The Topic of Great Randomness

[Stormwind]

Day from...

This is when I wish wizardry was real... It is really disappointing to me when you discover that there are people in this world that don't take things seriously when it comes to them for their jobs. I'm so shaken by the shear selfishness that goes on in the world, and the quicker death this causes to people's trust and sense of justice...
I've been out of Ambit for a bit, and that's because of my job... I hope things settle down soon, as I miss coming on here, but I don't know.
On a better note, I recently reread Stealing the Elf Kings Roses (Thank you E-Reader!!!) It reminded me how intertwined everyone's lives are together and the impact one person can have on the world around them... I hope I'm having a good impact...
Sorry for the rant, I just needed to express some of what I'm feeling before I burst...
Dai everyone, hope your weekends are good...

Illiriam - *HUGS* I am so sorry for your loss... you are in my thoughts and prayers as well as your family....

[illiriam]

I just want to to say thanks for the sympathies. I think I'm doing okay, and so is my family.
And, for the first time, I feel I can understand why people insist on saying that a loved one is in a better place. My grandma had been having a rough time health-wise lately, and my granddad passed away several years ago, and she missed him terribly. It does help to know that they are where they wanted to be, and together again, even while it hurts that they are no longer around.
For me, I feel that comfort books are any of the series that I like to re-read over and over again, and so I have been reading Marion Zimmer Bradley's Avalon series.
And, anyone know any really good King Arthur/Guinevere series out there? I am really enjoy the legend surrounding King Arthur, and have been looking for some good new series...

[Zirsta]

Gosh, I haven't been around for a while....

illiriam: Sympathies from me too! Sorry, can't really think of any comfort books at the moment...

Eric: Happy belated birthday!


Ok, update of my life in "Seward's Icebox."

So, has anyone been hearing about Mount Redoubt, and all the volcanic activity going on in southern Alaska? If not, I can understand. People don't that much attention to Alaska. Ok, so here it goes:


Yesterday the oddest thing came out of the sky- gray, fine grained, dust-like stuff.

Yep, it was ashing.

We got very little, but still, having volcanic ash coming own isn't the most normal thing in the world. Also, it causes all sorts of problem for people. It's bad for car motors, it can scratch the wind shields of you use you wipers, it's horrible for people with asthma, if you breath hard and run around with ash in the air it's bad for your lungs (that's only of there's a lot of ash, though), and if it gets into your computer, you're doomed, pretty much.

As I said, we only got a bit- a light dusting. You probably wouldn't notice it if you weren't looking for it. Also, since the snow is melting, the water is carrying a lot of it away, or at least leaving it damp, so it doesn't drift back into the air. Of course, Mount Redoubt will likely continue to erupt, so there might be more ash coming. I almost wish there would be more, because then I'd actually be able to collect some. Maybe that's an odd thing to wish for, since ash is such a bother for everyone...

Other than the ash, things are relatively normal. I went with my church's youth group to Camp Challenge, which is near Wasilla, and am now rather sore from running through the wet snow/slippery leaf covered woods from camp councilors coming to whack everyone with water noodles.

[Tsakaki]

Illiriam: My sympathies. I've never read any books on the Arthur Legends, but a friend of mine was reading as series in high school that she really liked (and she has high standards). The first book is The Dragon Queen by Alice Bordchart.

Zirsta: You know, I suppose it really does sound weird wanting volcano ash since it's so destructive, but I totally get where you're coming from. Its like wanting a piece of space rock (just to be general) when it crashed in a destructive fiery ball and destroyed stuff. Volcano ash is pretty rare and unique, and even destructive things can be pretty. *totally wants a moon rock or something*

My life's been hectic the last few months, school's coming to a close and my program's all project based, so I'm running around trying to keep my head on while I try to work on all of my projects at once.
I picked up The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins today, I'm only like 4 chapters in, but so far it's pretty good. *totally does not have time to read but is doing it anyways* I got really sick of waiting at the bus stop with nothing to do but twiddle my thumbs. OH! And one of my old co-workers might be coming back to our store again. She's totally my favourite, so I'm pretty excited, and reeeaaallllllly hoping she gets the job. Yesterday my boyfriend and I had his parents and brother over for dinner, it was really fun, I missed them a lot. (I love the fact that his mom adores me). Other than that, not much new with me.

