Mistrunner

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I thought I saw a whale's tail, but it was just a fluke.

"They look handsome, they look smart. They are walking works of art. Such dazzling assassins of colors! How I love my assassins of many colors! They were burgundy and teal and smaragdine and razzmatazz..." -the hit Broadway play, "Burgundy and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamassassins"

*slowly looks down at plate of nachos*

That's awesome! What did you did you have them perform?

In forensics today I got the second-best homework assignment I've ever had. It's to watch an episode of Psych. This is only topped by that time when my history homework was to practice my battle cry.

Babysitting is usually either A ) "What? I get paid 20 bucks to play with these adorable children? This is awesome!" or B ) "What? I'm only getting paid 20 bucks to herd these devil children?" I got a babysitting job for the people down the street, and it was the former. And their kids love me, so they've basically promised that it'll be a recurring thing.

I think one of the greatest triumphs of the original series was the characters. Rowling created very unique, very human characters that people fell in love with. They were the reasons I could ignore the plot holes and occasional bad writing. I wanted to know what would happen to them next. In Cursed Child, we hardly know the main characters. There's some familiar faces, but beyond that, it feels alien- very different from the books. What made the Harry Potter series was the people it was about. A spinoff with new characters was never going to be as good. Of course, that's just my opinion.

You've only been here for a couple months and you've already proven yourself to be a genuinely kind, gracious, and funny person. Keep it up, good sir. (Also, your profile picture is awesome.)

I missed the wine conversation! I know nothing about wine except where they grow it in California. In some places you can drive literally miles and miles along the freeway with grapevines running the whole length. It's kinda cool. (Also, people actually eat spray cheese? I've never even seen any. I thought it was kind of a joke.) Tornadoes are really not that common, and when they do happen, they're usually really lame. This spring there were a couple, and each time nothing was really damaged except a trailer home each time. I don't know why it's always a trailer home that gets destroyed, and I don't know why anyone would live in a trailer home in Tornado Alley during tornado season. Basically, it's not worth the effort. Again, there's not a very big risk of actually being taken out by a tornado. There's a lot of oil in the Tornado Alley area as well as agriculture (grain, corn, etc). It's a lot of flat, open land, which is great for growing crops. It's also why there's tornadoes. Ah, pros and cons, you know?

"Yer hired!" says Mistrunner, then frowns. "That was awful. Remind me never to do that again." She turns back to Renoux. "Have you tried the bookies yet? They're 100% Odium-free. I think."

School has begun. Help. On the brighter side, my forensics teacher has a model skeleton in the classroom, which is cool. He also has three snakes and two axolotls! The most adorable of all amphibians!

I think my homework progress can be best explained through the lyrics of a certain song by Mumford and Sons: "A white blank page and a swelling rage."

I was mostly talking about the little arguments that end up forgotten on their own. I know I bickered with my brothers a ton, but I honestly can't remember what any of the arguments were about. (I do have a suspicion that one of them had something do with a piece of notebook paper I found that is titled "Number of times I can poke Brother #3 before he punches me." But that was for science.) I do remember one time I confronted two of them about my theory that they only got me Transformers for my birthday so they could complete their collection. They looked at me like I had two heads and said "Well, yeah." Conclusion: keep expectations low for birthday presents from siblings.

I'm a bit late to this conversation, but if you want an example of a happy family, just watch Leave it to Beaver! In all seriousness, what everybody else said is right. You may argue, and you may say you despise your parent/sibling/whatever, but in the end you completely forget about it and play some stupid games together.

*hides my old Cosmere doge memes*

Another quote from my mother: "Don't die in my kitchen. You'll ruin the pie." If you're wondering why I was dying in the kitchen, it has something to do with a summer project for English on Lord of the Flies.

I have a friend whose aunt is about 5 years younger than her. It's a little strange.

Marching band performed for the first time today! It was only for parents and stuff, but we went through the whole show and I think we did pretty well.

@The Honor SprenHow about you try Oklahoma instead of Virginia? We have ice cream. Highlights of band camp so far: • "Put the body in my office." -The band director • The band director interrupting sectionals to prank people • Someone doing the splits in a Hello Kitty onesie while wearing a tuba • So many death threats. So many.

I've always wanted to join a cult...

I remember feeling the horror when my mom told me I had to stop reading at about book five of Harry Potter because the next few were too violent or something like that. After a while, I snuck them off the bookshelf and she gave up trying to stop me from reading anything. Harry Potter might have been the first real series I read- I started it in first grade. I obsessed over it until I started reading Sanderson. When I think of Harry Potter, I try to think of nights spent with a flashlight reading under the covers rather than the uncomfortable, somewhat disturbing stuff that's coming out now. It's getting harder and harder. I want to keep loving it. I want my childhood back, Rowling.

Here's another candidate in the election race! He's very candid, which I respect.

Not at all.

She was basically saying that my favorite people are me, myself and I, mostly because I don't actually interact with people.