Greetings, ladies and gentlemen. After a discussion in the Staff Hangout, it has been decided to allow the return of this thread. But we need to follow some guidelines this time, in order for this to work.

Please keep in mind, this is not a thread to post random nonsense, it is a place to talk about whatever happens to be on your mind. (Keeping within the rules, of course)

Oh yeah, and absolutely no flamewars! Please.

I've been dying to do this since one of my most favorite topics fell into Necro territory.

I had some good fried chicken tonight, coupled with good homemade fried potatoes (with the skin still attached, which I hear to be the part of it with the most nutrients). Hmm. Homemade food.

Alas, on a darker note, I have to write a pretty big (by comparison) English essay, in conjunction with memorizing Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

So, all is not well....

im board becuase i have a 400 woord paper due tomoorow all i have too due is type it

ooo, that stinks. I have to study for psat and do all these dumb math problems. I also have to get really good at music in the next few months for auditions. Also I don't know if you guys notice but I haven't seen rrppo in a really long time.

i took psat yesterday it was horrible. i hope i made jumior scholar.
It will proubably be easier for you im only in 8th grade and it was sorta easy you will do good

I'm done with school for the week- tomorrow is "fall break." Now I personally think that the phrase "fall break" suggests more than one day, but that is not so... I just get Friday off. Ack... and I just had to stop my dog from chewing on a lighter.

Good luck with the studying and the reports.

I probably had better. KYOCHON CHICKEN FTW!!!

Brain Candy, you're lucky. You get a "Fall Break."

Tomorrow's the end of my first marking period, and I'm getting my report card.

I'm sitting here @ 10:43 PM dreading the new time I have to wake up. Normally, I wake up around 9:30 and start school at 10:00 (What can I say? I live an easy life.). Now, people keep waking me up at 8:00. It's thrown my entire life off balance. Ever have one of those days where everything feels different? I tend to be more sensitive to change then the average person, so imagine going through that every day for literally weeks. It sucks. I can't imagine how messed up my life is going to be after I start at my new job.

In other news, I have a 108 question quiz on Maryland State History tomorrow; along with a rather large Biblical History lesson, and a Constitutional Law lesson of unknown size (I haven't looked at it yet.). The highlight of my day tomorrow will probably be reading some more of Journey to the Center of the Earth. I held off on reading that one because I didn't like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and I wish I hadn't. I'm loving it.

I'm also home schooled like you, but I always try to get up at 7:30 AM, get to "school" (I'm pretty much self-educated, except for the occasion "supervisor" help, checking, and issuing and grading of tests) by 9:00 AM, and be finished preferably by 3:00 PM (sometimes earlier, but I usually just finish up for what I have for the day). I also get Fridays and summers off, so I only have a 4 day week.

I usually get done by 3:00 as well, and I get weekends off. But certainly not Fridays. :blink: You must work really hard to be able to do that. *high fives*

I shouldn't wine about having to wake up at 8:00. It's not early at all. I just hate change.

Exactly. Monday thru Wednesday I have to wake up at 6 AM to make it to my 8 and 9 AM classes. Physics lab at 8 in the morning is fuUuUuUuUuN! [No, really. It is.]

Yeah. Usually, I get fair amount of 100% grades on my tests, but I've been faultering slightly in that area, partly because I'm in the hardest area of high school (I forget what the terms are, but theres like sophomore, senior, etc.), and partly because of "Murphys", where I accidentally or unwittingly mess up one small detail without even knowing it (like accidentally using the formula 2a²/b when it should be 2b²/a. I've lost a lot of 100%s to incidents like that where I got a "disappointing grade" like 90%, 94%, or 96%.

I have an hour long break deliberately set for 10:00-11:00 AM so that I can watch The Price Is Right (see avatar), and while I technically have an hour long lunch break from 12:00-1:00 PM, I usually just work straight through, stopping only to eat lunch. So, I really only take one break.

I'm speechless. I don't know how you do it.

Actually, before I became home schooled, I went to a private school where there were two 20 minute breaks stationed at 9:30 AM and 10:50 AM, as well as a 45 minute long lunch break for 12:00 PM, before school ended at 2:30 PM (later changed to 3:00 PM, probably due to student under-performance <_< ). I usually alway took the breaks (there were work quotas where if you didn't have a certain amount done, you couldn't go on break, though), but around the last year I went, they stopped playing the sports and activities I crave and just stood around talking. That's when I started stop taking breaks and started just working through on my high school. It's a habit thats stuck to me.

I guess I enjoy school more than I would like to admit. ^_^

I'm a B student. I spend a lot of time practicing music though, because I have to and I like music. School sucks though. I have to get up at 6:00 now. At my old district I could run to school in just 30 seconds, so I could get up at 7:50! One time I even forgot a project and the teacher actually let me run back home real quick to get it, because nobody would care. In my new big school, the rooms are farther apart than my old house was to the old school! The buses are darn slow too so when I stay after school I don't get back until 5:15.

