Real Life Rantings! Argh! [Archive] - Page 7

Niirewen

01-07-2004, 01:17 AM

*enthusiastically agrees with Dragon's rant*

School started on Monday for me, and I've already had soo much work this week, it's crazy! I have 4 tests this week! They don't even give us any transition time. Ahh. Plus, midterm exams start the week after next. I'm definately not looking forward to it. :(

Another rant- I just found out today that the camp I've been going to twice a year since 8th grade that I was going to go to next weekend is filled up. I almost cried. I haven't missed a camp session ever since I first started going. This camp is sometimes what I live for. I just might have to die. I'm trying to convince my mom to let me drive up there and then just sleep in the car. Ha ha.. that's how desperate I am.

Gandalf The Grey

01-07-2004, 02:35 AM

Dear Niirewen:

Allow me to present you with an experience I had that might relate to your misgivings on breaking with tradition and not going to camp this session ... (but only in a small way, for it's only one weekend, right? At first I thought it was a two-week summer camp or something.)

For six years, I volunteered with the local park system as a historical re-enactor for the voyageur canoe program, every summer from May through October, two weekends a month. Six years ago, the other volunteers and the guy running things were a friendly bunch that you could laugh with and play jokes on one another with. Like the long-time friendship of army buddies (or the members of the Fellowship of the Ring!) :)

Then came a breaking of the Fellowship. In ones and twos, people began to drop out for one reason or another. By the time last summer came around, there were only two of us left from the original group. Meanwhile, the newer volunteers were cold, distant, and downright arrogant. I finally decided it was no longer worthwhile volunteering where I was no longer appreciated, where all semblance of friendship had vanished.

Of course that left a gaping hole in my schedule and I wondered how I would fill my summer? But since I was now "freed" in more ways than one ... things turned out far better than if I'd stuck with the same old tradition of going to the same old lake out on the same old canoe. I discovered Kelley's Island, which is much like Tol Eressëa. I discovered Old Man's Cave, which reminded me of the Glittering Caves. I rode horses, and ended up befriending a problem horse, becoming only one out of two people who are allowed to, or willing to, ride that horse.

Though it's only one weekend of change rather than a whole summer or a two-week camp ... I would encourage you if at all possible to take the weekend, make a new and wonderful adventure out of it, explore doing something you always wanted to do but never made the time for, see somewhere you've always wanted to see, whether far or near.

On a related note, here's my rant:

RANT -- My boss is sending me on a business trip to Chicago. Chicago, smack dab in the middle of winter! Not Florida, not Hawaii, not some nice warm island ... cold, windy, snowy Chicago! Worse, it's a big city. Ugh, big cities are like Mordor to me ... give me open water, open land, or if a shelter, the shelter of trees and forest!

So I suppose I must heed my own advice ... make a wonderful adventure out of the three days, and all. Though my boss, who knows firsthand the way I attract adventures, is advising me not to have any. My reply to her was that such a thing is beyond my control ... adventures just sort of happen. :)

-- Gandalf the Grey

Rhiannon

01-07-2004, 03:18 AM

Heehee...I've never been to Chicago, but I lived outside St. Louis for three years and went there often (I've been up the Arch...fifteen times? Driven across the Mississipi ten or fifteen times. Flown across the Pacific...six times, I think. No, eight, assuming there isn't a different name for the thing between Japan and Singapore. Been in both the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans. Military kids keep track of these things ;)). I cherished the idea of earning the money to go to Chicago in June in order to attend BookExpoAmerica, but alas, it was not to be. My parents hated the idea, and then my cousin scheduled her wedding for the week of the convention. Sigh. I'll just have to go to Oklahoma City for my senior trip, whee, what fun...

Niirewen

01-07-2004, 03:37 AM

Though it's only one weekend of change rather than a whole summer or a two-week camp ... I would encourage you if at all possible to take the weekend, make a new and wonderful adventure out of it, explore doing something you always wanted to do but never made the time for, see somewhere you've always wanted to see, whether far or near.
A very good suggestion, Gandalf the Grey, thank you.:)

(but only in a small way, for it's only one weekend, right? At first I thought it was a two-week summer camp or something.)
It's one week every summer and one weekend every winter. I know a weekend isn't a very long time, but this camp means the world to me. I couldn't even begin to explain it. Nevertheless, I will try to follow your advice, as it is very good advice.:)

Niirewen

01-07-2004, 03:42 AM

Oh, I forgot to add this to my last post (oops):

Unrant!- My mom has finally scheduled an appointment for me to take my driving test. Wohoo! I've been waiting a really long time because she has continually been refusing to make an appointment for me for no apparent reason. (Parents are like that) It isn't until February, but I'm still excited, and at least I finally have an appointment! Yay! :D

Gandalf The Grey

01-07-2004, 05:06 AM

Rhiannon:

Japan, eh? Singapore, the Pacific? Way cool! :) "Konichi-wa, genki?" is about the extent of my Asian language skills though. And Chicago in June for a brush with renowned tale-spinners, word-smiths, and bards of all descriptions doesn't sound half as bad as Chicago in January! And Oklahoma ... I've got a half-Cherokee friend who loves travelling there, but more for the pow-wows than its cities, methinks! Which place out of all the ones you've mentioned is/was your favorite?

But ... * BEGIN CHICAGO RANT HERE, SECURE IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THE BOSS WILL NEVER SEE ;) * ... I've travelled to other big cities. Madrid, Spain was actually excellent ... loved its jugglers, fire-eaters, Gypsy violinists and colored chalk artists in the plaza. I've only good things to say about Madrid. Dublin, Ireland was artistic like a paintingful of buildings but too urbanly-polished in its people ... I preferred the tiny seaside towns where you can still order apple pie with tea in the Gaelic language, and watch sunlit waves meet the shore from the summit of a cliff as you enjoy this same snack. Toronto, Canada is * THE PLACE * to see "Phantom of the Opera," and I've liked its science centre from the time I was little, but NOT the place to be when their city workers are on strike and haven't removed the garbage for two weeks but have left it sweltering in the summer sun!

Chicago, however, is a vast towering brown sprawl! (At least that's what I remember from having had to drive through it twice, or rather, inch forward now and then from my place in the traffic jam!) Despite the gardens I've seen advertised on the net, I have trouble imagining the concrete jungle (I almost typed "junkle" by accident :D ) of Chicago as the kind of place Hobbits would enjoy walking around in ... all those boxy rectangular and square stacks of dwellings and offices, vertigo-inducingly tall, not at all cozy like smials. Thousands upon thousands of iron-mongered cars spewing fumes all day and all night. Sky nearly blotted out. Artificial light replacing stars.

Well, there's gotta be something to like about it. :)

Gandalf The Grey

01-07-2004, 05:15 AM

Niirewen:

Your camp reminds me of Rivendell ...

... or the House of Tom Bombadil, or Lothlórien.

But most strongly of Rivendell.

Here's a poem I wrote during one of my stays there, the better to describe the feeling:

O Imladris whose arch and dome
Store depth from waterfall to sky
Magnificent is Elrond's home
Haven of live serenity
From which to undertake a quest
Recover strength, discover aim
Store up from life all that is best
From hearth to heart will leap a flame
Of hope to see you on your way
Whatever future darkness come
Meet true to self and company.

-- Gandalf the Grey

P.S. Congratulations and good luck on your driving test! :)

Rhiannon

01-07-2004, 07:43 AM

Good luck, Niri! I failed my driver's test twice. I hear that intellectuals have a more difficult time learning to drive ;)

Japan, eh? Singapore, the Pacific? Way cool! "Konichi-wa, genki?" is about the extent of my Asian language skills though. And Chicago in June for a brush with renowned tale-spinners, word-smiths, and bards of all descriptions doesn't sound half as bad as Chicago in January! And Oklahoma ... I've got a half-Cherokee friend who loves travelling there, but more for the pow-wows than its cities, methinks! Which place out of all the ones you've mentioned is/was your favorite?
Well, let's see...I only visited Singapore for four days, though I loved it, but I lived in Japan for three years, which I adored. I'm afraid I dislike Oklahoma very much. The town we're in is very rural and wouldn't even be on the map if there weren't an air base here- we have a Super Wal-Mart. That's about it. Coming here from living on the outskirts of Tokyo was a huge culture shock. Also, the society here centers on the high school, especially on high school football. Being homeschooled and hating organized sports on general principle, I have no sympathetic people to interact with. I have a small circle of very dear friends, but only one is within driving distance (four hours away). The rest are scattered far and wide. The curse of being a military brat.
So I find very little to love about Oklahoma, especially as far as the landscape and the availabe society, but I do love Texas, which has been my family's stomping ground ever since the Civil War (one branch, anyway- I expect that other branches have been there even longer, since we have a lot of Scotch/Irish and there's a high concentration of people with that heritage in this part of the country). Four hours away I can be in Fort Worth, which has Half Price Bookstores and the beautiful Kimbell Art Museum.
It's been eight years, but I also loved living in Georgia. The climate is actually rather similar to Japan, and I was very happy there. And, like everyone else, I adore Savannah.
The place I have lived that I hated most was Illinois, frankly. Again, we were rural, far away from anything, I had no friends (again), and I was at a very bad age for all of it. Pure misery and depression for three years. Though I did see The Phantom of the Opera at the Fox in St. Louis (which is beautiful).
And from there we moved to Japan. Japan is one of the most beautiful places in the world. I have a great heart for mountains, and Japan's are the most wonderful. I loved being able to see in to another culture, I loved being able to take the trains in to Tokyo, I loved visiting gardens and temples and just driving in to the Japanese countryside.
Truthfully, as much as I am very much an American and a Texan, I am always longing to be abroad. :) I have my hopes pinned on going to school in England for a year. I've never been to Europe, but I have been longing to all my life. I love language, and I'm fascinated with Gaelic, and especially Welsh.

Well, there's gotta be something to like about it.
Yes- Every third year BookExpo America is hosted there! (it rotates between Chicago, New York, and LA)

Niirewen

01-08-2004, 01:36 AM

My camp reminds me of Rivendell too, Gandalf the Grey. Thank you for sharing your poem, it's very good.:)

And thank you, both of you, for wishing me luck on my test. I still have to practice parallel parking, but hopefully I'll pass the first time!

