Richard's Animorphs Forum
RAF Section => Introductions & Departures => Topic started by: megang on December 11, 2008, 10:39:28 AM
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Hello! I am new here, and I was thinking how helpful it would be if there was a thread devoted to "introductions"--so I can get to know all you experienced RAF-ers and maybe you could learn a little about me. I'll go first:
My name is Megan G., I am currently 22 years old and I work in my local hospital (nights, mind you) as a Nurse (an RN, a real nurse). I am married and currently expecting my first baby. We live in North Carolina, on the East Coast, USA. I play WOW online (Stonemaul for my allies, Shadow Council for my hordies) and I love RPGs. I am also into astrology, although I won't force it on anyone. I have a myspace page if anyone cares that much, just message me and i'll send you the link.
I used to read Animorphs when I was a kid--I was first drawn to the cover at a Book Fair in my elementary school, and while I never finished the series, I am currently trying to work my way back through them (please don't tell me how it ends!).
I also read part of the Everworld series, as I kind of got bored of the Animorphs (not because there's anything wrong with the series, I just really enjoy trying new things--variety IS the spice of life, you know :P) and I am rereading those as well (again, no spoilers, please!).
So, I hope that some of you (at least) will post some replies so I can get a feel for what you are all like and what kind of community this is.
Thank you for your time!
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I thought RN stood for registered nurse?
and kewl! you're married, congrats on your first baby.
Welcome to RAF! hope you u don't mind the craziness here...
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Welcome to the forum, and congrats on the little one to come.
:welcome:
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ooh congrats on the kid!
hopefully you aren't too attached to your sanity or that it isn't a job requirement or a mothering requirement because if you stay...well...it won't be in tact for long!
welcome!
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Welcome and congratulations on the babay! :)
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congratulations on the baby, as well as joining RAF!
you'll love it here. :D
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Welcome ^^
About the spoils, be careful... About everybody here already read all the Animorphs, so they spoil everywhere... me too ^^' About Everworld, it's easier: don't go on the Everworld threads! (except "ebooks", we don't spoil on this one...).
Have fun and I won't congrat you for the baby, because everybody already did >:D
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Thanks everyone! And no worries, my sanity was never intact :P
And yes, RN does stand for registered nurse, I just stated that I was a 'real' nurse because i have run across lots of people who work in the nursing profession and call themselves nurses, when their titles are actually "Nursing assistant" or "Patient Care Technician;" maybe it was petty of me, but I was simply differentiating myself from the Not-quite-a-nurse-yet nurses.
So is anyone else gonna tell me a little about themselves, here? hehe.
Thanks for the warm welcome, btw.
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Hello!
I'm a newbie as well :)
Congratulations on your baby *stupidly smiling at the computer*
You want to know a little about me?
Well I am pisces and my ascendant is cancer.
^^
So i guess you can tell who I am now ;)
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I think, if you wanna know more about everybody, you'll have to check all the presentations on RAF, and many messages in "life board", "general v2" or even "the boring board"... Good luck ;)
But Tocade said it, so... I'm one of the most hatred women in Japan... because I'm Scorpion ;) (in Japan, they think Scorpion women are violent and crazy...)
I'll never find any Japanese boyfriend T_T
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Geez ^^ Maybe astrology is right^^
My exbf was scorpion... And he was kind of violent and crazy ! Ahahah
Don't be pessimistic, you don't know Japanese's weird tastes in sex^^
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Do you really think I don't know? ;)
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*appears in a swirl of his cloak, but gets dizzy and falls down. But he quickly rights himself, and hopes no one was watching*
Welcome to RAF, megang.
I am a Scorpio, and born in the Year of the Rat. And that's pretty much the extent of my knowledge of the zodiacs and astrology . . . without runnin' to Wikipedia.
Congrats, on your soon-to-be-here firstborn.
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hahaha, gosh i miss your intros cloaky.
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You're a wood rat (or "rat of wood"?), Cloak. Like me. But I can't say more ^^'
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eh.......yeah, haha
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I used to read Animorphs when I was a kid--I was first drawn to the cover at a Book Fair in my elementary school, and while I never finished the series, I am currently trying to work my way back through them (please don't tell me how it ends!).
I also read part of the Everworld series, as I kind of got bored of the Animorphs (not because there's anything wrong with the series, I just really enjoy trying new things--variety IS the spice of life, you know :P) and I am rereading those as well (again, no spoilers, please!).
Bad news: spoilers abound here.
