feminine hat I can leave it on during the anthem, when American flags go by, inside (as long as it’s before 6p.m.) and at the table. However, if I’m wearing a male styled or unisex (fedora, baseball cap, etc) I have to follow male hat rules, and take it off for those occasions. (Question though, if I was wearing a fedora say, do I have to tip it like a man would? More research needed, though my gut reaction is a no.)
Anyway. They mention about how women’s hats historically are harder to take off and put on (pins, folds, all manner of nonsense). So yeah, I’m not justified and don’t have to feel weird when in 18th century clothes I leave my cap and straw hat on. However, I do need to get a calash (yes spellcheck, it’s a word) so as to solve the whole “what do I do at night or when it’s not sunny and it’s inappropriate to go around with naught but a cap but a straw sun hat isn’t very good either OH NOES” dilemma, because caps don’t equal hats, and you can’t go out without a hat. Heaven help us all.
At the end of it all, I like the hat I’m wearing (the knit one I started out talking about…yeah, that one) and I’ll probably keep it on or take it off depending on whatever. I mean, if the potluck’s a sit-down meal at a table deal I’ll take it off. If not and I’m still cold and/or don’t want to lose it, I’ll keep it on and be improper. They’re a pretty informal crowd.
Missswann~ *hugs, hugs and more hugs* If there’s anything I can do, please let me know. I may be just some internet person, but I do care and will do any and everything in my power to help anyone who asks.
Pan~ Wonderful to see you again! Is this just a short drop by, or are you here to stay for awhile? I’ve missed you.
Re: Japan/Tsunami/earthquake:
I don’t know exactly what’s going on, but I’ve been seeing stuff about it. My thoughts are with everyone there.
Or you could just keep your hat on and say you’re following the old Quaker tradition of social equality.
Or take it off just in case and say your ears itched.
Japan. I’ve been praying all day.
Not much more to say than that until more info comes in, unfortunately.
Re: Japan earthquake: It sent waves all the way across the Pacific to the coast of North America. WHOA SCARY. Luckily, this was NOT the Juan de Fuca plate earthquake that happens every three hundred years and last happened about three hundred years ago, so I still get to worry about being wiped out in a few years/decades by a massive tsunami. YAYYYYY!!! -natural disaster terror-
Got waves about 5 feet higher than usual on the Bay today. My friend’s family all lives in either Hawaii or Taiwan, and my cousin is half-Japanese so her family lives in Japan. This turned out to be just the right mix of anonymity and distance to break down my emotional walls, and I spent the first 15 minutes of Acting crying in a bathroom, upon which my friend Dan (well, “friend” means something different in Acting- we’re not real-world friends but we’re tight in Acting) opened the door and talked to me comfortingly in a British accent for a while, and then my Acting friend Kristi ran into the bathroom and gave me a hug through the stall door. Thank everything for people who are good.
I can’t use specific names, but on a certain blog/fanfiction website, they’ve set up a Help Japan community where people will be auctioning off pieces of fanfic and fanart. For anyone who can draw or write, or even anyone who can’t, please check it out and do what you can to send aid.
Japan- I don’t even know what to say. It’s absolutely horrible. And now there are issues with a nuclear power plant and radiation. How could something like this happen…?
that’s all I have for Japan.
Oh god, I just watched the tsunami footage from Japan. It’s horrible. Hundreds of houses have just been swept away. And there are hundreds more people missing.
Apparently it’s expected to trigger more earthquakes around Java, which we may feel here.
History teacher: “I want to keep you all up to date on current events, so here’s footage from Japan! Watch the houses being destroyed, the water catching cars and throwing them across its surface, and fires exploding!”
”
Us: “…
History teacher: “Okay, now let’s all watch Schindler’s List!”
Us: “…you’ve got to be kidding.”
What a great teacher. I would probably ask to go to the nurse.
So, Japan has been earthquaked + tsunamied + nuclear-power-plant-thing’d.
I don’t have any relatives/friends in Japan and I’m still upset and depressed.
I am sad too.
Have you heard anything about the nuclear power plant thing? Yesterday they kept saying there hadn’t been a leak, but people within 5 kilometers have been evacuated.
I do (have relative who live there) and I hope they’re okay.
YES! After successfully typing in a 64-digit, case-sensitive wireless network password that was written in a weird font, I can finally post my first update!
I am currently in New Zealand, at the house of a friend and customer of my dad’s. Yesterday we went on a 6-hour-long trip where we did a ton of rappelling and spelunking. It was a LOT of fun, especially when we turned our lights off and saw all the glow-worms on the ceiling. Previously we visited the beach where they filmed the opening scene of Prince Caspian, and before that we went on a 12-hour plane ride where I watched Catfish and Hereafter (my opinions on them can be saved for the Movies thread). Next week we go to Australia briefly, and then we leave for Thailand! W00T! Oh, and in a couple days we get to (hopefully) go to various LOTR locations. Bye for now!
P.S. Re: Piggy and Japan: Ditto.
Nice! Happy travels!
Oh, how I wish you were stopping in Singapore. Have fun! Avoid tsunamis!
Everything is weird.
Sorry Japan.
I saw them on the news when I woke up. That is scary. I hope everyone is ok.
My cousin in Hawaii had to empty out his SCUBA shop to prepare for possible floods.
I just watched Black Swan. It was painful. It was a good movie but I wouldn’t recommend it unless you are doing a study on depression or something. It’s about a girl who wants to be the swan in swan lake, and she goes insane. It gets pretty graphic, so don’t see it if you are sensitive about people hurting themselves. (I was not prepared to see this)
That movie really shook me up.
