Our year of New Years is now on its fourth month, thanks to the Hindu New Year, which falls on April 4.*
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*Actually, it’s more complicated than that. India is a huge country and uses several different calendars, lunar, solar, and lunisolar, depending on where you are. One widely celebrated lunar new year falls on April 4. Sindhi New Year is April 5. Solar new year is celebrated in Tamil Nadu and Kerala on April 14 and in Bengal and Assam on April 15. Depending on who’s counting, it’s also the year 2011, 2068, 1933, 5112, 5087, 1404, 2082, 897, 994, 64, or 24.
But who’s counting? It’s party time!
April Fool’s Day snuck up on us this year, eh, GAPAs?
“The Ides of March are come.”
“Ay, Caesar, but not gone.”
First post?
I have 1/2 a page for Script Frenzy, so far.
11 pages now.
Is there a prank this year?
Wow. This is the earliest post I’ve ever gotten on a random thread. I’m only home right now because I just had a dentist appointment and there’s no point going back to school becuase in an hour or so I have an orthodontist appointment.
Hi. I just changed my gravatar, but I’m not sure if it worked.
Oh yay it did!
What? No hordes of lagomorphs? No grim schoolmasters? No Pig Latin?
Patience, Grasshopper.
I was just diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, so I thought I should probably let you know.
Okay? Don’t let a diagnosis define you.
One of my best real-life friends has Aspergers. She’s the funniest, most zany person ever. Point is, sometimes “disorders” just make you enjoy life more. *pies*
Bibliophile: I’m sure you’re far from the only MuseBlogger with that diagnosis, and, echoing Piggy, I’ll just say that it makes no difference to anyone here.
You’re not the only one. And yes, it does feel strange and confusing at first.
Yeah? My principal, my grandmother, and a family friend whose son is autistic all thought I had Asperger’s Syndrome for a while. I was taken to two different psychologists, neither of whom thought I actually had it though. My principal remained convinced, though. I decided it didn’t matter what people thought, and that I was just going to continue my life the way I wanted irregardless of whatever I may or may not have.
…the point is, there are things more important than the label. Continue as you have been doing, or not, whichever you want. You are still the same person you’ve always been. And, at the risk of sounding overly cheesy, you are awesome. Never forget that, etc.
Okay. Doesn’t make a difference to me, but of course if you need support (for anything) we’re always here.
I think I probably have Asperger’s syndrome- I got really close to being diagnosed but there was an earthquake when the psychologist person was writing out her notes and I didn’t go back.
You’re still the same.
Interesting.
The gods didn’t want you to find out-IT WILL FOREVER BE A MYSTERY. HAHAHAHAHA!!
You are still the same person, after all.
Doesn’t matter. My Dad thinks I might have Asperger’s.
gotta echo what everyone else is saying, i know a guy with asperger’s and he is one of the most talented and exuberant people i know! you’re still you
To echo more people echoing other people, it makes no difference to me or anyone on here; you’re still the same person! (Who is quite awesome, by the way.) Labels are just little pieces of white paper that have words on them and are pasted on people’s foreheads. (Sort of.) It doesn’t change anything. *support*
I read the discussion page about the Voices of Autism Muse article on the official Muse magazine site, and I saw the names of a few MBers there. You’re far from being the only person with that label.
So, how do you like the Museion?
It’s thoroughly flamablamablous. I admit I was rather worried when I went on MuseBlog this morning and saw no changes. I hope that we’ll be able to keep the Museion open for a while.
You know, Piggy, the 19th-century Hare & Hedgepig needs a staff. I’m reliably informed that someone has just ordered sandwiches. Or rather, ordered them 160 years ago. Whether they were ever delivered remains to be seen.
I like it just fine…though the method of speaking is a bit straining. I keep on wanting to write in Arabic for some reason. I guess because they both call upon the “little-used linguistics” part of my brain.
Also, where did my previous comment to Bibliophile go? I don’t see it awaiting moderation.
That’s just like my experiences in ASL class… I get called on and English leaves my brain… All that’s left is Spanish.
-A
I feel like I’m trespassing somewhere I shouldn’t go by being on the regular blog when the Museion is online.
Well, we can’t promise to moderate the 21st-century MuseBlog much until April 2, but I thought you “chrononauts” should have someplace to decompress. The past is a foreign country, you know, and living there can cause stress.
OH GODS YES now I can breathe. Felt stifled. I like change and all, but not that much all at once and that theme was just… Thank you, anyway.
-A
Out of curiosity, what is it you dislike about it?
It was so disorganised and big and hard on the eyes…
-A
It’s the same theme we use for MuseBlog, slightly stripped-down for compatibility with Analytical Engine-driven kinotrope technology. Steam power and gas lamps have their limits, you know. (You should feel lucky that I couldn’t make it flicker the way I wanted to.)
Anyway, if you don’t like the mid-19th Century, nobody’s going to force you to go back there. For at least another year, anyway.
I noticed that the layout was reminiscent of the old theme when I first cam on to the blog…just with a different color scheme.
Hi!
My avatar is really derpy! I also feel silly. But I spent the day at Disney, so that’s all good.
Has anyone ever cosplayed?
No, I haven’t, but I am planning to.
Cool! Which park did you visit?
Good evening!
My day has been awesome.
The Museion is flammy.
Did I mention my day has been AWESOME?
*adds awesome pies to awesome day*
hooray!
Yay Fiddlefern!
Oh! Where’d the fake username thread or whatever it was called go? I forget.
Ah, repeating this question~
ToL:
Search for “alter ego”.
My, what aIt’s rather difficult to leave Museion mode.
Spring break is finally here. *sighs with relief*
Today in Latin we finished the Aeneid. 2000 lines of often convoluted poetry–translated. That felt fantastic.
GAPAs, I presume the Museion will be treated more or less like Muse Academy–open for posting, but seldom moderated? Or will it be closed, like Studge?
Curse your subtle preanswering of my question. Disregard the last paragraph.
I miss Studge! It was fun
I will finish my sentence. Sometimes my keyboard works in weird ways.
I MEANT to say
I miss Studge! It was like the evil boarding school I always wanted to go to (only so I could triumph over the oppressive professors, or run away in the dead of night with my best friend).
Those of you who are nostalgic for Studge Academy should write an Alma Mater song for it.
“For Koko, for Mostly Harmless, and for Studge!”
(5 brain points if you know what school’s song this is based on.)
“Henry the Fifth”?
I was thinking of “Bright College Years”, actually.
Let’s hear it for Filboid!
Let’s give Filboid a ha-a-and…
Let’s hear it for the Studges,
I know you’ll understa-a-and…
…
Sorry. Footloose reference.
Maybe they’re no modern guys
but they’re my ears and they’re my eyes…
Let’s hear it for Filboid!
Does anyone get my joke? Anyone at all?
If they were awake some might…
Drat! I missed the April Fools Day theme! *goes to check out the Museion*
Spring Break: Day one. Slept. Cleaned house. Ate. Am going to mall in several minutes.
I need some quick advice: suppose you had $4, and you had a choice between lunch and a new set of colored pencils, which one would you choose? Personally, I’m leaning toward the pencils.
Pencils. Who needs food?
It depends on how sensitive you are. My stomach gets messed up if I skip lunch (but I can skip dinner and be okay).
15: You didn’t miss it! It’s still open!
16: That depends how many colored pencils you have already. I’d get lunch because I already have more CPs than I need, but I don’t really know what your situation is like.
Hi! I didn’t post on the Museion…I wasn’t sure what exactly the change was–just a more archaic form of language? And then the mail came and and I did NOT get my dream scholarship and I didn’t really feel it fit with the mood.
Anyway. I didn’t get my dream scholarship–not surprising, since I was so nervous and kept forgetting things. Like my transcript. *facepalm* And when I came out of the interview I couldn’t remember a single word I had said and my imagination kind of glossed and embellished until I assumed I’d done well…but I don’t think I did, really. Anyway. I could still go for comparatively cheap…now I just have to make a decision, it’s not done for me.
My audition for arts school is tomorrow. Meep.
Good luck!
Break a leg, Koppar!
*favorable squids*
May fortune favor the clever.
Good luck, Koppar! I hope you get in.
The Museion was (and still is!) so fun.
♥
It could become our backup Muse Academy!
I loved it! Is there any chance we could still access it? Maybe through a link or something?
Well, I went for the colored pencils. So now I’m hungry… ah well, I shall eat dinner soon. Once I get off the couch…
[site that shall not be named] has penguin emoticons. I am not a big fan of social networking, except among intelligent people, but this may just raise my opinion of them…
I think I have the flu. Why can’t I ever get the flu during school?! ARGH. My immune system just has terrible timing…
Congrats on the new pencils!
That site also has a 42 emoticon. You type in :42: . It’s the only number emoticon; perhaps you could make use of it?
Oh dear. I know how you feel. Only getting sick when on vacation stinks.
Club Penguin?
Book of faces.
Club Penguin?!?!?!
That made me laugh.
Well, it would seem appropriate for Club Penguin to have penguin emoticons, would it not?
Actually, they don’t. ( I was obsessed once.)
My brothers used to do it.
Enjoy the new pencils. Color pencils are simply the most amazing medium to work with. Hopefully they’d distract you enough until dinner.
Question for the GAPA… Is there a way to track which posts you’ve commented on?
-A
Not that I know of.
Bother. Keep losing track of them, and sometimes people reply and I don’t see it for ages… Or not at all…
-A
You can always go to the post you wonder if you’ve commented on and do a find search for your name.
Well, see, I already do that. But that’s a guess-and-check method, and a rather time-consuming one at that. And I’m bound to forget some posts.
-A
It might be easier to search an RSS feed.
Starr is back! I was in Orlando this past week, visiting Disney and the Wizarding World!! *gloatsgloatsgloats* Despite the fact that we had horrible luck with the weather – stupid rain is stupid – we still had a great time, and I had a lot of fun geeking out at HP World. I got my Hogwarts shirt and time turner keychain to prove it.
(Ok, I’m done bragging now. Promise.)
But my best fail was probably not realizing that it was April Fool’s Day until very late yesterday afternoon on the plane back…which means I didn’t get on MB at all.
We only get one week for spring break – is that what most of you guys get? I know a lot of the other schools around here get two. We go back Monday…
Shame I didn’t know you were going to Disney- I could have told you where to find all kinds of secret things that you could have shown your family to make them think you were a Disney Expert.
Aww, that’s too bad. Heh. It was my whole family’s first time going to Disney, so new experience for us all.
Which parks did you visit?
Miraculously, all of them, even though Animal Kingdom was pretty brief – we basically ran in, jumped on Expedition Everest and went on one safari, and then ran back out. (The bus was picking us up to bring us back to the airport at 11:50, and we only just made it back in time because of a delay on the safari…which was fun, but also quite stressful.)
Out of all them, I think I liked the Wizarding World best, but out of the Disney parks…probably Hollywood Studios, which I didn’t think I would enjoy as much as I did.
Cool! I went in February, but we only got to go to EPCOT. (Which is my favorite, but still, I wanted to see them all.)
Hi! I’m glad you had fun in Orlando! (Augh HP jealousy jealousy jealousy…)
Spring break doesn’t start for about two more weeks for me, but it’s only one week.
I’m with you on April Fool’s… this is like the third year… I’ve only ever experienced one.
Hey, at least this year the Museion is staying open. (It was my first April Fool’s here too)
aww, no more museion D:
starr — OH MAN that sounds so amazing! someday…
I think most schools around here just get one week. I’m always confused by how there are such wildly divergent dates for spring break though. I s’pose it has to do with semester dates and that kind of thing but eh.
i’m glad you had fun though!
So I am currently in an organizational tizzy trying to figure out all possible iterations of my schedule for next year
I have tentatively decided on a Philosophy/English dual (not double…sob) major so I’m trying to figure out how to fit everything in and not die and early death. ALSO attempting to figure out how to get my gen ed stuffs done as quickly as possible which involves double counting courses, but some cannot double count with others, and some do not fit and why are all the classes i want on Tuesday and Thursday? Does anyone else do this?! I have…spreadsheets and notepad files and my brain may have fizzled out at some point last night.
Sorry for the rant x___x
anyway i’m having day old coffee and feel Very Grown UP
no matter that there’s lots of sugar and soy milk in it….
MAN I LOVE APRIL!!
In response to Fiddler on the last thread — I’m not sure why, but I suddenly feel the need to hear German…or something O_o I think i may be nostalgic for the trip I took with my mom that included Germany and Austria since the weather is so nice and it reminds me of how beautiful it was there. hmm.
I watched Howl’s Moving Castle the other day kind of for that reason and kind of because of Diane Wynn Jones passing away (which…i don’t feel l can add to what everyone else has said. I will hopefully re-read the book soon too).
I remember being on our trip and driving through Bavaria and the Austrian countryside (the Alps? forgive me European MBers…) and thinking “WOW this looks just like Howl’s Moving Castle….”
HUMM HOOM this is an extraordinarily long post I think I will end it here.
wow, Diana Wynne Jones*…forgive my inability to recall names/spell
Axa:
No need to mourn for the Museion. It’s still there.
Jinx?
Fear not, Axa. The Museion remains open for business. Indeed, as Robert pointed out, we intend to add to it as the fancy strikes us. We had more ideas than time, and some of those ideas we won’t be able to resist trying out — once we’ve recovered from this round, that is.
Oh wow, it is! MOSTE EXCELLENT
Replies to 19: Thank you! =D *plops squid on head*
I got back from my audition. It went well, and I did better on the sight-reading than I expected to, which is good. I think my chances of getting in are probably pretty good, *crosses fingers* but I’ll find out around the first week of May.
Also, they asked me what kind of animal I would be if I was an animal. This ensued:
Me: A fox.
Choir teacher: Why a fox?
Me: Because I have red hair.
Choir teacher & judges:
Anyway. I’m happy.
Glad to hear it went well. We’ll all be keeping our fingers and toes crossed for you! The inconvenience that poses for walking and typing is but small sacrifice for such a worthy endeavor.
I managed to drive safely back to the school in a Student Driver car that was having approximately one malfunction per block. I asked the teacher if it still counted even though I didn’t get to drive for as long as usual, and he said “Yes, you drove very well, and under extraordinary circumstances.”
I can drive and have had a license since 2008 but I’m afraid of my car breaking down and not knowing what to do. That is really neat that you managed to do that!
Why would you name a river in Oklahoma the Canadian River?
I was going to say “lack of foresight” but then I looked it up. It originates in Colorado….why?!?
Confusion.
-A
It’s the only question I go twrong during the Geography Bee… if it wasn’t for that I would have advanced to semifinals.
UU today: Our chalice got sneezed on over ten times, two people threw up, and one guy coughed on all the muffins. Note to everyone: if you are sick, do not attend church.
I kind of didn’t have a choice, since we were hosting and we don’t have everyone’s phone number, but nearly everyone had the flu and the ones who didn’t were staying on one side of the room trying not to catch it.
Our downstairs neighbor force-fed me medicinal soup on the way up, which actually helped with the stomachache, but now all I can taste is medicinal soup. It’s rather like tylenol dissolved in fermenting cabbage juice and dried mushroom paste.
Just got back from McCaw (affectionately dubbed Macaw) Hall and it is gorgeous. We had a great performance.
I am filled with love for my castmates for being so awesome and am excited to get back to teching the show tomorrow.
Were I still in the city I could come see it
After about 20 minutes of practice, I can proudly say that I know can play “Row, row, row your boat”, “Old McDonald” and “Yankee Doodle” on the piano again, well enough to make my nine-year old self cry. Yep, I’m a virtuoso. Now I remember why I stopped playing piano.
“Hindu is a huge country”?
Errr…
Oh, all right. I got distracted while writing the post and wound up switching thoughts in mid-sentence. Senescent brains do things like that, you know.
What is senescent?
Old and decaying.
Noodles! Dropping in quickly.
I’m so nervous about the robotics competition tomorrow. With all the rules, I’m starting to get a sneaking suspicion that it will be populated with the ‘Mary Sues’ of our little inverted pyramid of nerd hierarchy.
This is what I’m afraid will happen:
Me: *washing hands in bathroom while itching scratchy dress clothes that we are required to wear* Gee, I wish they didn’t have a dress code.
