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June 29th, 2008
 | 01:50 pm
Okay. I just had to say Arsenal was AMAZING last night. ajdklsj And so was the rest of the festival. Couleur Cafe for the utter, absolute win! (I haven't slept at all, by the way. BUT I FEEL AWESOME. We went over to my sister's to sleep - she lives in Brussels - and I had this weird half-dream (you know, the kind where you're actually still awake) about a murdered man whose blood was dripping onto the floor - the tap was dripping a bit, it turns out. I'm tired BUT I FEEL AWESOME.)
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June 28th, 2008
 | 01:28 pm - Importance (Daphne/Pansy, NC-17)
Title: Importance
Pairing: Daphne/Pansy
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 800
Notes: written for the 2008 Femmeslash Porn Battle, prompt: Daphne/Pansy, unimportant
Summary: It's not as if any of this matters.
( Importance )
Current Music: Egun - Arsenal (who I'm going to see performing in seven hours!)
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June 27th, 2008
 | 10:52 pm - Tell Me (Lily/Alice, NC-17)
Title: Tell Me
Pairing: Lily/Alice
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 2,280
Notes: written for the 2008 Femmeslash Porn Battle. Prompt: Lily/Alice, relief
Warning: adultery
Summary: Lily needs someone she can talk to about what she wants.
( Tell Me )
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June 25th, 2008
 | 07:16 pm
So. I'm officially out of high school as of yesterday. It's a really weird feeling. Yay.
Happy with my grades - the subjects that I thought would be mediocre were, and the rest was very, very okay. Got 91% for Dutch and 90% for English, which I was kinda hoping for so yay. I won a prize for "Literature", which I later learned was the replacement for the prizes for English, Dutch and French rolled into one. I'm happy I got it! Even though I can't believe I really did that well on French, but okay. The prize was a book, Paravion, and it looks like it's really good - when I finish the Inferno, I'll start reading it.
It's really weird. Really. It feels nice, but also a bit sad.
E texted me after the proclamation: "You can't believe how proud I am of you."
And then I went to bed and slept for twelve hours. I feel good.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh109/thjeve/lerenard.jpg) happy
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June 19th, 2008
 | 11:13 am - quelqu'un m'a dit
ONLY TWO EXAMS LEFT. There's a tremendously busy period coming up - next week is crammed to the brim with stuff that I have to do/want to do, and then I've got one (1) free day, and then I have to start working. Phew. On top of that, I have to meet up with old friends and not-so-old friends - S and E are leaving for Portugal on june 30th, so I want to have a drink before they leave. Only I've got zero time, except maybe thursday evening.
I have ideas for ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) 10_whores. Providing that I finish studying before eight (which I should be able to manage, it's only French and Geography) and I'm not dead tired, I might start my Aphrodite/Artemis idea tonight. It's fun trying to find ways to get to plausible Artemis!sex; just discarding her oath of virginity isn't in my book!
I watched a gorgeous movie last night. Earth and Ashes (or "Khakestar-o-khak" in Dari) is one of those rare pearls that are mainly forgotten by big theatres, but deserve a million times more attention than what usually comes out of Hollywood. I came across this movie through our theatre's Open Doek Filmfestival, an alternative film festival that always brings the best from anywhere but Hollywood. During the festival itself, I saw Lost in Beijing, Estômago (A Gastronomic Story) and El Baño del Papa, but I didn't get around to this little wonder. Thankfully I managed to track it down. Earth and Ashes is a deeply poetic, tragicomic, slow, silent story set against the desolate sand dunes of Afghanistan. If you don't mind long stretches of silence, sand, bare humanity and grief, WATCH IT. It's unbelievable.
That said, mon français m'attend.
<3
Current Music: Denikemba - Arsenal
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June 13th, 2008
 | 12:30 pm
all_unwritten prompt: a little girl needs her daddy
( I feel like... )
//
all_unwritten prompt: the barest touch
( grass )
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June 11th, 2008
 | 07:36 pm - you know it's summer when we've got time to visit festivals
No time for a real update or fic, but I had to say that I just received my copy of Arsenal's new album, LOTUK, in the mail and !!!!!!!!! I am such an INCREDIBLE fan of these guys. And I don't go into fan!mode easily. But seriously, I can't stop listening to this album. (Although Oyebo Soul is still my favourite of theirs.) In fact, I think I'll try to buy tickets to go see them this summer, and take E and S with me for their birthdays, because they love them too and they wouldn't accept any other kind of present from me because they've got this stupid idea eighteen-year-olds shouldn't buy thirty-year-olds birthday presents. They'll have no choice but to accept this!
