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October 28 Aiiiiight, lovelies. It's been a while since my last Yak entry. I went to see Fantastic Mr Fox today (well, actually we went to see Tim Burton's 9, but the cinema f*cked up our tickets, so...). It was an unbelievably awesome film, even though some of it was COMPLETELY crazy. I thought the soundtrack was really clever, and I loved some of the characters. At first I couldn't stop laughing at the talking, anthropomorphic animals. But, then I got over it and appreciated the film for being awesome. We then had dinner at Que Pasa (what an epic name!) and I bought perfume (Guerlain Idylle. Totally worth the money. Goodbye, Student Loan!) Aaaaaanyways, I have a few little rants to share... (there's a surprise I hear you mutter). Well, shut up and read, okay? Some Recent Rants
- Cheryl Cole being number one in the charts. Now, I know we have a thing for non-music at the moment. I mean, Lady Gaga's existence proves this. But, seriously guys... just because she's nice to people on the X-Factor does not mean you need to buy her music. Girls Aloud are crap collectively, so why would she be good on her own?
- Everyone's reaction to Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time. Stop going on about how it should've been done! He looked like a total arse. End of story.
- Illness. Everyone in my corridor is ill, and so am I. Why??? I have my second cold in, like, 3 weeks. Why, God, why?
- Money. This rant comes in two parts... a) why does money just evade me??? and, b) why do I have to worry about money? Why can't I go back to worrying about all the stupid shiz I used to worry about at school?
- Books copying the Twilight cover. Twilight is a crap book. Why would you make your possibly-really-good-books (although nothing by L.J Smith, eh??) look like crap? Why sully them with Twilight's reputation for being total nonsense?
- Studying. A-levels weren't hard, and yet I had no social life. Now, I have a social life when there's work to be done. Where's the justice in that?
- Getting up early. In general.
Here endeth the entry. Much love, people,
Nim xoxo
Listening to: AEIOU by Charlotte Sometimes Quote of the Yak Entry: We create the illusions we need to go on, and when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth." - The Sweet Far Thing
October 19 Basically, Wicked was AMAZING. I've been singing the songs pretty much since I saw it, and it's so awesome. London is great at night too. So, here are my usual bullet-points... Things I've Learned Recently...
- The shop on campus sells Reece's Pieces. OMGSQUEE.
- Wicked is an awesome musical, and I AM Elphaba.
- Halloween is going to be Made of Awesome this year.
- I'm going as Elphaba for Halloween... I just need to order the green make-up.
- Damages is an awesome show. Really.
- Re-watching True Blood is fun.
- Corridor parties are epic.
- Happiness isn't something that happens. It's something you do.
- I NEED to read The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Soon. Or else.
- Going Bovine is an amazing book. Well done, Libba Bray. Again.
That is all for today, lovelies. I'm off to gospel choir soon. :D Farewell, Nim xoxo Listening to: Just Like Heaven - The Watson Twins Quote of the Yak Entry: "I have friends on this lonely path, and your place is not something you find. It's something you have when you need it." - Rebel Angels. October 14 The title of this awesomer-than-awesome Yak entry comes from True Blood, and is said specifically by the incredibly epic Eric Northman. Seriously, googleimages this man. You will not be disappointed. Anyway, my lovelies, onto the Nim-only-woke-up-half-an-hour-ago easy to read sections... Awesome Things About Today
- I'm going to see Wicked!!!
- I'M GOING TO SEE WICKED!!!
- I'M GOING TO SEE WICKED!!!
As you can see, I'm more than a little bit excited to be going to see the most wonderful musical, Wicked. It's going to be a little weird, since I know all the words to all the songs, but still... I get to wear a dress and go into London, and it's going to be completely and utterly winsauce... if we don't miss the last train and die.
But, until then, my awesome people, I'm off to watch True Blood and scream when the Eric Northman scenes are on. Such is life... Wish me luck, Nim xoxo
Listening to: Bad Things by Jace Everett Quote of the day: "So if you care to find me, look to the Western sky. As someone told me lately, everyone deserves the chance to fly. And if I'm flying solo, at least I'm flying free. To those who'd ground me, take a message back from me. Tell them how I am defying gravity. I'm flying high, defying gravity. And soon I'll match them in renown..." - Elphaba, Wicked, "Defying Gravity"
October 11 I miss home today. And I'm looking forward to Christmas. It's not that I don't like it here, I just miss home, school, my family. And Christmas is going to be AWESOME this year. Hopefully. Anyway, some rather unusual simple-people-compatible sections... Things I Miss About Home/School
- My bed. It's next to a window, so I can open the window and look outside when I wake up.
- Having time to just read/watch TV without having to be somewhere.
- Simple homework. Seriously.
- Sitting in the library at school when it's raining, between the two radiators, reading the GDT.
- Worrying about stupid shit, instead of money, work, etc.
- Being able to sing. Everyone can hear everything here, so I can't sing.
- POTC nights with Klee. :D
- Interview With The Vampire nights with Klee.
- Walking home.
- Watching Sky News in the evening and BBC breakfast news in the morning.
- Cooking!
- The beach/sea. This place is so... in-land.
- The train ride from Walmer to Sandwich. Weirdly.
- Walking around Manwood's.
