User talk:Deus Homoni

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Xia shu yang speedy deletion
That one is most definently a speedy delete... done :) Thue | talk 09:26, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Loggie-Log-Log-Log
That was really a very nice way of asking. I hope the story lives up to the wondrous manner in which this conversation has started. Here it is:

Several years ago in seventh grade a friend and I had absolutely nothing to do during lunch recess. The forced 15 minutes outside were wasted standing around doing nothing. One day I found a rock, drew a face on it, and we decided to (okay, I admit that it was my decision) make a house for it. Since we were outside our building materials were very limited. All we had at our disposal were sticks and leaves. Luckily there was a nice corner spot where it wasn't too difficult to build a house. There was a sidewalk that came right up against the building, and dropped off shortly to the ground, creating a corner where leaves collected and a ledge to rest sticks on. The walls of the house were made of leaves, and the roof of sticks, covered with leaves. In actuality, it looked more like a cave.

After quite some deliberation we named the rock we were building this house for Rockie Bob Creamcheese (I was voting for plain Rockie, but was told that wasn't original/creative enough). We continued to build houses for him every day, because every day we came outside only to find the house that we had labored over in ruins. Throughout the year we got really good at building them, and they got detailed enough that we took half a brick and called it his bicycle, and put a fireplace in his house. I even managed to build a pretty good two story one, which wasn't easy. (If you're wondering what this has to do with my name just be patient, I'm getting there.) By the end of the year however, Rockie Bob Creamcheese got tired of having to have a new house built for him every day, so he left and went to live with relatives (In other words, the person who destroyed the house had either buried him or taken him away, we never saw him again).

The next school year (8th grade) my friend went to a different school while I stayed at the same school. Because I had had so much fun building houses last year, I kept up the occupation for a time. The person who lived in the houses then was Loggie Log Log Log. He was, surprise surprise, a stick (Stickie Stick Stick Stick doesn't sound as nice as Loggie Log Log Log, and besides Loggie Log Log Log looked more like a miniature log than like a stick). He was 3 to 4 inches tall and at least an inch in diameter. I even drew a face on him. Loggie log log log was the best name I could come up with, as my friend was, alas, no longer there with me.

Loggie Log Log Log also had a friend that lived with him called Wally Walnut. One day when searching for them in the rubble of their house, I found Wally Walnut broken in half. I buried him and gave him a tombstone, or a tombstick. Soon after Loggie Log Log Log decided that he wanted an underground home. I dug him a hole, put him in, put a roof of sticks and leaves on to prevent the dirt from going in, and covered it with dirt. I never saw him again, but my invisible friend Fred tells me that he is doing quite well.

Loggie 22:21, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

Loggie again
No, no such toy for me. I must endure without the joys of such toys, for the time being anyway. Perhaps later, when I am old and grey, I shall explore the wonders of said technology, but as of today I have not seriously felt the lack of it. Still, conversations may be carried out here, mayen't they? (Please forgive tonight's preference of large words. I do not always converse with such language as this. I can't spell well enough for one thing.) Until we type again: Loggie

Me here.
Non-vauge info. Hmmm.... Where am I located? I live in central IL, land of the cornfields. It is also flat. Very flat. When my parents first moved here they asked to be taken on the hilly bike route. They were taken to the top of an overpass. "This is the highest point in the county, and that," pointing downwards, "is the lowest." The sad thing is it is so close to being true. How old am I? Well... since you are a sophomore in high-school, we are probably exactly the same age, unless you too are young for your grade. Appearance? Blonde(ish- when I was born it was white, but it has slowly darkened) hair, blue eyes. I don't look like Jesus. I don't really know of any famous person I resemble. There was a picture I saw on a really old National Geographic that looked like me, but that is of little consequence. I'm around 5 feet, 8 inches, probably a little taller. Random facts? I'm agnostic, prefer not to think about politics (it annoys me), have sore fingertips on the left hand because I've just started playing my violin again seriously for the first time since school started, carry a rubber duck around to school with me and have thus earned the nickname 'Ducky' (the person who gave it to me didn't know about the connotations of the word, which make the name fit even better), favorite genres tend to be fantasy, science fiction and children's books! (picture books are great), but I will also read history books and other non-fiction for fun, I like arts and crafts, anything from knitting to welding, love nature, can't act (or at least that's what I think), can't write a good essay (that's what my teachers think), but excel in math and science.

