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Good to hear your return trip was decent; long, bad trips are never fun. And um, well... kinda productive. I did a tad more cleaning today, lost interest after an hour, then watched some DBZ with my dad. Then Karma wanted to play video games, so we played Zelda all day until evening, then watched James and the Giant Peach just because, and after that she wanted to watch this show where people are trying to become characters in Glee. I hate reality shows, but still preferred it to actually being productive. XD

Ugh, band always sounded way too time-consuming for me. But I know about the budget cuts. I'm worried that my high school art teacher will lose his job; he was the best teacher I ever had.

It seems like most of Christina's topics have interested me, thankfully. And actually, I take it back, there is one other regular writer I really like, John Cheese. He's not really one of the writers that is so prominent he's become a 'character' on the site, but he gets posted at least once a month. At first his stuff seems all depressing and like he's all, "look how much my life sucked, pity me" but the more you actually read into his stuff, it's actually more like he's showing people how to not screw up their own lives, and using his past as an example of what not to do. I think that's really interesting on a comedy website, and his articles are a bit of a breath of fresh air into more serious topics, while still having the occasional bit of humor. His article today really caught my interest; it actually made me pause and question my own habits and thoughts. Haha, but I actually gave up reading Failblog and a lot of other Cheezburger sites, because they just update too much and I can't keep up. Now I just go to Bronies, Pokememes, Super Heroes, Art of Trolling, and Failbook.

Well, I do wish them the best, and that they'll be able to get along. XD I find that as long as anyone in general isn't too vehement or forceful about their beliefs/lifestyles, regardless of what they are, people can get along (at least when not factoring in personalities that don't work together). And England's not really the type of country that flaunts those types of life influences.

Oh, I see. XD And actually, I kinda forgot how Honda ended up telling Kaiba too... *goes to check*

Oh, The L Word, I've seen the first few episodes and wanna watch more. Brings back a memory of me asking a friend if I could borrow her boxsets (I don't know why I ended up not; I think I forgot to take them that night and then forgot to ask again), and her husband said he hated that show. Her husband's also my friend, and he's one of the most open people about sexualities, and was secure enough in his sexuality to even make out with a guy so he could get two girls to make out with their tops off, so I was curious why he didn't like it and asked. He responded that, "You can tell it's written by guys! It's all just make-out and sex scenes with no real character or relationship development!" I burst out laughing and told him he had to give me his man card because I deserved it far more than him. Oooh, fun times. And still procrastinated today. Did another hour's worth of cleaning, then decided it was more 'productive' to work on a drawing for a good portion of time, then helped my mom make dinner, then worked, then did a lot of dicking around on 4Chan. Oh, but I'm glad to hear you've found a place that's worked out!

Hmm, I hardly watched TV in high school... pretty much stopped watching a lot of TV around junior high, and have watched less and less as time went by... so I'm trying to figure out what I did. XD I had a lot of advanced classes, so a lot of homework... that was probably a lot of it... also stayed after school to play children's card games every day. I was on the computer a lot, even though I didn't have my own yet. And yeah, other than that kind of stuff and hanging out with friends, art was still my big focus and what I devoted 'productive' time to.

I think I like Soren more as a 'character,' the cool guy that gets all the ladies and is all perfect compared to the crazy ridiculous other Cracked writers, than I do for his articles. XD I do adore his name though, mostly because it's the English name of my favorite Fire Emblem character. I liked Dating Fails, but I really tried to cut out every blog that wasn't specifically tailored to one of my interests (Bronies, Pokemanz, Superheroes), or just soooo friggin funny I couldn't get rid of it (Trolling, Failbook), so don't go to it anymore. I do also quite love Not Always Right, though I don't update and try to keep up with it regularly; I just go through and read some between roleplay posts when I'm in the mood to some nights. Also do the same with sites like Text from Last Night and F You Auto Correct.

