Return of the Kimmie Thread!

[racx_00]

Yes you are very royal

[dew7]

Well I went to England for two months when I was young with my parents.  We stayed in Oxford which depressed us sometimes and we were told it was due to the climate and/or polution.  However, the depression would go away when we visited London.  I remember that I loved the hologram shop they had in Oxford and got all sorts of holographic trinkets there.  We saw the Tower of London (the Crown Jewels), went to castles such as Warwick and Sudley Castle and did all kinds of great stuff.  I think I still have all my guidebooks in storage somewhere at my folks house.  I wonder if I have any holographic stuff left?  Anyway, I went to study in Greece a few years ago when I was in University and had a great time.  My major was Classics which was in the Humanities area.  I was never really good at math.  My minor was Cultural Anthropology and I remember enjoying that too.  Computers have always fascinated me since my Dad taught me BASIC computer programming on Dad's IBM PCjr.  Anyway, I have also been to Mexico with friends, Canada as a middle school trip, to New Zealand on a missions trip with my church and across the States.  I really want to visit Ireland next and also want to see Australia and possibly Egypt at some point.  The pyramids, their writing, the sphinx, etc. have always fascinated me even though I took one class on Egypt and it was an 8am class so I did not feel fully awake before 9am classes and only ended up with a C in that course but I felt fortunate to get a C in that class because it was hard, imo.  Anyway I give the balance of my time to Kimmie or someone else.  LOL!!!!

[Kimmie]

woah that was a looooooong post  

oxford...full of really clever students, it would make me really depressed too lol!  

wow u hav travelled loaaaaads of places but yay for wanting to go to egypt. cant wait til i go! shall i swap myself for a few camels??

[Jeysie]

(raises hand) I never claimed to be royal!

I could, at most, claim that I would make a stereotypical mucking-about-with-weird-stuff-in-the-basement/dungeons scholar.

And, at Dew's post. Even if I had the money to travel around the world like that I probably wouldn't... I have enough trouble just travelling around the US without screwing things up. And yeah, hanging around a school full of creme-de-la-creme students like Oxfordians would depress me too...

Peace & Luv, Liz

[Kimmie]

one of my friends went to cambridge...granted it isnt AS bad as oxford and yet we hav still seen a change in her...plus liverpool uni is a place for *kimmies* apparently, i didnt really know how to take that- was it an insult or what?  

i'd love to go to america, canada, new zealand, austria (again) im goin to egypt hopefully this year, if not i WILL go anyway.

oh and im also thinkin wen i...oh sorry, if i graduate (lol) that im gonna get a small ankh tatood on my back so that it will always be there and remind me that i am egyptian queen...i mean that i tried to study an ancient civilisation

[Shadowfax]

I know many, many people who tried to force me into Oxford university (for English/Sciences etc...), citing I was wasting my supposed intelligence in their view. However, I managed to escape! (basically my more brutal force of will was superior to theirs!) Whilst I do admit I have a strong dislike of universities part of my reasoning was that I wouldn't be able to stand the academics there! (Useless people half of them, they can tell you everything about nothing but when it comes from sending a parcel from a-b, forget it...well...thats in my experience anyway!)

Still, here I am and I am happy (and is that not what counts?)  

[Kimmie]

well thats cool for ya.

but i dont really think that all uni has to offer. it is a socialising thing too, its a step from school and you meet alot of interesting people from all over the world, in my class i hav 3 amercians, chinese, hungarian etc

[Shadowfax]

Hmmm, well its that socialising thing that I also bear a grudge against! (The whole "interesting people from around the world," proved to form a vital part of my original downfall earlier in my life; don't ask...very, very complicated to explain!)

After all the nonsense I endured many years ago, I gave up and then stormed back into the world, "guns blazing," and damned if anyone was going to stop me!

Still, glad you (like many others I know) are enjoying university and that people like me are in the absolute minority (indeed, I know of no-one else who shares my antiquated opinions on the matter!)

