tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69309435279613318602024-03-08T16:17:05.998-05:00Crazy Socks and Ninja Bunnies(I have a new blog!) planetaryelastic.blogspot.comGabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-73131254326991277862012-05-30T21:12:00.000-04:002012-05-30T21:12:13.739-04:00Unedited posts are so fun.This obnoxious rainbow colour scheme seems so distant.<br />
Part of me misses it.<br />
But then I also don't.<br />
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Heyguysheyguysheyguys!!<br />
I'm going to post mindbarfy posts here. Hope nobody minds. :D<br />
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In keeping with the trippy colours of this ill-chosen background.<br />
The notes she sings match up with her line transformations.<br />
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The Gabis have not interrupted yet. Weird. Maybe my brain is becoming one cohesive unit. Maybe all the other Gabis are asleep, which seems more likely.</div>
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<br /></div>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-29920605284732373512012-01-28T19:32:00.002-05:002012-01-28T19:34:24.237-05:00To make things entirely clear<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I won't be posting here any more, guys. A lot of people seem to be expecting further posts on this blog. People have asked me for reasons, so here I go. (wooo! justifying my actions!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a) <a href="http://sporkattack.blogspot.com/2011/12/long-and-drawn-out-farewell-oh-look.html" target="_blank">This post kind of explains it.</a> In short, I outgrew the themes of this blog in terms of post themes and title and dividing myself into parts. My writing felt forced at times, at least to me, and I don't want that. I need all of the Gabis, the facets of my personality, to work together and not to be labelled as separate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">b) I need to improve my writing. The quality of my writing kind of plateaued, and writing entire posts full of disconnected (coughADHDGabicough) dialogue didn't really help me get better. My writing started being primarily to entertain readers, and only secondarily as a self-improvement kind of thing. I want to be able to entertain readers AND improve my writing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">c) I know that I could just change my title and background, but I want a blank slate to work with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The reasons that this blog is still in existence include wanting my readers to migrate to the new one, my harbouring of sentimental feelings towards inanimate objects (or binary code), and really liking the new URL the random word generator gave me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>TL;DR? I've moved to <a href="http://planetaryelastic.blogspot.com/">this blog.</a> I won't be posting here any more. Capeesh?</b></span><br />
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</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I used a bold, large font. This means business.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><3 Gabi</span></div>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-73059636504269999432012-01-25T21:54:00.000-05:002012-01-25T21:54:58.854-05:00This is what I do instead of studying for my computer science exam.I have a new blog.<br />
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Instead of studying feverishly for<strike> my computer science exam </strike> The Key to My Future Success which is what I should really be doing, I spent an hour writing a mediocre post and another hour playing with the settings.<br />
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Enjoy. : D<br />
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<a href="http://planetaryelastic.blogspot.com/">http://planetaryelastic.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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Prepare to see the font being changed a lot. <a href="http://www.comicsanscriminal.com/" target="_blank">I have font-related obsessive compulsive tendencies.</a> (Never ever use Papyrus or Comic Sans, please?)<br />
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<3 GabiGabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-42407127643893860032012-01-13T15:47:00.000-05:002012-01-13T15:47:18.428-05:00Choosing titles is hard. Like, I'd have another blog already if I could just pick a title. I'm tempted to cave and use something stupid, but even if the blog name is changeable the url wouldn't be. I'm stuck.<br />
How do <i>you</i> name things?Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-90191940762100968112011-12-29T16:03:00.000-05:002011-12-29T16:03:57.175-05:00A long and drawn out farewell. (oh look, a title which pertains to my post!)<div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hello there. It's been a while, hasn't it? </span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now, you know how I said how dedicated I felt to you, blog, and how I would stay with you forever? Just kidding, I never said that. But I can't help but feel bad about how sporadic my posting's been. I think that there's a reason for this.</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is exactly my 50th post. Blog, I need a break. I can genuinely say that it's not you, it's me. You have served me perfectly for the last year, helping me hone my writing skills, learn a little bit more about catering my writing to an audience. I still haven't learned to write on a schedule, I must admit. That's too bad, I guess. But still, I've learned.</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Problem is, I've grown. My obsession with crazy socks has waned and been replaced by other strange obsessions. My rabbit has gotten fat. </span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not all of the ways I've changed are for the better. I care less about other people than I used to. Somehow my religious beliefs are even more whacked out than they were when I wrote my first post. I think I've gotten stupider. </span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What am I saying, blog? I have to move on. I will probably start a new blog in the future. If it makes you feel better, I'm not leaving you for a tumblr. Thanks for everything. </span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">P.S. If you need any empowering breakup songs, just let me know. :)</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yeah, I'm leaving. I'm sorry it's so sudden, I just don't feel as if I have the energy to write any entertaining posts, at least not ones that fit with the theme of this blog.(Not that I know if anybody cares.)</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This isn't because of any sudden crisis or anything, I'm just done. </span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coincidentally, this is my 50th post, so at least I've hit a minor landmark. If I start another blog, I will certainly link to it here. </span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thank you so much to all of my lovely followers. I'd single people out but that would feel too sappy, so I just want to thank each and every one of you. I've read and thought about about all of your comments, even if I suck at replying, and they have never failed to brighten my day. I'll still be reading your blogs, and I'll try to keep commenting on stuff. I feel like I've made a bunch of dysfunctional friendships through comments sections. </span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Keep being awesome, and when you're a best-selling author I expect, at the very least, a curt nod of recognition as I accost you, begging for an autograph. </span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><3 Gabi (every part of me)</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Unrelated Quote of the Day:</b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” - </span><i style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Albert Einstein</i></span><b><br />
</b>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-73813170689127693522011-12-10T23:22:00.000-05:002011-12-10T23:22:49.851-05:00Teens Can Write Too! (See, even this title proves my point. Well, I suppose this is typing.)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Today's post is set to be magnificent, awe-inspiring, edge-of-your-seat exciting, and free of <a href="http://news.discovery.com/human/twilight-movie-causes-seizures-111128.html" target="_blank">seizure-causing childbirth scenes.</a> Man, poor Stephanie Meyer.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What was I talking about? I think I was about to mention how this post has to stay on topic, as today I will be writing for the lovely <a href="http://teenscanwritetoo.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Teens Can Write Too</a> blog chain on the subject of developing and relating to my characters.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now, as you may have noticed, I have trouble keeping to just one subject while writing. This carries over into my creation of characters. When conceptualizing protagonists for my stories I often get really into their entire personalities, but to kick-start that, I like to use basic character templates like the one around page 15 of <a href="http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/files/ywp/NaNoWriMo_YWP_High_School_Workbook.pdf" target="_blank">this workbook</a> to hash out my characters.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In theory that works nicely, but realistically? I'm me. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I get distracted halfway through with the strong urge to begin on another character who will be the perfect complement to the one I started with, and then the cycle keeps continuing in a downward spiral and then I am sitting in the middle of the office supplies store in my pyjamas cradling the last box of my favourite brand of pencils in my arms. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Maybe that isn't <i>exactly</i> what happens. I generally just get frustrated by the planning portion of my writing and delve straight into my book or short story or whatever I am writing. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Weird things happen to my characters when I haven't thought about them hard enough. I shouldn't like the loss of control, but for some strange reason, I quite enjoy it. I get to see which ones become three-dimensional and which ones fall flat. If I took myself more seriously as a writer that would hurt, but it's sort of just interesting for me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Some characters have surprised me by being much <i>less</i> exciting, though. I put a ninja into my NaNoWriMo book this year. She was the most boring character I have ever written, perhaps only excluding some <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarySue" target="_blank">Mary Sues </a> back when I was younger.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Is this boring? I always feel as if my posts that are actually normal are boring. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Teenage Gabi: You know that you could have talked about your multiple personalities. You know, how you're made up of a cast of characters that make up your personality, and so is the world and that's why the world should live in unity and stuff.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Poetic Gabi: That was very deep of you! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There's a problem there, as I don't actually have multiple personality disorder. My readers just enjoy having someone insaner than them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADHD Gabi: That's like how the best literary characters are really weird! Like Luna Lovegood. I like her radishes!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Whoa. That was actually pretty deep.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADHD Gabi: I know, right!? I felt like Yoda or something.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thus concludes my Teens Can Write Too blog chain post. I don't know if it fulfilled any of the requirements, but hopefully it was at least minimally entertaining. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">These are the lovely bloggers who are also doing the blog chain! You should check them out.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">December 5– <a href="http://correctingpenswelcome.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://correctingpenswelcome.<wbr></wbr>wordpress.com</a> — Comfy Sweaters, Writing and Fish</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">December 6– <a href="http://taystapeinc.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://taystapeinc.wordpress.<wbr></wbr>com</a> — Tay’s Tape</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">December 7– <a href="http://insideliamsbrain.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://insideliamsbrain.<wbr></wbr>wordpress.com</a> — This Page Intentionally Left Blank</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span 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href="http://kirstenwrites.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://kirstenwrites.