amberley

30 June 2009 @ 01:54 pm

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favourite Film:
5. Favourite Song or Album:
6. Favourite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favourite memory of us?
14. What is your favourite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favourite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent:
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

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19 November 2008 @ 07:13 pm

books

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare

15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger

19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot

21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - A. A. Milne

41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan

51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt

81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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27 October 2008 @ 10:26 am

GRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

I just got my halloween costume!! I'm going to be a lion.

Super excited.

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27 October 2008 @ 12:15 am

wtf?

The random crashing and banging is coming from upstairs again.

Seriously.... what the shit is going on up there. What could they possibly be doing that results in crashing and banging at 12.17am? On a Sunday?

I met Marly a year ago. I can't decide if it feels longer or shorter than that, but I was out halloween costume shopping with Shaun yesterday and we realized that Marly came up to visit a year ago. Right now it feel like its been an absolute age, but sometimes it feels like it was yesterday. I don't know... its so weird how time passes and things change. I hope I'm somewhere fun a year from now.

My love life is once again prime material for daytime TV. In many ways, I'm more comfortable when its like this, it makes life more interesting. And I like having options.

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11 September 2008 @ 02:22 pm

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I just found myself reading the 'attached' section in the cosmo horoscopes instead of the 'single' one. And I didn't freak out. :D

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27 August 2008 @ 02:34 am

Tomorrow

I'm flying back to Vancouver. I'm excited, but I'm really going to miss Jersey and the people here. This summer I've made amazing new friends who I really hope will be a part of my life for a very long time.

Time to start panic-packing...

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13 July 2008 @ 04:21 am

Liquid/Envy

Its 4.21am and I like my new job. Kind of. It was crazy busy tonight and there were a two big fights, and people seemed angrier and more abusive than usual, and I was sent out to do promo for a while which was a) terrifying and b) cold. But aside from that it was quite a fun night. At least I'm making money and not spending it.

I'm pissed off at postsecret though, I'd gotten used to coming home in the early hours of Sunday morning and reading the secrets in an attempt to switch off from extreme bar mode and to give my ears a chance to stop ringing, but today THEY'RE NOT THERE!

I'm upset.

But I'm going to Morocco in 11 days, so its OK. Does anyone want a fez?

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26 June 2008 @ 11:58 pm

Things should just stay in the past

I'm actually an idiot.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

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18 June 2008 @ 10:32 pm

I <3 post-teenage angst

I actually could be 15 again. I hate being angry with people that I consider to be very good friends, but I am so so sick of being made to feel shit just to make her feel better. And I know ranting about this on LJ is an appropriate 15-year-olds response, but I'm just so frustrated. And kinda hurt. Every time I come home its like I've taken two steps back for evey one I've taken forward while I've been away. This island is just too fecking small. I've also bumped into The Ex and his new girlfriend a couple times. It hasn't stopped being painfully awkward yet. I'm hoping by the end of the summer I can stand to see him without wanting to jump in front of the nearest moving vehicle.

I've found myself in a very weird situation with my boyfriend from last summer - we seem to be dating, minus the physical part. Its really nice - we saw sex and the city the other night, and we spent an evening watching the sunset by some castle ruins - but its bizarre, because there is a mutual lack of interest in anything more than hugging and hand-holding. Also, I feel a little bit guilty about it due to situations in Vancouver, but I really don't need to, so the feeling guilty is a little weird in itself.

On the new and interesting front, I am currently bar tending on weekends. It breaks up the boringness of spending the entire working week in a law firm pretending to know what the fuck Im talking about, but its pretty stressful and tiring. And drunk people are annnnnnnoying. And horny. And kinda gross. I've had some pretty impressive creepers (one guy refused to leave the bar. like, literally refused. Every time I asked him what he wanted he stared at me and said 'your number' then laughed like he was being original, and then went back to staring at me. It was a little bit terrifying after an hour and a half). The tips are pretty awesome though.

I have to work on not complaining so much.

I have super-awesome housing next year. I'm really, really looking forward to going back. Also I really want to see a bear. Its going to be my new mission for next year. Anyone want to go bear hunting with me?

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11 June 2008 @ 09:07 pm

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Yeah, so 4 months is a lot longer than I thought it was.

I am so freaking sexually frustrated, its unreal. I've started relating everything to sex - its like I'm playing a constant x-rated game of word association in my head. Its getting kinda creepy.

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28 May 2008 @ 10:33 pm

Its been a month...

The inexplicable relocation of my family takes place tomorrow and I'm beginning to miss my house before I've even left. I just had a bath in Olly's room - It used to be my room, way back when I still actually lived here, but he claimed it soon after my departure (why a 14 year old boy needs a dressing room is beyond me, but whatever) - and as I padded on waterlogged toes to my new room, wrapped in probably the biggest towel ever, it smelled exactly like it did when it was my room, and all of a sudden I was 16 again. It was weird, I think the reason I can't stay in one place for too long is because I freak out when I start getting nostalgic. Being in that room with that smell made me incredibly sad about a time I don't particularly miss.

