We confess it: this picture has nothing whatsoever to do with any New Year we’ve ever heard of. But we think we can be forgiven for sneaking in this small (and colorful) tribute to Douglas Adams.
Patience, Please
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NICE WEATHER, WHAT IS THIS?!
Towel day! Geek pride! Whoo!
EXTRANEOUS EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Frank seems to be MIA, which is odd. Hopefully he comes back. He’s a cute frog.
I need to go learn lyrics and practice now. Or do homework. Or SOMETHING.
Actually, speaking of homework….I haven’t heard anything from the GED office about my scores…..that’s kind of worrying. It was at least a long-ish time ago that I took the test, yeah? Uglarg I hate the GED office.
Wait, just checked (is it pathetic that the way I checked what date I took the test was by finding a picture I took on that day and checking the timestamp? I think it’s pathetic.) and apparently it’s almost been 6 weeks…and they said 6 to 8 weeks. So…I guess…soon? Ish? Hopefully? UGHLARG.
Happy Towel Day!
I’m still reading Welcome to Bordertown and it is still awesome!
Do you know where your towel is?
I forgot about it being Towel Day, but I just realized that when I got home there was a miniature Celtics towel that I have never seen before on the couch.
Happy Towel Day! It’s sunny and hot out!!!!
It had been raining [heavily] for the past half hour. My patio is completely flooded.
Good thing I have my towel with me!
Still no response from the Honors Program. I sent the director another email, and I will most likely try calling him as well.
Hello, all. Happy Towel Day. *yawns* I have about a billion projects due on Friday, but I keep thinking it’s alternately Thursday and Tuesday.
It’s already tomorrow in Piggy’s part of the world?
Ack, I have to be ready to die in front of an audience by tomorrow!
Why do you say it’s tomorrow in my “part of the world”?
Because you’re in different time zones?
Barely. But aside from that, I have no idea what would have prompted that comment/question.
I kept thinking it was Wednesday. And Thursday.
Another towel day past, another year when I will kick myself for forgetting a towel…
When will they learn to look at “Coming Soon!”?
Sometimes people just forget that it’s the 25. I often look at the CS and knew when Towel Day was, but I didn’t know today’s date until I came here.
Oh, I was going to mention that. You say it’s “an H2G2 thing”. As far as I know, nothing titled The Hitchhiker’s To Galaxy To has ever been released. Is this intentional?
H2G2 is short for HHGG (2 Hs, 2 Gs) which itself is short for HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Oh. *stands corrected*
I’d always wondered that… Glad you said!
NO MORE SCHOOL FOREVER AND EVER
…until August, but August is far enough away that I don’t have to care yet.
Wow, you get out of school early!
I am listening to Bolero. It is extremely satisfying to hear it from somewhere other than myself (humming it).
I remember the Last Page article on the woman who painted Bolero! Which issue was that again?
I was going to say something but I forgot what it was… Well, happy Towel Day! My dog had a bath today, lots of towels…
THREE years since Phoenix landed on Mars? I’m getting old.
It’s strange how everyone’s like “SCHOOL’S ENDING SOON” but school doesn’t exist for me, so I’m just let sitting awkwardly in silence.
Why doesn’t school exist for you?
I’m unschooled.
Forgive me for asking, but… how is that legal?
It’s classified as a type of homeschooling, I believe. Which is legal.
Unschooling is totally legal. This is how it works: To unschool a child (at least in my state) you write a letter to your district saying in what situations that child would encounter education and then they leave you alone. It is a legal type of homeschooling, as FantasyFan?!?! said. I am not unschooled, but many very intelligent people I know are.
So what distinguishes it from other types of homeschooling? A less structured curriculum?
That, but curriculum isn’t everything. Unschoolers learn what they want, how they want, when they want. We do learn.
(I’d write more, but I need to finish an application letter for a backpacking trip.)
So… What do you do all day?
Ah, the question every unschooler is asked. I do some formal-ish studies (math, some science, etc.), I pursue whatever I am currently interested in, I’m in band, I’m in 4-H, I spend time outdoors, I draw, I read, I think, I live.
What do you do all day?
Go to school at 8:45, rubric papers for AP Environmental Science, go to French, go to band, go to English, have lunch with my friends, go to bio, go to calc, come home, do homework, do more homework, practice oboe, pit orchestra or marching band depending on the season. Sometimes I sleep.
Whoah… 0_o That sounds pretty sweet but also chaotic.
Well, hi.
I realize that this is my millionth attempt to keep up with my dearly beloved and missed blog. If I vanish again, forgive me.
Anyway, hi, again, sorry for disappearing all the time. Maybe I’ll do some lurking for a while to catch up with whatever. Or ~important events~ could be summarized. EITHER WAY, HI, I’M BACK, SORT OF
I hope everyone’s life is going fabulously.
Hi!!!
Welcome back, Beavo! Your announcement may have turned pink in record time.
I’m not entirely sure what the pink means. I hope it’s something along the lines of ~covered in cherry pie filling~, but knowing this blog, I might need to update my firewall and lock my windows.
If a comment gets pied ten times, it automatically turns pink. The irony.
Technically, it’s magenta. But, yes, it is the same color as the You-Know-Whats.
Cherry pie filling? That’s the best way of putting it that I’ve ever heard, which is remarkable considering the fact you had no idea it had to do with pies at all. It looks more raspberry to me, though.
Welcome back!
Beavo! Nice to see you around!
Beavo! Wow, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? Welcome sort-of-back.
BEAVO! (Hi.)
Our dearly beloved and missed Beavo! I was just thinking about you recently. So, how art thou?
Important events? Well, you see that we now have pie-themed “like” buttons; others have explained about the pinking. We are now even more enamored of squids (both space squids and earth squids), to the point that squids are an Unofficial Official Thing to Cheer Sad People Up With. We’re all somewhat older than when you were last here. And I’m not sure when I last saw you actually was. Too long.
My life’s going rather well, actually. Is yours?
When was the last time we had a Part 3 of a Random Thread? February 2010, I believe?
So I seem to have lost one of my ToK books. *headdesk* At least it’s only 27 bucks.
Wow. Sorry. That must be horrible. What’s ToK?
Theory of Knowledge. I hope they’ll take cash for the fine, because I’d like to keep my mother out of this.
You do IB too?
Nope.
I’ve never heard of that, but it sounds interesting. What sort of knowledge? Could you explain a bit?
It’s complicated.
The class I took called Theory of Knowledge mostly studied how we know what we know, epistemology. Dunno if Piggy’s is the same.
That. Sounds. Awesome. I need to read some theory of knowledge textbooks.
I assume it’s the same class. I just took the first semester. My teacher focused more on logic, though, as well as perspective, language, and a handful of other things.
