So Tell Us ‘Bout Yourself
December 19, 2007 at 6:22 am MontgomeryGurl 137 comments
Part of the reason for this site was that we were desperately hoping to reclaim the magic that was MuseBlog in it’s glory (early) days. One of the greatest things about the dear old MB was how well we all knew each other. Since several people have already shown up to this party and we’re not all BFFs, this thread is to tell us a little about yourself. Likes, dislikes, hobbies, age, first name, etc. We want to hear all about you!
*is totally not a creepy stalker*
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1.
Alison | December 19, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Reposting in appropriate thread…
“Ok, I’ll make a real post now. I was under pressure the first time. Maybe I should introduce myself? I wasn’t on the original museblog…
So. I’m Alison, Julia’s friend from not-cyberspace. (What do they call it again? Oh right, life.)
I like to read, swim, sometimes write, and listen to music (the majority of which is stolen directly from Julia’s music library). I don’t know ANY of you, but I’d like to, because Julia says you’re all really cool.
Do you desire anything else? Cat’s name? Favorite color? Blood?”
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MontgomeryGurl | December 19, 2007 at 8:13 pm
1 – Welcome! We’re definitely glad to see people who can contribute to the discourse here, and any friend of Julia’s is a friend of ours. Well, that may be overstating it somewhat, but the point is that we are very glad to see you. ulia says we’re cool? Wow. My life is now complete. *sobs with happiness*
I guess I should introduce myself, since I’m an admin and I have a feeling that a lot of you don’t actually know me.
–I come from the dear old MuseBlog. I was there during it’s early stages for about seven months, during its Golden Age. Around the time the intellectual discourse that had first attracted me to the MB disappeared, I disappeared with it. Well, maybe not so much disappeared as melodramatically declared that I was leaving and never coming back. But you get the idea.
–You can refer to me as Amanda, since that’s what people in “real life” call me. My middle name is Grace, which is one of the most ironic things ever in the history of the earth, the extent of which you will comprehend if you ever seen me attempt to walk down a flight of stairs.
–I’m somewhat pretentious, madly in love with words, and I at least try to pretend to be an intellectual. My goal is to become an English professor. I may actually expand that goal to include philosophy, if events lead me in that direction.
–Politically, I’m a libertarian, and I’m also a dedicated Christian. I tend to not worry what people think about me, and I also try to not judge people before I get to know them. I like to be optimistic, but I’m afraid I’m more than a bit cynical.
There, that’s me as best as I can describe it in this little box. I guess you’ll have to get to know me over time. But I hope you will be pleased with what you find out about me.
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Fortune Cell | December 19, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Hi, I’m Julia, and I’m an alco-
um
hiiii
you all prolly know me…
I’m Julia, 15, and hail from the Bay Area (that’s NorCal, folks, which is why the site’s in pacific time).
I go to boarding school about 1-2 hours south from where I go live, and love it there. I miss all my friends terribly except for Alison.
Uhm, JAY KAY ALISON
I’m an optimistic person but also kind of crazy, apparently… I prefer to call it an “alternate mental lifestyle”, but people just tell me to lay off the crack.
Ah well.
I made this site, so you should all bow down to my uber-greatness.
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Alison | December 19, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Pleased to meet you, Amanda.
-bows down to Julia’s uber greatness-
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Bird of Purple | December 20, 2007 at 4:09 am
Ahem… Well, today I think I’ll be late for school. Or, rather, early but unprepared for school.
-I’m almost fifteen
-I don’t actually talk to people in real life. Well, actually, I do, but they usually end up regretting it. XD No, not really… I hope…
-Besides the state of utter confusion, I also inhabit the state of NY
-I love to read… I’m starting to try to write, but I don’t know how good it it…
-I dance. Ballet. And I love it very much.
3-*bows down*
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Dodecahedron | December 20, 2007 at 12:00 pm
okay… here’s a bunch of random fact-like things about me.
I’m Annie. You can refer to me as whatever you want, I respond to “Dodecahedron” and variants thereof, variants on my current MuseBlog name, curious and questioning, and “Hey you in post 6″-type comments. I might be a little surprised if you use my real name, but if you want to I don’t really care.
I’m 14 and live in New York. I can often be found at our pretty cool public high school, where I may be involved in things relating to math/science, and my trombone, which I love but could improve on. I am most infamous among the general populace for my showing off and answering all the questions the teachers ask when I’m bored, and among a few pseudo-enemies for being insane and rather violent when angry, albeit ineffective. My favorite song is Birdhouse In Your Soul. I don’t know if there’s a god and I don’t think it really matters. My favorite sport is marching band, and from August through October or November it’s pretty much the only thing that matters. That’s enough to know me for now, I think…
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Glasseh | December 20, 2007 at 12:25 pm
I’m Rowan, and will (grudgingly) respond to any variation of that or Glassboro; as you can see my name itself is one. Er… I’m 12. (can you tell that I’m basing this off of Annie’s post?) I live in NJ. There isn’t all that much about me that you need to know, although you can ask me. I spend most of my life out of school in front of the computer, at least right now. I’m Atheist, although I don’t know if that matters to you. I don’t like new people on the MB, as anyone on the Welcome, Newcomers thread can probably tell. In fact, I wanted a thread on here to be called “Fuck Off, Newcomers.” *guilty* So I’m a horrible person. Deal with it.
Also deal with the fact that I’m obsessed with metal, and will stab you if you say bad things about it. Keep in mind, though, that my stabs are not at all fatal; more my way of, I don’t know, venting frustration. If I stab you, it might not even be because of something you said; it could be because of my life in general. So you can go over to the MB music thread, or the one here for recommendations or whatever.
That should be enough for now, if it’s not you can IM me or something. “glassboro42″ is my sn, it’s AIM.
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MontgomeryGurl | December 20, 2007 at 1:12 pm
It just makes me happy to see people volunteering personal information that the GAPAs would never let through. Free speech rocks!
Oh, I should mention that I’m homeschooled. Pretty much rocks.
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Fortune Cell | December 20, 2007 at 1:21 pm
7- This includes Glassaroonicornicopia, Roo Baby, Roonicorn, Roowan, etc. Trust me. He loooooves it.
;D
8- Oh man, I knowwww
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Dodecahedron | December 20, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Also about me: I feel special and get insanely excited if someone replies to a post of mine. When I read Rowan’s post, I think I might have audibly squee-d. (He mentioned me! And as me!) And I accidentally knocked my laptop off my bed (I’m sitting cross-legged facing the front of my bed, the laptop is on the pillow and I’m leaning towards it.) It doesn’t seem to be damaged, thankfully.
Oh, and my sn is twelvesidedfreak. (also AIM)
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MontgomeryGurl | December 20, 2007 at 1:43 pm
*mentions Dodecahedron*
Don’t damage your computer too severely.
