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[Jan. 31st, 2007|03:27 pm] |
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My brain is explodin'.
Gotta love this quote, though:
ATHIEST MOM: Oh, and don't go in the bedroom.
ATHIEST DAD: Why not?
ATHIEST MOM: There are two gay men fucking eachother in there.
ATHIEST DAD: Why are they here?
ATHIEST MOM: I wanted to watch them do it for awhile. They just aren't finished yet.
ATHIEST DAD: Okay, that's fine with me! |
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| No meaning save what we choose to impose. |
[Sep. 8th, 2006|04:21 pm] |
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| | The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 1 And 2 | ] |
"Things happen for a reason."
I'm tired of hearing people say that. Things happen. That's it. People usually say it when bad things are happening: "It's the only thing that keeps me going, knowing that there's a reason for everything."
There is no grand reason for every occurance. Why should there be? Even if you believe there's a god, why would he concern himself with your own meaningless affairs?
The universe doesn't care that your dog died, or you lost your job, or whatever problems you encounter. Not to sound cold, because it obviously affects you and all the people you come into contact with. But things like that don't happen to punish you, or test you, or because it puts the pieces into place for something important happening. There's no end goal.
Things just happen, and you can't change that. Instead of moping about it or pretending you have no say in your fate, you can do something about the future, and improve your own situation.
That's how I see it.
~Joy |
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[Apr. 29th, 2006|05:02 pm] |
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[Jan. 27th, 2006|06:04 pm] |
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| |  cheerful | ] |
| [ | Voices |
| | 'Halloween' from Rent | ] |
Holy fuck it is hard to arrange stuff with 4 people, hahahah. Miscommunication, lack of communication, and schedule juggling abounds.
It'll all work out in the end though. So tonight I'll chill and work on some homework and finish up another volume of Sandman.
Today was another Gifted day. We went to East Fork Lake and did a whole bunch of not much. I didn't fall into the creek. I saw some raccoon tracks and met a tree. We made more microcosms. I was reading Season of Mists in between on bus rides, which put me in a rather pensive mood all day.
Stayed with Julian 15 minutes after we got back to school in the library. That was pleasant. Eventually they announced that we had gotten back from our field trip though, so we had to go to class.
I read Sandman on the way to choir, too. The basic outline of Season of Mists is that Dream recieves the key to Hell after Lucifer abdicates, and all these gods of various cultures are vying for a chance to rule hell, 'cos Dream has no desire to. Because of this, I got into a would-be theological discussion with the kid sitting next to me. He asked me if I believed in god, I said no, and he said "Oh; my brother doesn't either. It's okay though, I'm not offended or anything." Sadly after this the bus stopped and we were at Amelia; time for me to disembark.
It's been a good day, I think. I feel a bit rushed though.
~Joy's been getting out of things, lately. Out of updating her journal with complete entries, out of signing on to AIM. Hrm. |
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| Happy hoidays, season's greetings and fuck Bill O'Reilly |
[Dec. 15th, 2005|06:28 am] |
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| [ | Voices |
| | TMBG - Snail Shell | ] |
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/gear/7a5c/images/1295/
sex (I wish I could read the pIqaD).
I've been getting my editorial mojo going this morning. I had so much fun writing the ID article, you have no idea.
( Read it and I'll like you, critique it and I'll love you )
And my other article, the staff ed:
( Happy holidays )
In all actuality, I don't really care whether people say "Merry Christmas", "Happy Holidays", "Eid mubarak" or whatever to me as long as the meaning is there. But we have to write from the assigned viewpoint for staff editorials, and this "war on Christmas" bullshit is getting insane.
~Joy can write when she's awake. What an amazing new concept! |
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| I miss having completely free time on Sunday mornings |
[Nov. 27th, 2005|10:11 pm] |
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| |  bitchy | ] |
| [ | Voices |
| | Mudhoney - Bill Nye The Science Guy | ] |
Joy's weekend, nutshell-style:
-We didn't get off Wednesday. Shame.
-Thanksgiving. Ate, and stuff.
-Finished up driving school for real. Went on the highway for the first time. Didn't die.
-Slept over at Danielle's with Jessie on Friday night. We had awesome strawberry Pocky, and watched Crash which was a really seriously good movie and different from most stuff. Showed me a world I'm either lucky enough not to be exposed to or too naive to see. One of the groups was a Persian family, and I was very confused when I understood it when the father said "boshe". Then I remembered they were speaking Farsi. Sweet.
