Teacup Café XL - Page 50

Midge · 04-21-2011, 05:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tessar

Just go with it. I'll explain later. (I'm not going to explain later)

Jerk.

Acalewia · 04-22-2011, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

I know, I just vant to be left alone!

Niice

Quote:

Originally Posted by The last sane person

*tackles everyone in the teacup*

Hi.

-is tackled-

Hi Shah!

-tackles her back-

***Tessar*** · 04-23-2011, 07:06 PM

Hmm, trying something new. I made a bunch of different playlists on my computer that run about 45 minutes each, and I'm using those as 'timers' for studying. I found that if I used a clock, I would just forget to check the time (or be constantly checking it -_-), if I set an alarm I was paranoid it wouldn't go off, and just studying without any kind of timer means I end up using all of my study time on one thing and then I'm too worn out to study the other stuff properly.

So far I'm liking this. It's helping me keep on track, and it's not jarring for me like the other methods were.

Acalewia · 04-23-2011, 09:26 PM

OOO nice

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-24-2011, 02:02 AM

I could never study with music on. I always ended up listening to the music instead of studying.

Acalewia · 04-24-2011, 11:56 AM

I write with music. I can't write when it's dead quiet lol

***Earniel*** · 04-24-2011, 01:47 PM

Händel's Watermusic was about the only music I could stand when studying or writing. It absolutely had to be something with no vocals or I'd get distracted.

**Mari** · 04-24-2011, 02:50 PM

I'd study to the CD Banba by Clannad.

EllethValatari · 04-24-2011, 04:59 PM

Happy Festivus Festivorum!

Acalewia · 04-24-2011, 07:32 PM

Happy Easter!

***Tessar*** · 04-24-2011, 07:43 PM

Merry Christmas!

Acalewia · 04-24-2011, 07:52 PM

roflmao

Good one, Tess XD

inked · 04-24-2011, 08:45 PM

Seven Stanzas at Easter

Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells' dissolution did not reverse, the molecules
reknit, the amino acids rekindle,
the Church will fall.

It was not as the flowers,
each soft Spring recurrent;
it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled
eyes of the eleven apostles;
it was as His Flesh: ours.

The same hinged thumbs and toes,
the same valved heart
that — pierced — died, withered, paused, and then
regathered out of enduring Might
new strength to enclose.

Let us not mock God with metaphor,
analogy, sidestepping transcendence;
making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the
faded credulity of earlier ages:
let us walk through the door.

The stone is rolled back, not papier-mache,
not a stone in a story,
but the vast rock of materiality that in the slow
grinding of time will eclipse for each of us
the wide light of day.

And if we will have an angel at the tomb,
make it a real angel,
weighty with Max Planck's quanta, vivid with hair,
opaque in the dawn light, robed in real linen
spun on a definite loom.

Let us not seek to make it less monstrous,
for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty,
lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are
embarrassed by the miracle,
and crushed by remonstrance.

--John Updike (1932-2009)

It's why we have Christmas! And a merry Easter to ye all, I must say!

And a musical treat for the Easter Egg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB53S...eature=related and check out the live performance, too

***Varnafindë*** · 04-25-2011, 09:52 AM

Happy Easter to you as well, inked!

He is risen indeed!

Nerdanel · 04-25-2011, 11:27 AM

we visited brighton this weekend. it felt more like going to the coast of a mediterranean country than the coast of england - the beach was full of sun worshippers, the temperatures were at least 25 degrees C and it was sunny, sunny, sunny. seeing this building when we arrived:

also didn't inspire confidence that i actually was in britain (it's the royal pavillion in brighton).

but it turned out i was. or in 1984. we noticed during the day that there were a lot of police everywhere, and helicopters flying overhead all the time. someone said, maybe there's a soccer game tonight. if you need that many police just because there's a soccer game, something is very wrong. time to end it all and start from scratch, i'd say.

turned out it wasn't a soccer game, but a bnp (british national party) demonstration and some counter-demonstrations. a bit creepy, really, seeing those far-right wing people demonstrating with english flags. i'm glad i didn't hear what they said - especially when i was in a car with 2 ethnically iraqi people (of which one is british).
but what really creeped me out was this:

that's a police van. very 1984. and the cctv cameras really are EVERYWHERE. it's hard to know what to think of this country - there's a lot i like, the people are (generally) extremely nice and helpful, the surroundings are clean and really nice to run in, the towns are fun etc. at the same time, i get that feeling of the police state i've mostly just read on the news about before, and i'm really glad i don't live here. can't say i don't enjoy visiting, though..