I keep trying to think about V to cheer myself up since I watched V for Vendetta earlier. That’s how sad Black Swan was. At least V had love and a cause. Nina… she didn’t have anything.
Your comparison amuses me because Nina and Evey were both played by Natalie Portman.
HOLY CAKE NOTHING IS A COINCIDENCE!!!
I didn’t even notice that!
The last few days since Wednesday have been weird.
Wednesday night I found out about our Current Events Club meeting scheduled for Thursday. We were just going to have a fun meeting and talk about conspiracy theories. I’d never seen V for Vendetta, so I decided to try to watch it on Youtube, but I could only find it in German so I gave up.
Thinking about V’s mask made me remember a time a few years ago when I was in the library and a guy in a mask came in. I don’t know what kind of mask it was because at first I thought his face was deformed and didn’t want to be rude. When I realized it was a mask I didn’t want to look. It wasn’t a V mask though.
The next day (Thursday) I went to the meeting. Somehow we got around to talking about religion right before I had to leave to go to work. I was getting really uncomfortable because I have a general dislike of religion. I didn’t want to leave because I wanted to be in the conversation, but I had to leave. I was really upset about leaving.
When I got home I was bored and decided to read the newspaper. I decided to read my horoscope even though I don’t believe them and it said something like “there is misinformation around you. ask questions before getting upset” and I thought it was so weird that my horoscope was pretty much telling me that it was wrong.
Friday I woke up to the news of the tsunami. I watched it for a while and then realized that I should check the local news. We had a snow day. My sister has a copy of V for Vendetta and I decided to take the risk and watch it. She didn’t notice. Friday night my friend and I went to the movies. When I picked her up I said something about V, and she said she was thinking about that while she was inside.
We went to see Black Swan, and then we went to get milkshakes to try and cheer ourselves up.
We talked about how V is like No Face from Spirited Away.
Is it just me or do we have a lot of late March birthdays?
-A
OH I HAVE OTHER THINGS TO SAY THAT I FORGOT SO HI AGAIN.
Gave blood yesterday! It was pretty damn cool. I read all the information and then went into a little booth thing they had set up for privacy and then first an attractive lady who I assumed was very near straight out of uni and second an unattractive-but-very-jovial-so-I-liked-him guy helped me through the ‘interview’ process… They asked me questions about my blood history, basically. Sexual activity, vaccines, travel… All that. I felt so vanilla; I don’t think I checked yes to a single one. Even the vaccine that I had gotten was outside of the time window, so it didn’t count… Sad pandas.
Oh, and blood pressure 110 and 60, by the way. I think that’s awfully low – I usually test right at the perfect 120/80. I guess it was early in the morning? Pulse rate of 62, which I’m really happy about. I have gotten it below sixty when I was running cross country, but I just started being active again and it is good to see it going down.
ANYWAY so after that I was pretty nervous (and subsequently wondering why my pulse was so low) but they offered me some juice – I took cranberry, that stuff is amazing – and sat me down on a beach chair. It was actually really comfortable while my doctor-guy was setting up all the stuff. I sipped my drink and waited. He put my arm on a little platform thing attached to the chair and did some more stuff, then gave me a ball to squeeze to keep the blood pumping… Swabbed the crook of my elbow with iodine… Marked the vein he was going to take from with a sharpie on either side… Then pulled out the needle. Whoa. Alarm bells in head.
It was only instinct; my body sensing impending pain. But, you know, I looked away for the first second or so because I don’t like how they just slide into flesh like warm butter – it’s creepy, okay? – then looked back, because I’m fine with them actually being in me, just not the entrance method. It was a little uncomfortable at first, which I told him when he asked. He fiddled with it – I think by actually sliding it in further, which oddly did not bother me – and then it was better.
It was pretty cool feeling the room-temperature plastic tube resting on my hand suddenly get hot. I finished my drink and very carefully put it down… Dum de dum… Waited. He fussed with the connection and talked with other hospital staff around. I just focussed on seeing what the effects were.
For some reason I’m still unable to figure out what it feels like… My vision actually focussed a bit like everything was a little clearer, but I could definitely sense that something was leaving my body. I’m not sure how to describe it… I obviously used the wrong word with them, though, ’cause when I mentioned it being really vaguely ‘lightheaded’ – buzz word for them – IMMEDIATELY they put my head down and elevated my feet and brought another doctor over. I feel kind of bad, because I know the limits of my body, and that wasn’t necessary, and when they did that, it disrupted the flow… Slowed it down to a trickle.
So they kind of gave up on me and took out the needle. I was watching the whole time, though, and for some reason I never saw it come out… Sneaky doctor. He asked me to hold some gauze or something there, and then bandaged my arm in a figure-eight thingie, and then told me I was all set! I went to get up, but he gently pushed me back down and told me he wanted to take it slow. So I just sat up and waited, then put my feet over the edge and got my shoes on… Waited some more… Then stood up. Just the same feeling as before. Didn’t mention being lightheaded, luckily, or they would have taken me to the special room cordoned off in the corner of the gym, as I saw happen to someone else later.
Ambled over to the food table, sort of unbelieving that it was already over. They made me eat waffles and a doughnut, though I was hardly unwilling, and wait fifteen minutes. I drank some more cranberry juice and ran a diagnostic. My elbow felt like it had been bruised right in the very small area where the whole was, but it wasn’t actually a bruise and other than that everything was working properly.
I headed out to advisory a bit later. Handed in my graduation challenge paper. Felt awesome, but sort of wished it had been more dramatic. Like, I just gave away a part of my body… Can I get a blackout, or something? Anything? No?
