The Topic of Great Randomness

[kk]

Heh... I'm tired-ish... I feel kinda like this: , only with tea instead of coffee.

I'm very happy right now! No, not just happy.. joyful! I just got all of the Young Wizards books, in audiobook format, on my iPod... *happy* I love those books... <3 And since I read the first 5 books for the first time, on audiobook, it brings back very happy memories, of how I would stay up all night to listen to them. And even though I now own all of the paperback copies of the book (two copies of SYWTBAW, even... I can never resist book sales ), I still love the audiobooks. Ooh, and I have the ebook of TBONWM. Because I need to read that, because I never got to finish it...

Obsessed? No... not at all... Heheheh...

[nelina]

I just had a revelation yesterday. I had ben having dreams almost every night in February and March about some kind of disaster (hurricane, tornado, or Nuclear bomb) that caused my entire town to either run like heck down the road to escape, or to be stuck in underground radiation-proof shelters for 5 to 6 months or 5 to 6 years.
My friends and I have also been wondering why we have not had any major battles with our enmies this school year. Something happened with one of them that made us think a storm of some kind was comming. (not neccessarily weather). We have been thinking about this for a while. also, I found out either in January or February that there was a humongus battle going on, up there. I don't know how that turned out. Last monday, my other trainnee told me that she felt that the war was comming either that tuesday or that thursday.
I had already figured out that what was comming was the part of the battle for us down here. It is 2009, after we win this battle, the next big series of issues like these won't arise until how ever many years there were of B.C. + 2012+ another 2012.

Well, I just realized that the first big part of our end of the battle is the swine flu.

I talked to my dad about it, and he has never been through an epidemic before. I listen to the savage nation on the radio at night (even though I'm a democrat), and he said something about a previous epidemic getting worse in the summer.
Does anyone know what we're supposed to do?

[mythbusterfan]

Just because this caught my attention. What kind of battle do you mean? and what enemies were you referring to? elaborations would be helpful. you're post wasn't entirely clear in terms of context.

[Emi]

Yeah. So. Tech week + 3 shows = No sleep =

I feel sooo tired and hungry and hyper and that's not a good combination. Plus my bf is not acting like a bf and it's making me angry. And an angry Emi isn't a good picture... let me tell you.

Sorry, I don't want to be ranting on here... it seems like that's all I do.

So let me start off with good news.

I'm going to RIT!!! I sent in my housing application the other day. So now all I have to do is wait for my final financial aid to come in and my housing assignment.

My shows went really well! We got two standing ovations in a row. Which was amazing. I'm really proud of the cast and crew on 'The Boyfriend'. I'll try to post up pictures when I find them. haha.

I have like a month and... two days until graduation! YAY! I'm so psyched. I just want it to come right now. AND Senior Skip Day is in like 15 days. AND Prom is this Saturday.

Woo!

So now I don't want to ruin this happy post with ranting... I'll just come on later I guess.

Dai.

[Tuttle]

Yay new shiny.

So, I'm apparently 20 now. My birthday was Monday. My boyfriend's family and mine happen to live near each other (which is totally unconnected to us knowing each other), so for Mother's Day we went back to that town, spent some of the day with his family then went paddling with my parents. Monday we spent at my family's place because my parents wanted me around that evening for dinner and neither of us drive, still ;p. I was given birthday present from my parents and its shiny .

I now have a kindle 2. I named it Dr. Worblehat (points to whoever gets the reference) after two days of trying basically constantly trying to figure out a name that fits it. The initial name I was going to give it had a straightforward reason I couldn't, which made me sad and happy at the same time. It would have been Spot, for a variety of reasons, most notibly having an ebook reader named after a manual seems to fit (also with my boyfriend naming his computers after heinlein characters, but not heinlein computers it seemed to fit). The kindle 2 also totally looks mac-like, though not as extreme as an apple ebook reader would have been. But one of my friendlike people in real life has a laptop named Spot, and I couldn't have the same name for a machine of mine as someone I know. But that does mean that she's a DD fan, and a whole bunch more people around have been hearing of YW because of her laptop, and a lot of people had read them already. Someone tried to point out to me that Spot was a reference to "So You Want to be a Wizard" - I replied, that it wasn't so much that book as the series in general, and that I'd have been making the same reference, though more out of the point of view of manual/guide.

