Okay so it's been a really long time

And I apologize for that, if anyone actually cares. I've just been a little out of it, lately. Not feeling too great, either, although I don't think there's anything physically wrong with me. Not in the fever-area anyway, although recently I fell while at work and I caught my weight in my side, doing a sort of roll-thing over a banister. It hurt like a bitch for days, but you couldn't actually see any discoloration or bruising or anything. Anyway, a co-worker was all like "Oh no have you ruptured your spleen?" And I figured it didn't hurt enough to be anything cool like a ruptured spleen, but now I have these slightly nauseating pangs of pain a bit below the point I originally landed on and I'm starting to have my doubts. Or maybe it's just something like a bladder infection or whatevs, but there's something not right in there. I suppose I'll have to go to the doctor...

On a more cheerful note, this weekend I broke my habit of hermitage to go to the next town over and visit some friends. I was originally supposed to cycle the 12 kilometers there, but my mom didn't like me cycling on my own in the dark, so my dad ended up bringing me there by car, with my bike. We had a lot of fun, it was awesome, and apparently the guys liked it too because I got invitations/demands to come along more often (Yay!! :'D). Then Fang and I, in a slightly inebriated state, cycled to his house, which was where I crashed. Then in the morning (well, it was afternoon, technically) we listened to some very very cute recordings of a very young Fang :'D. And, of course, watched [S] Cascade. Twice, for good measure. Holy fucking hell. 8DD.
Then, I had to go home and cycle the 12 kilometers, and it wasn't pretty. I hardly ever cycle anymore, and it was cold and the wind was blowing and I had a huge MoThErFuCkInG headache... I was miserable. Booohooohooo I should really excersize more. >,>.

So, I have today off from school, and it's a miracle I got up before noon, but I have to try and force myself to spend today in a useful manner. Meaning, I have to do my homework and study for upcoming test week and my English Individual Oral Exam, which is going to be hell. You get an excerpt from one of a selection of three of the literary works we've studied (in this case being The White Tiger, 1984 or Carol Ann Duffy's poetry collection The World's Wife) with 20 minutes to annotate it and structure a talk about it that has to be around 8 minutes long. Then there's a 5-minute discussion about the fragment or the book. Now, it's not the discussion I'm worried about; unlike most of my classmates, I actually READ all the books. I'm just not very confident in my ability to rightly analyze the fragment and talk about it in a structured manner for eight long minutes. My teacher tells me I'm good at it, but I honestly think she just assumes that because I'm relatively good at everything else... Anyway, I have that oral on wednesday, so I've got today and tomorrow to freshen my memory on the books and the poetry. :'D.

As a side note: who else is looking forward to The Hunger Games? (Okay so this is kind of a moot point because I have two readers but meh). It comes into cinemas on wednesday, and I'm really excited. I read the first book when it came out and loved it, but took a few years to read the second and third books.. I still think the first one was the best, and that's obviously the one they are now releasing the movie of, so I can't wait. Funnily, neither can my mother. I made her read the books and she loves them as well. :'D.
The only thing I'm a little disappointed about is the casting, but when my mom asked me how I HAD envisioned the characters (because the cast fits with her expectations), I couldn't tell her. The funny thing is that in my head, characters look different as their character develops, and characteristics are always a little foggy. I can never really pinpoint what I think they look like.



Lastly, as a sort of I'm-sorry-I-was-away-so-long-and-anyway-this-thing-is-awesome, have this gratuitous picture of the Nekobasu:

Talk to y'all later!!

~Lev

All set for some celebration

Or, at least, I've just sent the invitations. :'D. I can only hope people will actually want to come x'D.

That's probably not really an issue. 8D. Either way, I was almost afraid I would have to call it off.

Seriously, since there'll probably be quite a number of people coming, I figured it would be best if my parents weren't at home when I celebrated my birthday. That's no problem, my parents have lately made it a habit to take weekends off every now and then. I also figured that my sister might not want to stick around because she might not get along very well with the rowdy bunch of idiots I call my friends. I told her as much, and mentioned a couple of things they might say in jest that she wouldn't like to hear, but she said she wouldn't mind staying upstairs all night if she had to, so no prob. :'D.

Then, I think about three days ago, I was going to send everyone an email to invite them to my party, and my mom was suddenly all "yeah, I'd wait with that if I were you, your dad wants to talk about that". OH GOD. Turns out, the things I'd mentioned to my sister alarmed my parents because they figured that if I couldn't keep them in line and they were that bad, my parents weren't really comfortable with all these people being in the house while they were away for four days. x'DD. Let's just say I'd exaggerated a little when warning my sister. Needless to say, I placated my mom and reassured her that all would be well, and the problem was solved. So now I've got a party planned at the end of March. :'DD.

Aside from that, we had a Dutch literature test (my first language, basically the test was about the history of Dutch literature and different genres and stuff) that I completely fucked up Dx. I hated that test, it was AWFUL. Everyone agreed with me, incidentally 8D.

Also, today I finished reading Amanda Hocking's novel Switched, the first in the Trylle trilogy. Which I started reading yesterday. It is a little out of hand with my reading obsession. Anyway, I loved it. It was really awesome, about a changeling (a child of the fair folk - in this case a Troll in a rather unconventional portrayal - that is switched for a human baby) called Wendy, who is found by the Tracker Finn and taken back to her real family. Finn is really really awesome, and there are (obviously, it IS a YA novel) romantic complications between him and Wendy, and I really just loved the whole story. Needless to say, when I finished reading, I was itching to get my hands on Torn and Ascend (part 2 and 3). BUT THEN. I read the first chapter of Torn that's included in the novel, and the teaser for Ascend, and I found out that.... *drum rolls* There is going to be a love triangle. Because of course, what is a story without a decent love triangle/square/pentagon/hexagon/(I could go on)?
As you might have noticed from all the sarcasm, I don't really LIKE love triangles. In fact, I generally hate them, because they bring a lot of unnecessary drama and somehow the guy I root for is always on the losing side. :/. Another reason can be that it's just unbearably sadsadsad and heartbreaking because both guys are really awesome and great and just all-around decent (WillTessaJem in The Infernal Devices. I FUCKING CRIED). So basically, now I'm not sure I want to read the rest, but I probably will end up reading them anyway.

Either way, I have enough books now to keep me happy. Yay, birthday!

Now we've just gotta see how long they last...


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~Levyathan