the lords and ladies did dance wildly also

dancewildly @ 2008-12-09T12:54:00

2008-12-09T11:57:58Z

This man is a genius.

But he makes me feel all small, I'll never be able to do what he does with words. It's like I'm standing in front of a beautifully hand-carved wooden wardrobe and what can I do with wood? Sharpen sticks.

Maybe this example doesn't make sense.

Maybe I've been spending to much time on Postsecret.

2008-12-01T11:37:29Z

My best friend told me not to get my hopes up because she's known this guy for years and according to her, he'd never make a move and I'm "not his type, anyway".

He asked me out on Saturday. Ha!

dancewildly @ 2008-11-28T10:00:00

2008-11-28T09:01:49Z

Dear snow,

You are cold. Melt already!

Yours, freezing Kylie

i fail

2008-11-14T10:28:22Z

I'm a bit annoyed at myself that I'm not doing NaNoWriMo this year. I had fun last year, even if I didn't get anywhere near the 50'000 word count. I even still like the story I started, imagine that!
But I never seem to have any time. And this month it feels like everything has been leading up to the costume ball this weekend. It feels like something really dramatic or somehow life-changing is going to happen tomorrow night, which is silly. Possibly my best friend will stab me because the guy she has a crush on is more interested in me. The way she glared at me last friday when he asked me to dance was a sure sign of impending doom. :/

the lords and ladies did dance wildly also

2008-11-12T10:41:20Z

Looking forward to this weekend's costume ball like you wouldn't believe! I even sewed a dress (well, I asked my grandmother to sew a dress for me) for the occasion. Some of the choir has even been learning to dance! I can tango now, it's fun. Especially in heels :D

I just hope the guy I want to dance with won't be in the band all night. I'll drag him from the stage if necessary!

President Obama

2008-11-05T08:17:40Z

America, you are awesome! Woo! :D!

Snow

2008-10-31T07:00:41Z

There was so much snow yesterday that trains all over Switzerland stopped working. Half of my class didn't get to school because there were no trains at all to get them there. Unbelievable.

It's OCTOBER. Why is there snow already??

NaNoWriMo

2008-10-24T07:42:31Z

November is coming. And with it... NaNoWriMo.

I really don't have time to do it this year. ...Which is why I've just renewed my account on the website and am trying to come up with ideas already.

Argh.

... political meme?

2008-10-05T15:54:04Z

Sarah Palin names meme nicked from tzarohell

[Sarah Palin] married her high school boyfriend, Todd Palin, on August 29, 1988.[6] The Palin family lives in Wasilla, about 45 miles (72 km) north of Anchorage. The Palins have two sons (Track, 19, and Trig, four months) and three daughters (Bristol, 17; Willow, 14; and Piper, 7) [ages as of August 2008].[98] Todd Palin has said Track's name came from the interest Sarah's parents had in the sport and the fact that he was born in the sport's season; Bristol was named after Bristol Bay in Alaska, where Todd grew up and where he does commercial fishing; Willow was named after Willow, Alaska; Piper got her name because it is uncommon and "a cool name"; Trig's name is Norse for "strength".

1)Your first-born will be named after your parents favorite sport:

Dressage

2)Your second-born will be named after a nearby area that you're not from but you like the sound of part of the name, and maybe you have nostalgic memories of said place:

Montreux

3)Your third-born will be named after another nearby place, for no reason other than you already have two children and don't have time to put much thought into another name:

Appenzell

4)Your fourth gets a "cool" name:

Marjane

5)Your fifth gets something mythological, possibly straight out of Lord of the Rings:

Amor

Yesterday Sarah and I went to some second hand shops. In the first one, I found four lovely wine glasses and two books, and in the second one, I found this coat. Now I want to go out somewhere fancy so I can wear it.

we watched as the sun went down, falling on the buildings

2008-09-27T07:30:25Z

I just listened to Chinese Blues on Travis' MySpace page. Aaaahh I am dead. I really hoped it wouldn't lose the energy it had when they play it live - I thought maybe it'd sound to tame on the album. But no! It's brilliant!

Ode to J. Smith comes out on Mondayyyyy I want it noooowwww :(

***

Tonight and tomorrow night my choir is performing the Magic Flute again - and I have a bad cold and can hardly speak. Which wouldn't be that bad, it wouldn't matter if I was missing usually. But this time around, I have a speaking role. Which means I need to be miraculously healed of my cold in the next 10 hours.

Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong

2008-09-26T14:12:39Z

Choose a singer/band and answer the questions only using titles from their songs.

