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Aggh. You guys pulled me out of my blissful, post-convention slumber to write this. There's my post.

Momo

CONVENTION CONVENTION AHHHHHH

"Latin is so hard. I'm gonna take Spanish next year." -EZ

(^that's really funny if you know him)

I have a ton of stuff to do, so this post will be brief. I'm writing this on Thursday night because I won't be back until Sunday, but I'm going to somehow figure out how to get it to automatically post on Saturday. 

Convention is tomorrow, but by the time ya'll read this, I'll already be there. ^_^

So yeah - I have to do my homework, finish my convention project, study for Certamen, and oh yeah the Independent Study gym credit essay is due tomorrow... >.<

And there's that other thing... I have to pack... yeahhh I'm getting no sleep tonight. I need to find out what happens next in The Hunger Games... and what happens next after that... and after that.... XD

I'M SO PUMPED FOR CONVENTION!!!!!!! 

Virgil

CONVE--Wait...I take French!

My darlin' readers!

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Just a little sidenote here. Please note the commemorative cursor that is the shape of Justin Bieber with his flippy hair. I have made that our temporary cursor to commemorate the loss of his hair, and 80,000 of his Twitter fans that unfollowed him after he cut his hair...
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LATIN-CONVENTION-IS-TOMORROW!!!

As many of you may know, Latin convention is tomorrow, and the Latin Curly Fries are going mentally insane... For example, my conversation with Momo today:

Lynda: Whatcha doin'? *huffs and puffs her way through 5 laps for crew*

Momo: Washing paintbrushes because o-mi-gosh-spirit-for-Latin-cuz-CONVENTION-IS-TOMORROW!!! *squeals* (imagine a high-pitched, super fast, all in one breath reading of the words "CONVENTION-IS-TOMORROW!!!")

Lynda: Erm...ok, why're you running with me then?

Momo: I dunno....but z-o-m-g-CONVENTION-IS-TOMORROW!!!

Lynda: Ahhh....

Yup. And then she goes off to wash more brushes, because CONVENTION-IS-TOMORROW!!!

Anyways, I had something planned out for this post, but...whatevs. Special circumstances and all, y'know?

Today in Orchestra, we had a lovely field trip to a library so that we could see/hear/be awed by this Haitian hip-hop violinist. He was supremely cool. I liked it. Then at the end, our awesome director, Ms. D (who is AWESOME!) went up and played a duet with him. Well, not voluntarily, one of the students set her up. They played "Amazing Grace", and it was just so...pure. So heartfelt and beautiful and absolutely gorgeous, the notes rang and you could feel the music, not just hear it because it was just so glorious...I could just go on about it, but really, it was just...amazing. Have you ever heard something and it was like that? I hope you do one day, because it was unbelievable, and it made my day...that and missing science class!

Speaking of which, I saw our lovely science teacher after crew practice today, and she talked to me. It was kinda weird, talking to her outside of class...I dunno, but I think that she's quite a nice person. She's just lacking in the teaching part. Oh well. Her car isn't as cool as she makes it out to be. It's actually drab and ick. Just sayin'.

Anyways, I went to Chicago this past weekend to get a shenzhen visa to go to Europe (for our orchestra tour), and I observed many things. I shall share the important ones with you.

1. Car rides were made to lull you to sleep. I swear I got into the car, and three seconds later, I was out!

2. Hotels are fun to compare with each other. I know they all seem the same, but there are the differences, and they're extremely fun to find...like the little complimentary shampoo bottles!

3. Complimentary breakfast is awesome. We always get hotels that offer them. The quaint counter with all this free food...so awesome.

4. Asians are frickin' geniuses. I'm not even being biased about this. We were at the French Consulate General, and these two Asians were getting visas also. One of them gets up and starts speaking FLUENT FRENCH to the lady behind the glass, and then after about 10 minutes, he says something in ELOQUENT ENGLISH, and then he sits down and starts talking to the other dude in COGENT CHINESE!!!! The dude was TRI-LINGUAL!!! Like, fluent in 3 languages!!! Jeez...and to top it off, the other Asian dude was doing math, and the math was like rocket science. I'm not even kidding. There were all these squigglies, and lines, and tons of numbers, letters, greek letters, etc. I felt incredibly stupid.

5. Chinatown is yummy. We ate there. 老四川 was the name of the restaurant, and it was soooooooooo SPICY!!!!

6. If China's people were as slow as Chicago's Shedd Aquarium ticket people, then they would be perpetually late...by years. You'd think you'd be faster at taking money and giving people a ticket. The line was curved completely around the whole Aquarium (and it's not a small thing. It's HUGE), and we got there early-ish! It took my dad 4 hours to get just inside the building!

7. Leaving a hotel room makes you paranoid about forgetting things. I checked every nook and cranny about 10 times, but I was still worried I forgot something.

8. Service plazas in Indiana (or the one we went to) are DISGUSTING. The toilets were brown! BROWN!!! We thought it was messed up pee, but turns out that the water was brown. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! It stank so badly...

9. Groping is not meant for service plazas. If you still have so much sexual energy, and you feel the need to pinch and then smack the ass of your significant other in front of 2 toddlers and a teenager....please please please stay in bed. Do not grope each other outside of your house/car >.<

10. Home is where the heart is. Yup. I still like my own bed better, my own bathroom MUCH better, and in general, my home better.

So...I should probably get to work on that outline that's due tomorrow...hehehe.

But first, 3 questions for all of you. Please answer in the comments.

1. What's tommorrow?

2. The day after that?

3. And the day after that?

*plugs ears to prevent hearing loss from the screams of CONVENTION-IS-TOMORROW!!!*

G'night!

Lynda

P.S. We still have Greek tomorrow...*sigh*

P.P.S. omg...I forgot about Science Olympiad Regionals! They're on Saturday. We gonna diiiieeeeee....*shrugs* I don't care that much, as long as I win personal medals! :)

I do not *like* green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

Okay, so for some reason I began thinking about Yertle the Turtle in global studies today. Probably because we did previously watch it last semester. *Reminiscence* Good times, good times... 

