I was getting ready to go to bed about 15 minuttes ago, and as I walk into my room, I see movement in the ceiling…A creepy, big( in my aracnophobic eyes) spider was dangeling right above my pillow.
I’m abslutely terrified of spiders, and it doesn’t help that tonigth was the 4th time I’ve discovered one right next to or above my bed just before I go to sleep. Gah…Sometimes I hate living on a farm…There are always so many bugs and spiders everywhere! Everytime I open my window, a spider or dragonfly or something comes in..Yes, I realise that they aren’t dangerous or anything, and that I’m being silly,but they just creep me out…badly! Thanks to that itsy bitsy spider I’ll probably end up sleeping on the couch downstairs instead…Actualy, that might be more comfortable, as my room is scorching, even with the window open, and the living room is nice and cool.
Anywho…Last night looked soooo beautiful! There was mist and fog everywhere! Here’s a picture taken from my window:
Those of you who know me or have actualy met me, knows that I could not care less about fashion. Unlike alot of girls, I despise and detest clothesshopping, and concider it personal torture every time my mom and little sister decides to “just check out” Exit, the local clothing store. It’s not that I don’t find things I like, or would love to buy, it’s juts that none of it looks good on me, or doesn’t fit. So I usualy just buy whatever I can actualy get into that doesn’t make me feel like an overstuffed sausage-skin. It kind of takes away some of the joy of trying on and looking at clothes. It doesn’t help that there always seems to be some pin-thin could-be-a-model person there at the same time, complaining about her weight. *rolls eyes* Needless to say, I don’t have the greatest fashion-sense in the world.
Well, after I’ve checked out some online stores, and forced myself to pay a bit of attention to designers, having fun looking at clothes has become easier. Through a movie called Nana I’ve found one of my favorite jackets EVER! It’s designed by Vivienne Westwood, which naturaly means that I’ll never ever be able to afford it, but who cares, it looks fabulous non the less:
Just ignore the skirt and the wacky hairdo. I love the red heart jacket! I first spotted it in the live action filmatisation of Ai Yazawa’s Nana, and have wanted one of my own ever since. The main character, Nana, is a huge fan of Vivienne, and after a while, I decided to check out some of her designs. Alot of it is quite quirky, but I like it, specialy the necklaces and other accesories.
*puh* That concludes the first and most likely last fashion-related post from me.
As an avid moviegeek I can’t exactly have avoided Tim Burton. I love his dark, quirky, strange style, and I have ever since I saw Edward Scissorhands years ago. Ofcource, I didn’t realise until much later that the same person who had created the masterpiece that is Edward, had also created some of my other favorites, like Beetlejuice and A Nightmare Before Christmas. As a Burton-fan, I couldn’t help but notice that one particular actor kept showing up in his movies: Johnny Depp. And now they’re collaborating again. I had a major fangirl moment a while back when I found out that Depp had been cast as the Mad Hatter in Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. I knew instantly that I HAD to see this. Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter? Perfect!
And the cast just kept getting better: Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen of Hearts, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, Alan Rickman as the Catepillar, Christopher Lee as the Jabberwock…Loves it! So many favorites gathered in one movie! I seriously can’t wait until March 10th, when it opens here in Norway.
New photos have been released today, and they are very Burton-esque: strange, yet pretty:
Depp as the Mad Hatter, Bonham-Carter as the Red Queen, and Hathaway as the White Queen. Photos from Dagbladet.no
When I’m not studying, I live in a tiny costal “town” called Brekstad, at Ørlandet. It’s both a blessing and a curse.
Summer her can be kind of boring, but also very relaxing. There isn’t much to do, so mostly I either catch up on my non-school books, watch tv or hang out with friends.
Ørland has a realy pretty natural reserve, which includes a forest called the Austråttlund. I love taking walks there during the summer, talking nonsence with whoever has managed to drag me out that day. It’s beautiful, misty and green. Parts of it is bog-like as well, so it has a realy mystic, magical feel to it. Just my kind of place.
Ørland is a very small place, with only 5000 inhabitants, most of them in the military one way or the other and thus leaving after a few years, so summer jobs, or work in general, is difficult to come by unless you’re lucky enough to know someone who’s hiering. It’s nepotism at its worst. Most of the time I don’t even get a reply to my applications. *sigh* Oh well…My stepfather owns a farm, and grows potatoes, so my only way of earning money during the summer here is to pick,sort and sell potatoes. It’s fun the first few times, but then it gets old very quickly. And telling people repetedly that ” no, the potatoes aren’t expencive. They’re newpotatoes, and costs the same as old winter-storaged potatoes does in the shops” REALY gets on my nerves fast!
The hightlight of the summer is usualy Ørlandsdagene, a local festival. There’s usualy a traveling funfair, concerts and salesbooths in the streets, soccer tournaments…It’s nice and very summer-y. My mom, sister and me sit outside at a cafe, drinking coffee and sodas, eating chicken-sticks, listening to live music. It’s awsome.
Anyway…That’s pretty much my summer at Ørland 
Happy blogging everyone, and have a nice summer 
It’s FINALY time for my summer holidays! Yesterday, I had my last exam, practical Drama, and it went BRILIANTY! My group got an A! And today we also got our results on the Pedagogics exams: I got a B! I’m so happy and relieved! What a great way to start my summer! Okay, grades don’t realy mean anything to me, and as long as I pass I’m happy, but still, it’s a great feeling when you do good on something you’ve worked so hard for! I mean, I studied 12 hours a day for a month for my 5 written exams, and so far I’ve gotten 2 B’s and a C. Still waiting for the results on my Math and Norwegian. I’m hoping I pass both of them, or I won’t get any Student Founding next year *gulps nervously* I’ll know in about two weeks.
