My editor has read the first (rough) draft of Book 9, and he loves it. I'm on the home stretch now — the end is in sight (in more ways than one). Over the next two or three weeks my head is going to be down and I'm going to working hard to fill in those gaps, to link up those scenes, to write those missing chapters. Right now I'm at 100,000 words. The end result will PROBABLY be about 120,000 words — maybe just slightly shorter than KOTW. Of course, in order to finish the book, I'll need to pick a winner of the Who Gets to Die competition we ran ages ago, and then that lucky reader will get to meet their grisly end...
And because I, and therefore WE, are on the home stretch, this blog is going to be choc-a-block with announcements and reveals over the next few weeks. By the end of THIS week, for example, we'll be revealing the cover for the Armageddon-Outta-Here short story collection. Next week, we'll reveal the full, WRAPAROUND cover for the collection (it's awesome). And the week after that? We'll be revealing the title for the ninth, and last, Skulduggery Pleasant book.
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And once again, my German teacher is expecting us to write detailed answers on topics we haven't covered.
She send back my last answers telling me I needed to put more detail.
Even though I already expanded them.
And I mean -
We've been given seven questions, such as "where did you work?", and somehow we're expected to write a whole freaking paragraph answering it.
And yet, if we start using German that isn't, like, out of our books or our vocab sheets, she tells us not to do that and that we should stick to the example sentences we're given because we know they're correct.
And I'm really not sure where she's expecting me to go with this. :P
Yeah.
Anyway.
In science today, me and C had a long conversation (part of it on paper when Miss told us we had to work in silence), and I draw a butterfly.
It was a very productive lesson. :P
We were doing past papers though.
I can never be bothered to do past papers.
And the grade boundaries for our assessment tomorrow.
OH MY GOSH.
To get an A*, you need to get 34 out of 60.
. . .
What the actual hell. :P
We were all laughing so hard.
It's ridiculous. O_O
#ChaseForBookNine
Sounds like you had a good day.
Well, it REALLY all depends on your perspective, I suppose.
I've decided that today was a good day, though.
*nods*
Today was a good day. :)
*nods*
Although in form -
yes, in form -
we watched a news video about this boy who was called . . . I can't remember what he was called. His initials were SS, I do believe. And he'd been fundraising really well, and broken several Guinness world records, and now he's dead, and he was only nineteen, and -
and I, being me, started crying before we even began watching the video, but anyway, we watched it, and I cried, and we kind of thought that was the end of that, but then when the video ended Miss began talking to us, but she was crying, she was crying her eyes out and she was apologising , and saying she was so sorry and she shouldn't be crying in front of us, and she said "I'm so stupid" and I just really wanted to insist she wasn't and go up to her and hug her and tell her how awesome she was, but I didn't, because she was a teacher and I have no confidence, and then she was going on to us about how much he'd achieved in his life and how he was going through chemo whilst doing his GCSEs and how he'd gotten five A*s and three Bs, and all this stuff, and -
And ohmygosh.
I think I might have to go up to her tomorrow and thank her.
I'm not sure what I'd be thanking her for.
Probably for raising awareness, and just being so sweet with how hard she tries to do her best all the time, and how -
and how I'm sorry, and that she is awesome, and she isn't stupid at all.
Awh.
Of course, everyone else in my form was just, like, laughing at her once out of the classroom, but -
:(.
And continuing on my I-wish-I-could-speak-to-teachers-like-I-can-speak-to-my-friends thread, I was discussing that prospectus assembly today, and saying how our sixth form had a 100% pass rate and 58% of them got A*-C grades (lol), and C said, do you know what our headmistress said that really annoyed me? And I was like, no, what? And C said that she'd said that if you didn't have a drive to succeed and to do your best, you didn't belong in our school. And I was just like FUCKSSAKE.
Ohmygosh.
I really wish she wasn't our headmistress so I could email her and rant at her. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
Wait until you leave. Then anonamously send a message and rant at her *nods*
@Silente: I could actually do that now . . . O_O
I could email her from my home email.
Ohmygosh.
Like I said though - no confidence. XD
No.
Not no confidence.
No BRAVERY. XD
How are you, anyway? :)
#ChaseForBookNine
I'm fine thanks you?
And bravery is a problem. Courage is hard to find.But yyou'll have it when it matters, our warrior bubble.
@Silente: I'm not a warrior bubble . . . :)
Heh. I think if I was brave, I would have used my bravery to do a lot of things that mattered. :P
I have other qualities though, so it's cool. *shrugs*
I'm good, I think. :)
Well.
I've been acting like I feel happy and now I feel happy.
So . . .
I suppose I'm happy, but I can't really determine any exterior reason for me to be happy, but happiness is good so I reckon I'm fine staying happy. :P *nods*
Either way.
Should really be doing distant now - German to do.
Urgh.
-_-
#ChaseForBookNine
You are a warrior bubble! Don't deny it! You know it to be true!
@Silente: Uh
no
I don't. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
Are you sure? You /look/ like a warrior bubble. And you sound like one. You MUST be a warrior bubble.
Sometimes people look like killers, and they sound like killers, but they didn't actually kill anyone, and then they get locked up for a few decades before being executed and all along they were innocent.
Yeah.
It sucks.
#ChaseForBookNine
But...you /smell/ like a warrior bubble...
*laughs*
Silente, you're awesome.
All bubbles smell the same.
It's why we can't smell very well. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
Your awesomer.
You do? Then my nose must be off!
Maybe.
I've never been able to turn my nose on, though, so maybe I'm not the best judge. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
Maybe they do but its subtle, and because bubbles grow used to it they don't notice it..
*mutters*
So, these German questions.
In order to answer them, you have to know what you want to say, and then you have to be able to say that in German.
I don't have a clue what I want to say.
