Random Fact Thread

[xangelkimzx]

-I hope your eye heals, Amber.
-*hugs to the maxx*
-I'm listening to Radiohead's "No Surprises".
-I need to do a story for English.
-I may post it here if I feel like typing it up (it has to be handwritten).

[Dante]

-That reminds me.
-Mother said something about the hospital earlier.
-Apparently, there are a lot of people around my age about to be shifted to the adult unit, and I'm to be some sort of trial kid.
-I'm always the trial kid.
-Or at least, I was once.
-I can't remember what for, but I was doing some sort of trial thing.
-And I would like to impress upon you all that I most certainly was not on trial.
-Although really, it's just a matter of time
-Anyway, the point is: Shouldn't I be going to the hospital sometime?
-I can't remember the last time I went.
-Oh wait, it was just before school started, I think.
-That wasn't so long ago, I guess.
-Now I face a dilemma.
-Do I read Thief of Time, or do I watch Out-Take TV?
-On the one hand, I'd like to finish Thief of Time today.
-On the other hand, I really like out-takes.
-The sort where people fall into things, anyway.
-People just messing up their lines is rather dull.
-Oh, and there was one once where somebody was graffiting "MURDERER" on a wall, and they just went on and on and wrote "MURDERERERER."
-And another where there was an unfortunate juxtaposition of a rather serious scene in a crime drama, and some tinkly ice-cream van music.
-Stuff like that is amusing.
-Unexpected, uncommon.
-Now where was I?
-Oh yes.
-Still on the other hand, I'm probably going to have to stay up and read Thief of Time anyway.
-But on the other other hand, that is to say, the first hand, it's a really good book.
-I'm probably going to end up reading the book in the lounge and glancing at the TV occasionally.
-I'm not sure how well I feel.
-Oh, and I found out that a guy in some of my classes who I speak to sometimes was in Y13 last year, but he's been put back in Y12 for some reason.
-It's odd; he seems smart enough.
-No clear personality flaws or intelligence defects.
-Although he is a tad pompous.
-And people sometimes complain that he stares at them.
-I'll keep an eye on him, in case he's secretly insane and is going to snap some day.
-If anyone snaps and goes completely insane, I want to be around to see it.
-Although in all fairness, it might well be me.
-Oh, I do ramble sometimes.
-But now I'm too tired to go on.
-My fingers are getting weary.

[Antenora]

-Somebody in my junior high, I think, was left back a year.
-I remember him being rude and misbehaving in class a lot, so he probably had a poor grade in Citizenship(or Conduct, or whatever they were calling it then).
-One of my teachers in high school once proudly announced that in (some number) years, our high school had only one student who didn't graduate.
-Or maybe this teacher was saying that in all his/her years of teaching, only one student had failed his/her class.
-It was some statement along those lines.
-My government quiz wasn't terribly hard, but I really got stuck on a couple of questions.
-I wrote a lot for most of them, but I'm not sure if my answers were very good.
-I think I might be getting a cold.
-I got the photos from our (now-broken) camera back.
-Some of them are pretty old, from the time I visited my grandparents about a month and a half ago.
-My grandparents have a cool house.

[Charles Vane]

My aunt asked me if I wanted to go to New York.
So I am.
Over Christmas.
I did a little dance last night.
And I finally remembered to tell J.

[raoawr]

PANNY YOU'RE GOING TO NEW YORK FOR CHIRSTMAS!

You should go college visiting and visit Princeton.

Either that or I should make plans to go shopping in the Village.

[PJ]

-Stupid Nameless Novel Anti-Mozilla screensavers and/or soundbites
-Eh
-I hope it's not vital
-Also, I just watched the old Willy Wonka movie
-For my german oral
-ALL THE PIECES ARE FALLING INTO PLACE
-Eh
-I got a huge bar of chocolates from my auntie's friend when they came here
-1.5 FREAKING KILOS
-And that's just my auntie's FRIEND
-I also got a neat 400 gram bar from her
-Which rules
-HARD
-Uh
-Now what?
-I feel like playing Warcraft III
-But I need to do my oral..
-Also, I'm really, really excited about The Next Nameless Novel clues
-I mean, for two whole months we've had almost nothing of value
-I mean, a page, and a picture
-BUT NOW
-We get the cover
-WITH, hopefully, the title
-IT'S ALMOST HERE
-*dies*
-Eh, I should write an article for the 667er
-But I don't feel like it
-Maybe a small one
-Or something

[Dante]

-Antenora, I agree.
-Your grandparents do have a cool house.
-It makes me realise that we don't have much stuff in my house.
-I've started reading Night Watch.
-I've only read a few pages of it so far.
-I just sneezed.
-A black bird just flew past the window, quite high up.
-Which reminds me - I saw some crows at school yesterday.
-Through the window of my Politics/Government room.
-I really need to decide what to call that class.
-I think it's meant to be "Government."
-That's what they call it on all the forms and stuff.
-Actually, I think I just saw one crow.
-It flew down from the roof and perched atop a lamp-post.
-At least, I think it was a crow.
-They could be ravens.
-It's rather hard to tell.
-So far, I haven't managed to find a picture that exactly matches them.
-My father bought me some Willy Wonka chocolate yesterday.
-It was a... Nutty Surprise?
-And the surprise was that it didn't actually have nuts in.
-No, really.
-It was pretty tasty.
-I've still got some left.
-It wasn't a bar; it was one of those big squared chunks that you just break bits off of.
-Hm, all the cloud patterns have faded.