Did you know that the way to skin pears, and other fruits and vegetables, is to place them in scalding water for a couple seconds? Apparently, the skin comes right off... 

Uhh... I'm multi-tasking right now. ^_^ It's fun. Hooray for having 5 tabs open at once. And the best part is that it is all for my entertainment because *someone* finished all of her homework before the hour of 5 o'clock. Yes, that is correct... I got home before 4, ate some cookies (YUM), and then began on homework. And then I took a well-needed 2 hour nap *sigh*, and read a chapter and a half in my book. Today's been a great day. ^_^

Did you also know that green eyes are the rarest eye color and blue eyes are a genetic mutation? It's nice to know that I'm technically considered a mutant freak. :) (Since I have green-blue eyes.)  

German lesson of the day!: If you were to say to me:  Wie findest du Geschichte? I would answer with: Ich finde Geschichte sehr langweilig. (True story, as Momo would most likely agree with me... unless she thinks otherwise.) 


Anyway, I think that's about it... uh, yeah. Bye? 
DFTBA!♥


Smiles, hugs, and lots of love,
Carrie

"I want something to get high off of," said Virgil.

The three fencing Curly Fries were walking down the hallway to our school's ridiculously out-of-the-way band room today, when Virgil dreamily delivered the above quote. It made my day.

(('hem. [hem, hem, says Umbridge-voice] I should probably put a little disclaimer here that goes, THE 6LCF ARE IN NO WAY ENDORSING DRUGS. NOT ON THIS BLOG AND HOPEFULLY NOT ANYWHERE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. <3))

I have such an awful, messy week. There's two rather urgent-ish projects that require my attention (darn you, French and physics chemistry!), an outline for a history paper due next Monday, incredibly difficult Science Olympiad regionals (while Momo, House, and Virgil will be happily sequestered away at Latin Convention), and a scholarship-audition-luncheon thing for piano this Sunday. Not to mention I've got to actually do the audition (i.e., play two pieces in front of three or four very serious piano teachers to see if my parents can pay less money for my piano lessons than usual this year) on Monday. Gaaah. >.<


After three-ish days of pretty pretty springlike weather, it turned cold again. Now the trees are covered in ice, which is, admittedly, very pretty (especially when the sun is coming up or going down). However, it is also cold again, and ewwwww I don't like the cold.

Today, both Momo and I had to fight against the scariest of the scary fencing eleven-year-olds. He is, as his name suggests, very scary. I was extremely lucky and managed to lose 5-1.


This is the last Tuesday of February. Next week, it shall be March. Yay!


So, um, yeah.


xiy

Happy President's Day

You know what I don't understand? President's day. "Why?" you might ask. For starters, are we celebrating past presidents or honoring the one in office? And what if you don't like the president(s), past or present? I also don't understand why it's in the middle of February. Or why there isn't a Vice President's Day or First Lady's Day or House of Representatives' Day. I do not understand. However, it just gives us another reason not to go to school. That's something else that confuses me. Do they really think we need the day off to think about presidents? No! Do they really think we would actually spend our day off thinking about presidents? No!

Today Virgil and I attended Latin Club scrapbooking because...wait for it...

CONVENTION IS IN 4 DAYS!!!!!!!!

Aaanyway. We sat around and cut paper and generally had a magnificent time. We even called our friend, Cow, and told him about the dangers regarding his milk. I also inhaled quite a bit of vinegar while rolling on the floor in the fetal position. Good times...

Which leads me to my next topic: Parody Week! Yay! It's done. If you haven't already, you can see the results downstairs. In the post under this one. WOOOOOO! We should do something like this again. I liked most of it.

Aghhuffhogdgrthvbio. I don't wanna go to school tomorrow. D':

The End. 

M.C. has a funny voice mail. LOL

~mOMo

The Results Are In!

After a very successful theme week, the results of who parodied whom are finally in. Below you will see the name of all six of the curly fries. Throughout the day, each of us will be filling in who parodied that person. For example: Momo: <-- the name of the person being parodied/ the name of the parodier--> Yo Mama. Got it? Good.

Momo: Lynda (this isn't Lynda writing this... but she was the only one left hehe) Haha, yes, it was me. Obviously, the person who wrote ^ wasn't me, cuz I changed the shade of blue into one I never use. It was fun!

xiy: Carrie. My B, guys... I got confused on how results were gonna go... and I wasn't able to get on yesterday. but yep, it was Carrie! :D

Carrie: Everybody thought it was Virgil, but, no, it was me. Your friendly neighborhood dictator. ♥ ~xiy

Lynda: Hahaha that was really fun, you guys. I wuv you, Lynnie Lyn! ♥ ~House AHA! I KNEW IT WAS YOU! YOU WERE TOO HAPPY WITH YOUR NAME! I KNEW IT! teehee!

House: Virgil did this one!! ^_^ yayyy <3 it was jolly good fun! ~Virgil you. misused. a. hyphen. *retreats into corner and cries*

Virgil: Momo did this parody!!!!!!!!!!! However, she apologizes for messing up the colors of Virgil's post (wrong shade of red) and for the post's shortness. Oooh! Christmas colors! ~Momo

I Didn't Forget a Title

Can you believe that theme week is already over? This week has gone by quite fast and now it's Saturday again and my day to post. Today's post comes to in approximately 158 parts. Why are we wasting time? Let's get started!

Cue the theme music: la la la la, la la la la, Virgils's world!!! Virgil loves Harry Potter and Herman too!! That's Virgil's worlld!

Part 1: Harry Potter

OMG I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!! Only 146 days until HP7 Part 2!!!!! Aaaaagh!!!!! The pain is unbearable!!!! I don't think I can last 146 days until it comes out. Thankfully I will be able to read all books through every day until then. In addition, my family has found a Harry Potter themed insane asylum for us insane fans. It is not only all Harry Potter all the time, but I'll have access to the magical world of Harry Potter in Florida 24/7/365. Aren't you guys pumped?!