[Kimmie]

well its an experieince, you either do it or you dont. but i think the people who do knock it without tryin must hav a good enough reason to.
life is all about trial and error and uni isnt for everyone...but hey atleast i can say im giving it a go

[Shadowfax]

Well I'll drink to that and wish you the best!  

[Kimmie]

thank you. i just hope it all goes well. this semester look quite good on the archaeology side of things, and atleast in cheerleading we are doing competitions around the county and i hav made some great friends

[Shadowfax]

Archeology and Cheerleading competitions! That is something I rarely hear said in the same breath (not that I am relying upon the sterotypical view of cheerleaders you understand!    )

Seriously though, it's good that you are doing what you enjoy and are exploring a wide range of subjects (at least cheerleading is less physically demanding than 250 SuperKart driving, after an intensive days driving I lost a couple of pounds in sweat alone!)

[Kimmie]

lol...well its egyptology and cheerleading. but the archeaological side in ref to egypt looks cool. i impressed sum1 by sayin i was a cheerleading egyptologist lol, he was quite interested in the cheerleading bit atleast  

cool superkart  

[Shadowfax]

Hehe, Cheerleading Egyptologist, glorious combination isn't it!

Have you heard of SuperKarts then? Not too many people have and when someone says "Cool," it often implies they at least have some idea of what they are (doesn't matter if that was a sympathy "cool," though!)

60-100 Horsepower
0-60mph in 2.5 seconds
Top Speed: 160-190mph depending on the gearing (I have heard of speeds up to 230mph with ultra high gearing and a good long straight!)

Mine only goes to 160mph, good enough for the moment!

[Jeysie]

(frowns curiously at Shadow)

I know little about the UK, obviously, but I know that in the US, not going to University or being sociable can be crippling career-wise unless you've got a unique talent of some sort. I'm despairing of ever getting a decent job.

Of course, I'm also bitter because I always dreamed of getting to go to MIT, perhaps I could have if I hadn't been stupid and messed things up for myself.

One of the things I like about the Internet is the chance to meet people from other countries... it's hard to get a non-FUD view of other cultures through "usual" US channels.

I think you'll do fine at University, Kimmie... you're not stupid like you always make yourself out to be, you've got a good brain there. Certainly a finely creative one, which is the best sort, IMHO.

Peace & Luv, Liz

[Kimmie]

yeh i hav a creative brain...or would like to think so. but it aint that great when it comes to acedemics, but hey i will try! thats all i can do. if it doesnt work then it wasnt meant to be and i shall try another path!

[Shadowfax]

(frowns curiously at Shadow)

I know little about the UK, obviously, but I know that in the US, not going to University or being sociable can be crippling career-wise unless you've got a unique talent of some sort. I'm despairing of ever getting a decent job.

Peace & Luv, Liz

Do not worry, I don't need either for reasons that I won't go into here (not being sociable does hurt on occasion as I do get very,very lonely but when I see disasters befall others around me I do sometimes feel a lot safer being the lone maverick no-one quite understands and can turn to should they need a simple, direct source of comfort; such is life eh?)

[Kimmie]

eeep i dont think i could rely on being alone...ok sometimes its good to be alone, for a very short while coz u can think and stuff, but i dont think i'd like to be alone, dont think i could live that way. i do love being with people like me

[Jeysie]

Kimmie: I wouldn't worry much about academics. I mean, it's important, but I think that creativity is what's truly useful. Even academics need to be creative to really be useful with their knowledge!

Shadow: Well, it depends on who you're sociable with! Man was not meant to be alone, after all, we're naturally "pack animals". Still, nothing wrong with being a loner (I'm a loner myself, though more due to inability to socialize than due to lack of desire to socialize).

Peace & Luv, Liz

[Kimmie]

yeh but Liz do u believe that there is sum1 out there for every1? i kinda hope that lol!