Inspiration from Across the Sea

I know I've complained about this before, but seriously! What kind of people think it's in any way acceptable to throw a massive, loud flat party on a wednesday night without letting the people living in the flat know about the event?
I need sleep, not walls that shake to the beat of nonsensical chav-trance.

If I ever do take over the world, there will be mandatory common sense assessments before people get the right to move out of their mothers' basements.

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Travel

For those who don't know: eruditionfish is my creative writing journal.

I just cooked myself a proper dinner (meaning more than a ready-meal, simple pasta or frozen pizza) for the first time in weeks. Possibly the first time this semester.
No, it's not because I'm too lazy to cook or don't know how.
It's because my four flatmates are pigs. They all cook three meals a day, separate from each other, and not one of them ever cleans up anything until they need to use it again. That also includes throwing away empty tin cans or milk cartons, as well as disposing of leftover food.
Furthermore, there are enough pots and pans in our kitchen that they only need to use the top layer of dirty dishes, and hence, only the top layer of dirty dishes gets washed. And yes, I am actually saying that there are layers. Every inch of counter space in my kitchen is filled with dirty dishes, leftover food and general gunk.
So the reason why I rarely cook dinner for myself is quite frankly that I am disgusted with the state of the kitchen.

With a clear risk of sounding like an emo teenager: I hate my flatmates.

EDIT: But it's all okay. I love Rabia.

I am very, very confused.

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 favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

    Now, just after sundown, when all my work was over, and I was on my way to my berth, it occured to me that I should like an apple. I ran on deck. The watch was all forward looking out for the island. The man at the helm was watching the luff of the sail, and whistling away gently to himself; and that was the only sound excepting the swish of the sea against the bows and around the sides of the ship.
    In I got bodily into the apple barrel, and found there was scarce an apple left; but, sitting down there in the dark, what with the sound of the waters and the rocking movement of the ship, I had either fallen asleep, or was on the point of doing so, when a heavy man sat down with rather a clash close by. The barrel shook as he leaned his shoulders against it, and I was just about to jump up when the man began to speak. It was Silver's voice, and, before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world, but lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiosity; for from these dozen words I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended upon me alone.

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Very snugly placed, those instructions. The indicated seven sentences were exactly the last two paragraphs of chapter X.

I love my froggie. She's super-sweet!

-Happy-

Seeing as I'm moving to Edinburgh this fall to start university, I have a question for any of you who live, or have lived, in the UK:

Do you have any recommendations, hints, tips or general guidance as to selecting a mobile phone plan? I've been looking over some of them, but since I'm not familiar with the general price level of the UK, I find it very difficult to evaluate the plans I've been looking at.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Yesterday was the day.
The day the IB results of May 2008 were released, that is. I suppose you're all on the edge of your seats in anticipation by now. *cue crickets*

Anyway, I thought I'd post what I got, just in case you were interested.
Theory of Knowledge        A
Mathematics SL                 7
Economics SL                      7
Norwegian A1 HL              7
Physics SL                            6
History HL                           6
English A1 HL                    5
EE (English A1)                 C

Total points (including 2 bonus points): 40

Now, the university of Edinburgh (my university of choice) only required that I get 34 points and a 5 in all HL subjects, so I have well more than what I need to get. However, since my subject of choice is English Literature, I think you can understand why I'm still a little disappointed.

On a lighter note: This will be the last post I ever make about the IB and myself!

It's me again. I haven't really said anything in a while, and I don't really have time to say much, as it's getting late-ish and I have work tomorrow. I would, however, like to proclaim that I will be attempting to be more active in my blogging, starting with a major post sometime in the near future.

For now, a quick update on me, conveniently posted in bullet-point form:
- I finished the hell of the IB final exams about a month ago, and will be getting my grades on the 6th of July.
- I accepted an offer from the University of Edinburgh, and unless I screwed up my exams majorly, I will be travelling there in mid-September.
- For now, I have a job at Bianco Footwear in Asker. Yes, I am a shoe salesman.
- I am so far having an absolutely wonderful summer holiday, mostly relaxing with froggie_froggie, snuggling and having a great time.

As I said, larger update to come.

I haven't been very active on LJ for a while now, haven't posted anything, and haven't really read any posts either. This is largely due to THIMUN, which was last week, and where I had no internet connection.

my flist should probably be at skip=160 or something by now, but for some reason, it won't show anything past skip=80, which is about January 28th. If there was anything important posted before then that I haven't read, please let me know.

Now, I'll just get started on catching up.

I'm not going to be bothered with doing any 2007-in-review memes, but I would like to wish everyone a happy new year, and I sincerely hope this year will turn out better than my forecasts are predicting.

Also, seeing as a new issue has just been published, I feel it is in order to direct everyone's attention (if it's not already there) to the amazingness that is Don't Look. Download, print out, read to your heart's desire, and pass it along to all your friends.

Ta-ta for now!

About two months ago, when I registered my UCAS application online, I typed in my name in the box where you type in your name (duh!).
For those of you who don't know, my surname is spelled with an Æ, which does not exist in the English alphabet. What the UCAS system did was to simply remove the letter, rather than replacing it with AE, as is more commonly done.

I was a bit worried that that might be a problem when the time came to actually recieve/accept university offers, but today, I got a message from the admissions officer at the University College of London, where she said that she would take care of informing UCAS and the other universities of my misspelt name, if it really was misspelt (she got the suspicion that it was from my email adress, in which the name is spelled with AE).
So that took care of my worries.

More importantly, the email began with the following sentence:
"We are pleased to tell you that UCL intends to make you the offer of
a place on the BA in English."

I'm going to university next fall. Yay!

So, I didn't get called for an interview at Oxford. Which is no big deal, as I never expected to get in either. Nor would I have been able to afford going. Wow, that sounds very cliché. As in: "Well... I didn't want to go to your stupid university anyway! *sniffle, sniffle* "
But it's true. I never expected to get in, so I'm not really disappointed. Which makes it all the more amusing to read Dr M write "I do realise how disappointing this will be for you and I am sorry not to have better news regarding your application here."

In other news, THIMUN research report due by today. I'm nowhere near ready. And I just had cake. And it's kind of amusing not having the key to one's own locker at school. Ooh, and new icons too!yay

ETA: I have also just posted some of the things I have written in my notebook over the last year or so in my other journal, eruditionfish.

- What remains
- Different
- When the world is passing by you
- Safety on Board
- The World Reflected
- Her
- Remembering the Feeling

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***Without looking at the questions under the cut, make a list of your own 6 favorite tv shows and then answer this meme after you've already written them down**

1. Firefly
2. Torchwood
3. Heroes
4. Psych
5. Black Books
6. Jericho

So, I haven't been very active on LJ for a good while, and I'm not likely to be any time soon, with the demands of the IBO and the THIMUN organisation pressing increasingly hard, on top of a blossoming romance.
Speaking of which: froggie_froggie. The allmighty ElJay conquers another victim.
Lovely.

So: this is Lars, signing out, going to write research reports.

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These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of 30 September 2007).

As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.

( Book meme )

October 9th, 2007:
Distracted

October 10th, 2007:
The Song of Waiting Aengus