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moogingHere is a question: are any of you lovely people on birth control for period reasons? Or, are you on birth control for birth control reasons (this would seem to be the logical thing to do) and have noticed a difference in your periods for the better? I ask this because I cannot possibly go another month with my periods like this, particularly not when I have exams, and also because at one point today I had to just lie down on my bathroom floor and weep a little bit.
Failing that: what do you do to STOP THIS PAIN?
I've had rubbish periods since they started when I was 11 - they last somewhere between 5-9 days and the first 3 usually render me incapable of doing much other than lying around and whimpering, but then there are the ones like this one, which just flatten me completely and I can't sit down, stand up or lie down. WHAT IS THE ANSWER, O WISE LADIES?
On another, less bleesome topic,what I have basically been doing with my life other than heating up hotbots in every other hour is reading all the YA fantasy fiction I can get my hands on. This is soothing my soul. For example, I've just finished Tithe and Ironside, both by Holly Black (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blackholly), and I'm waiting for the last book in Cassandra Clare's (cassandraclare) Mortal Instruments trilogy to come out, and, hang on, this is going outside the WHO ELSE HAS READ HAVEMERCY BY ladyjaida and danibennett, BECAUSE I JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER. It is about metal dragons, you guys, and as well as that, there is a gay magician, and wonderful secondary characters, and the four characters who all have such different voices narrate it in turn, and the world they've created is so beautiful and complex and tangible, and there was a bit of hurt/comfort in there and by the end I was just sobbing like a freak, because I LOVED THESE CHARACTERS SO MUCH that the whole resolution made me want to cry because I couldn't properly deal with it ending. Luckily, there are three more books to come in this series.
And that massive run-on sentence of d00m is why I don't try to talk about books I love beyond expressing my deep-felt emotions and nagging people to buy them and come and tell me their thoughts. (apologies for people who caught this entry while the lj-cut was in the wrong place: Havemercy is not about vampires!) This icon I am using is of art byhalcyonjazz, who sketched out each character from Havemercy. This is Rook. Confusingly, he is not my favourite character but this icon is gorgeous. I do love Rook, though. I CANNOT PICK A FAVOURITE FROM THIS BOOK I pick Royston.
Also I read books that are not by people on LJ! I am currently reading the considerably less good House of Night series, which I bought on the strength of their concept (a finishing school for vampires) and the books are quite rubbish but in the way that's enjoyable. Like Twilight, but with less sparkling and more sex. When my mother and I were flicking through the pages of the first book the other day, in Waterstones, she turned to me and said, "It took two people to write this?" (It is co-written). The answer is yes. Yes, it did. It only got better from there (vampire communing with Indians!).
Here is a thing: why is it that the protagonists in fantasy fiction so often end up being The Most Special Specialton Ever to Special Ever, Better Even Than Anyone Or Anything Before Them? I get it, authors: you want your hero/heroine to be super wonderful, but, okay, this just irritates me. I get that it also appeals to the part of people that want to be special themselves, because everyone does want this on some level, I think, in whatever way - particularly clever/beautiful/powerful/memorable/kind etc - but it is used so often to give a book tension - YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAS THE POWER TO DO THIS THING THAT WILL BRING THIS BOOK TO ITS POINT, BUT FIRST ANGST ABOUT THIS FOR MORE PAGES THAN ARE USED TO EXPLAIN THE ACTUAL PLOT - that I now can't really root for the Super Special character in any way, because I mainly want to smack them in the face.
That being said, I really really love Harry Potter as a character, and he fits so painfully well into the Super Special character mould in that every time he is introduced to someone new, they comment on his AMAZING POWERS OF NOT DYING, but then what he doesn't have is Super Special powers. Something happened to him to make people regard him as special, but he himself has only his own strengths and weaknesses to rely on as opposed to being the One True New Born God or whatever. Then again, I also really like Buffy as a character, but then while she does have Super Special powers, what she isn't is the only person to have ever been so amazing. There is a line of slayers. She became a slayer when the previous slayer died. When she dies, she can be replaced. What I am saying is: it didn't have to be Harry and Buffy; it could just as easily have been, I don't know, Ron or Willow had things worked out differently. (Sadly, what I am now picturing is Ron the Vampire Slayer, but I don't know how well that would have worked).