<wbr></wbr>wordpress.com</a> — Kirsten Writes!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">December 12– <a href="http://herebefairies.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://herebefaries.wordpress.<wbr></wbr>com</a> — The Land of Man-Eating Pixies</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">December 13– <a href="http://delorfinde.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://delorfinde.wordpress.<wbr></wbr>com</a> — A Farewell to Sanity</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">December 14– <a href="http://estherstar1996.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://estherstar1996.<wbr></wbr>wordpress.com</a> — Esther Victoria1996</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">December 15– <a href="http://thewordasylum.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://thewordasylum.<wbr></wbr>wordpress.com</a> — The Word Asylum</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">December 16– <a href="http://teenagereader.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://teenagereader.<wbr></wbr>wordpress.com</a> — Teenage Reader</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">December 17– <a href="http://biozarre.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://biozarre.wordpress.com</a> — Missy Biozarre, Young Adult Author</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">December 18– <a href="http://greatlakessocialist.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://greatlakessocialist.<wbr></wbr>wordpress.com</a> — Red Herring Online</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">December 19– <a href="http://incessantdroningofaboredwriter.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>incessantdroningofaboredwriter<wbr></wbr>.wordpress.com</a>– The Incessant Droning of a Bored Writer</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">December 20– <a href="http://herestous.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://herestous.wordpress.com</a> — Here’s To Us</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span 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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I noticed that every blogger here except for me is a Wordpress blogger. Thankfully, there is a widget in the sidebar that allows people who don't have blogger accounts to follow my blog! Not that I'm shamelessly plugging or anything. <i>(laughs nervously)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Actual Stupid Teacher Quote of the Day</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"You know, I can't believe the <i>stupidicity </i>of some people." - <i>Civics teacher, referring to public transit workers</i></span></div>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-52115818096990521692011-12-05T21:58:00.000-05:002011-12-05T21:58:26.643-05:00Body butter is misleading. It should be edible.<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(ADD Gabi sits alone on a park bench, quietly singing to herself.)</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADD Gabi: Birthday, birthday, having fun on birthdayyyyy. . .</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Musical Gabi: You can't harmonize with yourself, you know.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADD Gabi: I was singing a birthday song!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Coah Gabi: YOU HAVE NO TIME TO SING! YOU HAVE A TOURNAMENT ON WEDNESDAY!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sports Commentator: Score! Gabi has successfully spelled Wednesday correctly for the first time! And she does it again! The crowd goes wild!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Honest Gabi: There is no crowd. Does anybody else see the crowd?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Scholarly Gabi: I agree with you! And we can even use Occam's Razor to disprove the crowd if it gets <i>really</i> down and dirty.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Girly Gabi: This is why I don't have a social life, guys!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Poetic Gabi: But you wrote a novel last month which you can easily turn into a metaphor for society!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Overachiever Gabi: Why do you need a social life when you are an executive member of three clubs, an active member of five, have wrestling practice six times a week, are an executive member of a youth group and organize monthly events, have a babysitting job, and need to get good marks? This is your <i>future, </i>Gabi.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Girly Gabi: One of my friends greets me every day with, "Hi Gabi! Hang out with us more." I <i>need</i> a social life.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Coach Gabi: I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE THINKING. NO. YOU MAY <i>NOT</i> QUIT WRESTLING, DO YOU HEAR ME?!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gabi's Body: Can we go to sleep now? Please?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADD Gabi: In a minu- OH LOOK IT'S <a href="http://koalastothemax.com/?aHR0cDovL21lbWVnZW5lcmF0b3IubmV0L2NhY2hlL2luc3RhbmNlcy80MDB4LzExLzExNjEyLzExODkwNzc2LmpwZw==" target="_blank">A LINK</a> THAT THE ATTRACTIVE BOY FROM DRAMA LAST YEAR POSTED!</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">20 minutes later</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADD Gabi: Who would have thought that he was<a href="http://img.memecenter.com/uploaded/You-Just-Got-Trolled_c015edf9962ea0bbe885a0370dac7e44.jpg" target="_blank"> trolling?</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gabi's Body: It is bed time. Go to sleep. Your birthday is over and you have no excuse any more and I am tired and soon I will fall asleep on the keyboard and get little key indents on my face.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Girly Gabi: Not the face! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That was yesterday. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Scholarly Gabi: A good part of it was this morning, actually.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I don't care. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gabi's Body: Can we sleep again?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's only nine p.m.! I really <i>would</i> like to produce an entire post. Anyway. I <i>could</i> go through my birthday presents, but since people know me, I mostly got Chapters/Indigo gift cards. I also got a couple of unicorns, but hey, you know. Those are pretty standard these days.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nice Gabi: Maybe you should write thank you cards! And the journal your brother got you was sweet!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Honest Gabi: It had skulls on the cover. It has the words "chaotic," "poetic," "frantic," and "romantic" on it. It's ugly.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Teenager Gabi: It even takes itself too seriously to <i>me.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Creative Gabi: Oooh, can I make a collage on it?! It will be a pretty collage!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I should have mentioned at some point that notebooks have personalities to me. My notebook has to be my friend. Strange Gabi is strange.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Alright, I am going to go now. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oh! I will be participating in the <a href="http://teenscanwritetoo.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Teens Can Write Too</a> blog chain. I encourage all of you to check it out! I've never really written on this blog for a set date before, so I am sort of nervous, but hopefully it will go well.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><3 Gabi</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Strange captcha word of the day:</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cookines (v.) Being so excited about freshly baked goods that one misspells words like cookie.</span><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gabi cookines each and every time she smells chocolate chip cookies in the oven.</span></i>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-48237004227013388662011-11-26T22:05:00.001-05:002011-11-27T22:01:54.070-05:00Are my titles too long? I think that they are too long.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">These posts aren't my regular posts, just so you know. My regular posts are much smarter, funnier, and fun for the entire family! Well, maybe not. IT DOES NOT MATTER, OKAY?!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Basically, I don't even have 30 000 words and November is almost over. BUT I WILL DO THIS!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I may have written this post because I'm proud of making this picture. Like, way too proud.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I even used a Ticonderoga pencil, because that is the best pencil in the world and papermate is taking over the market which is really upsetting. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I WILL GO WRITE NOW. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bye!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-Gabi</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">P.S. As an update on my warning about backing up, you should also be careful about losing USB keys, because you might have to spend three hours making up the programming project and the 1700 words that you lost. </span>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-21856225014744139022011-11-16T19:05:00.002-05:002011-11-16T19:08:38.178-05:00I got really nice glasses. I really like my glasses. I really, really like my glasses.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUjRy-_5AJY&feature=related" target="_blank">Harry Potter Meets Metal</a> is quite possibly my perfect novelling song.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For some reason, my YouTube playlist for NaNoWriMo also includes Nyan Cat. I don't get it either. It's like my brain only writes well to music that is kind of crappy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How is NaNoWriMo going, you ask? Erm. Not so well.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Those are my lovely (or not so lovely) word count stats. I will be catching up quite quickly, hopefully.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Time to go write, nurse my wrestling bruises, program, and write some more.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Side comment: I googled "girls wrestling" to see if I could find any photos to illustrate my point, because apparently I'm really stupid. Suffice to say that I am glad that I have my safesearch on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Regular posting should resume after November, or when I get a new laptop, or when school stops being a pain in the arse.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Best of luck to anybody else NaNoing!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Byeeee.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-Gabi</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">P.S. I lost my USB key. I had a dream that I found it again and then woke up and almost cried. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Please, please, please back up your files regularly. This goes to everyone. I lost 6000 words of my NaNoWriMo book, all of my Java programming from school, numerous photos, and tons of my writing. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Take this as a cautionary tale, and back up <strike>dem serial buses, b*tches</strike>. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strike>WHY DO MY ATTEMPTS AT BEING COOL KEEP FAILING?!</strike></span>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-53041284148920070312011-10-30T17:08:00.000-04:002011-10-30T17:08:31.609-04:00My NeighbourBestFriend is Calling Me Schizophrenic. (I should've seen this coming.)Hi there, g-<br />
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Overachiever Gabi: Hello, blogosphere. Gabi is busy right now and for the entire month of November. She will no longer be eating, sleeping, laughing, or updating this blog. This is due to a number of commitments, including wrestling practises 5 times a week and National Novel Writing Month, a questionably responsible and inaccurately named <i>international </i>writing event. But, since she signed up, no sleep for us. I mean, <i>nobody</i> realizes what a contribution I make. I work <i>so hard,</i> and for this?! She only has a B in science class! It's a traves-<br />
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Coach Gabi: POSITIVE IMAGERY! YOU MUST USE POSITIVE IMAGERY! YOU WILL CROSS THAT FINISH LINE AND YOU WILL SURVIVE NOVEMBER!<br />
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ADHD Gabi : I ran like a mile at fitness practice yesterday morning! Or, like, <i>more </i>than a mile. I can do push-ups now! It's so cool!<br />
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Overachiever Gabi: You don't have time for this! We have to plan for NaNoWriMo! WHERE ARE OUR STORYBOARDS!?<br />
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Nice Gabi: It's okay, sweetie! At the Toronto NaNo kickoff, tons of people didn't even have plots yet.<br />
ADHD Gabi: They had really good ice cream there.<br />
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Scholarly Gabi: And did you see the old typewriter? And the encyclopedias from the 1800s? And the old-fashioned stained glass windows? IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL.<br />
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Poetic Gabi: I especially liked being around kindred spirits. It was like all of our souls were bound togther by the common bond of writing.<br />
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ADHD Gabi: LIKE TERMITES. They're like, all like MUST SERVE QUEEN. and then they don't really think much else. . .<br />
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Girly Gabi: Did you see the cute guy there? We shook hands and everything! His name was --<br />
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Honest Gabi: You realize that anyone who frequents the NaNoWriMo forums can easily read this, including members of your region? And it isn't interesting to talk about cute boys who you've exchanged 15 words with on a blog.<br />
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Teenage Gabi: We can write about his unattainable smile in our diary, right? And how we're destined to never be together?<br />
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Grumpy Gabi: SHUDDUP, I'M HIBERNATING.<br />
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Musical Gabi: Can I sing you a lullaby?<br />
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ADHD: SING THAT ONE ABOUT THE LADY WHO DIES BECAUSE SHE EATS A HORSE!<br />
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Scholarly Gabi: That reminds me of a book I've been reading. . .<br />
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Overachiever Gabi: Or a book which you have to <i>plan?</i> GET OFF OF THE INTERNET.<br />
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So, at this point the parents of the children I was babysitting finally got home and I realized that there is not much of a point to this post. I'm posting it anyway!<br />
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You may have gathered that my life is busy. That explains why I haven't been posting nearly enough.<br />
NaNoWriMo begins in 31 hours, so I'm kind of sort of in panic mode.<br />
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I got asked by someone on the clergy of my synagogue to sing a duet with him which is awesomefantasticexcellent! It also cuts into my writing time.<br />
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I have had <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9zq6Ggzjoc">the same song</a> stuck in my head for the last 5 days, so I figured it out on the ukulele.<br />
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- GabiGabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-80994715306200984112011-10-16T14:22:00.000-04:002011-10-16T14:22:54.911-04:00Wacky Mac is basically kosher Kraft Dinner, except in cool shapes.<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Soo. It's been a while. No, blog, I don't hate you. I just felt like I needed a <i>break, </i>okay? </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yeah. I'm kind of busy too. I'm sorry that you don't have any friends, but I spent last weekend with four different people. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strike>Me and</strike> Friend 1 and I made a castle out of boxes of <a href="http://www.productwiki.com/upload/images/wacky_mac.jpg">Wacky Mac</a> and watched Grease. Because I'm really popular.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And then I went to see Friend 2-4, and they're all boys because I'm really attractive and stuff. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We watched <a href="http://jackasscritics.com/images/movies/dodgeball_02.jpg">Dodgeball</a> and talked about <a href="http://3.media.dorkly.cvcdn.com/20/18/b5e04fa58aae14278b4a387308d6f5f9.jpg">A Game of Thrones</a> (see <a href="http://1.media.dorkly.cvcdn.com/71/29/11eb29547956021829576830641ec758.jpg">this link</a> too) and religion and played with Friend 3's 4 bit calculator on Minecraft, because we're really cool and interested in normal teenager stuff.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Okay, </i>blog? I have a life. So suck it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was also spending a lot of time programming, which is really cool too. My grade 11 computer science credit is going to get me hot guys, mark my words. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What is this obsession with hot guys? It's like something in my head thinks that making constant sex jokes is funny, but then another part of my brain is like "Noooo, that isn't appropriate and only <a href="http://lemons-dont-make-lemonade.blogspot.com/">Jessica</a> can get away with that," and then turns all of my penis jokes into hot guy jokes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyway. I got awards. A long time ago.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'm going to start with this one from <a href="http://notatallstupid.blogspot.com/2011/08/traveling-smoothie.html">Mercy (at Not At All Stupid</a>), which isn't really an award, but a passing on art thingamajig. It's funny, because I'm not artistically talented. Mostly because of my hand-eye coordination, and a bit because of my short attention span. BUT ANYWAYS. </span><br />
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I spent a really long time cutting out little letters from teen magazines (which my mom buy for me in the hope that I'll be a girl for her) for the smoothie part, but then I got really frustrated and uploaded the picture into my free trial of photoshop and put <strike>a beautiful</strike> an interesting background on it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's an alphabet smoothie/milkshake/whatever this is, because I always liked alphabet soup as a kid, and I also like cutting up magazines.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now I tag people?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I think that I'm just going to tag <a href="http://innocentquestions.blogspot.com/">Thais</a>, because she's creative and stuff. (She sent me a package a couple of weeks ago, and there are little paper hearts all over my floor.) I know that she doesn't actually go on her blog much, but TOO BAD. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That evil laugh didn't come out right. Ugh.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The rules for the Travelling Smoothie Award shall be at the bottom.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Okay. That's done. Yayyyy Gabi accomplished something!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://ramblingsonthewind.blogspot.com/">The Rambler </a>, whose name makes her sound like a really awesome super-villain whose powers involve going off on tangents, gave me an award called the Liebster Award. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now I write 7 things about myself.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a) I think I'm slowly metamorphosing - holy crap I actually spelled that properly - into a hipster. Most of the music I listen to has under 20 000 views on YouTube. I also discovered this band whose genre is Indie Post-Rock. And then I enjoyed the music. It's really worrying how many graphic t-shirts I own, and I sometimes brag about how I've known about tumblr for a really long time. I understand and enjoy modern art, and sometimes I find myself rolling my eyes at mainstream stuff. It's really scary, because I don't really like hipsters very much. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2. I watched a full length My Little Pony movie for 81 minutes with two friends last night. I think that I'm very much like Cheerilee.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Three: I have a problem with feet. I just really don't like them. They're scary.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">100 - When I'm stressed out, I count to ten in different bases. It helps calm me down. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cinq! I have a lot of trouble writing seriously, because I can't take myself seriously. If I try to write sad poetry, I end up laughing and screaming in frustration at the same time. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u>Shesh</u> Sometimes I'm really good at math. Like that time last year when I got 3rd place in my school on the math contest, and would have won if I didn't go to such a smart-person school. Sometimes, I suck. I got a 58% on my exam. Same goes for almost every subject. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Okay! Done that! I have to tag people now. You're supposed to tag 7 people who have under 100 followers. All of you guys may feel free to ignore the tags, by the way. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://cheesecakeparadox.blogspot.com/">Ash from The Cheesecake Paradox</a> - He's really cool. He also has 69 followers. I shouldn't have giggled.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://effsalt.blogspot.com/">Lot's Wife at F*** Salt</a> - On top of the witty biblical pen-name, I think that it's really cool to dedicate an entire blog to such a niche subject. I suppose that's what the internet's for. :D</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://ramblingzombies.blogspot.com/">Jenelle at [I am Unimaginative]</a> - I can't actually tell how many followers she has, because Blogger is silly. But she's pretty awesome, and I'm not sure why I think her name is Jenelle, but I'm just going to go with it and be creepy regardless.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://drizzledinawesome.blogspot.com/">Flyergirl13 at Drizzled in Awesomeness</a> - I really like her blog. I just do. Also, she's a sparkler, and it's kind of cool to see her username both here and on sparklife posts. I'm sort of creepy. Oops.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://jotting-down-notes.blogspot.com/">ZNZ at Jotting Down Notes</a> - This one is kind of creepy, because I'm not entirely sure if she knows who I am. But I enjoy her blog. I'm kind of a stalker. Oops.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.defenestratedfeet.com/">Ellen at Defenestrated Feet</a> - She hasn't posted in 2 whole months. But she should post. I like her illustrations a lot. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">AND I DON'T KNOW WHO ELSE TO TAG. AAAAH.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thespian Gabi: WHAT?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Teenage Gabi: You've known this since this morning.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thespian Drama: Way to break my character. Great job! (<i>exit DR)</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Teenage Gabi: Oh look, <i>how </i>melodramatic. While I'm suffering with every heartbeat -</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Poetic Gabi: every breath-</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Teenage and Poetic Gabi: every glance at this shattered world.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Poetic Gabi: You. . . <i>you understand me. </i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Teenage Gabi: If we have one band that we like in common, then you're probably my soulmate.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Honest Gabi: This is why nobody can take you guys seriously. You guys are made up characters corresponding to your writers' personality that she writes about when she's bored.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Scholarly Gabi: Perhaps we should cut the adolescent some slack. Teenagers' brains are not fully developed.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADD Gabi: Your face isn't fully developed.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Scholarly Gabi: That's true, Gabi is still growing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADD Gabi: Your face is still growing!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Teenage Gabi: FACE JOKES ARE NOT FUNNY.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Honest Gabi: Really.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADD Gabi: E- e- excuse me for a little while.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I don't feel very well. I'm going to go apologise to someone for feeling that way.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Love,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gabi</span>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-26503575874836214962011-09-19T19:40:00.000-04:002011-09-19T19:40:41.268-04:00I really do have an absurd number of plaid flannel shirts, bottles of maple syrup, and polar bears.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hello. Somebody is sitting next to me, attempting to shove food down my throat. It isn't her fault; she's Jewish. But she should stop. Just saying. </span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A lot of people have been shoving food down my throat lately. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Honest Gabi: No, just you. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Girly Gabi: Seriously, you ate a <i>fifth </i>of a cheesecake. Like, do you know how many calories are in that?