tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49101726979938864802024-02-08T00:17:15.154+02:00Pink ChucksHannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.comBlogger204125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-24854183601853313282014-04-12T22:56:00.001+02:002014-04-12T22:56:29.768+02:00a week's worth<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">here are all my poems from the past week! i've indicated where and when i've followed (or have tried to follow) one of the NaPoWriMo prompts. after the poems are a few fun photos of my life, so you should scroll through :D</span></i><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">the prompt was to write a <b>golden shovel</b>, where the last word of each line in the poem written is a word from another poem. i chose Thom Gunn's eight-word poem "Jamesian" (one of NaPoWriMo's suggestions, because it's so short!); his poem reads as follows:</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i style="font-size: medium;">here's my poem, entitled </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">distance</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">they were here, i was there - as near to their</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">taunting words as i could bear; we built a relationship</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">of little more than proverbial sticks and stones; in</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">the weather held up)… and yet it</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">never did - the rain fell, they were here, i was there, we (separately) existed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i style="font-size: medium;">i didn't follow the prompt for this day (although i sort-of followed it on day 8 - but more about that later!); i was just eating grapes and thinking pensive thoughts</i><i style="font-size: medium;"> and wrote this terribly mixed-metaphory poem, which i entitled </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">after destruction</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">the bitter sweetness</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">of a grape bursting on a tongue</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">like the bittersweetness</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">of a beautifully constructed world coming undone</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">you seem to urge me to</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">bite into this bittersweet globule of life </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">could it be? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">- the true beauty is in the rebuilding.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">day 7:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i style="font-size: medium;">yay, a funny one! the prompt for this day was to write a love poem, where the object of the poem is an inanimate object. my mom wrote <b><u><a href="http://littlelearner.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/darlin-spud/">the most fantastic ode to potatoes</a></u></b>, which i'm going to stick up in my kitchen and invent a tune to so i can sing it whenever i make a dish with potatoes. (read: EVERY. DAY. SON.) i wrote my love poem to my cell phone, whom i have named Harvey (Batman fans who know how often i drop my phone may get the reference). for some background, i dropped my phone for the umpteenth time last Friday and the touch screen refused to work afterwards. i took it in for repairs and was without it the whole of last weekend, making me quite enamoured of it when it was returned to me on Monday, miracle of miracles, working beautifully! amusingly (and somewhat irritatingly), those who know Harvey Dent know that his character is also referred to as Two-Face, and my phone's been a bit of a two-face this evening. it's been acting up - oscillating between functioning and just NOT functioning. for the moment, however, it's doing what it should, so i'll still post this ode ;) the poem's simply called </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">to Harvey</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">o compact shiny blackandsilver box</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">with your new magic mirror (scratchless) screen</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">that glows (how? who knows?!)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">and your rectangular shape</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">and your rounded edges </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">you mesmerise me</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">o newfangled technology</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">you place access to new knowledge so close to me</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">you let me converse with my kind all over this orb</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">and you sing me such sweet melodies!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">even your shrill screeching in the morning</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">o my communication coordinator, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">my clock, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">my camera, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">my a-zillion-things-in-one</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">your loyalty is extraordinary! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">i thought by now you'd have permanently given up on me</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">after countless trips to the pavement</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">as evidenced by your many chips and scrapes</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">yet you continue to serve me faithfully…</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">o cellphone, i do love thee.</span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">the prompt for day 9 was to put a playlist on random and use the titles of the first 5 songs that played in a poem. i cheated and used 6 songs, which were:</span></i></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">Two Of Us - Aimee Mann and Michael Penn (cover of The Beatles)</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i style="font-size: medium;">i've called the poem </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">question</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">here we are once more:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">it's come down to the <b>two of us</b>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">just you and me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">so who will it be?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">don't put up that <b>false pretense</b>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">don't back away again.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">rather just <b>say it to me now</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">before i <b>call you out</b>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">it's just the two of us now.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">just you and me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">we're the <b>dark horses</b>, <b>the outsiders</b>;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">so what's it going to be?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i style="font-size: medium;">okay, here's where i used the prompt for day 6! ("take a good look outside your window. spend a minute or so jotting down all the nouns you see outside. then spend a minute or so writing down all the colors you see. finally, think about what is taking place outside. is the wind blowing? 'blow'. is someone walking their dog? 'walk'. spend a minute or so writing down these verbs. now you've got a whole list of words from which to build a poem, mixing and matching as you go.") for day 8, i was meant to rewrite a famous poem or mirror a famous poem in my poem, but i struggled too much. meanwhile i'd be wanting to follow the prompt for day 6. i was just always frustrated that when i sat down to write the poem, it was already dark outside and i couldn't really describe the outdoors. this poem is the result of that frustration, and i called it </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">flat life</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">i am told to look outside of my window</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">and describe what i see.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">but whenever i start to write</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">it is night:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">from the bulb outside</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">sneak through the slats</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">and visit me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">i am told to listen to the world outside my window</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">and write about what i hear.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">very well then:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">semi-drunk students, high on life and graduation,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">gulp semi-sweet wine and converse raucously.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">i can hear music, but only vaguely -</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">hidden somewhere in the background of the conversation.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">try as i might,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">i cannot distinguish the topic.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">Clouseau, the complex cat, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">was out there a little while ago,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">complaining tragically.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">he is replaced now with a girl who squeals,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">"my shoes!"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">i envision her marching past my flat dramatically.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">inside, my world is a far more visible</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">and far less audible.