SO THAT’S GIVING BLOOD. Do it, by the way. Even if you’re scared of needles. The whole process is really painless, emotionally, and there’s only a pinch physically right when they put it in. Other than that, you get a cool little cut for the next couple days, free food, often bonus gifts (like ski passes if you happen to do it in Burlington, Vermont – that’s not where I live, by the way, GAPA; hope that’s okay), and more importantly an overwhelming sense of helping people! To live! And that’s good!
Go do it.
-A
Some blood bank in Tacoma was offering a pint of beer for every pint of blood donated.
That actually doesn’t really sound safe.
-A
I know a Culver’s near me does a pint of ice cream for a pin of blood
A question for the collective knowledge of MB:
What sort of critter bite leaves a lump with multiple punctures in the surface of the skin? It looks at first almost like a scratched off mosquito bite, but I haven’t scratched it at all and it doesn’t itch. Also there are no mosquitoes out at this time that I know of.
I just discovered three of these odd bites last night, and I’ve never seen anything like them, it’s most odd.
If anyone has information I’d be most obliged.
I’ve gotten that before… Possibly spider? I’m not entirely certain, but I’m putting my money on the theory that you accidentally trapped said creetur and it was biting you a lot to signal that it would like to get out.
-A
Worst case, you have bedbugs. They leave bites in a straight line as they move on eating–breakfast, lunch, and dinner, you might say. Check your bedding for black streaks or the bugs themselves. If you find them, call an exterminator and check the other beds and furniture in the house.
Bedbug exterminations are very nasty and require you to remove all the clothing from your closet and the furniture and are expensive to boot, so for your sake I hope it’s not them. But still, check.
TECHIEING FOR LES MISERABLES TODAY!
Just rehearsal, but I’m so excited. I get to bring my laptop to school and fiddle around with it until the lights and sound cues work, and then press buttons while watching the performers for about four hours, and hang out with Terpsichore and try to figure out what we’ll be doing to help Japan.
And then on Sunday I have a meeting for the building-houses-in-Mexico trip, which I’m really excited for, since we get to change people’s lives again and the people on my house-building team are the funniest, nicest, most fun people possible, and we’ll be making T-shirts. So YES.
And then on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday there’s more Les Mis rehearsal, and then Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday there’s the performance! (Which reminds me… Sunday is my brother’s 18th birthday, I have to convince the performers to sing him “Happy Birthday since he’s in the orchestra.)
PUMPED!
152.1 (Grady)~ I suspect some kind of spider, as this most likely happened in my room that I’m currently sharing with tons of stinkbugs and a handful of spiders that are usually more elusive. Stinkbugs bite fruits and vegetables, but not humans as far as I’m aware. I’ve never had that happen and we’ve been infested with them for several years now.
152.2 (FantastyFan)~ I already looked into that, but I’m pretty sure it’s not bedbugs. I’ve not seen any bedbug looking things and the bites aren’t in the same kind of pattern that I saw when looking up “bed bug bites”.
Not many spiders are capable of biting humans. They get blamed a lot, though. Have you tried doing a Google image search?
Actually, I’d recommend ignoring it, as long as it doesn’t happen frequently or last long. I was just thinking about my experience with that kind of bite or whatever it is, and even though the last one was only a couple of weeks ago, it was gone by the next day, and the one before that was probably more than a year ago, now. =shrugs= Is it a common problem for you?
-A
Today, I came to the conclusion that I am not short. Everyone else is just abnormally tall.
This.
I figured that out sometime last year.
Great minds think alike.
An oceanographer friend of mine, who is on the small side, used to explore underwater in the submersible Alvin. She said all the other scientists wanted to be her partner because she took up so little room in the cabin.
I guess I’m in luck, then!
I have a vertically challenged friend, but he’s not short. He’s fun-sized!
154.1~ Google image search for what? Spider bites? TERRIBLE IMAGES I NEED EYEBLEACH.
But yeah. I still suspect spiders, as I don’t know what else it would be (stinkbugs, mosquitoes and bedbugs have been ruled out, we don’t get biting flies even if it was warm enough for them to function). Perhaps some other woods crawly, but I don’t know. We do have brown recluses in the area (I’ve never seen one, but they’ve been reported and a friend was bit a while back), but if it was that then I’d be dead or close to it by now, as that venom sets in scary fast and I discovered these last night and they don’t hurt.
Meh. I’m mostly just curious instead of worried, honestly.
Oh, gods, image searching bed bug bites is even worse.
-A
I meant Google a description of the bite. No guarantee it’ll work but worth a try. I’ve had luck with that sometimes.
Fleas?
Um, you do realize that makes me want to image search for spider bites?
BAD IDEA.
-A
Got a lot of great writing done yesterday, did well in Driver’s Ed, going to eat rice and go to the library…
I love Saturdays.
Have I ever mentioned that I really, really, really, really, really hate my suitemate? Because I do. I hate that [self-snipped] so very much. So apparently she went home this weekend (yay, great and all, that means I don’t have her blaring her television in her room until 4 in the morning and/or screaming into a cell phone). Well, this morning when I got back to my room at 10:30am? Her alarm in her room was going off. It’s now been an hour and 20 minutes, and it’s still caking going off. And I am about to go caking ballistic, and am probably going to be forced to leave my room and go chill in the study room down the hall or something, which really, really makes me mad. Because I shoudl not have to be forced out of my own blasted room, the first weekend in a long time that I’ve not had to study, the first weekend in a long time I’ve had to just chill in my room. But oh no. No, that would be too much to ask that she, knowing she has an alarm clock that apparently does not stop beeping until someone turns in off (oh, god, it better not still be going off tonight, or I’m going to kill something. And sleep over at Alan’s. But kill something first) for her to switch it off before going home for the weekend.
