Matariki, the Maori New Year, begins when the star we call Rigel and the constellation we call the Pleiades (“Matariki” in Maori) rise above the horizon. This year it occurs in June. Celebrations last for weeks — just like the randomness on this thread.
W00T!!!!! First post!!! Please!!!! It rained today, in JUNE.
Oh yeah? Where I live, it SNOWED in June!
Why the cake does this comment have over 50 pies?
Partly because I double-pied it after you said that and will triple-pie it when I get home for good measure. I don’t know why so many other people pied it, though.
I pied it multiple times from different computers for the same reason bibliophile did. But that still only explains a small percentage of the pies.
now it’s at 83 and counting. something is seriously wrong.
Does MuseBlog even have 83 members?
I’m sure it has many, many more…
I’ve now pied it at LEAST twice, and probably more. I blog from school a lot.
STOP IT PEOPLE! okay, i admit i kinda like this involuntary fame, but this is just overkill.
Let’s see if we can get to over
NINE THOUSANDone hundred!It took us forever to get to Massachusetts, but we (barely) avoided the tornadoes. Are you Boston-area MuseBloggers alright? I’m a bit worried. On the plus side, I’m on a different computer and can double-pie things.
You know you’re addicted to reading when that picture reminds you of HG2G, HP, and The Game.
HP because of Sirius, and HG2G because of Betelgeuse, yes? It reminded me of HG2G, but not of HP.
And, darn it, you’ve made me lose the Game!
That’s the second time today!
And I never heard of a book called The Game; what’s it about?
I think Bibliophile was talking about the losing the game Game. The book “The Game” is basically “How to Pick up Chicks for Dummies”. I think it might be more inappropriate than that.
No, I meant The Game by Diana Wynne Jones. It involves The Pleiades. It’s very good and completely unrelated to the Game–or that other The Game.
Constellation or not, I think the Pleiades star cluster is the prettiest thing in the sky. It’s a pretty word, too — all those vowels!
An HG2G related post, and 42 pies.
NOBODY RUIN IT! *glares around*
d’oh. that wasn’t me!
I’m fine, but there are some Western Massachusetters who may have been hit.
Second post? A new record for random threads, for me.
1- it’s 90 degrees outside here (farenheit)
I’m watching the most random opera my dad turned on here. A man (supposed to be the president) has sung these three things in order, all in opera voice:
THE RATS ARE CHEWING AT THE SHEETS!
MY HAND IS STEADY AS A ROCK! *hand shakes*
WE SHOULDN’T DESPISE CHIANG! *Mao enters*
Why am I even listening to this?
In other news, today is the first day of a programming course I’m taking at a nearby college. C++ sounds interesting, and it will be my first language. First assignment was fairly simple, but who knows.
Got to go, the opera guy is singing:
HE PULLS THE WOOL OVER THEIR LAP!
I have no idea whats going on…
Today it was 96 or 97 here.
i want to know what opera this is!!
_Nixon in China_ by John Adams, maybe?
EXCELLENT
thanks!
For 15 seconds there I thought Nixon was some cool scifi/fantasy hero’s name with ‘on’ instead of ‘in’ with pronouncing the ‘on,’ and then I remembered he’s Watergate from Yorba Linda.
There should be a character called Nixon…
When I was at Yale, I found a short story called “The Silent Majority” that had Zombie!Nixon in it.
Actually, it was really good. It was in an anthology of short stories about zombies.
Nixon Roberts, defender of justice and keeper of secrets.
He is not a crook!
(it would be SO funny if he had to disguise himself as a cook and then he revealed himself with the line “I am NOT a Cook!”)
i did video project involving nixon in senior year. i don’t remember the details but i think there was a gun fight and an allusion to britnet spears’s “womanizer” in there somewhere.
Maybe. I still don’t really know, but since the hive mind of MB seems to think so, who am I to doubt?
Anyway, my dad changed the channel a few minutes after I posted it, so I didn’t watch much of it.
It’s “Nixon in China”. The Metropolitan Opera did it recently, I think.
Yay! It’s a thread!
Um… something to say, something to say… ooh, I turn fourteen tomorrow!
Lovely!
And Welcome Home, Endeavour!
I tackled the Great Pile of Toiletries and Jewelry Boxes today. It was very exciting. Actually it wasn’t, but I got it done.
That’s pretty much all I accomplished today.
That and making Mom mad at me. But that’s pretty easy to do, so I’m not counting it as a real accomplishment.
Meh.
I missed the deadline for applying for church membership, which I’m okay with, actually. I know I need to figure out what I actually believe, if I truly believe anything, but I don’t feel like I’m very close to that right now. Meh.
The only thing is that I still hope to get an exemption for immunizations for college, but that may only be for church members. So…I have no idea.
I mean, as much as Mom’s opposed, I’ll get the stupid shots if I absolutely have to, even though I REALLY REALLY REALLY don’t like the thought of being stuck with needles. And if a tiny little nothing needle made me pass out….ugh. As much as I like being unconscious, I don’t like passing out like that.
Oh well.
I think I’m going to skip the family reunion to play music with HOC. Glarg. Why does everything happen at the same time? >.<
Hopefully I can drive straight to NC after the gig, because it'd make sense to do it that way. Mom's opposed though. Blargh. Hopefully Dad can be on my side? But there's no tiiiiime.
SCHEDULING I AM SO BAD AT IT.
I have to make phone calls tomorrow. Ugh. I hate making phone calls.
*sob*
My left arm hurts. I think it may be connected with the small bite-thing on it. The bite itself isn't sore, but my entire arm just has a constant low-level ache and dead feeling. Ugh again.
NOT TO BE A DOWNER OR ANYTHING. Sorry, I realize this should probably go on the Rants and Plains thread. Blargh.
Pool Party tomorrow though, and then Cyrano at the Folger!
Regarding the dead girl: no, i didn’t know her. She goes to a high school nowhere near me, and I’m counting the town over as somewhat part of mine. (my town is kinda small for Orange County.) It’s just something that happened, and not really affecting me, but we did have a moment of silence and everyone wore white today.
OH MY GOD IT’S ALMOST MY 5000K WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN EXACTLY?
Umm… you know my series with MB? I’m putting some characters up for “adoption,” two girls one boy, so check out the Visual Arts thread in the near future? (hasn’t linked them yet)
Wait, a girl died in Orange County? How did I not hear about this? *feels ignorant*
Yeah, in that town near mine. That one with the huge regional park… and it’s really planned out? Filled with Asian immigrants? Can’t give much else away, but I don’t live there.
One… More… Day… And School done.
And I STILL have a math test to take. But I have to keep my 99%!
Otherwise, tomorrow is reading and rockets.
Rockets?
We made rockets in my engineering class. We were going to launch them, but it was to wet outside.
Woohoo! Maoris! *is a Kiwi*
It’s wet, it’s wet, it’s so wet, so very, very wet…
Left my window open when I left for the Science Research Symposium, because then it was clear and clearly, as there were thunderstorms forecast for later, my mother would diligently make sure to shut every window before leaving.
Except she didn’t.
So some of my magazines got wet and I had to throw them out. (Nothing major, just a pamphlet from an observatory and an older issue of Smithsonian that didn’t have anything that particularly interested me in it.)
And I didn’t notice that the water had collected on a plastic sheet on my bookcase, so my room was really humid and I woke up with my nose stuffy.
HAH HAH SUMMER VACATION!!!!!!!!!!!
*ahem*
GAPAs, did you find the thread picture elsewhere on the Internet, or did you “take” it yourself?
I found it with a Google image search on “Matariki,” downloaded it, and re-uploaded it.
All right. I was trying to figure out what software it is. It sort of looks like Stellarium, but I’m not sure.
Incidentally, I’m dubious as to whether a star cluster can rightly be called a “constellation”.
It’s not one of the 88 official modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union, but people since ancient times have recognized it as a distinctive pattern of stars. I think it qualifies as a constellation in the looser, older sense, but I agree that one could argue the case either way.
Rainbow*Star- the poster I made wasn’t exactly formatted to be a desktop background (It was vertical, rather than horizontal), but this reformatted version should make a better one:
You combined Owl City and science. I am humbled to be in your presence. *makes background forever*
*curtseys*
Have you heard their new song “Galaxies”? I think you might like it.
If you dropped a ping pong ball and a metal ball from a height of 2 meters, what will happen, assuming air resistance is extremely minimal?
a) They will land at the same time, because gravity pulls both down at the same rate.
b) The ping pong ball will land first, because the force of gravity pulls harder on lighter objects.
c) The metal ball will land first, because heavy objects always fall faster.
d) The metal ball will land first, because gravity doesn’t act on the ping pong ball.
Does anyone know the answer to this? Because I think my science teacher gave us the wrong answer. In which case she should not be teaching physics. Or I put the wrong answer. In which case, I will feel embarrased.
The answer is A. *what I learned in eighth-grade science class*
YESSS
and NOOO at the same time.
YESSS because I was right.
NOOO because it’s apocalyptic how badly our science teacher is teaching us. I figured I was right.
It wouldn’t be so bad if she would admit to her mistakes, but she is completely ignorant of how she is misleading us.