And I can't just kind of . . .
Like, I was looking at some IT work I did last year today, and I'd had to write why I had used Adobe Flash as opposed to another kind of software. And the reason I'd used it was because that was what the school had told me to use, but obviously I couldn't say that, so I blathered on about how I was familiar with that software and so it saved money and time rather than installing and learning how to use new software, and how also I knew how to use Adobe to create the effects I wanted to create. And then I found out today that we were meant to talk about the kind of things you could do on the software and I was like oh.
But the point is - I hadn't known how to answer, so I had just given an answer that worked.
I can't do that in German, because I don't know how to say anything in German.
And last time I was doing questions, at least I could copy out of the textbook. So it told me how to say things, and if I didn't know what to say, I could look and see how the textbook had answered similar questions.
And this time, I can't.
And I just have NO RESOURCES WHATSOEVER this time, and I don't know what to say, and I don't know how to say it, and I'm too limited to make something up.
And the annoying thing is, I look at the questions and an answer in French pops into my mind and it's so damn annoying, because the thing is -
I KNOW I can learn languages.
I know the kind of stage I should be at here.
But I'm NOT.
Honestly.
What will you study in sixth form?
Me: *doesn't know what I will study in sixth form* *isn't confident enough to make it up* *doesn't know half the subjects anyway*
My internal French voice: Je ne crois pas que je étudiais dans le primaire et terminale, car je suis trés indécis.
Me: SHUT THE FUCK UP.
*goes off and tries to look up every other word in that in German, not knowing how to put them together in the sentence*
#ChaseForBookNine
I swear.
I WILL write an essay in French saying how bad at German I am.
I swear. -_-
#ChaseForBookNine
(Yes, once of those accents was wrong. Blame my keyboard. :P)
#ChaseForBookNine
Bbs, dinner.
#ChaseForBookNine
Kk then star. I despise languages, they're hard and give me a headache. Naturally the school have forced me to take it.
Bah. I have a while still.
Hey Zaf! How are you on this day?
You see, the thing is, I LIKE languages.
I'm GOOD at languages.
Not that I realised this until this year.
I have been leanring French for eight years. Eight years. And for the past seven years, I have not known I am good at French, but now apparently I am.
(Actually, I think I just have a good memory. :P I mean, I'll be taught how to do the future tense, and then I'll still remember it the next year but everyone else will have to be taught again, so . . .)
Urgh.
*mutters*
I'm sorry - you people have to put up with this same rant every week . . . :/
Hey Zaf! :)
#ChaseForBookNine
Your rants are fun. I like to see if I agree or disagree! And rants are amazing!
I have school still. Not fun. Ugh msd
@Silente: Rants are amazing.
I should really stop ranting about German, though; it's not productive, it just drags it out and doesn't get me any further.
Of course - when I get mad about something, I have to take deep breaths and move on, and then soon I'll have forgotten about it.
HOWEVER, when it's homework, you can't move on from it, so I just end up sitting there ranting for an hour before I get so frustrated and upset that I have to take a break from it, and all in all it takes several hours longer than it should do, and I really, really, REALLY need to start getting past this because HONESTLY -
I'm sorry.
And - yeah. :)
It's interesting when people say stuff and you either go OHMYGOSH YES or you don't agree and then you end up going on at them for an hour and by the end of it they think they're upset you and then you're just like "uh. Yes. Sorry. :P"
#ChaseForBookNine
@Zaf: No, not fun. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
@zaf yuk school :(
@star maybe comment and work? How's the word art going?
Im still fangirling over my hair
WE WERE TALKING ABOUT NOBEL WHO CREATED DYNAMITE
@Silente: *smiles, suddenly*
*then hugs, because smiles deserve hugs <3*
Me and C today were discussing how we didn't actually like hugging in real life because it was just kind of awkward, but how much we loved the IDEA of hugs, and it was quite amusing because we were simultaneously ranting about how great hugs were whilst ranting about how we didn't actually like them. :P
I like VIRTUAL hugs.
Virtual hugs are really just like parcels of affection. They're ace. <3
Oh . . . yes.
My word art's going well! :)
I'm making less mistakes on my ships word art now, because I've start doing it differently, following patterns rather than letters. I've finished Blione, Nikola Tesla and Slea, I'm a goo way through Ezter and Kestrilla, and I've started on Malente and Aladra. I'm approaching halfway through, though, which is sad. It's fun. :(
Thank you, Silente. :) I'm calm again, now.
#ChaseForBookNine
*good
@Zaf: Yes! :) Congrats on your hair - I don't think I said, did I?
And - YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! :) :)
#ChaseForBookNine
Your welcome. Try get work done while your calm as well! I'm going to remember subjects that calm you down...
Nobel! Dynamite maker and Nobel Peace Prize maker! The irony!
@Silente: It's fine. :)
*hugs*
#ChaseForBookNine
@Silente: LOL!
*laughs*
Oh gosh. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
Do you ever get surprised by how much you know about something? I know quite a bit about doctor who..
@Silente: That's the kind of question to which the answer is probably "yes", but no memories supporting that answer spring to mind. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
Nothing comes to mind to support it but when it happens you get shocked!
@Silente: If you say so. :)
*waits for it to happen*
*still waiting*
*still waiting :P*
#ChaseForBookNine
Like how I somehow know the REV in foREVer is about someone for that group you like who's initials are AS, the decieced drummer I do believed. I was shocked when I realised I knew that.
@Silente: YES! *screams*
YES YES YES!!!!
*hugs*
They generally abbreviated themselves as A7X, however; I'd never actually seen them abbreviated as AS until Matex did it the other day . . .
It stands for Avenged Sevenfold and they're so good.
And the REV in foREVer is because their drummer's stage name was the Rev.
