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Who found the new Crowded House album on sale for $12.48 at Dick Smith yesterday?
Yeah, that's right.
*rocks out*
I'd be updating more, but compared to everyone else's whirlwinds of new courses and moving to uni, my life is exceedingly uneventful at the moment. Nobody really wants to hear, oh, hey, I cleaned a shower with a toothbrush and it was just about as fun as prison movies make it look! And you definitely don't want to hear about the perception lab report that I am writing up, because it's so dull that I can't do more than 15 minutes work on it before I drift off and watch an episode of Ouran or prod at my![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
hpmugglestudies fic in an optimistic but futile fashion.
I told my mother about the David Tennant and Patrick Stewart in Hamlet thing, and for ten glorious and irresponsible minutes we fantasised about shelling out for Australia-UK flights (so. expensive.) just for the chance to see it.
And then, you know, we woke up.
ETA:
Oh, well, occasionally the tedium is broken by conversations like this one:
[11:28] aliasartemisia: we will collectively be the english kafka
[11:28] aliasartemisia: we will build a replica of kafka's house
[11:29] schiarire: no we won't. well, you and i would.
[11:29] aliasartemisia: we will import the original
[11:29] aliasartemisia: brick by brick
[11:29] schiarire: with our english pounds!!
[11:29] aliasartemisia: yes
[11:29] ravelfic: england!
[11:29] aliasartemisia: because we will be paid in pounds
[11:29] schiarire: pauvre kafka
[11:29] aliasartemisia: and in tea and jacket potatoes
[11:29] Fahye Dielle: WEST END, HOLLY
[11:29] aliasartemisia: kafka is not camille
[11:29] ravelfic: :)
[11:29] schiarire: no. his personal life is too ... dull
[11:29] Fahye Dielle: this is a fantastic plan
[11:29] ravelfic: tag
[11:29] schiarire: I don't really want to live in england...
[11:29] ravelfic: need teeeeeea
[11:29] ravelfic: i do!
[11:29] Fahye Dielle: heathen californian
[11:29] aliasartemisia: nevertheless you will be forced to live in england
[11:30] schiarire: I just don't want to live anywhere longer than 2-4 years.
[11:30] aliasartemisia: you will get used to the rain
[11:30] aliasartemisia: you can move to ireland every two years
[11:30] aliasartemisia: and then move back.
[11:30] schiarire: that's english speaking!
[11:30] aliasartemisia: or go on safari
[11:30] schiarire: ok, if I can go on safari
[11:30] schiarire: we're on. and if we live in kafka's house
[11:30] aliasartemisia: but you have to come back to dear old england
[11:30] schiarire: you can lure me with chocolate
[11:30] aliasartemisia: what if we live in a police box
[11:30] schiarire: the chocolate is better than on safari
[11:30] schiarire: only if it's bigger on the inside
[11:30] Fahye Dielle: well, I plan on travelling to dusty countries sometimes
[11:30] schiarire: or we will be very cramped
[11:31] schiarire: where will we put our laptops?
[11:31] aliasartemisia: we will live sparely
[11:31] aliasartemisia: maybe we'll live in a very narrow house painted to look like a police box
[11:31] aliasartemisia: that would be kafka-esque
[11:31] aliasartemisia: in a way.
[11:31] Fahye Dielle: *vetoes asceticism*
[11:31] aliasartemisia: fahye can have an expandable wardrobe
[11:31] aliasartemisia: filled with dresses in different shades of blue
[11:31] schiarire: on the other side is the yeerk lair...
[11:31] Fahye Dielle: thank you
[11:31] aliasartemisia: no, that is the refrigerator
[11:31] Fahye Dielle: our tea collection must be vast
[11:31] schiarire: oh, sorry
[11:32] aliasartemisia: the yeerk lair is in the fridge
[11:32] aliasartemisia: you only need one kind of tea and that is TEA!
[11:32] aliasartemisia: i am the tea tyrant.
[11:32] ravelfic: my tea collection is already vast!
[11:32] Fahye Dielle: mine too
[11:32] aliasartemisia: *cracks the tea whip*
[11:32] Fahye Dielle: *ignores*
[11:32] ravelfic: ...never mind that i am drinking PG Tips tea as I sit here
[11:32] Fahye Dielle: MANY TEAS
[11:32] ravelfic: there is TONS
[11:32] aliasartemisia: that is the correct kind of tea!
[11:32] aliasartemisia: you win!
[11:32] ravelfic: \o/
[11:33] aliasartemisia: bonus points!
[11:33] ravelfic: but there are others!