Aikanáro · 04-27-2011, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tessar

Hmm, trying something new. I made a bunch of different playlists on my computer that run about 45 minutes each, and I'm using those as 'timers' for studying. I found that if I used a clock, I would just forget to check the time (or be constantly checking it -_-), if I set an alarm I was paranoid it wouldn't go off, and just studying without any kind of timer means I end up using all of my study time on one thing and then I'm too worn out to study the other stuff properly.

So far I'm liking this. It's helping me keep on track, and it's not jarring for me like the other methods were.

This is an awesome idea. Okay, so I'm not actually studying anything any more, but I'm sure I can find some use for it. I listen to music pretty much any time I can.

Also...hi, everyone! I need to post here more.

Acalewia · 04-27-2011, 03:06 PM

-waves-

Hey, long time no see. How ya been?

***Varnafindë*** · 04-27-2011, 09:01 PM

Hi, Aika! Good to see you!

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-28-2011, 01:19 AM

Yay! Went to see the drag kings tonight!

Tyler: Disappointingly a real dude, and performance too sexual for my taste.
Chase: Cute-as-a-dude, and entertaining.
Mr. Andy: Cute-as-a-dude, and more entertaining.
King the fourth: Would-have-been-cuter-as-a-girl, and entertaining.
King the fifth: Not particularly cute as dude or as girl, and not particularly entertaining.
Ivory Tower: A drag QUEEN, and entertaining-but-creepy-in-a-Lolita-sort-of-way.

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-28-2011, 11:51 PM

Casey!!! Noooooooooo!!!!

04-23-2011, 09:26 PM	#984
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	OOO nice __________________ "Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life!"~ inked Don't meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Don't be such a sour wolf" Stiles ~ Heart Monitor http://www.wattpad.com/user/IceQueenofMitera

04-24-2011, 02:02 AM	#985
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I could never study with music on. I always ended up listening to the music instead of studying. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

04-24-2011, 11:56 AM	#986
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	I write with music. I can't write when it's dead quiet lol __________________ "Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life!"~ inked Don't meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Don't be such a sour wolf" Stiles ~ Heart Monitor http://www.wattpad.com/user/IceQueenofMitera

04-24-2011, 01:47 PM	#987
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Händel's Watermusic was about the only music I could stand when studying or writing. It absolutely had to be something with no vocals or I'd get distracted. __________________ We are not things.

04-24-2011, 02:50 PM	#988
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	I'd study to the CD Banba by Clannad. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

04-23-2011, 07:06 PM	#983
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Hmm, trying something new. I made a bunch of different playlists on my computer that run about 45 minutes each, and I'm using those as 'timers' for studying. I found that if I used a clock, I would just forget to check the time (or be constantly checking it -_-), if I set an alarm I was paranoid it wouldn't go off, and just studying without any kind of timer means I end up using all of my study time on one thing and then I'm too worn out to study the other stuff properly. So far I'm liking this. It's helping me keep on track, and it's not jarring for me like the other methods were.

04-24-2011, 04:59 PM	#989
EllethValatari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 401	Happy Festivus Festivorum! __________________ Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." — J.R.R. Tolkien

04-24-2011, 07:32 PM	#990
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	Happy Easter! __________________ "Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life!"~ inked Don't meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Don't be such a sour wolf" Stiles ~ Heart Monitor http://www.wattpad.com/user/IceQueenofMitera

04-24-2011, 07:43 PM	#991
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Merry Christmas!