Because, no, it didnt’ wake me up, since I had to get up at 6:20 this morning, because I had to meet my ornithology project group at 7am to go do three hours of research for our ornithology project, but I’m running on 5 1/2 horus of sleep, and while I”m incredibly, surprisingly awake and all, I’m still probably shorter of temper than normal, and there is nothing mroe awful than listening to the beeping of an alarm clock for….an hour and a half now.
I hate her. I bloody caking HATE her.
And I have to get up at 6:20 again tomorrow for another bout of field research for my ornithology class, which with daylight savings and all,means I’m really getting up at 5:20, and if her alarm is still going off tonight….Oh, god. Becuase I won’t be able to sleep with it, and I’d feel bad if I had to go crash at Alan’s, cuz he’d ahve to wake up then to drive me to campus, but dear god, I cannot sleep if her alarm is still going off then. a;fjkadshg;lasdkfjadkls;ghdsl;akfjadfhsghlsaas;eklghfwe;ol
Force your way into her room or call somebody to unlock the door.
-A
Can you unplug it or remove the batteries?
Since we’re only suitemates, we have separate bedrooms with locking doors, and she of course locked hers when she left. I’m going to venture back to my room now, and if it’s still going off, I’m going to go see if somebody at the front desk can help….
Oh, thank goodness. It’s no longer going off….Maybe I’ll keep what little sanity I have. Although it’ll probably do it again tomorrow. Joy.
Can’t you call campus security and get them to go turn it off?
Two things that made me gleeful during my science test:
Question 42 talked about Betelguese.
Question 57: “What is a supernova?”
Answer c: “A really good Chevrolet.”
In early July, I had to take a test in order to get into advanced classes when school started. In one of the questions, I had to “guess” what the word antagonize (which I obviously already knew) meant in a certain sentence. The sentence was, “My mom told me not to antagonize my brother.” One answer choice was “eat.” This was right after I read the July/August issue of Muse.
Japan: It’s awful. The death toll is now, I believe, in the thousands, and there’s still more missing. The pictures and videos of the damage are devastating. My thoughts are with everyone there, and anyone who has friends or relatives in Japan!
On a more cheerful note:
I’M ALIVE
…
And someday, maybe I won’t even regret those six hours spent inside a high school taking the SATs.
My neck hurts from whipping my hair.
There is a good reason for this.
Do tell.
You’re not allowed to put a link in your name, especially to a different website.
I’m sorry guys, I didn’t realize that would happen. It’s gone now.
Did you whip your hair back and forth whip your hair back and forth whip your hair back and forth whip your hair back and forth whip your hair back and forth whip your hair back and forth whip your hair back and forth whip your hair back and forth whip your hair back and forth whip your hair back and forth whip your hair back and forth whip your hair back and forth whip your hair back and forth whip your hair back and forth whip your hair back and forth?
-A
I WHIP MY HAIR BACK AND FORTH
I WHIP MY HAIR BACK AND FORTH
Darn, gradster beat me.
Shadowfire- Please remove the URL in your name.
One section of my city is inhabited mainly by Mexican immigrants. Logically, this means there are a lot of taco trucks around there. But, even though I drive down there every week to go to church, I’ve never been to one. Until today. This specific truck has been recommended by the assistant pastor at my church, my cousin, my aunt’s brother, and a good half dozen other people. It’s easy to see why. Across the street there’s a competing truck, but it never has any customers because it’s quite inferior in comparison.
Oh jeez. So tasty.
I’m watching one of those cheesy tv shows about people who think they’ve seen ghosts or been possessed and such and I’m actually wort of enjoying it, and not just in a “make fun of the people on the show” way. It’s weird because this really isn’t my thing. Maybe it’s just having to translate it in my head and realizing I can actually understand it, or maybe it’s because I can pass it off as learning more about Arab culture, even though Jinn stories are nothing new to me, particularly after my Islamic studies teacher last year spent half the time teaching us how to exorcise jinn. And telling anecdotes about himself in the process.
On a more serious note, I’ve come to the conclusion that part of the reason I’ve been finding it difficult to post lately is because I’m totally paranoid about sharing information about myself. It’s not just in an “I’m scared of online stalkers” way, although, that’s part of it, it’s more being intensely private and closemouthed about the way I feel and my reactions to things. (Which is ironic because when I’m angry everyone within a five-meter radius can definitely tell.) I think I might be scared on some level about people’s reactions to my true feelings. I mean, I used to always speak my mind and I got in trouble for that a lot. I didn’t care as much about rejection then, though. I’m actually afraid that I’ve undergone an entire personality transplant since I was thirteen, and I’m scared that this is just the inevitable result of growing up and now I feel like an absolute doormat and that now I’ll stay quiet even when I should speak up. It’s like that quote, “I used to be a fighter, but now I’m just a survivor.”
Also, I have yet to post about my gap year. I said I would and I hat leaving things unfinished, particularly when it’s something i should have done two months ago. I can’t go on this blog without thinking about it. It’s bugging me and bugging me but I can’t quite figure out what to say. (See previous paragraph about difficulty sharing things.)
So here is this post, in an attempt to correct things.
Changing personalities is probably normal. I’m entirely different from how I was a few years ago.
In fact, I only know one or two people who still have the same personalities as they did when they were 13. I can’t stand them.
We would really like to hear about your studies and experiences! It sounds really interesting! :]
Oh. Well, I personally promise not to stalk you, although I sense that’s not really the issue. And about the personality transplant- I know exactly what you mean.
156.2 (Rebecca)~ Hm, I tried a few different ways of saying it but didn’t come up with anything.
156.3 (Robert)~ Again, I’m pretty sure not. Circles has gotten his flea-resistant whatevers fairly recently and I haven’t seen any on him. He doesn’t come into the house or my room. Also, the bites don’t itch, I can’t even feel them at all.