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Fortune Cell | December 20, 2007 at 1:45 pm
10- You are special!
My screen name is flippers away.
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MontgomeryGurl | December 20, 2007 at 1:58 pm
10 – You are wondrously amazing!
If anyone cares to know, my screen name is livinginfreakdom. If you’re going to contact me, though, make sure I’ve had some kind of back and forth with you on the blog. It bothered me that after I left the MB, random people I’d never met started IM’ng me. I didn’t mind getting to know them, but it was an odd feeling to have them send me some random message and be like “Hey! It’s me.” So you can definitely contact me, just don’t scare me half to death by acting like you’re my best friend. It makes me worry. (“How the crap have I forgotten all about this person? They seem to know me so well… oh, wait, they just said they’d never talked to me before in their lives. That’s a relief”)
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Potato Chip (Kelly) | December 20, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Hello, I’m Potato Chip on MuseBlog. I’m 13 and I will go to the same high school as Dodecahedron, next year, where I will most likely be known as Kelly.
Some more interesting facts about me:
I play violin and percussion. I like math, and I hate gym, because I am quite un-coordinated and generally inept at sports. I would like English but I’m not very good at structured writing, or finding the “theme” in books. I just enjoy them, I don’t feel the need to strip them down. I like classical music. I will listen to other music, and often enjoy it. I abhor zits, especially blackheads, because the only thing that gets rid of them for me that I’ve tried is Retin-A and that takes a while and makes them look worse in the meantime. Parts of this resemble a rant, but it’s a rant that’s about me… I guess.
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MontgomeryGurl | December 20, 2007 at 2:02 pm
14 – Potato Chip! w00t! You play violin? I am insanely jealous. Welcome to the FreshMuseBlog!
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oxlin | December 20, 2007 at 2:10 pm
I’m not going to tell you guys stuff the GAPAs wouldn’t let through. If you know things like that about me, please don’t post it here. If you post an AIM sn list, don’t include mine. Thank you. AMPs, if someone posts something like that please snip my information. Thanks!
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Potato Chip (Kelly) | December 20, 2007 at 2:11 pm
15- thanks! This place seems cool. (yay Julia!) I’m not really that frustrated with the regular MuseBlog, but not having rules and the lack of newbies does seem exciting. I don’t really have much against them, once they learn, but that seems to be a slow process nowadays.
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MontgomeryGurl | December 20, 2007 at 2:16 pm
16 – Okay oxlin, you’ll be protected. And I understand your concerns, I’m just a reckless and foolhardy type person. But information that we share on here will just be what people give us permission to say. I totally understand!
17 – That’s probably because you weren’t around in the old days. I mean, really, we just didn’t have stupid posts and we actually discussed things. We didn’t fire messages off in to a great abyss. People responded. We talked about things that mattered. There was a climate that was just different… I don’t know if anyone else misses it, but that was the main reason why I left. It’s not the newbies I have a problem with, it’s just that with so many people (and so many of them not really caring about other people) the same climate couldn’t be maintained.
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Potato Chip (Kelly) | December 20, 2007 at 2:32 pm
18- Yeah, my one-year anniversary is tomorrow… so I’m not that old. One thing I have noticed that’s changed over that year is that there are too many posts. I’m not on the computer that much, and I don’t have time to read a 200-post thread. So then I either don’t post or read the last 50 posts or so, to try to get a feel for the thread, but that doesn’t always work. I wish I could have been there for the old museblog.
My parents don’t really want me communicating with anyone that I haven’t met in real life, but I don’t always do what my parents want.
Another thing about me: I occasionally type in homophones. I guess it’s because I hear myself talk when I write, and then if I’m not really concentrating I write down the wrong word. For example, I just typed “right” instead of “write”. I corrected it, but I miss things sometimes.
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MontgomeryGurl | December 20, 2007 at 2:37 pm
19 – Yeah, there were so many posts when I left it was insane. And you hadn’t even come there then, so I’m sure it’s gotten worse. You’ve seriously been there a year? Wow, it doesn’t seem that long since I left. But the pace at the old MB was a lot like the pace here. There weren’t twenty million posts about whatever, probably something you didn’t want to hear about in the first place. People talked. You could get on three hours after you left and read all the posts in about ten minutes, then spend maybe half an hour responding. Things are just very different now.
I type in homophones too! A few years ago, I wrote “I can here it” and “I’m write hear.”
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Vendaval | December 20, 2007 at 3:13 pm
So my name is Conrad, and, um, well,…. I’m pretty sure I live in the New Yorkish area. I’m 15, play the cello, and sail. I love history, but math and science are pretty swell too. I love to read and see art, but I’m much better at looking than making. Latest career choice: curator.
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Sweet Melpomene | December 20, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Wow. Hi.
I’m Sweet Melpomene.
I usually respond to any variation of Mel. My real name’s Olivia, but no one really calls me that online.
I’m 17. Senior in HS. Ich komme aus MuseBlog. Now I’m here. And looking forward to this.
Maths and Physics are my friends.
Wow.
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Alison | December 20, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Oh, my (AIM) screen name is poker4kittens, which is a Buffy reference that flies right over most peoples’ heads. (But most would agree that’s a good thing…)
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Potato Chip (Kelly) | December 20, 2007 at 3:29 pm
21- You sail? That’s so cool!
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MontgomeryGurl | December 20, 2007 at 3:34 pm
22 – Mel! I am so uber excited to see you here. Sorry it took so long to approve your comments, I forgot to check and see if any were awaiting moderation.
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Vendaval (Conrad) | December 20, 2007 at 3:45 pm
24- It’s my whole summer! Do you sail? It’s a lot of fun.
I think Clio best fits me as an ancient muse.
My AIM is a bit of a mess, Facebook is preferred (even though it goes against my principals of ethics, with the whole stolen software thing)
Here’s my test results:
Your Type is INFJ
Introverted Intuitive Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
67 88 25 44
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Potato Chip (Kelly) | December 20, 2007 at 4:06 pm
26- No, I don’t, but it seems so fun… I’ve only been on a boat twice, once on a whale watch and once to go to Ellis Island with my school. 3 times if you count the trips to and from Ellis Island separately.
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oxlin | December 20, 2007 at 4:06 pm
One of my favorite things here is that there are less people around here to cause it to be so huge. When there are hundreds of people, a site becomes hard to keep track of rather quickly.
I don’t particularily mind the GAPAs rules, they have reasons to create them. I will probably continue to follow them here.
I don’t mind newbies either if I can get along with them and they don’t pointlessly post or anything.
22- yay! Mel’s here!
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Sweet Melpomene (Mel) | December 20, 2007 at 4:08 pm
25- *waves* Yay.
INTP
Strength of the preferences %
100 75 88 44
It’s weird; I usually get INTJ. Ehh. Perhaps I’m between P and J.
Oh, and my AIM is the same as my name here: Sweet Melpomene.
