Sup. I have a lot to say. Guess if I remember any of it.
Well, let's star with the simple things. OH MY GOD HAVE YOU SEEN LAST NIGHT'S EPISODE YOU MUST GO WATCH IT LIKE RIGHT NOW. The next part will involve Supernatural 9x04 spoilers and extensive fangirling. You have been warned.
Firstly: Charlie~~~ Yeah, Charlie was back and it was awesome. Then they watched GoT, and it was even more awesome. Yeeesss, Dean, embrace your inner nerd.... (On a separate note: Dean's a nerd, Sam's a geek, Charlie's a nerdy geek and Cas was a tough little nerdy dude with wings, but now is a hobo.) Anyway, there was epicness. And Dorothy was badass. After the promo, I was kinda worried that she would be another shallow "strong and sexy" woman, but she wasn't. Too much. I mean, she was strong, and hot, but she was also caring and not-very-manly. She was kinda like... "enough with your misogynist bs, I am damn good at this job, so so what if I am a woman". And my god she was damn good at it. And they totally flipped all other gender-roles on their head as well. What with the boys getting brainwashed and the girls having to save them, and Charlie sacrificing herself for Dean (which is usually what the hero does to save the princess) and being the one to ultimately kill the witch, and Dean being upset that the witch thrashed the kitchen he had just cleaned. Oh man, that was precious. And in the end it was the girls who went off to the magical land to free it from evil. Oh, Charlie, do come back soon. I totally want an episode of Charlie and Dorothy's adventures in Oz. And an episode where they come back and Charlie teaches Dorothy how the world has changed and how to behave and it will be all cute and domestic. Anyway.
On the subject of Ezekiel... I think that he's a bit of a neutral player. I don't think he's on the side of the angels (haha), but he probably has an ulterior motive to helping the Winchesters. So, I don't think it'll be another Ruby or, god forbid, Metatron, but there is something he needs from TFW. It'll likely be uncomfortable, but probably not a backstabbing. That's my thoughts on that anyway.
This concludes the Supernatural portion of this post, thank you for your time.
While on the subject of TV, just last night I finished the eighth season of How I Met Your Mother. Now I have to go check out how much of the ninth season is out and where I can watch it. And after I catch up, I can watch it from TV~ We have one now. It's a smart TV. A really smart TV. It has netflix. And youtube, but mainly netflix. I am so happy about it, now I can watch stuff from a TV instead of my computer. Yay.
I have the new pokémon game now. It is awesome. But I'm kinda stuck at the professors lab, because I can't decide which starter I want, arh. I mean, I already have two fire pokémon in my party, but I really want charmanderrrrrghghggahfghag. I kinda ruled out bulbasaur, because I also have a soon-to-be roserade in my party, but I don't know. I don't have a water pokémon, but I don't know if I want a blastoise... I mean, it's a tank, and I am more of a sweeper kinda trainer. Although mega blastoise has a pretty good sp.attack... So maybe I'll take squirtle. Oh, btw, if there's actually someone reading this blog, and happens to have pokémon X or Y, I want your friendcode (mine is 2449-4876-3578). Kthnxbai.
Also, I am going to name all my pokémon after fictional characters (from western media, because reasons) so if you have any awesomesauce name ideas tell them to me in the comments. And also tell me where they're from.
Uhh, I feel like I had something more...... OH, the NaNoWriMo. So, the story can be as long as you want, so if you don't have time, just write a short one. It must have a plot of any kind and (at least) three characters, but that's it. I am really distracted right now, please excuse me if this makes little sense. Anyhoo, you could write an update here every week of how it's going, and then post the finished story at the end of November. So yeah, I have no longer no idea what I was saying, I got distracted by skype and pokémon, so I'm gonna stop this now. Write stuff. I will too.
Pie out.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Temperatures
So.. Umm...
All my thoughts are very mixed in my head, cause at the moment not only should I be on a lecture about media analysis and I'm not, but I'm trying to bake brownies, trying to figure out what I'll need with me in England, write feedback summary of the protu's autumn camp I was on last weekend (our theme was loosely translated "Truth is found in oatmeal") and do research for this blog.
So...
Since the first snows were mentioned earlier. They all melted away, since the next day from when I said "It hasn't rained for a while" it started raining. It still does. Not non-stop, but still.
The point is... The point.. is..
Not brains in the ocean.
But anyway, because of the difference in the temperature here and there (end of summer? seriously?) I began again thinking about the fact I realized while in Australia. That the climate in Finland is weird. I mean, the temperature differences around the year are huge compared to anywhere else in the world.
Here, I made you a table:
Hmm, seems like I don't know how to make a table. Anyway.
Unless apparently I copy-paste it from Writer.
My source is this place:http://www.weatherbase.com
Hmm, I wasn't as quite right. I mean, I'm surprisingly surprised about the temperature differences in other places too. I'm also surprised about the temperatures in Tampere. The average lowest temperature in January is supposed to be -11 celcius. (Oh, right, all the temperatures are in celcius.) But really, I would've guessed it below -15. I could also make a table of the warmest and coldest measured temperatures, but they don't necessarily tell very much.
Either way, the temperatures in Finland vary way more than in most places on Earth.
That was my point.
I mean, the only other places where the temperature is nice in the summer and actually cold in the winter are like... Moscow. It's a little too cold in Anchorage in the summer and a little too warm in Boston for both.
I still think I should move to Mauritius. It gets a little hot in the days, but it's tolerable.
This is a very messy post. And not as interesting as I thought it would be. I'll write something sensible again next week.
Ummmm.... About stuff you said...
First, it seems to me the only slightly interesting thing in Supernatural right now is whether Azekiel (who's name I'm sure I just misspelled) is actually working for the angels or actually helping the Winchesters.
Second, a month from when you failed to blog and before which you should have two extra ones is the 11th. Just so you know.
Third, a non-official NaNoWriMo? I could, though my biggest problem with writing is that nothing comes out of my head. I mean, someone give me a plot and I'll make it into a story, but for some reason I lost my imagination for making up plots back when I was 15-ish or something. I'm trying to wale it up again, though, so it might be good for me. Also, write where? Just for me on my laptop or actually put it here or dunno... Google Drive and a link here? And I (read your blog in the middle of the night) for some reason was left uncertain of whether we'd be writing the same story (which might be fun. Or horrible) or different ones. And one more thing. Right now I have five different books I should read for school and go take the exams about them. Like, preferably before Christmas. So I'm screwed with that even if I didn't put my energy into trying to come up with a story in a month.
That sounded like a no. It's not a no. It's an I'll think about it. Also, answer my questions.
