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What are you doing for Halloween?
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It's at times like this, when I've got a chemistry lab report, a script draft for drama, four pages of Spanish homework, two college application essays, and various smaller answers and thank you notes to write, all before week's end, not to mention two jobs and a play to be getting on with, that I am reminded of a quote I committed to memory while having nothing better to do during the SAT than read all the quotes on the wall of the classroom I was in. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. Right now, I'm thinking a heavy metal thing with lots of screaming. Mmhm...
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Tomorrow I turn 18. All I know is that my life will never be the same again. Help!
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I shall be writing about superheroes. Who fight gengineered armadillo men. With GRAVITY and WATER. On an alternate Earth. Drama ensues.
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I've gotten into a delightful little farce at the community theater titled The Matchmaker, by Thornton Wilder. I play young Barnaby Tucker, and among other things, I get to help explode some tomatoes, hide under a table, and disguise myself as a girl. Of course, this means November will be even crazier than it was going to have been, but what's life without three plays, two jobs, a novel, college, and an attempt at a social life to drive me mad? 8D
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It explains so much! Also, I picked up a book titled "The Myth of the American Superhero" from a library today. Basically, it seems to contend that superheroes and similar figures are fascists who take the law into their own hands when democratic institutions fail and that the heroic mythicism prevalent in popular stories is an entirely too simplistic resolution of complex political and theological issues. With chapter titles like "Fascist Faith in the Star Wars Universe" and "The Cultural Supremacy of Walt Disney," the title seems a bit misleading, but it looks interesting anyway. In other news, I rather fancy a trip to England next June, for such a trip is being sponsored by the local community college. Ah yes, BrickCon. I still haven't recovered, I think. It was all sorts of crazy and hectic and exhausting, but in a totally aweso--ALL HAIL SPANKY. I dread the sorting that must come now that I plan to scrap many of my MOCs. This was very likely my last BrickCon for at least four years due to real college starting next year, and I don't anticipate attending any summer cons except BrickFair 2010, for which I will no doubt be traveling rather lightly. Anyway, I got some cool sets for great discounts (sometimes as much as 100%!), such as Thornatus V9, Snow Groomer (black treads yay), Winter Toy Shop, and three Exo-Force mecha from a building competition. I built a couple Pantsbots as part of my entry for that. :3 Coverage will hopefully be up later this week, but you can see pictures now by going hereabouts. EVERYONE ELSE UPLOAD YOUR PICS ALREADY Chemistry class is pretty much blehful right now. I think I would enjoy it more if I had a teacher who would explain instructions and actions better and not make mistakes with basic math on the board. It does not instill confidence, nor does it help illustrate the concepts very well. Spanish and Drama are fine, though. I was going to do a monologue from Tartuffe, but then we got into the Importance of Being Earnest, and well! I think I am now pretty much a British otaku or something, between Pratchett, Adams, Wilde, and other English literaturists. Also Monty Python and Shaun of the Dead. Yay!
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Sleep deprivation causes altered states of awareness! I know this because I'm still quite capable of holding a semi-coherent conversation and walking around when I would normally be passed out due to sleep deprivation or else only able to communicate via groaning and grunting noises or maybe both. It is possible that the GIANT BURRITO I had for dinner may have something to do with this. We've already got more BZPers logged in the guestbook today than we did all last con, and more MOCs too, but less table space. Rawr. In a peculiar twist of fate, I won the trophy I built myself. We video-reviewed the Baranus V7, but it's going to need editing because of REDUNDANCY and QUESTIONABLE BITS (on the Two and a Half Spikit). Spanky is our king. Everyone is pretty darn cool. 'specially ol wossername. Half-off Thornatus and stuff is yay. NANANANANA KATAMARI DA-ohwait. Also Cajun built a pretty cool thing, but people keep asking me a] what is it and b] did I make it, to which the answers are NO. Also lime green frying pans, huzzah. I'd better stop else I'll spoil the whole thing and also the set review. ELF FEET!