When the simple neoprene sleeve I ordered it comes in I'm totally going to put "Don't Panic" on it in big friendly letters. I just need to figure out how to make them most friendly in the week or two it'll take for it to be mailed.

Um, what else to say. I've been being kindle obsessed the past few days, trying to get ssh and irc working via the webbrowser. Neither would be great because of the refresh rate on the screen, but the ability to check up on other machines, or the ability to enter slow moving channels would be nice. The webbrowser is really useful, despite being so minimalistic. I don't mind the minimalism, but wikipedia everywhere is just shiny.

Lol, he's playing with it now and talking to it "Hello Mr. Worblehat" "It's Dr. Worblehat, not Mr. Worblehat".

I have been getting public domain books so far. As soon as I can get it converted I'm putting A Wind From the South on it. I had bought a PDF a few years ago and lost it in my moving to linux, so the free ebooks are making me really want to finish it. I got about 2/3s of the way through before losing it in a messy install and it not being where I had thought I'd kept it backed up. I could find it, but its not worth the mess when its avaiable anyways.

I am having the problem of there being books I own that I'd really like on it, because right now, its more reliable to be reading on electronics for me. I really like to read, and there's something just nice about paper books, but if I'm reading I want it on me always, I'm not reliable at sitting and reading anymore.

Oh, yeah, it amuses me that without knowing what my parents were getting me my aunt got me $20 to amazon. Now I need to figure out whether I'll put it towards the $90 of tea we're ordering, and buy books as I want them, or put them into my account and treat myself to books that I've been being temped to buy but were too expensive to justify ($20 for a paperback is really tempting but hard to justify sometimes, $6.70 for the kindle version, isn't even if it does have DRM.Non-DRM would be lots nicer though.)

Its 5 AM. I was coding most of the night, have until Friday to get a final project in late for a probable change of grades. Term was way too painful for me mentally, and I just couldn't handle it, and he ended up agreeing after term was over if I had done well enough on my final, he'd think about letting me get it in late for a change of grades. The 90 on the final was enough to have him decide that I really should have the chance to get a B instead of a C in the class rather than having missed 1 of 3 projects for mental instability reasons.

I feel like such a geek to be so excited over an ebook reader, and partially because of it having web access places my laptop doesn't. I mean, I already carry my laptop around on my back, and we're now talking about building it a nice sturdy case to connect to my laptop. So I would have the kindle on the laptop on my back, carrying it with me everywhere. And that totally just gave away who I was if any of my friends from school are reading this. *waves* Yes, I do in fact know of this series .

I should probably go to bed before the sun has completely risen. Though its seeming too late for that already. Oops. Maybe playing with the new shiny for a few hours after coding until past 3 am was a bad idea...

Dai Stiho all

[kk]

Emi: I will pray for the driver in that accident. It's so horrible that people would be that rude, when commenting online about what happened.

Tuttle: Haha, I love what you named the Kindle. He was the librarian, wasn't he? At the Unseen University? The "Don't Panic" is a good idea, too... I'd try to do something interesting if I had a Kindle.

Life is a little crazy around here... We're going shopping all over the place for most of the rest of the day (four thrift stores, two grocery stores, and maybe Target and Walmart) because we generally need stuff. And I want to go to thrift stores. They have many books... Haha...

Oh dear, my sister is going crazy... kind of like a mixture of: , , and . Haha, I'll see what I can do to help her...

Dai, guys!

[Emi]

kk:Thanks.

An update about the driver. He is alive and doing well. He has a few broken bones, punctured lung, and a punctured kidney. He had to have a couple surgeries and be induced into a coma. But now he is awake and texting and myspacing.

Tuttle: Yay! I love a new shiny. I've always wondered how the kindle works. hehehe.

Alrighty, I'm going to go. I have school.... blah.

[nelina]

Just because this caught my attention. What kind of battle do you mean? and what enemies were you referring to? elaborations would be helpful. you're post wasn't entirely clear in terms of context.

Hey, I just read your message. I'm talking about the battle that has begun to take its course here on earth.

The rate of entropy eventually catches up with the rate of all of the worlds good and preserving actions. Apparently, this takes about 2012+however many years b.c. there were, to occur. Therefore, as we are now in the year 2009, the battle has already begun. In order to regain the lead, there are going to be several battles which I think are going to occur alternating between three places: heaven, earth, and the universe/space/existance itself. According to my guardinan angel, the first round has already taken place in heave. Now, its our turn. The existance part happens within it all, so it has no cronology; the battle within that may be to the effect of preventing a world war. Anyway, after this fight is over, and things are back to "normal", then, this series of near-catastrophic events won't take place again until another 2012+ how ever many years b.c we had, aka the year 5 or 6 thousand some.

