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Feb. 16th, 2003 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neverwhereI'm ill.
Which I suppose is as good excuse as any for not going to the anti-war demonstration in London yesterday. I had mixed feelings about going anyway, but even before I got sick (on friday) I realized that I would probably hyperventilate if I were in a crowd of a million people, I just do not feel comfortable in large groups, and that would have been far too large to handle. But it would have been nice to meet up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
evil_nick and say hi. Ah well, another time. :)
Lets see, what are some interesting things that have happened lately...
--- This morning I watched a programme about otters! God, they're adorable. I love their little noses and the way they slide down on their tummies into the water, and their cute lil' squeaks and especially their playful nature. They're just soooo cute. Yayyy otters!
---andraste_oz's journal this week is full of stories about her trip to New Zealand, and it's making me very nostalgic. My 3 weeks in NZ was the best vacation I ever had, and not just because it was the last holiday I had with both my parents (it was just before their divorce). We went to both islands, and visited just about everywhere, including most of the locations used for the filming of Lord of the Rings, and had the most amazing time. I walked on a glacier, worked on a sheep station (I sheared a sheep!), nearly bungee jumped (alas, too young), went on a trip through a Fjord, and saw the most breathtaking scenery in the world. New Zealand really is as beautiful as LOTR makes it out to be, and it's no surprise that all the boys want to move there. *I* want to move there. Maybe one day I shall. :)
--- I had a pleasant surprise this weekend when I discovered that one of my favourite shows when I was younger is still on tv, a brilliant Australian kids show called Ocean Girl. Does anyone else remember this series? It used to be on Disney and I was totally addicted. It's about a girl who's best friend is a whale named Charlie, and the two boys she meets one day who become her friends and protectors. It sounds utterly cheesy, but it's such fun! I wanted to know Neri so badly, and swim with her and Charlie off the beautiful island that was their home. Yeah, I'm sad. But you knew that already. *grins*
--- I'm so pleased that everyone enjoyed my silly little quiz. I have a few ideas for more, if you're interested. *G* At least, I thought everyone liked it -- the only people who graded it all gave it a 1/5. Which didn't exactly make me feel very good, as you can imagine. *I* thought it was a rather enjoyable bit of fluff. Any suggestions about what I can improve next time? (Don't worry, pictures will be smaller, and it won't be a friends related quiz. Probably. ;-)
---This is a vast collection of LOTR filks (song parodies), some of which are absolutely hysterical. Go read!
Oooh, and speaking of parodies,ixwin has updated her page of LOTR/Buffy songs! Click meeeee.
--- I think I need a new moodtheme, but I don't know how to make one. There's nothing really wrong with this one (mmm LOTR boys), but I'm afraid there's just too much Elijiah Wood. Sorrytrianne, he's cute and all, but he's no Billeh. *grins* If some generous soul would like to talk me through the process, I'd be ever so grateful.
--- Someone please recommend a book and music CD to me. I am desperate for something new and exciting. The last book I read, The Red Tent was amazing, a wonderful historical fiction written in a simple, elegant prose. Very meaningful and interesting. But now I have read every single book in my substantial collection (most of which I have already read at least 3 or 4 times) and I'm getting restless. More books! One can never have enough books, as this charming Edward Gorey shirt says. Anyone want to buy it for me? *grins*
And now here is a present for all my friends, because you're all special, and I don't think I have thanked you for being so kind and wonderful to me. Thank you. :)
Which I suppose is as good excuse as any for not going to the anti-war demonstration in London yesterday. I had mixed feelings about going anyway, but even before I got sick (on friday) I realized that I would probably hyperventilate if I were in a crowd of a million people, I just do not feel comfortable in large groups, and that would have been far too large to handle. But it would have been nice to meet up with
evil_nick and say hi. Ah well, another time. :)Lets see, what are some interesting things that have happened lately...
--- This morning I watched a programme about otters! God, they're adorable. I love their little noses and the way they slide down on their tummies into the water, and their cute lil' squeaks and especially their playful nature. They're just soooo cute. Yayyy otters!
