I looked peripatetic up and apparently it can mean either someone who travels or having to do with Aristotle.
I’m going to Massachusetts in a few days; I’ll stay for a week. I’d love a Kokon, and I don’t know if I’ll have Internet access.
Has anyone read The Tough Guide To Fantasyland? It’s brilliant. I’ve also read a fanfiction of it, which was The Tough Guide To Harry Potter Fanfiction. I wish I could find The Tough Guide To Flat Worlds; I’ve always wanted to visit one.
Wikipedia’s article (Peripatetic_school) says it’s because of a mistake: Aristotle’s school was originally named “Peripatos” (colonnade) after the columns of the gymnasium where he and his students met, but after Aristotle’s death people confused it with “peripatetikos” (walking) and made up a story that Aristotle liked to lecture while strolling or pacing. You have to be careful with Wikipedia, but it sounds plausible.
Summer heat in Washington can make you wish you were somewhere else. But if you (or any other Musers) stop by AAAS, I’ll give you a tour of Science magazine.
This summer my family and I are going to Germany, France, Vienna, and Prague! Should be a blast! Lots of art… lots of amazing cheese… lots of wackiness in general!
I’m going to America and hopefully I’ll be able to kokon! And I’m also visiting Egypt, hopefully.
Since I live in Vienna, I figure I should spew some travel advice but it all seems pretty superfluous considering y’all are MBers. The one thing I will suggest is public transport tickets. You can go anywhere in Vienna and you avoid paying the Idiotensteuer on whatever you buy*.
*it literally means “idiot’s tax”- when you end up paying twice as much for a soda because you bought it in a touristy area when the supermarket is actually only 5-10 minutes away. Or when you buy a lottery ticket.
My general guide to Asia: Not bad, so long as you avoid the smelly bits.
Favorite spots:
Hong Kong. Contains great food, nice hiking, and a MuseBlogger.
Tioman. Nice snorkeling, fun hiking. Ferry ride can be harrowing.
Kuching. Lots of cats and a nice jungle. Occasional river dolphin.
I’m going to Europe this summer! I’m leaving June 15 and I probably won’t be online much if at all.
For the first 10 days I’ll be in Germany with my exchange partner. After that I’ll be on my own going across Belgium and France and Spain. I’ll spend about a month in Spain then come back to the USA via Chicago around August 3-4, spend a few days there, then come home!
I’m super excited!!!
AHHH ONE WEEK UNTIL I LEAVE!!!!!!!!!!
I’m so excited!
My exchange partner’s friend is going to give me dreadlocks!
I bought a ticket to the top of the Eiffel Tower! At night! It’s going to be so pretty!
I made my first payment for Spanish School in CITY, Spain. :] I’m going to do 3 weeks of classes. It’s only a few hours a day, so it will be nice to have a somewhat scheduled thing but I’ll still have time to do random stuff. And I will get better at Spanish and actually know what’s going on.
AHH I need to pack!
When I get back I’ll be here for 2 weeks then I’m moving to AZ for college.
WOOO!
Okay. Right now I’m in the Beijing airport, using the free Internet. We were detained in Tibet for two hours yesterday for absolutely no reason, and now our flight to Mongolia has been delayed for *checks time* 12 hours. When I post again, it will likely be from Sydney, because I’ll either be there after our Mongolia stop or we will have redirected our flight.
This is the part of the trip where I start wishing I was home.
Hola from Chile! I feel that I should post here while in Chile. I’ll be here for most of June. We’re in the north where everything is rocks and dirt unless it is ocean. There are many mines up here; first silver and then nitrate.
I just got back yesterday from my two day senior trip to the Harrisburg/Hershey area. I have been there before several times (since it’s only about an hour and a half, two hours from where I live), but that didn’t matter. T’was great fun! We went boating, bumper boating, go karting, mini-golfing, had a barbecue dinner, and stayed in a Best Western.
Not bad, considering the difficulty we had with fundraising.
I’m going to Germany and Holland this summer, and I’m going to to see my exchange partner along with some of my friends exchange partners (I went there last year on my school’s exchange)!! Hopefully I’ll also see an American friend of mine who travels to Germany every year.