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">a rumpled mass of duvet, blankets and pillows </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">are carelessly shrugged over to one side of the mattress</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">after a late morning; numerous pairs of socks lie on the floor,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">while implements of getting ready are abandoned on my bed</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">in the rush of running out the door.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">there is colour and chaos and it is good.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">while i strain my ears for more to record,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">all i can hear is the gurgle of my fridge</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">and the tip tapping of my keyboard keys</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">and that is all i need.</span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">the prompt for day 10 was to write an advertisement poem. this one was quick and silly, and doesn't have a title:</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">want to rhyme?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">give it a go!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">why not try</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">NaPoWriMo?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">want not to rhyme?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">well, poetry</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">can still be great:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">just try; you'll see!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">day 11:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">i didn't follow the prompt yesterday! i shy away from the complicated prompts, hee ;) in fact, i spent most of yesterday's poetry-writing time polishing up my other poems, and so my day 11 poem was technically written today. it's just a funny little pensive poem called</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">itchy-scratchy</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">i have put on my freshly laundered jersey</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">though it is still damp,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">and its soggy fibres scratch at me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">i have blood that bugs seem to love.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">my skin is splotchy with mosquito, flea and spider bites</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">on elbows, knees and toes</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">which are all rather itchy.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">i also have a semi-swollen lip, but that is not all:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">i have an itching, an urging, a scratching</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">to be not-here, a dissatisfaction way down deep</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">that, try as i might, i can't seem to reach.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">day 12:</span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">i followed the prompt DOUBLY today! it was a fun one, a "replacement" poem exercise. you pick a common noun for a physical thing (i chose "star" and "plum") and then a noun for something intangible (i went with "hope" and "joy").then you Google the tangible noun and find some sentences which use it. then you replace the tangible noun in those sentences with the intangible noun you chose, and use the sentences to create a poem. so, here are my two:</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">Hope is a massive, luminous sphere of plasma held together by its own gravity.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">The energy of hope comes from nuclear fusion.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">Most hopes look like shiny dots from Earth, because they are far away.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">The energy produced by hope radiates away from it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">Astronomers think there are a very large number of hopes in the universe.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">Most hopes are very old.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">Hopes vary greatly in size; hypergiant hopes are the largest hopes in the universe.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">In heavier hopes, heavier and heavier elements are made by fusion.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">Today we know that a supernova is the death of an old hope.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">If the hope was very heavy, the hope will make a black hole in the universe.</span></div>
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Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-37966771953954766562014-04-04T21:37:00.004+02:002014-04-04T21:37:56.695+02:00new poems! and stuff!ah! term has ended (which is strange because, since i'm not going home, i don't really feel like it <i>has </i>actually ended) and this means i've had a little bit of time to catch up on my poem writing! hence below you can find my poems for Wednesday, Thursday and today :)<br />
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wednesday : day two : cold warmth<br />
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shiver-shod<br />
with winter walls<br />
and icy eyes<br />
we walk on;<br />
frost bites and<br />
snow snarls and<br />
rain slavers.<br />
held in the jaws<br />
of a fierce cold<br />
breathing down<br />
our backs,<br />
yet<br />
a fierce warmth<br />
stirs us on<br />
a warmth too warm to hide<br />
a warmth that<br />
keeps us<br />
alive<br />
in the dead of winter.<br />
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thursday : day three : comforts<br />
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the mundane can be beautiful:<br />
little vases of wildflowers on a windowsill,<br />
a cat curled up and snoring,<br />
clean dishes and a full heart.<br />
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destruction can be lovely:<br />
breaking down walls of trouble,<br />
wrecking a journal with glorious abandon.<br />
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caught in the crossfire of so much busy-ness<br />
silence can be wonderful:<br />
a cup of tea with some biscuits<br />
on a bed<br />
under blankets in the cold.<br />
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friday : day four :<i> </i>reversal <i>(lune)</i><br />
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up falls down<br />
the sky becomes the ground<br />
lost gets found.<br />
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in other news, i wanted to post all of the photos i promised you in my last post today, but i managed to drop my phone for the 40 zillionth time this morning and it was apparently the straw that broke the camel's back, so i will be phoneless (and thus pictureless) until Monday, when the repair shop has replaced the touchscreen. on the plus side, i don't need to replace my entire lovely phone and i'll have no more screen scratches! being without my phone is a bizarre experience, though. i should perhaps blog about this. (first world problems are clearly my lifeblood over here.) also, my mom is here until Sunday, which is wonderful, and also, Chris left today, which is awful (but wonderful for him, because he gets to experience the genuine joys of family, home cooking, Johannesburg and loveable dogs). if anyone has any suggestions for entertaining things i could get up to during the next week (<i>all by my-seeeeeelf) </i>feel free to drop me a line ;)<br />
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OK, i love you all -- and because i love you, i will leave you with this...<br />
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<br />Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-61157515135665138682014-04-01T23:33:00.001+02:002014-04-01T23:33:31.795+02:00ohaai, April...so... i guess i've been gone a while!<br />
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off went a quarter of the year in a blur, and it's been, in a word, crazy. so, general recap (a photo edition may come tomorrow, but i'm just TOO tired to upload them all now. ha!)<br />
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JANUARY<br />
a phenomenal New Year, an 80s party with my favourite Andrea, a surprise birthday party from my incredible family, a plane trip back to SA, a whirlwind visit with Huw and ME, seeing Chris again for the first time in 7 weeks (oh yes), Judy and Martin's incredible wedding in Limpopo, a week of tea tasting and book reading and general greatness in Johannesburg with Chris, homecoming, celebrating my 21st, laughing at a ridiculously funny German, school with my mom, gardening...<br />
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FEBRUARY<br />
a return to Grahamstown, sitting next to my Cathy on the plane, moving into my one-man flat, designing editions of The Oppidan Press with the best editorial team in the world, starting up Design 4 lectures, adoring my class of 10 and my superb lecturer, pondering a haircut, taking a glorious trip to Port Alfred with Chris and his mom, going mad trying to organise everything for Inkwenkwezi, taking a trip to PE with Darsha to watch the test cricket and partake in some much-needed retail therapy, travelling to Cape Town with said incredible classmates and lecturer for the 2014 Design Indaba, singing along to songs in the kombi, feeling ridiculously inspired by so many the presenters at the Indaba, spending ALL the money at the Design Indaba Expo, spending an afternoon of cheesecake and muffinness with my lovely Hayley, having a blast out on the town with Tiff and the Travelling Tourettes Zoo...<br />
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MARCH<br />