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andraste_oz's journal this week is full of stories about her trip to New Zealand, and it's making me very nostalgic. My 3 weeks in NZ was the best vacation I ever had, and not just because it was the last holiday I had with both my parents (it was just before their divorce). We went to both islands, and visited just about everywhere, including most of the locations used for the filming of Lord of the Rings, and had the most amazing time. I walked on a glacier, worked on a sheep station (I sheared a sheep!), nearly bungee jumped (alas, too young), went on a trip through a Fjord, and saw the most breathtaking scenery in the world. New Zealand really is as beautiful as LOTR makes it out to be, and it's no surprise that all the boys want to move there. *I* want to move there. Maybe one day I shall. :)--- I had a pleasant surprise this weekend when I discovered that one of my favourite shows when I was younger is still on tv, a brilliant Australian kids show called Ocean Girl. Does anyone else remember this series? It used to be on Disney and I was totally addicted. It's about a girl who's best friend is a whale named Charlie, and the two boys she meets one day who become her friends and protectors. It sounds utterly cheesy, but it's such fun! I wanted to know Neri so badly, and swim with her and Charlie off the beautiful island that was their home. Yeah, I'm sad. But you knew that already. *grins*
--- I'm so pleased that everyone enjoyed my silly little quiz. I have a few ideas for more, if you're interested. *G* At least, I thought everyone liked it -- the only people who graded it all gave it a 1/5. Which didn't exactly make me feel very good, as you can imagine. *I* thought it was a rather enjoyable bit of fluff. Any suggestions about what I can improve next time? (Don't worry, pictures will be smaller, and it won't be a friends related quiz. Probably. ;-)
---This is a vast collection of LOTR filks (song parodies), some of which are absolutely hysterical. Go read!
Oooh, and speaking of parodies,
ixwin has updated her page of LOTR/Buffy songs! Click meeeee. --- I think I need a new moodtheme, but I don't know how to make one. There's nothing really wrong with this one (mmm LOTR boys), but I'm afraid there's just too much Elijiah Wood. Sorry
trianne, he's cute and all, but he's no Billeh. *grins* If some generous soul would like to talk me through the process, I'd be ever so grateful. --- Someone please recommend a book and music CD to me. I am desperate for something new and exciting. The last book I read, The Red Tent was amazing, a wonderful historical fiction written in a simple, elegant prose. Very meaningful and interesting. But now I have read every single book in my substantial collection (most of which I have already read at least 3 or 4 times) and I'm getting restless. More books! One can never have enough books, as this charming Edward Gorey shirt says. Anyone want to buy it for me? *grins*
And now here is a present for all my friends, because you're all special, and I don't think I have thanked you for being so kind and wonderful to me. Thank you. :)
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Date: 2003-02-16 03:25 pm (UTC)(That thank you is very cute btw:) *hugs*)
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Date: 2003-02-16 03:27 pm (UTC)*gigglies*
I really have no time O_O *le sigh*
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Date: 2003-02-16 03:29 pm (UTC)It's on saturday and sunday afternoons on Discovery Kids. I'm so happy you liked it too! *high five* :D
Did you know that Neri's an alien? And she has a sister? I got as far as the end of that series, when her sister went back home but she stayed on earth, but I'm pretty sure the episode I saw today was the next series, as I don't remember it and the boys looked alot older. I'll have to look around online for some fansites to catch up with the story, but who cares! I get to watch my show again! (God, I am so sad. I really shouldn't get this excited about a kids program. *laughs*)
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Date: 2003-02-16 03:29 pm (UTC)>I hate loving you!!!
Oh, come off it, you LOVE loving me. *smirks*
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Date: 2003-02-16 03:30 pm (UTC)Did you see it when her sister shows up? That's about when I last saw it. Tis a horrible thing, them dropping the show. :(
heh. Can't believe somebody else likes that show *g*
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Date: 2003-02-16 03:32 pm (UTC)YEAHH!