Part 2: Latin

Latin Convention is this Friday!! House, Momo, and I will all be attending this magical event starting this Friday. I probably will not be able to post (House?) but I think you all will be able to survive. I am sooooo pumped!!!!! I've only made 52 projects, but I will be done the last twelve by Thursday. I love Latin so much. In fact, I love it so much that I will post Lorem ipsum for you all to decipher (and because this parodier does not have enough knowledge in Latin to say anything else).

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc molestie, sapien in accumsan placerat, nulla ligula molestie odio, non porttitor ligula massa nec libero. Mauris scelerisque, erat quis facilisis porta, dui ligula ultricies est, elementum porttitor dolor mauris eu eros. Duis sollicitudin metus quis libero malesuada elementum. Curabitur sed risus turpis. Nam tempus nulla sed nibh dignissim venenatis. In sed tristique diam. Nullam pretium fermentum lectus. Cras bibendum molestie leo, vel bibendum nunc adipiscing a. Quisque tempor, lorem laoreet pellentesque tempor, tellus orci egestas metus, vel cursus enim mi vel mi. Praesent ac diam leo. Curabitur pulvinar fringilla venenatis.

Part 3: Miscellaneous Things

I was recently accepted to this music group that is really legit and intense. I am so excited!! Music is one of my favorite hobbies. It's one of my best talents, including science, math, writing, tennis, Latin, history, and basically anything else that you can think of. I also really enjoy Fanfiction (ZOMG! I LOVE FANFICTION!), being at church, my boyfriend, The Poof that is no longer <3, and YouTube videos. In fact, I've been watching YouTube for the past 4 and a half hours and got distracted from my post. Oops!

Apparently, the other parts of my post were deleted, but now it's late so I won't rewrite the masterpieces that you all know I have created. Enjoy the next six hours of your day!

Virgil

it's a frick-tastic Friday

"Sometimes I feel like we've been unfair to the giraffes, John. I think that we can make it up to them." -Hank Green

Hey ya'll. ^_^


We didn't have school today (that's what presidents are good for, apparently), which is really exciting because it means that I have time to write a semi-good quality post, which doesn't always happen.
I miss being at school, though. *sigh* It's part of being Asian, I guess. 

Latin Convention is in a week. I've got to work on a project. Crap.
It's also exciting because I get to see EZ in a toga, which is SUCH a turn-on ;)
Today's agenda is to further discuss the theme of politeness, which is especially relevant this time of year:
It's the middle of February - that month when everybody coughs and sneezes and gets everybody else sick. Here are some guidelines for disease-related etiquette in February:

1. Say "bless you" when somebody near you sneezes. It's common courtesy. 
2. If you're the one sneezing or coughing, do the people around you a favor and COVER YOUR FRICKING MOUTH. I don't care if you're deathly ill or whatever - politeness>life.
3. Don't cover your mouth with your hand. That's gross. Do you plan to wash that hand before touching anything else?
4. Use the inside of your elbow, for everyone else's sake.
5. If you're so sick that you cannot stop sneezing, please just don't come to school. You're interrupting my learning, which is oh-so-important.

Ah, I do so very much enjoy criticizing other people. It's a lifestyle choice.

With all due respect,
House's parody-er

Omg It's Meeeee!

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii it's Lyndaaaaaaaa. First of all...I got into this really good orchestra in my school! YAY YAY YAYYY YAY!!! HA! This means I out-Asianed every other violin that tried out and didn’t make it! Sooooo exciting…  yeah. Anyway. Also I am getting to cut Crew today! YESSSSSSS! *Lynda explodes in joy* mwaahaha less rowing for me today. oh and also guess what???? My birthday is in nine months and two days. NINEEEE MONTHS AND TWOOOO DAYS!!! AHHHH OH MY FRIKKIN GOSHHH I’M GONNA BE DRIVING SOOO SOON! AAAAHHHH I LOVEEE MY BIRTHDAY! *SQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQUUEEE!*

wait...wait wait wait! what if I’m not any taller by nine months and two days?!?!? I wouldn’t have even grown an inch in a year! Not even a centimeter! Probably barely even a millimeter!!!!!! what am I gonna dooooo the world is so unfair!! >.<

***

HOLY SNOODLE CHEESE DOODLES...you’ll never guess what happenedddd!! They’re making the orchestra march with the marching band??? WHATTTT?!?!?! You RIDICULOUS band peoples! HOW am I -- a world class violinist -- supposed to walk in that disgustinggg mud with my beautiful, fragile violin?! THIS WILL NOT DO! My precious earlobes...er, I mean ears...will be shattered! SHATTERED, I TELL YOUUUU!

Grragagaghghhghghgghhhh you Americans are sooooo weirddd! for example, I was listening to my radio the other day, and a nice-sounding girl started to play. but then the song ended. And the DJ said, “… and we’re back. That was ‘Baby,’ by Justin Bie-” THAT’S WHAT YOU AMERICANS LISTEN TO??? GET SOME QUALITY MUSIC ON YOUR IPODSSS!!! here: I’ll make it easy for you...click here. graghghgh today I am the squid of anger and frustration. Stupid sun and butterflies being all happy......*grumbles and retreats into corner*

Luuuuuv,

LYNDA!

it's a wednesday!

['hem. Sincerest apologies to Carrie for the parody.]


Hello! It's been such a wonderful springlike day today, and so now I am filled with happiness and rainbows.  Perhaps now all the boys will stop PMSing. (Did I jinx it? D:) 

What a lovely day today has been. I spent it being kind to people and doing theatre and listening to music and taking pretty pictures of the landscape, because the weather here is so awful that it'll probably be sleeting tomorrow. Oh, well. That's okay. :3


There's no school on Friday because of President's Day; I am very excited! Are you excited (probably not, but it is polite to ask)? ^_^ 

I'm very sleepy right now. Meh. 


I think this will be a  pretty short post; happy Wednesday, everybody!


DFTBA!♥


Smiles, hugs, and lots of love,
not!Carrie

Books, pianos and paintings. Oh my!

[Disclaimer: I own nothing, and my most sincere apologies for the previous post.]

