Meme

Stolen from Anne

Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST

'When love, with one another so
Interinanimates two soules,
The abler soule, which thence dith flow,
Defects of lonelinesse controules.'

Closest book with 56 pages (the closer one's being latin grammar books and dictionaries) Selected Poems of Donne, this extract is from 'The Extasie'

Because sometimes in life you need a little poetry

I believe in faerytales
And dancing in the rain
That laughter heals the world
And spring brings life again

I believe in lasting love
And roses and romance
That someone can be everything
When in their arms you dance

I believe in freedom
And giving people choice
That staying quiet is just as bad
As taking people's voice

I believe in fun-times,
And singing whilst you cook,
that life is not worth living
When you cease to look

I believe that everything
Is there for all to see
When they finally look around
Learning to be free

A room without books...

Having come to the conclusion that because I'm doing a-level english literature I aught to attempt to think about the books I was reading I decided to review the books I read.
Consequently I've begun another blog purely for talking about/reviewing books. I hope to update it more often than this one. As I get more practiced at reviewing books again the reviews should get better!

link is:

http://aroomwithoutbooks.blogspot.com/

Love

I was going through sorting all the e-mail I've recieved and kept for whatever reason since I was 12, and I found this:

Love is when you can't sleep because you can't stop thinking about them
Love is when you can't talk because you're afraid you're going to say something stupid
Love is when you barely move because ' afraid you're going to do something dumb
Love is when you stare at the phone for hours hoping they'll call
Love is when the only thing that makes you feel better is their smile
Love is when people can say anything to you or about you and and you just don't care
Love is when you get on-line and you sit there for hours waiting for their annoying sound so you can finally talk to them
Love is when you find someone that you can tell everything and you're sure they wont make fun of you
Love is when you can just wake up with make-up running down your face from crying and they'll still say you're beautiful
Love is when they would do anything to see you smile
Love is when every song reminds you of them
Love is when they're dying and the last thing they want is to hear your voice for the last time

and seeing as I'm not sure of a place where it is put better...

1If I speak in the tongues^[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,^[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

(1 Corinthians 13)

So I started writing again.....

I used to write poems and such all the time, but I stopped, and this is the first thing I've written in a while. I figured I'd put it up here:

Close enough to touch
Yet far too far to hear
I can see you next to me
So far and yet so near

Smile, but do not wave
Pass on separate sides
A meter becomes a mile
With no one to confide

Months stretch out like years
I'm falling out of time
Quicksand pathways slow my tread,
Why is caring such a crime?

Randomness really.

Em

On Birthdays....

Well today has been one of my best birthdays, not having to combat illness does tend to improve ones views of a day.

I got some very nice presents, the rest of series one of Heroes, various DVD's, a really nice purse, and a collection of Poetry by John Donne, so I'm all set.

I wanted to say thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes, and making it such a lovely day!

Looking at the year ahead I can see a lot of things I am looking forward to between now and my 17th, but, seeing as I am sleepy and want to go to bed I shall not expand now. I would promise a longer post, but I cannot guarentee it so...

Thanks to everyone, and a very Happy Easter to you all

Em,

Might as welll.....

Just so I can pretend I even occasionally update this!

Seven things to do before I die

Be happy
Visit Every continent
Cycle the Tour de France
Sail across the atlantic
Updaten my blog at least once a month!
Learn to forgive
Act in The Crucible

Seven things I cannot do

Swim under water
Wait
See the end of my exams in sight
Afford to do, well, anything!
Get involved emotionally
Put myself before everyone else
Dance well enough (although 'well enough' is such a rough measure....)

Seven things that might attract me to my spouse:

Someone who likes me enough to stop me when I try to run away
Someone who'll understand when I need a hug, or when I just need someone there
Someone who reads as much as I do, and wont tease me for enjoying it
Someone who doesn't immediately fall in love with me, but when they do tells me often
Someone who will laugh with me
Someone who can dance (I know this is the same as yours Ru, but its true!!!)
Someone who understands me, and loves me anyway.

Seven things I say most often:

"sorry"
"aww"
"Ya think...."
"because"
"lol"
"hello"
"morning"

Seven books (or series) I love:

1984
Pride and Prejudice
Stardust ('cos everyone needs a faerytale based on nursery rhymes!)
The Time Travellers Wife
number9dream
Going Postal
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Seven movies I watch over and over again (or would watch over and over if I had the time)

Stardust
Pride and Prejudice (technically a TV series but....)
Phantom of the Opera
Moulin Rouge
Ever After
The Shawshank Redemption
Finding Neverland

Seven people I want to join in, too (no pressure – if you hate this sort of thing just ignore it)

Tom
Anne
Steve
Roo (technically she already has but....)
Chi
Anyone else who wants to

Every Time

Every few months or so I look at this and say, I really must start udating this, it would be reallygood to do something with my blog or even, I wish I wrote more. This usually prompts a couple of seconds consideration before I am distracted by my huge pile of work, a good book, a family member or a crappy T.V program that I really wish I had never watched. So as you see the updating of my blog fails before it has ever begun.