Great, so I think that's all. I need to go back to baking and packing and summarising (why does this thing tell me that's not a word?).
~matu
All my thoughts are very mixed in my head, cause at the moment not only should I be on a lecture about media analysis and I'm not, but I'm trying to bake brownies, trying to figure out what I'll need with me in England, write feedback summary of the protu's autumn camp I was on last weekend (our theme was loosely translated "Truth is found in oatmeal") and do research for this blog.
So...
Since the first snows were mentioned earlier. They all melted away, since the next day from when I said "It hasn't rained for a while" it started raining. It still does. Not non-stop, but still.
The point is... The point.. is..
Not brains in the ocean.
But anyway, because of the difference in the temperature here and there (end of summer? seriously?) I began again thinking about the fact I realized while in Australia. That the climate in Finland is weird. I mean, the temperature differences around the year are huge compared to anywhere else in the world.
Here, I made you a table:
Hmm, seems like I don't know how to make a table. Anyway.
|
Place |
Avg highest of warmest month |
Avg lowest of coldest month |
Difference |
|
Tampere |
22 |
-11 |
33 |
|
Boston, MA |
27.6 |
-5.4 |
33 |
|
Cairns, QLD |
31 |
17 |
14 |
|
Port Mathurin, Mauritius |
28 |
20 |
8 |
|
Johannesburg |
25 |
5 |
20 |
|
London |
23 |
5 |
18 |
|
Moscow |
21 |
-11 |
32 |
|
Anchorage, AK |
18.6 |
-17.9 |
36,5 |
|
Rio de Janeiro |
32 |
17 |
15 |
|
Hong Kong |
30 |
14 |
16 |
Unless apparently I copy-paste it from Writer.
My source is this place:http://www.weatherbase.com
Hmm, I wasn't as quite right. I mean, I'm surprisingly surprised about the temperature differences in other places too. I'm also surprised about the temperatures in Tampere. The average lowest temperature in January is supposed to be -11 celcius. (Oh, right, all the temperatures are in celcius.) But really, I would've guessed it below -15. I could also make a table of the warmest and coldest measured temperatures, but they don't necessarily tell very much.
Either way, the temperatures in Finland vary way more than in most places on Earth.
That was my point.
I mean, the only other places where the temperature is nice in the summer and actually cold in the winter are like... Moscow. It's a little too cold in Anchorage in the summer and a little too warm in Boston for both.
I still think I should move to Mauritius. It gets a little hot in the days, but it's tolerable.
This is a very messy post. And not as interesting as I thought it would be. I'll write something sensible again next week.
Ummmm.... About stuff you said...
First, it seems to me the only slightly interesting thing in Supernatural right now is whether Azekiel (who's name I'm sure I just misspelled) is actually working for the angels or actually helping the Winchesters.
Second, a month from when you failed to blog and before which you should have two extra ones is the 11th. Just so you know.
Third, a non-official NaNoWriMo? I could, though my biggest problem with writing is that nothing comes out of my head. I mean, someone give me a plot and I'll make it into a story, but for some reason I lost my imagination for making up plots back when I was 15-ish or something. I'm trying to wale it up again, though, so it might be good for me. Also, write where? Just for me on my laptop or actually put it here or dunno... Google Drive and a link here? And I (read your blog in the middle of the night) for some reason was left uncertain of whether we'd be writing the same story (which might be fun. Or horrible) or different ones. And one more thing. Right now I have five different books I should read for school and go take the exams about them. Like, preferably before Christmas. So I'm screwed with that even if I didn't put my energy into trying to come up with a story in a month.
That sounded like a no. It's not a no. It's an I'll think about it. Also, answer my questions.
Great, so I think that's all. I need to go back to baking and packing and summarising (why does this thing tell me that's not a word?).
~matu
Saturday, October 26, 2013
November
So it's almost Halloween. That's cool. Trick-or-treating and all that. The costumes are almost sorta ready. Well, the kids' costumes anyway. I am going as Little Red Riding Hood. My cloak is totally awesome. I also got a bit inspired by my costume and accidentally started to design a fantasy universe based on Little Red Riding Hood, where Red is the Huntsman. And seeing as it started with my Halloween costume design picture, she looks kinda like me, which then led to me basing a lot of other characters on all my lovely friends. Oops.
So now Red and her little brother are continuing the family business of hunting Werewolves (and other miscellaneous thing that go bump in the dark), and their two sisters are a semi-famous chronicler/writer/idk and the head seamstress of Tanoppiola. That's right, if you don't use it, I will. The other characters also include a lovely bar owner, a badass black smith/inventor, a traveling singer who has settled in the town and I don't yet know what the fuck Tiinu is. Sorry. A scholar? Ooh, maybe a medical woman. All the important people in this story are women. Except the wolf. Well, all the important people in the society of this story are women. The wolf is a farmer's boy, who is fairly poor and kind of a friend of Red & co.'s. And as I said, they hunt werewolves, so they don't know that he's a wolf in the beginning. Then I also thought that the typical plotline would be that Wolf and Red fall in love and then drama~ but meh. Do you want him? You can totally have him.
Oh, and the Hunter's cloaks are red because werewolves are drawn to red and so it'll be hunters they attack and the hunters will be ready. Sounds legit, eh?
Speaking of November, my birthday's coming up. Yay. And so (just as an FYI) I would like for my birthday: Supernatural season 8 DVD box (which you can keep in Finland, I can't really watch it here anyway), a new drawing tablet (my pen is broken...), Assassin's Creed IV (when it comes out), the ability to finish my projects, a fitting bra, a great idea for the ending of Mathia, money for i-don't-know-yet-but-i'll-figure-it-out, a plan for my future and two bars of each Fazer chocolate there is (hint: there are 15 of them). That's all. I think. Thanks.
Other things November is, is NaNoWriMo, which I thought about participating. Although I haven't really read the rules and apparently you're supposed to update your progress to some website? I don't know, I haven't actually done any research. But anyway, I now have a challenge for you! Let's write a novel (or short story, boo you lazy ass) November! I think I'd actually want to write Mathia to at least halfway point, because that's how far I've planned it. And you must write too. But I wouldn't write Nocturne, seeing as it's been such a long process, you probably don't want to rush that. So have a new topic! "30 days of November"~ Totally original.
In conclusion: the goal for NaNoWriMo is to write 50,000 words in 30 days, but I say our goal is to write a story of any length (but at least over like 1000 words, ok?) which has a plot and at least three characters. About anything, of any genre, of any rating, with any characters (as long as there's at least three). And you don't have to have three main characters, but in that case have supporting characters. If you want to write a love story or something, then the third character can be the best friend of either one's, to whom they tell all about their life. It becomes a character when it can talk/communicate in someway back and has more than a few lines that aren't "And what can I get you?". OK? OK.