And -
how the HELL did you work that out???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
How the HELL????????
I just don't even know where you got it from!!
#ChaseForBookNine
*abbreviate
*frowns at my tenses :P*
#ChaseForBookNine
It has to have been from you. I don't even know where or when I figured it out, I just know that somehow I acquired that knowledge and haven't forgotten it.
@Silente: Oh my gosh.
How did you even
I don't think I've ever mentioned it as long as I've known you
I barely even say foREVer
ohmygosh
Silente, you're magic. O_O
#ChaseForBookNine
Well I've always thought so ;)
*laughs* XD
You've thought you were magic foREVer.
#ChaseForBookNine
So i am in math in a classroom that isnt ours so yay i on a computer that works weee
Yup. FoREVer. :-)
Hey Zafira! Yey for working computers! How long you on for?
@Zaf: Yaaaaaay! :)
I always envy you people who are here whilst at school . . . :P
I can't generally access the blog at school. -_-
It's blocked on the school computers, not that I can generally get on one, and it would cost money to get here on my phone, plus that would run the battery down.
Such is life.
#ChaseForBookNine
im here for a bit probably gtg soon i dunno
@Zaf: Okay. :/
#ChaseForBookNine
I had a blonde momemt today.
I thought that a cat goes woof and a dog goes meow
@Zaf: OH MY GOSH. XD
Well done. :P
*hugs*
#ChaseForBookNine
As logic stands you couldn't meet a man
Who's from the future
But logic broke, as he appeared he spoke
About the future
"We're not gonna make it,"
He explained how the end will come
You and me were never meant to be
Part of the future
All we have is now -
All we've ever had was now
All we have is now
All we'll ever have is now
D:
//Hey, y'all! Might be a bit here :)
#ChaseForBook9
@Taia: :) :) :) :)
And - hello. :)
#ChaseForBookNine
@Star: :)
Hey! :)
How are you?
Depending on how much here I am, I'll warn that I might be a bit lyrics-quote-y, because I'm playing TFL and yeah. :P
#ChaseForBook9
@Taia: That's cool. :)
I'm . . .
I'm not angry or frustrated or upset.
I'm just sort of flat and blank and ineffectual, accomplishing nothing but not allowing myself to move on.
#ChaseForBookNine
Guys.
Guys.
Why do we have to have topics?
Why can we not just write about whatever the hell we want?
It wouldn't make any difference.
You would still have to, like, use different tenses and justifications and opinions and other points of view and complex structures and all that stuff.
Why can we not talk about what we want?
Why?
It would make it more interesting for the examiner, as well, and it would mean that our teachers would be more focused on teaching us HOW to speak German (or any language, really) so we could manage such assessments.
Everyone would win.
Guys.
Guys.
Why has this not come to pass?
#ChaseForBookNine
I could write assessments about Skulduggery Pleasant.
I could write assessments about Blu-Tack.
I could write assessments pondering about perspective.
I could write assessments discussing metaphors about paper.
I could write assessments about crying.
I could have so much FUN, I swear. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
Yes. How are you, Taia? :P
#ChaseForBookNine
*hugs Star*
Aw. :/ Good that you're not bad, but I hope you feel less kind of apathetic and more kind of squiggles and :) soon. ^^
And- I totally understand that and that is a great point. O.O
BUt I guess, from an objective POV, it makes sense to teach in set blocks of knowledge because it's easier to examine/test if you've got a set level of... idk.
Maybe it's easier to judge sentence structure and vocab and abilities if all of the essays are about the same general area, because there are less kind of extraneous variables, maybe? idk.
Like, if somebody wrote an essay about crying, maybe the things that they are saying have effect more so than how good the actual communication is, kind of?
Whereas if you're just saying "the area I live is..." or whatever, there's a smaller spectrum so it's easier to judge of off?
And also, like, teachers-wise, it's probably easier to teach set topics than say "So, write whatever you want.", because then that teacher has to teach every class member differently and individually, and realistically, maybe there is not time/availability to do that effectively? idk.
I totally agree with you, but you can kind of see why it'd be hard to do it that way. :) ^^
And- I'm good, thanks. C:
Got to put away all my chemistry revision things today. :):):)
I still have, like, ten more exams but it feels like I'm almost finished already. I'VE ONLY DONE TWO. :P
Also I've been doing physics and/or calmly working all day and it's been nice. :)
#CHaseForBook9
I AM IN SUCH A COMPLAINY MOOD
OHMYGOSH
I AM READY TO VERBALLY SHRED EVERYTHING THAT I DISAGREE WITH IN A RELATIVELY ARTICULATE MANNER
HELP
No, Mr. Stepsis, the packet you gave us is biased, incredibly poorly written, and according to what you've taught me already, blatantly incorrect. WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US.
Mr. Clarke, that was a wonderful several minute introduction to Kant's theory about the bias inherent in human perspective, but I've already known that for ages- I worked it out myself, in fact- and darn it, I DEMAND to be TAUGHT. Don't tell me something I've already known about for over a year. In just a few minutes he got through my whole philosophy of uncertainty, AND THEN HE STOPPED. And I learned NOTHING. My perspective was not broadened. NOTHING I HAD ALREADY THOUGHT OF WAS CHALLENGED. I AM ON THE VERGE OF TEARS OUT OF FRUSTRATION RIGHT NOW BECAUSE NO ONE IN THIS SCHOOL IS TEACHING ME ANYTHING I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT ON MY OWN. Except my Spanish teacher. She's awesome. In all other subjects- I DID NOT DEDICATE MY ENTIRE LIFE SO FAR TO SITTING IN CONCRETE BOXES SO PEOPLE WITH YEARS OF SCHOOLING WHO I'M MEANT TO RESPECT JUST BARELY SCRATCH THE SURFACE OF THE THINGS I TAUGHT MYSELF AND THEN DON'T GO ANY DEEPER. I truly and honestly want to cry right now. I almost am crying. And one teacher was absent and the other wasn't at his office so I can't complain or demand to be taught. Darn it. Just...
