Well, it seems this week has a lot of deadlines for me, for school as well as personally. I want to finally get b-sides updated, it’s a real mess right now. So that’s been on my to-do list for a while and I think it should get done!! Then there’s my zine.

My whaaat? Yes, my zine, that I started in like, August 2006. I started it when I was still living in my old house I mean wtf. But parts of it got lost in the whole moving process. I thought I’d be done by October but no, then I thought I’d launch it in January but I fucked up. So now I want to launch it February 1st. That’d be, like, so cool.

My zine is called Striped-Socks obviously, and it’s all handwritten. It has a lot of personal stuff in there, just basic blabber about msyelf, some articles I wrote, etc etc. I want it to come out every month or two months. I don’t care if no one wants to buy it, I’m going to make it primarily for myself as a sort of diary/scrapbook thing but also make it interesting for readers [for now - it might as well grow to something bigger] and give it to friends and family. I might intertwine it with b-sides a bit [adding CD and gig reviews] and hand it out/sell it at shows, but for now it’s mostly intertwined with this site even though the two can perfectly exist without the other. Anyway, this zine’s theme is February obviously

The coolest thing about February? Why shoud you still ask! Davey Havok Day of course! That’s right. I won’t get any V..cards, and I won’t send any V..cards, but I’m going to totally celebrate Davey Havok Day in style this year [I might update about it some more]. All this writing and thinking about Davey has made me all wanting to make a Davey theme, I think it would be all sorts of Awesome And Beyond, so I might do that when it’s actually February. And talking about V..day, my babysitkiddo got a V..card today, she’s not even three yet and she’s already taken over by the evilness of V.. Noooo. You won’t hear any more about V.. from me, it’s Davey Havok Day and that’s all there is to it! Two more weeks, whoo!

Actually, the past two days I’ve been falling asleep with my clothes on. You’d say that would be very uncomfortable, but the reason I fell asleep was because it was so comfy in my bed! My bed is this huge warm, cozy place when you’re settled, and it gets so comfy I don’t want to get out to brush my teeth or get undressed anymore. But I’ve also been very, very tired lately, so that could also explain a lot. Tonight I’m going to try to brush my teeth and undress before I go to bed though, heh.

Today I went to see the movie Parents, with a friend. The International Film Festival Rotterdam is taking place right now and usually there are a lot of good movies. The funny thing was my friend only asked me about 15 minutes before the movie started, so it came in handy that I was still clothed, .

The movie itself was really good. I think the moral was to not become a parent, heh. There’s also another movie from the same director, Children, but I don’t know if I can see that.

Yesterday Muffin and I went to see the band of one of his colleages. It was actually a lot of fun The downer part was that there was a girl with a Canon Eos 400D [by now you should know that that is my dream camera] and she was using the built-in flash. If there’s one thing I hate it’s using flash but if there’s one thing I hate more, it’s using flash with concert photography.

I added a Photos page, after trying out several different gallery plugins. Seriously, either my server or Wordpress or Flickr hates me. It’s poo! If someone has a good WordPress gallery plugin that actually works, doesn’t poo around in mysql and has no errors, please tell me.

At last I just wanted to say that I reply to comments on the respective posts, not on the commenter’s own site or wherever, because that way I think it makes more sense, heh! I just get a little confused if someone comes here and replies on something I said on their site, and also throws in something about my blog. I mean, where should I comment back to keep it organized?! That’s why I think you should just keep commenting at the place where everything started otherwise everybody is lost. Heh.

Whoo yay yesss! It’s weeeeeeeeekend!

In continuation of last post though, things got better a bit. First of all, I forgot to mention I added pictures to the street art section and I’m going to show one of them off here too, to brighten this post

Want the fullsize, go to the page!

Last night was A Wilhelm Scream. All sorts of very awesome. All of my 12 [!!] pictures are blurry. Very depressing. I took the poo camera anyway and the battery died on me. I knew it would happen but still. I had hoped at least one of them would turn out okay. I don’t know how I will do that for the challenge page but you’ll see it whenever I am done, I promise. The second support [we were too late to see the first] was No Trigger and they were also good I think it was one of the last days of tour or something because CDs were only 5 euros! I’m a CD junkie so I decided to buy Ruiner [by A Wilhelm Scream] but now I bitchslap myself for not also buying the other one they had. Although Ruiner is all sorts of fantastic and love and on repeat right now. I applied for a fanlisting Even though nobody ever joins my friggin’ fanlistings.. I don’t really care. AWS is love!