Hello there. This evening I have felt the sudden urge to share with you a couple of my favorite things:

1) Icons! 
[Gr, the upload thing keeps rejecting the picture, so now I don't have one to show you. :C *sad face*] 
2) GIMP! 

3) Terry Pratchett (The Discworld series, and Good Omens)

 4) George R.R. Martin (Fire and Ice series)

 5) Piano! :3 

 (I thought this looked kind of neat. :3 )

And finally, 6) Grammar. 

(This made me giggle. ^.^)

You know what they say: a picture's worth a thousand words. So here's one last picture to top off the post:

"Water Lily Pond" by: Claude Monet 

♥

It's been the most lovely pleasure talking to you. 

Good-night to all.

xIY 

ZOMG! A MOMO PARODY!

Disclaimer: This post is not actually written by Momo. It is part of a theme week "Parody Week". I do not own these stereotypical traits of our beloved Momo. Please don't sue me.

Yay! A new theme week! I love theme weeks!

Today, it was quite nice out, not as cold as it was before. Yay! That means that I can go out and be hyper! Like a frog! Back when I was a chillun', I was a superb frog impersonator, still am.

Today was early dismissal for our school, so I didn't go swordfighting!!! Swordfighting=fun!

Speaking of fun, Play-Doh is fun too! I love making Play-Dohs! [Here, I, the real me, not Momo, would like to say that I do not have any accessible Play-Doh. So the following pictures are not mine or Momo's, they are from GOOGLE! :)]

Haha, the zebra has white stripes on black! Wait, is that the real way?


 And since it's Valentine's Day-

 That's my lovely post! :) 
-mOmO


[This whole parody thing was harder than I thought! I had to do research on Momo's interests! jkz]

Happy Valentine's Day!

I've noticed that no one's posted today for Valentine's like we were planning. Anyway, Happy Valentine's Day! May you all get fat off of chocolate and get as many stupid love cards as your tiny hands can gather. Also, enjoy some cheap flowers and stuff. Wee! 

Did you ever notice that there are always a tremendous amount of birthdays in late October and November? Count nine months from Valentine's. There's your solution. Bamf. Guess who was born in November? Just putting that out there.*

Here's a poem to celebrate the day:

And also, because I know we all love each other so much, I give you my heart. Made out of chocolate:

-Momo

And I, xiy, present to you, inspired by Alex Day's wonderful song "Holding On":

I'll bake a chocolate cake for you, with tiers up to the moon.

Happy Valentine's Day. May you consume lots of delicious chocolate!

House's turn!
I present to you all the magical gift of PINK. Made it specially for you :D

{p.s. I freakin love Hello Kitty}

Hope you guys had a lovely Monday :)

~House
I, Lynda present to you a lovely GIF that I made especially for Valentine's Day! The theme is wuv....I mean, LOVE.

 

P.S. Feel free to add to this post, guys!

*note that these are the things Momo would bring up during lunch at the table...

CONVENTION IS IN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS ZOMG

I'm so excited! Latin Convention is quickly approaching, and I can't wait. It's so great that we have something to look forward to in February, which is, overall, a terrible month.

A list of reasons why I don't like February:

10. So much homework. Teachers feel obligated to make second semester harder than first semester, because that way it seems like we're making progress.

9. It' so cold. The temperature this time of year makes me want to curl up in my bed and refuse to get up until April.

8. The cold makes me fat because I eat chocolate when I'm cold.

7. Ice. It's not fun. It's cold (see #9 and #8) and it's slippery and therefore is the source of many bruises on Virgil's poor posterior. Ice = bad.

6. Snow. It's nice in December when it's all white and fluffy, but now that it's been sitting there for a couple months it's all brown and gross and gets all over everything. 

5. There's so much pink everywhere because of Valentine's Day. I don't mind Valentine's Day, but I HATE PINK.

4. The sun hardly ever comes out in February. The sun came out today, and it was probably the first time all month. That is sad. Which leads to #3:

3. The lack of sunshine and blue sky makes people depressed, like legit - clinical depression gets worse, which leads to #2:

2. More people commit suicide. Suicide = not good. It is very sad.

1. Did I already mention the COLD?

So yeah, now I'm done complaining.

Here are some things that I like about February:

4. Valentine's Day = <3

3. Sledding! (I haven't been sledding in ages, but it makes chilluns happy, and happy chilluns = good)

2. People who keep their Christmas lights up make me happy.

1. LATIN CONVENTION YAYY!!!!

So that's a 5:2 ratio of things that I don't like about February : things that I do like.

For most months, that ratio is more like 1:3, which is a much happier ratio.

Therefore, I have mathematically proved that February = bad. Even the Romans thought so! They named it after the word for fever, and fever is bad.

Now I'm going to talk about parody week, which shall be next week. 6LCF - you have all received the email which assigned you your Curly Fry whom you shall parody. Here is your assignment:

1. On your assigned person's day, you shall post. (The person who has Momo will post on Monday, etc.)

2. Post in that person's color.

3. Write it like a stereotypical post of said person - make fun of her, but DON'T BE MEAN. >:(

4. People can guess who wrote said post, but we will NOT be revealing who is who until the end of the week, or else it'll be no fun for the people at the end of the week.

Um, that's about it. Anyone else have rules they feel should be added? Leave them in the comments and I'll edit them in.

I think tomorrow (Sunday) we're doing a joint group-post for Valentine's Day, even though the holiday is actually Monday - unless the person who is Momo has an idea for a Valentine's Day post. If you are that person, please comment anonymously and let us know that you want to do the Valentine's Day post.

In other news - I'm starting a new novel called The Second Star to the Right, and xiy and/or House and/or anyone else who wants to (besides my immediate family, who are not allowed to read anything I write) are invited to be my Official Editors.

This is a long post. I hope it didn't take too much effort for you to read it. Kudos if you stuck with me 'til* the end!

Happy Valentine's Day in advance!

Virgil

*I hate it when people say "till" when they mean "until" because it sounds like they're saying, "Xanthias, till the soil, for the field is small but the work is large" so I always say 'til.

