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kino you may have gone to a shitty school in a shitty state but you have turned into a wonderful person

WonderKino ^_^

Kinda off topic, but Kino's "first question asked" thing sparked this memory when I tried to think of what people normally asked me. XD

>_> One of my more wonderful memories was sitting in Home Ec class. We were forced into groups to work on something for cooking that contained Peanut Butter. They were trying to talk to me and get over the "omg, she's THAT geek. we would be uncool to talk to her" thing. Anyways they were talking about Peanut Butter products and then when they attempted to include me in my response was (and I remember this conversation like it was yesterday)

"I'm not very fond of Peanut Butter, so I've not really eaten many things with it in it."
(Trying to be friendly sociable and attempting to understand me one girl asked)"Why do you talk like that?"
"Pardon?"
Other girl (NOT being sociable): "Wouldn't it have been just easier to say "I don't like Peanut Butter."?"
"You always use such big words."
"Big words? What big word did I use?"
"I can't remember all of what you just said."
"Fond? That's the only 'strange' word I might have used."
"Well, you know, its better to just say "i don't like it"."
"But I don't "not like it". I don't prefer it. I will eat it. I eat PB&J with Chicken Noodle. I eat Butterfingers. It's just not my favorite thing."

They kinda gave up on me at that point. I think back and I just smile warmly. ^_^
Anyone that thinks "fond" is a big word and can't understand my rather simple sentence is not really worth associating with.

(For the record, today I would say "I don't like Peanut Butter" 'cause I don't like it anymore. Even the smell of it with Chicken Noodle soup does strange things to my stomach.)

Back to on topic: o_O; I think most people didn't talk to me at all unless they were trying to be bastards. I remember carrying Polgara the Sorceress by David Eddings and Strangers by David Koontz got a lot of "are you really going to finish that big book?" as first questions. XD

Meh, I was the go-to guy if people needed help for shit (since pretty much most accepted I was one of the smartest guys there) but I was also a football player so ... yeah; both sides whee? I was one of "those" guys I guess; pretty much everyone knew me in my graduating class.

[spoiler]To be fair, that's pretty similar now; most everyone on the northern part of campus, where I live, that does bonfire knows me. WHAT CAN I SAY PEOPLE LIKE ME.

I don't know why.[/spoiler]

I'd finish reading assignment books (that weren't boring, I still hate you Hawthorne) pretty fast since I read at a ridiculous pace. 'course, I didn't do much reading leisure wise though outside of James Patterson stuff back then (and other murder-y stuff, if I recall).

I was bullied in my elementary years, but high school saw people mostly avoiding me.

As for questions, the most common was "what is that," referring to whatever it was I was drawing at the time. (I was the quiet-artist-in-the-corner type)

I had a friend in high school who devoured huge fantasy tomes. He could go through a couple a week that would take me a good month to finish, and he'd read through whole novels assigned in English class over lunch break. GAH. (Oh and he was an effortless A+++ student too.) But then, I'm a very slow reader and I've come to suspect I'm also slightly dyslexic....

Finished Wizard and Glass and starting on Wolves of the Calla

[spoiler]The second part was a bit boring at times, but part three was just depressing at the end. Poor Susan.

And Flagg finally makes his appearance, along with a short Tick Tock Man appearance.

As for Wolves of the Calla...

For the love of God, Susannah, how many identities do you have?[/spoiler]

I found the second and third parts of Wizard and Glass to be some of the best chunks of story in the whole series.

A complete and independent story of romance and tragedy in a world just different enough from ours to be fantasy, and just close enough to ours to immediately understand. Balanced just right for some of the more fantastic things to be eerie and mysterious. The Dark Tower itself is mentioned just enough and in just the right ways for the thought of it to be frightening. And not a mention of New York.

Hope you enjoy Wolves, I thought it was tiring.

Also some shameless self-insertion by Stephen King. It worked, but if it keeps up it could get bad.

It was more of a matter of not being able to get into the true reading "mood"...that is, when I read it, it was in between classes and so I may not have fully been able to remember all the details or truly enjoy it. But I read the third part pretty much all at once and ended up enjoying perhaps more than the rest of the series so far.

You've read all of the books, right?

I have not read past Wolves...... ; - ;

Part of me wanted to take a break from it, and part of me did not have money to pay my library dues. I could pay it now....but will I do that, or just buy the book used?

There is this wondrous used book store by my house called Castle of Books that has the whole series several times over so I will give that a look.