Person at next sink: What dress code? Any respectable person would dress like this every day.
Me: Uh, so I’m not respectable?
Person: Apparently not. So what AP courses are you taking?
Me: In middle school? Uh, none.
Person: You don’t take courses that are meant for advanced high schoolers? I believe that to get anywhere in life you have to skip a few grades and be a prodigy.
Me: I get straight A’s…
Person: Ah, you’ll never get anywhere in life. *washes hands with antibacterial soap*
Me: You sound like a lot of fun…
Person: Fun? Fun is for juvenile delinquents.
Me: That’s… an interesting opinion. *tries to be diplomatic and not downright rude*
Person: So, I was going to take calculus last year, but I decided to skip it. It’s too simple, you know?
Me: You seem… intelligent.
Person: Well, it’s the only way to get into even a semi-decent college. You know, like Harvard. So what school do you go to?
Me: *insert name of school here*
Person: A public school? Gee, you really are a juvenile delinquent. I bet you have numerous mental disorders. I could reccomend a few psychologists, if you like.
Me: Erm… I don’t need psychologists. And even if I did, I wouldn’t want to go to one.
Person: You just don’t want to face your innermost fears. I’m studying psychology. What are you studying?
Me: Er… pre-algebra?
Person: Aha, so you got held back a few grades? I can understand. Some people find the kindergarten courses very challenging.
Me: Kindergarten… you mean like ABC’s and stuff.
Person: Yes. James Joyce’s Ulysses, and so forth. Simple stuff.
Me: Where do you go to school again?
Person: Advanced Genius Prodigy Academy for the Gifted. It’s not very advanced, but it will suit my needs for now. Can you imagine that some people go to public school? Pshaw. Future criminals.
Me: I have a perfectly clean record…
Person: Excuses, excuses.
Me: Well… sounds like fun…
Person: Fun is for juvenile delinquents.
Me: *leaves*
*gets in trouble for staying in the bathroom too long, and is thrown out of robotics competition*
I’m going to be the life of the party there.
Peaches… or is it?
I know exactly how you feel. I was with a few Mary Sues at Space Camp.
My school has way too many “Mary Sues”. People who take AP Cal AB in 9th grade because you can’t go to the university for math until 11th and they don’t want to take stats. Before I left policy debate I was the lowest math of anyone on the team, a that level up from normal math. We had like 5 perfects on the AMC 12. And a lot of them think that they aren’t going to get into MIT.
But don’t worry. Nobody like that would have read Ulysses or be in Physh. The humanities are in chaos.
That’s ridiculous. My school won’t even offer AP Calc for juniors or seniors. They apparently “can’t cater only to the top x% of students”. *sigh*
And “Person” is studying psychology? Really?
Mary Sues? Hardly. If they think that everyone who isn’t in as many advanced classes as them is a future criminal, I think they certainly have quite a few things they need to work on.
My school is the Land of the Mary Sues, and I am definitely one of them. *sigh* I really, really try not to be snobby, but it’s hard amongst all the unconscious classism that my classmates love. I don’t actually live in the school district; Mom just has a job teaching English there.
If it’s any help, very few of we Mary Sues actually enjoy it. About twenty kids in each grade at my school are what my Health teacher calls “functioning alcoholics”, and every one who isn’t is either straightedge or gets drunk as often as they can. (I’m straightedge.) Either you break from the system and deliberately underachieve and fail every class as a form of rebellion, or your entire self-esteem begins to depend on your grades, and you cry your eyes out when you get a single B on your report card. (I’m the second one.) It’s expected that everyone will take at least four APs starting junior year, and when someone doesn’t go to college it’s an incredible scandal.
I once made a list of all the mutually exclusive expectations for students at my school. I ought to post it sometime.
I love your supercilious Person: *sigh*, you’re just not respectable what AP classes are you taking?
Chinchilla care. Don’t ask.
I’m planning to take AP Physical Education, AP Wilderness Survival, and AP World Domination when I’m a senior. The homework might catch up with me, but it’ll be fun.
“Oh, what bother with AP classes? I’m already in adult anger management class!”
Or you could reference ‘the piano player’, but I’ve found that most people don’t get famous literature from different cultures/in different languages. Besides, with en’s psychology smarts, en definitely wouldn’t get it. Mention Adler, perhaps? That should be simple yet blunt enough.
*Why bother- ahrg I’m tired.
Hark! What botheration draws nigh?
My mother thinks that cosplayers and historical reenactors are creepy.
….I’m probably not going to tell her about the costume designs I’ve been dreaming of.
33- Agent Lightning
I actually found your post pretty funny. I guess that eliminates me from Mary-Suedom at least. Seriously though…I felt like there where people like that at the JSA summer school I went to. *cringes with feelings of remembered inadequacy*
Still, you’re a Muser, you’ll be fine.
Isn’t India the country and Hindu the religion?
Of course not.
I have this friend. He told me today that he used to think Judaism was a nationality… and then kindergarten happened.
I used to think Pittsburgh was a state. Again, before kindergarten.
Some people would say that Pittsburgh is a state of mind.
It totally is.
Well, given the amount of violence and discrimination toward Muslims in India, you could say that.
I really like the name Marion. I don’t think I’d want a child, but if I had one I might name her Marion. It is my grandmother’s name. It is odd to be thinking of all this because a) I’m not in a relationship b) I don’t want kids c) I only recently started liking the name Marion (I mean I didn’t dislike it before, I just didn’t think about it). Does anyone else have a favorite name? I have some other favorite names like Elanor but they don’t have the same connection to my family.
I like Naomi and Emma right now.
Oh! Naomi! I forgot about Naomi. I like Naomi too. And Owen. And Morgan for either a guy or a girl but that actually does have family connections. I’ve liked it for longer than Marion, though.
I’ve been through so many different phases when I like some names better than others – when I was little, my sisters and I played this “mommies game” where we would draw a huge family and pick names and ages for all of our kids. Good times.
I don’t know what my favorite name would be right now, though…I’ve always thought Evelyn (Or Eve, for short) is super pretty.
When I was nine, the one thing I yearned for was to change my name to Jennifer.
When I was three, I was going to have twins, one boy and one girl, named Patty and Mark. I don’t know why I decided this. I don’t even like the name Patty.
Jennifer?
I once new a boy named Marion.
I like the names Lysander, Eleanor, Charles, and Selladora, none of which have family connections. I used to love Mabel, Annabell, and Amabel, but I don’t care for them as much anymore, though I do still love Annabell. I also like Hanna and Tim and Helen and Ellen and Lena and Helena and… well, yeah. All versions of that.
I worked with a guy named Marion once. I like that Marion can be a guy’s name too, but I would be more likely to name a girl Marion. Most of the names I like don’t have family connections either.
Did you know that the movie star John Wayne’s real name was Marion Morrison?
For some reason, this discussion has me humming that song about “the hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne.”
Oh, he robbed from the rich
and he gave to the poor.
Stood up to the man
and he gave him what for.
Our love for him now
ain’t hard to explain…
the hero of Canton,
the man they call Jayne.
It is also odd because d) I am in the middle of undergrad and even if I wanted kids would definitely not want them now.
Right now I like Jude and Graham (possibly shortened to Gray).
I like the names Aislyn, Luna, Belladonna, Arabella, Sora, Arianna, Zoe, Rae, Noe, Hope, Hazel, Holly, Fiona, Ingemar, Leanna, Juliet, Ari, Astryd, Romaine, Robin, Ryland, Rory, Faye, Mira, Lily, Alice, Lucas…
Come to think of it, I’ve gotten a bunch of names from MB.
Hello Museblog. I am sopposed to be reading a large and dense translation of the Ramayana, but instead I am here. Why? Because I feel compelled.
What’s the Ramayana?
It’s an indian story that is a big part of their culture. Sort of like if the oddessy, you could say. And sort of like if Cinderella were in the Bible… Hard to explain. But it’s really long.
Ooh, I love a chance to mock my own culture. I made a Stupid Senseless Smiley Story on this! Look it up! In the meantime, basically, god-in-disguise (Rama) banished with his also-godly wife (Sita) and his sycophantic brother (Lakshmana) from his rightful kingdom by scheming aunt (well, one of the king’s other wives) decides to live in a forest for fourteen years. Various high jinks ensue. At one point, Sita spots a golden deer, actually Ravana (demon/ruler of Sri Lanka) and is kidnapped and taken back to Sri Lanka. Hanuman (monkey god), somewhat overenthusiastic puppet servant of Rama, flies over to Lanka and tries to rescue Sita, but, for unfathomable reasons, she decides to stay behind until Rama rescues her. Rama eventually does, but is convinced that she slept with Ravana (all right, the Ramayana puts it in slightly more polite terms) and makes her walk through a fire to prove her innocence. Vindicated, she returns to Ayodhya with Rama and becomes queen, but Rama senses dissent on the part of his subjects because Sita is pregnant (in fact, with Rama’s twin sons). He kicks his own wife out of Ayodhya and she raises his sons in the forest along with a helpful sage. Eventually, Rama finds them and takes the sons back, but wants Sita to go through trial by fire again. Fed up, she leaves to be a god again.
Sorry. It’s 40 chapters long.
Was the trial by fire thing supposed to make sense?
I cannot begin to fathom the twisted workings of Rama’s mind.
It should also be noted that (correct me if I’m wrong) Ramayana is pronounced Ramayan, and Rama pronounced Ram, and pretty much all names ending with “a” that aren’t women’s names don’t voice the final “a”.
I’ve never heard either of them pronounced without the A. Most words that are transliterated from Sanskrit end up spelled pretty much as they’re pronounced.
I was reading an instruction booklet for my icecream maker, it said… “This appliance has a polarized plug … Do NOT attempt to defeat this safety feature”
Om nom nom coconut ice cream.
(typed on my itouch- sorry for any spelling errors)
I just tried my hand for the first time on Ukranian egg decorating. I think I might need a steadier hand, and possibly less time constraints. Anyway it was fun, and the results weren’t half bad for a first try. At least I didn’t break my egg, like some of the other people in the group did.
Walking around town, you notice a lot of stuff you never did before. Like Wyethville.
I wish the museum would feature some different, local stuff, for once. His art is overrated.
Also, if I ever wanted to stay here for the rest of my life (…maybe…) I would go live down on the river and boat to town. I could have solar power for electricity. And I’d put in a well, so I’d be okay for water. If it was storming I’d have to stay put, though…also, my children would have to be homeschooled (If I had them) and I’d have to convince my spouse/soulmate/person of romantic relationship (I say this because I don’t really know if I want to get married. It seems like a lot of bothersome things, like a white dress? No. Whenever I tell someone this they say: “How do expect to stay together if you aren’t married?!” *shock, shock* But my parents aren’t married and have lived together happily for 30 years.) to live there too… But, y’know, it could be done. *shrug*
We already have the property, after all, so Future me would just have to worry about a boat and building a house. (That would be a pain-hauling all those boards? Yeah, lots of money ) My father seems to assume I’ll stay in [my town] when I’m older. And this is an extremely rambling post.
One more thing: You know when you suddenly find yourself in front of a mirror wearing a spiky metal collar, or a spiky metal hat, or a head covering made out of people’s faces, woven together, or perhaps a nice shawl that has dragon scales sewn onto it, and you think, “Why did I agree to this again?”
I’ve been having lots of those moments lately.
Where can you get a nice shawl with dragon scales sewn onto it?
My mother.
Oh… Well, then, where can you get dragon scales to sew onto a shawl–or any item of clothing, really?
(**Sorry for the late reply! I thought I had already replied to this post, but I guess not.**)
My mom cut them out of her etchings. They look like dragon scales when they’re together, but they’re really just paper she cut out. (She’s making costumes, which I was supposed to wear as an advertisement in a fashion show.)
Anyway, it turns out I won’t be having to wear any of her craziness after all; I have a trip that day. Sort of good, sort of bad.
(But it’s probably for the best. I accidentally slightly injured someone the last time she made me try on these clothes…)
Got a lot of great comments on a fan-fic on another site, feeling very good about myself.
Also, Happy Birthday Gus Grissom!
My voice is coming back, slowly. Lots of ice cream and Doctor Who helps.
Are you GAPAs going to find a way to make every month this year a “Happy New Year’s” thread?
Cool picture, by the way.
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star run through an internet translator:
Radical reduction radically, reducing radically, a small asterisk! Since they are surprised, which you are. The end of the A the one of the world increased so, as it makes shine like diamonds in the sky, especific ignited, the radical reduction radically, reducing radically, the small one, asterisk! Since they are surprised, which you are.
*runs Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star through Translation Party.*
The Twinkle, Twinkle, little star, how do I know what you think. In the world, contain high exchange diamond in the sky. If not, I do not like bright stars do not?
*runs Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star through Bad Translator*
“I am a bit Concerned mgvmi mgvmi ‘Ma jewelry in the world, as I do not know a blue star.”
I ran my new, translated version through the translator, then again, then again, et cetera. Here’s what I have so far:
Radically, radically, the radical reduction reduced, a small asterisk! Since they are surprised, this are you. Consequently conclusion of, this world, because diamonds in the sky, which for in here within a furnace is, which produces a renting of the radical with lucentezza the cuts for the radical reduction and the radical especific, little some, asterisks increased reduced! Since they are surprised, this are you.
By the way, please don’t forget our trivia competition. I know the last time I said that, I was wrong, but I don’t think I am this time… Or at least, I hope not, because that would be very embarrassing.
The first two sentences (verses) of Somewhere Over the Rainbow run through Translation Party:
Exchange of land Takamiti rainbow somewhere, I never once heard a lullaby. Somewhere, iridescent dream dreams, to challenge the blue sky is shown in a dream really.
I have a strong desire for a counterclockwise clock for some reason.
And I have 22 pages for Script Frenzy.
make that 26.
SPRING BREAK AGAIN!
All right. Guys, brace yourselves. I am going to attempt petit fours.
I will keep a fire extinguisher on hand and I promise to tell you about it later.
Cereal first, though, I’m hungry.
36 Pages for Script Frenzy!
Am I the only MBer doing it this year?
Dang, you’re a beast! Nice work!
I’m Screnzying, but only sort of; my goal isn’t 100 pages. I’m writing a children’s musical, so I’m aiming for a 75-pager (including lyrics) which can be edited to about 60 pages. Not sure if I’ll get anywhere near that (I need a plot before I can get very far, and I’m still working that out), but it gives me a project!
Awesome! I wish I could script stuff.
Well, I was supposed to do it, so that my friend had someone to talk about it to, but I’m not. Six words: Editing has taken over my life. *feels guilty*
My friend is, though, and she is already a ridiculous amount of pages up.
My only experience with script-writing is on the Embi thread (which, by the way, needs reviving) so no, I’m not doing it this year. It sounds a lot of fun, though, but also very stressful – just like NaNo I suppose.
Back in Ohioland. Costa Rice was so much fun, but it’s nice to be back too. Now that I’m done with all the traveling. Saturday morning: woke up 3:15am (which is usually when I go to BED), take shuttle to airport, on planes till 4pm when we got in Chicago, 9pm got on a train to collegeland and didn’t get off till 5am. Got into room around 5:45 and collapsed because I’d slept for probably 2 cumulative hours since the early saturday morning >.<
Today was fun! Went swimming and played Magic (a friend’s friend gave me a free deck! With DRAGONS! It is great) and watched Doctor Who
I did no work though. I’m not ready for school to start up again x_x
The petit fours could have gone better, but at least nothing blew up. It would have been nice if the icing hadn’t congealed into a rock-hard mass until after I put it on the cakes, though.
By the way, when I was cooking the icing it looked exactly like the blue soup in Bridget Jones’ Diary.
I got to watch The King’s Speech again. Such a great movie.
Wednesday is our cast’s Harry Potter Day. I don’t own any memorabilia, so I’m going as a Muggle.
Or you could dress up in the strangest outfit you can think of and go as a wizard in disguise.
I probably wouldn’t be brave enough to do so, but I think it would be really cool.
This spring break ( which is in two weeks ), I was going to learn the “Single Ladies” dance.
Then I realized I don’t have time.
It seems like there are a lot of Ohio MBers.
