The Truth Shall Make Ye Fred.
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bliumchikAlright, I've been a leetle AWOL lately. The school computers blocked livejournal. grar. But! I think I beat my writers block! I actually finished my big Modern History essay about Stalin and his shifty moves death on time, without staying up past eleven!
If there's one thing it's impossible to get a straight answer about, it's the good ol' USSR. Seriously. I don't think a single source matched any of the others. Not only did everyone involved in the government lie about things, the people who write websites about it now lie about things, and you can't always tell which is which! All the relatively reliable books/sites had slightly different information. Others got Stalin's date of death wrong and spouted crazy conspiracy theories about doubles and guards and mineral water. What kind of respectable conspiracy theory asks rhetorical questions like "What is the meaning of the missing third bottle of mineral water"?! THESE PEOPLE ARE SERIOUS. And they can't decide whether Stalin was injected with poison or whether he drank it. The proponents of one theory almost never so much as mention any of the others, even to tell us why they're wrong.
And I got full marks for my Drama directors notes. Woot! Ms Surbey said I was thorough in her more or less illegible scrawl! My life is fulfilled! ...naw but seriously, I'm happy. I spent a lot of time thinking about that play, and walking around with Henrik "The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret" Ibsen in your head gets a little crazy. And I only got 3/5 for my presentation and crappy drawings of Norwegian people. But that's a direct result of drawing the costumes the night before the presentation while watching glasshouse and desperately highlighting newspaper articles about single mothers for the legal studies portfolio due the same day.
And speaking of Legal Studies, I'm proud to announce that my collective assessment marks now total 52 and two thirds, which means that I've passed the course no matter what I do in the final exam, which is an oral. So guess what?
...yup! It's Cheesecake Time!
The rules say you can use any whacky word, not neccessarily cheesecake. So, everyone comment with an unusual word, and I shall attempt to include as many of them as I can in my speech.
Bwaha. I will make Ms Morisson speechless yet.
ETA: A quote from today's Modern class that I couldn't pass up.
Edwina: Somewhere in the world, a British person is always awake.
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This weeks Kenobi explains has extra awesome, featuring our favourite James Norrington. (Well, technically our only James Norrington. Heavens, imagine if there were two!)
If there's one thing it's impossible to get a straight answer about, it's the good ol' USSR. Seriously. I don't think a single source matched any of the others. Not only did everyone involved in the government lie about things, the people who write websites about it now lie about things, and you can't always tell which is which! All the relatively reliable books/sites had slightly different information. Others got Stalin's date of death wrong and spouted crazy conspiracy theories about doubles and guards and mineral water. What kind of respectable conspiracy theory asks rhetorical questions like "What is the meaning of the missing third bottle of mineral water"?! THESE PEOPLE ARE SERIOUS. And they can't decide whether Stalin was injected with poison or whether he drank it. The proponents of one theory almost never so much as mention any of the others, even to tell us why they're wrong.
And I got full marks for my Drama directors notes. Woot! Ms Surbey said I was thorough in her more or less illegible scrawl! My life is fulfilled! ...naw but seriously, I'm happy. I spent a lot of time thinking about that play, and walking around with Henrik "The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret" Ibsen in your head gets a little crazy. And I only got 3/5 for my presentation and crappy drawings of Norwegian people. But that's a direct result of drawing the costumes the night before the presentation while watching glasshouse and desperately highlighting newspaper articles about single mothers for the legal studies portfolio due the same day.
And speaking of Legal Studies, I'm proud to announce that my collective assessment marks now total 52 and two thirds, which means that I've passed the course no matter what I do in the final exam, which is an oral. So guess what?
...yup! It's Cheesecake Time!
The rules say you can use any whacky word, not neccessarily cheesecake. So, everyone comment with an unusual word, and I shall attempt to include as many of them as I can in my speech.
Bwaha. I will make Ms Morisson speechless yet.
ETA: A quote from today's Modern class that I couldn't pass up.
Edwina: Somewhere in the world, a British person is always awake.
Links!
wankathon is an outlet for all your crAazy fandom conspiracies. Think Hagrid is really a girl? Or, more to the point, want to watch someone try to prove it? Go, sign up. You'll get a fandom!wank request, and your request will go to someone else. Alternately, just wait till the end of September and watch that crazy roll! But I'd rather you join because my fandoms are rather under-represented. Wah.Pimp your friends!
This weeks Kenobi explains has extra awesome, featuring our favourite James Norrington. (Well, technically our only James Norrington. Heavens, imagine if there were two!)
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Date: 2006-09-01 09:40 pm (UTC)Loquacious
Cryptozoology
Syzygy
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Date: 2006-09-02 02:32 am (UTC)my wacky word: simlish!
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Date: 2006-09-02 02:52 am (UTC)You want definitions?
http://www.dictionary.com
Also:
Sesquipedalian
Floccinaucinihilipilification
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Date: 2006-09-03 07:44 am (UTC)Ms Morrison went on about the above actors all yr 10 english
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Date: 2006-09-03 08:12 am (UTC)pretermit v.tr. Omit to mention, do, or perform something, or to temporarily leave off a custom or continuous action. Pretermitted, pretermitting, pretermission.
stokehold n. A compartment in a steamship, containing its boilers and furnace.
cortical electrodes n. Not actually from the OED, but extra credit.
sanguine adj. Hopeful. Plus, point of interest, it also means bloody.
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Date: 2006-09-03 10:16 am (UTC)I think I'm talking about Women And The Law, or something.
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Date: 2006-09-03 10:25 am (UTC)...bonus points if you can somehow relate Donoghue v. Stevenson to women and the law.
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Date: 2006-09-03 10:31 am (UTC)That's insane!
(and you're not supposed to use things that are related to the subject, jeez...)
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