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MontgomeryGurl | December 20, 2007 at 4:14 pm
29 – I pegged you as an INTP. I really hope that thing is right, because that would make you the only other INTP I know. The thing that usually differentiates INTP and INTJ is that INTJ is more likely the think they’re right. I’ve talked with my brother (INTJ) and talked with myself (INTP), and talking wtih you is a lot more like talking to myself than talking with my brother.
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ebeth91 | December 20, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Hello all. I’m ebeth, both on the blog and irl.
-my screenname is ChoklitEbeth91, and i have absolutely no problem with random strangers IMing me. (trust me, it happens a lot).
-I am on FB, and rumor has it that i have a myspace as well, although i’ve never been on it (so it’s pretty worthless).
-I’m 16 and a junior in high school.
-I’m in band, first chair trumpet at the moment. I also play (or have played or am learning to play) violin, piano, and bass guitar. -I like to read just about anything, especially fantasy, sci-fi, and historical fiction (and plain ol’ history too)
-i like just about any kind of music, as long as it’s good music (and when i say any kind, i have classical, indian hip-hop, heavy metal, spanish guitar, any era of jazz, rock, grunge, rap, folk, etc, etc)
-Did i mention that i like to read?
-i live in a teeny town in ohio. i think the following conversation gives you an idea of how teeny “teeny” really is.
High Tower: Dude, i go to radio cafe all the time. my guitar teacher works there.
Me: it’s kind of expensive though
HT: yeah, but he gives me free stuff. says he’s trying to bring them down from within
Andy: Dude, my neighbors own that place!
I can’t tell you how many times this happens.
Some muserly things about me…
-I started getting muse about five years ago (?). The march issue of birds being dinosaurs, if any of you dinosaurs care to check that.
-I joined the blog in september 2005, a month after it opened. Exactly a month, actually, check it out
8. ebeth �|� September 1st, 2005 at 8:08 pm
woah, hello this is cool! I hadn’t been on the muse site in ages and I came on looking for a pink bunny picture for my forum and BOOM!!!!! THE THUNDER CRASHETH!! MUSE HAS A BLOG AND I HAD NO CLUE!!! well anyhoo, here I am (finally) still smacking myself on the head for complete neglect of the lovely website *SLAP SLAP SLAP*
And that was the most n00bish post around. Axa opened it off with an artemis fowl quote, and guess what everybody else did? Responded with posts about artemis fowl. OMGZWEIRD!11!!!
And that’s the extend of my “aww, good ol’ days” whining
More random stuff
-favorite color is blue
-my favorite song changes about every two seconds, but right now it’s either otherside by the red hot chili peppers or tribute by tenacious d
-favorite movie right now is rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead
-68 degrees fahrenheit is just about the perfect temperature
-fav season is fall
-i like choklit
-i’m vaguely gluten intolerant, but apparently if i lay off bread for a while i’ll be fine when i’m older (if i keep eating bread i’ll be like my mom and not be able to eat anything with gluten at all which makes restaurants and suchlike difficult)
-i’m an INFP (i think…i always get different results on those tests)
and that’s about it…
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Dodecahedron | December 20, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Like five people just mentioned me! *is joyful*
I actually didn’t expect this place to be as addictive as it is. I came on last night, and well, this is okay, pretty cool, every once in a while I’ll look around and see how it’s doing but it’s not the same as MuseBlog, and then today when I got online after school the first place I went was here. It’s so personal, and the conversations mean something. They do on the regular blog too, but there’s all these other people drowning you out a little.
um… this is the talk-about-yourself thread… I procrastinate. A lot. Example: We got a semester project- 17 current events articles- in September. September and October I ignored it and used marching band as an excuse. November I nanoed as an excuse. Now here I am with four articles done, most of the way into December. It’s due in about two weeks, one of which is winter break, so I’ll do it then. But it proves my point.
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MontgomeryGurl | December 20, 2007 at 6:29 pm
32 – I know, right? That’s how the MB was when I first came. Really personal. It’s a nice feeling to be able to have a conversation with, like, eight people at once.
*stops pining for the old days, because now the old days are the now days*
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oxlin | December 20, 2007 at 6:34 pm
32, 33 – yeah, hundreds of people is just too many. Thinking of my close RL friends I definately don’t have hundreds of those.
eventually I’ll post an intro I swear.
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ebeth | December 20, 2007 at 7:11 pm
32-oh boy, that’s me. i’m supposed to be doing a research paper for english that we’ve had for ages. and now it’s break and i don’t want to work on it, but it’s due a couple days after we get back.
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Glasseh | December 21, 2007 at 8:54 am
31- That was your first issue…? *is shocked by the fact that he started receiving Muse at the same time as another MBer*
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ebeth | December 21, 2007 at 11:41 am
36-wewt!
i’m at the apple store right now and true story-i reeeeally want a macbook. :’( why 1499? WHY?!?!?
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(Sweet) Mel(pomene) | December 21, 2007 at 12:39 pm
30- Heh, indeed. INTP Club FTW.
32- YES.
32, 35- Heh, I procrastinate, too. I should be finishing college applications. About right now. I once wrote a 30-page research paper in 2 nights. ^__^
My first issue of Muse was…something with either monkeys or horses. I can’t remember. I’ll have to look…
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Jadestone | December 21, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Ello, people. I would like to be included on on the not-on-any-sn-infostuffins list with Oxlin (ack… it feels so weird calling you that… sorry).
Although, I think a thread for pictures would be cool. Like, not nessecarily of us, but just interesting pictures. Unless it’s just FC and MG that can post them, that’d be a bit to much work.
Er, intro. Right. I’m gonna be lazy and just go copy my last one off MB.
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oxlin | December 21, 2007 at 1:59 pm
39- oh that’s alright, call me e~a if you’d like.
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ebeth'sfriendBill | December 21, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Hello, I’m Bill. (my real name is Alexis, but everyone calls me Bill.) I’m a friend with someone in real life, can anyone guess who? umm, I hope this sounds okay. >< I’m very interested in History and hope to pursue a career in it…and one day live in a sweet cardboard box. If anyone wants to know anything about me just ask.
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Megan- VF | December 21, 2007 at 7:40 pm
hey im megan, aka Violetfire. i started on the MB in like january of 05 or 06, cant remember which. i loved the close-family atmostphere, and when there started being too many people, i ended up leaving, a few months after Monty i think. but no dramatic “im leaving” letters or anything.
iim in 8th grade, i just recently found out that im 5’2” (yay!) i play piano and percussion. i love to read, and im good at math and science. i like music, mostly the same stuff as JS, but less metal and more alternative-popular.
im one of the most athletic people i know:
ive been doing kung-fu for seven years, and im a second level black belt. i love it and its really fun, although kind of demanding.
i also love to run: i do cross country in the fall and track in the spring.
plus i tried out for the volleyball team this week, and i made it! im a setter cuz im waaaay too short to hit.
im an INFP. basically it. i think someone posted a description on the december random thread.