Are there any in Arizona? :]
AHHH graduating!!!!
I think that all of my posts from now until May 31 will have annoying sentences with too many exclamation marks. I’m so excited!!!
After I graduate, my posts will all have annoying sentences about me going to Germany and Spain, and then they will all be about moving to Arizona. After that I’ll be done. :]
Germany! Spain! *envy*
I do not live in Arizona but that makes you relatively closer to where I am! *sad attempt at relevant comment*
Congrats on imminent graduation and college
… My ASL II teacher lived in Arizona!
-A
Woo! Soyuz launch tomorrow!
Er, tonight.
“Some days it’s not even worth chewing through the restraints.” That pretty much sums up my day, except that I didn’t realize it soon enough and, as a result, totally wasted my energy attempting to make it worthwhile.
I’ve been vacuuming stinkbugs all day.
That’s it.
My vacuum cleaner is completely jammed full of them, so now I’m waiting for mom to get back up here with the Dr Bronner’s soap, which apparently kills them when you mix it with water and spray on them/dump them into it.
Aaaaand since it’s been almost 5 minutes since my last massacre, they’re all over my windows again. As in crawling all over each other and being utterly disgusting all over my windows.
But still no soap and water, so I can’t even vacuum them.
… Question. If you are able to chew through the restraints successfully at all, why would you have to rechew through them again the next day? I mean, maybe I’m taking this too literally, but…
-A
Because I presumably would have been caught and put in restraints again?
But it wasn’t literal.
I’ve seen it on bumper stickers and lolcats before.
If it was literal… If you have the ability to chew through restraints at all, let alone to do so quietly enough so you aren’t noticed and then to escape, how would they catch you and restrain you again?
Personally, I think there should be some form of the verb ‘to try’ inserted in there.
-A
Today was… weird….
I got so little sleep, due to having weird dreams from watching The Matrix at Electros’ birthday party yesterday and then having to leave the house early so my mom could drop me off at homeschoolgettogetherthing at Electros’s house on the way to Boston, that I was a little bit of a zombie this morning… Then, when I got to the house, one of the first things Electros’s mom says to me is “Hey, Armada, congratulations on getting Hermione!” WHAT. WHAT. I auditioned for a teen production of The Winter’s Tale last week and the casting email was supposed to be sent out today… apparently it was sent yesterday and I just didn’t check my email. Hermione. I’m Hermione. Holy cake. *faints*
And then there was the random and mysterious package on the table saying “To Armada”. After opening it, it turned out to be a small bottle of Painfluff, made for me by Camilla ducky. (Don’t even ask. She sent me a picture a while ago of a few bottles of Fluff for all writers’ needs; I think it was Pure Fluff, Painfluff, and Dark Fluff? Anyway, I replied that Painfluff was mostly what I used, and she told me she’d whip some up for me. I assumed she was talking virtually rather than literally. I was mistaken, apparently.) My whole life is kinda Painfluffy right now, so I suppose it’s very appropriate.
Aaaaand it went on from there. Yeah. Interesting day. O.o
Congrats!
Congratulations on getting the part. And enjoy the Painfluff. Meanwhile, have fun with life!
Today I made lemon sorbet in my ice cream maker! It was delicious, except it didn’t freeze hard enough in the machine so I had to put it in the freezer for about an hour.
Anyway, my dog isn’t eating very well, not sure what to do… I don’t think he has any health problems…
I’m going to Washington for a week, and there won’t be a computer, so goodbye MB!
1. Just watched Source Code. Discuss.
2. I am so bored I am actually doing homework. Mostly. Other than posting here. Anyway, it’s an improvement to the senioritis that has become the norm, so BE PROUD. BE SO VERY, VERY PROUD.
3. I’m eighteen. What… First of all, just what. Period. What. Anyway, second and more relevantly, what does that mean in Museblog terms again?
-A
It means that you are technically alowed to be a bit more liberal in sharing personal information here if you really feel the need for some reason (I think? I’m not certain, but it’s the impression I’ve been getting, since people have told what college they go to.), and if you ever have a Kokon, your parents won’t need to be involved. Also, the GAPAs will put a + symbol by your name if they haven’t already.
And you’re supposed to ask the GAPAs if you can continue using your pseudonym instead of switching to your real name. I think that’s it, anyway.
Yes, you’re free to use your real name or location, though it is not obligatory, since we hereby grant permission for you to continue with your accustomed blogname. And belated Happy Birthday!
Sweet! I’m Grady! … Although most of you knew that anyway and I’m not going to continue on with my last name or location. Whatever. That was fun while it lasted, anyway. >.<
And awesome! I'll just stay the same.
And plus also thank you! Belated Happy Birthday to you too! However belated it may be!
-A
Phew. I was worried about that.
I know how you feel, gradster…and if I don’t yet, I will in a week. I’m going to be eighteen soon too. In 6 days. Yikes. I feel like my life has been drastically shortened or something.
So… can I get early permission to keep posting under my blogname rather than actually waiting for the birthday itself?
Of course, FantasyFan. At your advanced age, we want to make your remaining days as pleasant as possible.
Yes, thank you GAPAs for granting this old lady her last request. I, um, may have been overreacting a bit, but your response did have the side effect of making me break out in laughter for several minutes. And it is well known that laughter is the best medicine, so I am feeling much younger now. Yay!
Wooo! Expedition 27 is up!
I just spent five minutes staring out the window for absolutely no reason. Then I ate a muffin.
Also, yesterday I remember seeing something and thinking, “I’ll have to tell the MuseBloggers about this!” but I can’t remember what it was.
Well, Obama is officially running for president. Which is nice, although I think his new website looks more like a fifteen-year-old’s MySpace page.
And today I accidentally knocked a globe off the counter while I was making muffins and it shattered into hundreds of little pieces. This seems like an omen to me.
At least it wasn’t a mirror, if you’re going to be superstitious.
Or maybe this means worldwide bad luck for seven years.
Maybe it means your whole world’s about to change.
I was going to post about how excited I am about the band trip to DC this weekend, but I got sidetracked wondering what fraction of my posts have “band” in them. Probably at least half. That’s a little… concerning? Awesome? Repetitive? Take your pick.
Anyway, I also came to the conclusion that I barely post about what happens in my life on a daily/weekly basis anymore, so you’ll be seeing more of that soon.
WE ARE GOING TO VIRGINIA BEACH THIS WEEKEND
WHY COULDN’T OUR BAND TEACHERS HAVE SIGNED US UP FOR THE SAME FESTIVAL…
-A
THE WORLD IS A CONSPIRACY IS WHY
THAT IS TRAGIC AND YOU SHOULD COME VISIT ANYWAY
I LIKE SHOUTING IN CAPS LOCK.
OUR BAND DOESN’T GO ANYWHERE BECAUSE I’M ONLY IN MIDDLE SCHOOL. PLUS THERE’S ALWAYS LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO COME IN FIVE MINUTES BEFORE BAND ENDS. LOUSEY CAKERS.
High school band is infinitely better than middle school band. Just hang on a few more years!
…. HOW?
-A
APPARATE
OKAY. I’LL GET RIGHT ON THAT. & Yes, that’s what I would do immediately after learning to apparate… Right. >.<
-A
What I’ve noticed is that around this time of night, all that’s left is a GAPA or two and the Californians. Plus some weirdos who HAVE SCHOOL TOMORROW AND IT WOULDN’T DO TO FALL ASLEEP ON YOUR BOOKS.
This is Zinc with your MuseBlog Health Safety Announcement, saying good night to everyone who really needs to sleep right now!
*time zone high five*
*other side of the world high five*
62- I am not a GAPA or a Californian or someone who has school tomorrow. HA.
I forgot to write about what I did Sunday night: I egged someone’s house, TP’ed their tree, forked their lawn, and keyed their car. And got caught doing it.
To explain:
-We made scrambled eggs, put them on a plate, put plastic wrap over them, and set them in front of the door.
-We set a roll of toilet paper in between the two lowest branches.
-We put a single plastic spoon obviously in the lawn.
-We taped a key to the door of the car.
High school hijinx: achieved.
I freaked out for a minute.
what did you people do to your family on april fools? I changed my little brothers auto spell check and got my mom to tell him he had to type a letter. i replaced dear with “youidiot” is with “haveyoufigureditoutyet” sincerely with “april” and his name with “fools” i replaced others too.
Is it a lost cause to ask you to capitalize? I sense it is.
I shook up all the soda in the fridge, hid the chairs in the art room at recess, tied several people’s shoelaces together, and along with a friend, hijacked the school computer server to change all the desktop backgrounds in the school to one that flashed, “APRIL FOOLS” and played the Star Trek theme.
Original Series theme or one of the others? And how did you do that?
That’s a good one.
When my mom woke me up, she told me that it was snowing. “Wow, I didn’t expect that”, I mumbled intelligently. Of course, it was almost 50 degrees out.
A friend at school recruited me to put frosting under the door handles of another friend’s car. I never heard how she reacted, actually.
My family is not big on April Fool’s but I managed to trick my mom into believing we had a two hour delay.
The joy of April Fool’s day was somewhat stifled becuase I had both a dentist appointment and an orthodontist appointment.
I didn’t manage much because we had a snow day, but I did spray my parents with water about seven times. You would think that they would know to check the sprayer by now.
I like to sing about myself sometimes, saying ay-oh, my name’s Taio!
I throw my latkes in the air sometimes, singing ay-oh, spin the dreidel!
Had one of those annoying dreams that I couldn’t fall asleep last night. It’s really annoying, because you don’t know how much you’ve actually slept.
I’ve never had those, but I often remember remembering things without remembering what I remembered.
Also, in my dream I created an imaginary nightmare fuel book that my dream-self had read in middle school.
I once dreamed up a book that I had supposedly read in second grade (loosely based on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which I did read in second grade), and PBS was making it into a TV show in the dream, and I was sucked into the book. A lot of strange things happened after that, including meeting a girl named White Shoes who lived in a lake with a dog that did the exact opposite of what a normal dog would do as well as being enslaved by giant talking parrots who made me Google things. It was an interesting night.
The imaginary book had (I think) an evil little girl with some kind of paranormal powers who killed innocent people.
I think this was based very loosely on how horribly freaked out I was when I was little about the old scary story about the girl who wore a red ribbon around her neck. (And her husband asked her to untie it, and then she did, and then her head fell off.) At 8 years old, that was the most terrifying thing I had ever read.
Oh, that’s what it’s about? That makes sense. You mentioned being scared by a story about a girl with a red ribbon around her neck before, which confused me, because I was confusing the red necklace in The Red Necklace (a book about the French revolution that was very good and sad, but not scary) with a ribbon, so I though that was what you were talking about.
I recently dreamed that we I started taking a public science class (I’m virtual schooled), except that it was awesome, and we raised these animals that were sort of like crosses between hedgepigs and gastropods, except they reproduced like those extinct frogs in Muse that swallow their own eggs and regurgitate their young. The people in the class were awesome, too, and we had a long discussion about what Hogwarts Houses our creatures would be in. It was interesting.
This is getting to be quite a strange discussion.
I love that book!
One time I dreamed that I was riding in the car. Something seemed odd about the situation so, having recently watched Inception, I asked myself, “How did I get here?” I remembered that I had left the house, gotten into the car, and was now going to school. I took this as an acceptable reason and decided I wasn’t dreaming.
… Until I woke up. I came so close to lucid dreaming, it’s not even funny. If only my dreams weren’t so logical.
I finally got my letter of acceptance to the honors program at UNL, and it came with a $500 textbook scholarship. I was beginning to get anxious.
Congratulations!
Congrats, Piggy!
Uber-congratulations, Piggy! Way to go!
Yay! *congratulatory pies* Congratulations!
*claps* Congratulations!
Congratulations!
I cannot believe that I missed April Fool’s Day.
As did I…
Somehow I think my stress-o-meter is broken or missing. I had almost 3 hours of capoeira practice, including but not limited to two full games in the roda plus more short ones than I can count, 100 straight sit-ups and 50 on each side and I lost track of everything else. And I’m going again tomorrow.
On the school front, I have a psychology presentation tomorrow, a Spanish test the day after and then a history test on Friday. My partner is freaking out, but she’ll do the powerpoint and hopefully we’ll be able to finish before my muscles cramp up too bad for lack of a hot shower.
On the family front, WW3 is planned for shortly after the Easter Vacation. I’m going to have a heart-to-heart with my mom and this won’t be fun. But on the upside, I’m her daughter so she’ll probably talk to me again after a few months/years. And I’m getting a stepbrother in about two weeks. But, then again, I think I can officially classify my family as mildly dysfunctional.
Strangely, life is good anyway. It’s the exercise I guess, even though I really kinda sucked at practice. Anyway, I’m kinda in a hurry, but I just thought that after so many “omg I’m depressled and my life sucks” I might as well post something when I’m happy, even though I’m not sure why.
Happiness is often more inexplicable than sadness or depression. At least that’s been my experience. It’s a mystery, a revelation. It’s something like…a visitation from the Muses, perhaps.
I must rescue people from the bunny threads! ITS BANHAMMER TIME!!!!!
I want to collect a bunch of old political buttons about elections/events that happened at least five years before I was born, like “Goldwaters Are Coming”,”It’s up to you in ’72- Vote!” (with the old Pepsi logo), “Demilitarize Space: No Star Wars”, “Mondale’s Got The Beef”, etc., and wear different ones around school so I can watch people’s reactions when they don’t get any of them.
My great-grandmother gave me a bunch of women’s suffrage buttons.
Envy.
We have several Mondale-Ferraro buttons at home.
I’d be worried if no one got the Star Wars one.
Well, they’d know what Star Wars (the movie franchise) was, but they wouldn’t get that it was specifically a protest against the Strategic Defense Initiative. (“Star Wars plan”)
That was an excellent name. Compared to the economic ______ Act Of ________.
The official government name was SDI, but its opponents called it “the Star Wars plan” to emphasize it was a fantasy. Lucasfilm actually sued groups who called it “Star Wars” in ads because they said it hurt their trademark.
I have a Jorma For President one that even my nerdy friends are unlikely to get.
Koko for President?
Oh, and a John Glenn ’84 button. Definitely.
Is LJ down?
Yep. DDoS from disputed sources, apparently.
Ughhhh.
Who’s that?
LiveJournal. The blog/fanfiction/other stuff site.
Oh. I’ve heard of that, just not the abbreviation. What’s DDoS, though?
I’m not sure why so many of my posts seem to be clueless inquiries…
Distributed Denial of Service. Basically, the attacker (through various means) sends a lot of requests to the web server of the target site. The server is overwhelmed and can’t process it all. Thus, when new, legitimate requests are sent (i.e., someone trying to use the website), the server doesn’t respond.
Ohhhh. I guess it might be a good, benign thing, since the community I’m trying to access is one of the largest pairing communities on there… (yeahhhhh 5000 members and countless more watchers go JoKir *shot*)
I’m up to 61 pages for script frenzy.
I went to the Library of Congress today to visit my Beggar’s Opera books.
I also tromped in all the puddles on the mall, since I was wearing rubber boots. Basically I’m a five year old.
Then it stopped raining and was gorgeous out.
I still need to get a camera.
I should get on that.
I just dislike spending money, I’m such a miser.
Roasted broccoli is one of the Most Delicious Things Ever.
This is ramble-y and I’ll stop now.
I just wrote this lovely long rambly post about my extremely busy day, only to accidentally delete it all. Cake.
I guess the high point was the bit about plotting to “attack” the baseball team during soccer practice with water balloons and water guns.
Not sure if that’s actually ever going to work – or if we’ll be able to sneak up on them sometime in practice without arousing suspicion – but it’s fun to plot, at least.
I have not eaten since lunch yesterday. I should probably eat something, but I am not hungry.
Today is going to be a flopping-down-on-the-sofa-to-watch-TV day. Ah, how I love spring break.
Alternatively, I could flop down on someone else’s sofa, since I am cat-sitting, and watch TV whilst holding a cat. That seems preferable.
My mind is working very slowly today.
SFTDP: I have made ricotta cheese! It is SO easy!
WHEEEE!
*cue culinary disasters*
I now have a rather lot of lemon-flavored whey. Anyone want whey?
