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laliandraSo, I've been a bit out of contact, I know. This is because RL decided to turn me upside down and inside out and I'm still not sure what's going on. Also, marmfish? My laptop hates Chatzy and won't work if I try and load it. I MISS YOU GUYS!
Basically I applied for a Masters in Applied Translation (French) at Leeds University and they said "Okay, that's fine. You have a place and we will send you your final confirmation when we get your funding confirmed."
So I was pleased and made plans for the next year of my life.
THEN The Isle of Man government didn't send Leeds University anything about my funding so I couldn't get that confirmed and so I couldn't get funding because I didn't have a confirmed place and when I got in contact with Leeds about it last week, they told me that they had given my place away.
THEY GAVE MY PLACE AWAY AND DIDN'T TELL ME.
So. Yeah. Then there was a lot of yelling and crying, and the uni were both unapologetic and unhelpful. And there's nothing I can do, except try not to freak out.
So, that has been my life, of late. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do, so please don't ask. It's all rather up in the air, but rest assured I'll keep you posted.
I am trying, now, though to focus on Reasons To Be Cheerful.
Everyone I know has been marvellous, my new housemate Elliot bought me takeaway pizza and ice cream and watched 10 Things I Hate About You and Get Over It with Me (yay adaptations of Shakespeare into a teen format!), because even though he is a straight boy, he owns about a million chick flicks.
Nat made a Plan B and then a Plan C and then a Plan D (which has a lot in common with Alan's "KILL THEM ALL" plan)
Cat took me to Lush and we got hand massages.
Also, internet friends? ILGUYS.
Kara and novemberlauren threatened picketing and spammed me with cheerful songs, Rhonda threatened people's shins and Colline called me a gem.
I talked to Kaz on Skype in a serious business way for her thesis about blogging and then just randomly for about an hour about all sorts of things. Food, especially. I was on a high all day after that!
I have a New Icon! I love earning new icons! It means I get to open my 'Icons that I Save and Crave' folder, current content approximately 50, and pick a lucky new icon. London is Love.
I have a story that I like and it's really flowing! 5000 words of steampunk AU...
And Strictly Come Dancing starts on Friday!
AND I just had the following phone call.
Lal: Hello?
Nat: HALP I have lost a man in a forest! Oh no! There he is! BYE!
Tell me some good news, dearest flist. Tell me a joke. Tell me about your kick-awesome lives!
Basically I applied for a Masters in Applied Translation (French) at Leeds University and they said "Okay, that's fine. You have a place and we will send you your final confirmation when we get your funding confirmed."
So I was pleased and made plans for the next year of my life.
THEN The Isle of Man government didn't send Leeds University anything about my funding so I couldn't get that confirmed and so I couldn't get funding because I didn't have a confirmed place and when I got in contact with Leeds about it last week, they told me that they had given my place away.
THEY GAVE MY PLACE AWAY AND DIDN'T TELL ME.
So. Yeah. Then there was a lot of yelling and crying, and the uni were both unapologetic and unhelpful. And there's nothing I can do, except try not to freak out.
So, that has been my life, of late. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do, so please don't ask. It's all rather up in the air, but rest assured I'll keep you posted.
I am trying, now, though to focus on Reasons To Be Cheerful.
Everyone I know has been marvellous, my new housemate Elliot bought me takeaway pizza and ice cream and watched 10 Things I Hate About You and Get Over It with Me (yay adaptations of Shakespeare into a teen format!), because even though he is a straight boy, he owns about a million chick flicks.
Nat made a Plan B and then a Plan C and then a Plan D (which has a lot in common with Alan's "KILL THEM ALL" plan)
Cat took me to Lush and we got hand massages.
Also, internet friends? ILGUYS.
Kara and novemberlauren threatened picketing and spammed me with cheerful songs, Rhonda threatened people's shins and Colline called me a gem.
I talked to Kaz on Skype in a serious business way for her thesis about blogging and then just randomly for about an hour about all sorts of things. Food, especially. I was on a high all day after that!
I have a New Icon! I love earning new icons! It means I get to open my 'Icons that I Save and Crave' folder, current content approximately 50, and pick a lucky new icon. London is Love.
I have a story that I like and it's really flowing! 5000 words of steampunk AU...
And Strictly Come Dancing starts on Friday!
AND I just had the following phone call.
Lal: Hello?
Nat: HALP I have lost a man in a forest! Oh no! There he is! BYE!
Tell me some good news, dearest flist. Tell me a joke. Tell me about your kick-awesome lives!