-saying that Isaac Newton was born in the 1800s
-pretty much all the advice she’s given us at robotics, of which she is the coordinator
-saying that attaching a load of cardboard to the top of our car would make it go quicker
-a formula for speed or velocity or something. My friend argued her for a minute before the teacher glazed over it. She just assumed “I’m the teacher and she’s the student, so I must be right.” Then later my friend went to the math teacher and proved herself right, but unfortunately never got to show the evidence
Usually I really like my teachers, but she is the exception.
And I only have her for six more days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Which answer did your teacher give?
C.
Sounds like she’s thinking Galileo instead of Newton.
A is the answer.
Wharglbargle. Got a sketchbook for christmas so tried drawing today and oh god I am so out of practice. I might add “get better at sketching” to the list of things I should do this summer. Along with “learn pennywhistle” and “get better at poi”
I held a paper burning in my backyard today with my sister.
Did the reformatting of my “To the Sky” poster to look better as a desktop background get caught by the spam filter?
No, but it contains a link to a personal website, and it’s too big to display as an image.
Sorry.
“Hello, my name is Alfred Nourney. I vas born in 1892. I am a survivor of ze Titanic disaster. I came from Koln, Germany, and boarded ze Titanic at Cherbourg. I vas 20 and travelling second class. I vent by ze name Baron Alfred von Dracstedt and told people zat I vas 22. I spent over 2000 dollars on my vordrobe so zat everyone vould believe zat I vas a German Baron…”
My class held our live museum, where we dress up in fancy clothes and pretend to be Titanic passengers (We memorize a script about our characters to say when people push our button), tonight; I was Alfred Nourney. One and half hours in a hot room wearing a trench coat is no fun, I tell you! I had a mustache and it felt like there was a dead furry animal on my face. I sweated it off several times. XD But it’s over! It was fun!
Must have been. I’m jealous.
We got our yearbooks today. My quote under my picture was ” ‘It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.’- Robert Goddard”
Is anyone watching the spelling bee on TV?
(Anyone else, I mean.)
I am now.
I would be if A. I had a TV at home or B. it was playing in Mongolia.
There’s some excellent liveblogging by former spellers at throwingthings.blogspot.com.
Weltschmerz!!!!!
I’ve been looking for this word for so long! I knew I would recognize it when I saw it again!
This is one of those little moments that lets me know my life is changing.
A few days ago I went to the park. I walked by 2 big rocks where I sat with A (my guy friend/something friend?) once a couple years ago, but there were big fallen trees that made the rocks un-sittable. When I saw the trees I felt a small sense of relief, like they were telling me that that chapter of my life is over and I can’t go back and write more.
A speaks German, and I’ve asked him a few times if he knows a word that means some kind of longing, sentimental feeling. He always came up with the word for “homesick”, but I never recognized it.
Now that I remember “weltschmerz” I feel a little lighter.
I watched the first bit, but then I had to go exploring in Salem, which was fun. I’ll post about it later.
Why are all the original RRR threads in Currently Popular?
Spambots. Ditto for the January 2009 Muse Discussion.
Russian and Ukrainian spambots. Bo only knows how they found us.
In soviet Russia, spambots scan for YOU
In the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics get YOUR name wrong for in a joke!
I thought it was “Soviet Socialist”, not “Socialist Soviet”?
That’s right. Was the reversal part of the joke?
Ah, I did not know that but it makes it all the more funnier!
How to win at rock-paper-scissors:
You: *gets paper*
Them: *gets scissors*
You: In Soviet Russia, paper beats scissors!
*tacklehug* That was funny. Using that somewhere.
I have two strategies:
Rock-paper-scissors-NUKE!
Rock-paper-wander away just to confuse your opponent
People tend to use scissors, sp I always use rock. It works, except when I play it several times in a row, when I have to occasionally use scissors to beat their paper. The trick is knowing when.
Rock-paper-scissors-RUTABAGA! (make fingers into legs that run away)
Rock-paper-scissors-CHUCK NORRIS!
Rock, paper, scissors, TARDIGRADE! *points at moss if outside; otherwise don’t do anything and explain that you’re doing a perfectly impression of a tardigrade, but it’s microscopic* That wouldn’t work as a weapon, but weapons wouldn’t work on them, either, so it gives you a tie, at least.
Or
Rock, paper scissors, VOOM! *self-explanatory to anyone who’s read The Yanti* I wouldn’t advise this if you’re (POSSIBLE MAJOR ALOSHA SPOILER< DEPENDING ON WHETHER THIS IS MENTIONED ON THE BLURB, BECAUSE THOSE ARE FULL OF THAT SORT OF THING) secretly a fairy queen and know how to make this actually work, though.
Rock-Paper-Scissors 42!!!!
Exactly what do the spambots stand to gain from bringing up closed threads?
They don’t know whether a thread is closed or not.
A radio program about nuclear tests at Area 51 is not a good thing to listen to before you go to sleep.
No. Certainly not.
Do you at least have a teddy to help?
can anyone spare a hug?
ugh i hate to ask
the fact that i am writing this at nearly 3am probably doesn’t help
oh well
my skin kind of hurts
i feel a little like i’m going to throw up
maybe this means it’s time for bed
*GIANT HUG*
Get better soon, Axa. Drinking some water might help.
*hug*
*hugs*
Sparing several hugs. Feel better soon
*hugs*
*many hugs*
DUDE I CAN SPARE ALL THE HUGS, WHENEVER
also I need one too so mutual hugfest? x_x
I have plenty of spare hugs!!! *hugs*
HUG!!
HUG HUG HUG HUG HUG HUG HUG HUG HUG HUG
HUG.
HUG.
Hug.
*LATE HUG*
*GLOMPS*
I love this: Wired magazine publishes Disneyland With the Death Penalty by William Gibson, about the overbearing government of Singapore and its constant efforts at censorship. Singapore responds by banning Wired magazine.
Wow…
Singapore is silly. You’ll come back soon.
I absolutely HAVE to see X-Men: First Class. STUPID ABSENCE OF THEATERS!
I know, it looks awesome, right?
BOTH OF YOU COME VISIT ME WE WILL SEE IT I WILL DRESS UP
I’d go, Jade, if you weren’t a 10-hour drive away. Nobody wants to see it with me, either.
You are the best. IF WE MET HALFWAY IT’D ONLY BE 5-HOURS EACH? XD
It’s almost worth it. Would you buy the popcorn?
If they have one of those deals where it also comes with a cheap drink, then yes
Robert, you should find my cousin. He lives in DC and I’m sure he’s going to be seeing it.
Dress up? As who? I can’t really pull of any X-Men except Kitty Pryde.
So, I’ve finally found a way to get through the boring play I’m reading: I’m replaced the names of the protagonists with the names of my teachers. So now the first scene is about my german teacher and the principal trying to get my physics teacher stoned and my math teacher being surprised at his reluctance. Maybe this assignment will be interesting after all…
This is a tactic I shall have to try at some point.
“Coping” thread, anyone?
Setting: My room, last night, 12:30am.
Our protagonist is lying in bed trying to sleep. Suddenly, something goes plop onto her leg.
Lizzie: Huh?
She reaches for her flashlight and switches it on in time to see something big and black scurry down the sheet.
Lizzie: …..O_O MOMMMMMMMMMM
I really don’t like palmetto bugs. And they’re hard to catch, too – it took us about twenty minutes.
WHAT
WHAT EVEN
*GOOGLES*
AAAUUUUGHHHHHH
I was in New Orleans and a palmetto bug fell out of the towel my mom was drying her hands on. We screamed and my dad caught it with an empty toilet paper roll.
I’m not getting a yearbook this year. I will in eighth grade.
Three middle school yearbooks, thirty dollars each? Meh. Nothing exciting happened this year anyway.
I’m at six elementary school at ~$20 each, three middle school at ~$35 each, and three high school at ~$65 dollars each. So worth it.
I kind of have a strange obsession with yearbooks – I love flipping through old ones that I find in some of the classrooms at my school. It’s like an organized piece of history. So cool! (And finding your parent’s yearbooks is always funny, too…) I like my yearbooks, as well, though. I look through them a lot…which might be strange…but hey, I get bored, ya’hear?
UHHHG
WHY DOES NO ONE WANT TO SEE X-MEN WITH ME
I got one “I’m really busy” and TWO “I haven’t seen the others, so not that interested”
OH MY GOD PEOPLE IT IS THE “START” OF THE STORYLINE YOU DON’T NEED THE OTHER MOVIES FFFF WHY ARE ALL MY AWESOMEFRIENDS OUT OF TOWN OR AT COLLEGE
I did get 3 people who said yes, though–one who lives in Switzerland, one who lives in Ecuador, and Paul. PAUL WHERE ARE YOU I AM WAITING.
But SERIOUSLY this is the one day I can wear my self-made x-men shirt to it and not get as hardcore judged x_x I mean, I’ll still wear it anyway when I go. But the people I go with may hate me for it. XD
I’LL SEE X-MEN WITH YOU JADE.
I WILL RESERVE VIRTUAL TICKETS FOR A PARTY OF SIX
BY SIX I MEAN SEVEN
Or eight.
LET’S JUST CALL IT A ROUND BAKER’S DOZEN AND EVERYONE ON THE BLOG CAN JOIN IN. ALSO I VOTE IMAX IF WE DECIDE TO SPLURGE ON 3D ANYWAY.