If you don't want to be spoiled, take a break from RAF and read the books. I imagine you've found the e-books (http://animorphsforum.com/ebooks/). If not, there's the link. The suggested reading order (anyone, feel free to correct me) is the order of publication:
01 A01 The Invasion
02 A02 The Visitor
03 A03 The Encounter
04 A04 The Message
05 A05 The Predator
06 A06 The Capture
07 A07 The Stranger
08 M1 The Andalite's Gift
09 A08 The Alien
10 A09 The Secret
11 A10 The Android
12 A11 The Forgotten
13 A12 The Reaction
14 A13 The Change
15 C1 The Andalite Chronicles
16 A14 The Unknown
17 A15 The Escape
18 A16 The Warning
19 A17 The Underground
20 A18 The Decision
21 M2 In the Time of Dinosaurs
22 A19 The Departure
23 A20 The Discovery
24 A21 The Threat
25 A22 The Solution
26 C2 The Hork-Bajir Chronicles
27 A23 The Pretender
28 A24 The Suspicion
29 A25 The Extreme
30 A26 The Attack
31 A27 The Exposed
32 A28 The Experiment
33 A29 The Sickness
34 M3 Elfangor's Secret
35 A30 The Reunion
36 A31 The Conspiracy
37 A32 The Separation
38 A33 The Illusion
39 A34 The Prophecy
40 A35 The Proposal
41 C3 Visser
42 A36 The Mutation
43 A37 The Weakness
44 A38 The Arrival
45 A39 The Hidden
46 A40 The Other
47 M4 Back to Before
48 A41 The Familiar
49 A42 The Journey
50 A43 The Test
51 A44 The Unexpected
52 A45 The Revelation
53 A46 The Deception
54 A47 The Resistance
55 C4 Ellimist Chronicles
56 A48 The Return
57 A49 The Diversion
58 A50 The Ultimate
59 A51 The Absolute
60 A52 The Sacrifice
61 A53 The Answer
62 A54 The Beginning
Once you read The Beginning, you'll want to talk about it.
The good news: we don't mind spoilers here. We'll put on some chamomile tea and talk until you feel better.
OK, personal introduction.
*notices everyone has taken cover*
Don't worry, this'll be the short version.
My name is Wildweathel, and I've been a RAFian for about a week. I'm a musician, actor, mathematician, classical liberal, and orthodox Roman Catholic. I love my country and my state, but wish the first would stop bullying everyone else and the second would stop playing with socialism. I live on the Maine cost--one of the most beautiful places on God's great Earth--year-round. I read xkcd (http://xkcd.org). I've faced down and vanquished depression. I'm usually shy, but when I introduced myself to RAF, I couldn't stop until I had gone over 2600 words (forcing Cloakedfigure to make a quick dodge). Oops ::) That is all for now.
Oh, and welcome to RAF! There are two common threads that bind most of us here: Animorphs and insanity. Hope you like 'em. ;)
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hahaha, gosh i miss your intros cloaky.
I've missed writing them. ;) But that's what you get when Verizon decides to go all "big brother" all over you.
You're a wood rat (or "rat of wood"?), Cloak. Like me. But I can't say more ^^'
I knew that -- though only because of Wikipedia. I don't tend to retain that stuff. Memory sucks, big time.
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I'm a musician, actor, mathematician, classical liberal, and orthodox Roman Catholic
OK, ok ... Mathematics lover, classical liberal AND religious ! :o
I've just found my Rafian's enemy ^^ ;D
;)
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lol You don't love mathematics? O_O
Maths are so COOL!!
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Welcome to RAF. :o
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lol You don't love mathematics? O_O
Maths are so COOL!!
Not when it's APPLIED to economics!
Sorry Megang for polluting your post !
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I'm a musician, actor, mathematician, classical liberal, and orthodox Roman Catholic
OK, ok ... Mathematics lover, classical liberal AND religious ! :o
I've just found my Rafian's enemy ^^ ;D
;)
Oh, and do you know what that means?
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Oh, and do you know what that means?
Steel cage match?
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Oh, and do you know what that means?
Steel cage match?
That would be interesting...
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Hello Megang! Welcome to RAF :)
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I'm a musician, actor, mathematician, classical liberal, and orthodox Roman Catholic
OK, ok ... Mathematics lover, classical liberal AND religious ! :o
I've just found my Rafian's enemy ^^ ;D
;)
Oh, and do you know what that means?
Well i'm not sure anymore. I think I should have written "rafian enemy" if I wanted to make sense...
But yep, anyway, is it a rethorical question? What does that mean ?
Yeeah a steel cage match ^^
I'm so small i could slip out :P
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I'm a musician, actor, mathematician, classical liberal, and orthodox Roman Catholic
OK, ok ... Mathematics lover, classical liberal AND religious ! :o
I've just found my Rafian's enemy ^^ ;D
;)
Oh, and do you know what that means?
