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first word sounds like 'ferret'
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[Jan. 13th, 2015|10:53 am] |
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semi friends-only
Comment me and we'll talk.
I'm nice, honest.
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[Oct. 24th, 2009|09:37 pm] |
List 10 musical artists you like, in no specific order (do this before reading the questions below).
(01) Empires
(02) Tim Minchin
(03) Panic(!) at the Disco
(04) Weird Al Yankovic
(05) Franz Ferdinand
(06) Cobra Starship
(07) Muse
(08) My Chemical Romance
(09) Fall Out Boy
(10) Green Day
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[Oct. 4th, 2009|07:31 pm] |
So, I went to the University of Manchester open day. And it was just as lovely as I expected. I think I'd rather go there than Liverpool for Classical Studies -- Liverpool almost feels too near, now, and I think going further from home might be more beneficial for me. Both are lovely places, but Manchester is new and exciting and oh the culture. (But maybe I'd get that in Liverpool too? I don't know.) Anyway, I don't have to decide between them yet.
The English Literature man seemed lovely and told us that what he was looking for in Personal Statements was exactly the opposite of what I had in mine. Slightly less lovely English Literature woman told us that three-quarters of the applicants have AAA predicted at A Level and it was one of the most competitive departments at the most competitive university to get into in the UK, so I figured I'd best listen to what English Literature man said about how to make my Personal Statement attractive to them. Lovely bestie!Steph (who came along to keep me company) agreed that my form teacher, who told me my Personal Statement was fine, knew nothing about it. I have since given it a rather radical overhaul and now feel a lot better about it.
The Classics and Ancient History man was lovely (cycle helmet on his desk! inch-thick glasses! talked about his 4-year-old son! takes his students to sit on a replica trireme!). He told us about how wrong the BNP were -- apparently it is vaguely relevant to Ancient Athens, though I'm not seeing it -- and talked about the film 300 in terms I very much liked ("The film shows the Persians mocking the Spartans for being 'boy-lovers', which of course they were"). Then I spoke to him afterwards and he essentially said that with my predicted grades I would automatically get an offer, which was nice. Also, both he and lovely English Literature man said that it wouldn't affect my chances if I mentioned applying to two different subjects in my Personal Statement, and they both thought I should stress my equal enthusiasm for both and the elements the two had in common.
Still can't decide between English Literature and Classical Studies. Ah well.
Highlight of the day: lovely English Literature man attempting to say "an intimate knowledge of..." and actually coming out with "an intimate novel". Hee. |
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[Sep. 15th, 2009|06:32 pm] |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) beedekka challenged me to a duel explain my icons:
a little bit fruity;
this icon was made by swear_jar, whose journal I was nosing around because she is half of the genius behind the WeekFight Hotel universe, and it caught my eye somehow.
maya (heroes);
pilot101 has made a lot of laugh-out-loud Heroes icons featuring captions about how ridiculous the plotlines and characterisation often are, but this is one of hers which I just liked because Dania Ramirez is so beautiful and the icon is lovely but with a slightly sinister edge to it.
lectrix sum;
I got this from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) collapsingnight, which is a must-visit community if you're looking for beautiful stock icons. I searched exhaustively through the place a while ago and saved quite a few icons featuring things I like: balloons, feathers, birds, bones, keys, candles, trees, and letters. This is my default because it's never not appropriate and it says something about me, however vaguely.
layers. masks.;
Masks appeal to me on a variety of levels. Another from collapsingnight; it reminds me of lots of different things at once.
martha my deer;
Again, collapsingnight own me. It was around the time that I started using this icon that I realised I liked deer in the same way I like masks, and birds, and keys: they appeal to me in a way I can't quite pinpoint (yet?). I associate this icon with friends and comfort and things like that; and the Beatles-related pun in the keyword was too good to resist.
queer;
My 'gay' icon.
( It is taken from this )
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| i'm a roadrunner baby, can't stay in one place too long |
[Sep. 9th, 2009|08:26 pm] |
day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy
I've cheated, slightly: a quotation from a play, because apparently I am all about the plays this week. I saw this at Pitlochry this summer, and it was rather beautiful.
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MAGGIE: John, am I to go? or are you to keep me on? (She is now a little bundle near his feet) I'm willing to stay because I'm useful to you, if it can't be for a better reason. (His hand feels for her, and the bundle wriggles nearer) It's nothing unusual I've done, John. Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that. (He stares at her in hopeless perplexity) Oh, John, if only you could laugh at me.
