Weekly Short Stories Contest and Company! discussion

No, I’m reading Dale Carnegie’s How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, a book I picked up at the Women’s Crisis Center Thrift Shop yesterday afternoon, but I’m worried that I’ll never finish the first chapter.

TPBM need to run errands before lunch.

Nope. But I do have to go out some time after lunch.

TPBM is taking exams.

Nope. I might have to hopefully in the future.

TPBM still has multiple books with bookmarks in them.

Nope, but I have to afterwards.

TPBM is thinking how nice it would be to live in the Bahamas?

I prefer Hawaii or Rome.

TPBM is eating a granola bar.

No, but I’m trying to decide what to have for dinner.

TPBM is reading a book a mouse has chewed on.

No. I shot the mouse that attempted to chew on my books.

TPBM loves small banks?

It’s true! How did you know that?

TPBM is good at arts and crafts.

Not drowning but there's plenty of it to go around here.

TPBM thinks that pajama time is the best time of the day.

Definitely! And it’s past that time for me.

TPBM likes to read before going to sleep.

Sometimes.

TPBM is nice and warm in their bed.

No, I would shoot such a dog. My dog is very quiet. Except when eating my chocolate which he refuses to believe is bad for him.

TPBM has gotten stuck in the weird part of youtube before?

I thought pretty much all of YT is weird. But there are weirder parts? How do I find them?

TPBM had delicious homemade burgers for supper.

No! And now I wish I had. I love burgers.

TPBM wonders why there’s a sunken tub on the pirate ship.

Yes, this is the first I've heard of it.

TPBM wonders why the pirate ship even as a tub.

According to the information on some pages typed by Ray the mouse, and that I found in the hold, where the typewriter used to be, in the tempestuous last decades of the eighteenth century, two notorious French pirates, Dom Langouste and Pierre Homard, captured La Gioconda, as the ship was once called, and turned it into a floating pleasure palace. The sunken tub, in the shape of a great seashell, had been taken from a pillaged Italian estate. In a storm, the ship washed up into the lagoon of a tropical island, where it was used for a time as a pirate headquarters, then was abandoned. The mice remember the derelict years as a time when it was hard to find food. A few years ago, some girl pirates discovered the old vessel, caulked its seams, and dragged it back out to sea. There appears to have been a mutiny of sorts, the details of which I don’t know, but you know the rest of the story.

TPBM has big plans for today!

No! No big plans today. Wow! That's quite the history. I love the ship even more now.

TPBM feels like they're actually learning in Physics.

LoL! The great thing about learning physics, is that with each year, your have to throw-out what you'd learned the previous one as the full effects of quantum mechanical uncertainty and string theory consequences become more fully quantified and qualified. Hmmm. But of course, there is thermodynamics and partial differential equations and the needed assumptions to simplify everything real in order to make the equations work.

TPBM has yet to become aware that delusion is a key element in successfully understanding physics.

Mostly likely yes. I'm very glad I only have to take one year of physics though.

TPBM is looking forward to February 20th.

No, should I be? Is something important happening I haven't heard of yet! *gasp*! Oh No! I'm out of the loop!

TPBM now very much wants to know what is going on on Feb 20th?

I haven't a clue, but since Stephanie posted it, I'm guessing February 20 is Pre-Camp NaNoWriMo.

I already know. My brother (who I haven't seen for two years) is coming home!!!

TPBM is watching Parenthood.

Oh that is so excited Stephanie. It's is always nice to see family.

As for parenthood I must admit I've never seen it.

TPBM likes this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylfb3F...

(IS that a legit TPBM question?)

Never heard one before.

TPBM is fed-up with safari.

Oh, yes! That and old songs of sailors. “Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!”

TPBM would like to get a job writing for a magazine.

I don't use Safari for that very reason, and writing for a magazine would be like asking be to slowly saw my own hand off. I could never do it.

TPBM has discovered home made honey-mustard sauce is better than anything ever before tasted?

No, other than my being block headed.

TPBM thinks that the LoTR movies are very good but very overrated.

Honestly, I think the LOTR movies are the same sort of crap James Cameron’s Titanic is--high-budget entertainment for an undiscriminating audience. H. L. Mencken said, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”

TPBM is about to take some aspirin and go to bed.

Well, I finished, finally, reading all the stories and poems. What a diverse and interesting collection. Makes me feel a little morose that I didn't squeeze the time out to create a poem. But I have a weird fushigi blog to write, so I guess I have homework still to do.

TPBM will consider dying without seeing either Titanic or Forrest Gump to be a significant mark of having lived a successful life.

No. I've seen both. Though, only snippets of each.

TPBM finished three books in two days, because they now have access to a magnificent library.

Well, I think my library is mighty fine, albeit no-where near magnificent. Alas, I started another new book to add to the four I'm already reading.

TPBM finds that they begin new books before finishing their current one(s).

It’s been years since I finished a book! Kat’s comment made me think of the library at Baylor. I love libraries.

TPBM likes to read dictionaries, especially old ones.

Guy wrote: "Well, I think my library is mighty fine, albeit no-where near magnificent. Alas, I started another new book to add to the four I'm already reading.

TPBM finds that they begin new books before fini..."

Yes!!! Besides the books I have listed as being "Currently being Read" I have many books stored away that still have bookmarks in them.

TPBM takes great pleasure from the thought when they hear the sentence "Read a book."

Whoops. Sorry M. You got it.

I do like to read old dictionaries though I don't consider the collegiate dictionary that was published in the 80's very old. I do like it very much though.

TPBM takes great pleasure from the thought when they hear the sentence "Read a book."

Yes, I must say I do.

TPBM loves homemade bread?

Of course! Who doesn't? And, maybe it's time to make some. I haven't in a long time.


TPBM would rather go hungry than eat bread with margarine on it.

As a matter of fact, I do.

TPBM has been known to read math texts for fun.

No, but I've been known tot thrown them out car windows when opportunities arise.

TPBM agrees with capital punishment?

As long as I’m not the one who’s sitting in the electric chair, with a lamp shade on his head.

TPBM got the laundry done!

No, it will be done in time.

TPBM has written a poem with the word "orange" in it?

Yes. I'm doing homework. BLAH.

TPBM finished another book today XD

No. I've never read the Giver.

TPBM plans on having their own private library someday.

Yes. Plus many more books that I don't own XD

TPBM is an official bibliophile, according to this: http://www.universityreviewsonline.co...

Kggelen wrote: "Yes!

TPBM thought the ending to the Giver was really odd."

Not only did I think it odd, I thought it the single worst example of deus ex machina I have ever read. If your curious, I wrote pretty nasty review: Review: The Giver.

Kat, that is maybe the dumbest qualification criterion I've read. By it, I'm not even close.

TPBM prefers to read paperbacks to hardbacks for ease of reading.

Haha. I read it and thought the critera were really funny.

I honestly don't care. But, if I'm reading a hardback, I take off the dust cover. It's annoying.

TPBM is drinking milk.

But don't throw those dust jackets away! My local bookseller told me that a 1st edition Casino Royale with dust cover in fair shape is worth about $25,000.00. Without: $10,000.00.

Except for the milk of human kindness, no.

TPBM prefers used bookstores to new ones.

*Hugs Al* That's about all I can do, but I encourage the tea thought, think I will have a cup too.

TPBM knew Elvis?

Well, no. But really, can anyone really know anyone else?

TPBM remembers where they were when they heard that Elvis was dead.

Ahhh. A philosophical turn from the up too late and tired Al. All the time, Al, all the time.

TPBM has begun to discover that perception of truth is easily deceived and truth hard to discern.