Il'deav Ilah'naie's Indiscreet Intimacies on Indigo Iceboats Random Banter #135

[Dogmantra]

How did you react?

Sort of between Koorly and Koorly's Dad level. I can't say I actually cried, but tears were forming in my eyes. I had to spit it straight out.

I keep wanting to write "Korrly" rather than "Koorly"...

[Kneenibble]

To all tea lovers! Probably just Kneen, what else would you recommend?

Oh! Hello Lady.
Secst ðu uh, teas ðe beoð er, flavoured, oððe nese?

I don't know brands too well 'cause I go to a tea shop what buys direct and sells in bulk.
For a non-flavoured tea, I urge you to seek out a single-estate Darjeeling. The delicacy of a pure Darjeeling cannot be usurped nor surpassed.
For a flavoured tea, there's one he has called yoga -- both as an herbal and a flavoured black tea. Interesting, hard to describe, delicious.

I'm really partial to the flavour of real licorice root. Whereas black licorice candy generally has that very green fennel seed type of licorice flavour, the warm slow-burning golden-orange sweetness of real licorice is unique. This yoga definitely has some real licorice in the mix.
Edit Actually just licorice root makes a delicious tea that will leave a sweet taste in your throat for hours.

If you like cream and sugar/honey, then an Assam tea has a very bold flavour that comes through beautifully through the additions.

[Gullara]

Yes, well you won't get the double-whammy of feeling old as well.

...I first thought of the very first Harvest Moon...on the SNES...way back when...

I was thinking of Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life for the PS2, I never got the 10 hearts thing but the blue feather part reminded me of it. That game takes forever, I never got a chance to beat it before we traded it in for a discount on Fable 2.

[Cristo Meyers]

I was thinking of Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life for the PS2, I never got the 10 hearts thing but the blue feather part reminded me of it. That game takes forever, I never got a chance to beat it before we traded it in for a discount on Fable 2.

Psh, you kids and your 10 hearts.

In my day we only needed 5! 5! And you had to walk both ways in snow to get them!

Koorli: most US schools an 86 is a B/B+

[Nameless]

Oh! Hello Lady.
Secst ðu uh, teas ðe beoð er, flavoured, oððe nese?

I don't know brands too well 'cause I go to a tea shop what buys direct and sells in bulk.
For a non-flavoured tea, I urge you to seek out a single-estate Darjeeling. The delicacy of a pure Darjeeling cannot be usurped nor surpassed.
For a flavoured tea, there's one he has called yoga -- both as an herbal and a flavoured black tea. Interesting, hard to describe, delicious.

I'm really partial to the flavour of real licorice root. Whereas black licorice candy generally has that very green fennel seed type of licorice flavour, the warm slow-burning golden-orange sweetness of real licorice is unique. This yoga definitely has some real licorice in the mix.
Edit Actually just licorice root makes a delicious tea that will leave a sweet taste in your throat for hours.

If you like cream and sugar/honey, then an Assam tea has a very bold flavour that comes through beautifully through the additions.

Nameless Has PG usually. Nameless also very much loves Bedouin tea. <3

[Dragonrider]

@DeeRee Sis: See? Told you you'd do wonderfully. And before you say you didn't 86 is still an A right?
And it's your first Final so it can't count for much of your overall degree. Don't worry, be happy, enjoy your grade, get to packing and working on the finer intricacies of Aywen (pardon me if I spelt it wrong, I only seen it once for a few seconds) grammar.

Depends if she ends up grading on a curve or not. A raw 86% is either B or B+. If she curves it I could quite possibly get an A (although one other girl in our class aced it so I dunno).

In any case, I'm glad it's over, grades don't matter that much, and I have just one more final to study (or not . . . ) for, and then I'm done.

[Kneenibble]

Nameless Has PG usually. Nameless also very much loves Bedouin tea. <3

Philistine.

But seriously, what's Bedouin tea?

[Dr. Bath]

Mr. Scruff makes genuinely very nice tea. Considering he is primarily an electronic-musical 'discjockey' this is quite suprising.

Also: mmm. New DVDs. Blade Runner, There will be blood and the Good, the Bad, and the Weird. Delicious.

[Rutskarn]

So, hey, sleeping 12 hours. Either I'm sick or I've been abducted.

Either way, great.

[Thufir]

They also do lemon and orange ones if you feel especially brave.

Not bravery so much as a great love of all things citrus...

I should try Earl Grey tea some time. Since I kind of live in Newcastle, where you can find, y'know, Grey's Monument. It seems like it would be appropriate.
And then possibly start examining my Dad's selection of interesting teas.


Now, back to my cooking.

[smellie_hippie]

They brought a chocolate fountain to work today...........

overload.........

*bliss*

[Nameless]

Philistine.

But seriously, what's Bedouin tea?

Why, it's tea made by Bedouins.

