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Things have changed so much it seems, since then. Life at Uni is lovely; I have the most amazing flatmates and supportive friends and great people. It's weird and strangely nice not being such a people-hating sociopath. Well, in the sense that I like being around them
Of course, still cruel and sadistic, but with the group heirachy we have in the Convent (my flat), it works out. Some of them need a good beating sometimes, and I need them to keep my ego in check! No Katie, I do not need some Katie lovin'. *shudder*

Most people seem to be loving Uni life, except for one school friend who dropped out after two days being away from home. Before term even started. Is that mad or what?! I dunno, I know University and moving away isn't for everyone, but when you aren't interested in getting a job and don't have a social life outside of school/ college (which is finished), what do you end up doing? According to her - nothing. Doesn't sound too fun.

But then again, sounds better than the work some people are getting. I find six hours a week is enough for someone as lazy as me - much pity to the poor bastards who get twenty hours! Ha!
Combined honours was definitely the way to go - half-arsed with both subjects.

And another thing to complain about - archaeology. WHERE are the Lara Crofts and Indiana Joneses? I mean, really, archaeology is clearly meant to be fabulously glamorous; I fully expect to be jetting across the world to find Egyptian treasure and fight Nazis alongside sexy Tomb Raiders. Instead, no, we get to travel an hour out of town to a couple of muddy, rainy, dismal fields and look at mounds of earth. Oh, no, not just mounds of earth, but also a bank. Which I promptly fell down, pulling a friend with me and somehow managed to plaster mud up my jeans and converse. Blast those annoying Archaeology nerds, with their stupid anoraks and stupid hiking boots and stupid clipboards. No-one even fell down a rabbit-hole, or got lost on the moors. Arrrgh.
On the plus side, I found a sheep corpse.

]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/13643091/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/13643091/ Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:06:28 PDT
Having finished exams over a week ago (and, in fact, school. For ever! The weirdness!) I returned here and promptly left, having been chased away by the horrendous dA inbox thing. 219 deviations?! Safe to say (apologetically) I shall not be commenting on all of those. I will, however, look at the more recent ones and desperately try and catch up with some of my watched people (2 months ago?! WTF have I actually been doing?).

Nevertheless for once my life has been rather eventful in the past seven days. Sort of makes up for the past 18 years, nay?! Seeing so many friends and family almost every day is strange.
Last Saturday I went up to the London with my, *ahem*... mother... to the British Museum and experienced the trains in all their fabulous glory. Seriously, how the Underground can exist like that, I do NOT know. Okay, accepting they were on super-bomb-alert (thanks to the scare the day before), it cannot possibly be necessary to trap several billion wet-dog-smelling people (courtesy to our glorious British weather) in a single tube station (considering they'd closed half of them) with a scary voice in manner of concentration camp/ army officer constantly screaming "Move down platform! Move down platform! *pause* Don't leave bags unattended. MOVE DOWN PLATFORM!". Then we don't even see a single police officer in all of London. Go figure.

The 6th Form Prom thing was on Tuesday; hate to admit it, but very fun. There is nothing more amusing than doing something so ridiculous as the YMCA or dancing to Grease, particularly when you're still sober enough to realise how sad it is. Of course, a couple of friends thought it was amusing to smuggle a bottle of vodka down one of their dresses (amazingly, succeeding), so we didn't see them for the second half of the evening (very inconspicuously sharing a toilet cubicle for half an hour. Don't ask). Wearing a long dress is bloody weird.

If anyone else is on holiday at the moment (particularly RGS people! ), hope you're enjoying the freedom! Isn't that weird that we'll never see each other at school again?! You'd better not abandon me...

]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/12712488/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/12712488/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:52:30 PDT
Certainly should be back up after the exams.
Please hold on for a while, I have so many people to reply to and catch up with!


I really, really hate computers at the moment.

]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/11538374/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/11538374/ Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:58:35 PST
Please excuse my overt cheerfulness, for I am super happy. You have been warned.

Just had my last exam, so no more for, well... a while! Yay! I have seriously been dreading that bloody exam for ages (as I think everyone was), being history, but it was alright so I therefore have the excuse to be unbearably happy (apologies to anyone who's still awaiting the torture of the Common Room. I don't know what else there is other than economics. *shudder*). Anyone else got any left?

Wow. I actually think that was all I have to report.

Sorry for that.

]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/11169777/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/11169777/ Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:17:27 PST entire week. For NO apparent reason.

Therefore I am very apologetic to all those who have been submitting their little hearts out or posting numerous Journal entries (yeah, I'm looking at you ) and I have been non-comment-y, please don't feel that oh so bitter rejection of fabulous magnolia comments... Oh shut up, someone must have noticed. *grumble*

But, but, I have Christmas presents to give to people now! Finally! Yet it is the doomed Christmas Eve and they still reside under thy tree (*sob*) so all my hard work is for nought, I tell thee! Nought! Hence the only person/cat who will have their fabulous present on the actual day is Felix. And he won't even be grateful for it.


I feel depressed now. That's what bloody Christmas does to you.

Bah humbug...


