In response to Gradster on the first thread, I think I heard that some major school in Iceland– possibly but not necessarily the University of Iceland–doesn’t cost much at all. I have no idea where I heard this, though, or what the school is like, and I could be completely wrong. Still, Iceland!
First post?
Wait, I actually think I heard about it on MuseBlog at some point. Not that it matters, but I thought I should mention it anyway.
Does anyone know of a way to temporarily stop procrastinating?
Yes, I shall!
My show just ended last weekend – but between the Sunday matinee and closing we went to the mall and decided to do a flash mob. (GAPAs: I have a video, but am I allowed to post it?) We sang a song from our show, complete with choreography and four-part harmony, and random people took videos.
(I was in 13 The Musical – we sang Brand New You, in which I am a soloist.)
Okay, to expand on what I wrote last night, here are my rough ideas for how I could cross over all of the books…
After fleeing Corinth, Medea traveled around Europe doing various evil deeds. (Medea)
She summoned the demon Grendel and his mother, as well as a dragon, in attempts to conquer the Scandinavians, but was thwarted by the hero Beowulf. (Beowulf)
Centuries later, a young astrologer named Fry Nicholas who had been severely punished after a love affair of his was discovered, sought her out, wanting to learn the dark arts, but Medea was unimpressed and refused. (The Canterbury Tales)
Around the time of the Renaissance, Medea did take an apprentice- the Algerian witch Sycorax, but the young Milanese nobleman Prospero tracked her down, intending to stop her villainy. In the ensuring magical battle, Prospero found himself unable to kill a descendant of the sun god, but was able to seal Medea away in another reality.
However, using her magic, Medea was still able to have weak influence in our own world. Terrified she would somehow become able to escape, Prospero threw himself into the study of magic to prepare himself for a future conflict. This led to his being overthrown by his brother and set adrift with his young daughter Miranda, eventually ending up on the island which Sycorax had fled to after Medea’s defeat. (The Tempest)
Several decades passed. Medea used her powers to contact humans in our world and promise them power in exchange for freeing her. (A-la Shen-Du in Jackie Chan Adventures) Sensing this threat, Miranda, who had begun to study sorcery herself, established an order of protectors to counteract Medea’s agents and keep her sealed away. And thus began the secret war that has lasted centuries…
Very few details of this war have surfaced, but from what we do know, Medea’s agents are ruthless, and many lives have been ruined in the crossfire. A West Indian family who helped the protectors were cursed with hereditary insanity (See: Bertha Mason, Jane Eyre), a curse that continued at least until the 1940s. (See: Soaphead Church, The Bluest Eye)
In the late 19th century, unscrupulous lawyer Nils Krogstad attempted to rise in the cult of Medea by amassing wealth through various underhanded tactics, in the process aiding in the destruction of the marriage of Norwegian banker Torvald Helmer and his wife, Nora. (A Doll’s House)
While trying to gain a magical artifact that the cult believed could be used to free Medea in Austria-Hungary, an unfortunate traveling salesman inadvertently disturbed their plans. Although the man had no relationship to the protectors and was in fact completely unaware of either the war or the existence of magic, poor Mr. Samsa was cursed by the cultists and subsequently turned into a large beetle. Regrettably, the protectors were unable to reach him in time to administer a counter-spell. (The Metamorphosis)
In the 1920s, two unpleasant expatriates named Tom Buchanan and Bob (last name unknown) joined Medea’s cult, wanting power after romantic misfortunes they had suffered. In their attempt to recover the aforementioned artifact in Spain, they were stopped by other travelers previously acquainted with the two, Nick Carraway and Jake Barnes. (The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises)
Another artifact of power was discovered in Algeria sometime in the 1940s. The cult enlisted a local Arab gang to help them obtain it, but the protectors, with the help of local underworld figure Raymond Sintes, and newly-recruited agent Mick Kelly, (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter) were able to prevent it from falling into their hands. However, several days later, a confrontation between members of the Arab gang, who desired revenge, and Raymond’s associate Meursault (First name unknown) led to a murder for which Meursault was arrested and sentenced to death. The protectors were unable to save him. (The Stranger.)
So…tired…
Just spent five hours showing kids how to play carnival games. Our game made somewhere around forty dollars. And we have so much candy left over! We went around and put some of it in people’s cubbies, and then felt like santa clauses.
The best way to impress people is to make a joke or reference some random thing that you assume to be common knowledge, like the phrase “it’s turtles all the way down” (from creation myths and comprehending infinity and all that fun stuff, you guys probably know this). Then, when people give you blank stares, launch into a rambling explanation that probably doesn’t make any sense. Be sure to say “I don’t remember where it comes from” a few times as well.
When one of the people then looks it up on wikipedia and reads aloud “‘Turtles all the way down’ is a jocular expression of the infinite regress problem in cosmology posed by the Unmoved Mover paradox. The phrase was popularized by Stephen Hawking in 1988. The ‘turtle’ metaphor in the anecdote represents a popular notion of a ‘primitive cosmological myth’, viz. the flat earth supported on the back of a World Turtle.”
This all sounds terribly impressive and smart. And BAM! You look like a genius.
In other news, I love my new camera, it is AWESOME. Hopefully I’ll learn how to manipulate the settings properly and eventually deserve it.
There is a fabulous site (GAPA(s) allowing) that can teach you how to use these settings! They are video tutorials and very clear and easy to understand.
phlearn. com
Some of them have more to do with photoshop stuff, but quite a few are about using your camera and lighting and stuff. Worth checking out.
We had a total [snip] of a retiree for our long term sub (Mr. Billings is awesomeeeee) but Ms. Dearborn finally recovered from her neck surgery and is returning tomorrow. Never mind that we had her for about a week.
The proudest moment of my week was successfully using a Mean Girls quote in Math. I asked a boy in my class (who has fairly dark skin) what his nationality was.
Niel: Oh, I’m Hawaiian, Indian, some Irish too I think.
me: Irish! You don’t look Irish to me.
Niel: Yeah, everyone says that.
me: Well, Isabelle’s from South Africa.
Niel: Wait…but why is she white?
me: OH MY GOD NIEL YOU CAN’T JUST ASK PEOPLE WHY THEY’RE WHITE!
And everyone laughed while Niel tried to figure out what just happened.
One of the Star Trek 2009/ Mean Girls crossover videos I’ve seen has Kirk saying that talking about Spock. And considering some of the fanfiction I’ve read, that makes a disturbing amount of sense.
The number of posts is overwhelming me, so I regret to say that I have not read many the posts on this thread since I last posted. I will get to that, but that is a task for another day.
I do have a story, though, followed by a bunch of questions about this situation. Here goes.
A long-term substitute teacher of Chemistry at my school, let’s call her Ms. Smileville, was caught stealing from the school set of laptops. She was immediately fired and the case is being officially investigated now (she has not been charged with anything yet). This was a major joke around the school for the days surrounding this discovery, and a classmate of mine (Mirf) decided to make t-shirts to commemorate the occasion. The shirts read “What would Ms. Smileville do?” and he dotted the i’s with Macintosh (Apple) logos.
Here’s where the issue comes in. Mirf sold some of the t-shirts at school, and he was given a two-day suspension. What grounds do they have to suspend him? You don’t know the school rules, but we are an arts school, and they’re generally very tolerant of freedom of speech-type-stuff. Surely selling shirts on the premises would not warrant a multiple-day suspension?
Also: Do Ms. Smileville or Apple have any grounds to sue Mirf? They don’t right? That’s in the Constitution. Right?
I don’t think they have any grounds to sue Mirf. Smileville can’t press charges unless she’s found innocent, and I don’t think Apple would get involved in a school joke that gets their logo spread around.
It was on environmentalism- my argument was that global warming actually does exist, and my opponent’s argument was, “I dare you to name one movie that deals with pollution.”
Guess who’s taking the GED (at long last) tonight? Whoo. And then half of tomorrow, too.
Let’s just hope they’re not as awful about getting my scores to me as they were about letting me finally take the stupid test. *grumpgrumpgrump*
It is so nice outside. I just went for a run – I hadn’t wanted to, but I forced myself to go and I’m so glad I did – in the huge cemetery nearby where President Garfield is buried. It’s really hilly so I was kind of miserable for the last bit but I feel so good now and I feel exercised and virtuous and the sun’s shining and it was a great temperature for running or being outside – cool enough that you don’t get completely sweaty but the sun is warm. And the cemetery was beautiful and peaceful and there were trees and birds and everything.
This should probably be on the What I Learned Today thread, but I read in my geometry textbook that President Garfield discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. I found this quite amazing.
( me ) *walks out of school to go home* ( oldish lady ) Hello there, would you like a coupon to Dots? *shoves it at me* *takes coupon by accident* Um…isn’t there supposed to be no solicitation on school grounds? I’m sorry? Isn’t there not supposed to be solicitation on school grounds until 3:30? Oh, this isn’t school grounds! *is standing fifteen feet in front of school steps* I’m pretty sure it is… The line is right here. *points to sidewalk crack three inches in front of feet* We’re standing on public property right now. Uh…okay, good luck with that. *walks away*
/gradster(1)/, on the last thread: I know that Austria (for example) has tuition fees of maybe 1050$ per year (though you have to find your own place to stay, no dorms, and I think you need to pay 25$ for students union membership and 0,7$ for insurance against accidents, though that probably doesn’t apply for non-EU students), and Germany is very similar, though you have to pass tests to get into popular study courses. For college, there’s the Erasmus program, though I think you might need to be a EU citizen.
Public high school is rather good Germany/Austria, but the only exchange program I know is SFA Sprachreisen, which is actually meant for Austrian students, but I’m sure they could be helpful if you chose to go there. Of course, you’re supposed to speak German before you go. Anyway, good luck!
I’m going to bed now. I have a trip to Petra in the morning and it’s 1:30 right now which is already way later than I planned on staying up given the great amount of walking I will do tomorrow.
Haaaary Potttter Parrrrty!!!! A video shop was holding a party for the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part one on DVD. So I went. (And didn’t buy the DVD.) I got to try butterbeer and it was really, really good. So was the fever fudge.
…Squee! And, for the second night in a row since The Deer Incident*, we didn’t encounter any deer! Nor did we even come close to hitting them, unlike the last time!
*Big deer. Empty road. Good brakes. Need I say anymore?
My real-life friends and I *may* have an HP party in July. We’re going to watch as many of the movies as time allows (I vote #4 so we can see Edward Cullen die >:D), as well as AVPM, Potter Puppet Pals, and the HP Literal Trailer. We will also have a reading of a few chapters of DH in funny voices, and play Quidditch if we can get enough people. Then we’ll go to the midnight premiere of the last movie.
… It’s gonna be Totally Awesome. We might even have an HP Nostalgia Party on the same date every year. *happy dance*
Praise the Lord, all you nations.
Praise Him, all you people of the earth.
For He loves us with unfailing love;
the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
Praise the Lord! The week is done!
(Psalm 117)
Remember that time when I asked about a situation involving the teacher who stole $30,000 worth of laptops? Ms. Smileville just assisted in a bank robbery!!! Her picture was on the news!
Here are my responses to posts from Part One. They do not explain what happened in the post, because it builds character, and the post is probably too long as it is.
93.1 (Rebecca) – I’ve posted some updates on cooking and arts’ respective threads; they are both coming along as fantastically as ever.
113 (Fiddler) – I envy you your life.
114 (R101 et al.) – This exchange made me laugh more than I have in a while. Perhaps weeks. And I’m a laughative person.
— I would like to add to Cat’s Meow’s 114.2 post:
Taiwan Hippo Cat
— 114.4 (starr)
I used to love those books. They were a Giant Cat Soap Opera, and I could not get enough.
117 (Choklit Orange) – I have done extensive research on the subject of depression, and one thing that is sometimes recommended is, in fact, a pet, especially the warm-and-fuzzy kind. They really do lift your spirits; I don’t know if it’s the warmth, or the companionship, or the responsibility that does it, but there is no doubt that they help. Of course, if you are in so deep that you would not be able to take care of the creature, you should not get a pet.
119.2.1 (Robert) – I watched a cartoon once where all of the classic Disneys (Mickey, Minnie, Donald, etc.) (Fun!â„¢) got robot doubles, and when the robots turned evil (as they do), they only way to defeat them was to dump water on them.
That’s related, right?
120 (Mikazuki) – You’ve probably finished it by now, but if you are as preoccupied with schoolwork as I am (and therefore haven’t gotten very far), we should be Pride and Prejudice buddies! I don’t know what that would involve, but… think of the fun! (â„¢)
123 (RtH) – Welcome back! While I’m on my “buddy” roll, you and I could be newbie paleos! together!
126 (AL – do you have a set short name? Like Aight?) – Congratulations on your robotics contest! And I am awfully glad that you didn’t have to make conversation with an Awful Perfect, although I would have liked to read that real-life exchange.
— I must now find Lord of the Beans. … ::fifteen minutes later:: *silent awe*
— 126.1.1 (ZNZ) – I laughed quite hard at those lines when Billboy Baggypants said them during the film, but somehow, seeing them in print just made me laugh and laugh some more.
129.1 (Bibliophile) – At the rate I am getting requests, the teachers will outnumber the students by the time the school is started. But the will GAPAS will undoubtedly be at the top of the list to teach their respective areas of expertise when I begin the search for instructors.
129.2 (gradster) – I would love to explain what I mean about setting your alarms in line with your sleep cycles. It works like this:
A human sleep cycle is usually about 90 minutes long. If you awaken in the middle of a sleep cycle, you will most likely be groggy for the rest of the day. If you awaken in between sleep cycles, you will be much better rested and alert in the day, even if you’ve had less sleep.
If you’d like to set an alarm and calculate when you should go to bed, figure that you’ll take about 14 minutes to fall asleep (the average, which works quite well for me), and then count forward in hour-and-a-half increments until you reach the time closest to when you have to wake up.
136.2 (Choklit Orange) – The first time I heard the phrase “Many happy returns” was in A Little Princess, in which it was misspelled (by Becky, not the author). I never thought to use it myself until now. Your challenge is accepted.
138 (Jadestone) – Ack! Dealing with insects is the worst! My family has an unofficial policy of not dealing with insects, and leaving the compost bowl there for another few days. It has never worked out.
139 (Fiddler) – I am glad to hear you’re still playing! I would love nothing more than to give away my otherwise-wasted vibrato; when someone enables transfer of specific motor function capabilities, it is all yours.
148 (Choklit O) – Why on earth were you standing near a tall metal pole? Was it fun to get struck by lightning? I hear it’s loud.
150 (Fiddler) – You say your futon is on the floor. Do you usually sleep on an elevated futon? (More questions will follow)
154 (Rosebud2) –
Regarding Friday by Rebecca Black:
I like the song. It makes me happy. It is catchy and pleasant, and it has the worst lyrics ever written, which makes me laugh. The funniest part of the video is that it looks professional–everything about it is good. It just isn’t.
I consider a horrible song one that is intolerable; “Friday,” while having terrible lyrics, a dumb melody, and awkward performers, is far from intolerable. It is so bad it is funny, which, as the barest and crudest form of entertainment, brings it above good music in some respects.
159 (CdL) – As Pan said in 165, our high school usually has a lot of participants for Day of Silence (and other like LGBT events–the school is, as a rule, extremely gay-friendly). I don’t think a whole lot of people did it today, though, because a lot of the core people left on a trip for spring break, plus, we had a half-day, so we weren’t really having a whole lot of class.
166 (Fiddler) – We are going to find a way to kokonvene. We’ll take the bike trip, and we’ll see you there, all right?
168 (Mel) – I just got tasered today! Well, not actually. I did participate in some tesla coil action, though!
These are responses to posts on Part Two. Proceed as usual.
7 (Mikazuki) – I love putting stuff in people’s cubbies! It really does make one feel like a magical elf of gifts!
9 (Fiddler) – True fact. I do this sometimes, but I try to skirt around it if I do nowadays because it tends to isolate the speaker unless en is around a really wonderful group of people. Which it sounds like you were, and YAY!
17 (Fiddler) – I wish you many Smartnesses. And a good night’s sleep. And breakfast.
18 (Lizzie) – Sounds wonderful and I’m glad you went!
19 (P_M) – The lady probably wasn’t expecting such a smart one to go by.
24 (Mikazuki) – Any chance you obtained the butterbeer recipe? I have yet to find one tested, tried, and true. Although, I don’t care much for fizzy so it might not make much difference.
25 (Axa) – I put vinegar in my tea sometimes! Apple cider vinegar is supposed to be super healthy, and it tastes good with ginger as well!
26 (Trojan Tigre) – I think that’s what they call excellence.
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In personal news, I am now officially on spring break! I plan to use this time for a number of things, most notably to clean up my room. And by “clean up,” I mean get rid of most of the furniture, vacuum and scrub where necessary, and put up some shoji screens to split up the space while making the space they form more harmonious. I’ll keep you posted, because I want to, but I get the feeling there’s a better thread for that; does anyone know where that is?
I will also be visiting my dear sister Purple Panda again over the break, and we may finish up a project we are working on for you guys that has yet to be revealed!
Um, actually, it was kind of quiet, because I think my ears stopped working for a couple of seconds. It was one of those detached-from-the-outside-world things, where you know something is happening but you don’t feel like you’re all there.
When I wrote “Squonk Opera,” I was using it as a placeholder for a longer bit., but I think this will do:
Has anyone heard of or seen the group Squonk Opera?
29 (THF)~ You’re awesome and I love you. xD
Re: Futon: I was sleeping on a stack of three futons, because there was nowhere else for them to go. Because the floor of my room sags, there’s also a piece of plywood propped up on some 2×4’s to make the bed level, which is what my (single) futon is on now. Dad’s going to make a frame eventually so I can have storage space underneath.
Re: Looking Like A Genius: This exchange actually took place with my three minions from last weekend. I felt exceedingly foolish and embarrassed that my joke had been entirely lost on them, but they were looking at me with a combination of bewilderment and “whoa, she knows stuff” on their faces. It was most amusing.
On the bright side, perhaps their amazement at my illiusion of knowledge and misplaced trust made them more willing minions? Who knows.
I’ve never heard of the Squonk Opera, but I absolutely adore that name.
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The first part of the GED went well, but it was the easy stuff. Tomorrow is Math and the Essay, lovely. Anyway, sleep calls. Goodnight!
I just saw As You Like It! Unfortunately, me and my dad were one of four in the audience, and the other two left at intermission. Twas really good, though.
Ah, one of my friends likes to do that. She spent the first four months of last year trying to get me to like Plaid (I think that’s what I was calling him on old R&R threads) until I eventually actually did. Of course, it’s not like anything actually happened after that, but she was still ecstatic to have succeeded.
Random help requested! I’m writing some homework stuff on the Sami (an indigenous people of northern Norway/Finland/etc), specifically the type of music they have called “joik.” I read somewhere that the word comes from the Swedish word “jouigat,” but I cannot find a translation for this word anywhere. I tried googling it, using translation sites, but nothing came up. Does anyone have a way to find out if it actually mean something (other than joik, if they turn out to be just parallel words)?
She also says “jojk (or joik) and jojka (joika) are the swedish noun and verb forms, as far as I know”
They mean “to sort of sing a song about someone in a nice way” She says it isn’t really like being a bard and writing a song about someone but friends do it to each other. You make it up although they follow some patterns.
Yeah, you just don’t sing it to someone, but sort of about them and personal stuff it looks like. And thank you for the help!! There’s lots of interesting aspects to the music/singing, it’s really cool. And it turn out one of my favourite folkmetal bands (Korpiklaani) started out as a band that sing in/about the Saami people! So that was neat.
I came back from building houses in Mexico feeling all warm and fuzzly because of the changing-the-world thing and the everybody-thinks-I’m-an-awesome-house-building-team-member thing and the making-new-friends thing and the people-really-are-basically-good thing and ALL MY FILES HAD BEEN RESTORED.
Finished the second half of the GED and, besides my essay being terrible, I’m pleased with how I did. It’s frighteningly easy to pass though, honestly. You just have to get a little over half of the questions right, and they’re not that difficult.
After that I stopped by my favorite bakery, which is owned by some friends and they were there, so it was fun to see them. I hadn’t seen them in at least 2 years. (Explanation: we used to be a lot closer with them, but life got hectic and we haven’t kept in very good touch. Although my family occasionally goes to their bakery they’re not always there, or they’re in the back and can’t stop for a chat/don’t recognize me. Apparently I look a little different now than I did 10 years ago.)
So now I have a crossant, an almond pie and an oatmeal cookie. I was going to keep the cookie for mom and split the almond pie with dad, but….I’m home alone with them……maybe dad can get his own almond pie. And…he’s at a wedding, so maybe they’ll feed him there? I’m a terrible person. >.<
I should have gotten some baklava and macaroons as well. Alas. NEXT TIME.
So, hi guys. I’m taking this totally awesome class for homeschoolers at the New England Aquarium and I’m on the computer doing some research for it so I shouldn’t really be on museblog, but I kind of had to see what was going on. That’s a very cool picture at the top of this thread.
I went for a run outside this morning. It was raining, and it was glorious. I find myself wondering why I don’t do that more often.
Then I got home and slipped back into the fighting with my parents slump of the weekend, but at least I can say I was undoubtedly happy for at least a half hour today.
HEY GUYS GUESS WHAT.
I’m not sure, but I think I got into the arts school! I got a letter from the county school system that says a bunch of vague, incoherent bureaucracy-speak stuff that seems to indicate that I got in. (Also, it says “High School Option Newly Accepted” at the top.)
Okay, so I found a character creation sheet for the original Star Wars roleplaying game online, because I figured it would be good to have some concrete information recorded about what my SW characters are good and no-so-good at for future writing reference.
I get that there are various skills in six skill areas, plus a space to indicate their power with the Force and the Dark Side, and that points would indicate the character’s skill level, but I’m not sure how many points total to start with.
Since I don’t intend on doing any actual roleplaying, I’m just creating something to refer to, should I just assume ten points for every one of the areas and keep my own profiles consistent with that?
I ran into Bookworm at a play yesterday… Actually I would have had no idea it was him if my mom hadn’t pointed him out to me, but, yup, ’twas him. He’s taller and he’s got shorter hair, so yeah. It was still kinda cool to run into him, though not really all that surprising, since we’re both into theater — he does tech stuff, apparently, mostly stage managering, I believe he said.
Speaking of theater! First rehearsal for The Winter’s Tale was today. I’m still in shock on several levels that I actually got cast as Hermione, not least because she’s actually a female role. XD But anyhoo, this theater company ROCKS. I love everyone in it so bad. It helps that this is my second year with them, so I know people, and also that our director this time is a LOT more organized than Tim was last year. I’m completely psyched. ^_^
Hello from the west side of Washington State! I came for a soccer game today (really, I’m here nearly every weekend) and I have another one tomorrow. It’s quite a long drive, so I hope we’ll make it worth it.
I feel so close to the Seattle-area MuseBloggers right now! *waves to you guys*
29.1 (Choklit O) – Your ears stopped working? That’s insane. Do you feel enlightened by the experience?
29.2 (KaiYves) – I know, right? This robbery has been the source of many a pun on my social networking feed.
31 (Fiddler) – Re: Futon: The reason I asked about the futons is because I am trying to Japanese-ify my room, and I’m considering making my own futon; I already got rid of my bedframe, so I’m sleeping on just a mattress right now, which is working pretty well, but I want to have something that I can just fold up and it won’t take up floor space.
Is a stack of three futons 3 times as comfortable?
37 (Cat’s Eye) – That is the best. Congratulations.
38 (Fiddler) – Getting pastries to share and then eating most or all of them is becoming the story of my adolescence. I think I just make an excuse for getting 3 or 4 of them, but sometimes they’re gone by the time I get home.
Also: Whatever bakery has croissants, almond pies, and baklava is a bakery I must visit.
40 (agrrrfishi) – I’m sorry you had a slump and a row! The glorious rain should not allow it. I am glad, however, that you managed to discover and make use of this. Have a good tomorrow!
41 (Koppar) – Congratulations! Arts high schools are the best kind of high school! I have not followed your story; what did you audition for? Do you plan to attend?
Re: Squonk Opera
This is a group of performers who place great importance on the technical aspect of theatre. They perform a lot of different things, incorporating musical, visual, and theatrical elements to create an inspiring explosion. They’re really neat. You should look them up.
They’re from Pittsburgh, and they just visited our school not too long ago, which is how I found out about them. It seems like something right up MuseBlog’s alley; in fact, it seems a lot like something the magazine would cover. Maybe I can work something out.
Personal news:
I had my birthday celebration today (instead of two weeks ago, my actual birthday), and it was absolutely wonderful! I spent most of the day making my cake, which was delicious (details will be posted on the Cooking and Food thread soon). When I finished the cake (which takes 3 hours to chill), we had supper and then my bestest friend came over and I opened presents and we watched _Inception_!
It was a great day, and it certainly buffered any impact my mother’s deathiversary might have had on my emotions.
I’m really, really, glad to be on MuseBlog these days. I’ll probably keep saying this and saying this, but you guys are fantastic! You make it feel like home everywhere.
Um, well, it depends on what you mean by enlightenment. I certainly have gained the knowledge that it is unwise to stand near tall metal poles during thunderstorms…
Oh, it was mostly stuff like “Chemystery of the stolen laptops” and songs about stealing stuff with story-specific words spliced in. We aren’t really that clever.
People are still really supportive of her; everybody really liked her as a teacher, and people are trying to look at her as a victim. When a drug situation emerged in this case, there was a lot of “Gilly Smileville is still my heroin!” and some puns and rhymes on her name that I suppose I’m not supposed to put here.
Okay, I officially hate my life. My current life, that is. Just the current bit. I cannot go a day without bursting into tears at least twice, and when I’m not crying I’m seething with rage…
This probably belongs on the Rants and Plaints thread, but I don’t feel like double-posting.
I made blue cupcakes for UU today (it was at our house). I have a tradition of bringing blue food to UU. I actually once succeeded in making blue tomato sauce, although I’m not sure it’s safe to eat that much blue dye.
I am going to make a coherent post later tonight. Amazingly enough, I am still exhausted from yesterday’s trip to Petra despite having slept fairly and napping during the day. I regret to inform you, however, that a picture of me reading Muse in front of Al-Khanza does not exist, mostly because it is ridiculously difficult to get your friends to take pictures of you with a magazine in front of your face.
I think I would have enjoyed the trip better if I had greater stamina. And maybe if we’d left earlier from the site because some students got us delayed and then I ended up coming back past my dorm’s curfew. And they were all like, “You should have informed us that there was a trip.” and I was like, “We were supposed to have gotten back earlier, I didn’t need to tell you.” and it was just blegh.
I’ll probably look back on it with more fondness once my muscle aches fade and I look at all the pretty pictures I’ve taken.
*is not posting enough*
Hi. Break is this week, but that doesn’t change anything in terms of work, which I should be doing right now. This whole envirothon thing is stressing me out, since nobody else seems to be doing any work.
Uhm, okay, other random things. Johnny Flynn’s show in the city in May is 18 and up and I’m this close to getting a fake ID to see him. APs are in a month, and I don’t know anything at all. Less than a month, actually. I need to work on my gold project. It’s going to rain for the rest of the week, which is conducive of doing work. Unfortunately, it’s also conducive of me wanting to snuggle with Troy, who is going on a college trip all week.
Okay, I gotta go. Tess and I are marrying sometime this week, I do believe.
(And a random congress kid just texted me?)
Two weeks before?
WAIT BUT TWO WEEKS BEFORE IS NEXT WEEK
And hence starts the panic party. There are twelve Frederick Williams in my textbook index and I don’t know what a single one of them did.
Frederick William was the Great Elector.
Frederick I was the first King of Prussia.
Frederick William I was the crazy guy who loved his armies and nothing else. (?)
Beyond that general framework, I don’t have a clue.
3 weeks left until AP Bio, yay. This probably means that I should be studying the nervous system or something right now.
47 (THF)~ Re: Futons: Not particularly. Mine is a large and thick futon, so not really fold-able. I used to have a thinner twin-sized one that I rolled up every day, but it was a pain to have to do the covers and all every morning and night. Be aware of that if you think you’re going to fold it up every day.
Futons also don’t feel like regular mattresses, they don’t bounce and they’re somewhat firm. I like the way they feel, but definitely be sure that’s comfortable to you before switching.
Re: Bakery: they have fantastic macaroons as well. And Eclairs. And danishes, and breads and cakes and….it’s amazing.
Re: Squonk Opera: It sounds awesome, I will definitely look it up.
Re: Birthday celebrations: I’m glad you had a good day. I’ll have to check out the food thread to see what kind of cake, I’m sure it was delicious.
It’s wonderful to have you back! I, for one, have missed you.
48 (CO)~ *infinite hugs* This, too, shall pass.
I imagine there’s a story behind the Blue Food Tradition, and I sense it’s an amusing one.
Ugh! I missed ICON! It was on my New Year’s Resolution list and I forgot it was this weekend! And next year I’ll be in Boston, so I won’t get to go, unless it’s during my spring break.
There are probably some SF conventions in Boston, though, right?
small but fierce (4): Ooh, I love flash mobbing–what kinds of reactions did you get?
Fiddler (9): Your camera sounds spectacular.
Errata (14): Congratulations. (Two pies in every face …er….post!)
Lizzie (18): When I first started playing frisbee this semester, I would always feel like not going to practices–they were from 9-11 at night, because that’s the only time we could reserve the gym, and we did so much running and it was so late and I was always worried about getting my homework done/sleeping. But now I look forward to practice, because I get so energized and feel so awesome afterward! Also, I think being outside just as it is starting to get warm is the best, because anything you see/feel that isn’t cold and snow is really really exciting.
Pseudonym (22): Congratulations!
Mikazuki (24): Do you know how they made the butterbeer? I remember unsuccessfully trying to make it in the past.
Axa (25): AW MAN really?? That’s….hmm. Is it really so good for you that you should drink it in water?
THF (29): OH MY GOLLY WHOLLY OUR SCHOOL IS SO CRAZY. As my friend says, “It just confirms my suspicion as to the quality of the [my high school] science department since Hileman (our awesome old chemistry teacher) left.” // Also, you got shoji screens? So exciting! You should send pictures.
Fiddler (31/38): Is the GED basically just like a really big test? Can anyone take it and bypass high school?
Cat’s Eye (37): That sounds wonderful–I love that feeling. Who did you build houses with?
Koppar (41): Arts school! Art school is the best. Tell us about it!
THF (47): I love you lots. You’re my favoritest ever.
FantasyFan (49): Hey! I think I’m behind on all of the awesome things that seem to be going on in your life. Are you in Jordan? How is it? How long have you been there? Etc.!
Personal news: Yesterday, my school did a “Day of Service,” in which a bunch of people went into town and cleaned up parks. We rode in a dump truck there and back, and spent the entire morning/early afternoon picking up trash, raking leaves, shoveling dirt, etc. It was raining and cold the entire time, but we still had a really good time, and it felt really great to get out and help our surrounding community, because I haven’t done nearly enough of that since I’ve been in college.
Yay! I just found out that I’m old enough to volunteer at my local wildlife rehab center this summer, which is great because it’s something I’ve always wanted to do?
46.2 (Choklit Orange) I know what you mean about hookahs. The weird thing is, the scent appears to have grown on me, against my best attempts to avoid them. I was walking down he street once and was like, “Mmm, what’s that fruity smell? Nice…” and promptly hit myself in the head once I realized what it was.
53(PP) Well. I suppose that is a bit of a story. I am currently taking a gap year in Jordan studying Arabic. I’ve been here since September, though I flew back to the States during the month-long break between semesters. Questions like why and how has it been, etc…I keep on intending to make a big post about this, probably on the College thread, but I’ve managed to procrastinate for the past six months. At this point I think I’ll probably post a reflection on my experiences once the semester ends and I head back, seeing as I have only a month and a half left.
On that note: Wow. Time’s really flown. And so has the clock, it’s 2:18 am and I should probably get to bed if I want to be at all functional in the morning.
I’ve been remembering so many weird dreams lately.
I had a dream a few nights ago that a guy got attacked by a bear behind my mom’s house, and he escaped and I let him into the house. He wasn’t injured really badly so I let him stay in the house for a while then offered to drive him home.
Join the club! A couple weeks ago I had a dream where I was at the state fair with my family, and then we went back in time to donate some tickets to a silent auction at the 1992 state fair, except I had to keep my friend who I accidentally brought back too from figuring out what was going on. We were time-traveling in a giant wooden air-submarine. Then I realized that I’d somehow disrupted the space-time continuum and thus caused Hagrid to be killed as a young boy, so I had to go back again to save him. I messed it up the first three times, and ended up having to swordfight a pirate armed with a rapier while I had only a dagger. I succeeded in killing him (rather violently…) and saved Hagrid’s life. Oh, also Hagrid lived in some largeish old wooden house with a big fence around on the banks of a lake where the state fair would one day be.
I had a dream recently that involved some sort of sleepover, (don’t remember much about that) and I think KaiYves was in there somewhere as well.
And then some other night, something about a mermaid and a friend’s wedding and flowers.
48 (Choklit Orange) – :sadface:. I was there (hating things, fits of tears, etc.) just a few months ago. For no apparent reason; it was killing me. I think what saved me was books. And hugs! Have a hug. Have twenty!
—Is there a source to this tradition of blue food? It sounds fantastic. I get jeepered when I think of food dyes, but most of the time I really love the crazy colors; blue tomato sauce sounds bizarre in the best way! I wish I’d seen it.
51 (Fiddler) – We used to have a futon in our basement, and it’s exactly what I want. I’ll be careful with the thickness; I’d like to be able to roll it up or fold it and stuff it in the closet. I’m cool with routines and stuff as far as having to pack it away and get it back out; in fact, guiding myself into a pattern like that is part of why I’ve decided to make these changes. Thank you for the information and advice!
I might end up just turning my mattress on its side; it depends on how the room ends up being organized. Really all I want is clean edges and aesthetic balance, and getting rid of the bed during the day seemed like an elegant solution.
Does anybody have any ideas on what I could put on my floor? I don’t like the way the rug I have is; the whole point of this rearranging is to make things align harmoniously, and that rug has diagonals and points and fray all over the place. I certainly couldn’t afford tatami, which would be ideal (what can I say? The Japanese know what they’re doing!), but maybe something like it?
53 (Pan) – I haven’t actually gotten the screens yet, but I plan to.
Day of Service sounds wonderful! You do such great stuff at that school; if you can make picking up trash fun, pretty much anything can be achieved.
55 (Bibliophile) – That’s fantastic! What would that job entail?
I am gratified and somewhat disturbed by the general knowledge of apple cider vinegar’s healing properties. My mom has random health kicks about things so I never know which are legit (ex: “So eventually you don’t have to eat and you just get your energy from the SUN!” )
Anyway I may start using it…………………maybe 8|
Photosynthesis may be conceptually elegant, but unfortunately it’s not very efficient. To make it work, you’d have to increase your surface area considerably (think leaves), and even then you’d have to be content to move v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. (Trees aren’t exactly athletic, you know.)
That might suit a giant space squid. To live at anything close to a human pace, however, it makes more sense to let plants patiently photosynthesize away for months or years, and then eat a lot of them all at once.Or to eat something else that does that.
Increase your surface area? Most snails aren’t very large.
Anyway, I’d gladly give up quick movement if it meant I’d never have to eat again. Maybe giant space tardigrades can also do it, though of course the normal ones can’t any more than squids.
What about other giant space creatures? Does anyone know?
After one bout with a sprained ankle and another with a pulled Achilles tendon, I have not the slightest wish to give up quick movement. Not even for the advantages of photosynthesis.
Well, maybe I can decrease my volume, then! Even a giant tardigrade would be much smaller than me; have you seen how tiny the regular ones are? Exactly.
Ideally I would want to do both. Like, eat for most of the energy needed, but be refreshed and reenergized by spending time outside in the sun.
Yeah, I wouldn’t be able to deal with not moving. I get into moods where I need to just gogogogogo a lot. When I was younger, my mother used to send me outside and not let me back in until I had run 3 laps around the house XD
I’ve never been very fast or energetic as it is, so I might not mind snail’s pace movement much. Food can taste goood, but we’re using too much of the Earth’s surface area for me to want to. I might eat a few wild fruits now and then, but that would be about it.
Heyyyy look at all the work I am supposed to be doing. Aka, I am here instead!
THF! Panda! It is great to see you two around, I haven’t talked with either of you in ages! And that is a travesty! I am glad to see that your lives seem to be going pretty well.
This weekend:
Contra on friday–big dance, the Dandelion Romp. My friend’s band played, as well as a pretty well known one. I also went to another ocntra today from 2-4, and saw my friend’s band as well as Giant Robot Dance, which was cool. After the dance on friday went back to my dorm and played magic/egyptian ratsnake/apples to apples with people and hung out in the lounge, as we always seem to do.
Saturday went to a friend’s dance performance, which was very cool. And afterwards we had a Doctor Who/baking party. I got slightly distracted by nerf for a bit, though I only stayed for one game–an all-meele weapons deathmatch. Very fun, though our team lost, alas.
