Bruno Mars

I'm sitting at the kitchen table working on a homework assignment for my Moon class and listening to some music...

Josiah: What are you listening to?

Me: "Just the way you are" by Bruno Mars

Josiah: So let me get this straight... You're studying about the Moon while listening to a song by Bruno Mars? Hahahaha...

very. funny. ha.

The other day I was studying for my mid-term in Greek art--like statues, vase paintings, pedimental reliefs, metopes, etc...

I was kind of in a giddy mood at the time and had been subjecting Ellie to some terrible puns all evening.

Well, after one ridiculous pun, I turned to Ellie and said, "Sometimes, I crack myself up. I crack myself up like a Greek vase."

Hahahaha! She just groaned and said, "Oh Samara, that was just too much!"

Hillarious =)

Ok... I'm sorry I haven't written anything lately, but more stories should be popping up now that school is about to start back up again =)

Today we were talking about strange hairs... you know, the ones that don't act normal and don't do what they should. I was talking about a hair that I got on my arm that got really, really long and crazy looking. And then I said, "There must be some messed up RNA transcription going on in that follicle!"

And Josiah looked at me and said, "Samara, you're the only person who would to talk to a hair on your arm like that!"

hahahahaha

Reverence for tradition meets the adaptation of modernity:

Earlier today, Josiah remarks: "The Treaty of Westphalia was hecka cool!"

oh wow! if you don't know what that is, google it =)

So the other day, my brothers and i were discussing the Gospels. During the course of the conversation, I made an observation that current day pacifists, animal-rights, eco-wackos would have probably loved Jesus right up until He sent all those demons into the pigs.
Josiah agreed. "Yah," he said, "they would have hated Him after that. But they wouldn't have crucified Him--that would have cost a tree!"
We all laughed... :)

So... the other day I was telling my older brother about what I was learning in my super-nerdy and super-fun class: Greek and Roman Public and Private Life. We were learning about their calendar, which was a "lunisolar calendar," ie one that was based on both the sun and the moon (fyi - we have a solar calendar, based on the Roman's version, while the Hebrews had a lunar calendar). I explained that it was a somewhat faulty calendar, so they had to add a month to the calendar every couple of years. (This is called "intercalating," and it became my new word for the day :)
His response was, that does sound like a looney solar calendar. HAHAHAHAHA! He makes me laugh so hard at my nerdiness! :)

This story is a bit older:

One of my very favorite books by Jane Austen is Northanger Abbey, named after one of the houses in the book. The first time I read it, my little brother protested that this was not a good Jane Austen title. If her other books were alliterations such as Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility, this book should be an alliteration too. And so he decided, without ever reading it, that the book should not be entitled Northanger Abbey, but Anger and Abstinence.
Haha... and so, in our house, the name stuck and that is still what it is referred to as.