I probably won't be posting on here until I catch up on chapters of all my story blogs (links in previous post).
Just so you know.
Until then,
Glitterb
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Sunday, 11 September 2011
9/11 FanFic Recommendation
Just wanted to point you guys in the direction of a brilliant Fanfiction I found a while ago based on the events of September the 11th 2001. It's called 539 minutes, and it is written by the fabulous CaraNo, who has several other stories that I love. There are only two chapters, but it is a very moving and well written piece that made me cry when I read it. It is especially poignant today, the tenth anniversary of the attacks, and I hope you guys let Cara know what a brilliant job she did.
My heart goes out to all those you lost loved ones in the attacks. I hope you can look past the way they died and remember them as they were in life.
Until tomorrow (or whenever I decide to post, which is getting more infrequent as we go along)
Glitterb
My heart goes out to all those you lost loved ones in the attacks. I hope you can look past the way they died and remember them as they were in life.
Until tomorrow (or whenever I decide to post, which is getting more infrequent as we go along)
Glitterb
Saturday, 10 September 2011
News Which May Be Of Interest... Or Not
Just wanted to post quickly to let you know that I have set up blogs for all of my stories, as well as one for one shots, so you can take a look at them if you don't want to trek over to FF.net. I will be posting on them as I update on FF, but until I catch up I will have a regular posting schedule as follows:
Monday - Lost and Found
Tuesday - The Silver Necklace
Wednesday - No More Bella
Thursday - A Different Perspective
Friday - Trapped, then Vampire Idol
Saturday - Nessie's Questions
Sunday - Dear Bella, then One Shots
This won't continue once all the chapter I have are up, because I don't write that fast. Even if I did have time, there's no way I could churn out seven chapters a week; writer's block won't let me.
Anyway, that's all I have to say for now. My day wasn't especially interesting, but then, weekends never are.
Goodnight, and pleasant dreams my lovelies!
Glitterb
Monday - Lost and Found
Tuesday - The Silver Necklace
Wednesday - No More Bella
Thursday - A Different Perspective
Friday - Trapped, then Vampire Idol
Saturday - Nessie's Questions
Sunday - Dear Bella, then One Shots
This won't continue once all the chapter I have are up, because I don't write that fast. Even if I did have time, there's no way I could churn out seven chapters a week; writer's block won't let me.
Anyway, that's all I have to say for now. My day wasn't especially interesting, but then, weekends never are.
Goodnight, and pleasant dreams my lovelies!
Glitterb
Thursday, 8 September 2011
Ow, Ow, OW!
I had my first proper dance lesson since the beginning of the holidays today, which is the first time I've done any dancing all summer, aside from three days of Summer School, and also the first time in over a month I have done any significant amount of time on my pointe shoes.
Pointe shoes are what most people probably recognise as ballet shoes. They allow dancers to stand on the very ends of their toes while they dance, and professionals make them look absolutely effortless. However, even a ballerina that has been dancing on pointe for years has exactly the same problem as a beginnner; it hurts like hell. Especially on new shoes. I have been on pointe for almost a year now, and it still hurts.
It didn't help that I haven't cut my toes nails recently, which hurts even more.
Joy.
Anyway, maybe it will be easier next week. Our class has actually expanded now, as we have girls from the next grade up joining our pointe class before they have their ballet class. It was fun, because we all thought they were going to be much better than us, but they actually got all the corrections because our teacher hasn't taught them pointe before and she went right back to basics. We knew all the exercises, and the older girls were all being told to pull up the backs of their knees, something we have been doing since we started. (Pulling up your knees is important, because if they bend then your ankle goes slack, which makes it more likely for you to fall over.)
I think I'm going to go take a shower and watch some more of The Hard Times of RJ Berger. For some reason, I absolutely love that show.
Goodnight!