Today (it is still basically sunday, not 2am, oops) slept in because I am a terrible person, then went to lunch and eventually the contra. And then my dad was in town because he has business nearby this week, so went to dinner with him and gave him some stuff (hockey equipment, winter clothes, etc) to take home so I don’t have to at the end of the year. I don’t want to think about the fact that I only get like FIVE more weeks here. That’s CRAZY. What. I can’t even think about it right now.
Then I tried to work on my bio report (due wednesday), ignored my chem problem set (also due wednesday), and am sort of working on my anthropology presentation (due tuesday) and should at least LOOK at the prompt for the anthro paper (also due tuesday). Or quickly write up the short traditional irish music paper I have due tomorrow night. ALL THE WORK, FOREVER.
Anyway, I got back to north and my friends had usurped my profile on the site-that-shall-not-be-named and filled it with puns. I haaate puns. So I got into a (friendly) fist fight with one of my friends and sort of with another because they KEPT MAKING MORE. And then later they started it again so there was more punching and it was not good for my work oops.
Don’t turn around. To satisfy your curiosity, that noise you just heard was a semi-autonomous Consensus Regulation System intersecting your temporal milieu.
Don’t struggle. It won’t help in the long run, but it will alleviate the pain by allowing the dreamspiders to interface with your brainstem more efficiently.
Don’t open your eyes. Sensory input during the reality transfer has been known to cause psychic breakdown in 43% of tested subjects.
Don’t worry. Your new memories, and life, will be quite like your old ones.
Probably.
Oh, I remember a couple of years ago when the same thing happened to me. Don’t worry about it, and don’t question it too hard, you never know who’s listening…
My dad was in a horrible mood last night because he’s having a colonoscopy today and he couldn’t eat dinner. (Have I mentioned that my dad is obsessed with food and cooking?)
So now he and mom are out and my brothers and I are just killing time until they get home.
As much as it seemed a great idea at the time, the fact that half of you consists of drawings of dragons is not proving helpful to the paper I now have to write.
Sincerely,
Jade, who refuses to take responsibility for what is honestly Her Own Fault
I am honestly afraid to check my email inbox after not looking at it for a week. Or more. It doesn’t help that for some reason I cannot log into my account except through Internet Explorer which is way to slow and clumsy for me…
It was a sandwich with pulled pork, beef brisket, and a peppery sort of sausage on it. The sauces: a vinegar-based Texas red sauce; a thin sauce with Cajun spices; a thick, sweet brown sauce; a very thick and spicy sauce; and a sweet mustard-based sauce.
What I Am Doing Right Now: Posting on MB, reading Good Omens fanfiction, and listening to Mugglecast.
What I Am Not Doing: My Homework.
This will soon change. Like, next few minutes. Promise.
Okay, so you guys said being afraid of the lizard men from Dr. Who shows you aren’t very brave. What about the vampire ladies with the really messed-up fangs?
(Was watching performance of “I Am The Doctor” to make somebody else happy.)
I just saw another giant inflatable HPB. That’s, what, the 3rd so far this year? In fact, I’ve only seen one bunny decoration (besides the ones at my house) that wasn’t pink, and it was by far the smallest! /outrage, frustration, and worry/
59.1 (CO) – I can’t tell whether or not you’re being sarcastic… either way, growing bamboo seems like a great project. Actually, maybe I’ll use some bamboo to grow inside to fill the awkward spaces in my room.
Everything relates back to the room somehow, I guess. There is a possibility that that is taking over my life.
59.2 (Bibliophile) – That sounds like an incredible job. You’ll be able to do some good there, for sure.
I love birds. I really wanted to volunteer at the aviary when I was little, but I haven’t done anything about that particular dream. Actually, you’ve inspired me to look into that again. Thank you!
62 (Jade) – Hi!
MuseBloggers just have the coolest lives outside of the blog. I think we all need a melee weapons deathmatch or two in our lives.
Also: Hate puns?! What is wrong wit you?
Okay, that was bad. That was exceedingly bad. Give me a few minutes; I’ll come up with something.
64 (KY) – I hope your dad’s colonoscopy was clean as a green bean!
66 (FF) – In my head, full email inboxes are always cartoons, bursting with letters. Just don’t open the emails when you’re behind; that always works for me. I read the subject, gather what information I can from that, determine that it isn’t urgent, and never open it. IT’S A PERFECT SYSTEM.
My email has 150 unread emails because of those situations.
If you hate puns so much, then why did you spend your time on (s)wordplay?
Nope, still bad. It must be late. Cake, I’m sure there’s something in the s/wordplay area.
67 (Piggy) – Yum.
72 (Koppar) – TERRIFIC!!! Congratulations!!!!!
What did you audition for? Do you plan to attend?
Okay, Jadestone, I got it. No, I’ve really got you with this one.
I’m sorry your notes had to drag on, but couldn’t you have gone all snout anthrown in some komodophones?
I just made Portal earrings. Gives a whole new meaning to “in one ear out the other”.
I really want to play Portal 2 but I should play Portal first. How should I go about doing that? I don’t have any game systems here but at home we have a Wii now.
I can play it on piano. Not that I’ve actually done so, but I know the solfege (Do, re, mi, etc) of it, so I’m sure I could if I tried.
For the good of all of us–except the ones who are dead.
Remind me to write on Our Reclusive Gardens when I have free time.
Wait. What is this free time I’m talking about? I only finished chem. A hundred question test.
Off to envirothon stuff. Yay.
*hides in corner and cries*
For closure’s sake: Finished paper and project, went to bed, around 5am. Oops. But I decided to not go to my first class and edit it, so I still got a good 5 hours of sleep.
Tonight will also be long, but I have to go to class so more about that later.
Which, unfortunately, is full of Things I Am Morbidly Curious About and should not read late at night but do anyway.
I am sorry, Robert. Though in place of the website I can recommend fanfiction in general as something I am bad at avoiding.
I agree with Kai, but if you must have one, try to search for ones related to the obsessions you already have. MuggleNet and The Leaky Cauldron are excellent.
…I went to the New England Folk Festival and learned how to contra dance! (ish.)Oh yeah, and we hit a turkey on the highway. We think/hope it survived. It was extremely terrifying and sad, too, because, well, we were on the highway and the best we could do was slow down, thus resulting in feathers. It hit the windshield. I am now even more scared of hitting animals than I was after we stopped about an inch away from a huge buck. (Okay, okay doggies!) Warm fuzzy dogs are greeting me enthusiastically (despite the fact that I’ve been home for about an hour) so I’ll be quick and attempt too catch up.
Bibliophile (55) – That’s awesome! Congratulations! I love baby birds.
THF (29) – I have not finished Pride and Prejudice due to the fact that I keep leaving it at school (although you’ve probably finished it by now)! Also, putting things in peoples’ cubbies is indeed quite elf-full. The only problem was that only about half the people noticed. XD Ah well.
Koppar (72) – Yay!!! Congratulations!
Purple Panda (53) and THF (29): The butterbeer had caramel syrup, fizzy water, and whipped cream in it. (I think it was blenderized.) It was fizzy, though–if you don’t like the fizzy recipes then it probably wouldn’t be great.
I had a great time, saw the liberty bell, the zoo, the Franklin Institute (Which had a Star Wars reanactement going on at the time), and I went to my first ever major league baseball game.
They had a few storm troopers and Darth Vader walking aroud the museum taking pictures with people by the time I got there. I don’t know if they did anything else, but Vader had a lightsaber out and the storm troopers all had weapons. It was pretty cool.
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Hey. I agree with Jadestone – we should be nice. I’m sure y’all mean to be helpful, but counseling neophytes too pedantically is going to scare them off. I think we’ve got an enthusiastic one here, so let’s make the most of ens energy and channel it into the Kokonspiracy!
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…aaaaaaand SBF exits stage left.
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Okay, are you new? Direct yourself to the neophytes’ thread. Just south on the main page.
And do learn to spell better, hun. I managed to gather that you think you’re a bad speller but spellcheck is always available… And we’ll know you made a pseudonym because of the gravatars.
This is a forum with moderators, not a chatroom. I did the same thing when I was new (albeit with better spelling)… just learn the ropes, lurk a bit, and join in. We do love new people, just be a bit better-behaved.
Hi. You’re not annoying, but you may not have gotten used to using proper spelling, grammar, and as little chatspeak as possible. Please do so. I’d very much like to read what you’ve written, but I cannot comprehend it.
74- I auditioned for Chorus, and yes, I’m planning to attend.
Replies to 72- D’awwww, thanks! ♥
And now, some non sequiturs.
No.1: I finally got around to watching Spirited Away. Now I see what all the fuss is about. ♥
No.2: Mori girl fashion is pretty. ♥
…I’ll stop the gratuitous use of hearts now.
Hello. You seem new. Welcome to MuseBlog!
Please try to keep in mind that most people here really don’t like it very much when you post multiple times in a row, use text talk, or don’t capitalize and punctuate sentences properly. It’s harder to read posts like that. It’s fine if you’re not the best at spelling; that isn’t anything you can control, but please do the best you can. It doesn’t look you proofread; I’m sure you know that ‘annoying’ is one word, whether or not you can spell it, and I think we’d all really appreciate it if you tried very hard to make posts easier to read. Thank you!
Koko’s Apprentice, I may have inadvertently deleted one of your comments that wound up in the spam bin. I tried to grab it mid flight but unless another GAPA caught it, ’tis gone, I fear. My humble apologies.
Maybe, though I thought it was a little longer. I didn’t get a chance to read it. My finger acted completely on its own while in the same instant my mind was crying out “oh noes!”
The brilliant student government at my school has decided to theme prom Roaring Twenties. I should note that we have a swing dance every year in late February/early March (with record attendance this year) as a band fundraiser event, with a live big band made up of student musicians, free food, fantastic decorations, and an admission price of $5. StudGov is charging forty bucks a person for a very similar theme minus the live music (minus period music at all I would guess), food, and general atmosphere. Oh, and they want to borrow all of the band’s decorations.
That seems kind of expensive. I think they were $20 for someone who didn’t go to the school and wasn’t a junior or senior but who had been invited by a junior or senior and free or $10 for someone who was a junior or senior.
There are these wrens (cleverly named Wrenny and Wrennette by my father) that keep trying to build a nest in our garage because my brother insists on leaving it open so he can skateboard. It’s kind of cute, but my dad still hates the wrens.
The chapter I’m writing for a collaborative fan-fic on anther site features Angry!Butt-kicking!Future!Mike Fincke. I can’t wait to see if anybody can take the concept seriously.
Bibliophile (55/59.2): Wow, that sounds great! Are they baby birds from the wild, do they rescue them and nurse them back to health or something? How big is the program/(how many birds)?
FantasyFan (57): Ooh, exciting. I have some friends studying abroad in Jordan next year–I’ll look forward to your reflection.
Tesseract (60): *hugs* Eat some ice cream!
Axa (61): If I could photosynthesize, I’d probably be the happiest person ever. Except in the winter when there isn’t very much sun. Then I could live off of bread and chocolate.
Jadestone (61.1.2.1.2): Yes, just like that!
Jadestone (62): I missed you, too! We should kokonvene sometime, because I think we’re much closer to each other now that we’re in college than we were when we lived full-time at home.
KaiYves (64): He just missed dinner? He should feel very fortunate–for my colonoscopies, I’ve had to fast for an entire day or more. And then, food is so much more fun afterward, because you’ve missed it so much!
Piggy (67): That sounds very very spicy. My mouth would probably ignite and cause my entire body to engulf in flames.
Koppar (72): Congratulations! How is the school organized? I went to an arts school, and we had academics in the morning and our “major” (arts focus) in the afternoon.
THF (74): That is the worst email system I have ever heard!! Remind me to rub off on you some more. But oh my gosh, your puns are divine. JUST SO GOOD.
(77-78): You all need to go to sleep. It’s good for you.
oxlin (79): I just got Portal yesterday! It was $9.99 on Steam–Google can find it for you. I’m on level 14, and it’s really fun! // How did you make the earrings? (I think I’m getting my ears pierced on Friday! Eep!)
MissSwann, Cat’s Meow (83/.2): Time flies, eh?
Ghost of Pie Girl (85): Read a book! Climb a tree! Knit a hat! Eat a banana! Don’t waste your time on the internet.
Mikazuki (89): Thanks! I’m not really a fizzy fan, but I think that recipe can probably be modified.
Tesseract/etc. (98): My school’s prom tickets were $35 my senior year. My friends bought one for me because they wanted to make sure I went. I think the price changes every year based on how much money they raised. The previous year, I think tickets were $50.
So it has been raining here since Friday. I don’t think it has stopped for more than an hour or so the entire time. We have a huge pond in the middle of campus because the ground is so saturated. Swimming!
Yes to your first question, though I personally won’t be doing that because I’m very inexperienced. According to their website, they get about 1,500 birds each summer.
My parents have told me to make a college decision by Friday. OH THE PRESSURE
Also, another day, another twelve liters of water lugged up the hill to my dorm room. I needed to do it, I’d run out of drinking water a couple days ago and tap water is, uh, under suspect here, but I wish I could come up with a better system. At least the six big bottles should last me a while.
I also bought tons of junk food when I bought the water. Most of it has been eaten now. My excuse is not having gone on a big junk food binge like that for several weeks and suffering from withdrawal.
I’ve just come back from Albany. Next week I’m going to New York City.
We went to the Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield ( Massachusetts, which is apparently closer to New York than to my home ). It was super fascinating and they make beautiful furniture. I highly recommend it.
102 (Pan)~ Getting your ears pierced doesn’t really hurt as much as you’d expect it to, just relax and don’t think about the fact that you’re getting something stabbed clean through your flesh if that would be upsetting.
So, I sent in my deposit for [college that you probably already know I wanted to go to, but I’ll not name here because then you’d know where I’m going to live for the next four years], which is SUPER EXCITING. Anyway, hopefully they won’t change their minds and be like “HAHA NEVERMIND WE DON’T WANT YOU.” (Part of me is terrified that they will…the other part still doesn’t believe that I was even accepted on purpose.) Anyway, that’s cool, I’m excited, and shoutout to HAWK, thanks to you and yours for introducing me to the school. Awesomesauce.
I need to do something about making my windows more visible to birds, as one hit them and died (in my hands, the poor little thing). We live in the woods, so it’s sadly not a super uncommon occurrence.
Here is a list of things you can add to your windows, from most effective to least effective (you only need to do one, but I’m putting them all so that you can choose), quoted from 101 Ways To Help Birds by Laura Erickson:
“.One-way transparent film that permits people on the inside to see out but appears opaque on the outside. The best product currently out is CollideEscape, marketed by Large Format Digital. This prevents burds from both colliding into the glass and fighting their reflections. Part of the purchase price supports the Fatal Light Awareness program*.
.Vertical exterior tape strips, set no more than four inches apart on the glass.
.External shutters that are kept closed when you’re not taking advantage of the light or the view.
.External sun shades or awnings, to reduce reflections of the sky
.Interior vertical blinds with the slats half open
.Soap on the outside of the window
.Decals, sun catchers, Mylar strips, or other objects on the outer surface of the glass. These should be set close enough that an open adult handprint can’t fit between them.”
*They apparently help reduce window kills.
It’s also good to know what to do if a bird hits your window, so here’s another quote from the book, which you can ignore if you already know:
“If an injured bird is lying on its back, it may go into what seems to be a hupnotic state and simply be unable to balance or right itself. If you don’t help, it may die unnecessarily. First, protect yourself. Most songbirds, even chickadees, can pack a wallop in their beaks but are usually harmless when in the dazed state. However, the talons on even a semiconscious hawk can cause serious injuries. Wear thick leather gloves to handle hawks or owls.
Never put any wild bird in a cage. Its feathers may becaome frayed against the metal bars, compromising its ability to fly.
The best way to help a bird after a window strike is to gently place it right up side a branch in a dense shrub to see if it can perch properly. If it can, it has a chance of recovering on its own. If it can’t, put it in a small cardboard box, propped if necessary in a “donut cushion” fashioned out of tissue. For most backyard birds, a shoebox is perfect. Every ten or fifteen minutes, take the box outdoors, open it, and see if the bird flies off. Never open the box indoors. And don’t release a songbird after dusk–wait until morning. If the bird is ready to leave, it will usually be able to take off from the box.If not, hold it in your hand as you try to release it, but don’t toss it in the air to “launch” it. Just open your hand and be patient–you can gently touch its tail to see if that speeds up the process.
Most birds with minor concussions recover within an hour or two if they’re going to recover at all. If blood or black spinal fluid is coming from the mouth, the bird is most likely fatally injured. Otherwise, there is at least a chance that it will recover. If the bird doesn’t fly away soon, get it to a wildlife rehabilitation facility as soon as possible, transporting it in a cardboard box or a large paper sack.”
I have Beemo’s sad song from the newest Adventure Time stuck in my head.
Finn, why are you fighting with your friend
Jake, you know, this could be the end
Romance or Action, does not matter
Hurting your friend, will make you sadder
Guys, you know, you’re much more than this
You two please stop, or you’ll undo
All that you been through-ooh
Just hug, and it’s agreed
Your love will not delete
It’s very sweet and touching. Does that make me an Adventure Time nerd?
Me : Mom, do you think I’m a boring old lady?
Mom : Well, you’re not boring, but you are an old lady. You’re a very interesting old lady! Just trapped in the body of an 18 year old girl.
I tend to agree with this
Fiddler — MANY BILLIONS OF CONGRATULATIONS!! *confetti*
FantasyFan — one way to gauge your response to things is to write down the names of both colleges on small slips of paper (or something similar) and mix them around until you don’t know which is which. Think “I’ll go to THIS one!” and then pick one. If you find you’re disappointed with the one you’ve picked, think about that. I’ve found that I’ve often already made my decision on things I’m being indecisive about, I just don’t want to actually decide. So that might help. Or I’m just full of it.
Has anyone here read Les Miserables? If so, tell me, because it seems like no one has read it but me and I need to squee with fangirl joy with people about Enjolras and Jehan and Montparnasse and amazing things!
In other news, History is now my favorite subject again. We’re learning about the Cold War, and I keep wanting to draw America and England and France and a few other countries up in a treehouse with NATO painted on it, and Russia standing at the bottom of the tree being all hopeful and “Can I join guys?” And they frown at him and paint a sign that says NO RUSSIA ALLOWED! and hang it on the treehouse. So Russia is all “Fine! Stupid NATO, I don’t need you anyway! I’m going to go start my own Warsaw Pact, and it’s going to be better than any stupid club you make!”
Because that’s how my mind works.
I guess I’m just kind of buried in fandommery right now. I’m spending about a third of every class just quietly drawing Les Mis fanart and writing Hetalia fanfiction and obsessing about Doctor Who.
Our wireless router went out last night. 24 hours without internet… *shivers* But I’ve had Portal 2 to keep me company. And I installed a new router, so here I am. (I posted once last night from my Kindle, but that’s quite slow, so I didn’t do more than that.)
Virtually everyone that knows him believes that my Spanish teacher smokes marijuana at least once in a while. Today was 4/20. He was unexpectedly absent. No one, including myself, can get over the hilarity of this.
My family used to not have a wireless router, so my brother would frequently take our modem and plug it into his Xbox, leaving me disconnected from the world. *tries to block out traumatic memories*
Marijuana day, I believe? I have no idea why the association exists, but if you log onto The Voldemort Network on the 20th of April you’ll see statuses like “celebratin 420!! Ahahehehah.”
I don’t have the slightest idea which website it is, though. I actually thought it was a general term for other sites. Well, at least I know not to use it now.
Sorry, typo that I didn’t see on the iPod. That should be 420, or more precisely 4/20. Wikipedia went straight to that page on the iPod, but the desktop sent me to entries for the date. Try “4/20 (cannabis culture).”
I’ve beaten the first five or six chapters, but today it crashed my computer when I tried to play it. I’ve fiddled with some things and am about to try again. Testchamber 19? *looks up on Youtube* Ah, that one. It was a great feeling when I figured out the trick to beating it.
So I’ve figured out that there’s a bug in Portal 2 that makes it a one-use game. For a quite large number of people (including yours truly), it can be played once–works beautifully, no problems whatsoever. But if you close it and play it again later, it freezes and the sound loops and if you’re not quick, you get a BSOD. Valve claims they’re testing a patch, but they don’t have an ETA for it. Urgh. I hope they send it out soon. I didn’t pay fifty bucks to not play a game.
Fortunately for me it doesn’t seem to do that. I’ve exited and re-entered twice by now. But there are occasional freezings, but pressing Esc will get me out of them, I think it’s more to do with my slowish computer.
small but fierce flung several stuffed squids at Piggy on January 4, 2009, three days after she arrived on the blog. As far as I can tell, she also made the first presentation of squid, to Midnight Fiddler, on November 9, 2009.
I thought the squidmania started when Jade announced that she is a Giant Space Squid, which prompted the formation of a Giant Space Squid colony (I believe called a pod). I don’t know when people started giving squid to one another, though apparently sbf has something to do with it.
Jadestone’s transformation into a Giant Space Squid occurred on June 2, 2009, but she and other MBers had been talking about ordinary squid (both giant and non-giant) for a long time before that. The first reference to squid on the blog was by Axa, on August 31, 2005.
We GAPAs really need to get back to work on our MuseBlog Index project.
Well, I changed my profile on the Voldemort Network (thanks, Fireh) to “interested in girls,” though I’m not really interested in anyone at the moment. Still, I feel rather proud of myself. Though I don’t think anyone will notice. Anyway…
What would you suggest I make for a potluck Easter brunch?
So my college on 4/20 is the same as my college any other day. Oh liberal arts schools.
In all honesty though, while there’s a significant amount of people who do smoke, everyone cares about their studies enough that they don’t sacrifice them at all (at least as far as I’ve seen/who I know).
102- Academics in the morning, major in the afternoon. Maybe it’s standard arts school scheduling.
Today, I got my Hogwarts letter! (Well… sort of.)
That is to say, I got my acceptance letter from the arts school (which I shall henceforth refer to as “Hogwarts”–after all, they have a Quidditch team). This is three days after the confusing Ministry of Magic “your reassignment request complies with Board of Education Bill Something-or-Other” gibberish. Bureaucracy is confusing.
I realize that I’m a terrible person for having an extremely eurocentric approach to (or at least interest in) history, but I really hate trying to do research on Native Americans.
Today I went to the MFA with Nym and Silver Lining! It was fantastic fun, and we saw a glassblowing exhibit by Dale Chihuly! There was actually a Muse article on him a while ago, and I saw a lot of the stuff in the exhibit I’d seen photos of in the article. It was super cool.
We also explored the new wing, in which we found a painting by Benjamin West called The Hope Family. It stuck out because there were two girls in it who -in my opinion- looked exactly like Midnight Fiddler! Silver Lining and Nym both confirmed this, so I guess I’m not a creepster. Although as soon as I got home I gimped together a photo of the painting with a photo of Midnight Fiddler I got off the blog. Would the GAPAs (and Fiddler, of course) mind if I sent it in? I’m curious as to how much of a resemblance there actually was.
120 (Sudo)~ I’m always flattered when people think of/creep on me, no worries. By all means, send it in!
120.2 (Koppar)~ *graceful bow* At your service, ma’am.
120.2.1 (Robert)~ I believe you mean “she spends an unusual amount of time in the 18th century, …there’s no reason she couldn’t occasionally wander into the 19th.”
Though I do pay visits to the 17th century, the 18th is my “second home”, as it were. I do hope to explore the 19th century in the future (past?) as well.
121 (Robert)~ Aha, I can see something of a resemblance. Interesting the girls’ haircuts, I wonder if short hair was typical for young girls at that time? The oldest looks to be not much older than 14. DO I SENSE A JUST FOR FUN RESEARCH PROJECT? Eh, maybe.
I don’t think their hair is short, I think it’s just tied back or pinned up. Either way, nice to have a better image of what you look like. (Besides your gravatar, which is my default mental image for all MBers.)
So it’s possible to change the past, then? There goes my theory. It’s the only way I can think of for one of the girls in the picture to be you. You’d have to go back in time to when you were 14 (or younger, if you’d rather be the younger girl) and tell your former self to go back in time and pose in the picture. Since you don’t remember it happening, you apparently don’t experience the effects of time travel until after you’ve done it… But then how are we seeing the picture? Cake, this is confusing! I suppose time travel works better if you don’t think about it too much.
122.1 (FF)~ That could be, but it’s definitely trimmed in the bangs and around the ears, so if it were long it would be some kind of mullet-like hairstyle. It’s hard to see against the background, but when I zoomed in on the picture their hair looked like the back of their brothers’, which I’m guessing is just short instead of tied back in a ponytail, since it’s wide at the bottom, if that makes sense. I also don’t see anything resembling a snood, which is the only way I can think they’d get that shape of hair in the back other than having it cut short.
Hmm. More research needed, for sure.
As far as knowing what I look like, I’m in a lot of Kokonvention albums, not hard to find.
The one on the left is in a particularly Fiddlish pose, in my opinion.
Fiddler- I’m not gifted in the ways of Gimp, so it was just a cropped picture of the two girls next to a cropped picture of you. It doesn’t really add much. Glad you don’t think I’m a creeper, though!
whatthecakeit’s11:49pmalready?!?!?!?
Umm… I was going to eat or something, but now it’s late!
Umm…I’m delusional and I’m going to make an analogy of my electronics.
My laptop and I have been drifting apart. (start sarcasm) Maybe this should go on the R&R thread, but I’m really concerned about me and my laptop. It’s weird because we will spend all this time together and it feels so short, but then we will be apart for a long time and it’s like we don’t even notice. And I can’t find my cord for my Sony camera that doesn’t use a normal USB cord.
I feel like this incompatibility between the laptop and the digital camera is really messing up my relationship with the laptop even though it’s not the laptop’s fault. The camera is the one with the problem here. It just seems like this camera gets between me and every laptop I have. I should just get rid of that camera and get a new one, but I can’t move on. I’ve put so much into getting that camera and the memory cards for it and I just can’t let go. I guess I should move on from that camera because I really value my relationship with my laptop. I don’t want to lose this!
So…in conclusion, Sony is a jerkish company! There is a time and a place to be unique. That time and place is not when you are designing the output plug for a digital camera!
Re: Portrait/my likeness: Is Sudo’s picture going to be posted, or is it not going to be because Robert already put up the paining? Just curious, because, like, DRAWING ATTENTION TO MYSELF, obviously.
A brief update on the status of my mental health (Since you all are so great and supportive and have been all through this god-awful fiasco)
My parents are aware of the panic attacks, as is my doctor. It is believed that the panic is caused by the medication (ironically, a mood stabilizer) I’ve been taking for my restless leg syndrome (RLS), so I’m being slowly taken off that medication. Instead, I’ll be taking an amino acid supplement that could help the RLS and often helps with anxiety-related issues. The unfortunate thing is that the amino acids won’t work right away so I’m going off my meds (coinciding with hormones leading to ODD behavior) and not getting sleep….
I also need to take cake loads of iron, in a desperate attempt to fix the RLS.
I’m having less panic attacks, though, so soon hopefully all will be well! (Well, except that my wrist is scarred and that won’t go away for a long time…. )
TL;DR: Jade joined a circus and will be spinning poi for the performances next weekend! So tech week is next week aka rehearsals 5pm-10pm x_x Also I accidentally a solo in the act so need to find time to choreograph ffff
Well, (since I know how fascinated you all are by it), I suppose it’s time for a Portal 2 update. They released a patch early this morning, but it didn’t fix the crash that’s been affecting me. However, I tried running it in Compatibility Mode for Windows XP SP2, and it worked. I made sure that I did not close out of the game. And, because sleep is for the weak, I beat the game. So utterly fantastic. Such marvelous characters. Such a hilariously original script. Such music. Such surprises.
Okay, so I’ve just finished the repulsion gel/ Alpha testing, and now I need to get to the propulsion gel/ Beta testing. I’m in that room with the two pipes, one pumpling Repulsion and one pumping Propulsion, with a glass wall between them. I can’t figure out how to get onto the lobby for propulsion gel testing! HALP!
1. Get on the metal platform high on the wall to the left of the lobby.
2. Shoot one portal on one white patch on the floor and the other on the other patch.
3. Jump down into the nearer portal.
4. When you come out the opposite portal, shoot a portal (same color as the portal you first jumped into) onto the white patch on the left side of the glass, opposite the lobby.
Gentle waves creased the surface of the deep blue sea; the color was so vibrant and fresh, like a newly awakened flower, that it’s beauty could only be rivaled by the sky, which was a smooth, uncaring blue, vibrant and creamy. Dreamy white clouds were swirled into this blue, like cream into yogurt–if yogurt could be blue–until parts of the sky were the color of robin eggs. Fluffy clouds drifted lazily past, their tendrils elegantly curling into ribbons. The silvery branches of a weeping tree hung down, resplendent against the glorious sky. Red buds began to poke their heads out; the shimmery bark framed them spectacularly. A seagull flew across the small cove, the light breeze ruffling his feathers.
Hello Museblog!
Since it is Earthday, I thought that I’d come on and shot it out!
HAPPY EARTH DAY!
Anywho… yep. I haven’t been on here for a long time. Alas. Tis my senior year and I’m a crazy woman with too much stuff. I miss the loveliness of MB so much! But now it’s spring break! Yay!
I hope so. Although I’ve gotta tell ya… once graduation starts up in May it’ll be even more hectic.
But hey y’all! I’m never gone for good! I am here in spirit. ^^
Hey my sister came back from Spain last year about this time. I tackled her in the middle of the airport and then she tried to speak to me in Spanish during dinner because she was so tired that she forgot she was in America.
Family: *fast-forwarding through commercials on Tivo*
Me: WAIT STOP GO BACK THAT WAS A DOCTOR WHO TRAILER.
Family: …Okay… *goes back and watches trailer*
Me: HE’S WEARING A STETSON. STETSONS ARE COOL.
Family: How do you know so much about Doctor Who, anyway? It’s not like you watch it.
Me: …We live in the same house, yes?
In other news: GHJAKLGHFDSLK TOMORROW! River! Amy! Rory! Doctor! America! STETSONS!
I need my hard drive back so I can watch End of Time and catch up to the current show!
Made my decision. That’s one (very very big) load off my shoulders. Thanks everyone who gave me advice. Now I’m empty and just waiting for something else to happen. I have nothing planned for tomorrow…I think I’ll sleep in.
I have compared my elementary and middle school careers in physical education and have come to a realization: one of these schools was doing something incorrect in the playing of dodgeball.
Compare:
Elementary school- there are three rings painted onto the asphalt, two large ones three feet apart (by apart I mean one inside the other) and a small one in the center. Four or five children would stand in the center and everyone else in the class would stand between the two outer rings. Between the majority there would be 1-7 balls, and they would try to tag out the people in the center. The number of balls allocated to the outside children would increase as the game went on.
Middle school- The class would be divided in half, as would the gymnasium’s floor, and each half of the class would go to a different half of the gym. The two sides would be given a large amount of balls and they would try and hit each other with them, and if one was hot they would go to the back of the opposite portion of the gym and try to catch balls there. If they caught a ball, they could a) run them back to their team alongside the gym or b) try to tag out close members of the opposing team.
Which way is correct? Has anyone else played it differently? Discuss.
There are so many different variations on dodgeball it’s hard to say which is the right one. That said, I’ve never heard of your Elementary School’s version, and the Middle School version is closer to the one I’ve played. The main difference is that when I played, you got back in when the person who got you out got out.
Whenever I had to play dodgeball, we threw the balls rather than hitting people with them. Well, everyone els did. I just hid in a corner and wasn’t noticed, but that’s beside the point.
In honour of Earth Day: *throws mud pies at all and sundry*
140 – I’ve only ever played it the second way. Well, sort of. I’ve played it that if you catch a ball thrown from your team, you have to go back to your team. But I’ve also played it that you don’t try to catch the balls, you can grab any that roll back or whatever and throw them at the opposing team, and if you hit one of them they aren’t out but you’re free. Does that make sense? And of course I’ve played it where everyone goes into a big rectangle and tries to get everyone else out. But I don’t think there’s really a right and wrong to dodgeball. (Of course, the reason I hold this opinion may be that I don’t care enough to have an opinion about which is right.)
The most HILARIOUS thing just happened to
me in the bookstore this evening.
Basically, these two teenage boys thought I was (a) a guy AND (b) a GAY guy. Ohhhhhh boy.
I’m probably going to get several replies saying “WHAT EXPLAIN” if I don’t elaborate, so I’ll go ahead and do that.
First it needs to be said what I am wearing. I’m wearing baggy jeans, a spotchy red and blue tiedyed unisex tshirt, black Crocs, a headband that really looks like a bandana with black and red butterflies all over it, a three bracelets on my left arm, and a watch and a wristband on my right. Basically, doesn’t really look like a girl, but certain aspects of my appearance aren’t quite ‘manly’.
So I’m sitting/lying on one of the little couch-chairs they have at the bookstore, reading my DWM (The “Cosmic Relief” cover one where Matt’s nose is a pirate), and these two teenage boys are giving me really funny looks and lowering their voices, so naturally I lower my magazine slightly, stare back at them for a few seconds, give them a small wave like “I know you’ve been staring at me”, and return to chuckling happily over David Tennant with a huge red nose. A few seconds later one of them mutters to the other “I think he’s a [expletive]ing gay!”, they both look at me, then they promptly abandoned their chairs and left the area.
In other news, two of my friends (a fairly masculine girl (who still manages to have pink hair) and a vaguely feminine guy) were just walking around, and someone mistook them for a lesbian couple. XD
Not too long ago, I was sitting at a table with some friends, and friends-of-friends. One guy at one point in the conversation said to me something along the lines of, “You know, Z [a bi guy in the group] looks more like a girl than you. No offense.” To which I responded, “None taken. I get that a lot.”
The new manager DeAngelo is a lover of the west, so you can see a figure of kokopelli under a painting of the desert. It’s when Michael is talking to the camera. I basically flipped.
MuseBlog! I have fantastic news! Truly spectacular!
Some of you may remember on the Rants and Plaints thread a while ago I posted that my cat got out over night? (If not you are not to blame as it was during the very scary time of Not My Real Email.)
It’s been a week and a half… AND OUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBORS JUST FOUND HIM MEOWING IN THEIR DRIVEWAY!
I’d be petting him right now, but he’s super skinny and starving so I’m letting him eat.
FantasyFan (104): You can do it! When I was trying to decide what school to go to, I mostly just thought about which one I could see myself attending the most, which one made me most comfortable.
// I just read post 139, and congratulations! Now you can get really excited about actually going there.
Fiddler (106): Eeuhhhh, thanks! I didn’t actually get them done today, but I think I’m going to soon. And congratulations again for your college awesomeness! I’ll come visit you sometime.
Cat’s Eye (109): History is spectacular. I’m glad you’re enjoying it.
Piggy/Enceladus/etc. (110/etc.): I just got Portal (1), and it’s much more fun than I thought it would be. I’m on testchamber 15, I think? Something like that. But I’m trying to limit my play time, because I need to actually do homework and study and stuff.
Robert (111.2.1.1.1): You’re doing a MuseBlog Index project? That it such a good idea! What exactly does it entail?
Koppar (114): Mm, yeah. I think the schedule works really well that way, because it gives lots of uninterrupted time for the arts–we were able to have 3-hour-long writing workshops, and the other departments had extended art studio times, play rehearsals, etc. We also had our academics in alternating-day block scheduling, so we had 3 80-minute classes every day, then switched the next day, and so on.
Jade (115): My school has a Quidditch team, too! I went to games for the first few weeks, but then I just sort of stopped going. They’re designing a shirt for it, though, which is really cute–the front has a squirrel flying on a broom, and the back says “We catch the snitch through consensus.”
Princess Magnolia (116): Knock ’em dead! You got it! What are you auditioning for?
Halomaniac (117): That happens to me all the time. I find myself staying up unreasonably late, then getting up unreasonably early for my morning classes. And then I get really sleep deprived and crash at the end of the week and then start all over again. But I don’t think sleep is for the weak, I think it’s really important! So if you can remember, going to sleep at a decent hour is more important than pretty much anything else (I almost never take my own advice on this matter, but it’s always a goal).
Fiddler (119): Whatever you find most interesting, I think, is a perfectly reasonable thing to study. As long as you have a basic knowledge of worldwide history, you shouldn’t feel terrible about focusing on an area you’re interested in.
Sudo (120): Chihuly!! He came and did a really fancy exhibit at the Botanical Gardens/Conservatory in Pittsburgh a few years ago. He designed some of the pieces specifically for the gardens they were going in, too, which was especially cool. Did you see any of his giant chandelier-like pieces that hang from the ceiling?
Koppar (125): My dad swears by zinc lozenges, especially on the onset of a cold.
Clare (131): Hello! I haven’t been following your “god-awful fiasco,” but I’m glad that you’re optimistic and positive about it all. Hugs and cuddle puddle! (I take cake loads of iron, too–good times, indeed.)
Zinc (140): Dodgeball was “outlawed” in my school district, but my gym teacher renamed it “cardioball” and we still played it.
