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by aspiring_x
March 15th, 2011, 1:40 pm
Forum: Procrastination
Topic: Bransford Blog Bracket Challenge!!!
Replies: 110
Views: 61266

Re: Bransford Blog Bracket Challenge!!!

sommer! your selection logic is absolutely flawless!!! *questions bracket now* i picked by name and how gross of a nickname i could come up with for the teams-- which would stink up the game worse? the pitts or the buts??? how would dookey fare? i'm SO mature! :P also- i brought into consideration s...
by aspiring_x
March 15th, 2011, 12:17 am
Forum: Ask Nathan
Topic: March Madness?
Replies: 7
Views: 2719

Re: March Madness?

WHOOO HOOOO!!!!!
by aspiring_x
March 14th, 2011, 10:11 am
Forum: Ask Nathan
Topic: March Madness?
Replies: 7
Views: 2719

Re: March Madness?

please! please! pretty pleas!!!! with cherries and cool whip and all that jazz!!!! :)
i've never been a big basketball fan (aside from growing up near chicago during the mj days!!) but this contest (even without prizes) was such a crazy fun time!!!
*puppy dog eyes*
by aspiring_x
September 27th, 2010, 6:13 pm
Forum: Procrastination
Topic: Show Us Your Tabs
Replies: 15
Views: 6795

Re: Show Us Your Tabs

youtube or itunes (for music)
wikipedia (for research)
aol (e-mail)
(and if i'm being REALLY unproductive) blogger dashboard
when i wander into the bransforums i lose all sense of time, so i try to avoid them while writing! :)
by aspiring_x
September 17th, 2010, 12:21 am
Forum: Writing
Topic: Can we start calling it something other than a query?
Replies: 18
Views: 6329

Re: Can we start calling it something other than a query?

WilliamMJones wrote:How about soul peices, because that's what it feels like it costs to hit that send button. I shudder to think how it will feel after I've been querying for a while.
so... horcruxes it is???
by aspiring_x
September 5th, 2010, 8:48 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: MOCKINGJAY - spoiler edition
Replies: 58
Views: 29696

Re: MOCKINGJAY - spoiler edition

And I'm not trying to pick a fight, just to be clear! I just get my hackles up when the implication of, "You don't have the same opinion as me because you don't understand the book" gets thrown around. Because, well, you know. Differing opinions are commonplace in literature discussion, a...
by aspiring_x
September 5th, 2010, 10:00 am
Forum: Books
Topic: MOCKINGJAY - spoiler edition
Replies: 58
Views: 29696

Re: MOCKINGJAY - spoiler edition

maybe! i hope i didn't say anything to make you think i was saying that!!! i just didn't get the argument! :) if katniss' "fire" is her love for prim and her desire to protect those she loves, i still don't think mockingjay as untrue to that. the moments of her "fire"- saving peo...
by aspiring_x
September 2nd, 2010, 9:29 am
Forum: Procrastination
Topic: Do you have a Deviant Art?
Replies: 6
Views: 2325

Re: Do you have a Deviant Art?

LOL. classic. thanks!
by aspiring_x
September 1st, 2010, 9:58 pm
Forum: Procrastination
Topic: Do you have a Deviant Art?
Replies: 6
Views: 2325

Re: Do you have a Deviant Art?

i have one!
http://aspiring-x.deviantart.com/

very creative gallery! porcelain dolls give me the heebie jeebies though!
by aspiring_x
September 1st, 2010, 4:00 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: MOCKINGJAY - spoiler edition
Replies: 58
Views: 29696

Re: MOCKINGJAY - spoiler edition

i'm so late to this conversation... but i have opinions (like always.. and maybe wrong ones - but they're mine!) i find the let down about the character of katniss some are experiencing completely odd. there's all this talk about katniss being the girl on fire, people are arguing that she just fizzl...
by aspiring_x
September 1st, 2010, 2:50 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: What are you reading now?
Replies: 528
Views: 308306

Re: What are you reading now?

mockingjay!!! (just finished)
the duff (just started)
white cat (halfsies)
by aspiring_x
August 19th, 2010, 10:36 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: 4 Days Until MOCKINGJAY!!! OMG!!!!
Replies: 28
Views: 13608

Re: 6 Days Until MOCKINGJAY!!!

hee hee.. i got an idea! when all of our copies of MOCKINGJAY arrive- we should fill the "What are you reading now" thread with a whole flock of MOCKINGJAYS!!!
(i know i'm a dork- but how funny would that be!) :)
by aspiring_x
August 13th, 2010, 3:35 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: 4 Days Until MOCKINGJAY!!! OMG!!!!
Replies: 28
Views: 13608

Re: 11 Days Until MOCKINGJAY!!!

oh my goodness! i just saw that Amazon lowered the price to $8.45 (from $17.99)- YAY! now, i can afford it (have a $10 gift card!) :)
by aspiring_x
August 7th, 2010, 12:28 am
Forum: Procrastination
Topic: Author Drawing! (Or name that author.)
Replies: 4
Views: 2026

Re: Author Drawing! (Or name that author.)

yikes! i suck at this! shakespeare was easy, but i don't really pay attention to what authors look like.
but seriously, the dude with the eye patch is SO AWESOME!
great renderings man!
by aspiring_x
August 7th, 2010, 12:25 am
Forum: Procrastination
Topic: What is your most favorite Broadway musical song?
Replies: 25
Views: 8192

Re: What is your most favorite Broadway musical song?

Not sure if it was ever on Broadway, but I ADORE the Lonesome Polecat song from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers!
don't know how to make that video clippy thing but here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLcVhPrZFPI