Random Fact Thread

[Antenora]

-I played chess against Father earlier, and lost.
-He almost always beats me.
-All of my pens seem to have disappeared.
-Mother will buy more tomorrow, hopefully.
-Chindogu: Useless Inventions.
-We have a book of Chindogu, and I thought I should see if there was a website for them.
-The sky's now completely cloudy, but I don't think it's raining.
-I've spent most of today just resting and reading a bit.
-At least I got some of my homework done.
-I didn't work on my college essays, though, as I'm not entirely sure what I need to do for them.
-I'd rather wait until my teacher's seen the first one.

[Dante]

-It's been a quiet morning, apparently.
-I had to edit out a bunch of stuff in my Nameless Novel transcripts so that I didn't have to make an additional post.
-Although I could just have made a new post for October
-Why do the best ideas never occur to me at the time?
-Well, I guess we didn't need endless repeats of the penny-scratching instructions anyway
-Mother dropped a mysterious letter addressed to me on the desk before she left.
-It turned out to be my provisional driving license.
-I don't know when I'm going to start taking lessons.
-I'm only learning to drive so that I won't have to bore myself by doing so later on.
-And because it probably is a useful skill.
-Ugh, that reminds me of those lousy Key Skills that they harp on about in school these days.
-What rubbish.
-Anyway, I'll have to get ready to go soon.
-I'm not alone at the moment.
-Father's here with me, and I suspect he hung out the laundry for me.
-That or both of us forgot, or something.
-If it's the latter, then I don't have time to do it before leaving, so he'll have to do it anyway.
-Poor father.
-I have a bit of a cough this morning.
-I had a coughing fit earlier.
-And I woke up at about three in the morning.
-I was woken up either by my brother, or an infernal engine rising from the very depths of Hell to terrorise the city and bring it to ruin.
-A.k.a. the waste disposal lorry.
-I think they were very late, as opposed to very early.
-Anyway, I'd best start getting ready to go.
-Even though I still have quite a while.
-What I mean is that I have nothing more to say at the moment.
-Have a nice day, all.

[A. the Returned]

-Today was rather boring.
-Not because something extremely boring happened.
-Just because nothing extremely exciting happened.
-Well I got lots of compliments about my haircut.
-And I didn't get told off by a teacher for the colour.
-my lousy school think they can completely control us in every way.
-From uniforms to a hair policy.
-People get suspended until they dye their hair back to it's original colour sometimes.
-All I got done was blonde streaks so I should be ok but I still haven't had to come face to face with one of the stricter teachers who enforce these rules.
-My hip isn't feeling too bad anymore so I'll give the state trial routines a bit of a run through later.
-Performing them in front of the panel won't be fun if I don't know them.
-L. and I usually practise these things together.
-My sister isn't really that bad.
-We actually spend an awful lot of time together.
-We get a long most of the time but naturally we have our disagreements.
-Well that's pretty much it.
-Except, I really love Dencorub.
-It's my new best friend.
-...partly because it takes away all my pain.
-...and partly because no one else will come anywhere near me when I smell like Dencorub.

[Dante]

-Ah, the perks of Sixth Form.
-Being able to come home if my teachers aren't here is so handy.
-Mrs. B., my form tutor, wasn't at school for our Tutorial lesson.
-Hence I'm here.
-Although I'll be gone again by... quarter to, probably.
-It's a pity my walk to school is so demanding.
-It's mostly uphill, and takes anything from ten to twenty minutes.
-Usually fifteen, actually, but it's pretty tiring.
-And I walked through some extremely wet grass on the way to school, and apparently, my shoes leak.
-Well, I expect my socks will dry off eventually.
-Father had put out the laundry.
-And he put some more out just after I went.
-How good of him.
-General Studies really hurt my back.
-The chairs are awful.
-Today's lecture was on the typical family, monogamy, social tensions, class mobility and stuff.
-As ever, I don't believe that I actually learnt anything.
-I should look up some past exam papers, and see how hard they are.
-In fact, I'll do that.
-Hm, am I doing General Studies "A" or "B"?
-Eh, there's probably very little difference.
-Hm, now the site's glitching.
-Great.
-Forget that, then.
-I'll just eat lunch instead.