- English class & politics class. Not so much for Spanish... Gonzalez.
- Mocking stupid people.
- People calling me Nim. No one does that here, obviously.
Things that will be awesome about Christmas
- Shopping in London on the way back from here. I intend to have an awesome day doing this.
- Coming home on the train in the dark, hopefully with some Christmas music to listen to on my phone.
- Walking down Telegraph Road in the dark with my coat and scarf on.
- Seeing my house with the lights in the window.
- Getting warm once I get in.
- Christmas food shopping
- Wrapping presents, buying last-minute ones in Deal and Canterbury.
- Seeing people.
- Canterbury. It's always awesome at Christmas, and I can buy those sugary peanut things that those street vendors sell.
- Christmas Eve; making sausage rolls and mince pies, watching A Christmas Carol The Musical and listening to Christmas music.
- Presents. Getting them, giving them, just in general.
- Christmas dinner.
- DOCTOR WHO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL. Last one EVER with David Tennant *cry* :(
- Boxing Day. For all the opportunities it may present. And wearing an awesome dress.
So, that's the end of this entry. Nim out, bitches. Love ya, Nim xoxo Listening to: The Dark I Know Well, Spring Awakening Soundtrack Quote of the day: "There's a part I can't tell about the dark I know well."
October 06 I'ma get straight down to it - the nice, easy, lectures-make-my-brain-crappy sections... How I Live Now: The Random Facts
- I think I may have just said to my friend "don't fear the hat".
- I have drunk two double chocolate mochas today. UN-godly, but loads of sugar to keep me alive.
- This building is so haunted. The girl opposite me turned her radiator off, left the room to go make some tea and locked the door. When she got back, the radiator was on and the dial thingy had been broken off. What. The. Flipping. Fuck?
- My course is really interesting and all that, but I got Going Bovine yesterday, so work is taking a backseat until I'm done.
- Don't look now... but Jack Sparrow is next to me. Well, his likeness is. On the wall. Sigh.
- It's a curious thing; I used to be able to get up at 6:15 for school, but now I struggle to get up at 9 for my classes.
- I HAVE WEDNESDAYS OFF, BITCHES.
- Due to my lack of sleep, I now randomly fall asleep while reading Going Bovine, then wake up later, mysteriously at the other end of the bed with my feet jammed into the radiator, my laptop somehow on and playing Paramore at me and my friend knocking on the door so we can go to dinner. Fucked up.
- I'm going to Thorpe Park tomorrow, since it's my day off and I have the half-price shiz.
- Crap. I need to find the half-price shiz in my tip of a room.
- Halls inspections are next week. Crap. I need to do some sodding cleaning.
- I'm performing in the gospel choir next Thursday!
- I'm going to see Wicked in London next Wednesday!
- I'm going to see the London Community Gospel Choir in London on Friday!
- Shit. Next week is going to be epic busy. Sorry, work, maybe later, ok?
- I'ma need to stop spending money. And soon.
- I also need more ibuprofen. Urgh.
- Money doesn't seem to like me. I guess that's why it never stays with me for long.
- I have POTC nights planned already. I love my corridor people!
- This entry is over because I'm going to watch True Blood, find the newly-named Half-Price Shiz and look up bus times to Ye Olde Thorpe Park.
Love and awesomesauce, Nim xoxo Listening to: Looking Up by Paramore Quote of the day: "Honestly, can you believe we cross the world while it's asleep?"
September 29 Aiiiiight... Freshers' Week is over and I'm now attempting to be a proper student. Ha! I'll let you know how that goes. 5 Amusing/Embarrassing/Terrifying Things About Today
- I went to my lecture this morning with mint-sugar lip scrub quite literally all over my face. D: Distressed face...
- My hair is wavy, but only at the top. WTF???
- I have a Thai crayfish salad for lunch.
- My dad is coming to visit me. Urgh. *sighhh*
- My lecturer compared Socrates to both Homer Simpson AND Ozzy Osbourne.
That really is all I have to say. Listening to: Eet by Regina Spektor Quote of the day: "It was so easy, and the words so sweet..." Loveness, Nim xoxo
September 23 So it finally happened - I left home and have gone to live at Hogwarts. As I write this, I'm praying for a fire alarm-free night. But, 'ere goes... the nice, simple I-bet-you're-hungover-from-Freshers sections... Awesome Things About Living In Halls
- Spinning chairs.
- Being down the hall from your friends, instead of half a town/towns away
- Late-night tea and coco pops.
- GOING VEGETARIAN! :D
- Putting random Post-its on people's doors when you're drunk/bored
- Having a bar literally 3 floors below me :)
- I live in a sodding Victorian castle... what could be more awesome???
- Meeting epic people I would never normally get to talk to.
- Sitting out in the quad w/ rum & coke.
- Being hobos on the stairs!!!
EPIC FAIL Things About Living In Halls- FIRE ALARMS. So far, one at 1:15am and one at 7:30am. First time, I had no shoes. Second time, I could barely see because it woke me up from a proper deep sleep.
- Fucking stairs. So, I live on the 4th floor of Hogwarts, and that's a lot of stairs, people. A LOT of stairs. It's 8 flights. We take the lift up.
- No. Sleep. Ever.