Today I had tech rehearsal. I have so much more appreciation for windows now.
My featured ensemble character, who I created from scratch, thinks the Jewish star is an octopus with two legs cut off and feels sorry for the poor octopus every time she sees it.
Today we ran the movie scene, where we are allowed to improvise quietly and freely. I did just that.
…
Brett: (singing) She just set his penis on fire…
Me: (whisper) That happened to my mom.
…
(bloody SFX)
Ensemble Character: Jesus Christ!
Me: Who’s he?
…
Brett: (referencing kissing, desperately) What’s after the tongue?
Me: The tonsils?
…
Why do I come up with the best one-liners and no one hears?
I came up with another one on the spot today:
…
(Archie, a character with a degenerative neuromuscular disorder requiring crutches, enters.)
Emma: Why’s he here?
Me: He’s a robot.
Another one:
Bryan: What would Darwin do?
Me: He would be dead.
Has anyone here watched the documentary The War on Kids? If not, you should. I feel it would interest and be extremely relevant to quite a few Musers.
Nitwit!
Blubber!
I’m not sure why you made that post, though; could you please explain?
Oddment!
Tweak!
Tweak!
*points and laughs*
For that reason.
What is a good free antivirus software for macs?
Hmm! Someone should know this (maybe if vendy is around). My school installed McAfee on all student computers, including Macbooks. Are you having problems with yours? Macs aren’t as susceptible to viruses as other computers, or so I’m told.
I do believe Norton has one, but I’m not sure. I don’t bother with it, my parents have been using Macs all their lives and have never had a problem.
Mom ordered my camera today. SO EXCITED. My wallet is crying, but whatever. PICTURES. SO EXCITED!
Another cool thing about this is that now when I go back to the Library of Congress I can take pictures of the manuscript I’ve been reading. It’s awesome. It’s called “The Beggar’s Opera Tunes and Later Ballad Operas” and it’s a typed manuscript. It’s fantastic, I have no idea why it wasn’t published, but I’m so glad it’s in the LoC and I can use it, because the author was a fantastic writer. Even though I already find the Beggar’s Opera to be a fun subject, her writing, while very academic, is wonderful enough to suck you right in. I want my own copy.
Anyway, the librarian said that I can take pictures of it (without flash) if I want, as putting it on the copier would damage it.
So I CAN have my own copy. *glee*
Also I can not have to worry about my stupid old camera constantly dying and not working. And take pictures of stuff. And take pictures for mom of her silver work.
AND STUFF.
EXCITEMENT.
GLEE.
MORE EXCITEMENT.
MORE GLEE.
*dances around like a loony*
You have no idea how lucky you are to live near the Library of Congress. Having access to all those books… *envy* Congratulations, though!
Went to a regional science fair today and presented my project on light pollution to four judges. It was the first time I’d ever been to a science fair in my life, but they all said I did very well!
We came back to school in time for me to get my homework in tenth period, but it was really disorienting being with noisy people after being somewhere mostly quiet for most of the day.
I hope you win!
Greetings!
Incredibly brief update on my life:
-Got on the lineup for today’s badminton match, but lost horribly, and accidentally bent my partner’s racket. :/
-Acing almost every single class.
-Orthodontist has found another way to torture my mouth. (Rubber bands.)
-I have no aim with kissing.
-Half of my envirothon team has decided that they don’t want to compete.
That is all. Off to sleep, and maybe some studying. This quarter needs to end before I can do badly in math.
Rubber bands, ugh. *braces sympathy*
*appears*
*looks around*
Well, I haven’t been here in a while. I must also have missed April Fools’ Day.
We got 2nd in our state SciO tournament, but there is still a chance at nationals (Minnesota might send two teams if DC backs out of the national tournament).
I should be doing homework right now. The quarter ends this Friday.
*leaves*
83.1 (Bibliophile)~ Oh, I do know how lucky I am, believe me. Any citizen of the US is allowed to get a LoC card though! So if you can get here you can use the collection.
I’d recommend getting a card to anyone here, it instantly ups your nerd street cred by a lot. :p
86 (Kokonilly)~ Congratulations and good luck!
you…..you have a card to the Library of Congress?
do angels sing when you take it out of your wallet?
I love you Axa.
Doesn’t everybody?
I should hope so.
;____; dawww…you guys…
Yep.
Dear musical theater people:
when you are prancing around on stage in short skirts, remember the pit. And remember that we are directly below you.
Also, guys, please wear something a bit more … confining than leggings, especially when you have multiple dance numbers at the edge of the stage right by the pit.
Sincerely,
me.
Here we are.
Sincerely,
Spanx
…
Seconded.
Sincerely,
Blindfolds
LLAMA
O! to be able to fly! To leap and soar above the clouds! To touch the stars, those glittering stars, those teasing, promising, glowing stars! But they are so very far away. O glorious stars, why must it be so very far? I am here, in this stall, alone, except for my aching heart, and the distance seems as though it is infinite. Once I believed in love and destiny–but now! For aren’t I the lonely warrior, the single rose in a garden of thorns? Evil, thy name is Terry. I trusted thou, I forgave thou, I daresay I truly loved thou–
TERRY
Oh, shut up already!
Found time to watch the first part of The Dream is Alive yesterday, after getting it for Christmas but being too busy before then. Hopefully I can finish tonight.
Anybody familiar with the Shakespeare play Taming of the Shrew? I’m laying Lucentio in a school production! No, I haven’t read the play yet, but soon enough I’m sure I’ll know it quite well.
It’s a good part. You get to scheme and disguise yourself and marry the shrew’s non-shrewish sister. Solid scene-stealing potential. Congratulations!
You know, I really can’t complain. Today has been a beautiful day. And I’m going to be inducted into the Nation Honor Society in a few hours!
I am going to attempt to catch myself up on the happenings of MuseBlog. You are the best people in the world. I’m still foggy on how the blog discussions are structured, especially with this new format (replies to posts? A button akin to a “like”? My jaw remains unhinged.) I’m trying to get to know the flow of things; am I doing all right?
56 (Armada)
What is Painfluff?
Also, congratulations on Hermione! I am not very familiar with that particular play, so I had to look it up to remember anything about it, but it is definitely a good one! Have fun!
57 (Trojan Tiger)
I think most ice cream makers expect you to put it in the freezer for it to firm up; the bowl is cold so that at least it doesn’t melt.
63 (Piggy)
Someday, I’m going to make a small teepee and put it on somebody’s property.
77 (Choklit Orange)
I have been planning to make cottage cheese for literally years now, and I think I’m actually going to do it this weekend or over spring break. I might make ricotta as well! Perhaps this is a discussion better suited to the Cooking and Food thread, but would you be willing to share your recipe?
79 (SBF)
The Japanese character for 8 is basically two lines (Google it). To help us remember, our teacher drew an octopus, then erased its head and 6 of its legs.
80 (Piggy)
I had not heard of The War on Kids until you mentioned it. It looks really interesting, and something that I’ve contemplated a lot; also, maybe it would clear some questions up about the school system we’ve got. Thanks!
83 (Fiddler)
I agree with Bibliophile a million trillion zillion percent. The Library of Congress is in your backyard. That’s the stuff the world is made of, all in one neat little package, waiting to be explored. Lucky duck.
Also, new camera!!! What kind of camera is it?
86 (Kokonilly)
To echo MIdnight Fiddler, congratulations and break a leg at nationals! That’s a big deal!
91 (Thanks For All The Fish42)
It’s a fantastic play and you’ll have a wonderful time.
If you’ve seen Kiss Me, Kate or 10 Things I Hate About You, then you already know the plot.
I made a good good good decision last night. I decided to wake up at 5:30 to catch the 6:20 bus downtown (school is downtown). I usually take the 7:00 bus, but it’s super crowded and takes an extra 15 minutes because of traffic, so I thought I’d try this. It was the perfect decision. I had 40 minutes at the coffeeshop to wake up, drink hot chocolate, and envelop myself in the insanity that is Richard III.
On the bus, I started reading Pride and Prejudice. I have not read any Jane Austen, and this has been a source of great personal shame to my literary self, especially since I have heard such great things about her writing and I absolutely adore Victorian literature (I know she was before, and different, but similarities are there). I have fallen in love. The woman had a way with words, and I laughed out loud several times on the bus. That Mr. Darcy, he’s too much!
You are doing just fine, THF, and it’s a pleasure to see you in the neighborhood. How are the cooking and art coming along?
I’m glad to see you return to MuseBlog. After you use them awhile, the newfangled technologies feel pretty natural. To clear up any possible confusion: if a post is pied/liked ten times, it’s automatically turned pink.
Hello again! Don’t worry, the newfangled technology is quite nice and becomes somewhat, er, old-fangled eventually.
*steps out of shadows*
But seriously. Hello! I’m back, most likely for a while.
Hi guys! Remember me?
well how could you forgetGosh, it’s been soooo long. Is everyone still here? What’s been happening? I suppose I’ll have to go catch myself up on my favorite threads (though Nym, Jonah and Maggie have been updating me).
I can’t believe I missed my second blogoversary AND my 5K day. Oh well. Just wanted to say hi…and that I’ll be on here more often from now on.
This has been a post. it would be more creative but it’s rather late so my brain’s stopped functioning properly by this point.
(it feels strange typing Silver Lining into that little box for some reason. *pies everyone*
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*pies back
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Welcome back!
Hullo.
Why do people always pie any of my posts that are welcoming someone back to MB?
Because they agree but don’t feel like making a reply themselves?
I wasn’t even the first person to respond.
You’re famous. People piggy-back on you.
Oh you.
Heya! It’s been a while, I’m glad you’ll be posting more
Welcome back!
91 (Fishy)~ The Taming of the Shrew was my introduction to Shakespeare, and continues to hold a special place in my heart.
93 (THF)~ Good to see you back here!
I am incredibly lucky to have the LoC so close, I know.
It’s a Canon Rebel xs. I’m extremely excited.
Pride and Prejudice is wonderful, as is anything by Jane Austin. She’s absolutely fantastic and I’m glad you’re enjoying her writing.
I hear you’ve taken up the ukelele, are you still playing violin? I certainly hope you are, because you were amazing at it when heard you play at the ’07 kokon (that seems so long ago 0.o).
Hiiii everybody! Stopping by before I type my poem!
Got into the honor English and history classes somehow, though I’m definitely not complaining.
Aaaaaaaand that’s all for now!
I’m so paranoid that I’m going to miss my blogiversary again. I keep checking the “Who’s Here” page to make sure that I haven’t misremembered the date.
You reminded me that my own blogiversary is coming up soon as well (as distinct from my GAPAversary, which is in September). Just before yours, in fact.
Happy early blogiversary!
Does anyone else get really excited at the prospect of rearranging their bookshelf? I think my Harry Potter books need to be more prominently displayed…
I get excited about rearranging most anything.
I rearranged my bookshelf by colour so that it’s a rainbow.
My bookshelf is arranged alphabetically by title.
I love rearranging it.
Mine is abecedarian by author’s last name, like in a library. I always really enjoy rearranging it, but for some reason, I often procrastinate about it anyway. I’m really not sure why.
That’s how mine is too! And cookies for using the word abecedarian.
Thank you! Ironically, the book I learned it from was commenting on how unnecessary it was. They didn’t seem to understand that some people just prefer the sound of it to, say, alphabetical–though, really, come to think of it, alphabetical is just as unnecessary, and there’s really no need to argue over synonyms, anyway.
If you’re who I think you are, I’m Ima. If not, never mind. The pies are friendly, by the way; for some reason, it’s just what everyone does to welcome people here. It isn’t very efficient, since neophytes always have to ask why we’re doing it, but it’s fun, so we doit anyway.
Also, welcome!
It’s fun to use abecedarian instead of alphabetical because it confuses people. And who doesn’t love to do that?
If I’m who I think I am, which I may not be, then hello, Ima. Thank you for your kind welcome and the pies. XD
I love rearranging my bookshelf! I do it by colors/height though, so it’s a little hard to navigate.
So yesterday I went to bed at midnight and slept through both of my alarms and ended up waking up half an hour before my first class, instead of two hours before.
Today I went to bed at 11:45 and didn’t fall asleep until 4:30 at the earliest. Then I woke up when my alarms went off at 6:35.
I think I preferred oversleeping.
ohai museblog! waiting for laundry, thought i’d stop by…
i am about to go have Exciting Adventures at penn state! they are doing a one-day invitational HvZ (humans vs zombies) and i am heading up there with the OSU contingent (i think we have about 20 people total going, which is obnoxiously hardcore for a seven-hour drive. i’m going in a car of 6). i am super excited, it’s going to be my first test as to how i do as a human. plus it is the first time i get to try out my vest and alpha drums, and i will hopefully be managing to mod a maverick in the car tomorrow. also sarah is going to paint our blowguns this weekend since we can’t use them at penn state, so when i get back my blowgun will look awesome
in other news i’ve gotten super into magic the gathering lately. i was always vaguely into it but now i’m in deck-building mode and it’s crazed. i also have still never paid for a single card, eff yeah friends who give me things. don’t read any of the rest of this if you don’t know/want to know magic, but i just built two decks waiting for laundry, a blue/green and a green, both basically creature-based but with a ton of mana search and counterspells. the green one is mostly a wurm deck with a bunch of elves so it doesn’t take a million years to start. the other three decks i have built right now are a red/black burn deck, a white weenie with equipments, and a black/white defender/life gain deck that turned out to be really good for emperor style games. that one is super experimental, there are only 13 cards that do any damage, and only about 8 that do any serious damage
in other news, i am back to playing first part in concert band (i think actually showing up to the audition this quarter probably helped) and i currently have the best ever classes – psychology, shakespeare, and middle english lit
also, hello to THF and silver lining! i remember you guys
i rearrange my bookshelf sometimes! it’s pretty much the only thing in my life i actually organize from time to time.
MuseBlog, I’m back! Granted, I was only internet-less for three or four days. But I’m back all the same.
My, all my posts on MB seem to consist of ‘I’m leaving to go to *insert place name here* and I’ll be back in a week’ and ‘I’m back!’ posts. Hmm…I think I travel a lot.
Welcome back!
Yeh, I know the feeling. You know you travel too much when all five of your watches are set to different time zones. Or when you can offer food recommendations for various airlines (Asian Meal is best on SilkAir; never eat the meat on Delta).
And never eat pepper cheese on Delta. Ever.
Urgh, yeah, Delta’s food sucks. On my flight back to school, or rather one leg of it, I got a free meal because I got comped first class because my flight out of Anchorage was delayed 2 1/2 hours, meaning I was going to miss my connecting flight in SLC, and the only way they could get me back to school was leaving me on that flight, then going from Salt Lake to Atlanta, and then halfway back across the country again to the midwest.
So I got comped first class, and we were served burgers between SLC and Atlanta, and wow, that was nasty. *shudder*
are algae plants?
No, they’re protists.
It’s complicated. Some algae are now classified as plants, but others aren’t. Green algae are plants; euglenids, dinoflagellates, and many other groups are not — although exactly what they are depends on which classification system biologists favor, and that has changed a lot over the past few decades.
…So now when we go to a pond and see algae, we can’t even know what kingdom it’s from?! That is just not fair. Do people look likely to make up their minds soon? I don’t believe so, but I haven’t looked into that sort of thing in a few months, so I suppose there’s a chance I could be wrong…
I wouldn’t worry about it. All biological classifications are just things people have constructed to organize a messy reality. Right now, biologists don’t even agree about how many Kingdoms there should be, and some think the whole concept of “kingdoms” is outdated and should be replaced by differently defined “domains.” Meanwhile, the organisms don’t care. They didn’t evolve to make our lives easier. They have their own problems (and their own pleasures, no doubt).
(As for protists, the taxon “Protista” has always been a jumble of vaguely related organisms, ever since Ernst Haeckel first proposed it in the 1860s. Biologists keep redefining what it includes and what it excludes.)
All of this is just science at work. If you want permanence and certainty, you’ll have to look somewhere else.
P.S. If Rosanne notices these posts, she’ll probably have more to say on this topic. She knows a lot more about biology than I do.
