dad was totally unfair to me the other day and now I'm grounded :-(.

And also yesterday was my birthday and nobody noticed or gave me presents or wished me happy birthday :-(.

What sucks is that I am so going to kick neshomeh out of the house. They wore my favorite furry shirt when dreamflower02 and saphychronicler was visiting. I've never been so embarassed in my life!

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Well, I haven't posted in several months, but WHOAZ! I've just been tagged by ekwy!

Handwriting Meme:

1. Your name/username.
2. Left-handed or right-handed?
3. Fav letters to write?
4. Least fav letters to write?
5. Write "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
6. Tag 5 people



Apologies if I have inadvertently tagged someone who has already done this meme.

Also, ( I did a drawing. )

ALSO, if there's anyone out there who hasn't encountered Sauron's Blog, please read it. Please. For it is made of win.

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It's December in Michigan and I'm still wearing shorts.

I don't like wearing long pants because I have sensitive skin and I don't like the way they feel (I don't wear long-sleeved shirts either, but that's not as noticeable because I wear a jacket when I'm outside). Plus, I would rather freeze outside for ten minutes than sweat inside for an hour or so. And I would be too hot inside if I didn't wear shorts. And uncomfortable.

So, yes. I am crazy.

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Hmmm, I don't think I've posted in about a month. Y'all have probably forgotten who I am. :P

Anyway, I just read in a newspaper article that the villain of the new Trek movie is going to be a Romulan. (I may have read this before, but it didn't "click" until just now.) Huh?? How does that work? The Federation didn't make first visual contact with the Romulans until "Balance of Terror"! So either the filmmakers are making a major retcon, or they're going to do something really unusual and never have the hero and villain actually see each other. Which would be weird. Very weird.

And yes, I've got baaaaaaaaaad feelings about this movie. *sob* They're going to completely screw up my favorite TV show, I just know it! The one positive thing is that, if it's even marginally good, it might get more people interested in the original show... maybe?

Will they make a separate section on ff.net for the new movie, or will the neofen post their movie-based fic (if the movie is good enough to generate any) in the TOS section? *shudder*


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Halloween time!

Every year my siblings and I make an effort to carve the geekiest pumpkins we possibly can. For instance, this year my brother carved the TARDIS and a Dalek into his. Last year I carved "Happy Halloween" in tengwar; this year, being in Sherlock Holmes-obsession mode, I carved it in the dancing men code. Unfortunately my sister's cruddy camera was unable to take a decent picture of it. = (

As another Halloween-related note, someday I simply must buy myself a ridiculously long striped scarf, so that I can be the Fourth Doctor for a day. Maybe I'll get myself a toy sonic screwdriver too. That would be fun. :P

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Alania is a Giant Squid that spins Vast Webs, has an Extra Head, four Extra Limbs and Acid for Blood, and can Change Colour. Strength: 8 Agility: 3 Intelligence: 10 To see if your Giant Battle Monster can defeat Alania, enter your name and choose an attack: fights Alania using Strength Agility Intelligence

( More meme-age behind the cut. )

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MilliHelen: a unit of beauty equal to the amount of beauty required to launch a single ship.

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( Spacefem.com Quizes! )

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I just found this written on the course website:

Today's quiz focuses on Lesson 4, dialogue 1 and the grammars we learned on Monday.

Is that a very silly mistake, or is it actually a legal use of the word "grammars"?

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Why the heck is first-year Chinese my hardest class?! Seriously, I'm in Calculus II (tested out of Calculus I), Chem Lab (just lab, no Chemistry 'cause I tested out of that too) and Engineering 100... and freaking Chinese, first year, non-advanced or accelerated Chinese, is my most challenging class.

Actually, I think it's because of the sheer amount of memorization involved--not just all the words, but all the characters too. In a way, it's sort of like learning two languages at once. I'm just better at the kind of logical understanding involved in math and science than I am at memorizing large volumes of information.

It is pretty cool, though. I'm interested in languages and linguistics, and I wanted to learn some of a language very different from English. Actually, I'm thinking of making it my goal to take courses in as many different languages as possible during my time at college. I don't really care about becoming fluent in one particular language; I just want to sample different languages and learn something about how they work. I took Spanish and Latin in high school (and studied Quenya for fun). Instead of taking another semester of Chinese after this, I could do some Greek, then Hebrew, then Korean, etc. It could be fun!

Gotta go, I need to study some more for Chinese...

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Ganked from a few different people...

Your home is a Time-Lord's Hideout Your kitchen consists of dilithium-powered food replicators, manned by obedient robot slaves, who are sure to never, ever rebel. I mean, it's preposterous to even consider it. There's a Chocolatessen, which is rapidly becoming your favorite room of the house. Having one is also becoming a trend among your wealthy neighbors. Your master bedroom is the size of a small barn, with carpet thick enough to reach your ankles. Your study has every science fiction title ever written. One of your garages contains a life-sized X-Wing fighter, and KITT. (KITT was a gift from a well-meaning uncle.) Your home also includes a robot repair bay, where your mechanized servants are routinely fitted with new restraining bolts. (It's just a precaution.) Your guests enjoy your animatronic replica of the cantina at Mos Eisley. Outside is your radio telescope, listening constantly for alien transmissions. Especially invaders. They'll come eventually, even if nobody believes you. (Nobody does.) And, you have a pet -- a taun-taun named "Padme". Below is a snippet of the blueprints:

Build YOUR Dream Home!