- Missing my family/cat/school. :( Spoke to Sid on the phone today... he meowed.
- Having to go down the hall to the bathroom, where the showers don't have enough pressure and the water is not always hot.
- Forgetting stuff so you have to go back to your room from the bathroom. Important stuff... like clothes.
- THE FUCKING CLOCK TOWER. I hate chiming now. I really hate it. It's right outside my window, so I wake up at 7 minutes past each hour... because it's slow. Thankfully, I'm never asleep before midnight, so I never wake up for the 12 chimes.
- Getting lost. This building/campus is pretty big and confusing. I'm permanently lost... ("Where aaaaam I???" LOL)
- Loud people outside early in the morning. Most people get up earlier than me, but they don't have to yell about it.
All in all, I'm having an epic time here, and even the bad parts are mostly amusing. I'ma go now... since I have to get up at 8:30 tomorrow. UN-godly... Adios, lovelies... Nim xoxo
September 13 So I got myself a prettyful new laptop yesterday. It's gorgeous and I've called it Eric. I paid £349 and it was down from £479. Pretty good, no? My cat is currently looking at it with suspicion... perhaps Sid and Eric won't get on. So long as he doesn't lie on the keyboard, I'll be fine. Also, I'm leaving in 6 days. OH. MY. GOD. I'm not even slightly prepared, but I will be. I think. I'm trying to do laundry right this minute, but there is an unbelievable amount and it just makes me want to kill myself whenever I think about it. Anyway, before I go on about suicide and washing clothes, I'll get onto the nice Sunday-afternoon-cba-to-think sections... Little rants about leaving home
- Timing your packing. If I pack now, it's too early. If I pack at 2am on Saturday, it'll be too late. It's impossible to time packing without ending up having to go through your suitcase to get out clothes for the next day.
- Lists. I'm making lists of lists right now. And I always forget where I leave them.
- Leaving the cat. He knows something's going on... he keeps looking at me strangely, and appearing where he doesn't normally appear. I'ma have to make sure mum keeps him from the sleeping pills when I leave... we don't need a cat suicide.
- People buying me stuff. It's so nice that people buy me stuff, but it makes me feel obliged to take EVERYTHING they give me. When really I should be travelling light.
- Realizing that the time to say goodbye to everyone was way back when we left school... and realizing that I didn't do it. At all.
- Seeing my brother go back to school. I wish I were just going back to Manwood's!
That's all for this very short Yak entry. I need to go put another load in the washing machine. Eep. Listening to: Ignorance by Paramore Yak Quote: "The more people I meet, the more I like my cat." Peace OUT, lovelies. xoxo
September 08 Wow... it's been SO long since I last wrote. Immeasurable amounts of shiz have changed since my last entry - I left school, passed my A-levels and got accepted into university. I'm leaving in... 11 days. Other awesome things that happened include meeting a shebam, going to a ball in a truly epic dress and changing my mind on a whole bunch of crap. It's been awesome. So... before I get too sentimental and rambly (it's a word), here are the traditional, bullet-pointed-for-stupid-people sections: Great Things About Summer
- Nocturnalism. Staying up til ungodly hours, talking to awesome people and sleeping all day.
- True Blood... OMG I am so unbelievably addicted to this show (thanks to Cee, Fabi and Sierra <3) and it has pretty much defined my summer, tragic as that may be. Eric Northman is God. :D
- Rediscovering my Harry Potter obsession - this summer has meant re-reading the series about 7 times, since I'm officially off the GDT til university (for some weird superstitious reason I can't quite explain), but it has also meant watching the films again (and seeing HBP in London with an actual REAL LIFE SHEBAM Gabby :]) and listening to plenty of wrock (Wizard Rock for you ignorant ones... look it up, serially). Best wrock bands in my humble opinion are The Parselmouths, Let's Lumos, The Moaning Myrtles and The Remus Lupins.
- Watching old Victorian dramas. I watched Daniel Deronda and Tess of the D'Urbervilles last week. Twas epic. I've been re-discovering my inner-oldtimeyness lately. :P
- Nerdfighters! I became a nerdfighter this summer. I suggest you all do the same by watching a few of THESE videos (I recommend the ones about Iran and the US healthcare debate, but that's because I'm nerdlike) and by visiting the NERDFIGHTER WEBSITE
Crappy Things About Summer
- Lack of money... could I get a job? Could I hell... My bank balance has read £0.01 for simply too long. And my father's little stunt of giving me £30 to buy all the clothes I'ma need for uni was hardly helpful. The temptation to go to the bank and arrange a £1,250 overdraft is pretty strong.
- This fucking town. There is nothing to do here. And lack of money means lack of transport.
- Cabin fever - so, I go a bit crazy if I'm inside long enough. It makes me a bit weird. I do strange things I wouldn't normally do. O_O yes, I occasionally wander round my house at 4am wearing my ballgown.
- Summer weather. *awaits barrage of evil comments and rotten fruit* So kill me... I like wearing coats and scarves and being unapologetically pale, I like dark winter clothes and fabrics, I like autumn leaves and rain (pure schadenfreude... and puddlejumping). The sun gets boring after spring.