-Today, went to church. Yeah, what? I was drug along to Mom/Dad/Paula's church because we had to go directly from there to Aunt Kathy's for a birthday party. Was unpleasant mostly because I didn't belong there. It's the one place where it's perfectly okay to assume that everyone there believed the same as everyone else and there I was sticking out, not knowing the hymns and not having communion and all that. Muh.
-I'm at a real horrorshow mesto in A Clockwork Orange. You should read it. It keeps getting better and better the further I read in.
~Joy wants to adopt Nadsat words into her vocabulary. At the very least 'cancer' for cigarette. |
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| "You're such a dick!" - Annoying little kid |
[Nov. 14th, 2005|12:51 am] |
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| |  awake | ] |
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| | John Williams - Grievous Speaks To Lord Sidious | ] |
( It was time to do another survey, I dunno )
Oh, since I said I'd write about it later, I'll write about it now. Things of note from the weekend:
-Jehovah's Witnesses on bikes. Hahah. We saw them driving, these two kids in suits with backpacks biking around a neighborhood. It was Dad who IDed them and I never would have thought of it, but he's probably right. I don't know, amusing.
-Friday night went to a thing at Elyssa's church. Jessie was supposed to be there too, but she wasn't. : ( I did have fun, discounting the few moments of discomfort that comes with the territory of going to something at someone's church. After the volleyball game we all sat and listened to someone preach for a while, and he spelled out the fact that this whole event was basically to convert teenagers. And he got some, too. A little creepy.
-The start of the evening was a Lady Bearcats volleyball game, which I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would. Mostly because we were right next to this huge cheering section which called out specific things at times: whenever the other team served, they would shout "Noonan!" (??) to make them mess up, and when they did and we got a point for the serve, they would pound on the chairs and count out how many 'noonans' we had gotten. Also whenever the ball went just barely over the net, hitting the top, from the other side, they would should "I hate that rule!" (and conversely, when the Bearcats hit it to the other side touching the top of the net, "I love that rule!"). Now, we all know that I love things with audience participation, so this was right up my alley. It was awesome, and much funnier than your run-of-the-mill "Let's go Bearcats" type of callbacks.
-Then we went to Sports Plus, which is this huge sports and game center. I played DDR (or, 'Pump it Up', a DDR clone with diagonal buttons and a center button instead) for the first time and sucked yay. There was an inflatable obstacle course, and Elyssa and I were doing it and she fell while climbing. She had to sit down and eventually go to the hospital. She either sprained or broke her ankle and left for the rest of the night. D=
I also played Laser Tag for the first time ever. I really really enjoyed it. It was stimulating, but it wasn't exhausting or anything. Fun yes. I'm going to have to go to Scallyway Tag sometime.
Then we went bowling and stuff. I bowled a 31, hellz yeah. We got back home at 6:30a. For real. =D
-On Saturday daytime, I volunteered at a show choir thing at school for NHS service hours. One of the choirs did a Chicago-themed show!!! And it was awesome.
-Today we saw Zathura. It has everything - Time travel, incest, robots and a gerbil, but it still managed to be not nearly as good as Jumanji. The CG space sky was preeeetty though.
And that's all for now.
~Joy didn't do any homework this weekend. Oops.
PS: NaNoWriMo is making my Last.FM profile much more interesting. I'm mainly listening to instrumentals this month, sooo...
1 Erik Satie - 9
2 Dido - 8
3 John Williams - 6
4 Vangelis - 5
4 Johann Sebastian Bach - 5
6 America - 4
7 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - 3
7 梁詠琪 [Gigi Leung] - 3
7 Felix Mendelssohn - 3
7 Ludwig van Beethoven - 3 |
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| I'm hungry. |
[Nov. 7th, 2005|10:28 am] |
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Let's start off this school day which I've essentially written off because tomorrow we don't have school with a hilarious out-of-context quote from an evolution blog (which, for the first time this year, I'm reading TO DO my schoolwork and not to procrastinate it):
Personally, as an unfulfilled atheist, I really want to feel Jesus's salvation all over my face.
I blame the Internet. And bukakke. They're the reason for my dirty mind. NOT MY FAULT! o.o
I'm a bit hyper today.
The local radio station started playing Christmas music. Allow me to remind the world that it's not even Thanksgiving yet. Not that I'm opposed to Christmas music or anything, but ...! Halloween just ended! We've still got plastic pumpkins in our front yard, nevermind turkeys or snowmen!