Algae, algae, my first love – until I fell for fungus and became a plant pathologist for a while
All that was a long time ago, but even back in the ancient 1980s there was discontent over how the algae were grouped. Are they plants? Are at least some of them plants? Are any actually bacteria? (Yes! The blue-green algae are.)
The root of the problem (oops, maybe I shouldn’t say that since algae don’t have roots!) is that taxonomy got its start back before evolution was an accepted phenomenon – and before genetic analysis was possible. So if you wanted to sort out the various organisms, you would use their structural characteristics as the basis.
Nowadays the general thinking is organisms should be grouped based on their evolutionary similarity. And now it’s possible to really get to the bottom of that by comparing their genomes.
Oh my gosh, I’m not the only one that finds this interesting?! We had to read a few chapters about fungi and protists in our AP bio textbook over last break, and I was the only person in my class who found it interesting. They’re so cool…
I am a strange child, aren’t I?
I don’t think you’re strange. Who could resist pondering the potential parallel regressive evolution of the highly fermentative water molds Blastocladia and Aqualinderella? Their names alone are ponderworthy! And then there’s the coolness of Volvox colonies, which remind me of green algae galaxies.
So… I might have senioritis.
On Wednesday I had a field trip.
On Thursday I came back to school. I had to copy notes from 2 classes and get the outline for a paper I’m going to write in English. In total, this took less than half an hour. Calc was as time consuming as usual.
I feel like if my entire day after first period can be compressed into half an hour I might be wasting my time.
I think about how much time I spend socializing or just sitting around waiting for stuff to start, and I feel like I have better things to do, or at least better places in which to do them.
I hear that in college if the professor gets done early everyone just leaves.
I looked up that War on Kids documentary. It sounds really interesting. I’d like to see it. I also want to see Waiting for Superman.
I’m going to homeschool my kid(s). I was talking to some ladies at taekwondo and I told them that when I’m older I hope I’ll have time to homeschool since I’ll be working a lot. They said that if you really care about it a lot you make time. :]
I’m at least going to homeschool my kids until the are old enough to start middle school. If they don’t want to go to a normal school or they start it and don’t like it then I’ll try to homeschool them more or find some other way to not make them go.
My school looks like a prison from the inside. It’s all dull colored walls. Most rooms don’t have windows (because they are on the inside of the building), and the windows are really narrow and can’t be opened.
At lunchtime there are teachers assigned to sit by the doors and make sure people don’t leave the lunchroom. Sometimes you can get past them if you carry your books and look like you’re going somewhere important, but most of the time they tell you that you can’t leave without a pass. (That doesn’t even make sense… How can I get a pass if I can’t go at lunch and I can’t go during class? I guess I could ask a teacher to send a note to the teacher I need the pass from)
Anywayyy… Basically I have senioritis. Senioritis is when you are at the end of your high school career and you think school is pointless and you don’t want to try or even get up in the morning and go. It is the most common affliction among American 12th grade students.
If you don’t have time to homeschool your child(ren), but they don’t want to go to normal school, you can try virtual schooling.
I guess so. I kind of have a distrust of it. I guess since I’ve never done virtual classes I don’t know how they work.
Maybe my kid will be good at learning that way.
I just think it would be weird to learn from books and computers without constant input from people. I’m the kind of person who needs someone to tell me something, so I can’t imagine learning a lot like that.
I tried to learn Russian from books and the computer once. I got through the alphabet and a few words then I couldn’t understand any more. I still remember the alphabet and some words.
Some virtual schools come with real teachers. At mine, you can e-mail and call them if you have any questions your guardian (I don’t like the way people say ‘parent or guardian;’ if it’s your parent, then your parent is your guardian, and if not, well, that’s still a guardian) can’t answer.
Heh… I actually have been homeschooled and am going to send my kids to a regular school.
Woah. I have no homework over the weekend other than a few pages of physics review work. This is incredible. I don’t think I’ve had no English essay AND no Math work over any previous weekend this year.
What is the most accurate and clear way to pronounce Schrodinger?
And, also. What point does Schrodinger’s cat make about quantum entanglement and about psi-functions?
Shroe-ding-ur.
Where would the emphasis be?
On the Shroe part.
On the first syllable. SHRO-ding-er.
Probably on the ö/oe, but I’m not sure about the english pronunciation.
I think Schrodinger was trying to show that the uncertainty principal was ridiculous and impossible. It didn’t work, though, and all it proved was that it didn’t apply to the macroworld. If you leave the house, it’s most likely that no-one broke in and rearranged your chairs, and your furniture doesn’t change based on whether anyone is watching them–but electrons do.
That’s a very nice example. You don’t mind if I quote you in a speech, do you?
Thank you! And no, I certainly don’t mind.
In German, it’s closer to something like “SHRUR-dinger,” with the “dinger” part pronounced like “finger,” not “singer.” The oe or o-umlaut sound doesn’t exist in English, but it’s approximately like trying to pronounce “ew” and “ee” at the same time. In American English, it sometimes turns into “oh” and sometimes into “ay.” (For example, Matt Groening, who created the Simpsons, pronounces his name to rhyme with “raining.”)
Right, bookgirl?
Taking the AP US History entrance exam:
Exam: “What are the three “D”s that were factors in the eventual destruction of the Native American tribes?”
Me: “DESTINATION, DETERMINATION, DELIBERATION.”
And since next week is Spring Break for us (building houses in Mexico, hooray!) we had our school’s Day of Silence yesterday. It was pretty brilliant. There were five or six people in all of my classes who were silent– I was one, of course. My math teacher gave a ten-minute lecture on why we should be supportive of LGBT youth, and I raised my hand and wrote “QQIAP” on the board. No one knew what genderqueer or pansexual meant, so I got to give my “Gender is a Spectrum” lecture. (I love the “Gender is a Spectrum” lecture.)
My Acting teacher, who’s lesbian, had a kid in my class read a really touching speech she wrote (since she was silent). Nearly made me cry. Of course there were total idiots in my class who kept trying to get the silent people to talk, but that was more than made up for by Montesquieu, who had made fun of the silent people all last year, choosing not to talk himself this year.
Forgive me for my ignorance, but what is Day of Silence?
A holiday (April 15, I think?) where you don’t talk all day, in sympathy with GLBTQ (is that the acronym?) teens who are forced to keep quiet about their orientation. You can also wear red.
It changes date-wise every year but I think is usually the teenth friday in April. Last year it was the 16th, this year the 15th.
Oh. Thank you.
Smallpox doesn’t start with a D.
but Disease does!
also Death, Delirium, Destruction, Dream, Desire, Despair..
wait, sorry wrong subject
How did you give the lecture if you couldn’t speak?
Maybe she wrote it on the board if she can write very quickly, or maybe she typed it and had someone else read it.
[Manifest] Destiny, umm…[Cultural] Desecration…What are they really?
I toured the Harley-Davidson plant in Kansas City and visited the National World War I Museum. Both interesting, though the latter a bit different from the former. There were several people in various areas of the museum blabbing on their cell phones. I wanted to punch them and shove their phones down their throats. A little reverence would have been appreciated.
One summer, I visited this historic recreation of a small Canadian town and the fort next to it. They even had a small tavern that served authentic food. The people at the table next to us got up and left, after complaining to the waitress, when they found out that it didn’t serve hamburgers.
Ellipsis.
Ugh. People, they’re the worst. I’m trying to recall a similar situation when people were texting when something amazing was happening, but it’s hard to do so since THAT IS ALWAYS THE CASE.
In other news, both of those places sound really great!
We watched Oprah’s interview of Elie Wiesel in Auschwitz during English. Most kids were actually silent and there was this sense of tragedy and regret. Then there was John who kept making comments and laughing at inappropriate times. Our totally **** student teacher hauled him down to the office after a while and we all got to inwardly cry about the piles of shoes in peace.
I just ate a suspicious olive. That is, I was suspicious of the olive.
It is 3:50 here, and I am eating lunch.
That is all.
Why were you suspicious of an olive? Did it look poisoned, unhealthy, or just disgusting–or was it given to you by a malign person?
Um, all of the above.
Olives are definitely things of which to be suspicious.
Haven’t received my March issue of Muse yet, seeing as it’s only April (
) but from looking at the website SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE…
THERE’S A MUSEROLOGY ABOUT MODEL UNITED NATIONS!!!! AHH! NOW I CAN’T WRITE ONE BECAUSE IT’S ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN!
Sorry, I’m a bit obsessed. Done spazzing now.
That post was extremely immature; I must apologise.
I can be more immature:
WELL I CAN STILL WRITE ONE ABOUT THE GEOGRAPHY BEE HA HA HA
That was about as immature as YOUR FACE!!!!!
I don’t think it’s quite that immature…
Sorry.
Don’t apologise, it’s not your fault.
Woo! Shutdown averted means full steam ahead for Endeavour launch on the 29th!
I tried clicking the pie/like button multiple times but it wouldn’t let me.
Endeavour!
Oh, those irritating, manipulative conservatives. I didn’t read any articles about it until this morning because I was too upset. Then when I read them I got very angry. >:o *tears hair out*
What did they do? *is a bit… politically ignorant*
The liberals and conservatives in Congress couldn’t agree on a budget. If they hadn’t agreed by midnight EST last night, the federal government was going to shut down because nothing would be funded. They did eventually agree, but it went down to the wire.
*attempting to be politically neutral here*
They freaking insisted on $38.5 billion dollar cuts.
The Republicans and Democrats both act that way. They’re both at fault in this situation.
Yeah, I’m rather sick of all politicians at the moment. If they were having substantial disagreements about policies that would solve the country’s problems, that would be one thing. Instead, all I see from Congress right now is political showmanship. The people are getting screwed over by both parties.
I would say those irritating, manipulative politicians. I stopped paying attention to politics because I got so fed up. I mean, Obama’s awesome, but I don’t see the government doing anything, we still have a big deficit, and Democrats and Republicans are acting like babies.
Out of curiosity, why do you feel Obama is “awesome”?
Out of curiosity, why don’t you feel Obama is awesome?
Could you just answer the question? I have not expressed any opinion on Obama.
Basically what CO said. He’s done a good job and “prevented the recession from being in the history books,” as the White House likes to say.
I’m really not sure presidents deserve nearly as much credit as they get for those things as most people seem to think.
“A good job” at what specifically, other than bailing out the banks?
Perhaps you didn’t read my comment. Basically what CO said: he’s repealed DADT, reformed health care, and withdrawn soldiers from Iraq.
Also, he is working on improving education and the energy independence of the US. He has done all this with conservatives opposing his every move and liberals protesting it was not enough.
And other countries like him, a lot more than they liked Bush. Well, Piggy? Is that enough for you?
“Enough”? I’m not asking to be convinced or satisfied or anything. I just wanted to know your rationale.
I think after Bush, anyone would have been awesome. But he saved us from McPalin. Under Obama, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was repealed and troops got withdrawn from Iraq, and the health care law was passed. Admittedly, he still hasn’t cleared out Guantanamo Bay, which seriously annoys me, but given what he had to work with I think he’s done an admirable job.
In my opinion, Obama seems the best of the 2012 candidates, but then, this is an election involving Newt Gingrich and Jimmy McMillan.
Can’t forget Donald Trump.
That’s what I was going to say. He is clearly the frontrunner.
Whenever I want to post something on this thread, I always completely forget what I want to say as soon as I start typing.
Yesterday my self-imposed ban on tvtropes expired. Cue massive binge last night. I’d been missing tropes and fanfiction so badly….
saw this, have been stuck on it all day
….i just realized there are a bunch of features i never knew about…IT IS MORE VAST THAN I COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED. WE NEED TO GO DEEPER. 8| DRRRRMMMMMMMMMM
NOOO! TVTropes is LIMBO!
Well, crap.
… And that is, indeed, exactly what she said.
-A
Today I was assigned three minions and, with their assistance*, taught 18th century games to mobs of children. It was good; I only had to scoop one tiny being from a possible death by choking on marbles, and only one minor casualty in the form of a girl being bonked on the head with falling stilts. Other than that, success, and in the first case it was also a success because of no death or injury and I got to hold a cute little being. Perhaps not quite as good as a puppy/kitten/other baby creature, but close enough for jazz.
*By this I mean that I delegated tasks then sat back to watch while blowing soap bubbles.
Oh dear… I have become increasingly obssesed with my favorite kind of animal (felines) lately, to the point of considering changing my blogname to be cat-inclusive. But I am so very fond of my current blogname; I’m extremely attatched to it. What should I do?
Don’t change your blogname! We are all so very fond of calling you R101.
As we were all so very fond of calling you CTN.
I know. I was going to write how hypocritical I was to reply to your post, but I decided against it.
Wait, you’re CTN?
Wait, she’s CTN?
Sorry, I just fell off my chair laughing.
Cat’s Apprentice?
Kokocat?
Mungojerry’s Apprentice?
Rumpleteaser’s Apprentice?
Kudos to anyone who gets the reference behind those last two.
I however, am still in favor of dogs over cats.
*ducks numerous pies*
Wait… What’s that? AUUUUUUUUGH!
Cats the musical! I think most MBers would catch that reference.
If you’ll excuse my self-interest, I respectfully submit that this blog may not be able to handle too many more feline-related names. If you adopted a name such as Cat’s Friend, or something of the sort, we might all die of confusion.
On the other hand, it would be nice if everybody adopted this naming convention. Cat’s Selenium, Cat’s Piggy, and Cat’s Magnolia? It could definitely work.
Dying of confusion yet?
Cat’s Oxlin reporting in!
Beedle the Cat.
Meow the Bard.
Cat the Bard.
Beadle the Meow.
“meow the bard” sounds like an idiom…
i wonder what it means?
It sounds like something from English As She Is Spoke.
Cat’s Cat’s Meow?
Cat’s GAPA! (As in “What’s the matter, Cat’s GAPA tongue?”)
Q: Did that make sense?
A: No it did not.
Thank you all, for making me laugh. I could use more of that in my life at the moment.
I suppose I would be FantasyCat then. And my gravatar would have to be a nekomata or some other fantastical feline.
Saturnine Cat?
I had an idea for a MuseBlog takeover- MewsBlog.
Next April Fool’s then…provided that the dog-loving contingent doesn’t protest. Have you forgotten the origin of HPBs?
HPB’s Meow?
Cat’s Titan-Ness?
WoofsBlog.
Cataract.
“The cataract strong
Then plunges along,
Striking and raging
As if a war waging”
(Yes, I’m also a John Wesley Powell fan, what of it?)
fireandcat1996?
Sudocat has a nice ring to it, actually…
It would be a little strange…
I can’t change mine. We already have a Shadowkat; it’d be too confusing.
Nah, too confusing.
The “Cat’s” makes it sound like we all belong to someone called Cat. We are all all under Cat’s control. We are all Cat’s.
vanillabeancatpie!! Yum!
Dogazuki? Mikadog?
We have enough felinity in terms of blognames here. I confuse Cat’s Eye and Cat’s Meow at least five times a week.
Starrcat.
Which brings me back to those Warrior books I use to read… off topic, but for the brief period of time when I pretty much devoured all those books, I often tried to explain them to my mother. She just never understood the point of talking cats, silly her. (My mother is also not an animal person to begin with.)
My friends and I were literally obsessed with those books in 5th grade. On the days when we took the WASL (the state’s standardized test) we had some free time in the afternoon to do whatever, so we set up a full-contact game of Warriors in the field behind the school. We were MountainClan (because there was a hill) and some 6th grade girls were LeafClan.
…anyways. Brings back memories!
Actually, I was thinking about something along the lines of “Random Catness 101” or “Random Felinity 101”. The !01 is traditional, you see.
-114.2.5 I think that’s rather clever, actually.
-114.2.8 I think both the name and the idea have some merit.
-114.2.11 Why yes it does!
-114.4 Erm… Would I be labeling myself as a total dork by admitting that I am currently writing a Warriors fanfic?
SFTDP Actually, now I’m thinking “Feline Randomness 101”. Oh dear, is that entirely too long of a name?
I don’t think so, since everyone would call you FR101 or FR.
Although that seems to lose the wonderful ring of “R101.”
Hm, I don’t know… the “FR” in FR101 could be pronounced “fur”…
You know you’re a nerd when you balk at the idea of going to your school’s junior prom with your boyfriend, but automatically say yes when he asks you to model congress prom.