- My next-door neighbours. They are those kind of people that live in the garden over the summer... and they're LOUD. Their dog is loud, the man is loud because he's always doing some stupid work on his garden and his wife is loud because she's so shrill. And they're the kind of people that get up early. Urgh.
But, summer is 11 days from being officially over. And then I'll be off to Royal Holloway (it's the university... in Egham... not the prison... yeah, the nice building... pretty old... NO, not the prison... Nan, I didn't do anything. I'm not going to prison.^_^) to study Politics. I'm going to be living in THIS BUILDING on the 4th floor and trying desperately not to get lost/run up masses of debt/talk complete rubbish to strangers/fall out the window/fail my classes. Expect updates on here as to how THAT goes... ehhhhh X_X
Still I have masses to get ready. I haven't even started on getting my stuff in order, I still have a massive pile of laundry, loads of shiz to buy and the decision to make as to whether I take my super retro desktop computer or try to *sigh* survive without one til December. I really don't think there's any decision to make there - I couldn't live without my shebams/PBs - so the computer is coming with me. The decision is more HOW THE DEVIL am I going to get it up to the 4th floor in a building with one sodding elevator??? Any suggestions would be wholly welcome. Levitating doesn't count. Wingardium Leviosa isn't working for me atm.
Listening to: The Calculation by Regina Spektor Quote of the Yak Entry: "Sometimes you lose the battle, but mischief always wins the war." Glad to be back, lovelies. :)
Nim xoxo October 10 Well, here we are again in this place called The Yak. I'm thinking a new layout might be required for Halloween... I'll see what I can do. I could recycle some of the PBs October graphics, but that's just lazy now, isn't it? Life has moved on from my last entry; for a start I'm no longer ill (yay!), I had a major Life Changing Epiphany and I read the GDT a couple more times. So, without further ado, here begins the nice, easy-reading, not-too-much-work-for-a-Friday section of...
Things I Have Learnt Recently:
- The GDT is still my Bible. F**k religion, all I need is the GDT. It makes me happy, gives better advice than any incompetent real people I know.
- I am thoroughly on my own when it comes to having trouble in life. It's kind of encouraging.
- Writing personal statements only requires two things; Christmas lights and music. Only Epic music of course.
- A Fine Frenzy, The Hush Sound and Eisley are the three best bands on the whole planet.
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of my favourite fictional heroines (re-reading it at the moment)
- I can spell Machiavellian. So that's Nim - 1, Dyson - 0... lolz. I can out-spell Dyson.
- Hamlet is a good play, and the character is a little like me.
- Philosophy rocks. I just don't always agree.
- Rehearsals are fun. Going home with the no-hopers on the train is not.
- I love singing Break The Sky
- The GDT is a source of quotes... duh.
- MSN is retarded.
That's it, lovelies. Time to make some tea... and drink it. Hehehe. Dedicated to my lovelies, my less-than-lovelies, the Evil Ones and the Loveliest Much cheer, Nim xxx September 09 Gaah. So I have some more rants to share with you all. I will put them in the simple bullet point form for your delectation. Rants that are highly important
- Why is it that I get a cold, a throat infection and an ear infection all at once? I feel positively wretched.
- My dad. Just in general.
- People being indecisive and unclear.
- Meg has left the PBs. I'm going to miss her as she is epic.
- I really do feel like a walking corpse.
September 06 Life has come back to me this week. I'm back at school with the foolish mortals in my year. Alas, no more spending my days reading books that make me happy or writing and talking to my SHEBAMS and PBs. Instead I am stuck with the endless performance of classes, Common Room, trains and the petty world that is made up of half the people in my year. Still, onto the Nice, Simple Sections... you guessed it;Rants To Share With The World
- Not having time for perpetual re-reading of the GDT sucks. Epically.
- Having only 4 free afternoons a fortnight is just one big joke.
- Being 2 marks off an A in French is a travesty. I'm glad they're re-marking my papers.
- I am sick of being able to say "I told you so." It gets thoroughly unamusing. I'm tired of looking on while people mess up again and again, never taking my advice, never stopping to think of consequences.
- Being used all the time is taking its toll on me. I'm done with it.
- Knowing that I must always settle is not any fun. I'll never get exactly what I want.
- Asking people to do something for me is such a total chore that I might just not do it any more. Of course, then no one will ever get anything from me either.
- Chivalry is dead
- People are so shamelessly stupid/foolish/melodramatic/slow-on-the-uptake I sometimes feel like pitching myself off a high building.
- I hate Twilight.
Goodbye, lovelies, less-than-lovelies and the loveliest of all lovelies. Much cheer and luck in all your endeavours, despite any ranting, Nim August 07 Here' s a long-awaited Yak. It will be short, as life is busy, etc, etc. I'll get straight down to the Gumby-compatible bullet points bit.Things I have Learnt Recently...
- I am a SHEBAM! Long life to the SHEBAMS!
- Shopping is fun. I buy things. It's even better when Monsoon has a 70%-off sale.
- You know what isn't fun? WAITING FOR RESULTS DAY!!! Long-term panic is not cool. Particularly not when it hits you whilst drinking a scrumlicious mango smoothie from Cafe Nero. Brain freeze + panic = Nim is fit of rage
- Pirates of the Caribbean still rocks beyond life.
- Illogical people annoy me.
- As do selfish people.
