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Na... Sodium
You scored 44 Mass, 25 Electronegativity, 32 Metal, and 0 Radioactivity!
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You are the very salt of the Earth... well, part of it anyway. Society
needs a lot of you. You'd of made a perfect peasant in feudal times.
You do your own thing without asking too much, but once you've
established yourself in your life you don't change it too easily. The
problem with you is that, while you are a great cornerstone of a
society, you don't really feel the personal onus to keep it going.
That's why we need taxes... heh heh heh. With respect to relationships
you'll probably, sadly, never find one of those loves that solves every
problem you've ever had... but you're still capable of having a great
relationship filled with all sorts of positive nouns like trust and
whatnot. You can balance your lack of neediness by being with someone
who deeply does need you (or needs someone at least)... halogens are
good for that (F, Cl, Br, I). Unfortunately you can replace that one
special person easily with a whole lot of people who are a little
special, so this relationship probably will not last forever... go for
it if you live in the countryside... if you're in the city then it
might just be best to live the bachelor's life until you grow sick of
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: | You scored higher than 67% on Mass | | You scored higher than 30% on Electroneg | | You scored higher than 8% on Metal | | You scored higher than 0% on Radioactivity |
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| 09:25am 13/10/2005 |
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mood:  amused
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Okay, this is one of the more amusing things it's been my pleasure to come across. Lord of the Rings: The Princess Bride version.
It takes bits of Princess Bride dialogue, modifies it slightly, and fits it to scenes from LotR. Example:
In Mordor, after Mt. Doom erupts.
[Screen goes black.]
VO: Frodo and Sam don’t get burned up by the lava.
AUDIENCE: What?
VO: Frodo and Sam don’t get burned up by the lava. ...I'm explaining to you because you looked nervous. [Movie continues.]
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| The stupidest injury ever... |
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| 08:56am 06/10/2005 |
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mood:  confused
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I seem to have strained my tongue. Or possibly pulled it. Not sure. And, no, I don't know how. I didn't even know it was possible. But when I move my tongue in certain ways it hurts. Like when I touch the roof of my mouth with the tip of it. Especially the back of the roof of my mouth. Weird. Very, very weird. |
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| 07:05am 10/09/2005 |
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mood: amused
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So I woke up at 6:30 this morning (probably because I went to bed at 9 last night -- I'm needing obscene ammounts of sleep lately) and while looking for my missing cell phone noticed the most recent statement for my old Vista 401k, so I started playing with it figuring out if it continued growing at the same rate it has since I opened it, where I'd end up since I can't continue contributing to it. And the result? If it continues at the same rate, by the time I'm 70 I'll have $531,441,000 *snicker* Somehow I don't think it'll keep tripling every four years, but hey, it's done it so far, and why not.... What? I can dream. Not bad for a little $1000 investment -- I like compound interest.
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| The End of an Era |
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| 01:24am 30/08/2005 |
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Well. After six years, two weeks, and six days, my tenure at relay is over. It doesn't quite feel real yet, to be honest. After a game of balloon volleyball, abbreviated by the fact that the fans were set too high for effective playing -- we kept losing the balloons, I was bid farewell by Michael's shout of, "And don't come back!" I'll be following the order, but although I won't miss relay itself (mostly) I will miss the people. Had some good times when we weren't too busy to chat.
As for relay itself, well, I'd never talk about call content of course... |
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| 09:14pm 25/08/2005 |
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I have a car! Yay! I can even drive it -- sorta! Improving with each time (which so far is 3). It has 132 miles on it and is pretty and new and good and being paid for by Daddy. Which sounds really bad, but the last two I bought all by myself, and I've funded my own education, and it's NOT my fault that my transmission blew one week before I abandoned my job and lived on financial aid for a year or two.
So it's a 2005 Honda Civic, dark blue, standard (hence the sorta on the driving), and all things good. Most important, I am no longer dependant on my mother, friends, rental agents, and taxi drivers to get around!
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| Tree Sign |
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| 10:54pm 17/08/2005 |
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Nope, never heard of it before, but when a friend finds a personality assessment, what can I do but follow suit and give it a try. Your personality by birthdate and tree.
Available at: http://www.mistupid.com/psych/treesign.htm
Me:
HAZELNUT TREE (Extraordinary) - charming, undemanding, very understanding, knows how to make an impression, active fighter for social cause, popular, moody, and capricious lover, honest, and tolerant partner, precise sense of judgment.