I hope I make more sence now.

oh yeah, about the swine flu. It's wierd how the world was going insane over it one week ie. "Oh my god, ppl. are dying...", then suddenly one day everyone said "hey, we just found out that the swine flu is no worse than regular flu, so don't worry too much just wash your hands,..."

Was the swine flu so fussed over in other countries?

[SpacePen]

People would do well to remember that "regular" flu can also be deadly.


p.s. I don't understand the business about 2012 plus b.c. years at all. Is this some kind of numerology/religion?

[illiriam]

I'm glad to hear that the driver is doing better. It's so sad when these things happen, and unbelievable when people respond cruelly to them.

Yeah, Nelina, your post totally lost me... I am slightly confused.

But I personally am so tired of hearing about Swine Flu. Ugh. At least it is not in every single news story anymore. The regular, seasonal flu kills thousands every year. I understand that they were concerned that it was striking the middle population (healthy young adults) and not the outliers, which is the same as the 1918 epidemic, but I feel that the media hyped this story up way past where it deserved to be. People should be cautious, and wash their hands and everything, but they should do that all the time. There is always the chance of catching something.

On an amusing side note, my teachers started bringing it up. On one of the first days when the flu was breaking news, my medieval history teacher covered the Black Death. I found it amusing anyways.
And last week, my stat TA greeted us with a big sign on the chalkboard that said "Welcome Pig Flu Survivors!" We all laughed. Then pointed out how it's not politically correct to call it that since all the swine industry objected.
I even noticed it on Scrubs. There was one episode where there was an e-coli panic and Dr. Cox started listing off all the panics that he had seen, including the Swine Flu. (Since there was an outbreak in the 80's).

Now, the real reason I came here. Finals. Ugh. They suck. Ours started Thursday. One of my friends has been done since May 7th. Sooo jealous. I had one so far. And three on Tuesday, one on Wednesday. They are not spread out well, not at all. But at least the weather has turned chilly again, so the nice weather isn't a temptation and distraction. I just can't wait to be done, and back home, and at the beach with delicious seafood instead of diner food. I am counting the hours. 65-68 hours and counting (depending on hos long it takes me to pack and get home). And my best friend will be home from Colorado. I haven't seen her since she left last August. I already told her that I am going to tackle hug her. Tackle hugs are the best.

Okay, study break over.

[kk]

Oh my gosh, I found the car I want to drive when I'm...actually allowed to drive... Heh... Okay, mainly I'm just dreaming; since I will probably not ever be able to buy it, and by the time I have enough money for it, it will be sold. It's a shiny, restored, 1967 Volkswagen split-window van, and it's amazing. *Sigh* I wish...

Okay, random rant over... What to write about...

Emi: Yay! It's good that the driver is doing okay.

SpacePen: Wasn't there something about many different calendars and historic civilizations thinking that the world was going to end on a certain day in 2012, or was that another year? I thought it was 2012... Anyways, I'm not too worried about it. It is interesting, though.

I'm reading Inkheart, it's good so far... I'm almost halfway through it, and it's a very fascinating story. I almost wish people could actually read characters out of or into books... I would not mind if I got dropped into the YW universe. Because, even if the bad things happened, wizardry would be real! And that would be fun...

[nelina]

Yes, KK, that is the whole 2012 thing, but no one knows how long it has really been since the world started, so we don't know how long it will be before catastrophie lingers again. one of my friends did mention the 1918 epidemic as well, but with this spin:

Things may worsen when school starts again, and she figures that our petty enemies are going to be ordered to keep us all occupies while the situation worsens; and while that is small scale, she believes that that's how is going to be all over the world.

Which, makes some kind of sence, so its a probability.


I actually wanted to share about a movie I saw this past weekend, Earthsea, It was about the awesomest movie I've ever seen.
A guy wants to be a wizard, but his father believes he's meant to be a blacksmith like he is, but then, when war strikes Earthsea, he saves his hometown then begins his training in wizardry.

That's all I'm saying, in case u haven't seen it.


