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What Kind of Nerdfighter Are You?: a kind of possibilities nerdfighter

About Me:: hello!
i am a happy heron!

also, i find it odd that it says that the ning is where nerdfighters come to get organized. it's pretty chaoticly fabulous in here to me! but then again, i am online sporadically. or maybe i just like using the word sporadically.
sounds kinda fern-y.

Favorite Books, Movies, Music, and more: YAY!
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let's see.... i am a huge sucker for those books with untangling sorts of endings. The sort of finalities you can't walk away from, the character's internal monologue, Wherein they Sort Out Life, and then there's a slow and growing letting-go-ing.
An Abundance of Katherines and Looking for Alaska (which I read and loved before I found the Brotherhood!) both fall into this category...
Good Omens, anything by Sherman Alexie, Persepolis, Catch-22, The Every Boy, Tithe, Ender's Game, The Realm of Possibility, Coraline, Havemercy (THIS HAS METAL DRAGONS.) Cat's Cradle, The Book Thief, Slaughter-house Five........

What's your favorite thing to put on your head?: orca puppets! (i volunteer at an aquarium)

If you could do your happy dance with anyone who would it be with?: joo!

Website:: http://livejournal.com/goaskfrog

When did you start watching the Vlogbrothers?: July

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MEETING JOHN GREEN

(Er, unrelated: I like this font. I like it a lot.)

I had a very nerdy day.

John Green spoke to my high school today! It was one pure hour of unadulterated awesome. (SPOILER FOR PAPER TOWNS but honestly if you haven't read it yet come on. So I get a universal pardon to spoil it. Oh plus John Green says good books are unspoilable, YES!) In Paper Towns, Q says "What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person." But there is an amendment, a corollary to… Continue

Posted on October 30, 2008 at 9:00pm

Have you ever seen a sea cucumber eviscerate?

Hello!

I just checked out An Abundance of Katherines for the fourteenth time (no, no, I'm not exaggerating) and I realized something. Both of John's books for me really marked a change in how I read. Not to sound overly Extreme-Emily-Makeover ish, but before, I was a readrunner. I loved books, but more for the words and how they sounded than trying to figure out the theme and put it in an essay. (It sounds like roadrunner. I like this term.) And now it's not a conscious thing, but… Continue

Posted on July 22, 2008 at 9:54pm

"Thank you, your holiness. Awesome speech."

that (points at title) is going to be my automatic response to everything from now on.

(Oh, Mr. President. Good word choice.)

But! But! I have converted a follower!

I lent Looking For Alaska to my mom... and she loved it! She wandered into my room and said, "It was so AMAZING! Hey, do we have An Abundance of Katherines?"

I love my mom. She recommends the best books-- "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat" (was so good. I walked around school reading it which is quite… Continue

Posted on May 5, 2008 at 9:54pm — 2 Comments

an odd time for nostalgia and nostrilalgia

hello guys! i am just caught up on all the brotherhood 2 videos i missed while being un-awesome and Doing Other Stuff, and I am remembering when i first discovered brotherhood 2.0, squeezing into my sister's bed with the laptop and forcing her to view the awesome. and we spent whole days of the summer like that, squeeing about every four seconds, because, well, really. awesome. we watched them all backwards and it was really hot and we saw it's too hot and i cried at the leaving new york video… Continue

Posted on April 15, 2008 at 12:17am — 2 Comments

Five Quick Things! (I got malaria!... I mean, tagged!)

I got tagged by naturegeek, Reigning Queen of Awesome!

...five things about me?1. I laugh at strange things when everyone else is quiet, and my laugh is kind of ear-shattering. It is the weirdest laugh ever. People tell me not to laugh over the phone because it's, uh, killer. I plan to use this to rule the world someday.

2. I have broken into a house aided by the Beatles. (Okay, okay: it was my house, I was locked out, and I really had to pee. So I came in through…

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Posted on January 30, 2008 at 10:34pm — 7 Comments

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At 12:33pm on October 31, 2008, capt. cockatiel said…: Hey! I'm doing good. I went to meet John in Seattle on Tuesday and didn't get to meet him... But I did meet Hank and the Katherine! (And now I've been mentioned in a video?? Crazy stuff.)
How've you been?

At 1:44pm on August 1, 2008, capt. cockatiel said…: Oh my, col is on urbandictionary? I honestly thought that was just a joke between me and my friends... we use it as chuckles instead of cackles. (Seriously, we all will say culz to each other when bursting out into laughter is not really... appropriate at the time. Haha.) Who on earth cackles?! Jeez. Hahahaha.
Just imagining that... someone at their computer cackling. Wowww.

At 10:25am on July 24, 2008, capt. cockatiel said…: Oh my goodness, hellos!
COL -- the corn dog. That is pure brilliance. XD

At 10:41pm on July 22, 2008, Akimi said…: Heh, it gets confusing, yeah. xD

At 4:08pm on May 15, 2008, Chelsea said…: You seem like a very happy person!!!!

At 9:47pm on April 28, 2008, naturegeek said…: Oh, Powell's!! Yeah!!!!! Yay!!!! Yes, I've been there. The City of Books. A great place to get lost in for a week or so... My niece lives in Portland - she's another wonderful nerdling - she's a veterinarian, writer/poet, crazy beautiful genius type.

Why were you in Portland? How long did you stay? Did you have fun, besides Powell's?

At 11:12pm on April 16, 2008, naturegeek said…: Hey, welcome back!!!! You're alive!!! I like the cheese making idea during air raid attacks - libraries would make the best bomb shelters, if you actually had to use it to shelter from bombs.

I see you have a new blog post... I'm off to read it!

At 7:43pm on February 27, 2008, naturegeek said…: Oh, that's so sad about Dutton's shutting down. That reminds me of that movie... uh... "You've Got Mail." So sad when a piece of your history goes out of business.

I felt that way about the library I grew up with. It was one giant magic spot, as far as I was concerned! A neat old adobe building (I don't know if it was real adobe, or not, but it had really thick walls and was a bomb shelter!) with stained glass windows, a red tile roof, arches, and tile floors inside. Heavy oak furniture - oak shelves, chairs, tables, and big overstuffed leather chairs and couches, too. It was wonderful!

There was a reading area in the children's library with a couch or big chair under some tall narrow stained glass windows, and I think there was a rug on the floor - I remember sitting there going through the stacks. I would go find my mom in the narrow aisles between the musty smelling shelves in the adult section - it was like a maze to me as a kid. We went there every week and both brought home a pile of books each time.

Such happy memories! I was horse crazy as a 6 year old - I read all the Walter Farley and Marguerite Henry I could get a hold of. And other animal stories, too, like Yellow Eyes, about a mountain lion, and Cinnabar, about a fox...

They built a new library and closed the old one and I was devastated. Happily, they didn't tear the historic building down, and later it became a museum, and when I was in college, I worked in it! Funny, it wasn't nearly so big as I remembered...

At 10:06am on February 26, 2008, kdot (keeley) said…: i was supersick for a couple of weeks but i did eat tonnes of chocolate, both cake AND ice-cream on valentines day with my hubby - it was awesome.

reading any good books?