Such is the reality of life as a writer— there IS no time off.
Other people leave the office and go off on holidays, but that's not the case with writers. Oh sure, we can easily walk away from the writing desk, but it's not so easy to flick the switch in our heads that makes us stop thinking of the next thing to write. We're stuck in that headspace. A writer's brain will continue to churn, even when we want to think about other things. It's not a BAD problem to have. It's not as bad as, say, being born without a head or waking up one morning to find your house is made of cheese. But it can get annoying. It means that you can never really relax...
I've had a few days off ever since sending in my first draft of LSODM. The last time I spoke with Nick, my editor, he was halfway through and loving it. Apparently. So that's good. I think. I'm not sure what my feelings are towards this new book. At the moment I'm too close to it, I don't know if it's good or great (or, yikes, bad) so I'm at that stage where uncertainty is tainting everything and I'm just waiting for Nick to finish the whole thing and say "Yeaahhhhh it's... fine... BUT..."
So yes, I've had a few days off since then. Two of which were taken up with meetings. But from Thursday on, I haven't even had to answer the phone. So what have I been doing?
Planning.
I have two short stories to write for various things. I want to do a lot more for the Skulduggery short story collection coming out next year. I need to start thinking of Skulduggery Book Nine. And I have to get a handle of what I'm going to write AFTER. What book is going to coming out in 2015? What will the next series be?
So that's what I've been doing over the weekend.
But now that I have the first draft handed in, hopefully I'll be able to get back to posting here on a weekly basis, and being a bit more present on Twitter, and generally getting things back to normal. You've all been very patient while I've had my head down, and I appreciate it. As a reward, here's a thing.
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«Oldest ‹Older 1801 – 2000 of 4926 Newer› Newest»@Star: If that means you should be locked up in an asylum, then it means that I should be joining you there, since I agree with you.
It's odd. I hate the idea of killing, yet I believe that if a tonne of us were killed, it'd be GOOD.
Gah. Gotta go. Bbs.
I'm just sitting here, with my sleeping Bassett Hound, playing Xbox and music
Sorry for distance, writing.
I read in a science textbook the other day that . . . well, you know if the fox population explodes, they'll eat all the rabbits, then they'll have no food and die out?
Well, the human population is exploding, and we're using up all our resources. Sooner or later we will die out too.
My gosh, they teach us such horrible stuff about us as w hole killing ourselves and yet nobody does a damn thing about it. I don't . . . why? Why don't all the kids in the world feel desperate to save us? I do.
This is relatively unrelated, but the other day in History me and my friend were researching the first atom bomb.
It's horrible and sick how everyone bombed that city in Japan and then were all happy and cheering over it.
If that had happened in a fiction book, it would have been deemed as a violent book and the people who sent the bomb would have been the evil bad guys.
But it's real life.
So like what.
*is actually crying irl*
Don't cry Star *hugs* Don't cry
What I mean is, we're a horrible species and the real world is a horrible, horrible place, and the books which are deemed violent only come a little near the truth.
My friend said she didn't like THG and I was like what and somewhere in the debate I said that how they were forced to killl each other was sick and messed up, and she was like exactly, why would I want to read about that?
And I was like, because it's a portrayle of some of the situations that exist in real life, and the world is a horrible horrible place and people are just sick and horrible.
I am less skilled with words and more liable to stumble and/or repeat myself and/or not explain my points well irl. :P
But yes. Real life is like that. D:
What was I saying again?
*hugs back* Thank you. :)
I'm okay, I'm an emotional person. :P
Sorry I poofed. There was a very minor emergency involving moldy spaghetti that wasn't even moldy.
You're right Star. Humans are horrible. (Most of them. Not us. I hope) We are the only species that kill for fun. Every other species kill for survival. Not us. We're sick...
You know you can't deny
The horrors of our age
The puppets' intricate lies will never wash them away
They can't distract us from all that's appalling again, and again, and again, and again . . .
For once, David Draiman be wrong. O_O
IKR.
Unbelievable, Jeff!
You can distract some people from all that's appalling. They can deny the horrors of our age. The puppets' intricate lies can sometimes wash them away.
BUT NOT FROM ME. :)
Opinion is a jepic song. :)
If Darquesse killed the world would it be a bad thing or good?
@Rhydian: I AM SO IN AGREEMENT.
I don't get how when humans are at their worst they say they're like animals. Uh, what? No, they're like HUMANS. And THAT, Jeffery, is WORSE. O_O
*hugs Star*
Humans ARE horrible, but that's what comes with intelligence.
Am not here, I just didn't want you to be upset:(
Hi Leni! Bye Leni! I think everyone here hates humans.
I'm neutral to humans
That depends, Rhydian.
I don't want everyone to be wiped out. I want most animals and some humans to survive. If everyone died, that would be BAD thing.
You have to think, though. If you somehow planned lots of people to die to save the world, what are the chances you wouldn't kill yourself in it? If this master plan meant you dying as well, would you do it?
I don't want everyone to die if I have to die too. I want to have a future. I want to have a shot at a normal life.
I'm incredibly selfish.
Hmm.
I shall probably spend the next few days battling with my thoughts until I convince myself that I would be able to die in this master plan.
Not that it will happen. -_-
In all your complaining about it, have you ever even tried to think about anything that could actually be done to help? Ranting isn't doing to do a 0222101031142412 thing!
