This video makes me so haaaaaappppyyyyyy :D :D :D I just want to run laps around the townhouse after watching it. One of the best routines on the show I think - mainly because Alex was a ballet dancer from the Miami City Ballet company before going on SYTYCD:
Yes, now that I've depleted my supply of X-Factor and The Voice videos, I'm going back to good ol' SYTYCD ones.
By the way, Iced came out two days ago and after checking Dymocks online, I found out that the closest store that has it in stock is in Nowra.... which is like a 2 hour 10 minute drive from Sydney. So anybody feeling in the mood for a road trip?
"We're not allowed to be together for some reason... too many ruffles on his shirt or something." - Taylor Swift
"Texts in this module are related to a particular historical period, and the diverse perspectives they offer are significant to an understanding of the ways of thinking during that period. To what extent does this statement reflect your study of this module."
This was on Karen Marie Moning's facebook page:
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“I make a new discovery that totally blows…dying is the easy part. It’s coming back to life that sucks.” ICED
The other day one of my friends was asking about the new book coming out. He’s a huge fan of the FEVER series, and hangs out at my FB page regularly so I was surprised to discover he had no idea what ICED was about, or where it fit into the overall FEVER story arc. I realized you could probably use some clarification, too.
ICED is the sixth book in the Fever series. The only difference is ICED is narrated by Dani, interspersed with various other first-person points of view. (One of those first person points of view is Christian MacKeltar.)
ICED opens up one week before Shadowfever ends, at the sidhe-seer’s abbey, the morning after the Cruce got imprisoned beneath it. You don’t miss a beat in the action I developed in the prior books.
Some of the characters you will see: Dani, Dancer, Ryodan, Christian, Lor, Jo, Kat, Cruce, Velvet, a glimpse or two of Mac & Barrons, and many others.
BURNED and FLAYED are books 7 & 8 in the Fever series. Again, told from Dani’s viewpoint, plus others. Books 9 & 10 will return to Mac’s point of view. Mostly. If you don’t read 6, 7 & 8, books 9 and 10 won’t make any sense.
Here are a few of the main questions I keep getting asked.
Q: How old is Dani in this series?
A: 14 when it starts. 17 when it ends.
Q: Ew. Teens can’t have sex!
A: Right. What world are you living in?
Q: Does she have sex at 14?
A: No.
Q: Is there sex in this trilogy?
A: Have you forgotten who's writing it?
Q: Is Dani’s voice the same as it was in the Fever books?
A: No. In the Fever books Dani was 5% of the story, so I made her voice colorful enough to stand out in an epic world. In ICED, her story is epic, so her voice is more natural, more her own. (This answers Othilia's question.)
Q: Do these books end on cliffhangers?
A: No. ICED gives a solid feel-good wrap.
Q: Do you love Dani’s story as much as Mac’s?
A: Absolutely, and I was astonished by that. I thought it was going to be much harder to leave Mac and Barrons than it was. I realized I hadn’t left them at all. I’d merely detoured down a different dark street in Dublin. Still looking up at the Old World façade of BB&B at night, with all the lights on, still seeing Barrons ‘(Bugatti in ICED) glide down the street, still watching Mac’s toss her hair across Chester’s dance floor. Just watching it through different eyes.
Stay tuned for an excerpt soon…
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That fourth question makes me laugh.
So.......
Judging from what I see up there, Iced is starting to sound like a glorified sexfest or something. LOL. (Shame on everyone for asking KMM those questions! Hehe. Okay, I was kind of curious but still... Control your hormones people!)
It probably won't be though 'cause I trust KMM and I trust that her stories will have plot and character development - even if they are urban fantasy and not profound literary fiction. (Year 12 English has turned me off anything that requires brain power. After the HSC, I'll probably go back to reading books that don't corrupt my brain but in the meantime....)