- I love The Gemma Doyle Trilogy. I could read it all day every day and still want to read it more. Every single last word of that trilogy deserves to be engraved upon some very important building for all to see and exalt. It's the wisest thing I've ever read. It has some of the best quotes ever. I love "Is this the life you want for me? To talk of nothing and drink weak tea with people who would do anything to hide the truth, especially from themselves? Well, I won't do it! I won't lie for you any more." Read it, and you will be a SHEBAM also.
- The GDT provides excellent summer reading.
- Smeyer is a freakin' retard. Sorry... but RENESME? I mean, the rest of the series was BAAAAAAD, but that was hideous. Vampire romance turns... soap opera? Well done, Smeyer. Bloody well done. You've proven OPAMVR right.
- Old people on the internet need to stop pestering me. I don't sign up for things so people can send me pointless messages that share no wisdom whatsoever. Get a life.
- Internet Life is once again fruitful... not quite as fun as last summer, with the troll war and all, but pretty good.
- Staying up til 3:30am to make a layout and learn CSS is all very well, but when people don't even thank me... well they deserve to have me hack their board! Admin indeed!
- Carrying around 22 inches of thick hair in the height of summer is no fun.
- Buying jewellery is though. :D
- Arranging things is no fun. Particularly when there is so little Nimesque logic in the world. Like I say, I am sick of it.
- University couldn't come sooner. I need to get away from this lame town!
- I need lots of water to survive... like Spongebob.
- This entry is over. Bye, suckers. I'm off to be a wolf, roaming around northern Canada. And when I return, I'll become a human again and imprint on your daughter! (read BD, losers.)
- Nim
- xxxxx
July 07 Ah, summer! How I loathe it. You can never plan what to wear. For ages, it has been sunny, and this morning, I get bloody rained on at the station. And as all the year 8 chav children, who don't have nearly as much hair as me, crowd in under the subway, so us with plenty of hair have to get wet. Carrying around 22 inches of soaking hair is no fun. Foolish chav children. Anyways, the ball is on Saturday. I hope it's good, as I've spent £176.87 in total on the blasted thing. It's odd how things all add up after a while. I guess I didn't need my jewellery to be to my specific design, but it is shiny. I am hoping for the thing me and Burdy (as the only vaguely epic RL people) have been hoping for. Mwahahaha. Evil laugh. So, as this is the Yak, and you are my lovely readers, I bring you the bullet-pointed-for-the-slow-ones sections, back with a vengeance and quite epic. Things I have learnt recently:
- Smeagol is a person. Epic fail.
- The GDT has all the quotes, and only in re-reading it can one truly appreciate its might. READ IT, MORTAL FOOLS!
- Democracy sucks. We're doing another Canterbury Tale instead of Paradise Lost.
- I don't care if you want to steal my words, but at least be epic enough to do so.
- "Dolt" is a lovely word.
- As is "draconian"
- OBAMA FTW!
- The Portal song is amazing
- Life is odd.
- I don't take kindly to people trashing my most prized possession (any one of the GDT books). Especially if said GDT book has been shipped from bloody America. In simple-people terms, shipping = expensive, savvy?
- I hate the outdoors. Mosquitos and annoying children.
- I don't think I can put up with little children. I want to feed them C4.
- My skills are not used often enough at the moment.
- Pippa has a superiority complex. And I quote; "I am the way. I am the chosen one. Gemma Doyle is jealous of me. I have all the power." By the end of the book, I wanted to shove the Tree of All Souls down her throat. Y'all know what I'm talking about.
- The GDT is relevent to RL (Real Life, you non-internet-visiting lot)
- The Internet is serious business
- Crash is a sad film. Very sad.
- This entry is over.
June 07 So, during my busy days of "study leave" when everyone else has exams and I definitely... don't, I have to find something to do. Life in Deal being about as interesting as passing time with the people of my year, I look to the wonderful fictional world to provide entertainment. Now, after devouring Castle Of Otranto, a book on Witchfinders, another Lee Jackson and Romance Of The Forest, I return to my old trusted favourite; the Gemma Doyle trilogy, by my magical heroine of writing Libba Bray. Seriously, if you've not read these books, something vital is missing from your life. They're like oxygen, and if you have a soul, you need these books to LIVE. Being the quote whore that I am, I have gathered some quotes from this marvelous trilogy, which I will share with you, hoping to convince you to buy the books and just to generally make you wise. I'd like to thank the magnificent people at the AGATB IMDB boards for gathering some of these. - "In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us with what we want to hear, shaping what we need to see in order to keep going. In its waters, all disappointments are forgotten, our mistakes forgiven. Gazing into them, we see a strong father, a loving mother, warm rooms where we are sheltered, adored, wanted, and the uncertainty of our futures is nothing more than the fog of breath on a windowpane."
- "Something inside me has changed tonight, and I cannot go back."
- "You don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light."
- "There are no safe choices... only other ones."
- "We're all damaged somehow."
- "I will be what they want me to be; safe, and nothing bad will ever happen again. It's possible to pretend I'm someone else, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it."
- "But forgiveness... I'll hold onto that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We are each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something, solid something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."
- "Perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use if we first know where to look without flinching."