Here is another thing: I really want to be able to eat dairy again, but it is not to be.
To end this mishmash of an entry, a word about lurking. I lurk on some journals but only when I don't feel confident enough that if I say words to someone, they won't run screaming in the other internet direction. This is something I am doing less and less, because I have made some amazing lj friends after having finally said hello to them, but what I am trying to say, in a ludicrously egotistical way, is if I happen to have any lurkers reading this right now, drop me a comment to say hi? A few people have recently friended me too, and so to facilitate new contact or indeed if anyone else wants to procrastinate away their revision (oh yeah), let's have a meme or two to conclude. Take your pick! - or, indeed, pick both.
1. Give me a subject you would like to see me make a post about, and I shall do just that.
2. In response to this post, ask me about the first time I did something. It can be anything--the first time I ate Italian food, the first time someone I knew died, the first time I left the country, the first time someone of the opposite sex saw me naked. I'll answer in the thread. Then (if you like) put it on your journal and I'll ask you questions.
Failing that: what do you do to STOP THIS PAIN?
I've had rubbish periods since they started when I was 11 - they last somewhere between 5-9 days and the first 3 usually render me incapable of doing much other than lying around and whimpering, but then there are the ones like this one, which just flatten me completely and I can't sit down, stand up or lie down. WHAT IS THE ANSWER, O WISE LADIES?
On another, less bleesome topic,what I have basically been doing with my life other than heating up hotbots in every other hour is reading all the YA fantasy fiction I can get my hands on. This is soothing my soul. For example, I've just finished Tithe and Ironside, both by Holly Black (
blackholly), and I'm waiting for the last book in Cassandra Clare's (cassandraclare) Mortal Instruments trilogy to come out, and, hang on, this is going outside the WHO ELSE HAS READ HAVEMERCY BY ladyjaida and danibennett, BECAUSE I JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER. It is about metal dragons, you guys, and as well as that, there is a gay magician, and wonderful secondary characters, and the four characters who all have such different voices narrate it in turn, and the world they've created is so beautiful and complex and tangible, and there was a bit of hurt/comfort in there and by the end I was just sobbing like a freak, because I LOVED THESE CHARACTERS SO MUCH that the whole resolution made me want to cry because I couldn't properly deal with it ending. Luckily, there are three more books to come in this series. And that massive run-on sentence of d00m is why I don't try to talk about books I love beyond expressing my deep-felt emotions and nagging people to buy them and come and tell me their thoughts. (apologies for people who caught this entry while the lj-cut was in the wrong place: Havemercy is not about vampires!) This icon I am using is of art by
halcyonjazz, who sketched out each character from Havemercy. This is Rook. Confusingly, he is not my favourite character but this icon is gorgeous. I do love Rook, though. I CANNOT PICK A FAVOURITE FROM THIS BOOK I pick Royston.Also I read books that are not by people on LJ! I am currently reading the considerably less good House of Night series, which I bought on the strength of their concept (a finishing school for vampires) and the books are quite rubbish but in the way that's enjoyable. Like Twilight, but with less sparkling and more sex. When my mother and I were flicking through the pages of the first book the other day, in Waterstones, she turned to me and said, "It took two people to write this?" (It is co-written). The answer is yes. Yes, it did. It only got better from there (vampire communing with Indians!).