I would kill to have this house. I'd make sure to restock the escape pod supply, however. You never know when these things will be needed... </paranoia>

Edit: ( Here's a really long meme that everyone's been doing. )

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Ganked from bubonicwoodchuk. In which I give pithy responses to a lot of pointless questions. (I really like the word pithy. I think it's my new favorite word. Pithy pithy pithy. Okay, I'll shut up now.)

( Cut for being really long. )

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Well, so far it appears that one of the biggest differences between college and high school is all the group work we have to do now. I don't think I've met with classmates outside of class in order to work on a group project since I was in about third grade. Now I'm on a team in three different classes. I will really have to practice my teamwork skills, which currently kind of suck. I like working by myself better, but I guess that doesn't happen in the real world. I'll just have to get used to it.

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First two days of university classes are over. Wow... I still can't believe I'm actually at college. It's weird.

But it's not bad. My roommate is fine; she's nice enough, and most importantly of all--she doesn't snore. Seriously, I think that the one thing I really wouldn't be able to stand in a roommate is snoring, or making any other sounds at night when I'm trying to sleep. I've had too much experience trying to sleep in the same room as my sister, who makes all kinds of noises when she's asleep.

And thank you, techno_dann, for your words of reassurance. You were right; it doesn't look as though I'm going to be totally dazed and confused and lost in all of my classes. =D

It is slightly intimidating that I'm one of only three girls in my Engineering 100 class, but I think I'll survive.

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Other news: I've just re-fallen in love with The Princess Bride. Yeah, I think in the My Favorite Movies sweepstakes it ties for first with Back to the Future.

Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line!

And the book! *is in love with book!Fezzik and book!Inigo*

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I just moved into my dorm at the university. Classes start on Tuesday. I'm staying in the snooty, old-fashioned all-female dorm, the one where they have fancy dinners twice a week and tea parties every Friday. *shudders* Well, none of that stuff is mandatory and I wanted to be with all girls. I'll just have to deal with the fact that this is the dorm everyone else makes fun of, which will easy because I'll be making fun of it too.

*is freaking out* I'm in COLLEGE! Ack! At least I'm still in my hometown (my dad teaches here) and I can go home for the weekends. Being around other people ALL THE TIME, though... even sharing a room with someone else... I don't know how hard that will be. I'm intensely antisocial.

I'm even more freaked out about the classes though. What if everything's too hard for me? It's exactly like two years ago in high school. I signed up for a computer programming class because I thought it sounded cool, but as the start of school drew nearer I began panicking. I was so sure that I would be the only girl in the class, that it would be filled with genius hackers who would make me seem like a moron in comparison, that I would be way behind everyone else. As it turned out, yeah, there were only a couple of other girls, but the teacher was a woman. I wasn't way behind everyone else; I was ahead of most of the class, actually. And I really, really liked it.

I'm just hoping that it's going to turn out the same way this year.

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Meme-age ganked from ekwy.

o1. Pick your birth month.
o2. Strike out anything that doesn't apply to you.
o3. Bold the five-ten that best apply to you.
o4. Copy to your own journal, with all twelve months under a lj-cut.


MARCH: Attractive personality. Sexy. Affectionate. Shy and reserved. Secretive. Naturally honest, generous and sympathetic. Loves peace and serenity. Sensitive to others. Loves to serve others. Easily angered. Trustworthy. Appreciative and returns kindness. Observant and assesses others. Revengeful. Loves to dream and fantasize. Loves traveling. Loves attention. Hasty decisions in choosing partners. Loves home decors. Musically talented. Loves special things. Moody.

( The Months )

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Just got back home from Hawaii yesterday on a couple of crazy overnight flights... and, after having been awake for, I think, about 30 hours, slept for 14 straight hours. O.o I have never slept that long in my life. Ever. Of course, the sleeping pill my mom gave me last night might have had something to do with it. Plus the fact that I'm feeling kind of sickish.

I hate hate hate long overnight flights, because I can never get any sleep, and when I'm tired I tend to get airsick. The worst time was on the flights to and from China a couple of years ago--twelve straight hours on a plane each way, and I threw up both times. Even the misery I experienced yesterday cannot compare to that.

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This morning we rode a bus halfway up the mountain and biked all the way back down. It was fun and easy--no pedaling, just lots of braking. We started out above the clouds, and passed through them on our way down. 'Twas most incredible. Then we snorkeled some more, and saw gigantic turtles! Yay!

We're going home tomorrow, though. =(

<td>Pholph's Scrabble Generator

My Scrabble© Score is: 6.
What is your score? Get it here.</td>

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Old? Moi? Hmph!

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And it is awesome indeed! Went snorkeling and snuba-ing yesterday. The fishes! And the coral! And the water, which really wasn't cold at all! My grandpa came too. He is amazing--eighty years old, and he still skis and snubas.

Also this morning we hiked up these crazy big hills with all these funky holey volcanic rocks on them. At night we went to a luau and saw hula dancers and stuff. It was sweet.

The condo we're staying in is really nice, and right next to the ocean. It doesn't have any internets, but sometimes I'm able to connect to our neighbors' wireless. That's good, because I think otherwise I'd go into internet withdrawal.

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