[Jacq]

Illiriam: They're for (much) younger readers, but Jane Yolen has a series that is called "Young Merlin" or "Merlin's adventures" or something like that - Yolen's an excellent author no atter what demographic she's writing for, so you might want to check them out for a light little adventure (that made me cry even when I was 20 <.<)

Good luck on your projects, Tsakaki. I had a roommate for a while that was a VisCom major, so I understand the stress a bit - she would have all these projects due at the end of term, but then after that when I was studying for finals she would already be FREE.

The following is copypasta'd from another forum because I'm too lazy to type it twice:
T&T asian market!! HOORRRRAAAAAAY

I bought a contraption that is a holey pot inside a littler pot, and it was a success!

For dinner we had "vegetable meat" buns and bonito shaomau. I decided to leave the "bamboo fungus veg" flavour tonight because Hatte succeeded in convincing me that "fungus" may not be Engrish for "mushroom". NOM NOM NOM
For dessert there was swirly-bread-thing that smelled like delicious chocolate but tasted more like nothing.

And Andrew bought me Cosmo. X3


Random Jacq
(also I'm getting a $500 tax return because I'm poor as dirt even when I'm working full time. hooray)


edit: I forgot I also got tapioca pearls so someday soon I can have a BUBBLE TEA ADVENTURE that will probably end horribly.

OH AND yesterday was my last 4-hour psych class this semestre. No more ruined saturdays! No more six-day school weeks. Hurrah!
(also if I do decently on my finals I may have a 3.9 this term?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?)

[kk]

Does anybody else realize that if the date is correct, A Wizard of Mars comes out in two days? *is a fangirl* *squee*

I hope the date is right... I'm extremely excited... But if it's not, I guess that's okay too. As long as the publishers don't kind of postpone it like THREE YEARS. Again. I think once is enough...

I can't find anyone who wants to do a release party (awwwww) so if it actually does come out, I'm going to be on the ToGR posting a virtual party with smileys ( ) and then I'm going to disappear for as long as it takes me to read the book. Lol...

Has DD been on the forums recently? Has anyone actually asked her when the book is going to be released? Is there going to be a DD chat, once the new forums have the bugs worked out?

Dai!

[marina salem]

KK: Where is this date for the release you mention?

One more day of school this week (tomorrow) and I get to fly to Boston for our choir tour. Excitedexcitedexcited. Sorta. I'm worried about the work and tests I'll be missing. We have this major US history paper due soon that I need to work on, and missing one day of Spanish (let alone three) could put me up a creek without a paddle, or however one says that phrase. Only at this school would we freak out about missing class.

Anyway, we'll be singing at a bunch of different schools, and shopping, and other touristy things. Oh, and seeing the Blue Man Group. And going on a dinner-dance cruise at night, which seems a bit strange to me, as it'll probably be quite cold. "That's why you stay belowdecks, silly." Only until it's too loud, or they turn on a strobe light. My mother is going, which is good in the sense that she's a source of money, but bad in the sense that I can't swear as much. Don't think too badly of me--I'm really a nice person sometimes.

Lessee...no real drama or anything else exciting going on, unless you count the Leigh-Jacob-Laura love triange as drama. Note: these aren't their real names. Laura likes Jacob dates Laura breaks up with Jacob (or something; it's murky) remains friendly with Laura has Leigh take Jacob to Christmas dance. Jacob likes Leigh dates Jacob whom Laura is still in love with (or something). Laura is heartbroken but still good friends with Leigh begins to want to just be friends with Jacob doesn't know a thing about all this trouble and still wants to date Leigh. All of them are very nice people, no catfights or anything. Personally I think Laura is being overly dramatic, but what do I know. Maybe if a boy who I thought broke my heart started dating my longtime friend and I had brought them together without thinking this would happen, I would be that way too. This is why it's good to be single. In my opinion, anyway. Feel free to differ.

Now all's told I'm going to nap, also known as finishing my homework.