This hyperactivity and passion and all that would be better used writing my editorial on Intelligent Design for The Torch.
Will anyone at Glen Este High School care about it? No, probably not. But I should enjoy writing it and we need something to take up space on the editorial page.
They should never let me around a computer. I can't get anything done when there's a monitor in front of me.
Except I can never write articles on paper, either. I only type 'em up in Word.
I don't make any sense sometimes.
~Joy won't get to sleep in tomorrow, because she has in-car driving practice =( |
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| Shand I think I need to get that CD of Dawkins music. :D |
[Oct. 10th, 2005|06:06 pm] |
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| | Super Furry Animals - Gwreiddiau DWFN Mawrth Oer AR y Blaned Neifion | ] |
Things worth noting from the day (not night, but the day) of Saturday:
We went up to Columbus in the first place because Mom wanted to go to some psychic/spirtualist convention. So she did that and spent a lot of money on snake oil and crystals and a "healing harp" and stuff. Ugh.
Right next to the convention center though was COSI - Center of Science and Industry is what it stands for, I discovered. So it's a science museum in Columbus and it's big and nice.
Cool things:
A giant pendulum that proves the earth's rotation. There's a circular ledge set up around the pendulum with metal balls placed at intervals around it. Every 15 minutes or so it knocks two of the balls down: the pendulum keeps swinging in the same area the whole day, but because the earth rotates it seems like it's moving its way around the circle.
A keyboard that plays bodily function sounds according to pitch: at the low end was snoring, then things like burping and farting and sneezing and all that. Fricking awesome.
Things that fuck with one's perception. For instance, a same kind of turning tunnel thing like I saw at King's Island: you go across a bridge in a dark tunnel, and there's this big thing turning all around you that throws you off balance.
Also, an echoless room. You step in from the hall and everything falls dead silent. Really eerie.
A sign in the space exhibit. "13 billion years ago, the universe happened." I thanked my lucky stars for carrying a set of post-it notes and a pen. My addendum to the sign: "This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely considered to have been a bad move. --Douglas Adams."
Weird things:
A display showing the development of a human in the womb. Great visualisation of birth development, yes? It was pretty fascinating to look at until I noticed a sign on the side explaining how the fetuses had to be imported from Germany and how they all were donated by families when the mother had unexpectedly died. FUCKING CREEPY.
The gift shop was pretty lame. I don't understand it; there were about 50 things in the gift shop for the Field Museum in Chicago that I wanted but nothing at COSI or the Zoo gift shops. Oh well. The weird thing is:
They had a box of rubber bracelets. You know, stupid ones riding the Livestrong wave. Well, among the assortment were "PRAISE THE LORD" and "JESUS LOVES ME" bracelets. Bundled up in a 'COSI' tag. I little bit of brain slithered out of my ear when I saw them.
They did have space pens in the gift shop, but they were expensive as all hell. No, I can't tell you why I've gotten a pen obsession all of a sudden. I guess I enjoy quality writing instruments.
Also, we saw two movies. One was about lions and the other was Vikings.
Vikings rock. For real. And I never knew that they were the ancestors of like, everyone. A whole lot of Europe. They became the Normans, the Russians, and they were from Scandanavia, to start. And Iceland and Greenland and everything. They're everywhere.
LEIF ERIKSON YAY!
Oh, and we also had a reunion with the Buckeye Bullet. Last time we saw the ugly fast long thing (huh huh huh *snort*) it was at Nextfest in Chicago. Funky eh?
~Joy will recount the other two events later |
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| "Because if this were real it would be fucking terrifying." |
[Sep. 15th, 2005|07:38 pm] |
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| | Jason Mraz - Rocket Man | ] |
Rofl.
http://www.monkeyspit.net/4thwall/011703.php
I've only been sniffing through this webcomic for a few minutes, and already have seen 4 "Jean Grey keeps coming back from the dead" jokes. TWO with Monty Python references.
Really funny though.
http://www.chick.com/tractimages58714/1025/1025_08.gif
...God "let them find corn" after they nearly froze and starved. Dick.
In Choir, John came in wearing a painfully ugly pimp hat (and: Why is there a picture of Domo-kun on the 3rd Googleimage page for Pimp Hat?), his normal painfully ugly soul patch and a goatee to match, making him look like some 70's devil.
Except he also had glasses. So once he took off the hat and I was able to get over the facial hair, damn did he look nice.
Tonight is the last night of Evolution Schmevolution week on The Daily Show (were it that I lived a 4-day week!). Sad. It's getting pretty lukewarm treatment by some of the folks over at Pharyngula, but I can understand that because they eat live breathe science and evolution: TDS is targeted at not these people, but at the average 18-34 viewer. It did its job very well for the audience in mind.
I have been surprised at how much the whole series of shows has felt like it was "preaching to the choir", though. TDS never honestly claims to be fair and balanced or an authoratative news source or anything like that, but all of these shows have played with the attitude of "I know evolution is fact, you know evolution is fact, let's laugh at these other people and their weak arguments for a little while."
Maybe it's just my community (here's hoping!), but I can think of SO FEW other people who would relate and enjoy something like this it seems like a very daring move. TDS being as wildly popular as it is, this stance is bound to alienate some viewers.
I'd like to thank Jon Stewart, Ed Helms, Lewis Black for restoring my faith in humanity. A little bit.
YAY!
http://www.afa.net/petitions/images/tylenolpm.jpg
First homosexual magazines are just wrong. Magazines should not be having sex with magazines. Magazines should have sex with newspapers. That's the way God intended it. When a magazine has sex with another magazine, it makes the baby Jesus cry.
Know what's more fun than a box of shit-slinging, disease-carrying monkeys? Rolling the hell out of every single R in Dragostea din Tei, and imitating the Romanian as best you can. "vrrreeeejsa vrrrrreshtarrrr numa numa iei, numa numa numa ei, numanumanuma iei, kittoturrrrrshti drrrrragostyueah din teeeeejjjji ndadifeesccc deiohhh ki tejjejejejejejeje"
Faux Romanian brought to you by O-Zone, Joy, and the gift of mimicry.
We had a neat activity in Spanish today, even if it did get tedious halfway through. We're learning the verb seguir, to follow (among other things). Mr. Ammerman instructed us to line up in alphabetical order without speaking any English, and then we went down the line saying things like "Sigo a Andrew F." or "Sammie G. me sigue". It was a nice way to change the class up a bit.
No Chem work tonight, which is a bloody miracle. Journalism drafts ARE due tomorrow however so omgI'mgoingtowriteitnowandstopwastingmytimewiththisentry.
Wonder if that word will stretch my table on my journal page. XD;;
~Joy will spend some time OFF of SD. Won't she? |
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| Words start losing their meanings after you sing the same line 10s of times in a row. |
[Sep. 9th, 2005|12:58 am] |
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| | Crash Test Dummies - Superman's Song | ] |
LMAO @ Harvey Birdman.
Captain Caveman sues because a school won't teach evolution.
Birdman: Ladies and gentleman of the jury the question before you today is a simply one. Besides pointing to traditional fossil forms or DNA polymorphisms or tonsils or domesticated animals or gene sequences or male nipples or common sense, how does one prove evolution?
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Also, today in Choir my desire to learn ASL was poked and prodded until it finally woke up again. Jade's interpreter signed all the songs, and translated everything Mrs. Whitaker (that's the new choir teacher, BTW) said, and also signed things to Jade on the side and they had conversations. Lauren sat by Jade and watched, and at one point she signed "understand". It was amusing. The sign reminds me of a lightbulb coming on.
Signs I learned from seeing them signed over and over as part of our songs: boy, until, false, dear
I also learned bass, alto and soprano - I don't know how 'official' they are, they're just like the sign for 'family' with B, A and S hands.
I also learned that 'bonny' means 'beautiful' by watching the ASL interpreter. LOL Madrigals.
~Joy gets to come to Choir late to stay for Journalism meeting yay!
PS: OOO SHINY
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-07-2005/0004102163&EDATE= |
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[Jul. 12th, 2005|09:49 pm] |
One day Jesus and Satan got into an argument over who was the better computer programmer. The argument went on and on, ad nauseum, and finally God got pissed off at both of them and set up a test to determine the answer once and for all.
So God set up two computers back-to-back in an office, assigned the rivals a programming problem, and gave them three hours to write the code.
So they worked and they worked, and toward the end of the six hours they were both close to finished, when there was a flash of lightning and a crash of thunder and the power went dead. A moment later, with just seven and a half minutes left on the deadline, the lights came back on and Jesus and Satan turned their computers back on to discover that the data they'd been working on was gone.
Satan, in a fit of frustration, roared, cursed, shoved his computer off the desk and set fire to his chair. Jesus, on the other hand, simply clicked his mouse a few times and all the lost data miraculously reappeared! He entered one last calculation and leaned back in satisfaction, his work complete.