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PENTAY | December 21, 2007 at 10:10 pm
A Field Guide to the Uncommon Pentatonikk
by Herself
The uncommon pentatonikk, Snarkicus pentatonikkus intarbuttzicus, can be found in many disparate reaches of teh intarbuttz. It is most easily identified by its ridiculous attitude, common to most members of the genus Snarkicus, its fondness for shiny objects, and its habit of capslocking. Other traits of the species include bad sexual innuendo and inordinate love for writing.
In real life, the uncommon pentatonikk is known by the name Troy. It is female and would like nothing more than to reproduce asexually. Currently, it lives in Chicagoland, is fifteen years old, and is a junior at what it refers to as ~*smart people school*~. More personal information can be obtained through Julia or Ebeth or other such stalkers.
Here is a recording of its mating call: “GLASSEH JUMP OFF MY CLIFF”
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Fortune Cell | December 21, 2007 at 10:19 pm
43- HAHA
NO
HE WILL JUMP OFF MINE.
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ebeth | December 22, 2007 at 1:28 pm
GLASSEH MAH CLIFFS ARE THE BEST!!!
Oh boy…not this again.
*ignores the fact that she just contributed to the cliffs discussion, perpetuating it further*
riiiight, moving on then.
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FrigidSymphony | December 22, 2007 at 5:16 pm
I am the tall, handsome, swiss musician and iconoclast. I am eurocentric, nihilistic, atheistic, pagan, hedonistic and nymphomaniac. And I rule.
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Megan- VF | December 22, 2007 at 5:45 pm
oh hey fridgey. long time.
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FrigidSymphony | December 22, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Yes, I will deign myself to post here. Prepare yourselves for the wrath of the antichrist!
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Megan- VF | December 22, 2007 at 5:50 pm
oh, also, “nymphomaniac” applies to a woman. the masculine equivalent is satyriasis.
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FrigidSymphony | December 22, 2007 at 5:54 pm
49: Didn’t know that. Thought it worked for both genders. Ah well, thanks for the info.
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Fortune Cell | December 22, 2007 at 6:06 pm
49- Urgh, I hate that word. Brings up bad memories.
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Mel | December 22, 2007 at 7:03 pm
49- Really? Wow. Yay new information. Yay new thing to call a certain one of my friends. Yay not having been technically incorrect about what I occasionally call myself.
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schoonLee | December 22, 2007 at 7:47 pm
hi everyone that i already know, and hi to the ones i don’t.
schoonlee tends to be snarky and sacrastic and bipolar and borderline… and also it does not know how to spell anything. (so deal with it, if something has been so misspelled that it is incomprehensibile, ask). it is in highlevel classes in year 10 in highschool and tends to sleep through at least 50% of these. schoonlee hates conformists (*stabs*), preps, fools, conservatives…
another field guide:
shcoonlee likes theatre and indie music (and just about every other kind of music but rap and country) and dancing. it is not an official muser since the subscription was cancelled
guess thats all. i’m lianna in real life though i can be found on facebook as “lee grant” if you wanna know anything, just ask jade.
48- antichrist or antechrist? hmmm
oh! how do you add a picture by your name? i can’t figure it out…
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Jadestone | December 22, 2007 at 8:01 pm
I know an anarchist… when we were voting for team captains (hockey team) she refused too. Not loudly, though, just asked me what she should put instead. It ended up as
C- I
C- AM
A- AN
A- ANARCHIST
A- (no regrets)
It was fun.
Anyway, on the flamablamablous me:
Age- I am immortal, fools
Eye color- brown
Hair color- lighter brown, goes down to about my elbows. 2 random natural blond streks in the front that slightly annoy me.
Hight- 5″4′
Locaton- Outside of Chicago, hoping for another Kokonvention soon!
Nationality of my ancestors- Irish, Italian. Lithuanian, there must have been some Evil Overlord among them somewhere
Pets- a ferret named Bandit, a budgie named Luna
Instruments- Flute
Music- Rock, metal, some alternative, some classical, folk, stuff like that. No rap.
Color- Cerulean, a really pretty blue, then green
Intrests- Reading, writing, drawing, flute, going online, ice hockey, tennis, rock climbing, reading/writing(stories/poems), making movies and editing them on iMovie, swinging on the swingset even though I’m ‘too old’ (ha! as if), climbing trees or any other inanimate object that looks climbable, trying to figure out how to play a song on my flute when I don’t have the music and end up listening to the song on my ipod 80 times and playing along to see if I got the notes right, fire, bothering people, sneaking up on K in the halways and walking next to her untill she notices me and screams, making jewelery out of seed beads/glass beads and wire, shiny objects,
More random crap soon to come!
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Fortune Cell | December 22, 2007 at 8:10 pm
51- I’m envious…I want a ferret…mom says I can’t get one unless there’s someone else to look after it when I’m at school.
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oxlin | December 22, 2007 at 9:37 pm
oxlin loves stories. She loves possibilities. She loves to imagine what if…? She loves to read. oxlin enjoys writing (poems, stories), reading, and being whimsical. She thinks her brother is great for having built a Calvin and Hobbes style snowman. She enjoys learning about things. If you are used to it, you may call her e~a. Otherwise she goes by ‘oxlin’. oxlin enjoys making pretty beaded things, particularly earrings. She often uses buttons. oxlin loves the Endicott Studio of Mythic Arts (www.endicott-studio.com/) Her favorite authors include: Charles de Lint, Ellen Kushner, Terri Windling, Jane Yolen, Robin McKinley, Patricia C. Wrede and many others. oxlin enjoys theatre and sitting on the roof of her school’s auditorium. She enjoys exploring said auditorium and wandering about the catwalk and the roof. oxlin is bisexual. oxlin would enjoy having a tree house. Like many here, oxlin likes chocolate. oxlin likes to listen to They Might Be Giants, various soundtracks (Little Shop of Horrors, Les Miserables etch.), The Decemberists, Franz Ferdinand, random Spanish music, random local music, random German music. She enjoys black rimmed glasses. She wears earrings every day, usually beaded by herself. She is soon going to make a project of some sort. She enjoys surplus stores, book stores, thrift stores and stores that always have what you need. oxlin enjoys the words ‘emporium’ ‘whimsical’ ‘widdershins’ ‘dream’ ‘gorgeous’ ‘soliloquy’ etc.
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Mel | December 23, 2007 at 7:06 am
53- I’m pretty sure you have to have a WordPress account to get an avatar.
I’ll eventually get around to typing a lot of stuff about myself.
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Vendaval (Conrad) | December 24, 2007 at 5:51 am
57~ maybe just put a link to a picture inthe URL box?
41~Hey there fellow history interest!
I want to live in a zeppelin before I settle down crating a museum. Whoever needs help with their spelling, get Firefox. Spellcheck included.
