Hey! And I didn’t even cheat!
One of the funniest quizzes out there: Which Lord of the Rings character and personality problem are you?
Congratulations! You’re Pippin!
Okay, TTT:EE question. Why is there an empty bottle of Sprite floating in Saruman’s pantry? I’d screencap, but Windows Media Player is evil. See for yourself if you don’t believe me. 1:40:19. (Edit: Okay, so it’s probably a green glass bottle. But it has no business floating. Of course, neither does that turkey, so I still say I’m right. Harrumph.)
A thought just occurred to me. You know how in TTT, during Helm’s Deep, when Legolas rides the shield down the steps, firing arrows, and it looks like he’s surfing? At that moment, the music sounds oddly remniscent of the theme to “Back to the Future,” and conjures memories of Marty McFly prevailing over antagonists on a skateboard. Now the image of 80s!MichaelJFox!Legolas will forever be burned into my cerebellum. Curse you, Howard Shore.
Finished my math exam! Wow, that went reasonably well. But it could have been a lot more traumatic if it had really wanted to.
The exam started at 1:30. At 1:15, I left the dorm with all the rest of my suite math study group. Of course, I then realized that they all had their exams in a different location, as they’re in the 002 section and I’m in 004. So I took out my map and tried to find my way to the Nursing Education Building. That area is a total maze, I can tell you. I ended up walking around the entire hospital complex. Gah. At 1:29, I was panicing. Winded from running, I power-walked around the building, looking for a way in. I finally found one at 1:31, only to find that I didn’t have the proper credentials for that entrance. It wouldn’t accept my PennCard because I’m not in the Nursing school. A sign on the door instructed my kind to use one of two other entrances, neither of which I had any idea where they were. Panic went into major overdrive. I was a sniffling, teary mess by the time I found an entrance I could actually use.
I asked the receptionist if she knew where the Math 104 exam was, and she didn’t know. I started tearing through my Math notebook, looking for the page where I had written all the information about the exam. Even after looking through twice, I couldn’t find it. Panic, panic, panic. Right when I was ready to resign myself to running around the halls of the building in search of my exam, a horde of students and TAs pushed by, led by Mr. Crotty, my teacher. I grabbed all my stuff, wiped away any stray tears, and joined their pack, like a scraggly rodent drawn to a mathematical Pied Piper.
So everything was okay, I arrived before the test started, and I found a seat reasonably close to the front. I think I actually did rather well on the test, even though over an hour had gone by before I stopped shaking. So today’s lesson is that if you’ve never been to the location where your exam is to be, set out at least 30 minutes early, instead of 15. Because knowing is half the battle.
And now, I’m going to watch more of the TTT:EE, because I can. Mwahaha.
Stupid, stinking, fat math exam! We hates them!
But I don’t have to cram all the stuff for Moment on my sheet, so it’s all good I can pretend for the time being that everything is okay and I’m not going to fail miserably it’s all good.
Me: Is Moment going to be on the exam?
Dan: No, it’s not.
Priya: Is center of mass on the exam?
Dan: No, it’s from the same chapter. And I spent 2 hours learning it, gah.
Me: Well, now you know, and this knowledge will enrich your life.
Dan: Yeah, sure.
Me: What if you’re walking down the block one day and someone runs up to you and says “I NEED TO FIND THE MOMENT ABOUT THE X AND Y AXES FOR THIS DISCRETE LAMINA OF CONTINUOUS MASS!”
Dan: I would say “I don’t know. I have it on my Cheat Sheet.”
Me: But what if you had your Cheat Sheet with you? You could save a life!
Dan: I should shoot myself for being that uncool.
As Blogger has no convenient equivalent to LJ-cut, my review of RotK shall be a bit different! I definitely don’t want to spoil it for those who haven’t seen it, which I imagine is the majority of my readership at this point, I shall omit all names and particularly revealing nouns and verbs, much in the style of military censorship. That way, those who have seen the movie will probably know what I’m talking about, but those who haven’t seen it can easily skip the block of text without their eyes accidentally catching a spoilery word! Or, they could read the review and use the blank spaces like Mad Libs. Crazy fun for the whole family!