WUT SO MUCH SHOUTING
I think it signifies “space squid.”
YES. YES INDEEEED. GIANT SPACE SQUID ARE LOUD, IT IS DUE TO THEIR SIZE.
Well, I presume they aren’t loud when they’re in space, only within a planetary atmosphere.
THEY ARE PLANETOIDS, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN ATMOSPHERE
Of course. Silly me.
KAI-I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT, AND DECIDED WHILE THEY ARE INDEED SILENT MOST OF THE TIME, WHEN THEY COME IN CONTACT ITH ANOTHER OF THEIR SPECIES THEY CAN TOUCH TWO TENTACLES AND “SPEAK” TO EACH OTHER BY LETTING THE SOUND REVERBERATE THROUGH THEIR OWN BODY
WHEN THEY CHOOSE NOT TO COMMUNICATE TELEPATHICALLY, OF COURSE
JADE IS JUST LIKE THAT
AXA TOO
AND THEN I AS WELL IF AXA COMMUNICATES WITH ME IN ANY FORM
HI PIGGY
O HAI THARE LOL
PIGGY WHEN YOU USE CHATSPEAK IT IS FRIGHTENING
idk wut ur tking about lol?
AAAAHH!!
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH i feel much better right now after talking to my mom! HUGS BACK TO EVERYONE! (DOUBLE HUGS FOR YOU JADE!! ;__; i hope everything is okay!!)
X-MEN : HAWHAWHAW. I JUST SAW IT FOR THE SECOND TIME. i went the the midnight show and then again now, i have A LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT of feelings for magneto/fassy and i JUST CAN’T LIE
but yeah i enjoyed it
i need to rewatch the others though. i am the worst nerd. i did watch the tv series (x men unlimited? SOMETHING) when i was 12 and it was my whole life
JADE I WILL GO TO SEE IT WITH YOU
how can anyone not be interested!!! KIDS THESE DAYS!
X-Men: Evolution?
YES THAT WAS IT
ALL OF MY CHILDHOOD HAPPINESS
That was a very good show.
Today I had my 8th grade trip and I loved it. It was amazing. These 3 years have gone by too fast and I will miss all my friends(I’m going to a different high school).
*muffled cry*
*sympathy squid* I changed into 5 districts within 9 years.
*pats head* Same boat. Middle school was awesome.
And you get a fresh new start! I’ve dreamed about this. Just think the best about the situation.
Geometry Adventure: The counselor “advises” against taking summer courses because I “will be at a disadvantage when going on to a higher level class” and because “There is no way that a 5 or 6 week summer course can cover all the material.” *sob* I think that they think I only want to take it to move up in math and be one of those “what your only in Geometry? Feh, weaklings, I’m am in Calculus BC and I have an A+. What? your 15? Feh, I’m only 13.” super smart in your face people…. I only want to take it because I ♥ math…Soooo….. I emailed the head of the math department chair with the curriculum of the summer course so he could read it and compare it with the high school’s….
And I brought home both of my paintings and people told me they were pretty good, so it’s up to you guys if you want to see them…
Of course we want to see your paintings!
Just popped in to say: I took Calc BC as a 13-year-old (I am now done with Calc 3 at age 14). I would not recommend speeding up your mathematics education if a) you are prone to procrastination (like me), or b) bad at math (like me). If you love math, though, then go for it! It just wasn’t for me.
If you took AP Calc BC as a 13-year-old I don’t think you’re allowed to call yourself bad at math…
Agreed.
Airports… This is the second to last time I’ll ever be in the Changi departure lounge. There’s a screaming kid behind me and its mother is glaring at me as I type.
I too want to see X-Men but I don’t think they have a movie theatre in this town in Chile.
I went to see an amazing production of Comedy of Errors. ♥ Shakespeare. (It was an all male cast, just like it was originally)
And it turned out the guy lpaying Adriana was the guy who played that soldier Jack flirts with before rescuing Rose! *awesomeface*
I went to that instrument shop again. I discovered that I am consistently sharp on the Conn, while I am randomly out of tune on the Custom 82Z.
Then I got to try out trombones and I played one with an F attachment.
Then I saw two statues, a matching set: The first was a little boy with his cheeks puffed out, playing a saxophone.
The second was a little girl covering her ears.
Then I went to my sister’s volleyball game. They played really well and almost won this time!
Afterwards the whole team went out for window shopping and frozen yogurt downtown.
Couldn’t sleep until 1, woke up again at 3, it’s now 4 in the morning and I cannot sleep, meeting his family (minus his mom) tomorrow for lunch….asdfljhasdkjfhlaiwuehfskjvlawhflaksjdf I WANT TO SLEEP
Yay I made it! It’s now morning
Does anyone have any good math studying tips? I feel pretty comfortable with the material, but it’s best to be safe. My math finals are on Monday and Tuesday.
Speaking of…guess who’s going to Williamsburg on a school trip for three days next week? ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s going to be really awesome. We’re going to shop and an amusement park!!!!!!! The only bad part about it is the super-long drive, but WHO CARES!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
BUSCH GARDENS???? OH MY GOSH I LOVE THAT PLACE
Apollo’s Chariot is really, really, really awesome. Because it’s really smooth and you feel like you’re free falling.
I haven’t gone on anything bigger than that.
Yeah, when I went the drive was torture but IT WAS WORTH IT.
Uh…no. King’s Dominion. But when my family goes there, I’ll be sure to check it out.
Oh.
Aw, it’s okay. I can tell you about my trip to DC instead.
First came a very long bus ride with weird smelling air conditioning. Then there was a pretty long wait in the hot sun. It was worth it, though, because we got to go to the Holocaust Museum!!! We saw an exhibit called “Remember the Children” and it was really good. It didn’t make me cry, though.
Then we went to the Newseum and I almost cried. There was a 9/11 exhibit and they had the twisted antenna from the top of one of the buildings. There was also a video about the people who were there, and a reporter who died trying to document it but his camera equipment was recovered. There was also some prize-winning photos that absolutely ripped my heart out. I was so so upset that I’d forgotten my wallet on the bus, because one of the things at the gift shop was a posted of that photo of Einstein sticking his tongue out, and a book of passive-agressive notes.
After the Newseum was lunch, then the Capitol. I didn’t enjoy it as much, especially when this one kid (let’s call him Butter) had the nerve to correct our tour guide on the year of Obama’s inauguration. Seriously!? He’s just that sort of kid, I suppose. When our music group went to Hershey for Music In the Parks, halfway through my capacity for enjoying being with people got filled and I shut down. Butter spent the rest of the trip trying to get me to open up again, which only made matters worse.
Anyways, after the Capitol it was time for dinner and home. I got really nice earrings and a little keychain with the Seal of the US on it, and for my brother I got aviator sunglasses. Overall it was a really good trip, aside from not having money at the Newseum and Butter being…Butter.
Well, if the tour guide was wrong, shouldn’t he/she be put right?
Awesome! I’ll be in DC this time next week!
So guys, here’s the situation. Remember when I said I was running for vice president? The general elections – when all the candidates have to make a speech – are on Tuesday, when I’m going on a field trip ( to see the Dale Chihuly exhibit in Boston ). So I’ll miss the speech-giving. My English teacher suggested I record myself reading the speech and play it while on stage, which is a good idea. But it turns out that tomorrow I’m seeing the exhibit with my family. So should I skip the field trip ( it’s free ) and give a speech, or should I still go?
Pros of skipping:
I’ll be able to give my speech ( and possibly free cookies. )
I’ll be able to cast a vote for myself.
I’ll be able to meet people in the caf and tell them to vote for me.
I won’t have to record my voice ( susceptible to technical difficulties. )
If I win, I’ll be really glad – important for college applications and leadership potential.
Cons of skipping:
I’d be abandoning my friend on the field trip. She’s not good friends with anyone else in the class.
I’d be missing the chance to see the Chihuly exhibit twice. Apparently it’s really good.
Full school day.
I’d feel sort of bad for blowing off Ms. Chau.
If I lost, I’d be really angry that I missed the field trip. I’m running against the most popular girl in the grade, remember? HOWEVER , I did give out free cookies.
ADVICE PLEASE? Of course, it is possible that I won’t make it past the primary, and then my problems would be solved, but I don’t think anyone has heard of the third guy who’s running.
Record your speech and put an awesome soundtrack in the background!
Of course, this is coming from the guy who sorta wants to run for student council on the platform that it doesn’t do anything except plan dances and therefore should be disbanded and replaced with a dance planning committee (is that spelled correctly?)
John Williams. I will vote for someone with a John Williams soundtrack.
MAKE IT INDY!
If you were in the audience and hadn’t already decided whom to vote for, which sort of speech would you find more persuasive: live or recorded?
Live, I guess. I suppose I’ll have to skip the field trip. Too bad.
It wouldn’t make a difference to me…
School trip today! We went to an amusement park!
So fun, although it was really tiring after a while–we spent the whole day in the park, and it was hot. But when we first got there hardly anyone else was there so it was really fun. We were running down all the pathways and they were empty and we were like “hah we’re running the park!” and it was awesome!!! I went on a big rollercoaster; terrifying but worth it. Also, I consumed large quantities of sugar seeing as I was unsupervised. *SQUEE* It was just basically a really good day.