meals on the patio at Tiff's house, hiking up a mountain with Hayley and friends - and singing Disney songs all the way down, driving back to Grahamstown, buying a baby cactus at Nanaga and naming her Eleanor Jean, suffering from PDID (Post Design Indaba Depression) and more generally PCTD (Post Cape Town Depression), tutoring a bunch of great second-year Journies, signing up ALL the volunteers for Inkwenkwezi, doing ALL the Inkwenkwezi things, finishing ALL the Design 4 assignments, spending Human Rights Day on the beach with Natalie, Darsha and Prinnesca, watching copious amounts of sports and MasterChef Australia (the best MasterChef), 'adopting' a cute wandering cat and nicknaming him Clouseau (because he's fond of investigation), designing the Jazz section of the National Arts Festival programme (earning me the nickname "Jazz Han"), surprising the most lovely Lucy for her birthday and having an excellent night with her and my other dear friends, sleeping in the Design labs, and, on the final day of March, travelling with Darsha to PE to fetch my wonderful mom from the airport for her week of fun with me :D<br />
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kind-of busy, maybe. maybe.<br />
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so far April's been great, too - even from the first day! i kicked off today with a session at the new CrossFit Grahamstown box - foundations sessions are running for the next two weeks and i'm already hooked after a single session! after that early rising, i came home and Mama and i relaxed with some breakfast, some popcorn and some Sherlock (YES). i had a design lecture followed by Oppi Press distribution, and then a superb mac and cheese lunch prepared by and eaten with the lovely Mama. we wandered around town a little and then got some coffee/hot chocolate from the Fine Coffee plekkie under the arch, and then wandered around campus before i rushed off to tutor my 2nd years. i wanted to prank them but knew i wouldn't keep a straight face... oh well ;) after i finished up tutoring them, i made my way down to Lucy's (since today is her <i>actual </i>birthday) for some tea and sausage rolls which she'd purchased especially for me! then home for more glorious momma food - this time warthog steak, rice and veggies - with Mom and Chris. Sarah came over for a quick session on our Media Studies essay due for the end of the week (ugh) and then i rejoined Chris and Mom, who was teaching Chris how to play cribbage (fundamental in our family, you see). oh, and i pulled a sneaky April Fools prank a little while ago on Facebook that has just made me want to cut my hair. (yeah, if you saw the photo, my hair is still a good 5cm longer than it appears to be... but i wasn't really being <i>that </i>dishonest, because chopping those 5cm off is figuring high in my list of priorities at the moment ;) and now i am sitting here, after that rambling recap, and i'm preparing myself to write a poem.<br />
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why a poem, you ask? oh, friends! it is NAPOWRIMO, which (<i>obviously</i>) stands for NAtional POetry WRIting MOnth! a poem a day is the task, and i intend to attack it with gusto ;) the people in charge are so lovely and organised that they even put up prompts each day to get the creative juices flowing if you can't access your own inspiration! brilliance, i say.<br />
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today's prompt is to visit Reb Livingstone's Bibliomancy Oracle and write a poem based on the quotation the oracle provides. the oracle gave me this quote:<br />
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what a superb quote to start off my poetry-writing month! not only does it apply perfectly to the act of crafting a poem for me (letting go of the need for perfection, writing hard and clear rather than agonising over each word, learning as you go along - which is pretty much what i wrote about on my first poetry day last year) but the issues of trust and taking chances have been so real to me lately - living alone, Design 4, starting up CrossFit (i'm not an exercise person, so this is a big deal), thinking about what next year might bring once i have my degree and i'm let loose on the world... it's a goodie, with lots to write about. naturally, i was stuck for a while, but then i what-the-hecked out of a silly little poem, which you can read below :)</div>
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i have a secret to share with you:</div>
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here's a clue.</div>
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life deserves living.</div>
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in a world bogged down with</div>
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hungergreedseparationpainviolencediseasedeathetc</div>
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songs of joy deserve singing;</div>
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bells deserve ringing;</div>
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hope deserves flinging.</div>
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wisdom comes from experiments, so</div>
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imperfect poems deserve writing;</div>
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candles deserve lighting;</div>
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self-doubt deserves smiting.</div>
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<i>relax </i>if you're not 'perfect' yet -</div>
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you're a mess, yes, but a beautiful mess.</div>
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and let me tell you:</div>
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there's so much to learn from</div>
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no-faking trouble-making risk-taking.</div>
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so, here's my advice:</div>
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gulp down a glass of confidence;</div>
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kick up the dust and live a little!</div>
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fail, fall, and do it again.</div>
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sure, there's some pain -</div>
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but believe me, one day your</div>
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failures will help you</div>
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fly.</div>
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yep - there's my secret, my tips to do.</div>
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and that's right, dear self - </div>
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i'm talking </div>
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to you.</div>
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<i>aaaaand </i>now i shall sleep so i can wake up in time for CrossFit in the morning! <3 p=""></3></div>
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a couple things:<br />
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<i>and now listen to this:</i><br />
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in just TWENTY MINUTES, a shuttle will arrive at my family's house to take us to the King Shaka airport; from there we'll fly to OR Tambo; from there we'll fly to Washington DC (with a short touchdown in Dakar to refuel the plane) and from THERE we'll fly to SAN FRANCISCO! ...and from there, we'll be met by my lovely aunt, who will drive us to Sacramento - where we'll <i>stay</i>.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">YES!</span></b></div>
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i am SO EXCITED! (hence the capital letters.) it is, however, colder in California than usual... apparently it's, um, 6 degrees Celsius and <i>colder. </i>*shivers* so i've packed a whole lot of clothes and if worst comes to worst, i'll wear them all at the same time... that should keep me toasty ;)<br />
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here's a cute cartoony that i found on Hello Giggles, headed: "How to survive the cold (and still look cute)". rest assured, i will be taking their advice!<br />
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<br />Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-35175950582411432282013-11-23T00:18:00.002+02:002013-11-23T00:25:07.751+02:00speak your mind.i've pretty much slid off the wagon of posting once/twice/thrice every day, and i've decided that that's alright :)<br />
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since the start of the month, however, i've wanted to blog about spoken word poetry and how important i think it is. my opinion, though, really isn't one you need any more of right now, and my love for well-written and performed spoken word poetry is (ironically) something i have struggled to adequately express in words, so i decided for this post to simply share some of my absolute favourite spoken word poets with you and let you reach conclusions on your own.<br />
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<u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Franny Choi</span></u><br />
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Notes on the Existence of Ghosts<br />
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POP!goesKOREA!<br />
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Wire Woman<br />
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<u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Sarah Kay</span></u><br />
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If I Should Have A Daughter<br />
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(and if you have an incredible amount of cap, you should watch her entire TEDxTalk <b><u><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1346603118"></span>here<span id="goog_1346603119"></span></a></u></b>. cause.)<br />
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Brother<br />
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Forest Fires<br />
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Toothbrush to the Bicycle Tyre<br />
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Extended Development<br />
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An Origin Story (Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye)<br />
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When Love Arrives (Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye)<br />
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<u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Rudy Francisco</span></u><br />
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Honest<br />