As for traveling.. I've hardly traveled anywhere at all. I've lived in the same boring town all my life, and my family isn't very into traveling. We go to the Florida Keys a lot, but that's about it. Pretty much the only interesting place I've travelled to was when I went to Washington state and Oregon with my friend and her family last summer. We went to Seattle, camped by Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Adams for a few days, and spent a night or two in Hood River, Oregon. I enjoyed it. But that's pretty much the extent of my travelling experience. I've never been out of the country. I'd love to go to Europe someday though.

Rhiannon

01-08-2004, 02:46 AM

Rant:

I HATE MY NOVEL! This is my writerly equivalent of stripping off my clothes and running around naked. It's not my baby. I don't like it. I don't want it. I've only been working on it for six days, but I'm going to be working on it for the rest of the month and I already HATE IT! Aaaaaaaaaah! *runs around in circles* I hate my novel! I hate my novel! The premise is stupid! The characters are boring! There isn't a plot! I don't want to go write 2000 words! I HATE MY NOVEL!!!!!!!!

Whew, that was liberating. Maybe I can go work now.

Niirewen

01-08-2004, 03:59 PM

Wow, Rhi. I'm sorry you hate your novel.:( I hope things start going a little better with it!

My rant- I have a Precalculus quiz tomorrow and I have absolutely no understanding of how to do anything we've learned. It probably didn't help that the first day we started the new chapter I was taking last chapter's test because I was absent and my teacher forgot twice that I was supposed to take it after school, so I therefore had to take it during class. So I missed the first lesson.. and I was very lost.. and I'm still lost.. and I'm going to fail. I hate Precalculus!!! Now I'm going to have to spend the whole rest of the day trying to figure out how to do this stuff.. even though that will probably be hopeless. Did I mention how much I hate Precalculus?? Oh, I also have a packet in Chemistry due tomorrow on mole applications, and I have no idea how to do that either. I hate school. I can't wait until this weekend.. I've been waiting for this week to be over as soon as it started.

Dragon

01-10-2004, 09:19 PM

RANT-->

NO ONE IS POSTING!!!
WHERE ARE ALL THE PEOPLES!!!!!?!!!!!????????!?!?!
POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

Turin

01-10-2004, 09:38 PM

There hasn't really been anything to rant about but I'll have to think of something.

Rant: I have a 28 day experiment due today and I haven't typed it up yet.

Rant: Its Saturday and theres nothing to do except do things around the house, its too cold to ride bikes or anything fun outside.

Thats pretty much all I can think of right now

Turin

01-13-2004, 12:03 AM

Major unrant: I just found out that I'm getting a new teacher for geography, my old teacher was the worst, she gave retarded homework and didn't give a good sylybus. Hopefully my new teacher will be better, as far as I know he just graduated from teaching school and this is his first job as a teacher.

Rhiannon

01-13-2004, 04:52 AM

Rant: Class has started, so I have to get up at 8am MWF. Bah.

Unrant: Got to babysit my favorite babysitting job tonight.

Rant: The baby wouldn't go to sleep, to the two youngest were still up when the parents came home (makes me feel like I haven't done my job)

Unrant: I now have $25

Rant: Nothing good is showing at the theatre

Unrant: My sister and I went anyway and I had lots of fun coming up with ways to torment the other movie goers. Also drank Dr. Pepper through a Twizzler.

Turin

01-13-2004, 09:43 PM

Also drank Dr. Pepper through a Twizzler.

I used to do that all the time, it gives it extra flavoring.

Niirewen

01-14-2004, 12:03 AM

Class has started, so I have to get up at 8am
Consider yourself lucky, I have to wake up at 6:30am! I would give anything to be able to sleep an extra hour and a half..

My sister and I went anyway and I had lots of fun coming up with ways to torment the other movie goers.
Ha ha, that's always fun!

Unrant: I got a 98 on my English paper that I slaved over! :)

Rant: Nothing new, but I hate school. Especially because midterm exams are next week. And especially because my Precalculus exam isn't multiple choice. :(

Rant: My stupid computer keeps randomly shutting down my programs! Arghh! :mad:

Rhiannon

01-14-2004, 02:09 AM

Well, since I've been staying up until 4am and getting up at noon for weeks...

Unrant: I got my first belt in karate tonight.

Wonko The Sane

01-14-2004, 12:29 PM

I've been staying up until 6 am and getting up at 3.

I'm working towards getting back on GMT since I'm not working at that place anymore.

On another note: I've been harrassed lately!!! SAD!!

FWOMAH FOREVER!

Rhiannon

01-14-2004, 04:58 PM

Harrassment is v. v. bad and evil. I'd invite you here to take karate with me, only last night he made us do a 'group crunch', where you all sit in a row and put your arms around each other's shoulders and...Rhi has got a bad cramp. Ow. ow. ow. ow. ow.

Rant: I stayed up until 1:30am doing college application stuff, and then had to wake up at 7am so I could shower and be awake before class (where we learned stuff that I have known since I was twelve. Do people really not know anything about Greek mythology?)

Unrant: I'M FINALLY DONE WITH MY COLLEGE APPLICATIONS!!!!!!!!!! I was going to be good and get them all done back in November, but the only thing I managed was to get my character references. Last night I ordered my ACT scores sent, made up copies of my transcript, printed out envelopes, wrote the last bloody application essay, and turned in my little slips of green paper to get my college transcript sent. Whew. This entire process is ridiculous. Several different sets of people sending several different sets of information to one place and hoping it meshes when it gets there....Lomie and I agree that a man is definitely to blaim for this. Only a man could come up with a system so rife with sheer incompetence. Actually we blaim men for the entire school system...it's inherintly screwed up, because of being controlled by generation upon generation of men....</feministic rant>

Elfhelm25

01-14-2004, 06:20 PM

Rant : The weather here on the Island is - 42. Everything was cancelled except good old UPEI. Dragged me arse up at 6 30 for school while everyone else slept in. Just as my french class kicked in, school got cancelled.
Unrant : hitched a ride home with some friends I hadn't seen for awhile. They cheered me up.
You would not believe this. A fellow came up to me while waiting for my french class, and asked me where the Main building was. He had a vest and light gloves. So I offered to walk him to the class. I asked him where he was from ? He just got here from SOUTH AFRICA ! 3 days ago. Which is about when this bugger of a cold spell kicked us all in the arse. So thats what , a change from say 40 degrees to - 42. he has my respect !
Saw two red foxes on the way home, looking for a place to keep warm. How cool is that!
Im cold and I think there are wolves after me.
:cool:

Elfhelm25

01-14-2004, 06:24 PM

(Rant: I stayed up until 1:30am doing college application stuff, and then had to wake up at 7am so I could shower and be awake before class)

I've been there , Rhiannon. :D Oh, those application days.

P.S. Do people in the States ( if that's where you are from , which I'm assuming ) call universities colleges ? Over here college means trade school. Are you applying to trade school ? Or university ? And where ?

Sorry. I like knowing these kinds of things.!

Rhiannon

01-14-2004, 09:47 PM

University (this caused lots of confusion between an Australian friend and myself once... :p)

Cold spells are bad. Rhi does not like cold spells. She does like foxes, though. Very cool.

Unrant: I wrote 1200 words! Yay! I've missed two days of writing, but I don't think I'm behind now. But I can't skip anymore or I will be. And if I don't, then Feb. 30 I'll have a novel...wow, what a thought. I really bad novel, but a novel.

Niirewen

01-15-2004, 03:25 AM

Unrant: Snow is expected here tonight, which means there is a chance of school being cancelled tomorrow! Yay! *crosses fingers*

Rant: I know I've been complaining about midterms a lot lately (they are horrible!) but I haven't even started studying yet.. (I feel a little guilty) I wish I were more motivated when it comes to these kind of things.. :rolleyes:

Niirewen

01-15-2004, 01:21 PM

No luck, it didn't even snow an inch! :mad: I'm off to school now.. :(

Gandalf White

01-15-2004, 04:20 PM

Oh the horror of doing your work over the net. :o

All a snow day means is doing school, then going out to shovel. The one hope is that the snow takes out a power line somehow, but that hasn't happened yet...

Turin

01-15-2004, 05:43 PM

We don't have snow days in Florida. I wouldn't get out even if there was anyway :mad:.

Rant: I've got an essay due on the 20th on a book (the merchant of venice) that I have barely read. I haven't even started the essay yet.

Rant2: Midterm is due on the 26th!

Rant3: I have to go camping this weekend, and I was planning to do something with my friends.

I need a holiday, a very long holiday! And so does everyone else that is in school.

Rhiannon

01-15-2004, 07:04 PM

Unrant: 2,000 words yesterday! Woohoo! The novel is starting to go well...yes...There is a plot type thing now...

Sorry to everyone with school woes :( My lit class has started, in the mornings, most evil, and first thing I have to learn about (again) all of the Green mythology stuff that I have known since I was twelve. I mean, come on, everyone knows who Odysseus is, right?

Turin

01-15-2004, 10:19 PM

everyone knows who Odysseus is, right?

Oh! He was the one that invented mayonnaise right? ;)

Niirewen

01-15-2004, 11:32 PM

I need a holiday, a very long holiday! And so does everyone else that is in school.
I hear ya! Winter break only ended like 2 weeks ago, but with midterms and the end of the quarter and stuff.. everything has just been so stressful! I hate being stressed!

I mean, come on, everyone knows who Odysseus is, right?
Oh, yes, I love Greek mythology. I adore The Iliad and The Odyssey, but everyone thinks I'm crazy because I do.

MacAddict

01-16-2004, 04:40 AM

I need a holiday, a very long holiday! And so does everyone else that is in school.

Hear here!

Rant: School has done an excellent job at entirely absorbing all of my time, I only really like 2 of my 6 classes, Digital Animation and TV Production because I actually have fun in them and get to do something I want to do, I miss Homeschooling.

Unrant: It really suprised me to see the other students in TV Production learning editing tricks that are 2nd nature to me, and they're all in disbelief at how well I know the Mac system :D

All in all school is 'ok', but I really miss staying up till 1-3 in the morning talking to a certain someone.