Well. I’m done with high school. I’ll never go to a class there again, sit around the lunch table with my friends, hang around by our lockers before class, give a brohug to someone after acing a test. Latin hit me the hardest. I’ve been with these people for four years straight. We’ve been to hell and back. We’ll never all be together again.
Damn, I didn’t expect it to affect me this much.
Life is very surprising.
This is kind of off topic, but…do your friends know how many people online think you’re the coolest guy ever?
I don’t know how they would. I tend to keep my internet life out of my non-internet life.
*hug*
At least you have the memories.
I have very little time left in Jordan. Tomorrow I’m going to be moving from the dorm to my grandmother’s house, and staying there for two weeks. She doesn’t have Internet, so the next time I’ll be able to post I’ll be in America.
Well, it’s been one heck of a ride folks. Big long summary post hopefully forthcoming.
Ma’ as-salaama, FF! Have a good trip, and we look forward to hearing your Jordanian saga.
Hello!
We are at the library in Pittsburgh! We just looked at lots of pictures of chocolate! We are typing this one word at a time (alternating). It is raining, which is weird and annoying and Clarastopsayingand! SorryEmma! We have a plan to take over the world with chocolate and duct tape! It will be awesome and flamablamablous! Yay! Yay!
Bye! Bye!
Good to hear from you, Pan and Emma!
Looking at pictures of chocolate must have been unbearably frustrating. Let me guess where you’re going next…
Yes, it sort of was. We felt that the books should have contained warnings that the chocolate was not included. Or, better yet, they should have just included the chocolate. It was also quite frustrating that we couldn’t find a book of only pies, though perhaps it was good that we didn’t start throwing books at each other…
My band director is back and my birthday is on Saturday and I keep forgetting to put that on the calendar and our band is playing at the graduation ceremony and I will play at my own ceremony too and Paperclip talked to me and I broke the sewing machine again and life is good.
Sorry for the double post and I AM PLAYING IN ADVANCED JAZZ COMBO NEXT YEAR and my Icarus imitation was so realistic it fooled two teachers and my rollercoaster works and life is still good thirty seconds after posting that first post in which I forgot to post all that other stuff I just mentioned and what is the appeal in runon sentences anyway and I am happy.
I got an eighty-nine on my math test.
I got an eighty on the quiz of the same subject.
Words cannot express my frustration.
And now my geometry average is a 92.83. *tears hair out*
I am confused.
That rounds up to a 93! Are you on the seven-point scale?
It’s nothing to worry about. Grades aren’t everything.
To me they are. Well, that and trombone success.
Currently: listening to the club mix of Spelar Lite DotA while writing the film script to a story called ‘O the Alien’ for my film class, which is due tomorrow. Have not started my anthropology homework, which is also due tomorrow, yet.
Armada out.
I feel sorry for Justin Beiber. If I were him, I’d get plastic surgery, change my name, and move to Siberia. I mean, it seems that ALL PEOPLE DO is make fun of him. I’m not a fan or anything, but still. It seems cruel.
Quite true. Do you know what is extremely fun? Taking the “How many Biebers you could take” quiz from Oatmeal online. It’s great.
“Would you be willing to tear off one of the Bieber’s arms and/or legs, and then use them as weapons against other Biebers?”
I didn’t know there were multiple Biebers.
What I don’t get is, why don’t people like him? What exactly did he do?
Nothing. He’s , like, say, Miley Cyrus, just a generic pop artist who is ridiculously popular among a certain age group. Anyone outside that age group considers him snark bait.
he is a hate meme.
although to be honest he has said some pretty dumb things.
people like to hate pop musicians in general.
It’s cool to hate, yeah, it’s cool to hate
I don’t like nothing and I like that fine
Liking something’s just a waste of time
I’ll be gone for a while. I’m leaving this Saturday for a month in Chile doing archaeological fieldwork. I don’t plan on bringing my computer so I likely won’t really be able to post for a while. I hope you all have a good June!
That sounds fascinating. Have fun!
That sounds flamablamablous! Please tell us all about it afterward.
UGH CHILE
*envy*
LUCKY!
My brothers are home from Washington! And they bought me a NASA “worm” logo patch at the Smithsonian!
Hello friends!
All of my online classes are officially over now and my last Calculus test ever has been completed! And in two weeks I’ll be graduating! 
*fist pump*
Guess what?! The school year is almost OVER!
Anywho…I think that’s about it. Pies all around! ^^
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There is nothing worse than finding a gecko in your orange juice.
The toaster was bad enough!
Geckos are nice.
Not in orange juice…
(Some jokes never get old.)
How about finding half a gecko in your orange juice?
That depends. If the half is the tail, it just means the gecko was in your orange juice but got scared, shed its tail to scare/confuse any predators, and left, which at least means the gecko is safe and you don’t need to worry about getting it out unharmed, so I’d say it’s better. Otherwise, I do think half a gecko would be worse.
But you don’t bite orange juice…
Oh dear. You don’t seem to be a very good waiter, Robert…
I didn’t even make that connection. I just assumed it would be horrifying enough to see something so terrible; having bitten into it is too much for my imagination to bear.
*will never drink orange juice again*
Ducky, could you tell me more about unschooling? I’m curious about how it works.
It’s really different from person to person. For me, it’s basically self-directed homeschooling. I generally refer to myself as a homeschooler to avoid the “what the heck is an unschooler?” response. I know lots of different unschoolers, and they all have different definitions of what unschooling is. Many unschoolers are as or more educated as schooled people of the same age. Some are “dropouts” (how I hate that term….), some have started out unschooling and tried school, and a lot go on to college. I know one who’s 16 and got accepted into a really good college.
I’d type more, but I have to go, so I suggest that you go to unschooling dot com, and do a Google search for Grace Llewellyn.
I did. Thanks!
Ahhh… no school, finished my Math homework, sunny day, mom will be home soon… I think we’ll go to the park.
We did. And it was great.
Alas. Our senior picnic got rained out. lol
Il pleut! Il pleut! Je cours! Je cours!
Reaccepted to the Honors Program, with the scholarship reinstated. *sigh*
Thank goodness, and congratulations.
Oh good.
Hurrah! I’m glad to hear the good news.
I shall do a happy dance on your behalf. Congratulations!
Beavo (14): Hello!
Piggy (17): Congratulations. You did it!
Pan/emma (19): Yup yup, we kokonvened! We looked at pretty much every chocolate book they had at the library. It was wonderful.
oxlin (25): Wow, that sounds wonderful! What sorts of things are involved in archaeological fieldwork?
Personal news: Last week, I finished an intensive wilderness first aid course and received a Wilderness First Responder certification! And this summer, I think I’m going to take an EMT class, so I’ll be a WFR + EMT, which = WEMT! Then I can get lots of cool jobs like Yosemite Search and Rescue.