Here is a thing: why is it that the protagonists in fantasy fiction so often end up being The Most Special Specialton Ever to Special Ever, Better Even Than Anyone Or Anything Before Them? I get it, authors: you want your hero/heroine to be super wonderful, but, okay, this just irritates me. I get that it also appeals to the part of people that want to be special themselves, because everyone does want this on some level, I think, in whatever way - particularly clever/beautiful/powerful/memorable/kind etc - but it is used so often to give a book tension - YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAS THE POWER TO DO THIS THING THAT WILL BRING THIS BOOK TO ITS POINT, BUT FIRST ANGST ABOUT THIS FOR MORE PAGES THAN ARE USED TO EXPLAIN THE ACTUAL PLOT - that I now can't really root for the Super Special character in any way, because I mainly want to smack them in the face.
That being said, I really really love Harry Potter as a character, and he fits so painfully well into the Super Special character mould in that every time he is introduced to someone new, they comment on his AMAZING POWERS OF NOT DYING, but then what he doesn't have is Super Special powers. Something happened to him to make people regard him as special, but he himself has only his own strengths and weaknesses to rely on as opposed to being the One True New Born God or whatever. Then again, I also really like Buffy as a character, but then while she does have Super Special powers, what she isn't is the only person to have ever been so amazing. There is a line of slayers. She became a slayer when the previous slayer died. When she dies, she can be replaced. What I am saying is: it didn't have to be Harry and Buffy; it could just as easily have been, I don't know, Ron or Willow had things worked out differently. (Sadly, what I am now picturing is Ron the Vampire Slayer, but I don't know how well that would have worked).
Here is another thing: I really want to be able to eat dairy again, but it is not to be.
To end this mishmash of an entry, a word about lurking. I lurk on some journals but only when I don't feel confident enough that if I say words to someone, they won't run screaming in the other internet direction. This is something I am doing less and less, because I have made some amazing lj friends after having finally said hello to them, but what I am trying to say, in a ludicrously egotistical way, is if I happen to have any lurkers reading this right now, drop me a comment to say hi? A few people have recently friended me too, and so to facilitate new contact or indeed if anyone else wants to procrastinate away their revision (oh yeah), let's have a meme or two to conclude. Take your pick! - or, indeed, pick both.
1. Give me a subject you would like to see me make a post about, and I shall do just that.
2. In response to this post, ask me about the first time I did something. It can be anything--the first time I ate Italian food, the first time someone I knew died, the first time I left the country, the first time someone of the opposite sex saw me naked. I'll answer in the thread. Then (if you like) put it on your journal and I'll ask you questions.
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Date: 2009-04-16 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-16 05:31 pm (UTC)I will bring this up with my doctor next time I see him, and see if there is a way around this. Like, say, one that lets me take something to make my periods less awful. This is my goal at the moment. (er, that and not failing my A-Levels.)
If you don't mind me asking, which symptoms of yours were the doctors most worried about masking the potential birth control side-effects?
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Date: 2009-04-16 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-16 05:39 pm (UTC)*hugs you* Luckily my periods so far in my life seem to alternate between being Fine and being Only Fairly Excruciating. I'm sorry your reproductive organs are being gits.
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Date: 2009-04-16 06:44 pm (UTC).... n'awwwww, duct-taped stake. Would he call it Scabbers?
Fail for my reproductive organs. Hurrah for yours not being gits!
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Date: 2009-04-16 07:32 pm (UTC)....clearly CLEARLY the only answer here is "Stabbers" XD
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Date: 2009-04-16 07:37 pm (UTC)LOL
LOL
LOL
THIS WHOLE CONVERSATION IS MAKING ME WANT TO SEE HBP RIGHT FREAKING NOW
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Date: 2009-04-16 07:39 pm (UTC)*curses the fact that it is not summer yet and that they pushed the relase date back* (though their Narcissa looks stupid and wrong! *wails*)
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Date: 2009-04-16 07:43 pm (UTC)I am a terrible person.
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Date: 2009-04-16 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-16 06:10 pm (UTC)Meme time! First time you wrote fanfic?
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Date: 2009-04-16 06:53 pm (UTC)Meme-time! The first time I wrote fanfic, ohhh dear, this is embarrassing. It was about Sherlock Holmes, and I was about 8 or 9, so you can imagine that a) it wasn't very good and b) it was exceedingly OOC. I think the word 'crybaby' might have come out of Holmes' mouth. It was, in fact, written as a script to be performed for my step-dad's birthday, and one of my step-cousins hid in a wardrobe to provide the special effect noises. SADLY I THINK IT HAS BEEN CAPTURED ON TAPE - audio only, thank christ, but still.