Bad. The human race does not need to completely be exterminated, and if Darquesse killed the world, what makes you think she wouldn't kill all the animals? So many of them are dependent on humans, anyway, it's sickening.
And I'm actually leaving again, methinks. When I start releasing torrents of hate like this, I'm only going to get meaner from here, and it's better not to be around friends I might hurt.
*hugs Ieni* YOu so jepic. :)
Okay, Fabi. :)
I recycle and don't leave things on standby . . . I'm aware it isn't much, yes. D:
I want to write a short story showing that we have to stop school warming and use the school email system to send it to everyone in the school including the teachers, and I will do this, once I think of a good enough thing to write. Still awaiting, I.
*global warming
School warming? *shakes head*
Could I help you write it?
Hello helicopter, are you here to stay?
Bodies, rest and motion fighting night and day
Well it's kill or be killed
And one day we'll get the best of them
Hello helicopter, will you be my friend?
Will you take me away?
Hello helicopter,have you heard the news?
No one gives a sh*t about the things they do
We all waste and consume, destroy and ruin everything we touch
It's easy not to think when you're not told that much
I'm not saying anything you haven't heard before
I'm just trying to understand the way we are
Hello helicopter, are you lost out there?
Swimming through the garbage dump that fills the air
In several more years no one will care
They'll be rich and dead
So let somebody else devise a cure for it
I'm not saying anything you haven't heard before
I'm just trying to understand the way we are
Nobody seems to care
Nobody ever learns
Hello helicopter, are you here to stay?
Bodies, rest and motion fighting night and day
Well it's kill or be killed
And one day we'll get the best of them
Hello helicopter, are you listening?
Nobody seems to care
Nobody ever learns
Are we ever going to get it right?
Are we ever going to start making sense
And stop pretending that we care?
Are we ever going to get it right?
Are we ever going to start making sense
And stop pretending that we care?
Are we ever going to get it right?
Are we ever going to start making sense
And stop pretending..?
Hello helicopter, are you here to stay?
Bodies, rest and motion fighting night and day
Well it's kill or be killed
And one day we'll get the best of them
Hello helicopter, are you listening?
(Sorry for random lyricsness :P)
I am deadly serious, btw.
And I've already established that I'm too weak to commit mass genocide if I had the opportunity. *sighs*
People say they want to help but don't. I used to be one of those people. Feel really bad.
I don't have anything to write, so not no, but no for now. :P
You could do one for your school!
WE SHALL RAISE AWARENESS.
OR I SHALL.
Are you with me, or do you want the world to burn?
(That was directed at none of you, I was just practising my persuasive skills)
The world burning sounds fun. But raising awareness sounds less painful
Wait.
*Bodies rest in motion, fighting night and day
Three times.
(How did I even...?)
*shakes head*
Uh, hi.
According to Science, every other species seems to change itself in order to survive.
As humans, we change everything around us instead.
I hate the sense of entitlement and authority that we all seem to have over other things....
Humans think that we live here so we own here. Animals live here as well...
If I discovered magic I don't think I could keep it a secret. Magic could help the world. I couldn't keep a secret like that...
Star: That's a wonderful idea. I wish I could do that too, but we don't have a 'let's email our teachers' system here. I certainly hope you do, though. :3
@Rhydian: Plants, too. :)
PLANTS!!!!!! HOW COULD I FORGET PLANTS!!!!!
I've got to go now. Bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU ARE, IENI!!!!!!!!! O_O You're so awesomely awesome. :) *hugs*
In AF once they said that it was more expensive in the long term to keep the dome going, but the whoeveritwasincharge reasoned that by the time the long term came around, someone else would be in the office.
I remembered that especially because it shows how politicians work.
In the short term, selling off all the gas and electric and water seemed like a good idea. In the short term, giving away the buses seemed like a good idea.
Now, in the future, we have realised it was a terrible idea.
But it benefitted Margaret Thatcher at the time, so why should she bother about how good it was for the people?
(I'm not saying she thought this. She may have done, or she may not. I can't see what she was thinking. I'm just using an example.)
My friend at school said why bother to save the planet because by the time the effects happened we'd all be dead anyway so it wouldn't affect us.
She actually said that.
I think I felt like punching her.
That's like stabbing a random stranger in the heart and going well that's okay because I'm still alive.
Like what.
It wasn't for any reason.
You killed that person for no damn reason and that's okay?
And not just one person.
We're all stabbing millions of random strangers in the heart right now and we don't care.
We're all remorseless killers.
*frowns* My comment poofed. I said Taia's thing was actually so amazing and to Star that I wasn't jepic, at all. Ooo...I use jepic on a daily basis now!
I hate how we call animals animals. We're all animals, buddy. Humans are a species of animal.
In RS (yes, here's me having a go at RS again. I can't help it. I fucking hate it. It makes me so fucking angry. Asdfghjkl. For more information on how angry I get at RS and why, please ask. If you are sensible, don't mention it, and you'll avoid the rant), we've started doing about animal cruelty (although we're finding out about animals first), and in our very first lesson we had to do "What makes humans different to animals?"
No no no no NO. TERRIBLE way to begin the lesson. Argh asdfghjkl RS I hate you so much. Because of course this immediately made everyone look at our differences, go all 'us and them', and then copy out the differences, which are largely to do with how humans are better than animals, and then think about how stupid and weak animals are compared to humans.
