I thought I'd be in Ravenclaw, actually. Last time I was Hugglepuff, I believe. Gryffindor's okay with me, I suppose.
Yesterday, I read The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett another time. It's definitely one of the best. I liked the justification given for telling kids things like the Soul Cake Duck (Easter Bunny) and Hogfather (Santa Claus) are true, even though I don't agree with it. It was good philosophical thinking. And now, a quote or two.
AND NOW THERE REMAINS ONLY ONE FINAL QUESTION.
HAVE YOU BEEN NAUGHTY ... OR NICE?
HO. HO. HO.
~Death in the very end.
--"Well, I mean, dammit, it's human nature, isn't it?" said Ridcully hotly. "Things go wrong, things get lost, it's natural to invent little creatures that -- All right, all right, I'll be careful. All I'm saying is that man is naturally a mythopoeic creature."
--"What's that mean?" said the Senior Wrangler.
--"Means we make things up as we go along," said the Dean, not looking up.
~On the Accretion of Belief
I also studied some for my Spanish midterm tommorrow. I think I'll do okay on it. I need to study vocabulary today though. Good old flashcard time. Just gotta be careful that the word doesn't get attached to the flashcard and is still kept as an abstract for me to use at any time.
*laughs* I have to teach a bit of class this morning. Stuff about one type of irregular preterits. The other two people in my group are covering the other types of irregular preterits. I look forward to it, it should be pretty fun. And it happens in about an hour. So I only get to look forward to it for a little time.
Taking a look at my chat logs lengths...
1. Kearney with a whopping 656kb of conversation.
2. Raserei trailing by slightly less than 200kb at 461.
3. IronPaw almost another full 100 behind at 368.
4. Myrhakel at 326kb.
5. Digger precisely 100kb behind her at 226.
This doesn't take into account where people talk to me with two different chatting engines. Myrhakel's count would probably be up higher if I spliced the MSN-Trillian and MSN conversations into her count. And maybe some more added to Ras from his MSN also.
Nothing really more to say... Need to go reply to Reno at VI though...
Well, when he got back from fishing, he called home and I went and picked him up. And, though sorely tempted, I did not beat him up. *grins*
Over the last week, I've been trying to get a key the cheap way. Tracking down the key Joe sent with the truck he sold, getting a replacement at the dealership. This did not work, unfortunately, so I called a locksmith today.
And now I have a key.
Muahahahahahhahaha.
Drivers of America, BEWARE!
Isn't it odd when you go to the Store and see a sign that reads: "Sale! 2 for 2$!" And then you go look at the normal price of the item and find it's a dollar? Freaks me out, it does. Because you know what it means? The advertisers know consumers are stupid.
Broad Sword
You are personal power and internal strength. You are not the fastest but you get the job done like no one else.
Okay, time for a spooky story. A few weeks ago I was reading a miscellaneous Pratchett. Which one it was, I can't quite recall. It's immaterial to the story. Anyways, I was laying on my bed with my head toward the computer. I was tired for some reason and fell asleep. The book and my glasses fell off the end of the bed. When I woke up, I couldn't find my glasses. I had to use my spare pair.
Saturday night, I stayed up all night playing Civilization III with some friends. When I went home, I started reading the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide. While I was reading it, I fell asleep and my glasses and book fell off the end of the bed. Later, I woke up and went outside to the camper (where there's AC) and went to sleep. When I came back up, I reached down off the end of my bed and pulled up my glasses.
They weren't my spare pair of glasses. Those had seemingly disappeared. These were the glasses I lost a few weeks ago off the end of the bed. What was quite odd was that the second time I fell asleep it was not with my head towards the computer. My head was at the other end of the bed. Strange occurences.
My Dad suddenly started talking about Spontaneous Human Combustion and other odd para-scientific things last night when we were eating ice cream. It was odd. Crazy people, when related to you and are actually crazy, aren't all that fun. They don't understand the basics of human interaction.
- Temperament:
hungry
Other than that girl, I think that I would have done a better job. So boring. Except for listening to names to look for odd ones.
Later, we went back to my friend's house. We played Bull with him and his family. I never did win, but I did pretty decent both times.
While I was wandering around waiting for my brother to get ready to leave the Pastor's House (my friend is one of the Pastor's Kids), I got to thinking. And irrational number is any number that cannot be represented by a whole number divided by another whole number. Pi is an irrational number. Therefore, it follows that, for a circle, either one or both of the diameter and circumference must also be an irrational number. And the funny thing was, this took me about 2 minutes to figure out while I was using the bathroom. My mind is weird.
- Temperament:
amused
I really wish he'd stop listening to Short-Wave. I do believe it poisons his mind in more ways than one.
When they were over here, they saw my desktop. Which is *coughs* a picture of Myrhakel. *waves hands frantically* IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK!!!!! When I un-inverted her picture I just thought she looked cool so I put her picture on my desktop. That is all. Anyways, they asked me who the hot chick was. "A friend," I replied. I get the awful sense that they're going to rib me for it.
I've also gangked my sister's magic deck of cards. Muahahahaha. Fear me, stupid-people-who-don't-understand-the-m
In other news, I think my confidence is growing. That or my extrovertedness. I'm actually starting to talk to random people in my class when walking down the hall. Previously, I never actually did that. Maybe a nod or wave, but I wouldn't actually say anything to them. Now I did. Having snatches of conversation and such. 'Sodd for me.
I'm not yet very impressed with The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It really hasn't caught my attention as much as it probably shoul have. I think I don't do well reading very, very hyped up books or talking to very, very hyped up people.
