Posts by Emma Hart
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On a drunket to Auckland
This is a great word. Consider it stolen.
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I'll go first. Here's my tattoo just after I had it done, and again as it looks now, with the new skin over it and the redness and swelling you never see on telly gone.
It's the alchemical/classical astronomy symbol for mercury.
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Are there any around now?
Lots, depending on what you mean by 'alternative'. Religious schools that are integrated receive state funding - Middleton Grange does, despite being one of the largest financial contributors to the Maxim Institute. Also despite one of their objectives being
To develop confidence in, and the ability to, communicate effectively.
Oh irony, how I love you.
My boy is off to Unlimited next year, a special character school that receives state funding.
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I don't know Darling Violetta, but two places to start are Apocalyptica and Rasputina
Ta. Darling Violetta are the people who did the theme tune for Angel. My daughter won't let us fast-forward through the credits, she loves the music so much.
Looking here: http://www.last.fm/music/Darling+Violetta/+similar
about a third of these bands I know, and those I quite like.Ha, I have a few of those myself. Mission, Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim. And look at the fashion she's heading for!
The cello appears be essential. My girl is hearing-impaired. She has better hearing at the low end of the frequency range, so the deep but clear sound of the cello is particularly easy for her to listen to, and I suspect that's the appeal. But she doesn't like my Carbon Leaf, and they have a cello. So who knows.
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Playlists are the new mixtapes.
Weird playlist behaviour? Almost all the writers at Bardic Web have 'character' playlists - music that gets us in the right mood to write a particular character. Crazy obsessives? Why yes.
Genius sounds fabulous though. My daughter has just discovered that she likes the music of Darling Violetta. It's the first time she's ever shown any interest in music and I want to encourage it. My knowledge of goth cello rock bands is somewhat lacking though.
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Ahhh, peer support is completely different from the prefect system. I know because I've done both. That's also how I know that
Until they invent time machines, time spent stressing over clothes IS going to be lost to other pursuits.
simply isn't true: because I've DONE it. There was no uniform, there was no stressing over clothes. Okay?
As a disclaimer, I was the only person to make it to 7th form in our school and not be made a prefect. I was subject to prefects, my friends were prefects. But I was a peer support leader. In that role, we worked alongside the 3rd formers in our common rooms, helped them to find their way around and fit in, did those 'team building exercises' with them, that kind of stuff. It worked really well.
The job of prefects was to punish other kids. They checked lunch passes, uniform, general behaviour. They could send you to our crazy deputy principal for punishment on a whim, and if they said you did it, that was the end of it. Whatever 'it' was.
The year after I left, my school did away with prefects. I only wonder what took them so bloody long.
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Sorry, The Crowd Goes Wild. Oh the pain of typing out entire words...
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The funniest thing about the new Black Caps uniform is that they got Scott Styris to model it.
Didja see TCGW pad out an item on pig racing with footage of Scott Styris bowling? Apparently revenge is a dish best served often.
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Ok, I may be romanticising my childhood slightly.
Heh, I stubbed my toe the other day. That hurts! I really don't remember it hurting that much when I was a kid.
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About a year ago, I went to Christchurch, and walked barefoot on my parent's backyard. I immediately got a prickle, and couldn't remember when the last time that had happened was.
Onehunga weed. I hate that stuff so bad. It used to be really uncommon down here when I first moved to Chch, but now I seem to run across it all over the place.