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Poetic Gabi: It went down my throat so quickly. Its life was fleeting, but beautiful.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADD Gabi: I really like cheesecake. And carrots. I ate an entire bag of mini carrots last week. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Coach Gabi: INCREASING YOUR VITAMIN A INTAKE, ARE YOU?! THEN WHY ARE YOU ATROCIOUS AT WRESTLING?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Scholarly Gabi: Those aren't correlated. Vitamin A is responsible for vision. And, as it was the first wrestling practise --</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Random Bystander: You <i>wrestle?</i> That's funny because I see you as clumsy, socially awkward, and a pushover. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yeah, I joined the wrestling team. Since my family burst into laughter upon hearing this, I've decided to compile a list of reasons why I'm manly. In a feminine, sexually viable way. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a) According to the Jew sitting beside me force-feeding me noodles, I have manly thumbs. But they're handsome.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">b) I could probably use my hair as a weapon.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">c) I'm wearing a flannel plaid shirt. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQOMxz-O7Sc&feature=related">I'm totally a lumberjack</a>. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">d) I'm a Gryffindor. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Scholarly Gabi: No, you are not. Pottermore clearly made an analytical error, and you're clearly in Ravenclaw.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Overachiever Gabi: HOW CAN YOU BE A RAVENCLAW IF YOU GOT 35% ON A SCIENCE QUIZ TODAY!?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADD Gabi: I'm on the same dose of meds I've been on since grade 4. I may need a higher dose. And I was thinking about the blog's anniversary and what we could write about. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Overachiever Gabi: Gabi, get your prescription changed please.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nice Gabi: See, that was a pretty nice suggestion! We may even belong in Hufflepuff!</span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Honest Gabi: You're a Ravenpuff. You also have really unhealthy sleeping habits and you are self-absorbed.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADD Gabi: I just ate an ice cream bar in, like, 45 seconds! It was so cool! We can write about that on the blog's anniversary post!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Girly Gabi: That's stupid! Everyone's going to think you're fat and, like, hate you. We should write about my new wardrobe!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Teenage Gabi: Can we write about how much more mature I am than a year ago, but how I'm also jaded and world-weary? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Poetic Gabi: We could use my seven plaid shirts as a metaphor!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Honest Gabi: See, you're so self absorbed! In the middle of a list about yourself, you felt compelled to add an entire conversation between the different aspects of your personality, and argue about the blog's anniversary post. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADD Gabi: Today's the blog's anniversary? OH YEAH, I KNEW THAT!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Overachiever Gabi: Nobody's going to finish the list, are they? <i>Nobody </i>does <i>any </i>work around here. Ugh.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yeah, I've had this blog for a year. That's weird.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I didn't really want to do one of those I've Had My Blog For a Year and That's Awesome posts, because they're awesome, but I don't have enough posts that I'm proud of. So this year's goal is to make more good quality posts, I suppose. I kind of already defeated my purpose in this post, because it sucks. Yay.</span><br />
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</div>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-45450390370389102352011-09-05T21:24:00.001-04:002011-09-05T21:25:45.352-04:00I did this survey thing. I want a chocolate chip cookie.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A long time ago, while I was in the wilderness (WIWINW,) Christopher over at <a href="http://nerdarchives.blogspot.com/">The Nerd Archives</a> wrote this survey thing. And I was bored. Don't expect much good writing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I couldn't help but notice that HE DIDN'T FILL OUT HIS OWN SURVEY. Yeah, that was a challenge. If he did fill out his own survey, then I'll be really embarrassed, but that's okay.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1) Please state your name for the record?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><em>(readjusts monocle)</em> I don't like the sentence structure of this question. I'm sorry, but I am a critical survey-taker.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fun fact: I actually could get a monocle. Like, the optometrist <em>said</em> I could! It has to do with my eyesight being weird.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oh, my name is Gabrielle. People generally call me Gabi. I respond to Esther too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2) If you were a penguin, on the other hand, what do you think your name would be? Hypothetically speaking, of course.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hypothetically? Well, hypothetically, and strictly hypothetically, my name would be Bernado McFlipflop Jr., of the Waddlewell tribe. I'd also hypothetically have a hypothetical blog in which I pose as a female in her adolescence, but purely hypothetically. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3) Would you consider your ears to be smaller than average, average, larger than average, or freakishly large?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My ears are actually quite a nice size. In fact, they may be my fourth favorite feature. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thankfully, I narrowly avoided some terrible ear genetics. On the other hand, I probably missed out on the ability to use my ears as sails.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4) Are you more of a Beatles or an Elvis fan? (If you answer the latter, please proceed to go set yourself on fire and then die in a hole.)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was raised on a healthy diet of The Beatles and Songs I Am Embarrassed to Know Off By Heart. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I like The Beatles very much. Ringo's my favourite.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5) Have you ever killed anyone? If so, did you do it with your bare hands?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I, for one, have not killed anyone. If I did so, however, I would use an elegant poison, not my bare hands. I've been reading up on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thallium_poisoning#Famous_uses_as_a_poison">thallium</a> lately, although I suppose that <a href="http://media.s6cdn.net/cdn/box_001/post_11/252188_6589824_b.jpg">iocane powder</a> would do very nicely.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6) If you could use any fruit to describe the size and shape of your head, what fruit would you use?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I just asked my mom. She says that it's like an upside-down pear, but I hope that it's a bit larger than that. My brother said dragon fruit, then pineapple, but I have reasons to doubt his sincerity. It kind of looks like a nectarine. I'm going to be self-conscious now, thanks a lot.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">7) Is there any famous person you'd go gay for? Please state their name. This question is, of course, purely for academic purposes.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Taylor Swift is kind of attractive. But then if she got angry at me she would write a catchy and scathing breakup song, so I guess she's out.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I CAN GO GAY FOR FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, RIGHT?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Luna Lovegood.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">8) If you had the choice, would you rather go to space, meet Paul McCartney, scuba dive in the Pacific Ocean, or sleep with Carmen Electra?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Can I play an elaborate prank on Carmen Electra involving seducing her? She'd meet me in a yellow submarine with Paul McCartney in the Pacific Ocean, but then the yellow submarine would turn into a spaceship and we'd go to space, and then the prank would get really great but I need some more time to plan it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">9) How long have you had your blog? What made you start one?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I've had my blog since September 19th, 2010. It's weird that it's almost been a year, and that I actually have followers.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This blog was actually an offshoot of this other blog that I had, which was so terrible that I made a new one. I don't really talk about my first blog, but I guess I got it because all of my internet friends had blogs, and I am easily manipulated. By the time I got this blog, I actually wanted to write.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10) What is your weirdest phobia?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I sometimes convince myself that the earth will detonate in the next ten seconds.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">11) Do you believe in God?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The last time someone asked me that I ran away shrieking gibberish. I think I kind of scared him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'd like to believe in God, if that makes sense. I also really like my religion.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">12) If you could start a collab. blog with any four bloggers, which ones would you do it with?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I think that I'd lose every bit of self-esteem I had if I collaborated with anyone. THEY'RE ALL SO MUCH BETTER THAN ME.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Can I just sit and watch as<a href="http://nerdarchives.blogspot.com/"> Christopher</a> (who I keep thinking of as That Blond Guy in my head,) <a href="http://lemons-dont-make-lemonade.blogspot.com/">Jessica</a>, <a href="http://thestairwaytojannah.blogspot.com/">Zehra</a>, and that person who does <a href="http://hyperboleandahalf.com/">Hyperbole and a Half</a> do their stuff?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">13) If you were trapped on a desert island with the same four bloggers you mentioned in the last question, which one would you eat first? With which one would you procreate?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Well, since there's only one male, the procreation is kind of a given, for practicality's sake. I hope that he's alright with raising our child to speak piglatin, because that's very important to me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I think I'd eat the fattest person first, or perhaps eat some babies.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">14) What's your favourite 80's movie?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">THE PRINCESS BRIDE.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Back to the Future comes in second.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">15) What kind of music do you listen to?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I listen to most types of music. I spend a lot of time on YouTube listening to obscure bands who refuse to sell their music on iTunes because it's too mainstream for them or something.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">16) Imagine that you open your bedroom closet one day and suddenly a portal opens up. You can't see what is at the end of the portal, but there is a totoro inside it motioning you to follow him. Would you go inside, even if it might mean you'll never come back?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If it offers me some candy or asks me to help it find its lost dog, then I'd love to!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">17) If you're a woman, do you find facial hair on men attractive? If you're a man, do you find facial hair on woman attractive?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are very few people who I find facial hair attractive on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">18) Do you like babies?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">GIVE ME BABIES!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I like babies very much.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">19) What's the most violent thing you've ever done to an inanimate object?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I once accidentally twisted the head off of my little cousin's barbie. I hid it behind the TV.