I should really read that book, the movie's coming out in June...
So I guess that's all from me now. NO WAIT.
And now to the Supernatural part of my blogging. NOTE: if you don't care/want to avoid spoilers, skip ahead. There might be something at the end.
There has been so much wank after the last episode, it's ridiculous. People complain about:
tl;dr: A lot of wank.
On a more positive note: Charlieeee~~~~ Yeah, so next Tuesday is Slumber Party and Charlie will be back and I will be happy. Yay.
This concludes the Supernatural part of this blog. Thank you for your patience.
So that got a bit long. Oops. Hey, it's still Friday, yay. I was sure I would be writing this for so long it would be past midnight when I actually posted this. I wrote this thing for almost two hours, wow. But now I think that's all. Bye~
Pie out.
So now Red and her little brother are continuing the family business of hunting Werewolves (and other miscellaneous thing that go bump in the dark), and their two sisters are a semi-famous chronicler/writer/idk and the head seamstress of Tanoppiola. That's right, if you don't use it, I will. The other characters also include a lovely bar owner, a badass black smith/inventor, a traveling singer who has settled in the town and I don't yet know what the fuck Tiinu is. Sorry. A scholar? Ooh, maybe a medical woman. All the important people in this story are women. Except the wolf. Well, all the important people in the society of this story are women. The wolf is a farmer's boy, who is fairly poor and kind of a friend of Red & co.'s. And as I said, they hunt werewolves, so they don't know that he's a wolf in the beginning. Then I also thought that the typical plotline would be that Wolf and Red fall in love and then drama~ but meh. Do you want him? You can totally have him.
Oh, and the Hunter's cloaks are red because werewolves are drawn to red and so it'll be hunters they attack and the hunters will be ready. Sounds legit, eh?
Speaking of November, my birthday's coming up. Yay. And so (just as an FYI) I would like for my birthday: Supernatural season 8 DVD box (which you can keep in Finland, I can't really watch it here anyway), a new drawing tablet (my pen is broken...), Assassin's Creed IV (when it comes out), the ability to finish my projects, a fitting bra, a great idea for the ending of Mathia, money for i-don't-know-yet-but-i'll-figure-it-out, a plan for my future and two bars of each Fazer chocolate there is (hint: there are 15 of them). That's all. I think. Thanks.
Other things November is, is NaNoWriMo, which I thought about participating. Although I haven't really read the rules and apparently you're supposed to update your progress to some website? I don't know, I haven't actually done any research. But anyway, I now have a challenge for you! Let's write a novel (or short story, boo you lazy ass) November! I think I'd actually want to write Mathia to at least halfway point, because that's how far I've planned it. And you must write too. But I wouldn't write Nocturne, seeing as it's been such a long process, you probably don't want to rush that. So have a new topic! "30 days of November"~ Totally original.
In conclusion: the goal for NaNoWriMo is to write 50,000 words in 30 days, but I say our goal is to write a story of any length (but at least over like 1000 words, ok?) which has a plot and at least three characters. About anything, of any genre, of any rating, with any characters (as long as there's at least three). And you don't have to have three main characters, but in that case have supporting characters. If you want to write a love story or something, then the third character can be the best friend of either one's, to whom they tell all about their life. It becomes a character when it can talk/communicate in someway back and has more than a few lines that aren't "And what can I get you?". OK? OK.
I should really read that book, the movie's coming out in June...
So I guess that's all from me now. NO WAIT.
And now to the Supernatural part of my blogging. NOTE: if you don't care/want to avoid spoilers, skip ahead. There might be something at the end.
There has been so much wank after the last episode, it's ridiculous. People complain about:
- reapers getting killed with angel swords (which, in fact, has happened before) and reapers "suddenly" becoming angels, which I don't think they did? When was this said? I mean, sure Death is sometimes referred to as "the Angel of Death" (though not in SPN itself) but who said reapers are angels? And even if they are, most things we learn about monsters etc are, gasp, new and it's not really a continuity error, so who cares if they are angels.
- Cas being out of character somehow. I don't know how, I think he was pretty much himself. And if you've spent the past forever being an angel and suddenly became human, you wouldn't be the same person anymore. There's a million new things you feel and a million new things to worry about and yeah, you're not invincible anymore, you're flawed and fragile and broken. You try staying the same. Besides, all the key points stayed: he's still socially awkward, comically honest about angel stuff and fiercely loving humanity.
- Cas being in the intellectual level of a three year old when it came to being human, which he actually wasn't. I mean, he did pretty damn well for someone who's never before had to worry about food or shelter or money or urinating. If I understood correctly, the main concern to people seemed to be the toothpaste scene, but I don't think that was such a big deal. I mean, if you don't have a toothbrush that is how you do it. You take a lot of toothpaste and then kinda rub it against your teeth with your tongue and spit it out. I'm not entirely sure if he had a toothbrush, because I've watched that scene many times and first he didn't have one, but when he went into the stall I think he might've had one, soooo? Although I have no idea what he was going to do with it there, 'cause he left the toothpaste and other things on the table...
- Cas doing it with someone he just met, Cas doing it with a girl and generally about Cas doing it. I'm gonna pause here, because people say it would be out of character for Cas to have sex with someone he didn't know well and love and all that, but really? When you as a teenager first discover these urges, do you not want to do it with anyone who let's you? And April clearly gave him the green light and she was pretty darn cute, so why wouldn't have Cas done it. Virginity and it's preciousness is completely a made up social concept, created by men to keep women in control (true story). Why would Cas give a rat's ass about it? He is (was) an angel, he's not bound by puny social expectations (as proved by his social behaviour). Virginity is not a part of Castiel's culture and besides this might have not even been his first time! I mean, he was married for a year for fuck's sake! Are you implying that he and what's-her-face never consummated their marriage? Yeah right. And while this issue is not brought up, it is canonically stated, by Cas himself, that he has at least theoretical knowledge of how to pleasure a woman. Rah. Cas is no less "pure" and the first time with someone special any less meaningful even if he's had sex with someone before it. Now shut your face.
- Cas being confirmed canonically straight- WHAT? I mean. If you're gonna complain about that, you're a tad late, what with Megstiel being canon and Cas being married as Emmanuel. And besides, Cas is (was) an angel. They don't really have genders, do they? (Case in point: Raphael. Oh and Castiel himself, when he possessed Claire and almost discarded Jimmy.) And even if Cas identifies as a male and is attracted to a woman, so what? You're not either gay or straight. Cas is as canonically pansexual as one can be without outright saying "Hi guys, I'm pan!" or being Captain Jack Harkness. I mean, he said "I am utterly indifferent to sexual orientation." His words. So yeah.