- "Let the balance of the realms be restored, and let no one disturb their majesty. I bind the magic in the name of all who shall share the power one day, for I am the temple, and the magic lives in me."
- "Things are changing. You cannot stop the change."
- "To those who will see, the world waits."
- "There is never any turning back, you have to go forward. Make the future yours."
- "I do not wish to simply 'pass' the time; I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark on the world."
- "And that is how change happens; one gesture, one person, one moment at a time."
- "Never to long or yearn, to struggle or hurt or desire. And I understand that this is what it truly means to lose your souls."
- "Why do we police ourselves so stringently - whittling each other down with cutting remarks, holding ourselves back from greatness with a harness woven of fear and shame and longing? If we do not deem ourselves worthy first, how shall we ever ask for more?"
- "I suspect that the books are a lot like the people at this party; unread and purely decorative."
I hope you enjoyed the epic quotes. BUY THE DAMN BOOKS, LOVELIES!Cheer and joy,Nimxx May 14 Here I am for another Yak, taking time out of my busy (ha!) schedule of revision and housework to spread the infinite wisdom to my undeserving public. How grateful are you? Because I don't have much time, I'll get to my bullet-pointed-for-the-simple-people sections. A Few Small Rants Describing Why I Loathe Twilight So Very Much
- The verb "to snicker" just isn't one that needs to be used all the bloody time. How does one snicker anyway?
- One book requires more than one metaphor.
- Bella is a bad example to young women in this day and age. It is no longer the 1950s.
- Edward would get so severely owned by Kartik. It's scary how owned he would get, actually
- It's so EMO... really.
- The chapters all have really artsy one-word names like "Epoch", when it's completely unnecessary. Alright, normally you can draw out very tenuous reasons for them to be called stuff like that, but they are REALLY tenuous
Other Rants That I Must Share
- Loyalty is still not the currency of the realm.
- The summer ball tickets are £48... that's daylight robbery, and I'm going to have to use the Machiavellian, epic skills on my dad AGAIN. Jesus, my skills will expire if I have to keep using them.
- Boris Johnson is mayor of London. I mean, really.
- Exams are boring and tiresome. Still only 5 more to go... then 3 weeks off with nothing to do but catch up on my FF illustrating stuff
- I'm suffering from writer's block... and it sucks royally.
- The idea that John McCain might be the next president of the US.
- The fact that I still CBA with life.
Things I've Learnt Recently
- I am stubborn.
- I have skills
- Exams are dull
- Lost is the height of Epicosity... especially the ones where Sawyer features a lot. And Desmond. A whole episode dedicated to Sawyer and Desmond would be so bloody WIN.
- The Apprentice is amazing still. Can't wait for it to be on tonight!!! *SQUEE*
- Watching Sweeney Todd first thing in the morning really sets you up for the day in a bloodthirsty, musical way.
- I ought to be reloading the dishwasher and clearing the books off the table. Yakking is often displacement.
- My dress for the ball is so PURE OWNAGE... I am still plotting my rise to glory, though. They won't know what's hit them.
- I need to buy 6-inch heels for said ball... and then learn to walk in them. I am NOT wearing such a Win dress and insulting it by remaining 5'1
- I also need my hair done... which will apparently cost £50... holy jesus.
- I can't think of anything else to write, my lovelies. So...
- This entry is over
Lots of love and luck in the exams/your other endeavours that may require my luck. Of course, once more, those who are so damn bloody perfect and don't need any luck from Nim can get through without it. I'm sure they'll come through with their questionable charm and dignity in tact... but not if I can help it. Never underestimate me, lovelies. Nimxxx May 08 Gaaah. So, it's thursday. There's little more to say on that subject. I have a couple of rants, but I'm sure you were expecting those weren't you, loyal fan(s)? Rant one: small children. They just get in the way, don't they? Especially when they seem to think they're Mr. Morgan. In my day, we weren't nearly so presumptuous. Second rant: Loyalty not being the currency of the realm. I am a pirate captain, and as such, I don't like mutiny from my crew. It doesn't do. So, be warned, I'll maroon you on an island (Nim's Island?) and leave you to die, with only a pistol with a single shot and not even a single drop of rum. Well, here it is... the status quo... you boring old lot would kill me if I didn't include the old, easy to digest, bullet-pointed-for-easy-reading...Things I have learnt recently...
- I fall off paths. Seriously, that was not funny. Not even vaguely funny. It could've been funny, but it was not funny. Anyone who suggests it's funny can face my wrath. It was the height of embarrassment, and at the time, I considered going into a convent.
- DESMAWYER! **SQUEE** (or Desnimawyer, if you're me... which I am)
- I can't do the suspenseful scenes in Lost where there is a possibility of Sawyer getting shot. I cower. Literally.
- Nor can I do the bits in Doctor Who where he's holding the atmosphere-explodie-device thingy and threatening to blow himself up. It's too much, damnit!
- The people next door are burning something. (excuse me while I dash to see what's with the FIRE IN THE GARDEN...)
- False alarm! Just the pleb bloke next door burning twigs. Seriously, how can you have a bonfire without some serious chanting, satanic rituals and possible human sacrifices? Shall I go down there and show him how it's done? Maybe not... don't need a restraining order to add to my troubles.