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Scars/To The New Boyfriend<br />
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<u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Shane Koyczan (To This Day Project)</span></u><br />
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okay... bear with me, because i started writing this post twelve minutes before midnight and eventually fell asleep (unintentionally, i might add) at about 12:40. it will be long, but it's made up of important things i've been wanting to say, and the length is merely a side-effect of that.<br />
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i've always loved reading and writing - a clause which sounds rather hackneyed and clichéd but which i decided to nevertheless use, because it is, at its roots, true. i won't launch into, "for as long as i can remember...", but suffice it to say that my parents have a deep love and respect for literature and they in turn passed this love on to me.<br />
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i was pretty keen on writing, too, and by the age of 8 had penned a masterpiece entitled, "The Chicken Who Couldn't Stop Running", complete with illustrations of a hen in takkies. child protégé much? ;) despite not being the best kid to ever pen a sentence (i was being ironic about the protégé business, in case you didn't pick up on that), i kept writing all sorts of silly stuff throughout my childhood-slash-adolescence - usually half-typed short stories about twins named Lisa and Jake and their group of friends who were investigating mysteries at Christmas-time, or about a foreign planet with a hero named Aldred... or something like that. these were all proverbially penned from the heart and tucked away safely in <b><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Writer">Creative Writer 2</a></u></b>. no kiddin'.<br />
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when i read over my attempts at stories, though, they felt a bit trite and a bit laboured, and so i'd try to start over with slightly different characters or slightly manipulated settings, and wouldn't succeed in my attempt to really improve the story, and would try again, but would feel discouraged and wouldn't ultimately like what i'd written. i never stopped reading, but gradually i stopped writing; it just didn't feel like i was any good.<br />
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this isn't to say that i stopped writing altogether; i could still churn out pretty decent narrative essays for English lessons, and discovered the penning of poetry when i was 11 - an exercise from which i still take <i>so </i>much joy, and easily a decent amount more joy than i get out of writing narrative prose. i never stopped loving the art of writing, but instead channelled it into other avenues - blogging (which, i have found, was and is a fun way to be dramatic and myself without having to stress a great deal about whether or not the characters i'm portraying are realistic and funny and moving, whether or not the setting is believable or the plot is entertaining - the characters, setting and plot i put forward are always non-fiction) as well as poetry and the appreciation of <i>other people's </i>writing.<br />
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nevertheless, when you spend so much time appreciating <i>other people's </i>writing, you start to question why you stopped writing your <i>own</i> things in the first place. i blame this condition on Markus Zusak, Anne Lamott and Don Miller, on Robin McKinley, CS Lewis and Suzanne Collins. I blame it on John Green, Milan Kundera and Gabriel García Márquez, on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jonathan Safran Foer and Gail Carson Levine, on Julio Cortázar and his beautiful short story "Graffiti". there are many other unnamed culprits responsible in part for the growth of this feeling in me, but my point is not to list all the authors by whom i've ever felt inspired (and don't get me wrong - they more than deserve recognition for their profound impact not only on me but on hundreds of millions of readers around the world) so much as it is that in reading all of these authors's novels and more, i was receiving (at first subtly, and then more and more obviously) a giant kick in the pants. to do what, you ask? well, to write, of course.<br />
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at this stage, it's sort of starting to sound like a quick fix - "oh, you've never enjoyed writing or thought you were any good at it? well, read all of these books and you'll suddenly feel such a lightning-bolt of inspiration that you'll (somewhat magically) be equipped with all the tools necessary to pen a masterpiece! voilà!" um, no. i still haven't written a substantial amount of anything and/or read over said writing and not felt the urge to send it all on a red-eye flight to the trash can. you see, writing exacts labour; it demands frustration and it requires patience. i'm not particularly good at any of those three things. nevertheless, i've decided to start writing again, because WRITING IS IMPORTANT, and i've realised that without a few failures and misfires, i'll never get any better or write anything with which i'm vaguely pleased. i've brought home my copy of Anne Lamott's <i>Bird by Bird </i>and this time i <i>will </i>get through it and attempt to take a good deal (if not all) of her advice about writing and life.<br />
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so, why does writing matter, you ask?<br />
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(all of these quotes were sourced from the wonderful <b><u><a href="http://www.thequotefactory.com/">Quote Factory</a></u></b> :) )</div>
Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-37352424307608785412013-11-19T07:04:00.000+02:002013-11-19T07:04:02.517+02:00back in the gameaaargh.<br />
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i kind-of took a week off there, didn't i? blogging every day proved a lot more difficult than i expected last week, so instead i'll try to make up for it by blogging TWICE (yeah, you'll be so sick of me by the end of this month - i GUARANTEE it!) every day from today onwards, until i've caught up to where i'm supposed to be :)<br />
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while i come up with my 2nd blog post for today, i thought i'd share some delightful things brought to you by, well, me - courtesy of the internet and the amazing treasure trove of goodness which one can discover out there on the worldwide web. (that sentence got long and wordy, sheesh.)<br />
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Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-9898971051715793102013-11-11T08:03:00.003+02:002013-11-11T08:03:40.729+02:00packin' up, shippin' outohaai there! here is my (delayed) post that i wanted to share with y'all last night... however, my internet situation has changed somewhat now that i am no longer living in res (gasp!), so i need to find a new happy medium. right now that medium is blogging from Chris's laptop early in the morning while he goes off to breakfast in the dining hall, haha ;) <br />
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yesterday involved a lot of packing, and then some more packing with a side of packing to go with all of that packing. i nearly lost my mind in the process, but eventually it was done and my life was condensed to a total of eight bags and five boxes of various sizes, with a few rolls of posters and a magnetic board thrown in for good measure. and let me tell ya: it's weird to shrink your life - well, the stuff which you own and which you use on a daily basis and which therefore, in some strange way, comes to represent your life - down into eight bags and four boxes. WEEEEIRD. it's also weird no longer being a res-dweller (not that too much has changed on that front because Chris is still living in res for the next few weeks, and i'm visiting him about as much as i used to when i lived three minutes away... the only real difference is that i now live 20 minutes away. HA!)<br />
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anyway, i'm living with my beautiful friend Ali for the next six days, and i have a LOT of running around, sorting out of digs and Inkwenkwezi matters that needs to be done, so all of that will happen alongside tea and cake with friends that i won't see for a while once i leave, too much fun with Ali and Early Thanksgiving on Friday afternoon! (yes, it's a thing - i've made it a thing.)<br />
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that is my story for now, and i'll (hopefully) be back this afternoon or evening with a new story for ya - but until then, bye ;)Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-11001042121474751022013-11-09T23:45:00.000+02:002013-11-10T00:44:11.750+02:00packing caturday (AKA the Limited Boxed Edition)since i'm done with exams, i have been given two days to pack up and ship out of my res room... which has meant that most of today was spent boxing and bagging and muttering. (i don't like packing!)<br />
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aaaah, cats. if you don't love 'em now, you are not for real. k i have to keep packing now... ugh.Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-20309446774210424812013-11-08T23:37:00.000+02:002013-11-08T23:37:40.468+02:00grammar girlthis post won't be long, because i'm fading fast and Safari is being particularly moody tonight, so even if i were wide awake i'd want to post swiftly before it decides to foul up again... BUT i wrote my final exam this morning (it has yet to sink in, methinks) and it was a <i>grammar exam!</i> (well, an editing exam, but you get the drift.)<br />
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if you know me, you'll know i'm a documented member of the grammar police, so this was quite a refreshing thing to write an exam on. that being said, 16 pages and 2.9 hours down the line (out of a total of three hours, in case you were wondering), it's difficult to tell whether or not your headlines are pithy, your photos' captions make sense, and there aren't any glaring errors in the text... so i was relieved to get the thing done and dusted.<br />
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it's not as if i'm free though - nah, i'm still in Grahamstown for a good week, friends! i've got to sort out digs stuff as well as finish off some work that i can only do here, so i'll be staying with my beautiful friend Ali from Sunday onwards (when i am officially booted out of residence for the <i>last time ever</i>) :)<br />