I don't even need to be here. Nothing is keeping me here but my own free will. Why am I tolerating this? ...I don't want to. I'd like to nail a list of grievances on the school's front doors. Then they can sue me and I'll pick out all the grammatical errors of their lawyer's report. And at the end of the day I will slam my books onto the desk and storm out, and any college who doesn't like that can shove it. I wouldn't want to go to a school that believes in this pathetic waste of life.
#ChaseForBook9
Also I meant to say, maybe it's easier to organize your knowledge if it's in topics rather than just a huge mess of random words and phrases, kind of? idk. :P
Like, the past few months in German classes we mostly just practice exam things and learn vocab.
And it's a lot harder, personally, to learn all of the random vocab where you just have a list of unrelated words, like Bauernhof and Gleiss and Sessel and eigentlich and leider and Lieder and whatever the word for 'Salmon' is that I don't remember now, all mixed up together.
Because they're not... there's nothing orderly in them, they're just random, whereas maybe topics give you learning by associations as well as just normal kind of learning?
idk.
#ChaseForBook9
@Taia: Good point.
But they wouldn't have to teach us anything.
They would just have to teach us structures and tenses and blah, and then they could just give us a dictionary (or wordreference.com) and we'd be fine.
We could look up all our own words.
-_-
And - yay! :) :)
#ChaseForBookNine
Also -
I've seen the marks scheme.
It's not hard to look for 'structure' 'opinion' 'justification' 'tenses'.
The examiners are just looking for key words, most of the time.
#ChaseForBookNine
LEEEEEEEROYYYYYYYY
JENKINSSSSSSSSSS
*hugs Aretha*
Sometimes you have to go through things over and over before you can get to the new things? :/
Like in science they teach you from primary school about forces and electrical circuits, but it's not until GCSE/A-Level when you actually begin to learn and understand further than face value into cause and effect and applications and join all of those things together? idk.
You are an amazing human being. And you know things and you've figured things through experience and that is fantastic.
Maybe not everybody in your class has done that? Or maybe they've figured different things? Schools cater to everybody, rather than individually, and so being a bright individual, you're going to come across things you already know much better yourself. And it's gonna be disappointing how crap it is in school.
But... idk.
Sometimes I feel like if you think long enough, you can probably figure out EVERYTHING.
But it's a lot easier to do if people ARE showing you some of those things?
Because different types of folds in brain origami, kind of.
I don't know.
And... I do not expect my school to teach everybody philosophies that make sense, because every human is different and so every philosophy affects every human differently. Maybe I already know these ideas on perspective and perception that I'm being taught, and I either agree or disagree with them already, but what I DO learn in school is how OTHERS take it in.
And maybe I already know about how all humans are different but in school I can continually see it and that BUILDS that knowledge, somehow.
School is shit, but I think no school would be shittier. :P
I am kind of trying to segue into something that may offer some kind of consolation or tilt the perspective in some way that makes it FEEL better. But I'm not sure how to get to there. :/
But maybe... MAybe if you're learning and feeling what is WRONG with the school system, maybe you can figure out some ways to right it.
Which in itself, IS learning, and you need the negative points of school or you wouldn't get there and you wouldn't be learning that.
If you can learn criticisms and complaints, those are no use unless you can use them to build evaluations and solutions.
Solutions will never work unless you keep in mind what already works, and how things already happen and why.
I recall you talking about the school system before, and maybe vowing to correct it one day.
And I think that if this is still something you want to do, I totally believe that you could.
But you've gotta get through what it is NOW in order to learn what it SHOULD be, haven't you?
If you pull yourself out of education, you'll stop learning how it can be improved.
So maybe in those cases, when you're not getting anything new, it's the absence of learning that teaches you?
I don't know.
*hugs*
Good luck, anyway. YOu rule, Aretha. :)
#CHaseForBook9
@Star: Hm. Maybe. :)
What about in, like, history or something? What if one person wanted to learn about Nazi Germany, and one person wanted to study America, and another was interested in medieval history... If you learned it all on your own out of a textbook, why bother being in school at all? :P
And- I think that as you expand up through education, the things you look at can become more specific to what you want.
In university, your personal work often probably COULD be about anything you want it to be.
I guess that education is all building upwards, so with every year you experience different informations and develop your own interests, so that you've tasted all sorts of things, rather than just what you'd go for because that's what you have ALREADY been through?
idk. :P
And- *nods* That is fair. :) ^^
Gotta gooooooo.
*hugs ALL*
Bye!
#ChaseForBook9
Bye Taiarawr!
Yeah, so I poofed to revise . . .
@Ari: My mum wants me to be in a public school because I believe she believes school isn't just about learning academically, it's about learning to get on with lots of different types of people.
And also . . .
I realise that, as I'm in a comprehensive school, then like Taia said, they're catering to everybody, and maybe it's frustrating, being taught nothing new, but you have to sit there and wait for the others to catch up, and the way I see it, to be wholly concerned with myself and how I was learning would be selfish and really unfair to those who are not naturally academically intelligent, and obviously, I wouldn't say that to you because that is a kind of more-not-nice-than-nice way to put it, because I have to be more-not-nice-than-nice to myself so I'm not just deluding myself with a load of crap (limited success in that area :P), but I have to be more-nice-than-not-nice to other people, and I have totally forgotten where I was going, which is rather annoying, but . . .
Yeah.
What I have to say is lame, but it's really all I have to offer. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
Oh...