Meh. It’s a mystery.
You could pick up fleas from elsewhere, too, considering how close to nature you are, but your description doesn’t sound like flea bites, which are just little red dots.
Woooooo! Finished a math paper!
9 pages (counding works cited pages) on the mathematics and science behind music. (Don’t yell at me Juniors, I’m a Freshman. This is a long paper for me.)
Congratulations! I’m working on that same paper at this very moment. I’m only on my third page.
Did you eventually decide upon a topic?
Pre- UU post. There are screaming children running amok in the corridor outside. Such noisy animals. I guess it’s a good thing they’re cute, which seems to be their only redeeming characteristic.
Me: *flops down on sofa, sweaty and out of breath*
Mom: Go running.
UU?
-A
Yeah, UU to me means Unitarian Universalist. Is that what you mean?
Oxlin:
See https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=6763#comment-397475 .
Aha!
Yep. Singapore UU is pretty small (read: tiny) so we host it at each other’s houses.
I’m back!
Interim in Thailand was the most amazing thing ever. I can’t even begin to describe it. I love it and miss it. There’s too much to talk about, and maybe I’ll write a gigantic post later, but for now…I’m back! Hello again, my dear friends! I missed you!
Welcome back, Selenium!
Thank you!
Oh good! We missed you.
I was doing a project for science and chose Staph or MRSA as one of my infectuous diseases. I then read through my old issue of Muse dealing with that particular disaese, and decided to start my campaign against antibacterial soap. I already have made posters and my own Staph is Out to Get you PowerPoint. Anyone here have any idea on how to set up a website??
Where do I find pictures of mutant bacteria??
Daylight savings. Grr.
Death to daylight savings.
Agreed. I’m in a state of temporal confusion right now.
Move to Hawai’i. They don’t have it there.
But they have tsunamis.
Singapore doesn’t have daylight savings or tsunamis. I miss the yearly bother of resetting all my clocks (I collect watches).
Do you have Microsoft Frontpage? I think that’s supposed to allow you to make a website, but you have to have certain software.
If you can’t use that, there are websites for making your own website. Freewebs dot com works, and I’ve heard of webs dot com as well, and you could probably find more via Google. The ones I mentioned are free if you don’t mind having the name of their website in front of the domain name; if you do mind, you can still use those sites, but you’d have to pay money. Advertising could earn it back, but many people don’t like sites with advertisements, myself included.
I imagine you can find pictures of mutant bacteria via Google Images or a similar site.
Also, I agree with everything you said. Some stores don’t even have nonantibacterial soap!
If you have a Google Account/Gmail, you can create a Google Site. The editing is very simple and similar to working with a document.
HAPPY PI DAY, MUSEBLOG!!
As usual, you’re way ahead of us.
Naturally.
Does anyone else’s school do non-traditional school dances? The only dance I consistently go to at my school is not one of the semi-formals (my iPod wanted to autocorrect that to “formaldehyde…”) but the band’s swing dance! It’s so much fun. The gym is decorated with curtains and little lights and old-fashioned props and our big band plays for most of the night. They’re really good! Most people dress up in period clothing, or something tht at least doesn’t look modern; I wore a blue sequiny dress, pearls, and a flapper headband, and there are lots of suspenders on guys. There’s a silent auction (a fundraiser for band) and free appetizer-type food for when you get tired of dancing. A large number of couples attend, of course, but even more people just dance with their friends. By the end of the night my feet hurt terribly! It’s such a good time. It’s a shame it’s only once a year.
My school has a big band dance once a year.
Lucky… I wish we had that. Of course, nobody would go except me… and the rest of the jazz band, of course.Everyone at my school would say it’s dumb.
we’re supposed to have a dance, but it’s the student council’s job to plan that, and the student council meets for exactly 30 minuets two times a month, so that doesn’t look terribly promising.
30 minuets? All they do is get together and have their one private dances? That’s cruel.
We had a swing dance this year, because the school is trying to “combat grinding.” Needless to say, about twenty people came, all the type who generally don’t go to these things. As such, it was a good deal more fun than most school dances.
We’ve had jazz band alumni concerts before… Good gods, I don’t know why we don’t do them more often.
-A
My high school never had that but my college holds ballroom dances once a month.
Aw, I’m so jealous of you right now.
The play is over!!! I have free time now!!!! I can sleep for more than 5 hours a night!!!
It went well though, and we donated 550 dollars from a 50/50 raffle to an orphanage. It was so much because the nice person who won gave the money back when a really cute middle school kid said as she was leaving with the money, “But… It’s for the children…”
My weird days are continuing. (see earlier post about V and Black Swan)
Last night at 2:07 someone prank called me pretending to be Borat. Luckily for me, I couldn’t sleep and I was fully aware and snarky with him. I turned off the phone and tried to sleep again. A while later I turned the phone back on and it was 3:17. I thought that I had slept for an hour without knowing it, but then I realized that the time had to change around 2, so my phone must have done it when I turned it off.
I felt weird being awake when the time changed, like I had witnessed something I wasn’t supposed to see.
I always thought it was a little weirder on the other side. In the spring it’s just skipping an hour… But in the fall, really? We have to do that one again?
-A
I love Scout Finch. ‘Nuff said.
I don’t really have anything in particular to say – boring, I know – but I wish I did. I miss MB a ton and being more involved in regular interaction with y’all on a daily basis like I used to. It’s nice to “see” lots of phytes on here though and to know that MB just keeps growing, but it’s overwhelming at the same time because I feel behind on everything now…anybody care to catch me up?
