..about what I've been doing and thinking about as of lately, which is mostly school but also some other fun stuff.

1) I've been at a youth-club today and saw some bands. There was really only one band I went to see, whose members I know and are acquainted with. They impressed me (not that I didn't know they were good, I had seen them before but their vocalist was sick so it was more of a side-project, not like this performance at all) but the genre they play isn't my kind of thing. Still pretty cool, though, and I got to meet friends I hadn't seen in a while.

2) Hall-o-ween. It's not really a big holiday over here, which sucks arseballs. I mean, how can you pass on a holiday for dressing up, seeing scary movies and free candy?
Anyway. I arranged this thing at my granddad's place, of all places, haha. About half of the class came, and that wasn't as many as I'd hoped for, but some people did already have plans, which is understandable. Some dressed up, some didn't (I was Pinky the Pirate), but all came in pretty high spirits. We watched The Hills Have Eyes 2. Was sort of scary when we were watching, but it didn't really give that creepy feeling afterwards that good horror movies do. We also played some Spin the Bottle, but with relatively un-dramatic challenges. All was good fun, basically. I'm aiming at having a similar thing on a day when everyone can come, cause the persons I'd most wished for weren't there.

3) Oasis are coming here in January, so me and bokhylle are skipping the first class and maybe the second to get in line for tickets. Look at that; I'm consciously skipping school. Eeek, I feel so torn about it.

4) About school: I'm doing pretty well in the subjects I've gotten feedback on so far, which makes me happy. I still have to work on Maths a bit more, but my teacher has said that he hopes I'll do well enough to get the grade he feels I deserve. Not happy with my atm grade in Norwegian, but it's a three year subject so I'm not too concerned about it.

5) If the world could vote. Click the link and throw in your vote for the US presidential candidate you would vote for. Personally, I'm rooting for Obama. I really want to stay up and watch the election on the 4th, like I did in 2004. I remember being really pissed off at humanity when Kerry didn't win, haha, and I wasn't really aware of things as much as I am now. It's funny to think that that was 4 years ago. Really. I remember always thinking Kerry was named Kennedy, for some reason.

6) I wish I had the time to do NaNoWriMo. I have a lot of ideas swirling around my head, but I never get any further than a page before I stop writing because I need to go and do something else. Bleh.

7) My atm favourite song that I think everyone should hear. The band is the same as Slaves To Gravity, under their former name The*Ga*Ga*s. They were the warm up act for Goo Goo Dolls when I saw 'em. I gotta say, they're a relief and a contrast to todays many bad music scenes.

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8) OMG SOON CHRISTMAS! We have snow here, had it for two days. Don't think it'll last, though. It's usually like this; snows for a couple of days, then the snow melts and there is no more snow until mid-January. I'm sincerely hoping for a white Christmas, but I'll just have to wait and see.

AND A HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO nokomedandrea. I can't believe I forgot to add that in the first post, so you get one of your own.

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Happy 16th birthday to bokhylle!

ily fugface ♥

1. My Russian teacher is possibly the coolest teacher I have ever ever ever had.
2. I still like my class..
3. .. but I feel really stupid, and it's heartbreaking. I've always been good at school, now what do I do? I'm afraid to get bad grades, but I'm more afraid of feeling this. It's not a feeling I'm used to, it's hurting me, I can feel it like a heartache. I'm afraid it'll end up with me doing something stupid.

[edit] Fuck Marilyn Manson and his music for making me cry. *goes to silently dissolve in a corner*

[edit #2] I think I need to talk to some of my friends, but it's so trivial, it's not really a problem. I shouldn't be having issues with this, I love my school. I don't want to bother them with this. Tiril's gonna call me in 15 minutes or so, since we haven't spoken face-to-face in three or four days. I don't want her to hear I've cried. I need to get a hold of myself.

I feel really lonely.

[edit #3] Goo Goo Dolls are magic - I put on some and they, if not cheer me up, at least work as a tranquilizer.

I'm leaving for Iceland today, coming back the 7th. Drat everything in this world for me losing my camera. I might steal some space from my sister, though, so I can post some pictures. Dammit, I haven't done ANY of the concert posts either. It's not like a whole lot of people care, but I like having it written down so I can go back and read things over.

Anyway. I haven't been doing much lately besides lurking around with my friends, both old and new. And I think I'm finally over that damned crush on Adrian, yay! This is something that is defintitely worth celebrating. I still love him, but in a completely different way. It's so relieving :D
Also, there's this guy who's expressing interest in me, but I'm not sure if I'm really that into him. I mean, he's a nice guy, funny and sweet (he's even in a band) but I just don't have those feelings for him. I love the feeling of being validated but I want to keep my options open too, in case there are any nice guys at my new school.

About that: I was accepted to the school I wanted! YAY! It's called Oslo katedralskole, and is widely known as the best school in Oslo. Henrik Wergeland, Edvard Munch, Jostein Gaarder and our Prime Minister, amongst others, have attended this school. I have one of my definitely better friends there (namely nokomedandrea. Babe, expect a snuggleglomp first day of school), and bokhylle is most likely going to go there with me too. :D I'm so excited, I've met two or three others who go to this school already this summer, and they are literally fabulous. I can't wait for the 18th.

And, in case you didn't notice, I've changed my icons. I have yet to do some minor adjustments, but I'm much more happy with how everything is now.

Right now, life is good.

