Bloodsucking, friendship, ukuleles, frostbite, a dead poet and a rather unusual hat
Today I left school at the perfect time, which was quarter to four. This has, really fairly improbable for a whole bunch of reasons: my school officially ends at four; I have a lesson until four on a Thursday; I am not predisposed to skive gratuitously; I am even less disposed to skive off English lessons. It becomes somewhat less surprising
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2. :D That would be awesome. I have not really done much in the way of t00bing, really (safebox doesn't really count, because I only friended her as a friend of a real life friend and then met her at a birthday party) but 'twould be awesome, although I fear that I may go into anaphylactic shock because of too much pink. :P I don't think I'll get in, to be honest, but it would be awesome if I did because Oxford is so very very wonderful. Also, the word 'jaunt' is rather fantastic. :D *likewise nods*
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And I hope so too, although I doubt it's going to happen. I sort of fell in love with the place when I visited. I need to go back...
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b) http://www.freerice.com/ is a website I think you'd appreciate, if only because it combines giving to others and vocabulary.
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b) ...I have a vocabulary level of 42. It's addictive...
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b)It is, isn't it? I'm still stuck in the 30s, but giving a hell of a lot of rice. Apparently there are 50 levels, and nobody's got past level 48. This means you know too many words.
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b) Yup, yup and yup. :D I am awesome, obviously.
How was RH?
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Yes, also, I was wearing two pears of socks. [emphasis mine]
...I would make some kind of crack relating to our comment thread on my entry about socks in the fruit bowl, but alas, my exhausted brainmeats do not want to be poked and it would probably be decidedly unfunny. So I'm just going to be annoying and needle your typos instead. :p
Yay for literary crushes (and yay for litslash, too)! I seem to collect them fairly easily, and Eliot is definitely one of mine; this results in far too many references in my own writing. I could write Tetris fanfiction and it would end up with an Eliot reference in it.
*is really far too tempted by that*
(Also, seen this? I keep meaning to post it and not doing so).
Ooh! Speaking of the Culture (even though we really weren't), I finally got around to finishing Use of Weapons and zomgwowz. I think I may still be in shock at the ending, ( ... )
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...I actually cannot spell. Or type. I mean, I can generally spot typos in other people's stuff, but I honestly can't spell anymore. Firefox's spellchecker app actually saves my life. Trufax.
I wrote a poem once that was extremely fanboyish to some of my favourite poems (and, I will admit it, to Roald Dahl's The BFG and included about 90 words of direct quotation. Um. Yes. I stand by it still actually working as a poem, though, pretentious as it may be. :D How can it not be wonderful if it has Eliot in it?
And you totally should, you know. That would be awesome.
at archduke’s haus, invisible sled!
im in ur moutainz, holding on tight.
no can has cheezburger.
oral sex metaphors in ur poem.
almost actually works as poetry itself, I think. :D
...AHAHAHAHAHA:
world cries ‘jub jub bird ( ... )
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I'm actually writing video game fanfiction with Eliot (and other) references in, so the Tetris thing isn't too far off the mark. Mind you, the game series itself is full of Eliot references. I think the creators might have been as obsessed as Iain [M.] Banks.
If I do write the Tetris fic, you'll be the first to know... or among the first, at least. :D I'm dithering over how much to anthropomorphise the blocks.
Look to Windward was the first Culture novel I ever read. I found it in a library by pure chance when I was younger (while wandering around harvesting shiny-looking science fiction books), was intrigued by it and fell in love just a little bit, but didn't read any Iain [M.] Banks for a while after giving it back. Then I came across Consider Phlebas in a bookshop, and the rest is fairly recent history...
Use of Weapons is indeed brain-breaking, in the ( ... )
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Game series? Quelle joue? (And yes, that is essentially the extent of my functioning French. Um. Er.)
I once met a young man who once wrote a short piece about two electrons and a particle accelerator and was told that it was the most romantic thing he'd ever written. So it just goes to show...
I came to Banks a little later than I should have done, really, and at exactly the right time. cenestpasunewok (then known to me as Thrawn McEwok) a bit of a legend (in the original sense of the word) on the fanfic forums that I used to haunt before I drifted over here, being very eloquent, very talented and very wry. I ended up being a bit of a McEwok groupie (along with elenathehun) and commenting and theorising on his 'fic, which was really rather exceptional by the standards I was used to, and having great fun when the politics came down by arguing the case for Rishathra Rights rather voraciously - but the point that I was actually attempting to get to before getting lost ( ... )
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You're fantastic.
I was discussing with my store manager the other day about how I'd named my iPod Algernon (after Algernon Moncrieff, naturally), and mentioned by way of partial explanation that I was madly in love with Oscar Wilde and that he and I were soul mates, and she thought he was some actor bloke. It was tragic. (That was in reference to you and Larkin & Eliot, if that wasn't clear, which I very much fear it wasn't.)
I have also not given blood in a rather long time, and I really ought, though it horrifies me slightly (but I'm fine as long as I don't think about it too much).
I also really, really need that iSkin.
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I feel that I should probably, at some point, look into the precise chromachronology (chronochromatography?) of frostbite just to satisfy my own curiosity, but that would probably require wading through reams of details about Science and Ickiness that I have neither the time nor the inclination nor the imaginary stomach to do now (and have several History essays instead). But zombifiying bodyparts are never really going to be particularly aesthetically pleasing to your standard fashion-conscious aesthete whatever their colour-scheme, so i feel that I can be firm in the general drift of my assertion.
That said, Alex does have enough scarves to be able to colour-coordinate with any exotically garish skin condition...
That is an awesome name for an iPod. :D My long-suffering and somewhat bricklike iRiver is named Tigris (because I am not only pretentious and vaguely Biblically an geopolitically aware but also rather unoriginal) but I think that at some point he is going to have to be replaced and I'm not sure ( ... )
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Well, if Google & its results are to be trusted (which I for one say they are, for the most part), then I, for one fully support chromachronology. Anyway, history is more interesting, and after sitting through a graphic description of guinea worm at church yesterday, I am fully inclined to say that you are indeed right and no matter the scientific facts, any foray into unnatural skin shades is going to be far from aesthetically pleasing and even more difficult to match one's clothing with, no matter how many scarves one possesses.
Thank you! My Algy plays music both accurately and with wonderful expression, which is quite a good thing, and I am very fond of him. I don't even know what an iRiver is, but at least you know what & where the Tigris is. You could always dub its successor Volga, or even Danube (I do feel that one could really only listen to very specific types of music on anything named Volga ( ... )
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And eee, iconsquee!
Guinea worm at church? Do I want to know? :P And the history isn't so wonderful - British policy towards Germany 1933-6 and king's effectiveness as a leader 1955-63, neither of which are scintilating essays, really. Give me cake or death Philosophy or English any day... :P ( ... )
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Bonaparte having tea? Where? How dare he? HE IS THE NEMESIS OF BRITAIN HOW DARE HE DRINK OUR TEA?
(Actually I quite like Boney on principle, but that's because I am a Byron fan. But there we go...)
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He may be drinking uh, green tea? And do you have a teasmade?
(I suspected you would favour Byron. And also that you're the 6th Spice Girl in hiding XD)
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...I must confess that I don't actually know what a teasmade actually is... :S
(Byron is awesome. He's just a rockstar, really, from before guitars went all electric. :D Not only did he write Darkness and masses and masses of rhyming, metrical snark, but he also genrebended. :D
I refuse to comment on the other accusation.)
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