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aerophonophiliac:


I have a story to go along with this.
My 6th grade English teacher was insane. Like, certifiable, I’m fairly certain. She was nice enough, but she was crazy as shit.
One day, about February-ish, we come to school and she’s standing outside of her classroom (like she did every day between classes) wearing all black and sobbing into a kleenex.
Naturally we were worried.
I had her 3rd period, I think, and I remember all of the classes were sworn to secrecy about what the fuck was going on. When we got there, she had candles all over (against the school rules, but hey, who gives a flying fuck, right?), all the lights were out, and there was a tiny coffin up at the front of the room, right in front of the blackboard. (Yes, that classroom had a blackboard. Cower before my antiquity, younglings.)
Okay, so that ruled out any of her family members being dead.
Once we’d all gotten settled into our seats, she came striding in, still tearful and noisy, to announce:
“S-s-s-said is DEAD!”
What the ever-loving shit, Mrs. Hester. What the ever-loving shit.
The rest of class was a dramatized funeral (read: we had to write essays and read them in front of the class) and the announcement, heralded by these sheets, that we were not allowed to use the word “said” any more, as it had passed away.
Apparently she does this every year.

I fucking love this woman

aerophonophiliac:

I have a story to go along with this.

My 6th grade English teacher was insane. Like, certifiable, I’m fairly certain. She was nice enough, but she was crazy as shit.

One day, about February-ish, we come to school and she’s standing outside of her classroom (like she did every day between classes) wearing all black and sobbing into a kleenex.

Naturally we were worried.

I had her 3rd period, I think, and I remember all of the classes were sworn to secrecy about what the fuck was going on. When we got there, she had candles all over (against the school rules, but hey, who gives a flying fuck, right?), all the lights were out, and there was a tiny coffin up at the front of the room, right in front of the blackboard. (Yes, that classroom had a blackboard. Cower before my antiquity, younglings.)

Okay, so that ruled out any of her family members being dead.

Once we’d all gotten settled into our seats, she came striding in, still tearful and noisy, to announce:

“S-s-s-said is DEAD!”

What the ever-loving shit, Mrs. Hester. What the ever-loving shit.

The rest of class was a dramatized funeral (read: we had to write essays and read them in front of the class) and the announcement, heralded by these sheets, that we were not allowed to use the word “said” any more, as it had passed away.

Apparently she does this every year.

I fucking love this woman

posted Apr.04.13 + 0 notes + reblog

Movies to watch…

lauripple:

I can watch about 2 movies a day at art class, sooo these are the movies I hope to be able to watch in my last 3 days (and anytime in the rest of my life)… Basically I’m compiling a list of movies for the days when I might want to watch one, but don’t know which one to choose.

  • Batman: The Dark Knight Rises (this one I want to watch in theaters)
  • Snow White and the Huntsman
  • The Help
  • My Sister’s Keeper
  • Good Will Hunting
  • I Am Sam
  • Remember Me
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Love and Other Drugs
  • Step Up (the whole series)
  • The Time Traveler’s Wife
  • Schindler’s List
  • The King’s Speech
  • A Miyazaki film
  • Batman Begins
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • The Chronicle
  • Bride Wars
  • I Am Legend
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Secret
  • …………..

Which one should I even watch tomorrow OTL

oh and:

  • Lincoln
  • Argo
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
posted Mar.15.13 + 0 notes + reblog

vouloir c'est pouvoir: Things your characters will have an opinion on

shannahmcgill:

The opinion doesn’t always have to be conscious, but it does have to be taken into account when the character is written. Angry apathy (I don’t care about that and how dare anybody else!) is still an opinion.

  • Their gender
  • Their ethnicity (in fantasy works, this could…

Obscure Color Words

albicant: whitish; becoming white
amaranthine: immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour
aubergine: eggplant; a dark purple colour
azure: light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue
celadon: pale green; pale green glazed pottery
cerulean: sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green
chartreuse: yellow-green colour
cinnabar: red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour
citrine: dark greenish-yellow
eburnean: of or like ivory; ivory-coloured
erythraean: reddish colour
flavescent: yellowish or turning yellow
greige: of a grey-beige colour
haematic: blood coloured
heliotrope: purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror
hoary: pale silver-grey colour; grey with age
isabelline: greyish yellow
jacinthe: orange colour
kermes: brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects
lovat: grey-green; blue-green
madder: red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour
mauve: light bluish purple
mazarine: rich blue or reddish-blue colour
russet: reddish brown
sable: black; dark; of a black colour in heraldry
saffron: orange-yellow
sarcoline: flesh-coloured
smaragdine: emerald green
tilleul: pale yellowish-green
titian: red-gold, reddish brown
vermilion: bright red
virid: green
viridian: chrome green
xanthic: yellow
zinnober: chrome green

or, as you have it, sit like the gods in clouds: Full Presidential House sorting list:

raptorific:

  1. George Washington: Gryffindor, since he was known for his leadership and honesty
  2. John Adams: Ravenclaw, because he was a highly-educated enlightenment thinker
  3. Thomas Jefferson: Obnoxiously Ravenclaw about everything ever
  4. James Madison: Slytherin, since he was a member of the…