Whose New Year falls in August? Ours does! MuseBlog burst upon an unwary world on August 1, 2005, altering forever the course of history. What better New Year’s Day could there be for the blog and the Kokonspiracy?
Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!
Hey, I was wondering who else on the ‘blog is entering college this year? I know a couple of people but I bet there are more.
I am.
1 (CPM)~ Me.
I like the color scheme of this picture.
I thought there was an August New Year, but I don’t know what it was…I’m probably hallucinating. Oh well.
There might be a different New Year in August, but if so, it’s not as important/interestin/awesome as this one.
Happy 6th birthday, MuseBlog! (well, 2 hours early in my time zone, but oh well.)
SOmeone should remind me to post about my college major on the College thread tomorrow. It is too late tonight.
POST ABOUT YOUR COLLEGE MAJOR ON THE COLLEGE THREAD TOMORROW
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Hello, everyone, I’m back from my holidays! I had an amazing time (in the UK and France). Not terribly excited about starting school on the 17th, though.
Welcome back!
Wasn’t this design from a while ago? It looks splendid on a cake.
The lettering was used as the Random Thread picture for April 2009 to mark the opening of MuseBlog 2.0 after the hacking of MB 1.0. It seemed to be an appropriate revival-with-a-twist for a New Year’s celebration.
Headed up to [college town] with Alan tomorrow to move all his stuff into his apartment, and then my stuff into my apartment later in the week…..I’ve only got two days until our “fun” vet school orientation counts, and then maybe a day off before the “serious” orientation starts, and only 3 weeks until I actually start vet school. Vet school. It still seems kind of surreal that I’m going to be a first year vet school student in just a matter of weeks. I can decide if I should be excited or terrified, so right now I’ve settled on feeling absolutely nothing on the matter. Oh well. I’ll ahve time enough to be terrified when classes start. All 18 credit hours of classes (which for undergrads is the absolute maximum allowed, and I think the minimum assigned, pretty much, in vet school…..). Eh, whatever, I’ll manage.
Hmm, what can I do to stay up for Pottermore?
ooh watching a movie seems like a great idea
HEY MAYBE I SHOULD WATCH TOY STORY 3
yes sleep-deprived brain this is a great choice
An hour and a half later: cannot stop crying
I agree with you. Although it faltered substantially in the middle, that movie’s ending was one of the most emotional I’ve seen in a while. If you need to clean out your eyes, though, Up works much better.
YES! I’M IN! AFTER A SLEEPLESS NIGHT OF OCC HP FANFICTIONS, I’M IN!
SFTDP
Bunny pattern table cloth.
BUNNIFY BUNNIFY
So….Pottermore. clue 1 went live yesterday at 3 minutes until 3am central time, clue 2 went live today at 3 minutes until 4am central time….If it goes live 3 minutes to 5am tomorrow, I detect a pattern.
Cake! I fell asleep. was doing this pattern where I would sleep for an hour, than my timer would beep, then I would check Pottermore, etc, but I forgot to set my timer!
Cakecakecake I missed the clue again.
So, I woke up a few times last night and checked Pottermore in my sleep. At first I didn’t realize it was in my sleep, however. (Obviously, I didn’t get the question. I don’t think I even saw the question, asleep or not.) At one point I thought I did though, but upon waking up I realize it couldn’t have been, since it didn’t have anything to do with HP.
Oh brain, you’re dumb.
I think it’s time to go get all my HP books (I’ve been meaning to do it anyway, I’m fairly certain they’re coming with me to school) and set my alarm for 4:50am (as per Luna’s possible pattern detection). And also continue to obsessively refresh the page.
*sigh*
I apologize if whatever I write makes no sense whatsoever. I am going around MuseBlog and posting and commenting in a regular fashion but after a few minutes I realize how choppy or long or just purely badly written my sentences are. So sorry if I am being confusing and confused.
Just had to get that off my chest.
I am not deprived of sleep. My mind just feels numb and empty and disconnected as if I know some things should matter but they do not really affect my mind or something. Just…drifting. Maybe it is good for now because nothing can hurt me mentally or emotionally. But I do not even know why this is going on and my brain tells me I should be worried but I am not.
Happy Birthday, MuseBlog!
My grandmother sent me that “Mars will be as big as the full moon” hoax e-mail. I wouldn’t be bothered, except that she fell for it last year, too, and I wrote her a very detailed e-mail explaining why it was wrong.
If you haven’t deleted the detailed email, I recommend resending it.
So, I’ve been back all of two days and I’m already having dreams about MuseBlog.
This place sort of just takes over everything, doesn’t it?
You’re telling me.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MUSEBLOG~
I’ll do some art along with my art for Armada on the plane, since we’re on vacation for a while. I’ll try and get on, though, at libraries and such.
Just got back from vegetarian eight-hours-of-play(ing)-a-day music camp in the San Bernadino mountains. SO SO SO AWESOME~~~
And Tsubasa. My eyes will never be dry again.
I do believe this is the first birthday I’ve been able to attend! Maybe next I’ll manage an April Fools’ Day, ha ha~
See you!
Young Company Winter’s Tale is over…. big gigantic letdown. I love all the cast so much, I just can’t contemplate not seeing them again.
Yesterday, after the show was over, we drank a toast of sparkling cider on the stage and the Stage Manager went up on the balcony and read us a card and the director got up there too and tossed individual cards out to all of us, and then everyone hugged everyone else and we had a last sound circle, and then went up to the patio of the grounds that we’re performing on and ate cookies and cake with lemonade, and Camillo (who is female, but who I will not refer to as Camilla for the sake of not exploding your brains) and Dion put on some Katie Perry and had a dance party with about half the cast, and Leontes made everyone sign his cast book, and I stayed until about 12:30 until almost everyone else had left already.
I will miss everyoneeeee so muuuuuuchhhhh….
I told Antigonus I’d email him, assuming that his email was on the director’s group-email list, but now it appears not to be. I’m going to have to track him down some other way. [/stalker]
Cat’s Eye, I *need* to see that drawing of Captain America.
My aunt and uncle and cousins who live in New York are coming for dinner. It’ll be nice to see them again.
Well, I’ve been looking for an excuse to ink and color it… *shrugs* I’ll have to take a picture and post it instead of scanning it, since my scanner doesn’t work.
It’s always nice to see family you like! I hope you guys have a good time!
Oh, by the way, what’s the GAPAs’ email again? I always forget…
Look on the Rules page; end of first section.
Just started reading The Hobbit. For whatever reason, it feels weird to be reading it finally. It’s just really not as much of a hard read as I thought it would. I don’t know; I think before I just pictured all of the Lord of the Rings written in Old English or Dwarvish.
I just found 2 cicada exoskeletons at a time, which I collect, which was awesome even though I accidentally broke one, but that at least helps me see the inside, but then I found a dead toad. That tends to ruin happy occasions. At least it doesn’t look like it died violently (unlike literally every other dead toad I’ve ever seen, all of which were hit by cars except for this one, which is really scary because I have no idea what I’ll have to do to avoid hitting them when I start driving), and the insects are taking advantage of it, but still. I should keep track of what insects come to it, though; that’ll be interesting. I hope my insect field guide comes soon; it was one of the 17 nature books I ordered a few days ago.
I’m actually now doing a project in a book of nature projects with it now, checking it regularly to see which insects come at which time of day, what they do, etc, and taking notes. I think I’ll be much happier when I see how much good can come out of it for the insects. Besides, it’ll be so fascinating! I hope no-one minds that I sort of just took a dead toad into our yard… It doesn’t smell, though, and I covered it, and I doubt the neighbors will ever see because it’s relatively well-hidden. I just didn’t want to be doing science experiments in someone else’s yard, because that’s kind of creepy and probably illegal.
Fascinating.
1- Meeeeee! So excited!
15- DEJA VU. Someone has said this before…
21- The Hobbit is also a much lighter read than LotR.
I had lots to say but it went right out of my brain. So. Very. Tired.
Heyyyy!
Internets: they work sometimes
But Yosemite is very, very beautiful.
Lots of pictures.
HOT.
Too hot for complete sentences.
THAT IS MY EXCUSE AND I AM STANDING BY IT.
Yosemite? You are in Yosemite?
*envy*
Woah, we just had an intense thunderstorm here.
Have I mentioned that I love the new picture? Because I do.
Happy 6th Birthday MB/ 5th blogversity for ME.
TMFA- poet.
Ahh, the picture is beautiful! I love the colors.
Cello (1): I’m entering college year two! Which isn’t quite but almost as exciting as college year one.
oxlin (4): I would lovelovelove to hear about your college major on the college thread!! And your minor, too!
Jade (24): YOSEMITE IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE EVER.
re: Pottermore– I went to bed at a decent hour (well, 12:30 or so) last night and set an alarm for 4am (which is when it came out eastern time the first night). It wasn’t up, so I re-set it for 5am. And then there it was! And I got an account! Not that it’s exciting yet or anything.
Also, my city is turning into Gotham City! There has been fake snow EVERYWHERE. And last weekend, there were giant explosions and fires and crazy stuff going on! And next weekend, I’m probably going to get to be an extra! Exclamation point!
Last paragraph: That is so amazing!
Being an extra? That’s awesome!
oh man, i saw the all pictures of batman and friends and i instantly thought of you!
that’s so cool you get to be an extra ommmmmgggg
ENVY ENVY ENVY ENVY CHRIS NOLAN LOVER’S RIGHTEOUS ENVY
BATMAAAANN
MY LOVEERRRRRRRRR
Uhg uhg ugh I am so so so so so envious.
CHICAGO IS GOTHAM WHAT ARE THEY DOING SO FAR AWAY *cries*
Check the college thread, guys! My post should be there once it is moderated. Those of you in college, I want to hear about your adventures towards having a major/minor too!
Happy Anniversary, MuseBlog, and the biggest thank you possible to the GAPAs for all of your wonderful work that makes the best website ever what it is. You’re the best mentors anybody could hope for,
Also, thanks to everybody here for providing support, humor, insights, for opening my eyes in so many ways, for making me a better person and and for generally being MuseBlog.
I would say that you’re all fantastic or amazing or something, but I’ve already said that you were MuseBlog, and that’s the greatest compliment I can think of.
Thank you.
And the Pottermore clue pattern holds. Clue 3 went live at just about 5am on the dot, central time, suggesting clue number 4 for anybody interested will most likely go live at 6am central time.
Is the Pottermore clue
supposed to take you to an unaffiliated newspaper’s pottermore article?
Answer: Yes, but it should be obvious how to get to Pottermore. If it isn’t, it’s your computer, so use another. If none work, turn off the adblocking on one. If you don’t know how, wake your brother.
In other words, I GOT IN! Just in time! I almost missed it! And it turns out he was already awake, so no harm done.
NEED:
Thank you for posting, GAPA’s!! ^_^
…
KILL
*erp* *little noises at back of throat*
*BOLTS AWAY*
Where can you get this?!
I just looked, and it’s $35, here…
[Snip! No outside links, please. -Admin.]
However, if you’re still interested, or maybe even want to look for it being sold elsewhere, just google.images “hot pink bunny”.
[Link equivalent snipped.]
Well, that’s unfortunate. Ah, well, at least my google tip got through.
It’s not too difficult to make your own. With a little fake fur, I converted an old pair of ballet slippers (not pink, unfortunately, but that could be remedied easily enough).
GAH! :O
The Calendar is back, it seems!
Why, yes, as a matter of fact, I did just go back through the entire Pieceful Pie Planet, Part 1 thread and “pie” all the posts I liked back then but couldn’t “pie” at the time.
I didn’t say this yesterday, but that is the very most important of new years!
My random comment of the moment:
I’m fine with regular bunnies, it’s the pink ones I can’t stand.
I just got back from camping! There was this one hike that I did that was really fun, we had to go across some snow fields for about a mile and lost the trail. It was my dogs’ first time seeing snow and he was rolling around in it and sliding down little bits on his butt. Then we had to cross this one river that was moving pretty fast and my dog couldn’t cross right away so we had to build a bridge.
Awww, sweet. And welcome back!
I am okay now. Not permanently, but for now I am. I just bought my banjo from ebay, so I’m really excited* about that. It’s a type of banjo that one family that lived in the Appalachians made by hand, so I’m hoping (and praying and hoping and praying and sacrificing babies to the gods) that I didn’t get swindled.
I also just came back from volunteering at the organic farm again, so that’s been keeping me busy, and happy. It’s not just the work that I enjoy, it’s knowing that I’m doing something good for the environment, and the people there are so nice and personable too. They don’t treat us like we’re teens; we’re treated and talked to like peers.
Anyways. That is all.
*Excited is too mild of a word. It’s more like omgomgomgomayyayayayayay yayayayayay omg omg omg omg banjooooooo omfg so excited yayayayayayayayayayayay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!1111!!!!! ~~~~~~~*~*~***~~~~
Well, it’s good to hear. I hope that this “okay”ness lasts (and the excitement, too. A banjo! w00t!)
And doing volunteer work that’s good for the environment! *pride*
I agree about “excited.” Ecstatic is so much more apt in the situations where you actually are so.
Is it one of those fretless ones with the nylon strings? They’re so subtle — quiet and slippery and hard to play, but worth the effort.
Alas, it is not. Just a regular old open back. A beautiful open back. With abalone inlays.
Oh god, I can’t talk about it anymore. I’m so anxious to get it!
Banjos are the bomb!
I’m an environmental freak! You should have seen me this summer in Berlin when we were walking around and saw places for electric cars to charge up all over the place. It was so awesome! The US is so behind. Stupid gas and car companies that only look at the NOW and not the future! Gurgle.
And organic farms are even better!
Could the occasions on the calendar please be bolded, or else the dates unbolded? My eyes keep being drawn to the dates, and it’s hard to make myself read the names even though I’m more interested in them.
Oh no! August 11th is getting closer and closer! :O College is creeping up on me like that butler in Mr.Deeds. “I am very sneaky sir.” GAH! Quite nerve wracking but exciting at the same time.
And… in 2 days I get all 4 wisdom teeth removed. That’s just plain nerve wracking. Does anyone else think that being gassed into sleep while strange doctors do who knows what to you is creepy? I think it’s highly disturbing. For all I know, they could be cutting out a piece of my soul with those teeth or running strange experiments on me that involve bizarre DNA splicing or radioactive spider bites. I could come out of this a mutant cheese destroying monster brainwashed by evil doctors with large mustaches.
The anesthetic isn’t the bad part, the bad part is having your mouth hurt for the next few days and being unable to eat anything other than yogurt and stellini pasta.
I pied that because from what I’ve heard, you seem to be correct, which kiwi should probably know, not because I delight in your misery.
Yes. That is worrisome as well.
I dread jello…
D: I am getting my wisdom teeth out as well in a week and a few days eeeergh
Best of luck to you!!
Thanks For All The Fish42 (21)- I believe The Hobbit was intended as a sort of children’s story, so it’s not too difficult.
Man, I leave for two days and you guys install a new calendar plugin. I miss all the fun.
Anyway, canoeing was great. It was dang hot yesterday, but we managed. At one of the stops we made along the river there was an old-fashioned pump going straight to the aquifer, so that was some delicious water. I must say I don’t miss the dragonflies, which were as thick as gnats, or the biting flies, which left me covered in tiny little bruises. It appeared that in north-central Nebraska, hemp is the dominant weed, so that was interesting. I only got sunburned on my left knee and right foot. But my favorite part, even more than the great waterfall I stood under for as long as I could (about four seconds) was the night sky. We timed the fire so that it died down around 10:30, right when the sky was getting good. Our campsite was on the north side of the river, so we got a good view of the entire southern sky, and I studied as many constellations as I could. I’ve decided that Lyra is my favorite. The food was good too–we brought some Wisconsin bratwurst from the local butcher’s shop I’ve mentioned before. What else…I guess that’s mostly it. We saw a cow carcass float down the river by our campsite. Oh, and both evenings we were there, a doe and two fawns came down to the river.
Anyways, if anyone wants a good river to canoe on, I recommend the Niobrara River. This was the third or fourth time I’ve canoed there, and it’s great. The average depth is between one and three feet, so even if you somehow tip your canoe, it’s fine. The wind can be a bit tricky, though–it kept turning us around. Oh well.
Camp NaNoWriMo!
(Sorry, I’m afraid the person you are trying to reach is currently unavailable. Her soul was eaten by Camp NaNoWriMo).
I like the new calendar.
Woo! Gabrielle Giffords came back to the House to vote!
I found a feather! I think it belongs to the juvenile cardinals we had in our yard that seem to have flown away. And another dead toad, which I left alone.
I’m trying to decide at what pace I’ll take Pottermore. At first I thought I’d do as much at a time as I could because it would be so awesome, and I’m addicted and all that, but then I thought that maybe it would be nice to sort of take the same pace as the books–go to Hogwarts on September 1st, celebrate Christmas on Christmas day, etc. That way, it would feel more like I really was experiencing it. But it’ll be so fun that I’m not sure whether it’s worth it… Well, I am, really, but a part of me just wants to do everything immediately. Any thoughts?
I GOT INTO POTTERMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I took Luna’s advice and set an alarm for 4:50 AM central, which unfortunately is 2:50 pacific. And my alarm went off at the right time and Allosaur and I leapt out of bed and grabbed the iPhone and went to the website and lo and behold there was the clue and it took us several tries to get the right URL because we forgot the quill.pottermore bit and then it took us to The Guardian and we clicked on the little square but my phone wouldn’t load the new page so we snuck downstairs and reconfigured the router which we had cleverly left on and reloaded the page on an actual computer and Allosaur’s dad came downstairs and went, “It’s three in the morning” and we were like “Um well herp derp we know but POTTERMORE!!!” and he wasn’t mad or anything and we made our accounts and then email-activated them and my welcome email still hasn’t come but oh well it will soon and my life is complete.
/run-on sentence
We went wandering around Balboa Park today and went to all the museums (they’re free on the first Tuesday of every month), except we got kicked out of the Natural History Museum for being young.
The Tempest tomorrow!
Balboa Park! I spent so much time there when I was a kid. I still remember the peppery smell of the eucalyptus trees.
Is the planetarium still there? I got kicked out of it once when I was about nine for asking impertinent questions about the planet Mercury.
Impertinent? In what way?
Too many of them, mostly. I was probably showing off, and some of my information was out of date. For example, my astronomy book said Mercury always kept one face toward the sun, the way the moon does to Earth, but the lecturer had more-recent information and didn’t like my challenging him. And a friend was with me, and it’s possible that we were whispering and giggling and kicking each other more loudly than I intended. I really did love the planetarium, but I had a lot of excess energy back then. Anyway, we were summarily ejected and got back on our bikes and took off past the big outdoor pipe organ, which was another of my favorite things in Balboa Park.
There’s one in the Fleet building, if that’s what you mean; but we didn’t get to it because it was so crowded.
You got kicked out?! Somehow I can’t imagine you being kicked out of anywhere. Though Allo and I were asked to leave the game exhibit at the Museum of Man after a very exuberant Lord of the Rings-themed CandyLand battle.
I can imagine it all too well…
BALBOA PARK IS AWESOME
Oh yeah, and so is Pottermore. I might try getting on when it involves waking up at a reasonable hour.
… in the dark, all the dinosaurs are running wild…
Alas! I tried to stay up till 3:00 and almost succeeded but must have dozed off around 2:00 and missed it.
Today my relatives decided that we’re going to have Thanksgiving at my aunt and uncle’s house in New York this year. I’ve only visited them once, so yay.
While we were all eating dinner in the church basement after my uncle’s funeral service, my cousin was randomly texted by some company about how they’ll turn the ashes of your loved ones into a synthetic diamond for $14,000. It was rather creepy.ÂÂ
I feel very awake. It’s only 12:35, and I’ve been known to regularly stay up till four in the summer, so this isn’t that surprising. What’s surprising is the sense of floaty happiness I have. No idea where it came from. In fact, I feel as though I should feel the opposite, seeing as how I managed to lose my glasses after putting in my contacts, which I didn’t notice until I took them off a few minutes ago. And I have to go to the library tomorrow. I have stuff to return that I’m not finished with, but I can’t renew them.