I just hate RS so, so much.
It's a terrible subject that achieves the opposite of what it is there to do.
Oh my gosh.
Fucking hate it.
I HATE RS SO MUCH.
Gah.
OH MY GOSH ASDFGHJKL.
BUT YOU BE JEPIC! *frowns*
Ieni, you are amazingness. Probably because you aren't human. You're wonderful and so nice and so . . . Ieni-ish, if that makes sense. You know how some people are just amazing just because they're so THEM? :)
I hated Margaret Thatched
Thatched??
Thatcher
Awh, Bye Rhydian!
@Ieni: Thank you. :) As Star says, YOU are amazing. ;)
@Star: On the topic of animals and on RS, I agree. The way RS addresses topics actually irritates me a great deal.
When we covered the sanctity of life in RS, I couldn't help thinking of bacteria. Bacteria are alive, yet their lives are not considered special or important, we kill billions of those on a daily basis. Because it makes our own lives easier?
'They come in peace, we stay in war
We like to get drunk and fight each other in bars
And all I'm trying to say, is if you were to look
From the outside looking in, where would you begin?'
I don't know. I could rant on forever about humans and what's wrong with us in general, but at the end of the day, it's not really helping.
I suppose humans have our positive aspects too. Even if they are grossly outweighed...
Okay.
My dad, being from Liverpool, hated her. Liverpool as a whole hated her.
My mum, whom I got my objectivity from, was against a lot of the things she did and all that, and is against her as a Prime Minister, but she isn't a person who hates much.
My parents are both against the Tories.
For example, when they came to power just now, they cut lots of stuff to save money. One of the things they cut were loads of good projects doing good stuff and benefitting people.
Then they realised that they needed more jobs, so are trying to set more of those projects up, but they're having to start from scracth whereas the old ones already had been going for years.
Idiots. :P
They aren't very good at doing what's best for the less well off people, my mum says.
(I get basically all my views on politics from my mum. Nobody else ever really says anything about it to me, so)
They're also getting rid of all the youth workers and turning them into social workers. My mum is a youth worker, right, and she's annoyed at this for many reasons. One of them is, the young people they work with have already been tried to be helped my the social worker way and it hasn't worked so that's why they're with the youth workers. If you make everybody into social workers, you lose a lot of good work you could do with young people. Another thing is, they're expecteding volunteers to be able to do lots of stuff youth workers do, but my mum says it won't work, because the youth service is properly trained to do stuff so they'll do a better job, and also they're paid to do a good job. Volunteers aren't paid, so they won't be bothered to do the jobs throughly and well, and they won't be bothered to do as much.
Furthermore, the whole youth service has been trained to do things the youth service way, and now they're completely turning all that training on its head. Nobody is good at it and they aren't comofrtable with it. There's a reason everyone became youth workers and not social workers.
Also, they now have to do lots of forms and assessments and reports, and a lot of young people who come to their clubs and stuff won't be able to do all the forms, or won't want to do offical stuff, or won't want to be under constant scrutiny, so they'll lose all those people.
My mum said her boss actually told her that the signed piece of paper was worth more than the young people they were trying to help. She was pretty angry/upset about that.
And they're cutting (damn the Tories) all this stuff. My mum's young parents group has an unheard-of number of members and everyone is saying it's the best thing under the earth. Sooner or later, most most likely sooner, it'll be cut or whatever.
I could go on about my mum's job for a while. XD
Evening!
I went onto the comment section expecting the usual (LM lyrics, etc) and see this discussion.
Like seriously guys, I'm impressed. When I was your age (I feel so old) we NEVER talked about stuff like this. Heck, I don't even talk about stuff like this now. Though I completely agree with all you guys are saying.
Damn, you guys are mature.
Also, awesome song quote there, Taia. That man is a god.
@Rhydian: I hadn't thought of that . . . Very good point. :)
I have a three-page speech about how RS teaches people about religions terribly. :P
Being a Christian, it sparks off my anger when they say that Christians would think this or that.
In my last RS assessment I sneaked in a paragraph about how badly they taught about religion and underlined it. XD
I was kind of disappointed when I didn't get told off.
Maybe I need to try harder. :)
I've never had a adetention, so my first might as well be for something worthwhile. :)
@Star: *nods* Most people around where I live have a strong disliking of Margaret Thatcher (I won't even start about the time my form tutor told us HIS opinion of her O.O), because the things that she did had very negative affects on almost everybody who lives here.
I don't hate her, though I do disagree with some things that she has done, but I notice with situations like this, you don't often hear about the good things which have been done by these people as well, and we can't say what was going through their minds. For that reason, I don't like to judge them, whether I agree with the result or not.
I'm not really sure where I was going with this. I think it was that I agree with your mother and you. But also that maybe that's because of the influence I get from the area I live in. Equally it may not.
Um. Yeah. :P
@Flora: Oh? Thanks. :)
I'm always thinking. I have deep views on the world. I honestly do not comprehend how people can live without thinking deep thoughts about the world. It would be like living in a box and never travelling anywhere, seeing anything, doing anything. Always splashing in the shallows, barely noticing the deep. I'm probably being unfair and stereotyping, but it's like reading books. I don't get people who never read. I don't understand how they can just stay in their life. It's so boring. I can't imagine why they don't explore worlds, look at everything.