(But Merry Winter Solstice/ Yule, Lenaea, Saturnalia, Rohatsu (though I am sorry, I'm a little bit late for this one!), Shabe-Yalda, Festival of the Sun, Hanukkah, the Long Night, Mithrasmas and Christmas!)



]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/10474191/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/10474191/ Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:24:32 PDT really sorry if I haven't replied or commented on your new work.

Going on a trip thing for a couple of days tommorow, so I apologise if I seem to be ignoring anyone or the such! If anyone else is on half-term; yay! Enjoy your holiday!

~magnolia

]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/10345746/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/10345746/ Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:12:56 PST ~Master-Spider's Journal

If you are feeling any lack of creativity (like moi) or want a challenge; this is pretty fun.

The Rules

1) Make 100 pictures, with each picture displaying a theme listed below. Each picture should only have one theme to it for it to count in the challenge.
2) There is no time limit.
3) (i) The main picture should be drawn, but for all fair purposes, people may use paint programs and digital art software. Your pictures can be anything from sketches and doodles to great masterpieces. Just have fun creating them!
(ii) The pictures should be of your own artistic ability; you may not edit photos or break any rules set out in the dA etiquette policy.
4) The list below should be placed somewhere in your journal for others to see that;
a) You are in the challenge
b) What you have completed
5) Ensure you update this list and make a link to themed pictures.
6) When writing a comment for the artwork, make sure you have made a note that it is part of the ‘100 Themes’ list and the one theme it is.

THE LIST
1. Introduction
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Grey
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation

Please note, the ones underlined are click-able!

]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/10221889/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/10221889/ Fri, 29 Sep 2006 03:55:28 PDT no point in your existence, then it's all bouncing around like hyped up on coffee. I feel weird.

It was so cool, a bomb was found round our house last night, and there was all this insane business (me trying to 'subtly' photograph the army guy getting the bomb-exploder stuff out of the van, my cat trying to get in said van, my mother contiually pestering the police people and a mini proccession of police cars getting lost in our village). Anyway, these two blokes aparently found this unexploded mortar shell in a few trees above our house and came and told my mother, which, or course, got her in her unbearable busy-body 'we have to call the police mode', and the bomb disposal squad (heh! ) turned up just after I got back from school. I would very much like to say I stood out in the field and saw an explosion (which of course didn't actually happen, but I like to think it did) and heard the bang (which was pretty loud, or so I've heard), but, um... *ashamed look* I, uh, was on the internet in the cellar and missed the whole thing...

Quickly changing the subject from my idiocy, I want to apologise to my watched people and stuff, I haven't been commenting recently or doing anything constructive here for a week or so. I will check out your work and things today, though!
But wooo for FAKE 3! Wooo for dear, lovely, manga-lending Charlotte! (Vardagaladhiel or Master-Spider, have you borrowed it? Is it just me or can Matoh not draw faces from that sideways/behind-ish angle? It really annoys moi!). Also wooo for random things such as lovely Warwick with their lovely Ramen and coffees

]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/10058713/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/10058713/ Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:03:06 PDT Things seem to be going really, really crappy recently, particularly with all the Uni bollocks and everyone here at home, and I feel totally insane and randomly moody with everyone (apart from lovely Vardagaladhiel lending me lovely Saiyuki manga! ), so, as all my avid fans know (what? I said fans. *pause* Okay fine, they exist in my head), magnolia always ends up doing some quiz or another she finds in one of her watcher's Journals. If anyone feels like it, feel free to do it, it's kinda fun if you're fist-eating-ly fed up with life.

