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yamamanama85 days until the vernal equinox
So it reached 69°F in Boston on Christmas eve, which is kinda bewildering and that makes it really weird to hear things like Let It Snow and Winter Wonderland. Not quite as warm as mid-September, which comes from the hypothesis that the Star of the Magi was a planetary conjunction. There's another hypothesis that says that the Star was Halley's Comet which was tracked in the fall of 12 BC, which is very very doubtful because comets were a bad omen.
As for why Jesus was between the ages of 6 months and three years before Herod's death in 4 BC, the Anno Domini system wasn't in wide use until the 9th century, and it began because people believed that the end of the world would happen 500 years after the birth of Jesus so a monk decided to dispel those rumors and his guess was "okay, so, this Gospel says Jesus was thirty-ish on the 15 year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar."
Of course, I'm blanking on things.
Emily thought Lauren looks like Ellie from The Last of Us, where the Green Line doesn't exist in Park Street Station.
Better health care not only includes Sweden but places like Cuba and even Paraguay.
Emily thinks Alex looks contemplative, rather than drunk according to me or mean according to the Katie who is the sign of the Impure and looks like my friend Laura from college and not the Condemner who looks like my friend Christina from the wildlife center and knows what a barred owl is even though she has probably never set foot inside the New England Wildlife Center. I've met one other person who could boast that.
I told her that neon doesn't react with anything. Helium can have an electron knocked off with a laser, and xenon readily bonds to fluorine because the layers of other electrons form a buffer between the outermost electrons and the nucleus.
She recognized the sigil for the Death Seraph on the woman who had Edward Scissorhands tattooed on her shoulder (but she wondered if that was someone else's face that I integrated into her tattoos) and recognized Britta's costume as the one for Scorpius. All the characters in Homestuck are zodiacal signs, and their Scorpius is a bit more flattering than FFXII's Scorpius, who is a bloated and rotting corpse. She hasn't played Final Fantasy XII so she doesn't know about the espers.
She's only played Final Fantasy VII, which is the one that everyone's played. I wouldn't call it overrated but I think it's definitely less than the sum of its themes and its ambitions. I feel like I said this but maybe I just thought it and neglected to actually post it.
Emily is also the sign of the Impure and recognized Britta's costume as the one for Scorpius. All the things in Homestuck are zodiacal signs, and their Scorpius is a bit more flattering than FFXII's Scorpius, who is a bloated and rotting corpse.
I totally agree with this dream jobs of the zodiacal signs, by the way: Cancer- cat
She likes to draw people who are looking at their phones because she knows they won't notice. I like that too, because I know they don't move around.
She likes the way I sometimes only hint at the outline of the face.
Emily doesn't like spicy foods, while Rachel (or Lauren) likes things so spicy they make her cry and I like things so spicy that I can see through time when I eat them.
Emily has never watched Rick and Morty and I'm very surprised by that fact.
Samantha says she's a ENsomethingsomething and Emily doesn't know what any of that stuff means. I don't know if I'm introverted or extroverted because I prefer group conversations to one on one conversations.
Emily brought up how Trump moved the Republican Party so far right that the moderate republicans are jumping ship and throwing their lot in with the Democratic party, and, according to me, taking over Democratic Underground. If you ask me, the right is moving right everywhere.
Andreas mentioned something about Stockholm's metro becoming privatized and therefore more expensive.
Rachel was talking about Japanese industrial metal and she told me about a band I've never heard of because they just released their first EP in October. There really aren't any good Asian music blogs that aren't totally focused on pop. I like Best Music From Worst Korea.
She played electronica and talked about how her tastes have changed over time.
Speaking of Korea, there's a band called Trampauline. They should have called themselves Tramampoline and they should have titled their album Trambopoline.
Speaking of Korea, Rachel went through a phase where she was obsessed with North Korea and was convinced they'd start World War III.
Emily once painted a bear-turtle-something-other thing and a really creepy doll with a cracked face.
Sam played Fur Elise well on a piano that was in dire need of tuning.
I asked Rachel how Japanese people perceive us after she told me about Miyazaki-themed lip gloss.
She brought up Princess Mononoke and I thought she was talking about environmentalism because Emily was reading some articles in a National Geographic about Deepwater Horizon and extinct Australian marsupial tapirs and ten foot tall birds but nope.
Anyway, younger Japanese love us, the older generations hate us, which is kind of a common theme, really. Europe's kind of weird, with its bloc identitares and young people who vote for the National Front.
Emily once painted a bear-turtle-alligator-something-other thing and a really creepy doll with a cracked face. I don't even know. It definitely had a turtle's shell and long legs.
Sam played Fur Elise well on a piano that was in dire need of tuning.
I asked Rachel how Japanese people perceive us after she told me about Miyazaki-themed lip gloss.
She brought up Princess Mononoke and I thought she was talking about environmentalism but nope.
Anyway, younger Japanese love us, the older generations hate us, which is kind of a common theme, really. Europe's kind of weird, with its bloc identitares and young people who vote for the National Front.
Emily said the man in a fuzzy vest and belted pants and paisley shirt I was telling her about stepped right out of the 80s and I told her about the women in the Islamic gallery at the MFA comparing something to a bong.
She said if that woman was wearing camo pants and combat boots, then the alternate 2015's military sent her here, possibly to reject our 21st century and substitute their own.
Here's my plan: we rig the next Miss Universe contest so that Miss Planet of the Giant Praying Mantises wins, Miss Planet of the Giant Praying Mantises gets "rewarded" by becoming a part of Donald Trump's harem, and they have sex. Spoiler alert: mantis sex involves decapitation.
burning question: It's December. Shouldn't you be decorating for the fourth of July?