Also, I was just invited to be a paid extra in The Perks of Being a Wallflower movie, but I’ll be gone at my grandma’s birthday party thing the weekend they’ll be shooting the scenes I would have been in! Ah, well. Maybe they’ll need me again sometime this summer, who knows!
I thought this was the Recent Comments game at first and couldn’t stop laughin until I read the Personal News.
Haha, yup.
Hmmmm.
So at graduation Paperclip and I talked while fanning ourselves with sheet music (it was HOT!) and I discovered that I laugh at things that aren’t even remotely funny. Also, Zombie Apocalypse was fighting with him during a break and I said “I think if I put you two in a room alone together, I would open the door an hour later and find you both dead.” and Paperclip said, “No, you would find him dead.” and I laughed.
Then today I was playing Polish poker in math with Oboe and Daedalus, and Oboe sang about naked mole rats.
I’d tell the rest of the story about the mole rats and the Norwegian chapstick, but I don’t know how appropriate it is.
And tomorrow’s my birthday and Flute and Odie are coming over.
It’s raining really hard.
Our mythology skit was the fourth Icarus and Daedaulus skit that day, but my teacher said it was the best.
Thoughts and stuff running through my head:
1. My dad and I found a baby robin outside in the garden. It’s wing was injured; it couldn’t fly, but it was fairly big. I hope it lives. We put it in the underbrush. (At least we saw the mommy and daddy dive into where it was too.) My dad saw a crow hovering around the garden earlier, and we think it tried to eat the baby robin. Our cat is not being let outside for a few days.
2. The apple trees are in blossom.
3. Two hummingbirds were spotted near the apple tree in our yard; I was climbing it, so I stood still for a while and just watched them. At one point the male got close and perched on a branch, so I saw his beautiful green feathers. They were so shimmery and perfectly tiny and flawless. When he left I could hear his wings thrumming. I hope I can see the female again. I only saw her once.
4. Humboldt squids can work together to hunt. SQUIDS ARE COOL.
5. Did anyone think that there was something vaguely suspicious about *spoiler spoiler spoiler* pictures of the Humboldt squid being published in the last Muse issue?
6. I took about five million pictures of the apple blossoms and strawberry blossoms and the cabin and the baby robin. Some of them actually came out okay.
7. Cuttlefish are cool.
8. My science teacher is going to dress up like Robert Ballard when we have our live museum and dress up like people on the Titanic. And it will be EPIC because my science teacher has a serious case of scientist worship. We saw a live talk by Robert Ballard.
9. We really need a squid symbol.
10. I’m covered in blackfly bites.
If you can still find the baby robin alive, please take it to your nearest wildlife rescue place now. If you don’t know where that is, Google [insert your area] wildlife rescue. If they’re all closed (I don’t know what time it is in Maine), call one and ask for advice.
Sorry this is late, but I believe the nearest wildlife rescue center is several counties away. We have a humane society, but they don’t take wild birds. She’ll be okay though; we’ve spotted the mother and father around our house a lot at the moment, going near where we put her, so we’re fairly sure she’s alive and they’re feeding her. We can’t keep her ourselves and feed her, nor can we take her to a wildlife rescue center, so this is the safest option.
*faints*
Your science teacher is…
*faints again*
He is cosplaying Robert Ballard?!?!
OHMYSWEETKOKO. That is awesome.
Please share pictures and video.
GAPAs, how did you choose your majors? (Or anyone, actually!) I am in the throes of angst trying to figure out what to do, because it seems like I have limited space and very fickle interests. Or rather I want to study everything and I don’t have the space (or time!!)
I’ve read that your major doesn’t really matter all that much for jobs (aside from the obvious ie not going to become a computer programmer without some experience in programming…) but ARRRGHH
i’m thinking either English or philosophy…i don’t think i can do both though (also that seems kind of intense for me). i’m thinking of a minor in ancient civilizations but that means i have to throw out one of the other two and i just DON’T KNOWWWW
should i just go with underwater basketweaving? BLARGH
;________;
I chose mine my taking classes in it and deciding I liked said classes. I’d just take classes and see what you’ve taken lots of classes in.
It’s possible to major in underwater basket weaving?!
…What? Oh, wait…
I honestly didn’t realize she was joking, sorry. I mean, the possibility crossed my mind, but then I decided it was too specific for that. Granted, I probably would have said the exact same thing if I had realized what was going on, so it doesn’t actually make a difference.
That would be an awesome major, though!
haha! XD it’s an injoke amongst parents i think, something about kids taking useless classes that have no “real world” application. i would probably choose it as a major if i could though
Along those same lines, my mock job application/interview project earlier this year expressed a fervent, lifelong desire to become an underwater astrophysicist.
That’s not so outrageous. There are devices to detect particles from space on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea.
I know; isn’t it awesome? I found out about those actual uses while I was researching. Originally, I meant the position as a joke, but it became a cool proof of just how many interesting jobs there really are out there.
Isn’t philosophy supposed to be a useless major with no real world applications?
Isn’t that the best kind?
well phil majors often go into law (and score higher on the LSAT i am told), business, or politics. i don’t see how analytical skills are useless but do what ya want
My science teacher has a degree in philosophy.
Basketweaving is fun…
I really wish the people sitting across from me in English would stop fighting like little kids, and stop cussing like… not little kids…
I wish I could be home schooled…
Cannot find any open jobs I am interested in at all so going to have to settle for one I’m going to be unhappy in
Unsatisfied with how resume is turning out because no previous work experience
Have spent 4+ hours today working/researching the aforementioned and barely any progress made
great start to summer.
That’s pretty much how I feel. Summer isn’t supposed to be more stressful than the school year!
A friend of mine who knows something about hiring summer interns and such advises that the requests start rolling in around December and January, and if you’re not out there by April for a job to start in June, the good jobs will be taken, especially in bad economic times. Something to keep in mind for next year.
Yes, that’s a really good thing to keep in mind, thanks! I thought I was all set for jobs in December/January, but then I decided that I really wanted to be home for most of the summer, and by the time I realized that, it was too late for anything really awesome here. I do have a few promising things that I’m waiting to hear back from, so I may be just fine. We’ll see!
Good luck, Pan!
Yeah, I decided back in December I had too much going on with new things to be able to take the hassle of figuring out internship applications on-the-go as well. But I hoped I’d be able to find SOME sort of work, at least in something mundane…
I’m running for vice president of the class of 2014…against the most popular girl in the grade. (and one other girl who knows many more people than I do.)
This means free cookies for all my potential voters.
I’d vote for you! Especially if they’re, say, chewy chocolate chip cookies.
When I ran for student council in the third grade, the boy running against me bought half his votes with onion rings. Just an idea…
Good luck!