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I've also taken apart a computer and then thrown the casing into the snow and jumped on it repeatedly, afterwards hitting it with a sledgehammer.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I killed an egg named Moe once by dropping him off a ladder.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">20) What's the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to you?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I embarrass myself a lot, so I'm sort of used to it, but I'd have to say The Arm Kissing Incident. I WAS IN GRADE TWO, OKAY?!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">21) Do you think the world will end in 2012?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I think that the world will end in exactly 17 minutes.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(I did it again. Argh.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">22) Have you enjoyed this survey? Be honest, now.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I like surveys. I don't need anything to write about to fill them in, which is nice.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">23) Are you following The Nerd Archives? If not, DO YOURSELF THE FAVOUR OF DOING SO NOW.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">OKAY!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I tag anyone who's reading this to do it, if they feel like it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">School starts tomorrow. I will maybe go sleep. Maybe wait for mass destruction, first.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-Gabi</span>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-30244909826399547722011-08-24T23:01:00.000-04:002011-08-24T23:01:08.294-04:00I have a farmer's, flip-flop, bathing suit, bikini, and watch tan. I'm not even a redhead.<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hello. Gabi here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Coach Gabi: DON'T YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm kind of just hoping that the words will flow, you know?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Coach Gabi: WELL PUSH THAT FLOW. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">ADHD Gabi: (<em>giggles)</em> That's what she said!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Girly Gabi: How come <em>she</em> gets all the guys?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Scholarly Gabi: I believe that the woman that is referred to by the pronoun "she" in that sentence does not exist. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it is said whenever --</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Honest Gabi: (<em>to Girly Gabi) </em>What my well-read friend <em>should </em>be saying is that you were kissed this summer by the same nerdboy you talked about all year. Stop whining.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Scholarly Gabi: Also, it's virtually impossible for one female to "get" all males regardless. To have any sort of physical contact at all with every male on the planet, even only limiting oneself to hominids, wouldn't work, let alone any contact that is --</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Girly Gabi: I know we kissed! But then he was mean!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Teenage Gabi: My heart shattered into thousands of tiny, glistening, blood-coated shards when I found out that he was using me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Girly Gabi: You're so right! And he's still <em>so hot.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Poetic Gabi: Each time I gaze at the stars we lied under together, I remember how they were brighter that night, before he so cruelly spurned me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Musical Gabi: <em>(Takes out iPod, and begins harmonizing to the song playing)</em> ♫Who do you think you aaaarreeee running round leavin' scaaaarrsss♫</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">ADHD Gabi: I have a lot of bruises on my legs. A lot of them are from walking into benches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Honest Gabi: Actually, almost all of them are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Teenage Gabi: My heart has bruises.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Coach Gabi: I HAVE BRUISES FROM SHEER DETERMINATION. YOU KNOW WHAT I DID THIS SUMMER? I CARRIED FOOD BARRELS, I CARRIED CANOES AS SOON AS THE FOOD BARRELS BECAME LIGHTER THAN THE CANOES, AND I BARREL ROLLED. I BARREL ROLLED A KAYAK AND A CANOE. WITH SHEER DETERMINATION! AND A PADDLE!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Nice Gabi: You all need a nice, hot cup of tea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">ADHD Gabi: So when I barrel rolled, I went upside down, and then I moved the paddle and I wasn't upside down anymore! And then I did it again and again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Coach Gabi: THAT'S RIGHT! YOU ARE A MASTER IN KAYAKING. YOU EVEN HAVE A ROPE BRACELET AND A CERTIFICATE TO PROVE IT!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">ADHD Gabi: Um. . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Coach Gabi: WHERE'S THE BRACELET?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">ADHD Gabi: Ilostit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Coach Gabi: WHAT?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">ADHD Gabi: I was swimming with our cousins in their pool -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Honest Gabi: Our aunt and uncle are rich because they're both doctors--</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">ADHD Gabi: and I took it off and then I forgot it at their house and then I did the same thing with my cabin bracelet and please don't hate me!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Girly Gabi: THAT BRACELET WAS FROM OUR GIRL BONDING!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Poetic Gabi: Those both held so much sentimental value. I'll write eulogies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Coach Gabi: THAT'S IT! WE'RE GIVING YOU A HIGHER DOSE OF RITALIN.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">ADHD Gabi: But I don't take ritalin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Scholarly Gabi: We're on 40 milligrams of -- </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hippy Gabi: I will <em>not</em> allow those chemicals into my body!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">ADHD Gabi: AAAH COOL LIGHTNING! I LOVE THUNDERSTORMS!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hippy Gabi: Mother Nature is <em>so </em>enlightening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Poetic Gabi: I think we should go stand barefoot outside right by the lake at the cottage underneath a tree to feel inspired.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Coach Gabi: LET'S DO IT!!</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">10 minutes later</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Poetic Gabi: That was <em>beautiful.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Teenage Gabi: I can't <em>believe</em> our parents made us go back inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Nice Gabi: I'm getting a bit worried about Common Sense Gabi. Has anyone seen her around lately?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">ADHD Gabi: I saw her tied up in a closet right before we put silly notes that couldn't possibly have been interpreted as creepy in the guys' cabins! I forgot to tell you guys! Haven't seen her since!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hullo, everyone! I'm back home. Kind of. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is being posted from my grandparents' cottage, which is a half acre of property with a cosy cabin right by the lake. It's beautiful, especially with the lightning illuminating the tree branches in the dark once in a while. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">On another note, I'm fully expecting my cold (which I may or may not have gotten from a certain guy) to get worse after tonight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Time to catch up on peoples' blogs. Or maybe not. I'll see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">-Gabi</span>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-73381461931826931072011-06-27T20:17:00.000-04:002011-06-27T20:17:59.519-04:00Cheerios suddenly hold more appeal for me than they should. . .<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I haven't posted for the last 11 days. What have I been doing, you ask? </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Honest Gabi: Dude, nobody cares. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Teenage Gabi: I spent a lot of time discussing the futility of life with my depressing conversation buddy. Then I cried bitter tears of regret, anger, and lack of faith in the human race.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADHD Gabi: How can tears be made up of a lack of faith? How can tears be made up of regret? HOW CAN TEARS BE MADE OUT OF CHOCOLATE MILK? </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Scholarly Gabi: I wonder if you could transplant mammary glands for tear ducts. You'd have to insert a sac to hold the chocolate flavouring, too.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Teenage Gabi: My tears weren't <i>chocolate</i>, dumbass. My tears were regret, anger, and a lack of faith in the human race.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Girly Gabi: You didn't actually <i>cry</i>, you just gave me really red eyes. <i>Ugly</i> red eyes. Like, how selfish could you be?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nice Gabi: I think that everyone just needs a big hug. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADHD Gabi: I like chocolate. Can I have that instead of a hug, or maybe some marshmallows?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hippy Gabi: Marshmallows have gelatin in them. That's derived from dead animals.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADHD Gabi: I don't like dead puppies. I still like chocolate, though, and oranges, and chocolate oranges!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Teenage Gabi: If it was dark chocolate it could be like the depths of my soul. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Normal Person Gabi: SHUT UP ABOUT THE DEPTHS OF YOUR SOUL. Like, you aren't even a large part of Gabi as a Whole, but look at all of the dialog you get! Then look at me. I'm normal, and regular.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADHD Gabi: Teehee. You said regular!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Normal Person Gabi: Yes. Go away. Anyway, I make up this <i>gigantic part </i>of Gabi, and look at the number of lines I get! </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nice Gabi: Well, would <i>you </i>like to recap the last 11 days?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Normal Person Gabi: Oh! Well, sure! School finished, and then - </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Overachiever Gabi: You bombed an exam. You forgot that part. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Scholarly Gabi: I'LL NEVER GET TO BE AN ASTROPHYSICIST!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nice Gabi: It's okay, sweetie. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Girly Gabi: Astrophysicists <i>never </i>get hot guys!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Normal Person Gabi: Can I continue? I had some social plans, went up to the cottage with my best friend, and that's about it.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Honest Gabi: That was so freaking boring. You need us to do some talking, or the readers will fall asleep.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADHD Gabi: YOU FORGOT ABOUT THE <a href="http://blog.buildllc.com/2010/04/couch-cushion-architecture-a-critical-analysis/">PILLOW FORT</a>*. IT WAS SO COOL. AND THE COOKIE DOUGH.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Honest Gabi: The cookie dough was gross, and you probably gained three pounds. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Girly Gabi: Eeewww.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Coach Gabi: THIS IS WHY YOU NEED ME AROUND MORE, SEE? GET DOWN AND GIVE ME 100!</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADHD Gabi: I forgot how much I like trampolines.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">*So our fort actually completely pwned any of the pansy forts in the link, although considering the large age difference between the builders it may be excused.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">* * * * *</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyway, I'm sorry for the big gaps between my posts lately, but get ready for a larger one.<br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'll be leaving for overnight camp in a couple of days, and will be gone for the next two months. On my return, I will be mystified by the way in which a cursor moves when the mouse is moved. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bye for now!