Also, we won best delegation for the third time IN A YEAR. We made congress history tonight. This has not ever happened in the 20+ years that model congress has existed.
Coming soon to a post near you:
-Isabella’s bad kissing skills!
-Isabella’s quest for a position on our delegation’s board!
-Isabella’s brother’s artwork!
-Pretty dresses!
-Congress scandals!
(You do realize that I’m just making this list so I don’t forget what to rite about, right?)
You have a model congress prom? Is it only your school or are other schools included?
Model congress prom? That’s so lucky! There was a dance after a conference in Shanghai, but it wasn’t very enjoyable – think 1200 delegates, crowded, hot, and very, VERY loud.
It’s all of the schools in our er, I guess you could call it a league? The schools that we always meet with. There are dances as entertainment at some foreign congresses (because there’s always a schedule as to how things are run- Saturday’s are breakfast, committee sessions, lunch, plenary, entertainment, plenary, then closing ceremonies).
I can’t imagine a hot crowded dance with 1200 people could be fun. At all.
Reporting for 3am duty! Heyyy all!
Got out of the habit of posting a lot because of broken computer. Will try to fix that and do more daily/weekly posts.
Today was kind of hectic, but I went to the aerialist/tumbling show which was very cool.
Also, I built another fort. In the main lounge. It was only up from about 2pm to 3am though, we already took it down. Fun though! Got lots of compliments.
My house is trying to kill me. Today I burned my hand trying to take a pot off the stove, staggered backward into a cabinet, knocked over a glass onto the floor and shattered it, turned on the sink to rinse my hand and got sprayed with hot water, and stepped on a glass shard.
In good news, I am cat-sitting for a neighbor, which basically entails watching House reruns with a cat on my lap. For all the money people spend on psychotherapy, they could go out and buy a cat and be cured instantly.
Okay. Tonight I am going to come out to my grandparents. Over Skype.
Crap.
Good luck!
*squid and hope*
* good luck squid *
You’ve got it. I’m telepathically rooting for you. *Many hugs and squids and kittens, also puppies in case you think squids are gross.*
I don’t think squids are gross.
Squids?! Gross?! Who could say such a thing?!?!
WHOMSOEVER DECLARES SQUIDS AS GROSS SHALL BE SUBSEQUENTLY DEVOURED
I AM THE GIANT SPACE SQUID ROOOOOOAAAAAR
also hey that cleaning thing I’m supposed to be doing, that’s going well
May fortune be with you.
That’s funny. My friend Chloé thinks my house is trying to kill her because her left eye always goes pink when she’s here. Also, the power went out once and the house is so old she thinks it’s haunted.
I hope it goes okay! *good luck and healing squid*
I saved two horseshoe crabs yesterday.
Also, TWO DAYS TILL YURI’S NIGHT!
You guys have to read this. It’s from a website called [snip], and it’s really funny. Just read:
My job is so freaking unbelievable. I’ll try to sum it up first by
telling you about the folks I work with.
First there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, OK, she’s pretty
hot but she is completely useless. This girl is constantly fixing her
hair or putting on makeup. She is extremely self-centered and has
never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself. She
is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she
has enough brain power to continue to breathe.
The next chick is the complete opposite. She might even be one of the
smartest people on the planet. Her career opportunities are endless,
and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10. I’m
not even sure if she showers and I think she might be a lesbian.
But the jewel of the crowd has got to be the stoner. And this guy is
more than just your average pothead. In fact, he is baked before he
comes to work, during work, and I’m sure after work. He probably
hasn’t been sober anytime in the last 10 years and he’s only 22. He
dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960s and to make things
worse he brings his big freaking dog to work. Every day I have to
look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second
hand smoke. Heck, sometimes I even think he’s trying to talk with its
constant bellowing. And both of them are constantly hungry, requiring
multiple trips to McDonalds and Burger King every, single, freaking
day.
Anyway, I drive these idiots around in my van and we solve mysteries
and stuff.
Scooby Doo summarized, I take it?
Velma doesn’t shower? Where did that come from?
As a cartoon character, Velma probably doesn’t dare shower unless she’s made of waterproof pigments. Of course, that applies to the other Scooby-doo characters, too.
Written from Fred’s perspective?
Saw Romeo and Juliet last night. It was really flamablamablous! (I’ll just pretend I know how to spell that.) The woman who played Mercutio stole the show; she was awesome. Hmm, I’ve been going to a lot of plays lately. The day before yesterday I saw the Wild, Wild, Wild, Wildest West. So FUNNY.
I’m reading Pride and Prejudice.I keep expecting zombies to jump out from behind trees. Or prisoners, locked away underground…
Tiredness. Tiredness is bad.
/random, sleep deprived banterness
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Read it.
That’s why I keep expecting the zombies… It’s good, though.
Of course, I should have read Pride and Prejudice first, but oh well.
Back from Washington! I don’t have time to post about everything now, but a hint: there was a quadruple rainbow!
Welcome back! And w00t, quadruple rainbow!
A QUADRUPLE RAINBOW!
ACROSS THE SKY!
WHAT CAN IT MEAN?
… sorry, I had to. *pies self*
Were you there with band? We saw a group at the WWII memorial on I believe Friday.
No, I was in Washington, not Washington D.C (I think the memorial is there?). Sadly, I don’t play a band instrument.
My sister won’t stop talking about her upcoming trip to spain.
I don’t really blame her, I would be excited too. But her constant chatter is kind of getting on my nerves, and it doesn’t help that I sit next to a girl in my math class who is going too.
On a lighter note, I’m going to Philadelphia the same week.
Your sister is going to Spain? That’s funny, because my sister is attending a semester of college in Spain, and my Mom is visiting her over break. Pretty weird…
Thank you Rosanne, Midnight Fiddler, Piggy, Shadowfire, et al. for welcoming me back on the previous thread! I have missed you all. I must investigate the paleophyte threads!
122 (K A)~ Heh, I’ve been the same way to the people around me about my new camera (which still hasn’t gotten here).
Cameracameracameracameracamera….
You’ll live.
CAMERACAMERACAMERACAMERACAMERACAMRACAMERA!!!!!!!!!
123 (RtH)~ Yay! *glomps again*
Why am I not doing my homework? I had stress dreams last night from not doing my history homework, which isn’t even due until Tuesday. Why am I not doing my biology homework right now?
Why am I relying on such a worn-out topic to post on this thread?
I cannot play the song Take Five without getting chronically depressed. It stinks.
Blah, blah, playing the saxophone, everything/s good, OMG LOOK AT ALL THOSE RESTS I HAVE WHILE THE OTHER TENOR PLAYER GETS TO SOLO!!! *sobs*
On a lighter note, I have started writing a new book. I am trying to make it like Jane Austen, with observations into the human ppeerrsonality, but my friend who is co-writing it with me just wants it to be an adventure with aliens.
Our robotics team won second, and there were no Mary Sues!
Now if we can raise enough money to go to the national conference IN A BUS WITH MY TEAM *shudders*…
Anyway. I like chocolate. And I can play two scales on the trombone!!!
My sisters were watching VeggieTales (you know, the one with the talking vegetables) and there was a parody of LOTR. Called Lord of the Beans. I watched it. Hilarious.
Lord of the Beans is arguably the best VeggieTales product ever made.
Yes. Oh, yes.
“I’m twice as tall as half of you, and half as tall as twice of you!” Also, “I feel stretched, like chocolate pudding scraped across too much ham.”
Ugh.
Yay, trombonists!
Congratulations on your robotics win!
I’m at my grandmother’s house on a tiny computer! I love tiny computers.
Bleh, my posting’s gonna be sporadic in the immediate future, because my computer is on its last legs and needs to be replaced.
Hi, all! I’ve just returned from a Fabulous trip to Indiana, where Purple Panda my sister lives. I started writing this post a while ago, and then I didn’t finish. Now I don’t have time, because it’s homework and then bed for me, but I figure I’ll put it here now.
Hello, Silver Lining! It’s good to see you!
95 (Fiddler) – I have taken up the ukulele; not a serious undertaking, but an entertaining activity nonetheless. It accompanies singing wonderfully, and the four strings are easy to manage with four fingers. I’ve also taken up the piano, just for fun.
I am ashamed to say that I have all but stopped playing the violin entirely. I still pick it up from time to time, trying to keep playing, but it’s nothing serious. I grew incredibly weary of the strict work and the amount of time it took to practice, so I sort of stopped. I still play my 3/4 sized violin (now my brother plays it too), with a really nice full-sized bow. I really miss it, to be honest, but I think it’s probably more work than I have time for a lot of the time.
I trust you’ve been keeping up with your violin studies? You always had a better approach to it, I think, more relaxed and fiddle-y. I hope you are; it was certainly a long time ago that we had that kokonvention, but I remember you played quite well.
97 (Cat’s Meow) – Oh my goodness, I’ve just realized that I’ve missed my blogiversary! 5 years ago yesterday, I wrote my first post. That’s a long time ago. Almost a third of my life. Yeesh.
Also, an early happy blogiversary to you and Lady Bunniful! We’re all 2006; everybody’s getting so old!
99 (Lizzie) – Does it usually take you nearly 5 hours to fall asleep? That couldn’t possibly be healthy. I’d tell you to set your alarms in line with your sleep cycles (changed my life), but if it could take that long for you to fall asleep, you don’t really know when it would be.
100 (Ebeth) – HvZ sounds so awesome! Pan is doing it too; she’s one of the last humans left right now; unless she’s been changed since we last spoke.
Those sound like fantastic classes! Does your Shakespeare class have a particular concentration? The idea of a Middle English lit class is incredibly exciting; what are you reading?
103 (Unintended Pun) – I feel the same type of senioritis, although I am only a sophomore and still have some tolerance. When you go to school, you go to learn, not to waste a lot of time while the class gets organized and wander between classes.
Someday, I’m starting a school with none of that. It’s gonna be great.
Will you call it Muse Academy and let the GAPAs teach there? Please?
Anyway, today I say TWO giant, inflatable HPBs. I am getting very worried.
Mind telling us what you mean about setting your alarms in line with your sleep cycles?
-A
I’m still human! I think there are only, like, 4 left now. We started with 45. (A lot of the zombies are starting to die off now, I think.)
Good work! How intense has it been?
BAND TRIP BAND TRIP BAND TRIP
(Buttscratcherbridgetunnelraspberryinfuseddon’tstopbelievin’buschgardensTHIRDFREAKINGWHATNOWtheywerealloutoftuneIsmellribsrightinthenipplepurplegorillagreenpingpongballconditionerbodylotionoceanpoolpizzarainvirble!)
-A
…Erm.
Well, Grady just posted pretty much what I was planning on saying about my own band trip, but! Basically it was amazing! I have a ton of makeup work so I shall try to post a summary in the nex few days. Long story short, my band friends are completely bizarre and I love them to death.
NONESUCHHHHH? Friday! Friday? Nonesuch!
Did you guys have a [mating call slash] group-finding call as well? We were bored on the bus and we ended up going over- I mean going… Well, under doesn’t work anyway… AHA, going thro- DAMNIT. Going on top of- Nope… Uh… We passed ove- no… WHAT IS THIS I DON’T EVEN ALL THE PREPOSITIONS I SHALL SETTLE FOR A VERB
We USED a bridge-tunnel to get across (DAMNIT IT WAS ALSO ‘through’) the Delaware or something; I’m not really sure what river it was. Being as we were so bored, and being that there was a bridge-tunnel… There was shouting of it.
Enter pop culture reference – anyone know the Family Guy episodes (I believe there are multiples; I know there are multiple scenes, anyway) in which Peter makes at least a partial or supplemental living selling buttscratchers? BUTT-SCRATCHER! BUTTSCRATCHER‽ BUTTSCRATCHER… One of them is when they send Chris to boarding school, I think. Anyway, we had been shouting that a while earlier… And the syllables; they were so similar… BRIDGE-TUNNEEEEEEL!
But we didn’t stop there. Oh, no. There was also BUTT-TUNNEL! and BRIDGE-SCRATCHER! and CHOCOLATE-PRETZELS! and RASPBERRYCRAI-SINS! and also – given the eventually widely varying usages – the inevitable ANYTHINGYOU-SAY!, always in differing and changing tones and inflections…
And then comes the fun part. See, we got lost in Busch Gardens Virginia – which is easy to do, I should add! – and there was this wonderful, inoffensive phrase that was unidentifiable to [almost] anyone who hadn’t been on the bus… We may possibly have screamed it a lot trying to find people. And it worked. And then it became something to shout in either terror or excitement on a roller coaster, or at the people on one to see if they would respond (‘would respond’ being otherwise known as ‘were from CVU’)…
The crowning glory of the BRIDGE-TUNNEL!’s career happened, I believe, when we couldn’t find our bus among the seventy-and-change that were parked in the same parking lot… We shouted it and then suddenly – with the echoing call of everyone who was within earshot and in on the joke – we knew exactly where our ride home was located.
Success.
-A
I am trying to teach myself a little bit of German, so I brought my mom’s “German for Beginners” book from the 60s with me to the (snip city) Arboretum and she helped me practice some sentences. I’ve been walking around the house saying “der umlaut” all day because it just sounds SO COOL.
Dreamed I was on a space station last night.
I dreamed, oddly enough, that I was in an attic looking through a box of books…The night before that I dreamed that I was in the library.
I recently dreamed I was reading a Harry Potter fanfiction. I invented the plot and everything without even realizing it.
I dreamed I was underwater.
Random question, completely unrelated to my current situation of course:
So, if MUN starts tomorrow and you haven’t prepared at all yet, are you completely screwed?
No, you aren’t. You’ll be able to improvise something, if yours truly can be any example. After my first conference I didn’t prepare much at all, and it always turned out to be fine. It helps if most of the other delegates are Chinese whose English, as a second language, is not quite up to your own standard – not that that’s happened to me, of course.
…Unless, of course, the MUN to which you are referring is an acronym for something completely different, in which case I’m afraid I can’t help you.
Nope, it’s MUN alright, except that it’s only a national version- i.e. the language will be german. I’m just panicking a little because the teacher who’ll be supervising/accompanying us insisted on us writing out our speeches- one for the introduction thingy and one for speakers list. I’m racking my brains trying to figure out what she wants for the speaker’s list- I’m representing an NGO, Human Rights Watch, so I basically have issues to discuss with all the other countries- the theme is “Prevention of violence against women” and my fellow committee members include Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, etc…
Ah well, I’ll just write the first thing and a list of themes I want to bring up.
Yuri’s Night is today, everyone!! 50 years ago to this day, April 12th, the first ever orbit around Earth was completed by the Vostok spacecraft, and Yuri Gagarin became the first human ever to fly into outer space. Thank you, Mr Gagarin, for everything you did!
*blinks* It’s the 12th already? More time zone fun…Any way, I congratulate Mr Gagarin, even if there’s still another four hours until the twelfth.
It’s 7 hours and 30 minutes until the 12 here…
I know we had a toast to him in the H&H last year, but since we’ve got a party in his honor going on here on the blog, let’s go do it there.
So today was like any other day…except that, oh yeah, it was my birthday, complete with all the well-wishers. A couple of friends took me to Pizza Hut, so I guess one could legitimately say that I had (pizza) pie for my birthday. I talked them out of cake, because pretty much every cake I’ve gotten in Jordan has been less than delicious. Anyway, after that I went windowshopping, and bought myself a birthday present–two rather nice scarves that were on sale. I have absolutely no idea what I will wear a silky blue and orange flower patterned scarf with, because I don’t have a lot of orange in my closet, but I still think it’s beautiful.
All in all, my birthday was relatively low-key, which is actually the way I want it. Haven’t thought too hard about being eighteen and technically an adult today. I want to enjoy my birthday, not be beset by existential fears.
Happy technical-adult-ness!
Happy birthday! Many happy returns! (people don’t say that enough.)
GOING TO DC
GOING TO DC
GOING TO DC
GOING TO DC
GOING TO DC
GOING TO DC. NATIONAL FORENSICS TOURNAMENT.
I am SO excited.
Yay! *cheers*
Have fun!