I realise that all I do here is complain about shitty teachers, but -
last physics module, we rushed through all the knowledge without going over it very well so none of us understood it properly, and then we had a week at the end spare, so we just revised.
And the first few lessons, me and C did it properly, making revision posters and drawing diagrams and all that.
And then we'd kind of revised anything so we were just sat there like yeah.
And we then spent several lessons just talking, and I probably won't remember what we said for the rest of my life, but I really do hope I remember how wonderful they were, and in those lessons, we learnt no physics whatsoever, but I believe we learn just as much as if we had been learning physics, and -
and maybe that's not what school is meant to be about, but that's partially what school's about for me.
And even when you're not learning, you're learning, and . . .
and learning isn't always learning.
#ChaseForBookNine
*everything
#ChaseForBookNine
@Star, on that last comment: :):):)
WBD - Psychology revision maybe
#ChaseForBook9
Okay, Taiarawr *cuddles*
You know, I think you should be allowed to be tested on your knowledge just randomly.
Like . . . my friend's characters in her stories know all kinds of things from having had crystals in their heads (long story), and then they go for job interviews, and they're never really accepted because they don't have qualifications, and employers don't really go for the "But I know it" line.
And I think they should be allowed to just walk into a building somewhere and be examined, and if they pass, they get a qualification.
I don't think you should have to do an official course and have to be taught.
Obviously, it would be much easier if you'd taken the correct course, but . . .
yeah.
I mean . . . originally, people were valued on what they knew/could do, and then qualifications were used so that people could easily show this, but now people are more bothered about the qualification that the actual knowledge/doing, and -
it's like, think of a Cadbury's chocolate bar. It's wrapped in the Cadbury's wrapper, and the wrapper tells everyone that the chocolate bar contains Cadbury's chocolate. But clearly, people don't buy the chocolate bar for the wrapper (unless it's a special wrapper; that's different. I can find another metaphor for that, if you really insist, but -), they buy it for the chocolate, don't they?
You don't do into a shop and think "Ooh, I shall buy a random piece of plastic!"
Uh.
No.
You buy the tasty food.
And chocolate is like people, and what people know and can do, and the wrapper is like qualifications; representative of what the chocolate is, making it easier to identify and be transferred . . .
But people should care more about what's actually in the chocolate, in the person, than just the bit of plastic around them.
Yes.
However, as we live in a qualifications-based world, then I think it would be helpful if a chocolate bar could go HEY YO I need a wrapper here and someone could just test them to see they were Cadbury's dairy nut and give them it, rather than melting them down and reforming them before labelling them.
It's just TIMESAVING.
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Msd, sorry. D: D:
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*give it to them
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I think sometimes I prefer the accidental learning to the academic learning.
Because although the academic learning is important, and I do love that, like in physics which you get to the end of the spec and realise it's all 'how the universe works, see, it all fits together, see how amazing that is?', and in English even though I wanted to hack my head off at some points studying Romeo and Juliet and Browning's Sonnet 43 and 'A MArried State' whose poet I have forgotten, but I learned words and phrases and even though I didn't understand it or particularly enjoy it, I have been able to reference ideas and concepts from those texts and literature. And in psychology when you get a few different theories and you're like THAT IS COMPLETE BULL, but you can see the things that DO fit into it, and it's cool to see where it came from, and different interpretations, and, idk.
But I also like the accidental learning, through random appearances in conversations or slip-ups in class, like how my blood would look on the walls, and how 'I think so' doesn't exactly fill you with confidence, and bacon air fresheners, and daleks from unexpected angles, and how a cookie can take a planted bad day that grew into some bad weeks and give it flowers, so that it's suddenly a good month; or mandays or particular triangles or the maths teacher who made kids cry and watched, still waiting for the answer that they did not know, but who gave them kind French words and smiles on their sleeves for shirt-signing day; and the maths teacher who did none of those things, but who taught maths better than anybody else, and who doesn't smile often but when something pulls an involuntary smile out of him it's like holy golden rainbows and a sense of achievement because that's how much a smile is worth.
I have no idea what I am talking about but there are moments in my head and they mean absolutely nothing but at the same time they mean everything and I think that is incredible. :)
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@Taia: Don't make me cry with your awesomeness again. :P
I think I might prefer accidental learning to deliberate learning, too, but they're close enough that this might shift depending on my mood, so I can't say it with certainty, but I feel certain, now . . .
And now I have to go, so . . . :( I'm sorry.
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It's always a pleasure to read Taia and Star's rants :)
Bye Star!
Thank you, Adra. :)
It's a pleasure to read Taia's rants, and it's a pleasure to rant, so. :P
*leaves*
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Bai Star
Of course it is, Star xD If I ever knew you, it would be that I knew you like to rant :)
*huggles Adra back*
How are you doing, Adra? :)
@Star: WOW. O_O
*agrees*
Idk what to say but just... idk. That. :) ^^
@Star/Part2: *whispers* Sorry. :P
(Even though I'm not supposed to apologize for being awesome, but maybe I'm apologiszng for a possible consequence of the awesome, not the awesome itself, which is different. :P)
And- *nods*
And- *hugs* See you, Star!
@Adra: *hugguggugggles* Thank you. C:
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Meh, atm. Exams :(((((
Though I did really well on my vocab units 1-15 overall test today- 95/100%!
Exams though o-o
I'm writing whenever I can in my free time to stay balanced. I probably will later tonight for a bit- a final draft of an essay is due tomorrow.
Your lovely self?
*is here but realizes I'm not anyone's favorite person to speak to*
Sorry about poofing! Throne of Glass is such a good book! I can hardly put it down!
@Zaf how are you? I see Hyde hasn't caught you yet..
(*twitches*
I'm in an overflowing-with-stuff mood now, and I want to draw, but I did drawing yesterday bc I was mad and decided revision attempts would be ineffective unless you actually CARE enough to take things in.