Why thank you! I may be popping in at random intervals on my days off, so brace yourselves. (Translation: I’m too weak to stay away from MB for an extended period of time.)
Well, my computer is having a tantrum at the moment and won’t let me respond to individual posts, so I’ll just do it here.
Fireh- I’m torn between tears and hysterical laughter. I think I’ll go with the laughter. BWA HA HA HA HA HA!
Sudo- YES! Oh, thank god(s). I was worried.
SBF- Congratulations! What part are you playing? There’s a great stage direction in As You Like It: Exit, pursued by a bear. Or is that King Lear? I’m not sure.
I would like to register my opinion: Dodgeball is unequivocally the most traumatic and painful game ever invented.
Oh. I definitely need to reread those. At one time I was under the impression that Hamlet fell in love with Juliet, gave a monologue about whether or not life was worth living, decided it wasn’t, and drank poison that didn’t actually work but prompted Juliet to kill herself in despair.
I am, though, a firm believer that Shakespeare is best acted, not read.
I agree! Some of the plays (including “The Winter’s Tale”) are almost unbearably silly to read but beautiful and moving when well staged and acted. A few years ago, a theater in Washington, D.C., put on an amazing production of “Pericles: Prince of Tyre,” a play so bad that most directors won’t go near it.
I just looked up “Pericles: Prince of Tyre”- you’re right, its terrible. Wow. It even reads badly. Maybe it’s because Shakespeare didn’t actually write all of it. I went to a wonderful production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in San Diego with my friend. It was really funny, but for some reason they suspended a lot of gymnasts above the stage on wires, which was rather distracting.
We’re reading Romeo and Juliet in class, and we got to the part where Mercutio dies. He says something along the lines of “It’s only a scratch” after being stabbed in the stomach, and all I could think of was Monty Python. Totally ruined the “tragedy” aspect.
I officially failed at sleep last night and stayed up until I heard the fajr athan. Then I woke up at one pm. It was wonderful. I haven’t pulled an all-nighter like that in quite sometime, much less because I wanted to, and since today was a weekend there were no consequences in class.
Of course, I will have to correct my sleep schedule tonight for class tomorrow, but evening’s hours away. I’m just going to enjoy myself right now…
I’m still not allowed to cook, but I ended up doing the dishes today. I also realized that this was the first time I washed the dishes in three years, despite countless vacations where we didn’t have a dishwasher. It’s not like I did it on purpose, it just sort of happened…
Re: Dodgeball: I’ve played “American dodgeball” several times: two teams, field split in two along the middle, a bunch of softballs (3 to 8) set on the middle line, you’re allowed to run forwards, you throw the ball at the other team. If you get hit, you’re out and take a seat on the bench. If you catch a ball, one of the players on your team gets to come back in.
Throughout elementary school and middle school, we played “Völkerball”, which is basically dodgeball only with different rules and countless variations. The main difference is that there’s an out field for each team behind the other team’s field and the players in the out field can come back in if they manage to hit one of the other team’s players. There’s also a Freigeist on each team, a person who starts out in the out field and comes in when there’s only one other player left standing and has two lives. It’s also played with one (or two) volleyballs instead of softballs, which hurts (literally). Variations are
a) an out field that encircles the other team’s field, as to encircle and permanently traumatize the players on each team
b) “Kings-/Queensball”, where one player is the King/Queen (secretly chosen by the team)- when en is out, their team automatically loses. There’s also the jester, who is never out no matter how many times en is hit (and who’s job it is to protect the King/Queen)
c) “The doctor and the spy”, which is sort of a mishmash between the “Kingsball” game and “American dodgeball”. The field setup is just like in “American dodgeball”, except that the line which usually marks the out field is important here too. The two teams chuck balls at each-other and whoever gets hit has to sit down (but can still catch and throw balls). Two players have special functions: the spy who can run into the opposing team’s field, but loses this power if en is hit in said field, and the doctor, who can “bring the “dead” players back to life” by dragging them past the aforementioned line but obviously loses said power if en is hit, even behind the line. The game is usually played with 3 softballs or so and it’s actually fun because it involves some strategy and teamwork- the only way to really win is to get the other team’s doctor and to try to protect your own for as long as possible.*
*I always loved this game because when you’re the doctor, people literally throw themselves in front of you to stop you from being hit.
Heisenbearg’s Uncertainty Principle.
Schroedinger’s Bear.
The Collected Works of Shakesbear.
Russell’s Bearadox.
Botticelli’s “The Bearth of Venus”.
Albeart Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
Just got back from Sakura-Con, which is why I’m a catgirl. It was incredibly unbelievably awesome. I’ve never been to a convention before and am so glad I did this time. I got photographed and hugged by random strangers, got awesome stuff, and generally had a lot of fun.
There was also, despite it being entirely an anime convention, a Four(-th Doctor) cosplayer. I gave her a hug. Along with a Mukuro cosplayer who cam up to us in the registration line and demanded a photo with my friend N who was Chrome(both from Katekyo Hitman Reborn). Most fun I’ve ever had waiting in a line for an hour.
A month ago, I didn’t even know that Portal existed. Now I squeal every time I see a billboard (And when I say billboard, I mean the one billboard I saw on the way to New York the other day. Twas quite awesome.) for Portal 2. I’m obsessed. Thank goodness my cousin has an amazingly nerdy friend who introduced me to Portal (the first one, that is.) and then forced me (Or maybe I just forced myself. Either way.) to get Portal 2 the day it came out. And this is really the first serious video game I’ve ever been in to.
Also, my Latin class had a field trip the other day to a local school for a gathering of Latin students in my area. I brought my video camera and took a ton of footage of my friends and I just being crazy as well as a lot of the events, and am now editing it together into something that will hopefully be at least slightly coherent to give to my Latin teacher as an end of year gift. Not only is it my last year at my school but she’s also retiring this year, so I think it’ll be a nice keepsake.
Hello Starr! I feel like I haven’t seen you in a while! I actually was thinking about you today- We’re trying to restart Demigods, wanna help?
Anyway, welcome back! Unless you haven’t been gone, in which case… Oops.
My sister gave me a bonsai tree for my birthday. Name suggestions are now being taken. Japanese names preferred but not essential.
I picked out my birthday cake this afternoon. I got a layer cake–white cake with vanilla pudding between the layers and blueberries/raspberries/blackberries/strawberries in the middle and on top. And delicious frosting. Now: naptime so I can stay awake during the Easter Vigil.
I went to BU open house! And I went in the archeology lab and got to hold a spoon handle from a plantation house on Monserrat! And I also visited the GIS lab, ate tuna salad sandwiches, looked at dirt under a microscope, and talked to Farouk El-Baz’s secretary!
There’s this whole subfield of archeology that I’d actually never heard of before called archeological micromorphology where they take soil samples of the strata at a site, preserve the samples in resin, and cut them into really small slices to look at under the microscope so that they can see where the soil has been disturbed by human actions like digging a firepit or plowing the ground.
I don’t know all the details of how the soil samples are prepared, but I presume they do something kill anything that’s living in there.
(I know nothing of the episode beyond that it features people in Apollo spacesuits, which I have gleaned from what a friend of mine has said on [another site].)
Actually, the only frightening astronaut is one that’s already in the suit… and has a young girl calling for help trapped inside of it. (That’s what I’m guessing, anyway.)
Accedentally stayed up past 4 two nights in a row again! Welp. This is probably not a good trend. But a friend was not feeling very well (emotionally) last night so at 3am we took her for a wander to north fields so she could scream really loud without waking people up.
Today I have all the busy. And a lot of work… and a test to take! I should not forget about that. And a poi routine to choreograph…
Happy Easter! It’s so nice and warm here… I’m sitting outside at my cousin’s house writing about the relationship between artist and society during the Renaissance. Lovely times.
I hope you all have a great day that’s as lovely as mine is so far.
alsodoctorwholastnightwasamazingbuti’mgoingtodomyhomeworknow.
We went to my uncle’s church here in Worcester, and it turned out they had no one to read in Latin.
(In the Eastern Orthodox Easter service, the Gospel is read in several languages, to symbolize the spreading of the news. It’s very cool, because people in the church community who can speak different languages all volunteer and they get to read.)
So I volunteered, and I had about 20 minutes to familiarize myself with my piece, but fortunately, it was short and not too hard.
There were other people reading in Romanian, Bulgarian, Spanish, Greek, Albanian and French. I went third, and I felt a little bit scared when it was my turn and the chanter came to me with the microphone, but I read it slowly and clearly and it seemed to go pretty quickly.
After the reading was done, I went back to where my family was sitting and my dad gave me a big hug. I feel very proud of this.
Hoppy Easter Everybunny!
Kai-That’s so cool that your church does service in different languages! Also, I’m proud of you for doing a Latin one! Yay Latin!
bookgirl- That is a really neat way to play dodgeball!
Wooo I finally finished my math homework! We had to do an AP practice test over break. I haven’t been procrastinating much this year so I guess my procrastinating brain cell decided to act up over break. I mean… it’s break!
165 (Kai)~ That’s great! I love the idea about doing the service in multiple languages.
I was actually coming on here to say that I should make another attempt at learning Latin this summer. I have the Wheelock books, I even started, I just never got beyond the first chapter. Of course, I should probably focus on Spanish, which is somewhat more practical (not to mention something that I’m supposedly studying), but…. *sigh*
Because Dad and I are sick only mom went over to Grandma’s where part of the family was congregating for Easter, she only stayed long enough to drop off some chocolate and say hi and then came back though.
I’m slightly more alive than I was yesterday, though I’ve not gotten much more done.
I need to edit the Beggar’s Opera to a do-able length so we can read through it next weekend instead of getting halfway through and then waiting another year to do half of it again. xD
And I still need to do those blasted papers. Bleh.
Me, too. What makes it worse is that I thought it did when I signed up for it. It turns out I misinterpreted something. What makes even more irritating is that the same thing happened with psychology.
I meant my school. Apparently you don’t get to choose your electives in 7th grade unless you do clubs (I did, but I haven’t participated much for some reason); you have to do Art, and that’s it. At least it’s a good art class.
What happened to me once was that I signed up for Crafts and ended up having to take Art as well. What’s with schools and Art? Although, of course, I don’t have anything against it.
I’ve learned more in Latin than I have in any other subject. I’d be terrible at English if I hadn’t taken Latin. I’d be bad at Spanish too. I’d be extremely unscholarly and have a very narrow view of the world. In my opinion, Latin is perhaps the best thing to learn in school. There’s a reason it was once taught to everyone along with math and science and whatnot.
In re Latin at church: My church only does the traditional forms of the sacraments–that is, in Latin, in the pre-Vatican II form of the rites. The old form of the Mass, of baptism, everything. The Easter Vigil is always spectacular. I served at it last night (as thurifer, which means I was in charge of the incense (which is great)). It’s extremely long and extremely late at night, but it’s immensely beautiful. Most of it is done solely by candlelight. Lot of chanting (I zoned out a few times). Lot of incense (I still smell like it).
Happy Easter!!
I am back for good.
Updates: I am writing a new story, and I am giving Agent Tuba chapter 2 for his birthday. My friend and co-author has reluctantly agreed, but it’s one step towards peace between the flutes and the tubas. (Why must my two best friends hate each other?)
Happy April New Year Part Two!!
My combuter is slow and I need to get to bed because there is school tomorrow, so peaches for now, everyone.
Hi everybody! Happy Easter!
I’ve been at my grandparent’s house for the past few days, and Mom said I couldn’t take my iPad, so I haven’t been on.
And I really need to acquire a copy of Portal 2. Soon.
Also I need to watch the new Doctor Who. Which I haven’t yet, despite being within easy access of a cable TV and having nothing to do at that time. I’ve been kicking myself for a while now.
I just took a full, at-home practice AP Euro test, and boy are my arms tired! I think I did well on the multiple choice, but it was so long ago (almost 3 hours!) that I barely remember. I finished with plenty of time remaining, at least, so that was a good thing. The DBQ seemed all right, considering that I’ve never done one before. (I’ve got < 2 weeks left; this seems rather late to be starting practice on these?) The first essay that I wrote went excellently, but the second was rather poor – one of the three body paragraphs might not actually relate to the topic, and the other two might be too close to each other to count as distinct ideas. Oh well…I'm just grateful that it's done!
Completely unrelated – is there an adverb form of lovely? I tried to tell my brother yesterday that he was doing something lovely-ly (in a lovely manner), but there has to be a better way to say that.
Cat’s Meow-I think not, but at this hour I don’t think much of anything :/
I went to Portland to visit some friends for Easter. On the way back I think we took a wrong turn into England. Just randomly driving down the freeway was one of those bright red double-decker London buses. There was nobody in it(apart from the driver, obviously) and it was claiming to be “out of service”. I haven’t the faintest idea what it was doing there.
Yes, I had some HPB peeps this evening. I know you were just aching to know that, right?
OK, so probably not. Moving on…
167: Midnight Fiddler: Feel better soon! And I also need to review and consistently work on Latin. As soon as I finish this semester, including Spanish. Argh.
But yeah, everyone already knows we MBers all live trans-dimensional parallels of each other’s lives, right?
Kai: You shall be my inspiration to pursue both languages. But I still think I’m going to wait until the summer. And yes, very cool to read the Gospel in Latin!
171 Bibliophile: infinity – 1
Goodnight, I think. Maybe. Which means I really need some sleep about now.
Luna here…..procrastinating on going to bed, god knows why, and in a depressed sort of mood (I’ll be fine after I get some sleep), so I thought I’d update y’all on my recent life…..
Had a flammy Easter weekend, I spent the weekend at Alan’s with him and his family. I met his brothers and nephews for the first time. And despite Alan having spent ages telling me how insane his brothers/sisters-in-law are, I didn’t think they were that bad….But of course, how can any Doctor Who fan be that bad? Yuppers, both his brothers and their wives like Doctor Who, I don’t know how Alan never got introduced to it before me….One of his brothers made a comment Saturday over dinner that “there’s a new doctor who on tonight” and I think was wondering if he DVRd it, and I made a comment to Alan that he couldn’t watch it yet, because “spoilers”. And the younger of his two older brothers goes: “Your a Doctor Who geek, too?” And then they wanted to know where Alan was at (at that point, only ep 1 of season 4),which one of the sisters in law was thinking meant he’d just met Amy Pond, when really it means we’re on Donna….
And I had a job interview on Saturday at an emergency clinic within commuting distance of where alan lives, and that went well and I’ve been offered part time work there, I think with pay of about $10/hr, so I will hopefully be starting pretty quick after school gets out. I think it’s to be primarily weekends/nights that I work, weekends and maybe thurs/fri as needed, so….Maybe not the ideal work schedule,b ut hey, all I’ve got to do is be working in this godforsaken state, and get residency. So I’ll be living with Alan and his parents all this summer, which I think although I’ll still find the summer less than ideal (I’ll miss going home), at least it won’t be as lonely and bad as it could be. I mean, I like his family, they get BBCAmerica (if I choose to watch my Who that route), and they get Starz for when Torchwood starts back in July (if i choose to go that route w/ Torchwood, as opposed to the interwebz). And a pool. Which is kind of a must as hot as it gets here in the summer…..
Then today, or technically yesterday now, I was polite and tagged along with Alan and his parents to Easter mass…..And let’s just say that, not being religious myself, I tend to feel a bit awkward and out of place in your average non-Catholic church service….Catholic mass? Amplify the awkward uncomfortable “I don’t belong here and everyone can tell” feeling by infinity…..All the little rituals and everything, that everyone who goes there does, from crossing themselves w/ holy water when they enter to kneeling before entering pews, to just about everything….I felt intensely awkward being the only one NOT doing it, and feeling like everyone was probably staring at me because of that (while I’m sure they probably weren’t), but simultaneously I’d have felt even MORE awkward and unconfortable and out of place had I tried to mimic everyone and engaged in the ritualisms……It was one of the more awkward and uncomfortable hours of my life…..But oh well. I just don’t think I’ll be making a habit of attending mass with them over the summer….I don’t think his parents should mind too much if I don’t…I know Alan couldn’t care less.
Rest of today…..I had a delicious breakfast of bacon and scrambled eggs and waffles with syrup and scrumcilicious strawberries slices on top…..And then Alan had me drive the three hour drive back to campus, because he was going to try and work on some of his school work….That didn’t work out so well, he didn’t get much done, but oh well.
And of course I watched the new Who episode, and then later I got frustrated trying to look at cars and help dad figure otu what I want, but I don’t ahve a bloody clue, and it ended up with me getting majorly frustrated and in tears, which likely was to do as much to being tired and it going to be Christmas or so before I go home, as it was to do with frustration with car shopping….*sigh*
I would just like to say that, having gone to many a Catholic mass myself, it is really not that unusual for someone not to be doing the genuflections or what have you, especially at Easter/holidays. Catholic churches get a lot of visitors so it never seemed odd to me if someone didn’t take communion or something.
For cars, I’ll just say get a hatchback. People your age need to haul a lot of furniture and furnishings and bicycles and things, and it’s handy to be able to open up the back and just toss them in. I’ve never seen the point of sedans.
I was actually thinking I’d kind of prefer a hatchback, partly because to me I think they have a “larger car” feel to them, and I’m use to large vehicles (I learned to drive on a minivan), partly because, like you said more space.
Dad mentioned the Honda Fit as a possibility. Slightly more expensive than he really wants to spend, but he would be willing. It’s what I’m leaning toward at the moment, I think.
I wanted a hatchback but we ended up getting a Ford Focus because the Ford dealer was running a really good deal on them.
I actually wanted a Nissan Cube. I almost got one but then the gas tanks got recalled for leaking or something, and my mom wouldn’t let me get it.
Honda Fits are interesting. My grandma has one. Last summer when I was looking for a car I test drove one and I almost got hit by a pickup truck then I had to drive around some weird neighborhood and then I drove down the busiest street around, then when we got back in the dealership I started crying because I was still scared from the pickup truck and I thought the dealer and my mom would think I was a horrible driver. Then I was really embarrassed that I cried in front of everyone.
I’ll chime in and add my support for a hatchback, they really do make the most sense.
The Volkswagon Golf or Jettawagon is a good car, and the diesels get great gas mileage.
UP~ You like the Cube? Why? Personally I find them quite weird looking, and not in a good way. I like some of the design elements (such as eliminating the blind spot), but overall they’re not very appealing to me.
I love my car, though I have no idea how I’ll use it to haul stuff to and from college (or elsewhere) in the future. I don’t have to worry about it this year, but still. It’s a VW Cabriolet, which is a small car already, and then because it’s a convertible there’s no hatchback like the Rabbit/Golf, the trunk is TINY (you can fit a medium suitcase or a small adult/large child in it), and the backseat is fixed. Oh well.
So. I’m trying to furnish my apartment for next year and I’m buying a lot of stuff from the girl who lives there now. I’m not sure what to do about beds, though: she has a queen, but I also found a twin bed for sale somewhere else.
For queen:
pros: nicer bed, is ALREADY THERE (which is huge because it means I don’t have to worry about transporting it places and summer storage (since our lease doesn’t start until august) and everything)
cons: about $75-$100 more expensive, I’d have to get new sheets, takes up more floor space, I feel kind of guilty having such a big bed
twin:
pros: cheap
cons: not as nice, would have to transport
(for what it’s worth, parents are willing to pay the extra money for the queen, but they spend so much already paying for my college and my instrument and summer programs and everything..)
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I started reading it today, and so far it’s interesting, funny, and vague. I also got a “Warning: Science In Progress” T-shirt, a titanium spork, and a book of poems. Oh, and lots of chocolate.
So I went on Saturday to see a production of The Pirates of Penzance at SnippetySnip College near us. Since it’s a women’s college, the cast was all female except for the Major General, Samuel, and the Police Sergeant, and it was a seriously amazing production — I in particular loved the Pirate King, I don’t think I want to see that role as played by a man ever again. I love that college’s theater department so much. Last year they did an all-female production of Henry V, set in a costume shop, which was one of the best and definitely the most interesting Shakespeare production I have ever seen. They are so caking awesome. ♥
Speaking of Henry V, my family is doing a playreading of that with Electros’s family next month, and so we’re editing and setting and making costumes like crazy. My mom (who’s doing most of it) and I had the idea to make the costumes out of paper, newsprint for the British and tissue paper for the French (paper soldiers, you know?). We’re also giving Nym, Bardolph, and some of the French lords del-arte-type masks. So we’re having a lot of fun making Monmouth caps and floofy things and possibly pistols, though we haven’t gotten there yet, out of newspaper.
They want me to record myself reading it so I called up my brother to ask if he could help me with it this summer as he is Mr. Music and Recording and Sound and Stuff Like That.
Nooooo! I accidentilly took home the wrong trombone today after jazz band. All of the school-owned ones look identical, so it was an easy mistake to make. I hope no enraged trombonist comes after me tomorrow morning.
Concert’s in a week!!!!
I got a shirt at the convention that has what looks like a Get Out of Jail Free card on it, only it has the Doctor on it brandishing his sonic screwdriver. It says:
Regenerate
This card may only be used twelve times.
Get Out of Death Free
It makes me very happy :3
“JAAKKE GO AND STUDY FOR YOUR AP EXAM; WORLD HISTORY WON’T TEACH ITSELF. NO, YOU CANNOT JUST SLEEP WITH THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE UNDER YOUR PILLOW! READ YOUR TEXTBOOK; ANALYZE CHANGE OVER TIME; COMPARE CIVILIZATIONS METHODS OF APPROACH TOWARD FOREIGN POLICY FOR CHRIST’S SAKE!”
I’m starting to think I’ll just get a 2 and tell everyone I got a 4.
Ahhhh! Giant paper draft due tomorrow and it’s only half as big as it should be!!!! Ahhh!!!!
Anyway, new Doctor Who!!
I started reading Les Miserables, which I’ve meant to do for a while now, and why is the town called D——-?
I tripped over a stool twice in five minutes and my mom said she should have named me Grace.
I haven’t read it, but maybe it’s called D_____ so that people couldn’t look at the town records, see actual proof that it didn’t happen, and feel slightly less enthusiastic? They did it in Jane Eyre, too, which I recently read.
Sooooo the computer I’ve been using since my laptop got a virus got a virus. *applauds self* Luckily it’s back, as you can see, and so am I.
I have a Chemistry test tomorrow and I actually understand the material! This is new! I approve!
Les Mis continues to be the best book ever ever ever. Haven’t any of you read it? You should! I swear 1400 pages doesn’t take that long! I can’t stop drawing fanart for it, or cracking up at random moments. Ah, les Amis, how I love you.
Also, does anyone have an opinion on Tennessee Williams who I could talk to? We’re discussing him in Acting. Personally, I find his style of writing very annoying. I love how he creates characters, he’s absolutely brilliant at that, but he seems to want to be the director as well as the writer and it annoys me.
I spent four hours drawing a careful map of every Spanish-speaking country in the world, neatly drew two symbols for each country next to them, and wrote “mapa del mundo hispano” in ridiculously neat calligraphy (I can handwrite Times New Roman now!) below it. Sra. gave me a B. Why am I surprised?
If you think Tennessee Williams is bad, you should read some Arthur Miller, especially Death of a Salesman or All My Sons.
I more or less enjoy Williams. Since I’m looking at him from the literarily analytical perspective, though, it’s difficult to compare our opinions. Have you seen the film version of Streetcar, with Marlon Brando? Fantastic.
Your first sentence can be interpreted as saying that Arthur Miller is worse than Tennessee Williams. That may not be what you intended, but that’s how I would read it. *shrug*
George Bernard Shaw takes the (if you’ll pardon the expression) cake in that respect. He’ll even tell you the color of the cravat a character is wearing, along with everything else you see on stage and what you’re supposed to think about it. I assume that many of his plays were written mainly to be read rather than performed.
Replying to everybody on Piggy’s comment. (Sorry, Piggy…)
Piggy: From a literarily analytical perspective, I’d like to have his babies. From a dramatic perspective, I want to kill him. I liked Arthur Miller well enough when I was a freshman, but rereading Death of a Salesman now, I’m noticing the same problem.
sbf: Yes, they are, and yes, that is why I’m annoyed at him. He cheerfully informed me Amanda was stuck in the past. I’m all “Thank you, Mr. Williams, I could have figured that out on my own and you just stole my chance to show off literary analysis skills to my Acting teacher.”
And let us SQUEE over Les Mis. My friend and I have carefully mapped out which of the Amis we are sure are secretly in love, which are secretly longing to go and play in the forest with butterflies and rainbows and unicorns, and which are secretly pretty pretty princesses. SO MUCH FUN.
axa: Well, the only reason why I feel like I can talk at all on this subject is that I have written plays, and they were pretty decent plays if I do say so myself, and I was coached through writing them by professional playwrights. (Love you arts camp.) And the wonderful thing about plays is that they’re collaborative. The director is as necessary/important as the writer as the actor (as the techie!). And it’s just not good manners to try to do the director’s job for them.
i don’t have any experience with how scripts written for the stage are adapted, so i am curious as to what some examples of this would be. it just seems unlikely that a writer will ever see a true adaptation of their work so maybe he’s just trying to subvert that. idk, if you mean he’s lame cause he doesn’t leave room for interpretation then i get that but again maybe he just has a piercingly specific idea about what it should be and wants to be sure everyone knows. i’m not trying to be belligerent i’m just playing ~devil’s advocate
You don’t like Tennessee Williams? He is my absolute favorite. I love him, especially Glass Menagerie. His character portrayals *are* brilliant.
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I do suppose, however, that if forced to play a character such as Laura one would be frustrated to find that Williams has basically mapped out the character for them, instead of letting them interpret the role. Yet isn’t that what we all would find ourselves leaning toward instead of leaving the character open to interpretation? I certainly do.
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Piggy – I find Death of a Salesman extremely enthralling, but I wasn’t interested in All My Sons. I can see how it would be captivating onstage, but I wasn’t feeling it on paper. That’s probably just me.
Yeah, I think so too. I think Cat’s Eye was saying that the very pointed character directions make it rather difficult to have one’s own take on a role, but I think that doesn’t detract from his brilliance.
I love nights like this. Cool, foggy, and if you take in a big breath of air, you can smell the ocean. It’s a lovely salty-musty-slightly-fishy scent that you really can’t beat. The perks of living on an island.
I’m so stressed out by envirothon- nobody has done anything, and then everyone changed the speech last minute, and now it’s too long. I’m sitting on the roof to destress. I’m so strung up about this.
Okay. Goodnight. I’ll get around go catching up on everyone’s posts sooner or later. Probably later.
So yesterday at school we had an assembly about peer mediation. After we went back tot he classrooms, two of the mediators from the high school came with us as well. At one point the asked how many people in the room had a cell phone. Everyone except me and one other person raised their hands.
I didn’t get a cell phone until this past year, when I went to an entirely different country. On that unfair note, my four-years-younger little sister got one at the same time I did, despite me having to wait forever and ever. She just capitalized off my hard work trailblazing as the eldest. Grrr…
In other words, I think it is totally unfair that I had to wait to college to get a cell phone, and had to figure everything out while everyone else including my five year old cousin knew how to work a cell phone better than I did…/irritation
I’m probably not helping here, am I? Doesn’t matter, you’re helping me, by giving me the opportunity to rant about this old, old wound.
And I am in my school’s circus performance! Rehearsals 5-10 every night this week (erp), and shows friday/sat/sun. I’m in the poi act, it looks pretty cool. The circus theme/plot is “time travel,” we’re the big bang sequence
Also I have class soon but my bed is so warm. But quantum mechanics calls…
Prince William of England, elder son of Prince Charles the Prince of Wales and the late Princess Diana, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and future heir to the throne, is getting married on April 29th to Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, aka Kate. It’s all over the media so if you want more information you should be able to find it pretty easily.
Mainly I’m just out of Les Mis fanart to draw and have no idea what to do in Chem/Algebra/Spanish. It’s mostly done, I just have to ink it and shade a bit and figure out what William and Kate actually look like. Drawing is fun!
The first one is him at his computer jumping out of his seat and shouting “YAY! Time to go flying!”
The second is the crew at breakfast and being served pie and him jumping in the air going “YAY! Pie!”
Then the last one is him in a jet cockpit throwing his hands up and shouting “YAY! T-38s!”
If I have time, I want to do him in front of the Shuttle on the pad going “YAY! Space Shuttle!” and then Commander Kelly turning to him and going “Mike, HOW much coffee did you drink today?”
I just carried about six feet by four feet of flattened boxes across campus. It’s super windy out and the boxes turned me into a sailboat. It was really fun.
(eventually some guy took pity and helped me carry them back)
So, for homework my English teacher has asked us to bring in a poem that we like (after reading To A Mouse, On Turning Over Her Nest with A Plow, by Rober Burns (Which is what our favorite phrase “tim’rous beastie” comes from)). Me being me, I have chosen to bring in 4 poems: Light and Gold by Edward Esch, i thank You God for most this amazing day by e. e. cummings, Invictus by William Henley, and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost.
Can you tell who likes poetry?
In other poetry related news, my French teacher claims that French poetry is “The best in the world”. *facepalm*
Also. Is it sad that I know and love all of the poems mentioned above and that I didn’t even have to think to immediately have them at the top of my mind, since I have them completely memorized?
I was not killed by an enraged trombonist!! *pats self on back* And now I have my real one back, which I should be practicing…
My computer is always really slow the first few comments I post on here; I type and then I have to wait for five minutes while it catches up to me. I brushed my teeth, put away my backpack, put 3 new pi digits up on my wall, and did several other things in the time it took for the computer to proccess that.
My school district is combining with another school district, and so we will have an 8-9 school in my town’s current high school, and a 10-12 school in the city’s current high school. I went to the open house of the 8-9 school, where I shall be going next year. The program of studies looks fairly good.
Except…
I am tired of studying American History. That is what we’ve been doing for, what, ALL THE YEARS WE’VE HAD SOCIAL STUDIES? So, I was looking forward to learning about something different for a change, and studying ancient civilizations. *drums fingers on tabletop*
Then it turns out that [city we are combining with, henceforth known as CC] has already HAD ancient civilizations. So, joy joy, we get to study American History. Again.
On the bright side, one of the two eighth grade science teachers managed to a) Quote the HGTTG when asked*, b) say that “Plate tectonics are COOL” (11th Doctor, anyone?), c) call eight graders non-human, d) compare opinions to armpits** while somehow also integrating his grandmother, and e) call the invisible teacher next to him-they haven’t hired a second science teacher yet-TBA. Also pretended to talk to TBA.
*”My favorite quote was, ‘The spaceship hung in the air in the exact way that bricks don’t.’ ”
*”My grandmother once said that opinions are like armpits: everybody’s got ’em, and some stink.”
My envirothon won third place out of 17 teams in the county! x194738
No clue how we pulled it off. Most of our answers were educated guesses and “c”s (which always seems to be a good answer) at best. Next year, once we actually know what we’re doing, we have a good shot of beating the reigning champions.
…Two days ago six of the students in my class were wearing jeans, one was wearing khakis, and one (me) was wearing sweatpants.This is totally irrelevant, but I don’t really feel like posting anything right now and it’s one of the weird things I notice.
Werk. Busy week of busy still going. Act head for our circus act had a sort of meltdown the other day but hopefully she’s better now.
Also I think I figured out what to do in my solo-y bit so that’s good.
And the people in my Poi exco (not just this act) can get into Neon Garden free this weekend! It’s an event put on by the college and I guess it’s sort of similar to a rave. Loud music and glow paint everywhere, now plus people spinning things that light up! Woo! Should be fun I hope.
This cold has now reached a week and doesn’t seem to want to go away. Fun.
I have juries this afternoon, my last chamber music lesson before the recital tomorrow, and then chamber recital on Friday.
On a more cheerful note, Friday will be awesome because I’m doing a piano fourhands and almost everyone thinks my partner is playing the violin in this duo/doesn’t know she even plays piano. So that’s going to be amusing. ^_^
I have this really important jury/audition this afternoon, and I’m sick, so I need a LOT of luck, right. So my mom gets out these two 20p coins that she’s had in a box of souvenirs from when she went to England, and gives one to me and one to my sister. Naturally I examine it closely, and immediately notice that while my sister’s was issued in the year nineteen eighty-something, mine was issued in nineteen ninety-five, five years after the last time she went to England [1990]. Also the year before I was born. My mom definitely did not go to England in 1995 or for that matter she hasn’t been to England since 1990 either. She definitely got this coin sometime between 1987 and 1990.
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I want to see it so badly. My friend saw it. And got a picture with him. And had a conversation with him.
And then saw the Harry Potter Exhibition.
*hate*
What is banana cream, exactly? Is it just what you get when you squeeze a banana, or do you have to mix it with cream?
202: Congratulations!! That’s awesome!
203: …Sorry. Is he still alive?
That’s a good idea. I’ll look into one of those. I’d hang Basho from the ceiling, but he’s in a halfway heavy ceramic pot. Also, I doubt my mother would want a miniature tree hanging in the middle of her kitchen bay window.
I was doing my math today when I had a total breakthrough. I used logic to solve an algebra problem (albeit my logic isn’t very logical). This is the correct (mathematical) way to solve the problem:
2×2 = 3x + 9
(Divide both sides by 2 to get this:)
x2 = 1.5x + 4.5
(Bring all x’s to the same side)
x2 – 1.5x = 4.5
(Add 0.5625 to both sides, in order to complete the square*)
x2 – 1.5x + 0.5625 = 5.0625
(Now factor the equation)
(x – 0.75) 2 = 5.0625
(Take the square root of both sides)
x – 0.75 = ±2.25
(Add 0.75 to both sides)
x = 3 or -1.5
Now, when I was looking at the problem, I used trial and error to find a different way to solve the equation:
2×2 = 3x + 9
(Bring all x’s to the same side (notice I’ve neglected to divide by 2))
2×2 – 3x = 9
(Now I factor out an x)
x(2x – 3) = 9
(Now comes the weird part. I was looking at the equation at the above stage, when a thought popped into my head: what if x = 2x – 3 ? It occurred to me that since x was a variable, it could equal just about anything. So I tried it:)
x2 = 9
x = 3
I checked this answer with the original equation:
2(32) = 3(3) + 9
2(9) = 9 + 9
18 = 18
Yep, it works. But the “Logical†method only found the positive answer, not the negative. If x2 = 9, then x can also equal -3. But look:
2(-32) = 3(-3) + 9
2(9) = -9 + 9
18 ≠0
So the process only works in finding positive square roots.
Quickly dropping in: Hello, MuseBlog and all who inhabit it. My computer is frozen. Strudent conductor tryouts are tomorrow. Wish me luck!!
202: AAH! Awesomeness!
NASAimages.org put up more pictures of my Space Dad*, Dick Scobee!
*A Space Dad is the historical astronaut you can most easily imagine as your dad. Space nerds also talk about having Space Moms and Space Boy/Girlfriends.
The two AP Euro classes in my school are ordering t-shirts that read “Can we have extra credit?” on the front and “AP Euro 2011” on the back. We’re wearing them to the AP exam. Why? Because we’re cool like that.
You know you’re addicted to studying for your Chem test when you’re reading Les Mis and Hugo is going on about the revolutionaries retreating from the barricade and hiding in a bistro, and it’s all dramatic and deep and tragic and everyone is dying, and he mentions them finding bottles of nitric acid and you’re all “HNO3 + H20 = H3O+ + NO3-. STRONG ACID AT 25 DEGREES CELSIUS. CONJUGATE BASE IS NO3-.”
You know you’re addicted to Les Mis when you have fanart you drew during Chem/Algebra/History/Spanish stuck into the book as a bookmark for your favorite part about every twenty-five pages. (Shading is my friend now! I can draw! This is new!)
In other news, I didn’t make it into Advanced Acting. I did apply to be a techie, though, so… yay!
Also, my Spanish teacher should never, ever, ever, ever dance again. Ever.
A school in my state has made the nationwide news for the racist graffiti found in the bathroom stalls, more specifically, a list of five African-American students with the caption underneath “These N***** need to be lynched”. Not only is that appalling, but probably the least desirable thing to be known for nationwide.
If it’s anything like my school the writer probably did it for shock value rather than out of a genuine desire to have them lynched. Of course this doesn’t make it any better…
I agree with you, I think they did it just to create drama, but evidently the school is taking it very seriously. Another threat came today to one of the African American teachers, in note form, very similar to the threats in the bathroom.
Even if they did do it for what they perceived as shock value that doesn’t mean that anyone reading it will somehow automatically know that. It is an awful phrase and one that would make me extremely uncomfortable. I can’t imagine how the students whose names were listed would feel.
Re: Seeing Daniel Radcliffe in person (or at least being in the same building as him at the same time and seeing him on stage): OMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!! Make out with him for me, will you?
So last night I set up tents at 2am. I don’t recommend it.
Then it stormed. Hopefully they’re still there and not flooded.
This morning I woke up with an inexplicable earache that is stubbornly refusing to go away. NOT COOL, EAR, NOT COOL. It’s not the worst earache I’ve ever had, but it’s bad. And why? I don’t think it could be an infection, I’ve not been swimming recently and I don’t recall having any water in my ear last night. *whimper*
Anyway, off to the 18th century later today, I’ll be back Sunday or so.
