Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
Polling Place threads: vital source of Muserly information, time-wasting distraction, both, other, or what? (We pick “what?!”)
Continued from v. 2011.2
Date: March 5, 2013
Categories: Life, Nonrandom Craziness, The Universe
OK, I’m going to start this off with another Homestuck poll. If you were playing Sburb, what would your class and aspect be?
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Maid of Heart.
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Dunno… Mage of Mind probably.
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Rogue of Space!
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Page of Time!
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Hm, I took a quiz thing that seems to be the standard for people who want to take a class/aspect quiz, and I got Voice of Space. (It included a few non-canon aspects such as blaze and zen. Voice is apparently the female version of Bard, since bard is strictly male.)
Voice of Space seems to fit me pretty well, looking at the descriptions.
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Here’s another Homestuck poll: If you were playing Sburb, would you be a Prospit or Derse dreamer?
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((aww apparently I killed this thread with my incessant Homestuck refferences. SFTDP.))
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I think the Derse/Prospit question didn’t get responses because (a) there are only two possible answers and (b) we know next to nothing about the in-comic criteria for dreamself assignment, so it’d be guesswork anyway.
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I think I’d be Derse. Not sure about god tier yet.
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(I’d be Prospit going by temperament, but Derse going by color scheme.)
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Yeah. I base all of that stuff off of quizzes I’ve found online (and a lot of people say they use that source) so, I dunno, I keep forgetting it’s guesswork for most people. (I’m a Prospit dreamer, by the way.)
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1. You gain the ability to teleport yourself at will. The catch is that you can only do so to three locations you select, and once you pick them you won’t be able to change them for the rest of your life.
Which places would you choose?
2a. What was the last book you read?
2b. The last poem?
3. What was the worst nightmare you’ve ever had? (A literal bad dream, not a hypothetical scenario)
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1. Probably Paris or London (i.e. Europe), somewhere in New England/southern Canada and secluded island in the Bahamas just for the heck of it.
2a. The last new book was Garth Nix’s Superior Sunday, I think. Then I re-read some other book of which the title currently escapes me.
2b. Probably Invictus.
3. I’ve had a host of bad ones, so I’ll just go with the last one:
I was taking the linear algebra exam and right before we were handed the test, my analysis professor came in. He explained that he was supervising and he’d read the test questions and found them all completely trivial, so he changed them.
I looked at the first question, which was on the last topic we’d covered in lin alg (solving non homogeneous linear equations), except that you had to somehow relate it to the fundamental theorem of algebra (which had to be proven for real and complex numbers as well) and then calculate the solution with some sort of formula derived from it (we’d just “covered” the theorem, i.e. proven it in 30 mins that morning in analysis and I didn’t understand it). I decided to not let myself be deterred and solve the equation at the very least (and so I did).
Then the professor came over, read what I was writing and told me that my calculation was wrong and I wasn’t answering the question properly. He recommended that I step down from the exam, since he knew me and knew I had no chance of ever passing it. I told him I at least wanted to try, so he asked me to prove him wrong by telling him how I would solve any of the other nine questions.
I couldn’t even understand those questions, so I couldn’t say anything. The prof gently took me aside and explained that he’d seen my confused expression in lectures . He said some people just don’t have what it takes to study math. Even if I should by some miracle pass lin alg, I would never be capable of understanding or passing his class (analysis), so I should just accept the inevitable, quit Mathematics and find a less challenging subject to study.
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1) the us treasury vault, my secret underground safe (which I will have my mansion over), and my soon to be new private island. lol
2a) I am currently reading Game of Thrones.
2b) That would a poem translated to English from Russian by someone whose name I cannot recall. But it was called May. Said poem influenced Tchaikovsky to write the piano piece that I going to perform in concert this Sunday and am slightly/extremely nervous about.
3) I was a baby seal in the middle of a football field. I was surrounded by sharks, all of which had the faces of my friends. They were talking about how they were going to eat me.
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1. I’d save them for now. I’m too young to be making huge choices, I’d end up putting them somewhere which wouldn’t be relevant in ten years.
I think my ultimate plan would be to find some isolated lake or pond or something, away from civilization. Build myself a simple house, and set the first location there.
The second point would be in a city, where I’d work and buy groceries and such.
If that point was close to my family, I’d keep saving the third until I had a better idea. Otherwise, it’d go hereish.
2a. For school, Walden, by Thoreau. If plays count, An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde. Otherwise, The Emerald Atlas by John Stevens. I’ll endorse the first two, the third was disappointing.
2b. If, by Rudyard Kipling.
3. Um… Hm. I guess one of those typical dreams where you wake up and you’ve missed something slightly important.
I don’t really have nightmares.
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1. One of the places I’d pick to teleport to would definitely be my family’s place in Jordan. It would make everything so much easier–no need for expensive plane tickets and super-long rides, and visiting my relatives over there would become something I could do every week, instead of once every five to ten years. I don’t really have any preference for the other places…I agree with bookgirl_me and everyone else that I secluded island or place away from everyone else would be pretty cool. My last pick…hmm. I want to travel the world, but I hate long plane rides, so if I picked someplace that was far away but relatively connected to a bunch of other places I could cut down on potential travel time a lot. Or, no, wait, I’d still need to be able to teleport back home again. So I guess I’d pick home for my final location.
2a. The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan. Still haven’t finished it yet, it’s on my list of things to do during this spring break.
2b. I think it was something by Nizar Qabbani. …Or it was fan poetry. I am terrible at remembering these, sorry.
3. I really don’t like actually talking about my bad dreams, so I’ll just leave this empty.
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1) Taupo, New Zealand; Singapore (good central location); and Ankara, Turkey (likewise).
2a) I’m in the middle of Hamlet right now (I LOVE IT); before that, Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life (in terms of biographies, not the best, but I love all biographies and also Molly Ivins).
2b) “Prufrock”: everyone should read that immediately, good lord.
3) They all involve being rejected from every college ever and resigning to a life in which I’m stuck in one place and no one respects me and they kind of make me cry.
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Astonishing! We just read “Prufrock” in my English class. I agree with you.
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1. Three underground bunkers in remote locations across the world. These bunkers would be stocked with supplies and extremely secure.
2a. The 13 and 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear. It’s awesome and you should all go read it.
2b. Erm, do Florence+the Machine song lyrics count? I don’t know. I don’t read a lot of poetry.
3. I had an awful nightmare that I was forgetting my school books and gym clothes and such. It was really stressful and awful. (This is what most of my nightmares consist of.) Eventually, I woke up and a bunch of counselors and therapists were trying to help me recover from the horrible nightmare I had just had… then I woke up and it was all a dream.
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…I should know by now not to ask MuseBlog about its nightmares. 
Hugs for everyone.
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1. Somewhere a short trip from my likely home, somewhere near many of my foreign friends and other interesting people and things, somewhere on the other side of the world and a short trip from many different places, somewhere scenic and relaxing, and somewhere secure. Let’s make that central Sydney, NYC or somewhere else on the US east coast, and some tiny unimportant island in the middle of nowhere.
2a. The Hours. I read it for English class, but actually enjoyed it on its own merits.
2b. I can’t remember.
3. I can’t remember, and probably didn’t want to at the time. Generally they involve either horrible embarrassment or imminent death, but with added weirdness.
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Have you ever been to a Disney theme park, and if so, which one(s) and how many times?
I’ve been to Disney World twice, once at Christmas 2002 for about a week, when we went to the four major parks there (Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom), and again in February 2011 for one day (my 18th birthday) at EPCOT park.
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