I AM POWERLESS TO DO ANYTHING BUT POST

IN THE MOMENTS AFTER I LASTED POSTED, I WAS LOOKING AT OTHER PEOPLE'S BLOGS...
I VISITED EM'S (VISIT IT!I COMPEL YOU!!) AS I AM WONT TO DO...
I DISCOVERED A TRULY TERRIBLE TRUTH...

KATUS IS NOT AN AUSTEN FAN, IN FACT SHE DISLIKES AUSTEN'S WRITINGS!

UPON DISCOVERING THIS, I FELT COMMENTING ON EM'S BLOG ABOUT IT WOULD NOT, COULD NOT REGISTER MY EXTREME SHOCK AND HORROR AT MY DISCOVERY (BUT NORMALLY IT COULD, COMMENT ON EM'S BLOG NOW!)

NOR DID I BELIEVE THAT A COMMENT ON KATUSVILLE (A WORTHY PLACE TO VISIT!)COULD PROPERLY REPRESENT THE EFFECTS OF THE REVELATION THAT I HAVE UNDERGONE.

I CANNOT DESCRIBE THE SICK FEELING IN MY STOMACH AT THE THOUGHT THAT KATUS DOES NOT HAVE A SIMPACTICO WITH THOSE OF US WHO LOVE AUSTEN'S WORK.

AUSTEN IS TRULY ONE OF MY FAVORITE AUTHORS.
NOT BECAUSE MANY WOULD INCLUDE HER IN A CANON OF LITERARY WORKS, SIMPLY BECAUSE SHE SEEMS TO BE POPULAR WITH PEOPLE WHO ENJOY OLD ENGLISH WORKS,
BUT BECAUSE HER BOOKS ARE FUNNY, INTERESTING AND WORTH THE TIME YOU GIVE THEM, UNLIKE MANY OTHER BOOKS I REFUSE TO MENTION. THE CHARACTERS ARE INTRIGUING, AND I AM HEARTBROKEN TO THINK THAT THE JOY I HAVE RECIEVED FROM READING AUSTEN'S BOOKS IS COMPLETELY DENIED TO KATUS, WHO HAS CUT HERSELF OFF FROM THEM.

PLEASE, ANYONE, EVERYONE, TAKE THE TIME TO READ THEM YOURSELF. THEY ARE FASCINATING. NOT CHICK-LIT. EVEN TOM LIKES THEM!

WITH A DUE SENSE OF LOSS AND DOULEUR,
SPARKLE*
p.s. georgette heyer rocks too.

While I'm winning at cards...

well!i think we all know a little more about each other now...don't you feel excited by all the discoveries we've made?
YAAAAAAAAAAY! NTE! woot! I am rather excited, although I should pack this evening...at some point...when i get off the internet....hmmmm...
i helped a friend at church to lead the youth group today..primary years, and it was heaps fun. i got chocolate!
however, i was a little late...she rang me to make sure i was coming, and i had forgotten the time it began...so packed an obliging tom off to the station and drove to church rather quickly.
what an obliging young man he is. we bought mike and maddy's wedding present today and IT TOTALLY ROCKS!
I'M SO SORRY if i didn't mention it in conversation (i forgotted to tell kathy, and she was not impressed) I AM LEAVING THIS COUNTRY ON THE 16 OF DECEMBER, AND AM RETURNING TO MY HOMELAND ON THE 2...8TH(?) OF JANUARY!!
I will miss everyone terribly...as well as english in general...please pray that me and my family will be safe...i get rather stressed overseas...something about vast bodies of water amd customs dividing me from my home...gives me the heebie-jeebies.
HAH!movie quote (i have reviewed this, look it up)
1:excuse me, we bozoes have the people
2:yay!the bozoes have the people!
3:where?
1:up there!don't you just love the people?not a very lively bunch though.
3:do you have any...live people?
1:umm...no.only dead ones.
4:well, after all, if it we had the people, it wouldn't be called 'the wild', would it?
3:wait, you mean like, live in a mudhut, wipe yourself with a leaf kind of wild?
1:who wipes??!!
5:oy vey!
4:oy vey everybody!
6(everyone else): OY VEY!!!
teeeeeeeehhheeeeeeeheeee.
tell me what movie that's from!
tom knows, he had to listen to me reciting it as we walked thru westfield.
I found a pretty picture, and i want you all to see it. i hope you all have fun over the next few days (2-10th), I KNOW I WILL!
oh, and call amanda tanya.
how is everybody???
love, sparkle*

LOL.....i love not being the only one.