Ants. There are ants in my room. I woke up this morning and they were there but I couldn’t deal with it then because I’d been up till 4:30 studying for a chem test I had a couple hours ago.
But now I have to deal with it. And clean like, everything. Even though I’m careful about not having food open in my room because that’s asking for it. But a cracker or somethign must have fallen somewhere because they are CONGREGATING. And I think they are hiding under my bed which means pulling out everything.
And not just the tiny little ants. We have those in the lounge. These are CARPENTER ants and now I have to pretend to be a responsible adult and deal with it although I am clearly not ready to handle these sorts of problems because a large part of me just wants to ignore it and hope it’ll go away, except I don’t like the idea of them FINDING ME AND CRAWLING ON MY IN MY SLEEP.
I am fine with bugs and I’m not scared or anything but I don’t need company, really. And then I have to find a vacuum.
LIFE I DO NOT LIKE DEALING WITH IT.
You could try luring them out of your room into a container with something they like in it and then take the container outside.
Doesn’t work for ants. Once they find a food source, they start living nearby and nest nearby. The problem is they’re community insects instead of individual : P
CLeaned the room and didn’t find any food on the floor. Same with roommate. PERPLEXING. Also the vacuum decided to throw up all the dirt it sucked up, what. I essentially was just moving dirt around in my room instead of getting rid of it, so borrowing a different vacuum later.
If after the room’s been cleaned they don’t go away, I may try a simple borax/jam combo toxin to get rid of them/nest if it’s there.
My house back in IL was basically built on an ant hill so I’m used to them being around and being at war with them at least? They appear to have followed me to college to continue the battle. MADNESS.
Don’t carpenter ants eat wood?
No. Common misconception though.
Ughihatebugs. One time I picked up my violin and it was covered little black ants…
Flies. I was in North Carolina one summer and the house was full of flies. I don’t mean two or three. I mean flies congregating on the curtains, on the rungs, on sofas, on countertops…needless to say, I loathe flies with a passion now.
THF (Too lazy to bother with post numbers)~ I am still playing violin, though without lessons I’ve gotten away from practicing regularly. I need to get back on that. Since you’re no longer using your GORGEOUS vibrato, could I please have it?
Agrrrfishi~ VIST ME, VISIT ME, VISIT ME! That is awesome, congratulations and good luck and hugs and squid and happy vibes.
Jade~ My house is frequently taken over by ants. My room is constantly inundated with stinkbugs. I FEEL YOUR PAIN.
Speaking of my room, today when I got up to do my “vacuum up stinkbugs by the hundreds so I can do hw without getting dive bombed too much” routine, I discovered that under my desk (which is storage, basically) and shoe-storage heap there was water. Where it shouldn’t be.
The washing machine is apparently having bladder control issues, as well as gas. For some time now each time we start a load of laundry and the water goes into the machine it’s made my room smell like sulfur, which is less than pleasant, but now it’s flooding my room. BRILLIANT.
So I got to work pulling all the stuff out of my room and onto the porch, instead of doing the hw that I really need to do. Lovely. Now mom’s working on pulling my stuff out, and I’m in the house getting some math done.
Urg.
I can’t wait until I can live somewhere where my day-to-day activities will be getting stuff done instead of constant crisis management.
On the bright side, we called Amazon to find out why the order we placed last week hadn’t shipped yet (because some of the books mom wanted weren’t in stock like she said they were), and the guy fixed the order so those items wouldn’t be holding it up and changed the shipping to 2-day for no charge. So that means CAMERACAMERACAMERACAMERAAAAA soon, which is good.
Ahh I wish I could!! You should come watch the Grand National Tournament because I’m not allowed to leave my group, but we could “run into” each other, bahaha. >:)
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!~!
I made it into a really really awesome program! And I get to go on an extremely flamablamablous trip! SO EXCITED! *squeesqueesquee*
*ahem* Er, that is, I have just received extremely amazing news; I have gotten into an excellent program and I will get to do FUN stuff!!! (Involving AWESOME TRAVELING.) *smilesmilesmile*
Congratulations! What sort of program is it?
Thank you! It’s sort of a…program where adults mentor kids and take them on trips to various places in the USA. Leadership & teambuilding activities, etc. There are a limited number of kids that they can take though, and it’s a fairly small number of kids (40) versus a large number of kids in my grade (150). So I’m extremely happy to have gotten in.
Congratulations! Sounds like great fun!
(Of course it is unnecessary to say that, but oh well. Enjoy!)
I’m going to dress up tomorrow for the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight, so I made some little cards in Publisher today during my free period explaining the anniversary and saying “Thanks for asking”.
I showed them to the school librarian to ask if they looked okay, and she said she hadn’t known tomorrow was the anniversary, but she thought it sounded cool.
I said “I guess since you only found out today, it’s too late to put up a display. Sorry.”
And she said “No, no, we can make a display, find some books.”
So, being the good Illuminati member that I am, I raced around collecting space books in our school library that had dramatic-looking covers while she printed out a sign that said “50 Years Ago: First Human In Space- Yuri Gagarin”.
I arranged the books on top of a bookshelf, and she made one of those paper triangle stands with the sign and put it in front of them.
So happy!
That’s awesome!! I am hoping other people will want to watch space documentaries with me tomorrow. Except I sort of have all the work again. But it’s a holiday! And SPACE.
You are SO enthusiastic and you seem SO helpful and I REALLY want to be like you when you grow up.
Let’s take a poll: Raise your hand if you think Kai is a stellar ( is that a space joke? ) human being.
*raises hand*
*raises both hands*
*raises both hands and the hands of all people that happen to be around*
*raises hands*
*stands up, raises both hands, and cheers*
*raises hand*
*raises hands and feet*
*Raises hands, feet, legs, head, and somehow magically levitates entire self into the air*
*raises hand*
Speaking of which:ATTENTION: EVERYONE GO TO THE YURI’S NIGHT PARTY!!
:] You are awesome!
Awww… you guys are the best.
I really mean it. You guys are incredible.
And yes, get your spacesuited butts over there!
So basically, I’m sitting in a lecture room at Princeton University. In a quarter of an hour, Randall Munroe and Larry Gonick will be standing at the front talking at me. Jealous? I thought so.
DAMN YOU
You obviously must tell us about it.
…What.
*envies* Do tell us about it, please.
AAAAAH. I am sobbing with envy.
OH MY GOD
Terribly sorry about the picture, GAPAs — I didn’t sign in, and that’s apparently what’s tied to my email address. I switched two characters in it this time, so that should be fixed.
They started out by taking 15 minutes each to talk about their work (Gonick about his cartoon histories, Munroe about xkcd). Then there were 30-40 minutes for questions, and then it was over; pretty disappointing, really. It was great to go and see that these people ACTUALLY EXIST, and what they were saying was interesting — I was just expecting more of a talk-like structure than what there was.
Then afterwards, Gonick signed the battery on my Cr-48, and Munroe signed the top (and drew a flying ferret!). Munroe took an hour to reach x_x
Pics of signatures/them to come, if GAPAs will allow. Nothing with me, of course.
I’m going to a creative writing camp this summer! Not really sure how good the camp is, but it’s creative writing! It’ll be fun!
That’s wonderful to hear! *celebrates*
Henceforth my reply to any attack, be it upon my person, virtue or literacy, shall be “[female canine] please, I’m a sailor.”
As You Like It callback. Aw yeah.
…
Incredibly strange and semi-creepy scene partner? Not so much.
I think I did pretty badly on my job interview. I suppose I’m rather bad at finding good things to say about myself in situations when three note-taking adults are staring at me intently across the table.
On the bright side, I technically don’t need another part-time job, seeing that I have two already. I don’t think I need any, me being a meager freshman. Whee, no summer job. Cskia fail.
Hlurgh. I just spent half an hour on a Singapore bus driven by a man who was either drunk, high, or rushing his wife to the delivery room. I know double-decker buses are built not to tip over, but I honestly thought it was going to happen.
Oh, and I got struck by lightning today! Well, I was standing in the rain near a tall metal pole (yep) and the pole got struck, but really all it did was make my knees feel weird.
Quite a few of our buses are like that too. It’s annoying because then if I read on the bus I’ll feel sick more easily. Oh well.
You got struck by lightning? That’s really interesting…pretty rare, too.
Just popping in to say that I totally went dumpster-diving. And sang the Dumpster-Diving Song. I was surprised that I remembered it. Figured it might be relevant…
Well, hello, Mel! What were you diving for, and what did you find?
Hello
Food, mostly; we’ve yet to delve into the other bins, what with the strange recycling rules (that and I can’t think of anything else I really need). I know it sounds totally gross, looking for food in dumpsters. But a friend had a key to the trashrooms of a few local grocery chains. And we went on Saturday night, so they’d thrown out all sorts of pre-packaged things that would “go bad” over the weekend. It’s all still quite fine and now I barely have to pay for groceries. Success!
Some of the braver people went after loose fruits and veggies, but I remain skeptical. Then again, I guess there’s not much boiling can’t fix. And bananas and oranges have nature’s packaging… I need more hippie friends, it was a super fun adventure.
Hello to you too. It’s been a while. That sounds really interesting, dumpster diving. I don’t know if I could ever see myself doing it (and definitely not in Jordan, which has rather different disposal rules) but I commend your efforts.
Re: Dumpster diving:
I need to go do that sometime.
It’s rainy today, so room operations have been halted. The washing machine is out, so there’s just a pile of unsorted stuff where it was.
My futon is on the floor, which is odd but not unpleasant. I have access to my schoolbooks, computer, journal and other sundries required for living here, so it’s not too bad, I just fee like I’m camping. Only in my room. With the desk and washing machine out there is SO MUCH SPACE, it’s ridiculous.
Happy Yuri’s (And John’s, and Bob’s) Night!
I made good on my promise to dress up for the occasion- I’m wearing my ThinkGeek t-shirt with a cartoon astronaut pulling a small space shuttle on a string over a long-sleeve shirt. Over that, I have my lucky denim jacket, on which I have put all of my space pins. (STS-133, STS-132, STS-51-L, EPCOT Mission: SPACE, NASA and NOAA- I know, not technically space, but they have satellites.) And, of course, my red and black fingerless gloves.
So I’ve been asking teachers if they know what today is and why I’m dressed like this and handing out my cards. Two knew so far, because of the Google logo. (When I asked my English teacher, he asked “Is it Punk Rock Retro Day?”)
I. Am. Exhausted. Went to a few too many places with my friends this afternoon. Roman amphitheater, museums, a mall, and then a number of small shops trying to find a cheap cell phone. I didn’t get back till quite late, and now I’m nearly too tired to type. Pity, I really wanted to type a post asking for advice about college decision making, which I really need help in but that will take too long and I’m too tired. At least the trip was fun, though I think I’ve used up my socialization meter for the week.
Isn’t it about time for a part two to this thread?
Roman ampitheater? What was that like?
When, you enter it’s very imposing, all these steps rising into the air as far as you can see. Very steep. And tiring, climbing all the steps, but it’s a very nice view and from the top you can see Amman Citadel, which has an even better view. But because it’s so steep, it’s very easy to imagine how easy it would be to slip and fall down, down down, with your body breaking as it hits the steps, particularly on very windy days like yesterday. Climbing down is worse than going up, because you can see what’s below and it’s harder to hold on to other steps. Not all the steps are complete. In fact some are rather eroded and on rainy days they must get very slippery. It’s amazing because this is hardly the biggest amphitheater the Romans built, but it’s still impressive to me …I have pictures, if you’d like.
“Socialization meter”
— I am so stealing that idea.
My tongue is dark purple!
Thank you for enlightening us.
You’re very welcome.
OH GOD. That… that…it’s not a song. Or.. music. I-i-it’s some kind of… mutant… abomination.
Okay, I am better now that I have begun listening to real music on Grooveshark. “Honesty or mystery? Tell me I’m not scared anymore…”
What are you talking about?
Probably Friday.
Wow, it’s really so bad that you could guess it over all the other songs? This is the sort of thing that almost makes me want to listen to it just to see how horrible it can possibly be.
It IS horrible. And it has 258,447 likes to 1,983,312 dislikes on YouTube. That’s 13%.
It’s not good, by any means, but it’s definitely not as horrid as everyone’s making it out to be. It’s just become the latest thing to hate on. Whether you actually hate it or not, it’s made fun of.
Honestly, I’ve heard far worse.
Go ahead and listen to it, but at least try to not listen to hate it would be my advice. Then go watch Stephen Colbert sing it.
No, I’m actually trying hard not to listen to it. I don’t like to know about these sorts of things. Anyway, I hate having to hear music I don’t like. It’s just that hearing so much about it on MuseBlog has made me curious. I honestly had no idea that everyone was hating it nowadays; I’ve only heard of it because of MuseBlog. That’s actually where I get most of my pop culture information, as much as I try to avoid it. (It’s so fun to see the expressions on people’s faces when they learn I don’t know who Justin Bieber is)!
Nah, it’s not terrible – just absurd and a little annoying when everyone is singing it. Stephen Colbert sings it way better.
Friday or Die (the April Fools version of Funny or Die) was a hilarious addition to the story as well.
I rather liked it. It was catchy and parodied the average pop song in a clever way.
If you look for the piano cover, it’s actually quite soothing.
Funny thing is, I’m actually pretty sure I haven’t heard worse. That said, no point in wasting any of my valuable brain time complaining or caring about it.
Yeppers.
Friday. Rebecca Black.
Did I tell you we’re playing it in band?
Yes, you did.
“Friday”?
Still really hard for me to get on, considering the password on my neighbor’s internet. But, what do I have to say…
April 1st was New Year’s, so I wished everyone a happy new year. People thought it was a trick, so I enlightened them.
I read the March issue of Muse-what about the Aeiouid? And the Bo-vine Comedy? There’s probably also one with Gawain and the Green Knight, but I’ll just end with Pair of Pies Regained. Well, hope you all are doing okay. I’ll saunter off to other threads now.
I really wish grocery stores would make plastic bags in darker colors. Or at least not transparent.
Why? Did you buy something embarrassing?
I was picking up my dogs poo… It’s like there isn’t any plastic there… *shudders* *washes hands for five minutes*
Oh dear. *hands over towel*
@Midnight Fiddler (154.2.1.1.2) – I am honestly interested (not to mention terrified out of my wits) to see what you categorise as worse than that.
-A
The. Intrepid. Is. Getting. The. Enterprise.
OhmycakingholysweetKokoPhobosHalleyandtheHopeDiamondtoo.
Year just made.
I’m not sure I know what the Intrepid is.
The Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in NYC.
Whee! I’ve always thought it awesome that they named a space shuttle after a starship.
Thank the fans.
I read that in the RC bar as, “Thanks for the fans.”
so did I…weird.
Hey everyone! Just thought I’d let you all know about Day of Silence, since it’s important to me (also, I’m excited since it’s the first major event to organize since I became co-president of my school’s GSA) and I think quite a few of you may be interested in participating. I also posted this on the suggestion box thread, to see if it could be on the calendar.
April 15 (this year, it varies) is National Day of Silence, which is an (to quote the flyer I made for school) “event for students to raise awareness against anti-LGBTQ bullying and harassment in schools. Anyone can participate by taking some form of a vow of silence for the day. This event is a great opportunity to show support for those around the country who aren’t always able to be comfortable being and expressing themselves due to fear of emotional or physical harm.â€
If you want more information the official website is: www. dayofsilence. org (without spaces)
Thanks!
I’m going to do Day of Silence, but I will be obliged to talk at some points. Hopefully I’ll get the point across to some people.
I’ll stay quiet unless I’m asked a question (otherwise I’ll probably be expelled for disorderly conduct), though I doubt anyone will get it. Or even notice it, since I’m usually rather quiet at school.
I’ll stay quiet as well.
Oh man, I had an argument with bigots on the page for an event related to it at my school. Thread got deleted, though
(but man I kept my cool /so well/)
I’m going to do the Day of Silence, but I will have to talk at some points–unless a teacher talks to me or someone asks me a question, I’ll be silent.
