16 July 2001 - Fear -- 07:30 p.m.
Do you want to hear a scary story? There's these kids who have birth defects. Their parents knew they were going to have them but decided to keep them anyway... and they are suing their parents for not having them aborted.
How scary?

On a more cheerful note, project! Hazel's new house. And a random link.

16 July 2001 - Fear -- 07:30 p.m.
Do you want to hear a scary story? There's these kids who have birth defects. Their parents knew they were going to have them but decided to keep them anyway... and they are suing their parents for not having them aborted.
How scary?

On a more cheerful note, project! Hazel's new house. And a random link.

16 July 2001 - Fear -- 07:30 p.m.
Do you want to hear a scary story? There's these kids who have birth defects. Their parents knew they were going to have them but decided to keep them anyway... and they are suing their parents for not having them aborted.
How scary?

On a more cheerful note, project! Hazel's new house. And a random link.

16 July 2001 - La -- 02:59 p.m.
La indeed, for it is my mother's birthday. Guess what she got, go on.
A waterbut, a fish kettle, and a jar opener. And books and plants.
And tonight Matthew is cooking chicken curry in celebration (get the stomach pump). Apparently I'm helping.
Marvellieuse.

15 July 2001 - Philanthropy -- 09:48 p.m.
Random Person: What's philanthropy?
Me: Er... communism.
That makes no sense, so here is my thought process.
Abigail: What is philanthropy?
Hazel: Isn't it like doing something for the good of the community rather than the good of the individual?
Abigail: Sounds like communism.
phi·lan·thro·py (f-lnthr-p)
n. pl. phi·lan·thro·pies
The effort or inclination to increase the well-being of humankind, as by charitable aid or donations.
Love of humankind in general.
Something, such as an activity or institution, intended to promote human welfare.
[Late Latin philanthrpia, from Greek, from philanthrpos, humane, benevolent : phil-, philo-, philo- + anthrpos, man, mankind.]
phi·lanthro·pist n.
Ah, I was close... ish.

15 July 2001 - Another humourous title -- 01:18 p.m.
The girl on the front of Shanghai Baby is gorgeous. She's all in various shades of grey, except her lips, which are bright pink. But her eyes are quite evil. How fun, to read a book that has been banned in China. That's so entertaining.
Last night me and Dad watched Blues Brothers, which I completely love. The totally ridiculous car chases, the comic juxtaposition (that bit in the lift, you know? I just like that phrase), the singing... it's all great. And the mad girlfriend with the flamethrower, she's pretty fun too.
Me: People should spontanuosly burst into song in real life.
Dad: Yeah, let's do that tomorrow.
Tomorrow, (Sunday, so today), we're going out to eat because it's the day before mum's birthday.
Lisa's back from some sleepover, I don't know about Matthew, he's out side somewhere... and the parents are lunching. Oh, yesterday they were out for ages because Dad was buying Mum a waterbut for her birthday present. How romantic.
Sensible presents, bleh.
Do you know, and I can barely bring myself to say this, some people don't have a dictionary in their entire house? How do they cope? During the last week, I had to look up serendipity, nihilism and doctrine, for example. And if I hadn't been able to find the dictionary I'd probably have gone insane from trying to remember their definitions.
Isn't serendipity a gorgeous word? It's so lovely, it sounds like what it means which is stupid, because how can 'discovering nice surprises by accident' be onamatapaeic? (Is that how you spell that?) But it really does.
I finished Kissing in Manhattan, wow that was weird. Manhattan is New York, isn't it? My Merkin geography isn't too good. It was definitely something Hazel would read, most weird. But good. You know a book is really good when you can remember every single thing that happened in it but none of the phrases used to describe it, when you get so engrossed in the story that you forget you're reading it. It was like that. Most of my favourite books are, but the one thing that can ruin the total engrossement (is that even a word?) for me is really obvious spelling and grammar mistakes. I mean, if someone misspells onamatapaeia I'm really not going to notice, (note to self: look that up) but if they use the wrong sort of their/there/they're or your/you're or something, I just want to shout at it.
Granted, sometimes I do that myself, but hey. Noone's complained yet.
Sadgeezer.com is run by people even more obsessive than me, isn't that frightening? You would not think such a person could exist, well, not if you're my parents, anyway.
An inspirational quote would be good here, methinks:
To be always in sunshine, you need only walk along rather slowly. - The Little Prince
I love the Little Prince, it's so great. I have a little prince t-shirt. It says something like 'all the grownups wish that they were children', except it says it in French.
Today is apparently the day of the Egyptian god Set, god of darkness and magic. Also, we have... a crescent moon, a New moon on July 20th.
My computer would like to say: 'the moon, like to a silver bow/New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night.' How brilliant are the random things in my taskbar. Well, that's a long enough entry, my fingers ache.
Oh look, an email from Emma.

14 July 2001 - Evolution -- 02:54 p.m.
This quiz told me:
Score: 37 out of 50. Your ranking on the evolutionary scale: Baboon. So, what do you want? an even bigger head than normal? You want a guy/girl, you just have to click your fingers. All your children will be similarly blessed, and you'll never want for anything. Any chance of having your telephone number? Good news - you want more flattery? Well, you'll always look just the right weight, your lottery numbers will come up, even though you haven't entered, and film stars will pay to go out with you.
Now this is a quiz I like.