I just realized how much I like my school. I don’t know any other school that has rather high expectations of its students academically, but still has faith in their ability to not be able to hold onto a passport for more than 5 minutes at a time and is nonplussed when they lose a class for a few days (unless it’s in a foreign country, that is).
1. Thunderstorms are scary. I cuddled with my pillow last night and really didn’t go to sleep until 3:30 in the morning. We woke up this morning and the garage was flooded.
(Maybe I have the mentality of a five year old when it comes to storms. Oh well.)
There were tornadoes in our area. A couple of weeks ago we had a really bad storm with wind, hail, and lightning, but nothing worse than that. A ton of people in the area/state were affected. I can’t stop thinking how lucky I am.
There was a tornado warning at school today, but all we got were some light showers. Other areas had tornadoes. We were all paranoid.
I’m planning on doing a slight modification of what I did for Yuri’s Night:
– I’ve printed out the official Space Flight Awareness poster and hung it up all over the school.
– My space books display is still up in the library, and the librarian helped me make a sign with a photo of another launch and the date and time to add to it.
– I used the sign as a template to make more cards to hand out.
– I’m going to wear my Shuttle shirt again, my necklace, and my gloves.
– I’m also going to wear my jacket again, but without the Mission: SPACE pin, because I want to keep to shuttle ones. Do you think I should not wear the Challenger 51-L pin to avoid bad luck?
Wow. I, having not prepared, have no space propoganda, posters, and cards, but I will remind people that There Is More Than Just The Royal Wedding Today.
EUPHORIA!
In keyboarding, we sat around doing nothing, and Paperclip loaded a billion digits of pi onto his computer. It was pure nerdy awesomenesss.
Then in band, half the kids were out for Take your Kid To Work Day, but all the low brass and reeds were there. It was hard on the alto player, but OH SO MUCH FUN IF YOU PLAY TROMBONE.
Then, and this is the EUPHORIA part, I tried out for Student Conductor, and That Guy Who Plays Alto Sax said I would make a good drum major, and the band director gave me one of his old, duct-taped, busted batons, and I MADE STUDENT CONDUCTOR!!!!
Also: Check out the website Let Me Google That For You. You will laugh.
I was doing research in the Gale database today and came across something… odd. The articles are listed in chronological order, with the most recent appearing first. The first article on the list was one from November 4. Of 2011.
My theory is that this has something to do with the 1995 British coin Fireh mentioned. There is a super-secret association somewhere that is making false dates.
Either that, or it’s what Fireh said: the Doctor exists. Ack! I spend too much time thinking up conspiracy theories.
So now I know what tune is going to be stuck in my head the rest of the day. Just as well; I was getting tired of the “Jesus Christ, Superstar” medley.”
I had a bio test on two chapters that we were supposed to read over break today. (I didn’t read them, but got a 94. I sicken myself.)
One of the questions was something along the lines of, “Why is it unnecessary for cows to ingest all 22 amino acids?” The answers to the questions were something like, “A. They have bacteria in their stomachs that produce them, B. They are autotrophic, C. They synthesize them from minerals, etc.” (The correct answer is A, but…) B. They are autotrophic
Photosynthetic cows. Think of it.
John James Audubon’s birthday was a couple of days ago; myabe that could be on the calendar? Along with Cephalopodmas, of course.
Speaking of cephalopods, everyone needs to go to the northwest pacific tree octopus site. Now. I know we’re not supposed to talk about other sites, but this was mentioned in Muse, so just about all of you know about it already. Explore the rest of the website, too; it’s basically a Muggle version of the Quibbler, and therefore very awesome.
Oh, and look, Cat’s Eye’s comment about 9 pies has exactly 9 pies. To pie or not to pie, that is the question. Whether to pink or to leave it in its pristine, transcendent +9-ness?
I was leaving the question open for the general population. So it’s not “too late” but “question answered.” Somehow I guessed what the answer would be.
Woke up at 4:45 AM to watch it! Man, did they get excited over in England. I don’t think we get that patriotic even on the Fourth of July.
IT’S THE QUEEN
GOD BLESS ‘ER
I watched it today. I felt that it was nice and all, but nothing to get too worked up about. It also felt somewhat voyeuristic, watching what I have always felt should be a more private moment. I know that they’re royalty and this is expected of them, but…
What was really amazing was the way my grandmother, who I was watching the wedding with, kept on cursing the Queen and half the royal family for plotting Princess Diana’s death. Apart from the whole conspiracy theory aspect, I think my knowledge of dirty Arabic language has just been greatly expanded…
Piggy (155): A bonsai tree? That sounds great! How hard it is to care for them? I always see people spending hours trimming them in movies, etc., but I don’t actually really know anything about them.
Luna (175.2.1): Yes yes, get a Honda Fit! My mom had one of those, and she absolutely LOVED it. Of course, I’d always recommend getting an American-made car, my dad being a union man and all, but Honda Fits are awesome.
oxlin (181): Congratulations! Where did you have it published?
Thanks For All The Fish42 (184): I’m sure you’ll do really well on your AP exam! I stressed out way too much about mine, and I think if you go in confident and focused, you’ll rock it. Don’t worry about your score/number, just focus on doing the best you can in that moment.
re: cell phones–I didn’t get one until I went to high school, which was in the middle of downtown, and I was going to be doing lots of independent public bus-riding, so my mom wanted me to have one. I hardly ever used it (it was one of those pay-a-minute ones, which is actually the same kind I have now, because I just don’t use it often enough), but it was nice to have on the occasions that I did use it.
Lizzie (191): That sounds like so much fun! Last week, I was carrying boxes across campus from the kiln shed to the ceramics studio, but it was pouring rain, so I used them as umbrellas.
Bismarck12 (195): Congratulations!
Mikazuki (196): Hmm, that sounds interesting. Does it work well splitting the usual high school grades into two separate schools? Also, American History is so vast and crazy that one can never stop studying it.
agrrrfishi, Koko’s Apprentice (214/5): Yes, so much rain! It’s been raining/thundering here for two weeks straight. Well, actually, right now it’s sunny, but it was raining this morning. We’ve been having a lot of flooding here, too.
Alice (220): Congratulations!!!!! That’s so exciting! If I ever go to Portland, I will visit you.
Personal news: Today was my last day of classes. So, after next week, I will be done with my first year of college. (So crazy!!) I’m doing a May-Term at my school to get my Wilderness First Responder certification, but I didn’t sign up to live in the dorms, so I’m going to see what it’s like to be homeless for a few weeks! I think I might camp out in a professor’s back yard with another one of my friends, but we’ll see!
I’ve only had the bonsai for a week, but the care instructions only told me to water it once a week and fertilize it every two months. I’m sure different types of bonsai require different levels of care. From what I’ve read, the careful trimming and shaping is done early in the tree’s life, and most commercially available bonsai trees have already completed that stage. I think you have to re-pot them every couple of years to trim back their root mass.
I don’t think that ANY wedding, no matter who it is, should be broadcast live to everybody with a TV. I certainly wouldn’t want my wedding shown like that… -_- IT HAS TAKEN OVER THE MEDIA NETWORKS! THE GOVERNMENT PROBABLY INTERCEPTED ALIEN TRANSMISSIONS AND DON’T WANT US TO KNOW, SO THEY MADE A BIG DEAL OF THE ROYAL WEDDING TO THROW EVERYONE OFF!!!!!!!!!
Ah, the conspiracy theories…
Especially since it was supposed to be the day of the launch. That was so creepy. I was instantly suspicious. Obviously, some society working for the good of the cause managed toe defeat the aliens which were going to use the wedding as a distraction for whatever they were doing, and so the planet is safe, and the launch will happen Monday. I love conspiracy theories.
Catherine Middleton’s wedding dress. Oh my lord. It’s absolutely amazing beautiful gorgeous godly. I mean, how could anyone expect anything less than that from Alexander McQueen, though? Our whole chem class was spent discussing royalty.
My psychology teacher (who taught me world history last year and was supposed to teach me U.S. history next year) has breast cancer.
My best friend found out sometime in the past few days that her boyfriend has a tumor.
Said teacher is said best friend’s favorite teacher.
I don’t know many more details about either case or how serious they are, but either way, it’s sad sad sad.
Thank you, guys. It’s just come as a bit of a shock. I’ve been very lucky so far in my life that few people I love have had anything truly bad happen to them. This is new.
It’s not really my story to tell, but I found out a little more about my friend’s boyfriend’s situation. He does have a tumor. It’s currently benign. However, if sometime later in life it does become cancerous…they wouldn’t be able to remove it. It’s on his spinal cord.
Keep sending them your good vibes, please. I appreciate it.
-233 Oh dear! *hugs* My best wishes to all concerned, and I hope they recover, and recover well!
In History Class this morning, we watched the end of the royal wedding on TV. One million people. A cakeload of anticipation. Nearly everybody waiting for the balcony kiss. My classmates and me getting super frustrated at ALL THOSE CAKING COMMERCIALS and wanting them to just get on with it and get to the balcony kiss already! FINALLY time for the balcony kiss. I tell myself that if it lasts for longer than five seconds, I am well within my rights to look away. It lasts less than half a second. That has got to be the most disappointing kiss in the history of the media. They had to go to instant replay twice because some of the commentary people had glanced down at some passerby or other for a second and missed it.
Other than that, the only thing I found truely interesting about the wedding were the hats most of the female guests wore. There were everything from what looked like mesh sunhats, to the inverted bowl style I couldn’t quite picture on reading about but I recognized when I saw, to what looked like dioramas with bridal veils hanging down the back worn on people’s heads!
i thought it made her look like a deer in conjunction with the entire outfit tbh but i’m not knockin it, i wish i had a cool hat that made me into a deer
“Like a lot of other people, I’m disappointed that the launch scheduled for today was delayed until Monday. I’m especially sorry for Ms. Giffords and the squid embryos. But when I saw Agent Lightning’s post, I was inspired.”
“We had a lot of great enthusiasm at the Yuri’s Night party, and it really touched me. I was very, very proud and I hoped that we could keep that enthusiasm going. I know that some of us, like Agent Lightning, were sad that they found out about the launch too soon to do anything to promote it.”
“Well, now we have two more days. Let’s take advantage of that time to get the word out about this mission as a special project for the Kokonspiracy.”
“I had the link to the Space Flight Awareness in another post, but I’ll repeat it here:
http:// sfa.nasa. gov/MISSIONPOSTERS/ sts134/STS-134%20poster%20lores .pdf
“Print out several copies- it doesn’t matter if they’re in color or black and white, as long as they’re readable. There isn’t info on the launch date on the posters, so you might want to type up that information on a smaller piece of paper and tape that to the poster. Then go out and stick them up in places you think people will see them. Telephone poles are good because they’re public property and very visible.”
“I had a really good response at school to my cards on Yuri’s Night and today, so I’m recommending making those, too. Find a photo of an earlier launch online and add ‘Final Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour, (launch date)’ in Photoshop or Paint. Tinker around so that you can have the words visible at business card size. (If you have MS Publisher, use the blank business card template.) Print about ten or so to a page and cut them out. Make as many as you think you’ll need.”
“And by all means, if you’ve got space or Sci-Fi related stuff, feel free to wear it on the day of the launch. If you look odd enough, people will ask why, and you can tell them about the launch and give them a card. But you don’t have to purposefully look strange. Just do what you’re comfortable with and that your parents will allow.”
“I don’t have all of the answers. Everyone here is very creative and I’m sure we can think of a lot of other things we can do to promote the mission. I hope I hear a lot of good ideas that make me slap myself and go ‘I’m such a dummy, why the cake didn’t I think of that?'”
Well, my group and I won first place at the New York State History Day competition! ‘Tis truly exciting to know that for this one little thing, you beat out everyone. I’m sure I’ve ranted my topic before, I’d like to propose something realistic this time! Go on your local search engine, find Alix Spiegel’s NPR recording titled 81 words, and listen! Put it in the background during homework, food, museblog, but it’s a fascinating story.
royal wedding: did anyone notice that the commentary was horrible, i was watching katie couric and the british dude who was commentating with her was super rude. other than that i enjoyed it, the highlight was my mom commenting at length about how good beckham looked. i fell asleep at 3:30 though so i didn’t see the kiss but i also exist in a world where everything is rehashed to death so no worries there
this might be weird, is it possible to feel optimistic without being optimistic? i don’t know how else to explain how i feel, it kind of feels like coming out of a fog but at the same time i don’t feel super happy fun times, just kind of like “yes, okay”
i feel kind of old for MB which makes me sad but i dunno. i will be 19 in less than two weeks and i’m not sure when that happened, last i checked i was 13 and rolling around here making unfitting comments about animu. ah well.
good luck to everyone who is about to enter AP week(s), it will be worth it, i kind of wish i could take the ap euro test again because i had so many funs with that class. perestroika, it is always the right answer.
First circus performance went all right! Still weird being a performer and not a techie for the first time since middle school I think. Poi went okay, mine decided to trie themselves into a square knot during my solo but whatever. Doesn’t really bother me. Herp.
Aaaand stayed up playing magic way to late. Again. Oooops. Anyone here ever read Hearts in Atlantis?
Singapore’s government is a constant source of amusement for me. This week is election week, so there’s an incredible amount of patriotic nonsense going around. A truck bearing Singapore flags and megaphones just rolled past my house blaring fragments of PM Lee’s speeches. There’s no reason whatsoever for Singapore to hold elections anyway. The PAP will stay in power no matter what- they have control, power, and huge amounts of money already- and none of the opposition parties have many new ideas. Also, I was listening to the radio today, and heard this from a PAP (People’s Action Party- current in-power party):
“I urge Singaporeans not to vote for any opposition party. If a lot of people vote for an opposition party, there could be freak results.”
Um, yeah. Like… a change in government? OHDEARGODNONOTTHAT!
Haha. Austrian elections are epic too because they know that everyone will lose anyway. And because I get my semester’s supply of ball-point pens from the election freebies.
SFTTP; I swear this is my last one. It concerns the royal wedding hype/paraphernalia/nonsense/excitement.
There I sat, along with my (American) friend, poking fun at the buy-this-because-Kate-Middleton-wears-it ads that have popped up, when a British person came along. Said the Brit, who shall remain nameless: “Stop making fun of the royal wedding. It’s serious.”
Said I, being rather startled, but also rather annoyed, “I wasn’t making fun of the wedding, but the advertisements surrounding it. I know someone who bought a $20 hair clip because it had Kate Middleton’s face on the label.”
The Brit scowled. “You can’t make fun of Kate Middleton. She’s royalty.”
“I’m not British, and she isn’t my royalty. And in any case, yes, I can make fun of her. But I wasn’t.”
The Brit, now apparently charged with fury, growled, “You’re a Kiwi and a subject of the Queen. You can’t make fun of the royal family.”
So here stands my question: Being a Commonwealth citizen by birth, but certainly not by nature or in allegiance, do I owe respect to Kate Middleton up to the point of not mocking the ads concerning her? Or am I free to be a rude and judgmental American? Advice would be greatly appreciated.
I don’t think you’re making fun of Kate Middleton, you’re making fun of the fact that people are using her image to advertise the most ridiculous things (the hair clip was the example you used). So it would be all right by me. And even in Commonwealth countries, even if you’re a subject of the Queen, that doesn’t deny you the right to free speech. There are plenty of republicans in the UK and the Commonwealth who think there shouldn’t be a monarchy. So this Brit’s statement ‘You can’t make fun of the royal family’ (even though you weren’t) – well, perhaps it’s not something en or I would do, but you are allowed to – it’s just something en wouldn’t find very nice, I guess.
Well, we haven’t figured out a date yet, sometime during the summer, but it’ll take place in the courtyard of the mall. If anyone watches Glee it’ll be reminiscent of the flash mob they did to the song ‘Barbra Streisand’ by Duck Sauce.
I have finally finished reading this whole, long thread. Don’t let me go away from MuseBlog for a week again. And also, STOP TALKING ABOUT STUDYING, PEOPLE I have to start studying for finals and that means instant scoliosis. *tears hair out* And also TONS of homework to make up. I wish I could just ignore it.
On the PLUS side, I got 3.25 hours of community service today for helping the earth and I met a nice girl who I saw at school and now am acquainted with. ( Redundant. ) And also I’m seeing Jane Eyre with my grandmother tonight! SQUEE!
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING UPDATE!
I really loved the musical! Some of the lyrics were mediocre but as a whole I liked the music a lot. Also I thought Daniel Radcliffe was a great actor! Actually they were all great actors, except maybe what’s-his-face, the nephew, he was okay. I noticed that Daniel Radcliffe is really short! Also, he doesn’t have a great singing voice. ANYWAY it was great and I’m going to download the soundtrack.
Re: Royal Wedding: I may or may not get around to watching it. Probably tomorrow. *eats mac and cheese*
In response to Gradster on the first thread, I think I heard that some major school in Iceland– possibly but not necessarily the University of Iceland–doesn’t cost much at all. I have no idea where I heard this, though, or what the school is like, and I could be completely wrong. Still, Iceland!
First post?
Wait, I actually think I heard about it on MuseBlog at some point. Not that it matters, but I thought I should mention it anyway.
Does anyone know of a way to temporarily stop procrastinating?
Oooh, nice picture! Is he drinking out of it or using it a horn? It looks like he’s drinking but I can’t tell.
It looks like a horn to me.
I thought he was blowing a conch shell
“We’ll bang the drums proudly and blow on the conch…”
(Sorry, still in Yuri’s Night mode.)
I got the conch! I got a right to speak!
I read that as, “I got the couch!”
I didn’t like that book very much, but you still get props for the reference.
Neither did I.
Are you serious? I loved that book.
It was okay. I might have liked it more if I’d read it for a class I liked instead of one that annoyed me.
Musical theater flash mobbing in Bell Square. So much yes.
Will you please explain?
Yes, I shall!
My show just ended last weekend – but between the Sunday matinee and closing we went to the mall and decided to do a flash mob. (GAPAs: I have a video, but am I allowed to post it?) We sang a song from our show, complete with choreography and four-part harmony, and random people took videos.
(I was in 13 The Musical – we sang Brand New You, in which I am a soloist.)
WHOA MY FRIEND IS DOING 13 THE MUSICAL LIKE RIGHT NOW IT IS KIND OF AMAZING <3
Best experience of my life.
Who does she play?
Does anyone remember that Paeleo RRR that POSOC, Alice, and I were working on? The one with the imaginary city? We should do that again.
I was JUST thinking about that yesterday!
I believe I was supposed to be in that RRR but I took a hiatus from MB during that time period.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
Okay, to expand on what I wrote last night, here are my rough ideas for how I could cross over all of the books…
After fleeing Corinth, Medea traveled around Europe doing various evil deeds. (Medea)
She summoned the demon Grendel and his mother, as well as a dragon, in attempts to conquer the Scandinavians, but was thwarted by the hero Beowulf. (Beowulf)
Centuries later, a young astrologer named Fry Nicholas who had been severely punished after a love affair of his was discovered, sought her out, wanting to learn the dark arts, but Medea was unimpressed and refused. (The Canterbury Tales)
Around the time of the Renaissance, Medea did take an apprentice- the Algerian witch Sycorax, but the young Milanese nobleman Prospero tracked her down, intending to stop her villainy. In the ensuring magical battle, Prospero found himself unable to kill a descendant of the sun god, but was able to seal Medea away in another reality.
However, using her magic, Medea was still able to have weak influence in our own world. Terrified she would somehow become able to escape, Prospero threw himself into the study of magic to prepare himself for a future conflict. This led to his being overthrown by his brother and set adrift with his young daughter Miranda, eventually ending up on the island which Sycorax had fled to after Medea’s defeat. (The Tempest)
Several decades passed. Medea used her powers to contact humans in our world and promise them power in exchange for freeing her. (A-la Shen-Du in Jackie Chan Adventures) Sensing this threat, Miranda, who had begun to study sorcery herself, established an order of protectors to counteract Medea’s agents and keep her sealed away. And thus began the secret war that has lasted centuries…
Very few details of this war have surfaced, but from what we do know, Medea’s agents are ruthless, and many lives have been ruined in the crossfire. A West Indian family who helped the protectors were cursed with hereditary insanity (See: Bertha Mason, Jane Eyre), a curse that continued at least until the 1940s. (See: Soaphead Church, The Bluest Eye)
In the late 19th century, unscrupulous lawyer Nils Krogstad attempted to rise in the cult of Medea by amassing wealth through various underhanded tactics, in the process aiding in the destruction of the marriage of Norwegian banker Torvald Helmer and his wife, Nora. (A Doll’s House)
While trying to gain a magical artifact that the cult believed could be used to free Medea in Austria-Hungary, an unfortunate traveling salesman inadvertently disturbed their plans. Although the man had no relationship to the protectors and was in fact completely unaware of either the war or the existence of magic, poor Mr. Samsa was cursed by the cultists and subsequently turned into a large beetle. Regrettably, the protectors were unable to reach him in time to administer a counter-spell. (The Metamorphosis)
In the 1920s, two unpleasant expatriates named Tom Buchanan and Bob (last name unknown) joined Medea’s cult, wanting power after romantic misfortunes they had suffered. In their attempt to recover the aforementioned artifact in Spain, they were stopped by other travelers previously acquainted with the two, Nick Carraway and Jake Barnes. (The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises)
Another artifact of power was discovered in Algeria sometime in the 1940s. The cult enlisted a local Arab gang to help them obtain it, but the protectors, with the help of local underworld figure Raymond Sintes, and newly-recruited agent Mick Kelly, (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter) were able to prevent it from falling into their hands. However, several days later, a confrontation between members of the Arab gang, who desired revenge, and Raymond’s associate Meursault (First name unknown) led to a murder for which Meursault was arrested and sentenced to death. The protectors were unable to save him. (The Stranger.)
To be continued, as our class reads more books…
This sounds like it would be a fun RRR or RPG.
To actually RP in as characters, or as a Wold-Newton-Family-style mythos to connect books we’ve read in our English classes to?
So…tired…
Just spent five hours showing kids how to play carnival games. Our game made somewhere around forty dollars. And we have so much candy left over! We went around and put some of it in people’s cubbies, and then felt like santa clauses.
I just unconsciously wrote “lyk” instead of “like” on an assignment for school.
*feels sullied*
Excuse: The phrase that I was writing was “enzymes like lysozyme”, which does have an awful lot of y’s.
The best way to impress people is to make a joke or reference some random thing that you assume to be common knowledge, like the phrase “it’s turtles all the way down” (from creation myths and comprehending infinity and all that fun stuff, you guys probably know this). Then, when people give you blank stares, launch into a rambling explanation that probably doesn’t make any sense. Be sure to say “I don’t remember where it comes from” a few times as well.
When one of the people then looks it up on wikipedia and reads aloud “‘Turtles all the way down’ is a jocular expression of the infinite regress problem in cosmology posed by the Unmoved Mover paradox. The phrase was popularized by Stephen Hawking in 1988. The ‘turtle’ metaphor in the anecdote represents a popular notion of a ‘primitive cosmological myth’, viz. the flat earth supported on the back of a World Turtle.”
This all sounds terribly impressive and smart. And BAM! You look like a genius.
In other news, I love my new camera, it is AWESOME. Hopefully I’ll learn how to manipulate the settings properly and eventually deserve it.
There is a fabulous site (GAPA(s) allowing) that can teach you how to use these settings! They are video tutorials and very clear and easy to understand.
phlearn. com
Some of them have more to do with photoshop stuff, but quite a few are about using your camera and lighting and stuff. Worth checking out.
MY HISTORY TEACHER IS COMING BACK TOMORROW!
Which isn’t as good as you think.
We had a total [snip] of a retiree for our long term sub (Mr. Billings is awesomeeeee) but Ms. Dearborn finally recovered from her neck surgery and is returning tomorrow. Never mind that we had her for about a week.
The proudest moment of my week was successfully using a Mean Girls quote in Math. I asked a boy in my class (who has fairly dark skin) what his nationality was.
Niel: Oh, I’m Hawaiian, Indian, some Irish too I think.
me: Irish! You don’t look Irish to me.
Niel: Yeah, everyone says that.
me: Well, Isabelle’s from South Africa.
Niel: Wait…but why is she white?
me: OH MY GOD NIEL YOU CAN’T JUST ASK PEOPLE WHY THEY’RE WHITE!
And everyone laughed while Niel tried to figure out what just happened.
What’s Mean Girls?
A movie that, if you haven’t already seen it, you shouldn’t.
I love that movie.
“One time she punched me in the face. It was AWESOME.”
One of the Star Trek 2009/ Mean Girls crossover videos I’ve seen has Kirk saying that talking about Spock. And considering some of the fanfiction I’ve read, that makes a disturbing amount of sense.
Eek!
The number of posts is overwhelming me, so I regret to say that I have not read many the posts on this thread since I last posted. I will get to that, but that is a task for another day.
I do have a story, though, followed by a bunch of questions about this situation. Here goes.
A long-term substitute teacher of Chemistry at my school, let’s call her Ms. Smileville, was caught stealing from the school set of laptops. She was immediately fired and the case is being officially investigated now (she has not been charged with anything yet). This was a major joke around the school for the days surrounding this discovery, and a classmate of mine (Mirf) decided to make t-shirts to commemorate the occasion. The shirts read “What would Ms. Smileville do?” and he dotted the i’s with Macintosh (Apple) logos.
Here’s where the issue comes in. Mirf sold some of the t-shirts at school, and he was given a two-day suspension. What grounds do they have to suspend him? You don’t know the school rules, but we are an arts school, and they’re generally very tolerant of freedom of speech-type-stuff. Surely selling shirts on the premises would not warrant a multiple-day suspension?
Also: Do Ms. Smileville or Apple have any grounds to sue Mirf? They don’t right? That’s in the Constitution. Right?
Hm. If she’s found innocent (unlikely from what you’ve told us) I guess she could make a case for libel, but I don’t know much about the legal system.
I don’t think they have any grounds to sue Mirf. Smileville can’t press charges unless she’s found innocent, and I don’t think Apple would get involved in a school joke that gets their logo spread around.
Tomorrow is Friday. One more day of this torturous week, and then I can have my nervous breakdown and post-stress asthma attack. Yay!
I just accidentally pied your post instead of Errata’s. Sorry.
*hugs*
I think I just managed to double pie a post.
I just won a debate by saying, “There is always smoke rising from Isengard these days…”
Ask me how.
How?
Yeah. How? (That’s a 13 The Musical quote. I’m a nerd.)
It was on environmentalism- my argument was that global warming actually does exist, and my opponent’s argument was, “I dare you to name one movie that deals with pollution.”
anything by Miyazaki would probably also qualify..
Mononoke in particular! Also WALL-E.
The latter, of course, not being a Ghibli production :p
What’s that?
Hey guys…
IT’S FRIED EGG, FRIED EGG, GOTTA GET DOWN ON FRIED EGG!
*goes off to listen to the piano cover*
Guess who’s taking the GED (at long last) tonight? Whoo. And then half of tomorrow, too.
Let’s just hope they’re not as awful about getting my scores to me as they were about letting me finally take the stupid test. *grumpgrumpgrump*
May the pies be with you!
It is so nice outside. I just went for a run – I hadn’t wanted to, but I forced myself to go and I’m so glad I did – in the huge cemetery nearby where President Garfield is buried. It’s really hilly so I was kind of miserable for the last bit but I feel so good now and I feel exercised and virtuous and the sun’s shining and it was a great temperature for running or being outside – cool enough that you don’t get completely sweaty but the sun is warm. And the cemetery was beautiful and peaceful and there were trees and birds and everything.
(this cemetery also has a nice collection of angel statues, by the way)
They aren’t weeping by any chance?
Get out of there! But don’t blink!
Sounds great! I love going for runs in the spring.
This should probably be on the What I Learned Today thread, but I read in my geometry textbook that President Garfield discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. I found this quite amazing.
What was the proof? I love that sort of thing.
I love cemeteries. I don’t know why.
This is what happened to me a few minutes ago.
What the cake??
/gradster(1)/, on the last thread: I know that Austria (for example) has tuition fees of maybe 1050$ per year (though you have to find your own place to stay, no dorms, and I think you need to pay 25$ for students union membership and 0,7$ for insurance against accidents, though that probably doesn’t apply for non-EU students), and Germany is very similar, though you have to pass tests to get into popular study courses. For college, there’s the Erasmus program, though I think you might need to be a EU citizen.
Public high school is rather good Germany/Austria, but the only exchange program I know is SFA Sprachreisen, which is actually meant for Austrian students, but I’m sure they could be helpful if you chose to go there. Of course, you’re supposed to speak German before you go. Anyway, good luck!
Woooo! Spring Break!
Well, I came out as transgender.
That’s really brave of you! I’m glad you did
How have people reacted?
Actually, I just came out to my mom, so far, and she told my dad.
I think she was sort of….displeased, but will ultimately be okay with it.
Well, that’s a start… I hope she gets better.
That is so wonderful! You are so brave and I am so proud of you.
Congratulations! You are extremely brave. *celebratory rainbow pies*
Congratulations!
Congratulations, Nym! I’m proud of you!
I’M SO PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!!!!! Despite not having come out to a lot of people myself. Congratulations. How’d it go?
That’s great! Congratulations!
Congratulations! We are all so proud of you!
*applause* So brave. Good luck with everything.
I’m going to bed now. I have a trip to Petra in the morning and it’s 1:30 right now which is already way later than I planned on staying up given the great amount of walking I will do tomorrow.
PARTYING PARTYING YEAH
Haaaary Potttter Parrrrty!!!! A video shop was holding a party for the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part one on DVD. So I went. (And didn’t buy the DVD.)
I got to try butterbeer and it was really, really good. So was the fever fudge.
…Squee! And, for the second night in a row since The Deer Incident*, we didn’t encounter any deer! Nor did we even come close to hitting them, unlike the last time!
*Big deer. Empty road. Good brakes. Need I say anymore?
I love HP parties! I went to one when HBP came out on my 9th birthday.
My real-life friends and I *may* have an HP party in July. We’re going to watch as many of the movies as time allows (I vote #4 so we can see Edward Cullen die >:D), as well as AVPM, Potter Puppet Pals, and the HP Literal Trailer. We will also have a reading of a few chapters of DH in funny voices, and play Quidditch if we can get enough people. Then we’ll go to the midnight premiere of the last movie.
… It’s gonna be Totally Awesome. We might even have an HP Nostalgia Party on the same date every year. *happy dance*
*Harry Potter high fives*
I dressed up as Mafalda Hopkirk dressing up as a muggle. Good times.
Me: Hey Mom, can I have a drink of your water?
Yeah
Mom:
Me: Okay…WAIT IS THERE ANY VINEGAR IN THIS?
This is a regular conversation.
Does your mom regularly add vinegar to her water?
she puts apple cider vinegar in everything because it is Healthy. I have been duped before so now I always check first.
I LOVE apple cider vinegar in water. It is the BEST.
Today is Jackie Robinson day, for being to first African American baseball player. To celebrate every player is wearing the number 42.
I think I’m the only person to Google “elucidation”, “Morton Thiokol”, and “Eris is Dr. Fear’s mom?” all within 15 minutes.
Praise the Lord, all you nations.
Praise Him, all you people of the earth.
For He loves us with unfailing love;
the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
Praise the Lord! The week is done!
(Psalm 117)
Gah!
Remember that time when I asked about a situation involving the teacher who stole $30,000 worth of laptops? Ms. Smileville just assisted in a bank robbery!!! Her picture was on the news!
Here are my responses to posts from Part One. They do not explain what happened in the post, because it builds character, and the post is probably too long as it is.
93.1 (Rebecca) – I’ve posted some updates on cooking and arts’ respective threads; they are both coming along as fantastically as ever.
113 (Fiddler) – I envy you your life.
114 (R101 et al.) – This exchange made me laugh more than I have in a while. Perhaps weeks. And I’m a laughative person.
— I would like to add to Cat’s Meow’s 114.2 post:
Taiwan Hippo Cat
— 114.4 (starr)
I used to love those books. They were a Giant Cat Soap Opera, and I could not get enough.
117 (Choklit Orange) – I have done extensive research on the subject of depression, and one thing that is sometimes recommended is, in fact, a pet, especially the warm-and-fuzzy kind. They really do lift your spirits; I don’t know if it’s the warmth, or the companionship, or the responsibility that does it, but there is no doubt that they help. Of course, if you are in so deep that you would not be able to take care of the creature, you should not get a pet.
119.2.1 (Robert) – I watched a cartoon once where all of the classic Disneys (Mickey, Minnie, Donald, etc.) (Fun!â„¢) got robot doubles, and when the robots turned evil (as they do), they only way to defeat them was to dump water on them.
That’s related, right?
120 (Mikazuki) – You’ve probably finished it by now, but if you are as preoccupied with schoolwork as I am (and therefore haven’t gotten very far), we should be Pride and Prejudice buddies! I don’t know what that would involve, but… think of the fun! (â„¢)
123 (RtH) – Welcome back! While I’m on my “buddy” roll, you and I could be newbie paleos! together!
126 (AL – do you have a set short name? Like Aight?) – Congratulations on your robotics contest! And I am awfully glad that you didn’t have to make conversation with an Awful Perfect, although I would have liked to read that real-life exchange.
— I must now find Lord of the Beans. … ::fifteen minutes later:: *silent awe*
— 126.1.1 (ZNZ) – I laughed quite hard at those lines when Billboy Baggypants said them during the film, but somehow, seeing them in print just made me laugh and laugh some more.
129.1 (Bibliophile) – At the rate I am getting requests, the teachers will outnumber the students by the time the school is started. But the will GAPAS will undoubtedly be at the top of the list to teach their respective areas of expertise when I begin the search for instructors.
129.2 (gradster) – I would love to explain what I mean about setting your alarms in line with your sleep cycles. It works like this:
A human sleep cycle is usually about 90 minutes long. If you awaken in the middle of a sleep cycle, you will most likely be groggy for the rest of the day. If you awaken in between sleep cycles, you will be much better rested and alert in the day, even if you’ve had less sleep.
If you’d like to set an alarm and calculate when you should go to bed, figure that you’ll take about 14 minutes to fall asleep (the average, which works quite well for me), and then count forward in hour-and-a-half increments until you reach the time closest to when you have to wake up.
136.2 (Choklit Orange) – The first time I heard the phrase “Many happy returns” was in A Little Princess, in which it was misspelled (by Becky, not the author). I never thought to use it myself until now. Your challenge is accepted.
138 (Jadestone) – Ack! Dealing with insects is the worst! My family has an unofficial policy of not dealing with insects, and leaving the compost bowl there for another few days. It has never worked out.
139 (Fiddler) – I am glad to hear you’re still playing! I would love nothing more than to give away my otherwise-wasted vibrato; when someone enables transfer of specific motor function capabilities, it is all yours.
148 (Choklit O) – Why on earth were you standing near a tall metal pole? Was it fun to get struck by lightning? I hear it’s loud.
150 (Fiddler) – You say your futon is on the floor. Do you usually sleep on an elevated futon? (More questions will follow)
154 (Rosebud2) –
Regarding Friday by Rebecca Black:
I like the song. It makes me happy. It is catchy and pleasant, and it has the worst lyrics ever written, which makes me laugh. The funniest part of the video is that it looks professional–everything about it is good. It just isn’t.
I consider a horrible song one that is intolerable; “Friday,” while having terrible lyrics, a dumb melody, and awkward performers, is far from intolerable. It is so bad it is funny, which, as the barest and crudest form of entertainment, brings it above good music in some respects.
159 (CdL) – As Pan said in 165, our high school usually has a lot of participants for Day of Silence (and other like LGBT events–the school is, as a rule, extremely gay-friendly). I don’t think a whole lot of people did it today, though, because a lot of the core people left on a trip for spring break, plus, we had a half-day, so we weren’t really having a whole lot of class.
166 (Fiddler) – We are going to find a way to kokonvene. We’ll take the bike trip, and we’ll see you there, all right?
168 (Mel) – I just got tasered today! Well, not actually. I did participate in some tesla coil action, though!
These are responses to posts on Part Two. Proceed as usual.
7 (Mikazuki) – I love putting stuff in people’s cubbies! It really does make one feel like a magical elf of gifts!
9 (Fiddler) – True fact. I do this sometimes, but I try to skirt around it if I do nowadays because it tends to isolate the speaker unless en is around a really wonderful group of people. Which it sounds like you were, and YAY!
17 (Fiddler) – I wish you many Smartnesses. And a good night’s sleep. And breakfast.
18 (Lizzie) – Sounds wonderful and I’m glad you went!
19 (P_M) – The lady probably wasn’t expecting such a smart one to go by.
24 (Mikazuki) – Any chance you obtained the butterbeer recipe? I have yet to find one tested, tried, and true. Although, I don’t care much for fizzy so it might not make much difference.
25 (Axa) – I put vinegar in my tea sometimes! Apple cider vinegar is supposed to be super healthy, and it tastes good with ginger as well!
26 (Trojan Tigre) – I think that’s what they call excellence.