- Zeke. Oh Zeke. I don't get why people complain about this, it was pretty obvious that Cas wouldn't be able to stay in the bunker. That's not how this show works. And there's no way the idea would come from Dean himself, or from Sam for that matter. It had to come from an outside source. And it was necessary for the plot. Sorry Cas. But it's not like Dean broke up with him or something. They can (and probably will) stay in touch. The thing is, Cas can't stay in the bunker, because his presence will... alert the angels? I guess. I'm not sure. The point is, there is no way in hell, Dean Winchester will let Cas walk out the door without a) money/credit card b) a duffel bag full of clothes c) a cellphone d) some sammiches to go <3<333<3 But seriously, Cas won't be just tossed out to survive on his own. He will get some supplies and an order to call if something, anything, comes up, you hear me man. Call whenever. We can always drive there to help. So it's a whole lot better than it was.
tl;dr: A lot of wank.
On a more positive note: Charlieeee~~~~ Yeah, so next Tuesday is Slumber Party and Charlie will be back and I will be happy. Yay.
This concludes the Supernatural part of this blog. Thank you for your patience.
So that got a bit long. Oops. Hey, it's still Friday, yay. I was sure I would be writing this for so long it would be past midnight when I actually posted this. I wrote this thing for almost two hours, wow. But now I think that's all. Bye~
Pie out.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Movies
Good morning. This time actually morning.
First, I say two blogs.
Because the reason you didn't blog on the right day was that you forgot. It wasn't about the internet. If you had remembered it before you lost the internet, you would've been on time.
Second, putting out stories here, was it?
Again, my suggestion is, that sure, stories out here sound fun, but maybe as extra posts, so that there will be something else too. Does that sound like a plan?
Third, about the snow here.
Yeah, the temperatures here have dropped pretty low. It is cold in the rain. Or would be, if it would rain. It's the time of the year when when the skies are cllear it's some degrees below zero, and when it's raining it's mostly raining and not snowing cause it's a little above zero. Though it also apparently snows, since there is a tiny bit of snow on the ground also here in the Southern parts of Finland. Mostly the stuff on the ground is ice and frost, which makes riding a bike with summer tires feel a tiny bit like suicide. Though it's not bad yet, the snow hasn't gathered on the ground (cause there hasn't been any) and there hasn't been any rain to get the roads wet. The sky has been almost completely clear for a few days.
Now to what I actually wanted to write about.
I was at our parents' place for the weekend, and we had a movie marathon with the theme "Movies no one there has ever seen". We watched five movies, so I thought I'd make some small movie reviews.
Snow White (2001 version)
Probably the weirdest version of the Snow White story any of us had ever seen. Not bad weird, but for example the dwarves where weekdays and moved around jumping in the air and forming a rainbow that moved fast from one place to another. And the king was a peasant that (something that was probably) a genie that came out of the snow made to be a king when he was wandering to find someone to give Snow White milk after his wife died giving birth. And the genie's sister was the step mom. So yeah...
Legend of the Guardians
Not to be confused with Rise of the Guardians. The one I'm talking about is the one with the owls, not the one with Santa Claus and Jack Frost. It's an animation. A kids' movie. Not super good, but not bad. Probably won't see it again, wasnät that good. I did like that the hero's brother turned evil in almost the very beginnig though. I thought at first he's gonna be the hero. One of those movies that you just know what's gonna happen next while watching it.
Our Idiot Brother
A comedy about a guy who screwes things up for himself the whole time but simply being too nice to people. For example the movie begins with him going to jail for accidently selling drugs to a cop. A cop in a uniform. I mean, seriously. Again, not anything special, a comedy. I'm the kind of person who really likes comedies. I mean, they're good in the middle of the night or after a couple of hevier movies or when I'm in the right mood. I quite liked it, but not quite enough to want watch it again.
The Cloud Atlas
I was going to go watch this one when it came to the movie theaters, but then I didn't. It is beautiful. It's a movie that you really have to concentrate on while watching to be able to follow the plot, since it happens in I think six different times in history and future all mixed up toghether. So yes, needs your attention, but it is absolutely beautiful. One of those movies I'd want to have in my own shelf. I don't know what to say about it. Go watch it. Or read it. Just go.
The fifth one.... I don't even remember what the fifth one was... I guess what ever it was it didn't make that big an impression. I'll let you know if I remember it later.
Btw, if you find me having spelled watch "whatch", ignore it. For some reason my fingers wanted to type it that way and I corrected it a bunch of times, but it's possible there are some left. I don't know what's up with that.
~matu
PS. I had to update. Just in case you don't follow our stats as much as I do, we have hit 400 pageviews. Though I'm guessing quite many of them are our own.
First, I say two blogs.
Because the reason you didn't blog on the right day was that you forgot. It wasn't about the internet. If you had remembered it before you lost the internet, you would've been on time.
Second, putting out stories here, was it?
Again, my suggestion is, that sure, stories out here sound fun, but maybe as extra posts, so that there will be something else too. Does that sound like a plan?
Third, about the snow here.
Yeah, the temperatures here have dropped pretty low. It is cold in the rain. Or would be, if it would rain. It's the time of the year when when the skies are cllear it's some degrees below zero, and when it's raining it's mostly raining and not snowing cause it's a little above zero. Though it also apparently snows, since there is a tiny bit of snow on the ground also here in the Southern parts of Finland. Mostly the stuff on the ground is ice and frost, which makes riding a bike with summer tires feel a tiny bit like suicide. Though it's not bad yet, the snow hasn't gathered on the ground (cause there hasn't been any) and there hasn't been any rain to get the roads wet. The sky has been almost completely clear for a few days.
Now to what I actually wanted to write about.
I was at our parents' place for the weekend, and we had a movie marathon with the theme "Movies no one there has ever seen". We watched five movies, so I thought I'd make some small movie reviews.
Snow White (2001 version)
Probably the weirdest version of the Snow White story any of us had ever seen. Not bad weird, but for example the dwarves where weekdays and moved around jumping in the air and forming a rainbow that moved fast from one place to another. And the king was a peasant that (something that was probably) a genie that came out of the snow made to be a king when he was wandering to find someone to give Snow White milk after his wife died giving birth. And the genie's sister was the step mom. So yeah...
