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My college is having a fundraiser today to raise money for our sister school in Japan, which has been severely affected by the recent earthquakes, tsunami, and radiation leaks. While I wholeheartedly approve of their end goal, I remain uncertain as to whether playing "Friday" nonstop until they get enough money qualifies as psychological torture and a violation of my Eighth Amendment rights. (Also, Ghostbusting Tennant is the best thing since missile-riding Barrowman. QED.)
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Today, I found myself running across campus waving a jar of Nutella in the air. I love my life.
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Doctor Who was rickrolling people before rickrolling was even a thing. I <3 this show so much. Also, quite a splendid night here. The Doctor was not the only one who danced. *disappears back into college life*
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Find and create obscure advice memes instead Also, so desperately does my brain want it to be Spring Break that it took the liberty of adjusting my internal chronometer to make me think for most of the day that it was Tuesday.
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But I thought they weren't supposed to come here until 2061!
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Our news media has failed us in a way I'm not sure I can begin to describe. It's blatant. It's egregious. You can yammer on all you want about bias toward one side or the other, or about journalistic integrity versus sensationalism, or the treatment of classified information, but my chief grievance with the media is that they did not make it absolutely certain that I found out about this: I love our wacky world.
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Bieber comparing himself to a girl.
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Have a good one, everybody! Stay safe. Don't do anything rash.
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So I was totally apathetic towards NaNo and was still seriously considering not doing it when at 2pm, amidst an avalanche of Spanish homework, one of my main characters demanded to make her feelings on being trapped, cloned, and shot at on an alternate Earth known to the other. Now I've scraped out the prerequisite 1667-and-a-bit and am shortly going to sleep. I'd say let the madness begin, but it kind of already has. So you can run and tell that, etc. Also, despite the fact that it is not remotely appropriate to my story, I am totes binging on Gaelic Storm. :3
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I wish I could have been there to hear exactly how this went down. Also, DIAGON ALLEY HECK YES And after reading Aristotle, I kind of have to chuckle at the people who accuse me of using run-on sentences on occasion.
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I know, I'm crazy for attempting it. I'm already having enough of a time balancing homework, a social life, sleep, keeping in touch with people back home, and theatre care and feeding, among other things, and in November I'll be having play practice every week and then heck week and then the actual performance, followed by Thanksgiving break. Come to think of it, that isn't so different from last year. But you know what? It made me write, which I generally only do when there is a contest (SSCs) or something similar (NaNo) going on, and until I've reached the point where I can be trusted to spew words more spontaneously, this sort of thing is good for honing my authorial powers, or at least using them more. On an unrelated note, California girls make me sing and shout; they really leave the East behind.
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“The whole universe? Again? What happened?” “The sentient elements on one planet created a sort of prophecy that trickled down through their cultural memory and ended up fulfilling itself.” “That's the fifth time in a row something like this has happened. Isn't there a way to control for this?” “If they have the ability to deduce the existence of something greater than their material universe, it seems that some of them are inevitably going to hit upon the notion that their universe might have a finite end determined by outside forces, and some of those ones are going to try their best to help that end along. Short of changing the baseline parameters, there's nothing we can do.” “All right. Run the simulation again, and this time let's make special note of the characteristics of the groups that go for that sort of thing.” “This free will thing's a pain, isn't it?” “You do what you can with what you have.”
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Our college is so cool, we don't just have fire extinguishers in the dorms. We have ire extinguishers:
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Discovering the Obsolete category on Wiktionary when you are simultaneously bogged down with homework and driven to explore strange new words is not a good thing.
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It's a start, anyway.
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Since you locked your blog entry on the subject for some reason, I felt obligated to explain through another venue that the reasons behind Mr. Witt's promotion are not remotely confusing to those of us who were at Brickfair and especially the Outback Steakhouse in Fairfax, VA last night, and since we comprise a large portion of the staff, this is clearly not an isolated instance of madness like the power struggles of April 1st. Steve Witt was promoted with the consent of all of us (though of course Sixboss made the ultimate decision), which was given for reasons which you would have to meet the man to fully appreciate. You say hard work and not awesomeness is the qualifier for staffiness? Well, Steve Witt has worked hard to be awesome. Or maybe the hard work is an effect of his awesomeness. Either way, he does both hard work and awesome things, such as specially recognizing the vibrant youth of Brickfair. In addition, there have been murmurings of late among certain elements about Brickfair continually resulting in staff promotions. Black Six's shrewd move here has both affirmed this tradition and perhaps called it into question for those who believe this to be a joke. As well, let us make one thing clear: There can only be one Steve Witt. GregF cannot be as awesome as Steve Witt, Chuck Norris cannot be as awesome as Steve Witt, and Smeagol4 cannot be as awesome as Steve Witt (though I <3 him so). Steve Witt, and only Steve Witt, is deserving of this honorary promotion. Concerning Nuju Metru, he was the only other Forum Mentor to have attended Brickfair and met Mr. Witt, so it only stands to reason that he would serve as the Voice of Steve or whatever his position is. You can still PM the other FMs for regular Forum Mentory stuff, no problem. I hope this has illuminated matters for you somewhat, but if not, feel free to leave further queries in the comments box.
