The Topic of Great Randomness

[SilveredBlue]

Wow. Look. At. This. I'm gone for a single day, a SINGLE DAY, and I come back: 1 page in ToGR (weel, nae too unusual), a new member calling him/herself Red5 (great name, Dairine! heh heh), info about AWoM, and DD HERSELF back on!!

Wait. Did I say that loud enough?

THE AUTHOR. HERSELF. AFTER ALMOST A YEAR!!!!

*squeals with joy*

Um, can anyone tell that Blue is little hyper right now?

[estar9821]

I'm hyper too, Blue! She replied to MY comment!!!!! I'm so happy!!!!!!!

Squee!

Of course, my comment was kind of denouncing her picture, but...it's still a reply from the author. You don't get that with every fan discussion board and every series...

[crazy_bookworm]

Eight typed pages later, and my organic chem lab is almost done, yay! Just have to fill in the necessary equations, calculations, thin layer chromatography boxes, and do the graphs, and I'll be good to go for Wednesday!

Spring is here in sunny Canada! It was 13 today, which meant if you didn't mind the slight wind, you could walk around in just a hoodie.

Cait: How's it going at Sheffield? Are you enjoying it, or is it really different from the States?

I have my life planned out from now til April 26, which is kind of scary. My agenda is packed full on every square of things I need to do on that day, if it happens. It's mostly on how I'm going to study for four finals and two lab finals at the same time. My life shall be non-stop studying!

I've finished the first volume of Maus: Tale of a Survivor for English class. It's about the author's dad's experiences as a Jew in WWII surviving the Holocaust. It's really good, but really sobering at the same time to realise that's what people went through during Hitler's reign. I was at the pre-blinking back tears stage by the end of the first volume. Tomorrow I'm starting the second volume, and as the author's father and mother are on their way to Auschwitz, the concentration camp, it will be interesting to see their experiences there and how they get out.

[Trialia]

Cait, not exactly the same water thank goodness, because OSC is homophobic as hell, and DD fortunately is not!

Anyway.

I have my flat, I have my cat, and on the 29th, I'll have home internet too! Things are looking up! I'll be back proper-time then, mostly.

[Cait]

Well, okay, not /exactly/ the same water, and you're right, that's good. Although I didn't know that about OSC... I only just started reading anything he's written. I couldn't tell if the oddness in his story was just because it's an odd story or because he's an odd fellow, but maybe the strangeness isn't all just because of the story, no?

Bookworm- I like Sheffield! It's loads different, but I'm used to it in a way by now. It's kind of weird, because for some reason I expect everyone speaking a given language to have kind of the same cultures, so some stuff in England just throws me for a loop- I hear English and have some silly expectation and it just ain't true! Kind of like I really did think every Spanish speaking country had spicy food, which is a stupid assumption, but there you go. My Spanish friends won't touch spicy with a ten foot pole. Of course I like to think that now I've learned not to make those stupid assumptions, having been proven wrong on every occasion.

Not being able to tell which cardinal direction I'm facing has driven me slightly insane- at home I have mountains to tell me where east is, but here I have nothin! But I do like that everything is green here, even if that's really strange too. The grass never did die in the winter- just stayed green the whole way through. And it grows out in the Peaks even though no one ever planted it there, and that I am not used to, clearly, being from New Mexico. But I like it over here. I especially love it on days like this, when it's sunny and kind of warm. And it's very pretty, just a different pretty than at home. I'm enjoying myself like crazy. In fact, I'm going to Scotland tomorrow!

Oh, and in our flat at least, the tea cups do DEFINITELY breed, as I recall someone said in AWA. It's maddening! :P

[Trialia]

Cait - when are you off after you get back from Scotland? Fancy meeting up now you're so close?

(I'm sorry, I'm bad about one-liners, I know!)

[96bookworms]

Whew! today was a long day...and I am officially now reading 4 books at once, all by choice! I am reading Catching Fire, the sequel to The Hunger Games, which was AMAZING, by the way...and Chosen, a vampire novel in the House Of Night Series...which is OK, and Ways To Live Forever, which is amazing, and sweet...it's about this boy with leukemia who knows he's gonna die, but decides to write a book about himself, and also makes a list of things to do before he dies...like go up the down escalator. Lastly, I am reading the first Maximum Ride book, which is also amazing( I think I am over using that word...)if a little bit confusing at times.

WOW I didn't know I was going to write that much!!

[Cait]

Trialia: I leave again about a week after I get back, and then when I get back from Germany (that's where I'm goin') school starts up again the next week. But yeah maybe! Where in England are you exactly? I gotta find who of my friends will be around, cause for Cait-doesn't-trust-the-world reasons I don't go places alone and meet people. But I have several friends who should be around and that'd be pretty cool if it worked out! Other than that, I don't go back back for good til the 20th of June... so for awhile.