Ok, i signed myself as 'sparkle' on Kate's blog (VISIT KATE'S BLOG!I COMPEL YOU!) coz i felt like it, then i thought that'd be a cool nickname, and then i was wondering how to make ppl start calling me sparkle.
i was talking to Becca(becca J, not bec f)and i asked how lame it would be it i asked ppl to call me sparkle.
she responded she's always wanted to be called Red.
and so now at least one person calls me sparkle, and one person calls becca Red.
AND THEN i thought if two incredibly cool ppl such as me and becca have wanted nicknames, then
a) it can't be that lame
and b) other ppl may have looked for nicknames!
SO.
does anyone have a nickname that no-one has had the insight to think of?
anyone at all?
ok, if you, don't, make one up.
....no....don't....you'll be stuck with it.
ALSO i have finished, and it is so cool.but i didn't do much today.
that is not the point.
SOMEONE organise SOMETHING before i go mad, and before NTE.
(if anyone had the gall to say "GO mad?...?" then i shall amend it to GET MAD.)
how is everybody?and why don't i see anyone on msn??
lots of love, sparkle*
:D
p.s. i miss cu...
p.p.s.OH!and Tom is teaching me how to ride a skateboard!!!
i know enought to know that that is hot.
tho i don't have a skateboard myself.
so eventually i'm just going to distract tom and nick off with his
which makes sense coz his is really nice
but i think i'd have a better chance making him put on trousers than i do stealing his skateboard without him noticing.
-a

Yay - mostly other ppl's stuff

lol, i started writing what you say down again.
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH!

ok, while Chris was writing poetry( ok, serious poetry, very good, well-thought-out,sad poetry, which is actually based on his experience[excellent]but was a little tragic...mainly coz he was a little melancholy) pete, ash, sarah and i kinda went a little crazy with poetry of our own.
well, it would be crazy if it had gone on longer than a verse, but as pete says, when you force poetry like that, you kill it.
pete was insistent we mention a burrito.
we were all insistent everything should rhyme with burrito.
then we looked on the internet for rhyming words.
and came up with:
"You sustain me like a burrito
But give me fever like a mosquito
You're hotter than Danny DeVito
Till now, my life was incognito."
it's very beautiful.

later on we all went into the cafe in our post-CU manner, and many table were pulled together
me: wow, it's like a table farm
jasmine:yeah, like they're multiplying...the tables are having babies!!
....?

yesterday, after maths, before leaving-
tom:i wanna go ho-ome!!
jonno:would you like some cheese to go with your whine??

today, in cafe, during a conversation that would have been scarring if it weren't so damn funny (FYI, dougie has a new way of insulting people, robbo thinks i have an unusual fragrance, jonno is completely au fait with the right comedy, and pete looked on and tuned out...till it was guys vs girls)
doug:how's chaos theory? pretty chaotic?
jonno: rather!!!!

let me find you another nice photo. i like them, and i like mine best.
LOL, oh this isnt quite nice, but it's funny for me, because you have to look at it!!!
i know, i like toying with people, but i haven't hurt anyone!....
oh shush.
this was on schoolies.yay!
big hugs and handshakes to you all.
many cuddle vibes too.
and a duckling. not a duck, they're a little annoying.
-a

me: how was your day? tom:good. well, long and boring

gah! i can never remember qq's anymore!gah!
...sigh...apologies to all who were there on monday and had to watch me and tom being stupid and fighting...lol...ok, when i say fighting, you are all aware what i ACTUALLY mean is tickling him until he starts ignoring me...then some more.
actually, many of you looked quite amused...it wasn't funny according to Tom.
i guess it's kinda easy to be either a)incredibly self-conscious or b)over-reacting and hyperactive when you're being silly, your boyfriend is there, and your friends are watching.
by which i mean, i may have been being stupid coz ppl were watching. which isnt cool coz it's...i don't know, it's like i'm pretending to be me instead of being me. which is stupid, coz real me when im boring is better than fake me trying to make you laugh by annoying my boyfriend.
yay for everyone having photos. my dress was so pretty....my hair less so. still, you all like me.
this week i had:
1xTEP assignment
1xfrench composition
1xspanish speaking test
1xfrench grammar test
and on thursday i have
1xspanish written test
1xfrench comprehension test
THIS WEEK IS SO WRONG!!!

on sunday tom and i will have been going out for 18months, as in a year and a half...
that's just...odd.
i REALLY thought i was much more annoying than that.
oh, and matt's photos of mike&maddy's engagement night misrepresent, i like tom being weird, it's who he is.

things are FINALLY coming together for my trip to england, then france. ça me fait peur, car je suis toujours un peu inquiet, dans un pays etrangere, mais j'espere que cette fois je vais m'amuser sans cette anxiete. mais, en meme temps, je suis toujours inquiets, et il faut que j'aie plus de confiance en Christ, qu'Il va s'en occupe.

lol...no, it really isnt worth translating.
but i will be away most of dec and jan, hopefully NTE will be good. i think its too late to call them and say i accidentally enrolled myself in the OT thing, which is for 2nd time ppl, instead of the 1st. will it make a horrible difference???

here is a photo of the view behind tom's Nana Glen's house. i took this photo. it is very beautiful and calming. i miss Peel. no mobile reception....sigh...was wonderful
love from me*