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ebeth | December 24, 2007 at 9:09 am
58-no, that’ll just turn your name into a link to the picture
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ebeth | December 24, 2007 at 9:10 am
double post i know *le gasp* but i just thought of this…do you think we can use our accounts on the MB and make everybody jealous with our shiny pictures? or have the GAPAs made that not kosher?
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kricket | December 24, 2007 at 9:26 am
60- Ebeth, double post? I’m ashamed. tsk tsk…
Well, most people know me… kinda.
My name is actually Kristen, but everyone calls be kricket so… yeah. Anyways, I’m 14 years old… uhhh… I’m nearly blind… (okay not really) and tend to exaggerate things. I listen to nearly every kind of music except for rap, hip hop, etc. My friends are crazy… uhhh… I live in PA… I think I have OCD, but not entirely sure. Then again, you never know. I love math and science and english. I write stories and poems. I love to read! Yay! My parents bought me a chemistry set for my b-day one year. I have short-ish hair. I have hazel eyes, yet I wish they were two different colors because that would be sooo cool. Most of my relatives live in Michigan except for one set of aunt and uncle (great aunt and uncle) live in a mobile home, and then my uncle bob lives in California. I’ve lived in a total of four states during my life. (this is me spouting random info) My AIM sn is in the hands of Musers I know already, so.. yeah. I live in PA (did I say that already?). I tried to finish nano this year.. didn’t really work out very well. And I just realized that it’s 12:24 on 12/24. Haha. I’m also very easily amused. If I left out anything, then just ask. Oh yeah, my favorite colors are purple, lime green, and blue.
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Jadestone | December 24, 2007 at 12:24 pm
60- No, you can’t be logged in as such on normal MB. I don’t think there’s pictures enabled there either really.
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Mel | December 25, 2007 at 11:49 am
About me goodness:
Name: Olivia
Age: Actually, I’m dead [but dreaming]
Height: My license says 5’3″
Build: Scrawny
Eyes: Blue-grey
Hair: Dark blonde, naturally curly but it’s straightened, short
Complexion: I’m dead, remember? Freakishly pale.
Location: NEPA, USA [R'lyeh]
Heritage: German, Italian, and about a 64th French
Favourite:
Colour: Any dark earth tone [including deep reds] and black
Music: Trippy and/or epic. And I like musicals.
Lit: Classics, faerie tales, sci-fi, and anything satirical
Subject: Math and physical sciences
Movies: most musicals, ancient B movies, anything with blood and battles, most sci-fi
TV Shows: Star Trek, Doctor Who, Criminal Minds, Numb3rs, The Big Bang Theory, Ugly Betty [but I only watch it for Marc]
Composer: Chopin and Beethoven
Hobbies Etc.:
*I play piano. <3 Chopin
*I draw but not well
*I waste time on teh internets
*I read. A freakish lot
*I just realized that I do basically nothing…
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Shadow Gallery | December 25, 2007 at 6:42 pm
I am graffiti.
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Vendaval (Conrad) | December 26, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Recently I’ve fallen in love with the art work/graffiti of Banksy and Swoon and the rest. Check out Graffiti Research Lab or Banksy’s website.
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Shadow Gallery | December 27, 2007 at 8:13 am
65– Cool, thanks.
You know, the more I think about it, the more it seems like I should get a gallery started on Deviant Art.
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Megan- VF | December 27, 2007 at 8:46 am
63- w00t numb3rs!
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penguini | December 30, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Lessee…
I’m Karen and I go to the same high school and am in the same marching band as Annie. I play clarinet. I’m mostly average though I have a tendency to to weird things when I’m bored. I don’t talk much. I have two sweatshirts. I wear the maroon one all the time and the black one when the maroon one is in the laundry. I have an Indiana Jones-ish hat and I got a dark gray driving cap for Christmas. My hair has a blond-ish strip down the middle left over from the dying my hair blue fiasco. I fence: badly. I’m not emo. I don’t wear my glasses. Uh, just ask me, I don’t know who I am…
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Fortune Cell | December 30, 2007 at 4:01 pm
68- Hiiii penguini.
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penguini | December 30, 2007 at 4:03 pm
This is technically no a double post.
I’ll respond if people call by a name. I might respond if you talk in my general direction.
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Potato Chip (Kelly) | December 30, 2007 at 6:38 pm
68- *cough* I go to your high school too! um, sort of… not really I guess…
I do weird things too. And then I feel all awkward when people stare. And then I get really shy…
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Dodecahedron | December 30, 2007 at 7:05 pm
68- Sometimes your hair’s greenish… and the music you listen to is so emo, even if you aren’t. And I challenge the description of you as “average.”
um… *obligatory random fact about self*
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Fortune Cell | January 1, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I need to get the fuchsia out of my hair.
NOW
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Pan | January 2, 2008 at 3:12 am
How do people get those linky things for their names? Oh, I see. Let me try. ::tries::
And now for one of these things. How fun.
Name: Clara
Age: Twelve and 12/6
Height: 5’4″ and I went to the doctor last month. Pleasant woman, she is. ::cough::
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Red
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Heritage: Erm, I’m not going to do the whole fraction thing, but a lot Polish, a little less Dutch, and a teensy bit German and Scotch-Irish.
Favourite:
Colour: Blue and purple. Any colour, though. I like all colours.
Music: Classical, folk, soundtracks and such.
Lit: Anything that someone recommends, basically.
Subject: Social Studies and Science
Movies: I have no idea, actually. If I watch it and don’t like it, I don’t watch it again. I have Monty Python &THG and The Princess Bride and LOTR memorized.
TV Shows: Star Trek, Friends. But I’ve never seen a TV show on real TV. Yes, welcome to my life of geekdom.
Composer: Debussy and Chopin.
Hobbies Etc.:
-Um. Hmm.
-I play piano
-I go to a creative and performing art high school and my major is writing
-I like circusy things like juggling and unicycling
-I really don’t know how to answer these things
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Vendaval (Conrad) | January 2, 2008 at 8:18 am
Sail Number: 80519
Sunfish Fleet Number: 568
I’ve got three pairs of glasses, a black pair, a red pair, and a frame-less. I’ll change them up at any moment, and I like to use hyphens because the English language doesn’t give any rules about them. I’m MB gen 12.
I’m glad this place exists because I feel lost on the MB. I don’t really know all of you that well, and it seems the only way to feel the pulse of the MB is to post constantly so you don’t drown in the noise. It’s a great place, as we all know, but It’s like a planet compared to the small town of FMB.
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Fortune Cell | January 2, 2008 at 1:19 pm
I guess I’ll add onto my previous one.
I am a generation 6er on the MB.
I like video games, books, tv, movies (though I often don’t have patience for them)…
I’m currently watching some 15 minute cartoon show about a drunkard crow.”I’m gonna marry a mermaid!”