Oh well. This is small potatoes in the large scheme of things. I’m just glad my depressive mood earlier has dissipated, for a time at least. I’ll just enjoy the sunshine until then. (Metaphorically, at least. It’s quite dark out.)
SO MUCH HIKING
BUT SO PRETTY
OBLIGATORY CAPITAL LETTERS
Also god my family goes to be SO EARLY. 10pm or 10:30 at the latest. I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF except internet forever of course. Except when the internet dies, and then it is minecraft forever.
THE PARK, SO BEAUTIFUL, BUT WE ARE LEAVING TOMORROW and I am crying inside. Being out in the wilderness again has reawakened my wanderlust and jdhfgsn I need to spend my life outdoors and in nature and life and everything.
Being another summer’s day with nothing to do, I have finally caught up on a month’s worth of random threads. I didn’t realise – you guys (we?) talk a lot.
And Kai, I am so joining SPACE! It sounds like a great idea!
Welcome to the club!
My friends…
…I have come to a very important realization…
…I like Kokopelli…
…but I identify with Mimi…
…I am reborn.
You have completed…the Mimimorphosis.
I identify with Urania and Bo and Pwt. Especially Pwt.
I like all the Muses. But I don’t identify 100% with any of them.
I like plants, like Feather.
I sometimes write/think in the kind of prose associated with Craaw.
I love all animals, like Pwt.
I love crazy ideas and thoughts and science, like Urania.
But what I love the most are knowledge and factoids, like Bo.
I mostly identify with Bo, with a splash of Urania.
I thought of mentioning Feather, because I do love plants, and I have some Hufflepuff qualities. But I don’t think it’s enough to count.
I also love all animals, like Pwt, sometimes to the point of obsession. I also love prokaryotes. The “NO! STOP! NOBODY BREATHE!” when Mimi got out her antibacterial soap for the intelligent bacterium thing was so like me that that was the main reason I laughed. I also don’t give up easily. If I were a Muse, I’d be the Muse of animals.
I identify with Urania for the same reasons as you, and also that I sometimes ramble on about my obsessions and annoy people accidentally.
I do also love knowledge and facts.
The 2 Muses that I absolutely cannot possibly identify with under any circumstances are Kokopelli (I’m sorry; I can’t help it!) and Crraw. My descending order of identification would be:
PWT
Bo
Urania
Feather
Chad
Mimi
Aeiou
CrrawKokopelli
Haha. I obsess about animals too. Just ask my (arachnaphobic) mother!
The Muses I cannot identify at ALL with are Mimi, Aeiou and possibly Chad (I say possibly, because when I try to make things, they generally go haywire as well).
My own decending order would be:
BO
Urania
Pwt
Kokopelli
Feather
CrrawChad(?)
(I don’t know how to make a strike-through, so I’m just leaving out Aeiou and Mimi.)
I GOT IN TO POTTERMORE!!!! Er, that is, I registered and everything, I’m waiting for the email. I don’t know if that means I’m in or if I still have to wait and I might get in. Still, either way.
I was checking the website every half hour from 8:00 because of the information on the Insider, and I opened up the webpage and it was refreshing. So I went to my dad’s computer and tried it on there, to see if there was any difference. There wasn’t but while I was checking that it loaded on my mom’s computer, so I got the clue and registered and yay!!!!!!!!!
Determined not to miss the 4th clue, I got my copy of Goblet of Fire last night and set three alarms for 7am. No clue. So I set an alarm for 8 and went back to bed. No clue. Set it for 9. No clue. Fell asleep. Woke up around 10:30, checked computer, FOUND CLUE. A ridiculously easy one, at that. Tried to register, weirdness happened. Remembered CO’s thing with the weird website (it sent me to Sony), tried a different browser. Was put on hold for it. Nearly sobbed. Then it went through! Ran into house, scaring Mom, and helped her get an account.
Whoo!
So, what exactly is Pottermore…?
*prepares for pies*
it’s okay, i’ve had it explained and i’m still not sure what it is or what it’s for
Me, neither.
Yeah, me too.
Well, whatever it is…I got in!! Haha.
It’s like a supplement for your reading… There’s different environments/pages for each chapter, and you get to experience the adventure with Harry; i.e. get sorted into a house and all that jazz. There are also hidden tidbits from J.K. Rowling with extra background information on the books. And a “house cup,” where you earn points based on how many secrets you’ve found.
That should be “there are different environments…” I am bad with using “there’s” all the time.
Is it like the We Choose The Moon interactive from the Kennedy Library a few years ago?
Maybe, depending on what that is.
POSOC (32.2): That’s quite a progression, there.
JADESTONE I GOT GLOW POI IN THE MAIL TODAY MY LIFE IS COMPLETE. I EAGERLY AWAIT NIGHTFALL.
WOOO !! That is awesome! You should have told me you were ordering them, I have a coupon/referral code! But oh well that is AWESOME! What kind did you get? Also you should look at some of their tutorials for tricks, they’re very helpful if you’re trying to learn on your own!!
HEY ANYONE IF YOU EVER BUY THINGS FROM HOMEOFPOI LET ME KNOW
WHEEEEEEEEE POI
Oops, sorry! If I order something again, I’ll definitely let you know! I got the same kind as you, because I figured you have the ULTIMATE EXPERTISE and your decision was obviously the best one!
I watched the tutorial on 5-beat weave, and I think I almost have it! I can get it on my left side, but I can’t always get it on the right. All in good time! Also, this morning, I learned a really cool behind-the-back-spin-thing to switch from spinning forwards to backwards. NOW I FEEL LIKE A SUPERHERO.
Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome!! Five-beat weave is a lot of fun. Have you noticed that with weaves, once you master a more advanced one it’s what you automatically start doing? I have to concentrate to start a two-beat, I always slip into a 3-beat out of habit.
And basic turns! Fun AND useful ! When you turn the poi change direction which is always good to get down for tricks and putting things together. There are both low turns and high (lifting arms above head as you bring them around); I’m not sure which one you did but try both! They are also fun to just keep doing while spinning in circles.
Also, windmills/their variations are good to know. Giant’s windmill and chasing the sun are super easy, and then you can do fountains!
agsdahdlj now I really want to go out and spin! But we’re at a hotel and getting ready to go to dinner : / ALAS. BUT POI LOVE YESSSS.
MAN NOW I WANT POI TOOOO
i never did figure out the reverse weave D:
i think i will probably just try the socks-and-tennis-balls trick though, due to being poor as all things that are poor
WHEN YOU COME VISIT ME FOR CONCERTS I WILL TEACH YOU THE REVERSE WEAVE IF YOU DON’T HAVE IT DOWN BY THEN. AND OTHER FUN STUFF.
I made some very cool little ornamenty things by gluing printed small pictures of a space shuttle and an astronaut spacewalking to flat pieces of cloudy-but-transparent beach glass and painting over the backs. I think I’ll either make them into magnets or maybe find some way to wrap wire around them and make jewelry.
I’m gong to die of boredom before my banjo comes in the mail. ;___;
Really? Avoiding it’s much easier than you think. Just research things you’re interested in. It can actually be really fun. The only thing I’ve tried where there isn’t a single website dedicated to it is wongai ningauii, and I expected as much. There is a book on them, but my library lacks it, and it’s expensive… Anyway, you’ll be surprised at what you find.
52 et. replies (Pan and Jade)~ AWESOME!!!!
Now I kind of want to get poi. Except that I was terrible at it when I tried it…..but still.
Also, Beedle, I think it’s awesome that you got a banjo. New instruments are SO MUCH FUN.
I should get my dulcimer out. I think I want to take it to school with me, even though I barely ever play it.
But with all the music, and especially the Appalachian music, on campus I think it might be useful.
Quite the summer for Fishy.
Got a new iPod. Went to my first concert (details soon). First time single in a year. Devouring as many books as I can but never enough. More MuseBlog again.
As for the concert, I went to see Sufjan Steven’s Age of Adz closing performances in New York City. It was absolutely amazing, and I couldn’t have asked for a better concert experience. His costumes were crazier than Lady Gaga’s and his music was louder. I never do this but I want to just put in a de-linkified video to where you can see a sample of the madness. The audio is not very good, so you should listen to it elsewhere, but you get the atmosphere very well. (feel free to snip GAPAs if you deem appropriate)
http: // www. youtube. com/ watch?v=WOue-loSAFw&feature= channel_video_title
SFTDP
Oh! And I got into Pottermore!
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SO TIRED.
Oh my god.
Is the Pottermore pattern still holding true? I know it did night before last, (I got up and spent nearly the whole hour trying to get it to work. On two different computers. I was crying by the end of it.) but last night my alarm failed. Even though I set two separate ones. And tested the apps to make sure it would work.
Tonight we’ll have three alarms. And three computers. And basically everything else I can think of.
Errata–no. Clue 4 went live around 9am central time. (it wasn’t up at 8:50, but was at 9:30). So not sure when clue five will go live
Hm, okay. Anyway, I haven’t missed it yet, so I’ll just keep waiting.
Unfortunately, my two backup computers left with my dad when he went to work, so if my iPad doesn’t work I’m pretty much out of luck.
I had problems, so I Googled the clue. I found out how to fix it, just in time–although I almost missed it.
My friends went to a cafe tonight for dinner and coffee, and then went back to my friend’s house to watch Brokeback Mountain. BAD IDEA BRO. We didn’t even get halfway through it and I was crying. I would cry if somebody just briefly described the storyline to me. It’s simply an amazing movie, though, er, not recommended for younger Musers, at least without parental supervision.
Also, we went to the Pompeii Exhibit in Times Square on Sunday. So many sculptures of Muses. :3
Must have been great! I’ve wanted to go to that exhibition for a while.
it’s such a wonderful movie but i can never bring myself to rewatch it.
GUYS.
I have so much to tell you. Right now I’m at camp, sitting during a break in Creative Writing class, so it’ll have to be quick, but…oh my gosh. Pottermore.
I really didn’t think I was going to get onto beta. I was actually pretty pissed off because the one week during the whole summer that I’m not home, I wasn’t going to have regular Internet access or have the ability to stay up all night on my laptop. Actually, I didn’t think that I was going to have Internet access at all, but luckily I managed to find a way to get into the system, right passcode, etc. Yesterday I was sitting in Creative Writing, and we had a break, so I decided to check Pottermore, kind of in a what-the-heck type way. I didn’t actually think that it would be open or anything – I’d been checking every chance I got before, but it had always been closed from the day before. And in the one minute that I checked it, it finally was open! So, in the middle of my Creative Writing class, I literally squealed. Out loud. And I couldn’t even explain to everybody else what it was, because only one other person knew about it, who also signed on, so we were basically just sitting there freaking out while the rest of the class had no clue what I was talking about.
…And I got on. YAYYYYYY. I don’t know if I’m allowed to say my username on here, but I’m really, really happy about it and I was literally shaking I was so excited. Then, literally five minutes later, my twitter updated and I find out that it closed only minutes after I got an account. I was SO lucky. I’m really sorry to anybody that didn’t get on yet – my fingers are crossed that all the MBers that want to get on will – because it is SO exciting and I just can’t wait to get on it.
*SQUEE*
Whoa, a Creative Writing class in the summer? Are you by any chance doing a program run by Johns Hopkins University where you have purple lanyards? *it’s a far shot but maybe…*
It’s 8:20 and I haven’t done anything yet! Lap of luxury I know.
Last night I read the entire archive of Hark A Vagrant. And now I’m like “…what do I read?”
I’ve been having really weird and complex dreams since I moved into the guest room here, many of them involving MuseBlog. Last night was definitely the weirdest but I have only the haziest notion of what happened or why. For some reason, all the MuseBloggers were trapped in an underground room and I had to go apprentice for three months at the house of a crazy old lady known to eat her apprentices and when I got back someone had installed a writing program on my computer which shrank it to the size of my palm and I was furious.There was also a huge ruinous hotel, several plots to kill us, and also one of you turned evil, but I forget who it was. And a massive supermarket. And a band. And a round house that turned into a square house.
It’s a marvel I even had time for sleep.
NOW YOU READ BUTTERCUP FESTIVAL
OKAY
WOOOOO
Make sure to read the old ones too! Not just the ones on the new site, but the site with the brown background. Most of my favourites are in the old ones.
Reading the old ones first because I’m linear like that sometimes.
Sleep < Buttercup Festival
OH GOD WHAT AM I DOING
THAT’S THE SPIRIT!
Thanks. Now I just spent the whole day reading the entire archive of Hark A Vagrant.
Pottermore! Where are you? Why are you so late?
Never mind, I got on.
I GOT INTO POTTERMORE! FINALLY! YES! HOORAY!
…I may be slightly overexcited about this.
I’m a little bummed that I don’t think my parents will let us have a Vesta Fiesta this weekend to celebrate the Dawn probe.
What is the symbolic significance of thyme? I don’t know off the top of my head and Wiki doesn’t have the answers. My dictionary of symbols is at home.
According to the internet, thyme symbolizes activity, bravery, courage, strength. Fairys used to dance in patches of thyme on midsummer’s eve, and knights would wear images of thyme on their shields to show/give them great courage. I am not sure if that is very accurate but I am afraid that the only book about herbs that I can find is The Holistic Herbal by David Hoffman, which, while usefully informing me about the various ways that thyme can be used in tinctures and remedies (HIPPY MEDICINE YEEEEAAAAH), does not have anything to say about the symbolic significance of it.
Hmm, OK. Thanks.
Now that I have a driver’s license I have nowhere to go.
The woods?
There aren’t any good forests around here.
Somewhere to have a Kokon?
Too expensive.
Uh, just a quick question on the nature of our lagomorphic menace. Do you guys think that brown bunnies in hot pink jumpsuits are as dangerous as their fully hot pink cousins?
No, they’re just wannabes.
Oh…that’s good then. I just realized I’ve had one in my room for years now, and for a moment I was quite worried about my safety.
IT’S A SPY!!!
Um. Eep?
Put it in a containment facility before it’s too late!
Hmm, that’s a toughie. I’d say that, on the whole, a jumpsuited bunny is probably less dangerous than a full HPB. HPBs seem to be a specific species of rabbit, and they have special powers, such as their ability to hypnotize, zombify, and bunnify, which an ordinary bunny has not. I’d also guess that HPBs have sharper teeth and intelligence, which can be formidable.
But a jumpsuited bunny might, under some circumstances, be very dangerous, if not quite so much as an HPB. For example, the hot pink bunnies may have recruited a normal rabbit and given it a jumpsuit as a uniform. This sort of jumpsuit-clad bunny is probably bunnified. If that isn’t the case, it was likely stolen from it’s family as a baby, and raised to love HPBs and despise humans. Either way, it’d be incredibly zealous and willing to fight to the death. The “raised to love HPBs” variety has also probably recieved much combat training.
If the jumpsuit was simply given to the bunny by an unknowing owner, it might still be a Lagomorph to watch our for. The hot pink material might be sufficient to bunnify the rabbit, although it wouldn’t, in all probability, be bunnified as strongly as if it had been bunnified by an HPB in person. Otherwise, the bunny might be traumatized by being owned by the sort of person who’d put their rabbit in a pink jumpsuit, and therefore rather violent and grumpy.
In summary, if you encounter a rabbit like this, it’s far less serious than encounterig an actual HPB, but you should still approach it with caution until you can determine which scenario it falls under.  ÂÂ
Bunnifying involves turning into a bunny,although it might be hypnobunnified. In any case, I doubt she’ll have a serious problem.
Yes, but bunnifying can also occur on the inside. If you’re already a non-pink bunny, and an HPB tries to turn you into a bunny, and you don’t turn pink, I think it’s safe to assume that your brain has been turned into an HPB’s–in which case you’re just as evil and intelligent as them, but you’re not as physically strong and may or may not have the same magical powers (only time will tell).
There was that pad worker wearing the hot-pink vest during the preparations for the last Hubble Servicing Mission who I got so worried about…
Are you absolutely sure it’s not an HBP dressed up in a brown bunny costume?
HBP?
I’m certainly absolutely sure it’s not an HBP dressed up in a brown bunny costume; whyever would Snape do a thing like that?
Hot Bunny (Pink)
Have you been bunnified or merely lost your mind? HPBs are not by any means attractive. Neither are brown bunnies. Unfortunately for Snape, Lily probably agrees…
No, hot as in ‘on fire’. They’re much, much worse.
I think she’s more than capable of noticing whether something in her room is on fire.
IT’S A TRAP!
Snape in a brown bunny costume…hmm…
*head explodes*
Dear MB:
I’m in America again, but I’ll still be really infrequent for about a month or more because I’m moving for university in a few weeks.
Many many pies to everyone for the summer!
Many squids for all the squids I’ve missed giving this summer.
*hugs*
Any MuseBloggers yet to get into Pottermore: The Pottermore official blog is being very nice with telling when the clues will be released!
Clue 6: between 7:30 and 10:00 am Central time tomorrow
Clue 7: between 6:30 and 9:00 pm Central time ALSO TOMORROW!
So tomorrow’s your last chance!
You know, I wasn’t planning on doing early registration for pottermore, but my resolve’s severely weakened. *sets alarm*
Today I couldn’t find my Hufflepuff scarf. Oh, the irony.
HAHARAVENCLAW!
Ahem.
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Just did my chart woohoo.
That always gives me a huge ego boost. MY LIFE IS WONDERFUL MY PARENTS ARE AWESOME MY FUTURE IS CRAZY AND BRIGHT. Also, I might have a water-related accident in the next three years.
Yeah astrology!
OK going to go do work now! And eat dried mango yummmmmmm.
Sooooo I’m back from SoCal (which was great, Allosaur/family are so much fun) and sitting around the kitchen at home. I’ve made it my life goal to buy a cello (they go for about $200 on Craigslist) so tomorrow I’m going to the Farmers’ Market to busk.
The Tempest was AMAZING. I mean, like, almost as good as the Midsummer Night’s Dream we went to last year. It was at the Old Globe theater. Beautiful. Prospero was brilliant; Ariel was amazing (he had this great pointy wig that looked like it was made out of cotton candy) and walked around on stilts at one point. Caliban was terrifying. And I nearly cried at the music.
Wow. The times for Pottermore actually work for me!!! Every day, I’ve been getting up as early as my parents will let me, but it’s always closed by then. I really hope I’ll get in!!!! But, of course, my parents always have their opinions about my online activities. I’m pretty sure their okay with it, though. Does anyone know if you can register twice on the same computer? Because my brother’s going to want to do it too…
On another, less hopeful note, I am being worried lately. Yesterday, we (my family) were on an outing with some family friends, when the girl (henceforth referred toas E), who’s a good friend of mine, sort of fainted. Like, collapsed. Her mom kept trying to help her keep walking, and her dad was yelling for someone to call a doctor and were we all panicking, and I pulled a complete blank. (Let me explain — In 7th grade, which I recently left behind, you learn First Aid and CPR in science class. I got certified.) Anyway, I had no idea what to do. I was just frozen, until, maybe a minute later, after we’d gotten E into a shady building, this man who was a doctor came and helped us, and a couple of employees came over as well. E was only dehydrated and tired, and I know it’s normal to freak out and forget everything in this sort of situation, but what if something reallyreallyreally bad happened and there was no one else besides me to help? Besides hurting myself, having to use CPR, or any other training that I recieved, is what I’m most scared of.
On yet another, much more happy note, I’m going to have go fun at my favorite place in the entire world (really, it’s my favorite place in THE ENTIRE WORLD!!!!!), so I will be without internet for a week starting Saturday.
There is a significant portion of the world that seems to consider me an adult, treat me as such, etc. They see me as a writer, as a peer in writing. I have a few published poems, but being treated like this still startles me. I don’t have anything other than poems published yet, and no one really knows who I am. But many of the writers whose work I’ve loved (granted, they’re not all that well known either) have come to accept me as one of there own. This constantly baffles me. Also delights me, but it is a baffled sort of delight.