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That's funny because the way you described the show is the total opposite of how my friend described it, and he didn't like it because it was too much of a straight guy show for him. He wanted more development and less sex. XD He's definitely not your average straight guy, though I actually think he's a little bi, like a little to the side of maximum straight on the Kinsey scale. I prefer written (also drawn) porn as well, but definitely get more invested if it has an actual, and good, plot. So that's why I liked The L Word, not so much for the soap opera aspect but because it's hot lesbian action with a plot and characters I can actually feel attached to. XD I was productive today though! I went though and sorted all my computer files on separate hard drives and made a lot of space, and I finished cleaning my room.

I was kinda the opposite, I watched a good amount of TV when I was little because I didn't have video games or computer yet, nor was I developed enough as an artist to do more than doodling yet, and it was too hot to play outside during the summer, so when I wasn't swimming I was watching TV pretty much (or playing with toys, but that got less as I got older). Then I found other things that could hold my time the older I got, so watched less and less TV. TV was always a last resort to me; I just didn't realize it because it was all I had back then. XD

What's DYAC? You know how bad I am at acronyms. XD That's how I felt about It Made My Day on Cheezburger too; it was cute for a while, but it just got always regurgitated and boring. What's My Life is Twilight?

We interrupt this conversation for an on topic post!

Ok, so the charity 5D video...amused me, yet it apologizes for being late. I can no longer remember what we were promised. What was the premise for this thing, and did it live up to that? I need to know why it exists before I can decide how satisfied I am. xd Watching it was already not working on my dissertation so I'm not going to take the time to scroll back to the original charity stuff until after I'm done with the paper, but if someone remembers and just wants to tell me...well yay.

Was very amused with episode 53 though. I am now going to mention a couple of things, so if you haven't watched it...don't read these things.

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THINGS! Ok so I liked the whole touching and Mokuba just being an idiot thing, s'always amusing. I loved Seto running away from potential musical. I liked Yami no Malik only knowing maim type words AND berating himself for this. I totally laughed at the whole 4Kids versus Japan, and again the final end comment on not 4Women. Yes 4Kids you are awful, but you being awful like that allows me abridged lols so I support this. xd Finally, I absolutely adored when Jounouchi sang Seto's wrong Spongebob song. D'aww, they had the same song randomly, teehee! Oh and yea, admiring the tutu photo, that was amusing too.

So yea, glad I decided not to watch that when more writing had occurred, because that was good fun.

Cheers! ^_^

Yea I saw your status post. UCD used to always start on a Wed or Thursday so I don't find that too weird. They eventually shifted it to start on full weeks, in part pushing the start date back to create better vacations (quarter system fails a little on the vacation time - the upside though is our spring break at least was always free time because it was between two separate terms, people on the semester system still had to study and write papers and whatnot). However it would suck to be thrown for a loop for when school starts. Anyhow how did day one go, does this term look like it'll be chaotic and full of difficult and/or busy work, or does it look like it'll be lots of fun and despite the throw-back you are glad to have returned?

Yea, I'm not sure why we had the typewriter, it probably belonged to someone in the family. Our first computer ran Dos. The next one was this magical upgrade to the advanced world of Windows 3.1. I seriously am not THAT old! My friend was running Windows 98 while I was running Windows 3.1 and playing Goblin. I dunno wtf game that is honestly, but it actually was awesome and I miss it. My friend with her Windows 98 actually would come over to play Jeopardy and Family Feud on my ancient computer. I'd go over to her house to use her magical "internet." Hahaha, my family is SO backwards. At least they've mainly caught up now. I suppose I didn't quite have enough diversity of Barbies/dolls to actually have a society either. I think in total I maybe created 3-5 families over the years. Big families because again I really liked Kellys, so I had way more of them than adults. The main family had "triplet" Kellys and triplet babies (that weren't generic Barbies). Also the "mom" in that family became the older sister (because she really was more that age) when I got my first "real" adult female Barbie. There was also one little boy, so that was an 8 child family, something in reality I'd be against because that's WAY too many children, we aren't in a apocalypse here. But I didn't want orphans. I also only had two adult men (actually my brother did, I had to keep stealing them). So I guess it was more neighborhood than society. But as a kid it's not like my mentality fully separated neighborhood and society as two different concepts anyhow. And sure I dressed them up, but there was no way I could be entertained for hours with just playing dress up (on dolls, on myself was another matter).