Bingo for the Less Attentive Chem Students

(Egypt, man. Eeeeeeeeegypt. [Haha, our Global Studies teacher was flipping out today. It's all pretty cool, right? Right.])

Progress has  been made today at our school.
Momo, Lynda, and I are all in the same Chemistry class. Momo and Lynda today have devised a way to get us through another entire semester of Chemistry with our, er, endearing teacher.* For this I am very thankful ^_^

As with most all teachers, she has her little phrases that she says often. (Including [but certainly not limited to!]: "EVERYBODY SITDOWN," "signifigant fig-urs," "GOOGLE!/JUST GOOGLE IT! :D" and "vaaal-yoom [i.e. 'volume'].") And we have, being the more nerdy type of student that doesn't have to hang on quite every single word to get a nice 98% on the test, begun to see the amount we are actively and legitimately listening in class has, er, declined.

But never fear, for we have compiled a nice list of our teacher's most often used phrases (our names are on the list, too) and have constructed a few different Bingo boards to keep up nice and attentive during the almost-hour. We play by usual Bingo rules. We're allowed to suggest to her topics of conversation (e.g. Momo: "What's that search engine you like so much... it, like, starts with a G and sounds like-" Endearing Teacher: "GOOGLE! Just Google it, man! You know." Momo: *victory!*),[jsyk, I actually asked, "what's your favorite website?"] but we can't explicitly ask her to say a certain word/phrase(/do a particular action, should we add common actions later on). This defo makes us pay attention at least a little more,  yay. And because we have our names on each of our own respective boards, this
little game encourages us to raise our hand a bit more often. And maybe to even (gasp) ask questions.**

So yeah. Cool beans.

In other news, giant crazy mega Latin Convention is in two weeks.
Zomg. Be ready for me, Momo, and Virgil to be mentally-mentally-mentally-crazy-holyyyy-snap-DUDE-CONVENTION wired up like heck.

With all due respect,
House

P.S. Momo is my favorite. <3


Also, this coming week, us six will be having a fun little switcharoo of posting, which I've tagged as "parody week." More information to come on Sunday-ish. Or tomorrow, depending on if Virgil fills y'all in or not.


P.S. Ooooh and because I won't technically be posting as myself this week, happy Valentine's Day! [I love pink :) ] <3 <3 <3

*I actually went in after school today for legitimate help with legitimate questions. She's not that bad one-on-one without a huge classroom of annoying as heck little chilluns attacking each other in it.

**{These might range from "What's that search engine you like so much" all the way to "I don't remember how to pronounce ____"... or even stretching all the way to actual questions. Maybe.}

Cavities, Table Manners, and Reading Music

As you can tell from the title, today's post will have 3 parts. You may skip any of them, but they are all rather informative and interesting...may include rants though. I actually had 2 of the parts planned out before today. I'm so proud of myself :)

I. CAVITIES

Today, this poor little Curly Fry went to the dentist. She's always heard about people who hate dentist appointments, how much pain they go through, and how terrifying it is. This Curly Fry did not believe them. Cuz really, she had never gone through any pain at the dentist's! She gets her teeth cleaned ever 6 months like the good little girl that she is. But since her dentist's company got sold to a different one, they screwed up the whole entire schedule, and so the little Curly Fry's appointments went down the drain. A year and a half after her last teeth cleaning, she goes to get her teeth cleaned. Today. So she goes, and the dentist (or is it the dentist nurse? It's not Dr. Dentist, the real important one) asks her mommy if she's had an x-ray of her mouth in a while. The answer? No. Not in 4-5 years. But that's ok! Little Curly Fry gets an x-ray on the spot! Such good service. The dentist then says, "Open up, dearie," and so the little Curly Fry opens up her mouth. The dentist puts in a stick that has a pink plastic card thing on it to block the rest of the mouth from getting x-rayed. "Now, bite down," and the little Curly Fry bites down. She feels discomfort as the plastic thing is too big, and cuts into her mouth. That's ok, since she only needs to suffer through 4 more times. By the end of it, the little Curly Fry's mouth hurts a bit. But that's fine, since it's an x-ray precaution! Then the dentist tells her to lie down, and to "open up". Little Curly Fry does so, and the dentist proceeds to prod and poke around inside her mouth. After a little while, the dentist asks the little Curly Fry, "do you know what cavities are?" and the little Curly Fry says, "yes." The dentist then says, "what are they?" Of course, the little Curly Fry's brain chooses that moment to go blank and forget every single thing she has ever learned, and cannot answer. The dentist explains that cavities are holes in your teeth that is caused by your teeth decaying. Then she brings over a mirror, and tells the little Curly Fry to look into it, and then proceeds to start scraping off white stuff from the little Curly Fry's teeth. What is it? IT'S PLAQUE! PLAQUE! PLAQUE!!! *sob* The poor little Curly Fry has plaque all over her teeth, and to make it worse, the dentist is purposely humiliating the little Curly Fry by telling her to brush her teeth (as if she didn't) and to floss (well...) every day! She also says to brush your teeth for 2 minutes straight. Which is good advice. The little Curly Fry takes it to heart, and vows to start using a timer to time herself when brushing, oh, and to floss everyday (which, I am sure, every Curly Fry does). The dentist then shows that the little Curly Fry's gums are bleeding. This is a sign of infection. Too much plaque causes infection. This just reinforces the little Curly Fry's internal vows. After showing the little Curly Fry, the dentist begins to clean. Sorry, did the narrator just say "clean"? She meant torture. The poor little Curly Fry had to endure 45 minutes of absolute pain. The pointy, metal tools that the dentist used were used viciously to attack all the dirty parts of the little Curly Fry's teeth, painfully. Unlike before, the cleaning hurt terribly. By the end of it, she was hesitant to close her mouth, as that caused huge amounts of pain. The little Curly Fry prepared herself for the next part, and realized it was brushing. She felt so relieved! She enjoyed the feeling of the whirring toothbrushes that dentists always used. She especially liked the orange flavored toothpaste. But *gasp*! The dentist did not ask her which type of flavor she wanted! She just went ahead and used mint! MINT! The little Curly Fry was devastated, and soon also realized that the whirring of the toothbrush on her poor tortured gums was a horrid feeling of agony! At last, the visit to the dentist was drawing to a close, and she was so relieved, she could cry. That's when Dr. Dentist came in. The really important dentist that checks up on every patient at the end. She told the little Curly Fry, after fiddling around with the pointy, metal tools that the little Curly Fry had 2 cavities, and would need to fix it. The little Curly Fry felt like bursting into tears, she had not gotten cavities in 7 years! And this is the end of the poor little Curly Fry who went to the dentist, and found that it was not as pleasant as she remembered. The moral of the story? Brush your teeth for 2-3 times a day, 2 minutes each. Floss everyday. Otherwise, cavities and gum diseases shall appear in your life...