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back to grammar, though! i see your eyebrows raise as soon as i mention my strong feelings for correct grammar, when on this blog i only use lowercase at the start of just about every sentence. what can i say? i don't even have an explanation for ya there; just rest assured that in everyday life and academic writing, i somehow recall and reinstate the art of sentences starting off in <i>capital fashion.</i><br />
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as a tribute to my grammar exam (ugh, it was actually a rather nasty piece of work, but whatever), i scrolled through <b><u><a href="https://www.facebook.com/grammarly">Grammarly's Facebook page</a></u></b> and found some delightful pics which i thought i'd share with you today:<br />
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(<i>okay, this last one has very little to do with grammar... but it certainly is true in my case, so i decided to let it join the club ;)</i></div>
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oh dear! which is your favourite - and are you a card-holder at the International Grammar Police Academy, too? ;)Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-74178204068283712532013-11-07T23:56:00.000+02:002013-11-08T06:46:33.969+02:00a haiku for Flukeah, friends. today is a sad day. Fluke the penguin, of The Penguin Run fame, is no longer with us :(<br />
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it's entirely probable that you have no idea what i'm talking about, so let me explain... or i'll copy and paste the description off The Penguin Run's website, since it is well-described there:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">From 7 to 13 October we celebrate the perilous journey undertaken by five African Penguins. Fitted with satellite tracking devices, we will follow the birds as they take to the high seas in a race to bulk up ahead of their fast approaching moulting season, where they will lose over half of their body weight.<br />The catch? The fish they depend on are becoming increasingly scarce. This means they must swim extreme distances to feed, all the while avoiding the impolite intentions of the Cape fur seal and unfair competition with fishing vessels. By determining how far the birds must forage to find food, these areas can be protected and so restore balance to the ecosystem as a whole.<br />Let's unite in supporting the African Penguin by tracking their progress on the live map and following <span class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;"><a href="https://twitter.com/_thepenguinrun" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@_thepenguinrun</a></span> for real time updates. Back your favourite bird by following them on their <span class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;">unique twitter handle</span> and sparing some tweets of encouragement.<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">They may not hear you (penguins don't speak human, that's ridiculous), but by spreading the word you are taking part in something that could very well save this little guy from extinction.</span></span></span></blockquote>
i was made aware of this amazing and super-fun initiative by my friend Michelle, who is also a penguin lover (in case you didn't know, um, i love penguins); there were (as the above paragraph states) five penguins in a fun though serious race - Titan ("The Bullet"), Skip ("The Old-Timer"), Siren ("The Explorer"), Fluke ("The Birdbrain") and Hank ("The Underbird"). each penguin had their own brilliant description and their own twitter handle, and i had a lot of fun choosing my bird. they all had lots going for them, but i was totally charmed by the description of one little penguin in particular: Fluke! this is how they described her:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">Fluke. Or affectionately referred to by her feathered friends as 'Shipwreck'. Upon release she swam over 50km. In the wrong direction. Oops. Realising her mistake, perhaps through her lack of penguinly companions, she changed course and through her sheer speed caught up with the rest of the pack. Renowned on Dassen Island for her incessant flapping and wobbly tumbles, most have come to the unlikely conclusion that she is trying to fly. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;">Penguins can't fly.</span> That's absurd.</span></span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 15px;">Not on land anyway.</span></blockquote>
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what a legend, right? how could anyone <i>not </i>choose her, i say?! the photo they uploaded next to her written profile just sealed the deal:</div>
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what an absolute winner, this little girl!</div>
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well, the race began and i had a great time keeping up with it for a little while, but then got carried away with work and stopped following what was going on so closely.<br />
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today The Penguin Run team officially signed off and in so doing updated everyone on where each of the birds were. their rather heart-rending tweets about Fluke said the following:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear friends, we’re sad to inform you that our brave little </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/FlukeThePenguin" style="text-decoration: none;"><s style="text-decoration: none;">@</s><b style="font-weight: normal;">FlukeThePenguin</b></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has been taken by the ocean. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have received no radio signal from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/FlukeThePenguin" style="text-decoration: none;"><s style="text-decoration: none;">@</s><b style="font-weight: normal;">FlukeThePenguin</b></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> since late Oct, and before that signs of aimless drifting, not foraging. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/FlukeThePenguin" style="text-decoration: none;"><s style="text-decoration: none;">@</s><b style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">FlukeThePenguin</b></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> you crazy little birdbrain. We hope the waters are filled with sashimi & there are mansions made of guano in penguin heaven. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you for sharing your journey with us. We won’t forget you.</span></span></blockquote>
while Fluke's loss only drives home even further the importance of penguin conservation (as if people shouldn't want to save penguins already - i mean, they are WAY MORE AWESOME than many people, so...) and while i do also understand that <i>these things happen </i>and that it is <i>the way of nature </i>and all the rest of that talk, i can't help but feel really sad about this little girl being lost at sea, so i decided to write her a haiku-type poem to get some angsty, sorrowy feelings out of myself. mind the cheese, if you please.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">little penguin Fluke</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">your life was no accident</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">bobbing in the sea</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">little birdbrain girl</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">swimming in your own current</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">we could learn to be</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">a bit more like you,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">carefree, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">content in ourselves</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">brave and just crazy</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">so, Fluke, dearest heart</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">in penguin heaven</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">eat some sashimi for me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">swim wildly, fly free</span><br />
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to end this post on a more upbeat note, here are some cute posters designed by the Penguin Run people that i thought i'd share with y'all; aren't they great? maybe i can design for <i>them </i>one day...<br />
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this gave me a bit of free time, and i thought, "AHA! i will finish re-reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being!"<br />
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for some background The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera is one of my favourite books; i studied it last year as a part of my Modern Fiction course and was just absorbed into its pages through the realness of the characters and Kundera's rather compelling authorial voice. i'd started re-reading it on my trip back to Grahamstown after the September holidays, but had soon been subsumed by the masses of work which laid in store this term, and so the first time when i could finally pick it up again was this weekend.<br />
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AAAAAH. i <i>love </i>re-reading books! i should probably clarify; i love re-reading well-written, intelligent and astute books, books that once seemingly quenched my metaphorical thirst for literature while really only made me want more. i love when i re-read a book and find, instead of simplistic patterns or plot oversights in the author's work which i hadn't noticed the first time round, that i am more deeply entranced by the book's characters and/or story and/or poetry. it is like a giant bear hug.<br />
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i finished The Unbearable Lightness of Being off in about a day, and then got started on The Fault In Our Stars by John Green, which is my newest favourite. i love this book for its irreverence, its beautifully crafted characters, its unpredictability - never before have i read something that is able to make me laugh obnoxiously one second and have me in tears just a few words later. i am busily working my way through its pages and am already anticipating my next read - which brings me to my conclusion.<br />