Yay! I’m going to Canada this summer. I’m going to go to Alberta, and apparently we’re going to be there for the week of free pancakes! We’re also going to go visit the town of Vulcan. Yes, there is a town called Vulcan. It has a giant model of the enterprise with a description in English, French, and Klingon.
ugh i really want to go on a cross-country train trip. actually, i just really want to go SOMEWHERE. i am getting kind of stir crazy tbqh.
Anyone in the pacific northwest: WHERE IS BEST? just in general. i want to go to portland more than anything right now but le sigh, i don’t see any trips in the immediate future. hummbuggg
i’m just here to tell anyone who is going abroad to KEEP A JOURNAL OF YOUR ADVENTURES! i did that when i went to Europe and sitting here re-reading it is really great. I wrote down the Fahrenheit to Celsius converter trick Robert posted. Still useful!
This message just arrived from Unintended Pun in Paris:
Can you please put this on the Random Thread or the Travel Thread? I’m on the hostel computer and it is taking too long to load MB.
I was just in Brussels for 2 days, and now I’m in Paris! Tomorrow I’m going to visit the Eiffel Tower, and the next day I’m going to Toulouse (the 4th largest city in France)
Woohoo! I can’t remember the last time I couldn’t think of an upcoming plane flight. Okay, I might go to Sacramento, but I’m definitely not leaving the country for the next year. Yeeha!
What I came here to actually post about: Food. Specifically, what to eat in Singapore.
1) Laksa. Never get laksa with shrimp in it; it’s disgusting. Try the tofu-noodle stuff. Laksa is a sort of soup consisting of chili, coconut milk, and tamarind… it’s better than it sounds. Generally around US$2-4. Don’t ask for low spice; if you do, the stall owners will hate you and give you the worst tofu puffs they have. Where to get it: Glutton’s Bay.
2) Porridge. No, I don’t mean oatmeal; this is rice boiled in a lot of water until it becomes a thick glop made up of rice grains and enormous chunks of yam. Also better than it sounds. Get a communal pot (enough for three or four people), about US$2.50, and buy a bunch of add-ons (about $0.70 apiece) to mix into it. You must get pickled mustard greens and fried Chinese sausage; the stewed pig kidneys are optional. Where to get it: Small stall outside of Marsiling MRT. Order in Chinese or Malay.
3) Hainanese chicken rice. The rice is sort of gingery, and the chicken is steamed but so moist it kind of feels raw. Usually comes with a perfunctory slice of cucumber to fulfill Singapore’s Healthy Meals requirement. Where to get it: Canteen 2, NTU. Instead of the perfunctory cucumber slice, this place uses a mixture of chopped, pickled carrots and zucchini.
What not to get:
1) Western food. Unless you happen to like curry sauce on your spaghetti.
2) Black Pepper Fish. The chicken is okay; the fish is always overcooked.
3) Chou tofu. Just… don’t. Everyone will hate you.
What does “peripatetic” mean?
I’ve never heard of anyone taking the trouble to rhyme weird insults.
Calvin: What if someone calls us, “a pair o’ pathetic peripatetics?”
Hobbes: (pause) *my comment*
Calvin: But shouldn’t we have a ready retort?!
CALVIN AND HOBBES! *highfive*
Seconded!!!
Uncommonly rare, very unique,
parapatetic, poetic, and chic
I looked peripatetic up and apparently it can mean either someone who travels or having to do with Aristotle.
I’m going to Massachusetts in a few days; I’ll stay for a week. I’d love a Kokon, and I don’t know if I’ll have Internet access.
Has anyone read The Tough Guide To Fantasyland? It’s brilliant. I’ve also read a fanfiction of it, which was The Tough Guide To Harry Potter Fanfiction. I wish I could find The Tough Guide To Flat Worlds; I’ve always wanted to visit one.
The Aristotelian sense takes a capital P.
Does it? Dictionary dot com didn’t specify. How did the same word come to mean both things, anyway? It looks too long to be a coincidence.