I’d vote for you if I went to your school even without the cookies.
Why not go to her school on election day and vote for her anyway?
Because I’d be in my school.
I don’t know where her school is.
Awww, I love you guys.
Choklit Orange – I hate onion rings, so I probably wouldn’t give anyone else any…
I love you guys.
Just thought I’d say that.
Seconded.
Thirded.
<3
Fourthed.
I love me too.
Boom de yada, boom de yada, boom de yada, boom de yada … *shot*
We love you, too.
The last person to respond to this with a number was shadowfire, who said “Fourthed.” But three people have posted since then, just not saying numbers. So am I fifthing this or eighthing it?
At any rate, I feel the same way. <3
1 AM. WHO NEEDS SLEEP? I LOVE SUMMER.
Meh. We still have 3 more weeks of school.
*bites POSOC*
We have until June 29th.
For me, summer = sleep!
Summer = not getting up in the morning until really late, but then staying up ridiculously late. That’s how it should work, anyway.
Exactly!
I watched the Firefly episode with Zac Efron in it today. And I thought he looked attractive. I am really worried.
Zac Efron? Oh, come on, you can do better than him…
(but Firefly! Woohoo!)
I agree. Now, Morena Baccarin…
I didn’t even realize he was in any of the episodes. Who was he?
I guess I was probably just spending the whole time admiring the good looks of EVERYONE ON THE CAST!
Because everyone in the future is gorgeous!
I probably thought he looked good when I saw that episode.
(I have the whole series on DVD and watched every episode. I’ve seen some episodes twice.)
A younger version of Simon. For the record, I think Simon is cute but I don’t drool over him.
I made tamales! Nothing exploded!
And gecko-free, I hope.
Now that you mention it, they were unusually sticky…
Forty-two pies? Really? O.o
Mine was the forty-second. Just putting that out there.
Now its 45. WOO HALF OF NINETY
TAN 45 = 1
COS 45 = SIN 45
WOOO!
Newspeak is duckspeak. museplusgoodthinker unbellyfeel Oldspeak. museplusgoodthinker duckspeak Newspeak bellyfeel 1984. Duckspeak weekwise.
I made steel-cut oats with brown sugar and cinnamon in my rice cooker overnight, and I brewed some of the almond biscotti tea to wash it down. A good breakfast for Graduation Day.
Sounds like it. Fun with kitchen appliances! Steel-cut oats are my standard breakfast. I add dried or fresh fruit and sliced almonds, then top it with Greek yoghurt. This week I’ve been adding chopped dried apricots (California, not Turkish), but I’m really looking forward to peach season.
I made tamales in my rice cooker! Have fun at graduation.
Have fun graduating! You were just a little sophomore when I first came to the ‘blog… -sniff-
(Of course, you’re a grade ahead of me and a few months older than me, but that’s beside the point. Also, sophomores aren’t actually little… Um, pretend any of this post makes sense.)
That sounds yummy. Have fun graduating!
Happy Graduation!
I attempted to cook some pasta yesterday. Emphasis on “attempted”.
Sprite helps if you need to scrape it off the bottom of the pan.
Circles is home! He was MEGA PISSED when we picked him up at the vet’s, trying to chew his way out of the cage and all, and as soon as we got him into his cat-house (we closed in my old playhouse and made an outdoor area for him) he paced around and looked for an escape. He’s calmed down now though, I’m sitting in here with him.
It’s good to have him back. ♥
Welcome home, Circles
Is it alright to flag a post on another site for expressing dislike of something on an appreciation thread for that thing? It’s not offensive, just bad manners and behavior I don’t approve of.
Depends on the site and its customs and policies.
I’m going to get my hair cut really short today…
If it’s long enough now, you can donate it. It would have to be really long now, though.
It used to be about chin/shoulder length. Now I look like Mia Farrow.
Who’s she?
An actress in a lot of Woody Allen movies. Never actually seen one of her movies though…
I FELL IN LOVE
WITH A 70-YEAR-OLD
TENOR SAXOPHONE
We went to the instrument shop today, and I found the most marvelous Conn 10M tenor sax from 1942.
I saw the words ‘I FELL IN LOVE WITH A 70-YEAR-OLD’ and I thought, ‘Wow, Agent Lightning, bit of an age gap there…’
(I believe that was the purpose of that phrasing.)
I thought of The Light Fantastic.
To protest Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me‘s continual mocking of knitted sweaters, I’m knitting Carl Kassel a pair of mittens.
Voice on home answering machine<pair of mittens.
Follow-up on my vintage instrument romance:
My band director says it will be fine for jazz, but for classical I would have to have a lot of control over intonation which I… don’t… My parents are looking on Craigslist and Ebay. I have told them not to because MY HEART BELONGS TO THE CONN and I would be willing to adjust and work really hard on intonation from classical, and besides, I never play classical tenor, but I might start, I don’t know, and… I tried another Conn 10M there and it wasn’t as marvelous. I know that this might sound weird, but I will only be satisfied with THAT Conn.
I’m worried that they might buy an instrument over the Internet. Last time they did this, I ended up with a cheap, student-model, no-name-brand, alto. My parents were all, “Look, AL, it’s shiny and it costs next to nothing”, and I’m all, “So is tinfoil.”
So maybe I will just have a star-crossed-lovers relationship.
With an inanimate object.
My parents were all, “Look, AL, it’s shiny and it costs next to nothingâ€, and I’m all, “So is tinfoil.â€
I love this sentence.
Get your band teacher to tell your parents what they need to look for- otherwise that “next to nothing” will still be a complete waste.
Actually, the “only satisfied with with that specific instrument” makes perfect sense to me- I would not be satisfied with any instrument other than my current French Horn. Yeah, the Bb side is untuneable but I know how to fix that.
I know how you feel. They are all used instruments, so there are going to be minor fluctuations in the playability.
The Conn is similar in that it (supposibly, I haven’t checked this with a chromatic tuner yet) will be very hard to get the pitch right. I think this is Great because it will encourage me to practice more, especially over the summer. Also, any other modern horn (there was this nice new-ish one for 11 hundred dollars more) would be more expensive, and I’d rather spend that money on mouthpieces, reeds, and a new mouthpiece cap for the school-owned one since I lost the one it came with.
The thing is, it’s fairly easy to adjust the pitch on a French Horn- put your hand more in the bell or out of it. (I think it’s the equivalent of lipping up a not on a woodwind)
Yeah with sax you firm up your corners.
WOOO! Charlie Bolden was on CBS Sunday Morning today!
Hello, MuseBlog. It is now 2:30 here. I went to bed at 11:30 last night. I woke up half an hour ago.
This means I have slept for at least fourteen hours straight.