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Now someone turn that into a lolarpy. Let's hope there are electrical hookups so I can play MNOLG music!
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Does anyone remember seeing electrical outlets or wireless ports at the Exhibition Hall last year? I'd rather like to blog and upload pics straight from the 'Con. I've all my Lego stuff packed and ready to go, and I just need to pack lesser items (such as clothing and toiletries), finish this last bit of chemistry homework and also an Astral Bunneh Orb, try to go to sleep, get through Spanish class tomorrow, swing by my house to grab all that stuff, then I'm off! Also, copypasta to hopefully reach a wider audience: To all you coming by for the public hours, do be sure to say hi and feel free to ask questions if you have any. You can talk with us! We don't bite! Well, except for Cajun, possibly. But don't let our rugged good looks (or awesome t-shirts, in my case) or the table between us keep you guys from interacting. We're all BZPers, and part of the fun of BrickCon is meeting people. Take it from someone who's been there: You'll be kicking yourself for your shyness later. -
I got shanghaied into being the vice president of my college's new sci-fi/fantasy* club, which is basically the now-defunct physics club under a different name and leadership. We'll be doing fun stuff like watching movies, playing geek jeopardy, and possibly having a book club if we can get enough people who (gasp) read for fun. I'm started to get really excited for BrickCon. It'll be awesome in so many ways. Hopefully I can make it to the Lego Store this year. Also, should I get a Twitter account? *But not the Twilight kind.
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Today I went to Wal-Mart hoping to buy a couple Squidman Escapes for BrickCon. I had grabbed the sets and was checking out when the cashier remarked on the sets' price. One. Dollar. Each. I finished checkout, ran out to my car, and then went back in by another way and bought the remaining sets. So now I have five Squidmen for what would ordinarily have bought me one. Yay!
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The one nasty bit of my college experience so far this year has been my chemistry class, which I was somehow enrolled in without even knowing about the prerequisites I've blatantly failed to fulfill. Parts of it seem straightforward, and I start thinking "I can do this," but then something comes up that causes me to eat my hat in terror. Well, that's not what happens, but it's like a metaphor or analogy or Hitchhhiker's reference or something. I'm tired. So anyway, I was doing this quiz that's supposed to be on previously covered material (not for me, natch) and I had NO idea what one of the answers was and I was running out of time anyway so I just chose the precipitate formula that was closest to bacon: BaCO3. Yay me.
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So. It's coming up. And while it can't be as awesome as BrickFair, we can at least make it more awesome than in years past, right? Five reasons you should switch to Geico go to BrickCon 2009: 1. The People! Attending will be: Cajun Roa McToa Xccj Hahli Husky Alsru Toa of Honor Arpy CzaR Letagi Razlak1 kopakanui Tufi Piyufi Binkmeister? And many, many more! 2. The MOCs! In addition to fabulous Bionicle creations, there will of course be many other Lego MOCs, including a larger-than-ever Zombie Apocafest and a new theme called Battle Bugs! 3. The transparent orange chainsaws! Free to anyone who comes up to me and sings a song of some sort. 4. Steve Witt! 5. To those of you attending the full event, I was thinking a BZP dinner at a nearby restaurant would be cool. However, I can lay no claim to any sort of organizational prowess, so I can't promise anything. We'll see what happens. I may have had more reasons, but if so I have either forgotten or repressed them.
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Rather Good Quesadillas Ingredients: Two tortillas Doritos enough to cover tortilla Shredded cheddar cheese enough to cover Doritos Tabasco sauce to taste Directions: Layer Doritos in fun geometrical shapes on one tortilla. One layer should be sufficient. Cover Doritos with cheese, drown everything in Tabasco, cover cheese with second tortilla, and microwave for one minute or until cheese is melted. Possibly better with other Dorito flavors, sour cream and other toppings. Must investigate further.