[11:33] Fahye Dielle: I refuse to live anywhere that does not come with earl grey, irish breakfast & blackcurrant tea
[11:33] Fahye Dielle: AT LEAST
[11:33] ravelfic: except i can never run out of pg tips
[11:33] ravelfic: i get very cranky
[11:33] aliasartemisia: me too
[11:33] aliasartemisia: i love pg tips
[11:33] schiarire: *smuggles north african tea into the house*
[11:33] aliasartemisia: no other tea is as good
[11:33] Fahye Dielle: ceylon and jasmine and green needed too
[11:33] ravelfic: mmmmm
[11:33] aliasartemisia: ji is cheating!
[11:33] aliasartemisia: cheatersssss
[11:33] aliasartemisia: traitorsssss
[11:33] schiarire: I NEEDS IT.
[11:33] ravelfic: i have some moroccan mint, Ji?
[11:33] Fahye Dielle: I am intrigued and want to try it
[11:34] schiarire: HOLLY KNOWS!
[11:34] Fahye Dielle: moroccan mint green = ftw
[11:34] schiarire: see??
[11:34] ravelfic: teeeeeeeaaaaaaaa
[11:34] schiarire: I am leading the tea revolution
[11:34] ravelfic: *implodes*
[11:34] aliasartemisia: i am the tea robespierre
[11:34] schiarire: *builds barricade of silver trays*
[11:34] aliasartemisia: tea robespierre disapproves of your girondin innovations
[11:34] schiarire: I have to be eliminated...for the public good
[11:34] Fahye Dielle: NO
[11:34] aliasartemisia: exactly
[11:35] aliasartemisia: i will guillotine your tea
[11:35] Fahye Dielle: the people need tea
[11:35] schiarire: *runs away to england?*
[11:35] schiarire: OH WAIT
[11:35] aliasartemisia: your tea is the tea of the aristocrats
[11:35] schiarire: TEA is the tea of the aristocrats!!
[11:35] aliasartemisia: you have just warped yourself into a logical maze!
[11:35] Fahye Dielle: EXACTLY
[11:35] aliasartemisia: how wrong you are!!!
[11:35] schiarire: TEA is the tea of colonial imperialism.
[11:35] schiarire: and oppression
[11:35] schiarire: of the rousseauian PEOPLE
[11:35] ravelfic: you have never seen sainsbury's brown label tea...
[11:36] ravelfic: that is what the rats drink
[11:36] aliasartemisia: the rousseauian PEOPLE will be put to work on the tea plantations
[11:36] schiarire: you should have said the rousseau quote about forcing them to be free
[11:36] Fahye Dielle: I am smuggling tea out of the country
[11:36] aliasartemisia: where they will learn to love the TEA
[11:36] schiarire: well you just did.
[11:36] Fahye Dielle: I am the scarlet pimpernel of tea
[11:36] schiarire: omg
[11:36] schiarire: you posh bastard.
[11:36] aliasartemisia: fahye will be caught and guillotined like the aristo she is
[11:36] Fahye Dielle: NEVER!
[11:36] aliasartemisia: she will be rehabilitated
[11:36] schiarire: now no one else is in your house!!
[11:36] schiarire: your house is empty and lonely
[11:36] Fahye Dielle: not even tea to console you
[11:37] schiarire: you will have to attempt possible suicide and/or be shot by a guard ...
[11:37] Fahye Dielle: meanwhile, in ENGLAND
[11:37] aliasartemisia: people are drinking the correct tea
[11:37] Fahye Dielle: wait, no, we'll have to reverse it
[11:37] ravelfic: *gets tissues*
[11:37] Fahye Dielle: meanwhile, we have all escaped to FRANCE
[11:37] Fahye Dielle: with our tea
[11:37] schiarire: I am the tea wellington??
[11:37] Fahye Dielle: but nobody appreciates it
[11:38] aliasartemisia: the french turn up their noses at your aristocratic tea
[11:38] Fahye Dielle: ICI ON PREFERE LE CAFE *snoots*
[11:38] ravelfic: :O
[11:39] schiarire: hochnäsigkeit!!
[11:39] Fahye Dielle: no fair pulling deutsch
[11:39] schiarire: it means ...
[11:39] schiarire: hoch = high
[11:39] schiarire: nase = nose
[11:39] schiarire: high nosed ness
[11:39] schiarire: snobbery
[11:39] Fahye Dielle: I like
Yeah, that's right.