Even if it was a glorified sexfest, here's to hoping more than half of that stuff will be about Jericho Z. Barrons ;)
It's okay, you can say it: I have no shame. Someone really needs to give me a good series to read to make this waiting easier.
song of the week, taylor swift, the civil wars
Song of the Week: "The Last Time" by Taylor Swift ft. Gary Lightbody
People who know me know that it's really hard to make me cry for a movie, book or tv show. I can think of maybe just two incidents in my entire life where I got teary over something I watched or read: the first of these being that time I read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and the second being Toy Story 3. (There was also that strange moment years ago when an episode of SYTYCD made my eyes itch but that might have been because of a weird hormonal glitch...) It's not that I don't feel emotions - I felt angry after watching The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, depressed after The Pursuit of Happiness and mildly empty after the last Harry Potter book - but all those feelings came with a certain sense of detachment, like I was feeling it.... but at the same time not feeling it.
Haha, this is really hard to explain. Basically what I'm trying to say is that I don't cry over books/movies. I've got Tian to do that for me, lol.
Which is why it's so weird that this morning, the book I was reading made my eyes go a little bit teary.
Also, my view counts have been steadily increasing over these last two weeks... It's nice to know that everyone's taking their studies so seriously and staying away from the internet and its distractions :P
I'm really worried about the last two questions of the 3 unit maths exam. In all the past papers that I've done, I've rarely ever managed to complete the last question. Plus, they take forever. I'm wondering if I should even waste my time on them tomorrow. Would it be better to dedicate the rest of my exam time on those ugly questions or should I just use that time to check over my paper for silly mistakes? Decisions, decisions....
So how was the 2 unit test? Well see, I'm not sure what I can say about 2 unit because the whole time I was doing the test, I WAS DYING FROM HYPOTHERMIA.
Here, have another flashback song:
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..... so what if I liked S Club 7? DEAL WITH IT BITCHES.
Will probably be doing a really short reaction for each test. Like really short. Like:
Fucked up Section I, fucked up the creative but the essay, surprisingly, didn't seem that bad once I moulded my thesis to the question.
- end reaction -
I had a feeling they were gonna screw us over. Like WTF has "passage of time" got to do with anything? LOL. Ah well, it's over now. ONWARDS TO PAPER 2!!
- A paper bag for hypperventilation usage
- A mattress for when you see the first question and decide to faint
- A toilet for all the bullshit and word-vomit that's going to come out of your pen
- A suitably blank expression for all those seconds spent staring at the clock, watching the time slip through your fingers
- A suitably pissed off expression for when the person next to you asks for more paper when you haven't even finished one booklet
- An extraordinary capacity for hope... 'cause that's the only thing keeping you from breaking out into hysterics
- A lot of luck - to ensure that the stimulus for creative writing matches your prepared story.
- The only thing I hate more than the actual HSC is waiting for the HSC. It's driving me ~CRAAAAAZYYYY~ *insert spastic arm flail* At the beginning of the holidays, I was all like, "If I'm prepared, it shouldn't be too bad" but now I'm like, "OH SHIZ WHAT IF THE QUESTION IS STRANGE AND UNANSWERABLE?!?!"
- I don't know why I suddenly remember this but there was this one time when I was at Jazz practice at the RSL and my friend and I were talking about me having gotten into the OC class when out of nowhere, this other girl pops up and screams, "OMG YOU GOT INTO THE OC?! THAT'S MY FAVOURITE SHOW!!"
- I've been watching lots of Kingsley videos to procrastinate.
- With every day that passes, the fucks I give about English Extension exponentially decreases.
- I can't wait until the HSC is over and I can finally do stuff without feeling guilty.
- I keep going downstairs to get food in an attempt to put off studying, and when I eat, I eat extra, extra slowly so I don't have to get back to work.
- I still haven't watched Spiderman or the new Batman movie.
- The covers of historical romances make me laugh. Wait no - I should rephrase - the covers of every type of romance book, be it historical, paranormal, contemporary or mystery-thriller are capable of making me break out into giggles because they're so cheesy and remind me of bad photoshop. Even amateur instagram photos look a hundred times better.
- I really feel like playing Sims all of a sudden... or Skyrim.... or something....
- Today I walked outside to bring the rubbish bin in and the sun on my face was such a foreign feeling. I would've stayed outside but I was in my PJs and thongs and my neighbour was giving me weird looks. If you're wondering, my neighbour is like, 6 or 7 and my mum calls him Harry Potter because he resembles the young, boy wizard. I also think he has a crush on my sister.
- I lost my train of thought and can't be bothered continuing this post.
- Til next time, guys!
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