Moro doesn't like me. He says I sound like Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett too much. Which I find odd as I quite enjoy Pratchett and I think he does too.
I have an oral exam in Spanish tommorrow. That should be interesting. I think I have a good chance of getting an A/B on that bit. I should, for all look, get an A/B in the class. If I get a B, well, I'll cry, having ruint my perfect 4.0 gpa. *grins* Not really.
I took an online Brain-Teaser test at Tickle.com. I got 28 out of 30 questions wrong which puts me in the 99th percentile. Yaaaay.
As your family grows, so does your Life Insurance needs.
I almost went off the road when I saw that. Bloody advertising agencies.
James: Hey, how do you say "What's really good?"
minutes later they figure it out
James: Que realmente bien?
Professor: Yes?
James: You're supposed to say "Holla."
Professor: Write, in English
Veronica (the girl beside me whose name I finally figured out): I don't think there is an English word. It's slang.
Me: It's holler.
Professor (after looking at "holler"): Holer.
James: Yeah, so when I say "Que realmente bien?" you say "Holer."
Professor: *Nods bewilderedly*
Did not work out today. I thought my bro was going to show me around the Ceredo gym today. However, as it turns out, we're going to do that tomorrow. So I'm stuck here at home with my Spanish, my computer and a new video game. MUAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA!
Item 1: An odd occurrence. My church bought a trailer to sell to raise money for the church. Seeing that I had a 1000 bucks kicking around, I put it into the trailer with the understanding that I'd get it when the trailer sold.
Two weeks ago, we got a buyer. Cool, cool, I thought. I hadn't made a donation in a while, so I decided to ask my pastor to make the check that went back to me out for only 800 bucks and consider the 200 as a donation. He shook my hand and whatnot.
The buyer backed out. Almost instantly, another buyer called and they sold the trailer for 200 bucks more than they had got from the first buyer. My thoughts were immediately along the lines of, "Did God just play a little game of match-your-donation with me?" Who knows. Certainly not I.
Item 2: I think I would like to take up a martial art after I've bulked up a little and lost some weight. Perhaps at the end of the summer when school starts. Trouble is, I have no idea what MA would suit me. Help from the audience?
My ideas on my predispositions from an analyzation of Randag's essays on the four types of Martial Artists. My personality/values would definitely fit best along the lines of Crane, I believe. However, I think my body type would be better as a Tiger. To throw a further wrench to the monkey, I'd say that my thought process could be best described as Panther. I haven't figured out how to work Snake in yet, though. *grins*
So, presuming I could find a sensei, what are the reccomendations?
- Temperament:
full - Music:Sanctus Real - Message
Heh, anyways, today we learned more stuff. Whoda thunk. I think the biggest new thing we learned were articles. We had some kind of quiz. And I went up and wrote on the board. I don't like chalk. Much prefer a whiteboard and markers. Muahahahha, I know the alphabet pretty well.
*grins* It's sort of odd which group that it turns out that I'm sort of "in." The black students. And I'm white. *laughs* Jesse, James, Jumal and the girl who's name I didn't catch. Oh, I got the name of the girl who sits beside me. Veronica. I wonder if that's what she prefers to be called...
And a random thought when I was buying stuff at Walmart
Sport Shorts ----------------- 15 $
Heavy-Duty Deodorant ---- 4 $
Towel -------------------------- 2 $
Weight Room Pass ------- 25 $
Being a Buff Geek ------ Priceless
- Temperament: hopeful
- Music:TBone - Straight Up Psycho
Well, I'm entitled to now. I've finished that project. It's a momentous occaison even ouf itself. And I'll have two celebratory drinks. Yes. Two celebratory drinks.
Okay, just one. That's because I've already finished the first one.
Y'know, there's probably some kind of method to making these drinks. Beyond getting some ice, some Kahlua, some Coke and tossing them all together. It worked well enough though. Tasted kind of bitter. But not bad. Not bad at all. Not like wine. Wine is an alcoholic beverage I can't stand.
Y'now, my eyebrow is twitching. I'm going to make that second drink.
- Temperament:
nervous
Many things have happened since the fire post, but I'll try to take them in a sort of chronological order.
That Sunday I slept in quite late, I felt I deserved it. After that, I went inside and wandered around, checking the damage and whatnot. The most widely dispersed damage had to be the smell. Next after that had to be the soot. Mom told us the fire insurance guy was coming by to measure the house and whatnot so he could see how much we get. We had to clean up our rooms... bleh.
That night I was up 'till about 4 cleaning. I don't really clean that well. My cleaning is an advanced form of "If I don't need/want it, throw it away." The advanced bit is that I move everything else around. I think I threw away three trash bags worth of stuff. Heh, well, I didn't spend all that time cleaning. A lot of it I spent chatting to people...
The next morning I woke up about tennish because I still had a bit to finish. I finished it, then realized, I still needed to type up my Math Labs before I went to class. I rushed through that, printed them out and rocketed to class. We had lecture then finished the test we had started on Friday. Odd, I know. She's giving the students lots of chances... Most of 'em don't deserve it...
The next day (today) I decided to skip Geography. I went to Advanced C++ though, of course. It was pretty interesting, but the classroom was hot as Hades. Me and my group met later that day to discuss the final project. It went well, methinks.
And that brings us up to date. No philosophical things or rants today, but I feel a big one coming on about Kenshin...
Bloody Oranges...
- Temperament:
shocked - Music:Spy - Tait (ChristianRock.Net)
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