Although before that I had made my mother draw me a picture of Mz. Wiz - and if you have read those books, I might love you a bit - so my first fannish endeavor was actually to make other people put fan creations in my eyes. I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AN ENABLER.
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Date: 2009-04-16 07:14 pm (UTC)The Box-fic in question was a crossover and is here but there is more if you check the Lucifer/Charlie tag in that comm.
I can, actually, hear Jeremy Brett saying "crybaby" with that wonderful disdain. BUT. It's kind of awesome that you were only 8 (or 9) and already creating fandom. And recruiting others to create it!
(I have not read Mz. Wiz...hang on, though, it does sound familiar. Off I go to Google.)
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Date: 2009-04-16 07:37 pm (UTC)Ahahahaha, I really want to see that if it has indeed been immortalised on film. XD
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Date: 2009-04-16 07:40 pm (UTC)AUDIO TAPE ONLY, AND I THINK I SHALL BURN IT. The other side has me doing a 'radio show' on it. IT IS DIRE.
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Date: 2009-04-16 07:50 pm (UTC)Somehow in the spare bedroom is an audio tape of me and my brother twatting about and doing a radio show. It is truly truly mindblowingly mad and awful.
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Date: 2009-04-16 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-04-16 07:54 pm (UTC)I had really bad period pains when I was around 18-20 - and my doc prescribed magnesium tablets and they helped a little.
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Date: 2009-04-16 09:43 pm (UTC)Magnesium tablets? I don't think I've heard them mentioned before; I'll look into them :DD
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Date: 2009-04-16 09:49 pm (UTC)I quite like your sort of dubious people. You rock.
I think the deal was that if your magnesium levels are low - you are more prone to cramps or get worse cramps. My dad took magnesium because he kept getting cramps in his legs at night. So... it has something to do with that. Ask your doctor, I would say.
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Date: 2009-04-16 09:55 pm (UTC)JSBJSBAFJKS I HAVE JUST LOOKED AT YOUR JOURNAL AND THERE YOU ARE, QUOTING BAD BLOOD, OH GOD, THAT IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE XF EPISODES, JUST LOOK AT ALL THESE CAPS. I feel we should be friends based on the strength of Scully's awesomeness during that episode. It wasn't even real cream cheese, it was light cream cheese!
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Date: 2009-04-16 10:04 pm (UTC)Ahem, so yay - friends! Though be warned, you'll be entering the Harriet Walter hub. ;)
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Date: 2009-04-16 10:12 pm (UTC)I can't even formulate proper thoughts about XF. My mind kind of shuts down and I start just going SCULLY AND MULDER AND THEIR TRUE LOVE FOREVER AND I LOVE THEM AKJBASJDBJEHSFBH. It is not entirely rational, I am aware. Have you seen the new film? I assume yes.
Which is your favourite season? Mine is 7, because there was some good mytharc going on ('Closure' makes me cry ridiculously, because I am ridiculous) but at the same time all the MotW episodes were awesome too (The Goldberg Variation, for one).
YAYYY BAD BLOOD. HIS NECK WAS GNAWED ON.
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Date: 2009-04-16 10:27 pm (UTC)I have seen the new film - but I was a bit disappointed, alas. I mean, it was like one of those monster episodes that made me go "ewwwwww" and "whatever" - but with added bonus shipper fun. So I was very happy I got the film,but I would have hoped for a better story. Hum.
I much prefer the first film.
Here I am in the middle of nowhere, Texas, chasing phantom tanker trucks.
My favourite season. Hum. I love the first three - because they make me particularly nostalgic. 6 had some kick-ass things - like DREAMLAND, I love that. *ponders* I might say 3... that has Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose and War of the Coprophages and Jose Chung's From Outer Space.