This is (l to r) Tiril and me, btw.

I'm so tired right now. Got about half an hour - an hour sleep last night because I went camping with a big bunch of friends in the forest. A lot of fun but it derived me from the sleep I need. It was also wet and cold and the ground was hard. Completely worth it, though. We hung about the place and talked and played loud music and games, and I got to know some of my classmates better.

( Couple of pictures from the camping )

I've been away from LJ a lot lately because of school. I had my final exam written in Norwegian this Friday. I think it went well, I'm satisfied with what I wrote. I had a crying fit the day before, and I couldn't sleep until 1:30 AM or something like that, though.
The subject was the ever-boring 'influence', or more specifically, the influence certain factors (such as the media or friends) have on youth today. Couldn't have been more clichéd, but at least it was a safe subject.

I'm a bit anxious about my grade, though. I need to have 5< as my average, or I'll be disappointed in myself. I know this sounds whiny, but I have no place but school to make a name for myself, and if I'm only mediocre at that, I don't know what I'll do.

I also have my upper secondary oral exam on Monday. I need to watch Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as well as Thumbsucker, read through a couple of short stories and skim some novels, and half-memorize three poems. I better start watching those movies soon, at least Thumbsucker. I know a lot of the lines from HP and the PS by heart xD

I think I'm going to manage my userpics first, though. I feel the need to switch out some of them.

Otherwise there haven't been any remarkable happenings in my life lately. Hope you're all swell ♥

Mrgh. I swear, I'll do the Hove post before I go to Iceland (the 13th) but right now I just don't have the willpower to do it, as I believe it's going to be a pretty big post with loads of.. stuff. I just can't make myself unless I'm in the mood.

Anywhoooo. I love my friends, and here's one of the reasons why; yesterday I got sick. As the good friend T is she visited me against my will, which was kind of boring at first because I wanted to blow life into my computerlife again, so I kind of sat here while she was sitting on my bed reading magazines. Suddenly, she said she was hungry and I was pretty much done with everything I felt I needed to do, so we walked out to the kitchen and started roaming around to see if there was anything there that wasn't all gooey and green after the trip to Hove. We found out we had this brownie mix, and since everybody loves brownies we decided to go for that. Mixing it in the bowl turned out to be kinda hard because we only had a spoon to mix it with, and after I'd put it in the cake form we found out we needed a smaller one. I told her it wasn't such a big deal, but she insisted and started moving the mix from one form to the other with her hands. XD Gods, and there are these people who are currently painting our house, and one of them was just outside the window. He gave us really funny looks. Later we also found out that we had an even smaller form, but we didn't care. The cake was just as cookies, but they were very yummy.

AND that's one of the reasons why I love my friends.

Hwew, I'm pretty tired. I've been at this cottage with one of my friends from Saturday until today and we've been doing typical norwegian-winter-vacation stuff such as slalom, playing cards and board games and staying up late. Way to late.

Haha! I haven't tried slalom since the sixth or seventh grade and I was pretty rubbish the first day. Fell a dozen times. And heck, how my feet hurt when we got home to the cottage! The pain was awful. My feet aren't used to use those muscles I used, so it was nearly no fun. And besides, I crashed with a tree and got me this (currently) yellow, big bruise on my upper forearm. If that wasn't enough, the bindings on the skis were not properly set to my weight so the skis kept detaching themselves from my feet all the time. We managed to get it fixed pretty quick though, so it went all right.

The second day was so much more fun. First of all, we chose routes that weren't too hard for me. In fact, I think I did pretty well. Second, our feet had grown more accustomed to wearing the boots so it almost didn't hurt except when we took them off. Lastly, the weather was better. (: It was amazing standing on the peak of Norefjell and just looking around. Incredible how far and how much you could see.

We also met someone we know. Or, not as such, but three kids from our school. Some stupid had pressed the emergency-stop button after the lift had stopped (*facepalm*)'cause of something and the dude that was operating the lift had to fix it manually. In the meantime my friend and I was standing in line and behind us those kids were standing. I was absentmindedly doodling on the front of my skis until Ida (that's my friend) asked what the "S" stood for. I said it was for my lover, Kjetil (ya, joking here people). Then she said "But that's not how you spell it", and I told her it was spelled Skjettil. We had a good laugh.
Later, when the lift was working again and we were in the middle of it, she told me that one of the kids behind us from school was named Kjetil. I laughed really, really loud. I'm still kinda wondering how he'll react the next time he sees me. xD

( Really uninteresting stuff about my mum's birthday )

Happy news: I have discovered Goo Goo Dolls. Yay! I have known who Johnny Rzeznik is for ages, and I've had that one song ('I'm still here') on my iPod but I've had no other idea about the band. Thank holyness for the internet! Now I've gotten my hands on much of their music, and I love it! It's just my style. :D Which makes me incredibly happy, because I tend to just like one song of a band and that's it. This is not the case - I love the music. All of it! Johnny Rzeznik has got the most incredible voice ever. Right now, I am pretty happy and totally addicted to my iPod. Last night I couldn't find it, and I swear I got all shaky and irritated. It turned up under a pillow in the sofa. I have NO idea how it got there.

And I just got to give a shouout to my beautiful friend, Tiril, who made three of my new icons. I just absolutely love them! She doesn't have an LJ but I thought I needed to credit her. She's awesome with grapichs. Check out her piczo site or her freewebs. ^__^