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Unless of course we happen to be the local newspaper, because guess what the front pages of two sections, a special section by itself, and a couple more articles were devoted to? Not commemorating 9/11, that's for sure. No, no, apparently Forks and Port Angeles are celebrating Stephenie Meyer Day in conjunction with her Mary Sue's Bella's birthday! This would of course be bad enough by itself, but combined with the paper's almost complete lack of observance of the 9/11 anniversary, I got righteously irked and wrote a letter to the editor: Not nearly as inflammatory or incoherent as some of what we get, but it's all right. I think of it as a prelude to the column I plan to write soon.
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The fact that she lives in the same town and is going to the same college is a bonus. How have I never met her before? And yes, she is the reason I'm posting this at 4am. :3
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Its name is Hex. I have tricked it out with Lego and other stickers in accordance with the prophecy for the glory of Japan because I felt like it. Props to ChocoFroco for accelerating my conversion to Firefoxianism. This TNG persona is most wesome. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go finish my entry for BBCC55.
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For the month of September the facility (cont. 3 pools, 2 cardio/weight rooms, 2 racquetball courts, 1 gymnasium, 2 locker rooms, misc. others) at which I work is closed for maintenance and cleaning. Fool that I am, I signed up to work during the closure and have subsequently been subjected to many new and exciting experiences, such as: Peering into a twelve-foot pit of deathLugging huge slabs of concrete around and injuring my handThe women's locker roomNot with any women in it, thoughTearing out insulation from behind the hot tub where mold and spiders and mysterious dead bugs had hitherto been forming a quite enlightened civilizationRiding a puny, rickety lift to the gym ceiling, there to vacuum up all the dust and stuff (Note: This was not remotely harrowing)Discovering a strange spherical thing in a room with many tubes and pipes labeled "Retard Chamber"And all this in just three days of working! I don't know if I can handle the excitement. But fear not! For I found some glasses that made me look so much like Napoleon Dynamite, except with shorter hair and still not as much as Cags, I don't think. But I couldn't keep them. Also, foreign exchange student is possibly <3. Must investigate further.
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Not really. But it's like the only variation on that theme I haven't seen immortalized in .jpg format. So some of us peeps were playing Concentration and the category was Star Wars characters. Everyone else had gotten out and my sister and I were shooting back and forth with fairly obscure people like Iella Wessiri and Tycho Celchu. But then I said "Admiral Ackbar!" and my sister blurted "It's a TRAP!" So I triumphantly proclaimed that I had gamed her system and that was that. Plus laughter. And shenanigans. Eeeevil shenanigans. Ahem. Anyway, I was actually a bit nervous because my sister is now in that stage I once inhabited of being obsessed with the Star Wars EU and her knowledge of said universe is possibly rather better than mine. But I gamed her system, so it's all good. Oh yes.
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So I leave for college tomorrow. Occasionally i think "am I ready to leave home?" Then I remember that the eleven-year-olds in Harry Potter are just fine going away for school. So yah.... "Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry." ~Bill Cosby
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I've...I've forgotten how to blog. And summer is all but over.