Work is proving to be a lot more that I bargained for - I have been given my own office, complete with spinny-chair and whiteboard, and I've been doing a lot of work which actually relates to law (today I was writing up draft stock transfer forms - fun stuff!). So much for a summer spent photocopying and answering phones. The only thing that bothers me is that this job would be indefinitely better suited to someone who actually has legal aspirations - I'm learning so much and I really doubt I'll ever use again. Especially if I major in microbiology. But whatever - if anyone needs legal council about business and trust law, I'm your girl ^_^

I'm re-playing Phantom Hourglass for about the 5th time and its seriously cutting into my sleep hours. So I may go and beat a couple dungeons before it gets late and I get angry at myself for letting video games disrupt my life.

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16 May 2008 @ 01:54 am

+44 again

I've been home for a couple weeks now and I'm starting to get back into the swing of things. After the initial culture shock (stores don't open on Sunday? You can't get Lucky Charms anywhere? wtf??) I've settled back into my Jersey niche and its quite nice. I've had some epic times since coming home - Claire and I had a hardcore adventure drive which cumulated in losing my car keys in a playground at 11pm and ferreting around in the dark for about 20 minutes until we found them, Francesca has been making me drink too much, sometimes during the day, which usually ends up embarrassing, and I went to the zoo to see the lemurs. I love lemurs, they're actually the coolest animals ever. I'm yet to do anything extremely stupid - I think its starting to freak people out a bit. I'm missing Vancouver and UBC a lot though - especially the people there, and Shaun and the girls in particular. It's only really just sunk in that I'm back here for 4 months, and that 4 months is actually a really long time. I'm already getting excited about heading back.

My parents have inexplicably decided to relocate us to the other side of the island this summer, to a house that needs to be almost completely re-done. It's going to be interesting.

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01 May 2008 @ 10:41 am

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The Atlantic Ocean is really, really big. I'm really, really tired and I kinda smell like a hobo.

Long-haul flights are un-fun.

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26 April 2008 @ 09:24 pm

Especially for Amber...

What makes me more worried is that it was my mum who showed me this

( NSFW at all )

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18 April 2008 @ 11:55 pm

meep

I realized today that I should have given up on something a long time ago, but I didn't. And then I realized that I didn't care anymore, so I stopped worrying about it. And then, after 4 hours in the UBC library, 2 of which were devoted to thinking about it, I realized that I was basically having a relationship with my biology textbook. As I was reading the chapter on metabolism in bacteria, I realized that from the moment I realized that I was probably going to fail Bio, I went into break-up mode. I even came home and ate half a box of rainbow chips ahoy with Ben and Jerry's on top.

F*ck you, biology. I never really liked you that much anyway.

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18 April 2008 @ 12:00 am

General mess

My basement is so messy.

Like, I've just been avoiding spending time here because it is SO messy. This morning I found an empty corona bottle in the couch - that is how messy it is. I'm moving out and heading back to the UK in 2 weeks (when exams are fiiiiiiiiinally over) and I'm kind of looking forward to it - I mean, it'll be nice to have real food and a couch which doesn't have empty beer bottles in it, but its going to substantially suck not seeing all my awesome Canadian friends this summer (especially Shaun - tear).

Nate's leaving on Saturday which is kinda sad, but my Mum's also coming on Saturday, which is kinda exciting, so I guess they balance each other out. I also have a bio exam on Saturday, at 7pm. I'm still wondering why the fuck UBC has exams on Saturday nights, but I decided to not let it bother me.

I kinda want to go to bed. But it means jumping over the mountain of clothing on my bedroom floor and that seems like a lot of effort right now.

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13 April 2008 @ 12:38 pm

2 girls 1 cup reaction:

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09 April 2008 @ 01:30 am

hopping on the band wagon

You're feeling: drained

To your left: mess

On your mind: someone

Last meal included: subway

You sometimes find it hard to: concentrate

The weather: dark

Something you have a collection of: hearts :P

A smell that cheers you up: rain

A smell that can ruin your mood: mold

How long since you last shaved: 2 days

The current state of your hair: dirrty

The largest item on your desk/workspace (not computer): mess

Your skill with chopsticks: decent

Which section you head for first in a bookstore: vampires

Something you're craving: contact

Your general thoughts on the presidential race: female

How many times have you been hospitalized this year: none

Favorite place to go for a quiet moment: not

You've always secretly thought you'd be a good: spy

Something that freaks you out a little: commitment

Something you've eaten too much of lately: fries

You have never: crashed

You never want to: burn

Cupcakes are: fattening

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08 April 2008 @ 01:51 am

Epic Procrastination

I decided to clear out my photobooth. There was some comic gold in amongst all my camera whoring.

I thought I should share.

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07 April 2008 @ 06:02 pm

New Life Plan:

To not go to university. It would rock. I think this place is turning me prematurely grey, and wrinkly and generally un-hot. I'm sick of writing essays which I don't give a fuck about, and I'm sick of forcing myself to memorize the structural shapes of chiral atoms in racemic mixtures, and I'm sick of learning about how bacteria reproduce, and I'm sick about learning about simple harmonic motion and the doppler effect.

I want to go sit on a beach and drink pina coladas and maybe go surfing.

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