II. TABLE MANNERS

Ah, yes. A sub-topic of a thing called "etiquette". Something that this Curly Fry tends to ignore, unless she has company (grown-up/new people company). Something that House Curly Fry can go on for ages about. House is probably smiling in approval at this Curly Fry because of this part. There are several rules that one should follow when eating at a table (or in a car, on a tablecloth/picnic, etc.) for the good of everyone there. Here are the ones that I have compiled. Please note they are not in any specific order. They are listed as I think of them.

Rule Number 1. Eat with your mouth closed. It's quite disturbing (read: disgusting) when someone has their mouth wide open, and you can clearly see the mushed up contents of their meal. Besides, there is a greater possibility of your food falling out.

Rule Number 2. Don't talk with your mouth full. Something every parent has told their child(ren). It is in close relationship with #1, because again, it's strange (read: sickening) when someone is talking to you, and you can see their food, or what the food is becoming, or even the food tumbling out of their mouth and onto the ground, their lap, or even your lap.

Rule Number 3. Wipe your mouth on a napkin. NOT YOUR SLEEVE. I know there is the stereotype that Amuricans just swipe their arm across their mouth and then call it a day, but that's quite crude (read: gross). It won't kill you to reach over for a napkin, and wipe your mouth.

Rule Number 4. Wash your hands before you eat. It is not sanitary to eat with the hands (actually, you shouldn't eat with your hands, though that's next) that you just touched dirt with. Or perhaps you've been at school the whole day, and you've touched your desk, the doors, the walls, your locker, your pencil, the whiteboard, the computer, etc. Please remember that many other people have touched the things you've touched. If you were to eat the germs that are on those things, think of how atrocious that would be! For example, say someone had just scratched the inside of their nose, and some mucus had come detached, and the person had to wipe it somewhere. Somewhere like their desk. Say you sat at that desk, and your hand grazed the spot. Later on, you would be eating parts of the mucus from that person's nose.

Rule Number 5. Eat most foods with your utensils. There is a reason they were made. Do not eat rice, noodles, or soups with your hands. They are not meant to be eaten like that. Rice is meant to be eaten with chopsticks. If you do not have chopsticks, or you cannot use chopsticks (properly), eat it with a spoon, fork, or even a spork. Noodles are meant to be eaten with forks and maybe spoons. Use spoons to eat soups. Of course, there are exceptions, like curly fries. They are made for the person to use their hands to eat. Other exceptions include emergency situations, in which there are no utensils. If you are going to eat with hands, please read and follow Rule Number 4.

Rule Number 6. Use utensils the way they were made to be used. Do not hold a fork like a club. Do not hold the knife with the cutting part in your palm. You will hurt yourself, and you will feel pain. Do not use your spoon to flick peas or small food particles into flight. Do not hold chopsticks with two hands. Do not hold it in your fist. Do not insert chopsticks into your (or anyone's) nostril holes. Use one hand, and hold it like a pencil. Please ask someone who knows how to use chopsticks to help you or look at the diagram on the right.

Rule Number 7. Slurping, burping, squealing, singing, humming are all sounds that are not to be made at the table. Except for the cultures that do allow these (which does not include the USA), this one is self explanatory.

Rule Number 8. Talking is permitted, but certain topics are to be avoided at all costs. These topics include, but are not limited to: bowel movements, reproductive actions, non-reproductive actions that are closely related to said actions, diseases, and vomiting. Politics and religion are commonly in that list, but I think that people can deal with talking about these, as long as they aren't rude or obnoxious about it. Tolerance is good.

Rule Number 9. You do not need to shout at the table. Unless the table is extremely large (in which case, you should just wait until after the meal to talk to the person), people can hear you. They are not deaf. In the case that they are, shouting is useless. If the person is close to being deaf, speak next to their ear, at a low pitch, this helps their ears or hearing aids to pick up on what you are saying. This rule also helps the people at other tables who do not wish to know what you think of Justin Bieber, regardless of how important you may think your opinion is.

Rule Number 10. Please and thank you! House has gone over this, the rule applies to table manners also.

Rule Number 11. NEVER INSULT THE FOOD. If you don't like it after you've sampled (YOU MUST ALWAYS TRY IT), then don't eat it, but DO NOT say it was "disgusting", or go, "ewww". It is incredibly rude, and if you do, Lynda Curly Fry will hunt you down and stuff you with that food until you like it. Or learn to say you like it. GOT IT? (You can tell I despise people who do that)

Rule Number 12. Thank the chef, if you can. They did not need to go through with the effort. Unless you're at a restaurant, in which case, thanking the chef is still the polite thing to do.

botherbotherbother,

Okay. 3 (possibly 4) things...

1) Theme week next week. :D

2) I am no longer single. :P I still have to think of a nickname for this kid... but I guess for now, he'll be the bf.

3) THERE'S GONNA BE AA THEATRE PERFORMANCE TOMORROW! THAT I'M IN! :D Technically it's just the preview for the other theatre students. but whateves. A performance is a performance. 

4) I am very very very tired ._.

(Oh, look, a fifth object)

5) My brother's b-day is tomorrow! :D That's exciting.

Okay. Bye.