Well i'm not sure anymore. I think I should have written "rafian enemy" if I wanted to make sense...
But yep, anyway, is it a rethorical question? What does that mean ?
Yeeah a steel cage match ^^
I'm so small i could slip out :P
Yes, it's a rhetorical question. Of course, the unstated answer is open to all sorts of wild interpretation. Like Cloaky's cage match. Or the Animaniac's "Wheel of Morality (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv6IWX1_XHQ)" gag. (I'll put a transcript in Bored if anyone's interested. Just PM me.)
"RAFian enemy" is good English, but THIS IS RAF. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZBA0SKmQy8) Merely good English cannot contain the madness.
so, lets see... RAFrival?... RAFnemesis?... RAFenemy?... maybe,...
I've got it!
Tocade and I share a special bond of RAFemnity RAFenmity. Now updating signature. [Oops.]
Anyway, back to topic:
Sorry, Megan. How goes the read-through?
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. . . I intended that as a joke. . . .
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. . . I intended that as a joke. . . .
You may have intended that, but guess what. It was interpreted slightly differently...
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I used to read Animorphs when I was a kid--I was first drawn to the cover at a Book Fair in my elementary school, and while I never finished the series, I am currently trying to work my way back through them (please don't tell me how it ends!).
I also read part of the Everworld series, as I kind of got bored of the Animorphs (not because there's anything wrong with the series, I just really enjoy trying new things--variety IS the spice of life, you know :P) and I am rereading those as well (again, no spoilers, please!).
Bad news: spoilers abound here.
If you don't want to be spoiled, take a break from RAF and read the books. I imagine you've found the e-books (http://animorphsforum.com/ebooks/). If not, there's the link. The suggested reading order (anyone, feel free to correct me) is the order of publication:
yeah, i think that's right.
i actually read the andalite chronicles a little earlier, but it doesn't really matter. great book though.
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Tocade and I share a special bond of RAFemnity. Now updating signature.
eMNity ? Not eNMity?
I wanna make sure before updating my signature as well^^
You may have intended that, but guess what. It was interpreted slightly differently...
I don't think it was interpreted slightly differently^^
After all, the whole thing remains a silly joke :P
WildWeathel :
My listening skills = terrible
Please, post the transcription ^^
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Tocade and I share a special bond of RAFemnity. Now updating signature.
eMNity ? Not eNMity?
I wanna make sure before updating my signature as well^^
You're right. Danm. Not only that, but I've been pronouncing it backwards as well. :-[
at least in esperanto there's no doubt how malameco is pronounced.
WildWeathel :
My listening skills = terrible
Please, post the transcription ^^
Cool. Unfortunately I just broke the virtual plumbing that connects YouTube to my sound card (I was trying to send it to my other, nicer sound card). Hopefully I'll be able to do it tomorrow.
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Oh, maybe you want me to transcribe it for you? ;D
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My "read through" is at a standstill for Animorphs at the moment, I'm rereading the Everworld series. It just caught my interest at the time.
And as for the astrology, if you want me to expound on what I really think of you based on your sign, I'd be more than happy to, but I don't want to offend anyone, so maybe better in a private message or on another thread? And I only really know about Western astrology--I know my year sign is the Tiger, but i'm much more familiar with the western stuff (I'm a scorpio, by the way, if I didn't already mention.....and I can tell you a thing or two about us...) If any of you are really into astrology, I can give you the Myspace link to a guy who does amazing horoscopes.
Thanks for everyone who responded, thanks for giving me an idea as to what sort of crazy craziness goes on 'round here :P
Oh! and I love math, too, I took Advanced Placement Calculus in high school, took the national standardized AP exam for it and scored a 5/5 on the exam, but i have trouble nowadays with algebra since it's been YEARS since i've taken any sort of math course.....it's true, if you don't use it, you lose it.
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Well, here's hoping you stay and are a valuable contribution to our internet community :)
Wishing you the best,
Taiyoh
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And as for the astrology, if you want me to expound on what I really think of you based on your sign, I'd be more than happy to, but I don't want to offend anyone, so maybe better in a private message or on another thread? And I only really know about Western astrology--I know my year sign is the Tiger, but i'm much more familiar with the western stuff (I'm a scorpio, by the way, if I didn't already mention.....and I can tell you a thing or two about us...) If any of you are really into astrology, I can give you the Myspace link to a guy who does amazing horoscopes.
Thanks for everyone who responded, thanks for giving me an idea as to what sort of crazy craziness goes on 'round here :P
Oh! and I love math, too, I took Advanced Placement Calculus in high school, took the national standardized AP exam for it and scored a 5/5 on the exam, but i have trouble nowadays with algebra since it's been YEARS since i've taken any sort of math course.....it's true, if you don't use it, you lose it.