EXCEPT THE PART ABOUT THE BUCK TEETH!
I do love The Goldberg Variation, though.
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Date: 2009-04-16 07:58 pm (UTC)There is ALWAYS something in your entries that makes me laugh ridiculously with its awesome ridiculousness! *applauds your amazingness*
Aaaaaaaand I was on birth control for a few months (for birth control reasons :P) - it was a progesterone-only one (a.k.a. 'mini-pill') called Cerazette, because the more commonly used one gave me TERRIBLE migraines every day, which was a whole world of not fun - and it meant that I only had a period every 2-4 months, which was interesting. :)
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Date: 2009-04-16 09:46 pm (UTC)ahdkjhkj migraines, I hate them. Which was that type? Also, only having a period every 2-4 months sounds like something I'd definitely be interested in, win win win. Was it any worse when it was there for the irregularity of it?
also oh my freaking god, are you as terrified of the Latin exams as I am? THE COMPOSITION ONE WILL HAUNT MY DREAMS, AND THE TRANSLATION WILL KILL ME AND THERE IS TOO MUCH VIRGIL FOR ME TO EVER KNOW.
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Date: 2009-04-16 11:37 pm (UTC)The migraine-type was Microgynon - it only has the migraine-effect on a relatively small number of people who take it, I think, but with that one you have a period every month, but it's supposed to be much lighter and less painful than normal; I wasn't taking it long enough to find out for myself though. And my periods while taking the other one were about the same as usual, when they occurred. :)
Actually, the Latin exams are the ones I'm least worried about! I know Book 12 pretty well (and should know it better by the end of the holidays, as I have a mock exam on it next Tuesday), and in my experience the translation always comes out ok in the end (oh god now I've said that I'm going to get a U aren't I). It helps that we're doing the comprehension, not compositon, though! If we were I would be dying of terror. :O
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Date: 2009-04-16 11:44 pm (UTC)First time you realised that Dido was going to be the bane of your existence until you'd written the last full stop on the Latin Lit. GCSE? :P
...I wish I had an Aeneid icon...
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Date: 2009-04-17 12:08 am (UTC)I do have to say though, that reading the doe simile for the first time made me want to either die or make Dido die painfully and abruptly, and then we came across it again in Classics after the pain had faded from the Latin version and before the horrors of revision, and I could have cried. Also the part where her death NEVER FREAKING ENDED, GOD, WOMAN, 'LAST WORDS' MEAN THEN YOU STOP SPEAKING, NOT THAT YOU THEN SAY SOME MORE SHIT.
I need an Aeneid icon too.
On the plus side of Dido-hatred, my burning burning loathing of her does make for a) being able to remember in searing detail the parts of the Aeneid with her in it, and thus being able to knock out essays about her fairly easily. THIS IS STILL SOMETHING I WOULD TRADE FOR HER NEVER TO HAVE EXISTED. Whenever anything is 'Carthaginian" in any kind of Classical environment, I cringe.
True, I am less terrified about the Latin exam than, say, the French ones, but still I am panicked about all of them so this statement doesn't really mean much. MUCH LIKE EVERYTHING DIDO EVER SAID, EVER.
Same question to you!
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Date: 2009-04-17 02:21 pm (UTC)Way to ruin a potentially strong, awesome female character, Vergil.
I am so glad I didn't do Classics as well. I think I'd end up gibbering madly about does and lions and bees while banging my head against a wall.
(I feel this icon sort of encapsulates Book 12. The fish (Turnus) has a bit of a chance to swim around and delay fate, but the cat (Aeneas) will get him in the end...
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Date: 2009-04-17 03:02 pm (UTC)ALSO, USE FEWER NAMES. I DON'T CARE WHO KILLED WHOM. IT'S A BATTLEFIELD. THERE ARE GOING TO BE SOME DEATHS.
I can't even. OH WELL, we only have to remember this crap until June 17th and then we are freeeeee. Is the Virgil paper your last exam too?