This time though, I thought, well you really have got nothing better to do, so many people who have much fuller lives than you manage to update at least semi-regulrly, and yet you manage to spend a good proportion of your time doing nothing, and yet still not achieve something as simple as updat your blog.

So here it is, for all those of you who still occasionally check whether I write anything, an update on the fabulous world of... well... me.

So, lets see, well, I have been ill for about 9 weeks now with undiagnosed stomach pain, I have been referred to paediatrics at the local hospital, and am undergoing several fun tests. I reckon that by now I'm definitely owed my cup of juice and a biscuit, they've taken at least a pint of blood for blood tests now. Lots of fun stuff.

My mocks for my GCSE's rush up with alarming speed, they begin in a week, and teachers have only just started giving us topics for revision.

And of course, inevitably I have looked round the notable sixth-forms in the area. I think my mind is made up to go to Hills Road, to study History, English Literature, Politics and Latin.

School, when I go, seems to drag by, slower than ever as I get more and more eager to move on, grow up, leave.

And life in general, well, fine, a little boring, slow, as usual, no social life, illness has put a stop to dancing, but I hope to be better soon!

Anyway, definitely long enough for a post, maybe not so long an abscence next time.

EM

Apathetic Ramblings

I'm going through a period of apathy, nothing I do seems to matter. Nothing holds my attention for more than a few minutes. Everything seems pointless, and everything uninteresting. So here I present, a brief reflection on the instability of life.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
All that is made lost, to moths or rust.

A piece of paper with the name of a child, its brith certificate, crumples and disintegrates in the rain.

A lifetimes work, painstakingly collected samples of meaning, lost in the swift blaze that leaves naught but memories.

The memories collected over a lifetime, lost as the bearer becomes ruled by their illness.

The slightest fall changing a childs smile to a wail of pain.

The strongest house lost to the stronger storm.

The life that love created ending in dispair.

The death of an old one, with all their loved ones there.

As spring fades to summer flowers bloom and die.

Year passes to year buildings are built and destroyed.

Tress, flowers, buildings, paper, memories, happiness, life, all is fleeting.

All is fleeing away too fast for us to have a hope of catching it.

So live each day to the full, love like you've never lived, because in the end, none of it, means a damn thing.

Dumb and Dumber

Our wonderful government has once again decided that today's children are getting too smart. Yes people, they must be dumbed down and fast or else we face the horrific pissibility that they may do something like discover a cure for cancer or devolop new ways to combat climate change.

The government solution, dumb down the courses, especially in science, we will teach them the consequences of the processes they wont be able to understand at the end of the course. Thereby ensuring that we have a generation of morally informed imbeciles who could no more run a nuclear power plant than fly to mars.

Of course there will be those few who just wont give up on learning, well, what shall we do about them. Hmm, this is a tricky one. And yet we have found the perfect solution. We will remove the old G&T provision, which catered expertly to only the brightest (top 5% in the country) and change it to a government run project which aims to provide avarage care to the top 10%. We will then let them use a website designed so anyone not clinically insane will hate it (orange and black colour scheme!) which is so convoluted in design that anyone who cannot be bothered to read the 35 page long .pdf help file will be unable to use it. By this time, anyone who was remotely considering learning will have long given up and migrated, therefore becoming someone else's problem and ensuring that our plan for dumbing down British teenagers will be almost complete.

One final thing, in order to prevent the dropping of British students in league tables we will offer them multiple choice exams, thereby testing their abilty to draw rings and tick boxes, this means that a good percentage will stil achieve those top grades that will make them employable to any top government run job.

(Background to this NAGTY - National Association for Gifted and Talented Youth, was shut down to be replaced by a government run initiative for a wider range of pupils, the site is badly designed making it hard for anyone to get around!
Oh and our nations leaders and debating about what afterschool provision we need, somehow I dont think they would listen if i suggested they do something about those of us who sit around wasting 6 hours of our day already doing nothing, before worrying about what to do to extend the time we spend avoiding preparing ourselves for our future)

Quote:
No matter who you vote for the government always gets in