I had gone to cons a while ago (the writing kind where authors and writers and fans gather to talk about sf/f writing) but that was before anyone really knew who I was. I went to a con this summer and got to read my poem in front of many of my friends (who are also people whose work I loved before I became their friend. I don’t think my friends have written novels but some acquaintances have) as well as my favorite short story writer. It was an exhilarating experience.
In other news, I’d love to have a frock coat/ victorian riding coat. Anyone know where to buy one?
Shredding chicken is a thoroughly disgusting business. The tamales are going rather well, though.
Chickens generally seem quite messy business, be them alive or dead…
Wait, mom, so I wasn’t supposed to feed the onions to the chickens? Cake. So I cried for nothing?
GOT SCHEDULE! YAY!
/unrelated note
That’s not your typical avatar. That actually reminds me… of “Invisibility Cloak”… on one of the Rants and Plaints threads…
SFTDP Darn it, did I actually forget to say “congratulations”? Congrats!
I love History.
No longer in Yosemite
Sigh. In a big city now. Not so much a fan. We’re going to go out and do touristy things probably. But there are a lot of art galleries at least. Seen some Dali and Picasso and others, and a stunning gallery of Rodney Lough Jr’s photography. His shots from Antelope canyon… beautiful. Makes me long to be doing film photography again. I think I want to try for another class spring semester if I can…
There is going to be a 13-episode sequel to Sagan’s “Cosmos”, to be broadcast during primetime on Fox in 2013, produced by Seth MacFarlane and hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
I thought you all should know.
So…. how bout that Pottermore?
I haven’t bothered to try and get a beta account. I’m not going to get hyped about something I know absolutely nothing about, honestly. I love Harry Potter. I adore it. I have been reading since age 4 and grew up with it. But that doesn’t mean the website will be awesome. This is just my view of it all. Rowling could be a little less secretive.
It’s like shark week. You’re excited about it because you’re supposed to be. Not YOU specifically… just… never mind. I’m sounding like a buttface.
With that said… I know some MBers have gotten Beta accounts? Do you already have access to the site? Please, do spill your beans! I’m sure the house elves will clean up after you…
In other words… what IS it??????
We don’t have our beta accounts. No-one will until this evening at the earliest, and some people will have to wait weeks. We have seen 2 extra screenshots and been given usernames, though.
By now, we do know what it is. The problem is that information is hard to find, so you have to be obsessed with it to know what it is, which is a bit unfair to the people who have to know what it is to be obsessed. It’s an online website where you get to sort of experience the books… You find 44 moments from the story and get to interact with them (get sorted into a house by The Ultimate Source JK Rowling, for example),and you read more than18,000 words of new information from her. There’s a lot more information available, but the problem is, it’s kind of hard to describe…
If you’re in the US, the next chance for beta access is actually a reasonable hour. It’s rather amazing.
I’m mostly in it for the new words, tbh. I’m not really clear on how the other stuff works exactly but NEW CANON FROM JO is enough to get me excited.
That’s about half of it for me. The other half is getting to pretend to be in the books without resorting to *shudder* self-inserted fanfiction. Well, that and I need to see what the Ravenclaw crest really looks like as soon as possible so that I can put it on my robe/blanket thing.
Yeah, I suppose there is that.
And there’s the sorting process. I’m half looking forward to that and half dreading it. I want to know where Jo would put me, but I’m afraid it won’t be Ravenclaw, which is the house I’ve always wanted. (And I don’t think this Sorting Hat takes your choice into account.) (I think I’m likely to get Ravenclaw though; none of the others really fit my personality like that does.)
I was just thinking how interesting it is that JK Rowling has the power to command millions of people to wake up at three in the morning and leap about their houses squealing. It’s kind of scary that she has that much control over us, actually. May she only use it for good.
Due to overwhelming demand, you cannot access Pottermore right now.
Please be patient whilst we try to connect you.
*headdesk*
YES I GOT INTO POTTERMORE OMG SQUEEE
I registered for Pottermore!
Also, I now have my school supply list. Yay!
POTTERMORE POTTERMORE I GOT IN POTTERMORE
I GOT IN
POTTERMORE POTTERMORE OH MY GOODNESS POTTERMORE
THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE
Jade (52.1.1.1): Yes! I always default to 3-beat weave, though I think I’ve finally figured out 5-beat! It still takes too much concentration, though, so I always just slip into 3-beat weave. And ooh, I just looked up Giant’s windmill and chasing the sun! That will be my project for tomorrow. YAY POI!!
Fiddler (55): You should make some! And then you’ll do it all the time and then you’ll become addicted AND THEN YOU WILL BE A POI MASTER.
Alice (71): Yay ego boost! Crazy and bright futures are flamablamablous!
oxlin (74): One thing I really like about the writing community is that everyone benefits from the stories, critique, ideas, and enthusiasm of other writers, so writers look forward to meeting writers to share their worlds. Tell me about the cons! What do they involve?
Space mission alert: NASA’s Juno probe to Jupiter is being launched at 11:33 a.m. Eastern Time (10:33 blog time) — i.e., about 10 minutes from now. You can watch the launch on NASA TV, www . nasa . gov/multimedia/nasatv/ index . html .
Countdown has been stopped while they check for helium leaks, so there’s still time to tune in.
New launch time: 1613Z, or 12:13 Eastern time (11:13 blog time). The countdown will resume four minutes before that.Another five-minute delay. Now set for 1818Z, or 11:18 blog time.Yet another delay. New time: 11:25.
Watching!
The countdown resumes!
Pretty rocket, pretty launch. See you in five years, Juno!
Don’t forget the Earth flyby in 2013!
Well. I am now the proud owner of a beautiful banjo. I tuned it up, and I’m currently attempting to play. Also, I got into Pottermore. So, today is going to be a good day.
Congratulations on both counts, Beedle!
Thank you! I think I’m going to take it to the music store this weekend so they can make sure it’s okay. The only problem I see is that I think the drone string tuner is missing a washer, I think.
Most congratulations, Beedle, on both!
I don’t have a British accent. Really I don’t. Sel, you’ve met me- do I sound British to you?
And even if I do, why is everyone going on about it? If they met an actual Brit, I have a feeling they wouldn’t walk about imitating their accent and saying things like, “Crikey, would you care for tea, Your Majesty?”
Which is a ridiculous thing to say under any circumstances, let alone in America. I know a lot of Brits (and Australians) and the only person I’ve ever heard say “crikey” is Steve Irwin.
Arglptz. Anyway. Does anyone know how long you can safely freeze cooked chicken? I kind of overdid it on the tamales.
You really like your tamales, don’t you?
I’d say probably six months o the chicken, but I don’t know.
Well, this is only the second time I’ve made them, but I made a lot so I could reheat them for lunches.
All right. I’ll try six months and see if I fall deathly ill from eating one after that.
Soooo……..as some of you may know, I’m studying abroad in England for the Fall 2012 semester. I give myself two weeks maximum until I develop a permanent British accent.
Have fun in England!
Once I watched 4 Doctor Who episodes in a row in an attempt to develop a British accent. It didn’t work, but the voice in my head was in Amy Pond’s Scottish accent for several hours.
I once watched 7 episodes withing 24 hours and my brain was stuck in an accent (it switched between different characters) for nearly two days..
My dear girl, it takes longer than that. There are nuances. You might convince one of your fellow Americans, but a Brit would spot you in seconds. I may be prevailed upon to give you lessons.
It only took me a few weeks in Singapore, but when I got back to the States it would go away. Only this time it seems to be lingering.
It’s odd to have to make a conscious effort to speak in your native accent.
i might actually go during the summer
which is sad because we won’t be able to have fun england adventures together
but i’d really like to do a summer internship in london and there’s an 8-week program for that over the summer and it looks a lot more exciting than any of the study abroad opportunities that actually involve studying. it looks a lot more independent and less touristy, and i feel like 8 weeks is exactly the amount of time i was looking for. plus i’d like to cram in a whole other degree in the next couple years and i’d rather not be swamped with homework while i’m studying abroad (i suppose i could take summer classes here instead, but i did that last year and it was very not fun/exciting).
plus like, resume fodder. yeah.
i dunno pretty much was looking through all the programs and just decided this is what i want to do. so now i’m all MAKIN’ PLANS, running degree audits like a BOSS, figuring out how the next couple years are gonna work out like SOMEONE WHO PLANS HER LIFE
baller.
Good. Glad I’m not the only one who went during the summer. It was sort of odd, though, I didn’t have classmates or a school, really (minus the four other people on my college’s program) and I only really stayed in one part of Chile. I really do want to go to England, though.
Deal! What shall I owe?
Gratis, old fruit. It will be my contribution to humanity.
May I please learn, too, then?
OOH OOH AND ME?
It’s so cute how you all want to learn to have a British accent.
And how I never wanted one and still somehow acquired it… WOULD ANYONE HERE LIKE MY ACCENT?
I AM TAKING YOUR ACCENT
What British accent are you teaching, exactly? Because I’ve been trained in RPF, but that’s utterly ruined my Cockney.
My accent is watered down Black Country – sort of generic Midland, unless I slip into my native vernacular, and then it’s unintelligible.
I would teach you all, but It’s a bit difficult by text. I just happen to know that ShadowKat is popping over the pond next year to study in the badlands of the East. She’s threatened to track me down and establish a de facto kokon, so I need something to keep her happy when she turns up on my doorstep.
PIFFLE THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM I SHALL SIMPLY APPARATE
That’s illegal! I’ll call the Ministry of Magic! I know their phone number; do you really want the Aurors after you? Unless you’ve been lying about your age, that is.
I OBLIVIATE YOU TATTLETALE
…So? There’s a permanent record of this conversation; I just found it again without even trying! You can Obliviate me as many times as you want; that won’t prevent me from finding out again. Just in case you do it once this thread is no longer active, though, I’ll write it down for myself.
And is it my fault that they won’t let me take Herbology, Astronomy, Care of Magical Creatures, Ancient Runes, History of Magic, or Arithmancy or give me access to any magical items just because I’m a Muggle? Maybe if I turn in a criminal, they’ll have second thoughts. All I ever wanted was to help save the snidgets and maybe gain some new insight into their behavior, but they won’t even let me read about them! It’s ridiculous. Those wizards… I just want to learn the theory! They probably wouldn’t have let me into Umbridge’s DADA class! It’s ridiculous! I know I certainly couldn’t do, say, Charms, but that does not mean I can’t learn about hippogriffs!
IF YOU DON’T TURN ME IN I’LL TUTOR YOU IN THOSE SUBJECTS
Really? Will you please start now, then?
I OBLIVIATE YOUR ABILITY TO READ!!!!! *poses dramatically* OBLIVIATE!!!!!!!!
That didn’t work. You can’t do such a major spell from such a long distance.
I OBLIVIATE YOUR ABILITY TO OBLIVIATE
ZNZ: Yay, thanks; now he can’t stop me from doing anything! And unless you start tutoring me today, I will report you. You’re going into your 4th year, right? Why are Billywigs considered insects? Has the wizarding world discovered a revolutionary bit of evolutionary (I promise that rhyme was really unintended!) history, or is it just plain wrong?
SO HELP ME IF YOU THREE CAN’T BEHAVE I WILL TURN THIS BLOG AROUND.
ZNZ, you can side-along apparate with me, I’m of age
YARGH, I RELEARN HOW TO OBLIVIATE THEN OBLIVIATE YOUR ABILITY TO OBLIVIATE AND THEN OBLIVIATE YOUR ABILITY TO RELEARN HOW TO OBLIVIATE!!!!!!!!!
AND BIBLIOPHILE I APPARATED THERE AND BACK WITH SOMEONE OF AGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you even know where I live? Even if you do, something must have went wrong with the spell, because I”ve already posted a comment since your attempt, remember? Besides, you can’t Obliviate someone’s ability to relearn things; that’s a skill, not a memory.
This is a test post. I’d do it on the HTML thread, but it would be much more difficult to do there, and much more tedious. I have a theory that I need to test. If I’m correct, then I have the capability to be quite a nuisance. If I’m incorrect, this post will be unremarkable and somewhat pointless.
And now I’m off to bed.
The capslock is contagious. AXA THIS IS YOUR FAULT
IT’S SPREADING
JUST AS PLANNED
I GUESS WE ALL
sort of alternate
WHAT DID YOU DO, AXA
oh gog
WE ACCEPT THEM WE ACCEPT THEM
ONE OF US ONE OF US
Missed the Dawn launch because I was taking a driving lesson, but at least it went well and I was able to catch the replays.
Er, Juno launch. Got confused because I was just looking at Dawn photographs of Vesta.
So, funny thing… I wasn’t really interested in getting into Pottermore (at least, not interested enough to get up at 3:00am), but I was reading the posts on here and thought I’d go take a look… Well, the clue was up, and I registered.
So I guess I’m in?
Even if I had to screenshot it out of a Google Books view, I now have the “Picture of a Happily Remarried Lady With Her Dead First Husband” I complained a while back on the quotations thread about not being able to find.
Interesting thing I discovered today. Apparently I’m in the 98% percentile in height…
I went to the hospital and got an EK G also as part of a sports clearance thing for school sports. It was pretty cool, with all the wires.
You have to get EKG’s for sports? Yikes. Neat, though- I’ve always wanted to see what my brain activity is like compared to other people’s.
EKG is the heart, not the brain.
i had an EEG done for a psych experiment (i guinea-pigged)
it was pretty awesome. afterwards i was like “I JUST SAW MY BRAINWAVES O.O”
I did that once, too, because of a mystery illness. We didn’t find out what it was, but it was still fun.
Sounds pretty cool, I find medical equipment fascinating. And I like hospitals… Weird, huh?
Oh right, sorry. EEG.
Hold on, what sport is this? I just signed up for the high school swim team, and nobody told me to get an EKG or an EEG.
Cross country, apparently it is considered a harder sport on the heart than softball, (or swimming) which I am also doing. It was recommended, though, not required.
Ackpbth migraine and I’m completely exhausted (yes, I’m staring at a brightly lit screen in the hopes it’ll make a migraine go away) but today was pretty awesome… and I finally finished back-to-school clothes shopping and have clothing my mom has deemed fit to wear (i.e. they actually fit).
I just starting worrying, though- when you apply for a scholarship, what years of grades do they look at?
Nothing before high school, if you’re talking about scholarships for college.
Oh. Okay. Good.
Yeah middle school doesn’t matter in the slightest!
It’s official, then- my last three years were meaningless in every way…
I have always wondered who exactly came up with the idea of taking a bunch of twelve-year-olds, sticking them in some small rooms with a bunch of other twelve-year-olds for thirty-five hours a week, and not introducing straightjackets, gags, and/or mood stabilizers somewhere into the mix.
A friend of mine who taught middle school felt the same way. She said eighth grade should be abolished and replaced with a year-long Outward Bound program.
Someone I know told me once that he thinks middle school should just be English class and PE. He says he can’t remember anything at all from his middle school years.
What? Those were my least favorite parts of middle school, even worse than lunch and the bus!
Mine, too (well, I did like English), but in retrospect I must admit that they may well have been the most important ones.
I told him I loathed PE and he said that didn’t matter.
Why did you dislike English so much?
Urgle, PE. Well, I don’t know how bad it is here. But in Singapore it was horrible.
My problem is that I like English, but I often find English classes very dull. Especially in Singapore, because a lot of our class were learning English as a second language, so much of the class time was devoted to explaining what an adjective is.
I love reading and do enjoy writing, but the grammar worksheets were really boring, and I hardly learned a single thing all year. It was way too easy. I suppose it wasn’t necessarily much easier than my other classes, but I’m much better at English than my other classes. Also, my teacher didn’t know her subject well. At least the people at my table were nice… But then people from other tables would ask for my help when I was trying to read (I always finished before almost anyone with the grammar worksheets), and often the person I was trying to explain to just didn’t get it, and sometimes if someone else at the table didn’t like either of us, they’d ask me stupid, awkward questions so I’d be annoyed and the other person didn’t get any help.
That was 6th grade, anyway. 7th grade was different, but I hated that, too. I was virtual schooled, but they wouldn’t let me skip any grades. Their version of “Gifted and Talented Language Arts” was literally exactly the same as the on-level class except with more work. I don’t want more work; I want non-easy/boring work. Also, that year, the most of stories we read weren’t even good, unlike the previous year, which was really annoying.
Ah, I see. That sounds dreadful.
Weirdly, I like PE. I’m resigned to the fact that I suck at it and have always got Cs (For a semester; I think I failed a few individual sports), so I just relax. Since I turn up in uniform and actually participate in things, the teachers don’t hate me. Although it was bad in middle school because I was in a class full of immature populars who were fitter and/or more coordinated than me.
What’s wrong with the bus?
It’s really, really loud. And dirty. So’s lunch.
Well, except for determining what classes you get into freshman year.
Althuogh I haven’t finished middle school, I’m positive I have not progressed in the slightest in that area.
Not at all; they don’t count your grades if you come in from another school system, so I just pick the ones I want and hope I don’t fail.
There’s a big geomagnetic storm going on, but I was unsuccessful at seeing the aurora. I think that if we’d gone further away from the city we could’ve seen it, but oh well. Crazy storm, though.
Have you thought of mounting an expedition to the Frozen North?
Well, I have a Scottish terrier, but I’ll probably need at least one more dog to pull a sled. I’ll start knitting a scarf as well.
I’ll come!
I’ll bring my dog if you let me come with you!
So would I, but she wouldn’t get along with a terrier. She dislikes little dogs. It’s a pity, because she’s strong. I really want to come, though; I love the cold!
I hate the cold, actually, but how am I to resist an EXPEDITION?
and also there’s the AURORA; I’d love to see that
My dog is a German Shepard, so she’s got enough fur to be comfortable and she’s probably pretty strong, but she can’t stand strangers.
How about this, actually, since I don’t like the idea of joining in without helping in any way: If you let me come with you, I’ll imitate a dog! I’m not very strong, but I’m stronger than most terriers, so I should do. I don’t know how to bark, but neither do some of the more wolflike dogs, and according to a quiz, my mind is 3/4 wolfish, so I should be fine.
Just like they did in Winter Holiday! (One of the Swallows and Amazons books, and probably my favourite because it’s the first one I read; Mum read it to me when I was very small.)
Saw “Winter Holiday” followed closely by “Swallows and Amazons” and just decided that we should get married.
Also that I should reread that entire series RIGHT NOW.
SORRY NO THANKS I CAN’T
I’M ALREADY MARRIED
TO PONDER STIBBONS
ALAS
I can bring my dog!
So… the S & P credit rating on the US is down. Perhaps this will be a wakeup call to Congress that only giving back 1 trillion isn’t enough and that maybe Democrats and Republicans should put their differences behind them and get things done for once. Or we’ll just keep on borrowing, get into even more debt, and let the next generation deal with it. Oh wait… that’s us.
I just got home from summer camp!!!!! Now all I have are a few partially done merit badges and 1 more after that, then an Eagle project, then I have Eagle! Yay!
I got the archery high shooter award for the teens with a 91, and my parents are still hesitant to let me buy my own bow.
And my sister got into Pottermore while I was away, so I can use the account!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My dad is now threatening to go to Jupiter. I’m trying to tell him not to because he would definitely die, but he won’t listen!
Tell him he’ll be overweight there.
Somehow I don’t think that’s one of those threats you have to really worry about.
There’s a town called Jupiter in Florida, and one in North Carolina, and a Jupiter Township in Minnesota. It’s also the name of a summer resort in Romania. Jupiter Island is a barrier island in Florida, and on it is a town called Jupiter Island. (Thank you, Wikipedia.) He could be planning to go to any one of those.
Tell him it’s a gas planet, and he would have a hard time staying there.
