HELLO KITTY

[Dobbs]

whew sweatdrop

however,

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schadenfreud has struck me just a little (thank you david spade)

margret, i have a question and I need you to answer truthfully (even if it's idk)

why is it me  

[Aeaea]

Why's what you?  

[Dobbs]

target of scream

well I guess I do ask for it from time to time, but you'd have to be pretty dumb to think like some of these people I think
not to say I think my posts are in any way perfect, but g wiz

I really wish I had something better to do than gw  

[Aeaea]

The part where I actually answer your question instead of going off on tangents is underlined for convenience.

I've only seen two instances of scream and that was VB who was already pretty pissed and Impeal who's... himself.

post a (acquired taste): pretty difficult to interpret as anything other than 'well some people like it some people don't maybe you will in time', which is the case with pretty much anything in that style

post b (explanation): i'm quite flattered that he decided to defend my honor (w/e????? is that all you think of me?????) or whatever the hell he did (w/e? pseudointellectual tweedies won't love you if you resort to acronyms :sneer:) considering a) it wasn't offensive: i don't even remember how many Ss and Ns are in my name and b) the rest of the post that he decided to jump on (DANIMALS?!?!?!) and blow out of proportion was pretty simply stating 'hey those danimals commercials are pretty dumb who comes up with this stuff'

maybe it's your phraseology that makes impeal RRRGH SO ANGRY but other than that idk sorry!

man oh man i've got a national competition to win in a week (probably not going to happen BUT IF IT DOES i get a thousand bucks) and a german trip in two and all i can think of is will i get to outlands today???

i don't know when i stopped caring about anything but that soul-sucking facsimile of life (when you are a marauding gnome warrior) but i think that given a choice between a level 60 with terrible gear and a life that is somewhat purposeful i might (conceivably) go with the life  

[Dobbs]

yeah i guess, more often unwarrented scream than other people maybe. also i think you missed the part where VB started to attack me in there as well (he deleted his posts because they were terrible)

now that I read the posts again from a removed view, Impeal does just kind of make himself look pretty bad there. ah well his fault

i am sorry margret, i will spell out whatever next time i just wanted to look like a hot shot badass (i had actually only just remembered you changed your name and pulled that out from somewhere in the back of my mind, I'm surprised I got it right)

and yeah come on, how can someone watch a house party where only kidz are invited and there's a kool panther DJ with his hat backwards n they're all dancing and drinking danimals teen series yogurt and think "hey i want a party like that i better go buy some danimals" giwiz

the german trip should be very good! do you know who your tour guides are i am sure you have heard about ours. also i don't know what a national competition is but good luck! actually I don't think I really thought of the german trip until it was happening, and I didn't really feel excited at all until pretty much afterwards (very little sleep)

idk but I hear quite often that is what it does to you; i would suggest going with life but I understand how difficult a choice this can be  

[Dobbs]

ok, im going to have to create like 15 more accounts if this keeps up

no one is good at anything anymore, maybe hundley and a few others but they never post

not like im one to judge but sheesh its hard enough doing this alone

(random babble, just--ignore) it's like 0 am im tired ok bye

ps margretttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt  

[Aeaea]

eh, probably about the same. and yeah, i only caught the part where he went "ohhh i get it".

anyway w/e, w/e, i'm cool with it. i'm hip to the jive of the acronymically inclined. fun fact: my new name is the last six letters of mayonnaise backwards (but sounds much fancier)

i haven't seen a danimals commercial in a while (sign of their decline?), but it's probably one of those cases (triiiix!) where the technicolor packaging and bangin dance party commercials drum "quality... kids will love this" into the minds of the mothers buying the yogurt.

it was supposed to be that simon person again, but he got massively ill and now it's florian, a globetrotting polyglot and also a girl and frau doesn't know anything else. it should be pretty awesome, just some panxiety (oh dear) and i have no idea who i'll be hanging out with. as for the competition, it's WorldQuest (tm), mr small's darling and something i've never drummed up much enthusiasm for. we won the regional part and now we get paid $35/diem (+ free hotel rooms, some free meals, and maybe entertainment of some kind) to go to DC and compete in the national bit. it seems like it'll be fun in a ridiculous way, and the team is pretty fun anyway.



ghhhh hey mark just got the internet back after two days (modem died)

ps got into dickinson with mad aid cool  

[Dobbs]

but what did he get. (nothing)

i did not realize that/i was somewhat confused by the lack of an M-name (aeaaea is the only other i have encountered)

yeah, they pretty much disappeared, but they were my main reason for thinking of it. also uncrustables (some use), cool cuts, probably etc

simon's pretty cool, but Mark's the one who would sing in urdu (actually pretty cool since it was him; it was very plainly presented and not hey look at me), and I have to say they made a great team together. yeah it'll be pretty great, just watch out for Tom (also globetrotter but brags about it & wears a leather travel vest, fat). if the one hippie couple (can't remember their last name, but the wife is friends with frau and a sub at oley) goes along, they're pretty cool and nice. I don't think it will be much of a problem, I mean even though NO ONE WALKS ALONE my sister walked alone pretty much, got stalked by a turkish guy in Dresden for a bit but that's ok. it's a pretty great trip but most of the fun is in reminiscing IMO

pf who's mark (this is kinda weird for me)
not being impatient just margretttttttttttttt

well have fun going to STARBUCKS COLLEGE
but really it looks kinda cool i never heard of it (i haven't really looked at colleges yet))))) I like the idea of world engagement though too bad im actually thinking of being an architect now  