Thinking is the same as reading, just thinking is thinking and reading is reading. XD
I say that books are metaphors for real life. The whole Darquesse thing . . . everyone irl has a dark side. Darquesse is showing how people do and how it feels to have a dark side, expect irl they are nameless and less easy to look as as a different person. Everyone has a dark side. In some people they emerge more than in others.
So when you read a book, you essentially read about real life. YOu explore the world. You learn how it is to be other people, how it feels to be in different scenarios.
If you never read . . . You're only ever one person. One life. A few situations. One perspective.
How can people live like that?
The things Margaret Thatcher had very bad effects on the Northern cities, according to my mum. Us being a Northern city, she's generally disliked by us as an area.
We're from Hull in Yorkshire. *nods*
And I rarely get the chance to have a discussion like this irl. *laughs*
*did had
Someone on our bus (I was eavesdropping) said that he saw her name in the papers and was like what isn't she dead yet? So he when on this website called "Is Margaret Thatcher dead yet?", which apparently had in the past always said, "No, not yet" or something like that, and this time it said, "Yes. How are you going to celebrate?"
THAT WEBSITE MUST HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR HER DEATH FOR SO LONG. XD
Hiya, Flora!
If jumping around the kitchen singing badly and eating ice cream is included in maturity, then count me in. :P
Uh, I guess a lot of what I read, and what I listen to music-wise, and the people who I look up to because of those things have massive influence on my own opinions and the things that I think about.
And also issues like this maybe become increasingly evident in every day life as stuff like global warming and general global badness is stressed more in education and stuff? IDK. :P
One more thing that I love about Blogland is how these things can be talked about, here (That doesn't happen IRL, I swear xD). I spend a lot of time thinking about people and things and life, and I look for different approaches and perspectives until I can find something that I'm comfortable to stick with. It's good to be able to think and discuss it with others, because I think it's important to share those perspectives and approaches and opinions and blah.
Again, I don't know where I'm going with this... :P
Newton Faulkner? Yeah, brilliant. :)
I only actually know about a half of an album of his, but somehow, even after the almost-six years that I've known that less-than-half an album, I feel like those eight songs are just so perfect that I don't need to listen to the others. That, to me, is pretty impressive. :)
I NEED TO BUY SOME MORE SKITTLES.
I HAVE NOT EATEN SKITTLES IN MONTHS.
IT'S SO SAD!
"One more thing that I love about Blogland is how these things can be talked about, here (That doesn't happen IRL, I swear xD). I spend a lot of time thinking about people and things and life, and I look for different approaches and perspectives until I can find something that I'm comfortable to stick with. It's good to be able to think and discuss it with others, because I think it's important to share those perspectives and approaches and opinions and blah."
^^^THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SAID BY ME BECAUSE I'M IN AGREEMENT WITH IT ALL SO MUCH!!! :P
Let's just pretend we both said it. *nods*
Jkg about that last sentence, but yeahyeah. :)
This is random, but do you think you become more violent if you listen to violent music?
I had a large pack of Skittles that is mostly eaten.
I've been eating it since not last Sunday, not the Sunday before but the Sunday before.
I need to make it last till the next Sunday so I can claim three weeks and boast about my restraint. XD
The rate I'm eating them at is increasing, however.
*have
MOPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
I left for awhile so you guys could talk about that, I felt like I didn't really belong....
xD
Okay, Star. We both said it. ;)
And, no. Absolutely not. Songs which are called 'violent', at least in my experience, seem to have such meaningful lyrics, and I think that, if anything, they help people to deal with issues, rather than raise them.
Might be distant: Still drawing words, and gotta do a little camera searching for art H/W. :)
My friend remembered today that I used to always say "Bubbles!" at random moments. I was happy about that. :)
I SHOULD GO ON ABOUT BUBBLES MORE.
But it's blue has stolen my life. XD
I did randomly say "Cauliflower cheese!" today before going on about how I didn't like cauliflower cheese or melted cheese or most forms of cheese. My friends were giving me worried looks. XD
I told my friend on the bus today that 'distorted' began with 'dist', ended in 'ed', had an 'r' as the sixth letter and had nine letters so therefore it was more like the word 'disturbed' than the word 'disabled', because that word had only seven letters and it began with only 'dis', although it did end it 'ed' and had a 'b' in the middle.
She was like okay. XD
Hello? (is Fabienne S.)
Of course, it probably depends on the person in question, and a bunch of environmental factors and I could go into some random psychological-based-blah-ness, but the 'violent' music alone, no, I don't believe it causes (or increases risk of) violence.
I almost did a whole presentation on that for my English coursework. In the end, I did an investigation into psychopaths instead.
Uh.
IT'S RAINING! :D
IT'S BEEN RAINING, LIKE, ALL DAY. FINALLY. IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY, BECAUSE, LIKE, /PROPER/ RAIN AND JUST YAY.
Congrats on the Skittles restraint, too. YOu're managing better than I ever could. *would eat a large packet of Skittles in a matter of hours, if I had the chance. xD*
Im gonna get killed off
Really, Taia?
Because I believe constantly thinking about violence makes you more violent. It's like, when I think about my character not feeling great, then when I come back to myself it takes me a moment to remember that I'm feeling fine and I'm okay. I also feel slightly less good because I've been thinking about feeling bad.
If you think about being violent, you will eventually start be being violent in your life, because you're so used to thinking about it.
