Nerd Pod Etiquette

The etiquette of the Nerd Pod is wrapped greatly in tradition and goes as follows:

Thou shalt not have your headphone's volume too loud, or Mom shall worry.
Thou shalt not listen to anything without wearing headphones- it annoys those who have headphones and are listening to something.
Thou shalt always turn on the fan for Mom when she asks- this may only be avoided by having a cat that is curled up next to you, in which case the job may be delegated to Dad, but only if he does not have a cat. If he does, you are just hosed.
Thou shalt not disturb another's cat.
Love thy cat.

And, always remember, the most capital of all sins is to disturb the Nerd Pod.

My birthday

So, my birthday is coming up in ten days. I have been told to blog about how I feel about that. I am excited. Very excited. I am turning 14 in ten days. I can't really wait. I wish that I was born a few days earlier, just so that I would not have to wait as long. It really makes me feel excited about it, for some unknown reason. Mostly because, for the first time ever, I actually want a console that Nintendo did not make- a PS3. The Dreamcast that we have doesn't count because we have had it longer than I can remember. My Mom says that we got the Dreamcast ten years ago, when I was four, but I cannot really remember a pre-Dreamcast time. So yeah.

I am also excited about my birthday because it brings me one step closer to being able to drive and go to college.

To catch a kitten

Today, we shall document the capture of one of nature's most elusive creatures: the kitten. The kitten in question is small (although he has recently been getting more chunky, despite popular rumors that has not made him easier to catch), black, and fuzzy. Very fuzzy. In the early days, before he got smart, it was as simple as closing all of the doors upstairs and then chasing him. Or getting him to run into a bathroom. Both of those were pretty much guaranteed to catch him. Now, however, it is a much more difficult maneuver. Even with him trapped in between two people bent down, you still may not catch him. The best way to get him is either when you get him trapped behind a couch, or when you catch him sleeping. Otherwise, be prepared for a lot of trouble.

Free choice day

Today I get free choice about what to write about. Actually, the exact statement was "your choice". Which means that I am going to have trouble figuring out what to write about, because the whole point of having assigned subjects was so that I didn't need to come up with a bunch of Ideas, and I am not one to talk about my day yesterday because it would go something like this:

Got up. Wrote a blag entry. Ate breakfast. Did literature until a half an hour after I should have had lunch. Got dressed. Had lunch. Did math. Went out for a walk. Knee started hurting. Went back home. Did flash exercise. Sit in the nerd pod for a couple hours. Agree with Mom to order pizza. Wait two more hours for pizza to arrive at 9:00 p.m. Ate pizza. Sat on the nerd pod for almost another anime episode. Brushed teeth. Went to bed. Fell asleep.

Which, while interesting the first few times (maybe), gets boring after a while.

Cats of the nerd pod

In the nerd pod, cats are important secondary companions to the natural phenomenon known as "nerding". The nerds in their natural habitat are happily typing away at their computers, and depending on the mood of the cats, one or more will be curled up on one of the nerds. A highly elusive situation is the "triple-cat pod", which is when each of the three nerds have a cat. It is highly elusive because one of the cats tends to only curl up for about ten minutes straight, as well as the fact that it often signifies that one member of the nerd pod must leave for the night.

Orchestra

In orchestra yesterday, the basses successfully demonstrated that yes, they were there to screw off like last year and prove that they are the drummers of the orchestra, the first violins demonstrated that yes, they are competent, the second violins demonstrated that no, they are not as competent as last year, the violas demonstrated that they really were really bad violins playing viola who liked to rush. Oh, and the cellos showed that they were very solid (consisting mostly of people who were there last year) and that they hated (almost) all violins. We got some music from Pirates of the Caribbean, which is almost entirely fun (except for the blood ritual), and is reminding me that I should probably go re-watch those movies. The other pieces were fun, although I got stuck sitting next to Simone in sectional. She is the single most annoying person in the universe, and we have the same part in our cello group, so I am stuck with her. :(

Dispicable Me

So on Saturday, for the first time since Mom's surgery, we went to see a movie. So, after a 2-1 vote, we went to see the movie Despicable Me. It was a fun movie. The minions were absolutely hilarious, as well as a lot of the character's reactions. It had just the right amount of warm fuzziness and humor that you would expect from a kid movie, but still fun to watch. The minions tend to act like little devils, however, and most of their antics have to be seen to be believed.