1. If I were a fruit I'd be... a blackberry
2. If I were a colour I'd be... green
3. If I were an animal I'd be... a rat
4. If I were a domestic appliance I'd be... a laptop
5. If I were a book I'd be... 1001 Movies To See Before You Die
6. If I were a clothing item I'd be... a fleece-y jumper!
7. If I were a jewel I'd be... quartz
8. If I were an object I'd be... a stuffed animal
9. If I were a car I'd be... hydrogen powered
10. If I were an element I'd be... Earth
11. If I were a tree I'd be... oak
12. If I were a drink I'd be... coffee
13.- If I were an ice cream flavour I'd be... strawberry
14.- If I were a person I'd be... me
15.- If I were a planet I'd be... Mars
16.- If I were an insect I'd be... a moth
17.- If I were public transport I'd be... [wtf?!] a taxi
18.- If I were a song I'd be... Apocalypse Please
19.- If I were a movie I'd be... Saw (I think Jigsaw and I share the same kind of humour )
20.- If I were a season I'd be... winter
21.- If I were a flower I'd be... a poppy
22.- If I were a job I'd be... (is it just me, or does this question make even less sense than the others?! I’m guessing which job you’d have), something everyone else apart from me considers boring, like a museum curator
23.- If I were a cartoon character I'd be... Agatsuma Soubi (he’s so contradictory, particularly on his morals, which I guess I relate to )
24.- If I were a place I'd be... woods
25.- If I were a gift I'd be... hopefully not cheap
26.- If I were a memory I'd be... the One who insisted on wearing her Lion King pyjamas at her birthday party
27.- If I were a city I'd be... London
28.- If I were a sense I'd be... Sixth
29.- If I were a game I'd be... the sore loser or unbearably smug winner
30.- If I were a candy I'd be... a lemon sherbet
31.- If I were a time of the day I'd be... sunset
32.- If I were an invention I'd be... something bizarre with no real use
33.- If I were a body part I'd be... an eye
34.- If I were a country I'd be… France
35.- If I were a flavour I'd be... lime
36.- If I were a sport I'd be... yoga
37.- If I were a smell I'd be... eucalyptus and tea-tree
38.- If I were a subject I'd be... film studies
39.- If I were a flag I'd be... British!
40.- If I were a building I'd be... a greenhouse
41.- If I were a month I'd be... September
42.- If I were a perfume I'd be... (I’m not a perfume kinda person, it always seems to be way overpowering)
43.- If I were a gummy candy I'd be... um, vegetarian? Oooh, possibly along the lines of a vegetarian marshmallow…
45.- If I were a toy I'd be... not suitable for children under the age of 3. Made in England.
46.- If I were a textile I'd be... wool
47.- If I were a shape I'd be... random squiggles in manner of insane Jackson-Pollock-art or similar
... ]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/9974582/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/9974582/ Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:50:20 PDT
1) Days spent sleeping and nights staying up watching films/ internet-ing/ drawing are over
2) It’s the last year ever of school (might sound good, but when you’ve got the prospect of Uni next year, it’s pretty crappy)
3) Said Uni stress. Personal statements, UCAS forms, PLUS certificate rubbish, University open days, applications, and actually deciding on a goddamn course, but to mention a few
4) Having to wear ‘smart’ clothes rather than pyjamas or oversized jumpers with hideous patterns on (*sob* but they’re so comfortable…)
5) Giving a shit about what you look like
6) Teachers
7) Panicking about dropping a subject, planning re-sits, etc
8) Being a total social reject on my own table for a year (as I have been abandoned!)
9) Being sociable and tolerating those people I often imagine stabbing pencils through their heads and/ or wishing I had a machine gun on hand
10) Equally tolerating my friends, who have recently been taking great pleasure in tormenting me. Contrary to popular belief, I do not fancy Uma Thurman
11) Getting the endless ‘you are now role models for the younger students’ speeches

Wow. I’ve got myself even more stressed now.
Other than school, I’ve done pretty much nothing. Went to the cinema a couple of times during the holidays, but none of the films out are really any good, except for Severance, which I really loved! Yay for British films! Yay for torture, evisceration and dismemberment! Yay for murdering business men! ]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/9815441/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/9815441/ Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:52:43 PDT

Woooo, thank you for the 1000 pageviews, my dear Deviants!

Will UPDATE later

UPDATE - Okay, I am a liar and have not updated. Purely for the reason that my boring life needs to be updated before I can post on it. ]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/9662618/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/9662618/ Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:38:33 PDT
1.Look at your right side. What did you see the most?
- Much paper, CDs, coffee mugs, wow (just noticed the PC Plus CD pile in the corner that reaches the ceiling - my Dad really needs to subscribe to a better magazine) and cat fur covering most of this

2.Look at left. So, what did you see this time?
- Cinderblock wall, more paper

3.In what mood you are now? Tell me about your feelings?
- Vaguely tired, surprisingly happy.

4.What will you do after taking this stupid test?
- Check out my watchers’ deviations (haven’t been on here for a few days so have a pileup – joy)

5. Describe you in 3 words
- Insane, gullible, philosophical (but don’t tell anyone!)

6.About what was your latest dream you remember?
- Last night’s was really vivid, but I’ve kinda forgotten it by now. I was in my primary school playground with some people (who I think represented some friends) and took this secret passageway to the field. Damn, I can only remember the boring parts. I was in a taxi in India with someone and our driver was off his head, it was quite scary. Also fun.

7.What do you think about this test?
- *shrug*

8. Latest full CD you've listened to?
- Never Mind the Bollocks – Sex Pistols

9.Latest full movie you've watched
- The Hills Have Eyes (recent remake)

10.Latest person, who makes you smile
- I can’t remember when I last smiled. Probably my sister acting like an idiot though.

11.Latest person, who makes you cry
- Don’t remember

12. Describe your feelings like a color. What color it will be?
- Indigo

13. Do you remember your latest kiss? And who did you kiss?
- *blush* I kissed my Mum before going to bed the night before last

14.Do you love someone? [without family, parents etc.]
- …

15. Do you miss people that are so far away from you?
- Guess so, but I’ve never been far away from someone for long enough to find out

16. What's your biggest dream?
- Dunno, guess going to Uni to study one of my History course choices is as far as I’ve got with my future