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Date: 2009-04-18 02:28 pm (UTC)OH GOD THE NAMES. I just cannot keep the fighting straight in my mind. :S
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Date: 2009-04-16 11:02 pm (UTC)(My "b"-key is stuck and therefore I have to hit my keyboard repeatedly to make it work. I probably look ridiculous while doing so. And no, I'm not random at all. XD)
I haven't read "Havemercy" yet, but I think I might have to because it really sounds quite awesome! :D
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Date: 2009-04-16 11:16 pm (UTC)DO IT NOW, AND THEN COME BACK AND TELL ME YOU'VE BOUGHT IT. I'M WAITING. I DON'T EVEN CARE ABOUT FINANCE. IT IS NECESSARY.
And don't be discouraged if you don't get into it straight away: because of the four different narration voices, I found it took four times as long to really get engaged with the book, if that makes sense? Like, there's four different perspectives you've got to get used to, four sets of backstory and motivations and world opinions and things, and then you've got to get used to how they interact with people you're already used to seeing through someone else's eyes. WHAT I AM SAYING IS, THERE IS AN EXACT MOMENT I CAN PINPOINT WHERE I WENT 'YES, THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME, and that was about 60 pages in or so, and then there is an exact moment where I went THESE CHARACTERS HAVE EATEN MY MIND AND I DON'T EVEN WANT IT BACK, and that's at about the 100-odd page mark and that bit became my favourite part of the book. ALSO IT WOULD BE TOTALLY AMAZING TO TALK ABOUT IT WITH YOU AS YOU READ IT, BECAUSE YOU ARE EQUALLY AMAZING, AND BASICALLY I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS BOOK WITH YOU RIGHT NOW.
(hit that b. it's not c. it rhymes with me. I CAN RANDOM WITH THE BEST OF THEE.)
ajbsdkjabkj pain meds, why so ineffectual sometimes?
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Date: 2009-04-16 11:36 pm (UTC)First time you went on holiday?
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Date: 2009-04-17 12:02 am (UTC)I, er, am told that I went on holiday to Wales when I was, like, 3 months old or something, but obviously I have no memory of this. The first holiday I can really remember going on was when I was about 4 or 5 and had long hair down to the small of my back, and I went to France to stay in a rented home with my parents (then still together)my grandma and my aunt, in a place that I now can't remember the name of but was lovely, and the house had amazing twisty and dark staircases, and was battered looking inside, and the hot water made a noise, and the room I was in had a teeny tiny window that had a really unusual way of being opened, like a weird latch or something, and I got to share a room with my mother because (unbeknownst to me at the time) my mother and father were in the process of splitting up but I just thought it was great because I got to be with my mum a bit more, and we had pain au chocolat for breakfast every day unless we had a croissant, and I wore a collection of pretty blue sundresses and got stopped in Disneyland Paris with my dad by a two different strangers to be told that I was pretty, and I wrote a collection of stories in a little notebook from Cornwall about the Famous Five and the Secret Seven and others of my own creation, like 'The Terrible Two', and I really remember writing 'Ann hung back, scared,' and having to explain to my dad that I meant that Ann had hung back because she was scared and I wasn't going to develop the sentence to finish 'scared that [the murderer was still there]', and one night after dinner in a restaurant on the harbour, I stood on a dog's foot accidently and made it go 'waff', which I was really excited about because we'd been told at school that French dogs said waff and not woof, but then I felt really guilty - and do to this day, because I am a spack - that I'd hurt it.
DID YOU ENJOY THAT SNIPPET OF INSANITY?
Oh, I remember the place name now: it was Honfleur. ALL MY MEMORIES OF THAT HOLIDAY ARE NOW BELONG TO YOU.
My mother has since relayed to me a hilarious story about going to try and get her hair cut but only speaking limited French, which I would tell you here but it requires amusing accents and hand-gestures for its ~genius~ to be ~properly appreciated~
ALSO WHEN I AM LESS LADYPAINED UP I AM GOING TO READ YOUR ORIGINAL FIC AND LEAVE WORDS, DO NOT THINK I AM IGNORING IT, I JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY MAKE THOUGHTS AT YOU AFTERWARDS. ♥ I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS.