Yes, there’s an HP trivia competition going on and you were invited to join; it’s not too late if you want to. You wouldn’t start right away, though; we’re doing it in 2 on 2 rounds. You can read about it on the Harry Potter Trivia thread.
She’s definitely someone special. Right up there with Jane Eyre on my list of favorite literary gal pals.
*coughLunaLovegoodcough*
I never said they were the *only* two on the list, just that they’re two of the people on it.
Just went for a great run.
I’m excited because my English teacher, who almost NEVER gives us creative writing assignments, is holding a Bad Hemingway Contest. (Seriously, this is only the second creative assignment we’ve had all year)
So, I get to write a parody, and if I win, I get free lunch at a restaurant.
There is reasonably conclusive evidence in print that shows empirically that Terry Pratchett is god.
That is all.
-A
Really? I’d love to see that, can you tell us where to find it?
I completely and utterly agree in every way.
I’m registering for SAT II’s now. Mucho frustration. College Board is the most confusing website, and also, I’m taking four tests, which is $200, and we already paid $87 and $80 for the AP bio and AP Euro tests, respectively. That’s $360 in tests.
*headdesk*
I just registered for two May SAT II’s (French and Bio). I figure since it’s in between my AP exam weeks I won’t have to study twice.
I just registered for the May Bio and the June World History. Continuous studying is on the near horizon.
I’m signed up for the May bio; the June, chem, math 1, and global.
Less expensive than I thought they were, but I just dropped $40 in review books. *headdesk*
Four of them? At the end of your sophomore year? I’m a junior and this’ll only be three for me… Should I be taking more?
Eh, just overachieving. I probably won’t do well in chem and global, but I’m taking chem again when I’m a senior, in college chem.
*headdesk* Except it doesn’t make sense to take it as a senior, because I’ll have my college apps in by then. Just realized that.
Global is because I’m in Euro, but we probably didn’t learn enough for me to good a decent grade. I can only teach myself so much.
Math 1 is supposed to be easy, so I figured I’d just give it a shot.
Bio is because I’m in AP, and I got 740 on it last year with just taking honors bio.
Next year I’ll do Spanish, US history, English lit, and Physics.
Yeah, I’m probably taking way too many. Nine out of 20, maybe 10 if I decide to do Spanish with listening as well. Harvard only requires you to take two tests, but the website says, “Applicants may wish to convey the breadth of their academic interests by taking tests in a variety of subjects.”
NINE? *feels very inadequate*
Yeah, what Lizzie said. I’m just going over kill. Very much so. But I suppose it can’t hurt, right, as long as I get good grades? I mean, colleges can’t look down on me for taking nine?
I think most colleges only want two, so I wouldn’t worry.
Bio study party, yeah? May 6?
I’m in.
Me too.
I’m planning to take Biology and maybe one of the Math tests in June. I might take US History or an English one later, but only if I think I’ll do excellently on them. I get the impression that only a couple are needed anyways, and after this year I’ll have taken 3.
Wow. I never took any.
So I learned yesterday that Alan’s never read any of the Redwall books. Not a single one. And he’s never even heard of Watership Down.
For somebody who likes a very similar genre of books as me…. *shakes head in disbelief*
I’ve never read any Redwall but I’ve read Watership Down.
Today I walked four miles to buy Pokemon White.
Definitely worth it.
RACIST!That’s pretty awesome. How were you feet? Sore?
Re: SAT overkill: Wow. That’s all I can really say, just wow. I took your basic SAT once, got and overall okay score and left it at that. Mostly because I simply didn’t have time for extra tests and retaking and all, but still. Also I didn’t see anything about requiring subject tests in either school I applied/am applying to. Huh. Admissions counselor from one of the schools even said “SAT scores are pretty much useless, I don’t put much stock in them. Your critical reading speaks for itself though, don’t worry about it.” Made me feel a lot better in general, since the other sections were rather anticlimactic. (I did get accepted though.)
But yeah. Then again I’m not really going for big fancy schools like you guys seem to be. *shrug* Still seems like a lot of hype though.
Urg essays and “short answer sections” on things about which I do not feel comfortable writing.
But tomorrow will mark a week of being somewhat more creative about my clothes (or at least feeling like I look good) so I’m going to just going to not worry about it. For now.
New Student: I’m Alison. What’s your name?
Me: Chocolate Oran- I mean, Sophia.
WIN. I’ve never done that, but if someone says ‘Selenium’ I become that much more interested, and also concerned that someone’s found out (especially if it’s at school).
EVERYONE EVERYONE EVERYONE. Vi Hart put up a new video for Pi Day. It is vitally important that you all watch it.
I’ve just added vibrant Vi to MuseBlog’s extremely short list of essential links.
Pinkness.
I forgot about pie day…oops….
Pi, I meant pi. I should not try and type coherently when I’ve only just gotten up.
She has a very logical argument for tau.
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Now that we have
goda well respected and intelligent human being on our side, we will PREVAILBeware the Ides of March!
Beware the time zone change.
Really? Why?
Oh, just because.
What are the Ides of March?
I think the Ides of a month are the middle, or at least something that happens in the middle. It’s usually the 15, but in March it’s the 13th.
No, in March the Ides are on the fifteenth.
The Ides were a day in the ancient Roman calender that would fall on the 13th or the 15th day of the month. The other important days were the Kalends (the 1st) and the Nones (the 5th or the 7th). They would then number the other days based on these three days–two days before the Kalends, the day after the Nones, etc.
A little rhyme to remember which months have which dates for the Ides/Nones:
In March, July, October, May,
The Ides fall on the fifteenth day,
The Nones the seventh. All besides
Have two less days for Nones and Ides.
Why that’s today!
I seem to be developing a list of things I will never be able to explain to my parents.
