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salineaHum... been very lazy with updates lately, haven't I #^_^#
Oh, well... first let's say welcome to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
choffman who just friended me and said she liked to see shout out on people's LJ ;) I have stanayitnuh's wonderful idea of a Truth or Drabble game to thank for it (sorry, that's not a pimping as the game has just already begun... i have been too late for that) Since I found C's idea of friending everyone taking part in it charming, I decided to imitate her and added everyone in the game I hadn't on my flist already. Welcome to all of you you decided to add me back (so far shoryu, hey ^^)
But I do have some pimping to do !agent420 wrote that delightful little fic crossovering (?) fusionning (?) well, mixing Allan Edgar Poe with X. Yeah, the idea sounds weird, actually the fic is really strange too, but it's a wonderful read for an exquisitly gothic idea. Loved the writing style. It's up at Clampesque.
Now that I'm sorta done with all the fandom related business... I had a very good week, once I recovered from my tiredness. Actually I'm very happy today because I got an A in Macroeconomics (aaah, those little vain things that peeps your life ;)
Finished reading Leaving Dead in Dallas the other day. You were rightgeneralblossom Eric does get interesting. Well he's fun in any case. But I still think Bill is bo-ring. I'm not sure how I feel about the main character. Her innocence and cheerfulness is refreshing after the Anita Blakes, but sometimes she's slightly aggravating. I think I'll get the third book anyway. At least, this one had more of a plot with a move for the good.
Bought Fevre Dreams so as to complete my collection of works by GRR Martin. Will start it next. I think it's the vampire one, for a change >_> ^^
I also bought every Nana this week, because I just love this shoujo so much. I'll admit it's adorable. I think the strange thing with manga like this one or Sing "Yesterday" for me, is that, for the first time, I actually relate with the preocupations and problems of the characters in the realist - day-to-day style of story. Before, all my life, I read so much SF/fantasy/whatever because the high school stories were so far from my mind. I wonder what it says about me.
Anyway, I have now interview questions to answer to, fromrahael. Look forward for an update with them.
PS : I finnaly understood the other day what the <3 smiley meant. As said before tohalcyon_libra I previously watched it in suspicion as being vaguely phallic in shape. Suddenly the light dawned on me and I realised it was simply a heart. Ain't you proud of me ? What an epiphany ! I think I'll start speaking with <3 a lot from now on ^^ Now I just need to get what the n_n smiley means and my enlightenment will be complete.
EDIT : That's it, interview answers done !
1) What is your favourite book?
That's a very hard question. Only one book ? *pouts* I want to name at least 10 ! They are many books I've read often and that have marked me deeply in one way or another, but it's hard thinking of only one. Hum, actually, I will cheat and mention 10 books as a serie. It's sort of a guilty pleasure, but it's been among the books I've re-read the most often and that have influenced my imaginary landscape the most : The Amber serie by Zelazny.
If I had to pick a deepest book, i'd say the Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Leguin. I read it as well awfully often and find it wonderful for many reasons. But I can't say I've obsessed with it as much as I have other books :)
2) Tell me your truth, the one you've learnt from your own life.
You know, I feel awfully young to have one truth learnt from my life. I hope I'll have many more lessons to discover with time.
So far (or right now) if I'd have to pick one truth I think it would be to always take the good with the bad, in what happens to me, the painful with the beautiful, the joyous with the cruel, all the nuances that life gives you... to taste them, appreciate them, at their own worth, to never mix them up, to never give up on seeing all the subtlities and to never, ever forget to find awe in the world. If there's one emotion I want to lead my life, it's joy. I don't need to be happy. I don't need love or to satisfy my vainity... But as long as I can be challenged and find surprising wonder in the act of living, that'll be enough.
3) What would you consider to be a genuinely unpopular opinion, that you
hold?
I think there's lots of political matters in which people like to have very black & white (that is here's the victims, here's the guilty party, or they are wrong, they are right) point of view, and I don't want to do that. Things like the war in Iraq, or the question of islamic veil in France recently. It's issues on which I'm not ready to take a firm opinion about right/wrong, because I can see both pro and con with both sides. Which puts me in the "unpopular" side as whenever the question comes to the decision, I will of course take the opposite arguments to the one I'm talking about.
4) If you could change one single action/decision you've done in your
past, would you?
I'm not sure. Sure I took a few decisions I've regretted in my life, but they all shaped /me/, who I am today. They all taught me something or I wouldn't regret them now. If I erased them, then I wouldn't remember why they were mistakes and I wouldn't be the same person. This is my journey, it may be strange and twisted and walk across bushes, but it's mine.
5) Tell me about a favourite moment in your life.
During the summer of my 17th year, when I had just finished highschool, I spent some time in Renne (Brittany) where I was supposed to do summer school to prepare for the Science Po School entrance exam. We were lodged in a Campus. I made friends with lots of people there, both of the school and College students staying there the summer, and we were a group who did lots of discussions/ silly things together. (For exemple I got drunk for the first time in my life >_>) Anyway, this has marked me because I think it was trully the first time in my life when I felt part of a group of friends, not as someone tagging along and barely tolerated, but as a genuine part of the band, and I felt accepted and respected. That was very unique, and I love this time when I learned to appreciate something I had seldom tasted before. Just the compagny of people. I treasure that memory.