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| 10:49pm 17/08/2005 |
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Whatever else I have to complain about, and whatever else I do complain about whether I should or not, allow me to state that I have one of the best families in the world and love and value them even when they don't offer to pay a year's payments on a new car loan or lease when the tranny dies on mine a week and a half before I quit work and go to school full time. |
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| 12:43am 29/07/2005 |
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Hey everyone:
A week from Friday (That is, Aug 5th) at the theater in the Hadley mall, the midnight show is The Princess Bride.
Coming? |
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| 08:05am 12/05/2005 |
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Spinal embolism. Blood clot putting pressure on her spine in a way that made her rear collapse. Currently on steroids and we'll see what happens. |
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| Reasons to Miss Work |
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| 08:31pm 11/05/2005 |
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I wonder if you get a point when you stay home because your dog has either had a stroke or done serious damage to her back and her rear end collapses just as you were about to leave, so instead of going to work you first try to find a way to get her to the vet and then give up on trying to fit a dog the size of a borzoi who may or may not have a broken back into a Ford Escort sedan and settle for trying to find a way to just get her into the house without doing her any further damage until someone with a larger vehicle can get here? I'll have to ask Joanne about that one. For now, though, let's just say today sucks. Hard. |
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| 02:57am 02/05/2005 |
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Hey -- anyone know if Hitchhiker's Guide's worth seeing or not?
Also -- school stuff done (slipshod, but good enough). Just have to do a few thinsgs around the house and I can drop into a brief coma. Go me. Also, if anyone's interested, a friend of mine, RL, has an opening at the gallery at Hampshire College tonight (sure wish it was tomorrow night -- in more way than one:p) on photography and stories of aikido. 8pm. If anyone wants ta go.
Right. I'm getting offline, getting a last few things done, and falling into that coma. And resetting my alarm clock off 5 am, since I decided to do things tonight then sleep, rather than sleeping and diong things in the morning. Not changing alarm with plans is bad. |
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| 01:40am 02/05/2005 |
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You know those times when you're tired, but you don't go to bed because you know there's so much you have to do. But you're too tired to do it, so you just do useless stuff killing time until you get the energy to do those things you have to do. Except the more time you kill the harder it is to get that energy. And the more time passes the more irritated you are at yourself for not being done -- or even having started -- by now. And the more irritated with yourself you are, the more you do bullshit to distract yourself so you don't fall into a depression. And all the while, you're just so damn tired you just want to sleep?
I hate that. |
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| My Inner Goddess... |
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| 11:25am 27/04/2005 |
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Neit
Indeed, you are 62% erudite, 20% sensual, 41% martial, and 45% saturnine. | Neit, who was said to have emerged from the primeval water to create the world, is one of the oldest Egyptian
Goddesses. Although the Egyptians believed that Neit was of both a
masculine and feminine nature, as she was self-produced, she was
usually depicted as a woman.
The Egyptians believed her to be an ancient and wise Goddess, to
whom the other Gods came if they could not resolve their own disputes.
Besides being the ruler of the lower Heavens, she was also the patron
to hunt and warfare, domestic arts, mysticism, as well as women and
marriage. All this makes her some kind of a “jane-of-all-trades.”
As a deity, Neit is often shown carrying a bow and arrows,
linking her to hunting and warfare, other times she is shown with a
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: | You scored higher than 21% on erudite | | You scored higher than 0% on sensual | | You scored higher than 8% on martial | | You scored higher than 30% on saturnine |
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| Issues with Wording |
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| 01:17am 22/04/2005 |
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"Due to system enhancements, callers may experience longer than normal wait times."
Golly, really? I've been waiting for that enhancement for years!
And once this live person came on the line:
"Your account was perfect until you decided to dispute the charges. But because you did, now you owe us $59.90."
Wait a sec... There's a charge to say I don't owe you this money? |
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| 08:55pm 05/04/2005 |
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So the strange thing about today is that it wasn't actually bad. As in I felt pretty decent all day. I mean, yes I was incredibly stupid. I thought today's test was Thursday and thusly failed to study. I went to get lunch (dinner?) realized I didn' thave my wallet, went back for my purse, grabbed food -- couldn't found my wallet in my purse. Paid cash, went back to my office -- and found my wallet in my purse. My hip ached like mad, but I went to an aikido class and it hurt less afterwards. It didn't stop hurting, mind, but it did hurt less.