I graduated today WOOOO!!!!!!!!
I also bought a GPS for geocaching. I just spent over an hour adding points.
Congratulations! *glomps*
Nice! Tell us how your geocaching goes. I’ve always wanted to try that.
Weird mood. Hello 2:40 am.
I don’t like missing people.
Wharglebargle.
*BELATED HUGS*
ILU!!!!
<3
I just burned myself while baking a cake. It hurts so much.
Well, at least the cake turned out nicely, which considering my previous baking experiences is quite an achievement.
Did you guys know both “whatchamacallit” and “thingamajig” are in the dictionary? Also, autocorrect doesn’t hate them?
Yeah, but so is refutiate.
But autocorrect doesn’t yet recognize “refudiate.”
I made my autocorrect change “the” to “ap;sldfjnoiargjz’;dlfgnerkdfijbrgnjbdivdfjrelmdbkdcvmbnreogiroidfjkbetogiojpasewirogbjgndfepa;sikbnjtolbihrejofdb”.
Then my mom called me on it.
I always make (my sister’s name) into “the stupidest person in the world”.
whatchamacallit= Used to refer to a person or thing whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify
thingamajig=Used to refer to or address a person or thing whose name one has forgotten, does not know, or does not wish to mention
LittleBasementKitten, you’re right! These words do exist.
What about “dooflotcher”?
My dance teacher is fond of “oojimaflip”, which I think deserves a place in the language.
musketeers33397- how did you manage to burn your hands while baking a cake?
On the contrary, my cakes taste not so good but I don’t hurt myself in the process.
I accidentally touched the baking tin while taking it out of the oven. I am not exactly skilled at baking.
About four or five years I was making bread, and accidentally touched the top heat element of the oven when taking it out. I still have the scar.
On the subject of dictionaries- it has recently come to my attention that liquscent is not in my dictionary. It is, however, a word. (spellcheck doesn’t like it, either.) I can only hope that this is because my dictionary is pocket-sized, as it is rather new.
I do not want to be sick. Nevertheless, I am. GRAH.
Do you mean “liquescent”?
Yes. How embarrasing. Here I am talking about how spellcheck doesn’t pick it up and I make a spelling mistake.
FAIL.
“Lander” is not recognized by Microsoft Word.
I’ll accept that it doesn’t recognize “Teleporter” and “Lightsaber” as they’re things that are technically nonexistent, but “lander” is a real word.
It doesn’t recognize “Lightsaber”?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Well, I believe that’s copyrighted, for one thing.
I’ve never found a dictionary that includes more than 1 of the following: hippopotomonstrosesquip[p]edaliophobia, floccinaucinihilipilificate, loriciferan.
I just made cake. It’s deep deep deep dark chocolate with ganache. And it’s RICH and it has peppermint patties in it.
And I have to wait while it bakes.
GAPAs: Has there ever been a time when the current random thread has not been in the “Currently Popular” sidebar? Just curious.
Well, the Currently Popular hasn’t been around very long, so there’s no real way to tell.
*drools* Can…can I have a piece please?
Sure. *piece of cake* I ganached it.
GANACHE GANACHE GANACHE
It’s so much fun to say.
My family took a drive down by the Missouri River, which is flooding more and more. We watched the workers at the nuke plant getting ready for it all. They’re pretty sure they can keep the plant dry, but no one knows quite how the workers are going to get in. They’ll most likely have to set up a ferry service. Along the drive I saw a farmhouse for a brief second and fell in love with it. I’ve spent the last half hour driving around on Google Earth street view, trying to find it again. I think I figured out which one it is, but it’s hard to tell from the picture. It reminded me of a rural Japanese house, and it had a darling barn on the property and a wooded area just to the north, and I’m sure the view would be great.
Today is Barricade Day! It’s the anniversary of General Lamarque’s funeral, which sparked a miniature revolution in the streets of Paris, on which was later based the book (and musical) Les Miserables!
In accordance with this, I have built a barricade in my room made out of pillows, Kurt Vonnegut novels, textbooks, and a chair, and am currently hiding behind it, doing my English homework.
so i need to sneak into my brother’s room to uh “borrow” whatever hemingway he has, since the library is CLOSED. project gutenberg doesn’t have anything of his, UGH.
SUCCESS!
I went to the World Science Festival with Erin again last night- we went to a laser-light show at the American Museum of Natural History, but before that, we got to run around the museum looking at everything.
In the Hall of Planet Earth, they had pieces of actual hydrothermal vent chimneys, and we sat under them, and I pulled out my smartphone and played the old Living Seas preshow film that talks about hydrothermal vents for Erin, WHILE WE WERE SITTING UNDER THE ACTUAL CHIMNEYS. It was SO cool.
Random trivia: You can find info on hydrothermal vents in three exhibit halls at AMNH. They’re discussed in the Life Beyond Earth part of the Rose Center, there’s a diorama of one in the Hall of Ocean Life, and those chimneys are in the Hall of Planet Earth.
If I did my nails mostly white, but with a red stripe at the top, do you think people would get they were supposed to be tube worms?
My estimate: not one person in 100,000 would get that.
But if you found the person who did it would be awesome.
What about mostly black, with a vertical white stripe down the middle that was topped with red?
Forgot to mention last night the part where I found a carpenter ant over half an inch long crawling on my pillow next to my face x_x
trapped him in an empty plastic water bottle and left him on the headboard all night. He made skittering noises. Let him go this aftenoon, FAR AWAY from the house.
ALSO I FOUND AND CAUGHT A PAINTED TURTLE TODAY IT WAS SO CUTE. He/she was not as thrilled as I was.
At first I read that as “I caught and painted a turtle today.”
ALSO MEANT TO SAY: STILL HAVE NOT SEEN X-MEN SERIOUSLY THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND I AM GOING TO HAVE TO DISCARD THEM ALL AND FIND NEW ONES BECAUSE THIS IS JUST UNACCEPTABLE
JADE
JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADE
YOU NEED TO SEE IT
GO NOW
TAKE THE TURTLE WITH YOU
I WILL BE WITH YOU IN SPIRIT
SO MANY FEELINGS
Wanna come over to Sydney? I’m gonna see it over here!
SO MUCH SHOUTING. I WILL SEE IT WITH YOU JADE!!!!!
Ohai! Science Olympiad nationals was a party. I got 8th in Fossils out of 60.
Also: I lived through 5 AP classes and Multi WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (school’s out this Thursday).
Oxlin! You out there? I just heard about the volcano eruption in Chile. How are things by where you are?
Just fine, we’re fine here.
I haven’t gotten to see X-Men either. I was gonna watch it yesturday but my mom says we don’t have enough money.
Today was the awards ceremony (NOT GRADUATION) and the jazz band didn’t play because I don’t know why. So I had to file in with everyone else. And I got A honor roll. And then there was perfect attendance (which Flute got) and a bunch of character trait things (which I didn’t get any. Now I feel like a mean jerk so I’m going to try extra hard to be nice next year…) and a bunch of outstanding achievement in core classes (which I thought I was going to get for social studies because I wrote a really good essay, but I didn’t…) and then there were all of these P.E. team leaders things (If you know me at all you know I didn’t get this) , and then “chorus and drama” and then MVP for band. So Bassoon and Piano and Upright Bass and Flute and Clarinet Who Also Sings And Dances was obviously going to be one. Because he is like an honorary chorus/drama member. And the honorary chorus/drama members ALWAYS get awards.
So the school administrator person was reading out the names.
“BAND MVP.” (He talks in all caps.) “BASSOON AND PIANO AND UPRIGHT BASS AND FLUTE AND CLARINET WHO ALSO SINGS AND DANCES.” (pause) “AGENT LIGHTNING.” (pause) “AND THAT’S IT.”
And now I am eating Ramen Noodles which my mom almost never lets me eat because of the sodium content.
Earlier today I went to this gaming thing for the library, like with this reading thing… anyway I got to hang out and play Wii. Paperclip was playing Guitar Hero and I got the most brilliant idea: TROMBONE HERO!!!!! Because you could have the game trombone and it would have little colored marks on the screen and slide it in and out… *goes off on tangent*
Kai: If I see someone with their nails like that, I will say, “Oh, you painted your nails to look like tubeworms?” and confuse them.
We’ve had a rare Muse sighting over on the “Just for the Record” thread. It’s genuine but apparently fleeting. Maybe with a little effort we can re-evoke it.
I just took a mental age test online and got 42.
Same here. *highfive*
I did one once and a computer glitch somehow gave me 102. I’m pretty sure that’s a bad thing.
HEEEEYYYY GUUUUYYYYYYSSSSSS!!!!!!!! I SURVIVED THE FIRST HALF OF MY MATH FINAL!!! NOW LET’S SEE IF I CAN TAKE THE STRESS OF THREE TESTS AND A HASTILY DONE ENGLISH PROJECT TOMORROW!!!!
Well, my brain survived. Now we have to wait and see if my 90% average will.
Officially a college student now. Only one free t-shirt today, though! Most disappointing.