17. So this the end. What do you want to say now?
-


Not done much this week (glued to Sims 2 yesterday and sort of forgot to pretend to have a life until lunch today) except some reading and the such. I would actually really recommend Misery by Stephen King, for once his ending doesn't let you down (far too many of them have, even the really good ones like The Shining and Pet Semetary) and, even better, she doesn't crush his foot with a sledgehammer like the film, but does something much better... ]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/9614057/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/9614057/ Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:38:27 PDT
It was so cool; I saw the most insane thing ever (Beijing Opera) and drank yak tea (that tasted of dirt and butter) and for the first time ever got my picture taken with a complete stranger! Yay! Chinaland is absolutely insane! It's weird, got back on Friday, but technically Saturday in China so I'm very confuzzled with the whole time thing but all hyped up on sugary breakfast cereal like Ms Boyce after her coffee so please excuse the temporary madness.
But best of all; no brain block anymore so I can doodle some more without getting all stressed out with inner-magnolia-thunder. Hence I have stopped shouting at myself and can concentrate on being a calm and peaceful Buddha again. Yeah, I saw loads of Buddhas in Tibet (Buddhaland)! Yay! Well I was all happy and bouncy until I saw one on his mobile and it ruined the whole effect. Goddamn monks.
*pause* In a respectful way of course. *cough*

Anyway two weeks without the internet was pretty much hell, especially coming back on here and finding about a zillion updates and stuff; hope I haven't missed much. Tried to find an internet cafe and stuff but then realised that meant money, and, you know, going outside of the hotel so decided against it.
Believe it or not though, there is plenty to whine about, particularly the food which was (damn you Laura, I don't care if you thought it was fantastic and cultural) vomit worthy, especially being a vegetarian and everything. Living on rice for a couple of days was enough, then most of us went on a starvation thing until we got to Tibet and they gave us pizza. God, we are so uncultural...
Even worse than the food was the whole 'oh my god, foreigners' thing, which was bloody irritating; you would have thought people at least in Tiananmen Square would have seen a million foreigners before and not felt the urge to crowd round us and stare. Seriously; there was easily over a hundred Chinese people surrounding us with their cameras and mobiles out and all when we were having our photo taken. They actually got people to pose for pictures with them because we were freakishly abnormal to so many people. It took a lot of restrain not to just yell at them to fuck off after fifteen minutes of being stared and laughed at. Although, you know, we still did. ]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/9416473/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/9416473/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:14:52 PDT
Anyhoo, haven’t had much school the last couple of weeks; having work shadowing (i.e. writing on my laptop in the GPs room), Activities Week (bossing around a load of Year 7s and snotty Year 8 chavs – I was in my element), Founders Day (sleeping in the cathedral) and FD Fayre (sleeping in a classroom). Ooh, and yesterday we went on a Biology field trip. We trekked through woods and went pond-dipping. Pond-dipping. I am serious. Seventeen and pond-dipping with this über annoying, patronising woman who spent her time whinging that my group was too slow and asking Silpa if she knew what a frog was. God, I wanted to kill that stupid Hitler woman.

In the depths of my boredom, this quiz was kinda fun, so decided to do it after seeing it on so many Journal entries here on dA. Please note, it is a load of crap because I am totally un-emo and will not be labelled into a stupid social group like this, damn you!

How emo are you?

[ ]You hate the world.
[x]You hate society. Definitely not a people person
[x]You think vampires are cool. Who doesn’t?
[x]You write poetry. Albeit crappy poetry, occasionally
[ ]You have colored your hair black Halloween
[x]You wear black/blue eyeliner
[x]You write poetry that's not for school. I don’t actually remember ever writing any for school, I’d be way too embarrassed to give it in. Sort of the same thing with creative writing as well *shudder*. That stalker/murderer/schizo-psychopath piece was so unbelievably rubbish, even K’s headless horseman nonsense that she ripped off from Sleepy Hollow was better.
[x]You are freakishly obsessed with darkness. Not so much freakishly, but I just hate to be in the sun; it gives me headaches.
[ ]You think love is a waste of time.
[x]You've given up on the world Difficult; are we talking society or environment here? I haven’t given up on the actual world, on an ecological side of thing and to be honest don’t think I will, but in a way I’ve given up on people.

Total = 7

[ ]You've shopped at Hot Topic. Way to stingey to buy
[ ]You've spent over $100 at Hot Topic. haha
[x]You wear more bracelets than a Russian. Not all the time (at home or school), mostly when I’m out
[x]You own a dog collar, that's not for your dog. ^_^ Heh! A cute red one!
[/]You're extremely pale. Occasionally, but my arms and legs are always white; always wearing long sleeve/ trouser stuff
[ ]You are a member of a poetry site.
[x]Your screen name has been an oxymoron.
[x]You are an atheist or agnostic. It’s easiest to say this, but my beliefs are kinda mixed up
[ ]You don't believe in god.