I already did before you posted that, actually. He says he can harden gas. I told him to do it, then, because I’ve always dreamed of sitting on air! He says it’s powered by adrenaline, and he can’t control it, but it happens when he’s in danger. I asked how he ever managed to play sports, which seem to excite him so much. He says he goes into the phone booth or the bathroom until he calms down.
99.3: It would be exactly like him to go to one of those and just call it Jupiter, but he says it’ll be a 5-year journey. (I looked it up, and it’s 2 1/2 years in a space shuttle, but he says it’s not in a space shuttle but rather a craft that won’t collapse upon leaving Earth’s gravity (as a response to another point I made).
Kai: That’s a good idea! I tried that in the middle of posting this (I took a really long break), but it didn’t work; he acted insulted but pleaded shape-shifting again.
So he’s going on the Juno probe, is he?
“It’s classified information.”
He should get there around the same time as it though. Tell him to say hi to it.
Sounds like he’s got this pretty well planned out, then.Hm. Have you read or seen 2001: A Space Odyssey?
No, but that sounds interesting. What’s relevant about it, besides it having to do with space? (I’m not saying it’s irrelevant; I’m saying that it’s presumably relevant, and I don’t know enough to say how, but I’m sure you do, and I’m curious).
I’m going to have to get a Skype account so that I can videochat with him before he dies. Even if he does make it there and back alive, I’ll be 22 by then, so I don’t want to lose contact for all that time.
Much of the action takes place on a voyage to Jupiter.
*23.
haha! this is cracking me up, your dad sounds pretty funny!
I’m back from the lake!
I don’t think I got into Pottermore, but my mom and I registered. Oh well, I’ll wait.
Should there be a Pottermore threaed for those lucky few to discuss it?
I got to drive a jetski!
There’s a grub burrowing in the toad now, and what looks like some sort of beetle. It’s getting a bit hollow, and there are bits of the skeleton poking through. I think I’ll keep the skeleton once there’s nothing else left.
I found more cicada exoskeletons! A gum tree that yellow-bellied sapsuckers absolutely LOVE (I haven’t seen one in years, but the markings keep appearing, so I think they’re just good at hiding) has them all over the leaves, too, but I can’t reach the leaves, and it’s too big to shake.
There are also some ants and beetles in a rotting pear I found, and I think something laid eggs in it, unless they’re seeds. I’ll keep an eye on them in case they ever hatch into anything.
…Oh, dear. I think I’ve become that creeper who steals the neighbors’ dead toads and rotten fruit and puts it in her yard for science. Or is it that I’m cleaning their yards? I’m not sure. But it’s fun… I just hope they don’t notice. I especially hope they weren’t doing the same thing, or that no-one doing the same thing steals mind assuming I won’t notice like I did. Is that irrational? I don’t think it’s at all likely… In my defense, I wasn’t actively looking for anything; I just found them on my walk.
I painted a mushroom cap underside to make a print, only to realize there might have been something hiding in it (all those crevices…!). I then felt very guilty and abstained from doing the rest. I’m still making a print of the already painted one, though. By the way, I took it weeks ago, and it does look like all the insects are gone; I’d never knowingly do it; I just wasn’t thinking. And the mushrooms were going to be mowed, anyway; I wouldn’t have even removed them otherwise.
No more of a creeper than Beatrix Potter.
Assuming you don’t go and eat the mushrooms, I’d say you’re not doing any harm.
I would be to the creatures in the mushroom. I know I’m safe painting them, but they’re not.
If you took it weeks ago, I think the insects would be long gone, but people die of mushrooms.
It’s a just in case thing, and I washed my hands thoroughly afterward.
I just had my first-ever babysitting job! Okay, well, not really, but the first one for which I got paid.
On a related note, what’s a reasonable rate for babysitting, assuming it’s with a two-year-old and a six-year-old and they live next door? My current rate is $2.50 an hour, but I’m not sure what most babysitters charge.
Maaaan you’re working for cheap. When my friends babysat when we were in high school, they all charged over $5 an hour. Don’t remember exact rates.
That’s probably about a third of your state’s minimum wage…it would depend on how much you’re doing/how manageable the kids are/how often you do it.
Re: kiwi – The credit rating moving down half a grade doesn’t really hurt the market badly. If it continues down a few grades, as it could soon, then nations will would start to seriously doubt the US’s capabilities and stability. European countries are in financial troubles as well, though, so everybody is watching carefully.
That’s highway robbery. I charge in the range of $8 an hour (people tend to pay me what they like, but it’s generally in the $7 to $9 range).
Oh. Um, wow… alright, does anyone know a polite way of asking for a higher wage, then?
Jakob- Minimum wage in California is $8 per hour, I believe- but then the Under 20 minimum wage is $4.25, and the student wage is $6.80.
The kids are pretty manageable, but I want a cello…
Um. I used to charge $5 an hour and I started babysitting ten years ago. I’d say you could charge $7.50 an hour or maybe $10.
You should be charging a lot more than that. If you’re the only one watching the kids, it should be at least minimum wage for your state. I get $10 dollars an hour from the family I work for, but that’s three kids, and they’re very generous. Around 8 dollars is reasonable, but you might have to go a little less than that if there’s a lot of competition, and you don’t have much experience.
I used to ask for six, if someone asked what I charged, but there were a few people who took it upon themselves to give me ten.
I’m not doing as poorly as I thought I would at driving practice, considering I wasn’t able to drive the whole 5 weeks I was in DC. I hope I can get my license before I leave for college at the end of the month.
I am dying the death of chocolate bliss
Ghirardelli chocolate store ice cream bar, I got the Midnight Reverie shake thing. I am so full. But so full of chocolate. I feel like the boy in matilda who ate the whole cake.
DID I JUST LOOK UP GHIRADELLI’S WEBSITE AND DOWNLOAD A MENU
AM I NOW SITTING AT THE COMPUTER CRYING AND MY TEARS ARE ALSO BLOOD
MAYBE
OMG
I SAVED A MENU
FOR MY WALL NEXT YEAR
SO I CAN LOOK AT IT AND CRY EVERY DAY BEFORE I GO TO DINNER
Love that book.
Me, too!
Re: British accents- I don’t want to learn to speak with a British accent of any sort. I want to speak with a transatlantic accent. All I need is that, a gray suit, a nice pair of shoes, a fedora, and some hair grease and I could be Cary Grant.
Guess what, everyone? ENC gets to have FUN taking NOTES on his SUMMER READING BOOKS today! It’s not like one of them FAILS BIOLOGY and the other IS TOO GOOD TO BE ANALYZED or anything! He is going to have so much FUN he might just go INSANE and EAT THE BOOKS!
What books are these?
Unwind Which has so many failures of biology, and the characters don’t really have consistent or dynamic characterization (except for one character)
The Help Which is one of those books where you feel awful if you consider analyzing it or criticizing it because its story is really good and true.
Isn’t Unwind some kind of abortion parable? (can’t remember if it’s pro- or anti-)
Pro-choice, I believe. It’s baisically “If we didn’t have abortion then we’d have to have a thing where unwanted children could be a) dropped off at a random person’s house or b) raised until they’re 13 and then have all their organs donated.”
Yes. All their organs. All of them. (They have no organs left for them to donate)
Sounds like some solid arguments.
I thought it was more like, “Both sides of the argument are wrong and if abortion is allowed people will misuse it and if it’s not people will come up with alternatives that are much worse and trying to compromise is probably the worst because for some reason people are willing to treat children as free trials and give them a taste of life and take it all away rather than just giving them none which at least won’t disappoint them although at least someone will benefit from it and nothing will ever work and this is a problem.” Basically, I thought they were just trying to get people to realize that it’s a complicated issue.
The organ idea is ridiculous, but I liked it anyway. It was well-written, and the characters weren’t that bad. It was an interesting if unrealistic hypothetical situation. I’m quite worried that I didn’t notice the biology failures, though; admittedly the human aanatomy is hardly my specialty, but still… What were they?
Let’s see…
A guy who gets the right temporal lobe (which is involved in music, semantics, and general auditory perception) suddenly now has the personality of the donor 1/8 of the time. THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN.
A guy has the muscle memory of a guy he got the right arm of (he can perform magiv tricks). Muscle memory is stored in the brain- it the result of a type of learning.
IQ is now determined by brain scan.
A guy manages to get all the people who got part of his son into one place. And suddenly his son is concious again, and manages to speak out of someone else’s vocal cords and lips. Using bits of his brain that are in other people’s heads.
And finally- there is no mention, at all, of rejection due to different genes. So, either:
-Everyone in the future is a clone
-Nobody has an immune system.
I mean, 5 failures is not so bad, but 3 of them end up playing a major role in the story.
Piggy- Yes, because everyone I know considers fetuses more human than 15 year olds.
WAIT NO I LOVE UNWIND.
Now I shall argue for it like a chivalrous knight.
The book, I believe, was more a of a caricature/interesting outlook of abortion and it’s problems. While immediately it would seem pro-choice, I think the book was contemplating the idea of abortion rather than arguing either way. The question of the book was, when does someone become a true human being? The fact of the matter is, everybody reading realizes how outrageous the idea of unwinding is, but it makes us question ideas of what a soul is, when it manifests, and if aborted organisms have souls. In the book, the argument that aborted organisms don’t have souls is represented by the widespread belief that unwinded kids are “living on” in their donated body parts. While you may think, well that’s about a load of crap, we see at the end of the book that (and remember, it’s fiction, so it is the author’s universe in order to teach us whatever he wishes) when the people who were all donated body parts from the same person meet together, the donors soul is revealed through a collective remembrance of an event during childhood. Realistic? Hell no. Intriguing? I think so.
For many of those inaccuracies, I agree; they’re misguided. Anyhow, it’s not entirely unbelievable that doctors in the future have more powerful immune system suppression drugs for donated organs.
I read it a long time ago, but I seem to remember rather enjoying the characters. We see the religious, pompous kid realize what’s wrong with unwinding and religion, which I thought was interesting. Honestly, I don’t remember the other protagonists much, but I don’t remember them being bland.
I apologize for the long post, this really should be on the books and reading thread.
Except, the thing is, in his universe, the unwinded kids ARE living on in the various body parts- Remember how the admiral reassembled his son, or Cy who had 1/8 of the other guy’s personality? They are living on in the other people, which undermines the entire point of the book.
In my opinion, the protagonists weren’t bland, they were simply static. Only Lev had a real change of opinion, the other two were essentially the same at the end as at the beginning. Since they are the people the story focuses most on, the fact that they are pretty much the same throughout the whole book makes them fairly boring.
That’s a good point. I suppose that, if they’re living on… is that even such a bad thing? Hm… I wonder…
Oh, of course. It should be noted that this was years ago, and I wasn’t looking for them. Those are pretty significent. I’d probably hate the book if human anatomy was my specialty. I liked it overall, though.
When does your school start?
First Wednesday after Labor Day.
Same as Enc.
YANA … I have to memorize a bunch of dates for World History.
I actually liked Unwind; it was an interesting story and concept, abortion parable or not. I suppose reading it for school would take all the fun out of it, though.
*writing short summaries of books for school*
*use the term “Anvilicious” without realizing it*
TVTROPES HAS RUINED MY VOCABULARY
Ouch. I got in trouble with my teacher last year for writing that a character was Hemingway’s “avatar”. He wrote “Avatar is a specific religious term” on my paper.
Tell James Cameron that.
Yeah well I doubt your teacher approves of James Cameron’s use of it, either.
Last day in California. We walked down the street and were at one of those stands selling shirts and things, because mom’d found some cool purses/bags in the style I like (long strap I can wear over the shoulder, large enough to actually CARRY THINGS darnit. And it’s really pretty and I like it. But I was also admiring this sweater and mom was all “I’ll get that for you too!” So she bought it. And then I saw the price tag and it was like 45 DOLLARS and now I’m all hnnnng that was expensive, plus the $25 bag, oh god money I am a poor college student.
And it wasn’t MY money so I shouldn’t feel guilty, especially because it’s not like she or I is going to be buying me any other new clothes for school or anything. But I’m all “WITH THAT MUCH MONEY I COULD HAVE BOUGHT AN ENTIRE TRAIN TICKET OR…”
But it’s not like they’d have given me the money in cash anyway : P
IDK MAN. Money is weird and I’m going to stop thinking about it right now I think, because then it’ll just get to the guilt where I don’t have a job.
I feel so guilty when my parents buy me things. Like “god, you’ve been buying me things for EIGHTEEN YEARS shouldn’t I buy my own stuff now?” But then again, I’m POOR so I don’t really want to buy my own things.
I lost my toad. And yes, I looked under the leaves. I don’t know whether it decayed or was carried off by a bird or what.
My cat brought a frog into my house a few days ago, it jumped on my mom’s foot and she kicked it into the living room. We haven’t found it yet.
I hope you find it before your cat does. Frogs are hard to catch, too. So are geckos. There was one in the bathroom the night before last; I wouldn’t have been able to put it outside if it weren’t in a corner… I’m probably very fortunate that the pet frogs I had in the past never escaped, especially since they were aquatic and would have died if we didn’t find them. They were already diseased, though, and I only managed to cure one of them after much effort; the rest died; PetSmart is a terrible place; almost all the African dwarf frogs there had a fungal infection, especially the males… Sorry for the tangents and excessive semicolons; I was just reading Luna finfics, and I’m sort of still in that mindset; they were very good stories…
I was about to offer my condolences when I remembered that it was a dead toad. I’m sorry your experiment was terminated in an untimely fashion, though.
*sympathy squid*
“Have either of you seen a toad? A girl named Bibli’s lost one.”
*hugs* I’m sorry. Skeletons are really cool.
so it’s also really difficult to find which cosmetic brands are ethical, but more because there is too MUCH information and a lot of it seems to be conflicty
some companies are okay in one country but not another because different larger companies own them? and nestle is all around the worst it sounds like, and they own a lot of brands which i find strange. also why would anyone ever name a lipgloss color failbait, i can literally think of zero reasons
still in the process of looking for retail brands that aren’t evil incarnate but it is not going well :/
jade – blurg totally know what you mean, money is the weirdest .__.
“also why would anyone ever name a lipgloss color failbate, i can literally think of zero reasons”
For teh lulz?
Lololol failbait? I have to go with POSOC on this one. Someone high up decided to have a little joke, pronounced it a weird way, and everyone just went with it. Because seriously.
Or is it an unattractive color?
And uhg yeah
I feel like I’m a bad consumer, even though I try not to buy things. But to be honest when I’m buying things myself I can’t afford to shop at organic stores because expensive x_x So then I end up with a product and self-loathing. Alas!
IT’S LIKE….IT’S PINK. I DON’T UNDERSTAND. ALL THE NAMES ARE STUPID THOUGH, I GUESS IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE ~FLIRTY
seriously everything i’ve found so far is custom online orders/shops and i can’t really afford that +_+ i’m the same about not buying stuff, i’ll go to the mall with a PLAN to BUY THE THINGS but then….nope
Back from Ca-li-forn-i-ay and oh my god so tired.
Also our house is CHAOS INCARNATE
I am sitting on the floor surrounded by laptops and giant heaps of fabric because that’s where our internet modem is and we don’t have WiFi anymore.
I have to go pack now. I’ve decided to pack up my entire room and sleep on a bare floor in a sleeping bag for the next two weeks because these next few days may be the last free days I have before COLLEGE~~~~
Also we don’t have a couch anymore. D: It has been replaced with Boxes of Miscellany, some of them from our last move three years ago.
Oh! Also I refused to buy sheets made of non-organic cotton for my dorm but organic sheets are expensiveeeeeeeee so I am going to buy a fitted one and make my top one from a vast sheet of quilting cotton. Aw yeah resourcefulness.
Mother’s going to make me a coverlet of blue velvet. It will go with my yellow quilt because blue and yellow are the colors of scholarship.
BEAUTIFUL LIFE
TIME FOR TEA
I am texting my best friend about Gettysburg and MythBusters. Life is good.
I’ve been doing nothing of note. Practicing my driving, finishing my online orientation stuff, getting distracted by all the shiny things on the net.
My driving exam is next week. I hope I pass.
Every time I try to do anything, I get distracted. Sometimes by the weirdest things. For example, I was thinking about ancient Greek philosophers, and I don’t think that the original works have survived, and what did survive was translated, and retranslated, and you know, if the people doing the translating weren’t the best at the second language things could have changed in meaning and we’d never know.
And then there was looking at the promo stuff for Avatar: Legend of Korra. That took over my mind for a couple of days.
FantasyFan:
It must also be distracting to have Ramadan in August. How is that going?
It’s going. I spend a lot of time asleep. That helps. I went to Taraweeh prayers the first few days, but I haven’t really felt like it lately. Ramadan isn’t the only thing I’ve been concentrating on. I feel like I’ve got a lot going on, especially with college coming up and all, but at the same time I’m not really doing anything. It just feels like a pause in my life until everything gets started again.
…Reading this over, I seem very blah and low on holiday spirit. I swear I’m a bit more enthusiastic in real life.
My friend is on the East Coast, and she’s just having the worst Ramadan you can imagine, since it’s so crazy hot where she is. I was thinking of fasting for a day with her, and the only thing she told me was, “DRINK LOTS AND LOTS OF WATER”.
Better advice has never been given. I feel like I drink a gallon every morning. Sleep helps also…if you can manage to not wake up before two pm, or at least take a nap during the hottest part of the day…
Rings on my fingers, bells on my toes…
I got an armful of lavender at the market today. I want to sit in a high place and drop flowers on passersby. I’m like LOVE~~~ at the world for no reason, but who’s complaining?
I AM ON A PLANE
ON THE INTERNET
ON A PLANE
SKYPOSTING ON MUSEBLOG
I love technology, life is fabulous. I’m on Virgin Airlines on a chromebook. It was free! And so very cool. Below me there are MOINTAINS and LAKES and CLOUDS.
And I can see the moooooon out the window ♥
You mean “cloids”?
What’s a cloid?
You know, those fluffy things that often shroid the tops of mointains.
Hahahahaha ♥
Your wit does us all proid.
Cloids? Is that a term for clouds from above or something? I haven’t heard it before and google just asks me if I meant “clouds.” Enlighten us, o wise one?
I think you should be able to figure it oit.
I did, after he posted again XD
When I saw this in the RC bar, I thought you were replying to measkibg what nest chairs were called. And I was like, “That’s a weird name for a chair…” XD
Must be incredible.
Writing this from atop my NEW LOFT BED OF AWESOME. My mom was looking at the Meijer ad this morning at breakfast and she saw this bed (which was on sale for $200) and she was like, “You’d like this for your room, wouldn’t you?” Kinda out if nowhere and I’m still like whaat. And now we’re kinda doing a whole room makeover type of deal and my parents are paying for part of it! No idea where this came from but I’m hardly complaining.ÂÂ
The loft bed is amazing. It’s black and made out of metal, and it’s got a desk below the bed. Plus I’ve got new bedding, finally. I’ve been wanting to get some for ages. My old stuff was all pink and flowery and ew. This one has flowers too but it’s more.. Um, I dunno… Well, it’s much better anyway. I got an LED clip on lamp to light up the bunk. At some point in the future I am planning to get a washable shag rug to go on the floor (probably green), a lamp for the desk, and maybe one of those circle-y chairs to replace my horrible brownish-maroon recliner. I’m not sure what the circle-y chairs are called, but they’re shaped like a circle and they’ve got folding metal legs… y’know?
Nest chair! They are soooo comfy.
Ooh, cool!
I’m going to redecorate my room as soon as I finish cleaning it, and the rest of the house is finished. It’ll be… Very similar to yours, actually. See, I’m going to get a loft bed, but it’ll be just space underneath, and I’ll put in a pair of really comfy chairs and move my bedside table under there or maybe get a new table and move the bedside one somewhere else, and paint the walls a pale shade of green. And curtains, both for the window and something deviding my under-bed area from the rest of the room.
I’ve been slowly planning this for a year now. The main problem is that there are almost no loft beds that don’t have anything underneath them.