*rocks out*
I'd be updating more, but compared to everyone else's whirlwinds of new courses and moving to uni, my life is exceedingly uneventful at the moment. Nobody really wants to hear, oh, hey, I cleaned a shower with a toothbrush and it was just about as fun as prison movies make it look! And you definitely don't want to hear about the perception lab report that I am writing up, because it's so dull that I can't do more than 15 minutes work on it before I drift off and watch an episode of Ouran or prod at my
hpmugglestudies fic in an optimistic but futile fashion.I told my mother about the David Tennant and Patrick Stewart in Hamlet thing, and for ten glorious and irresponsible minutes we fantasised about shelling out for Australia-UK flights (so. expensive.) just for the chance to see it.
And then, you know, we woke up.
ETA:
Oh, well, occasionally the tedium is broken by conversations like this one:
[11:28] aliasartemisia: we will collectively be the english kafka
[11:28] aliasartemisia: we will build a replica of kafka's house
[11:29] schiarire: no we won't. well, you and i would.
[11:29] aliasartemisia: we will import the original
[11:29] aliasartemisia: brick by brick
[11:29] schiarire: with our english pounds!!
[11:29] aliasartemisia: yes
[11:29] ravelfic: england!
[11:29] aliasartemisia: because we will be paid in pounds
[11:29] schiarire: pauvre kafka
[11:29] aliasartemisia: and in tea and jacket potatoes
[11:29] Fahye Dielle: WEST END, HOLLY
[11:29] aliasartemisia: kafka is not camille
[11:29] ravelfic: :)
[11:29] schiarire: no. his personal life is too ... dull
[11:29] Fahye Dielle: this is a fantastic plan
[11:29] ravelfic: tag
[11:29] schiarire: I don't really want to live in england...
[11:29] ravelfic: need teeeeeea
[11:29] ravelfic: i do!
[11:29] Fahye Dielle: heathen californian
[11:29] aliasartemisia: nevertheless you will be forced to live in england
[11:30] schiarire: I just don't want to live anywhere longer than 2-4 years.
[11:30] aliasartemisia: you will get used to the rain
[11:30] aliasartemisia: you can move to ireland every two years
[11:30] aliasartemisia: and then move back.
[11:30] schiarire: that's english speaking!
[11:30] aliasartemisia: or go on safari
[11:30] schiarire: ok, if I can go on safari
[11:30] schiarire: we're on. and if we live in kafka's house
[11:30] aliasartemisia: but you have to come back to dear old england
[11:30] schiarire: you can lure me with chocolate
[11:30] aliasartemisia: what if we live in a police box
[11:30] schiarire: the chocolate is better than on safari
[11:30] schiarire: only if it's bigger on the inside
[11:30] Fahye Dielle: well, I plan on travelling to dusty countries sometimes
[11:30] schiarire: or we will be very cramped
[11:31] schiarire: where will we put our laptops?
[11:31] aliasartemisia: we will live sparely
[11:31] aliasartemisia: maybe we'll live in a very narrow house painted to look like a police box
[11:31] aliasartemisia: that would be kafka-esque
[11:31] aliasartemisia: in a way.
[11:31] Fahye Dielle: *vetoes asceticism*
[11:31] aliasartemisia: fahye can have an expandable wardrobe
[11:31] aliasartemisia: filled with dresses in different shades of blue
[11:31] schiarire: on the other side is the yeerk lair...
[11:31] Fahye Dielle: thank you
[11:31] aliasartemisia: no, that is the refrigerator
[11:31] Fahye Dielle: our tea collection must be vast
[11:31] schiarire: oh, sorry
[11:32] aliasartemisia: the yeerk lair is in the fridge
[11:32] aliasartemisia: you only need one kind of tea and that is TEA!
[11:32] aliasartemisia: i am the tea tyrant.
[11:32] ravelfic: my tea collection is already vast!
[11:32] Fahye Dielle: mine too
[11:32] aliasartemisia: *cracks the tea whip*
[11:32] Fahye Dielle: *ignores*
[11:32] ravelfic: ...never mind that i am drinking PG Tips tea as I sit here
[11:32] Fahye Dielle: MANY TEAS
[11:32] ravelfic: there is TONS
[11:32] aliasartemisia: that is the correct kind of tea!
[11:32] aliasartemisia: you win!
[11:32] ravelfic: \o/
[11:33] aliasartemisia: bonus points!
[11:33] ravelfic: but there are others!