Hahahaha, yea it's way more morbid and disturbing than the morbid thing you were thinking (that'd be cool though, and probably exists in some sense). But yea they are definitely good for a lol. If you are ever feeling crazy, or sad, or anything you can just go read My Life is Twilight and feel better about yourself.

Ok, I remember he was going to make a video for the auction I just don't remember what the conditions were/how much in put the bidder got. The last video I remember him making for an auction they wrote the plot as well so I was trying to remember if there were other conditions like that. But yea it was a good vid, just trying to remember if there was anything beyond it on it's own that I should remember to create context.

Sadly, as much as I never really liked Spongebob (the character or even the show particularly, though I did watch it more often than just occasionally), I did used to know the entire theme song, and now I realize I don't. This bothers me, so I'm going to have to go re-learn it. That is so sad. xd

Actually I realize it's only the second line I'm screwing up...the one with porous and yellow. I know all the rest. Which beyond just chanting Spongebob and such is pretty much just 3 lines, but still, I know 1, 3 and 4! razz

It didn't really matter what day of the week you started really. I mean most classes were MWF or TR so starting on a Thursday you'd still usually have a day of everything in week one. Unless you were a science major and had say a Wed lab. However if class began on a Thursday in the final week it ended on a Wed so everything balanced out. I didn't mind. After so long on summer it was kind of nice to ease back into school. I'm usually slow about getting back onto a homework schedule so having a weekend after only one day of each class (or two days if it was a language, I think that's the only M-F class I ever had) was generally nice. Anyhow yea, the one year I did summer term (only did the first session though was supposed to do both, but decided not to major in Design which thus gave me the end of summer off) the weather was definitely what made it hell. I was too hot to focus. It luckily wasn't crowded though. It's crowded by Fall, but when you are starting in almost October it's no longer hot at least. So I never had to deal with hot crowds. I do remember having to stand on buses a few times, though I only took the bus if it rained, and even then it had to be raining a lot. Even then if I had enough time I'd still walk before I'd get on a bus (I know you're too far and you don't have that option even if you wanted it). I hate buses. They are gross, and claustrophobic and blech. However they were free, so if I needed to get somewhere I couldn't walk or bike, they were convenient.

I had 3 white Kellys (they were blond) and 2 black ones I think. I'd get the different sets. One of the white ones was the dentist office Kelly. The white ones were the bath tub set one, some sort of food (think it came with a high chair, though I treated Kellys as about 7) one and I think a sleeping one. I can't remember what the second black one was. I think I only had 5. I possibly had more. It's quite likely I had more. I generally just had adults as stand in figures for where all the babies came from, but I rarely played with the adults other than their interaction with the children. So while I can't recall exactly what I thought of in terms of gay/lesbian couples as a kid - I can't recall when I "learned" about all that - I had no interest really in couples period. I played with and imagined with the dolls in situations similar to how I ran my own life. Which is probably why the Kellys were around 7-8, because that was around my age when I started collecting them, and that is why they were my favorite. My Barbie world was very centric to the world as I knew it (thus it focused around the children). The two other "kids" I had that weren't officially Kellys were a blond boy and black girl who came with desks, so I suppose they were some sort of school thing. I think I did kind of prefer the white dolls to the black dolls (though of the 3 babies the one I liked most was the Asian looking one), I think on some level I kind of wanted to be white as a child. And yea I'm the same way, I can use virtual dress simulators a lot longer than actually dressing dolls. I think in part it's the ease things. Barbies and similar type dolls were not well designed for outfit changing. I got so mad at one once that I couldn't get her dress on that I slammed her repeatedly against the table. Her neck broke. I then had to tape her head back on, it constantly fell off, and I resented her for being broken. However I still needed her. xd I swear I wasn't an insane violent child!! ninja