DFTBA!♥

Smiles, hugs, and lots of love,

Carrie

math tests, losing one's boots, and snow snow snow

Hello there; how's your Tuesday been so far? Pleasant, I hope. Mine's been okay, though this morning was soured by having to take an extremely hard math test, i.e., the AMC. This test is twenty-five questions long; the beginning is okay, but it gets progressively harder as one goes along. It's one of those tests in which you get some points for leaving an answer blank but you get nothing for answering incorrectly. So I didn't guess very much and left, like, half the answers blank. >.>

Yesterday, I left my snow boots in Chinese Club, so I trekked through the snow in sneakers this morning. It wasn't that bad, actually, since I mostly just walked along the road and the sidewalk near the school was salted (the sidewalk is now permanently stained blue; it's pretty disgusting to look at) and therefore easy to walk on. However, my feet were rather cold; fortunately, I managed to find said boots later in the day. 


. . .That wasn't really very interesting, was it? I just have a really boring life, I guess.


Anyway, yeah. It's snowed a lot recently where we 6LCF live; the piles of snow bordering the parking lot at school have grown to almost five feet tall, more or less. I do hope it doesn't all melt at once. Then everything would be soggy and unpleasant.


Yeah, I haven't much to say today. G'bye.


xiy

Agh! I forgot to post!!! Well, almost. I'm really tired so here's the news:

1. Saturday was Science Olympiad. I had fun.

2. Today was school. I did not have fun.

3. House and I got "yelled" at in Latin class.

4. Tomorrow we have to take a stupid math test.

5. I am almost done with my Latin Convention project. Yay!

Secret Message: I was lying in bed thinking that I was forgetting something...

The End.

Momo

It's Saturday and si nihil aliud nisi de...

I've memorized the first five words of the Latin recitation for Convention. Yay!

I usually post earlier than this, but I kind of forgot that today was Saturday until I checked the blog and wondered why there wasn't a new post up yet. 

In other news, you should all know that Fuzzy (previously Poofy) posted on his blog for the first time in months, and you should all go read it. 

Hmm, what should I talk about today? While I think of something to write, I'll just play the theme song for ya'll.

La la la la, la la la la, Virgil's world! La la la la, la la la la, Virgil's world! Virgil loves Convention and projects too! That's Virgil's worrrllldd!!!

[You can go ahead and skip the really long paragraph below, if you want. It's just me ranting.]

Si nihil aliud nisi de...

So, uh, I guess I'll talk about Latin Convention. But because I do that, I want to point out that House, Momo, Lynda, and xiy were all at a Science Olympiad competition today and they beasted. I was not there because I am a butt, and Carrie was not there because she's too cool for that sort of thing. To explain myself further - I originally thought that I wouldn't be able to do Science Olympiad this year because of the crazy logistics involved and the fact that I wouldn't be able to make it to half of the competitions, but then the thing that was supposed to be today got canceled and I thought about contacting Shcience Guy to say that yeah, I could do one of the competitions, but then I realized that all of the events that I was good in last year are either no longer existent or they've changed, so I would have to start from scratch for getting prepared which would just suck. Also, he's probably assigned my would-be events to other people because I originally thought I wouldn't be able to do it, so if I rejoined it would probably be an unwanted intrusion. But I'm still really sad about not going because Science Olympiad competitions were always really fun. :'(

ANYWAYS Latin Convention is in less than three weeks, which is really exciting. I've only done one project so far, but I want to do one or two more. I'm still trying to come up with ideas.

I'm sorry this post couldn't be more entertaining. I'm sorry that I didn't go to Science Olympiad. I am very sad right now. :(

Virgil

clarifications

Wassup.

So. It has come to my attention this week that there are a few basic things that I thought, like, a ton of people know. But apparently not a ton of people know these things, since I've noticed more than a ton of people get these things rather wrong this week.


1) Our pretty picture.
If you're looking at the banner that is up ^there right now (February 4th, 2011), you'll see a prettyful banner with six figures against a sky with nice-looking text beneath them and four little doodles under the text. This was drawn recently by our very own xiy. The figures (from left to right) are Virgil, me, xiy, Momo, Carrie, and Lynda. Take note of the intentional "beauty mark" on Lynda's cheek. "Six Little Curly Fries" is the name we've given our little clique-thing. "I reject your reality and substitute my own" is a famous quote among all of us nerds that was said by Adam Savage, a most beastly MythBuster. We've adapted the quote to fit nicely with our blog. The doodles at the bottom are as follows, again left to right: Hector the unicorn, curly fries and sparkling grape juice[/wine], Archie the sheep, and my purple dinosaur (Kitty) that Momo kindly acquired for me.

[Thank goodness we've gotten that figured out.]


2) PLEASE and THANK YOU and EXCUSE ME
Proper manners. Come on, people.
I'm not asking y'all to attend tea every afternoon on the freakin dot. I'm not making you wear petticoats or suspenders or  sunbonnets to protect your delicate complexion. No, I just would love it if I could remind you for a second to remember the basic manners you learned in pre-school/kindergarten/goodness forbid at home.

-Grabbing is generally not acceptable except for dire situations. For example, if there is a small duckling about to be hit by an oncoming train that has been overtaken by death eaters, then you don't need to ask the duckling for permission before you save its precious, fuzzy life. In most all other cases, please say "please." It makes one sound far less greedy than one who says "gimme."

-When you're the one who's been fortunate enough to have been helped out by someone with a kind heart, it is best to show your appreciation by saying "thank you," "thanks," or something of the sort. By doing so, you make yourself seem far less of a butt and a little more like someone worth helping out again sometime in the future. (You're welcome.)

-Excuse me. There are many cases in which it would be appropriate to excuse yourself, but let's focus on just one fun scenario. Say you're sitting at a table with a few friends. You've been drinking a lot of soda, and your tummy's gurgling a little bit. Suddenly, you feel it. And there ain't no stopping you now. You belch. And boy, that was really frikkin loud.
Now what do you do? Well, the person I'd most likely be willing to ever dine with again would excuse themselves. "Excuse me," "pardon," and "sorry," are all acceptable. Might I note here that merely giggling at the brilliant-sounding fanfare you've just produced is... no.


