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[nova33]

Hockey semi-finals this evening! I am both excited and nervous, and I'm also pretty sure we won't make it into the finals. But you know. Always worth a try. Also, massive history test on Monday that I'm stressing out about. I know this isn't particularly interesting for you to read, but seriously, Germany's history between the World Wars? Confusing

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[mrsquizzical]

i never know what to say on meme's like that. i pretty much tell you what i want to already!

and yeah. that phase of history is a big muddle to me.

re which period of history i could live in? i see both parts of the glass all the time. (you know. the full half and the empty half. it's a curse/blessing) so i figure any time of history had its problems. but i like the aesthetic pre industrial revolution. the slower pace.

[nova33]

I never know what to say either, but I figured if someone had something that they wouldn't usually tell me, there's their chance.

Oh man, it's so confusing, but so interesting and relevant at the same time that I really want to understand.

Slower pace would be good. I know what you mean about seeing the glass half full and half empty; it's not that I find any particular time period appealing because it seems perfect in some way, but rather the opposite. The problems and how people reacted to and delt with them.

[summerslaughter]

If I had to choose, I'd want live in the future. I'd rather jump forward and see where things go than live in the past.

I kind of adore computers and science and, as much as I find some past eras interesting, I wouldn't want to live in them. We're learning so much about the universe and everything right now (I am particularly excited about the upcoming experiments on the LHC), we have the ability to do more than ever before, and I'd hate to give up any of that.

[nova33]

It would be really, really cool to see where we're going. There are all sorts of things that people never thought were possible that were, and I always wonder which of the things I find totally implausible today will be acheived in the next twenty or fifty years.

[xenchantedbloom]

Oh, good luck! Give it your best shot, and I hope you have tons of fun. ^___^

Would you like to tell me about you history stuff? Sometimes teaching can be a great way to get things to stick in your head. I'd be a perfect student- I don't know very much about Germany's history, and I just finished some self-made worksheets on past, present, and future conjugations in Deutsch! Hahahah. If you need any more practice for the test, do feel free to splurt out a time-line, a summary, or even just a re-telling of a certain event to me.

And, uhm... y'know. -shuffle- If you really need a study-buddy or something, we could try and set up a call. I don't know how the time zones would work out or whatever. We're about a half of a day apart, yeah? Also, I was just thinking! Have you heard about teh Skypez? I don't have it or anything, and I've never tried it, but I've heard it's really neat. Zomg Skype Click Here! Do you have any headphones with a microphone for the computer? Because (I know this is going to sound irrational and goofy.) if we

[nova33]

Thank you

[xenchantedbloom]

No problem!

Hahahah, this is a big day. In fact, I'm having a very tiny mental freak out about it! -gigglesnort- It's so strange that I'd rather meet people in real life than call them, but it's true. I need to practice? Hmmm. Well, when you commented it was 8:10 on Friday night, and it's just turned 9:30 right now. Fourteen hours! Wow, that's so cool. I've never gotten over that. You're in the ~future~! Hahahahah.

I can agree with that. That's one thing about my happy mental image of America in the later 30s (Grammar, grammar, grammar! No apostrophe in that. -sigh- I'll never grasp the English language.)- one common scene would be the family gathering around the radio for the evening, and everything's tinted yellow, and the boy yells, "Ace!" when his favorite program finally begins. The way family values have degenerated and how everything from huge violence to just general self-absorption has increased is just sad. With its rapid increase over the same time, it's impossible for technology to not have some part in it

[nova33]

The future is not very exciting, let me tell you. :P It is really weird to try and wrap your head around; I still struggle with it. But good, we know that it's fourteen hours. What are you doing tomorrow night? Because I have to leave to drive up to Sydney for the game in about fifteen minutes - why am I always on the net when I need to be going somewhere? - but I would still love to talk to you. I have a phone card with your name on it, Leah! You can't wimp out now

[complications_g]

Well, I was totally happy with choosing the 60s, until I read summerslaughters comment and realised I'd have no computer! :(

SO, then I decided I'm pretty happy with this era. ;)

(But the 60s are totes wicked because, hello, the Beatles!)

[nova33]

See, I love my technology, but sometimes I think certain aspects of life would be better without them. Obviously I would die without my computer nowadays, but if I hadn't grown up with one?

The Beatles! I love the music from the 60s, as well as this idea that people were fighting for something. Nowadays there seems to be a lot of apathy, and that really worries me.

Sorry, didn't mean to get all preachy!

[complications_g]

Meh, hardly preachy. :)

Yeah, I can't even imagine not having a computer or electronic things when I was younger. Whenever I would say I was bored my mum would try and get me to 'go out and play' or something, and I was like, 'and do what?' And when I did go out, me and my friends would just use the playgrounds and stuff. No imagination, apparently, according to mum. ;)

[nova33]

See, my parents were big on keeping us away from video games - we never even owned a GameBoy - and we used to make up all sorts of random games down at the playgrounds. Modified versions of tag, pick-up soccer games, stuff like that.

[escherzo]

I'm never sure what to say on anonymemes, sigh. Because usually if I have something to tell you I just tell you it?

hmmm. I don't know--a lot of people would say the 60s but I've heard enough about it from my mom to know that it was kind of a crazy time to be in. So the 80s maybe?It would be hard to be pre-computers and internet though.

[nova33]

This is a good thing.

It would be hard, but I think it'd be really interesting to see how different it was. Plus the 80s had all the good trends.