@96bookworms: I'm listening to the audiobook my library had for download of Hunger Games right now, and it almost got shut off for being in first person present, but I'm trying to give it the benefit of the doubt because everyone and their cousin seems to love them. Of course, everyone and their cousin said Twilight was good, so I'm not sure I trust everyone's judgment anymore. But it's an interesting plot concept. I'm hoping at some point there will be some explanation as to why people don't just say, "Right, why don't we just chill in here and make a little group and work with each other til they get bored and let us out, rather than killing each other?"

[96bookworms]

Cait: If you haven't got that far in the book yet....they can't do that because A) they wouldn't want to. The district that wins gets TONS of food and prizes, so that is motivation.
B) If they did that, the Gamemakers would create some kind of disaster so that they had to fight. Take away all of the water/food, large swarm of evil monkeys (oops, that's in the second book...sorry) , or....well, I think you get the point. They HAVE to fight. no options allowed.

Catching Fire was GREAT, and, overall, not as many favorite characters died (I think...) Now I have to wait till August for the third book The Maximum Ride books are fun, and I have to go to the library for the 4th one.....

I'm in another play right now, Annie. It's really fun, and we (the cast) have had A LOT of funny moments! at one point, we were finishing the last scene, and we needed the orphans. 'Daddy Warbucks' just asked "Where are the orphans?" and the lady who plays Miss Hannigan replied "oh, they're in the lobby eating pizza'" (which happened to be true) then we all just started laughing...good times....

[Trialia]

Cait, I'm in Manchester. I can meet you in a public place if you'd prefer that!

To save this from being a one-liner... I really hate toothache. I have an infected tooth that's half broken off, and I blasted it with 120mg of codeine last night and was still in tears with the pain. Had to go to the emergency dental clinic this afternoon, and was told that yes, as I thought, it was infected and there was an abscess forming. Dentist cleaned the infected material out a bit, packed the tooth with antibacterial stuff and filled that and the one next to it, temporarily. They're two of the three I have to have out under general anaesthesia when I get my hospital appointment, so it's literally just a stop-gap measure.

But my face HURTS. *whimper*

[96bookworms]

Trialia: that's too bad about the toothache. Lucky for me, I have NEVER *knock on wood* had any tooth problems, besides braces, which doesn't count.
-Also, I have never any large health problems: broken bones, hospitalizations, etc. It is great, but I keep expecting something to happen. Hopefully it never will, but I feel overdue......-

[EricG1793]

Congratulations for your braces, Hungry!

OMG, Trialia! That sounds horrible! I hope you're not in pain much longer. My dad has a tiny crack in one of his tooth that, when hit the wrong way, sends pain shooting down his jaw. He switched dentists recently; the old one never found out, but the first time he saw this one, he found out the problem.

96bookworms (if you have another name, I don't remember it, sorry!), I haven't had any teeth problems either, and I got braces, too. I got them off last... June, I think. After being on almost exactly three years. I got my retainers and I've only seen the orthodontist a couple times after that; my appointment as postponed twice, then the orthodontist canceled because of the weather, and I still don't have another appointment made, and I think my upper teeth are starting to move out again. I wish I could see him and confirm! I suppose I should start wearing the retainers in the evening to self-correct the problem; I only wear them when sleeping now.

[illiriam]

Yikes Trialia. I hope that toothache goes away soon. I wish I could suggest a miracle cure, but I don't know of anything other than medication that helps with the pain.
Both my parents had infections in a tooth a couple of months ago. My dad had a water pick, and it helped him, because his was caused by something lodged in between two molars. He told my mom to use it, and let me tell you, I thought she was gonna attack him after she used it. Hers was an abscess too, and she said the water pick sent her to her knees in pain. So I wouldn't use one of those! (The smiley kind of looks likes he is grimacing in pain, doesn't he?)

I am sad to be on this side of my Spring Break. I had all these plans to be productive and read my chapters in advance and start on my two novels for term papers and read YW all the way through... needless to say I was not productive. I read a little, and started knitting my brother some fingerless gloves, and watched tv and laid outside in the sun, but I hardly even looked at my school books until today. Oh well. Being productive is overrated anyway.

[seabiscuit1009]

[crazy_bookworm]

I have no more physics labs!! Yes! *does happy dance* SO glad. I don't have to wake up at 6 on a Monday until next January, woo! And I have six more physics lectures!

I wrote a midterm for organic chem today. I didn't finish. It was nine pages long and we were expected to do it in 50 minutes. I think I left about two pages blank, including a seven point question. I'll have to see how I did, I guess.

I'm slightly jealous Amazon has changed their release date to March 25. Chapters still has theirs for April 7, which is 16 days away, but I'm still slightly sad. I have the countdown on my phone.

About all the abroad trips: I'm glad you guys are having so much fun! Soaking up a different culture is amazing.

Congrats to everyone who has gotten their braces off: I hope you find eating things such as carrots a joy.