My courses this semester:
-Intro to Anthropology 110
-Principles of Macroeconomics 211
-Latin Prose 301 (tentatively; I have to email the head of the classical languages department to make sure that’s the course I should be taking)
-Spanish–Advanced Reading for Comprehension 303 (I was off the scale for their placement exam, but this is what the Spanish professor that was there suggested)
-Honors seminar (“Old World…Our World”) (Each incoming freshman in the Honors Program has to take one of the seminars. I think this one sounds interesting.)
So 15 hours this semester. I would have taken Spanish 300, which blocks Spanish 303 and 304 (Advanced Writing) together, but they weren’t offering it this semester and I didn’t want to just not do any Spanish for that long.
Yay intro to Anthro! Yay Spanish!
I didn’t get a free shirt from my college. I did get one from Oberlin, though, even though I don’t go there.
Oh, hello, MB! It’s been a while, hasn’t it!
Nobody cares about my life because I have ascended to a higher plane of internet existence and everyone on here has probably forgotten about me BUT:
Freshman year of high school is almost done, I just passed the 6,000-follower mark on my blog, and I’m almost at 500 subscribers on my YouTube channel. My obsession with Doctor Who has reached it’s one-year anniversary and I plan on recording an EP of Doctor Who-themed ukulele tunes as a summer project. I’m taking driver’s ed this summer as well and volunteering at a local library, and I’ll be going to Interlochen for three weeks as well!
Okay, derp update over, enjoy your musery, just thought I’d let you all know that I am still alive and have not, in fact, been whisked away by the Doctor to travel through time and space (however disappointing that may be).
get it gurl
i will never believe you are only 15 (??) though. LIES.
15 and a HALF, actually
hey kiki! you’ve partially inspired my most common username on non-mb sites! thanks!
Kiki!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =D
Latin?
Eh?
Yup.
tu?
Tune, LBK, if it’s a question.
oxlin (64.1)- Anthro 110 is to satisfy a general ed requirement. But my roommate is an anthropology major, so he may be taking the class too (I assume), so study buddies, perhaps. I’m interested to see what the Spanish class will be like. Either rather easy or rather difficult.
Kiki (65)- “Freshman year of high school…”
When did I get so much older than you? I always thought you were older than I.
BitterSound (66)- Latin!
ALSO: I just realized I missed an enormous opportunity in my last comment. It should have read: “…but this is what the Spanish professor that was there flabbergastedly suggested.” How did I miss a chance to use such a fantastic word? *bows head in shame*
I registered nearly a dozen new accounts today for various things: ID card, savings account, checking account, email… I hope I can keep all the various usernames and passwords straight.
Remember last summer (I think), when I was talking about the Doctor Who episode “Rose” and the question of “would you choose leave your life and family behind and disappear to wherever?” ?
I just watched the episode “Chameleon” from the 1980s revival of “The Twilight Zone”, and what’s interesting is that it ends with the main character faced with basically the exact same choice, but choosing to stay where the main character from the other show chose to disappear.
“Imagine yourself a visitor to many worlds, drifting on the solar wind, a thousand voices singing in your memory. Now imagine you’re this man, who can only guess at the wonders he might have known, wonders that exist for him now only as a riddle…from The Twilight Zone.”
Final round of elections tomorrow. Also tomorrow: Third round of free cookies.
My first day of Creative Writing camp was today!
X-MEN
GLORIOUS
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
CRYING A SINGLE BEAUTIFUL TEAR
TAKE MY HAAAND ERIK
I NEED YOU BY MY SIDE
YOU SHOULD WATCH THEIR INTERVIEWS
I’M HAVING A SERIOUS SITUATION OVER HERE
AHHHHH
YES YES I NEED TO SEE THESE
SHFDABHFJS
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND ALL THE COMIC BOOKS ONLINE HFBSAFSG
GURL, I GOT THE GOODS
GONNA MESSAGE YOU
I CAN HAS TOO?
I WILL FORWARD THE GOODS TO YOU
SWEEEEET
NEVER GONNA HAVE TO SLEEP AGAAAAAIN
SEEING THAT ON THURSDAY
WHY IS TONIGHT SUCH A CAPS-LOCKY NIGHT FOR ME
I’M SO WEIRD (Y) <- further proof that Skype has taken over my life (see below)
What does (Y) mean?
On Skype, it’s what you type to get the thumbs up emoticon.
My God. What have I become?
Hey everyone! Guess what week it is? It’s muselover’s nostalgia week! For the rest of the week, I will write in lowercase letters with my old avatar! I will try to be less obnoxious than I was then, though. muselover Nostalgia Week starts…now.
Only 2-4 more pages of German portfolio to go and then… I can go do my Spanish homework and my french portfolio. But then I’ll be done for the semester. Hopefully. They always say junior year’s the hardest (at my school).
SKYPE CRASHED NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Seems to be back to normal now…fingers crossed. It died and revived several times after its main revival so Daniel and I had to keep switching to Facebook chat (which was annoying) but hopefully it works now.
Facebook is recognised on my computer’s spellcheck?
I’m a bit more normal now.
Why are so many of my posts/replies of me talking to myself?
I’m not sure why you talk to yourself so much.
I think it’s perfectly normal though. What do you think?
I think you’re right.
Last day of High School.
So, naturally, I am in the computer lab scanning pages from an out-of-print Pocket Book about the Challenger 7 and printing copies, because I have the book on interlibrary loan and I have to return it today.
So far, Massachusetts has been wonderful! Except for one day, I’ve enjoyed everything. First we went to Boston and looked around,and we went to my aunt’s shop and took walks. The next day we went to Salem, and we saw a bunch of really cool historical places! I bought a day-by-day narrative of Salem in the time of the witch trials, which is awesome so far, and I found a Harry Potter shop! I ‘practically leapt on it,’ according to my mom. I bought Floo powder and an amazing book called The Magical Wolrds of Harry Potter about the legends and things that JKR incorporated into the books, which you should all read except for R101 and maybe Kai, and I would have bought Ravenclaw things, but unfortunately, they were all from the Warner Brothers shop, so they had ravens on them instead of eagles. Ah, well, at least I have blue and bronze glasses! Later, I went to the Harvard natural history museum, which was amazing, and I bought an autographed book on what honeybees can teach us about democracy, and there was a live horseshoe crab that I got to touch, and someone I talked to knew what tardigrades were! That was only the 3rd time that had ever happened, except online. The first person was so rude I don’t count him, and the second was my brother, so I don’t really count him, either, but this was a very friendly stranger volunteering at a museum who loved water bears and science fiction and fantasy books, so it was awesome. Then we went to stay at a beautiful house on Cape Cod, and I went swimming, and I went to the beach again later, and I saw 3 horseshoe crabs!! I picked one up; he was male. The person with the horseshoe crab at the museum had told me how to tell the difference based on claws. And then, the next day, I went whale-watching!! I saw 5 fin whales, 3 gray seals, and 7 harbor seals!!! It was awesome. And I bought a plastic okapi and a 50 million-year-old shark tooth, and my mom bought me a blue bracelet! I wanted to get a green hat with snakes coming out of it, or at least a black wizards hat with silver stars and a dragon hanging off of it, or some other Lovegood-esque hat like that, but my parents wouldn’t let me, even if I paid.
Other than that, though, things have been great! I’m about to go to a national seashore!
Why not me? Is that related to that misunderstanding before where people thought I hadn’t read Harry Potter? I had, but only the first 4 books.
I don’t know, but perhaps it has to do with the giant squid in the lake?
It has spoilers. I said maybe because I don’t know whether or not you plan to read the others. If you don’t, and you have a reason other than not liking the books, feel free!
Must.Go.To.Massachusetts.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that the house we’re in has books! Good ones! First I looked up tardigrades in all the encyclopedias, and I didn’t learn anything new, but I read an article from 1951 when people still thought they were arachnids, which was cool! Then I read a bird book, also very old and good, and now I’m reading about the origin of life.
I just wanted to say that I’ll be going to Orientation in Boston later today and I don’t have room to take my laptop, so I can’t promise I’ll be on again until Friday.
I wonder where Museblog’s server’s are located, and where its data is stored…
Not that I’m planning to set up an impervious forcefield around it, of course not.
AAAH SO HOT AAAH
It’s so hot
so hot
a hundred degrees maybe
can heat turn you into a zombie?
guys, don’t get alarmed but I think I might be a zombie.
What makes you thinkBBBRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAIIIIIIINNNNNNSSSSSSS…*noms fishi’s head*
The heat alone isn’t making me a zombie any more than I previously was, but being stuck in school with little AC AND heat is. ugh! I have to be in school until the 28th boiling because of our city’s ridiculous snow day policy. XP. Zombie XP (the tounge is out because it’s dead, and it’s a zombie…)
What, my blogsister’s a zombie now? Sweet!
*is not zombie yet (THANK YOU AIR CONDITIONING!!)*
Nah, in my world, it makes me a sorceress…
ALAKAZAM!