Were you singing in a concert, or just practice? I sometimes wish I had gotten involved in choral activities. I like to sing, but have no clue if I'm any good or not. My sister gets to be in choir, why couldn't I have been? mumble mumble... All of my school events have wound down, it's hard for the teachers to keep our attention when we know there are only 2 more weeks of school left. Are your finals soon as well? Loggie

Guess Who!
I got to take two APs, and think I actually did pretty well on one of them. As for ducky, it isn't slang, it's an old meaning that's gone away. Odd, harmless, a term of endearment (often ironical). As for my gender, guess! Must go off to school now... Loggie

Me Again
"My guess is female..." yep. What clued you off? It's part of the reason I don't look like Jesus. A picture with me in it, I'm the girl on the bottom left. (If you can't see the picture, I'll try to find another of me that I like that you will be able to see....)

APs- I took Chemistry and Statistics. Chemistry was a fun course, but my stats teacher was awful. Interestingly, I think I did better on my stats test.

How well did you end up doing on that test? I haven't had cause to feel foolish during testing before, but I end up making a fool of myself plenty of other times to make up for that. Loggie

I'm out of new titles.
It's not every day I get a nice compliment, thank-you.

Math and science are my favorite subjects. They make sense to me much more than english does. In english class the answers are more subjective and often they are neither right nor wrong, depending on the person you ask. I still haven't figured out how to write a good essay, the grades I get on essays are widely different and I can't tell why one is better than the other. With math, at this level at least, there is a right answer and a wrong one. If you can reliably come up with he right answer who cares how you got it. Science is similar, you get the concepts down and then apply math to solve problems. It's logical, and makes sense (to me at least).

I don't think we get the AP results back until July, which seems a long time to wait. I guess it is because much of the tests have to be graded by hand- half of both the Chem. and Stats tests were free response sections.

My taste in literature? Well, children's books, some classics, fantasy, a little science fiction, and some other random books thrown in. In the past month or so I've read Song of the basilisk by Patricia McKillip, Katarina by Kathryn Winter, The long, dark tea-time of the soul by Douglas Adams, at least one Calvin and Hobbes comic book, several books from the Anne of Green Gables series and some short stories by O'Henry. The books I've currently got started are Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke, The American Revolution: Writings from the war of independence and a book that lists in chronological order all the important events from that war to the second world war. (I started reading about the revolutionary war and had trouble understanding what was going on without a timeline and another description of the events.) As you can see, my tastes tend to vary.

As for music, I like classical music, jazz, songs from musicals, some songs from my parent's age, Capitol Steps, and a whole lot of other stuff. What I don't really like is modern music, or at least not at the volumes it always seems to be played at. Movies? well... I don't tend to watch many, except for the ones my parents buy to make sure I'm not deprived (like the Pink Panther, Mash, Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Lone Ranger, Robin Hood Men in Tights....) I've been planning on going to see the Hitchiker's Guide soon, since I liked the books. Don't know who I'll get to go with me though.

I saw Guys and Dolls once. It was a poor production (What can I say, it was at the other high school. None of their productions are as good as ours.), but I remember liking the songs. 'Course, I like the songs from most musicals. That production had a good actor playing the leading male, when someone accidently knocked over a wall, he was able to ad-lib nicely. Our school just finished putting on The Wizard of Oz, a poorly chosen musical as far as I am concerned, but since there weren't quite as many songs as in past musicals, we had some of the better actors. The scarecrow was done superbly.

