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yeah, the closings were nothing in comparison to the openings, controversy and all. i thought the part with all the singing was a bit cheesy, actually. i know this is old news, but what about british runner martyn rooney a few days ago? taunting the other runners in the relay?! that was just so un-olympian. as much as i root for great britain all the time...i had to stop rooting for martyn rooney after that. michael phelps + london = two of my favorite things in one place. tee hee :P and i can't WAIT for 2012 :dance:

in the USA, the closing ceremonies start at 7. sorry, annie :cry:

the closing ceremonies aren't broadcasted here until tonight, so i still haven't seen them, but i do miss the olympics already :sad:. especially now that i'm at college and don't have anything better to do in my downtime than watch TV...i wish the olympics were 24/7 :P

once we know the date, i'll definitely watch that. i'll need things to occupy me at college, and daytime TV is usually such crap that i don't even bother to turn the TV on before 6. but i will for gwyneth :D

hahaha, paying if you skip chapel. i would agree with dave and say it's illegal, but things that would be completely illegal like that in the public school system are legal in private schools because the federal rules don't apply to them. but besides it being legal or not, i just think it's ridiculous. then again, if you skipped chapel in my school (which you didn't do...you could never skip anything because there are like 150 kids in the whole high school and everyone knows where everyone else is at all times and would notice ifyou weren't there), you got in BIG trouble. that's why no one ever did it. annie, i don't even know how to READ your schedule! :laugh3:

*eats all popcorn dave threw* haha, it's insanely expensive here too. the smallest size is tiny and you eat it all before the previews are over, and it's like $4. the next size is what i usually get, but that's like $5, and a large is $6. insanity. at the huge movie theater near my house (only one for miles, so it has 16 screens), it's usually stale too. but i do love covering it in that disgusting, urine-esque yellow butter and salt. covers up the staleness, too.

congrats, jake! i hope everyone else did well too. not that i know much about A-levels, but sometimes i think it's a better way of doing college admissions than we do in america, and sometimes i don't. i think it's definitely scarier, because it seems like you don't know where you're going until the last minute! and our college admissions process is SO fucked up that i think pretty much everything must be better than the way it runs here. at least with A-levels, it seems like you're judged much more on your academic ability with college admissions than you are about your race/ethnicity, financial background, and geographic location :dozey:.

you can't get sweet popcorn in theaters here...i didn't know that you could get sweet popcorn in theaters anywhere. the only place i know of that you can get sweet popcorn in america is in the microwave bags, called "kettle corn." i like both, but salty FTW.

there's olympic WALKING?! well congrats, but i didn't know that existed! i'm sure it's a worthy sport and all, but it just sounds funny....competitive walking. do you cheat by running? yes, and those chinese gymnasts were about 11, i think. ridiculous. i don't know how they possibly could have thought anyone would think they're 16.

i think they should just call it ode :laugh4:

this one's probably been posted a million times, but i thought it was so cute when i saw it on here today, and it wasn't in any of the most recent pages:

i miss rotterdam :bigcry: and that photo of schiedam looks a lot like delfshaven in rotterdam! i never made it all the way to schiedam, though.

hahaha, thanks! :lol: i'm kind of surprised that he said that completely unprompted. oh man, priceless.

i can't print, but i can help pass out! :D i think this will be awesome!

i don't know really what to think about this. the fact that lots of sources are now jumping on the bandwagon and reporting the same thing makes me wonder, but i think that the band themselves don't even really know what the plan is. they might have vague hopes to put out another next year like chris and guy have mentioned in interviews this summer, but they're on tour right now and i would imagine that's their priority right now, so i doubt they have any concrete plans to get back into the studio even for a little while like the article says. i think this is a huge "wait-and-see" type deal, because i don't think anyone knows what's going to happen for sure, even the guys themselves.

i wonder how good jonny would be at playing shiver on GH...back in june, in a couple interviews he mentioned how terrible they all were at it! i wonder if it being your own song makes it easier :P

^oh, that's a bit like my middle school schedule worked, but we dropped whatever class was last for the next day and the day after it would be first, so they all got shuffled like that. that's really annoying about the religion classes. i would tear out my eyes. my school wasn't religious, but it's historically episcopalian. we had to go to chapel once a week (once a week for 13 years for me :P), but it was more like a course in world religions that happened to be held in a christian chapel. and in later years, it was basically "listen to music and talk about it" time :lol: all seniors were required to take a class called senior seminar, though, which was supposed to be like life lessons, but we spent a rather long time on the bible...i wasn't so pleased, personally.

i might have to scout out someone who has this on campus, just to try. (^^BTW, can i ask where the bottom quote from jonny came from in your sig? i don't ever recall seeing/hearing it, and it's hilarious!)

interesting. i've only played guitar hero like 3 times, but i found it easier to play songs that i knew. maybe i'd rock at shiver then :P

i wonder that myself. seeing him make that new world record made him seem almost inhuman, if he's THAT far ahead of fellow olympians :stunned: i don't think he's doped, though. i don't really have that much evidence to back that up, but i don't think he is. i also get the feeling that he's really cocky etc, which automatically turns me off of really liking him. i'm just astonished that anyone can be THAT far ahead of fellow olympians. even when michael phelps is ahead of everyone else in the pool, its not by THAT much! sure he's ahead, but not so he's the only one in the camera's frame!

there's a full-band version of guitar hero? is that just to compete with rockband?

^haha, i noticed that landmark too, but no one else seemed to :P 2000 pages of chris. something tells me he'd think we were all insane :laugh3:

oh well yes, but usually the songs down towards the bottom of the list are harder than the ones at the top, even in the beginner level or whatever its called :P. at least, they are for me!

i absolutely suck at guitar hero, but YAY! about time coldplay came standard, and with pretty much the best song they could have picked, too! :dance: i bet this would be kind of a hard song for beginners, though.

what's a floating class? my private school wasn't christian, but i had some required classes to take too, especailly in senior year. they turned out not to be so bad, but i would have liked to take more electives instead too :D