Cookies for anybody who actually read this pointless ramble.
*noms cookie*
 If you can’t find a loft bed with nothing underneath it, you could probably get one with a desk and not use it. My bed’s desk can be removed by undoing a couple bolts.
Pale green walls? That’ll be awesome! Right now two of my walls are white and two are sky blue; I think I’ll keep them that way, since they match my new stuff.
I used to have curtains which my mom made out of some of the extra sheets from my old bedding (I’m using the non-extra sheets, actually, since my new sheets are horridly scratchy) but she later took them down because she decided they gathered dust. (I’m allergic to dust.) So I haven’t got any curtains at all. I think that maybe one of those curtains that just go along the top would be nice, though.
In my original post, I forgot to mention hat I also want a chair to go with my new desk… I’d really like a proper office type chair, but I can’t find any for less than $40. Tractor chairs are less comfy, but cheap; I’ll probably get one of those. My mom thinks that my chair from my old desk’d be fine, but I don’t think it matches at all.
Jade- ah yes, nest chair! Thanks!
I’m about to move into a new, nearby house because it’s bigger; it doesn’t make that much of a difference to me, but I’m glad because we’ll be right next to the greenbelt and I’ll get to change my room. The one I’ll probably get has pale blue walls, which is nice enough not to need painting if not as nice as my pale green walls at home, and it lacks a carpet. I really want filing cabinets and things, and places to display collections (I collect feathers and fossils and cicada exoskeletons and plan to start collecting leaves and castings of bark and animal tracks and things) and projects I’m working on.
Cleaned out fishbowl today, because SERIOUSLY THAT THING WAS MAJORLY NASTY. But now it’s all pretty. Over the summer I got some pretty blue-ish green-ish stones (well not stones, I guess; coloured glass. I got them because my granddad was getting rid of his fish and he had these in the bottom of the tank and he said I could have them) and I put them in the bottom in place of the seashells I had had there (partly because those are still kind of mucky), and it’s really pretty.
Frightening graphing calculator is frightening. Surely I don’t need that many buttons? (Please tell me I don’t need that many buttons. I don’t know what to do with that many buttons.)
Also I’ve imported lots of music onto my computer in the last couple days (today: bagpipe music, and Gregorian chants, and music from World War II), which is nice, and I’ve still got a huge pile of CDs to do. (All of it is my parents’ stuff; I like a lot of the same music as they do.) And I’ve finally figured out how to use shuffle on iTunes (I know, I know. I’m dense.) So now every time I’m in my room reading or whatever I’ve got a soundtrack. Until recently I’ve not listened to much music (well, nearly all the time my parents have stuff playing but I mean on my own).
High school starts the Tuesday after next OH HELP I’M GOING TO DIE
Jadestone (115)- Chromebook FTW.
ZNZ (117)- What type of calculator?
Ah… let’s see. *dives for backpack* *retrieves manual* The cover of the manual says TI-83 Plus.
Same kind as I had. You get used to it.
I have a TI-84 Plus but either way, in time it shall seem less of a threat.
If you get to Calc BC you will use all the buttons and even more hidden buttons. And then you will wish you had buttons that let you do more stuff because you will have to do the rest by hand.
But it’s fun! I mean, BUTTONS. And calculators are basically magic not even gonna lie.
And in Multi, you use the wicked tricksy buttons called “CrossProduct”! (shut up I know it’s actually a selection in the “Calculus” menu)
Pretty sure 83s don’t do that unless you learn how to program, like my friend did! He’s at Harvey Mudd now, so.
Ohwait, that’s only for an 89.
I have a TI-84 Plus Silver Edition but it’s basically the same calculator. You’ll figure out which buttons to use and whih buttons to ignore fairly quickly. My calculator is five-ish years old and I don’t even think about t anymore. Every time I learn a new function it has I’m all “Woah! Right! There are options there!”
I love finding buttons/menus on my calculator (the same kind as yours, I think) that automatically do for me whatever everyone else is doing by hand. Typically, I still do test problems by hand, but it’s nice to be able to plug the numbers into this magic thing that spits out an answer – an answer that, hopefully, matches the one I got.
Basically, calculators are great.
89S ARE THE BEST
JUST SAYIN’
EVEN HARDER TO USE THAN 83S AND 84S
BECAUSE BASICALLY NO HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER HAS AN 89
I’ll stop shouting now
SUNSET OVER THE CLOOOUUUUUDS/CLOOOIIIIIDS
Whoa, I’m fifteen now. O_o How did that happen? When did I start this “growing up” thing?
Anyways. I’m having a very good birthday. Highlights include: pancakes, playing Settlers of Catan with my older brother and his girlfriend, going to a house museum with my dad and taking pictures of stuff, going shopping with my mom (not usually my sort of thing, but we got some nice stuff), very delicious cake, and presents. One of which was a trench coat.
I can SO picture you in a trench coat.
Where is young Romeo? I can tell you; but young Romeo will be older when you have found him than he was when you sought him.
You’re older than you’ve ever been,
and now you’re even older,
and now you’re even older,
and now you’re even older,
and now you’re even older,
and now you’re older still.
Time – is marching on,
and time – is still marching on!
This day will soon be at an end,
and now it’s even sooner,
and now it’s even sooner,
and now it’s even sooner,
and now it’s even sooner,
and now it’s sooner still.
I really want a riding coat.
Hey all!
I’m in Pittsburgh currently. Borrowing my dad’s computer. I am tired of my family, and there’s still another week to go….
Armada’s birthday art is all pencilled out. it’s later in the plot and Armadda is in a very pretty kimono for romantic tension (oh gawd it’s so much fun 8D). I might color it, but I have suddenly found a lot of art on my plate and little time to do it.
*friend’s birthday card
*MB birthday card
…well… considering what they consist of…
My MB birthday card should be done on the plane, maybe a little time after. Almost done with J’s card, which has priority since I’m missing the event (it’s tomorrow).
Got to go~ I’m checking a few more threads and signing off.
School shopping was today! Tax-free weekend and all. I don’t think my parents understand how glorious new school supplies are; they always try to rush me through it. “Abby are you DONE YET” “But PAPER CLIPS”
It only took an hour and three bags between me and my sister, though, so that’s something of an accomplishment. One of my binders is a pretty purple.
My last band camp was last week. Highlights include: Evil clinician from last year is both helpful and likable now, scattered band director has a sense of planning and focus that is definitely a trend I hope continues, awesome and enthusiastic freshmen, getting caught in a downpour thy was basically the entire Baltic sea coming out of the sky (and walking 20min back to the dorms–it was completely awesome), and not sleeping much. All in all fun
I’ve been trying to be on gmail chat less
, because I’m online so much especially during the school year. I’ve been hating the expectation that I will be in constant contact with my friends recently (probably in part because there’s been more Drama stuff than usual and I’ve been a little tired of/fed up with everyone, and because relatedly I’ve been anxious about social dynamics this coming year). I like it because it means I’m more productive (Common App essay done!) and do more fun things (half a latchhook rug done!). I’d kind of like to try to wean myself off of it during the school year too. I see my friends at school, I shouldn’t need to then talk to them all the time, especially if parts of that make me anxious or get me down. I’m happier without constantly being on chat. However, I think a few of my friends aregetting kind of annoyed that I’m not online. So… I don’t know.
I watched National Treasure with my sister tonight. It’s my parents’ 23rd anniversary, and they went out to dinner, so my sister and I went to get dinner ourselves and then rented a movie. We also got Finding Nemo for tomorrow. I know movies like National Treasure are, well, movies, but they do make me think maybe I should give history a chance in college. Take a few classes, see how it goes. I’ve never had a real history class before. It isn’t the secret clues and maps and so on that piques my interest in the field so much as the lines like “The last time the Declaration was in this room, it was being signed.” True or not, there is still very much a “woah” factor there for me. So, we’ll see.
My friend the other oboist and I are making dragon costumes for our oboes. They are coming along nicely.
New school supplies ARE glorious. <3
DRAGON COSTUMES?
Do you have a pattern for an alto sax, tenor sax, or trombone?
We’re not using a pattern. She’s incredibly artsy so mostly I’m following her lead on making these. We have the body fabric one color and are using the circular, open-in-the-middle part of a jam jar lid to keep the top open-ish. It works well with the top of an oboe–it covers all of it but it has a slit for the reed, which will hold it on. I’ll send in photos when we’re done.
I also play alto sax, so if I get to that I’ll let you know.
Thanks!
Yes, National Treasure has a fantastic plot, but it really does make you feel that history is cool and dynamic.
And that’s why it’s one of my favorite movies.
Hola, GAPA’s!! I just sent ya’ll a picture (w/ description) for posting, p*ease!
I LOVE SUMMER!
On a totally unrelated note, why are the comments on the neophyte thread off?
How did that happen? I hope we haven’t lost any newcomers. All fixed now.
Axa- *sympathy squid* I get guilt basically every time I buy something. It’s so unfair. And so easy to buy the wrong stuff.
The removal of my orthodontical appliances from my mouth has been rescheduled for a third time. Yaay. At least I don’t have rubberbands anymore.
I am behind on posts and don’t have time to catch up.
Boyfriend was here, that was awesome.
And now madness starts.
Turbo-packing for college, then tomorrow morning I leave to go to NC for a pirate festival music gig with Le Band. Tomorrow it’s drive to VA, Wednesday it’s rehearse, Thursday it’s go to the town in NC where we’re playing, Friday-Saturday it’s play lots of music for monies, Sunday it’s drive home. Then next Monday it’s do laundry, panic and pack the last bits of whatever I need, then the next day drive BACK to NC (but a different part this time), then the day after that, next Wednesday (the 17th) it’s start orientation for college. Then that goes on for a bit and then it is COLLEGE FOR REAL.
I think I’m going to die.
Not even kidding.
Oh my god.
I am not good at turbo-packing.
I’m not even good at regular-packing.
What made me think I could do this?
And now I am wasting time posting when I should be busy.
Busy TURBO-PACKING.
(I like the term way more than I like actually doing it. Can you tell?)
PACK ALL THE THINGS
then realize none of them fit in the car and RE-PACK
then see the box you forgot.
Anyway I guess I’m saying give yourself three hours to get everything in your car and actually leave. One of those hours is solely for the amount of times you will realize you’ve forgotten something dreadfully important/change your mind about something you want to bring after all just as you are about to leave your driveway, and have to run and get it. At least one of these trips will be when you are 15 minutes away from your door.
And if not then extra time is always good!!
WOOO COLLEGE
(I won’t have to pack as much this round because I never actually unpacked most of it. Not just the unimportant-while-at-home thing like bedding either, like, bathroom supplies and all of my socks. Oh, life.)
omg my only advice is to put things in other things…AS IN if you’re bringing more than one backpack or something make sure to fill them all with stuff. i’ve heard of people who bring along mini fridges putting lamps and stuff inside the fridge to save space. packing clothes is the worst though. i am in denial about having to do so again myself….
AND REMEMBER YOUR TOOTHBRUSH!
The night before last I finally got to sleep at about 1:30 in the morning. That means I spent approximately 42 hours awake straight.
I am not joking!
Isn’t everything that can be numbered approximately 42?
Well, I meant that it was 42 hours and a few minutes.
Every bit of data is approximately 42 units and a few mini-units. And don’t say it was exactly that, because it wasn’t, not with all the milliseconds and such.FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL.
I AM STILL ALIVE. I THINK.
PE coach scares me though.
And I think my English 1 Honors class thinks I’m a show-off.
Oh well. I survived, and that’s what counts. I actually only got lost twice, and got to all my classes on time!
Some PE teachers seem to make it their goal in life to scare students. Not all of them, but…
Hehe, you can’t help being smart!
“Still Alive.
Still Alive.” (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)
What happened in English? While I’ve found myself doing things that may have come off as boastful, I rarely mean it. I’d say if you’re wondering if you sound like a show-off, it’s best to try and find a way to……. not. People, especially in high school, can be very presumptuous about this sort of thing. Clarifying note: I do not think you’re a show-off.
*good luck choklit for public school*
So last night, Erin and I talked on the phone about:
Gettysburg
Zombies
MythBusters
Nikola Tesla
Aquaria
Poetry
Fandom
Relativity
Harry Potter
WOOOO
I just finished writing the leitmotif for one of my characters (for a fanfiction collaboration on another site)!
YEAHHHHH C MINOR FTW
((Only 5 more leitmotifs to go!))
I’m student liason for my school’s chapter of the Harry Potter Alliance, so got this email from a school online news thing asking for info about it. Quote from it:
“We’ll hold office hours this year so please stop by any time for a free drink, hookah, tater tots or coffee…”
Lolyup that’s my school.
IS IT WRONG THAT THE ONLY THING THAT INTERESTS ME IS THE TATER TOTS………….
Nah man
that’s what I would go for
every time
(unless somehow they also had pomegranates, in which case I would be there every day)
NOT AT ALL. WHY NO CHOKLIT, THOUGH?
I have a drivers exam in two days and I am still physically incapable of backing a car into a parking spot without going way over the lines. (I can’t even see them! How am I supposed to know?) I think some of it might be because it’s a minivan and therefore is way too big for me to judge but I have already had one nervous breakdown and AHHHH if anyone has any tips I will be greatly indebted.
*calming squid*
OK… so this is terribly random, but this is the random thread afterall so… My sister and I do this thing when we want to be random crazy people that involves squids. Me make squid faces at each other, which involves putting ones hands just under ones nose and wiggling ones fingers. Then we rock back and forth while running circles around each other. It’s quite fun really, and is excellent for attracting awkward stares.
Maybe you could practice in a parking lot that has those little bumps at the end of the spots? Or one that has curbs?
Also, I failed my driving test by 41 points the first time I took it, and just so you know, nobody will think any less of you if you don’t pass it the first time you take it. In New York, you even have to pay for your first two tests when you get your permit instead of your first test. Which is not to say at all that I don’t think you will pass!
(ps: If you’re having nervous breakdowns, the Coping thread is the place to go)
Could someone else stand behind the car and signal you when to stop until you get a feel for it?
Thanks everyone for the driving advice. But it’s not the end line that I’m having trouble going over, it’s the side lines. I’m a lot better after today’s practice though, which means I can get the car within the lines maybe 60% of the time. I have tomorrow to perfect everything and the day after is the exam.
The real reason I’m so panicked about the exam is because this is going to be my only chance to take it until winter break, because I”m in another state for college. And winter is going to be nasty to drive in, and more importantly I’d need some form of state or federal ID and I’d rather not carry my passport around everywhere. I could get a state-issued ID, but a drivers license is more convenient, because, you know, you can drive with it. If I fail that probably what I’ll get. Though I really don’t want to fail.
And so Forever Awake returns. That didn’t take long. XD
Also, soone of my best friends/future roommate had to stay awake till 3am her time to monitor her blood sugars and was having trouble staying awake.
So I was like
“I WILL KEEP YOU AWAKE
every ten minutes
I will send you a picture of me with less clothing on.”
Her: “YES PLEASE”
So I put on about 8 more layers and took funny pictures of myself making weird expressions/poses. I stared out in this long poofy gown with a corset, top hat, and cape. After I took off the corset and gown there was… another gown with a waist cincher over it, and my polka dot rainboots (and mismatched knee socks) were revealed. It was a lot of fun, and entirely PG the whole time, so no worries there XD I ended with a handstand in my pyjama shorts/tank top. Every picture had a caption as well–
“Oh goodness, my dress appears to have fallen off! Now EVERYONE can see my rainboots, how embarrassing!” “Well a waist cincher with no knee socks is simply SILLY. It had to go as well.”
Anyway, her blood sugar is fine now and she just went to bed
Oh life.
Hello, everyone! Can anyone suggest a good, healthy, active RPG thread I could join? Thank you!
Also, Jadestone…you make my mornings.
World Travel Adventure RPG or Medieval Fantasy RPG!
Ok, they’re kind of a sickly green and dying slowly, but we could revive!
I find it very funny that one of the Google suggestions for “Shamu” is “Shamu the killer whale at SeaWorld”, just because that’s so overly specific.
I forgot to tell another little story from my canoeing trip:
One of the stops we made was at a state park with a waterfall. We had lunch there and then went to the falls. They were ridiculously cold, so I didn’t stand under them very long. Anyway, the waterfall was a few hundred yards from the river, so there was a little creek you could walk through. On one of the logs by the creek there were some bryophytes in sporophyte stage. There aren’t any moist locations around my house, was I was really excited to be able to examine them, more excited than I was about the waterfall. I love bryophytes. My dad didn’t quite get it. Haters gonna hate.
I had a “bryophytes in sporophyte stage” moment almost exactly like that when I was on vacation in New York, walking through the woods at the back of my grandparents’ property.
EVERYONE ON AN RPG PLEASE POST!! WE NEED MORE ACTIVE RPG THREADS!!
Okay, so my friend’s birthday is tomorrow (technically it was on HP day but I wasn’t there and I am 1/2 of the people invited so she didn’t have it then) and we’re going out to dinner with her family and then midnight bowling so Odie and I went shopping and we got her the number of birthday presents of the age she is turning (because we couldn’t just do one present because we are her best friends) and we got her a ton of stuff. I got her Softsoap and tissues. Among other things. Then we went home and wrapped all the presents and it was fun and flamablamulous.
134 (Shadowkat)~ Medival Fantasy RPG is relatively new. Joining should be pretty easy. The name is pretty self-explanatory. World Travel Adventure is a spin-off of Muse Academy RPG. We headed off to Scotland and are currently in/around an old castle. Demigod RPG is also making slow progress. I’m sure a new character would brighten things up on any of these threads and speed up the plot progression. ((Vanillabean, if you are reading this, could you p*ease post on Demigod RPG?)) Bunny Apocalypse is basically dead. If you’d like to help revive it enough to cough out its last words before finally meeting Death with outstretched arms, talk to Kittymine about that. But you wanted healthy RPGs. So never mind. Anyway, as KA mentioned, MB’s RPG industry is not exactly booming. So we could really use some more characters. If you want to join one, though, I would definetly reccomend Medival Fantasy. That one’s fairly new.
133 (Jadestone)~ That is hilarious! Also it was a really nice thing of you to do.
Got to go now!
Proving FantasyFan’s epic procrastination skills, she spent a good chunk of yesterday making a temari ball instead of working on college stuff or driving. (If you don’t know what a temari ball looks like look it up. They are really cool and geometric. )The temari ball is now done and is something of a fail regarding the pattern. But that’s okay because it’s my first one and I am ridiculously proud of it anyways. I even took pictures of it. Speaking of which, where would pictures of it go on Museblog anyway? Visual Arts? “That where it seems like it’d go, but I kind of thought that was more for painting and graphics, not for crafts…
131 (Jade)~ Your school is full of awesome, then.
Also, tater-tots are LIFE.
133 (also Jade)~ That is THE BEST. ♥
I am in Virginia. Tomorrow we rehearse. Then the next day we go to North Carolina. Then the next two days we perform. Then we go home. Then I pack and leave for North Carolina again.
*whimper*
Okay, I should go be social, I suppose.
Sweet! North Carolina is the place to be! ^^
Yessss North Carolina! And then when you and Kiwi both have free time when you are not doing collegey things you are going to Kokon with me and Koppar and R101 and Pie Girl and Rebecca! Right?
Presumably before the 23 ( OMG MIDDLE SCHOOL!!!!)
YES NC KOKON
OH YEAH you’re a North Carolinian too, aren’t you?
Yep.
Is it just an illusion, or are there a disproportionate number of MuseBloggers in NC?
I would hope so.
That would be sweet!
Hey everyone. Just wanted to let you know I’m at violin camp at [university] and it is SO SO SO SO awesome. I’m pretending to shop for this iPad at the university Apple store at the moment. So anyway, I’ll post more about it when I don’t have Apple employees glaring at me but just wanted to let you know I’m alive. And having the time of my life.