Never go to a dream dictionary to interpret your dreams. you should be able to do it yourself.

ex (my friend's dream told in first person):

My mom married someone rich, so me, my mom, my sister, and I moved into his humongus mansion, and he told us to pick our rooms; when I got upstaris, my sister had already entered this beautiful room that was dark pink with black stars painted onthe walls, she slammed the door and refused to let me in. So I went down the hall, and found my mom in a green and yellow room. I turned the corner, passed the bathroom door and found this beautiful room where the colors transition from blue to red as you enter the room, and there is a nice big window with a seat that over looks the lake.


I told her that the room that she ended up with, and liked, sounds ominous to me, due to the way the colors changed , not to mention the fact that the window over looks the lake...


Anyway, this is what the dream means:

Something new comes into her mom's or her family's life, which causes a change in which she and her sister will have a choice, and her sister beats her to the choice, and what she is stuck with looks like a good thing, but has sinister things behind it.


The key to reading a dream is finding its core meaning, everything else is all details. Teh best person to tell you the core meaning of your dream is YOU, because the more you know about the context of your life and how the dream's meaning can apply, the more accurate you will be.

I hopw I didn't confuse anyone else....

Peace

[Tuttle]

2012 stuff: Except that there is evidence that the Mayans didn't actually believe the world would end in 2012, just that their calendar wouldn't be accurate enough after that.
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It is good that the driver is doing okay .
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Trying to figure out what I'm going to do to make money this summer. I really need to make some for school, and at the same time boyfriend is wanting us to make stuff and sell it and use the money to buy his mom a nice present. That'd be worth it if we could make over $500, so we could get her the $500 thing we wanted.

Oh, apparently we're going to go celebrate his and his sister's birthdays at 4 today. Okay. Random phone call.

Umm, what else for random stuff. I know someone who is 92 who recently fell 15 feet down a cliff about 30 feet tall before catching a tree and holding on until someone found her. There's just something weird about that.

Yeah, I'm being tired and not being able to think of anything to say. I think I'm going and trying to get breakfast or go back to reading.

[mrz.wicked]

lost... confused... and hoping someone can help me!!!

Lately, I have been noting a lot. Nelina lives in the same town as I do, and we are good friends. As I have been telling her, the whole 2012 thing has been appearing in my face. Today I go to youtube, and the first video i see is talking about the end of the world. I knw how the whole thing has been going on now, in 2009 instead of 2012. It's just the fact that the whole thing has popped in my head in the last several weeks, maybe a month or two. Like the other day, I go to the library in my school, it's about to close, so I rush and get a book of the shelf without really thinking about it. It was like, it caught my attention, seemed like a good read. When i get home, i realize it's about the Antichrist, and it's in a collection about the end of days. It's creeping me out, and i just want to know why is it happening.



Then lately, my strength has been undetectable 4 a while now. The last battle i had, they told me my powers were stronger then before. I don't understand that either, for i cant communicate with my mind. I cant do but so much, because im only a begginer. But you have to remember, my powers are growing, and i cant feel them.

My powers growing, and this 2012 end of days antichrist stuff is making me curious...

Can anyone help me or tell me something...



Sincerly,
~mrz.wicked~

[Emi]

2012.... Everytime I think of that I think... it "may" be the end of the world and my senior year of college at the same time... darn.

So things happened today that I'm extremely mad/upset/frustrated/insertemotionhere.

I either lost and/or got my purse stolen today at school. Yeah. I said at my school. I realized I didn't have it when I was getting ready to go to lunch. We have a block scheduling meaning 4 190 minute classes. so it's A1/A2 B3/B4 C5/C6 D7/D8. C block can be split into two "skinnies". So I have C5 off, and I usually go to the library and go onto the computer. Well sometime between B block and C5 I lost my purse or someone stole it while I was sitting at the computer. Which is kind of weird because my purse was right next to me. I'm just so mad because I have everything in there... MY LIFE is in that purse. And now it's gone.

I just really hope it wasn't stolen. I reaaalllly hope it wasn't.

At least I have my cell phone. =/

It took all I had to not cry during C6 and D block. There were a few tear drops, I'm not going to lie. So I had to cancel my bank accounts and tomorrow I'm going to get a new Driver's ID...... I'm getting paid tomorrow too. Haha.

Ah, I just want it to be Friday so I can just go watch my friend play in Sweeney Todd.