Just watched “Blink” with Alan…..I think the poor boy nearly wet his pants. When Larry or whatever his name was turned around to look for Sally, and the angel is RIGHT THERE, I swear he stopped breathing, and the look of sheer terror on his face matched the look on Larry’s, wide eyes, mouth gaping in terror. And he was bloody near hyperventilating after, lol. ’tis great. The Vashta Nerada two parter, when we get there, should be great fun to watch with him, as well.
Oh, it’s great.
By all means continue terrorizing the boy. If he can’t survive Moffat’s mad mastery, he doesn’t deserve you.
Hope my response didn’t get lost…
Luna. What do you think I’m most worried about when I’m alone in the dark? And I wasn’t worried by the Angels.
131.1 – I only somewhat followed that, but it sounds entertaining and rather like the things that happen with my band. There must be a set of things that band kids are more likely to come up with.
We were going to see Big River at a dinner theatre that was supposed to be very near our hotel, except it took 45 minutes to get there and the buses spent ten minutes trying to maneuver around a lampost in the driveway. Somewhere, there is a bus driving around with a lovely long scratch in the window. The theatre was one of the sketchiest-looking places I have ever been, on the outside at least; the inside, although by no means posh, was at least not as rundown as the outside. The food was all covered in some white slimy sauce, which some sophomores decided was delicious and the rest of us hated. My fairly large group of band friends spent too long deliberating over what table to pick and therefore ended up having to split up. L and I headed for the back table with the forementioned sophomores, while Rosalita*, Woodrow*, and Emma* went to the table closest to the stage. By close, I mean really close. Rosalita had knees and crotches in her face for the entire show, and the actors kept pointing at her while they sang. I, however, had an excellent seat.
The show was really fun, with largely excellent acting. L and I kept bursting out in giggles at various points; the song “River in the Rain” has absolutely atrocious lyrics (“River in the rain/sometimes at night you look like a big white train”) and one of the country folk around the Nonesuch scene was talking in the most horrendously high-pitched, drawn-out, annoying, and incredibly fun-to-imitate voice ever. Try bending your voice as high as you can, making it a little nasal, putting on a southern accent, and then taking three seconds to say the word “let’s.” It’s wonderful. The following scene, the Nonesuch song, involved a lot of again highly imitable pointing from the cast with lyrics along the lines of “It’s the Nonesuch! Nonesuch? Nonesuch? Nonesuch!” I’m sure you can guess what we spent the rest of the trip calling to one another. (Actually, we combined the Nonesuch song and Friday, as well as creating a version of Friday in which all the lyrics are about insects. And, um, a version of Santa Claus is Coming to Town involving Santa breaking into peoples’ houses. Don’t blame me for that one.)
Anyway, after the show I went over to Emma, Woodrow, and Rosalita’s table to ask them how they liked the show. For the second half, they had been playing a drinking game where every time an actor said “Huck,” (keep in mind this show is about Huck Finn), they took a sip of water. Emma and Rosalita’s response was more or less along the lines of yelling “AHHH gotta PEE gotta PEE!” and sprinting to the bathroom.
Then we got on the bus and they told us that the ride back would be five minutes long. We had taken a wrong turn on the way there. A 40-minute wrong turn. I am still not sure how this works, but there you go.
That was approximately four hours of our four-day trip. I love band so much.
*names are substituted with the names of their instruments.
I… I think something just happened.
Sorry. PoPo. But suddenly I feel really different.
Do elaborate, if you can and want to. Did the pasta burn?
Hm, I can’t say I’ve ever experienced anything like that…
Have I mentioned how much I love MUN?
At today’s school practice (not even a conference) what started off as a not-so-serious debate turned even worse after a while.
The delegate of Japan (whom I happen to be going out with
) wrote his resolution in haiku form. The debate mostly became about how since it was so short it was a waste of everyone’s time because it achieved nothing. Mainly because he had to spend so much time counting out the syllables, so he didn’t get to write too many clauses.
So, as the delegate of North Korea, I used my speech to criticize his resolution for being too short and of little substance. The ensuing points of information, responses and follow-ups were interesting.
One of the leaders of the club, who was chairing, told me over Skype to submit an amendment in limerick form (because there totally wasn’t enough poetry going around…). So I wrote the amendment in limerick form, and my speech as well.
After my speech, someone
annoyingasked me a point of information:“Point of information, where in the amendment of the resolution is the time frame for the removal of French troops given?”
My response: “This delegate would very much have liked to included one, but unfortunately there weren’t enough syllables.”
Everyone laughed, and I felt proud of my inspired moment.
And of course, throughout all of this the delegate of Denmark kept trying to get the chairs to let him sing opera (Don Giovanni, to be precise) but it never worked.
So, you know, just another typical MUN school meeting. Never mind that it’s usually more serious than this…
MUN sounds like so much fun. Someone remind me why I don’t do this.
and we wonder why politicians never get anything done…
At least they’re not students; they’d get even less done otherwise.
Why isn’t my MUN this awesome?
I’m sorry, LBK.
If it’s any consolation our regular weekly school meetings are usually a lot more serious than this.
For conferences…it depends. But there are always going to be those few weird people – actually, just one – *coughoperaguycough* who are guaranteed to make things interesting every time (if he goes to that conference). Gives our school a bit of a reputation, this guy. At Shanghai he was serenading several girls whose rooms were on the floor as ours at the hotel. With Don Giovanni. Accompanied by excessive stripper-like actions and overly dramatic acting out of scenes.
Did I mention this guy doesn’t have a sternum, for whatever reason?
Wait, that didn’t really help, did it…
You could always make things more awesome! Start sending frivolous notes to people! At conferences these are usually slightly suggestive of inappropriateness. I have many, many examples but I’m not too sure the GAPAs would appreciate them. Anyway, you can always start making outrageous comments that spark argument – that always livens things up.
Did anyone else take the National Latin Exam this year? We got our results back a couple days ago. Gold medal, summa cum laude on the level IV test. Aw yeah.
Agent Piggy, ready for time travel!
I got Magna Cum Laude, which felt really great because I’d had trouble with it and I hadn’t expected to do well.
Congratulations, both of you!!
Yay for both of you!
congratulations! I won an Oxford Classical Dictionary from that and I love it so much.
You won a dictionary? I don’t get anything.
It’s an encyclopedia of everything about ancient Greece and Rome. You get it for being summa cum laude four years.
Ah. Last year I was one point below the cutoff for summa.
Congratulations!
Congratulations! I took the NLE for Level II, but haven’t gotten the results back…I think my school gives them to us at the end of the year, but I have no idea why since I’m pretty sure they get them earlier.
(Level II…sounds so pathetic compared to your skills. :P)
I took it for Level I. One away from a perfect. I got a purple ribbon and a certificate. It’s going to kill me if I don’t find out which one I missed. *starts pulling out hair*
Congrats on the gold medal and stuff!
Piggy (129.3.1): Crazy super intense! We had a big final battle show-down in the middle of campus yesterday, and I was one of the last 3 humans!
bookgirl_me (134): Nope, not at all! I went to a conference last year, and my school had two delegations–Turkey and Malawi. A few of the delegates from the Malawi group mistakenly thought it was Malaysia (so they did all of their research for Malaysia), and they faked their way through the conference and ended up winning the best delegation award! I think most of it is knowledge of diplomatic relations, speech-making, resolution-writing and problem-solving more than the actual issue. I hope it went well!
agrrrfishi (137): So exciting! A bunch of my friends are going to DC this weekend for Powershift, so there has been a lot of “GOING TO DC” in my life recently, too.
Jadestone (138): Eep! My roommate and I were just discussing a few days ago how there are no bugs in dorm rooms and how strange it was. Our science building has a whole floor filled with ants, on the other hand, because one of the bio professors just finished sequencing the harvester ant genome. Good luck!
Fiddler (139): Hey! We might be doing the Pittsburgh-DC bike trail this summer! I wanna visit you, too!
KaiYves (141): That sounds great! How did you dress up? (Aha, I just got to post 151 and your costume sounds awesome!)
Glassboro (142/3): AHH SO COOL.
Choklit Orange (148): That sounds so scary! One of my professors was struck by lightning many years ago, and he told us about it last week during a huge lightning storm (during which my dorm room was struck by lightning, yikes!), but I think his strike was really serious–he said it caused massive depression, and he lost the hearing in one of his ears. I’m glad you’re okay!
Mel (149): We used to go dumpster-diving in the dumpster behind the grocery store near campus, but they moved it, and we haven’t been able to find it. Dumpster-diving is the bestest.
Clare (159): Yay Day of Silence! We did that every year in high school, and I’m pretty sure it’s going to be really big at my school now, too.
I don’t know if I’d call it a “costume”, but it sure was fun to wear.
165 (Pan)~ One of the last 3 humans? I’m impressed.
If you’re in the area, definitely stop by. Your city isn’t too terribly far away, perhaps we can arrange a kokon sometime. Hmm. *ponders*
Re: Being Struck by Lightning:
I got hit while in the shower one time, not severely, it just felt like someone had slapped the back of my legs. My eyes were closed (and full of shampoo), but I’ve always wondered what it looked like when it happened. CO, I’m glad you’re okay as well.
CAMERACAMERACAMERAAAA!!!!!!
It’s supposed to arrive today. Why do you tortureeee meeeeeeeeee, UPS guy? *sob*
Re: MUN:
Oh, I wish mine had been as fun as yours! It was pretty cool, but everyone was a lot more uptight and the preparation was totally uneven- Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan were very well prepared and very vocal, Mali, Kongo and Afghanistan did their homework but were just too shy, I guess (Side note: I was in the Human Rights Committee, the topic was “Violence against Women”), but since most of us were raving feminists (for some reason, it was an all-girl committee), I can understand that Somalia was having a tough time arguing against our campaigns to reduce and prevent female genital mutilation. The one delegate who really annoyed me was Ireland: fine, maybe she was nervous the first day, but she was supposed to represent the EU’s opinion as well and she could have at least said something supportive when Ukraine and I were arguing against Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia and Saudi Arabia about the Sharia (thank goodness Mali was sleeping through that), especially since I’m an NGO and therefore don’t have a vote and I definitely think a real delegate from Ireland would have risen to the bait about the whole Christianity/religion issues that eventually came up, where again I don’t have much to say because I’m not affiliated with any religion per se (though I do condemn cultural relativity) and Ireland was one of the more powerful nations in the committee anyway. That …incompetent person even shot me down when I tried to get her commended (I though she might finally open her mouth if I boosted her self-esteem and that I’d finally have someone on my side).
Of course, I figured I’d get her back for her rhetorical abstinence with the whole abortion thing, but we got stuck on the prevention of domestic violence (sadly, we weren’t able to find (m)any effective countermeasures for our resolutions)) and I didn’t have the time. I mean, the Philippines basically abstained from voting the whole time too, but she isn’t that important and besides, she wouldn’t dare back me against Saudi-Arabia.
The one thing I do regret is that I won’t be holding either the pro or the con speech- Mali beat me to the bat as far as the pro speech was concerned and since I’m still sick, my voice is huskier than usual and I keep having coughing fits, which would be a problem with only 1 minute of speaking time.
Pan- That’s so strange. It’s not like dumpsters are easily hidden… Something fishy is surely afoot.
Re: Lightning: Never happened to me, but I’ve been tasered, just by one of those pocket ones. My housemate got one and I just had to know first-hand what would happen. For Science! It stung at first, and then it just felt…really tingly and weird.
Fiddler- Stay strong! The UPS works in strange ways.
Clare – My Day of Silence was today! I stayed silent all school day but I started talking when the bell went off. Also I forgot and talked twice second block, no big deal. There were a lot of participants.
Yay and congratulations, sounds like you did great! Are you in the US? If so, is there a particular reason (even a mundane, no school thurs or friday reason) you had yours early from the national event? I’m curious…
The cheezburger family of sites has another one. “Sketchy Bunnies.”
While staunchly humming the Duke of Kent waltz, I’m checking it out. Fortunately it’s not entirely hot pink, but I fear it soon will be. The icon that shows on the tab looks alarmingly like an HPB with whiskers. Koko help us all.
168 (Mel)~ But that would imply that I have some sort of patience, which I don’t.
SFTDP
Please zap the first one, premature commenting.
Also, I just checked my email and what did I see but “ZOMBIE BUNNIES!” in the subject line. Thinkgeek is now selling zombie bunnies for Easter. Or so they say. It’s green, which is presumably meant to lull us into a false sense of security, since green is on the other end of the color spectrum from red, which is close to pink, and this is a minty green, so for our purposes, opposite of hot pink. BUT I CAN SEE THROUGH THEIR PLAN.
*makes a playlist of waltzes on itunes and plays on repeat*
Fiddler — Wait, what? o____o that’s amazing. i’m…..thunderstruck /WORST PUN
seriously though that’s pretty remarkable…
I have had a pretty good week thus far (okay, it is only Wednesday…)
It has a terrific view and is near a line of orange trees which is +1397834 points in my mind. Also it’s much larger than my last room AND……IT HAS A SINK. (THIS IS AMAZING TO ME)
Yesterday was hall draw at school, so I went and did that. It was mildly terrifying since both my roommate and myself are indecisive, so as we were looking at the plans before picking a room we were both just kind of like “um…um…well which one do YOU want?! D:”
We ended up getting an AWESOME room though.
Also I am enjoying the fantastic weather, I love CLOUDS.
YEAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
brb going out to play with my new toy.
171 (Axa)~ Awesome pun.
Also, yay for good weeks and awesome rooms!
SLEEP SLEEP SLEEP
Did you finally get some, or do you just need it? I can’t tell.
*coughcoughFORTHEWEAKcoughcough*
INNNNDEEEEEED.
Took a 2-hour quasi nap today to make up for waking up early for Driver’s Ed. I really needed it.
I got the crazy idea into my head of somehow tying together every book we read in English class this year with one metaplot. We already talked on here about crossing over The Great Gatsby and A Farewell to Arms, but this would be way bigger than that.
Since the book that takes place chronologically first (Medea) features the villainess getting away and vowing revenge, I have a rough idea of her working behind the scenes with dark magic to manipulate the events of all of the later books across time and space. And then, I can imagine Prospero (The Tempest) magically working against her and recruiting some of the heroic characters to help…
Looking for information about gap years, gap year scholarships, schooling in different countries, language learning opportunities, et cetera.
Anybody?
-A
Actually, particularly looking for stuff about schooling in other countries. I’ve heard tuition is crazy low and plus I would just like to travel. Win-win? I think yes. Anyone here an American who has… Well, who has left America slash is an American no longer?
-A
McGill’s tuition (Quebec, Canada w00t!) is lower than most American universities and is one of the top universities in Canada. You also get in-province tuition if you major in French.
Slightly less than interested in Canadia. Thanks, though, and I’ll keep that in mind. Seems like a good deal.
-A
A couple kids from my school are going to McGill next year, I believe.
Well, my advice is that you not leave North America for more than a week if you can help it, but if you must I suggest Europe. I hear you can study very cheaply in Ireland. Or Australia. Not Asia. This is probably not what you are looking for, but, well, Asia is not fun.
Depends on where in Asia.
I’d say Hong Kong’s pretty good, but then again, I’m not very impartial…also, I’m not American, which was one of your criteria. So I can’t really say.
Why do you say that? I think I’m looking in Europe anyway, so that’s helpful, but I haven’t excluded Asia in my thinking.
-A
I am a bitter and malicious teenager who has lived in Asia for far to long and NEEDS TO GET OUT.
I will concede that there are some good bits of Asia, but- avoid India, Pakistan, Tibet (yak butter tea), Indonesia, Malaysia, and DEFINITELY Singapore. These places will kill you. I know it seems like I’m making a big deal out of this, but I regret the day I did not run away when my parents told me we were moving.
Maybe it’s better if you’re the one making the decisions.
Just got back from chalking “Bad Wolf†and suchlike all over campus. I saw a sign advertising “Have you seen this man? May change drastically in form†with photos of 9, 10, and 11 posted by Torchwood Institute. I love my campus.
Could we have a new Random thread, please? Over 600 posts in the first few weeks…yup, this is Museblog, where everyone has something to share.
I do not like beings sick, especially on beautiful days like this one. *Headdesk*
On the plus side, with my sore throat, the Day of Silence will not be all that hard for me…
20 gamergeek points to whoever can tell what my avatar is.