I think the second line is "absorbent and yellow and porous is he" but I'll have to look it up. The first is easily "who lives in a pineapple under the sea"...The third I am fairly certain is "if nautical nonsense be something you wish"...and the fourth I think is "then flop on the desk and plop like a fish" however that line is kind of hard to make out the words in.

Also, I've been meaning to ask anyone. I get a notification everyday telling me I have received a cookie. Clicking on it does nothing. Do you (or anyone else who happens to read this) know what this is, or more importantly, how to make it stop? It's slightly getting on my last nerve but I haven't had the time to go investigate/complain.

There are a few Mon/Wed class, like band was a M/W for me. However most classes that are 2 days a week are an hour and 40 minutes long and 3 day classes are 50 minutes long, save for beginning and usually intermediate year language classes which are 5 days and 50 minutes long (advanced courses reduce to the 3 day 50 minute thing). So yea depending on what your major is you can maybe get TR off, or if you're really lucky, MWF off (most classes are MWF though, it's easier to stack a lot of classes into 50 minute slots than the 1hr40 slots). Like a lot of science courses were TR, but a lot of humanities courses are MWF. There are some nicer things about smaller universities, however the diversity of course options and schedule options were important things to me at the undergrad level, so I wouldn't have wanted to go to a smaller school. You don't get a lot of options in terms of GE and what not, just because the smaller the school, the fewer breadth options they can have.

Oh I did have a Tommy, I remember now. So I had two blond boys, one a Tommy the other a different thing. I named all my dolls as well I think, but I can no longer remember what. I know the 3 babies I had were Liz, Beth and Sara...I don't know why I remember that. I think the blond boy that wasn't a Tommy I had named Jason. That's about all I recall now. I don't think I really thought in that way. Child versus adult. I didn't think of reality in terms of...reality. I had my own world, and it wasn't like the real world, and just in my world I was the child so I personified via children dolls. I didn't not want to grow up, I just didn't think of things in terms of growing up. I had my own world perspective that I don't think I can translate into terms of normal human dynamics. It's weird now, trying to get back into my head as a child, because my world was just...odd. I loved Polly Pockets. I remember being so sad when they made them giant. She is called Polly POCKET, she is supposed to fit in your pocket. xd The girl that had been my mother until I got the actual Barbie roller skated, well, she had roller blades. Don't know if she came with anything besides the skates and pads and helmet though. I had a Pocahontas doll now that I recall. I don't know what I did with her in the world. I also had an Ariel doll, I don't think I liked it as much.

It was porous, I could remember that I just couldn't remember how the words go together. I just had absorbent, porous and yellow in my head. The last line is drop and flop...which fyi I typed in my last post, I meant to have flop twice, no plopping. Heh, so yea the first flop was thus a drop then. I mean the song does make "sense." I mean it's question, answer, hypothetical statement, answer. Yes I did just look up the lyrics fyi. xd

Haha, I swear I didn't see an announcement for that, I do read them. Though half the time my announcements glitch. Like it'll say I have 3, but it'll show me two and then direct me to the announcements forum on the third. And I know it's a glitch because I'll go to my other account and it'll show me all 3. However lately because I've been so busy I haven't been logging into the other account so if an announcement glitches I can't be bothered to chase it down. And I didn't freak out, I just hate notifications. I looked try to figure out how to turn them off, but I can't see anything. I guess I'll check again when I have more time. Like I pretty much just have it set to show me profile comments (because I don't ever look at my profile if not directed there so I'll never see them). Anyhow that's fine, I just was wondering if it was some sort of glitch.