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-Gabi</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">P.S. If I'm not back by September, I was probably eaten by mosquitoes, bears, or <a href="http://www.ugo.com/programs/back-to-school/images/social-studies/popular-girl.jpg">bitchy girls</a>. Don't worry about me.</span></div>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-84496241365062662142011-06-16T20:18:00.000-04:002011-06-16T20:18:34.559-04:00This post ranges from wave-particle duality to the blatant abuse of meme generators.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was walking towards a subway station a couple of weeks ago, or maybe away from a subway station, but that's inconsequential. The weather was perfect, and the description will sound clichéd, but it was sunny with a cool breeze, the right number of fluffy clouds in the sky, and a you-won't-get-sweaty-but-you-should-still-wear-shorts kind of temperature. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was strolling in a way that's overused in literature but not used enough in real life. Then I saw a young woman walking around, holding a parasol. This is amazing enough on its own. Of course, this woman must have been even more amazing than that, because this was a<a href="http://image.dhgate.com/upload/20104/49/ff80808123b6a0720123c700915b0c0e/productimg1271839320847.jpg"> rainbow parasol.</a> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Accessories like that always fascinate me. Parasols especially fascinate me for two reasons.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Poetic Gabi is reminded of something that probably has a fancy word to describe it. I'll just call it elegance.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nerdy Gabi likes that they work like umbrellas except with light, and anything that can work with something that behaves like particles but isn't - I just found out that that's called wave-particle duality - is pretty awesome. Even though anything visible can manipulate light, they call attention to it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The fact that the parasol was colourful fascinated me just as much. It reminded me of those boxes of Crayola crayons with 64 colours and those built in sharpeners that were always so exciting. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyway, when I saw Parasol Lady, I stopped in my tracks to stare at her creepily. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I think I should stop writing now, or I will get weirder, and that wouldn't be good.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This really, really isn't funny. I should get more sleep, or less sleep, or something.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">P.S. I got a guitar case for my beat up and probably more than secondhand guitar. Thais helped me name the guitar Ricardo and the case Stevie. I am hoping that this will make me 100 times sexier. Ha. </span>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-57846215231919099452011-06-05T14:57:00.001-04:002011-06-05T14:59:43.514-04:00Secret: I only fill in this box after I've written my posts.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've realized that sitting at the computer for the sole purpose of writing a blog post does not work for me. I have to actually want to write. I don't necessarily have to have a fully formed idea when I start, though. Most of my interesting posts don't.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of my fully formed ideas really don't work out well. These are all posts that have been sitting in my drafts or would be if I had been around a keyboard at the right times.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. <a href="http://www.presidentschoice.ca/LCLOnline/dyn/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m8070334_PCPeanutButterFilledPretzels_ENFR.jpg">Peanut butter filled pretzels</a>. Every time I eat them I immediately think of how blatantly American they are. Then I stare at their guts for awhile to figure out how they got the peanut butter inside.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. The sarcastic brilliance of <a href="http://lmgtfy.com/?q=let+me+google+that+for+you&l=1">Let Me Google That For You</a>. I'd love to be that passive aggressive, but multiple inner Gabrielles yell at me for how inefficient that particular brand of aggressiveness is.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. The Orthodox Jewish community. I think about where I want to stand in this community almost as often as I think about -</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scholarly Gabi: Epistemology, right?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Teenage Gabi: The futility of life.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Musical Gabi: ♫ musiiiic! ♫</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coach Gabi: My core muscles.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Girly Gabi: Cute guys!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Uh, sure. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Realistic Gabi: Girly Gabi was right on that one. You suck.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anywhoooooodle. I feel like that particular topic will be too dry to go on about without frequent gags like that, and Teenage Gabi would be unhappy about that breach of her seriousness.</span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. My lovely neighbour, my wonderful best friend, and I wrote an article called Your Vagina and You the other day. It's a bit, um, not suitable for my current audience. Or anyone, really. I think that <a href="http://lemons-dont-make-lemonade.blogspot.com/">Jessica</a> (who I still have not actually spoken to. Thais tells me I should. IpromiseI'monlysortofastalker.) and <a href="http://velociraptorswearglasses.blogspot.com/2011/06/rule-43-chores-do-not-cease-to-exist.html">Lola</a> would have enjoyed it. Speaking of those two, check out their blogs!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So do you see how this post was really about nothing? Mostly just an excuse to ramble and practise my writing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm going to go change my browser language to English (UK) now, because it keeps underlining my words in red squiggles.</span><br />
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Also, I get a pretty icon!</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I love this initiative because the environment is really important to me, and nature's always been a part of my life. </span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My family used to drive up to The Cottage every weekend. (Canadians say The Cottage to refer to any cottages at all. This particular The Cottage belongs to my grandparents.) I can remember being woken up as a little kid by birds chirping and the lake washing back and forth, and everything smelling like life. </span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My grandfather (or Zaidy) then made me hot chocolate, served with some coffee <strike>snuck</strike> <strike>snook</strike> sneaked in and a wink, while my grandmother (Bubby) fussed over me like a true Jewish grandmother. I usually had eggs or pancakes.</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Then I went outside and looked at things, often with Zaidy. Zaidy would show me trembling aspens, and tent caterpillars, and we'd make maple syrup, and look at birds' nests.</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The nest of one particular bird left a particularly large impression on me.</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A ladder was perched on the side of the work shed. </span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"This is a robin's nest, Gabrielle, and there are eggs in it, ready to hatch," he said, "You can look inside but be careful not to touch anything."</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So I climbed the ladder, my grandfather's hands supporting me. Perched precariously, I peered inside the nest. There were beautiful, wonderful eggs, each holding a tiny little avian life inside. They were the colour of the sky, mottled with white and tiny flecks of brown here and there.</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I slipped.</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I reached out to grasp something.</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The eggs shattered into a bloody mess. </span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I cried.</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is kind of funny, seeing as I <i>still </i>have next to no coordination. I should really laugh in retrospect. <a href="http://blueridgebluecollargirl.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/robin-eggs-blog.jpg">But those eggs. They were such a perfect shade of blue.</a></span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This post has been more serious and, in all likelihood, more boring than my usual posts, but I have an actual message here.</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Go for a hike. <a href="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/fairies.jpg">Look out for fairies.</a> </span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Stop to smell the roses. If all that's left is concrete, plant flowers yourself.</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Look at a tree for a while. There's a sort of poetry in those things.</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There's way more you can do, of course. Do at least that. Feeling close to nature is important.</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="postBody"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">With every generation we get further from our roots, further from our ancestors who ran around in loincloths and ululated and stuff. Yeah, the loincloths weren't that pretty. But their forests, prairies, and jungles? The most beautiful things in the world. </span></div></div>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-27820255883945346872011-05-29T11:22:00.002-04:002011-05-29T11:27:34.680-04:00My vampiric skin is going to die from the sun, but I am going to work outside.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I think that bad colds are one of the most wretched things ever. I've been walking around the house with glazed eyes and a tissue box acting as an extension of myself.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The problem with colds is that they aren't quite bad enough to miss anything important for without sounding like a half-arsed excuse. Even internal Overachiever Gabi doesn't like it, which is frustrating enough.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Body: My head hurds, and my nose is sduffy. Also, I dond thik thad my brain is functioning pwoperly.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Overachiever Gabi: Shut up. Deal with it. Drop and give me twenty.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Body: Bud. . . everyding. Id all hurds.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Realistic Gabi: Seriously, Overachiever. We're supposed to be in pain here.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Body: Yes. Let me get fat.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Scholarly Gabi: To get clinically overweight you would need to have a body mass index in the 85th percentile or above. That would mean you would have to have a net gain of calories. If you would like to do it in a week, you would need to have the right amount of calories, that is to say, two thousand six hundred elevendy twelve -- I mean, 2 and 5-- NO WAIT. BANANASMONKEYSDUCKS<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> ERROR</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADHD Gabi: OMIGOSH SHE'S DEAD?! WHAT?!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Musical Gabi: ♫Dingdong the witch is dead!♫</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nice Gabi: This isn't the right time for singing, darling.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Body: I feel a sneeze coming. Id's coming. Gedd me a dissue. ACHOOOO!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADHD Gabi: Your boogers look funny. Kind of like lemurs. REMEMBER ZABOOMAFOO?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Musical Gabi: ♫ME AND YOU AND ZOBOOMAFOOOOO♫</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Teenager Gabi: I've been trying to feel sorry for myself over here. Go away. And can I give ADHD Gabi some Ritalin? Please?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Girly Gabi: Can I join you? Sniffling is so, like, unattractive.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Overachiever Gabi: Will somebody <i>please </i>resuscitate Scholarly Gabi? We have some math work that needs to be done.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Coach Gabi: YES. I KNOW CPR. I ALSO LIKE TO IMAGINE THAT I CAN LIFT CARS OVER MY HEAD. BODY, GO LIFT WEIGHTS.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Body: I'm. Frigging. Sick.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ADHD Gabi: I like waffles. I had some waffles with ice cream on them last night. And sprinkles. At a bar mitzvah. Isn't it funny when old people dance? I like flowers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Scholarly Gabi: I'm surprised at how interestingly you managed to leap from thought to thought.