JOHN: I can't laugh, Maggie.
(But as he continues to stare at her, a strange disorder appears in his face. Maggie feels that it is to be now or never)
MAGGIE: Laugh, John, laugh. Watch me; see how easy it is.
(A terrible struggle is taking place within him. He creaks. Something that may be mirth forces a passage, at first painfully, no more joy in it than in the discoloured water from a spring that has long been dry. Soon, however, he laughs loud and long. The spring water is becoming clear. Maggie claps her hands. He is saved.)
from What Every Woman Knows
J. M. Barrie |
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| you've got me turning up, i'm turning down, i'm turning in, i'm turning round |
[Sep. 6th, 2009|11:30 am] |
day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy
I can't imagine I will ever stop loving this book -- well, rightly, play. I've seen it performed a few times (including with optional_joy on friday), and read it more often. It's thought-provoking and funny and beautiful. It never fails to take my heart in a vice-like grip.
Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are Dead
Tom Stoppard GUILDENSTERN: Wasn't that the end?
PLAYER: Do you call that an ending? - with practically everyone on his feet? My goodness no - over your dead body.
GUILDENSTERN: How am I supposed to take that?
PLAYER: Lying down. (He laughs briefly and in a second has never laughed in his life.) There's a design at work in all art - surely you know that? Events must play themselves out to aesthetic, moral and logical conclusion.
GUILDENSTERN: And what's that, in this case?
PLAYER: It never varies - we aim at the point where everyone who is marked for death dies.
GUILDENSTERN: Marked?
PLAYER: Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they can reasonably get. (He switches on a smile.)
GUILDENSTERN: Who decides?
PLAYER (switching off his smile): Decides? It is written. (He turns away. GUILDENSTERN grabs him and spins him back violently.) (Unflustered.) Now if you're going to be subtle, we'll miss each other in the dark. I'm referring to oral tradition. So to speak.
(GUILDENSTERN releases him.)
We're tragedians, you see. We follow directions -- there is no choice involved. The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
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| stubble on my sticky lips |
[Sep. 4th, 2009|05:00 pm] |
I like this meme.
day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy
This song won't get out of my head. I'm not sure I want it to.
Here is a live video, and the album version, because I can't decide which I prefer.
Eerily good. |
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| a night looker, boy hooker, rent boy, bro ho |
[Sep. 2nd, 2009|10:40 pm] |
So, I'm back at school tomorrow. I'm actually excited. Because I'm savouring my last hours of freedom, though, have some gifs!
Also, I've discovered the wonder, however temperamental, of Facebook chat! Speaking to poet!Ieuan whilst simultaneously listening to a podcast he linked me to, of him doing the community radio poet slot that I did a couple of months ago.
In other poetry-related news, I've been commissioned to write a poem for National Poetry Day next month. I'll have to read it on the evening (I think it's the 8th of October?) when 15 poets (including me) are each reading a poem inspired by a painting in one room at the Williamson Art Gallery. That's what I wrote that mini-biography for, if I didn't say. It should be an interesting evening, hopefully, not least because I just like the Williamson. |
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| but i know how i feel about you now |
[Aug. 30th, 2009|09:39 am] |
I'm thinking of copying lo0o0ony_lauren and doing some ~actual blogging, about how my school's turning into an Academy and A Levels are 'getting easier' and I still don't know what to do at university, and so forth. I'm not sure anybody would care about what I had to say, though? I don't know!
Anyway, since we last spoke I've had bestie!Steffi and optional_joy round. Stef & I watched The New Guy and I enjoyed a young Zooey Deschanel singing 'Play that Funky Music (White Boy)' and generally being cute and blonde-ish:
How are there no more pictures of her in this era? (Nobody's ever heard of the film, either -- it's OK, quite funny at times, but a lot of the appeal is in Z to the D.)
optional_joy, on the other hand, found that she could make Visiting Dog prick her ears up simply by saying "A handbag?" in Lady Bracknell-esque tones, and also took away my copy of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead. She may come and see it with me. Exciting times.
