I love Northern Lights more and more every time I hear about it. Can't wait 'til the movie comes out.

( & haha~ I have a daemon. But I don't get why it's a monkey. )

Nicked from wiccanlilly:

1. Take five books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1 - first sentence
3. Book #2 - last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 - second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 - next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 - final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph.

Book #1 – Morris Gleitzman//Once
Book #2 – Alice Sebold//Lucky
Book #3 – David Almond//Heaven Eyes
Book #4 – David Almond//Skellig
Book #5 – Meg Cabot//Avalon High

Once I was living in an orphanage in the mountains and I shouldn’t have been and I almost caused a riot. What the dogs knew was that there were four distinct environments in our house and they rarely came together. Her voice echoed through the alleyways and the buildings and found its way through the dangling door, past the ghosts and mutants, into my deep darkness. I kissed her and whispered to her how much we all loved her and they took her away. To Avalon.

Surprisingly enough, the last three actually came together quite nicely. And, yes, it was a total coincidence that all the books I picked were in the first-person - I guess I've just been reading a lot of first-person narrative recently.

• Homework I have to do tonight (because I procrastinate way too much):
• Classics, Art & Architecture; title: "What did the technology of bronze mean for sculptors in Greece?"
• Classics, the Aeneid; read book 2 & take notes on the imagary Virgil uses to describe warfare.
• PSCHE; type up second draft of personal statement.
• Physics; do practice questions on chapter 8 of "Waves and Our Universe".


• I also have a 'cello lesson after school today. At the moment I'm working on Borodin Quartet no.2, Vivaldi's 6th Sonata, as well as several duets and practice exercises.


• I didn't go to Games today - I somehow managed to hurt my leg on the way to school, and I'm still feeling a little sick (though it's better than it was last week). Miss Greg says it's better not to go if I'm not feeling well, because for the last few weeks we've been going to the gym, and... yeah, that's about it.


• I have been obsessively watching previous seasons od Digimon for a while, now - I have a new fanfic idea, too (where the kids of the 01 Digidestined go on a Tsubasa Chronicle-esque adventure to recover the broken pieces of the crests), but I won't be able to do it until I've finished watching seasons 1, 4 and 5 (and season 5 hasn't even finished running, yet). Meh. It'll be called Digimon Seekers, if you wanted to know.


• Also, I gave in to temptation and read the first four volumes of Fruits Basket yesterday - it's wonderful. My favourite characters so far are Kyo and Momiji, and I'm hoping that Kyo will end up with Tohru. I've also become a big fan of Haru/Yuki and Shigure/Ayame. Teh cuteness (and you may notice that Kyoru is the only het-ship among them. *Grins*).


• New icon alert (see above)! I made it for my claim at 10_lyricons - it's Mikako from Hoshi no Koe (also called Voices of a Distant Star). The anime is really, really beautiful. Remind me to post an overview of it up here at some point.


• Something really, really wierd is up with what's-his-name from Naruto - Akatsuki no Hidan. The whole skeleton thing from chapter 323, that is. Anyone got any theories (some weird jutsu, d'you think? Or maybe he's just undead - that was the first thing I thought when I saw it. Please ignore me.). And has chapter 324 come out yet?

Okay, I need to get to Physics, so I'm going to have to end it here (it was much longer than I thought it would be, anyway. *Sweatdrops*).

~Moony

( my exam results )

( things to do before the end of the holidays )

( things that it's really not the time for right now )

THE END.

Nicked from dyingisbliss58:

1. Bold what you have read
2. Italics what you started but never finished
3. Underline what you want to read
4. Add three books that you've read at the end

( the list )

WILL OF THE EMPRESS: *Has still not come out in England*
MOONY: *Screams in frustration*

And apparently Terrier is out in America now, too. I probably won't be able to read it for at least a year, give or take a few months. This is so not fair.

e: Actually, I don't think Trickster's Queen is out over here yet, either, though luckily my dad managed to bring it back from a business trip for me.

Hmm... several things to say:

1. Mocks coming up after half-term. I've got my American History exam on the 20th (first day back), though thankfully Mrs. Clark decided to let us have a few more weeks before our Stats exam. This, of course, means that I am spazzing out. Because I'm not even sure when most of my mocks are, or where, or anything like that. I really wish they'd give us a comprehensible exam timetable for this. (Because my organisational skills are zilch.)

2. Spent half an hour trawling through jingdono's journal today, when I really should have been doing homework, in search of more Judas Goat chapters. Unfortunately, I didn't find any. I did, however, find a statement from only a month ago, saying that it was definitely going to be completed. Eventually. And there was also a request for a beta, which implies that there may be a new chapter soon... (well, hoping never hurt anyone, right?)