Strangely enough we didn't really keep in touch after while (regrets that too^^)
Oh, well... first let's say welcome to
choffman who just friended me and said she liked to see shout out on people's LJ ;) I have stanayitnuh's wonderful idea of a Truth or Drabble game to thank for it (sorry, that's not a pimping as the game has just already begun... i have been too late for that) Since I found C's idea of friending everyone taking part in it charming, I decided to imitate her and added everyone in the game I hadn't on my flist already. Welcome to all of you you decided to add me back (so far shoryu, hey ^^)But I do have some pimping to do !
agent420 wrote that delightful little fic crossovering (?) fusionning (?) well, mixing Allan Edgar Poe with X. Yeah, the idea sounds weird, actually the fic is really strange too, but it's a wonderful read for an exquisitly gothic idea. Loved the writing style. It's up at Clampesque.Now that I'm sorta done with all the fandom related business... I had a very good week, once I recovered from my tiredness. Actually I'm very happy today because I got an A in Macroeconomics (aaah, those little vain things that peeps your life ;)
Finished reading Leaving Dead in Dallas the other day. You were right
generalblossom Eric does get interesting. Well he's fun in any case. But I still think Bill is bo-ring. I'm not sure how I feel about the main character. Her innocence and cheerfulness is refreshing after the Anita Blakes, but sometimes she's slightly aggravating. I think I'll get the third book anyway. At least, this one had more of a plot with a move for the good.Bought Fevre Dreams so as to complete my collection of works by GRR Martin. Will start it next. I think it's the vampire one, for a change >_> ^^
I also bought every Nana this week, because I just love this shoujo so much. I'll admit it's adorable. I think the strange thing with manga like this one or Sing "Yesterday" for me, is that, for the first time, I actually relate with the preocupations and problems of the characters in the realist - day-to-day style of story. Before, all my life, I read so much SF/fantasy/whatever because the high school stories were so far from my mind. I wonder what it says about me.
Anyway, I have now interview questions to answer to, from
rahael. Look forward for an update with them.PS : I finnaly understood the other day what the <3 smiley meant. As said before to
halcyon_libra I previously watched it in suspicion as being vaguely phallic in shape. Suddenly the light dawned on me and I realised it was simply a heart. Ain't you proud of me ? What an epiphany ! I think I'll start speaking with <3 a lot from now on ^^ Now I just need to get what the n_n smiley means and my enlightenment will be complete.EDIT : That's it, interview answers done !
1) What is your favourite book?
That's a very hard question. Only one book ? *pouts* I want to name at least 10 ! They are many books I've read often and that have marked me deeply in one way or another, but it's hard thinking of only one. Hum, actually, I will cheat and mention 10 books as a serie. It's sort of a guilty pleasure, but it's been among the books I've re-read the most often and that have influenced my imaginary landscape the most : The Amber serie by Zelazny.
If I had to pick a deepest book, i'd say the Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Leguin. I read it as well awfully often and find it wonderful for many reasons. But I can't say I've obsessed with it as much as I have other books :)
2) Tell me your truth, the one you've learnt from your own life.
You know, I feel awfully young to have one truth learnt from my life. I hope I'll have many more lessons to discover with time.
So far (or right now) if I'd have to pick one truth I think it would be to always take the good with the bad, in what happens to me, the painful with the beautiful, the joyous with the cruel, all the nuances that life gives you... to taste them, appreciate them, at their own worth, to never mix them up, to never give up on seeing all the subtlities and to never, ever forget to find awe in the world. If there's one emotion I want to lead my life, it's joy. I don't need to be happy. I don't need love or to satisfy my vainity... But as long as I can be challenged and find surprising wonder in the act of living, that'll be enough.
3) What would you consider to be a genuinely unpopular opinion, that you
hold?
I think there's lots of political matters in which people like to have very black & white (that is here's the victims, here's the guilty party, or they are wrong, they are right) point of view, and I don't want to do that. Things like the war in Iraq, or the question of islamic veil in France recently. It's issues on which I'm not ready to take a firm opinion about right/wrong, because I can see both pro and con with both sides. Which puts me in the "unpopular" side as whenever the question comes to the decision, I will of course take the opposite arguments to the one I'm talking about.
4) If you could change one single action/decision you've done in your
past, would you?
I'm not sure. Sure I took a few decisions I've regretted in my life, but they all shaped /me/, who I am today. They all taught me something or I wouldn't regret them now. If I erased them, then I wouldn't remember why they were mistakes and I wouldn't be the same person. This is my journey, it may be strange and twisted and walk across bushes, but it's mine.
5) Tell me about a favourite moment in your life.
During the summer of my 17th year, when I had just finished highschool, I spent some time in Renne (Brittany) where I was supposed to do summer school to prepare for the Science Po School entrance exam. We were lodged in a Campus. I made friends with lots of people there, both of the school and College students staying there the summer, and we were a group who did lots of discussions/ silly things together. (For exemple I got drunk for the first time in my life >_>) Anyway, this has marked me because I think it was trully the first time in my life when I felt part of a group of friends, not as someone tagging along and barely tolerated, but as a genuine part of the band, and I felt accepted and respected. That was very unique, and I love this time when I learned to appreciate something I had seldom tasted before. Just the compagny of people. I treasure that memory.
Strangely enough we didn't really keep in touch after while (regrets that too^^)
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Date: 9 October 2004 08:30 am (UTC)<3 <3 <3
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Date: 8 October 2004 12:40 pm (UTC)[And I too am confused by the n_n face, but I think this is because it is used differently by various people.]
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Date: 8 October 2004 01:02 pm (UTC)Thought that puts a strange spin on all those "hands through heart" scenes in X, you'll admit *cough*
Fevre Dream
Date: 8 October 2004 01:58 pm (UTC)About the Charlaine Harris books, I don´t hate Bill that much, but I do like the universe and the writing, I think third book is better than than the second one ( who is better than the first) but I don´t want to create expectations . I am reading something in that subgenre, Dead Witch Walking by some new author, right now, and not liking it at all.
Re: Fevre Dream
Date: 8 October 2004 02:05 pm (UTC)Well it's not that I hate Bill so much that he annoys me, and therefore when he's on, I'm not that interested with the action. Really. And he machism aggravates me, I guess.
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