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I usually don't talk about Gossip Girl these days but...

( cut for spoilers for 2x18 - The Age of Dissonance )

We're having a UN roleplay this year (again) at school and now that I'm in the senior class it's time for me to step up and make a speech that won't embarrass the hell out of me like last year - but now when I remember last year it was good fun do more stuff actively in that roleplay and this year I'm becoming Russia! In a way a challenge because I had hoped for a less... I don't know. But nevertheless, I have to start researching Russia as well as I can now so that I'm well-prepared, even if I don't know the subject yet. I'm a dork like that. But if it's something about the environment, I'm going to be seriously displeased. I have a 50 point course that focuses on environmental politics. I hope this year is going to be good.

If anyone wants to help me get info on Russia, that would be greatly appreciated. Are there any subjects which Russia really has strong believes in? I happen to know that their environmental awareness might not be the best in the world... Or so I claimed when I researched it for class earlier.

Now I'm going to watch the rest of Che: Part One with Benicio del Torro ♥ (another reminder why I'm still taking Spanish class!)

I need to remove this cold. ASAP.

I'm going to Lund on Thursday (or was it Malmö?) to be at this course thing that I felt like going to (heeeelllo south of Sweden :D :D) about Marxism (which is an awesome way to get information about it without having to read so much for my essay) and I'm sort of excited. It means though that I have to skip school on Friday, but I don't think that will be a problem since I have such awesome teachers.

And on Wednesday I'm going to the preview of Mammut - I'm horribly excited. Gael Garcia Bernal &hearts - Here I come!


That is the trailer. Or at least one of them.

I have a feeling this week is going to be good. Stressful (sort of), but good.

I'm currently watching Pretty In Pink (IMDB for anyone who's interested) and it's sort of really sweet. I've already seen The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles and they're all really cute movies. Of course, I've seen far too little of PIP in order to make an accurate decision but... it's really adorable. I love chickflicks like that. (Any suggestions where I could find some more?)

I had the weirdest dream today. I'm serious. Warning for a weird, and in my opinion, slightly disturbed dream:

I dreamt that my school's principle was nuts and there was this priest that was really amiable that moved to another school just nearby and in the meanwhile, the principle was planning to take over the school and enlisted some second years to help him. They were getting paid and finally when his coup started, it turned out it were this really strong acid-concentrated bullets that would basically burn your entire skin off and when the "product" was introduced, which was what it was called, some took it as a way to help your dental condition (which was what the principle said, as he said how the acid bullets would burn your gums away and therefore you wouldn't have to worry about cavities) but the majority understood the gravity of the product and then began to flee. Most of them were shot down and killed and I remember from the dream that I was trying to protect my friends and then, as we've battled our way through the school, we're just about to go up on a hill when my sister gets shot but I wipe it away really quickly, leaving myself infected with the slow-burning acid. We make our way over the hill when suddenly we see the priest's new school, that is almost identical to ours with barbedwire and whatnot around the premises and even if we're getting a bad feeling, we jump so that we can seek protection there but as we're about to land we see that the same thing is happening at that school, lead by the priest who's evidently lost his mind, and I fall a a little bit closer to the school and as I land I get killed by a group of young girls. I then become a ghost and see how everyone's sad over my death (my friends are safe, not getting hurt any more) and I get sad over the fact that I can't hug them and comfort them.

As I said, a weird dream. And I swear, this was how it happened. ... Somehow I think it's some sort of anxiety dream or something (especially since I'm terrified by acids of all kinds). Have you ever had dreams like that?

I just saw The Notebook for the second time. I cried like a baby. Those scenes at the end (I won't go into details in case someone hasn't seen this wonderful movie) are just beautiful. Just beautiful.

At school, me and a few classmates are sort of adapting Pride and Prejudice into a one-act intro kind of play. I wrote the script and what I did was that I took the key lines that are said in the beginning of the '95 adaption and sort of moved things around a little and... voilá! A script was born. It's only five pages but I'm really excited about it, it's not going to be brilliant or anything, but it's going to be fun. Lots and lots of it. I can't wait!

House was just brilliant as well. Hugh Larie and Robert Sean Leonard are such terrific actors.

I'm kind of watching October Road. I'm not much for anything One Tree Hill related these days but it originally started out as an 'I'm bored what can I do?' idea that was based on the fact that I'm using one of the actors in that show - Odette Yustman - as a character face for one of the characters I'm currently playing. I love writing the character and me never seeing anything Odette as done, made me curious as to how she was as an actress and - voilá! I'm watching the show right now even though it's 4.22 am and I'm in the middle of the second episode, I'm watching. It has potential in that way that... it has potential. I've seen about 70% of the episode.

Everyone are going on and on about The Dark Knight, which makes me slightly paranoid to read my flist, because I'm concerned people will stop cutting their reactions to this movie before I have a chance to see it myself. The original plan was that me and my sister are going to watch it on Monday. However, a little bird whispered in my ear (that bird being my sister) saying that it might be postponed till Tuesday. Interesting.