I think that, out of all mythical monsters, zombies got the rawest deal- there are perfectly intelligent people who have no idea they ever had anything to do with voodoo.
Sure, the idea of a mummy actually physically coming back to life (as opposed to people just dying in weird ways because of a curse) is a relatively recent invention, and in the original book, Dracula had to do more than just bite people to turn them into vampires and could walk around in sunlight, but people still expect some tie to Egypt or Transylvania in a story featuring those characters.
I quite agree, especially as I… am a person who never had any idea they had anything to do with voodoo. I WAS NEVER A ZOMBIE PERSON ANYWAY; IF I LIKED THEM I’D KNOW MORE ABOUT THEM
Midnight Fiddler- Maybe we could Kokon some time?
Choklit Orange- That’s great!
After three days celebrating the return of sound to my computer with a Voltaire music marathon, I have finally gotten to an equally important matter today: watching more Doctor Who. (I’m only posting this because of the skjqbgufwevrfqiytdxce caking time limit.)
I just got a new laptop! EEEEEEEEEEE! It’s so pretty! *happy dance*
Advice is needed.
CHOOSE ONE/TWO:
Marching band
Theatre company (Into the Woods)
Soccer
help
MARCHING BAND
MARCHING BAND
MARCHING BAND
Joining band is the best decision I ever made. I promise you will not regret it! It is wonderful and amazing. (Also like 2/3 of my posts are about band so clearly it is good!)
I’d choose theater, but I can see how it would be a problem for you to choose.
I suppose it really depends on which you think you’d enjoy more, which you have more friends in, which you think will be most helpful in the long run.
I agree with Errata, although Into The Woods is really, really awesome, and you have no idea how much I wish I could be in your thetre company.
Have you ever done the Marching Band before? You might find it not to be enjoyable depending on who’s running it.
Theater’s a great choice; I recommend that.
I’ve always enjoyed Soccer, and I think it’s really good for coordination and exercise, so I also think that’s a great choice. I would choose Theater then Soccer, but it really depends on what you like most, I think.
MARCHING BAND
MARCHING BAND
MARCHING BAND
*agrees with Tesseract*
It combines the Performing Arts with Athletic Exercise. Also, it’s fun. I don’t find sports very enjoyable, but my one experience with marching band was very fun (minus the fact that I almost got frostbite because the band director made us arrive like 3 hours early and we just stood there in the snow for three hours before the parade started) But still, it’s really fun. Just out of curiosity, would you be playing an instrument, drum major, or the baton-twirling things?
It depends on what you like the most. Into the Woods is a pretty awesome play. And MArching band has always looked fun. I’m not that into sports, but soccer is fun as well. That’s not very helpful though is it?
This is a good question. I would choose Theatre, always and for life. I will always root for theatre, because it is my life’s passion, etc. I can’t factor in marching band, because I’ve never done it. Soccer is excellent, great exercise, and a great way to be part of a functional team, but somehow it doesn’t compare in my book.
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It seems like the deciding factor between these, for me, would be the community and the people I’d be with. I don’t know anything about marching band, so for all I know the community works mostly like theatre does, but it feels like in marching band, you’d have less opportunity to create a really close community and be social and stuff, even though you’re working together all the time. This is true for soccer too, and in my experience, the game also tends to attract the more unpleasant folk, which can destroy an entire group’s ability to bond. With theatre, you pretty much have no choice but to bond, and every time I’m done with a show, I feel like I’ve gotten to know and love everybody in it, whether I’d known them before or not. But maybe that’s not what you’re looking for most, in which case, I don’t know.
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ANOTHER DECIDING FACTOR. I’m not sure if this theatre company is within the school, or an actual real-deal theatre company. With this particular show, this might change things. See, in Into the Woods, there’s pretty much nothing to do if you don’t have a speaking role. Normally, I root for the ensemble roles in a musical; sometimes they’re more fun than being the lead. But in Into the Woods, either you have specific things to do for your role, or they pop you into one of the bigger numbers and then you sit out and that’s most of what you do. Still fun with the whole put-on-a-show bit, but I would be annoyed if it were me.
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And that’s what I have to say about that.
Theatre!
All of those activities sound fun, so I think what really matters is the quality of the communities that go along with them. If you can, you should talk to students who are already involved in each. For example, the soccer coach might be amazing and completely change lives, or the marching band director might be lousy and run a band program that nobody enjoys. More information is a Good Thing in this case.
Personally, I love playing soccer and would highly recommend it as a sport.
Theatre! I’m in the drama club at my school (lighting/stage crew), and it’s really fun. And Into the Woods is an awesome play.
We’re getting new carpeting sometime next week, which means that I have to clean all of my stuff out of my room. I haven’t done an exhaustive sorting-things-out/cleaning/giving-stuff-away expedition since I redid my room when I was twelve, so I have things like three boxes of stuffed animals that I didn’t even remember were there. Everything off my bookshelf is currently in four boxes. I still have over a third of my stuff left in my room. This will be interesting.
SERIOUSLY WHY DO I HAVE THIS MUCH STUFF
I found six bouncy balls in my desk drawer and I just filled up a mini duffel bag with shoes and there are STILL MORE SHOES
WHY ARE THERE SIX BOUNCY BALLS
I am transferring everything to the bathroom in the guest room and I think it might not all fit. HELP
If I don’t post again it meant I got sucked into a box of books or something.
I just went through all my tchotchke boxes and the following is a list of stuff that six-through-ten-year-old-Abby somehow thought it was a good idea to keep:
A black tube with a white screw thing on the end with no identifiable function
Four tongue depressors
A bubble gum comic in Hebrew
A pointy stick
A rock
Some “Recycle!” cards with little cartoon recyclables on them
A lock of hair from a haircut in third grade
among other things. Unfortunately I have to through all this stuff out.
I’m suck a pack rat.
You have my sincere sympathy for what you are trying to do right now. I think my room could rival yours for packratiness, though I don’t know for sure as I haven’t actually tried to clean it yet. I need to before I go off to college though. *wibble*
I do know that I have several bouncy balls in a drawer though. I used to collect them, and I’m pretty sure I have more than twenty…
Hey, I used to be worse. Mom’s fond of telling people about the time I refused to grow away a bunch of dead flies.
So, procrastinating on packing my stuff up to go back to school….I’m leaving sometime Saturday morning, as early as possible…Probably won’t get out of here until around 1pm. yes, that’s morning for me, considering I rarely have gotten out of bed before 1pm this entire summer. But I haven’t been going to bed until around 3am at the earliest, because on evenings that I work, I don’t get home until 3am, because I work until 2am, and work is a 45min-1hr commute. And then when I work nights 11pm-8am that throws me off really bad, and then I have several nights after that I don’t go to bed until 5am, and sleep until almost 4pm. So yes, 1pm is still morning to me.
And I’m working Thursday and Friday evening until 2am, so I won’t be getting to bed until 3am at best Friday night, so I won’t want to get up any earlier than 11am the next morning, because I want to be halfway rested for my 3hr commute back to school, and 8 hrs is barely sufficient for me, anything less is not enough, 10 hrs is ideal, I hav eno idea how I ever manage at school, except for naps. Naps are life savers.
So tonight and tomorrow are really all the time I ahve to finish packing, I don’t plan on getting up that much earlier than I have to to get ready to leave for work on Thursday and Friday (say, maybe 2pm? Although I’ll probably wake up around 1pm).
And I’ve got stuff scattered all over in the basement here at Alan’s, and oh wow only 3 1/2 days or so until I’m leaving to go back up to school. And I want to try and get out of here semi decently early on Saturday, because I’ve got to unpack all of my clothes and put up all of my posters, because even though I put a lot of my stuff away at my apartment last week (yes, apartment, I have one. I like it, I think, although the previous tenants did an awful cleaning job, and I had to have Alan bleach my entire bathroom so it didn’t gross me out–there was some hair in the shower and in the sink, and it just wasn;t as clean as it could have been, and Alan does anything I tell him to, so he bleached the bathroom so I didn’t have to clean anything in there). And I got a mattress–a nice new full size mattress, plus boxspring, plus bed rail, all for only $230, yay for college town store sales. Very good deal, I think.
So yeah, Saturday night I will be sleeping in my new bed, in my first apartment, for the first time….Should be good. And then Sunday our “fun” orientation starts for school, down at some baptist resort (one piece swimsuits only, or else t-shirts and hsorts must be worn, shoulders must be covered at all times, and no extremely short shorts, ever…..). and then academic orientation next thursday I think, and then I start vet school (VET SCHOOL
) on the 22nd. Oh, wow, where has my life gone…..
And I lost track of where this is even going, so…..
Wow that’s great!
You’re going to vet school? That’s where I’m looking right now in 4 years hopefully.
Today I made an extra-long twin sheet. I AM RESOURCEFUL.
I also had a DANCE PARTY at someone else’s house, and then everyone left at like 10:30 (UNHEARD OF) so I moved it to my house with one other person.
I AM IN LOVE WITH TRAFFIC. Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys, oh my gosh so amazing.
And I listened to Paul Simon’s Graceland a little bit ago and was totally blown away by the awesomeness.
Also Casey Neill. Dancing on the Ruins of Multinational Corporations for the win…
Graceland FTW. <3
Hopefully I will be going to Flute’s party tonight.
Re: Unwind: I liked Unwind. Although it had obvious flaws and I didn’t really get a good feel for the characters, it was a good read and I enjoyed it. Also, I agree with Bibliophile on the message it was trying to send out. It wasn’t pro-choice of pro-life; the whole point was that the conflict had started by people taking these sides. It didn’t really have a solution; at the end the conclusion was basically reached that the solutions of Unwinding and storking weren’t right. The author was basically neutral. All in all, I liked the book, though. It was enjoyable and rather suspenseful.
I never realized just how freeing it is not to have summer reading.
Bibliophile- I am sorry that you lost your toad
Keeping animal bodies whole/around while they decay can be difficult–lots of insects and other animals speed up the decaying process, but can end up moving/destroying/eating the skeleton. If you have one in the future you want to protect, you can try upturning a bucket over the caracas and putting a heavy rock on the top. It’ll keep the decaying process to chemicals/insects and while it may take longer hopefully it will prevent smashing/something carrying it away.
I’ve got a small pile of bones I found in the yard myself. SOme small mammal, though can’t tell what (no skull, sadly). I have: a few thin long legs bones (I think at least one’s a femur), a lot of nice vertebrae, some small ones I can’t identify, and part of a jaw with teeth in it! The vertebrae are very cool-looking and I think I may turn some into a necklace.
Wait. Does anyone know what happens to your wisdom teeth when they’re removed? Do you think if I asked for them, they’d give them to me?
Sure, why not?
Well, usually doctors think the requests my family tends to make are insane, but I guess asking for teeth is more normal than “can I see the lump of tissue you just pulled out of my back” or, in my mother’s case, “can I touch it?” where it was a large section of my dad’s lung that had to be removed.
That’d be cool. You should definitely ask!
They gave me mine. I had to bleach them so any leftover organic material in/on them wouldn’t attract bugs.
A friend of mine just got wisdom teeth and supernumerary teeth removed, and he got to keep all seven. He threw them out after a couple of days, though.
They do give them to you if you ask. My mom wanted to keep hers. Otherwise they probably just throw them out.
I was given mine when I had my wisdom teeth removed. I think they asked me if I wanted them, before the put me under–I don’t remember having to ask for them. I’m sure even if they don’t offer, they wouldn’t have any problem giving them to you.
Hello! I am merely dropping in to inform you that the blackberries by my house are ripe and my fingers are most probably permanently stained purple! I will get torn to shreds and soaking wet if I continue in this fashion but I don’t care because. BLACKBERRIES.
It seems to be a good day for messy hands. Mine are covered in Rustoleum from repainting a table and chairs.
Could we have a new random thread? This one has 483 comments,
and I want to be on when it happens so I get my first ever random thread first postSure, why not? (I seem to be saying that a lot today.)
Oops, my mistake. We’ll save Part 2 for August 15.
On the abortive Part 2, Zinc just announced that “we’ve hit Delaware.” That doesn’t seem very sporting. Delaware is so small…
Hem hem. Did I hear someone mention my homestate? *jumps back into the shadows, probably awkwardly*
I am a dork.
Me, too!
YAY DORKS/GEEKS/NERDS, ALL OF WHICH I CLASSIFY MYSELF AS AND PROUD OF IT AND I HAVE OFFICIALLY CAUGHT THE CAPS LOCK BUG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ah… how would you define that? Because the closest dictionary defines it as “a dull, slow-witted, or socially inept person.” While I can’t speak for your social eptness (eptity?) or lack thereof, due to not having met you in real life, I can say for a fact that you aren’t dull or slow-witted, and neither is anyone else on this blog. (I personally am socially inept but don’t like to think of myself as dull or slow-witted.)
But the excited post from Koko’s Apprentice leads me to believe that maybe you’re using a different definition I am unfamiliar with.
I second all of that. By the way, I think it’s eptitude, but I’m not certain.
I’d like to note that dictionary definitions of slang words don’t tend to be very accurate, as slang changes so often. I personally think that the dictionary definition of nerd, for example, needs to have the ‘unintelligent’ bit taken out and then switched with the definition of geek.
I’ve always thought of ‘dork’ as meaning socially inept, unpopular, and strange. In that case, I am also a dork, but I am not proud of it, although I’m very proud of my geekiness and nerdiness. But maybe some people consider all 3 terms interchangeable…
This handy Venn diagram was circulating around the Internet not long ago. I can’t vouch for its accuracy, but at least it has the virtue of being clear:
Hm… That’s really interesting. If that’s the way things are, I’m definitely a nerd, which means that I’m also all those other things. I think that, according to this, geek is a compliment, dork is an insult, dweeb is maybe but not necessarily a compliment, and nerd is… eh, mostly neutral, I think… It hurts to say that, though! Argh!
I think everyone here is a geek, according to that, and most are nerds, too. That much is accurate, at least.
Let’s see:
I’ve always classified myself as a geek above all else, so this fits that. I’ve always thought of a geek as a obsessed with computers/fantasy/whatever, and I’m obsessed with both the formers, so that fits. I’ve also thought of myself of a nerd, so that probably fits too…
Hmmm, I’ve never really used or heard someone use the word dweeb before, though I’ve heard of it, and I have no idea where from.
Dork is a little different than I’ve always thought of it, I’d always thought of dork as more synonomous with geek, but looking at all the responses I’d say the general populace of museblog agrees with the diagram, so hey, you learn something new every day.
This a really interesting chart
Hm. Colourful diagram is clear and helpful; thanks! Based on that, I’m a nerd. (Though in my experience definitions of nerd and geek seem to vary rather a lot from person to person.)
@Bibliophile: Eptitude does sound right. Thank you! I knew I was getting it wrong, but I couldn’t remember what was right. Also, your dictionary says nerds are unintelligent?! That’s… odd. Mine doesn’t; admittedly it says “foolish and contemptible,” but the other definition says intelligent.
The definitions keep changing, especially when people take an insult and embrace it — and then get recognized as being kind of cool, or at least handy to have around in certain situations.
One of the definitions of nerd says unintelligent, and another says intelligent.
Very helpful when you’re trying to figure out what someone meant. The definition in my dictionary that fits me the most happens to be the most complimentary, but that doesn’t fit with the way it’s being used most of the time, so I’ve never really quite understood the concept.
I’ve looked up ‘strange’ in the dictionary, too, and its connotations actually seem to be quite positive. So now, of course, whenever someone calls me strange, I thank them. Admittedly it wasn’t my idea; I got it from a book with the definition in it whose MC had so much in common with me it was scary. Still,that just makes it even geekier.
Nerd. Definetley a nerd.
Oh, this makes much more sense!
In that case, I think I qualify as a “geek”, only because I’m obsessed with something (Doctor Who) and I’m fairly smart.
And I’m also socially apt. I just like the internet.
I have been thinking more and more that I may actually be a Hufflepuff, rather than a Ravenclaw.
This is immensely confusing.
You’re not alone there. Although in my case, I was influenced by HP and the Methods of Rationality, which made Hupplepuff seem way friendlier.
oh same, i’m a ravenpuff at most but i really think i’m probably jut a complete hufflepuff. it’s hard to know since the didn’t get very well characterized in the books, but it still feels more accurate
Hufflepuffs unite!
Me, too! I’m so nervous about the Sorting! When I think about it objectively, I suppose Huflepuff is probably the best House, and I definitely have enough of its qualities (I’m not exceptionally hard-working or patient but I can be with things that are really important to me), but I want to be ni Ravenclaw because I’m more likely to make friends there, and that’s important to me because I’m terrible at making friends. I have all the Ravenclaw qualities in copious amounts except wit. I’m not very witty. I wish I was so I could be assured! I feel like a real first year!
“wit
noun
1 mental sharpness and inventiveness; keen intelligence : he does not lack perception or native wit.” (emphasis mine)
And you’re trying to tell me you don’t have wit?
I think she thought of wit as in good sense of humor.
Yeah, but there’s nothing there to imply that that’s what Jo meant by that. I personally have never thought of Ravenclaws as particularly funny people.
Alright, then. Never mind. Yay!
I wanted to recreate the Juche Tower in Minecraft on a 1:1 scale, but it’s not possible within the confines of the software. So I made a Juche-inspired tower instead. Now I’m making a paperclip chain.
I hope I’m this productive in college.
Notch is planning to make the nuild limit about 3x taller soon.
Ashland~~~
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is my love.
I’m seeing three plays in the Elizabethan this weekend!!! Aw yeah.
Also I just got home and I’m leaving and I’ll come back to leave again. This is making me unexpectedly sad.
But SHAKESPEARE
I was just there! *flails*
I saw Measure for Measure and Love’s Labours Lost, which were both absolutely fantastic, though I slightly preferred Measure for Measure. What are you seeing?
I GOT MY POTTERMORE EMAIL!!!!
Now I just have to wait until September when I can actually get on.
Or mid-August! Keep cheking your email; the Welcome one might come at any moment!
In case you can’t tell, I got it, too.
Me too! This is exciting!
Me too! ‘Tis happying!
Hmmmm… My sister didn’t get hers. Are they sending them out at different times?
Yes, but… did you register with the same email address? Some people think they might not let you do that. *worries* By the way, did you sign up on the same day? That seems to be a factor; the people from Day 3 are gettting it last…
No, I signed up using mine and my sister using hers. But no worries, she got it today!
Random thought: What if Mark and Scott Kelly teamed up with Jaime Hyneman to become the secret league of cool bald guys with mustaches?
YES
THIS
My dog just ate his second bonsai. I was growing them from seed and everything. When he ate the first one it was because I had left it on a chair in my front yard. The second one was on top of a brick wall, I have no idea how he got to it. He even ate the plastic container it was in, so I’m hoping it wont hurt him.
I don’t get why dogs eat everything. Mine has recently picked up a habit of eating cicadas.
I hope yours doesn’t get sick. *good luck squid*
Whole cicadas? Really? Already dead, hopefully? Mine has been eating their exoskeletons, which they shed often during the summer, but the cicada is always somewhere else where we can’t see it. I have mixed feelings. On one hand, it’s great because it doesn’t harm anything or anyone and eating always does seem to do that otherwise, but on the other, I collect them, so it means fewer for me…
I don’t think he asks them whether they’re dead yet. He also eats birdseed–or tries to, since we put a fence around the bird feeder.
Oh, I see. You’ve never seen him start doing it; you’ve just seen him doing it, so you can’t see whether they’re dead? I suppose you probably can’t tell whether it’s the entire cicada or just the exoskeleton, either, then. But live cicadas aren’t easy to catch (unless they’re in the process of molting, and unfortunately, that’s as hard to find as a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis in my experience), and I’ve never seen a dead one, but I find their exoskeletons every day. I think it’s most likely the exskeletons that are being eaten most of the time, which means that the rest of the cicada is probably perfectly fine somewhere else. Yay!
