Cheese, Nerdfighters, and Seven Postitions

I could rant for a while about HP being moved, but I'll do that later. (As in, another post).

So lately I've noticed that I've been saying one particular phrase a lot - using it as an ice breaker sort of thing when it gets awkward. 'Do you like cheese?' I'm serious, I've been asking people this. So, when I searched the phrase on Google, the first result was a quiz "What Kind of Cheese Are You?" Apparently, I am American cheese. And I was so sure I'd be Swiss.

I have discovered Hank and John Green (please don't hunt me down if that was incorrect!), and I am now a Nerdfighter. I love the chat room there. People are so nice, and intelligent. Tell me where else you can find people who have a tendency to spell everything correctly. And they all are into nerdy stuff like Star Wars, Harry Potter and all that other good stuff. I also love the weapons of choice; Brain (I think I use mine adequately), Heart (Umm, mine beats?), Calculator (It solves the fancy equations so that I don't have to), and the Trombone (used to play it! WOOO! Go low brass!). Oh, and you're probably wondering what the weapons are for. Nerdfighters are fighting against world suckwith our brains, hearts, calculators, and trombones.

On that topic of musical instruments I must admit it. I am a geek who can play the cell phone. Actually, I was bored, searched for random things, and eventually came across a website of instrument jokes. There are several that I'm fond of from there, so I'm going to bullet some of my favorites.

• How do you tune two (insert instrument here)s? Shoot one of them.
• How can you tell if a kid on the playground is the child of a trombonist? He can't swing, and he has complains with the slide.
• What do you call a (insert musician type here) with half a brain? Gifted.
• What's most tragic about a minivan with five (insert instrument here)s running off a cliff? You could have fit more.
• (innuendo alert!) Trumpets do it with three fingers, baritones do it with four, but trombones do it in seven positions. (I laughed way to long when I read that).
  
• Two tuba players walk past a bar... Hey! It could happen.

Nobody ever gets the last one when you say it to them. I only found two friends who got it. Even after I explained that the stereotype is that tubas are drunks. And that's my favorite after the seven positions too...

So, I've made friends with another Slytherin. I told you there were other anti-Voldemort (you don't pronounce the T people, get it right!) Slytherins out there. You just have to look real hard. But it's nice to be friend with another Harry Potter freak for once, because they don't think you think about Harry Potter way too much.

Oh, and another friend of mine and I are trying to annoy our friend into reading Harry Potter as well as we possibly can, by calling her, and asking for the transfiguration homework. Since I know that she reads this, she should know that if she doesn't start reading the books soon, I'm going to call for the Transfiguration homework at three in the morning, and that won't be fun.

I also realised that I haven't mentioned it, but I'm one of the people who didn't like Breaking Dawn. Mary Sue completely pulverized the book. And with the way Jacob's book ends (book 2), there's no way in hell that there will be a fourth movie. However, even with this disappointment, I look forward to the Twilight movie, which got moved after what I shall forever more refer to as the day of black potter happenings, to November. Oh, and the majority of the teeshirts for the movie are REALLY tacky.

It's slightly past eleven, and I will still procrastinate on going to sleep... But it's best to be off.

Laters,

Oceansurferg

Circles aren't hopeless

If you were forced to communicate only with one of the following symbols which would it be? Draw a rectangle, a Z, a triangle, and a circle. Which would you choose? In the end this is a personality test, that our SS teacher showed us. Did you choose the rectangle? Then you're really intelligent. The Z? you're creative. The triangle is a leader. Well, what about the circles? Circles are apparently 'hopeless'.

I chose the circle this time round. Last time I easily eliminated the triangle and Z, and in the end I chose the rectangle. This time the same happened and I went with the circle. I'd forgotten that she'd done this to my old class before. I think she wasn't fair. Sure, that day my friend broke down in frustration with her situation with a project, not much earlier before we were given the 'test', and sure that other guy is prone to loud, frustrated arguments with the teacher, but we are NOT hopeless.

Sure, I am a procrastinator, and in a bit of a way I am 'hopeless', but isn't everyone? Doesn't everyone have their flaws? Aren't we all still great in our own means?

I looked as objectively as I could and found some similarities between us three circles. First we don't give up; we fight for what we believe in. We are all excellent writers (well, I've never read anything of the guy's but he does well in English.) And finally we are compassionate. and caring when it comes to others. We're the people who give the Z's inspiration to keep going. We're the ones who the triangles lead. We are there when the intelligent people come to a dead end. We're the ones who care for everyone else, and isn't that a personality trait?

I'm scraping that personality test's view on circles. Compassionate people are not 'hopeless'! Just because we put others before ourselves does not mean that we are somehow not proper people!

To many of you this little blogging blimp will mean nothing, but you're wrong. I want to prove that we circles are not hopeless and are instead compassionate. If you are a compassionate circle, I would love it if you left an online name (I will delete the real, or real looking ones) and said 'I am a compassionate circle!' it would make me a lot happier.

Also not to get too off topic, but while writing this I came up with something that the Hogwarts sorting hat might be interested in. You see, I believe that rectangles are Ravenclaws, Z's are Hufflepuffs, triangles are Gryffindors, and we circles are Slytherins.

Many of you would say that that makes it worse to be a circle, but there is something I like to call a Slytherin complex that you should be made aware about.

The Slytherin complex basically states some things you might have overlooked. First of all Rowling only introduces us to the worse Slytherins. This creates the illusion that all Slytherins are bad, and I will admit that most are. But Slytherins go into things with compassion for what they are doing, with the cunningness and other things to do it all. Most Slytherins goals aren't that good because households that seem to be ones for compasionate people are usually either really nice or really mean. In the wizarding world I think it is understandable that with power like that many do not do well with compassion for things. Look at Dumbledore! He was compassionate about gaining the Hallows but eventually realized that power and compassion for glorious yet bad things doesn't equal anything good.

Hmm you know I could probably write a book on this...

Anyway, I'm tired and have stuff to do tomorrow so...

From your circle/slytherin friend w/ a hint of ravenclaw,

Oceansurferg

Update: I remembered this fanfic that proves the Slytherin complex rather well. On HPFF it's called 'there once was a darkness' which follows an unknown slytherin in the same year as Harry.

Update 2: It's 'once there was a darkness' not 'there once was a darkness' sorry if you tried to read it, but didn't get it.