General Discussion Thread

[Ana Nymus]

Ahahahahaha cas hours...... *highschool flashbacks*

Saaaaame. Though I got pretty much all of my hours done with stuff I was already doing anyway.

[Lenny]

DANG YOU GUYS LOOK REALLY GOOD also congrats on the split hahha

the PE teacher in high school was pretty passionate about volleyball and wanted my class to Get Good at it and had it relatively often, right,,
problem: i am the opposite of passionate about volleyball... i am in fact very scARED OF THE BALL
so what I usually did was. lie on the floor in protest
sometimes I got permission to do PE by running around in circles
which was pretty great
I got pretty good at running around in circles. also seagull herding but that's another story

a thing that the PE teacher actually said to me once
"you managed to catch a ball three months ago, so why can't you now?"

...me too. ME TOO.

In fact the only time I ever played volleyball and enjoyed it was when we played it with a huge beachball instead. All other times it was either "aaah ah ah ah nooo hit that hard thing before it hits ME and try to hit it the right way or people will be mad and OUCH it hurts my arms even so" or "NO. GO AWAY. NEVER PLAYING THAT HORROR GAME AGAIN."

In fact the trauma is so bad I cannot bring myself to even watch Haikyuu.

IN OTHER NEWS:

I slept twelve hours last night~ AND I have an unexpected long weekend. And finished all exams for my first uni courses (most likely failed both but... I am beyond caring now). And I start new courses this week. ...waaaah I can finally destress myself ;_;

I may still not reply to PMs though. Sorry about that. They sort of fall under the "things that causes Lenny severe stress and large amounts of energy to do" category.

[Noodles]

Ahahahahaha cas hours...... *highschool flashbacks*

ahahahahhaaaa cas
that was fun
had to use freakign origami lunch club for creativity
aka "sit in japanese classroom and fold fancy dragons for half an hour"
and then write reflections showing how meta and Causing of Personal Development it was
hahahaaa

[Haiz]

...what are cas hours

[DB (f.k.a. DaveBro)]

...what are cas hours

ninja'd the keystrokes right out from under my fingers 

[Curry]

CAS hours are an IB thing. Creative, Action, Service hours. You have to do a certain amount of each and then write reflections and summaries and get it signed by somebody who's not your parent that you Actually Did Them (etc, etc) and they're hellish and awful and really annoying to do >:T

[Ana Nymus]

CAS hours are an IB thing. Creative, Action, Service hours. You have to do a certain amount of each and then write reflections and summaries and get it signed by somebody who's not your parent that you Actually Did Them (etc, etc) and they're hellish and awful and really annoying to do >:T

Yup yup. What annoyed me most was that I couldn't count any independent things because they had to be signed by adult people, which of course meant adult people had to be involved. Like, for example, I couldn't count any of my hours doing NaNoWriMo (for creativity) because none of my teachers even knew what NaNo was, much less were they willing to confirm that I did it :\

[Haiz]

I seeeeeeee. WEIRD


Lectures with only two students attending:
pros - far less people to get annoyed at your constant interrupting to ask questions
cons - the awkward silence at the end of class when the teacher asks if anyone has questions and you've already asked twenty pointless ones

("BUT IF THEIR PHILOSOPHY IS THAT THEY CAN NEVER BE CERTAIN ABOUT ANYTHING, DOES THAT MEAN THEY CAN NEVER BE CERTAIN THAT THEY CAN NEVER BE CERTAIN OF ANYTHING" "IF THE CYNICS WERE ALL ABOUT BREAKING NORMS WEREN'T THEY CONSTRUCTING NEW NORMS WITHIN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY" "i don't think throwing reindeer off the eiffel tower is the best way to find out whether or not they can fly" "they had the possibility to call it plotinism and went for the generic 'neoplatonism'??")

[Adrai Thell]

Haiz, those questions are the best questions.

Meanwhile, this happened. True story.

Me: Hey, Spotify, I like this song! Can you make a radio of it for me?
Spotify: Sure! Here's another song by the same author!
Me: Oh that's nice, but I was kind of hoping to find other authors?
Spotify: Hmm... how about this song that sounds like what you're looking for, then suddenly turns to hard rock and somebody screaming about death?
Me: Um, no? Let's not.
Spotify: Okay, then how about this entirely unrelated song apparently played by a panda on a trombone?
Me: ... what?
Spotify: Fine, fine, we'll go back to another song by the artist you originally put in...
Me: ... all right...?
Spotify: ... and now for a song that's literally about Satanism! Die die DIE DIE
Me: Next, NEXT.
Spotify: BACK TO THE PANDA.
Me: WHY.

And that's why I now have trust issues with Spotify.

[Daéa Reina]

Haiz and Adrai, my day was being kinda "meh", but your stories lifted up my mood 100%. Thank you. XD

Ohh, sometimes I hate Spotify! But then I remember I can barely survive without it, so I just yell at it and let it live. Even though it's the worst when it comes to shuffle mode, and always plays the same songs from yesterday. ???

[Lenny]

LENNY'S DAY OFF:

I started playing Undertale. I am currently watching the universe while lying down on the floor with a ghost with confidence issues, and enjoying it immensely.

Also there are no proper baking materials in this house other than those weird do-it-yourself packets. There go any ideas of making some proper, delicious, edible home-made muffins... or chocolate cake... and it is raining and cold outside, I do not want to go collect ingredients.

...today is good, regardless. I might continue my Viking ship. But first. More Undertale.

[Laufey]

Lectures with only two students attending:
pros - far less people to get annoyed at your constant interrupting to ask questions
cons - the awkward silence at the end of class when the teacher asks if anyone has questions and you've already asked twenty pointless ones

Reminds me of the time when I was studying enamel painting during my last year as the only student going at it. The teacher would occasionally dump a group of first years doing their enamel basics course in the room, tell them that if they had any questions they could just ask me, and go home...

Spotify story

Some kind of a masochist trait in me now wants to try Spotify just because.

[Mélusine]

Also there are no proper baking materials in this house other than those weird do-it-yourself packets.

You have all my compassion. How can people bake only with that ? ???

[viola]

Some kind of a masochist trait in me now wants to try Spotify just because.

Yes get spotify it is the best and it has so many musics and you can listen to them all and you can send your friends music and make playlists and it is wonderful and I love it. (ps they have premade finnish metal playlists on the spotify finland page)

[Lenny]

You have all my compassion. How can people bake only with that ? ???

I know, it's heartbreaking. I'll have to instigate some reform, but ... not on my day off.