- I've written 8000+ words in 3 days!!! Go, Nim getting published!!! Hopefully. If I finish it.
- Nordic people can't spell...
(Burdy, LOL...) - I can only get sunburnt on one arm. How weird?
- School is so much more fun when most of the lower 6th ditch their lessons and go sit on the grass for a few hours.
- I owe Spatch 60p. Just remembered that. I'll stick it in my purse when I go downstairs to do the washing in a second. This Yakking is once again, a displacement activity.
- Diary of Jane (the acoustic one) is a win song. Thanks, Gouldy, for reintroducing me to Breaking Benjamin. I'd almost abandoned them.
- Singing "Defying Gravity" at the top of one's voice while aforementioned pleb neighbours are outside with pleb dog, and the kitchen window is wide open and I'm cooking rice, is definitely NOT a good idea.
- *victory dances* *falls off path* *goes abominably red* *cowers in corner* *does frantic cooking* *falls asleep and has weird dreams about murder of cat called Sid* That seems to be the pattern of my life at the moment.
- CBA with anything.
- Raef on The Apprentice has to win. He uses inappropriately formal words... LIKE ME! And he's not a pleb.
- Our school has no concept of democracy. It's shameful.
- UTTERLY shameful
- There are so many fictional characters that I love more than real people. Real people suck. Sorry, RL lot.
- "RL lot" is a term that seems to amuse
- I really am a horrible, mean, manipulative person... and I like it.
Still, at least I won't get owned. Some people are on track for an owning, and I am not one of them. - This entry is over. I really do need to do that washing. Elseways I'll have to wear plebby clothes tomorrow.
Goodbye, my lovelies. Good luck with your exams, one and all, except obviously those of you who are so damn bloody perfect that you don't need my luck, and will get through said exams solely on your questionable charm/skill at being like Nim/eclecticness/skill at not getting owned. You know who who are, magical ones. Much love to you all,Nimxxx(I'm not even vaguely Nordic. See... I can spell... )
April 25 That much is hard to dispute, but why do I feel like this weekend is just a waste of my time? I could be at school, working, revising and stuff, but instead I have to take time to relax. Like I can relax! I've got Spanish oral on monday morning, and french oral the tuesday after. I'm going to die. Maybe I'll just spend the whole weekend asleep, then I won't have to feel like I'm wasting valuable cramming time with the tedious business of relaxation. So, it was Prefect voting today. If I win, it will be a point for particularly unpopular, Machiavellian people who can get votes out of people by suggesting that they might vote for them. I somehow think I have less chance than an opposition party in Zimbabwe. But, there it be. As some cliché-loving people might suggest, it's the taking part that counts. Urgh. It felt sickly just writing that. Well, I've never been one for tradition, but I suppose you lot might go all weird on me if I don't write the old... Things I have learnt recently:
- "Love is too young to know what conscience is." - Geoffrey Chaucer
- That interviewee really annoyed me with his reluctance to express an opinion.
- The A-levels actually matter to me
- Loyalty is definitely no longer the currency of the realm.
- Blackmail is a crime. An actual crime. I didn't know that.
- My temper is getting worse.
- And will eventually land me in trouble, I know that.
- English notes don't smell of acorns, nor are they good for stifling laughter... even if you do nearly swallow them in your endeavours.
- "Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself." - John Locke (the philosopher. Not the epic Lost character)
- "Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain." - John Locke
- "The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it." - John Locke
- "A wise man proportions his beliefs to the evidence." - David Hume
- "Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many is governed by the few." - David Hume
- "Our integrity sells for so little - but it is really all we have." - V for Vendetta
- "People should not fear their governments. Governments should fear their people." - V for Vendetta
- I love quotes.
- "You must have chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star" - Nietzsche
There's but one more thing. This is my favourite poem of all time. I discovered it whilst reading The Sweet Far Thing, and it's amazing. The Rose of Battle
Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! The tall thought-woven sails, that flap unfurled
Above the tide of hours, trouble the air,
And God's bell buoyed to be the water's care;
While hushed from fear, or loud with hope, a band
With blown, spray-dabbled hair gather at hand.
Turn if you may from battles never done,
I call, as they go by me one by one,
Danger no refuge holds, and war no peace,
For him who hears love sing and never cease,
Beside her clean-swept hearth, her quiet shade:
But gather all for whom no love hath made
A woven silence, or but came to cast
A song into the air, and singing passed
To smile on the pale dawn; and gather you
Who have sougft more than is in rain or dew,
Or in the sun and moon, or on the earth,
Or sighs amid the wandering, starry mirth,
Or comes in laughter from the sea's sad lips,
And wage God's battles in the long grey ships.
The sad, the lonely, the insatiable,
To these Old Night shall all her mystery tell;
God's bell has claimed them by the little cry
Of their sad hearts, that may not live nor die.
Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World!
You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled
Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring
The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
Beauty grown sad with its eternity
Made you of us, and of the dim grey sea.
Our long ships loose thought-woven sails and wait,
For God has bid them share an equal fate;
And when at last, defeated in His wars,
They have gone down under the same white stars,
We shall no longer hear the little cry
Of our sad hearts, that may not live nor die. by W.B Yeats
Thanks, my lovelies.