True for math, I'm experiencing it at the moment :-[
I think you should create a thread just about astrology.
I don't see why it would offense anyone?
I don't believe in astrology but my mother has some books about it and when I was younger I used to read a bit when I was bored or to read them to my friends to have fun. ^^
Generally they tended to flatter everyone EXCEPT my sign and ascendant ;D
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Generally they tended to flatter everyone EXCEPT my sign and ascendant ;D
That's unlucky :P
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Generally they tended to flatter everyone EXCEPT my sign and ascendant ;D
That's unlucky :P
Yes :(
But it made me laugh^^ paradoxically ;)
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Generally they tended to flatter everyone EXCEPT my sign and ascendant ;D
That's unlucky :P
Yes :(
But it made me laugh^^ paradoxically ;)
More unexpected than paradoxical.
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Generally they tended to flatter everyone EXCEPT my sign and ascendant ;D
That's unlucky :P
Yes :(
But it made me laugh^^ paradoxically ;)
More unexpected than paradoxical.
It's not a paradox when reading that you are a passive ass who can't cope with reality and is useless to the society makes you laugh?
( I forgot about the masochist tendencies :p)
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Generally they tended to flatter everyone EXCEPT my sign and ascendant ;D
That's unlucky :P
Yes :(
But it made me laugh^^ paradoxically ;)
More unexpected than paradoxical.
It's not a paradox when reading that you are a passive ass who can't cope with reality and is useless to the society makes you laugh?
( I forgot about the masochist tendencies :p)
Actually, it's just...weird. Possibly certifiable. ;)
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;D
Pisces ascendant Cancer rule !
;D
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;D
Pisces ascendant Cancer rule !
;D
Shouldn't we get back on-topic?
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;D
Pisces ascendant Cancer rule !
;D
Shouldn't we get back on-topic?
:-X I always go off topic :-[ (can i have an award for that? ;D)
Allez ! Back on topic :)
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Pisces ascendant Cancer rule !
;D
Shouldn't we get back on-topic?
:-X I always go off topic :-[ (can i have an award for that? ;D)
Allez ! Back on topic :)
But...that was off-topic... ;)
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Ok, I posted a new thread called "Astrology" in (I think?) the general boards-->life category.
Check it out if you are into that sort of thing, I only ask that you keep an open mind (not hard for you people to do, it would seem)
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome, it really made me feel welcome.
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Thanks everyone for the warm welcome, it really made me feel welcome.
We try :)
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Despite all this off-topic on your thread :-\
You're sweet :)
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Hello. I'm the brother of Azguard. I haven't actually read much of Animorphs, but he talks to me about it a lot. I know most of the general stuff. But...yeah... :D
Sorry about the lob in the middle of nowhere. I didn't know I was supposed to make my own thread. I snuck in. sorry...
I'm so weird, that I cannot be handled.
This popping in this thread was not being weird, it was an accident...kind of.
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ur 22? hmm, looks like i lost my place as 2nd oldest person on raf, or do we just tie? and so we are both now in second place?
anyhoo, welcome to RAF! make sure as baby's first book he gets Animorphs #1, "The Invasion" ;D get him/her started on good literature as soon as possible :P
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estrid, 22 is WAAAYY young on here.
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ok azy, it's just that every1 i always talk to except jen is yngr than 22, which is y i say its odd to know sum1 else who is also 22
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Estrid, I4m sure your at least the 6 or 7th oldest person on RAF...
For example I'm older than you... and I know other members are have the same age than me...
I'd like to know who are the oldest...
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Estid, you talk to me, don't you?
I'm 24 . . . and I feel very old. . . .
*looks at Dameg's profile*
Apparently, Dameg, you're about ten days older than me. . . . And I was afraid I was the oldest here.
Oh, :-[ Sorry, that was rude, wasn't it?
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I'm 24 . . . and I feel very old. . . .
*looks at Dameg's profile*
Apparently, Dameg, you're about ten days older than me. . . . And I was afraid I was the oldest here.
Oh, :-[ Sorry, that was rude, wasn't it?
:o ttttt
That's not a way to treat a madam ;D
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haha i joke ppl. i know im not really the 2nd oldest, its just fun to complain im old, even tho im really not, cuz most of the ppl i talk to always seem yngr than me
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lol I'm not the oldest ^^ I'm sure somebody is older than my hos... me.
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Tell me... I'm not the oldest?
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I can't be...
:'(
PS: Take a look in Life Board > Age
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lol I'm not the oldest ^^ I'm sure somebody is older than my hos... me.
Heeheehee ^^