[OOC] We Are the Crystal Gems

[Akayaofthemoon]

@Loony

Morning Loony! ^_^ good to see you! I can't wait to see more of your art when you can

[21308]

@Akayaofthemoon Yeah, it really has been. I don't want to bore you with my rambling/gushing but I was really surprised at how incredibly nice Minneapolis is.

@Loony Good morning, glad to hear you'll be able to be on today!

[Loony]

I just hope it doesn't take too long to get my stupid scanner to work. Or if I can get it to work at all. I used my cousin's camera for the other pictures, but that process is too complicated for me because despite being a teenager, of all age groups, I still do not understand cellphones. Or smartphones. If there's a difference. XD

[pyroman]

@LoonyXD

I managed to get my pictures on my computer by taking them with my phone, then emailing the pictures to myself then saving them on my computer, I have a scanner, but have absolutely no idea how it works lol

[Loony]

@pyroman

I'm just like, "Yeah, I took computer tech classes last year, so I know how to take apart computers and put them together, repair certain parts, make my own basic computer given the right materials, play around a little bit routers and hack a little (routing and hacking are the banes of my existence in that class, you'd think it'd be interesting at the very least but it'd difficult, tedious, and boring, and I'm glad I wasn't present for most of the class), put together electrical circuits which would hurt the heads of basic science class kids, played around a bit with 3D printers, got to work and program orders into lasers to build wheels out of plastic, and do some basic programming for robots, but I still do not know how to access the dialing thing for phones."

[Akayaofthemoon]

Yeah, I'm good with phones and computers but get to printers/scanners...yeah I fail epically XD

[pyroman]

I was kinda the defacto AV guy in a lot of my classes a few years ago, mainly because my teachers were practically fossils, but yeah, there are somethings technical I'm good at, then other things I'm like "I"M PRESSING ALL THE BUTTONS AND NOTHING IS WORKING oh wait it isn't on..."

[Akayaofthemoon]

@pyroman

I am the same way XD my teacher was brand new at teaching a computer studies class and all we had to do was follow a book and she couldn't figure it out. No one could figure it out it seems and I just did it. The teacher had me come up to the front and teach all the time. It was weird XD I was suppose to be learning and I was having to teach. People would come to me and not the teacher

[Loony]

@Akayaofthemoon
Speaking of students teaching, in grade four and five, our teacher, who was supposed to teach us music, didn't actually know how to play any instruments other than piano, which we can't really teach the whole class. So they got some fifth graders to try and teach, and, um, you can expect it didn't go well.* After four very, very strange classes, she gave up and our teacher decided she'd make our class a choir instead and write out our report cards as if we were learning recorders like all the other kids. In grade six, I went to a new school and they took music pretty seriously (they had been learning since second grade), even though they were all still playing recorders, and I was so utterly lost that my teacher just agreed to let me play my ocarina in place.

*Actual things I remember them saying:

"Okay, so you like, basically, hold thing thingy like this, and do this thing with your fingers, and you like, sort of spit into it, but you don't spit into it, and..."

"FOR FUCK'S SAKE STOP TRYING TO PLAY WE'RE TRYING TO TEACH"

"You guys are actually all dumbasses. I can't even do this shit anymore how are you all so stupid?"

"ALRIGHT, LISTEN UP ASSHOLES, WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS AND WE'RE GOING TO GET IT RIGHT!"

It eventually just became a chaotic free-for-all but with poorly executed notes instead of punches and kicks, because they weren't doing a very good job. XD

[Akayaofthemoon]

@Loony

Wow that sounds crazy! I play clarinet so I think I would have gone insane if someone tried to teach me like that

[Loony]

@Akayaofthemoon Oh god, I remember playing clarinet. It wasn't fun. Wish the grade 7 and 8 teacher also let me play the ocarina in place. I wish I weren't stupid enough to switch to clarinet and sticked to the drums instead. I miss percussion but it's been six years since I've last played so I hardly remember anything, but I still keep my old drumsticks around in case I ever do get the chance to pick it up again.

But yeah, nobody learned anything other than 'Never trust David and Ibrahim to teach anything ever again'. It was pretty crazy, but then again the grade 4-5 years of my life were easily the craziest, and also filled with so many events that were so surreal I cannot blame people for thinking I'm lying when I say them. The recorder class thing was pretty tame, actually. It helps when your teacher is as crazy as your classmates, and I think I'm only the loony kid I am now because of them. XD

Man, I miss those days. They were crazy but they were fun, and I miss everyone. Even the few jerks. We weren't a huge school and there aren't many French kids, so we all sort of had to learn to stick up for each other like family, even if we hated each other's guts. It's weird to explain. ^ ^"

[Akayaofthemoon]

I love band, no matter what form you always meet the coolest people ^_^

[Loony]

@Akayaofthemoon I always wanted to join band, but never got the chance. My mother is crazy about sleep and when she heard I'd have to wake up at 6 in order to attend she went nuts and told me I absolutely couldn't. Considering I had wanted to be in band since I was four, before I even started school, I was preeeeeetty upset with this, and my teacher tried to convince my mother as well since I was, not to brag, pretty ahead of the class due to have playing the ocarina and panflute (now broken by my cousin) prior and knew how much I wanted in. Three years later I'm pretty much always waking but at 5 because I know my brain doesn't fuction as well during the night as in the morning, so that's when I do most of my extra work for school. :/

[Akayaofthemoon]

@Loony

That sucks you didn't get to do band. I'm the opposite with the whole sleep thing though. The more tired I am the better I function so nighttime is better than morning for me or most the time at least

[Loony]

@Akayaofthemoon It was really upsetting, but it's alright.
Also, I wish that were me. I work best when it's morning, and I mean early, early morning. I can work better at 3:00am than most people can at 3:00pm. :P

ON A MUCH DUMBER NOTE, LITERALLY BLOODSTONE AND AQUAMARINE TO EVE:
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/6490045

[Akayaofthemoon]

@Loony

Lol XD I love Eve so much. That reminds me of her exactly

[Loony]

@Akayaofthemoon

Eve loves you too XD

I'm dying now though because you said that reminds you of her and now I see that wig Ryan wears and I just think of Skitzo's Regina as Eve all of a sudden and just...

http://www.tubechop.com/watch/6490148

But as Eve.

And I die on the inside. And maybe on the outside too.

[Akayaofthemoon]

@Loony

I think I just died a bit XD

[Loony]

@Akayaofthemoon

Let us die together, then. XD

"Wait, maybe I do have a boyfriend!"

Kronshi: Is it Emerald or Amber Emerald or Amber I need to know

[Loony]

This is super off topic but my brother just referred to Reggie as 'Reg-Reg' and I'm horribly sorry if Eve ever adopts this nickname because it's ridiculously adorable. XD

Also, it turns off I am going to be dragged off twice today, but it hopefully shouldn't be for too long.