EDIT: I just saw I have no thanks, no nominations, no awards, and no activity! Huzzah for hibernation

[Tsakaki]

Warning Great amounts of School Ranting Ahead

Jacq: Heh, yeah, see I'm in college, not uni, so exams are done while classes are still running. So I run right to the end, some people actually finish before me because of when their exams are scheduled. So alas, I have no such perk. (Believe me, if I did, I'd be satisfactorially and diligently plucking away at all my projects, knowing I'd be done in a couple weeks. I have five left. FIVE. And all my freaking teachers are STILL adding to the homework on INSIST that they are giving me sufficient time to do it to an extraordinarily remarkable level. -__- I assure you, their not. One of them INSISTS on giving us 4 projects even though we only have him for 3 classes, and another is being eternally evasive as to whether or not we have another assignment after this one. "I haven't decided yet, maybe you guys do really well on this one I won't give another. Everyone's going into cruise control because they think it's the end of the semester, but we go until the end of April. You can't slack off yet." -__- We're not slacking, it's just that your class is the most useless, so it gets shuffled to the end of the pile.

Needless to say, I'm not a happy camper right now.

And that new book I bought yesterday? Finished it. And it's the FIRST of a SERIES. I thought it was a stand-alone! And the ending was kind of cliffhanger-y! And the next one doesn't come out until Sept 1! T_T (That's IF they don't pull an AWoM and post-pone it!).

...I dun wanna do any more homework...

[bookgirl]

Tsakaki- I'm at a University and we don't finish until the end of April either, (summer break cannot come fast enough!)

illiriam- I don't know of any good books about King Arthur except for "The Once and Future King". Let me know if you hear about any good books though, I really enjoy the King Arthur legend too.

kk- Wouldn't it be great if that date was right?! Alas, I don't think it is, but we can hope, right?

marina salem- have fun on your choir tour, those are always the best!

jaqc- do you just mean a pasta pot with a strainer???

Zirsta- the ash, I'd probably do the same thing. lol. How often does it snow ash after all?

I have a major performance for my acting class tomorrow. I'm so excited, my scene partner is amazing, he's never acted before but he is incredibly talented. We're performing a scene from Oleanna, I don't know if anyone here has read it or performed it. Its an amazing play, very powerful.

[Zirsta]

*sniff*

It snow, like, four inches last night, so there's no ash to be seen anymore, so so much for collecting it. :-\ The people at school were so paranoid though; the noon duties wouldn't even let us tough the snow, because they claimed it would get the ash back into the air. I told this to my mother, and she laughed and said they were ridiculous. And she's a kindergarten teacher!

Right now I'm in between being nervous, excited, and intimidated. Why? I'm going to the Junior Olympics swim meet on Friday, (yeah, I get to miss school) and it's a three day meet- the most important one in Alaska and I have 5 events, and the rest of the people on my swim team aren't even going.

So far I don't really know how to feel about it. I'm guessing I'll get really excited on Thursday, be psyched that night, and then once I get to the meet I'll be scared, and I'll start to dread it the heat before when I swim my first event. That's what I think... I tend to surprise myself.

[Jacq]

Good luck Zirsta! I would be so crazy-nervous if I were in your shoes, but I'm sure you'll do great - after all, it's the reason you're going and not your teammates, right?

Also good luck to Marina, and I'm jealous that you get to see the Blue Man Group. :3

Bookgirl; no it is ah... like... The littler pot sits within the bigger one, but the water boils below the place with holes. It's for steam-cooking things (mostly buns / hondow).

Tsakaki: The term ends at the end of April here, but the clases themselves end around April 14th. I have one final on the 16th, and ALL OF THE OTHER ONES are on April 29/30, which is a little frustrating, but I don't mind - more time to procrastinate study!

I...have nothing else to add. This is a post of replies. Haha.

[Stormwind]

Bookgirl: Break a Leg!

Zirsta: Good Luck! I'm sure you'll do great!

Life is good right now, if my work schedule stays what I'm actually supposed to work tomorrow... we'll just have to see... I'm so tired, and I have a headache, so I'm finally heading to bed...

[illiriam]

Wow, you all get out so early. We go until the middle of May, with finals ending the 20th or 22nd.

And I totally understand about the massive amounts of projects that are due. I was assigned 3 papers, a group assignment, and an off-campus event (viewing a criminal court case) which we have to then write a paper on. I don't think professors understand that there are months other than April that assignments can be due during.

Zirsta- Congrats on going to the Junior Olympics! I'm sure you'll do great. I went two years ago for air rifle, and as long as you don't get too freaked out, it almost seems the same as any other competition or practice.
And sorry about the loss of the ash under the snow, since you can't collect it. I have been reading in the news about Redoubt since January, and it sounds interesting, if potentially dangerous.