3) Egypt.
Egypt? Like, with the pyramids? Isn't there, like, stuff going on there? Yes, Egypt-with-the-pyramids. And yes, they're dealing with quite a bit at the moment. If you're asking—and I dearly hope you're not—what Egypt's dealing with [since you haven't heard anything and lolz was totally right about the pyramids, score!, and wait wait wait I thinkkkkk something on the news but then, like, it was boring so you flipped back to 16 and Pregnant for a daily dose of schadenfreude*], then I would highly recommend that you to do a Google search on Egypt. Or ask a buddy. Or something. Just don't be like so many of sunshiney children at my school who have absolutely no frikkin idea what.so.ever.


*deep breath*
that's all for today, darling. If you were already nice and updated on these three things, I apologise. But ohmygoodness they have been bugging me all week long.

With all due respect,
House


*hahahahaha I totally spelled that right on the first try. winner.

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and Voicethread

HELLO! I HAVE AMAZING THINGS TO POST ABOUT TODAY!!! (wow...it's been so long since I felt that way...)

 

NUMBER 1: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The most famous piece for ORCHESTRA!!!! If you don't recognize the name, just first note that it's by MOZART. THE MOST AWESOME COMPOSER EVER. Ok. Now, to refresh your mind on this, listen to the video below.

Now you go, "OHHHHH" yes. I love that piece. We're playing it in Orchestra! YES! AHA! It's so fun to play!

NUMBER 2: Voicethread. Don't know what it is? It's ok! xiy and I found out about it in French today...along with some other interesting sites. Anyways, please go to the link below. AND COMMENT ON THE VOICETHREAD THING! It's quite interesting. Oh...sorry. This is just a warning, you have to register to comment. BUT! Registration is very fast, you just have to type in your email and a password for your account.

CLICK THIS PLEASE

Was it interesting? Did you comment? YAY! YOU DID! :)

 

I have so much homework...*moan* why do I have to do homework???

That's it for today!

Luv, Lynda

Oh hey, it's a snow day.

And I just made a rhyme. :D

Yes, we had a snow day. And for anyone who lives where we live, we all know how rare of an event that is to get.

Now my week's gonna be all thrown off. :/ Well, the rest of it anyway.

And today, I'm just gonna talk/rant/discuss a bunch of random stuff to fill the time that I should be typing a paper.

Ooops...

Hey! Let's start with that topic! Yay, school. So um, I think that teachers like torturing us. And subconsciously, they're giving *themselves* more work to do while giving *us* more work. I really don't understand why, but whatever, I wonder if they knew what they were getting themselves into "studying" to be a teacher. Haha, oxymoron/ irony right dere. I'm cool. Yeah, so currently I have to work on a giant English paper and a giant history report... wait for it... at the same time, at around the same pace. I actually think the English paper is going a bit of a more reasonable pace, but whatever. My history teacher is crazy, so it's a bit more understandable as to why she makes the due dates all 1 week apart from each other. Does that make sense? Okay. Moving on...

I have officially come to the conclusion that boys (with very few exceptions) go through their own version of PMS in the winter months. It's crazy and I don't understand it. In fact, I don't think that I will ever understand fully the analogy of guys. You know that they're simple minded, but they never seem to tell you what's on their mind and end up ignoring you for no reason... By the way, I apologize to any guys reading this. More than likely (and knowing *who* reads our blog) you are an exception. Probably. But the guys who I interact with on a regular basis, I think they guy-PMS. And it's...weird. uhh, what next?

On a brighter note, 6LCF has been up for *almost* a year! Well, in April (April or May?) it will have been a year. :3 Ain't that exciting?

Random question: Is it just me or is every baby picture you see of somebody you know adorable and you immediately start looking for the similarities of them between then and now?

Okay, bye.

DFTBA! ♥

Smiles, hugs, and lots of love,

Carrie

CPR, electric fencing, and (nearly) falling asleep in math class

Such was my life today (actually, the [nearly] falling asleep in math class bit was from yesterday; more on that later).

My gym class is learning CPR currently, and so we practiced compressions on these rubber-plastic mannequin-dummy-things during today's class period. It's not too difficult, but the dummies are so creepy. Their mouths are shaped like perfect Os, and the empty space of the mouth doesn't quite match up to the lines of the lips. You can see right down their (hypothetical) throats, and it looks like they're either singing extremely off-key or screaming. And then, when one does the 'head-tilt, chin-lift' maneuver, there's a gap between the dummy's head and neck, so it looks like they've got a hole in their neck. Also, the nostrils are blocked (apparently they didn't bother cutting out the nostrils), so one gets a beautiful view of those when one performs the aforementioned maneuver. Ugh. ._.


Virgil and I went to fencing today; thankfully, it wasn't too crowded. We even managed to get relatively well-fitting chest protectors, which is always a nice thing. Anyway, the point is that the coach persuaded us (read: told us, "Okay, here you go; hook yourself up to the apparatus and go fence electronically!") to do electric fencing. So we did (not like there was much of a choice). This was my second time, and so I actually had somewhat of an enjoyable experience. At least I knew where to put all the various wires and plugs and things.


Y'know what sounds really, really cool? Saying, "I'm doing trig[onometry]*!" Yeaaah. It sounds so very cool and nerdy and awesome.
So math class recently has been devoted to (very, very basic) right-triangle trigonometry--in particular, sine, cosine, and tangents of various angles/etc. So now I actually understand what those SIN, COS, and TAN buttons mean, which is good. It's not so mysterious anymore.
The problem is that the math teacher tends to get a bit long-winded in her explanations and sample problems, and so yesterday's class was mostly spent in a partial stupor and a flurry of doodling in the back of my geometry notebook. I shall leave you with the fruits of my labor (what an odd phrase) to conclude this post:

Virgil, (almost) sleeping. She sits in the desk diagonally in front of mine, and so is the perfect subject for math-class doodles. :D

And the color version!

xiy

*Apparently, the '-onometry' bit is not crucial to the name. "I'm doing trig" has just as much effect as "I'm doing trigonometry," though one could argue that the former sounds cooler because it mentions such a difficult subject in such a casual way.