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nice Gabi: She's alive!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Motherly Gabi: Let's just give her some chicken soup and she'll perk right up.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hippie Gabi: I'm a vegetarian.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Body: Can I go do sleep dow?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Anyway, that's my brain. I think I'm going to roll with Overachiever Gabi for a while and try to get some work done. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> But first, PHOTOS!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I took this picture at the park near my house. I think that whoever did this is really awesome, but needs to learn how to spell Chewbacca.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><3 <a href="http://alphainventions.com/">Gabi</a></span>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-27598112313867103122011-05-25T19:27:00.000-04:002011-05-25T19:27:06.398-04:00Despite what the preview might show you, this totally isn't an erotica. *looks uncomfortable*<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I leaned over, biting my lip and almost holding my breath. My hands worked as I tried to manoeuvre in the right ways to get full access to the darker parts of my subject. The girl beside me looked at me, lips turned up in a smile. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You're good at stripping, right?" </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Yes, actually. But you should probably take care of attaching stuff while I'm doing that."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a few twists and turns and manipulations, we locked eyes. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Almost there. . ."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Yes!" </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a dazzling burst of light. </span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was wiring a circuit, what did you think? </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whilst trying to twist two wires together inside a box and failing miserably, I was asked if I could switch to stripping the plastic coating off of some wires, because I'm a good stripper, while she attached the light bulbs to each other. Then we stuck on the battery, and the light bulbs turned on. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We only realized the hidden depths of our interactions afterwards. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A second conversation with a guy who's kind of a <strike>dick</strike> phallus.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Him: (<i>referring to another kid, joking) </i>So, Gabi, do you think I should kill him?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me: Depends on the weapon. You need to optimize the amount of pain experienced by your victim in the process.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Him: O.o Okay. . . </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me: You see, it has to be painful enough for them to really suffer as they slowly die, but not too painful, because you need to be able to justify yourself in court.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Him: O.o</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me: You have to be careful when taking vengeance on people!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everyone else in the room: O.o</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me: Nobody gets my sense of humour. I understand!</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After these two snippets, I feel like I should be writing nerdy sadomasochist erotica or something.</span></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I can do terrible, erotic things to you with my erlenmeyer flask and Geiger <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Müller counter</span>, b*tch. </span></i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or maybe I should never, <i>ever </i>do that.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On another less creepy note, happy <a href="http://www.towelday.org/">Towel Day!</a> It's a day in honour of Douglas Adams, who was brilliant. He has also greatly contributed to those funny post titles I sometimes have, the ones in quotation marks that I'm not superhuman enough to come up with.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Gabi</span></div>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-5505335576736009482011-05-17T20:16:00.001-04:002011-05-17T20:59:01.517-04:00I was a weird kid.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Today my class went on a field trip to my city's excellent science centre. It brought back memories.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You see, being the child I was, I spent <i>a lot</i> of time in that building. It was the coolest place in the world. When I couldn't fall asleep as a kid, my mom told me to imagine that I was sleeping in a huge fluffy yellow bed in the middle of the science centre amongst model tornadoes, the miniature rainforest, and the freaking awesome bat cave.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The science centre was home to a lot of my firsts.</span><br />
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<ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">First purchase bought with my own money (a pocket sized puzzle for $1.99)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">First time getting lost (I was having fun in the physics area while my parents checked every corner of the Human Body section possible)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">First really bad word. </span></li>
</ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wait, what? Bad words at the science centre? The story goes like this:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One day, we went on a family outing to - where else? - my childhood's third most prominent landmark. (The most prominent was the Jewish Community Centre, the second the hill at my park that apparently resembled the hill in Teletubbies.) There was a temporary exhibit showing at the museum about the five senses. 4 year old me walked into the exhibition hall, looking something like this:</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As Young Me without any pupils attested to in her thought bubble, the giant thing to throw my voice across the room to my brother was exactly what it sounds like. It was large, and yellow, and funnel shaped, and there was another identical one across the room. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I like to imagine that the entire room went silent at the sight of a young toddler in ugly fleece clothing dropping the F-bomb in the middle of a haven of science. Mom and Dad certainly did. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On our rushed way out of the science centre, my parents explained to me that I had said a bad, bad, word. I asked them what it meant.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Oh, really bad things. Even I don't really know what it means. Just don't use it, sweetie."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I proceeded to whisper it to my entire senior-kindergarten class the next day, and was the coolest kid on the playground for an entire week. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">PS: I have, in my digestive system right now, a tomato from a tomato plant grown by NASA for studying Mars. NASA. MARS. *nerdgasm*</span></div>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-5869458303809816572011-05-15T18:34:00.000-04:002011-05-15T18:34:24.089-04:00OMIGOODNESS I FORGOT ABOUT ZEHRA!So, Zehra's fantastical response to my survey questions was a wonderful, gorgeous, amazing picture. It is so special that it deserves a post of its own.<br />
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</div>It's beautiful and amazing. She worked very hard on it, and that shows. You should all go to <a href="http://thestairwaytojannah.blogspot.com/">her blog</a>, because it is quite wonderful. She is, too :D<br />
-GabiGabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-42319829567805678532011-05-15T18:10:00.001-04:002011-05-15T18:18:55.470-04:00I feel like a pale English person who burns easily. I guess I am, genetically. I also feel like one who perpetuates stereotypes.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have learned a some things quite recently:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A) I seem to have atrocious taste in fonts, since nobody liked the one in my last post. Maybe I'll just give up and set all of my posts in papyrus, or comic sans, or even wingdings, and wait for the typists to come after me. Perhaps my particular font choice last time had to do with me secretly loving Turing (my first proper programming language) and its ugly fonts. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">B) One should only be weird to a certain degree around new people. Hiding under shelves wearing Real-D 3D glasses, a funny wig, and a creepy mask is not the best approach to hide and go seek when there is a guy the same age as you around. Some things can, in fact, cross the big red line of social appropriateness. Large nerd-style glasses do not mean instantaneous friendship. Not that I'm writing based on experience at all. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">C) When one claims that s/he and his/her sibling can hear voices, and that it's a "genetic thing", people often believe you if their only other impression of you is of a teenager playing dress-up and hiding under shelves.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">D) Announcing afterwards that one is going to "be normal from now on!" doesn't work too well.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E) Even after doing actions B to D, one can still be well-liked at Friday night dinners if the stars are properly aligned. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For some reason, I agreed to walk over to a family friend's house to babysit his child while he went out on a Saturday evening before Shabbat ended. When I got there, wet from the rain, the kid was asleep, which was good. One problem: He left the TV on. Since it wouldn't have felt quite right to ask him to turn it off for me, and I can't turn on and off or adjust appliances until after sundown, I would be having a nice (?) TV background on until later that night. It was fine for a while, and I read my books in a corner. Then, of course, came the creepy music. I was sitting alone in a largish house with The Silence of the Lambs playing in a dim room. I spent the next 2 hours hiding in the brightly lit kitchen with the family dog, listening to the screams of helpless victims. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On to less wimpy things!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have </span><s><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">recieved</span></s><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SCHOLARLY GABI: 'I' BEFORE 'E' EXCEPT AFTER 'C', SCURRILOUS KNAVE!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">received some sort of award from </span><a href="http://velociraptorswearglasses.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lola</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. I do not understand this award, but I think I have to make laws, and then pass on this award to more people. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh. Okay. It's called the Overlord Award. Okay, three laws!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Practise the three 'R's: </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know, I'm so selfless and wonderful. The three 'R's are Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle, not Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmatic, because that would be dumb. So, conserve. To make this law less lame, I will institute some sort of punishment that I haven't decided on yet. A lifetime's sentence of labour on Mars? Cleaning my rabbit's cage? Cleaning my giant, violent, hungry T-rex's cage?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2) </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Singing is allowed everywhere. </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like singing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3) </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Random fact day. </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a day where the geeky part of our population is allowed to spout as much miscellania as they want, without social repercussions, on the condition that each brings me one. Because my brain soaks up knowledge. Like a sea-sponge. I know sea-sponges aren't porous, but deal with it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Real conversation I had. Scholarly Gabi was in the driver's seat that day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friend: How much water would be in the sea if there weren't any sponges?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me: Sea sponges are made of limestone. Also, there would be the same amount of water regardless, as the only thing that the sponges would increase is the volume. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friend: Uh. I was making a joke.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm lame, and have next to no overlordly tendencies. I think I'm supposed to pass this on to people? I don't know how this works. *acts clueless* Oh, well! I'll just have to not tag anyone! </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a shame. </span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Gabi </span>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6930943527961331860.post-77725277323952093012011-05-09T19:17:00.002-04:002011-05-09T21:40:26.849-04:00"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">This post is too long. You will deal with it, as <a href="http://nerdarchives.blogspot.com/">That Blond Guy</a> issued me a challenge. <strike>I hope I don't bore you.</strike></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">This is the most fantastically enthralling post I have ever written.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b>Name?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">My name is unimportant. What really matters is the contents of my heart. My wallet if you're that sort of person. Gabrielle. </span></span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b>Is your name on Blogger your name in real life? If not, what letter does your real name start with?</b></span></span><br />