~MacAddict

Niirewen

01-16-2004, 04:02 PM

Unrant: It's Friday!! (Plus, I'm getting out of school early:D)

Rant: I'll be studying all weekend. :(

Dragon

01-17-2004, 02:20 AM

aargh. the odysseus thing reminds me.
we read excerpts from a version of the odyssey, and we had to write an essay on it. Our prompt was
"Odysseus is a hero."
<sarcasm>wow. what I prompt. I know exactly what I'm going to say.</sarcasm>

our teacher gave us a list of things that "define a hero"
things like bravery, strength, not having a lady.
welll, out of the list of approx. 10 things she gave us, odysseus only fit 2. wow. again.

so, even though I believe oysseus to be a hero, I wrote about how he is not a hero. it was easier. she said we could. so I did

also, I prefer the name Ulysses (sp?) idk y, but saying odysseus bugs me...

Niirewen

01-17-2004, 08:37 PM

I had to write that exact same paper a few years ago. I don't really remember what I wrote though.

Rhiannon

01-17-2004, 08:45 PM

They like you to write about how people who are supposed to be heroes really aren't...I wrote a brilliant essay on how Sophocles turned the tragic form around to make a point in Antigone when I was a sophomore...of course, the bloody teacher gave me a B because I didn't talk about the fact that Antigone and Creon were related...Everyone knew that already, and it wasn't part of the point!

I transferred out of his class and in to the AP British Lit class :D

Niirewen

01-19-2004, 11:02 PM

Wow, things are really dead around here.. I'm not going to rant about anything important (like I ever do) but I feel the need to rant about something just because the silence around here is feaking me out..

But.. *begins ranting* my room is really really cold and it's really really bothering me because I really really do not like being cold! Of course, common sense says, go put some more clothes on, get some blankets, but last night I slept in three pants and three shirts and with three blankets and I was still shivering the whole night! And now I'm sitting here at my computer and I can barely type because my hands are nearly frozen. My room is at the end of the hallway and always used to be the warmest room (which I liked very much) but then my dad decided to do something crazy with the heating system because he thought upstairs was too hot. I've been whining about it a lot and he said he changed it back but.. obviously not.

*finishes ranting* I just spent way to much time ranting about something no one would care anything about.. but I couldn't think of anything else (well, except school, but that's not new). Someone else say something.. please.. so I don't feel like I'm rambling on about nothing to myself..

Turin

01-19-2004, 11:22 PM

Rant: I have an essay due tomorrow and I haven't started it and don't know where to start it.

Rant2: I also have a book report due tomorrow, I had no idea that I was even supposed to do it, I guess I'll have to come up with some good excuses.

Dragon

01-21-2004, 03:56 AM

well niri, I have something like your problem

my room is always either the coldest or the hottest.
it's freezing in winter, and it's burning up in summer.
I can walk around my room with the fan going full blast and not wearing any clothes in summer, and still be hot, and in winter, I turn off the fan, the furnace is turned all the way up, but I still use 3 blankets and wear 2 layers of everything.
it's just not cool.

Turin

01-21-2004, 07:00 PM

Rant: I just reallised that I have to do an experiment about predicting weather, its supposed to take a week and its due tomorrow! My brother did it last year, maybe he can help me. ;)

Rant: I'm hungry because I'm the only one home and theres nothing to eat except breakfast stuff, and its 1:00 in the afternoon.

Rhiannon

01-21-2004, 07:08 PM

I'm sick. I'm dying.

I'm also really snarky.

Warrior

01-21-2004, 07:08 PM

Orginally posted by Courtney
I don't know if i have said this before, but it really bothers me when people walk up (or down) moving escalators! You have to think you are pretty important if you cant even wait for the escalator to do its job and take you to the next floor... I mean, how pompous can people get!

Oh, it's when they are walking up and down the escalators, but then they want you to move out of their way so they can get by.
Uuhh, rude much? Take the stairs, they are right next to the escalators!!

Turin

01-21-2004, 08:37 PM

Unrant: My dad finally got home with a couple Wendy's hamburgers, their cold but atleast its food.

Niirewen

01-22-2004, 12:43 AM

What are you sick with, Rhi, is it the flu? I got a flu shot back in November, but caught the flu anyway. That was last month. It was horrible, they almost took me to the hospital because my fever was so high. The flu is evil. Last year I had the stomach flu, and that was even worse. I threw up 6 times is a row.. yuck. Well, you have my sympathies, Rhi, being sick is awful. I really hope you'll feel better soon.

Unrant: I took a lovely 2-hour nap today. I love napping.

Rant: 3 more midterm exams left.

Unrant: I took my Precalc exam today, the worst is over.

Rant: I have to take the SAT Saturday morning, after a week of exams, ugh..

MacAddict

01-22-2004, 04:32 AM

I threw up 6 times is a row.. yuck.

Yes barfing is sicky, but don't ya just love how much BETTER you feel after loosing your stomach's troublesom inhaditents(sp) :D

~MacAddict

Rhiannon

01-22-2004, 05:51 AM

Not the flu, fortunately- just a cold. I'm not bed ridden, but I feel yucky, especially when I had to get up and go to class this morning. I also sound like a frog. It's terrible. I need a handsome prince to kiss me...*wanders off in the direction of Ithilien*

Good luck on the SAT, Niri!

Niirewen

01-23-2004, 12:25 AM

Yes barfing is sicky, but don't ya just love how much BETTER you feel after loosing your stomach's troublesom inhaditents(sp)
Well, I guess.. at least, you feel a whole lot better than you did before you threw up. *shudders* I hate that feeling.

Not the flu, fortunately- just a cold.
That is fortunate, though being sick is never fun. Drink lots of fluids and get lots of rest! ;)

Good luck on the SAT, Niri!
Thanks! :) I'm not so sure how well I'll do.. but I'll be taking it two other times so there isn't a whole lot of pressure.

Turin

01-23-2004, 12:30 AM

Rant: I'm bored, and I don't want to do any of my homework.

Unrant: I got my 2 lab reports done but I still have to do a test.

Gandalf White

01-23-2004, 02:08 AM

I echo the good wishes on the SAT. I've taken it twice so far; my teacher has it in my schedule to take it again, I think.

Unrant: Got an application out to my main college! At long last...

Rant: I am so tired, have been all day, and have to get up early tomorrow.

Unrant: Tomorrow I'm 18. w00t! ;)

Rhiannon

01-23-2004, 04:41 AM

Getting better, yay! My voice is coming back, which is good, because whenever I try to talk it surprises me to hear a nasty croak instead of my normal voice...I was singing anyway, though, croaking out 'The Way You Look Tonight' to myself.

But today I had to jump through hoops to get the textbook for my English class, because I had to have read a short story before tomorrow morning. Blah.

Turin

01-23-2004, 04:54 AM

Unrant: Tomorrow I'm 18. w00t! ;)

Yay for GW! Happy birthday!

Rhiannon

01-23-2004, 06:41 AM

Ooh, hey, I missed that...Happy birthday, GW! (and Frank says happy birthday too :D)

Niirewen

01-23-2004, 07:41 PM

Unrant: Tomorrow I'm 18. w00t!
Well, seeing how tomorrow is now today.. Happy Birthday GW! :)

Rant: SAT tomorrow.. gonna have to do some practice tests and such today :(

Unrant: No school Monday! :)

Rant: My chem teacher just gave out an assignment which is supposedly the biggest most difficult lab report we'll ever have to do.. and 1) I have no idea how I'm going to pull this off.. I do not understand anything and 2) we just had a whole week of midterm exams.. and now I'm going to be slaving over this lab report trying desperately to figure this stuff out. I sincerely dislike Chemistry.

Rhiannon

01-23-2004, 08:25 PM

Yikes, Niri! I suffered through Chemistry *shudder* Never want to come near the stuff again.

Kailita

01-24-2004, 10:48 PM

Ack! Chemistry is evil! *Sympathizes* I'm in Chemistry this year, too. Took a final on it last week...*cringes*. Do not think I did well. Oh wells.

I have two major unrants.

One ---> FINALS WEEK IS OVER! Huzzah! No more studying, no more cramming, I get to have my life back again! :D And, for the first time since the beginning of the year, I have no homework over the weekend! :eek: I actually have this...this glorious thing called...free time. I've almost forgotten what you do with yourself when you don't have anything to study for...

Two ---> I've been saving up my bottles since Novemberish...and I finally recycled them last weekend. The total was...643 bottles. Which means I've recycled 1441 all together! :eek::D The guy at the recycling center just kind of watched in stunned silence as my dad and I unloaded bag after bag after bag of bottles. He told me that I supplied him with more plastic then he's gotten since he took the job! :D I'm really saving the world! And I made 25 dollars from recycling money, too!

Niirewen

01-25-2004, 02:35 AM

FINALS WEEK IS OVER! Huzzah!
Yay!! I can share in your end-of-exam-week celebration, as my past week was spent taking exams as well! I can't believe I didn't already un-rant about this..

And, for the first time since the beginning of the year, I have no homework over the weekend!
Luckily, I can share in this as well! I've decided to put off doing my chemistry project and wait until the weekend is over. It'll be hard doing it during the week, but sometimes I just can't help procrastinating. I mean, is it really that bad if I give myself a break over the weekend after a week of exams??

Well, the SAT went alright.. I've decided not to worry about it because I'm still going to take it 2 more times no matter what, so I don't really have much to worry about. But the school I took it in was really dirty.. and I had to put my purse on the floor.. gross. Just thought I'd share. I'm a fan of cleanliness.

Rhiannon

01-25-2004, 02:46 AM

Ew. The school I took the SAT at wasn't very nice either- and it was freezing. My feet were so cold...bleh.

Dragon

01-25-2004, 08:50 AM

I have no idea what's going on w/ our finals and stuff,
I think I already took them, but I'm not sure bc as soon as I get out of school every day, I forget everything.....
useful, huh?
*sigh* :o

Niirewen

01-26-2004, 01:52 AM

I think I already took them, but I'm not sure bc as soon as I get out of school every day, I forget everything.....
Haha, I wish I could do that. Even when I try to relax I spend a lot of time worrying about how busy the next day or week or whatever is going to be.. In fact the next whole month is going to be incredibly busy for me.. next week in particular. I'll have that chem project (just thinking about it makes my head ache) plus I have 2 appointments and probably other things I've forgotten about. I get stressed out when my schedule is too busy. I used to go crazy if I wasn't busy.. not anymore..

