Arpy

So, you guys, what is the 411? What has everybody been up to? What is the hot gossip? Tell me everything. What are you guys listening to? What's the cool jams? no but seriously, i've just graduated college and i have no idea what's going on these days

(click the photo for the photoset) You think it's just an ordinary Throwbot revamp? Think again!Lets take off the head, and...wait, what is that? No.... The clever green fellow has turned this Throwbot into his own personal battlemech! Awesomesauce! Please to be enjoying.

"Doughn't Bring Me Down" "You Breader You Bread" "Another One Bites the Crust"

Put a bird on it!

Happy birthday BZP! Maybe it's just force of habit, but I'd like to think there's something else about this site that's kept pulling me back all these years. I'll let you know if I figure out what that is. And on a considerably more serious note, my heart goes out to the victims and families involved in the CO theater shooting. It saddens me to think that we live in a world where senseless, horrible things like this can happen.

Hi Mushy,Welcome to BZP! As you may not be aware, I'd like to remind you that we have rules against posting in topics that have been inactive for a certain period of time (in this forum, 20 days). As well, in the creative forums, we encourage posts that actually contribute some kind of specific feedback that will be useful to the creator. Please read this topic for further information on these and other important rules and guidelines.Revived topic devived.

Oh wow you guys, I have had an incredibly eventful week+end. Excellent way to close out the semester, if I do say so. I've been on this massive energy high ever since staying up till 3 a.m. to finish what amounts to a Brontë/Thursday Next fanfic for a class's final, which was then followed by staying up till 3 the next night as a result of seeing The Avengers, which was fantastic and perfect and my favorite superhero movie yet, then I tore through my etymology final with much gusto, polished my final draft of that Marxist AD paper, and snuck up to the roof of a campus building with actual turrets and parapets and whatnot. Then just yesterday, I had a lunch date with a lovely and classy person, took a highly restful nap, started a thrilling book on language by Steven Pinker (yes, I like linguistics; don't judge), went to a lake and swam across the entire thing because I could, later discovered the lake was closed for some reason (if I die of e. coli or something, I have no one but myself to blame), knew the delight of squishing about in endless mud, took "ironic" non-hipster photos with fences and nature paths and such, engaged in gladiatorial Nerf combat, discussed some stimulating topics of discourse with fellow seekers, and went on one last early-morning donut run, which I am now feeling the effects of in the form of a sugar-induced headache etc. Now it's just an Old English final and a few more days between myself and the end of the semester, which means I will also be moving into the house I hope to occupy until the end of the year and graduation. Crikey!

Not tricks, Michael. Illusions.

There's always money in the banana stand. *chk-chk*

Hello, fine people! It's been a while since I've rambled to this little corner of the internet, eh? This semester has been...interesting, to say the least. Here are some of the parts of it that have actually been quite pleasant and informative. I: Got to go home for spring break, which was especially nice given that we determined that I’m staying at college over the summer except of course for my trip to Puerto Rico. Met with some librarians over said break and got some great pointers and advice. Also tore through several novels, including The Marriage Plot and Slaughterhouse-Five. Lots of thoughts and emotional resonance involved. Wrote a fairly ludicrous essay in which “Tell Me How I’m Supposed to Breathe with No Eyre” formed part of the title. Realized that free license to write a paper on anything I want is intoxicating. Hello, Marxist reading of Arrested Development! Received an anthology of Poetry for Cats and shortly gratified that thing for parodies which I have always had. “She Walks in Booties” and “Meowl” were some notables. Continued geeking out about Old English in a variety of ways, including bandying about tropes from our translation of Apollonius of Tyre and accidentally spelling modern English words with their older equivalents. Started having dreams in Spanish, albeit still with some L2 learner mistakes (which some part of me recognized as mistakes and berated my subconscious for making). Found out that ALA Midwinter will be practically next door to where I hope to be in January. Oh yes. Somehow placed second in my first-ever eating contest, and never you mind that there were only four people in it. Presented on factors in linguistic variation to a full room of faculty and students and whatnot. It went smashingly and you missed it. I totally should have been a ling major. :c

You know, given that this line of inquiry concerns a 2012 set, I think it would do just nicely in the more general 2012 set discussion topic.Closing...

I think this has been pretty well sorted. As the answers show, availability in a given country doesn't happen all at once. Patience, grasshopper!

I've become one of those people.

It refers to the number of pieces.

Waspix is everything Deevs said he is and more. The shelves are the room's.

That is how long I've been alive, and do you know, I think this coming year might be even better than the last one, and that's saying quite a bit, because this last one was pretty splendid. Hurrah!

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.)

But Ben, you can't be an English major; I'm an English major!

Possibly the best night of my life to date Can't sleep Words and images cannot express my delight Need sleep

It sort of hit me recently that I've been really kind of horrible about blogging and keeping up with people on here since I've been at college. Sorry for that, people. So! Real life! And profundity? Whaa? Anyway, I spent spring break with my...first cousins once removed? That's what we settled on, anyway. They live in South Dakota, and they were incredibly nice and accommodating. They let me use their car for most of the weekend, so I was able to drive around the city (inasmuch as South Dakota has cities) and explore a bit there. I rode an ATV, went snowshoeing, and learned how to make my own jerky, all of which were novel experiences to me. I also discovered breaded cheese curds, which are possibly the best thing in the world, and I spent a lot of time rifling through books and such at the local bookstore. Learning how to play cribbage was another highlight, and my mind has since spent some time thinking on how to make a folding board out of Lego. Best of all, though, was seeing my cousins' dedication to their community and to their family, as well as their hospitality to me. They were almost overwhelmingly nice. My chief concern during break (other than the homework which I somehow missed out on doing) was that I did not remotely deserve the kindness they were showing me. I had only ever met them when I was a little kid, which I doubt was enough to make much of an impression. Seeing their interactions with and care for other people was almost like stepping into the past, but it was quite inspirational. So I'd like to give a shoutout to my cousins and say that it is really great to be reminded of the love that exists in this world. (Also, Kool Whip is, like, a major food group up there. Seriously.) (Also-also, Rory or somebody is in the previous TARDIS, what is happening) (Derp, I posted this like five times because the college internet was being stupid. Other comments have regrettably been deleted.)