wraithness

...in the country where toilets love me!!

I'll explain later...

...time to get some sleep!!

 Dear laptop, 

I will miss you tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow and the day after the day after tomorrow and the day after the day after the day after tomorrow! 

Me, your owner

Found this song on youtube and I'm not sure if I should love it or hate it... I'm gonna go with love it.

 First of all... I got Rick rolled... yet AGAIN!!!

I've reached a total of 99 drafts in my inbox...  which wouldn't be a problem if those drafts weren't story ideas and actual story parts. I definitely need to do something about that. Like... make sure it never gets to see the light of day.

Anyway, I'll be in Londen till Thursday, which means no posts till then. (not that I've been posting an awful lot these past few days) I'll take lots of piccies so you can laugh at how we got lost or how we got soaking wet or how...  never mind. *hopes it doesn't rain, even if it IS London she's going to*


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So one of my friends is plucking strawberries in Scotland. Aye, that's right, the lass has found herself a very cool way of travelling and making a bit of money at the same time. Nope, that's not jealousy you hear. OK, maybe I'm just a wee bit jealous. I hope she's taking lots of pictures. Anyway, she asked me to send her her grades, so that's what I did. And guess what, she's not reacting (which is normal if she's as "cheap" as I am *iz kidding*). But my message wasn't really a question, so I suppose it's quite normal. But then the day before yesterday, I sent her another message, a question this time, a pretty important one. And she's still not reacting. Needless to say, I'm getting a little worried. I'm sure she's fine though, but knowing her hitchhiking-tendencies, I'm a little worried. I might be exaggerating a wee (I love that word) bit (the part about the hitchhiking tendencies).

As for my grades... well I have to retake three exams, which was to be expected after my little exam breakdown last Christmas. But then again, three's doable. Uni is all about learning how to fail and how to pick yourself up after failing. Oh and it's about learning how to deal with hypocrites. Not my favorite kind of people.

I have a new favorite song, 'Kill the Lights' by David Usher. 

Oh and I watched a couple of movies:
-Little Miss Sunshine
-Rendition
-No Country For Old Men (Javier Bardem is a creepy fella, but really terrific as well)
-Nothing to Lose (cos Tim 'Shawshank Redemption' Robbins is a great actor)
-Dances with Wolves
-Gandhi
-Population 436
-The Painted Veil
-Flags of Our Fathers

And I started watching 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles' because there's nothing else on tv. But it's OK really, only one problem, I can't really stand Sarah Connor, which might be a bit of a problem. Don't know why though.

Less than a week till London (I'll take piccies)
Two weeks till 'The Dark Knight' and the fifth season of 'The Dead Zone' on DVD

My back is killing me... and I need to get more law done today.  Maybe I shouldn't sit on the floor while studying, or maybe I shouldn't hunch over my books in a very back-unfriendly manner... Either way, I'm happy as long as I don't feel it in my leg, that would mean the return of the Jedi hernias (plural intended) and I don't want that, don't need that now, don't need it EVER again. So er... 

Dear back,

Stop harassing me!!

Thanks,

your owner

Note to self: start studying and stop posting...

Alert: Possible Hiatus (prolly NOT)

 Stole this meme from slowdead... I'm just adjusting the rules a little.

1. Open a music player.
2. Go to 'all music'/'library'.
3. Hit shuffle/repeat/randomise.
4. Find photos of the first 25 30 artists/bands that come up (no repeats and no cheating).
5. Have people guess who the artists/bands are.
6. Paste this in your journal and do it too, so I can have fun guessing as well.

Not gonna do 5 and 6 and I'm not gonna post photos... 'cause, really, I don't have the time and I wanted to do something fun. This is to get to know myself I guess. I'm just gonna list the bands/artists/songs that come up and keep it at that, as boring as that may be. If bands pop up more than once, I'll put them between brackets and list the song anyway)

