Random Fact Thread

[Dante]

-I'll be out for a few hours tomorrow.
-We're going to a museum in another town.
-Anyway, I helped make muffins for dinner.
-They were pretty tasty.
-We were meant to have shepherd's pie for dinner, but Mother defrosted meatballs by mistake.
-And we were meant to have potatoes, but Mother forgot about them and it ended up as mashed potato.
-And I dropped an open bag of sugar.
-...And the chain holding some measuring spoons together broke apart in my hands.
-It was a fairly haphazard dinner.
-I've started reading Garth Nix's Ragwitch.
-It's evidently one of his, shall we say, earlier works.
-It's hilariously bad.
-Honestly, I can't help but laugh sometimes.
-I can hear some loud fireworks going off.
-Why do people always start several nights before Bonfire Night?
-Or, in this case, more than a week before.
-And I don't see the point in loud ones.
-Colourful ones are better.
-It sure looks wet out there, SnicketFace.
-It's been raining here a lot, too, but it's eased off in the past few days.
-Hm, actually, that photograph does remind me of a lot of places I know.
-You have probably heard the tiresome expression "It's a small world"...

[Antenora]

-I just got back from visiting my grandparents.
-I had a good time.
-Grandfather J gave me a camera.
-It's similar to the cameras we have in my photography class--you can adjust the shutter opening and the length of the exposure(or you adjust the first, and the second is adjusted automatically).
-I spent some time taking photos with it, and I await seeing how they come out.
-He actually has a lot of photo-developing equipment, but none of the necessary chemicals for actually developing film.
-That wet place does look familiar, Snicketface.
-That photo also reminds me of one I tried to take through my school bus window, which I don't know where I put.
-Sometimes, I hear fireworks randomly go off, even if it's not anytime near July 4 or any other occasion on which people use fireworks.
-This evening, I think I'll be going to a haunted house that someone on our street has put together.
-And tomorrow, I'll probably be carving pumpkins.

[deanna.]

-Carving pumpkins is fun.
-So is eating pumpkin seeds.
-But only when they're cooked.
-I'm going to make Halloween cupcakes tomorrow.
-Thank you, Pillsbury Doughboy.
-Or maybe I'll make a Halloween cake.
-I'm not sure.
-I'm listening to "Daniel" by Elton John.
-It's pretty much the coolest Elton John song.
-Except for maybe Bennie and the Jets.
-"Oh, Daniel, my brother....."
-Woo, I just turned my clocks back an hour.
-Does the 667 clock do that automatically?
-I guess I'll find out eventually.
-So right now, it's 8:54 pm where I live.
-It used to be 9:54, until I changed the clock.
-Yay, I get an extra hour to sleep tonight!!
-I get to wear black and orange to school on Monday.
-But I don't really own any orange clothing.
-So I guess I'll wear all black.
-Wait, I might have an orange hair elastic.
-I'd say that counts.
-Owee, my wrist hurts.
-I sprained it on Thursday at skating.
-And then I fell on it again at skating yesterday.
-It's all sore and stiff and hurty.
-But I didn't break it, which is good.
-I went out for dinner with my parents tonight.
-We had sopapillas (spelling = ??).
-YUM.
-I didn't do my homework today.
-I'll do it tomorrow.
-*procrastination*

[Dante]