Ireth Telrúnya

01-26-2004, 02:23 AM

I'm taking a leave from my studies right now, since it seems I can't do anything besides the things that obsess me at one time. I'm glad it's possible for me right now.
So I figured it's better to concentrate on what you're interested in at the moment. You learn better when you're interested.
I'm considering of starting philological studies all over again, at first on my own...

Turin

01-26-2004, 06:05 PM

Rant: My semester exam is supposed to be done today, and I have barely started it(big surprise ;) ).

Unrant: I have to mail it in by the 31st, so I actually have until then to finish it.

Rant: I don't have a team for 12 hours of Razorback(a bike race), and its on the 28th of February. If I can't get a team together by then I'll just go and see if theres anyone who needs an extra team member(thats what my brother always does).

Turin

01-27-2004, 04:07 AM

Unrant: I got to go on a group ride today, my fourth day in a row that I've been riding.

Rant: On the way back the group kinda split up and then it started to rain. So my friend and I took one trail back and started to ride faster because of the rain, I ended up jumping something and popping my tube, and guess what, I didn't have an extra. So my friend rode back to the bike shop to send my brother(who has an extra tube) back to find me, while I sat on the side of the trail, in the rain, with the daylight fading and my tire flat, I decided to start walking back towards the trail head(about 2 miles back) carrying my 30 pound bike. By now it was really starting to get dark(which was not very fun). But luckily I heard someone yelling(that person being my brother) so I stopped and waited for him to catch up. So we changed the tube and sprinted back to the trail head(in the dark).

All's well that ends well I suppose.

Niirewen

01-28-2004, 09:38 PM

Turin

01-29-2004, 02:00 AM

Rant: I have to clean my bike soon or it will start to rust after the ride in the rain. Cleaning my bike requires spraying everything down with simple green(a cleaning solution), thoroughly scrubing everything down with a brush, then blowing out all the cables and everything else with the compressor. And now for the best part, I get to take all the cables out and relube them and then relube the chain, and realign my brakes.

Rant: Tomorrow I get to sit in my room by myself and watch school videos for about 6 hours.

Dragon

01-29-2004, 02:49 AM

And now for the best part, I get to take all the cables out and relube them and then relube the chain, and realign my brakes.

was that sarcasm? bc that sounded like sarcasm

rant--> it takes a long time to copy CDs.... I told me lil bro I'd copy an evanescence cd for him, and I wanna give it to him right away bc the parents have been especially evil to him lately.

I also told kamala I'd copy 1 song for her. that's all she want's is one song. Kennedy.

has anyone heard of the group Kill Hannah?

Ireth Telrúnya

01-29-2004, 02:42 PM

Unrant: These last two days my school was closed because of the snow we got. :)

Rant: I'll definately have school tomorrow (but I can't really complain after two snow days) and if my chemistry project is still due Friday, I'll only have tomorrow to do it.

Rant! Here in Finland schools are never closed due to snowfall! :(
I remember thinking this as a child when I heard that schools were closed because of snow somewhere in the world. I thought it was a great injustice!

Gandalf White

01-29-2004, 03:39 PM

Whoops, my apologies, I haven't stopped by in a while so I didn't thank you all for your birthday wishes! Thank you!

Unrant: I finally got a leather jacket, for my b-day. Ah, it is beautiful! :o I'll use any excuse to wear it... :p

As to rants: What else? School is piling back on, and even worse is the college looming in the immediate future.

mr underhill

01-29-2004, 03:45 PM

Turin

01-29-2004, 05:38 PM

was that sarcasm? bc that sounded like sarcasm

Yeah, how could you tell :p. I really hate cleaning my bike the whole procedure takes about 2 hours.

Rhiannon

01-29-2004, 07:09 PM

My nails are a particularly lurid shade of pink. I babysat for eight hours yesterday. It was actually pretty quiet. My favorite job- three girls 9 and under, who adore me. Even though they did paint my nails pink. I hate nail polish...almost as much as I hate pink. Mm, but now I have chocolate. And it's nice to have little kids who love you. And be adored while making $60.

aaaaaaaaah, college looming! *ducks* Now I'm just waiting around for replies to my applications...*gnaws fingers*
And filling out bloody scholarship applications. The website hates me. God does not want me to have a scholarship.

Niirewen

01-30-2004, 02:34 AM

Rant! Here in Finland schools are never closed due to snowfall!
I remember thinking this as a child when I heard that schools were closed because of snow somewhere in the world. I thought it was a great injustice!
Over here in Maryland most people are afraid of snow.. schools get closed pretty easily.

And it's nice to have little kids who love you.
It is. But I have two kids who completely adore me three times a week (my mom runs a daycare) and it can be a bit overwhelming at times! But it's great.

Hmm.. colleges.. I'm at the gathering-of-information and picking-out-possible-colleges phase. I've gotten like 20 e-mails in the past 3 days from colleges (because of my PSAT scores which just came out). I'm not looking forward to writing applications..

Turin

02-02-2004, 06:19 PM

Unrant: I gave my bike a thourogh cleaning, but it did take most of saturday though :(.

Rant: I have to take my bike into the shop to get the fork lubed(which costs money), its as dry as a bone, probably because some of the cleaning solution got into it and dried it up.

Major unrant: My brother won a PS2 last night at a superbowl party(much to Mac's jealousy).

Unrant: I got the Linkin Park Numb video, it's very spiffy.

The-Elf-Herself

02-03-2004, 12:11 AM

Unrant: I got the Linkin Park Numb video, it's very spiffy.

Ooooh, awesome! :D I've seen parts of that video, very cool.

Unrant--> Jam's got her job back! I start Wednesday night! Huzzah! :D

Dragon

02-03-2004, 12:39 AM

I've barely seen any music videos, no cable you see.

same job/different job, jam?

Niirewen

02-03-2004, 12:45 AM

Major Rant: (I know I complain about chemistry a lot, but I'm going insane because of it) I have a test in Chemistry tomorrow and I have no clue (as usual) how to do like 90 percent of this stuff. I've been sitting here at my desk trying to figure some of this out but it's hopeless. I just do not get chemistry. So I've decided that I'm going to fail my test tomorrow. It's inevitable.

Unrant: There's a possible chance of school being delayed/cancelled tomorrow.. so my test might be postponed. It's unlikely though, and even if it is postponed I'll still fail.

Rant: My crazy chemistry teacher (he really is psycho) has decided not to count homework as part of our grade. We still have to do the mounds of homework he hands out, but we don't get any points for it. This means that my grade is entirely based on tests and lab reports. Not good.

Ahhhhh!! I am so stressed out! I hate chemistry!! I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it!!!!!!!!!!!

The-Elf-Herself

02-03-2004, 02:18 AM

Ahhh, I grieve with thee Niirewen, and you can NEVER complain too much about chemistry! Such was my fate as well, I had an extremely 'mathy' version of chemistry, most of it went completely over my head and I flunked four out of five tests(and that was AFTER they allowed us to take the darn things home and correct wrong answers. Horrible indecipherable chem books!) Then, it took me three months to understand covalent bonding(and I'm pretty sure I STILL don't get it); meanwhile, everyone ELSE had moved way ahead in the book! That seriously sucks though, evilish chem teacher, I fling dead wombats in his general direction! (To any PETA agents: the wombats died a natural death of old age. :rolleyes: )

Dragon---> same job, same place, different owner. It went from a cozy upscale 'cafe' to a casual 'kountry kitchen'. Going to be very interesting...

Rhiannon

02-03-2004, 02:48 AM

Yay for Jam getting her job back!

Boooooooo to Niri's nassssty, eeeeevil Chemistry teacher! A Pox! A Pox on the Chemistry teacher! Boooooo!!!!!! Hisssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gandalf White

02-03-2004, 04:13 AM

Help, you guys are seriously freaking me out! :eek:

Since I abhor science I put Chemistry off 'til college (I think), since I didn't want to have to take it twice! Now the Shadow looms ever larger, enhanced by that 3-syllable word...chemistry

*goes off to have nightmares*

mr underhill

02-03-2004, 10:51 AM

I'm in business studys and should be doing my work ;)

bad boys , bad boys ...

Niirewen

02-05-2004, 02:12 AM

That seriously sucks though, evilish chem teacher, I fling dead wombats in his general direction!
Boooooooo to Niri's nassssty, eeeeevil Chemistry teacher! A Pox! A Pox on the Chemistry teacher! Boooooo!!!!!! Hisssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haha, well thanks for your support guys. :)

Major Unrant!: Yesterday was another *snow day* and today was only four hours because of a delayed openeing, and my chemistry teacher decided to cancel the test we were supposed to have!!!!! I was soo happy, just that made me have a very good day. The only thing is, our next test will count as two test grades, so somehow I'll have to do really well on it.

Rant: All these snow days we've been having is nice.. but we're going to end up going to school until July.. they'll probably start taking away days from our Spring Break (noooo!!) or adding on minutes to the end of school days. :(

Turin

02-05-2004, 06:29 PM

Rant: All these snow days we've been having is nice.. but we're going to end up going to school until July.. they'll probably start taking away days from our Spring Break (noooo!!) or adding on minutes to the end of school days. :(

That doesn't sound too good :(, I'd rather have them take away all of my spring break(which pretty much happens anyway) than take away any of my summer.

Unrant: I finished oiling my bike and gave it a good coat of protectant wax.

Niirewen

02-06-2004, 03:02 AM

Unrant: I'm going skiing next Friday!! I love skiing, and we used to go every year, but we haven't gone the past couple years because of my dad's bad knee. But I convinced my mom that we should go, so we are! I'm also going to take a friend who's never been skiing before, which should be fun. :)

BranMuffin

02-06-2004, 03:09 AM

I haven't been snow skiing before. You should take me :) I'm your friend right? ;) ;)

Rhiannon

02-06-2004, 03:54 AM

Turin

02-06-2004, 06:10 PM

Congrats Rhi!