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Now that that's out of the way, check out this awesome use for Gresh Stars armor on Natalie Breez, and no, it's not what you were thinking: More Brickfair reminiscences are forthcoming, but for now, I desire to sleep.
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Oh my gosh you guys I have added new material to my Comedy-Contest-#4-placing story about a trio of Bohrok with an interesting kind of multiple personality disorder! Now that I am starting to view this as more than a one-shot story and actually have ideas of where things can go, I am fairly excited for this story (now watch as my impending move and adjustment to college totally throws this off and I don't update for like a year)! Anyway, if you have not checked it out and have some time to spare (this ain't your grandkid's script-style back-and-forther), the link is right HERE and it is in hot pink which means you should click on it.
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So, as you probably know, BrickFair is coming up. The theme for this year is music, which makes me think that it would be a great idea if people built and brought tons of little Lego vuvuzelas and put them absolutely everywhere, even though they are pretty much the antithesis of music and all that is good and holy. Or are they? Just imagine... A horde of vuvuzela players behind the Verizon guy. King Leonidas kicking a vuvuzela player into a pit. In space, no one can hear your vuvuzela. The Quidditch World Cup getting even rowdier. A Toa of Sonics and his elemental "tool." I should think that a decent minifig-scale vuvuzela could be made from a lightsabre bar and a 1x1 cone. I shall explore larger-scale options myself, and I invite others to do the same.
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HOLY MOTHER OF KARZAHNI IN A GRAVY BOAT THIS IS AMAZING IT WAS SEEN AT COMIC-CON SO IT IS QUITE PROBABLY LEGIT HOOOOOOOOOOLY COW I MEAN CAMEL NO IDEA WHAT IS UP WITH THAT BUT OH WOW THIS IS AMAZING
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In close second is this conversation as related by Smeag's sig: So true. So true. So true. Also! The word of the day is now MEERKATOSITY, in reference to the innate qualities possessed by meerkats. We're still a little fuzzy on what those are, but we know they exist. The innate qualities, not the meerkats. Which is not to say that meerkats don't exist. Because they do. Exist, that is.
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Rather than generate new and exciting content for your perusal, I have decided to framblang (syn: forcefully dump a large quantity) my latest musings and tidbits and suchnot into this entry. "I read somewhere that a healthy breakfast helps concentration and have found that, since replacing my usual diet of [a marginally more unhealthy substance] with Froot Loops, I am able to move small objects with my mind." "Diversity" is a trademark of Aperture Science dba Aperture Laboratories © 1998 All Rights Reserved Work was cancelled today due to rain. Hurrah! Also, Lego Harry Potter is now out. I must convince my sisters to get it somehow. Latin: The language so holistic, it has a word for "reheated cabbage." "The man had a birthmark that resembled the potential offspring of Turkey and Iceland." was a fool and a madman to have gone into downtown Port Angeles this afternoon. This thing called sleep I just can't handle it / this thing called sleep I must get round to it / And I'm ready / Crazy little thing called sleep This must be what going mad feels like. Cat weightlifting is pretty much the best thing ever. had fun playing cards tonight. [This is actually an elaborate in-joke with one of my friends that we came up with that night.] hates it when people try to play soccer at a vuvuzela concert.
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I Feel Like I Should Be More Excited Than I Am About This Graduation Business
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Is there a name for the point in a story where the work's title is most directly referenced? I'm thinking of instances like "O brave new world, that has such people in it!" from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World or "He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart" from Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Obviously this sort of thing doesn't happen in every single work of literature or film, but it turns up often enough that I think there should be a word for it. Eponymy's close, but I'm not sure if it quite fits. Thoughts? -
I reported a triple post... In the Short Stories forum. B)
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Gonna keep bumpin' this till I get me some REVIEWS! Geehaw! The Brains of Change