But now I have no excuse really. I just feel like drawing, but work is important. :P
And granted a lot of my psychology revision involves drawing stupid things but that's different... :P)
@Adra: Yeah, exams suck. :(
And, wow! :0
That's brilliant! :):):)
And writing is also good - I hope yow find the time tonight. :)
I'm good, thank you. :)
Exams, too. :(
But it's nice coming home and being able to put all the work from a particular subject away because it's done. :P
And classes are good because your teachers are mostly nice and like 'If there's something you'd rather do, do that instead'. SO even though it's stressful, it's sort of a nice atmosphere. idk. :)
And The Flaming Lips are still playing and I'm in a weird, sparkles and internal smiles kind mood.
So yeah, good. :) :) :)
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Hyde? Oh yeah he won't bother me. He tends to leave me alone
*huggles Zafiro*
Sorry, I wasn't sure whether you were here or not. :/
How are you doing? :)
Hey Silente!
Yay! for good books! C:
How're you doing?
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Does he? Interesting..
*looks off a minute thinking*
Hmm..
*nods*
Well good. I was under the impression he was after you. Then again you can never trust gossip.
Yayyyyy Taia :)
I hope I get the time too! I will :)
*glomps*
I'm fine thanks Taia. You?
Sometimes I look at my comments and realise that there are times when I probably express more through colons and brackets than I do through actual words. :P
@Adrawr: *is glomped/hugs back* :)
@Tempest: Good to hear. :) I'm grand, thank you. But exams. But :). :)
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I'm fine Taia
And Hyde will come after me when he thinks I'm worth it. He'll probably hunt down Alastair and Adra since he is drawn to weirdness
Drawn to weirdness? Its a wonder I haven't met him then!
*grins at her*
*feels a twitch in her brain*
*ignores it*
How have you been? How's the family?
Good-o, Zaf. :)
(sorry if my words start getting a bit weird. Odd mood. :P)
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They're all fine. We're casually having an interesting time
:).
Bun and Bear
*Cuddles Bear*
Casually having an interesting time? That's...is that possible? Well I guess it is if that's what you're doing, after all you can't really do something if its immpossable.
*frowns at her rambling*
*shrugs and grins*
*taps her fingertips against her leg above the sigil holding her in check*
*it better not be breaking again*
Well...
Olivia: *pokes Silente* Hi!! Alexis is human again
She is?! When did that happen?!
*picks Olivia up and hugs her*
*throws her up a bit into the air before catching he an smoothly lowering her to her feet*
*slips her a glitter lolly being careful to make sure Zaf doesn't see*
**her
(Tempest, I just had a weird moment where I read that, and realized suddenly that there was a time when I used to frown at myself rambling, and... well, look at me now. xD
I hardly even NOTICE myself rambling any more. o0)
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(That's because the more you ramble the less you realise you're rambling so you ramble more until you do full scale rambling without noticing)
Olivia: WEEE!!!!! *immediatly eats lollipop*
Alexis: I don't know how it happened, but I'm human.
I wish you luck with your exams, Blogland! I know you'll do great :)
- K
*holds a hand out to Alexis to shake*
Well I'm glad your back. Sure you looked cute as a doll but I can't get to know you if your a doll! And that's not very helpful!
*smiles at Olivia and winks her way*
Thanks, Tia!
((Hey Tia))
((Hey Adra))
Alexis: *shakes hand* I don't remember being a doll, one minute I was with Lorcan and the next I'm in my room.
(@Silente: That... Makes a lot of sense. *smiles* *nods* :) )
Hey, Tia! Thank you!
I wish the same to you, if you're in exam-time atm or sometime soon. :)
distant
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You don't? Oh well at least the time passed like a blink for you. How are you now then? You seem well. Your hearts beating at a normal speed. And you don't smell off.
*grins at Alexis*
*winks*
Alexis: I feel fine. I just really wish I could see Lorcan.
I haven't seen him in a while. I don't think he took you..what Alastair did, well. He'll come back soon. Just you wait and see.
Hey Silente! How goes it?
It goes well! I think. You?
I think I said it up there ^^^
But, I'm meh. It's oscillating between bad and worse, so.... Yeah. *nods*
Exams adds a little to it, tbh. Dammit.
Also, I might take a little longer to respond now. Writing some Adra stuffs
That's fine Adra. Exams are taking a lot out of people at the moment.
I wish you all luck with your exams! Do I envy you? No. Do I pity you? Slightly. Do I respect you? Indefinatly. You're all handling it better than I will.
Alexis: I hope so...and Alastair I'm scared
There's nothing to be scared of. Neither I or your mother will let him near you. Not that he's interested in us anymore. He's decided us to be boring. So we're safe, for now anyway.
o-o
English.
*weeps*
*hugs Tempest* Thank you. :)
You rock, btw. ;) ^^
((just went to post this comment and spotted 'Cecilos' at the bottom of the first page, and had a mini heart attack because Night Vale. :P/:) ))
mbd/msd
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((You rock too Taia!))
@Taia (well, not really @Taia, it's @everyone and in response to something she said): I ramble when I'm comfortable doing so.
If I'm rambling around you, you should really take that as a compliment, because it means I'm comfortable enough with you to do so, which means that you're awesome enough for me to feel . . . not safe, because it isn't the opposite of unsafe, but . . . at home, except not at home . . . around you.
So yah.
Exams should go die in a hole. -_-
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@Adra: To take on your own phrase, I feel ya. *hugs* ^^
@Star: I think I can, like, reciprocate that. :):):)
@Tempest: Danke. :3
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Crap . . .
I opened a new tab, and now I've totally forgotten what I wanted it for.
*blinks at it*
Um.
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Alexis: He has?
