Hello World

If you discover this, you should be excited.
Or not.
I would be excited.
Some interesting things are happening of late, such as
a) College (soon, very soon)
b) Well, that was all I had thought of when I said "some interesting things."


This is how I'm feeling today. Which may mean "very possibly entirely insane" but it could also mean "alien" but then again it could likely mean "smothered by my sweatshirt hood". Take your pick.
Also, see that thing behind me? That's a headboard. Of a bed. I've had to sleep on a STONE FLOOR for the past two nights. Evil, evil floor. Beautiful, beautiful mattress. Insane, insane in the membrane.

Happy Birthday, Mum!

I love you.


Gratefully, Happily, Wonderfully Yours...

The Nearest Book

B. has memed me.
I'm excited about this one.
Let me see...the closest book is *drumroll*....The Vampire Lestat, by Anne Rice

As always, there are rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Turn to page 123.
3. Skip to the 5th sentence.
4. Post the next 3 sentences.
5. Tag 5 other people.

Well, here goes...
"I scanned the crowd around for the source of this strange distraction, what was it, not Nicolas in the door of the deserted theater, watching me with a broken soul.
No, something else both familiar and unfamiliar, having to do with the dark.
'Hire the finest mummers'--I was half babbling--'the best musicians, the great scene painters.'"

I really like this Meme. May I do another? Please? Yes, I think I shall. Rules are meant to be broken.

The next closest is...Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Unfortunately, this particular edition lacks a one-hundred-and-twenty-third page. So I'll have to go on to the next closest, which happens to be The Mammoth Book of Pirates, edited by Jon E. Lewis and containing retellings by historians as well as firsthand accounts of piracy. On page 123 is "Journal of A Buccaneer", by William Dampier. Interestingly, if page 123 had fallen just three pages further into the book, the passage excerpted would have come from "Avery's Prize"(about Henry Avery's capture of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb's ship, the Gang-I-Sawai), by pirate historian Charles Ellms. Ah, well. Such is life.

"There were a great many fat Bulls and Cows feeding in the Savannahs. Some of us would have killed three or four to carry on board, but others opposed it, and said it was better to stay all Night, and in the Morning drive the Cattle into the Pen, and then kill 20 or 30, or as many as we pleased. I was minded to return aboard, and endevoured to persuade them all to go with me, but some would not."

Huh. How...gruesome. (She said, as though pirates did not habitually engage in killing.)

Suddenly referring to herself in the third person...



PS: Avery cannot think of anybody to tag. And for that she is sorry.

The Great Meme Duel!!!

I would like to point out that this challenge deadline is unfair to those of us

*cough*myself*cough* who do not have regular internet access.

1. I am one of the few people that can read B.'s handwriting.


2. I am currently eating a tofu scramble. And it's delicious.


3. Aislinn created my desktop background. It is purple. With yellow squiggles. Beautiful.


4. My watch is awesome. It's so very relativity-ful. Desafortunadamente, it broke while I was dancing.


5. I love manga. Particularly Deathnote. And anything by Yuu Watase.


6. I'm in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. I'm playing Helena.

B., you repeated a fact. The fundamental particles one. Does that mean you lose? Or does it mean that that set doesn't count?

Challenge-doingly...

What Aislinn Said.

CLICK

Rule Breaking Galore

Hokay, so. Medeia/Plenty of Paper memed me. Hoorah!

Six Random Facts:

1. The thing that has been said most to me by strangers is either "I love your hair!" or "What's that on your arm?".
   
2. I got letters from a faerie when I was young(er).
   
3. If I had been born a boy, my mother would have named me Nathan. Or perhaps Edgar Allen.
4. In preschool, for Hallowe'en, I was Jeannie from the television show "I Dream of Jeannie".
5. I adore cemeteries and swingsets.
6. I was Mary, Queen of Scots in my former life. And whatever they may say about me, I didn't do it.

Everybody has been taken!!!! *Cries tears of despair* I suppose I'll tag B. as well. Just to pile on the pressure.

I have not been tagged for The Mutating Meme. But I'm going to pretend that I have, because I really want to answer the questions. I mean, because I'm just way too cool for rules. So there. Let's say that...Aislinn tagged me. Check out the original here. (You can find the rules there, too. This computer seems to be on something. It won't let me copy-paste into blogger.)

1. If you could change your name, what would you change it to?

Hildegarde. Or maybe Gertrudis. But then again, it might have to be Bob.
2. What is your least favourite food?

The flesh of animals.
3. Are there any songs that get stuck in your head really easily? How do you get them out?

Quite a few. Sometimes it's something really annoying, like Fergalicious. Other times it's a really great song, like Anna Begins, by the Counting Crows. The worst thing that happens is when I have multiple songs stuck in my head, all dueling each other for the position of "Most Prevalent". I am never able to get them out and end up half-singing, half-muttering them to myself all day. Or for a couple of days. Eventually, they get absorbed into my mental shelving units while I'm sleeping. Only to be replaced by another song.

4. If you could be (or are) a mythical creature, what would it be (or what are you)?

A faerie, o'course. That does not, however, mean that I'm a little, sparkle-sprinkling creature with butterfly wings. Jeez, people. "Faerie" is a very broad category.
5. What do colours taste like?

Honey and sunshine and freshly-cut-grass.
6. Name three (or more if you like) fawesome words.

Mellifluous, incandescent, enigma, irrevocable, serendipity, intoxicating, viola, inamorata, dust, quixotic (originally, I was going to not put this one in, because Aislinn already had. But I simply love it too much to leave it out), phantasmagorical....(I like words.)
7. Zombies or unicorns?

Unicorns. Fo shiz.

8. Ball gown?

Yes, please.

I tag The Incandescent Corner and B. and...er...uh...I don't know!!!! Sigh. Failure.

Rule-breakingly...

Something to Look Forward To.

Hey! Look over there! It's a poll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How excitng.
Goodness. I'm looking forward to all of these (except for, you know, the one's I've already read. Which are very look-forward-to-able).
Anyway...Vote. Explicate. The Dark Lord commands thee.

Excitedly...