[Antenora]

-I didn't sleep very well last night, either.
-At midnight or so there was a huge thunderstorm.
-After it, I only got back to sleep for a little while, and then something else woke me up at about 2 AM.
-It's a good thing I went to bed very early, so I probably got as much sleep as I needed.
-I'm going to hate walking to the bus stop and around school today.
-The rain seems to have stopped, though.
-I saw a tiny little flash of lightning when I woke up, but I haven't heard any thunder since then.
-My parents were cleaning out the garage yesterday, and the things that were in there are out in the patio.
-I don't think there was anything that could have been damaged badly by the rain, fortunately.
-My school has a rule against hair being "unnatural colors" or styles that "disrupt the learning environment".
-I'm not entirely clear on what a disruptive hairstyle is, but I think I've seen a few around.
-There was someone at my school whose hair was in four-inch spikes.

[Juan Roberto Montoya De Toledo]

Was that person missing their brain? Or was it impaled on the spikes?
My local bookstore is going for a 12PM release tomorrow, so I should be one of the lucky few who live in England and get it early.

[Dante]

-The bookstore I'm getting B12 from isn't selling it until 3pm.
-Lousy stores which only play by the book if I live near them.
-I need to start conspiring.
-So, I'm eating fruit.
-Apple, to be precise.
-I had to add some stuff to my Economics homework from a few days ago.
-Read: Replace quite a lot of it
-And the right side of my right hand is covered in black marks, as I lean it against the page when I'm writing.
-I prefer it to ink-stains.
-I don't think I use a pen for anything any more.
-Mother's talking about Thomas Edison.
-It still looks grey outside.
-And it seems to be going dark already.
-So, I'm feeling a little depressed at the moment.
-I wonder when Akbar will be back?
-Soon, hopefully.
-Am I the only one who'll occasionally write a complete post, putting a minute or two into it, and then think about it for a while and then just decide not to make that post at all?
-It happens to me sometimes.
-Not as commonly recently, though.
-Lousy orange artificial light.
-I like my lights not to look like they're from some tacky hotel.
-Hotel Denouement probably has better lights than this.
-Especially if it burns down.
-I might be seeing the new Wallace & Gromit movie on Wednesday.
-Somebody in my Government/Economics class a while ago said that it was rubbish, but all the papers have been giving it great reviews.
-And I honestly don't know what else I'd do with the time.
-Be bored, probably.

[Antenora]

-Sometimes I type up a post and then decide not to post it.
-Usually, though, I just type a few sentences and then realize I don't really have much to say.
-I hope that Akbar will be back soon.
-I think I saw him online earlier, actually.
-I certainly recommend the Wallace and Grommit movie.
-Regarding that kid with the incredibly spiky hair: I haven't seen him in a long time.
-Actually, I think the last time I saw him, he'd cut his hair-spikes a bit.
-Today has been fairly easy and peaceful.
-In my literature class, we had group discussions of how Crime and Punishment can be related to the modern world.
-I didn't actually say much, but the others in my group went off on strange tangents about war protesters and Tupperware parties.
-All we did in Photography class was watch a video.
-We had a substitute teacher.
-I think it's raining right now.
-It was certainly raining a little earlier.
-At least I won't have to go outside to get to my next classroom.
-I hope it's not raining when I have to walk home from the bus stop, though.

[Dante]

-A lot of my classes with Mr. F. go off on tangents, now that I think about it.
-Often poking gentle fun at people's ancestry.
-Be it Scottish, Welsh, Polish or Irish...
-Manchester-ish...
-Apparently, Akbar has signed in today.
-Odd, though, that I only noticed this 3 hours after the event.
-I don't see any wild hair around here.
-People often dye their hair wacky colours on various charity days, though.
-Some people put tinsel in their hair at Christmas.
-Yes, there are a fair few eccentric individuals at school.
-I'm probably one of them.
-Oh, that reminds me.
-Mother wants me to go sort out something about a textbook I had to turn in at the end of last year, and a cheque, and it's been cashed even though we handed in the textbook.
-That will be dull.
-I'm feeling rather pessimistic at the moment about school tomorrow.
-In my experience, things rarely go right when you really need them to.
-My parents are watching University Challenge, a show which I find rather dull.
-It can be interesting, though, but it's all the parts in-between the interesting parts...
-I bore easily.
-I have a short attention span.
-And I'm going to refrain from making any cheap jokes on that subject.
-I found an old book on my shelves which I could use to pass the time.
-It's a complex Choose-Your-Own-Adventure.
-Hopefully, it will entertain for a brief time if I have nothing to do.
-I feel rather tired.
-I'd quite like to lie down, really.
-I'll be watching TV again this evening.
-I stayed up pretty late on the computer last night, and my parents got into a pretty bad mood.
-I'd best make sure not to do that again.
-They're so annoying when they're angry.