-I think my father and brother are doing our pumpkin.
-The lawn is covered with leaves right now.
-Well, not covered.
-But there are too many leaves to use the word "sprinkled."
-I'll be out for a large chunk of the middle of the day.
-And we have to leave pretty early, in order to catch a certain event.
-Wait, was that dinner just yesterday?
-It seems like much longer ago than that.
-But then again, I don't really have much idea of time.
-I don't think I own any orange clothing.
-I wonder if people will be wearing anything interesting to school on Monday.
-Those who can be bothered, I expect.
-So a handful.
-I'd probably wear all black anyway.
-Actually, no, I generally wear blue on Mondays and Tuesdays.
-Anyway, I'll take my camera with me today, and see if there's anything interesting to photograph.
-I haven't seen anything new and exciting for a while, but maybe I will today.
-I think we're listening to an Agatha Christie audiotape/CD in the car.
-I overheard one of my parents mention Sad Cypress.
-I know I've read that one, but I can't remember which it is.
-Oh, it's that one.
-Oh no.
-I saw half of a dramatised version of it a month or two ago, and now I can remember the plot.
-I can remember whodunnit, why they dunnit, and how.
-How dull.
-I need to persuade my parents to get the aSoUE books on audio.
-Then we wouldn't have a shortage.
-We always take audiotapes/CDs with us on long car journeys, generally when we're off on holiday, but sometimes we take long drives for mere days out.
-Hm, actually, recommending the aSoUE audiobooks to my parents isn't such a bad idea.
-I wonder if I can persuade them to skip straight to TPP, or whether we'll have to go through the first few first.
-I'm slightly worried that the darkness of TBB might put them off, as they are easily put off.
-But it's worth a try, and I would like the audiobooks.
-Now, where's my breakfast?

[PJ]

-Saw the movie Serenity again
-It rocks
-A lot
-I'm downloading the series, Firefly, too
-I want it for Christmas
-It's equally good, if not better, than the 2005 Doctor Who
-Except there doesn't seem to be a sequel to Firefly
-*laments loss of sequel*
-I shall have to find another television series to watch with my sister
-Oh well
-Just finished half of the chem prac
-Now, for the Economics Portfolio
-I have to write, economically, about an article I found in the paper
-It sucks

[Antenora]

-We always make roasted pumpkin seeds at Halloween, even though we never eat much of them.
-Mother's going to roast some of the pumpkin seeds in the oven after we've scooped out the pumpkins.
-I think the actual carving will take a while, because I have a pretty complicated design planned for my pumpkin.
-It's going to look like Olaf.
-I had to wait a while to get into the haunted house last night, although I had a pass to the front of the line.
-The haunted house itself was okay.
-It was so dark for most of it that you had to feel along the walls, and there was too much of that fog that comes from fog machines.
-Then I stayed up late watching an amusingly bad movie called Cerberus.
-It involved a sword that Atilla the Hun had owned, which was guarded by the three-headed Hound of Hell.
-According to the backstory, Atilla had made a deal with the devil to gain godlike powers.
-I also saw part of another movie just before it, this one involving evil gargoyles.

[kaisuke]

-I'm new here
-Although I may not be
-I have bad memory
-Especially when it comes to telling my father that my dog peed in the printer
-I have two dogs
-They're called Yamagata and Zaphod
-Yamagata once tried to eat my copy of the Bad Beginning
-I guess he doesn't like Olaf
-Or maybe it's Klaus
-It could be any of them I suppose
-He likes Ham
-I don't
-I like tuna
-And blackadder
-Not in my sandwiches though
-and A Series Of Unfortunate Events
-But not Nero
-He's annoying

[Dante]

-Oh, I missed the sunset.
-And it was so pretty and pink beforehand.
-Anyway, I have indeed been out for quite a while.
-...Not much happened.
-We weren't listening to Sad Cypress.
-Instead, it was some sort of detective comedy thing which I found distasteful, so we didn't finish it.
-Why do I get the feeling that my whole day has slipped away?
-I really dislike going out.
-And I know I have lots to say, but I can't recall anything except small details.
-I'm back at school tomorrow, although as with every Monday, I go in late.
-My parents asked me to look into the aSoUE audiobooks, although they said they'd probably be too costly.
-In the city we went to, Mother said that it would be really nice to look around the streets if nobody else was around.
-The museum itself wasn't too crowded, though.
-And my brother's being really loud and I can barely hear myself think.
-He's so annoying sometimes.
-My parents once told me about a TV show they liked when they were young.
-It was some futuristic thing about alien invasion or something.
-However, it was cancelled before the series ended.
-PJ's mention of Firefly reminded me of it, for some reason.
-Something else which annoys me is when something important occurs without me noticing.
-I guess I feel rather frustrated at the moment, and I don't feel I can concentrate.

[SF]

-I feel horrible right now
-I'm sick
-Which sucks
-I also didn't get to hang out with Andrew today, which makes my day worse
-He seems a bit off today
-I've been cleaning a lot today
-Mostly my room
-I ate Froot Loops earlier
-The remains of which are next to me
-I
-Don't
-Feel
-Good
-!