Today my grade went on a field trip with the people (same grade) from the school we are combining with. (Does that make any sense? Note for those who don’t know: My school district is combing with another school district. The elementary & middle schools will remain essentially the same, but 8 & 9 th graders will be going to my town’s high school (hereby referred to as West, as it is the west part of the campus.) and 10-12th graders will be going to theirs, so there’s two campuses, one high school, and 8th graders are part of the high school. It’s kind of complicated. Why must everything I try to talk about on here involve long explanations?!) So anyway, there has been a lot of bad feelings about the combination because that school is our ARCHENEMY. And we’re small, and they’re pretty big (okay, big to me), and we don’t know each other, so this was to sort of…join us together; help us be friendlier. (Right. A ton of people just cut school today.) So we went to a camp, and it was really fun! *deep breath*
I played ultimate frisbee, which I must say is AMAZING. And we did a ropes course that had a lot of trust activities intertwined. For example, we had to stand on this tiny tiny tiny platform and use our shoes and clothing to get a rope swing swinging, and then swing to another, smaller platform. (When I say tiny, I mean about two feet square, less for the second one. And there were about seven or eight people. And we couldn’t fall off.) And we had to work out how to catch one another so we wouldn’t all fall. (It probably would’ve been more effective if it hadn’t been all people from our school who were doing it.) (Scratch that. One boy recently moved, so he doesn’t go to our school. But we all knew each other, is what I guess I’m trying to say.) Just when it was getting unbearably hot, I went kayaking.
And I got wet… So that was nice, at any rate.
76 & 77 (Bibli)–That sounds like a lot of fun!
(Lucky duck!) Have fun at the seashore~
Well, hi there, ya’ll!! =)
Well hullo. How are you?
I’m not doing terribly (though I was a couple days ago)…you? And I may need some help eating all those pies off my face.
Hey, I’m alive! I haven’t said hi for a while, and I’m sorry.
Things are going pretty well, I guess. School is winding down (FINALLY), and I’m pretty happy as of late.
Quick story before I wander off again. There’s this humongous, disgusting fly in the band room, and it won’t leave. Seriously. Nobody can play because it’s flying all over- there are gaps in the music where entire sections stop playing because the fly flies by their faces. It landed on my forehead in the middle of Pomp and Circumstance, causing an armflail and a cracked note. D:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, there, I’ve let out all that wonderful stress (*sarcasm*). The cause of my stress is Chamber Choir auditions at school. We have to sing two songs out of the caroling packet (because the chorus teacher doesn’t want to spend rehearsal time on learning the packet.) The teacher chooses one of the six easier songs to do, and we choose one of the five harder ones. I learned all 11 (well, 10), and I have no idea which of the four hard ones I know to choose, and everyone who’s auditioned before me is a lot better, and for the audition I have to sing my part (Alto) alone, with three others singing the other parts (Soprano, Tenor, Bass), which is unfortunate because I really need back-up and will probably get lost, and I have to sing in front of the entire chorus most likely (that on top of singing in front of the very critical teacher), and there are about 7 or 8 spots for next-year-8th-grader-altos and I have absolutely horrible grammar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anything I missed? (Oh, and that I have a cold — dry throat, stuffy nose, yeah…) (And that I’m not as good at singing as is preferable. (I have to avoid saying “bad” because my friends will kill me.))
But venting helped. I hope I didn’t disrupt anyone’s day. Thank you for reading this (if you had the patience), and I’ll post this before I clam up again.
Far too soon to post again but whatever.
So I went outside and found 17 four leaf clovers. When I was a little kid I used to find tons of these; I kept count and it was up to 60 the last time I recorded it, but I haven’t found any in a while.
Then I went outside and found seventeen four leaf clovers.
What. What….
Sometimes there is the odd mutant clover patch where an oddly high percentage of the clovers have extra leaves. Maybe you happened upon one of those.
Or maybe she’s just super lucky!
Four-leaf clovers almost always grow in patches, in my experience.
Yeah, must have, but still…
So today Neil Gaiman recognized my existence and called me talented and smart.
That was something.
THE ENVY BURNS
Where/when/how was this?
Yes!
OMG I AM FLAILING FOR YOU I JUST READ HIS TWEETS
ALSO
THAT IS A REALLY GREAT VIDEO
YOU SHOULD BE IN AN EPISODE IMO
I SAW THAT ON YOUTUBE AND WAS LIKE SJHFG:SGHF
WHICH I ALREADY TOLD YOU
AND THEN SHOWED LIKE ALL MY FRIENDS
STILL SUPER EXCITED, DAMN GIRL YOU ARE HALFWAY TO BEING TOTALLY INTERNET FAMOUS
SWEET SCREAMING TOCLAFANE
I must watch that video.
Wait, really? Neat!
According to youtube comment, the BBC liked it too! Is that true?
Yes, it was posted on BBC America’s Anglophenia blog
Awesome! Found the blog and read that entry!
wow. that’s just…incredible. does david tennant come next?
HOLYCAKEWHATOHMYGOD
*dies of envy*
You, sir, win at life.
An MBer? Smart? When did that start happening?
All I can say is…”hello.”
Whoa…… I am in awe…..
I have made a summer vacation resolution:
I WILL finally watch Doctor Horrible and Doctor Who. Even if I have to steal my brother’s computer and glue my eyeballs to the screen.
Seconded, except that my brother lacks a computer. I wasn’t going to watch DW because I love being able to say that I haven’t watched TV since I was 9, not counting movies, and not even many of those, but then I found out they have and audio CD thing called Cryptobiosis. I don’t care what it is specifically; that’s the second minor tardigrade connection I’ve seen, and everyone keeps raving about it!
SLEEP, WEAK, ETC.
…However, there are probably better reasons to stay up until midnight than ‘This is when my writer’s block goes away, and there’s a fanfic I need to work on’. *sighs*
THAT’S THE SPIRIT!
I usually enjoy sleep, actually. But my writer’s block seems to only lift after 11:00 at night, so… what can you do. -_-
OH LATE NIGHT DECISIONS
Decided to ignore my actual problems that someday I will have to deal with and have started drawing a comic about a giant space squid. FIrst one is done, and I should sleep but I will probably start the second instead.
PAGES ONE AND TWO: DONE.
Bed now x_x
I want to see it!
currently watching the world’s only intelligent game show. it’s an australian show called “letters and numbers”. it streams free online if you want to see it.
If you like intelligent game shows, look up QI!! Has the awesome sort of celebrity guests and you learn a ton from it
And it’s amusing.
Bali was nice.
And then we got stuck in Bali’s airport and nobody would tell us why our flight was late. And Bali’s airport is like one of those dark, dank malls that you try to get out of as soon as you come in because they’re creepy. And Balinese coffee shops are terrifying.
But Bali was nice. And that was the last time in the forseeable future that I landed at Changi Airport! Yippee!
Oh, and- any comments with the purple Gravatar recently are not from me. I only mention this because above on this thread I appear to profess enthusiasm for X-men. I have never seen X-men.
But if those comments aren’t from you, who’s writing them?
Sorry, Choklit Orange. It was just one comment, and I’ve removed it.
It was posted by Bittersound. Not funny, Bittersound.
How did en get my email address… oh dear god, Bittersound, please tell me you’re not a classmate.
I’d call that a distinct possibility. He said that a friend showed him MuseBlog. Ring any bells?
90-degree weather+no air conditioning+stage lights=AAAUGH
I’M ALIVE. Monsterpost ahead, but it’s all the updates I’ve been meaning to do but haven’t because I’ve been trying to keep up with y’all.
Lesse, last time I posted was before I went to see Cyrano at the Folger, so I’ll start with that. It was AWESOME. Seriously, if you’re ever in DC and you can get to a play at the Folger Shakespeare Library, GO. It will be worth it. I promise. We’ve had subscription tickets for several years and only once did they disappoint (it was the Tempest a few years ago, and even then, they did a good job; it just sucked in comparison to all the others).
Anyway, Cyrano was amazing. In once scene where he was supposed to fight a hundred men at once they had the theatre dark with a spotlight on him, then the others would come up from the sides to “attack”, but there was no sword contact, it was all air fighting, so you could see him clearly. Behind him there was nother guy with a sword in each hand who was making the clinking noises for the fight that was in the foreground. When Cyrano stabbed the last few men, all of them, including the guy in the back, fell to the ground.
I probably didn’t describe it well, but it was a REALLY COOL way of doing that fight scene.
It was all good. So goooooood…..
So we got home latelatelate from that, then the next morning I woke up earlyearlyearly and drove to Hampton, VA for the Blackbeard Pirate Festival to MAKE SOME NOISE! I missed the first set due to getting lost (ohai dyslexia, I got off on exit 256 instead of 165), but then there was a shanty sing/session that night, which was fun. Roger said I had credit for starting it, which is kind of true, but not really because he was there as well, the concertina just happens to be louder. Also I impressed people by the fact that I can sing really, really loudly. I never really considered it all that impressive, but when I think about it many, if not most, singers don’t really project very much. I don’t when I don’t have to, but when you’re singing shanties outside in a large circle you must, so I did, and I was heard and apparently I look too small to sound so big. Oh and yeah, I’m being entirely modest about all of this, DON’CHA KNOW?! >.<
So it was good. And then Pip drove up on Saturday to hang out at the festival with us! Yay! It was glorious.
I managed to not die when we were performing (glarg you guys why you sing this song I don't know it okay, i guess I'll just fake my way through the chorus…..), and it was fun.
I saw a handful of old friends, saw some people I've heard perform before or people who's CDs I listen to often, played music with some of them, made some new acquaintances, GOT LOTS OF DEVOTED FANS (harharhar)…good stuff. And Pip was there. Really good stuff.