I can't believe a boy like that show. *chuckles*
See what I wrote for
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Date: 2003-02-16 03:38 pm (UTC)I remember that her little sister was taken by the scientists or something, and that she grew up on an island. hehe, I'm so pathetic.
I'll have to check it out and see if its on Discovery Kids here. Probably not, but it might be on the WGBH (<3 the British television station) or another one that has shows from the UK and Aussieland. Hopefully one of the three will have it, lol.
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Date: 2003-02-16 03:39 pm (UTC)Hmmm, a book and a CD... a really interesting and intriguing book is Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England by James Ruddick. That's what I'm reading right now, and it's quite fun. I'm not usually into non-fiction, but I'm enjoying this one.
As for a CD, anything by Tom McRae. I just found out he has a new CD out, and I downloaded it all and am loving it. His old album is really great too.
But that's just my personal opinion. ;)
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Date: 2003-02-16 03:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-16 03:43 pm (UTC)*giggles* Isn't it adorable? I just had to share it with everyone. :)
That book sounds fantastic, I'll try and get it at the bookshop this week. The Victorians are so fascinating, aren't they?
I've never heard of Tom McRae, but I'll look him up, thanks! *squeeeeeeeeeze* :D
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Date: 2003-02-16 03:44 pm (UTC)Am I your most Elijah obsessed friend, then? but I'm afraid there's just too much Elijiah Wood. Sorry trianne, he's cute and all, but he's no Billeh. *
Yay!!!!!!! I am the most at something. The most obsessed!! Go me!! Never been the most before... oh, is that a bad thing?
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Date: 2003-02-16 03:46 pm (UTC)You are without a doubt my most Elijiah obsessed anything. *grins*
And you're 'the most' of alot of things! Like, uhmmm...most adorable, most deluded into thinking she isn't absolutely, utterly amazing (the silly bint)...y'know, that sort of thing. *giggles*
Aha...
Date: 2003-02-16 04:18 pm (UTC)I can remember many a lazy afternoon playing in the pool with my sister where we'd Neri-swim our day away. Then we'd decide to play "The Little Mermaid" instead and fight over who got to be Ariel until I'd say something like "Alright, you can be Ariel - I want to be "Pearl", Ariel's far more exciting and much more attractive cousin" which would start arguement number two - who got to be Pearl, which funnily enough Lucy would win while I was left to be Ariel... aha ha ha.
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Date: 2003-02-16 04:21 pm (UTC)TONEYYY! *flyingtacklepouncesquish* :D
Actually, I Neri-swam even before I saw the show. *grins sheepishly*
I learned to swim by imitating dolphins, and actually had to be taught 'normal' ways of swimming. Aren't I a freak? *laughs*
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Date: 2003-02-16 04:24 pm (UTC)Re: Aha...
Date: 2003-02-16 04:25 pm (UTC)> Go fetch me that inflatable walrus, oh loyal minion!
*snorts loudly*
Oh, I can not wait to use that line out of context. Bwahahahaha. :)
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Date: 2003-02-16 04:32 pm (UTC)(((((((Nevvie)))))))))
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Date: 2003-02-16 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-16 04:39 pm (UTC)*mumblemumbleOnly183mumblemumble* :-P
And stop thinking you're not incredibly special and brilliant, because you are. So there. :)
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Date: 2003-02-16 04:43 pm (UTC)Ever thought about standing for Mayor of London?
Just a thought...
:)
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Date: 2003-02-16 04:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-16 05:01 pm (UTC)*smirks*
Well, I can't be any worse than dear ol' Ken. ;-)
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Date: 2003-02-16 05:03 pm (UTC)I was bitten by a wild dolphin when I was seven years old. It's actually one of my fondest memories. *giggles*
(Well, not the teeth on my leg, that wasn't fun, but the half hour or so before when we were playing together. That was fun. :)
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Date: 2003-02-16 05:12 pm (UTC)Books: Anything by (1.)Michael Crichton (Specifically "The Andromeda Strain" and "Jurassic Park")
(2.)Richard Preston: "The Hot Zone", "The Cobra Event", and "The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story"
(3.)John Berendt: "Midnight in the Garden of Good And Evil"
CD: Any Symphonies by Gustav Mahler and Tchaikovsky. Beethoven's Symphony No.9. Prokofiev's Symphony No.5. Classical's my forté I'm afraid, so I'm not very good with anything popular. I am your 'classical' guide.