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In personal news, I am now officially on spring break! I plan to use this time for a number of things, most notably to clean up my room. And by “clean up,” I mean get rid of most of the furniture, vacuum and scrub where necessary, and put up some shoji screens to split up the space while making the space they form more harmonious. I’ll keep you posted, because I want to, but I get the feeling there’s a better thread for that; does anyone know where that is?
I will also be visiting my dear sister Purple Panda again over the break, and we may finish up a project we are working on for you guys that has yet to be revealed!
Squonk Opera
I write too many words.
Um, actually, it was kind of quiet, because I think my ears stopped working for a couple of seconds. It was one of those detached-from-the-outside-world things, where you know something is happening but you don’t feel like you’re all there.
She did? What? Really?
Who did what?
Ms. Smileville was in a bank robbery?
Why do I get the impression that the majority of my posts are questions?
Because that one was?
That… that is a long post.
When I wrote “Squonk Opera,” I was using it as a placeholder for a longer bit., but I think this will do:
Has anyone heard of or seen the group Squonk Opera?
29 (THF)~ You’re awesome and I love you. xD
Re: Futon: I was sleeping on a stack of three futons, because there was nowhere else for them to go. Because the floor of my room sags, there’s also a piece of plywood propped up on some 2×4’s to make the bed level, which is what my (single) futon is on now. Dad’s going to make a frame eventually so I can have storage space underneath.
Re: Looking Like A Genius: This exchange actually took place with my three minions from last weekend. I felt exceedingly foolish and embarrassed that my joke had been entirely lost on them, but they were looking at me with a combination of bewilderment and “whoa, she knows stuff” on their faces. It was most amusing.
On the bright side, perhaps their amazement at my illiusion of knowledge and misplaced trust made them more willing minions? Who knows.
I’ve never heard of the Squonk Opera, but I absolutely adore that name.
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The first part of the GED went well, but it was the easy stuff. Tomorrow is Math and the Essay, lovely. Anyway, sleep calls. Goodnight!
I suppose this is why they call it a monsoon season.
You moved to Ohio?!?! ;]
(It’s been raining/ for a while now/ it’s been raining at least/ forty days)
It’s actually been sunny an unusual amount lately in my part of Ohio..
I just saw As You Like It! Unfortunately, me and my dad were one of four in the audience, and the other two left at intermission. Twas really good, though.
SPRING BREAK WOOOOOOOO
WOOOOOOOOOOOO SPRING BREAK
Going to NY on the 23rd, though no chance for a kokon, because I’m coming back the same day.
Life is very interesting when your best friend is trying to earn a degree in matchmaking.
Ah, one of my friends likes to do that. She spent the first four months of last year trying to get me to like Plaid (I think that’s what I was calling him on old R&R threads) until I eventually actually did. Of course, it’s not like anything actually happened after that, but she was still ecstatic to have succeeded.
Random help requested! I’m writing some homework stuff on the Sami (an indigenous people of northern Norway/Finland/etc), specifically the type of music they have called “joik.” I read somewhere that the word comes from the Swedish word “jouigat,” but I cannot find a translation for this word anywhere. I tried googling it, using translation sites, but nothing came up. Does anyone have a way to find out if it actually mean something (other than joik, if they turn out to be just parallel words)?
I tried looking, but not much luck
Apparently the music is also called “juoiggus”, not sure if that’s helpful at all.
My Swedish-Speaking friends says jouigat doesn’t look Swedish; it looks Sami.
She also says “jojk (or joik) and jojka (joika) are the swedish noun and verb forms, as far as I know”
They mean “to sort of sing a song about someone in a nice way” She says it isn’t really like being a bard and writing a song about someone but friends do it to each other. You make it up although they follow some patterns.
Yeah, you just don’t sing it to someone, but sort of about them and personal stuff it looks like. And thank you for the help!! There’s lots of interesting aspects to the music/singing, it’s really cool. And it turn out one of my favourite folkmetal bands (Korpiklaani) started out as a band that sing in/about the Saami people! So that was neat.
I came back from building houses in Mexico feeling all warm and fuzzly because of the changing-the-world thing and the everybody-thinks-I’m-an-awesome-house-building-team-member thing and the making-new-friends thing and the people-really-are-basically-good thing and ALL MY FILES HAD BEEN RESTORED.
HALLELUJAH.
That is awesome on several levels.
You’re saving the world, so the world decided to give you a bit of a break.
Congratulations! *celebrates*
I wish I could be that helpful.
Finished the second half of the GED and, besides my essay being terrible, I’m pleased with how I did. It’s frighteningly easy to pass though, honestly. You just have to get a little over half of the questions right, and they’re not that difficult.
After that I stopped by my favorite bakery, which is owned by some friends and they were there, so it was fun to see them. I hadn’t seen them in at least 2 years. (Explanation: we used to be a lot closer with them, but life got hectic and we haven’t kept in very good touch. Although my family occasionally goes to their bakery they’re not always there, or they’re in the back and can’t stop for a chat/don’t recognize me. Apparently I look a little different now than I did 10 years ago.)
So now I have a crossant, an almond pie and an oatmeal cookie. I was going to keep the cookie for mom and split the almond pie with dad, but….I’m home alone with them……maybe dad can get his own almond pie. And…he’s at a wedding, so maybe they’ll feed him there? I’m a terrible person. >.<
I should have gotten some baklava and macaroons as well. Alas. NEXT TIME.
So, hi guys. I’m taking this totally awesome class for homeschoolers at the New England Aquarium and I’m on the computer doing some research for it so I shouldn’t really be on museblog, but I kind of had to see what was going on. That’s a very cool picture at the top of this thread.
I went for a run outside this morning. It was raining, and it was glorious. I find myself wondering why I don’t do that more often.
Then I got home and slipped back into the fighting with my parents slump of the weekend, but at least I can say I was undoubtedly happy for at least a half hour today.
HEY GUYS GUESS WHAT.
I’m not sure, but I think I got into the arts school! I got a letter from the county school system that says a bunch of vague, incoherent bureaucracy-speak stuff that seems to indicate that I got in. (Also, it says “High School Option Newly Accepted” at the top.)
Congratulations, Koppar! Please tell us more when you find out (or can decipher it).
Congratulations! Remind us to pie you when you’re 100% sure, though.
Okay, so I found a character creation sheet for the original Star Wars roleplaying game online, because I figured it would be good to have some concrete information recorded about what my SW characters are good and no-so-good at for future writing reference.
I get that there are various skills in six skill areas, plus a space to indicate their power with the Force and the Dark Side, and that points would indicate the character’s skill level, but I’m not sure how many points total to start with.
Since I don’t intend on doing any actual roleplaying, I’m just creating something to refer to, should I just assume ten points for every one of the areas and keep my own profiles consistent with that?
I ran into Bookworm at a play yesterday… Actually I would have had no idea it was him if my mom hadn’t pointed him out to me, but, yup, ’twas him. He’s taller and he’s got shorter hair, so yeah.
It was still kinda cool to run into him, though not really all that surprising, since we’re both into theater — he does tech stuff, apparently, mostly stage managering, I believe he said.
Speaking of theater! First rehearsal for The Winter’s Tale was today. I’m still in shock on several levels that I actually got cast as Hermione, not least because she’s actually a female role. XD But anyhoo, this theater company ROCKS. I love everyone in it so bad. It helps that this is my second year with them, so I know people, and also that our director this time is a LOT more organized than Tim was last year. I’m completely psyched. ^_^
If a GAPA wroye a typo while making a thread that changed a normal word into one that isn’t allowed, would the thread be deleted?
I don’t think so. The spam filter catches comments, not posts/threads.
Hello from the west side of Washington State! I came for a soccer game today (really, I’m here nearly every weekend) and I have another one tomorrow. It’s quite a long drive, so I hope we’ll make it worth it.
I feel so close to the Seattle-area MuseBloggers right now! *waves to you guys*
Spent the night with some old friends, which was a lot of fun. We got invited to a hookah bar by two guys in a sports car.
We didn’t go, of course. SFTP
There are so many of those around here. It’s irritating. You cannot walk down Arab Street without getting lightheaded and woozy.
29.1 (Choklit O) – Your ears stopped working? That’s insane. Do you feel enlightened by the experience?
29.2 (KaiYves) – I know, right? This robbery has been the source of many a pun on my social networking feed.
31 (Fiddler) – Re: Futon: The reason I asked about the futons is because I am trying to Japanese-ify my room, and I’m considering making my own futon; I already got rid of my bedframe, so I’m sleeping on just a mattress right now, which is working pretty well, but I want to have something that I can just fold up and it won’t take up floor space.
Is a stack of three futons 3 times as comfortable?
37 (Cat’s Eye) – That is the best. Congratulations.
38 (Fiddler) – Getting pastries to share and then eating most or all of them is becoming the story of my adolescence. I think I just make an excuse for getting 3 or 4 of them, but sometimes they’re gone by the time I get home.
Also: Whatever bakery has croissants, almond pies, and baklava is a bakery I must visit.
40 (agrrrfishi) – I’m sorry you had a slump and a row! The glorious rain should not allow it. I am glad, however, that you managed to discover and make use of this. Have a good tomorrow!
41 (Koppar) – Congratulations! Arts high schools are the best kind of high school! I have not followed your story; what did you audition for? Do you plan to attend?
Re: Squonk Opera
This is a group of performers who place great importance on the technical aspect of theatre. They perform a lot of different things, incorporating musical, visual, and theatrical elements to create an inspiring explosion. They’re really neat. You should look them up.
They’re from Pittsburgh, and they just visited our school not too long ago, which is how I found out about them. It seems like something right up MuseBlog’s alley; in fact, it seems a lot like something the magazine would cover. Maybe I can work something out.
Personal news:
I had my birthday celebration today (instead of two weeks ago, my actual birthday), and it was absolutely wonderful! I spent most of the day making my cake, which was delicious (details will be posted on the Cooking and Food thread soon). When I finished the cake (which takes 3 hours to chill), we had supper and then my bestest friend came over and I opened presents and we watched _Inception_!
It was a great day, and it certainly buffered any impact my mother’s deathiversary might have had on my emotions.
I’m really, really, glad to be on MuseBlog these days. I’ll probably keep saying this and saying this, but you guys are fantastic! You make it feel like home everywhere.
Um, well, it depends on what you mean by enlightenment. I certainly have gained the knowledge that it is unwise to stand near tall metal poles during thunderstorms…
Happy belated birthday!
I apologize. I should have said enlightninged.
Ooh! Share some of the robbery puns!
Oh, it was mostly stuff like “Chemystery of the stolen laptops” and songs about stealing stuff with story-specific words spliced in. We aren’t really that clever.
People are still really supportive of her; everybody really liked her as a teacher, and people are trying to look at her as a victim. When a drug situation emerged in this case, there was a lot of “Gilly Smileville is still my heroin!” and some puns and rhymes on her name that I suppose I’m not supposed to put here.
I like the word “Chemystery”. We should make that an actual genre.
Yes! We really should! I’ll write one sometime. I’ll post it when I do.
If you have some good ones, though, send them my way and I can be famous for my wit.
Okay, I officially hate my life. My current life, that is. Just the current bit. I cannot go a day without bursting into tears at least twice, and when I’m not crying I’m seething with rage…
This probably belongs on the Rants and Plaints thread, but I don’t feel like double-posting.
I made blue cupcakes for UU today (it was at our house). I have a tradition of bringing blue food to UU. I actually once succeeded in making blue tomato sauce, although I’m not sure it’s safe to eat that much blue dye.
Awww… *huggle*
Blue tomato sauce sounds amusing, at least for the person who isn’t eating it…
It was pretty good. Though according to the rest of the youth group, the color was disconcerting.
We are twins to some extent, aren’t we… *huggles*
Blue is a nice color. But it’s a sad color. Sadly enough…
I am going to make a coherent post later tonight. Amazingly enough, I am still exhausted from yesterday’s trip to Petra despite having slept fairly and napping during the day. I regret to inform you, however, that a picture of me reading Muse in front of Al-Khanza does not exist, mostly because it is ridiculously difficult to get your friends to take pictures of you with a magazine in front of your face.
I think I would have enjoyed the trip better if I had greater stamina. And maybe if we’d left earlier from the site because some students got us delayed and then I ended up coming back past my dorm’s curfew. And they were all like, “You should have informed us that there was a trip.” and I was like, “We were supposed to have gotten back earlier, I didn’t need to tell you.” and it was just blegh.
I’ll probably look back on it with more fondness once my muscle aches fade and I look at all the pretty pictures I’ve taken.
*is not posting enough*
Hi. Break is this week, but that doesn’t change anything in terms of work, which I should be doing right now. This whole envirothon thing is stressing me out, since nobody else seems to be doing any work.
Uhm, okay, other random things. Johnny Flynn’s show in the city in May is 18 and up and I’m this close to getting a fake ID to see him. APs are in a month, and I don’t know anything at all. Less than a month, actually. I need to work on my gold project. It’s going to rain for the rest of the week, which is conducive of doing work. Unfortunately, it’s also conducive of me wanting to snuggle with Troy, who is going on a college trip all week.
Okay, I gotta go. Tess and I are marrying sometime this week, I do believe.
(And a random congress kid just texted me?)
Yes! We are! You will know when.
Agree about APs. I’m so screwed. Panic party the weekend before?
Can we do it earlier? I’ll hopefully be playing in finals of a soccer tournament the weekend between AP Euro and AP Bio. (Great timing, I know.)
But I feel so unprepared.
Two weeks before?
WAIT BUT TWO WEEKS BEFORE IS NEXT WEEK
And hence starts the panic party. There are twelve Frederick Williams in my textbook index and I don’t know what a single one of them did.
Ruled Prussia for a few generations, mostly, then ruled Germany when that came along. Good luck keeping them sorted out!
Um let’s see.
Frederick William was the Great Elector.
Frederick I was the first King of Prussia.
Frederick William I was the crazy guy who loved his armies and nothing else. (?)
Beyond that general framework, I don’t have a clue.
3 weeks left until AP Bio, yay. This probably means that I should be studying the nervous system or something right now.
But seriously, study parties.
47 (THF)~ Re: Futons: Not particularly. Mine is a large and thick futon, so not really fold-able. I used to have a thinner twin-sized one that I rolled up every day, but it was a pain to have to do the covers and all every morning and night. Be aware of that if you think you’re going to fold it up every day.
Futons also don’t feel like regular mattresses, they don’t bounce and they’re somewhat firm. I like the way they feel, but definitely be sure that’s comfortable to you before switching.
Re: Bakery: they have fantastic macaroons as well. And Eclairs. And danishes, and breads and cakes and….it’s amazing.
Re: Squonk Opera: It sounds awesome, I will definitely look it up.
Re: Birthday celebrations: I’m glad you had a good day. I’ll have to check out the food thread to see what kind of cake, I’m sure it was delicious.
It’s wonderful to have you back! I, for one, have missed you.
48 (CO)~ *infinite hugs* This, too, shall pass.
I imagine there’s a story behind the Blue Food Tradition, and I sense it’s an amusing one.
I spilled food coloring in a bowl of clam chowder once, and it just sort of snowballed.
Ugh! I missed ICON! It was on my New Year’s Resolution list and I forgot it was this weekend! And next year I’ll be in Boston, so I won’t get to go, unless it’s during my spring break.
There are probably some SF conventions in Boston, though, right?
small but fierce (4): Ooh, I love flash mobbing–what kinds of reactions did you get?
Fiddler (9): Your camera sounds spectacular.
Errata (14): Congratulations. (Two pies in every face …er….post!)
Lizzie (18): When I first started playing frisbee this semester, I would always feel like not going to practices–they were from 9-11 at night, because that’s the only time we could reserve the gym, and we did so much running and it was so late and I was always worried about getting my homework done/sleeping. But now I look forward to practice, because I get so energized and feel so awesome afterward! Also, I think being outside just as it is starting to get warm is the best, because anything you see/feel that isn’t cold and snow is really really exciting.
Pseudonym (22): Congratulations!
Mikazuki (24): Do you know how they made the butterbeer? I remember unsuccessfully trying to make it in the past.
Axa (25): AW MAN really?? That’s….hmm. Is it really so good for you that you should drink it in water?
THF (29): OH MY GOLLY WHOLLY OUR SCHOOL IS SO CRAZY. As my friend says, “It just confirms my suspicion as to the quality of the [my high school] science department since Hileman (our awesome old chemistry teacher) left.” // Also, you got shoji screens? So exciting! You should send pictures.
Fiddler (31/38): Is the GED basically just like a really big test? Can anyone take it and bypass high school?
Cat’s Eye (37): That sounds wonderful–I love that feeling. Who did you build houses with?
Koppar (41): Arts school! Art school is the best. Tell us about it!
THF (47): I love you lots. You’re my favoritest ever.
FantasyFan (49): Hey! I think I’m behind on all of the awesome things that seem to be going on in your life. Are you in Jordan? How is it? How long have you been there? Etc.!
Personal news: Yesterday, my school did a “Day of Service,” in which a bunch of people went into town and cleaned up parks. We rode in a dump truck there and back, and spent the entire morning/early afternoon picking up trash, raking leaves, shoveling dirt, etc. It was raining and cold the entire time, but we still had a really good time, and it felt really great to get out and help our surrounding community, because I haven’t done nearly enough of that since I’ve been in college.
Yay~! We’re back on! We were off for a bit there.
Yay! I just found out that I’m old enough to volunteer at my local wildlife rehab center this summer, which is great because it’s something I’ve always wanted to do?
That was supposed to be a period, not a question mark.
46.2 (Choklit Orange) I know what you mean about hookahs. The weird thing is, the scent appears to have grown on me, against my best attempts to avoid them. I was walking down he street once and was like, “Mmm, what’s that fruity smell? Nice…” and promptly hit myself in the head once I realized what it was.
53(PP) Well. I suppose that is a bit of a story. I am currently taking a gap year in Jordan studying Arabic. I’ve been here since September, though I flew back to the States during the month-long break between semesters. Questions like why and how has it been, etc…I keep on intending to make a big post about this, probably on the College thread, but I’ve managed to procrastinate for the past six months. At this point I think I’ll probably post a reflection on my experiences once the semester ends and I head back, seeing as I have only a month and a half left.
On that note: Wow. Time’s really flown. And so has the clock, it’s 2:18 am and I should probably get to bed if I want to be at all functional in the morning.
I’ve been remembering so many weird dreams lately.
I had a dream a few nights ago that a guy got attacked by a bear behind my mom’s house, and he escaped and I let him into the house. He wasn’t injured really badly so I let him stay in the house for a while then offered to drive him home.
Join the club! A couple weeks ago I had a dream where I was at the state fair with my family, and then we went back in time to donate some tickets to a silent auction at the 1992 state fair, except I had to keep my friend who I accidentally brought back too from figuring out what was going on. We were time-traveling in a giant wooden air-submarine. Then I realized that I’d somehow disrupted the space-time continuum and thus caused Hagrid to be killed as a young boy, so I had to go back again to save him. I messed it up the first three times, and ended up having to swordfight a pirate armed with a rapier while I had only a dagger. I succeeded in killing him (rather violently…) and saved Hagrid’s life. Oh, also Hagrid lived in some largeish old wooden house with a big fence around on the banks of a lake where the state fair would one day be.
…Yeah.
I had a dream recently that involved some sort of sleepover, (don’t remember much about that) and I think KaiYves was in there somewhere as well.
And then some other night, something about a mermaid and a friend’s wedding and flowers.
Dreams are odd things.
West Side Story rehearsal + YouTube roaming = my dream that our school musical was Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. It was pretty awesome.
48 (Choklit Orange) – :sadface:. I was there (hating things, fits of tears, etc.) just a few months ago. For no apparent reason; it was killing me. I think what saved me was books. And hugs! Have a hug. Have twenty!
—Is there a source to this tradition of blue food? It sounds fantastic. I get jeepered when I think of food dyes, but most of the time I really love the crazy colors; blue tomato sauce sounds bizarre in the best way! I wish I’d seen it.
51 (Fiddler) – We used to have a futon in our basement, and it’s exactly what I want. I’ll be careful with the thickness; I’d like to be able to roll it up or fold it and stuff it in the closet. I’m cool with routines and stuff as far as having to pack it away and get it back out; in fact, guiding myself into a pattern like that is part of why I’ve decided to make these changes. Thank you for the information and advice!
I might end up just turning my mattress on its side; it depends on how the room ends up being organized. Really all I want is clean edges and aesthetic balance, and getting rid of the bed during the day seemed like an elegant solution.
Does anybody have any ideas on what I could put on my floor? I don’t like the way the rug I have is; the whole point of this rearranging is to make things align harmoniously, and that rug has diagonals and points and fray all over the place. I certainly couldn’t afford tatami, which would be ideal (what can I say? The Japanese know what they’re doing!), but maybe something like it?
53 (Pan) – I haven’t actually gotten the screens yet, but I plan to.
Day of Service sounds wonderful! You do such great stuff at that school; if you can make picking up trash fun, pretty much anything can be achieved.
55 (Bibliophile) – That’s fantastic! What would that job entail?
Bamboo sticks. You can grow them pretty easily.
I’ll be in the baby bird program, feeding them and cleaning cages and washing dishes and that sort of thing.
I think my wisdom teeth are coming in. It’s rather painful.
I am gratified and somewhat disturbed by the general knowledge of apple cider vinegar’s healing properties. My mom has random health kicks about things so I never know which are legit (ex: “So eventually you don’t have to eat and you just get your energy from the SUN!” )
Anyway I may start using it…………………maybe 8|
People can’t photosynthesize.
i am well aware. i tried to explain this, but to no avail.
You have no idea how much I have lamented this fact.
SNAILS can do it. I want to be able to.
At least giant space squid can.
Photosynthesis may be conceptually elegant, but unfortunately it’s not very efficient. To make it work, you’d have to increase your surface area considerably (think leaves), and even then you’d have to be content to move v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. (Trees aren’t exactly athletic, you know.)
That might suit a giant space squid. To live at anything close to a human pace, however, it makes more sense to let plants patiently photosynthesize away for months or years, and then eat a lot of them all at once.Or to eat something else that does that.
Increase your surface area? Most snails aren’t very large.
Anyway, I’d gladly give up quick movement if it meant I’d never have to eat again. Maybe giant space tardigrades can also do it, though of course the normal ones can’t any more than squids.
What about other giant space creatures? Does anyone know?
After one bout with a sprained ankle and another with a pulled Achilles tendon, I have not the slightest wish to give up quick movement. Not even for the advantages of photosynthesis.
I know exactly what you mean. Being injured and having to stay still is so boring.
… I like eating. What’s wrong with eating?
Small things like snails have more surface area relative to their volume and thus can collect more energy for each of their cells.
Well, maybe I can decrease my volume, then! Even a giant tardigrade would be much smaller than me; have you seen how tiny the regular ones are? Exactly.
Ideally I would want to do both. Like, eat for most of the energy needed, but be refreshed and reenergized by spending time outside in the sun.
Yeah, I wouldn’t be able to deal with not moving. I get into moods where I need to just gogogogogo a lot. When I was younger, my mother used to send me outside and not let me back in until I had run 3 laps around the house XD
I’ve never been very fast or energetic as it is, so I might not mind snail’s pace movement much. Food can taste goood, but we’re using too much of the Earth’s surface area for me to want to. I might eat a few wild fruits now and then, but that would be about it.
That is exactly what we all need. Someone needs to get to work on that concept immediately. I can see the headlines now:
Vitamin D! Now with calories!
When my brother and I get a little ornery, my father still makes us run to the end of the block and back.
So that’s why everything Ents do takes ages!
MIND
BLOWN
Heyyyy look at all the work I am supposed to be doing. Aka, I am here instead!
THF! Panda! It is great to see you two around, I haven’t talked with either of you in ages! And that is a travesty! I am glad to see that your lives seem to be going pretty well.
This weekend:
Contra on friday–big dance, the Dandelion Romp. My friend’s band played, as well as a pretty well known one. I also went to another ocntra today from 2-4, and saw my friend’s band as well as Giant Robot Dance, which was cool. After the dance on friday went back to my dorm and played magic/egyptian ratsnake/apples to apples with people and hung out in the lounge, as we always seem to do.
Saturday went to a friend’s dance performance, which was very cool. And afterwards we had a Doctor Who/baking party. I got slightly distracted by nerf for a bit, though I only stayed for one game–an all-meele weapons deathmatch. Very fun, though our team lost, alas.
Today (it is still basically sunday, not 2am, oops) slept in because I am a terrible person, then went to lunch and eventually the contra. And then my dad was in town because he has business nearby this week, so went to dinner with him and gave him some stuff (hockey equipment, winter clothes, etc) to take home so I don’t have to at the end of the year. I don’t want to think about the fact that I only get like FIVE more weeks here. That’s CRAZY. What. I can’t even think about it right now.
Then I tried to work on my bio report (due wednesday), ignored my chem problem set (also due wednesday), and am sort of working on my anthropology presentation (due tuesday) and should at least LOOK at the prompt for the anthro paper (also due tuesday). Or quickly write up the short traditional irish music paper I have due tomorrow night. ALL THE WORK, FOREVER.
Anyway, I got back to north and my friends had usurped my profile on the site-that-shall-not-be-named and filled it with puns. I haaate puns. So I got into a (friendly) fist fight with one of my friends and sort of with another because they KEPT MAKING MORE. And then later they started it again so there was more punching and it was not good for my work oops.
It’s April 18th and there are two and a half inches of snow outside. What is going on?!?
Mwahaha. I mean, what? *whistles innocently*
Oxlin knows something.
O.o
Weather Controlling Machine?
*ominous music*
No, no, the Mace plant was utterly destroyed, and the blueprints are in custody…
They were in custody.
Don’t turn around. To satisfy your curiosity, that noise you just heard was a semi-autonomous Consensus Regulation System intersecting your temporal milieu.
Don’t struggle. It won’t help in the long run, but it will alleviate the pain by allowing the dreamspiders to interface with your brainstem more efficiently.
Don’t open your eyes. Sensory input during the reality transfer has been known to cause psychic breakdown in 43% of tested subjects.
Don’t worry. Your new memories, and life, will be quite like your old ones.
Probably.
…that was so cool-sounding I think my brain just exploded.
It’s a common side effect of my presence.
But Mace himself unquestionably died in ’92. The body was recovered.
Were you messing with the weather simulators again? Honestly, I’d think you were trying to cause a glitch. And you know what would happen then…
Oh, I remember a couple of years ago when the same thing happened to me. Don’t worry about it, and don’t question it too hard, you never know who’s listening…
Mother Nature has a vendetta against the northeast USA anyway.
Speaking as someone in the northwest, where snow is falling with a vengeance, you’re not alone.
It’s a little something oxlin likes to call… (sunglasses)
Global Warming.
My dad was in a horrible mood last night because he’s having a colonoscopy today and he couldn’t eat dinner. (Have I mentioned that my dad is obsessed with food and cooking?)
So now he and mom are out and my brothers and I are just killing time until they get home.
Dear Anthropology Notes,
As much as it seemed a great idea at the time, the fact that half of you consists of drawings of dragons is not proving helpful to the paper I now have to write.
Sincerely,
Jade, who refuses to take responsibility for what is honestly Her Own Fault
Wikipedia.
I am honestly afraid to check my email inbox after not looking at it for a week. Or more. It doesn’t help that for some reason I cannot log into my account except through Internet Explorer which is way to slow and clumsy for me…
This sandwich now has five very different barbecue sauces on it and it is DELICIOUS
It was a sandwich with pulled pork, beef brisket, and a peppery sort of sausage on it. The sauces: a vinegar-based Texas red sauce; a thin sauce with Cajun spices; a thick, sweet brown sauce; a very thick and spicy sauce; and a sweet mustard-based sauce.
Om nom nom.
Yummy!
Can’t focus on homework.
Memebase instead?
YES.
Oh heck yes.
What I Am Doing Right Now: Posting on MB, reading Good Omens fanfiction, and listening to Mugglecast.
What I Am Not Doing: My Homework.
This will soon change. Like, next few minutes. Promise.
Doctor Who fans–Seasons 1-5 are on sale on iTunes.
Okay, so you guys said being afraid of the lizard men from Dr. Who shows you aren’t very brave. What about the vampire ladies with the really messed-up fangs?
(Was watching performance of “I Am The Doctor” to make somebody else happy.)
omg they were so hot
(err, sorry)
Are you serious? I can’t quite tell.
The vampire ladies, or the lizard men?
vampire ladies, and yes, sort of serious.
It’s official. I got into the arts school.
YAY!!!!!!
Flamablamablous!
Congratulations, Koppar! That’s fantastic!
Ah, the happiest congratulations!
Congratulations!
Awesome!
YES! Congratulations! What art-type-things are you planning to study?
Congratulations!
YAY!!
* pathetic happy dance*
I just saw another giant inflatable HPB. That’s, what, the 3rd so far this year? In fact, I’ve only seen one bunny decoration (besides the ones at my house) that wasn’t pink, and it was by far the smallest! /outrage, frustration, and worry/
Oh dear. Not those things.
59.1 (CO) – I can’t tell whether or not you’re being sarcastic… either way, growing bamboo seems like a great project. Actually, maybe I’ll use some bamboo to grow inside to fill the awkward spaces in my room.
Everything relates back to the room somehow, I guess. There is a possibility that that is taking over my life.
59.2 (Bibliophile) – That sounds like an incredible job. You’ll be able to do some good there, for sure.
I love birds. I really wanted to volunteer at the aviary when I was little, but I haven’t done anything about that particular dream. Actually, you’ve inspired me to look into that again. Thank you!
62 (Jade) – Hi!
MuseBloggers just have the coolest lives outside of the blog. I think we all need a melee weapons deathmatch or two in our lives.
Also: Hate puns?! What is wrong wit you?
Okay, that was bad. That was exceedingly bad. Give me a few minutes; I’ll come up with something.
64 (KY) – I hope your dad’s colonoscopy was clean as a green bean!
66 (FF) – In my head, full email inboxes are always cartoons, bursting with letters. Just don’t open the emails when you’re behind; that always works for me. I read the subject, gather what information I can from that, determine that it isn’t urgent, and never open it. IT’S A PERFECT SYSTEM.
My email has 150 unread emails because of those situations.
If you hate puns so much, then why did you spend your time on (s)wordplay?
Nope, still bad. It must be late. Cake, I’m sure there’s something in the s/wordplay area.
67 (Piggy) – Yum.
72 (Koppar) – TERRIFIC!!! Congratulations!!!!!
What did you audition for? Do you plan to attend?
Okay, Jadestone, I got it. No, I’ve really got you with this one.
I’m sorry your notes had to drag on, but couldn’t you have gone all snout anthrown in some komodophones?
Get it?
I’m not. We have a bamboo plant at home that, last summer, reached my second-story window.
Unfortunately these happen to be Important College Emails that affect my future…which is another reason I’m scared to look at them.
Yes, my dad’s okay. But he’s still in a bad mood.
PPPUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNSSSS
X_X FOREVER
I have a giant bucket of chocolate.
Yay! You have a giant bucket of chocolate.
How did you get it?
my sister (now 8 and a half) FINALLY started watching Doctor Who. YES! two years of convincing payed off! I’m pretty psyched.
HEYYYYYY 1:30 AM
YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS
TIME TO START THAT ESSAY DUE TOMORROW MORNING
AND THEN FINISH THE PRESENTATION DUE RIGHT AFTER I HAVE TO TURN THAT IN
I REALLY AM THE BEST AT THIS WORK ETHIC STUFF
GO GO GO
You can do it!
You’ve taken procrastination to a whole new level, haven’t you? Not that I’m the most organised person ever.
Hiya, Jade!
Guess what time it is?
That’s right! 1:30 AM!
You know what you should do?
FINISH YOUR ESSAY AND THAT PRESENTATION. But first, you should brush your teeth and hide your internet.
I just made Portal earrings. Gives a whole new meaning to “in one ear out the other”.
I really want to play Portal 2 but I should play Portal first. How should I go about doing that? I don’t have any game systems here but at home we have a Wii now.
You clearly have a computer. Buy Portal on Steam.
Also, as is required by my video game morality:
This was a triumph.
I’m making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS
It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction!
Aperture Science!
I actually knew the song before I knew about Portal, being a Jonathan Coulton fangirl.
We do what we must because we can.
(I have the sheet music for this, tee hee hee)
I CAN PLAY THIS SONG ON THE CLARINET. BEAT THAT.
Okay. That is it. Today I’m gonna figure it out on my violin.
I can play it on piano. Not that I’ve actually done so, but I know the solfege (Do, re, mi, etc) of it, so I’m sure I could if I tried.
For the good of all of us–except the ones who are dead.
For the good of all of us
(The speeded up version of this is going to be my ringtone as soon as I get a phone)
Actually, I already said that. I also added, “Except the ones who are dead,”
But there’s no sense crying over every mistake.
Whoops.
You just keep on trying ’till you run out of cake.
And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun
For the people [and PORTAL 2 SPOILER!!!!!1 WWCs] who are still alive.
I’m not even angry!
FFFFF AFTER 3 HOW DID THAT EVEN HAPPEN
STILL MORE ESSAY NEEDED
seriously guys I am getting worse at this. But my procrastination panic should kick in aaaaany minute now!
Remind me to write on Our Reclusive Gardens when I have free time.
Wait. What is this free time I’m talking about? I only finished chem. A hundred question test.
Off to envirothon stuff. Yay.
*hides in corner and cries*
W00t!! I spent last night testing the Ph of random kitchen liquids with my dad. (my computer is getting less and less reachable)
…Really? I did the exact same thing with my mom yesterday!
I read that as stealing the PHD from various kittens.
FAIL!
No, win.
Oh hey! My fourth musiversary was 10 days ago! I’VE BEEN ON HERE FOR FOUR YEARS. I was ten/elevenish when I started. Mind boggling.
Grrrrr, I’m younger than you by just seven months and two days.
I MISSED MINE, DANGIT.
…I knew this would happen.
But 5 years!
That’s pretty amazing.
For closure’s sake: Finished paper and project, went to bed, around 5am. Oops. But I decided to not go to my first class and edit it, so I still got a good 5 hours of sleep.
Tonight will also be long, but I have to go to class so more about that later.
Could somebody reccomend a website to wastes my day off on?
There’s always TVTropes and Cracked.com
Which, unfortunately, is full of Things I Am Morbidly Curious About and should not read late at night but do anyway.
I am sorry, Robert. Though in place of the website I can recommend fanfiction in general as something I am bad at avoiding.
https://musefanpage.com/blog/ is always a solid choice.
Although, it being so wondrous, it wouldn’t exactly be “wasting” days.
TVTropes!
If you don’t have one you’re addicted to, you’re lucky. Catch up on some reading.
Thank you!
(( What the… Axe murderer My Little Ponies?))
I agree with Kai, but if you must have one, try to search for ones related to the obsessions you already have. MuggleNet and The Leaky Cauldron are excellent.
LiveJournal communities for things you like, tying in with shadowfire.
As all but the neo-est neophyte should know, we discourage discussion of other websites here. Please desist.
Oh, sorry…
Elizabeth Sladen has died. I will miss her and remember with great respect her career and contributions.
Who was she?
A British actress who played Sarah Jane Smith on “Doctor Who.”
I just heard about it.
RIP, Liz Sladen. We’ll miss you.
Wait, what?
I heard this afternoon. She will be missed.
“Tears, Sarah Jane? Don’t cry. While there’s life, there’s…”
I read the above comment and promptly burst into tears. I love Sarah Jane Smith AND Elisabeth Sladen both so much.
DOWNLOADING PORTAL 2 ARGLE FLARGHLE
Also, I’m disappointed–I didn’t get Husker season tickets. They sold out in two hours.
Le game, she is SO GOOD
Now I lost the game.
Aw, darn it Piggy!? Don’t you know how many people just lost The Game thanks to you? *grumble*
(Don’t be offended, just joking around)
Where do you get Portal 2? And 1?
Steam works, or you could just get the retail console versions if your OS won’t support it.
Steam
Having a very nice day. Actually got to go somewhere other than the grocery store, that alone was an improvement over yesterday.
Back from Rhode Island!
…I went to the New England Folk Festival and learned how to contra dance! (ish.)Oh yeah, and we hit a turkey on the highway. We think/hope it survived. It was extremely terrifying and sad, too, because, well, we were on the highway and the best we could do was slow down, thus resulting in feathers. It hit the windshield.
I am now even more scared of hitting animals than I was after we stopped about an inch away from a huge buck. (Okay, okay doggies!) Warm fuzzy dogs are greeting me enthusiastically (despite the fact that I’ve been home for about an hour) so I’ll be quick and attempt too catch up.
Bibliophile (55) – That’s awesome! Congratulations! I love baby birds.
THF (29) – I have not finished Pride and Prejudice due to the fact that I keep leaving it at school (although you’ve probably finished it by now)! Also, putting things in peoples’ cubbies is indeed quite elf-full.
The only problem was that only about half the people noticed. XD Ah well.
Koppar (72) – Yay!!! Congratulations!
