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I know my sister has a fourteen acre bra.
Okay, I no longer feel decrepit. We had our second writers' house volunteer session with SAIL's aftercare program in DC, helping the kids make messes. I taught a couple of them how to make freaky-looking pipe cleaner animals. And us college kids, while we only made it halfway through "Miss Susie Had A Steamboat" (... dark is like a movie, a movie's like a show, a show is like a something something, that is all I know. I know I know my mama, I know I know my pa ...), we did still know all the words to "Miss Mary Mack." *And* we got some of the little kids singing along. So there you go-- American young people of all ages and backgrounds still share the common cultural experience of knowing the most annoying song ever written.
My structural geology teacher has the rare ability, merely by explaining a concept, to make the students several times as confused as they were before. My strategy in the class has been to try to gather enough hints from him to deduce what the question is asking, and then derive the equations from first priciples using basic trig and the equally confusing book. I get the right answers, although he comments that my methods are confusing. *My* methods? Why did nobody in the class have a clue how to do the lab today? Luckily he's made the exam take-home and open-book, so I have a chance of doing well on it.
October draws to its close, and lo, the autumn breeze whispers of nanowrimo . . Haven't decided yet if I'm doing it again: depends at least in part on how well I do on the structural exam, and whether my school, life and fanfic obligations in general are caught up next week. If I do, it will involve me pulling a random novel idea out of a hat: on lj, I'll either screen posts or set up a separate journal for it.
HOWEVER. Seeing other people talk about that, and original fic in general, have inspired me to make this offer: As a third-year geology student, I'm offering free worldbuilding checks to anyone who asks! Whether I know them or not! Want to know how those impassible mountains formed, and what's probably behind them? Need an excuse for doing Africa over in fjords? Is the great Sylvan Sea salt or freshwater? What are the winds and currents like around the island your colony ship landed on? Why is Elfland warm and breezy year-round while Alfheim on the other side is cold and rainy? What are the mineral resources the little gray aliens have to trade? Step right up for scientifically plausible answers!* Melannen's Planetary Design Consultants: All our faults are caused by stress.
*scientifically accurate not guaranteed
(This was posted to try out logjam, although I don't see the point of it. Oh, and I did get my ID back.)
My structural geology teacher has the rare ability, merely by explaining a concept, to make the students several times as confused as they were before. My strategy in the class has been to try to gather enough hints from him to deduce what the question is asking, and then derive the equations from first priciples using basic trig and the equally confusing book. I get the right answers, although he comments that my methods are confusing. *My* methods? Why did nobody in the class have a clue how to do the lab today? Luckily he's made the exam take-home and open-book, so I have a chance of doing well on it.
October draws to its close, and lo, the autumn breeze whispers of nanowrimo . . Haven't decided yet if I'm doing it again: depends at least in part on how well I do on the structural exam, and whether my school, life and fanfic obligations in general are caught up next week. If I do, it will involve me pulling a random novel idea out of a hat: on lj, I'll either screen posts or set up a separate journal for it.
HOWEVER. Seeing other people talk about that, and original fic in general, have inspired me to make this offer: As a third-year geology student, I'm offering free worldbuilding checks to anyone who asks! Whether I know them or not! Want to know how those impassible mountains formed, and what's probably behind them? Need an excuse for doing Africa over in fjords? Is the great Sylvan Sea salt or freshwater? What are the winds and currents like around the island your colony ship landed on? Why is Elfland warm and breezy year-round while Alfheim on the other side is cold and rainy? What are the mineral resources the little gray aliens have to trade? Step right up for scientifically plausible answers!* Melannen's Planetary Design Consultants: All our faults are caused by stress.
*scientifically accurate not guaranteed
(This was posted to try out logjam, although I don't see the point of it. Oh, and I did get my ID back.)
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And about the ID did you find it or did you break down and get a new one?
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Mine involved pickles I think... and I know a French version too. It makes a lot more sense than any English one I've every heard. But ah, regional variations. Now I'm curious.
*Loves regional variations* (See user icon containing a 19th century West Coast trade Jargon called Chinook which has left delightful but
dying traces like "tyee", "skookum", "chuck", "skookumchuck", "muckamuck" and "cultus" in BC English.)
Nice to see some regional variation still exists...
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But now I'm curious. The versions I've heard (all from the US) are all pretty close variants, the way the verses pun on "bad words" would seem to limit the possibilities. (and also explains why it doesn't make much sense.) Pickles? Do tell. O.O The version I learned is basically all the verses listed here (http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?lastnode_id=124&node_id=446284), except with a variant last line . . .
When I was in elementary school I would be so busy watching the way the clapping and counting rhymes spread around the school that I never had time to get *good* at any of them, but the way folklore travels and changes is so interesting.
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