"It's not fair!" The devil shouted, pounding his fist at the heavens. "How come my work disappeared and his didn't? This is cheating, this is blatant favoritism, this is an outrage!"
"It's really very simple," came a calm voice from on high. "Jesus saves." |
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[Jul. 3rd, 2005|11:21 pm] |
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o_o
I finished reading the thread.
I am fatigued now. It was basically the same arguments over and over, from both sides, moving on to a more interesting tangent now and then, and returning again to the core point - ID isn't science - Oh but it is! And how could things so complex randomly evolve - It doesn't matter. It shouldn't be taught in school because it isn't science --- These, over and over for 13 pages.
And it only took me 6 hours to do it. I hate being such a slow reader. And still I feel no more prepared to argue for evolution myself - I just know that I agree with all the arguments others make for it.
Hurm. I should read more on this. There's a lot that I should read, in fact. |
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[Jul. 3rd, 2005|05:54 pm] |
http://www.ucomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2005/05/14/
The enlightened know that water freezes whenever God wants it to!
From this thread, lots of fun all around:
http://msgboard.snopes.com/message/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_topic/f/39/t/000836.html
And I don't think I'll ever be able to resist giggling when I hear the name "Big Bone Lick". Not ever.
And the quote of the day issss...
Can we please stop using the term theory to mean "something we just pulled out of our ass?"
Another quote to the continuously-edited entry:
My paleonotology professor said: "I do not believe in evolution. I regard it is true. You do not usually change your beliefs. But if new evidence about evolution comes out tomorrow, I will change what I think about evolution."
This is what you get when you skim the thread...
I suppose you are thinking that ID doesn't save lives, so it is ridiculous to compare it with dialysis.
Kidney Machines?? Creationism?? WHERE DID THIS COMPARISON COME IN?? *falls over confused* |
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[Jun. 27th, 2005|07:49 pm] |
I SAW A DARWIN FISH
I SAW A DARWIN FISH!
I SAW A DARWIN FISH IN CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN CLERMONT COUNTY
YESSSSSSSS! I saw a guy with a Darwin fish on his car when we were driving home from dinner! Dad pointed it out to me! ^__^ We've been having some fun chats about evolution lately, thanks to the Field Museum which I will write about later.
Also:
It was just called Lafayette in most of the other road signs I saw, but I couldn't get to my camera quick enough. ;D
Most of my Chicago pictures are up on Flickr now. I'll post links to each specific thing as I write about them, but if you want to see them now they're here:
http://flickr.com/photos/joyuna/
And if you have a Flickr account or want to make one, friend me. :)
PS: Man, it's been a bad year for classic voice actors, hasn't it? First Thurl Ravenscroft, now Paul Winchell and John Fiedler. =(((
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/27/rip_voices_of_tigger.html |
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| Look, I ain't Thomas Dolby |
[May. 28th, 2005|01:46 am] |
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| | Tom Lehrer - Element Song | ] |
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/233937
Meanwhile, across town, MC HAWKING is kicking it old school!
Man, this is the best thing I've heard all day. And I've spent the evening listening to things like Pat Boone - Enter Sandman and The Quadratic Formula Song.
You know, I can be an awful big math geek for not liking math.
~Edutainment is the shiznit
PS: Ew.
Normally the mononess of my computer speakers doesn't bother me.
Parlez-vous Freezepop sounds terrible on the computer. =\ |
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[Apr. 1st, 2005|01:33 pm] |
RIP Pope-man.
We had some good times together.
PS: ( Shroedinger's Pope )
Both jokes ripped off from Snopes, but... ya know. =) |
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| 50 Fun Things For Non-Christians To Do In Church |
[Mar. 25th, 2005|02:15 am] |
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| | The Trevor Horn Orchestra - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) | ] |
http://www.infidels.org/misc/humor/church_fun.html
Heeeee.
5.Replace the pianist's sheet music with "Stairway to Heaven".
8.Toss around a giant beach ball before service, like at Grateful Dead concerts.
28.Turn in the Bible to the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20: 3-17). Draw in asterisks and write exceptions at the bottom of the page.
Or... Take Viagra.
Hey Lu, you don't mind if I post this as my sig on SD, do you? I can change the screenname if you want, though I doubt the SD guys would spam you or anything.
I will never be able to have a normal sleep cycle during a break from school. Ever.
~Joy |
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