Glitterb
Pointe shoes are what most people probably recognise as ballet shoes. They allow dancers to stand on the very ends of their toes while they dance, and professionals make them look absolutely effortless. However, even a ballerina that has been dancing on pointe for years has exactly the same problem as a beginnner; it hurts like hell. Especially on new shoes. I have been on pointe for almost a year now, and it still hurts.
It didn't help that I haven't cut my toes nails recently, which hurts even more.
Joy.
Anyway, maybe it will be easier next week. Our class has actually expanded now, as we have girls from the next grade up joining our pointe class before they have their ballet class. It was fun, because we all thought they were going to be much better than us, but they actually got all the corrections because our teacher hasn't taught them pointe before and she went right back to basics. We knew all the exercises, and the older girls were all being told to pull up the backs of their knees, something we have been doing since we started. (Pulling up your knees is important, because if they bend then your ankle goes slack, which makes it more likely for you to fall over.)
I think I'm going to go take a shower and watch some more of The Hard Times of RJ Berger. For some reason, I absolutely love that show.
Goodnight!
Glitterb
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Life? Don't Talk To Me About Life.
About 0.00001% of you will understand the rather geeky reference in the title. ;P
Today is only the second day back at school, and I have already had four different teachers give me homework. I swear, my teachers are trying to kill me.
Today I had PSHE, English, Maths, Art and German.
I had Art yesterday, and we are finishing off last year's unit of work before we move on to a new one.
PSHE is apparently very easy this year. The exam is supposedly mostly common sense, and the coursework is relaxed and simple, and should be done fairly quickly. Thing is, the course is called 'Preperation For Working Life', so the coursework involves writing a letter of application, a CV, and notes in preperation for an interview. Which means, of course, we have to have mock interviews. This scares me silly. End of.
English is beyond ridiculous, since we have two assessments to finish before October, another to do between October and Christmas, then a play to study, then two terms of revision before our exam. Gah, so stressful. At least I've already finished the book we have to read for our Term 2 assessment and the exam. There's also a new girl in our class that has been moved up from a lower set, and I hate her guts. We went to primary school together, and she is loud, obnoxious, and a bully. We have never gotten along with each other, and it doesn't help that she is about 95% fake, covered in layers of horrid make up, while I don't even own foundation or concealer, never mind actually wearing the stuff.
Maths was very easy to go back to, as I have the same teacher, same class (with a few new additions and one person being moved down) in the same room, and we have automatically gone back to the same seats we were in last year. Although the boys that sit near me are not to happy, as I apparently ruin 'Foreign Corner', so called because everyone sitting up the side of the room and around the back on one side has roots in a different country; most are indian, one is from Sri Lanka, two are chinese and one is from who knows where. Then there's me, who's only claims of foreign ancestry is the welsh part of my dad's side of the family.
Thankfully, German is fairly chilled. I chose to take our school's Fast Track languages course, meaning that I take both French and German GCSEs in one year each, rather than stretching one language across two years. Obviously, this isn't for everybody, so we only have four people in our class (the class that started with German and our now doing French is a little bigger, but they still only have nine). The atmosphere is very relaxed, we all get a chance to talk, and, best of all, our first assessment isn't until after the half-term holiday. Yey!
So, that's what I did today. Thoughts? Are there any people you know that are like the slag in my English class?
Bye Bye!
Glitterb
Today is only the second day back at school, and I have already had four different teachers give me homework. I swear, my teachers are trying to kill me.
Today I had PSHE, English, Maths, Art and German.
I had Art yesterday, and we are finishing off last year's unit of work before we move on to a new one.
PSHE is apparently very easy this year. The exam is supposedly mostly common sense, and the coursework is relaxed and simple, and should be done fairly quickly. Thing is, the course is called 'Preperation For Working Life', so the coursework involves writing a letter of application, a CV, and notes in preperation for an interview. Which means, of course, we have to have mock interviews. This scares me silly. End of.