Purple Panda (53) and THF (29): The butterbeer had caramel syrup, fizzy water, and whipped cream in it. (I think it was blenderized.) It was fizzy, though–if you don’t like the fizzy recipes then it probably wouldn’t be great.
Just..walked..3…miles…*faints*
Back from Philadelphia!!!!
I had a great time, saw the liberty bell, the zoo, the Franklin Institute (Which had a Star Wars reanactement going on at the time), and I went to my first ever major league baseball game.
Now, to catch up on my RPGs/Chess!
Star Wars reenactment? Do tell!
They had a few storm troopers and Darth Vader walking aroud the museum taking pictures with people by the time I got there. I don’t know if they did anything else, but Vader had a lightsaber out and the storm troopers all had weapons. It was pretty cool.
Wow! I wish I could have been there!
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Either you’re pranking us, or you need to figure out where to put your fingers on your keyboard in order to type.
I think it’s probably the latter. Many people don’t bother to make sure what they type on forums is legible.
Hey. I agree with Jadestone – we should be nice. I’m sure y’all mean to be helpful, but counseling neophytes too pedantically is going to scare them off. I think we’ve got an enthusiastic one here, so let’s make the most of ens energy and channel it into the Kokonspiracy!
…
…aaaaaaand SBF exits stage left.
pink zebras are awsome
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Okay, are you new? Direct yourself to the neophytes’ thread. Just south on the main page.
And do learn to spell better, hun. I managed to gather that you think you’re a bad speller but spellcheck is always available… And we’ll know you made a pseudonym because of the gravatars.
This is a forum with moderators, not a chatroom. I did the same thing when I was new (albeit with better spelling)… just learn the ropes, lurk a bit, and join in. We do love new people, just be a bit better-behaved.
Wow… a bit harsh for a first few posts, don’t you think? Give them time to settle and get used to the way stuff works.
Hi. You’re not annoying, but you may not have gotten used to using proper spelling, grammar, and as little chatspeak as possible. Please do so. I’d very much like to read what you’ve written, but I cannot comprehend it.
74- I auditioned for Chorus, and yes, I’m planning to attend.
Replies to 72- D’awwww, thanks! ♥
And now, some non sequiturs.
No.1: I finally got around to watching Spirited Away. Now I see what all the fuss is about. ♥
No.2: Mori girl fashion is pretty. ♥
…I’ll stop the gratuitous use of hearts now.
i’m a big fan of mori girl but not for everyday. i think my style kind of gravitates toward that naturally (haha puns) though.
Hello. You seem new. Welcome to MuseBlog!
Please try to keep in mind that most people here really don’t like it very much when you post multiple times in a row, use text talk, or don’t capitalize and punctuate sentences properly. It’s harder to read posts like that. It’s fine if you’re not the best at spelling; that isn’t anything you can control, but please do the best you can. It doesn’t look you proofread; I’m sure you know that ‘annoying’ is one word, whether or not you can spell it, and I think we’d all really appreciate it if you tried very hard to make posts easier to read. Thank you!
Koko’s Apprentice, I may have inadvertently deleted one of your comments that wound up in the spam bin. I tried to grab it mid flight but unless another GAPA caught it, ’tis gone, I fear. My humble apologies.
I retrieved one that is now comment 5 on his chess game with Mikazuki. Could that be it?
Maybe, though I thought it was a little longer. I didn’t get a chance to read it. My finger acted completely on its own while in the same instant my mind was crying out “oh noes!”
I don’t see any missing posts, but I could have missed something…
The brilliant student government at my school has decided to theme prom Roaring Twenties. I should note that we have a swing dance every year in late February/early March (with record attendance this year) as a band fundraiser event, with a live big band made up of student musicians, free food, fantastic decorations, and an admission price of $5. StudGov is charging forty bucks a person for a very similar theme minus the live music (minus period music at all I would guess), food, and general atmosphere. Oh, and they want to borrow all of the band’s decorations.
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I’m surprised prom tickets are that cheap.
Me too. It’s $40 a person or $70 a couple.
That seems kind of expensive. I think they were $20 for someone who didn’t go to the school and wasn’t a junior or senior but who had been invited by a junior or senior and free or $10 for someone who was a junior or senior.
I think it’s around average, actually. I know some schools charge far more.
Yeah, our school’s was I think $80 per person or something. I didn’t go.
FWUH
Ours were seventy dollars each.
What?? Tesseract, I am so jealous of you.
PAPER: DONE.
This one was a lot easier/more fun to write. Probably because I got to just talk about Vampyroteuthis infernalis for 3 pages. Wooo vampire squid!
There are these wrens (cleverly named Wrenny and Wrennette by my father) that keep trying to build a nest in our garage because my brother insists on leaving it open so he can skateboard. It’s kind of cute, but my dad still hates the wrens.
If he hates them, why did he name them?
So he could hate them.
The chapter I’m writing for a collaborative fan-fic on anther site features Angry!Butt-kicking!Future!Mike Fincke. I can’t wait to see if anybody can take the concept seriously.
Bibliophile (55/59.2): Wow, that sounds great! Are they baby birds from the wild, do they rescue them and nurse them back to health or something? How big is the program/(how many birds)?
FantasyFan (57): Ooh, exciting. I have some friends studying abroad in Jordan next year–I’ll look forward to your reflection.
Tesseract (60): *hugs* Eat some ice cream!
Axa (61): If I could photosynthesize, I’d probably be the happiest person ever. Except in the winter when there isn’t very much sun. Then I could live off of bread and chocolate.
Jadestone (61.1.2.1.2): Yes, just like that!
Jadestone (62): I missed you, too! We should kokonvene sometime, because I think we’re much closer to each other now that we’re in college than we were when we lived full-time at home.
KaiYves (64): He just missed dinner? He should feel very fortunate–for my colonoscopies, I’ve had to fast for an entire day or more. And then, food is so much more fun afterward, because you’ve missed it so much!
Piggy (67): That sounds very very spicy. My mouth would probably ignite and cause my entire body to engulf in flames.
Koppar (72): Congratulations! How is the school organized? I went to an arts school, and we had academics in the morning and our “major” (arts focus) in the afternoon.
THF (74): That is the worst email system I have ever heard!! Remind me to rub off on you some more. But oh my gosh, your puns are divine. JUST SO GOOD.
(77-78): You all need to go to sleep. It’s good for you.
oxlin (79): I just got Portal yesterday! It was $9.99 on Steam–Google can find it for you. I’m on level 14, and it’s really fun! // How did you make the earrings? (I think I’m getting my ears pierced on Friday! Eep!)
MissSwann, Cat’s Meow (83/.2): Time flies, eh?
Ghost of Pie Girl (85): Read a book! Climb a tree! Knit a hat! Eat a banana! Don’t waste your time on the internet.
Mikazuki (89): Thanks! I’m not really a fizzy fan, but I think that recipe can probably be modified.
Tesseract/etc. (98): My school’s prom tickets were $35 my senior year. My friends bought one for me because they wanted to make sure I went. I think the price changes every year based on how much money they raised. The previous year, I think tickets were $50.
So it has been raining here since Friday. I don’t think it has stopped for more than an hour or so the entire time. We have a huge pond in the middle of campus because the ground is so saturated. Swimming!
Yes to your first question, though I personally won’t be doing that because I’m very inexperienced. According to their website, they get about 1,500 birds each summer.
I am incredibly excited as I am going to Sakura-Con on Saturday. The uninterested people around me (brother, etc) have dubbed it “nerdfest”.
awesome! sakura-con always seems to get good guests, i’ve actually wanted to go to either that or fanime if i get the chance
ENJOY!!!
My parents have told me to make a college decision by Friday. OH THE PRESSURE
Also, another day, another twelve liters of water lugged up the hill to my dorm room. I needed to do it, I’d run out of drinking water a couple days ago and tap water is, uh, under suspect here, but I wish I could come up with a better system. At least the six big bottles should last me a while.
I also bought tons of junk food when I bought the water. Most of it has been eaten now. My excuse is not having gone on a big junk food binge like that for several weeks and suffering from withdrawal.
I’ve just come back from Albany. Next week I’m going to New York City.
We went to the Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield ( Massachusetts, which is apparently closer to New York than to my home ). It was super fascinating and they make beautiful furniture. I highly recommend it.
Also, I got to pet some baby animals.
While your in NYC see if you can stop by The Colony music store. It’s near Times Square and is awesome.
I’ve been there! Since it’s a band trip and we’ll be near Times Square, maybe I’ll be allowed to go.
102 (Pan)~ Getting your ears pierced doesn’t really hurt as much as you’d expect it to, just relax and don’t think about the fact that you’re getting something stabbed clean through your flesh if that would be upsetting.
So, I sent in my deposit for [college that you probably already know I wanted to go to, but I’ll not name here because then you’d know where I’m going to live for the next four years], which is SUPER EXCITING. Anyway, hopefully they won’t change their minds and be like “HAHA NEVERMIND WE DON’T WANT YOU.” (Part of me is terrified that they will…the other part still doesn’t believe that I was even accepted on purpose.) Anyway, that’s cool, I’m excited, and shoutout to HAWK, thanks to you and yours for introducing me to the school. Awesomesauce.
I need to do something about making my windows more visible to birds, as one hit them and died (in my hands, the poor little thing). We live in the woods, so it’s sadly not a super uncommon occurrence.
Here is a list of things you can add to your windows, from most effective to least effective (you only need to do one, but I’m putting them all so that you can choose), quoted from 101 Ways To Help Birds by Laura Erickson:
“.One-way transparent film that permits people on the inside to see out but appears opaque on the outside. The best product currently out is CollideEscape, marketed by Large Format Digital. This prevents burds from both colliding into the glass and fighting their reflections. Part of the purchase price supports the Fatal Light Awareness program*.
.Vertical exterior tape strips, set no more than four inches apart on the glass.
.External shutters that are kept closed when you’re not taking advantage of the light or the view.
.External sun shades or awnings, to reduce reflections of the sky
.Interior vertical blinds with the slats half open
.Soap on the outside of the window
.Decals, sun catchers, Mylar strips, or other objects on the outer surface of the glass. These should be set close enough that an open adult handprint can’t fit between them.”
*They apparently help reduce window kills.
It’s also good to know what to do if a bird hits your window, so here’s another quote from the book, which you can ignore if you already know:
“If an injured bird is lying on its back, it may go into what seems to be a hupnotic state and simply be unable to balance or right itself. If you don’t help, it may die unnecessarily. First, protect yourself. Most songbirds, even chickadees, can pack a wallop in their beaks but are usually harmless when in the dazed state. However, the talons on even a semiconscious hawk can cause serious injuries. Wear thick leather gloves to handle hawks or owls.
Never put any wild bird in a cage. Its feathers may becaome frayed against the metal bars, compromising its ability to fly.
The best way to help a bird after a window strike is to gently place it right up side a branch in a dense shrub to see if it can perch properly. If it can, it has a chance of recovering on its own. If it can’t, put it in a small cardboard box, propped if necessary in a “donut cushion” fashioned out of tissue. For most backyard birds, a shoebox is perfect. Every ten or fifteen minutes, take the box outdoors, open it, and see if the bird flies off. Never open the box indoors. And don’t release a songbird after dusk–wait until morning. If the bird is ready to leave, it will usually be able to take off from the box.If not, hold it in your hand as you try to release it, but don’t toss it in the air to “launch” it. Just open your hand and be patient–you can gently touch its tail to see if that speeds up the process.
Most birds with minor concussions recover within an hour or two if they’re going to recover at all. If blood or black spinal fluid is coming from the mouth, the bird is most likely fatally injured. Otherwise, there is at least a chance that it will recover. If the bird doesn’t fly away soon, get it to a wildlife rehabilitation facility as soon as possible, transporting it in a cardboard box or a large paper sack.”
I have Beemo’s sad song from the newest Adventure Time stuck in my head.
Finn, why are you fighting with your friend
Jake, you know, this could be the end
Romance or Action, does not matter
Hurting your friend, will make you sadder
Guys, you know, you’re much more than this
You two please stop, or you’ll undo
All that you been through-ooh
Just hug, and it’s agreed
Your love will not delete
It’s very sweet and touching. Does that make me an Adventure Time nerd?
Also, “Check Please!!!”
Me
: Mom, do you think I’m a boring old lady?
: Well, you’re not boring, but you are an old lady. You’re a very interesting old lady! Just trapped in the body of an 18 year old girl.
Mom
I tend to agree with this
Fiddler — MANY BILLIONS OF CONGRATULATIONS!! *confetti*
FantasyFan — one way to gauge your response to things is to write down the names of both colleges on small slips of paper (or something similar) and mix them around until you don’t know which is which. Think “I’ll go to THIS one!” and then pick one. If you find you’re disappointed with the one you’ve picked, think about that. I’ve found that I’ve often already made my decision on things I’m being indecisive about, I just don’t want to actually decide. So that might help. Or I’m just full of it.
My mom said I was born 40. But really, I think I’m more like 4.
Has anyone here read Les Miserables? If so, tell me, because it seems like no one has read it but me and I need to squee with fangirl joy with people about Enjolras and Jehan and Montparnasse and amazing things!
In other news, History is now my favorite subject again. We’re learning about the Cold War, and I keep wanting to draw America and England and France and a few other countries up in a treehouse with NATO painted on it, and Russia standing at the bottom of the tree being all hopeful and “Can I join guys?” And they frown at him and paint a sign that says NO RUSSIA ALLOWED! and hang it on the treehouse. So Russia is all “Fine! Stupid NATO, I don’t need you anyway! I’m going to go start my own Warsaw Pact, and it’s going to be better than any stupid club you make!”
Because that’s how my mind works.
I guess I’m just kind of buried in fandommery right now. I’m spending about a third of every class just quietly drawing Les Mis fanart and writing Hetalia fanfiction and obsessing about Doctor Who.
Aww…. draw that, it’d be cute!
Agreed. Hetalia-esque country fanart is excellent.
Our wireless router went out last night. 24 hours without internet… *shivers* But I’ve had Portal 2 to keep me company. And I installed a new router, so here I am. (I posted once last night from my Kindle, but that’s quite slow, so I didn’t do more than that.)
Virtually everyone that knows him believes that my Spanish teacher smokes marijuana at least once in a while. Today was 4/20. He was unexpectedly absent. No one, including myself, can get over the hilarity of this.
My family used to not have a wireless router, so my brother would frequently take our modem and plug it into his Xbox, leaving me disconnected from the world. *tries to block out traumatic memories*
Please return to our HP trivia game. It was fun, remember?
I don’t get it. What’s 4/20?
Marijuana day, I believe? I have no idea why the association exists, but if you log onto The Voldemort Network on the 20th of April you’ll see statuses like “celebratin 420!! Ahahehehah.”
I don’t have the slightest idea which website it is, though. I actually thought it was a general term for other sites. Well, at least I know not to use it now.
It’s Facebook. (GAPAs, please permit this explanatory mention.)
Would you be surprised to learn that Wikipedia has an article explaining
410420? No, I didn’t think so.Which 410 do you mean? Wikipedia has articles on several. Also, how is this related?
Sorry, typo that I didn’t see on the iPod. That should be 420, or more precisely 4/20. Wikipedia went straight to that page on the iPod, but the desktop sent me to entries for the date. Try “4/20 (cannabis culture).”
Awww. I was more interested in the entry for 410, actually.
On the bright side, there’s nothing to stop you from reading it.
Oh, I did.
There’s another way to have 24 hours without internet (well, 23)….
Download Portal 2 with a slow internet connection.
But it was worth every internetless second.
And now I’m stuck on testchamber 19. IT’S SO BIG! Wait… *cue awkward moment*
I’ve beaten the first five or six chapters, but today it crashed my computer when I tried to play it. I’ve fiddled with some things and am about to try again. Testchamber 19? *looks up on Youtube* Ah, that one. It was a great feeling when I figured out the trick to beating it.
Grr. Still broken. My other games work fine. I uninstalled it and am now (very slowly) reinstalling it to see if that fixes it.
So I’ve figured out that there’s a bug in Portal 2 that makes it a one-use game. For a quite large number of people (including yours truly), it can be played once–works beautifully, no problems whatsoever. But if you close it and play it again later, it freezes and the sound loops and if you’re not quick, you get a BSOD. Valve claims they’re testing a patch, but they don’t have an ETA for it. Urgh. I hope they send it out soon. I didn’t pay fifty bucks to not play a game.
Oh dear.
Fortunately for me it doesn’t seem to do that. I’ve exited and re-entered twice by now. But there are occasional freezings, but pressing Esc will get me out of them, I think it’s more to do with my slowish computer.
Really? Nothing has happened to me.
Is yours from Steam or did you get a physical disc of it?
I keep forgetting to ask, but what’s with all the squids around here?
Awesomeness?
I thought it was SBF who introduced them. Was it? Anyway, I did my fair share in spreading them, so I’m partially to blame. But squids are awesome.
small but fierce flung several stuffed squids at Piggy on January 4, 2009, three days after she arrived on the blog. As far as I can tell, she also made the first presentation of squid, to Midnight Fiddler, on November 9, 2009.
I thought the squidmania started when Jade announced that she is a Giant Space Squid, which prompted the formation of a Giant Space Squid colony (I believe called a pod). I don’t know when people started giving squid to one another, though apparently sbf has something to do with it.
Jadestone’s transformation into a Giant Space Squid occurred on June 2, 2009, but she and other MBers had been talking about ordinary squid (both giant and non-giant) for a long time before that. The first reference to squid on the blog was by Axa, on August 31, 2005.
We GAPAs really need to get back to work on our MuseBlog Index project.
T’is an interesting history lesson. Thank you.
OH MAN I did not know I held that honor….
I think we might have settled on ‘fleet’.
Oh, I was so eloquent back then…
…and cut to sarcasm.
Even if you don’t like the way you used to word things, you were the first person to ever give anyone a squid. That’s much more important.
Well, I changed my profile on the Voldemort Network (thanks, Fireh) to “interested in girls,” though I’m not really interested in anyone at the moment. Still, I feel rather proud of myself. Though I don’t think anyone will notice. Anyway…
What would you suggest I make for a potluck Easter brunch?
Good for you!
Brunch? Chocolate croissants. You will suddenly be very popular.
So my college on 4/20 is the same as my college any other day. Oh liberal arts schools.
In all honesty though, while there’s a significant amount of people who do smoke, everyone cares about their studies enough that they don’t sacrifice them at all (at least as far as I’ve seen/who I know).
102- Academics in the morning, major in the afternoon. Maybe it’s standard arts school scheduling.
Today, I got my Hogwarts letter! (Well… sort of.)
That is to say, I got my acceptance letter from the arts school (which I shall henceforth refer to as “Hogwarts”–after all, they have a Quidditch team). This is three days after the confusing Ministry of Magic “your reassignment request complies with Board of Education Bill Something-or-Other” gibberish. Bureaucracy is confusing.
114- Our school has quidditch too! I am on the team. Wearing the shirt for it now, in fact XD Yay for school acceptances!
I have major auditions coming up at the conservatory in two weeks.
I am so nervous. I haven’t had much preparation time. Maybe I’m just under-motivated.
Good luck! What are you auditioning for? You can still do a lot of preparation in two weeks…
(as a conservatory student, I’m a bit in the same boat right now – juries in a week and a half and I’m freaking out trying to get my pieces ready)
Good luck!
Thanks.
Good luck to you too Lizzie.
I have not gone to bed before 1:00 this week. 1:00 in the morning
Sleep, weak, etc.
Bernadette: Okay, Sheldon. What happens to our neuroreceptors when we don’t get enough REM sleep?
Sheldon: They lose their sensitivity to serotonin and norepinephrine.
Bernadette: Which leads to…?
Sheldon: Impaired cognitive function.
Squee! My training for the bird volunteering is the day after tomorrow!
I can’t stop thinking about it; I’m really excited.
I realize that I’m a terrible person for having an extremely eurocentric approach to (or at least interest in) history, but I really hate trying to do research on Native Americans.
Today I went to the MFA with Nym and Silver Lining! It was fantastic fun, and we saw a glassblowing exhibit by Dale Chihuly! There was actually a Muse article on him a while ago, and I saw a lot of the stuff in the exhibit I’d seen photos of in the article. It was super cool.
We also explored the new wing, in which we found a painting by Benjamin West called The Hope Family. It stuck out because there were two girls in it who -in my opinion- looked exactly like Midnight Fiddler! Silver Lining and Nym both confirmed this, so I guess I’m not a creepster. Although as soon as I got home I gimped together a photo of the painting with a photo of Midnight Fiddler I got off the blog. Would the GAPAs (and Fiddler, of course) mind if I sent it in? I’m curious as to how much of a resemblance there actually was.
We’ll permit it if Fiddler does.
Whoa… I just looked that painting up. The resemblance is uncanny. This must mean… that Fiddler is a Time Lord!
(…Time Lady?)
Well, she does spend an unusual amount of time in the 17th century. There’s no reason she couldn’t occasionally wander over into the 18th.
[Added later: Or 19th. I looked it up, and West painted the family in 1802.]
(120) I’ll steal a little bandwidth to show the blog what Sudo and Koppar are talking about:
120 (Sudo)~ I’m always flattered when people think of/creep on me, no worries. By all means, send it in!
120.2 (Koppar)~ *graceful bow* At your service, ma’am.
120.2.1 (Robert)~ I believe you mean “she spends an unusual amount of time in the 18th century, …there’s no reason she couldn’t occasionally wander into the 19th.”
Though I do pay visits to the 17th century, the 18th is my “second home”, as it were. I do hope to explore the 19th century in the future (past?) as well.
121 (Robert)~ Aha, I can see something of a resemblance. Interesting the girls’ haircuts, I wonder if short hair was typical for young girls at that time? The oldest looks to be not much older than 14. DO I SENSE A JUST FOR FUN RESEARCH PROJECT? Eh, maybe.
I don’t think their hair is short, I think it’s just tied back or pinned up. Either way, nice to have a better image of what you look like. (Besides your gravatar, which is my default mental image for all MBers.)
You can sort of see the girl on the right’s hair falling on her shoulders, behind her ears.
Still, I do think there’s a resemblance.
So it’s possible to change the past, then? There goes my theory. It’s the only way I can think of for one of the girls in the picture to be you. You’d have to go back in time to when you were 14 (or younger, if you’d rather be the younger girl) and tell your former self to go back in time and pose in the picture. Since you don’t remember it happening, you apparently don’t experience the effects of time travel until after you’ve done it… But then how are we seeing the picture? Cake, this is confusing! I suppose time travel works better if you don’t think about it too much.
tt: the thing with time travel is
tt: you cant overthink it
tt: you just gotta roll with it and see what happens
-Dave Strider, Homestuck
122.1 (FF)~ That could be, but it’s definitely trimmed in the bangs and around the ears, so if it were long it would be some kind of mullet-like hairstyle. It’s hard to see against the background, but when I zoomed in on the picture their hair looked like the back of their brothers’, which I’m guessing is just short instead of tied back in a ponytail, since it’s wide at the bottom, if that makes sense. I also don’t see anything resembling a snood, which is the only way I can think they’d get that shape of hair in the back other than having it cut short.
Hmm. More research needed, for sure.
As far as knowing what I look like, I’m in a lot of Kokonvention albums, not hard to find.
The one on the left is in a particularly Fiddlish pose, in my opinion.
Fiddler- I’m not gifted in the ways of Gimp, so it was just a cropped picture of the two girls next to a cropped picture of you. It doesn’t really add much. Glad you don’t think I’m a creeper, though!
l think the picture I’ve linked to is a copy. We’ll have to check the original.
I have the Dread Incurable Plague*.
*A cold.
Same here.
*huggles* (and maybe give you a squid. Although I doubt that a squid can cure us of such a plague, it is somewhat snuggable.)
I have received an electric kettle for my birthday. YESSSS
Sometimes I put blue food coloring in ours and heat it up just for fun. I think the ceiling in our kitchen is permanently discolored.
Re- Fiddler Portrait: Wow. I’ve never met you, Fiddler, but that’s pretty close to the mental image I had.
Mom: Don’t make cookies.
Me: *makes cookies* *hides cookies*
Mom: I’m amazed you didn’t make cookies.
This is probably ironic in some way. I just can’t think how.
Mom: *says something about cooking in small kitchen/being on vacation*
Me: I could cook!
Everyone else: NO!
It’s dramatic irony on her part.
whatthecakeit’s11:49pmalready?!?!?!?
Umm… I was going to eat or something, but now it’s late!
Umm…I’m delusional and I’m going to make an analogy of my electronics.
My laptop and I have been drifting apart. (start sarcasm) Maybe this should go on the R&R thread, but I’m really concerned about me and my laptop. It’s weird because we will spend all this time together and it feels so short, but then we will be apart for a long time and it’s like we don’t even notice. And I can’t find my cord for my Sony camera that doesn’t use a normal USB cord.
I feel like this incompatibility between the laptop and the digital camera is really messing up my relationship with the laptop even though it’s not the laptop’s fault. The camera is the one with the problem here. It just seems like this camera gets between me and every laptop I have. I should just get rid of that camera and get a new one, but I can’t move on. I’ve put so much into getting that camera and the memory cards for it and I just can’t let go. I guess I should move on from that camera because I really value my relationship with my laptop. I don’t want to lose this!
So…in conclusion, Sony is a jerkish company! There is a time and a place to be unique. That time and place is not when you are designing the output plug for a digital camera!
Re: Portrait/my likeness: Is Sudo’s picture going to be posted, or is it not going to be because Robert already put up the paining? Just curious, because, like, DRAWING ATTENTION TO MYSELF, obviously.
128 (UP)~ I lol’d.
TIRED. BED. SLEEP.
Starting to memorize French vocabulary, let’s go!
Remind me to tell you about The Drowy Chaperone tomorrow.
Vous parlez le francais? C’est fantastic!
J’etudie le francais depuis 4 ans et j’adore le langue!
Je suis un pamplemouse!
Je crois que nous avons eu cette conversation plusieurs fois haha. Oui, je suis dans le cours AP French.
Est-ce que c’est mal que je peux compredre vos phrases quand je fais (sérieux) le français depuis un ou deux ans?
Au les usualvoires, conversationes de langues not-inglishes allezen au les Coy Woodnesse.
… No parleo-moi francais.
That reminds me; I should head over to Coy Woodnesse. That’s probably a great place to practice my Spanish.
A brief update on the status of my mental health (Since you all are so great and supportive and have been all through this god-awful fiasco)
My parents are aware of the panic attacks, as is my doctor. It is believed that the panic is caused by the medication (ironically, a mood stabilizer) I’ve been taking for my restless leg syndrome (RLS), so I’m being slowly taken off that medication. Instead, I’ll be taking an amino acid supplement that could help the RLS and often helps with anxiety-related issues. The unfortunate thing is that the amino acids won’t work right away so I’m going off my meds (coinciding with hormones leading to ODD behavior) and not getting sleep….
I also need to take cake loads of iron, in a desperate attempt to fix the RLS.
I’m having less panic attacks, though, so soon hopefully all will be well! (Well, except that my wrist is scarred and that won’t go away for a long time…. )
It’s really good to hear that you’re doing better.
I second Vanillabean. Medical messes are the worst. Thank goodness you’re doing better.
Mood stabilizers cause panic attacks… that is odd. I suggest lemon drops.
Hope you will be well soon! *huggles*
It’s so good that you’re doing better. *hug* You have no idea how glad that makes me.
ALL THE BUSY
TL;DR: Jade joined a circus and will be spinning poi for the performances next weekend! So tech week is next week aka rehearsals 5pm-10pm x_x Also I accidentally a solo in the act so need to find time to choreograph ffff
Why is the tl;dr longer than the original phrase?
Also, what possessed you to join a circus?
I think the tl;dr was a substitution for an unwritten longer explanation.
Does it mean anything? I thought it was a typo or something.
Too Long; Didn’t Read.
Well, (since I know how fascinated you all are by it), I suppose it’s time for a Portal 2 update. They released a patch early this morning, but it didn’t fix the crash that’s been affecting me. However, I tried running it in Compatibility Mode for Windows XP SP2, and it worked. I made sure that I did not close out of the game. And, because sleep is for the weak, I beat the game. So utterly fantastic. Such marvelous characters. Such a hilariously original script. Such music. Such surprises.
Piggy! I need help on one room.
Okay, so I’ve just finished the repulsion gel/ Alpha testing, and now I need to get to the propulsion gel/ Beta testing. I’m in that room with the two pipes, one pumpling Repulsion and one pumping Propulsion, with a glass wall between them. I can’t figure out how to get onto the lobby for propulsion gel testing! HALP!
1. Get on the metal platform high on the wall to the left of the lobby.
2. Shoot one portal on one white patch on the floor and the other on the other patch.
3. Jump down into the nearer portal.
4. When you come out the opposite portal, shoot a portal (same color as the portal you first jumped into) onto the white patch on the left side of the glass, opposite the lobby.
Thank you for the help, though I became impatient and found a walkthrough online. I only use it when I’m really stuck.
I just finished Portal 2.
I’M IN SPACE!
Do you want a celebratory bagpipe concert?
In that case, I shall give you a celebratory bagpipe concert.
So how would you compare it to the first game?
So much better graphics, much better plot, much more varied. All together one of the best games I’ve ever played.
Gentle waves creased the surface of the deep blue sea; the color was so vibrant and fresh, like a newly awakened flower, that it’s beauty could only be rivaled by the sky, which was a smooth, uncaring blue, vibrant and creamy. Dreamy white clouds were swirled into this blue, like cream into yogurt–if yogurt could be blue–until parts of the sky were the color of robin eggs. Fluffy clouds drifted lazily past, their tendrils elegantly curling into ribbons. The silvery branches of a weeping tree hung down, resplendent against the glorious sky. Red buds began to poke their heads out; the shimmery bark framed them spectacularly. A seagull flew across the small cove, the light breeze ruffling his feathers.
Happy Earth Day.
Hello Museblog!
Alas. Tis my senior year and I’m a crazy woman with too much stuff. I miss the loveliness of MB so much! But now it’s spring break! 
Yay!
Since it is Earthday, I thought that I’d come on and shot it out!
HAPPY EARTH DAY!
Anywho… yep. I haven’t been on here for a long time.
OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS I HAVEN’T BEEN ON HERE IN FOREVER AND I CAN PIE PEOPLE! >:D
AND WE CAN PIE YOU BACK!
Hello Kiwi! Long time no see! I’m glad you’re back, will you be staying?
I hope so.
Although I’ve gotta tell ya… once graduation starts up in May it’ll be even more hectic.
But hey y’all! I’m never gone for good! I am here in spirit. ^^
Except for the people who arrive after you leave.
Welcome back!
*huggles and squid*
KIWI!!! *glomp* You’re back!! Yay!
Also, Kokon thread –> https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=7530
I remember youuuu~~~~ And you still have the same style of speaking~
So nice to have you back, luv~~~~ /tildes
Aw. Now I feel loved.
My sister is coming back from Spain so here I am in the airport waiting for her, posting from my iPod using airport wifi.
Hey my sister came back from Spain last year about this time.
I tackled her in the middle of the airport and then she tried to speak to me in Spanish during dinner because she was so tired that she forgot she was in America.
Who else is really excited for Doctor Who tomorrow?
Family: *fast-forwarding through commercials on Tivo*
Me: WAIT STOP GO BACK THAT WAS A DOCTOR WHO TRAILER.
Family: …Okay… *goes back and watches trailer*
Me: HE’S WEARING A STETSON. STETSONS ARE COOL.
Family: How do you know so much about Doctor Who, anyway? It’s not like you watch it.
Me: …We live in the same house, yes?
In other news: GHJAKLGHFDSLK TOMORROW! River! Amy! Rory! Doctor! America! STETSONS!
I need my hard drive back so I can watch End of Time and catch up to the current show!
Made my decision. That’s one (very very big) load off my shoulders. Thanks everyone who gave me advice. Now I’m empty and just waiting for something else to happen. I have nothing planned for tomorrow…I think I’ll sleep in.
I have compared my elementary and middle school careers in physical education and have come to a realization: one of these schools was doing something incorrect in the playing of dodgeball.
Compare:
Elementary school- there are three rings painted onto the asphalt, two large ones three feet apart (by apart I mean one inside the other) and a small one in the center. Four or five children would stand in the center and everyone else in the class would stand between the two outer rings. Between the majority there would be 1-7 balls, and they would try to tag out the people in the center. The number of balls allocated to the outside children would increase as the game went on.
Middle school- The class would be divided in half, as would the gymnasium’s floor, and each half of the class would go to a different half of the gym. The two sides would be given a large amount of balls and they would try and hit each other with them, and if one was hot they would go to the back of the opposite portion of the gym and try to catch balls there. If they caught a ball, they could a) run them back to their team alongside the gym or b) try to tag out close members of the opposing team.
Which way is correct? Has anyone else played it differently? Discuss.
There are so many different variations on dodgeball it’s hard to say which is the right one. That said, I’ve never heard of your Elementary School’s version, and the Middle School version is closer to the one I’ve played. The main difference is that when I played, you got back in when the person who got you out got out.
Whenever I had to play dodgeball, we threw the balls rather than hitting people with them. Well, everyone els did. I just hid in a corner and wasn’t noticed, but that’s beside the point.
Dodgeball is a genre.
In honour of Earth Day: *throws mud pies at all and sundry*
140 – I’ve only ever played it the second way. Well, sort of. I’ve played it that if you catch a ball thrown from your team, you have to go back to your team. But I’ve also played it that you don’t try to catch the balls, you can grab any that roll back or whatever and throw them at the opposing team, and if you hit one of them they aren’t out but you’re free. Does that make sense? And of course I’ve played it where everyone goes into a big rectangle and tries to get everyone else out. But I don’t think there’s really a right and wrong to dodgeball. (Of course, the reason I hold this opinion may be that I don’t care enough to have an opinion about which is right.)
The most HILARIOUS thing just happened to
me in the bookstore this evening.
Basically, these two teenage boys thought I was (a) a guy AND (b) a GAY guy. Ohhhhhh boy.
I’m probably going to get several replies saying “WHAT EXPLAIN” if I don’t elaborate, so I’ll go ahead and do that.
First it needs to be said what I am wearing. I’m wearing baggy jeans, a spotchy red and blue tiedyed unisex tshirt, black Crocs, a headband that really looks like a bandana with black and red butterflies all over it, a three bracelets on my left arm, and a watch and a wristband on my right. Basically, doesn’t really look like a girl, but certain aspects of my appearance aren’t quite ‘manly’.
So I’m sitting/lying on one of the little couch-chairs they have at the bookstore, reading my DWM (The “Cosmic Relief” cover one where Matt’s nose is a pirate), and these two teenage boys are giving me really funny looks and lowering their voices, so naturally I lower my magazine slightly, stare back at them for a few seconds, give them a small wave like “I know you’ve been staring at me”, and return to chuckling happily over David Tennant with a huge red nose. A few seconds later one of them mutters to the other “I think he’s a [expletive]ing gay!”, they both look at me, then they promptly abandoned their chairs and left the area.
I couldn’t stop laughing for five minutes. xD
XD
In other news, two of my friends (a fairly masculine girl (who still manages to have pink hair) and a vaguely feminine guy) were just walking around, and someone mistook them for a lesbian couple. XD
Now that I think of it, maybe I was just channeling you somehow and they sensed the aura.
Once someone mistook Keiffer and me for a gay couple.
Not too long ago, I was sitting at a table with some friends, and friends-of-friends. One guy at one point in the conversation said to me something along the lines of, “You know, Z [a bi guy in the group] looks more like a girl than you. No offense.” To which I responded, “None taken. I get that a lot.”
I just saw myself in the mirror, and my headband kind of looks like I have a tie tied around my head. Maybe that’s why…
Did anyone else see kokopelli on The Office?
WHAT EXPLAIN.
The new manager DeAngelo is a lover of the west, so you can see a figure of kokopelli under a painting of the desert. It’s when Michael is talking to the camera. I basically flipped.
Squee! I don’t watch it (or anything, really), but that’s excellent!
MuseBlog! I have fantastic news! Truly spectacular!
Some of you may remember on the Rants and Plaints thread a while ago I posted that my cat got out over night? (If not you are not to blame as it was during the very scary time of Not My Real Email.)
It’s been a week and a half… AND OUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBORS JUST FOUND HIM MEOWING IN THEIR DRIVEWAY!
I’d be petting him right now, but he’s super skinny and starving so I’m letting him eat.
I’m so glad he’s back, Sudo. I’ve been wondering.
I am too. Thanks for your concern.
Yay!
That is spectacular! *glomps*
YES! I was worried! Good for you. And your cat.
YAY!
Yayyayyay! I’m so happy for you! (And your cat)
Hooray!
That’s brilliant!
The cake is a lie.
PORTAL FOR THE WIN!
FantasyFan (104): You can do it! When I was trying to decide what school to go to, I mostly just thought about which one I could see myself attending the most, which one made me most comfortable.
// I just read post 139, and congratulations! Now you can get really excited about actually going there.
Fiddler (106): Eeuhhhh, thanks! I didn’t actually get them done today, but I think I’m going to soon. And congratulations again for your college awesomeness! I’ll come visit you sometime.