[Amber]

-I'm not sure if I can get B12 tomorrow.
-I might have to wait until Saturday.
-I live near no bookshops.
-And neither of my parents work near one either.
-I'll ask my Dad again, but I doubt he'll find a bookshop.
-My Mother won't buy me the Kill Bill DVDs.
-Maybe for Christmas...
-At school people have already started counting down the days.
-I wish the week was over.
-Because then it would be half term
-Though it looks like I'm going to be out a lot.
-There is the local fair, but last year someone got stabbed there so I don't really want to go.
-I don't really do Halloween really.
-I hate going Trick-or-treating.
-Because I'm really paranoid about my food and won't eat anything that I don't know where it's from.
-I'm making my speaking tape for French soon.
-I can't remember the actual date and time.
-I had to write out a prompt sheet and mine is all written in symbols or random letters.
-Because we were only allowed to use a few French words.
-Jack Dee is on the TV tonight.
-I hardly ever watch TV but I do watch Jack Dee.
-He really makes me laugh.
-I ought to clean my room, and find my keys before I go to bed.
-G'night.

[Antenora]

-Good luck getting B12, Amber.
-I thought I might get it today, but I didn't.
-It was really pouring earlier, and during Government class there was some hail.
-We were watching a video and discussing economics, but everyone kept getting up to look out at the rain.
-It looked like someone was pouring huge buckets of water on the windows.
-There was some thunder, too.
-Fortunately, the rain wasn't as bad after that.
-Some people at my school dress up really strangely, even when it's not a "dress-up" day.
-Then again, I don't pay much attention to special occasions at my school, so I might not know when it's a dress-up day.
-I don't know if I'll go trick-or-treating this year.
-My sister wants to, but I think Father will take her.

[Dante]

-Well, here I am.
-I've read B12.
-I shall probably read it a few more times - or parts of it, at least.
-I need to start typing up the parts which foreshadow the last book (or are just interesting).
-I did that for TGG, and it's been extremely helpful.
-Anyway, now I have a headache.
-It's pretty bad.
-I don't expect it will go away at all soon.
-My Maths books are on the nearby piano stool.
-I've put off doing the remaining 47 questions of my 67-question homework until tomorrow, due to getting B12.
-And headache.
-But I should have time to do it tomorrow, after school.
-And I may do some at school tomorrow, too.
-And Mr. B. said he'd give us some time in our Friday lesson, unless he's in a bad mood.
-And the homework isn't due until after half-term.
-Really, I have ages.
-But tomorrow should be fine, as I probably won't get much homework, and I'll have an hour or two alone at home before my parents arrive.
-They're working, or something.
-And then we're going out to the movies for the evening.
-There has been classical music playing somewhere for a few minutes, but I only just noticed.
-Or rather, it only just registered on my mind that this was unusual.
-Odd that I didn't notice it start.
-It must just have faded into my mind, or something.

[SF]

-I bought book the 12th yesterday.
-It's a bit cold here.
-I still haven't gotten ready for school, and I leave in 20 minutes.
-Heh...
-PJ's Kill Dante story was very good.
-O, I've passed the 2,000 post count, which is cool I guess.
-Well, I must be off.

[PJ]

snicketface said:

-PJ's Kill Dante story was very good.

-Thanks
-Also, it was nice of you to type up Chapter Two
-I also typed a bit up, a page or two, before I realised you and Gigi already had
-So yeah, I bought it
-And I sent Trag two theories
-And am currently working on a fan fiction about something from B12
-Meh

Edit:
La Forza del Destino - Warning, Spoilers

[Antenora]

-I like your Forza Del Destino story, PJ.
-I got book 12 yesterday, too.
-Mother found it at Borders, and had it for me when I got home.
-I spent most of the afternoon reading it.
-I might type some up, if I have time.
-Yesterday evening, I felt pretty sick, and I still do.
-So I'm staying home today.
-I'm worried about missing some important things at school today.
-There's not much really going on, though.
-But if I miss a lesson in Photography, it'll probably be hard to make up.