Rant: I'm bored and theres no new posts on TTF that I'm interested in.

Unrant: I get to go to the gym with my friend today, its the first time I've been to any gym in about a year. After that I'm probably going over to Mac's house for the weekend.

The-Elf-Herself

02-06-2004, 07:20 PM

Huzzah for the amazing Charis person!

rant---> I slept in too late, it's throwing off my whole day

rant---> people keep peeving at me, saying there's no way you can sleep in too late. Well, maybe there's no way THEY can sleep in too late, but it's kind of presumptuous for them to assume there's no way I can.

rant---> I get to walk up the hill to work, it's all icy and nasty.

Gandalf White

02-07-2004, 03:15 AM

Huuuuuge unrant: I GOT MY FIRST COLLEGE ACCEPTANCE LETTER! Woooohooooo!!!!!!! And it's a personal letter, too, not a form letter. They loved my application, I'm being considered for a scholarship, and they in general think I'm marvelous. Hurrah! I was in a funk all morning, but there's nothing to get a girl out of a funk like being praised.

Awesome!

I got a letter from a college today, my mom got all worked up, and it turned out that they were just saying there were some things still needing to be sent in. Not even things that I send in...it's up to my teacher and my dad. :rolleyes:

Unrant: It's the weekend! I get to stay up late tonight and play on the computer and sleep late and all that awesome stuff!

Paul

02-07-2004, 04:44 AM

Unrant= COLD MOUNTAIN IS SUCH A COOL MOVIE! :D

Dragon

02-08-2004, 05:28 PM

hmm, I keep hearing that it's a good movie, but haven't seen it.
I haven't even seen any previews for it yet....

yay for all the college-y ppls!

speaking of, I think yay has abandoned us.

Turin

02-08-2004, 06:52 PM

I was so tired this morning, I didn't feel like going to church. But of course I did the right thing and went anyway.

Rant: Need food!

Unrant for my brother: Yesterday my brother got the new rims for his bike. He has been saving up for a long time to get them (they were about $650). I'll post a picture as soon as I can.

Niirewen

02-08-2004, 11:56 PM

I haven't been snow skiing before. You should take me I'm your friend right?
Sure! How far are you from Maryland? hehe. You really should go skiing, it's so much fun!

Huuuuuge unrant: I GOT MY FIRST COLLEGE ACCEPTANCE LETTER! Woooohooooo!!!!!!! And it's a personal letter, too, not a form letter. They loved my application, I'm being considered for a scholarship, and they in general think I'm marvelous. Hurrah! I was in a funk all morning, but there's nothing to get a girl out of a funk like being praised.
Congratulations Rhi! *hug* I'm excited for you!

I was so tired this morning, I didn't feel like going to church. But of course I did the right thing and went anyway.
I spent 5 hours at church this morning. 5 hours. I went to Sunday School, ushered at the late service (which happened to be very long) and then helped out with Hot Meals (serving food for the homeless). Most of the time I was standing up and the whole time I was running on just one banana. I was starting to get dizzy. I'm so tired, and I still have a lot of homework to do that I've been putting off.

BranMuffin

02-09-2004, 03:24 AM

Niirewen, sorry to have to dissapoint you but I will not be able to go with you :) . Tell you what in good spirit I will go water skiing while you go snow skiing :p

Congrats Rhi! I am about to move away to college soon also, about a 2-hour drive away from home here.

$650!!!! What you could have spent that on something more useful....like games for your new PS2 :D .

Rant-Tomorrow is work...

Rant-I have to do a lot of testing before going to school to clep some classes.

Rant-once I get into school I won't have as much time for my girlfriend :( .

Unrant-I will be closer to her though ;) ;) ;) :D :D :D .

Unrant-If I get a lot of classes clepped then I won't have to be in school as long and I won't have to end up paying near as much.....always good.

Turin

02-09-2004, 04:03 AM

I spent 5 hours at church this morning. 5 hours. I went to Sunday School, ushered at the late service (which happened to be very long) and then helped out with Hot Meals (serving food for the homeless). Most of the time I was standing up and the whole time I was running on just one banana. I was starting to get dizzy. I'm so tired, and I still have a lot of homework to do that I've been putting off.

That doesn't sound very fun, sometimes when we have conventions I have to work in the tape room standing up copying and checking tapes, sometimes for extended periods of over 4 hours. I helped in a homeless shelter once, on Christmas eve about 2 years ago, good times ;) :D.

Gandalf White

02-09-2004, 04:30 AM

Unrant: Tonight was hockey, always fun.

Rant: I could swear the Ref was retarded--he apparently can't understand what 'no-contact' is supposed to mean. I was hipchecked into the wall, hit from behind, and taken off my feet from behind. Each time I looked at him he had some nonsensical excuse for not calling it. He also ignores some of the basic rules, such as how long a goalie has to keep the puck in his glove before the whistle blows.

I'm seriously considering bringing my rule book and throwing it at him next game... :mad:

Rhiannon

02-09-2004, 07:28 AM

Thanks for the congratulations! I'm starting to lean towards this college...but it's really really really really really far away. I'd need to get a full scholarship, really. Not too terribly likely. And I'd be totally surrounded by yankees ;) Haven't heard from any other schools yet. *paces*

Turin, I never feel like getting up and going to church! Not that I don't love church--I'm a good Baptist girl, I love church--but we go to the early service. Fortunately God loves zombies, too.

Unrant: Got to go down and visit my brother this weekend and see his play.

Rant: Had to spend a total of eight hours in the car with my evil siblings.

Unrant: Went shopping, actually enjoyed the shopping, and found 100% silk blouses on sale for $10 each (got a black one, a cream one, and a bronze-y one).

Rant: Didn't get any work on the JanFebNo done.

Turin

02-09-2004, 04:56 PM

Our church doesn't have an early service, or a late service for that matter, not enough people go to it so it would be pointless.

Niirewen

02-10-2004, 01:36 AM

I'm a good Baptist girl, I love church--but we go to the early service. Fortunately God loves zombies, too.
We usually go to the early service too, but my church is a half hour away, so we have to leave at about 7:30, which means getting up 6:30-7:00. That is why I do not like going to the early service.

Unrant: I got my license!!!! :D :D :D

Gandalf White

02-10-2004, 01:41 AM

We usually go to the early service too, but my church is a half hour away, so we have to leave at about 7:30, which means getting up 6:30-7:00. That is why I do not like going to the early service.

Unrant: I got my license!!!! :D :D :D

Good heavens! I would lock myself in my room and refuse to come out if my parents tried to make me go to a service that early...

Rant: I still don't have my license! Lack of motivation could be the cause of it... Was parallel parking hard? :confused:

Talierin

02-10-2004, 03:36 AM

I go to church around 9.10am, sunday school is first, then service. My church does have an early service, but there's no way in heck you'd ever get me up for it, especially since I work on Saturdays

Hehe, parallel parking wasn't even on my test... but it's not too hard all the same

Rhiannon

02-10-2004, 06:36 AM

Rhi's Oh-So Fun Parallel Parking Story:

Try #1: Perfect parking job. Got marked up for all kinds of stupid other stuff. Failed test.

Try #2: Got same instructor, panicked, knocked over parallel parking cone right off the bat. Failed test.

Try #3: Drove one hour to next town over in order to take test from someone else, working on theory that nasty instructor man automatically fails everyone. Nice lady did not make me parallel park because I was driving bloody huge Chevy Suburban. Finally passed test.

Gandalf White

02-10-2004, 02:59 PM

Could I borrow that Suburban for a day or two? :p

Turin

02-10-2004, 05:41 PM

Something wierd happened last night, I went to bed last night with 997 posts. When I got on this morning I had 1004 posts, very strange... The only conclusion I can come up with is that I posted in a thread in S&B and it might have been moved to a place where posts count.

All my siblings say the drivers test is easy, my brother took it in drivers ed in school and all he has to do now is pick up his waver to get his license. When my sister took it a few years ago, she also said it was easy. I don't know, I haven't taken it yet, nor will I untill I turn 16. :D

Gandalf White

02-10-2004, 05:53 PM

Something wierd happened last night, I went to bed last night with 997 posts. When I got on this morning I had 1004 posts, very strange... The only conclusion I can come up with is that I posted in a thread in S&B and it might have been moved to a place where posts count.

You know, I was thinking that I had more posts than I should have today. I certainly don't mind. ;) Some time ago I was away from TTF for a while, and when I came back I could swear I had 100+ new posts. :eek:

Turin

02-10-2004, 06:41 PM

Maybe it was Mac hacking into my account, we should really think about that lawsuit ;).
Seriously though, I went to my profile and clicked "search for all posts by this user" and I didn't see any new posts so I guess my earlier theory is still valid.

Gandalf White

02-10-2004, 07:35 PM

Aha, I just figured out what it was. The political/religion/ethics stuff was moved out of S&B and into the Forsaken Inn. Case closed!

Rhiannon

02-10-2004, 08:10 PM

Could I borrow that Suburban for a day or two? :p
Well, I was driving it for the two other tests, too. We're of the opinion that the guy is just crazy and likes to fail people, because everyone else we know who took the test from him also got failed.

Dragon

02-11-2004, 02:37 AM

don't you just love those insane ppl that wont accept anything but perfect?

agh! I'm still getting rhi and niri confuzzled, they write so much alike, and the eowyn avatars don't help much either.

my rant--> I am grounded yet again. only from the phone, and only until the weekend, but still...I don't feel like going into all the tedious details, I will simply say that it was not my fault, and I was grounded for politely asking my mother to do the same thing she had just demanded of me. grr.

unrant--> due to an unexpected turn of events, my dad took my side and somehow got her to apologize. she didn't actually say it, she wrote it, it was extremely formal, and I doubt she meant it, but I got my apology.