*shrugs* But I agree - it's also like reading books. If we never understand how violent people think, how are we meant to empathise with them?
Also, I believe we should know about all the bad things going on in our world, because it's our world, and we should know about it so we can prevent things and deal with them. If we ignore bad things . . . How does that solve anything? *resists urge to start singing Opinion again*
GETTING KILLED OFF IS SO AWESOME. :)
^^I mean like, I'm be making up story all whilst getting up and walking to the bus stop, and on the bus I'll start thinking about how I've barely surviving and whats, and then I'll be like what? What the hell? I'M absolutely fine. *thought it needed further explanation*
*hands Castiel a cookie*
Sorry. :/ You'll always belong, because you're just too awesome not to. Seriously.
Everybody has their own thoughts, feelings and opinions. Whether they differ from those of other people or not, doesn't make them any less valid or respectable. *nods*
Hiya Fabi!
Hi, Zaf! You're gonna be killed off? In LSoDM, or something else?
I've been killed a total of one times. It was pretty fun, all things considered. :P
Oh... Some people are really mad at me, gtg, I think.
Sorry...
I also supposes it depends how much you read into the music . . .
This isn'tcompetely off-subject but it's making an entirely different point to the one I was saying, just warning. In Gone, there's a character called Drake. His stepdad always used to beat his mum up, and Drake learnt from him, so now whenever he fancies a girl he wants to hurt her. He also thinks, surely they must enjoy it? Surely, because . . . I forgt the because, but it was something about his mother. He thought that that was what you did to people when you liked them.
He's messed up, but yeah.
It's not entirely relevant, but say you love a band/singer and they do this . . . You might think that it's okay or the right thing to do, because they're your role model. Also, this is why peopl need good parents. If someone thinks a bad thing is oaky, acceptable and not bad, they will do it. THey have to be taught when kids that this and that is NOT okay.
And this is partially why hero-worshipping celebrities is bad.
I was originally going to say something relevant, but yeah. :P
Sidetracked.
Thanks Taia
Sometimes conversations are...well awkward because...awkwardness
*noms on cookie*
What? *reads up* OH, DAMN. I HATE IT WHEN I MISS COMMENTS.
@Catsiel: You'll always belong! What Taia said also, and I'm not going to repeat that so I'll add that you can just say what you want and if I'm not distant, I'll reply even if it's relevant to everything else. If I AM distant, I will ignore many comments and reply only to a few. And I'll often miss comments. I'll often read three comments, rpely to the latest one, post and THEN remember the other two. XD
@Fabi: HI!
And brb. :(
I got killed of in BFB. IT WAS AWESOME.
*hugs Fabi* I hope it's Okay. Bye.
@Star: That's a good point, actually, and I guess it comes down also to the song and the message that the listener takes from it, maybe?
I agree that having something constantly around you, or on your mind, could have an affect on your behaviour and the way you act/think/feel, but it depends largely on the person, and the circumstance at hand.
I don't really know how to put it into words. I guess, if you think of the nature versus nurture argument, I'd say that both are influential, and depending on one, the other might have a hugely different effect.
So, if you consider the music the environmental factor, then the effect it has on one person could be the very opposite of that which it has on the other, because they're different people with different brains and genes and experiences and current situations.
Hi people!!! *supertacklehugs everyone*
@Star: That not-relevant point is something which I take a lot of interest in. I guess there are a lot of ways of looking at it.
What I believe is that everything that happens to or around a person affects them in some way, and also affects how other things affect them.
As for the whole 'nature' thing, that some people are just naturally the way that they are because they simply ARE, I think that that probably has an influence on the person's behaviour and how they're affected by things and all of the above, but, imo, the environmental is a lot more influential.
(I study psychology, and it's probably the most interesting thing I have studied. Almost everything in psychology, I think, can probably be brought back to nature/nurture, and there's a lot of debate as to which has the most important effect.
I don't think that was directly relevant to the not-relevant-thing, but it's what came out of my brain, so, meh. :P)
Hiya Aretha!
*is supertacklehugged* :)
How're you?
wbd- Still drawing writing, and not doing homework yet. :P
X)
Thanks star, it's sometimes hard to get into the conversation when you've been doing something or , for me, playing a game, so..yeah
Also, it's very hard to keep up with the comments, especially on a phone!
Eh, I'm ok. Really tired/hyper at the same time and sort of freaking out because I need to write but my best muse is out of commission, and there are so many things I could do to work around it but none of them feel right... Ah. Well, anyway. Other than that, I'm fine.
How about all the rest of you guys? What's up (metaphorically speaking)?
*IS BACK*
I want to study psychology! :)
Very interesting. *nods* *stores info in brain*
Hunter stores everything in boxes in a room in his mind. I just kind of leave them flosting around . . . :P
It's so odd how we think out of nothing. Okay, we think out of our brains, but we kind of pull thoughts from thin air, and everything we remember, we just kind of put into nothingness and hope it'll drift out when we want it too. I can't exactly explain it. Just imagine taking things (thouhts etc.) in and out of your head. You kind of disposit them in an empty space and leave them to do whatever, drift, get muddled up, combine . . . Then you just expect to be able to reach in and pull it out without problem.
I'm not explaining the sensation at all, but ohmygosh, it's so odd. O_O
HI ARETHA!