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Date: 2009-04-17 03:21 am (UTC)Let's talk about YA fantasy! I am mildly interested in the Mortal Instruments trilogy, because my best friend totally adores them, and whenever I call her up, she's all, "HEY, THERE'S SUPERNATURAL-TYPE GAY STUFF! YOU LIKE THAT, DON'T YOU?" to try to get me to read them, only I read about ten pages of the...second or third one (which is already out over on my side of the pond, anyway!), I don't even remember, at Barnes & Noble the other day, and I kind of wanted to stab the two main characters and their stupid relationship in the face? Which...is not of the good. But Libba Bray likes them a lot (THE SWEET, FAR THING STILL KILLS MY SOUL IN THE BEST OF WAYS)! And she has never led me astray before! Then again, SMeyer likes them. And I would not trust her taste ever.
ALSO, WORD WORD FOREVER ABOUT SUPER SPECIAL CHARACTERS! I find that usually I hate, hate the main chick in YA fantasy really, really hard by the end of the book. But I end up reading the entire series anyway because I adore the supporting characters and their mentioned-only-once-every-forty-pages romance. WOE.
1) TALK TO ME ABOUT DOLLHOUSE.
2) Because I really need to finish up this comment and go READ STUFF: the first time someone of the opposite sex saw you naked.
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Date: 2009-04-17 10:16 am (UTC)YA FANTASY, I AM GOING BOOK SHOPPING THIS AFTERNOON TO DISTRACT MYSELF, AWESOME TIMES. The Mortal Instruments trilogy, okay, here are my slightly more extensive thoughts on the matter. It took me about half of the first book to actually care about any of the characters. It took me to the second book to make me stop wanting to stab some of the writing with a big sharp knife, but that feeling has sadly not abated fully. I don't know how much you know about the relationship between the main characters, but there's a thing at the end of the first book that made me go awesome, even though I do find them irritating at times - but I think minor irritation is just something that's going to go hand-in-hand with romance involving the main character in all YA fantasy. LOOK, OKAY, THERE IS A HALF-ASIAN WARLOCK CALLED MAGNUS, WHICH, FYI, IS MY FAVOURITE NAME FOR A MALE PERSON EVER AND IS WHAT MY POTENTIAL FUTURE SON WILL BE CALLED, AND HE HAS AWESOME HAIR AND WEARS GLITTER FOR NO GOOD REASON OTHER THAN TO LOOK GLITTERY, AND HE IS BITCHY BUT NICE AND, ALSO, IS MASSIVELY A GAY AND GAYS IT UP WITH ONE OF THE MAIN SECONDARY CHARACTERS.
The main character, Clary, okay, yes, she annoys me too, but then she does do fewer ridiculous just-to-further-the-plot things than some YA protagonists I've read, and, also, I am a ridiculous person who tends to get sucked into the ridiculous main relationships in a YA fantasy book, and so I still root for her and Jace - the main guy - to get together, despite wanting to stab them in the faces sometimes. ALSO HER BEST FRIEND TOOK FREAKING AGES TO STOP MAKING ME WANT HIM TO DIE EVERY TIME HE APPEARED, BUT NOW I QUITE LIKE HIM. 'QUITE LIKE' IS SUCH AN ACHIEVEMENT CONSIDERING AT ONE POINT I ACTIVELY SKIPPED PARTS WHERE HE WAS THERE OR WAS TALKED ABOUT AND THEN HAD TO GO BACK AND MAKE MYSELF READ THEM BECAUSE, DUDE, YOU DON'T SKIP PARTS OF A BOOK.
Possibly I should move on from this topic now.
Have you read Tithe and/or Ironside? I didn't really get into Tithe as much as I expected, but I really enjoyed Ironside. Again, there is a ridiculous, I-am-brooding-and-magical leading man to love up the main character, but, you know what, sometimes I like that. Because I am a stupid, stupid cliché.