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ebeth | January 2, 2008 at 2:49 pm
might as well do this the right way…
Name: Ebeth
Age: 16
Height: 5′4″
Eyes: brown
Hair: brown
Location: central ohio (kill me now)
Heritage: half brit, quarter scottish and/or irish (we can’t really figure out which bit is which, so we just throw them together) and some french-canadian
Favourite:
Colour: BLUE!
Music: Anything good. Mostly classic rock, folk metal, funk, and jazz
Lit: Anything good. classics are fun, and there’s terry pratchett, neil gaiman, douglas adams, etc. I like historical fiction and biographies too
Subject: english, history, or band, depending on the teacher/year
Movies: Good ones? rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, monty python (anything from them is good), princess bride, POTC (the first one), Lotr (all of them), etc.
TV Shows: I don’t actually watch tv…sometimes i watch south park or family guy online. star trek’s good, but i’ve only seen the really really old ones that my dad taped
Composer: like, classical? or anything? well classically probably vivaldi, copland (yes, just for fanfare for the common man, i admit it), mebbe beethoven…
Hobbies Etc.:
-I play music. a lot. trumpet, piano, violin, bass guitar.
-I read. a lot.
-I’m on the newspaper staff, the torch. we win awards and things. other people find this impressive. we know that it is done obnoxiously with copious amounts of popcorn, and are slightly less impressed with ourselves.
-I’m in jazz band. We meet three times a week. other people find this impressive. we know that much of that time is spent making jesus jokes, assuring jon that “no, it is not a black thing” (even though it definitely is), and talking about guitar hero and how to best rip movies. (high tower has sweeney todd on his ipod. SO jealous. he won’t give it to me though. jerk.)
-I’m in JSA. this is a debate group for geeks. other people find this impressive. it actually is. we’re pretty damn sweet. feel free to be awed.
-I listen to music. Constantly. Even though ipods are technically banned at school. there are simple ways to get around this though. for example, i saw smallwood (what a name…) in the hallway today. the conversation went like this:
S: Take out your earphones.
Me: What?
S: Take out your earphones.
Me: What?
S: TAKE OUT YOUR EARPHONES
(I take one earphone out)
Me: What?
S: Exactly
Me: I can’t hear you, but i have to go to class now.
(I leave, putting the other earphone back in)
of course i heard him perfectly, but the teachers all assume that as soon as your earphones go in, you are completely lost as far as hearing goes.
-I listen to all kinds of music. ALL kinds. my friends frequently take my ipod and put it on shuffle. i will recreate the situation now, with my ipod. the first five songs are…her strut by bob seger, episode 24 of h2g2 by douglas adams (the radio show…thank you whoever that was (c+q?)), another brick in the wall, by pink floyd, the spiderman theme song sung by TMBG (i have tenacious d doing that one too, though slightly differently), and armida, which is apparently part of an opera by hadyn.
-I frequently start tapdancing in crowded areas purely for the entertainment (of embarrassing my friends, that is. Splendid reactions i get sometimes…) I have no idea how exactly to tapdance, and am probably atrocious at it.
-I talk to random people online. All of you, for example, but also freaks who IM me. you know the type, the pedophiles and the cops and the bored middle schoolers who got your sn somehow…well, instead of blocking them right away like any sane person (who needs sanity anyway?), i spend an enjoyable fifteen minutes messing with their heads. What fun. And sometimes i meet cool people who were really just majorly bored. It’s always interesting.
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Pan | January 2, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Oh yeah. I wear bronze-ish-brown-ish wire-rimmed glasses, I’m a former braces-wearer, I sail obsessively during the summer (pretty much all the time), and a Generation 5 MBer. The story of my life.
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schoonLee | January 2, 2008 at 9:03 pm
54 well if we’re going to go all out… lol.
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kricket | January 4, 2008 at 6:50 pm
About the generations… I think I was one or two… probably two… not sure that it really matters, now that I think about it.
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Pan | January 4, 2008 at 7:47 pm
kricket–you’re Gen. 2 (I just checked). According to Monty’s generations.
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Lady Montague | January 4, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Is she really Gen. 2? I was a Gen 1 I think, and she came like two days after me. Ah, well. The graphs don’t lie.
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ebeth | January 4, 2008 at 8:50 pm
82-you came exactly a month after i did i think…or around a month anyway. but generations were a lot longer back then…anyway, you were prolly the end-ish of gen. 1 and kricket the very beginning of gen. 2. or something. i haven’t actually looked at the graphs recently.
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oxlin (e~a) | January 4, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Generation Zero.
85.
Pan | January 5, 2008 at 6:17 am
I’m generation 5 – I think I was one of the first Gen-5ers, and one of the only ones to stay.
86.
S&Mel | January 5, 2008 at 7:53 am
85- *Gen 5 party*
87.
Megan- VF | January 5, 2008 at 11:19 am
i think i was gen 5 too. maybe. i cant really remember though. before the floods when it was nice and small.
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S&Mel | January 6, 2008 at 8:31 am
You were probably that or Gen 4… I know you were there before I was [Mar. 2006]…Hmm…
I don’t really think of people in that way, though. Someone could have been on the blog the entire time, but if (s)he had a really low maturity level, I’d probably consider her/him a newbie…
Also, oooo glasses. I have two pairs. One pair is a few years old but I think the prescription is still more or less alright. They have thick, black, square frames. Don’t worry, I got them before the emo craze hit. The other only have frames on the top, which are thin and black. The things on the sides are deep blue.
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Potato Chip (Kelly) | January 6, 2008 at 6:29 pm
I don’t know what generation I am… December 06.
My glasses are brown plastic frames with a blue tint to them. That’s not a very good description, but oh well.
My old ones which I think still work are shiny brown metal.
90.
penguini | January 8, 2008 at 4:35 pm
The glasses I should be wearing are purple on the outside and coral patterned onthe inside.
Oh, Annie? Did you listen to that music I sent you? I am not emo.
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kricket | January 9, 2008 at 3:20 pm
My glasses are wire with brown things on the side. However, I wear contacts so… yeah. Some days I’ll just not care and leave my contacts out in favor of glasses. I wore them to school once and my german partner, M, was just like, “WHOA! Those are thick!” Yup. My family has a history of bad eyes. My dad got the laser eye surgery thingy, but before that, he was legally blind.
92.
ebeth | January 9, 2008 at 4:48 pm
i have blue glasses! and also contacts. and i have my old glasses, which are the same prescription but a little too small for my face. i can still wear them in an emergency though
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Alison | January 9, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Pan-
Off-topic, I know, but is your name based on something? ‘Cause my mind immediately jumped to the name of Lyra’s daemon in The Golden Compass, but perhaps you were thinking of the cooking apparatus? I’m curious, and it’s been bugging me today. =P
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Jadestone | January 9, 2008 at 5:17 pm
93- I think it’s just short for Purple Panda… unless there’s a meaning I didn’t know about as well.