MacAddict

02-11-2004, 04:46 AM

Rant: I felt like SpongeBob today, but in a bad way. My English teacher specificaly said yesterday that he wanted us to answer 4 questions that were on the board about the short story we read in class, he wanted us to do them and turn them in the next morning (aka today) well when I went to give it to him he said "Just hold onto that, we pretty much went over it in class" meaning "You didn't have to do that" :mad: I felt like spongebob in the Procrastination episode where he procrastinates against writing a 800 word eassy until the last 5 minutes and after it all Mrs. Puff (his teacher) said "I decided to cancel the asignment" He then rips the paper in 1/2, then rips himself in 1/2.

~MacAddict

Rhiannon

02-11-2004, 05:19 AM

Geeze, that sucks, Mac. Unfair!

Rant: I dont. Want. To be. Around. People. And little kids are going to be staying with us every night this week. Aaargh! I'm having a hard enough time not killing my own siblings!

The-Elf-Herself

02-11-2004, 03:36 PM

rant---> ummmmmmm, I hate math.

unrant---> despite my best efforts, I am UNDERSTANDING math.

Gandalf White

02-11-2004, 04:42 PM

Wait, so do you or do you not want to understand math? :confused:

Turin

02-11-2004, 04:47 PM

Math is sadly one of my best subjects, though I hate it :mad:!

Rant: I'm really weak, I need to start going to the gym, about a year ago I could bench 135, I can barely bench 130 now because I don't have a bench-press at my house. I need to get up to 160 atleast.

The-Elf-Herself

02-11-2004, 04:48 PM

I'm of two minds on the subject as of now. Haven't decided, part of me wants a good score on the SATs, part of me wants to just forget math, jet to a deserted island, and write for the rest of my life. I think the 'good score' part is winning though. :rolleyes:

Rhiannon

02-11-2004, 05:12 PM

And just think, once you get those good scores, you can take over the business world, become fabulously wealthy, and THEN jet off to an island somewhere and write for the rest of your life.

Aaaand, maybe a very nice, fun, entertaining, witty outcast who isn't good at math could come live with you...and if Kaia isn't available, I could come!

Gandalf White

02-11-2004, 05:24 PM

How can you all dislike math so? It's almost my favorite subject, although the Unit Circle in my Trig nearly threw me for a loop... :eek:

Rhiannon

02-11-2004, 05:31 PM

I've been told it has something to do with which side of the brain you prefer, or personality types, or something. But I find math completely incomprehensible and extremely frustrating. I just don't get it. I hate doing it. It drives me crazy being I'm not good at it and I hate not being good at things and if I can't do something dazzlingly well I'd rather not do it. You see in this one of the greater flaws of my personality, which has prevented me from doing some things because I was too scared of failing to take a chance.
But numbers just don't stay in my head. I can't remember formulas, I use them improperly, I have a difficult time memorizing tables, and half the time I just have no idea what is going on. It's nightmarishly agonizing. I suffered through Algebra for two years, and thank God it is over *eye twitches*

Paul

02-11-2004, 07:31 PM

Rant-- WHY ARE PEOPLE STILL SO DARN RACIST! I WAS SITTING THROUGH HEALT CALSS TODAY AND THESE TWO KIDS STARTED GOING AT IT! I THOUGHT MAN HAS GROWN OUT OF THIS APPARENTLY NOT!

UNRANT-- IM GOING TO A SEMINAR IN NYC ON TOLKIENS WORK AND HOW IT RELATES TO IRISH MYTHOLOGY! SHOULD BE FUN!

The-Elf-Herself

02-11-2004, 08:45 PM

How can you all dislike math so? It's almost my favorite subject, although the Unit Circle in my Trig nearly threw me for a loop... :eek:

For me, it's because math is so dull. I can understand it, those huge sweeping concepts and formulas are a piece of cake and even interesting, in their own evil way, but it's the dry mechanics of plugging in numbers and getting every little annoying step right that drives me nuts. One of the problems that forced me into remedial was that I could show comprehension of concepts, but I had no patience for working through the formulas, especially since I could see no practical application for higher maths in my career of choice(journalism). It just goes to prove that an analytical mind does not always a math genius make, despite some of the silly ideas of personality tests. In writing, once you've mastered the rules, you can break them; in math, the rules are always in the way of true innovation and creativity. Bleh to them. Down with the mathematical regime! Support your local libraries and story contests! Huzzah!

Yuck, business, but if that happens, you AND Kaia can come! Just be forewarned that this island has a ban on math textbooks. :D

Turin

02-11-2004, 09:05 PM

Something weird happens in my mind, when someone types something in all capitals, my mind automatically interprets it as if they're shouting :rolleyes:. Pretty stange eh?

Gandalf White

02-11-2004, 09:16 PM

Something weird happens in my mind, when someone types something in all capitals, my mind automatically interprets it as if they're shouting :rolleyes:. Pretty stange eh?

That's what happens when you talk more to people on the internet than face-to-face. ;) The same thing happens to me too.

Turin

02-11-2004, 09:30 PM

Rant: Its that boring time of day again, oh wait, thats all day long.

Rant: I have a math test that I've been putting off because of lack of understanding, when I tried it I was having one of those mental blocks, I have them too often.

Rhiannon

02-11-2004, 10:40 PM

Yuck, business, but if that happens, you AND Kaia can come! Just be forewarned that this island has a ban on math textbooks. :D
Oh, sweet rapture! Paradise! :eek:

Niirewen

02-12-2004, 02:33 AM

Was parallel parking hard?
I didn't think it was hard, I did it perfectly on the test, but I had practiced a lot before.

Well, I agree with you all on the hating-math thing. Right now I'm suffering through precalculus. I actually didn't mind geometry (because I was really good at it for some weird reason) but I'm horrible at anything algebraic. And I'm taking calc next year.. :(

Unrant: Had a chem test today, and actually had a clue what I was doing! It was amazing, I think I'll get a good grade.

Rant: My evil chem teacher assigned another lab report for this weekend, and as usual, I do not understand. And this one has to be really long, and it's not even double-spaced. :(

Unrant: Half day of school tomorrow, and no school Friday, thanks to teacher conferences (which I talked my mom out of)! And Friday is skiing! :)

Dragon

02-12-2004, 03:24 AM

I love learning all sorts of things, math, english, history, everything, I just can't stand school. It feels like they're force-feeding me information which I'm just going to throw up later anyways.

right now, my favorite classes are algebra and computer fundamentals, mainly because the teachers really love thier subjects.

what I really really wish I could do is be an author, but I'm a terrible writer, so I just do my best in school and go for the next thing down the list--> anything involving computers or graphic design.

I'm great at math, and I like a lot of it... how about I do all the math stuffs and you do all the english-y stuff JAM?

The-Elf-Herself

02-12-2004, 03:42 AM

Sounds good to me! I'm going to be one of those awesome magazine journalists and travel the world; in my spare time, I'll have a music career and publish a few novels and take in stray animals. Who knows? I may even fit a guy into the equation(highly improbable, but I've recently learned not as improbable as I originally thought). :rolleyes: ;)

rant---> my feet hurt.

Gandalf White

02-12-2004, 04:36 AM

Heheheh, there is always room for a guy in the equation... ;) (As long as he's not one of those stray animals...) :o

Rant: Aule and Thol are evil. To me. :(

Elessar II

02-12-2004, 04:55 AM

Rant: (Excuse me for shouting but...) MY WISDOM TEETH HAVE TO COME OUT THE DAY BEFORE VALENTINE'S!!!!! Which means... (pardon me again) NO VALENTINE CANDY WHATSOEVER!!!! :mad:

Gandalf White

02-12-2004, 05:04 AM

Well, you can join me. I'm avoiding sugar, especially in the form of chocolate. Together we can writhe in agony as we watch others devour the yummies. :D

Elessar II

02-12-2004, 05:25 AM

Alright GW! You're just what I need, a sympathizer! :D :D :D :D :) :) :)

Gandalf White

02-12-2004, 03:10 PM

Rant: I'm superly tired because of my late-night addiction to TTF. *yawn*

Rant: Schoolwork that's forgotten is a pain in the rear... :(

celebdraug

02-12-2004, 03:21 PM

Rant: Schoolwork that's forgotten is a pain in the rear... :(
Same here and the workload is keeping on piling :(:(:(:(:(:(

Turin

02-12-2004, 06:53 PM

Rant: My head feels like it just got hit with a baseball bat.

Rant: I desperately need money, I usually just mow the neighbors lawn but its winter and the grass isn't growing. :(

Unrant: This is a three (or four)day weekend, and I get school of all next week. I'll probably just use that week to catch up on all the school I've been putting off. The bad thing is that all(or most)of my friends are in public school and they don't get that week off so I'll have nobody to do anything with.

Rhiannon

02-12-2004, 07:54 PM

Heheheh, there is always room for a guy in the equation... ;) (As long as he's not one of those stray animals...) :o
What...were you volunteering? :p (so it really is a secret that girls think of guys as stray animals? You feed them once, you'll never be able to get rid of them...;))

Unrant: Lomie is a background person on an episode of One Tree Hill! I hear the show sucks--I've never seen it--but she's going to be on TV! How cool is that?

Gandalf White

02-12-2004, 08:10 PM

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach, they say. Total bogus, if you ask me... :o And no, I wasn't volunteering; there's already someone specific in mind, methinks.

If anyone wants to participate in the Inter-Guild Competition, please see the appropiate thread here in the GoO! We need people!

Edit: On second thought, you don't have to look for it, here's (http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?t=15010) the link.

Turin

02-12-2004, 10:27 PM

I'm to lazy to download that IRC thingy, I'll get around to it sometime.

Turin

02-13-2004, 02:03 AM

Rant: Words cannot express my hate for this pc! Its been acting retarded all day, a few minutes ago I started an online test, I was about 20 questions into it and hid the window to open something else and when the window came back up the whole test was blank! When we get a new computer I will be happy to take a baseball bat to this one :mad: !

MacAddict

02-13-2004, 03:56 AM

When we get a new computer I will be happy to take a baseball bat to this one :mad: !

Don't start without me! And lets get a little creative, how about a PC BBQ, lotsa gasoline and such :D :D Then climb up on your house and pitch it!

~MacAddict

Turin

02-13-2004, 06:34 PM

Or maybe we could tie it to the back of the car and drive down the interstate ;), or better yet, use it as a target for guns and such :D.