IN FACT JUST GO AND READ HAVEMERCY AND THEN WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT AND IT WILL BE REALLY REALLY AMAZING. I made a comment to
Oh god this comment is ridiculous in both length and content. Which YA fantasy books have you enjoyed recently, Libba Bray's aside, because I didn't get on with A Great and Terrible Beauty, like, at all. At all. ALSO THE BOOK USED A TRULY AWFUL AWFUL FONT. I get picky about fonts, sometimes - I still read the book, but the wrong font with the wrong book can sometimes really put me off the story. Like judging the book, er, by its insides? SCREW YOU, COVER-FASCISTS, I AM EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS THAN THAT.
1) Dollhouse later, when the comment is less insane: possibly this afternoon, when I have watched 1x03! Briefly: Eliza pretty, still-haven't-caught-his-name-"everything's going to be all right"-guy is lovely, LADY DOCTOR IS PRETTY TOOOO, I like, er, DeWitt? Is that her name? ALSO THE HOUSE IS FREAKING GORGEOUS AND I HAVE NO MORALS.
2) This is very, very easy, because I am very, very boring: they have not! I mean, like, since birth or whatever, when there was probably a male doctor in the room. Of my choice? NEVER. lol lol lol I am rubbish at being a teenager.
edit: I am rubbish and picky and I wanted to use this icon.
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Date: 2009-04-18 09:35 pm (UTC)Mostly I feel sorry for myself when it hurts. And caffeine is badddd for period pain.
I am trying to give up dairy too. It's difficult.
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Date: 2009-04-18 10:20 pm (UTC)I've not noticed caffeine having an effect on period pain, but then I've not had much caffeine at all for about a year now - er, in tea or coffee, that is: if there's caffeine in chocolate then I've had lots of that.
Why are you trying to give up dairy? I am apparently dairy intolerant - something the doctor has only just thought of, well done him - and now I've given it up, I really can't stand to even smell dairy things, so I guess it will make a difference soon! HOPEFULLY.
How have you been, my sweet? Any happier?
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Date: 2009-04-18 10:36 pm (UTC)Is there caffeine in chocolate? I don't know but what I do know is that there is copious amounts of happiness in chocolate that balances out any caffeine.
I am just really trying to drastically cut down on dairy, particularly milk which I don't drink anymore. Most people are mildly lactose intolerant it is just sometimes more extreme. I'm also trying to cut down on all animal products :)
I have actually, thank you for asking ♥ I still have a tonne of work but I just feel lighter. How is college? Getting to a pretty stressful time :(
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Date: 2009-04-18 10:49 pm (UTC)I also recommend tofu, which is nicer than I thought it would be - although I hear it has been linked to cancer, or alzheimers or something, but I'm not sure about the specifics. It tastes nice!
I'm glad you've been a bit brighter! I worry. jabdjg work, the whole part where I have to take exams soon kind of makes me want to throw up. BUT THEN IT WILL BE OVER. THAT IS THE PART I AM CONCENTRATING ON. My mother and I are going to the Edinburgh FIlm Festival straight after my exams finish - possibly as soon as I get out of the exam hall on the last day, so that I can just immediately leave the whole school behind, thank god - and I am looking forward to that, like, A LOT.
What are your summer plans this year? Anything exciting?
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Date: 2009-04-18 11:10 pm (UTC)TOFU. I heard some bad things about it too. Health things, so I haven't tried it yet. I would like to get a vegetarian cook book or something, I am not really sure what you do with it.
I have totally been there. I am even having sympathy stomach rumbin's. But it will be over so quickly (the curse and shining light of exams, you don't want them to come so they do. But then the end is also nearer.)
Edinburgh Film Festival! Amazing! You will have to carefully document your trip!
My summer plans include, hopefully and unhopefully, getting a job for the monies. Also going to a festival with a friend, a real chilled, hippy thing. Should be fun!