Cat’s Eye (109): History is spectacular. I’m glad you’re enjoying it.
Piggy/Enceladus/etc. (110/etc.): I just got Portal (1), and it’s much more fun than I thought it would be. I’m on testchamber 15, I think? Something like that. But I’m trying to limit my play time, because I need to actually do homework and study and stuff.
Robert (111.2.1.1.1): You’re doing a MuseBlog Index project? That it such a good idea! What exactly does it entail?
Koppar (114): Mm, yeah. I think the schedule works really well that way, because it gives lots of uninterrupted time for the arts–we were able to have 3-hour-long writing workshops, and the other departments had extended art studio times, play rehearsals, etc. We also had our academics in alternating-day block scheduling, so we had 3 80-minute classes every day, then switched the next day, and so on.
Jade (115): My school has a Quidditch team, too! I went to games for the first few weeks, but then I just sort of stopped going. They’re designing a shirt for it, though, which is really cute–the front has a squirrel flying on a broom, and the back says “We catch the snitch through consensus.”
Princess Magnolia (116): Knock ’em dead! You got it! What are you auditioning for?
Halomaniac (117): That happens to me all the time. I find myself staying up unreasonably late, then getting up unreasonably early for my morning classes. And then I get really sleep deprived and crash at the end of the week and then start all over again. But I don’t think sleep is for the weak, I think it’s really important! So if you can remember, going to sleep at a decent hour is more important than pretty much anything else (I almost never take my own advice on this matter, but it’s always a goal).
Fiddler (119): Whatever you find most interesting, I think, is a perfectly reasonable thing to study. As long as you have a basic knowledge of worldwide history, you shouldn’t feel terrible about focusing on an area you’re interested in.
Sudo (120): Chihuly!! He came and did a really fancy exhibit at the Botanical Gardens/Conservatory in Pittsburgh a few years ago. He designed some of the pieces specifically for the gardens they were going in, too, which was especially cool. Did you see any of his giant chandelier-like pieces that hang from the ceiling?
Koppar (125): My dad swears by zinc lozenges, especially on the onset of a cold.
Clare (131): Hello! I haven’t been following your “god-awful fiasco,” but I’m glad that you’re optimistic and positive about it all. Hugs and cuddle puddle! (I take cake loads of iron, too–good times, indeed.)
Zinc (140): Dodgeball was “outlawed” in my school district, but my gym teacher renamed it “cardioball” and we still played it.
Got into As You Like It! Bye to the blog for a while.
Yipee! Good for you!
We’ll miss you, but of course we understand dedicating your life to something awesome like theater.
Bye to SBF for a little while, but hopefully not too long. Have fun!
Awesome!
We’ll miss you!
Congratulations to you! Although, we’ll be missing you, so come back soon! *huggles*
Why thank you! I may be popping in at random intervals on my days off, so brace yourselves.
(Translation: I’m too weak to stay away from MB for an extended period of time.)
We’re very glad about that “weakness.”
Well, my computer is having a tantrum at the moment and won’t let me respond to individual posts, so I’ll just do it here.
Fireh- I’m torn between tears and hysterical laughter. I think I’ll go with the laughter. BWA HA HA HA HA HA!
Sudo- YES! Oh, thank god(s). I was worried.
SBF- Congratulations! What part are you playing? There’s a great stage direction in As You Like It: Exit, pursued by a bear. Or is that King Lear? I’m not sure.
I would like to register my opinion: Dodgeball is unequivocally the most traumatic and painful game ever invented.
It’s Antigonus, in “The Winter’s Tale.” SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER The bear gets him, too.
Oh. I definitely need to reread those. At one time I was under the impression that Hamlet fell in love with Juliet, gave a monologue about whether or not life was worth living, decided it wasn’t, and drank poison that didn’t actually work but prompted Juliet to kill herself in despair.
I am, though, a firm believer that Shakespeare is best acted, not read.
I agree! Some of the plays (including “The Winter’s Tale”) are almost unbearably silly to read but beautiful and moving when well staged and acted. A few years ago, a theater in Washington, D.C., put on an amazing production of “Pericles: Prince of Tyre,” a play so bad that most directors won’t go near it.
I just looked up “Pericles: Prince of Tyre”- you’re right, its terrible. Wow. It even reads badly. Maybe it’s because Shakespeare didn’t actually write all of it. I went to a wonderful production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in San Diego with my friend. It was really funny, but for some reason they suspended a lot of gymnasts above the stage on wires, which was rather distracting.
We’re reading Romeo and Juliet in class, and we got to the part where Mercutio dies. He says something along the lines of “It’s only a scratch” after being stabbed in the stomach, and all I could think of was Monty Python.
Totally ruined the “tragedy” aspect.
” ‘Tis but a flesh wound!”
Tears?
At the ignorance of those idiots- “Oh my god, a gay person, we’d better get out of here!” But still, funny.
I officially failed at sleep last night and stayed up until I heard the fajr athan. Then I woke up at one pm. It was wonderful. I haven’t pulled an all-nighter like that in quite sometime, much less because I wanted to, and since today was a weekend there were no consequences in class.
Of course, I will have to correct my sleep schedule tonight for class tomorrow, but evening’s hours away. I’m just going to enjoy myself right now…
I’m still not allowed to cook, but I ended up doing the dishes today. I also realized that this was the first time I washed the dishes in three years, despite countless vacations where we didn’t have a dishwasher. It’s not like I did it on purpose, it just sort of happened…
Re: Dodgeball: I’ve played “American dodgeball” several times: two teams, field split in two along the middle, a bunch of softballs (3 to 8) set on the middle line, you’re allowed to run forwards, you throw the ball at the other team. If you get hit, you’re out and take a seat on the bench. If you catch a ball, one of the players on your team gets to come back in.
Throughout elementary school and middle school, we played “Völkerball”, which is basically dodgeball only with different rules and countless variations. The main difference is that there’s an out field for each team behind the other team’s field and the players in the out field can come back in if they manage to hit one of the other team’s players. There’s also a Freigeist on each team, a person who starts out in the out field and comes in when there’s only one other player left standing and has two lives. It’s also played with one (or two) volleyballs instead of softballs, which hurts (literally). Variations are
a) an out field that encircles the other team’s field, as to encircle and permanently traumatize the players on each team
b) “Kings-/Queensball”, where one player is the King/Queen (secretly chosen by the team)- when en is out, their team automatically loses. There’s also the jester, who is never out no matter how many times en is hit (and who’s job it is to protect the King/Queen)
c) “The doctor and the spy”, which is sort of a mishmash between the “Kingsball” game and “American dodgeball”. The field setup is just like in “American dodgeball”, except that the line which usually marks the out field is important here too. The two teams chuck balls at each-other and whoever gets hit has to sit down (but can still catch and throw balls). Two players have special functions: the spy who can run into the opposing team’s field, but loses this power if en is hit in said field, and the doctor, who can “bring the “dead” players back to life” by dragging them past the aforementioned line but obviously loses said power if en is hit, even behind the line. The game is usually played with 3 softballs or so and it’s actually fun because it involves some strategy and teamwork- the only way to really win is to get the other team’s doctor and to try to protect your own for as long as possible.*
*I always loved this game because when you’re the doctor, people literally throw themselves in front of you to stop you from being hit.
I am now a catgirl.
May I ask how that happened?
I saw a bear in my yard last night. Yes, a bear. It was pretty darn awesome.
Do you have a fence? If so, you should really call someone so that you can get it out somehow. Unless you mean a water bear?
Is it gone?
Cool! What kind of bear?
A bear? Where do you live?
Exist, seen by a bear
Heisenbearg’s Uncertainty Principle.
Schroedinger’s Bear.
The Collected Works of Shakesbear.
Russell’s Bearadox.
Botticelli’s “The Bearth of Venus”.
Albeart Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
Just got back from Sakura-Con, which is why I’m a catgirl. It was incredibly unbelievably awesome. I’ve never been to a convention before and am so glad I did this time. I got photographed and hugged by random strangers, got awesome stuff, and generally had a lot of fun.
Well, that does explain a lot.
There was also, despite it being entirely an anime convention, a Four(-th Doctor) cosplayer. I gave her a hug. Along with a Mukuro cosplayer who cam up to us in the registration line and demanded a photo with my friend N who was Chrome(both from Katekyo Hitman Reborn). Most fun I’ve ever had waiting in a line for an hour.
Yay!
Oh hai there MB…
A month ago, I didn’t even know that Portal existed. Now I squeal every time I see a billboard (And when I say billboard, I mean the one billboard I saw on the way to New York the other day. Twas quite awesome.) for Portal 2. I’m obsessed. Thank goodness my cousin has an amazingly nerdy friend who introduced me to Portal (the first one, that is.) and then forced me (Or maybe I just forced myself. Either way.) to get Portal 2 the day it came out. And this is really the first serious video game I’ve ever been in to.
Also, my Latin class had a field trip the other day to a local school for a gathering of Latin students in my area. I brought my video camera and took a ton of footage of my friends and I just being crazy as well as a lot of the events, and am now editing it together into something that will hopefully be at least slightly coherent to give to my Latin teacher as an end of year gift. Not only is it my last year at my school but she’s also retiring this year, so I think it’ll be a nice keepsake.
Hello Starr! I feel like I haven’t seen you in a while! I actually was thinking about you today- We’re trying to restart Demigods, wanna help?
Anyway, welcome back! Unless you haven’t been gone, in which case… Oops.
Hi Sudo! No, I haven’t been around in a little while… and I will definitely head over to the Demigod thread, that’s something that I’ve missed.
My sister gave me a bonsai tree for my birthday. Name suggestions are now being taken. Japanese names preferred but not essential.
I picked out my birthday cake this afternoon. I got a layer cake–white cake with vanilla pudding between the layers and blueberries/raspberries/blackberries/strawberries in the middle and on top. And delicious frosting. Now: naptime so I can stay awake during the Easter Vigil.
Hokusai or Basho are the first that come to mind (old names for what seem like old trees! *yuk yuk*)
I like Basho.
Treebeard. Or Fred. I like Fred.
I was going to suggest Treebeard, but I forgot his name. What about Murphy? There’s just something about that name…
When in doubt, use ‘Bob.’
NO! Do not use Bob, whatever you do.
Are we assuming that the bonsai is male? Because if not, ‘Bobolina I’ can work.
Yes, that’s much better. At least it’s original.
I went to BU open house! And I went in the archeology lab and got to hold a spoon handle from a plantation house on Monserrat! And I also visited the GIS lab, ate tuna salad sandwiches, looked at dirt under a microscope, and talked to Farouk El-Baz’s secretary!
Awesome! Did you see any tardigrades?
Under the microscope? I don’t think so.
There’s this whole subfield of archeology that I’d actually never heard of before called archeological micromorphology where they take soil samples of the strata at a site, preserve the samples in resin, and cut them into really small slices to look at under the microscope so that they can see where the soil has been disturbed by human actions like digging a firepit or plowing the ground.
I don’t know all the details of how the soil samples are prepared, but I presume they do something kill anything that’s living in there.
Tardigrades are pretty hard to kill…
True. All I can say is that I don’t think I saw any.
UU Easter Brunch/Seder today! I made cookies. And our congregation is going to visit an Evangelical church of some sort. And a mosque.
Merry Easter/Passover, everyone!
… Is it a bad sign that I saw that post and thought, “You go to UNSEEN UNIVERSITY?”
Nope, that’s what I think every time I type that acronym.
I hope not, because that’s what I thought too. XD
Easter/Seder celebrations…
Only in Unitariana.
Just finished watching The Impossible Astronaut.
*hides in corner, shaking*
Me: “Hey, Enc! Wanna see my Apollo stuff?”
*Enc screams and runs away*
Me: “How odd…”
(I know nothing of the episode beyond that it features people in Apollo spacesuits, which I have gleaned from what a friend of mine has said on [another site].)
Actually, the only frightening astronaut is one that’s already in the suit… and has a young girl calling for help trapped inside of it. (That’s what I’m guessing, anyway.)
The joke was that there would be pictures of spacesuits in my collection of Apollo stuff and they would remind you of the episode.
Thailand tomorrow! With any luck I’ll meet another monk.
I see what you did there…
A day late, but have fun!
Accedentally stayed up past 4 two nights in a row again! Welp. This is probably not a good trend. But a friend was not feeling very well (emotionally) last night so at 3am we took her for a wander to north fields so she could scream really loud without waking people up.
Today I have all the busy. And a lot of work… and a test to take! I should not forget about that. And a poi routine to choreograph…
Does anyone know when the Doctor Who Season 6 DVD comes out? It’s not even ON Amazon yet. *has finished Season 5 and now has no more Doctor Who*
given that the first episode of season six just aired yesterday, I’d say you’ve got a bit of a wait.
Hey! Listen!
Turning a sci fi haller’s life into an RPG. I’m a NPC. My line: I hear there are monsters outside the city!
This is not going to help with the studying for the bio test I have to take by 6 oops
Sooo… you’ve been shanghaied into a LARP as a random expository NPC?
Out of context, that sentence sounds ridiculous.
Don’t most things posted on this blog?
Oh no, I volunteered
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter! It’s so nice and warm here… I’m sitting outside at my cousin’s house writing about the relationship between artist and society during the Renaissance. Lovely times.
I hope you all have a great day that’s as lovely as mine is so far.
alsodoctorwholastnightwasamazingbuti’mgoingtodomyhomeworknow.
Happy Easter, everybloggy!
We went to my uncle’s church here in Worcester, and it turned out they had no one to read in Latin.
(In the Eastern Orthodox Easter service, the Gospel is read in several languages, to symbolize the spreading of the news. It’s very cool, because people in the church community who can speak different languages all volunteer and they get to read.)
So I volunteered, and I had about 20 minutes to familiarize myself with my piece, but fortunately, it was short and not too hard.
There were other people reading in Romanian, Bulgarian, Spanish, Greek, Albanian and French. I went third, and I felt a little bit scared when it was my turn and the chanter came to me with the microphone, but I read it slowly and clearly and it seemed to go pretty quickly.
After the reading was done, I went back to where my family was sitting and my dad gave me a big hug. I feel very proud of this.
Sweet!
Hoppy Easter Everybunny!
Kai-That’s so cool that your church does service in different languages! Also, I’m proud of you for doing a Latin one! Yay Latin!
bookgirl- That is a really neat way to play dodgeball!
Wooo I finally finished my math homework! We had to do an AP practice test over break. I haven’t been procrastinating much this year so I guess my procrastinating brain cell decided to act up over break. I mean… it’s break!
Grghhghrhrhrhgh 5 weeks until school ends!
165 (Kai)~ That’s great! I love the idea about doing the service in multiple languages.
I was actually coming on here to say that I should make another attempt at learning Latin this summer. I have the Wheelock books, I even started, I just never got beyond the first chapter. Of course, I should probably focus on Spanish, which is somewhat more practical (not to mention something that I’m supposedly studying), but…. *sigh*
Because Dad and I are sick only mom went over to Grandma’s where part of the family was congregating for Easter, she only stayed long enough to drop off some chocolate and say hi and then came back though.
I’m slightly more alive than I was yesterday, though I’ve not gotten much more done.
I need to edit the Beggar’s Opera to a do-able length so we can read through it next weekend instead of getting halfway through and then waiting another year to do half of it again. xD
And I still need to do those blasted papers. Bleh.
You can study more than one language at once. I’ve been taking both Latin and Spanish in school since 7th grade.
It depends on the school. Some don’t even offer Latin.
I really wish mine did.
Me, too. What makes it worse is that I thought it did when I signed up for it. It turns out I misinterpreted something. What makes even more irritating is that the same thing happened with psychology.
Wait, so what did you end up signing up for?
I meant my school. Apparently you don’t get to choose your electives in 7th grade unless you do clubs (I did, but I haven’t participated much for some reason); you have to do Art, and that’s it. At least it’s a good art class.
Ah, I see now.
What happened to me once was that I signed up for Crafts and ended up having to take Art as well. What’s with schools and Art? Although, of course, I don’t have anything against it.
I’ve learned more in Latin than I have in any other subject. I’d be terrible at English if I hadn’t taken Latin. I’d be bad at Spanish too. I’d be extremely unscholarly and have a very narrow view of the world. In my opinion, Latin is perhaps the best thing to learn in school. There’s a reason it was once taught to everyone along with math and science and whatnot.
In re Latin at church: My church only does the traditional forms of the sacraments–that is, in Latin, in the pre-Vatican II form of the rites. The old form of the Mass, of baptism, everything. The Easter Vigil is always spectacular. I served at it last night (as thurifer, which means I was in charge of the incense (which is great)). It’s extremely long and extremely late at night, but it’s immensely beautiful. Most of it is done solely by candlelight. Lot of chanting (I zoned out a few times). Lot of incense (I still smell like it).
Happy Easter!!
I am back for good.
Updates: I am writing a new story, and I am giving Agent Tuba chapter 2 for his birthday. My friend and co-author has reluctantly agreed, but it’s one step towards peace between the flutes and the tubas. (Why must my two best friends hate each other?)
Happy April New Year Part Two!!
My combuter is slow and I need to get to bed because there is school tomorrow, so peaches for now, everyone.
Hi everybody! Happy Easter!
I’ve been at my grandparent’s house for the past few days, and Mom said I couldn’t take my iPad, so I haven’t been on.
And I really need to acquire a copy of Portal 2. Soon.
Also I need to watch the new Doctor Who. Which I haven’t yet, despite being within easy access of a cable TV and having nothing to do at that time. I’ve been kicking myself for a while now.
Happy Easter everyone!
I’m so excited! I can eat sweets again since lent is over AND I’m getting a new car tomorrow!
How many craters are on the moon?
A lot.
Millions.
I just took a full, at-home practice AP Euro test, and boy are my arms tired! I think I did well on the multiple choice, but it was so long ago (almost 3 hours!) that I barely remember. I finished with plenty of time remaining, at least, so that was a good thing. The DBQ seemed all right, considering that I’ve never done one before. (I’ve got < 2 weeks left; this seems rather late to be starting practice on these?) The first essay that I wrote went excellently, but the second was rather poor – one of the three body paragraphs might not actually relate to the topic, and the other two might be too close to each other to count as distinct ideas. Oh well…I'm just grateful that it's done!
Completely unrelated – is there an adverb form of lovely? I tried to tell my brother yesterday that he was doing something lovely-ly (in a lovely manner), but there has to be a better way to say that.
Cat’s Meow-I think not, but at this hour I don’t think much of anything :/
I went to Portland to visit some friends for Easter. On the way back I think we took a wrong turn into England. Just randomly driving down the freeway was one of those bright red double-decker London buses. There was nobody in it(apart from the driver, obviously) and it was claiming to be “out of service”. I haven’t the faintest idea what it was doing there.
Portland: awesome and odd.
Happy Easter!!!!!!!
Yes, I had some HPB peeps this evening. I know you were just aching to know that, right?
OK, so probably not. Moving on…
167: Midnight Fiddler: Feel better soon!
And I also need to review and consistently work on Latin. As soon as I finish this semester, including Spanish. Argh.
But yeah, everyone already knows we MBers all live trans-dimensional parallels of each other’s lives, right?
Kai: You shall be my inspiration to pursue both languages. But I still think I’m going to wait until the summer. And yes, very cool to read the Gospel in Latin!
171 Bibliophile: infinity – 1
Goodnight, I think. Maybe. Which means I really need some sleep about now.
Luna here…..procrastinating on going to bed, god knows why, and in a depressed sort of mood (I’ll be fine after I get some sleep), so I thought I’d update y’all on my recent life…..
Had a flammy Easter weekend, I spent the weekend at Alan’s with him and his family. I met his brothers and nephews for the first time. And despite Alan having spent ages telling me how insane his brothers/sisters-in-law are, I didn’t think they were that bad….But of course, how can any Doctor Who fan be that bad? Yuppers, both his brothers and their wives like Doctor Who, I don’t know how Alan never got introduced to it before me….One of his brothers made a comment Saturday over dinner that “there’s a new doctor who on tonight” and I think was wondering if he DVRd it, and I made a comment to Alan that he couldn’t watch it yet, because “spoilers”. And the younger of his two older brothers goes: “Your a Doctor Who geek, too?” And then they wanted to know where Alan was at (at that point, only ep 1 of season 4),which one of the sisters in law was thinking meant he’d just met Amy Pond, when really it means we’re on Donna….
And I had a job interview on Saturday at an emergency clinic within commuting distance of where alan lives, and that went well and I’ve been offered part time work there, I think with pay of about $10/hr, so I will hopefully be starting pretty quick after school gets out. I think it’s to be primarily weekends/nights that I work, weekends and maybe thurs/fri as needed, so….Maybe not the ideal work schedule,b ut hey, all I’ve got to do is be working in this godforsaken state, and get residency. So I’ll be living with Alan and his parents all this summer, which I think although I’ll still find the summer less than ideal (I’ll miss going home), at least it won’t be as lonely and bad as it could be. I mean, I like his family, they get BBCAmerica (if I choose to watch my Who that route), and they get Starz for when Torchwood starts back in July (if i choose to go that route w/ Torchwood, as opposed to the interwebz). And a pool. Which is kind of a must as hot as it gets here in the summer…..
Then today, or technically yesterday now, I was polite and tagged along with Alan and his parents to Easter mass…..And let’s just say that, not being religious myself, I tend to feel a bit awkward and out of place in your average non-Catholic church service….Catholic mass? Amplify the awkward uncomfortable “I don’t belong here and everyone can tell” feeling by infinity…..All the little rituals and everything, that everyone who goes there does, from crossing themselves w/ holy water when they enter to kneeling before entering pews, to just about everything….I felt intensely awkward being the only one NOT doing it, and feeling like everyone was probably staring at me because of that (while I’m sure they probably weren’t), but simultaneously I’d have felt even MORE awkward and unconfortable and out of place had I tried to mimic everyone and engaged in the ritualisms……It was one of the more awkward and uncomfortable hours of my life…..But oh well. I just don’t think I’ll be making a habit of attending mass with them over the summer….I don’t think his parents should mind too much if I don’t…I know Alan couldn’t care less.
Rest of today…..I had a delicious breakfast of bacon and scrambled eggs and waffles with syrup and scrumcilicious strawberries slices on top…..And then Alan had me drive the three hour drive back to campus, because he was going to try and work on some of his school work….That didn’t work out so well, he didn’t get much done, but oh well.
And of course I watched the new Who episode, and then later I got frustrated trying to look at cars and help dad figure otu what I want, but I don’t ahve a bloody clue, and it ended up with me getting majorly frustrated and in tears, which likely was to do as much to being tired and it going to be Christmas or so before I go home, as it was to do with frustration with car shopping….*sigh*
I should go to bed…..Hours ago.
I would just like to say that, having gone to many a Catholic mass myself, it is really not that unusual for someone not to be doing the genuflections or what have you, especially at Easter/holidays. Catholic churches get a lot of visitors so it never seemed odd to me if someone didn’t take communion or something.
also, *hugs*
For cars, I’ll just say get a hatchback. People your age need to haul a lot of furniture and furnishings and bicycles and things, and it’s handy to be able to open up the back and just toss them in. I’ve never seen the point of sedans.
I was actually thinking I’d kind of prefer a hatchback, partly because to me I think they have a “larger car” feel to them, and I’m use to large vehicles (I learned to drive on a minivan), partly because, like you said more space.
Dad mentioned the Honda Fit as a possibility. Slightly more expensive than he really wants to spend, but he would be willing. It’s what I’m leaning toward at the moment, I think.
Fits are lovely cars. They get amazing gas milage, and Hondas last forever.
My family has a Honda fit! It does bounce a lot on the road but it is a nice car.
I wanted a hatchback but we ended up getting a Ford Focus because the Ford dealer was running a really good deal on them.
I actually wanted a Nissan Cube. I almost got one but then the gas tanks got recalled for leaking or something, and my mom wouldn’t let me get it.
Honda Fits are interesting. My grandma has one. Last summer when I was looking for a car I test drove one and I almost got hit by a pickup truck then I had to drive around some weird neighborhood and then I drove down the busiest street around, then when we got back in the dealership I started crying because I was still scared from the pickup truck and I thought the dealer and my mom would think I was a horrible driver. Then I was really embarrassed that I cried in front of everyone.
I’ll chime in and add my support for a hatchback, they really do make the most sense.
The Volkswagon Golf or Jettawagon is a good car, and the diesels get great gas mileage.
UP~ You like the Cube? Why? Personally I find them quite weird looking, and not in a good way. I like some of the design elements (such as eliminating the blind spot), but overall they’re not very appealing to me.
I love my car, though I have no idea how I’ll use it to haul stuff to and from college (or elsewhere) in the future. I don’t have to worry about it this year, but still. It’s a VW Cabriolet, which is a small car already, and then because it’s a convertible there’s no hatchback like the Rabbit/Golf, the trunk is TINY (you can fit a medium suitcase or a small adult/large child in it), and the backseat is fixed. Oh well.
So. I’m trying to furnish my apartment for next year and I’m buying a lot of stuff from the girl who lives there now. I’m not sure what to do about beds, though: she has a queen, but I also found a twin bed for sale somewhere else.
For queen:
pros: nicer bed, is ALREADY THERE (which is huge because it means I don’t have to worry about transporting it places and summer storage (since our lease doesn’t start until august) and everything)
cons: about $75-$100 more expensive, I’d have to get new sheets, takes up more floor space, I feel kind of guilty having such a big bed
twin:
pros: cheap
cons: not as nice, would have to transport
Thoughts?
(for what it’s worth, parents are willing to pay the extra money for the queen, but they spend so much already paying for my college and my instrument and summer programs and everything..)
Moving mattresses is a pain. I think in this case it’s worth paying a little extra to avoid it.
As the veteran of many moves, I wholeheartedly agree.
Am I the only person on Earth who thinks that moving mattresses isn’t too bad? I’ve had to move quite a few, and I’ve never had any problem with it.
It depends on the distance. Also, I don’t have a car, which makes things tricky. Also I’d have to find some schmuck to keep it for me over the summer.
So guess what I got for Easter yesterday.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I started reading it today, and so far it’s interesting, funny, and vague.
I also got a “Warning: Science In Progress” T-shirt, a titanium spork, and a book of poems. Oh, and lots of chocolate.
just fell down the stairs. coordination? got that covered.
Are you alright?
Yup, I’m chill, it was luckily only one flight and the stairs are carpeted (except for the floor). But thanks anyway!
I’M IN SPAAAAAAAACE!
Lucky. Take me along next time!
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Portal 2.
Fact: Space does not exist.
No need to fear, li’l lady, I’ll take it from here.
So I went on Saturday to see a production of The Pirates of Penzance at SnippetySnip College near us. Since it’s a women’s college, the cast was all female except for the Major General, Samuel, and the Police Sergeant, and it was a seriously amazing production — I in particular loved the Pirate King, I don’t think I want to see that role as played by a man ever again. I love that college’s theater department so much. Last year they did an all-female production of Henry V, set in a costume shop, which was one of the best and definitely the most interesting Shakespeare production I have ever seen. They are so caking awesome. ♥
Speaking of Henry V, my family is doing a playreading of that with Electros’s family next month, and so we’re editing and setting and making costumes like crazy. My mom (who’s doing most of it) and I had the idea to make the costumes out of paper, newsprint for the British and tissue paper for the French (paper soldiers, you know?). We’re also giving Nym, Bardolph, and some of the French lords del-arte-type masks. So we’re having a lot of fun making Monmouth caps and floofy things and possibly pistols, though we haven’t gotten there yet, out of newspaper.
I sold my third poem today!
They want me to record myself reading it so I called up my brother to ask if he could help me with it this summer as he is Mr. Music and Recording and Sound and Stuff Like That.
This is a terribly gauche question and you don’t have to answer if you don’t want to, but how much do poems sell for? Just curious.
A sprig of rosemary and the third breath of a child.
That is, $5 for previously unpublished work and $3 or so for reprints usually.
Nooooo! I accidentilly took home the wrong trombone today after jazz band. All of the school-owned ones look identical, so it was an easy mistake to make. I hope no enraged trombonist comes after me tomorrow morning.
Concert’s in a week!!!!
I got a shirt at the convention that has what looks like a Get Out of Jail Free card on it, only it has the Doctor on it brandishing his sonic screwdriver. It says:
Regenerate
This card may only be used twelve times.
Get Out of Death Free
It makes me very happy :3
There’s a voice inside of my head saying…
“JAAKKE GO AND STUDY FOR YOUR AP EXAM; WORLD HISTORY WON’T TEACH ITSELF. NO, YOU CANNOT JUST SLEEP WITH THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE UNDER YOUR PILLOW! READ YOUR TEXTBOOK; ANALYZE CHANGE OVER TIME; COMPARE CIVILIZATIONS METHODS OF APPROACH TOWARD FOREIGN POLICY FOR CHRIST’S SAKE!”
I’m starting to think I’ll just get a 2 and tell everyone I got a 4.
I like the Cartoon History of the Universe method. Always more Larry Gonick!
But will sleeping with it under your pillow help you remember it?
Osmosis, right? That’s how I study.
Having slept with my AP Euro book under my pillow, the answer is YES.
Ahhhh! Giant paper draft due tomorrow and it’s only half as big as it should be!!!! Ahhh!!!!
Anyway, new Doctor Who!!
I started reading Les Miserables, which I’ve meant to do for a while now, and why is the town called D——-?
I tripped over a stool twice in five minutes and my mom said she should have named me Grace.
Les Mis!!!! *excited hands* Are you reading abridged, or unabridged?
Abridged, I got it from my school’s library, and they barely have any books at all so I’m lucky they had this one…
I haven’t read it, but maybe it’s called D_____ so that people couldn’t look at the town records, see actual proof that it didn’t happen, and feel slightly less enthusiastic? They did it in Jane Eyre, too, which I recently read.
Sooooo the computer I’ve been using since my laptop got a virus got a virus. *applauds self* Luckily it’s back, as you can see, and so am I.
I have a Chemistry test tomorrow and I actually understand the material! This is new! I approve!
Les Mis continues to be the best book ever ever ever. Haven’t any of you read it? You should! I swear 1400 pages doesn’t take that long! I can’t stop drawing fanart for it, or cracking up at random moments. Ah, les Amis, how I love you.
Also, does anyone have an opinion on Tennessee Williams who I could talk to? We’re discussing him in Acting. Personally, I find his style of writing very annoying. I love how he creates characters, he’s absolutely brilliant at that, but he seems to want to be the director as well as the writer and it annoys me.
I spent four hours drawing a careful map of every Spanish-speaking country in the world, neatly drew two symbols for each country next to them, and wrote “mapa del mundo hispano” in ridiculously neat calligraphy (I can handwrite Times New Roman now!) below it. Sra. gave me a B. Why am I surprised?
*should really be studying for Chemistry*
If you think Tennessee Williams is bad, you should read some Arthur Miller, especially Death of a Salesman or All My Sons.
I more or less enjoy Williams. Since I’m looking at him from the literarily analytical perspective, though, it’s difficult to compare our opinions. Have you seen the film version of Streetcar, with Marlon Brando? Fantastic.
I happen to have really liked The Crucible, thank you very much.
When did I ever say I disliked Arthur Miller?
Your first sentence can be interpreted as saying that Arthur Miller is worse than Tennessee Williams. That may not be what you intended, but that’s how I would read it. *shrug*
I was saying that he tries to be the director even more than Williams.
George Bernard Shaw takes the (if you’ll pardon the expression) cake in that respect. He’ll even tell you the color of the cravat a character is wearing, along with everything else you see on stage and what you’re supposed to think about it. I assume that many of his plays were written mainly to be read rather than performed.
Oh, I misinterpreted what you meant. Sorry!
Don’t worry about it.
Replying to everybody on Piggy’s comment. (Sorry, Piggy…)
Piggy: From a literarily analytical perspective, I’d like to have his babies. From a dramatic perspective, I want to kill him. I liked Arthur Miller well enough when I was a freshman, but rereading Death of a Salesman now, I’m noticing the same problem.
sbf: Yes, they are, and yes, that is why I’m annoyed at him. He cheerfully informed me Amanda was stuck in the past. I’m all “Thank you, Mr. Williams, I could have figured that out on my own and you just stole my chance to show off literary analysis skills to my Acting teacher.”
And let us SQUEE over Les Mis. My friend and I have carefully mapped out which of the Amis we are sure are secretly in love, which are secretly longing to go and play in the forest with butterflies and rainbows and unicorns, and which are secretly pretty pretty princesses. SO MUCH FUN.
axa: Well, the only reason why I feel like I can talk at all on this subject is that I have written plays, and they were pretty decent plays if I do say so myself, and I was coached through writing them by professional playwrights. (Love you arts camp.) And the wonderful thing about plays is that they’re collaborative. The director is as necessary/important as the writer as the actor (as the techie!). And it’s just not good manners to try to do the director’s job for them.
i don’t have any experience with how scripts written for the stage are adapted, so i am curious as to what some examples of this would be. it just seems unlikely that a writer will ever see a true adaptation of their work so maybe he’s just trying to subvert that. idk, if you mean he’s lame cause he doesn’t leave room for interpretation then i get that but again maybe he just has a piercingly specific idea about what it should be and wants to be sure everyone knows. i’m not trying to be belligerent i’m just playing ~devil’s advocate
I’ve never known a director who wouldn’t cheerfully ignore whatever didn’t fit with ens interpretation.
You don’t like Tennessee Williams? He is my absolute favorite. I love him, especially Glass Menagerie. His character portrayals *are* brilliant.
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I do suppose, however, that if forced to play a character such as Laura one would be frustrated to find that Williams has basically mapped out the character for them, instead of letting them interpret the role. Yet isn’t that what we all would find ourselves leaning toward instead of leaving the character open to interpretation? I certainly do.
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Piggy – I find Death of a Salesman extremely enthralling, but I wasn’t interested in All My Sons. I can see how it would be captivating onstage, but I wasn’t feeling it on paper. That’s probably just me.
And yes I have read Les Mis. Fabulous. I’ve also been in the musical version @Stagedoor as Young Cosette.
are you talking about tennessee williams’ plays? if so i would think wanting to be the director comes with writing stage directions and the like.
Yeah, I think so too. I think Cat’s Eye was saying that the very pointed character directions make it rather difficult to have one’s own take on a role, but I think that doesn’t detract from his brilliance.
I love nights like this. Cool, foggy, and if you take in a big breath of air, you can smell the ocean. It’s a lovely salty-musty-slightly-fishy scent that you really can’t beat. The perks of living on an island.
I’m so stressed out by envirothon- nobody has done anything, and then everyone changed the speech last minute, and now it’s too long. I’m sitting on the roof to destress. I’m so strung up about this.
Okay. Goodnight. I’ll get around go catching up on everyone’s posts sooner or later. Probably later.
So yesterday at school we had an assembly about peer mediation. After we went back tot he classrooms, two of the mediators from the high school came with us as well. At one point the asked how many people in the room had a cell phone. Everyone except me and one other person raised their hands.
I’m a little bit scared by this.
You don’t have a cell phone?!
I’m 14 and don’t have a cellphone. I don’t really want one, either.
Same.
I didn’t have one until Christmas of freshman year. You’re not missing too much.
Same! (And I agree on the latter part)
I didn’t get a cell phone until this past year, when I went to an entirely different country. On that unfair note, my four-years-younger little sister got one at the same time I did, despite me having to wait forever and ever. She just capitalized off my hard work trailblazing as the eldest. Grrr…
In other words, I think it is totally unfair that I had to wait to college to get a cell phone, and had to figure everything out while everyone else including my five year old cousin knew how to work a cell phone better than I did…/irritation
I’m probably not helping here, am I? Doesn’t matter, you’re helping me, by giving me the opportunity to rant about this old, old wound.
Have I mentioned I now play Magic the Gathering
I got +3 nerd levels from that
And I am in my school’s circus performance! Rehearsals 5-10 every night this week (erp), and shows friday/sat/sun. I’m in the poi act, it looks pretty cool. The circus theme/plot is “time travel,” we’re the big bang sequence
Also I have class soon but my bed is so warm. But quantum mechanics calls…
Dude, the Royal Wedding is the same day as the STS-134 launch?
The scheduling’s not a conflict, I’m just suprised I didn’t realize that until now.
The universes are colliding… *Twilight Zone theme*
What Royal Wedding?
William and Kate?
Who are they?
Are you just joking? I really, really hope you are…
Sorry, I can’t tell. >.<
Er, no, I’m not. Sorry. I have no idea who these people are.
Prince William of England, elder son of Prince Charles the Prince of Wales and the late Princess Diana, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and future heir to the throne, is getting married on April 29th to Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, aka Kate. It’s all over the media so if you want more information you should be able to find it pretty easily.
And I thought I was culturally unaware… Prince William? Kate Middleton?
That was the one I was thinking of, yes.
*Has idea for comic of William at the altar saying to priest “Can you hurry it up? I want to watch the launch.”*
*will draw today, and attempt to get scanner working*
Really? You don’t have to…
Mainly I’m just out of Les Mis fanart to draw and have no idea what to do in Chem/Algebra/Spanish. It’s mostly done, I just have to ink it and shade a bit and figure out what William and Kate actually look like. Drawing is fun!