@Star: *laughs* If it was important, you'll remember, I guess. :) ^^
msd
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Yeah. Apparently we aren't flavourful enough for his tastes. Granted I'll miss the sadist but hey, not being worried that he's going to come on and kill people will be nice.
*so dizzy*
*so helpless*
*harsh, ragged breaths*
*in*
*out*
*there's the sound but there's nothing else*
*only darkness, everywhere*
*everything the same temperature, everything silence, everything dark*
*nothing*
*forever*
*only a mind, spinning, spinning, spinning*
*human thought bent and twisted beyond recognition*
*how long has he been there*
*he doesn't know*
*starvation chewing at his stomach*
*the inside of his throat peeling away from thirst*
*500 years*
*500 years of torture*
*blinks out of the memory*
*finds himself slumped in the alley where he'd fallen asleep*
*hugs Bear*...
*stands up, leaning on the wall for support*
*legs are weak, and shaky, with brittle bones that could snap at any moment*
*a miracle that he can walk at all, indeed*
*months of self-administered physical therapy haven't yet made him recover from 500 year without using a single muscle in his body*
*he's atrophied, and stiffened*
*and can barely walk*
*so he lurches, awkwardly, down the sidewalk*
*his breaths rattle deep in his chest*
*his lungs have, for weeks, been slowly filled with and drained of blood, saliva, and snot*
*he can barely breathe*
*but he can still talk*
Clever . . . clever . . .
They're getting cleverer . . .
Alexis: true I rather Niccolò though...
Mine!
*Leaves*
I wonder where they are now.
I wonder.
*sniffs the air*
*his breath catches in his throat and he coughs and sputters into his cupped hands*
*his hands come away red and green*
*he wipes the mixture off on his already filthy clothes*
Not . . . not for long. Not now.
Vorpal.
Vorpal.
*a private smile, a quiet giggle*
Vorpal.
See what she thinks then, see how it will hurt hurt HURT when I take Vorpal,
and make him disappear.
Doesn't have to be him.
Anyone?
She . . . she's so weak . . . attached . . . so attached . . .
She misses that filthy mock-gay pawn of mine. M-m-more than she says.
Steal Vorpal . . . simple . . . simple-simple . . .
*cough*
*violent cough*
*he takes a moment to lean against the wall, breathing in and out, in and out, trying to regulate his breathing*
*watching, Clara O_O*
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Okay good. I actually have something to dedicate to. It might not be a really long comment but hopefully it'll still be decent..
I dedicate to those who have left or become distant. Most of you I have never known and some I've met once or twice but you still have your own stories. You still changed the people here you did meet, which in turn changes the person they meet. A lot of the once from the 'older' 'generation' have left now and I never really met them at all. But the few I have met are great. Your all cheery and spontanious and just amazing. Its a shame people have left the blog' whether for personal reasons, lack of time, or other reasons you still left. And I know none of you will read this if you have left but I'm still dedicating this page to you. Because you're always welcome to return. You'll be welcomed with open arms. So I dedicate this page to those who have left. May they be living their lives happily and the way they wanted to, for as long as they may live.
*shakes head slowly, from side to side*
No . . . no . . . stupid . . . bad . . . ow . . . my head . . .
*clutches his head*
Headaches . . . headaches . . . AH!
*holds up hand, trying to block the sun*
Too bright . . . far too bright . . .
*he slinks into the nearest dark alley and kneels amongst the refuse*
*rocks back and forth slowly*
*high, high above him, a helicopter soars through the sky*
*others follow it, circling the city*
*they've been scouring the city for days*
*black helicopters, with white stripes on their tail fins*
Looking for me . . . ha!
I was good.
Good-good, yes, I've scared him! Scared!
*loud, goose-like laughter*
Scared him silly! Look at him and his pale friend, running this way and that, looking for me. Me!
Scared and angry, angry and sad. Poor dears. I wonder what will become of the baby.
*nervous giggling*
*presses against the wall, hoping not to be seen by the choppers*
A spastic?
A dunce?
A cripple?
Oh, the possibilities are endless!
*cruel laughter*
*laughter that dissolved into agonized coughing*
Thank you, Silente. :)
That's an awesome ded . . .
*hugs*
I don't see the majority of my blogfriends very much anymore, and I miss them.
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((Your welcome star. I felt that they deserved a page, even if they won't see it.))
*harsh, ragged breaths*
Funny . . . if I died . . . here . . .
*overhead, the helicopter blades whirr ever louder*
I wonder . . .
*laughter*
Ah . . . ah, poor little ice man.
Poor little ice man, always so sad now. Stupid!
*slaps himself in the face*
Stupid! Stupid!
*slaps himself twice more*
Why should a hit man be sad that he killed?
Did his job, only his job,
but the poor little ice man doesn't know what to do now! Killed his friend.
Thanks to me. Thanks to me!
*dizzy*
*so dizzy*
Dizzy . . .
*bends over, head between his knees*
Always so dizzy . . . still . . .
*looks wearily up at the sky*
The ice man won't find me. Not here.
*leans against the wall*
*dripping with blood, refuse, and bodily fluids*
*helpless, like always*
Hunted . . . the ice man wants revenge . . . so do I . . .
But the monsters aren't here . . . not now . . .
So . . .
*his eyelids slowly droop*
*and he falls asleep, against the wall in that alley*
*he dreams about nothing*
*and it's not a dream*
*it's a nightmare*
*explodes
Gtg now guys! Sorry! See y'all real soon!
@Silente: They do.
*nods*
I love Hassle's perspective. It's so . . . interesting.
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Fours, Silente! :(
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By Silente
Good morning, afternoon, evening, or other time of day, Blogland.
(Ah, that was fun. At least, it was something I needed to write.)
