.. and I am faced with a few realities drawing closer and closer. I have an essay to write. I chose to write it, a story, a creative writing piece. I began last night, and it is a total shambles, with grammar looking awful and I don't have a full range of vocabulary that I require. The story is written in Norwegian for my final year of my degree. Are there any other students out there about to enter their final year? How do you feel about the prospect that in a years time, you'll have it all over and done with? I managed just to pass my exams this year, and realise, that I really will have to put a lot of effort in to actually get a degree to be proud of. It makes me nervous, really nervous. My parents reassured me at Christmas, that they don't care even if I fail, at least if I have tried, and anyway, I shall always have learnt even some Norwegian, which will make it all worthwhile. But if I want to get a degree that I can get a job with at the end of the day, which doesn't resemble my current situation, of stuffing envelopes to health authorities and filing documents for people who sit next to the filing cabinet and can't put them away themselves. So I started my story. It is about a young girl, in the summer holidays. Shes a little bored, and the summer is drawing to an end. She lives in Norway, and the sun doesn't set at this time of year, but Autumn is fast approaching, and her best friend is on holiday in France and hasn't even sent her a postcard. She thinks too much and dreams too much and wastes away hours quite happily dreaming of better things to come. And then she can't get to sleep, andspends the night tossing and turning, but her brain is overactive. Then her mother wakes her at seven o clock in the mornin to go into the town. To get to the town, they have to take the local ferry, and so far, shes sitting in the ferry cafe, smelling all the wonderful Norwegian food and fresh coffee, andconmpalining to her mother because her mother bought her banana milkshake and she wanted strawberry milkshake. Its about 1000 words so far, and I'll have to get my mum to proof read it, as my mum is fluent in Norwegian (She is Norwegian, so it makes sense). I sort of have an idea about what will happen. The little girl, Lene ( named, because it is a poluar Norwegian Name, along with my own christian name, but I didn't want it to be about me. Also named because of Lene Marlin, who went to school in Trmoso with a pal of mine) is a dreamer. And Maybe on her trip into town she will be so caught up with daydreaming she will get lost. the boyfriend suggested a mutant Penguin attack, but I have lecturers to impress, and I don't think that the surreal is something that regularly impresses them. I'm trying to make it non autobiographical. Also, no sweary words, since my mum has to proofread it. So far, its non autobiographical. Except for the sun and insomnia thing. And perhaps the dreaming. But I never tell people my dreams, so it won't sound like my dreams at all. And what will she dream of.... I decided she dreams of being in a nice hose, far away from the village where she lives, doing all the things shes never allowed to do, like eat as much sweets and waffles and things as she likes, and staying up late to watch TV, and all that sort of eight year old Jazz. I am nervous about next year. boo. Anyway, toodle pip, I'm off to search the internet for an English norwegian online dictionary, as I lent my copy to a girl during term time, and my mum has the other copy at home. Later, Idles ===== http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/corduroysmoke we're all smoking our corduroys in our secret little b+s club- what are you doing?? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ August 27th Sinister Third Birthday Red Underwear Day ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+