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In The True Meaning of Smekday (the best combination of alien invasion, comedy, and social commentary ever written) they basically visit secret tunnels under Disneyland, only it’s not published by Hyperion so they have to change it to Happy Mouse Kingdom, and name all the rides after lesser known fairytales. It’s pretty great.

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I went into a googling frenzy a couple months ago when the show came out and the coolest theory I found was that whatever it is, it is stored in a sugar bowl because a sugar bowl has no other functionality in Snicket’s world. While tea is regularly drunk during the series, only villains take their tea with sugar. Volunteers make it a point of pride that they take theirs black, making a sugar bowl a perfect in plain sight hiding place. Which I suppose means that it was put in a sugar bowl in order to hide it from Volunteers, not fire starters, which is consistent with the fact that it was originally stolen from Esme Squalor.

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I just put Kingdom Keepers on hold at the library. I’ll let you know what I think.

And right now I’m a cashier at a health food restaurant, but that should change by the end of May. I’m going to be a ptychographer! Well an intern with a ptychography experiment, still not even sure if it’s paid. I’m just so happy!

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Maybe I just have a weird way of looking at things. I was reading a mystery written by a particle physicist once and a character pointed out that God could have created the whole universe only a moment ago, filling our heads with memories and adding evidence of history. There is nothing you could do to disprove an assertion like that, but also nothing you can do to prove it. At first I found it disturbing to think about, then I realized that if it was true it meant that I had been created only a moment ago and God had specifically given me the memory of a story telling me that I had been created only a moment ago. Meaning that even if I only just started existing God cared enough to let me in on the joke.

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So what is the deal with the sugar bowl?
Any ideas?

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Sounds like fun??

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Probably…

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Though that has nothing to do with ninjas.

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I actually kind of enjoy existential uncertainty.

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You must train me in your ways.

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I was typing my post, and then seconds before I hit submit. Whamo! There was your post.

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Once I had a dream there was a tarantula crawling on my covers, and I tried shaking it off, then I came properly awake and realized I had been dreaming with my eyes open, so it was like the best special effect ever. So worth a moment of terror. (Also I usually like arthropods, so not sure where that dream came from).

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Currently almost everyone at my church has black hair, we’re about to put on a production of the King and I.

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Olive you are an absolute ninja.

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I can’t say that I have, though it looks interesting. I’ve recently been enjoying Story Thieves, though part way through the third book the author kept subtly hinting that I do not in fact exist. That got unnerving.

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I was assuming you meant things. I really don’t have any response I could give to your other question, certainly not with a straight face. I’m glad the interview went well. I hope you get the year round position. It is not entirely possible to stalk me on the internet as for the most part I don’t exist on the internet. I like children’s fiction, Agatha Christie, mathematics, and the sciences, and I also really like this guy http://erikjohanssonphoto.com/

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#thatmomentwhen You get home from work and want to check the not-forum, but realize you have to do laundry and save internet conversation as a reward for once you’re done. Then you put off doing your laundry for hours and by the time you get started you realize everyone else on the forum lives in different time zones and is already in bed. That’s sad. It’s made sadder because I still have to do my laundry.

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I hope that post to a ridiculously old thread is helpful to someone somewhere.

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Nevermind. They are ridiculously salty, a simply inhumane treatment of Mexican cuisine. I was thinking of La Favorita tortilla chips, now those are good.

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A missions trip is definitely meant to impact the students. Mainly in that it allows the leaders and the students to have more time with each other and shared experiences so that those relationships can improve. To some extent the leaders consider the students their mission field.
Sometimes a mission trip has a huge positive impact, and other times you end up inconveniencing the very people you intended to help. I think the key thing is listening to what the people actually need. I’ve heard that “When Helping Hurts” is any excellent book on this topic, though I have yet to read it.

Also I’m not sure about mission’s tortillas, but their tortilla chips are delicious.

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It’s worth hearing. There is life after death and taxes.

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Sorry Chris. You’re old.

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(But it probably averages out to about twenty and a half).

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I am either 103 years old, or 12 weeks old, or possibly already dead. Life is oh so very confusing.
Fun fact: Time actually moves at a different rate at your feet than at your head.

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Breaking: WHERE!?

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I’m actually related to Amelia Earheart.
Breaking News: we still haven’t found her.

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Too bad about the human sacrifice. I still have the blood soaked knife from the last cult I joined. Would we have to wear actual tophats to Auxcon or just pins or something?

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I’m glad someone got it.

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Sounds awesome.

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There are few things better to nerd out about. What was the coolest thing they did? (I’ve just seen their video about Brachistocrones).

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