*hugs*
Akira
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Date: 2003-02-16 06:25 pm (UTC)Yeah for Frog/Cow pairing! WOOOOOOOOO!
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Date: 2003-02-16 08:50 pm (UTC)CD... CD... um, I never know what to recommend. Nobody shares my taste in music! :D
I remember Ocean Girl! The TV magazines over here went mental with it, it was fair difficult to avoid :) I had no idea it'd ever been on anywhere else, though.
*feeds you digital soup until you get better*
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Date: 2003-02-16 11:09 pm (UTC)Otters are the mammalian equivalent of penguin. They're cute and fuzzy and I don't know a soul who actively dislikes them.
--- I think I need a new moodtheme, but I don't know how to make one. There's nothing really wrong with this one (mmm LOTR boys), but I'm afraid there's just too much Elijiah Wood. Sorry trianne, he's cute and all, but he's no Billeh. *grins* If some generous soul would like to talk me through the process, I'd be ever so grateful.
Making your own mood icons is a huge pain in the ass, which is why I never finished mine. You ave to make them all and then upload them to your web space, then enter them all into the LJ administration console. There's a pretty godd walk through at their icon help page over here.
At the risk of being lynched, I'd say that too much Elijah Wood is a good summary of events as they stand. I mean, he's got pretty eyes and all, but as for the rest...meh. The world needs more Billeh. Billeh Billeh Billeh! And more... well, more of all the rest of them. It ought to be awfully damn obvious by now which one I'm partial to, so I'm going to give it a rest and just say that I don't think there was a man that got in front of the camera on that project who wasn't a sexy beast.
--- Someone please recommend a book and music CD to me. I am desperate for something new and exciting. The last book I read, The Red Tent was amazing, a wonderful historical fiction written in a simple, elegant prose. Very meaningful and interesting. But now I have read every single book in my substantial collection (most of which I have already read at least 3 or 4 times) and I'm getting restless.
I'm on a huge Guy G. Kay kick right now, but I think that I've pimped him to you before. There's a book I've been trying to get hold of, "An Instance of the Fingerpost," by Iain Pears. It's a murder mystery set in Oxford in the late 1600s. Another one I finished a while ago and liked was "The Shadow of the Lion," an odd sort of historical fantasy set in the Venetian Republic in the 1500s. By Mercedes Lackey and some other guys. If you can forgive a tendancy toward Mary Sueism in the protagonists, it's not a bad story. I've also been reading all sorts of esoteric nonfiction. Everything from the evolution of the use of language to the history of women's roles in movies. A couple of terrific books by writers writing about writing, as well, but that stuff tends to be kind of boring unless you're into literary theory.
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Date: 2003-02-17 07:06 am (UTC)You've been to New Zealand? Lucky! I would love to go there someday.
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Date: 2003-02-17 12:00 pm (UTC)Thanks for the helpful link, I'll try and figure out the moodtheme process tonight. Wish me luck. ;-)
An Instance of the Fingerpost is a fantastic book, I hope you find it soon! And thanks so much for reminding me about Guy Kay, I knew there was an author I was supposed to explore, and couldn't remember who it was. Cheers!