Bookgirl- Try the Marion Zimmer Bradley books, and also some by Rosalind Miles. She has three books about Tristan and Isolde, and three about Arthur and Guinevere, mostly from Gwen's pov. Also a book entitiled Queen of Camelot by Nancy Mckenzie.

And thanks for the suggestions Jacq, I will look them up.

But for a post, and not just replies, I had a sucky statistics test today, which I think I did okay on, and that worries me, because when I think I did fine, that is usually when I find out that I misinterpreted a formula... But bright side is that I totally aced my history midterm. WOOHOO! A 98% with a perfect score on my essay about the separation of the Eastern and Western Roman Empires. I was so excited, I just wanted to start jumping up and down right there in the classroom. But then our TA told us that his house was broken into, and they took his laptop and flash drive, and so he doesn't have our grades for the first four weeks of class. We are supposed to try to find our weekly quizzes and such from them and bring them in. I feel that that is rotten luck on his part, but also that maybe he should have written them down in a notebook, like they used to do, or store them on the class website. Doing it all on his own computer, with the backup stored with the computer seems silly to me. But then I always prefer things on paper and in books than only on screen. Or preferably, to put it in both locations.

[Tsakaki]

Zirsta and Bookgirl: Good Luck to the both of you!

Jacq: Ooo, lucky! I wish my classes ended so early. Mind you, I don't have to study for exams. Although, to be honest, I prefer exams to projects, I'm great at retaining information.

Illiriam: That is lame! I hate when teachers are reckless like that. They hound us about being responsible and then go do something reckless like that.

Warning: Extremely frustrated ranting.

*sighs* So I had an awful day today. I've had no drive to work on anything lately, I'm far past my breaking point. So this morning, I was trying to finish the stuff that was due this afternoon. When class starts, my teacher goes on a tirade about how our designs for our websites were disappointing and all this crap. He does this in every class, goes on about how we have to work harder and he gave us all this time so it should be exceptional. I've done the math, after classes, work and sleep, I have 84 hours left to dedicate to homework, that's 3.5 days, for 8 projects. And that's not adding in time to, you know, RELAX so I don't put my freaking head through a wall. -__- So I came home after class, curled up in bed in the dark, and cried a bit. When my boyfriend came home he cuddled me and put on the new episodes of some of our favourite comedy shows. Then I took a nap, and started working on homework....I hate it -__- so much.

[magicalmike]

Wow i havent been on here in ages. Lets see what happened in my life

I'm now 16 and a junior (birthday this april woot!) My grades are plumiting like usual, started college apps, signed up for AP exams, SAT's and ACT's. Seem to have settled on future plan in life (culinary/ business major). And there is the wonderfull 50 page paper at our school known as credo in which you define your life, existance and personal philosophy. Thats due on my birthday I fell in love, then was dumped for 2 reasons, not physicaly attractive enough, and her other friend also decided to tell her he liked her. Guess who won that one? Started playing guitar, though i use the verb playing in the looses sense possible. I started writing a lot more. I went on a school exchange to france for two weeks and my host student wasnt big on certain laws about certain drugs. The same was true for most of my classmates. I learned alot about who my friends were and how stupid alot of people can be. went through another I hate the world then love the world phase (now im back to just ignoring it for a good book). The german students just got here and since im one of my few friends who doesnt take german im being all wonderfully excluded right now. Wow i sound like a mopey teenager. Though i am. Doing the spring play helping the little kids put on Alice in wonderland. I teach them how to act and some other old kids and i have most of the large roles(Mad hatter for moi) and we teach them stuff like proper breathing and engaging in the scene.
- The story of my life, litaraly.

Anyways so few faces here. I think i kinda drifted after pm left us. None of you guys remember me i bet. haha i have a decent enough memory (i still remember my first chat, rip chyme)

KK - Haha i would kill, I heard may. Even though i hate to i need to hoard it when it comes out. Along with a few other books like the new dresden files. Im going on a college road trip this summer and were going up the entire eastern shore. Ill need pleanty of books. I still cant wait. I have no free time to read anymore sadly, though i did just finish a book right now. Wake by Lisa McMann. Got to say, wasnt that great.

Anyways, i might hang around this time, kinda missed the place. But for now PHYSICS!!! :/