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Date: 2009-09-16 04:00 pm (UTC)So, good news. Hmm. Uh. Today, some crafty foreign men put new windows into my parents' room's walls! Isn't that cool? And I'm going to eat homemade pizza tonight. And do last week's Sunday Sweets over on Cake Wrecks not look AWESOME?
By the way, if all else fails (it won't, though), I am totally ready to open up a restaurant in Santa Fe with you and we can sing songs from RENT all the time!
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Date: 2009-09-26 03:44 pm (UTC)I love that you read Cake Wrecks too! They look AMAZING, I am completely in awe. And mm, homemade pizza.
I think that is one of the best plans I've ever heard. Songs from many musicals! Let's not limit ourselves. Santa Fe is meant to be very sunny, after all.
Thank you sweetie! xxx
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Date: 2009-09-16 04:15 pm (UTC)But your new icon is very pretty, and hand massages sound delightful, and, wow, 5000 words of steampunk AU! What kind of AU is it, if I could ask? I want to read it like now. :D
From the department of good news: hmmm... it's old news by now, but the Alan Turing case makes me vaguely hopeful for humanity. In more domestic front - I'm starting jazz dancing classes in October! :)
Also, let me spam you with a swing picture - I find swings very, very soothing; I hope you do too. :)
Uh, reposted for general fail.
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Date: 2009-09-26 03:49 pm (UTC)I adore swings! Thank you so much, that is a darling picture. Her little feet are just adorable!
Jazz dancing sounds like lots of fun. There will be dance classes in my future too, I hope. You must tell me all about it.
Oh! The other night I dreamt that we had tea in the Lake District. It was awesome.
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Date: 2009-09-27 02:42 pm (UTC)So good to hear from you, I was beginning to worry! *hugs*
I am a bit afraid of the jazz classes, I must admit - I hope there will be more klutzy girls like me, not all ballerinas... But my teacher is absolutely darling, and the vision of dancing Broadway classics is alluring:) (last year they danced with top hats! How cool is that?) I will report next week, after first class! ;)
What an awesome dream! Is the Lake District still, uh, like we're make to believe after reading one too many historical novels? I wonder.
*hugs*
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Date: 2009-09-27 06:01 pm (UTC)The Lake District is still very much like that, yes, in places. All wilderness and delight. And, I am sure, excellent tea. I had Mars Bar Cheesecake in the lake District, so I have a high opinion of their tea rooms...
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Date: 2009-09-16 04:48 pm (UTC)*HUGS*
I am thinking of you sweetie and I hope you do get everything sorted. And I'm sorry your laptop is being evil and you can't be comforted/disturbed by crazy chat. :(
BUT you want good news. Um. I have just been given a very lovely biscuit tin! And...my dad fixed my bike today so now I can actually get around Bristol, hurrah! This morning I went on a baking spree and made scones and shortbread and it's all delicious and I send you some virtually! Have cake, with sprinkles. Sprinkles make everything better. :)
AND there are beautiful Nescafe adverts in the world and the sun is kind of shining and the trailer for Toy Story 3 is adorable and there are crack bunnies and giant man-eating tigers and also I love you. Not sure how much that last one helps, but it's still true.
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Date: 2009-09-26 04:03 pm (UTC)I have managed to make my laptop behave today! So I am in the chat. I have missed it a ridiculous amount...
Thank you honey, all the lovely people I know internetly are overwhelming me with their loveliness *HUGS*
A biscuit tin and a bike? Sounds perfect. Thank you for the sprinkles, they are delicious and very helpful in all situations.
OMG Toy Story 3! I am so tragically excited. And UP comes out soon and I have heard that it is amazing. :D:D:D. I love you too, and it helps, believe me <3
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Date: 2009-09-16 05:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-16 10:52 pm (UTC)Q: Why does Snoop Dogg carry an umbrella?
A: Fo' drizzle.
XD
And here is a link to the best first dance at a wedding ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqiw-Kqtlr0
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Date: 2009-09-26 04:07 pm (UTC)That is a BRILLIANT joke. I am laughing in a really undignified way.
I love 10 things with a love that defies explanation. Heath Leger is so CUTE and Kat is kickass, I love her. Get Over It is great! It's fun to be a fairy! It is so much fun...
He also believes in pudding. So far so good!
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Date: 2009-09-16 05:09 pm (UTC)Therefore, I shall offer to send you kittens to make your life better, take a random trip around the world with you since neither of us seem to be having luck with unis, and ask if you've ever been to the Bavarian Alps (yes, I know, shameless plus for home :D).