4 tsp dried thyme, or sage (Bedouins use the desert herbs habuck and marmaraya)
2 cardamon pods
1 cinnamon stick
4 teaspoons loose black tea
Honey, if desired

[Trobby]

They brought a chocolate fountain to work today...........

overload.........

*bliss*

...How...how do you "bring" a chocolate fountain? Don't you have to build it? Also, A CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN?! What, do you work with Willie Wonka? O.O

[randman22222]

I thought writing music was hard. Then I began writing lyrics.

Also: Sufjan Stevens writes really interesting music.

[Fostire]

...How...how do you "bring" a chocolate fountain? Don't you have to build it? Also, A CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN?! What, do you work with Willie Wonka? O.O

Well, first you build it, then you "bring" it

[smellie_hippie]

...How...how do you "bring" a chocolate fountain? Don't you have to build it? Also, A CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN?! What, do you work with Willie Wonka? O.O

Something about like this..

Dip in your strawberries and pineapple pieces, pretzle rods, marshmallows, oreo cookies... etc.

I work in mental health... so Willie Wonka is about the right mentality.

[Blue Ghost]

Happy Beethoven Day, everyone!

[Trobby]

Happy Beethoven Day, everyone!

...Blarg. D: I hate it when Youtube decides I don't have Java applications anymore. It's so...frustrating.

I do, however, know of Beethoven Day. Schroder much? ;p

[randman22222]

Happy Beethoven Day, everyone!

Next thing you know, they'll be making Beethoven sweaters.

[Fostire]

Something about like this..

Dip in your strawberries and pineapple pieces, pretzle rods, marshmallows, oreo cookies... etc.

I work in mental health... so Willie Wonka is about the right mentality.

So it's pretty much a chocolate fondue with a little pump?

[CurlyKitGirl]

Oh! Hello Lady.
Secst ðu uh, teas ðe beoð er, flavoured, oððe nese?

I don't know brands too well 'cause I go to a tea shop what buys direct and sells in bulk.
For a non-flavoured tea, I urge you to seek out a single-estate Darjeeling. The delicacy of a pure Darjeeling cannot be usurped nor surpassed.
For a flavoured tea, there's one he has called yoga -- both as an herbal and a flavoured black tea. Interesting, hard to describe, delicious.

I'm really partial to the flavour of real licorice root. Whereas black licorice candy generally has that very green fennel seed type of licorice flavour, the warm slow-burning golden-orange sweetness of real licorice is unique. This yoga definitely has some real licorice in the mix.
Edit Actually just licorice root makes a delicious tea that will leave a sweet taste in your throat for hours.

If you like cream and sugar/honey, then an Assam tea has a very bold flavour that comes through beautifully through the additions.

Ic sece teas ðe beoð neðe flavoured. Ðe ne sceal loose léaf tea.
I hope that's right.

I've been tempted by Darjeeling tea, but what's a single estate Darjeeling? Yoga tea? It does sound tempting, but seeing as I tend to buy from shops mostly it might be hard to track down. I mean there is a tea specialist in town who deals entirely in loose leaf teas (hibiscus, jasmine and blackcurrant; assam, dozens of types from everywhere from Iraq to China and even Argentina I think I saw once; but it's expensive.
I can't stand the taste of licorice, but I've only ever had the sweets rather than the tea, so that's just the one type.
Assam now. Oh, I've always been tempted by that. ANd we do have honey around smewhere. Never had it with tea though, so that's another experiment to try.

Depends if she ends up grading on a curve or not. A raw 86% is either B or B+. If she curves it I could quite possibly get an A (although one other girl in our class aced it so I dunno).

In any case, I'm glad it's over, grades don't matter that much, and I have just one more final to study (or not . . . ) for, and then I'm done.

Ah. B+ is still very good! Depending on what your last exam is, it may actually benefit you not to study. I've done that a few times, the stories I could divulge . . .

So, hey, sleeping 12 hours. Either I'm sick or I've been abducted.

Either way, great.

Abduction. That or this Rutsy is a clone of a clone of P_Z who was once a clone of Rutskarn before becoming sentient, killing the original Rutskarn and P_Z before forming an unholy siamese twin abomination that was divided into the P_Z we know and love. The Rutskarn from that abomination may or may not be you.
It all depends.

Not bravery so much as a great love of all things citrus...

I should try Earl Grey tea some time. Since I kind of live in Newcastle, where you can find, y'know, Grey's Monument. It seems like it would be appropriate.
And then possibly start examining my Dad's selection of interesting teas.

Lady Grey combines citrus with Lord Grey. And it's my favourite tea so far. And then plunder your dad's teas. That way you won't have to buy a lot of tea only to decide "No, this isn't my thing." and have to chuck it.

Why, it's tea made by Bedouins.