Total = 4.5

[x]You have been referred to as scary. Two young girls ran from me. Actually screaming. It was very amusing, in my twisted way… hehe
[x]You have been referred to as demented. Always
[x]You have been referred to as weird.
[x]You have been known to hate teachers.
[x]You have been known to cause trouble. It’s not always my fault!
[x]Your hair has been dyed a color that was not natural.
[ ]You have at least one photoshopped picture on myspace. *growl* myspace… Hate the bloody thing…
[x]You think pictures look better in greyscale or sepia tone. Not all the time, of course, but it can look pretty cool with the right picture
[x]You are scared of yourself sometimes. One word. Paranoia

Total = 8

[x] Suicide has crossed your mind
[x] You have screamed before.
[x] You use big words that no one has ever heard before on occasion.
[ ] You've seen The Exorcist.
[ ] You liked The Exorcist.
[x] You've seen Saw.
[x]You liked Saw.
[x]You've done voodoo. Mwahaha. My clandestine obsession…
[x]You hate sports. Hate, hate, hate sports. Almost as much as courgette
[x]You dress up as the most morbid thing possible on Halloween. magnolia-thunder-corpse rules
[x]Halloween is one of your favorite holidays. As I say, an excuse to be macabre and not be called insane; perfecto
[x]You have an obsession with fire. To the point of being dangerous…
[x]You have only a couple of actual friends.
[/]You're not afraid of spiders. Some I’m fine about, other petrify me. It’s the legs that freak me out. I have a thing agai... ]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8871308/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8871308/ Thu, 25 May 2006 08:06:09 PDT ). I have no idea why but it is one of the funniest things I have ever seen on DArt. I actually was laughing. I was sitting on my own by my computer laughing like a loon. A very magnolia_thunder laugh. Insanity to the extreme. Now fly my pretties, fly and check it out. *growl*

Actually, wait, you may not go yet. It would be way too weird to leave a Journal entry and not have a whinge about something. Now let me see...
Ahah. Examinations; the bane of my life. Along with kryptonite, wardrobes and - wait. Note to self. Do not give away damaging secrets. How many evil villians has Superman destroyed due to that? Actually I have no idea because, well, Superman irritates me. What kind of prat dresses like that? Spiderman was way cooler.
Anyway, what does anyone else think about this godawful exam period we're going through now? Statistics was I have no idea, weird, but I don't know any other exams people have been having. Please feel free to unload your emotional baggage here.

:UPDATE: Okay, I'm going hysterical again. After scanning in 'Limes Times', I was just reading an article K wrote for 'Nistelrooy's News'. Ahem;

Yesterday afternoon, Stephen Gerrard had just scored an amazing goal in the Euro 2004 qualifying match against Holland, when he was pelted with rotten, dead fish from the angry Dutch fans. In the eighty-fourth minute, he was knocked on the head by an oversize haddock, and immediately fell unconscious. Gerrard was taken to Lime's Hospital, where he awoke 10 minutes after being taken in. He had this to say to our reporters:

"I'm just devastated that anyone could do this, we've just recently suffered the loss of David Beckham, who was a good friend of mine. The Dutch fans could at least show a bit of respect."

After speaking to our reporters, Gerrard complained of his head hurting. The doctors say he had a mild case of 'Cod Head'.

:UPDATE: Wooo! 666 pv! ]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8842424/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8842424/ Mon, 22 May 2006 08:15:53 PDT depressed I tell you, but drowning your mathematical sorrows in 'iced dessert' (i.e. frozen water flavoured mono-di-glyerides and carrageenan) is not the way to go. Why don't I just get pissed like normal people?

Maths was stupid so I've basically fucked up my chances of taking maths next year (DAMN - chemistry. Will this torture never end?! Well technically yes, but then I'll be shipped off to uni or exported to Iran or somewhere after being disowned. I expect the latter). Now only nine exams to go. Yay. Not even I can tell if I was being sarcastic.

So suicidal I can't even be bothered to draw.

"Lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
Its a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for lola"

*cries* WHY?! I haven't heard that song for ages, WHY does it have to be in my head when I am trying to wallow in self-pity?
If anyone else wants to rant/ cry/ scream about exams, please feel free to do so here. Just don't say you think they're OK.

:UPDATE: Actually one positive thing in this otherwise crappy week; Eurovision! A whole night of Euro-cheese amusement was very cheering-up-ish, I just can't decide whether I want to throw up or laugh when the contestants sing/ do whatever the hell they do. Lordi were great, I was shocked that they won and it wasn't even close. God, the shoes! ]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8794585/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8794585/ Wed, 17 May 2006 03:18:07 PDT Wednesday May 17, 2006, 11:04 PM
Okay, say it, I should be revising but *yawn*, can NOT be bothered at the moment. Still got 10 more exams to go! Ref. history is down though so that's a, um, good thing (you've probably got the idea of how thick I'm feeling right now) but which was pretty horrible so hey. No use crying over spilt something or rather. Unless it is something nice in which case you may.
Biology was alright I guess but I ran out of time after waffling too much. In case you haven't guessed by now; me waffle very much. Often about completely unrelated subjects. But, hey, it's fun.

Oooh, I was on TV on Saturday! Yay! You could see me looking really smart and copying Jav's answer on Ask the Audience of Who Wants to be a Millionnaire (Saturday)! Wooo Plus my compadres legs were behind the question-answering bloke and the Kidner/Tapley grope is pretty noticeable ; foooools. Jav and I on the other hand will have been talent spotted. Possibly.

btw, Happy Birthday Vardagaladhiel from Monday Hope it was good. *jealous seething* Otori Trilogy = sooo unfair! ]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8738435/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8738435/ Thu, 11 May 2006 10:19:12 PDT Thursday May 11, 2006, 5:21 PM
Alas, I have nothing interesting to report.

