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Danielle sent this glorious video in an email this afternoon.  Ah-mazing. 

Note: embed video features have been hating me massively lately, so here's the link to Twilight High School Musical.  It is very disturbing and if you hate musicals (like myself) but love Twilight, you might still enjoy it like I did.  But only once and never, ever again.

Dispute resolution

observe, v. 9. trans.

    a. To take notice of, be conscious of; to notice, perceive, see. Freq. with that-clause as object. Also intr.

1560 J. DAUS tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxxv, The Sunne loked pale and dimme,..And this was not obserued in Germany only, but also in Fraunce & England. 1605 BACON Of Aduancem. Learning II. sig. Ll1, If men will intend to obserue, they shall finde much worthy to obserue. 1634 T. HERBERT Relation Trav. 223 King Henry..obseruing simplicitie in the Messingers deliuery. 1736 BP. J. BUTLER Analogy of Relig. I. ii. 32 This every one observes to be the general Course of things. 1783 H. BLAIR Lect. Rhetoric I. x. 200 We remark, in the way of attention, in order to remember; we observe, in the way of examination, in order to judge. 1793 W. COWPER Let. 6 Sept. (1984) IV. 390 Hearing the Hall clock, I observed a great difference between that and ours. 1805 M. LEWIS Jrnl.20 Aug. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1988) V. 126, I have also observed some robes among them of beaver, moonax, and small wolves. a1855 J. EAGLESSketcher (1856) viii. 200, I am not, observe, here saying one is preferable to another. 1881 T. HARDY Laodicean I. II. i. 254 At last he observed the white waistcoat of the man he sought. 1940 H. G. WELLS Babes in Darkling Wood I. ii. 51 He seemed to be seeing something that had always been under his eyes but which he had never clearly observed before. 1987 T. WOLFE Bonfire of Vanities (1988) v. 125 You will also observe that I do not have eyes in the back of my head.

Jim and I are having a bit of a disagreement over what the above definition of "observe" literally means.  I think that the choice of the word "conscious" implies having cognizance of the event and therefore would also suggest that one has memory of it taking place.  Jim countered that the use of the word "perceive" intimates looking in the direction of the event taking place, but not necessarily remembering it.  What do you think?

How does one calculate an optional e?

By figuring out the difference in your Dewey numbers, that's how!  Thanks to Renee of the inner librarian for bringing this johnson to my attention.  

Here is with an E:

Kristie's Dewey Decimal Section:
103 Dictionaries & encyclopedias
Kristie = 1899095 = 189+909+5 = 1103

Class:
100 Philosophy & Psychology

Contains:
Books on metaphysics, logic, ethics and philosophy.

What it says about you:
You're a careful thinker, but your life can be complicated and hard for others to understand at times. You try to explain things and strive to express yourself.

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And here it is without: 

Kristi's Dewey Decimal Section:
098 Prohibited works, forgeries & hoaxes
Kristi = 189909 = 189+909 = 1098

Class:
000 Computer Science, Information & General Works

Contains:
Encyclopedias, magazines, journals and books with quotations.

What it says about you:
You are very informative and up to date. You're working on living in the here and now, not the past. You go through a lot of changes. When you make a decision you can be very sure of yourself, maybe even stubborn, but your friends appreciate your honesty and resolve.

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Please note: I find both of these to be extremely accurate.  This further suggests that my E is actually optional.  Score!  

Also note:  The incorrect spelling of my name (Kristi) is the Dewey number for forgeries & hoaxes.  Figure that.

Book Meme

I saw this over on Fuse 8 many days ago, but schoolwork does not often let me have posts that require more thought than, Hey guys, look at this Rpattz video...  Now that I've put being a functioning human being on a temporary hiatus, I figured I'd get to it.

Put yourself in the role of literary matchmaker: What two characters, from two different books, would you pair with one another? 

Shelf Talker named this meme post "Harry Hearts Whom?" and I'm going to have to agree with her.  Which character is it that Harry loves?  Obviously there is Ginny, but this question allows the whole literary schiorgasboard for drama of Rita Skeeter proportions!  

If I were to think of Harry's best interests and the type of girl he could playfully grow and develop his power of being super awesome with, I would probably have to suggest Meggie from Inkheart.  I wonder if her ability to read things into being could be transferred onto spell-casting. They might have to be narrated spells since the words themselves are what calls things into being and not magical energy, like Harry.  Or, would her inner magic lend itself to Harry's type of magic once it is known?

But if I were to create a Rita Skeeter-esque match for him I would suggest Sabrina Grimm from The Sisters Grimm.  Sabrina would throw a fit and make sure everyone would know she wasn't actually dating Potter.  Obviously for both her and Meggie to work, this has to be Harry circa Philosopher's Stone to Prisoner of Azkaban.  Deathly Hallows Harry is just too old.  Then again, that would provide more speculative fodder for Skeeter's rumormongering.  ::Gasp!:: An 11 year old dating a 17 year old!! Oh my!

Classic RPattz

I've seen this video a while ago in which Robert Pattinson says,

"I thought they were just giving it to me... like a tribute. A sacrifice,"

in regards to being handed a baby for a photo opt.

However, I've never actually seen the picture he speaks of...until now!! A recent Twilight Google image search has ripened to yield this beauteous photograph of RPattz pretending to eat a baby.

::slow clap::

EDIT: Obviously Viacom took the above video off YouTube, so please view it here on the MTV video archive.

Jealous!

Yes, even with his greasy-I-don't-believe-in-lathering-once-let-alone-repeating hair (which, who actually repeats the lathering process? Have I been showering incompetently my whole life since I only dab that crap in there once?). I would pay all kinds of money for that type of impalement. All. Kinds.

Yo

As promised, I am back now that I finished reading the Animorphs series.  Well, technically I still have the Ellimist Chronicles... but that isn't part of the series proper and therefore doesn't count.  

All I have to say is what. the. hell!  As you are aware of the weekly publication in days past of Pottertastic Tidbits I am a diehard Potter fan.  That should alert you to how monumental it is that I think I cried more at the ending of the Animorphs series than I did for Potter.  True story.  Both children's books series use a war as the focal point and feature substantial losses on both sides.  However, Harry Potter ends with the final statement, "All was well," and even though there were more casualties than in Animorphs, it still ties together nicely in a little bow named King's Cross train station.  Animorphs, on the other hand, ends on a bitter note portraying the aftermath of the war and it's impact on all of the characters.  All but one are left miserable, and the one that isn't miserable is pretty much the reason the others are depressed.  I was initially upset by this ending, but this bitch slap from K.A. Applegate has led me to finally cope and accept the ending of this series (Please note: if you actually care about Animorphs spoilers, don't go to the Applegate letter).  

Yet again, I would like to state that I refuse to believe that fictional characters are not real.  I don't know when (or if) I can recover from my favorite Animorph dying, but I will find a way.  I somehow managed to survive Sirius Black going deadside, so I guess I can handle this.  Right?