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[labellementeuse]

I am studying in the library.

When I say "studying" really I mean looking out the window, messing with my hair, banging my head repeatedly against the desk, going on trips to get food and hot chocolate (which no I did not drink in the library), and, only when I have exhausted all other options, occasionally c\glancing at the notes I'm supposed to be reading.

It would doubtless help if I understood the Local Standard of Rest EVEN A LITTLE BIT, but I think I am resigned to just skipping that- I mean, I've looked and looked at it and I just don't get it. So, well, it's lucky all the long questions in this exam are optional- there are three sections, each worth 20%; one is multi-choice on both topics, and the other two are topic-specific and they have three long questions each, of which I have to answer two. So I shall simply not answer anything about the LSR and that will be FINE, or it better be.

Anyway, this is why I am speaking to you at the moment, because I am trying to avoid study some more. :P So, how are you all, in yourself? What are you doing today? Where are you going with your life? And how's the lovelife? I expect you all to answer. ;)

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[miriamus.livejournal.com]

What IS a standard of rest????



How am I in myself?? A little bit better than usual, maybe. I think i have conjunctivitis though :( Today I went to MUN traning and died on my arse. I am no public speaker, sadly :( I don't know where my life is going, but for the next week it looks like my life is MUN. And ym love life in nonexistant, as always.

[blademistress.livejournal.com]

I am also ignoring study. Who needs that, honestly? Pointless stuff. Yeah.

I'm writing three page rants on Maxis (makers of Sims2) and pretending I have inspiration to write. After that I think I'll go alphabetize my socks or something.

Or maybe I'll rant on lj's spell check, which is teh suck.

*g* Rincewind! Science of Discworld 3 came out but it's $60 and I cannot afford it, woe. And I don't really read the science bit, so I'm paying for half a book. (Which isn't to say I wouldn't have it if I had $60.)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, it's hard to explain (probably because I don't actually know) but I think the Local Standard of Rest is the speed at which the matter (stars, HI regions, nebulae, etc) in the region around the sun has to be moving so that if you were to stand at the centre of the galaxy and look towards the sun, it would seem as if the matter was not actually moving. Um, a metaphor (not sure if it's a very good one): person x is looking at person y. If the ground under person x's feet is rotation, person y must orbit person x at a certain speed- the local standard of rest- for it to seem to x like y is not actually moving (provided there's no background to provide parallax/point of reference).

Aw about the conjunctivitis, how yucky! MUN, though, look out for schmidtey and also I think mandor700; actually even Rewi might be going >.> not entirely sure. Anyway they're from Rongotai so if you see sixth formers from Rongotai go say hi they're very nice. Except Nigel. Only joking.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Oh, completely, I mean, why would you?

*snort* I've never bothered with spellcheck because I just assumed it was American (is it?) and, well, I boycott color. PLUS there's all that HTML which I bet would come up all red and squiggly underlined.

$60!!11 WTF? Oh, is it hardback? I still haven't gotten around to reading 1 and 2 even though I actually own one of them. >.> I do want to, but I always try to read the science and then I get headaches. *guilty*

[blademistress.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Some people keep blathering on about passing and things like that. Load of toss, really.

It's American, yeah, so it keeps trying to replace my s's with z's. I like z's but really. It doesn't learn at all either. You would have thought that they'd add the characters from Harry Potter or something, so it would stop trying to change Dumbledore to 'Tumbledown'. And it thinks Jarod is spelt Jared. Hate.

Yup, hardback. The Science books are often more expensive than the others for some reason. I'll blame it on the mass stupidity of book shop assistants. Heh, I started reading the first one and was learning and then I was trying to explain to someone the science and I realised it just wasn't going in. I was too busy inwardly tantruming for the next chapter of Rincewind and the wizards. So in the end I just gave up and read all the story.

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

A bit like the earth and the moon then? With the moon rotating and orbiting the earth at a speed so that the same side is always facing us?

[kuril.livejournal.com]

1. I'm fine.
   
2. Writing assignments for Airmen Leadership School. Time consuming but not difficult.
   
3. Somewhere better than here 1 year from now. I'll have a better idea a few years after that. My aim: at least a Masters in some sort of earth science + regular research.
   