I need to start feeding birds. I plan to do that when we move into our new house a few weeks from now. I hope my dog doesn’t try to eat the birdseed, although I don’t particularly mind if squirrels do…
My dog also bites grass, but she never uproots or swallows any. I’m not sure why, but I suppose it’s a good thing, as the grass isn’t harmed in the process.
I just can’t see whether they’re dead, yeah. I have seen plenty of dead cicadas, though.
Are you certain? They shed their exoskeletons and grow new ones; it’s called incomplete metamorphosis and is crucial to their development. Lots of insects do it–grasshoppers, for example. Since the exoskeleton is obviously on the outside of the cicada, at a glance, it looks like just a cicada than isn’t moving or making any noise and therefore is presumed dead. To see whether that’s really the case, you can just examine it. If it’s an exoskeleton, it’ll have a crack in it where the cicada crawled out, and there’ll be something coming out that looks sort of like a tiny white string if you look really, really closely (I’m guessing it’s probably what attached the exoskeleton to the rest of the body, but I’m not sure), and it’s translucent and hollow and light and often on a leaf. You can see inside it, but it’s empty. If it’s a dead cicada, none of that will be true except maybe the leaf bit. Like I said, I see exoskeletons every day in the summer (That’s when they seem to do it most often, probably because many cicadas hide underground during the other months), but I cannot remember the last time I saw a real dead cicada. I’m not sure I ever have. It’s quite possible that your area is particularly dangerous for cicadas (or mine is particularly safe; we don’t use pesticides; do you? That could be a factor, I suppose.), so they die more often, or that you somehow spend even more time outside looking for cicada bits than I do, which is extraordinary, but I’m not sure how likely either of those are.
I don’t know much about dogs. But if my cats were to eat what you described, I’m pretty sure they’d be seriously indisposed.
Dogs usually just regurgitate whatever they ate that doesn’t agree with them. I had a friend who bought a gourmet cat food meal for his cat’s birthday, and the cat wouldn’t touch it, so they just left it out. A while later they come back to find it empty with dog puke on the floor.
I am less by four teeth
but it is okay because I have them in a bag next to me
also my saliva is blood and I can’t feel my lips/chin yet so I suspect I am drooling
Also dreams are weird and drug induced
I WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED.
Today I drank the first bottled tea I’ve ever had that actually tasted like tea. The brand was Honest Tea. For some reason, even the brands that claim their drinks were just tea and a bit of flavoring were always very oversweetened and fake-tasting. This one was actually tea. Delicious tea.
I know! I had Nestea one time and it tasted like artificial lemon flavoring with extra fake sweetener. I’ll keep that tea brand in mind. *mental note*
Honest Tea is very tasty. They sold it at the native foods cafe at the Museum of the American Indian in DC.
Did you try their pumpkin soup?
No, but I did try the flatbread tacos! Those were awesome, but so spicy I had to buy another bottle of tea.
if you like green tea, try ito en’s green tea
IT IS A DREAM OF HEAVEN ON EARTH
i will be trying this honest tea because i hate sweetened tea. WE LIKES IT RAW AND WWWWRRRRRRIGLING
Wriggling tea? Sounds fishy.
YES I LOVE HONEST TEA. They sell it by the bottle at all my local grocery stores.
Was the flavor you had Peach-Oo-La-Long? The one with Opus on it? That’s my favorite flavor.
Also, if you want to try their Honest Ade (also excellent), you should have Pomegranate Blue. SO GOOD.
No, I had the Green Dragon tea with passion fruit.
Yes, that flavor is quite good as well.
Just got back from Flute’s party. We ended up staying until around five. We went bowling and watched The Empire Strikes Back.
Then the whole morning/day, we sewed and drew and played this game we started playing way back when we were all six. It started out as an innocent “let’s play house” but since then has grown and twisted. I could type all day about it, but…
Anyway, I just got home, but my little sister is really ticked at me that I spent the whole day at Flute’s when she had to turn down two playdates for various reasons.
I passed my driver’s exam!!! Admittedly I passed with a less-than-perfect score, but that doesn’t matter because no matter how much worrying I went through I still passed! Now I just need to take the certificate and I bunch of other paperwork to the Secretary of State and I’m done!
Congratulations!
Has anyone heard anything about the unlimited detail rendering using sparse voctel oxtrees? (Admittedly I don’t understand what that means) Apparently this technology allows for perfect graphics through little dots that are made of repeated structures so they don’t take up as much memory, and therefore things can be made out of “atoms” now (Though not quite that small).
The creator of Minecraft says it’s a scam, or at least the way they’re presenting it is, but I still don’t understand it very well.
You’re not supposed to understand it, because they made it up to sound fantastic. Like Notch said, in the form presented by the viral video, it’s just hoopla. There are more legitimate forms being developed (I know that a group of Nnivia engineers published a paper last year on their version), but nowhere close to what that video claims. As it currently stands, the technology isn’t advanced enough to be very useful, and the technology in that video specifically is pretty much only usable to make videos like that.
(Incidentally, it’s voxel octrees, not voctel oxtrees.)
GUYS. GUYS. FERN AND JADE AND I NOW HAVE A SHANTY BAND.
THIS IS THE BEST THING.
goals in life:
-submit story
-publish story
-meet band mates
-perform with band mates
-own a frock coat
I went see DCI: Big, Loud and Live (DCI preliminary live stream to a movie theater) with a few friends. So much incredible. I think my favorite show was the Cavaliers’. The Cadets was great too, but mainly because it beat the Blue Devils. So.
WHOA Violin camp was the most incredible thing ever… Really. Would it be okay if I sent in a short recording of me and a couple of other people playing Arrival of the Queen of Sheba? Because there’s this one part of it that makes me think for some reason of the Errant Muser shanty.
We had class after class and it was so intense and Stanford is beautiful and oh my god the entire amazing thing was entirely amazing…
I should stop writing until I’ve slept, right? I’m on a post-concert high…
So I had two tiny bowls of ice cream (one at three pm, one at 7pm) and just finsihed up a bit of pudding. All is going pretty well so far. I’m almost completely unnumbed in my mouth (just half of lower lip/small section of chin tingly), but there’s still very little pain at all, even at the end of the 6-hour medicine cycles.
I haven’t actually been too hungry either (I like… barely eat anything/get hungry anyway on my own, I eat when there’s set mealtimes and if fending for myself often forget to).
Think tomorrow I am going to try some ramen noodles and scrammbled eggs with cheese. I’m not really a fan of eggs, but they are soft enough and can be a cheese-vector. Also, protein. It’s actually important to get vitamins so I don’t get dry socket. Do dodo.
omg cheese vector, that is all any food is good for. ALSO i hope everything heals quickly, that sounds like an inconvenience more than anything D:
When I first read that I thought it was a reference to Cheez Whip or something of the sort. Which, now that I think of it, would probably be safe for Jade to eat.
Hahaha everything is honestly a cheese vector. Including the ramen I had today as well. PARMESAN I COULD NOT HAVE GONE ON WITHOUT YOU.
And lol if I hadn’t been able to remember that you can MELT cheese to make it something you don’t have to chew my other plan was that terrible spray cheese in a can. Because sometimes you just need artificial cheese flavor and nothing else will do.
Meat sauce is a good way to get protein in that condition, just make sure the meat is chopped up very, very fine.
Oh that’s a good idea as well. Thankfully I seem to be recoving quickly enough that getting protein shouldn’t be too hard a problem, but iron might be since I’m already so low in it, so that’s a great suggestion!
167 (Oxlin)~ YEAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! *glomp*
I will be thinking of you every time I sing Mingulay Boat Song this weekend. At LEAST three times. If I’m not mistaken, it’s in one of the festival sets (which we’ll do twice) and in one of the pub sets (which we’ll do once).
GAH PERFORMANCES TODAY GAH!
Also, I’m totally piratin’ it up. I’m wearing a shirt (as opposed to a shift. It’s different.), green petticoat, stays, and leather belt with a rig on it. the top layer of my dreads are pulled back so they’re out of my face but still kind of loose and around the bottom. That made no sense. Oh well. My dreads are pirate-y. And I have beads in them. Beads = good.
Also the little anchor necklace that I wear all the time irl.
Oh shame, I’m sorry to abandon you like this, but it must be done…
At first glance, I read “GAPA performances today,” at which point it was my turn to say “GAH!”
Have a great time! I wish I could be there.
*hugs* “Sailing homeward to Mingulay!”
So I took the quiz on MB to sort yourself. I could pretty much identify with all of the answers, but after a lot of puzzling, I sorted myself into Lasley House, because that seemed like the most House, and I’m really random.
Then I found a quiz posted by an MBer on another website (not naming website name, and the MBer remained anonymous (am I allowed to say this, GAPAs? If not, I’m sorry)) and took it. It was hard to choose the answers since all of them fit me. Then the results said I was in Baker House. I think this was because I chose the answers involving music, although I am also into writing, reading, science, and art, among other things.
Advice?
Choose one for yourself. You really can’t go wrong. There are no Slytherin-equivalents at Muse Academy.
Nor Sparklypoo
, although that may have been an oversight.Judging by the MA RPGs, a lot of people would like to be in Sparklypoo.
But in Sparklypoo, nobody gets to be the most special! It’s like Mary Sue Hell.
So, I was thinking about ice cream the other day. Specifically, about unusual flavors that I don’t know anyone to make, but I want to try. Ginger+raisin+vanilla. Lemon+rosemary. Persimmon. Mmm. So, I’ve decided that I want my own ice cream maker. Has anyone worked with one that they like? Has anyone worked with one that they didn’t like?
171–Midnight Fiddler: I am trying to find a way to sufficiently express my approval of your pirate clothes! “They strike me as being verily magnificent”? Erm. {Laughs at self.} I sound pompous too, too easily. “Your clothes sound quite nifty”? Okay, that works. Your clothes sound quite nifty!
I found a very funny informational video from 1981 in the National Archives online database called “Space for Women”. It has the weirdest 70s music and very strange narration by Ricardo Montalban. Also, at one point, a computer technician is wearing earrings that look like little bunches of bananas.
My sister gave me a gift today, which she managed to snag off Ebay: the limited-edition My Little Pony poster from Comic-Con. I absolutely cannot wait to get to my dorm and hang it up.
How old is your sister?
He likes My Little Pony. I don’t know if his sister does as well.
I hate to say this, but the poster may present some problems if you have a roommate.
You underestimate the amount of college guys who are “bronies”
KA- She’s 20.
Kai- I converted her to ponies months ago.
Choklit- Nah, he’s cool with ponies.
173–Ice cream makers are really cool! I’ve never found one that I didn’t like, but then again I’ve only worked with three. Well, when I tried a hand-crank one I didn’t like it, but that was because we were cranking for several extra hours because it didn’t want to firm up! (We suspect it was because we put in too much pear juice.) Still, it seemed rather persnickety. When you make the ice cream, it might not be very firm right away (most homemade ice cream isn’t), so I suggest putting it in the freezer for an hour or so. You must report back here with the results! I’m quite interested to know what lemon+rosemary ice cream tastes like.
There is SO much traffic around here! There’s a festival taking place nearby (I can’t really say what it is, but it’s big.) and a ton of tourists are in town for that. Usually there’s more tourists for the festival before this one, which took place last weekend. (We have a lot of festivals.) Anyway, because of traffic, a 15-minute drive (with ice cream, admittedly, but my dad got a milkshake, so we didn’t sit around and eat it) turned into 45 minutes. When you subtract 10 minutes for ice cream, it’s still more than double the usual time. ARGH. At least we’re going away to ze state park next week, so when we come back there’ll be less tourists.
I have a staph infection in my toe. Fabulous.
You’re getting that treated, right? Staph infections can be really nasty.
Ak, I’m sorry.
Isn’t staph one of the multi-drug resistant infections?
In that case, *hugs and pies*
Some types are more serious than others. We’ll hope agrrrfishi has an easy-to-handle variety.
It’s supposed to go away in a few weeks, but I’m on heavy medication: two pills at four different times of a day. It really sucks. And the little green pills make you sick to your stomach. So hopefully it will get fixed! Thank you all. <3
I get to stay up until 11 to watch the Perseids!
YAAY
It’s hard to see anything because of the full moon, as you’ve probably discovered. You’d have to get up before dawn to really get a good viewing. That’s not going to happen for me, however. I cherish my sleep.
In any case, I did see one really good one, big and bright and fiery with a visible smoke/dust tail.
In total, I saw 6 in half an hour. Not having done many excursions like this before, I consider that to be very impressive.
I wonder if the really big and bright one we both saw was the same? When did you see it? We saw it a bit before 11ish, Eastern time.
No, the one I saw would’ve been about 12:30, Eastern time.
Eating today has been pretty easy! Had ramen with an egg in it and cheese. Going to try just eggs with cheese tomorrow (meant to have them for breakfast today, but slept through it). Also had some jello and pudding.
And I visited a friend’s party for a bit (she’s going off to college soon, and it was the last time I’d get to see several friends this summer, so dropped in for two hours to give hugs and chat before going home to rest more), and they had pizza, so I ate all the cheese off once slice since I couldn’t eat it normally and then licked the sauce off and oh my god it was so delicious.
Meds are also giving me weird waking dreams D: Last night: the boy was driving somewhere but it was in zig-zags and circles and we ended up at a post office and I was all “but this is no place for a picnic.” And then for a few hours I kept feeling like I was talking to people through email even though I KNEW it was all in my head, and there was no computer on, but I kept believing people were actually responding. Really peculiar. Hope it’s not so bad tonight, I’m sort of dialing down the pain meds I’m taking since I honestly don’t hurt at all and they just disorient me/make me nauseous/wobbly/dizzy/weird dreams. Staying on schedule with the antibiotics/anti-swelling stuff, of course though. Took one of the prescribed ibuprofens instead, though I have the stronger pill nearby in case I wake up hurting during the night.
Over the past few days, I’ve been having dream after dream that involves me getting a haircut, my hair falling out, or otherwise losing my hair. What does it mean? O.o
I got to see my friends today for the first time in the longest time. I really missed them. I don’t know anyone else who’s willing to have an hour-long conversation about what would happen if Wolverine met an alternate universe clone version of him with a female reproductive system, and if they had children, whether that would be incestuous or not.
Considering he has a female clone in the canon comics, it’s not as crazy as you think. (Although she’s younger than him and he sees her as a daughter.)
I located a dream dictionary just now on Google. It says that dreaming about losing your hair means that you are preoccupied with your appearance and worried about growing older. Meanwhile, getting a haircut in a dream is supposed to mean that either you feel like you’re being criticized unfairly and are experiencing  “a decreased sense of power,” or you are shedding off some unwanted aspect of yourself. Hrm.   ÂÂ
Hrm.
Specifically, I dreamed about getting a really easily curable cancer, and being annoyed because the chemo meant I would lose my hair. Then, the next night, I dreamed that I got a haircut.
I don’t think any of those things apply… O.O
Watching The Perseids From Long Island 2011:
Over the course of an hour, I saw six, two of which left smoke trails. Pretty good, considering how bright the moon was.
Too much light pollution here, alas, though I saw some on the NASA cam.
On a brighter note, I just installed Stellarium so maybe I can finally remedy some of my ignorance about the local skyscape.
I love Stellarium.
I FOUND SHELOB AGAIN
at least I am pretty sure it is her. Same size and species at least.
I was getting a bit worried there, hadn’t seen her in weeks, although spiders are pretty good at the whole hiding thing.
Which species?
I figured out how to record songs on my phone! FREE IPOD FOR THE WIN
So today I drove myself and my brothers to the library using my brand new, wonderful powers of driver’s license-ship. The library is in fact the only place I can drive to, because I haven’t bothered with learning directions to anyplace else yet.
I also read the copy of Muse they had out for the first time in forever, since I had the time.
I JUST ORDERED THE CONSULTING DETECTIVE SHIRT OFF OF QWERTEE
LIFE IS PERFECT
AND THE PACKING COMMENCES
WE WILL FIT FOUR PEOPLE’S STUFF
PLUS FOOD AND WATER AND COOKING SUPPLIES
AND OUR CAMPING STUFF PLUS BEDDING
AND SHOES
INTO A VOLVO
aw man I wish I had ordered my textbooks sooner, now i’m going to spend the next two weeks wondering if they’re not going to get here on time. i don’t want to pay expedited shipping if it’s just going to get here on tame anyway
RARGH
I get to pick up my books in my dorm. Being an honors student has its perks.
blarg yeah i could buy them at school but it’s cheaper (SEEMINGLY….) to order online. that’s cool you can get them right in your dorm though! I’M JELLY.
It’s pretty sweet. And it turns out there was an error when I first ordered my books, so now it’s only ~140 bucks after the scholarship. Much better.
I finally found out my score from the AP French test I took months ago.
I GOT A 5!!
I’m ridiculously happy.
Told ya you’d do well, didn’t I?
Congrats, Sel!
Yay, congratulations!
I finished watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. All three seasons. So I guess I have to go back to my other ways of procrastination.
I love that show. Just wait until Legend of Korra comes on and then you’ll have more procrastination!
ugh i’m so excited for korra, i can’t even
Me too! I’ve watched the trailer so many times already, and I just finished showing it to my brother as well. Can’t wait…
I SAW HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
I love musicals, I love Daniel Radcliffe, I love New York City
Seriously though Daniel Radcliffe did such an awesome job, he exceeded my expectations by far. The first time he appeared I had an “oh my god I am in the same room as him” moment but that dissipated and I was instead filled with appreciation for how he’s managed to fill a lead role in a musical so well. Great show and great character for him, I think. I adored what they did with the songs and choreography. And BROADWAY. And DANRAD.
Guyssss… How does one make nerdy, awesome, MBer-like friends in the future? My college friends are all nerdy and awesome but if I have to move to some strange city after college for reasons of job, how do I meet people? I’m looking at you GAPAs and at anyone else who knows how to meet people once one is out of school.
I think this is a universal problem oxlin.
One can only that the muser outlook is world wide and that one will always find a fellow nerd somehow or other!
oxlin:
My approach has been to go places where awesome people are likely to be found and do things they are likely to do.
As a rule of thumb, whenever I have to decide among multiple possible futures for myself, I ask myself: “Which one is likely to give me the best stories to tell later on?” The answer hasn’t always been the deciding factor in my choices, but looking back, I can say that most of the time when it wasn’t, it probably should have been.
Basically, if you are awesome yourself (as you are) and don’t try to hide it, you’ll probably fall in with likeminded people. Of course, some places are better for that than others are. For example, if you were choosing between jobs in, say, Detroit and Antarctica, I’d unhesitatingly say “go south, young woman.”
Hmm. I’m mostly trying to figure out what things awesome people are likely to do. Contra dancing is on the list, though.
Museums are nice. I met someone there who knew what tardigrades were! She’d been reading a bizarre-looking sci-fi magazine, which I took as a good sign. Apparently there had been something about them at a previous exhibit. I wish I’d lived in that area so that I could have gone! She found them quite fascinating. There was also someone with a live horseshoe crab.
Also another part of the problem is that at college the solution is to join clubs and besides everyone is pretty nerdy already. But in real life, how do you find the ballroom club/science fiction fantasy club/whatever club?
Many museums, libraries, community colleges, and even bookstores sponsor clubs or the equivalent or lecture series. Science cafés are springing up in lots of places. Continuing ed classes. Meetup groups. Volunteering is a great way to meet awesome people.
The fact that the average age in some of those groups often skew towards adults older than their 20s shouldn’t deter you. It might even work to your advantage because many places are thrilled to welcome younger members. Your presence in itself could start a trend. Plus older people may have sons and daughters or adult grandchildren who might appear if they know someone else their age is around.
Opportunities are all around. But in the adult world you may have to take more initiative and be much more patient in cultivating acquaintances than when you’re in school. Working adults seldom have the leisure to hang out for long hours on a regular basis, so it takes more effort to get to know someone.