4 tsp dried thyme, or sage (Bedouins use the desert herbs habuck and marmaraya)
2 cardamon pods
1 cinnamon stick
4 teaspoons loose black tea
Honey, if desired

Mmmmm. Sounds nice.

[Rutskarn]

Abduction. That or this Rutsy is a clone of a clone of P_Z who was once a clone of Rutskarn before becoming sentient, killing the original Rutskarn and P_Z before forming an unholy siamese twin abomination that was divided into the P_Z we know and love. The Rutskarn from that abomination may or may not be you.

It all makes sense now. Well, time to put the boards up again. In related news: my enter key just stopped working.

[Dragonrider]

Ah. B+ is still very good! Depending on what your last exam is, it may actually benefit you not to study. I've done that a few times, the stories I could divulge . . .

Thanks. Makin' me feel better. I've just been one of those overachieving straight-As-all-the-time weirdos my whole life, you know? Feels weird to be happy with Bs.

Yeah, I got an A on the midterm in the class for which I should be studying, so I'm not all that concerned, since I didn't work that hard for THAT one, either. It's something like 1/6 fill-in-the-blank, 1/6 fill-in-the-map-correctly, 2/3 identifying texts and their significance. It's all just an idiotic exercise to make sure we did the readings. In fact, that's pretty much what every assignment in this class has been - up to and including four essays for which you were guaranteed a high B or A if you 1) inserted as many quotes and citations as possible (at least twenty), 2) eschewed all use of the verb "to be" (for some reason he doesn't like it - thinks that it makes a sentence stative instead of analytical. Whatever), and 3) eliminated passive voice as much as possible.

. . . I am not a fan of this professor.

[Thufir]

Curses! I'm hungry. But our house seems to contain very little in the way of snackish stuff at the moment, and my dinner won't be ready for about an hour and a half (I should really have started on the cooking a bit earlier).

[CurlyKitGirl]

Thanks. Makin' me feel better. I've just been one of those overachieving straight-As-all-the-time weirdos my whole life, you know? Feels weird to be happy with Bs.

Yeah, I got an A on the midterm in the class for which I should be studying, so I'm not all that concerned, since I didn't work that hard for THAT one, either. It's something like 1/6 fill-in-the-blank, 1/6 fill-in-the-map-correctly, 2/3 identifying texts and their significance. It's all just an idiotic exercise to make sure we did the readings. In fact, that's pretty much what every assignment in this class has been - up to and including four essays for which you were guaranteed a high B or A if you 1) inserted as many quotes and citations as possible (at least twenty), 2) eschewed all use of the verb "to be" (for some reason he doesn't like it - thinks that it makes a sentence stative instead of analytical. Whatever), and 3) eliminated passive voice as much as possible.

. . . I am not a fan of this professor.

Whu'-ba'-what?
Why do quotations and citations get you such a high grade? They only show that you've done further or wider reading and have found things to back up your argument. They themselves should have no impact on how high your grade is in relation to number of quotations/citations used.
Also: huh?
Also: what's wrong with the passive voice? It's a useful little contruction at times. Plus if you use it successfully in a foreign language exam (i.e. French or Spanish) you get loads of marks for it.

It looks like a fairly easy exam, so don't really revise for it. Check over a map or two, read a book. The rest is logic really.

EDIT:
ANd don't worry, I'm one of those overachieving-straight-A-weirdos too. Except in Math. And A Level French - very hard to get As in [insert oreign language]. And really, if it was lower than a B I'd say vexation and annoyance ye, but for what'll turn out to be a B+, why worry?

[Zocelot]

Sometime, when I didn't notice, I passed the one post per day ratio. Thanks RB!

[cycoris]

I'm DONE! With school!



Bleh. I will probably end up getting a high C in maths, a high B in biology and American history, and either a high B or an A in writing.

...This will be my first year not getting straight A's in everything. I even got straight A's (unadjusted) when I was studying everything in native-level Chinese. So why do I seem to be incapable of getting an A in my primary (though admittedly not first) language?!

[/RANT]

But all in all, it's very nice to be done with school.

[Inhuman Bot]

I'm DONE! With school!

Congratulations!

News from me: I'm sick, and I got braces. Yay for feeling terrible, and having a mouth full of cuts.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Because Math and Science! is unnecessary.
American history . . . from what I've heard it's only three hundred odd years, maybe it was boring you hence the less focus?

Anywho, English and the humanities are the best! ANd I don't just say that because of my status as Goddess of the Written Word.
Woo!
English is amazing! And History!

>.>
<.<

*flees the many math and Science! lovers*

[Dr. Bath]

Hmm. HMMM.

You weirdo freaks. You obviously never had teachers that steadfastly refused to give anything but absolute perfection an A. You don't know yer born!

In other news: I have come into the possession of my very first hoodie. I think I may now be 'Yoof' and/or 'Street'. I think that is the case.