[callum]

-i just got back from my (oarents) farm
- i was was wearing good clothes so i was'nt that helpful
-i had 3 cows
- but one died
-now i can hear the cricket one the telly in the background
-how boring
i just read the word dentist but i cant remember where
the head phone for the computer just broke bugger
hilary duff sux
i'm feeling... cold
my neck has been hurting for ages
dont know how t happened
its the first day of school holidays
yay two weeks off
feeling hungry
there was nithing in the kitchen
i used to like sour cream on stuff
but i eat a really horrible spagetti once with sour cream and i vomited
i miss samboy brand chip
now they have tasty jack which arent as good
my favorite ad is the mcdonalds one where the kids come out of the adults and buy mc donalds
thats all folks

[PJ]

-I've done both of my articles for the magazine
-YOU GUYS BETTER CONTRIBUTE, TOO
-No really, if it's just my two, and like one other, I'm gonna bodily hurt you people
-SEND IT IN NOW
-NOT LATER, NOW
-It's due in an hour, though I'm sure Akbar can stretch the rules a bit
-So write, and send
-And I'm off to dinner
-Goodbye

[Antenora]

-My parents have told me not to download any screensavers.
-They're very cautious about downloading stuff.
-Our computer has gotten infected with spyware and such, and we want to avoid that happening again.
-My father's accepted a job with another paint company.
-But I'm going to do my career shadowing at his current company, at the end of this month.
-On the 28th, I think.
-It's scheduled for a minimum day, so I can go to the workplace in the afternoon and not miss any classes.
-I saw several little blackbirds at my school yesterday.
-I've never liked sour cream.
-My sister loves it, though.

[Dante]

-You know, I don't think I've ever had sour cream.
-Or quite a few other garnishes, for that matter.
-I'm glad to hear the job and career-shadowing are working out, Antenora.
-I've been reading Night Watch.
-Time-travel novels can get rather tiresome, where everyone meets younger versions of themselves.
-It just seems so... I can't find the words for it, but I'm not fond of it.
-And Night Watch seems a little serious for my tastes.
-Father's going to order The Last Hero for me.
-Counting paperback books, there are only four Discworld books that I have left to read.
-(I understand that Going Postal is still in hardcover, and my parents refuse to buy those where possible.)
-And in terms of books we have in the house, there are only three left for me to read, including the one I'm reading.
-And while reading the books at school, I've discovered that quite a few people I know have read some of them.
-It's funny; I never really thought of them as being the sort of people that read.
-It just doesn't seem to fit with them; I can't imagine it.
-People can be so surprising.
-Oh, and I got some application form at school yesterday for a National Union of Students card.
-Most people seem to be getting one.
-Actually, that's not true. Nobody's really been talking about them.
-But two or three people I know were talking about getting one.
-Mother, who works with/for the Union of Students, says she's never seen such a card.
-So now I'm considering whether or not to get one.
-I guess I'll read through the leaflet thoroughly before deciding whether to get one.
-It costs money and requires effort, so I probably won't bother.
-And if Mother's right, they probably aren't worth much.

Edit:

-I read the leaflet.
-It just gets you money off stuff at shops and such.
-I don't even go to shops, or things like that.
-So it's a waste of my time, and I'm not going to get one.
-It sounds like it's only valid while I'm in Y12 and 13, anyway.
-So no, really no point in getting it.

[Antenora]

-My school library has none of the Discworld books, or anything by Pratchett.
-I don't know if anyone there has read them.
-And I don't take my Discworld books to school with me, as I wouldn't have that much time in which I could read them.
-My free period's generally taken up with checking 667 and doing homework.
-Which reminds me, I need to write...something...for Crime and Punishment.
-There was a quote I was going to analyze, but I can't remember what it was.
-I'll get to that later.
-Next Monday is Talk Like a Pirate Day.
-My school had a pirate dress-up day a couple years ago, whenever it was that this occasion was on Friday.
-I remember that last year, it was on the day we had the Grim Grotto Ball, or at least it was during the same weekend as that.

[Ennui]

-Poor Amber. Hope your eye has stobbed throbbing and your assailant has been lynched by a pack of your willing minions.
-My article is done.
-I'm going out this afternoon to the theatre in London, so I won't be about tonight...

[Dante]

-People don't really pay attention to minor silly holidays around here.
-If you mentioned Talk Like A Pirate Day to... I think it would be fair to guess at 95% of people at my school, and all but perhaps one or two members of staff, they'd say "What Day?"
-Pity, really.
-It'd be a bit of fun that's rather lacking, I notice.
-Hm.
-Now that I think about it, I haven't been in the school's new library yet.
-I'm unclear on when it's open.
-I don't think I've ever seen anyone in it but teachers.
-Oh dear.
-My back has started to hurt.
-I think I really will go and lie down for a minute.
-After I've talked about lunch.
-I had some leftover pizza from Friday - I think I'll make this into a routine - along with some lettuce and stuffed olives.
-The stuffed olives seemed rather less strong this week.
-Which is good, as they were rather too strong before.
-It's windy outside.
-And it's just getting sunny, too.
-Well, I'll be back at some point.
-Hard to say when, really.
-When I get tired of lying around in my room, I think.

[Antenora]

-I finally did what I was planning to do--wrote something about Crime and Punishment for lit class.
-I'll read/write more this weekend, hopefully.
-I have the rest of the month, just about, to finish that book.
-Maybe we'll discuss it in class next week, since we're pretty much done with Catcher in the Rye.
-And then there's that outside reading thing I'm really not sure what to do about.
-That can wait a while, though.
-I think we're supposed to finish it by Christmas break.
-Today, there will be several new shows on Kids WB.
-There's that Loonatics show, which looks awful but might be so bad it's good.
-There's also a new show called Johnny Test, and onecalled Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island or something, both of which just look completely silly.
-There are new episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh, too.
-I want to see the movie Corpse Bride.
-It hasn't been released in any theater anywhere near me, though.