3. Started Astrophysics on tuesday before last. I happen to be the only L6 in the class, since everyone else in my year opted for Medical Physics instead. There are two U6s in the class, though, so I'm not on my own, like in Classics. Dr. Miller says we'll probably only need three sessions max. to get through the whole course, of which two have already happened. I s'pose this means that my last lesson will be tuesday after tuesday after next.

4. Finally managed to get my hands on a copy of Mortal Engines (Philip Reeve), and I'm about five chapters in by now, since I've been reading it between classes today. Hopefully I'll've finished it by friday, so I'll be able to lend it to Alice over half term, because she can't find a copy anywhere (probably because I just bought Waterstones' last copy, but still...), and she need's to've read it by the first day back, so we'll have something to talk about at Book Club. I also bought a copy of Avalon High, and am considering writing fanfic. I finished the book in one day, and am beginning to get slightly worried that I may be addicted to Meg Cabot's writing.

5. Mum is being strange. She keeps calling me Francesca, and Franny-wanny, and the such. I told her that it was too late for her to think of naming me anything but Frances, and that, since I did have a proper name, she should use it. Of course, she didn't take this too well, and I'm surprised she didn't threaten to cry (as per usual). She's also getting on my case about the amount of books I carry to and from school every day, because my bag's heavier than her work bag, and she has to keep her computer in that. I told her I was bringing the books home so I could revise over half term, and she asked me if I was going to be taking them back to school again tomorrow. I called her an idiot and told her to go away. (She didn't, of course, but at least she stopped talking.) Apparently, I can be nice when I try to be. I really wouldn't know.

6. The Book is with sister_stick at the moment, even though it's norweigianridge's turn to write. She doesn't trust herself with it, though, so she's decided to leave it with sister_stick until she's decided exactly what she's going to write, and spell-checked it on the computer. Probably a good idea. I'll be getting it back after half term, I expect.

7. Have recently found myself unable to spell. "Grievious". Right. That word was getting on my nerves for a while. As was "school", and other such words which have just started to look wrong when written up. I expect (hope) that I will get over it soon.

- Moony

6:30pm at Heffers in the Grafton Centre on 3rd March. Tickets are free, and you can get them by emailing kate.johnson@heffers.co.uk

W00t!

( Things to do before the end of the Christmas Holidays )

Have just seen GoF. *Cries* Cedric, oh, Cedric.

Oh, and this and this. *Cries even harder and stamps feet petulantly at the unfairness of it all*

Because denial's just a river in Egypt, and he's not dead really.

Best movie so far, imho. And Barty Crouch Jr. was so well cast, and Voldemort was surprisingly better looking than I expected him to be (though that's not really saying much). And that scene when Harry's just got out of the maze, and everyone's clapping and then Fleur screams and everyone goes silent? My absolute favourite moment from the whole film. The only scene in the book that made me cry was Dumbledore's remembrance speech. It didn't work in the film, but that other scene did.

- Moony (GoF H/C-convert)

Heh. I like these results. Also, the cover of the new Maximum Ride book has been issued. Squeeful.

- Moony

PS. Today I got up at 7am and did Frosty's speech for her after school and then sang in the school concert and then got home at 10pm and managed to check my emails and do (most of) my homework. I think my tiredness is justified (even if it does put me in a really bad mood).

I have been reading Good Omens today, and I am almost halfway through. I would be further, but I was required to actually pay attention in my lessons today, considering that I am at AS-level.

In consequence, I am feeling slightly insane. The product of my insanity is this, so brace yourself for an extract from the first chapter of one of my many, many original fiction stories, oohsparkly:

( oohsparkly )

Films to See:

1. Zathura (Trailer) - 11th November 2005
2. The Corpse Bride (Trailer) - OUT
3. Brokeback Mountain (Trailer) - 9th December 2005
4. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Trailer) - 9th December 2005
5. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D (Trailer) - OUT
6. Cursed (Trailer) - OUT
7. Dreamer (Trailer) - 21st October 2005
8. Howl's Moving Castle (Trailer) - OUT
9. Little Manhattan (Trailer) - 30th September 2005 (NYC)
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Trailer)
11. Stormbreaker
12. Northern Lights
13. Maximum Ride

I saw Pride and Prejudice yesterday (erm, the day before, I s'pose. Saturday). It wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be.

And currently I am in the process of adoring this icon. *Giggles*