Wikipedia’s article (Peripatetic_school) says it’s because of a mistake: Aristotle’s school was originally named “Peripatos” (colonnade) after the columns of the gymnasium where he and his students met, but after Aristotle’s death people confused it with “peripatetikos” (walking) and made up a story that Aristotle liked to lecture while strolling or pacing. You have to be careful with Wikipedia, but it sounds plausible.
I’m going to Washington DC this summer for 5 weeks.
Summer heat in Washington can make you wish you were somewhere else. But if you (or any other Musers) stop by AAAS, I’ll give you a tour of Science magazine.
I imagine it can’t be worse than north Alabama.
I’m sure southern Alabama is worse.
But it’s even worse to find half of a — no, wait, wrong topic.
Now that would be an interesting the to find in one’s orange juice!
I’m going to Canada in mid-June!!!!!!!!
This summer my family and I are going to Germany, France, Vienna, and Prague!
Should be a blast! Lots of art… lots of amazing cheese… lots of wackiness in general!
I’m going to America and hopefully I’ll be able to kokon! And I’m also visiting Egypt, hopefully.
Since I live in Vienna, I figure I should spew some travel advice but it all seems pretty superfluous considering y’all are MBers. The one thing I will suggest is public transport tickets. You can go anywhere in Vienna and you avoid paying the Idiotensteuer on whatever you buy*.
*it literally means “idiot’s tax”- when you end up paying twice as much for a soda because you bought it in a touristy area when the supermarket is actually only 5-10 minutes away. Or when you buy a lottery ticket.
Welcome back, bookgirl! What can you tell us about Nice?
Hey, I was in Salzburg last week! I didn’t know you lived in Vienna!
I’m in Nepal! And next week I’ll be in Mongolia! And then Australia! And then Fiji! And then home!
Ooh, my relatives have gone to Nepal a lot (sadly, not me, though) and I speak a couple lines of Nepali!
Not for long I’m not! But thanks, GAPAs.
My general guide to Asia: Not bad, so long as you avoid the smelly bits.
Favorite spots:
Hong Kong. Contains great food, nice hiking, and a MuseBlogger.
Tioman. Nice snorkeling, fun hiking. Ferry ride can be harrowing.
Kuching. Lots of cats and a nice jungle. Occasional river dolphin.
*insert shameless comment advertising self here*
But seriously, guys, come to Hong Kong! It’s great!
You can’t not mention Seoul, can you?
Never been. At least, not outside the airport.
I’m going to Europe this summer! I’m leaving June 15 and I probably won’t be online much if at all.
For the first 10 days I’ll be in Germany with my exchange partner. After that I’ll be on my own going across Belgium and France and Spain. I’ll spend about a month in Spain then come back to the USA via Chicago around August 3-4, spend a few days there, then come home!
I’m super excited!!!
HAVE FUN!!!
AHHH ONE WEEK UNTIL I LEAVE!!!!!!!!!!
I’m so excited!
My exchange partner’s friend is going to give me dreadlocks!
I bought a ticket to the top of the Eiffel Tower! At night! It’s going to be so pretty!
I made my first payment for Spanish School in CITY, Spain. :] I’m going to do 3 weeks of classes. It’s only a few hours a day, so it will be nice to have a somewhat scheduled thing but I’ll still have time to do random stuff. And I will get better at Spanish and actually know what’s going on.
AHH I need to pack!
When I get back I’ll be here for 2 weeks then I’m moving to AZ for college.
WOOO!
Cool! Maybe we’ll run into each other. We’re leaving the 17th! In which part of Germany?
Okay. Right now I’m in the Beijing airport, using the free Internet. We were detained in Tibet for two hours yesterday for absolutely no reason, and now our flight to Mongolia has been delayed for *checks time* 12 hours. When I post again, it will likely be from Sydney, because I’ll either be there after our Mongolia stop or we will have redirected our flight.
This is the part of the trip where I start wishing I was home.
You’re in the same country as me zomg!! Stop over here if you can!
Can’t. I’m in Mongolia now, W00T! And we have Internet at our cheap guest house, too!
Hola from Chile! I feel that I should post here while in Chile. I’ll be here for most of June. We’re in the north where everything is rocks and dirt unless it is ocean. There are many mines up here; first silver and then nitrate.