Legend of the Guardians
Not to be confused with Rise of the Guardians. The one I'm talking about is the one with the owls, not the one with Santa Claus and Jack Frost. It's an animation. A kids' movie. Not super good, but not bad. Probably won't see it again, wasnät that good. I did like that the hero's brother turned evil in almost the very beginnig though. I thought at first he's gonna be the hero. One of those movies that you just know what's gonna happen next while watching it.
Our Idiot Brother
A comedy about a guy who screwes things up for himself the whole time but simply being too nice to people. For example the movie begins with him going to jail for accidently selling drugs to a cop. A cop in a uniform. I mean, seriously. Again, not anything special, a comedy. I'm the kind of person who really likes comedies. I mean, they're good in the middle of the night or after a couple of hevier movies or when I'm in the right mood. I quite liked it, but not quite enough to want watch it again.
The Cloud Atlas
I was going to go watch this one when it came to the movie theaters, but then I didn't. It is beautiful. It's a movie that you really have to concentrate on while watching to be able to follow the plot, since it happens in I think six different times in history and future all mixed up toghether. So yes, needs your attention, but it is absolutely beautiful. One of those movies I'd want to have in my own shelf. I don't know what to say about it. Go watch it. Or read it. Just go.
The fifth one.... I don't even remember what the fifth one was... I guess what ever it was it didn't make that big an impression. I'll let you know if I remember it later.
Btw, if you find me having spelled watch "whatch", ignore it. For some reason my fingers wanted to type it that way and I corrected it a bunch of times, but it's possible there are some left. I don't know what's up with that.
~matu
PS. I had to update. Just in case you don't follow our stats as much as I do, we have hit 400 pageviews. Though I'm guessing quite many of them are our own.
Friday, October 18, 2013
Technically it's Friday, so...
Hello to you, how's it going. It's like eight in there, right? Well, I should've been in bed an hour ago, but I got caught up watching HIMYM, and well... I just started season 5. It is awesome. I am so Ted... *sobs*
But yeah. About last week. Am I supposed to make two extra posts within a month, 'cause the post was more than 24 hours late? 'Cause I did remember I hadn't written it on Friday, but at that point I no longer had an Internet connection. What's the punishment for that? I don't think you listed one...
On a happier note, the government is no longer shut down. Apparently the Republicans realized that they were letting this one extreme part of their party screw things up and the shut down wasn't really beneficial and was actually doing big damage. So I guess we have a government again. Yay.
You know, during the week, I get so many ideas about what to write here. I honestly write them in my head while watching the kids. But then I always have to wait from 6 to 1 day(s) until I can write, so I tend to forget everything. So basically what I'm saying is I wouldn't mind writing on more than one day? I don't know. When ever I'm not writing I have all this great ideas and stuff, but then when I open the composing page I just ramble on about uninteresting things for way too long.
OK, so Pokémon! The new games are out and I am psyched! Actually they have been out for a week now, but I can't buy one here, because I have an European 3DS and the 3DS games are region locked... Why, Nintendo? Why?? *sobs* But yeah, I'm just waiting for mom to send me one from Finland. But I can't decide if I want to be a girl named Pie or a guy named Xavier... Cause while Xavier is the fandom name before the official name was released, it is damn awesome. And I have fewer male characters, even if I played two out of my three 5th gen runs as a guy... I have no idea if you know what I'm saying. You should play Pokémon! Do it man. You could have my old DS, but Tiinu has it. Hi Tiinu, if you're reading. I really don't know if anyone but mom reads these.... LEAVE SOME COMMENTS GUYS!! IT'S LIKE I'M HAVING A MONOLOGUE HERE. I want to have discussions.
Anyway. Supernatural's back up. (Spoiler alert; there will be spoilers in this paragraph->) Oh man, this weeks episode was just asdfgadsdf *sighs* Abbadon. And demons are scary again. I mean, like an actual threat. And Crowley all locked up and getting weird kicks out of it and Kevin being officially a member of the family and Dean wanting to listen to other people's worries~ ahh. We have had two episodes of this season and I am more excited about this than I have been of any other season. Ezekiel seems like a cool guy. Tumblr has been having a freak out 'cause someone said they thought Ezekiel was (in the Bible) one of the angels who fought on Lucifer's side, but yeah no. I quick research session later I found out he was actually a prophet. He wrote one of the books in the.. Old Testament? I forget. I didn't really care. Other things: Cas is coming back in the next episode, the trench coat is apparently not *sobs grossly*, Charlie is back for ep 4 and it will also feature Dorothy. From the Wizard of Oz. YEAH. And if there is no Charlie/Dorothy, I will be sooo disappointed. Uh, what else. I don't know. But I'm super excited and looking forward to this season and I'll stop talking about Supernatural now.
I really like that show, ok. Go watch the new season.
It's like half past one now, so I think I'll go to bed. I will be awaiting your sentence on my punishment on Tuesday. Smell ya later.
Pie out.
P.S. I wrote a small Halloween themed Supernatural story, you wanna read it?
P.P.S While we're on that subject, is it cool to use this blog as not-as-much-a-blog-as-a-place-to-publish-short-stories? Cause I really feel like writing and I wanna share with you guys (all... five of you. Or something.). So thought on that too.
But yeah. About last week. Am I supposed to make two extra posts within a month, 'cause the post was more than 24 hours late? 'Cause I did remember I hadn't written it on Friday, but at that point I no longer had an Internet connection. What's the punishment for that? I don't think you listed one...
On a happier note, the government is no longer shut down. Apparently the Republicans realized that they were letting this one extreme part of their party screw things up and the shut down wasn't really beneficial and was actually doing big damage. So I guess we have a government again. Yay.
You know, during the week, I get so many ideas about what to write here. I honestly write them in my head while watching the kids. But then I always have to wait from 6 to 1 day(s) until I can write, so I tend to forget everything. So basically what I'm saying is I wouldn't mind writing on more than one day? I don't know. When ever I'm not writing I have all this great ideas and stuff, but then when I open the composing page I just ramble on about uninteresting things for way too long.
OK, so Pokémon! The new games are out and I am psyched! Actually they have been out for a week now, but I can't buy one here, because I have an European 3DS and the 3DS games are region locked... Why, Nintendo? Why?? *sobs* But yeah, I'm just waiting for mom to send me one from Finland. But I can't decide if I want to be a girl named Pie or a guy named Xavier... Cause while Xavier is the fandom name before the official name was released, it is damn awesome. And I have fewer male characters, even if I played two out of my three 5th gen runs as a guy... I have no idea if you know what I'm saying. You should play Pokémon! Do it man. You could have my old DS, but Tiinu has it. Hi Tiinu, if you're reading. I really don't know if anyone but mom reads these.... LEAVE SOME COMMENTS GUYS!! IT'S LIKE I'M HAVING A MONOLOGUE HERE. I want to have discussions.