Yesterday we had a party to celebrate my dad’s research getting funded/grants being accepted/someone finishing their postdoctorate.
So…
Minuses: 40 people my dad works with who are either a) complete strangers or b) people who know me and I can’t quite remember who they are all came to our house and were social. In other words, ’twas a bit awkward.
Pluses:
Turkish food.
Stupid caking tornado warning… it’s freezing in the basement. And now apparently there is a flash flood warning?!
Yes.
I quoted Invictus (the poem) from memory today in the car. My dad was impressed.
I finished the tiger painting I was doing! It looks okay… From a distance…
My father is toast, my mother is grilled pain, and I am grilled rabit.
For an explanation, translate into french.
I don’t understand…
Mon papa est pain grille, ma maman est la douleur grilles, et je suis rabit grille. (lapin grille?)
I don’t get it?
It’s supposed to be:
le pain grillé
la peine grillé
le lapin grillé
google translate is not your friend.
Don’t judge me, I haven’t learned the words for ‘toast’ ‘grilled pain’ or ‘grilled rabbit’ yet. XD
It’s ok, I was judging Google translate.
Goin’ to a ren fest tomorrow. We have some level of wind advisory, though. Hopefully that won’t impact anything too severely.
Re: Short hair: Short hair is good. I still have fairly short hair. I miss it being super short though.
Re: FALLING IN LOVE (with 70 year old inanimate objects):
If you have an instrument that will challenge you to learn how to play better and you love it then I’d say it’s a win-win. Bonding with your instrument is extremely important.
When I went to get my new violin (several years ago) we went to the store, told them a price range, and then retreated to a practice room with a bunch of violins and a handful of bows. Most of the instruments I played were lovely, but they just didn’t feel right, then when I picked up the one I eventually got my first impression was “WHOA” then “hmm, not sure…” then “no, I want this one. NO OTHER VIOLIN WILL DO.” It was a close match with another really dark sounding gypsy-ish instrument, but I’m SO glad I went with the one I did. ♥
(Sorry, that was a long ramble…anyway, bonding with your instrument is good.)
Re: Ren Faires: ….no, I’m not going to go there right now.
ANYWAY. UPDATES ON FERN’S SUPER EXCITING LIFE:
So I went to play music yesterday with the pirates (I’ve mentioned the pirates before, they’re two musicians plus entourage who snagged me into their group because I make noise sometimes) to see how things fit together, get a feel for what playing music as a group would be like, etc. And it went well! First thing Stacy (guitar player) said to me (this was the first time I’d met her) was “I have chocolate cake. Really good chocolate cake.” So I hugged her. It was FANTASTIC cake. Like eating fudge only a billion times more decadent, plus a port chocolate sauce. OH MY HOT PINK BUNNIES.
Where was I? Oh right, music…anyway, we played, we sang, it was fun, they decided they’d keep me, I decided I’m cool with being kept by them, so everyone’s happy. Crashed on the floor of their tent, hung out this morning and then headed home. I may or may not play a gig with them next weekend. I’d kind of really like to, but it’s a schedule conflict with a family reunion, so…I don’t know. Even though this is family that I don’t really have a lot in common with, some of them are coming from the west coast, so……blargh. WE SHALL SEE.
But it’s all good!
(Also, on the drive home I realized that Stacy has the same last name as another rendezvousing lady that I know and have heard sing….turns out, yup, that’s her mom. Sense = made. It’s a small, small world after all….)
Picnic at friends’ house was good, despite my being super tired. And now I’m off to eat strawberries and ice cream (even though oh MAN I am SO FULL), because the strawberries need to be consumed. Soon.
Then TO BED and try not to completely roast because cake it is hot.
Re: Challenging instruments: I meant to comment on that. Having an instrument that requires you to be good at something you’re not good at yet is a great instrument for practice. For instance, my piano has a really heavy touch. Thus, it’s finger exercise, and I can play more quickly and nimbly on other, lighter pianos. Likewise, one of the organs on which I sometimes have lessons is is a small chapel, and the organ itself is very–I can’t quite find the right word. Sort of like delicate–but anyway: I have to concentrate a lot more on getting the right touch and tone. The clavichord is the same principle. It’s an extremely small and quiet instrument with a great capability of expression. If you can play the clavichord well, you’re set.
In performance, though, a whole ‘nother set of criteria opens up. I’m still in love with a Bosendorfer Imperial Grand that I played at a competition a few years ago. That piano somehow knew what I wanted to play, and it sounded identical to my imagination. The slightest adjustment in my fingers resonated divinely through the soundboard. I loved that piano. I wish I had a few hundred thousand dollars lying around so I could buy one. I’d also want to build an acoustically perfect, fire-, flood-, tornado- and earthquake-proof building to put it in.
*sighs at the memory of that piano*
That paragraph about the piano made me so happy.
It seems like my horn teacher is soon going to get into changing the tuning of a note using my hand, because the Bb side of my horn is naturally sharp.
I completely agree with both of you. I will mention this to my band director (who wants me to get a more modern horn.)
My mom has taken my mother to the hospital for bee-related injuries, and my sister and I are alone in the house. I have spent the last two hours artificially watercoloring Kooza’s trapeze artist and watching a video about smart monkeys with my sister.
Sometimes I feel like my life has not read the Lifes’ Manual On How To Be Normal.
Bee-related injuries? Oh no. Get better soon.
(er, that should be aimed at your mother. Sorry. I misread)
Wait, your mom took your mother to the hospital? What do you mean?
She has two moms.
Hi guys!! *collapses in a heap* I just got back from a choir festival! What’d I miss?
GO TO MAKE POPCORN, SMOKE BILLOWING FROM MICROWAVE, I AM 19 I KNOW HOW TO LIFE
I LOVE YOU
THAT’S THE WAY TO DO IT YEAAAAAH GIRL
I BASICALLY EAT A COUPL CRACKERS WHEN I GET OUT OF BED AT 11 AND THEN WAIT UNTIL SOMEONE MAKES DINNER TO REALLY EAT x_x
THEN IT’S SECRET SNACKING ALL NIGHT
OH GOD I AM NEVER GOING TO LEARN HOW TO BE A REAL PERSON
Carl Kassel mittens coming along nicely. One finished, one halfway through (I knitted through the 2009 Star Trek and a few Big Bang Theory episodes last night). Do you think I should include a matching hat?
I hope they’re mentioned on Wait Wait!
So I told my dad that I thought math class was boring.
And now he’s teaching me differential calculus.
Ah. For some reason, mathy conversations with my dad also tend to derail into something involving n dimensions, architecture or something nautical (usually involving sailboats).
Differential calculus is actually kinda fun, once you get past the initial shock.
Yeah, I was all “ahhh! It’s terrifying, wait, no, it’s awesome.”