I’m going to Williamsburg for three days next week on a school trip. We’re going to Kings Dominion!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m going to Indonesia… um, tomorrow, actually. Argh.
Have fun! What’s so ‘Argh’ about it?
The sheer peripateticness of it all.
Ah. Explains it all.
I believe that would be “peripateticity”.
Once again, dear Piggy: Potato, potahto.
I think you mean: Potato, potatonicity.
I just got back yesterday from my two day senior trip to the Harrisburg/Hershey area. I have been there before several times (since it’s only about an hour and a half, two hours from where I live), but that didn’t matter. T’was great fun! We went boating, bumper boating, go karting, mini-golfing, had a barbecue dinner, and stayed in a Best Western.
Not bad, considering the difficulty we had with fundraising.
I’m going to Germany and Holland this summer, and I’m going to to see my exchange partner along with some of my friends exchange partners (I went there last year on my school’s exchange)!! Hopefully I’ll also see an American friend of mine who travels to Germany every year.
I just got back to Vienna, from a weekend in Budapest. Oh, and I’m going to England on Thursday…busybusybusy…
Hello, Mel. Are you having a good time? Have you run into bookgirl_me?
Yay! I’m going to Canada this summer. I’m going to go to Alberta, and apparently we’re going to be there for the week of free pancakes! We’re also going to go visit the town of Vulcan. Yes, there is a town called Vulcan. It has a giant model of the enterprise with a description in English, French, and Klingon.
ugh i really want to go on a cross-country train trip. actually, i just really want to go SOMEWHERE. i am getting kind of stir crazy tbqh.
Anyone in the pacific northwest: WHERE IS BEST? just in general. i want to go to portland more than anything right now but le sigh, i don’t see any trips in the immediate future. hummbuggg
double post…le sob
i’m just here to tell anyone who is going abroad to KEEP A JOURNAL OF YOUR ADVENTURES! i did that when i went to Europe and sitting here re-reading it is really great. I wrote down the Fahrenheit to Celsius converter trick Robert posted. Still useful!
This message just arrived from Unintended Pun in Paris:
Can you please put this on the Random Thread or the Travel Thread? I’m on the hostel computer and it is taking too long to load MB.
I was just in Brussels for 2 days, and now I’m in Paris! Tomorrow I’m going to visit the Eiffel Tower, and the next day I’m going to Toulouse (the 4th largest city in France)
I. Have. No. Travel. Plans. Whatsoever.
Woohoo! I can’t remember the last time I couldn’t think of an upcoming plane flight. Okay, I might go to Sacramento, but I’m definitely not leaving the country for the next year. Yeeha!
What I came here to actually post about: Food. Specifically, what to eat in Singapore.
1) Laksa. Never get laksa with shrimp in it; it’s disgusting. Try the tofu-noodle stuff. Laksa is a sort of soup consisting of chili, coconut milk, and tamarind… it’s better than it sounds. Generally around US$2-4. Don’t ask for low spice; if you do, the stall owners will hate you and give you the worst tofu puffs they have. Where to get it: Glutton’s Bay.
2) Porridge. No, I don’t mean oatmeal; this is rice boiled in a lot of water until it becomes a thick glop made up of rice grains and enormous chunks of yam. Also better than it sounds. Get a communal pot (enough for three or four people), about US$2.50, and buy a bunch of add-ons (about $0.70 apiece) to mix into it. You must get pickled mustard greens and fried Chinese sausage; the stewed pig kidneys are optional. Where to get it: Small stall outside of Marsiling MRT. Order in Chinese or Malay.
3) Hainanese chicken rice. The rice is sort of gingery, and the chicken is steamed but so moist it kind of feels raw. Usually comes with a perfunctory slice of cucumber to fulfill Singapore’s Healthy Meals requirement. Where to get it: Canteen 2, NTU. Instead of the perfunctory cucumber slice, this place uses a mixture of chopped, pickled carrots and zucchini.
What not to get:
1) Western food. Unless you happen to like curry sauce on your spaghetti.
2) Black Pepper Fish. The chicken is okay; the fish is always overcooked.
3) Chou tofu. Just… don’t. Everyone will hate you.