Nim, the High Priestess, lover of mayhem and magical witch person xxx
April 23 I hope you like the background of this page. I mean the clouds. I made it myself for a site I was making the layout for. I would give you the link, but it's a secret I will take to the grave.
Here are some of those little bits of wisdom I can't help picking up in the sham that makes up my life:
- Well, exams are annoying.
- My exams are all in one week. ONE WEEK. For 3 3-hour exams and one 2 1/2 one.
- The teachers giving us homework while expecting us to revise need shooting... or hanging. *goes off into dreams of different killing methods*
- White boys can't play Kartik. That would just be sacrilege, and if I have to hear another suggestion of Zac Efron, I'll kill someone.
- Fangirling makes you HAPPY.
- Harry Potter is still epic.
- The epilogue is not. It's sugary and annoying, but kind of ok.
- I am La Sabia Infinitely. No one can question my wisdom
- I have to go cook dinner in a moment. This Yakking is just displacement activity
- I also have to write a bloody English essay. The theme of religion in Jane Eyre, anyone?
- Burden, te has olvidado... (lol, my dear)
- I think Gonzalez hates us.
- This Machiavelli quote: "It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver"
- And this one: "A man who wishes to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtous" (thanks, politics classroom wall!)
- One more: "There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
- Oh, one more: "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
Goodbye, my lovelies.
La Infinite Sabia, High Priestess and general Quotes Goddess,
Nim
xxx April 15 I haven't ranted on here in AGES, so when I discovered I had something to rant about (and nowhere else to go), I thought 'where better than the faithful old Yak (which has a scrumlicious new look, by the way.) My topic of ranting for today is Twilight, and its fans. For those of you who are not enlightened, Twilight is a series of books by Stephenie Meyer. It's a vampire romance. (here's a link so you can see for yourselves > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Twilight-Stephenie-Meyer/dp/1904233651/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208288980&sr=8-1). OK, so why do I want to rant about these books? Well, you know when something really mediocre is popular...sorry, insanely popular? That is exactly how I feel about this series. For a start, I have read it, before you all start calling me names. I read the books, and yes, they're alright. The first one took me twenty minutes to read, and the second one about twenty five. Here's the pretentious bit; the writing isn't any good! I write quite a lot, and I read even more. For the love of Hell, just because all the vampires in the book don't have fangs and are immensely good-looking does NOT mean it's a new take on an already overdone genre! The dialogue is uncomfortable, at best, and the characters are poorly-developed. Second point of ranting; Bella. She is the main character of Twilight, and I don't think I've EVER read a book with a more whiny heroine. In New Moon, when Edward left her, I wanted to put my foot through her face just to put her out of her bloody misery! I have never read anything that annoys me more. Call me cynical, but the whole scenario is just irritating. He abandons her and acts like an idiot, but when he wants her back, she just accepts it like some ingénue in a bad play. It makes the plot look cheap and flawed. Christ, if I knew it was that easy to come up with a best-selling novel, I'd be published 12 times over already. Now, the fans. The fan base of Twilight is made up mostly of thirteen year-old girls who don't read a whole lot, and think that these books are the height of intellect. I can now see why people got so annoyed by us Pirates of the Caribbean fangirls! We aren't nearly a ravenous as this lot though. I went on the IMDB board for the Twilight film due to come out in December (oh yes, lovelies, there's a film...) and if you don't immediately declare undying love for Robert Pattinson (guy who plays Edward Cullen. He played Cedric Diggory in HP, but I'll get onto that in a minute), they basically attack you! (albeit with the misguided insults of slightly moronic fangirls). When I suggested that the heroine is whiny, I thought WW3 had started and that childline was going to have to deal with a load of suicidal girls shrieking about how I'd totally killed the franchise for them, or something. And, they compare these books (if you can call them that) to Harry Potter. Now, I know it isn't the height of literature, as it is only a kids' book, but seriously... the plot is more intricate, the writing more engaging, the characters more believable. Where do I stop? Their only real claim is that the 3rd book in the Twilight series knocked Deathly Hallows off the top of the best-sellers' list. News flash! DH had been out for two weeks then! Everyone who is likely to buy a Harry Potter book buys it on the midnight release or on the first day! The fact that Eclipse knocked it off the top spot DOES NOT BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION mean that it sold more! Do I need to explain that concept any more clearly? (well, obviously, because the same people who write things like "OMG! Robert Pattinson! SQUEEEEEEEE!!!!!!11111" couldn't possibly understand anything to do with sales figures. Jesus, Nim, why do you bother? ). And, they compare these crimes against literature to the Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray (one of which is my aforementioned Bible). Seriously, girls, the HP comparisons pissed me off, but comparing Twilight to A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels and the Sweet Far Thing is just wrong. The GD trilogy is supernatural/historical fiction, and it's WELL-WRITTEN. The books take more than an IQ of 67 to appreciate and the characters actually have depth! Again, it's not going to be a classic, but it certainly stands up to analysis a lot better than Twilight. So, this is why I joined Order Priestesses Against Mediocre Vampire Romances, and if you read Twilight and try to tell me it's better than HP or the GD trilogy, I might actually have to find my AK47 and massacre you. Yours rantingly, The Magical Malevolent Marvelous Nim xxxx PS. You RL lot... DON'T READ TWILIGHT.
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