On Saturday I volunteered at the local science museum, which was having a building fair. I got put in charge of teaching kids how to grout tiles, and probably said the same speech over and over a few hundred times in the five hours I was there. "What you're going to do now is grout the tiles. You take this, and you try to get grout in all the little cracks." "Okay! That's perfect! Let me just scrape some of that excess of the top for you! There you go! Now you go right over there to Mr. Sponge Man. He'll show you the next step." I find it interesting that without thinking about it I talk differently to little kids that I do to adults. Normally I don't put and explanation point after each sentence, but with little kids it sometimes seemed like a requirement. If I didn't act excited to be showing them how to grout the tiles, why should they enjoy it? I also got sunburned. Oh well, the kids were cute, and museum defiantly needed my help. me

Back again
'''Eh, I'm not being coherent, and you probably don't understand my mode of though. Anyway, to each his own.''' I don't know, that basis in real life makes some sense to me. I know I like history in part because it helps to explain why our world is how it is today.

It's a shame that the Hitchhiker's Guide wasn't better than mediocre. (This is one word I can never figure out how to pronounce. I find it really annoying that I have a large vocabulary but can't spell or pronounce things at all. At least I know what the words mean.) I hadn't had high hopes, but there just seems to be so much potential there in the books. Ah well. I think I'll still go see it anyway.

I don't even know why I'm sharing this; it was just really bizarre. Ah, what's a bizarre event with nobody to share it with? Why, without someone to laugh things over with the world would be a dull place. Nothing odd happening here. The seniors had their last class yesterday, so today in one of my classes there were only two people. It's a shame I don't like that teacher, otherwise it would be great. As it is I have to find ways to be polite when he asks me what I thought of his class, and if I thought I was well prepared for the AP test. I figure saying "No, I wasn't at all prepared on this subject because you can't explain said subject well enough for anyone to figure out what you're talking about." wouldn't be appropriate.

So long, farewell.... Ducky

An Even More Generic Title
A wooden nickel? I'm confused.

The most interesting mispronunciation that I've had recently was of the word leper. I was pronouncing it leaper, as in one who leaps. My mom couldn't figure out what I was talking about, and it does make a slight difference as to the meaning of the sentence.

Nothing really interesting is happening at school anymore, the seniors have had their last day (they spent all morning driving by the school today honking their horns) and all my extracurricular activities are over. Soon summer will begin. Ducky

Well.....
Soon I will have a large variety of stories to tell. I'm leaving on a vacation in a few days, and will be gone a few weeks, then back for a week and gone again for another two weeks. I will travel from one side of the country to another! I will dabble my feet in the Atlantic ocean and then fly across the county to Oregon! I will have several weeks of fun traveling, visiting historical sites, swimming and boating! Then I will go to the other side of the country and relax, doing little, perhaps weaving! Okay, I'm done speaking in italics now, but don't be surprised when I don't respond for a while.

Today I had my second sailboarding lesson. My dad makes for an interesting teacher. When he gave me my second lesson in sailboarding (which also happened to be my last) He put me on the boat, watched me for a few minutes, then paddled off and explored for a while, meanwhile leaving me to figure out how this boat thing worked all by myself. The sailboarding lessons were similar, but a little more detailed. I spent Saturday afternoon learning how to fall off the board and clamber back up on it, and on how to turn the thing around. Today I began to learn how exactly to make the thing go, without falling in every 5 minutes, and without the sole movement of the boat being all the "current's" fault. I still don't know exactly what I'm doing, but I'm better. I can now sail up-wind, slowly enough that I really don't get that far. I can fall in many different ways and not lose my glasses or get water in my mouth or nose. I can stand up on the board with little to no need to stabilize myself with the sail. I now know that not putting sunscreen on my lower arms was a bad idea.

Getting to the lake was an adventure. I think we must of hit every bit of road construction inbetween here and there. We not only saw them resurfacing a road, fixing a bridge, and closeing one lane of the interstate, we also saw a sign that said: "Warning- Mowing ahead". Surprisingly enough, a little further on, there was someone mowing the grass on the side of the road. On the way back we managed to avoid most of the construction, which was nice.

Really though, I did enjoy myself once I got over the frustration, and it was really neat when I realized that the board was actually moving, and at a good speed too. No wake, but when I trust my skills more I'll work on going faster.

Well, that's all for now! me

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