I'm still not sure whether I was having a blast or absolutely horrified at all the historical inaccuracy (oh god oh god OH GOD WHAT IS THAT THAT IS SO WRONG…..okay, breathe, Fern…breathe….). I think it was both.
Anyway, after the festival, went to Jamestown with Pip, which was fun because he got to meet more of my friends and see more of my lunacy (and he's still not scared off. I think he's a keeper.) and we had more time together.
Then I came home, and here I be.
Yesterday Mom and I painted my new bookshelf with beautiful swirly galaxy-looking loveliness, and then I got to visit with my cousin once removed and her daughter, who is adorable and awesome. Then I saw my aunt and uncle and two other cousins, who are out of control.
It was fun to see Jerry and Shawna though.
Today we went to the dentist and I was subjected to 20 minutes of Fox News. Ugh. I hate going to the dentist. No cavities though, the doctor was most disappointed. xD
Then to the art store, where we got some doodle books (look up zentangles. Cool stuff), played with the encaustic stuff they had set up and snuggled with one of the store dogs. :3
Then to an international grocery store for chin chin (a delicious fried dough ball snack thing), but they don't have them anymore, because the health inspector said they were dangerous because they were homemade. *sob* So now I need to figure out how to make them, because they're amazing.
AND NOW I'M HOME AND I NEED TO CLEAN MY ROOM, BUT I WANT TO DRAW DOODLES. *le sob*
Gods.I’m writing a Figgy.
Wut?
Fiddler (6): What immunizations haven’t you gotten/what is your reasoning?
Zinc (16): What sorts of papers were you burning?
Axa (23): Hugs times a million!
Piggy (63): Those look like great classes. I’m taking Macroeconomics next semester, too.
Errata (69): Creative writing! How is the camp set up/what kinds of creative writing are you doing? What’s your favorite thing you’ve written so far?
I found a Phidippus audax spider in my house yesterday! It has a bright green mouth, and it’s really awesome and menacing-looking.
Also, can I play chess with someone? I was talking to my dad last night, and I realized that I hadn’t played chess in a really long time. At least a year. So I want to brush up on chess this summer–anyone else?
I’d recommend either
book_girl mebookgirl_me or Koko’s Apprentice.book_girl me? I CAUGHT A GAPA TYPO
Oops. It’s been a long day.
Ahoy, bookgirl_me and Koko’s Apprentice! It’s chess time!
I’ll play!
You may proceed. KA has the white pieces and the first move.
I got the Portal 2 soundtrack!
And dang, the track called “Ghost of Rattman” is creepy.
Is it bad that I haven’t gotten my hands on Portal 2 yet but I’m obsessed with the soundtrack? I learned to play “Want You Gone” on the ukulele the other day :’D
Agreed on both counts. My favorite tracks are probably Ghost of Rattman, the Turret Wife Serenade, and the Companion Cube theme, “Love as a Construct”. (Which is actually a variation on the theme from the final cutscene.)
If you wish to make Ghost of Rattman less creepy, think of the gibbering voice in the background as Grover, from Sesame Street, attempting to rap. (I learned this from TvTropes)
i listened to that track just because you said that. LOL
Field Day tomorrow.
Oh joy.
I really, really, dislike finals week.
Especially because I’d rather be blogging or watching Doctor Who or playing music or doing pretty much ANYTHING except studying.
But it’s just tomorrow, Friday, & Monday and then I’m OUT!
Doing driver’s ed & volunteering at a library until I head off to camp in July. I would be going to camp first session like usual, but there was no way I was missing Harry Potter :’)
The reason I’m so active here on the MB (more active than I’ve been in a few years, I think!) is because I blocked myself from all my usual sites for finals but NOTHING CAN KEEP ME AWAY FROM SHARING MY PERSONAL LIFE WITH STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET.
Perhaps this will mark a semi-permanent return. I’m sure you all care about my life very much….
(THAT WAS SARCASM. WHY HAVEN’T THEY INVENTED A SARCASM FONT YET?)
some of us want to non-sarcastically hear about your life!
My friend can never tell when I’m being sarcastic when we contact over the Internet. I like to keep her guessing.
Good luck on your finals!
Today I spent about an hour playing a $5m Stradivarius.
It’s a pretty nice violin.
You got to play a Stradivarius?
*envy*
For an hour? Wow.
Yeah, I brought my violin in to be worked on and they let me play all sorts of things. Also got to try an Amati (which I didn’t really like) and a Joseph Guarnari and some other high-end stuff. One of my former teachers works at the shop, which I suppose helps. Next up: somehow get umpteen gazillion dollars and buy all of them.
*moans* Oh, I wish I were you…
Congratulations, though, that sounds awesome.
AHHHHH not fair not fair not fair!! SO LUCKY
PRETTY nice??
OK, I’m going to violate my muselover Nostalgia Week rules just so I can rant about X-Men.
IT. IS. AWESOME. Note: spoilers will follow. If you have not seen X-Men: First Class, go see it, and stop reading NOW!
That was my favorite X-Men movie by a long shot, and convinces me that Bryan Singer should pretend X3 never existed and release an ACTUAL sequel to X2. The acting was great, and now I’m excited to see Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss. The story was really, really good. I think it managed to do everything the Star Wars prequels did, but right.
The only drawbacks were:
1. Wolverine’s cameo. It was really funny, but the ending seemed drawn out, just so the less astute members of the audience would notice that it’s Wolverine. (credit goes to my dad for pointing this out)
2. Underdeveloped minor characters. This is inevitable in any movie that features a large cast, especially of superheroes, so this can be forgiven.
3. Shaw’s death scene. I think this was the only time that Matthew Vaughn’s directorial influence really showed, because this scene was a lot more drawn out and disturbing than it needed to be. In my opinion, it would have been more effective if he had simply shot the coin through his head or something like that.
The only reason I’m listing way more flaws than good points is because there are far more good points than I can list. Bottom line: SEE IT. NOW. IF YOU’VE SEEN IT ALREADY, SEE IT AGAIN.
James McAvoy…ahh….
I currently have 42 emails in my inbox.
Giant Space Squid comic 3: done! Working on 4 now. I am figuring if I am going to keep this up, I should draw a lot now while I’m still excited about it, so I can have a buffer for weeks when I’m stuck. Also probably going to update it either weekly or biweekly.
At some point do you think it would be okay for me to link to it? Although there’s the whole off-blog communication thing. Alas! Perhaps I’ll send in a few of the scans sometime.
Does anyone have any advice about organic/non-residue/unscented shampoo? I’m going to get dreads soon so I’m trying to wash all the petro based junk out of my hair. I got Dr Bronner’s but it’s terrible and just makes my hair really oily. It works for skin, but my hair is like I didn’t wash it all week. It makes me want to use my petroleum based product just so my hair will feel light and dry again.
But I’m not going to use it because then I won’t be able to dread.
I don’t want to just get the tiny bottles of everything at the organic store and test them (and I don’t have time), so if you have recommendations for brands or ingredients to get or avoid, that would be peachy!
Kiki! *glomps* I love hearing about your life, because you have an awesome one. Also, I hear you about a compulsive need to tell internet people about your life.
Your song was awesome! You’re famous! Yay!
Jade~ Please do send in the GSS comic, I’d love to see it.
Pan~ I’m a Christian Scientist, so I don’t really go to the doctor or take medicine, and the vaccines are part of that. I’m looking into an exemption, though if I can’t get one I’ll just get the shots. I hate being stuck with needles though. Ugh. *shudders*
I have ONE dread! My friend sent a comb, shampoo, wax and a bead and it got here today! Of course, being unable to understand the concept of patience, I just HAD to do one tonight. I’m going to wash my hair with the shampoo tonight and then do more tomorrow.
The one I did is kind of loose and foofy looking, which is worrisome, but hopefully it’ll tighten up and not completely fall apart.
Which leads me to….
UP~ I’d just get dread shampoo. Or you could try the Dr. Bronner’s bar soap, I suppose. Bar soap would leave a of of residue I’d think though, and gunk buildup is the enemy. Burt’s Bee’s have natural-ish stuff, but I don’t know whether it’s dread-friendly. You could poke around the interwebs and see what other dreadheads are using, but it seems like there are all sorts of different stances on dreadlocks, and finding good information isn’t that easy.
There are some companies that sell shampoo bars, if you’re going to go for a non dread-specific soap they might be worth a try, since they’re formulated for hair, but I don’t imagine they’d have a lot of conditioning stuff in them.
Go with dread shampoo or ask someone who has healthy-looking dreads what they use.
I have one dread? I think? But I don’t know if it will stay. I have a rubber band on it and it’s been there for about 2 weeks but it’s kind of frizzy and not dense at all. I think that when I take the rubber band off it will fall apart. I know they normally take several months to not need regular maintenance, but I’m impatient and I want them to stay on their own after a couple weeks.
I got Tate’s Natural Miracle today. It works and it smells like plants because of what it’s made of, but it doesn’t have any added stuff or parabens. I hope it will be good for dreads. It’s good for normal hair and that’s better than the Dr Bronner’s oil.
ACK HELP.
So, on a saner note, what on earth can you say to somebody you don’t know very well to provoke an interesting conversation and not make them think you’re insane?