About my teacher? Oh dear Davey, it’s just unfair how she doesn’t like me. English teachers and Vief do not match. The first year I did IB I got the head of the English department. She thinks she’s all that great because of all her expierence but the truth is she repeats herself a lot, never corrects any work and basically gave me a 3 [which is an IB fail] because "I didn’t take enough notes". Which was a lie because I took fivehundred notes a day and the person next to me never took any notes and got a 5. Unfair!

The year after that, my second year of IB but still form 5 since I had to resit, I got a real nice amazing teacher who was ‘there for us’. We only had 8 students in the class, and of course I already knew a lot from the year before but I did so well! I learned sooo much from her, it was amazing. At the end of the year I think I had a 6 [out of 7] so I was very happy and hoped I would also get her for my fnial IB year. But no, our school had to ruin things. It was particularly unfair to us because she had prepared our course already, read all the books etc and then she ended up not teaching any A1 students this year! I believe she is the best A1 teacher so my school really needs to get a reality check. Unfair!

I got a new teacher this year obviously, and I think she’s all *stunned* at my approach of IB. Whenever we analyse poetry, for example, I throw in some orignial idea and she’s like "that is so farfetched". But it’s not, because original ideas are my own interpretation which I think is okay in poetry! I was particularly mad when someone wrote something on a poem, just staying on the surface and explaining what it described and got a 7. I then dug into the poem and what I thought it was really saying, the deeper meaning. And I got a 4 because it was farfetched. Even when I explained it to her and she was like "oh yeah, I can see where you’re coming from" because I did just that what makes an original idea valid, evidence or examples from the text.

Yesterday was just too much. I can handle it when she tells me it’s farfetched or when she says "you should think within the norm" [which in reality makes me want to go crazy and do everything different, but okay] but I don’t approve when she automatically doubts everything I say. I explained something, which wasn’t even that hard to follow to my opinion, and she told me "How your mind works in such interesting ways". Not funny.

The worst part was that I threw in an original idea. Then another student said "to go on about that idea, I think.." and my teacher exclaimed "Oh no! Not you too!!!" That just made me pissed. If someone else thinks my idea is not that farfetched, maybe the idea is not farfetched at all, so please do be kind.

I’ve been trying all sorts of new things for on this site but none of them want to work. Poo!

Things that suck:

1. the fact that nothing seems to go as planned today.
2. the fact that it’s so damn cold
3. the fact that I don’t have a spiffy camera
4. the fact that I am going to show and not being able to take pictures, argh!!
5. the fact that I’m eating a salad for dinner :O
6. the fact that there is a poo camera but there isn’t a battery charger!!
7. the fact that I have so, so, soo much homework
8. the fact that I won’t even get Lady Lazarus for my oral anymore
9. the fact that my English teacher doesn’t like me
10. the fact that well, I’m a girl, and, you know, shows & moshpits & periods do NOT go well together.

But yeah, I pretty much have to leave right about now, and I’ll probably be back later. Oh my Davey do things suck right now. Ugh!

I’m so tired. Babysitting and school are getting the best of me

I still have to edit 537457439573897589475973 photos, I’m dying. And at the same time I’m crying my eyes out I have to return the camera I borrowed. Noooo, you can’t leave me pretty camera, please stay with meeeee?

Homework is so much I don’t even want to do it. I have to read a dutch book and write a report about it. Next week we have an exam on dutch poetry I also still have to finish 3 french books and do assignments on them. Then I have my English oral and it’s life threatening scary. I haven’t even mentioned my big History paper. Yeah, I’m dead. Cheers.

Okay so I added a cam picture in the sidebar that will probably rotate every so often and uhm, if you have a portal let me know and I’ll join I know I made it very blue but my face wasn’t working with me and meh. I’ll change it when I dye my hair again, k?

Nighty night!