My glasses are roundish on top but kind of half-hexagons on bottoms. A bit like stretched-out muffins. Brownish gold wire frames, with tiger strips on the inside part that goes over your ears.
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S&Mel | January 13, 2008 at 5:34 pm
93, 94- Yeah, I thought it was Panda, too…
Random other fact: I’m a vegan. How many other people here are veg(etari)ans?
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Fortune Cell | January 13, 2008 at 6:06 pm
95- I’m pescetarian, but I generally don’t eat that much fish. Just sushi from time to time and when the vegetarian option is dis-gus-ting here at school. At home, it’s normally what my mom serves as a compromise.
97.
Pan | January 13, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Alison (93): My name on MuseBlog is “Purple Panda” and Pan originally stemmed off that, but after people started calling me Pan, I began noticing things about the name. Pan from TGC, of course, and I also used to be quite obsessed with Peter Pan.
98.
Alison | January 14, 2008 at 3:07 pm
97- I see.
Obviously, I should have joined the MB sooner. There’s so many people that everyone seems to know already.
99.
kricket | January 14, 2008 at 5:12 pm
97- Peter and the Starcatchers and the rest of the trilogy is amaaaaaaaazing!!!!!!
98- Yes. You should have.
That’s okay though. We forgive you. 
100.
Pan | January 14, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Alison (98): I’ve been on MuseBlog for almost 2 years, so I know most everyone…but you’ll get to know people soon enough.
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ebeth | January 15, 2008 at 4:27 am
heh. i’ve been on MB for 2yrs and…4 (?) months (it’s early…i can’t count this early…) and i don’t know half the people on there. Mostly because of name changes, which really piss me off (not on here, because i’ll actually see the post where you announce it, but on MB it’s hell) and my perpetual lurking habits these days.
102.
S&Mel | January 15, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Oh, wow, yeah… nearly 2 years. Wow, that’s a lot O_O
103.
Jadestone | January 15, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Same, 2 years in feb, and the name changes are indeed hard to follow… I think someone’s lost and I get sad about it, then 4 months later I find out they changed names and are still there but I don’t really talk to them on the blog as much.
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S&Mel | January 15, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Yeah. That always confuses me so much!
I’ve always been a variation of Sweet Melpomene. Except when I was Morpheus on the Girl/Boy Power threads. And I started as frankenfaerie but that was only the first month.
But, basically, Mel, SM, etc.
105.
oxlin (e~a) | January 15, 2008 at 2:41 pm
I’ve usually been e~a or some form of such until I became oxlin. but, really, Oxlin just suits me better. It doesn’t sound as pseudo elvish as ‘elasse adael’. it is both formal and informal, short but nicknameable (ox, lin, linnie, oxie, whatever) and plus it sounds pretty. It isn’t the name of much else (apparently a city or town on an island and a small email service) and… I like it.
I’ve been around since Dec ’03 or so on the Gaboomba. Which is… a while.
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S&Mel | January 16, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Hmm… it’s weird how I’ve not met any of you in person yet still consider many of you to be very close friends.
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Fortune Cell | January 16, 2008 at 7:00 pm
106- well that DEFINITELY is one-sided.
108.
S&Mel | January 17, 2008 at 4:03 pm
-_-
109.
kricket | January 17, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I’ve been around since October 2005.
And I’ve basically been kricket since the beginning except for a few name changes that were not entirely my fault. (I blame my sister.)
106, 107, 108-
haha
110.
The Skipper Nancy | January 17, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Phew. I promised myself I wouldn’t post here until I had read the entire thread… and now I have I don’t remember all the things I was going to say, but I’ll just jump in I guess. It’s freakish how many things I have in common with people here.
Various things about me related to the MB:
I first posted as Trillian of Rhodes, but only for a few weeks
I’ve been around since… March 2006, I think.
The Poetry thread is my favorite.
Oh yeah. That picture that appeared in the magazine a while back on the letters page of someone holding up a “PWT PWNS” sign on the Today Show… that was me.
Various things about me in Real Life:
I live in Arizona, 60 miles north of Mexico.
I like sunsets and watching the mountains.
My name is Sally.
Hobbies:
Making things, like earings and clothes and bags
Painting
Drawing
Piano
Bass Clarinet
Books
Poetry
School/club related things:
My favorite classes are algrebra 2 trig (despite seeming all artsy, I really like math), ap european history and english.
I just started a poetry class that I like as well.
I’m in band. We’re the biggest high school band in Arizona. This summer we’re going to China to play at the pre-Olympic celebrations. Despite that, we’re really not that amazing…
(at least I’m not).
I’m in Students Taking Action Now, Darfur. It stresses me out a lot.
I take French privately.
Music:
I’m listening to Clair De Lune right now. I like many different musics. I don’t want to list it all.
TV:
Dr. Who
Star trek (the really old school ones)
Spanish telenovelas
The Simpsons
Books is way too big a category to cover
Other people/places/things that please me:
Banksy
Edward Gorey
Bob Ross
my treehouse
111.
The Skipper Nancy | January 17, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Oh yeah. And it’s my birthday January 30. I’ll be 16.
Sorry for the double post, but vous know I wouldn’t do it if weren’t of vital importance.
112.
S&Mel | January 18, 2008 at 12:20 pm
…So you were born on the same day and year as my sister. Sadly she isn’t Muser-cool.
I’ll be 18 on the 18th of Sept. this year!
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Jadestone | January 19, 2008 at 6:46 am
Skipper- China?? And You did New York two years ago. Man I am so jealous of you right now. Our band is littlelittlelittle. It’s basically halved in size every year I’ve been in band…
5th grade- 2 bands, about a hundred each
6th- One band of about a hundred
7th&8th- combined both grades, a hundred total
9th- HS band, all 4 grades added up to about a little over one hundred. First year without Wind Ensemble and concert band.
10th- About 60 or seventy people. Ahg.
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Bird of Purple | January 20, 2008 at 9:16 am
110-You have a tree house? Wow… *worships*
I started as purplefinch, and then changed a couple times in the beginning, but (in the end) just kept with my original name.
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Dodecahedron | January 22, 2008 at 9:43 pm
90- Ok, like half of it is just kind of random stuff. And the Frank Zappa… that’s kind of freaky. I still maintain that Linkin Park is kind of emo, more so on some songs than others. Although I admit that I am currently listening to it and it’s pretty good. And you hang out with emo people.
110- China!?! I… you… that is so cool and I am extremely jealous.
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The Skipper Nancy | February 14, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Yeah, China! It’s pretty intense. We have to attend preparatory cultural meetings where they tell us stuff like what not to wear and what not to eat and such. The reason we get to do this stuff is because my band director is MAD. MAD MAD MAD, meaning INSANE. But brilliant, too.