183-An example?
)
I must share with everyone the importance of the phrase Doing a Mesfyel. If you don’t know who Mesfyel is…then see the SSSS I made about her once…anyway. A Mesfyel is a rather large explosion, preferably unprovoked, that is usually somewhat loud and colorful. (Inanimate objects should be the things being exploded, not people, btw.
Vocaloids. (If you don’t know what they are, Google will help you. Have a listen, they’re pretty cool)
And, er, colorful.
Doing a Mesfyel sounds fun…
Re: Sats: I’m taking the normal one in June. Because I obviously have nothing better to do. *headwall*
Anyway, today was an interesting but rather depressing day at school. We watched the end of “Lord of War” in German class and ended up discussing the current events in Libya and the influence of weapons lobbies on American politics. Then, in Chemistry, we ended up discussing nuclear power plants and the situation in Japan. And I now have to finish a paper on the political themes of “Lord of War” and just found out that the scenes in Afrika (including the massacres) were all based on real events.
Today I had derby pie for pi day, and also because my math teacher’s birthday was yesterday, and brownies and ice cream from the school, because the ACT is tomorrow. Sugar high!!!
I’m going to make my Japan comment, and leave it at this: I feel enormously guilty for wondering if my favorite VAs, manga-ka, and fanartists are okay since there are more people in all of Japan than just them, but it gives me something to focus on because…. oh my God, it’s in the thousands… just the spoke of it is hard to take.
Just tried out for Academic Olympics vocal solo compettion with Boats and Birds… hope I get in… also, where is a place where I can get comedic monologues for free? I want to try out for that too.
Have you read the Luna Lovegood fanfic based on Boats and Birds? It’s on the Sugar Quill. I highly recommend it.
They’re people who live there. They exist and interact with others. They have families. Their well-being and the well-being of those related to them are as part of the matter as the well-being of any other group of people in Japan.
And, y’know, it helps people on the other side of the world identify with the victims, which is in my opinion a very good thing. (In the words of a character in one of my favorite manga)Whatever works is cool.
Don’t worry, I felt like crying with relief when I ascertained that Ken Sugimori and Satoshi Tajiri were okay.
As I speak, there are 9 deer in my backyard.
…0.o
…And this comment has exactly 9 likes… That’s… strange… *overuses ellipses*
Not anymore.
Warning : Disconnected, badly organized post below.
I want to do something to help the people in Japan. Suggestions?
I’m currently listening to Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair”. The official video has 45,821,677 views.
Someone told me today in band that people look like the instruments they play. Apparently I look like a trombone because I’m “long” like a trombone. I think the baritone player has too little to do during a 15-measure rest.
Personally, I prefer sending food and supplies rather than money, just because.
You cannot move in our school without being hit by someone’s ponytail as they dance to that song.
That’s what I was thinking. I have no cash but I have a Target gift card, which I think I’ll use to buy supplies.
Submitted my Bad Hemingway entry! I hope my teacher likes it.
It features tropical fish, robot bartenders, Moleskine notebooks, Fisher Space Pens, scuba diving, pink lemonade, bird-watching, high-stakes air hockey and off-world colonization.
And of course, lots of run-on sentences.
P_M: there are several venues through which one can make donations; American Red Cross is good, if you have texting you can use that to donate $10 (look on their website for more info)
i’m not sure if the GAPAs will allow an outside link with some info? But in general I think cash donations, if possible, are probably the most expedient means of help.
i really hate not being able to do more
zinc — there are lists around for different people who are okay. don’t worry though, there’s never anything wrong about worrying for someone’s safety!
SATs/APs: it really varies depending on where you live, i think. my area was very competitive about this so i don’t find beedle’s schedule/plans to be unusual. i think i took nine total, if you count the politics/gov ones separately.
SAT/AP- I took the AP literature last year. It wasn’t too bad. I took the regular SAT, which wasn’t too hard at the time but it gave me a comparably lower score than the ACT. (there are things that predict what you will get on one based on what you got on the other)
I’m going to take the Calc AP test this year.
I don’t really think you can study for these. You can prepare for the test format, but my view on actually passing is that you either know the material or you don’t and when it comes down to it there’s not much you can do to change it close to the test.
(this assumes of course that the definition of “study” includes a time restraint of less than one week prior to the test. if your definition of “study” spans the entire school year then yes, it is possible to study for the AP test/SAT)
I’m sooooo tired today. This has no chance of stopping until approximately 13 days from now. It’s time forr….. the Second Wind!!!! (where UP magically pulls energy out of nowhere, creating future energy debt for her body… kind of like a certain government we know, if you replace energy with money)
Today my English teacher finally gave back the Gothic stories our class wrote over three months ago. She now owes our class donuts.
My English teacher does that too, sans the donuts.
Mine does neither, sadly.
My English teacher from last year never gave back multiple of our projects.
My English Teacher two years ago gave back our essays on A Christmas Carol, which we wrote in December, in June. What’s more, she didn’t even read the whole essay. She said she’d only read the opening, conclusion, and a random one of our body paragraphs. But we didn’t get doughnuts.
After a month or so had gone by, my English teacher would be like “If I don’t get your [timed writings, essays] graded by next week everyone gets an A.”
I think he only had to deliver on that promise once.
HAVE COMPUTER, WILL POST
but not about computer troubles because to tired to be angry at tech store and whatnot over insurance. Point is he (my computer) and I are REUNITED AT LAST.
Also I have a paper due in like 9 hours ooops. Started 2 hours ago. Because I’m smart like that.
Oh well, last semester I started them all like 6 hours before they were due, so whatever.
Also midterms are son and I have not started studying yet oh god why am I such a terrible student.
