blossom114
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Post by blossom114 on Oct 11, 2007 11:51:43 GMT -5
i dont mind sleeping on the floor. WHen i was younger I'd get out of bed and sleep on the floor... I dont know. that's never bothered me. it's the other aspects of "roughing it" i dont like haha. Probably in teh minority, but I dont like the tv on when i'm trying to sleep. I usually find it incredibly distracting. It's the light, I dont mind noise...usually... like the radio or something...but tv always bugged the heck out of me. Sometimes i' can fall asleep with it on, but I usually wake up in the iddle of the nigh and have to turn it off.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Oct 11, 2007 12:05:18 GMT -5
^ I can't sleep with background noise, either. I can't even fall asleep listening to music!
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 11, 2007 15:41:16 GMT -5
I can't sleep with the tv, either. I think it's because of the light since I have to have total darkness (except a digital clock, which I can't live without - total Type A personality ;D). Everyone teases my mom, who is the same way, because she has all of the bedroom windows of our motor home blocked off (used to hang towels and blankets over them before dad covered them completely ;D) to make it into a pitch dark "cave."
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Post by Kylie90210 on Oct 14, 2007 22:18:49 GMT -5
I can't sleep with any noise or light. Ben wakes me every night when he tries to quietly slip in. I'm just a light sleeper. Thats why I'd never get sleep at camp!
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macca
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Post by macca on Oct 14, 2007 22:56:35 GMT -5
I'm usually so tired that sleeping conditions don't bother me!! ;D
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blossom114
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Post by blossom114 on Oct 18, 2007 14:16:19 GMT -5
so last night, i was laying arouund bored... cause i do that a lot...and just think... When I was 11 1/2 , my computer teacher from elementary school had computer summer day camps for a week, one for 1-3rd graders and one for 4-6th graders. Guess what she did for the first one for the little kids? put a bunch of ex 5th graders in charge of them. It was supervised of course, but it was interesting looking back on it. I remembered feeling all important because i was a "counselor" ... both in the morning AND afternoon. Too bad we didn't get paid... we had a pizza party at the end between the morning and afternoon sessions but that was about it I think...
I hated camping also. I hated girl scout camp, though I kept on going. I was all excited the first time we went camping, and I ended up HATING it. There was really only one time I enjoyed myself, and that was when we were in A frames. I also felt a lot more comfortable if my mom went along, like she did when we all went to Branson. I hated being out of my comfort zone. Went to fifth grade camp. I workedm y butt off the week leading up to it to get caught up in my classes (yep i was a claudia, except... smarter? heheh), and,... hated it. my counselor was a biotch. Our group was split up. My friend Carrie adn I were in one cabin with our counselor adn hte rest of our group was inthe one next door with another group. I'm not sure why.. not enough room or something. i remember the girls in our cabin ..and group...were talking about how our counselor SMOKED. ha... like it was a dirty word. I really dont know how she got away with smoking there. The only positive side really to camp was that we had indoor plumbing...thank god.
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Post by greer on Oct 21, 2007 7:13:18 GMT -5
i download an ocean sounds cd thing off of itunes because there was too much noise around my house for me to sleep. i felt really pathetic but it's really soothing.
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fluffycakes
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Post by fluffycakes on Oct 21, 2007 10:43:58 GMT -5
^ I think that sounds nice! My aunt used to have a noise machine that had different sounds on it, and my favourite was the ocean sounds.
I can sleep with or without background noises, as long as it's a fan or the A/C or something constant like that - I can't fall alseep to music or the t.v. These days I have to have a fan on to block out the noise. I live between two bars, so I hear a lot of drunk people fighting or singing or just being loud every single night. It's kind of a pain, since sometimes I can still hear them over my fan, but I try to be good-natured about it. I've heard a lot of entertaining fights and sing-a-longs since I've moved in! ;D
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 21, 2007 15:15:18 GMT -5
^ I can't even imagine living there. I have to have quiet, except for just a little noise, and am not sure what I would do if I even had to live in an apartment. As it is, campgrounds are loud enough (barking dogs are the worst!). ;D The other thing that doesn't appeal to me about camp is that it makes me think of bugs and mosquitos. Shadow Lake does, too (just ask Mal. ;D)
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Oct 21, 2007 21:07:46 GMT -5
I'm not sure Mal can even hear me under all her layers of anti-bug gear.
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Lauren
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Post by Lauren on Nov 3, 2007 0:45:41 GMT -5
I have to have quiet to fall asleep but if my husband's away I have to sleep with the tv on turned on mute because I can't stand the dark when I'm by myself.
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msstock87
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Post by msstock87 on Nov 3, 2007 3:05:55 GMT -5
I have to have quiet to fall asleep but if my husband's away I have to sleep with the tv on turned on mute because I can't stand the dark when I'm by myself. I am the same way. I sleep with my tv on because I still am afraid of the dark as well. I don't think it something that will ever go away for me.
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Post by booboobrewer on Nov 3, 2007 3:08:17 GMT -5
I'm not one of those people who needs to have it pitch-black to sleep. It feels scary to me.
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alula
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Post by alula on Nov 3, 2007 19:56:47 GMT -5
I just reread (I'm on kind of an SS binge), and the one thing that really jumped out to me is how much foreshadowing there was of Mimi's death.
It kind of weirded me out that there aren't interior illustrations, besides whatever they doodle on the postcards!
I was kind of amused that they seem so much more like real thirteen (and eleven) year old girls in this one; maybe it's just because summer camp is actually a normal thing for kids that age to do, as opposed to roaming around New York and winning the lottery and glomming on to other people's family vacations en masse. It did confirm my feeling that sleep away camp was, as Peter Legrangis would say, NFM! (Not for me!). Even Claudia's "romance" seems more realistic than in most of the books.
And I'll say it, I love Mary Anne's goofy letter, and I want to know what happened to that girl between then and SS #3! Actually, I felt sort of vicariously proud of MA for being so bold and resillent in this book.
I still can't believe Dawn says Heather reminds her of Mallory--"only in a good way!" That is cold! Dawn's story seems the least realistic to me, if only because no decent camp would let a group of unsupervised minors go off in the woods by themselves (the new counsellor was only like 15!). Even in the bad old days when my mom was a counsellor at Bible camp, like in 1968, that wouldn't have flown. It's kind of funny that she doesn't seem to remember being lost in the woods during Island Adventure, though.
I think in retrospect it's kind of weird that Mallory narrates the chapter where she and Jessi are called "Oreos," if only because it's one of the most overt examples of racism in the books, and it gets kind of blown over, especially compared to non-incidents like Pinky, the racist of Conway Cove.
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Post by aln1982 on Nov 4, 2007 0:28:56 GMT -5
^ I had forgotten Dawn said that about Mallory. That is actually kind of mean. I do remember someone saying that one of the girls reminded them of Stacey and something about them not being snobby but I don't remember that the statement was negative about Stacey. Poor Mallory. I notice Dawn can be kind of mean sometimes, though I never picked up on this as a kid.
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