Today I shall be making a cake for an RNLI fair thingy, because I heart the RNLI. At the end of my year of poet laureate-ship, I'm donating all my commission money to the New Brighton branch, and I just sent off an application to do some voluntary work in their gift shop. (I'm not really getting my hopes up about that, though, because the application process takes six to eight weeks, the shop is closed from December to March, and their current staff have a seven-week rota. I do want to help them as much as I want to enjoy myself and/or have something else to put on my CV, though, so any time I could give would be better than nothing.) The cake may have rhubarb from our garden in it. |
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[Aug. 23rd, 2009|02:14 pm] |
MEME OF AWESOME from ihavecake:
What would your own album look like if you were in a band?
1 - Go to Wikipedia. Hit "random article" or click here.
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to Quotations Page and select "random quotations" or click here.
The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to Flickr and click on "explore the last seven days" or click here.
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
( a few )
I like this meme. |
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| hey, let your honesty shine shine shine |
[Aug. 20th, 2009|06:07 pm] |
So, AS Level results.
• Classics; A
• Drama; A
• English Language; A
• English Literature; A
• Latin; A
I was pretty much expecting a B in Drama because my coursework was so dire due to being TOLD WHAT I WAS DOING WAS WRONG WHEN IT BLOODY WASN'T (sorry, evidently I'm still angry at my teacher for that), so that means my exam, which I thought I'd fluffed in direst fashion, must have been really good -- further evidence that the teaching was crappy. I really had no idea what to do in that exam. Stupid teacher.
Aaaanyway, I'm chuffed that I got an A this year because it means there's a possibility of getting one next year too; that would've been much harder (maybe impossible?) if I'd got a B this year. So huzzah!
I really want to go back to school now! I want this school year to be exciting and awesome and I'm hoping it will be. Eep! |
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| Writer's Block: Two Truths and a Lie |
[Aug. 5th, 2009|10:42 pm] |
I don't have writers' block, I just like this question.
(!) I wear odd socks nearly every day.
(") My glasses are an affectation.
(£) I've forgotten almost everything about Torchwood Series 2.
Today I wrote optional_joy 1000 words of Much Ado About Nothing-related stuff while she sat on my couch and we watched all but the last episode of Aidan Turner: Sex Vampire (alternative title: Being Human). I fed her biscuits, and home-made soup. She seemed OK with that.
My (half the size of when I saw him last and a lot less hairy too) brother and his (talented arty shy but lovely) girlfriend are over from China, which is quite exciting. |
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| i've seen your boyfriend and i don't think he treats you right |
[Aug. 4th, 2009|12:06 pm] |
Oh my! I have just looked up (on Twitter) 4 comedians I saw doing a free show in Edinburgh last year. They were very funny -- I still remember most of the jokes! -- and their air of camaraderie was lovely. They had nicknames for each other and sat at the back laughing at each other's sets and it was adorable. Anyway, I thought they'd just got together for the purposes of that show and then gone back to their separate endeavours, but I gleefully discovered that they all chat on Twitter and are flatsharing together in Edinburgh this year and are each other's top MySpace friends and all sorts! Two of them are even doing a show together again. Huzzah!
Random post is random, but there you go. |
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| strawberry fields, nothing is real |
[Aug. 2nd, 2009|03:54 pm] |
Have you ever found something so perfect that you can't quite believe it's allowed to exist? This is how I feel about Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
Yeah, I'm back from my holidays. My brother comes back from China with his Chinese girlfriend in a couple of days. I've just made banana and lemon muffins. Not much news from me, really. I'm still stuck on the last scene of What Every Woman Knows and the magnificent acting and the way I wanted to grab the entire building in my arms and hug it forever and ever. |
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[Jul. 21st, 2009|11:19 am] |
Whose Line is it Anyway? UK is on Dave and it has nervous!young!Ardal O'Hanlon in what look surprisingly like black skinny jeans. So adorable.
Meme from urawrd and lexia269:
Post ten of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive. NO CAPTIONS! It must be like we're speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words. They must ALREADY be on your hard drive - no Googling or Flickr! They have to have been saved to your folders sometime in the past. They must be something you've saved there because it resonated with you for some reason. You do NOT have to answer any questions about any of your pictures if you don't want to. You can make them as mysterious as you like. Or you can explain them away as much as you like.
( bear in mind i haven't had this computer very long... )
Going to Liverpool this afternoon to meet up with bestie!Steph again. Possibility of cinema, restaurant, shopping (Lush!) and I shouldn't feel nearly as anxious about spending my own money as I do. Why am I so tight, seriously? |
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[Jul. 20th, 2009|10:20 am] |
So, um, I carefully typed out and rearranged my entire personal statement and it somehow got deleted.
Fuck that. |
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