There are I think 230 kids in my band (it’s split into 4 separate levels though) but only 120 or so are going to China. It’s not a very selective system…basically anyone who wants to be in band can be, though you have to audition for the upper levels.
(113) Sometimes I wish we had a small band. I mean it’s nice but the massiveness can be a disadvantage and there are lots of people there who don’t really care or work hard.
(114) Ja, ’tis intense. My friend and I painted it last year with this really cool mural. The roof (there are no walls but there is a roof on posts) is divide into 4 triangles and each triangle is painted like a different time of day…sunrise, daytime, sunset, nighttime. Each post has a theme too. One is a city, one is a tree, one is the ocean and one is the sky. Over winter break I made a curtain out of beads to hang in it.
I only wish I spent more time in it….
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Pentay | February 14, 2008 at 10:15 pm
115 (Dodecahedron)- Hey, Zappa’s good stuff.
110 (Skipper)- CHINA. MOTHERLAND! Pff, you’re quite lucky to be going there for the Olympics; they’ll have improved the bathrooms immensely over the time since I last went there. They were gross. You ought to have loads of fun there. Your band director sounds insane, though. In a good way.
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Pan | February 15, 2008 at 3:03 am
Wow, those are GIGANTIC bands! My K-12 school had 250 people in the entire School!
And China sounds amazing.
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The Skipper Nancy | February 15, 2008 at 9:19 pm
(117 Pentay)
I hope so
(118 Pan) Huwoah. Only 250 kids for a k-12? That’s around 20 kids per grade! Jeez. I’ve never gone to a small school. What’s it like?
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glasseh (DEATH) | February 16, 2008 at 8:24 am
119- Small schools are win. I’ve got about 120 in k-8, 48 in 6-8. It’s really nice, you get to actually know pretty much everyone. And it’s surprisingly easy to avoid people who you don’t like.
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Pan | February 16, 2008 at 11:24 am
Skipper – it was nice, there were only 19 people in my grade and we only had about 8-9 people per class, so it was really easy to learn, etc.
My high school has about 500 students but our grade is the smallest, with only about 100 students. I’m in honors classes, so each class is even smaller, with 10-15 students per class. It’s awesome!
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Jadestone | February 16, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Woah. Of course our english class now has around 12 people because a bunch got switched to first period, where there are 30
Mm, my schools moderate in numbers though.
Tops for Skipper on China- Cross streets in groups, the larger the better (not likely to be a problem for you there); the people in the street yelling ‘ROLEX!’ do not actually sell rolexes (on venders, they will physically grab you to get you to look at something O.o) and peanuts are fun to eat with chopsticks. Yes. *nodnod*
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S&Mel | February 16, 2008 at 5:31 pm
121- Oh, nice! I’m in two of the smallest classes in the school: Honors Engineering II, which has 9 people, and AP English, which has 10. Well, our section anyway. The other AP English class has at least 20… And AP Chem has only 10 people, but I took that last year…
My school’s huge, at least 3,000 people. Which is bigger or as big as the undergrad population of basically every college I’m applying to… Ah well. It seems less crowded this year, because there’s now a separate building for the freshmen.
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dark duke of darkness | February 17, 2008 at 11:13 am
123…wow. my school is about 120 people per grade, 10-2o per class. really, i like it that way. (its only 9-12, but its like an early college thing, so 11and 12 are all college courses. . . its complicated.)
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S&Mel | February 18, 2008 at 11:10 am
124- Woah. Cool, though, about the college courses. Yeah, the 9th grade starts out at over 1000 people, and 10th has a bit less… people drop out a lot here. My (12th) grade only has about 700 people…
126.
dark duke of darkness | February 18, 2008 at 1:29 pm
125-yeah, it really is. i <3 my school.
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Kagcomix | December 21, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Are you kidding me? This place is nothing like MB in it’s early days.
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Fortune Cell | December 27, 2008 at 8:58 pm
127- Wait Kag, wth? I checked, and you are a Gen 11er….meaning early ’07. How would you even know what early MB would be like?
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Vendaval | December 28, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Well, Kagcomix could’ve read the old threads. That isn’t like being there, but it’s still something. The two of you could also be talking about different things; Kagy might be referring to the less restricted atmosphere , instead of the sense of community, which you’re probably talking about.
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Kagcomix | December 28, 2008 at 3:06 pm
128- I have read most of the old threads from the very beginning of MB. The atmosphere and feeling of FMB are different than that of earlt MB. I wouldn’t have made that coment if I hadn’t read the old threads.
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Beavo | December 28, 2008 at 9:56 pm
I’ve read lots of the old threads too, and although I think I’m a Gen 9er I kind of get what Kagy is saying. This place isn’t really like old MB with the atmosphere of GAPAs editing out all the sex and links and whatever the FMB talks about, but this is more like it because there aren’t as many PoPos and boring crap that nobody wants to hear about. Like Twilight.
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Mel | December 29, 2008 at 12:08 am
Ehh, we do stay on topic. It just isn’t quite as restrained, y’know. I mean, most of the people on the MB would be described as, well, some kinda socially awkward. We had to PG-down anything, insert our own zaps, and be polite. Mostly, we had to think our posts out and consider the others…to stay on-topic. I think that’s come back here.
Yet, we could say, accurately, that it is a “fresher” version of ye olde MB. If you could forgive the pun…take that as you will ;D
We did have a Muser Profiles thread, but I think that was later on, yes?
It’s smaller here, too. You’d have to wait a week to get a good deal of posts on anything. Not like when you come back a day later to find upwards of twenty.
I think we could probably bring up sex in the RRR thread. I mean, it’s a more appropriate topic than Twilight, yes? So long as we handled it maturely, eloquently, and certainly not in a “Penis goes where?” or “How is babby formed?” way. Or more Religions-Thread-flamewars. Sigh.
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groundhog22 | December 29, 2008 at 9:50 pm
131 – I second the motion about twilight.
Are we still doing the “introduce yourself” bit here?
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Fortune Cell | December 30, 2008 at 12:33 am
No, we’re not completely like MB in the days of yore, but, in some ways, we’re close.
I like that we’re a group of people who, for the most part, know each other somewhat well. We don’t half to self-censor at risk of being censored by the GAPAs. These are the differences that mean the most to me.
133- Yeppers.
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Beavo | December 30, 2008 at 6:15 pm
I think it’s really cool that you guys all got to be really good friends before MB became a place where people [like me
] flooded it with insignificant chatter. I wish I’d been there for that. I missed it by a couple months. 
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glasseh (DEATH) | December 31, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I actually jumped on after the D.C. Kokonvention via AIM. But the older MB was good for forming friendships, if you were old/mature enough to take advantage of it. :/
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Lizzie | December 31, 2008 at 3:52 pm
you know, in the ancient MB, meaning the gaboomba, Robert actually would _add_ links to posts…
just pointing that out