My dad teaches law and my mom is a psychologist… They haven’t been able to help me with math since Algebra 1. Calc BC has been a bit frustrating at times.
My dad has an engineering degree. This is why I no longer ask him for math help.
My dad has an engineering degree. Many years ago he taught me about the Pythagorean theorem while helping me make a Hershey Kiss costume.
Your dad is clearly cooler.
I can empathize with that. Whenever I ask him for math help I end up wondering why I like this subject at all, but at the same time I’m still interested.
My dad has a PhD in math. If you ask a math professor about your trig homework, you get what you deserve.
My dad has taught me the value of saying ‘Yep’, nodding, and accepting that you stopped understanding this ages ago and you’re not about to catch up.
Actually, asking him for help with math is usually okay, as long as there aren’t any problems that can be solved with more complex math than necesary.
muser parents are the best!
I have a feeling both of them would have been musers had it existed during their time.
That doesn’t stop them from being a pain sometimes, though.
Hello from Chile! (apparently I forgot which email address is attached to this account so I just logged in instead)
Handily, my hotel computer has internet. I hope all of you are enjoying yourselves! I just got here so I haven´t really done anything exciting yet but we´re about to go to a museum! ¡Look! ¿Using upside down punctuation is easier here, no?
Anyways, I should go!
Do the keyboards in Chile have upside down punctuation on them?
Probably. Spanish uses lots of upside down punctuation.
I wish English did. It’s so convenient!
My friend needs to answer her phone because I want to go to a lake. It’s over 80 F already!
I need to make reservations for my trip to Europe. It’s just going to be a few days of watching my bank account drain when I do it. :]
My dad made rice-cheese-and-bean tortillas for breakfast!
The thermometer says that it’s 92 degrees out. (It’s in the sun, so probably not incredibly accurate.) I WILL BE GOING SWIMMING. OR AT LEAST TO THE BEACH. I AM VAGUELY INSANE. I DON’T ESPECIALLY CARE.
We had a creepy thunderstorm last night; there was lightning every few seconds and really loud thunderclaps that sounded like they were right overhead. *shivers*
WHY. SO. HOT.
Wheeee almost seventeen!
Let’s celebrate by doing a ridiculous calculus problem about an ice cream cone! /sob
AAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGGGH NO
I WAS DOING A LONG POST
ON MY OTHER COMPUTER
AND IT FROZE UP AND TURNED INTO CAKE
ANYWAY
MY PARENTS WANT ME TO GET A DIFFERENT SAX
They understand I need a good horn but they want something newer and more modern and I DON’T and they offered to consider the custom z which was perfect and i don’t know which one to choose because my parents and band director don’t want me to get the conn and I LOVE YOU, CONN, DON’T LEAVE ME and i wish something would happen and everything is happening and i just did something stupid AUGH I WISH i wish i could get the conn but the custom z was good too
BUT IT WAS EXPENSIVE MUCH MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE CONN
and i want the conn even though the z would be easier to play and i wanted the z before i tried the conn and my parents want me to get the z or something cheaper and
WHY MOM WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY
i was doing a headdesk on the other computer but i hit a function key or ctrl or alt or something and it made cake so i cant even bash my head against the keyboard
LIFE WAS SO GOOD
NOW ITS NOT
I’d go for broke and ask for both.
I’d love to, but that’s almost four thousand dollars.
My parents don’t want me to get the Conn because it would be hard to play. I want to get the Conn for that same reason.
My mom says I can get the Conn later in life if I get the Z now.
But I don’t want the Conn later in life, I want it now, because the sooner I get it, the sooner I would get accustomed to it.
I just went to ?p=42, and it was a thread about Hurricane Katrina. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN
Just got home from Washington DC. It’s amazing and I want to live there forever/
Nice, isn’t it? What did you see and do there/here?
Well, I was there for the National Catholic Forensics League tournament this weekend but we did a lot of sightseeing! We got a tour of the Capitol and then walked the whole National Mall, where we saw the Washington Monument, the WWII memorial and, my favorite part, the Lincoln Memorial. The reflecting pool was empty, though, which slightly decreased the grandeur of it but not totally. Besides that, I rode the metro for the first time in my life and walked around the city and went to the zoo and saw the tournament and, wow. It was so much fun.
Yay for procrastination!! I have a French video due tomorrow!!! Yay! And and for English I have half of a project due!! *brain exploding* And my head feels different because I have no hair!!! *death*
We have pet chicks. They are so FLUFFY
I named mine Highlighter. My brother’s is Victini.
Adorability *squee*
Does anybody know anything about stamp collecting or first day of issue stamp prices? (or how to find prices?)
I was in Boston for the past week on the school trip, which was awesome and a lot of fun, but we weren’t allowed any device that could connect to the Internet, hence my absence. Still, it was really awesome – we got to see Boston Pops, the Blue Man Group, Fenway Park, etc. Also, the malls in Boston are SO much nicer than any of the malls in Delaware. Seriously, I’m not even a big fan of shopping, but if I lived in Boston I would go to some of those malls every day. Although since we practically ate every meal at a mall food court, I don’t think I’m going to want to even look at a food court for a year.
This weekend I’ve been pretty bored – spent a lot of it studying for my math final. Urgh. Also, my parents have gotten this strange idea that I’m going to start a business somehow this summer. And when I say business, I mean some kind of thing online, but I have no idea what this is going to be. (?) I’m a bit confused as to why they are encouraging this, and while I think it’s exciting and all, I really am at a lack for ideas.
Oh yeah also I just finished the second book (City of Ashes? I can never remember any of their names) in the Mortal Instruments series. I like it but don’t love it, I guess the whole demon hunting thing isn’t really that interesting to me, but it’s entertaining enough.
How’s everybody been?
BLUE MEN
I’m going to be a Blue Man when I grow up, just so you know.
I can totally imagine you as one, too. That is awesome, I especially loved their bios in the program!
Did you go to the Prudential Center? I bet you did. It’s great there. I go to church there sometimes.
I read that as Presidential Center and was a bit confused.
Am covered in salt, but whatever. We went to the beach! I went in twice, and under twice, and I didn’t turn blue. I am proud of myself, seeing as it’s only May and Maine ocean water is freezing in the middle of summer.
My town has the best ice cream place ever. That is all.
Ren fest: pretty bro. The local root beer was delicious, as always, though a tad warm. I got a turkey leg for the first time in my life. I also bought myself a sweet ceramic mug-type thing from a local pottery maker. One of the stage acts they have every year is this group of pirate comedians. We watched all three of their shows (a Peter Pan retelling, a pirate dating game, and a Star Wars retelling). It’s interesting–they have the audience vote by applause on how clean or dirty the show should be. We had one PG-13 show, one “a’R’g” show, and one “Just Plain Filthy”, the latter of which I’ve never seen them do before. Afterwards we went to the adults-only show with all the performers from the festival, though I had to exaggerate my age by a year to get in. Good times. Really hot and humid today, though. But I was sensible enough to put on sunscreen, so I didn’t burn like I did last year. My friend bought himself a replica of a Roman gladius that’s pretty fantastic. I explained to him some of the imagery on the hilt and sheath.