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these are my top five books which i have re-read - some just in part, when i search and search for a particular passage that i recall resonated with me when i read it the first time, others in full:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">y Jonathan Safran Foer</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">by Donald Miller </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5. The Book Thief </span><br />
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(also, might i add any and all of CS Lewis's books in the Narnia series to the list? i will never be too old or too wise for those books.)<br />
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i'm mightily excited because both The Book Thief and The Fault In Our Stars are being made into MOVIES! in actual fact, The Book Thief is done and dusted and, i believe, is being released in movie theatres in the States either this Friday or next Friday. (it only makes its way to South Africa in early February... ha!) it looks like it may change my life.<br />
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The Fault In Our Stars is being filmed at present, with lots of input and help from the book's author and with an amazing actress (Shailene Woodley) cast in the leading role. the other three books have all been adapted for film - i loved both Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Blue Like Jazz, and couldn't bring myself to watch the film version of The Unbearable Lightness of Being (too much physical stuff in the book that is way easier to ignore in print, for one thing, and i also JUST DON'T KNOW how they could accurately do a film adaptation and am too worried that it'll mess with my head-version of all of the characters.)<br />
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nevertheless, the movies - no matter how brilliant they are or might be - will never live up to the books themselves, and i'll always cherish these particular books for the impact they've had on my life :)<br />
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what're your favourite books to read and re-read and re-re-read, friends?Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-66538136703800328402013-11-05T22:11:00.000+02:002013-11-05T22:11:34.667+02:00emotionally mature moments with marshmallowsafter that post yesterday about growing up and changing and all of those serious things, i think you should know that i'm sitting in front of my laptop tonight devouring a bag of marshmallows by my lonesome and pretending to study for the exam i'm writing tomorrow morning. don't believe me? observe:<br />
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(i may or may not have decided that it would be a good idea to pretend to have a marshmallow bag for a head. Squishy Darren the penguin may or may not be judging me from the background. ah well. it may be unclear from the photograph, but i also just noticed that i tore open the bag ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE of their instructions to do so! and by 'their', i mean the man. i am quite obviously sticking it to the man. bring it.)</div>
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because i am demonstrating my adulthood so beautifully and in such a mature manner, i thought i'd do another completely mature thing with this post and completely lift a post from somewhere else to entertain you on my behalf! (not that i'm not capable of entertaining you... you know. i'm just sticking it to the man some more.)</div>
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so: here! have a <b><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/handy-flowcharts-that-every-twentysomething-needs?bffb">Buzzfeed collection</a> </b>(yes, Buzzfeed nogal) of incredible flowcharts for twenty-something-year-olds, most of which sum up my life in the best way possible.</div>
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in my case, this is likely to apply to The Office or Parks & Rec... aaaah.</div>
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this one, guys. <i>this one. </i>it applies to dads, too!</div>
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DO NOT TEMPT ME, LIFE!</div>
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...now i just keep muttering, "NAMTAB!" and chuckling to myself. i told you, i'm a keeper.</div>
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just thought i should mention that this is basically my life.</div>
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alright, everyone should be feeling a lot more secure now that they've received the answers to life's most pressing questions! now it's back to the books, erm, PDFs for me - i can't wait to read more about developmental journalism! aaaah life. bye, errbody ;)</div>
Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-89671812173415381962013-11-04T23:23:00.001+02:002013-11-04T23:23:26.127+02:00changing / growing / leavingi'm only at day three and this blog's already getting serious... uh oh! prepare yourselves accordingly :)<br />
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when i was nine, i had it all figured out. i was going to get through school, train for seven years, become a veterinarian and live in Mtunzini, driving a bright blue double-cab bakkie and spending the hours i wasn't saving animals on the beach. bliss, right?<br />
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turns out that at nine years old, you have no idea what your life is going to be like.<br />
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first to go was the vet dream. don't get me wrong - i never stopped loving animals or wanting to help them, and neither was i put off by the many years of training. instead, i learned about euthanasia and decided i wasn't strong enough to be the person who sometimes had to put animals down, even when that was what was best for them. a new career path was in order then. in Grade 6 i hit upon writing and found it a rather exhilarating experience; i moved from creative writing to journalistic writing and am now an exam and a year away from a degree in Journalism. majoring in, um, Communication Design. not that <i>that </i>was intentional... but can you see how life goals change?<br />
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the bakkie dream sort-of faded off into oblivion; i've gone through a few dream cars since then which would likely make a rather interesting timeline if i put 'em all together (let's just say that it's quite a leap from a sky-blue Toyota Hilux to a yellow Mini Cooper). i currently think the red car down below is rather beautiful, but realistically i don't have a dream car - and won't let myself have one until i actually learn how to drive. (ha. ha. <i>ha!</i>)<br />
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<i>car-volution much? </i>(forgive the poor editing skillz - i promise i'm a better designer than the above image would have you believe >.< )</div>
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the list goes on - but suddenly Hannah eleven years down the line has way fewer solid dreams than she did back in Grade 4, when life seemed really easy. and 20-year-old Hannah doesn't <i>want </i>those dreams anymore (although the <i>colour </i>of the Hilux isn't that bad; i'll concede there).<br />
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i won't pretend that i'm not pretty darn scared of the future, now that i've got a clearer idea of what it entails; life's a lot more messy and a lot more like hard work than a nine-year-old may think. friends of mine are finishing varsity and going out into the world, getting jobs, getting married... soon it'll be me out there in the open, and that's a slightly terrifying thought.<br />
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nevertheless, i feel like i'll be ready, when the time comes. i'm currently living out my final week in res, and next week i'll be sorting out a whole lot of things for my digs (my flat) next year. this means next year will involve cooking, dishes, rent, electricity, security, budgeting and a whole new level of independence to which i haven't yet been exposed... and yet i cannot wait. i know it'll be a lot more responsibility; i know it won't always be as easy as life in residence has been, but i'm more than willing to step forward into it - and that gives me hope for the future.<br />
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everything in this life changes - dreams and ambitions, friends and family, beliefs and points of view. in eleven years, maybe i'll be a graphic designer living in Cape Town and driving that cute little red car... or maybe i'll be a hat-maker living in Tokyo and driving a Ford. a great deal of the beauty in life is that we can't predict those changes; life's a mystery, and as we grow and leave and learn, <i>we </i>change.<br />
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so here's to changing for the better, and here's to a life that's sweet however it turns out.Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-41494019799103062592013-11-03T23:54:00.003+02:002013-11-03T23:54:55.055+02:00an eight-week recap...and i'm <i>back in the game</i>!<br />
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here's to sticking with blogging for a while - i've committed to blogging every day for the next month, and i'm eager to see it through :)<br />
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before i get started on new things, though, i should catch y'all up on the business in my life that's happened while i've been away from the blogosphere. luckily, i took some photos so you'll have some pictures to look at while i ramble on... ;)<br />
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1. i had fun with this guy - as per usual :) this is a rockin' selfie which i took after Chris' and my final Leavers Dinner in our dining hall. both of us will be in digs next year (bachelor flats FTW!), and we're both gettin' pretty keen to be done with res... <i>ha.</i><br />
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2. i applied for JMS Design 4 - AND GOT IN!!! i also applied to tutor the Journalism 2 print course - AND GOT IN!!! this bodes an unusually happy feeling towards the Journalism department. i'm sure it'll pass with time ;)</div>