ARI!!!! And no I dont want Niccolo unless he wants me
Hello again. (is Fabi)
Msd.
I should probably just create another account and invite myself back to the MC, shouldn't I? Plus, I miss emailing (or forgetting to email) you all. This is getting annoying.
[hugs Taia back]
Hi Star!!
I have to go now, but I'll be back in... Around... 30 mins? Probably 30 minutes. If I'm not back in 30 minutes, then it'll be a few hours. Fairfarren all!
Hm. :/ Sounds tricky, Aretha. I guess either just keep working on it, or try taking a break from it. Sometimes not concentrating on something can help to find a way of working it out. Kinda.
I'm good, thanks. Drawing, music, and some good thinking leave me in a good mood. :3
@Star: Welcome back!
*nods* I think I know what you mean...
Distant. And when I've finished this outlining I WILL do my homework...! :P
Hi again, Fabi. :)
Awh, Bye Aretha!
Oh, I haven't deded this page yet. I should probably do that.
I dedicate this page to music. It's such a sanctuary from troubles. Whether it's One Direction or Disturbed, Little Mix or Evanescence, Hayley Westenra or Nine Inch Nails, Enya or Kelly Clarkson, Adele or AC/DC, Florence + the Machine or Josh Groban, Coldplay or Celtic Woman, They Might Be Giants or Loreena McKennitt, [insert the name of your favorite band/singer here] or music you make yourself, music is wonderful and can keep you going when you're upset.
Also to windows, birds, mop, bunny ears, black colored pencils, bubbles and all you awesome people. [points at Ari, Taia, Star, Ieni, Mara, Tyler, Jubi, Zaf, Arratay, Lucy, Ruá, Death, Missy and everyone else I was too lazy to type the name of]
Was it just me who got the Error message
I think i might post my Second Chapter On DR
Hello?
Hello!
G2g
Bye Ari. [hugs]
Hi Star and Taia. [hugs]
Hello, Brave!
Hi/bye Arratay!
Sorry for distance, homework.
Je deteste the online textbook.
I should learnt to say 'the online textbook' in French . . .
@Brave: Awesome. I'm planning on reading up on DR Friday evening or sometime at the weekend, so I'll take a look at both of 'em then. :3
And, Hi!
Hi/Bye Arratay!
*hugs Fabi back* :)
It's my Leaver's Day, tomorrow.
Everyone else is at prom, right now. So glad I didn't go. Everyone looks like a moron... *laughs*
Hiyur:)
Ok, Star.
Hi Lucy!
Distant...
(is Fabi, for anyone who just arrived and has no idea)
Heyo.
I'm bored.
http://www.wattpad.com/16508627-you-are-tanith-low
*squeals* PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIKE MY WRITINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
@Star: Online textbook? That sounds both horrible and vaguely interesting. :P
Hiya, Luci! I'm not planning on attending my prom next year, either.
I hope you have a nice Leavers' Day, though. :3
Do you do the whole 'let's go insane and get everybody we can see to write on our shirts' thing over there, on Leavers' Day? Or is that just our school? :P
Hello Aisling
Taia in my school we do that on the last day of sixth class. Which for me is in less than two months. The. I'll be finished primary school and in secondary.
*then
*is only in 5th....;-;*
Hiya!1
Hi Brad
Hi Ais, hi Brad, hi anyone else who just arrived! Sorry for distance.
(is Fabi)
We have a look-alikes assembly, let some balloons go and nobody seems to know what else goes on on Leaver's Day. XD
Which reminds me... I've been ordered to take a notepad in tomorrow because people want to write messages for me?:S
Hello Brad
Speaking of school, every time we say 'Hi' to someone here, I feel like we are in a classroom or something
Hmm.... I might draw that...
Hiya Aisling!
*nods* We did that in Primary, too. Good fun. :3 Are you looking forward to leaving?
I had a bunch of friends/acquaintances leaving secondary last year, though, and I noticed that the levels of insanity seemed to be higher. But then, my primary school was very small, so there wasn't very much opportunity for insanity, really. :P
Hiya, Brad!
@Luci: Sounds cool. :P I don't know what happens here, except for the shirt-graffiti. :P
A notepad for messages?
Well, messages get woven into the shirt-grafitti, here. Maybe it's a similar kind of thing (ish)? ^^
Luci, are you leaving secendary School! So next is collage! (if you are going)
@Castiel: Yay! for drawing! :3
What might 'that' be?
Distant - Back to drawing letters. Maybe.
Gtg goodnight
In Ireland we call "Prom" "Debbs"
Taia I'm looking forward to it but I think I'll also miss it a bit. I'm going to miss my friend who isn't going t the same secondary as the rest of my friends.
OH GOD
I AM DREADING COLLEGE ;-;
@Taia: Gah, I hate the online textbook. This year in French we don't get paper textbooks to take home with us; we have to do everything on the online one. This is annoying. For one thing, it's more inconvenient and messing with the zoom and stuff, and for another, it won't load for a lot of people, and for another, turning papers takes longer than flipping them over irl, and for another, it takes longer what with switching on the computer and getting sidetracked and finding the textbook and all, and for another, you can't read more than one excersise at a time or it's too small so you can't scan for anything, and for another, I just prefer real books and can work from them better, and for another, I just dislike it. I want a proper textbook. Maybe it's somethin to do with me doing a lot of reading, but . . . It isn't a proper textbook if it isn't a proper textbook. I want a material THING. I can look at it all and interpret it better and stuffs.