1. Aeris Theme - Nobuo Uematso (Final Fantasy VII)
2. Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley 
3. Glamorous Indie Rock and Roll - The Killers
(Smile Like You Mean it - The Killers)
4. The Passenger - Iggy Pop
5. Don't Fear the Reaper - Enya and Nick Cave (like the original better though)
6. Somewhere I Belong - Linkin Park
7. The Road I'm On - 3 Doors Down
8. As Things Collide - Kara's Flowers (yup now known as Maroon 5)
(Sam's Town - The Killers)
9. Roseanna - Toto (don't ask)
(Black Mage's Village - Nobuo Uematso (Final Fantasy IX))
(Who Let You Go - The Killers)
(Battle with Gilgamesh - Nobuo Uematso (Final Fantasy XIII))
10. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
(Tranquilize - The Killers)
11. Anything But Ordinary - Avril Lavigne
12. Drops of Jupiter - Train
13.  Sunday Morning - Maroon 5
14. Horse with No Name - America
15. Hard Rock Hallelujah - Lordi
16. The Scientist - Coldplay
17. Love You Lately - Daniel Powter
18. The Worrying Kind - The Ark
19. What if God Was One of Us - Joan Osbourne
20. Thunder in My Heart - Leo Sayer
(Under the Gun - The Killers)
(Africa - Toto)
21. Shiny Happy People - REM
22. Gravity of Love - Enigma
23. The River - Live
24. Grocer Jack - Keith West (played a lot when I was a kid)
25. Baggy Trousers - Madness
26. Vertigo - U2
27. Too Lost in You - Sugababes
28. Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
29. Easy to Be Hard - Three Dog Night
(Lightning Crashes - Live)
(Somebody Told Me - The Killers)
30. Time Is Running Out - Muse

Seems like my list is seriously a little biased... *needs to delete some songs*

Three more exams to go and I think I did pretty good today. History seemed kinda... possible. Let's just leave it at that.  Now on to the fun part, not that exams aren't fun, they are. REALLY! *makes herself believe the terrible lies* The words flew out of my pen, but then again I had the same feeling during my philosophy exam last period.  
Anyway, I went to see '3:10 to Yuma' today. Yup that's right, a year after the American release *izz jealous*. I loved it and I don't like westerns, but I really loved this one.
We rented 'The Kite Runner'... let's just say very touching... MUST SEE DEFINITELY!!
And then there was DVD shopping... I bought the first season of CSI: NY (14 euros, I couldn't resist) and 'Quest for Camelot' (Ahhh the childhood memories)

Next up: my law exam... Don't know how that'll go (might've skipped a few classes)

I'm not very f list friendly right now, I know and sorry 'bout that. I'm even surprised I'm posting really.

Four exams to go!

... exams are fun...
... I can do it! ... and if I can't then I still can! (even if that doesn't make sense)

Oh and 4 days to '3:10 to Yuma'!! *gets overly excited*

Went to see Indiana Jones (and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) yesterday...
Can I say 'overcooked'? All cliches considered, I enjoyed most parts as long as I didn't try to think. 
John Hurt rocked... 
Not gonna spill the details... NEED.TO.STUDY.ECONOMY

My new mottos: "I can do it!, I can do it!!" and "Exams are fun."

Oh and I'm a geek... Cate Blachett's character said: "Any defiant last words?" and I was thinking: "SGA's ep The Defiant One kicks ass." Sorry, can't help myself. Just ignore me.

I stole this one from my good friend Aline (AKA slowdead) 

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to.

I'm not gonna tag anyone, if you feel like doing it, go right ahead.

(youtube links, not in a particular order)

1 - Nickel Creek - A Lighthouse's Tale 
(like the sound of it)
2 - Hard-Fi - Suburban Nights
(It's so catchy, but yes, It was used in an sga vid on youtube somewhere)
3 - Lisa Gerrard - Now We Are Free
(ever since that movie quiz I've been listening to it again and I still get goosebumps every time I play it)
4 - Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
(don't ask)
5 - The Time Warp from 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'
(slowdeadgot me addicted)
6 - Calling All Angels - Train
7 - Savage Garden - To the Moon and Back
(just one of those songs I use while studying, don't know why. I love it.)

(yes I know it said seven, but why not ten?)
8 - David Usher - Black Black Heart
(SGA vid on youtube got me addicted. Oh and there's a slow version too.)
9- Gavin Rossdale - Adrenaline
(Burn Notice vid on youtube got me addcited)
10 - To Zanarkand (from Final Fantasy X)
(I have a thing for piano music and this one gives me chills for some reason. The link is a fan playing it on the piano.)
 

I received a couple of pre-birthday presents. My friends rock!! 


Mom: I've hidden your present
Me: All right.
Mom: Did you hear what I said?
Me: Yup.
Mom: You're not curious?
Me: *smiling* Don't need to know where you put the socks.
Mom: Now, maybe that's exactly what I should give you next year.
Me: *looks up from book*  I know you wouldn't do that. Oh wait, you WOULD do that just to tease me.