Anyway. Supernatural's back up. (Spoiler alert; there will be spoilers in this paragraph->) Oh man, this weeks episode was just asdfgadsdf *sighs* Abbadon. And demons are scary again. I mean, like an actual threat. And Crowley all locked up and getting weird kicks out of it and Kevin being officially a member of the family and Dean wanting to listen to other people's worries~ ahh. We have had two episodes of this season and I am more excited about this than I have been of any other season. Ezekiel seems like a cool guy. Tumblr has been having a freak out 'cause someone said they thought Ezekiel was (in the Bible) one of the angels who fought on Lucifer's side, but yeah no. I quick research session later I found out he was actually a prophet. He wrote one of the books in the.. Old Testament? I forget. I didn't really care. Other things: Cas is coming back in the next episode, the trench coat is apparently not *sobs grossly*, Charlie is back for ep 4 and it will also feature Dorothy. From the Wizard of Oz. YEAH. And if there is no Charlie/Dorothy, I will be sooo disappointed. Uh, what else. I don't know. But I'm super excited and looking forward to this season and I'll stop talking about Supernatural now.
I really like that show, ok. Go watch the new season.
It's like half past one now, so I think I'll go to bed. I will be awaiting your sentence on my punishment on Tuesday. Smell ya later.
Pie out.
P.S. I wrote a small Halloween themed Supernatural story, you wanna read it?
P.P.S While we're on that subject, is it cool to use this blog as not-as-much-a-blog-as-a-place-to-publish-short-stories? Cause I really feel like writing and I wanna share with you guys (all... five of you. Or something.). So thought on that too.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Ruling
Well, would you look at that.
Hello there
I was just about to write my own post when I noticed you had finally put yours up.
I will continue to hold on to my Tuesdays, you keep Fridays. So here's another one for today.
BUT
Hello there
I was just about to write my own post when I noticed you had finally put yours up.
I will continue to hold on to my Tuesdays, you keep Fridays. So here's another one for today.
BUT
For the future, so that we don't have to be like god ('Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought
of that.'), we have to think of a ruling of what to do, if one of us fails to make a post on their own day.
I suggest the following:
1. If the post is late less than 24 hours:
One extra post within the next two weeks. The day can be any day, though preferably not one that will have a post posted anyway.
2. If the post is late more than 24 hours:
Two extra posts within the next month. The same thing about the days.
3. If posting is impossible due to no internet connection:
Tell about it before hand. Also, if not impossible, write the post before going to a place without internet. The other one can then publish it on the right day.
4. If posting is impossible due to a situation like getting hit by a bus or having a 42-degree fever:
Well, then no post is ok. It would be great to let this kind of reasons to be known, though. And to make the post once consciousness has returned.
Any other situation will be assessed as (/if) they come along.
I used to have in mind what to write of today, but it slipped away when you messed up your posting dates. I'll make a more proper post again next week.
Oh, one more thing. Last week I was talking about evolution, partly to Hank's theory saying you can't say anything about evolution in the internet without sparking an uninteresting and *something* debate about it in comments. (I do not remember what the *something* was, and I could not find the video again, but you get the point. Uncivilized maybe?) I said evolution is cool, and didn't get a single comment. Seems like it doesn't work after all. Though I guess we shouldn't ignore the fact that no one knows about our blog, and that's why we don't ever get any comments. But still.
I guess that's all relevant for today.
~matu
Oops.
So I fucked up. Sorry, fudged. I had no time during the day on Friday and we left for Canada pretty much right after Maria and Mark came home, so I had a lot of other things to think about at that time, so I totally forgot to write a post! Daaaaaamn. Also we have no internet up there, so I couldn't do it in the evening or next day. So have one now. (You can still write another post tomorrow/later today, or we can switch days?)
Well, I had an interesting experience in the car as we were driving back today. As you might know, I likestaring at watching people, especially so in the car. It's always fun to see if the people in the other cars notice me (or just the car) and how they react. Well, we were in a smallish traffic jam at the time, so a lot of the cars on the other lane went first past us and then fell behind and all that, but this one little yellow car caught my eye. I think it was because it was yellow, but for some reason I started to pay attention to it. It was quite a bit ahead of us, so it took a while to catch up with it, but we did eventually, and in it were two young people, about twenty, a guy driving and a girl as shotgun. I thought they were kinda cute. Well, that's not really unusual, but then the guy looked straight into our car (I don't know if the girl said something or if he realized I was staring) and smiled. Seriously grinned. It was so weird but in a good way and I kinda smiled back, but looked down, 'cause that's my reaction to when someone smiles at me (I guess). And then we came to a toll booth and they got ahead of us and I lost them. BUT after a while I noticed another yellow car in the rear-view mirror and was like "no way, they were ahead of us", and then the car passed us - from the driver's side this time - and the girl waved at me. This cute little wave and I smiled again and felt all weird and fuzzy on the inside. I kept track on the car, but then we took an exit off the highway so we wouldn't be stuck on a really big traffic jam and the yellow car kept going.
tl;dr: Today I got a reminder of other people. That they are, you know, people. How inside every one of the cars we passed, is a person (or several) with their own life stories. And how sometimes we get to be a part of those stories, however briefly, and they get to be a part of our stories. And I think that's lovely.
Pie out.
Well, I had an interesting experience in the car as we were driving back today. As you might know, I like
tl;dr: Today I got a reminder of other people. That they are, you know, people. How inside every one of the cars we passed, is a person (or several) with their own life stories. And how sometimes we get to be a part of those stories, however briefly, and they get to be a part of our stories. And I think that's lovely.
Pie out.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Future is unpredictable
Hello there, again.
First, two things.
1. Hitchhiker's quotes? No. That would be unfair.
2. Mom and dad are saying you don't answer their messages about when it'd be a good time to fly over. You might want to do that.
I have spent the last few days thinking about the quote from Looking for Alaska (? I haven't actually read it, but I think so. Also, I'm sorry if I got the quote wrong.) that John Green brings up every now and then:
"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia."
I've been trying to really understand what it means, and I have finally figured it out. It was for some reason surprisingly difficult. Probably because I didn't before really listen to what it says.
Anyway, now I've figured it out, and even though I've heard it only completely out of context, so I can't be sure that it is supposed to mean the way I see it (what do you mean bad grammar..?), on it's own it's pretty brilliant.
