Cute Little Totoro

The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very High
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	High
Level 2 (Lustful)	Low
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Low
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Very Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Very Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very Low
Level 7 (Violent)	Low
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Low
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Very Low

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Highlights from potsticker night, and acknowledgements.

"In the scene of things, some people need to be shot and killed." - Rory

"I feel like the whole world smells like potstickers" - Bethany

"BASTARDS!!" - Rory, about the people in the hall, who could probably hear her.

"Oh...it burns...a lot" - Darcey, about the terrible Chinese liquor.

Also, a heart-felt thanks to Emily, who helped us buy the potsticker supplies. She's the super-bestest.

Hmm. Not much going on lately. Though sometimes I think that the sky could have changed colors or Rory may have grown a new head, and I would still sit down in front of the blogger screen and have nothing of interest to post.

Well, last night, Bethany came over and we had potstickers (so delicious), then Greta came over, we had more potstickers (perfect potstickers. Alton Brown is like a culinary god.), and we hung out. We also all had a tiny cup of Rory's horrible Chinese alcohol. It was disturbing.

I was deeply upset at Badnarick's loss. Deeply.

Hmm. School is progressing nicely. Or at least time is progressing, and school is coming along with it. It will be over soon. Then I shall be happy.

I think I may have some news in the next week or two. In the meanwhile, I'll just add stuff to the links lists. All the stuff from last week, and some other stuff. Other stuff.

I think I'll try to put up some pictures of the paramakeets, too.

Here's a list of fun/interesting places to go on this crazy internet of ours.

Customers Suck!: This is a livejournal community where people who work in jobs that involve a lot of interaction with the general public post horror stories about, well, the general public. This isn't the place to go to restore your faith in humanity, but it can be mightily entertaining, and also educational. A few days of reading this will teach you any number of ways in which you have secretly angered some poor cashier somewhere.

Neopets: This site is the best. You can make and name some cute little animal, sell fake things to real people for fake money, and play dozens and dozens of internet games. Want a ripoff of minesweeper? Play Neggsweeper. Want to play Snood? They have a game called Fairy Bubbles for you. An excellent way to waste time.

Internet Comics. So many internet comics. These are just like normal comics in the news paper or comic books, but free. Totally free. And really good. Here are a few I read on a regular basis:
Sluggy Freelance is like the father of all webcomics. It's got scifi and action and horrible puns and oh, it's just really great.

Schlock Mercenary A Science Fiction strip following the adventures of a ragtag group of space mercenaries. With like, hard science fiction. Very funny. Written by a Utah Morman.

Boxjam's Doodle Just...Magnificent. Simple drawings about a helpless family man. Like James Thurber. Acctually, imagine if Mike had a more surrealistic sense of humor and drew a webcomic. This is like that would be. There's baseball and liberalism and young children and everything.

exploding dog: people send in captions and this guy draws stick figure pictures for them.

Zebragirl Extrodinarily well drawn comic about a girl accidentally turned into a demon.

Well, that should tide you over for a while.

Uhh. I don't know why I do half the things i do. For example, why do I read posts at this etiquette forum. It's so terrible. It's just people complaining about other people, then people talk about the complaining, forever. The discussion i linked to is over 500 posts long, and is about tipping waitresses. There have also been 400+ post long arguments about taking your shoes off when you enter someones house (full-out fights, too. For people on an etiquette forum, these people can be awfully rude).

So anyway, I was reading something about something and someone had made a comment on how they hate it when people pronounce nuclear "nuc-u-lar."

Now to start, I have never understood why people get so upset about this isn the first place. It's just a word. It isn't like you didn't know what they just said. I swear, I think if I told some of these people that there was a huge pile on "nucular" waste in the middle of thier child's playground,the first thing I'd hear would be "'nu-clee-ur', it's pronounced 'nu-clee-ur.' You know, I just hate it when people say that wrong. *insert disparraging comment about the president, poor people, southerners or texans here*."

Then their childern would die be mutated into angsty, tragic, spiderman-style superheros. And it would serve them right.

Where was I. Oh yes, nuclear. And my god, people, it's not like the English language was handed down to us a thousand years ago, as is, from the Lutheran god Linguar. It got to be the way it is because our ancestors didn't pronounce words the same as everyone before them. Language is a living, evolving thing. Dictionaries aren't rulebooks as much as they are snapshots. And trying to make English stay exactly the way it is now is both pointless and stupid.

A few hundred years ago, people decided that saying things like "k-nicht" and "k-nife" was stupid. So they stopped saying the k at the beginning of "kn." And can you blame them? Do you really want to say things like "I don't k-no whether I like the brass or the brushed nickel k-nobs better." Just say it out loud. They were right, weren't they?

And those people are exactly the same as the people who say "nucular." Except that they're dead. But other than that, you know.

And for all those people who complain about St. Louis street and place names, I don't want to alarm you, but we aren't in France. I'm sorry if that's where you're parents told you you were going when you got on that plane, but this is the midwest. And really, we don't speak French here. So, yes, even if you don't like it, that neighborhood is 'Creeve Core.' And generally speaking, that street is 'Go-thee'. So sorry.

Anyway, that's about all the venting I can do for now.

Except for this list, which is quite annoying. Especially the attitude expressed in this quote, from the entry on 'library':

As mentioned before, English speakers dislike two [r]s in the same word. However, we have to buck up and pronounce them all.

No, we don't. We are adults, and this is our language. We can say these words how we see fit, and leave out any number of difficult to pronounce Rs.