I've been having this really annoying mental block for the last week (plus I was too lazy to plug in the modem to go on here) so actually done nothing for ages. Well a week.
Oh well, this is a good chance for me to moan pointlessly like usual, so I would like to let down the (probably only) person who reads this and thinks 'oooh. i also am a grumpy loner person who wants to rant about pointless things. we can so relate'. Oh, wait. That's me isn't it?
Is there anyone out there who is against all this hot weather we're having in England at the moment? My insane family can just think about sunbathing and choc-ices, and I hate it! -

For fucks sake, I DO NOT WANT TO GO AND SIT IN THE BLOODY SUN FOR FIVE MINUTES! That is so the wrong bloody thing my mother could tell me at exactly this point in time! *self combusts*

Anyway as I was going to say, before I was interupted, I wouldn't mind the choc-ices (gosh, we haven't had them for years), but it's the pointless sitting in the sun. Headaches and stroppiness is inevitable.

Stress is becoming, well, stressful around about now too, as we've got exams starting next week (history on Monday!) and like usual I'm alternating between manic "have you got a revision planner?! HAVE YOU GOT A REVISION PLANNER?!" and "...". I hate this time. I also hate stupid booklets about how to revise. Please. Does patronising mean anything to teachers? I don't seriously think that not eating carbohydrates after 5'o'clock or having a bath is going to help us pass our AS exams.

On a slightly happier note though, I've started learning Chinese again (did some last year but put it on hold 'cos I knew I'd get mixed up when learning Japanese at the same time!) which is fun. Apart from the annoying woman ('now we are going to listen to vowel sounds' *growl*) who is highly irritating.

Plus loads of teachers at school are off for a trip so I've been having tons of frees so yay. But they have been boring. And worrying. Kex says I suffer from pretty much all the symptoms of various mental diseases and scarily, I actually sort of did. But she doesn't know that And she never will... ]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8639713/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8639713/ Mon, 01 May 2006 09:46:44 PDT Monday May 01, 2006, 5:35 PM

Yay, 500 pageviews! (s random people, then gets a grip)
Ahem. Thanks to those pageviewing people anyway ! *awkward cough* Um, well that's pretty much all I have to say. Well then, that's also a waste of a journal entry, isn't it? OK then. So, here's what I'm doing at the moment;

• Miguel and Tulio from The Road to Eldorado (lineart finished and Tulio half coloured, but I've lost that pencil so am pretty much stuffed until I clear my room and find it so, HA, that's never gonna happen!)


• Semi chibi Farah from Prince of Persia (Pretty much 95% done)


• Aaron and Ryu (come to think of it, I've finished the drawing but can't be bothered to ink or colour, so this should be up very soon)


• Imogen (o_O A future version... Surprisingly different actually and, *le gasp*, pregnant! Sort of finished, but in a Scraps way)


• Samara from The Ring (cartoon - started but needs a lot of editing before I can think of inking)


• Moi! (for a DevID, sort of anime style, sort of started)

]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8621238/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8621238/ Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:30:15 PDT Saturday April 29, 2006, 8:21 PM

*twitches* No. Am not okay. My 'schnookums' has been cavorting around with half a rabbit. He may have eaten the other half for all I know. And I let him cuddle up to me in bed. He dribbles on me.

Yes, outside (not even in the field but in the garden-ish part) is what used to be a bunny rabbit but is now a head with a spine poking out and stuff around it. Even I thought it was disgusting, and I'm the sort of person who studies what happens to a dead fox if you leave it over a few months. Or has watched a post mortem.
Maybe the close proximity of my own (live) rabbit didn't exactly help.

Do you think there's such thing as a vegetarian cat? A way of brain-washing Felix, like they do in Wallace and Gromit; The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?

Oh here we go again. More bloody rabbits.

]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8610935/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8610935/ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:06:49 PDT Friday April 28, 2006, 6:50 PM

*shudder* I feel really weird; everything aches and my stomach hurts and I feel cold, headache-y, funny nose-y and I'm cold. I also feel really whiney.
Actually I feel suprisingly better having a whinge. Oh, also I feel all horrid and unclean and twitchy since I spilt glucose on myself. Oh yeah. Horrible day. Not that I care, but I completely fucked up my biology practical mock. Imagine an experiment were everything goes terribly, catastrophically wrong? Got it? Mine was worse.
It's my fault.

I left my lucky koala at home.

Damned stupid brain.
The worst thing was dropping a test tube full of blue stuff, not just needing it for the entire paper, not being able to redo it and the fact that it was both sticky and blue, but I just managed to drop it onto my paper. Now that too is both sticky and blue.
Seriously, I managed to do everything wrong. I actually managed to forget to label my test tubes before boiling them and hence could not distinguish what the results meant. Which was the point of the test. Stupid biology.

