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Sunday, August 9th, 2009
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11:33 pm
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You know, I know and accept that I'm completely an idiot and in the wrong here and if I'd just been smart for once in my fucking useless life I'd have asked for the information,
but for once I'd like for my mom to not assume that I can read her mind and just automatically know what the fucking plan is and that it's changed since the "definite" time frame she told me last week. If she doesn't fucking tell me that she's changed the date, I'm not going to fucking know.
And is it really so hard to think, "Okay, I've set up this event at Dartmouth, let me fire off a quick email telling Dunvi that"?
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| Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
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12:12 pm - This is my resource list.
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| Monday, April 20th, 2009
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10:15 pm - *dances like a batshit-crazy cat*
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I got a letter from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG I THOUGHT I TOTALLY MISSED GETTING ANYTHING.
Okay, I probably'll only get a commendation, but STILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Sunday, April 19th, 2009
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2:16 pm
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Oh my god, guys.
Alexander Graham Bell was such an asshole.
[ETA: Not quite related, but my physics teacher would throw in that Edison should be kicked and tossed into the ocean. Not in those words, though, and more because he was a total business man and didn't do a single thing for science (and nearly screwed it over, in fact). The point is, I find it interesting that the two most commonly known "scientists" to non scientists (and while we're at it, let's throw in Christopher Columbus) sucked.]
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| Saturday, April 18th, 2009
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10:04 pm - stupid
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*kicks stupid god damned bandwidth throttling by school network*
I'm trying to upload all this stuff to deviantart, and I can't load anything that's actually a respectable size! A 100x200 image does not do justice to artwork.
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12:04 pm - Um.
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What do Priors wear under their robes?
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| Friday, April 17th, 2009
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7:51 pm
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Oh no oh no oh no
*flail flail flail*
Should I totally be illegal and list my birthdate as my sister's on my pending DW account, or fall under the wrath of the age filters until next February? I really don't want to lie, but I really don't want to be banned from a whole bunch of things on my reading list that are already marked as adult content (cough farrowmarshall cough)...
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| Thursday, April 16th, 2009
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9:43 pm
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... I think I may have personally engaged with a troll for the first time. Whoops.
[ETA: Uh, definitely. I really should stop soon, because this guy is just being an asshole at this point.]
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| Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
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7:53 pm - When you gesture wildly with a glass of water in your hands, you will end up wet.
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I am so glad I got almonds when I was at Fairways. Perfect.
Although I still am too scared to replace my poptarts. Watching ants crawl out of a hole in the packaging is pretty scarring, I gotta say.
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3:35 pm - I'm .... flying?
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The difference a hill makes:
To the ice rink, 25-30 minutes on a bike. From the ice rink, no more than 15. Guess which one is downhill? Thankfully, that's the path I traverse after the skating session, instead of the other way around.
My axel and lutz are both extremely high. This v. good. Unfortunately, they are both underrotating a consistant half rev. That's not so good.
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| Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
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7:55 pm
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What I should be doing: translating the next 20 or so lines of Atalanta from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
What I am doing: painting a picture of Atalanta from ovid's Metamorphoses.
The problem? Painting nude pictures of young girls does not advance me further in my Latin class.
On the other hand: I am practicing my translation abilities as I double check details.
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| Monday, April 13th, 2009
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6:45 pm
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Oblivious people fucking piss me off sometimes.
Thankfully, not everyone in the world is oblivious.
I thought about going to my old school this morning for an hour, just to surprise people, but I decided it was too much trouble. And I didn't want to see most people.
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| Friday, April 10th, 2009
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9:53 pm - Just because.
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2:02 pm
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After today's physics class (A format, 8AM in the morning, except it's Friday so most lucky bastards at this school get to sleep in this morning because it was actually the reserve T format. It is so aggravating to have to run out of your room to physics class of all things on a Friday morning when your room mate is just waking up), today's xkcd, discussing a topic that, this morning, made me waste three sheets of paper because I kept on getting it backwards in one place or another, makes me insanely happy.
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| Thursday, April 9th, 2009
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8:51 pm - Two things.
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* I finally replaced my violin strings... about two years late. Whatever. I put them on on Monday, tuned repeatedly over the week, so they'd be ready for orchestra today. It works perfectly - they're reasonably stretched out, so while they're still dropping pitch, it's only, like, a quarter tone, instead of the thirds they were dropping in minutes on Monday.
Now, I'm a string snob. I have always had reasonably good strings, since my parents are musicians and totally understand. I remember once breaking a string several years ago and borrowing an A from someone else - it was a cheap, low level (I think) metal string; a student string, basically. To your average "My parents made me do Suzuki because it's good for me" student, it sounds perfectly fine. I barely could play it, it sounded so tinny and harsh and mean. That was when I discovered I was a string snob. So anyway, I'm a string snob, and I have been even more so ever since I was first given Piastro Oliv strings.