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I just told you what my name was. Did you expect me to assume you're asking for my nonexistent Blogger name? Fine. My name in real life starts with a 'P' and ends with an 'enis'. I got made fun of a lot as a child. I mean, a penis is a totally normal anatomical feature! I mean, it could have been because I am a girl and the world is a horrible place.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">Tolerance is extremely important to teach, which is why I'll be naming my children Harry-Dicksley and Pizzaface.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;"><b>Astrological sign?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">Sagittarius. Apparently Sags like to explore. And we get into cynical relationships. The internet makes me laugh.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"></span></span><br />
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</b>Yes! Why are there quotation marks around 'Blogspot Get-Together'? I mean, if you're thinking about it as a name for the get-together, but it isn't really catchy. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">I would end up spending a lot of time avoiding self-absorbed depressed hipster kids who write blogs about death, and makeup bloggers with flashy myspace pages, however. I attract them like bees to honey or hyper children to delicate objects or guys' eyes towards cleavage. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;"><b>Have you ever rejected someone?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">Surprisingly, yes. Shall I summarize them? I'm going to summarize them. My tactlessness was quite funny.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">NOTE: A walk back, a very Jewish summer camp sort of thing, is when a guy walks you back to your cabin then tries to make out with you in the woods.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">1) Kid with Harry Potter glasses at camp after grade 4. As he had Harry Potter glasses, I don't know why I wasn't in love with him. Anyways, a girl told me he wanted to go on a walk back with me, I thought it was a cruel joke, and he apparently cried behind his cabin when I said no. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">2) Opinionated redhead. The summer after that, I was asked on a walk back by a really nice kid who I had no attraction to whatsoever. I didn't really have crushes yet. I said no, ran away, then five minutes later walked back to him and told him "Okay, as long as it's just as friends." He dislikes me now, for that and other reasons.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">3) 11 year old with a mission. Again at camp, when I was around 13, I met an eleven year old French Canadian. He offered to read French Archie comics with me; he would translate (by the lake as the sun set.) As soon as he finished that sentence, he asked me if I would go on a walk back. I walked away as fast as I could, while explaining that "Ithinkyou'reniceandallyouseebutyoureonlycuteinababywayandIkindofsortofhaveaboyfriend." Poor kid.</span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b>If so, was it harshly?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">I told you my rejection stories. Decide on how bitchy I acted on your freaking own on a scale of 1:Go hug more bunnies, or something to 10: You're blaming your boyfriend for ruining your favourite Gucci purse because he has nice abs.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">I told you. I feel remorseful. Nobody will ever love me ever again. Stop rubbing it in. </span></span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b>Have you ever tried a cigarette?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">No. I have a problem with cigarettes. I graphed them with Best Friend (who knows this URL now. Yay!) on our graph of morality, and they're bad. I graph things. Shut up.</span></span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b>Have you ever been high? If so, on what?</b></span></span><br />
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</b>Now, being high isn't quite as bad on our graph, although the figures don't quite condone it. But no. I don't like things that change the already weird way my brain works, especially when ADHD screws it over a bit already. Plus, I'd totally send out weird text messages to people asking them if they know any nice guys who like conversations about dark matter and the benefits of LSD.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b>What are six things you find attractive when in the opposite gender?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Echad: Intellectuals are wonderful, as long as they aren't snobs or condescending. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">Shtayim: They must be nice, socially aware, and idealistic to a point, but still honest and realistic.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Shalosh: Attractive. HINT: I find</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQGr-43xp4aG6GbSefAEyS3IpCS7O8d-VHgl8zNp60SEF_SWBmE&t=1"> Bernard</a> from Megamind strangely attractive. To an unhealthy extent. I try to avoid the fact that in most of his appearances, he is actually a creep with a big blue head. And that he's fictional and animated.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">Arbah: They must be at least almost as weird as me. I need someone who gets me, how my brain works. They should like exploring, and learning, and nature.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">Chamesh: I adore good conversationalists- by that I mean someone who I can nerdspeak with - but he must be able to deal with silence too, because silence is important. I get annoyed with people who only seem capable of small talk.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">Shesh: Um. I know most girls are probably confused by this, but I see nothing wrong with a guy being a bit clingy. As long as he doesn't intrude on my personal space. It makes me feel loved. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">Un: Guys with really low self esteem bother me if they act wimpy because of it. So much. So does inflated self esteem if the guy a jerk about having an ego, actually. Just have normal self worth, or hide your ego problems. Or I will eat you in a non-sexual manner.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">Deux: Fake people. If you avoid eye contact when you're around your guy friends and an hour before we were having an in depth discussion on something amazing, I will probably be very pissed off at you. In a quiet burning fashion that involves voodoo, carrots, and my rabbit who has gutted a plush chair before and would quite happily gut a doll filled with a food she likes. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">Trois: It disappoints me when someone seems really nice and is attractive, then you initiate flirtatious eye contact, only to find out that he is, in fact, nice, but also wants to be a dentist when he grows up and has no talents besides the violin lessons his parents make him go to. No offense meant towards dentists or violinists. That kid was just disappointing. As much as I respect and love nice people, if you are boring I will become sad.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">Quatre: People who are close minded. I love people with opinions, but I will also get very close to verbally ripping into people who state the same opinion over and over and over again. Especially if the close mindedness extends into "I hate mud because mud is mean and can never ever be amazing." Mud is wonderful.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">Cinq: Unadventurous people. I love camping. I love nature. I am a plaid flannel and overall wearing backwoodsman at heart, and if you don't like looking up at the stars night sky on a cool evening in the middle of nowhere, I would be sad.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">It depends on whether or not I grew up with him. You see, with people you've known from before a certain age your body produces hormones that actually repel you from them sexually. So, theoretically, if I didn't grow up with him, yes. But in actuality, he's too much of a jerk to be my type, anyways. </span></span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b>Would you ever eat a caterpillar?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Due to religious restrictions, I cannot, in fact, eat a caterpillar. I would totally marry one, though. They're cute.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Is this question really necessary as a separate one from the previous? You could just include it in the previous question. I mean, if what you're trying to do is get people to embarrass themselves, then you may succeed, except I see no wrong with caterpillar eating.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b>If no, why?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">You see? This is so redundant! I already told you off twice about this. Don't make me do it again. I'm warning you.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b>Would you rather kiss a random stranger on the street of the opposite gender or tickle a random stranger on the street of the opposite gender?</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">I bet the person who wrote this is a creepy old guy who likes to fantasize about young fresh bloggers groping people. That's creepy, dude. I have a rape whistle. No, really. My uncle bought me <a href="http://www.ilasecurity.com/images/dynamicImages/Ila%20Dusk%20Blue%20floral%20Small%20chain.1.jpg">this one</a> just last week.<br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b>Would you rather throw up on stage or fart on stage?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">I have that wonderful skill of farting quietly then looking innocent.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b>Would you ever sneak out of the house at night?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Depends. Like, for a wild party with drugs and stuff, no, because I'd end up sitting in a corner. Maybe for a Nerdfighters gathering or a book signing. A late night, sexy one. I will find Hank Green or Christopher Paolini and squeeze their butts to see where it goes from there.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b>Do you think this survey was weird?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Weird is objective. But I was a bit bewildered by the incest question. Problems caused by genetic inbreeding are not sexy.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b>Did you find it enjoyable?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"></span>I find joy in life in general, and I got to stare at Bernard's face. But really, get some confidence pants. You spelled stuff correctly, which is good. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;"><b>Which five bloggers will you be tagging to take this survey as well?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">Do I <i>know</i> five bloggers? Let me think.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://innocentquestions.blogspot.com/">Oh hey there :)</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://randomly-yakking.blogspot.com/">Randomly Yakking</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://velociraptorswearglasses.blogspot.com/">Give Up Sex or Dinosaurs? </a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://ohmygoodnessgraciousgosh.blogspot.com/">ohmygoodnessgraciousgosh</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.thestairwaytojannah.blogspot.com/">Almost Out of Ink</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"> can draw me a picture if she feels nice, instead!!! Only if she feels like it.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">P.S. I'm quite partial to this font. What do you think? Should I give my blog a makeover?</span></div>Gabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16851473332890162778noreply@blogger.com6