Turin

02-15-2004, 12:00 AM

Unrant: We got to go riding at razorback today, we (and our bikes) were totally caked in muddy clay, thats what made it so fun. I climbed everything(well almost everything) better than everyone else that I was riding with, thanks to my new tires that work well in muddy conditions. One of the only things I couldn't climb, nore did I want to try, was a little incline that was so slick that you could barely walk up it, and even then you had to put your foot at the base of a root to get any traction. It was so fun that when we got back, we just sprayed off our bikes and went back in for round to. I rode a total of only 13 miles.

Rant: Despite all the fun we had I still have to clean my bike again :mad:, that is the most dreaded chore to all bikers.

Dragon

02-15-2004, 01:11 AM

ah well, the only way to get out of cleaning it is to not get it dirty. and that's no fun

rant--> I am sick. I am never sick. but now I am sick, so apparently I am sick sometimes. My throat is all swollen and icky and it sounds funny when I talk. I am half-starving due to the fact that it really really hurts to swallow. I am on 2 different kinds of pills, a spray, and that freaky vicks vapo-rub stuff, which is the only thing that seems to make a difference anyways, but I take everything just in case. I feel like my head isn't big enough to support all the stuff that's trying to fit in it. I stayed home from school on friday, and I think the last time that happened was like......7th grade. 2 years ago. I hate being sick.

Turin

02-15-2004, 01:35 AM

I can relate, I get sick about every three months.

and that freaky vicks vapo-rub stuff

Ugh, my dad is obsessed with that stuff, he thinks that it will heal any sickness, personally I can't stand the smell of it, let alone having it on my throat :mad:.

Gandalf White

02-15-2004, 01:59 AM

What?!?!?!? I love the feel and smell of Vix. (Or is it Vicks?) In fact, I may have to go take a whiff right now, just to remember what it smells like...

Rhiannon

02-15-2004, 02:11 AM

Boo for being sick! *huggles D*

There are kids in my house, people keep getting mad at me, I am surrounded by jerks intent on being cruel to me (okay, well one, and he's like that to everyone, but I can't help feeling personally attacked)...Bah. Everyone hates me *sulks*

Oh yeah, Happy Valentine's Day. :rolleyes: The real party is one Monday when I get myself chocolate and Jane Austen films. Wahoo!

Niirewen

02-16-2004, 03:41 PM

Rant: My mom wants to go look at colleges today.. I don't want to and I don't have time.

Rant: My lab report is due tomorrow and I haven't even started it. I'll have to do it all today which will take forever because I'm going to have to find some way to write three pages on something I (suprise) do not understand at all. *sigh* I despise chemistry.

Rant: I've had a headache ever since I went skiing Friday. Skiing was fun, but I had to walk back up part of the mountain to find my dad who didn't seem to be coming down. It turns out the binding on one of his skiis broke, and when he fell it slid all the way into the woods. I think walking up that mountain is the cause of my never-ending headache.

Turin

02-18-2004, 11:12 PM

Rant: This week I have a so called "winter break", and it will probably be replacing spring break, the problem is that everybody else gets off during spring break while I have to do school through it. I'm thankful for this break though.

Gandalf White

02-19-2004, 12:18 AM

Whew, can you spell B-U-R-N-T O-U-T? :eek:

And it's only Wednesday...

*collapses*

Rhiannon

02-19-2004, 02:09 AM

Must...write...speech....bloody speech competition.

Must...write...essay....bloody scholarship application.

Must...write...1000 words....bloody novel.

Must...take...over...world....

Bloody world.

Niirewen

02-19-2004, 02:38 AM

Well, I can see I'm not the only one who's completely stressed out..

Rant: I'm stuck on my English paper. I was able to do most of it today, but it's only a rough draft, and I'll probably have to re-do one of the paragraphs or at least add to it. The paper is due Friday. I tried to start it earlier, but for some reason I've really been having trouble with it.

Rant: I'm so stressed out. I'm going insane. I have a ton of schoolwork, and now that I have a job I always have a ton of work to do, plus all of these college visits are taking up my weekends. I hardly have any free time.. it's nearly impossible to find much time for reading or going online.. arggh. I'm tired of always feeling like there aren't enough hours in the day. I keep thinking "it'll get better after this week.." but that hasn't been happening.. and from the looks of my calendar I'm going to be quite busy for awhile.

Sorry about that, I really just needed to complain.

Rant: My friends are really getting on my nerves (more than usual). I can't stand being around them for an extended period of time (especially when they are together). When I got a ride home from a friend today, she was giving three other people a ride also (one of whom I hate, and there are only two people in the world whom I hate, for a good reason) and I really just wanted to jump out of the car. I decided that I like walking home in the bitter cold better. Maybe I'm just irritable because of my high stress level. I'm probably just being mean. Oh well.

My_Precious

02-19-2004, 09:34 PM

Argh! My college and two jobs are taking up all my time! I haven't been here for a few months at least, and I don't think I can stay for long, either. And the weather was brutal, the wind especially, and the snow... Now it seems better. Can't wait till summer comes, but then I'll have to take summer school, and work, too... :(
Well, anyway, greetings to my fellow Outcasts ;)
P.S. And oh, yeah, I've been to the Linkin Park concert :D Yesssss......... :cool:

Niirewen

02-20-2004, 12:57 AM

Wow, that was a really awful post I made yesterday. I was having a bad day. Today was better. :D

Unrant: I got out of school early today, and went to a bookstore and bought a couple books. :)

Rant: I missed a quiz in English.. and I have to make it up after school tomorrow. :(

Unrant: It was really nice out today.. it was almost 60 degrees I think. So I spent a lot of time outside and took my dog for a walk. We both got really muddy from all the snow that's melting but it was worth it.

Unrant: Tomorrow is Friday! Yay!

Gandalf White

02-20-2004, 03:01 AM

I don't know whether this should be a rant or unrant...I just got word from my #1 college choice, they've reviewed my application and are ready for a personal interview. Next Friday. :eek:

Unrant: I got out of my work early today as well, for an eye appointment. And got to stay out, because my eyes were all blurry.

Otherwise I'm in a muddle trying to sort out some feelings...why must we have them? :confused:

Girls are confusing...

Rhiannon

02-20-2004, 03:23 AM

The-Elf-Herself

02-21-2004, 05:47 PM

rant---> have been sick all week with kidney infection that shows no signs of leaving anytime soon. Ended up in the ER on Tuesday because of it. Everything hurts, everytime I walk the room spins, I'm bloody weak, and I'm reduced to eating weak broth and dry toast and yogurt every single day without change.

rant---> I can't work, I can't leave the house, I'm going sane!

unrant---> well, I managed to get all this overdue schoolwork done now that I have no life to get in the way.

unrant---> I found the most amazing college

rant---> unfortunately, I can't find out how much tuition is. It's not a good thing when the college website hides the tuition costs...

Dragon

02-21-2004, 11:09 PM

ouch, kidney infection.... all of a sudden I feel a lot better. I've been sick w/ a throat infection, and I have this lump on my throat, my neck is sore, I ,keep spitting up all sorts of nasty stuff, it's just disgusting.

Rhiannon

02-22-2004, 04:15 AM

Everyone is sick! Augh! It's terrible! One of my best friends has an ovarian cyst, but they were afraid it was something else, and so for about four hours she thought she had 24 hours to live :eek: She warned me that I was going to be getting a really weird letter she wrote during that time.

I've been downed with a fever. Apparently I've had it for a few days, which explains why I almost fainted in karate on Thursday. I spent today in bed either sleeping or feeling really really awful, I've eaten practically nothing all day (I just don't eat when I sick), and a headache at the base of my skull, which is how fevers manifest themself. And I really really really wanted to descend into self pity because I couldn't do much of anything, but my common sense kept intruding with 'You now, you just have a fever that'll go away in a few days...Jam had to go to the ER and Denzi thought she was dying...you are so pathetic, just deal with it already', so I didn't get to do that. But I feel much, much better now. I just showered and the fever has gone down and I don't feel so sore. I think I might even get some writing done.

Turin

02-23-2004, 08:49 PM

I'm surprised that I'm not sick, I'm passed my due date :rolleyes:.

Rant: I had to miss a KJ52 concert last saturday because I had to go camping with scouts. We got to where we were supposed to meet at 7:45(we where supposed to be there at 7:30 but I was glad for the extra sleep) and nobody else was there yet. We waited around til' about 8:00 then people started showing up. Finally we left at around 8:30 and drove for two hours untill we got to the boat dock in the gulf, then we unloaded the canoes and put all our camping gear in them(inside trash bags, so not to get wet). Then we paddled out for about a mile to the island where we where camping, a place called shell island, which fits its description perfectly because the beach was not sand but shells, millions of them, and it wasn't just the top layer, the whole beach was shells(which made it very comfortable to sleep on them :mad: ). The sand (or shell) fleas where horrible, thank the lord for bug spray. The rest of the day went rather uneventfully. The next morning we packed up and headed out at about 12:30 p.m.(I'm guessing), when we got back to the boat ramp, we loaded up the canoes and drove to the dive shop(but first we stopped to get some lunch) where we proceded to rent wet suits for and dive gear. Then we drove to another boat ramp and unloaded the canoes again and paddled for about a mile to a spring where we got to swim with the manatees. After we got back to the boat ramp, we returned the dive gear and drove home.

This is a rant because I would have much rather gone to the KJ52 concert.

Unrant: I got new shoes the other day, but I haven't had a chance to wear them yet.

The-Elf-Herself

02-23-2004, 11:36 PM

unrant---> I got out of the house today! Went to the bookstore, bought three new books, and went to maths. I was awarded a little achievement trophy in maths.

rant---> a trip that normally would have just energized me wore me out. I feel like I've walked to Alaska and back. *collapses* Stupid weak body, I didn't even DO anything! :mad: *sighs* And I'm signed up to work on Saturday, but I can barely get up the bloody stairs!

Gandalf White

02-24-2004, 01:20 AM

(which made it very comfortable to sleep on them :mad:).

Heheh, Turin, that smiley face certainly takes away from the purposed expression... :p

Rant: We haven't won a roller hockey game all session...

Rant: I feel entirely incapable of paying any sort of decent attention to school...which is not good because college is coming up.