That was disorganized, but oh well. I’m tired.
Burning at Renfaires: I wore a shirt to my last one that was low-backed and had lacings. Looked pretty cool, but sunburn didn’t.
I’ve been posting a ton today, but… I might get to take a Geometry course over the summer! (so I would be in Algebra II next year)
Congratulations! That’s a cool opportunity if you like math and are good at it. Are you in high school yet?
No, eight more days of eighth grade!
I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this but next month certain theaters (countrywide) will be screening the extended versions of all three Lord of the Rings movies. But it’s only ONE showing for each movie, each on three separate days ( i think the first is the 12th)
AIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!! Well, we have the extended version at home, but still AIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!
I knew this already. I will be unable to see any of them because I will be in Fiji.
Excuse me. I need to go cry in a corner.
Fiji sounds like a reasonable silver lining, however.
I as well. And I’ll still be in Chile. Ah well, I own the extended editions.
I’ll be staying with my grandparents, neither of which are likely to want to take me.
Not too much of a tragedy, we have the extended editions and our friends have a giant projector wall.
If you went about it in the right way, I’m sure you could make them delighted to drop you off at an extended-edition LOTR marathon.
OH MY GOSH THERE IS ONE IN MY AREA.
These things never come to my area.
I’ve never seen them before because my parents think you need a big screen to do them justice…WELL, PARENTS, THIS IS A BIG SCREEN.
Ohhh. I just went to another LotR marathon on saturday (though I only saw half of the first and third movies), which was my 4th of the year, but I may check this out
Thaks for the heads up!
you guys
you guys
it is three am in california right now
and my capitalization ethic has fallen asleep
but
but the internet
it’s so funnnnnnn
i have to wake up at six tomorrow
that’s in three hours
(i like the math coincidence, ha ha ha)
i just a had a four day weekend
because we’re too poor to pay for my schooling
but seriously, seriously
i’m going to bed now
and maybe i’ll have caffiene in the morning
and i’ll look at this post tomorrow
and think to myself
“wow, i’m really dumb when i’m half asleep”
okay
okay good night museblog
dftba
*blinkblinkblink*
Hi?
I’m done with school! Yay!
I still have a whole month…
Two weeks.
Two days!!
Eight days!
Too long. About 2 weeks, then regents/review week
I feel your pain.
At least for me, school doesn’t start until September 10th or so. Just out of curiousity, when do people’s schools start back up again.
I’m done, too!
I just biked 13.6 miles.
and hiked around a park&gardens.
and got a slurpee.
I am sweaty and gross and my face resembles a lobster and I probably looked insane and I passed at least four or five attractive guys on my way home but amazingly I don’t care.
I don’t know whether I feel really horrible or really awesome right now.
(this has been a pointless post brought to you in part by Aggie and her insane cranium)
In part? Who wrote the rest?
My brother snidely suggested the lobster-face part.
haha i know the feeling!
Had trouble falling asleep last might because of the heat.
Going to take a quasi-nap now.
I sleep as well.
I unfortunately have not had good sleep lately for various reasons…
1) Wild sleepover watching exciting movies with friends
2) good book keeps up all night
3) volunteering at emergency vet clinic again…
So here’s what happened last night at the vet clinic. A dog comes in to get its nails clipped because they’re so long that the dog is limping. But this is not a normal nail job. Oh no. Somehow the dog managed to get a horrible infection of its nails to the point that they were falling off. We had to put the dog under anesthesia to clip its nails because it was in such pain. 3 of the nails just fell off when we pulled a little. For 4 more, when we clipped the nail, pus started to come out. After soaking those feet in a clean solution, those 4 became lose enough to pull. So doggie came in with 20, albeit painful, nails and came out with 13 nails and 3 paws wrapped in bandages. (One foot’s nails were all fine eerily enough. Funny how that works.)
I AM A PUBLISHED AUTHOR
Cool!
Where?
What’s the name of the book? Is it out yet? TELL TELL.
Kai–
Oxlin–It’s self-publishing, through Createspace; I’m too young, really, for anything else, seeing as my writing isn’t exactly divine. But still. *squee*
Koko A–‘Tis called Bloody.
Far Out! Part 2 is up in the popular threads list again, GAPAs.
A girl in our town died from being hit by a drunk driver.
Oh my gosh.
*hug* Did you know her?
Oh no. I’m so sorry.
Oh my… how terrible.
Oh dear.
*hug*
That’s awful. I’m so sorry. *hug hug hug hug hug hug hug hug*
I’m so sorry. *hug*
That’s absoulutely terrible.
I’m so sorry. That’s terrible.
*hug*
Alto Sax says I should get the Conn.
So does Flute.
So does Odie, even though she’s not even in band. But she’s my best friend so she has to agree. And so is Flute. Alto Sax is my friend too but I value her music advice.
I’m still feeling hopeful, though.
We’re playing a Lady Gaga medley in band. Oh, how I wish our trumpet section was not so (I have removed this next part for its offensiveness to trumpet players.)
I’m reading the Midnighters series and now I keep counting the letters of words.
What’s the difference between God and a trumpet player?
A God does not think they are a trumpet player!
*the best part of the brass section proceeds to laugh at the trumpets*
ahem.
I heard that joke, but with “fighter pilot” in place of “trumpet player”.
I must say, that does sound like it requires a high level of attentiveness, though I would imagine you are the most knowledgeable about it.
I understand this post after reading the Wikipedia article.
Isolationists?
Haha, I do that too. Still. I haven’t read Midnighters in years, though I should reread them sometime.
I went errand-running with Mom today. We got twin sheets for college (I am so not used to the concept of shopping for college I mean seriously WHAT IS THIS?!), and when we were at the register I pointed to a bag of gummy bears.
“Hey mom, look….yum.”
“Okay, sure.”
“Wait, what?”
“Get them if you like.”
“Really? I mean….really?!”
“Yes, really.”
So I got gummy bears. My mother has changed dramatically since I was younger. I didn’t even have to throw a temper tantrum, threaten to hold my breath until she got them for me or anything. (Though I never did the breath-holding thing anyway, as far as I remember.) WHAT IS THIS?! My mother actually BUYING ME CANDY?! Without even rolling her eyes?!
WHAT?!
After I moved out of the house, my mom would say strange things like, “why don’t you bring your laundry over this weekend?”