Plus, I've just realised Arsenal's also coming to Couleur Café - thank god I'm going the day they're coming!
YAY SUMMER FESTIVALS
:-D!
I hope I've actually got enough money to buy three tickets
Current Music: Lotuk - Arsenal (what else?!)
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June 9th, 2008
 | 11:41 am
And suddenly, it's summer again! I was riding my bike home, having done my Greek exam (the oral part went really well - the translation of unknown texts was... difficult, but at least I knew what everyone was talking about, so I guess that's a good sign) and thoroughly enjoying this sudden streak of summer, when suddenly... a ladybug hitched a ride on my knee.
It made me happy.
Current Mood: chipper
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June 7th, 2008
 | 04:41 pm - See what you made me do, Ancient Greek?!
OMG I'm such a horrible person. The gods must hate me now, and with them the ancient philosophers.
Title: Atomic Practice
Pairing: Leukippos/Demokritos
Rating: PG
Summary: He'll prove it to him.
( Atomic Practice )
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh109/thjeve/ptitprinceboite.jpg) I wrote Leukippos/Demokritos!
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| 01:36 pm
*can't stop clicking Random Journal button*
I should be studying D:
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June 6th, 2008
 | 04:02 pm - Socrates sez: Imagine an underground cave-like dwelling, mkay? / Glaucus sez: I'm trying OKAY?!
I feel so bad for the people in Plato's cave. But then that means that I really feel bad for myself, since I'm in the cave! You always know a philosopher's doing his job when he makes you go "...shit, that's me and I've been living blindly!"
Two exams down, fourteen to go. I'm already so tired my bones hurt a little (especially my hips - that happens sometimes). I hope I'll be able to keep myself going. Must sleep this weekend. Must also study. For Greek, so must study plenty and methodically. Must combine studying and sleeping.
I'm meeting up with E tonight. I've decided to stop drinking wine in our usual cafe - I've had problems with it before (headaches, stomach aches from drinking two glasses - not normal, is it?) I was horrendously sick last weekend, and not because I drank too much (honestly!), it simply upset my stomach. I was so fucked up I had to stay over at S and E's because there was no way I could ride my bike home. I was ok for a while, then in the morning the real ordeal began. I threw up like thirty fucking times, and E was so sweet, trying to help out where she could and yet managing not to annoy me. That was the only nice part about it. So... no wine tonight (even though I'm not even sure that's really what caused it). I'll just play it safe with all these exams coming up.
Writing has been slow progress today, but that usually happens during exams. Stupid, because that's really when I need the relaxation the most. Maybe I'll be able to write some fic this weekend - but then I'll probably be so wound up by Demosthenes and Plato and Martha Nussbaum and Alain de Botton that all I'll be able to do is Socrates/Plato and NO I DON'T REALLY WANT TO DO THAT. AND I DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHO'D TOP. AT ALL. (blasphemious mental images noo) We'll see.
Some comm pimping because they're new and need more activity.
First, the_foundry for all things Founders, who really need more love!
And second, hprarestpairest because their concept is fun. The idea is that you post to the community asking if anybody's ever seen a fic with a certain rare pair. The members have 40 days to respond to your post with a fic - if they haven't, you can assume you're the first person - as far as anybody can tell - to write that pairing and you can post a fic for it! I like that idea a lot, and I've already posted about Moaning Myrtle/Olive Hornby, for which I have the sneaking suspicion there really is no fic out there.
Okay, that's all. Bye :)
<3
Current Music: Celestial Nomad - Chris Potter
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June 3rd, 2008
| 09:21 pm
all_unwritten prompt: Puppy dog eyes
( my house and my dog )
Current Music: Thèlo ti t'ipin - Angelique Ionatos
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 | 04:51 pm
I haven't been receiving any email comment notifications for the last three days (even though my settings haven't changed - weird), so if I've missed your comment, I'm sorry. It's not personal at all :)
Now, I shall go cook. (Tortelloni with sage butter, in case you're interested. Yes, YUM.)
I hope you're all doing good. <3
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June 2nd, 2008
 | 08:54 pm - Apple
Title: Apple
100moods prompt: 55. Jealous (My table)
Rating: PG
Character: Eris
Word count: 435
Summary: She becomes what she does.