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xkcd Discworld mention is :3 Well, lots of stuff happened Arpywise while BZP was down. This may be obvious, but then again, it may not. So. I worked some, like, nine-hour days at the pool because coworkers were on vacation and beng held captive by their evil fathers and so on, went to an awesome Catholic youth conference (Catholic girls :3), organized the games for our parish picnic (and one of them in particular is the source of much :3fulness), built a RED NINJACOPTER and a cyborg tauntaun and also some other things, helped write an awesome story of which I have commissioned a drawering, read lots more Terry Pratchett, was a shameless consumer my mom (cf. Mountain Dew boxers, Classic Space and Catholic t-shirts), made a couple really splendid and useful parts orders, ate some bacon, and just generally committed shenanigans and whatnot. Also, I need to get this into the BrickCon display somehow:
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Last night, having taken it upon myself to attend the midnight showing of Harry Potter movie, I set off to the nearest cinema with my sign and a bag containing divers and interesting things, there to sit in line for a rather long time. Having learned from my mistake of arriving at Transformers 2 only an hour before it started, I got to the movie theater six hours early this time. And let me just take this oppurrtunity to say that hardcore Potterphiles are much more fun to be in line with than any other group. Especially Twitards. Anyway, I plopped myself and my belongings down on the pavement (or rather, a folded-up sweatshirt which was on the pavement) and began to wait. After reading Terry Pratchett's Thud! in its entirety (which took approximately two hours and thirty-six minutes), I wandered over to the nearby lawn and got involved in games of Ultimate Frisbee and various flavors of tag. Once I was quite tired of that, I went back to my squatter's territory, picked up my hat and sign, and began begging in earnest. My philosophy for the moment was this: Be the Awesomeness You Wish To See In the World. And I was. "Dollars, pounds, Galleons!" I got $7.89 and several people's undying love and adoration (especially after I added the TWILIGHT SUCKS bit) and also eight more dollars for my Weasley sweatshirt. Indeed, heady with the success of my entrepeneurial gains, I offered to sell my seating pad, but rather than creating a competitive bidding war between people all through the line, I ended up selling it to one of the girls nearby for probably a lower price than I had intended, which was just as well because it served as an excellent method of introduction to her Cadre of Awesomeness, composed of four tres geeky girls. So I enjoyed some witty and stimulating (no, really!) conversation with like-minded people for a while, and there was much bashing of Twilight and Ravenclawish camaraderie and other stuff which would take a while to list. After a bit of that I went out around the building again, soliciting donations for my study abroad, and this time I ran into this girl I hadn't seen since third-gradish, which was cool, and there was--Alas! A cornucopia of love! Then I returned to my turf and Brianna (one of the Cadre, who reminded me of Allison Mack quite a lot. Another member had Roguehair. Seriously. It was awesome.) artisted the most spectacular drawing ever: ...And let me keep it. <3 Finally, we were let into the theater, where I sat near two cool dudes who were in this wesome play at college earlier this year, and we shouted "BOTHER!" repreatedly while everyone else was applauding the movie starting. Wewt. It feels odd to say it, but I almost think I might have liked being in line better than the actual movie. And I would have liked the movie better had I never read the book, because some parts simply DID NOT MAKE SENSE. There was nothing about objects belonging to the four Founders, for one thing, which means Harry's going to have lots more stuff to figure out in the seventh movies. And the attack on the Burrow made no sense, and Dumbledore didn't immobilize Harry on the tower, and there was no sort of battle at Hogwarts. D; But I do want a framed shot of Snape, Dumbledore, and Slughorn(?)'s expressions after Lavender leaves the hospital wing. Lawlz.
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So my Independence Day was pretty much the best in living memory. My living memory, of course. I drove to the next town over to see the fireworks display in the waterfront/downtown area and then moseyed on down to the place where my friend's dad's Italian ice stand usually is and was indeed for the holiday and general busyness and such, where I was pleased to see said friend, with whom I went to watch the fireworks show and afterwards helped take down the vendor stand and then hung out some more and was quite surprised by the firework some genius set off in the parking garage across the street, but suffered no more than a momentary shock and of course the brain freeze induced by something totally different and tasty, and then proceeded to my friend's house where we set off their stash of fireworks. So I'm rather grateful for the freedom to be able to do awesome things like that. (And so can you!) If you tl;dr'd, know this: And THEN today I went to the Kitsap Mall for the VERY FIRST TIME EVER (first time in any mall, really, not counting prior trips into Barnes&Noble), where I was was a perfect consumerist materialistic heathenish sort of purrson. Two Space Police sets (Squidman ♥ ), two books (Terry Pratchett ♥ ), a Decepticon (Devastator?) t-shirt (Hot Topic ♥ ), and also some birthday gifts and expensive foods. But I missed the bubble tea! D:
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I bet I could have scored higher if I hadn't had to wait for everyone to get done with the sections. Totally threw off my groove. *throws fellow test-takers out of giant ear, except for those two girls I quite like* But grrr maths and essays. 800 on the Critical Reading anyway, so huzzah. |rawr nonconformity|