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4. ...at Huw and Mary-Elyse's wedding :D it was perfection, no two ways about it.<br />
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5. This is my gran when she was a baby - i snapped a photo of a photo at my uncle's house when we were up in Johannesburg for the wedding.<br />
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6. i also encountered this instruction in a Woolworths in Johannesburg, and it is my new life motto. yep.<br />
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7. i was invited to a few dinners over the course of the past two months, the first of which was held by our university's Student Representative Council... it was held in the Vice-Chancellor's Dining Hall and i may have decided to secretly live here one day. it has a nearly 360-degree window view! it is amazing! the evening was rather shmancy...<br />
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...as was the decadent pudding :)<br />
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8. i witnessed a few amazing skies, as one is likely to do when living in Grahamstown. for all the nonsense we deal with otherwise, the skies can be rather lovely ;)<br />
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(in the photo above, you can just see Chris's residence to the left; in the photo below, my res is the building on the left.)<br />
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9. i began work as the Oppidan Press's Assistant (to the) Chief Designer, which involves a lot of writing on whiteboards and designing on computers :) we sacrificed more than a whole weekend to making our final edition incredible... it was <i>so worth it.</i><br />
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(the photo above is an idea of the stuff we write on the whiteboards at editorial meetings - the slug names of stories that have been proposed for particular sections, each story's word count and whether or not we have a photo for the story.)<br />
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Oppi Press then had its annual general meeting, which was a <i>blast</i>, and i was given a certificate for being Little Miss Sunshine... heh :)<br />
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10. i discovered that you can grow cats!!! ok, not really. but this has to be one of my favourite things i've seen in a while :)<br />
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11. i walked into an English lecture and found tessellations drawn all over the boards - i had to take a photo for Sindi :)<br />
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12. this guy... his name is Rafiki. he is the BEST. he belongs to Steph, one of the girls who does athletics with Chris, so needless to say i've been finding myself at the track a lot more often recently ;)<br />
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just LOOK AT HIS FACE... aaaah.<br />
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13. Chris went to a conference in the Western Cape a couple weeks ago, and flew there in a little Cessna! too much coolness, hey?<br />
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14. Inkwenkwezi won society of the year at the Rhodes Community Engagement Awards! :D<br />
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15. my mama sent a package of AMAZINGNESS, as she is prone to do. i know you're jealous ;)<br />
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15. i ate a fair amount of food... like Bacovian pizza at the Rat...<br />
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...and Indian food during Indian Day with Darsha, Carissa and Cath...<br />
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...and Scooters, because it's important to get a slice of the good life. their wall even tells you to do so.<br />
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16. RAIN. so much of it. not as much as last year, but still a ton! Grahamstown has needed it though, and it's cleared up for the past few days, so i won't complain :)<br />
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17. my beautiful friend Cathryn (with shiny eyes!) and her fraaands sang amazingly right before mah band played our last gig of all time. it was bittersweet and lovely.<br />
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18. oh, look - flowers!<br />
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19. a few 'new' quotes found their way onto the walls of the Journalism department's bathroom (which is already adorned with quotes on some of its wall tiles). these are my favourites:<br />
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20. speaking of the Journ department, look at this new guy in the Design lab! he's the cutest.<br />
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his computer screen is great, too:<br />
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21. i had a great time at the Top 100 awards evening, and got a fancy shiny trophy!<br />
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22. i had my last reading session with Lathitha. so weird and sad that Inkwenkwezi's finished for another year!<br />
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23. THE SHARKS WON THE CURRIE CUP AAAAH I REALLY CAN'T EVEN PUT INTO A PROPER COHERENT SENTENCE HOW AMAZING THIS IS AND HOW MY LIFE IS CHANGED BECAUSE OF IT AAAH.<br />
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24. i got this naaasty stomach bug and went to the doctor for the second time this year! this is after a clean record for nearly three whole years... sigh. guess my body's done with Grahamstown now :P anyway, they gave me some pills and i'm all good in the hood now!<br />
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24. my Journ team put together an AMAZING newspaper supplement about the value of reading and school libraries, and i am so proud that my heart could sing. <i>literally.</i><br />
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25. i started a countdown till my family jets off to the States :D<br />
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26. plans are in the pipeline for an early Thanksgiving here in Grahamstown... oooh! i need to iron out details, but i'm gettin' keen just thinking about it :) i've already pulled out my "Give Thanks" banner from last year and I'm excited to reuse it!<br />
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27. yeah, this is just my bookshelf decorations. i like them.<br />
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28. i dressed up as a black cat for Halloween ;)<br />
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29. STRING CHEESE. IN SOUTH AFRICA. THAT TASTES LIKE REAL AMERICAN STRING CHEESE. DEAD DEAD DEAD.<br />
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30. oh, and yeah, it's exam time. this is a look at all the things i keep in my plastic sleeve (we're not allowed pencil cases inside the exam venue, cause peeps can hide crib notes in 'em). pens, pens, a pencil, a highlighter, a penguin eraser (cause he's cute), my ID book, my student card, and trinkets to remind me that i'm loved.<br />
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...and <i>that</i>, my friends, is a good idea of all that i've been up to in the past couple months, give or take a few things! :) tune in tomorrow for an all-new episode of Hannah-risms... i have no idea what's on the programme, but IT'S GONNA BE GOOD :DHannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-20579081193820445562013-11-02T22:49:00.000+02:002013-11-02T22:49:11.354+02:00caturday: The Returnhello! hello!<br />
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remember me? tis i, Hannah, returning to you, dear blog-readers, after a dreadfully long hiatus. sorry about that. nevertheless, i am BACK! which means...<br />
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what prompted me to return to the world of my blog after nearly two months of silence, you ask? well, technically i'm a day late, but this month (along with being National Novel Writing Month) is <i>also </i>National Blog Posting Month, and bloggers are bein' encouraged to blog every day for the whole month! so i'm gonna do it - or at least i'm gonna try :)</div>
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Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-43927102926953913502013-09-07T15:08:00.002+02:002013-09-07T15:08:51.743+02:00tired caturdayeep! i missed last week's caturday again. sorry, y'all! reasons abound -- but essentially, i was travelling (in some way, shape or form) from 6.30am until 6pm, and it made me tired. or, to be more precise, i was MEANT to be travelling and spent half of that time sitting and waiting. (my bus to the airport was delayed by an hour and 45 minutes; my plane home was delayed THREE HOURS.) i had no idea how exhausting sitting could be -- HA! aaaanyway... :)<br />
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this is the theme i wanted to put up last week -- can you guess why? now that i've been home for a week, i'm a little less exhausted, but i'm still pretty tired! my body's gotten so used to going to sleep at around 12 that when i come home i can't bear to go to bed before then most of the time, but then i decide i want to get up at 5.30am the next day so i can go to school with my mom, which cuts an hour off my normal sleeping time. oh dear. must be a sucker for punishment ;)<br />
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...and for good measure, have some videos of tired kitties...</div>
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mmmm... time for a nap, methinks! ;) i've got to be up at 4am tomorrow to catch my flight back to Port Elizabeth, and the thought of it just makes me tired. happy caturday, everyone!</div>
<br />Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-65811952997433452122013-08-25T20:05:00.001+02:002013-08-25T20:06:05.998+02:00apologetic (belated) caturday...aaaand the theme for this week is the word, "SORRY!", since i missed caturday yesterday... oops :P in my defense, i'm losing my mind with work-related shenanigans (and no, there're no actual shenanigans... just a lot of work) and so i'm unable to come up with anything better than this:<br />
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gaaaawsh. and what was that phrase about "puppy-dog eyes"? did ya SEE this lil' kitty's eyes? gaaaawsh.</div>
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AND NOW BACK TO WORK I GO! kbye :)</div>