( Apple )
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June 1st, 2008
| 02:38 pm
I'm trying to translate Monty Python's last supper skit to German. I just thought you guys should know about that.
Current Music: "IT WORKS, MATE!"
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May 28th, 2008
| 04:20 pm
all_unwritten prompt: and she said
( Stupid analogies )
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh109/thjeve/petitprincework.jpg) accomplished
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May 26th, 2008
| 08:31 pm
Title: Seeds
100quills prompt: 12. Wonder (My table)
Rating: G
Word count: 610
Summary: A moment of peace in an age of distress.
( Seeds )
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May 24th, 2008
| 11:46 am - Lost it again
Do you know the feeling you get when you wake up, and you remember your dream with a startling clarity and then suddenly - it's gone? That always makes me want to cry and I usually get it when I've had a couple of wines.
Went over to E's and it was great, even though we stayed up a little too late (I literally had to crawl into bed, I was so tired). So this morning I woke up, and I had this brilliant, earth-shattering idea for Parenthesis - the sort of thing I want to get out of Parenthesis, ironically - but then it just vanished. Just like that.
The only thing I can remember is that it was about children's books.
AFJKLMJFDKSJD!
And my cat is angry with me because she ran into the lamp when I let her in. How is that my fault? Stupid animal. Now she's looking at me like this: >:( I HATEZ U.
ps I'm going to watch the ENTIRE Eurovision Song Contest. Sometimes you just need to watch the most awful things on the planet to put things in perspective (although I'm not sure which perspective).
Current Location: my fridge
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh109/thjeve/ptitprinceavecserpent.jpg) frustrated
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May 21st, 2008
| 01:54 pm - Und meine Seele spannte weit ihre Flügel aus
Things are still really busy at school - we've got 12 days of lessons left before the exams start. Last exams of secondary school ever (hopefully, at least), so I'm trying to motivate my tired brain to give it one last big go, before getting to collapse in a semi-perpetually happy state of BIG MOTHERFUCKING HOLIDAY; a holiday of 3 months, you guys! My plan is to pre-study the first half of the semester for Latin, Greek, math, history and physics. That way I won't have to do the entire semester of each in the one measly afternoon before the exam in question - for Greek for example, doing all of it in one go is literally physically impossible (at least, if I'm looking to get some sleep, which I am, yes plz).
Now if only I'd actually DO these things instead of just talk about it. Sigh.
There's a good weekend coming: I'm meeting up with E on friday (YAY!) and J's boyfriend K is throwing his eighteenth birthday party on saturday. Lots of fun to be had after studying, which is always good for the mind.
Plan for today: study for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest test, revise first half of semester for Greek. Read Canto VI of La Divina Commedia. Then, do nothing and try to relax (that's been a while). Watch sappy movie if necessary. I've got A Roman Holiday waiting to be watched. Yay!
Before I go, I've got a great fic to be recced: Foundations by ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) st_aurafina. It's a Helga/Rowena fic (PG) that is wonderfully medieval, yet believable in its gayness, and it focuses on the hardships of Rowena and Helga when they tell Godric and Salazar about their relationship. The language is brilliantly archaic. If you love the Founders, read this!
Hope everyone's okay <3
EDIT THE NEXT DAY: So here's what I actually did. Study for test for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest test, then lie around watching Masterchef and postpone revising Greek. Promise self to revise Greek after dinner. Get a phone call from J asking me to go the fair, saying YES, stupid cow that I am. Have fun, then come home to Manchester having won the title and realise I haven't revised Greek AT ALLLL. But I had fun! I ate five of those fat deep-fried Korean-style prawns. They were so good, but seriously. FIVE. My stomach was all: "WHY YOU DO THIIIIIIIIS? *hara-kiri*" And then, while I was being all "Going to puke kthxbye", J forced me to go into a rollercoaster with him EVEN THOUGH HE KNEW I ATE FIVE OF THOSE PRAWNS D: the cocky bastard. Ah, good times amongst gross drunk guys who try to hit on me and nineties music.
Current Music: Mondnacht - Schumann
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May 18th, 2008
 | 08:42 pm - Sun Girl (Aphrodite/Persephone, NC-17)
Yay!
Title: Sun Girl
10_whores prompt: 02. look to the sky (My table)
Pairing: Aphrodite/Persephone
Rating: NC-17 (hay guyz I wrote smut!)
Word count: 2,280
Warnings: adultery
Summary: "In general, Aphrodite doesn’t think too much about the underworld."
( Sun Girl )
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