*hugs and tea and kittens and ultra dense chocolate gateau*
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Date: 2009-09-26 04:31 pm (UTC)I do so hope that things are better for you now, my lovely. Tea?
Sure, lets go round the world! I like the sound of this plan a lot. I have been to the Barvarian Alps, yes! My friend from uni lived in Munich for a year so I went to visit her. And we went to Salzberg on the train so I saw the Alps a bit closer, It was amazing, I had such a wonderful time. The whole place is so beautiful...
*hugs*
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Date: 2009-09-16 07:08 pm (UTC)Uhm.... Cheer you up.... Watch the latest Toss, or watch Jon dance in a fat!suitXD
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Date: 2009-09-26 04:32 pm (UTC)They are so adorable in their bromance. N'AWWWWWWW. Also, there are few situations that are not improved by Jon dancing in the fat suit.
*squishes him*
<3
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Date: 2009-09-16 09:58 pm (UTC)That really is shitty...way shittier than me not having a flat after one month of searching (sombebody up there hates me...)
It really is very mean of the university, I mean wtf? can't they tell you dear miss something for your study is missing, could you please give it to us?
so you have my full compassion (everything that isn't wasted on self-pity anyway....)
cheer up!
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Date: 2009-09-26 04:34 pm (UTC)It is shitty, but I am sure that it will work out somehow. I hope you've had appartment success!
*hugs*
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Date: 2009-09-16 10:28 pm (UTC)We got hilariously nearly-lost in a rental car last night.
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Date: 2009-09-26 04:35 pm (UTC)Especially evil schemesNearly lost is fun! Lost, not quite so much...
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Date: 2009-09-16 10:44 pm (UTC)In hopes to get your mind off things - what's your awesome story about?
Oh, and I asked around my new college buddies for some good (bad) jokes and pick-up lines, so hopefully these make you laugh, even if it's in a "oh god I can't believe you actually brought yourself to type that up" kind of way. (Just a warning - all the pick-up lines are exceptionally nerdy, since most of my new college buddies are in Honors with me. Hope you know your calculus!)
1. Two goldfish were in a tank. One turned to the other and said, "You drive! I'll shoot!"
2. How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb?
Just one, but the light bulb has to want to change.
3. What do you get when you put a sheep on a trampoline?
A woolly jumper.
4. A Buddhist monk walks up to a hot dog stand and says, "Make me one with everything."
5. I wish I was DNA Helicase so I could unravel your genes.
6. Are you an alien? Because your body is out of this world!
7. I wish you were my derivative, since then you would lie tangent to my curve.
8. I wish I was sin^2 and you were cos^2, because then we would be 1.
And I would tell you something awesome about my life, but most of it's on my lj already, and in any case, most of what you say (aside from the obvious tragedies) sounds way more awesome than my life could ever be, if only from the amazing telephone calls you receive.
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Date: 2009-09-26 04:39 pm (UTC)Nerdy jokes are my absolute favourite sort of jokes. You are a dear.
I love the lines! They are TERRIBLE! :D
The awesome (ahahaha) story is about a Prince and an Airship and a Captain and political intrigue and also cogs. The cogs are Very Important.
It sounds like college is going well, I am so delighted! Homesickness is a bugger, but it makes you appreciate what you have, I think...
<3<3
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Date: 2009-09-26 07:27 pm (UTC)And yes, I agree with you there. (Never before have I so longed to have a (rather chubby) cat sleep directly on top of my stomach all night long, that growls at me whenever I try to move. Ah, how I long to wake up in the morning with cat hair in my mouth.)
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Date: 2009-09-16 10:53 pm (UTC)Things to make you feel better...umm...
Pretty boys dancing.
A Softer World.
Tom Felton shirtless.
Excellent Male Model--A Blog.
The fireman cake.
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Date: 2009-09-26 04:41 pm (UTC)PRETTY BOYS. I mean. Yes, thank you! Also, HI TOM FELTON WHEN DID YOU GROW UP?
Your go to thing is clearly teh pretty. I approve...
Thank you Tria *cuddles back*
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Date: 2009-09-17 12:06 am (UTC)Then I achieved brief internet fame and adoration. That was cool.
My cats are sleeping happily right now as I plug away at what I am already starting to think of as the podfic of Doom.
I think I may have caused novemberlauren to finally get back to work on the Cigarettes fic, my future favorite thing of all time, but promising that I'd podfic it when she finished it.