TL;DR JADE IS GOING TO FAIL ALL HER CLASSES LOL
Also I have been sort of panic-y these last few weeks form a combination of academic workload/all the extracurricular I’m a part of/R&R stuff but I am still handling it a lot better than I used to so it’s still good in a way. And I’m still doing well and stuff and I have great friends so I’ll get through it.
Also I am going to try to work on TALKING TO PEOPLE. Not just in general but about myself which I never do in person, and only occasionally online. Honestly the internet knows way more about my personal thoughts than most of my real life friends and I sort of feel bad about that, so gonna work on it. We’ll see.
End-of-the-day-flop-into-a-chair-with-a-laptop post:
I have knitted a tardigrade sweater in which the tardigrade actually looks like a tardigrade, for once. I gave it to a children’s hospital, since it was tiny. I think I’ll pace the malls looking for the kid in the orange and pink tardigrade shirt…
Also, I have a new dish to add to my Singapore List of Things Not to Eat: Potato Mochi.
188 (Koko’s apprentice)~ Heh, we have a herd of 30-odd white-tailed deer that like to hang out on our property, eat our attempts at gardening and provide endless entertainment when they chase Circles (the cat) or each other.
Last night I had a quite bizarre dream involving a book for some reason named after a Bruce Hornsby song that was about a friend’s friend but people mistakenly thought was about my mother, clearing up that misconception, and going to a Johnny Cash concert. Or something. Like I said, it was very strange.
I’ve been remembering my dreams lately too, which is unusual. I haven’t remembered by dreams for years and years, much less consistently. But for several nights this week I’ve remembered, sometimes in detail, what I was dreaming about. I wonder if I’m not sleeping as well or something? That’s likely, what with all the stinkbugs in my room that either stink on me and wake me up or that crawl on me and wake me up, or do both, added to the fact that I can’t fall asleep unless I have the pillow turned longways next to me, and even then it’s not that great.
Weird.
Huh. Anyway.
College stuff. It continues. Still writing stuff for Prin, don’t know how I’m going to do it, because I’m still utterly clueless.
Got invited to the WWC class of ’15 [sitethatshallnotbenamed] group, lurked, joined, posted. Cool beans. Still kind of in shock that I actually got accepted. Awesomesauce.
Have to finish a book and call a professor and writewritewritewritewritewrite and HOW IS IT TWO ALREADY? *dies*
Jady~ HII! *glomps*
*Anxiously sprints into room*
*Locks door*
*Checks behind back for people with daggars*
What? Can’t be too careful on the Ides of March.
My Latin teacher was inexplicably absent today. We’re worried.
It’s my grandma’s 90th birthday, gosh.
I GOT SECOND PLACE IN THE NC POETRY CONTEST YAY YAY YAY *is pied*
Congratulations! Can you post it on the Poems And Songs thread (if you haven’t already, as I have’t checked)?
We went to practice our piece for the Tri-M recital in the orchestra office today, and so a banjo sitting on one of the plush chairs. Now, I love banjos. It took me a few minutes to calm myself down. We thought it was That Guy’s Band’s banjo, but it turns out that someone found it in the school basement. *whimper* Who would just leave a gorgeous, sexy banjo in the basement?
Anyway, our piece is really coming along quite well. I’m so excited for the concert.
It’s another tired day. har de har.
The Ides of March is almost over and haven’t made any bad jokes or been stabbed.
I like Skype video chat. It’s almost like your friend is there! Well, not really. But I did “meet” one of my online/texting friends for the first time yesterday on Skype and it was cool. I feel like I know her so much better after seeing how she moves and hearing her expression. I’m so glad video chat exists, and I think it should be used more. It’s also pretty useful for language practice.
har de har. dur dee dur dee dur. Yesterday was grumpy tired day. Today is delusional tired day. Hopefully it will last 2 weeks. Huzzah!
Getting hung up all day on smiles
Walking down Portobello road for miles
Greeting strangers in Indian boots
Yellow ties and old brown suits
Growing old is my only danger
Cuckoo clocks and plastic socks
Lampshades of old antique leather
Nothing looks weird, not even a beard
Or the boots made out of feathers
I’ll keep walking miles
Till I feel a broom beneath my feet
Or the hawking eyes
Of an old stuffed bull across the street
Nothing’s the same if you see it again
It’ll be broken down to litter
Oh and the clothes, everyone knows
That that dress will never fit her
Getting hung up all day on smiles
Walking down Portobello Road for miles
Greeting strangers in Indian boots
Yellow ties and old brown suits
Growing old is my only danger
Dear freegalmuic, why do you have the “kidz bop kids” version of I’m Yours, but not the Jason Mraz one? You fail. I’m severely disappointed in you, for more reasons than the way you frequently send me to a page that’s impossible to navigate from and requires singing in with my 14-digit library card number YET AGAIN. Thankfully I have it memorized and can type it uncannily fast, but that does not make up for your stupidness.
That is all.
~Me.
Seriously though. Why on earth would they put up some ghastly version of a song before the actual version of it? Probably because of legal stuff, I know. BUT STILL. :L
Dear radio:
Why do you always play the snippy Counting Crows version of “Big Yellow Taxi” and never the (beautiful) Joni Mitchell original version?
I has a flu, and I is going to Borneo tomorrow. That is all.
Posting from Shanghai! Sitting in our hotel room doing homework (or trying to) since the conference only starts tomorrow. Luckily I have Internet access so this time I won’t really be gone from MB, unlike last week.
So I’m posting again, yay!
Unintended Pun-Is it too late? *stabs anyways* We just learned about Julius Caesar in Latin yesterday, and I didn’t know he was epileptic! And he still conquered Gallia!