Also everything is being annoying because I'm in a stroppy mood. This fucking headache is doing my head in. Anyway, I've got so many pictures half finished and just can't get round to doing them and it's really irritating. You know when pictures get to that point where you've practically done it, but just have to do all the careful, stupid stuff like finishing colouring an outfit or shading in a bloody Snape arm! I just can't be bothered.

• BB Mountain fanart/ poster


• Tulio and Miguel from 'The Road to El Dorado'


• Severus Snape (pencil)


• Sevi again in colour because I hate the crappy pencil piece


• That stupid winged woman


• Anatomy scraps/ sketches


• Among other stupid things

It's actually really annoying, 'cos I normally just start something then get glued to it and forget to live. Well, breathing's a sort of automatic thing thankfully.

Well that was a good ramble.

]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8599627/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8599627/ Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:30:29 PDT Thursday April 27, 2006, 4:06 PM
Ack, for some reason, it seems as though I've been subscribed?! I don't remember doing that! Bloody hell, have I accidently given out loads of credit card details or something mad and magnolia_thunder-like by mistake?! Shit! SO dead if I did!
Anyway, I have to admit, the perks of this are quite cool; I like the added Journal whatsits and the whole big icons for when watched members post a new piece of art. Cooool.
But stress! Panic! Insane urge to roll on the floor and eat cheese! Even though the floor is probably crawling with germs where people have walked on it and cheese is both unhealthy and makes me sick if I eat too much of it, I don't bloody care! STRESS!

I hate my life.

But this is cool. Sehr cool.

Ooooh, only thing I can think of is if someone subscribed for me? I can't see that happening though. Hmmmm. Website glitch? ]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8379738/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8379738/ Thu, 06 Apr 2006 02:07:30 PDT Thursday April 06, 2006, 9:56 AM
*groan* I feel dead to the world; got in really late from tramping round London all day yesterday with a few of my compadres, which was seriously good fun. I haven't had that much fun catching so many underground tubes and getting lost. Camden was great, so fun to wander round there, if only I had more money! I have never seen so many things I wanted to get! There were these most adorable Tuk Kitty-Cat shoes, I couldn't decide which were nicer; the red or black that I fell in love with, the cutest Nightmare Before Christmas Bags, so many Hello Kitty things (MEEP!) or this amazing oriental top with the most amazing huge bow on it kinda like an obi. Ooooh, I'm in love with Camden...
It was kinda boring going round Oxford street though (until I insisted we went to Starbucks; ooooh, Caramel Frappuchino; be still my beating heart) and we didn't get much time at all in ChinaTown (I think we were wandering the back-alleys instead though!).
'Who Wants to be a Millionaire was cool, but we had to stand outside the gates for, like, 45 minutes to make sure we got in but whatever. Ask the Audience! Woooo! Jav and I were planning to get talentspotted, but we're sure the audition invites have just got lost in the post...
Had my own personal fun completely creeping out the others on the trains back at night (I really have watched too many horror movies) and freaked Kayleigh out completely on the King's Cross underground. Classic.


Rules : The 1st player of this "game" starts with the topic "6 weird habits/things about yourself" and people who get tagged need to write a journal about their 6 weird habits/things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "you are tagged" in their devpage comments and tell them to read yours....

Yaha, I was tagged by ~Master-Spider (grrr, one day I will have my revenge...).

"Six weird habits/things about myself"
1) My best friends are actually a cat and an inanimate object. Is that odd?
2) I am sure I have a very minor case of OCD, which does confuse/ slightly worry my friends. I have this thing about cleanliness and it isn't great. They also believe I am 'mentally unbalanced' and was asked, perfectly seriously, yesterday whether I am schizophrenic. Thanks for having faith in my weirdness.
3) My compadres do actually believe I am psychopathic and indeed have tried to kill one of them before. Not seriously I hope, but I can scare them a lot. Mwahahaha.
4) (pssst, keep this totally secret) I think Richard Hammond is adorable!
5) This is really difficult. Um, I suppose it's odd that everyone picks up when I'm pissed off, or in a good mood, or minor emotions like that, but never when it's serious. I find that really odd.
6) Oooh, last one. I cried when the Spice Girls split up? Nah, every SG fan did. Er, I still sort of have my childhood phobia of wardrobes. Always had it.

So ta-da. That was really difficult just getting to number 3) actually. Anyway, who shall I have my evil revenge on?

I will tag:
[link] Kjamis
[link] Shether
[link] Kakutasu
[link] My chatting buddy (sorry, I needed people to send this to )

Sorry you two, I'm a sad person who has very few friends!
[link] Matsurus
and [link] TemperanceLupin ]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8330843/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/8330843/ Sun, 02 Apr 2006 04:36:32 PDT Sunday April 02, 2006, 11:32 AM
So, been busy already today doodling (Cosmo and Wanda), yesterday too (Maiko and pointless sketches), I seriously think I am going to do absolutely nothing this holiday because once I start drawing, I don't stop for aaaaages. Hayumph. Why is that bloody window open? Why do I always freeze my arse off in this room? I'll tell you why. My mother keeps leaving the windows open. Why the hell does she complain about the cold then? Mad woman. Now I know where I get it from.
Also El Buffo (Buffy) the dim-witted dog of my cousins in coming today for three weeks (seriously, what is the point in having a dog if one person has to do all the dog related stuff, then make her have a 'holiday' and her 'arrr, combine harvester' cousins for 'walkies'. Good question). Nah, I don't mind, I like having her. She's a more faithful lap-dog, Felix. You only follow me round when you've eaten all your chicken nibbles, you traitor.

