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[rubah]

LJ Interests meme results

1. auron:
   Are you kidding? Auron is the ultimate in coyboy.
2. ff6:
   ff6 is okay-- it's really pretty for an snes game (well I've played prettier since, but it's still pretty pretty)
3. harry potter:
   harry potter is one of the book series that shaped who I was from sixth to eighth grade. I no longer obsess over it, but it's still about as real as the IRC peeps of yesteryear (who are pretty real themselves)
4. marimbas:
   Marimbas are like xylophones with a ticket to the ballroom Saturday evening. I prefer teh versatility of the xylophone, but marimbas are pretty sexy.
5. moulin rouge:
   I've never seen it. You'd have to ask meeko why she's so interested in it.
6. paine:
   I was intensely disappointed when I played FFX-2 and Paine was not Auron's daughter. If she were a man, she would almost be a coyboy.
7. rikku:
   Rikku is just fun. Fun to play, and fun to doll.
8. shiny things:
   another meekoism, although shiny things are just fine (IE, BST)
9. tango:
   Tango was a filter at WOFS that gave entirely new meaning to 'Tango for two'
10. yo:
    This is Thaddeus' preferred greeting.

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This is too cute xD
http://www.livejournal.com/community/christianity/2124189.html

(reading teh comments helps)


I decided today while walking to my car after school that killer clear blue skies are overrated. I like some clouds in there.

Today was one of those days that make me think that Arkansas is decidedly similar to the Moonflow of FFX fame. If only it were in March or April and was slightly more green, the mood would have been captured just fine. You have the mix of low brush and exposed rock edges and of clumps of trees, with a warm overcast air of late sunshine.

Well, it matches better than the islands do, for sure.

anyways, since last night, I've been making up songs. I found my my. . . great grandparent's? book of Whitter's poems. (he writes a lot about slavery, ironic because I'm reading a book about John Brown (Cloudsplitter) who was a radical abolishionist, and because I just wrote a short response in American History about states' rights and the succession from the Union that started the Civil War. and that's not mentioning the 'yay south' joke from yesterday)

The poem about the Yankee daughter who declared she would rather be enslaved with the black people than marry a rich southern slave owner was a bit annoying. It seems like it shows a good deal of the generalizations of slave owning in the south.

This may be me speaking as the descendant of slave owners, but it seems a very broad generalization to assume all southern heirs would mercilessly beat their property. Of course it *is* an awful idea to think that you could own a human being (humans don't even belong to themselves; it's folly to think that humans could sell things that belong to God) but that is what

and now, dad got home from getting my report card, so an interlude to an end xD

[18:39:24] <Faire> that's not a bad first nine weeks[18:39:25] * Faire is now known as rubah[18:39:26] -NickServ- This nickname is registered and protected. If it is your[18:39:26] -NickServ- nick, type /msg NickServ IDENTIFY password. Otherwise,[18:39:26] -NickServ- please choose a different nick.[18:39:27] -NickServ- Password accepted - you are now recognized.[18:39:27] -HostServ- Your vhost of e0ff.mx is now activated.[18:39:30] <Fait> ?[18:39:47] <rubah> 98, 100, 98, 100, 94, 95, 98[18:39:58] <Fait> ?[18:39:59] <rubah> teachers are just too easy on us:/[18:40:24] <rubah> chem, ap language, american hist, band, french, algebra 2, ap art[18:42:06] <Fait> oh, that's your grades?[18:42:08] <rubah> yeah[18:42:14] <Fait> not bad ;][18:42:19] <rubah> thx

It should not be this easy to get these grades. a 95 in math is like, whoa. Of course my french grade isn't spectacular like last year, but we've only had nine grades put in. (they stopped using gradequick, so now I have an itemized list of each assignment we've done and how much they're worth. The winners are Mrs. Garza and Mr. Johnston (lang and chem) and even mr. ray managed to make about a dozen and a half assignments xD there's not many for mr. cato, but he groups each week's homework together, so it's more than it looks.)

*posts a few hours later*

Comments

[natashca.livejournal.com]

(who are pretty real themselves)

That's a lie! I am no such thing!

Take it back.

[jume.livejournal.com]

never!

[loony-bob.livejournal.com]

It's just the American way!

If you got those grades in NZ you'd probably be the smartest kid in the country or something. In NZ, 45% is a C-pass. 60% for a B-pass, 80% for an A. I knew a couple of Chinese guys that got near 100% in one or two subjects, but yeah, that's about it.

Exchange students come to NZ all the time. From what I've heard, it seems like the difficulty was hardest in Germany and China, easiest in the US. NZ in the middle of those two. I can't remember what they said the UK was like in comparison to NZ, I think it was around the same or else easier.

[jume.livejournal.com]

Interesting.

Apparently in France, it's out of 20, and like 10 is a pass, but most people don't get above a 15 or so.