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Date: 2009-09-26 04:47 pm (UTC)You are like, my favourite facefaced person. One of, anyway.
That is good work there! I look forward to both the fic and podfic because really, what could be better?! Powers combine!
*hearts times a million*
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Date: 2009-09-17 12:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-26 04:49 pm (UTC)I wish you only kickass things every day!
<3
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Date: 2009-09-17 01:28 am (UTC)Historical Tweets!
Jon Oliver making fun of the British.
Dorky language humour in the form of ridiculous similies.
Sir Mix-a-Lot
Nerdy fruit puns
And - because it is what I always do - a selection of inappropriate, extremely inappropriate, and hilarious gifs from my exceedingly overabundant collection.
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Date: 2009-09-26 04:54 pm (UTC)Dorky language humour you say? You know me so well!
GIIIIIIIIFS! Look at his adorable faaaaaaaace... Look at all their adorable faces...
&hearts
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Date: 2009-09-17 06:08 pm (UTC)BITS OF AWESOME:
- Today I talked to one of our neighbors whose brother? or some male relative went to culinary school on the Isle of Man! I was all '!!!! I KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS ORIGINALLY FROM THERE :DD!!' and the she told us gory tales about his culinary misadventures, involving chopping off a bit of his finger that they had to haphazardly jam on and get him to go somewhere else off the island for treatment? And now it is semi-wonky, but his heart still beats for cooking :D
-BECAUSE 'HOT STUFF' IS WHAT YOU ARE (AMONGST OTHER, EVEN BETTER THINGS)
-WHEN IN DOUBT, STRIKE A POSE (IN SPARTAAAAAAAAA)
-STOP MOTION NEVER GETS OLD, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S DONE AWESOMELY
-HELLO WET MR. DARCY :DD
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Date: 2009-09-27 05:54 pm (UTC)So because you are awesome and glorious, here is an Idol Steampunk AU snippet
“Is it a Newcomen?” The Prince asks, hand stretching out towards a stack of spare parts, “I thought I saw some difference cogs?”
“You know what a difference cog looks like?” Kris asks and picks one up and twirls it through his fingers, a tick he’d really hoped he’d grown out of.
“Oh yes,” Prince Adam says and then steals the cog, his fingers a fleeting, warm presence on Kris’s, “I tried to build a Newcomen when I was 12. The difference cogs were the hardest part to try and recreate. In the end Allie and I snuck some out of the Upgrade Workshop.”
Kris can just imagine them, running wild through the corridors of the Mansion, too brilliant to be contained, and he can’t help grinning. Prince Adam returns the grin and Kris feels momentarily blindsided.
“What happened with your engine?” he asks, watching The Prince’s hand close round the cog so that it almost looks part of the Upgrade that extends down to his wrist, fitted neatly over his arm, starkly, mechanically beautiful.
“It blew up,” The Prince says, absently, “The Idol was most displeased, gave me a talk on Conduct Unbecoming a Prince. First of many.” He seems to remember where he is and shifts, looking as near to uncomfortable as Kris thinks he ever could.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 2009-09-27 06:10 pm (UTC)Also, I saw this the other day and thought of YOUUU
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Date: 2009-09-17 08:13 pm (UTC)Also, lots of people are apparently doing NaNoWriMo this year, including me even though I cannot actually write. The ones that aren't (rav and mathsie, I think?) are going to be
supporting uslaughing at us.And there is a marmfish TDLfanforum! There's also the official one but a lot of people moved after the whole fanworks issue over there. Come join us! http://marmaladefish.createforum.net
Oooh, Strictly Come Dancing! I only began watching the last season because Rachel Stevens was in it (...I know. I am a cheesy 90s pop geek) but I liked it a lot so I'll be watching Friday ^_^
I have a new phone! (it's my Dad's old phone but still a few years newer than my previous phone, which was my brother's old phone XD) It is so shiny and cute and tiny and has a good camera on it and has a microSD card so I can put tons of music on it.
I've been pondering for about a month about getting an EEE because they are so adorable and my younger brother got a free netbook for no apparent reason two days ago (which I feel is massively unfair, but my excessive pouting did result in the peace offering of the phone). I can currently afford one and then some, especially since Natwest is giving me a lovely discount code, but I should probably wait until I'm sure that I won't run out of money whilst AT uni (which is, uh, difficult. I want to join MANY societies.)
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Date: 2009-09-17 10:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-27 06:06 pm (UTC)I am delighted for you and your technological shinies! How cool!
Thank you for cheering me up so, lovely Boo!