I've been thinking about this, because I've been thinking quite a lot about the future. I have been at school for four weeks. (Really, just four weeks?) And I have already developed a want not to be there. Or rather, be in a different school.
Don't take it wrong, journalism is interesting, though I've only had one course of that and three of philosophy so far, but that's about to change. Media is so much everywhere all the time and has a huge effect (affect? dammit, I hate those words) on the way people behave and see the world and themselves. And by media I don't mean only journalists and anchors, and all the people working in media companies. In today's society media is more and more about connections and people and communication between normal people. Just look at us, I'm right now actively creating media content.
This is not what I was supposed to talk about.
I was supposed to talk about evolution.
The point is, I began studying a human science (well, I guess journalism isn't technically a science, but basically I'm trying to talk about fields other than natural sciences. Is there a term for them in English?) and I already realize my mind is sliding back into wanting natural sciences. Especially biology, genetics, evolution and astrobiology (which is a combination of astrophysics, evolution, the science of origins of life, chemistry, geology and basically anything you might need in figuring out in what conditions and what kind of life could begin and evolve, and where places with those conditions might be). Simply because they are mind-blowingly amazing and beautiful and sciences.
Which is something apparently everyone doesn't understand. I have also spent some time lately on YouTube, watching videos of people trying to argue against evolution. It really just makes me really sad, since a great majority of the arguments you find are something along the lines of "There is no evidence from a species evolving into another species." (Yes, yes there is. Please, just open your eyes and look, you will see it too.) "I had a dog for ten years. It's still a dog." (I don't even know where to begin. Why don't you go to Wikipedia, read a page about evolution, and then come back.) or "Evolution says sometimes, when there's matter and energy, new life forms. But if I have a jar of peanut butter, which is matter and there is some heat and light around it, but I never find new life in my peanut butter." (If life would begin that easily, there would be life everywhere. There is in fact a whole field of science dedicated to figuring out what kind of conditions are necessary for life to begin.)
Oh, right, back to that.
So, at the moment, I would really, really want to study this kind of things. The world is fascinating. The only problem is, I can't study even the basics of university level biology where I live, and I really don't want to move away. Astrobiology (if I've understood correctly) you can only study in a few universities anywhere in the world. So, that's not going too well for me. But who knows, maybe I'll decide during the next few months biology wins and move somewhere I can study it even though I very much don't want to.
I am also fascinated by evolutionary isolated places, like Australia (the animals there have really developed weird) and Mauritius, that I found some day last week. Mauritius is a ~40km x 50km island some 900 km east of Madagaskar, in the Indian ocean, best known as the place where dodos used to live until the human came and ate them away in the 16-17th century. Which, again, is very sad. I would love to one day go to an isolated place where there are no non-native species that have changed the ecosystem. Once again sadly, I'm not sure there are places like that left.
Since I began with John Green, I will finish with Douglas Adams:
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
I actually think the garden is more beautiful if it's gotten there in it's own rather than being put there by faeries. Or anyone else.
~matu
First, two things.
1. Hitchhiker's quotes? No. That would be unfair.
2. Mom and dad are saying you don't answer their messages about when it'd be a good time to fly over. You might want to do that.
I have spent the last few days thinking about the quote from Looking for Alaska (? I haven't actually read it, but I think so. Also, I'm sorry if I got the quote wrong.) that John Green brings up every now and then:
"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia."
I've been trying to really understand what it means, and I have finally figured it out. It was for some reason surprisingly difficult. Probably because I didn't before really listen to what it says.
Anyway, now I've figured it out, and even though I've heard it only completely out of context, so I can't be sure that it is supposed to mean the way I see it (what do you mean bad grammar..?), on it's own it's pretty brilliant.
I've been thinking about this, because I've been thinking quite a lot about the future. I have been at school for four weeks. (Really, just four weeks?) And I have already developed a want not to be there. Or rather, be in a different school.
Don't take it wrong, journalism is interesting, though I've only had one course of that and three of philosophy so far, but that's about to change. Media is so much everywhere all the time and has a huge effect (affect? dammit, I hate those words) on the way people behave and see the world and themselves. And by media I don't mean only journalists and anchors, and all the people working in media companies. In today's society media is more and more about connections and people and communication between normal people. Just look at us, I'm right now actively creating media content.
This is not what I was supposed to talk about.
I was supposed to talk about evolution.
The point is, I began studying a human science (well, I guess journalism isn't technically a science, but basically I'm trying to talk about fields other than natural sciences. Is there a term for them in English?) and I already realize my mind is sliding back into wanting natural sciences. Especially biology, genetics, evolution and astrobiology (which is a combination of astrophysics, evolution, the science of origins of life, chemistry, geology and basically anything you might need in figuring out in what conditions and what kind of life could begin and evolve, and where places with those conditions might be). Simply because they are mind-blowingly amazing and beautiful and sciences.
Which is something apparently everyone doesn't understand. I have also spent some time lately on YouTube, watching videos of people trying to argue against evolution. It really just makes me really sad, since a great majority of the arguments you find are something along the lines of "There is no evidence from a species evolving into another species." (Yes, yes there is. Please, just open your eyes and look, you will see it too.) "I had a dog for ten years. It's still a dog." (I don't even know where to begin. Why don't you go to Wikipedia, read a page about evolution, and then come back.) or "Evolution says sometimes, when there's matter and energy, new life forms. But if I have a jar of peanut butter, which is matter and there is some heat and light around it, but I never find new life in my peanut butter." (If life would begin that easily, there would be life everywhere. There is in fact a whole field of science dedicated to figuring out what kind of conditions are necessary for life to begin.)
Oh, right, back to that.
So, at the moment, I would really, really want to study this kind of things. The world is fascinating. The only problem is, I can't study even the basics of university level biology where I live, and I really don't want to move away. Astrobiology (if I've understood correctly) you can only study in a few universities anywhere in the world. So, that's not going too well for me. But who knows, maybe I'll decide during the next few months biology wins and move somewhere I can study it even though I very much don't want to.
I am also fascinated by evolutionary isolated places, like Australia (the animals there have really developed weird) and Mauritius, that I found some day last week. Mauritius is a ~40km x 50km island some 900 km east of Madagaskar, in the Indian ocean, best known as the place where dodos used to live until the human came and ate them away in the 16-17th century. Which, again, is very sad. I would love to one day go to an isolated place where there are no non-native species that have changed the ecosystem. Once again sadly, I'm not sure there are places like that left.
Since I began with John Green, I will finish with Douglas Adams:
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
I actually think the garden is more beautiful if it's gotten there in it's own rather than being put there by faeries. Or anyone else.