These things are the heavy-weights of violin strings. These are gut core, which hands down has the best sound (they keep on experimenting with synthetic, which is stronger and more durable, but just doesn't sound the same) and wrapped with metal - various mixtures of aluminum, gold, and silver. The Es are gold plated, since gold sounds the best at those high pitches - lower quality strings shriek and buzz. Olivs cost nearly 100 bucks. OUCH. But they so sound so good.
So anyway, I'm a total snob, because I was first given these when my violin had a major workup a few years back. I think I've been using the same strings since then, because I haven't played that consistantly. But they really needed changing by the beginning of this year, and finally got around to it. My parents bought me a full set of new strings, and I sat down and replaced them.
So they sound awesome today. Like, beautiful. They're singing like, like... I dunno. They're absolutely gorgeous. I swing up my violin to come in on the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto we're doing, and... *SNAP*
My brand new, first time being used, expensive E string snaps, my fine tuner cutting straight through the loop.
This really pisses me off. For one thing, since it's a loop string, my dad can try, but he probably won't succeed, at relooping it. You have a better chance of these sorts of things with a ball end, because you save more string. But also, if I had a ball end, it'd be stronger against these sorts of things because the winding goes all the way down to the ball, and there's no fine tuner against the string to cut it. I even asked for ball, but my mom must have forgotten, and I said "Whatever, my violin's equipped for loops."
And then it snapped on my first use. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
* In other news, I have a book sitting next to me with a paper sleeve on it that says, "Return to DiPietro Library, Franklin Pierce University Library." Somehow I find that really awesome that my high school library can just go and request to borrow books from an actual university (and have them request to borrow our books in return).
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| Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
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10:30 am - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTS
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AHHHHHHHHHHHH
OMG the ants are back. And this time they're in my food storage! AHHHHH
AND THEY STOLE ALL OF MY POPTARTS.
THEY WEREN'T THERE BEFORE.
I ATE POPTARTS TWO DAYS AGO. I WOULD HAVE NOTICED ANTS.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTS
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| Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
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10:11 pm
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I decided to take the Math Prize Exam. That is, it's an hour long test which you're deliberately not supposed to finish, in which you test everything you've learned that year - on a higher level (basically). I finished, uh... I think 7 out of 12; I don't think there's partial credit, which is a pity because I was halfway through another one (I would have finished that question if I hadn't made a stupid mistake on a different one).
Oh well.
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| Monday, April 6th, 2009
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10:13 pm - Things I want to say
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Guys, Dewey Decimal Classification seriously sucks. Like, seriously. *iz seriuz LCC luver*
I read two Stargate Novels! The Barque of Heaven was fun - like a quite well written fanfiction. With, uh, a lot of seriously "OMG FANFICTION" moments, but yeah. Blood Ties wasn't as good - kept on hitting my Mary Sue buttons, had that annoying feel of "I want to be the be all end all of Stargate fandom! SG1 and Atlantis! Everything's connected, from Wraith to Goa'uld, and even Catherine Langford (no, I'm not joking)!
But whatever. Barque of Heaven esp. was fun. And I could read them on the subway a lot better than an internet fanfiction.
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| Saturday, April 4th, 2009
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8:03 pm
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Despite the fact that they're a little too big (I knew I should have cast on only 36 sts) and despite the fact that I had to start them three times, and then frogged half of the thing twice, I think there's something pretty awesome about knitting fishnet stockings.
*cheers*
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12:24 pm
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Please tell me if there are further passages in Shakespeare's 12th Night that could possible imply that the Duke is gay. Because my English teacher is, like, apparently obsessed with this idea. It's really annoying, but anyway...
WTF, Ravelry? What's going on? Why do you keep on diverging onto significant and important issues?
And why are people so silly about them sometimes?
For example, there's about four different active threads talking about women's rights and the fact that a lot of women encounter sexism in the workplace, whether from men constantly disrespecting them (not paying attention to, calling babe and girl and sweetheart, accusing of sleeping with the boss, not hiring for whatever reason) to the fact that a woman often has to be either a mom or a bitch, and can't be both, and can't be neither.
And in a lot of them, there's people throwing around "feminazi" and refusing to understand that the problem with the word is not making sure that it's only applied to obsessive feminists who hate men on sight and refuse to respect them or whatever, and is actually about avoiding the word being applied to any form of feminism, thus undermining the efforts. Or people saying "why are you so sexist? Everything'd be fine if you'd just be nice. You're probably being disrespected because you're not experienced there" and shit like that (and let's not get me started on the "nice" rant).
Sometimes I'm amazed at what I was missing in the blogosphere.
(Also, awesome person who liked about a dozen times to feminism101 and very wonderfully and well-spoken-ly explained the whole "why not use feminazi" thing, thank you so much. You seem very much rock-awesome.)
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