[Dobbs]

bye margret  

[Aeaea]

I just got back about eight hours ago. It was pretty awesome, although I didn't get to take many pictures. Also which city was Mark? Also yeah I don't think anyone actually likes Tom, but pretty much everyone liked the Redmonds.

Some short things (will probably get ridiculously long):
-planes are kind of like roller coasters but slightly easier to sleep on (someone threw up twice in one ride, cool)
-for a girl florian is definitely a dude
-oh my goddddd every building is awesome in prague until you get to the huge neon sign for levi's
-pot is legal?
-regensburg seems like it is supposed to be a charming little hamlet of a city which is a little annoying
-leap activities suck
-everyone hated my roommate, but she was ok when she wasn't with her friends
-some buildings have a palpable amount of s**t behind them and it really pisses me off when people talk about anything or take pictures of anything other than the building
-everyone in my family crashes on the same day
-the life cycle of two stars looks a lot like pacman
-if you get a blister looking for shoes that are supposed to never give you a blister ever, is it worth it?
-and if you get a blister and ridiculous chafing when wearing those shoes, should you go to the only supermarket in liechtenstein to buy stockings and bandaids instead of walking around and finding awesome statues?
-people seem really angry or really mellow in switzerland
-lucerne has delicious pretzel sandwiches and streets full of awesome tent sales and very cheap and very good chocolate
-dannon is danone in france
-how the hell did i spend like $200 in ten days but everyone else spent $500 min.
-i made some friends and i just woke up at 3 AM and thought i was in my hotel room

waitlisted at williams (??) and got the big thumbs down from amherst, not terribly surprised  

[Dobbs]

good to hear exclaim

oh Mark was simon's partner, he was along for the whole time

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-true. probably my favorite city for sightseeing even though it was really cold, bad hotel, citizens are jerks
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-yeah, I think that's why my mom liked it the most
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-yeah I know what you mean
ok I'm just going to stop the - now

danone`males

yeah I barely spent anything either but then again I did pass up those 100 euro shades

also I would like to see lucerne.  

[Aeaea]

2 Sad 2 Schuhplattler

Oh, I didn't know they worked in pairs ever. Also while Florian was a pretty enjoyable guide (he does improv and seemed to enjoy having a group that didn't have a collective hangover/anger problem the whole time), Simon probably would have been better. I'm basing this entirely off of his not doing LEAP activities. Basically they are mostly lame worksheets that involve us doing scavenger hunts through the city or pretending to be famous people or somehow combining popular American TV shows with historical events. We had to write love poems, too. Apart from that, everyone seemed to like Florian.

I guess I'll go through city by city. (I'm not sure how else I would do it, but ---.) walls of text, it's ok if you don't read it all because it's pretty boring.

Prague: had some of the best food, and definitely the best hotel, but we were only there for two nights. The free day was half a day, we went on the walking tour when we were dead, and I wasn't really used to anything one day into the trip.The group I attached myself to was more interested in shopping at H&M and various other stores that are in the US and souvenir shops than in seeing the city or even buying things the country's famous for. We did get some awesome ice cream (because we passed Frau on the way to Häagen-Dazs and she stared us into a much better place) and I did get the mole doll I was supposed to get for a friend. In general I was ambivalent about it, but I really liked the city, I just made some crappy choices and wasted a lot of the short time we had. And yeah, it seemed like a lot of people were rude (grabbing things out of hands, slamming hard and not apologizing, and in one strange case I bumped into a guy and apologized and he said "you'd better watch yourself"), but I'm not sure if it's a tourists /spit thing or just what they do.

Regensburg: was on a Friday, which wasn't all that bad. I went with basically the same group but there weren't really any major stores to shop at, so we walked around more. We saw an apparently famous boys' choir at the Dom, and I bought a kilogram of gummy candy in German without the store owner switching to English (which made me really happy for some reason). It was an ok city. People didn't pop out of doorways in olde tyme clothing and start singing or anything. It was also the only place we went to where everyone spoke something close to the German we've been taught.

