Mumbles
I love holidays. Wonderful idea =)
Last night was a bit odd...i thought I would sleep well thanks to the exercise and being just plain wrecked, but then an idea for a series of vignettes popped into my head and before I knew what had happened, I was halfway through a story set in Lórien and it was well after midnight. I always try to stop myself doing that: when I the phrases are running out just in the way I want them, I know that by the morning I'll have forgotten and that always leads to frustration. Never works, though, and last night was no exception. I tried to write it down this afternoon, but it just wasn't the same. strange how when I'm half-asleep it flows out so easily, but now I'm going to have to work to get back in the same place. Or maybe it only seems good while I'm in bed :-/
David has been very sick today, so Mummy had me looking up websites to research both the illness and the type of penicillin he's on. We reckon the nausea is a side-effect of the illness, possibly exacerbated by the medicine. Poor kid. And he needs to rest, but by the time he gets in any way better it's going to be time to go back to school again, and what with getting off to a bad start at GCSE with the whole America thing, he can't really afford to miss many more classes. It's a pity I have my A-levels this year, because I'll be too busy myself to help him much, but maybe in the summer he'll let me coach him.
I watched part of RotK on Elrond for the first time this afternoon, and it was very cool...the picture was so clear and pretty :) The only problem is, no matter what I do with it, printscreen doesn't work-with the trailers and things I've downloaded it's a bit sporadic, but I really need a proper capping programme. Does anyone know of any good (preferably downloadable!) ones?
Some people are such brilliant artists. I've been looking for an Arwen drawing to use in my mood theme, and while I haven't found any yet, there are some wonderful pictures of other people on the fanart sites. People who can draw and people who can compose and/or play music well always amaze me. I've never been good at either (Art was my nemesis in junior school...no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't do well!) so maybe that has something to do with my awe for those who are. I mean, being able to do Maths or science of speak another language or write just doesn't seem as impressive to me, but perhaps to someone who just can't understand calculus, they are. Who knows.
Iconing is coming along quite well...I've made a couple I like (until I see them alongside one of Heather or Charity's =) ) and I've almost finished the theme. If I could only take a couple of caps, I'd be just about there.
Mummt is putting us on different diets, so I'm off wheat and a pile of other stuff, at least until after the holidays. Could be fun.
Mummy just came in and told me about some programme about Franklin's Expedition to find the North-West Passage: apparently they've found the bodies of the sailors, preserved in ice for almost two hundred years. I wonder if they'll find Crozier's...I didn't know that he was actually the second in command. They had one of his letters on TV-he was worried about the risks, it seems, and thought they would get stuck. If he didn't trust the Captain's judgement, you have to wonder why he was out there...
What do I want to do in life? I don't really know, or else I know too much. I want to help people; I want excitement; I want to do something important, discover some cure or something that will make a difference, rather than just sit in an office for forty years. I want to travel, and never stop learning...but most of all I want to do whatever God wants, so I suppose if that includes that office, I'll do it.
Only an hour and forty minutes tonight...how do I do it?!?
Last night was a bit odd...i thought I would sleep well thanks to the exercise and being just plain wrecked, but then an idea for a series of vignettes popped into my head and before I knew what had happened, I was halfway through a story set in Lórien and it was well after midnight. I always try to stop myself doing that: when I the phrases are running out just in the way I want them, I know that by the morning I'll have forgotten and that always leads to frustration. Never works, though, and last night was no exception. I tried to write it down this afternoon, but it just wasn't the same. strange how when I'm half-asleep it flows out so easily, but now I'm going to have to work to get back in the same place. Or maybe it only seems good while I'm in bed :-/
David has been very sick today, so Mummy had me looking up websites to research both the illness and the type of penicillin he's on. We reckon the nausea is a side-effect of the illness, possibly exacerbated by the medicine. Poor kid. And he needs to rest, but by the time he gets in any way better it's going to be time to go back to school again, and what with getting off to a bad start at GCSE with the whole America thing, he can't really afford to miss many more classes. It's a pity I have my A-levels this year, because I'll be too busy myself to help him much, but maybe in the summer he'll let me coach him.
I watched part of RotK on Elrond for the first time this afternoon, and it was very cool...the picture was so clear and pretty :) The only problem is, no matter what I do with it, printscreen doesn't work-with the trailers and things I've downloaded it's a bit sporadic, but I really need a proper capping programme. Does anyone know of any good (preferably downloadable!) ones?
Some people are such brilliant artists. I've been looking for an Arwen drawing to use in my mood theme, and while I haven't found any yet, there are some wonderful pictures of other people on the fanart sites. People who can draw and people who can compose and/or play music well always amaze me. I've never been good at either (Art was my nemesis in junior school...no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't do well!) so maybe that has something to do with my awe for those who are. I mean, being able to do Maths or science of speak another language or write just doesn't seem as impressive to me, but perhaps to someone who just can't understand calculus, they are. Who knows.
Iconing is coming along quite well...I've made a couple I like (until I see them alongside one of Heather or Charity's =) ) and I've almost finished the theme. If I could only take a couple of caps, I'd be just about there.
Mummt is putting us on different diets, so I'm off wheat and a pile of other stuff, at least until after the holidays. Could be fun.
Mummy just came in and told me about some programme about Franklin's Expedition to find the North-West Passage: apparently they've found the bodies of the sailors, preserved in ice for almost two hundred years. I wonder if they'll find Crozier's...I didn't know that he was actually the second in command. They had one of his letters on TV-he was worried about the risks, it seems, and thought they would get stuck. If he didn't trust the Captain's judgement, you have to wonder why he was out there...
What do I want to do in life? I don't really know, or else I know too much. I want to help people; I want excitement; I want to do something important, discover some cure or something that will make a difference, rather than just sit in an office for forty years. I want to travel, and never stop learning...but most of all I want to do whatever God wants, so I suppose if that includes that office, I'll do it.
Only an hour and forty minutes tonight...how do I do it?!?