Ticking things off...

[laliandra]

So on Tuesday it's Graduation! And I will be able to tick Number 45. off my list, Graduate with a 2.1. A 2.1! I am still overjoyed.

And I've already ticked off number 74., go on a girlie beach holiday. More on that another day!

But I have a meme! From elfmanfan (<3)

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you. (Please note: If you simply wish to comment on something I've said but don't want to participate in the meme, that is fine. I will only give you five words if you specifically comment you with 'Words!')
Lal!Edit: Or you can give me more words! Or ask nicely. You don't have to yell if it is not in your nature!

So my five words were

SPAM THREAD, ENGLAND, NORTH BY NORTHWESTERN, DISSERTATION, BULGARIA

THE SPAM THREAD - I blame mcollinknight? TST is where my RL and fandom life combine in a facebook explosion of CAPSLOCKING and postcards. We like to make in-jokes, discuss the latest episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report and generally chat about our lives. There are videos of pundits eating whipped cream and epic giggling bromances. T here are hugs for bad days and congrats on cool things and it is generally a fabulous, impossibly prolific thing. We are already on TST 2.0, as we are Just That Good. ILU all.

ENGLAND - If asked, it is where I say I'm from. But really, I've lived outside of England for more of my life than I've lived in it. "Where are you from?" is a complicated question for me, which I've rambled about before. I am, however, in many ways extremely stereotypically English. For example -
I love tea. Really, truly, madly deeply, and I will offer it as a solution to almost any issue.
I apologise to people who bump INTO me.
I root for the underdog. And I root for England. Except when England play South Africa, where I get to root for whoever is winning :D.

Also, as I type this, we've escaped with a draw in the First Ashes Test! Huzzah! *loves cricket forever and ever Amen*.

NORTH BY NORTHWESTERN - Oho, I totally blame Colline for this one. NbNW is a crazy college AU that started on rahmbamarama . Basically. It's a group of boys living in a dorm in the 80s, in Northwestern, Chicago. It's RL with a twist. The original series is a thing of beauty, nuanced and gorgeous and lovely, with killer lines and unusual metaphors and tangled emotion. And I love it. And it high-jacked my brain until I wrote a companion piece to it. I have three NbNW fics now, totalling more words than I've written for any other fandom. I'm sorry for stealing your world and your boys, C!

DISSERTATION - oh my poor ladies of Spam. They had to put up with months of me complaining about my Dissertation. Plus, of course, my poor long suffering housemates, and Nat, and people I met in the library, and by the end, anyone within my line of vision.

I learnt a lot. That 6000 words is more than you think. That I can carry ten books, comfortably. That of the ten books you drag home, only 4 will be of any real use. I mean, I also learnt a lot about my subject (French Revolutionary Propaganda). Mainly that the French Revolutionary Propagandists were obsessed with arses. There are whole chapters about scatalogical humour that I will never be able to unsee.

It very nearly killed me. But it was worth it to end up with something bound with my name on it.

BULGARIA- This is where I went on holiday with Belle, Sal and Wren. It was a wonderful week! Sunshine and cocktails and staying up late eating olives and chatting. When I sort out all my pictures, I will probably tell all, if you like?

And because I am enjoying singing a song of myself, I give you, another meme! Pick 5 of my tags or interests and I will explain them to you.

How have you all been while I was away, anyhow?

Comments

[mcollinknight.livejournal.com]

ALL OF THESE MAKE ME HAPPY IN THE FACE.

The spam thread <3 I love how it keeps morphing and what it started for and what it became and how awesome we all are. Also I love how you described NbNW so that people outside of RBR and politifandom CAN UNDERSTAND IT AND NOT THINK WE ARE FREAKS, ILU. Also, I am curious: have you now written more of NbNW than I have? (PS I AM WRITING A NEW PART OF IT. I DON'T KNOW WHY. EXCEPT THAT I WANT TO JON AND RAHM TO LIVE TOGETHER AND ARGUE ABOUT DRAPES.)

There are whole chapters about scatalogical humour that I will never be able to unsee wins the Best Sentence of My Week Award. Congrats ;)

[laliandra.livejournal.com]

YOU MAKE ME HAPPY IN THE FACE.

I know right? It's all sorts of cool! I have written like, 10000 words of NbNW? I do not think that is as much as you, and I hope you do not mind my mild highjacking. OMGOMG NEW PART!!! I am EXCITED! I CANNOT WAIT! :D

Thank you, I'd like to thank the mental scarring, the library and the crazy French...