Munich: was pretty cool. The food was all really good, although everything they served the first night had chicken in it, -dessert. (When the tour guide asks if you're a vegetarian, are you supposed to say "sometimes"?) Going up the Olympiaturm with thirty people in one elevator made it more interesting, and the small rock & roll museum bits we saw were pretty hardcore. That was a good night. The next day was Hitler day (with slight Bavarian historical moments for background). The tour was interesting and vivid, anyway, and we got to see Nazi architecture. The afternoon was spent at Dachau, mostly, and I think everyone found it moving. Florian didn't stick a LEAP activity in during the bus ride back, which was the only time he didn't. The next day was Salzburg and the salt mines. The mines were really fun (I got to wear a hat), but

Salzburg: was maybe my favorite city on the trip. The layout was good, most of the areas we were in were pedestrian-only, and the lunch (and coffee, and cake) was amazing. We went on a walking tour, most of which was running past large historical buildings and maybe taking pictures of them, saw a (reaaally nice) graveyard and some sort of building inside the mountain, walked through some very large garden with a name, and a few people bought the ridiculously large pretzels that they had for 4 euros. Someone gave me a pamphlet about how Jesus/prayer/radiation helped someone survive cancer. It was the most fun I'd had on the trip so far, and also the first day I hung out with a new group that I actually enjoyed. (related???)

Munich again: the third day in Munich was our free day, and I went around with the people who probably wouldn't drag me around to look at purses and shirts. Our plan was to go to the Deutsches Museum in the morning, head towards Marienplatz for lunch, and look for gifts and specific things until we had to meet back at Marienplatz for a LEAP scavenger hunt. And nothing horrible happened (like the Deutsches Museum admission being €8), so we did. The Deutsches Museum ended up being fantastic--there are somewhat thematic benches, and weird flying machines, and a ship called the Renzo, and origami which is pretty impossible in German, and a foot massager to help you get through the whole thing--and we ate lunch on the pope memorial. Then it took us about three hours of walking to find a store that sold a decent selection of Birkenstocks, by which time our group had split. I wandered around by myself for a while, but I didn't have money or any sense of direction if I wandered out of the Marienplatz area, so I just walked across the square for another two hours. The scavenger hunt was (predictably) not that great. Afterwards we went to the Hofbrauhaus. Three of us went up on stage for Schuhplattlering, sawing wood, and ringing a bell, and the dancing line started at our table. At one point during the dance a girl poked me and said "look like you're having more fun." Great night, good food, and the last night in Munich. Our hotel rooms were tiny little grandmothers' houses: floral printed, that vanity, an old TV, weird chicken art, and a slight smell of cigarettes. The view was nice.

Vaduz: has ok stockings. Other than that, there seemed to be interesting statues pretty much everywhere.

Lucerne: has a load of bridges. The hotel room was the worst yet (really tiny, the view from the one window was of The Bar across the street, the one painting in the room was upside down), but it was a triple instead of a double and my roommates were good. The food was ok. The first night we were split into groups of sixish and given specific tasks, which we performed the following day during the walking tour. The two interesting ones were a song with guitar and harmonica accompaniment and a William Tell skit with working crossbow. We went to the Gletschergarten and the hall of mirrors, as well. It was cloudy, so the afternoon was free, and there were tents set up around Schwanenplatz that day so my group just wandered around those for a while. That night most of the people went to a disco, and the rest of us stayed in and played cards or whatever. The second day was free, too, but we just shopped until it was time to meet for maybe Pilatus. I bought a load of chocolate and some shirts to use up some money and get things for my siblings. No Pilatus again, so we went on a boat ride of the lake and then back to the hotel to play cards and back before dinner. We had a short meeting in the basement of the hotel (really terrible-- sort of like a bad dance room, with a ceiling made of light tiles that continuously changed color, and the seat I was in was made of Astroturf) before going to the Stadtkeller, which was like the Hofbrauhaus with less fun and more flag-twirling. There was a really gushy prom proposal over the fondue (the guy dropped eleven pieces of bread in, asked, kisses ensued) and a heated debate over the morality of veal in wiener schnitzel and that was pretty much it. Frau let us go back two hours early.

and that is pretty much it.

it was a good trip. boysboysboys quite a bit, only three people got drunk (and on the first night--because that's a good idea) and not that many people had sex as far as i know, so i guess it was good in that way as well  

[Dobbs]

thank you for writing that all out. I did read it all, it's a very interesting subject

yeah the people in prague were pretty bad, maybe worse around me because I'm male idk. iron curtain etc. still a great city though

saltzburg: on the same street of Mozart's house there is a pretzel shop that sells delicious pastry-like pretzels. I got the mozart pretzel of course

----other reminiscing-----

andjfwpsdd reading this makes me want to go again. let's go to germany soon margret how about it  

[Dobbs]

ps - may i discretely make you officer of student affairs. note that this position comes with 0 obligations/you don't really need to be there at all/i doubt anyone will make the connection

also this is all the information I'm at liberty to give.

if not I'll just have to make it Manaze sans Dwiche or something w/e  

[Aeaea]

Nah I am ok with that.

Also yes I would totally like to go back (once I run out of chocolate and the memories are a bit more solid).

oh dear those pretzel sandwiches in lucerne were so delicious. the setup was similar to a baguette sandwich and that sauce and that salami..

i'm definitely doing at least one semester abroad