I was almost to the highway after class and realized that I needed to get to the bank to deposit my paycheck, so I turned around and went back up Route 9 to get to the bank. Decided I'd better stop at Trader Joe's for a couple things while I was at it. Got to the check out line and realized I'd forgotten one of the primary things I'd gone in for so had to go back for it (are we sensing a theme here?).
But then at the end of the check out line the girl asked if I wanted a free box of chocolate. ("Uh-- is that a trick question?")
That seems to kind of sum up my day -- I failed miserably on every level but serendipity kept an eye on me. |
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| One of those days... |
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| 11:56am 05/04/2005 |
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So I've known for some time that I had a biochem exam coming up this Thursday. Indeed, I set aside this evening and tomorrow morning to study for it, figuring that studying was probably important since I slept through most of the classes. I never mean to -- and it's not even that it's boring, exactly. I've just been acting sleep-deprived lately, whether I've been feeling it or not. It's rather odd, actually.
Anyway, I headed up for class today expecting the typical pre-exam review class. And thought, wow, the turn-out's a little better than usual. And then he started talking about the exam -- which I had expected, of course. What I hadn't expected were the details about, oh, putting your student ID number on the paper. And then he started handing out the exam. Um. Can we say, "Shit?"
So I think I did better than could be expected for an exam which I slept through most of the lectures for, and for which I was planning to start studying this evening. Hope so -- the alternative's kinda dismal.
Walking away from class, I checked my PalmPilot and there was my alert: MyDNA EXAM2! set for 11:15 today. Dear God, I muttered, how dumb can I be?
But all I heard was a soft, divine snicker.
Guess I won't spend tonight studying... |
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| 09:27am 17/03/2005 |
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Heh. I was talking to Alan, my dad's partner, who was doing my taxes yesterday. He was kinda bummed because he was also doing his own taxes and it looked like he'd owe $21,000 this year. I was bummed because I made less than $21,000 this year. Who wins?
In other news, I went in for a tune-up on my car. The garage gave me a lift up to UMass to get some things done while they were working. Half an hour later, they called me to say um... there's $650 worth of standard maintenance that's been neglected and is overdue. We'll be glad to do it and you can pick up your car tomorrow. Ah, says I. And how am I to get home to Springfield and back here to pick it up tomorrow? Oh. Yeah, that's a problem, isn't it? So I'm taking it in on Friday to get some work done, at 8am after getting off work at 12:30 am. *sigh* I like sleep.
So I finished up the things I had to do at UMass and called the garage to pick me back up. You need a ride? they say. But our driver went home at 4. Nobody thought to tell me this when they talked to me at 10 of 4! So I walked back. Only like 4-5 miles, but my shoes are really not all that made for walking. They're not horribly bad, but they're not great, either.
I got there, got the written estimate to go over, and headed off to aikido. I was like 40 minutes early and I really didn't feel like waiting. My feet hurt, I wasn't sure I wanted to do class at all, I was in a mediocre at best mood. So I decided to leave. Changed my mind twice in the parking lot and drove to the exit, returned to my space, drove to the exit, returned to my space -- and finally decided to leave.
And a couple miles down the road decided one last time to stay *laugh* Took five minutes to turn around, as the traffic stunk, but I got back, stretched out long and slow, and had an unusual but very entertaining class. There were only two of us there, so sensei's eyes were on us all the time. Amazing what a backseat driver he can be. One moment when JJ was doing a technique, Sensei was going, "Go, go! Hand, hand! No, no, no-- over! There! Relax-- relax more. Okay, and down, down -- there you go!" *giggle* I was entertained. I was even entertained when he was doing it to me rather than JJ. Don't get me wrong, it was wicked useful. Just also entertaining.
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| Word Usage quiz |
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| 04:24pm 07/03/2005 |
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English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 77% Expert!
You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!
Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!
Yay me! Of course, this was after the first time around, when they told me not that I was a genius, but that I guessed. How's that for insulting? Jerks. Anyway... Sadly, it doesn't have a handy dandy cut and paste to give my results, so there's not a direct link, but, if you're interested, here it is:
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