English is beyond ridiculous, since we have two assessments to finish before October, another to do between October and Christmas, then a play to study, then two terms of revision before our exam. Gah, so stressful. At least I've already finished the book we have to read for our Term 2 assessment and the exam. There's also a new girl in our class that has been moved up from a lower set, and I hate her guts. We went to primary school together, and she is loud, obnoxious, and a bully. We have never gotten along with each other, and it doesn't help that she is about 95% fake, covered in layers of horrid make up, while I don't even own foundation or concealer, never mind actually wearing the stuff.
Maths was very easy to go back to, as I have the same teacher, same class (with a few new additions and one person being moved down) in the same room, and we have automatically gone back to the same seats we were in last year. Although the boys that sit near me are not to happy, as I apparently ruin 'Foreign Corner', so called because everyone sitting up the side of the room and around the back on one side has roots in a different country; most are indian, one is from Sri Lanka, two are chinese and one is from who knows where. Then there's me, who's only claims of foreign ancestry is the welsh part of my dad's side of the family.
Thankfully, German is fairly chilled. I chose to take our school's Fast Track languages course, meaning that I take both French and German GCSEs in one year each, rather than stretching one language across two years. Obviously, this isn't for everybody, so we only have four people in our class (the class that started with German and our now doing French is a little bigger, but they still only have nine). The atmosphere is very relaxed, we all get a chance to talk, and, best of all, our first assessment isn't until after the half-term holiday. Yey!
So, that's what I did today. Thoughts? Are there any people you know that are like the slag in my English class?
Bye Bye!
Glitterb
Monday, 5 September 2011
Back To School
I went back to school today. There isn't much else to say about today.
New timetable, new teachers, new mentor and mentor group, same classes and friends and everything. The only huge change is that all my friends in the next year up are now in the Sixth Form and no longer wear uniform. Yeah.
Anyway...
Please don't expect any interesting posts from now until Christmas.
Glitterb
New timetable, new teachers, new mentor and mentor group, same classes and friends and everything. The only huge change is that all my friends in the next year up are now in the Sixth Form and no longer wear uniform. Yeah.
Anyway...
Please don't expect any interesting posts from now until Christmas.
Glitterb
Sunday, 4 September 2011
Just Because...
Because I need something to distract me from my imminent return to school, here's a picture of the dress I have my eye on for prom (as mentioned in yesterday's blog). Why? Because I feel like it, that's why.
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| What do you think? Pretty, right? |
Saturday, 3 September 2011
Far Too Early
Today, I had a conversation on MSN with one of my friends where the main topic of conversation (after back-to-school anticipation) was prom dresses. We both have ideas about what we want to wear; she has several different options to choose from, and I have a specific dress that I have fallen in love with already. And that got me thinking... isn't it a bit early for us to be thinking about that stuff? I mean, our prom is this year, but it isn't until about late June/early July time. Why do we seem to pick things out in September?
Which leads me onto thinking about how society always seems to be getting ready for the next big event. It seems like we have barely left school for the summer when the adds come out for back to school supplies and school uniform. Once that ends, we get into Halloween, then Bonfire Night, then Christmas, New Year, January sales... Each holiday is advertised and stoked for before the last one has even happened. It gets to the point when the Valentines Day junk makes way to Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies almost immediately following February 14th.
It's official: we live in a society obsessed with holidays that are just an excuse for retailers to make money. Even those that were originally religious have become bottled up and labelled, to the point where, unless they have been specifically told the religious stories, children don't even know the significance of the holiday beyond the superficial material exchanges that are made on that particular day, whether they be chocolate, toys or other gifts. Now, I'm not religious, and I never have been, but I went to a primary school that, while it wasn't specifically a Christian school, did have very string links with the village church. I grew up with 'Vicar Assembelies' every Wednesday, learning about Lent and the meaning behind Shrove Tuesday - also known as Pancake Day. I was told the Easter story and the Christmas story, and I was in several plays based on the Nativity. I think this is something that is really important; teaching kids about why we have these holidays, so that they don't just become like another birthday, where gifts are given for no obvious reason.