And don't worry, no one will lynch you for your opinions on my journal. Especially when we all know it's ALL ABOUT THE BILLEH. *smug grin*
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Date: 2003-02-17 12:04 pm (UTC)*slurps digitally* Mmmmm, you can really taste the pixels. :)
>'Miss Smilla's Feelings For Snow' by Peter Hoeg. It's beautiful, beautiful, beautiful :)
Well, you've convinced me. *grins*
Was Ocean Girl popular? Or mocked for being silly? (Although how anything could be considered sillier than things like Atlantis High is beyond me. ;-)
No one ever shares my taste in music either. We can be musical outcasts together! *clutches on to you tightly*
(*hears a voice in the distance shouting 'Unclean, uncleaaan!'* Whoa, where did that come from...*giggles*)
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Date: 2003-02-17 12:06 pm (UTC)*laughs*
That is such an adorable image, how do you get to be so creative? *stares at you in awe* :))
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Date: 2003-02-17 12:11 pm (UTC)I've read all of Crichton's books, except the new one, Prey. I'll get that in paperback. :) (My favourites are Sphere and Jurrasic Park.)
I'm too nervous to read The Hot Zone, but The demon in the freezer sounds intriguing...
Ahhhh, Midnight, yes. Crap film, supposedly brilliant book. Will look it up. *G*
I'm not a big Mahler fan, but I do love Tchaikosky. I worship Beethoven, his music is so utterly, utterly beautiful. And don't apologize for not knowing 'popular' music, because I haven't a clue about it either. I never listen to the radio (unless it's BBC4 comedy or Classic FM) and the only modern music I ever hear is usually on those 'Best Hits of 2002!' cd collection adverts on tv. So I am very sad indeed. *giggles*
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Date: 2003-02-17 12:40 pm (UTC)They do, admittedly, get your heart pumping. I highly recommend "The Road To Wellville" by: T. Coraghessan Boyle. Fantastic novel, fantastic film! Though, the book isn't exactly for the nauseous at stomach!
*hugs*
Akira
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Date: 2003-02-17 01:50 pm (UTC)Everyone should go to NZ!
In fact, why don't I organize a big field trip for aaaaalll my LJ friends. Won't that be fun? :)
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Date: 2003-02-17 02:19 pm (UTC)I love your otter icon!
Re NZ: Elly and I were seriously thinking of moving there at one point. We'll probably move to Scotland at some point (house prices etc etc).
Hope you feel better today.
Hugs,
Nick
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Date: 2003-02-17 02:23 pm (UTC)I was at my country house once and I saw one in a stream by some railroad tracks. I didn't understand how an otter could live in upstate New York, but it was cool all the same.
...You have Nightcrawler icons.
that is very, very, cool.
-Banzai
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Date: 2003-02-17 02:47 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-02-17 03:03 pm (UTC)Mmm... pixels... :D
Oh, well, if I have to be a musical outcast, I'll enjoy it much more if you're there too :) ("No, I see nothing wrong with putting Rammstein and *NSYNC on the same mixtape, why do you ask?" :)
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Date: 2003-02-17 04:20 pm (UTC)Wah.
Date: 2003-02-17 04:50 pm (UTC)My little darling sister is going to NZ on tour, as well as several of my closest friends and I want to go too. They're even playing LotR music in orchestra. Not fair, not fair, not faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaair.
Greetings fellow Ravenclaw!
Date: 2003-02-18 04:07 pm (UTC)Hello hello!
Otters rule! *high fives you and your amazing coolness* :D
I do indeed have Nightcrawler icons. He's so cute it's unreal. Well, of course it is, as he isn't real. But if he were, he'd be MINE. *giggles*
Your icon is adorable, did you draw it? :)
Thanks so much for dropping by! *hugs*
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Date: 2003-02-18 04:09 pm (UTC)So THAT'S why I have a blowhole! :D
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Date: 2003-02-18 04:11 pm (UTC)Hee!
*pets Mr Cabybara*
All my friends want to move to NZ. I think we should start our own commune. *grins*
Re: Greetings fellow Ravenclaw!
Date: 2003-02-18 04:43 pm (UTC);)
yep, I did draw this icon. But Jaida colored it. I actually drew about sixteen of these "people faces" on one flash card, and you may see them pop up randomly here and there. I think Jaida's is floating around somewhere in her bio...
I think I like it here. Perhaps I'll stay for tea. ;)
-Banzai
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Date: 2003-02-21 09:55 am (UTC)