[Amber]

-I hope you get better soon, Snicketface.
-I was just about to go to bed...
-But then I remembered I don't have one.
-Bah.
-My parents bought me a new bed, but they've taken my old one away.
-And the new one has some fault.
-I'll find somewhere to sleep.
-I have loads of rugs and duvets and quilts and stuff.
-I would just get my old mattress.
-But they threw that away too.
-Pfft.
-I got batteries for my camera though
-New pictures.
-The flash made most of my face really pale though.

[Antenora]

-I like that sign in your signature, Snicketface.
-I've been pretty busy today.
-I carved my pumpkin and helped my sister a bit with hers.
-We have one orange pumpkin and one of those weird white ones.
-My sister carved hers, the white pumpkin, with a laughing face.
-I'd buy all of the ASoUE audiobooks, if I could afford them.
-They're pretty expensive, though, and the CD's cost even more.
-And I'd probably have to get the CD's, because I don't think my tape player even works anymore.
-A while ago I was reading Amazon reviews of Book 12, and found a pretty funny one.
-This book was good. it was funnie. it had suspense sir was back and so was chrles. count olfa is not evil burt he runs rampant and mr po isnt a china-m an afteralll. the grim grotto stunk out looud and it was borign capn wintershin was a piece of wet cereal an the author style got repeteteive. but this is good. 2nd haff is worse thsn tha first but it excellenty and laughed like a lewd lexie
-I must remember to take a one-use camera to school tomorrow, in case anyone dresses up interestingly.
-I have one of those cameras, but it only has a few exposures left.
-Maybe I'll take the camera Grandfather gave me, as well.

[SF]

tocuna said:

-I like that sign in your signature, Snicketface.

-Thanks, I was doing a search for something and that came up randomly, and I thought it was funny
-I've had it for a while but forgot about it until a little bit ago.
-Amber, you're amazingly pretty, it makes me jealous.
-Thanks for the get better or whatever it was you said.
-I'm too lazy to go and look.
-I'm waiting for the Sixth Sense to come on television.
-Hum hum hum

[Dante]

-The camera flash makes my face look frankly skeletal.
-And at the moment I'm pretty pale anyway.
-Anyway, it's my Monday morning.
-That's why I'm sitll here.
-Although probably not for much longer.
-I'm thinking of examining my aSoUE books, and tracing back the number of days, at least in the more recent ones.
-It shouldn't take too long.
-It looks pale outside, too.
-I think my father and brother are making cookies right now.
-And I head Father mention the pumpkin.
-I wonder if my brother is home from school today?
-I should probably know that.
-It is a funny sign.
-I don't see many funny signs.
-I probably would if I ever went anywhere.
-Get well soon, anyway, SnicketFace.
-My family might get some of the Snicket audiobooks.
-Right now, though, we're just getting HBP.
-And I have my doubts about whether to get them.
-Somebody made an Amazon review of the TBB audiotape, complaining about Tim Curry's voice acting.
-And I already had my doubts about him...
-I think Handler read a few, though.
-I can see a bee outside.
-Other than that, it's very still.
-Oh, and there's a bird sitting in the apple tree.
-I feel tired.
-I expect school will wake me up.
-That, or dull General Studies will make me fall asleep.

[doom]

-Dante, my parents and I both agreed that Tim Curry was a much better narrator.
-We got Halloween candy last night.
-Way too much candy, really, since we usually get very few trick-or-treaters.
-But I'm not complaining.
-I'm going down occasionally to take some.
-My dad's supposed to go to go Geneva later this year on business.
-Plus my family may be going to Boston sometime in November.
-I wish I enjoyed traveling as much as I used to.

[SF]

-Thanks Dante.
-I'm still feeling sick, but I don't think my mother will let me stay home from school.
-I have my school polo and sweater on, but it's too cold to put my "skort" (they're shorts!) on yet
-My brother still isn't awake.
-I got ice cream last night.
-There is some left over.
-I think I'll go eat some
-*sneeze*
-Have I mentioned I hate being sick?