The only ups are that it saves paper and money and that you can do listening excercise on them.
It's identical to the real textbook, it's just not real. :P
I'm thinking of drawing most of us sitting in a classroom , with someone saying hi to Brad...*sorryBrad!!*
I'm glad that the school I'm going to has proper books not online ones. Particularly after what you say about them Star. They just sound so awkward and annoying.
Time to get drawing, anyone want a particular style to their person??
Bye Brave!
@Aisling: *nods* Ah, Can you still keep in touch via, like, phone/internet/meeting up at places? That can be pretty good, even it's not very regular. :)
@Star: Oh. :P
I prefer physical versions of things as opposed to the digital, too. It helps to persuade me that it's real, so I can understand it better.
My school doesn't even let us take textbooks home with us. It's like, 'You want to use a textbook? I have a detention-session this lunchtime, you're welcome to join and use it then.' :P.
Some teachers (like my current Welsh teacher) don't even let you take your EXERCISE books home.
My RS teacher doesn't let us take anything home with us. Which seems a little stupid, considering the final exam is in a month's time. o0
THEY ARE. :)
In German we have real textbooks. In French we just switched. :P
Very msd.
We have to use Kerboodle instead of text books in both French and Spanish ;-;
@Castiel: That's a really awesome idea. :3
If your drawing me, go with whatever your brain comes up with. *has no preference, because no OC/bio.* :P
In German, we looked at the printing dates of our textbooks, and I'm sure they were, like, fifteen years old. xD
Printing dates?
Publishing dates?
Meh. You know what I mean. :P
I cannot be surprised at such stuypidity from someone who teaches the subject of RS.
Sorry. :P Just had to say it.
I can just understand real boks better. *frowns*
It's just how my brain works.
You know how dyslexic people can only read things properly if the background is a certain colour?
It may be a very very very very mild similar version of that.
Maybe we're all partially dyslexic . . . Actually, that would make complete, utter sense if we were. :)
Right, okay Taia
Very very very very very very mild. *nods*
I can read things on a screen perfectly well.
I have nothing against dyslexia; I just don't want you to think that's the probelm.
The problem is, online textbooks are annoying.
And that's not really a probelm, it's just something to moan about. :P
Sorry for poofing
Taia yes I'd say we can still keep in touch that way.
Gtg night
* you're
*glares at self for that error*
@Star: I get you. :P
I understand things better when I have the physical text in front of me, rather than on a screen, too.
I'm pretty glad we don't have online textbooks. They sound stupid. ^^
I mean, silly. Rather than stupid. I think. Uh.
Bye Ais!
*frowns*
I feel like I'll probably ruin this if I colour it. :P
I think I'll leave it 'til tomorrow and put it through the scanner first. :P
This girl in my Strings group has very mild dyslexia, but she still gets extra time on tests etc.
She's awesome and all, but I think that's grossly unfair and if I was her (I hate cheating. I feel like I've not achieved it properly. I like doing things thoroughly and properly so I can have a sense of achievement at the end. It's just how I am), I would insist that I do my test in the same time as everyone else, otherwise I would never know how good I ACTUALLY was at anything. I would want to know how I would do on the same level as everyone else. Because what's the good of being one of the best in the class (she's smart, so she is actually good at a lot of stuffs) if you can't feel like you're there because you ARE good at whatever?
On the other hand, some people are just better at some things than others and it's how they're born. Then how is it fair that they can be better than other people who try harder? *frowns*
This is why we should be setted. So we can all try hard and all strive to be good without some people trying really hard and yet doing badly whilst some people just do nothing and are effortlessly at the top.
We should all be given equal chances to try hard so the people who DO try hard can shine.
You know how some people who are not so academically great get loads of tutoring and extra help so are on the same level as smart people?
I resent this, because if we smart people had the same amount of learning and studying as they did, we would be like WHOOOOOOOOOOOSH.
If I'm really good at something, I want to be the BEST at it. I want to look around the class with the highest level and feel pleased.
If I'm bad or meh at something, or even slightly good at something, I generally couldn't care all that much about it.
But when I'm properly good at something, I hate it when people look as good at me. I'm always like noooooooooooo and I feel really annoyed.
So I don't think it's fair that less-good people can just make me look everage when I am actually better than them, they're just better-trained.
I am aware how horribly selfish and I-am-better-than-you I'm sounding. This is just how I am. :P
I read that over, and . . . I think I just like feeling like in a fair test, I end up being better than everyone else. XD
This is probably a big flaw. :P
Very msd, remember. :(
@Star: I wouldn't call that selfish, Star, and I understand what you mean.
But if the people who are not so academically great don't get the help that they need, then they have less opportunities than those who don't need it, don't they. So unequal chances, in that sense?
I think it's less about what's put into it, and more about what comes out, at least with schools. The aim of the school is to teach people to the point that they can get grades and get through the school, even if that means giving some the advantage over others.
If you're already at a higher level, but want to put in more work and excel even more, then that's great, but as far as the school's concerned, there is no need, I think, because you can already do as much as THEY need you to. ^^
Well i feel sick
*don't they?