Haha yeah I know what you mean. Last summer was a weird mix of huge fights with the parents and them not caring about stuff we used to have huge fights about. I’d get yelled at for having been on the computer for two hours and then they didn’t care that I was invited/going to a party that started around at 9 and I didn’t come home till 2. I mean, what. I used to have to be home by 11.
Bugs are invading my home.
What sort?
Also how is it I have only been home a week and three days. It feels like I’ve been gone from college for at least 2 months. I want to go back. I am very much not a family person and by day 3 I’d already had my fill of them.
Also, still can’t find job. Probably not going to be able to get one. I don’t even know any more. Not even the food service places are hiring and uhg stupid economy stupid. Why couldn’t the snake job in florida have worked out
URGHathleticsdayYAYmonsoonsodidn’thavetoruntherelay.
You wouldn’t believe how hard it’s raining here.
Humanities and Advanced Algebra done today, Chinese and Chemistry to go tomorrow….ahhh, exams. >.<
Guys! I am posting from my house at 12:45 pm because I am DONE with school!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tomorrow morning is graduation practice. Saturday is graduation.
It still hasn’t hit me emotionally. I’m happy and I know I don’t have to go back to school, but I still feel like this is just another spring break and I will have school next monday. But I won’t!
In 2 weeks I will be in the airport going to Germany! And then I will be gone until August! WOOOO!!!!
I went to an Asian food store this morning and bought sushi rice and some nori. I’m making onigiri! Not sure what the fillings will be yet. I think at least a couple will be tuna, mayonnaise, and green onion. We have some leftover chicken, so I might do something with that. I couldn’t find any umeboshi at the store, so I can’t make any with that. I felt really out of place at the store. The only white person there. Alas.
INSTANT INSATIABLE CRAVING FOR NORI
i wonder if we have some…+____+
good luck with your onigiri making!!
The National Spelling Bee is currently in progress here in Washington. This year the organizers have moved it a couple of miles south, so it’s no longer a block from my office. Too bad. I miss the spellers.
No MuseBloggers in the Bee this year, are there? And once again Carus Publishing misses a chance to pass out free copies of Muse to spellers. Also too bad. They’re our kind of people.
Hey, wasn’t there a letter in Muse Mail? A while ago? Someone took a photo with a GAPA and sent it in?
It might have been emmatheduck. I met her and her parents when she competed in the Bee in 2007. I met speller73 and her parents in 2008, but I don’t think I’ve posted any pictures of that encounter on the blog.
I did remember something about Duckland in the letter…
I AM NOW THE AGENDA CHAIR OF MY MODEL CONGRESS DELEGATION
I GET TO WRITE BILLS EVERY WEEK
YES
YES
YES
Rainbow*Storm, I made a “To the Sky” poster based on your idea for a NASA video. I had to cut out one line to make everything fit, but here it is:
Thank you so much, KaiYves! That is awesome. *sets as desktop background*
I completely missed my two year blogiversary. It was on May 25th. Oh well. Anyway, I have been on MB for two years!
Latin was just generally SO awesome and emotional today. Everybody suited up in Roman gear (Toga! Toga!) and had a mini banquet – everybody brought in a food item, so we had a nice combo of baked ziti, bread and olive oil, grapes, etc, as well as cookies, brownies, and a cake. We sipped sparkling apple cider out of fancy wine glasses while toasting old memories and laughed about inside jokes we’ve had since 6th grade.
Then, we all opened up these time capsules that we made in the beginning of 6th grade in Latin – before I had discovered MB – and ohmygosh was it weird/emotional. It was so strange reading notes from my parents and friends when I was 11 (11!), but also awesome to know that some things, like the fact that I considered Harry Potter to be my favorite book series, never change. I also put in some pictures of myself in. (I think I looked really different, especially without braces.) Basically, it was just a really amazing time.
With 6 days left of middle school for me (ever!) I realized as I was sitting at the table with all of my friends surrounding me how much I’m going to miss those that aren’t going to my high school. I’m just SO comfortable around them all at this point and the fact that I’ve had the same Latin class for three years makes us all so close and practically a second family. gahhhh mushiness.
has anyone ever had success sending an author a letter? i want to write to David McCullough but I can’t really find a contact address (which is, I suppose, a good thing, actually…)
Should I send it c/o the publisher? I just don’t want it to end up in a trash can somewhere…. ;_____;
I have so many books to read! Argh! I need to finish two books from A Song of Ice and Fire before the fifth one comes out, I need to finish my Harry Potter re-read (i got derailed on OotP), I need to FINALLY finish reading John Adams and then read The Greater Journey and THEN I need to start reading my books for school! WILIKERS
For a major-league author like that, you’ll probably have to go through his publisher. On the other hand, he lives in Pittsburgh, doesn’t he? Maybe Purple Panda and THF know him, or know people who know him.
Yup.
Pie this post if you like any of the plots.
1
from every state, 2 kids, a boy and a girl are sent to a safe underground house when a ( above ground disaster here) starts. Blah Blah, Friendships made, enemeys found and then, 20 years later they have to *ahem* Restore the population.
2
World, magic normal, continents separted by type of magic, school and togetherness at center island, ruled by tryrants, prince drops down and loses memory. befriends people…. blha blah blha.
Onigiri: delicious. I didn’t make much rice, so I only made two and a half onigiri, both with the tuna/mayo/green onion mixture I mentioned. And they didn’t even fall apart really even!
I’m using a new mouse that has no wire!
It is all shiny and fancy!
Ah, the wonders of modern technology.
Cardboard+pinhole+laundry room+iPod screen+wall=camera obscura.
I am happy.
Okay, time to post a calm, rational post.
Yes, I got on board. My friend Belinda and I are co-agenda chairs, and we’re the only sophomores on board. The rest are juniors. They’re really a fun, amazing group of people, and we went to dinner to discuss some things and mostly just have a lot of fun. It was such a nice diversion. They had me laughing so much that I started to cry.
We started talking about next year a bit, though, and we’re getting exec board hoodies, trying to pull everything together a bit more, and may be having a murder-mystery dinner theme congress next year.
Okay, sorry, but how awesome would that be?
The people on board are absolutely perfect for their positions, and I know that we can make our delegation one million times better than it was this year (it was pretty darn good this year).
Interference with Geometry summer course: I either have to spend my whole summer on it (I don’t mind, it’s just my parents, bah, vacations), or start early and be in two different schools for a week (and have an extra week or two for vacations). (It’s online so it wouldn’t be a huge problem…) OR not do it at all. My mom thinks I only want to take it to catch up with my brother in math, which I hadn’t even thought of until she mentioned it… But how cool would it be to be in the same math class as my older brother?
Me: Hey
Brother: Hey… Wait, what?!
Brother’s Friend: Hey, isn’t that your little sister?