OH!! My new DVD arrived (after seven weeks of waiting) I should've just ordered it online, it would've been a lot faster me thinks. 

Facebook scares me...

I opened an account a while back because my friends kept bugging me (Yes I'm looking at the four of you!!). So I gave in to their evil peer pressure tactics.  But really, if one more person calls me kinky or sexy (or cheap for that matter) I'm gonna delete my account. Why? Because it scares the cr*p out of me. I.AM.NOT.KINKY! CHEAP.MAYBE.BUT.DEFINITELY.NOT.KINKY. *sighs* I must admit, it's kinda funny though. There's a 'slap' function and I'm using it. What the hell am I doing? Forget the if, I'm deleting it this week.

Talking to myself: "Face it, it's about flirting, not so much about the digital book shelf."

I should've known before I joined.
 

I found this one earlier today. I wish my teacher would've explained it to me like that. :-p

I worked for school! VICTORY² !! Now it's time for my scifi fix. *hops off* NEED.TO.BRAINWASH.FRIENDS.

Our history class is like The Neverending Story without the fantasy elements or the jokes or the fun or ... never mind *sulks*. I used to love history classes, now it's just: 'oh look what people ate in the middle ages!' and 'oh look they got married at the age of...". AM.NOT.KIDDING.YE. I don't like it when it's all about demography, those graphs are gonna be the end of me.

I'll get right to the point, there were 74 groups and we ended tenth, which is really great since most of the groups before us won or ended second or third the previous editions. It was our very first offcial movie quiz so I'm really proud, our team rocked. Unfortunately, we didn't win anything, only the last group and the first three got a prize, if I'd known that I might've scratched out all of the answers before handing it in :-D Kidding, kidding! 
First Round: trailers (we had them all)
Second Round: Soundtracks (we had half or a little more, don't really remember, but this was a difficult round)
Third Round: Movie Images (I think we had them all)
Fourth Round: Actors (We didn't know two names)
Fifth Round: Quotes (This is the only round we really screwed up, we only got Titanic correct)
Sixth Round: Summaries (most of them except for one or two)
Seventh Round: About the movie theatre (guess work!!)
Eighth Round: Partners of the movie theatre (most of it correct)
and a couple of open questions about movies [(like who's the director/producer/... of ... ) we did great here as well]
(Rounds could be in the wrong order)

Oh and we got to watch the avant premiere (for Belgium at least) of In Bruges, which I think sucks for people in the US. Why would you laugh when they're talking about a city you didn't even know exists?

I gave directions in English, which was so much fun. Really, I love English and I don't get the chance to speak it a lot. I kinda forgot how I sounded. lol. shutting up now... 
My friends and I are gonna do a film quiz tomorrow, we're going to have so much fun, I just know it. I'll let you all know how it went. *looking forward to tomorrow*

For the sake of posting something 'cause it's been a couple of days since my last unnecessary post. I've got loads of stress, anyone interested? It's for free. I could send you a few tons. Those exams are getting way too close.
On the bright side... I bought season two of Criminal Minds!!! YAY! Go wallet me! 
Oh and the sun came out to play! I'm like half red now. Doesn't matter, I have a color!! Finally! win-win situation!

ttfn x-x-x

Shoe shopping sucks when your feet are too big... and I'm not talking huge, just one frakking size too big *drowns in self-pity*. It's discrimination, I'm telling ye! I need my science fiction dose.

Title - Old Town by Phil Lynott


I feel like writing an original fic (read: a book)... I have these... ideas, but nothing solid...yet. It's one of the things I want to achieve in my life... I want to write a book, fiction of course and in my mother tongue, which is Dutch *dreams on*. Think I'll stick to fanfiction for the time being. But someday... my prince will come I'll do it, I'll start writing. I did write a story once, and my friends liked it back then, but I thought it sucked big time, so I deleted it. *EEKK* I'm way too impulsive and hard on myself when it comes to these things. Forget I even brought it up. *sulks*
What else do I want to achieve? :-D ... I want to be credited!! Seriously, I don't care if they put my name behind the hair dresser, I want to contribute to a movie and see my name on the screen. Can you imagine going to a movie and pointing to the screen while saying: "Look, that's me!"... I'm weird, I know. But that'd be awesome.

I'm going to watch another movie tonight... don't know which one, either 'Breach' or 'Snow Cake', I'm kinda hoping we'll (my mom and I) watch the first one.