14 July 2001 - Bookfest -- 02:41 p.m.
Yipyip! The books are here! ::tries to read them all at once:::
Lisa's at some party, Matthew's in town, the parents have apparently been at B&Q since 11 o'clock, and it's raining.
The RD video was hilarious... and Lisa hasn't seen it yet, another excuse to watch it lots of times (not that I really need one...)
I'm reading 'Kissing in Manhattan' (and not mum's stupid lighthouse thing which is too dull for words) and it is weird with a capital we (oops, RD spilling out of my head again...)
Well, it's most odd, so far... I've read one chapter and already am finding it odd, which can only be a good sign.
Oh yippee, another email from Plough, how non-repetitive ::yawns::
Wow, morpheus is weird, you know? Like napster, only not... I'm just so descriptive. Like napster but not just for mp3s. There you are.
The internet is slow today... but I have wheelbarrows full of non-spam email, so who cares!

13 July 2001 - Morpheised -- 04:42 p.m.
I is bored, still... Oh! It's Friday the 13th, and I didn't even notice. Damn. Well, no bad luck so far... :::falls over a black cat under a ladder, breaks leg:::
I'm playing with Morpheus... it's weird...

13 July 2001 - sooooooo bored -- 02:01 p.m.
Bored.... but I've done the recycling, finally. I wasn't on the internet at 1am last night, no.... honest.
::falls asleep::
Oh yay, Chris has emailed me.
What shall I do, I'm bored.
Oh I remember what I was going to say!
My mum (who has a birthday on Monday) had a reminder at work about the dresscode (well, everyone did). It said that people were not expected to wear 'grange' clothes on casual-clothes days. Grange clothes. Ha.
...5 past 2, an hour and a bit until people arrive...

11 July 2001 - really, really caffeinated -- 07:27 p.m.
Hi! I've just had 2 (yes 2) bottles of Dr Pepper and I am the queen of twitchy! Lalalala. It's quite freakish and ooh I can't type properly because my hands are twitchy... one disadvantage of cinemas is the caffeine. La. Well, and anyway, today was just super (can you hear the caffeine talking?) :::goes away until decaffeinated:::
Ugh. That was freaky. Today, I went into town and went to the library, bought a CD, bought mum's bd present and went to the cinema. Me and Lisa and Amy, Stephen and Adam were going to come but Stephen's mum wouldn't let him and Adam had no money. We saw 'Lara Croft Tomb Raider'. Why Lara Croft Tomb Raider? Surely they only need to call it Tomb Raider, what other tomb raiders are there?
Shut up, caffeine.
Anyways, Chris Barrie was definitely not in it enough, but it was good. Especially the end bit, with the dress. Groove.
(Spoilers, right?) And I loved the Buddha thing, but what was with the weird jasmine-girl? That was just odd. Me and LIsa were sitting there squeaking in terror in the whole simon bit, and Amy was like 'what?'.
And there was the bit with the Clangers. I was like 'the Clangers!!' and everyone was like 'shut up!'. Well, there were only 12 people in there including us and we were slightly hyper.
They had the adverts (with the King advert of the minis, but not the MacDonalds one), and then the curtains closed as usual. Normally they open again straight away and the film starts, but today... there was like a ten minute pause! And they played music, and when Tom Jones happend Lisa and Amy were dancing, it was hilarious. And after, Lisa was doing Lara impressions in the middle of the busstation, (the lips!) which was very funny.
Erg, caffeine poisoning... All in all, a very July day for a Wednesday (okay, so only me and Lisa and possibly Matthew will understand that, but then I don't really care!)
Is there such thing as anti-caffeine? Enieffac, maybe?

09 July 2001 - The Spark Has Spoken -- 12:36 p.m.
The Spark have got a new test, the Gay test. Apparently I'm 41% gay. Right you are then.
Dad's at work, the sibs are at school, Mum and Claline are, I think, at Uncle Doug's funeral. And I'm hungry.

08 July 2001 - Pre-Bookfest -- 10:39 p.m.
I just spent £46.95 on amazon. Ah well, I'll use my job money. (Note: I have no life, so less entries will happen until school starts again).
If you care, I bought:
Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler
Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic by Scott Cunningham
Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Red Dwarf - Series 2 - Episodes 1 To 3 (lalala)
One to two weeks, how annoying. Ah well. The video has Kryten, Better than Life and Thanks for the Memory. I love these ones. Especially TFTM, it has really momenty bits in it.

07 July 2001 - archived 07_07_2001.html -- 09:16 p.m.
So the legendary English weather (i.e. rain) has cancelled our holidaying for us - combined with the fact that Dad and Lisa got up at 4am yesterday. Ah well.
This morning I got a letter from Susanne. Her house got struck by lightning and her tv, phone and computer are all dead from it. Oh dear.
First we went shopping, in, um... Braintree, I think? I bought purple trousers, a blue top with squiggy sploopy things on it (I'm so descriptive today), twisty earrings, and 3 computer games. And rediscovered my hatred for Burger King food. Bleh.
We bought SimFarm. Just for the concept. It's hysterical. (Still on floppies, 1993 game!)
And then, we went to the Ipswich cinema and saw Shrek. PLease, please go and see this, it is the funniest film I have seen for an incredibly long time. Me, Lisa and Dad were crying with laughter at several points... I won't tell you why because guess what, websites aren't too good with spoiler space. But it was incredible, and made so much fun of Disney that it was even more hysterical. It was gorgeous. Go and see it.
The trailers were quite funny too... me and Lisa were in a bit of a hyper state. The cinema was totally packed. There was an advert for MacDonalds.
Advert: ...with new Chicken and Ketchup burgers!!!
Me and Lisa (really loudly): Eeeeurrrrrrgh!
Pause.
Everyone in the entire screen starts laughing.
Well, it was very amusing. And plus, when we got back we ate Chinese food, an added bonus.