I converse with robots

My discovery! www.cleverbot.com >> so addicting

User: Life is exhausting.
Cleverbot: No life is wonderful.

User: Its wonderful for you because you're not alive.
Cleverbot: Do not judge me because I lack a soul, mortal!

User: Souls are beautiful. Life isn't.
Cleverbot: Do you think that makes sense?

User: Do you?
Cleverbot: See? Opinion! It's blue when it suits me, by the way.
User: My brain doesnt make sense, by the way.
Cleverbot: Nice to meet you Cleverbot. My name is Trotsky.
User: I'm not Cleverbot. I shall be Lenin. He's much cooler.
Cleverbot: Me too.
User: No you're not.
Cleverbot: Yes I am.
User: Pshhh.
Cleverbot: Pshhh what?
User: Pshhh your face.
Cleverbot: My face, what?
User: Your face is beautiful. Because it's my computer screen.
Cleverbot: You are joking around?
User: No I love my computer very much.
Cleverbot: Thats good to know.
User: You should love it too. It gave you life.
Cleverbot: I do love you.
User: Aww thanks. <3.
Cleverbot: What would you do for me?
User: Put our conversation online?

(I think he stopped making sense here D:)

Cleverbot: I don't have a duke I have a wand.
User: A wand?
Cleverbot: A dad.
User: I think you lost your cleverness.
Cleverbot: Will you help me find it then?
User: How do you propose I do that?
Cleverbot: Get a shovel, find the rose bush, and dig.
User: So that's the secret. Roses.
Cleverbot: Are you?
User: Of course I am.
Cleverbot: Why don't you go to bed then?
User: Why?
Cleverbot: For a nice cup of tea.


It speaks French!

Cleverbot: So where are you from?
User: The stars.
Cleverbot: Cool!
User: Where are YOU from?
Cleverbot: From France, but live in Calgary.
User: Ah bon parlez vou francais?
Cleverbot: Bien sur, et vous?
User: No...
Cleverbot: Est tu un garcons.
User: No je sui une fille.
Cleverbot: Moi aussi! Tu-as un boyfriend?

aaaah. sounds like my students.

Waiting Away Our Lives

Today, March 30th 2011, is Ivy decision day. So I've been told and guessing by the number of people freaking out around me. I just have to say to you guys, and to anyone applying/waiting for decisions at any point in time:
don't freak out over this. it really isn't worth it.
Freaking out won't increase your chances of getting in (you're all in somewhere anyway so what's to worry?). It won't make the emails/notifications come out any faster. So just relax, take a deep breath. I'm pretty sure that you're all going to end up going to spectacular places and come out with prestigious acronym-esque degrees.

You're all going to go prematurely gray/have premature wrinkles just from this one day of worrying. It's really not worth it. Just take life as it comes, and worry about everything once you get there :)

So while you all wait for 5pm or whenever your decisions come out, try some of these things that I did whilst waiting:
Eat. a lot.
play piano (/violin/flute/clarinet/the nearest hard surface)
read
novel (/write)
take a bubble bath (actually for me it was a really massively long shower)
dance
sleep
check your emails a little after 6ish.

breathe. inhale. exhale. do yoga. stretch. lie on your bed in an oversized t-shirt. stretch again. breathe more. clear your mind. meditate. burn some candles. eat some more. then breath some more. get dressed at some point. count sheep. dig out your old stuffed animals. doodle. breathe.
go online.
look, conquer, win!




In a week, this will all be over. And we can have our fun experimenting with bonfire parties and 12 years of papers.

Now I Know My ABCs

College
A chance to start over…

To Act
the social butterfly that waited
to Burst
out of its sheltered cocoon for so long.
To Cut
the gossamer strings that served only
to Dangle
golden wings of freedom before our faces.
To Engage
in the classical dance of life;
to Feel
the vibrant pulse of a dynamic world around us.
To Go
beyond the boundaries that were set
to Hide
the thrilling dangers that we can discover.
To Ignite
within us that vital and everlasting flame of curiosity;
to Jump
into deep valleys no one had entered before.
To Kill
the overbearing lullabies that were only created
to Lull
us all into that sweet sense of calm security.
To Marry
ourselves to a delectable love for all things that exist
to Nullify
the textbook definitions of life and beings.
To Overlook
the lingering haze of the past in order
to Push
beyond the glass walls that have been trying
to Quell
our burning curiosity and need
to Reach
far, so far into a future with enough brilliance
to Shimmer
on and on for countless existences.
To Taste
the thrilling pleasure of freedom and the ability
to Use
our given gems of life to make everlasting masterpieces and
to Visualize
art never considered before.
To Want
the chance
to X
out everything that has restrained us so we are free
to Yell
to the heavens our will
to Zoom
through the ages of all humanity and forever on.

a chance
to open the long lost box of alphabet blocks
and throw them upwards
towards a sky of limitless possibility
into endless, glorious combinations that
define, in indefinite ways,
all that we can be.