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