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[essayel]

Still here. Had a totally boring fortnight doing the end of year figures at work all on my own *wibbles* because the boss has been on holiday. It's no picnic doing maths at the best of times but trying to do it while serving in the shop, answering the phone, entertaining the customers and generally being 'available' is a total bugger.

Also had some worry because I've lost touch with a friend. She moved recently to try to find work, promising to keep in touch and, coincidentally, also changed her mobile phone number. Since I know she's a bit strapped for cash I know she'll be expecting me to get in touch rather than the other way around but I've got no means of doing so. I just hope she's okay. Of course this sort of thing happens all the time on the internet. People one view as being closer than sisters suddenly either disappear completely or are always 'too busy' to talk and one worries oneself sick in the first place and accepts that they have found something more interesting to do [complete with new friends, screen names and hangouts] in the second. But in this case I'm really concerned about her and there's bugger-all I can do about it!! Ah well, fingers crossed and trust to luck.

A random update wouldn't be complete without a meme so here's one stolen from authorm [incidentally, you should check out her books, you really should!]

1. Open your music library.
2. Put it on 'play all'.
3. Shuffle it
4. List the songs as they crop up.



OPENING CREDITS: Operation Ground and Pound - Dragonforce

WAKING UP: Unstoppable - The Calling

FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL: Clark Gable - Postal Service

FALLING IN LOVE: Firewalkers - Morian

FIGHT SONG: Wish Liszt - Trans-Siberian Orchestra

BREAKING UP: Scottish Fiction - Idlewild

PROM: Stand My Ground - Evanescence

LIFE: Itchycoo Park - Blue Murder

MENTAL BREAKDOWN: Cello Song - Nick Drake

DRIVING: Can't Stop the Rain - Frolic [though they've changed their name recently, can't remember what to. This is the Dallas/Fort Worth Frolic anyway]

FLASHBACK: JCB Song - Nizlopi

GETTING BACK TOGETHER: Animals - Nickelback

WEDDING: What Have You Done - Within Temptation

BIRTH OF CHILD: Black Black Heart - David Usher

FINAL BATTLE: The Sacrament - HIM

DEATH SCENE: Bliss - Hinder

and another taken from innerslytherin

Comment and I'll--

1 - Tell you why I friended you. Assuming I can remember :)
2 - Associate you with something. A fandom, a song, a colour, a piece of fruit. SOMETHING.
3 - Tell you something I like about you.
4 - Tell you a memory I have of you.
5 - Associate you with a character/pairing.
6 - Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. (Or else I'll just ask a random question. I reserve that right.)
7 - Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
8 - In return, you must spread this disease in your LJ - this last bit is optional, of course. Spreading disease is insanitary.

Comments

[gonzothegreat.livejournal.com]

(hugs to the wibbles and crosses fingers)

And, of course, I am facinated as to the answers you'll give to those questions. :)

[essayel.livejournal.com]

oooohkay -

1 - I think you commented to one of my comments on innerslytherin's journal because we both had an interest in medieval history and then sort of friended as a matter of course.
2 - Hah, Hobgoblin!! (http://www.wychwood.co.uk/new_images/pumpclip_hobgoblin_real.gif)
3 - Your wide ranging interest in anything from
4 - *giggle* the hasty way you deflated the inflatable cowboy hat and hid it up your sweater
5 - I think it possible you could make a cool Spiderman. mild mannered college prof by day, wall crawler by night - though that might depend on how far up the wall the students drove you during the day.
6 - Errrrmmmmm - well I lost your address, but then I lose all kinds of things.
7 - Happy and weird - I really identify with that.

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

If I put my music library on "play all" I'd be here for years.

I'll tell you why I friended YOU: You're the funniest fanfic writer I came across, in that angst-ridden quagmire at FA. (Also you're the one who told me to get aLJ account to begin with, I think!)

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah so I was! But if I hadn't sweet Sam probably would have. I'm glad you found me funny - for some reason HP seems to demand vast quantities of angst, which is all very well in it's own way but in excess it deadens ones appreciation of it.

As to the meme;

1. I friended you because of your kind critique then we came to a mutual beta agreement.
2. A song of course - all the different versions of The Gypsy Rover - and I still have that fic outline carefully saved.
3. I particularly like YOUR sense of humour. "Raised by wolves" for instance.
4. My memory is of passing that laptop back and forth in Cas's living room while she pattered away on the PC behind us.
5. The character has to be Remus - yours was always so quietly competent.
6. If you could only keep one album out of all those on your hard drive which would it be?
7. Your Nomster user pic always makes me giggle.

[innerslytherin]

Pick me! Pick me!

[innerslytherin]

People one view as being closer than sisters suddenly either disappear completely or are always 'too busy' to talk

This made me miss you crazily. We used to chat a lot! I don't think I have your Y!M now...do you still use it? *hugs*

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Here we go!!

1. We met via the Brit pick forums on Fiction Alley and began a mutually[ i hope] agreeable betaing relationship.

2. That warm cinnamon colour of beech leaves in autumn.

3. Your sense of humour.

4. I remember us both crying over the final Robin Hobb book [can't say why in case of spoilers].

5. The only possible character for you is Remus - though you write a cracking MacGonagall.

6. Do you dress up as a pirate to go and the the POTC movies?

7. Pirates can happen to anyone, made me giggle, but so did the one about matches and the one about body count exceeding word count. The picture one that i like best I think is the waterfae one. I really need to read some of your and the snapelyone's RL/SS fic though.

[celticangel76.livejournal.com]

Yeah so I'm a bit late on this one but seeing as how I actually got on my LJ and am catching up a bit I am going to do the "pick me pick me!" bit on here too. *grins*

And then I shall be happy to answer the same questions for you as well.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

1 - Tell you why I friended you. Assuming I can remember :) Originally it was HPA - you did a jolly good Kara and a chilling Lucius there
2 - Associate you with something. A fandom, a song, a colour, a piece of fruit. SOMETHING. Black and purple with a silver heartagram
3 - Tell you something I like about you. Your imagination and your ability to stay calm when I'm wibbling
4 - Tell you a memory I have of you. You in Finland getting in touch to say 'Guess who's just gone to sleep on my bed'
5 - Associate you with a character/pairing. There could only be one answer to that, I'm afraid. Chas is just SO pushy
6 - Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. (Or else I'll just ask a random question. I reserve that right.)this is actually quite a hard one [as the actress said to the bishop]. Ummmmmmm - if you could only keep one out of Ville, Josh, Alan Rickman, Jyrki or Johnny Depp which would it be?
7 - Tell you my favorite user pic of yours. the coffee one, though I very much associate your default with you and I like HIM Jack too.