What else can I mention? Well, I'm having second doubts about watching The X-Files movie in theatres come August 4th (it premieres on a Friday but I only get discount Monday-Thursday so I can't go on Friday) because there's Wanted that I want to see, which premieres 27th of September if I'm not mistaken, and there's this Swedish film called Patrik 1,5 which is about a gay couple who adopts a Swedish sort of criminal 15 year old, thinking that it was a 1,5 year old because of a typo. It seems pretty frickin' awesome, at least for being a Swedish film. So I don't know... Too little money, too many movies. I have three discounts left - and one of them are definitely going to be used for TDK.

Do you ever have days when you just want to change everything about your life? Well, today I'm having one of those days (or I'm PMSing, either is a probable option at this point, really).

Yesterday I went to the cinema with fridizh and saw Made of Honour, which was actually better than expected. A little bit of a remake of My Best Friend's Wedding in a way, but I found that MOH was actually better than its prequel (well, in my mind it was a prequel).

As I mentioned in the previous entry, I'm slowly getting hooked by Friday Night Lights by watching this show backwards, startign with the latest and working my way back. However, I decided this was annoying and therefore I'm going to try to watch the show from the beginnig (for probably the... second or third time), but whatever. I decided that I like it now.

Yesterday (because everything interesting happened yesterday ;)) I was looking through a course catalouge from the university of Uppsala and circled courses I want to take. I'm NOT going to university in Uppsala, that's for sure, but it's always good to check out what's being offered even though you don't plan to study in that country.

I so need to find a new mood theme...

I have an Intercutural Communications test today. I think it'll be easy since it feels I know the majority of it, but maybe I'll be painfully mistaken and end up just getting a VG (I guess that's like... a B, sort of) in my final grade or something. I hope not because this course has certainly not been like advertised. Keep your fingers crossed? :D

Yesterday my sister and I, while we were supposed to be studying, sat down and watched various Clark/Lois videos on YouTube and clips and whatnot. Oh, sigh, Clark/Lois is such an epic couple and I really hope that Smallville has time to explore that relationship.

I've actually made icons. Wow, I know. I've sort of lost my magic but it's fun sometimes. I've made mostly Buffy icons but I've also made Twilight icons (yes, I'm such a tool but I'm SUPERexcited for the movie and that brings out the icon maker in me. I'm trying to ignore that virtually everyone are making icons of Twilight). I think I'm going to post them later. :)

I'm probably the only person who ever gets anxious when watching Jane Austen adaptions or reading her books. Seriously. I'm in the middle of Sense and Sensibility and I've taken a liking to a certain gentleman (It's Jane Austen so I'm not so sure if it's counted as spoilers but you probably know of whom I mean) who's not going to end up with Marianne and to me, it's so... sad, to me at least, so I can't really finish the book.

I'm a dork, but I love it.

I'm currently watching the Kate Beckinsale version of Emma and I'm about 40 minutes in and I don't remember much from Emma (other than who she ends up marrying) and I'm sensing that I'm approaching a similar dilemma here. But it shall be interesting. It's weird how Austen novels make me more involved and anxious than an action movie or an episode of Prison Break (season one, mind you, I'm not a fan of the other seasons).

I made a new layout for my journal. This time it's completely new, although I'm still using the same "base" (meaning Component) on this one. I'm a little bit hooked on Eli Stone as I hinted before and I just find the show so awesome that I had to make a layout. It's sad that there's no graphics around, no screencaps. At least none that I could find.

In town I bought two movies (well, we didn't exactly end up in town but at the supermarket where I managed to find two movies for 99 SEK) and those were Bridget Jones' Diary (I've been meaning to get it for a while, I seriously lack chick-flick movies in my collection - the only other is Sweet Home Alabama) and Romeo + Juliet (I've been meaning to see it for a loooong time but the low quality that's out there is not really feeling my hype so I figured... I like both Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio so... It can't be bad, right? My sister was against the purchase but... well... what do you think? Is it a good movie?). It was either that or Shakespeare in Love but I figured Romeo + Juliet was a better choice.

I got an idea for a story and I'll see if I manage to do some writing done. I'm hopeful, but not entirely certain.

I absolutely love Jane Austen's novels. I really, really do. They are written so beautifully with sentences that make me so envious of her writing that I don't dare to write anything myself. The sentences are just so beautiful and the books give me such anxiety (if anyone of you were around the first time I had my Austen-flu, you remember that I constantly begged for spoilers to the books I was reading because I got so anxious and torn between which of the suitors I would like or not, because I couldn't decide to like one of them and then the character would choose the other), as any good book should. Now I'm planning on buying a few more books (I already have Mansfield Park) and I can't buy them all because I'm terribly short on money - as always. So I need to select a few out of all those that are available.

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I saw the 2008 adaption of Sense and Sensibility and I fell in love. Again. Although this time, I was as ever torn between Willoughby and Col. Brandon and well... Oh man, those Austen books really make me anxious for some reason. I really want to see the '95 adaption though, because it seems so awesome and with Alan Rickman as Col. Brandon, I'm sure I can appreciate his character even more.