04-24-2011, 07:52 PM	#992
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	roflmao Good one, Tess XD __________________ "Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life!"~ inked Don't meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Don't be such a sour wolf" Stiles ~ Heart Monitor http://www.wattpad.com/user/IceQueenofMitera

04-24-2011, 08:45 PM	#993
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Seven Stanzas at Easter Make no mistake: if He rose at all it was as His body; if the cells' dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the Church will fall. It was not as the flowers, each soft Spring recurrent; it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled eyes of the eleven apostles; it was as His Flesh: ours. The same hinged thumbs and toes, the same valved heart that — pierced — died, withered, paused, and then regathered out of enduring Might new strength to enclose. Let us not mock God with metaphor, analogy, sidestepping transcendence; making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the faded credulity of earlier ages: let us walk through the door. The stone is rolled back, not papier-mache, not a stone in a story, but the vast rock of materiality that in the slow grinding of time will eclipse for each of us the wide light of day. And if we will have an angel at the tomb, make it a real angel, weighty with Max Planck's quanta, vivid with hair, opaque in the dawn light, robed in real linen spun on a definite loom. Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance. --John Updike (1932-2009) It's why we have Christmas! And a merry Easter to ye all, I must say! And a musical treat for the Easter Egg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB53S...eature=related and check out the live performance, too __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941 Last edited by inked : 04-24-2011 at 08:49 PM. Reason: add link to He is Risen! Alleluia!

04-25-2011, 09:52 AM	#994
*Varnafindë* Princess of the Noldor (and Administrative Empress of the Lone Islands) Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Imladris (and sometimes Norway) Posts: 3,304	Happy Easter to you as well, inked! He is risen indeed! __________________ Signature picture art - Bard the Bowman - by vigshane Avatar art - Footsteps of Spring (a young Luthien) - by Henning Janssen

04-25-2011, 11:27 AM	#995
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	we visited brighton this weekend. it felt more like going to the coast of a mediterranean country than the coast of england - the beach was full of sun worshippers, the temperatures were at least 25 degrees C and it was sunny, sunny, sunny. seeing this building when we arrived: also didn't inspire confidence that i actually was in britain (it's the royal pavillion in brighton). but it turned out i was. or in 1984. we noticed during the day that there were a lot of police everywhere, and helicopters flying overhead all the time. someone said, maybe there's a soccer game tonight. if you need that many police just because there's a soccer game, something is very wrong. time to end it all and start from scratch, i'd say. turned out it wasn't a soccer game, but a bnp (british national party) demonstration and some counter-demonstrations. a bit creepy, really, seeing those far-right wing people demonstrating with english flags. i'm glad i didn't hear what they said - especially when i was in a car with 2 ethnically iraqi people (of which one is british). but what really creeped me out was this: that's a police van. very 1984. and the cctv cameras really are EVERYWHERE. it's hard to know what to think of this country - there's a lot i like, the people are (generally) extremely nice and helpful, the surroundings are clean and really nice to run in, the towns are fun etc. at the same time, i get that feeling of the police state i've mostly just read on the news about before, and i'm really glad i don't live here. can't say i don't enjoy visiting, though.. __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

04-27-2011, 03:06 PM	#997
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	-waves- Hey, long time no see. How ya been? __________________ "Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life!"~ inked Don't meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Don't be such a sour wolf" Stiles ~ Heart Monitor http://www.wattpad.com/user/IceQueenofMitera

04-27-2011, 09:01 PM	#998
*Varnafindë* Princess of the Noldor (and Administrative Empress of the Lone Islands) Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Imladris (and sometimes Norway) Posts: 3,304	Hi, Aika! Good to see you! __________________ Signature picture art - Bard the Bowman - by vigshane Avatar art - Footsteps of Spring (a young Luthien) - by Henning Janssen

04-28-2011, 01:19 AM	#999
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Yay! Went to see the drag kings tonight! Tyler: Disappointingly a real dude, and performance too sexual for my taste. Chase: Cute-as-a-dude, and entertaining. Mr. Andy: Cute-as-a-dude, and more entertaining. King the fourth: Would-have-been-cuter-as-a-girl, and entertaining. King the fifth: Not particularly cute as dude or as girl, and not particularly entertaining. Ivory Tower: A drag QUEEN, and entertaining-but-creepy-in-a-Lolita-sort-of-way. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

04-28-2011, 11:51 PM	#1000
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Casey!!! Noooooooooo!!!! __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

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