[11:33] Fahye Dielle: I refuse to live anywhere that does not come with earl grey, irish breakfast & blackcurrant tea
[11:33] Fahye Dielle: AT LEAST
[11:33] ravelfic: except i can never run out of pg tips
[11:33] ravelfic: i get very cranky
[11:33] aliasartemisia: me too
[11:33] aliasartemisia: i love pg tips
[11:33] schiarire: *smuggles north african tea into the house*
[11:33] aliasartemisia: no other tea is as good
[11:33] Fahye Dielle: ceylon and jasmine and green needed too
[11:33] ravelfic: mmmmm
[11:33] aliasartemisia: ji is cheating!
[11:33] aliasartemisia: cheatersssss
[11:33] aliasartemisia: traitorsssss
[11:33] schiarire: I NEEDS IT.
[11:33] ravelfic: i have some moroccan mint, Ji?
[11:33] Fahye Dielle: I am intrigued and want to try it
[11:34] schiarire: HOLLY KNOWS!
[11:34] Fahye Dielle: moroccan mint green = ftw
[11:34] schiarire: see??
[11:34] ravelfic: teeeeeeeaaaaaaaa
[11:34] schiarire: I am leading the tea revolution
[11:34] ravelfic: *implodes*
[11:34] aliasartemisia: i am the tea robespierre
[11:34] schiarire: *builds barricade of silver trays*
[11:34] aliasartemisia: tea robespierre disapproves of your girondin innovations
[11:34] schiarire: I have to be eliminated...for the public good
[11:34] Fahye Dielle: NO
[11:34] aliasartemisia: exactly
[11:35] aliasartemisia: i will guillotine your tea
[11:35] Fahye Dielle: the people need tea
[11:35] schiarire: *runs away to england?*
[11:35] schiarire: OH WAIT
[11:35] aliasartemisia: your tea is the tea of the aristocrats
[11:35] schiarire: TEA is the tea of the aristocrats!!
[11:35] aliasartemisia: you have just warped yourself into a logical maze!
[11:35] Fahye Dielle: EXACTLY
[11:35] aliasartemisia: how wrong you are!!!
[11:35] schiarire: TEA is the tea of colonial imperialism.
[11:35] schiarire: and oppression
[11:35] schiarire: of the rousseauian PEOPLE
[11:35] ravelfic: you have never seen sainsbury's brown label tea...
[11:36] ravelfic: that is what the rats drink
[11:36] aliasartemisia: the rousseauian PEOPLE will be put to work on the tea plantations
[11:36] schiarire: you should have said the rousseau quote about forcing them to be free
[11:36] Fahye Dielle: I am smuggling tea out of the country
[11:36] aliasartemisia: where they will learn to love the TEA
[11:36] schiarire: well you just did.
[11:36] Fahye Dielle: I am the scarlet pimpernel of tea
[11:36] schiarire: omg
[11:36] schiarire: you posh bastard.
[11:36] aliasartemisia: fahye will be caught and guillotined like the aristo she is
[11:36] Fahye Dielle: NEVER!
[11:36] aliasartemisia: she will be rehabilitated
[11:36] schiarire: now no one else is in your house!!
[11:36] schiarire: your house is empty and lonely
[11:36] Fahye Dielle: not even tea to console you
[11:37] schiarire: you will have to attempt possible suicide and/or be shot by a guard ...
[11:37] Fahye Dielle: meanwhile, in ENGLAND
[11:37] aliasartemisia: people are drinking the correct tea
[11:37] Fahye Dielle: wait, no, we'll have to reverse it
[11:37] ravelfic: *gets tissues*
[11:37] Fahye Dielle: meanwhile, we have all escaped to FRANCE
[11:37] Fahye Dielle: with our tea
[11:37] schiarire: I am the tea wellington??
[11:37] Fahye Dielle: but nobody appreciates it
[11:38] aliasartemisia: the french turn up their noses at your aristocratic tea
[11:38] Fahye Dielle: ICI ON PREFERE LE CAFE *snoots*
[11:38] ravelfic: :O
[11:39] schiarire: hochnäsigkeit!!
[11:39] Fahye Dielle: no fair pulling deutsch
[11:39] schiarire: it means ...
[11:39] schiarire: hoch = high
[11:39] schiarire: nase = nose
[11:39] schiarire: high nosed ness
[11:39] schiarire: snobbery
[11:39] Fahye Dielle: I like
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Question about "Ars gratia artis"
The point is... ;) I was wondering if you mind if I translate this stroy and put on Polish forum. I think it's really good piece and more people should now it.
Could you answer me at tiraventi@o2.pl ?
Best regards
videmo
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*makes tea*
NO I AM NOT SAYING WHICH ONE. :D
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*stows away in your expandable wardrobe*