By the way, xbolt, your avatar scares me like mad.

This is your justification for moving my topic?
I hate you all.

It's timed just right to mess with your mind... :D

Anyway, last year, before I started working, I always sacked in. But after I started, I had to start getting up at 8:00. And like Richie, I'm more sensitive to change than Average Joe.

thanks rushnerd. i think the feeling is mutual :P JK.
i finished my paper at 5:45 this morning :lol:
BTW is that a slowpoke in you avatar rushnerd

i second pikazec on the mutual feelings...
I also have done a paper just before it was due...
like 2 minutes before :D

Speaking of papers, I have to write one on a topic of my choosing. :(

I'm an A student, but I have really poor study habits. I usually do my homework on the same day it's due. :blink: I always manage to get it done, though, and I have reatained an A grade in each of my classes. But it's hard to pull off somethimes... :wacko:

even mudkipz?



so yea, im just starting to realize how much it sucks to not have a lunch and at least 1 free period every other day
its worth it though (FOR SCIENCE!)

Ever had one of those days where you're absolutely fascinated with what you're studying, but you can't keep your eyes on it? That's what happened to me today. I had a massive lesson about the Reconstruction Amendments added to the Constitution after the Civil War.

I don't remember any... If I'm interested in what I'm doing, I focus like a laser beam. But when I'm not interested... If I'm not careful, I'll find myself wandering around La-La Land. :lol:

so its back aye? sorry, been gone for close to 2 days. -_-

Heh, I get like that too. Last Tuesday in my programming lab session, I wrote an entire program from scratch to done in about 50 minutes, but I was so "In The Zone" [that IS the terminology you kids use these days, right?] that it felt like 15.

Actually, I'm not so good when it comes to modern "teen" lingo. I'm a little more "old-fashioned", or at least like to think I am.

Glad to see that this topic is back, without “certain” members here, keeping the peace should be easy. Typing with the Wii is slow...

I only got a "Report card" in Chinese, in which I got an A+.

Ya know, when I first joined, MoN wasn't here, Strife was still active, Lucius, xbolt, and Boingo were still normal members, Loremaster was a global mod, and Flembrane, Flemoid Slayer, wayc, chexboss, and NTG were active.

There are two Stargate movies coming out next year, they're called the Ark of Truth and Continuum. JoWood is planning on releasing Stargate: The Alliance in 2009.

I want Portal.

This reminds me of when I was a regular lurker here. It had to be before December of '05 when I started lurking. I came mainly for the Chex Quest mods, though, and I never ventured into General Chat areas, so I porbably wouldn't have noticed any "disasters" like Dragon Master (though I did have to raise some eyebrows when a lot of the threads got wiped near the close of '06; we all know what caused THAT).

Man, what I'd do to do that again. About 2 years ago, I wrote a essay on Hiroshima and America's moral standpoint on the bombing. Alas...I sorta miss homeschooling, but I feel like I've dug myself too deep with public school, and now I can't get out. It's as if, if I get out, I'm NEVER going to collage, it feels like, even if I know thats not the case. In other news, I was offered a job at the Court TV Chatroom. This woman in -- wanted me to find some assets of her ex-husband that wasn't seen by the IRS. I couldn't take it though, cause I live too far, and I never told her my real age.(I tend to lie on chatrooms.. :ph43r: ) Glad this topic is back!

Twice, I've gotten an email from some Mr. Lee Fong man who needed my help to secure some funds in Singapore (the English wasn't exactly perfect for a business man who "trained and worked as an external auditor for the United Overseas Bank" or something). It smelled of a scam, so I never replied back to either email, thinking it was either spam or a scam of some sort. If you were offered the "job" over a chat room, chances are, it wasn't even real.

Lol...

My dad's from Singapore. :D

But we live in NY.

NY is teh 1337 (except the city... that area needs to get turned into its own country or something...)

Heh, that's happened to me a lot. "Nice try, buddy." *Delete*

Well, this was a chatroom of trustworthy adults. But, then again, I was able to convince them that I was a 30 or so dad with a daughter named Sakura and a bad headache. Whatever the case, this woman seemed legit. She really wanted some help. After I told her that "sorry, I can't do the job, I work localy, blah blah" she said, "It's ok. You've given me hope.". At least I gave her that.

Dude... we get so many of those emails at my work where people need help securing funds and junk like that. My favorite scam story though is this constantly clueless scientist on my network who came to me, freaking out, saying that he got this email that his Paypal has been compromised and that he needs to change his password. I told him that he should *not* click on the link in that email, but instead go directly to paypal and change his password just in case. He stared blankly at me and said "but I don't have a paypal." **rolls eyes**

In other news, Dumbledore is gay.

I've heard of people getting into chat rooms with "trustworthy" adults, go to visit them/be friends with them (and these are people younger than me, and I'm 16), only to get RAPPED.

:wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko:

TMI!

Well, gay people ARE a reality, so I really don't find that surprising (I'm not a Harry Potter fan, anyway) nor all that offensive.