So it reached 69°F in Boston on Christmas eve, which is kinda bewildering and that makes it really weird to hear things like Let It Snow and Winter Wonderland. Not quite as warm as mid-September, which comes from the hypothesis that the Star of the Magi was a planetary conjunction. There's another hypothesis that says that the Star was Halley's Comet which was tracked in the fall of 12 BC, which is very very doubtful because comets were a bad omen.
As for why Jesus was between the ages of 6 months and three years before Herod's death in 4 BC, the Anno Domini system wasn't in wide use until the 9th century, and it began because people believed that the end of the world would happen 500 years after the birth of Jesus so a monk decided to dispel those rumors and his guess was "okay, so, this Gospel says Jesus was thirty-ish on the 15 year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar."
Of course, I'm blanking on things.
Emily thought Lauren looks like Ellie from The Last of Us, where the Green Line doesn't exist in Park Street Station.
Better health care not only includes Sweden but places like Cuba and even Paraguay.
Emily thinks Alex looks contemplative, rather than drunk according to me or mean according to the Katie who is the sign of the Impure and looks like my friend Laura from college and not the Condemner who looks like my friend Christina from the wildlife center and knows what a barred owl is even though she has probably never set foot inside the New England Wildlife Center. I've met one other person who could boast that.
I told her that neon doesn't react with anything. Helium can have an electron knocked off with a laser, and xenon readily bonds to fluorine because the layers of other electrons form a buffer between the outermost electrons and the nucleus.
She recognized the sigil for the Death Seraph on the woman who had Edward Scissorhands tattooed on her shoulder (but she wondered if that was someone else's face that I integrated into her tattoos) and recognized Britta's costume as the one for Scorpius. All the characters in Homestuck are zodiacal signs, and their Scorpius is a bit more flattering than FFXII's Scorpius, who is a bloated and rotting corpse. She hasn't played Final Fantasy XII so she doesn't know about the espers.
She's only played Final Fantasy VII, which is the one that everyone's played. I wouldn't call it overrated but I think it's definitely less than the sum of its themes and its ambitions. I feel like I said this but maybe I just thought it and neglected to actually post it.
Emily is also the sign of the Impure and recognized Britta's costume as the one for Scorpius. All the things in Homestuck are zodiacal signs, and their Scorpius is a bit more flattering than FFXII's Scorpius, who is a bloated and rotting corpse.
I totally agree with this dream jobs of the zodiacal signs, by the way: Cancer- cat
She likes to draw people who are looking at their phones because she knows they won't notice. I like that too, because I know they don't move around.
She likes the way I sometimes only hint at the outline of the face.
Emily doesn't like spicy foods, while Rachel (or Lauren) likes things so spicy they make her cry and I like things so spicy that I can see through time when I eat them.
Emily has never watched Rick and Morty and I'm very surprised by that fact.
Samantha says she's a ENsomethingsomething and Emily doesn't know what any of that stuff means. I don't know if I'm introverted or extroverted because I prefer group conversations to one on one conversations.
Emily brought up how Trump moved the Republican Party so far right that the moderate republicans are jumping ship and throwing their lot in with the Democratic party, and, according to me, taking over Democratic Underground. If you ask me, the right is moving right everywhere.
Andreas mentioned something about Stockholm's metro becoming privatized and therefore more expensive.
Rachel was talking about Japanese industrial metal and she told me about a band I've never heard of because they just released their first EP in October. There really aren't any good Asian music blogs that aren't totally focused on pop. I like Best Music From Worst Korea.
She played electronica and talked about how her tastes have changed over time.
Speaking of Korea, there's a band called Trampauline. They should have called themselves Tramampoline and they should have titled their album Trambopoline.
Speaking of Korea, Rachel went through a phase where she was obsessed with North Korea and was convinced they'd start World War III.
Emily once painted a bear-turtle-something-other thing and a really creepy doll with a cracked face.
Sam played Fur Elise well on a piano that was in dire need of tuning.
I asked Rachel how Japanese people perceive us after she told me about Miyazaki-themed lip gloss.
She brought up Princess Mononoke and I thought she was talking about environmentalism because Emily was reading some articles in a National Geographic about Deepwater Horizon and extinct Australian marsupial tapirs and ten foot tall birds but nope.
Anyway, younger Japanese love us, the older generations hate us, which is kind of a common theme, really. Europe's kind of weird, with its bloc identitares and young people who vote for the National Front.
Emily once painted a bear-turtle-alligator-something-other thing and a really creepy doll with a cracked face. I don't even know. It definitely had a turtle's shell and long legs.
Sam played Fur Elise well on a piano that was in dire need of tuning.
I asked Rachel how Japanese people perceive us after she told me about Miyazaki-themed lip gloss.
She brought up Princess Mononoke and I thought she was talking about environmentalism but nope.
Anyway, younger Japanese love us, the older generations hate us, which is kind of a common theme, really. Europe's kind of weird, with its bloc identitares and young people who vote for the National Front.
Emily said the man in a fuzzy vest and belted pants and paisley shirt I was telling her about stepped right out of the 80s and I told her about the women in the Islamic gallery at the MFA comparing something to a bong.
She said if that woman was wearing camo pants and combat boots, then the alternate 2015's military sent her here, possibly to reject our 21st century and substitute their own.
Here's my plan: we rig the next Miss Universe contest so that Miss Planet of the Giant Praying Mantises wins, Miss Planet of the Giant Praying Mantises gets "rewarded" by becoming a part of Donald Trump's harem, and they have sex. Spoiler alert: mantis sex involves decapitation.
burning question: It's December. Shouldn't you be decorating for the fourth of July?