Saturday April 01, 2006, 3:31 PM
Yep. I have done nothing alright. Did my Aaron/Ryu picture, but put it up despite the crapness. My new year's (starting today) resolution. Put up my stuff. Oh and finish my bloody story! I am so lazy, I never finish anything *cheesy grin*. God, I love cheesy grinning. Very liberating.
I seriously have done nothing for a whole week now, apart from watching 'Saw' last night, which was fun. I do like amputated limbs. Very enjoyable to see on TV. Pity I knew about the ending, but there's enough shock value through the film to enjoy it. magnolia says 'go see'.
"He doesn't want us to cut through our chains! He wants us to cut through our feet!" mwahahaha


Saturday April 01, 2006, 7:30 AM
Listening to: Computer whirr
Reading: Maus - Art Spielgleman (okay, okay, this is a comic, but there are words, fool)
Feeling: Starting to lose the feeling in my fingers
Anyway, yay! First day of the, hmmm, 2 and a half week holitag! Yay for holitags! Oooh, and the tickets for 'WWTBAM' came yesterday so even more girly yays Isn't it nice to think; 'No work. No teachers. What could be better?'. Well, okay I could be doing something better, but hey, I don't want to ruin that holiday feeling Oh bums. I actually could be doing something with my life. I could be going to London to visit the Chinese exhibition at one of the galleries. Instead I am cold by the computer, feeling happy because of some 'holiday'. IN which I will do nothing, meet no-one and actually be happy to go back to school. Oh my bloody god. NOOOO! I will actually want to go back to school! *panics*


*faints*


Wednesday March 22, 2006, 5:15 PM
Myargh, today's been bizarre, but I'm not sure why. I've been in a really bitchy mood as well, but not in a nasty way, more gossip-starved. Hayumph. Anyway, listening to the Chigaco soundtrack for no apparent reason, but that film is so superfantabuloso.
PRINCE OF PERSIA CAME LAST THURSDAY! YAY! I bought the Sands of Time off Ebay and I played non-stop. My eyes were so red by Sunday morning when I finished That game is fucking amazing; play it if you haven't! Woop! Near one of the top GC games I've played (although of course nothing can ever beat TLOZ - OOT I lurve Link to smithereens) and the cinematic sequences are so mindblowingly fantabulous; the Prince is so CUTE!
"Every guy is a snot. Every girl is a twat. Holy shit (holy shit). What a shame (what a shame). What became of claaaaaaass." It's a shame they didn't put that in, I like that song.
You know when you just write randomness, even more than usual, because you get carried away with typing and that monotonous clicking of the typingness starts to brainwash your scrambled brain and your feet are cold?
So do I.


Saturday March 04, 2006, 2:57 PM
Bloody hell, I haven't written here for aaages. Harumph. I've been putting up a couple of my pictures and stuff today, but I can't scan anything else in 'cos the scanner seems to have gone kaput. What a cute word. Anyway, time to do what I do on all my accounts! :

*drum roll*
DadadaDAAAA - magnolia's Random lists of Random things! Yay for Randomness!
1) Yesterday was Miranda Richardson's birthday! Hooray for English-ness!
2) I have a phobia of long-legged spiders
3) My favouritest film of 2005 was Brokeback Mountain
4) Donnie Darko was filmed in 28 days; the time span of the movie itself (I love<... ]]> ~magnolia-thunder http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/2648222/ http://magnolia-thunder.deviantart.com/journal/2648222/ Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:33:08 PST Sunday Jun 13, 2004, 3:58 AM
OK, so hi, this is my first day here properly trying this site out and everything. Well actually it was bugging me all night what should I do with my sketches and drawings and stuff, they're all totally getting squished in a backpack somewhere or trodden on by my cat (I so have to stop him coming on my bed all the time). And well I thought of this site. I've checked out other people's art on this site forever and totally decided (during my shower) I needed to start up here. Not only can people laugh at my terrible drawing and stupid sense on humour but I can't get all those horrible cat prints across my art or cat food spat on it! So yay! I'm probably gonna be here for the next two hours trying to work out where my art actually goes (somehow I can never work these websites, I think there's a conspiracy to like confuzzle me or something) but it should be cool. Well actually frustrating but it should be um scintillating to be here. I hope.


Sun Jun 27, 2004, 9:34 AM
OK, so I'm back. Yes, I know it seems thick and totally pointless to write more in this journal entry but by doing this then I can keep all my entries like more together and readable. Yet it will not be readable. Because I make no sense. Yes, I declare I am a moron. Anyway, let's get on.
So, everything is up and running here, got my sketches up here and (wait for it) no cat food! Anyway I'm gonna be working on a new drawing for a contest. Oh and doing the web page as well. Life is stressful. ]]> ~magnolia-thunder