Hi Sharky
Greetings, Ms. Kerias, Ms. Crowley, Ms. Inkbright, and whoever else may be here.
(Hullo, Sir.)
Going to sleep now . . .
Fours. :(
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Good night, Ms. Inkbright. Sleep well.
Night Star-Bar
Oh.
*sadness*
Alright. Farewell, Star.
*Runs in and hugs Sir quickly* Check you email!
Well
One of the many I've sent you.
The newest one.
*Runs out again*
*sits quietly in a corner*
*looks mildly hurt*
I don't get e-mails from Adra . . .
*lurks in the darkness of the hotel, counting my towels*
I am uncertain if Ms. Dark knows your e-mail, Ms. Crowley.
*Adra mostly spams Sir with dolphin photos, it's okay*
*You don't want emails from Adra*
*mutters something about it being on my profile page*
*gets momentarily upset at Adra*
*but abandons this in short order to continue lurking*
*ponders the idea of dolphin photos*
*shrugs*
*I prefer the click-click noise they make to the way they look*
Clara, please. I hardly email anyone, I just take a particular liking to spamming Sir. Perhaps if you wished to speak to me, you could email me?
*to Adra's portrait*
I'm being playful, Adra, I meant nothing by it.
*waves arms*
Very well.
*leaves again*
Harrumph. Dolphins. Depraved creatures...
*watches sadly
*takes a trip down memory lane*
I once went to Seaworld and saw some dolphins. I never swam with them, though. I hear that's popular.
Oh, certainly, tamed dolphins make wonderful entertainers. But in the wild, they show their true colors...
Huh.
*shrugs*
Well, I know nothing of marine biology.
The creatures torture their young, and the young of other species, to death, for fun.
. . .
. . .
*violent shuddering*
*I trot to the hotel kitchen in search of a cup of tea*
...
Quite.
*I return*
*sit in the swivel chair behind the check in desk*
*sip my tea*
. . .
*exhales*
They sound awful.
Indeed, they are. But, on the whole, I suppose no worse than humans.
I suppose.
*checks watch*
I'd love to stay and chat, but I'm afraid it's about dinner time where I am.
Of course, Ms. Crowley. I hope that you enjoy your dinner.
I have no idea when dinner is. Neither parent is home
Well, my mother's cooking, so . . .
*grimace*
Anyway, I'll see you later. Or, rather, I'll see your comments later.
*twirls the hour hand on the clock*
*the Midnight Hotel melts into the ground, and out of this comment thread*
Well, Ms. Kerias, in those occasions, the time of dinner is generally up to those who remain.
I have no idea what she wants. I have no idea if she's coming home soon, cooking, or even why she isn't home by now. She went to a Zumba class directly after school, teachers get out 2:35 okay its 6:18. I think I ought to be mad. I mean no communication if she wantsme to get anything out, I don't know.
DEAD
When your best friend's all strung out
You'll do everything you can
'Cause you're never gonna let it get 'em down
When you find it all around
It comes in waves, but it's hardest from the start
Feelings sleeping in the field again,
But I can feel, I can feel
I can feel, it's beginning to end
Premonitions smiling in the dark
I can see, I can see
I can see the story starting to arc
Ohhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhhh
It's dries up
I've been a spoken word
I've been a river bed
I've been a rabid force
And let it flow up from within
Sometimes it feels like I only dream in black and white
Ahhh, Ahhhh, Ahhhhhh, Ahhhhh
And colors so…
When your best friends all strung out
You'll do everything you can
'Cause you're never gonna let it get 'em down
When you find it all around
You said it's what you need
And hide your eyes when you're close to me
When you feel up in the clouds
Well, it comes in waves, but it's hardest from the start
Waits, and fed us, slipping into dreams
Oh, I can feel, I can feel
I can feel the celestial beings
Oh welted pleasures leave you with a breath
I can see, I can see
I can see the beauty in the mask
Ohhh, Ohhhh, Ohhhh, Ohhh
It draws up
I've been a river bed
I tried to salt the wound
I've carried more than I can
I feel I've got a lot to prove
Sometimes I feel like I only dream in black and white
Ohhh, Ohhh, Ohhhh, Ohhh
But colors so….
When your best friend's all strung out
You'll do everything you can
Cause you're never gonna let it get em down
You find it all around
Yeah, you say it's what you need
And hide your eyes when you're close to me
With your feet up in the clouds
You oughta know
That I'm here no matter where you go
With your head hanging upside-down
Well, it comes in waves, but it's hardest from the start
I am here no matter where you are
So let it in with, open arms, no matter where you are
Sometimes, you have to wait until it passes by like a satellite or star
No matter where you are
When your best friend's all strung out
You know it
Ooh-hoooo-hooooo
With your feet up in the clouds
Oh, Yeah, you know when
Ooh-hoooo-Ooh hooooo
When your best friend's all strung out
Oh, yeah, you know when
You oughta know
That I'm here no matter where you go
With your head, hanging upside-down
Oh yeah, you know it
That's how you know
That your best friend's all strung out
The song is by foster the people, not me, but I believe it is very relevant, especially this part: "I am here no matter where you are
So let it in with, open arms, no matter where you are
Sometimes, you have to wait until it passes by like a satellite or star
No matter where you are"
Because I am always here for you, no matter where you are, and you can always talk to me, no matter who you are, and no matter what is bothering you! I'm pretty sure that almost everyone here on blogland is here for you, as well, so remember you are not alone! (sorry for my little rant right here, but I think that some people needed to here this right now) have a great day today! (unless it's night where you are, then have a great night!)
For over a month my mom knew I was invited to Six Flags, she promised to talk to my dad. The deadline is today. Today. Has she? No. I mean I keep asking her and she says we'll see, I told her about the deadline Monday. I swear I won't be going
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