(The question mark has importance. *nods*)
As for wanting to feel that you're better than other people, if put to a 'fair' test, well, doesn't everybody? :P
It's always nice to know that you can do better than somebody. Especially when there's that specific person who's always been better at something than you (or always thinks that they are). You get a higher grade than them in the exam, and it's like BAM! And then I have to try not to be all 'IN YOUR FACE-' about it. :P
Aw, I hope you're feeling better very soon, Zaf.
Bah. Msd.
*Waves the bloody idiot she is*
Howdy?
(I'm not here so don't answer that...)
*Facepalm*
Anyone here?
Oh well. Bye!
JUBI'S HERE!
Hello?
[is Fabi]
Sorry I poofed earlier, got absorbed by my MC chapter and schoolwork.
Still writing, distant.
FABI!!!!!!! *supermegajubiosaurustacklehugofdoom*
hi
[is supermegajubiosaurustacklehuggedofdoom]
Hello Jubiosaurus!
HI FABIOSAURUS!
Should I change my name as well, then? XD
IT'S A VICIOUS BRAIN EATING FABIOSAURUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIIFFEEEE!!!!!!!!!! *runs for life*
[Scowls]
Whydiditpoofthefirsttime???
Jubi, that reminded me of the terrifying brain sucker of London!
[evil grin]
[chases Jubiosaurus]
AAAH! IT'S AFTER MEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!! *runs faster* *can't because legs are too stubby* I'M SOORRYYY!!!! I'M SORRY ABOUT ALL THE INNOCENT BANANAS THAT I'VE BRUTALLY MURDERED! I'M SORRY ABOUT THE GRAPES AND THE POMEGRANATES! PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!!! I DON'T WANNA DIIIEEEEEEEEEE
[looks at banana]
Do you accept the Jubiosaurus' apology?
[moment of suspense]
*Holds breath*
Oh, sorry! It may be more than one moment, as I have to poof for now! :-P
See you in a little bit, Jubiosaurus!
(by the way, holding your breath is not the wisest course of action just now!)
*takes in a gasp of air* *pants*
oh good. The Fabiosaurus is gone!
(BYE FABI!!!!!!!! *supermegajubiosaurusgoodbyetacklehugsofdoom*)
*Grabs the banana and squeezes the life out of it*
*grins an evil Jubiosaurus grin*
DIE BANANAAAAAAAA!!
[The banana does not accept your apology]
*tosses away banana and all evidence* I DIDN'T DO IT!!!!
[Snorts]
Sure.
[Suddenly begins running towards the Jubiosaurus]
AHH!!!!! *rolls away*
[slips on banana peel]
Wwwhooaaaaawweeeeeeeeeeee
MWAHAHA!!!!! YOU HAVE FALLEN INTO MY TRAP!!!!!!!!!
[Gets back up]
I will be catching you, Jubiosaurus! Just you wait!
[Gets back up]
I will be catching you, Jubiosaurus! Just you wait!
ooooh I'm SHAKING with fear!!!
Shall stay human purely for my sake
NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!!!!! *rolls around in frustration* NONONONONOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jubi are you okay?
Omg I havent argued with Coco today
Ha! The evil Fabiosaurus has succeeded in her plot to not get first!
Okay, Zaf! Also hi! :-)
I
DON'T
WANT
FIIRRSSTTT
*glares at Fabiosaurus*
you are a BAD Fabiosaurus
Can I ded then?
YES
Sorry I poofed! My sister spilled milk all over the kitchen. Like, all over! ALL OVER! It was a spectastrophe!
[Laughs] Ooh. I'm a bad Fabiosaurus! XD
I dedicate this page to rainbow unicorns because they are awesome! To Derek because I truly believe he's a lunatic but of course we all love him ( most of us). Annnd uh to the Jubiosarus and Fabiosarus please dont eat my tree or myself
To Niccolo Croatoan because Niccolo is a..friend? No acquaintance I guess. To Niccolo for being...Niccolo
Excellent ded, Zaf-who-is-human-not-saurus!
Do not worry! Trees do not taste like pretzels and neither do people!
Okay good! And I'm Grand Mage according to everyone but Derek
Gtg night guys
Gtg, sorry, bye!
JUBIOSAURUS IS BACK!
*peers put from behind corner* Hello? Anybody here?
ARI!!!!!!!!!!!!! *supermegajubiosuarustacklehugofdoom*
hi.
Hi Jubi! What's up?
I'm killin bananas *Kills a banana*
But bananas are good! We need them to bring to parties!
no. bananas must die *smashes more bananas*
THEY DESERVE THIS!
*kills baby banana infront of it's sobbing faimly* WATCH AS YOU ALL BUURRRNNNN!
*Laughs an evil Jubiosaurus laugh*
No! Stop it! Bananas are good! They're an excellent source of protein! We need them! *captures Jubiosaurus in glass jar* No more killing bananas for you. *scolds*
nonono not protein. POTASSIUM!
AND POTASSIUM MUST DIE *bangs on the walls of the jar* LEMME AT EM!!! LEMME AT EM!!!!
Oh, right, potassium. That's what I meant. No, I will not let you kill the bananas! Why are you so against them?!
they are EEEVVVIIIIILLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!! *bangs against walls of the jar*
THEY HAUNT MY CHILDHOOOOOODDDDDDDDDD
What have bananas ever done to you?
they've......
um
THEY SMELL BAD!!!!!!!
AND THEY GET ALL BROWN AND ICKY
*Hides away from everyone*
*Starts crying*
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