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Originally I was a tad disappointed that no one had dressed up. Last year, the high point of Waiting In Line was the guy dressed as Merry, flanked by two dwarves, carring a banner that said “Saruman is Gay.” (nice try, boys. wrong actor! It’s Gandalf!) But Philly is a big city with lots of theatres, and The Bridge mainly caters to students, and with exam week, no one had any time to get costumes together, I’d imagine. I got quite a few compliments on my “Still the Prettiest” shirt and even gave a fellow geek a disk with “The Very Secret Diaries” on it.
I was one of three people to bring a laptop with which to watch TTT:EE in line. Gah, over break, I must see this movie again! When I actually can hear it and I don’t have to rely on subtitles! (Man, the subtitles are WORTHLESS. I mean, when you have captioned movies, aren’t you supposed to include SOUNDS, as well? Like “hoofbeats” and “speaking in Elvish” such? Ah well.) Still, so much wonderful that wonderful doesn’t even begin to cover it.
Then the movie started!
I have been officially reduced to a puddle of emotional goo. This movie had me (and the entire audience) laughing out loud, then cheering, then bawling in my seat, and all probably within a span of ten minutes. I don’t even want to think about how much tissue I went through in that movie.
I think the first thing I do when I finish my math exam is to purchase the RotK soundtrack. _____’s voice? GUH. I’m so glad I didn’t get the soundtrack beforehand and resisted the temptation to listen when all the fangirls on the _____ LJ community were squealing about it. My beautiful baby ______ singing about ________ while ________ sends all his men to their ______. (And DUDE, apparently he COMPOSED the song! Wow, what can’t he do?) And that other time, when he and _____ are singing and dancing on the table? Man nothing like auxiliary backup _______ for cheering up a crowd. I LOVE ALL FOUR OF MY _______ SO MUCH THERE ARE NO WORDS.
Well, actually, there are two words: Longbottom leaf. THANK YOU, PETER JACKSON.
Mkay. Frodo and Sam and Gollum climbing the ______ to ______’s ____? Order: Gollum, Frodo, Sam. Good grief, Frodo has suffered enough. He does NOT need that kind of view.
I LOVE SAM AND I LOVE FRODO AND I LOVE PIPPIN AND I LOVE MERRY AND I LOVE EOWYN AND I LOVE GIMLI AND I LOVE LEGOLAS AND I LOVE PIPPIN AGAIN AND I LOVE GANDALF AND I LOVE FARAMIR AND I LOVE ARAGORN AND DID I MISS ANYONE? I LOVE THEM TOO.
Mkay, who read Sam’s lips in that last scene? *raises hand* SO CUTE. Even if you hadn’t read the books, you totally know his first ___’s name is _____.
Ship-Wise, _______ and _______ are so in love it’s not even funny. Near the end, after _______ is _______ by Gandalf and meeting everyone in the crowd and they share that manly shoulder-hug thing and it lasts way too long to be platonic and they just GAZE at each other? D00d! Meanwhile, him and _____? Yawnage.
Gandalf telling Pippin what _____ would be like? Me = SOBBING MESS.
Smeagol. WOAH.
Gollum. WOAH.
Sam. WOAH.
The entire movie. WOAH.
So who’s seeing it again with me when I get home?
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::laughs:: It’s so funny, because it’s so true! This totally happened to me on my birthday with X2. Down to the detail about the aunt and uncle and the impossibility to buy for! But I used cunning wiles to avoid unwrapping the plastic, then privately approached my uncle and asked him if he would be offended if I switched it for the widescreen, so all was hunky-dory.
And now I’m off to LotR! Two and a half hours early, but I checked out the TTT:EE for the night to keep us company. Hurrah!
#1 Item on things that are NOT COOL: Finding out your math exam in on Thursday, when the little course schedule thingy at the beginning of the year said it was going to be Friday. Man, I would have studied harder TODAY! Wow, someone isn’t leaving her room tomorrow…
Reinvestigating the scary Christian site now that I know it’s a joke. The best part of the entire website: right here. Click. Right now. Third from the top. Danny, age 10. Go.
Though the abstinence shorts and “Will You Be My Husband?” thong tie for 2nd. And if I drank coffee, this would totally be my mug.