Let's see how much sense I can make with Beatles songs! (and some covers they did)

01. Are you male or female?
Another Girl

02. Describe yourself.
Dizzy Miss Lizzy

03. What do people feel when they're around you?
I'll be on my way (only joking... I hope)

04. How would you describe your previous relationship?
So how come (no one loves me)

05. Describe your current relationship.
I want to hold your hand (or: I want to tell you)

06. Where would you want to be now?
Strawberry Fields Forever

07. How do you feel about love?
I've just seen a face

08. What's your life like?
The fool on the hill

09. What would you ask for if you had only one wish?
I want you

10. Say something wise.
I should have known better

11. What do you want to do/be in the future?
Paperback Writer!

12.) Describe your home life.
There's a place

13.) What would your last words be?
Tomorrow never knows

14.) Describe your car.
Baby you can drive my car

15.) Describe your style.
For no one

that meme everyone's doing

2008-09-25T19:33:21Z

Take a picture of yourself right now
Don’t change your clothes, don't fix your hair
Just take the picture
Post the picture with no editing
Post these instructions with your picture

Blurry!

book meme

2008-09-21T15:20:15Z

nicked from colour_me_troll

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favourite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

"In the years immediately following World War 1, psychology became a national obsession."

Heh, I was hoping for something a little more interesting. It's from Flapper: A madcap story of sex, style, celebrity, and the women who made America modern by Joshua Zeitz.

How was this acceptable in the eighties?

2008-09-14T11:45:12Z

The eighties themed party last night was SO FUN.

I can't believe people used to dress like this.

Maybe they should buy a travel guide before they travel

2008-09-12T16:18:53Z

Customer: Do you have travel guides of Switzerland in Portuguese?
Me: ... no, sorry. We only have German books.
Customer: But what do you do if someone from Portugal comes to Switzerland?

Er, I suppose tell them to go to another book shop. Or sell them the English Lonely Planet guide. We can't have every book in every language! I'm bewildered that some people seem to think we can.

This guy was almost (almost!) as funny as the customer I had on the phone a while ago:

Customer: Hi, I'd like [something not related to books, I can't remember what].
Me: You'll have to call the the shop next door, this is the book shop.
Customer: Isn't this [book shop name?]
Me: Yes, both shops have the same name as they used to be run by the same family. I can't connect you, but I can give you their phone number.
Customer: Yes thanks.
Me: *gets on internet, looks for phone no.*
Customer: Do you have to look it up on the computer?
Me: Yes. (Well I don't know every number in the world by heart, do I?)
Customer: What if you ever go to Africa?

W. T. F. Firstly, I don't know if I'll ever go to Africa, and secondly, if I do, I WON'T HAVE CUSTOMERS WASTING MY TIME ON THE PHONE, getting me to look up stuff they could do themselves.

I wanted to explain to him how silly this question was, as if I do ever find myself in Africa then I'm sure it'll be in an entirely different situation than I'm in now (I'm not planing on ever selling books in Botswana). But I just gave him the number, hung up the phone, and giggled.

dancewildly @ 2008-09-09T16:25:00

2008-09-09T14:29:57Z

I have to get '80s style clothing for Kilian's birthday party next weekend. What did people wear in the '80s? I was born in 1988, I don't remember!

If I can't find anything in the second hand shop, I'll just get some tights, a huge T-shirt and a belt at H&M, make my hair HUGE and put on lots of horrible make-up. Does that sound '80s enough?

Birthday party

2008-09-07T21:10:21Z

I invited some friends around this weekend for a pajama party for my 20th birthday (which was actually in July, but never mind). We watched ghost movies not even I was scared of and a zombie movie that was so boring that we turned it off half way through. It was fun :)

Next weekend, Sarah's brother's 19th birthday party (theme: the eighties. I need to get some horrible 80s-style clothing), and weekend after that, Sarah and her boyfriend are inviting some friends around for dinner. Man I am just booked out these days.

i give up

2008-09-03T21:57:36Z

He said he'd come to my birthday party. Now he told me he's going out with some girl that evening and he'll come later or not at all. Obviously he's not at all interested in me. How I ever let myself imagine that he was, I don't know.

I will stop pining after him now, it's just too tiring.

maybe i changed my mind

2008-09-01T14:01:55Z

I was going on about German authors to a co-worker just before (how much I love Heinrich Heine, what a weirdo E.T.A. Hoffmann was etc. etc.) when I remembered that I wrote about German authors in ilovedragons a few years ago. So I went back to look at what I wrote.

Aaaaaaargh! Die, Crazy Literature Teacher, DIE!

I mean, what kind of customer will come in and say "Excuse me, could you tell me what The Sorrows of young Werther is all about?"
Damn you, well known authors of the 20th century, for writing books that are worth remembering today. Why couldn't you have written less ground-shaking stuff?

I'd be much happier if we had to learn well known ENGLISH authors off by heart (what they wrote, when they wrote). Austen, Byron, Chaucer, where are you? Who the hell are Dürrenmatt, Hoffmann and Schiller? :(

Lucky for me I'm at home with a massive headache, so I have more time to study. Yay?