Rant and/or unrant?: Does she like me, does she not, and will I ever know? :( Is she dropping hints and I'm a blockhead, or am I reading too much into it? Goshdarnit all.

*collapses again*

Turin

02-24-2004, 06:48 PM

Heheh, Turin, that smiley face certainly takes away from the purposed expression... :p

Whoops, that happened when I tried to close the parentheses right after the : . I'll edit it now. :o

Rant: I woke up with a sore spot in my throat, it hasn't gotten much worse throughout the day so I guess it'll go away soon (hopefully).

Turin

02-24-2004, 08:54 PM

Unrant: The soreness in my throat is almost gone.

Rant: When I was camping I got poison ivy somehow, now its spreading quickly all over my body.

Niirewen

02-25-2004, 03:08 AM

Rant: When I was camping I got poison ivy somehow, now its spreading quickly all over my body.
I hate poison ivy! You have my sympathy. I used to get it really really badly every summer.. and then it stopped and I thought I had become immune to it.. but then I got it again last summer. I had a scar on my arm for awhile from it. Poison ivy is horrible.

Anyway..

Rant: I hate my life right now.

Rant: Haven't been able to go online for several days, I've been so busy..

Rant: I have two and a half hours of chemistry tomorrow and Thursday. Two and a half hours. And to make it even worse, there will only be three other people in the class. This is all due to some reading test all the sophomores are taking over the next two days.. and most of the people in my chem class are sophomores. I really want to die.

Gandalf White

02-25-2004, 05:34 AM

I'm one of those people that poison ivy doesn't even have to touch...if it's anywhere nearby I'll get it. It used to itch like heck, but now whenever I get it I hardly notice it's there at all.

Rant: I go to bed too late and am incredibly tired the next day, but can't break the stupid habit... :rolleyes:

Elessar II

02-25-2004, 06:45 AM

Rant: I go to bed too late and am incredibly tired the next day, but can't break the stupid habit...

I feel your pain. :(

Turin

02-25-2004, 05:40 PM

I'm thankfully not allergic to poison ivy so I don't get it that bad, the worst I've had it was in virginia in the summer of 2002. I was there for a week and I had it in pretty much every part of my body, including my face and eyelids! Bad memories.

Niirewen

02-26-2004, 08:34 PM

I've gotten it in between my fingers before.. not cool.

Niirewen

02-27-2004, 02:22 AM

Rant: Life sucks.

Turin

02-27-2004, 03:46 AM

Rant: Life sucks.

I'm glad someone else thinks that besides me :rolleyes:.

Rhiannon

02-27-2004, 05:07 PM

Internet not working at home. Insert swear words of choice.

Niirewen

02-27-2004, 09:33 PM

I'm glad someone else thinks that besides me.
Generally I try not to be depressing, but sometimes I can't help it.

Internet not working at home. Insert swear words of choice.
Stupid computers. Mine is getting so old- my AIM has stopped working and my internet program shuts down about 4 times before I can actually get to where I want to go. Stupid computers.

Here's an unrant: Getting ready to go out for ice cream. Yummy, yummy ice cream.

balrog

02-28-2004, 07:31 AM

grunt groan rant and rave
emotion ball rolls bear in cave
we all suffer all choices made
so suck it up be not afraid

no psych analogy freud
stay away
i am a freak to a void

(evil laugh)

The-Elf-Herself

02-28-2004, 05:22 PM

*sniffs, then applauds* That was beautiful. :D

unrant---> I'm getting better, I actually loaded the dishwasher today! Huzzah! Okay, that may not seem that great to others, but to a Nene who's been feeling like a pathetic louse, it's marvelous, because it means I can start being useful again.

rant---> me poor lil' HobbitMom is so sick with the flu and sniffles, and to make it worse, she's working through it, so she comes home all tired and then wants to help me out. Sad thing is, I'm still not recovered enough to properly take care of her.

Gandalf White

02-28-2004, 05:42 PM

You want a synopsis of my life right now? Watch Turin's music video; 'Numb' by Linkin Park... The video is somewhat on, the words describe me perfectly.

Dragon

02-29-2004, 05:16 PM

I just woke up, I can barely see, I can't breathe, and there are posts! ah! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Turin

02-29-2004, 09:30 PM

*sniffs, then applauds* That was beautiful. :D

unrant---> I'm getting better, I actually loaded the dishwasher today! Huzzah!

You're saying that you have a dishwasher? I wish I had that privilege, ours broke about 4 years ago and we haven't replaced it since. My dad thinks that since he washed the dishes by hand when he was growing up that we should to :rolleyes:.

Saucy

03-01-2004, 12:01 AM

You're saying that you have a dishwasher? I wish I had that privilege, ours broke about 4 years ago and we haven't replaced it since. My dad thinks that since he washed the dishes by hand when he was growing up that we should to :rolleyes:.
:eek: i thought my family was the only one who did that

cept we are worst our dishwasher works fine we just dont use it!!!!! :mad:

Rhiannon

03-01-2004, 06:47 AM

*falls over with a whump*

Please just kill me now.

I have a new job, basically as a sort of mommy's assistant/tutor/nanny six hours a week, I have two older students I tutor, I have lost my scholarship application that has to be postmarked by tomorrow, I am going to finish the rough draft of my novel tomorrow, my neck is sore, and I must must must choose between the two colleges I'm considering: One is three and a half hours away from home, in the same town as my grandmother, and my brother goes there. The other one is hundreds of miles away, but is offering me a scholarship and sounds utterly perfect, except I would be in New York surrounded by yankees and far away from my family.

Life is terrifying.

Kailita

03-01-2004, 07:09 AM

Oh Rhi...*hugs* *offers what little sister comfort she can give*

Pray. Take a deep breath. It'll be okay.

Your job sounds horrid (but I've never been enthusiastic about babysitting) and college is horrifying. It's a hard decision...but if it helps any, not all Yankees are that bad. ;) I'm sure you'll make the right choice. *Hugs*

Why do you have to finish your novel rough draft tomorrow? What's the story...one that I would know, or something different?

Rhiannon

03-01-2004, 07:26 AM

Breathing. Inhale, exhale...

The job actually isn't so bad. Three days a week I spent two hours either helping four-year old John do his work (counting to five, writing pages of As and Bs, reading him a little book called The Adventures of Bobby Coon, etc) while his mother does housework and his two younger sisters nap, or, if the Fates are unkind, I entertain the two wakeful little girls while his mother works with him. She's German, and an absolute crack-up (her husband is a second-generation Iranian emigrant who joined the Air Force). In order to be comfortable you must have a hot drink, and if she forget to give me one she's very unhappy with herself. It's hysterical. And the pay is very good, $52 a week. But I don't want to be a teacher with a whole room of little kids for a whole day, nope nope nope.

The fact that I know so many nice Yankees is part of the temptation...I have several friends in New Jersey, but Houghton isn't exactly close to NJ. It's not even close to NY City. It's over by the Canadian border. And it's far, far away from my very close knit family. But, one of the big things I want is to go overseas, and Houghton will get me there. But...it's so far away, for so long...I'm going to work in a visit to the campus, and that will probably decide me. If I go there and I'm miserable, I can always transfer.

And, the thing with the novel: November is National Write a Novel Month. There's a support website, and you sign up and write a certain number of words a day, and at the end of the month you hopefully have a 50,000 word rough draft. November is a bad month for me, so I decided to use the same system, but do it in January. Only I write too slow. So I stretched it out to January and February. And now I'm on the last stretch, and I'm going to finish the rough draft and send it to some friends for editorial comments, but I can't finish it today, because I spent all day in the car coming back from going down to visit my brother and see his play (also to see The Passion of the Christ). So I'm finishing it tomorrow.

And the plot of the novel is...is...erm...is...Horribly cliched and not very well developed, but in a nutshell it's about King Arthur's daughter (idea stolen from Vera Chapman), who has been raised in the present day (idea stolen from Susan Cooper), and stuff happens. The worst part is, my heroine is a bloody whimp. She keeps fainting. Holy cow. I don't know how this happened. I created a whimpy female lead! She's improved in the last ten pages, though. Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite is my mantra....

Rhiannon

03-01-2004, 07:34 AM

Oh yeah, unrant! I have been to heaven. The epitome of my perfect bookstore. It exists. It's in Oklahoma City. It's called Full Circle. It has ladders.

And the books I've gotten recently:

They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War by Lauren M. Cook and Anne Blanton -- did you know that hundreds of women dressed up as men to fight in both the Confederate and Union armies? It is so cool, and now that I'm looking I'm finding tons of books about it. Mom claims that we studied this, but I didn't remember it at all.

Women Warriors by Marianna Mayer -- a picture book, but with rather brief summaries of the various women, not really meant to be read as stories on their own. But there are several that I hadn't heard of before, which makes it worth it to me ;) and the pictures are nice.

She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea by Joan Druett -- female pirates! Huzzah! The first chapter, at least, is very interesting and readable; very lively for a historical non-fiction.

And a hardback--a hardback!--of The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon, one of my favorite books, which has never been available in hardback before.

Trend? Maaaaaybe.

Turin

03-01-2004, 07:10 PM

Unrant: I got to race in 12 hour, though all the guys on my team where a somewhat better than me. I don't know what place we got because the they haven't put it on the site yet.

Rant: I threw in the towel after only 2 laps, the other guys on my team didn't do much more than that. 20 miles was enough for me.

Gandalf White

03-01-2004, 08:21 PM

Rant: I played goalie last for the 9-13 age group in roller hockey. I didn't think I would have to and so I didn't stretch beforehand--not being a flexible guy to begin with, I pulled a muscle the first time I went down...and that was just the first time...boy do I feel it today. :eek:

Rant: I thought the ref for my league was retarded the first time I played...now I know he is. I took a two-handed stick in the face from the dirtiest player on the other team, knocking me down, and all he says is "If anything, it's your fault, you stopped in front of him..." Heck yeah, I wasn't even looking at him... I thought I was a pretty passive guy, but my gear was flying at the end of that period... :mad:

Unrant: I did pull an impressive deke on the goalie during the shoot out. :o

Rant: School...nothing more need be said.