Aaaaanyway..I’ve realy been neglecting both my blog and my Facebook accounts( my RolePlaying ones at least. My realy one is very much alive thanks to the wonder that is Mousehunt.) lately, thanks to the incrediable workload at school these past 6 moths. Now I’m just looking forwards to a few months of rest with no studying, no assignments and no exams hanging over me, and once I feel human again(I realy don’t right now, I’m so worn out. Whoever told me the second year of college was the toughest, was completely right), I’ll be back, roleplaying and better than ever. I rp as Alice from Twilight, and if you roleplay on Facebook as well, and want to add my Alice, leave a comment with your account name, and I’ll add you.
Another reason I’ve been neglecting my blog lately is that I realy don’t know what to write about anymore. My life seems to revolve around studying at the moment, sadly enough, and it doesn’t realy make for interesting blogging.
So…My question is: What do YOU want me to write about? Give me a topic, an idea, and I’ll try to write something.
And the trailer is finaly here!
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON trailer in HD
New Moon looks amazing so far. And the Birthday Party…wow! Hopefuly in the next few trailers we’ll see more of Italy.
The only thing I am just kind of sort of disapointed in is that the trailer gives too much away. They shouldn’t have shown us Jacobs wolfy form so soon.
And I hope they keep the “It will be as if I never existed” line. It’s one of the most heartbreaking moments in the books!
Apparently, there’s a very real possibility that at least the first book in the Wheel Of Time series,The Eye Of The World, will be turned into a movie… There’s a studio, writers and producers involved,if I understand correctly. Everything is still at a very early stage, though there is an Imdb page already, stating the release for sometime during 2011. Well..All I can say is that I seriously hope the writers, set designers, those responcible for casting, the director and everyone else involved has the time, patience and talent to pull this off. The series is so complex and filled with so many memorable characters, places and things, and it is beloved by so many, that they have a real challlenge ahead of them. There are so far 12 books, 14 if you count the prequel New Spring, annd the soon to be released 12th book A memory of Light(split into three parts, the first being The Gathering Storm, being released this fall), each close to the lenght of the entire Lord of the Rings.
I’m quite torn when it comes to this. A part of me is screaming nooooo at the top of my lungs, leave the masterpiece that is the books alone, another is very exited about this, wanting to see Rand,Egwene, Nynaeve, Perrin, Mat, Moiraine, Lan, Tar Valon, The White Tower and Emond’s Field brough to life on screen, and is secretly casting the movie in her head.*bushes slightly. I myself would abselutely love to play any one of the Emond’s Fielders, or Min, but nah, that’s not going to happen.
It’s been a month since my last realy update, epic fail on my behalf. But I do have a very good reason. The past 5 or 6 months have been pure hell when it comes to school. There has not been even a day since christmas where we have not had a group assignment or three to work on, and it’s just left me quite exhausted and tired. The past month has been the worst so far, as it’s exam month. Those of you not familiar with the norwegian school system needs to know that NONE of these exams are multiple choice. It’s all essay writing, and looooong essays to add to the stress. We’re “locked” in a room for 4 or 6 hours writing, writing, writing, often 11-16 pages, if not more, on the same subject( at least in pedagogics) So pretty much every day for the past month and a half I’ve been stuck with my books, memorizing and learning different species of insects, birds and plants, theories on learning math and drama, toddlers development and soon the development or speach and writing. Ain’t I lucky?
Sooooo….What else have I been up to since the last time I updates sometime in april? Well, I’ve watched a few movies and tv-series acctualy. Watchmen is now on my Favorite Movies of all Time list. I’ve also gotten through the first two seasons of Supernatural, and I love it!!!! I’ve missed this kind of show ever since Buffy and Charmed ended, and though I realise that Supernatural has been around for a while, I just haven’t realy had a chance to watch it yet. It was always on too late here in Norway for me to feel alive the next day in class.
Another 90’s-early 2000’s series I’ve rediscovered is Popular( Livet på Kennedy High, for my fellow Norwegians) with Carly Pope, Leslie Bibb, Ron Lester and Christopher Gorham( Ugly Betty’s Henry) amongst the cast. It’s always been a favorite of mine. It’s so exagurated, fresh and brings up topics that are still relevant and important today, even 10 years after it first aired. Popular ran for two seasons and was a very..well, popular…with viewers. It was given the all clear for a third season, but was later canceled, causing the second season and the series to end with a major cliffhanger. Hopefully, someday the cast will get together and make a movie or special episode to give the fans a decent ending to the show.
Norways two largest newspapers today reported in their online editions that a 9 year old had today brough a shotgun to school, and managed to fire of two shots before a teacher managed to take the firearm away. Luckily noone was hurt. According to VG , the boy had been arguing with an older student, and this is what made him bring the shotgun, but it isn’t certain that this was the motive.
This is, to my knowledge, the first time something like this has happened in Norway…and I’ve kind of been expecting it for a while. It was realy only a matter of time. The norwegian educational system does not take bullying seriously enough. I was bullied myself, though thankfully not physically or intentionaly. They just though it was funny that I got so mad, and did not realise that what they did was bullying. But it still took the teachers 5 years to see it, even if I locked my self in the bathroom once and refused to come out. When they did discover it, all they did was have a little talk about bullying in the class. It helped, but still…It should not have taken 5 years!
Bullying can ruin lives so easily if noone tries to stop it. And the psycological byllying is every bit as damaging as the physical, if not more. Words and systematic insults stick with you alot longer than cuts and bruises, and can follow a person their entire life.
Luckily the school was quick to react, and had an emergency meeting with the parents and students of the school already an hour after the shooting.