Now that I've got that out of my system... XD
See you tomorrow guys.
Glitterb
Which leads me onto thinking about how society always seems to be getting ready for the next big event. It seems like we have barely left school for the summer when the adds come out for back to school supplies and school uniform. Once that ends, we get into Halloween, then Bonfire Night, then Christmas, New Year, January sales... Each holiday is advertised and stoked for before the last one has even happened. It gets to the point when the Valentines Day junk makes way to Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies almost immediately following February 14th.
It's official: we live in a society obsessed with holidays that are just an excuse for retailers to make money. Even those that were originally religious have become bottled up and labelled, to the point where, unless they have been specifically told the religious stories, children don't even know the significance of the holiday beyond the superficial material exchanges that are made on that particular day, whether they be chocolate, toys or other gifts. Now, I'm not religious, and I never have been, but I went to a primary school that, while it wasn't specifically a Christian school, did have very string links with the village church. I grew up with 'Vicar Assembelies' every Wednesday, learning about Lent and the meaning behind Shrove Tuesday - also known as Pancake Day. I was told the Easter story and the Christmas story, and I was in several plays based on the Nativity. I think this is something that is really important; teaching kids about why we have these holidays, so that they don't just become like another birthday, where gifts are given for no obvious reason.
Now that I've got that out of my system... XD
See you tomorrow guys.
Glitterb
Friday, 2 September 2011
And So Begins Crazy Month...
Sorry I didn't post yesterday guys, I did try but Blogger spazed out on me. :(
Anyhoosles, this is going to be a pretty hectic month, all things considered. I go back to school on the 5th, my best friend's birthday is on the 6th, then I have two English assessments and another in German to get through before October half-term. There's also Biology and Chemistry coursework that last year's teachers bunked off on their replacements (one is changing schools, the other is on maternity leave) and the new units of work in all subjects.
There's also something I like to call 'Birthday Week', which is exactly what it says on the tin; my brother becomes a teenager on the 21st, I am 16 on the 28th, and my grandmother is somewhere in the middle. How we managed to have birthdays exactly one week apart I have no idea. I just know that I pity my mother. Really, I do. The two weekends around our birthdays (which fall on Wednesdays this year - can't get much more mid-week than that) are probably the most stressful and expensive weekends of the entire year, only contested by those leading up to Christmas.
Oh well, such is life, I suppose.
On a side note, I am still working on Chapter 15 of No More Bella. I am being attacked by writer's block which will only let me write a sentence or two before I get bored and run out of steam. Someday, I will force myself to sit down and write for a solid stretch of time, but that probably won't be for a while.
Until tomorrow,
Glitterb
Anyhoosles, this is going to be a pretty hectic month, all things considered. I go back to school on the 5th, my best friend's birthday is on the 6th, then I have two English assessments and another in German to get through before October half-term. There's also Biology and Chemistry coursework that last year's teachers bunked off on their replacements (one is changing schools, the other is on maternity leave) and the new units of work in all subjects.
There's also something I like to call 'Birthday Week', which is exactly what it says on the tin; my brother becomes a teenager on the 21st, I am 16 on the 28th, and my grandmother is somewhere in the middle. How we managed to have birthdays exactly one week apart I have no idea. I just know that I pity my mother. Really, I do. The two weekends around our birthdays (which fall on Wednesdays this year - can't get much more mid-week than that) are probably the most stressful and expensive weekends of the entire year, only contested by those leading up to Christmas.
Oh well, such is life, I suppose.
On a side note, I am still working on Chapter 15 of No More Bella. I am being attacked by writer's block which will only let me write a sentence or two before I get bored and run out of steam. Someday, I will force myself to sit down and write for a solid stretch of time, but that probably won't be for a while.
Until tomorrow,
Glitterb
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