Hmm. Those are all good ideas. I have encountered the age skewing already and it is a frustrating thing. Though I’ve found some people in their thirties and that is somewhat close to one’s twenties. Sort of.
First weekend after returning to school. Still wide awake at 3 AM. I DIDN’T EVEN DO THIS DURING SUMMER, WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?
Of course you didn’t do this during summer; you didn’t have any reason to get sleep!
YOU ARE SLOWLY BECOME I AS WELL AS AXA (just LOOK at that CAPITAL LETTER alteration!)
Come to think of it, don’t the Muses do that? Well, technically, it’s with bolding, not capitals, because for some reason lowercase letters in comics appear to be banned, but I imagine they’d approve; it’s the same concept. Maybe we’re not doing it because of your peer pressure; maybe it’s THE MUSES!
My firt few days at NCSU have been pretty awesome.
Only one problem… the music department doesn’t open until next week! :O No pianos! *sob*
Oh, I didn’t know there was a music department! Is it new? Good luck surviving till next week! *piano and squid*
No isn’t new. At least I don’t think so. It’s just the music building for band members, music minors, etc.
The STS-135 crew will be at the American Museum of Natural History on Tuesday and the Intrepid on Thursday.
Decisions, decisions…
Both!
Tuesday works better for my dad.
*sigh* Summer’s almost over.
I should knit more hats.
For a charity.
School. Maybe I can sell knitted items to people at school.
And give the money to charity.
What do you think?
I think it sounds like a great idea!
I started making my “To The Sky” NASA music video. Maybe I can send it in when I’m done.
Also, I’ve recently accepted that I am a nerd. And that there’s nothing wrong with it.
… I’m a nerd. Whee! *runs off to watch Doctor Who*
Oh yes, please! It can be your SPACE presentation!
Congratulations! I remember when that happened to me; I think it was shortly after joining MuseBlog.
I think for me it was when I joined the school D&D club
Doctor Who helped me realise I was a nerd.
As if being on MuseBlog didn’t clinch the case.
I think it was somewhere between when I joined band in the sixth grade and when we went to state in robotics in sixth grade.
Hmmm… 5th grade. Nice step from “hyperactive random smartkid” identity.
My nerd epiphany came when I realized that maybe normal people don’t research the shuttle missions online for fun.
A woman after my own heart.
ALL I WANT IS HARD CRUST BREAD WITH OLIVE OIL AND PARMESAN /sob
Anyway aside from missing solid foods now (took less time than I expected to get to that point D: ) I am doing well.
A friend and I spent two days last week cutting/sewing material to make hoodies that look like Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon and I’m going to try to sew a bit more today before she comes over again tomorrow to work more.
IN OTHER NEWS: A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, I HAVE IT NEXT TO ME, IT IS MINE (well the library’s but it is MINE FOR NOW)
HNNNNG
AND SINCE I DECIDED TO STOP TAKING THE PAIN MEDS I CAN EVEN FOCUS ENOUGH TO READ IT YES YES YES
ALSO someone at Ocean SPray figured out I am addicted to cranberry juice or something because they SENT US TWO FREE HALF-GALLONS.
They labeled “first” and “second” and I get to drink one, write a survey, and then drink the other and take another survey. Then as a thank-you they are giving me coupons for more free cranberry juice.
Do I need anything else in life ever really? THIS IS THE BEST JOB. I DON’T EVEN NEED TEETH FOR IT SO I CAN EVEN DO IT.
Cranberry Juice reviewer? That’s a great job!
Erin had never heard of Carl Sagan before I told her about him, but last night on the phone, she said she wanted to get a copy of COSMOS to read. I told her it had to be experienced in hardcover, and since my mom picked up a hardcover copy for me a few weeks ago at the local Borders before it closed, I’m considering giving her that one and buying my own copy in Boston.
Going to be a CIT at an outdoorsy camp called Primitive Pursuits tomorrow.
Pros- get to wear cool bandana, get to tromp around in woods starting (somewhat) controlled fires.
Cons- way too early to wake up in the morning, not quite as fun as being a camper.
Random marketing/making money for the Kokonspiracy idea:
Mini chocolate trilobites, like chocolate turtles, called Trilo-BITES.
There are so many pun possibilities with that.
For instance:
My computer’s so old, the hard drive is measured in trilobytes.
(Hoho, you see what I did there?)
Apparently you also play The 7th Guest on it…
Fossils + chocolate + puns = OH YESS
We could probably make a lot of money with the idea- natural history museums would love being able to sell bags of them in their gift shops.
Fernnn… How did the music festival go?
That is, pirate festival/singing gig.
The (brief) show of my childhood
Princess Gwenevere(/Starla) and the Jewel Riders
I only could have watched it for like a year but I remember it SO WELL
anyway it is ON YOUTUBE HOW DID I EVEN MANAGE TI FIND THIS I COULDN”T REMEMBER THE NAME AT ALL
FABULOUS
Remember. I am your Aladdin Genie. Also, if you need help finding something else, let me know.
Oh look, LBK is posting again after a long absence.
Happy *counts* 6-year-anniversary, Museblog!
So. I just got back from an Arts Camp in Canada. It reminded me so so so much of if Museblog was ripped out of the internet and put into real life. They have artists, actors, singers, dancers, and film people, and everyone is so nice to everyone else. It’s just amazing there. My building was Dr. Seuss themed from the two weeks, and I totally forgot my Cat In the Hat T-shirt!!! Stupid me.
Anyways, there were also some really great evening activities like a Dr. Seuss word hunt to make new books because the Grinch had stolen them all, and a Medieval Festival and an Israeli Banquet. They were all great and the food wasn’t disgusting in the least. Well, except for a couple of times, but there was always bread, butter, and Wow!nut butter (fake peanut butter) as a fallback.
Their website is Centauri Arts . com. Some of you probably live in the Toronto region, am I right? This might be good for you.
Peace!
That’s my dream summer camp! I discovered it a couple summers ago through google search, but by the time I had, it was past all the deadlines.
They took their creative writers to Scotland once? Man, I wish I’d gone to Scotland with a writing camp.
Okay so I kind of need some advice here. I mentioned earlier about starting a knitting business, and then giving proceeds to charity. Hypothetically, I could sell hats and fingerless gloves to our marching and pep band (assuming people in marching band aren’t dead set on wearing Santa hats for the parade) in our school colors. The only thing is, the Inquisitorial squad (read: administrative personell) are really stingy about this rule… apparently you can’t sell stuff? To other students? I mean, I guess this makes sense to try and stop drug dealing at school and stuff, but… hats. And fingerless gloves. To the band. (I only know about the rule because Tuba was going on about the time in sixth grade he got rich selling people silly bands (if you can remember those things) until the Inquisitorial Squad caught him.)
Also: Yarn is like ten bucks a skein, average, at the shop downtown. And I’m all for supporting local businesses and such… but I can’t afford to make sixty-something hats out of that because I don’t have that kind of money. Plus, prices would be really high in order for me to make a profit and people would just go to Target to get hats for half the price. Now assuming I go to Joann Fabrics or something, last time I checked the Hometown USA yarn from Lion’s Brand was pretty affordable. So I would be selling the hats at around five bucks each. And if I use that yarn (which has the advantage of being size 6 super bulky which knits up ridiculously fast) which I already have the needles for (I’ve made two hats with it already to send to an orphanage in India), then five dollars …
gottago.
I’d advise talking to them, explaining what you’re doing and asking if they can make an exeption. I bet they’d be reasonable, most people are when you give them the chance.
Or: advertise by word-of-mouth/cards in school but sell them “from home” or whatever. Tell people they can come to you with money before/after school and have a date they can get their hats/gloves on. That way, it’s less of a “selling in school to students” thing and also you can gauge ahead of time how many you should be making.
Yeah, I was planning on doing order forms. And fingerless gloves (because they’re so much fun to make!)
Off to watch random episodes of shows I’ve never cared about because I’ve heard those episodes feature the Space Shuttle…
Well, the Farscape one was dumb…
Blargh packing for college. The things that are taking up the most room are books and rice-/tea-related things. How is that possible? And I’m giving away more clothes than I’m keeping. I’m considering just packing up everything that I’ll need for college and then renting a dumpster, putting it outside my window, and just chucking absolutely everything else into it. I think that would be the easiest solution. And I have to do this every dang year since you can’t stay in the dorms during the summer.
Also why do I have so many dice?
You can never have too much tea, books, or dice.
With the depressingly tiny dorm room I have, that may not actually hold true.
Lies. You’ll just have to make friends with people with bigger dorm rooms.
So I’ll have to walk for 20 minutes each way to get my things? Not likely.
that’s what you think now
but then your friends will live all over the campus and you won’t know where half of your clothes are and when you open your closet musical instruments you don’t play will fall out
but then you’ll all get rooms on the same hall the next year and it will be slightly easier to consolidate.
Yeah, guys don’t do that as much. Something to do with the Y chromosome.
False.
Yeah, by a happy coincidence my best guy-friend lived in the same dorm building as me so it was easy to break into his room and get my stuff when I needed it. But ones of his other best friends lived in one of the farthest dorms so he was like ALWAYS having to go back and forth for his things XD
No y-chromosomes operating here, and I have to say this whole concept of keeping stuff in other people’s dorm rooms is totally alien to me. *shudders*
Maybe it’s like colorblindness. It can occur with two x-chromosomes, but it’s much less common.
Same here. I’m kind of possessive towards my stuff. Home is where I store all my junk, after all.
Is it time for the part two thread now?
I just finished reading all of Problem Sleuth in one day.
YOUR IMAGINATION HAS MAXED OUT
PULCHRITUDE!!!!
So my friend that I went to a birthday party for a month ago sent me a thank you card. The stamp was of the Messenger Spacecraft.
I like her. I’m going to carefully peel it off and stick it to my computer.
How many of you used to/still read Chasing the Sunset?
I sent it in for that contest whose winners were posted in Feb 2006 for favorite website. I’m finding the results amusing. I think my best friend Green (I’ve talked about her before) sent a site in as her name is listed. “Robert C.” and “Paul B.” are both names in there too… Coincidence?
Used to, rediscovered it again per Cello-Playing Mathematician’s gravatar, but have not yet worked up the courage to archive binge on 5+ years of missed comics.
Heehee ME! And that was you? Cool.
Have you gotten into Pottermore? What’s it like?
So. First day of high school. It’s terrifying. Everyone is so big. And there are 2,000 other students…
On the other hand, AP Bio is great and journalism is fantastic. My English teacher is a moron, though. Imagine a TSA agent armed with a PowerPoint and a captive audience of teenagers. Oh, and someone genius in administration thought 10 AM on the first day of school was a good time to have a fire drill. But other than that, today was pretty good…
PACKING BOOKS OH SWEET MUSES WHAT IS THIS, YOU MEAN I CAN’T TAKE EVERYTHING ALONG WITH ME? NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I only have a smallish box of books to take with me. The complete works of William Shakespeare is a no-brainer. The Rattle Bag, a collection of poetry that was a gift from a dear friend is also coming along. So is my set of Larry Gonick’s Cartoon History of the Universe books.
A book called Reading the World which has selections from lot sof different ~important texts~ and is very interesting. Strunk and White’s Elements of Style, The Arts of the Sailor, and 5 music books. The music books are The Dance Music of Ireland, The Barne’s book of English Country Dances (volumes one and two), <The Revels' Garland of Song and A Modest Collection of Colonial Songs. Plus a booklet (held together with a binder clip) with lyrics to a bunch of shanties and colonial songs, with some other handwritten lyrics and suchlike added, and both parts to all movements of the Bach Double Violin Concerto.
And a manuscript booklet that has various things I’ve written, including such masterpieces as “Ms. Kerensa’s Bidding” (a tune I wrote at my then-violin teacher’s request) and “The Auguste Jig” (a jig that I usually play on my concertina. It sounds kind of like the Irish Washerwoman, only not really and in a minor key. Auguste refers to a type of clown.)
Choosing books to bring is like RIPPING OFF MY TOENAILS ONE BY ONE.
I’ll probably also end up bringing Into the Wild, since I’m reading it at the moment. Maybe Two Years Before the Mast as well, since I’ve been kind of reading it for the past few months and want to finish it.
Oh god packing books was the most stressful. I had/have one crate to fit them all in and there is no way it will ever be enough. THEY ARE MY BOOKS MY CHILDREN MY PARENTS MY LIFE YOU WANT ME TO LEAVE THEM? Then hours of pain picking out which to bring, and then when my actual family left it was like “OKAY BYE YOU CAN GO NOW.”
Though I do form very strong emotional attachments to inanimate objects too easily.
Has anyone gotten their Welcome e-mail from Pottermore yet? I think they started sending them today.
I went to the “campus crawl” today at state and got a caricature of myself done for free!
And I got free food and free t shirts and a free cup and free hangers and free bubbles and free everything! 
So far NCSU seems to be the land of all things free.
I have orientation tomorrow morning, and I need to go to bed soon, but The Fluffy Thing is in “unless I have at least one packmember cuddling me, monsters will eat me” mode. *sigh*
This avatar will hopefully clarify the difference between Cat’s Eye and myself. It may not last long, but it was so perfect that I just had to use it for a while.
That looks great!
I like it!
Oh! So I spent today working on my dragon-esque hoodie with my friend and they are finally taking shape! We just attached some pieces to the hood earlier tonight. They have to be handsewn on a bit more to make them look nice/ensure they’ll stay together but it’s nice to be attaching things to the sweater base instead of just making random parts. Tomorrow: finish up the hoods, then add spikes to the back, and at least start making the (small) wings.
Apparently high school isn’t death after all WHO KNEW RIGHT
The first day is only a half day. We had an assembly for the whole school. We got lockers and stuff, and they gave us planners, which was nice. We had a few classes, but they were mostly just explaining the rules and so on. I think I’m going to really like history class, and English looks like fun (we’re reading Mythology, by Edith Hamilton). The Bible teacher is nice, if a bit excitable, but apparently he’s just a sub because the real one’s not here yet.
Also we picked electives, which for freshman apparently means that you get put into either Geometry or Algebra I (there’s only two of us in Algebra I, because we took Geometry last year and everyone else was in 8th grade math), and then you pick French or Spanish – but Spanish was full so it was more a matter of being put into French I or French II. (Or choir but no one wanted to be in choir and the ones that got put in choir complained greatly.) I’m in French I.
Also last night I ate squid and it turns out it really tastes good. (Before it’s cooked it’s the nastiest smelling thing in the world, though.) It’s a little like conch, if you’ve ever tasted that. And CHEWY.
Well, not much has been happening in Isabella land. I pulled up all of the carpet in my room single handedly. I’m going to pick out a paint color later, I’m aiming for fern green. Maybe.
The banjo playing has been going well, but I really need to start my summer homework…
Oh, I have a story actually, albeit brief.
My mom just called me to let me know that she bought a frog on her lunch break, and that she’s buying pigeons tomorrow. The frog is going to sit on her desk all day. She’s very strange.
In other news… We still don’t have the chickens back, and I really miss them because they gave me something to do. I could talk to them, feed them, clean their coop. Oh well. Just another month until we get them back.
Oh, and one last thing. I read Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, and I would definitely recommend it to everyone. Everyone over 13. It was so much better than the movie; completely different.
What kind of frog? I’ve had African dwarf frogs before; they’re really individual and adorable; I love them! One of them had 5 legs, but he also had a disease. All of them did at one point; that pet store was horrible, but we managed to cure one! It took a lot of effort, but it got done. She was tough; she endured a lot. I made sure they were captive-bred, of course; there’s a company that sells wild-caught African dwarf frogs, unfortunately, but there’s also a boycott on that company, which is very good. Did your mom check? It’s quite important; it’s a major threat to some of the rarer species, and many don’t survive the journey from wherever they come from, and from what I’ve heard, it sounds traumatic, if frogs can be traumatized. I think so; do you? I chose an African dwarf frog so that I wouldn’t have to feed en live crickets or dead mice, which would have been uncomfortable for me; they just eat dead bloodworms, which look like pencil shavings. Plus they’re aquatic, and we already had an aquarium with fish and snails and plants. What kind of frog did your mom get?
New theory: One becomes a paleophyte the first time en reminisces about the old days of MuseBlog.
You’re probably right! Except that means I’m not a paleophyte, and I’ve been here over a year. Oh, well.
“Paleophyte” doesn’t mean anything, so there’s no definition for it.
Wait… you mean MuseBlog hasn’t always been like this?
Well, for one thing, it didn’t use to have reply buttons. You would always be at the bottom and need to say who you were responding to.
I hear back in the day one had to send in messages by smoke signal to the base, called Gabuembuh. The base distributed all the smoke signals to those who cared to participate.
Tell us more, oh ancient wise one!
FIFTEEN MILES IN THE SNOW
UPHILL BOTH WAYS
SODA FOUNTAINS
PENNY CANDY
ETC
When I first came on there were no reply buttons, no pie buttons, no avatars, and a mostly white color scheme. *feels old*
It was not “mostly white”. It was the same theme that Muse Academy still has now. Slightly blanker, perhaps, but still blue and green. And that was only two years ago. It still feels newfangled to me.
Gaboomba!
I think your car horn is broken.
Gezundheit!
tracking all my books across america
this is like wacky races except not wacky because i NEED MY BOOKS
It once took a package I ordered four weeks to get from Iowa to Nebraska. I wonder where it went in that time.
Paris?
Most likely.
My sister is having an argument with my mom, and listening to it is making my head implode. Apparently she thinks the fact that we don’t guzzle ten liters of soda apiece every day is a bad thing?
Odd, seeing as it’s s’more night where we celebrate end of summer (in the same way that a funeral is a celebration) by gorging on marshmallows, chocolate, and grahm crackers with our neighbors and friends while catching fireflies, naming them Bob, and letting them go.
I’m excited for that.
Well, I got orientated! (I would’ve posted earlier, but power outtage.)
So, the general impression: it’s going to be hard, and there will be a lot of work, and the teachers seem pretty good.
I think it’s going to be okay. It’s going to be a really big adjustment, but it’s probably going to be okay.
Ok, now I’m happy.
I have always wanted the Harry Potter books on audiobook, because it’s a very different experience listening to them than reading them, in my experience. The reader, whoever it happens to be, usually if not always has a different perspective on the story and emphasizes things that I wouldn’t have had I been the one reading it.
Anyway, through this site I go on, which will remain unnamed, you put books up for request, and when someone requests them, you mail it to them, paying the postage and all. Then, you may choose from everyone else on the site’s books, and pay the “credit” that you got for sending the book to the person you ask for their book.
So, this site almost never has audio CDs for trade, because those are way too expensive to just give away to trade for a regular book, even though audiobooks of any kind are worth 2 credits. But audiocassettes, because no one uses them anymore, are posted ocassionally, and the site just happens to have HP books 1-5 available to trade for.
And I’ve finally figured out how to transfer audiocasettes to my computer using one of those double headphone jack stereo audio cable thingymagigers. So now I’ll just transfer them and listen to them on my ipod! Yay!
Ok, that post was a little longer than I meant it to be. Oh well.
My mom uses that site-that-will-remain-unnamed! Or at least, a site very much like it. Enough like it that I’m willing to assume it’s the same one.
Jim Dale, the reader for the Harry Potter books, is fantastic! One of my friends falls asleep every night listening to the audiobooks.
Short report because it’s 11:37 and I need to go to bed:
SANDY MAGNUS REMEMBERS ME FROM THE WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL!
Long report: Coming tomorrow.
I’ll bet all of the astronauts you’ve met remember you, KaiYves. They sign a lot of autographs, but they don’t get many hugs.
I’m moving in to college very soon. I need to be focused on that. I need to pack tomorrow-today-whenever it is right now. There is so much I need done. Aargh. Even my thoughts and sentences are short and choppy.
Anyhow. So I have made a promise to myself to avoid MB for these next couple of days. I should probably expand that list, but. Withdrawal is so hard. Talk to you after I’m all settled in my dorm room. iA
Could we move to Part 2, Robert?
Good idea!