I did a few of Chibi Mike Fincke yesterday.
The first one is him at his computer jumping out of his seat and shouting “YAY! Time to go flying!”
The second is the crew at breakfast and being served pie and him jumping in the air going “YAY! Pie!”
Then the last one is him in a jet cockpit throwing his hands up and shouting “YAY! T-38s!”
If I have time, I want to do him in front of the Shuttle on the pad going “YAY! Space Shuttle!” and then Commander Kelly turning to him and going “Mike, HOW much coffee did you drink today?”
Scanner is being a cake today. Perhaps tomorrow. Or perhaps at 4 AM when I’m up watching the Royal Wedding. *darty eyes*
I just carried about six feet by four feet of flattened boxes across campus. It’s super windy out and the boxes turned me into a sailboat. It was really fun.
(eventually some guy took pity and helped me carry them back)
My mother is such a control freak. I want to cry or throw something. I’m 16, and it’s like she doesn’t trust me at all. She treats me like I’m five.
The joy of being a teenager.
I sure hope that was sarcastic.
I’m sure it was.
But I’m never sarcastic!
So, for homework my English teacher has asked us to bring in a poem that we like (after reading To A Mouse, On Turning Over Her Nest with A Plow, by Rober Burns (Which is what our favorite phrase “tim’rous beastie” comes from)). Me being me, I have chosen to bring in 4 poems: Light and Gold by Edward Esch, i thank You God for most this amazing day by e. e. cummings, Invictus by William Henley, and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost.
Can you tell who likes poetry?
In other poetry related news, my French teacher claims that French poetry is “The best in the world”. *facepalm*
You are growing well, my son….
Really, though, you are strikingly similar to me.
And what of me? *mock pout*
Also. Is it sad that I know and love all of the poems mentioned above and that I didn’t even have to think to immediately have them at the top of my mind, since I have them completely memorized?
No, it’s very good.
Have you read “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter” by John Crowe Ransom? It’s quite lovely; you might like it.
I’m looking it up right now!
*comes back a few minutes later*
Interesting, I quite like it!
Maybe your French teacher is right. On the other hand, the French say that about a lot of things.
Except she’s Italian, not French…
I was not killed by an enraged trombonist!! *pats self on back* And now I have my real one back, which I should be practicing…
My computer is always really slow the first few comments I post on here; I type and then I have to wait for five minutes while it catches up to me. I brushed my teeth, put away my backpack, put 3 new pi digits up on my wall, and did several other things in the time it took for the computer to proccess that.
Eagle Scout
Caw caw!
Awesome!
High five!!
Nice! Good job.
My school district is combining with another school district, and so we will have an 8-9 school in my town’s current high school, and a 10-12 school in the city’s current high school. I went to the open house of the 8-9 school, where I shall be going next year. The program of studies looks fairly good.
Except…
I am tired of studying American History. That is what we’ve been doing for, what, ALL THE YEARS WE’VE HAD SOCIAL STUDIES? So, I was looking forward to learning about something different for a change, and studying ancient civilizations. *drums fingers on tabletop*
Then it turns out that [city we are combining with, henceforth known as CC] has already HAD ancient civilizations. So, joy joy, we get to study American History. Again.
On the bright side, one of the two eighth grade science teachers managed to a) Quote the HGTTG when asked*, b) say that “Plate tectonics are COOL” (11th Doctor, anyone?), c) call eight graders non-human, d) compare opinions to armpits** while somehow also integrating his grandmother, and e) call the invisible teacher next to him-they haven’t hired a second science teacher yet-TBA. Also pretended to talk to TBA.
*”My favorite quote was, ‘The spaceship hung in the air in the exact way that bricks don’t.’ ”
*”My grandmother once said that opinions are like armpits: everybody’s got ’em, and some stink.”
My envirothon won third place out of 17 teams in the county!
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No clue how we pulled it off. Most of our answers were educated guesses and “c”s (which always seems to be a good answer) at best. Next year, once we actually know what we’re doing, we have a good shot of beating the reigning champions.
…Two days ago six of the students in my class were wearing jeans, one was wearing khakis, and one (me) was wearing sweatpants.This is totally irrelevant, but I don’t really feel like posting anything right now and it’s one of the weird things I notice.
Werk. Busy week of busy still going. Act head for our circus act had a sort of meltdown the other day but hopefully she’s better now.
Also I think I figured out what to do in my solo-y bit so that’s good.
And the people in my Poi exco (not just this act) can get into Neon Garden free this weekend! It’s an event put on by the college and I guess it’s sort of similar to a rave. Loud music and glow paint everywhere, now plus people spinning things that light up! Woo! Should be fun I hope.
This cold has now reached a week and doesn’t seem to want to go away. Fun.
I have juries this afternoon, my last chamber music lesson before the recital tomorrow, and then chamber recital on Friday.
On a more cheerful note, Friday will be awesome because I’m doing a piano fourhands and almost everyone thinks my partner is playing the violin in this duo/doesn’t know she even plays piano. So that’s going to be amusing. ^_^
SFTDP, but this is BIG.
I HAVE PROOF THAT THE DOCTOR EXISTS!!!!!
What’s that?!
SHOW US SHOW US SHOW US.
NAO.
So.
I have this really important jury/audition this afternoon, and I’m sick, so I need a LOT of luck, right. So my mom gets out these two 20p coins that she’s had in a box of souvenirs from when she went to England, and gives one to me and one to my sister. Naturally I examine it closely, and immediately notice that while my sister’s was issued in the year nineteen eighty-something, mine was issued in nineteen ninety-five, five years after the last time she went to England [1990]. Also the year before I was born. My mom definitely did not go to England in 1995 or for that matter she hasn’t been to England since 1990 either. She definitely got this coin sometime between 1987 and 1990.
OBVIOUSLY THE DOCTOR IS BEHIND THIS
…..
I’m mad jelly.
Weird…
o.O Have you told your mom about this discrepancy?
I MUST SEE THIS PROOF!
PLEASE SHOW NOW!
YOU GUYS
AS YOU ALREADY KNOW, I AM GOING ON A BAND TRIP TO NEW YORK CITY TOMORROW
AND WE’RE GOING TO BROADWAY AND I FOUND OUT THE MUSICAL WE’RE SEEING
IT’S HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING STARRING DANIEL RADCLIFFE!!!!!!!
HOLY CRUD! I’M GOING TO SEE DANIEL RADCLIFFE IN REAL LIFE! I’M SOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!
*inane post ahead*
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!
Oh, I saw that! It was pretty good. He does a very good American accent, and his main co-star is absolutely brilliant.
ooh gurl, danrad has been lookin foine recently, color me envious~*
Maybe not without the HP glasses.
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!! SQUEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU’RE SO LUCKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I want to see it so badly. My friend saw it. And got a picture with him. And had a conversation with him.
And then saw the Harry Potter Exhibition.
*hate*
She is a lucky, lucky, LUCKY person.
CURSE YOU LUCKY PERSON *shakes fist*
We did How to Succeed two years ago! It was really fun!
I am excited about this for entirely the wrong reasons.
Update: my cat thinks Basho tastes delicious.
For people like me, who upon seeing the word Basho decided to google it and came up with a Japanese guy named BashÅ, what is Basho?
My bonsai. See comment 155.
What is banana cream, exactly? Is it just what you get when you squeeze a banana, or do you have to mix it with cream?
202: Congratulations!! That’s awesome!
203: …Sorry. Is he still alive?
Yeah. Slightly mangled, but alive. I’ve moved him to a cat-proof location. Not as much sunlight there, unfortunately.
Maybe you could get one of those mini-greenhouse kind of things to protect Basho.
I used to hang a lot of plants from the ceiling to kitty-proof them. Never did find a good solution for the papyrus or avocado, though.
That’s a good idea. I’ll look into one of those. I’d hang Basho from the ceiling, but he’s in a halfway heavy ceramic pot. Also, I doubt my mother would want a miniature tree hanging in the middle of her kitchen bay window.
Maths Lover, this one’s for you.
*WARNING: LONG POST ALERT!*
I was doing my math today when I had a total breakthrough. I used logic to solve an algebra problem (albeit my logic isn’t very logical). This is the correct (mathematical) way to solve the problem:
2×2 = 3x + 9
(Divide both sides by 2 to get this:)
x2 = 1.5x + 4.5
(Bring all x’s to the same side)
x2 – 1.5x = 4.5
(Add 0.5625 to both sides, in order to complete the square*)
x2 – 1.5x + 0.5625 = 5.0625
(Now factor the equation)
(x – 0.75) 2 = 5.0625
(Take the square root of both sides)
x – 0.75 = ±2.25
(Add 0.75 to both sides)
x = 3 or -1.5
Now, when I was looking at the problem, I used trial and error to find a different way to solve the equation:
2×2 = 3x + 9
(Bring all x’s to the same side (notice I’ve neglected to divide by 2))
2×2 – 3x = 9
(Now I factor out an x)
x(2x – 3) = 9
(Now comes the weird part. I was looking at the equation at the above stage, when a thought popped into my head: what if x = 2x – 3 ? It occurred to me that since x was a variable, it could equal just about anything. So I tried it:)
x2 = 9
x = 3
I checked this answer with the original equation:
2(32) = 3(3) + 9
2(9) = 9 + 9
18 = 18
Yep, it works. But the “Logical†method only found the positive answer, not the negative. If x2 = 9, then x can also equal -3. But look:
2(-32) = 3(-3) + 9
2(9) = -9 + 9
18 ≠0
So the process only works in finding positive square roots.
Oh, oops. Superscript doesn’t translate, so any time you see a 2 directly after an x, that means squared
Hmm, the way I’d solve it is:
2x^2=3x+9
2x^2-3x-9=0
(2x+3)(x-3)=0
Now you have two possibilities: (2x+3)=0 and (x-3)=0. One gets you -1.5, the other 3. I haven’t seen the 1st method you used before.
Wait, what? 2×2=4, and 4-9=-5, and 5 divided by 3=1 2/5, so isn’t x 1 2/5?
No, it’s supposed to be two times “x” squared, not 2 times 2.
What if you had x(2x+4)=16?
Then x would equal 2 or ? something else, not sure what.
Minus-4.
Minus negative 4? Do you mean 4, or was that dash supposed to be a space?
…I’m not good with interpreting typos in math problems.
I meant negative 4 or –4. The hyphen wasn’t a minus sign or a typo, just punctuation.
Quickly dropping in: Hello, MuseBlog and all who inhabit it. My computer is frozen. Strudent conductor tryouts are tomorrow. Wish me luck!!
202: AAH! Awesomeness!
May the Muses be with you.
Good luck!
Good luck!!!
So, after four days of rallies, petitions, videos, and such, we have stopped the teachers from being cut!
Yay! Now on to save the state as a whole.
Great!
NASAimages.org put up more pictures of my Space Dad*, Dick Scobee!
*A Space Dad is the historical astronaut you can most easily imagine as your dad. Space nerds also talk about having Space Moms and Space Boy/Girlfriends.
The two AP Euro classes in my school are ordering t-shirts that read “Can we have extra credit?” on the front and “AP Euro 2011” on the back. We’re wearing them to the AP exam. Why? Because we’re cool like that.
You know you’re addicted to studying for your Chem test when you’re reading Les Mis and Hugo is going on about the revolutionaries retreating from the barricade and hiding in a bistro, and it’s all dramatic and deep and tragic and everyone is dying, and he mentions them finding bottles of nitric acid and you’re all “HNO3 + H20 = H3O+ + NO3-. STRONG ACID AT 25 DEGREES CELSIUS. CONJUGATE BASE IS NO3-.”
You know you’re addicted to Les Mis when you have fanart you drew during Chem/Algebra/History/Spanish stuck into the book as a bookmark for your favorite part about every twenty-five pages. (Shading is my friend now! I can draw! This is new!)
In other news, I didn’t make it into Advanced Acting. I did apply to be a techie, though, so… yay!
Also, my Spanish teacher should never, ever, ever, ever dance again. Ever.
A school in my state has made the nationwide news for the racist graffiti found in the bathroom stalls, more specifically, a list of five African-American students with the caption underneath “These N***** need to be lynched”. Not only is that appalling, but probably the least desirable thing to be known for nationwide.
If it’s anything like my school the writer probably did it for shock value rather than out of a genuine desire to have them lynched. Of course this doesn’t make it any better…
I agree with you, I think they did it just to create drama, but evidently the school is taking it very seriously. Another threat came today to one of the African American teachers, in note form, very similar to the threats in the bathroom.
You know, people are really stupid.
Even if they did do it for what they perceived as shock value that doesn’t mean that anyone reading it will somehow automatically know that. It is an awful phrase and one that would make me extremely uncomfortable. I can’t imagine how the students whose names were listed would feel.
Re: Seeing Daniel Radcliffe in person (or at least being in the same building as him at the same time and seeing him on stage): OMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!! Make out with him for me, will you?
So last night I set up tents at 2am. I don’t recommend it.
Then it stormed. Hopefully they’re still there and not flooded.
This morning I woke up with an inexplicable earache that is stubbornly refusing to go away. NOT COOL, EAR, NOT COOL. It’s not the worst earache I’ve ever had, but it’s bad. And why? I don’t think it could be an infection, I’ve not been swimming recently and I don’t recall having any water in my ear last night. *whimper*
Anyway, off to the 18th century later today, I’ll be back Sunday or so.
I just realized how much I like my school. I don’t know any other school that has rather high expectations of its students academically, but still has faith in their ability to not be able to hold onto a passport for more than 5 minutes at a time and is nonplussed when they lose a class for a few days (unless it’s in a foreign country, that is).
Two things:
1. Thunderstorms are scary. I cuddled with my pillow last night and really didn’t go to sleep until 3:30 in the morning. We woke up this morning and the garage was flooded.
(Maybe I have the mentality of a five year old when it comes to storms. Oh well.)
2. I just love bear hugs.
We got thunderstorms in my area too. Luckily, the weather cleared up in time for our field trip today to the Mark Twain institute.
Were any Musers affected by the multitude of tornadoes? I certainly hope not. My thoughts are with the people who were affected.
No tornadoes, but we did have a lot of warnings! And then the rains from hell made a guest appearance.
There were tornadoes in our area. A couple of weeks ago we had a really bad storm with wind, hail, and lightning, but nothing worse than that. A ton of people in the area/state were affected. I can’t stop thinking how lucky I am.
There was a tornado warning at school today, but all we got were some light showers. Other areas had tornadoes. We were all paranoid.
STS-134 IS TOMORROW!
I’m planning on doing a slight modification of what I did for Yuri’s Night:
– I’ve printed out the official Space Flight Awareness poster and hung it up all over the school.
– My space books display is still up in the library, and the librarian helped me make a sign with a photo of another launch and the date and time to add to it.
– I used the sign as a template to make more cards to hand out.
– I’m going to wear my Shuttle shirt again, my necklace, and my gloves.
– I’m also going to wear my jacket again, but without the Mission: SPACE pin, because I want to keep to shuttle ones. Do you think I should not wear the Challenger 51-L pin to avoid bad luck?
♥
Wow. I, having not prepared, have no space propoganda, posters, and cards, but I will remind people that There Is More Than Just The Royal Wedding Today.
Poster:
http:// sfa.nasa. gov/MISSIONPOSTERS/ sts134/STS-134%20poster%20lores .pdf
Awesome!
EUPHORIA!
In keyboarding, we sat around doing nothing, and Paperclip loaded a billion digits of pi onto his computer. It was pure nerdy awesomenesss.
Then in band, half the kids were out for Take your Kid To Work Day, but all the low brass and reeds were there. It was hard on the alto player, but OH SO MUCH FUN IF YOU PLAY TROMBONE.
Then, and this is the EUPHORIA part, I tried out for Student Conductor, and That Guy Who Plays Alto Sax said I would make a good drum major, and the band director gave me one of his old, duct-taped, busted batons, and I MADE STUDENT CONDUCTOR!!!!
Also: Check out the website Let Me Google That For You. You will laugh.
I was doing research in the Gale database today and came across something… odd. The articles are listed in chronological order, with the most recent appearing first. The first article on the list was one from November 4. Of 2011.
Oh, Doctor. Why do I let you out?
Let him out? Wait… are you Mace?
Sh….
Sure, sure, of course.
Wait… what?
My theory is that this has something to do with the 1995 British coin Fireh mentioned. There is a super-secret association somewhere that is making false dates.
Ack! I spend too much time thinking up conspiracy theories.
Either that, or it’s what Fireh said: the Doctor exists.
Is this the cause of the files on my computer that were last modified in 2027? And the ones from 1992?
Jinx.
That organization (or doctor) must have also messed up Piggy’s computer a few monthd ago. It did the same thing.
THE DOCTOR EXISTS. HE DOES.
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said, “Be careful, his bowtie is really a camera”
So now I know what tune is going to be stuck in my head the rest of the day. Just as well; I was getting tired of the “Jesus Christ, Superstar” medley.”
Would you believe that song is STILL stuck in my head? Good thing I ♥ Simon and Garfunkel.
I had a bio test on two chapters that we were supposed to read over break today. (I didn’t read them, but got a 94. I sicken myself.)
One of the questions was something along the lines of, “Why is it unnecessary for cows to ingest all 22 amino acids?” The answers to the questions were something like, “A. They have bacteria in their stomachs that produce them, B. They are autotrophic, C. They synthesize them from minerals, etc.” (The correct answer is A, but…)
B. They are autotrophic
Photosynthetic cows. Think of it.
I finalized my college decision!
I feel the need to tell everyone, even though I maybe the GAPAs would rather I not tell you WHERE I’m going.
I am very proud of myself for finally making a decision and I really cannot wait until August!
Re: weird dates: Reality is shifting. Awesome!
I have had Mr. Tambourine Man mercilessly stuck in my head since last night. It’s a really brilliant song, but…that’s enough hours of it, thanks.
We have no objection.
Even though it’s less than a million people? OK! (I’m really excited.)
Lewis & Clark! I am SO HAPPY.
Or I would be if my cat wasn’t sitting on my shoulders jamming his carefully sharpened claws into the tender unprotected flesh of my arms. Ow.
YAY, COLLEGE.
Yay for decision making! Congratulations on making it into a great college.
look up Hugues Aufray’s l’homme orchestre. N’y pense plus was the first song I heard by him and I just about plotzed.
“MR. TAMBOURINE MAAAAAAAAN!!!”- William Shatner
I read the last name as Shakespeare in the recent comments bar. I knew immediately that it had to be wrong, but it was still disconcerting.
Opening night of The Drowsy Chaperone went fabulously. I love this show so much! Expect a lengthy post soon
John James Audubon’s birthday was a couple of days ago; myabe that could be on the calendar? Along with Cephalopodmas, of course.
Speaking of cephalopods, everyone needs to go to the northwest pacific tree octopus site. Now. I know we’re not supposed to talk about other sites, but this was mentioned in Muse, so just about all of you know about it already. Explore the rest of the website, too; it’s basically a Muggle version of the Quibbler, and therefore very awesome.
When other people see :arrow:+9 on a comment, do they get an irrepressible urge to pink it, no matter what it says?
Thatwouldneveroccurtomenonever.
Pink’d!
Never.
(What, never? No, never? What, never? Well, hardly everohshutupbrain)
Oh, and look, Cat’s Eye’s comment about 9 pies has exactly 9 pies. To pie or not to pie, that is the question. Whether to pink or to leave it in its pristine, transcendent +9-ness?
Too late.
I was leaving the question open for the general population. So it’s not “too late” but “question answered.” Somehow I guessed what the answer would be.
So true. This entire post just shows how predictable I am with these kinds of things. And oh look, you have a +9 right now… *tempatation*
Absolutely. You know what I’m going to say every time I pink a post now?
“You just got poked. By the PINK DAGGER!!”
I’m going to be Sophomore Treasurer next year! Election results came out today for the Senate.
Would anyone like me to post up my speech? It’s not bad, if I do say so myself…
Already, everyone is talking about the Royal Wedding… >.<
Woke up at 4:45 AM to watch it! Man, did they get excited over in England. I don’t think we get that patriotic even on the Fourth of July.
IT’S THE QUEEN
GOD BLESS ‘ER
So you think that Americans don’t get that excited about America? Clearly you’ve never watched the Superbowl.
I watched it today. I felt that it was nice and all, but nothing to get too worked up about. It also felt somewhat voyeuristic, watching what I have always felt should be a more private moment. I know that they’re royalty and this is expected of them, but…
What was really amazing was the way my grandmother, who I was watching the wedding with, kept on cursing the Queen and half the royal family for plotting Princess Diana’s death. Apart from the whole conspiracy theory aspect, I think my knowledge of dirty Arabic language has just been greatly expanded…
OH MY GOD
THAILAND WAS INCREDIBLE
SO MANY ELEPHANTS.
More bulletins tomorrow, when I am properly awake, but in the meantime, I’ve missed you guys. And it appears I missed the royal wedding. Drat.
Ugh… all dressed up for a scrub.
Think how the squid must feel.
Piggy (155): A bonsai tree? That sounds great! How hard it is to care for them? I always see people spending hours trimming them in movies, etc., but I don’t actually really know anything about them.
Luna (175.2.1): Yes yes, get a Honda Fit! My mom had one of those, and she absolutely LOVED it. Of course, I’d always recommend getting an American-made car, my dad being a union man and all, but Honda Fits are awesome.
oxlin (181): Congratulations! Where did you have it published?
Thanks For All The Fish42 (184): I’m sure you’ll do really well on your AP exam! I stressed out way too much about mine, and I think if you go in confident and focused, you’ll rock it. Don’t worry about your score/number, just focus on doing the best you can in that moment.
re: cell phones–I didn’t get one until I went to high school, which was in the middle of downtown, and I was going to be doing lots of independent public bus-riding, so my mom wanted me to have one. I hardly ever used it (it was one of those pay-a-minute ones, which is actually the same kind I have now, because I just don’t use it often enough), but it was nice to have on the occasions that I did use it.
Lizzie (191): That sounds like so much fun! Last week, I was carrying boxes across campus from the kiln shed to the ceramics studio, but it was pouring rain, so I used them as umbrellas.
Bismarck12 (195): Congratulations!
Mikazuki (196): Hmm, that sounds interesting. Does it work well splitting the usual high school grades into two separate schools? Also, American History is so vast and crazy that one can never stop studying it.
agrrrfishi, Koko’s Apprentice (214/5): Yes, so much rain! It’s been raining/thundering here for two weeks straight. Well, actually, right now it’s sunny, but it was raining this morning. We’ve been having a lot of flooding here, too.
Alice (220): Congratulations!!!!! That’s so exciting! If I ever go to Portland, I will visit you.
Personal news: Today was my last day of classes. So, after next week, I will be done with my first year of college. (So crazy!!) I’m doing a May-Term at my school to get my Wilderness First Responder certification, but I didn’t sign up to live in the dorms, so I’m going to see what it’s like to be homeless for a few weeks! I think I might camp out in a professor’s back yard with another one of my friends, but we’ll see!
I’ve only had the bonsai for a week, but the care instructions only told me to water it once a week and fertilize it every two months. I’m sure different types of bonsai require different levels of care. From what I’ve read, the careful trimming and shaping is done early in the tree’s life, and most commercially available bonsai trees have already completed that stage. I think you have to re-pot them every couple of years to trim back their root mass.
I don’t think that ANY wedding, no matter who it is, should be broadcast live to everybody with a TV. I certainly wouldn’t want my wedding shown like that… -_- IT HAS TAKEN OVER THE MEDIA NETWORKS! THE GOVERNMENT PROBABLY INTERCEPTED ALIEN TRANSMISSIONS AND DON’T WANT US TO KNOW, SO THEY MADE A BIG DEAL OF THE ROYAL WEDDING TO THROW EVERYONE OFF!!!!!!!!!
Ah, the conspiracy theories…
Especially since it was supposed to be the day of the launch. That was so creepy. I was instantly suspicious. Obviously, some society working for the good of the cause managed toe defeat the aliens which were going to use the wedding as a distraction for whatever they were doing, and so the planet is safe, and the launch will happen Monday.
I love conspiracy theories.
Ford makes nice hatchbacks (Focus and Fiesta) that are also very fuel-efficient.
Catherine Middleton’s wedding dress. Oh my lord. It’s absolutely amazing beautiful gorgeous godly. I mean, how could anyone expect anything less than that from Alexander McQueen, though? Our whole chem class was spent discussing royalty.
Sarah Burton. Alexander McQueen = dead.
Meh. It’s pretty, but it’s just not puffy enough.
I dunno, I liked the unpoofyness.
Every time I’ve made plans to hang out with someone this week, they’ve cancelled on me. How loud can you say forever alone?
On a far happier note, I bought these adorable Ray Bans today. they’re white with little grey polka dots. I want to wear them everywhere.
My psychology teacher (who taught me world history last year and was supposed to teach me U.S. history next year) has breast cancer.
My best friend found out sometime in the past few days that her boyfriend has a tumor.
Said teacher is said best friend’s favorite teacher.
I don’t know many more details about either case or how serious they are, but either way, it’s sad sad sad.
Oh my… my sympathies to you and to the both of them.
That sucks. I’ll be thinking of you, your friend, her boyfriend, and your teacher.
That’s awful. *hug*
Hopefully they will be removable- cancer that happens when someone is young is much more able to be removed. *hug*
Oh my. *hug* All my wishes to both of them. That’s so sad.
Oh my god… I’m so sorry. Deep breath, Meow- they can get better.
Thank you, guys. It’s just come as a bit of a shock. I’ve been very lucky so far in my life that few people I love have had anything truly bad happen to them. This is new.
It’s not really my story to tell, but I found out a little more about my friend’s boyfriend’s situation. He does have a tumor. It’s currently benign. However, if sometime later in life it does become cancerous…they wouldn’t be able to remove it. It’s on his spinal cord.
Keep sending them your good vibes, please. I appreciate it.
ROYAL WEDDING ♥
Didn’t get to watch it live last night, but I downloaded the whole thing from the BBC and am in the middle of watching it.
It makes me proud to be English.
Will you sing along to “Jerusalem”?
You’re English?
Half, yes.
Oh. I didn’t notice whether you had an accent… sorry, I’m bad at that sort of thing.
I have two accents.
-233 Oh dear! *hugs* My best wishes to all concerned, and I hope they recover, and recover well!
In History Class this morning, we watched the end of the royal wedding on TV. One million people. A cakeload of anticipation. Nearly everybody waiting for the balcony kiss. My classmates and me getting super frustrated at ALL THOSE CAKING COMMERCIALS and wanting them to just get on with it and get to the balcony kiss already! FINALLY time for the balcony kiss. I tell myself that if it lasts for longer than five seconds, I am well within my rights to look away. It lasts less than half a second. That has got to be the most disappointing kiss in the history of the media. They had to go to instant replay twice because some of the commentary people had glanced down at some passerby or other for a second and missed it.
Other than that, the only thing I found truely interesting about the wedding were the hats most of the female guests wore. There were everything from what looked like mesh sunhats, to the inverted bowl style I couldn’t quite picture on reading about but I recognized when I saw, to what looked like dioramas with bridal veils hanging down the back worn on people’s heads!
I kept thinking that some of those hats would make excellent cat toys.
I think a couple of them may have been excellent cats.
my favorite was the one I think Princess Beatrice was wearing that looked like an octopus.
i thought it made her look like a deer in conjunction with the entire outfit tbh but i’m not knockin it, i wish i had a cool hat that made me into a deer
Ooh, yes, looking at all the hats was very interesting!
I know: for some reason, english people have an …interesting taste in hats, at least as far as the noble/rich ones are concerned.
*stands up on chair in Muse Academy cafeteria*
“ATTENTION EVERYBODY!”
“Like a lot of other people, I’m disappointed that the launch scheduled for today was delayed until Monday. I’m especially sorry for Ms. Giffords and the squid embryos. But when I saw Agent Lightning’s post, I was inspired.”
“We had a lot of great enthusiasm at the Yuri’s Night party, and it really touched me. I was very, very proud and I hoped that we could keep that enthusiasm going. I know that some of us, like Agent Lightning, were sad that they found out about the launch too soon to do anything to promote it.”
“Well, now we have two more days. Let’s take advantage of that time to get the word out about this mission as a special project for the Kokonspiracy.”
“I had the link to the Space Flight Awareness in another post, but I’ll repeat it here:
http:// sfa.nasa. gov/MISSIONPOSTERS/ sts134/STS-134%20poster%20lores .pdf
“Print out several copies- it doesn’t matter if they’re in color or black and white, as long as they’re readable. There isn’t info on the launch date on the posters, so you might want to type up that information on a smaller piece of paper and tape that to the poster. Then go out and stick them up in places you think people will see them. Telephone poles are good because they’re public property and very visible.”
“I had a really good response at school to my cards on Yuri’s Night and today, so I’m recommending making those, too. Find a photo of an earlier launch online and add ‘Final Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour, (launch date)’ in Photoshop or Paint. Tinker around so that you can have the words visible at business card size. (If you have MS Publisher, use the blank business card template.) Print about ten or so to a page and cut them out. Make as many as you think you’ll need.”
“And by all means, if you’ve got space or Sci-Fi related stuff, feel free to wear it on the day of the launch. If you look odd enough, people will ask why, and you can tell them about the launch and give them a card. But you don’t have to purposefully look strange. Just do what you’re comfortable with and that your parents will allow.”
“I don’t have all of the answers. Everyone here is very creative and I’m sure we can think of a lot of other things we can do to promote the mission. I hope I hear a lot of good ideas that make me slap myself and go ‘I’m such a dummy, why the cake didn’t I think of that?'”
“Now, who’s with me?”
*Several hands are raised*
“Come on, for Gabby Giffords?”
*More hands go up*
“For the squids?”
*More hands go up*
“Just to make me shut up and stop talking?”
*The remaining hands go up*
Well, my group and I won first place at the New York State History Day competition! ‘Tis truly exciting to know that for this one little thing, you beat out everyone. I’m sure I’ve ranted my topic before, I’d like to propose something realistic this time! Go on your local search engine, find Alix Spiegel’s NPR recording titled 81 words, and listen! Put it in the background during homework, food, museblog, but it’s a fascinating story.
Congratulations!
YESSSSS!!! GO FISHY!
FIRST PLACE! THAT’S AMAZING!
( Last year, we got second to some twelve-year olds.
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I so hope you make it to finals! Take LOTS of pictures and email them to me. I miss it.
That’s awesome! Congratulations!
royal wedding: did anyone notice that the commentary was horrible, i was watching katie couric and the british dude who was commentating with her was super rude. other than that i enjoyed it, the highlight was my mom commenting at length about how good beckham looked. i fell asleep at 3:30 though so i didn’t see the kiss but i also exist in a world where everything is rehashed to death so no worries there
this might be weird, is it possible to feel optimistic without being optimistic? i don’t know how else to explain how i feel, it kind of feels like coming out of a fog but at the same time i don’t feel super happy fun times, just kind of like “yes, okay”
i feel kind of old for MB which makes me sad but i dunno. i will be 19 in less than two weeks and i’m not sure when that happened, last i checked i was 13 and rolling around here making unfitting comments about animu. ah well.
good luck to everyone who is about to enter AP week(s), it will be worth it, i kind of wish i could take the ap euro test again because i had so many funs with that class. perestroika, it is always the right answer.
I mean I’m apparently 21 and still on MB. I dunno, age is weird.
The GAPAs are older than you, and they’re still on MB. Gosh, they must be thirty by now!
First circus performance went all right! Still weird being a performer and not a techie for the first time since middle school I think. Poi went okay, mine decided to trie themselves into a square knot during my solo but whatever. Doesn’t really bother me. Herp.
Aaaand stayed up playing magic way to late. Again. Oooops. Anyone here ever read Hearts in Atlantis?
Singapore’s government is a constant source of amusement for me. This week is election week, so there’s an incredible amount of patriotic nonsense going around. A truck bearing Singapore flags and megaphones just rolled past my house blaring fragments of PM Lee’s speeches. There’s no reason whatsoever for Singapore to hold elections anyway. The PAP will stay in power no matter what- they have control, power, and huge amounts of money already- and none of the opposition parties have many new ideas. Also, I was listening to the radio today, and heard this from a PAP (People’s Action Party- current in-power party):
“I urge Singaporeans not to vote for any opposition party. If a lot of people vote for an opposition party, there could be freak results.”
Um, yeah. Like… a change in government? OHDEARGODNONOTTHAT!
Haha. Austrian elections are epic too because they know that everyone will lose anyway. And because I get my semester’s supply of ball-point pens from the election freebies.
BWA HA HA HA HA Listening to the Lord of the Rings soundtrack makes me cry every time. Sniffle. I have begun to worship Howard Shore. He’s incredible.
I LOVE THE SOUNDTRACK!!!
I watched the movie last night.
We are playing it in band.
Oh yes, the LotR soundtrack is fantastic.
Also the book. I’m rereading it for the first time in way too long. I’d forgotten how good it is.
*likes the Shire theme best*
I just re-read the Fellowship of the Ring in french during spring break. Awesomeness.
I like the Rohan and Gondor themes best. They don’t make me tear up as much.
Eowyn’s theme is poignant.
I am reading the Two Towers.
SFTTP; I swear this is my last one. It concerns the royal wedding hype/paraphernalia/nonsense/excitement.
There I sat, along with my (American) friend, poking fun at the buy-this-because-Kate-Middleton-wears-it ads that have popped up, when a British person came along. Said the Brit, who shall remain nameless: “Stop making fun of the royal wedding. It’s serious.”
Said I, being rather startled, but also rather annoyed, “I wasn’t making fun of the wedding, but the advertisements surrounding it. I know someone who bought a $20 hair clip because it had Kate Middleton’s face on the label.”
The Brit scowled. “You can’t make fun of Kate Middleton. She’s royalty.”
“I’m not British, and she isn’t my royalty. And in any case, yes, I can make fun of her. But I wasn’t.”
The Brit, now apparently charged with fury, growled, “You’re a Kiwi and a subject of the Queen. You can’t make fun of the royal family.”
So here stands my question: Being a Commonwealth citizen by birth, but certainly not by nature or in allegiance, do I owe respect to Kate Middleton up to the point of not mocking the ads concerning her? Or am I free to be a rude and judgmental American? Advice would be greatly appreciated.
I couldn’t care less about the wedding, so I heartily agree with you.
I don’t think you’re making fun of Kate Middleton, you’re making fun of the fact that people are using her image to advertise the most ridiculous things (the hair clip was the example you used). So it would be all right by me. And even in Commonwealth countries, even if you’re a subject of the Queen, that doesn’t deny you the right to free speech. There are plenty of republicans in the UK and the Commonwealth who think there shouldn’t be a monarchy. So this Brit’s statement ‘You can’t make fun of the royal family’ (even though you weren’t) – well, perhaps it’s not something en or I would do, but you are allowed to – it’s just something en wouldn’t find very nice, I guess.
I’m going to organize a flash mob.
Details?
Well, we haven’t figured out a date yet, sometime during the summer, but it’ll take place in the courtyard of the mall. If anyone watches Glee it’ll be reminiscent of the flash mob they did to the song ‘Barbra Streisand’ by Duck Sauce.
Woah. I’m in a hotel right now on my laptop, so I have a different Internet connection than usual. Therefore, it thinks I haven’t pied any posts.
…
Wheeeee!
Such power!
THE CONCERT IS NEXT WEEK!!!
If I were any more nervous/excited, I would explode.
I have finally finished reading this whole, long thread. Don’t let me go away from MuseBlog for a week again. And also, STOP TALKING ABOUT STUDYING, PEOPLE I have to start studying for finals and that means instant scoliosis. *tears hair out* And also TONS of homework to make up. I wish I could just ignore it.
On the PLUS side, I got 3.25 hours of community service today for helping the earth and I met a nice girl who I saw at school and now am acquainted with. ( Redundant. ) And also I’m seeing Jane Eyre with my grandmother tonight! SQUEE!
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING UPDATE!
Also I thought Daniel Radcliffe was a great actor! Actually they were all great actors, except maybe what’s-his-face, the nephew, he was okay. I noticed that Daniel Radcliffe is really short! Also, he doesn’t have a great singing voice. ANYWAY it was great and I’m going to download the soundtrack.
I really loved the musical! Some of the lyrics were mediocre but as a whole I liked the music a lot.
Re: Royal Wedding: I may or may not get around to watching it. Probably tomorrow. *eats mac and cheese*
The times when I want to sell all my stuff and live in a cabin in the Rockies are becoming more frequent and more severe.
This is going to sound odd, but… as long as you have Internet and can still talk to us, why not?
I don’t want to pass up the chance for a basically free college degree, and I’ve got more important things to do after that.
…You too?
If you do that then can I come with you, Dad?
Don’t fight it… don’t fight it…
I’d go for Yosemite if I were you. Extremely beautiful, plus it has running water.
SCIENCE OLYMPIAD FIRST IN THE STATE FOSSILS
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My mom came down for my birthday and we got to go to a restaurant! I got mango juice. It was really tasty!