~matu
Friday, October 4, 2013
This time next week I'll be a flailing pile of goo
In case you didn't know, season 9 of Supernatural (my favorite show right next to Star Trek) premieres next Tuesday. And because Tuesday is your blog day, I can't come here and vent out, so the excitement will pile up for three days until I word vomit everything on this page and afterwards lie on the ground twitching weakly. So that'll be fun. Other fun shows recently include Atlantis, which is basically Merlin in Ancient Greece, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. which is awesome and Coulson lives. Ha. Also the second season of Kuroko no Basket starts pretty soon, but I haven't even finished the first season so who cares.
About your last post... Challenge Accep- yeah no. Halloween's coming, sis. No way I'm not eating candy. And the second one... it's probably quotes or references to like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (which would be unfair 'cause I have not read the books) or something. So basically, I don't care enough to go search, but if I come across the thing I'll let you know.
So I don't know if you've heard, but our government shut down. Yeah. So not only did I come here just in time to get in the middle of the Croat uprising, the government also decided that now is a good time to go bye bye. In case you haven't seen it yet, here's a link to watch a summary of the situation by Hank. Basically it all boils down to the Republicans not wanting Obamacare and trying to stop it from happening (even though it's already happening??) by behaving like huge three-year-olds who just lost a game. At least that's what I gather. Yeah.
Guess that's all from me for now. See you again.
Pie out.
About your last post... Challenge Accep- yeah no. Halloween's coming, sis. No way I'm not eating candy. And the second one... it's probably quotes or references to like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (which would be unfair 'cause I have not read the books) or something. So basically, I don't care enough to go search, but if I come across the thing I'll let you know.
So I don't know if you've heard, but our government shut down. Yeah. So not only did I come here just in time to get in the middle of the Croat uprising, the government also decided that now is a good time to go bye bye. In case you haven't seen it yet, here's a link to watch a summary of the situation by Hank. Basically it all boils down to the Republicans not wanting Obamacare and trying to stop it from happening (even though it's already happening??) by behaving like huge three-year-olds who just lost a game. At least that's what I gather. Yeah.
Guess that's all from me for now. See you again.
Pie out.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Challenges
Hi again
The other night I left my phone at a friend's place, and had to live three days without a phone. So I started thinking, that in today's world it is quite challenging to live without a phone. People are used to having the internet with them in the phone, and they're used to being always connected to other people, always being available, always being able to check anything online when they need to. Or feel like it. (I am sure I will talk more about this later on, but I did not plan this post to be about how people are addicted to communication and connections and the availability.)
As is turns out, it wasn't challenging for me at all. There were some inconveniences, like not having a clock you could see in the middle of the night, but the only person who tried to contact me during those few days was my flute teacher, who had to cancel our lesson. This caused me to drive around in a bus for an hour and a half to go to the lesson I didn't know I didn't have instead of studying for my philosophy exam, which was a bigger challenge than the phonelessness (what do you mean it's not a word?).
So, it was my first exam in almost two years, and first during my university time that wasn't maths, meaning it was an exam for which the studying is reading. And I suck at remembering what I've read, unless it's a book that has a story. For some reason the slides our teacher put in the internet that were the only material for the exam did not have a story. They had a lot of names of people and groups of people that think the same way, and what they thought. Not something I'd be great in remembering, especially because I don't find the thoughts interesting, but the ideas. So I was afraid my exam would go something along the lines of this:
Q: I am George Berkley. You may have heard of me. What were the main points in my philosohpy?
A: Umm.... Yeah, your name does ring a bell.... Which one were you again? Oh, right, that's the question. I think you're the bishop.
Probably not the way to phrase questions in a philosophy exam, but you get the point. Anyway, it turned out it was easier than I thought, because I didn't actually have to remember names of people, just different groups. That said I still wrote one of the worst essays of my life. And that is a lot said, since I also suck at writing essays.
Moving on to other kinds of challenges.
I have two challenges for you.
1. No candy until New Year. You heard me. I will do this with you. I challenge you to not eat candy for the next three months, chocolate included. Chocolate in pastries is ok, but not on it's own. Also, pastries are ok. We'll make a separate ruling for anything that's not clear whether it's candy or not.
2. There is something I will try to include in every one of my blog posts. Figure out what it is. If I for some reason have not included it in a post, I will say it in the post in question. And yes, that something is included in the first two posts.
Quite a short post today, but I guess it's enough challenges for the week.
~matu
The other night I left my phone at a friend's place, and had to live three days without a phone. So I started thinking, that in today's world it is quite challenging to live without a phone. People are used to having the internet with them in the phone, and they're used to being always connected to other people, always being available, always being able to check anything online when they need to. Or feel like it. (I am sure I will talk more about this later on, but I did not plan this post to be about how people are addicted to communication and connections and the availability.)
As is turns out, it wasn't challenging for me at all. There were some inconveniences, like not having a clock you could see in the middle of the night, but the only person who tried to contact me during those few days was my flute teacher, who had to cancel our lesson. This caused me to drive around in a bus for an hour and a half to go to the lesson I didn't know I didn't have instead of studying for my philosophy exam, which was a bigger challenge than the phonelessness (what do you mean it's not a word?).
So, it was my first exam in almost two years, and first during my university time that wasn't maths, meaning it was an exam for which the studying is reading. And I suck at remembering what I've read, unless it's a book that has a story. For some reason the slides our teacher put in the internet that were the only material for the exam did not have a story. They had a lot of names of people and groups of people that think the same way, and what they thought. Not something I'd be great in remembering, especially because I don't find the thoughts interesting, but the ideas. So I was afraid my exam would go something along the lines of this:
Q: I am George Berkley. You may have heard of me. What were the main points in my philosohpy?
A: Umm.... Yeah, your name does ring a bell.... Which one were you again? Oh, right, that's the question. I think you're the bishop.
Probably not the way to phrase questions in a philosophy exam, but you get the point. Anyway, it turned out it was easier than I thought, because I didn't actually have to remember names of people, just different groups. That said I still wrote one of the worst essays of my life. And that is a lot said, since I also suck at writing essays.
Moving on to other kinds of challenges.
I have two challenges for you.
1. No candy until New Year. You heard me. I will do this with you. I challenge you to not eat candy for the next three months, chocolate included. Chocolate in pastries is ok, but not on it's own. Also, pastries are ok. We'll make a separate ruling for anything that's not clear whether it's candy or not.
2. There is something I will try to include in every one of my blog posts. Figure out what it is. If I for some reason have not included it in a post, I will say it in the post in question. And yes, that something is included in the first two posts.
Quite a short post today, but I guess it's enough challenges for the week.
~matu
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