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now, Maru is, basically, world renowned. he has his own <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maru_(cat)">Wikipedia page</a>, on which he is listed as an "Internet celebrity"... i kid you not. </div>
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and finally, some shots of Maru with his new housemate/friend, Hana (great name, i might add ;) ):</div>
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happy CATURDAY, everyone! that's me for today :)</div>
Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-14894038235259488482013-08-10T23:15:00.003+02:002013-08-10T23:15:39.187+02:00themeless/boring caturdayThursday was WORLD CAT DAY, yo! ...and i found out about this a few minutes ago. fail :/<br />
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<i>this little one's particularly unimpressed that i didn't know of World Cat Day. what a terrible cat lover i am ;)</i><br />
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Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-53844894307306601072013-08-03T23:42:00.002+02:002013-08-03T23:43:05.147+02:00superhero caturday!hi, y'all!<br />
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hope your caturdays were all fabulous :) mine involved a lot of designing and editing of a newspaper, as well as seeing my sweet friend Ellie over lunch and hanging out with my guy - so overall a good way to spend a day :)<br />
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i am, however, wishing for superhuman strength to get through the next month (term's already a third of the way through - terrifying!)... and henceforth appeared my theme for today! cats dressed up... what a great plan :) (i feel like i may have also been inspired by my excitement over the new Superman movie which i'm gonna see as soon as it's showing at Roxbury, as well as my antsiness for the second Captain America movie and for the Superman/Batman collaboration movie in the distant future... ha!)<br />
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let's kick it off with cats who desperately seem to WANT to be superheroes, although they might not quite be just yet...<br />
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<i>i mean, this guy... he really went all out </i>:)</div>
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<i>sure you are, kitty cat!</i></div>
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<i>this guy doesn't seem too chuffed at the thought of being Superman, to be perfectly honest. maybe the extra appendages are putting him off.</i></div>
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this here is the fantastic work of Jenny Parks - you can see each cat's individual portrait <b><u><a href="http://hiconsumption.com/2013/05/cats-as-superheroes-by-jenny-parks/">here</a></u></b>. HOW MUCH EPICNESS IS THIS THOUGH?</div>
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<i>(on a side note, how crazy would Iron Cat go, considering that his paw shines light and cats so often chase lights or lazers? do i make a valid point? i feel like he'd lose his marbles just a little.)</i></div>
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<i>ohhh, what the heck... we'll classify Luke and Leia as superheroes too ;)</i><br />
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<i>so so great!!</i></div>
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<i>He can fly!</i></div>
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<i>Fly, Wonder Cat, fly!</i></div>
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<i>Part Tank. Part Cat. All hero.</i></div>
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<i>His x-ray vision can see into your very soul.</i></div>
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<i>She's the master of the martial arts.</i></div>
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<i>...is causing all your flashbacks.</i></div>
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<i>...is just crazy enough to save us all.</i></div>
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FIRE CAT</div>
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<i>...is impervious to heat and catnip.</i></div>
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<i>...is clearly not a bird or plane. he's all cat, baby!</i></div>
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<i>...is filling his cheeks with the air of justice.</i></div>
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<i>...is blasting off for truth, justice, and the feline way.</i></div>
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which is actually exactly what i'm about to do now - so goodnight, all! :)</div>
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<br />Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-60753639491075591482013-07-27T23:53:00.001+02:002013-07-27T23:55:36.300+02:00caturday: reading editioni'm confused about why this edition hasn't come up already... or maybe it has and i've just forgotten about it. hmmm. anyway, with reading and cats being two of my very favourite things in life, and seeing as how i spent much of today reading (an epic poem by the name of Paradise Lost... ahahaha, i am SO amusing!), i thought i'd treat you to some pics of cats and books. yeeeeah :D<br />
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here y'are, everyone - let's take some advice from cats on how to delve into the marvellous world of literature, shall we?<br />
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first off, it's important to note that one is NEVER too young for reading! this is one of the main ways to grow a reader. START WHEN LEETLE. DO EET.</div>
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another important thing: if your eyesight's bad, read with glasses! you don't wanna be squinting through the whole exercise, now do you? and look how stylish you could be! :)</div>
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Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-6494156817649482642013-07-22T15:24:00.001+02:002013-07-22T15:24:12.985+02:00belated caturday: roadtrippin' editionhey y'all! i couldn't post on Saturday or even yesterday because i was... roadtrippin' back to varsity with Chris. since this is evidently where i got my inspiration from, we can move right along to the fun part of the post... CATS! IN CARS!<br />
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<i>Jeeves, the loyal and always-friendly driver. </i><br />
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<i>although i'm not sure how much this guy is helping rather than hindering... hmmm.</i></div>
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either way, we got back to varsity safely... now for another term of work! yippidie yay ;)</div>
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Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-40635118302702653202013-07-13T23:44:00.001+02:002013-07-13T23:44:46.243+02:00caturday: the excited/reality editionhello again!<br />
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so. first off, this edition of caturday is about EXCITEDNESS... because tomorrow i get to see my guy again! :D Chris and i have been apart for 5 weeks - which maybe sounds like really little compared to other people in the world, but keep in mind that it's the longest we've been apart since January last year... which is a good while.<br />
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tomorrow i head off to pay him and his family a visit at his home, and from there we'll return to Grahamstown - and reality - in a week. but excitement first!<br />
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so, um, i guess you can tell that i'm rather <i>excited</i>? yep.<br />
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this is followed by reality... but don't leave now, cause it's just getting funny ;) i thought, since i'm gonna have to face a whole lot of responsibilities that i was quite happy to forget about five weeks ago when i return to Rhodes, i'd blog about cats in reality... which is always very funny, you'll agree.<br />
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so, without further ado:<br />
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and, while on this topic:<br />
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along with this general attitude...<br />
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;) and now - i must continue to pack (ack!) so that i can make my journey without hassles tomorrow! big love to you all :)</div>
<br />Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910172697993886480.post-49242195716031369592013-07-06T22:41:00.004+02:002013-07-06T22:41:47.150+02:00mizz caturdaysorry i suck at blogging lately!<br />
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i nearly skipped another WEEK of blogging... because i've been in Grahamstown without much internet and i'm feeling meh. <br />
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this is made up of a combination of things - a bit tired of all the festival stuff and all the non-locals everywhere (give me my varsity town back!), and tired from working every night for 6 hours for nearly 10 straight days, and yet sad that tonight's our last night (i'm not even working and yet i'm still in the office... which should tell you a lot) and sad that i won't get to work with all these lovely people on this particular paper for this particular year ever again, and sad that festival is ending which means no more incredible shows (there's still so much i wish i'd seen) and a fading of general excitement. i'm also rather sad because my rugby team lost (just over an hour ago) to the Bulls (my least favourite team) by one point, in the very last minute (our guy missed a kick that would've put us two points ahead). <br />
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SO! i thought i'd enchant you all with pictures of sad cats... cause that'll cheer me up ;) and because, you know, it's how i'm FEELING. no judgment!<br />
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...and my favourite...</div>
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hee ;)<br />
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AND NOW NO MORE SADNESS! IT IS BANISHED! FEEL HAPPY, EVERYONE!<br />
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but seriously. happiness now :)<br />
<br />Hannahkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14448235988049333878noreply@blogger.com0