4. Non-existent unless I include ... nevermind.
   
5. There are your answers :-)
   

Have Caramel-Mocha Latte instead.

[claystarling.livejournal.com]

I'm fine! I'm about to go to sleep! I want to write! The lovelife--er, er, uhm, uh, good! That's--uh, good. *bites lip.*

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

1) Good

2) Playing around with Tiger. And reading history. Yes, definitely the latter.

3)...exams? Wellington?

4) Good, but you didn't want to know that did you? :P

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Um... kind of. I know the metaphor makes it sound like that. Um, imagine person y is spinning- so person x can see that they're spinning, but to them it looks like person y is spinning on the spot. that's kind of it.


I think.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Pssh, I already have nearly 40% for this subject, I only need another twelve and three quarters to pass... :P

Augh. Yeah, I mean, the HP fandom must be like a LOT of posts every day, that is sort of surprising. And English as well. I suppose it's not their fault though, although I personally have always wondered why software companies that sell in non-US-spelling countries don't have, like, two different spelling checkers, and sell one in the US and one elsewhere... it can't be that hard, can it? And it would make a lot of people v happy.

Ah. :P Yeah, I know the feeling!

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

1. Excellent.
2. Er... commendable. ;)
3. Good job!
4. Oh, yes? *narrows eyes*
5. Thank you sincerely, another five minutes wasted well. :D

Hmm, I can't really get one this time of night... or anytime actually unless I want to go find a cafe in Christchurch somewhere, and I don't, I'm way too lazy. :P

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Great! I wish I was! Me too! Good? You sound very ambivalent...

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

1. Good.

2. Is that your work in that icon there? Very pretty! I likes, I wanna come have a play around with it sometime.

3. No, that's the next week. Unless exams and wellington are what you want to do with your life, in which case things have changed since we last spoke. ;)

4. Oh, I had assumed such from our dinnertime conversation, like the way you were sitting next to your fella amicably. Although I do suspect you would be the sort of people who would, if they broke up, say "let's be friends" and mean it. And then be friends. Sort of disturbing, actually.

[megaffe.livejournal.com]

1)fine
2)avoiding study... and doing some too, actually *looks surprised*
3)um... either be a diplomat, a research scientist, a housewife or an activist/spokesperson for world peace, sustainable development, human rights and faster computers
4)fine

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

1. Good. Hey, you want more icons. I need to see what I can do about that. :D
2. Wow really? o.O What's your next (last?) exam?
3. Now that's what I call and answer. Lucy ought to take a note.
4. Oh come on, you can be more specific than that. :P

[nzlemming.livejournal.com]

1. In myself, fine. It's in other people that I have difficulty
2. Been helping The Good Lady (tm) run her auditions
3. Counting down the Big Sleeps till I'm a free man (11) and then anticipating soaring like an eagle
4. I thought 'old people' aren't supposed to have those? Anyway, mines doing fine, thanks for asking

[nzlemming.livejournal.com]

Why do you want to be faster computers?

[megaffe.livejournal.com]

1) icons would be brilliant
2)it's on Wed
3)*bows*
4)I assumed you wouldn't want me to be :)

[megaffe.livejournal.com]

ah, sorry that wasn't very clear, I'm supporting them - being currently cursed with a slow one :)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

1. I'll see what I can do. Er, maybe not till I get home, I dunno. Start thinking about what you want. ;)
2. Good luck!
3. *lauds*
4. Oh, come on now, this isn't Lucy and Mike we're talking about... *leer* (kidding.)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

1. With or without filthy insinuations?
2. *grins* What does she do?
3. LOL.
4. No, definitely not, but I suppose you _are_ married.

[claystarling.livejournal.com]

*throws crumbled paper at you from across the library.*
It's Midnight there, I think. O_________o
*goes back to waiting impatiently for HBP.*
*sends hate mail to Rowling for taking so goddamned long.*
;)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

It is, actually. :P But I'm not in the library, I'm sitting in the lab at the Hall Having Fun On the Internet.

Aw poor JK, she's done her best, it's just publishers now that are the pain. ;) LESS THAN A MONTH EE.

[nzlemming.livejournal.com]

O! the Young (tm) are so humour impaired.

I blame the education system...