Well, I still don't think much of Dürrenmatt and Schiller, but Hoffmann! He was a loon, I love him.

I've changed my opinion of German classics so much that I'm actually considering studying German and English literature in Uni.

Which makes me happy :) I've come a long way in the last two years.

Also, now I know what The Sorrows of young Werther is all about. Its WOE is epic and Goethe (the author) should have considered all the poor school children who'd have to read it hundreds of years later. He should have made it shorter. Instead of Werther going: "Oh, Lotte! I can never have you!" and then writing letters about it for the next hundred pages before finally shooting himself, it should be: "Oh, Lotte! I can never have you! Alfred, lend me your pistol, will you?"

creep yourself out, the easy way

2008-08-31T21:43:54Z

Simply teach yourself to play Requiem for a Dream on the piano during a storm with thunder and the rain hitting the windows like a thousand tiny hands trying to get in...

Every time I get to a particularly dramatic part, (not that the whole tune isn't dramatic), there's a huge thunderclap and it's really creepy.

(I could also be scared because it's 20 to midnight and I'm the last one awake in the house. Definitely the wrong time to be listening to music like this.)

off to frankfurt

2008-08-26T13:24:43Z

I'm going to the Frankfurt Book Fair in october. Three days of books and nothing but books! In Germany!

I can finally get out of Switzerland again. :/ I was going to see the Boosh! But as it turns out I can't because I have school then. And my whole family wanted to go to Scotland this year but we can't do that either because we can't all get holidays at the same time.

I might go to England alone, though. If I ever have time or money. Which I probably won't this year. But one day I want to go to London and decide where to go once I'm there, not book hotels and all in advance. Adventurous!
I'd love to see the english countryside, the closest I've ever gotten to it is Countryfile. :(

new furniture yay!

2008-08-24T14:11:06Z

After 2 trips to Ikea (I bought the wrong chair the first time round, d'oh!) I finally have a lovely, grown up looking room. ...Well, it's still messy. But that's just part of my charm :P

The whole room

I now have a mini library :D

And a much nicer desk.

the weekend

2008-08-18T12:27:26Z

I was at Sarah's place yesterday, reading on the lounge because she'd disappeared off somewhere, when her brother came in and started playing this amazing tune on the piano. I had to put my book down and just listen because it was so moving and beautiful and UGH WANT.

I asked him what tune it was and he said "oh, it's the second movement of my piano sonata that I actually can't play yet."

The guy is 18.

Then he played some variations of a Swiss folk song that is kind of boring but he changed it into a minor key and made it all dramatic and it sounded great.

And he thinks he can't really play the piano because he can't sight read. Nooo, being able to make tunes up as you go along isn't real talent. [/sarcasm]

Maybe it's time I stopped being jealous of people who can play the piano and actually started learning it myself.

(Actually I almost asked him if he'd give me lessons but... I kind of fancy him so that wouldn't be good.)

***

In other news, I have new furniture of which I shall post plenty of pictures later. Also, I got Lucy Knisley's book Radiator Days and there's a very cute story in there about a girl who works in a bookshop and secretly gives away books. It made me remember how much I actually love my job. I do want to work somewhere else when I finish my apprenticeship, but I definitely still want to work in a bookshop.

love you till the seas run dry

2008-08-17T22:03:41Z

I have a confession to make.

I like strange music. I've been listening to this song on a loop for the past half hour.

The first part (up to "wrapped in the warmth of you, loving every breath of you") is in Moulin Rouge, but I didn't know who the song was by until someone told me today.

(Ignore the weirdness of the video and just listen to the song.)

YouTube: where illiterates run wild

2008-08-14T19:38:49Z

I was just watching a William Moseley interview (don't laugh!) and even though it's a truth universally acknowledged that a commenter on YouTube mustn't be in possession of a brain, I read the comments.

1st commenter: how old is he
2nd commenter: hess 21.
1st commenter: wow. hes old!

then they went on about how hott his accent is.

Gosh, 21 is so old.

the lords and ladies did dance wildly also

dancewildly @ 2008-12-09T12:54:00

Maybe I've been spending to much time on Postsecret.

dancewildly @ 2008-11-28T10:00:00

i fail

the lords and ladies did dance wildly also

President Obama

Snow

NaNoWriMo

... political meme?

we watched as the sun went down, falling on the buildings

Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong

that meme everyone's doing

book meme

How was this acceptable in the eighties?

Maybe they should buy a travel guide *before* they travel

dancewildly @ 2008-09-09T16:25:00

Birthday party

i give up

maybe i changed my mind

creep yourself out, the easy way

off to frankfurt

new furniture yay!

the weekend

love you till the seas run dry

YouTube: where illiterates run wild

Maybe they should buy a travel guide before they travel