96- It’s been very fun so far. We’ve been doing poetry, which I don’t usually do but it’s nice to try it, and I think we’ll start doing short stories some time next week.
I can’t really pick a favorite poem, though I am rather attached to the idea of the poem written from the perspective of a rather Terry Pratchett-esque Death.
Terry Pratchett-esque ANYTHING is good.
Ohmygodmiddleschooldancemyfeethaveneverhurtthisbadly.
It was awesome, though- the best fun I’ve had in a long time. I’m glad I went.
And then on the way home I got on the wrong bus and ended up somewhere in Lakeside. But it was still awesome.
How was the Mexican food?
Er, it was less nachos than stale tortillas sprayed with Cheez-Whiz.
That sounds cool
At my school they hardly ever have school dances, and when they do it’s usually just a bunch of kids standing around looking awkward and attempting to look cool without dancing.
Well, now that you mentioned it, a lot of people were just standing around nodding their heads in time to the music. But I danced.
Last night’s dread attempt completely fell out. *le sob*
But Mom helped me make another this morning, and it’s much better. Hopefully I can get her to make more, because I want to do my whole head. NOW. (Again, patience? What’s that?!)
The one she did is much tighter and dreadier looking, and because it’s a lone dread in a mass of straight hair that’s limp in the heat, when left to its own devices it goes SPROING! out at a crazy angle, so I stuck the bead my friend sent on it and clamped it to the rest of my hair with a little hairclip.
I had originally thought “ehh beads on dreads, whatever probably not” but I really like this one. It’s kind of browni-sh red, looks like clay but shiny, so I think it’s glass. Maybe glass with clay mixed in? It’s opaque. At any rate, it’s pretty and I like it. It’s also cool because Autumn is a sweetheart and sent it. ♥ I wish our lives intersected more, because she’s a really neat person.
Anyway, beads. I like this one, and now I’m thinking “ooooh, more beads for le hair!” SLIPPERY SLOPE.
I’m also super excited about the possibility that with dreads I might actually be able to put my hair up/do things with it and have it STAY.
Glarg Mom why can’t you just drop everything and do my hair?
Okay, so field day was okay, my math teacher’s homeroom won because they win every year EVER, we survived the ten thousand acts in the talent show, most of them were actually good, then we watched a movie in the auditorium, the popcorn was less stale then usual, we would have done reallly well in tug-of-war (my favorite event) if we hadn’t been paired up with our math teacher’s homeroom the second round, I ran relatively fast in the sponge relay, tomorrow’s the last day of school, and I appear to be alive.
GUESS WHO’S BACK.
I AM. AND I CAN PIE MY OLD POSTS TOO.
And the 13-hr plane trip wasn’t even that torturous this time. Will be back to post more later.
Lightning and thunderboomers here now, but it was so caking hot before. 90. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT YOU SOUTHERN MBERS SURVIVE WITHOUT THE FREEZING COLD NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN TO JUMP INTO?! It’s gotta be hotter there and…AND…more hu– I won’t say it.
On a brighter note…
My friend somehow got a hold of several old issues of Muse, from around 2002, 2003. She attempted to read them but due to an unfortunate incident which involved the fact that there were pictures of wolf insides on the first page she opened it to quickly decided that they were not her cup of tea. Which is too bad, but she’s not very interested in science. (And she has a low tolerance threshold for bloody wolf guts.) AND ANYWAY, SHE GAVE THE ISSUES TO ME!!! Sorry, had to shout that. But now I have several new (to me at least) issues to read and so far they’re really interesting.
I have one observation: (*spoiler*) Megasquids were in the March 2003 issue!! Squids! In Muse in 2003!! Is it possible that the wondrous cephalopods have been ingraining themselves into our brains for a long time? *conspiracy music*
Gah C++ college online course… I just read 80 pages in a textbook in 2 days and then answered maybe 50 questions.
Although I’m learning a lot, and it’s very interesting. I’m thinking I’ll take the Java course after this, as this course is a prerequisite for the Java one.
YAY only 3 more days of school, and then I just have to study and go in 3 hours on 2 days for finals in the next two weeks, but OH WELL SCHOOL’S ALMOST OUT!!!!!!
And my birthday is in 31 days.
Hey, cats, what’s up? Having fun with the last days of school?
I am done with high school FOR. EVER. I’m graduating on Saturday, and I never ever ever ever have to go to another class in that school AGAIN.
Every time I go on MuseBlog I am Sad. I don’t really know why this is the case, and I’m not a big fan of this fact. Oh well.
See y’all in a bit then. Going to go drink some peppermint tea mmmmm.
Operation Dreadlocks: not going so well.
Managed to get Mom to help me. It didn’t help very much. She made huge poofy things in the back, instead of rightly-sized dreads. The one she did this morning was perfect! It’s nice and tight and smooth and great. NOT SO on these. Anyway, once I finally convinced her that she wasn’t doing the sections the same size (amazingly, since she’s never been one to be convinced by obvious evidence or logic), she separated some of them. I’ve fixed them. Now I need to tackle the other big poofy things. I unhappily put conditioner on them to loosed them up so I can start over, but blargh.
SO WE SHALL SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.
*sob*
At least the ones I fixed have significantly less loose hairs in between now.
Fern I am so excited that you are getting dreads. I APPLAUD YOUR BRAVERY AND AWESOMENESS. I’m sure once you get them all done it will be fabulous.
Meh. Feeling really unsatisfied with my life right now. Friends from school and I are all on an email thread and everyone’s talking about all the stuff they’re doing… which is a lot of interesting things. What I’ve done so far this summer is sit in bed with my computer and avoid my family.
Part of it is due to all my friends being out of town at the moment and being unable to find a job, but… it’s still not very heartening I guess. I went from a place where I was constantly surrounded by amazing people and tons of things to do back to one where I was unhappy a lot of the time and it’s starting to stress me out a bit. And I’ll be doing fun things this summer (going to go to an awesome concert with EBETH and GRANT in a little over a week!) but they’re spread out and it seems like I’ve been back here for a lot longer than 3 weeks (feels more like 3 months) and I want to go back to school
yeaaaah that probably belongs on rants and complaints, not here. Sorry.
I’M PACKING MY SUITCASE OH MY GOD AIEEEEE!!!!!!!
Um, so, on another note, today kind of sucked. It was our last Art class, and our Art teacher (who also happens to be my homeroom teacher) is really, really nice. And of course there was the torture of Tech class, which involved trying to communicate with one person who sticks her nose in the air and pouts (with her mouth open- it’s very odd) whenever I talk to her. So, yeah, that was fun. And I forgot to bring a book and we can’t check out anything from the library anymore. *sobs*
BUT OH MY GOD I AM PACKING MY SUITCASE.
Oh, and I think this weekend I’m going to explore Chinatown and Arab Street- because I’ve been meaning to do that for three years…
Excuse me? I can’t even imagine why you would think that comment was from me. I don’t even know Choklit Orange; why would I do anything to make of him?
I can tell you ‘MBers’ how I found this site. And Robert, what the cake. It wasn’t me.
her- Choklit Orange is a her.
Thank you.
I’m sorry if I made a mistake, BitterSound. The spoofed comment from Choklit Orange bore the same IP address as several of your recent comments, from a computer based in Singapore. There may be another way in which that could have happened. Perhaps one of our Net-savvy MBers can figure it out.
Well, I know I’m not a very ‘Net-savvy’ MBer, but that seems very strange…
Oops. I meant her, sorry.
I am pretty sure I don’t know who Choklit Orange is.
Mm-hm, and the fact that this comment appeared right after I sent an email to the classmate I suspect of being you has nothing to do with this.
Okay. If you’re truly not [classmate], I’m sorry. However, if you are, just leave me alone, please. We have only four days of school left. There is absolutely no reason for you to keep stalking (and impersonating) me.
Okay, well, I had thought the total of the books I couldn’t stand to live without would be something around 15… and it turned out to be over 50.
-All 7 Harry Potters, plus The Tales of Beedle, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and Quidditch Through the Ages
-The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion (finally found a copy and will never give it up), The Children of Hurin, and The History of Middle Earth volumes 2, 3, and 7
-All five H2G2 books
-The Riverside Shakespeare
-The World of Jeeves
-The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
-Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She?, Nothin’ But Good Times Ahead, and Shrub
-Garlic and Sapphires and Counter Intelligence
-All three Cartoon History of the Universes and the Cartoon History of the Modern World, along with Attack of the Smart Pies
-The New York Times Guide to Practically Everything and the Worst Case Survival Handbook
-A number of Tintin books
-Beowulf (two translated editions)
-A Guide to Old English
-Singing the Living Tradition
-Jane Eyre
-Pride and Prejudice
-Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
I am pretty sure this exceeds the airline’s limits for checked luggage weight.
hidethemonyourpersonDon’t panic! Can you mail them? I can’t remember the exact details, but weren’t the other books supposed to come back to you eventually? Anyway, you can do this. Take a deep breath and try to put away some of the books you might be able to survive without for a day. If you still end up with too many books, spread them in a circle around you, close your eyes, wave your hands and see where they land. I know, I have the book-grabbing reflex too, but it goes away when you try not to be stressed about where you’re going.